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Robert Skidelsky

Robert Jacob Alexander, Baron Skidelsky, (born 25 April 1939) is a British economic historian. He is the author of a three-volume award-winning biography of British economist John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946). Skidelsky read history at Jesus College, Oxford, and is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick, England.

Early life
Skidelsky's parents, Boris Skidelsky and Galia Sapelkin, were British subjects of Russian ancestry, Jewish on his father's side and Christian on his mother's. His father worked for the family firm L. S. Skidelsky, which leased the Mulin coalmine in northern Manchuria from the Chinese government in 1920. Boris had three brothers, one of whom was the British novelist and bridge player and writer S. J. "Skid" Simon (1904–1948). In 1919, a factory was built by L. S. Skidelsky in Harbin for obtaining albumin from blood.

When war broke out between Britain and Japan in December 1941, he and his parents were interned first in Manchuria then Japan and finally released in exchange for Japanese internees in England. He then went back to China with his parents in 1947, living for a little over a year in Tientsin (now Tianjin). They left for Hong Kong just before the Chinese Communists took the city.

Education
From 1953 to 1958, Skidelsky was a boarder at Brighton College. He went on to read history at Jesus College, Oxford. Between 1961 and 1969 he was successively research student, senior student and research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford. In 1967 he published his first book, Politicians and the Slump, based on his DPhil dissertation, which explores the ways in which British politicians handled the Great Depression.

Academic career
During a two-year research fellowship at the British Academy Skidelsky published English Progressive Schools (1969) and began work on his biography of Oswald Mosley, which was published in 1975. In 1970, he became an associate professor of history in the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. However, the controversy surrounding the publication of his biography of Mosley, which some critics felt let Mosley off too lightly, led Johns Hopkins to refuse him tenure. Oxford also proved unwilling to give him a permanent post.

From 1976 to 1978, Skidelsky was Professor of History, Philosophy and European Studies at the Polytechnic of North London. In 1978, he was appointed Professor of International Studies at the University of Warwick, where he has since remained, although he joined the Economics Department as Professor of Political Economy in 1990. He has been a professorial fellow at the Global Policy Institute at London Metropolitan University, and a Honorary Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1994. Since 2016 he has been a director and trustee of the School of Civic Education. He is Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at the University of Warwick.

Skidelsky currently writes a column on economic history for Project Syndicate, an international media organization.

Political career
Skidelsky has been a member of four political parties. Initially a member of the Labour Party, he left to become a founding member of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), in which he remained until it merged with the Liberal Party to become the Liberal Democrats in 1988. He objected to the merger and joined the 'continuing' SDP, staying until its dissolution in 1990. On 15 July 1991 he was created a life peer as Baron Skidelsky of Tilton in the County of East Sussex and in 1992 he joined the Conservative Party. Around the time of the announcement of his peerage it was speculated that David Owen, a co-founder of the SDP, had lobbied then Prime Minister John Major for Skidelsky's appointment. He was made an opposition spokesman in the Lords, first for Culture, then on the Treasury (1997–1999), but he was removed by William Hague, then party leader, for publicly opposing NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia in 1999.

In 2001 Skidelsky left the Conservative Party for the cross benches. He was Chairman of the Social Market Foundation between 1991 and 2001.

In September 2015 Skidelsky endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election, writing in The Guardian: "Corbyn should be praised, not castigated, for bringing to public attention these serious issues concerning the role of the state and the best ways to finance its activities. The fact that he is dismissed for doing so illustrates the dangerous complacency of today's political elites. Millions in Europe rightly feel that the current economic order fails to serve their interests. What will they do if their protests are simply ignored?"

Russia
In March 2014, it was reported that Skidelsky was a director on the board of the Russian state-owned company Rusnano Capital. After Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, Skidelsky declined to resign from Rusnano, criticised sanctions that targeted Russia and argued that the Russian-speaking parts of Ukraine should be given an opportunity to separate from Ukraine.

Between 2016 and 1 January 2022, Skidelsky was a non-executive director on the board of Russian oil company Russneft.

On 28 February 2022, he signed a letter to the Financial Times on the subject of Ukraine, along with David Owen and others, that stated: "NATO governments have rightly said they are willing to address Russia's security concerns, but then say in the same breath that Russia has no legitimate security concerns because NATO is a purely defensive alliance. Whether we like it or not, a NATO that now borders Russia and could in future border even more of Russia is seen by Russia as a security concern."

On 17 April 2022, he argued against Finland's joining NATO and shortly after against the imposition of economic sanctions on Russia following the invasion of Ukraine. In June 2023 Skidelsky attended a party held by Russian embassy in London and later explained he wanted to show "respect and affection for the Russian people on their national day, especially in these circumstances".

On 22 November 2023, following a recommendation put forward two weeks previously, Lord Skidelsky was suspended from the House of Lords for one month after it was found that he had breached the House's Code of Conduct while acting as Chair of the Centre for Global Studies, an economics think tank.

Awards
The second volume of Skidelsky's three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes The Economist as Saviour, 1920–1937 won the Wolfson History Prize in 1992. The third volume Fighting for Britain, 1937–1946 won the Duff Cooper Prize in 2000, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography in 2001, the Arthur Ross Book Award for international relations in 2002 and the Lionel Gelber Prize for International Relations and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction writing in 2001.

Personal life
Skidelsky has two sons, Edward Skidelsky, a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Exeter; and William Skidelsky, a journalist and author of Federer and Me: A Story of Obsession.

Selected works

 * 1967: Politicians and the Slump
 * 1969: English Progressive Schools
 * 1975: Oswald Mosley
 * 1983: John Maynard Keynes: Hopes Betrayed, 1883–1920 (Vol. 1)
 * 1992: John Maynard Keynes: The Economist as Saviour, 1920–1937 (Vol. 2)
 * 1993: Interests and Obsessions: Historical Essays (Macmillan)
 * 1995: The World After Communism: A Polemic for Our Times (Macmillan)
 * Published in America as The Road from Serfdom: The Economic and Political Consequences of the End of Communism
 * 1996: Keynes (Oxford University Press: Past Masters)
 * 2000: John Maynard Keynes: Fighting for Freedom, 1937–1946 (Vol. 3)
 * 2009: Keynes: The Return of the Master (London: Allen Lane)
 * 2012: How Much Is Enough? Money and the Good Life. with Edward Skidelsky (Allen Lane)
 * 2018: Money and Government: The Past and Future of Economics
 * 2020: What’s Wrong with Economics?: A Primer for the Perplexed
 * 2022: Economic Sanctions: A Weapon out of Control?

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Why is there a link to a particular company in the sources of the article? There are other companies that offer the same product, so it seems quite biased. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Enbaros (talk • contribs) 13:59, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Deleted following passage: "PBS can be used as a diluent in methods to dry biomolecules, as water molecules within it will be structured around the substance (protein, for example) to be 'dried' and immobilized to a solid surface[citation needed]. The thin film of water that binds to the substance prevents denaturation or other conformational changes. Carbonate buffers may be used for the same purpose but with less effectiveness[citation needed]. PBS can be used to take a reference spectrum when measuring the protein adsorption in ellipsometry[citation needed]." This passage is misleading at best. It also very narrowly refers to certain applications taken out of context, which does not make much sense. --Xenon129 (talk) 23:35, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

Why is PBS used instead of ordinary saline?

When do you use PBS with calcium and magniesium, and when do you without. When we wash the cells before adding trypsin, we use PBS without magnesium and calcium, but later on we use PBS with calcium and magnesium. why is it so?

 * According to the following page, Ca and Mg promote cell adhesion. Hence, the formulation contained in the article is the one that should be used when detaching cells.

Dulbecco's Media and Salts Selection Guide

 * As the above comment indicates, Ca and Mg promote cell adhesion so cells are often detached from plates with a combination of Trypsin and EDTA after washing them with PBS. Since EDTA chelates metals such as Ca and Mg, adding those metals to the PBS would be counterproductive in this case. I think that Ca and Mg are more likely to be used in PBS in an in situ setting (immunohistochemistry or immunocytochemistry) and they tend to be left out in tissue culture formulations (as noted above) and in more biochemical assays where a simple buffered salt solution is needed. Matt (talk) 19:34, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

I used the think PBS was just one thing, but actually there are lots of recipes, this should be reflected in the article (will add it if I have a chance).

is pbs isotonic with human cells because article says its not isotonic and then in application it says its isotonic so plz edit — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.106.80.242 (talk) 19:28, 2 November 2013 (UTC)

Recipe
There appears to be a dispute as to the proper formulation of PBS. The following appears commented out in the article: THIS RECIPE FOR PBS IS INCORRECT, I HAVE NEVER SEEN A K AND Na ions together in a recipe. Unfortunately, I do not have the time for any editing and correcting of the problem. This person doesn't know what they are talking about. The recipe above refers to Dulbecco’s Phosphate buffered saline without Mg2+, Ca2+. Their suggestion is probably for some derivative of Sorenson or Millonig PBS. It is a completely valid protocol for PBS and IHC applications.

 * This is exactly the receipt found inn "Molecular Cloning 3"Table B.7 on page B.12 - except that molecular cloning adjusts pH to pH7.4 with HCl.
 * The receipt is strange in so far, that it doesn't explicitly mention if the phosphate used is anhydrous or one of the forms containing crystal water (if would make sense to use the dihydrate, as the anhydrous form takes up water from the air over time...).
 * Probably one has to assume it's the anhydrous form - but I strongly doubt that the resulting solution has a pH of 6.8 and even more that it changes to 7.4 upon dilution. The receipt uses a ratio of 10:2 (assuming anhydrous Na2HPO4) of Na2HPO4 to KH2PO4 - equal amounts of them should result in a solution with pH=pKa=7.2 - the 10:2 ratio ensures that the resulting solution is basic (pH 8 to 9) - so that the pH can indeed be adjusted with _HCl_ to 7.4. Diluting with ultrapure water would only shift this to a pH closer to 7, but should never go from something like 6.8 to 7.4 (crossing over from acidic to basic or vice versa) - it is more likely that the pH of 6.8 is the result of using water which contains a considerable amount of CO2 taken up from the air.... Iridos (talk) 22:57, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Need more details on the application and introduction sections in phosphate-buffer salineSSASHWIN (talk) 21:51, 26 January 2017 (UTC) In addition to that, add more information regarding the chemical reactions involving phosphate-buffer saline which will be helpful in understanding more about the topicSSASHWIN (talk) 21:51, 26 January 2017 (UTC)

I checked the citations, all the links are working perfectly.SSASHWIN (talk) 21:55, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
 * Addition of more references related to the topic is required for detailed explanation about the topicSSASHWIN (talk) 21:27, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Buffer pH is not dependent on ion concentration
"The pH of the 10x stock solution of PBS is ~6.8, but when diluted with water to 1x PBS it should change to 7.4."

This line is incorrect, surely? Buffer pH is not dependent on ion concentration, it should stay the same at 10x dilution.

The 10x stocks you can buy are all pH 7.4. https://www.thermofisher.com/order/catalog/product/AM9625 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.11.70.31 (talk) 15:34, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

 * Actually the pKa is somewhat dependent on ionic strength, because the divalent HPO4-2 is stabilized by high ionic strength to a greater extent than the monovalent H2PO4- is (H+ activity is measured directly, so its activity coefficient is not important). IIRC the pKa extrapolated to infinite dilution is 7.2, but at physiological ionic strength it is more like 6.8. (even pKa=6.8 would not jibe with the 10:1.8 ratio here giving 7.4, so I may recollect incorrectly)Eaberry (talk) 17:31, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
 * Yes- Phillips et al. 1963 (Biochm 2,501-508) determine pKa2 of phosphate as a function of temperature and ionic strength µ. They give:
 * at 25C: pKa2 = 7.18 - 1.52 sqrt(µ) +1.96 µ
 * at 37C: pKa2 = 7.15 - 1.56 sqrt(µ) + 1.22µ
 * The 1x solution described here has ionic strength 0.1715, which would give a pKa 6.887 at 25C, 6.713 at 37C.
 * There is a minimum around µ=0.15 (@25C), then it starts to rise again. For the 10x buffer (µ=1.815) it predicts 8.55, but I believe this is outside the range where the equation is valid. Still it is reasonable that there would be a drop in pH upon dilution to 1x. Eaberry (talk) 20:45, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

To adjust pH or not?
" it is good practice to always measure the pH directly using a pH meter. If necessary, pH can be adjusted using hydrochloric acid or sodium hydroxide." Actually it is far more accurate and reproducible to trust the pH based on weight of the chemicals - consider a 1% error in the weight of one of the phosphates will result in an error of 0.004 pH units; even a 10% error in weighing (inexcusable!) would only make a difference of 0.04 pH units- many glass-electrode pH meters drift more than that during the reading. However it is important to know the purity of the chemicals- dibasic phosphates are deliquescent. CO2 in the water should have an insignificant effect- it affects the pH of unbuffered water but not in the presence of >100 mM phosphate buffer! Eaberry (talk) 16:58, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

 * However since the 10:1.8 ratio in the composition given here results in a pH well above 7.4 for any reasonable value of pKa, The recipe is obviously designed to give a higher pH and be adjusted down with HCl. Assuming a pKa of 6.9 (at 25C and this ionic strength), you would need to add 1 mM (0.97 to be precise) of HCl to reach 7.4. The same effect could be achieved without adjustment by increasing the concentrations of KH2PO4 and NaCl; and decreasing the concentration of Na2HPO4, each by 1 mM. Eaberry (talk) 17:55, 17 January 2024 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Sam Vimes

 * ''The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a request for adminship that did not succeed. Please do not modify it.

Sam Vimes
Final (25/11/3) ended 14:55 31 August 2005 (UTC) - Sam joined Wikipedia in December 2004 and has been an active editor since May. A tireless, high quality contributor, particularly to Cricket related articles. I don't recall his being in any significant conlfict and his conrtibutions and user talk page don't show evidence of this either. In short I think he will make a good administrator.
 * According to Kate's tool, Sam has made 3987 edits to 1580 different pages. --Thryduulf 14:55, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:

I accept. Sam Vimes 15:17, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) As the nominator it will suprise nobody that I think Sam is worthy of the proverbial mop and bucket. Thryduulf 14:56, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) I second it Tintin 15:03, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) jguk 17:11, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Good job on the cricket articles.  Guettarda 21:50, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) I don't usually vote for folks I have no interaction with, but jguk saying it'd be useful for cricket, fine with me. And tat template rule nonsense below?  That's exactly what templates should be used for. SchmuckyTheCat 21:55, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Support.  Obvious dedication to Wikipedia, handled himself quite well in the VFD.  I doubt there would be any issue with giving him admin rights.  -- JamesTeterenko 04:57, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Support -- Ryan Norton T 05:35, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Merovingian (t) (c) 06:05, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) Support – He has done a lot of work in the cricket realm.  =Nichalp   «Talk»=  06:18, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Support A dedicated and responsible editor. --Ngb 08:12, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) Support - see comments below. -- ALoan (Talk) 09:20, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Support. I've reviewed his user pages and checked through some of his contributions, and I conclude he's ready. (Plus, we Norwegians have to stick together.) Jonathunder 14:37, 2005 August 25 (UTC)
 * 13) Cool. JuntungWu 15:31, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 14) Support The rational used by those voting oppose seems weak at best. freestylefrappe 04:50, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * 15) Support.  An all round good guy. -- Ian ≡ talk 09:19, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 16) Support, has sufficient experience to say he will be a good admin. Christopher Parham (talk) 14:49, 2005 August 26 (UTC)
 * 17) Support. A good writer of articles. David | Talk 15:59, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 18) Support. Meets my guidelines. Lack of WP: edits is a concern, but Sam's answers to the standard questions and responses to comments lead me to believe he will make good use of the mop. android  79  20:57, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * 19) Support. Loganberry (Talk) 01:31, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 20) The whole thing about rules is really not applicable here. He violated a convention, and a not terribly important one at that. Support. Andre ( talk ) 05:52, August 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * 21) I ask one question when voting on RfAs. "Would Wikipedia lose anything by the promotion?"  I don't know how much WP would gain by Sam's being an admin, although I hope it would be a lot, but I do know that WP would not get worse.  He has my confidence.  And he's the Norweigan cricket fan.   [[smoddy ]] 12:21, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 22) Support, to counterweigh against the oppose votes of the wikilawyers and the deletionist society. Sigh. Kelly Martin 14:24, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * 23) Support. Seems to be a fine user. I couldn't make much sense of the oppose votes. Sjakkalle (Check!)  06:10, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 24) Yes please. --Peripatetic 12:02, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 25) Support - my standards like him. --Celestianpower hab 16:05, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Oppose
 * 1) Srongly oppose:  "even if there were some rules broken" pretty much says it all.  We need less of that.  Get the rules changed, if you believe in it strongly.  Otherwise, obey them, because when administrators start trashing rules for their own ideologies, we get the nastiest wars of all. Geogre 18:52, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Oppose- strong focus on only editing cricket pages suggests that he does not need admin powers. Astrotrain 20:50, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) *What makes you think that the same need for admin powers is needed in cricket-related articles as is needed in any other type of articles? There's the same need to repel vandals to cricket articles (by blocking and reverting and protecting), deleting unnecessary pages/useless redirects. Most people specialise in areas that most interest them, Sam's no different, jguk 21:19, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) *I agree with jguk. Just because SV dedicates his energy to cricket-related articles, doesn't make him less worthy or less knowledgeable person. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  06:18, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Oppose, somewhat reluctantly. A good contributor, with a prominent nominator. I oppose not because of "the rules" thing, since that's minor. However, with only 100 or so edits to Wikipedia: space and the same to Wikipedia talk: space, he has only a passing acquaintance with what admins do. Answer to question 1 doesn't seem to show particular enthusiasm for doing what admins do, either. Nothing wrong with discussion on VfD pages, by the way! -Splash 23:40, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) --Boothy443 | comhrÚ 07:11, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Harro5 07:17, August 25, 2005 (UTC). Doesn't appear to have any aims about what he'd do as an admin. No current involvement in WP-space endeavours, therefore no need for a mop and bucket.
 * 8) Oppose for lack of experience in Wikipedia namespace. However, I do want to state that the "rules broken" issue about templates was in fact a good-faith attempt by Sam to streamline a number of articles, so I would ask people to not hold that against him. Radiant_ >|< 10:05, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) Oppose but more for the reasons given by Encephalon and Acetic Acid in their neutral votes, than for much of the dicussion above this line. Hamster Sandwich 21:17, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Very strongly oppose. I'm all for low standards for adminship, but when someone writes articles like this, it says to me that the author has no understanding whatsoever of NPOV or the Manual of Style. Such a person really should not be an administrator, at least at this point in time. Ambi 14:38, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Um, what??? There is nothing POV about that article.  Admittedly, one or two of the words could be changed to make it more encyclopaedic than newspapery, but there is no point-of-view in there.  As to the Manual of Style, these articles are, as discussed ad magnam nauseam, special cases that will be sorted out in due course.   [[smoddy ]] 14:45, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * It constantly expresses opinions about individual performances, and ignores the manual of style altogether, while making no effort at encyclopedic writing. If someone doesn't know how to write an encyclopedia article, why on earth are they being considered for adminship on an encyclopedia project? Ambi 16:19, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I still fail to see your issues with the page. How about discussing  it at Talk:England Women v Australia Women 24-27 August 2005?  There is a reason that it fails to conform to the MoS, and it is not that Sam doesn't understand it.  Rather, it is that that page is not in itself a long-term encyclopaedia article.  It will eventually be merged into relevant articles and appropriately redirected.   [[smoddy ]] 16:34, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The page makes no effort to follow the conventions of every other encyclopedia article, with regard to bolding and lead sections - i.e. making it an encyclopedia article as opposed to a news story. The language is utterly inappropriate for an encyclopedia article (since when has "Tail-end heroics from the last test" been NPOV?) - Sam himself admitted on his talk page that he was "expressing praise" for the players rather than reporting on the facts.
 * Claiming that the articles are only temporary is no excuse either. Sam is writing these articles in the main namespace, so he should be following policy in the meantime. There is always the option of writing in his user namespace, but if he is writing material in the article namespace that ignores our key policies (NPOV and "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia" are the two most non-negotiable) so flagrantly - whether he is not understanding or knowingly ignoring them, he should not be an administrator. Ambi 16:56, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree that the wording on that page was less than perfect. However, saying that he admitted "expressing praise" for the players rather than reporting on the facts is blatantly untrue. His definition of NPOV is different to yours, certainly, but that doesn't mean that he is unsuitable admin material. That article was certainly neutral, whatever you say. The wording might not have been encyclopedic, but that's easy to fix, right? As to the other point, this has been endlessly debated. The articles are temporary in their existence as permanent articles. However, look at the "what links here" for the article in question. Look at the transclusion on Australian Women in England in 2005. That is why the article is formatted as it is. Incidentally, responding to your point on Sam's talk page, I think this an excellent example of why IAR is a crucial part of the wiki concept. The encyclopaedia is enhanced from having this transclusion and this article. The MoS is secondary to encyclopaedia content. [[smoddy ]] 17:06, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Claiming that article was both neutral and encyclopedically written is a stretch. It remains the sort of effort that one would expect from a newbie who hasn't yet seen the welcome message pointing them policies and the MoS. It's also not the only one; all Sam's match articles seem to have the same flaws. In any case, Smoddy can argue until the cows come home, but I believe a look at Sam's contributions will illustrate my point entirely; useful contributor and good potential future admin, but one who really needs to actually read our most basic policies before being let loose in more controversial areas like deletion. Ambi 17:39, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Arguing until the cows come home seems remarkably pointless when no-one is listening. I would, however, thank Sam for the sterling work he has done for WP in cricket fields, rather than criticise him for it.  That would, of course, go against the current Wikipedia trend of moaning at cricket fans...  [[smoddy ]] 23:43, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Oppose. I have to agree with Ambi. CDThieme 18:31, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Oppose. I'm agreeing with Ambi too.  He doesn't seem to have a good grasp on the differences between Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects, namely Wikinews.  He's written all of these articles on regular-season cricket matches that are much better suited for Wikinews (and I've told him this on VfD discussions for those), yet he and the other cricket editors insist on keeping them here, when that level of detail in covering a cricket season is not really that necessary in this wiki.  Nevertheless, I do think it's a good idea to have admins who have fields of expertise to which they are willing to contribute a lot (I've supported several candidates based on that reason); but I also think that he should explore other namespaces, such as WP:, and articles on other topics. --Idont Havaname 20:27, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Oppose. Yikes. Wasn't planning on voting until I saw England Women v Australia Women 24-27 August 2005. Written like a news article, certainly not presented in an encyclopedic fashion ("a paltry 131"? "tail-end heroics"?). I'm not sure this "article" is even appropriate for Wikipedia, but that's another matter. In any case, I cannot see how one so unfamiliar with Wikipedia practice and policies (or who is familiar but chooses to ignore them) could be considered a suitable candidate for adminship. If I had come across this on RC patrol I would think it the work of a new/anonymous user, not think it the work of someone seeking adminship. — Knowledge Seeker দ 05:16, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
 * Is it not better to ignore the rules to get a better encyclopaedia than to slavishly follow them where this would be harmful? As to the style of the article, it's not actually a criterion for adminship that someone should be able to write perfectly.  What do you think Sam would do badly as an admin?  What would it cost WP to make him an admin?  These should be the questions asked, not "do I like the way this user goes about writing encyclopaedia articles?".   [[smoddy ]] 11:17, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * As with all recent events which will soon be in the past and reported as history, the important thing is to get them into WP when they happen - there's plenty of time to improve them and smarten them up later. Why not describe a team's total of 131 as "paltry"? It is. Would someone not so familiar with cricket as Sam know that it was a miserable score? OK, there are other ways of describing it, but at least it's a good adjective that conveys exactly what the situation is - and anyone who wants to is free to replace the wording with something else anyway. It seems somewhat ironic that it took 12 minutes from Sam posting the article about the Aussie Women losing the Ashes for the first time in 42 years to an Aussie woman opposing him for posting it; it also seems ironic that many candidates who have not made any significant edits to the article namespace whatsoever sail through RfA as they are considered "good candidates", whereas fault is found in those who contribute the most and only want a mop to help them with their contributions. But RfA is sometimes a perverse place. Sam is a good WPian who wouldn't abuse the mop. It's a shame he won't get it, jguk 15:25, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Though I agree with your conclusion -- I too think Sam would be an excellent administrator -- I think you should be assuming good faith here: Ambi has stated a legitimate reason for disliking these articles and I don't think insinuations about national bias are helpful here. --Ngb?!? 15:38, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, I'm sure it's just coincidence, just somewhat ironic too:) jguk 16:48, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * You accused me of national bias. I don't even follow cricket, thank you. I was browsing newpages, saw the awful quality article, dropped the author a note about it, and then was shocked to find that he was up for adminship. Ambi 13:16, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Neutral
 * 1) Pending some answers .Neutral. Thank you for your responses, Sam. This is my first non-support vote, and I make it reluctantly but with the confidence that you could make a great admin some day, but not quite today. Very best wishes— Encephalon  |  ζ   21:11:01, 2005-08-25 (UTC)
 * 2) Neutral This vote was really hard to decide, so I'll stay neutral for now. I can overlook the template usage rule, as your justification of breaking that rule is endorsed by WP:IAR. But, your lack of posts to the Wikipedia namespace and to talk pages is a little disappointing. Acetic Acid 06:35, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Neutral, teetering on Support. You're, by every meaning of the word, a bold editor, and I like that. I'm a little concerned about the rules thing, but now that I think about it, that shouldn't be too much of a problem. We do have rules for a reason, just remember that.

Comments
 * Without wishing to turn this into a summary trial, what rules were broken in the described process, and why? I enquire because, whilst I generally agree with Geogre above, there is the occasion when it is plain to all that a literal following of the rules is the wrong thing to do. Not always by any means, but occasionally. -Splash 20:05, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * OK. The specific rule was Template namespace, namely that Templates should not masquerade as article content in the main article namespace; instead, place the text directly into the article. The trouble was that to place four copies of the same text on four different pages was inefficient, and also meant that every time I wished to update one match report (because of an error, say) I would have to go to each of the four pages and update. The transclusion method was simpler to use for me as an editor, hence I used it. And, now that I look at the page, it doesn't actually say that "this page is a policy on Wikipedia", either.Sam Vimes 20:26, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Sam, congratulations on your nomination. I've been looking at some of your contributions in the article namespace. You've done an enormous amount of work here, particularly with cricket-related articles, and I'm sure most Wikipedians will be glad for these excellent contributions to the Project. Thank you for them. I do have three questions, however.
 * 1) Kate's tool has it that some 3200+ of your 4000+ edits are in the article namespace ; while that figure leaves us with no doubt about your dedication to improving content on WP — an important attribute of administrators — it also provides some cause for concern: in your entire time here, you have made just 111 edits to the Wikipedia namespace, an area with some important administrative duties. How much of your work on WP actually involves sysop-related activity, and how familiar do you believe you are with them?
 * Hm. I don't know whether reverting vandalism is a sysop-related activity, and I only do it when I discover it - i.e. when I'm not writing articles and have a bit of spare time. I am in possession of CryptoDerk's Vandal Fighter, though, and use it to try and spot the vandals. I participate in VfD somewhat irregularly, but I believe I am clear about the rules that prevail there. Other things include moving and protecting pages and blocking IPs - naturally I have little experience with these matters, but I will try to review each case and see whether there is a controversy involved. Basically, I don't involve myself with WP namespace because I feel that is admin territory. Sam Vimes 06:30, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Geogre and Splash raise an important point about rule-breaking. In your response, you indicate that you (apparently) broke rules in editing articles because that made it "simpler... for me as an editor." That's as honest an answer as any, I suppose. Nevertheless, I was wondering if you might tell us which rules you feel may be broken because they make things easier to do, WP:IAR notwhitstanding? Best wishes— Encephalon |  ζ   00:04:21, 2005-08-25 (UTC)
 * "All rules are equal, but some are more equal than others." 3RR is a pretty obvious rule that should never be broken by someone who wishes to become an admin, since the repercussions of breaking that can be that everyone goes: "Oh, the admin broke it. It's ok. It's no big deal." Or, if it is broken accidentally, at least admit it and accept the block. The behaviour guidelines are there for a reason, since the place would be even more chaotic without them (if possible). I do try to follow the content/style guidelines, but I mostly apply my own common sense for those. Sam Vimes 06:30, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I very rarely vote here (I dislike the popularity contest that this has become) but I feel I must counter some of the criticisms above.
 * WP:IAR is there for a reason - sometimes it is worse to slavishly follow the rules than to break them. I trust that the templates for the cricket matches will turn into proper summary/overview articles, in due course.  There is no need for a long article on every match of any sport, but we have some featured articles containing quite detailed summaries of some cricket matches already (Bodyline or History of Test cricket (1884 to 1889)).
 * It is not as if there is a limited amount of admin power, which has to be given out sparingly. Any editor in good standing could and should be an admin - it just makes it easier to write an encyclopaedia when you can fix cut and paste page moves, revert vandalism with one click, block repeat vandals, etc.  That is what the mop and bucket (and shield of steel, and sawn-off shotgun) are for.  The more active admins there are, the easier it is for everyone.  We don't need every admin to be involved on VfD, VfU, RM, etc.  There is not a lot that an admin can do that can't be done by any editor, if a little slower, and it is all pretty much reversible. There is pretty good peer review by other admins, and "rouge" admins tend to be hassled (although rather too little, actually - a proper Requests for de-adminship would help).  -- ALoan (Talk) 09:20, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) I think a lot is being made about SV's edits in the Wikipedia namespace. I checked the recent sucessfull candidates and they have edits in the range of about 200-300. I'm sure being off by 100 does not make a candidate less worthy! One of last week's candidates had just five edits to the wikipedia talk namespace! Why wasn't it brought up then?  =Nichalp   «Talk»=  11:45, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

 * As you are an editor who does occaisionally make contributions to VfD, I would like to know, what percentage specifically (within 5%) would you consider to be consensus when closing a VfD or related function? Hamster Sandwich 20:32, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 70 % seems like a good number for consensus to be reached - or when the last eight or nine or so votes are identical because some new information has been discovered. Sam Vimes 20:42, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 75% seems a bit high. Also I feel that some of the concerns other editors have made here have a great deal of relevance. An administrators first duty is to the Wikipedia, but secondarily to the community as well. I think you are a better than average editor particularly in cricket related subjects, but thats not enough for me to give my support. Hamster Sandwich 21:13, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Questions for the candidate

A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
 * 1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
 * A. Rolling back vandalism and blocking malignant contributors (well, that one was obvious). Also, even though I'm not a regular VfDer, I will try to keep a look-out for discussions that have consensus and are just waiting to be closed, after the five-day period, obviously.
 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. With jguk, I feel Wikipedia now has a comprehensive coverage of the 2005 English cricket season to rival any source on the internet, and possibly even Wisden Cricketer's Almanack. Even if there had to be some rules broken in the process, and even though I imagine the pages currently are a bit unaccessible for people who aren't into cricket yet. Outside of my contributions to WikiProject Cricket, I'm quite pleased with the Speedway World Championship article.
 * 3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
 * A. I've had two articles on VfD - Nottinghamshire v Yorkshire (26 June) and Essex v Glamorgan (15 May). Those debates were rather heated, and I probably discussed a bit more than you should on VfD pages. I hope those debates will show, however, that I prefer to discuss the matter at hand rather than the people. I've never been involved in any serious content dispute, however.

 * The above adminship discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the talk page of either this nomination or the nominated user). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Copley Township, Ohio

Copley Township is one of the nine townships of Summit County, Ohio, United States. The 2020 census found 18,403 people in the township.

Geography
Located in the western part of the county, it borders the following townships and cities:
 * Bath Township - north
 * Fairlawn - northeast
 * Akron - east
 * Norton - south
 * Wadsworth Township, Medina County - southwest corner
 * Sharon Township, Medina County - west
 * Granger Township, Medina County - northwest corner

Several populated places are located in Copley Township:
 * The census-designated place of Pigeon Creek, in the northwest
 * The unincorporated community of Montrose, on the northern boundary with Bath Township

Parts of the original Copley Township are now in Akron or Fairlawn.

A formerly rural township located west of the county seat of Akron, Copley Township has become increasingly suburban over the last few decades.

Name and history
It is the only Copley Township statewide.

Copley was originally called Greenfield, after Gardiner Green (son-in-law of painter John Singleton Copley ), who owned a large portion of the township. Later on he changed the name to Copley, the maiden name of his wife.

Fairlawn was founded as a hamlet in Copley in 1891 when the Northern Ohio Railway was built. As of 1908 it had a mill, general store, a blacksmith, and other businesses.

On August 7, 2011, a series of shootings occurred in Copley Township which resulted in the deaths of 7 people, and the injury of another. The perpetrator, Michael E. Hance, was shot and killed by rifle by Copley Township police officer Ben Campbell, who received the call while off-duty.

Economy

Copley Township's economy is based on several strip malls, chemical plants, and agricultural businesses. The rest of the township is dotted with farms and subdivisions.

Government
The township is governed by a three-member board of trustees, who are elected in November of odd-numbered years to a four-year term beginning on the following January 1. Two are elected in the year after the presidential election and one is elected in the year before it. There is also an elected township fiscal officer, who serves a four-year term beginning on April 1 of the year after the election, which is held in November of the year before the presidential election. Vacancies in the fiscal officership or on the board of trustees are filled by the remaining trustees.

Notable natives and residents

 * John F. Seiberling, U.S. Representative from Ohio
 * Betty Sutton, U.S. Representative from Ohio
 * Carrie Coon, actress
 * Frank LaRose, Ohio Secretary of State
 * Josh Williams, defender for the Columbus Crew

Education
The school system in the township is shared with Fairlawn and has a set of three elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school, Copley High School.

Superfund
In 1990, Copley Square Plaza was designated a superfund site after tetrachloroethylene and other contaminates from a dry cleaners were found in the soil.

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Marcus Center

The Marcus Performing Arts Center is a performing arts center in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. Managed by a non-profit organization, it is marketed as Milwaukee's premier presenter of the performing arts. It is located at 929 North Water Street, at the intersection of State Street in downtown Milwaukee, and is a dedicated War Memorial.

Several local companies are resident partners of the Marcus Performing Arts Center, including the Florentine Opera, Milwaukee Ballet, First Stage Children's Theater, Black Arts MKE, and other local arts organizations, and it was also the home of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra from 1969 until 2020. The venue is also the presenter of the Johnson Financial Group Broadway at the Marcus Center series through Broadway Across America.

Building & History
The Marcus Center was designed in the Brutalist style by noted Chicago architect Harry Weese. Plans began as early as 1945 for a war memorial to provide for "art, music, drama, public discussion, and social assembly." Construction began on June 27, 1966. Plans called for a major music hall, a thrust stage auditorium for live theater, and a recital hall. Milwaukee County agreed to established two parks in conjunction with the new Center, Red Arrow to the east and Pere Marquette to the west. The boat landing on the Milwaukee River was the precursor to the current Milwaukee RiverWalk. The Performing Arts Center officially opened September 17, 1969. The gala opening included the Milwaukee Symphony, Donizetti’s opera Lucia di Lammermoor and guest appearances by stars of the American Ballet Theatre. Touring acts during the first month of operation included the New York Philharmonic, Duke Ellington, National Ballet of Canada, Hildegarde, and Louis Armstrong.

The Center was bestowed the prestigious Honor Award for Excellence in Architectural Design from the American Institute of Architects in 1970.

After a donation from the Marcus Corporation in honor of its founder Ben Marcus and his wife Ceil, the venue's name was changed in 1994.

=== Theater Venues === The Center contains four major theater venues and a variety of other spaces:
 * Uihlein Hall - Designed for operas, musicals, multi-genre concerts (e.g. pop, jazz, and world music), dance programs, theatrical productions, lectures, annual meetings, commencements, or film screenings, it has a seating capacity of 2,125, and is the largest theater in the Marcus Center. Uihlein Hall is named in honor of the Uihlein family, the owners of the former Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company. It was renovated in 1997 and again in 2020.
 * Todd Wehr Theater - Designed for lectures, concerts, plays, conferences and meetings, this hall has a seating capacity of 498.
 * Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall - Designed for concerts, plays, dance programs, film screenings, teleconferencing, meetings, seminars, new product introductions, or commencements, this theater has a seating capacity of 465. In 2017, Wilson Theater at Vogel Hall was fully renovated, including a new Riverwalk Entrance and lobby foyer, designed by LA DALLMAN, the Milwaukee and Boston-based architecture practice of Grace La and James Dallman. Renowned for sensitivity to mid-century modern buildings, both La and Dallman are appointed faculty at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
 * Peck Pavilion - An open-air outdoor theater, located on the Milwaukee River and adjacent to a lawn, the Peck Pavilion is suitable for concerts, film or lecture series, dance programs, dramatic performances, product demonstrations, weddings and receptions. Seated capacity of 402.
 * Bradley Pavilion - A banquet hall with floor-to-ceiling glass windows and private balcony overlooking the Milwaukee River. Reception capacity of 700 and seated capacity of 500.
 * Studio 4A - A rehearsal hall with floor-to-ceiling mirrors and windows. Seated capacity of 130.
 * Green Room - A smaller banquet hall and meeting room. Reception capacity of 110 and seated capacity of 90.
 * Anello Atrium & Magin Lounge - With high ceilings and a glass-walled city view, the Anello Atrium & Magin Lounge is located just outside Uihlein Hall.
 * Fitch Garden - An outdoor garden with fountain.

In addition, the Center's grounds feature several public artworks including Seymour Lipton's Laureate and Allen Ditson's Trigon.

Other
On July 11, 1974, The Marshall Tucker Band recorded their set at the venue. Four songs from the performance were included on their 1974 album, Where We All Belong, and one song was included on the band's 1975 album, Searchin' for a Rainbow.

Ray Charles performed at the PAC on September 11, 1973.

Jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald joined pianist Oscar Peterson and guitarist Joe Pass in concert at the Pablo Jazz Festival in the Performing Arts Center's Uihlein Hall on Nov. 24, 1976.

Folk singer Joan Baez performed in Uihlein Hall at the Performing Arts Center on July 10, 1979.

Country legends Johnny Cash and his wife, June Carter Cash, shared the stage at the Performing Arts Center on Oct. 1, 1981, in a benefit for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Friends of Music.

Violinist Itzhak Perlman performs a recital at the PAC on March 5, 1984.

The very first Broadway at the Marcus Center season was in 1994 with Grease (November 29 – December 4, 1994), Hello Dolly!, Damn Yankees, Cats, Tommy, and The Phantom of the Opera.

Illumination of the building began on April 16, 2008. Some of the “light paintings” are modeled after Georgia O’Keefe paintings.

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Talk:The Badger Drive

Much as I like this page, it's probably better off in Wikisource, IMHO. Gzuckier 14:56, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Is that typically where lyrics of songs are located? I would expect that each of these traditional songs that appear in the List of Newfoundland songs will have a story and background information accompanying them (stub). I have no issue with the location of the text as long as they are linked back to the list and any other reference within Wikipedia. HJKeats 15:13, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmm. Well, it seemed to me that would be the place, but now that I actually go look there, I don't see any. I see places where they ought to be, but I can't actually find any. Of course, that doesn't mean that these wouldn't be the nucleus that could get the ball rolling. I like your idea of the info on the songs here, linked to the lyrics there.Songs Gzuckier 15:28, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Certainly anything that improves Wikipedia and utilizes other Wikimedia sources is always a good thing, maybe we need some direction to identify how lyrics can be added. I had a look around also after your suggestion and we do have a hodge-podge of articles out there, some with lyrics and some without. If a suggested guideline exists or one that can be proposed, it can become a project to clean up some existing song related articles. HJKeats 15:38, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

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Credits
Some relevant information regarding the recording engineer Sherman Barrymore Keene was recently added at Reference desk/Archives/Entertainment/2014 June 6. No RS, but perhaps something worth following up. -- ToE 15:58, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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Sukumaran

Edappal Ponnamkuzhi Veettil Parameswaran Sukumaran Nair (10 June 1948 – 16 June 1997), known mononymously as Sukumaran, was an Indian actor and producer of Malayalam films. Sukumaran became a popular film star in Malayalam cinema during the 1970s. He was considered one of the superstar trios of Malayalam cinema during the late 1970s and early 1980s along with Soman and Jayan.

Later, he became known for his character roles and antagonistic roles during the 1980s and 1990s, notably the villain in CID Unnikrishnan B.A., B.Ed.(1994) and Onnaam Muhurtham(1991), playing character roles in films like Souhrudam(1990). In 1978, he won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor for his performance in M. T. Vasudevan Nair's Bandhanam. As a producer, he produced such films as Irakal and Padayani.

On 16 June 1997, Sukumaran suffered a massive heart attack and died. He was 49 at the time of his death.

Early life
Sukumaran was born at Edappal, Ponnani taluk, Malabar District, Madras Presidency, British India (Present-day Malappuram District, Kerala, India) in the year 1948 as the eldest son of Parameshwaran Nair and Subhadra P Nair. He had two younger brothers and a sister. Dr Sethumadhavan, Dr Sivadasan and Smt Sathee Devi.

Sukumaran was educated at St. Thomas Higher Secondary School, Pala, and at Church Mission Society Higher Secondary School, Thrissur. After completing his master's degree in English literature from University College, Trivandrum with gold medal, he began a job as a college lecturer for three years at Government College, Kasaragod and Scott Christian College, Nagercoil.

Career
During his tenure teaching English at Scott Christian College in Nagercoil, Tamil Nadu, Sukumaran got an offer to act in the Malayalam movie Nirmalyam, directed by M. T. Vasudevan Nair. He accepted the role of a defiant youngster in the film. The film went on to win accolades from all over and won a couple of National Film Awards as well. Despite being noted as a talented actor, Sukumaran did not receive any offers for some time after. He was thinking of returning to the teaching profession, when he was offered a role in Shankupushpam. With that film, Sukumaran carved a niche for himself in the Malayalam film industry. He worked with director P. Venu in the film Thacholi Thankappan (1983). Thakilu Kottampuram, directed by Balukiriyath was one of his Best films in the 80s, He then went on to act in substantial roles in films such as Avalude Ravukal, Angadi, Bandhanam, Etho Oru Swapnam, Manasa Vacha Karmana, Ahimsha, Spodanam, Shalini Ente Koottukari, Angakkuri, Kolilakkam, Theekkadal, Sandarbam, Witness and Kottayam Kunjachanan. By the year 1985, he had stopped playing hero roles. His role as a defiant police officer in Oru CBI Diary Kurippu and its sequel Jagratha, directed by K. Madhu, was noted for its characterisation and earned cult status when the third sequel in the series, Sethurama Iyer CBI, had Sai Kumar portraying the son of the police officer, with the mannerisms and voice tone of Sukumaran. Sukumaran won the Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor in 1978 for his role in Bandhanam. Sukumaran had his own production company, called Indraraj Creations. One of his productions Irakal, directed by K. G. George, was selected for the Indian Panorama in the International Film Festival of India (IFFI). The Association of Malayalam Movie Artists (AMMA) had sidelined and unofficially banned Sukumaran from films for around three years during the mid-90s, for some of the comments he made on the industry and its politics. His last film was Shibiram, directed by T. S. Suresh Babu.

Personal life
Sukumaran married actress Mallika Sukumaran on 17 October 1978. They have two sons who both work in Malayalam film industry; Indrajith Sukumaran and Prithviraj Sukumaran. Actress Poornima Mohan and journalist Supriya Menon are his daughters-in-law. His grand daughter Prarthana Indrajith is a playback singer. Sukumaran died due to a massive heart attack on 16 June 1997.

Awards

 * Kerala State Film Award for Best Actor – 1978 – Bandhanam (directed by M. T. Vasudevan Nair)

Producer

 * Irakal (1985)
 * Padayani (1986)

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Juju (Siouxsie and the Banshees album)

Juju is the fourth studio album by British rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees. It was recorded at Surrey Sound studio with Nigel Gray as co-producer, and was released on 19 June 1981 by Polydor Records. Two singles were released from Juju: "Spellbound" and "Arabian Knights".

The album was commercially successful in the UK. It was acclaimed by critics upon its release, with praise given particularly to John McGeoch's unconventional guitar playing and Siouxsie's vocal performances. It remains a critical favourite and is seen as a landmark album of post-punk.

Background
After the slightly electronic bent of their previous album, 1980's Kaleidoscope, Siouxsie and the Banshees returned to a guitar-based sound for Juju, due to the presence of now-official guitarist McGeoch. The album also prominently featured the intricate percussion work of band member Budgie. According to Steven Severin: "Juju was the first time we'd made a "concept" album that drew on darker elements. It wasn't pre-planned, but, as we were writing, we saw a definite thread running through the songs; almost a narrative to the album as a whole".

The album was recorded at co-producer Gray's Surrey Sound studio. There, McGeoch experimented with a rarely used guitar effects device called the Gizmo for the album track "Into the Light". Attached to the guitar's bridge, the Gizmo used keyed wheels to press the strings, giving a McGeoch's guitar the sound of a classical string instrument. For "Arabian Knights", McGeoch transformed a tune by Siouxsie, initially in waltz rhythm, that she had composed on a Vox Teardrop guitar. For "Sin in My Heart", McGeoch used an EBow while playing guitar.

The sleeve reproduced a picture of an African statue that the group found at the Horniman Museum in Forest Hill.

Musical style
Juju is a post-punk album, and was listed solely as such by AllMusic. The record was also qualified as "art rock" by The Guardian, which also dubbed the two singles as "pop marvels". However, Juju has also been cited by certain critics as gothic rock, though the band dispute such categorisation. BBC Radio 4 called the album "hugely influential dark wave".

Release
Juju reached No. 7 in the UK Albums Chart, remaining in the chart for 17 weeks. A 180g vinyl reissue of the album, remastered from the original ¼” tapes and cut half-speed at Abbey Road Studios by Miles Showell, was released in August 2018.

Critical reception
Sounds praised the album, observing that Siouxsie's voice "seems to have acquired a new fullness of melody" with "a rich, dark smoothness". Assessing the band's music, writer Betty Page commented: "The way this unit operates is impressively cohesive, like one brain the inventive musical talents of [guitarist] McGeoch, [drummer] Budgie and [bassist] Severin mesh perfectly with Siouxsie". She also hailed McGeoch as being "the only man who can make an acoustic guitar sound foreboding". NME considered that "Juju, their fourth LP [might be] their second best", qualifying it as "a peak in entertainment". Critic Paul Morley wrote that Siouxsie "exult[ed] with priceless poise". He concluded, naming all the songs, saying : "Side one's highlights – 'Spellbound', 'Into the Light', 'Arabian Knights', 'Halloween' and 'Monitor'. The most consistent side since The Scream.  Side two's highlights – 'Night Shift', 'Sin in My Heart', 'Head Cut' and 'Voodoo Dolly'. Juju is the first integrated and sparkling-complete Banshees since The Scream."

In a retrospective review, AllMusic wrote, "The upfront intensity of Juju probably isn't matched anywhere else in the catalog of Siouxsie and the Banshees. Thanks to its killer singles, unrelenting force and invigorating dynamics, Juju is a post-punk classic." The 2004 edition of The Rolling Stone Album Guide, gave a 3 ouf 5 rating while pairing Juju with Kaleidoscope as albums that, refined "the Banshees' attack, diversifying the sound without losing its swirling impact". Rating the album three out of five in the MusicHound album guide book, Doug Pullen described Juju as "a dark sensual record that combined Sioux's pained lyrics with smartly evocative grooves".

In 2007, The Guardian placed Juju on its "1000 Albums to Hear Before You Die" list, writing, "Perennial masters of brooding suspense, the Banshees honed their trademark aloof art rock to its hardest and darkest pitch on Juju." Juju was also featured in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

Legacy
In 1995, Melody Maker writer Cathi Unsworth described Juju as "one of the most influential British albums ever".

McGeoch's guitar playing in particular was singled out for praise by critics and musicians. In 2006 he was listed at number 89 on Mojo's list of the "100 greatest guitarists of all time" for his work on "Spellbound". Johnny Marr of the Smiths said on BBC Radio 2 in February 2008 that he rated McGeoch highly for his work on "Spellbound". Marr qualified it as "clever", with a "really good picky thing going on which is very un-rock'n'roll". In Uncut, Marr rated McGeoch as his 10th favourite guitarist for his work on Juju and Real Life by Magazine. Another member of the Smiths, singer Morrissey, commented on "Spellbound" during an interview for the US KROQ-FM radio station in 1997: "Another great single. A hit in England. Certainly not here, I don't think. But they were one of the great groups of the late '70s, early '80s.... Siouxsie and the Banshees were excellent." Morrissey later named Juju as a major album of the Banshees. Robert Smith of the Cure cited McGeoch's contribution on "Head Cut" in his five favourite guitar tracks, saying: "This is really harsh funk in a weird way – clever choppy chords. There's no real form to it as such, but some interesting sequences".

Radiohead cited Juju, with Thom Yorke, Ed O'Brien and Colin Greenwood all mentioning their liking for the album. O'Brien remembered recording "Spellbound" on a tape recorder after listening to the charts, noting that "it was a great era of music". John Frusciante of Red Hot Chili Peppers mentioned it as one of his influences for the album By the Way. He said: "John McGeoch is a guitarist I want to be. He's got a new brilliant idea at each song. I generally listen to the records he recorded with Magazine and Siouxsie and the Banshees, Juju". Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins selected "Arabian Knights" when he talked about some of his favourite music on BBC radio: commenting the song, he said that "Siouxsie and the Banshees were able to unlock certain rhythms and feelings that are still in alt rock today". William Reid of the Jesus and Mary Chain selected "Spellbound" in a playlist including some of his favourite tracks. Suede's singer Brett Anderson cited Juju as one of his reference points.

Personnel
Siouxsie and the Banshees
 * Siouxsie Sioux – vocals, guitar on "Sin in My Heart"
 * Steven Severin – bass guitar
 * Budgie – drums, percussion
 * John McGeoch – guitar

Technical
 * Nigel Gray – production
 * Rob O'Connor – sleeve design
 * Joe Lyons – sleeve photography

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Robert Macfarlane (writer)

Robert Macfarlane (born 15 August 1976) is a British writer and Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

He is best known for his books on landscape, nature, place, people and language, which include The Old Ways (2012), Landmarks (2015), The Lost Words (2017) and Underland (2019). In 2017 he received The E. M. Forster Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is married to professor of modern Chinese history and literature Julia Lovell.

Early life and education
Macfarlane was born in Halam, Nottinghamshire, and attended Nottingham High School. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Magdalen College, Oxford. He began a PhD at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in 2000, and in 2001 was elected a Fellow of the college.

Family
His father John Macfarlane is a respiratory physician who co-authored the CURB-65 score of pneumonia in 2003. His brother James is also a consultant physician in respiratory medicine. He is married to Julia Lovell, and has three children.

Books
Macfarlane's first book, Mountains of the Mind, was published in 2003 and won the Guardian First Book Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. It was shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. It is an account of the development of Western attitudes to mountains and precipitous landscapes, and takes its title from a line by the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins. The book asks why people, including Macfarlane, are drawn to mountains despite their obvious dangers, and examines the powerful and sometimes fatal hold that mountains can come to have over the imagination. The Irish Times described the book as "a new kind of exploration writing, perhaps even the birth of a new genre, which demands a new category of its own."

The Wild Places was published in September 2007, and describes a series of journeys made in search of the wildness that remains in Britain and Ireland. The book won the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, the Scottish Arts Council Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award, and the Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Festival, North America's equivalent of the Boardman Tasker Prize.

It became a best-seller in Britain and The Netherlands, and was shortlisted for six further prizes, including the Dolman Best Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, and North America's Orion Book Award, a prize founded "to recognize books that deepen our connection to the natural world, present new ideas about our relationship with nature, and achieve excellence in writing." The Wild Places was adapted for television by the BBC as an episode of the BBC Two Natural World series broadcast in February 2010; the film later won a Wildscreen Award.

The Old Ways: A Journey On Foot, the third in the "loose trilogy of books about landscape and the human heart" begun by Mountains of the Mind and The Wild Places, was published in June 2012. The book describes the years Macfarlane spent following "old ways" (pilgrimage paths, sea-roads, prehistoric trackways, ancient rights of way) in south-east England, north-west Scotland, Spain, Sichuan and Palestine. Its guiding spirit is the early-twentieth-century writer and poet, Edward Thomas, and its chief subject is the reciprocal shaping of people and place.

The Old Ways was in the bestseller lists for six months. It was acclaimed as a "tour de force" by William Dalrymple in The Observer. It was chosen as Book of the Year by John Banville, Philip Pullman, Jan Morris, John Gray, Antony Beevor, and Dan Stevens among others. In the UK, it was joint winner of the Dolman Prize for Travel Writing, was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize (the "non-fiction Booker"), the Jan Michalski Prize for World Literature, the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction, the Warwick Prize for Writing, the Waterstones Book of the Year, and three other prizes. In the US, it was shortlisted for the Orion Book Award.

Landmarks, a book that celebrates and defends the language of landscape, was published in the UK in March 2015. A version of its first chapter, published in The Guardian as The Word-Hoard, went viral, and the book became a Sunday Times number one bestseller. It was shortlisted for The Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. Landmarks is described on the cover as "a field guide to the literature of nature, and a vast glossary collecting thousands of the remarkable terms used in dozens of the languages and dialects of Britain and Ireland to describe and denote aspects of terrain, weather, and nature". Each of the book's chapters explores the landscapes and style of a writer or writers, as Macfarlane travels to meet farmers, sailors, walkers, glossarians, artists, poets and others who have developed intense and committing relationships with their chosen places. The chapter of the book concerning Nan Shepherd and the Cairngorm mountains was adapted for television by BBC4 and BBC Scotland. Macfarlane's detailed writing style, and his frequent references to dialect vocabulary, were satirised in a February 2016 edition of Private Eye by Craig Brown in the magazine's regular "Diary" feature. Landmarks was published in the US in August 2016. It was described by Tom Shippey in The Wall Street Journal as a book that "teaches us to love our world, even the parts of it that we have neglected. Mr Macfarlane is the great nature writer, and nature poet, of this generation."

In May 2016 Macfarlane published The Gifts of Reading, a short book about gifts, stories and the unexpected consequences of generosity. All work for the book was given for free, and all moneys raised were donated to MOAS, the Migrant Offshore Aid Station, to save refugee lives.

With the artist Jackie Morris, Macfarlane published The Lost Words: A Spell Book in October 2017. The book became what the Guardian called 'a cultural phenomenon', winning Children's Book of the Year at the British Book Awards jointly with The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. The "lost" words of the book's title are twenty of the names for everyday nature—from "Acorn" through to "Wren" by way of "Bluebell", "Kingfisher", "Lark" and "Otter"—that were controversially dropped from inclusion in the Oxford Junior Dictionary due to under-use by children. Grassroots campaigns sprang up to raise money to place copies of the book in every primary and special school in all of Scotland, half of England and a quarter of Wales.

Funds were also raised to place a copy in every hospice in Britain. The book is used by charities and carers working with dementia sufferers, refugees, survivors of domestic abuse, childhood cancer patients, and people in terminal care. It has been adapted for dance, outdoor theatre, choral music and classical music. In 2018 the new Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital at Stanmore opened its new building with four levels decorated with art and poems from The Lost Words. It was the inspiration for Spell Songs, a folk music concert and album by musicians including Karine Polwart, Julie Fowlis and Kris Drever.

Underland: A Deep Time Journey was published in May 2019. It is a book about the deep-time pasts and futures of the Earth, as revealed by mythical underworlds and real subterranean journeys. The book was serialized on BBC Radio 4 as the Book of the Week for 29 April - 3 May 2019.

Film
In collaboration with the director Jen Peedom, the cinematographer Renan Ozturk and the composer Richard Tognetti, Macfarlane worked on the film Mountain, which premiered with a live performance from the Australian Chamber Orchestra at the Sydney Opera House in June 2017. Macfarlane's script was voiced by Willem Dafoe. Mountain became the highest-grossing Australian documentary of all time, and won three Australian Academy Awards.

With the Oscar-nominated composer Hauschka and the director Rob Petit, Macfarlane made Upstream, a film set in the Cairngorm mountains in winter.

Macfarlane's 2012 book Holloway was adapted into a short film shot on Super-8 by the film-maker Adam Scovell.

Background
Macfarlane is a nature writer in the broadest sense, part of a tradition of writing about landscape, place, travel, and nature that includes John Muir, Richard Jefferies and Edward Thomas, as well as contemporary figures such as John McPhee, Rebecca Solnit, Annie Dillard, Barry Lopez and his friend Roger Deakin. He is associated with other walker-writers including Patrick Leigh Fermor, Nan Shepherd and Laurie Lee, and seen as one of a number of recent British writers who have provoked a new critical and popular interest in writing about landscape. His interests in topography, ecology and the environment have been explored in his books but also through essays, notably his Common Ground series which was published in The Guardian in 2005.

He has also published many reportage and travel essays in magazines, especially Granta and Archipelago, as well as numerous introductory essays to reissues of lost and neglected classics of landscape and nature writing from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, notably J. A. Baker (The Peregrine) and Nan Shepherd (The Living Mountain and In The Cairngorms).

Campaigns
In 2018 Macfarlane co-edited, with Chris Packham and Patrick Barkham, A People's Manifesto For Wildlife, arguing for urgent and large-scale change in Britain's relationship with nature. 10,000 people marched on Whitehall to deliver The Manifesto to DEFRA. He has been involved with the Sheffield tree-protectors campaign, fighting the unnecessary felling of thousands of street trees in the city. Macfarlane wrote 'Heartwood', a poem for the protestors, which was set to music, flyposted and subvertised across Sheffield, and hung as a 'charm' around endangered trees.

He is a patron of the Outdoor Swimming Society, the Outlandia Project, ONCA (One Network for Conservation and the Arts), and Gateway To Nature, a Lottery-funded mental-health initiative designed to improve access to nature for vulnerable groups and individuals. He is a founding Trustee of the charity Action For Conservation, which works to inspire a lifelong engagement with conservation in 12–17 year olds, working especially with schools with high pupil premium levels.

Collaborations
Most of Macfarlane's books have been jacketed with original work by the artist Stanley Donwood, known for his close association with the band Radiohead, exceptions include his book The Lost Words, for example, which was illustrated by Jackie Morris. Macfarlane also collaborated with Donwood and writer Dan Richards on Holloway, published in an edition of 277 by Quive-Smith Press in 2012, and a trade edition by Faber & Faber in May 2013, which became a Sunday Times best-seller. Macfarlane and Donwood collaborated on an edition of Thomas Hardy's poems published by The Folio Society in 2021. Macfarlane selected and introduced 109 poems for the edition with Donwood providing the illustrations.

In June 2012, Macfarlane wrote the libretto to a "jazz opera" called Untrue Island, composed by the double-bassist Arnie Somogyi, and performed in a former nuclear weapons storage site on Orford Ness in Suffolk.

His work has been involved with the music of contemporary musicians including Johnny Flynn, Frank Turner, The Memory Band, Grasscut, Julie Fowlis and Karine Polwart. He co-wrote the song Coins for Eyes with Flynn for the 9th series of the BBC programme Digging for Britain.

Awards and honours

 * 2003: Guardian First Book Award, winner, Mountains of the Mind
 * 2004: Somerset Maugham Award, winner, Mountains of the Mind
 * 2004: Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, winner, Mountains of the Mind
 * 2007: Boardman-Tasker Prize For Mountain Literature, winner, The Wild Places
 * 2008: Scottish Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award, winner, The Wild Places
 * 2008: Grand Prize Banff Mountain Festival, winner, The Wild Places
 * 2011: Philip Leverhulme Prize in Modern European Languages and Literature
 * 2012: Samuel Johnson Prize, shortlist, The Old Ways
 * 2013: Jan Michalski Prize for Literature, finalist, The Old Ways
 * 2013: Warwick Prize for Writing, shortlist, The Old Ways
 * 2013: Dolman Best Travel Book Award, winner, The Old Ways
 * 2015: Hay Festival Medal for Prose, Landmarks
 * 2015: Samuel Johnson Prize, shortlist, Landmarks
 * 2017: Children's Book of the Year, British Book Awards, The Lost Words
 * 2017: EM Forster Award for Literature, American Academy of Arts and Letters
 * 2019: Wainwright Prize, Underland
 * 2019: NDR Kultur Sachbuchpreis, Underland

In 2022, Macfarlane was mentioned as an unlikely contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature, which was won by Annie Ernaux.

Books

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Art crazy

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. [[smoddy ]] 19:57, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Art crazy
Someone stuck a VfD on this but did not finish the job. Judge for yourselves. -- RHaworth 15:00:54, 2005-08-24 (UTC)

 * Delete nonsense -- Ryan Norton T 15:08, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per RN. Al 15:09, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete let me get the crayons. Alf 20:03, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete ugh. Makes-my-head-hurt-nonsense. -- Etacar11   02:41, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - Tεx  τ  urε  16:36, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week/Media industry

Media industry

 * Nominated on 15:01, 24 August 2005 (UTC); needs 5 votes by August 31.

Mass media might be lacking, although not a stub. But the Media industry article, describing a growing and very important sector of the world economy, is only one paragraph. Desperately needs more, and would also be a good subject matter for a collaboration. (Also note that Entertainment industry is about as bad. Which is interesting, considering the fact that the coverage of its products could be said to be one of the strong points of Wikipedia...)

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Category:Hal Roach Studios actors

 * Hal Roach Studios actors and actresses — in 20th century films directed and/or produced by Hal Roach, who was based in Los Angeles, California.

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User talk:Herschelkrustofsky/archive2

Wikistalking guideline
Greetings - We're currently working on a wikistalking guideline proposal to reflect that the Arbitration Committee has deemed this to be a bannable offense. I'm trying to get community input to help develop this article. Unfortunately a few of the usual suspects are also trying to disrupt this process and dismantle work being done to better the article. If you have a moment please drop by stalking and make any applicable changes to the article or post any suggestions you may have on the talk page. Thanks! Rangerdude 18:49, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

De-adminship
I happened to have Rangerdude's user page on my watchlist. The answer to your question is mostly at Requests for de-adminship. --cesarb 22:57, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Greetings from User:Cognition
It's great to see that you're back fighting the good fight against propaganda. On a related note, I have come across some information that may be worthy of further research. Perhaps you might want to look into it or pass it on to your associates... Anyway, it seems like the New School for Social Research is now avowedly professing fascism-- moving away from its long tradition of hiding behind the same cloaks and veils used by its founders. They are now opening eulogizing their intellectual founder Nazi crown jurist and Holocaust criminal Carl Schmitt.

See their "course description" on Schmitt: ''Carl Schmitt (1888–1984) has become a modern classic in political theory and has been called the Thomas Hobbes of the twentieth century. Most of his main texts are now available in English and will be discussed in class (e.g., The Concept of the Political, Political Romanticism, Political Theology, The Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy). In addition to these primary sources, we will read some critiques by his contemporaries (Kirchheimer, Fraenkel, Kelsen) and put his thinking into its historical context. In the second part of the course, we will turn our interest to the current renaissance of Schmitt in different fields of modern political theory such as democracy, pluralism, liberalism, international justice, and political power. On the reading list are books and articles by Habermas, Sartori, McCormick, Scheuerman, Dyzenhaus, Mouffe, Agamben, and Kalyvas.''

This leads me to suspect that they have recently shifted strategies in their promotion of fascist thought. By removing the cloaks and veils, perhaps they are signalling that they are ready to lead an intellectual offensive to explicitly rehabilitate fascist politics. Cognition

If you can, please take a look at Physical economics, where I am being stalked by that Chip Berlet and Adam Carr underlying Slimvirgin. Cognition 03:52, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

CfD
Your vote is need at Categories for deletion/Log/2005 November 7. This originated with Mr. Cberlet at. Thank you. nobs 18:38, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

 * It appears that the debate on this is now closed, but having given some thought, I'll reply anyway.

 * You may count on my support for any effort to curtail the rampant POV pushing of Cberlet, well as his exploitation of Wikipedia for commercial purposes.

 * However, two wrongs don't make a right. I am skeptical of the way categories get used, often as yet another form of POV warfare, and I would be more inclined to go with "alleged Soviet spies" or something along those lines. In this case, Cberlet may be the proverbial broken clock that is right twice a day. --HK 22:01, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Just a note
Thanks again; for the record, I created all but about 36 of the 279 bio pages in the category. All my contributions were very carefully researched, and include corroborating evidence. If doubt existed, it was not included. Further, I intend to fully review the pages I didn't work on to judge whether or not they are categorized properly. This was just an attempt to smear the quality of my work personally, and challenge the sources without having any proper primary or secondary sources to do so.

As to the user in question, seriously you should read [http://tcbhatecrew.net/text/the_watchdogs_a_close_look_at_antiracist_watchdog_groups-%20Laird%20Wilcox.pdf pgs. 114-131]; it is profoundly disturbing. The Guardian section in particular, when one considers this purported human rights activist in light of these disclosures. nobs 22:27, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration filed naming you
Please be advised that today I filed an arbitration case naming you. It can be found at Requests_for_arbitration.--Cberlet 21:35, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration accepted
Requests for arbitration/Nobs01 and others has been accepted. Please place evidence at Requests for arbitration/Nobs01 and others/Evidence. You may make proposals and comment on proposals at Requests for arbitration/Nobs01 and others/Workshop. Fred Bauder 19:41, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

Animal rights
I would like to request unprotection so your early response would be appreciated. SlimVirgin (talk) 17:05, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

Animal rights and contractarianism

 * Hi! I too believe it is untrue that animals cannot enter into social contract. However, this argument has been used by some critics of animal rights, e.g. Tibor Machan. Tom Regan has argued against contractarianism in many of his articles, for example, read The case for animal rights. Contractarianism is an important issue in the Animal rights debate. deeptrivia (talk) 20:02, 10 December 2005 (UTC)
 * PS: In fact, I had expected a whole section in this article dealing with the contractarianism issue. deeptrivia (talk) 20:05, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

Drug free Wikipedians
We're about to be censored, and need all the help we can get. Please vote at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:List of drug-free Wikipedians! Cognition 19:50, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Admin power abuses
FYI -

Priveleged experts
Sorry to bother you with more "acting in concert" BS, but please note the priveleged expert exemption has been made a new policy prior to the ArbCom vote to finalize the precedent  without discussion on the policy talk page. nobs 20:29, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Awnsers to "Another question'

 * The Bill or rights and Arbitration Comitee code of conduct both look like good ideas, I think that there just common sence. --Kylehamilton 13:01, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Answered questions
Just letting you know that I've answered your questions on my ArbCom nomination page. Thanks for taking the interest and asking! :) --Golbez 03:25, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

ACe questions
I've answered your question in the corresponding page. If you have any further questions, do not hesitate to ask further. - Mailer Diablo 16:19, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Beast-man
LaRouche is right. Cheney is a psychopath who can't distinguish man from beast. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/cheney_hunting_accident;_ylt=AhsHpYN8kYkvp2zCRPeJzDas0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA2Z2szazkxBHNlYwN0bQ-- Cognition 23:58, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Censorship
Had you read through the discussion you would have realized (I hope) that there was no discussion about the article content- it was a screaming match, pure and simple. I asked them twice  to talk about the article, not the contributors, the second time indicating that I would remove the section if they didn't. The shouting continued, and I removed it. That's not censorship- that's trying to make working on the article at least midly pleasant. I also find it interesting that you've (apparently) been watching the articles after the initial ArbCom case(s), and then complaining about them further—if that's not gaming the system, nothing is.--Sean Black (talk) 20:50, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I removed the entire section because it was a flamewar, not a discussion about the article- I removed posts from both Cberlet and Northmeister, who have opposing viewpoints, so I find the "removing opinions I disagree with" defense pretty shakey. And on the point about the ArbCom case, I mean to say that you clearly still have a vested interest in these articles, which is the exact opposite of what the ruling was intended to do.--Sean Black (talk) 23:34, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

A little help here?
Y'all left me alone with a guy who seems to think it valid to include character criticism in a section regarding criticism of Perkins' book. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Also, the same criticisms are being repeated when they could/should be summarized (and cited if readers want to look at all of them). It's bloating the section.

I have to leave for the weekend. Don't want it to go to hell while I'm gone......

(Antelope In Search Of Truth 21:51, 18 March 2006 (UTC))

Gatekeeper (politics) page
Do you by any chance have a copied version of the original 'disappeared' page or know where to look at it in it's last form? Bov 22:35, 20 March 2006 (UTC) Oh, sorry, I figured out where to look. Bov 22:37, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Jeremiah Duggan page
Hi I am the user formely known as IAMthatIAM and I noticed you took an interest in the previous dispute over that page. Thank You. Could you check out my new AfD and help me out if slimvirgin tries to break the rules again? --IAMwhatsIAM 07:20, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Zarf

US Navy Zarf?
Not sure if the US Navy call it a zarf - more likely it's known as a cup holder. Anyway, it didn't seem to fit well in the introductory paragraph, so I've moved it down the bottom. AndrewH 15:02, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

[Chap] Zarfs are common names for the blue cup holders in the Navy. "Zarf" is a term more used in the Navy than in general use, actually. This site says it's a submarine-specific term but I've heard it on surface ships for decades. Definitely more people know that than they do, say, Andrew Plotkin or the other half dozen people who call themselves "zarf" on the internet.

Green Acres reference
Zarf is also used in the Green Acres episode where Fred is playing scrabble against Arnold; Fred uses it as a word, but Arnold won't allow it because "it's not a word".

I think you mean The Flintstones, not Green Acres. See http://www.definition-of.com/zarf Bob Stein - VisiBone (talk) 17:32, 26 October 2010 (UTC)

Contemporary Usage as a Cardboard Cup Sleeve
The word has also started to be used as a label for the protective coffee cup sleeves used by most espresso bars, including Starbucks. I think this should be included in the article if anyone can find a reputable reference.

Etymology
From the OED online:

zarf | zurf, n.

Pronunciation: /zɑːf/ /zɜːf/ Etymology: < Arabic ẓarf vessel.

A cup-shaped holder for a hot coffee-cup, used in the Levant, usually of metal and of ornamental design. 1836  E. W. Lane ''Acct. Manners & Customs Mod. Egyptians'' I. v. 168  The coffee-cup.., being without a handle, is placed within another cup (called zurf).

1854  R. Curzon Armenia 80   One brought coffee on a tray..and then came a man bringing to each of us a cup, well frothed up, and in a zarf, or outer cup.

1978  Times 2 May 13/3 (caption)    A diamond and emerald zarf, mounted in gold and silver, 19th century, 6·5 cm high.

"zarf | zurf, n.". OED Online. December 2013. Oxford University Press. 30 January 2014 . 101.162.161.231 (talk) 15:03, 30 January 2014 (UTC)

Getting a handle on zarfs
The opening sentence says that "A zarf ... is a holder, usually of ornamental metal, for a coffee cup without a handle." —BarrelProof (talk) 16:38, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Is this saying that a zarf is something without a handle or that it is a holder (that may include a handle) for something else that does not have a handle?
 * Is there really a difference between a zarf and a Podstakannik? What difference does it make to the physical object which liquid is poured into it?
 * Please note that the picture shown at the top of the article (File:01464 vintage Russian Soviet silver cup tea holder.jpg) shows a device that includes a handle and is described in its filename as a teacup, not a coffee cup.

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ROTK

ROTK may refer to:

 * "Record of the Three Kingdoms" (三國志), a historical work about the Three Kingdoms era of China
 * Romance of the Three Kingdoms (三國演義), a classic novel written by Luo Guanzhong set in the Three Kingdoms era of China
 * Romance of the Three Kingdoms (computer game) (三國志) a video game franchise from KOEI
 * Romance of the Three Kingdoms (TV series), a Chinese TV series
 * Romance of the Three Kingdoms (HK comic), a Hong Kong Chinese comic series
 * Romance of the Three Kingdoms (anime), an anime series
 * The Return of the King (volume) of the Lord of the Rings epic high fantasy novel series by J.R.R. Tolkien
 * The Return of the King (1980 film), animated film
 * The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King third and final installment of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy
 * The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (video game)

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Yukon Gold

Yukon Gold may refer to:
 * gold in the Yukon, see Geography of Yukon
 * Yukon Gold Rush, gold rush in the Yukon
 * Yukon Gold potato, a variety of potato
 * Yukon Gold (1952 film), an American western film from 1952
 * Yukon Gold (TV series), a 2013 reality show about gold mining in the Yukon

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Talk:Tommerup Municipality

This is mostly a note to myself to take care of: According to Eniro the new municipality will be called *Ny Assens". The new municipality's website also calls it *Ny Assens". This should be reflected on the various pages. Sfdan 15:02, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi Sfdan. I've posted a reply on your talk page. I'd advise not to use the "Ny" / "New" prefix at all. These names were only temporary and the prefix is not used in official documents (see e.g. The Ministry of the Interior ). Besides, the prefix is horrible Danish.

--Valentinian 16:32, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

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Schinopsis

Schinopsis is a genus of South American trees in the family Anacardiaceae, also known by the common names quebracho, quebracho colorado and red quebracho. In Brazil it is known as baraúna or braúna.

Description
The species within this genus inhabit different regions of the Gran Chaco ecoregion including parts of northern Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay. In Brazil it can be found as a component of the Caatinga in the northwestern region.

The name is in recognition of the hardness of the wood from the Spanish quiebra-hacha ("axe-breaker"). It also distinguishes the species from the "white quebracho" trees of the unrelated genus Aspidosperma.

Schinopsis is the exclusive food plant of the moth Coleophora haywardi.

Species

 * Schinopsis balansae (common name: quebracho colorado chaqueño)
 * Schinopsis boqueronensis
 * Schinopsis brasiliensis
 * Schinopsis cornuta
 * Schinopsis haenkeana
 * Schinopsis heterophylla (common name: Quebracho colorado mestizo)
 * Schinopsis lorentzii, synonym S. quebracho-colorado (common name: quebracho colorado santiagueño)
 * Schinopsis marginata
 * Schinopsis peruviana

Uses
The timber is used in furniture and on railroads due to its durability.

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Johnny Walker (actor)

Badruddin Jamaluddin Kazi (1924? – 29 July 2003), professionally and popularly known as Johnny Walker, was an Indian actor and comedian who acted in around 300 films. He was best known for his humorous roles in Indian films, notably being typecast as a hapless drunkard.

Early life
Badruddin Jamaluddin Kazi was born in Indore, British India (present-day Madhya Pradesh, India), one of twelve children of a weaving teacher. Sources generally place his date of birth around either March 1924 or November 1926.

When his father lost his job, the family moved to Mumbai. Kazi, who got a job as a Bombay Electric Supply & Transport (BEST) bus conductor, took it upon himself to entertain his passengers with his comical way of calling out bus stops, his hilarious impressions and tricks.

Throughout his youth, he dreamed of being involved in films, idolising Noor Mohammed Charlie and practicing stunts that he saw on-screen. He got a break in the film industry after actor Balraj Sahni introduced him to actor and director Guru Dutt after being amused by Kazi's antics.

Career
Johnny Walker nurtured his desire to work in films and entertained passengers while working the BEST buses with amusing routines, hoping that he would at some point be spotted by someone with connection in a film. Balraj Sahni was either at that time writing the script for Baazi (1951), or acting in Hulchul, told Kazi to demonstrate his drunkard act to Guru Dutt. From that meeting, he gained a role in Baazi. It was Guru Dutt who gave him the name of Johnny Walker, a reference to the brand of Scotch whisky, when he was inspired by Kazi's display in the role of a drunkard.

Thereafter, Walker appeared in all but one of Dutt's movies and the director encouraged him to ad lib and to draw on his varied life experiences. He was primarily an actor of comedic roles but towards the end of his life became disenchanted, saying, "Earlier, comedians had a respectable position and an almost parallel role with the protagonist, now it is just to bring a touch of humour. I don't buy that." His attempts to portray heroic personae in the eponymous Johnny Walker and Mr. Qartoon were not successful but films such as Mere Mehboob, C.I.D., Pyaasa and Chori Chori made him a star. His heyday was in the 1950s and 1960s and his later career was affected by the death of Dutt, who had greatly influenced it, in 1964. He worked with directors such as Bimal Roy and Vijay Anand but his career faded in the 1980s. He was unwilling to adopt the cruder form of comedy and changed priorities that had become the vogue, saying that"'In those days we used to do clean comedy. We were aware that the person who had come to the cinema had come with his wife and children ... the story was the most important thing. Only after selecting a story would Abrar Alvi and Guru Dutt find suitable actors! Now it's all upside down ... they line up a big hero and find a story to fit in. The comedian has ceased to be a character, he's become something to fit in between scenes. ... I opted out because comedy had become hostage to vulgarity. I acted in 300 films and the Censor Board never cut even one line.'"

Johnny Walker was particularly satisfied with his work in B. R. Chopra's Naya Daur (1957), Chetan Anand's Taxi Driver (1954) and Bimal Roy's Madhumati (1958). His final film came after an absence of 14 years when he took a role in a remake of Mrs. Doubtfire titled Chachi 420 (1997). During the intervening period, he had a successful business dealing with precious and semi-precious stones.

Some songs were written especially for him. His drawing power at the box office was such that distributors would insist on him having a song and would pay extra to ensure it. He is the second actor (the first being the actress Madhubala with an eponymous 1950 film) to have one or more Hindi films in his name, but the only one with two (the 1957 film Johnny Walker and the 1992 Malayalam film Johnnie Walker). He was the first actor to keep a secretary/manager. He was the first actor to stop working on Sundays. He was the first actor to bring Colloquialism to cinema Taxi Driver. He also produced and directed the 1985 film Pahunche Huwey Log.

Personal life
Johnny Walker married Noorjahan, sister of Indian actress Shakila, despite opposition from her family. They had three daughters and three sons, one of whom one is actor Nasirr Khan. Regretting that he had been forced to leave school during 6th class, he sent his sons to the USA for schooling.

Despite often playing the roles of a drunkard, Johnny Walker was a teetotaller and claimed to have never drunk alcohol in his life.

He died on 29 July 2003 after a period of illness.

Awards

 * Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award for his role in Madhumati
 * Filmfare Best Comedian Award for his role in Shikar

Filmography
Johnny Walker acted in around 300 films.

title: Johnny Walker (actor)


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The result of the debate was speedy deleted. Sjakkalle (Check!)  08:57, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

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Original article was deleted as a copyvio. Temp article asserts no notability, and is probably little more than spam. KeithD (talk) 15:05, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete. Spamvertising. Al 15:10, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete. I actually speedy nominated it a few weeks ago, but that disapeared from the history for some reason.  SOMETHING happened because it ended up in my watchlist. - Chairboy 15:50, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
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The Cliffs of Baccalieu

"The Cliffs of Baccalieu" is a Newfoundland song written by Jack Withers (1899-1964). Many fisherman from Newfoundland spent their summers fishing on the Labrador coast. This song depicts a tense incident for a ship coming home from Labrador on its way to either Carbonear or St. John's with its fishing crew. The ship is caught in a gale as it nears Baccalieu Island. The vessel in the song is obviously a schooner, and it would have been burdened by a full load of salt cod caught along the Labrador coast.

Recordings
"The Cliffs of Baccalieu" has been recorded by many artists since it was written.
 * Ryan's Fancy recorded it on the 1979 album A Time with Ryan's Fancy, They also included it on their TV shows around Newfoundland; a version can be found on the 2001 compilation CD Songs from the Shows.
 * Stan Rogers recorded it on his 1983 album For The Family. He originally gives it the title The Rocks of Baccalieu though that is corrected on later albums. Rogers attributes the tune to "Traditional" rather than Jack Withers, but the published lyrics make it clear that it is the same tune.
 * Bristol's Hope, with lead singer Anita Best, recorded it for their 1997 release Lately Come Over.
 * Kim Stockwood includes the song on her 2011 album Back to the Water.

title: The Cliffs of Baccalieu