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X and Y values on French commune template
Trial and error I'm afraid... --Bob 16:18, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Got photoshop? Open the map in photoshop, and look at the "information" window - hover the (computer) pointer over where you want the "dot" to go. The coordinates there should be the good ones - I forget if you have to subtract thirteen... I should make a note of this on the template talk page, shouldn't I? Anyhow, good that you asked. THE PROMENADER  20:34, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

wikEd

Hi, I have seen that you are using the Cacycle editor extension. This program is no longer actively maintained in favor of its much more powerful successor wikEd.

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hi
Hi. I found you in categories of users who can contribute in English and Portuguese. I myself am a native speaker of English, but I'm well on my way to learning Portuguese. Just check out my user page and talk page, and join in any of the discussions. To keep updated, you can even put a watch on my user page, which will automatically watch my talk page. :-) learnportuguese (talk) 18:28, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

hi
Tu por aqui? :) --Waldir talk 22:03, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Re: Mapas do Brasil
Olá Giro! Eu não sei se há uma tendência ao degradê, contudo eu optei por este modelo para evitar o verde-vermelho nos mapas de diferenciação de valores. Eu dei uma olhada na lista, e aparentemente a legenda está correta. Nada que não possa ser melhorado. Quanto as mudanças no mapa: eu adicionei a Lagoa dos Patos, removi os outros países da América do Sul e reduzi a espessura das margens (fronteiras). Concordo com você em criar arquivos para cada ano, porém ando um pouco ocupado e não poderei fazê-lo. Talvez você queria tornar List of Brazilian states by gross domestic product um WP:FL... Atenciosamente; Felipe Menegaz 16:23, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Flag of Brazil
Olá... Na página "Flag of Brazil", o mapa Flag of Brazil (dimensions), está marcando o Sirius como estrela tamanho número (2), e o certo é Sirius (1). Então não mude novamente. Obrigado. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chafis (talk • contribs) 02:55, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

Flag of Brazil (dimensions), is marking as Sirius star size number (2), and right is Sirius (1). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chafis (talk • contribs) 03:21, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

bandeira de cuiabá
Olá... O nome da cidade dentro do brasão da bandeira estava torta, e o ano também... estava muito mais para direita do que o normal. Falowww... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chafis (talk • contribs) 05:32, 7 February 2011 (UTC)

File:2007 Pan American Games - participating nations.svg
Hi can you edit this map to remove the Netherlands Antilles? Thanks. Intoronto1125 Talk Contributions  00:48, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Sorry should have been more clear. I was going to use the map on the 2015 Pan American Games page, so maybe another map with the Netherlands Antilles removed? Intoronto1125 Talk Contributions   02:13, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry. Yes, I'll do it soon (maybe in the weekend). First, I'll check if the newer version of world map distinguish Sint Maarten and Curaçao (it may be usefull somehow). Giro720 (talk) 19:40, 27 August 2012 (UTC)

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Joseph Albright (journalist)

Joseph Medill Patterson Albright (né Reeve; born April 3, 1937) is an American retired journalist and author. A descendant of the Medill-Patterson media family, Albright wrote for the Chicago Sun-Times before becoming a reporter and executive at Newsday. He was later Washington and foreign correspondent for Cox Newspapers, receiving several journalism awards and nominations. Albright has authored three books; two with his wife, fellow reporter Marcia Kunstel. He was formerly married to Madeleine Korbel Albright, who later became the first female U.S. Secretary of State.

Early life
Albright was born Joseph Medill Patterson Reeve in New Orleans, on April 3, 1937, to lawyer Jay Frederick "Fred" Reeve and his wife Josephine Medill Patterson, a reporter and airplane pilot. His younger sister Alice became a screenwriter. His parents divorced in 1944, and in 1946 Josephine married the painter Ivan Le Lorraine Albright. Ivan Albright adopted Joseph and Alice, who took his surname, and with Josephine had two more children, Adam and Blandina ("Dina"). Josephine chronicled young Joseph in a weekly Newsday column, "Life with Junior". He attended Groton School, Massachusetts, before studying at Williams College.

Albright is a scion of a newspaper empire: his grandfather and namesake Joseph Medill Patterson founded the New York Daily News, and his grand-aunt Eleanor "Cissy" Patterson edited the Washington Times-Herald. His great-great-grandfather, Joseph Medill, owned the Chicago Tribune and served as mayor of Chicago. Albright's aunt Alicia Patterson was founder and publisher of Newsday, and without children of her own, gave special attention to Joseph and Alice, expressing hope that one of them would succeed her as publisher when she retired.

Career
Albright graduated from Williams College in 1958. During the summers of 1956 and 1957 he interned at the Denver Post, where he met fellow intern Madeleine Jana Korbel, whom he married on June 11, 1959. They had three daughters: twins Anne and Alice (born 1961) and Katie (born 1967), before divorcing in 1983. He worked at the Chicago Sun-Times from 1958 to 1961 before joining Newsday in 1961. In 1963, after the death of his aunt Alicia, he became aide to the president and publisher, his uncle Harry F. Guggenheim. He worked in New York and later became chief of the Washington, D.C. bureau. He resigned from Newsday in early 1971, and worked as a legislative aide to Maine Senator Edmund Muskie from 1971 to 1972.

In 1972 he published a biography of vice president Spiro Agnew, What Makes Spiro Run. It was regarded as biased against Agnew, and a review in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science wrote Albright "leans so heavily on superficial commercial appeal that the book should be of little interest to serious political observers."

From 1972 to 1975 Albright was a correspondent for the San Francisco Chronicle. He became a correspondent for Cox Newspapers in 1976, and in 1983 married fellow Cox journalist Marcia Kunstel, with whom he reported from various foreign locales including South Africa, Afghanistan, Moscow, and Beijing. He was a finalist for the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series on gas and oil policy on public lands. Albright and fellow Cox journalist Cheryl Arvidson won the 1981 Raymond Clapper Memorial Award "...for their series, 'The Snub-Nosed Killers: Handguns in America.'" He and his wife shared a 1988 Overseas Press Club award for foreign reporting for their feature "Stolen Childhood: A Global Report on the Exploitation of Children" and a 1991 National Headliner Award from the Press Club of Atlantic City for their reporting on the leadup to the Gulf War.

In 1990 Albright and Kunstel co-authored Their Promised Land, an overview of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict as seen through the history of the Sorek Valley west of Jerusalem. Publishers Weekly called it: "vivid, observant, achingly poignant", and Kirkus Reviews called "a well-written and sweeping portrait of a troubled land." Political analyst Kathleen Christison wrote: "Uncompromising readers on either side will resent its neutrality. But the book is honest in its choice of historical source material and its treatment of the facts of Jewish-Arab conflict." A review in Newsweek noted that among the many books on the conflict, Kunstel's and Albright's "stands out for its thoughtfulness, its fairness and its excellent story."

In 1997 Albright and Kunstel published Bombshell: The Secret Story of America's Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy, focusing on American atomic spy Theodore Hall, and the married spy couple Morris and Lona Cohen. They supplement their research with interviews conducted with Hall, his wife, and others. Former CIA officer Frederick L. Wettering, reviewing for the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, called it "a well-researched and very well-written biography of a heretofore little known spy." Historian Gregg Herken noted it was the first book on Soviet atomic espionage to use archival sources from both Russia and the Venona project. A film adaptation was optioned to Universal Pictures, with Leonardo DiCaprio tapped to portray Hall. Albright and Kunstel retired in 2000, and since 2001 have owned Flat Creek Ranch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Albright has served as chairman of the Alicia Patterson Foundation, vice-chairman of the Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, and from 2009 to 2021 was on the board of trustees of St. John's Health in Jackson Hole. Kunstel has served on the governing council of The Wilderness Society since 2004.

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User talk:Eminchew

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Talk:Dave Graham (climber)

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"D.G. is 180 cm and weighs 73 kg". Most people that has actually seen Dave would consider that weight bogus. --81.172.164.132 03:55, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

The best climber!

Changed Dave's weight from 73kg to 65kg, which is much closer to the truth. Am qualified to make this assessment as Dave's closest genetic relative. Otherwise, decent wikipedia article.

9/9/2006 sorry about the original error in dave's weight. i thought i had used the weight specified on his 8a.nu ticklist. i must have made a typo.

thanks to cricket for the translation of the quote by charlotte durif. --zonk

"Highlights of the trip include the FA of Three degrees of separation by Chris Sharma,... Sharma also bolted another hard project to the left of Realization." Isn't the route he bolted Three Degrees of Separation making this redundant? 128.138.27.136 (talk) 05:21, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

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User:Jerryjerrydingleberry

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Japanese destroyer Shikinami (1929)

Shikinami (敷波) was the 12th of 24 Fubuki-class destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy following World War I. When introduced into service, these ships were the most powerful destroyers in the world. They served as first-line destroyers through the 1930s, and remained formidable weapons systems well into the Pacific War.

History
Construction of the advanced Fubuki-class destroyers was authorized as part of the Imperial Japanese Navy's expansion program from fiscal 1923, intended to give Japan a qualitative edge with the world's most modern ships. The Fubuki class had performance that was a quantum leap over previous destroyer designs, so much so that they were designated Special Type destroyers (特型). The large size, powerful engines, high speed, large radius of action and unprecedented armament gave these destroyers the firepower similar to many light cruisers in other navies. Shikinami, built at the Maizuru Naval Arsenal was the second in an improved series, which incorporated a modified gun turret which could elevate her main battery of Type 3 127 mm 50 caliber naval guns to 75° as opposed to the original 40°, thus permitting the guns to be used as dual purpose guns against aircraft. Shikinami was laid down on 6 July 1928, launched on 22 June 1929 and commissioned on 24 December 1929. Originally assigned hull designation “Destroyer No. 46”, she was completed as Shikinami.

The 4th Fleet Incident occurred only a year after her commissioning, and Shikinami was quickly taken back to the shipyards to have her hull strengthened.

Operational history
On completion, Shikinami, along with her sister ships, JAPANESE DESTROYER Uranami, JAPANESE DESTROYER Ayanami, and JAPANESE DESTROYER Isonami, were assigned to Destroyer Division 19 under the IJN 2nd Fleet. During the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937, Shikinami covered landing of Japanese forces in Shanghai and Hangzhou. From 1940 on, she was assigned to patrol and cover landings of Japanese forces in south China.

World War II history
At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Shikinami was assigned to Destroyer Division 19 of DesRon 3 of the IJN 1st Fleet, and had deployed from Kure Naval District to the port of Samah on Hainan Island, escorting Japanese troopships for landing operations in the Battle of Malaya at the end of 1941.

In January–February 1942, Shikinami was assigned to the escort of the aircraft carrier JAPANESE AIRCRAFT CARRIER Ryūjō as it conducted air strikes in the Java Sea. During the Battle of Sunda Strait on 1 March, Shikinami entered the battle late, but contributed by firing the final torpedo, which sank the United States Navy heavy cruiser USS Houston (CA-30). She escorted troopship convoys from Saigon to Rangoon through the remainder of March. From 13 to 22 April, she returned via Singapore and Camranh Bay to Kure Naval Arsenal, for maintenance.

On 4–5 June, Shikinami participated in the Battle of Midway as part of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto’s main fleet. Shikinami sailed from Amami-Ōshima to Mako Guard District, Singapore, Sabang and Mergui for a projected second Indian Ocean raid. The operation was cancelled due to the Guadalcanal campaign, and Shikinami was ordered to Truk instead, arriving in late August. During the Battle of the Eastern Solomons on 24 August, Shikinami escorted the fleet supply group to Guadalcanal. She was assigned to numerous "Tokyo Express" transport missions to various locations in the Solomon Islands in October and November.

During the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 14–15 November 1942 Shikinami was attached to a scouting force under the command of Rear Admiral Shintarō Hashimoto in the light cruiser JAPANESE CRUISER Sendai. Shikinami survived the battle without damage, and returned to Kure by the end of the year.

In January 1943, Shikinami escorted a troop convoy from Pusan to Palau and on to Wewak. For the remainder of January–February, she patrolled out of Truk or Rabaul. On 25 February, Shikinami was reassigned to the IJN 8th Fleet.

During the Battle of the Bismarck Sea on 1–4 March, Shikinami escorted a troop convoy from Rabaul to Lae. She survived the Allied air attack on 3 March which sank her sister ship JAPANESE DESTROYER Shirayuki, and rescued Rear Admiral Masatomi Kimura and other survivors. After returning to Kure briefly in March, Shikinami continued to serve in an escort and transport role in the Solomon Islands and New Guinea area through the end of October 1943. At the end of October 1943, Shikinami was refit in Singapore, and assigned to escort of transports between Singapore and Surabaya and Balikpapan for the remainder of the year.

At the end of January 1944, Shikinami escorted the cruisers JAPANESE CRUISER Aoba, JAPANESE CRUISER Ōi, JAPANESE CRUISER Kinu, and JAPANESE CRUISER Kitakami on a resupply run to the Andaman Islands, and towed the torpedoed Kitakami back to Singapore afterwards. In a month-long refit in Singapore from mid-March to mid-April, additional anti-aircraft guns were fitted. In May–June, Shikinami made numerous escort missions between Singapore, the Philippines and Palau. During a troop transport mission to Biak as flagship for Admiral Naomasa Sakonju, Shikinami came under a strafing air attack, which set fire to her depth charges, which were jettisoned just before they exploded, killing two crewmen and wounding four others. Shikinami continued to escort ships between Singapore, Brunei and the Philippines from June to August, rescuing the survivors of the torpedoed Ōi on 19 July. On 12 September, after departing Singapore with a convoy bound for Japan, Shikinami was torpedoed by the submarine USS Growler (SS-215) 240 nmi south of Hong Kong at position 18.26667°N, 114.66667°W. Eight officers and 120 men were rescued by the destroyer JAPANESE DESTROYER Mikura, but her captain—Lieutenant Commander Takahashi—and Rear Admiral Sadamichi Kajioka were killed in action.

On 10 October 1944, Shikinami was removed from the navy list.

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SuperCoolNothing

SuperCoolNothing is the fourth studio album by 16volt, released on August 18, 1998 by Cargo and Re-Constriction Records. Two-thousand copies of the album were re-pressed by Dark City Music with new cover art and the first 100 copies signed by the band.

Reception
Don Kline of AllMusic called SuperCoolNothing "a menacing album full of whisper-to-scream verses, explosive choruses, and brooding electronic soundscapes." He award the album four out of five stars, concluding that "in a genre where imitation is often the easiest path to commercial success, Eric Powell continues to concoct his own unique blend of industrial rock, punk, and metal." Last Sigh Magazine credited the larger budget with helping 16volt develop as artists, saying "there is a variation in styles that usually comes with relaxed studio time; one of the perks of a major record deal." Dana Bove placed SuperCoolNothing at number ten for CMJ's top reader choices of the month.

Personnel
Adapted from the SuperCoolNothing liner notes.

16volt
 * Mike Peoples – guitar, bass guitar
 * Eric Powell – lead vocals, guitar, programming, production, recording, design

Addition performers
 * Joseph Bishara – programming, recording, production
 * Krayge Tyler – guitar
 * Chris Vrenna – live drums

Production and design
 * Michaelynn Dreiling – photography
 * Andrew Garver – mastering
 * Bill Kennedy – production, recording, mixing
 * Dave Hancock – engineering
 * JK Potter – photography
 * Rafael Serrano – engineering
 * Steve Tushar – recording

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Tel Aviv Light Rail

The Tel Aviv Light Rail (הרכבת הקלה בתל אביב, Romanized: Ha'rakēvet Ha'kalā Be'Tel Avīv, قطار تل أبيب الخفيف, Romanized: Qītar Tall ʾAbīb Al-khāfifa), also known as Dankal (דנקל, دانكال) is a mass transit system for Gush Dan, the Tel Aviv metropolitan area in central Israel. The system will include different modes of mass transit, including rapid transit (metro), light rail transit (LRT), and bus rapid transit (BRT). Overseen by NTA Metropolitan Mass Transit System Ltd., a government agency, the project will complement the intercity and suburban rail network operated by Israel Railways.

As of 2023, two LRT lines are under construction and one available to the public. Work on the Red Line, the first in the project, started on September 21, 2011, following years of preparatory works, and was opened on August 18, 2023 after numerous delays. Construction of the Purple Line started in December 2018; work on the Green Line began in January 2019.

The network was originally planned to be called "MetroTLV" but was changed to "Dankal". The name comes from the metropolitan area of Tel Aviv, Gush Dan, and "easy" ("kal", קל).

History
The first proposals for a tramway in the area were made by the Lebanese engineer George Franjieh in November 1892, about nine weeks after the inauguration of the Jaffa–Jerusalem railway. The plan called for a main line between southern and northeastern Jaffa, with spurs to the harbor and the eastern orchards. The plan was considered uneconomical and was shelved. A later plan called for a light railway from Jaffa to the nearby towns of Rishon LeZion, Petah Tikva and Wilhelma.

A Decauville light railway was built in Jaffa and Tel Aviv in World War I, connecting the port with the Yarkon River. It was used for about a decade after the war, and dismantled at a later date.

A light rail line, with a route similar to the current Red Line, was planned in 1921 by Pinhas Rutenberg. An attempt to build the line in 1924-5 was unsuccessful.

A subway system was first planned in the mid-1960s but a station at the Shalom Meir Tower was all that was completed of the project, with no rails laid.

Revised plan: Light Rail
In 2000, the plan for a subway was changed to one for light rail, and more plausible plans for a mass transit system in Tel Aviv were unveiled. After the first Red Line spanning 22 km was approved, excavation began in late 2009, with construction of the underground stations starting in August 2015. The Red Line became operational on August 18, 2023.

In December 2006, the MTS group was awarded a BOT contract for the Red Line of the light rail, by which they are to build and operate the line for its first 32 years. MTS consisted of Africa Israel, Siemens (Germany), Egged, China Civil Engineering Construction (China), Soares da Costa (Portugal), and HTM (Netherlands). After many years of delays due to MTS financing issues, in December 2010 the government revoked MTS's concession and nationalized the project, putting it under the authority of NTA, the government agency which was in charge of overseeing the overall development of the rapid transit system in Gush Dan.

Current status
Construction on the Red Line began in August 2015. It opened on August 18, 2023. The preparations for the construction of the Green Line started on February 5, 2017, on Ibn Gabirol Street in Tel Aviv. Infrastructure works for the Purple Line began in December 2018.

Lines
Red Line is in service; Green and Purple lines are under construction. When complete, they will cover a network of 85 km.

Red Line
12 km of the 24 km Red Line was built underground, with the remaining overground segment constructed as a light rail/tram. It has 34 stops, 10 of which are underground, with an average distance of about 1000 meters between underground stops and of about 500 metres between overground stops. The line runs from Bat Yam in the southwest, through Jaffa and central Tel Aviv, including at Tel Aviv Savidor Central railway station, and carries on to Petah Tikva, through Ramat Gan and Bnei Brak. An extension to Rishon LeZion is planned. It has been forecast that by 70 million passengers would be using this line annually.

Stations (underground in italics): HaKomemiyut, He'Amal, Kaf Tet BeNovember, Yoseftal, Binyamin, Balfour, Jabotinsky, Rothschild, Ha'Atsma'ut, Mahrozet, HaBesht, Isakov, Ehrlich, Bloomfield Stadium, Shalma (Salame), Elifelet, Allenby, Carlebach, Yehudit, Sha'ul HaMelekh, Arlosoroff, Abba Hillel, Bialik, Ben-Gurion, Aharonovich. From Aharonovich, one branch continues to Shenkar, Shaham, Beilinson, Dankner, Krol, Pinsker, Petah Tikva Central Bus Station (Terminal); another continues to Em HaMoshavot Bridge and Kiryat Arye.

The work on Allenby station began on February 8, 2015.

In May 2021, a test run of the red line began in Petah Tikva.

Green Line
The second or Green Line, in the tender phase, is a 39 km with 4.5 km of them underground. It will have 62 stops that would run from the west of Rishon LeZion northwards through Holon through central Tel Aviv splitting into two branches: one to Herzliya in the north and the other one to Ramat HaHayal neighborhood in Tel Aviv in the northeast. Only its central Tel Aviv segment, four of the 62 stations, will be underground, from Levinski Street through Ibn Gabirol Street until the Yarkon River. The expected annual passenger forecast is 65 million. NTA is including the design and boring of the Green Line's tunnels as part of Red Line's tunnels overall contract so that work on the Green Line's underground portion can commence immediately following the completion of the Red Line tunnels. The preparations for the construction of this line begun in February 2017 in Ibn Gabirol street in Tel Aviv.

Purple Line
The third, or Purple Line, is envisaged as a 27 km line with 43 stops and will connect Sheba Hospital through Giv'at Shmuel and Kiryat Ono, and will connect Arlozorov in Tel Aviv to Yehud and Or Yehuda through Ramat Gan. This line will be over-ground for its entire route.

Yellow Line
This line would have begun in Kfar Saba then continued on to Hod Hasharon, Herzliya, Ramat Hasharon on Sokolov Street, before joining Ben-Gurion Street in Ramat Gan, then Yitzhak Rabin Street in Givataim, then Moshe Dayan Street in Tel Aviv, Mikveh Israel, it would end in Holon after crossing Ariel Sharon Park. Parts of it were superseded by the M1 metro line.

Metro
The rapid transit plan for Gush Dan, conceived and approved in 2016, called for three underground metro lines, centered on Tel Aviv: a north–south line (M1), an east–west line (M2), and a circular line (M3). The lines are currently undergoing an individual approval process.

Bus rapid transit
Most BRT lines planned for Gush Dan were cancelled in 2016 and replaced with metro lines. Only plans for the Brown Line were retained, however, no date for start of construction has been announced.

Brown Line
The Brown Line is a planned BRT line that will serve the southern metropolitan area. Starting at Moshe Dayan Railway Station in western Rishon LeZion, it will continue east via central Rishon LeZion, bypassing Assaf HaRofeh Medical Center, until Ramle, where it splits into two branches: one continues to Lod in the northeast and the second continues to eastern Ramle in the east. There is a possibility of making it a light rail line eventually.

Blue Line
The Blue Line is the first BRT line not to pass via Tel Aviv. The line will begin in Bilu Junction near Rehovot and continues to HaRishonim Railway Station in Rishon LeZion via Ness Ziona and will end at the Holon junction. This line is expected to open in 2027 or 2028.

Pink Line
The Pink Line was planned to serve the northern metropolitan area, beginning in northeastern Kfar Saba and continuing through its main streets until crossing Highway 4 to Ra'anana, continuing through Ahuza Street until western Ra'anana, and continuing to Herzliya and crossing it until the Marina area, where it would have terminated. This line was superseded by the M1 and M3 metro lines.

Orange Line
The Orange Line would have been the only line isolated from the system. It would serve only the city of Netanya in the northern metropolitan area. It would be a circular line that connects both sides of the city, crossing Highway 2.

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Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2005-07-25/Theory of Wikipedia

Scholars and writers last week pursued an active dialogue that explored several theoretical approaches to understanding how Wikipedia works. Lawrence Lessig's blog served as a focal point for these discussions, but the theme was taken up elsewhere as well.

Although the most active conversation came on Lessig's blog, the impetus for it actually derived from his absence. Lessig takes a month off from internet activity each year to spend time with his family, and he started his vacation this past week. Among the guest-bloggers who will be filling in for him is Jimmy Wales, who is scheduled for two weeks later in August.

The price of aggregation
The discussion was precipitated by Lessig's first substitute, law professor Cass Sunstein, who spent quite a bit of time discussing Wikipedia as a mechanism for aggregating information. His emphasis was on comparing Wikipedia and similar phenomena with the way prices in a market economy also have a function of collecting information. Sunstein asked, "When, in particular, will wikis and the blogosphere fail as mechanisms for aggregating dispersed information?"

Wales revealed that he considers Friedrich Hayek's work on price theory "central to my own thinking about how to manage the Wikipedia project." The analogy to prices prompted consideration of one particular economics-based tool for aggregating information, prediction markets. This turned attention toward the speculation then raging about whom George W. Bush would be nominating for the US Supreme Court vacancy, an example of the type of news event for which Wikipedia is a popular source (see related story).

In response to Sunstein's challenge, a few people questioned whether wikis even succeed at aggregating information in the first place. Sunstein posited that it depended on the Condorcet jury theorem: In a group whose members have more than a 50% chance of being right, the likelihood of their average answer being correct approaches 100% as the number of members increases; meanwhile, if their chance of being right is below 50%, increases in group size cause the likelihood of the average being right to approach zero instead. He noted, however, that market systems would probably work better because they provide additional incentive to get the information right.

Wikipedia and avatars
Another approach to understanding Wikipedia came last Friday from Rohit Gupta in the USC Online Journalism Review. He describes Wikipedia as "a sprawling metropolis under construction by purpose-driven swarms", finding a particular parallel to the city of Mumbai (Bombay). Mixing in analogies to Hindu mythology, his analysis is called "The avatar versus the journalist: Making meaning, finding truth". Tlogmer called it "the best article about wikipedia I've read in ... well, ever."

Gupta paints a very colorful portrait, filled with constant activity. To highlight the creative process on Wikipedia, he uses the image of avatars extensively, noting that "it is the central idea of creation in Hindu mythology". The avatar in this case is the persona adopted by individual Wikipedia editors, and Gupta observes, "Each person can be many avatars".

Having brought in the Hindu imagery, Gupta points out the similarity in how its popular mythology developed using methods similar to Wikipedia based on "authorless, collaborative texts". He goes on to make a comparison of online culture to the development of human civilization. In this comparison, he says, wikis mark the point at which society moves out from "cave-dwelling" into a more settled life that "resembles agriculture and farming more than anything else."


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Rakuen (album)

Rakuen (楽園) is Yui Horie's fourth solo album. Like sky, her third album, Rakuen also had a limited edition version with an alternate album cover and an exclusive photo book. The album includes the ending theme for the anime Jubei-chan 2, Kokoro Harete Yo mo Akete and the opening theme for the anime Sister Princess Re Pure Character's Part, A Girl in Love (used for DVD release only). Although the other sisters from Sister Princess Re Pure and even Ritsuko Okazaki, who wrote the song herself, have performed the latter song, the version on this album is the only full-length version ever recorded. The rest of the tracks are all original songs.

Track listing

 * 1) クローバー♣ – 2:22
 * 2) *(Kurōbā, Clover)
 * 3) A Girl in Love – 3:13
 * 4) 虹色☆サーチ – 4:52
 * 5) *(Nijiiro sāchi, Searching for the colour of the rainbow)
 * 6) Baby,I love you! – 3:29
 * 7) Tutty Fruity – 4:07
 * 8) 恋ごころ – 4:06
 * 9) *(Koigokoro, Awakening of love)
 * 10) 波のまばたき – 3:44
 * 11) *(Nami no mabataki, Sparkling of the waves)
 * 12) on my way – 4:28
 * 13) try again – 5:43
 * 14) 心晴れて夜も明けて – 3:17
 * 15) *(Kokoro harete yo mo akete, When the heart becomes unclouded, dawn to will come)
 * 16) 笑顔の連鎖 – 3:33
 * 17) *(Egao no rensa, Connection of the smiling faces)
 * 18) BE FREE – 5:34
 * 19) Invitation – 5:33

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Luonnonmaa

Luonnonmaa is an island in the city of Naantali, in south-western Finland. It forms most of the city's area, but only a fraction of its population as it is rather sparsely populated. It previously belonged to the rural municipality of Naantali (Naantalin maalaiskunta), but the municipality was annexed to the city of Naantali in 1964. The island hosts the Kultaranta Castle, the official summer residence of the Finnish President of the Republic. The island contains a total of 10 villages: Haijainen, Kaivola, Isokylä, Keitilä, Kirstilä, Kukola, Kultaranta, Käkölä, Viiala and Viialanranta.

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Wikipedia:Goings-on/July 24, 2005

Wikipedia always has a lot going-on. This page is a collection of current information about projects and discussions that are happening in the community. The page exists for more than just announcements, but to provide links for places where you can go and participate in things that interest you. You can also visit the similar Meta goings-on page. For a regular weekly update of community news, you can read the Wikipedia Signpost.

This page is archived in a weekly digest-like fashion, every Sunday at 0:00 UTC.

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Superficial vein

Superficial veins are veins that are close to the surface of the body, as opposed to deep veins, which are far from the surface.

Superficial veins are not paired with an artery, unlike the deep veins, which are typically associated with an artery of the same name.

Superficial veins are important physiologically for cooling of the body. When the body is too hot, the body shunts blood from the deep veins to the superficial veins to facilitate heat transfer to the body's surroundings. Superficial veins are often visible underneath the skin. Those below the level of the heart tend to bulge out, which can be readily witnessed in the hand, where the veins bulge significantly less after the arm has been raised above the head for a short time. Veins become more visually prominent when lifting heavy weight, especially after a period of proper strength training.

Physiologically, the superficial veins are not as important as the deep veins (as they carry less blood) and are sometimes removed in a procedure called vein stripping, which is used to treat varicose veins.

Some named superficial veins

 * external jugular vein

Upper limb

 * cephalic vein – glides along the biceps: the "signature vein" of bodybuilders
 * median cubital vein – often used to draw blood (venipuncture).
 * basilic vein – usually the largest vein in the arm: often used for dialysis access

Lower limb

 * small saphenous vein
 * great saphenous vein – often "harvested" for coronary artery bypass surgery

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USS Saratoga (1780)

USS Saratoga was a sloop in the Continental Navy. She was the first ship to honor the historic Battle of Saratoga. Having disappeared in 1781, her fate remains a mystery. Saratoga was built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Wharton and Humphries. She was begun in December 1779 and launched on 10 April 1780.

Diplomatic escort
Commanded by Captain John Young, Saratoga departed Philadelphia on 13 August 1780 escorting the packet, Mercury, which was sailing for Europe carrying Henry Laurens. The former President of the Continental Congress was planning to seek money on the European continent to finance the American government.

Two days later, the Saratoga passed frigates USS Trumbull (1776) and USS Deane (1778) in the upper Delaware Bay. Captain Young and Henry Laurens communicated with the frigates and they were to join Saratoga in a cruise as a squadron. The frigates, continued on up the Delaware River to replenish at Philadelphia.

After waiting in vain for the frigates to return, Saratoga and Mercury passed through the Delaware Capes out to sea by themselves. Because of inadequate ballast, the Saratoga was unstable under a heavy spread of canvas and was forced to proceed much more slowly than the Mercury. Thus, the Mercury was forced to heave to each night to allow the Saratoga to catch up. This schedule continued until 23 August, when Henry Laurens released the Saratoga from her escorting duty with the suggestion that she "...make a short cruise and then return to Philadelphia..." Afterwards, the unescorted Mercury was captured by the British off Newfoundland and Laurens was imprisoned in England.

Hunting off Delaware
For more than a fortnight, Captain Young operated east of the shipping lanes while he trained his crew in operating their ship and fighting her guns. On the afternoon of 9 September, a lookout spotted a sail to the northwest. By then, Young had managed to get Saratoga into fighting shape.

He headed his ship toward the unknown sail and set out in pursuit. By twilight, he was close enough to see that his quarry was a brig flying British colors. Some two hours later, Saratoga had closed within hailing distance and learned that the chase was the Royal Navy's brig, HMS Keppel (1778), and not about to surrender. Saratoga opened fire with a broadside and was quickly answered by Keppel, opening an inconclusive, three-hour battle. During the action, due to gale force seas, coinciding with her insufficient ballast, the Saratoga's guns were unable to inflict any serious damage on Keppel. After Captain Young’s repeated efforts to close to boarding distance of the Keppel and the British brig evading those efforts, and midnight approaching, Young ordered the helmsman to end the chase and head for home.

Capture of the Sarah
Three days later, as Saratoga approached Cape Henlopen, she came upon the Sarah, a British ship bound for New York laden with rum from the West Indies. The merchantman surrendered without resisting, and the two ships proceeded into the Delaware. They anchored off Chester, Pennsylvania, the following afternoon where the Sarah was promptly condemned and sold, along with her cargo, which brought the continental treasury funds desperately needed to refit the frigate, USS Confederacy (1778), for sea.

Second cruise
The Saratoga spent three days at Chester, where she replenished her stores and took on additional iron for ballast before heading back down the Delaware toward the open sea and another cruise. She cleared the Delaware Capes on 18 September and sailed northward along the New Jersey coast. A week later, off the Jersey highlands, she came upon the Elizabeth, which had been taken in Chesapeake Bay several weeks before by British privateer, Restoration. The Saratoga captured the 60-ton American brig, and Captain Young sent the brig to Philadelphia under a prize crew.

Saratoga remained in the vicinity of the Jersey highlands without encountering any further ships. Toward the end of the month, she turned south. The Saratoga cruised parallel to the coast. Captain Young constantly exercised her crew at her guns and in her rigging to sharpen their fighting capability. The crew had an opportunity to prove their seamanship when on 10 October they safely brought their ship through a storm with but superficial damage. This same storm decimated the British squadron which Admiral Rodney had sent out of New York to patrol the American coast.

Capture of the Charming Molly
That night, she turned north again. At dawn the next day, she spotted two sails far off her port bow. The Saratoga was due east of Cape Henry when she began the chase. As she closed the distance between herself and her quarry, Captain Young ordered his helmsman to head for the open water between the enemy ships which proved to be the large, 22-gun letter of marquee ship, Charming Molly, and a small schooner, the Two Brothers. When the Saratoga was between the two English vessels, Captain Young ordered the Charming Molly to surrender, but she refused to do so. After the Saratoga had fired a broadside into the Charming Molly, a boarding party, led by Lt. Joshua Barney, leapt to the merchantman's deck and opened a fierce hand-to-hand fight which soon compelled the British captain to lower his colors.

An American prize crew under Lieutenant Barney promptly took the place of Charming Molly's British skipper, officers, and tars. Captain Young then set out after the fleeing sloop the Two Brothers which, when overtaken, surrendered without resistance. The second prize, Two Brothers, promptly headed for the Delaware for libeling in Admiralty court in Philadelphia.

Further prizes
From the prisoners captured on the Charming Molly, Captain Young learned that she and the Two Brothers had been part of a small merchant fleet which had sailed from Jamaica and had been scattered by the recent storm. As soon as his crew had finished temporary repairs to Charming Molly's battle-damaged hull, the Saratoga began to search for the remaining merchant fleet, a ship and two brigs. About mid-day on 11 October, a lookout saw three sails slowly rise above the horizon dead ahead, and another chase began. As the Saratoga approached the strangers, Captain Young ordered his helmsman to head between the ships. As she passed between the enemy vessels, she fired both broadsides, her port guns fired at the Elizabeth, and her starboard muzzles belched fire and iron at the brig Nancy. The enemy's shots passed above the Saratoga, causing only minor damage to her rigging while the first American salvo knocked the Nancy out of action and did substantial damage to the Elizabeth, which surrendered after taking another volley. Meanwhile, the other brig raced away; and Captain Young, being busy with his two new prizes, allowed her to escape free of pursuit.

The Saratoga's crew labored repairing the battered hulls of the prizes before sending them toward the Delaware Capes. About midnight, the Saratoga herself got underway northward. At dawn, near Cape Henlopen, a blue jacket sailor aloft reported seeing two unknown sails, one dead ahead and the other several miles off her port quarter. The first was later identified as American brig, Providence which was at that time a British prize heading for New York. The second ship was the 74-gun British ship-of-the-line, HMS Alcide (1779). Despite the proximity of the British man-of-war, Captain Young set out after the Providence and recaptured her after about an hour's chase. Captain Young quickly put a prize crew on board the Providence and then the Saratoga got underway for the Delaware. The Saratoga was anchored off Chester, Pennsylvania, at dawn on 14 October.

Cruise to the Caribbean
On 15 December, after being refitted at Philadelphia, the Saratoga got underway for Hispaniola to pick up a load of French military supplies which were awaiting transportation to America. New officers and men had come on board to replace those who had left the ship to man her prizes. A number of merchantmen awaited her just inside the capes hoping to be escorted to a safe offing. On the morning of 20 October, favorable weather enabled the Saratoga to put to sea escorting her 12 charges. The next afternoon, after one of the merchantmen signaled that an unknown sail had appeared, Saratoga set out to investigate. Within two hours, after seeing the British ensign flying from her mast, the Saratoga had reached within firing range and sent a warning 4-pounder shot across the stranger's bow. Instead of surrendering, the British privateer, Resolution, maneuvered to attack. The ships fired at the same instant, Resolution's gunners fired high and only did superficial damage to the Saratoga. The Saratogas broadside damaged the Resolutions hull and superstructure and forced her to surrender.

Captain Young embarked the Resolution's crew in Saratoga as prisoners; and placed an American crew on the prize. The two ships then headed toward Cape Henlopen which they reached on New Year's Day, 1781. Captain Young turned his prisoners over to the Continental agent at Lewes, Delaware, and headed the Saratoga back toward the Caribbean the same day.

On the morning of 9 January 1781, off the coast of then England's loyal province of East Florida, Saratoga captured the 20-gun letter of marque Tonyn in a fierce battle. Tonyn had recently sailed from St. Augustine laden with turpentine, indigo, hides, and deerskins intended for Liverpool England.

Captain Young spent a day repairing Tonyn and Saratoga's rigging, then the two ships got underway on the morning of 11 January for Hispaniola. On the 16th, Saratoga captured, without resistance, the armed brig Douglas, which was carrying wine from Madeira to Charleston, South Carolina, that important Southern port which had fallen into British hands. Captain Young sent this prize to Philadelphia.

Escort duty and loss
On 27 January, the Saratoga and the Tonyn reached Cap-Français where Captain Young turned the Tonyn over to the French Admiralty court and arranged to have Saratoga docked to have her hull scraped and coated with pitch while awaiting the arrival of military cargo and French frigates to assist in convoying a fleet of Allied merchantmen. The governor of the French colony of Saint Dominique suggested that the Saratoga join her sister Continental frigates, the USS Deane (1778) and the Confederacy, an American privateer, the Fair American, and a French naval brig, Cat, in a cruise through the Windward Passage to Jamaica. The little fleet departed Cap-Français on 20 February and returned eight days later with a British ship the Diamond, which they had captured as she approached Jamaica laden with plunder taken by the British during Admiral Rodney's conquest of the Dutch Island, St. Eustatius.

By mid-March, all was ready. The French warships were on hand; the Continental warships were loaded, and 29 heavily laden merchant ships were in the harbor awaiting escorts. The convoy left from Cap-Français on the 15th, the ides of March. Three days later on 18 March, a lookout high over the Saratoga's deck reported two sails far off to westward, the Saratoga left the convoy in pursuit of the strangers. About mid-afternoon, she caught up with one of the fleeing ships which surrendered without a fight. Captain Young placed an American crew on board the prize and got underway after the second ship. Midshipman Penfield, commander of the prize crew, later reported that as he was supervising his men's efforts to follow the Saratoga, the wind suddenly rose to fearful velocity and almost capsized his ship. When he had managed to get the snow-rigged merchantman back under control, he looked up and was horrified to learn that the Saratoga had vanished. After numerous successful victories and prizes, Saratoga disappeared, lost at sea. The Saratoga's fate remains a mystery.

According to the U.S. Navy the ship was lost March 18, 1781, with all hands drowned, recorded as "86 less the prize crew."

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User talk:Mole Man

Interests
I enjoy obscure cinema, history, and literary works.

Social War (357-355 BC) featured on Did You Know?
That is exquisite! Very nice! Throughout the whole evening i was compiling the Social War article.--Mole Man 20:23, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

DYK
I am not sure if this was a self nom, it was unsigned. If you nommed it please do sign. If someone else did, any idea who so I can remind them? thanks... great article by the way...  + + Lar: t/c 02:49, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Oh yes i nominated it, just forgot  to sign it  though.... doh--Mole Man 02:24, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Iberian War
Thank you for creating that article. It is a bit of an embarrassment that we have gone so long without articles such as this. Wikipedia needs a lot of help when it comes to ancient history. Thank you so much for helping and please continue. :) --mav 13:23, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Thank you! I've had  an interest in ancient history  and wanted to add these more obscure events in the fold, particularly  the largely unknown yet lengthy conflict between Ancient  Rome and the Persian empire.--Mole Man 02:27, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:State University of New York at Old Westbury

What Is Considered Long Island?
There's the island of Long Island, and then there's "Long Island," as in the part of the island that is only Nassau and Suffolk counties. The beginning of the article reads that it is the only public liberal arts university "on Long Island." Brooklyn College is a public liberal arts university on the island of Long Island. Fix or leave? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.85.17.230 (talk • contribs) 22:56, May 19, 2021 (UTC)
 * We don't have to answer that question: the statement in the lede was unsourced and not discussed or sourced in the body of the article so I have removed it. It's incumbent on anyone who wants to add it back to the article to provide a reliable source. ElKevbo (talk) 03:11, 20 May 2021 (UTC)


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Salina Regional Airport

Salina Regional Airport, formerly Salina Municipal Airport, is located in Salina, Kansas, United States. The airport is owned by the Salina Airport Authority. It is used for general aviation, and has service by one passenger airline, SkyWest Airlines (operating as United Express), which is subsidized by the Essential Air Service program.

Salina Regional Airport is the home of K-State Salina and its Department of Aviation, which offers Professional Pilot degrees along with several other degrees in the field of aviation.

The airport is on the site of the former Schilling Air Force Base (previously Smoky Hill Air Force Base and Smoky Hill Army Airfield).

History
The construction of military airfields after the Pearl Harbor Attack that caused the entry of the United States into World War II resulted in the construction of the Smoky Hill Army Airfield (AAF) on 2600 acre, southwest of Salina, Kansas. The first unit associated with the airfield was the 376th Base Headquarters and Air Base Squadron, whose engineers first laid out the base in April 1942. Construction began in May 1942 with the aid of nearly 7,000 workers. The airfield was activated on September 1, 1942, and was assigned to the II Bomber Command, Second Air Force.

Enough construction was completed that the 376th moved into facilities on September 10. The first aircraft to arrive, Boeing B-17 Flying Fortresses, arrived later that month and were assigned to the 346th Bombardment Group. The mission of Smoky Hill AAF was that of a Second Phase Heavy Bomber Operational Training Unit (OTU). In the second phase of training, combat groups formed in the first phase focused on the teamwork of the full combat crew, such as bombing, gunnery, and instrument flight missions. Upon completion, the groups moved on to the third phase, the final level of training before overseas deployment to the combat theaters.

In April 1943, the 49th Aviation Squadron arrived at Smoky Hill; the all-African American unit included mechanics, electricians, and aircraft handlers but no pilots. The 366th was joined by the 400th Bombardment Group in the training mission at Smoky Hill AAF on July 31, 1943. The 366th concentrated on B-17 Flying Fortress training; the 400th on B-24 Liberator training.

On March 21, 1946, as the USAAF underwent significant restructuring, the airfield was transferred to the Fifteenth Air Force, then part of the Strategic Air Command. Then in January 1948, following the formation of the Air Force, the airfield was renamed Smoky Hill Air Force Base.

As postwar budgets declined, the base was eventually closed and turned over to the Air Materiel Command late in 1949.

As the Air Force's needs grew during the Korean War, the base was reactivated on August 1, 1951. The base hosted the 310th and 40th Bombardment Wings.

On March 16, 1957, the base was renamed Schilling Air Force Base, in honor of Colonel David C. Schilling.

Throughout 1964, rumors circulated that the base was being considered for a shutdown. In November, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara announced that Schilling AFB, along with 94 other military installations, would be closing. The shutdown began in 1965 and was completed in 1967.

The airport was the takeoff and landing point for the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer, flown by Steve Fossett in the first nonstop, non-refueled solo circumnavigation of the earth from February 28 to March 3, 2005. In 2006, Fossett embarked on another such flight in the GlobalFlyer, again departing and arriving Salina, from March 14 to 17, 2006. This time he broke the world record for distance over a closed circuit without landing, which he had set a month prior.

Salina Regional Airport has memorialized the records set by Steve Fossett with Fossett Plaza. The plaza has a memorial, seating area, plaques with the story of the Global Flyer and Steve Fossett, and a viewing area to observe operations.

Historical airline service
Salina received its first scheduled airline service in the early 1930s by United States Airways, which flew a Metal Aircraft Flamingo on an airmail route between Denver and Kansas City, stopping at Goodland, Salina, and Topeka, Kansas. This route was discontinued about 1933 and airline service did not return to Salina until 1949.

Continental Airlines then began stopping at Salina with Douglas DC-3s in 1949, also on a route between Denver and Kansas City, making as many as ten stops at smaller cities throughout Colorado and Kansas. Continental's service continued until 1961.

Central Airlines replaced Continental in 1961, also using DC-3s, but later upgrading with Convair 240 and Convair 600 aircraft. In 1967 Central merged into Frontier Airlines which used Convair 580s, and in early 1978 introduced Boeing 737 jets to Salina on flights to Denver and Chicago, the latter making three stops en route. The Chicago flights were later replaced with service to Kansas City, and Frontier was soon flying all 737 jets through Salina up to four times per day. All Frontier service ended on January 6, 1983.

Air Midwest first began service to Salina as an air taxi in the late 1960s, with flights to Wichita using Cessna 402s. The carrier suspended service for a few years, then returned from 1972 through 1976 with flights to both Kansas City and Wichita using Beechcraft 99s. Air Midwest returned again in 1983 to replace Frontier's service with flights to Denver, Kansas City, and Wichita, using Fairchild Swearingen Metroliners; however, the Denver flights were soon discontinued. In 1986 Air Midwest began a series of code share relationships with major carriers operating feeder flights on behalf of a major carrier:

1986-1988 as Eastern Express to Kansas City using the Metroliners as well as Saab 340 aircraft.

1988-1989 as Braniff Express to Kansas City using Metroliners.

1990-1991 as Trans World Express (on behalf of TWA) to St. Louis with a stop in Manhattan, Kansas, using Embraer 120 Brasilia's.

1991-2008 as USAir Express to Kansas City using Beechcraft 1900 aircraft. All Air Midwest service ended in mid-2008.

Capitol Air Service provided a single daily flight to Kansas City with stops in Manhattan and Topeka, Kansas from 1982 through 1988. The carrier used a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter and operated as Braniff Express during its final two years.

Great Lakes Airlines first served Salina briefly in 2000-2001, operating as United Express with flights to Hays and Denver, using Beechcraft 1900Ds. The carrier returned in 2008, replacing Air Midwest's service to Kansas City until 2010.

SeaPort Airlines came to Salina in 2010, replacing Great Lakes with flights to Kansas City. SeaPort first flew Pilatus PC-12 aircraft then later flew Cessna 208 Caravans. Service ended in 2016.

Great Lakes returned once again in 2016, replacing SeaPort, but operating flights to Denver using Embraer 120 Brasilias. Great Lakes went out of business in 2018.

SkyWest Airlines, the current provider operating as United Express, began service in 2018 using Bombardier CRJ100/200 regional jets. Initially, one daily nonstop to Chicago and two daily flights to Denver with a stop in Hays, KS were provided; however, service was trimmed back in 2020 to one daily nonstop to each city.

The airport is served under the Essential Air Service program where an individual carrier is selected and receives government funding to provide service to smaller communities.

Facilities
The airport covers 2,862 acres (1,158 ha) at an elevation of 1,288 feet (393 m). It has four asphalt runways: 17/35 is 12,301 by 150 feet (3,749 x 46 m); 12/30 is 6,510 by 100 feet (1,984 x 30 m); 18/36 is 4,301 by 75 feet (1,311 x 23 m); 4/22 is 3,648 by 75 feet (1,112 x 23 m).

In the year ending March 31, 2023, the airport had 70,884 aircraft operations, average 194 per day.

Having a long runway and being 85 miles southeast from the continental center of the United States, the airport sees many corporate and private jets that stop to refuel and allow passengers to have a break, earning Salina the moniker "America's Fuel Stop." Avflight Salina is responsible for all fueling and ground handling of transient and military aircraft.

The airport hosts a variety of Forward Operating Location (FOL) activity and has been the operating site for many missions by NASA, NOAA, Wings of Freedom, the Commemorative Air Force and Virgin Atlantic Global.

Environmental contamination
A report from the 40th Bombardment Wing in 1953 described the problem. "One of the foremost and the first problems encountered was an excessive amount of solvent being required to properly wash and clean aircraft," the report said. "Some method of reducing the amount of solvent used was needed. This problem was met by installing a system of settling tanks ... Approximately 12,000 to 14,000 gallons of solvent are used per month."

In 1989 the Salina School District unearthed three of 107 underground fuel storage tanks on its vo-tech property. It first became known that Trichlorethylene (TCE), a degreaser used to clean aircraft and a carcinogen, as well as other compounds disposed of on the former base, have migrated into the soil and groundwater, forming a toxic plume. In 1999, the US Army Corps of Engineers published its first remedial investigation. In 2005 the Corps shared the draft of a second remedial investigation of the contamination in the Salina Airport Industrial Area. Residents in the area of the plume were advised not to drink the water, per the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Soilwater intrusion assays in 1999 by EPA and again in 2005 showed vapor levels inside Kansas State University's Tullis building did not exceed state standards for air quality, but they may exceed federal EPA guidelines. As of 2005, the federal government had spent more than $17 million studying the problem in its jurisdiction. In December 2007 the Corps groundwater contamination cleanup was put on hold. In August 2008, the city of Salina offered to clean-up former Schilling AFB, as suggested by the Corps. In 2010, after the plume had reached residential areas near the former base, Salina officials, the Salina Airport Authority, the Salina school district and Kansas State University – Salina (now Kansas State University Polytechnic Campus), who own 96% of the property filed a federal lawsuit in Kansas City, Kansas, for the clean up costs. In spring of 2013 the Department of Justice signed a settlement that the government would pay $8.4 million merely toward developing the plan to clean up the former base. A remedial investigation, feasibility study and cleanup remedy were estimated to cost about $9.3 million, of which the Salina public entities agreed to pay $936,300. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment oversees the cleanup process. As of September 2015 studies have continued to find groundwater contamination in soil and bedrock, and no concentrations of vapor requiring immediate action were found in an area around Salina Regional Airport.

Other sources

 * Essential Air Service documents (Docket DOT-OST-2002-11376) from the U.S. Department of Transportation:
 * 90 Day Notice (January 23, 2002): from Midwest Express Inc., a Mesa Air Group subsidiary, of intent to discontinue scheduled non-subsidized Essential Air Service between Salina, Kansas, and Kansas City effective April 20, 2002.
 * Order 2002-3-31 (March 29, 2002): prohibiting Air Midwest, Inc., d/b/a US Airways Express, from terminating its unsubsidized service at Salina, Kansas; and requiring the carrier to maintain service between the community and Kansas City, Missouri, for an initial 30-day period following the end of the notice period; and requesting proposals from carriers interested in providing replacement service at the community.
 * Order 2004-2-14 (February 17, 2004): selects Air Midwest, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mesa Air Group, Inc., d/b/a US Airways Express, to provide subsidized essential air service (EAS) for a two-year period at Manhattan and Salina, Kansas, at a combined annual subsidy rate of $721,605.
 * Order 2006-3-15 (March 15, 2006): re-selecting Air Midwest, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mesa Air Group, Inc., d/b/a US Airways Express, to provide subsidized essential air service (EAS) for the two-year period beginning March 1, 2006, at Manhattan and Salina, Kansas, at a combined annual subsidy rate of $974,008.
 * Order 2007-12-25 (December 21, 2007): re-selecting Air Midwest, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Mesa Air Group, Inc., d/b/a US Airways Express to provide subsidized essential air service (EAS) at Manhattan and Salina, Kansas, for a total annual subsidy of $1,619,566 for the two-year period beginning March 1, 2008.
 * Order 2008-2-5 (February 1, 2008): prohibiting Air Midwest, Inc. a wholly owned subsidiary of Mesa Air Group, Inc., d/b/a US Airways Express from suspending its subsidized essential air services at Manhattan and Salina, Kansas, until Great Lakes Aviation, Ltd. begins full replacement service, and selecting Great Lakes to provide those services for a new two-year period at an annual subsidy rate of $1,997,237.
 * Order 2009-11-25 (November 30, 2009): requesting proposals from carriers interested in providing essential air service (EAS) at Salina, Kansas, for the two-year period beginning April 1, 2010, with or without subsidy. With respect to this order, we are soliciting proposals for service to Salina only. In the past, the communities of Salina and Manhattan were handled under the same contract because the flights were historically routed Salina-Manhattan-Kansas City. However, on or about August 26, 2009, American Eagle inaugurated subsidy-free regional jet service from Dallas-Fort Worth to Manhattan.
 * Order 2010-3-17 (March 12, 2010): selecting SeaPort Airlines to provide essential air service (EAS) at Salina, Kansas, for a first-year annual subsidy of $1,489,435 and a second-year of $1,493,381 for the two-year period beginning when it inaugurates full EAS.
 * Order 2012-2-4 (February 3, 2012): re-selecting SeaPort Airlines Inc. to provide Essential Air Service (EAS) at Salina, Kansas, using 9-seat Pilatus PC-12 aircraft for the four-year period beginning April 1, 2012, through March 31, 2016, for an annual subsidy of $1,490,479.

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Electronic Defense Laboratories

Electronic Defense Laboratories, located in Mountain View, California, known in the 1960s and 1970s simply as "EDL", was a semi-private corporate entity, essentially funded by the Department of Defense, that drew heavily on civilian scientific expertise. It was created in 1954 as an extension of the new Electronic System Division (in Buffalo, New York) of Sylvania Electric Products and directed by future defense secretary William Perry.

It was instrumental in development of post-Distant Early Warning line defense technologies, particularly in the area of microwave devices, and pioneered strategic communications capabilities such as the ECHO Balloon project, the forerunner of modern satellite telecommunications systems.

Other projects included development of reconnaissance and countermeasures receivers for various covert and military applications.

Much of its defense work was highly classified and remained strictly 'off-limits' to the public sector.

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Talk:Stephanie Bellars

Sexuality
Why is she categorized under Category:LGBT actors? Is this an example of "adult film activity" or is there some other story behind this? The article does not explain in its present form. Cleduc 04:11, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 04:34, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

ECW
The article mentions that she returned to ECW in 2000 but has no other mention of being in ECW. This should be eliminated or fleshed out. Thoughts? Gamer313 (talk) 20:38, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

How do I add the no photo available shown template to profiles "Jack Pelton", "Scott C. Donnelly" and "Dick Millman"?
How do I add the no photo available shown template to profiles "Jack Pelton", "Scott C. Donnelly" and "Dick Millman"?--Jax 0677 (talk) 01:05, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

stage name
It would seem that her stage name, Gorgeous George, is a play on or homage to the fifties wrestling legend Gorgeous George. Can this be verified? !!!! 2600:6C67:1C00:5F7E:EC70:E1E:6AA2:36F9 (talk) 03:13, 17 August 2022 (UTC)

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Naantalin maalaiskunta

Naantalin maalaiskunta (Nådendals landskommun in Swedish), or the rural municipality of Naantali, as distinct from the city of Naantali, is a former municipality in Finland. The municipality was located in south-western Finland, surrounding the city of Naantali, and composed of rural and suburban areas around it, mostly on the island of Luonnonmaa and to the north of the city. By the 1960s, the city had expanded well outside its administrative boundaries, and rural municipality's population had exceeded that of the city. The rural municipality, which also suffered from financial difficulties, was annexed into the city of Naantali in 1964.

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Talk:Stanislav Andreski

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Witkacy:

According to naming conventions for the English Wikipedia, one ought to use English and common names. The former convention offers this guideline: "Title your pages using the English name, if one exists, and give the native spelling on the first line of the article." The latter convention offers this one: "When choosing a name for a page ask yourself: What word would the average user of the Wikipedia put into the search engine?" Polish speakers can expect to consult the Polish WP using their own language, but English speakers reasonably have the same expectation for the English WP.

I have also removed the claim that he was "Polish," as well as the Category tag for Polish sociologists. Some of this may be open to debate, depending on Wiki guidelines (if there are any) for assigning nationalities, but I think his Polish ancestry is insignificant to at least any introductory statement about the man. He left Poland following WWII; he Anglicized his name; and his academic career was highlighted by his headship of the University of Reading Sociology department from the time of its founding in 1963 until his retirement in 1982. He appears to have distinguished himself as an academic in England, not Poland. (Source.) Vorpal Suds 04:13, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

 * "Stanislav Andreski, a Polish sociologist living in Britain, provides a somewhat"

 * "Andrzejewski, Stanislaw. Military organization and society. With a foreword by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown. London, Routledge & Paul [1954], 195pp. illus. 23 cm, very good green cloth, previous owner's name: Coser [sociologist Lewis Coser], $35

International library of sociology and social reconstruction. Author later known as Stanislaw Andreski."

 * but I think his Polish ancestry is insignificant to at least any introductory statement about the man.
 * So people like Władysław Anders or Stanisław Maczek and Presidents of the Polish government in exile are also (only) of Polish ancestry ? :)--Witkacy 08:19, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

 * He left Poland following WWII; he Anglicized his name;
 * He left Poland with the Polish II Corps and like the most soldiers of the Polish II Corps dont came back .--Witkacy 08:19, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

NPOV
This description of "The African Predicament" clearly violates Wikipedia's NPOV policy: "This book is a model of tough-minded social criticism (not so rare) provided with the necessary context (much rarer). E.g. Andreski notes the conditions of an escalating feedback spiral of distrust which led to Idi Amin's explusion of the East Asian ethnic community from Uganda a few years later."

If there's a source which justifies this claim, then please note it. Otherwise, please replace it with something that can be verified. 64.149.189.202 03:11, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

Well, it has been a couple of weeks since I posted the NPOV note and no one stepped forward to fix it, so I've done my best (and also removed the NPOV note). 130.164.67.39 16:55, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

 * I revised my original annotation to "The Africian Predicament"; perhaps it was overly tendentious. The source which justifies the claims in the annotation, is, however, THE BOOK ITSELF, which I have read, along with most of Andreski's other books.  The "fix" by user 130.164.67.39 results in a false statement -- Andreski does not discuss Idi Amin's explusion of the East Asian community, since this occurred a few years (1971 or 1972, if memory serves) after the publication of this book.  What I intended in my original annotation was to note that Andreski in some sense predicted this event (not exactly, but if you'd read Andreski previously you'd know the explusion didn't just come out of Idi Amin's personal idiosyncracies) and that this "prediction" (always more impressive than retrodiction) was an example of Andreski's sociological insight.  I'd note another example here:  various behaviours which are deemed "corruption" in African governments are simply not corruption (which, as Andreski notes, implies a fall from previously accepted standards ) in a clan system -- that is, if you are a government official and you don't give preferential treatment to fellow members of your clan, you will be shunned by your clan.  I repeat my recommendation that this book is a model of tough-minded social criticism provided with the necessary sociological context for some structural understanding; context that is usually absent from even the best journalism.

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Stonehill College

Stonehill College is a private Catholic college in Easton, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1948 by the Congregation of Holy Cross and is located on the original estate of Frederick Lothrop Ames Jr., with 29 buildings that complement the original Georgian-style Ames mansion.

Stonehill's engineering majors spend their last four semesters of undergraduate education at the University of Notre Dame, Stonehill's sister institution and another Holy Cross school.

History
In the autumn of 1934, the Holy Cross Fathers in North Dartmouth began to look for new quarters because of increasing seminary enrollment. The current Stonehill campus was purchased from Mrs. Frederick Lothrop Ames Jr. on October 17, 1935. The initial purchase included 350 acre and the original Ames mansion; the congregation purchased the remaining 190 acre from Mrs. Cutler two years later. Frederick Lothrop Ames Jr. was the great-grandson of Oliver Ames Sr., who came to Easton in 1803 and established the Ames Shovel Company.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts authorized the Congregation of Holy Cross to establish Stonehill College on the Frederick Lothrop Ames Jr. estate on June 30, 1948. In September of that year the college enrolled 134 men as the first class. Classes were held in the mansion and in the Ames Gym.

The first building built by the college was the Science Building which opened in February 1949. In 1974 the building was renovated and renamed the Tracy Science Building in honor of David Tracy, a former Stonehill advisor and trustee. After the opening of the Shields Science Center in 2009, the building was converted to be used by university administration and was renamed Merkert-Tracy Hall.

In June 2017 the college announced that W.B. Mason would be donating $10 million to open the Leo J. Meehan School of Business. The school is named after alumnus and W.B. Mason CEO Leo Meehan, and accommodates programs in accounting, finance, international business, management, marketing, economics, and healthcare administration.

The first issue of the college newspaper, The Summit, was published on November 3, 1949. In the fall of 1951 the college decided to become a coeducational organization and enrolled 19 women. The first class graduated from Stonehill on the first Sunday of June 1952 and consisted of 73 men.

Academics
Through the May School of Arts and Sciences and the Meehan School of Business, Stonehill awards on the undergraduate level the B.A., B.S., and BSBA They have also added several master's degree programs. The Integrated Marketing Communications master's program was launched during the 2017–2018 school year, a Special Education (K-8) program was launched in May 2019, and a Data Analytics program launched in fall of 2020.

Stonehill offers 47 major programs, the opportunity to double major or participate in one of the college's 51 minor programs. Stonehill College is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.

The MacPhaidin Library
The MacPhaidin Library, named in honor of Stonehill College's eighth president, Father Bartley MacPhaidin, C.S.C., was constructed in 1997 and opened in May 1998, at the college in North Easton, Massachusetts. The MacPhaidin Library is three stories high and covers 600,000 square feet. It houses a collection of 250,000 print volumes, including more than 100 full-text databases and indexes, and two computer labs. Various works of local art and history are on display at the library as well as a large collection of historical Irish documents and literature.

Campus media

 * The Summit: Bi-weekly newspaper (student-run).
 * Rolling Stonehill: Culture magazine (student-run).
 * WSHL-FM: Radio station (student-run).
 * Channel 70: Stonehill's TV station.

Housing
Stonehill provides guaranteed 4 years of housing to students admitted as residential students. The housing is set up as freshman/sophomore and junior/senior. O'Hara Hall and The Holy Cross Center are designated freshman traditional-style dorms.

Both freshmen and sophomores have the chance to live in Boland Hall, Corr Hall, and Villa Theresa Hall.

The Pilgrim Heights, the O'Hara Village and the Pilgrim Heights Village suite-style housing is primarily for sophomores.

Juniors and seniors all live in suite-style housing in the Colonial ("Junior") Courts, Commonwealth ("Senior") Courts, Pilgrim Heights (sophomores & juniors), Notre Dame du Lac, and Bogan (New) Hall.

Athletics
The Athletic Department fields 21 competitive NCAA Division I intercollegiate varsity sports. The College's combination of academic and athletic success has garnered Stonehill the #4 ranking in the country among NCAA Division II schools in the Collegiate Power Rankings that are published by the National College Scouting Association. Furthermore, Stonehill finished 65th in the overall NCSA Top 100 Power Rankings across all three NCAA divisions.

On April 5, 2022, Stonehill announced a transition to Div. I sports, with most of the teams joining the Northeast Conference, and men's ice hockey becoming a Div I independent for the 2022–2023 season.

The Sally Blair Ames Sports Complex is home to the college staff that sponsors fourteen intercollegiate club teams featuring Ultimate Frisbee, Rugby, Lacrosse and Golf as well as an extensive intramural sports program offering Basketball, Soccer, Floor Hockey and Flag Football.

W.B. Mason Stadium is a 2,400-seat, multipurpose sports stadium. Opened in 2005 at a cost of $4 million, it is the home of Skyhawk football, lacrosse, field hockey, and track & field. W.B. Mason, an office-supplies dealer based in nearby Brockton, Massachusetts, and its alumni employees contributed $1.5 million toward the project.

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