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Wikipedia:Requests for mediation/anarchism

Anarchism
The primary conflict regarding this page is between "anarcho-capitalists" and "left-wing" anarchists, both of whom feel they are the rightful bearers of the term.

 * Andrevan, please take care of this. Uncle Ed 14:37, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

 * Sure. Andre ( talk ) 16:57, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

 * As a casual user, let me add my plea for moderation. The Anarchism article is run amok with people who seem to feel that Wikipedia is here to advance their particular revisionist political views (on all sides) -- regardless of what the rest of us are here for. Heck, just a 90-day "cooling off" period on this article could help. Jberkus 05:10, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

 * We already had a long cooling off period, probably one of the longest in Wikipedia history; I don't think it accomplished much. MrVoluntarist 17:18, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Sorry I haven't been up to date on this page - what's been happening on other talk pages? Andre (talk) 00:44, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

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Port Giles, South Australia

Port Giles is a port on Yorke Peninsula in the Australian state of South Australia located in the gazetted locality of Coobowie between the towns of Stansbury and Edithburgh.

Port Giles a port facility consisting of a large jetty equipped for bulk handling of grain which is operated by Flinders Ports, and a similarly large grain storage facility operated by Viterra. It was opened by the then Premier of South Australia, Steele Hall in 1970, and led to the closure of many of the smaller ports on the peninsula. Port Giles can handle Panamax size ships or larger.

Port Giles was purposely built to be able to handle bulk grain, and load it onto larger modern ships. Many of the other ports were not deep enough for larger ships, and could only be serviced by small ketches and coastal steamships. They only handled grain in bags, not in bulk.

The port is occasionally open for keen anglers to catch fish from the jetty, which provides habitat for multiple species.

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Talk:Kulturnett.no

Got a deletion request on the page without further explanation, could someone explain why? The service provided could be used in articles about all muncipalities in Norway. Agtfjott 14:38, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I, for one, fail to see how this article is notable. Bk314159 (talk) 15:25, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

Not to sure about the english version of the name! Agtfjott 19:43, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Not visible outside Norway?
Have been unable to load the map from Vågå from several diferent machines using different browsers at different times. Please chack with the Norwegian Ministry of Culture and Church Affairs and see if it is in some form restricted by location (e.g., accessible within Norway only). This might explain the request for deletion. Best regards - Williamborg 15:04, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, it turns out I can get it to work. Apparently it is browser setting specific. Ignore my last. Williamborg

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George Washington High School (San Francisco)

George Washington High School is a public high school in the Richmond District of San Francisco, California. The campus occupies the highest ground in the neighborhood, south of Geary Boulevard between 30th and 32nd Avenues, with a sweeping view of the Golden Gate Bridge from the athletic fields. Presidio Middle School, also a public school, is located kitty-corner to the campus.

The school was opened in 1936. Its lobby is decorated with 13 murals in "buon fresco" style by Victor Arnautoff, a student of Diego Rivera, that were commissioned by the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project as part of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal projects for public buildings. Titled Life of Washington, the murals depict scenes from the life of George Washington. Intended to teach students about the realities of history, they include representations of Black slaves and white indentured servants on Washington's estate and, in a panel criticizing the notion of Manifest Destiny, a depiction of a prostrate Native American. The San Francisco Board of Education voted in 2019 to remove the murals as offensive. After protests, the school board's resolution was ruled unlawful in 2021 and was rescinded in 2022.

History
The City of San Francisco set aside $2 million in 1930 to build a high school to serve the Richmond District, its seventh public high school and most expensive school at that time. The three-story academic building was designed by Timothy L. Pflueger and inspired by Washington's home in Virginia, Mount Vernon. It was planned to accommodate 3,000 students. Arnautoff was assisted by George Harris and Gorden Langdon in his work on the murals, and the school also has mural work by Ralph Stackpole, Robert Boardman Howard, and Lucien Labaudt, and bas relief faces by Arnautoff of Washington, Thomas Edison, and William Shakespeare above the main doors. A bas relief frieze on the wall of the football stadium, Athletics, is by Beniamino Bufano and Sargent Johnson.

Washington High School opened on August 4, 1936 (reportedly before the classrooms were furnished); the stadium, auditorium, and gymnasium were added in 1940, and the school was formally dedicated on Armistice Day 1940. The first principal, Ernest J. Cummings, served until 1945 when he became Deputy Superintendent of Secondary Schools.

The school song, the Washington Hymn, was written by student Tillie Miesles, class of 1937, with a 1947 addition by teacher Marion Knott.

Arnautoff murals controversy
The murals by Victor Arnautoff in the school lobby attracted criticism for the realistic depiction of the African-American slaves and white indentured servants that George Washington had on his Mount Vernon estate, and for an allegorical depiction, in a mural intended as a criticism of the concept of Manifest Destiny, of four pioneers treading over and beside a dead Native American. In 1974 the school added three murals by Dewey Crumpler to assuage complaints, and Crumpler has said that the students at that time apologized for their failure to understand the intent of the works and the devices used by Arnautoff to convey the realities of history.

In June 2019, the San Francisco Board of Education voted to paint over the Arnautoff murals, There was broad opposition, including from the National Coalition Against Censorship, the College Art Association, and in an open letter signed by 400 scholars and artists. San Francisco Heritage, a non-profit devoted to preserving the city's artistic and architectural legacy, proposed the school be designated a city landmark on the basis of this and other features. The school's alumni association expressed support for the murals. Alice Walker, whose daughter attended the school, suggested that explanations be added to provide context: "If you cover things up, the danger is that you will end up in the same place again, and you won’t even recognize it."

The school board voted to instead conceal the Arnautoff murals with curtains or panels, but on September 24, 2021, the San Francisco Superior Court determined that its decisions to either destroy or cover the murals violated environmental law and must be reversed. The school board appealed the decision, but after a successful recall of many members, the new board voted in June 2022 to rescind its decision to conceal the murals.

Demographics
2020-2021

According to U.S. News & World Report, 92% of the school's student body is "of color", with 62% of the student body coming from an economically disadvantaged household, determined by student eligibility for California's reduced-price meal program.

Facilities
The school has computer labs, an auditorium/theater, a library, and a two-story shop building. Athletics facilities include a gymnasium, a football/soccer field and a multipurpose field, 6 tennis courts, 3 full-sized and 1 half-sized basketball courts, track and field facilities, and facilities for baseball/softball including 2 batting cages, a front toss cage, and a bullpen.

Academics
In 2011, Washington High was ranked by Newsweek as the 497th best high school in the United States. The curriculum includes a variety of advanced Visual Performing Arts classes including: Dance Company, Ceramics, Vocal Music, Band and Orchestra, Computer Art and AP Art and Design. There is a computer lab and a Computer Science pathway, plus courses in Robotics. Washington is one of only two San Francisco public high schools with a Marching Band, the other being Phillip & Sala Burton High School.

The school is a Newcomer Pathway school that serves students who have recently arrived in the United States, primarily from China and Latin America. There is also an extensive program for special needs students, who comprise about 10% of the student population.

Sports
The George Washington High athletic program is governed by the Academic Athletic Association and sanctioned by the California Interscholastic Federation. The school supports 20 varsity, 7 junior varsity, and freshman-sophomore athletics programs. It is the only San Francisco public high school with girls' and boys' lacrosse teams. Sports offered include: cross country, track and field, swimming, fencing, wrestling, badminton, baseball, softball, basketball, football, cheerleading, boys' and girls' golf, boys' and girls' lacrosse, boys' and girls' soccer, boys' and girls' tennis, and boys' and girls' volleyball. The school has won a number of league championships.

In media
In season five, episode five (1976) of the TV series The Streets of San Francisco, Maureen McCormick plays a teenage hooker attending the school. Two scenes show the school and its view of the Golden Gate Bridge.

In 1981 the Pacific News Service aired a story about race-based gangs at George Washington High School.

In 1992, for a San Francisco Chronicle series intended to explore the impact of reduced school funding resulting from Proposition 13's reduction of property taxes, a 26-year-old reporter, Shann Nix, went undercover as a senior at Washington High School.

Notable alumni

 * Diane Amos, Pine-Sol lady
 * Maya Angelou, poet
 * Marty Balin, former lead singer of the Jefferson Starship
 * Josiah Beeman, US Ambassador
 * Gene Brown, basketball player
 * Mack Burton, former Canadian football player
 * Phillip Burton, Congressman
 * Rosemary Casals, professional tennis player
 * Ann Curtis, Olympic medalist in swimming
 * Dorothy Delasin, golfer
 * O'Koyea Dickson, former outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers
 * Keith Fowler, actor, director, producer, educator
 * Danny Glover, actor
 * Ross Giudice, basketball player and coach
 * Steve Gray, basketball player
 * Richard Hongisto, politician
 * Serhiy Kandaurov, footballer
 * Leo Krupnik, Ukrainian-born American-Israeli soccer player and coach
 * Rachel Kushner, writer
 * Amanda Lassiter, basketball player in the WNBA
 * Marcio Lassiter, basketball player in the Philippines
 * Gilman Louie, technologist
 * Richard Lui, news anchor for MSNBC
 * Alec Mapa, writer, comedian and actor
 * Hal March, 1950s television personality
 * Del Martin, lesbian activist
 * Johnny Mathis, singer
 * Ollie Matson, member of College and Pro Football Halls of Fame, Olympic medalist
 * Sean McGrath, musician and artist
 * Lee Meriwether, model, actress, and Miss America
 * Nathan Oliveira, artist
 * Betty Ong, flight attendant on 9/11 jet American Airlines Flight 11
 * San Quinn, rapper
 * John Rothmann, talk radio host
 * Jim Sochor, former football head coach, UC Davis
 * Phil Smith, NBA player
 * Gregg Turkington, comedian
 * Paul Vixie, internet pioneer
 * Martin Wong, artist
 * Al Young, drag racer
 * Connie Young Yu, writer, historian, lecturer


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Nicolas Bricaire de la Dixmerie

Nicolas Bricaire de la Dixmerie (c. 1730 – November 26, 1791), French man of letters, was born at Lamothe (Haute-Marne). While still young he removed to Paris, where the rest of his life was spent in literary activity.

His numerous works include Contes philosophiques et moraux (1765), Les Deux Ages du goût et du génie sous Louis XIV et sous Louis XV (1769), a parallel and contrast, in which the decision is given in favor of the latter; L'Espagne littéraire (1774); Eloge de Voltaire (1779) and Eloge de Montaigne (1781).

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User:Semisomna

I'm currently a teacher in New York City. Before that, I attended Swarthmore College, where I studied mostly physics and Russian, and was overly involved in the science fiction club. Long before everything, I used to live in Rochester.

I run Ubuntu Linux at home and MediaWiki elsewhere. I am improving at both.

My first online content was generated via H2G2, which should have been a wiki, but wasn't.

I don't edit Wikipedia a lot, but every so often I notice lapses that annoy me enough to change them. This stub is mostly an excuse to use the Babel template.

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Jac Arama

Jac Arama (born Jacques Arama on 20 February 1968 in Richmond, London, UK) is a TV producer and talent agent of French descent, based in London UK. Previously he was a high profile professional poker player. Arama appeared on TV regularly, including Late Night Poker and the World Poker Championship (which he co produced). He has amassed over $700,000 in tournament winnings and was known for his aggressive playing style which is referred to by poker commentators as Jac Attack. He was also known for his large range of sunglasses (over 300 pairs).

Poker career
His first major tournament victory was at the Master Classics of Poker 2000 event in Amsterdam, where he earned the $63,471 first prize. This led to several appearances on the Late Night Poker television show. In his first appearance he finished fourth, outlasting both Dave Welch and Joe Beevers. On his second attempt he finished third, outlasting John Duthie, but unable to overcome Ram Vaswani.

He eventually won a Late Night Poker tournament on his third attempt, defeating Gary Jones in the heads-up confrontation. He went on to finish fourth at the season 5 Grand Final, behind Padraig Parkinson, Korosh Nejad and Beevers. The following year he finished second in his heat to Lucy Rokach.

Arama had two money finishes at the 2002 World Series of Poker (WSOP), including a final table appearance in the $1,500 Triple Draw Lowball Ace to Five event, where he finished just behind John Juanda and Paul Phillips.

In 2003 he beat a final table including Surinder Sunar to earn a £74,200 first prize in the £1,000 British Open event.

Arama finished in 271st place at the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event, cashing for $45,422.

As of 2023, his live tournament earnings exceed $730,000.

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Ranald MacLean, Lord MacLean

Ranald Norman Munro MacLean, Lord MacLean (born 18 December 1938) is a retired Scottish judge.

Born on 18 December 1938, MacLean was educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh, where he was Head of School. He graduated BA from Clare College, Cambridge, LLB from the University of Edinburgh and LLM from Yale University.

Admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1964, MacLean served as an Advocate Depute from 1972–1975 and was the Home Advocate Depute from 1979–1982. He was appointed Queen's Counsel (QC) in 1977.

MacLean was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice in 1990, serving until 2005. He has been a member of various bodies, including the Scottish Legal Aid Board, the Council on Tribunals, the Parole Board for Scotland, the Secretary of State's Criminal Justice Forum and the Stewart Committee on Alternatives to Prosecution. He was Chairman of a committee established by the Secretary of State for Scotland to review the sentencing and treatment of serious sexual and violent offenders including those with personality disorders in 1999. He also chaired the inquiry into the death of loyalist leader Billy Wright in the Maze Prison (see The Billy Wright Inquiry).

MacLean is a former member of the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland, and, with two other judges and five lay members, is responsible for selecting all new Scottish judges and sheriffs.

He has been chairman of the governors of Fettes College since 1996, and was chairman of the council of the Cockburn Association from 1988–1996.

Lockerbie
MacLean was one of the judges who presided at the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial. Although the conviction of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi at the trial was widely criticised, MacLean believes the verdict was right. "I have no doubt, on the evidence we heard, that the judgments we made and the verdicts we reached were correct", he told The Scotsman newspaper on 31 January 2006.

As for Megrahi's application to the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission (SCCRC), MacLean believes that the SCCRC will refer the case back for further appeal: "They can't be working for two years without producing something with which to go to the court", he suggested to The Scotsman. "But it depends upon what the bases are for a fresh appeal, but I wouldn't have a problem with that."

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Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district

Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district is located in north-central and northeastern Massachusetts. The largest municipalities in the district are Lowell, Lawrence, Haverhill, Methuen, Billerica (partial), Fitchburg, and Marlborough.

Democrat Lori Trahan has represented the district since 2019.

Cities and towns in the district
As of the 2021 redistricting, the 3rd district contains 35 municipalities:

 * Essex County: Haverhill, Lawrence, Methuen
 * Middlesex County: Acton, Ashby, Ayer, Billerica (only precincts 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 11, & 12),Boxborough, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Concord, Dracut, Dunstable, Groton, Hudson, Littleton, Lowell, Marlborough, Pepperell, Shirley, Stow, Townsend, Tyngsborough, Westford
 * Worcester County: Ashburnham, Berlin, Bolton, Clinton, Fitchburg, Gardner, Harvard, Lancaster, Lunenburg, Westminster (only precincts 1, 2, & 3), Winchendon

History of District Boundaries
After the 2010 census, the third district shifted from covering east-central Worcester County and western Norfolk and Bristol Counties to covering northeastern Worcester County, northern and western Middlesex County, and northwestern Essex county. The old 3rd district area was largely split between the updated 2nd and 4th districts. Only Clinton and Marlborough carried over from the old 3rd district.

In the redistricting that occurred after the 2020 census, the boundaries of the third district only changed slightly from its previous iteration.

Historical district boundaries
From 2003-2013: In Bristol County: Attleboro, Fall River (Wards 1–3; Ward 4, Precincts A and B; Ward 5, Precincts A and B; Ward 6, Precincts B and C; and Ward 8, Precinct D), North Attleborough, Rehoboth, Seekonk, Somerset, Swansea.

In Middlesex County: Ashland, Holliston, Hopkinton, Marlborough.

In Norfolk County: Franklin, Medway, Plainville, Wrentham.

In Worcester County: Auburn, Boylston, Clinton, Holden, Northborough, Paxton, Princeton, Rutland, Shrewsbury, Southborough, West Boylston, Westborough, Worcester.


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I am an IT Manager living in Howrah a suburb of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia. I work for Hydro Tasmania.

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Dennis Corrigan

Dennis Corrigan (born 1944) is a contemporary American Surrealist known for his whimsical, sometimes dark, paintings, drawings, prints, and NFTS. His works are in permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Arts Council of Great Britain and the Library of Congress, in addition to numerous private collectors who range from priests to rock stars. His 1972 work Queen Victoria Troubled by Flies is in the collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, He has accepted illustration commissions from The New York Times, New York Magazine, RCA Records, Random House Publishers, Pan American Airways, Horizon Magazine, David R. Godine publishers, Boston, Alfred A. Knopf Inc. in New York, and Dell Publishing.

He currently teaches Drawing, Painting and 2-D & 3-D Design art at Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Other teaching appointments include Philadelphia College of Art, Tyler School of Art in Elkin's Park PA, and The Kubert School in Dover NJ. His work can be viewed at www.denniscorrigan.com

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Dana Bourgeois

Dana Bourgeois (born 1953) is a luthier, writer, lecturer and is considered one of the United States' top acoustic guitar makers. Bourgeois's innovations in design and voicing techniques have earned him worldwide acclaim for his acoustic guitars from professional players, hobbyists and collectors alike. Some notable musicians playing Bourgeois guitars include Luke Bryan, Ricky Skaggs, Bryan Smith, Ry Cooder, Scott Fore, Bryan Sutton, Vince Gill, Lee Roy Parnell, James Taylor and Guy Clark,

Background
Dana Bourgeois was born and raised in Westbrook, Maine. As a child, his interest in guitars developed after seeing The Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964.

Bourgeois attended Bowdoin College, where he studied art history, and graduated in 1975.

While at college, Bourgeois read a book called Classic Guitar Construction by Irving Stone,  whose method in the book was, purportedly, "totally impossible." After that, Bourgeois, working from his room on campus and using a machine shop owned by his grandfather, made a guitar of his own. His father helped with the wood working.

Bourgeois opened a shop repairing guitars in Brunswick, Maine in 1976 and continued honing his craft as a luthier. He also worked at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

By the late 1970s to 1980s Bourgeois worked in collaboration with Eric Schoenberg and Martin Guitars to design and build an OM style Guitar.

Schoenberg Guitars
In 1986, Bourgeois teamed up with guitarist Eric Schoenberg and established Schoenberg Guitars. The company manufactured flattop acoustic guitars. Bourgeois stayed with the company several years.

Bourgeois Guitars
Bourgeois started his own company, Bourgeois Guitars, which opened in 1993 and was located at Roy Continental Mill in Lewiston, Maine. His use of premium materials, such as Brazilian rosewood, Adirondack Spruce and Indian Rosewood, as well as his ability to "voice" his instruments earned Bourgeois a reputation within the music world as an expert luthier. Using a tapping method, he fine tunes individual pieces at key times throughout the manufacturing process. This high-quality sound distinguished Bourgeois from other luthiers and began attracting the attention of top musicians.

In 1996, Bryan Sutton, then guitarist in Ricky Skaggs' band, purchased a Bourgeois guitar in Nashville music store. A year later, at the Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival in Brunswick, ME, Sutton contacted Bourgeois to set up a meeting. "This guy calls me and says he's playing in Maine," Bourgeois told Ray Routhier of the Portland Press Herald, "so I figure it could be anybody. But then he says he plays with Ricky Skaggs." The meeting resulted in an endorsement deal, a collaboration with Skaggs', to make and sell the Ricky Skaggs Signature Model and Ricky Skaggs Country Boy Model guitars.

"At a casual glance, making guitars seems glamorous, but really we're just making sawdust," Bourgeois said, "But when we build one for a famous person, it's something everyone gets excited about."

In 1999, Bourgeois signed a distribution deal with Akai, a Japanese music and electronics company. With 16 employees and the prospect of growing his business internationally, Bourgeois expected to grow his business further. For a time, Akai marketed the Bourgeois Artisan Series guitars: the DR-A dreadnought and JR-A jumbo orchestra model. Along with the two guitars for international distribution, Bourgeois also made Martin Simpson and Ricky Skaggs signature guitars, though in limited editions. However, the distributor stopped ordering new guitars, leaving Bourgeois without the backing necessary to meet operating expenses. Despite attempts to find new investors and to sell directly to his customers online, Bourgeois was forced to liquidate the business, filing bankruptcy and auctioning off the guitar-making equipment.

Pantheon Guitars
After Bourgeois Guitars closed its doors, guitar hobbyist, collector and investment banker Patrick Theimer approached Bourgeois with another business venture. With Theimer, three other investors, and Bourgeois, who would oversee guitar production, Pantheon Guitars was formed in 2000. The business model employed at Pantheon allowed Bourgeois to focus on making the guitars he was known for while sharing marketing and manufacturing resources with other independent luthiers. Bourgeois continues to offer custom-designed guitars, including the BK/Slope D, which earned an Editor's Pick Award from Guitar Player Magazine. Among Bourgeois' current offerings are also guitars (his Aged Tone Series) made with a wood-aging process called torrefaction. While not "vintage", these guitars tend to replicate the look and sound of quality of instruments that are older, more "broken in". He commemorated the building of his 5,000th guitar with the Bourgeois Victoria that was described in an Acoustic Guitar Magazine article as a "one-of-a-kind, sub-parlor-size custom 12-fret instrument inspired by American guitars made during the Victorian era (1837-1901), matched with a period-style wooden 'coffin' case."

He also spends time training luthiers to carry on the trade.

Eastman Partnership
In October 2019, Dana announced via the Bourgeois website that Bourgeois Guitars "has entered into a strategic partnership with Eastman Music."

"In a nutshell, I have simply traded my former partners for Eastman. Moving forward, I will retain an ownership interest in Bourgeois Guitars and will remain as CEO. Our entire team will continue to produce acoustic guitars of the highest quality in our Lewiston, Maine, workshop. US distribution will continue to be handled through our Lewiston office. Eventually, overseas distribution will be managed by Eastman."

Festivals, memberships, awards

 * Member of the Guild of American Luthiers
 * Grand prize winners of the New England Flatpicking and Banjo Championships held at the Ossify Valley Bluegrass Festival in South Hiram, Maine have been awarded Bourgeois guitars and banjos.
 * Editor's Pick Award for the Bourgeois BK/Slope D guitar

Select articles

 * Tapping Tonewoods: How the selection of species helps define the sound of your guitar (Acoustic Guitar Magazine, March/April 1994)
 * Finishing Touches (Guitar Player, December 2004)
 * Play It Again! How Bryan Sutton's legendary "Banjo Killer" dreadnought was restored after being damaged by the Nashville flood of 2010. (Acoustic Guitar, March 2013)

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Fox 2000 Pictures

Fox 2000 Pictures was an American film production company within The Walt Disney Studios. It was a sister studio of the larger film studios 20th Century Fox and Fox Searchlight Pictures, specializing in producing independent films in mid-range releases that largely targeted underserved groups. The company dissolved on May 14, 2021, following the release of The Woman in the Window on Netflix, and the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by The Walt Disney Company on March 20, 2019.

Most films from Fox 2000 Pictures were released under the 20th Century Fox banner, and sometimes under Fox Searchlight Pictures. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures distributed the films produced by Fox 2000 Pictures in theatrical markets since 2019 until its closure in 2021.

Fox 2000 Pictures produced over 70 films. Fox 2000 Pictures' Life of Pi was nominated for 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture, ultimately winning four, and was the division's highest-grossing film with $609 million worldwide. Marley & Me was Fox 2000 Pictures' biggest commercial success with a record for the largest Christmas Day box office ever with $14.75 million in ticket sales.

History
Fox 2000 Pictures formed as a division of 20th Century Fox in 1994 with Laura Ziskin as president. In May 1997, producer Art Linson moved his Knickerbocker Films banner from 20th Century Fox to Fox 2000 Pictures with a three-year exclusive production agreement. In 2000, Ziskin left the division and Elizabeth Gabler was hired to replace her. In February 2012, Gabler renewed her contract as president of Fox 2000 Pictures.

Fox 2000 Pictures signed Karen Rosenfelt's Sunswept Entertainment to a first-look production deal. In July 2014, the division agreed to a three-year first-look production deal with Color Force, a production partnership of Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson. The Jackal Group, a Fox Networks Group and Gail Berman partnership, signed a first-look feature film production deal with Fox 2000 Pictures for Berman in February 2015.

On March 20, 2019, The Walt Disney Company acquired a majority of 21st Century Fox, including Fox 2000 Pictures. Disney originally announced that Fox 2000 Pictures would continue operating after the acquisition, which gave Disney 11 film units. However, the next day, The Hollywood Reporter reported that Disney would shut down the studio in October 2019 after The Woman in the Window. Deadline Hollywood was surprised as Fox 2000 Pictures, considered to be ideal for streaming films, was the reason for the 21st Century Fox acquisition. However, Fox Searchlight Pictures was also an indie division leaving little room for Fox 2000 Pictures. In August 2019, The Art of Racing in the Rain became the final theatrical film of the studio. The division shut down on May 14, 2021, after The Woman in the Window was delayed twice, first due to re-editing after test screenings and then because of the COVID-19 pandemic. On August 4, 2020, Disney sold the film to Netflix.

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Walter Masing

Walter Masing (born 22 June 1915 in Petrograd — died 29 March 2004 in Erbach) was a German physicist and honorary president of the German Association for Quality. He promoted and sponsored the settlement of quality management in Germany. The Walter E. Masing book prize is awarded annually to recognise the most noteworthy book in the discipline of quality management

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I Confess

"I Confess" can refer to:

 * I Confess (Bewitched), 1968
 * I Confess (magazine), a pulp magazine aimed at women published by Dell from 1922 to 1932
 * I Confess (film), a 1953 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock
 * "I Confess" (The Beat song), on the 1982 album Special Beat Service
 * I Confess (Deniece Williams song), 1987
 * "I Confess", a 1988 song by the Tom Tom Club featured on the 1988 album Boom Boom Chi Boom Boom
 * I Confess, a 2004 album by Holly Palmer
 * Confiteor, a general confession of sin recited at the beginning of Mass of the Roman Rite
 * I Confess, the original name of the American television series Your Prize Story

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Talk:Gobstopper

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Gobstoppers were not invented by braizhon marshall.. They are a generic type of hard round sweet, ranging from about 1cm across, up to 3cm across (hence 'Gob-stoppers', from 'Gob', UK vulgar slang for mouth) They have been available in traditional sweet shops in the UK for years, bought by weight from jars, for example, "a quarter(-pound) of gobstoppers please".

They last a very long time in the mouth, shrinking, often revealing different coloured (and sometimes flavoured) layers, before dissolving completely. The name 'Everlasting Gobstoppers' is an extension of this used by Roald Dahl. Nestle have used the name for their brand, but they didn't invent it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.140.43.124 (talk • contribs) 14:47, 23 August 2005 ---
 * Remember to always sign all of your posts on talk pages. Typing four tildes after your comment ( ~~~~ ) will insert a signature showing your username and a date/time stamp, which is very helpful.
 * When you feel an article needs changing, please feel free to make whatever changes you feel are needed. Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit any article by simply following the Edit this page link. TheMadBaron 18:46, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Exploding jawbreakers
Okay, I understand why the jawbreakers might explode if heated in a microwave. What I'm unclear on is WHY a kid would heat a jawbreaker in the microwave in the first place. What's the benefit?Benami 21:10, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I wondered the same thing. Maybe to try to soften it up a little?  Pnkrockr 03:23, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Probably just out of curiosity to see if it would explode, I'd imagine. --Ekaiyu 07:02, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

It did say "when heated". Maybe simply having it in your mouth for long and then biting could cause it to explode?

 * My original edit simply noted that "A few reports have emerged of jawbreakers exploding". Somebody subsequently added "when heated", presumably to avoid precisely this sort of ambiguity. There is an urban legend to the effect that a boy's jaw was blown off by a jawbreaker hearted by the sun . I was not able to find any examples of jawbreakers exploding without first being heated in a microwave oven, but nor was I able to confirm that the unfortunate Florida girl had, in fact, microwaved her jawbreaker. However, it seems highly unlikely that a jawbreaker would otherwise explode. Somebody should refer the matter to Snopes. TheMadBaron 11:32, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

 * DOH! The Smoking Gun has the original police report....

 * "DIGGS STARTED AT THE REFRIGERATOR WHERE SHE HAD PUT THE JAW BREAKER, SHE THEN WENT TO THE COMPUTER ROOM (SMALL ROOM AT THE BACK OF THE HOUSE FACING WEST, TOP HALF OF THE DOOR IS CLEAR GLASS) WHERE SHE SET THE JAW BREAKER, STILL IN CLEAR PLASTIC WRAPPER, ON THE CORNER OF THE COMPUTER TABLE. THE VICTIM THEN WENT TO HER ROOM TO PLAY FOR AN UNDETERMINED AMOUNT OF TIME. WHEN SHE RETURNED TO GET THE JAW BREAKER, SHE STATED THE PACKAGE THE JAW BREAKER WAS IN WAS QUITE WARM SO SHE PUT IT IN THE REFRIGERATOR AGAIN. SHE THEN WENT TO THE REST ROOM AND THEN CAME AND TOOK THE JAW BREAKER OUT OF THE WRAPPER SHE WAS WALKING INTO THE YARD AS SHE WAS PUTTING THE JAW BREAKER UP TO HER MOUTH TO LICK IT WHEN IT EXPLODED.

 * AT 1715 HOURS THE SUN WAS BEGINNING TO SET AND WAS SHINING THROUGH THE GLASS IN THE COMPUTER ROOM ONTO THE COMPUTER TABLE WHERE THE VICTIM SAID SHE PUT THE PACKAGED PRODUCT. THE CORNER OF THE TABLE AT THAT TIME WAS WARM TO THE TOUCH. THE EVIDENCE IN THIS CASE INDICATES THAT THE JAW BREAKER COULD HAVE POSSIBLY BEEN SUPER HEATED AND CAUSED THE INTERIOR CONTENTS TO EXPLODE."

 * Apologies for shouting. TheMadBaron 13:11, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Midday sun in the USA cannot "superheat" candy or anything else.Royalcourtier (talk) 03:41, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

The Origin
Chacago-based Ferrara Pan Candy Co. claims to have invented the jawbreaker. Their original product was candy-coated jordan almonds, which have a jawbreaker-like suger coating.--Drvanthorp 07:04, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

 * That's very interesting. Do they say how they're defining "jawbreaker", or when they supposedly invented it? Can you cite your source? TheMadBaron 07:58, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Curious. but Gobstoppers were invented in England, not the USA.Royalcourtier (talk) 03:38, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Goberstopper vs. Jawbreaker
Should we change the name of the article? Jawbreaker is a more common than Goberstopper. ♣ Princess  Clown  ♥ 18:12, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * I believe the term is "Gobstopper", not "Gobberstopper" :). Anyways though, Jawbreaker is more common in the United States, and from what I can gather, Gobstopper is just as common elsewhere. It seems to be a localized thing; I don't see any particular reason to move the article so long as the Jawbreaker disambiguation page links to here. -- Nomader (Talk) 05:59, 27 November 2008 (UTC)

Yeah thats what Im saying because jawbreak and Boberstopper are same because both cant be bitten in too

98.203.27.204 (talk) 00:45, 3 April 2012 (UTC)Janiuy

98.203.27.204 (talk) 00:42, 3 April 2012 (UTC)Khhy

The ones with layers of different colors were also called Agates, which may also refer to the hardness.Saxophobia (talk) 23:10, 19 August 2013 (UTC)

 * Jawbreaker may be the most common term in the USA, but Gobstoppers are British in origin, and US English is not standard English.Royalcourtier (talk) 03:39, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Gopbstopper: proper noun?
I've bought Gobstoppers in the US; I'm pretty sure it's a trade name (as with Jawbreaker). 162.136.193.1 (talk) 19:35, 29 April 2010 (UTC)

The "Gobstoppers" that you bought were probably manufactured by Nestle's Willy Wonka candy division. This candy brand was introduced after the release of the film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, a film that prominently featured a candy called the "everlasting gobstopper". The word gobstopper was virtually unknown in the United States before the release of that film.--Drvanthorp (talk) 04:54, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Jawbreaker as a term for a long word
Long or polysyllabic words are sometimes referred to as jawbreakers (the allusion being that they are a bit of a mouthful, with the inference of having about as much point to them), yet this isn't referenced anywhere on Wikipedia.

Is this an isolated usage or do others feel the variant meaning is worthy of inclusion somewhere?

Nuttyskin (talk) 12:44, 15 June 2011 (UTC)

Who the hell is Eleanor Isdale?
And from where did the claim originate that she invented this candy? A google search for her name and the word "gobstopper" brings up nothing to confirm this claim, yet there was the claim in this Wikipeda article, and no one questions it. The Ferrera Pan company in Chicago also claims to have invented this type of candy, but they don't get credit in the article.--Drvanthorp (talk) 03:43, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

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Wreck-it Ralph
When Vanellope sees Ralph being able to break apart a Jawbreaker during a tantrum in Wreck-it Ralph, she realizes he can blow the fortified door that keeps her from creating a car for her, and makes a deal with him. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 177.81.61.130 (talk) 00:58, 20 January 2014 (UTC)

HISTORY, cites and directedness
i'm trying to add the history of the jawbreaker (gobstopper), but it keeps on being undone, i added a lot of cites (I.D.K how reliable they are or what even determines their reliability) and stated with the words 'could' instead of 'did'. what other requirements do i require to make the history section legitimate? ok, so according to this link encyclopedia.com is a reliable source. it also dictates the history of the jawbreaker. so, do i have permission to edit the gobstopper article without it being deleted? i could easily add the jawbreaker history but decided to ask you first. Yours indubitably. (talk) 00:04, 26 November 2015 (UTC)loomigh223555

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What does "but chemical contamination ...and heating while in the plastic bag were also considered confirmed" mean?Royalcourtier (talk) 03:42, 26 May 2017 (UTC)

Title
Maybe the title of this article should be "Jawbreaker." I believe "jawbreaker" is a more recognizable term than "gobstopper". 172.250.44.165 (talk) 08:22, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

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Comment This is not an article, it's a stub attached to lists. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_designers The list also includes links to various other lists all the way down the food chain to lists of fonts not created in major foundries; i.e. freeware type designers who are listed alphabetically. I intend to be somewhat of a watchdog in this realm of the database and can see where improvements and better organization can improve the integrity within this category. Respectfully, It would be my hope that those that are not trained in this particular discipline can abstain from being too critical. You can trust that the community for which this information serves will be deliberate and expedient in maintaining the quality of the data as typophiles become increasingly aware of this expanding database. From the bylaws of Wikipedia: "Only those articles where there is no remotely plausible assertion of notability should be considered for Wikipedia:Speedy deletion."Kevinb3 14:39, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

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John Cameron, Lord Abernethy

John Alastair Cameron, Lord Abernethy, PC (born 1 February 1938) is a Scottish lawyer, and a former Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the country's Supreme Courts, serving from 1992 to 2007, when he retired. He was a member of the English Bar before moving to the Scottish Faculty of Advocates, where he served as vice-dean from 1983 to 1992.

Early life
Cameron was educated at the Clergy School, Khartoum, St. Mary's School, Melrose, and Trinity College, Glenalmond. He undertook National Service as a Second Lieutenant with the Royal Army Service Corps from 1956 to 1958, and then studied at Pembroke College, Oxford.

Legal career
Cameron was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1963, but moved to the Faculty of Advocates in 1966. He served as an Advocate Depute from 1972 to 1975, Standing Junior Counsel to the Department of Energy from 1976 to 1979 and Standing Junior Counsel to the Scottish Development Department from 1978 to 1979. He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1979, and the same year became Director of Faculty Services Limited, the services branch of the Faculty of Advocates, and was its Chairman from 1983 to 1989. He was Legal Chairman of the Pensions Appeal Tribunals from 1979 to 1992, serving in addition as President of the Tribunal from 1985. He was elected Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Advocates in 1983, serving until his appointment to the Bench.

In 1992, he was appointed a Senator of the College of Justice, a judge of the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary, Scotland's Supreme Courts, with the judicial title, Lord Abernethy, and promoted to the Inner House of the Court of Session in 2005, being appointed to the Privy Council. He was one of the four judges in the original Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial.

He was Vice-Chairman of the Judges' Forum of the International Bar Association from 1993 to 1994, and Chairman from 1994 to 1998. He then became a member of the Council of the IBA's Section on Legal Practice from 1998 to 2002, and of the Council of its Human Rights Institute from 1998 to 2000 and 2002 to 2005. He was the first President of the Scottish Medico-Legal Society, serving from 1996 to 2000. He is also the author of Medical Negligence: An Introduction (ISBN 978-0902023116).

Lord Abernethy resigned as a judge in 2007, being succeeded in the Inner House by Lord Wheatley, whose seat in the Outer House was filled by the appointment of Colin Campbell, Lord Malcolm, former Dean of the Faculty of Advocates.

Personal life
Cameron married Elspeth Miller in 1968. They have three sons. His interests include travel, sport, nature conservation and Africana. He is an Honorary Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford.

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Library of Ashurbanipal

The Royal Library of Ashurbanipal, named after Ashurbanipal, the last great king of the Assyrian Empire, is a collection of more than 30,000 clay tablets and fragments containing texts of all kinds from the 7th century BCE, including texts in various languages. Among its holdings was the famous Epic of Gilgamesh.

Ashurbanipal's Library gives modern historians information regarding people of the ancient Near East. In his Outline of History, H. G. Wells calls the library "the most precious source of historical material in the world."

The materials were found in the archaeological site of Kouyunjik (ancient Nineveh, capital of Assyria) in northern Mesopotamia. The site is in modern-day northern Iraq, within the city of Mosul.

Discovery
The library is an archaeological discovery credited to Austen Henry Layard; most tablets were taken to England and can now be found in the British Museum, but the first discovery was made in late 1849 in the so-called South-West Palace, which was the Royal Palace of king Sennacherib (705–681 BCE).

Three years later, Hormuzd Rassam, Layard's assistant, discovered a similar library in the palace of King Ashurbanipal (668–627 BCE), on the opposite side of the mound. Unfortunately, no record was made of the findings, and soon after reaching Europe, the tablets appeared to have been irreparably mixed with each other and with tablets originating from other sites. Thus, it is almost impossible today to reconstruct the original contents of each of the two main libraries.

Contents
Ashurbanipal was known as a tenacious martial commander; however, he was also a recognized intellectual who was literate, and a passionate collector of texts and tablets. In collecting texts for his library, he wrote to cities and centers of learning across Mesopotamia, instructing them to send him copies of all work written in the region. As an apprentice scribe he mastered both the Akkadian and the Sumerian languages. He sent scribes into every region of the Neo-Assyrian Empire to collect ancient texts. He hired scholars and scribes to copy texts, mainly from Babylonian sources.

Ashurbanipal used war loot as a means of stocking his library. Because he was known for being cruel to his enemies, Ashurbanipal was able to use threats to gain materials from Babylonia and surrounding areas. Ashurbanipal's intense interest in collecting divination texts was one of his driving motivations in collecting works for his library. His original motive may have been to "gain possession of rituals and incantations that were vital to maintain his royal power."

The royal library consists of approximately 30,000 tablets and writing boards with the majority of them being severely fragmented. Many of these tablets contain a stamp stating that they belonged to his palace. It can be gleaned from the conservation of the fragments that the number of tablets that existed in the library at the time of destruction was close to two thousand and the number of writing boards within the library can be placed at a total of three hundred. The majority of the tablet corpus (about 6,000) included colloquial compositions in the form of legislation, foreign correspondences and engagements, aristocratic declarations, and financial matters. The remaining texts contained divinations, omens, incantations and hymns to various gods, while others were concerned with medicine, astronomy, and literature. For all these texts in the library only ten contain expressive rhythmic literary works such as epics and myths.

The Babylonian texts of the Ashurbanipal libraries can be separated into two different groups: the literary compositions such as divination, religious, lexical, medical, mathematical and historical texts as well as epics and myths, on the one hand, and the legal documents on the other hand. The group of the legal documents covers letters, contracts and administrative texts and consists of 1128 Babylonian tablets and fragments. Within the group of the literary compositions, of which 1331 tablets and fragments are classified so far, the divination texts can further be differentiated between 759 so-called library texts, such as tablets of the various omen series and their commentaries, and 636 so-called archival texts such as omen reports, oracle enquiries and the like.

The Epic of Gilgamesh, a masterpiece of ancient Babylonian poetry, was found in the library, as was the Enûma Eliš creation story, the myth of Adapa, the first man, and stories such as the Poor Man of Nippur.

Another group of literary texts is the lexical texts and sign lists. There are twenty fragments of different tablets with archaic cuneiform signs arranged according to the syllabary A, whereas one is arranged according to the syllabary B. The Assyrian scribes of the Ashurbanipal Libraries needed sign lists to be able to read the old inscriptions and most of these lists were written by Babylonian scribes. The other groups of Babylonian written texts in Nineveh are the epics and myths and the historical texts with 1.4% each. There is only one mathematical text that is said to be excavated at Nineveh.

The texts were principally written in Akkadian in the cuneiform script; however many of the tablets do not have an exact derivation and it is often difficult to ascertain their original homeland. Many of the tablets are indeed composed in the Neo-Babylonian script, but many were also known to be written in Assyrian as well.

The tablets were often organized according to shape: four-sided tablets were for financial transactions, while round tablets recorded agricultural information.(In this era, some written documents were also on wood and others on wax tablets.) Tablets were separated according to their contents and placed in different rooms: government, history, law, astronomy, geography, and so on. The contents were identified by colored marks or brief written descriptions, and sometimes by the "incipit", or the first few words that began the text.

Nineveh was destroyed in 612 BCE by a coalition of Babylonians, Scythians and Medes, an ancient Iranian people. It is believed that during the burning of the palace, a great fire must have ravaged the library, causing the clay cuneiform tablets to become partially baked. This potentially destructive event helped preserve the tablets. As well as texts on clay tablets, some of the texts may have been inscribed onto wax boards which, because of their organic nature, have been lost.

The British Museum's collections database counts 30,943 "tablets" in the entire Nineveh library collection, and the Trustees of the Museum propose to issue an updated catalogue as part of the Ashurbanipal Library Project. If all smaller fragments that actually belong to the same text are deducted, it is likely that the "library" originally included some 10,000 texts in all. The original library documents however, which would have included leather scrolls, wax boards, and possibly papyri, contained perhaps a much broader spectrum of knowledge than that known from the surviving clay tablet cuneiform texts. A large share of Ashurbanipal's libraries consisted of writing-boards and not clay tablets.

Ashurbanipal Library Project
Created in collaboration with the University of Mosul and funded by the Townley group, the British Museum has been compiling a catalogue record of artifacts from Ashurbanipal's library since 2002. The goal is to document the library in as much detail as possible in texts and images including sign-transliterations, hand-drawn copies, translations, and high-quality digital images.

The project was undertaken in three stages with published results coming out in 2003, 2004, and 2014. Dr. Jeanette C. Fincke studied ancient oriental studies, Hittitology, and Egyptology at the University of Hamburg and was involved heavily during the first two stages. During the first stage, Fincke compiled an authoritative list of the 3500 library tablets in Babylonian scripts. During the second stage, Fincke also compiled several astrological texts from Nineveh. The third stage was completed with the help of professor Riekel Borger, who died mid-catalogue in December 2010, and completed with the help of Andrew Mellon Foundation from 2009 to 2013 under the direction of Jon Taylor. During this last stage, the library produced high resolution digital images of all the library tables. Each image is created using 14 images which allows a virtual two-dimensional representation of the three-dimensional tablets. The images have been released on the Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative website and British Museum Collections online site.

As of 2020, the project has been focusing on two endeavors: the first is concerned with reconstructing medical texts from cataloged tablets, and the second is a project that is using scribes notations at the bottom of each tablet to extrapolate the scale and scope of the tablet collection. The catalogue is still being updated and was made possible by contribution of material from several colleagues and projects including: State Archives of Assyria, Cuneiform Commentaries Project, Digital Corpus of Cuneiform Lexical Texts, and Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period.

List of significant tablets and cylinders

 * Azekah Inscription
 * Esarhaddon's Treaty with Ba'al of Tyre
 * Nimrud Tablet K.3751
 * Sargon II's Prism A
 * Venus tablet of Ammisaduqa
 * Epic of Gilgamesh
 * Enûma Eliš
 * Rassam cylinder
 * K.3364

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Talk:Nancy Hughes

2007
Is there anything we could put under her current time in 2007? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.5.220.176 (talk) 21:48, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

Dan McClosky
I'm pretty sure he didn't die until like 1995.

Juppiter 14:49, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Fixed. Mike H (Talking is hot) 23:17, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Internal links
The links to other characters are full of mistakes. They are being linked to real people with the same name. I'm trying to correct. Dbart 14:17, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

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"is" Vs "was"
As per Bold, Revert, Discuss, the tense changes have been reverted, so now please discuss before reverting again.

On my talk page (and in an edit summary) you say "Wikipedia's policies on that are very clear and easy to understand" - if you can point me to the policies you refer to, I'll understand them, however, a search has not unearthed any. Could be you know where they are, but I don't. I found a few resources - Historical present, Manual_of_Style/Writing_about_fiction, Writing_better_articles - but none of them cover a deceased fictional character.

If you're correct, and there is a manual of style or similar which covers this - fair enough, but I can't find one. So, please - comment. Chaheel Riens (talk) 20:20, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

"Can't fine one?" I'm wondering how hard you looked... 1 and 2.

It's also common sense that "was a fictional character" would mean that somehow Nancy Hughes is not a fictional character anymore. Like, somehow she jumped out of the TV screen and became real. I haven't heard about that happening so I'm pretty sure she's still a fictional character. Fictional characters are not real. They are no more lifelike than the toys you played with as a child. They were never alive, so they can't be dead. Please don't start an edit war and don't tell me not to make valid edits. You are more than wrong on this.Cebr1979 (talk) 20:45, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

 * I wonder how hard you looked at my post as well. You'll see that I already linked to the same two links as you did - Writing_better_articles, and that after reading it thoroughly, concluded that it makes no mention of how to deal with a deceased fictional character.

 * While you're looking up policies, please look up WP:BRD which requests that while we are discussing something, you leave the original format in place - in this case it would be the one which includes the hidden comment of " was ", whcih was added here back in 2012.

 * Finally - you should also be aware of Edit warring. I'm not telling you to stop making valid edits, I'm asking that as per wp:burden and wp:brd you explain and justify your edits, because I don't see any policy to back it up.  Ironically - you're the one starting an edit war by reverting while discussion is ongoing.  You still haven't shown me any policies that support your point of view regarding fictional deceased characters - and your interpretation of "common sense" is not a policy.  Chaheel Riens (talk) 21:20, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
 * You still haven't shown me you understand the difference between real and fictional people.Cebr1979 (talk) 21:54, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
 * And you haven't shown me the policy that supports your stance either. You are also avoiding the thorny issue of editwarring, and a refusal to adhere to BRD - why do you feel that you do not need to follow this - surely if you are eventually proved correct you will get your way?  Why do the rules of a collaborative work not apply to you?  Remember that edit warring does not care who is "right" or who is "wrong", it cares about the person who is repeatedly making reverts in the face of wp:retain, and discussion - and that's you.
 * Uhm... No, you're the one retaining.Cebr1979 (talk) 21:58, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I'd be far more amenable to you and your viewpoint if you hadn't been so antagonistic in your editing style and aggressive summaries. Still, that's a problem for you and your ego to work on, not me . Chaheel Riens (talk) 11:27, 2 June 2015 (UTC)

Here it is. Simple to understand. Fictional characters don't breathe, only the actors who portray them do. They do not end up "bereft of life" hahaha!Cebr1979 (talk) 01:50, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Ok. You win.  I'm going to back off this discussion, mainly because I'm starting to doubt your competency.  That link you've provided is not only exactly the same one that I showed you in the very first post, which you ignored and then posted in your own second post, but it also (as I pointed out in my original post) doesn't cover the specific example that I'm querying - what happens if a fictional character has been shown to die?  I mean - are you not even reading your own posts now, as well as only skimming mine?  If you're not paying attention to what is being said, there's no point in saying anything more.
 * You also have no idea of how Wikipedia works - your refusal to follow accepted process of BRD, making claims you cannot back up, your non-understanding of the concept of RETAIN - as in when there is deadlock or disagreement retain the existing version - which would be this one. I suspect this is because you appear to be an SPA, and haven't bothered to learn anything about collaborative working.  It certainly seems that way, stemming from the fact that even though I'm starting to see your point, I disagree with it simply because your editing style is so contrary. Chaheel Riens (talk) 07:06, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * hahaha Repetitiveness works! When you speak of "competency," I still don't see how you don't get it when, by now, you should've read it three times! You still don't seem to understand the difference between real and fictional people. If a character is shown to die, fine: they were shown to die! Doesn't mean they are no longer fictional characters! They never died in real-life because they were never alive in real-life! So the character died on the show? Big deal! She's still a fictional character. Doesn't change that one bit! What if someone wrote an As the World Turns book about the character set 20 years ago when the character was alive? Would they not be able to because the character died? She "was a fictional character" so now no book? Uhmm... No. HAHA! Take Peggy Carter for example. That character died years ago! In the Marvel Universe, Peggy is still dead! Of old age! So... does that make her not a fictional character anymore? Howcome we're still seeing her in TV shows and movies then? Oh, well. Glad you feel you can comment on the competency of others but, even more glad you're giving up. Less mistakes to correct. Cebr1979 (talk) 07:26, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * If by "repetitiveness" you mean "blatant disregard for process and policy" then yes, you're on to a winner there. And as I said, I am coming round to your way of thinking, but the way you're putting it across is crass, ignorant and smacks of incompetence.  While you're on your crusade, you might want to think about how you operate in a collaborative project, and the low opinions you may be generating.
 * I tell you what though - as a good faith suggestion, seeing as you're the expert and all - why don't you update the relevant section on fictional characters to include the rule that even if they die, the tense is still present? If the change is kept - then there's your proof that you're correct, and it will avoid any further discussion on the topic elsewhere. Chaheel Riens (talk) 07:50, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * You're the only editor I've ever encountered who doesn't understand it. Couldn't you just make a mental note and we'll call it a day?Cebr1979 (talk) 08:01, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * No. I'm the only editor who's challenged you on it.  There's a difference.  Other editors have probably seen your attitude and not thought you worth the bother.  Which I suppose has the same effect, albeit with different connotations.  Chaheel Riens (talk) 08:04, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Nope. It's been discussed before. I said what I meant: you're the only editor I've encountered who doesn't get it.Cebr1979 (talk) 08:16, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Then that proves my point that if it's been discussed before, the "writing about fictional characters" needs updating. Chaheel Riens (talk) 08:27, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Lol - yep, you're the one proving points alright!Cebr1979 (talk) 08:53, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * And now I can't decide if you're being facetious, trolling for the last word, nonsensical, or all three. What exactly is that supposed to mean?  Chaheel Riens (talk) 13:27, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm over talking to you.Cebr1979 (talk) 16:26, 3 June 2015 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nascar celebration

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Nascar celebration
Delete: Per guideline "Completely idiosyncratic non-topic" at Deletion_policy. This is a non-topic. Sports celebrations are not unique to NASCAR, nor is using a sport's equipment in the celebration, and certainly trophies are hardly unique to NASCAR. Further, there's virtually no content. Article has been around for two months. It is a sub-stub, and unlikely to ever be anything but a sub-stub. --Durin 14:52, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
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Julius von Mohl

Julius von Mohl (25 October 1800 – 4 January 1876) was a German Orientalist.

Life
The brother of Hugo von Mohl and Robert von Mohl, he was born at Stuttgart. He abandoned the idea of entering the Lutheran ministry, and in 1823 went to Paris, at that time, under Silvestre de Sacy, the major European school of Eastern letters. From 1826 to 1833 he was nominally professor at Tübingen, but had permission to continue his studies abroad, and passed some years in London and Oxford.

He resigned his chair at Tübingen in 1834, and settled permanently in Paris. In 1844 he was nominated to the Academy of Inscriptions, and in 1847 he became professor of Persian at the Collège de France. But his knowledge and interest extended to all departments of Oriental learning. He served for many years as secretary, and then as president of the Société Asiatique. He died in Paris on 3 January 1876.

Works
In 1826 he was charged by the French government with the preparation of an edition of the Shahnameh (Livres des Rois) (Book of Kings by Ferdowsi, the Persian epic poet), the first volume of which appeared in 1838, while the seventh and last was left unfinished at his death, being completed by Barbier de Meynard. His annual reports on Oriental science, presented to the society from 1840 to 1867, and collected after his death under the title Vingt-sept ans d'histoire des études orientales (Paris, 1879), are a history of the progress of Eastern learning during these years. Concerning the discoveries at Nineveh he wrote Lettres de M. Botta sur les découvertes à Khorsabad (1845). He also published anonymously, in conjunction with Justus Olshausen (1800–1882), Fragments relatifs à la religion de Zoroastre (Paris, 1829); Confucii Chi-king sive liber carminum, ex latina P. Lacharmi interpretatione (Stuttgart, 1830); and an edition of Y-King, Antiquissimus Sinarum liber, ex interpretatione P. Regis (Stuttgart, 1834–1839).

Family
His wife Mary (1793–1883), daughter of Charles Clarke, had passed a great part of her early life in Paris, where she was very intimate with Madame Récamier, before their marriage in 1847, and for nearly forty years her house was one of the most popular intellectual centers in Paris. Madame Mohl's friends included a large number of Englishmen and Englishwomen, including Florence Nightingale and her family. She died in Paris on 14 May 1883. Madame Mohl wrote Madame Récamier, with a Sketch of the History of Society in France (London, 1862).

Mohl's elder brother, Robert von Mohl (1799–1875), was a well-known jurist and statesman. Another brother, Moritz von Mohl (1802–1888), entered official life at an early age and was a member of the Frankfort parliament, and later of the parliament of Württemberg and of the imperial Reichstag. He was a voluminous writer on economic and political questions.

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Bing Devine

Vaughan Pallmore "Bing" Devine (March 1, 1916 – January 27, 2007) was an American front office executive in Major League Baseball. In the prime of his career, as a general manager, the executive who is responsible for all baseball operations, Devine was a major architect of four National League champions and three World Series champions in the six years from through.

Specifically, Devine served as general manager of the St. Louis Cardinals from November 12, 1957, through August 17, 1964, and was directly responsible for putting the 1964 world champion Cardinals on the field – even though he had been fired with seven weeks remaining in the season, one of the most bizarre events in baseball annals. Many of the players Devine acquired led the Cardinals to the 1967 world title and the 1968 NL championship, the latter occurring during Devine's second tour (1968–78) as the Cardinals' general manager.

In between those terms, from 1965 to 1967, Devine was assistant to the president and then president (and de facto general manager) of the New York Mets, where he helped put together the organization that turned the franchise from baseball's laughingstocks into 1969's world champions as the "Miracle Mets." During the 1980s, he also served as president of the St. Louis football Cardinals of the National Football League.

Early baseball career
Devine was born in St. Louis, where he attended University City High School and Washington University. He played college basketball and semiprofessional baseball, then joined the Cardinals in 1939 as an office boy and batting practice pitcher. In 1941, he became business manager of the Class D Johnson City Cardinals. During a roster shortage, Devine activated himself as a second baseman for 27 games and 93 at bats, but he garnered only 11 hits for a .118 batting average. Thereafter he hung up his uniform and concentrated on his work in the front office.

As pioneers of the farm system concept, the Cardinals had as many as 40 affiliated or owned teams in their minor league system before World War II. With time out for U.S. Navy service during the war, Devine rose rapidly through the ranks as a business manager of Cardinal farm teams, finally becoming the general manager of the Rochester Red Wings of the Triple-A International League in 1949. After six seasons at the helm of the Redbirds' top farm team, he joined the St. Louis front office in the autumn of 1954. The Cardinals, recently purchased by brewery magnate August A. Busch Jr., entered a rebuilding mode under trade-happy general manager "Frantic" Frank Lane after the 1955 season. The team finished second in the NL in 1957, but Lane had worn out his welcome; he moved on to run the Cleveland Indians and was replaced in St. Louis by the steadier hand of Devine.

First term as Cardinals' general manager
Devine began to add talent and depth to the St. Louis roster, including African American and Latin American players. He was seen as being very progressive when it came to signing or trading for black and Latin ballplayers, whereas other teams (most notably the New York Yankees) showed a great deal of reluctance in this area. In the first five years of his reign, he promoted or traded for players such as Bob Gibson, Bill White, Curt Flood and Julián Javier. But the Cardinals were mired in the middle of the pack of a very powerful National League.

In 1963—a season also marked by the final campaign of the Cardinals' longtime superstar, Stan Musial—the Redbirds surged into contention, sparked by the acquisition of shortstop Dick Groat from the Pittsburgh Pirates, 18-win seasons from pitchers Gibson and Ernie Broglio, the comeback of left-handed starter Curt Simmons (who had been signed off the scrap heap by Devine), and the strong campaign of young catcher Tim McCarver. The Cardinals challenged the eventual world champion Los Angeles Dodgers into mid-September before finishing second, the club's highest showing since 1957. Devine was chosen as Major League Executive of the Year by The Sporting News for his efforts in returning the Cards to contending status.

1964: Premature firing and a world championship
However, when the 1964 season began, the Philadelphia Phillies took a stranglehold on first place. The Cardinals were trying a variety of young players in Musial's old left-field position, and none were taking hold. At the June 15 trading deadline, Devine sprang. Lou Brock, a 25-year-old outfielder with great speed (and deceptive power as a hitter) in his third year with the second-division Chicago Cubs, was not living up to his projected potential. Devine offered the Cubs Broglio, his 18-game winner from the previous year, plus outfielder Doug Clemens and pitcher Bobby Shantz, for Brock and two marginal pitchers. The Cubs agreed, and one of the most significant (and one-sided) trades in baseball history was made. Brock hit .348 for the remainder of the season, and led the Cardinals to their three pennants and two world titles over the next five years. He played the rest of his career with St. Louis (retiring in 1979), and would steal 938 bases (breaking Ty Cobb's record, and currently second all-time to Rickey Henderson), exceed the 3,000 hit mark (with 3,023), bat .424 with 34 hits and 14 stolen bases in 21 World Series games, and become a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Ironically, Brock's impact on the Cardinals' won-lost mark or position in the standings was not felt immediately. The team continued to trail the Phillies by a large margin and it looked to all as though the club's pennant drought would extend to 18 years; by August 17, the Redbirds were mired in fifth place, nine games behind the Phillies. Owner Busch was bitterly disappointed, and decided to clean out his front office. On the advice of his special assistant, legendary Branch Rickey, Busch fired Devine and business manager Art Routzong, and accepted the resignation of assistant general manager Eddie Stanky. Manager Johnny Keane was temporarily spared, but Leo Durocher, then the bench coach of the Dodgers, was secretly negotiating with Busch to take over for 1965. Meanwhile, Devine's old job went to Rickey protégé Bob Howsam.

As events unfolded, Busch had acted in haste. The Cardinals began to win, while the Phillies suffered an epic September collapse, losing a $6 1/2$-game lead with a dozen games to play, sparking a wild, four-team, 11th hour scramble for the pennant. On the final day of the season, after sweeping the Phillies to take first place, the Cardinals prevailed, clinching the NL championship for the first time since 1946 by beating the lowly Mets after losing the first two games of the series. Led by Gibson, the undisputed ace of the staff since Broglio's trade, and McCarver, the Cardinals then defeated the New York Yankees in a seven-game World Series. Even though he had been on the sidelines since August 17, Devine again was cited as the top executive in baseball by The Sporting News. Meanwhile, Keane resigned after the World Series triumph (and became skipper of the Yankees). Instead of Durocher, Cardinal coach Red Schoendienst was named as manager for 1965.

Building the Miracle Mets
Devine's departure was a cause-celebre in St. Louis, but the damage had been done. Although he landed on his feet as the successor to George Weiss, president of the Mets, Devine was forced to leave his hometown and the only team he had ever worked for at the pinnacle of his career. But, while Devine never moved his family to New York, he tackled his new job with gusto. On his watch, the Mets began to strengthen their farm system, signing and developing young pitching talent that formed the core of the 1969 world champions: Tom Seaver, Jerry Koosman, Nolan Ryan, Gary Gentry and Jim McAndrew. Meanwhile, Howsam left the Cardinals in January 1967 to become general manager of the Cincinnati Reds and Musial was named his successor.

In 1967, the Cardinals won 101 games and ran away with the National League race, winning the pennant by $10 1/2$ games, then bested the Boston Red Sox in a seven-game World Series. The core of the team was Devine's, but Howsam had contributed significantly to the roster with his 1966 acquisitions of NL Most Valuable Player first baseman Orlando Cepeda and right fielder Roger Maris. At the other extreme, the Mets, with most of their young pitching talent still ripening in the minors, lost 101 games and finished dead last. Baseball people took note of Devine's accomplishments in New York, however, and when Musial, a world champion general manager in his maiden season, decided he did not want to continue in the role, Busch was able to secure Devine's release from the Mets, and brought him back to the Cardinals as executive vice president and general manager on December 2, 1967.

Second term as Cardinals' general manager
In 1968, led by Gibson's all-time record 1.12 earned run average, the Cardinals repeated as NL champions and held a three games to one lead in the World Series against the Detroit Tigers, but lost the final three contests to be denied back-to-back world titles. Suddenly, Devine was faced with retooling an aging roster. Brock and Gibson remained Cardinal mainstays, but Devine traded Cepeda to the Atlanta Braves after the 1968 season, then dealt Flood and McCarver to Philadelphia following the 1969 campaign. In the Cepeda deal, Devine acquired Joe Torre, who won the 1971 NL batting average championship and the league's Most Valuable Player award. But the Cardinals suffered long-term damage when Busch ordered Devine to trade star left-handed pitcher Steve Carlton in 1972 after a salary dispute. Carlton, coming off his first 20-win season, was sent to the Phillies for pitcher Rick Wise, an uneven swap that helped to turn the last-place Phillies into contenders. Meanwhile, the Cardinals became NL East also-rans.

In 1978, Devine was again replaced as Cardinals' general manager (this time by John Claiborne) and again he departed the organization, working for the San Francisco Giants as assistant general manager, the Montreal Expos as a player development official, and the Phillies as a scout. From 1981 to 1986, he was club president of the St. Louis Cardinals of the National Football League. But eventually he returned to the baseball Cardinals, where he served as a special scout and advisor to general manager Walt Jocketty.

Devine died in St. Louis at the age of 90.

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