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Fannie Ward

Fannie Ward (born Fannie Buchanan; February 22, 1872 – January 27, 1952), also credited as Fanny Ward, was an American actress of stage and screen. Known for performing in both comedic and dramatic roles, she was cast in The Cheat, a sexually-charged 1915 silent film directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Reportedly, Ward's ageless appearance helped her to achieve and maintain her celebrity. In its obituary for her, The New York Times describes her as "an actress who never quite reached the top in her profession ... [and who] tirelessly devoted herself to appearing perpetually youthful, an act that made her famous".

Early life and stage career
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Ward was the only daughter of Eliza and John Buchanan, who was a dry goods merchant. She had one sibling, a brother, Benton.

In 1890, "against the wishes of her parents", Ward made her stage debut as Cupid in Pippino with vaudevillian star Eddie Foy. She soon became a success in 10 stage productions in New York City before sailing in 1894 to London, where she performed in The Shop Girl. Her performances there led critics to compare Ward favorably to actress Maude Adams. In 1898, however, she married a wealthy diamond merchant and retired from the stage. Ward resumed her career in 1905 after her husband suffered severe business losses that left him, according to news reports, "practically penniless". In April 1907, she returned to the Broadway stage to perform in A Marriage of Reason at the Wallack's Theatre. She was then cast two years later in another Broadway production, The New Lady Bantock; and after its run at Wallack's, she and other cast members took the play on tour to various cities during the latter half of 1909. Yet another popular Broadway play in which she performed was the comedy Madam President, which was presented at the Garrick Theatre from September 1913 to January 1914.

Film
In 1915, around the time Ward's stage career was waning, American movie producer and director Cecil B. DeMille convinced her to perform in The Cheat, a silent film melodrama co-starring Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa. The film proved to be a sensation due to its plot mingling of racial and sexual themes. In it Ward portrays a society woman who embezzles money and turns to an Asian ivory dealer (Hayakawa) for help, with brutal consequences. The movie launched the careers of DeMille and Hayakawa, who soon became Hollywood's first Asian star.

In addition to starring in The Hardest Way in 1921, Ward also appears in several shorts released in the 1920s: the Phonofilm short Father Time (1924) in which she sings; another Phonofilm production, The Perennial Flapper (1924); and in the Vitaphone short The Miracle Woman (1929).

In 1926, trading on her ever-youthful public image, Ward opened a Paris beauty shop, "The Fountain of Youth".

Personal life and death
Fannie Ward was married twice. Her first husband was Joseph Lewis, a British money lender and diamond dealer. They married in 1898. In 1909, in an interview with newspaper reporter Marguerite Martyn, Ward stated, "My husband hates my work", and then she questioned why women are treated differently than men professionally:"He wouldn't speak to me for six months after I returned to the stage. But as for my duty, there are men of leisure who have indulgences, who give up half their time to sport or travel or study or research in some favorite art or science, so why shouldn't a woman? I only ask to spend six months out of the year upon the stage."

On January 14, 1913, less than four years after the noted interview, Ward and Lewis divorced. The following year she married her second husband, John Wooster Dean (born John H. Donovan, 1874–1950), an actor who had frequently co-starred with her on stage and in films.

Ward's only child, Dorothé Mabel Lewis (1900–1938), was the result of an affair with the Viscount Castlereagh, who in 1915 became The Most Hon. The 7th Marquess of Londonderry (1878–1949), an Anglo-Irish aristocrat from Ulster. She married firstly, in 1917, RAF Captain Isaac Henry Woolf ("Jack") Barnato (1894–1918), son of the diamond and gold mining entrepreneur Barney Barnato and secondly to Terence Conyngham Plunket, 6th Baron Plunket, and had three sons. She and her husband were killed in a plane crash due to heavy fog.

On January 21, 1952, at age 79, Ward suffered a stroke in her Park Avenue apartment and was found unconscious by a neighbor. She remained in a coma until her death six days later at Lenox Hill Hospital. The New York Times reported that Ward died without a will and left an estate with an estimated value of $40,000. The newspaper also reported that she was survived by "three English grandsons": Lord Patrick Plunkett, the Hon. Shaun Plunkett, and the Hon. Robin Plunkett.

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Steve Roper and Mike Nomad

Steve Roper and Mike Nomad were an American adventure comic strip that ran under various titles from November 23, 1936 to December 26, 2004. Originally Big Chief Wahoo, the focus and title character of the strip changed over time to Chief Wahoo (1940-1945), Chief Wahoo and Steve Roper (1945-1946), Steve Roper and Wahoo (1946-1948), Steve Roper (1948-1969) and finally Steve Roper and Mike Nomad (1969-2004).

It was initially distributed by Publishers Syndicate, then by Field Newspaper Syndicate, before concluding at King Features Syndicate. Despite the changes in title, characters, themes, and authors, the entire 68-year run formed a single evolving story, from an Indian who teamed up with an adventurous young photojournalist to two long-time friends ready to retire after their long, eventful careers.

Created by Allen Saunders and Elmer Woggon, the strip was written by Saunders for more than forty years until it was taken over by his son John Saunders, who wrote it for another 24 years. Woggon illustrated the strip from its inception until the mid-1940s; other artists who spent considerable time on the strip included Pete Hoffman (11 years), William Overgard (31 years), and Fran Matera (19 years).

Origins
The strip was originally proposed by Elmer Woggon as The Great Gusto, illustrated by himself and written by Allen Saunders (who would also write Mary Worth and Kerry Drake). J. Mortimer Gusto was a freeloading opportunist based on the film persona of W.C. Fields. In his autobiography, Saunders said Fields was flattered. However, the syndicate preferred his sidekick Wahoo. The proposal was revamped to center on this sidekick, and the strip debuted on November 23, 1936, as Big Chief Wahoo.

Whitman Publishing produced three "Big Chief Wahoo" Big Little Books: Big Chief Wahoo (1938), Big Chief Wahoo and the Magic Lamp (1940) and Big Chief Wahoo and the Lost Pioneers (1942).

Characters and story
Wahoo was a short Native American in a ten-gallon hat who was played for laughs but showed courage, loyalty, and common sense. It was white people who were often the targets of the jokes, and the strip made vigorous defences of Native Americans. Wahoo, rich from discovering oil on his land back in Te-e-pee Town (spelled both ways in the strip), headed to New York City to find his girlfriend Minnie Ha-Cha, who had gone away to college and was now a nightclub singer. On the way, Wahoo was joined by Gusto, who continued as a support character through August 1939. Other original characters included Pigtails ("44 pounds of dynamite wrapped in calico!") and Lulu Hipps ("The bee-utiful belle of the boarding-house").

The strip initially revolved around humorous tales, such as stories about people trying to cheat Wahoo out of his money or fish-out-of-water tales of Wahoo in New York or Hollywood. From the beginning, the storyline maintained continuity, and had already moved into serious adventure by 1940 when a dashing young photojournalist named Steve Roper was introduced. By World War II, Roper was the lead in war-oriented adventures, and the strip was retitled Chief Wahoo and Steve Roper in 1945. The strip was rebranded many times in the following years, secondly as Steve Roper and Wahoo in 1946, and finally in 1948 as Steve Roper. Wahoo and Minnie were written out on February 21 and November 19, 1947, respectively. As the strip took on many different characters and backgrounds, its artwork changed; Some of the artists include Woggon's brother Bill Woggon, Don Dean, and (from December 1945 to July 1954) Pete Hoffman. Woggon remained the strip's letterer and researcher until sometime in 1975. He later passed in 1978.

1946–70
After his World War II service in Navy intelligence, Roper got a job at Spotshot magazine (renamed Spotlight in 1950), and from then on the main action was set in New York City. As good with his fists as with his cameras and typewriter, he built a reputation as a racket-busting ace reporter and editor. The strip's popularity grew: after the March 1948 birth of a son to Roper's friends Sonny and Cupcake Brawnski, there was a national write-in of suggested names from readers.

In 1951, Steve got engaged to his boss Kit Karson, but when he was framed on a story in 1953 and broke jail, she abandoned him. Vindicating himself in a major crime ring bust, he was snapped up by the competition, crusty Major J. Calhoun McCoy at Tell magazine (soon renamed Proof). He continued exposing crimes and frauds, but his sense of moral outrage kept landing him in fiendish criminal traps that nearly finished him and some of the crooks he sent to prison with his exposés came back for revenge.

On July 12, 1954, the artwork was taken over by William Overgard, who on June 17, 1956 introduced a character whom he had tried unsuccessfully to feature in a strip of his own. Mike Nomad had served in World War II as a U.S Marine commando. After working in oil fields, he looked up Roper to verify his Proof magazine photo of a smuggler he thought he had killed. They solved the case together, and then Roper got him a job at Proof as a truck driver. In 1962, Nomad got his own room over the restaurant of Chinese wisdom-quoting Ma Jong, and she became a permanent member of the cast as his landlady.

The two men were different: pipe-smoking Roper was a fast-thinking, stylish, college-educated "straight arrow,", while flat-topped Nomad was a tough, street-smart antihero, loyal but not averse to deceiving, and impulsive. Their friendship and interaction as men became a lasting theme of the strip. In the next 25 years, they alternated or joined forces in stories about people whose problems often drove them to crime. The dual protagonists were recognized in April 1969 by the last name change, Steve Roper & Mike Nomad. For a drawing of Roper and Nomad ca. 1965, see Overgard's National Cartoonists Society biography card.

1970–2004
In February 1970, Roper was promoted by McCoy to editor-in-chief at Consolidated Publications, Inc., though he continued to carry out investigative reporting. Then, in August 1976, in his late forties, he married a young reporter, Trudy Hale. Meanwhile, Nomad, who remained single, despite four close calls, was laid off from Proof and got new jobs, with new dangers, as a cab driver (1976) and then independent trucker (1981). In 1983, Roper lost his wife (traumatized in an explosion, committed to a mental hospital, and soon divorcing him), got fired for taking dangerous risks in an exposé of political bribes, and then moved to Florida to make a new start as a TV news anchor.

In 1979, Allen Saunders retired and gave the writing of Steve Roper and Mary Worth to his son John Saunders, a Toledo TV broadcaster who sometimes assisted him. There has been conflicting information on this transition. John (1986) said he had helped since 1949 and had done the "writing chores" since the early 1950s; and in its release on his death in 2003, King Features Syndicate (in turn cited by Markstein) said he had had "full responsibility" over Steve Roper since 1955. This claim is not supported in Allen's own candid discussions of "the strips that I write" (articles in 1953, 1971, and 1983-85 autobiography), and the scripting continued to show his unique writing style, characterization, and plotting until 1979. The strip itself first acknowledged John as assistant on December 25, 1976, and as the writer on October 28, 1979. As the obituary in his hometown newspaper (Toledo Blade, 2003) put it, "John Saunders began working on the strips (i.e., Steve Roper and Mary Worth) periodically during the 1950s, but took over in 1979."

In early 1985 Overgard left to focus on his own comic Rudy and other work, and the artwork was then taken over by Fran Matera. The strip was now focused on Nomad, who won a state lottery and was cajoled into a detective business with cop Francis Hogan (1989). Their main client (beginning December 1991) was a motel chain owner, the inimitable Emma Stopp. Nomad got engaged to social worker Meg Carey, a relationship that ended in 2000. Meanwhile, Roper retired in Florida and was kept out of sight for ten years. But in 1997 he returned, tired of journalism, he joined Nomad and Hogan in detective work, and by the end of the strip he had again become the leading character. John Saunders continued to write the strip until his death on November 15, 2003. Officially, Matera took over the writing until it was discontinued by the syndicate. In the strip's last days the dailies featured stories involving Mike, while the Sundays focused on Steve. It has been reported that the dailies of that period were combinations of reprinted and some new art, remaking older stories.

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Weir (disambiguation)

A weir is a barrier across a river. It may also refer to:

Canada

 * Weir, Quebec, an unincorporated village in Montcalm, Quebec

India

 * Weir, Rajasthan
 * Weir Dam, Maharashtra

United Kingdom

 * Weir, Lancashire
 * Wyre, Orkney, Scotland, which used to be spelt "Weir" occasionally

United States

 * Weir, Kansas
 * Weir, Kentucky
 * Weir, Mississippi
 * Weir, Texas
 * Weir, West Virginia
 * Weir Farm National Historic Site, Connecticut, USA
 * Weir Hill, a park in Massachusetts
 * James Weir House, Tennessee, USA
 * Weirs Beach, New Hampshire
 * The Weirs, an archaeological site in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire

People and fictional characters

 * Weir (surname), a list of people and fictional characters
 * Sukollawat Kanaros, Thai actor nicknamed "Weir"

Arts and entertainment

 * Weirs (album), by Luke Vibert and Jeremy Simmonds
 * Weir (song), Killing Heidi's debut single
 * The Weir, a 1997 play by Conor McPherson

Other uses

 * Fishing weir, a type of fish trap
 * Viscount Weir, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
 * WEIR, an American radio station
 * Weir Group, an engineering company headquartered in Glasgow, Scotland

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User:Matty13624

Hello! My name is matty13624! But I'm sure you knew that.

Please be sure to visit me on my IGN Page My username is matty13624.

My Contributions
I helped write Origianl Ending to the Jurassic Park article.

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Talkworthy Items
Hello. I'm just writing to tell you that a changed a link on your userpage. Change it back if you want. "Steve"

Yo, yo. It #9, if you know what I mean. Did You-know-who ask you about you-now-what? Delete this message and write me back. Jared

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Building superintendent

A building superintendent or building supervisor (often shortened to super) is a term used in the United States and Canada to refer to a manager responsible for repair and maintenance in a residential building. They are the first point of contact for residents of the building.

Although very common in large cities in the United States and Canada, the job title is not often used in the rest of the world. Other common titles for this job include resident manager, apartment manager, and caretaker.

Duties and functions
Building superintendents are expected to take care of minor issues and repairs, such as patch drywall and do painting, repair/replace flooring, doors, windows, etc., fix simple electrical, plumbing and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) issues, do appliance repairs, clean and maintain the common areas in the building, perform regular preventive maintenance and manage regular inspections and security. For larger jobs and major repairs, they will organize, call, and supervise the work of outside contractors. Building superintendents often get discounts in their rent or free rent plus a salary in exchange for their services. The amount of compensation they receive is usually proportional to the size of the building.

The superintendent or resident manager may report to the landlord or a property manager for any problem outside his or her control.

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Aimé, duc de Clermont-Tonnerre

Aimé-Marie-Gaspard, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre (27 November 1779 – 8 January 1865) was a French general and statesman.

Son of Gaspard-Paulin, vicomte de Clermont-Tonnerre and Anne-Marie- Louise Bernard de Boulainvilliers, and grandson of the Marquis de Boulainvilliers, Clermont-Tonnerre lived during the revolution with his grandfather.

Life
He entered the École Polytechnique, before entering the army. He participated in the campaigns in Italy, Germany and Spain and was made adjudant of the King of Naples in 1808, in whose service he stayed afterwards. He married Charlotte de Cauvoisin and in 1814 returned to the French army as a colonel, was Maréchal de Camp and after the second return of the king, was made Peer of France and commander of the cavalry of the guard.

Clermont-Tonnerre sided with the moderate conservative party and was named Minister of the Navy and the Colonies in 1820 by Villèle. In 1823, he became Minister of War and assiduously reorganized the army.

Clermont-Tonnerre sent Hyacinthe de Bougainville around the world from 1824 to 1826 onboard Thétis and Espérance.

In 1827, he organized the Algerian expedition, which was executed in 1830.

After the revolution, he refused to swear allegiance to the new government of Louis-Philippe and retired into private life. In 1852, he lobbied for the first rail line between Paris and Cherbourg-en-Cotentin to pass through the department of Eure. He died on his estate in Glissolles.

The Hawaiian plant genus Clermontia was named in his honor by Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupré.

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Articles that I have created
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Ryan Sinn

Ryan Sinn is the bassist for The Distillers. He currently resides in San Diego, California.

Sinn joined The Distillers after their first album. At the time he only played guitar, but he learned the bass parts on their previous album in four days and was asked to join the band after he auditioned. He appeared on the group's second and third albums. The band experienced some turmoil in 2005, and Sinn announced that he had left the band in August of that year. He would later return in 2018 when the band reunited.

After leaving The Distillers, Sinn was recruited by Blink-182 member Tom DeLonge to join his new project, Angels & Airwaves. He played bass on the band's 2006 release We Don't Need to Whisper. However, in April 2007, rumors spread that Sinn had left Angels & Airwaves due to difficulties with the rest of the band.

Sinn was playing bass with The Innocent, a thrash metal group consisting of drummer Brooks Wackerman (Bad Religion), vocalist Brandan Schieppati (Bleeding Through) and guitarist Dave Nassie (No Use for a Name). He played in a band called Blackpool in 2010. He occasionally played bass with the band Stephen Rey and the Slicks, when active. Sinn sang for Bhorelorde.

Sinn is also currently the music director for a San Diego, California-based 501(c)(3), The Free Art Foundation.

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Clarks Cave

Clarks Cave is a cave in Bath County, Virginia. The cave was mined for saltpeter in the 1800s.

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Erik Rhodes (actor, born 1906)

Erik Rhodes (born Ernest Sharpe; February 10, 1906 – February 17, 1990) was an American film and Broadway singer and actor. He is best remembered today for appearing in two classic Hollywood musical films with the popular dancing team of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers: The Gay Divorcee (1934) and Top Hat (1935).

Early years
Rhodes was born Ernest R. Sharpe at El Reno, Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest A. Sharpe. He attended Central High School and the University of Oklahoma. While he was a student at the university, he earned a scholarship that enabled him to spend a year in New York studying voice.

During World War II, Rhodes was a language specialist in the intelligence service of the Army Air Force.

Career
Rhodes started performing on the Broadway stage in A Most Immoral Lady (1928) using his birth name, Ernest R. Sharpe. This was followed by two musicals, The Little Show (1929) and Hey Nonny Nonny! (1932).

He first used the name Erik Rhodes when he appeared on Broadway in Gay Divorce (1932) and again in London in 1933. In this show, he gave a memorable comic portrayal of a spirited, feather-brained, thick-accented Italian character that impressed RKO executives enough to bring him to Hollywood to reprise the role in the film version, The Gay Divorcee (1934) and then repeated in Top Hat (1935), much to Mussolini's displeasure.

In 1946, he was called in to take over a role in the Vernon Duke musical Sweet Bye and Bye during its tryout, but the show closed before reaching Broadway. Between 1947 and 1964, he was back on Broadway in The Great Campaign, Dance Me a Song, Collector's Item, Shinbone Alley, Jamaica, How to Make a Man, and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. In the Cole Porter musical Can-Can, he appeared as a lecherous art critic, and introduced the song "Come Along With Me".

Rhodes also acted in regional theater, including Playhouse on the Mall in Paramus, New Jersey, and the Forrest Theatre in Philadelphia.

On radio, Rhodes was heard regularly on the variety show 51 East 51st. On television, he was co-host of Second Cup of Coffee, which debuted on WJZ in New York City on October 15, 1952. The Monday-Friday 15-minute daytime program combined talk and music. Among his other TV appearances, he performed in the variety program Wonder Boy and played the role of murder victim Herman Albright in the 1961 Perry Mason episode, "The Case of the Violent Vest."

Death
Rhodes died of pneumonia in an Oklahoma City nursing home on February 17, 1990, at age 84 and is interred with his wife in the El Reno Cemetery in El Reno, Oklahoma.

Film

 * Give Her a Ring (1934) – Otto Brune
 * The Gay Divorcee (1934) – Rodolfo Tonetti
 * Charlie Chan in Paris (1935) – Max Corday
 * A Night at the Ritz (1935) – Leopold Jaynos
 * The Nitwits (1935) – George Clark
 * Old Man Rhythm (1935) – Frank Rochet
 * Top Hat (1935) – Alberto Beddini
 * Another Face (1935) – Grimm – Assistant Director
 * Two in the Dark (1936) – Carlo Gheet
 * Chatterbox (1936) – Mr. Archie Fisher
 * Special Investigator (1936) – Benny Gray
 * One Rainy Afternoon (1936) – Count Alfredo Donstelli
 * Second Wife (1936) – Dave Bennet
 * Smartest Girl in Town (1936) – Baron Enrico Torene
 * Criminal Lawyer (1937) – Bandini
 * Woman Chases Man (1937) – Henri Saffron
 * Music for Madame (1937) – Spaghetti Nadzio
 * Fight for Your Lady (1937) – Anton Spadissimo
 * Beg, Borrow or Steal (1937) – Lefevre
 * The Canary Comes Across (1938, Short) – Canary Dillon
 * Meet the Girls (1938) – Maurice Leon
 * Mysterious Mr. Moto (1938) – David Scott-Frensham
 * Say It in French (1938) – Irving
 * Dramatic School (1938) – Georges Mounier
 * On Your Toes (1939) – Konstantin Morrisine
 * Hollywood The Golden Years: The RKO Story (1987, TV Series documentary) – Himself

Television

 * The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1948, Episode: "Mirage in Manhattan")
 * Appointment with Adventure (1955, Episode: "Escape from Vienna")
 * Perry Mason (1961, Episode: "The Case of the Violent Vest") – Herman Albright

Broadway

 * A Most Immoral Lady (1928)
 * The Little Show (1929)
 * Hey Nonny Nonny! (1932)
 * Gay Divorce (1932)
 * The Great Campaign (1947)
 * Dance Me a Song (1950)
 * Collector's Item (1952)
 * Can-Can (1953)
 * Shinbone Alley (1957)
 * Jamaica (1957)
 * How to Make a Man (1961)
 * A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1962)

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User talk:Nixon802

My Talk
Ok, this is where you drop me a line.

No spam.

No flames. If you have legit conversations I will not delete you.

Please separate your message from the others with a LINE

Like so. Thx.

Remove the slander on Shocker Toys or they will seek further actions against you and Wiki!

I will remove all information reguarding Shocker Toys. :)

BTW - thank you Admins for protecting Wiki against 'edits', but I am prepared for this information to NOT be on my page now. You guys rock.

--Nixon 19:40, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Re: Stikfas. I have no association with Stikfas or ShockerToys. My changes and Ad flagging was made as a result of what happened with various other pages in regards to product lists. As for a negative point of view on the product, again I do not have one; Infact I own several of each product. Both the Minimates entry and the Shockini entry were edited for listing their products. Why does Stikfas seem exempt to this ruling? I know from reading your thread over at the Stickfanatics forum your are not happy with me adding the ad flag to your page, and thats fine, however opinions differ and I was told by several Wikipedians that posting a list of products on an entry was not acceptable at all. Adycarter 15:11, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

Ah! Sweet Dialog! How I love thee!

Thank you Adycarter for engaging in dialog.

These are the facts - Shocker was tagged not because (or JUST because) of his product list, but because he included a MSRP in it. This brought scrutiny from a dedicated WIKI editor, and with scrutiny - yes... I agree product lists are on the border and NOT very useful in WIKI.

I personally did not LIST the products.

Other contributors did, and they made good arguments for it. So when I redesigned the site, I kept the list. I think we should get a debate going in the TALK page of STIKFAS Article so that if/when the kits are removed, people will see why.

Where things went wrong

My "issue" - is that just because something happens in another entry (that is poorly written and concieved) does not mean that one should run around to every site in WIKI and delete their content.

The tagging of advertisenment looks like "retribution" and not an honest need to see Wiki be a more informative site.

THIS IS HOW IT LOOKS:

You have NO info on your USER page

You have No documentation of your devotion to WIKI or of your involvement in "cleanup".

...and you cruised over to the STIKFAS article after talks with Shocker about "why can't WE have a list... STIKFAS DOES!!!!" I saw the FORUM posts and took screenshots. I know this to be NEAR the truth of what happened.

What you don't know is that the Shockini entry is [NOT VALID]. It was deleted by commitee and has not done anything as a company to really change it's VIABILITY as brand, and therefore deserving of "note". I know stating this makes some people mad, but it's just a fact. Shocker himself re-created the Wiki entry (we ALL know what his Adelphia Cable IP addresses are) and THAT TOO is a violation of the WP rules of conduct.

Wow, bet you didn't expect me to write this much HUH?

I am sure you mean well, and if you are interested in WIKI you should spend some time volunteering with clean-up, deletions, and article authoring. It's a great way to learn wiki-code and help contribute to a REMARKABLE research tool.

IN THE END - the listing for any article should not be about product placement... it is about that "person"... they are reading a forum, or a news bit, or see a product on a shelf... and thay say to themselves... "WHAT IS THAT?" - they get on the internet and WIKI it... and find an entire range of things to explore.

And that leads me back to Kit listings... The argument made to me was that "What if a Firefighter glides into the site and sees just a picture of a Soldier... or a robot. It doesn't MEAN anything to her. But if she sees that they have a fire-fighter theme then THAT would cause them to explore deeper... and not the mere listing of "products"...

Perhaps when we disscuss the revision we will list the THEMES separate of the kit-makeup. This may have to happen. But lets have it happen in an environment were we are discussing things... not cutting and slashing recklessly.

Thank you for reading --Nixon 14:17, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

POST SCRIPT: I visited the MINIMATES article, and it looks great. Listing releases in articles about "collector's items" seems like a VIABLE practice, and had I seen any debate on the matter, I would have voted that the MINIMATES site looks fine to me.

--Nixon 14:26, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:STIKFASBETA.JPG
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Thanks,

I'll toss these on when I get a moment... I'm still learning the ropes.

--Nixon 15:54, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

Nomination of Kootikooti for deletion
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The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Kootikooti until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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WPAW

WPAW (93.1 FM "93.1 the Wolf") is a country music radio station licensed to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and serving the Piedmont Triad region, which includes Greensboro and High Point. The Audacy, Inc. with an ERP of 100 kW. The station's studios are located near the Piedmont Triad International Airport, and a transmitter site is near Stokesdale, North Carolina.

History
The station's original calls were WAIR-FM (sister station and simulcast partner to WAIR). The station signed on August 24, 1947 and the first program was a First Baptist Church service. By 1966 WAIR-FM had "adult, middle-of-the-road music" with strings and show tunes. At one time the station was known as "Fresh Air 93". In the late-1960s the station had religious during the day and beautiful music at night, with the call letters WGPL.

In 1979, the station returned to a partial simulcast of a Top-40 format with WAIR, but the 93.1 station took on the calls WSEZ and the combination was collectively known as Z-93.

In the 1980s WSEZ completely separated from WAIR, playing Top 40 and later album-oriented rock. In 1985, one-fourth of WAIR programming was a simulcast of WSEZ. Rock music on WSEZ did not last after the debut of Rock 92 On March 6, 1987, the station became WMQX "93-Mix", an adult contemporary station playing hits of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s with "less talk, more variety". The WMQX letters stayed during the station's entire tenure as an oldies station, which began in 1990. The format change, along with a name change to Oldies 93-Point-Fun, boosted the station's popularity. Later the name changed to simply, Oldies 93.

In 1997, Kris Abrams became program director of the station & billed it as "The Triad's '60s Specialists". The station's slogan became "All Oldies, All The Time". Features on the station were "Waking Up with Jack Armstrong, "The All-request Lunch", and "The Top 5 at 5". DJs on the Station at this time were Armstrong, Abrams, Dave Solomon, Gary Ross and Max McGann.

In January 1999, Abrams left for Milwaukee to program Oldies 95.7 WZTR (now WRIT-FM) and Solomon became program director. The music started to change, leaning to more 1970s music. The station's slogan then became "Good Times & Great Oldies". A year later Solomon left to program Oldies 100.7 WTRG in Raleigh. Randle C. Bliss came in as program director about 4 months later in 2000. The station's slogan changed one last time to "Rock 'N Roll Favorites". Later Armstrong left and Max Mcgann returned to do mornings. News Director, Ed Snow was gone and the traffic reporters, Lane Closure & Rhoda Block were removed as well.

On October 3, 2006, the station began stunting with a "Wheel of Formats". The following day, WMQX flipped to country as "93.1 The Wolf". The move gave the region three country outlets taking on rival WTQR and market fringe country stations WBRF and WAKG. As of the week ending November 25, 2006, WMQX officially changed its call letters to WPAW.

The Wolf continues to feature live and local air talent from North Carolina, including the Dale O’Brian and Annie Camp hosted "Wake Up With The Wolf Show". The station also hosts unique concert events like "Live In The Wolf’s Den", "Wolf Stock" and "The Wolf Full Moon Concert Series". In addition, WPAW was first in the Triad to utilize new technologies such as texting, smartphone app streaming, and a variety of cutting edge social media platforms.

As a country station, WPAW has been an advocate for North Carolina artists, being the first to play Chris Lane and Luke Combs. The station also was the first radio station to play Walker Hayes’ Fancy Like.

HD Radio
In January 2007 WPAW signed on a hybrid analog/digital transmitter, allowing the radio station to transmit an HD2 signal, with an expanded, commercial-free version of then off-air Oldies 93 format. The Oldies 93HD runs an expanded playlist with no jocks. Listeners in the Triad can listen to Oldies 93 HD if they purchase an HD Radio. The Oldies 93 HD plays more 1970s and 1980s music. The HD2 subchannel was eventually turned off.

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Ebony and Ivory

"Ebony and Ivory" is a song that was released in 1982 as a single by Paul McCartney featuring Stevie Wonder. It was issued on 29 March that year as the lead single from McCartney's third solo album, Tug of War (1982). Written by McCartney, the song aligns the black and white keys of a piano keyboard with the theme of racial harmony. The single reached number one on both the UK and the US charts and was among the top-selling singles of 1982 in the US. During the apartheid era, the South African Broadcasting Corporation banned the song after Wonder dedicated his 1984 Academy Award for Best Original Song to Nelson Mandela.

McCartney and Wonder began recording "Ebony and Ivory" in Montserrat in early 1981. The single marked the first time that McCartney had released a duet with another major artist and anticipated his 1980s collaborations with Michael Jackson. The track also appears on McCartney compilations All the Best! (1987) and Pure McCartney (2016), and on the two-disc version of Wonder's The Definitive Collection (2002). In 2013, Billboard ranked it as the 69th-biggest hit of all-time on the Billboard Hot 100 charts.

Background
McCartney wrote "Ebony and Ivory" at his farm in Scotland. The song uses the ebony (black) and ivory (white) keys on a piano as a metaphor for integration and racial harmony. The title was inspired by McCartney hearing Spike Milligan say, "Black notes, white notes, and you need to play the two to make harmony, folks!" The figure of speech is much older. It was popularised by James Aggrey in the 1920s, inspiring the title of the pan-African journal The Keys, but was in use from at least the 1840s.

While writing the song, McCartney envisaged singing it with a black male singer. He and Wonder recorded it together at George Martin's AIR Studios in Montserrat during sessions lasting from 27 February to 2 March 1981. McCartney then carried out overdubs on the track at AIR in London. Due to conflicting work schedules, McCartney and Wonder filmed their parts for the song's music video separately (as explained by McCartney in his commentary for The McCartney Years 3-DVD boxed set).

A video for the solo version was also made, which showed McCartney playing piano with a bright spotlight, and black men in prison, including one of them being uplifted by the song, dancing and listening to it in prison as well as in the studio. This version was directed by Barry Myers on 11 February 1982. That same day, McCartney filmed a promotional interview for the Tug of War album.

The B-side of the single, "Rainclouds", was written by McCartney and Denny Laine, though on early pressings of the single the song was credited only to McCartney. According to authors Chip Madinger and Mark Easter, "Rainclouds" is "perhaps most notorious" as the track that McCartney worked on during 9 December 1980, straight after hearing that John Lennon had been fatally shot in New York. When leaving AIR Studios in central London that evening, he said in response to a TV reporter's question about the murder: "drag, isn't it?" The footage was included in news broadcasts around the world and McCartney's apparent casualness, though masking his profound shock, earned condemnation from the press.

Release and chart performance
The "Ebony and Ivory" single was released on 29 March 1982 in both the UK and the United States. It marked the first time in McCartney's solo career that he had sung a duet with another major star. In this, McCartney and Wonder fitted a trend as duetting artists became commonplace throughout the 1980s, particularly in mainstream British pop.

The single spent seven weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in the US and it was the fourth-biggest hit there of 1982. Its commercial success was aided by the music video, with MTV having been launched the year before. The song was also number one in the UK and spent three weeks atop the Irish Singles Chart.

In the US, the single's run atop the chart was the longest of any of McCartney's post-Beatles works, and the second longest career-wise (behind the Beatles' "Hey Jude"). For Wonder, it was his longest-running chart-topper and made him the first solo artist to achieve a number-one single in the US over three consecutive decades. It marked the first time that any single released by any member of the Beatles placed on the Billboard R&B chart. It was McCartney's record 28th song to hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100.

In 2008, "Ebony and Ivory" was ranked at number 59 on Billboard's Hot 100 songs of all-time. It was ranked 69th on a similar list published by the magazine in 2013.

Critical reception and legacy
Record World said it has "a pretty pop melody and sing-along chorus hook."

Some critics have derided the song as "saccharine". According to Madinger and Easter, the most common reaction 20 years later was that it marked "the beginning of the end of [McCartney's] artistic credibility". They add that while the song appealed to listeners who would never usually have bought a McCartney record, it "wore out its welcome quickly" and came to be seen as him attempting to stay musically relevant in middle age, particularly as he soon went on to record duets with Michael Jackson.

In 2007, BBC 6 Music listeners voted "Ebony and Ivory" the worst duet in history. Two years later, Blender magazine named it as the tenth-worst song of all time. Writing in 2010, biographer Howard Sounes said that while many people consider the song to be "annoyingly simplistic", it contains "the ineluctable power of McCartney's best tunes" and was a "massive hit".

The song and video were spoofed in a 1982 Saturday Night Live sketch, with Eddie Murphy portraying Wonder and Joe Piscopo, as Frank Sinatra, assuming McCartney's role. In the sketch, Sinatra criticises the "ebony and ivory" metaphor for racial equality (which was deemed by many critics to be overly simplistic, to the point of being insulting) as being "too artsy for the public – capiche?" After a brief exchange, the duo perform the song with more direct, and offensive, lyrics ("You are black, and I am white / Life's an Eskimo Pie, let's take a bite!").

Part of a phrase from the song's lyrics provided the title for Keyboard, Oh Lord! Why Don't We?, a 2005 album by the Norwegian stoner rock band Thulsa Doom. The song and video were parodied in a commercial for the 2008 season of the USA Network show Psych.

The South Park season 25 episode "The Big Fix" features a parody of the song called "Black Puppy, White Puppy". Dan Caffrey of The A.V. Club suggests that McCartney may have denied a request from producers Trey Parker and Matt Stone for the song's inclusion in the episode, thus necessitating the parody.

"Ebony and Ivory" was banned in South Africa by the South African Broadcasting Corporation during the apartheid era, making it the only song McCartney released in his solo career to receive such a ban. The official reason for the ban was because Wonder accepted his 1984 Academy Award for Best Original Song "in the name of Nelson Mandela".

Track listings

 * 7" single (R 6054)
 * 1) "Ebony and Ivory" – 3:41
 * 2) "Rainclouds" – 3:47

 * 12" single (12R 6054)
 * 1) "Ebony and Ivory" – 3:41
 * 2) "Rainclouds" – 3:47
 * 3) "Ebony and Ivory" (Solo Version) – 3:41

Personnel
"Ebony and Ivory"
 * Paul McCartney – vocals, bass guitar, guitar, piano, synthesizers, vocoder, percussion, backing vocal
 * Stevie Wonder – vocals, electric piano, synthesizers, drums, Linn LM-1, percussion, backing vocal

"Rainclouds"
 * Paul McCartney – vocals, Spanish guitar, bass drum
 * Linda McCartney, Denny Laine, Eric Stewart – backing vocals
 * Paddy Moloney – Uilleann pipes

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Talk:DayQuil

No longer?
It says that DayQuil no longer contains pseudoephedrine, but the bottle i'm looking at right now lists it as ine of the active ingredients.
 * Same here. And it's not an old bottle, I bought it last week. Also, I wonder if it should be mentioned that DayQuil used to be called DayCare. Back then, I used to always accidentally call it DayQuil anyway, and then when I finally came around to calling it DayCare, they went and changed the name! -- DocSigma 19:26, 21 December 2005 (UTC)

I do not believe DayQuil Cough contains Phenylephrine - can someone confirm this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by DARTH.grue (talk • contribs) 03:11, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

want me post a picture of it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.79.153.40 (talk) 20:52, 11 February 2011 (UTC)

Canadian here. Purchased today for my cold. Ingredients listed: Dextromethorphan Hydrobromide, Phenylephrine Hydrocholoride and Acetaminophen. No Pseudoephedrine here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.10.183.200 (talk) 18:19, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

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Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Norse mythology)

Archives

 * Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Old Norse/Old Icelandic/Old English)/Archive 1
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Moving "addendum" proposal to talk page for discussion prior to implementation
Proposed by Haukurth:

Addendum - Common Names
After this convention had been written and put to a vote it was pointed out that it was based very heavily on the Use English guideline and seemed to ignore the equally important Common Names guideline. This section is a small attempt to remedy this.

The part of the Common Names guideline most relevant to this guideline is this:

 * Many wikipedia naming conventions guidelines contain implicit or explicit exceptions to the "common names" principle. Some of these exceptions are due to technical limitations, for example "C Plus Plus" while "C++" is technically not possible as a page name.

This is quite true for this guideline. In particular the recommendation to use 'ö' instead of 'ǫ' is based on technical considerations. The guideline continues:

 * Other guidelines try to give recommendations for enhanced precision, cleaner disambiguation and/or solution of naming conflicts, which might lead to article names that are rather "the most obvious" than strictly spoken "the most used", for example Laurent-Désiré Kabila and not Laurent-Desire Kabila (which is more used on the Internet).

These are important points for the present guideline. In particular:

 * Enhanced precision is achieved by using diacritics when appropriate.
 * Cleaner disambiguation is sometimes achieved for the same reason. For example by using Máni rather than Mani (god).
 * The guideline does not recommend frequency searches on the Internet as a guide for choosing names.

Well, this is a deformation of an interpretation of the common names principle: it would be fairer to say, that you don't care about it, in other words: that this guideline is a plain exception - without trying to elaborate a quirky justification. It's not the only guideline that steered for exception in this sense "successfully" - Naming conventions (names and titles) does the same, and it is a known fact that I think that one of the worst wikipedia guidelines. At least the proponents of that guideline don't indulge in lame excuses.

In detail: --Francis Schonken 17:14, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
 * The use of diacritics is in no way a contribution to the principles laid down in Naming conventions (precision) - for Nidhogg you listed 4 or 5 variants using diacritics, none of them being more "precise" than another, or even more precise than "Nidhogg" or "Nydhogg" or "Nydhoggr". There's no ambiguity it's all about the same dragon.
 * "Mani (god)" is perfect for disambiguation, that's why it is used at the Mani disambiguation page. I'm not even sure there's none of the other Mani's mentioned on that disambig page wouldn't be with an accent on the a in its native language. "Mani (god)" is perfectly unambiguous.
 * The "common names" guideline links to Naming conflict, that other guideline that's constantly forgotten by those who wish to forget about the "common names" principle (that really goes hand in hand). The "Naming conflict" guideline effectively treats frequency searches on the internet.

You are already on record as firmly opposing this convention, Francis. The part I added is entirely in keeping with the rest of the guideline and doesn't add anything which I think would have changed anyone's mind in the vote. I don't feel it's quite appropriate that you should remove it. You might as well remove some other part of the guideline - you don't like any of it. - Haukur 17:18, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

As for your material points:
 * It is, in my opinion, more accurate and more precise to use diacritics than to omit them. Many people feel the same way even though you don't.
 * Mani (god) is a bad location for the page since Máni is never referred to as a god in the primary sources. We could have Mani (Norse mythology) but that's annoyingly cumbersome. It's much cleaner to use Máni. If other Mánis turn up then we will, indeed, be back to using some disambiguation within parenthesis but that doesn't detract from the general point.
 * You've now introduced two more guidelines ("Precision" and "Naming conflict") which you want me to pay attention to. I'll try but the time I can spend on our forest of naming convention guidelines is limited. I'm currently, as you know, trying to do something for "Common Names". I see the "Precision" one is very incomplete and needs a lot of work. - Haukur 17:25, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

As for "lame excuses" I'm making no secret of the fact that this naming convention does not use "most common in popular sources" or "most common in Google searches" as its highest principle. The only reason I added the quotes from the Exceptions section of the Common Names naming convention was that you wanted me to take that convention into account. That convention explicitly stipulates that more specific conventions may form exceptions to it and suggests a few reasons why. I felt that this was exactly the case here so I quoted that part. Including this paragraph is not a big deal for me and I'm not going to fight over it. I'm reasonably happy with the convention as it is.

Far from being the outlandish extremist you paint me as I'm in the position of trying to reign in those who want to see Old Norse forms everywhere and Anglicized forms nowhere. On numerous occasions I have changed "Þórr" to "Thor" and just today I've been re-adding Anglicizations which had been removed or characterized as "misspellings". - Haukur 19:10, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Althought you are outlandish (Iceland is far away from anywhere English speaking), I do not think you are an extremist. In this case I support Francis, I do not think guideline need this extra section. --Philip Baird Shearer 22:13, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Thank you. I, too, am fine with the guideline as it is. One thing I find outlandish about living in London is how warm and bright the winter is. I've never seen green grass during winter before. - Haukur 22:43, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Mediate?
This debate about whether to use ligatures in article titles is the best example of a long-running unresolved debate I've seen anywhere on Wikipedia. Why don't you take it to mediation? --James S. 09:51, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Dispute notice
Apart from previous discussions above (and in the archives), see User talk:Haukurth --Francis Schonken 22:00, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
 * It is well documented that Francis doesn't like this convention. Still the strawpoll showed considerable support for it but also that not everyone likes it. It therefore falls into the category of convention. It is no less or more disputed than before so I am removing the new tag. Stefán Ingi 23:48, 10 June 2006 (UTC)

more disputes
may I direct someone's attention to Talk:Ragnarök where the rant-first-ask-questions-later-(if-at-all) du jour is going on? I am tired of these aggressive article-by-article style warriors. dab (ᛏ) 19:08, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Making an informative summary
I suggest that the lead section here (and the paragraph at Naming conventions) be replaced with the following, which summarizes this article and gives useful information by itself rather than requiring the reader to read the article:
 * ''When one particular Anglicized form for a name is overwhelmingly most common and well known to the average English speaking person, it is used for the article title, e.g. Odin, Thor. When no particular Anglicized form can be said to be in common use in everyday English and English speaking scholars use the standardized Old Norse spelling, use the standardized Old Norse spelling except replace the o-ogonek character (ǫ) with the character 'ö'.  We should endeavour to supply every variant of Anglicized spelling somewhere within the article, in the first paragraph when that is practical.

--Coppertwig (talk) 19:47, 8 March 2008 (UTC)

Revisiting o-ogonek
Arising from a discussion on my talk page, I propose we do away with the exception in our use of standardized Old Norse spelling for all but those articles (Thor, Odin, Valhalla, valkyrie) where anglicizations are overwhelmingly more common - and use the o-ogonek (ǫ) as well as the other alt. chars. Computer technology has now caught up with book publishing and the character is well supported, so it is no longer true that scholarly publications in English often replace it with ö, and we should in my view follow suit. There are two ways to proceed in the case of articles whose names are spelled with this character in standard Old Norse orthography, such as Jǫrð or Sonargǫltr: either use it in the text but leave the article title at the ö spelling or also move the articles to the ǫ spelling. If the articles are moved, redirects would of course need to be provided from both ö spellings and non-diacritic spellings, and I think it would be useful to add an explanatory note or a header template to all such articles explaining the character. I am not sure the gain in accuracy warrants moving the articles, since the character is untypeable; if there is an alt + code for it on the Windows keyboard, for example, I am unaware of it. But that is of course what redirects are for. I do think we should be using it in article text, for reasons of accuracy and to a small extent because explaining what it is in context is part of our encyclopedic mission. (I wish the texts in which I first saw it as a child had explained what it was and how it is pronounced.) It was excluded from this policy for purely technical reasons that appear to no longer be valid. Yngvadottir (talk) 16:28, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

 * ǫ: The character can be inserted into text with the Latin character set box. There is one minor technical issue, which is that it isn't completely respected by search. For example, if you type "Tłı̨ch" into the search bar, you get Tłı̨cho as a partial result, while "Tłı̨chǫ" fails to match. It still comes up in the search bar because it also shows any diacriticless match - so "Tłı̨chó" also appears. This is not a constraint, really, and should not determine our decision. Further, it's clear using "ǫ" would in no way hinder navigation. However, ö should be retained in names like Ragnarök for which the original pronunciation is not known. I think users can be driven by their own curiosity to an explanation of the character. ᛭ LokiClock (talk) 02:34, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

 * Support total conversion of ö > ON ǫ, including article names. Per our earlier discussion on Yngvadottir's talk page. I've tried to make all potential redirects in the articles I've written or rewritten, and this seems to be the case with most of the articles. I also support a template; maybe something that says something like "This article may employ unfamiliar characters such as the o-ogonek (ǫ), eth (ð), or thorn (þ). For more information regarding characters and their use in Old Norse, please see Naming conventions (Norse mythology)". While we're at it, perhaps Naming conventions (Norse mythology) should be moved to Old Norse and should handle Old Norse orthography in general. We also need to introduced a section on the o-ogonek here. :bloodofox: (talk) 03:46, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

 * Damn Google Devs, Thou Hast Betrayed Our Trust. I am forced to report with a heavy heart that Android 2.x as well as the latest Android 4.x devices, using the default browser from Google, fail to display o-ogonek.  These are dominant in smartphones and tablets, and by my rough calculations there are ~10 million of our readership that use Android 2.x devices, plus ~50 million that use Android 4.x devices, and growing quickly (they are cheaper than Apple iStuff).  This new problem is on top of the problem we already knew about, which was ~20 million people still stuck with IE6/IE55/PocketIE4/Firefox3/Netscape4/similar on ancient hardware.  Those old devices will rapidly dwindle during 2014... but the Android 4.x devices will rapidly grow during 2014. , , , we cannot use o-ogonek yet, sorry.
 * p.s. I wish I had known this earlier, but only found the hint that Android might suck this morning, and tested a couple of devices.  Linux, which is the "father" of Android, supports o-ogonek just fine... and in fact, Android with a third-party browser like Firefox installed (to replace the default Google Chrome browser) shows the o-ogonek just fine... so I literally had zero worries about Android supporting o-ogonek, and concentrated on the older stuff.  Sigh.  There is one bright spot in all my bad news; Chrome (and also Android for that matter) are forcibly auto-updated from the Google mothership.  If at some point in the future, Google *were* to decide to support o-ogonek in their mobile version of Chrome, this new feature would be available in all 60+million devices overnight.  We already know that o-ogonek support is technologically possible, since Firefox-on-Android does it just fine.  Thus, although o-ogonek for wikipedia articles is deferred, there is hope that Google will see the light, and when they do, we can switch over to using o-ogonek the same week google deploys the feature.  (Assuming that iPhones don't also fail to support o-ogonek... guess we better check.)  Anyhoo, sincere apologies for getting people's hopes up.  I will keep investigating, but doubt there is a way out here.  74.192.84.101 (talk) 18:04, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

 * iPhones display ǫ as of the 3G at latest. Perhaps someone could file a support ticket with Android and this can be resolved? ᛭ LokiClock (talk) 22:32, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

 * I have some problems with taking this approach further. When the problem is users with outdated software, we don't know if it's even possible for the user to upgrade. Android delivers updates automatically, it's clear how to update, and compatibility with the device can be insured by the coders. With the older browsers the technical problem became apparent after the technology had been adopted. This is not the case for Android. A new browser can come around all the time with incomplete support. There is no expiry date on the inaccuracy of the encyclopedia if the goal is to be beholden to lazy product developers until the Android too becomes old technology and vanishes, and the next browser that fails to support ǫ after that. Unlike these older browsers, the Android browser is still actively supported, and it's within their means to fix this issue and for users to acquire this fix. For new technology, a lack of support may indicate a feeling of a lack of obligation, which is vindicated by a lack of unsupported content. What's considered unsupported is not what could potentially be realized with the software if it weren't for a barrier, but what breaks that people are going to do no matter what. Changing Old Norse articles wouldn't be responsible for creating a failure of support articles, as this lack of support already exists because of languages that are without ogonek-less alternatives in a faithful orthography. ᛭ LokiClock (talk) 23:09, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
 * , I understand your point, that we could be in a catch-22 sort of situation. If browser-vendors today believe they can ignore o-ogonek, because no webpages require them to display o-ogonek, then browser-vendors of the future may also continue to ignore o-ogonek.
 * However, my understanding is that the ONLY modern platform which fails to support o-ogonek is the Chrome-variant for Android, which relies on the basic Roboto or Droid (font) package. As soon as either 1) google upgrades the font-packages via auto-download to all 70+million android-devices with Latin Extended B support, or alternatively/additionally 2) the w3c support for WOFF and other downloadable-on-the-fly-from-the-webserver font technologies are fully supported, we can start using o-ogonek the next day.
 * That might be six months, or it might be longer, but it won't be forever. Maybe we can help speed that up, on our end, or by joggling Google's elbow somehow.  What I don't understand, is what you are suggesting we do, either as wikipedians, or as just general internet-citizens-slash-humans.  Can you give me a bit clearer of a picture, what you are suggesting, please?  74.192.84.101 (talk) 03:21, 18 March 2014 (UTC)

 * The comments on Narayanan's answer to this android.stackexchange question suggest Android has a specific fallback typeface which can be replaced to extend Unicode support. Do you have an Android device, and could you test and see if this works with, say, Deja Vu Sans?
 * As Wikipedians, we have an obligation to accurately represent academic subjects in their current form. This has a negotiated precedence over the obligation to be accessible to the bulk of readership. The previous decision is not necessarily still justified, and I think more negotiation is needed before we resolve not to change to ǫ. If you're asking whether as internet citizens we should be cutting off an existing user base from this aspect of accessibility, I'm saying since there's no way we can expect to attain accessibility, accuracy and obligation can't be negotiated here, so accuracy's precedence should be applied strictly.
 * It could, in fact, be forever before the problem's solved, not just an indeterminate amount of time. We clearly are in such a catch-22 situation, as what is the present was once that potential future. The problem has a simple, well-known solution, which is to base a closed operational typeface on Deja Vu Sans and remove the Bitstream components, or otherwise use a dense Unicode typeface. This is not done because that would be not invented here. Since this is a corporate policy issue, not a software development issue, we can expect this problem to be recurrent. There is no stated goal of complete Unicode coverage, only an apparent effort to (slowly) attain broad multilingual support, so we can assume that Unicode blocks consisting mainly of linguistic, mathematical, or other academic characters are not in the projected coverage, and that there will be no personnel assigned to achieve the necessary coverage. This is the usual history of such projects which do not include full a dense Unicode glyph set at the outset - ignoring the problem of multilingual support and proper rendering.
 * The original motivation for accommodating the problem involved the fact that the browsers being used had outdated browser rendering engine design or other barriers to the development of a solution. If you're suggesting our general policy is to not make a change to the manual of style if the most widely used software doesn't support it, then since in this case the problem does not have any intrinsic terminating point, we must set an arbitrary point at which we will no longer accommodate it. I suggest that point is now, and that the original motivation for accommodation has completely expired, while others may wish to place it after Chrome for Android falls into disuse. On the other hand, if WebFont support is expected soon, and this page suggests that it's already due in 4.4 in I'm guessing the same portion that it's supported by Chrome, I would say that's a reasonable terminating condition as well, even on condition of a significant percentage of users coming to use this version. ᛭ LokiClock (talk) 04:18, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
 * This page suggests support has been around since Chrome for Android 18. If that's true, maybe we need to be nudging the Wikipedians who do the web font business, rather than Google. We could still nudge Google about making this work compatible with Android 2.0 users. ᛭ LokiClock (talk) 04:33, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Briefly, 'we cannot rely on DroidFallback.ttf, because 1) the user may already need a custom version of that file to support Tamil rendering or other localization needs... and wikipedia would have to overwrite their settings... thus screwing up their device, and 2) besides, it seems to require a rooted/jailbroken phone, which most users won't do.
 * On the philosophical point of accuracy versus accessibility, it is not black-and-white. Wikipedia has trouble with accuracy in general, and using accurate fonts I would suggest is the least of our problems.  :-)    Philosophically, though, in the case of o-ogonek (and "newer" characters like Wynn or "really new" characters like  Indian Rupee Sign U+20B9) the question is a tradeoff.  Do we have an alternative to the 20B9 symbol?  Sure, the 20A8 symbol, which has been around "forever" and works just fine.  Except in the article about the character, we should continue using the old symbol, despite the anachronism, because in this case accuracy isn't impacted (the *meaning* is effectively the same ... cf "housecat" versus generic "feline"), and thus accessibility can come to the fore.  Case by case, is my position, in other words.
 * What is the case-by-case situation for the o-ogonek, then? Your comment that "there is no way we can expect to attain accessibility" is not quite correct.  There are two ways:  first, we (meaning a delegation of wikipedians led by Jimbo for instance) could pull some 'political' strings, and get google to send an autoupdate to all android devices, adding support for various special characters that the goog "forgot" to support in the default Android browser.  (Technical note:  on the http://lucasfonts.com/webfonts page the "Android Browser" near the bottom is the one that matters... "Chrome for Android" is something different!  Firefox for Android is also something different, and it already supports o-ogonek.)  As you point out, the original decision to avoid o-ogonek was because of IE6 and other old rendering-engines; that issues was severe a few years ago, but is now below 5% of the readership.  Thus, our current problem is Android Browser... and in theory, Google *could* fix it, any time they wished.  Before we went grovelling to the WP:GOOG, though it would be smart of us to get a wider idea of 'missing' glyphs that would improve wikipedia (Wynn/etc).  That way, we only have to grovel once, and we also bring in additional voices on our side, not just those concerned with Old Norse and the o-ogonek.
 * The *second* way that we might achieve accessibility && accuracy does not require any special effort on the part of third-party vendors of software and/or hardware, and that is for wikipedia to start using webfonts. Unfortunately, there are a bunch of competing standards.  Microsoft made the first, EOT, all the way back with IE4, but firefox/apple/etc refused to use that, and instead tried to force WOFF as the W3C standard (which went poorly).  Android refused to support either, but *does* support pure TTF/OTF files as webfonts.  Working around the different standards, for CSS2/CSS3 and EOT/WOFF/TTF and such, is theoretically possible.  See this 2009 post which explains some early tricks; note that it is only for desktops (neither android nor iOS are mentioned), but it does give the basic idea.  Theoretically, if the WMF devs were to start supporting font-face on pages where it is needed, we could have any unicode character we wanted on over 99% of browsers.  In other words, this option#2 would give us almost perfect accessibility (~99% rather than ~95% with option#1), and it would be for *all* unicode chars we wanted to support, not just o-ogonek.
 * There are technical hurdles, unfortunately. As long as we were careful to 'subset' the custom-wikipedia-font, aka just include a handful of unsupported-in-the-wild characters like o-ogonek, and after that, have the browser fall back to a pre-installed set of glyphs, the download-size would be minimal, even across pokey mobile-internet connections.  The difficulty here is that the "font-face" magic is NOT well-supported.  For instance, in the http://lucasfonts.com/webfonts page, they are forcing my browser to use TheSansOfficeLF5 fontface in my browser's choice of WOFF/EOT/SVG format... and the rendering is screwed up!  The word "typeface" for instance, has the righthand edge of the letter "p" completely cut off, making it look like an "F" which has fallen down a notch.  This is almost certainly not a bug in the fontfile in question... it is a bug in my browser-version && OS-version, and the way it handles WOFF (or maybe SVG).  So the bottom line is, "font-face" magic is the long-term solution... and we can implement it ourselves, this year if we wished... but it is an esoteric feature, not well-tested in the majority of browsers, so there WOULD be problems.
 * So my suggestion, at the moment, is that we see if we can locate somebody experienced with TTF/EOT/WOFF stuff in relation to Android's default browser, who knows how to subset a font. Then, we pick a suitable fontface from here, Open-source_Unicode_typefaces, which has a proper free as in freedom license, and supports o-ogonek out of the box, and create a miniature fontface with just the o-ogonek character.  We can use some online format-converters to get TTF/EOT/WOFF/SVG versions of the minifont, and then test the font-face trick, to see what happens in various browser/OS combos.  Maybe we can try at WP:VPT to seek such a person?  Or the computer-section of the refdesk.  Anyways, although I don't think we should give up yet, I do think that we want to avoid using o-ogonek in body-prose and article-titles, until we have figured out whether we can make option#1 (coerce google into DTRT) or possibly option#2 (make our own wikipedia-webfont) actually happen, and what the hidden pitfalls might be.  I don't think the problem will take forever to be solved... but I don't expect it to happen by itself, unfortunately.  Hope this helps. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 15:20, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
 * , it looks like option#2 is very possible. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:UniversalLanguageSelector#Adding_fonts   74.192.84.101 (talk) 19:26, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

 * , if anyone wants to go character shopping. Code2000 has pretty good coverage. Latin Extended-B and Latin Extended-D are the blocks of our primary interest, while Latin Extended-C has characters like Latin alpha used in written languages. ᛭ LokiClock (talk) 12:23, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

 * It looks as if we have to wait for Android phones to support the o-ogonek. This gripes me out, to use the vernacular. But it is becoming an increasingly frequent browser for readers to use to access Wikipedia. Yngvadottir (talk) 21:45, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Not guaranteed to be historically accurate, but quite fitting for this situation. http://www.housebarra.com/EP/ep04/12norsecurse.html   TFIW. 74.192.84.101 (talk) 15:20, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
 * You know, there are people in the SCA with a better grasp of Old Norse than that. That's actually an example from the earlier days of the internet - the qs should be ǫ. Yngvadottir (talk) 15:26, 21 March 2014 (UTC)


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Henry Grattan Nolan

Henry Grattan Nolan, (May 5, 1893 – July 8, 1957) was a Canadian lawyer and jurist. He was the first Albertan appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada.

Biography
Nolan was born in Calgary, Northwest Territories (now in Alberta), the son of Patrick James "Paddy" Nolan, a criminal defence lawyer, and Mary Elizabeth Lee. According to his friend, Ronald Martland, who succeeded him on the Supreme Court, Nolan did not have a good relationship with his father, possibly because of his father's struggles with alcohol. Martland said that Nolan "very seldom ever spoke of his father", who had not treated Nolan's mother well. Nolan was determined not to follow the path set by his father. Nolan's wife stated that Nolan's father had not had any sort of relationship with Nolan, and had not even answered Nolan's schoolboy letters.

Nolan received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Alberta in 1914 and was awarded a Rhodes scholarship for Alberta in 1915. However, he enlisted in the army during World War I and received a Military Cross in 1918 for his service. He was wounded at Cambrai, in France.

After the war, he received a second Bachelor of Arts in 1921 from University College, Oxford. He was called to the English and Alberta bars. He returned to Calgary to practice law, as an associate with the firm of Bennett, Hannah & Sanford, founded by Richard Bedford Bennett.

In 1928, he married Doris Margery McCarter. They had two daughters, Moira and Shelagh.

During World War II, he served with the Canadian Army, becoming a Vice-Judge Advocate General with the rank of brigadier. From 1945 to 1948, he was a prosecutor before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East at Tokyo. He was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in January 1946.

On March 1, 1956, he was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada and served barely a year until his death in 1957 at the age of 64.

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Everything Is Healing Nicely

EIHN (Everything Is Healing Nicely) is an album by Frank Zappa, posthumously released through the Zappa Family Trust in December 1999. It features recordings made with the Ensemble Modern in preparation for The Yellow Shark (1993). The recording features violinist L. Shankar on "Roland's Big Event/Strat Vindaloo".

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All tracks written, composed and arranged by Frank Zappa.

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Alfred Chicken

Alfred Chicken is a platform video game developed by Twilight and published by Mindscape. The game was released for Amiga, Amiga CD32, Game Boy, NES, Super NES in 1993 and February 1994, in Europe and North America, respectively. A Europe-exclusive remake of the game, entitled Alfred's Adventure, was developed by Möbius Entertainment and released by SCi for Game Boy Color in June 2000. Another remake, named Alfred Chicken, was also developed by King Monkey, a division of Möbius Entertainment, and released by Sony Computer Entertainment for PlayStation in 2002.

Gameplay
The player takes the role of a chicken named Alfred who must find his way through bizarre levels full of balloons, telephones, cheese, and other strange elements. While he is on the ground, Alfred can walk, jump, and peck balloons and ground switches. While he is in the air he can dive bomb enemies or springs. Dive bombing enemies will destroy them. Dive bombing springs will bounce Alfred much higher so he can reach platforms well above his normal jumping ability. If he does not hit an enemy or a spring, Alfred will get stuck in the ground for a short time.

To complete a level, Alfred must find and peck all the balloons. The last balloon will take him to a boss fight. If Alfred dies, he starts as an egg located at the last balloon pecked. In the Super NES version, finding the big balloon results in a Stage Clear.

Alfred can receive a few power-ups during the game. For one power-up, he must answer a telephone in secret areas to make Mr. Pekles (a giant flower) give him a pot of jam. The jam gives Alfred the ability to shoot a bomb (about the size of Alfred himself) which bounces around the screen collecting items and hurting enemies. Another power-up is a worm that spins around Alfred destroying enemies that it touches. The player must find a can of worms to get this power-up.

Release
The Game Boy game was the original version. Two revisions exist: the monochrome original, and a Super Game Boy version with a level select feature. The latter was developed by Hookstone and released by Sunsoft in Japan. The NES edition of the game is essentially a watered-down port of the Game Boy version. It features only five levels, which were originally in the Game Boy game. The Amiga version is the same as the Game Boy game and is identical except for its color graphics and increased screen resolution.

The game for the original PlayStation was released only in the PAL region. It features 2.5D action and is a brand-new game rather than a port. It was developed by Möbius Entertainment and released by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe in 2002.

An unannounced version for the Sega Genesis was obtained by Piko Interactive in 2016, getting their hands on an unfinished binary from the original developer and intending to finish it up for a tentative 2017 release. However, conflicting rights with the ownership of the Alfred Chicken character have ultimately prevented this to happen as of the present date.

Marketing
Karl Fitzhugh, the Product Manager of the Amiga version of the Alfred Chicken video game, ran as the Alfred Chicken Party candidate in the 1993 Christchurch, Dorset by-election. The exercise was done to promote the original game's release. Fitzhugh finished second last with 18 votes, two votes ahead of the Rainbow Party candidate.

The marketing attempt was partially successful. The Alfred Chicken Party was cited, along with other "frivolous or 'commercial' candidates", as a reason to increase the number of signatures required for an individual to be nominated as a political candidate at an election.

There was also a toll-free number set up after the US release, which could be called to hear Alfred himself give a promotional speech about the game.

Reception
Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the Super NES version a 6.6 out of 10, calling it "a slow-moving game requiring more strategy than being able to run, jump and grab items! It takes a while to get into the swing of it, though." They gave the NES version a 5 out of 10, explaining that it retains the large levels and good controls of the Super NES version, but that the drastically lower quality graphics and sounds make the game less enjoyable. Reviewing the NES version, GamePro praised the challenging gameplay, the "cartoony" graphics, the "bouncy, loopy audio", and the "crisp controls", and determined the game to be a must-have for NES fans in light of how few games were being released for the system at that point. On release, Famicom Tsūshin scored the Game Boy version of the game a 22 out of 40. In Nintendo Power, the NES version was scored a three out of five. While they did like the big sizes of each level and occasionally comical graphics, they ultimately found it to be just another typical platformer.

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I reverted the recent move of this page from Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians to Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Michigan which was accompanied by an edit summary of "formal tribe of tribe, will get more hits". While the latter is the formal name of the tribe, the point about hits is false. Compare "Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Michigan" -wikipedia (1,040 hits) to "Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians" -wikipedia (471,000 hits). The convention on Wikipedia is to use the common name. The tribal website itself uses Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians. older ≠ wiser 13:40, 24 July 2009 (UTC)

Proposing name change
I propose the name of this article to Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians to be more in keeping with its federally recognized name, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Michigan. As it is the name is incomplete and confusing. -Uyvsdi (talk) 02:29, 29 July 2013 (UTC)Uyvsdi

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Nine-volt battery

The nine-volt battery, or 9-volt battery, is an electric battery that supplies a nominal voltage of 9 volts. Actual voltage measures 7.2 to 9.6 volts, depending on battery chemistry. Batteries of various sizes and capacities are manufactured; a very common size is known as PP3, introduced for early transistor radios. The PP3 has a rectangular prism shape with rounded edges and two polarized snap connectors on the top. This type is commonly used for many applications including household uses such as smoke and gas detectors, clocks, and toys.

The nine-volt PP3-size battery is commonly available in primary zinc–carbon and alkaline chemistry, in primary lithium iron disulfide and lithium manganese dioxide (sometimes designated CRV9 ), and in rechargeable form in nickel–cadmium (Ni–Cd), nickel–metal hydride (Ni–MH) and lithium-ion. Mercury batteries of this format, once common, have been banned in many countries due to their toxicity. Designations for this format include NEDA 1604 and IEC 6F22 (for zinc-carbon) or MN1604 6LR61 (for alkaline). The size, regardless of chemistry, is commonly designated PP3—a designation originally reserved solely for carbon-zinc, or in some countries, E or E-block. A range of PP batteries was produced in the past, with voltages of 4.5, 6, and 9 volts and different capacities; the larger 9-volt PP6, PP7, and PP9 are still available. A few other 9-volt battery sizes are available: A10 and A29.

Most PP3-size alkaline batteries are constructed of six individual cylindrical 1.5 V LR61 cells enclosed in a wrapper. These cells are slightly smaller than LR8D425 AAAA cells and can be used in their place for some devices, even though they are 3.5 mm shorter. Carbon-zinc types are made with six flat cells in a stack, enclosed in a moisture-resistant wrapper to prevent drying. Primary lithium types are made with three cells in series.

9-volt batteries accounted for 4% of alkaline primary battery sales in the United States in 2007, and 2% of primary battery sales and 2% of secondary (rechargeable) battery sales in Switzerland in 2008.

History

Historically, the now-popular PP3 battery size was a member of the power pack (PP) battery family that was originally manufactured by Ever Ready in the United Kingdom and Eveready in the United States. The company says that it introduced the PP3 battery in 1956. In the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, they were commonly marketed as transistor radio batteries, or TR for short (meant to emulate the function of the old B battery). The PP3 battery was added as an ANSI standard in 1959, currently known as ANSI-1604A.

The PP11 consists of two isolated 4.5-volt batteries with four terminals.

Only the PP3, PP6, PP7 and PP9 sizes are still manufactured, with the PP3 being extremely common. Modern batteries have higher capacities and lower internal resistances than early versions.

Before the mid-1950s, in the days of vacuum tube (valve) radios used batteries designed specifically for vacuum tubes, there was a nine-volt grid bias battery or (US) "C" battery, which had taps for various voltages from 1.5 to 9 volts.

Early transistorized radios and other equipment needed a suitable voltage miniature battery. Early transistor radios required a $22 1/2$-volt battery. Although the transistors would theoretically operate from lower voltages, the point-contact transistors used in 1954 had to be operated very close to their VCBO limit in order to get the required frequency response. However, a suitable miniature battery was already marketed for (vacuum tube) hearing aids.

The PP3 (physically identical to 6LR61 and 1604A) appeared when portable transistor radios became common, and was referred to as a transistor battery or transistor-radio battery.

PP3 connectors

The PP3 battery has both terminals in a snap connector on one end. The smaller circular (male) terminal is positive, and the larger hexagonal or octagonal (female) terminal is the negative contact. The connectors on the battery are the same as on the load device; the smaller one connects to the larger one. The same snap-style connector is used on other battery types in the PP series. Battery polarization is normally obvious, since mechanical connection is usually only possible in one configuration.

A problem with this type of connector is that two loose batteries with terminals exposed can touch and short circuit, discharging them, and generating heat and possibly a fire. Keeping nine-volt batteries in their packaging until use helps to avoid accidental discharge.

Technical specifications
Very often, a "9-volt" battery refers to the transistor radio size called PP3 or IEC 6F22 or NEDA 1604, although there are less common nine-volt batteries of different sizes.

Batteries of all types are manufactured in consumer and industrial grades. Costlier industrial-grade batteries may use chemistries that provide higher power-to-size ratio, have lower self-discharge and hence longer life when not in use, more resistance to leakage and, for example, ability to handle the high temperature and humidity associated with medical autoclave sterilization.

Testing and charging
Battery chargers are devices that charge batteries, some of which may also be able to charge nine-volt batteries. Whether a charger can charge the battery depends largely on the dimensions of the battery and internal chemistry (I.E., disposable batteries cannot be charged).

Testing a nine-volt battery can be done using a multi-meter by probing the voltage across the two terminals. The voltage measured by the multi-meter can then be used to roughly assess the charge of the battery.

If the positive and negative terminals of the battery are close enough, licking a nine-volt battery can be a quick test to check if a battery has any charge left. A tingling sensation can be felt across the tongue depending on the voltage of the battery; The higher the current flowing through the tongue the more intense the tingling sensation. Although largely safe, some people may find the tingling sensation unpleasant.

Lithium
Lithium 9-volt batteries are disposable high-energy-density batteries. In the PP3 size they are typically rated at 0.8–1.2 Ah (e.g. >1.2 Ah @ 900 ohms to 5.4 V @ 23 °C for one type), about twice the capacity of alkaline batteries. Some manufacturers claim the energy density can be five times that of alkaline. Common applications for lithium nine-volt batteries are smoke and carbon monoxide detectors.

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Suggest separate article for tribe
Given the history of the tribe, I think there should be a separate article for it. Otherwise, its name does not even appear in the Category list under "Native American tribes in Michigan", and gets lost given the name change from the band and location for which the reservation was named.Parkwells (talk) 17:28, 23 December 2015 (UTC)

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