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WikiProject Canadian Sport
I'd love to help out with this project. Do we just start picking off the To Do List? -Coppercanuck (talk) 02:33, 3 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I have been adding to that list, working on re-organization of topics and then there will be plenty to do with cleaning up various articles. We need to clean up the discussion board on the project page and then all this discussion can go there. HalifaxRage (talk) 09:54, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

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Hi, I like that you are adding banners. As a favour, could you please use the template WikiProjectBannerShell when you are adding second or later project banners to a Talk page? It looks cleaner. Example: Cheers. ʘ alaney2k  ʘ ( talk ) 21:16, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Oh, and another favour. Could you please add the template 'Canadian English' too? That warns other editors to not substitute 'defenseman' for 'defenceman' for example. ʘ alaney2k  ʘ ( talk )

Project: Canadian Sport
Inoticed you recently updated an article dealing with Sport in Canada. You might be interested to know that there is a project aimed at improving articles on this subject. Feel free to stop by and help out, we'd love to have you! HalifaxRage (talk) 11:23, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

 * That is very kind of you, but the edit i made was merely removing vandalism; And unfortunately i know little to nothing of Canada as i have never been there myself. Best of luck with the wikiproject though! :) Excirial ( Contact me, Contribs ) 11:27, 19 March 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I'm a little new to Wikipedia article editing and all, and hope this doesn't break protocol, but I came across this interesting article regarding Jennifer Jones of the Canadian curling team, and followed links from that article until they led here to you. I didn't realize she was a lawyer! Here's the article:

http://www.lawyersweekly.ca/index.php?section=article&articleid=64

I hope it comes in handy! --Sapientialis (talk) 08:48, 25 March 2010 (UTC)

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Speedy deletion nomination of Baseball Canada
I appreciate the work you're doing, however I would also appreciate you not deleting this page. I am overhauling WP:CSPORT and many pages for governing bodies such as this one are either stubs or nonexistent so I will be filling them in as I go. For the time being I have moved this one along enough that it is no longer a one-line stub. Feel free to help out if you're interested in the project. HalifaxRage (talk) 06:01, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
 * It won't be deleted for now. Stifle (talk) 08:04, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

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So, I kinda went to town on the list of Blue Jays articles, and the category is now empty. It was a bit addictive to check on some of the older players, and others who were in Toronto for just a short while. Regards,  PK T (alk)  18:07, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I noticed the list was shrinking rapidly! And I know what you mean about the slight addiction. HalifaxRage (talk) 18:31, 4 February 2020 (UTC)

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Hibiscus clayi

Hibiscus clayi, common names red Kauai rosemallow, Clay's hibiscus or Kokiʻo ʻula (Hawaiian name), is a perennial angiosperm of the mallow family Malvaceae. This species has unique leaves that are round and toothed and grow in a decussate pattern.

Etymology
The generic name is derived from the Greek word ἱβίσκος (hibískos), which was the name Pedanius Dioscorides (ca. 40–90) gave to Althaea officinalis. The species name clayi honors Horace F. Clay, a horticulturalist of Hawaii.

Description
Hibiscus clayi is a shrub of 40 - 90 cm or a tree reaching a height of 4 - 8 m. Leaves are medium green, shiny, smooth-edged or slightly toothed on the tip. Single flowers are borne at the ends of the branches. They are showy, bright or dark red and they bloom all year around. Their flowers can be big with thin petals or they can also be compact with tiny, circular petals. They are generally similar to Hibiscus kokio. This plant is listed as endangered by USFWS.

Distribution and habitat
This plant is endemic to Hawaii. It can be found in nature only in the dry forest of Nounou Mountains in the eastern Kauaʻi, at an elevation of 50 - 600 m above sea level. The conservation status of H. clayi is listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List.

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Talk:Samoan Clipper

Bill Sage
I've moved the Bill Sage document here pending a cleanup I have on my to-do list.

According to Don Metzger, whose father Sam Metzger was a personal friend of Ed Musick, the Samoa Clipper developed some sort of engine problem shortly after taking off from Pago Pago Harbor in American Samoa's island of Tutuila. The S-42 was fully loaded with fuel, and was over the gross weight maximum required for a safe landing. Becasue of this, Captain Musick elected to dump fuel prior to setting her down.

Metzger told me that because of the weight and loss of power, the S-42 was circling the harbor with flaps extended to maintain the necessary lift while fuel dumping was in progress. Apparently, Sikorsky had never tested fuel dumping while flaps were fully extended, and the position of the fuel dump vents on the wing coupled with the shape of the airflow caused by the flaps extended created a sort of back eddy of vaporizing fuel which lingered and grew around the trailing edge of the wing.

Apparently, the vaporized fuel air mixture grew to a critical mass large enough and in close enough proximity to the engine exhaust manifold incandescent gases to create optimal conditions to detonate catastrophically. In other words, the dumped fuel and the hot engine exhausts created a fuel-air bomb large enough to blow the Samoa Clipper to bits, killing all on board.

I heard this explanation from Don Metzger when he was General Manager of KGU Radio in Honolulu back around 1985. He had a picture of his Dad Sam Mezger on the wall of his office showing him in a Glenn Curtiss Pusher. Don told me that Sam held U.S. Pilot's License #15, and when Ed Musick landed in Honolulu back in the mid 1930's, Don as a little boy had been given a tour of the S-42 by Captain Musick. Unfortunately, Don Passed away about a decade ago, but this is what he told me about the fate of the Samoa Clipper, to the best of my recollection.

Bill Sage, Honolulu sagecorp@lava.net

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Removed unsourced hearsay "explanation" from article which was not consistent with the official report.
I've just removed the old explanation for this accident, which was largely unsourced speculation. Most of its claims were not made in the official Bureau of Air Commerce report on this accident, which I grabbed from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's accident report archive and have uploaded to. The report's conclusions were far less definite, since there simply wasn't enough evidence available to arrive at a specific cause.

The explanation which was previously in the article came from an IP editor's uncited personal account back in 2005; it is repeated above in the section "Bill Sage". This account was then cleaned up by another editor. Since then the contents had remained mostly unchanged, apart from infobox additions and various detail edits.

Bill Sage's secondhand explanation, even though it is given as if the definitive cause had been determined, actually seems to be more of a speculative "just-so story". In fact the official report makes no mention of the flaps at all. Very little wreckage was recovered from the crash, and there was nothing to indicate the state of the flight controls. It's not at all clear that the flaps were even deployed or that there would have been any need for them. From what I've seen on figures for the performance of the original S-42, the S-42-B had plenty of reserve power and was perfectly capable of level flight on three engines without flaps, even at high gross weight, let alone while dumping fuel to lighten weight. (In Igor Sikorsky's 1934 speech to the Royal Aeronautical Society on the original S-42, he gives its three-engine service ceiling as 7,500 feet. Although the S-42-B was somewhat heavier, it also had more powerful engines and constant-speed propellers, so I'd expect it to perform similarly.) In fact, the accident report claimed that the Samoan Clipper should have already been below its maximum landing weight when dumping started. The real reason it was dumping fuel, again according to the report's reasoning, was because the topography of Pago Pago harbor, where the aircraft intended to land, required a steep landing approach, which made a lower landing weight highly desirable.

The report said nothing about how dumped fuel might interact with airflow around the wing. The supposition that airflow around the wing caused a cloud of fuel vapor to build up and blow up the airplane like a fuel-air bomb seems to be an invention without evidence. The report did consider it likely that the engine exhausts might have somehow ignited dumping fuel, but it also mentioned that other sources of ignition were possible. In the end it could not determine how the fire was started. Furthermore the sole eyewitness account and the wreckage that was found actually indicated that the plane did not immediately blow up at altitude, but rather landed or tried to land and exploded on or near the water's surface.

--Colin Douglas Howell (talk) 06:16, 18 December 2014 (UTC)

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Hi - I've just moved Conservative Party (UK) back to that page (probably causing a million broken links and dounle redirects). I think it's probably best off there as the official title is the "Conservative Party", and the (UK) is only appended to distinguish it from the Danish etc variants. Probably remiss of me not to explain that on the talk page but don't think "Conservative Party UK" was the right place for the page. Uncantabrigian 20:29, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
 * The page move was designed to make the page easier to find. :S It is disappointing to find that the article you are looking for does not exist when you search for it. Reason why?? Because the brackets, the apostrophes, the accents, and other diacritical remarks, (all of why may be typed, if you have a regular keyboard, and know the combination; I usually use a laptop, so the keyboard is somewhat limited), prevent your article from coming up on the screen...
 * That's not to say I disapprove of the reason why you moved the article, but the Wiki search engine makes life very hard indeed, especially when looking for British articles. If they don't show up immediately, they often don't show up at all, or only on page 10 of a v., v. long search. I'd rather not need to make a v. long search for the articles I want.
 * Besides, I thought the name of the party was the Conservative and Unionist Party?? (RM21 20:42, 25 June 2006 (UTC))

 * Hi - yes it is the "Conservative and Unionist Party" but (I assume you're British?) clearly its name is, effectively, the "Conservative Party". While omitting the brackets may make it a bit more difficult to find, it gives the misleading impression that the Party is actually called "Conservative Party UK", which it isn't. Also with the brackets is consistent with Labour Party (UK).

 * I think if you're having difficulty finding it, it's best to search for Conservative Party, then click the link one up from the bottom. Uncantabrigian 21:05, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes I am <:P>. I know what you're trying to say: if this was a printed book, then all articles would be expected to comply with grammatical conventions; certainly the name of the party at home is the Conservative Party. The only differentiation made is where there are other parties, as in an international context.

 * However, I think an aim of Wiki should be to make information as easy to find as possible, particularly non-American content. Also, when you are writing/creating links from articles (e.g. the Conservatives privatised this, this, and this...), it easier to build links to 'Conservative Party UK', rather than a more grammatically correct alternative. (RM21 21:15, 25 June 2006 (UTC))

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I liked your talk page comment on the Threads page. I've found a recent criticism of Threads but the user Nick Cooper continues to delete the addition. here's the Criticism of the movie- http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap1001/bartlett.htm Despite the authors personal liking of the movie and having many positive things to say about it, they also note that - impressing us with the horror of the impending end of the world by nuclear warfare is no guarantee that our being so impressed will produce a desire in us to help "save" ourselves, let alone "save the world" from nuclear weapons. Inasmuch as the esthetic of Threads elicits serious horror, it creates the side-effect of serious despair, a despair that inhibits ethical conduct and invites fatalism--ironically, the fatalism one would expect its makers not to wish having created. More than any nuclear warfare movie, Threads risks destroying our faith in human agency by insisting on the "unrelievedly bleak" & the viewer might feel propelled to supplement Hines and Jackson’s Threads with the possibility for hope it obliterates in its obliteration of civilized Sheffield and its natural ecology. Otherwise, the film’s horror has no ethical import, and its effect might amount to the pornography of violence wearing the mask of anti-nuclear "awareness."

& due to your comment on the talk page, I thought you might be interested in this- The 2010 paper by Melissa Smith -Architects of Armageddon: the Home Office Scientific Advisers- detailed research programmes lay behind the much-mocked government civil defence pamphlets of the 1950s and 1960s You'd probably like to give it a read? Don't have free access to the paper myself but if you do let me know if it mentions 'Threads'. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Boundarylayer (talk • contribs) 00:23, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

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