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Other Side of the World

"Other Side of the World" is a song by Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall, included as the opening track on her debut album, Eye to the Telescope (2004). The song is about the problems of long-distance relationships and how they seldom work out. It is based on a true story of two friends Tunstall had who were a couple but one lived in Scotland and the other in the United States.

"Other Side of the World" was released 9 May 2005 as the second single from that album and became her first top-twenty hit on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number thirteen. In mid-September 2006, it was released in the United States and Canada as the third and final single from the album. It is reportedly one of Tunstall's favourite songs.

As an April Fool's Day joke, Tunstall's manager told her that another artist was about to release a song almost identical to "Other Side of the World", so they would have to shelve Tunstall's release. As she was proud of her song and fell for the prank, Tunstall joked that she would have to do something major to get him back next year.

Critical reception
"Other Side of the World" received positive reviews from music critics. Billboard.com praised the song's "handsome, relaxed acoustic performance" and "imminently singable chorus".

Track listings
UK CD single (RELCD18)
 * 1) "Other Side of the World" (single version)
 * 2) "Boo Hoo"

UK limited-edition 7-inch single (REL 18)
 * A. "Other Side of the World" (single version) – 3:32
 * B. "Morning Stars" – 2:46

UK DVD single (RELDVD18)
 * 1) "Other Side of the World" (video)
 * 2) "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" (video)
 * 3) "Throw Me a Rope" (audio)

UK and US digital download
 * 1) "Other Side of the World" (radio version)

European CD single (0724387275621)
 * 1) "Other Side of the World" (single version)
 * 2) "Throw Me a Rope"
 * 3) "Boo Hoo"
 * 4) "Morning Stars"

Credits and personnel
Credits are lifted from the Eye to the Telescope album booklet.

Studios
 * Strings recorded at Little Big Sound (Nashville, Tennessee)
 * Mixed at Metrophonic (London, England)
 * Mastered at 360 Mastering (London, England)

Personnel

 * KT Tunstall – writing, vocals, guitar, Wurlitzer
 * Martin Terefe – writing, keyboards, production
 * Arnulf Lindner – bass
 * Luke Bullen – drums
 * Andreas Olsson – drum programming
 * Steve Osborne – Shelltone, production
 * The Love Sponge Strings – strings
 * David Davidson – first violin, string arrangement
 * David Angell – second violin
 * Kristin Wilkinson – viola
 * John Catchings – cello
 * Andy Green – additional production
 * Baeho "Bobby" Shin – string recording
 * Ren Swan – mixing
 * Bruno Ellingham – engineering
 * Graham Deas – engineering assistance
 * Dick Beetham – mastering

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I really like listening to the MYMP band. As I am not privy with its history and with Juris and Chin's personal life, I really don't know what I will put here. :)

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But MYMP used to have a third member, right? Why can't you mention anything about him? - 上村七美 | talk 13:58, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

 * WHat's his name? --Howard t he Du c k 05:01, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

 * From what I gathered, MYMP used to be a four-member, all-male band, before being fronted by Nina and then Juris. Here's the link to that article: . BTW, the third members name is Mike Manahan. - 上村七美 | talk 14:50, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

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Friedel Klussmann

Friedel Klussmann (1896 – 1986) was a prominent member of San Francisco society. She is credited with leading the campaign that saved the San Francisco cable car system in the 1940s and 1950s, and the foundation of the San Francisco Beautiful organization in 1947.

Friedel Klussmann and the Cable Cars
In 1947, Mayor of San Francisco Roger Lapham proposed the closure of the two Powell Street cable car lines, which were owned by the city as part of the San Francisco Municipal Railway. In response to a joint meeting of 27 women's civic groups, led by Friedel Klussmann, formed the Citizens' Committee to Save the Cable Cars. In a famous battle of wills, the citizen's committee eventually forced a referendum on an amendment to the city charter, compelling the city to continue operating the Powell Street lines. This passed overwhelmingly with 166,989 yes votes to 51,457 no votes.

In 1951, the three cable car lines owned by the private California Street Cable Railroad (Cal Cable) were shut down when the company was unable to afford insurance. The city purchased and re-opened the lines in 1952, but the amendment to the city charter did not protect these lines, and the city proceeded with plans to replace them with buses. Again Mrs Klussmann came to the rescue, but with less success this time. The result was a compromise protected system made up of the California Street line from Cal Cable, the Powell-Mason line already in municipal ownership, and a third hybrid line made up by grafting the Hyde Street section of Cal Cable's O'Farrell, Jones & Hyde line onto a truncated Powell-Washington-Jackson line (now known as the Powell-Hyde line).

When Klussmann died at the age of 90 in 1986, the cable cars were decorated in black in her memory. In 1997, the city dedicated the turntable at the outer terminal of the Powell-Hyde line to Klussmann.

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Democratic Union (Poland)

The Democratic Union (Unia Demokratyczna) was a liberal Christian-democratic party in Poland. The party was founded in 1991 by Prime Minister, Christian Democrat Tadeusz Mazowiecki as a merger of the Citizens' Movement for Democratic Action (Ruch Obywatelski Akcja Demokratyczna) and the Forum of Right Democrats (Forum Prawicy Demokratycznej).

The party had a market-socialist profile with Christian-democratic influence. Important members were Bronisław Geremek, Jacek Kuroń, Adam Michnik, Hanna Suchocka, Jan Rokita and Aleksander Hall.

In 1994 the party merged with the Liberal Democratic Congress into the Freedom Union (Unia Wolności).

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Heat capacity ratio

In thermal physics and thermodynamics, the heat capacity ratio, also known as the adiabatic index, the ratio of specific heats, or Laplace's coefficient, is the ratio of the heat capacity at constant pressure ($C_{P}$) to heat capacity at constant volume ($C_{V}$). It is sometimes also known as the isentropic expansion factor and is denoted by $γ$ (gamma) for an ideal gas γ first appeared in an article by the French mathematician, engineer, and physicist Siméon Denis Poisson: In Poisson's article of 1823 – γ was expressed as a function of density D (p. 8) or of pressure P (p. 9). Meanwhile, in 1816 the French mathematician and physicist Pierre-Simon Laplace had found that the speed of sound depends on the ratio of the specific heats. However, he didn't denote the ratio as γ. In 1825, Laplace stated that the speed of sound is proportional to the square root of the ratio of the specific heats: In 1851, the Scottish mechanical engineer William Rankine showed that the speed of sound is proportional to the square root of Poisson's γ: It follows that Poisson's γ is the ratio of the specific heats — although Rankine didn't state that explicitly.
 * On p. 332, Poisson defines γ merely as a small deviation from equilibrium which causes small variations of the equilibrium value of the density ρ.
 * On p. 127, Laplace defines the symbols for the specific heats, and on p. 137 (at the bottom of the page), Laplace presents the equation for the speed of sound in a perfect gas.
 * See also:  or $κ$ (kappa), the isentropic exponent for a real gas. The symbol $γ$ is used by aerospace and chemical engineers.

 * $$ \gamma = \frac{C_P}{C_V} = \frac{\bar{C}_P}{\bar{C}_V} = \frac{c_P}{c_V}, $$

where $C$ is the heat capacity, $${\bar{C}}$$ the molar heat capacity (heat capacity per mole), and $c$ the specific heat capacity (heat capacity per unit mass) of a gas. The suffixes $P$ and $V$ refer to constant-pressure and constant-volume conditions respectively.

The heat capacity ratio is important for its applications in thermodynamical reversible processes, especially involving ideal gases; the speed of sound depends on this factor.

Thought experiment
To understand this relation, consider the following thought experiment. A closed pneumatic cylinder contains air. The piston is locked. The pressure inside is equal to atmospheric pressure. This cylinder is heated to a certain target temperature. Since the piston cannot move, the volume is constant. The temperature and pressure will rise. When the target temperature is reached, the heating is stopped. The amount of energy added equals $γ$, with $C_{V} ΔT$ representing the change in temperature.

The piston is now freed and moves outwards, stopping as the pressure inside the chamber reaches atmospheric pressure. We assume the expansion occurs without exchange of heat (adiabatic expansion). Doing this work, air inside the cylinder will cool to below the target temperature.

To return to the target temperature (still with a free piston), the air must be heated, but is no longer under constant volume, since the piston is free to move as the gas is reheated. This extra heat amounts to about 40% more than the previous amount added. In this example, the amount of heat added with a locked piston is proportional to $C_{V}$, whereas the total amount of heat added is proportional to $C_{P}$. Therefore, the heat capacity ratio in this example is 1.4.

Another way of understanding the difference between $C_{P}$ and $C_{V}$ is that $C_{P}$ applies if work is done to the system, which causes a change in volume (such as by moving a piston so as to compress the contents of a cylinder), or if work is done by the system, which changes its temperature (such as heating the gas in a cylinder to cause a piston to move). $C_{V}$ applies only if $$P\,\mathrm{d}V = 0$$, that is, no work is done. Consider the difference between adding heat to the gas with a locked piston and adding heat with a piston free to move, so that pressure remains constant.

In the second case, the gas will both heat and expand, causing the piston to do mechanical work on the atmosphere. The heat that is added to the gas goes only partly into heating the gas, while the rest is transformed into the mechanical work performed by the piston.

In the first, constant-volume case (locked piston), there is no external motion, and thus no mechanical work is done on the atmosphere; $C_{V}$ is used. In the second case, additional work is done as the volume changes, so the amount of heat required to raise the gas temperature (the specific heat capacity) is higher for this constant-pressure case.

Ideal-gas relations
For an ideal gas, the molar heat capacity is at most a function of temperature, since the internal energy is solely a function of temperature for a closed system, i.e., $$U=U(n,T)$$, where $n$ is the amount of substance in moles. In thermodynamic terms, this is a consequence of the fact that the internal pressure of an ideal gas vanishes.

Mayer's relation allows us to deduce the value of $C_{V}$ from the more easily measured (and more commonly tabulated) value of $C_{P}$:
 * $$C_V = C_P - nR.$$

This relation may be used to show the heat capacities may be expressed in terms of the heat capacity ratio ($ΔT$) and the gas constant ($R$):
 * $$C_P = \frac{\gamma n R}{\gamma - 1} \quad \text{and} \quad C_V = \frac{n R}{\gamma - 1},$$

Relation with degrees of freedom
The classical equipartition theorem predicts that the heat capacity ratio ($γ$) for an ideal gas can be related to the thermally accessible degrees of freedom ($f$) of a molecule by
 * $$ \gamma = 1 + \frac{2}{f},\quad \text{or} \quad f = \frac{2}{\gamma - 1}.$$

Thus we observe that for a monatomic gas, with 3 translational degrees of freedom per atom:
 * $$ \gamma = \frac{5}{3} = 1.6666\ldots,$$

As an example of this behavior, at 273 K (0 °C) the noble gases He, Ne, and Ar all have nearly the same value of $γ$, equal to 1.664.

For a diatomic gas, often 5 degrees of freedom are assumed to contribute at room temperature since each molecule has 3 translational and 2 rotational degrees of freedom, and the single vibrational degree of freedom is often not included since vibrations are often not thermally active except at high temperatures, as predicted by quantum statistical mechanics. Thus we have
 * $$ \gamma = \frac{7}{5} = 1.4.$$

For example, terrestrial air is primarily made up of diatomic gases (around 78% nitrogen, N2, and 21% oxygen, O2), and at standard conditions it can be considered to be an ideal gas. The above value of 1.4 is highly consistent with the measured adiabatic indices for dry air within a temperature range of 0–200 °C, exhibiting a deviation of only 0.2% (see tabulation above).

For a linear triatomic molecule such as, there are only 5 degrees of freedom (3 translations and 2 rotations), assuming vibrational modes are not excited. However, as mass increases and the frequency of vibrational modes decreases, vibrational degrees of freedom start to enter into the equation at far lower temperatures than is typically the case for diatomic molecules. For example, it requires a far larger temperature to excite the single vibrational mode for H2, for which one quantum of vibration is a fairly large amount of energy, than for the bending or stretching vibrations of.

For a non-linear triatomic gas, such as water vapor, which has 3 translational and 3 rotational degrees of freedom, this model predicts
 * $$ \gamma = \frac{8}{6} = 1.3333\ldots.$$

Real-gas relations
As noted above, as temperature increases, higher-energy vibrational states become accessible to molecular gases, thus increasing the number of degrees of freedom and lowering $γ$. Conversely, as the temperature is lowered, rotational degrees of freedom may become unequally partitioned as well. As a result, both $C_{P}$ and $C_{V}$ increase with increasing temperature.

Despite this, if the density is fairly low and intermolecular forces are negligible, the two heat capacities may still continue to differ from each other by a fixed constant (as above, $γ$), which reflects the relatively constant $PV$ difference in work done during expansion for constant pressure vs. constant volume conditions. Thus, the ratio of the two values, $C_{P} = C_{V} + nR$, decreases with increasing temperature.

However, when the gas density is sufficiently high and intermolecular forces are important, thermodynamic expressions may sometimes be used to accurately describe the relationship between the two heat capacities, as explained below. Unfortunately the situation can become considerably more complex if the temperature is sufficiently high for molecules to dissociate or carry out other chemical reactions, in which case thermodynamic expressions arising from simple equations of state may not be adequate.

Thermodynamic expressions
Values based on approximations (particularly $γ$) are in many cases not sufficiently accurate for practical engineering calculations, such as flow rates through pipes and valves at moderate to high pressures. An experimental value should be used rather than one based on this approximation, where possible. A rigorous value for the ratio $C_{P}⁄C_{V}$ can also be calculated by determining $C_{V}$ from the residual properties expressed as

 * $$ C_P - C_V = -T \frac{\left(\frac{\partial V}{\partial T}\right)_P^2}{\left(\frac{\partial V}{\partial P}\right)_T} = -T \frac{\left(\frac{\partial P}{\partial T}\right)_V^2}{\left(\frac{\partial P}{\partial V}\right)_T}.$$

Values for $C_{P}$ are readily available and recorded, but values for $C_{V}$ need to be determined via relations such as these. See relations between specific heats for the derivation of the thermodynamic relations between the heat capacities.

The above definition is the approach used to develop rigorous expressions from equations of state (such as Peng–Robinson), which match experimental values so closely that there is little need to develop a database of ratios or $C_{V}$ values. Values can also be determined through finite-difference approximation.

Adiabatic process
This ratio gives the important relation for an isentropic (quasistatic, reversible, adiabatic process) process of a simple compressible calorically-perfect ideal gas:

 * $$PV^\gamma$$ is constant

Using the ideal gas law, $$PV = nRT$$:
 * $$P^{1-\gamma} T^\gamma$$ is constant
 * $$TV^{\gamma-1}$$ is constant

where $P$ is the pressure of the gas, $V$ is the volume, and $T$ is the thermodynamic temperature.

In gas dynamics we are interested in the local relations between pressure, density and temperature, rather than considering a fixed quantity of gas. By considering the density $$\rho = M/V$$ as the inverse of the volume for a unit mass, we can take $$\rho = 1/V$$ in these relations. Since for constant entropy, $$S$$, we have $$P \propto \rho^\gamma$$, or $$ \ln P = \gamma \ln \rho + \mathrm{constant}$$, it follows that
 * $$ \gamma = \left.\frac{\partial \ln P}{\partial \ln \rho}\right|_{S}.$$

For an imperfect or non-ideal gas, Chandrasekhar defined three different adiabatic indices so that the adiabatic relations can be written in the same form as above; these are used in the theory of stellar structure:
 * $$\begin{align}

\Gamma_1 &= \left.\frac{\partial \ln P}{\partial \ln \rho}\right|_{S}, \\[2pt] \frac{\Gamma_2 - 1}{\Gamma_2} &= \left.\frac{\partial \ln T}{\partial \ln P}\right|_{S}, \\[2pt] \Gamma_3 - 1 &= \left.\frac{\partial \ln T}{\partial \ln \rho}\right|_{S}. \end{align}$$

All of these are equal to $$\gamma$$ in the case of an ideal gas.

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2RE

2RE is a commercial radio station that broadcasts to the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia from its studios at Taree.

2RE broadcasts on 88.9FM in Taree, Wingham and surrounds, 100.3FM in Forster and the Great Lakes and 100.1FM in Gloucester, Barrington and surrounds.

Local shows include the Breakfast Show with Anthony Zanos, afternoons and drive with John Parkinson or Diane Ward. 2RE features a 'Gold/AC' format mixed with local news from Peter Denton, sport and talk. The overnight shows are relayed from 2SM and 2HD.

2RE began broadcasting on 21 February 1953 from a small studio attached to the Taree RSL on the riverbank. Today 2RE has a modern studio complex in Taree and is part of the Super Radio Network, which has its head office at 2SM in Sydney.

To mark the 50th anniversary of the first broadcast a reunion of former staff was organised for 21–22 February 2003. Many former employees returned and reminisced about their days at 2RE. As part of the celebrations there was also an open day where listeners were invited to tour the radio station. A time capsule was placed in the front of the building, a special commemorative book written by Jenny Summerville and the major prize of the year—a 1953 FJ Holden—was unveiled in its 'ready for restoration state'. Ivan Scott won most popular station manager (Country Stations) at the ACRA awards Murray Nelson is the current General Manager.

2RE is most well known for playing music from the 1970s to recent hits both in breakfast as well as afternoon and drive shifts, along with networked talkback radio.

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The Antiquary

The Antiquary (1816), the third of the Waverley novels by Walter Scott, centres on the character of an antiquary: an amateur historian, archaeologist and collector of items of dubious antiquity. He is the eponymous character and for all practical purposes the hero, though the characters of Lovel and Isabella Wardour provide the conventional love interest. The Antiquary was Scott's own favourite of his novels, and is one of his most critically well-regarded works; H. J. C. Grierson, for example, wrote that "Not many, apart from Shakespeare, could write scenes in which truth and poetry, realism and romance, are more wonderfully presented."

Scott wrote in an advertisement to the novel that his purpose in writing it, similar to that of his novels Waverley and Guy Mannering, was to document Scottish life of a certain period, in this case the last decade of the 18th century. The action can be located in July and August 1794. It is, in short, a novel of manners, and its theme is the influence of the past on the present. In tone it is predominantly comic, though the humour is offset with episodes of melodrama and pathos.

Scott included a glossary of Scottish terms as an appendix to the novel.

Composition
Scott contracted to write The Antiquary in January 1815 with a publication date of 4 June, but a substantial part of the year was taken up with other commitments, social and literary, the most substantial being his expedition to Belgium and France which resulted in the poems The Field of Waterloo and 'The Dance of Death' and Paul's Letters to His Kinsfolk. Composition seems to have begun at the end of the year and was complete, apart from the glossary, by mid-April 1816.

Editions
The Antiquary appeared in three volumes in Edinburgh on 4 May 1816, published by Archibald Constable and Co., and in London on 8 May, published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown. As with all the Waverley novels before 1827 publication was anonymous. The price was £1 4s (£1.20). This first edition of 6000 copies was followed by a revised second edition some three months later. There is no clear evidence for authorial involvement in this, or in any of the novel's subsequent appearances except for the 18mo Novels and Tales (1823) and the 'Magnum' edition. Some of the small changes to the text in 1823 are attributable to Scott, but that edition was a textual dead end. In October 1828 he provided the novel with an introduction and notes, and revised the text, for the Magnum edition in which it appeared as Volumes 5 and 6 in October and November 1829.

The standard modern edition, by David Hewitt, was published as Volume 3 of the Edinburgh Edition of the Waverley Novels in 1995: this is based on the first edition, corrected from the manuscript and incorporating verbal changes introduced in the second edition; the Magnum material appears in Volume 25a.

Plot summary
At the opening of the story, Lovel meets Oldbuck while taking a coach from Edinburgh. Oldbuck, interested as he is in antiquities, has with him Gordon's Itinerarium, a book about Roman ruins. The book interests Lovel, to the surprise of Oldbuck and by their shared interest the two become friends. Oldbuck invites Lovel to come to Monkbarns and takes the opportunity of a willing listener to divulge his ancient knowledge. In the process of which, Oldbuck shows Lovel a plot of land he purchased at great cost where he found an inscription "A.D.L.L", which Oldbuck takes to mean "Agricola Dicavit Libens Lubens". Edie Ochiltree, the local beggar, disputes the antiquary's history, in one of the more amusing scenes of the story (see image at left).

Oldbuck decides to introduce Lovel to his good friend, Sir Arthur Wardour. When Sir Arthur arrives, Lovel meets Arthur's daughter, Isabella and the two realize they have seen each other before. Because Lovel is illegitimate, she knows her father would not approve of a marriage between them. When she sees Lovel standing in the road waiting to talk to her, she convinces her father to take the long way home, walking down to the beach. Luckily, Edie Ochiltree, having the insight that someone may be trapped on the beach not knowing that the tide was coming in, finds the Wardours and helps them escape the rising waters. Then, Lovel appears and gets them to relative safety, huddling on the side of a rocky cliff. Finally, Oldbuck arrives with men and ropes to pull the four up over the cliff to safety.

A while later, Oldbuck takes Lovel, the Wardours, his niece and nephew, Dousterswivel and a minister to the ancient ruins of Saint Ruth on Sir Arthur's property. While exploring the property, they discuss an ancient treasure that they believe to be buried at the ruins. Captain M'Intyre dominates Isabella's attention, which she leaves in favor of Lovel's to the dismay of M'Intyre. M'Intyre, angered at this slight, discovers that Lovel is in the military, but realizes he knows of no one named Lovel in his division and calls him out upon the topic. They agree to a duel and return to the scene to fight for their individual honor. Lovel's bullet strikes best and leaves M'Intyre bleeding on the ground, when Lovel flees with Edie to avoid a potential arrest. In their hiding, Edie and Lovel see Dousterswivel and Sir Arthur return to the ruins, looking for treasure. They see Dousterswivel attempting to convince Sir Arthur of his magical abilities to find gold and he does conveniently find a small bag under a stone. After they leave, Lovel boards a military ship and departs.

Oldbuck, understanding Dousterswivel's knavery, confronts him about his cons and takes Sir Arthur back to the ruins to look for treasure without Dousterswivel's magical intervention. Digging further under the same stone under which Dousterswivel had previously found treasure, they discover a chest full of silver, which Sir Arthur promptly takes back home. Edie hangs behind and whispers for Dousterswivel to join him. Then, showing the con artist the lid to the chest, with the phrase "Search 1" written on it. Edie convinces the German mage that this phrase means there is a second chest nearby, this time full of gold. They return at night and dig, but cannot find another chest. Just as Dousterswivel is starting to realize that Edie is mocking him, Steenie Mucklebackit jumps from the shadows and knocks Dousterswivel unconscious.

Steenie and Edie flee to Steenie's house, where Steenie shows him Dousterswivel's pocketbook, accidentally picked up during the excitement. Edie makes him promise to return the pocketbook and then leaves. Alas, Steenie is not long for this world and dies in a fishing accident the next day. As the family is in mourning, Elspeth, Steenie's grandmother, comes out of a long senility to tell Edie to take a ring and a message to Lord Glenallan. Oldbuck, whose land the Mucklebackits occupy, comes to help carry the casket and pay his respects, to the awe and thanks of the family.

Edie meets Lord Glenallan and gives him the ring and tells him to go visit Elspeth. Glenallan does and learns from her his own history. He had married a woman named Eveline Neville, who his mother helped convince was his sister after she had already become pregnant. Eveline attempts to commit suicide by jumping into the sea. She is taken from the water barely alive and dies after giving birth. The child is taken by another maid named Theresa and is raised by Glenallan's younger brother as his own illegitimate son. Glenallan does not know this. Glenallan never recovers from believing that he committed a violation of nature. Elspeth tells him that Eveline was not his sister and that his marriage with her was perfectly legitimate. It relieves his mind and he desires to find his son.

Meanwhile, Edie is arrested for attacking Douster-swivel. Oldbuck proves that Dousterswivel is merely a thief and frees Edie, who immediately goes upon a mission. Oldbuck then receives word that Sir Arthur, who has been heavily in debt, is under arrest and has the valuables of his home being taken. Edie returns with money sent by Wardour's son and an order to stop the arrest.

Finally, a mistake causes the national warning system—a series of towers with fires that can be lit to warn of invasion—to be lit and everyone believes the French are invading. Oldbuck dons his sword and travels to town to help with defence along with his nephew, who promptly assumes the role of a commander. As they prepare for the defence, Lord Glenallan comes in with his highland troops. Finally, Lovel and Captain Wardour arrive to take command of the defence and it is revealed that Lovel is actually Major Neville. Further, Oldbuck realizes that Major Neville is Glenallan's son and the two are reunited. Major Neville becomes the next Lord Glenallan and is now free to marry Isabella Wardour.

Characters
Principal characters in bold
 * William Lovel, afterwards Lord Geraldin, Earl of Glenallan
 * Mrs Macleuchar, proprietress of the Edinburgh-Queensferry coach
 * Jonathan Oldbuck, of Monkbarns
 * Miss Griselda Oldbuck, his sister
 * Mary MacIntyre, his niece
 * Jenny Rintherout, his maid
 * Captain Hector MacIntyre, his nephew
 * Mr Lesley, Hector's military friend
 * Jacob Caxon, a barber
 * Jenny Caxon, his daughter
 * Lieutenant Richard Taffril, her sweetheart
 * Edie Ochiltree, a licensed mendicant
 * Sir Arthur Wardour, of Knockwinnock Castle
 * Captain Reginald Wardour, his son
 * Isabella Wardour, his daughter
 * Ringan Aikwood, his estate officer
 * Herman Dousterswivel, a charlatan
 * Mrs Mailsetter, postmistress of Fairport
 * Davie Mailsetter, her son
 * Mrs Heukbane
 * Mrs Shortcake
 * Mr Blattergowl, minister of Trotcosey
 * Miss Rebecca Blattergo, his sister
 * Elspeth Mucklebackit, of the Craigburnfoot
 * Saunders Mucklebackit, her son
 * Joscelind, Countess of Glenallan
 * William, Earl of Glenallan, her son
 * Eveline Neville, his late wife
 * Francie Macraw, his porter
 * Baillie Littlejohn

Chapter summary
Volume One

Ch. 1: Two gentlemen, one elderly the other young, travelling independently, take the coach from Edinburgh to South Queensferry.

Ch. 2: The narrator provides a sketch of the older man, Jonathan Oldbuck. Oldbuck and young William Lovel dine at the Hawes inn and travel on to Fairport.

Ch. 3: Oldbuck introduces Lovel to his antiquarian 'sanctum sanctorum' at Monkbarns.

Ch. 4: Edie Ochiltree, a licensed beggar, indicates that what Oldbuck takes to be a Roman praetorium is of modern construction.

Ch. 5: Oldbuck (a Whig) invites his Tory neighbour Sir Arthur Wardour and his daughter Isabella to meet Lovel at dinner.

Ch. 6: Sir Arthur and Oldbuck have an antiquarian dispute at dinner, after which the Wardours choose to walk home by the sands to avoid meeting Lovel again. Jacob Caxon the barber expresses his concern about their safety.

Ch. 7: On the sands Edie warns the Wardours, but it is too late and they are all cut off by the tide. Lovel climbs down the cliff to help them.

Ch. 8: The rescue is completed.

Ch. 9: Lovel is to be put up in the Green Room at Monkbarns, which Griselda Oldbuck indicates has a reputation for being haunted by the spirit of the printer Aldobrand Oldenbuck.

Ch. 10: In the Green Room Lovel dreams of Aldobrand.

Ch. 11: At breakfast Oldbuck and Lovel discuss Aldobrand, after which they go to the beach to buy fish.

Ch. 12: Isabella offers Edie a place, but he declines, preferring his peripatetic existence. He indicates that he has seen her rebuffing Lovel at a recent secret meeting and urges her to treat him well.

Ch. 13: Isabella tells Lovel that she can never return his love. Oldbuck informs him of the charlatan Dousterswivel's plans to take advantage of the impecunious Sir Arthur's gullibility.

Ch. 14: Lovel allows Oldbuck to believe that he is a budding poet.

Ch. 15: At the post office Mrs Mailsetter and her gossips examine the incoming mail, and an express letter to Lovel is entrusted to little Davie Mailsetter.

Volume Two

Ch. 1 (16): Oldbuck visits Lovel, who says he is in mourning for a friend.

Ch. 2 (17): On a general excursion to the ruins of St Ruth's priory, Dousterswivel finds water by divining.

Ch. 3 (18): Still at St Ruth's, Lovel reads to the company Isabella's version of the German story of Martin Waldeck.

Ch. 4 (19): Oldbuck's nephew Hector MacIntyre arrives, pays attention to Isabella, and quarrels with Lovel.

Ch. 5 (20): Next morning, Mr Lesley makes arrangements with Lovel for a duel with Hector, his friend. Edie's attempts to prevent the encounter are ignored and Hector is wounded.

Ch. 6 (21): Edie conceals Lovel at St Ruth's, where they overhear Dousterswivel duping Sir Arthur. Lovel is taken off by Lieutenant Taffril, who had acted as his second.

Ch. 7 (22): Sir Arthur shows Oldbuck a cache of old coins, which he has witnessed Dousterswivel dig up at St Ruth's with the promise of more to come.

Ch. 8 (23): Oldbuck, Sir Arthur, and Dousterwivel find silver ingots by digging in a place indicated by Edie at St Ruth's.

Ch. 9 (24): Dousterswivel agrees to look for more treasure with Edie who assures him it is present.

Ch. 10 (25): Dousterwsivel digs, but he is beaten by a mysterious dark figure. He witnesses the Roman Catholic burial service for the Countess of Glenallan, and is offered accommodation by Sir Arthur's estate officer Ringan Aikwood.

Ch. 11 (26): Old Elspeth of the fishing family at Craigburnfoot is told of the Countess' death and comments on her pride. Steenie and Edie arrive, having been chased by one of the funeral party: Steenie says he was Dousterswivel's assailant.

Ch. 12 (27): Elspeth sends Edie to Glenallan with a token ring to summon the Earl to come to her. He is admitted by Francie Macraw, the porter.

Ch. 13 (28): Edie delivers his message to Glenallan.

Ch. 14 (29): Edie hears that Steenie Mucklebackit has been drowned. He is arrested for the assault on Dousterswivel.

Volume Three

Ch. 1 (30): Oldbuck and Hector proceed light-heartedly to Steenie's funeral.

Ch. 2 (31): Steenie's funeral.

Ch. 3 (32): Glenallan arrives to speak to Elspeth.

Ch. 4 (33): Elspeth tells Glenallan of her part in bringing about the death in childbirth of his wife Eveline, hated by the late Countess and herself, and of the disappearance of his infant son.

Ch. 5 (34): Glenallan relays Elspeth's account to Oldbuck, who had unconsciously been his rival in seeking Eveline's affection.

Ch. 6 (35): At Monkbarns Glenallan and Oldbuck plan action to locate the Earl's son.

Ch. 7 (36): Caxon tells Oldbuck of reactions in the village to the unwonted appearance at Monkbarns of Glenallan, who bonds with the family at breakfast.

Ch. 8 (37): Edie is unresponsive before the unsympathetic Baillie Littlejohn, but Oldbuck arrives and persuades the magistrate to hand the examination over to him.

Ch. 9 (38): Oldbuck grants Edie bail after hearing his version of events.

Ch. 10 (39): Oldbuck takes Hector and Edie to see Elspeth.

Ch. 11 (40): Elspeth dies without imparting any further information. Oldbuck receives a summons to Knockwinnock.

Ch. 12 (41): Sir Arthur is faced with financial ruin. Isabella meets Edie, who seems to have a secret which will help the family.

Ch. 13 (42): At his request, and with Hector's help, Edie is provided with transport to Tannonburgh, the next post town. Sir Arthur is arrested for debt.

Ch. 14 (43): Edie returns with a letter from Sir Arthur's son Reginald announcing that 'the generosity of a matchless friend' has enabled him to discharge his father's debts.

Ch. 15 (44): Edie and Oldbuck laugh together as the plot is further tied up: Lovel had arranged for the ingots to be buried at St Ruth's for Sir Arthur's benefit.

Ch. 16 (45): The local militia assemble when a beacon gives warning of a French invasion, but this is revealed to be a false alarm on the arrival of Major Neville, who turns out to be Glenallan's lost son, and is married a month later to Isabella.

Reception
Most of the reviewers considered that The Antiquary maintained the high standards set by Waverley and Guy Mannering, especially in its insights into human nature and its delineation of manners, and in the big set scenes of the rescue from the tide and the fisherman's funeral. The figure of Edie Ochiltree attracted particular praise, recalling Meg Merrilees from Guy Mannering but in a more natural mode. Oldbuck was also generally admired, though The European Magazine considered him tediously minute. Lovel's disappearance from the action and Isabella Wardour's ineffectiveness were seen as blemishes, and the plot as a whole was often judged ill-conducted, especially the abruptness of the winding up. The Monthly Review, The Quarterly Review, and The New Monthly Magazine all considered the author's claim to have followed an overall plan in the first three novels to be wisdom after the event.

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Grace Adler

Grace Elizabeth Adler (formerly Adler-Markus) is a fictional character and one of the two titular protagonists in the American sitcom Will & Grace, portrayed by Debra Messing. She is a Jewish interior designer living in New York City, who lives with her gay best friend, Will Truman (Eric McCormack), for a majority of the series. She is also the employer of Karen Walker (Megan Mullally) and a friend and neighbor of Jack McFarland (Sean Hayes).

Character overview
Grace was born on April 26, 1967, in Schenectady, New York. She was particularly influenced by her mother, Bobbi (Debbie Reynolds), a flamboyant actress from whom she inherited her many neuroses. Grace also constantly strives for the affection of her father Martin (Alan Arkin, then Robert Klein), competing with her two sisters (one younger, one older), who have more obvious problems than she (Joyce, played by Sara Rue, is a compulsive overeater, while Janet, portrayed by Geena Davis then Mary McCormack, is rarely employed and promiscuous). Grace herself is decidedly selfish and neurotic, but this is usually played for laughs, like when her husband Leo (Harry Connick Jr.) asks, "You want me to be happy, right?" and she sweetly replies "Not if it affects me negatively in any way." She is also somewhat vain, once declaring herself to be a "frickin' bombshell" and believing that she bears a strong resemblance to red-haired celebrities like Rita Hayworth (once even thinking a photo of Hayworth was one of herself) and Nicole Kidman as well as Julia Roberts. This, however, leads to her being taken down a peg, and she is usually the butt of numerous jokes by other characters. In one episode, while in Los Angeles, she is repeatedly mistaken for Kathy Griffin by tourists. She is a Democrat and a graduate of Columbia University and the Fashion Institute.

Grace's quirks and physical abnormalities are often fodder for the show's antics. She has very large feet, even for her height, and she's often ridiculed for them. She comments that she has "feet the size of canoes" that were the only things her father ever gave her. When Will pulls a pair of over-sized ballet slippers out of a box of her childhood memorabilia, she remarks "Those are my ballet slippers from fourth grade! I went from a four to an eight in a month!" In another episode, she and Will travel to Los Angeles and visit the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and Grace finds that her hands and feet fit perfectly into John Wayne's hand and footprints ("Was he really tiny, or am I just a monster?").

There is a general running joke that she is slovenly and unladylike, which contrasts with Will's fastidiousness, usually for purposes of comedy. She is very cheap and often hoards free things (such as pretending to have a drinking problem in order to get free food and therapy at Alcoholics Anonymous meetings) and even steals. She once mentions selling Will's college term papers for a profit, of which Will had no knowledge.

In the 10th season episode "Grace's Secret", Grace reveals that she was sexually assaulted at age 15 by her father's best friend, Harry.

In the 11th season, Grace discovers that she is pregnant, the result of a one-night stand while on vacation, having hooked up with Leo on an airplane bathroom when she saw him while Will and Grace were flying to London. She decides to raise the child with Will, who is also having a child via surrogate. In the series finale, she goes into labor, and Will, Jack, and Karen go with her to the hospital to have the baby and begin a new chapter in her life.

Will
Grace's best friend since college is Will Truman, and their relationship is the focus of the show. They met at a college party at Columbia University. Through the third-season episode "Lows in the Mid-Eighties", we see they began dating and Grace did not realize that Will was gay at the time, and Will had not come out of the closet yet. Will "proposed" to Grace during Thanksgiving, in an effort to postpone actually having sex with her. When he finally came out to her hours later, Grace was so angry with him that she didn't speak to him for a year. They ran into each other at a grocery store a year later, made up, and became inseparable best friends. Grace moves into Will's apartment in season 1 when she breaks up with her fiancé, Danny (Tom Verica). She moves out in season 2 to declare her independence – albeit only to an apartment across the hall. She moves back in by season 3. She eventually moves to Brooklyn in season 5 when she marries Leo, but moves back in with Will in season 7 when she gets divorced.

Her closeness to Will is a running joke throughout the series; many other characters refer to them as a married couple. They can finish each other's sentences, which helps them in their fast rounds in trivia and parlor games. They can also be quite dysfunctional and co-dependent, sometimes even requiring the other's approval of clothing and boyfriends. When Will begins dating his future husband Vince D'Angelo (Bobby Cannavale) in season 6, Will is nervous about Grace's opinion of him, noting that he has ended relationships because Grace disliked one detail about them (one example given is that all Grace had to say about one such boyfriend was "mock turtleneck," and the relationship was ruined).

In the revived series, which retcons the events of the first series finale, Grace has divorced Leo, and is once again living with Will. They go into business together briefly, before Will gets a job as a law professor. When she gets pregnant in the 11th season, she decides to raise the baby with Will, and they buy a house together in Upstate New York. In the series finale, she goes into labor, and Will assures her that they can do this together as he goes with her to the hospital.

Jack and Karen
Grace also has a close relationship with her assistant, Karen Walker, a rich, alcoholic socialite who does virtually no work. Karen is nevertheless useful to Grace, as she pays for her employer's health insurance, gives Grace holiday bonuses, and occasionally uses her society connections to help Grace get work. Otherwise, Karen spends her "work" hours drinking and belittling Grace. Karen routinely criticizes Grace's choices in fashion (usually by disdainfully asking, "Honey, what's this all about?") and men. Karen doesn't exactly withhold her judgments; in one episode, when Will calls Grace at work and Karen answers, she puts him on hold and says "Grace, the reason you're not in a relationship is on line one." Nonetheless, Grace and Karen become close friends over the years. Grace eventually learns to look past Karen's faults, and Karen occasionally does stop ridiculing her to reveal a softer, more caring side. In one episode, Grace stands up to Milo (Andy García) after he refuses to go on a second date with Karen, who is feeling vulnerable because she is going through a divorce. In another instance, Karen turns down Grace's proposal for a business loan to protect her, as Grace does not have a strong business plan.

Grace also has a close bond with Will's other best friend, Jack McFarland. Early in the series, Jack and Grace dislike each other, seeing each other as a rival for Will's affections. However, after they spend time together while Will is in the Cayman Islands between seasons 2 and 3, they develop a closer friendship. They still antagonize one another, however, often leading to Grace striking Jack in some manner.

Romantic relationships
Grace has a string of boyfriends throughout the series, many played by guest stars such as Woody Harrelson and Gregory Hines. Grace marries Leo Markus (Harry Connick, Jr.), a Jewish doctor on November 21, 2002, but the marriage ends when he has a one-night stand with a doctor from the Red Cross while working in Cambodia with Doctors Without Borders. In season 8, the two reunite briefly during a flight to London when they coincidentally meet on the plane. Their mile high tryst leads to Grace getting pregnant, but she doesn't tell Leo because he is engaged to another woman. However, in the series finale, she and Leo remarry and raise the baby, a girl named Laila, together. Laila is born in Rome, where Leo is working at a hospital as a researcher. After living in Rome for a year, the family moves back to New York, to their apartment in Brooklyn. Laila (Maria Thayer) goes on to attend college and there meets Will and Vince's son, Ben (Ben Newmark). Laila and Ben are living in dorm rooms opposite each other's while at college; the same scenario that Will and Grace found themselves in while they attended college. Ben and Laila marry soon afterward.

When the series was revived in 2017, the events of the season finale – in which Grace gives birth to Leo's child and drifts apart from Will – are retconned as one of Karen's drug and alcohol-induced hallucinations. In this continuity, Grace has recently divorced Leo, has never had children, and has moved back in with Will while she recovers from the divorce. When Leo reappears sometime later, it is revealed that the marriage ended because Grace did not trust Leo not to cheat on her again, and because she was closer to Will than to her own husband. Despite the couple trying months of therapy and taking up golf together, they could not make it work and Grace, unable to forgive Leo, turned to Will for comfort.

In season 10, Grace enters a serious relationship with Noah Boarder (David Schwimmer), after several tense meetings where he tries to sabotage her campaign for interior design president. Their romance slowly blossoms, Grace gets to know Noah's daughter, and he eventually asks her to move in with him. In the season finale, when Noah is unable to come to Jack's wedding, Grace is not happy after overhearing Will say she can do much better than him and begins to wonder where their relationship is going. After meeting Marcus (Reid Scott), a fellow traveler who plans on traveling the world indefinitely in an effort to find himself, Grace decides to leave the country with him to find true happiness.

In the season 11 premiere, Grace returns to New York from her whirlwind European adventure, during which she had sex with Marcus. During a doctor's appointment, Grace is startled to find that she is pregnant. When Marcus reappears in the next episode, Grace tells him that she is pregnant with his child, only for Marcus to tell her that he had a vasectomy. Karen then gathers three other men that Grace had sex with during her European adventure in an effort to find out who her baby's father is via a DNA test. Marcus shows up, admits to Grace that he lied about getting a vasectomy, and promises that he will sacrifice his dreams and do everything he can to raise her baby with her. Grace then decides she does not want to know the identity of the father for the time being – all she wants to do is raise the baby, either alone or with someone who loves her.

Grace has a reputation for "turning" men gay. Several of her boyfriends – such as Will himself, and her second-season boyfriend Josh (Corey Parker) – have turned out to be gay, and she has a recurring fear that this will happen again. In one episode, she enters a room to find her boyfriend Nathan (Woody Harrelson) passed out on a bed with Jack and Will, and moans, "Oh, no, I turned another one." In season 8, she takes this to a new level when she briefly marries James Hanson (Taye Diggs), Will's Canadian boyfriend, in search of a green card. They annul the marriage a few days later, after Will and James break up.

Awards and nominations
For her performance as Grace Adler, Messing received 5 nominations for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, winning once in 2003.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.

 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. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 13:36, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A.
Vanity and promotional. Article created by Mlprater which seems to be Matthew L. Prater, an employee of the law firm. Edcolins 12:13, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn. Xcali 14:17, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep IMO, vanity doesn't apply to real world, brick & mortar businesses. They're either notable enough, or they're not.  This one is, by my judgement; two offices, 60 attorneys, .  I don't like the probable connection between the original author and the firm, but as long as it's written NPOV, I don't see a problem. -- Un  focused  14:34, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * 60 employees or attorneys in a firm do not necessarily make it notable. The supermarket around the corner might well have more than 60 employees and most are not notable. The question should be "Has this law firm achieved anything particular, which makes it worth being integrated into an encyclopedia?" Nothing in the article indicates that something particular was achieved. Wikipedia should probably not become a business directory or the like. --Edcolins 15:21, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment 60 employees in a supermarket won't have Juris Doctor or Master of Law degrees, now, will they? I find this firm notable enough.  I respect that you don't, but your comparison isn't a balanced one.  -- Un  focused  22:11, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Well 60-lawyer litigation firms aren't usually very big.    This is a pretty lean firm, they don't do litigation.  Their claim to fame, for me, is their ratings, which are high. They're definitely notable within their field of patent prosecution--dotting i's, crossing t's and pushing patent applications through for their clients. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 23:51, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment Have a look at what Tony Sidaway found.  They're clearly at the top of their specialized upmarket, big money field.  They certainly are more notable than I thought.  -- Un  focused  03:45, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I maintain my position. Being rated number one in a specialized ranking is not an achievement in the context of an "encyclopedia". An encyclopedia is a compendium of synthetic knowledge susceptible to be useful in the context of education (παιδεια = "education"). The lawyers at the firm are probably doing a pretty good job, but they are just doing their job. The article does not indicate any significant achievement. A definitive no no. --Edcolins 15:49, May 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * That is special pleading. We have grounds for inclusion and they emphatically do not include any educational requirement.  Such grounds as do exist have been amply satisfied.  You just made up the idea that there should be some educational function to including an item in the encyclopedia. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 16:21, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Please do not write as if you were representing the whole wikipedian community. As a wikipedian, I also claim to be part of the "we" you refer to. In the absence of any clear boundary between what should be part of wikipedia and what shouldn't, I find it reasonable to refer to the common meaning of "encyclopedia". From what I read from Wikipedia is not a vanity press, wikipedia policy especially refers to the origin of the word "encyclopedia" with a specific mention of the word "education". I do not find unreasonable to interpret this as "We have grounds for inclusion and they implicitly include an educational requirement (in the broad sense in which this term is used)." You will probably argue that the sentence "[Wikipedia] should contain only material that some definable group of people might want to know" follows. This is however a cyclical criterion since the verb "know" should be construed in view of the meaning of encyclopedia, otherwise tomorrow's weather, dictionary definitions and any information found in a business directory would fall within "material that some definable group of people might want to know". --Edcolins 17:12, May 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, no assertion of notability. Frjwoolley 15:39, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete without further indication of achievements/notability. Being among the first patent lawyers in intellectual property is well and good, but it's rather meaningless (except for advertising), if they haven't actually done anything significant.  Geogre 18:03, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * N.b. I've checked again, and the article still doesn't provide the statistics or cases that would make them notable. Please, I want to change my vote.  I think they probably are notable, but so far the article doesn't provide any information on that. Geogre 15:02, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Geogre, the article does now contain a reference in a trade journal showing the notability of this firm. You're now asking someone to go off and do what would be original research in order to make a decision for himself (rather than reporting a source in the field) on whether the firm merits its clear notability. No dice.  We can do without your vote to keep. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 15:30, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
 * The internet seems to indicate that Woessner in particular is a BSD in the field. Pcb21| Pete 15:43, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete, no evidence of notability. --W(t) 21:31, 2005 May 27 (UTC)
 * Keep, they do appear to be one of the big US IP law firms. --W(t) 02:42, 2005 May 28 (UTC)
 * They are not a big IP law firm. As Tony Sidaway put it above, "Well 60-lawyer litigation firms aren't usually very big. (...)" Each and every IP firm could most probably be rated in one of these obscure magazine ratings which abound. --Edcolins 08:44, May 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * I think you've misread me, which is my fault. I said that 60-lawyer litigation firms aren't big, but I have remarked that this firm doesn't do litigation.  This is a lean firm, undoubtedly, but one that is big in its field.  --Tony Sidaway|Talk 20:47, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Rated (2005) #1 US patent lawyers for chemical patents, #2 for computer and software patents, #3 for electrical patents, #2 for medical patents. These guys are heavy hitters. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 23:43, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Interesting, but I'd like a little more information on who PatentRatings LLC are, apart from their connection to LexisNexis. There are thousands of organisations that rate companies for promotional purposes only. Anyway, if they're such a wonderful law firm, I'm sure they've done some very high profile cases. Can anyone find any of those? That would certainly convince me of their notability. --W(t) 00:35, 2005 May 28 (UTC)
 * They're not litigators, they just file claims with the patent office. I take your point about PatentRatings, but we don't evaluate sources in that way. I've given a reference in an IP trade journal that cites PatentRatings as a source, and clearly the firm Schwegman, Lundberg, Woessner & Kluth, P.A. is (rightly or wrongly) regarded as a major force in patent prosecution.  That is all we can do as an encyclopedia.  Let's not get dragged into OR just to establish whether the IP trade journals are being misled. The company is unequivocally notable because it has been noted by a relevant trade journal as a leader in the field. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 02:33, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't care if the IP trade journals are being misled, merely whether they're notable. I was mainly looking at the marketwire link, but the IP law & business one is a lot more credible yes. Fair enough. --W(t) 02:42, 2005 May 28 (UTC)

 * Delete, just not notable enough. Megan1967 03:29, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep highly rated in the field of US patents. Kappa 06:06, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. as per Kappa. JuntungWu 10:11, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

 * If this were a computer games company of similar stature, it wouldn't get listed here.
 * That doesn't mean it shouldn't. --Edcolins 08:46, May 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * Easily passes external verfiability thresholds, obvious keep. Pcb21| Pete 12:44, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep based on Tony Sidaway's research. Uppland 17:03, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Insert "slippery slope" argument here, followed by "camel's nose in tent" argument. What prevents hundreds of law firm in the world from each claiming some "remarkable" niche? Maybe it belongs in Who's Who, but probably not Wikipedia. What possible purpose does this article serve that could not be served by a simple external link to the firm's web page, and why would even such a link be acceptable? Lupinelawyer 03:02, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * The firm's web page is not likely to be NPOV, editable, or wikilinked. If we apply the Slippery slope argument to this commercial entity, where will it end? Will microsoft be deleted and replaced with an external link? Kappa 21:34, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Niiiice reverse-slippery slope argument, Kappa! :-D -- BD2412 talk 04:19, 2005 Jun 8 (UTC)
 * Keep. Wikipedia is not paper and it is not a traditional encyclopedia.  Some people need to open their minds.  If Wikipedia is to be the world's foremost compendium of knowledge, it goes without saying (but I'll blabber on anyway) that there will be articles on topics some people do not consider notable.  But if there is any topic that anybody might just possibly perhaps someday somehow decide they might just be slightly somewhat kinda interested in, there should be an article here. Nelson Ricardo 18:44, May 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Notable Law Firm. Klonimus 08:33, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: I couldn't have put it better myself. We're supposed to produce neutral, verifiable information. It's a bit pointless deleting encyclopedia entries that provide that.  It's a waste of our time even considering doing that. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 20:55, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Concurr I'm getting so tired of VfD being used for emergency cleanup. VfD is about is the subject of an article is encyclopedic. A 60 person law firm that is considdered important in the world of patent litigation is notable, in a way that a 2 man personal injury firm is not. Klonimus 09:43, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * So, given this support, we should start substubs for every possible law firm in the world that might be considered notable in some way! Largest five firms in any of 80 different kinds of law, for each city/state/country, biggest wins/losses in each type of law and in every court, oldest firms, newest firms, longest names, biggest salaries, biggest idiots, etc. Of course, because they are "notable", the articles will be immune from VfD. Lupinelawyer 22:47, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes. If you want to.  That's the beauty of Wikipedia.  Stuff only appears here if someone wants it to.  --Tony Sidaway|Talk 23:09, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Sixty lawyers is a good size for a specialty firm - they probably employ hundreds of people all-told (in addition to the lawyers, there will be plenty of secretaries, office managers, accountants, investigators, etc.). Also, Lexis rankings are probably a very reliable measure, as they are one of the 2 big legal research providers. -- BD2412 talk 20:06, 2005 Jun 1 (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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Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a 1968 collection of essays by Joan Didion that mainly describes her experiences in California during the 1960s. It takes its title from the poem "The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats. The contents of this book are reprinted in Didion's We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction (2006).

Collection's origins
According to Nathan Heller in The New Yorker, the book came about this way: "In the spring of 1967, Joan Didion [was ...] engaged to write a regular column for The Saturday Evening Post. [...] At some point, an editor suggested that she had the makings of a collection, so she stacked her columns with past articles she liked (a report from Hawaii, the best of some self-help columns she'd churned out while a junior editor at Vogue), set them in a canny order with a three-paragraph introduction, and sent them off. This was Slouching Towards Bethlehem."

Title essay
The title essay describes Didion's impressions of the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco during the neighborhood's heyday as a countercultural center. In contrast to the more utopian image of the milieu promoted by counterculture sympathizers then and now, Didion offers a rather grim portrayal of the goings-on, including an encounter with a pre-school-age child who was given LSD by her parents.

One critic describes the essay as "a devastating depiction of the aimless lives of the disaffected and incoherent young," with Didion positioned as "a cool observer but not a hardhearted one." Another scholar writes that the essay's form mirrors its content; the fragmented structure resonates with the essay's theme of societal fragmentation. In a 2011 interview, Didion discussed her technique of centering herself and her perspective in her non-fiction works like "Slouching Towards Bethlehem": "I thought it was important always for the reader, for me to place myself in the piece so that the reader knew where I was, the reader knew who was talking...At the time I started doing these pieces it was not considered a good thing for writers to put themselves front and center, but I had this strong feeling you had to place yourself there and tell the reader who that was at the other end of the voice."

Didion originally wrote the piece as an assignment for The Saturday Evening Post in 1967.

In her preface to the book, Didion writes, "I went to San Francisco because I had not been able to work in some months, had been paralyzed by the conviction that writing was an irrelevant act, that the world as I had understood it no longer existed. If I was to work again at all, it would be necessary for me to come to terms with disorder."

I. Life Styles in the Golden Land

 * "Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream" Appeared first in 1966 in The Saturday Evening Post under the title "How Can I Tell Them There's Nothing Left".
 * "John Wayne: A Love Song" Appeared first in 1965 in The Saturday Evening Post.
 * "Where the Kissing Never Stops" Appeared first in 1966 in The New York Times Magazine under the title "Just Folks at a School for Non-Violence".
 * "Comrade Laski, C.P.U.S.A. (M.-L.)" Appeared first in 1967 in The Saturday Evening Post.
 * "7000 Romaine, Los Angeles 38" Appeared first in 1967 in The Saturday Evening Post under the title "The Howard Hughes Underground".
 * "California Dreaming" Appeared first in 1967 in The Saturday Evening Post.
 * "Marrying Absurd" Appeared first in 1967 in The Saturday Evening Post.
 * "Slouching Towards Bethlehem" Appeared first on September 23, 1967, in The Saturday Evening Post.

II. Personals

 * "On Keeping a Notebook" Appeared first in 1966 in Holiday.
 * "On Self-Respect" Appeared first in 1961 in Vogue under the title "Self-respect: Its Source, Its Power".
 * "I Can't Get That Monster out of My Mind" Appeared first in 1964 in The American Scholar.
 * "On Morality" Appeared first in 1965 in The American Scholar under the title "The Insidious Ethic of Conscience".
 * "On Going Home" Appeared first in 1967 in The Saturday Evening Post.

III. Seven Places of the Mind

 * "Notes from a Native Daughter" Appeared first in 1965 in Holiday.
 * "Letter from Paradise, 21° 19' N., 157° 52' W" Appeared first in 1966 in The Saturday Evening Post under the title "Hawaii: Taps Over Pearl Harbor".
 * "Rock of Ages" Appeared first in 1967 in The Saturday Evening Post.
 * "The Seacoast of Despair" Appeared first in 1967 in The Saturday Evening Post.
 * "Guaymas, Sonora" Appeared first in 1965 in Vogue.
 * "Los Angeles Notebook" A section entitled "The Santa Ana" appeared first in 1967 in The Saturday Evening Post.
 * "Goodbye to All That" Appeared first in 1967 in The Saturday Evening Post under the title "Farewell to the Enchanted City".

Reception
The book was immediately favorably received; its popularity continued to grow and become a "phenomenon" with a devoted readership in subsequent years.

In The New York Times Book Review, novelist and screenwriter Dan Wakefield wrote, "Didion's first collection of nonfiction writing, Slouching Towards Bethlehem, brings together some of the finest magazine pieces published by anyone in this country in recent years. Now that Truman Capote has pronounced that such work may achieve the stature of 'art,' perhaps it is possible for this collection to be recognized as it should be: not as a better or worse example of what some people call 'mere journalism,' but as a rich display of some of the best prose written today in this country."

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Statement of changes in equity

A statement of changes in equity and similarly the statement of changes in owner's equity for a sole trader, statement of changes in partners' equity for a partnership, statement of changes in shareholders' equity for a company or statement of changes in taxpayers' equity for government financial statements is one of the four basic financial statements.

The statement explains the changes in a company's share capital, accumulated reserves and retained earnings over the reporting period. It breaks down changes in the owners' interest in the organization, and in the application of retained profit or surplus from one accounting period to the next. Line items typically include profits or losses from operations, dividends paid, issue or redemption of shares, revaluation reserve and any other items charged or credited to accumulated other comprehensive income. It also includes the non-controlling interest attributable to other individuals and organisations.

The statement is expected under the generally accepted accounting principles and explains the owners' equity shown on the balance sheet, where: "owners' equity = assets − liabilities"

Requirements of the U.S. GAAP
In the United States this is called a statement of retained earnings and it is required under the U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (U.S. GAAP) whenever comparative balance sheets and income statements are presented. It may appear in the balance sheet, in a combined income statement and changes in retained earnings statement, or as a separate schedule.

Therefore, the statement of retained earnings uses information from the income statement and provides information to the balance sheet.

Retained earnings are part of the balance sheet (another basic financial statement) under "stockholders equity (shareholders' equity)" and is mostly affected by net income earned during a period of time by the company less any dividends paid to the company's owners / stockholders. The retained earnings account on the balance sheet is said to represent an "accumulation of earnings" since net profits and losses are added/subtracted from the account from period to period.

Retained Earnings are part of the "Statement of Changes in Equity". The general equation can be expressed as following:

 * Ending Retained Earnings = Beginning Retained Earnings − Dividends Paid +  Net Income

This equation is necessary to use to find the Profit Before Tax to use in the Cash Flow Statement under Operating Activities when using the indirect method. This is used whenever a comprehensive income statement is not given but only the balance sheet is given.

Requirements of IFRS
IAS 1 requires a business entity to present a separate statement of changes in equity (SOCE) as one of the components of financial statements.

The statement shall show: (IAS1.106)
 * 1) total comprehensive income for the period, showing separately amounts attributable to owners of the parent and to non-controlling interests
 * 2) the effects of retrospective application, when applicable, for each component
 * 3) reconciliations between the carrying amounts at the beginning and the end of the period for each component of equity, separately disclosing:
 * profit or loss
 * each item of other comprehensive income
 * transactions with owners, showing separately contributions by and distributions to owners and changes in ownership interests in subsidiaries that do not result in a loss of control

However, the amount of dividends recognised as distributions, and the related amount per share, may be presented in the notes instead of presenting in the statement of changes in equity. (IAS1.107)

For small and medium enterprises (SMEs), the statement of changes in equity should show all changes in equity including:
 * total comprehensive income
 * owners' investments
 * dividends
 * owners' withdrawals of capital
 * treasury share transactions

They can omit the statement of changes in equity if the entity has no owner investments or withdrawals other than dividends, and elects to present a combined statement of comprehensive income and retained earnings.

Example statement
The following statement of changes in equity is a very brief example prepared in accordance with IFRS. It does not show all possible kinds of items, but it shows the most usual ones for a company. Because it shows Non-Controlling Interest, it's a consolidated statement.

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User talk:Chloroplaster

who are you? - microtony, 12:13 GMT 27-5-05

Copycidism
Consider starting a website or blog about your experience. Wikipedia is not the proper place for this. See What Wikipedia is not. Thanks. - Jersyko 01:47, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

How improper?

Please explain with reference to the rules. -chloro

 * See Wikipedia is not a soapbox - No "primary (original) research such as proposing theories and solutions, original ideas, defining terms, coining new words, etc." - Jersyko 02:06, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

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Expand
this article still can be expanded a bit. An explanation how equity issue is reflected on the retained earnings statent would be nice to have --Maxx.T 12:14, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Good point - at least stock issues are now mentioned. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 11:13, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

Unsourced
Material allegedly from self-published sources have been removed, per this. I think that tagging for deletion at this time isn't the best option because the article has a neutral tone and doesn't look obviously problematic. I think tagging with UNSOURCED is sufficient, so I have made this change. Pine✉ 09:24, 11 June 2012 (UTC)
 * Regarding the SPS, check the publisher. A document sourced entirely from an SPS sets off massive alarm bells about non-standard theoretical conceptions.  No indication of notability. It is still eminently deleteable.  I'm giving it a fortnight. Fifelfoo (talk) 03:28, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Changing this article's name to "Statement of Changes in Equity"
Currently, Statement of Changes in Equity redirects here, as if those two statements are the same.

Yet, according to some articles (as this and this) those two are two different financial statements.

Also, the most reliable and professional source for accounting - the IFRS - calls this statement: "Statement of Changes in Equity", and when Retained Earnings are mentioned in the name of a statement it is in "Statement of Income and Retained Earnings" (See: IFRS Module 6).

I think that the article as it is now is a mixure of both (different) statements, so we must either:
 * 1) Decide which of them this article is talking about, make some adjusments, then create another article for the other.
 * 2) Change its name as I proposed (since that is the name in IFRS) and then let the article describe the equity statement. Orielno (talk) 16:51, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I've requested the name change as this page should be moved to reflect the articles content ThinkingTwice  contribs | talk 15:47, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

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Mickey Edwards

Marvin Henry "Mickey" Edwards (born July 12, 1937) is an American politician who was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, serving Oklahoma's 5th congressional district from 1977 to 1993.

Edwards was a founding trustee of The Heritage Foundation and national chairman of the American Conservative Union. He taught at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Law School and was a regular commentator for NPR's All Things Considered.

Early life and career
Edwards was born July 12, 1937, in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Oklahoma in 1958 and a J.D. from Oklahoma City University School of Law in 1969, and was admitted to the Oklahoma bar in 1970. Edwards served as a reporter and editor at the Oklahoma City Times from 1958 to 1963, engaged in advertising and public relations from 1963 to 1968 and was a magazine editor from 1968 to 1973. From 1973 to 1974 he served as a legislative assistant for the Republican Steering Committee in Washington, D.C., and he was an instructor in law and journalism at Oklahoma City University in 1976.

Political career
During his collegiate days, Edwards was a member of the OU Young Republicans; years later, he recalled that it was "easily the smallest club on campus" at the time. Not long after graduating from OU, Edwards registered to vote for the first time, as a Republican. He did so in an era when the GOP barely existed in Oklahoma; at the time, the Democrats held both Senate seats, a majority of the state's congressional delegation, every statewide elected office, and a nine-to-one supermajority in the state legislature. He recalled that when he registered to vote, registration officials tried to talk him out of it, but he refused.

While working for the Times, Edwards worked to build the GOP both at the state and national level, serving as chairman of the Oklahoma City Young Republicans, then as chairman of the Oklahoma Young Republicans, then as national vice chairman of the Young Republicans. During this time, he was elected to the national board of the nascent American Conservative Union. Eventually, his party activism progressed to the point that the managing editor of the Times told him to choose between his activism and his career in journalism; he chose the former.

In 1974, Edwards ran as a Republican for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. He challenged the Democratic incumbent John Jarman, who had held the seat for 24 years. Edwards raised almost no money, and spent only $30,000 for the entire cycle. Despite this, he held Jarman to 51 percent of the vote in what was mostly a bad year for Republicans because of the Watergate Affair. However, Oklahoma City had been trending Republican for some time. Edwards's campaign slogan was "Take a bite out of Big Government" and featured Edwards biting an apple on camera.

Jarman switched parties and became a Republican in January 1975 in protest of several older conservative Democrats being stripped of their committee chairmanships. Jarman did not run for reelection in 1976. That year Edwards defeated former State Attorney General G. T. Blankenship for the Republican nomination and narrowly defeated Democratic businessman Tom Dunlap, the son of the academic E. T. Dunlap, by 3,900 votes. He was the first Republican elected to represent this district in over half a century. However, he would never experience another general election that close in a district that rapidly became one of the most Republican urban districts in the country.

During Edwards's 16 years in Congress, he served variously on the House Budget and Appropriations committees and was the ranking member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations. He was also a member of the House Republican leadership, serving as the chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee, the party's fourth-ranking leadership position. However, in 1992, he was defeated in the Republican primary, by this time the real contest in the district. He failed even to make the runoff, finishing third behind State Representative Ernest Istook and former federal prosecutor Bill Price. Istook went on to win in November. The loss was mostly because of his involvement in the House banking scandal since he had written some 386 overdrafts totaling $54,000.

Edwards was one of three founding trustees of The Heritage Foundation and the national chairman of the American Conservative Union. Along with former White House Counsel Lloyd Cutler, he has served as co-chairman of Citizens for Independent Courts, a national organization devoted to preserving judicial independence, and as co-chairman with another former White House Counsel, Abner Mikva, of Citizens for the Constitution, a national organization concerned with limiting the use of constitutional amendments as a substitute for the normal legislative process. Edwards has also served as co-chairman of a Brookings Institution/Council on Foreign Relations Task Force on Resources for International Affairs as well as the Brookings Working Group on Campaign Finance Reform and for five years as chairman of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference. He has served on the board of directors of the Constitution Project and was the director of the congressional policy task forces advising Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign.

Edwards in 2002 gave a $250 contribution to Tom Cole, a Republican candidate for Congress from Oklahoma. According to the Federal Elections Committee this was his only political contribution to any Republican candidate. Thus, in the 30 years since his defeat in the GOP primary, his average political contribution to Republicans has been about $8 a year. It was therefore no surprise when in a radio interview on Fresh Air with Terry Gross on November 5, 2008, Edwards said that he had voted for Barack Obama in the 2008 general election. He endorsed Joe Biden in 2020 and left the Republican Party after the storming of the United States Capitol, saying the GOP had become "a cult" devoted to Donald Trump.

Academic career
After leaving Congress, Edwards taught at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Law School for 11 years, where he was the first John Quincy Adams Lecturer in Legislative Politics. He taught courses on Congress, political leadership, issue advocacy, election strategies, conservative political theory, and the constitutional separation of powers. In 1997, he was selected by students as the outstanding teacher at the Kennedy School. He has also served as a visiting professor at Georgetown University.

Edwards was a Lecturer of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and a member of the Princeton Project on National Security. He taught courses on "How to Win Elections" and "Congress and the Constitution." He was also a Vice President of the Aspen Institute and Director of the Aspen Institute-Rodel Fellowships in Public Leadership.

As of 2009, Edwards teaches courses on National Security Policy and the Politics of U.S. Foreign Policy at the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University. In 2013 Edwards was appointed a National Constitution Center – Penn Law Visiting Fellow.

Author and commentator
As a notable dissident Republican leader often critical of Republican officeholders, Edwards has been a regular political commentator on NPR's All Things Considered. His newspaper columns have appeared in the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, for which he has been a regular weekly columnist, and frequently in such other publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Examiner, Miami Herald and The Wall Street Journal. A well-known public speaker, he has spoken on many college campuses, including Boston College, Tulane University, West Point, University of Notre Dame, Duke University, Grinnell College, New York University, MIT, Georgetown University, American University, University of Southern California, the University of Iowa, the University of Texas, and many others.

Edwards has also authored numerous books and articles: "The Modern Conservative Movement" (2006), "Is Congress Gaining the Upper Hand? – Or is the Power of the President Dominant – A Century Foundation Essay," (2003), "Foreign Assistance and Foreign Policy (The Heritage Lectures)" (1987), "Behind Enemy Lines: A Rebel in Congress Proposes a Bold New Politics for the 1980s" (1983), "Hazardous to Your Health: A New Look at the Health Care Crisis in America" (1972). He co-authored "Winning the Influence Game: What Every Business Leader Should Know About Government" (2001) and "Financing America's Leadership: Protecting American Interests and Promoting American Values" (1997). "Reclaiming Conservatism" was issued in February, 2008, by Oxford University Press. His latest book, "The Parties Vs. the People: How to Turn Republicans and Democrats into Americans" (2012), is published by Yale University Press.

In 2009, along with former Congressman Chris Shays from Connecticut, Edwards criticized the Republican Party for neglecting what they characterized as the constitutional abuses perpetrated by the George W. Bush administration. He is also a contributor at The Bulwark, an anti-Trump news and opinion website.

On January 13, 2021, Edwards published an article in The Bulwark chronicling his decades of commitment to the Republican Party and also declaring his departure from the GOP. He stated that he had left the party due to changes that he had witnessed in the previous four years, principally the claims that the 2020 election had been tainted by fraud.

Personal
Edwards was born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, on July 12, 1937, and spent most of his early years in the southside Capitol Hill section of Oklahoma City, where his father, Eddie Edwards, managed a shoe store. When Mickey Edwards was 19, a gunman armed with a sawed-off rifle confronted him as he went to deposit the shoe store's earnings at the bank. Edwards told the man to "Go to hell". The man shot Edwards twice near the heart; Edwards was discharged from the hospital after three days.

Edwards has been married and divorced 5 times. He was previously married to Miss Oklahoma Lisa Reagan, a singer and composer from Oklahoma City. Edwards is presently married to Elizabeth A. Sherman, a professor of politics at American University. Edwards is Jewish.

Edwards has three children and four grandchildren.

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Biog
All these 'fact' tags in the header frankly constitute vandalism. Anybody needing confirmation of the topic of his master's thesis should read the handy biog on the back cover of any of his books! I'll keep looking for a link that replicates that info for those who are really sceptical and don't have a copy of the Stone Canal handy! Famousdog 17:15, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Trade Latin
Can somebody translate la:Latina mercatoria? --Error 23:28, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Is 'The Sky Road' a different reality?
I'm not sure that 'The Sky Road' takes place in a different reality. The story is told by a descendent of the anti-technological outlaws who caused, or who became dominant after the Green Death as described in 'The Cassini Division' and about a hundred years later. The Tinkers are the computer users and makers who were defeated or banished in a mostly unrecorded way but who have been guiding humanity back towards space. The story is resolved quite well across the four books. Sfgreenwood 00:48, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

 * It has been said that in The Sky Road the barbarians won, the capitalists lost and the socialists went away (to terraform Mars), while in The Stone Canal / The Cassini Division the socialists won, the barbarians lost and the capitalists went away (to terraform New Mars). —Tamfang (talk) 08:15, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Yeah you're right, I guess it is pretty clearly a different reality.P4k (talk) 21:16, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Note though that the divergence is what Myra did in 2059, after the death of Jon Wilde in 2046; so the parts of The Stone Canal that describe events on Earth (narrated by Jay-Dub) belong to the undivided timeline. —Tamfang (talk) 21:04, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

EoL background
How relevant is the revival of socialism (a detail I had forgotten) in the background of Engines of Light? None of the story itself takes place anywhere near Earth, so it's misleading to mention events on Earth in the summary. —Tamfang 19:00, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. Likewise, it's not an alternate history but rather straight-up speculative fiction, as the Earth events described occur in the future at the time the story was written. The Engines of Light section needs some re-working... GreatGraySkwid 15:55, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Actually, a lot of Cosmonaut Keep occurs on Earth, with the political situtation being part of the reason the Bright Star sets out in the first place. Lurker (said · done) 17:00, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

The Infobox Has Defeated Me Once Again
Someone edit, please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.132.236.33 (talk • contribs)
 * I changed the Infobox to the Infobox Writer template, which gives a few more options. There was a problem with some of the terms in the old version to do with the syntax used by Infobox Biography. (And I nicked the new version from the Iain Banks article, if you want to make something of that ;O) ) Someone might want to clean up the new version  FlowerpotmaN (t · c) 20:46, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Quotes section
Eloquent as some of these are (the "These names will be written" just moved me to tears again; and I'm the one who put it there, so it should have lost some of its power by now), shouldn't this all be moved to Wikiquotes? I have no idea how to do that. -- Orange Mike 13:52, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

 * As soon as I've got time, I will start a page for Ken Macleod at Wikiquote. --Meile 14:15, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

 * Done! --Meile 20:03, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

 * Should these quotes be deleted at this point?Prezbo (talk) 07:06, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

 * Done (and moved to tears again, dammit!) -- Orange Mike  |   Talk  16:12, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Human Genre Project

 * The Human Genre Project, a collection of works about genres collated and maintained by MacLeod

Huh? What are "works about genres"? (The series of comic novels based on movie genres comes to mind, but seems not to fit here.) Clicking the link I see a collection of short fiction apparently inspired by genetic research, organized by chromosome. —Tamfang (talk) 23:03, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

the webblies
The international workers of the world wide web (weblies) is from For The Win by Cory Doctorow, isn't it? I am unfamiliar with MacLeod's work, can anyone speak w/ authority on this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.252.184.34 (talk) 23:08, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
 * They certainly appear in Cosmonaut Keep by Maclead; don't know if Cory uses them too. -- Orange Mike  |   Talk  01:00, 31 March 2011 (UTC) (dues-paying Wobbly)
 * He does. For the Win was published much more recently (2010) and is available free online under a Creative Commons license here. But Doctorow says in the Acknowledgements section "Many thanks to Ken Macleod for letting me use IWWWW and "Webbly." " so no problems with plagiarism. Famousdog (talk) 09:40, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

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Matsuyama, Miyagi should not redirect to Matsuyama, Ehime.

 * Support - there seems to be only one Matsuyama in Miyagi, so convention would be to not disambiguate by district. Redirecting to Matsuyama, Ehime is plainly incorrect. -- Rick Block 13:53, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Support - Same as above. Additionally, Matsuyama, Yamagata does not redirect to Matsuyama, Ehime. -- Atsi Otani 16:44, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * (However, it should be listed on the disambig page, which I'll do.) --William McDuff 03:56, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Support - Ditto CES 02:18, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Support - (Shida) is redundant. --Larus.r 18:30, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. violet/riga (t) 22:49, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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