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Grimhaven Article
Hello, I added a separate Grimhaven article with an exhaustive synopsis. I know the synopsis is maybe a little long, but I figured it could be useful since it is really difficult to get ahold of a copy of the manuscript. Please feel free to edit and contribute as you see fit. --nathanbeach  22:34, 24 August 2012 (UTC)

Book titles, etc
I really don't think the links on the book titles are necessary -- most of them are to the wrong thing anyway. I think I'm going to remove them. Stop me if I'm wrong. Here I go... Nathan Beach 17:41, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Nareek: I am not attached to the bibliography format in any way. It's a little hard to read.  I went down that path (like the Hemingway bibliography) and then just sort of liked it (rather than really liking it).  Please change as you see fit...   --nathanbeach   16:35, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for taking my suggestion on moving the years--I think it looks better this way, with more emphasis on the titles. Nareek 18:01, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Biography Expanded
Hey everyone -- I've started expanding the Willeford biography as best I can. Please correct any mistakes. I'm pulling from several different sources, but I haven't read much of his autobiographical essays or biography yet. --nathanbeach  21:43, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I've got more stuff to add to a "Later Life" section, but haven't had time yet. Will try to get to it in the next few days...   --nathanbeach   14:25, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Bibliography Approval
I'm awaiting approval (6/15/2005) from Dennis McMillan Press to include their annotated bibliography (my email to them): I have started the Wikipedia encyclopedia entry for Charles Willeford and would like permission to fully copy the Willeford bibliography on your web site. If approved by you, the disclaimer text would read: "This bibliography is excepted from _Willeford_ by Don Herron, courtesy of Dennis McMillan Press" "Dennis McMillan Press" will be a link directly to your site. Please write back and tell me if this is okay. Otherwise, I will simply include the list of books without commentary. If you would like to see what the hell it is I'm talking about, please visit this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Willeford Thanks sincerely! Nathan Beach (in Dallas)

Response from Dennis McMillan Publications (6/16/2005):

Dear Nathan, Yes, you can use any Willeford material from my site that you want to, but it's Dennis McMillan Publications, not "Press," please. People are always getting that wrong, and that is the official name of my business. A lot of times they only put "McMillan Publications," or "McMillan Publishing," both of which lead to confusion with others of my name in the publishing game, of course. But go ahead with any and all things Willefordian! Dennis

I think the bibliography could be made more user-friendly by being more organized. The fiction and non-fiction could be separated out, the reprints could be combined with the originals (as they sometimes are), the Hoke Mosely novels could get a subhead. I think the bolding probably makes it harder to read. And the numbering is extra information that doesn't add much. Nareek 15:44, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I completely agree -- I nearly did exactly that the other day when I was making changes. I think sections like these might work: novels (with a separate section for the Hoke Moseley books), poetry, essays/writing collections, biographies.  I will work on this some this week (I can't today) unless you'd really like to, Nareek...?    --nathanbeach   18:19, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Actually, if it's alright with you I'll go ahead and make a first pass tonight or tomorrow and then you (and anyone else) can make any changes you see fit. I already made out a list mapping the duplicate titles (reprints) and categorized the books last week on paper when I was working on expanding the bio (I did this because I wanted to get the remaining books I don't have off of amazon).    --nathanbeach   18:20, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Be my guest! Nareek 19:01, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I made a first pass (wish I had more time to work right now). Feel free to make any changes.  I removed the bold on the titles, but now it looks a little bland and may be harder to read.  I hope I didn't make more of a mess than an improvement.  cheers!    --nathanbeach   21:44, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * By the way -- I kind of modelled the bibliography lists after the Ernest Hemingway bibliography. But there are no comments within that bibliography.    --nathanbeach   21:47, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
 * I think some of the comments could be taken out and used to start stubs for the relevant works. Nareek 04:29, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
 * For the time being, I disagree. I think the comments give the flavor of Willeford's writing, the publishing world he operated in, and the respect he earns now. If and when someone steps forward prepared to write not just stubs, but actual articles on individual books--with plot descriptions, publication histories, sales analyses (where available), and critical reaction--then, of course, trimming down the master list will be called for. Without such a dedicated volunteer, I'm afraid stubs will just sit there, virtually unregarded, for a long time, making the reduction of information in the master article a net loss. Of course, there's no harm in testing the waters by retaining the comments on the page as they are, creating a few stubs in addition, and seeing what happens. —DCGeist 05:06, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Literary style section
Hey DCGeist: I originally started this response on your personal talk page, but then decided it might as well go here... anyways, thanks for your extensive contributions last night to Charles Willeford, especially all the cross linking to hardboiled crime, etc. A literary style section would be excellent, and I'm not really the type to do it, so please go ahead by all means. Very cool new links you added, too -- I'm looking forward to reading them more closely. I just read the Hoke Moseley books about two years ago and was immediately hooked, though I've still only read 5-6 of his non-Hoke books. I'm currently working on The Shark Infested Custard and have ordered a bunch more used from amazon marketplace. Charles Williams looks really interesting -- can you recommend a good starting point with him? --nathanbeach  15:53, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Hi. I know--there's just no getting enough of Willeford. I'd never claim that Williams is in his class, but then who is? (Jim Thompson. But that's it.) Of the three in-print novels by Williams, I'd definitely go for A Touch of Death--very smart, witty writing. In the out-of-print category, I'd start with The Big Bite and Hell Hath No Fury. It amazes me that the latter is out of print. I see Amazon has some insanely expensive early-edition copies--don't bother. If there's nothing reasonable on eBay, pick up the Black Lizard reprint cheap under the title The Hot Spot, read it, then--if you haven't yet--see the film. I restrain myself, of course, in article writing, but I'll say here it's one of the most deliciously entertaining movies of the 1990s. All the best, Dan —DCGeist 16:44, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Willeford Archive/Grimhaven
Reading through that Willeford Archive list was really fascinating. It's too bad the library website doesn't really seem to work otherwise -- it doesn't seem anything links to the Archive page, and none of the back links work. The underlaying directory structure is a total mess. I'm afraid they'll eventually lose that page, so I saved it off to my back up drive just in case. I wish I lived closer to Florida. Might I ask if any of you have a copy or have read any of the unpublished novel Grimhaven? --nathanbeach  15:08, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Nevermind, I just found a better link to the Archive...  --nathanbeach   15:18, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Much better link! Sadly, I've never read even a page of Grimhaven. I was thisclose to buying one of those fabled Xeroxes on eBay a few years back when the powers that be discovered and closed down the sale. Only then did I learn about the restrictions Willeford's widow maintains. Here's a link I considered putting on the article's main page...but it belongs precisely here, in discussion: A Writer's Life: Temptation. You may find it either poignant or hilarious--I think I know which way Willeford would've leaned.—DCGeist 18:23, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Interesting article. I think I would have read it before deleting.  This has been up on ebay for a while (has absolutely nothing to do with Willeford, but I thought it was kind of interesting).   --nathanbeach   20:47, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

Memoirs
Man, I just finished the Collected Memoirs (thanks guys for the fixes to my additions). Really great stuff if you haven't read them. I think it was about $15 off amazon. --nathanbeach  19:22, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Born To Kill / Cockfighter
I am so confused by this poster for the movie Cockfighter. What does any of that in the poster have to do with the movie or the screenplay? I just finished reading the book and have seen about half the movie. I'm going to add a "differences between the novel and the movie" section to the movie article... --nathanbeach  20:21, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I just realized the hatchet/axe refers to chopping the chicken's head off, but why is he riding in a car with a woman driving?  --nathanbeach   20:27, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, mercy, what a sales job. That's just the great Roger Corman marketing the hell out of a movie, without giving a flying...feather what it's really about.—DCGeist 20:41, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Have you seen the movie yet? It's pretty good -- Warren Oates is awesome, and the Harry Dean Stanton appearance makes it, as Roger Ebert claims, not "altogether bad".  The major differences are kind of interesting since Willeford wrote the screenplay.  What I've got so far (45 minutes into the movie):
 * Icky is blue in the book, but is named "white lighting" and is white in the movie
 * Frank's brother owes him $2500 in the movie, owes him $300 in book
 * motel room fight is with different person from Jack Burke in book (i need verify this?)
 * Frank takes the cock cage with him to Mansfield in the movie, rather than giving it to Middleton
 * the entire subplot with Berenice + playing guitar in the club is taken out
 * the entire subplot with Doc Riordan is taken out
 * Mary Elizabeth is blonde in the book, brunette in the movie
 * Mansfield's farm is in Decatur in the movie, not Ocala
 * The sale of the family farm house is completely different (the judge character is cut out entirely)
 * Middleton sells Frank the 12 game cocks, rather than the out-of-town character

 * I've seen the movie two or three times--like it a lot. Only three books of Willeford's have been adapted for film (which amazes me), but all three are very satisfying.
 * Brilliant work on identifying the differences. Let me suggest that when you write the section for the movie article that you pull out and highlight the major differences (like the subplot cuts and the change in the amount of money owed, which perhaps changes the tone of things significantly) before listing the minor ones. Again, great work. Dan —DCGeist 23:58, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Yeah, the stuff like blonde/brunette, and the carrying cage are relatively unimportant. There were too many of those things to really write down.  Have you read his diary of the filming process?  I haven't found it yet (for less than several hundred dollars).    --nathanbeach   16:30, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

 * No, I've never had the chance to read his production diary. There's also a couple of his novels I'm dying to find: Lust Is a Woman and Understudy for Love. Ever come across those? —DCGeist 23:05, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Those are the same two I'm missing, plus The Whip Hand/Deliver Me From Dallas. I'm intrigued by the Deliver Me From Dallas title since that's where I live... and I identify strongly with the sentiment.  I'm a little sad to only have two first-time-read novels left otherwise: Black Mass and Pick-Up... guess I need to start on Charles Williams.    --nathanbeach   01:50, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
 * The remaining four major differences:
 * In the movie, Baradinsky goes back to the motel tournament (rather than driving on to a separate tournament), but he hides the cash under the dead chickens in the bathtub and doesn't lose money like everyone else in the holdup.
 * By the time of the Milledgeville tournament, Middleton's wife had died in the book, but in the movie Middleton refers to his wife as living.
 * In the movie, Mansfield doesn't "regain" his voice until after Mary Elizabeth leaves.
 * And finally, Mansfield claims Mary Elizabeth loves him, whereas in the book she leaves and he leaves it at that...

Field Trip
I'm attending a wedding in the Bahamas in April and am going to stop over a day in Miami to go to the Willeford Archive at the Broward County Library. I'll take some good photos if they'll let me. --nathanbeach  20:14, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Maybe not as fun as I'd hoped, but...
 * Dear Nathan:
 * Yes, I have penciled you in on the Bienes Center's calendar for a visit
 * on April 9th and 10th. As we get closer to the date, please reconfirm
 * your appointment.
 * Thanks,
 * J**** F******
 * Bienes Center
 * P.S. Please note that the Center does not permit browsing the Willeford Collection.
 * My Response: Does that mean I need to have a list of which specific items I'd like to see? Thanks...
 * His Response: Yes, we will bring to your reader table just one folder at a time.

Just like Citizen Kane! Nareek 19:20, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Hello Again
Nice recent additions, DCGeist... I ended up not going to the Willeford Archive in Ft. Lauderdale back in April. I was really, really sick when I got to Miami from the Bahamas and pretty much just stayed in my hotel room in South Beach the whole time (traveling while sick is pretty much the worst). I regret not going, but I don't really know what I would have accomplished anyway. --nathanbeach  19:35, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

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The Christmas Invasion

"The Christmas Invasion" is a 60-minute special episode of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, first broadcast on BBC One on 25 December 2005. It was written by showrunner and executive producer Russell T Davies and was directed by James Hawes.

In the episode, principally set in London, the newly regenerated Tenth Doctor (David Tennant) is out of action, leaving Rose (Billie Piper), Mickey (Noel Clarke) and Jackie (Camille Coduri) to combat the invasion of an alien race known as the Sycorax, demanding that either humanity surrenders or one third of them will die.

This episode features the first full-episode appearance of Tennant as the Doctor and is also the first specially produced Christmas special in the programme's history which was commissioned following the success of the first series earlier in the year to see how well the show could do at Christmas.

"The Christmas Invasion" was watched by 9.8 million viewers, and an average of 9.4 — the second highest rated programme of the evening, behind EastEnders. This episode was the highest-rated episode of the Tenth Doctor, with final ratings at 9.84 million, up until the "Voyage of the Damned", which achieved an audience of 13.8 million viewers. The episode received positive reviews from critics, who welcomed Tennant to the show, and is considered one of the best Christmas specials of the show. The success of the episode led to the Christmas special becoming an annual tradition.

Plot
The newly regenerated Tenth Doctor takes Rose back to her old estate, and collapses in front of Mickey and Jackie. They take the Doctor to Jackie's flat where they put him to bed. Mickey and Rose go Christmas shopping, but this is cut short when they are attacked by robot Father Christmases using trombones and flamethrowers. The couple get a taxi back to the Powell Estate where they discover a new, unfamiliar Christmas tree; Rose senses something is wrong with this new tree. The tree starts spinning with razor-sharp blades, Rose, Mickey and Jackie shelter in the room with the comatose Doctor. The Doctor wakes up and destroys the homicidal tree with his Sonic Screwdriver, before warding off further attack by the robot Father Christmases. However, the Doctor is soon unconscious again, but he warns Rose, Mickey and Jackie that something is coming before passing out again.

Early on Christmas morning, the Mars space probe Guinevere One is intercepted by a giant spaceship heading for Earth. When the probe's broadcast is shown on Earth, the face of a Sycorax appears. He demands Earth's surrender and uses blood control to cause a third of the world's population to go into a hypnotic state. The Sycorax threatens to make these people commit suicide unless half of the world's population is given to the Sycorax as slaves. Harriet Jones, the Prime Minister, attempts further negotiations with the Sycorax, and is teleported aboard the ship, along with Major Richard Blake, Daniel Llewellyn and Alex Klein.

Rose, Mickey and Jackie evacuate the Doctor to the TARDIS as the Sycorax ship approaches London. Before Jackie can return with additional supplies, the TARDIS is detected by the Sycorax and is teleported aboard their ship. Rose buys enough time for the Doctor to finally recover, after inhaling the fumes from a dropped flask of tea. The Doctor shuts down the Sycorax blood control and then challenges the Sycorax leader to a sword fight for the Earth. The leader severs the Doctor's hand, which he immediately re-grows, then forces the Sycorax leader to submit. The leader attempts to attack the Doctor from behind. The Doctor hits a sensor with a satsuma he found, triggering part of the wing to fold and dropping the leader to his death.

The Doctor orders the Sycorax to leave Earth and never return before taking Rose, Mickey, and Harriet back to Earth. As the Sycorax ship moves away, Harriet orders Torchwood to destroy the ship. The Doctor becomes furious with Harriet, who justifies her actions by reminding the Doctor that he is not always there to save them. The Doctor threatens to bring down her government with six words. He whispers to Harriet's aide Alex: "Don't you think she looks tired?"

After choosing a new outfit, the Doctor joins Rose, Jackie, and Mickey for Christmas dinner. They watch Harriet on television fending off rumours about her health, with a vote of confidence looming.

Production
This special was the first full episode starring David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor; he was only shown briefly at the end of "The Parting of the Ways" for the regeneration sequence. A 7-minute "mini-episode", set between "The Parting of the Ways" and "The Christmas Invasion", was shown as part of the Children in Need charity telethon on 18 November 2005. The Christmas special is a tradition in British television series. While this is the first story for Doctor Who clearly labelled as a Christmas special, the seventh episode of The Daleks' Master Plan, titled "The Feast of Steven", was written as a Christmas episode, even featuring a fourth wall-breaking Christmas wish to the viewers by William Hartnell. Christmas specials became an annual staple for Doctor Who, until 2018, where it was replaced by a New Years special. Although not shown at Christmas, "The Unquiet Dead" was set on Christmas Eve, 1869.

The Tenth Doctor speaks with an Estuary English accent, in contrast to the Ninth Doctor's Northern one. In a 23 December interview on BBC Radio 1, Tennant explained that a line had been scripted for the Christmas special explaining that the newly regenerated Doctor had imprinted on Rose's accent, "like a chick hatching from an egg," but the line was cut from the final programme.

The episode's opening shot is a repeat of the opening shot of "Rose". The cone-shaped building which has all its glass blown out from the ship's shockwave is 30 St Mary Axe, also known as the Swiss Re Building or "The Gherkin". The climactic scenes of the episode were shot on location at Wallis House, Brentford, one of the Golden Mile's few remaining Art Deco buildings. Parts of the episode were filmed at the Clearwell Caves in Gloucestershire. The prototype of the Sycorax swords was auctioned on eBay to raise funds for the Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity. It raised £920.51. During the live broadcast, the front page of the official BBC website stated: "THE CHRISTMAS INVASION is on BBC One NOW. HARRIET JONES SAYS: Switch this website off for Britain." The tie-in website "Who is Doctor Who?" was also updated with a message from Mickey referencing the Guinevere One website, and an appeal to the Doctor to bring back Rose.

Music
The song playing during the wardrobe sequence, "Song for Ten" (named in reference to the Tenth Doctor), was composed by Murray Gold for the episode and sung by Tim Phillips. The closing credits had a new theme arrangement restoring the traditional "middle eight" section of the theme which had been omitted in the 2005 series. This was performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, conducted by Gold. This arrangement was subsequently used for the closing titles of the 2006 series.

Various pieces of music featured in this episode were released in December 2006 as part of the Doctor Who Soundtrack (produced by Silva Screen). These included the "Song for Ten", the music played behind Harriet Jones' speech and the music played as the spaceship arrives over London.

Cast notes
Lachele Carl reappears as the reporter seen in "Aliens of London" / "World War Three". She is later seen in "The Sound of Drums", "The Poison Sky", "Turn Left", "The Stolen Earth" and The Sarah Jane Adventures story Revenge of the Slitheen.

Broadcast and home media
Overnight ratings for the episode gave a peak viewing audience of 9.8 million viewers, and an average of 9.4 — the second highest rated programme of the evening, behind EastEnders. This episode was the highest-rated episode of the Tenth Doctor era, with final ratings at 9.84 million, up until the "Voyage of the Damned", which achieved an audience of 13.8 million viewers. It is considered one of the best Christmas specials of the show. In 2014, over 7,000 readers of Radio Times voted "The Christmas Invasion" as the greatest Doctor Who  Christmas special with over a quarter of the votes going to it, 24.92%, a whole 10% more votes than the second favourite.

Immediately after "The Christmas Invasion", digital viewers were able to press their red button to view a special interactive episode, "Attack of the Graske" written by Gareth Roberts and starring Tennant as the Doctor.

The Canadian presentation on the CBC on 26 December 2005 was hosted by Piper, who was attired for the occasion in a red Roots "Canada" sweatshirt. The episode was scheduled in a 90-minute-long slot; as the episode and the presentations took less than the allotted time, the rest of the broadcast was filled with the start of two episodes of the animated programme Creature Comforts, which was set for the following 30-minute slot. The special premiered on BBC America in 2007. Unlike the Sci-Fi version, the episode was edited down to fit inside a one-hour timeslot with commercial breaks.

This episode was released together with "New Earth" as a basic DVD with no special features on 1 May 2006, and as part of a second series boxset on 20 November 2006. This release included an in-vision commentary with Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner (Head of Drama for BBC Wales) and Phil Collinson, recorded before the story aired. This commentary was also made available as an MP3 on the BBC Doctor Who website.

The ten Christmas specials between "The Christmas Invasion" and "Last Christmas" inclusive were released in a boxset titled Doctor Who – The 10 Christmas Specials on 19 October 2015.

Pre-release publicity
On 3 December 2005, the annual Christmas edition of the BBC's listings magazine Radio Times was released, featuring a Doctor Who cover to tie-in with "The Christmas Invasion". This was the first time Doctor Who had featured on the Christmas edition cover in the show's forty-two-year history, and the first Christmas cover for an individual BBC television drama since EastEnders in 1986. The Christmas Radio Times cover usually features artwork of a generic Christmas scene. As confirmed by Russell T Davies in the episode commentary, the Doctor Who section of that issue of the Radio Times contains a hidden message explaining what saves the Doctor: many of the paragraphs in the articles have an oversized first letter, which taken consecutively spell out "A cup of tea" (in the manner of an acrostic).

The episode was included as part of the "Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant" box set in 2020, containing this episode and all other episodes of the era, plus hours of DVD extras like documentaries, commentaries and more.

In print
A novelisation of this story written by Jenny T. Colgan including the storyline from the 2005 Children in Need special was released in paperback and digital formats 5 April 2018 as part of the Target Collection.

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Where can you find the tides listing in data form?

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Tidal electrical power generation
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 * OK. I know that this will be deleted by the powers that be, but I hope that someone will see this and maybe help. Sometime, roughly 20, 25 years ago, I read a piece in a newspaper about the Bay of Fundy.  The gist of the article was that local farmers would herd their pigs onto the low tide area of the Bay and let them feed on the stuff that was left after the water receded.  Then, the pigs would have to scurry to higher land when the tide came back in.  Because of their diet and exercise that they received, these pigs produced very lean bacon.  I told this story to my wife at the time and she laughed for hours on end.  I know to a mortal certainity that I read this somewhere, but I've never been able to track it down.  Does anyone else ever remember reading this?  If so, email me at dropball@gmail.com and let me know that I'm not crazy.  Thanks.  JB (User:68.97.116.155).

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Only 200 million m³ ? Just 1 km³ is 1 billion m³.

Etymology of "Fundy"
The article states: "The name "Fundy" is thought to date back to the 16th century when the Portuguese referred to the bay as "Rio Fundo" or "deep river"."

Could we provide a source for this? From my understanding -- and I think that the toponomical column that used to run in Canadian Geographic is where I first ran into the etymology of Fundy -- the name "Fundy" is a corruption of "fendu", the French word meaning "split", as in "Cape Split", located dead-smack in the middle of the Bay. The use of "la baie du cap fendu" (The bay of the split cape) would have been adopted by the English settlers as Bay of Fendu, but ultimately pronounced "Fundy" due to the absence of the nasal "en" and the "u" sounds in English. Zapallon 17:18, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

"Fondo" is not a Portuguese word. In Portuguese you can have "fundo" (deep) or "funil" (funnel).

NEW LEAD!!! HELP NEEDED!!!!
So I've come across a map dated 1719 that shows what is now the Minas Basin as "Bay Fouxdy". I've no idea what Fouxdy means, but it does seem to mean something - perhaps referring to foxes? - in older English as seen in :

''BU T, as a Huntfman going out to hawk, And finds two Filberds growing on one flalk ;

The one he cracks, and, finding it not fouxdy

Fancies the other fo, that's on the ground.''

(Found here,, dated mid-18th century). Although I wonder if it might also actually be Souxdy, as the script for s was different, and looked like an f at times - as in Huntfman. So, I'm not sure what this means for the etymology of the word "Fundy" but at least on paper, it seems pretty close... Help in investigating this would be worthwhile!! Thanks!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Zapallon (talk • contribs) 16:29, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

REQUEST for Metric range conversion to US Standard
there are those who cannot interpret metric figures, myself included, it would help to see some numbers i can make sense of. Murakumo-Elite 10:32, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

big mistake corrected
There are a little over six hours between high and low tide, not between high tides. (Lived near the Bay all my life.) --OldCommentator (talk) 12:34, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

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Unacceptable removal of content
A user has recently removed geological content and the entire geology section with no explanation. It is not inappropriate to add such content in articles about water bodies. For example, see Red Sea, Gulf of Suez or Gulf of Aqaba. Volcanoguy 17:42, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Geology is covered in Fundy Basin which is linked from the lead. Per WP:CONTENTFORKING it can't be in both. It would make sense to merge Fundy Basin to Bay of Fundy since both articles are not too long. --Cornellier (talk) 13:57, 15 June 2019 (UTC)

Electricity generating: new project funded
In the news: Nova Scotia issues permits for new tidal energy projects in the Bay of Fundy. Probably too early to update article, but worth keeping an eye on. --Cornellier (talk) 19:23, 14 July 2019 (UTC)

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User talk:FreplySpang/Archive/May2005

Because of a death in my family, my Wikipedia participation will be erratic over the next week. FreplySpang (talk) 14:19, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Previous content archived at User talk:FreplySpang/Archive/March2005, User talk:FreplySpang/Archive/April2005

User:4.231.90.58
I see you reverted this user's POV on Illegal immigrant. I am watching this user as he has done numerous other POV edits. If he continues I will block him. Thanks for your swift response to his edits. Inter\Echo 13:01, 1 May 2005 (UTC)

Blocking
No problem, that's what I'm here for! Long live L's! Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 20:18, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Impersonation
Do you know of any easy way to track down these i/l impersonators? Mgm|(talk) 22:11, May 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Maybe we can have a bot compile a list of such impersonations to see which ones exist? Mgm|(talk) 22:17, May 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * I guess the impersonator is running through the list of administrators... or did he also impersonate others? Mgm|(talk) 22:25, May 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * I guess I should be thankful for not having an l in my name... Mgm|(talk) 22:32, May 5, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for catch the "lol" on the Starbucks page. I spent a while on that addition (the infobox and Israel section), and it's what got me to finally register as a user. Anyway, I just wanted to thank you. The title may have been a bit of a joke, but the content sure wasn't.

I rv'ed a vandal on your page.
hope it's ok with you.

Project2501a 23:53, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

Wikifun Round 8
Congratulations, FreplySpang! Round 8 has finished, and you're in the lead. Unfortunately, you are not the only one: there is a three-way tie. You may accept this joint victory, but you're entitled to a tie-break question if you want to have one. Please respond at Wikipedia talk:Wikifun. Eugene van der Pijll 17:21, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

Introduction templates
I made some changes to the explanation that you might want to review and edit. Trödel| talk 22:58, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Vfd vote for 1968 in France
Hi - thought you might want to take a look at the article now, and see whether you still feel the same about its vfd...? Grutness...  wha?  07:10, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

Why would you touch my bookaki
What it not Legitimate?

Remove block from King Lizzard article
The text and photo for this page is provided by the copyright holder for general use. This information has been placed on the discussion page. Please advise what needs to be done to remove the block from the page. Thanks.

delete
Heya, just a tip to save on typing: You can use instead of  (ditto for  instead of  ). --W(t) 00:50, 2005 May 19 (UTC)

Wikimonitor
Dear FreplySpang,

I am not trying to intimidating or anything to anyone; I am just trying to protect the wikipedia from some people that the only proporse is to abuse it. Please check out the history of Wikimonitor and you will realized that is the only thing I am doing.

I think I am not doing anything wrong and I am not using the name in an inappropiate way.

Let me know if this is incorrect in order to know! and please be free to comment about my comments.

Wikimonitor

--

Replay to your post the 19th of May 2005 (UTC):

Dear FreplySpang,

Just 4 points:

 * 1st: 4.239.*.* Deserves to be call a Vandal, if you did see what it did is not a discution on that.

 * 2nd: I never has been claiming authority, please again check out my logs or history

 * 3rd: What I just do is monitor the Wikipedia from there the name: wikimonitor (By the way there is several people doing that under wikimonitor nickname)

 * 4th: I will consider changing the username to another one

Finally, I will really apreciate if this 4.239.*.* re-appears you will help me to fight it.

Please be welcome to post any comments in the wikimonitor talk page.

Wikimonitor

User:Wikimonitor
You might suggest he continue your conversation on your Talk page. And tell him that if he doesn't change his name, he'll be blocked. RickK 23:35, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

A cute picture
All the best Brookie: A collector of little brown things 20:38, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Glad you liked it! Kind regards Brookie: A collector of little brown things 16:36, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

User:Revolución is NOT impersonating me, I AM User:Revolución
I just wanted to create a new account while keeping my user page. Is that so wrong? Stancel 01:25, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

Vanity
Ah yes, thank you! I'll remember that. That's the problem with having seven tabs open in Firefox, you have no idea where you are! Smoddy (Rabbit and pork) 17:44, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

there already is van morrision material here it just can't be found easily. i could only find it by going to the "moondance" wiki. maybe some thing needs to be done about the search.

Friendly Chat
Ay Caramba, I voted for you twice? What a blooper (smile), just goes to show you how highly I think of you. You still owe me a mop. Tony the Marine

Thanks
Thanks for reverting the vandalism on my user page. I didn't even notice until now. --cesarb 21:13, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Not an impersonation
I actually created the other account to prevent anyone from impersonating me, which is why it has no edits. I have no idea what the message on its talk page is about, though, nor can I figure out why someone would have ended up there. --Michael Snow 18:16, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations!
Congratulations! It's my pleasure to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful.

And with a drooping but auspicious eye (as King Claudius put it) I hope all turns out for the best for your and your familiy member. Cheers, Cecropia | explains it all ® 04:25, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Congrats Administrator, I know that you are an asset to Wiki and that you were going to make it. I'm still waiting for the "mop" (smile). Tony the Marine (UTC)

Well done, Freply. I'm sure you can see that I really really think you should be an admin... smoddy 10:42, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Re: You have been impersonated
Sorry for all the trouble you've gone through to report that, but I actually created those accounts in order to prevent impersonation. → Jarlaxle Artemis   23:03, May 31, 2005 (UTC)

Tsume
Do you know what an Adobe Illustrator Tsume file is?

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Java BluePrints

Java BluePrints is Sun Microsystems' best practices for Enterprise Java development. This is Sun's official programming model for Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) Software Development Kit (SDK). It began with Java Pet Store, the original reference application for the Java EE platform. This became the de facto source code for using Enterprise JavaBeans and all the latest components of the Java EE platform.

History
Java BluePrints began as J2EE BluePrints and was started by Connie Weiss, Jeff Jackson, Jim Inscore, Nick Kassem, and Rick Saletta. The original engineers included Inderjeet Singh, Greg Murray, Sean Brydon, Vijay Ramachandran, Elisabeth White, and Nick Kassem. Nick Kassem is the author of the original book. The idea of Java Pet Store came from Connie Weiss and Greg Murray who were both animal lovers. After the first year, Nick Kassem left the team and Inderjeet Singh became lead architect. The Java BluePrints team was led by Larry Freeman from J2EE 1.2 in 2000 up until Java EE 5 in 2006.

Throughout its existence, Java BluePrints has offered all of its content for free and has been focused on promoting developer success. Java Pet Store became the symbol for J2EE's ascendency; Microsoft created a competing .NET Pet Shop to showcase its competing technology. Since then, many technologies such as Tapestry, Spring, and others have implemented their own versions of the Pet Store application as a way to demonstrate best practices for their given technology.

With the arrival of J2EE 1.4 technology, web services became a standard part of the Java EE specification. Java BluePrints came out with a second application: the Java Adventure Builder reference application. This application never became as popular as Java Pet Store but then again, it never became as controversial.

Books
There have been three Java BluePrints books, and the Core Java EE design patterns which are hosted on the Java BluePrints site have become the standard lingua for Java EE application development. Java BluePrints was the first source to promote Model View Controller (MVC) and Data Access Object (DAO) for Java EE application development. Before this, the MVC design pattern was widely promoted as part of Smalltalk.

The latest Java BluePrints offering is the Java BluePrints Solutions Catalog. It covers topics as diverse as Java Server Faces, Web Services, and Asynchronous Javascript and XML (Ajax). Articles are smaller and more focused and include sample code that shows how a solution is implemented. Its focus is on the J2EE 1.4 SDK.

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User:Gsingh

Proud Wikipedian since 2005

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Michael Hainisch

Michael Arthur Josef Jakob Hainisch (15 August 1858 – 26 February 1940) was an Austrian politician who served as the first President of Austria from 1920 to 1928, after the fall of the monarchy at the end of World War I.

Origins
Hainisch was born and named after his father who was a factory owner. His mother Marianne Hainisch was a leader in the suffrage movement.

He started out as a lawyer and an official of the Treasury and of the Education Department, but then retired to his estates in Lower Austria and Styria, where he carried on model farming, became a leader of the Austrian branch of the Fabian movement, and one of the founders of the Central People's Library. In later years he moved away from radical socialism to become a conservative agrarian.

Presidency
Hainisch held aloof from political parties. He was chosen president because of his personal authority, although he was not a member of the parliament. He was an independent candidate. He was elected and assumed office in 1920, and stayed for two periods until 1928. He was married to Emilia Figdor, the descendant of a prominent Viennese assimilated Jewish family. Emilia's father, Gustav, was a town councillor of the city of Vienna.

As a president, he worked hard to improve the dire situation Austria found itself after the war. He did a lot to develop the agricultural sector, encouraged the electrification of the railway, tried to develop more tourism especially in the Alps. Trade with neighbouring countries such as Germany was encouraged. He also became a protector of local traditions and culture and initiated the creation of the law of protected monuments.

He became also an honorary member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften (Academy of Sciences).

In 1928, main parties proposed to amend the constitution in order to reelect Hainisch for a third term. Federal Chancellor Ignaz Seipel proposed a one-year term for Hainisch, but Hainisch declined a third term. He subsequently served as Commerce Minister from 1929 to 1930.

Controversially, he supported Pan-German ideas and later supported the Anschluss of Austria to Nazi-Germany in 1938, as did many of his compatriots. He died in February 1940, just nearly two years after the Anschluss and a few months after World War II started.

Works
He was a fertile author of works on sociology and politics:
 * Zukunft der Oesterreicher ("The future of the Austrians," 1892)
 * Zur Wahlreform ("Towards electoral reform," 1895)
 * Kampf ums Dasein und Sozialpolitik ("The fight for existence and social politics," 1899)
 * Heimarbeit (1906)
 * Fleischnot und Alpine Landwirtschaft

Awards

 * Grand Cross of the Order of the White Lion, Czechoslovakia (1926)
 * Wilhelm Exner Medal, 1926

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Ballad stanza

In poetry, a ballad stanza is a type of a four-line stanza, known as a quatrain, most often found in the folk ballad. The ballad stanza consists of a total of four lines, with the first and third lines written in the iambic tetrameter and the second and fourth lines written in the iambic trimeter with a rhyme scheme of ABCB. Assonance in place of rhyme is common. Samuel Taylor Coleridge adopted the ballad stanza in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
 * All in a hot and copper sky!
 * The bloody Sun, at noon,
 * Right up above the mast did stand,
 * No bigger than the Moon.
 * Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner , lines 111 – 114

The longer first and third lines are rarely rhymed, although at times poets may use internal rhyme in these lines.

 * In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
 * It perched for vespers nine;
 * Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
 * While the creatures crooned
 * Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, lines 75 – 78

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Fuck the Troops

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. jni 09:31, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Fuck the Troops
Local "grassroots" organization against supporting the US military, but Google hasn't heard of it. Delete - Marcika 21:37, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC) DELETE THIS LIBERAL CRAP RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!!!
 * Delete agree --Xcali 21:44, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - non-notable. --FCYTravis 21:51, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not exactly "liberal crap" since most liberals (along with Libertarians and Constitutionalists) are focused on bringing troops home. More likely anarchists looking to stir chaos. -- BD2412 talk 21:57, 2005 Jun 15 (UTC)
 * Delete Not because this is "liberal crap"- I agree with it to a certain extent- but because its not anything approaching an encyclopedia article. It's one mans soapbox.
 * Delete Inherently POV, non-notable, and a whole lot of other good reasons. --Scimitar 22:37, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete This article offends me on so many levels.--EatAlbertaBeef 22:49, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete This article is a bad parody of an antiwar organization, at best --Myself 23:19, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as unverifiable. Though I'd love to vote keep because in a thoroughly militaristic, jingoistic society like America he just has to have the biggest balls to come up with a slogan like that.  My preferred slogan for this kind of situation comes from that old anti-war heroine Lizzie Strata: Don't fuck the troops! --Tony Sidaway|Talk 22:57, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment - From the iMDB article about the film - "All actors perform naked. This was due not simply to the budget being too small to accommodate the appropriate costumes and regalia...". Excellent reference, by the way. -- Jonel | Speak 04:01, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Lysistrata is one hell of a funny play. Get to see it if you can. 2500 years old and it's still got em rolling in the aisles. Hey, maybe we should change our votes to "redirect to Lysistrata". :) --Tony Sidaway|Talk 22:19, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Awww the article wasn't about what I thought it was going to be about. *Pouts*  Well, delete it anyway, not because it's liberal because, well, I am, but because it's non-notable. -- Francs2000 | Talk  23:01, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete notability not etsbalished. JamesBurns 23:20, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless verified, then keep. Taco Deposit | Talk-o to Taco 00:02, Jun 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unverifiable. -- Jonel | Speak 04:01, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-verifiable, (although I am tempted to vote keep just to piss off the childish anon whose caps lock key is down). func (talk) 04:09, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Ditto. Nestea 11:58, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unverifiable. Hoax. Not-notable. Offensive. Sjakkalle (Check!)  06:51, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages.  Please do not edit this page .


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Talk:Danmark Island

See Votes for deletion/Danmark (island). Result: content merged into Sandvika. Eugene van der Pijll 21:37, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Zwitter

Untitled
Is a whole page for one song necessary?
 * No. --Xcali 21:48, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, not unless more is added, i suppose. --The Missing Piece 21:13, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Song Desc.
I changed the bit about a "classic crescendo ending". Its not a crescendo, its a diminuendo; it gets quieter. Crescendo means getting louder. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Grungedude22 (talk • contribs) 13:16, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

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Clinterty Agricultural College

Clinterty Agricultural College was a small further education college near Aberdeen in Scotland, which became part of Aberdeen College (now North East Scotland College). Clinterty College was founded in 1968 with the purchase of Meikle Clinterty farm and the following year Mains of Tertowie farm near the village of Blackburn in Aberdeenshire. Initially classes were taught in surplus school provision in Bucksburn and students ferried out to the farm at Meikle Clinterty for practical activities. The first principal of the college was John Telfer. John had originally travelled around Aberdeenshire running agricultural day release classes from the back of his Morris Minor Traveller and he was probably the most influential individual along with James Michie the Director of Education in Aberdeenshire, involved with the development of Clinterty.

Construction of the new college started in 1973 on a green-field site near the village of Blackburn, and opened its doors to students in September 1975. The college provided training and education in Agricultural Skills, Crop & Animal Husbandry, Mechanisation and Agricultural & Construction Plant Engineering.

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Talk:Adam Stegerwald

Translated from dewiki--Buchbibliothek (talk) 21:48, 3 August 2016 (UTC)

Moved over from German wiki
Adam Stegerwald (* 14. Dezember 1874 in Greußenheim (bei Würzburg); † 3. Dezember 1945 in Würzburg) war Mitbegründer der christlichen Gewerkschaften in Deutschland.

Der Sohn eines Kleinbauern besuchte von 1881 bis 1888 die Volksschule in Greußenheim. Eine Lehre als Schreiner absolvierte er in Würzburg. Nach seiner Lehre begab er sich in Süddeutschland und in der Schweiz auf Wanderschaft. 1893 erfolgte der Eintritt in den katholischen Gesellenverein in Günzburg (Schwaben). In München arbeitete er seit 1896 im Arbeiterwahlverein des Zentrums. Vornehmlich setzte er sich für den Aufbau einer christlichen Gewerkschaftsbewegung ein. 1899 wurde er (ehrenamtlich) 1. Vorsitzender des Zentralverbandes christlicher Holzarbeiter, dem er bis 1903 vorstand.

Von 1900 bis 1902 war er Privathörer bei Lujo Brentano für zwei Semester für Volkswirtschaftslehre und spezielle Nationalökonomie an der Universität München. Von 1903 bis 1905 besuchte er die Vorlesungen an der Handelshochschule in Köln. Von 1903 bis 1929 wirkte er als Generalsekretär des Gesamtverbandes der christlichen Gewerkschaften Deutschlands. Parallel war er von 1908 bis 1914 internationaler Sekretär der christlichen Arbeiterorganisationen.

In der Konzeption der Gewerkschaftspolitik steuerte er einen nationalistischen, kaisertreuen Kurs und versuchte durch Zusammenschluss mit weiteren Organisationen (Deutscher Handlungsgehilfenverband, evangelische und katholische Arbeitervereine) zu einem "Deutschen Arbeiterkongress" zu gelangen, um ein Gegengewicht zu den freien Gewerkschaften zu schaffen. Er unterstützte den Kriegskurs der Regierung und wurde von 1916 bis 1919 Vorstandsmitglied des Kriegsernährungsamts. Von 1917 bis 1918 gehörte er dem Preußischen Herrenhaus an.

Als Vertreter der christlichen Gewerkschaften unterzeichnete er das Arbeitsgemeinschaftsabkommen zwischen den Unternehmerverbänden und den Gewerkschaften am 15. November 1918. In einer Anfang 1919 in der Schriftenreihe des Generalsekretariats zum Studium und zur Bekämpfung des Bolschewismus "Revolutionäre Streitfragen" erschienen Broschüre "Unsere Not und unsere Rettung" nahm er gegen die Rätebewegung Stellung und forderte ihre Auflösung. Von 1919 bis 1929 trat er an die Spitze des christlichen Deutschen Gewerkschaftsbundes. Jetzt widmete er sich immer mehr der Politik und wurde von 1919 bis 1920 Mitglied der Nationalversammlung, von 1919 bis 1921 gehörte er der preußischen Landesversammlung an. Von März 1919 bis November 1921 war er preußischer Minister für Volkswohlfahrt. Von April bis November 1921 bekleidete er zugleich das Amt des Ministerpräsidenten Preußens, von April [1929]] bis März 1930 das des Reichsverkehrsministers, von März 1930 bis Mai [1932]] das des Reichsarbeitsministers.

Von Januar 1919 bis Juni 1920 vertrat er den Wahlkreis 20 des Regierungsbezirks Köln und Aachen im Reichstag, von Juni 1920 bis Mai 1924 den Wahlkreis 19 Westfalen-Nord und von Mai 1924 bis November 1933 den Wahlkreis 17 Westfalen-Nord. Vorsitzender der Reichstagsfraktion des Zentrums war er von Januar bis April 1929.

Am 21. Februar 1933 wurde er auf einer Wahlveranstaltgung in Krefeld von Nationalsozialisten tätlich angegriffen(1). Im März 1933 führte er zusammen mit Ludwig Kaas und Albert Hackelsberger Verhandlungen mit Adolf Hitler, als deren Ergebnis die Zentrumspartei dem Ermächtigungsgesetz zustimmte.

Im Juli 1933 erfolgte gemeinsam mit Heinrich Imbusch der Ausschluss aus der Deutschen Arbeitsfront. Von 1933 bis 1934 wird er zusammen mit Wilhelm Marx und Heinrich Brauns im Prozess gegen den Kölner "Volksverein-Verlag" in seiner Funktion als Vorstandsmitglied des Volksvereins für das katholische Deutschland angeklagt, der Prozess wird aber 1934 eingestellt.

Am 30. Juli 1934 tauchte er vorübergend unter (2). Von 1934 bis 1935 hatte er die Funktion eines Hausvogts von zwei Frauenklöstern in und bei Berlin inne. 1935 erwarb er eine Beteiligug an einer Torfverwertungsgesellschaft. 1937 kaufte er ein Mietshaus zur Alterssicherung aus nachgezahlten Übergangsgeldern seiner Ministerzeit. Mit Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus soll er angeblich eine deutsche Nationalkirche propagiert haben. Mit Eugen Bolz, Thomas Esser und Jean Albert Schwarz erstellte er Eingaben, Denkschriften und eine Korrospondenz (in: (4)).

Bis Ende 1938 erhielt er Mittel aus dem Bezug des Übergangsgelds aus seiner Ministertätigkeit. Im Juni 19139 wird er in der SD-Übersicht "Erfassung führender Männer der Systemzeit(Konfessionelle Parteien)" aufgeführt (5). Im März 1944 siedelt er nach der Ausbombung nach Greußenheim über (6). Nach dem Attentat vom 20. Juli 1944 wird er zeitweise im Rahmen der "Aktion Gewitter" verhaftet. Vom 24. August bis 19. Oktober 1944 war er von der Gestapo im Würzburger Gefängnis inhaftiert (7).

Während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus war er ohne Einfluss. 1945 wurde er auf Veranlassung der amerikanischen Besatzungsmacht zum Regierungspräsident des Bezirks Unterfranken ernannt, starb dann aber schon im Dezember 1945. Stegerwald beeinflusste die Gründung der CSU im Oktober 1945 in Würzburg.

Anmerkungen

 * (1) Die "Niederrheinische Volkszeitung" berichtete am 22. Februar 1933 über den Vofall unter der Überschrift "Zentrumsversammlung von Nationalsozialisten gesprengt": "Dramatisch gestaltete sich die Lage, als ein kleiner Trupp das Podium stürmte, auf Stegerwald eindrangen und ihm mehrere Kopfhiebe beibrachte. Ein Schlag war so heftig geführt, daß der Bügel der Brille eine blutige Wunde am Ohr hinterließ." - "Sie schlugen den früheren Minister Stegerwald mit Kopfhieben nieder, ohne daß die Polizei zu Hilfe kam". (in: Wilhelm Hoegner, Die verratene Republik, 1958, S. 345)

 * (2) "Während der Röhm-Affaire stand er mit Heinrich Brüning auf der Liste derjenigen, die beseitigt werden sollten. Doch verhinderten, wie er in seinem ersten Lebenslauf nach  1945 schrieb, der Reichspräsident und einflußreiche Kreise der Reichswehr den Plan der Nationalsozialisten. Auf Empfehlung einer ausländischen Botschaft verließ er für kurze Zeit Berlin und lebte drei Monate im Exil"(in: (3))

 * (5) Die Übersicht notiert über Stegerwald:"Nach 1933: Lebt heute in Berlin-Grunewald und ist Besitzer von zwei Grundstücken im Werte von RM 126 000.-. Zu diesem kommt ein weiteres Vermögen von RM 21. 7898,-. St. gibt Schulden in Höhe von RM 142. 000.- an, so daß nur ein Reinvermögen von RM 5. 7898.- besteht. Bis Ende 1938 erhielt St. von dem Versorgungsamt V ein Ruhegehalt von jährlich RM 16.075.-. Hauseinkünfte und Zinsen ergaben 1938 einen Betrag in Höhe von RM 2.913.-."

 * (6) Im Bericht des Oberabschnittsleiters der NSDAP an die Gestapo Würzburg vom 25. August 1944(Quelle: Berlin Document Center) heißt es:"Sein füherer Wohnsitz war wahrscheinlich Berlin. Eine erkennbare politische Betätigung ist in Greußenheim bei ihm nicht festzustellen. Er beucht früh den Gottesdienst und geht anschließend zur Arbeit".

 * (7) "Dort scheint ihm die Realität des Dritten Reiches aufegegangen zu sein. Nach dem Zeugnis des Würzburger Kunsthistorikers Kurt Gerstenberg (1886-1969), der zusammen mit Stegerwald eine Gefängniszelle teilte, hat sich der Exminister außerordentlich tapfer gezeigt und die Quälereien und Bitternisse der Haft mit stioischer Ruhe ertragen. Allerdings scheint seine robuste Gesundheit durch die Inhaftierung gelitten zu haben"(in:(4), S. 216).

Literatur

 * (3) Helmut J. Schnorr, Adam Stegerwald, Gewerkschaftler, Politiker der ersten deutschen Republik. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der christlich - sozialen Bewegung in Deutschland., 1966
 * (4) Rudolf Morsey, Zeitgeschichte in Lebensbildern - Aus dem deutschen Katholizismusdes 20. Jahrhunderts Band 1, 1973, S. 216

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Outwood Windmill

Outwood Windmill is a Grade I listed post mill in Outwood, Surrey. Built in 1665 by Thomas Budgen, a miller from Nutfield in Surrey, it is Britain's oldest working windmill. It was one of a pair after 1797, alongside a smock mill that had the tallest smock tower in the United Kingdom until its collapse in 1960.

Post mill
Outwood Windmill was built for Thomas Budgen (1640–1716) in 1665. The original deed for its erection is still in existence. Thomas Budgen borrowed the money to finance the building of the windmill from two of his brothers-in-law. He was able to repay them within two years. The builders of the mill are traditionally said to have watched the Great Fire of London glowing in the distance, some 25 mi away. In 1678, Thomas Budgen was convicted under the Conventicle Act as a seditious preacher, and fined £20.

John Budgen took the mill on his father's death, and in 1715 was paying Quit Rent on the mill, a malthouse and a brick kiln. John Budgen died in 1765 and the rent was paid by his widow until she died in 1768, when Ezekiel Budgen took the mill. Ezekiel Budgen was involved in a quarrel with his brother Isaac, which led to William Budgen (Ezekiel's nephew) being granted a piece of land near the mill in 1796 with liberty to erect a windmill upon it. By 1806, the mill was in the possession of John Jupp. William Jupp took the mill sometime before 1880 and ran it until he died in 1934. In 1929, the Windmill Section of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings recognised the mill as "of paramount importance". A new pair of Spring sails were needed in 1931. The Society paid for Thomas Hunt, the Soham millwright, to make and fit these at a cost of £80. William Jupp agreed not to sell the mill for demolition as a condition of the work being done. Publicity generated at the time led to an increase in orders at the mill. On 30 October 1931, a meeting was held to appeal for funds to replace the older pair of sails. Hilaire Belloc, who at the time owned Shipley windmill in Sussex, was the main speaker. Sir Joseph Rank was one of the subscribers. In 1933, a pair of sails was purchased secondhand. These had previously been on the Black Mill, Forncett End, Norfolk, which had been demolished in September 1932. These replaced a pair of sails that had been on the mill for in excess of sixty years. William Jupp died in 1934.

Stanley Jupp then took the mill. In the 1930s the mill was little used and started to deteriorate. Plans were drawn up for further restoration, but were postponed due to World War II. Milling ceased in 1949 when the breast beam cracked and the windshaft dropped causing the sails to touch the roundhouse roof. Temporary repairs were made by millwrights E Hole & Son of Burgess Hill, followed by extensive repairs, including a new breast beam and prick post, in 1952. One of the sail stocks was found to be defective in 1955 and a new pair of spring sails was fitted. A grant of £750 from the Ministry of Works was given to enable the work to be carried out, on condition that public access would be given by appointment. The older of the two stocks broke in January 1956. E Hole & Son fitted a new stock and sail on 25 October 1958. William Jupp ran the mill until 1962. In the autumn of 1962, the mill was bought by the Thomas brothers.

On 12 June 1964, the mill was caught in a severe thunderstorm. The mill was tailwinded, and only saved when the new owners turned the mill so that the wind was side on to the mill. On 5 January 2012, a sail was damaged in a gale. In 2018, the mill was offered for sale, with a price tag of £800,000.

Smock mill
On 24 November 1796, William Budgen was granted leave to erect a windmill on a plot of land near the post mill. (In the ' Sights and Sounds of Britain ' Lyntone ' Flexidisc, from 1972, " Presented by " Johnny Morris, but with words unattributed to him, this second mill's building date was given as 1870 ).

The smock mill was run by the Budgen family until 1885 when Edward Scott, of Woolpits Mill, Nutfield bought the lease of the mill for £1,225. The mill was later worked be Edward's son, and in 1903 one of the sails broke whilst the mill was at work. It was worked with only two sails until 1914, assisted by a portable steam engine as necessary. In 1950, the preservation of the mill was proposed. A survey undertaken in 1953 showed the mill had rotten cant posts and sills at the southwest side (facing the prevailing weather), with prohibitively high repair costs. It collapsed on the morning of 25 November 1960.

Post mill
Outwood Mill is a post mill on a single-storey roundhouse. It has four Spring sails controlled by elliptical springs, carried on a wooden Windshaft with a cast iron poll end. The mill drives two pairs of millstones, arranged Head and Tail and is winded by tailpole.

The oak trestle is composed of two crosstrees, four quarterbars and the main post. The crosstrees are 22 ft long and 12 in square in section, as are the quarterbars. The main post is 16 ft high, and tapers from 29 in square at the base to 16 in diameter at the Samson Head. The whole is housed in a roundhouse of 22 ft diameter with 9 ft high walls.
 * Substructure

The body of the mill measures 18 ft by 11 ft in plan, and the mill is 39 ft tall to the roof. All the milling machinery is housed within the body. The Crown Tree bears a date of 1880, possibly indicating its replacement in that year. The body weighs about 25 LT.
 * Body

The mill has carried a number of sails over the years. In 1905, it is known to have had odd sails, one pair being double shuttered Spring sails of 25 ft length, and tapering from 7 ft wide at the heel to 7 ft at the tip. The other pair were narrower, tapering from 6 ft at the heel to 5 ft at the tip. These were carried by an oak windshaft with a cast-iron poll end. The sails currently on the mill span 60 ft. The windshaft is 16 ft long, and tapers from 23 in diameter at the neck to 13 in diameter at the tail. The windshaft carries an 8 ft diameter wooden Head Wheel with 108 cogs and a composite Tail Wheel, with a cast-iron centre and wooden rim. The Tail Wheel has 84 cogs. The Head stones are 4 ft diameter Peak stones, and the Tail stones are French Burr stones. Both wheels drove additional machinery in the past, the Head wheel driving an oat crusher (now no longer in place) and the Tail Wheel driving the sack hoist.
 * Machinery

Smock mill
Outwood Smock Mill, also known as High Mill, was a tall smock mill of five storeys, with a stage at first-floor level. It was built on a low brick base less than 2 ft high. The cant posts were 48 ft long, and the mill stood 62 ft high to the top of the cap. This made it the tallest smock ever built, although not the tallest smock mill (Union Mill, Cranbrook takes that honour). Unusually, the ground floor was above ground level, at a height of about 3 ft. The smock was 26 ft across the flats at the base, and 13 ft at the curb. The cap was 13 ft by 11 ft in plan, and winded by a five-bladed fantail. The four sails were Spring Patents, spanning 80 ft, carried in a cast-iron Windshaft. The Brake Wheel was 9 ft diameter, driving a 4 ft diameter cast-iron Wallower. This had replaced an earlier Wallower of 4 ft diameter which bore a date of 1864, indicating that the mill had three wallowers in a working life of 117 years. The wooden Upright shaft was sixteen-sided, 20 in across the flats, with a dog clutch allowing the windmill to be disconnected when the mill was being driven by the portable engine. The wooden Great Spur Wheel was 8 ft diameter, with 120 cogs. The mill drove four pairs of overdrift millstones, one pair bearing a date of 1859.

Millers
The following millers were associated with Outwood windmills.

Post mill

 * Thomas Budgen 1665 – 1716
 * John Budgen 1716 – 1765
 * widow Budgen 1765 – 1768
 * Ezekiel Budgen 1768 – ?
 * John Jupp 1807 – ?
 * William Jupp 1880 – 1934
 * Stanley Jupp 1934 – 1962
 * Gerald & Raymond Thomas 1962 – 1996

Smock mill

 * William Budgen 1797 – ?
 * Edward Scott 1885 – 1914

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User:Claunia

Natalia Portillo aka Claunia is a filesystems designer, systems administrator, programmer and computer science teacher, as well as the Canary Islands Computer Museum owner. She lives in Gran Canaria, Spain.

Filesystems
Claunia is the main designer of the FOBOS universal Filesystem API (well, the only one currently), as well as the main impulsor of the LisaOS' filesystem reverse enginering project and OCRer of the "Beneath Apple ProDOS" and "Beneath Apple DOS" books (with authorization of their authors).

Wikipedia
The following articles were created by Claunia:
 * Filesystem API
 * Installable File System (major rewrite)

and some minor edits, specially in computer and filesystem articles.

Programming
Claunia is the programmer of the following programs: She is also a QEMU contributor, specially testing different operating systems functionality.
 * Canary Islands Computer Museum Engine, used on the Canary Islands Computer Museum's webpage but extensible to any other computer museum.
 * SZIP for QNX, BeOS and Mac OS X
 * BeHA file archiver (port of the HA to BeOS)
 * Zoltrix Rainbow Classic driver for Windows 2000 and XP

Translations
Claunia is the translator of the following:
 * Joliet Volume Access

IRC
You can find Claunia in the following IRC-Hispano's IRC network channels: As well as the QEMU's IRC channel on FreeNode network.
 * #claunia, herself channel.
 * #amiga, channel about the Amiga computers.
 * #programacion, channel about computer programming.
 * #gentoo, channel about Gentoo's Linux distribution.
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 * #portage, another channel about Gentoo's Linux distrubition.
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User Claunia can be found in Second Life as LaNati Nightfire.

Related Links

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 * Claunia's email is claunia@claunia.com

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Billy Hill

Billy Hill may refer to:

 * Billy Hill (band), an American country music group active from 1989 to 1990
 * Billy Hill (gangster) (1911–1984), British gangster and criminal mastermind
 * Billy Hill (songwriter) (1899–1940), American songwriter and lyricist
 * Billy Hill (footballer) (born 1936), English footballer
 * Billy Hill and the Hillbillies, a musical/variety group at Disneyland in Anaheim, California between 1992 and 2014

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ArbCom elections are now open!
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Category:Towers in Malaysia

This category lists towers and masts located within Malaysia. While there is a category for skyscrapers in Malaysia, note that skyscrapers are distinctive from (primarily communication) towers and masts in that the former is continuously habitable.

For a category listing skyscrapers, see Category:Skyscrapers in Malaysia.

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Sutcliffs Ball-peen hammer
Hey, i just saw the netflix docu on sutcliff from 2020 this morning and there are pictures of the weapons used by sutcliff. In them you can clearly see that there are several ball-peen hammers. He was known to use hammers, screwdrivers and a hacksaw as well as stones.

I did not know what a ball-peen hammer was so had to look it up and the pictures are exactly the kind of hammer shown in the docu. There were several on display in the docu and they were all ball-peens. So if you want to verify this yourself and have access to netflix, the pictures of the weapons used are in the later episodes. There are 4 total and it is only in the last two that the weapons are shown.

I think it is safe to say that he did indeed use ball-peen hammers, so your removal of this could, and should, be reverted. I think, for the sake of truth, that the ball-peen hammer reference should be put back.

greetings from the UK where the bastard did his work. Glad he is dead. People were celebrating here when he died. I was a young kid in hull at the time of the killings - a mere 40 miles away. The thing i had going for me was that i am a male and i was only 8 years old in 1978. He only went after women. EnveeNV (talk) 04:44, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

 * @Envee>NV I saw the documentary too. I surveyed several reliable sources on the web (in other words, contemporary newspaper accounts) and none of them mention that specific type of hammer. A documentary is not as reliable as "The Guardian" et al—they aren't fact-checked to the same degree. And since you have to watch the documentary to verify it, that means a lot of people can't verify it.
 * The only paper that mentioned it was, i think, "The Sun", which is a deprecated source on Wikipedia. Since the type of hammer is really immaterial, if that detail is to be included we need a citable source. If you can find one, great, but a hammer is a hammer. Matuko (talk) 11:49, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

Articles_for_deletion/Day of the Assassin
Thanks for your thoughtful comment on this discussion. So many people just say "MERGE," with no explanation of what part(s) might be worth moving over. As one of the editors who frequently carries out these merges, I can attest that the more information we have from the discussion, the easier and better the merge can be. Joyous! | Talk 02:18, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
 * How kind you are to say so. You're very welcome! Matuko (talk) 22:29, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/William "BA" Andrews

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. jni 09:29, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

William "BA" Andrews
Appears to be a local surfer, but Googling brought up fewer than 600 hits and nothing that appears to be credibly encyclopedic. FCYTravis 21:43, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete I'm local, and I haven't heard of him. --Xcali 21:54, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, notability not established. Mr Bound 22:59, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable. JamesBurns 23:18, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn, unverified. --Etacar11 00:40, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages.  Please do not edit this page .


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Enrique Bunbury

Enrique Ortiz de Landázuri Izarduy (born 11 August 1967), best known as Enrique Bunbury, is a Spanish singer and songwriter. He has been described as "by far the most international star of Spanish rock." He was propelled to fame as lead singer of Héroes del Silencio. After the band disbanded in 1996, Bunbury gradually developed a solo career. His "tessitura" singing style would be in the baritone range.

Career
Bunbury got involved in music in the early 1980s, making his debut in a high school band called Apocalipsis, and later played along with Proceso Entrópico. In 1984, Bunbury joined a group called Zumo de Vidrio, debuting as a lead vocalist. After adopting the nickname of Bunbury, taken from the Oscar Wilde stage play The Importance of Being Earnest, the musician founded the band Héroes del Silencio, becoming a major number in the Hispanic rock scene. The band eventually broke up in 1996 and Bunbury embarked on his solo career in 1997 by launching an electro-rock album, Radical Sonora with his new band: Copi (piano), Del Moran (bass), Ramon Garcias (drums) and former Héroes del Silencio guitarist Alan Boguslavsky.

Known for reinventing himself, in 1999 Bunbury released the album Pequeño (Small), which sounded very different from anything he had ever done before. His band also underwent changes, Boguslavsky was replaced by Rafa Dominguez, and new faces came on board: Ana Belén Estaje (violin), Luis Miguel Romero (percussion), Javier Iñigo, Javier Garcia Vega & Antonio Ríos in the metal instruments.

This band was known as the "Huracán Ambulante" ("Wandering Hurricane") they had great energy on stage and performed with tremendous gusto. In 2005 after 8 years together, Bunbury dissolved the band due to a series of events that caused Bunbury to feel frustrated with the record label and his future. Bunbury took a trip to disconnect and clear his thoughts by spending some time in Cuba. After some time he connected with Spanish singer songwriter Nacho Vegas. They agreed to record a new album titled "El Tiempo De Las Cerezas". The album was released in 2006 with a small tour. This led to the release of a live DVD performance at The Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona.

In 2007, Héroes del Silencio agreed to take part in an exclusive worldwide tour consisting of ten concerts to be given in ten cities around the world, which bore the name "Tour 2007" and marked the 20th anniversary of their first performances and the ten years that had elapsed since their dissolution as a band in 1996. The first concert took place in Guatemala City on 15 September, followed by Buenos Aires (21 September), Monterrey, Mexico (25 September), Los Angeles (28 September), Mexico City (4 & 6 October), Zaragoza, Spain (10 & 12 October), Seville, Spain (20 October) and Valencia, Spain (27 October), which wrapped up the '07 Tour.

Bunbury went on to ensemble a new band which goes by the name "Los Santos Inocentes" (The Innocent Saints). Bunbury has recorded eight studio albums with Los Santos Inocentes. Helville De Luxe (2008), Las Consecuencias (2010), Licenciado Cantinas (2011), Palosanto (2013), MTV Unplugged: El Libro De Las Mutaciones (2015), Expectativas (2017), Posible (2020), and Curso De Levitación Intensivo (2020).

Unlike Héroes del Silencio, Bunbury's solo career has been very different in terms of musical sound but managed to keep the essence of rock, while experimenting with various rhythms from electronic music and Middle Eastern sounds in the early stages of his solo career to cabaret music, rancheras, blues, flamenco and tango, or to salsa, milonga, boleros and cumbia in one of his latest works which pays tribute to Latin America. According to La Banda Elastica, "Rock gods do exist... and Enrique Bunbury is definitely one of them." He is renowned for his powerful, operatic voice which can range from F2-A5 with the ability to hit C3. Bunbury is a baritone. The SESAC Latina Music Awards honoured him with the Icon Award in 2019.

A documentary directed by Alexis Morante was released in 2016 entitled El camino más largo (The Longest Way), which chronicles the 2010 tour Bunbury did of the United States.

He is a vegan.

On February 28, 2022 Bunbury through his social media announced his final tour and retirement from the stages, this is due to health issues, mainly respiratory that the singer had to get through for a long time.

Despite the tour was meant to end in September, on May 10 Bunbury announced that due to an unexpected worsening of his health, he would have to cancel the rest of the tour, and retire earlier.

On March 25, 2023 Bunbury took to social media to announce a comeback tour scheduled to take place in 2024 with five dates - Ciudad de México (June 8th), Guadalajara (June 12th), Los Angeles (June 15th), New York (June 18th) and, Madrid (June 29th).

Latin Grammy Awards
Note: Two other songs performed by Bunbury but not written by him have been nominated for the Latin Grammy Award for Best Rock Song, "Gozilla" with Leiva and Ximena Sariñana in 2019 and "El Sur" with Love of Lesbian in 2021, both nominations went to the songwriters of each song; Leiva for the former and Santi Balmes & Julián Saldarriaga for the latter.

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