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The last hockey game played at the Boston Garden was an exhibition between the Bruins and the Canadiens, nicknamed "the last hurrah", one which Patrick Roy speficially asked to play in due to the great importance of it. Straying from the standard three period game they switched it to two quarters, I can't remember the exact length of each one. The Bruins won, a shut out if I remember correctly, and afterwards they lowered the retired numbers of those players who were still living and presented them to them. Bobby Orr then assisted a former player out who had incurred a severe injury whilst playing for the Bruins on to the ice and they took a final lap around the Garden whilst grown men broke out in tears, a truely touching moment. Will attempt to find specifics to amend the article.

 * It was not Orr who brought Normand Leveille out onto the ice, but Ray Bourque, a longtime personal friend and former teammate. The halves were 25 minutes long.  September 26, 1995, final score, 3–0 Boston. Ravenswing 07:28, August 29, 2005 (UTC)

Photos
It would be great if folks could post some photos!Americasroof 12:18, 16 May 2006 (UTC)

How about noting the local name "The Garden" or "The Gahden" with a link to the page on the Boston accent? --Timepilot 00:14, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

There are two different dates on here for when it was demolished. ???

Needs improvement
Given the significance of this building, this article needs some improvments. The only sub-section on design is the flaws, and there could be more. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.68.41.93 (talk) 06:19, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

I agree big time on this one boston garden is a huge peice of boston history

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Size question
I had edited on the page to eliminate a trivia section on here, to a way that I thought would be better, but apparently, it had been reverted. If there is anything that could help me out in why this was not a good edit, I would love to know, that way, I could maybe find a different way to incorporate the info into the article, and eliminate the trivia section. Whammies Were Here 09:46, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Photo request
An exterior photo would be a tremendous addition to the article. -- Beland (talk) 21:19, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Merge page with TD Banknorth Garden
Perhaps this page could be merged with TD Banknorth Garden, as they are in theory the same place, although Boston Garden was demolished. An exterior photo would be a tremendous addition to the article. -- Wellslogan (talk) 21:19, 14 December 2008 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.118.12.40 (talk)

Referees Crease
I think there should be some mention of the fact that the hockey penalty boxes were not centered on the red line as in most (all?) other NHL arenas, and that this combined with the shorter ice surface meant that the referees crease actually crossed over the blue line. This is barely visible in the photo of the Rangers practicing (far blue line, right side), but I don't have any sources. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Phreakydancin (talk • contribs) 19:36, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

Naden Scoreboards
"The Naden overhead scoreboard (which was electro-mechanical, not electronic, as more recent arenas used) of the Boston Garden can be seen hanging in the Boston Garden themed foodcourt of the Arsenal Mall in Watertown, Massachusetts."

 * The last overhead scoreboard was solid-state, not electro-mechanical. During the last few years of the Garden, it was capable of showing tenths-of-seconds during the last minute of each period—a feature I don't think was possible with any kind of electro-mechanical timer—as were the companion auxiliary scoreboards at each end of the court. The auxiliary scoreboards were Naden SS-698's, distinguished from the N-698 electro-mechanical Naden scoreboards (which I don't think were ever used at the Garden) by a digital period indicator (as opposed to a row of four dots that lit up sequentially). I believe the overhead scoreboard was a custom-designed scoreboard; AFAIK, it did not have basketball captions, only a hockey penalty timer. You had to guess which numbers indicated player and team fouls, time outs left, etc.

 * I'd like to see someone with a better knowledge or source of information about the Boston Garden scoreboards contribute to this article. 66.234.218.146 (talk) 08:05, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

PF-DB.com
I was all set to revert this as a WP:EL violation, but then I took a look at it, and what this new link is is a list of all the rock concerts at the Garden from 1967 to the building's closing, including dates, bands and some added info. It strikes me as genuinely useful, and I'm disinclined to revert. Thoughts?  ῲ Ravenswing ῴ  21:42, 6 September 2011 (UTC)

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Talk:Criminal Investigations Department

Rather than merging this page with the entry on the British CID, with which it seems to be unconnected, perhaps it would be better to rename this entry. e.g. "Departments of Criminal Investigation" or "Criminal Investigation Agencies", or even just "CID around the world" just to avoid any confusion. Any thoughts? - JamieB, 29 Aug 2005
 * Basically, this article is a mess. "The Criminal Investigations Department, or CID is a section of police around the world who deal with the examination and detection of crimes. While in some areas they go under the name of CID, in other areas they are given different names." So why is this article entitled "Criminal Investigations Department", when most police agencies do not use the term? "The CID in the United States is the Federal Bureau of Investigation." No it's not, since the term CID is not generally used in the USA. The common use of CID is for the Criminal Investigation Department (singular) of British police forces and those derived from them. The term "CID" is completely inappropriate when referring to agencies which do not use the term. There needs to some definition of what this article is actually about, since at the moment it seems to be using a specific term to refer to detective branches/agencies in general, and then deals only with India and the USA. -- Necrothesp 13:43, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Agree fully with Necrothesp above, this page is wrongly titled and should be renamed, not merged with the article on British CID. UkPaolo 21:43, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Looking more closely, it seems that the contents of this page was basically to link to the FBI and the CBI. I've therefore merged this info with the article at Criminal Investigation Department, and have set this page as a redirect. I'm "being bold" here, if anyone disagrees with my decision, please leave a msg on the talk page! UkPaolo 21:57, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
 * It's correct that this should redirect to Criminal Investigation Department, since many people put in the incorrect extra 's' (even among the British police themselves). However, I've deleted the sections on the FBI and CBI from the CID page, as they're in no way equivalent to the British CID. -- Necrothesp 22:47, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

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Georgia Hubley

Georgia Mira Hubley is an American percussionist, vocalist, and visual artist. She is one of the two founding members of the indie rock band Yo La Tengo, and is married to the group's other founding member, guitarist/vocalist Ira Kaplan, with whom she lives in New Jersey. The two would often see each other in record shops and at the same shows. They formed the band in 1984, and released their first album, Ride the Tiger, in 1986 on the Coyote label.

In addition to being the drummer and vocalist, Hubley has designed covers for the band's releases. She also plays occasional guitar, keyboard, and drum machine on the band's recordings.

Hubley is a daughter of UPA Studios animators John Hubley and Faith Elliott Hubley, and a sister of Emily Hubley.

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Mirimanoff's congruence

In number theory, a branch of mathematics, a Mirimanoff's congruence is one of a collection of expressions in modular arithmetic which, if they hold, entail the truth of Fermat's Last Theorem. Since the theorem has now been proven, these are now of mainly historical significance, though the Mirimanoff polynomials are interesting in their own right. The theorem is due to Dmitry Mirimanoff.

Definition
The nth Mirimanoff polynomial for the prime p is
 * $$\phi_n(t) = 1^{n-1}t + 2^{n-1}t^2 + ... + (p-1)^{n-1} t^{p-1}.$$

In terms of these polynomials, if t is one of the six values {-X/Y, -Y/X, -X/Z, -Z/X, -Y/Z, -Z/Y} where Xp+Yp+Zp=0 is a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem, then
 * φp-1(t) ≡ 0 (mod p)
 * φp-2(t)φ2(t) ≡ 0 (mod p)
 * φp-3(t)φ3(t) ≡ 0 (mod p)

 * φ(p+1)/2(t)φ(p-1)/2(t) ≡ 0 (mod p)

Other congruences
Mirimanoff also proved the following:

 * If an odd prime p does not divide one of the numerators of the Bernoulli numbers Bp-3, Bp-5, Bp-7 or Bp-9, then the first case of Fermat's Last Theorem, where p does not divide X, Y or Z in the equation Xp+Yp+Zp=0, holds.
 * If the first case of Fermat's Last Theorem fails for the prime p, then 3p-1 ≡ 1 (mod p2). A prime number with this property is sometimes called a Mirimanoff prime, in analogy to a Wieferich prime which is a prime such that 2p-1 ≡ 1 (mod p2). The existence of primes satisfying such congruences was recognized long before their implications for the first case of Fermat's Last Theorem became apparent; but while the discovery of the first Wieferich prime came after these theoretical developments and was prompted by them, the first instance of a Mirimanoff prime is so small that it was already known before Mirimanoff formulated the connection to FLT in 1910, which fact may explain the reluctance of some writers to use the name. So early as his 1895 paper (p. 298), Mirimanoff alludes to a rather complicated test for the primes now known by his name, deriving from a formula published by Sylvester in 1861, which is of little computational value but great theoretical interest. This test was considerably simplified by Lerch (1905), p. 476, who showed that in general, for p > 3,

$$3^{p-1} \equiv \left(- \frac 23 \cdot \left\{ 1 + \frac 12 + \frac 13 + \frac 14 + \ldots + \left\lfloor p/3 \right\rfloor^{-1}\right\}\right)p + 1 \pmod {p^2}$$

so that a prime possesses the Mirimanoff property if it divides the expression within the curly braces. The condition was further refined in an important paper by Emma Lehmer (1938), in which she considered the intriguing and still unanswered question of whether it is possible for a number to satisfy the congruences of Wieferich and Mirimanoff simultaneously. To date, the only known Mirimanoff primes are 11 and 1006003. The discovery of the second of these appears to be due to K.E. Kloss (1965).

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Infante Francisco, Duke of Beja

Infante Francisco, Duke of Beja (Lisbon, 25 May 1691 – Lisbon, 21 July 1742) was a Portuguese infante (prince) son of Peter II, King of Portugal, and his second wife, Maria Sofia of the Palatinate.

Early life
Francisco Xavier José António Bento Urbano was born on 25 May 1691 in Lisbon. He was given the Duchy of Beja and was made Grand-Prior of Crato and Lord of the Infantado. Plans for him to marry Archduchess Maria Magdalena of Austria sister of Queen Maria Anna failed in the early stages.

Career
Responding to a request by Pope Clement XI to aid in the fight against the Turks, in 1716, King John V of Portugal (Infante Francisco's brother) sent a fleet of Portuguese ships to aid Venice and Austria in their fights against the Turks, led by the Count of Rio Grande, the Count of São Vicente and by the Duke of Beja.

Affairs and issue
He died unmarried and without legitimate issue on 21 July 1742 at the Quinta das Gaeiras in Óbidos. He is buried at the Royal Pantheon of the Braganza Dynasty in Lisbon.

He had two natural children with Mariana Silveira, a nun, who died during the 1755 Lisbon earthquake:

 * Pedro of Braganza (¿? – 1741)
 * João da Bemposta (1725–1780) Captain General of the Portuguese Navy and Chief Steward of the Royal Household. Married Maria Margarida de Lorena, 2nd Duchess of Abrantes.

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Alex P. Keaton

Alexander P. Keaton is a fictional character on the American television sitcom Family Ties, which aired on NBC for seven seasons, from 1982 to 1989. Family Ties reflected the move in the United States away from the cultural liberalism of the 1960s and 1970s to the conservatism of the 1980s. This was particularly expressed through the relationship between Young Republican Alex (Michael J. Fox) and his hippie parents, Steven (Michael Gross) and Elyse Keaton (Meredith Baxter).

Background
Alex P. Keaton (Michael J. Fox) is the oldest child of Steven and Elyse Keaton (Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter), who were baby boomers and Democrats during the early years of the Presidency of Ronald Reagan. Married in 1964, Steven, a manager in a local Public Broadcasting Service station and Elyse, an independent architect, were hippies during the 1960s. According to the episode "A Christmas Story" in season one, Alex was born in 1965 while his parents were on assignment in Africa, having been influenced by John F. Kennedy to participate in the Peace Corps. (While he often introduces himself as Alex P. Keaton, it is never revealed what the P stands for.) Alex has two younger sisters, Mallory (Justine Bateman) and Jennifer (Tina Yothers). Mallory was born while her parents were students at the University of California, Berkeley in 1967, Jennifer was born the night of Richard Nixon's presidential election in 1972 and a younger brother, Andrew, was born in 1985. The family lives in suburban Columbus, Ohio.

Storylines
At the beginning of the series, Alex is a high school student who has a passion for economics and wealth. In particular, he is an advocate of supply-side economics. His heroes are Richard Nixon (going so far as to have a lunchbox bearing Nixon's likeness), William F. Buckley Jr., Ronald Reagan, Gerald Ford and Milton Friedman. His favorite television show is Wall $treet Week and he is an avid reader of The Wall Street Journal. He also enjoys music of the big band and swing era but secretly enjoys rock music (as seen in the episode "A, My Name is Alex"). Alex spends the first two seasons of the series preparing to attend Princeton University. While he is attending an on-campus interview, Mallory, who tagged along to pay a surprise visit to her boyfriend, Jeff, who is attending Princeton at the time, has an emotional breakdown when she finds Jeff is seeing another woman. Ultimately, Alex chooses to look after Mallory rather than complete his interview, thus destroying any possibility of attending the university and getting into the Ivy League.

Alex receives a scholarship to fictional Leland University, which is located close enough for him to continue to live at home and commute. Keaton excels at Leland and teaches an economics course as a teaching assistant. Alex holds a disdain for nearby Grant College (which Mallory later attends) and regularly openly mocks their courses. While attending Leland, he has two serious girlfriends. His first is artist/feminist, Ellen Reed (Tracy Pollan, whom Fox later married). After they break up, Keaton pursues a liberal psychology student with feminist inclinations, Lauren Miller, who is played by Courteney Cox. The relationship ends when he has an affair with music major Martie Brodie (played by Jane Adams) while Lauren is out of town. After graduation, Alex accepts a job on Wall Street (coinciding with the conclusion of the series).

Reception and influence
The humor of the series focused on a real cultural divide during the 1980s, between the baby boomers and Generation X. According to Stephen Kiehl, this was when the "Alex Keaton generation was rejecting the counterculture of the 1960s and embracing the wealth and power that came to define the '80s." While the youngest, Jennifer (an athletic tomboy) shares the values of her parents, Alex and Mallory embrace Reaganomics and consequent conservative values: Alex is a Young Republican and Mallory is a more traditional young woman in contrast to her feminist mother.

In the Museum of Broadcast Communications' Encyclopedia of Television entry for Family Ties, Michael Saenz argues that: "Few shows better demonstrate the resonance between collectively held fictional imagination and what cultural critic Raymond Williams called "the structure of feeling" of a historical moment than Family Ties. Airing on NBC from 1982 to 1989, this highly successful domestic comedy explored one of the intriguing cultural inversions characterizing the Reagan era: a conservative younger generation aspiring to wealth, business success and traditional values, serves as inheritor to the politically liberal, presumably activist, culturally experimental generation of adults who had experienced the 1960s. The result was a decade, paradoxical by America's usual post–World War II standards, in which youthful ambition and social renovation became equated with pronounced political conservatism. "When else could a boy with a briefcase become a national hero?" queried Family Ties' creator, Gary David Goldberg, during the show's final year."

In 1999, TV Guide ranked Alex P. Keaton number 17 on its "50 Greatest TV Characters of All Time" list.

References in other media
When Michael J. Fox left his next series, Spin City, a decade after Family Ties, his final episodes as a regular ("Goodbye: Parts 1 & 2", Season 4, Episodes 25 and 26) made numerous allusions to Family Ties. Michael Gross (Alex's father Steven) portrays Michael Patrick Flaherty's (Michael J. Fox) therapist and there is a reference to the therapist's unseen receptionist named "Mallory". After Flaherty becomes an environmental lobbyist in Washington, he makes a reference to having met the junior senator from Ohio, Alex P. Keaton, adding, "What a stiff!" Actress Meredith Baxter, who played Alex Keaton's mother on Family Ties, also played Michael Flaherty's mother on Spin City.

Florida ska/punk band Victims of Circumstance's debut album, Roll the Dice, featured a track titled "Me and Alex P. Keaton". The lyrics parody a typical day spent with a modern, socially conservative Republican.

LFO's 1999 single "Summer Girls" name-checks "Alex P. Keaton" alongside many other cultural references.

In the Family Guy episode "Movin' Out (Brian's Song)", after Brian gets dumped by Jillian when he admits he did not want to move in with her, Stewie tries to help him get over her by comparing the situation to when Alex P. Keaton lost his own girlfriend before getting another one.

In the second episode of the first season of Broad City, when offered "a few pages from [his] dad's prescription pad" by a young boy, Abbi refers to him as Alex P. Keaton.

During the seventh episode of the third season of Stranger Things, while under the influence of "truth serum", Steve Harrington mistakenly refers to Marty McFly (another character played by Michael J. Fox) as Alex P. Keaton while trying to understand the plot of Back to the Future.

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The Hidden Ivies

Hidden Ivies is a college educational guide with the most recent edition, The Hidden Ivies, 3rd Edition: 63 of America's Top Liberal Arts Colleges and Universities, published in 2016, by educational consultants Howard and Matthew Greene.

Overview
Howard and Matthew Greene's Hidden Ivies focuses on college admissions in the United States. According to Union College, "the authors contend that students who attend one of the 'Hidden Ivies' are likely to acquire critical skills or instincts, including cooperation, leadership, collaboration, mentoring, appreciating personal, religious and cultural differences, and 'learning the truth that intelligence without character, personal integrity and a working set of values can be a dangerous thing.'"

The authors define both the title of this book as well as their goals in writing it as: "to create greater awareness of the small, distinctive cluster of colleges and universities of excellence that are available to gifted college-bound students." In the introduction, the authors further explain their aim by referring specifically to "the group historically known as the 'Little Ivies' (including Amherst, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Swarthmore, Wesleyan, and Williams)" which the authors say have "scaled the heights of prestige and selectivity and also turn away thousands of our best and brightest young men and women."

Northeast

 * Amherst College
 * Barnard College
 * Bates College
 * Boston College
 * Bowdoin College
 * Brandeis University
 * Bryn Mawr College
 * Bucknell University
 * Colby College
 * Colgate University
 * College of the Holy Cross
 * Connecticut College
 * Dickinson College
 * Fordham University
 * Franklin & Marshall College
 * Hamilton College
 * Haverford College
 * Johns Hopkins University
 * Lafayette College
 * Lehigh University
 * Middlebury College
 * Mount Holyoke College
 * Skidmore College
 * Smith College
 * Swarthmore College
 * Trinity College
 * Tufts University
 * Union College
 * University of Rochester
 * Vassar College
 * Villanova University
 * Wellesley College
 * Wesleyan University
 * Williams College

South

 * Davidson College
 * Duke University
 * Emory University
 * Georgetown University
 * Rice University
 * Sewanee: The University of the South
 * Southern Methodist University
 * Tulane University
 * University of Richmond
 * Vanderbilt University
 * Wake Forest University
 * Washington and Lee University

Midwest

 * Carleton College
 * Case Western Reserve University
 * Denison University
 * Grinnell College
 * Kenyon College
 * Macalester College
 * Northwestern University
 * Oberlin College
 * University of Chicago
 * University of Notre Dame
 * Washington University in St. Louis

West

 * Claremont McKenna College
 * Colorado College
 * Pomona College
 * Reed College
 * Stanford University
 * University of Southern California

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StarStruck Kids

StarStruck Kids is the junior season of StarStruck, is a 2004 Philippine television reality talent competition show, was broadcast on GMA Network. Hosted by Jolina Magdangal, the segment hosts are the 14 finalists of StarStruck season 1: Mark Herras, Jennylyn Mercado, Rainier Castillo, Yasmien Kurdi, Nadine Samonte, Dion Ignacio, Christian Esteban, Katrina Halili, Tyron Perez, Sheena Halili, Jade Lopez, Anton dela Paz, Cristine Reyes and Alvin Aragon, all of whom serve as the junior hopefuls as they go through every phase of the competition. It premiered on March 20, 2004, replacing Search for a Star. The council was composed of Christopher de Leon, Janice de Belen and Aiza Seguerra. The season ended with 72 episodes on June 26, 2004, having Kurt Perez and Sam Bumatay as the junior Ultimate Survivors. It was replaced by Pinoy Pop Superstar in its timeslot.

Overview
The junior spin-off season of StarStruck was first announced by the hosts Dingdong Dantes and Nancy Castiglione after the season finale. This was an offshoot of the successful senior season, also announced on GMA Network program SOP, where the hosts invited kids from 5 to 7 years old to audition for the upcoming season. Most of the auditions were held at the GMA Network's headquarters and at SM Supermalls throughout the Philippines.

The pilot episode was aired on March 20, 2004. Like the senior version, the same rules were applied in selecting the Ultimate Survivors. This junior version of StarStruck is shown only on weekdays; Mondays to Thursdays would be tests and Fridays would be the elimination night. It became an emotional journey for the kids who had to leave the show. Nonetheless, they thoroughly enjoyed the workshops. The show held its the Final Judgment on June 26, 2004, at the Aliw Theater.

Selection process
In the spin-off year of the reality-talent search, out of hundreds who auditioned nationwide, only the top 100 were chosen for the first cut. From the top 100, it was trimmed down to the top 60, then to the top 30, and at last to the final 14 finalists.

The Final 14K underwent various workshops and training in order to develop their personalities, talents, and charisma. Every week, one or two hopefuls from the junior final 14 may have to say goodbye until only four remain. Those who were eliminated were dubbed as the juniors StarStruck Avengers.

The Final 4K will vie for the coveted the junior Ultimate Survivors titles, the juniors Ultimate Male Survivor and Ultimate Female Survivor, both of them would receive P1,000,000 pesos each plus an exclusive management contract from GMA Network.

The juniors Runners-up, both of them would receive P100,000 pesos each plus an exclusive management contract from the network. The juniors StarStruck Avengers (the losing contestants) also received an exclusive contract from the network.

Hopefuls
When the juniors Final 14K was chosen, they are assigned to different challenges every week that will show their acting, singing, and dancing abilities. Every Friday, one is meant to leave the competition until there were just six others who are left. From juniors’ survivor six, there will be two of them who will be eliminated and after the elimination of the two; the juniors final four will be revealed.

The juniors Final 4K will be battling with each other on the Final Judgment. People will choose who they want to win the competition by online voting and text voting. 30% of the result will come from the online and text votes and the remaining 70% is from the council.

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 * Week 9: The Final 6K hopefuls.

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 * Eliminated Contestant: None

 * Week 10: The Survivor 6K hopefuls, The official Final 4K hopefuls have been chosen.

 * Challenge Winner Contestant: (Searching the Information)
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 * Week 11-12: The Final 4K Homecoming

 * Week 13: The Final Judgment, the junior Ultimate Survivors have been proclaimed.

Final Judgment
The winner was announced on a two-hour TV special dubbed as StarStruck Kids: The Final Judgment was held live on June 26, 2004, at the Aliw Theatre.

The opening dance number, together with this season's juniors avengers, were joined by this junior season's final four and those of the senior season's.

Announcement came, Sam Bumatay of Metro Manila was the junior Ultimate Female Survivor and Kurt Perez of Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija was the junior Ultimate Male Survivor. The two were proclaimed as junior Ultimate Survivors and each of them received P1,000,000 pesos each plus and an exclusive management contract from GMA Network.

While, Ella Guevara of Quezon City and Miguel Tanfelix of Dasmariñas, Cavite were proclaimed as the juniors Runners-up, each of them received P100,000 pesos each plus and an exclusive management contract from the network. The juniors StarStruck Avengers (the losing contestants) also received an exclusive contract from the network.

The Final Judgment gained 35.2% in ratings. Plans for a second junior season were cancelled probably because of too much psychological pressure on children during their talent tests.

TV Assignment
For their first TV Assignment, the junior final four Kurt Perez, Sam Bumatay, Miguel Tanfelix and Ella Guevara with the junior avengers Paul Salas and Shamel Leask joined the recurring cast of the telefantasya, Mulawin.

Signature dances
There are signature dances and songs made in each batch. With this batch, their signature dances and songs are:
 * Baby Superstar

Elimination chart
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Herbert Sobel

Herbert Maxwell Sobel (January 26, 1912 – September 30, 1987) was an American soldier who served as a commissioned officer with Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, in the 101st Airborne Division during World War II. Sobel's story was featured in historian Stephen E. Ambrose's book Band of Brothers, and he was portrayed by David Schwimmer in the HBO miniseries of the same name.

Early life and education
Sobel was born and raised in a Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois. He attended high school at the Culver Military Academy in Indiana, where he was a member of the swim team, and later graduated from the University of Illinois, where he studied business.

Military career
After university, Sobel was commissioned as an officer in the Organized Reserve. By 1937, he had been promoted to first lieutenant, and by July 1941, he had been ordered to active duty and assigned to Camp Grant near Rockford, Illinois.

In 1942, Sobel was assigned to Easy Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment as its initial member and commanding officer. Sobel commanded Easy Company during basic training at Camp Toccoa, Georgia, during which he was promoted to captain. Sobel was intensely disliked by the men under his command, who saw him as a petty, arbitrary, domineering tyrant who handed down cruel punishments for the most minuscule of infractions, real or imagined. "Until I landed in France in the very early hours of D-Day," recalled Corporal Walter Gordon, "my war was with [Sobel]." Lieutenant Richard Winters, Sobel's executive officer, took exception to Sobel's "desire to lead by fear rather than example." The officers in Easy Company nicknamed Sobel "the Black Swan," and the enlisted men frequently referred to him as a "fucking Jew" when he was out of earshot.

Despite his harsh tactics, Sobel proved effective in training an excellent company of highly disciplined paratroopers. However, by the time Easy Company had transferred to Camp Mackall, North Carolina, in February 1943, Sobel's shortcomings as a field commander became apparent. During exercises, his lack of spatial awareness, physicality, and smart decision making made his men concerned about his ability to lead them in battle. "I am going into combat with this man. He'll get us all killed," Winters recalled thinking. In 2009, Sergeant Amos "Buck" Taylor said:

"Some of the men downright hated him even to the point where Sobel's life was in danger. As NCOs, we had all heard comments from other enlisted men such as, 'Boy, if I ever get Sobel in my sights he's a goner'—stuff like that...there was a strong feeling among the men that Sobel couldn't be trusted in a combat situation...here's my conclusion: Captain Sobel was a good training officer, strict, he wanted his men to be the best. I admire him for that. But you could not trust his judgment in a battle situation."

The situation escalated while the regiment was stationed in Aldbourne, Wiltshire, England in October 1943. Sobel initiated court-martial proceedings against Winters over Winters' failure to carry out conflicting latrine inspection orders Sobel had given him. This caused the sentiment against Sobel to finally boil over: "Sobel had authority over the men [but] Lieutenant Winters had their respect. They were bound to clash," Stephen E. Ambrose wrote in Band of Brothers. This conflict prompted all but three of the non-commissioned officers in Easy Company to attempt to resign their ranks in protest. As a result, Colonel Robert Sink, the regimental commander, set aside Winters' court-martial, and after furiously berating his NCOs for the attempted mutiny, replaced Sobel with Lieutenant Thomas Meehan as commander of Easy Company.

Sink subsequently assigned Sobel to command an airborne school in Chilton Foliat, Wiltshire, which would provide jump training for non-combat personnel in preparation for the invasion of France. By June 1944, Sobel and his staff had trained more than 400 men through the five practice jumps necessary to qualify as parachutists. On D-Day, Sobel parachuted into Normandy with the rest of the 101st Airborne Division as commander of the 506th's service company. Immediately after landing, Sobel assembled four men and destroyed a German machine gun nest with grenades before joining the rest of the division near Carentan.

Sobel spent the remainder of the war as a staff officer in the 506th, and was appointed the regiment's S-4 (logistics officer) on March 8, 1945. Sobel remained in the Army Reserve after the war, eventually retiring at the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Later life and death
After his service in World War II, Sobel returned to Chicago, where he worked as a credit manager for a telephone equipment company. He married Rose, a former military nurse from South Dakota whose Catholicism was disapproved of by Sobel's Jewish family. They raised three sons, who attended church weekly with Rose before their parents' divorce.

In 1970, Sobel shot himself in the head with a small-caliber pistol in an attempted suicide. The bullet entered his left temple, severing his optic nerves and rendering him blind. Soon afterward, he began living at a Veterans Administration assisted-living facility in Waukegan, Illinois, where he died on September 30, 1987; the death certificate listed malnutrition as the cause of death. No memorial service was held.

Legacy
Despite Sobel being almost universally disliked by the men under his command, many of them have nevertheless credited him with Easy Company's cohesion, some if for no other reason than Sobel united the men against a common enemy. Richard Winters wrote that Easy Company's teamwork and discipline "began with Captain Herbert Sobel at Camp Toccoa," and Sergeant Rod Strohl said that "Herbert Sobel made E Company." When referring to large number of former Easy Company officers who eventually served at the 506th's regimental and battalion levels, Ambrose wrote that Sobel "must have been doing something right back in the summer of '42 at Toccoa."

Sobel is featured prominently in Stephen E. Ambrose's 1992 book Band of Brothers, a history of Easy Company. In the HBO miniseries of the same name, Sobel is portrayed by actor David Schwimmer.

In Marcus Brotherton's 2009 book We Who Are Alive and Remain: Untold Stories from the Band of Brothers, several Easy Company veterans offered differing views of how Sobel was portrayed in Band of Brothers. Ed Tipper praised Sobel's stamina, saying he could run Currahee "with the best of them," and Shifty Powers said, "He trained us well. Anything he'd ask you to do, he'd do it—I always admired that about him." Forrest Guth said that "In my estimation, Captain Sobel was good for us. He was tough and very much a disciplinarian. As far as I'm concerned, Sobel was the one who made E Company tough." Bill Wingett took exception to what he considered embellishments in the Band of Brothers miniseries that painted Sobel in a negative light, and Sobel's son Michael also criticized his father's harsh depiction.

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SS William Clay Ford

SS William Clay Ford was a bulk freighter built for hauling material on the Great Lakes. She was named for William Clay Ford Sr., grandson of Henry Ford. Her keel was laid in 1952 at River Rouge, Michigan by the Great Lakes Engineering Works, and she was launched in 1953. The ship was a part of the Ford Motor Company fleet of ore carriers and made her home port at Ford's River Rouge Plant, south of Detroit, Michigan. The first captain of William Clay Ford was John Jameson Pearce of Dearborn, Michigan.

William Clay Ford was one of two ships involved in the initial search for the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, along with the SS Arthur M. Anderson on 10 November 1975. The Anderson and Ford had made it to safety at Whitefish Bay, but went back into the storm at the request of the Coast Guard to look for survivors of the Fitzgerald. Because of the bravery and valor demonstrated that night by Captain Don Erickson and his crew, they were presented with many accolades including a plaque bestowed upon them by the Great Lakes Maritime Institute recognizing their role in the search for Edmund Fitzgerald. It reads: "On the night of November 10–11, 1975, these men voluntarily left a safe harbor to face the dangers of gale force winds and vicious seas, in the blackness of a storm which had already claimed as a victim the steamer Edmund Fitzgerald, to search for possible survivors of that disaster, exemplifying the finest traditions of the maritime profession."

In 1979 the hull of William Clay Ford was lengthened 120 feet.

In 1984 ownership was transferred to the Rouge Steel Corporation. In December 1984, she hauled her last load of cargo from Duluth, Minnesota, to Rouge Basin, south of Detroit.

In 1985 she was renamed US 266029, her registry number, as a newly renamed USS Chiwawa SS William Clay Ford was put into the fleet.

In August 1986, US 266029 was towed from her moorings to the Detroit Marine Terminal where the pilot house was removed for display and exhibition, at the Dossin Great Lakes Museum on Detroit's Belle Isle. The hull was scrapped in Port Maitland, Ontario, in 1987.

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Talk:Tent girl

I have created this stub on the Tent Girl, an interesting mystery that was sovled many years later with the aid of the internet. There are some longer articles extant on the internet, and external links to these were provided. I contacted the author of one of them and encouraged him to contribute to the Wiki article. --12.203.233.125 02:28, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

 * A possible title for this is Barbara Ann Hackmann Taylor with a redirect from Tent girl. --Wetman 04:33, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

An excellent point Wetman. I'm not sure how to create a redirect but I will edit it. I think it would also be appropriate to have a redirect from "Barbara Ann Hackman," as this is how her name appears on the headstone, presumably at the request of her family.--BAW 12:13, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:A Train/Archive IV

Celebration!

Please join me in celebrating my 1000th edit at Wikipedia, the most important online information resource! Hamster Sandwich 21:46, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Vfd
I think I'd re-list a vfd with virtually no votes. Mention that it was listed on whatever day, but didn't receive enough votes to determine consensus. There may be a formal procedure, but I'd probably just copy/paste the vfd discussion link to today's log. Joyous (talk) 21:49, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * I already closed it out as no consensus. But what you said makes good sense, and that's what I'll do from here on out. Fernando Rizo T/C 21:52, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Thank you!
For you kind wishes! And can you help me in a revert war at London, Ontario? Hamster Sandwich 22:17, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Checking it out right now. Fernando Rizo T/C 22:23, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

I was going to leave this on the talk page...

Bill Brady Bandit All pretense of assuming good faith in this vandals actions aside, I would like to suggest that the cowardly anon vandal who keeps removing the Bill Brady inclusion under notable Londoners is blocked from editing after his first revert to that section. He obviously comes in bad faith for the simple purpose of doing so, contrevening the both the spirit and letter of Wikipedia policy. He adds no value to the discussion and disregards the concensus view that Brady deserves mention in this article. If the chicken in question reads this, I would suggest getting over whatever personal bias you have with Brady, and perhaps do something useful in WP,like make a contribution to other articles, get involved with the community in a positive way. Maybe you will eventually mature into an adult type person who dosen't sulk when you don't get you own (misguided way). Or maybe just find somewhere else to push your personal bias with Brady. Go bother your parents or something. I'm takin the high road brother. I plan on getting an interview with Brady this week and have some of these ambiguities laid to rest. The Robarts Institute is 5 minutes away from me right on the other side of campus. I go to school here BTW [www.UWO.ca]. I'm the world's oldest sophomore. Hamster Sandwich 04:21, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Ham, say something like that, but cut out the bitter stuff. Don't tell him to go bother his parents for God's sake. :) Rememeber, WP:Civility above all else, bro. Don't call him a chicken either. Go chill out for a few minutes and write it again. Just cause the guy's a vandal, do go down to his level and make an ad hominem. Fernando Rizo T/C 23:06, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Ya see..thats why I bounce this stuff off of you first! :-P Did you read his "I am prepared to eat rat meat" quote? I offer instead, a lovely hamster sandwich, with all the trimmings!. I just left a comment at admins noticeboard under, Bill Brady Bandit. Thanks my brother in electrons! Hamster Sandwich 23:13, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Hell no; I'm a 26-year-old sophomore by virtue of my 5 years in the Marine Corps, I may have you beat. As for the Brady thing; my only caveat is that other editors will call shenanigans with the original research. I say bounce that off of a few more editors before you commit the time. Fernando Rizo T/C 04:37, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Good plan. Didn't think of the original research prohibition. The concensus seems to have solidified as to his notability. The anon just told me he would "permit" the continued editing of Bill Brady at the talk page. I was so grateful, well, tears welled up, I'm not afraid to admit it either.
 * I was going to ask Brady about his Transplant International connection and get some information concerning that body (so to speak)and ask him about his talk show to see if he was indeed the first radio call in show in Canada. If I have some time this week that is. Peace! Hamster Sandwich 04:46, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Agreed
See my comment on the notice board. Sorry for causing trouble, I'd like to say I didn't mean too, but I'm so sick and tired of trolls that it is tough to do so. While I definitely didn't mean to cause trouble for you and other decent Wikipedians, I sure as hell don't care whether I caused it for trolls like Gorgonzilla. I'm sick and tired of sitting back and watching while mods let personal attacks like theirs slip while nothing happens. As such, I feel no remorse for taking matters into my own hands and letting him know what I think of him. I'm getting off this sinking ship while I still can. Shouldn't have come back to see the state of affairs, all I see is Wikipedia declining more and more. Agriculture 23:00, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

 * User:Hipocrite has created the following page: . Originally he created it in my user space:, and then moved it to his page when it was clear it would be deleted. I consider this harassment and would like to request you deal with this. I will leave as soon as it is dealt with. Agriculture 23:50, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm looking into it right now, Agriculture. Fernando Rizo T/C 23:53, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Many thanks. Again I'm sorry if I made things difficult for you, I consider you a shiny example of what Wikipedia should be. Agriculture 23:55, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Ag, I looked all over the place for a policy and procedure for ascertaining whether or not a user is a sockpuppet, and I came up with nothing. I'm going to have to punt this one to another admin. Fernando Rizo T/C 00:30, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

The digimon VFD
Honestly, I'm not sure if it even is bogus. I was a fan some years back but I don't know anything that happened in the show after the second season. I mean, "ChaosGallantmon Crimson Mode" seems a little bit of an outlandish name to me, but apparently it is a common sort of name. (As I search, I find "Imperialdramon Fighter Mode") However, there seems to be confusion even on forums as to whether or not he exists - I see various examples of merchandise sold in his name that people are saying isn't real.

I think essentially what it is is not a separate monster, but another form of the existing ChaosGallantmon. In that case, I wouldn't suggest another round of VFD but a merge into ChaosGallantmon. (Anything to reduce the number of loose Digimon articles...) User:Premeditated Chaos 23:48, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I'll merge it then. Thanks for lending me your brain. Fernando Rizo T/C 23:55, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

User:Hipocrite
Hi, I saw your posting on Joy's user talk page, hope you don't mind my nosing in. Not many people can do the technical IP check to see if someone is a sockpuppet - only DavidGerard and TimStarling that I know of, and they don't use it lightly. I'm pretty sure that User:Hipocrite isn't a sockpuppet created just to harass User:Agriculture, though. For one thing, User:Gavin the Chosen has accused User:Hipocrite of being a sockpuppet created just to spite him! So at least we are dealing with a multipurpose sockpuppet here. No, really, I think Hipocrite is a regular person doing his/her best to contribute to Wikipedia in good faith. FreplySpang (talk) 00:31, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * JINX!!! :-D FreplySpang (talk) 00:32, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Also, User:Hipocrite requested the deletion of his AgriTalk subpage, and I deleted it. FreplySpang (talk) 00:33, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Hilarious. FS, you and I must be soulmates, or the same person in alternate dimensions, or twins seperated at birth. And by 9 years. :) As I alluded to, my investigation into Hipocrite was quite cursory, so I'm totally prepared to take you at your word on this. I'll just keep trying to referee as best I can, then. Thanks, FS! Fernando Rizo T/C 00:35, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the help, as a note, I wasn't claiming Hipocrite was a sockpuppet, merely a user harassing me and generally doing some bad faith edits. Once again thanks.  I'm off now.  Agriculture 06:36, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

The Point
The point is that this is how one of the principle proponents of this 'decency' league behaves. The behavior is entirely on point to the topic of discussion. If this is how they start it is probably going to be how they continue. If you look at Agriculture's history you will find that he has posted this type of material for quite some time. --Gorgonzilla 01:12, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm not arguing that you're wrong and that Agriculture is right, or vice versa. The point is that you're both being disruptive. If you believe that his behavior is inappropriate, take the high road and show everyone how a good editor should behave. Don't stoop to taking cheap shots like this and this. Fernando Rizo T/C 01:18, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Hey I look at my user page and I see that the guy who wants to discuss decency has written a headline 'Screw You', he then delves into some not very subtle personal attacks. You don't think that sort of behavior isn't relevant to a debate on policing decency? I do, I think it demonstrates exactly the sort of level the 'debate' will start and end at. He decides to make an 'appology' and removes the 'screw you' but leaves the personal attacks in place. Responding in kind was a bit uncalled for though. --Gorgonzilla 01:39, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * "Responding in kind was a bit uncalled for though." Bingo. Take the high road, and people will flock to your defense. Fernando Rizo T/C 01:41, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

No problem
I did think that was directed at me, but I later realized what you meant and at any rate I never thought you were talking down to me at any stage. Cheers, CanadianCaesar 03:58, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Illuminati X
In the world of Online Gaming, Illuminati X is an organization that has chronicled the online gaming sites history. Earth 2025 is the online game in question. While this may not be considered as normal history, I should know, it is an online chronicle. A Chronicle of which will be viewed daily by a customer base of around 50,000 people. Thankyou for your consideration and please do not delete this.

Blinging
How else can one convey the fact that someone considers themselves Blinging without using that word? Also the Michele Raven stuff is true, that woman is nasty and insane! -Wiffle0rz 09:40, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Wiffle0rz, I completely believe you that Michele Raven is nasty and insane. The larger issue, however, is that it's not encyclopedic to say that "she thinks she's blinging" or that she has "amazing deepthroating ability". Try to make things neutral and academic when you right about them, and cite references. Seriously, read some other articles on Wikipedia. Try Featured articles. Then come back and tell me that you honestly think what you wrote at Michele Raven sounds professional. Fernando Rizo T/C 09:46, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I did it fast and hoped others would clean up for me, lol. I understand about the blinging, but the deepthroat thing is totally on-key, its one of her main selling points, one of the reasons shes famous (shes considered a Deepthroat Queen) and the theme of many of her films! What hobbies are you into? -Wiffle0rz 09:51, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Wiffle, check out WP:NPOV, and you'll understand why "amazing" anything doesn't work for Wikipedia. It's got to be neutral. How about, Many of her films are marketed on the strength of her noted skill at "deepthroating" instead? You see how that's neutral? On another note, I reverted your addition of Gag Factor to Slut's See also section, because it has nothing to do with it. Think about these edits before you make them, OK? Fernando Rizo T/C 09:57, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

VfDs from today
Erwin, I don't disagree with any of your VfD nominations. Those were all good catches on your part and I'll back you up 100% for tagging them. My advice, however, is this: use a more descriptive (and less snide) nomination. Invest a calorie or two into writing a complete sentence. You've got an RfC over you head right now, and the last thing you want to do is piss off some other random people who see your VfD noms and run over to RfC to certify your dispute.

You're an odd mix of smart contributions and unprofessional conduct, but I think you can be brought around. I say plenty of snide things to people on Wikipedia in my head, and give myself a good laugh. I recommmend you start doing the same. Drop me a line if you want to talk about it some more. Fernando Rizo T/C 17:34, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

 * The RFC was compiled by several well known problem users. You only have to do a brief scroll through the contributions of 'Gorgonzilla', 'Mirror Vax' and 'Acetic Acid' to find they are all involved in a number of editing disputes, personal attacks, etc.  It's a poor reflection on wikipedia that people like that even have a voice.  Oh, congratulations on your adminship.  I would have supported it but I don't vote on RFAs.  Erwin Walsh

 * Walsh, I complained about you because you were VfD tagging with an insufficient amount of thought. In the process you VfD tagged a lot of important pages, the ones that you don't list in your Vfd log. What people have been asking you to do is to exercise just a little bit of care. Stopped clocks are right twice a day. Instead you spend time attacking anyone who complains about your behavior. Recently the subject of your VfD nominations have not been a problem. But you have been engaging in a lot of pretty disruptive and unpleasant attacks in the process. Your latest attack on me is utterly untrue and says more about you than me. I am not a homophobic biggot, in fact I rent out my basement in Massachusetts to gay couples for a nominal fee so they can establish residency and get married. So I don't use homosexual as an epithet. --Gorgonzilla 13:34, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Wild Animal Park
The Wild Animal Park is in the City of San Diego (yes you drive through Escondido to get to it but it is in the community of San Pasqual. It is not in Escondido. It has a Escondido ZIP code much like areas of Del Mar Heights have a Del Mar ZIP code but they are not in Del Mar  but San Diego or areas of Lake Murray have La Mesa ZIP code but are in San Diego not La Mesa.  There are numerous examples of this throughout the "City of San Diego"   Check an the other conversation on this.  I live and work in San Diego and worked for an elected official for the area.  San Pasqual is in the City of San Diego.  When contacted by residnets of San Pasqual we would refer  local issues to the City of San Diego and not the Cityof Escondido.
 * Marc, we're going to have to agree to disagree on this one. Did you see my post in on Talk:San Diego, California? If there's substantial disagreement, let's do a request for comment and I'll go wherever the consensus goes. Fernando Rizo T/C 22:33, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Ron Davies
You are American and thus not fammiliar with the topic. I know that Wikipedia has a very American-centric slant to the world, but please, if you are not fammiliar with a topic, please let it be.

Ron Davies resigned for the second time as a result of a further homosexual indiscretion in woodland near his home constituency in Wales. He claimed at the time that he was a keen Badger Watcher, and that was why he was poking around in the bushes (sic).

check the BBC if you want for the story.

Collection of comments from discussion with User:82.35.34.24 on 23 August
Are you saying Robert Maxwell was not a thief? Are you fammiliar with the story of how he STOLE, not 'mis-used', millions of pounds from his company's pension funds, to support his failing business?

Ok, if I MUST proove you to be out of your depth here.

Link 1: Davies admits he is partial to badger spotting: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2828421.stm

Link 2: Davies again admits to badger watching: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/2828421.stm

On the Maxwell story, I can only conclude that you are showing your ignorance in a much larger way. I don't know how fammilar you are with the Robert Maxwell story, but here you are - go educate yourself, and next time, stick to edits that you are fammiliar with. Thankyou.

Link: Check the Caption below the thief's photograph. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3681364.stm

Now can you stick to your areas of interest/experience please. As you well know, not every sentence on Wikipedia has to be accounted for. Especially not claims of Robert Maxwell of all people, being a thief, a liar, a fraud, and a cad. In the UK, that would be laughable.

Now, I have a dissertation to get on with. Buh-Bye!

So please in the name of God tell me WHY we cannot describe Maxwell as having thieved from the Trinity Group's pension fund? How is this NPOV? The man was a thief, therefore he thieves correct? Don't they teach you anything in the colonys? (light humour/jest/mil ribbing intended).

So please in the name of God tell me WHY we cannot describe Maxwell as having thieved from the Trinity Group's pension fund? How is this NPOV? The man was a thief, therefore he thieves correct? Don't they teach you anything in the colonys? (light humour/jest/mil ribbing intended).

Ok, you seem like a decent sort of chap.

How about stole. That is the most common verb used for the act of stealing no? And the BBC used it too - hardly tabloid. I do not want to give the impression that white collar criminals are somehow less culpable than their working class counterparts, simply because their crimes are conducted via Offshore Financial Centres and electronic trading networks.

That is something you in America should know all about with your Corporate Governance issues ;)

I would, but I would just get annoyed with the political articles which would invariably lead to lengthy edit wars. Plus it would probably eat up too much of my time (surfing from one interesting random article to the next) and I have a dissertation due in 2 weeks time, and then that's it, no more studying....EVER! I see you are a student, how's it going?

Thanks!
Hey...thanks for your enthusiastic support for potential adminship on my talk page. It's quite surprising to me to find such support, especially from names I recognise so readily. Evidently being made into an admin hasn't jaded you yet. Giving things a few weeks to make it over the magic-three-month point seems prudent to me — just to help give more positive reasons! I'll drop you a line if/when my 'name' turns up on RfA. -Splash 01:52, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Synchronicity!
No, I think a week is fine; I was just reacting to the common-or-garden vandalism of adding "pee" to Pea. Since you said there was an ongoing problem, and it's not an AOL ip address, I increased my block to a week. (Otherwise my shorter block would have overridden your longer block.) Cheers! FreplySpang (talk) 04:29, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
 * OMG I have that song stuck in my head too! We must be psychic! :-) :-) :-) FreplySpang (talk) 04:36, August 23, 2005 (UTC)

History of South Carolina
Hello. History of South Carolina is on Featured Article Candidates for a third time due to recent controversy. Because you commented on one of its past nominations, you may be interested in commenting this time at Featured article candidates/History of South Carolina. Toothpaste 19:27, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

Be honest now Mr. Rizo ...
... who brought aetherometry to your attention? More to the point, where and when did you discover the ability to 'know' pseudo-science without spending a single word in the talk page discussing it? Currently under review, is a particularly short read on one experiment, its findings, and clear opportunity for you to list (even just one), inconsistency with the scientific method. Please keep in mind that a conflict with 'accepted' mainstream understanding, is NOT a priori inconsistent with the scientific method. Or do you think otherwise? Your quiet arrival and proclamation of 'pseudo', suggest that you have made up your mind and felt no need to comment about it. Or maybe you never even read a single word of the monograph currently under review, but by its open acknowledgment in challenging MainStream paradigms, you concluded therefor 'it must be false'.

By the way, and I might be really going out on a limb thinking that you care in the least, but I too really enjoy PBYs. I'm a stick and rudder pilot myself with a rather divers background as an A+P certified mechanic around seaplanes. I naïvely wandered into this wiki with grand thoughts that it might be a cool place to "work with others" on collaborating in articles and developing open-source information sharing. I spent a short while putting in my two cents on welding, machining, and just a few other things before I saw what was happening in the science topics.

If you really know something about science, particularly as it is actually wrestling with some heavy questions on the nature of electricity, solar activity, major points against Relativity, and big problems with Big Bang Boloney...  then you should feel welcomed by me personally, to engage in any dialogue. Be that PBYs, Short Brothers, Red Shift, or whatever....  But if you are just taking cues from others who told you 'aetherometry is a total load of shit' ....    and you act blindly on just that word...   then don't spend one single minute responding to what I have written here. TTLightningRod 20:48, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * TT, first of all, that's awesome that you've worked on seaplanes. I have a lifelong love of them, but it's fascination from a distance- I've never had the good fortune to fly in one or anything like that.
 * With regard to Aetherometry, you are making some very off-base assumptions. I am not intimately familiar with the subject, nor should I be. What I am doing is refereeing as an impartial admin. I've read the talk pages for aetherometry thoroughly, and it seems to me that the consensus amongst registered users is that aetherometry is psuedoscience. If the consensus were otherwise, I would be fighting just as hard to preserve that consensus. Whether I personally agree with it or not is totally immaterial to the discussion. All I'm doing is enforcing that consensus.
 * I have strong feelings about a variety of subjects, and I know that my strong feelings will lead me to make biased edits, so I tend to stay away from them. For example, I don't make any edits other than the reverting of obvious vandalism to 2003 invasion of Iraq, because being a veteran of that particular war I know that my views of it are inherently biased. If you know that your feelings about aetherometry are so strong that they impair your ability to be impartial, then I would suggest editing a different article. Consensus rules at Wikipedia. It's very frustrating to be on the side opposite the consensus, but that's the way it is. Unless I can convince other editors of the factual correctness of my position on a talk page, then I don't waste my time trying to edit the article. Fernando Rizo T/C 20:59, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

FR, see, the curious thing is... I don't know if aetherometry is bunk or not. I honestly haven't made up my mind on its validity either way. That may seem tough to understand by my actions against this 'consensus' you speak of...  But it is because the "registered" users have not addressed the meat of the topic...  instead, they have acted as a disturbing group of Mainstream, Peer Review, Accepted Publication foot solders. And that is not what I ever understood this Wikipedia to stand for. The Anon nature of the 'supportive' contributors is another story...  and I would be happy to talk about the sophist nature of arguments 'against' anonymity if you like. In the end I trust you may agree that is a non-issue.

So we are left with categorizing the topic as pseudo (fake, or known to be false) Or, proto, non-mainstream, applied, nascent or what have you... if it is only in keeping with the scientific method...   no matter how controversial it may be. I have yet to find its violation with open mindedness on the part of the Aetherometry researchers, the concept of falsifiability, documentation and publication source, even real peer review and offers of further peer review. The arguments posed by well known and popular registered users have NOT been so equally honest as those who must now contribute anonymously. Your thoughts. (US Army 68G pre Desert Storm, no combat. I too think we should avoid topics of geo-politics) TTLR

 * Once again, TT, you're arguing the validity of aetherometry and the validity of other editor's opinions. I couldn't care less; I'm simply enforcing the consensus and neutral point of view. I may have opinions on what is and what is not pseudoscience, but in the case of aetherometry they are uninformed and irrelevent. Fernando Rizo T/C 21:50, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

The same brilliant circular arguments..... (they're like a virus Mr Rizo, check yourself with this little test)

This consensus you speak of has skipped an actual scientific process, that of examining A's adherence to, or lack of, scientific rigor. Without honest examination of scientific rigor, and yet simply categorizing something as a fake, this is no longer a neutral point of view. And most ironically, that maybe the only real pseudoscience going on here.

 * By not personally engaging in the stupid main-space edit war of "science" vs. "pseudo" (ya can't really say the same, : )....  and instead, talking to you here, this should demonstrate my interest in 'building' consensus.  Yes/No?

 * By reading the published papers, before I formed an opinion as to whether there was any science or not, and dialoging about it, I should also be demonstrating a 'neutral point of view'. Yes/No?

 * By not categorizing something as Fake, without reference to charges of fraud, or even a single censure by the Holy MainStream for Aetherometry's lack of rigor, then I am in the least being honest. Yes/No?

If you have answered yes to these questions, I suggest you examine more closely the behavior of others. In that, you would be a good admin. TTLR

 * TT, I think you're missing the mark. Your statement, "This consensus you speak of has skipped an actual scientific process" shows a lack of understanding of what Wikipedia is for. This is an encyclopedia, not a place to conduct original research. The idea that Wikipedia editors should be examining the validity of different claims is totally antithetical to the purpose of this place. Claims are examined in scientific journals and publications, and all we do here is report the findings of other publications.
 * The Encyclopedia Britannica does not employ a staff of investigators, nor should they. They do (and we strive to do) a survey of published materials and make articles based upon those materials. If the majority of the widely-read scientific publications say "foo", then the best any encyclopedia can do it say that those publications say "foo". Wikipedia does not care who is right and who is wrong, Wikipedia should only care about what is being published elsewhere, and catalogue it. That, good sir, is what an encyclopedia does.
 * Other editors have looked at the landscape around them and crafted that article accordingly. Read Aetherometry again. It is decidedly neutral. It explains the various claims made by aetherometry, discusses connections to other fields of study, tells you where to find more information, and then links to a handful of sites, some for, some against, some neutral. It is concise, and offers no opinion of its own. It is an encyclopedia article, and it is my job and my pleasure to ensure that it remains such. -- Fernando Rizo T/C 01:43, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Whazza? The whole issue of the psuedoscience label is that it comes apropos of nothing. These editors have NOT surveyed the materials around them for that judgement; in fact there ARE no quotable materials calling Aetherometry pseudoscience. It is a purely POV label. While your commitment to neturality is laudable I find your glib confirmation of a false and uninformed consensus rather appalling.Pgio 02:00, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * And who might you be? Fernando Rizo T/C 02:03, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I think it's someone surveying the material around them. TTLR

 * Ha ha! Good point. Mr Rizo, if you are thoroughly familiar with the Aetherometry discussion, it should be quite obvious I have been involved.Pgio 03:13, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm perfectly aware that you're involved, I just thought it was an interesting point of etiquette that you dove right into argumentation with me without so much as an introduction. I thought I'd be subtle instead of just calling you rude. TTLR had the decency to make a bit of small talk with a perfect stranger at least, although I'm not entirely convinced that you aren't the same person. Fernando Rizo T/C 07:52, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Not the same person, although my assertion to such need not prove anything for you. What Pigo and I suspect, is that your interjection into aeth/talk, at the particular moment you did, was detrimental to an ongoing discussion on the merits and adherents to the scientific method by that topic.  The wikipedians 'pushing' the pseudo category business, were NOT thus engaged much like yourself, in assessing the material.  The timing of your actions, Pgio and I suspect, helped in derailing a constructive collaboration.   This collaboration WAS NOT original research as you suggested, but actually a proper examination of the material submitted by others.  Do you understand the dynamic I am describing, and thus why we may have been attracted to "who is Mr. Rizo"?  This is particularly respectful of you as a person, Fernando, yet I do feel it appropriate to critique you in this matter. TTLR
 * Not the same person at all. Sorry if I was rude. Not exactly good faith though, the suggestion of sock puppetry. Pgio 03:09, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Ironic, how it was "Fernando" who made his way through Aeth with nether an introduction, nor even a bit of small talk himself. And he basically called me a sock puppet too.  More of that "bad faith" we're seeing so much of around this topic?  Your new barn stars seem to have a few casting cracks, Mr Rizo. TTLR

 * You're entitled to your opinion. Have fun. Fernando Rizo T/C 10:37, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

 * "Flipping Fernando the bird", would be an expression of POV. Commenting that "I think Mr. Rizo is a mule packing a POV agenda for himself or others", is also an expression of opinion.  That you first acted without a public introduction nor "small talk", is simply stating a wikipedia-historical fact.  Certainly, that you could have had some dialogue with other Registered Users, in any manner of caucus not visible to the general public, is an educated speculation on my part...  But I'm, as you say, "entitled to my opinion".   Admittedly, I'm now quite short on friendly small talk with you.  Responding to your three point list below, would be riding your Marry-Go-Round.  The meat of that has been "asked and answered" in many places, including the aeth/talk you said you reviewed.  My opinion is that you either didn't, or that a preponderance of evidence is lost on you rational.  Take care,  TTLR

 * And a hamster scurries off to learn about Aetherometry.... Hamster Sandwich 08:04, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

I'll be quite honest and tell you that I'm pretty tired of defending my actions in aetherometry, but I'll sum up where I stand one more time. I am not interested in debating the merits of aetherometry, nor am I interested in defending my actions further, as I feel I've beat this horse to death and am convinced that I acted both appropriately and in good faith. If you disagree, I invite you to file a request for comment against me; that's what RfC is for. You won't see me on aetherometry's talk page, because I have no interest in the subject. I am not a scientist, nor do I pretend to be one. If a consensus is hammered out on aetherometry at some point, you can expect me to enforce it, too, once the page is eventually unprotected. Fernando Rizo T/C 18:07, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) After seeing a storm of changes in the aetherometry article, I saw an abusive edit summary and used reverted it. This was before I had read the talk page for the article, but given the same opportunity I would do it again. An abusive edit summary spells bad faith editing to me.
 * 2) I read the article's talk page, and decided that the consensus amongst registered users was that artherometry was pseudoscience. Being a moderately intelligent person, I realize that the label "psuedoscience" may be contentious, but it is my job as an admin to uphold the consensus.
 * 3) I continued to revert the article to what I percieved as the decided upon consensus and requested that the page be protected as it became clear that the page was in a constant state of flux, as per Wikipedia policy.

 * Re:Aetherometry. Some may call it pseudoscience, others may regard it as avant guard scientific truth. My own opinion is that the theory is muddle headed hooplah. Nicola Tesla and Wilhelm Reich in the same sentence? Damn...the mind boggles. Hamster Sandwich 19:28, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

User:82.35.34.24
Hi Fernando,

Just a quick note to thank you for your prompt help with regards to User:82.35.34.24

I really appreciate your assistance and hope that he/she will no longer vandalise my user page or other Wikipedia pages.

Kind regards,

-- Kosovar 22:59, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

I've noticed that...
Hells ya! Hamster Sandwich 05:11, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

just an fyi:
I'm back at school and don't have internet at the apartment yet (unless you count walking around the room to pinpoint that one generic open Linksys spot - and promptly losing it a minute later :). When I get the chance I'll of course continue working on the PBY; There's actually a solid section in Jane's that I've not really worked into the article. In the meantime, keep racking up the accolades! Gotta go before the wifi craps out once more. -eric ✈ 05:28, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Erwin Walsh
Whats with this character? User:Erwin Walsh At first I didn't check his edit history and didn't think anything about him. He asked me to purge a few of the members in the encyclopedic merit (decency) afterburner project and I said I would, but they all calmed down and now he's doing it himself...--MONGO 11:16, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't honestly know. I've tried to talk to him, but he just doesn't communicate with other editors. Sometimes he makes great contributions, and sometimes he's just disruptive. He won't be around much longer if he keeps it up, and I honestly think it's a pity because he could be a great editor. It killed me to block him just now. Fernando Rizo T/C 11:18, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Are you sure you blocked the right one? See the admin noticeboard. Lupo 11:25, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * I know exactly what you're talking about Lupo; he's created quite a few sock puppets. I've commented over at WP:AN/I. Fernando Rizo T/C 11:31, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Verfiy for Delete
Hi; I wrote the article TINDOMH, which you have put up for deletion--no worries, I kinda understand the reasoning, and I apologise if it's against wiki-etiquette (these are my first articles, though I've been hovering about for a few weeks)! Is there a way you'd suggest to a) make the article noteworthy (i.e. worthy of an entry unto itself) or b) permit its existence (not as an article but) as e.g. a footnote in a related article? Thanks for your help. Predglyn 15:45 GMT, August 24 2005.

Hi Predglyn. First off, thanks for your interest in Wikipedia. I see you've made some good edits to some James Bond articles while you were here; that's most appreciated. If you want, you should hook up with Kevin (User:K1Bond007), our resident Bond expert. I'm sure he's got a project or two that you could help out with. Now concerning, TINDOMH. There's a couple of Wikipedia policies and guidelines at play here.

 * First off, many editors (in fact, most editors) interpret the Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information section of What Wikipedia is not as a requirement for notability before an article is included. In the case of TINDOMH, it has not made any kind of impact on the world at large, and no one outside of the Cambridge Astronomical Society group from 2002 would know what it was. Wikipedia is not an avenue for publicity, it only documents those things that are already notable.

 * Secondly, TINDOMH doesn't muster up to Verifiability. No reference (such as a newspaper article, or a book or website) is referenced in the article, thus other editors cannot verify its existence and notability without the use of Google. At Votes for deletion, Google is almost always used if no verifiable references are cited by the article in question.

I hope this answers your questions. If you can do anything to prove the encyclopedic merit of TINDOMH, I'll be happy to help you out, and I'll even rescind the VfD nomination if it's compelling enough. I hope that, regardless of what happens with TINDOMH, you stick around and continue to contribute to Wikipedia. Don't hesitate to drop me a line if you need any help in the future. Fernando Rizo T/C 18:05, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Reply
Thanks for the prompt repsonse! Yes, I see your points, and am taking them on board as experience. With a colleague we've moved the reference to an external link within the Galileo: The True Story page; does this impact things? (You can consider my Keep vote on the TINDOMH article rescinded in any case, if it truly isn't viable)

As a side-question--what are the guidelines as to when an external link is permitted and when not? If it can be seen to contribute to an understanding of the article's information, or the people it discusses, does that allow linking? Is linking to "personal" (i.e. not of direct "encyclopaedic" value) websites right out? Oh, and is there more freedom on what may and may not be put/linked to on one's personal user page? Thank you again. It was nice of you to welcome me!

 * Hi again, Predglyn. I didn't notice this reply until just now, otherwise I would have gotten back to you sooner. I don't personally have a problem with the Galileo: The True Story article; it strikes me as a notable and encyclopedic enough subject, and you and your compatriots have gotten a good grasp on Wikipedia markup language and style very quickly, and you are to be commended for that.
 * With regard to external links, check out the External links policy page; if you've got any questions above and beyond that, drop me another note. As for what you can and cannot do with your user page: you're free to do whatever you wish with it, as long is it is not attacking another person, and obscene images are generally frowned upon as well. Anything else (links other sites, personal photos, etc.) is pretty much fair game.
 * Many editors find that there first article gets VfD'd and they stomp off in a fit of pique, never to be seen again. I'm glad to see that you're picking up Wikipedia and running with it, in spite of your initial setback. If you've ever got more questions, you're always welcome on my talk page. Fernando Rizo T/C 01:14, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Article Nadia Russ
Hi Fernando, please look at fixed Nadia Russ article and if you think there' s some change needed let me know or do it on your owns if you wish. Seems it looks OK now. Best

 * Unfortunately, Nadia Russ didn't look OK after your last edit. That's all right though, we learn by doing! Please read Manual of style to get a better idea of what a Wikipedia article should look like, and feel free to give it another try. Fernando Rizo T/C 18:40, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Help with Macedonian-related articles
I was hoping you could help to calm and mediate an increasingly rancorous dispute in articles related to Macedonia, in particular, the foregoing, Republic of Macedonia, and Macedonian slavs. As an outsider and a neutral to this ongoing dispute, and as a motivated new admin, I think you may be able to inculcate some much-needed civility on both sides. I note that this problem has been mentioned on the AN/I page as well.

Primarily, it appears that ethnic Greeks and Macedonian (or Macedonian slavs depending on your perspective) have been engaging in revert battles, subtle rephrasing campaigns, and talk page flame wars. Both sides seek to push POV, which results in articles becoming a mess and unencyclopedic. I point you to both sides of the debate (which I have joined, hopefully prooductively) at Talk:Republic of Macedonia. Also, take a look at MATIA's old talk page for a Greek-English translation that shows some collusive bad faith, and I am certainly concerned by this pro-Macedonian [slav] user's cavalier remarks that appear on the AN/I page and at Macedonia's discussion page.

I fear this is poised to get completely out-of-hand soon, and I was hoping you could help. Many thanks, Friejose 17:41, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Friejose, I'll certainly look into it. Fernando Rizo T/C 18:11, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Many thanks, Friejose 18:35, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry to continually be a bother about this, but I think reading the Talk:Macedonian_denar page will make crystal clear what the problem is. I'm afraid that some concerted admin effort and attention is needed here.  Yours, Friejose 19:56, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Friejose, I'm actually not going to be around much today, and possibly tomorrow either. I've started reading up on the conflict, but I won't be ready to intercede for a day or two because I'll be busy in RL. If you need immediate help and the AN/I isn't getting you anywhere, let me suggest User:Ryan Delaney, User:Joy Stovall, User:FreplySpang or User:Grutness. No guarantees that they'll have time either, but they are level-headed admins whose opinions I respect greatly. Fernando Rizo T/C 20:05, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Also, if you really want a new and enthusiastic admin like me, try User:Func. Fernando Rizo T/C 20:09, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the suggestions, I contacted User:Ryan Delaney and User:Func yesterday. Also, figured an update was in order as there is a pending/ongoing revert battle at the Macedonia article. Yours, Friejose 15:09, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Sundevil4life
This guy seems to be behaving like a jerk, but nonetheless, Please do not bite the newcomers. I have had experience with a couple of newbies who have come onto Wikipedia all bluster and fist-waving, but then they calm down once they're shown how to behave. Let's try to coach this guy instead of alienate him. If he doesn't respond positively to coaching, then we nuke him. Regards, Ground Zero 20:58, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I think if you look through my edit history, you'll see that I'm as big of a proponent of Don't bite the newcomers as they come. That said, this isn't a kid who came here and made a bad edit to a Transformers article or a person who gets into a POV war editing a contentious issue. He is here for the sole purpose of advertising his law firm, and for that I have no sympathy whatsoever. He's a spammer. I've been putting off a lot of things that I need to do in RL today for long enough, so I'm gonna take off and I leave him in your hands. I totally understand your concern, GZ, and your sentiment has my backing 100%, even if I don't agree with you in this particular case. Fernando Rizo T/C 21:04, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * He has made some edits to other articles. Take a look at his contribution history. If it weren't for those, I'd probably agree with you. A spammer isn't worth wasting time over. I offered him help, and he ridiculed me, so I have made the offer again. If he doesn't start to turn around quickly, then I'd agree to blocking. I'm new as an admin, so I am hesitant (as the guides tell me to be) about exercising that power, but I will look into into it. Any advice you can give me on that would be appreciated. Regards, Ground Zero 21:19, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

We can make sandwiches...
Hiya Fernando! No I haven't managed to get blocked, but it sure was a weird feeling for a few minutes there y-day. Kind of like having someone I don't know wearing my skivvies and then putting them back in the drawer. And the guys vandalism was weird too, he hit a couple of users that I do have on my watch list, and then a couple of articles I had never gone to. Hillary Clinton? Hamster Sandwich 16:33, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

from VIP

 * Wow. That's an impressive record. I'm watching them. Fernando Rizo T/C 22:05, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The vandal seems to have gotten bored or stopped as per my warning. I took some time to investigate their hundreds of contributions, and as Linas pointed out, every single one is vandalism. I'm going to be bold and ban them indefinitely. Senior admins:if I'm out of line, please correct me on my talk page and I'll unblock the user. Fernando Rizo T/C 22:21, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * It's a school IP, this is hardly surprising. Blocking IPs indefinitely is generally not done though; Considering the fact that there may be great contributors at that school logging in with usernames and thus not showing up in that list of contributions, and that this is our chance to introduce tomorrow's good editors to wikipedia, I think short blocks to stop immediate vandalism are our best choice. --fvw *  22:33, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * As per your suggestion, Fvw, I'm reducing the block to 24 hours. How do you know that it's school IP? Fernando Rizo T/C 22:43, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks. ARIN classifies the netblock as a Qwest one, labelled "REGION 10 EDUCATION SERVICE". I have no idea what region 10 is, but the whole thing suggests school to me. Most IPs that have long streams of tests and reasonably benign vandalism are either schools or libraries. --fvw *  22:48, August 25, 2005 (UTC)

 * Now that's a handy tool. Gotta keep that one in mind for the future, thanks, Fvw. Fernando Rizo T/C 22:55, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Featured Article Drive
I noticed you have left the Featured Article Drive team. On behalf of the Founders and other participants, I would like to thank you for your time and support, and of course, your contributions. We would like you to accept this small barnstar as a token of thanks for helping us to improve articles on the wiki. Rob Church Talk 00:43, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Rob, you are a fantastic fellow and I can't thank you enough for having such a high opinion of me and my edits. Unfortunately, I cannot accept this Barnstar with a clear conscience, no matter how thoughtful the sentiment it represents. I am very proud of the work I do on Wikipedia, and I think I've made some great edits. That said, I do believe that I made exactly one edit on behalf of the Featured Article Drive, and if memory serves it was a punctuation change on The Godfather (film). Thanks again, brother, but I would feel like a right bastard if I put that barnstar on my user page. :) Fernando Rizo T/C 00:48, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * A million raindrops make a river, take it and be proud of it I'd say. (I didn't contribute at all, so if anyone's a bastard it's me. Come to think of it, that was an indirect personal attack. You're lucky I don't RfC you.) --fvw *  00:52, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Bring it on Fvw! I ain't scared of you! :)
 * The more I think about it, it is exceptionally rude of my to turn down a gift. Fvw's right. Thank you, Rob, for the Barnstar. I will mount it on my userpage, post haste. Forgive my rudeness. Fernando Rizo T/C 01:00, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Only just noticed this discussion whilst chasing after a bot. I'm not worried either way. Rob Church Talk 03:00, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

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Just thought I'd let you know, if anyone wants to extend this topic, most of the sites I went to had a harsh loading time, or never loaded at all. Also, Mirmanoff appears to be several people as well as a mathematical expression. Xhin 02:34, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

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Elihu Katz

Elihu Katz (Hebrew: אליהוא כ"ץ, 21 May 1926 – 31 December 2021) was an American-Israeli sociologist and communication scientist whose expertise was uses and gratifications theory. He authored over 20 books and 175 articles and book chapters during his lifetime and is acknowledged as one of "the founding fathers of regular television broadcasts in Israel."

Biography
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Elihu Katz graduated from Midwood High School in 1944 and then served in the Army for three years. He received his bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees from Columbia University.

Katz died in Jerusalem on 31 December 2021, at the age of 95, survived by his wife Ruth, a musicologist and professor emerita at Hebrew University, two sons, and their families.

He is interred at Jerusalem’s Har Hamenuhot Cemetery.

Academic career
He is known for his work with Paul Lazarsfeld in the field of mass communication, most notably for developing the theory of the two-step flow of communication detailed in the book, Personal Influence: The Part Played by People in the Flow of Mass Communication. Additional works include: Medical Innovation: A Diffusion Study, The Export of Meaning: Cross-Cultural Readings of Dallas and Media Events: The Live Broadcasting of History.

Katz was Emeritus Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Pennsylvania. Additional posts include the University of Chicago and the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication. He helped to found Hebrew University’s Department of Communication and Journalism, paving the way for media studies in other universities and colleges in Israel.

Television career
He is credited with bringing television to Israel, and was director of Israeli Television from 1967-1967, now known as KAN 11.

Awards and recognition
In 1989, he was awarded the prestigious Israel Prize, for social sciences.

In 2005, he received the Marshall Sklare Award, given annually by the Association for the Social Scientific Study of Jewry to a senior scholar who has made a significant scholarly contribution to the social scientific study of Jewry.

He received additional honors including the UNESCO-Canada McLuhan Prize and the Burda Prize.

In 2013, he received an honorary degree from Northwestern University. In 2018, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania. He received additional honorary degrees from the Universities of Ghent, Montreal, Paris, Haifa, Rome (La Sapienza), Bucharest, and Quebec.

He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999.

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