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Assisted edits
Hi, Dysprosia. Unfortunately, I don't believe there is a way of making multiple edits in one go using navigation popups (but if you know otherwise, please let me know!). I think that the benefit in terms of reducing the chances of future double redirects outweighs the disadvantage of a longer edit history, but do please feel free to let me know if you disagree. I tend not to get wound up by other people disagreeing with me, and am always open to changing my mind! Regards, CLW 10:20, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi - I noticed this comment. Do you want to make multiple edits with the popups? This could be arranged, I think, if you have a compelling application :-) Do let me know. Cheers, Lupin|talk|popups 23:17, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I doubt your edit will be noticed at the top of this talk page. But it may. :) Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 01:12, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Me? I don't want to use these strange tools that seem to be in vogue these days. I noticed that these things tend to make several entries in the histories for different edits. The tools should use the one edit to make multiple corrections/edits. Dysprosia 05:53, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

Manly
Don't worry, I gave up editing months ago after various episodes of harrassment. Look at that silly red message above yours on my page. All I did was enhanced the image already there, and now some dumb robot is writing in red ink. Wikipedia is good, but full of petty tyrants - like the one that suggested I look in books! (I've been a bookworm for 60 years). Thortful

Spellbinder?
You seem to know a bit about Spellbinder, the TV series: do you know whether there's been a DVD release of it? I remember it from my youth, and I'd like to see it again. CNash 13:11, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Ah, ok. No worries, I wasn't holding out much hope. CNash 22:26, 22 November 2005 (UTC)

Creeping wave
I am not sure if I have answered this already or not. I learned the term "creeping wave" from a mathematician. Yes, I think it is sometimes the same as ground wave, but it only describes one mechanism.

Hi
Hi Dysprosia, good to see you! Have you got your home connection on yet? I'm looking forward to catching up with you on IRC as soon as you are back :) Thinking of you -- sannse (talk) 14:59, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Third-World feminism merger
I suggested Third-World Feminism be merged into Third-world feminism, and I havn't seen any dissent. I would like to have just one article and make some additions. Do I need to do anything special, or can I just merge whatever unique content there is and make a redirect. Also, I've never heard of it being called anything other than Third-world feminism. Is there any other name for the idea at which there is already a descent article? Thanks for any input you might have. Smmurphy 03:25, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

Talk:Voluntary_Student_Unionism
Hi there. Just wondering if you would be so kind as to provide some input into the discussion here regarding the return of the Bill to the House of Representatives. Thanks. Enochlau 09:31, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Looks like it's been already settled. Dysprosia 06:17, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

Earth to Dysprosia
I don't appreciate not seeing you around in channel. Please remedy this matter if possible. - Mark 14:12, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I can't help it, sorry! I don't have regular internet access! Do you want to buy me an Unwired modem? :) Once I have regular net access again I'll be back. Dysprosia 06:15, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

 * *sniff* excuses, excuses... ;) - Mark 08:10, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

 * We miss you :) Raul654 06:41, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I miss all you guys too :) Dysprosia 23:37, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Dysprosia, tell us the secret, how do you deal with internet withdrawal? If I don't check my watchlist for several hours the pressure builds up, I can't concentrate, life is not fun, and all I can think is jump at that first computer whereever I find it. :) Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 06:53, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I think I've substituted addiction to the internet and Wikipedia to addiction to playing long games of Freeciv or NetHack or mucking around doing other things on the computer ;) Dysprosia 07:13, 24 December 2005 (UTC)

Have a lovely Christmas. I'm in Victoria at the moment, but I'm going to be in the same position as you once I go back to Canberra in mid-January - I've just moved into low-income housing and won't have the internet until I work out how to set up dialup. Ambi 06:55, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Dysprosia
I dig that name. Dystopos 15:03, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * heh :) Dysprosia 23:37, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

hi again

 * Heya! Yeah, get that connection up and get back to us :) Have a great Christmas Dysprosia -- sannse (talk) 15:26, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

wikinews
Hi, if you are the same user Dysprosia, from wikinews, just letting you know that I have left you a message at wikinews re crosswords, thanks Brian | (Talk) 02:13, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Euler-Lagrange Equation
A quick question about TbSmith's edit to Euler-Lagrange equation, which you recently reverted. He had a link to an external site of his own, exampleproblems.com, which you removed. I was curious if you removed this external link because you thought it was inappropriate self-promotion (I'd be inclined to agree) or because it was the second external link to that site on the page. If it was the former, then we should get rid of the works cited link as well. --Dantheox 19:37, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
 * It is because it's self promotion. Dysprosia 00:53, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Adding links
Why shouldn't I be able to add helpful links to articles? Can you really say my website is not helpful to those people looking for information on those various mathematical topics? With all due respect, I'm going to replace my links. - Tbsmith
 * Whether your website is helpful or not is not the problem. The problem is you have a vested interest (as your site, for one, is supported by advertising) in linking to your own website; you can't really be considered to be objective on whether your link is beneficial or not. If you talk to others and ask them to put the link on the article, this negates the problem, and gets an objective point of view as to whether your link is beneficial. Note that your actions can be considered spamming this wiki. Dysprosia 00:53, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

links
Honestly, what else is the external links section for? I don't think it's fair that I can't put up my own site even though it's relevant, extremely helpful, unique, and free. And it's an open-source wiki! The perfect external link. -Tbsmith
 * I bugged Tbsmith to format his links well, follow Wikipedia style, and make sure links look relevant. Should be fine in that situation I guess. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 21:04, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Whether it's an open-source wiki is not the problem. It is absolutely fair that you can't promote your own web site for the reason I stated above, and the easy remedy is stated above also. Dysprosia 00:53, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Dysprosia, reverting all those links second time was a bit too much I think. Plenty of people link to their web sites in mathematics articles (eqworld, cut-the-knot, there was a physics one). As long as the links are relevant not too many, and well-formatted, I don't see that as a problem. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 01:58, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

 * If you revert me (by replacing the links), then that solves the problem for good (as I hope you can see). I invite you to if you feel the links are worthy. Dysprosia 02:04, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Heh, why would I revert what you did? Not my problem. :) However, if the user puts the links again, I would think that it might be better if there is some community discussion rather than removing the links right away, and if it were decided to remove them, I guess links to cut-the-knot and eqworld (which were placed by their owners) might need to go also.

 * I did check a few, and they are relevant (I checked harmonic function, Laplace operator, and integral equation). The one at several complex variables is not relevant, as it talks about one and not several complex variables. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:15, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, that would signify your implicit 3rd-party approval of the link, which is what would be necessary in such an instance -- it's not really about relevancy. I didn't check the eqworld/cut-the-knot articles -- were they put there by Tbsmith? I'll consider that you "approved" the links if the user places the links again and thus won't revert.
 * In the general case, I still don't like the idea of users placing links to work they have performed without some form of 3rd-party vetting, regardless of relevancy. It shouldn't be a problem to quickly gain this from another editor. Dysprosia 02:34, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't like users inserting external links without third-party vetting either, but a straight rollback of all such links is not the answer. We are an open encyclopedia, and such external links should, in my opinion, be treated no differently than other contributions, meaning that they should be examined, and accepted or removed on a case by case basis. And besides, one should not say "doesn't matter if they are useful or not", that does matter. :) But you have a point too, and one better have a wider discussion of all this. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 05:14, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I understand where you're coming from, but this I've seen this thing happen rather frequently before. I suppose where our views differ is whether we accept the link and then discuss whether it should be removed versus we remove the link and then disscuss whether it should be added. Dysprosia 05:20, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Oleg is quite right that to say that what matters is not who submitted a link but rather the merit or otherwise of the page linked to. Dysprosia appears to be full of venom toward anyone who would dare to draw attention by means of a link to a page they have written.  The creator of a work, even if it is simply a web page, has a perfect right to draw attention to it, by means of a Wikipedia link or any other way.  If the page has useful information, complementing the article to which it is a link, then it should stay, regardless of who put it there.  Dysprosia exhibits both pettiness and arrogance in presuming to delete links which he suspects may have been put there by the author of the page linked to.  Get off your high horse, Dysprosia, and stop making yourself an obstacle to Wikipedia's intent, which is the dissemination of useful information.  Erisiastes 15:02, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Ok, I'll bite. Let me refute your baseless and vitriolic arguments.
 * * Dysprosia...delete[s] links which he suspects may have been put there by the author of the page linked to
 * (I am a she, by the way) from Tbsmith: "Todd Smith, a mathematician and creater of ExampleProblems.com."
 * * If the page has useful information, complementing the article to which it is a link, then it should stay, regardless of who put it there.
 * from External links: "What should not be linked to...2. Links that are added to promote a site, by the site operator or its affiliates. "
 * from Spam: "If your product is truly relevant to an article, others will agree -- try the talk page. We usually recommend that editors be bold in adding directly to articles. But if the above advice makes you concerned that others will regard your contribution as spam, you can find out without taking that risk: Describe your work on the article's talk page, asking other editors if it is relevant."
 * This is exactly the course of action I suggested to Tbsmith.
 * I am within Wikipedia guidelines and policy. Tbsmith is within Wikipedia guidelines and policy. You are barely within policy yourself. As you are a clearly experienced Wikipedian, I'll let you discover which policy it is I'm talking about.
 * Now, I'm flattered that you chose my Talk page to be your first (and only) edit, but there is a whole other lot of articles for you to contribute to that needs your help. Are you going to aid Wikipedia's intent, which is the dissemination of useful information, or not? Dysprosia 22:51, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I see that your position is more defensible than I had first thought. However: Any link to an external site is, in a sense, a promotion of it (unless the link is accompanied by disparagement).  Therefore 2. is not against promotion of a site but rather against linking to a site (more exactly, a web page) by the site operator (or an affiliate).  But this stricture can be justified only on the assumption that a site operator or author cannot make an objective judgement about whether the page linked to contains useful information.  ('Objective' in the sense that most 'reasonable' interested parties would basically agree.)  Authors, of course, generally regard what they write as valuable/useful/interesting, but in many cases they are correct in this view, so to assume otherwise is an unjustified assumption.  To delete an external link to a page which contains useful information, even if you know (and not merely suspect) that it was put there by the author or the site operator, is to restrict the dissemination of useful information, whatever Wikipedia's guidelines might say.  I could agree, however that in this matter the guidelines err on the side of caution. Erisiastes 14:26, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

 * on the assumption that a site operator or author cannot make an objective judgement about whether the page linked to contains useful information.
 * I would argue that this is not mere assumption but practical fact. The author of a website, especially one supported by advertising, has an obvious conflict of interest in adding their link to a webpage, and thus cannot really be relied upon for a truly objective judgement. I am suggesting that this conflict of interest be mitigated by third-party approval and vetting. What seems to be the crux of the argument here is whether the links should be either first removed, approved, then replaced, or whether the links should remain, be approved, and offending links removed. I hold the former view, you may hold the latter view (either "ideologies", so to speak, are essentially equivalent given enough consultation). As you may agree that the guidelines err on the side of caution, it follows that a more appropriate means of resolution is to act according to said former viewpoint, even though the latter viewpoint is essentially equivalent. Dysprosia 02:59, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

You are right regarding adding links because of an invested view, but if you could tell us how to get our magazine listed...thank you She Unlimited Magazine

External link
Hi. Will you please see this page and decide if you think my site is helpful, since you are an objective person. If you do, please put it in the external links part on the main site. Thanks. Tbsmith

No I was wrong and Alexandrov was right- this link should be at Complex analysis

 * I'll put the link for Complex analysis. I don't know whether I'm the best person to vet your links since I brought you up on the issue to begin with, but I'm glad to see that you're following the right process! :) Dysprosia 02:51, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Username change
Please visit your Wikibooks user talk page for more info, but since you are a bureaucrat there, I'm requesting a username change there. Thank you, -- WB 03:52, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

 * (Done.) Dysprosia 04:05, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks, can you delete my former user page as well? -- WB 08:44, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

 * It's best to keep the redirect. Or do you want to delete your now current user page? Dysprosia 09:29, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, I made sure none of the pages leads to the user page, so there would no problem deleting it. Delete the old and the current one. Thank you, -- WB 22:26, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Done that. Dysprosia 22:55, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks! -- WB 23:50, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Thank you Dysprosia, You are right about the invested interest and I agree with you, if you would be so kind to tell us how our magazine can be listed? Thank you

Style suggestions
Hi Dysprosia. I see you're starting the year by doing some cleanup on your talk (=user) page.

I have a suggestion then. The text at the top of your user (talk) page

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looks awful. :) (no excuses, truly, trully awful) And I knew that for a while. :) You could compact it a lot, see User talk:Stevertigo for an example. Hope you get my message with the right attitude. :) 05:48, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Good idea :) Dysprosia 06:20, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Quorum calls
Adam 06:53, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * You may not be aware that I work for an Opposition MP in Canberra, so I know what I am talking about on this matter.
 * A quorum call by definition wastes the time of the House (about ten minutes) and annoys Government MPs, 30 of whom have to drop what they are doing and come into the House, usually at an inconvenient moment. This would be true whatever the subjective intention of the Member calling the quorum.
 * Quorums are always called by Opposition MPs, on the instruction of the Whips. There would be no reason for a Government member to do so. One of the three independent MPs could do so, but so far as I recall they have never done so.
 * Quorums are not called at random. The Opposition calls quorums as a means of punishing the Government when it has (for example) unreasonably guillotined debate, gagged Opposition members, or put up a backbencher to speak on an MPI instead of a minister.
 * Of course Opposition MPs do not say "I am calling a quorum to waste the time of the House." But everyone understands the tactics. In fact the Member calling the quorum doesn't have to give a reason.
 * This fetish at Wikipedia for sourcing every statement has unfortunate effects sometimes. There are some things which are true, and which are universally known to be true, but which cannot be attributed to an on-the-record source. This is one of them. There must be some latitude for well-informed editors to say things on the basis of their own knowledge and experience.

 * I know all of this, and I don't disagree with any of the above points. I don't think you quite understand where I'm coming from. The problem is not a factual one. Indeed there are some things which are "universally known to be true". However, saying "X is true" when it is only universally known to be true is not quite accurate. Consider the following exampmle: "All employees do their job well" and "Most employees do their job well". Without knowing the employer's productivity statistics, you cannot say that the first statement is unequivocally true, even if it is "universally known to be true" that "all employees do their job well". In the instance of the article in question, I am not asking you to produce statistics or sources for the statement in question, of course, this is a ridiculous demand to make in this instance. What I am saying is that the blanket statement is not demonstrably true, so we must resort to the general statement. Dysprosia 07:46, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

I don't see the merit of that analogy at all, in fact I don't even see that it is an anology, since you are comparing an opinion with a fact. The statements I made about quorum calls are factual, and I have restored them. If you want to delete them you must show how they are not factual. Adam 07:58, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

 * You are incorrect in assuming that I do not want to delete the sentence, I have never expressed any desire to do so in this dicussion. What actually was under dispute with the sentence in question is its accuracy, and I was disputing the content of the sentence, not its entire existence. This is why I brought to light the problems with you earlier stating in the article that something which is "universally known to be true" is in fact true when the verifiability of this truth is not possible. If, for example, the motives of someone's actions cannot be verified, we cannot state that the party in question did indeed have these motives. We may guess this person's motives (and possibly be correct in our guess), perhaps by examining from past history, or by effect of this person's actions, or whatever means, but that does not mean that we can provably state that this guess is correct. I believe what I am trying to express here is related to the concept of falsifiability.
 * I see however, that you have changed your edit to the sentence to something that is now much more accurate. It is indeed accurate that 'the Opposition will "call a quorum" as a tactic to annoy the Government' but it is not accurate to say that 'the Opposition will only "call a quorum" if they wish to annoy the government' (emphasis mine, of course). Dysprosia 08:19, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Of course it is accurate to say that, since there is no other possible motive for them doing so. However if we now have an agreed wording I think we can agree to disagree about that. Adam 08:33, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

 * There is the possible motive which I have given you a reference to earlier of a Senator who had clearly states his reason for calling a quorum in that instance. However I think any further discussion on this matter would be bootless. Dysprosia 08:42, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

three revert rule
You should know we have 3 rev rule. I have told someone about you Crayolacrime 08:30, 5 January 2006 (UTC)!

 * I do know! Thanks for pointing that out, and going through my edits to make sure I didn't make any errors in the articles... or whatever reason you felt it best to do so. Dysprosia 08:33, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I did not change any edits you made, except one. However you reverted all edits I made.  You are a vandal!!! Crayolacrime 08:35, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

 * The latter assertions you make are incorrect. Dysprosia 08:39, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Cologne Blue
Try this CSS:  It should work. ;-) — Ambush Commander (Talk) 23:50, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Awesome. Thanks! Dysprosia 04:12, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

location of the history section
I agree that the history section should be at the top and in fact adviced this to User:Flash200, however the philosophy is usualy covered as one of the first things in the history section (as it is one of the first things that happened in the history of the language and arguably even more context that the history, see for example BASIC programming language) might I suggest that in the case of the Java programming language article, the philosophy section is placed above the history section or is integrated with it? Cheers, —Ruud 23:14, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

 * No, I don't agree with having the sections seperate in that order, sorry. It is important to know how a language came about (History) before we should know what the language is about (Philosophy). It sets up the ideas and context of the article much better than jumping straight in to the Philosophy and then jumping back into its history. However, yes, it may be beneficial to integrate, showing how the history of the language has influenced its philosophy, and that may be entirely appropriate. HTH, thanks Dysprosia 23:18, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

 * To clarify my point, the first think what happens when a language is designed (and therefore would be the first event in its history) would be comming up with a philosphy for that language. —Ruud 23:28, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

 * OTOH, the philosophy section as it stnds now is much to large to incroporate it with the history entierly, so it would indeed be left after is. I think only the first paragraph of the philosphy section should be integrated with the history section. —Ruud 23:31, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Would any of this be appropriate for the intro, for instance moving the first paragraph of the philosophy to the intro? Where there's overlap, where should the line be drawn for what goes in the intro, what goes in the history, and what goes in the philosophy? (in the case of summaries/overviews of the language) --Flash 02:10, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

 * To the both of you, there should be a clear distinction between history and philosophy. There should be a header for at least History. The following solutions seem acceptable to me: history with a paragraph or two on how the history influenced the philosophy - and then a more extensive philosophy section below it (most preferrable, I think), or one line on the philosophy in the introduction - and a header on history - then philosophy. HTH Dysprosia 04:03, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

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Altranstädt

Altranstädt is a village and former municipality in Saxony, Germany, now part of the town Markranstädt in the district of Leipzig. The village is historically famous for two treaties that were concluded there, the Treaty of Altranstädt (1706) and the Treaty of Altranstädt (1707).

The 1706 treaty was a peace which Augustus II, king of Poland and elector of Saxony, was forced to ratify on 24 September 1706, with Charles XII of Sweden. The former renounced the throne of Poland in favor of Stanislaus Leszczynski's treaty which Augustus declared null and void after Charles XII's defeat at Poltava (8 July 1709). The other treaty was signed on 31 August 1707. Emperor Joseph I guaranteed to Charles XII religious tolerance and liberty of conscience for the Silesian Protestants.

Charles was visited in Altranstädt by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough on behalf of the Grand Alliance against France. During 1707-08 he persuaded Charles not to support France but to leave Germany, never to return.

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Frontal suture

The frontal suture is a fibrous joint that divides the two halves of the frontal bone of the skull in infants and children. Typically, it completely fuses between three and nine months of age, with the two halves of the frontal bone being fused together. It is also called the metopic suture, although this term may also refer specifically to a persistent frontal suture.

If the suture is not present at birth because both frontal bones have fused (craniosynostosis), it will cause a keel-shaped deformity of the skull called trigonocephaly.

Its presence in a fetal skull, along with other cranial sutures and fontanelles, provides a malleability to the skull that can facilitate movement of the head through the cervical canal and vagina during delivery. The dense connective tissue found between the frontal bones is replaced with bone tissue as the child grows older.

Persistent frontal suture
In some individuals, the suture can persist (totally or partly) into adulthood, and is referred to as a persistent metopic suture. It has a prevalence of about 4% in females and about 2% in males. The suture can either bisect the frontal bone and run from nasion to bregma or persist as a partial metopic suture (see image of frontal bone) (where part of the suture survives and is connected to either bregma or nasion) or as an isolated metopic fissure. Persistent frontal sutures are of no clinical significance, although they can be mistaken for cranial fractures. As persistent frontal sutures are visible in radiographs, they can be useful for the forensic identification of human skeletal remains. Persistent frontal sutures should not be confused with supranasal sutures (a small zig-zag shaped suture located at and/or immediately superior to the glabella).

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User talk:Jocandle

Spam on Wikipedia is considered vandalism
Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. Schuminweb 09:49, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

No spam please
Please do not add commercial links — or links to your own private websites — to Wikipedia. Wikipedia is not a vehicle for advertising or a mere collection of external links. See the welcome page if you would like to learn more about contributing to our encyclopedia. Thanks.

If you continue to damage Wikipedia articles, you will be permanently blocked and all your edits (whether done from your account or from an anonymous IP address) will be deleted on sight.

Plus, you must be a total loser to be so pathetic that you have to vandalize an online encyclopedia to promote your own sad little enterprise, instead of going to graduate school and earning an honest living. I don't buy stuff from losers. I shop with reputable merchants like Amazon.com and BN.com.

Also, you can't even capitalize correctly (countries above should be in lower case). --Coolcaesar 02:39, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

FINAL WARNING
This is your last warning. The next time you vandalize a page, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia. SchuminWeb | Talk 05:18, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

Talk page
Please stop removing the warnings from this talk page, they are a log that you were warned against spamming, and should be kept to inform any people who weren't here yesterday but have something to add. --fvw *  01:53, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Penaeus monodon

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Untitled
Pictures, please? -Iopq 00:23, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

"Is it OK to eat tiger prawns?"
I direct editors to the above news article from The Guardian for possible inclusion in this Wikipedia article. --86.8.253.190 (talk) 23:11, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

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Should article be moved?
Should this article be moved to Giant tiger prawn or Asian tiger shrimp to better comply with WP:COMMONNAME? --Bensin (talk) 13:40, 15 November 2014 (UTC)

Bleu's Peer Review
Good solid start to your article. Would like to see more information about the reproductive strategies if possible. Really interesting addition of information about the presence in aquaculture and Greenpeace. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Brivel9501 (talk • contribs) 03:35, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

Peer Review
Good lead.

Description section is good.

On distribution section,I would start your sentence with the species name again, not "its" so that if someone skips directly to that section they know exactly what the subject of the sentence is.

In the sustainable consumption section try to paraphrase what Greenpeace says instead of using direct quotes.

Might want to try and find a few journal articles for sources to strengthen your reference section.

Lauren ku (talk) 03:11, 3 March 2019 (UTC)

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York Mills Collegiate Institute

York Mills Collegiate Institute is a public high school in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is part of the Toronto District School Board, offering grades 9–12. It is located in North York along York Mills Road between Leslie Street and Bayview Avenue. Prior to 1998, it was part of the North York Board of Education.

The school emphasizes university preparation and academics. English and French Immersion courses are provided from grades 9 to 12. Windfields Middle School (half French immersion and half English) and St. Andrews Middle School are the two feeder middle schools that make up the majority of York Mills' population. Additionally, Don Valley Middle School is a feeder school to York Mills with only its smaller population of French immersion students.

Origins
York Mills Collegiate's building was designed by the British-Canadian architect Peter Dickinson. Construction began in 1956 and opened its doors on September 3, 1957. York Mills C.I. celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2007.

Sports
York Mills offers a wide variety of extracurricular sports, including: Badminton, Baseball, Softball, Basketball, Cross-country Running Team, Curling, Field Hockey (girls), Golf, Tennis, Hockey, Rugby, Soccer, Swimming, Water-Polo, Track and Field, Ultimate Frisbee, Volleyball, and Weight Training.

Notable alumni

 * John Bitove, businessman and sportsman
 * Joana Ceddia - former media personality
 * Cary Fagan - writer
 * Elliotte Friedman Sportsnet hockey reporter & NHL Network insider
 * Sasha Gollish – competitive runner
 * Dave Hodge, sports announcer
 * Young K – member of South Korean band Day6
 * Terry Leibel, journalist and equestrian
 * Sam Mizrahi - real estate developer
 * Dan Shulman, Toronto Blue Jays & ESPN play-by-play announcer
 * Jeffrey Skoll, engineer, entrepreneur, and filmproducer
 * Laura Vandervoort - actor, producer, director, writer & Shotokan Karate Nidan
 * Andy Yerzy (born 1998), baseball player in the Milwaukee Brewers organization
 * Jean Yoon - actress and writer
 * Mark Lutz - actor

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Howard Cogan

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Redirect — there hasn't been a proper discussion about this, but a one-sentence article that repeats content in another article doesn't seem worth it. I'm going to make this a redirect to the main article. --Gareth Hughes 13:44, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Howard Cogan
this article does not say anything that has already been on Jack FM. --TBH 00:23, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
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Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte

Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte (30 March 1907 – 7 July 1994) was a German paratroop officer during World War II who later served in the armed forces of West Germany, achieving the rank of General. Following the war, Heydte pursued academic, political and military careers, as a Catholic-conservative professor of political science, a member of the Christian Social Union political party, and as a Bundeswehr reservist. In 1962, Heydte was involved in the Spiegel affair.

Early life
Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte joined the Reichswehr in April 1925. In 1927, he was released from military service to attend Innsbruck University, receiving a degree in economics. In 1927, Heydte was awarded his degree in law at Graz University. He joined the NSDAP on 1 May 1933, obtaining membership number 2.134.193. He entered the Sturm Abteilung the same year. In 1935 Heydte re-joined the Reichswehr where he attended staff training.

Meanwhile, Heydte had begun his academic career in international law in 1933 as a private assistant to Hans Kelsen in Cologne on Alfred Verdross's recommendation. Following Kelsen's dismissal in the wake of the Nazi seizure of power in Germany, Heydte became Verdross's assistant at the Consular Academy in Vienna (1933–1934). Because of his National Socialist activities, he had to leave the Consular Academy in 1934 and became an assistant to Karl Gottfried Hugelmann at the University of Münster.

World War II
Heydte took part in the invasion of Poland and the Battle of France as a junior commander. In May 1940, he was transferred to Luftwaffe's parachute arm; he commanded a battalion during the Battle of Crete in May 1941. In July 1942 Heydte was sent to Libya as commander of the Fallschirm-Lehrbataillon, part of the Ramcke Parachute Brigade. Heydte was an officer in the Ramcke Brigade in North Africa until February 1943 when he and several other officers were transferred to France to form the nucleus of the new 2nd Fallschirmjäger Division under command of major-general H.B. Ramcke. He was posted as an operations officer in the divisional HQ.

After the fall of Sicily during the summer of 1943, the Germans grew wary of a potential Italian defection to the Allies. To counter this event the 2nd Fallschirmjäger Division was transferred from France to Rome on 6 August. Heydte gained audience with Pope Pius XII and befriended the Pope's "Throne Assistant", the theologian Alois Hudal, who would later become a key person in helping Nazi war criminals evade the courts of justice during the post-war war-crime trials. The division participated in taking Rome under German control as part of the German Operation Achse.

Heydte was given command of a regiment of the 2nd Fallschirmjäger Division in January 1944. By the time of Operation Overlord, the 6th Fallschirmjäger Regiment had been attached to the 91st Luftlande Infantry Division. Heydte's unit took part in the Battle of Carentan, Operation Lüttich, and in fighting against the Allied forces in Operation Market Garden.

Operation Stösser
Prior to the Ardennes Offensive, the Germans planned Operation Stösser to drop paratroopers behind the American lines 11 km north of Malmédy and to seize a key crossroads (N68-N672) leading to the towns of Eupen and Verviers. To conceal the plans from the Allies and preserve secrecy, Heydte wasn't allowed to use his own, experienced troops. Most of the new paratroops had little training.

The Luftwaffe assembled 112 Ju 52 transport planes; they were manned by inexperienced pilots. It was the German paratroopers' only nighttime drop during World War II. While the aircraft took off with around 1,300 paratroops, the pilots dropped some behind the German front lines, others over Bonn, and only a few hundred in widely scattered locations behind the American lines. Some aircraft landed with their troops still on board. Only a fraction of the force landed near the intended drop zone.

The kampfgruppe was tasked with dropping at night onto a strategic road junction 11 kilometers north of Malmédy and to hold it for approximately twenty-four hours until relieved by the 12th SS Panzer Division, with the aim of hampering the flow of Allied reinforcements and supplies. The planes that were relatively close to the intended drop zone were buffeted by strong winds that deflected many paratroopers and made their landings far rougher. Since many of the German paratroopers were very inexperienced, some were crippled upon impact and died where they fell. Some of their bodies were found the following spring as the snow melted. Heydte broke his arm upon landing from his jump.

Initially, only 125 men made it to the correct landing zone, with no heavy weapons. By noon on 17 December, Heydte's unit had scouted the woods and rounded up a total of around 300 troops. With only enough ammunition for a single fight, the force was too small to take the crossroads on its own. But because of the dispersal of the drop, German paratroops were reported all over the Ardennes, and the Allies believed a division-sized jump had taken place. This caused much confusion and convinced them to allocate men to secure the rear instead of facing the main German thrust at the front.

Because all his radios had been destroyed or lost in the jump, Heydte didn't know the 12th SS Panzer Division failed to defeat the Americans at the Battle of Elsenborn Ridge, and was unable to relieve his forces. Cut off, without supplies and pursued by the U.S. forces, Heydte ordered his men to break through Allied lines and reach the German lines. Heydte arrived in Monschau on 21 December and surrendered on 23 December. He was held as a prisoner of war in England until July 1947.

Post-war career
After his release as a POW, Heydte returned to his academic career, completing his dissertation in 1950 at the university of Munich under Erich Kaufmann, whom he had met at the Hague Academy of International Law before the outbreak of World War II. In 1951, he became a professor of constitutional and international law at the University of Mainz. From 1954, he served as a Professor of International Law, General Administrative Law, German and Bavarian State Law and Political Science at the University of Würzburg. He also headed the Institute for Military Law at University of Würzburg. From 1956 to 1971 he was a member of the Institut de Droit International. From 1961 to 1965 he served as a member of the board of the German Society for International Law. Parallel to his academic occupation, Heydte resumed his military career with the West German Bundeswehr; in 1962, he was promoted to Brigadier General in the Reserves, and in 1967, he was retired, concluding 30 years of military service.

In 1947, Heydte joined the Christian Social Union (CSU), where he was chairman of the Christian Democratic Higher Education Association. From 1966 to 1970 he was a member of the constituency for Lower Franconia at the Bavarian Parliament. He was also a member of the Committee on Cultural Policy issues and in 1967, he joined the Bavarian State Office for Political Education and the State Compensation Office. He was a supporter of the theological ideas of natural law and as a conservative Christian he supported the Catholic Church's principles of justice.

Flick affair
In 1985, Heydte became one of the central figures in the Flick affair, a serious party funding scandal in which Heydte allegedly had, as the director of the Würzburg Institute of Political Science and Policy Association for many years, helped to launder money for political donations to the CDU/CSU and FDP. He had to appear before the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany on the issue of party funding through tax-deferred contributions.

Spiegel affair
In 1962, as head of the Institute for Military Law at University of Würzburg, Heydte challenged the weekly magazine Der Spiegel over an article it published claiming a "scandalous" state of affairs in the Bundeswehr. Specifically, Von der Heydte accused the editors of high treason because they had revealed the military weaknesses of the new Bundeswehr to the public and thus to the Soviets. Because of that accusation and Heydte's position as an expert in military law, the issue was brought to a federal court, triggering what was to be known as the Spiegel affair, with many arrests of journalists and others connected to that publication.

The police raid on Der Spiegel was forcefully led by Theo Saevecke, the Kriminalrat at Sicherungsgruppe Bonn. Saevecke's wartime past was soon revealed. He had achieved the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer and served with SS-Einsatzgruppe IV in Poland (1939–40), the SS-Sicherheitsdienst in North Africa (1942–43) and commanded the Gestapo and Italian fascist police in Milan (from 1943 to 1945). All these associations marked him as a potential war criminal. Heydte's and Saevecke's conduct in the Spiegel affair caused a public outcry followed by demonstrations and public debates. The Spiegel affair was the first sign of a change in the popular beliefs in West Germany and the progenitor of all the protest later in that decade against all former Nazi German officials still in office. Heydte was heavily criticised for his actions by several prominent West German politicians, and in 1965, a court cleared the editors of Der Spiegel on all charges.

Death
Heydte died in Aham, Landshut, in 1994 after a long illness.

Works

 * Daedalus Returned (Hutchinson, 1958) - An account of the Battle of Crete.
 * Der moderne Kleinkrieg als wehrpolitisches und militärisches Phänomen (Modern Irregular Warfare as a Phenomenon of Military Policy); Executive Intelligence Review, Nachrichtenagentur GmbH, Wiesbaden, Neuausgabe 1986 ISBN 3-925725-03-2 (Erstausgabe: Holzner-Verlag, Würzburg 1972)

Awards and honours

 * Iron Cross (1939) 2nd Class (27 September 1939) & 1st Class (26 September 1940)
 * German Cross in Gold on 9 March 1942 as Hauptmann in the I./Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 3
 * Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves
 * Knight's Cross on 9 July 1941 as Hauptmann and commander of the I./Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 3
 * Oak Leaves on 30 September 1944 as Oberstleutnant and commander of Fallschirmjäger-Regiment 6
 * Bavarian Order of Merit (21 May 1974)
 * Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (17 March 1987)


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California State Route 43

State Route 43 (SR 43) is a north–south state highway in the U.S. State of California, routed along the southern San Joaquin Valley between SR 119 southwest of Bakersfield and SR 99 in Selma. SR 43 runs roughly parallel to SR 99, connecting the towns of Shafter, Wasco, Corcoran, Hanford, and Selma.

Route description
The route begins southwest of Bakersfield at the SR 119 junction as Enos Lane. It travels north on Enos Lane through rural farmland and a local raceway as SR 43 quickly crosses I-5. It continues north for a few miles before reaching SR 58. Then, after a mile after intersecting 7th Standard Road, the road name changes to Beech Ave. At the intersection of Los Angeles St., Beech Ave., and Santa Fe Way, SR 43 angles northwest, running parallel to the BNSF tracks. At this point the name changes to Central Valley Highway. Before intersecting Lerdo Highway, which serves Minter Field, the road expands to four lanes. As SR 43 goes through Shafter, the highway continues as a four-lane divided highway until reaching Wasco at Poso Dr. where it returns to two lanes. The name now changes to F Street. After intersecting SR 46, SR 43 briefly travels east along SR 46 before turning north regaining the Central Valley Highway designation. At Pond St, the route turns northwest. It continues as the route goes through Corcoran, intersecting the western terminus of SR 137 (Whitney Ave.) North of Corcoran, the route turns north splitting off from the BNSF Railway tracks. It continues north through Hanford where it reaches the SR 198 interchange before reaching Selma. SR 43 terminates at SR 99 near the intersection of Highland Avenue and Floral Avenue.

SR 43 is part of the California Freeway and Expressway System, but except for a portion near SR 46, is not part of the National Highway System, a network of highways that are considered essential to the country's economy, defense, and mobility by the Federal Highway Administration.

History
State Route 43 is the combination of two different legislative routes. The northern segment was adopted as a state route in 1933 as Legislative Route 135. It was defined to run from LRN 10 (currently SR 198) near Hanford to LRN 129 (currently SR 65) near Ducor via Corcoran and Earilmart. Originally, the route started in Ducor and traveled west on Ave. 65. It went through Earilmart to Central Valley Highway, where it joins the current route. In 1951, the route and terminus was changed from Ducor to the junction of LRN 33 (currently SR 46) and LRN 139 (current routing of SR 43) in Wasco, eliminating the route along Ave. 56.

In 1959, a second disconnected segment was added that ran from the Kings County Line to LRN 4 (currently SR 99) near Selma. The southern segment was adopted as a state route in 1933 as Legislative Route 139. It was defined to run from LRN 140 (currently SR 119) to LRN 33 in Wasco.

In 1964, all of the state routes were renumbered. LRN 135 and LRN 139 were combined, and all gaps were filled to make one continuous route from SR 119 to SR 99 near Selma. This route was named and signed as SR 43.

Future
The Kings County Association of Governments has plans to improve the state highways within the county. Developers are interested in building distribution warehouses in Kings County because of its strategic location midway between the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas, but they are currently turned off by the lack of freeway access. For SR 43, the plan is to upgrade the entire segment within the county to a freeway. However, Kings County voters have shown little interest in passing any transportation taxes to fund these projects.

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Glossodia

Glossodia, commonly known as waxlip orchids, is a genus of mostly purple orchids from Australia. The genus was first formally described in 1810 by the prolific Scottish botanist Robert Brown who published his description in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae.

Two species are recognised:
 * Glossodia major R.Br. - waxlip orchid, native to Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and South Australia;
 * Glossodia minor R.Br. - small waxlip orchid, native to Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria.

In 2015, as a result of studies of molecular phylogenetics, Mark Clements transferred the two Glossodia species to Caladenia, but the change is not recognised by the Australian Plant Census.

Plants of the World Online lists Glossodia as a synonym of Caladenia.

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Cairngaan

Cairngaan, Wigtownshire, is the southmost settlement in Scotland. The hamlet of Cairngaan lies just north of the Mull of Galloway (which contains Scotland's most southerly point, and a lighthouse, but no villages) on the B7041, after a turn-off from the B7065 road. The village is at the extreme end of the B7401. As a result of Cairngaan's southerly location, the town lies south of the English cities of Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland and Carlisle.

Nearby settlements include Drummore and Kirkmaiden to the near north. Around 18 miles (29 km) away is Stranraer and the ferry to Northern Ireland.

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Microtis (plant)

Microtis, commonly known as onion orchids or mignonette orchids is a genus of about 20 species of plants in the orchid family, Orchidaceae. Onion orchids are terrestrial herbs with a single leaf at the base of the plant. They are similar to orchids in the genus Prasophyllum in that they have an onion-like leaf. The flowers are small but often scented and attractive to their insect pollinators. They are widespread in Asia, Australia and some Pacific islands.

Description
Orchids in the genus Microtis are terrestrial, perennial, deciduous, sympodial herbs with a few inconspicuous, fine roots and an egg-shaped to almost spherical tuber. The tuber often produces two tubers on the end of long, root-like stolons. There is a single, linear, cylindrical, onion-like leaf at the base of the plant. The leaf resembles that of the closely related genus Prasophyllum except that is entirely green (usually red at the base in Prasophyllum) and exudes clear mucilage when damaged.

The inflorescence is a raceme with a few to many resupinate green flowers spirally arranged on a flowering stem. Each flower has a short stalk with a small bract near its base. The broad dorsal sepal is sharp-pointed, dished on the lower side and forms a horizontal hood over the column. The lateral sepals are similar to, but much narrower than the dorsal sepal. The petals are smaller than the sepals, thin and are spread below or under the dorsal sepal. As is usual in orchids, one petal is highly modified as the central labellum. The labellum is egg-shaped to oblong and hangs or is curved against the ovary. The sexual parts of the flower are fused to the column, which is shaped like half a cylinder. Flowering time depends on the climatic region where the species is found and the fruit that follows flowering is a non-fleshy, dehiscent capsule containing up to 500 seeds.

Taxonomy and naming
The genus Microtis was first formally described by Robert Brown in 1810 and the description was published in Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae. Brown described five species at the time (M. parviflora, M. rara, M. media, M. alba and M. pulchella) but did not nominate a type species. The name Microtis is derived from the ancient Greek words mikros (μικρός) meaning "small" and ous, genitive ōtos (οὖς, genitive ὠτός) meaning "ear", referring to the small, ear-like appendages on the column.

Distribution and habitat
Onion orchids are widespread in temperate areas of Australia and in sub-tropical Queensland, occurring in all states but not the Northern Territory. Microtis parviflora and M. unifolia are the most widely distributed species and also occur on both main islands of New Zealand and as far south as Stewart and possibly Auckland Islands as well as New Caledonia, and Norfolk, Lord Howe and the Kermadec Islands in the western Pacific. These two species are also found in Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan, southern Japan, the Ryukyu Islands and possibly on the Chinese mainland. They usually grow in areas that are wet in winter or in areas of high rainfall.

Disease
The leaves of onion orchids are susceptible to fungal disease and most leaves appear to have some damage. The rust Uromyces microtidis has been identified as a pathogen.

Pollination
Microtis flowers are insect pollinated. For some species, the insect is a small wasp from a species of Ichneumonidae or Braconidae. Pollination of orchids by ants is rare because the mouthparts of ants usually have antibiotic secretions which damage pollen grains. However, several species of Microtis, including M. parviflora are pollinated by wingless worker ants from the genera Iridomyrmex (Family Dolichoderinae), Meranops (Family Myrmeciinae) and Rhytidoponera (Family Ponerinae), having been attracted by nectar secreted from the base of the labellum.

Autogamy
Autogamy has been observed in several species of onion orchid. In some cases, the pollen grains fall onto the stigma and germinate but in others, including in some populations of M. parvifolia, if the flowers have not been cross-pollinated, the stigma grows upwards until it contacts the pollinia, so that seed is always produced.

Species
The taxonomy of Microtis has been confused ever since Robert Brown first described the genus. He did not include Ophrys unifolia G.Forst. (1786) and Epipactis porrifolia Sw. (1800) and these names were used by later authors, although now recognised as Microtis media. The small size of the flowers and their tendency to change when dried as herbarium species led to further confusion.

 * Microtis alba R.Br. (1810) – white mignonette orchid (SW Australia)
 * Microtis alboviridis R.J.Bates (2008) – scented mignonette orchid (SW Australia)
 * Microtis angusii D.L.Jones (1996) – Mona Vale onion orchid (New South Wales)
 * Microtis arenaria Lindl. (1840) – notched onion orchid (south-east Australia)
 * Microtis atrata Lindl. (1840) – swamp mignonette orchid (southern Australia)
 * Microtis brownii Rchb.f. (1871) – sweet mignonette orchid (SW Australia)
 * Microtis cupularis (D.L.Jones & G.Brockman) A.P.Br. (2005) – cupped mignonette orchid (SW Australia)
 * Microtis eremaea R.J.Bates (1996) – slender mignonette orchid (SW Australia)
 * Microtis eremicola (R.J.Bates) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. (1996) – desert mignonette orchid (SW Australia)
 * Microtis familiaris R.J.Bates (1990) – coastal mignonette orchid (SW Australia)
 * Microtis globula R.J.Bates (1984) – globular mignonette orchid (SW Australia)
 * Microtis gracilenta R.J.Bates (2015) (South Australia)
 * Microtis graniticola R.J.Bates, (1984) – globular mignonette orchid (SW Australia)
 * Microtis media R.Br. (1810) (SW Australia)
 * Microtis media subsp. densiflora (Benth.) R.J.Bates, (1990) – dense mignonette orchid (SW Australia)
 * Microtis media subsp. R.Br. media – common mignonette orchid (SW Australia)
 * Microtis oblonga R.S.Rogers (1923) – sweet onion orchid (SE Australia)
 * Microtis oligantha L.B.Moore, (1968) – small onion orchid (New Zealand)
 * Microtis orbicularis R.S.Rogers (1907) – dark mignonette orchid (southern Australia)
 * Microtis parviflora R.Br. (1810) – slender onion orchid (all Australian states)
 * Microtis pulchella R.Br. (1810) – beautiful mignonette orchid (SW Australia)
 * Microtis quadrata (R.J.Bates) D.L.Jones & M.A.Clem. (1996) – south coast mignonette orchid (SW Australia)
 * Microtis rara R.Br., Prodr. (1810) – scented onion orchid (all Australian states)
 * Microtis unifolia (G.Forst.) Rchb.f. (1871) – common onion orchid (widespread from China, Japan, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand)

Use in horticulture
Most Microtis are very easy to grow, and readily volunteer themselves in other pots. Onion orchids are often found in gardens around Melbourne from wind-born seed.

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Mississippi River
If anyone wants to help I need people to help me move all links of Mississippi River(that are meant for the Mississippi River (United States) and not Mississippi River (Ontario)) to be moved to Mississippi River (United States)

 * Please do not do this. The Mississippi River in the USA is the primary topic. older ≠ wiser 16:27, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I will do this, Mississippi River should be a disambiguation page. -- Aetas-nex.

 * Again, I say, please don't do this. If you persist, your actions might be construed as disruptive. Please read Disambiguation carefully, especially about primary topics. Your attempt to move Mississippi River was quickly reverted (and not by me). I'd expect that any attempt to do so in the future would quickly meet the same fate. If you doubt this, then propose the move on WP:RM and see the discussion that results. older ≠ wiser 17:02, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

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Judge Advocate General (Canada)

The judge advocate general of the Canadian Forces (JAG; juge-avocat général des Forces canadiennes) is the senior legal officer who superintends the administration of military justice in the Canadian Armed Forces, and provides legal advice on military matters to the governor general, the minister of national defence, the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Armed Forces. The office is defined in section 9 of the National Defence Act.

The 15th and current judge advocate general is Rear Admiral Geneviève Bernatchez, since June 28, 2017.

Office of the Judge Advocate General
The office consists of 159 regular force legal officer positions and 64 reserve force legal officer positions. Regular force legal officers are deployed as follows:

 * National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa
 * Eight Assistant Judge Advocate General (AJAG) offices: Esquimalt, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax, NORAD HQ (USA), and Germany.
 * Ten Deputy Judge Advocate (DJA) offices across Canada
 * Four Regional Military Prosecutor (RMP) offices across Canada
 * Canadian Forces Military Law Centre at the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) in Kingston, Ontario
 * Deputy Commander-in-Chief North American Aerospace Defence Command Headquarters (in Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States)
 * with CF contingents deployed overseas
 * in training with CF formations and units participating in major national and international exercises.

List of judge advocates general

 * 1) Major-General Henry Smith, 1911-1918
 * 2) Lieutenant-Colonel Oliver Mowat Biggar, 1918-1920
 * 3) Brigadier Reginald John Orde, 1920-1950
 * 4) Brigadier-General William J. Lawson, 1950-1969
 * 5) Brigadier-General Harold A. McLearn, 1969-1972
 * 6) Brigadier-General James M. Simpson, 1972-1976
 * 7) Major-General John Patterson Wolfe, 1976-1982
 * 8) Brigadier-General Frank Karwandy, 1982-1986
 * 9) Brigadier-General Robert L. Martin, 1986-1990
 * 10) Commodore Peter R. Partner, 1990-1993
 * 11) Brigadier-General Pierre G. Boutet, 1993-1998
 * 12) Major-General Jerry S.T. Pitzul, 1998-2006
 * 13) Brigadier-General Ken Watkin, 2006-2010
 * 14) Major-General B. Blaise Cathcart, 2010-2017
 * 15) Rear-Admiral Geneviève Bernatchez, 2017-

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Plumb bob

A plumb bob, plumb bob level, or plummet, is a weight, usually with a pointed tip on the bottom, suspended from a string and used as a vertical direction as a reference line, or plumb-line. It is a precursor to the spirit level and used to establish a vertical datum. It is typically made of stone, wood, or lead, but can also be made of other metals. If it is used for decoration, it may be made of bone or ivory.

The instrument has been used since at least the time of ancient Egypt to ensure that constructions are "plumb", or vertical. It is also used in surveying, to establish the nadir (opposite of zenith) with respect to gravity of a point in space. It is used with a variety of instruments (including levels, theodolites, and steel tapes) to set the instrument exactly over a fixed survey marker or to transcribe positions onto the ground for placing a marker.

Etymology

The plumb in plumb bob derives from Latin plumbum ('lead'), the material once used for the weighted bob at the end. The adjective plumb developed by extension, as did the noun aplomb, from the notion of "standing upright".

Use
Until the modern age, plumb bobs were used on most tall structures to provide vertical datum lines for the building measurements. A section of the scaffolding would hold a plumb line, which was centered over a datum mark on the floor. As the building proceeded upward, the plumb line would also be taken higher, still centered on the datum. Many cathedral spires, domes and towers still have brass datum marks inlaid into their floors, which signify the center of the structure above.

A plumb bob and line alone can determine only a vertical reference. However, if they are mounted on a suitable scale the instrument may also be used as an inclinometer to measure angles to the vertical.

Ancient Egyptians used a plumb line attached to the top outer part of a tool resembling a letter E; when placed against a wall, the plumb line would indicate a vertical line. An A-frame level with a plumb line hung from the vertex was also used to find horizontal; these were used in Europe until the mid–19th century. A variation of this tool has the plumb line hung from the top of an inverted T shape.

The early skyscrapers used heavy plumb bobs, hung on wire in their elevator shafts.

A plumb bob may be in a container of water (when conditions are above freezing temperatures), molasses, very viscous oils or other liquids to dampen any swinging movement, functioning as a shock absorber.

Determining center of gravity of an irregular shape
Students of figure drawing will also make use of a plumb line to find the vertical axis through the center of gravity of their subject and lay it down on paper as a point of reference. The device used may be purpose-made plumb lines, or simply makeshift devices made from a piece of string and a weighted object, such as a metal washer. This plumb line is important for lining up anatomical geometries and visualizing the subject's center of balance.

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Talk:Connie Chung

Sex symbol
This is categorized under "sex symbols." Who made that call? Drumsac 16:55, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Removed pending WP:CITE. - brenneman (t) (c)  21:20, 9 January 2006 (UTC)

 * The entire category of sex symbols has been deleted now anyway, as of January 14, 2006. Gilliamjf 03:03, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

Personal life
"...were pulling in million dollar annual salaries." --something more formal, perhaps?

 * Is any of the facts in "personal life" true? They seem so ridiculous. 72.138.81.82 05:05, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Connie factor

 * I think the Family Guy character is more a reference of the so-called Connie Factor; the ubiquitousness of female, Asian-American news correspondents in local news, which really warrants a mention in this article. --Chardman 22:14, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Agreed. The passage gives Peter's line "Thanks, Connie" as evidence of the supposed parody, when in fact, it's proof that it's not a reference to Chung, since that punchline underscores that he mistook her for another Asian reporter. Nightscream 07:21, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

rewrite this mess
This article is one of the poorest I've encountered on Wikipedia. Someone should rewrite the whole thing. Specific problems that could be easily fixed: under "recent," it says first that she appeared on "The View" in 2005, then goes on to say she hadn't appeared on television since 2003. In the paragraph about Newt Gingrich's mother, the big controversy is never explained - the fact Newt's mom called Hillary a "bitch" is the central point, and leaving that out is clearly not NPOV. In the Connie Chung Tonight section, is 2 million dollars really a "whopping" salary, for a (then) household name news veteran? Do we have salaries for other household name news veterans listed on their pages, with adjectives describing whether the salaries appear to be "whopping" to the writer? Like her or not, Connie Chung was once one of the most recognizable names in news with a very successful career. Clearly, the writer does not like her.

 * The issue with Newt's mother was that she told Connie 'off the record', yet it was reported anyway. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.99.42.26 (talk) 18:37, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

 * It should include a weblink to:
 * < http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekends_with_Maury_and_Connie >.

 * Notes should include: Every episode of "Weekends [Weakends]" has been done with much comedic-sarcasm.  There was the ep. where Constance interviewed herself, &, repetitively insulted her prerecorded self.

 * Final ep., Saturday-Sunday,17th-18th, June 06: ended: Connie singing, mockery-style, sliding off of a "grand piano", "Thanks for the Memories", altered lyrics. Then, Connie & Maur danced, ballroom.  In the piano-dress, she looked far more attractive than many twenty-year-old fashion-models.  "Sex symbol"?  If I had had a cymbal, it would've rung.  Thank You, D. F. T. P.

I had written this message more than three years ago; I am surprised that most of it appears to yet be there.

I have not reread the entire article, now, this time; however, it does seem to have many improvements.

 * weekends_with_Maury_and_Connie

Excellent.

Now, my message, finally, has a signature.

Thank You.

hopiakuta Please do   sign  your  communiqu%c3%a9 .%7e%7eThank You, DonFphrnqTaub Persina. 03:30, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

I agree it was poorly written. I was surprised when I came across it, not because I haven't encountered much worse-written articles, but because I never expected to find that dearth of quality in an article about a famous news anchor. (I wonder if that's endemic of her standing in the journalistic community. :-)) As for the discrepancy with The View, I'm guessing that the passage about not having appeared on TV since 2003 was intended to mean "as the host/anchor of a program."  I tweaked it here and there. Nightscream 07:38, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

 * All the topics covered in the article are lacking in details, not just references. I think it would be easier to scrap it and start with the idea of doing a more in depth biography, the kind you would expect for a person of her notoriety.  --Eudemis (talk) 15:21, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Chinese or Taiwanese
The searches quite obviously show that one label is used while the other is not:. The evidence shows that the term is well accepted and verifiable. I don't see why we need to excluder her from the Chinese American category.--Jiang 23:32, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

 * The inclusion on the chinese american list should only be conditional or a violation of NPOV.--Bonafide.hustla 20:25, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

I really don't see how it is a violation of NPOV. Wikipedia should only reflect labels used by the general community at large.--Jiang 01:18, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Since when did Taiwanese become an ethnicity? Furthermore, Connie Chung's parents are natives of Jiangsu province, so how exactly does that make Chung a Taiwanese?

"Since when did Taiwanese become an ethnicity?"

There are and have been several Taiwanese ethnicities. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_people and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwanese_aborigines

Taiwanese still, isn't an ethnicity, just like American isn't an ethnicity. There are African Americans, Italian Americans, but American alone is not an ethnicity. Taiwanese aborigines usually go by their tribal names rather than "Taiwanese". For example, Ameizhu is the name of one tribe. Even if they aren't specifically called by their tribe, they are generally called Gaoshanzhu, or Shandiren. Regardless of what the aborigines are called, Connie is not one of them. Her parents were never even in TW. She has no familial ties to the province. The majority of those who are considered Taiwanese have Fujian ancestry, and speak the Minan dialect. Neither Chung nor her parents speak that dialect, nor does she have Fujian ancestry. In fact, Chung's parents were both Muslims. Taiwanese have very unique characteristics. They worship their own gods, and eat distinct food that differ from other provinces. Taiwanese themselves wouldn't consider Chung's parents to be Taiwanese.

Actually, if you check out (Archive of American television) Connie Chung's interview, she says that her parents went from Sichuan to America, with a short stay in India, and they never even lived in Taiwan. According to her own story, her parents left China before Chiang was even defeated.

This has nothing to do with Connie Chung. ---Dagme (talk) 17:51, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

I am not a part of this discussion, but I recall hearing somewhere about tension between Taiwanese and refugees (from the mainland after Communist victory there).

Removed potential libel
I removed the following: If untrue, this is libelous and thus violates our policy on writing about living people. If true, it needs a source. Powers T 13:49, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
 * On his radio show, G. Gordon Liddy, attempting to tell some ethnic humor, once said that Chung's real name was "Nissan Datsun Toyota" and that the first English words she learned to say were "You yankee pirot, tell us where American pranes are coming flom."

 * Powers: It is true, I heard it in (or near) 1999. He even refered to it on the next broadcast of his radio show, dismissing the criticism of his comments as an overreaction to lighthearted humour.  But you are correct, we should locate a citation or a MP3 of the remark before putting it back in the article.72.82.206.156 23:05, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Middle Name
Does Yu-Hwa mean something special in Chinese?--71.35.69.46 19:01, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

All Chinese names mean something special. X911 03:41, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

However, Yu-Hwa 毓華 to me looks like "raise flower" -- it looks extremely far from "Princess Ivory." Could a native Mandarin speaker verify this? Spyffe 04:10, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Yu means "grow" or "cultivate", Hua is the word for "flower". However, Yu-Hua does not literally mean "grow/cultivate flower". Rather, as a name, it represents a wish for abundant growth and beauty. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.85.54.197 (talk) 01:02, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Vandalism
Names and dates have been changed. Can somebody check this... — Gaff ταλκ 03:09, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Yu means "grow" or "cultivate", Hua is the word for "flower". However, Yu-Hua does not literally mean "grow/cultivate flower". Rather, as a name, it represents a wish for abundant growth and beauty.

Chinese Spies controversy
I have returned back the deleted section about Connie Chung's remarks about Chinese people being spies. I believe that this type of comment by her should be included among the "controversies" of her career. Someone (MingTing?) has deleted it, characterizing it as "uncited" and "unfounded". I don't know what "unfounded" means, and would be happy to hear a clarification, but it is certainly cited. Perhaps what is meant was that her (in my opinion) disgusting and sellout remarks are unfounded, which I would tend to agree. But that's what makes them controversal, I believe. 206.41.93.154 03:36, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

 * How about fleshing out the details of the protest? Who, actually, was protesting, for instance? The Sanity Inspector 19:00, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

 * TingMing continues to remove the Chinese spies controversy without comment. It also appears he/she has been recognized as a potential "sockpuppet" of "Nationalist". 128.101.248.101 16:37, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

Bobby Lee
What about mentioning Bobby Lee's relentless impressions of her on Mad TV? For a lot of people particularly outside of the US, that version of Connie Chung is possibly more famous than she is. Mrrealtime (talk) 01:31, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

Still active?
Nothing in the article shows that she is still active after 2006 - needs more to show that if indeed true. SergeWoodzing (talk) 07:45, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
 * For now I am changing it to 2006. In-Correct (talk) 20:29, 21 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I am going to change it back to "Active", because the article quickly states that she was a judge for Miss Universe 2011. And I don't know of any sources that states she has retired. In-Correct (talk) 20:34, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

Elsewhere on this talk page, see the question I have about John List, mass murderer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.63.16.20 (talk) 17:17, 8 April 2015 (UTC)

Never got to say I'm sorry.
I never got the chance to tell her I'm sorry. In the Nov of 1973 Connie was sent to Saratoga California to cover a private high school that had students stranded over-nite by a snow storm. To make matters worse the bus sent to pick them up was under two trees that had fallen on it before the kids could be loaded.

She was trying to hitch a ride up to the school with her camer man and sound man behind her. She asked for a ride from a too young to be driving kid at the wheel of the bus he was driving. He told her that just that morning he could only carry students faculty and parents of student on the bus. I know because I was that bus driver. At the time I was only 18, one of the youngest school bus drivers in the state of California.

Today I'm still driving for a living, but I support the troops in Iraq by driving the trucks that supply them. Connie I'm sorry I didn't get to take you for a ride, I know you must have been freezing in the back of that dump truck that followed me.Jonhenry78 (talk) 12:26, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

dateline
Connie Chung did a two part story on dateline in 1990 on a severely MRDD girl who became pregnant. The last episode I saw they were looking for the culprit who did this to the girl. They were testing the brother-in-law and the nephew who did they find out to be the one that fathered the child and did the baby come out ok due tho her being on heavy medication during her preganancy and if the baby lived what happened to the baby and the girl? Did the sister keep the baby? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.66.200.167 (talk) 19:46, 22 September 2011 (UTC)

interviewed mass murderer John List
Elsewhere on Wikipedia, I have a question about an interview Connie Chung had with mass murderer John List. It's in the talk page for that John List.

In that interview, Connie Chung asked Mr. List why he did not kill himself. (OK, his answer was that suicide would bar him from heaven, but that's not the point of MY question.) I was asking if Connie Chung referred to List killing ONLY himself, because I went on to point out the cases of Christopher Wood and William Parente, both occurring in central Maryland in 2009; each of those men killed his wife, his children, AND HIMSELF. As you may know, List killed his wife, his mother, and his 3 teenage children.

Ethnicity removal
Backendgaming (talk) keeps on removing her Chinese ethnicity tag, as well all references of her being of Chinese ancestry. I agree with him for removing the Chinese Jews tag, but there is a difference between nationality and ethnicity. Also, despite deleting all the Chinese tags and all references of her being ethnically Chinese, they specifically left in the Taiwanese American tag, which as per previous discussion, should not apply to her whatsoever. Her parents all were born in Mainland China before the Civil War and only stayed in Taiwan for a couple of years after the war before immigrating to the United States and giving birth to her. They have also removed credible sources where Connie herself discussed her past and ancestry. I have reverted those changes and replaced the Taiwanese tag. If anymore changes are made by the previous user. I would ask a moderator to look into this, thanks. Obsilord (talk) 16:36, 18 June 2014 (UTC)

Nationality should obviously be American. Ethnicity is obviously Chinese, more specifically, Han Chinese. I don't why the Taiwanese American tag stayed there as I had nothing to do with that. It must be a bug within the revert tool. Anyhow, I supplemented the previous source from makers.com and added another source from WBUR with an interview transcript that documents her heritage more deeply.Backendgaming (talk) 00:42, 19 June 2014 (UTC)

Political orientation
In the section on the Martina Navratilova interview, it says that Chung labeled Navratilova's criticisms of the U.S. political system "un-American" and "unpatriotic", and suggested she should "go back to Czechoslovakia", also saying "love it or leave it."

This indicates a far right political orientation on the part of Chung. The article should include further discussion of this --- is it an anomaly or is there more to the idea of a far right political orientation? ---Dagme (talk) 18:09, 31 May 2015 (UTC)

Occupation listing
Under Occupation - Is Jewess an actual occupation or a racist slur?

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Sardi's

Sardi's is a continental restaurant located at 234 West 44th Street, between Broadway and Eighth Avenue, in the Theater District of Manhattan, New York City. Sardi's opened at its current location on March 5, 1927. It is known for the caricatures of Broadway celebrities on its walls, of which there are over a thousand.

Sardi's was founded by Vincent Sardi Sr. and his wife Jenny Pallera, who had previously operated a restaurant nearby between 1921 and 1926. To attract customers, Sardi Sr. hired Russian refugee Alex Gard to draw caricatures in exchange for free food. Even after Gard's death, Sardi's continued to commission caricatures. Following the death of Vincent Sardi Sr. in 1969, Sardi's started to decline in the 1980s, eventually being sold off in 1986. After closing temporarily in 1990, it reopened with new staff.

The restaurant is today considered an institution in Broadway theatre. Over the years, the restaurant became known as a pre- and post-theater hangout, as well as a location for opening night parties, and was where the idea of the Tony Award was devised.

Creation and early years
Melchiorre Pio Vincenzo "Vincent" Sardi Sr. (born in San Marzano Oliveto, Italy, on December 23, 1885; died November 19, 1969 ) and his wife Eugenia ("Jenny") Pallera (born in Castell'Alfero, Italy, on July 14, 1889; died November 17, 1978 ) opened their first eatery, The Little Restaurant, in the basement of 246 West 44th Street in 1921. When that building was slated for demolition in 1926 to make way for the St. James Theatre, Sardi and Pallera accepted an offer from the theater magnates, the Shubert brothers, to relocate to a new building the brothers were erecting down the block. The new restaurant, Sardi's, opened March 5, 1927.

When business slowed after the move, Vincent Sardi sought a gimmick to attract customers. Recalling the movie star caricatures that decorated the walls of Joe Zelli's, a Parisian restaurant and jazz club, Sardi decided to recreate that effect in his establishment. He hired a Russian refugee named Alex Gard (1898–1948; born Alexis Kremkoff in Kazan, Russia) to draw Broadway celebrities. Sardi and Gard drew up a contract that stated Gard would make the caricatures in exchange for one meal per day at the restaurant. The first official caricature by Gard was of Ted Healy, the vaudevillian of Three Stooges fame. When Sardi's son, Vincent Sardi Jr. (1915–2007), took over restaurant operations in 1947, he offered to change the terms of Gard's agreement. Gard refused and continued to draw the caricatures in exchange for meals, ultimately drawing over 720 caricatures for Sardi's until his 1948 death.

Height of popularity
Frequent mentions of the restaurant in newspaper columns by Walter Winchell and Ward Morehouse added to Sardi's growing popularity. Winchell and Morehouse belonged to a group of newspapermen, press agents, and drama critics who met for lunch regularly at Sardi's and referred to themselves as the Cheese Club. Heywood Broun, Mark Hellinger, press agent Irving Hoffman, actor George Jessel, and Ring Lardner were also Cheese Club members. In fact, it was Hoffman who first brought Alex Gard to Sardi's for lunch at the Cheese Club table. Gard drew caricatures of the Cheese Club members, and Vincent Sardi hung them above their table. It was then that Sardi recalled the drawings at Zelli's and made his deal with Gard.

The restaurant became known as a pre- and post-theater hangout, as well as a location for opening night parties. Vincent Sardi, a theater lover, kept the restaurant open much later than others in the area to accommodate Broadway performers' schedules. Sardi's grossed about $1 million in annual revenue by the late 1950s. Vincent Sardi died in 1969, aged 83, and control of Sardi's passed to his son Vincent Jr. Under Vincent Jr.'s leadership, food reviewers started to criticize the eatery as being "sooty". Mimi Sheraton, a New York Times food writer, said in 1981 that "food, service and housekeeping at Sardi's leave almost everything to be desired".

The Sardi family owned the restaurant for six decades, until 1984, when Sardi's was sold to Show Biz Restaurant Inc. At the time, George Lang Corporation was planning a renovation of the restaurant in the near future. However, in June 1985, Vincent Sardi Jr. indicated that the deal had not been approved and that he still owned the restaurant; according to industry experts, he was asking for at least $7 million from a potential buyer. Vincent Jr. sold Sardi's to Ivan Bloch, who headed Sardi's Inc., in September 1986. After Bloch failed to make payments and defaulted in April 1989, his debt was restructured. Ownership was transferred to Broadway Holdings Inc., which acquired Sardi's Inc. When the owners defaulted again in June 1989, Sardi's filed for bankruptcy, and in June 1990, temporarily closed. The restaurant reopened in November 1990 with new staff. Following the reopening, reviews of Sardi's tended to be more positive.

While the Sardi family was Italian, their restaurant's cuisine is not; rather it tends toward "English food", a Continental menu. In 1957, Vincent Sardi Jr. collaborated with Helen Bryson to compile a cookbook of Sardi's recipes. Curtain Up at Sardi's contains nearly 300 recipes ranging from a grilled cheese sandwich to a Champagne cocktail. By 1987, however, Zagat was describing the food as "a culinary laughing stock." One customer who was surveyed called Sardi's "the longest running gag on Broadway."

Other locations
Several alternate locations of Sardi's have been opened over the years, but all were later closed or sold off. In 1932, a Los Angeles location of Sardi's opened on Hollywood Boulevard, where it was similarly popular with celebrities. It was destroyed in a fire in 1936. Vincent Sardi Sr. opened Sardi's East, a French-food eatery, at 123 East 54th Street in 1958. It was sold in 1968 and renamed the Jockey Club. In 1974, it was announced that Vincent Sardi Jr. would open a 700-seat Dinner‐Theater in Baldwin, Nassau County, New York. The Dinner-Theater opened in September 1974; however, it was unprofitable and only operated for two years before closing.

Today
Sardi's is the birthplace of the Tony Award; after Antoinette Perry's death in 1946, her partner, theatrical producer and director Brock Pemberton, was eating lunch at Sardi's when he came up with the idea of a theater award to be given in Perry's honor. For many years Sardi's was the location where Tony Award nominations were announced. Vincent Sardi Sr. received a special Tony Award in 1947, the first year of the awards, for "providing a transient home and comfort station for theatre folk at Sardi's for 20 years." In 2004, Vincent Sardi Jr. received a Tony Honor for Excellence in the Theatre. Sardi's is also the venue for the presentation of the Outer Critics Circle Awards, as well as many other Broadway events, press conferences, and celebrations.

In a 2000 interview, composer Stephen Sondheim cited Sardi's while lamenting the changing climate of New York theater. Asked about the Broadway community, Sondheim replied, "There's none whatsoever. The writers write one show every two or three years. Who congregates at Sardi's? What is there to congregate about? Shows just sit in theaters and last." Sardi's closed temporarily in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, reopening on December 25, 2021. Sardi's longtime bartender Joe Petrsoric, who had worked there since 1968, retired in 2023.

Caricatures

During his lifetime, Alex Gard drew over 720 caricatures for Sardi's. Gard died in 1948 after suffering a heart attack in the subway. After Gard, John Mackey took over drawing for the restaurant, but was soon replaced by Donald Bevan. Bevan, a U.S. Army Air Forces veteran and an illustrator, did the drawings for over 20 years, when he retired. He was replaced by Richard Baratz, a banknote and certificate engraver by profession, who was originally from Brooklyn and had been hired through a contest for a new caricaturist. Baratz, who lives in Pennsylvania, continues to the present day as the Sardi's caricaturist. As of 2010, there are more than 1,300 celebrity caricatures on display.

According to actor Robert Cuccioli's spokesperson Judy Katz, in an interview with Playbill: "On the day James Cagney died, his caricature was stolen from the Sardi's wall. Since then, when drawings are done, the originals go into a vault, and two copies are made. One goes to the lucky subject of the caricature, the other up on the Sardi's wall. This way, potential thieves won't have their moment."

In 1979, Vincent Sardi Jr. donated a collection of 227 caricatures from the restaurant to the Billy Rose Theatre Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Radio broadcasts
On March 8, 1947, Vincent Sardi Jr. began a radio show broadcast live from the Sardi's dining room, called Luncheon at Sardi's. It was hosted originally by Bill Slater. Subsequent hosts were Tom Slater, Ray Heatherton and Arlene Francis. Currently, on WOR Radio, Joan Hamburg occasionally does broadcasts from Sardi's.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tantive IV (band)

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. Wikiacc (talk) 20:10, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Tantive IV (band)
NN/Vanity ≈ jossi fresco ≈ 00:28, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete until their "official MySpace page!" has a Warner or BMG logo on it. See WP:Music --CastAStone 00:40, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. High school band with no indication of meeting WP:music. Capitalistroadster 00:47, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete NN --Rogerd 01:42, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete 49,900 google hits on the exact phrase, surely they're famous. Or maybe not.  They seem to be more crystal ball than WP:MUSIC.  --rob 02:16, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: I moved Tantive iv to Tantive IV (band).  I changed the remainging re-direct of Tantive iv to point to Tantive IV, which is probably more well known.  --rob 02:57, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Most of the Google hits for the exact phrase refer to the Star Wars term. Andrew pmk | Talk 03:07, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. NN band / vanity. Cnwb 05:08, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. NN, and vanity. Per above.  Ban e  s  08:26, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Any band that advertises an "official MySpace page", of all things, has got to be non-notable. — J I P | Talk 10:31, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Good name, but no WP:MUSIC cigar. - C HAIRBOY  (☎) 18:59, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, bandanity. the wub  "?!"  19:46, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. Or an   e    (t)   (c)   (@)  22:16, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete based on the reasons cited above. The evidence is clearly overwhelming and the promotional nature of the entry blurs the point of a wikipedia entry.  We are informational and not promotional.  el_amante 20:26, 12 October 2005
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Texas State Highway 31

State Highway 31 (SH 31) runs from U.S. 84 northeast of Waco via Corsicana, Athens, Tyler, Kilgore to U.S. 80 in Longview.

History
SH 31 was a route proposed on October 9, 1917 to run from Waco northeast via Corsicana and Athens to Tyler, which remains the western portion of its current route to this day. On November 27, 1922, the route had been extended northeast to Gladewater, replacing part of SH 15 so that SH 15 had only one route west of Gladewater. On October 26, 1932, SH 31 Spur was designated through Malakoff. On September 26, 1939, the section from Tyler to Gladewater was reassigned to U.S. 271 (which it had been cosigned with earlier), with SH 31 now being extended east to Kilgore over former SH 176. SH 31 Spur was renumbered as Spur 63. On June 30, 1971, SH 31 was extended north to I-20 concurrent with US 259. When U.S. 259 was rerouted on July 25, 1985, SH 31 was extended northeast into Longview. In 2013, a new route was designated around Corsicana for a proposed bypass. Construction on the bypass began in 2016 and opened to traffic in 2021.

Route description
SH 31 begins at an interchange with US 84 northeast of Waco. The highway travels through rural areas of McLennan County, passing just north of Axtell. SH 31 intersects FM 939 then enters Hill County. In Hill County, the highway bypasses the towns of Mount Calm and Hubbard. Entering Navarro County, SH 31 runs through Dawson and has an overlap with FM 709 through the town then intersects FM 667 near Navarro Mills Lake. The highway then bypasses Corsicana, passing near or through the towns of Oak Valley, Retreat, and Mildred and intersects I-45 and US 287 in southeast Corsicana. SH 31 passes just north of the Richland-Chambers Reservoir before entering the town of Powell. The highway then travels through the town of Kerens before crossing the Trinity River into Henderson County.

In Henderson County, the route becomes less rural. SH 31 passes just south of the Cedar Creek Reservoir while serving the towns of Trinidad and Malakoff. The highway then enters Athens, bypassing the town on Loop 7; along with Loop 7, SH 31 also has overlaps with US 175 and SH 19 around Athens. SH 31 then leaves the loop in northeast Athens near an intersection with FM 317 then travels through the towns of Murchison and Brownsboro. The highway crosses over the northwestern segment of Lake Palestine, travels through Chandler, then crosses the Neches River into Smith County. SH 31 intersects Loop 49 Toll and travels through suburban areas of Smith County before entering Tyler. The highway travels through Tyler along Front Street, passing just south of the downtown area and serves as the southern terminus of US 271 near The Health Science Center at UT Tyler, then leaves the city just after intersecting Loop 323 for a second time. Leaving Tyler, the highway's route becomes more rural again, traveling through wooded areas before entering Kilgore. In Kilgore, SH 31 has a brief overlap with US 259 that lasts until I-20. The highway has an interchange with Loop 281 then enters Longview. SH 31 turns in a more northward direction at South Street then ends at US 80 near downtown, with the road continuing north as Spur 63.

Business routes
SH 31 has four business routes.

Hubbard business loop
Business State Highway 31-C (Bus. SH 31-C) is a business loop that runs through Hubbard. The highway is known locally as North 4th Street.

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Corsicana business loop
Business State Highway 31-D (Bus. SH 31-D) is a business loop that runs through Corsicana. The route was designated in 2013.

The highway is known locally as 7th Avenue or Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard. Just east of FM 2555 (45th Street) the road passes by Navarro College.

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Athens business loop
Business State Highway 31-H (Bus. SH 31-H) is a business loop that runs through Athens. The route was designated in 2004 when SH 31 was re-routed along Loop 7.

The highway is known locally as Corsicana Street west of downtown and east of downtown it is known as Tyler Street and briefly runs along Prairieville Street for a block near the Henderson County Courthouse. SH 31 Bus. H has an overlap with US 175 Bus. in the western part of town.

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Mount Calm business loop
Business State Highway 31-K (Bus. SH 31-K) is a business loop that runs near Mount Calm. The road was designated on July 30, 2015 when SH 31 was rerouted to the west.

Both ends of the highway have no access to westbound SH 31 with traffic only be able to access eastbound SH 31. The only highway SH 31 Bus. K intersects between its termini is FM 339.

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Stary Zdrój

Stary Zdrój (Altwasser) is a district of the city of Wałbrzych in southwestern Poland.

Formerly a spa town, it is located 43 m. by rail S.W. from Wrocław, and 3 m. N. from centre of Wałbrzych. It has factories for glass, porcelain (Fabryka Porcelany Wałbrzych S.A.), machinery, cotton-spinning, iron-foundries and used to have coal-mines.

The oldest known mention of the settlement comes from a 1357 document from the nearby Krzeszów Abbey, when it was under Polish rule as part of the Duchy of Świdnica. In 1900 the population was 12,144. There are two historic churches and a railway station in Stary Zdrój.

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Kiwanis Ravine

Kiwanis Ravine is an 8.7 acre public park a block east of Discovery Park in the Magnolia neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. Purchased by the Kiwanis Club in the 1950s and donated to Seattle Parks Department, it is home to the largest nesting colony of great blue herons in the city.

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