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Adelaide Writers' Week

Adelaide Writers' Week, known locally as Writers' Week or WW, is a large and mostly free literary festival held annually in Adelaide, the capital of South Australia. Considered one of the world's pre-eminent literary events, it forms part of the Adelaide Festival of Arts, where attendees meet, listen and discuss literature with Australian and international writers in "Meet the Author" sessions, readings and lectures. It is held outdoors in the Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden.

Each Adelaide Writers' Week includes six days of free panel-sessions presented live in the gardens, later made available online via podcast. Selected sessions are shown live via videolink in some libraries. The programme also features a series of ticketed special events, both at Festival time and throughout the year, and there is a free "Kids' Weekend", at which children's authors present their work for a range of ages and other activities take place.

History
The first Adelaide Writers' Week was held in 1960 as part of the Adelaide Festival of Arts, and both were held biennially in March until 2012. From 2012, along with the Festival, Writers' Week became an annual event, based on an election promise by Premier Mike Rann. It has grown bigger year by year.

Description
Writers' Week is a mostly free daytime week-long literary festival held mostly outdoors in the shady Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden, north of Adelaide CBD. A few sessions have been held indoors in the evening, usually themed events with a panel of authors on stage.

A major event, it is a part of the Adelaide Festival and run by a dedicated Writers' Week director. Occurring in March, it is often hot, so huge shady structures are erected over the two stages (East and West) and the audience. Plastic chairs, refreshments and rows of portaloos are provided, along with a large tent accommodating book sales. The programme is published in hardcopy and online before the event, which runs a session on both stages simultaneously throughout the day, with short breaks in between.

Each Adelaide Writers’ Week includes six days of free panel sessions presented live in the gardens, later made available online via podcast. Selected sessions are shown live via videolink in some libraries. After each presentation, audience members are encouraged to ask questions, and lively debate sometimes ensues. The programme also features a series of ticketed special events, both at Festival time and throughout the year, and there is a free "Kids’ Weekend", at which children's authors present their work for a range of ages and other activities are held.

MUD Literary Prize
The MUD Literary Prize has been awarded to an emerging talent for a debut novel at Writers' Week each year since 2018, and the MUD Literary Club, a philanthropic organisation dedicated to Australian literature, also sponsors an established author as well as an emerging author at the event each year.

Directors
Directors of Writers' Week have included Rose Wight (for 17 years, 1993?–2012 ); New York-born Laura Kroetsch (2012–2018), Jo Dyer (2019–2021); and Melbourne publisher Louise Adler (2022–2025).

2019
The event took place from 2–7 March. Australian authors included Trent Dalton (winner of the MUD Literary Prize ), Natasha Stott Despoja, Chloe Hooper, David Stratton, Melissa Lucashenko, Ben Quilty, Eddie Woo, David Marr, David Malouf, Ceridwen Dovey, Sue Blacklock, Lyndall Ryan and Jane Harper.

International authors included Ben Okri, Kassem Eid, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Carl Zimmer, Mohammed Hanif, Nazanin Sahamizadeh, Ndaba Mandela and Marlene van Niekerk. JM Coetzee chaired the session with Van Niekerk.

2018
Adelaide Writers' Week in 2018 featured Mem Fox, Clive Hamilton, Barbara Kingsolver, Eva Hornung, Amal Awad and Jackie French.

2017
Adelaide Writers' Week in 2017 featured Caroline Baum, Paula Byrne, Richard Fidler, Emily Maguire, Melina Marchetta and Alejandro Zambra.

Featured international and Australian authors at the 2016 Adelaide Writers' Week included Richard Dawkins, Fiona McFarlane, Drusilla Modjeska, Simon Winchester and Charlotte Wood.
 * 2016

2015
The 2015 Adelaide Writers' Week featured international and Australian authors including James Bradley, Helen Garner, Sofie Laguna, Kate Llewellyn, Susan Mitchell and Nicholas Shakespeare.

2014
Adelaide Writers' Week in 2014 featured international best sellers and emerging writers including Alexis Wright, Andy Griffiths, Margaret Drabble, Elizabeth Gilbert, Alexander McCall Smith and Marcus Chown.

2013
2013 was the first annual Adelaide Writers' Week. The most pronounced theme was that of war stories featuring visiting artists that included Tom Holland, Kevin Powers, Tatjana Soli and Madeleine Thien.

2012
Adelaide Writers' Week in 2012 saw a focus on younger readers hosting the first Kid's Program. A larger non-fiction program was included featuring artists Javier Cercas, Kate Grenville, Les Murray and Alan Hollinghurst.

2010
Adelaide Writers' Week in 2010 featured a collection of established overseas and Australian writers including Richard Dawkins, Audrey Niffengger, William Dalrymple and Robert Dessaix

2008
2008's Writers' Week was held between 2 March and 7 March 2008 and featured a number of prize-winning authors, including Ian McEwan, Peter Carey, Paul Auster, Geraldine Brooks, and Tim Parks. Other notable authors included feminist Germaine Greer, British historian Richard Holmes, Sri Lanka native Roma Tearne, and American author Siri Hustvedt. Australian authors included poet and novelist David Malouf, Robyn Davidson, Tumby Bay native Kate Llewellyn, Matt Rubinstein, Looking for Alibrandi author Melina Marchetta, and actor and novelist William McInnes.

2006
2006's Writers' Week focused on Dutch and Indian writing and was held between 5 March and 10 March 2006. Notable visiting authors included Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Cunningham, crime novelists Val McDermid, Andrew Taylor and Minette Walters and Indian author Vikram Seth. Australian authors included historian professor Geoffrey Blainey and Adelaidean Peter Goldsworthy

2005
In 2005, visiting authors included Isabel Allende, Margaret Atwood, Ruth Rendell and Neal Stephenson.

2004
Authors included Ruth Rendell, Janette Turner Hospital, Clive James, Don Watson, Anne Enright, John Marsden and JM Coetzee.

1996
Writers' Week took place 3–8 March. Visiting authors included E. Annie Proulx, JM Coetzee, James Ellroy and Adrian Edmondson. Australian authors included Rodney Hall, Tim Flannery, Glenda Adams, Lily Brett, Kate Grenville, Marion Halligan, Gail Jones, singer Paul Kelly, and Tim Winton.

1982
Writers' Week took place 7–13 March. Featured writers included Neil Armfield, Thea Astley, Blanche d'Alpuget, Helen Garner, Peter Goldsworthy, David Hare, Jeri Kroll, Thomas Shapcott, Colin Thiele, Judith Wright and Fay Weldon.

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Wikipedia:Wikifun/Round 9

Round 9 will be similiar, but different to the previous round: 30 questions will be posted, all at once. The first fourteen questions correctly answered are worth one point each for the poster of the first correct answer. The next ten questions answered are worth two points. The next five questions to be answered are worth three points, and the last one is worth four. (Note: it's the order in which questions are answered correctly that determines the number of points awarded for a question, not the numbering below!) In case of a tie, there will be a tie-breaker, to be answered only by those tied. Hopefully the questions are difficult (or mean, if you like :-) enough to let the contest last for a few days...

This round was prepared by: AllyUnion with the first three questions from Alphax. Alphax is not permitted to answer the first three questions as they are his. If he answers them, I will simply just add another question to replace it and the question that Alphax answers will be discounted.

Due to the fact that the last round was a tie, and none of the winners fully prepared the Wikifun Round, a bonus of 4 points is awarded to FreplySpang, Thejesterx, and Alphax. In order to be fair to everyone else, this round's questions have increased from 20 to 30. -- AllyUnion (talk) 10:53, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Answered questions (in the order they were correctly answered): 3, 13, 26, 20, 24, 28, 21, 27, 14, 19, 17, 18, 23, 6, 12, 10, 22, 16, 25, 9, 30, 15, 8, 11, 5, 4, 2 28 questions were answered. Two questions were left unanswered. This round is closed. --AllyUnion (talk) 06:21, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Alphax has indicated that he does not wish to compose the next round's questions. The task will be passed to either ESkog, Grue, or Bjimba.  The next round will have at most of thirty questions.  It is asked of the three winners to post ten Wikifun questions, separately.  Should none of them post new questions within a 2 week time frame from 06:21, 7 October 2005 (UTC), anyone else who wishes to arise to the occasion to post new questions may do so. --AllyUnion (talk) 06:21, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

The Questions
These are the questions for round 9. If you have found the answer to one of them, use the "Answer this question" links below the questions. You have to specify where on Wikipedia you found the answer, and I would like to know too how you found that location.

There can be more than one individual to answer a question, as the first may be wrong. Remember to place your timestamp to ensure your place. The individual with the most correct answers will be contacted and asked to assist in the next task line-up.

-- AllyUnion (talk) 18:38, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Note: please remember:
 * The way you found the answer is more important than the answer. Please provide the links to Wikipedia articles that helped you to find the answer.
 * In questions 4-30, you must indicate how you arrived at your conclusion in order to receive credit for the question. (Some exceptions are given to certain things which are quite obvious.)
 * You must identify all parts of the question, and cite any article that can be found on the Wikipedia.
 * Wikipedia (and sister project) pages in other languages than English are off-limit.

Question 1 (answered)
2, 4, 6, 8, who do we appreciate?

Eight ships, four cars, two kings and a cleaning product share this name. From one of these, we learn of a leader who killed himself and was mocked by the "owner" of the Wikipedia. Of the three race car drivers who share the part of this leader's name, one of is a world champion in a sport. Who is the world champion and what is the sport that this person is a world champion of?

[ Answer this question]

 * This question was the twenty-eighth to be answered correctly. 3 points to Spondoolicks.

Question 2 (answered)
Join the dark side!

In April 2005, several pages on the "dark side" of Wikipedia shrank dramatically. What caused the shrinkage?

[ Answer this question]

 * This question was the twenty-seventh to be correctly answered. 3 points to Alerante.

Question 3 (answered)
When did reality become T.V.?

A character on a popular 1970s TV show did something which fans later claimed signalled the end of the show. The actor who played that character started his career in a movie with an actor who went on to star in many films, including one based on a comic strip. Who made the pinball machine?

[ Answer this question]

 * This question was the first to be correctly answered. 1 point to Nunh-huh.

Question 4 (answered)
''A picture is a thousand words... a cropped picture generates a thousand curse words...''

Name the image file name and the article it is used on.

[ Answer this question]

 * This question was the twenty-sixth to be correctly answered. 3 points to Cursive.

Question 5 (answered)
Riddles, more riddles, and even more riddles...

 * Everyone offers this thing, but few will take it when it is offered by someone else.
 * Flat as a leaf, round as a ring, has two eyes, but can't see a thing.
 * He gets short when he gets old; He goes out then it gets cold.

When all inlined, move to the right one, add an L. Such a word sounds like an event that occurred between two famous people. One of these famous people has a name that sounds like a song released by a band whose name shares the real last name of a character who portrayed himself as L. F. Walsh in a television show.

[ Answer this question]

 * This question was the twenty-fifth question answered correctly. 1 point to Solomaxwell for starting the answer off, 3 points to Bjimba for answering the question completely.

Question 6 (answered)
It's all a matter of cultural understanding...

The product of these two unlucky numbers produce a number part of an unlucky game. What device is well known for producing an unpleasant sound because it falls under the same category as the unlucky game?

[ Answer this question]

 * This question was fourteenth answered correctly. 1 point to User:Alphax.

Question 7 (answer given)
The number you have dialed is no longer in service or has been disconnected.

2138961025 The above number has several special meanings. Part of this number would represent a city if it was valid to be used in that manner. This city held the "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour" event in a certain year which the last two digits of that year would help determine the true meaning of the above number. Furthermore, the event is held periodically around the world, which has a number that would help you further understand the true meaning of the above number.

[ Answer this question]

 * This question was unanswerable, and the answer to the question was given out.

Question 8 (answered)
All about the numbers, baby...

Substitution method which are according system be most letters mixtures and receiver by substitution.

[ Answer this question]

 * ''This question was the twenty-third answered correctly. 2 points to Grue

Question 9 (answered)
Think carefully, for the meaning of the words is chosen very carefully.

Before one could throw rice, the piece went on a journey that attempted to return back to its original starting position.

[ Answer this question]

 * This question was twentieth answered correctly. 2 points to Reediewes.

Question 10 (answered)
Simple mathematics.

6 times 2 is 12. 12 divided by 2 is 6. This formula is used in making simple pastries.

[ Answer this question]

 * This question was sixteenth answered correctly. 2 points to MFH.

Question 11 (answered)
Rather obscure, don't you think?

This name is shared by five people which is placed on an article in a list that appears rather stubbish. One of these five people has a relationship with name that is similar to the name of animal used in a child's game. This child's game requires 2 players to play with up to 4 players that can play. The goal of the game is to grab as many as a certain piece of the game using the mouth of the animal.

[ Answer this question]

 * This question was the twenty-fourth answered correctly. 1 point to Bantman for revealing the initial part of the question, 1 point to Grue for the final answer.

Question 12 (answered)
Not all what it seems.

This writer's family settled in the Cromwellian period. His last name shares the same name of the full name of the currency of the country of his origin. This writer entered into a college that shares the name of a character of a movie that stars an actor who played Lord of Sirdalmi.

[ Answer this question]
 * This question was fifteenth answered correctly. 2 points to Zoicon5.

Question 13 (answered)
Eh, what's up Doc?

This national symbol comes in red and blue. One used for the nation, the other for a sports team.

[ Answer this question]

 * This question was second answered correctly. 1 point to Alphax.

Question 14 (answered)
For purple mountains...

This battle was fought in attempt to take over a city that shares a name of a part on a bottle and took place near mountains that share the name of a former US Presidential candidate.

[ Answer this question]

 * This question was ninth answered correctly. 1 point to Zoicon5.

Question 15 (answered)
They share something.

Working, rent, diamonds... A person in this category was knighted for his work. What person was recently knighted but is unable to use the formal title in front of his name?

[ Answer this question]

 * This question was the twenty-second answered correctly. 2 points to Bjimba

Question 16 (answered)
In which order of these...

Leo, an animal, a book, an item in the title of the book, an object from inside the item, a form of the object worn for special events or at work as part of the job, a form of this which is contraction of the English words, a specialization of this contraction, a subset of this specialization which are referred to as something which the word looks very similiar to a term used in currency.

[ Answer this question]

 * ''This question was the eighteenth question answered correctly. 2 points to Solomaxwell

Question 17 (answered)
It'sway otnay Igpay Atinlay, at'sthay orfay uresay

Wxuqderxw pdb eh idlu sodb, exw d qdph ri d shuvrq olhv xqghuqhdwk wkh iluvw zrug. Gung crefba vf na nepuvgrpg, heona cynaare naq nhgube.

[ Answer this question]

 * This question was eleventh question answered correctly. ESkog was the first to answer half of the question correctly.  kizzle was the first to answer the other half of the question correctly, hidden among the message.  1 point to ESkog for the initial work, and 1 point to kizzle for latter half of the work.

Question 18 (answered)
Hey, this is new...

(0010 * ( - )) + + 0100 + 0010 = ?

[ Answer this question]

 * This question was the twelveth question answered correctly. 1 point to ESkog.

Question 19 (answered)
I don't think I need to explain this... ((( - o) - ) - ) + v + 964B00 +  +

[ Answer this question]

 * This question was tenth answered correctly. 1 point to kizzle
 * A bonus question for this question was answered correctly. 1 point to Nickptar

Question 20 (answered)
But wait, there's more!

So you have discovered Of a pattern Here today that Covers a lot of hidden meanings. A good eye Helps a person To figure Out such hidden meanings. A message is hidden within this message. With that message, you can find an article that covers more information students that take calculus.

[ Answer this question]

 * This question was the fourth to be correctly answered. 1 point to Grue.

Question 21 (answered)
Ah, that's old wives tale

3 prime numbers were used for housewives in starting a society by saving money each day.

 * This was the seventh question to be answered correctly. 1 point to ESkog

[ Answer this question]

Question 22 (answered)
No, it is not the YMCA

What international group for young people has a logo that has the acronym of its group name stuck between what looks like two rolling pins?

[ Answer this question]

 * This was the seventeenth question to be answered correctly. 2 points to Screetchy cello

Question 23 (answered)
If I told you the answer, I'd have to kill you...

!Kisurp

[ Answer this question]

 * This question was the thirteenth to be correctly answered. 1 point to Alphax.

Question 24 (answered)
Lint speed!

A quirky layout designed for maximum speed and efficiency.

[ Answer this question]

 * This question was the fifth to be correctly answered. 1 point to ESkog.

Question 25 (answered)
''Search? We don't need no stinkin' search!''

This article has a picture of 5 animated characters wearing hats that assist them in flying with the main character situated in bottom right.

[ Answer this question]

 * This question was the nineteenth to be correctly answered. 2 points to Reediewes.

Question 26 (answered)
Opposition to the norm...

This user was nominated as a candidate for adminship, and keeps a non-existant user page.

[ Answer this question]

 * This question was the third to be correctly answered. 1 point to Grue.

Question 27 (answered)
''Ah... the Shire...''

This small village has a population of 693 and was edited by a well known bot in 2002.

[ Answer this question]

 * This question was the eighth to be correctly answered. 1 point to Phelanpt.

Question 28 (answered)
Meanwhile in another part of the department...

In this particular game of chess on the Wikipedia, a Bishop took a Knight, and the Bishop was taken by a pawn. The person whose Bishop was taken would eventually win the round of chess. The critical move was made particularly this time around.

[ Answer this question]

 * This question was the sixth to be correctly answered. 1 point to ESkog.

Question 29 (answer given)
''History tells a story of our past. The Wikipedia is no different.''

This article was visibly featured as a red link on a day in January where it is the only edit present and one day after a special event. Furthermore, it is featured somewhere highly visible to many people, and is ever present on many talk pages.

[ Answer this question]

 * This question was unanswerable, and the answer to the question was given out.

Question 30 (answered)
What the heck?

Name the image file name and the article it is used on.

[ Answer this question]

 * This question was the twenty-first to be correctly answered. 2 points to Adam Rock.

Final Score

 * Alphax - 7 points (declined to create next WikiFun round)
 * ESkog - 5 points
 * Grue - 5 points
 * Bjimba - 5 points
 * Thejesterx - 4 points
 * FreplySpang - 4 points
 * Reediewes - 4 points
 * Zoicon5 - 3 points
 * Solomaxwell - 3 points
 * Cursive - 3 points
 * Alerante - 3 points
 * Spondoolicks - 3 points
 * kizzle - 2 points
 * MFH - 2 points
 * Screetchy cello - 2 points
 * Adam Rock - 2 points
 * Nunh-huh - 1 point
 * Phelanpt - 1 point
 * Nickptar - 1 point
 * Bantman - 1 point

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Larry Miller (comedian)

Lawrence John Miller (born October 15, 1953) is an American comedian, actor, podcaster, and columnist. He is primarily regarded as a character actor, with The A.V. Club noting that he "can be counted upon to improve every film or television show he appears in". His better-known roles include Lou Bonaparte in Mad About You (1993–1998), Pointy-haired Boss in Dilbert (1999–2000), Edwin Poole in Boston Legal (2004–2008), Mr. Hollister in Pretty Woman (1990), Dean Richmond in The Nutty Professor (1996) and Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000), Walter Stratford in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) and Paolo Puttanesca in The Princess Diaries (2001) and The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004). He reprised his role as Walter Stratford in the television series 10 Things I Hate About You (2009–2010).

Miller has also served as one of the regular players in Christopher Guest's mockumentary films.

Early life and education
Miller was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Valley Stream, New York, on Long Island. He studied music at Amherst College. He is Jewish. He has said that one of his grandmothers was from Latvia and one of his grandfathers was from Austria.

Career
Miller's first acting job was as the emcee on the TV series Fame. He gained mainstream attention for his part in popular scenes of Pretty Woman involving him as a store clerk for the main characters.

His film roles include Walter Stratford in the movie 10 Things I Hate About You as well as several characters in Christopher Guest's mockumentary movies. He has held prominent supporting roles in Carry On Columbus, The Nutty Professor, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, and Max Keeble's Big Move. He has over 50 film appearances.

He was part of the main cast of Life's Work, The Pursuit of Happiness, and High School Cupid, a Cupid Inc. Story. He is also a frequent guest actor on television, most notably as the nasty doorman on Seinfeld in the episode "The Doorman". He played Edwin Poole in the ABC dramedy Boston Legal. He played nightclub owner Michael Dobson in two Law & Order episodes, first in the episode "Coma" and then later in "Encore". Miller appeared as himself in a third episode, "Smoke". He was also in 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, where he played Tommy, Kyle's obnoxious father and Paul's (John Ritter) colleague.

He is friends with Jerry Seinfeld, and once auditioned for the part of George Costanza.

Other work
As a stand-up comic, he is best known for his monologue "The Five Levels of Drinking", which Vulture hailed as "masterful, well-written, and influential".

From 2002 to 2004, Miller wrote a column for the magazine The Weekly Standard that usually ran once every two weeks. Since then, he continued to occasionally contribute to the magazine, and to the Washington Examiner, which absorbed The Weekly Standard when it ceased publication. His subject matter has included politics as well as reminiscences about fellow entertainers and anecdotes from his own life.

Two of the columns he wrote in 2002 served as the text for frequently forwarded emails at the time, though in both cases his words were attributed to others. The first was his very first Weekly Standard column in January 2002, in which he mocked various anti-war platitudes of the time; the text was incorrectly attributed to retired Air Force general Richard E. Hawley. The second was an April 2002 column defending Israel in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, which was attributed to fellow comedian Dennis Miller. Another email which also began to be forwarded in 2002, purporting to offer "George Carlin's Views on Aging", was derived in part from a stand-up routine that Larry Miller performed in the 1990s.

Miller began a weekly podcast on the Carolla Digital Network, This Week with Larry Miller, suspending it after falling and injuring his head severely in April 2012. After hospitalization and a coma, he said in January 2013 that he was convalescing. Miller resumed the podcast on January 9, 2013. In February 2015 the podcast was retitled The Larry Miller Show with direct distribution. The podcast ended with the December 2, 2020, episode. Miller referred to it as the "grand finale" after not broadcasting a new show in the previous six months. The show page cited issues with producing the show safely during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Personal life
Miller married television writer Eileen Conn in 1993. The couple has two children.

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User talk:Ejhardy

Reading is as much fun as fighting -Ellen

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CHIM-FM

CHIM is a Canadian radio station, which previously broadcast Christian music at 102.3 FM in Timmins, Ontario. The station also currently broadcasts at 1710 AM.

The station began testing its signal at 102.3 MHz on December 24, 1995, and officially signed on April 7, 1996. The station has expanded through a network of rebroadcast transmitters in Northern Ontario. CHIM-FM also has a rebroadcaster in Red Deer, Alberta, CHIM-FM-5, which originates some of its own programming.

Its call letters were pronounced, on air, as See Him.

Programming
The station's best-known program was the MAD Christian Radio Show, a Christian rock show hosted by Kristen McNulty, which originally started as a show on CHIM. Today it is syndicated to Christian radio stations across Canada and internationally.

Other programming aired on the station includes Charles Stanley's In Touch and Tristan Emmanuel's No Apologies.

Transmitters
CHIM-FM-5 in Red Deer, Alberta was licensed as a repeater of CHIM, but broadcast some local programming for the Red Deer area. The transmitter operated at 93.1 FM. CHIM-FM-5 would go dark in November 2012 with the revocation of CHIM's licenses.

In 2000, CHIM's application to add a transmitter in Toronto at 106.3 MHz was denied. In 2001, CHIM's application to add a transmitter in Vancouver, British Columbia at 92.9 MHz was denied. CHIM's application to add a transmitter at 102.3 MHz in Cochrane was denied as well in 2008. An unrelated radio station, CFCJ-FM owned by Cochrane Christian Radio to operate a new English language Christian radio station at Cochrane on 102.1 MHz received CRTC approval on April 18, 2011.

The station's licence renewal application was denied by the CRTC on October 23, 2012 due to regulatory violations. As a result, CHIM-FM was ordered to cease broadcasting Christian music by the end of the broadcast day on November 30, 2012. CHIM was relicensed as Information radio by Industry Canada. CHIM remains active via an online stream on their website, as well as transmitting on 1710 AM.

By September 2014, CHIM returned to terrestrial radio in Timmins at 1710 kHz. In 2017, CHIM plans to expand its Christian radio service to Sudbury (1600 AM), Parry Sound, Orillia, Toronto (VFU545 101.7), Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. CHIM Radio is also coming to Sudbury at 101.7 FM with a Christian music format.

Info Radio
CHIM's owner, Roger de Brabant, also operates a number of low-powered tourist information radio stations branded as Info Radio. These stations also use the "Canada's Good News Network", or "Part of the Good News Network" slogan on air sometimes, but do not share the CHIM network's Christian programming. These stations were unaffected by the CRTC decision, and remain on air.

According to the CHIM website, Hearst was listed as CFCL-FM 95.5 and Smooth Rock Falls CKSO-FM 101.9.

On April 17, 2000, Roger de Brabant, received an approval from the CRTC to operate a low-power tourist information FM radio station at 101.5 MHz. The call sign was CHTI-FM and is unknown when the station changed frequencies to 102.3 MHz.

In 2017, CHTI launched a new website CHTI Radio Network.

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Talk:Georgy Gapon

Add some things from the Russian Wiki?
I was just skimming the Google translation of the Russian Wikipedia, and there is a lot of relevant information that the English version is missing. Perhaps these facts could be verified and included..?
 * He believed, after reading Tolstoy, that religion lies not in external rites, but in a good life and love of neighbor.
 * He decided that life in the convent is not compatible with the service of people, so he decided to leave the convent in St Petersburg.

Wifliboi (talk) 16:44, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Inconsistency?
The English article says he graduated from St Petersburg convent. From machine translation of Russian Wiki: However, studies at the Theological Academy quickly disappointed Gapon. In the subjects taught, he saw only dead scholasticism, which gave him no answer to the question of the meaning of life. Having lost composure, Gapon abandoned his studies and in the summer of 1899 moved to correct health in the Crimea.

Perhaps it would be prudent to note that he had trouble completing his studies, since he did indeed graduate later.

Wifliboi (talk) 16:44, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Old talk
"the Assembly of Russian Factory and Plant Workers of St. Petersburg, which was subsidised by the Department of the Police and the St. Petersburg secret police, Okhranka."

Who says this ? The comunists ? Any proofs of this ? --84.154.105.52 10:45, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * This isn't in dispute and indeed does not show that Gapon was dishonerable - he was a sincere monachist who believed that the Tsar wanted to help the workers too.Dejvid 11:30, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

 * "This isn't in dispute" isn't a proper response; the statement should be referenced or deleted. The only referenced statement in the sentence is "under the financial support of Colonel Motojiro Akashi of the Imperial Japanese Army[17]," but the reference is the mysterious "Busch p. 121"; there is no Busch mentioned anywhere else in the article, and this statement too should be either properly referenced or deleted. Languagehat (talk) 22:07, 11 July 2015 (UTC)

More old talk
I think part of this article should be rewritten to reflect the fundamental ambiguity of Pope Gapon... Even the communists at marxists.com seem to accept that he wasn't a "traitor" :

ABOUT THE ASSEMBLY
 * Gapon’s “union”, set up in April 1904, was in reality a friendly society which organised insurance schemes, libraries and social activities, such as musical evenings which the workers attended with their families. It was intended as a safety-valve where workers, to some extent, could give voice to their grievances, but where all mention of politics was rigorously prohibited.[...] However, the efforts of the police and their union stooges to clamp the workers’ movement into a straitjacket of legal constraints was doomed to failure. The rising tide of discontent which affected all layers of society in the course of the Russo-Japanese War, began to affect even the most backward strata of the working class.

ABOUT GAPON
 * The figure of Gapon himself is shrouded in an enigma. The prevailing opinion in Marxist circles at the time was that he was a simple police agent, who in all probability had deliberately planned the massacre of 9 January 1905 with the authorities. The notorious Stalinist Short Course states baldly that “in 1904, prior to the Putilov strike, the police had used the services of an agent provocateur, a priest by the name of Gapon… Gapon undertook to assist the tsarist Okhrana [secret police] by providing a pretext for firing on the workers and drowning the working class movement in blood”.[6] Gapon was undoubtedly mixed up with the police when the union was set up, and even had contacts with leading members of the government. But his was a very contradictory character. On 9 January, when he narrowly escaped death at the hands of the tsarist troops, he marched side by side with the Social Revolutionary Pinchas Rutenberg. Later he was sheltered by Maxim Gorky, held discussions with Lenin in Geneva and came close to the Bolsheviks. Lenin was convinced of his child-like sincerity. But Gapon’s understanding of the revolution remained on a primitive level. Exile destroyed him, as it destroyed many others. He became demoralised, took to gambling and finally returned to Russia where, it seems, he attempted to resume his contacts with the police, writing a letter to the Minister of the Interior Durnovo. Finally, in March 1906, he was assassinated. Ironically, the bullet that killed him was fired by the same SR who had marched at his side on that fateful Sunday in January.

http://www.marxist.com/bolshevism/part2-1.html

Rdavout 09:25, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Could someone fix this sentence?
"Following the Bloody Sunday, he anathematized the Emperor and called upon the workers to take action against the regime, but soon after escaped abroad, where he had close ties with the Socialist-Revolutionary Party."69.6.162.160 16:33, 24 October 2006 (UTC)Brian Pearson

Unreferenced Material
There was information about Gapon being dismissed from the priesthood and taking a secret second wife that was included in his bio here but was not in any of the linked references. Moreover, the claim that Gapon was dismissed from the priesthood by the Synod in 1902 is at odds with the claim in his autobiography that he continued to work as a priest after that time, serving as chaplain to the Central Prison starting in 1903. Claims like this should be sourced, and identify who is making these claims. --Spasemunki(talk) 12:22, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Similarly with claims regarding his status as a possible police cooperator- large copy and pasted blocks of text need to be formatted and properly sourced. --Spasemunki (talk) 00:20, 10 September 2018 (UTC)

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142.160, where does the article mention the subject's affiliation with anarchism, nevertheless as a "defining" trait (category)? czar 10:47, 22 January 2019 (UTC)

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Zia ol Din Tabatabaee

Seyyed Zia al-Din Tabataba'i Yazdi (June 1889 – 29 August 1969) was an Iranian journalist and pro-Constitution politician who, with the help of Reza Shah, spearheaded the 1921 Persian coup d'état and aimed to reform Qajar rule, which was in domestic turmoil and under foreign intervention. He subsequently became the 13th Prime Minister of Persia (Iran).

Early life
Zia was born in the city of Shiraz in June 1889. He was one of four children. His father took the family to Tabriz when Zia was two years old. He spent most of his early years in Tabriz, where his father, Seyyed Ali Tabataba'i Yazdi was an influential cleric. When Zia was twelve he went to Tehran, and at fifteen, he moved back to Shiraz in the company of his grandmother, who was said to be a woman of unusual erudition and independence.

By the age of sixteen he started his first newspaper called Nedaye Islam "Voice of Islam", followed by the newspaper Ra'ad (Thunder) at the age of twenty-three. After Ra'ad was shut down by the authorities, he started two other newspapers called Shargh (East), followed by Bargh (Lightning), and became active in the Persian Constitutional Revolution. Zia's newspapers usually consisted of blistering attacks on prominent politicians of the Qajar monarchy, which caused them to be closed several times. The first time, the ostensible reason given for the closure was that he was only nineteen and the law required an editor to be at least thirty. After the last two closures, he left for Europe and spent fourteen months primarily in France. By the time he returned, Iran was, in spite of declared neutrality, occupied by Russian, British, and Ottoman forces. Zia decided to resume his journalism, this time focusing on his famous newspaper Ra'ad (Thunder), and came out in strong support of the British in the war. One of his colleagues for the newspaper was Habibollah Ayn-al Molk, the father of Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, who later became Iran's Prime Minister.

In 1917, Zia was commissioned by the government to make a trip to St. Petersburg, where he witnessed firsthand the Bolshevik Revolution. It is even claimed that Zia was present when Lenin made his famous speech about "seizing power" in the name of the proletariat. This impacted his perception of politics, and made him a persistent advocate of the policy of rapprochement with the big northern neighbor. In 1919, the Iranian government, headed at the time by Vossug ed Dowleh, sent Zia back to Russia, this time to negotiate an agreement of friendship and alliance with the newly formed, ultimately short-lived Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

1921 Coup
Zia came to power in a coup d'état on February 22, 1921 (3 Esfand 1299) with the help of Reza Khan Mirpanj, who later became the Shah of Persia.

Zia gave a fierce speech in parliament against the corrupt political class that tenaciously defended its privileges from the pre-parliamentary period which had brought Persia to the brink of ruin. The emperor, Ahmad Shah Qajar, appointed the thirty-three year old as the Prime Minister of Persia.

Within hours of taking power, the new government immediately declared a new order, which included, "all the residents of the city of Tehran must keep quiet. . . . The state of siege is established . . . all newspapers and prints will be stopped . . . public meetings in the houses and in different places are stopped . . . all shops where wines and spirits are sold, as well as theaters, cinemas and clubs, where gambling goes on, must be closed." Zia and Reza Khan, arrested some four hundred rich people and aristocrats who had inherited wealth and power over the span of ten to twenty years while the country experienced poverty, corruption, famine, instability and chaos. Their cabinets changed every six or seven months and could hardly manage the country's daily affairs. According to Zia, these "few hundred nobles, who hold the reins of power by inheritance, sucked, leech-like, the blood of the people".

Policies
Zia declared that his cabinet's program included far-reaching measures such as the "formation of an army...eventual abolition of the capitulations...establishment of friendly ties with the Soviet Union." At the same time, he tried to implement a truly impressive number of changes in the capital itself—from ordering new rules of hygiene for stores that handled foodstuffs to bringing street lights to the city's notoriously dark roads. He talked of land reform, making him one of the early champions of the idea in modern Iran. He talked of making education available to every Iranian. His political reform program envisaged that the entire legal system of Iran should be modernized and aligned with European standards. He set up a reform commission headed by Iranian intellectual, Mohammad Ali Foroughi. The Ministry of Finance was initially closed in order to fundamentally reform the tax and finance system, which had essentially collapsed.

However, the necessary funds were simply not available to stimulate the economy or to invest in infrastructure. The abolition of the rights of surrender for the British and Russians also made no headway. Moreover, some of his decisions such as ordering a ban on alcohol, bars, and casinos, as well as, closing shops on Fridays and on religious holidays, angered merchants. It was also not long before the families of those arrested organized a political campaign against Zia, calling his administration "the black cabinet", which resulted in constant unrest. Zia informed the families that the arrested would be released if they paid four million toman in arrears in taxes, to which the families refused.

Downfall
There was nothing short of hubris in Zia's behavior. With every passing day, the rank of his enemies swelled and his days in office seemed numbered. Foremost among his enemies was the king himself. Ahmad Shah Qajar, who no longer wanted to support Zia's radical reform program. But above all he wanted the release of the arrested nobles. Zia's last meeting with Ahmad Shah took place only hours before his dismissal and days before his exile. He had always been defiantly oblivious to the court's solemnities and the rules of etiquette for a royal audience. He was even known to have spent one whole meeting sitting on a windowsill, as the king had refused to put chairs in the room. That day, he walked into the king's office, a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth, and continued to walk around as he talked. Ahmad Shah was incensed and practically threw Zia out of the office; hours later he arranged for his dismissal.

After consulting Ahmad Shah, Reza Khan asked Zia on May 23, 1921, to resign and leave the country. Reza Khan offered him any sum he deemed necessary from the treasury. Zia took twenty-five thousand toman to cover his travel expenses—by no measure a large sum—and left the country. All political prisoners were released on May 24. Although the reign of Seyyed Zia lasted only 93 days, this short period marked the beginning of an important period in the contemporary history of Iran, the rise of the Pahlavi dynasty.

Despite his opponents being mainly Qajar supporters and aristocrats, Zia had the support of many Iranians including intellectuals such as Aref Qazvini and Mirzadeh Eshghi. Aref was so fascinated by Zia that after he left Iran, he composed a famous poem in praise of him: (...ای دست حق پشت و پناهت بازآ / چشم آرزومند نگاهت بازآ / وی توده ی ملت سپاهت بازآ / قربان کابینه سیاهت بازآ). A few years later Mirzadeh Eshghi in his ode of the fourth parliament wrote: "It is not enough as much we admire Zia, we won't afford it....I say something but he was something else....".

Exile
Zia spent the next few years traveling throughout Europe. For a while he sold Persian carpets in Berlin; then he moved to Geneva, where he tried, unsuccessfully, to write a book with the help of his friend Mohammad-Ali Jamalzadeh, the famous exiled Iranian writer. He then settled in Montreux, where he continued his carpet business. After about seventeen years of nomadic life in Europe, he went to Palestine and spent the next six years there. In December 1931, he was elected Secretary General of the World Islamic Congress in Jerusalem. In this role, he developed plans to establish an Islamic University (the Al-Aqsa University). Accordingly, the university would have three faculties, one for theology and Islamic law, one for medicine and pharmacy, and one for engineering. In order to make this work, Zia traveled with Amin al-Husseini to Iraq and India to collect donations. However, they were unsuccessful in attaining enough funds, and therefore were not able to establish the university. Zia then settled on becoming a farmer in Palestine. He developed a special affinity for alfalfa and became notorious for his belief that it was the panacea for everything. He even developed a veritable alfalfa cookbook. Among his contributions to Iranian agriculture was the introduction of strawberries to the country.

Return to Iran
His life of exile ended in 1943 when he was encouraged to return to Iran. In Iran, Zia was elected as the governor of Yazd. Subsequently, Zia attained a central position on the political stage. Everyone was either for or against him. During the last fifteen years of his life, Zia became an advisor and conduit to the shah, who was hesitant at first, but preferred him over Ahmad Qavam, with whom he had a fall out with. Zia would meet regularly with Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and by all accounts talked to him frankly and honestly. On the afternoon of April 10, 1965 (21 Farvardin 1344), when the shah was the subject of an assassination attempt, Zia went to the court and insisted on taking the shah on a tour of the city. Everywhere they went people showed their enthusiastic support for the monarch. The excursion, according to Zia, did much to improve the mood of the understandably shattered shah. Zia also claimed to have told the shah that "a king can't fly around his capital in a helicopter, but must mingle with the masses".

Personality

The famous "Leading Personalities" files of the British Foreign Office described Zia as:

"a man of outstanding singles of purpose and courage. Personally attractive, religious without being fanatical or obscurantist...appointed prime minister with full powers by Ahmad Shah on the 1st of March 1921 and affected numerous arrests. His reforms were too radical for the country and the time, and he fell from power in June....It is no exaggeration to say that [in the postwar years, he] rallied the Anti-Tudeh forces in Persian and thus made it possible to resist intensive Soviet Pressure when it came. Alone among Persians he has never allowed personal or even party interest to interfere with his policy. By his uncompromising resistance to Russian encroachments he became the symbol of Persia's will to resist....He is both honest and energetic -- a very rare combination in Persia....The comparative lack of success of his party was due [among other things to his inability to] reconcil[e] his progressive ideas with the conservation of many of his followers. Has something of a mystic in him."

Zia's political tendencies were perceived to be pro-British by many Iranians. However, unlike many Iranian politicians who had covert foreign relations, Zia was quite open and never denied being "a friend of the British". In fact, the British at the time were already very much entangled in Iranian affairs. The Qajars were constantly seeking help and advice from the British. Reza Khan too, along with many high ranking politicians, were immensely pro-British, at least initially. Part of the intention behind this was to protect Iran against the Russian expansionist policies of that time. Zia insisted that friendship was different from servitude. He argued that fear was the sole motive for this politically costly decision to become a friend of the British. "I was a friend of the British," he declared, "because being their friend, you only pay a price...but being their enemy guarantees your destruction. All my life I have paid the price for this friendship, but as a rational man, I was never ready to be destroyed".

Death
Zia died on 29 August 1969 at the age of 80 of a heart attack in Tehran. He was buried at the Shah Abdol-Azim Shrine in Ray.

Sometime after his death, the ownership of Zia's house was transferred to SAVAK (Iranian Intelligence) and was then converted into what is today known as Evin Prison, the main prison where political prisoners are kept, both before the Iranian Revolution and afterwards.

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Talk:Martin Blinder

Varian v. Delfino
I removed the following from the page:

" and his psychiatric evaluation of the Varian Medical Systems SLAPP plaintiffs Susan B. Felch and George A. Zdasiuk in the landmark California Supreme Court case Varian v. Delfino"

Several google searches really don't show any evidence that anyone care sbout his involvement with this case other than, perhaps, Delfino himself.

kmccoy (talk) 10:50, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Unnamed 6-yr old
Dr. Blinder also became notorious for glib and shocking statements he made to the media in connection with his court appointed competency evaluation of a six year old accused of attempted murder of a baby in Oakland back in 1996. In these inappropriate comments, some of which are contained in a Frontline interview with him available online [], he suggested that this kid was genetically inferior and should be locked up foreover. In his defense, however, Dr. Blinder, assumed, like just about everyone else involved in this case except his attorney John Burris, that this kid actually committed this offense and was not set up, as those mentally disabled or subject to undue influence often are, by others. Thus he posits that if a six year weighing 60 pounds was capable of causing this damage, something reasonable jurors would have a hard time finding generally, then what is he going to do as an adult? Leaving aside that Dr. Blinder's role as a competency evaluator was not to expound, particularly to the media, on the defendant's guilt or innocence or ruminate on possible sentencing, maybe a more reasonable hypothesis is that the kid didn't do it, but that his 11 year old accusers, who did have more of the physical assets and potential psychology to commit this act, had something to do with it (was that kid even capable of riding the stolen bike?). After all, how many times have we seen mentally retarded people goaded into confessing to things they didn't do? Shouldn't the same skepticism be accorded to admissions by six year old kids? Thus it was disappointing that all those who commented on this sad episode, from whatever perspective and opinion, did not even broach this basic issue, while completely disregarding the presumption of innocence in the process.Tom Cod 16:19, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

 * That case was dropped in 1997 shortly after the Frontline program aired, as the innocence of the small child playing with toys while being briefly questioned by Dr. Blinder was patently obvious as was this doctor's lack of professionalism.

Vital stats
From Final Witness / Psychiatrist's work echoes in personal life / Doctor known for insanity murder defenses was almost killed by ex in seemingly insane act, dated Sunday, May 20, 2001:
 * afternoon of last Oct. 6, a Friday
 * in his 63rd year

The Friday is Oct 6, 2000. 2000-63= 1937, his "0th" year (which was ended by his 1st birthday). He was thus born between Oct 7 1936 and Oct 6 1937, inclusive. --Jerzy•t 03:41, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

For future reference
Three part series in the San Francisco Chronicle: May 20, 2001, May 21, 2001, and May 22, 2001. Location (talk) 19:04, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

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Arizona Cactus Botanical Garden

The Arizona Cactus Botanical Garden was a non-profit botanical garden, located at 8 Cactus Lane, Bisbee, Arizona, United States, containing representative samples of over 800 varieties of high desert xerophyte plant life. It was founded by David L. Eppele and has been closed since his death on 19 May 2005.

The Garden featured cactus and succulents from high deserts of the Americas. All plants were cold-hardy and grown with no supplemental water. Shade frames and greenhouses contained hundreds of plants under study for hardiness and potential as landscape plants in high Southwestern deserts. The Garden's library contained over 2,000 volumes.

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Lim

Lim or LIM may refer to:

Name

 * Lim (Korean surname), a common Korean surname
 * Lim (Chinese surname), Hokkien, Hakka, Teochew and Hainanese spelling of the Chinese family name "Lin"
 * Liza Lim (born 1966), Australian classical composer
 * Poon Lim (1918–1991), formerly missing person at sea

Abbreviations

 * Lanes in metres, a unit of measure for vehicle ferries
 * LIM College (Laboratory Institute of Merchandising), New York City, US
 * Linear induction motor
 * Logical Information Machines, Chicago, US software company
 * LIM domain, a protein-protein interaction domain
 * Lotus-Intel-Microsoft, the alliance responsible for the Expanded Memory Specification (EMS)

Places

 * IATA airport code for Jorge Chávez International Airport, Lima, Peru)
 * Lim (Croatia), a bay and a valley
 * Lim (river), in Montenegro, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia
 * River Lim, Dorset, England
 * Lim Island or Adır Island, Lake Van, Turkey
 * Lim, Bắc Ninh, a township in Vietnam

Others

 * A symbol for the limit (mathematics) operator
 * Lim (musical instrument), a Bhutanese flute

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Talk:Joseph Merrick

Elephant Man's condition.
In the intro it says: "Only in 1986 it was conjuctered (note the typo here) that he had Proteus syndrome ... . This has been definitely proven in 2003 ..." But in the medical condition section is says "However, the results of these tests proved inconclusive and therefore the precise cause of Merrick's medical condition remains unknown". It's kinda contradictory. 93.185.26.148 (talk) 14:50, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

The opening sentence of the final paragraph "In a letter to Biologist in June 2001, British teacher and Chartered Biologist Paul Spiring[101] speculated that Merrick might have suffered from a combination of the two syndromes." is unclear. Could the writer of this please state which two syndromes are meant? Thanks. Marosc9 (talk) 13:27 GMT, 27 December 2017 —Preceding undated comment added 13:28, 27 December 2017 (UTC)

Ref cleanup
Some refs need cleaning up: ones like "name=vigor-mungovin(2016)" which are ill-formatted, and Howell54, Howell55, and Spiring which are no longer used. Chris857 (talk) 18:20, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
 * P.S. Looks like it was fixed. Chris857 (talk) 14:25, 4 September 2018 (UTC)

Nadja Durbach quote
This is completely misrepresented. Far from the centrist "two biased sources" view implied in the article, Durbach in fact takes a completely pro-Norman stance (as should be expected from an academic writing about disability; they tend to be rather anti-medical profession). Precisely how unbiased a source she should be presented as is debatable. --Eldomtom2 (talk) 22:18, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

Frederick Treves
Is it correct to describe Frederick Treves as Merrick's partner, as the infobox currently does?

This doesn't seem to be supported by the article.

Relevant edits: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Joseph_Merrick&type=revision&diff=999150411&oldid=999139615

KingUther (talk) 13:19, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

Inconsistency in Ashley Montagu's take on Merrick's given name
Ashley Montagu is said in the section here on Merrick's early life to have believed that Treves gave Merrick's name as "John" out of confusion with another Merrick. So, if Montagu knew that Joseph, not John, was Merrick's real given name, then why should Montagu himself, in a book about the man, have called him "John Thomas Merrick," in a passage quoted here? Mucketymuck (talk) 04:16, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

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Liquid Skin by Gomez

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Talk:Mousepad

Optical mouse reference
I'm contesting a reference shown in the article, inserted here and later linked to a scanned copy. A couple of glances within the article doesn't show anything about mousepads, and I suspect that the article might not be related to the statement at hand. If the reference can't be confirmed (either providing a page number or a quotation), I am suggesting it be removed. --Sigma 7 02:45, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

 * See p.21, last paragraph in the short section titled "Design Goals," which says "...most users of ball mice use a special pad anyway to increase the friction on the ball." Dicklyon 03:54, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Now I see it. I strongly suggest adding the page number for that reference, as a single quote like that is easy to miss. --Sigma 7 02:37, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Go for it. Dicklyon 03:00, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Book ref for Jack Kelley
Milestones in Computer Science and Information Technology, by Edwin D. Reilly, 2003, says "The first such pad was 'invented' by Jack Kelley, who went on to become a noted designer of furniture." He probably got it from one of the sources we already cite, so it's not really much of a confirmation. It's not clear what he intended by putting "invented" in quotes. Dicklyon 05:14, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Perhaps the quotation marks indicate that he is repeated a quotation, or perhaps that he doesn't think the mouse pad is much of an invention. Luckily, it's not our job to solve that riddle. Either way, it's a source. Good find! Sheffield Steel talkstalk 13:27, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

These are from the Stanford MouseSite
So I decided since we can't find much textual proof in any direction to instead look for photographic evidence of the use of mousepads during the 1970s to determine when something that we would now call a mousepad first possibly started appearing in pictures of computer work environments. As soon as I started to look for the environment, instead of the mousepad itself, I found MouseSite, a Stanford site detailing the history of the mouse. Nowhere on the site is the mousepad mentioned, however, what there *is* is photographic evidence of Englebert's time spent with the Augmentation Research Center (ARC) from the late 60s to 1974 when the funding dried up and a good many of the researchers moved to Xerox PARC. All photos were donated to Stanford by Douglas Englebert (can be found here: http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/gallery/index.html). While it can be assumed that these pictures (since they were owned by Englebert) all predate him leaving ARC in 1975, the only one that can be definitely dated just based on website information are the Kudlick photos.

 * http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/gallery/slides1/mice/mice.html (note the 'circa 1968' on the 3-button mouse picture that clearly shows a mousepad)

 * http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/gallery/photos/w09.html
 * http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/gallery/photos/w09-2.html
 * http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/gallery/photos/m14.html (third and fourth pics esp; this person, Mike Kudlick, left ARC in 1974; thus these images predate 1974, unlike the others where we only have 'early 70s' as a time frame)

There are many, many more that show partial photos with mousepads, or that show them less clearly, this was just a sampling before I decided I had enough to come back and report. These mousepads seem more similar to modern ones than the one described in Fernandez' disclosure, which was obviously made for the later optical mice over the early mice with wheels.--Thespian 07:43, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Images aren't loading for me, although they did in the past. When it comes up, we can grab a small portion of the image or otherwise get a Request for permission?  Of course, we don't want the page turning into a gallery but showing the progression of the mousepad history would be useful for the article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sigma 7 (talk • contribs) 13:16, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Found a few colour photos: http://sloan.stanford.edu/MouseSite/gallery/slides2/nlswork.html - in some of those photos, you can see the mouse distinctly on the desk - in others, you see a mouse surface or mousepad. --Sigma 7 10:28, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

 * I can't see anything I'd identify as a mousepad in those, but there were some very clear in the photos linked before, so it doesn't really matter. Dicklyon 16:44, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Mouse pad or Mousepad
Having looked up mousepad in the OED, I have found that there should be a space in it - ie "mouse pad" not "mousepad".

 * Quote from OED
 * "mousemat chiefly Brit., a small pad over which a computer mouse is moved to produce movement of the pointer on the monitor screen. mouse pad = mousemat."

 * British here - no one actually says "mouse mat" that I know of. Google seems to agree, hits for "mousemat" and "mouse mat" are in the low hundreds of thousands, while "mouse pad" and "mousepad" total multiple million. Changed.80.169.171.14 (talk) 08:50, 1 August 2016 (UTC)

A quick google search seems to confirm that "mouse pad" is more common although, being British, I don't know because I always say "mousemat". I think the article should be moved. Any thoughts? GDallimore (Talk) 09:09, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

 * What the OED claims as standard American English, and what is actually used, is often a little different, dear to my heart as they are. 6,490,000 ghits for "mousepad", 2,310,000 ghits for "mouse pad". Leave as is. --Thespian 09:22, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Actually, the hits for "mouse pad" include the hits for "mousepad", but not vice versa, so the numbers are meaningless. You have to look at the term that people are actually using within those hits. GDallimore (Talk) 09:41, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Are you doing it *with* the quotes? Because if you do it with the quotes, to preserve *exactly* what's between them, what you'll find is exactly what I say. Often a page will use both, but if one only uses "mousepad", it does not show up when you search for "mouse pad". Try them with the quotes, and pay attention to what is bolded in your search results. --Thespian 09:54, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

 * I would oppose a move, because the current name is fine, and very popular. "Mousepad" gets way more google hits than "mouse pad".  Also note that the OED didn't find the use of "special patterned mouse pad" in the cited 1982 article. Dicklyon 15:58, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

 * But also note that the 1982 article uses "mouse pad" :) Anyway, I've sent that article off to the OED now to see if they will update the entry. Also, the OED suggests looking at a particular Scientific American as part of the history of the mouse.

 * 1977 Sci. Amer. Sept. 234/2 The user makes his primary input through a typewriterlike keyboard and a pointing device called a mouse, which controls the position of an arrow on the screen as it is pushed about on the table beside the display

 * Anyone able to get their hands on a copy - I wasn't reading SciAm when I was three months old! GDallimore (Talk) 07:57, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Alan Kay's article from that is reproduced at Digibarn. No mouse pad in sight. Dicklyon 18:14, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Images
Shouldn't it be mentioned that mouse pads often have a popular or custom image printed on them, and are a part of office decoration? (Please don't say "someone else has to publish it first before we can add it paraphrased" because nobody else is going to publish that. Verifiability doesn't apply to simple, pointless, and obvious facts.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.182.130.241 (talk) 07:33, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

Cleaning
Quote of disputed content: ""Some mouse pads with fabric bonded to rubber can be put into a washing machine. But it should be inside a pillow cover, the temperature not higher than 30C/86F and the shortest program being used. A laundry detergent without softener because of the rubber and no centrifugation. Drying the Mousepad is done between two towels without exposure to direct sunlight.""

The Reference is common sense. This has been here for months and nobody did mind the information that fabric mouse pads can be cleaned. Then a edit war between me and a keen user swept over here and time got wasted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.193.87.140 (talk) 12:45, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

 * Wikipedia is not a manual or guidebook. It's that simple. It doesn't add any context to the article. ~ | twsx | talkcont | ~ 12:50, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

 * From the edit history, you were actually reverting four different editors who all removed it for the above reason. Beyond that, "common sense" and "Years of experience with cleaning mouse pads and operating washing machines" are not reliable sources, and Wikipedia shouldn't be giving out vague, unsourced information about how "some" mouse pads will be undamaged by a washing machine cycle. --McGeddon (talk) 12:54, 27 February 2014 (UTC)

Another of his IP addresses has again put the section back, along with a suggestion to "use the talk or start your own wiki". I prefer the former. But where is 79? Do we need to seek semi-protection? Dicklyon (talk) 15:57, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
 * If he's unwilling to discuss this beyond "it's common sense", "this has been here for months" and a lie about it only being one user reverting him, sure. I'll request it now. Given that another editor has taken the time to find a source and only found sources saying never to wash a mousepad, the WP:BURDEN is now on the IP to provide a source that says otherwise before re-adding it. --McGeddon (talk) 19:33, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

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Brålanda is a locality situated in Vänersborg Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 1,385 inhabitants in 2010.

It is situated 24 km north of the town Vänersborg, by the southern parts of lake Vänern. It is a conjoining town for the rural agricultural lands, and has a large storage silo for crops.

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One of the first known serial killers in Sweden was born in Brålanda. His name was Anders Lindbäck, a vicar who added Arsenic to the wine before serving it.

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Today's edits.
Hi Jdpipe. I see you have been expanding Wikipedia's coverage of heat transfer. That's great. I'll take a look at the new intensity article in a moment, and do some cleanup on it. A couple of comments on your edits:
 * Don't use more than one solidus ("/") in units. Anything more than a simple ratio of two units should be written with exponents, to prevent ambiguity: W/m2 is fine, W/m²/sr/Hz is not.
 * Don't change superscript two's into Unicode 2's. The superscript two 2 is considered better typography, both because it renders more consistently with other math notation, and because it separates the content (the 2) from the style (superscript). If you want to use Unicode ²s instead that's fine, but don't go changing them in existing text, and try to stay consistent with the rest of the article.

 * The location of the '2' is part of the content because it doesn't mean 'multipled by two', it means 'to the power of two'. Superscript 2 is not just 'style' as it is in the case of "2nd". Jdpipe (talk) 05:36, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I had that concern too when I first saw this, but it's still probably better to consistently mark superscripts as superscripts rather than special characters. In any event, that would have to be debated over at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style and Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (mathematics).--Srleffler (talk) 02:46, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

 * I'm shortly going to propose merging Intensity (heat transfer) with radiance. Wikipedia articles are organized by topic, not by name. If one thing has two different names, it gets one article. Conversely, two distinct things that happen to share the same name get separate articles, with a disambiguation page if necessary to distinguish between them. --Srleffler (talk) 04:03, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

 * There seems to be a big problem with 'intensity' and 'radiance'. Today I was reading the original Max Planck book about radiation (I cited it somewhere), and he uses the term 'intensity' as well as 'specific intensity' (at least in the english translation that I read). On the other hand physicists seem to keep writing that this use of the term is 'confusing' -- which is almost to say that this use is wrong even though the pioneer in this field used that term. Also, people have written lots of HTML-comments saying that we shouldn't redirect to Intensity, etc etc. As far as I can tell, the use of the term 'intensity' is very current and very correct as I wrote it, and shouldn't be considered to be a deprecated term. So I set up this parallel page 'Intensity (heat transfer)' which can be written in the accepted engineering nomenclature, and linked up with other engineering/heat transfer/thermodynamics/mechanical engineering pages without confusion and constant redefinition of terms. Thoughts? Jdpipe (talk) 04:34, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

 * There is a big problem with how this term is used in the real world. "Intensity" has many incompatible meanings. Just considering the application of the term to EM radiation, there are four meanings that I know of. Worse, authors who come from a particular discipline within physics use the definition from that discipline without necessarily being aware that it is not universal, so they are not always careful to define what they mean. This can lead to disputes when people with different backgrounds work on articles on Wikipedia. So, usage of the term "intensity" is confusing. In terms of who is wrong, the answer is pretty much everybody. There is some technical agreement (I don't recall where—perhaps part of the SI standards?) that all uses of "intensity" by itself are deprecated, as applied to EM radiation. The correct terms are "irradiance", "radiant intensity", "luminous intensity", and "radiance". Actual usage in the field has not conformed to this proposed standard, however, and physicists in different disciplines continue to use "intensity" to refer to all of these things. As to Planck, he probably predates the attempt to deprecate the use of this term.

 * For Wikipedia, articles that are specific to a given discipline should use the terminology that is typical for that discipline, but should be careful to define what the term means and give its units, and should link to the correct article for the subject, not to Intensity. As to the articles on the different meanings of "intensity", they should be merged by concept, unless there is a good reason not to. So, Intensity (heat transfer) should be merged into Radiance, with discussion in the latter article of the alternate name and the usage of the concept in heat transfer. Intensity (heat transfer) can be retained as a redirect, so in heat transfer articles you could link the term using " intensity " rather than " intensity ", if you prefer. Note that either way the reader sees "intensity", but is directed to the correct article for the definition of intensity that is being used.

 * In some places I have added edit comments discouraging linking of "intensity". This is because links are by subject, not by word. If "intensity" is used in its colloquial sense, it should not be linked to any of the technical definitions of the term and probably shouldn't be linked at all, since the MOS discourages linking of common words. In the SI radiometry template, I added a note discouraging linking because someone kept linking the word "intensity" in the Radiance line to Intensity, which forwards to Intensity (physics)—this article is on the W/m² use of the term, which is not the correct meaning for the word as used in that context. The word could be linked to radiance, but there is already a link to radiance on the same line of the table. It's less confusing to just leave the term unlinked.--Srleffler (talk) 17:11, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

 * [Copied here from user talk:srleffler]:
 * Hi Srleffler -- you commented on my talk page that multiple solidus in units of measurement is ambiguous. As a oftentimes computer programmer, I have to debate that point. Firstly, which is more ambigous: W/m/K or W/m·K? I think that people will find the first reads better (as in 'feet per second per second') but the second is cleaner on the page. If one observes systematically an operator precedence system '*' > '/' > '·' then there is no ambiguity. I think that many people prefer the exponential form for units because they don't appreciate that units like W/m·K can be perfectly explicit and unambiguous. Add to that the fact that kg/m² can be typed easily on any keyboard and is pure unicode, whereas Wm¯² isn't pure unicode, requires verbose HTML markup and is buggy when sent in emails. I think that engineering communication, at least, is clearer with the solidus! Rebuttal invited (and also interested to know where you got this 'rule' from, too) :-) Jdpipe (talk) 10:35, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

 * Jdpipe, I happened to see your message on Srleffler's talk page. The convention of not writing double slashes is apparently recommended by the SI system (see SI unit). Double slashes are fine in computer source code and emails, but not in formal prose such as on Wikipedia. Han-Kwang (t) 13:28, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

 * Thanks Han-Kwang. I believe other external mathematics style guides also mandate using at most one solidus. The examples at hand (W/m/K or W/m2/sr) are not too bad, in that they will be interpreted the same way regardless of whether order of operations is used. They also have the advantage of being written the way the units would be said aloud. The usage is too informal for technical use though, and may lead to bad habits where the solidus is used in ways that are truly ambiguous. Part of the problem is that order of operations is not typically used when writing units. Parentheses are rarely used (and, arguably, discouraged). When people write W/m·K, they often mean W/(m·K), not (W/m)·K as would be implied by order of operations.

 * Disagree, see below. Define '·' as higher precedence than '/' and they all makes sense. Jdpipe (talk) 05:32, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

 * The preference for 2 over ² is covered at Manual of Style. The reasoning given is: "Do not use the Unicode characters ² and ³, but rather write 2 and 3 to produce the superscripts 2 and 3. The superscripted 2 and 3 are easier to read, especially on small displays, and ensure that exponents are properly aligned (compare x1x²x³x4 vs x1x2x3x4)." Manual of Style (mathematics) also deprecates the unicode superscripts. In addition to this argument, I have seen their use discouraged somewhere on general principal: a superscript 2 is still a 2, and can be searched for and recognized as a digit, without any special handling. It follows the preferred pattern of separating style from content: the content is an ordinary numeral 2, and the superscript styling is determined by CSS. Also noteworthy: Unicode subscripts and superscripts says that in many fonts these characters are not aligned correctly for use as superscripts and subscripts, but rather are aligned for use in making inline fractions such as ⁴/₅. Personally, I use the unicode characters in email rather than superscripts, because I can type them faster (ALT-0178), but I use the superscripts on Wikipedia.--Srleffler (talk) 16:44, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

 * The 2 code is much harder to maintain, takes many more keystrokes and can't be read in the source code for a page. Superscripts forced HTML lines to be spaced further apart than normal, messing up the overall typographical look of the page, too. For anything that is really a mathematical expression, I think that $$$$ should be used (including all mathematical symbols such as $$I_\lambda$$ that can easily be done using HTML). IMHO that is the correct way to separate content and style -- to me, use of and are messing with that, because your markup no longer makes clear the different between mathematical expressions and other stuff. As for units of measurement, I have only very rarely seen measurements that include exponents greater than 3. The one I can thing of off the top of my head is the stefan-boltzmann constant, which has units W/m²/K 4. I'll live with that one-off inconvenience for the sake of being able to type and read other exponents easily without HTML markup. I respect your point about not arbitrarily removing other people's sups and subs but I don't think it's the most effective way of doing things when it comes to units of measurement. Jdpipe (talk) 05:34, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

 * I don't agree with S. on the statement "When people write W/m·K, they often mean W/(m·K), not (W/m)·K as would be implied by order of operations." According to Order of operations, the centered dot has higher precedence than the division. I didn't know that until I looked it up today. Han-Kwang (t) 21:00, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
 * That's a new one to me too, but according to the article it would have to be either a dash or a heavy dot: W/m-K or W/m•K. --Srleffler (talk) 21:57, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
 * It's just a matter of what you choose to define. Given that you already have the × operator in the 'normal repertoire' of mathematical operators, it makes sense that the '·' operator should have higher precedence than that, I think it's intuitive that W/m·K = W/(m·K), because the slash is physically bigger than the dot. I have never seen heavy dots used for units in textbooks, so I can't see how that usage could be considered conventional, and also the dash is clearly in danger of being confused with a minus sign... Jdpipe (talk) 05:30, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Minor issue
Hi Jdpipe, I've noticed that you've marked all your edits as minor, when quite often they are not minor edits. See WP:MINOR, thanks. Marasmusine (talk) 10:08, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks Marasmusine, I'll try to uncheck the 'minor edit' box when making future changes. Jdpipe (talk) 01:52, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

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Laplace operator
Hi Jdpipe. Are you sure about this? The article Laplace operator gives no preference. Or is this a preferred notation in the field you are working, or from how you learned about the Laplace operator? Further I do not care about it, I was just wondering. Best regards, Crowsnest (talk) 07:56, 28 April 2009 (UTC)

R-value and thermal resistance
Hi. Just wanted to put down a few words on why I undid the changes you were making to the R-value formula. The opening remarks in an article should form a capsule summary and lay a foundation for what follows. One could elaborate on how thermal resistance is related to heat conductivity and the dimensions of an insulator but that could be dealt with later in the article. A better analog for electrical resistance would be $$\Delta x/kA = R/A$$. Fourier used $$UA$$ to find the heat flow (quantity of heat per unit time).

One might do a "circuit analysis" for a building and assign thermal resistance values to walls, windows, floors and ceilings, compute the heat flow through these components for given inside and outside temperatures and then find the rate of heat input needed to maintain an equilibrium. I don't know if anyone wants to go into that much detail in the R-value article.

Fourier is a bit dated. He was limited by his time and some of his conclusions are way off. The mathematics he used still has meaning today. He might be criticized for supporting Napoleon though his options were limited. But it was Fourier who put the Theory of Heat on a sound mathematical basis.

I think we want to keep the analogy with Ohm's Law. The expression "thermal resistance" alludes to this. What is referred to as Fourier's Law is the formula involving thermal conductivity. It is the vector form of the law. The analog form of the this law involves areas because the boundaries usually encountered in heat problems are surfaces. --Jbergquist (talk) 16:44, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

 * I meant to say scalar form of the law in contrast with the vector form. It been a rather difficult week. --Jbergquist (talk) 18:19, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

 * Hi J. I disagree with your approach to defining R value in terms of phi_Q, because this a symbol that is not present in any engineering textbook that I have seen -- Moran and Shapiro, Holman, Zemansky, Incropera & DeWitt, Cengel. So it's straight aware confusing the educated engineer who would understand the DT/(Q/A) equation without explanation.

 * Secondly, I think that your notion of using the electrical analogy with R values is wrong and furthermore leads to unnecessary confusion. In our course at ANU, and in the textbooks by Holman and by Incropera and DeWitt, the electrical analogy is rigorously built up using thermal resistances, which are R_th = R/A. This is inherently more sensible, because one can think of a wall made up of different materials with different areas and work out R_th values for each of those elements (wall, window, door, etc), then using a formula for parallel resistances, it is simple to work out the overall thermal resistance of the wall. Going back to the definition of R_th, one can *then* work out the effective average R-value of the wall. This approach is vastly more intuitive. With R_th, series and parallel resistances work naturally. With R values, only series resistance notions work cleanly.

 * So, about electrical analogies, one absolutely would want to cover that, but this page is the wrong place for that, because of the R vs R_th thing, and the desire to avoid presenting multiple electrical analogies within one sub-discipline. Jdpipe (talk) 23:10, 19 July 2009 (UTC)

 * As I said elsewhere I used φq for consistency within Wikipedia and tend to think of heat flow as a transport phenomenon. I do not think of the R-value as the actual "thermal resistance". (It looks like Fourier introduced this particular formula for dealing with heat flow across a layer of air while studying the heating of the Earth.) And I would agree that Rth is a better definition of thermal resistance and that "thermal conductance" (U-value x Area) works better with parallel heat flows. The R-value may be easier to measure than the U-value over time under changing conditions.

 * I also agree that this would not be the best place to go into detail on the thermal regulation of buildings but one might include the use of Rth in a sample problem to clarify its connection with the R-value. --Jbergquist (talk) 08:01, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

 * I might help if improvements were made to the notation. The letter R is used for resistance and using it for the R-value may result in some confusion. If we adapted the partial differential notation, ux = ∂u/∂x, we could denote the heat flux by $$\dot Q_A$$ with $$\dot Q$$ being the heat flow. This suggests RA for the R-value and the formula would be $$R_A = \Delta T/\dot Q_A$$ with R = RA/A which I think is closer to what you wanted to do. $$R = \Delta T/\dot Q$$ would be the equivalent of Ohm's Law. --Jbergquist (talk) 17:42, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

 * Or a script R could be used for the R-value: $$\mathcal R = \Delta T/\dot Q_A$$ which may be even better. --Jbergquist (talk) 17:54, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

 * If the dots are a problem as when text is used then one could define q = dQ/dt for a heat flow and the heat flux would be qA. Q is often used to represent a quantity of heat in Chemistry and Physics courses. In the literature one has to keep track of the context. A consistent rule might be to use lower case letters for derivatives or a parts of a whole. Were you were concerned with dimensional analysis when you made your changes? --Jbergquist (talk) 20:12, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

 * I still object to the nomenclature used here. We should be able to define R-value without first having to defining some other symbol... deltaT / (Q/A) seems much preferable to me. If can be generalised with 3-D vector operators etc in the text body, but this simple 1-D definition is appropriate for the first cut. Jdpipe (talk) 00:01, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

 * On the matter of U-value, the first place most people see U-value is in the context of heat exchanger analysis. We need to generalise our treatment of U-value as "overall heat transfer coefficient". Jdpipe (talk) 00:01, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

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Eric Hoplin

Eric Hoplin, president and CEO of the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors (NAW), represents 30,000 companies that account for one-third of the American economy. These companies supply businesses with the products they need to serve their customers in nearly every sector of commerce. He was previously head of external affairs for Wells Fargo & Co., and was executive director at Financial Services Roundtable, where he was in charge of operations and strategy for the organization. Previously, he was a management consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton. He is a former Republican organizer and official who was elected Deputy Chairman of the Republican Party of Minnesota in June 2005 and served until 2007. Prior to that he was Chairman of the College Republican National Committee (CRNC) in July 2003 and served until 2005.

Biography
Eric Hoplin received a master's degree in International Affairs from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs in 2009, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Augsburg College in 2005, a Bachelor of Arts from St. Olaf College in 2001, and a Certificate in Change Management from Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business in 2012. Hoplin is the Vice President of Communications & Organizational Strategy at the Financial Services Roundtable. Previously he was a Lead Associate with the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton where he consulted on public policy and strategy for the Departments of Defense and State. He also serves on the Reagan Ranch Board of Governors.

Hoplin is a former Republican organizer and official who was elected Deputy Chairman of the Republican Party of Minnesota in June 2005 and served until 2007. Prior to that he was elected Chairman of the College Republican National Committee (CRNC) in July 2003 and served until 2005. Hoplin focused on strengthening the national College Republican organization's political influence during his tenure as Chairman. His administration was the subject of a fund-raising scandal involving direct mail solicitations from senior citizens by Response Dynamics, Inc. Hoplin is credited and widely lauded for completing the task begun under predecessor Scott Stewart of terminating the decade old contract with Response Dynamics, Inc.

In 2004, Hoplin and his administration organized a program of paid field staffers to recruit College Republicans across the country, helping to provide volunteers for numerous Republican campaigns, including the successful reelection effort of President George W. Bush.

Hoplin chose not to run for reelection as CRNC Chairman in 2005, pursuing the post of Deputy Chairman of the Minnesota Republican Party instead. He was elected to that position in June 2005. Hoplin was succeeded as CRNC Chairman by Paul Gourley of South Dakota in a highly contested election against Michael Davidson. The contest gave rise to a rapid but short-lived proliferation of CRNC related blogs, most of which have since ceased publishing updated content.

In March 2007, Hoplin announced that he would not seek re-election to the position of Deputy Chairman of the Republican Party of Minnesota. He gave his reasons as wishing to continue a further education and work abroad.

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The article is the result of a smear campaign by someone. See User:Kmccoy/Delfino. It might be salvagable, or it might not. Please feel free to try to build it up to what it should be. kmccoy (talk) 11:02, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * it's chopped to just a stub, and marked a stub, so I removed the cleanup and POV-check tags. People should keep an eye on it for POV changes for a while. RJFJR 02:45, August 7, 2005 (UTC)

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