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Talk:Dennis Quaid

Dennis Quaid also played the father in “I Can Only Imagine” in 2018. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.25.166.67 (talk) 02:33, 20 January 2024 (UTC)

Inside the Actors Studio
Cites attributed to Inside the Actors Studio need a date and a timestamp. Otherwise, anyone can insert any claim whatsoever in here and stick that footnote on it. --Tenebrae (talk) 16:05, 29 June 2016 (UTC)

No Randy
Is it me, or is it weird for an encyclopaedia to not even mention that his brother is also a famous actor? The only place it says "Randy" is in the text box, where it says "brother" and nothing more. TricksterWolf (talk) 00:53, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

 * Even that has been removed! Kostaki mou (talk) 18:28, 28 September 2021 (UTC)
 * He's now been added to the infobox. -  wolf  01:27, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

Edit-warring
A redlink editor User:Eliza George Matter, has been edit-warring at this page all day, making edits that violate WP:COMMONNAME, WP:NOR. WP:MOS and WP:BLP. This user is currently up to three reverts and has been warned about WP:3RR. I have asked the user to discuss the issues here on this talk page, but so far, she has refused.--Tenebrae (talk) 22:13, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Infidelity with Ryan Edit war
We have one gossip column in 2008 where Ryan claims infidelity. We have a reputable news source in 2017 where Ryan denies the claim. We can include both claims, or neither. Given that there seemed to be gossip about it in 2008, I suggest keeping both just so we don't have to address this again. Work permit (talk) 17:23, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
 * They should both be removed fast as WP:BLP violations, claims and counter claims by divorcees are hardly independent, thanks Atlantic306 (talk) 17:26, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
 * The requirement at WP:BLP for independence refers to independent sources, not independent speakers. There is no requirement that the comments of people concerning themselves or others with whom they are related or have had relationships cannot be included here if those comments are reported by reliable sources independent of the speakers (e.g., not a personal Web page or blog). What is not permitted is the removal of reliably sourced content to replace it with other content, reliably sourced or otherwise, that favors or disfavors the subject of the article. Doing so does not reflect WP:NPOV and is WP:UNDUE.  If there exist contradictory comments on this topic that are all reliably sourced, and all are determined to be relevant to the subject, all should be included.  This can include reliably sourced denials by the speaker of comments reliably sourced and attributed to them in the past. General Ization  Talk  17:45, 12 August 2018 (UTC)

Esurance ads on page?
Maybe we should include a section about his roles in Esurance ads on his page? That is part of his contributions to media as an actor. (Maybe why it wasn't included was because of a notability issue? He is mentioned on that page, so...  Maccore Henni  Mii! Pictochat Mii! 18:56, 30 November 2019 (UTC)

drug use
According to the Larry King interview he gave, he'd been drug-free for 14 years, as of the 2002 interview. But, I remember frequently hearing that that was part of the problem during his marriage to Meg Ryan. Weird. 76.202.192.102 (talk) 22:24, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

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Royal Southampton Yacht Club

Royal Southampton Yacht Club is located on the Beaulieu River in Hampshire. It received its Royal Charter in 1875 making it one of the oldest Yacht clubs in the UK.

History
At the first regatta of the 1840 season, the club announced, "...that her Majesty has been graciously pleased to consent to the Club being called "The Royal Southampton Yacht Club."

The Office of the Lord High Admiral warranted the club to use the distinguishing flag consisting of "a white ensign, with the crown and Southampton arms in the centre" in parliamentary papers from 1859. In the previous year, the Admiralty had withdrawn permission to fly the White Ensign from any yacht club except for the Royal Yacht Squadron.

The West Quay Regatta Club was formally established in 1866 but had existed for many years before that date, and was known as the "father" of the Royal Southampton Yacht Club.

When the cornerstone of a new clubhouse was laid in 1885, the estimated cost of the planned building with land included, was about £8,000, occupying an area of about 8000 square feet, three stories high, with a basement and a tower.

The planned building was further described: "The design is 'domestic gothic', and the premises will be of local red bricks, pointed with black mortar, the dressings being executed in red terra-cotta The building will contain a large room for the club meeting, smoking, library, chess, billiard, dining, and other rooms, while every attention has been paid to the ventilation, sanitation, and the comfort and convenience of the members. The architect is Mr W. H. Mitchell, of Southampton ; the contractors Messrs J. Crook and Sons, of the same town, and the building, which already shows above the hoarding, is to bo ready for occupation before the end of the present year." In 1886, members celebrated the opening of the new facility, "new and extensive premises erected for the members of the club, on a portion of the land Above Bar, known as the Ogle site, in the place formerly occupied by the Circus, which building, by no means an ornament to the locality, has now given way to the large and handsome structure in future to be the headquarters of the successful Yacht Club, which had its origin in Southampton, where so many of the most superior of the British Yachting fleet have been built."

According to the Daily Telegraph, in 1897 "The Queen's Cup is first presented to the Royal Southampton Yacht Club by Queen Victoria. It was won by Latana and is still awarded today to the IRC Class Zero winner of the first Saturday's racing."

As of 1898 the club had over 200 members and organised the annual Southampton Regatta. The annual membership subscription fee at the time was 10 shillings and sixpence.

More recently, Ocean Village in Southampton included "a building for the Royal Southampton Yacht Club Houses built in the early 1990s".

Locations built

 * 1885 to 1957 - Clubhouse located in Above Bar, Southampton.
 * 1957 to 1988 - Northlands Road, opposite the County Cricket ground.
 * 1988 to 2018 - Clubhouse in Ocean village marina.
 * 1964 to present - Clubhouse at Gins, on Beaulieu River

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Phenocopy

A phenocopy is a variation in phenotype (generally referring to a single trait) which is caused by environmental conditions (often, but not necessarily, during the organism's development), such that the organism's phenotype matches a phenotype which is determined by genetic factors. It is not a type of mutation, as it is non-hereditary.

The term was coined by Richard Goldschmidt in 1935. He used it to refer to forms, produced by some experimental procedure, whose appearance duplicates or copies the phenotype of some mutant or combination of mutants.

Examples
The butterfly genus Vanessa can change phenotype based on the local temperature. If introduced to Lapland they mimic butterflies localised to this area; and if localised to Syria they mimic butterflies of this area.

The larvae of Drosophila melanogaster have been found to be particularly vulnerable to environmental factors which produce phenocopies of known mutations; these factors include temperature, shock, radiation, and various chemical compounds. In fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, the normal body colour is brownish gray with black margins. A hereditary mutant for this was discovered by T.H. Morgan in 1910 where the body colour is yellow. This was a genotypic character which was constant in both the flies in all environments. However, in 1939, Rapoport discovered that if larvae of normal flies were fed with silver salts, they develop into yellow bodied flies irrespective of their genotype. The yellow bodied flies which are genetically brown is a variant of the original yellow bodied fly.

Phenocopy can also be observed in Himalayan rabbits. When raised in moderate temperatures, Himalayan rabbits are white in colour with black tail, nose, and ears, making them phenotypically distinguishable from genetically black rabbits. However, when raised in cold temperatures, Himalayan rabbits show black colouration of their coats, resembling the genetically black rabbits. Hence this Himalayan rabbit is a phenocopy of the genetically black rabbit.

Reversible and/or cosmetic modifications such as the use of hair bleach are not considered to be phenocopy, as they are not inherent traits.

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Humphrey Appleby

Sir Humphrey Appleby is a fictional character from the British television series Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister. He was played originally by Sir Nigel Hawthorne, and both on stage and in a television adaptation of the stage show by Henry Goodman in a new series of Yes, Prime Minister. In Yes Minister, he is the Permanent Secretary for the Department of Administrative Affairs (a fictional department of the British government). In the last episode of Yes Minister, "Party Games", he becomes Cabinet Secretary, the most powerful position in the service and one he retains during Yes, Prime Minister. Hawthorne's portrayal won the British Academy Television Awards Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance four times: 1981, 1982, 1986, and 1987.

Fictional biography
Sir Humphrey was educated at Winchester College and Baillie College, Oxford, where he read literae humaniores and received a first. (Baillie College is clearly based on Balliol College, Oxford; Humphrey is frequently seen wearing a Balliol tie.) After National Service in the Army Education Corps, he entered the Civil Service. From 1950 to 1956 he was successively the Regional Contracts Officer, an assistant principal in the Scottish Office, on secondment from the War Office (where, as revealed in "The Skeleton in the Cupboard", he was responsible for the relinquishing of £40 million worth of military installations due to a lack of understanding of Scottish law). In 1964, he was brought into the newly formed Department of Administrative Affairs, where he worked until his appointment as Cabinet Secretary. He is recommended for a KBE award early on in the series in "The Official Visit". The Dean of Baillie Rev. Christopher Smythe describes him as "too clever by half" and "smug" ("The Bishop's Gambit"). Coincidentally, in the same episode Humphrey is secretly instrumental in having the Dean removed from his position at Baillie College and appointed by the Prime Minister and the Palace to the bishopric of Bury St. Edmunds after Humphrey is informed by the current Master and the Bursar that they both want Humphrey to be the next Master of Baillie College (upon Humphrey's retirement from the Civil Service in four/five years) and the Dean is the only thing standing in the way of that.

On Humphrey's possible private situation, Jonathan Lynn, one of the creators of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, commented: "We always supposed that Sir Humphrey lived in Haslemere, had a son at Winchester and a daughter at Bedales and that his wife was a sensible woman who made cakes for church socials and enjoyed walking the family bulldog. I think that Humphrey's hobbies were reading (mainly biographies), listening to classical music, and occasionally visiting the RSC, the National Theatre or the Royal Opera House, where he was on the Board. His holidays were probably spent walking in the Lake District and, occasionally, sailing in Lymington. On the whole, he had a slightly warmer relationship with his dog than his family."

The book adaptation of the first series was published in 1981, but with a fictional publication date of 2017. In the foreword, the 'editors' Lynn and Jay state that they had "a few conversations" with Sir Humphrey before the "advancing years, without in any way impairing his verbal fluency, disengaged the operation of his mind from the content of his speech," indicating that his speech had transitioned from merely sounding like overly verbose nonsense to actually being overly verbose nonsense. The third volume (published 1983, but dated September 2019) notes that the editors learned from "the few lucid moments of Sir Humphrey Appleby's last ravings" at St Dymphna's Hospital for the Elderly Deranged. The fifth and final volume (published 1987, dated May 2024) makes it explicit that Sir Humphrey is dead, and thanks his widow for her cooperation. Politico's Book of the Dead states that Sir Humphrey (like Nigel Hawthorne) died in 2001.

Honours
Sir Humphrey has been appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath (GCB), a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE) and a Member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO).

Character
Sir Humphrey is a master of obfuscation and manipulation, often making long-winded statements to confuse and fatigue the listener. An example is the following monologue from the episode "The Death List": "In view of the somewhat nebulous and inexplicit nature of your remit, and the arguably marginal and peripheral nature of your influence within the central deliberations and decisions within the political process, there could be a case for restructuring their action priorities in such a way as to eliminate your liquidation from their immediate agenda." Addressing his Minister, he means to suggest by this that a terrorist group which had previously conspired to assassinate the Minister is no longer planning to do so, as they believe he is simply not important enough politically.

While outwardly conservative, Sir Humphrey will stop at nothing to prevent even positive changes to his department. He will both feign sympathy and strike alliances even with the far left in order to maintain the existing status quo in his own career and for the Civil Service bureaucracy in particular. He is even once heard singing, "We shall not be moved", to himself when unleashing a rabid left-wing labour union leader against his Minister's plans for replacing the civil servants filling out red tape all day in a London hospital with no actual doctors, nurses, and patients.

After decades of working in a bureaucracy, Sir Humphrey knows how to baffle his opponents with legalese and routinely employs what his previous Minister calls "creative inertia" (meaning a dizzying array of sociopathic blocking and delaying tactics). He often conceals vital documents underneath mammoth piles of papers and reports, strategically appoints allies to supposedly impartial boards, or offers to set up an interdepartmental committee to indefinitely block his Minister's proposals, and occasionally outright lying. Throughout the series, he serves as Permanent Secretary at the Department of Administrative Affairs, with Jim Hacker as minister; he is appointed Cabinet Secretary shortly before Hacker's elevation to the role of Prime Minister, which he was instrumental in bringing to pass.

Sir Humphrey frequently uses both his mastery of the English language and even his superb grasp of Latin and Classical Greek grammar to perplex his political masters and to obscure relevant issues under discussion. However, his habit of using language as a tool of confusion and obstruction is so deeply ingrained that he is sometimes unable to speak clearly and directly even when he honestly wishes to be clearly understood. He genuinely believes that the Civil Service knows what the average person needs and is the most qualified body to run the country. The joke being, however, that Sir Humphrey, as an elite, University of Oxford-educated career civil servant, is actually quite out of touch from the average Briton.

His minister Jim Hacker, on the other hand, tends to regard what is best for Britain as being whatever is best at the moment for his political party or his own chances of re-election. As a result, Sir Humphrey and Hacker often clash.

Sir Humphrey still holds women to be the fairer sex and is thus overly courteous, frequently addressing them as "dear lady", while expressing contempt for female civil servants behind their backs and blocking their chances of promotion at every turn. Like Hacker, Sir Humphrey has expensive tastes, and is regularly seen drinking sherry and dining at gourmet restaurants, often with his fellow civil servant Sir Arnold Robinson, who was Cabinet Secretary throughout Yes Minister. Sir Humphrey is also on the board of governors of the National Theatre and attends many of the gala nights of the Royal Opera House. His interests also extend to cricket, theatre, classical music, and the arts.

Humphrey is usually smooth, calm and collected within his element of manipulating both bureaucracy and procedure, but has become so adept at working within and maintaining the system of government that, whenever anything unexpected is sprung on him, whether it be Hacker ordering him to negotiate with a councillor who wishes to overthrow the monarchy, or honours in his department being made dependent on meritocracy, Humphrey immediately crumbles, on a few occasions being reduced to stuttering out garbled platitudes such as "the thin end of the wedge", "the beginning of the end", or "it cuts at the very roots", although he usually regains his composure pretty quickly to try and push his own opposition to the plans back on track.

In a Radio Times interview to promote the first series of Yes, Prime Minister, Nigel Hawthorne observed, "He's raving mad of course. Obsessive about his job. He'd do anything to keep control. In fact, he does go mad in one episode. Quite mad."

Relationships
In Yes Minister, Sir Humphrey maintains a civil and outwardly deferential but fundamentally adversarial relationship with his new minister, Jim Hacker. When keeping Hacker busy is not sufficient to prevent him from proposing new policy, Sir Humphrey is not above deceiving or even blackmailing him. He frequently manipulates Hacker by describing new proposals that he is opposed to as "very brave" or "extremely courageous", playing upon Hacker's fear as a politician of anything which may fly in the face of prevailing public opinion.

He has a slightly more amicable relationship with his subordinate, the Minister's Principal Private Secretary, Bernard Woolley. He frequently lectures the naïve Woolley in the realities of political matters. When Woolley's loyalty to the Minister is inconvenient to Sir Humphrey's plans, he readily makes oblique threats about Woolley's job prospects should he defy Sir Humphrey. However, he is equally quick to defend Woolley from outsiders. His closest on-screen friendships are with Sir Arnold Robinson, Cabinet Secretary during Yes Minister; Sir Frederick "Jumbo" Stewart, Permanent Secretary of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; and the banker Sir Desmond Glazebrook. He is married, although his wife plays virtually no role in either series and is only seen once: next to him in bed in the Series One episode "Big Brother".

Real-life references
Sir Humphrey has become a stereotype associated with civil servants, and the phrase "Bowler-hatted Sir Humphreys" is sometimes used when describing their image. Satirical and investigative magazine Private Eye often refers to Sir Humphrey with the definite article "the" to indicate someone in the civil service the magazine considers of similar character, e.g. "[name] is the present Sir Humphrey at the Department for Rural Affairs". Jonathan Lynn wrote in his book Comedy Rules (2011) that Sir Humphrey was named after a friend of his at Cambridge, Humphrey Barclay.

A spoof obituary for Sir Humphrey appears in Politico's Book of the Dead, written by his creators, Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, which includes some biographical details, including dates of birth and death, which he shares with Nigel Hawthorne, the actor who portrayed him.

Sir Humphrey was voted the 45th greatest comedy character in Channel 4's 2007 "The World's Greatest Comedy Characters" poll. He was also voted 31st in a poll of "100 Greatest TV Characters", also on Channel 4. Upon Nigel Hawthorne's death, the following appeared on the Editorial page of The Ottawa Citizen under the heading "No, Minister": "'It is sadly that we report on Sir Nigel Hawthorne, elsewhere referred to as Sir Humphrey Appleby. While it would be premature to commit ourselves to a definitive position on his merits or even his existence, a committee is being struck to consider the possibility of a decision, in the fullness of time, to regret his passing, if any.'"

The character was resurrected for the 2010 general election campaign in a series of short sketches on BBC Two's late evening current affairs programme Newsnight. The sketches were written by Jay and Lynn, and Sir Humphrey was played by Henry Goodman.

Goodman also played the part of Sir Humphrey in the 2010 stage production of Yes, Prime Minister.

Humphrey, a cat employed as the Chief Mouser to the Cabinet Office at 10 Downing Street from 1989 to 1997, was named after Sir Humphrey.

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User:Reversegecko

My full name is Jeffrey Keith Spaneas Bland, and go by Jeff. I am a computer programmer living in Boulder, Colorado. I was born on Augest 4th, 1986 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I lived for two weeks before I moved to Ithaca, New York for 4 years.

Activities
I am currently working on an open source game called Capture The Flag with several other people in the Boulder area. We begun work on the project in early 2003, missed the origonal completion deadline of Summer, 2004, and now hope to finish the project in 2006.

Languages
A native speaker of English, I have been learning Spanish since 1996, and I began learning Japanese in 2004. I intend to become fluent in all of these language as well as American Sign Language.

Schooling
I attended Bear Creek Elementary School, Summit Middle School, and am currently attending Fairview High School as a super super senior, and hope to finish up my diploma this year. I do not intend to get a college degree, though I do plan to take classes of interest the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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User:Kyle UNC Law

Kyle UNC Law

Hello. Somehow you've found the user page for Kyle UNC Law. You might not be surprised that I am a student at the UNC School of Law.

My interests are ACC basketball, major league baseball, law generally, and the Supreme Court of the United States specifically.

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WPXS

WPXS (channel 13) is a religious television station licensed to Mount Vernon, Illinois, United States (a city within the Paducah, Kentucky–Cape Girardeau, Missouri–Harrisburg, Illinois television market), but primarily serving the St. Louis market. The station is owned and operated by the Daystar Television Network. WPXS' transmitter is located on Five Forks Road near New Athens, Illinois.

Southern Illinois's independent
Channel 13 at Mount Vernon—the last VHF television allocation in southern Illinois, added in 1970 after a years-long fight that depleted the resources of the aspiring station owners—emerged as a bone of contention when the Southern Illinois Broadcasting Corporation, a subsidiary of Evans Broadcasting, was granted a construction permit in 1979. Southern Illinois Broadcasting had been one of three competing applicants for the channel, alongside a group of local businessmen and Bill Varecha, owner of Murphysboro radio station WTAO, under the name Pyramid Broadcasting Corporation. Evans fueled a prolonged legal fight that prompted Varecha to reach a settlement agreement. However, opposition arose because Evans Broadcasting owned St. Louis independent station KDNL-TV and intended for channel 13 to repeat it 95 percent of the time. A local landowner who owned a strategically located parcel that Evans considered for the transmitter refused to lease it. The landowner and others formed the Citizens Committee for Independent Local Television in Southern Illinois to oppose the grant of the permit. Evans argued that Mount Vernon, a town with a population of 18,000, could not sustain the station, and that national advertising revenues would be poor since the station would be located in the St. Louis market without covering St. Louis.

Evans pressed ahead despite the opposition. It had segments of a 1000 ft tower waiting at a site near Salem when the FCC, responding to the Citizens Committee's appeals, rescinded the grant of the permit. In early 1980, however, it sold KDNL-TV and announced it was pulling out of contention for channel 13, saying it wanted to avoid "years of litigation". The Pyramid application was reinstated in 1981, and in June 1982, the FCC granted it a construction permit.

WCEE, known on air as "C-13", began broadcasting February 28, 1983. Its program schedule heavily emphasized programming of interest to southern Illinois viewers that St. Louis stations did not offer; channel 13 aired the Chicago White Sox, Chicago Cubs, and Illinois high school and college sports, and it started a local news department. After operating the station nearly three years, Pyramid sold WCEE to Sudbrink Broadcasting for $3.6 million in late 1985. The sale of the station, which was struggling with cable carriage but financially successful, raised capital for Varecha to build television stations in Melbourne, Florida, and Paducah, Kentucky; it also marked Sudbrink's first television property.

Under Sudbrink, the station remained an independent airing programming oriented to southern Illinois. In 1994, WCEE was purchased by McEntee Broadcasting for $1.475 million.

Pax years
Christian Network, a company backed by Lowell Paxson, bought WCEE from McEntee in 1995 for $3.2 million, representing a doubling of the purchase price McEntee had paid just a year prior. A year later, WCEE and three other Christian Network stations were sold to Paxson Communications—the forerunner of Ion Media Networks—for $18.3 million.

As part of the launch of the Pax TV network in 1998, WCEE became the designated St. Louis station. It changed its call sign to the current WPXS and began simulcasting on a translator in St. Louis, KUMO-LP (channel 40, later 51). The WPXS transmitter, which was located north of Kell, Illinois, was close enough to St. Louis to cover most of the Illinois portion of the St. Louis market; St. Louis itself was served by KUMO-LP.

Equity and Daystar
In 2004, the station affiliated with the Daystar religious broadcast network. The following year, Equity Broadcasting bought the station from Paxson; WPXS subsequently rejoined Pax (which rebranded as i: Independent Television that summer, and then to Ion Television in 2007).

In 2005, WPXS affiliated with the Retro Television Network, a network owned by Equity at the time. By this time, the bulk of the station's audience was located in St. Louis. In 2010, Daystar purchased WPXS outright; this resulted in the station switching back to the network on August 12 of that year. With that move, DirecTV pulled WPXS from its St. Louis local station lineup on September 11, 2010, as WPXS had become a straight simulcast of Daystar's national feed (unlike fellow religious network, TBN, Daystar's television stations do not produce any local programming). On Dish Network, the provider lists Daystar programming as airing on WPXS, though the provider continues to offer the Retro Television Network feed.

Technical information
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion
WPXS opted to build its digital transmitter in Saint Rose, Illinois, which is part of the St. Louis market. The station shut down its analog signal, over VHF channel 13, on April 30, 2009. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 21, using virtual channel 13.

The station's signal now covers areas of the St. Louis market east of the Mississippi River, including Belleville, Edwardsville and Alton, Illinois. After the switchover, the broadcast radius of WPXS' digital signal covered a smaller area than the former analog signal, resulting in the loss of the station's reception to nearly 93,000 viewers in Effingham, Clay and Wayne counties and large portions of Franklin, Hamilton, Jefferson, Jasper, Richland and Shelby counties in Illinois. KUMO-LD flash-cut its digital signal into operation in June 2011, without an RTV subchannel. Although WPXS' digital transmitter creates redundancies with KUMO-LP on the Illinois side of the St. Louis market, the transmitter still provides only rimshot coverage of the Missouri side of the market, most likely due to the need to protect the transmitter of KRCG in Jefferson City on nearby digital channel 12.

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Lanterns of the Dead

Lanterns of the Dead (Lanternes des morts; Latarnia umarłych) are small stone towers found chiefly in Austria, France, Germany, Northern Italy, and Poland where it is associated with Latin Christendom.

Function
Pierced with small openings at the top, a light was exhibited at night to indicate the position of a cemetery, hospital, or leper colony. These lanterns were originally constructed to warn passers-by of the danger of infection, as well as to illuminate cemeteries where it was feared that repenting souls, ghosts, and criminals could hide. Later, they were also erected at the intersections of important routes and roads.

France
These towers were usually circular, with a small entrance in the lower part giving access to the interior, so as to raise the lamps by a pulley to the required height. One of the most perfect in France is that at Cellefrouin (Charente), which consists of a series of eight attached semicircular shafts, raised on a pedestal, and is crowned with a conical roof decorated with fir cones; it has only one aperture, towards the main road. Other examples exist at Ciron (Indre) and Antigny (Vienne).

Poland
Lanterns of the dead can be found all over Poland. Some of the more well-known examples can be found in Kielce, Wrocław, and Kraków. A tradition which is most strongly associated with the Middle Ages, a new lantern of the dead constructed in the Romanesque style was completed in 2021 near Lublin in Dębowka. A custom of Roman Catholicism which has fallen out of fashion, the new lantern is the first such construction to be built in Europe in centuries.

A significant number of structures which were built as lanterns of the dead still exist in Kraków. Many of them have been either rebuilt or rearranged in the centuries since their original construction. Most of them now serve as either shrines or chapels, with the top opening, where light sources such as lamps, oil lamps, or torches, were placed having been walled up in the succeeding centuries. They have also been altered with the addition of statuary depicting saints of the Roman Catholic Church.

Germany
In Germany, lanterns of the dead had been known since the 13th century, especially in southern and southwestern parts of the country. In addition to columns with lantern-like attachments, funerary lanterns were also found on buttresses of churches. In the 16th century, the lanterns gradually fell into disuse. However, the custom lives on in the grave candles that are still placed today, for example, on All Souls' Day.

England
There is one surviving example in England, in the churchyard at Bisley, Gloucestershire, which is referred to as the Poor Souls' Light.

Misconceptions
The origin and use of such lanterns are controversial. Some of those lanterns are said to be "lanterns of the Moors" instead of "lanterns of the Dead". The unstandardized spellings of the French language of the past can easily explain this folk etymology: in French, "the Moors" (les Maures) and "the dead" (les morts) are near-homophones. Moreover, some of those lanterns do not indicate any cemetery and their architecture has strong oriental influences. The proximity of Al-Andalus, Crusaders coming back to France, or trade in the Mediterranean may explain such monuments. For instance, the "lantern of the Moors" in Vergèze, southern France, looks like the chimneys of the Bakhchisaray Palace, the Palace of the Crimean Tatars in Crimea, and doesn't indicate any cemetery. Actually, its other name is indeed the "Saracen chimney". The "lantern of the Dead" of Carlux, Southern France, is called a "Saracen chimney" too. Another example is the "lantern of the Moors" in Sarlat-la-Canéda, in Southern France too. The origin of the lantern is linked with the abbot Bernard of Clairvaux, who played a major role in the Second Crusade. It is said to have been built after a visit of the abbot in the city, in 1147, possibly by Knights Templar as would prove a sculpture on the tower representing a horse and two Crosses pattée.

Besides, "Saracen chimneys" (Cheminées sarrasines) are a typical local architecture feature of Bresse, a region in Eastern France. It seems to bear the same name only coincidentally. And the origin of the name remains a mystery in that case too. Various fanciful origins exist for those who introduced this tradition, such as: survivors from the Battle of Tours (during which Charles Martel fought the Saracens in 732, 350 km and many centuries away), refugees from the Balkans fleeing the Ottoman Turks in the 15th century after the Fall of Constantinople, Burgundians settling in Bresse in the 5th-6th century and carrying with them Nordic-style chimneys, or monk-soldiers of the 12th century. Last given explanation, "Saracen", or "Arab" also meant "apocryphal" in the 19th century.

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Johann Heinrich von Dannecker

Johann Heinrich von Dannecker (October 16, 1758 in Stuttgart – December 8, 1841 in Stuttgart) was a German sculptor.

Biography
He was the third of five children of Georg Dannecker (1718–1786), a coachman of the nobleman Charles Alexander, Duke of Württemberg. In 1764, the family moved to Ludwigsburg (Baden-Württemberg). He was entered in the military school at the age of thirteen, but from 1772 to 1780 he was educated as a sculptor, together with Philipp Jakob Scheffauer. Initially, he studied under Adam Bauer and, starting in 1775, at the military academy at Stuttgart. In his eighteenth year he carried off the prize at the Concours with his model of Milo of Crotona. On this the duke made him sculptor to the palace (1780), and for some time he was employed on child-angels and caryatids for the decoration of the reception rooms.

After finishing the academy in 1780, he traveled to Paris, Rome, Bologna and Mantua and returned to Stuttgart in 1790, where he worked as a professor at the Hohe Karlsschule until 1794.

Apart from some short trips he never left Stuttgart again. His works now showed the double influence of his admiration for Antonio Canova and his study of the antique. The first was a girl lamenting her dead bird, which pretty light motive was much admired. Afterwards, Sappho, in marble for the Lustschloss, and two offering-bearers for the Jagdschloss; Hector, not in marble; the complaint of Ceres, from Schiller's poem; a statue of Christ; Psyche; kneeling water-nymph; Love, a favourite he had to repeat.

In 1803, he made a first terracotta model of "Ariadne on the Panther", which he executed in marble between c.1810 and 1814. This is generally regarded as his masterpiece and one of the most important sculptures of the nineteenth century (today in the Liebieghaus, Frankfurt). In 1810, the Frankfurt banker Simon Moritz von Bethmann signed the contract for the marble version. He built a small neoclassical museum (known as the Bethmann Museum) in his garden which was completed in 1816 (today Seilerstraße 34). Open to the public, this was Frankfurt's first purpose-built museum building. Numerous visitors from all over Europe visited and admired the Ariadne. Small-scale replicas, such as those made by Meissen and Minton, were popular souvenirs and fashionable decorations. In 1853 the building and the small park were sold to the city of Frankfurt and the collection reopened in 1856 in the Ariadneum, an octagonal annex to the Bethmann family's house (architects: Johann Georg Kayser and his son Ferdinand August). In 1941, the Bethmann family donated the museum and the collection to the city of Frankfurt. However, the sculpture was severely damaged by fire in 1943 and could only be restored in 1977–78.

After the death of his schooltime friend Friedrich Schiller, Dannecker created a bust of him, which was copied by his sculptor friend Reinhold Begas for the monumental Schiller statue erected on Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt. In 1823 and 1824 he created a bust of John the Baptist.

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Tombs of the Nobles

Tombs of the Nobles are a collective term applied to tombs of workers, foremen, priests, soldiers, officials, viziers, princes etc. usually located in the area of a major ancient site in Egypt.

 * Tombs of the Nobles (Luxor) — a number of tomb-areas on the West Bank at modern Luxor (Ancient Thebes) is known collectively as the Tombs of the Nobles.
 * Tombs of the Nobles (Saqqara) — a large number of royal and nonroyal tombs from the 1st and 2nd dynasty, Old Kingdom and New Kingdom.
 * Tombs of the Nobles (Amarna) — The collective name for the South Tombs and North Tombs.
 * Qubbet el-Hawa (Aswan) — a series of rock cut tombs, known sometimes as the Tombs of the Nobles.

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E. Roy Weintraub

Eliot Roy Weintraub (born March 22, 1943) is an American mathematician, economist, and, since 1976, professor of economics at Duke University. He was born in 1943 in New York City.

Career
Weintraub has published numerous articles in professional journals and other edited volumes. His teaching and research have traced the connection between mathematics and economics at technical, methodological or historical, and micro and macro levels. As at:  • 1982. Mathematics for Economists: An Integrated Approach, Cambridge. Description and preview. • 1971. "Stochastic Stability of a General Equilibrium System under Adaptive Expectations" (with Stephen J. Turnovsky), International Economic Review, 12(1), pp. 71–86. • 1974. General Equilibrium Theory, Macmillan Studies in Economics. • 1975. Conflict and Cooperation in Economics, Macmillan Studies in Economics. • 1977. "The Microfoundations of Macroeconomics: A Critical Survey," Journal of Economic Literature, 15(1), pp. 1–23. • 1979. Microfoundations: The Compatibility of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, Cambridge University Press. Description and preview. • 1983. "On the Existence of a Competitive Equilibrium: 1930–1954," Journal of Economic Literature, 21(1), pp. 1–39. • 2008. "mathematics and economics," The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition. Abstract. • 1994. "The Pure and the Applied: Bourbakism Comes to Mathematical Economics" (with Philip Mirowski), Science in Context, 7(2), pp. 245–72. Abstract. • 1998. "Controversy: Axiomatisches Mißverständnis," Economic Journal, 108(451), pp. 1837–1847. • 1999. "How Should We Write the History of Twentieth-Century Economics?" Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 15(4), pp. 139–152. • 1989. "Methodology Doesn't Matter, but the History of Thought Might," Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 91(2), pp. 477–493. A broad theme of later work has been the transformation of economics from a historical to a mathematical discipline, as in General Equilibrium Analysis (1985), Stabilizing Dynamics: Constructing Economic Knowledge (1991), How Economics Became a Mathematical Science (2002)., and "Finding Equilibrium: Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie and the Problem of Scientific Credit" co-authored with Till Düppe (2014). The latter was awarded the 2016 Joseph J. Spengler prize for best book by the history of economics society.

He also wrote for and edited Towards a History of Game Theory (1993) and more recently two historiographic volumes. His books have been variously translated into Japanese, Chinese, French, Spanish, Hungarian, and Italian.

Currently he is Associate Editor of the journals History of Political Economy and the Economics Bulletin, and Co-Editor of the book series Science and Cultural Theory.

He has held visiting positions at the University of Hawaii, UCLA, the Sapienza University of Rome, the University of Bristol, and the University of Venice. At Duke he was Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Economics from 1972 to 1983, Chair of that department from 1983 to 1987, Acting Director of the Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences in 1987, Director of the Center for Social and Historical Studies of Science from 1995–1999, and has twice chaired the Academic Council. From 1993 to 1995, he served as Acting Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He has served terms on the Advisory Committee on Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure, the Academics Priorities Committee, the Faculty Compensation Committee, and has chaired the President's Advisory Committee on Resources. He served for many years as a pre-major advisor and a teacher of first-year seminars, and has been Director of the Honors Program for the Department of Economics, and Faculty Fellow in the former Edens Federation for Residential Life.

Weintraub has been one of the few economists awarded a fellowship year (1988–9) by the National Humanities Center. His subject was "The Creation of Modern Economics: 1935–1955". In 1992 he won the Howard Johnson Foundation Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award. He was president of the History of Economics Society in 2003–2004 and was honored by the Society as a Distinguished Fellow in 2011.

A native of the Philadelphia area, Weintraub received an A.B. degree (1964, mathematics) from Swarthmore College and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees (1967 and 1969, applied mathematics) from the University of Pennsylvania. His Ph.D. thesis advisors were Lawrence Klein and Herbert Wilf.

He joined the Duke University faculty in 1970 following a first academic position at Rutgers University. He lives with his family in Durham, North Carolina.

E. Roy Weintraub is the son of the economist Sidney Weintraub.

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Talk:Crown Royal Presents the Your Name Here 400

Article Title
This race is going to have a different name next year. Crown Royal was using the name "Your Name Here 400." I think the article title should be changed to "Crown Royal Presents the Your Name Here 400." The name of each year's race could be included in the article's information. Does anyone agree? Disagree? WildFan48 02:18, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Nope, this is the official name of the race, and it won't have a new official name until next year, so I'd say keep it until a new name is given. Many race names change on a yearly basis (see especially the first Busch Series season opener at Daytona), and I think the race name should be whatever the present year's official name is. Next year, a move and a redirect to the new name will suffice. -- SonicAD (talk) 14:56, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

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Move?

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: page moved. (non-admin closure) Purplebackpack89  (Notes Taken)  (Locker) 00:58, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Crown Royal Presents the Heath Calhoun 400 → —
 * Someone made this move undiscussed by cut-and-paste; I histmerged back. Someone said "This should be the name of the race since the Crown Royal Presents the Your Name Here 400's name changes every year.". Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:06, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.


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War Resisters League Peace Award

Since 1958, the War Resisters League, the pacifist group founded in 1923, has awarded almost annually its War Resisters League Peace Award to a person or organization whose work represents the League's commitment to radical nonviolent action.

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User:A&D~enwiki

Hey, my name is Adi and I am an hebrew wikipedian (live in Israel). pleas contect me in my hebrew user page (here) in my discussion page

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User talk:Sam Spade/ - archive/Juli 2005 2

Socialist Apologetics
What is with the swam of socialist apologetics all over the political and economic articles on the wiki... sorry, just need to vent a bit. --Pearlg 4 July 2005 03:57 (UTC)

 * Your completely right, it has to do w the demographics of who edits the wiki, and their difficulties w NPOV. Think "Ministry of Truth". Fortunately, some of us take intellectual rigour and the Foundation issues to heart.

 * Thank you for being here, ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 4 July 2005 17:58 (UTC)

Primitivism
As requested, the primitivism article has been moved to anarcho-primitivism and a tiny substub created at the former. It would be good if you could take a look and at least partially expand the single line at primitivism. Cheers, violet/riga (t) 4 July 2005 21:08 (UTC)

 * OK, thanks, I have now done so. I'm not sure if it should be merged w primitive, or what... ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 4 July 2005 21:34 (UTC)

Admin abuse
I understand that you're the go-to guy on these matters. I am suffering from admin abuse. I am in a dispute with SlimVirgin, who is POV warring against me and protecting pages on what he considers the "correct version." Please take a look at Peter Camejo and High Times. Thanks. Cognition 5 July 2005 01:10 (UTC)

 * Sam, is a LaRouche movement activist or supporter, who arrived on June 29 and has since then made a series of inflammatory or disruptive edits. I'm involved here only as an admin, not an editor, and the pages protected are not pages I've been editing. More details at WP:AN/I. SlimVirgin (talk)  July 5, 2005 01:38 (UTC)

Yeah, I have been watching since before his note ;) I don't agree w the wiki-policy towards LaRouchites, but this doesn't seem the right situation to challenge it. I think some people have been less than welcoming to Cognition, but I also think his references and edits have been... sub-par. Anyway, I would ask everyone to focus on rigour, and to be nice. If I cared to step into this matter, I would have to side against Cognition on every issue of substance I am aware of. ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 5 July 2005 01:45 (UTC)

Bill White
The links may be changing on Overthrow. I posted excerpts from an article there on Talk:Bill White (activist). Could you take a look when you have a chance to see if that adequately establishes White's length of service and compensation? Thanks, -Willmcw July 5, 2005 05:34 (UTC)

Addressing LDS Church items of popular imagination
Please see the intro to Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I added content that I think has been sorely missing. A discussion may ensue. Tom Haws July 5, 2005 18:13 (UTC)

Human Nature and Change
Someone here said that Lenin turned around the old Russian anti-Semitism in a few years. While that may have been an official stance, long-held prejudices are hard to just banish or turn around. I doubt very much that the average Russian farmer, say, in 1924, was actually convinced that Jews were OK; anti-Semitism is way too deeply-rooted to just disappear because of official government policy. They just knuckled under, kept their own council, and when Stalin purged the Jews in 1937-8 he had a very willing populace to rely on. They had never come around at all. They just waited until it was OK to hate Jews again.

And the idea that fame was as good as money works only because that fame brings perks. Better apartments, cars, travel, etc. Money wasn't really the issue, what money could buy was. It's always been that way. No one works harder unless he perceives there is reward for it. Capitalism works because it acknowledges this. And it pays according to market: how much is this work worth?, etc. You can't attempt to destroy market forces and expect to succeed. Communist regimes, in order to exist at all, need to become more and more compromised until all that is left of their ideology is its inherent authoritarianism. Hence, modern China.

No people would willingly become communist once they have seen the results. Of course then it's too late. That is the history of this failed system. Conquest, occupation, terrorization, propaganda, enforcement, imprisonment, slave labor, collapse. To say that totalitarianism is not a fair word to use for communist rule exhibits an unwillingness, or a fear, to look at this belief system - which is all it is: a secular religion - with any kind of objectivity.

Totalitarianism is inherent in Marxism. The creation of a false class, the proletariat - an invention of Marx's to begin with, there never was and never has been a proletariat, it's a myth, a concoction in order to anchor an economic theory - is the first step towards this 'total controlism,' if you will. You create a false class, and then you do whatever you want in their name. It sanctifies everything including mass murder and starvation, slave labor and torture. Marx had never met a proletarian, after all, he just dreamed them up. And the people he imagined to be among this artificial class of people - miners, let's say - were part of a vast, undifferentiated (to Marx) mass. He hated them, he feared them, and he elevated his fear to prominience in his writing.

No one willingly participates. They do so only out of fear. Those block captains and gung ho Red Guards in Maoist China are the same people we see in any industrialized society - thugs, hired guns, strike-breakers, you name it. Hitler had his brownshirts and his blackshirts (cooler, smarter, but even more brutal since they murdered all the brownshirts). In Zimbabwe it's Mugabe's version of brownshirts, the 'war veterans.' Like the enthusiastic party thugs of Maoism, they all do it from a mixture of their own fears and feelings of alienation - common to many humans in industrial societies, a fact which Marx understood well - this painful feeling of alienation is salved by belonging to something bigger, to the greater whole which is how totalitarianism takes root and flourishes - look at any religious cult) and their hatred towards those designated to be their enemies - the kulaks, for instance - can be legitimately channeled and released in the form of brutality and violence upon these enemies of the people. They are what you would expect and then some. Some are educated people with a grudge against what they see as an unfair society which does not prize them highly enough. You also get the prison guards. You get the lowest of the low. These are the ideological enforcers. These are the communist version of Islam's religious police. Nothing was ever accomplished under communism without the threat - and the acidulous carrying out - of brute force. User:69.109.196.57 20:06, 5 July 2005

 * You hit the nail on the head. People don't do things without incentive, and communism has 2: ideological doublespeak (equality, class struggle, internationalism, etc...), and once that is seen thru... the slave masters whip. They have nothing else, and frankly, abuse and lies are poor incentive. God, truth, meritocracy and happiness... those are sustainable incentives. ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 5 July 2005 21:24 (UTC)

 * We're just a bunch of mindless slaves, kidding ourselves that we aren't, whilst our capitalist masters dangle the carrot and weild the whip. Anyway, Sam, here's an article on what we were disussing a while ago - Vivian Solon. -- Silversmith Hewwo 6 July 2005 22:46 (UTC)

 * I am the master of all I survey, and last I knew... you were self employed... So if your getting whopped by the master, I suggest you lay off the flaggelation! Anyhow, I'm off to read that link ;) ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 6 July 2005 23:43 (UTC)

Organized resistance?
Sam, I am a sockpuppet of a user in good standing, created to express the opinion that rogue admins are out of control. I fear negative consequences if I used my regular account to express this opinion. Is there an organized response to the fact that some admins are openly claiming that there is no need for them to follow policy? Norrath 6 July 2005 16:03 (UTC)

 * There is User:Sam Spade/Detective agency, but its probably best to discuss such things via email, as I explain there. ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 6 July 2005 16:50 (UTC)

smartism
great merge. One minor edit, the other schools of vedanata, vishtisadvaita and dvaita praise Vishnu as the supreme God.

Raj2004 7 July 2005 01:15 (UTC)

a good essay on smartism-inclusive monotheism and world approach. God the Father, Allah and Vishnu are the same according to smarta view: http://www.dlshq.org/discourse/may2002.htm

presented by divine life swami, follower of sivananda Raj2004 7 July 2005 01:25 (UTC)

Sam, as always, thanks for your suggestions on Ayyavazhi. The more I read about AyyaVazhi, the more I realize in philosophy, it is similar to smartism.

Raj2004 02:50, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Sam, we are having a discussion about whether we should merge threegod heads with trimurti in ayya vazhi?

I said perhaps. what do you think?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Three_godheads_%28Ayyavazhi%29

Raj2004 21:53, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

sam. made some changes to panentheism Raj2004 23:01, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Erica Hardwick
I wasn't sure why you reverted the Erica Hardwick. Was it about the third photo of her? I'd deleted it originally because it doesn't show her face and doesn't seem to add anything to the article. However I presume that is why you reverted so I restored it at a smaller size. Please let me know if there are any other problems with the article. Cheers, -Willmcw July 8, 2005 23:48 (UTC)

? Response
Who are you talking to here, and what is your meaning? I honestly have no idea,

¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 8 July 2005 23:29 (UTC)

 * I was reacting to:
 * I said on the description page that if you didn't like it, I would delete it, you asshole. You are a completely absurd person, fuck you. john k 7 July 2005 15:05 (UTC)

I think that an Admin should be more ...well... more. hydnjo talk 9 July 2005 00:20 (UTC)

Ah, yeah, I agree. Its a weird situation. I don't know how on earth things escalated that way, but I am trying to find an answer thats good for the article. ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 9 July 2005 00:25 (UTC)

 * Fine. I just want an Admin to represent this project in a way that ... well you know what I mean. hydnjo talk 9 July 2005 00:30 (UTC)

Yeah, there is the note on Jimbo's talk page, and abother on the mailing list to that affect. Maybe an RfC should be filed, but I'm unconvinced it would help, particularly if I created it. ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 9 July 2005 00:35 (UTC)

 * Well shoot. I sure don't have the standing around here to do much except to complain. On the other hand Sam, your voice is quite respected. So do what you think is appropriate. hydnjo talk 9 July 2005 00:54 (UTC)

You welcome message
Sam Spade, thanks for your efforts to welcome new users (even if sometimes your "welcome, new user" message goes to not so new users :-).

But I want to draw your attention to the fact that the way how you do it (putting a link to your subpage) can cause some confusion. It causes an "edit" link to be created on the user page you tried to welcome. However acting on this "edit" link causes your own subpage to be edited, rather than the page of the user you tried to welcome. Take a look at the history of your welcome page, there are quite a few of unintended edits because of this reason.--Vlad1 9 July 2005 12:12 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the heads up, I've had a look. Cheers, ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 23:32, 9 July 2005 (UTC)

The Duke case
I see you have picked up the thread I started 2 days ago. I haven't been able to follow up due to RL stuff. Thanks for helping out! Inter\Echo 9 July 2005 12:53 (UTC)

 * No problem its what I do. Cheers, ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 23:31, 9 July 2005 (UTC)

Not a problem
Not a problem.. im Australian im easy going! :)... Hope to see you around! :) - UnlimitedAccess 15:18, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

Welcoming template
Hi there! I was told you're one of the frequent welcomers of new users. I was wondering - since this is a rather frequently asked question, would you please add a link to Merge to your welcoming template? Thanks. R adiant _ >|< 20:40, July 10, 2005 (UTC)

 * Ok, see

Straight Acting
Please stop adding a link to paederasty in the Straight Acting article. The topics are unrelated, and persistently readding this link is vandalism. Exploding Boy 20:11, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

 * Go read Vandalism, your supposed to be an admin, fer crissakes. ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 20:15, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Let me save you the trouble since you must be unfamiliar with it:

 * Vandalism is any indisputably bad-faith addition, deletion, or change to content made in a deliberate attempt to compromise the integrity of the encyclopedia.

 * Repeatedly adding a link to an unrelated article is vandalism, particularly when it is an obvious attempt to mislead, misinform, or malign. Stop it. Exploding Boy 20:22, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

I can't stop what I havn't started. Go read the bible. ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 20:36, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm not interested in your religious views, and nor do they have anything to do with Wikipedia. If you can't divorce your religion and politics from your editing you don't belong here. Please take this as a warning: don't add that link back to the article. Exploding Boy 20:39, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

 * Your existance as an admin is plenty of warning to me that the wiki is in trouble. Take your ridiculous accusations of vandalism to WP:ViP, and your threats to RfC. Try not to assume bad faith. Thanks, ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 20:44, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

I have no desire to play around with you, so you can stop playing wounded. We all know, and you've made abundantly clear, your bias against homosexuality. Please leave it out of the articles you edit (and that goes for the Anal sex article too). Exploding Boy 23:17, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

 * Your bias regarding myself is what we have ample evidence of. I don't know of any other gay people who have a problem w me, at all, ever (on or offline). There are 2 barnstars on my user page. One was given to me by a male soap opera expert, and the other by a biological male who prefers to be refered to as female. I have edited extensively with User:hyacinth with no problems which I am aware of. The issue between us as wikipedians has nothing to do with what you may or may not do in private. Rather we disagree regarding your editing as a wikipedian, which I see to be POV advocacy. My POV is @ User:Sam Spade/Theoretical Biases. If it were a Westboro Baptist banner, you would still be out of line claiming ownership of these articles, or perhaps even subjects. ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 23:26, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Sorry, but I really have no idea what you're talking about. Your anti-gay bias is well documented here. Exploding Boy 23:29, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

 * Where? User:Spleeman/Sam Spade? Get real. ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 23:32, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

No, actually, that's not what I meant, but thanks for pointing that out for me. Exploding Boy 00:42, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * No problem. Go revel in your wikihate. ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 01:14, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Rudraksha
Hai Sam, Thank you. Presently I don't know much about rudraksha but a little. I have heared that there were rudraksha seeds from one face up to sixteen faces. But I have seen only seeds with four, five and six faces. And I have also heared that seeds with one and sixteen face were rare and costly in the market.And if I come to know more about I will say you.-Vaikunda Raja

Thank you, ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 20:40, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Sig
I can't imagine someone else hasn't already mentioned it, but that signature you're using now has to be some sort of crime against humanity... In any case, it's really poor form to make links you can't decipher without hovering over them. Be glad you're not sight-impaired; those users would have hell trying to make sense of your sig. There are plenty of other people out there who are, shall we say, enthusiastic adorners of their signatures, but please try using something at least vaguely readable... if it doesn't cramp your creativity too much? JRM · Talk 22:36, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

 * That sucks, I like this alot. people are always getting after me for my signatures... I tell you what... come up w an appropriate title for me, and I'll change it to that. As far as the readability, my thought was that people could simply click on it if they have some sort of hover-aversion. So that you know, the next signature I was planning on was or some variation thereof. Oh, and yes, you are the first to mention it ;) ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 23:06, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Hey, I never complained about your signatures before, not even the ones advertising for this or that... When it gets to the level of ASCII art, though (well, not ASCII strictly speaking, but you know what I mean) I feel obliged to stop and point out that you're about as far from a functional signature as possible, without actually making it useless.
 * As for an appropriate title... That's quite a tall order. You do a lot around Wikipedia, but it's not something that lends itself to an obvious title. You welcome people, you argue with people, you edit articles, you argue with people... Hum. Well, you do argue a lot, but it's not something a title could or should be assigned for, methinks. Tongue-in-cheek as my "official capacity" is, I'm still reluctant to act inappropriately, so I'll have to forfeit on this one for now.
 * If that means you won't change your signature, then it's no skin off my back, mind you. I said what I had to say, I'm not going to bargain over a personal opinion. If you like having an unpronouncable, unreadable, inaccessible signature, go right ahead. It's a free wiki. :-) JRM · Talk 23:34, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

In my opinion this trend of messing around with signatures has gone too far. Signatures are meant to be a way to identify users, not a vehicle for their political posturing, advertising, or displaying their creativity. What's wrong with just using your user name? Exploding Boy 23:20, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, one thing is that people like you associate negativity towards me for it. How about if you challenge my edits on their individual basis, rather than on my having been the one to make them? ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 23:30, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, but again I don't know what you're talking about. I certainly objected to your using your signature to advertise your horrid little "detective agency," if that's what you mean. Exploding Boy 23:33, July 11, 2005 (UTC) Added: and why do you feel you need some sort of title? You're an editor, same as everyone else. Exploding Boy 23:36, July 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * In fairness, I wouldn't put much weight on any titles I could assign to people... After all, I'm an editor, same as everyone else. JRM · Talk

Well... I for one would like to assign a few titles right now, but they wouldn't be "editor" ;) ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 23:41, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Careful. FeloniousMonk will be here any minute, to talk about that one time you assigned a really weighty title. JRM · Talk 23:44, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

I just want you to know, your sig is now a part of the Wikistory. We're trying very hard to make that story unintelligible. Your sig is the answer. -- Toytoy 06:39, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

 * Why not have Sam Spade ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ With the "Sam" going to your user page, and "Spade" being a link to your talk page, and the pretty arch to your email. Or perhaps: S a m (these would look better not on your talk page of course) :) -- Silversmith Hewwo 10:09, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

You say:
 * I tell you what... come up w an appropriate title for me, and I'll change it to that. As long as you're encouraging requests, I submit the handle "One with God". It says so much about you. It lacks your wonderfully creative flair tho, so it would have to get the ol' Jack/Sam creative touch before it was exactly right. Thanks for helping make Wikipedia a better place. Cheers, 4.250.33.21 07:42, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Well thats the best compliment I could possibly recieve, thank you so very much. ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 14:49, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

discussion over user Nightscream
There is a guy named Nightscream who is making changes to an entry Wolverine (comics) which are for the worse. Several other Wikipedians have been reverting the changes he has made and have attempted to enter a discussion with him but he is rude and very troll-like. I know several others are of like mind, is there anyway we can block him from editing the entry? Coincedentally, the guy contributes very little to Wikipedia from what I can see.ScifiterX 09:05, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Sounds like an RfC would be in order. ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 12:44, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

"Insults"
Again, Spade, you are not the etiquette police -- nor are you qualified to be. Your admonition that I must show "respect" to a racist, segregationist, crakkka dead prez who showed my people only disdain and intolerance is about as ridiculous as it is pointless. Sorry to break it to you, but people are free to speak their minds here. If that offends you, then it appears the problem is yours -- not mine. Stop buggin', bwoi. Go preach to someone who gives a damn. You're boring me. *yawn* Kindly refrain from responding; I'll simply delete any entry from you before reading it. You are not welcome here (User talk: deeceevoice). deeceevoice 20:31, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Wikimediation/Deeceevoice

Talk:Pope Benedict XVI
Would you take a look at this page. Understandable but is it acceptable ? This would appear to be the culmination. ThanksFamekeeper 21:49, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Dear Sam, I have restored what FK deleted from the talk page. He also has posted that there were "several disagreements in progress" and he'll "tell you what this is really about now". Str1977 23:31, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

== You currently appear to be engaged in an edit war. Note that the three-revert rule prohibits making more than three reversions on a single page within a 24 hour period. Additionally, users who perform a large number of reversions in content disputes may be blocked for edit warring, even if they do not technically violate the three-revert rule. If you continue, you may be blocked from editing. Please do not repeatedly revert edits, but use the talk page to work towards wording and content that gains a consensus among editors. If necessary, pursue dispute resolution. == Sam, was it you who called me to anti-gay slogan with that wavy line signature? Uncle Ed 01:08, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes. ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 01:10, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

Nice ASCII graphic, by the way.

But about the page. I suggest you let ExplodingBoy move the disputed text to talk:anti-gay slogan. Then we can discuss it calmly and rationally.

Okay? (Remember, you asked for my input.) Uncle Ed 01:13, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

He can do what he likes, he is an admin after all.. (and I had the bad sense to vote for him). As far as what I'll do, I have no intent to revert again until 24hrs after my last revert. ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 01:15, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

 * What do you think of my proposed page: NPOV violation? Uncle Ed 02:35, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

No, I can't do what I like because I'm an admin, as you well know. And not being an admin is no excuse to engage in behaviour you know to be contrary to the rules and accepted practices around here. And I'm against your NPOV violation proposal. Exploding Boy 03:45, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

 * Sam, I think you need to take some time off from Wikipedia. Why don't you give it a rest for a week? You can spend the time meditating on what it means to have a point of view while writing an unbiased article which treats other POVs fairly. Try reading writing for the enemy, while you're at it.

 * I've placed your name at policy enforcement log under "proposed blocks". Can you give me one reason why I shouldn't block your account for a while? Uncle Ed 00:21, July 17, 2005 (UTC)

WIKIPEDIA ABUSE Ril, (81.156.177.21).
Ril has been causing problems at Authentic Matthew. Please help us to resolve.

RIL - M.O.

1) Sock Puppet redirects and hopes nobody notices - Article Gone.

2) SP starts edit war-victim gives up - Article Gone.

3) Later new SP 'merges' and redirects - Article Gone

4) New SP starts edit war - Article Gone

5) If all fails, SP puts up Vfd and makes false statements against his victim often getting THE VICTIM BLOCKED.

PLEASE STUDY THE 'EDIT HISTORY' OF THIS ARTICLE, RIL and 81.156.177.21 for the facts speak for themselves. --Mikefar 05:08, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Actually, the above is one of the numerous sockpuppets of the article's creator - User:Melissadolbeer - see the user's edit history, and Requests for comment/Melissadolbeer for details. The article in question is Melissadolbeer's original research based on an account by Jerome which is almost universally considered to be an error confusing 3 different gospels (Gospel of the Nazarenes, Gospel of the Hebrews, and Gospel of the Ebionites). It also contains material presenting Eusebius's views of what was Biblical Canon - better discussed at those two articles, and the entire source text of the alleged Gospel, which is otherwise almost universally split into the 3 seperate texts above. The source text was already on WikiSource, and what was salvagable from the remainder of the article was merged to the above 5 articles, and Gospel of Matthew, at the suggestion of User:Wetman. It exists only to support Melissadolbeer's original research thesis. Melissadolbeer's claims of recieving abuse from me, 81.156.177.21, doc, Slrubenstien, Wetman, etc. (whom Melissadolbeer claims to be sockpuppets of one-another) are simply down to the fact that we have at one time or another merged the article elsewhere leaving only a redirect, or have voted to delete it at VFD. The above comment by the sockpuppet has been pasted by it into a vast number of user pages, an act which essentially constitutes excessive disruption to Wikipedia, simply because Melissadolbeer refuses to abide by the process of VFD.     19:21, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

list of white supremacists
Hi Sam. I put this article up on VFD; thought you should know since you expressed an opinion. Here's the link Votes for deletion/List of White supremacists. Take care. NoahB 05:40, 16 July 2005 (UTC)


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Inkerman

Inkerman (Инкерман, Інкерман, İnkerman) is a city in the Crimean peninsula. It is de facto within the federal city of Sevastopol within the Russian Federation, but de jure within the Autonomous Republic of Crimea within Ukraine. It lies 5 kilometres (3 miles) east of Sevastopol, at the mouth of the Chernaya River which flows into Sevastopol Inlet (also called the North Inlet). Administratively, Inkerman was subordinate to the municipality of Sevastopol, but since September 2023 it de jure became a part of Bakhchysarai Raion of AR Crimea. Population:

The name Inkerman is said to mean 'cave fortress' in Turkish. During the Soviet era, the area was known between 1976 and 1991 as Bilokamiansk (Білокам'янськ) or Belokamensk (Белокаменск), which literally means 'white stone city', in reference to the soft white stone quarried in the area and commonly used for construction. In 1991 the Ukrainian authorities restored the pre-1976 name.

History
The area has been inhabited since ancient times. The cave monastery of St. Clement was founded near Inkerman in the 8th century by Byzantine icon-venerators fleeing persecution in their homeland. The monastery was closed during the Soviet era and several of its churches destroyed but is now in restoration and brought back into use.

The city was called Kalamita and was a medieval fortress built in the 8th-9th century on a strategic cliff overlooking the estuary and later expanded in the 14th century. In 1475 Kalamita, along with the rest of the Principality of Theodoro, was taken by the Turks, and Kalamita would be renamed Inkerman. After the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca in 1774 the fortress was abandoned and fell into ruin, but a small settlement at the base of the cliff remained.

Martin Bronevski who visited Inkerman in 1578 saw several Greek inscriptions.

The town became the centre of worldwide attention in 1854 during the Crimean War, when Inkerman was the scene of the Battle of Inkerman and the Battle of Chernaya River, both victorious for the French and the British troops.

During the Soviet times, a large underground ammunition warehouse of the Black Sea Fleet was situated under rocky cliffs in the Inkerman area. The storage was abandoned in the 1970s after an explosion that damaged the facility but did not detonate all its stockpiles. However, no efforts to secure the site were made until the 1990s when local residents began salvaging explosives which led to a number of deaths. Ukrainian Army engineer corps started extracting and decommissioning outdated ammunition in 2000 under a special government program.

Inkerman has since largely returned to its pre-war obscurity, serving as a suburb of Sevastopol linked to the downtown core by commuter ferries. One of the major Crimean wineries featuring the Inkerman label is located in the adjacent area. A popular hiking trail leading into Crimean Mountains begins just east of the town.

A horse in the Household Cavalry Blues and Royals has been named after the town and battle.

The left flank company of the 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards, which holds the traditions of the disbanded 3rd Battalion (which played a large part of the battle) is named after the town and battle. Now known as the Inkerman Company, or by its nickname "The Ribs".

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Recommended precaution

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The result of the debate was No consensus. humblefool®Deletion Reform 19:43, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Recommended precaution
Another of Striver's creations. It refers, obliquely, to a fine point of Islamic law. Should be put into Sharia. Zora 21:23, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Why did you not do the same to this articles:

 * Adl
 * Ayah
 * Basher
 * Hizb
 * Juz'
 * Khatib
 * Urf
 * Wali

not delet for the same reason that the above should not be deleted. --Striver 00:18, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

 * keep. Not all Islamic denominations have exactly the same "Sharia". This article, along with many other fundamental Shi'a terms, should be kept separate.--Zereshk 03:44, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

--Ya Ali 11:41, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * KEEP. For the same reason as Zereshk

Well, we have the Shi'a contingent here saying to keep, in solidarity.

Regarding Striver's first point, re articles for various Arabic technical terms -- I presume that those articles are there because someone found them as technical terms in English books/articles/whatever, and felt that they should have an explanation. I gather that some editors feel very strongly that Wikipedia is not a dictionary, and would argue that any one-sentence articles on Islamic technical terms should be moved into the Wiktionary. Or they might be better in the List of Arabic terms article, whatever it's called. But I don't think the matter is urgent because the titles of the articles are so obviously foreign-language-technical-terms. No one is going to be confused.

However, "Recommended precautions" is a completely opaque and misleading title. If I google on it, I get 2,430,000 hits. 99.99% of which have nothing to do with sharia. So, the title is completely wrong. Could the content be slotted somewhere else? Yup, it is just a stub and could be put into Sharia easily. So why have an article with a misleading title and no content? Zora 21:38, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

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Bernard Woolley

Sir Bernard Woolley, GCB, MA (Oxon) is one of the three main fictional characters of the 1980s British sitcom Yes Minister and its sequel, Yes, Prime Minister. He is a civil servant, working as Minister (later Prime Minister) Jim Hacker's Principal Private Secretary. He was portrayed originally by Derek Fowlds, with Chris Larkin taking on the part for the 2013 revival.

Fictional biography
He is the Principal Private Secretary to the Minister for Administrative Affairs (a fictional office), and later Prime Minister, Jim Hacker. However, his loyalties are split between his Minister and his Civil Service boss, Sir Humphrey Appleby. Whilst he is theoretically accountable to Hacker personally, it is Sir Humphrey who writes his performance reviews and apparently wields influence over Bernard's future in the Civil Service, leading to difficult situations for the young civil servant. When Hacker once asked his Private Secretary where his loyalty would lie when the chips were down, Woolley replied, "Minister, it's my job to see the chips stay up."

His background is not revealed to any great extent, though it is revealed he, like Sir Humphrey, is an Oxford graduate. In Episode 4 of Series 3 of Yes Minister, and Episode 5 of Series 1 of "Yes, Prime Minister", Woolley is shown wearing a Magdalen College, Oxford tie, suggesting that he attended Magdalen College, Oxford (the novelisation, in an apparent mistake, refers to Bernard at one point as a graduate of Cambridge, but later follows the series in confirming that he attended Oxford. There is, however, no problem in suggesting that he attended both). In addition, several areas of specialist knowledge surface from time to time: one example arises in "The Greasy Pole" where, while discussing the possible political dangers of building a chemical facility in Liverpool (to manufacture the fictional compound "metadioxin"), Woolley is quick to remind Sir Humphrey that Greek, unlike Latin, has no ablative case (Bernard may, like Sir Humphrey, have read Literae Humaniores, but equally a basic knowledge of Greek and Latin may merely suggest a standard classical schooling).

As with the other principal characters in the series, both actor and character have the same date of birth. This means that Bernard is in his mid- to late-forties during the series. Bernard is also married: in the Yes, Prime Minister episode "The Key", he declares that he does not give the key to his house to his mother-in-law. However, his wife never appeared in the series.

Woolley, like the Minister and Sir Humphrey, progresses through the series, especially in his understanding of political mastery. In the last scene of "The Tangled Web", the final episode of Yes, Prime Minister, Woolley, of his own accord, both saves Sir Humphrey from public embarrassment and gives Hacker a lasting weapon to use against him, by acquiring a tape of Sir Humphrey describing the British public in many unpleasant ways, spoken off the record after a radio interview. This act of service to the Prime Minister can be seen as the final result of many series' wrestling between the two competing loyalties. Throughout both series, Bernard is the only civil servant portrayed with any sense of conscience, seeking constantly to justify his actions to himself. In the final episode, therefore, he realises that his principal loyalty must be to Hacker, and his intervention in the crisis is crucial in saving Hacker's political reputation and in ensuring that the Cabinet Secretary, like any other civil servant, remains a "humble functionary".

Later career
In the novelisations of the series, it is stated that Bernard eventually rose to the post of Head of the Home Civil Service and was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (GCB). The novels take the form of diaries written by Hacker and Sir Humphrey Appleby's personal papers (said to have been donated to Oxford University after his death). Bernard himself contributes in interviews with the authors, suggesting that he lives to at least 2024, the supposed publication date of the fifth and final book.

Character
Woolley is always quick to point out the physical impossibilities of Sir Humphrey's or Hacker's mixed metaphors, with almost excessive pedantry. He can occasionally appear rather childlike, by making animal noises and gestures or by acting out how such an analogy cannot work. Even so, on many occasions Sir Humphrey describes Woolley as a "rising star" and "high flyer" of the Civil Service, though it is not entirely clear how to interpret Sir Humphrey's remarks—that is, whether with sincere deference to Bernard's capabilities or with indignation at such a term being applied to a subordinate. Sir Humphrey once questions whether Bernard is "a high flyer or a low flyer supported by occasional gusts of wind."

Woolley clearly sympathises with Hacker's challenges, and in many episodes he plays a key role in helping Hacker try to advance his goals. Woolley most often does this by explaining to Hacker the means of (and reasons behind) Sir Humphrey's obstructionism, as well as by suggesting possible solutions or workarounds. For example, in "Doing the Honours", it is Woolley's idea that leads to Hacker proposing a scheme that links national honours to departmental economies (though he is quick to remind the Minister that he did not suggest it, if asked). He seems to have studied past civil service actions in-depth, occasionally recommending historically proven responses (such as the "Rhodesia Solution" for a potential arms scandal in "The Whisky Priest").

Woolley is often the source of much exposition, serving in some ways as a proxy for the audience. His common-sense views lead him to ask apparently sensible questions of Sir Humphrey, which are generally used to demonstrate his superior's rather more counter-intuitive view of the situation. Much of the satire comes from the fact that Sir Humphrey's views are not just shared by other experienced civil servants but are taken completely for granted. Bernard's naïve questioning is the perfect way of bringing this out for the audience. In one such conversation, in "The Devil You Know", Bernard will simply not let the matter rest and eventually homes in on the heart of the issue. He begins the sentence, "But surely, in a democracy..." and is immediately dismissed by an exasperated Sir Humphrey. In "A Victory for Democracy", Bernard is genuinely outraged when he learns that the Foreign Office is conducting its own policy with little regard for the Prime Minister's wishes.

On the other hand, Bernard is frequently forced to hide something, at which point he tries to mimic Sir Humphrey's distinctive style of confusing never-ending sentences in order to play for time with the Minister. An example of him attempting to "walk the tightrope" in this way occurs in "The Skeleton in the Cupboard", when he has to conceal a betrayed confidence from Hacker. Although he becomes slightly more adept at this over time, he is clearly much less proficient. At other times, he follows Sir Humphrey's lead in defending the civil service's position: When asked by Hacker if "...all this is to prevent Cabinet from enacting its policies?", Woolley casually and earnestly replies, "Well, somebody's got to."

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Goatsephile

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The result of the debate was DELETE. jni 07:52, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Goatsephile
Originally, I was going to leave it as a redirect to Goatse.cx but anon users keep restoring this article. I therefore see fit to nominate this article for deletion as a neologism and as shown by google and therefore a lack of notability and verifability. Delete. Sasquatch′↔Talk↔Contributions 21:24, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, neologism. Pavel Vozenilek 00:33, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Deleto cruftorum! --FOo 01:37, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and find some LART to use on creator. humblefool®Have you voted in the CSD poll yet? 02:17, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete neologism. JamesBurns 08:29, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, redirect to Goatse. Radiant_ >|< 12:18, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
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Mary Ann Glendon

Mary Ann Glendon (born October 7, 1938) is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a former United States Ambassador to the Holy See. She teaches and writes on bioethics, comparative constitutional law, property, and human rights in international law.

Early life and education
Glendon was raised in Dalton, Massachusetts. Her father, Martin Glendon, an Irish-Catholic Democrat, was a reporter for the Berkshire Eagle and also chaired the local board of selectmen.

Glendon received her Bachelor of Arts, Juris Doctor, and Master of Comparative Law from the University of Chicago.

Career
Glendon practiced law in Chicago from 1963 to 1968. She became a professor at Boston College Law School in 1968 and began teaching at Harvard Law School in 1987.

In 1995, she was the Vatican representative to the international 1995 Beijing Conference on Women sponsored by the United Nations, where she contested the use of condoms for the prevention of HIV and AIDS. At the time, Pope John Paul II issued a statement that "The Holy See in no way endorses contraception or the use of condoms, either as a family planning measure or in HIV/AIDS prevention programs."

On November 4, 2002, in reference to the Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize nomination for its coverage of sexual abuse by Catholic priests, Glendon told a conference of Catholics that "if fairness and accuracy have anything to do with it, awarding the Pulitzer Prize to the Boston Globe would be like giving the Nobel Peace Prize to Osama bin Laden." In 2003 the Globe was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for its coverage of the church scandals. Glendon was appointed by President Bush to the President's Council on Bioethics. Her nomination as United States Ambassador to the Holy See was announced on November 5, 2007. The U.S. Senate voted to confirm her on December 19, 2007. She presented her Letters of Credence to Pope Benedict XVI on February 29, 2008, and resigned her office effective January 19, 2009.

On June 26, 2013, Pope Francis named Glendon a member of the Pontifical Commission of inquiry for the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), which is also known as the Vatican Bank. Glendon, two cardinals, a bishop, and a monsignor are responsible for preparing an investigative report on the Vatican Bank. In July 2014 she was appointed to be a member of the board of the IOR. Glendon resigned from the board in February 2018 saying that she wanted to devote more time to other Catholic causes.

Glendon serves on the board of directors for First Things, an ecumenical conservative journal that encourages a religiously informed philosophy for the ordering of society. She is also a board member of Blackstone Fellowship the Christian conservative legal training program run by Alliance Defending Freedom.

On October 1, 2017, it was announced that Glendon would be the 2018 recipient of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture's Evangelium Vitae Medal.

Politics
During the 1960 presidential election, the first in which Glendon could vote, she cast her ballot for John F. Kennedy. For most of her early life she was a Democrat.

Glendon supported Mitt Romney in the 2012 presidential election. She also supported Romney's campaign in the 2008 presidential election.

Glendon was a mentor of Mike Pompeo, the former United States Secretary of State, when Pompeo was at Harvard Law School.

Pompeo appointed Glendon as Chair of the newly formed State Department's Commission on Unalienable Rights in July 2019 to re-examine the role of human rights in U.S. foreign policy.

Notre Dame controversy
Glendon was selected by the University of Notre Dame as the 2009 recipient of the school's Laetare Medal but declined the award due to the university's decision to host Barack Obama as its commencement speaker and bestow upon him an honorary degree, which was seen as controversial by some. In light of Obama's pro-choice policies, Glendon considered Notre Dame's decision to be in violation of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops' 2004 pronouncement that Catholic institutions should not give "awards, honors, or platforms" to "those who act in defiance of [Catholic] fundamental moral principles." Glendon also felt that the university was implicitly trying to use her acceptance speech to give the appearance of balance to the event and expressed concern about the "ripple effect" Notre Dame's disregard of the USCCB pronouncement is having on the nation's other Catholic schools.

Personal life
In 1964 Glendon contracted a civil marriage with an attorney and settled in Chicago. They divorced in 1966. In 1970 she married Edward R. Lev, a labor lawyer. Glendon and Lev remained together until Lev's death in 2013. Glendon has three daughters.

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