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There was some back and forth reversion of revision 236499516. I want to clarify the purpose of the edit and why it was reverted by an automated spam catcher. An incorrect conclusion was drawn from a scientific paper regarding gellation as a phase transition. I added a DOI link to the article, and while I was there, I corrected a formatting error on an external link (which turned out to be a commercial site, and likely spam.) This caused the bot to think I added it. I've added only the correct link in edit 236551270. This IP is no spammer; check my contribs. 128.138.120.79 (talk) 23:44, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

I wouldn't agree that the type of gel used in fibre optic cables resembles petroleum jelly in viscosity. The gels used for this application are typically similar in consistency to soft "hair gel", and are comprised of synthetic hydrocarbon oil gelled with either colloidal fumed silica, or various synthetic rubbers. The viscosity is highly dependant upon shear rate, and these materials do not "melt" as such. Petroleum jelly is solid at room temperature and melts at temperatures above about 70°C to form a Newtonian fluid.

Clean-up
This page requires a clean-up or total re-write. Before I start, does anyone have any thoughts about what they'd like to see?
 * It is SUCH a broad subject... I was linking to it from my rewrite of Stress ball to describe the different densities of gels used in physical therapy. --Mdwyer 17:29, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

Polymer gels versus low molecular weight gelators
Many of the definitions on this web page are specific to polymer gels. For example, cross links are not a requirement for low molecular weight gelators. Does anyone have have thoughts on this? I think that the page should be renamed or expanded to include LMWGs.Klsyking (talk) 02:31, 13 April 2011 (UTC)

About gel and baldness
There should be mention in this article about one of the possible effects of using gel regularly, which is the thinning of hair and possibly baldness. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.127.47.40 (talk) 10:08, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Why is the sound induced gel section included? It includes too many specific details in contrast to the rest of the article, and it does not seem to have many citations. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.150.227.231 (talk) 19:43, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

Gels versus water
I have found a herbal substance that works in water but not in gels or lotions. The lotions we have tried are lanoline, silicone oil, petroleum,and other gels which sometimes contain 7% water. What is the difference? How can something work in one but not the other.

Thanks,

Jo —Preceding unsigned comment added by Drpolich (talk • contribs) 18:08, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Crystal Soil - Water Pearls
I think this should be added in the uses of Hydrogel: http://www.crystalsoil.com (the website is only an example, there are many producer for this product. --77.186.131.47 (talk) 11:51, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Continuous/discontinuous phase - mistake?
According to the last sentence in the lead, …the solid is the discontinuous phase and the liquid is the continuous phase. This contradicts the the table in Colloid, which says that for a gel the solid is the continuous and the liquid is dispersed. I checked in my chemistry textbook agrees with the Colloid article. MYCETEAE - talk 07:41, 13 April 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree. That needed to be fixed, so I did. Devil Master (talk) 12:51, 22 May 2011 (UTC)

 * Actually they might both be continuous! -Johannes 13.7.2011 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.248.102.76 (talk) 18:11, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Hard gels?
I asked at Talk:Silica_gel, but maybe this is a better place. By what definition is silica gel a gel? —Ben FrantzDale (talk) 13:33, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia's source is Wikipedia
Cite note #3 is a reproduction of this very Wikipedia article within Princeton.edu and is therefore not a source

189.78.163.65 (talk) 20:36, 6 February 2014 (UTC)

Vegan
I think it should be mentioned on the lead whether gel is vegan or not.— Lost Whispers talk 12:41, 4 June 2017 (UTC)

Chemistry
Gels 42.106.177.180 (talk) 11:55, 7 November 2022 (UTC)

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Nexstar Media Group

Nexstar Media Group, Inc. is an American publicly traded media company with headquarters in Irving, Texas, Midtown Manhattan, and Chicago. The company is the largest television station owner in the United States, owning 197 television stations across the U.S., most of which are affiliated with the four "major" U.S. television networks and MyNetworkTV in markets as large as New York City and as small as San Angelo, Texas. It also operates all of the stations owned by affiliated companies, such as Mission Broadcasting and Vaughan Media, under local marketing agreements to satisfy existing regulations set in place by the Federal Communications Commission. In addition, Nexstar owns one radio station, WGN in Chicago, and operates major TV network the CW through a 75-percent majority stake where all CW affiliates are directly owned-and-operated stations (O&O), two terrestrial television networks airing classic shows, Antenna TV and Rewind TV, one FAST streaming channel airing sports programming, SportsGrid, and has full or partial ownership stakes in three pay television networks (cable news and entertainment network NewsNation and food and cooking networks Food Network and Cooking Channel, the latter two through a 31-percent stake in Television Food Network G.P.).

1996–2010: Formation
Nexstar Media Group was formed as Nexstar Broadcasting Group on June 17, 1996, initially backed by ABRY Partners. The first television station bought by Nexstar was WYOU in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Nexstar bought WYOU from Diversified Communications. The sale was completed on September 28 of that year. Nexstar promptly fired two beloved anchors and laid off several long-term staff members. Nexstar founder Perry Sook said that WYOU would be Nexstar's flagship station, keeping an office off the newsroom for years. In 1998, Nexstar purchased WBRE-TV in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Because this was in the same market as WYOU, WYOU was 'sold' to Mission Broadcasting. This began the first-ever 'shared-services' agreement between stations. WYOU's sales staff was kept in Scranton, while the production and news operations were moved to WBRE's offices in Wilkes-Barre. WYOU staff who were not laid off were fired by Nexstar, hired by Mission, and eventually rehired by Nexstar. Mission Broadcasting then paid Nexstar to operate and control the production and news-gathering operations while Mission kept the sales and management team.

In 1997, Nexstar acquired WJET-TV in Erie, Pennsylvania, from Jet Broadcasting, for which it paid $18.5 million.

On January 12, 1998, Nexstar acquired three stations owned by the U.S. Broadcast Group, including KFDX-TV, KBTV-TV, and KSNF, for $64.3 million. In 1999, Nexstar bought out WROC-TV in Rochester, New York, from Smith Broadcasting.

In 2003, Nexstar acquired Quorum Broadcasting, owner of ten television stations. Also that year, it purchased KARK-TV and WDHN-TV from Morris Multimedia. In 2006, Nexstar bought out WTAJ-TV and the licensee rights of WLYH-TV from SJL Broadcasting for $56 million.

On March 20, 2009, Nexstar operated television stations that were owned by Four Points Media Group through an outsourcing agreement. However, on September 8, 2011, Sinclair Broadcast Group announced its intent to purchase the Four Points stations outright and took over the MSA for the stations that October upon Federal Trade Commission (FTC) approval of the deal. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) gave final approval of the group deal on December 21, and the Sinclair purchase of the Four Points stations was completed on January 1, 2012.

2011–2013: Retransmission consent dispute with Fox
In 2011, Nexstar and Fox entered into a dispute over terms of reverse compensation; this occurred as Fox began to aggressively seek shares of earnings from retransmission consent agreements with cable and satellite operators as part of affiliation agreement renewals between station groups with affiliates whose affiliation contracts had already expired (and carrying the network's programming without a contractual agreement) or were near expiration. Reportedly, the amount from retransmission consent fees from cable and satellite operators that Fox wanted its affiliates to pay the network would be 25 cents per subscriber during the first year of the affiliation agreement, increasing to 50 cents by the fourth year. President of affiliate sales and marketing for Fox, Mike Hopkins, had said earlier in the year that the network would consider moving its affiliation to another market station as a last resort if existing affiliates did not agree to the terms for reverse compensation retrans sharing.

Fox dropped its affiliation from Nexstar-owned/managed stations in four markets, with three of the replacement stations adding Fox in addition to existing affiliations with the MyNetworkTV programming service (owned by Fox parent company News Corporation). In Indiana, two markets saw Fox go from a primary affiliation of one station to joining an existing MyNetworkTV-affiliated digital subchannel of a competing Big Three station, with MyNetworkTV going to a secondary affiliation: in Evansville, Fox moved from WTVW (which then became an independent station and later joined the CW) to a MyNetworkTV-affiliated subchannel of CBS affiliate WEVV-TV on July 1, while in Fort Wayne, the Fox affiliation moved from WFFT-TV to a MyNetworkTV-affiliated subchannel of NBC affiliate WISE-TV on August 1. The network also moved its affiliation in Springfield, Missouri from KSFX-TV (operated in a duopoly with area CBS affiliate KOLR) to upstart MyNetworkTV affiliate KRBK on September 1, 2011, with both stations becoming independents. Nexstar chose to drop Fox from WFXW in Terre Haute, Indiana and re-affiliate with ABC on September 1, 2011 (becoming the only Nexstar station thus far to affiliate with another network following the removal of the Fox affiliation) as part of a long-term renewal agreement between Nexstar and ABC for the group's nine existing ABC stations, reversing a 1995 switch that saw Terre Haute losing over-the-air carriage of ABC programs (since then, ABC has been seen in the market via Indianapolis affiliate WRTV on area cable and satellite providers); the Fox affiliation then moved to a digital subchannel of CBS affiliate WTHI-TV which also added MyNetworkTV as a secondary affiliation. Nexstar's remaining Fox affiliates have since signed a renewal agreement through December 2013; In addition, following the settlement of Nexstar's antitrust lawsuit against WISE-TV's then-owner Granite Broadcasting, WFFT-TV reclaimed the Fox affiliation on March 1, 2013. Nexstar would purchase KRBK in late 2018, restoring its ownership of the Fox affiliation in the Springfield, Missouri market.

2012–2019: Expansion by acquisitions
In July 2012, Nexstar agreed to purchase eleven stations and Inergize Digital Media from Newport Television, with two stations going to affiliate Mission Broadcasting. On August 12, 2012, Nexstar sold KBTV-TV to Deerfield Media, which entered into a JSA and SSA with Sinclair Broadcast Group to become a duopoly with KFDM-TV.

On April 24, 2013, Nexstar announced that it would acquire the entire group of Communications Corporation of America, KMSS-TV, KPEJ-TV, and most of the ComCorp-managed stations that are owned by White Knight Broadcasting would be sold to Mission Broadcasting while WEVV-TV and White Knight Broadcasting's KSHV-TV would be sold to a female-controlled company called Rocky Creek Communications, with Nexstar assuming operational control of those stations.

On September 16, 2013, Nexstar announced that it would acquire WOI-DT, KCAU-TV, and WHBF-TV from Citadel Communications for $88 million. Nexstar immediately took over the stations' operations through a time brokerage agreement. The deal followed Phil Lombardo's decision to "slow down," as well as a desire by Lynch Entertainment to divest its investments in WOI and WHBF; Citadel would continue to own KLKN, WLNE-TV, and its Sarasota properties. On March 5, 2014, the Federal Communications Commission approved the sale of these stations to Nexstar outright and the deal was completed on March 13. KCAU continued to use Citadel's standardized news sets, graphics and logos.

On November 6, 2013, Nexstar announced that it would purchase the Grant Broadcasting stations for $87.5 million. Due to Federal Communications Commission ownership regulations, one of the stations, KLJB, was spun off to Marshall Broadcasting Group, but is operated by Nexstar through a shared services agreement. The sale was completed on December 1, 2014. In 2015, Nexstar sold off the licensee assets of WLYH-TV, the CW affiliate to Howard Stirk Holdings.

On March 13, 2014, Nexstar announced that it would purchase Internet Broadcasting, for $20 million. The company had also recently acquired competitor Inergize Digital through its purchase of assets from Newport Television, followed by Enterprise Technology Group, a spun-off joint venture between LIN Media and Fox Television Stations. The providers were merged to form Lakana, led by former ETG CEO Phillip Hyun. On October 23, 2014, Nexstar bought out KASW in Phoenix from SagamoreHill Broadcasting and Meredith Corporation, and it was completed on January 30, 2015.

On February 2, 2015, Nexstar finalized its acquisition of Yashi, a location-focused, video-advertising and programmatic-technology company, for $33 million. On November 17, 2015, Nexstar announced its intent to purchase West Virginia Media Holdings' stations (WOWK-TV in Charleston, WBOY-TV in Clarksburg, WVNS-TV in Ghent, and WTRF-TV in Wheeling) for $130 million. The company took over the stations' non-license assets under a time brokerage agreement in December 2015 pending the formal completion of the deal, expected in late 2016. The two companies viewed the acquisition as being a complement to Nexstar's WHAG-TV, whose coverage area includes the Eastern Panhandle region. Nexstar CEO Perry A. Sook is an alumnus of WOWK. The sale was completed on January 31, 2017.

On August 1, 2018, Nexstar bought out KRBK in Springfield from Koplar Communications for $16.45 million, and also bought out WHDF in Huntsville from Lockwood Broadcast Group for $2.25 million. On November 1, 2018, Nexstar bought out MyNetworkTV affiliate KFVE in Honolulu from American Spirit Media as part of transactions requiring from the Raycom Media/Gray Television merger.

In spring 2019, Nexstar launched Border Report, a website focusing on news stories from the Mexico–United States border.

On November 5, 2019, it was announced that Nexstar would acquire Fox Television Stations-owned WJZY and MyNetworkTV outlet WMYT-TV in Charlotte, North Carolina for $45 million. In turn, it also announced that it would sell its duopoly of Seattle-based KCPQ and KZJO (along with Milwaukee-based WITI) to FTS in a separate deal worth $350 million. Nexstar made the transactions to pay down debt and consolidate operations in the Southeast. The sale closed on March 2, 2020. As part of a settlement between the parties in litigation over the failed deal, Sinclair had to sell WDKY-TV in Lexington, Kentucky, and the non-license assets of KGBT-TV in Harlingen, Texas, to Nexstar Media Group for $60 million on January 27, 2020. The company's founder, Perry Sook, had once been a principal of Superior Communications, who owned the WDKY property, making the sale to Nexstar a homecoming of sorts. WDKY's transaction was completed on September 17, 2020.

2015–2017: Acquisition of Media General
On September 28, 2015, Nexstar announced that it had presented an unsolicited offer to buy Media General for $4.1 billion (including debt). Per share, shareholders of Media General would receive $10.50 in cash and 0.0898 shares of Nexstar, a total equivalent of $14.50 per share. Nexstar's offer was seen by analysts as a maneuver to torpedo the merger of Media General with Meredith Corporation (announced on September 8). If Media General agreed to the counteroffer within a 20-day period, Nexstar would expand its portfolio to 114 television stations, pending spinoffs in markets where both own stations and federal approval. On November 16, Media General rejected the offer but agreed to negotiate after concluding its merge with Meredith.

On January 27, 2016, Media General announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Nexstar in a deal valued at $17.14 per share, valuing the company at $4.6 billion plus the assumption of $2.3 billion debt. The combined company became known as Nexstar Media Group, and owns 171 stations, serving an estimated 39-percent of U.S. households. The company paid Meredith Corporation (whom Media General had previously proposed a merger with) a termination fee of $60 million and gave Meredith right of first refusal to acquire any broadcast or digital properties that may be divested during the purchase. The deal also included contingent value rights for Media General shareholders if it sold spectrum from its stations during the FCC's spectrum incentive auction (a clause that Meredith did not exercise).

On May 27, 2016, Nexstar announced the sales of five stations. WCWJ in Jacksonville, Florida, along with WSLS-TV in Roanoke, Virginia, was sold to the Graham Media Group; and KADN-TV, as well as KLAF-LD in Lafayette, Louisiana, was sold to Bayou City Broadcasting, with KREG-TV in Glenwood Springs, Colorado going to Marquee Broadcasting as part of a series of divestitures required following Nexstar's acquisition of Media General due to Federal Communications Commission ownership caps (the sale of the Roanoke and Lafayette stations are required as Media General and Nexstar both own stations in those markets). On June 3, 2016, it was announced that Nexstar would spin off WBAY-TV in Green Bay, Wisconsin and KWQC-TV in Davenport, Iowa to Gray Television for $270 million.

On June 13, 2016, Nexstar announced that it would sell WFFT in Fort Wayne, Indiana; KQTV in St. Joseph, Missouri; KIMT in Rochester, Minnesota; WTHI-TV in Terre Haute; and WLFI in Lafayette, Indiana to Heartland Media, through its USA Television MidAmerica Holdings joint venture with MSouth Equity Partners, for $115 million. The divestitures were in order to allow Nexstar to comply with FCC ownership rules (specifically pertaining to national market coverage for station owners) in advance of the approval proceedings of the merger of both groups (Nexstar already owned NBC affiliate WTWO and operates ABC affiliate WAWV-TV in Terre Haute, and planned to acquire Media General-owned CBS affiliate WANE-TV in Fort Wayne).

On June 30, 2016, Nexstar announced that it would sell KASA-TV in Santa Fe, to Ramar Communications, owner of Telemundo affiliate KTEL-CD (channel 15), Movies! affiliate KUPT-LD (channel 16), and MeTV affiliate KRTN-LD (channel 33), for $2.5 million. KASA and KRQE were both ranked among the top four stations in the Albuquerque market during the November 2015 sweeps period, which meant that the company had to divest one of the two stations to comply with the FCC duopoly rules.

The transaction was approved by the FCC on January 11, 2017, and the sale was completed on January 17.

2017–2019: Merger with Tribune Media
On April 30, 2017, The Wall Street Journal reported that there were competing bids for Tribune Media from Nexstar and a partnership between 21st Century Fox and private equity firm Blackstone Group. However, on May 8, 2017, it was announced that Tribune reached a deal to be acquired by Sinclair Broadcast Group. On May 26, 2017, it was reported by DealReporter that Nexstar might be considering a bid to acquire Tegna Inc., although such a deal would likely require significant divestments due to ownership conflicts and exceeding the ownership cap.

On November 14, 2018, after Tribune cancelled its proposed sale to Sinclair, it was reported that Nexstar was a leading bidder to acquire Tribune. On December 3, 2018, Nexstar announced its intent to merge with Tribune Media for $6.4 billion ($4.1 billion for all of Tribune's shares in cash and $2.3 billion of Tribune's debt). The merger would give the company 216 stations in 118 markets, placing it just below the FCC's market cap of 39-percent of TV households and making it the largest owner of television stations in the United States. Nexstar planned to divest some stations and "non-core" assets as part of the merger.

On March 20, 2019, Nexstar announced that it would divest 19 stations to the E. W. Scripps Company and Tegna Inc. for a total sum of $1.32 billion, with Scripps receiving eight stations (WPIX, WSFL-TV, WTKR and WGNT, WTVR-TV, WXMI, KSTU, and KASW), and Tegna eleven (WATN-TV and WLMT, WTIC-TV and WCCT-TV, WOI-DT and KCWI, WNEP, WPMT, WQAD-TV, WZDX, and KFSM-TV). Of those stations, only WPIX was not associated with a duopoly, but rather its market size (an outright acquisition under current FCC rules would cause Nexstar to exceed the 39 percent cap). The transaction involving WPIX included a $75 million option condition allowing Nexstar to buy WPIX back between March 31, 2020, and the end of 2021. In the summer of 2020, the option was transferred to Mission Broadcasting (whose station acquisitions are largely funded by Nexstar) and exercised shortly thereafter. Nexstar stated that these divestitures would be used to help fund the sale and cover debt. On April 8, 2019, Nexstar announced that it would sell 2 additional stations (WISH-TV and WNDY) to Circle City Broadcasting for $42.5 million.

On April 3, 2019, Marshall Broadcasting Group sued Nexstar for breach of contract, alleging that the company was trying to "undermine" its operations so it could buy back the stations at a later date and lower cost in the present regulatory environment. The company also accused Nexstar of using the divestiture of stations to a minority-owned broadcaster as a token to gain FCC approval for the associated acquisitions. A carriage dispute with AT&T resulted in the removal of more than 120 Nexstar stations across 97 markets from AT&T's DirecTV, DirecTV Now and U-verse platforms, which began at 11:59 p.m. on July 3, 2019, and ended on August 29, 2019.

On August 1, 2019, the United States Department of Justice approved the deal between Nexstar Media Group and Tribune Media. The merger was approved by the FCC on September 16, and would be consummated three days later.

2020–present: Launch of NewsNation and acquisition of the CW
On January 15, 2020, Nexstar announced a national newscast called NewsNation on WGN America. The program launched September 1, 2020. On March 1, 2021, the WGN America channel was renamed NewsNation.

On October 22, 2020, Nexstar underwent a corporate reorganization, under which its primary subsidiaries of Nexstar Broadcasting and Nexstar Digital were merged into the operating subsidiary Nexstar, Inc.

A carriage dispute with Dish Network began on December 2, 2020, and ended by Christmas Eve, which resulted in the removal of at least 164 Nexstar stations in 115 markets, covering about 63-percent of TV homes, from its services.

On December 16, 2020, Nexstar announced it was purchasing BestReviews from Tribune Publishing for $160 million.

On May 20, 2021, the CW network and Nexstar announced that they have reached multi-year agreements to renew network affiliation for the CW in 37 markets in across the country (including KTLA in Los Angeles and WDCW in Washington, D.C.).

On August 20, 2021, Nexstar acquired political news website The Hill for $130 million.

On August 25, 2021, Nexstar Media Group announced a partnership with SportsGrid Inc. to offer the latter's sports betting- and fantasy sports-focused FAST streaming channel SportsGrid as a digital multicast network starting September 1, 2021.

A new digital subchannel network, Rewind TV, was launched on September 1, 2021, featuring classic TV shows from the 1980s and 1990s.

The Wall Street Journal reported on January 5, 2022, that Nexstar was a potential leading buyer of the CW, as the network's then-co-owners ViacomCBS (now known as Paramount Global) and WarnerMedia (since spun-off from AT&T and merged with Discovery, Inc. to form Warner Bros. Discovery) explored options in selling a majority stake in the joint venture network; the three companies had yet to comment on the WSJ report. In late August, as confirmation to another WSJ report made last June, Nexstar announced that it has "entered a definitive agreement" to acquire 75-percent ownership in the network, while Paramount and WBD would each retain 12.5-percent ownership. Based on media industry reports, Nexstar would reportedly assume "a significant portion" of the network's current losses. The deal did not require regulatory approval, but had to perform financial closure conditions at the company's fiscal third quarter, i.e. by the start of October 2022, in order to complete the transaction; thus, Nexstar took over operations of the network on August 15. The transaction was completed on October 3.

Following Nexstar's purchase of the CW, Paramount's CBS News and Stations division was given the right to have its eight CW stations (WPSG in Philadelphia, WUPA in Atlanta, KBCW in San Francisco, KSTW in Seattle, WTOG in Tampa Bay, WKBD in Detroit, KMAX in Sacramento, and WPCW in Pittsburgh) disaffiliate from the network; such right was announced on May 5, 2023, when the aforementioned stations would become independent on September 1. Nexstar responded to the move by stating that it would find replacement CW affiliates, noting that "Paramount's decision affects a limited portion of The CW's nationwide reach." The company announced on May 8 that it would buy KUSI-TV from McKinnon Broadcasting for $35 million, pending approval from the FCC; the purchase, which was closed on September 2, created a duopoly with Nexstar's Fox affiliate KSWB-TV, and is set to replace KFMB-DT2 as San Diego's CW station. Between June 14 to August 31, Nexstar announced that it would convert MyNetworkTV affiliates in the displaced Philadelphia, San Francisco, and Tampa Bay markets (WPHL-TV, KRON-TV, and WTTA, respectively) into CW stations, and signed several CW affiliation renewals (such as that with Gray, whose Atlanta-based WPCH-TV station would replace WUPA as that city's CW affiliate) to cover the remaining displaced markets.

Nexstar implemented a blackout on its stations from DirecTV, U-verse and DirecTV Stream on July 2, 2023, causing DirecTV to complain to the FCC. Nexstar responded to DirecTV's complaint by stating that DirecTV was streaming Nexstar stations after the contract expired in November 2022. Nexstar and DirecTV renewed their contract on September 17, 2023.

On May 19, 2023, Ray Cole, COO of Citadel Communications, announced that WSNN-LD in Sarasota, Florida, the lone remaining station under Citadel ownership, would be sold to Nexstar for $1 million. The sale was completed on July 20.

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Kronos (band)

Kronos was a French death metal band. Their name is a reference to the titan Cronus, the father of Zeus in greek mythology.

Lyrical subjects
The lyrics of their songs are mainly about myths, legends and historical subjects from the ancient civilizations of Rome, Greece and Egypt or from Scandinavia or even from old kingdoms belonging to barbarians.

History
Kronos was formed in 1994 in Thaon-les-Vosges (France) by Grams (14 years old), Marot (17 years old), Jeremy (17 years old) and Mike (13 years old). The band played at this point heavy/thrash metal. Two years later Tems (19 years old) replaced Marot (guitar) and Kristof (18 years old) joined the band for the vocals. Kronos started then to play death metal and recorded its first demo called Outrance. In 1999, Tom (20 years old) replaced Jéremy and the band oriented towards brutal death metal. The following year the recording of a new demo Split Promo 2000 containing 4 titles was finalised.

Their first album Titan's Awakening was released in 2001. This first edition of this album was produced by the band itself. The band was then acclaimed by critics and got its first contract with the label Warpath Records (former Shockwave). A new edition of Titan's Awakening was released at the end of October the same year with a new cover designed by Deather (Angel Corpse, Gurkkhas, Vital Remains) as well as a new graphical booklet. Richard (26 years old) replaced Tems and plays the lead guitar from 2003. The band signed a contract for two upcoming albums with the Spanish label Xtreem music managed by Dave Rotten from the band Avulsed. The second album was released in 2004 and is named Colossal Titan Strife. The band toured Europe in 2005 promoting the album. The third album was released in April 2007 and is named The Hellenic Terror.

Current members

 * Jérôme "Grams" Grammaire – guitar (1994–2017) vocals (1994–1996)
 * Tom "Tom2" Viel – bass, vocals (1999–2017)
 * Richard "Ricardo" Chuat – guitar (2003–2017)
 * Trivette – vocals (2013–2017)
 * Anthony Reyboz – drums (2014–2017)

Previous members

 * Marot – guitar (1994–1996)
 * Jeremy Siaux – bass (1994–1999)
 * Michaël "Mike Sako" Saccoman – drums (1994–2012)
 * Nicolas "Tems" Temmar – guitar (1996–2003)
 * Christophe "Kristof" Gérardin – vocals (1996–2009)
 * Quentin Regnault – drums (2012–2013)

Logo
Kronos's logo has remained the same throughout their career. It appears on every studio album of theirs. It consists of a jagged text saying "Kronos" while to scyths stand on the "O" and "N"

Studio releases

 * Titan's Awakening (2001)
 * Colossal Titan Strife (2004)
 * The Hellenic Terror (2007)
 * Arisen New Era (2015)

Compilations

 * Prelude To Awakening (2009)

Demos

 * Outrance (tape) (1994)
 * Split Promo 2000 with None Divine (2000)

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The cover to Tracks from the Wilderness by Skyclad.


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Ebonics: The True Language of Black Folks

Ebonics: The True Language of Black Folks is a 1975 book written by the American psychologist Robert Williams. Williams coined the term Ebonics two years earlier at a conference he organized on the topic of the "cognitive and language development of the African American child". This book defines the term (which Williams translated as "black sounds" ) as the "linguistic and para-linguistic features which on a concentric continuum represent the communicative competence of the West African, Caribbean, and United States slave descendants of African origin".


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User talk:John Callender

Welcome to Wikipedia, John, and be glad that you ended up on one of the more civilized Creation/evolution pages.

POV advocacy is a major problem in some topics which is why I restrict myself to only a few of the more controversial ones and work on nice peaceful topics when I can. The editors on Creationism are being quite restrained (at least at the moment), believe it or not. If you look through the history, you can see when edit wars take off. At least its mostly on the Talk page now.

All you can really do to fight POV is be vigilant in challenging and quick in correcting/rewriting blatant POV statements and I would urge you to put your own version of "the ability to believe in both creation and science" paragraph into the article, revised if you want in the light of the comments on the Talk page. It may last if it doesn't offend either side too much. Glad to have some common sense around. Dabbler 21:50, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Looks like your wording has been accepted by everyone (for now). Congratulations. Dabbler 18:41, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hornblower vs. Aubrey-Maturin
I am definitely a Aubrey-Maturin reader, I started with Forester when I was a teenager, went through Alexander Kent's earlier books and then found O'Brian and have rarely looked back. I am a member of an Aubrey Maturing e-mail list and have been for nearly nine years! I know a number of people who have found the first book a bit slow. Because I first found them in a library I think I started with the second, Post Captain, or third, HMS Surprise. They are definitely easier to read than the first, Master and Commander. O'Brian writes more convoluted sentences, is less a direct narrative and less action oriented, and also he tends to be more into the friendship between Aubrey and Maturin. Historically O'Brian is much closer to the source materal. Some of his "plots" are direct rewriting of actual incidents. O'Brian also displays a wonderful sense of humour with some passgaes making me literally laugh out loud. I now find Hornblower just too introspective and self-doubting and even depressing. I would urge you to try O'Brian again and if you find M&C doesn't grab you try one of the next two. Can you tell I am a fan? Dabbler 01:33, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

NPOV tag on Senate Report of Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq?
''"I'm curious what you'd consider necessary to change in ... hope we can continue to improve the article, to the point where you no longer think the NPOV-dispute flag is necessary. Thanks. -- John Callender 01:09, 11 July 2005 (UTC)"

 * As you may have noticed I don't have that much time lately. I'd consider it reasonable that the NPOV-dispute flag be considered "expired", and removed at the discretion of others, such as you.

 * I'm pleased to find such a cooperative voice. :-) I'll take a look and discuss when I have time.  Perhaps an RFC would be more fitting, if for no other reason than because an article of such central political importance deserves more attention from the community than it seems to be getting.  Cheers! Kevin Baastalk: new 02:26, July 26, 2005 (UTC)

Freud & Curtis
John, I replied to your concern about their marriage/nonmarriage at Talk:Emma Freud. Thanks -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 20:42, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

2003 invasion of Iraq
Hi there, when trying to go over the discussion at 2003 invasion of Iraq I saw it has become a big mess. If I see it correctly there was a conflict between an anon and others and now the page has been blocked. I think the anon had a point that an encyclopedia article about any military conflict should not be written exclusively by three members of one the conflicting parties, in this case Pookster11, Swatjester, and Dawgknot who according to this comment all belong to the US military. I therefore suggest to get more people into the boat, that should take the wind out of the sails of bias allegations. As I saw you also edited on that page, would you be willing to help out? Get-back-world-respect 22:46, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

National Enquirer citation
MONGO undid your reversion at George W. Bush substance abuse controversy. I re-reverted and posted my justification. anything you have to add (or change) would be welcome. I personally think MONGO is forcing POV into the article. I also don't know that he really cares about the article; he only got back into it, I think, because I pointed out that he, in an offhand comment, was wrong to confuse a celebrity tabloid with a monsters-from-outer-space one. Now he's just being stubborn. Turly-burly 03:21, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

You guys don't know a lot about me...I have 1,000 edits alone just to the article and discussion pages on the George W Bush article...so in all liklihood, I do have a POV. Though I didn't create the substance abuse article, it's creation was due to my fight to keep that slanderous nonsense off the main page. But since you insist in acting in tandem, I can't beat that and will bow to the concensus of silliness in article space. The only reason you want a non fact based opinion of GWB drinking again has nothing to do with article integrity and everything to do with silly innuendos that feed the pig troughs of the anti-Bush crowd. How childish can you get? I mean...did either of you bother to really look at that NE link?...it's hardly what I would call worthy of our efforts here to build a fact based reference source.--MONGO 15:50, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Neither John Callender nor I have politicized this, so I don't think it's fair to insinuate that we've teamed up to force our political opinions on the article. I think JCallender would agree that it doesn't matter which article this argument concerns.  I personally would rather this have taken place over NE quotes in an article about pigeon-raising or red beans.  What I have been trying to do is determine the role "rumor and speculation" should play in Wikipedia articles, which is why I posted as neutral a question as I could at the Village Pump. I think that clearly-labeled "rumor and speculation" should be allowable, at the very least because it contributes to the body of information an article provides.  Whether or not this information is based in fact or fantasy is up to the reader to decide:  if the rumor is clearly-labeled, he has been warned that the information may in fact be false.  Knowing the fact that a certain rumor exists might open doors for further discovery, e.g. hearing that there may be a western passage from Europe to East Asia might prompt someone to look into it.  As to the source of a rumor, I don't think it matters how reputable it is; anyone can hear rumors/make speculation.  Capitol Hill Blue's speculation is every bit as valid as NE's, and both may be as reliable and rooted in fact as speculation anyone else has made or a rumor anyone else has heard.  I'd rather give people the choice to believe -- as JCallender pointed out -- than presume to take it from them.  If JCallender's grandfather wrote an article about how he heard that Coca-cola could power rocket ships, I could quote that in a rumors section, I think, without leading people to challenge the integrity of an article about rocket fuel.  I think that reaching concensus about "rumor and speculation" would contribute to article integrity, much more than does picking and choosing whose rumors to believe and dismissing sources in charged language without due consideration. Turly-burly 04:38, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Of interest, I thought, from, Talk:Neil Patrick Harris:
 * "Upon further review of Verifiability, "Sources of Dubious Reliability":
 * "In general, sources of dubious reliability are sources with a poor reputation for fact-checking, or with no fact-checking facilities. Sometimes a statement can only be found in a publication of dubious reliability, such as a tabloid newspaper. If the statement is relatively unimportant, remove it. If it is important enough to keep, attribute it to the source in question. For example: "According to the British tabloid newspaper The Sun ..."
 * Note that in this example, a tabloid is cited, as its use is justified in that what it adds to the article is "relatively unimportant", i.e., what it adds is important. (...)
 * And at Weasel words:
 * "The following is just as weaselly: "The president's critics have suggested that George W. Bush may be a functional illiterate." If we add a source for the opinion, the reader can decide for themselves how they feel about the source's reliability: "Author Michael Moore in his book Stupid White Men wrote an open letter to George Bush asking, 'George, are you able to read and write on an adult level?'" (My emphasis)
 * In this example, a cited opinion is left intact in the article in order to let the reader decide what they will believe." Turly-burly 09:42, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Mostafa article reference
Hi there, thanks for your message. I understand your reasoning - and here's an alternative reference: http://dailybruin.com/news/articles.asp?id=39026 (from the UCLA student newspaper). This source is actually already in the article under footnote 6. I think you can just add a reference to that footnote too rather than add the link in a new footnote. I'm not sure how that affects the ordering though (I'm not that experienced with footnote code... I generally just copy an existing footnote codestring and use that as a framework. hope that help, Bwithh 02:51, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

Michele Bachmann
Bachmann has a history of religious conservativism to an extreme that many find troubling.

The inclusion of information like:

"The law school was accredited by the American Bar Association but folded after less than a decade of operation. Oral Roberts University describes itself as 'a charismatic university, founded in the fires of evangelism and upon the unchanging precepts of the Bible', built in accord with 'God’s commission to Oral Roberts' to "Raise up your students to hear My voice...Their work will exceed yours, and in this I am well pleased."'"

--to me this reads as she went to a law school more concerned about Jesus than about actually teaching law and making good lawyers.

"Uncharacteristically, she did not focus all of her energies on securing the position and instead traveled around the state of Minnesota speaking with EdWatch."

--unfortunately someone concerned with article length slashed out the information that she went to the MN GOP and wanted them to help her become a state legislator they told her go for school board first. Edwatch is another Christian conservative group. This was the most neutral wording I could use to say she never wanted the school board position, her statewide popularity in Minnesota conservative circles had been gained by being Edwatch's champion and so instead of pursuing the school board position which she thought beneath her she continued to cultivate statewide notierity by, even the day before the election, being hundreds of miles away from Stillwater to speak for EdWatch. Most of that information has been slashed from the article by others who prefer a notecard version of encyclopedia articles instead of anything more authoritive. If it wouldn't fit on the back of a ceral box it shouldn't be in wikipedia apparently. There was massive amounts of sourced and refrenced material in this article that has been deleted, deletions protested and protests voted down. Article split to sub-articles to try and address these concerns, sub-articles nominated for deletion by others, nominations argued against, votes lost, sub-articles deleted. Despite there being hundred of wikiarticles about poker and its multiple variants, politicians making decisions that impact millions of people are not as important as playing cards or cruft about The Simpson or Family Guy apparently.

I included a paraphrase of what Buchanan said about the Ayers coffee, to show that, yes, it was the same Pat everyone knows and that he was on the Republican's message that Bachmann had taken to an (even for Pat) wild conclusion. The paraphrase could be restated to something like "he took Obama to task for the coffee hosted by Ayers for his campaign, that Buchanan called the opening of his campaign for state legislator". It does seem to tie his comments back to Bachmanns more effectively, but perhaps is unneccessary.

I used to fight for a vision of Wikipedia being the most complete and authoritive source for information available (as no page limits and links in the table of contents to jump to what you want and avoid anything you dont) but I am long over that now. I occasionaly come back to post information, as writing helps me process it within my own mind. But Wikipedia seems set on being a rather shallow overview of whatever topic your intrested in and that's all.

Even most of the fully sourced information about her "investigate congress" comments looks set for deletion, as per these types of comments on the articles discussion page:

"Not involved and don't intend to be. But the length of the section on her comments about investigating congress is absurd. POV, recentism, it's got it all, plus the scurillous (sp?) mccarthy references. The whole bit should be five sentences, tops.Bali ultimate (talk) 04:13, 23 October 2008 (UTC)"

So if you want to get in some edits before all of it is deleted down to 5 sentences - have at it. -Wowaconia (talk) 14:48, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Sea Shepherd
From our own entry on Piracy, "Maritime piracy, according to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) of 1982, consists of any criminal acts of violence, detention, or depredation committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or aircraft that is directed on the high seas against another ship, aircraft, or against persons or property on board a ship or aircraft. Piracy can also be committed against a ship, aircraft, persons, or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any state."

Please explain how Sea Shepherd's actions are in any way distinct from this, and why "Piracy" therefore shouldn't be listed as a focus of the group. That's certainly what the group is known for. Just because something isn't nice to them doesn't mean it's not NPOV. Alg8662 (talk) 17:58, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Sea Shepherd II
What is your take on the terrorism response section? I posted on the talk page that it harms the article (see SSCS talk page) and could be handled in one paragraph in the "criticism" section. Good series of edits on that article, BTW. Keep up the good work~ 24.21.105.252 (talk) 08:46, 7 January 2009 (UTC)

File:Bush war jbc.jpg
Just to let you know that I recently copied the above image that you uploaded to Wikipedia over to WikiMedia Commons, the Wikimedia central media repository for all free media. The image was either individually tagged or was in a category tagged with the Copy to Wikimedia Commons template. Your image is now available to all Wikimedia projects at the following location: Commons:File:Bush announces Operation Iraqi Freedom 2003.jpg. During the move I changed the name of the image to better reflect Naming Conventions policy, duplicate file name and/or Commons naming restrictions. Any links to the image has been updated to reflect the new name as it exists now on Commons. The original version of the image uploaded to Wikipedia has been tagged with WP:CSD. Cheers!

Conservation Biology's characterization of the Holocene extinction
I posted my response on the conservation biology talk page. Cheers! Thompsma (talk) 07:40, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

NPOV tag on Talking Marriage with Ryan Bailey
Well, for me it is the plot. Quis separabit? 22:23, 14 June 2015 (UTC)

ArbCom elections are now open!
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Romanian Ecologist Party

The Romanian Ecologist Party (Partidul Ecologist Român, PER) is an ecologist and currently mostly conservative and green conservative political party in Romania, member of the AER Alliance for Romania (Alianța AER pentru România). Without parliamentary representation, it is one of the microparties still active in the country with some representatives elected in the local administration (i.e. a few mayors and county councillors and 210 local councillors), especially in Râmnicu Vâlcea and Vâlcea County, where it is ranked third behind the National Liberal Party (PNL) and the Social Democratic Party (PSD), Romania's two largest parties. Previously, it collaborated with the Green Party (PV) in the 2008 legislative elections.

History
The party was founded by, an engineer, in January 1990 as a political organisation opposed to the National Salvation Front (FSN). Adrian Manolache launched the program and the platform of the PER on 5 January 1990 in the newspaper Libertatea, being one of the newly founded parties in Romania and the second post-1989 registered one after the Christian Democratic National Peasants' Party (PNȚ-CD).

This party opposed the politics of the FSN from a very early stage and entered in an alliance with Radu Câmpeanu's National Liberal Party (PNL) in April, 1990, also endorsing the Timișoara Proclamation (Proclamația de la Timișoara) which demanded that the former structures and members of the Romanian Communist Party should not get involved again in post-revolutionary politics.

The PER participated in the Romanian legislative election held in May 1990, winning one senator seat as well as eight deputy seats. The first (and also founding) president of the party was Adrian Manolache, but the first party congress which was held in April 1990 elected Otto Weber as president until 2001, when he was followed by Cornel Protopopescu until 2007, the latter being subsequently replaced by Dănuț Pop.

In the summer of 2023, the Ecologists announced a restart for the political formation, with a new leadership and announced that they are recalibrating their public agenda in accordance with the themes of the day, from food safety to protecting the environment, in an increasingly complicated context for agriculture and environment in general.

Notable members

 * Viorica Edelhauser, former deputy (between 1990 and 1992);
 * Cornel Protopopescu, former deputy (between 1990 and 2000);
 * Otto Ernest Weber, second president of the party;
 * Gheorghe Toma, former mayor of the city of Suceava, Suceava County, Bukovina.

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Bonnie Bartlett

Bonnie Bartlett Daniels (born June 20, 1929) is a retired American actress. Her career spans seven decades, with her first major role being on a 1950s daytime drama, Love of Life. Bartlett is known for her role as Grace Snider Edwards on the Michael Landon television series Little House on the Prairie and as Ellen Craig on the medical drama series St. Elsewhere. Her husband, actor William Daniels, played her fictional husband Dr. Mark Craig, and they both won Emmy Awards on the same night in 1986—becoming the first married couple to accomplish the feat since Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in 1965.

Early life
Bartlett was born in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, the daughter of Carrie Archer and Elwin Earl Bartlett, and was raised in Moline, Illinois. Her father had been an actor in stock productions across the country, but he gave up acting because her mother wanted to settle in Wisconsin.

In 1947, she graduated from Moline High School.

Career
Bartlett studied acting with Lee Strasberg, and first got her start in television playing the heroine Vanessa Dale Raven on the soap opera Love of Life from 1955 to 1959, replacing actress Peggy McCay. She also had a previous role on the program, in which she briefly played the character of Ellie Crown, a role which was played for several years by Hildy Parks. She then moved on to night-time roles in the 1960s.

Her two most widely known roles were as Grace Snider Edwards on Little House on the Prairie from 1974–1977 and as Ellen Craig on St. Elsewhere. Each role began as infrequently recurring characters. As Grace Snider Edwards, her character's prominence in the series gradually increased from 1975–1977 following the courtship by and marriage to Isaiah Edwards, played by Victor French. In St. Elsewhere, she took on greater prominence in the 1984–1985 season when the storyline included Ellen and Mark's marital problems. The storyline deepened in the next season when their son was killed and they had to raise their granddaughter. Bartlett won back-to-back Emmys, and was made a contract player. Further difficult material included Ellen and Mark's divorce and slow reconciliation following the loss of their granddaughter in a custody dispute with her birth mother.

For many years, Bartlett accepted only small guest appearances on such programs as The Golden Girls, Gunsmoke, The Rockford Files, and The Waltons. Her acting career picked up considerably in the 1980s, including the TV miniseries V and North and South: Book II, as well as the pivotal role as the mother of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito's characters in the 1988 film, Twins.

Bartlett and husband William Daniels made Emmy Awards history in 1986 when they became the second real-life married couple to win acting awards on the same night. Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne first accomplished the feat in 1965. Bartlett and Daniels won for their portrayals of Dr. Mark and Mrs. Ellen Craig on the TV series St. Elsewhere. They later acted together again when she played a college dean who employed her husband's character, in a season of Daniels's ABC series Boy Meets World, and their characters later married.

When St. Elsewhere ended in 1988, Bartlett's career moved to a wide variety of guest-starring appearances, including major roles on Wiseguy as a tough and corrupt matriarch of a sewage business; as Andrea Drey, secretary general of the United Earth Oceans Organization on seaQuest DSV; on Home Improvement as Lucille Taylor (Tim "the Tool Man" Taylor's mother); and on ER as Ruth Katherine Greene. Bartlett had a feature-film role to in Valediction.

Screen Actors Guild
Bartlett and Daniels both served on the Screen Actors Guild's board of directors.

Awards and honors
Bartlett was added to the Hall of Honor at her alma mater, Moline High School in Moline, Illinois.

Personal life
Bartlett met William Daniels, at Northwestern University. They were married on June 30, 1951.

In 1961, she gave birth to a son, who died 24 hours later. They adopted two sons: Michael, who became an assistant director and stage manager in Los Angeles, and Robert, who became an artist and computer graphics designer based in New York City.

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Faisal bin Musaid Al Saud

Faisal bin Musaid Al Saud (فيصل بن مساعد آل سعود, Fayṣal bin Musāʿid ʾĀl Suʿūd; 4 April 1944 – 18 June 1975) was the assassin and nephew of King Faisal of Saudi Arabia.

Early life
Faisal bin Musa'id was born in 1944. His father was Prince Musa'id bin Abdulaziz, son of the founder of Saudi Arabia and half-brother to all the six Saudi kings, including King Faisal, who have succeeded the founder. Faisal bin Musa'id's mother was Watfa, a daughter of Muhammad bin Talāl, the 12th and last Rashidi emir. Musa'id and Watfa were divorced when Faisal was still young. Therefore, he and his siblings were much closer to their maternal Rashidi relatives than to their paternal Al Saud relatives.

In 1965, Faisal's older brother Khaled was shot and killed by a Saudi police officer while he led an assault on a new television station in Riyadh that had been recently founded by King Faisal. Some people opposed the establishment of a national television service, as they believed it is immoral to produce images of humans. While that is the official version, the details of his death are disputed and some reports allege that he actually died resisting arrest outside his own home. Regardless, no investigation over his death was ever initiated. Faisal had two other full siblings, Prince Bandar and Princess Al Jawhara. Saudi businessman Abdul Rahman bin Musa'id Al Saud is his half-brother.

Education
Faisal arrived in the United States in 1966 and attended San Francisco State College for two semesters studying English. Allis Bens, director of the American Language Institute at San Francisco State, said, "He was friendly and polite and very well brought up, it seemed to me." While Faisal was at San Francisco State, his brother Khaled was killed. After leaving San Francisco State College, Faisal went to the University of California, Berkeley and then to the University of Colorado Boulder. He was described by his peers as "[a] quiet, likable, notably unstudious young man". University of Colorado Professor Edward Rozek, who had taught him in three comparative government courses, described him as "academically a D and a C student".

In 1969, while in Boulder, he was arrested for conspiring to sell LSD. He pleaded guilty and was placed on probation for one year. In May 1970, the district attorney dropped the charges.

In 1971, he received a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Colorado and then returned to the San Francisco Bay area. At the University of California, Berkeley, he enrolled in graduate courses in political science, but did not receive a master's degree.

After the United States
After leaving the United States, he went to Beirut. For unknown reasons, he also went to East Germany. When he came back to Saudi Arabia, Saudi authorities seized his passport because of his troubles abroad. He began teaching at Riyadh University and kept in touch with his girlfriend, Christine Surma, who was 26 at the time of the assassination. Surma viewed the Saudi interest "in achieving peace with Israel" as a positive outcome "not available with the previous ruler King Faisal".

Royal Palace shooting
On 25 March 1975, Prince Faisal went to the Royal Palace in Riyadh, where King Faisal was holding a meeting, known as a majlis. He joined a Kuwaiti delegation and lined up to meet the king. The king recognized his nephew and bent his head forward, so that the younger Faisal could kiss the king's head in a sign of respect. The prince took out a revolver from his robe and shot the King twice in the head. His third shot missed and he threw the gun away. King Faisal fell to the floor. Bodyguards with swords and submachine guns arrested the prince. The king was quickly rushed to a hospital but doctors were unable to save him. Saudi television crews captured the entire assassination on camera.

Imprisonment and execution
Initial reports described Faisal bin Musaid as "mentally deranged". He was moved to a Riyadh prison. However, he was later deemed sane to be tried.

A sharia court found Faisal guilty of the king's murder on 18 June, and his public execution occurred hours later. Cars with loudspeakers drove around Riyadh publicly announcing the verdict and his imminent execution, and crowds gathered in the square. Faisal was led by a soldier to the execution point and was reported to have walked unsteadily. Wearing white robes and blindfolded, Faisal was beheaded with a single sweep of a gold-handled sword.

Motives
Aside from the death of his brother, his other possible motivations remain unknown, but other motives have been proposed. Saudi officials began to state that the prince's actions were deliberate and planned. Rumours suggested that the prince had told his mother about his assassination plans, who in turn told King Faisal who responded that "if it is Allah's will, then it would happen".

Arab media implied that the prince had been an agent of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and Israel's Mossad. Following these types of claims, a theory started in Iranian media mentioned that he might have been manipulated by his Western girlfriend (Christine Surma) who, it was alleged, might have been Jewish and secretly an asset for the Israeli intelligence services. The rumor was briefly taken seriously by Saudi Arabian officials who informally contacted Surma to question her regarding the assassination at which point she revealed she was not Jewish and that she was as puzzled as everyone else regarding the actions of Faisal.

Beirut newspapers offered three different explanations for the attack. An-Nahar reported that the attack may have been possible vengeance for the dethroning of King Saud, because Faisal was scheduled to marry Saud's daughter, Princess Sita, in the same week. An-Nahar also reported that King Faisal had ignored his repeated complaints that his $3,500 monthly allowance ($16,700/month in 2020 dollars, $200,500/year) was insufficient and this may have prompted the assassination. Al Bayrak reported that according to reliable Saudi sources, King Faisal prohibited him from leaving the country because of his excessive consumption of alcohol and other drugs and the attack may have been a retaliation against the ban.

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VMFA-122

Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 122 (VMFA-122) is a United States Marine Corps fighter attack squadron flying the F-35B Lightning II. The squadron is based out of Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, AZ and falls under the command of Marine Aircraft Group 13 (MAG-13) and the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (3rd MAW). The squadron nickname is the "Flying Leathernecks," and their traditional radio call sign is "Nikel". On 14 November 2017, VMFA-122 opened a new chapter of their history, transitioning from the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18C Hornet to the Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II and moving from MCAS Beaufort and MAG-31, 2nd MAW to MCAS Yuma and MAG-13, 3rd MAW.

Mission
Conduct anti-air warfare and offensive air support operations in support of Fleet Marine Forces from advance bases, expeditionary airfields, and aircraft carriers, and to conduct such other air operations as may be directed.

World War II
Marine Fighter Squadron 122 (VMF-122) was commissioned on 1 March 1942, at Camp Kearny in San Diego, California. Outfitted with the F4F Wildcat, the squadron, then known as the "Candystripers", saw their first combat tour in October 1942. During this tour they were part of the Cactus Air Force at Henderson Field and also operated out of Espiritu Santo. In April 1943, while under the command of Major Pappy Boyington, the squadron transitioned to the F4U Corsair and accounted for 35½ kills. The squadron's first combat tour ended on 23 July 1943, after which they returned to Marine Corps Air Station Miramar on 16 August. For the next year after their return to the States, the squadron was reorganized and retrained at Marine Corps Air Station El Centro, California.

For its second tour, VMF-122's flight echelon embarked upon the escort carrier USS Hollandia (CVE-97) in July 1944 while the ground echelon steamed out on the USS Tryon (APH-1). Beginning in October 1944 the echelons were reunited and began operating from an airstrip on Peleliu. At times they provided close air support for Marines during the Battle of Peleliu at distances of just over 1000 yards from where they took off. The squadrons ability to provide napalm and rockets, both new weapons systems, greatly aided in the destruction of the last Japanese strongholds on the island. For the remainder of the war they remained on the island conducting combat operations until August 1945.

Following the surrender of Japan, VMF-122 returned home to Marine Corps Auxiliary Air Station Oak Grove, North Carolina in January 1946. They remained there for less than two years before being moved to MCAS Beaufort which was followed by another move to Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina.

1950s
The squadron was reactivated in November 1947, flying the FH Phantom, becoming the first Marine squadron to employ jet-propelled aircraft. During this time, the squadron also fielded the first and only Marine aerial demonstration team known as the "Flying Leathernecks". They toured the country for two years before being disbanded with the transition to the F2H Banshee. In April 1951, the squadron became the first Marine jet squadron to be both day and night qualified for carrier operations. On 15 May 1951, the squadron deployed from Naval Air Station Quonset Point aboard the USS Oriskany (CV-34) to the Mediterranean Sea, returning to the Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point in early October 1951. The squadron transitioned to the F9F-5 Panther in 1952 and completed carrier qualifications in February 1953 prior to another Mediterranean deployment. During its six-month cruise on board the USS Coral Sea (CV-43), the squadron's twenty jets flew more than 2700 hours, during 1800 missions, completing more than 1750 carrier landing with no loss of aircraft. Upon the completion of the deployment in the fall of 1953, VMF-122 was assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 24 at MCAS Cherry Point.

January 1954 again saw the squadron transitioning aircraft, this time to the FJ Fury. The next few years saw a litany of small deployments on board a multitude of aircraft carriers. The squadron relocated to Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort in September 1957 and in December of that year they became the first squadron in the Marine Corps to fly the F-8 Crusader. It was at this time that they transitioned from being the "Candystripers" to the new nickname of "Crusaders." The squadron became VMF(AW)-122 upon receiving all weather capable F-8Es in 1962. That year they also deployed to Key West, Florida to fly combat air patrol during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Vietnam War
In 1964, VMF(AW)-122 deployed to Naval Air Facility Atsugi for a year and returned to Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in January 1965. While at MCAS El Toro they transitioned to the F-4B Phantom and were redesignated VMFA-122. They deployed to the Republic of Vietnam in August 1967 and operated from Da Nang Air Base. For the next five months, the squadron flew 2540 sorties and delivered 4800 tons of ordnance. In February 1968, while supporting Marines during the Siege of Khe Sanh the squadron flew 629 sorties and dropped 1300 tons of ordnance. They rotated to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni in September 1968 and returned to Vietnam during the summer of 1969, this time operating from Chu Lai Air Base.

1970s through 1990s
Following their time in Vietnam, the Crusaders were assigned to MCAS Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii in September 1970. They were then ordered to MCAS Iwakuni, Japan as a Joint Chiefs of Staff directive to counter a North Vietnamese offensive against South Vietnam. The squadron returned to Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii on 27 December 1972. On 14 August 1974, VMFA-122 was placed in a cadre status in anticipation of becoming the Marine Corps’ first F-14A squadron. With the decision not to accept the Tomcat into the Marine Corps inventory, VMFA-122 was reactivated at MCAS Beaufort, South Carolina and refitted with the F-4J in September 1975. On 25 September 1985, VMFA-122 flew its last F-4 sortie, completing 20 years of service as an F-4 "Phantom" squadron.

On 22 January 1986, the squadron began a new era with the acceptance of its first F/A-18A Hornet. Throughout the 1980s, 1990s, and into the 2000s (decade), VMFA-122 conducted multiple training deployments to Europe and throughout the United States.

Global War on Terrorism
In October 2001, the Crusaders increased their combat capabilities by transitioning to the F/A-18C. The squadron participated in the Unit Deployment Program (UDP), completing eleven deployments to the Western Pacific. From July 2002 to July 2003, the Crusaders completed a year-long UDP due to the "stop-move" order implemented by the Marine Corps. This allowed Hornet squadrons from Beaufort to deploy to Kuwait in anticipation of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) in January 2003. The Crusaders were dispatched from MCAS Iwakuni to many locations in the Pacific Rim, including Marine Corps Air Facility Kaneohe Bay in Hawaii and Clark AB in the Philippines. In January 2005, the "Crusaders" continued the UDP rotation, deploying to MCAS Iwakuni, Japan. In September 2006 the "Crusaders" again returned to MCAS Iwakuni with detachments to Clark AB in the Philippines, Kadena Air Force Base on Okinawa, and Khorat, Thailand.

Prior to another squadron deployment in support of OIF later in 2008, the squadron's commander reverted the unit to their older World War II nickname, the Werewolves. The squadron began its first combat deployment in more than 30 years when it left MCAS Beaufort on 29 August 2010, for Kandahar Airfield, KAF. The Werewolves returned from their seven-month deployment on 21 March 2009. In April, 2012, the new commander of VMFA-122, LtCol Wiegel, decided the squadron would revert to the "Crusaders" nickname. However, after the nonprofit Military Religious Freedom Foundation threatened to sue the military under the Establishment Clause to forbid the Crusaders name and logo, the Marine Deputy Commandant for aviation directed VMFA-122 to revert the unit identification back to "Werewolves." In December 2016, the squadron nickname and logo changed again, and VMFA-122 became the "Flying Leathernecks".

Unit awards
A unit citation or commendation is an award bestowed upon an organization for the action cited. Members of the unit who participated in said actions are allowed to wear on their uniforms the awarded unit citation. VMFA-122 has been presented with the following awards:

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Tracks from the Wilderness

Tracks from the Wilderness is an EP by British folk metal band Skyclad. It contains two new tracks, three live tracks and a cover of "Emerald" by Thin Lizzy. The live tracks were recorded at the Dynamo Festival in Eindhoven during June 1992.

Track listing

 * 1) "Emerald" – 3:35
 * 2) "A Room Next Door" – 4:52
 * 3) "When All Else Fails" – 4:20
 * 4) "The Declaration of Indifference" (Live) – 3:59
 * 5) "Spinning Jenny" (Live) – 3:02
 * 6) "Skyclad" (Live) – 5:26

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Élégie (Fauré)

The Élégie (Elegy), Op. 24, was written by the French composer Gabriel Fauré in 1880, and first published and performed in public in 1883. Originally for cello and piano, the piece was later orchestrated by Fauré. The work features a sad and somber opening and climaxes with an intense, tempestuous central section before returning to the elegiac opening theme in C minor.

Composition
In 1880, having completed his First Piano Quartet, Fauré began work on a cello sonata. His frequent practice was to compose the slow movement of a work first, and he did so for the new sonata. The completed movement was probably premiered at the salon of Camille Saint-Saëns in June 1880. The movement, like the quartet, is in the key of C minor. Whether the rest of the sonata would have been in that key is unknown: Fauré never completed it, and in January 1883, the slow movement was published as a stand-alone piece under the title Élégie.

The first performance of the work under its new title was given at the Société Nationale de Musique in December 1883 by the composer and the cellist Jules Loeb to whom the piece is dedicated. The Élégie was a great success from the outset. The conductor Édouard Colonne asked Fauré for a version for cello and orchestra. Fauré agreed, and that version was premiered at the Société Nationale in April 1901, with Pablo Casals as a soloist and the composer as conductor.

Musical structure

The piece is in the AABA CC Trans-D AC'C'coda form, in which the musical material of the beginning returns to close the piece after a contrasting middle section. The opening is a somber, long-breathed melody. The cello carries the main thematic material, with the piano providing a harmonically varied accompaniment. In the major-key middle section, the piano bears the melodic theme before it passes to the cello. The middle section ends with a forceful passage in which the piano and cello exchange vehement themes. The dynamics remain loud as the first section returns, but the quiet sombreness of the opening soon takes over. The repeated opening theme is matched with some of the rhythmic features carried over from the middle section. The work ends in an atmosphere of calm.

The orchestral version of the work requires two flutes, two oboes, two clarinets, two bassoons, four horns and strings to accompany the cellist.

The Fauré specialist Jean-Michel Nectoux writes that the Élégie was one of the last works in which the composer allowed himself "such a direct expression of pathos." Nectoux regards the piece as "one of the last manifestations of French musical Romanticism. From now on, Fauré's music was to be more introverted and discreet."

Notes and references

 * Notes

 * References

 * Sources

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User:Malept

A user from Seattle who likes to copyedit and fix facts on articles regarding his home, or anything else that he reads on Wikipedia.
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Mother, Jugs & Speed

Mother, Jugs & Speed is a 1976 American black comedy film directed by Peter Yates. It stars Bill Cosby (Mother), Raquel Welch (Jugs), Harvey Keitel (Speed), and Larry Hagman as employees of an independent ambulance service trying to survive in Los Angeles.

Plot
The F+B Ambulance Company is locked in an intense battle with the Unity Ambulance Company to win a city contract for providing ambulance service to a territory within Los Angeles. Their star driver is "Mother" Tucker (Bill Cosby), a talented antihero who drinks alcohol on duty, harasses nuns, and behaves brazenly towards practically everybody he meets, including his partner Leroy (Bruce Davison). Indeed, the entire company is a band of misfits, including the hypersexual John Murdoch (Larry Hagman), his partner Walker (Michael McManus), putative medical student Bliss (Allan Warnick), and brash Texan "Rodeo" Moxey (Dick Butkus). The dispatcher and switchboard operator is Jennifer (Raquel Welch), whom the drivers nickname "Jugs" for her ample bosom. Harry "Doughnut" Fishbine (Allen Garfield) runs the company, using occasionally underhanded means (such as kickbacks) to maintain an income stream.

When Walker is injured after falling through a staircase on a call, Harry Fishbine hires Tony Malatesta (Harvey Keitel), a disgraced sheriff's detective and former Vietnam War ambulance driver. Upon learning that Tony has been suspended from the Sheriff's Department due to allegations that he sold cocaine to children, Mother nicknames him "Speed". Speed is initially paired with Murdoch, though their partnership is strained when Speed must stop Murdoch from raping an unconscious female college student who has overdosed on Seconal. On a false emergency call, Leroy is shot and killed by a junkie (Toni Basil) demanding drugs. When Mother pulls a gun on the junkie, the junkie commits suicide. Later that night, a drunken Mother assaults Murdoch for stating that Leroy's death "doesn't count"; though Murdoch states this in regard to the drivers' "dead body" pool, Mother perceives it as an attack on the character of his dead partner. Harry then partners Speed with Mother to alleviate his driver shortage.

Meanwhile, Jugs has obtained her Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) and ambulance driver certifications, and forces her way onto F+B's active roster with threats of sexual discrimination lawsuits. When Speed fakes an injury to prevent Jugs' arrest for misuse of an ambulance, the two fall in love. Though Jugs proves a capable EMT, she loses her nerve after a pregnant woman under her care suffers a severe obstetrical hemorrhage and bleeds to death in Mother's ambulance. Jugs secludes herself afterward until Mother counsels her and gives her the courage to return to work.

At a City Hall meeting, City Councilman Warren informs the owners of both Unity and F+B that they will not be awarded the contract—it will instead be awarded to a larger, established company. To save their businesses, Unity's owner, Charles Taylor, proposes that their two companies merge. Though the councilman is agreeable to the merger, Fishbine is not. The discussion is interrupted by an emergency call: Murdoch, intoxicated and armed with a handgun, has broken into F+B's bus garage office with Walker and is holding Mrs. Fishbine hostage. All of Unity's and F+B's ambulances descend on the F+B garage; upon arrival, Murdoch opens fire and hits Speed in the shoulder. When Mother charges onto the garage grounds to rescue his ambulance, he comes face to face with Murdoch; Murdoch tries to shoot Mother, but his gun is empty. A deputy sheriff then shoots and kills Murdoch.

In the aftermath of this incident, F+B does merge with Unity, forming the Fishbine + Unity (F+U) Ambulance Company, based out of the old F+B garage. (The new initialism for the company is also a slang abbreviation of "fuck you"; the old F+B stood for "Fish + Bine".) Speed, who has been cleared of all charges, is reinstated to the Sheriff's Department, though he remains romantically involved with Jugs. Jugs is initially relegated to switchboard duty again, until Mother insists that she become his new partner. The two drive off together, with Mother harassing the nuns one more time as the movie ends.

Cast

 * Bill Cosby as "Mother" Tucker
 * Raquel Welch as Jennifer "Jugs"
 * Harvey Keitel as Tony "Speed" Malatesta
 * Allen Garfield as Harry "Doughnut" Fishbine
 * Larry Hagman as John Murdoch
 * Michael McManus as Hal Walker
 * Allan Warnick as Arthur Bliss
 * Bruce Davison as Leroy
 * Dick Butkus as "Rodeo Moxey"
 * L.Q. Jones as Sheriff Davey
 * Ric Carrott as Deputy Harvey Warnicker
 * Bill Henderson as Charles Taylor
 * Valerie Curtin as Mrs. Fishbine
 * Milt Kamen as Barney, Hamburger Stand Owner
 * Toni Basil as Junkie Who Kills Leroy

There was originally a role written for professional wrestler Lillian Ellison (The Fabulous Moolah) in the film, but she had to drop out of the role due to a gallbladder infection.

TV version
20th Century Fox attempted to turn the film into a television series, although none of the original cast participated. The program was titled Mother, Juggs & Speed with a double "g" because the network would not allow the lead female character to have a name that made explicit reference to her breasts. Instead, producers added the concept that Jennifer's nickname was taken from her real last name, Juggston. The series was not picked up, but ABC aired the pilot as a one-time special on Thursday, August 17, 1978.

Production
Joseph Barbera, one half of the legendary cartoon-creating duo Hanna-Barbera, served as executive producer for this film. Tom Mankiewicz says it was Barbera's idea to make a film about ambulance driving. He had a deal with 20th Century Fox who paid a writer to develop a script. Mankiewicz, then best known for writing several James Bond films, became interested and was hired. He did research on the subject and wrote his own script, and then attached Peter Yates as director. Alan Ladd Jr., then head of production for Fox, said he would make the film if it could be done for less than $3 million.

Yates and Mankiewicz thought the lead role of Mother Tucker was perfect for Gene Hackman. They offered him the role, but Hackman was exhausted from working on Lucky Lady and declined. However he recommended Bill Cosby as an alternative; Yates, Mankiewicz and Ladd all agreed and Cosby accepted the part. The tight budget meant the leads had to accept deferred payment. The female lead was offered to Valerie Perrine but she would not take deferred payment, so Raquel Welch was cast instead.

Reception
According to Tom Mankiewicz the film was made for around $3 million and grossed $17 million.

Mother, Jugs & Speed was referenced in the 2006 film Relative Strangers multiple times, most notably during the game of Charades scene.

Mother, Jugs & Speed was rated in M in New Zealand and Australia, where it was previously rated PG.

Mother Jugs & Speed received mixed critical reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a 50% rating based on 16 reviews.

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Masayori Inouye

Masayori Inouye is a distinguished professor in the department of biochemistry and molecular biology at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School at Rutgers University. He, along with his team, discovered natural antisense RNA. Inouye was also a key scientist involved in the discovery and characterization of retrons, which are retroviral-like elements found in various bacterial genomes.

In 2019, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Early life and career
Inouye was born in Port Arthur in Manchuria in 1934 and after the World War II, he went back to Japan. He studied at Osaka University, Japan and got his Ph.D. in 1963. After 5-years postdoctoral experience, he moved to Princeton University as a research associate working on the mechanism of cell division. 1970, he joined the faculty at State University of New York at Stony Brook. In 1987, he took a position as chair of the department of biochemistry at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

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User talk:Trikster85

Hello, Trikster, and welcome to Wikipedia!

Here are some tips to help you get started:

 * If you haven't already, please add your name to the new user log to let others know a little about yourself.
 * Read the tutorial, and feel free to experiment in the Sandbox.
 * Eventually, you might want to read the Manual of Style and Policies and Guidelines.
 * If you need help, post a question at the Help Desk or ask me on my talk page.
 * Explore, be bold in editing pages, and, most importantly, have fun.

Good luck! RadRafe

P.S. One last helpful hint: to sign your posts like I did above (on talk pages, for example) use the ~ symbol. To insert just your name, type ~~~ (3 tildes), or, to insert your name and a timestamp, use ~~~~ (4 tildes).

P.P.S. Do you live in Prince George, by any chance?

Hi
As a matter of fact, I do live in Prince George (I guess the idea of exact count of variouse chain resteraunts, etc. kind of gave it away, haha.) In fact, I know I forgot a major park, I'll be sure to add that in next chance I get. I've been sorta learning as I go with the whole Wiki posting language. I've learned every in and out of BBS coding, so I thought I might expand on my computer language skills by attempting this style while contributing what little knowledge I do have. Unlike the idea of a blind man finding an elephant for Wikipedia, my experiance so far has to be the same thing as the scene from Don Hertzfeldt "Rejected" where it shows a guy with bunny ears staring upwards with his mouth and eyes wide open in shock just before he falls appart. In other words, it was more intimidating in some respects just by the sheer volume of knowledge. I had actually played around a little on the Uncyclopedia (which has to have been the funniest thing since Whose Line Is It Anyway I've seen) and had some fun making up stuff in the process. Do you live in Prince George perchance as well?

Seeing as how the posting style of wikipedia appears to be simple, I should master it in reletively good time. -Trikster85

 * Yes, in fact I live in the Hart Highlands with my parents. For the last two years I have attended UNBC, and in September I'll be going back to CNC to get a diploma in GIS. In the interim, I'm working at LiveBridge.  And you?

 * Oh, and I've found that it's usually pretty easy to learn about using the Wiki markup language, even without reading the help pages. Just find an article with an example of the effect or layout that you want to duplicate, and click the edit this page link.  The text in the editing field shows you the markup that went into the article you're reading.  This method won't tell you everything, but it's fairly useful if you want to know how someone else has done something.  For example, if you use it here, you'll discover that I used a colon to indent this paragraph and a pair of three single quotes to make text bold.  Cheers.  —RadRafe | t

 * As a matter of fact, I learned the bold text at the uncyclopedia. It was the first thing I learned.  I'm still trying to master the whole link thing, but I think I got it (for the PG page)  In fact, the whole "Edit This Page" was probably the best way I learn the language.  However, I don't know any more code shortcuts for the time being.  I just copy the basic code and immitate it essentually.  I have a feeling that once I get the basics down, I'll still need to go to the help pages for the java stuff as I probably owuld have had a hard time otherwise with the signature thing if you hadn't told me.  I'm thinking that the buttons will help me with the rest of the very basics. :)

 * Yeah, I live in the bowl area. I guess I won't be seeing you next semester at UNBC as it appears as though we just missed each other.  Rats, oh well.  Currently going into my second year there, so I'm mastering the ropes of the library there, haha.

 * I worked at Livebridge one Summer, but I'm taking the Summer off this year. I got several personal projects on the go right now and this seems to vary the routine a little.  I'm currently studying English for the time being and plan to see how far I can go in that field before professers are forced to toss me out of the classrooms for sheer nonsense, hahaha.  I guess GIS is different from CIS

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User Categorization
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User categorisation
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Matthew R. Sutherland

Matthew Robinson Sutherland (July 18, 1894 – July 31, 1971) was a Canadian politician in Manitoba. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba as a Liberal-Progressive from 1936 to 1949, and again from 1953 to 1958.

The son of Robert Sutherland, Sutherland was born at Griswood, Manitoba. He was educated at local schools, and worked as a farmer. He was a shareholder in Co-Operative Dairy and Poultry, and enlisted for service in World War I in 1916. Sutherland also served for twenty years as a school trustee, and for fifteen as a steward in the United Church.

Sutherland was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1953 provincial election, defeating Conservative candidate E.D. Adler by 191 votes in the constituency of Lansdowne. Sutherland, a Liberal, ran as a supporter of the province's Liberal-Progressive government.

Sutherland was re-elected by acclamation in the 1941 election, and easily defeated a challenger from the CCF in 1945.

From 1940 to 1950, Manitoba was governed by an alliance of Liberal-Progressives and Progressive Conservatives. In the 1949 provincial election, Sutherland lost his seat by forty votes to Progressive Conservative candidate Thomas Seens, who was also a supporter of the coalition government. The Progressive Conservatives left the coalition in 1950, and Sutherland defeated Seens in the 1953 election by over 400 votes.

Sutherland was never appointed to cabinet, and was a backbench supporter of the governments of John Bracken, Stuart Garson and Douglas Campbell. He did not run for re-election in 1958. He died in Souris, Manitoba on July 31, 1971, at the age of 77.

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Howard Clark

Howard Clark may refer to:
 * Howard Clark (bishop) (1903–1983), primate of the Anglican Church of Canada
 * Howard Franklin Clark (1914–1942), U.S. Navy pilot, twice awarded Distinguished Flying Cross
 * USS Howard F. Clark
 * Howard L. Clark Sr. (1916–2001), CEO of American Express
 * Howard Charles Clark (born 1929), Canadian academic
 * Howard L. Clark Jr. (died 2020), chairman and CEO of Shearson Lehman Brothers
 * Howard Clark (golfer) (born 1954), European Tour and Ryder Cup golfer
 * Howard Clark (footballer) (born 1968), English footballer

 * Howard Clark (American football) (born 1935), American football player
 * Howard Clark (pacifist) (1950–2013), English pacifist, chair of War Resisters' International
 * Howie Clark (born 1974), baseball player

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Unprintable sharps-flats
30-May-2007: Similar to unprintable middots ("·"), which appear as bracket-boxes ("[]") on some PCs running the IE 6.0 browser, the unicode symbols for flat/sharp just don't work for many browsers. Instead, please leave the universal #/b (using the pound-sign and the lowercase "b"). The issue of unprintable sharps/flats has been reverted several times during 2006: only February, September, and October had visible #/b; the other 9 months of 2006 displayed "[]" for all sharps/flats. Apparently some people, regardless of others, insisted on the "[]" approach, but don't let a few stubborn people keep the music articles screwed up all year in 2007, just contact them directly, and warn them pronto that the unicode characters are get-a-life crap to many browsers. Believe me, no one on Wikipedia really wants the music articles to appear as spasticated, fubar trash any longer. Wikipedia doesn't have to be a joke. Only a few people make it suffer. Again, CONTACT THEM ASAP PRONTO to cease and desist reverting #/b into "[]" garbage characters. -Wikid77 19:49, 30 May 2007 (UTC)

UNPRINTABLE
01-June-2007: Again, for many users, the sharp/flat unicodes are completely unprintable, and both sharps and flats appear as bracket boxes (" ") everywhere (no matter how many times they are scattered through an artice). That means the sharps and flats look the same, and the table is not merely inconveniently skewed, it is, for many Wikipedia users, absolutely, utterly, and entirely useless with unicodes in the table. Something other than unicodes must be used, so I will convert the symbols to printable superscripts; however, at this point, reverting the table to unprintable unicodes, which many WP users cannot display is just no longer an option, in any shape, form or fashion. To emphasize, "What part of unprintable do you fail to comprehend?" Unicodes are a recommended guideline, and NOT, repeat NOT, a mandatory formatting directive of Wikipedia. If you are seeking a concensus to use unicodes, you DO NOT HAVE A CONCENSUS, at all. Many, many users have complained about the unicodes. Cease and desist forcing unicode sharps/flats on people who see them as absolutely unprintable anonymous boxes. -Wikid77 03:27, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Get the MOS changed before you do this again. Just because it's a guideline doesn't mean those who agree with that guideline won't take issue with the change. This is not the place to discuss the unicode issue, as it affects hundreds of articles, not just this one. Take it to Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (music). The way you are going about this amounts to systematic vandalism. - Rainwarrior 04:17, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Hold on there, User:Rainwarrior. What is your attitude all about?  Do you realize you just alluded to me committing "systematic vandalism" (a VERY serious charge which can get you barred from Wikipedia), when I explained (in detail) that my changes are to support many people who could not see the unprintable unicodes.  This is not just my isolated opinion, as is obvious when looking at numerous unicode complaints in the MoS talk-page ("Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (music)").  On the contrary, I have spent hours reading people's concerns about the unprintable unicodes (such as "Use of Unicode sharps and flats is an access barrier", 28-Aug-2006).  At this point, you are clearly beyond acceptable behavior on Wikipedia.  You are trying to force a guideline, as though it were a mandatory rule, onto other WP users who are complaining that they cannot even see a visible display of unicode sharps/flats.  This is not just a matter of style of musical notation, it is a matter of total loss of information: those users cannot distinguish unicode flats from sharps.  Beyond forcing users to obey an optional guideline, you are accusing me of vandalism.  Sorry, but that behavior is totally unacceptable here at Wikipedia.  Please show some respect for the Wikipedia project and be more cooperative with other users.  -Wikid77 05:01, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Please take this discussion to the appropriate place. I understand the problem you are having, and I think there are better solutions to it than using the wrong symbols, and I feel strongly about that (and I also think you are taking a view of the issue that is too black and white, but again, let's discuss this ELSEWHERE). This problem should be discussed (and at various times it has). I didn't suggest that your intention was vandalism, merely that the result of your actions is. There is a guideline, and this guideline reflects the consensus of the editors who have put it together. It is not written in stone; it is changed when needed. If it doesn't change, but you insist on converting articles anyway, you are vandalizing. I didn't intend the suggestion as an insult, I am merely voicing my opinion of your actions. You may think I am disrespectful toward you, but I do not intend it as a personal offense; from the standpoint of respect, I think you are being disrespectful to the many editors who have worked to put together a manual of style and maintain that style through Wikipedia's articles by undoing it; however, respect is hardly the issue here. There is a problem with rendering certain glyphs, and it should be discussed, so please, please, discuss it at the place where it should be discussed. Don't just start transforming articles into your own style, talk it out, and wait for a few other people to share their opinions (rather than making assertions based on a few stale comments scattered through old discussions) before you decide to go back to it. - Rainwarrior 05:49, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

Other issues

 * [ Discuss unnamed issues here. -Wikid77 ]

Two templates? Or a template and an explanation?
Why is there a 'redisplay' link? Either the template should be transcluded onto the circle of fifths text table (if that article should be kept), or, more than likely, the contents of that article should be merged into Circle of fifths, the article be deleted, and the template be transcluded into that article. It seems that the circle of fifths text table is a self referenced explanation of the template, and this should certainly not be in the article namespace. In my opinion, the following should be done: ck lostsword•T•C 15:51, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Merge any salveable information from the article circle of fifths text table into the article circle of fifths or, if relevant, the Template:Circle of fifths.
 * 2) Delete the article circle of fifths text table as a self referenced explanation of an internal template.

Template Imrovement
I've replaced the old picture with a new one. The template should look much better now. If you have any thoughts about the changes, feel free to comment. Hopefully you'll like the new design. Thanks. OutOf Timer  Wanna chat?  12:41, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Shouldn't that image be an imagemap anyway? 138La (talk) 07:48, 5 February 2011 (UTC)

Double-sharps and flats
Why did you add the nonexistent keys of B𝄫 major, G♭ minor, E𝄫 major, C♭ minor, D♯ major, B♯ minor, A♯ major and F𝄪 minor to the Circle of fifths template? I thought the keys of F♭ major, D♭ minor, B𝄫 major, G♭ minor, E𝄫 major, C♭ minor, D♯ major, B♯ minor, A♯ major and F𝄪 minor do not exist in theory, just like A𝄫 major, F♭ minor, D𝄫 major, B𝄫 minor, E♯ major, C𝄪 minor, B♯ major and G𝄪 minor.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cassidy Martin

 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 - deleted - SimonP 14:21, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Cassidy Martin
Most wonderful vanity in the entire United States of America I have come across. ;) - Mailer Diablo 22:00, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Userfy if at all possible (invite the author to open an account and post this info to a user page); otherwise delete for inconsistent grammar... "she has quickly aspired the ladders?" -- BD2412 talk 22:12, 2005 May 31 (UTC)
 * Speedy vanity. Xcali 22:47, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete kiddie vanity. I think she meant "ascended"... ;) --Etacar11 23:29, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Another vanity article. Could this person be related to Brennan Reilly? . Or am I just seeing things... Zzyzx11 (Talk) 23:40, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Userify --Simon Cursitor 07:30, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Userfy. JamesBurns 10:02, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep this article is pretty funneh
 * Vote by User:165.24.55.178

 * 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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