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Christmas and the Beads of Sweat

Christmas and the Beads of Sweat is the fourth album by New York-born singer, songwriter, and pianist Laura Nyro. The album was released on the Columbia Records label in November 1970 after Nyro had recorded it in the early summer with producers Felix Cavaliere and Arif Mardin. Whilst Nyro had handed over production reins, she was still in control of the project and co-arranged her compositions.

The album is the closing part of a trilogy that also comprises 1968's Eli and the Thirteenth Confession and 1969's New York Tendaberry. Musically, the album is a bridge between the two, balancing the lighter and more joyful tones of Eli with the dark, sensual, and piano-dominated Tendaberry.

The presence of The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section on side one lends the album a more easygoing, rock-inspired sound, but this is countered by Nyro's evocative lyrics and moody piano delivery. Nyro had by this time built up a strong reputation as a songwriter, and the album features star turns from Duane Allman, who adds a guitar solo to the driving "Beads of Sweat," and Alice Coltrane, who adds harp to side two.

The album, buoyed by Nyro's popularity as a songwriter, became her second commercially successful album in succession, peaking at #51 on the Billboard 200, known as the Pop Albums chart. The album is also responsible for spawning Nyro's sole chart hit single, with a cover of Gerry Goffin and Carole King's "Up on the Roof," which peaked at #92 on the Pop Singles chart, now known as the Billboard Hot 100.

Track listing
All songs written by Laura Nyro, except where noted.

Side one
 * 1) "Brown Earth" – 4:09
 * 2) "When I Was a Freeport and You Were the Main Drag" – 2:42
 * 3) "Blackpatch" – 3:33
 * 4) "Been on a Train" – 5:49
 * 5) "Up on the Roof" (Gerry Goffin, Carole King) – 3:13

Side two
 * 1) "Upstairs by a Chinese Lamp" – 5:34
 * 2) "Map to the Treasure" – 8:08
 * 3) "Beads of Sweat" – 4:47
 * 4) "Christmas in My Soul" – 7:00

Personnel

 * Laura Nyro – piano, vocals, arrangements

Additional musicians on side one
 * Barry Beckett – vibraphone
 * Felix Cavaliere – organ, bells, producer
 * Roger Hawkins – drums
 * Eddie Hinton – electric guitar
 * David Hood – bass
 * Jack Jennings – percussion
 * Stuart Scharf – acoustic guitar

Other musicians The album credits these musicians but does not indicate which tracks they played on.
 * Duane Allman – guitar
 * Richard Davis – bass

Additional musicians on side two
 * Alice Coltrane – harp
 * Dino Danelli – drums
 * Cornell Dupree – electric guitar
 * Joe Farrell – woodwinds
 * Ashod Garabedian – oud
 * Ralph MacDonald – percussion
 * Chuck Rainey – bass
 * Michael Szittai – cimbalon

Technical
 * Arif Mardin – arrangements, conductor, producer
 * Roy Segal – engineer
 * Tim Geelan – engineer
 * Jerry Lee Smith – assistant engineer
 * Doug Pomeroy – assistant engineer
 * Beth O'Brien – cover portrait

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Caroline Spurgeon

Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon (24 October 1869, India – 24 October 1942, Tucson, Arizona) was an English literary critic. In 1913, she was appointed Hildred Carlisle Professor of English at the University of London and became head of the Department of English at Bedford College, London. She was the first woman to be awarded a chair at the University of London, and only the third in Britain (after Edith Morley and Millicent Mackenzie). She co-founded the International Federation of University Women with Virginia Gildersleeve.

Life

Caroline Spurgeon was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College, Dresden and at King's College London and University College London.

She is known as the first female university professor in London, the second in England. She was the first female professor of English Literature (Edith Morley was given the inaccurate title "Professor of English Language"). From May 1900, she lectured on English Literature in London. She became a member of the staff of Bedford College, London, in 1901, and successfully competed for the newly created chair for English literature in 1913.

She was an expert on William Shakespeare and Geoffrey Chaucer. Her thesis, published in 1911 in Paris, was on Chaucer devant la critique, and in 1929 in London on 500 years of Chaucer criticism and allusion. Her most famous work, Shakespeare's Imagery and What it Tells Us (1935) is a methodologically innovative compendium and analysis of poetic images.

In 1936, she settled in Tucson, Arizona, where she died, on her 73rd birthday from cerebral arteriosclerosis. After World War II, her "intimate friend" Virginia Gildersleeve moved her body to be buried alongside her longtime companion Lilian Mary Clapham (1871 – 21 December 1935) at Alciston Parish Church, Alciston, United Kingdom.

English studies
Smart networking in the British Federation of University Women and with female counterparts in the more progressive United States helped her gain leadership positions in the restructuring of English studies in Britain (e.g., the English Association) as well as in the launching of the English literature curriculum at the University of London. Through her various professional activities inside her own department, she participated in the academic literary-critical renaissance of the 1920s and early 1930s. She was also an active militant in favour of women's eligibility to academic degrees. She advocated for more opportunities for foreign women in British universities. Her own appointment to a professorial chair marked a turning point in the history of women's higher education.

Chaucer reception
Spurgeon's 1911 Paris doctoral dissertation, Chaucer devant la critique en Angleterre et en France depuis son temps jusqu' nos jours, which she published in three volumes in English in 1929, Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion, 1357–1900, secured her a lasting place in the history of scholarship on the Middle English author. The study made available to her colleagues the rich tapestry of the reception of the father of English poetry.

Shakespeare's imagery
In 1935, Spurgeon wrote the pioneer study on the use of images in William Shakespeare's work, called Shakespeare's Imagery, and what it tells us. It has been reprinted several times. In it she analyses the different types of images and motifs that he uses in his plays. She also shows that there is a "cluster", or there are several "clusters", of images in each of the major plays, for instance, illness and injury images in Hamlet, and light and darkness images in Romeo and Juliet.

Some examples may here suffice:
 * sea images: e.g. "Sailing in this salt flood; the winds, the sighs ... will overset thy tempest-tossed body" (Romeo and Juliet)
 * clothing images: e.g. "Why do you dress me in borrowed robes" (Macbeth)
 * colour images: "this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red." (Macbeth)
 * gardening images: "Hang here like a fruit, my soul, till the tree die." (Cymbeline)

The study of imagery can, apart from helping to understand the meaning of the play, give some insight into the poet's mind, because it shows what ideas come to his mind when in need of poetic expression, thus giving some clues as to his background, his upbringing, his social position, and so on.

It can also often help to distinguish his style from that of other authors, and thus is an instrument in debunking the theory that Francis Bacon may be the author of Shakespeare's plays, since a statistical comparison between the fields of imagery in both authors shows revealing differences.

Fredson Bowers complained that Spurgeon, in her study of Shakespeare's imagery, did not take into account "that some of the images she uses as evidence for her thesis are editorial emendations and not necessarily Shakespeare's words—and that she did not attempt to assess the purity of the evidence she was collecting by using an edition that would show her what was editorial and what not."

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Talk:Domestic partnership

Re Article Merger Suggestion: The Terms "Domestic Partnership", "Civil Union," "Registered Partnership," etc., Are Problematic
Editors of this article please TAKE NOTE: There are TWO GENRES of "domestic partnership" - state and municipal/county.

The municipal/county level domestic partnership, where it exists, offers extremely limited benefits to the parties and there is no guarantee the status will be recognized outside of the jurisdiction in which the status are contracted.

The state level domestic partnership is, in fact, "Civil Union" under the name "Domestic Partnership."

History: Denmark was the first jurisdiction to create "Registered Partnership." The rest of Scandinavia, and the Netherlands, also used the term "Registered Partnership" - but France opted for the term "Pacte Civile de Solidarite," which got the 'aka' "Union Civile" - and that's the term that Vermont chose to borrow in 2000, translating it to English, when it passed legislation creating Civil Union and Reciprocal Beneficiaries Relationship.

When Hawaii opted to create Civil Union, that state used the term "Reciprocal Beneficiaries Relationship." An Hawaiian RBR was absolutely *nothing* like a Vermont RBR; it was equivalent to a Vermont Civil Union.

In California, there is even more confusion. Many municipalities and counties in California already had local "Domestic Partnership" ordinances when California passed its own Civil Union legislation, using the term "Domestic Partnership." The existing municipal/county DP ordinances were grandfathered, with the result that parts of California have *both* types of Domestic Partnership, which causes some confusion. Example: A young opposite-sex couple came into H&R Block (where I worked at the time) and wanted to file a joint return as Domestic Partners. Neither of them was age 62 or older as the law requires for opposite-sex domestic partnership at the *state* level, so the tax professional who attended to them asked some questions and discovered they had gotten a *San Francisco* domestic partnership; which, he regretfully had to inform them, did not entitle them to file a joint tax return.

The salient point being that there *does* need to be an article called "Domestic Partnership," but it needs to note that the term "Domestic Partnership" is sometimes used to mean "Civil Union"; for which they will need to see that article, while the "Domestic Partnership" article focuses solely on the original municipal version of domestic partnership, with extremely limited benefits and no inter-jurisdictional portability. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.115.74.132 (talk) 19:54, 29 August 2014 (UTC)

Misleading Information about Equal Standing with Marriage
While it may be true that domestic partnerships offer the same financial benefits and tax-related benefits to couples, I don't think it's fair to say that domestic partnerships "are equivalent to marriage in all but the title."

Many same-sex couples still have trouble that married couples would not have. For example, if one partner is in the hospital, the other one is not allowed to visit on the basis of "Family Only." Only a spouse of MARRIAGE is allowed in the room.

They are equal financially, maybe, but certainly not emotionally. This should at least be noted, for emotional issues carry a lot of weight and you cannot deny their importance in a relationship, whether it be homosexual or heterosexual.

Separate but Equal institutions are never equal. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.12.37.26 (talk) 04:02, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

Domestic Partnerships between Opposite Sexes in Maine
My boyfriend and I live in New Jersey. I am a female 47 years old and he is male 53 years old. We are both divorced and have been living together for 6 years now. We would like to know if we can apply for domestic partnership in Maine. I appreciate your prompt response.

Thanks, Marissa

Needs work - not generic enough
The article appears to skew towards legal issues surrounding same-sex relationships. It'd be much better if it was more generic then address the complications with same-sex recognition since there's already an article about same sex marriage/unions. At the moment, domestic partnerships, civil unions and same sex marriage all read exactly the same. - Htra0497 12:54, 8 August 2007 (UTC)

 * Agreed, seven years later. The introduction of this article seems to be legitimately about domestic partnerships while the article itself is an excessively detailed compendium of US same-sex union laws that are repeated ad nauseum in articles specifically about those subjects. Domestic partnership in the United States is almost an exact duplication of this article, and thus shares the problem.  Slow Graffiti (talk) 19:52, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Domestic Partnerships in Boston, Massachusetts
There are Domestic Partnerships recognized in Boston, Massachusetts. This is provided through municipal ordinance: City of Boston Municipal Code Chapter XII § 9a Protection of Families.

Should this be mentioned in the article? mdkarazim (talk) 19:50, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

 * I haven't heard any feedback, so I went ahead with changing the article to show that there are also Domestic Partnerships available in certain Massachusetts municipalities in addition to the marriages already available state-wide. I included the cities of Cambridge and Boston with appropriate citations.  I believe there are other municipalities that also have these ordinances, but because I am not aware of them, I did not add them.  Please feel free to add additional municipalities.  MDKarażim (talk) 18:17, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Edit buttons?
Why is there a bar across the bottom of the states that says [Edit] a bunch of times? Misty Pony 1994 21:18, 29 August 2010 (UTC)

New Zealand / Civil unions
I came here to read about de facto partnerships - at the top of the article it clearly says that domestic partnerships are when there is recognition of cohabitation in the absence of marriage or civil unions, and yet in the New Zealand section there's just a link to the article about civil unions, which is not the same thing. Also, a lot of this article seems to be about same-sex partnerships which doesn't particularly seem to be the most important thing about this subject. 111.69.238.189 (talk) 11:16, 25 November 2011 (UTC)

Same-sex union map
Now that there's a same-sex union map, the Samesex_marriage_in_USA.svg map is kind of redundant. --Prcc27 (talk) 21:40, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
 * We should remove it. --Prcc27 (talk) 21:41, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

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Ilex aquifolium

Ilex aquifolium, the holly, common holly, English holly, European holly, or occasionally Christmas holly, is a species of flowering plant in the family Aquifoliaceae, native to western and southern Europe, northwest Africa, and southwest Asia. It is regarded as the type species of the genus Ilex, which by association is also called "holly". It is an evergreen tree or shrub found, for example, in shady areas of forests of oak and in beech hedges. In the British Isles it is one of very few native hardwood evergreen trees. It has a great capacity to adapt to different conditions and is a pioneer species that repopulates the margins of forests or clearcuts.

I. aquifolium can exceed 10 m in height, but is often found at much smaller heights, typically 2-3 m tall and broad, with a straight trunk and pyramidal crown, branching from the base. It grows slowly and does not usually fully mature due to cutting or fire. It can live 500 years, but usually does not reach 100.

Ilex aquifolium is the species of holly long associated with Christmas, and previously the Roman festival of Saturnalia. Its glossy green prickly leaves and bright red berries (produced only by the female plant) are represented in wreaths, garlands and cards wherever Christmas is celebrated. It is a subject of music and folklore, especially in the British tradition. It is also a popular ornamental shrub or hedge, with numerous cultivars in a range of colours.

Description
Ilex aquifolium grows to 10-25 m tall with a woody stem as wide as 40-80 cm, rarely 100 cm or more, in diameter. The leaves are 5–12 cm long and 2–6 cm broad; they are evergreen, lasting about five years, and are dark green on the upper surface and lighter on the underside, oval, leathery, shiny, and about 5 to 9 cm long. In the young and in the lower limbs of mature trees, the leaves have three to five sharp spines on each side, pointing alternately upward and downward, while leaves of the upper branches in mature trees lack spines.

The flowers are white, four-lobed, and pollinated by bees. Holly is dioecious, meaning that there are male plants and female plants. The sex cannot be determined until the plants begin flowering, usually between 4 and 12 years of age. In male specimens, the flowers are yellowish and appear in axillary groups. In the female, flowers are isolated or in groups of three and are small and white or slightly pink, and consist of four petals and four sepals partially fused at the base.

The fruit only appears on female plants, which require male plants nearby to fertilise them. The fruit is a drupe (stone fruit), about 6–10 mm in diameter, a bright red or bright yellow, which matures around October or November; at this time they are very bitter due to the ilicin content and so are rarely eaten until late winter after frost has made them softer and more palatable. They are eaten by rodents, birds and larger herbivores. Each fruit contains 3 to 4 seeds which do not germinate until the second or third spring.

Distribution
Today, holly is found in western Asia and Europe in the undergrowth of oak forest and beech forest in particular, although at times it can form a dense thicket as the dominant species. It requires moist, shady environments, found within forests or in shady slopes, cliffs, and mountain gorges.

Along the west coast of the United States and Canada, from California to British Columbia, non-native English Holly has proved very invasive, quickly spreading into native forest habitat, where it thrives in shade and crowds out native species. It has been placed on the Washington State Noxious Weed Control Board's monitor list, and is a Class C invasive plant in Portland.

During the Cenozoic Era, the Mediterranean region, Europe, and northwest Africa had a wetter climate and were largely covered by laurel forests. Holly was a typical representative species of this biome, where many current species of the genus Ilex were present. With the drying of the Mediterranean Basin during the Pliocene, the laurel forests gradually retreated, replaced by more drought-tolerant sclerophyll plant communities. The modern Ilex aquifolium resulted from this change. Most of the last remaining laurel forests around the Mediterranean are believed to have died out approximately 10,000 years ago at the end of the Pleistocene.

Ecology
Holly is a rugged pioneer species that prefers relatively moist areas, and tolerates frost as well as summer drought. The plant is common in the garrigue and maquis and is also found in deciduous forest and oak forest.

Pure stands of hollies can grow into a labyrinth of vaults in which thrushes and deer take refuge, while smaller birds are protected among their spiny leaves. After the first frost of the season, holly fruits become soft and fall to the ground serving as important food in its native regions for winter birds at a time of scarce resources.

The flowers are attractive as nectar sources for insects such as bees, wasps, flies, and small butterflies. The commonly-encountered pale patches on leaves are due to the leaf-mine insect Phytomyza ilicis.

It is an invasive species on the West Coast of Canada and the United States as well as in Hawaii.

Epigenetics
Holly is well known in epigenetics. Some cultivars have smooth leaf edges, or both smooth and prickly leaf edges on the same plant. In response to stress these cultivars can produce leaves with more prickles.

Cultivation
Ilex aquifolium is widely grown in parks and gardens in temperate regions. Hollies are often used for hedges; the spiny leaves make them difficult to penetrate, and they take well to pruning and shaping.

AGM cultivars
Numerous cultivars have been selected, of which the following have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit:

 * I. aquifolium
 * 'Amber' (female)
 * 'Argentea Marginata'
 * 'Ferox Argentea'
 * 'Golden Queen'
 * 'Handsworth New Silver'
 * 'J.C. van Tol'
 * 'Madame Briot'

 * 'Pyramidalis'
 * 'Silver Queen'

Ilex × altaclerensis
The hybrid Ilex × altaclerensis was developed at Highclere Castle in Hampshire, England, in 1835, a cross between I. aquifolium and the tender species I. perado. The following cultivars have gained the RHS AGM:

 * 'Belgica Aurea'
 * 'Camelliifolia'
 * 'Golden King'
 * 'Lawsoniana'

Chemistry, toxicity, and uses
Holly berries contain alkaloids, theobromine, saponins, caffeic acid, and a yellow pigment, ilixanthin. The berries are generally regarded as toxic to humans. Accidental consumption may occur by children or pets attracted to the bright red berries. The berries are emetic, possibly due to the compound ilicin. The leaves of yerba mate, also in the genus Ilex, are used to make a caffeinated beverage called mate or Paraguayan tea.

Other uses
Between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries, before the introduction of turnips, Ilex aquifolium was cultivated for use as winter fodder for cattle and sheep. Less spiny varieties of holly were preferred, and in practice the leaves growing near the top of the tree have far fewer spines, making them more suitable for fodder.

Ilex aquifolium was once among the traditional woods for Great Highland bagpipes before tastes turned to imported dense tropical woods such as cocuswood, ebony, and African blackwood.

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Mors Kochanski

Mors Kochanski (November 10, 1940 – December 5, 2019) was a Canadian bushcraft and wilderness survival instructor, naturalist, and author. He acquired an international following and instructed for both military and civilians in Canada, the US, the UK and Sweden. He died from peritoneal mesothelioma in 2019.

Early life
The Kochanski family immigrated to Canada from Poland in 1938. Mors, the fifth of six children, was born in 1940. His mother named him "Morris" but, because of a misunderstanding due to her Polish accent, the midwife wrote "Mors" on the birth certificate.

Kochanski was brought up on a farm in Saskatchewan, where he worked and assisted his father, who had been a windmill carpenter in Poland and who fought for the Polish military during World War I. In his early school years, he travelled seven miles to and from school on a bush road. In 1954 his family moved to Prince Albert, where he frequented the local library and took particular interest in two books: an old Boy Scout manual, and The Ashley Book of Knots. Kochanski lasted only one year as a Scout, due to disappointment in what he perceived as a lack of seriousness on the part of his fellow scouts and the Scout Master's aversion to camp craft skills.

Kochanski was a Sea Cadet for three years. He chose the Navy as a career and received a scholarship to the Canadian Services College, Royal Roads. While enrolled, he traveled by ship through the Panama Canal in the summer of 1959. He was hospitalized for five weeks during his studies due to mumps. This contributed to an honourable discharge. From 1960 to 1964, he studied arts and sciences at the University of Saskatchewan, taking classes in anthropology, psychology, geology and writing.

Instructor career
After his departure from university, Mors resolved to become a specialist in outdoor subjects, focused on wilderness living skills and the lifestyles of native peoples. However, he took many jobs before finding his opportunity to become an instructor, including concrete technician, geologist assistant, engineering technician, surveyor, social worker, and draughtsman, a job at which he updated the street plans of Prince Albert after the installation of gas mains. It was also around this time that he received a pilot's license.

In 1968, Blue Lake Centre (near Hinton, Alberta) began operating outdoor education programs. Mors, now 28 years of age, offered his services. At the same time, he met his friend and mentor, Tom Roycraft. At the time, Tom was the senior civilian survival instructor at a Department of National Defence survival school.

During the 1970s, Mors became an associate professor at the University of Alberta Faculty of Physical Education, editor of Alberta Wilderness Arts and Recreation magazine, and a freelancer for various agencies. In 1986, he was approached to write a book on survival and wilderness skills for the Canadian boreal forests which was originally titled Northern Bushcraft. The book became a Canadian bestseller. The original title 'Northern Bushcraft' was in reference to an earlier publication, "Bushcraft" by Richard Harry Graves, which covered survival and wilderness living skills in the Australian environment. Eventually, the publishers later shortened the title to Bushcraft.

List of publications

 * Wilderness Arts and Recreation Magazine (editor and author, with Tom Roycraft and Don Bright of Edson, Alberta) - beginning in 1976.
 * Bushcraft – originally released as Northern Bushcraft in 1988. A guide to outdoor skills and wilderness survival. (Lone Pine Publishing)(Northern Bushcraft - 1988 ISBN 1-871890-30-6) (Bushcraft - 1998 ISBN 1-55105-122-2)
 * Bush Arts – a guide to hand crafting with materials from the boreal forest. Lone Pine Publishing, 1989 ISBN 0-919433-49-9
 * Wilderness Skills Series and A Plant Walk with Mors Kochanski - (DVD series produced by Karamat Wilderness Ways)
 * Booklet series (17+ tiles, inc. Basic Wilderness Skills in Deep Snow, Survival Kit Ideas, etc.) – published by Karamat Wilderness Ways
 * Basic Safe Travel and Boreal Survival Handbook: Gems from Wilderness Arts and Recreation Magazine in 2013. A guide to outdoor skills and wilderness survival. (Publisher: Karamat Wilderness Ways, ISBN 978-1894453684)
 * Grand Syllabus, Instructor Trainee Program: Survival, Wilderness Living Skills, Bushcraft in 2015. (Publisher: Karamat Wilderness Ways, ISBN 978-1894453677)

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Wrestling at the Summer Olympics

Wrestling at the Olympic Games first appeared at the first modern Olympics, in the form of Greco-Roman wrestling, held in Athens in 1896. Wrestling would appear at every Summer Olympics held since then, with the exception of the 1900 Summer Olympics when wrestling did not appear on the program. Freestyle wrestling (or, catch-as-catch-can wrestling as it was called prior to the 1948 Olympics) and weight classes both made their first appearance at the 1904 Summer Olympics. Women's freestyle wrestling competition was first held at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

In 2013, the IOC voted to drop wrestling from the Summer Olympic program. The president of the sport's governing body, FILA (now United World Wrestling), resigned after a subsequent motion of no confidence, and several of the FILA leadership followed suit. Following these and revisions to the program for 2016 (including rule changes and additional women's competitions), wrestling successfully campaigned to be readmitted back onto the Summer Olympic program.

Summary
Summary of overall best wrestling nation at each Olympics, which includes combining all styles that were contested. Greco-Roman has been contested since the 1896 Summer Olympics, with men's freestyle being contested since 1904 and women's freestyle since 2004.

Removal and reinstatement
In an effort to control the size and costs of the Summer Olympics, and make the Games "relevant to sports fans of all generations", the IOC evaluated the Olympic event programme in place for the 2016 Summer Olympics, and voted on 25 "core" sports that would comprise the programme of the 2020 Summer Olympics (which was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic). One vacancy was to be left open for a new sport. In February 2013, IOC members voted to remove wrestling from the Olympic programme; The New York Times cited several potential factors in the decision, including the lack of universally-known talent unlike other sports, and concern for the lack of women's competitions in wrestling (having only introduced women's freestyle competitions in 2004). FILA (now United World Wrestling), the governing body of Olympic wrestling, immediately criticized the decision. The organization cited wrestling's long-standing history as an Olympic event, which dates as far back as the ancient Olympic Games.

The decision resulted in immediate backlash; Armen Nazaryan and Sagid Murtazaliev both returned gold medals to the IOC in protest, while Nazaryan also staged a hunger strike until the 2013 European Wrestling Championships. FILA president Raphaël Martinetti resigned after a vote of non-confidence by the organization's staff.

Martinetti was replaced as acting president by Nenad Lalović. Under his leadership, the organization began to make changes to its Olympic programme for 2016, including rule changes designed to make bouts faster and encourage more aggression, as well as additional women's weight classes. These changes were intended to help improve audience interest, and address the shortcomings that likely led to the removal of the sport; wrestling joined baseball/softball, as well as squash, on a final shortlist of three sports to be included in the core Olympic programme for 2020. On 8 September 2013, at the 125th IOC Session, the IOC selected wrestling to be reinstated in the Olympic program for 2020 and 2024. Lalović was largely credited for his role in the reinstatement; he remarked that "normally this is done in a few years, we did it in a few months. It was a question of our survival."

Participating nations
The following nations have taken part in the wrestling competition. The numbers in the table indicate the number of competitors sent to that year's Olympics (X means qualified wrestlers for the next Olympics).

All-time medal table combined – Greco-Roman, Freestyle men's and women's – 1896–2020
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All-time medal table – Greco-Roman – 1896–2020
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All-time medal table – Freestyle men's and women's – 1904–2020
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Juggling notation

Juggling notation is the written depiction of concepts and practices in juggling. Toss juggling patterns have a reputation for being "easier done than said" – while it might be easy to learn a given maneuver and demonstrate it for others, it is often much harder to communicate the idea accurately using speech or plain text. To circumvent this problem, various numeric or diagram-based notation systems have been developed to facilitate communication of patterns or tricks between jugglers, as well the investigation and discovery of new patterns.

A juggling notation system (based on music notation) was first proposed by Dave Storer in 1978 and while the first juggling diagram (a ladder diagram), by Claude Shannon around 1981, was not printed till 2010, the first printed diagram and second oldest notation system were proposed by Jeff Walker in 1982.

Diagram-based

While diagrams are the most visual and reader-friendly way to notate many juggling patterns, they rely on images, so are complicated to produce and unwieldy to share via text or speech.

 * Ladder diagrams - Each rung on the "ladder" represents a point in time (or "beat"). The juggled objects are represented as lines, their paths through time and between a pair of hands.
 * Causal diagrams - Similar to the ladder diagram but doesn't show the props held in a juggler's hands. Instead it only shows each "problem" — an incoming prop — and what the juggler should do to make space in his or her hands to catch that incoming prop. It is usually used for club passing and can be displayed or edited in some juggling software.
 * Mills Mess State Transition Diagrams - Mills Mess is a popular pattern in which the arms cross and uncross. Mills Mess State Transition Diagrams can be used to track these basic arm movements.

Numeric
The following notation systems use only numbers and common characters. The patterns can easily be communicated by text. Most numeric systems are designed to be processed by software juggling simulators — for example, to view juggling patterns as computer animations.

Siteswap
Developed by mathematically inclined jugglers Bengt Magnusson and Bruce "Boppo" Tiemann in 1985, siteswap is by far the most common juggling notation.

A given juggling pattern is represented by a sequence of digits, like "333", "97531", or "744". Each digit represents the number of throws that occur by the time that same prop will be caught. For example, "333" represents a common three-ball cascade, where three props are thrown before the same prop will be caught and thrown again. Within the "531531" pattern, the prop thrown first, the '5' throw, will not be caught until five throws have been made, including itself, where it will be thrown again as a '1'. The prop thrown next, the '3', will be thrown again on the third throw afterwards, the next '3'. And the next prop is thrown with a '1' throw, which is a direct pass to the other hand and will be thrown on the very next throw as a '5'.

Because the number represents the number of throws that occur before that prop will be caught, it also can be thought to describe how high one throws the prop, or how long it remains in the air relative to the other throws, where even numbers inevitably come back to the same hand and odd numbers cross over to the other hand.

The number of props in a given juggling pattern can be determined by the average of one repeating group. "633633633", therefore describes a four-prop pattern, while "414414414" describes a three-prop juggling pattern.

"Vanilla" siteswap is the most basic form of siteswap and uses only a simple string of digits to describe patterns that throw only one prop at a time, alternating between hands. For slightly more complicated patterns, extra rules and syntax are added to create the following two siteswap extensions:

 * Synchronous Siteswap, or "Synch" Siteswap. This is used to notate patterns where both hands throw at the same time, rather than alternating left and right hands. The numbers for the two throws are combined in parentheses and separated by a comma. For example, "(4,4)(4,4)(4,4)".
 * Multiplex Siteswap. "Multiplex", in the world of juggling, means "more than one ball is in the hand at the time of the throw". Multiplex Siteswap allows you to notate such patterns, and also can be mixed with synchronous siteswap. A multiplex is described by a digit for each prop in the multiplex throw contained within square brackets. "23[43]23[43]" is a common four ball multiplex.

Vanilla, synch, and multiplex siteswap are the "standard" forms of siteswap. Not only are they understood by jugglers, there are also many computer programs capable of animating juggling patterns entered in siteswap notation.

Other extensions to siteswap have been developed for specific purposes. These are far less common than the "standard" forms of siteswap, understood by far fewer jugglers and only specialized software.

 * Passing siteswap - used for simple passing patterns and prechac transforms
 * Multi-Hand Notation (MHN) - Developed by Ed Carstens for use with his juggling program JugglePro, MHN can describe patterns with any number of hands and at any rhythm.
 * Generalised Siteswap (GS) - Developed by Ben Beever, GS places siteswap into a matrix that uses optional, additional rows to describe any desired attributes of the throws or catches within a pattern, such as timing issues (e.g. for synch patterns), number of spins (e.g. for clubs) and hand position/orientation (e.g. for backcrosses, claw catches etc.).

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Lord Grizzly

Lord Grizzly is a 1954 biographical novel by Frederick Manfred. It was part of his Buckskin Man Tales series of five novels. It was Manfred's first novel published under his new pen name, with his prior seven novels published under the name Feike Feikema. A screenplay was written by the husband of the author's daughter Freya, but no film was ever produced. The novel was a bestseller and it was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1955.

Plot
It describes the survival ordeal of a real mountain man, Hugh Glass, who was attacked by a bear and abandoned in the wilderness by his companions (a young Jim Bridger and John S. Fitzpatrick), on the assumption he could not possibly live. Glass, with a broken leg and open wounds, had to crawl most of the way to Fort Kiowa to reach safety. When crawling back, Hugh could only dwell on revenge to the men who abandoned him.

History
Manfred previously wrote seven novels from 1944 to 1951, under the name Feike Feikema, and they received poor reception. Due to his expanding family and debt, the author started a poll at a street corner in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in order to determine if changing his name would help improve the sale of his books. He legally changed his name to Frederick Manfred, but publishers continued to have no interest. Manfred asked a groceryman, milkman, and fuel seller in the neighborhood if he could pay them in a few months as a favor. Manfred returned to his writing and later wrote Lord Grizzly after doing much research. Part of Manfred's research for the novel was reading about life on the frontier during the 1880s, including reading around 60 books. Manfred created his own splint for his leg as Hugh Glass may have done after a bear broke Glass's leg during a fight. He inched along his backyard in Bloomington, Minnesota, as well as river bluffs, to act out what it would have been like for Glass. Since Glass only ate what he was able to catch without a weapon, Manfred ate ants, mice, grub worms, and grasshoppers. Manfred said that grasshoppers taste better than ants. Manfred journeyed across South Dakota along the Grand River to reach Chamberlain, South Dakota, where Fort Kiowa once was. A representative from a book publisher was interested in the novel and sent it in for printing. A pocket book company later bought the rights for the novel to be republished in 1956. The novel is part of Manfred's Buckskin Man Tales.

Film
The husband of Manfred's daughter Freya, Tom Pope, produced a screenplay for Lord Grizzly, but studios were not interested at the time due to it being a western. When the film The Revenant, based on the 2002 novel about Hugh Glass, was released, Manfred's daughter and her husband were sad that it was not based on Lord Grizzly.

Reception
Madison Jones of The New York Times wrote in reference to the five Buckskin Man Tales novels, "But the very best of these novels, and surely a Western classic, is Lord Grizzly." William Carlos Williams said, "I have never in my lifetime of reading about our West met with anything like it." Lord Grizzly was a bestseller, and a finalist for the National Book Award in 1955.

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Polish Baltic Philharmonic

Polish Baltic F. Chopin Philharmonic in Gdańsk (full name in Polish: Polska Filharmonia Bałtycka im. Fryderyka Chopina w Gdańsku) is a concert hall located in Ołowianka, Gdańsk.

History
Polish Baltic F. Chopin Philharmonic was founded in 1945 as Gdańsk Symphony Orchestra. The inaugural concert took place on September 29 in Sopot. In 1949 it changed its name to Polish Baltic Philharmonic. In 1953 it was combined with opera department and changed into Polish Baltic Opera and Philharmonic (POiFB). After forming a new symphony orchestra in 1974, Baltic Philharmonic was transformed into independent Polish Baltic F. Chopin Philharmonic in 1993.

Prof. Roman Perucki, the artistic director of Polish Baltic F. Chopin Philharmonic in Gdańsk, is a well-known organ virtuoso as well as the winner of numerous international prizes. He performs all over the world and is considered to be the founder of the International Organ Music Festival at the Oliwa Cathedral, which is Poland's oldest festival of its kind.

In September 2008, Kai Bumann became the new artistic director of the F. Chopin Baltic Philharmonic. Berlin-born, he was previously the artistic director of the Kraków Opera during the 1997/1998 season.

Building
The building, which houses the Baltic Philharmonic Hall today was constructed in 1897-1898 as a power station with a neo-Gothic façade.

The seat of the Polish Baltic Philharmonic is a complex of buildings at the former plant of the late nineteenth century, located on the island of Ołowianka in Gdańsk. After the plant was closed in 1996, it was subsequently adapted between 1996 and 2005 as a concert hall.

This urban power station was built between 1897 and 1898 by the Berlin firm of Siemens & Halske, with further expansion continuing through 1913. This brick building with its elegant neo-Gothic façade is decorated with rosettes, turrets and even two tower. During the final months of World War II, the complex suffered severe damage. Launched back in August 1945 the power plant operated until its closure in 1996. The reconstruction, development and adaptation of these buildings was done by the architectural studio of Martin Kozikowski and KD Kozikowski Design. The Baltic Philharmonic is composed of seven segments, including:
 * the main concert hall of 1,000 seats
 * chamber music hall for 200 seats
 * two multi-purpose halls
 * foyer (exhibition room, 808 sq ft)
 * hotel for 60

In 2007, a bronze bust of Frédéric Chopin, the patron of the Baltic Philharmonic, by sculptor Gennady Jerszow was placed in the Philharmonic.

Main concert hall
Main concert hall has 1,000 seats. Its acoustics designed by Witold Straszewicz along with Eve Więckowska-Kosmala. It is equipped with the latest lighting and sound system, simultaneous interpretation, hearing assistance system and a system of static and dynamic projection. A specially designed movable ceiling screens and room finishes allow for easy customization of acoustics. It also operates a modern system combines fiber allowing radio and television broadcasts. The main auditorium has 1,100 seats.

The Philharmonic was the venue for the Wikimania 2010 international conference.

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Felix Cavaliere

Felix Cavaliere (born November 29, 1942) is an American musician. He is best known for being the co-lead vocalist and keyboard player for The Young Rascals.

Although he was a member of Joey Dee and the Starliters, known for their hit "Peppermint Twist", he is best known for his association with the Young Rascals during the 1960s. The other members of the Rascals were Eddie Brigati, Dino Danelli and Gene Cornish. Cavaliere sang vocals on six of their successful singles and played the Hammond B-3 organ.

Early life and education
Cavaliere was born to an Italian-American family in Pelham, New York on November 29, 1942. At an early age, he studied piano at the Allaire School of Music at his mother's behest from age 6 until her death when he was 14. He enrolled at Syracuse University in the early 1960s as a pre-med major and performed at fraternity and sorority parties with his band The Escorts. At the beginning of his junior year, he left Syracuse to pursue an opportunity to be a musician at a Borscht Belt resort in the Catskills. He was friends with poet and songwriter Stephen Kalinich, and they both were in the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.

Career
He joined The Stereos, and moved on to form The Escorts, while attending Syracuse. He later produced albums by other artists such as Laura Nyro and Jimmie Spheeris.

Between 1965 and 1972, Cavaliere played keyboards and sang for The Young Rascals and The Rascals. They achieved three US #1 hits.

Following a pair of solo efforts, Cavaliere recorded under the band name Treasure and released a self-titled AOR-styled album in 1977 which featured future Kiss member Vinnie Vincent on guitar. Cavaliere had a solo hit with "Only a Lonely Heart Sees" (1980), which reached No. 36 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 2 on the Adult Contemporary chart. Cavaliere and former Rascals bandmate Dino Danelli joined Steve Van Zandt to record Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul's album, Men Without Women (1982). However, Cavaliere strongly disputes this and claims that he was never a member of Little Steven's band.

He recorded Dreams in Motion in 1994, produced by Don Was. During 1995, Cavaliere was a touring member of Ringo Starr's third All-Starr Band. Cavaliere can be seen playing keyboard in the official video for "Hey Girl" by Billy Joel, a cover version of the Carole King song, recorded by Billy Joel in 1997 to add to his Greatest Hits Volume III compilation. The track was released as a single, but Cavaliere was not playing on the recording.

On October 15, 2006, he inducted Vanilla Fudge into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame. In 2008, he recorded an album with Steve Cropper, Nudge it Up a Notch, which was released July 29, 2008. He continues to tour as Felix Cavaliere's Rascals. On April 24, 2010, all four members of the Rascals reunited for the Kristen Ann Carr benefit, which was held at New York's Tribeca Grill.

Cavaliere reunited with his bandmates when the Rascals appeared at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, New York, for six shows in December 2012 and for fifteen dates at the Richard Rodgers Theatre on Broadway (April 15 – May 5, 2013). Their current production, entitled "Once Upon A Dream", is currently touring North America (Toronto, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Chicago, Detroit, Rochester, and New York City). It is produced by long-time Rascals' fans Steven Van Zandt and his wife Maureen.

He appeared with Billy Joel at Madison Square Garden on May 28, 2015.

In 2017 and 2018, Cavaliere was a spokesperson in a television infomercial for the Time Life The 60s Music CD collection.

Awards and honors
In 1993, Cavaliere was inducted into the Syracuse Area Music Awards Hall of Fame.

In 1997, Cavaliere was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the (Young) Rascals.

On June 18, 2009, Cavaliere, along with former writing partner Eddie Brigati, was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame for having "changed the direction of pop music in 1965".

In 2014, he was inducted into the Hammond Hall of Fame.

Cavaliere was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum in 2019.

Personal life
Cavaliere was married to Mary Theresa (Thompson) Cavaliere for 30 years and had three daughters with her. Cavaliere's daughter, Aria Cavaliere, is a singer based in Nashville, Tennessee. He also has four grandchildren. He lives in Nashville, with his current wife Donna Lewis.

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J. Alexander (model)

Alexander Jenkins (born April 12, 1958 ), known as J. Alexander or Miss J, is an American reality television personality and runway coach best known for his work on America's Next Top Model.

Early life
Alexander was born in the South Bronx, New York City to Julius and Mary Jenkins and cites his mother as the first person to introduce him to fashion.

As a teenager, he turned to modeling when he met the president of Elite Model Management, Monique Pillard. Pillard was so impressed with his look that she signed him to her agency, and he walked for designer Jean Paul Gaultier in New York City. Alexander is gay. Alexander met Tyra Banks backstage at a runway show, and he began to give Banks walking lessons. Banks coined Alexander's title "Queen of the Catwalk".

Career
Alexander's career as a runway coach began accidentally; he would coach models backstage and eventually became recognized for his skills as a coach. He has been coaching and casting since 1991. He rose to prominence in this field when he coached supermodel Naomi Campbell and model Kimora Lee Simmons. He has also worked with models Nadja Auermann, Claudia Mason and Julia Stegner.

After a modeling stint in Tokyo, he eventually decided to settle in Paris and since 1991, has helped with casting and coaching models for well-known designers such as Hervé Léger, Lars Nilsson, Bill Blass, Valentino, John Galliano, Chanel, Alexander McQueen, and Nina Ricci.

Alexander travels globally for charity events and modeling competitions. His expertise is frequently sought after by journalists.

America's Next Top Model
Alexander appeared on every cycle of the television program America's Next Top Model as the runway coach to the contestants. He was made a judge starting with Cycle 5. As of Cycle 14 of the show, Alexander was replaced as a permanent judge on the panel by Vogue editor at large André Leon Talley. Alexander stayed on as the show's runway coach and has appeared in many of the international versions of the show.

Alexander's nickname "Miss J" (or "Siss' J" after the word sister) came from Cycle 1 contestant Robin Manning, who often confused Alexander and Jay Manuel and on several occasions referred to Alexander as "Miss J" by accident because of his flamboyant clothing (Alexander often dresses in drag and usually wears a skirt and high heels during runway walking training) and personality. Accordingly, Jay Manuel is referred to as "Mr. Jay", and ANTM contestants often call them "The Jays", "The Two Jays" or "Mr. and Miss. Jay" when they appear together. In 2008, the Jays were cast in Operation Fabulous, a show to make over "plain Janes" similar to Queer Eye For The Straight Guy, also produced by Tyra Banks.

He has also appeared on international versions of Top Model, such as Canada's Next Top Model, Holland's Next Top Model, Korea's Next Top Model, Estonia's Next Top Model and Scandinavia's Next Top Model. Alexander appeared on the 4 May 2008 episode of Finland's version of ANTM Suomen huippumalli haussa. In 2009 and the 2011 final, Alexander appeared on Britain's Next Top Model.

On April 20, 2012, Alexander's contract with America's Next Top Model expired alongside photographer turned director Nigel Barker and Jay Manuel.

In May 2020, Alexander and Manuel began a weekly Instagram Live series, later syndicated to Facebook and YouTube, based on their experiences working on the show.

Designer
Alexander is also interested in designing and has handmade all his clothes on America’s Next Top Model with the exception of the nurse’s outfit: "I did make the hat and the bag." "All the dresses that you see me wear at the challenges, I actually sit down with a needle and thread, not even with a sewing machine, and make them all by hand. I made the ruffles and everything."

Personal life
Alexander has stated on The Tyra Banks Show that he has a son named Boris. Both Alexander and his ex-boyfriend donated sperm to a French lesbian who wanted a child, and Alexander's ex is the biological father. Alexander has said that he has a "very active role" in Boris' life. He has even joked that his "fashion genes" must have rubbed off on Boris.

In 2010, Alexander wrote Follow the Model: Miss J's Guide to Unleashing Presence, Poise, and Power, which "shares his story and offers tips on how to be more confident".

Alexander was featured in the track Jay Walk (feat. Miss Jay Alexander) on Leikeli47's album Shape Up (2022).

Publications

 * Follow the Model: Miss J's Guide to Unleashing Presence, Poise, and Power (Simon & Schuster, 2010), 1439150516, 9781439150511.

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P.R. (TV series)

P.R. was a Canadian television sitcom, which aired on CBC Television in 2000. The show starred Diane Flacks as Alexandra Reed and Ellie Harvie as Jill Hayes, partners in a public relations firm.

Fiona Reid also starred as office manager Dierdre Duncan, a mysterious older British woman in the vein of The Avengers’ Emma Peel, who frequently hints at a shady past.

The show was widely characterized in the media as a Canadian adaptation of Absolutely Fabulous, although its humour was much less campy.

The show ended after 13 episodes.

Synopsis
P.R. stars Diane Flacks, Ellie Harvie, and Fiona Reid, as high-profile public relations representatives in this behind-the-scenes look at the industry people love to hate. Alex Reed (Diane Flacks) is a fast-talker, liar, partier, and owner of Alexandra Reed & Associates, an up-and-coming metropolitan public relations firm. She and her partner (Ellie Harvie) create news and hype events to publicize an elite list of actors and celebrities. As their careers spin out of control, their personal lives do, as well, leading to many quirky misadventures.

Cast

 * Diane Flacks as Alexandra Reed
 * Ellie Harvie as Jill Hayes
 * Fiona Reid as Deirdre Duncan
 * Mike Beaver as Benny
 * Julia Paton as Marci Reed

Episode list

 * 1) "The Interview"
 * 2) "Deirdre's Day"
 * 3) "What About Me?"
 * 4) "Designing Women"
 * 5) "All About Eve"
 * 6) "Child's Play"
 * 7) "The Model Client"
 * 8) "Black from the Dead"
 * 9) "You've Got a Friend"
 * 10) "Forgiveness and Other Phalasies"
 * 11) "Cheap Skate"
 * 12) "Smoke and Mirrors"
 * 13) "It's Not Nice to Fool Mother Nature"

DVD release
The whole series was released on DVD by the show's production company Sullivan Entertainment. It can be purchased on the production company's website.

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User:R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine)

Remember kidz; REAL encyclopedias don't need footnotes!

You say you'll change the Constitution, well ya know, why don't you go ahead!
Hi, Welcome to my ex-userpage on the Infobahn's largest truckstop restroom wall!

I'm a retired field marshall, grand admiral, Astronaut, Bare-knuckle boxing Champ and Harlem Globetrotter. I hold PHDs in nuclear physics, Phrenology, business, philosophy, medicine, law and, of course, theology.

In my spare time I'm a rockstar, the pope and a costumed crime fighter.

But of course all this is really just an elaborate ruse...a fnord if you will, to protect my true identity as Jimmy Hoffa and Keyser Söze.

in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility--Joseph Goebbels

For those inquiring minds who wonder about my continued status here, User:Snickersnee put it quite well; ''I'm keeping my account - as long as WP exists, I reserve the right to participate. Just don't mistake me for a true believer.'' As with any ghost I will vanish and reappear at will. If you wish to contact this spirit, please do so via this hybrid user/talkpage by simply leaving your message below at the bottom. There is also Gmail and/or a Ouijaboard, whichever you find most convenient.

Official Wikimotto:Sapere Aude or Póg Mo Thóin!

Alternatively:Encyclopedias are written with brains and pens, not mops and brooms.--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 13:03, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

RFA thanks
Thanks for your support in my RFA, that didn't quite make it and ended at 120/47/13. There was a ton of great advice there, that I'm going to go on. Maybe someday. If not, there are articles to write! Thanks for your support. Lawrence § t/e 18:04, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

Contacting you
I see that you've mentioned contacting you via Gmail or Ouijaboard. But I don't have a Ouijaboard and I didn't see an e-mail address. Are you out there? Neo? BobDysart (talk) 22:09, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Hey!
Lol, I see you're more active than I am these days, even with your retired banner. Just thought I'd stop by and say hi to an old friend. I'm over at WikiHow now. It's much more relaxing for me - anything to keep the mind occupied eh? Cheers, Spawn Man (talk) 12:32, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

 * I just listen to nice songs like this and I cheer up...especially with 100 emails a day at times... Casliber (talk · contribs) 09:28, 2 July 2009 (UTC)

Wales/ArbCom RFC
RDH, I've moved your second comment in the partial support section up to your first comment in the support section to avoid double counting. I hope you don't mind. Tony  (talk)  05:51, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Aimed at me?
I assune this was aimed at me. I don't understand why. Can you explain please? William M. Connolley (talk) 14:34, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

 * Why no, of course not! Perish the thought dear sir! Besides, given your trigger happy record with your block button, I'd be foolish to do so.--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 15:28, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

 * It was a serious question. Apparently, you're happy to fling insults and then retreat into jocularity. This does your reputation no good William M. Connolley (talk) 15:35, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

 * Within your circles, sir, I'm quite sure my reputation is beyond repair. But in others, I would gladly place it up against yours any day.--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 15:58, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

 * You care about your accuracy to this extent so that is good William M. Connolley (talk) 16:05, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

Writers it seems to me should be thoroughly ashamed of nonsensical errors...They should therefore strive above all to become masters of the whole craft of history, for to do so is good; but if this be out of their own power, they should give the closest attention to what is most necessary and important (Accuracy and clarity).--Polybius

 * Oh, come with old Khayyam, and leave the Wise / To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; / One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies; / The Flower that once has blown for ever dies. William M. Connolley (talk) 21:37, 13 July 2009 (UTC)

 * Oh my, I think I'm becoming a god!--Vespasian

Good notion
"1. It is the hard working editors who most need to take a more active role in Wiki-politics. Otherwise it will continue to be dominated by bureaucrats, process wonks, wiki-lawyers, zealots, Jimbots, IRC fairies and, yes, worst of all, naval geezers  navel gazers.--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 09:06, 14 July 2009 (UTC)"

I would've phrased this differently, but I think you have the right idea here. Alternatively, those of us who are active can find a way to work better for them.--Tznkai (talk) 02:01, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

 * (Well I'm sure there are some groups I left out ;) Indeed, and try to represent their best interests as best we can, while trying also to raise their awareness of what's going on, especially if it effects them. The current system (such as it is) does a terrible job at both and, as you point out, simply staying out of their way. Part of the reason for this is it is so easy to create new red-tape policies and bureaucratic fiefdoms, but it is very difficult to dismantle them.--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 09:38, 16 July 2009 (UTC)

Constitution
In case you're not still watching the Governance page, this would be of interest to you I think, and based on what you said this would be of particular interest. As a side note, would you consider using a talkpage again? Talkpages have built-in links for creating new sections. With this setup, one runs the risk of edit conflicts as one must edit an extant section or the whole page in order to leave a new message. → ROUX   ₪  17:58, 17 July 2009 (UTC)

 * Thank you, I'll have a look. Glad to see someone else believes that an ENWiki Constitution is an overdue idea whose time is coming. As for the talkpage-some use their talkpages as userpages, I chose to do the opposite. Sorry for the minor inconvenience, but I like my lil hybrid page; it's 50% more fool efficient!--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 10:29, 18 July 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the insight
Although I have been on Wikipedia since May 2006, I have never understood what was going on relative to the behind-the-scenes stuff. For a long time, I did not even know there was a behind-the-scenes. Your post was most enlightening. I think I better understand now (a little bit). The only part I already knew about was the Essjay controversy. I read through Durova's Sekret Evidence but don't know what to make of it. After a year or so, I did begin to understand that there were secret mailing lists and IRC channels; I don't know whether they continue or not. Anyway, thanks for the insight into some past history that may drive current opinion and behavior. Regards, — Mattisse (Talk) 14:52, 21 July 2009 (UTC)

 * Why thank you! It is always nice to get unexpected appreciation, especially from an unexpected source! Unfortunately, the one I targeted it at did not appreciate it as much. I admit, like all histories, it reflects the biases of its author. And it does simplify for the sake of summary. So by all means, I encourage you to do your own research and reach your own conclusions (that's what I did:).

 * For more on L'affair De La Durova Et !! I suggest starting with this fine article by Cade Metz of The Register. In fact, I highly recommend all of his articles on Wikipedia. Of course there are also my dear old friends over at WikiTruth. I learned a tremendous amount from them about Wiki's dysfunctionalities. I'm also grateful to them for all the many laughs they have served up, because, well the truth can hurt. Although their site is no longer active, I can't recommend them enough. The Wikipedia Review occasionally gets some good scoops and heads-ups (most notably on Essjay) but at day's end it is only another web forum with a low Signal-to-noise ratio, so you really have to wade through a lot of muck to find the good nuggets. You may not see the forrest, but you will bump into many trees while trying to there. Finally, I humbly submit for your consideration my own Wiki-critical blog. It contains many select links to the above-mentioned sites and many others, along with my own rantings, ravings and poor attempts at insight with humor.

 * It is often difficult for us proles down in the trenches to know what's going on within the hallowed bowels of Olympus (and, make no mistake, they LIKE it that way). I'm fortunate to have some well-placed sources I've cultivated over the years, who have proven invaluable in helping me to separate the real from the rumor, though at times even they, themselves, have had difficulty telling the difference.

 * While the power of the secret mailing lists and IRC channels has diminished, they still exert an undue and unsavory influence, as exemplified by their effective killing of the nascent ACPD. I'm glad to see another working editor has now taken an active interest in Wiki-governance. It has become a big deal too important for us to ignore anymore!--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 11:19, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

 * Thanks! I did notice your reply and read the articles you suggested. Wikipolitics overwhelm me and I tend to get a little depressed if I read too much about them. Recently I was accused of being devious in ways that I could not even fathom, so now I have a glimmer of what I was supposed to be doing (among other things, something about intentionally sabotaging AN/I through technical expertise, which I assure you I am incapable of knowing how to do). Also, I was reflexively against the council selected by some of the arbcom members, based on personal experience, but it seems you are for it. Is this because you know and trust the members? I think there are people in high places, including arbcom, that should not be there. But, as I said, I am going on personal experience and do not know about the corruption of any. I just see some very poor judgement and collusion. Are you pessimistic about the future? Regards, — Mattisse  (Talk) 16:26, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

 * Pessimistic? A bit, yes. But not as much as I was...in fact I'm optimistic enough to remove that ominous-looking Retired sign from off the top of this page. Remember, Wikipedia is more than Jimbo, or the cabals or the ArbCom or all the drama llamas. The overwhelming majority of visitors come here seeking fast information. Most of them neither know nor care how poorly this place is governed. That is why, ultimately, the contributors of quality content will always matter more than any Convocation of Politic Worms.

 * I do confess to taking a certain perverse pleasure at the scandals which expose those worms...those sad, pale mushroom people who fear the light. What truly frustrates and disheartens me, though, is when the quality contributors are under-appreciated, harassed, abused and even persecuted. Or when these talented, yet often temperamental, individuals start warring with one another over some trivial matter or misunderstanding which could be very easily shrugged off. We should be on the same side-fighting to improve the encyclopedia and the way it is run! But getting Wikipedians to agree on that is tantamount to herding cats:).

 * That being said, I must also confess to you that I do know certain key members of the ACDP, a few for years in fact. They are all good, hard working types whose judgment I've come to trust implicitly and whose characters I will gladly attest to. I believe you would too if you gave them a chance, but perhaps I'm being too optimistic there;). There are also one or two sitting Arbs (and a whole slew of former ones) I would not mind see standing before the AC as defendants either.

 * Awake still? If so congrats;) One major reason I changed my major from History, is something my mentor, Dr. Conradt; a Poli-Sci prof, once told me-Our job is to speak truth to power. Whether power wants to hear it or not...especially if not. As reformers and agitants, that is our lot too, and our rock. But we must take care as to which battles we chose to fight, namely the important ones and the ones we know we can win:). With best regards,--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 16:28, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

From a possum that has somehow survived the info autobahn
I like the idea of speaking truth to...(sudden darkness). Please carry on...Novickas (talk) 19:12, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

 * Will do, and welcome to the party Speedbump!;-)--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 14:34, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Comment at Vote
There's an instruction not to include a comment with one's vote on oversighters. I share your opposition to Mr.Z-man, but ask you to remove the comment in order to conform to protocol. —SlamDiego←T 12:17, 9 August 2009 (UTC)

 * Too late.--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 01:39, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Hindenburg
Given that you've been around since 2005, I'm sure you know that disruption to prove a point is prohibited. Let's not play games. Parsecboy (talk) 12:56, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

 * Games?! Games?! This is not a game! This is serious fucking business! We are assembling all the world's knowledge for that poor starving kid in Africa! And you are so heartless as to call it a game! For shame!--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 13:16, 19 August 2009 (UTC)

Edit summaries
Hi RDH. It might be best to tone it down a bit in future edit summaries. New editors might get the wrong idea. Cheers, – Juliancolton  | Talk 03:21, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

 * Thank you, now go do something useful.--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 03:47, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Well, I'm doing a bit of work over at Commons at the moment which is rather useful. Would you like to help? We could always use more participants! – Juliancolton  | Talk 03:53, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry but I'm currently working on North Carolina class battleship. Besides, every time I've tried to help out on the Commons, some admin with limited English capabilities has threatened to punch my ticket. Wish it were otherwise. Cheers,--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 04:00, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Looks like a nice article. If you need any help with copyediting, feel free to ping me on my talk page. Regards, – Juliancolton  | Talk 04:04, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Tis indeed a nice arty, but it's not really mine, I'm just adding some minor details to help it cruise safely through Class-A Review. It is nearly done now, bot thanks for the offer:)--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 08:24, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Boba Phat
Hi R.D.H. (Ghost in the Machine) -

I just wanted to thank you for your helping to support the notability of the Boba Phat article. It is clear that there IS quite a bit of significant sourcing; I am fully appreciative of your adding your 2¢ to help support this from an objective standpoint.... not to mention your Sonny Lester reference made me laugh out loud. You rock!

Very Best SheighZam (talk) 12:16, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
 * You're most welcome M'dear! I truly believe that Boba Phat has as much place here as Mr. Lester. Our opponents seem to think that including Mr. Phat somehow lessens Wikipedia's encyclopedic tone. I don't see how it does any more than promoting Super Smash Bros. Brawl to featured status and displaying it on the mainpage. Plus, as I stated, deletionistas really got no soul ;)...Rock on!--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 09:06, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

 * I don't know how to give cookies or any of that stuff yet, but I have a high five here for you :) Just starting to learn about this deletionist sect, and now it appears as though editors (I may be wrong by presuming the reference is to me, but I'm probably taking it way too personally as this IS my article!) are being accused of issuing more than 1 vote, which to me is preposterous. Apparently if there is ANY factionalism at all, it is those who all know each other on here for some time, and ban together to fight against an article that has, like you said, more notability than quite a number of the already-approved articles. So here's that High five!
 * SheighZam (talk) 09:29, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Well as a diabetic I really should refrain from cookies, but I still love em so thanks regardless! I've always said that there are two basic groups on WP-those who want to add or improve content and those who want to control it. The deletionistas tend to fall into the latter category. What better way to control something than to have it destroyed. Besides, creating quality, non-cut & pasted articles is hard damn labor, right? It takes hours or even days. But it only takes minutes, or even seconds, to nominate something for deletion. And maybe a few minutes more lobbying one's friends to join the party and bring some kerosene. So now we have this firmly entrenched culture of deletion...with cliques, bureaucracy and a mega bong load of guidelines concerning what makes something or someone worthy of inclusion. So damn right there's factionalism here alright....out the yin yang in fact. Even though There isn't supposed to be...just as we are not supposed to take things personally here...and yet we do. Such is the nature of us beasts known as humans:) High five back at ya along with a 'Bama Bump--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 11:24, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

Invitation to participate in SecurePoll feedback and workshop
As you participated in the recent Audit Subcommittee election, or in one of two requests for comment that relate to the use of SecurePoll for elections on this project, you are invited to participate in the SecurePoll feedback and workshop. Your comments, suggestions and observations are welcome. For the Arbitration Committee, Risker (talk) 08:31, 12 November 2009 (UTC)

Please redact
Hey there. The first of these is really, really inappropriate. Please consider redacting it yourself. — Coren (talk) 16:42, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * It's been removed. Please don't try to replace it. Dougweller (talk) 17:01, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

 * No those are highly relevant questions. Sorry but I don't see how they are inappropriate at all. Mr. Bauder does not have to answer them if he does not wish.--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 17:13, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * However relevant you may feel them, the first question is considerably far out of bounds.--Tznkai (talk) 17:14, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * If and when the block evasion stops and there is some sort of assurance the repeated asking of the clearly indicated as innapporpriate question will stop, we can talk about the second one which seems to fall rather neatly in "irritating, but acceptable."--Tznkai (talk) 17:40, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * You mean if I promise to be a good boy and STFU? Very well...but how am I supposed to do that without committing block evasion. Catch 22.
 * You log into your account and request an unblock.--Tznkai (talk) 18:08, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * (On your user talk page. Just override the redirect)--Tznkai (talk) 18:11, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

As an election clerk and administrator I have deleted your addition of the questions and your repost after warning, on the grounds of inappropriate posting of personal information. Skomorokh, barbarian   17:24, 23 November 2009 (UTC) You have been blocked indefinitely from editing for Using Wikipedia as a battleground, specifically by using the 2009 arbitration elections as a vehicle for personally directed attacks that far exceed Wikipedia norms. diff (admin viewable only). If you think there are good reasons why you should be unblocked, you may appeal this block by adding below this notice the text, but you should read the guide to appealing blocks first. We allow a stupendous amount of crap to go on in elections, but this was too far, and you were told so by multiple parties.--Tznkai (talk) 17:26, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

(Sigh) R.D.H just emailed me to promise he will be good and not cause any more unnecessary fuss. He tells me he is unable to post on the page (??). Casliber (talk · contribs) 19:43, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * It seems he asked Fred Bauder a question, which was oversighted and he was indeffed. From what I saw of it at the time, it was nothing not in the public domain and widely known on Wikipedia anyway, I did not see any lies. Nasty old things politics.  Giano   19:49, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Not oversighted, deleted.--Tznkai (talk) 20:02, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * He is unable to post on this page because this is a userpage. He is perfectly able to post on his User Talk page, which is currently a redirect here. He has elected not to do so. The Wordsmith Communicate 19:59, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * @Casliber was his promise to be good, whatever that means, come before or after this? I mean, I don't mind increasing WR's membership at all, its more the lack of any coherent understanding of what was problematic. As long as he gets that this isn't just my power trip, but also because of his conduct, that would assuage me that the indef is no longer needed.--Tznkai (talk) 20:08, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * (sigh) before as far as I can tell, unless there is a goof with summertime. I was asleep at 5-6 am my time (Sydney). If I were not going to work in a minute I'd flip these user and user:talk pages myself. (bangs head on keyboard a few times) Casliber (talk · contribs) 20:13, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Unblocked, but still a bit wary. RDH will have to tell me what IP blocks to undo as well.--Tznkai (talk) 20:18, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Good, I think that is fair. However, in his candidate statement Fred Bauder does say "As I have in the past, I will use my legal training and experience..." I think it needs to be clarified if that subject is off limits regarding questioning; otherwise, some other unfortunate is going to fall into the same hole as RDH. If that is the case, perhaps Fred should be asked to remove references to real life, especially those he finds sensitive.  Giano   20:51, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * That does need to be clarified, and we should discuss it in this thread. I'm not sure about the other editors who spoke out against the content RDH posted, but I have not heard from or seen the opinions of Fred Bauder on this issue.  Skomorokh,  barbarian   20:54, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
 * OK, I have posted there. I had hoped such a delicate matter could be handled here a little more discretely.  Giano   21:05, 23 November 2009 (UTC)

Ghost Responds
Tznkai, you have checkuser powahs, baby. You can look up my lil ol IP anytime you fancy. But I shall leave that up to you. IF I really wish an unblock, I'll mail the request along with my IP on to an admin of whom I have, shall we say, a more favorable opinion. However, my promise to behave here is still good. I will only abide by it, please note, because I made it to Cas and Giacomo. My word to them, and appreciation for their coming to my defense, is what will enforce my behavior, not any threats from you or yours.

I'm still mulling my options...is it really worth it, to come back to WP? It is certainly no longer a very fun, welcoming, warm place...what police state is?! Maybe being unbanned yet still IP banned is the ideal state for me on WP. I have now joined the Review...and my first post there may contain der verboden question that dare not speak its name here. A whole lotta eyeballs would see it then...maybe even more than here. Or I may agree to a compromise and, with your excellency's kind permission, still pose my second (actually second and third) annoying question to Mr. Bauder.

Us ghosts have many options and all this drama is givin me teh vapors! I do appreciate the official unblock...though now posting from an IP is not as much fun, since it is no longer evasion. Ghost posting from--4.100.68.115 (talk) 12:48, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't use my amazing and stupendous, and awesome, and did I mention privacy violating tools except in very particular circumstances, but thanks for the invitation anyway. (The tool is in fact, not awesome or amazing or stupendous, but it does violate privacy). What you do on WR or anywhere else not here is really outside of my concern, care, or ability to do anything about. I do feel however, that its important that I point out a few things, not to you, but to anyone else who is reading and is interested in the civics aspect of this: I'm not part of the police, Wikipedia isn't a state (I prefer Max Weber's definition, and even if you wanted to make the label a metaphor or better yet, transform it into a simile, this website allows near complete mobility, users to argue things that are patently wrong, throw mud at the super powered staff, post long rants like the one immediately above, we have no secret admins that I'm aware of (and the existence of secret police is never all that secret, that would be how they operate, it is "fear will keep the local systems in line. Fear of this battle station").
 * Yes, I did just mix a reference to one of the greatest minds in all of social science to Star Wars. Why? Because Weber proves talked about weighty things, which is what you are trying to make a block on editing a website sound like. Star Wars is not a weighty thing, it is entertainment, and yet people get really worked up about it, which is actually what goes on at Wikipedia.--Tznkai (talk) 20:03, 24 November 2009 (UTC)

 * Well someone with amazing and stupendous, and awesome supah powahs has unzapped my IP. If not you, I wonder who? I admit I was wrong to call Wikipedia a state. It is more like unto an Ochlocracy, or Bartertown with a legal system only half as elegant and refined. And indeed sir, you are not a policeman but a janitor, who has been given police powers due to a flawed and underdeveloped system of governance. And while there may not be a secret police Per Se, ORTS seems quite capable of performing that function when the need arises. I'm glad you brought up Star Wars, though...I'm a big fan boy (literally), plus it gives me the perfect opportunity to paraphrase one of its best lines; The more you tighten your grip, Tznkai, the more users will slip through your fingers. I'm pretty sure ol Max Weber, like most esteemed scholars and academics, would view Wikipedia with disdain...or bemoan it, as do I, as a great idea brought down by flawed implementation.--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 12:02, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't know who unblocked your IP, since I don't know what your IP is. If I did however, I'd be able to look it up in the publicly open unblock log. I see that you've rephrased the questions more artfully, even if there is a a lot amount of question begging, it falls neatly within the amount of political silliness that we tolerate on Wikipedia as well as in life. So, thank you for that, even though I know you did it in spite of your opinion of me, not because of it. --Tznkai (talk) 20:42, 25 November 2009 (UTC)

 * I certainly have my faults...sarcasm, stubbornness and ill-temper amongst them. But at day's end, I like to think I'm reasonable. For future reference for all you Wiki admins and wanna-be's reading this; It is not best practice to make threats, cajoling and bans your first recourse when dealing with reasonable people. When we are all banished or driven away guess what, asides from yourselves, Wikipedia will be left with...--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 17:47, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Out of curiosity, if I were to describe someone as sarcastic, stubborn, and ill-tempered, would you put them in the "likley to be reasonable" or "unlikley to be reasonable" categories? I happen to be of the belief that all people are reasonable over all, but are often not when you'd like, or even need them to be. As it happens, I generally agree that blocks and bans are poor tools, cudgels when scalpels are needed, but when something appears time sensitive, one acts with the tools available. In the end though, why complain? Your questions got asked and answered, your block is gone, and you've found a receptive audience off-site?--Tznkai (talk) 18:13, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Just as reasonable as someone who uses phrases such as We allow a stupendous amount of crap to go on in elections, and employs such blunt tools as a first resort, even though he, admittedly, knows better. But you are right...it all ended pretty well. I have found a new haunt where I'm having much fun and making many new friends. And I have you to thank for it...thank you;)--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 01:50, 9 December 2009 (UTC)

I'll take the penismightier for $100, Trebeck!
Heh, RDH, just remember, the pen is mightier than the sword (that's what you were getting at, right?) Casliber (talk · contribs) 13:22, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 * You Grok well my brother! Of course us Military History types tend to have both...it doesn't hurt;)--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 13:35, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Aah, good ol' Heinlein, bless him for some seriously deeply-grody-to-the-max verbage :) Casliber (talk · contribs) 13:59, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

 * PS: The word does encapsulate rather well what goes on here in some cool collaborations, esp. at FAC :) Casliber (talk · contribs) 14:01, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Yes, Heinlein is a seriously froody dude. — Coren (talk) 17:13, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

.....who really knew where his towel was at :) Casliber (talk · contribs) 19:58, 1 December 2009 (UTC)

 * We need more groking and fewer Vogons on here dammit!;)--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 16:44, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * NYB does poetry so he can play the Vogon (?) :) Casliber (talk · contribs) 19:37, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
 * Well he is rather bureaucratic and officious...but he's far too considerate and thoughtful to be considered a member of that species. Besides, the thought of him doing Beat poetry is hysterical.--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 20:23, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Notification: Proposed 'Motion to Close' at Wikipedia:Community de-adminship/Draft RfC
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Community de-adminship/Draft RfC re: a 'Motion to close', which would dissolve Cda as a proposal. The motion includes an !vote. You have previously commented at WikiProject Administrator. Jusdafax 22:19, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Community de-Adminship - finalization poll for the CDA proposal
After tolling up the votes in the revision proposals, it emerged that 5.4 had the most support, but elements of that support remained unclear, and various comments throughout the polls needed consideration.

A finalisation poll (intended, if possible, to be one last poll before finalising the CDA proposal) has been run to;

 * gather opinion on the 'consensus margin' (what percentages, if any, have the most support) and

 * ascertain whether there is support for a 'two-phase' poll at the eventual RfC (not far off now), where CDA will finally be put to the community. Matt Lewis (talk) 01:21, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia at its worse:

Written by the unwell, read by the unwise.

Wikipedia at its best:

Do I look like a fortune teller?

 * How can I resist a request from one so insightful:)--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 14:47, 20 January 2010 (UTC)

The RfC on the Community de-Adminship proposal has begun
The RfC on the Community de-Adminship    proposal was  started  on the 22nd Feb, and it runs for 28 days. Please note that the  existing CDA proposal was (in the end) run as something of a working   compromise, so CDA is still largely being  floated as an idea.

Also note that, although the  RfC is in 'poll format' (Support, Oppose, and  Neutral, with Comments  underneath), this RfC is still essentially a  'Request for Comment'. Currently, similar comments on CDA's value are being made under all three polls.

Whatever you vote, your vote is welcome!

Regards, Matt Lewis (talk) 11:18, 4 March 2010 (UTC)

Hey!
Hey RDH. It's your long lost buddy Spawn Man. Been a long time right? I see some things never change (IE you battling with the powers that be). ; ) Drop me an email some time. Just thought I'd come back to see how everyone was - most of my old wikibuddies are all decommissioned. Shame. Well hope to see you around dude! : ) Cheers, 130.123.192.23 (talk) 05:35, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Well ya know, the powers that-be still need a-fightin...since they refuse the honor of unconditional surrender and all. I saw you mentioned over on our mutual Cas' page that you were bored...damn must have been super bored to come back to this depressing place. You see how long it has been since I've checked in. Still at least we've found other, more fun ways to waste spend our time eh:) Cheers M8,--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 08:13, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
 * My ears were burning....ouch Casliber (talk · contribs) 12:02, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Yeah well I was thinking of coming back eventually. It does seem to be a more depressing place looking around but now that I'm at university doing my photography degree I think I might be able to add something to the photography articles here to help students and young photographers like I once was with their projects. ; ) 124.197.16.150 (talk) 11:36, 6 January 2011 (UTC)

Boba Phat at AFD again
An AFD you participated in 6 months ago, is being done again. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Boba_Phat_(2nd_nomination)  D r e a m Focus  08:27, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

Milhist A-class and Peer Reviews Jun-Dec 2009

 * This must be a mistake! But nonetheless thanks Tom! I truly appreciate it seeing as it's been eons since I've gotten anything so nice on here. Tis good to see our MHP, instead of dispatching its old warhorses to the glue factory, allows them to graze freely and even throws them an occasional sugar cookie in appreciation.--R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 16:34, 3 September 2010 (UTC)

Hi!
Hey bro,

How are you? Long time no see. :D

Regards,

Spawn Man (talk) 12:53, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

Curiosity will not abate
Well, as the section header says, it just refuses to! I just wanted to say that I hope all is well, Ghost! I appear to have missed a tremendous amount of...er...acrimony. Your return would be much welcomed! Those were good days... SoLando (Talk) 23:24, 11 September 2013 (UTC)

Replying to old friends
Thanks for dropping by my cemetery to say hi Sol (and you too Spawn bro;)!

Good times indeed were those...and far too brief. But we still have our enduring friendships and fond memories, along with the Forlorn hope here of better times ahead.

Best to you m8's, Ghost

PS Apologies for my late response. Part of the reason was that accursed, buggy failure of a visual editor that was thrust down the community's throat by the usual band of misguided apparatchiks. The fault, dear Jimbo, lies not in our software but in ourselves- the HUMANWARE. So maybe you should try improving the culture and editing environment instead? But, as I said, that's a Forlorn hope. --R.D.H. (Ghost In The Machine) (talk) 15:10, 16 October 2013 (UTC)

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List of Karen

List of notable Karen people:
 * Cynthia Maung, doctor, winner of the Ramon Magsaysay Award
 * General Bo Mya, (1927–2006), Commander of the Karen National Union and former Chairman of the National Council of the Union of Burma
 * Johnny and Luther Htoo, boy soldiers
 * Naw Zipporrah Sein, Karen political activist
 * Tin Soe, political prisoner
 * Naw Phaw Eh Htar, Karen actress

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Cardinals from Argentina.

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