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Hawaii edit-a-thon!
Hello. I'm interested in attempting to put together an edit-a-thon for Hawaiian cultural topics something during the Makahiki festival perhaps around the month of November. The hope is that our lackluster coverage of Hawaiian mythology could be improved with help from the Bishop Museum, Hawaii Pacific University, and the Honolulu public library. I am in the process of making initial contacts with these organizations as well as Wikimedia DC's GLAM project. If this sounds like something you might be interested in participating in, or perhaps helping to coordinate, could you please add your name to 2014 Makahiki Edit-a-thon?--v/r - TP 21:22, 9 June 2014 (UTC)

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Looking for editors to help with an Asian Pacific American edit-a-thon in Honolulu
Aloha!

Last summer I moved to the Seattle area after 14 years in Kailua on Oahu. I immediately fell in with the Cascadia Wikimedians User Group as it formed, joined its board and became its first president as well as the GLAM representative for Washington State.

Recently, Adriel Luis, Curator (Digital & Emerging Media) at the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, contacted me about setting up an edit-a-thon like the previous Wikipedia APA edit-a-thon. In addition to discussing one for Seattle, he wrote:

It's awesome to learn about your past in Honolulu - I'm actually going to be there for another SmithsonianAPA project mid September, and thinking that this could be an opportunity to do an event there as well! I have lots of contacts with UH and the museums, but do you know of any contacts on the Wikimedia side out there?

As I was working two jobs while I lived on Oahu, I did not have the opportunity to meet your or any other Wikipedians at the time. Hence, the reason why I am contacting you now.

If you would like to help, please contact me through one of these methods:
 * Email me directly at [mailto:peaceray@cascadia.wiki peaceray@cascadia.wiki]
 * Use Special:EmailUser/Peaceray to email me
 * Leave a message for me on my talk page.

Mahalo,

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Roman letters used in mathematics

 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 KEEP

Roman letters used in mathematics
The answer to this article is all! The article limited itself to two, unfortunately. Oleg Alexandrov 01:27, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC) I agree with android. This/these topics should be in an "instensive re-organization"
 * Where did you see two? owever one has to admit that the article has certain merit: there do exist certain conventions, like xyz are for unknowns, abc are for knowns, ijklmn are for integer counters, etc. $$\R $$ is guess what? It would be a good idea to collect all Typographical conventions in mathematical formulae, like, $$\sum$$, $$\nabla$$, $$\aleph$$, $$\iff$$, etc., into one place mikka (t) 02:15, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * You mean like Table of mathematical symbols? A и D я 01D  TALK  EMAIL  03:07, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * No, I did not mean it. math symbols are special symbols like $$\iff $$ or $$\cup$$, and they are only part of math conventions. Letters of various alphabets have some predefined meanings in math. mikka (t) 14:54, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Table of mathematical symbols already contains letters of various alphabets, although it is certainly not complete. I can now see how this article and its Greek counterpart could be useful, although this whole set of articles could use some instensive re-organization – there are gaps in some places and duplications in others. I'd be willing to help. A и D я 01D  TALK  EMAIL  15:09, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Nearly no content, useless as a redirect. Keep or Merge pending figuring out how the heck to reorg all of this info. :-) A и D я 01D  TALK  EMAIL  15:09, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not a useful title for searching, and the important stuff should already be in Table of mathematical symbols. --TenOfAllTrades (talk/contrib) 04:16, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Wrong. mikka (t) 14:54, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or Merge with Greek letters used in mathematics. At least let it evolve for a while. --R.Koot 19:18, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep article seems to be evolving in positive directions.linas 23:45, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The article is already good, and I can see it being very useful when it's more complete. --cesarb 00:44, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, as per R.Koot's comment. ··gracefool |☺ 01:08, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep but move and change article name to Uses of Roman letters in Mathematics. Pufferfish101 04:19, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Update
This article is ment to be updated by others. I found the A part in the Latin Alphabet article. I am not vary good at creating math articles, as can be seen in Greek letters used in mathematics. I encourage you to put more content in this article.

The crator of this article, 68.169.113.246 Talk to me, 68.169.113.246 My contributions 10:26, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Since you seem to be planning to contribute much to wikipedia, please create yourself a user name. It takes only a few minues, but has a number of benefits. mikka (t) 15:07, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Creating a username is very good advice. It will make it a lot easier to collaborate with you on the merger/reorg, especially if you have a dynamic IP. A и D я 01D  TALK  EMAIL  15:12, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)

As stated in My personal page, my mom has full control over weather or not I can sign up for something. I can contribute to articles without her permission, though. I had a large fight with someone in 2003 in a chat room, that is why mom has full control on where I sign up. I will talk to her about getting signed up here this evening.

 * Ask your mom to read this page. Mom, give your kid a login on wikipedia. I have two kids of my own and I'm thrilled that we've got someone young here who is interested in contributing in a positive way to encyclopedia pages on mathematics! Anyway, a wikipedia login doesn't actually obligate you to do anything other than what your're already obligated to do. linas 23:07, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Also, if she's wary of flamewars, fighting is (theoretically) less, er, flamey on Wikipedia, given the policies on civility and no personal attacks. A и D я 01D  TALK  EMAIL  23:13, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)

Hmm. This fellow Teg Gunter is an intersting fellow; he's not a kid and the "mom" reference threw me. Moved to User_talk:68.169.113.246 linas 23:42, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

She let me have a username, User:Admiral Roo smile

Update 2
mikka, you have a good idea, Typographical conventions in mathematical formulae. See that pages discussion page.
 * Keep--Scimitar 22:48, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

More content
Myself and Mikka has added more content. Perhaps now this article should not be voted for deleation. Though, with Mikka's idea of the Typographical conventions in mathematical formulae article, perhaps both the Roman letters used in mathematics and the Greek letters used in mathematics could be merged into Typographical conventions in mathematical formulae.
 * No. It is better to keep them as separate articles. I was not aware about the article on Greek letters, and I see now that it may grow quite large, hence merging would be undesirable. mikka (t) 22:39, 3 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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Most often, education grants are issued by the government to students attending post-secondary education institutions. In certain cases, a part of a government loan is issued as a grant, particularly pertaining to promising students seeking financial support for continuing their educations.

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 * The Office of Extramural Research (OER) provides guidance to institutes in research and training programs conducted through extramural (grant, contract, cooperative agreement) programs.
 * National Science Foundation (NSF)
 * Most NSF grants go to individuals or small groups of investigators who carry out research at their home campuses. Other grants provide funding for mid-scale research centers, instruments and facilities that serve researchers from many institutions. Still others fund national-scale facilities that are shared by the research community as a whole.
 * The NSF receives about 40,000 proposals each year, and funds about 10,000 of them. Those funded are typically the projects that are ranked highest in a merit review process. These reviews are carried out by panels of independent scientists, engineers and educators who are experts in the relevant fields of study, and who are selected by the NSF with particular attention to avoiding conflicts of interest. (For example, the reviewers cannot work at the NSF itself, nor for the institution that employs the proposing researchers.) All proposal evaluations are confidential (the proposing researchers may see them, but they do not see the names of the reviewers).

Grant effectiveness
Econometric evidence shows public grants for firms can create additionality in jobs, sales, value added, innovation and capital. For example, this was shown to be the case for large public R&D grants, as well as for public grants for small and medium-sized firms or tourism firms.

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Spede

Spede may refer to:

 * Spede Pasanen, a Finnish film director and producer, comedian, humorist and TV personality
 * SPEDE, an instrument carried on board the Smart-1 satellite

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Lucien Nedzi

Lucien Norbert Nedzi (born May 28, 1925) is an American attorney and retired politician from Michigan. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1961 to 1981.

Early life and education
Nedzi was born to immigrants Aleksander Nedzi and Stephania (Wojszko) Nedzi in Hamtramck, Michigan, a town surrounded on all sides by Detroit. Nedzi is of Polish descent. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1943. In 1951, he earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. He was admitted to the Michigan bar in January 1952. He later graduated from the National War College and Naval War College.

Military service
From 1944 to 1946, he served in the United States Army during World War II as an infantryman in the Philippines, and in the United States Army Corps of Engineers in Japan. From 1946 to 1953, he was in the active United States Army Reserve, during which time he served in the Korean War.

Politics
He served as the public administrator of Wayne County, Michigan, from 1955 to 1961.

Congress
Nedzi was elected as a U.S. representative from Michigan's 1st congressional district to the 87th United States Congress in a special election in 1961 to fill the vacancy left by resigning U.S. representative Thaddeus M. Machrowicz. He was re-elected in the 1962 election and two years later he was elected from the 14th district and every two years after that until he declined to seek re-election in the 1980 election. In all, he served from November 7, 1961, to January 3, 1981.

Nedzi chaired the House Select Committee on Intelligence, known as the Nedzi Committee, from February 1975 until he controversially resigned in June. The committee's work was continued by the Pike Committee. In addition, Nedzi chaired the United States Congressional Joint Committee on the Library from 1973 to 1979 and the United States House Committee on House Administration from 1979 to 1981.

Personal life
Nedzi married the former Margaret Kathleen "Peggy" Garvey on January 28, 1952, in Laredo, Texas, after they met on a blind date during her dietetic internship at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Together, they had five children and nine grandchildren. For the rest of their marriage, they lived in McLean, Virginia. Peggy Nedzi died on November 1, 2020.

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User:CoolFox

'Lo folks. My screen name is CoolFox, or just Fox for short. I'm an active Wikipedian, and generally specialize in technology articles. For a good example of my work, you can look at the AlphaSmart page.

Background
In "real" life, I'm a 22 year old male student living in San José, California, majoring in Electrical Technology. I happen to be "afflicted" with Aspergers syndrome. I'm hot tempered as a result, and I am known for my curt one liners when I'm ticked off, earning the nickname "Fox" for my dry wit. As thus, my screen name is a portmanteau of my surname and nickname.

I'm an avid yo-yoist (having friggen mad skills with a yo-yo), and use a YoyoJam Spinfakor HG as my "sidearm"; a fairly competent french horn player; a complete computer nerd; and gadget geek that is rarely found without a handheld, iPod, Nintendo DS Lite, and a mobile phone. I love tinkering with gadgets, computers, machines, or anything else for that matter.

Computing wise, I mainly use Macs, but I'm not one of those "Mac assholes" who are so completely anal and self absorbed that they have never even TRIED to use anything else. It is true, however, that I hate Windows with a certain spark. It sucks for anything but games, but it does that pretty well though. I love tinkering around with PCs, especially overclocking and case modding. I'm also totally into old school equipment.

I'm a trained karateka, having acquired the rank of 6th kyu in the martial art of karate

Lately I've become involved in Airsoft, I wield a KWA Glock 19, and Classic Army Heckler & Koch MP5.

Lastly, I'm quite a UNIX junkie, but I'm trying to get more into Linux, cuz it's free. I personally use Kubuntu, as I am a KDE user. Actually, screw the new version of KDE, I find that I'm using GNOME more and more.

I personally LOVE Wikipedia, not only for looking stuff up, but just the nature of it all. Information is a very dynamic medium that is meant to be shared without boundary, and Wikipedia is a shining example of how well this can be done. (on a side note, Wikipedia isn't perfect, we all know they have blatant censorship issues).

It is a necessity for everyone to have access to knowledge; to be informed for making better decisions about our world.

Favorite Websites

 * AnandTech Hardcore tech tinkering and review for the avid power user.
 * Ars Technica One of the best Tech news and review sites on the net.
 * bit-tech.net UK's top independent hardware reviewer, and home of the best PC modding you'll ever see.
 * Engadget The Gadget Weblog. One of my favorite places to get gadget news
 * Gizmodo The direct competitor of Engadget, so they cover a lot of the same stuff, but I read it anyway.
 * LifeHacker Technology and how it affects our lives, and how to use it properly.
 * Joystiq The Video Game Weblog.
 * The Unofficial Apple Weblog The website name sums it up nicely.
 * Slashdot THE nerd news site.
 * iLounge The premier iPod-everything-related website
 * AppleFritter A great Mac modding site, I have contributed my own "project" of sorts too:
 * Homestar Runner My favorite place to get a laugh. Be forewarned, it's very silly.
 * Red Vs. Blue The other place I go to get a hoot. A rather silly Halo machinima web video series. I'm a sponsor too!
 * Infinite Illusions The place where I get all my yo-yoing crap. Lovely people to deal with.
 * YoYo Nation The other place I get my crazy crap.
 * Airsoft Extreme Local airsoft retailer that I patron. Walking into their store is just staggering; their walls are covered in quality replicas.

Favorite Webcomics

 * Alpha Shade Frankly, I never could understand what is really going on here, but it's absolutely epic.
 * Applegeeks A bit of Mac evangelism with a boot to the head, but most of the comic has little to do with Apple.
 * Gone With the Blastwave Think Red Vs. Blue infused with the atmosphere of a nuclear holocaust. Rarely updated, but probably my favorite comic.
 * Mac Hall Ah, dorm life... no longer updated, but its worth reading the archives.
 * Three Panel Soul From the producers of Mac Hall, a new comic absolutely OOZING with style and humor.
 * Megatokyo Two Americans get stuck on a permanent trip in Tokyo. Hilarity ensues.
 * PAWN Warning: This comic has lots of nudity, but it's so hilarious and tasteful, you're not likely to even notice it (naw, you'll notice it, but it truly is tasteful). A scholar and a demon trudge through an underground maze. Hijinx are ubiquitous.
 * Penny Arcade The normal world, viewed through the eyes of madness; oh, and gaming too!
 * Slightly Damned A silly comic about the afterlife, with a bit of angst thrown in for good measure.
 * VG Cats A comic that usually features our favorite video games... and kicks them when they are down. Nothing but parodies.
 * What The Duck The sordid life of a freelance photographer. With a duck. (wait, what?)
 * The Joy of Tech Kinda hard to explain. A good humorous look at the hi-tech industry, and how honestly f-ed up it is.
 * SquidiA Modest Destiny is a pixel art based strip that sums up its storyline in the title, but the writing is anything but modest. No longer being updated, but it is so worth reading the archives.
 * Dresden Codak This comic draws from of all those higher-ed courses we took in college, and turns it into something useful: humor. This guy's art style is absolutely epic.
 * Questionable Content Character based comic that has amusing dialog. Also very obscure music references, but they were always lost to me.
 * XKCD The acronym stands for nothing. Not very artful, but damn, this this comic's writer has the wit of something else. Press the Random button for Full effect!
 * Wasted Talent Cute comic by a tortured UBC engineering student.

And now for the obligatory cheesy quote, eh? (quite literally, infact): Life is like a wheel of cheese, it goes round; sometimes it stinks, sometimes it get nibbled upon by sadistic rodents; but in general, doesn't it taste good?

Ahem. Now for a quote of mine that actually means something: Passion in the hands of an unreasonable man is a dangerous thing; its what leads to progress and change; indeed, its the only thing that ever has.

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User talk:Bdude/Archive 1

Hello. here you can talk to me.

Bryce Rocks
I hate bryce -- Bryce and god and jesus and the people of earth

Regarding Portal:Forums rollback:
Well, then how invision power links are ok on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Forums page? Keeping those links makes me think I can add my own news. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 193.151.57.7 (talk • contribs).

Kieran Was Here
Hey. Its Kieran. I am editing this watchamacallit and... yeah... yay. I should probably sign in next time. Cheers! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.92.102.220 (talk • contribs).

test
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the e?
how did you get the e? --60.229.111.218 06:58, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tourism in Italy

 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 keep (copyvio text already removed) CDC   (talk)  20:28, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Tourism in Italy
As it now stands, this article is a tiny stub not about Tourism in Italy, but about Italy; and historically, the article has been a magnet for link spam. There is nothing in this that, if it has any value at all, doesn't belong under Italy. An article about Tourism in Italy would presumably be about the encouragement of tourism, tourism incentives, the tourism business, revenues from tourism, the breakdown of what kind of tourists they get, etc. Nobody is writing this — I'm not about to — and if someone does, at least until it gets substantial, it can be put as a section under Italy. Bill 01:36, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Italy to encourage readers and helpful contributors to go to the right place until we have enough to break this article out on its own. -- Jonel 03:47, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete a large chunk of this article appears to have been cut and pasted from here . Possible copyvio. JamesBurns 09:22, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Italy. Jamyskis 10:27, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Redirect to Italy to encourage editing and remove this version from the history if it turns out to be a copyvio. Mgm|(talk) 11:33, Jun 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and improve. Part of a large series of articles about national tourism. These articles do describe common tourist destinations. I don't see a good reason to make an exception just for Italy, which has a significant tourism industry. :) — RJH 15:06, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * obvious keep ever heard of Rome? Florence? Pompeii? Venice? Pisa? Dunc|☺ 18:16, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. What grounds do you have for deletion? It could easily become a long article. ··gracefool |☺ 01:09, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I have indeed heard of Rome (on which my own website runs to 600 pages), Venice, etc. All of these places have their own articles. "Tourism in Italy" suggests, not to belabor the point, that the article is about tourism, in Italy. Which this article, currently, is not. I agree with Gracefool that it could easily become a long article: but with not one shred of the stuff currently in it. (Hint: you want an article about tourism in Italy, write it yourself! The hotel industry, the economic impact of tourism, the foreign currency brought into the country, the training of hotelkeepers and restaurateurs, the value of tourism for the country's image, the government institutes that train tourism workers, endless etc.'s, absolutely: no shortage of material. Have at it!) But vague comments about Florence, and link spam to whatever website owner (out of many thousands out there) happens to add here, and hyperbole about how beautiful Italy is and how much stuff it's got (couldn't agree more), doesn't make an article.... Bill 02:15, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep Falphin 19:40, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I would vote Keep and cleanup if not a copyvio. Capitalistroadster 05:36, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep A lot of very good articles were once a lot worse than this. Oliver Chettle 18:41, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Good Stub start for what can be a whole series of interesting Artys. Could act as a magnet for tentative editors as people planning a trip stumble across and add to it. Suggest the flaming sarcasims above be avoided in future discussions. An article on tourism will definitely have a whole different format and set of acceptable editorial practices than a factual article on Italy.  The later would certainly be dotted with GDP, Resources, Population, and other statistical compilations, whereas the tourism article would focus pretty much on fun stuff.  If someone is severely insulted by it's short nature, I daresay a visit to the local library will turn up several references that can lead to expansion.
 * wrt this (opening) comment: "An article about Tourism in Italy would presumably be about the encouragement of tourism, tourism incentives, the tourism business, revenues from tourism, the breakdown of what kind of tourists they get, etc.", This article should perhaps be renamed Tourism In Italy (Guide) as I interpret the authors intent, with the drier factual matters allocated to a heading in the Italy article. Fabartus 01:17, 8 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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Ménard

Ménard is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 * André Ménard, Governor General in the French colonial empire
 * Antoine Ménard, dit Lafontaine (1744–1825), building contractor and politician in Lower Canada
 * Christian Ménard (born 1946), member of the National Assembly of France
 * Claude Ménard (athlete) (1906–1980), French high jump athlete
 * Claude Ménard (economist) (born 1944), Canadian economist
 * Constance Menard (born 1968), French professional Dressage rider and equestrienne
 * D.L. Menard (1932–2017), Cajun music songwriter and performer
 * Dollard Ménard (1913–1997), Canadian general wounded five times in 1942 at Dieppe
 * Émile-René Ménard (1862–1930), French landscape and antique painter
 * Henry William Menard (1920–1986), American geologist
 * Hillary "Minnie" Menard (born 1934), Canadian hockey player
 * Howie Menard (born 1942), National Hockey League player
 * Jean-Michel Ménard (born 1976), first francophone curler from Quebec to win the Brier (2006)
 * Joan M. Menard (born 1935), member of the Massachusetts Senate
 * John Menard Jr. (born 1940), American businessman; founder and owner of the Menards chain of home improvement stores
 * John Willis Menard (1838–1893), first African-American elected to the United States Congress
 * Léon Ménard (1706–1767), French lawyer and historical writer
 * Louis-Nicolas Ménard (1822–1901), French discoverer of collodion
 * Malika Ménard (born 1987), Miss France 2010
 * Marc Menard, Canadian actor
 * Michel Ménard (born 1961), member of the National Assembly of France
 * Michel Branamour Ménard (1805–1856), Canadian-born trader and founder of Galveston, Texas
 * Nellie Star Boy Menard (1910–2001), American quiltmaker
 * Nicolas-Hugues Ménard (1585–1644), Maurist scholar
 * Nicole Ménard, Canadian politician
 * Paul Menard (born 1980), son of John Jr., NASCAR driver
 * Phil Menard (1923–2016), French accordion player active in Louisiana
 * Pierre Menard (1766–1844), fur trader and Illinois politician
 * Réal Ménard (born 1962), Canadian politician
 * René Menard (1605–1661), French Jesuit missionary explorer in North America
 * Russell Menard, professor of British colonization in North America
 * Serge Ménard, Canadian politician
 * Susan Menard, American politician

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Aloha!
My name is Chris, and I've been around Wikipedia since mid 2005. Between numerous things going on in my life, I have a tendency to be more of laid back contributor. While I use Wikipedia for reference on an almost daily basis, I contribute very sporadically... typically on articles of particular interest to me. I also am on vandal control every so often. I am fairly knowledgeable on Wikipedia's policies, and do my best to ensure my edits follow them to an exacting standard.

Contacting me

 * General - 'The best way to get in contact with me quickly is by emailing me. For issues relating to articles or images on the namespace, please leave a comment on my talk page. I will respond on your talk page as soon as possible.

 * For editors with tagged contributions - If you had an article or image tagged by me for deletion or rights issues, please do not take offense. With articles, please make attempts to take corrective action, which usually boils down to asserting the notability of that article's subject. With images, review Wikipedia's non-free content policies, and make sure there is a valid rationale for every article you use your fair-use image on.

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Ukifune

Ukifune (浮舟, うきふね) is the nickname of a princess in The Tale of Genji, the unrecognized daughter of the Eighth Prince. The 51st chapter of the story is named after her. Literally, Ukifune means "A Boat Set Adrift"; her real name is not specified.

Story
Ukifune is the unrecognized daughter of the Eighth Prince, the half sister of Oigimi and Nakanokimi, and a young lady of uncommon beauty and grace. She lives with her mother at a distance from the royal court, shielding her from courtly politics; she is considered naive as such. Both Kaoru and Prince Niou court Ukifune and seek her love, and she agonizes over the proper choice. In order to release herself from the love triangle, Ukifune attempts suicide by throwing herself into the Uji River, but is unsuccessful. Having been rescued, she takes vows to become a Buddhist nun and secludes herself in Ono, at the western foot of Mount Hiei. She refuses to see Kaoru again; this story is at the very end of The Tale of Genji, so the story comes to an end without any further resolution for her.

In culture
Ukifune has often been a subject of many works, including a noh piece of the same title. The song "Ukifune" by the Japanese indie band GO!GO!7188 refers directly to the story.

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I am now known as lepamplemousse

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Hah, what a daft term! --Beachy 01:38, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Burn's wetware matches her software. --Lord Nikon

"early use of the term"
The Oxford English Dictionary has citations of the word from the 1970s, much earlier than what is currently mentioned in the article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.213.77.129 (talk) 21:41, 20 March 2007 (UTC).

Overwrought intro?
Am I the only one who finds the current intro over-done / over-written? I think it would be strengthened by a more simple lead sentence, closer to a definition: Wetware is a term used to describe the central nervous system of humans or animals; originally used as a humorous analogy to the computer concepts of hardware and software. By extension...(rest of text)". While I think the current text is an interesting exploration, the opening should also be as accessible as possible.--Gregalton 07:21, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

Cleanup of source listings in main article body
um...as the title says. Pongley (talk) 22:19, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

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Groove metal

Groove metal, sometimes also called neo-thrash or post-thrash, is a subgenre of heavy metal music that began in the early 1990s. Heavily influenced by thrash metal, groove metal features raspy singing and screaming, down-tuned guitars, heavy guitar riffs, and syncopated rhythms. Groove metal is usually slower than thrash. Pantera are often considered the pioneers of groove metal, and the genre expanded in the 1990s with bands including White Zombie, Machine Head, and Sepultura. Successful groove metal acts of the 2000s include Lamb of God, DevilDriver, and Five Finger Death Punch.

Characteristics
Groove metal is heavily influenced by thrash metal, but is focused more on heaviness as opposed to speed, although fast songs are still common within the genre. The genre emphasises heavy guitar riffs, often accompanied by syncopated rhythms, and guitar solos are commonplace. Guitars are generally more down-tuned than in thrash, and vocals typically are yelling, growling, screaming, or very raspy singing.

History
Texas heavy metal band Pantera's 1990 album Cowboys from Hell is often considered the first groove metal album. With this release, Pantera moved away from the glam metal of their earlier work. They continued releasing influential albums through the 1990s; the 1992 album Vulgar Display of Power featured an even heavier sound than its predecessor, while its follow-up Far Beyond Driven (1994) peaked at number 1 on the Billboard 200, selling 186,000 copies its first week of release.

New York band Prong's second album Beg to Differ, released four months before Cowboys from Hell, is also considered one of the first albums of the genre, with frontman Tommy Victor claiming it was the first groove metal album ever released.

Other early examples of groove metal include the Metallica songs "Harvester of Sorrow" (1988) and "Sad but True" (1991), both of which are notable for having a more mid-paced groove compared to the fast paced thrash sound that categorizes most of the band's other early works.

New York band White Zombie are also seen as early pioneers of the genre with their second album Make Them Die Slowly (1989), which saw the band transition away from their earlier noise rock sound in favor of a groovier sound that could be described as a "half-paced thrash". White Zombie themselves would become one of the bigger groove metal bands of the 1990s, with their third album La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One peaking at number 2 on the Heatseekers Albums chart in 1993 and being certified double-platinum by the RIAA in July 1998. White Zombie's music videos were featured on Beavis and Butt-Head, helping to increase the band's sales. The 1995 follow-up Astro Creep: 2000 peaked at number 6 on the Billboard 200 and sold 104,000 copies in its first week of release; it was certified double-platinum by the RIAA.

In 1993, the Brazilian band Sepultura released Chaos A.D., which saw the band developing their sound from thrash to groove metal. Sepultura released their most popular album Roots in 1996, which combined groove metal and nu metal; it received criticism from fans because it was very different from older Sepultura albums like Beneath the Remains.

In 1992, thrash band Exhorder moved to the groove metal genre with their album The Law. In the 1990s, several other groove metal bands appeared, including Skinlab, Pissing Razors, Machine Head, Grip Inc., and White Zombie. Several other veteran thrash bands also used elements of groove metal over the ensuing decade, including Anthrax, Testament, Annihilator, and Overkill (whose earlier works had pioneered the genre, including their 1989 album The Years of Decay).

Machine Head released their debut album Burn My Eyes in 1994. The album helped the band achieve underground success and sold over 145,000 copies.

In the 2000s, many more groove metal bands emerged, including Five Finger Death Punch, Damageplan, Lamb of God, Chimaira, Hellyeah, and DevilDriver. Damageplan was founded with former Pantera members Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul Abbott. They released one album, New Found Power, in 2004. The band broke up in December 2004, after guitarist Dimebag Darrell was shot dead at a live performance. Lamb of God became popular among heavy metal fans in the mid-2000s along with the metalcore bands that were achieving success at the time. Five Finger Death Punch emerged in the 2000s and achieved moderate success in the 2010s.

Influence on other genres
Groove metal bands like Pantera, White Zombie, Prong, and Sepultura were all big influences on the nu metal genre. Nu metal began in the mid-1990s and became mainstream in the late 1990s and early 2000s; its most successful acts include Korn and Slipknot.

Groove metal bands like Pantera and Sepultura, along with crossover thrash bands such as Cro-Mags and Agnostic Front, helped to lay the groundwork for metalcore.

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User:Bishonen/diffs

Anon IPs
82.35.37.118 (confirmed)

131.111.8.101 (suggested)

Incarnations

 * Pcpcpc
 * Oliver Chettle
 * Gillian Tipson

My own contact with Pcpcpc
Note that my tone is sharp in the first post, which I hope is not the way I usually open communications. This is because Pcpcpc has been persistently and outrageously rude to Giano, who took a wikibreak as a result.

The following is a narrative posted to User:Radiant! on March 3, 2005.

Hi, Radiant!. I'm having some difficulty believing my eyes, they're kind of bugging out. Pcpcpc has just put my username up, in public, on his talk page, on what he calls his "ignore list", as being somebody who "engages in repeated personal attacks." Along with yours and Giano's—I'm not saying that listing you guys is any less heinous, but at least he's engaged in a current conflict with the two of you, which makes some kind of sense ... whereas the last time I spoke with the guy was on January 12! This is actually amazing, I'm feeling distinctly unnerved. It's like I'm never going to be shut of this guy and his hate.

In case you'd like to see my "personal attacks" against Pcpcpc, here they are in full. Three posts.

Me on December 31

Pcpcpc's reply

Me a little later the same day

Pcpcpc:s reply

Me on January 12

Pcpcpc's reply

That's it! That's the whole thing, I haven't spoken to him since. (At least, I'm pretty sure that's the whole thing, but hey, it was two months ago, I could have missed out something.) I've been determined, up to now, to simply have no more contact with this rebarbative user, but this...! I'm on an "ignore list", as if I'd been persistently flooding his talk page? With "personal attacks", yet? Apparently it's made no difference that I've been keeping quiet for two months and merely lived with the hate that Pcpcpc flings around so recklessly (he speaks of me and Giano to other users, strangers to both him and us, with extraordiniary venom, at the drop of a hat, with the most tenuous relevance), apparently without any notion that there are actual people behind "Giano" and "Bishonen": if you prick us, do we not bleed? Wikipedia has just become too unpleasant for me, and I've changed my mind about pacifism. Not that I'm planning any initiative—I know what RFCs and RFArs do to a person's peace of mind, and am still hoping one can be avoided—but if you should decide to do an RFC or similar, I'm in. Perhaps you'll think it strange, incidentally, that the actual History of Pcpcpc's Talk page before February 12 is now at an archive, but that's the way it is. It's an effect that can be achieved quite simply by first moving the Talk page itself to being called "Archive", then editing the automatically created redirect into being again the Talk page: voilà, you have a fresh start, nobody can trace the way you've been acting before February 12, or not without being very curious and persistent. Best wishes,--Bishonen | Talk 21:03, 3 Mar 2005 (UTC). P. S. I just saw that Giano has now removed the "Ignore list". That's Giano, not Pcpcpc.

''Oddly enough, a kind of resolution of my dealings with Pcpcpc can be found in an archive of User talk:Worldtraveller, here (keep on reading the section that begins with this diff), where I explode after several months of taking his abuse without replying to it. Giano had some further contact with him, but I didn't have the heart for recording it. Diffs to his twisty, constantly deleted, and redirected (!) Talk page are now almost impossible to locate.''

Pcpcpc and other people
The following narrative ends on February 11, 2005; there was more to it, but again, I didn't have the heart for going on.

31 december:

A rebarbative general welcome to visitors (there have been many varieties of those, both on the userpage and the talk page) at Talk:Pcpcpc, plus a brief exchange between him and me: , with my reply and his reply

2 January:

A user complains about Pcpcpc's talk page deletion practices: And is promptly deleted without comment!

In apparent response, however, after deleting the complaint, Pcpcpc posts his bitterest general greeting to date, which expresses his feeling of having received "hassle from a bunch of insiders from the start" (from later comments he's made, it's clear that I'm one of the worst of these insiders) and of being the champion of the hundreds of thousands of ordinary, non-editing readers against the insiders:

11 January

A user writes a polite, pleasant query to Pcpcpc, but he's made a mistake! He ascribes an edit to Pcpcpc that was made by someone else!  And very properly gets his head bitten off for it:

12 January:

Philip comments bitterly on how he has to do other people's work, and I write to him about how we're all volunteers: In reply, Pcpcpc wonders how many people I have driven away from Wikipedia:

14 January:

Netoholic initiates a discussion of categories, and is told he's denigrating Pcpcpc's categorization scheme. Netoholic politely denies intention to denigrate, and asks where the categorization scheme is described. Netoholic is asked in return what on earth he means, and is told he's attacking Pcpcpc: and trying to vandalise his efforts. Netoholic asks him not to use such words, and expresses a wish to discuss the scheme, asking again where he can find it described. , And elaborates, still politely, on the problems he sees with it, asking that they discuss them calmly. Pcpcpc asks him, not calmly, to "quit trying to undermine my efforts": "all you have done is used up time which I could have spent improving Wikipedia". It is noticable in this discussion that Netoholic tries to discuss specifics of categorization, while Pcpcpc responds repeatedly by telling Netoholic he obviously doesn't "like" categories and should therefore just ignore them.

10 February:

Pcpcpc goes into crusade mode at a suggestion from Mav:. Without any reply from Mav, Pcpcpc rapidly edits his own post, as is his custom, evolving it into another "insider" attack:.

11 February:

Jerzy writes to Pcpcpc about categories, and receives a reply which Pcpcpc again rapidly self-edits towards sneering and self-pity:. Unaware of Pcpcpc's preoccupation with "insiders" (as nothing stays on the talk page for long), Jerzy now takes him to task for rudeness to Mav, saying all the wrong things:. Pcpcpc responds by accusing him of "bursting in with a torrent of insider arrogance" and "exhibiting some of the worst and most damaging attributes of the cliquist", and self-edits to ask how Jerzy proposes to damage his future on Wikipedia !. Self-edits some more: —I'm only picking out a few in a string of those—here the reply to Jerzy has evolved to where it contains a reference to me:, at least I think it's me, although the assumption that I'm an admin is incorrect, and his self-description that he "asked to be shown some toleration as a newbie" is rich, but I still think it refers to an exchange I had with him.

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Aimpoint

Aimpoint AB is a Swedish optics company based in Malmö, Sweden that manufactures red dot sights.

Aimpoint is a contractor for the United States military and supplies the Aimpoint CompM2. Aimpoint products are used by various armed forces, and are marketed to civilians for hunting and sport. The Aimpoint Comp sights, such as the CompM2, are Aimpoint's most popular product line.

Company
Aimpoint is a manufacturing company founded in 1974. Their primary products are reflector (or reflex) sights, specifically the red dot sight sub-type. In 1975 they introduced their first product, the "Aimpoint Electronic" red dot sight, based on a design by Helsingborg engineer John Arne Ingemund Ekstrand. This is the first light emitting diode (LED) "red dot" reflector sight manufactured. Aimpoint currently offers various products based on this technology. In 1997 the US Army awarded Aimpoint the first military contract for a red dot sight, the Aimpoint CompM2, designated the “M68 Close Combat Optic”.

Products
Aimpoint's red dot sights are marketed to hunters, marksmen, law-enforcement agencies, and military organizations. Nearly 3,000,000 sights are in use world wide today.

Their products use non-magnifying optical collimators (reflector or "reflex" sights) and battery powered LEDs to produce an illuminated red dot reticle. Many sights utilize a mangin mirror system, consisting of a meniscus lens corrector element combined with a semi-reflective mirror (referred to as a "two lens" or "double lens" system by Aimpoint ), that compensates for spherical aberration, an error that can cause the dot position to diverge from the sight's optical axis with change in eye position. Aimpoint markets their sights as "parallax free", but this seems to refer to their off-axis spherical aberration correction system at one optimized viewing distance. Aimpoints, like all collimated sight systems, induce some parallax at non-optimized viewing distances.

Aimpoint has separate distributors for their military and civilian products in many countries.

Aimpoint mounting standards
Aimpoint has launched a series of proprietary mounts for their products. These include:

 * Aimpoint CompM4 mount: Launched in 2007 with the Aimpoint CompM4 sight. The sight is attached to the mount via two M5 screws from the underside, and the mount has a transverse groove acting as a recoil lug. The Aimpoint Comp line was launched in 1993. The predecessor of the CompM4, CompM2, had a 30 mm ring mount and was introduced in the American military in 2000. Some manufacturers have copied the M4 mount system, but it has mainly been used by Aimpoint.
 * Aimpoint Micro mount: Launched in 2007 together with the compact Aimpoint Micro series of sights (T1 and H1, and later T2 and H2). The sight is attached to the mount with four M3 screw. The mount has a longitudinal profile which is reminiscent of the Zeiss rail, but with other dimensions and a square recoil lug in the middle. The profile is also longitudinally slightly offset from the centerline. The standard has been copied by many other manufacturers, and has been a common mounting standard for reflex sights in sizes similar to the Aimpoint Micro (such as Holosun 403B, Minox RV1, SIG Sauer Romeo4, Vortex Crossfire and Aimpoint Comp M5b ). In addition to being offered as the mounting surface on sights from many other optics manufacturers, there are also many aftermarket mounts available for this pattern.
 * Aimpoint Acro rail: Launched in 2019 together with the sights Aimpoint Acro P-1 and C-1. This is a mount without screws acting directly between the sight and the mount, and is slim enough (approximately 15 mm wide and 2 mm tall) so that it can be milled directly into most pistol slides. The mount is a dovetail rail with a thick transverse recoil lug (4 mm) and is reminiscent of a miniaturized version of the Picatinny rail, but with a lower and slimmer profile, and fewer edges exposed to the user. With competing standards for attaching miniature red dot sights to pistols (such as the Docter, Trijicon, C-more and Shield/Leupold mounting standards), experience among competition shooters has shown that the screws used for attaching the sight directly to the mount can wear due to inadvertently taking up recoil, including both normal recoil from firing as well as negative recoil from when the slide closes during feeding, resulting in the screws wearing and needing to be replaced over time. The Acro mount does not use such screws, but instead has a clamp mount. Due to using a clamp mount (similar to the Picatinny), no screws are needed to attach the sight to the mount rail. The Acro rail has so far been used on Aimpoint Acro (P1, C1, P2, C2) and Steiner MPS.

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Maurice Hicks

Maurice Hicks (born July 22, 1978) is a former American football running back. He was originally signed by the Chicago Bears as an undrafted free agent in 2002. He played college football at North Carolina A&T.

Hicks has also played for the San Francisco 49ers, Scottish Claymores and Minnesota Vikings.

Early life
While attending Greensville County High School in Emporia, Virginia Hicks was a standout in football as a tailback and safety.

College career
While attending North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Hicks finished his career with a school-record 2,812 rushing yards. As a senior, he was a third-team Division I-AA All-American selection, the Black College Offensive Player of the Year, a first-team All-MEAC selection, and he led the MEAC in rushing yards with 1,325 rushing yards. During his senior season, in a game against Morgan State University, he broke the NCAA Division I and II single game rushing records by rushing for 437 rushing yards. As a junior, he was a first-team All-MEAC selection, after rushing for 1,487 yards.

Chicago Bears
He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Chicago Bears in the 2002 NFL Draft.

San Francisco 49ers
Hicks was signed as a free agent by the San Francisco 49ers in 2003. While with the 49ers he was the second string running back behind Kevan Barlow.

Minnesota Vikings
On March 4, 2008, he signed a three-year deal with the Minnesota Vikings.

Hicks was released by the Vikings, on February 18, 2009.

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Talk:List of M*A*S*H episodes

Article per episode
Would anybody object to creating an article per episode so that they can be covered in depth better, like guest stars, written and directed by, etc. This would be similar to The Simpsons. An example article from The Simpsons is Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire. Gorrister 12:00, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * No and neither would Jimbo. See also List of Star Trek: TNG episodes. Cburnett 20:37, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

 * OK, I've added the first article for an episode - M*A*S*H the Pilot (M*A*S*H episode). What do you think.  I've added a navigation template and an infobox template to go along with it. Gorrister 18:57, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Good start. I suggest using "(M*A*S*H episode)" on each link and article to make life easier (assuming that the bulk of episodes won't immediately have articles).  This is what I do for Star Trek episodes since most don't exist.  My thought is that once they are all created, then the "(M*A*S*H episode)" can be removed since there won't be any ambiguity problems such as what will happen to episode 108 entitled "Cowboy". Cburnett 07:10, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

M*A*S*Hisms
I would like to add a section to each episode that lists what I call MASHisms - oddball references, usually by Hawkeye, that when it is said my wife and I look at each other as ask who/what did that mean. A good example is from the pilot when Hawkeye is talking to Margaret while dancing with Dish he says, "Why don't you stop dating Elmer Gantry". I didn't know who or what Elmer Gantry was until I looked it up here. What does everybody think? Gorrister 12:05, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I think that's something that belongs on the individual episode article, and not on this article. Since MASH has 11 seasons, you would end up making the article incredibly long if you put it in with the overview on this article.  Perhaps a separate article List of M*A*S*Hisms that could be linked in a See also section of each episode article. Cburnett 07:13, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)

 * I've written the article on the first two episodes. I added a M*A*S*Hisms section to the first one, but the second didn't really have any. Gorrister 10:10, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Summary
There are still empty summary sections in season 4, 7, 9, 10, and 11. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.72.113.72 (talk • contribs) 02:15, 9 July 2005

Episode notability
I've noticed that, with the exception of the excellent "Abyssinia, Henry", all the existing individual episode pages for MASH fail notability guidelines, including the notability guidelines for television episodes, and have been tagged accordingly. Might I suggest these articles are improved with real-world information (ie. referencing with reliable sources) to assert notability, removing trivia (seeWP:TRIVIA) quotes, overly long plot summaries (a breach of copyright) or consider merging the information onto the season page. Otherwise, when these pages come up for review in fourteen days, they may be redirected, merged or deleted. If you want any help or info, then come to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Television/Episode coverage. I have also excluded Goodbye, Farewell and Amen from the review process as it seems to have good sources, but I encourage you to work on it as another editor may choose to tag it if there seems no move towards meeting guidelines. Thanks, Gwinva 19:38, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

All M*A*S*H first season articles are currently up for deletion, including pilot
There are 15 MASH articles up for deletion, nominated on 15 May 2009, closing on Friday, 22 May 2009:

 * Articles for deletion/Bananas, Crackers and Nuts
 * Articles for deletion/Ceasefire (M*A*S*H)
 * Articles for deletion/Chief Surgeon Who?
 * Articles for deletion/Cowboy (M*A*S*H)
 * Articles for deletion/Edwina (M*A*S*H)
 * Articles for deletion/Henry Please Come Home
 * Articles for deletion/I Hate a Mystery
 * Articles for deletion/Requiem for a Lightweight
 * Articles for deletion/Showtime (M*A*S*H)
 * Articles for deletion/Sometimes You Hear the Bullet
 * Articles for deletion/The Army-Navy Game (M*A*S*H)
 * Articles for deletion/The Moose (M*A*S*H)
 * Articles for deletion/The Ringbanger
 * Articles for deletion/To Market, to Market (M*A*S*H)
 * Articles for deletion/Yankee Doodle Doctor

Ikip (talk) 15:16, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

More:
 * Articles for deletion/Major Fred C. Dobbs
 * Articles for deletion/Sticky Wicket
 * Articles for deletion/The Longjohn Flap
 * Articles for deletion/Dear Dad...Again
 * Articles for deletion/The Ringbanger
 * Articles for deletion/Tuttle (M*A*S*H)
 * Articles_for_deletion/Edwina_(M*A*S*H)
 * Articles for deletion/Dear Dad
 * Articles for deletion/Germ Warfare (M*A*S*H)

 * M*A*S*H pilot up for deletion
 * Articles for deletion/Pilot (M*A*S*H) Ikip (talk) 22:56, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

 * This is FORUM shopping, please direct all interested editors to a single discussion location. I've taken the time to notify Gwinva, who originally tagged all these articles. ThuranX (talk) 03:43, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
 * For detailed conversation and rebutal, see Talk:M*A*S*H_(TV_series) Ikip (talk) 11:21, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Duplicate Episode Information
Is there some reason the episodes are listed here as well as on the season-by-season pages such as List_of_M*A*S*H_episodes_(season_1)? It seems like it would be more appropriate to have links to those articles instead, especially so we can avoid errors that have been fixed on one page but not on this one such as crediting the wrong writers on "The Trial of Henry Blake." JoeD80 (talk) 19:16, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

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Wrong Airdate for Season 11 Episode?
The airdate for a season 11 M*A*S*H episode titled "Bombshells" is listed as November 28, 1982. In 1982, November 28 was a Sunday, and November 29 was a Monday. M*A*S*H was still airing on Mondays during that time. Did CBS give that M*A*S*H episode a special Sunday airing, or was that just a mistake on the part of the editor who originally compiled this info? Jim856796 (talk) 20:06, 26 February 2020 (UTC)

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The Red Badge of Gayness

"The Red Badge of Gayness" is the fourteenth episode of the third season of the animated television series South Park and the 45th episode of the series overall. It originally aired on November 24, 1999. In the episode, the boys participate in the South Park Civil War reenactment. To win a bet, Cartman convinces the reenactors to try and alter history and leads them throughout the United States. The episode's name is a reference to the war novel The Red Badge of Courage, and parodies Ken Burns' documentary miniseries The Civil War and the 1993 film Gettysburg.

Plot
As the men of South Park are preparing to hold their annual American Civil War reenactment of the (fictional) Battle of Tamarack Hill, the children rehearse as a Union Army rally band.

In the morning of the reenactment, Stan's uncle, Jimbo informs the reenactors that over 200 people will come to see them reenact the battle, setting a new record. He also takes the time to remind everyone that the primary alcohol sponsor of their event is Jagerminz S'more-flavored Schnapps, "the schnapps with the delightful taste of s'mores." In addition, the special guest will be Stan's grandpa, Marvin Marsh. Meanwhile, Cartman comes dressed as General Robert E. Lee, and the boys are outraged by his dressing as a Confederate officer. Evidently under the impression that the reenactment is a competition of some sort, Cartman bets that the South will win the Civil War, and if it does, Stan and Kyle will be his slaves for a month, or vice versa. Knowing that the outcome is supposed to be historical victory for the North as planned, Stan and Kyle eagerly accept the challenge.

Cartman manipulates the drunken Confederate reenactors into actually striving to win the reenactment. At the after party, all of the reenactors, Confederate and Unionist, are now drunk on the Schnapps, Cartman rallies them to attack Topeka, which is presumed by the reenactors to have been the next battle. The next day, Topeka is assaulted by the drunken South Park Confederates and the entire town falls. As the invasion continues town by town, their ranks are continually bolstered by either Confederate supporters or men who would simply choose to avoid fighting them. Stan, Kyle, and Grampa Marsh travel to Chattanooga which is under attack by the Confederates. The National Guard also arrives on the scene and shoots a warning flare into the air which kills Kenny (who had joined the Confederates under Cartman's promise of "lots of plunder and womens").

The boys hatch a plan to rid the army of their primary fuel, the S'More Schnapps. The army soon wakes up with raging hangovers and quickly disbands, but Cartman calls the Jägerminz company, who deliver to the entire army truckloads of alcohol. With the men drunk again, the next target of the Confederates is Fort Sumter. Though they easily overrun and secure the fort, they are then faced with the National Guard. The latter is defeated with help from Confederate reinforcements made up of the entire population of South Carolina.

Finally the Confederate Army reaches Washington, D.C. The army demands the Confederate States of America to be a separate country and blackmail President Clinton by threatening to release a (bluff) video of him with Marisa Tomei. Grandpa, realizing that the drunken men still think that the entire campaign is a reenactment, gets Stan and Kyle dressed up as Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln, just in time to prevent Clinton from signing the surrender, with the added condition that the South receive a free year's supply of Schnapps. The entire army breaks up happily and leaves upon surrender to Cartman's dismay.

Stan and Kyle are deciding what to make Cartman do, having won the bet, but their triumph is short-lived. Cartman is saved from the terms of the bet after remembering the North still won the war, and that slavery was abolished because of it. Clinton makes this clear by pointing out that the abolition of slavery was one of the significant outcomes of the Civil War, making slavery illegal and the bet nullified. Angered by this, Stan and Kyle insult Clinton before walking away, embittered.

Production
After the production of the previous episode, the voice actor of many female South Park roles, Mary Kay Bergman, committed suicide. Parker and Stone, still in shock from her death, did not feel like auditioning people right away, which is why this episode features no female voices (Trey Parker voices the S'mores Schnapps Lady and the schoolteacher in Topeka, and Kenny's mother Carol appears with no speaking parts).

The episode parodies the film Gettysburg, which Parker and Stone disliked.

Critical reception
In 2013, fans voted "The Red Badge of Gayness" as the best episode of Season 3 on the official South Park website.

Home media
"The Red Badge of Gayness," along with the sixteen other episodes from The Complete Third Season, were released on a three-disc DVD set in the United States on June 18, 2001. The set includes brief audio commentaries by Parker and Stone for each episode.

Mistake
During the reenactment, the official confederate flag, the Stars and Bars, is used by the northerners. The confederates use the war flag of the confederation, who is historically correct, except for the shape.

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Dogtooth spar

Dogtooth spar is a speleothem that consists of large calcite crystals that form through mineral precipitation of water-borne calcite. Dogtooth spar crystals are found in caves, open spaces including veins and fractures, and geodes. They are so named for their resemblance to dog's teeth.

The crystals are generally centimeters long, but anomalous samples decimeters long exist, notably in Sitting Bull Crystal Caverns. A layer of crystalline calcite can be found underneath the surface of crystal points.

The crystals typically consist of acute scalenohedrons, twelve triangular crystal faces that ideally form scalene triangles. However, modification of these faces is common, and some may have many more than three edges. Calcite crystallizes in the rhombohedral system, and the most common scalenohedron form has the Miller index [21$\overline{3}$1].

Spar is a general term for transparent to translucent, generally light-colored and vitreous crystalline minerals.

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