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Howard DaSilva introductions
Since Howard DaSilva introductions are voiceovers over the original video, not additional video sections, how in the world would material be cut in order to accommodate them? Ken Arromdee 20:15, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The opening introductions are voiceovers, but the teasers provided at the end were composed out of edited clips from the following episode. I presume the cuts were made to accomodate these.  I'll add something to clarify that.  —Josiah Rowe 21:07, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The opening introductions would sometimes include edited clips from the previous episode beyond the usual cliffhanger recap. It was years before some of us in the US saw the episodes in their entirety. The best example of a cut scene (which most of us had read about in the novelisation of Robot but hadn't gotten to see) was Tom Baker's trying on three wild costumes before settling on the bohemian attire of his first few seasons.User:MarnetteD | Talk 02:40, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

TJ Lubinsky?
Is this guy's contribution really noteworthy? Who exactly is he, and how did his decision to broadcast previously unseen episodes in Florida affect the programme's nationwide profile? His inclusion seems a bit odd to me. —Josiah Rowe 00:48, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * If I'm interpreting that bit correctly, his station was the first to show stories in episodic format. If that's the case, he seems notable to me. I not, then, er, you're right. Oh, look: TJ Lubinsky!--Sean Black Talk 00:57, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Oops, never mind. I don't really care either way (although, I'm working on that stub..).--Sean Black Talk 01:03, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I'll leave him in the article for now to give whoever put him in a chance to respond. (I could search through the article history and find out who that is, but I'm too lazy.)  Oh, and I know for a fact that several PBS stations were airing Doctor Who in episode format in the 1980s, so whatever he did in the '90s isn't that.—Josiah Rowe 01:19, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I thought it said "80's", hence the strikeout.--Sean Black Talk 01:22, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Checked the history, it's been there since the inital revision by Khaosworks.--Sean Black Talk 01:25, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Turns out Khaosworks brought it over from the main Doctor Who article. It first appears there in this edit, by an anon user; although that could be somebody who has since registered a username. —Josiah Rowe 01:37, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I've had very little to do with this article since I imported it from the main page, so I can't speak to the veracity (or lack thereof) of the information. If there's doubt, remove it, I say. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 01:53, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Right. Lubinsky's gone, and I rewrote the surrounding sections a bit.  I also added a mention of the two PBS stations that still broadcast Doctor Who, according to This Week in Doctor Who. —Josiah Rowe 04:16, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I know this is a very late addition to this discussion, but, as I remember it the thing that he is most noted for is that his PBS station was the first to air episode one of Pertwee's The Invasion of the Dinosaurs. PBS was resistant to showing any black and white episode of Dr Who, at all, for a long time. When they finally did start it was in the omnibus edition format so without the episode breaks we had to guess where the cliffhangers happened. Even so, they still refused to show the B&W Pertwee episodes if the bulk of the story was in color. This only affected the viewing of this story and Planet of the Daleks, but you should have tried to make sense of the continuity of the latter story without episode 3. When TJ aired the Invasion episode it was quite a coup, whether it was strictly legal to show it was, I think, up for debate. Maybe some wiki member from Florida that encounters this could fill us in.User:MarnetteD | Talk 02:40, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Much much later but Planet of the Daleks was always a bit chaotic in the US because the black & white episode three confused a lot. The original compilation excised it; however there was also an episodic version which included it but instead omitted six! A replacement full set was sent over but an engineer assumed the black & white three was an error so wiped it and renumbered the episodes accordingly. In the early 1990s Lubinsky managed to get a full episodic version into circulation, albeit by a time when most PBS stations were no longer taking new episodes. I assume Lubinsky was someone who had the knowledge to spot the errors in the prints and contacted the BBC to obtain the correct ones. (By the time he got Invasion 1 it was also circulating in the UK via a satellite station so I presume he made a standard purchase.) Timrollpickering (talk) 02:48, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

I seem to recall that the PBS station in Buffalo, New York (WNED) was (one of?) the earliest broadcasters of Dr. Who in the United States -- Isn't it true that some of the Pertwee episodes were restored as a result of 3/4" home videotapes taken from these broadcasts? In any case, I thought that the material broadcast by WNED weren't the DaSilva versions, but I'm not 100% sure of this.  Comments/suggestions?  (Also, some information on the Canadian broadcast history would be interesting, either as an addendum to this article or as an article of its own...!)

When the Canadian Space (TV channel) went on the air in 1997 they aired Doctor Who daily. They tried to save money though by only buying and airing the black and white episodes from the Hartnell and Troughton era which was a boon for fans like me who had never actually seen them before (WNED and TVO had only ever airedthe colour episodes) but wasn't exactly a ratings grabber so they dropped it after a year. Type 40 (talk) 16:37, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

First aired in 1975?
I can find numerous posts over the years from various people in rec.arts.drwho who note that they watched it as early as 71/72 (most seem to say 72) on WPHL CHannel 17 in Philadelphia. Apparently stripped 5 days a week on weeknights ... someone on the RT forum noted that episode 6 of Inferno aierd on Monday 18 September 1972. Was Philadelphia the only place to air in 1972? Text of article says 1975 ... Nfitz 19:53, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
 * I've seen a few other references to Pertwee episodes being aired in the US as early as 1972-73; apparently it was an unsuccessful attempt and the next US airings didn't occur until PBS started airing the Tom Baker episodes ... but I'm pretty sure that happened after 1975, perhaps as late as 1977 or so. However I do believe Canadian television stations resumed airing Doctor Who (it had been shown by the CBC in the mid-60s) around 1975; these were the reedited versions narrated by Howard DaSilva. 23skidoo 23:14, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I definitely watched Dr. Who on PBS in the Greater Washington D.C. area as a child. I am not sure of the dates, but I graduated from high school in 1975, so it had to be before then.--168.236.43.89 (talk) 20:17, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

The Boston market for Dr. Who in the late 70s and early 80s was WGBH/PBS Ch. 2 not WSBK/Ch 38. That can be confirmed by a check of old uucp posts that finds a 1984 comment that WGBH was announcing the acquisition of the Peter Davison episodes. I can't remember Dr. Who ever appearing on 38 nor can I find any reference for it. --Kathygnome (talk) 20:23, 12 March 2010 (UTC)

To my knowledge, the return of Doctor Who to Canadian television (after the CBC run of the sixties) began on TV Ontario (Ontario Public Television) circa 1976. I started watching these in 1977, and I can attest that these were NOT the DaSilva versions. TVO started by showing Pertwee era episodes, filling the programs out to 30 minutes with their own commentary on the episodes by Dr. Jim Dator. I seem to recall that they originally ran selected episodes from the Pertwee era, not necessarily in the proper sequence. By 1977-78, they were showing the last Pertwee season (the last half, at least, in the proper order), and the Tom Baker episodes began running (in order) in the fall of 1978. The first Baker season episodes were given commentary by Science Fiction author Judith Merrill -- after this season, the commentary was dropped. Thereafter, TVO generally broadcast approximately a years worth of 'new' material each season, with re-runs for the rest of the year. TVO did some odd things with the middle Baker years, running some seasons together and dropping a number of serials from seasons 14 and 15. They then proceeded through the rest of Tom Baker, Peter Davison and Colin Baker. TVO then ran the first season of Sylvester McCoy in the spring of 1989, and then stopped showing Dr. Who.--209.202.70.226 12:12, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I don't think TVO ever ran the Sunmakers or the Underworld. And TVO definitely was not airing the Time-Life Da Silva packages. Type 40 (talk) 16:13, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Popularity
As I've read this article, I've noticed a lot of claims that really could use some sort of reference. Here's one: "The program became a part of 1980s geek chic, as popular as Star Trek was in the 1970s". The "as popular as Star Trek was in the 1970s" bit seems an especially inflated claim, if for no other reason than DW was, with limited exceptions broadcast on PBS. It may have developed a respectable presence in the minds of general science fiction fans, but was it really so present in the minds of the general American viewing public as Star Trek? Understand, I'm not trying to propagate the old, "Which is better: ST or DW?" argument that has its roots in the 80s, but I just think that the statement above needs either reference or further qualification. CzechOut 21:44, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Viewership
Claims as to the popularity of the show really could use some backing up, because they're currently quite vague. For instance, what does this statement: "Once the series ceased production in 1989, the number of stations carrying Doctor Who naturally dropped, although the program's popularity had been waning in the United States for some years," really mean? Is there any way of injecting actual viewing figures (either in terms of the number of people, or the number of stations showing the program) into the article? Was it on the wane throughout the country, or has the author injected his or her own local bias into the article? DId fewer and fewer stations carry the show because it was truly less popular, or had BBC Worldwide/Lionheart started asking more money for the show than a similarly-sized fanbase could reasonably raise using the old pledge drive financial model? Understand, I don't know the answers to these questions, myself, which is why I'm adding to the discussion here instead of just editing the article. But it does seem like these questions have not been addressed by the article.

"As most stations were in the practice of purchasing the omnibus "movie versions" . . ." Do we know it was really most stations? Or is this the author's local understanding of the show creeping in again?

Another point the article fails to address is why Maryland and Iowa public television are still able to air the classic series. Might investigating why it's still on the air there lead to greater clarification over what the whole financial model was for bringing the original series of Doctor Who to the United States? CzechOut 22:06, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

 * This is one of those times when I wish I hadn't left my DWM collection at my parents'... From memory DWM did an issue in 1998 heavily devoted to the show in America - everything from the original Cushing movie release over there through to the 1996 TV movie and beyond. My memory of the details of the decline is roughly as follows:

 * PBS stations are financed by viewer donations/sponsorship/pledges or whatever the term is (it's not something we have in the UK). This means that show needed to bring in enough money to be viable.
 * In the late 1980s the number of episodes produced per year dropped. Once those became "Whovies" that meant there was only four new pieces of material each year.
 * Widespread videoing meant many fans already had older episodes on tape and so weren't tuning in and paying to see them broadcast again.
 * At the same time BBC Lionheart (or whoever) were raising the price.
 * Consequently the show was becoming a loss maker for the PBS stations and many looked to drop it.
 * In the early 1990s the Sci Fi channel was set up. One of the original producers/commissioners or whatever knew that there was strong demand amongst US Who fans to see the surviving Hartnell and Troughton episodes which hadn't had the best distribution, whilst the PBS stations were focusing on the color years. So he arranged to purchase a package of all the existing Hartnell & Troughtons, which he did not think would compete with PBS.
 * Unfortunately he subsequently moved on from the channel before it launched and his successors decided differently and though the Tom Bakers would be a better investment - so did a direct swap with the BBC (and ridiculously got a package from Robot 1 to Androids of Tara 3!).
 * PBS stations, looking for a way to get out of the series, told fans that the Sci Fi Channel had an exclusive deal and dropped the series.
 * The ratings on the Sci Fi Channel were quite poor for the same reasons as on PBS and the show was soon dropped there as well.
 * By 1998 only four PBS stations were still showing the series, all with Who fans "on the inside" keeping it going.

 * If anyone can either find that DWM or wants to have a bash at turning this into something for the article then feel free. Timrollpickering 18:08, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Sliders paragraph
User:MarnetteD removed a paragraph detailing the complicated relationship between Fox/Universal/Sliders/DW and its impact on the failure of the 1996 telefilm to generate an ongoing American series. Her reasons were that the paragraph was speculative, unsupported and boring. While I'm perfectly prepared to discuss how to improve the article, the Sliders connection is, I feel, an important one to mention in any serious documentation of why DW failed in 1996 in America. As the claim was in fact cited originally, however, I'm reverting the article.CzechOut 02:17, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * An additional citation has been added to better clarify where Sliders stood in 1996.CzechOut 02:17, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Where was the claim cited originally? Certainly not in the text as written, nor in the edit summary line where it belongs. Can you give us a source: be it an interview (TV, Magazine,  newspaper or online) with a Fox or Universal executive or anyone involved in the decision making process regarding the two shows that proves the assertion made. The additional citation only mentions Sliders travails. It was written a full six months after the Dr Who movies airing and doesn't mention it at all. With his usual style and grace khaosworks has tinkered with the entry to try to make it work with the article but it is still only speculation, which is not to say that the notion doesn't have some merit it just is not proven as it currently stands. It may well go to the ongoing dilemma of whether Wikipedia is an encyclopedia or another fan websiteUser:MarnetteD | Talk 07:59, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * To be fair, the citation that links to A Brief History of Time (Travel) article on the TVM does talk about Universal backing Sliders over Doctor Who, but it's not stated precisely why (and certainly not stated that it was because Doctor Who might prove competitive with Sliders), so I excised those portions to make it hew closer to what the citation actually said, which is simply that Universal chose to back the wholly-owned Sliders instead of Doctor Who when push came to shove. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 08:14, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
 * They are clearly similar concepts, though; were there any behind-the-scenes struggle for support between the two series (and I'm not sure yet if that's the case), it's hard to imagine their similarity not being a contributing factor. --Aderack 20:19, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * That's as may be - it's still not a piece of information we can verify, or at least no citation of any sort is provided. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 22:34, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
 * This is the first I'd ever heard of Fox backing Sliders over Doctor Who. All the literature I've seen on this stated it was Space: Above and Beyond that was supported in lieu of a new Who series.
 * Not very likely - Space had already been cancelled by the time the Doctor Who TVM aired! (GLG, 11/09/06)

My recollection from the time is that it was Sliders vs Doctor Who. Type 40 (talk) 16:10, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Ratings?
Should there be a section added about ratings for the new series? There has been some media reports about the ratings on Sci-Fi. which seemed to drop for the first few weeks, then go up, then drop again ... 23skidoo 03:44, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Series 1 DVD details
Do we really need to have the full saga of how the BBC announced that Series 1 would be sold on DVD in the US before they finalized the arrangements with Sci Fi, and then delayed the US DVD release accordingly? After I converted all those references into cite.php format, it occurred to me that perhaps the whole thing could be summarized more succinctly, without spelling out every date and step along the way. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 06:58, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I've taken a whack at it. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 07:22, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Looks good. I've just changed "released on schedule" to "released as scheduled", which I think flows a bit better from the previous sentences.  Otherwise, a nice condensation.  Like a gentle spring rain.  (OK, that means it's time for me to sleep.) —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 07:59, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Series 2
Will Series 2 with David Tennant be shown on SciFi? I can't imagine that it wouldn't be, as it seems unfair to give America twenty seconds of Tennant and then cancel the show. How about The Christmas Invasion? The beginning of New Earth doesn't make much sense without it.

SciFi cuts
I've been noticing some rather obvious cuts for time in the SciFi broadcast. Wikipedia lists the running time for the original BBC broadcasts at 45 minutes. How long are the SciFi broadcasts? Am I missing much? -Anþony 08:51, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

 * The runtime on the Sci Fi channel is about 41 minutes give or take 10-15 seconds so you are missing about 4-5 minutes (This may not apply to The Christmas Invasion whose 60 minute run time was spread out over an hour and a half). I can recommend getting access to the DVD's because I found that the missing material for the ninth Doctor almost always contained something worth seeing. The extras and the commentary are also worth seeing. This editing for commercials will still apply when the episodes show up on BBC America next month, although they may cut out different scenes than the Sci-Fi channel did. MarnetteD | Talk 11:05, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

4 PBS broadcasters?
According to Outpost Gallifrey the WCET (TV)/CET press release says "WCET is currently one of 4 PBS broadcasters in the US airing the classic series" but I can't find this in either the PR on the CET Website, or the one they link to achieved on Yahoo! Groups. Can anyone else find this statement? --GracieLizzie 20:48, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

TransAmerican Broadcasts
The article states: "In fact, until the Sci Fi Channel aired the 2005 series episode "Rose" on cable, no other episode had been made available to multiple American markets simultaneously, by any method of legal broadcast"... but I know this to not be true.

Sometime in the 90's the SciFi Channel ran the Classic series in it's half-hour serialized format as part of the daytime line up, along with Dark Shadows. While I have a clear memory of these broadcasts, I can find no reference to support my memory. Can anyone help? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Otherland71 (talk • contribs) 13:22, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

 * You are correct Otherland71. In the mid 1980's during the early days of cable television WOR from New York aired Tom Baker episodes on Saturday mornings. Then when the Sci Fi Channel began broadcasting in 1992 one of its offerings was Doctor Who. The only episodes that they broadcast were Tom Baker's first four seasons. I can't remember whether they left in the Howard da Silva intros or not but they never showed any other Doctors episodes. Later when BBC America began broadcasting in 1998 they repeated this pattern of showing Bakers first four seasons. MarnetteD | Talk 15:54, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Doctor Who in Canada
Is there enough information to justify a separate article for Canada? Type 40 (talk) 16:09, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Probably not, harder to keep track of things that way. Incidentally, it began airing from the beginning, in order, in Canada on YTV starting in September of 1989.  Unfortunately the only reference I have other than memory is this:  --HKMarks(T/C) 01:52, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

 * And Canadian and American histories are closely intertwined as many Canadians in border areas would have seen Doctor Who on PBS stations and many Americans in boarder areas would have seen the show on CBC or TVOntario. 67.68.49.66 (talk) 06:44, 3 January 2010 (UTC)

needs major cleanup
A lot of the things that are now in the past have been written as if they were happening in the present or even the future, someone with some time should give the article a good cleanup to fix this sort of thing.76.226.129.213 (talk) 00:04, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

BBC America's Editing
I think it should be noted somewhere that BBCAmerica edits down any episode over 45 minutes (60 minutes, 75 minutes) to fit an hour broadcast that includes 10+ minutes of commercials. At times, as in The Waters of Mars, it creates a very different, abbreviated version of the original episode. The only exception is The End of Time, Pts. 1 & 2 which BBCA airs in one 3 hour block. There could be edits here, too. I haven't seen the original on DVD.

Other U.S. networks might have done this as well but I don't know, I wasn't watching before Series 7. I just discovered this for myself when it seemed like some of the episodes had plotholes and I discovered that there were quite a number of episodes from the Davies era that were longer than 45 minutes and had to be squeezed into this time slot. 64.134.71.74 (talk) 22:26, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

 * They were all shown in their full length the first time that they were aired. Later edited versions have been airing since 2006 and are not that notable. Especially given the fact that they exist in DVD, blu-ray and streaming versions. This info is readily available all over the internet. Remember that Wikipedia is an encyclopedia not a chat room.MarnetteD | Talk 22:32, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Castro-directed overt and covert operations

 * 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 Ryan Norton T 23:58, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

Castro-directed overt and covert operations
This doesn't feel right as an article. Not sure I can verbalize it more than that, but it's.... it's not the content, it's the idea of facet of the subject having an article. DS 20:16, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Feelings are usually not enough to work with, unless of course one is in love. The article on the History of Cuba does not cover this important point, and it should not be missed.

Web sites from inside Cuba, tell of small towns in Eastern Cuba which have lost a good number of their men to these Castro promoted adventures. It is common knowledge that Castro started doing these kind of things before he was a rebel working some say for the communists, and others from the CIA to distabilize democratic elections in Colombia in 1948. About that time he also was part of the far more worthy cause the Cayo Confites effort of the "Caribbean Legion" to over throw the Dictator of the Dominican Republic Rafael Trujillo.

Soon after victory in Cuba Castro disposed of the remnants of Camilo Cienfuegos forces by sending them on a doomed mission to the Dominican Republic (as he would do later with the "Che" in Bolivia). Castro trained, armed and sent expeditions to almost every country in Latin America, with possible but not certain exception of Mexico.

Castro supported and still supports the Basque Separatists of ETA, the Polisario front in North Africa, he even sent tanks to Golan Heights (whether these tanks saw action is a matter of some Israel 's discuss). He provided refuge to certain IRA members, some who turned up later showing the Colombian FARC rebels how to make better bombs. He supported supplied and armed rebels in most of Central America.

I have heard Castro supplied so many arms to the Salvadoran Faribundo Marti group that they would leave untrained but magnificently armed rebels, on the side of volcanoes to be slaughtered by helicopters of Salvadoran Army. He sent at least one expedition to Venezuela, which caused much bloodshed. and the list goes on.

Of course all know of Castro's support of the North Vietnamese, and the Cuban "interrogators" of US POW. My favorite account of those times is a standard press report of a Cuban vessel supplying weapons to the Sri Lankan Tamil rebels. Castro was most busy. Much of this info comes from the KGB files which are now to some extent in the public domain.

Thus if somebody has a feeling that this is not  so, then that person has much to learn. If a Castro simpathizer objects ask him about the "internationalistas," they are their heroes why be ashamed of them. Let him/her tell his/her side of the story......

I have no objection to any label you may wish to place on the site, but one would think that placing such a label indicates a lack of ability to rebut argument. (El Jigüe, 10/7/2005)

 * Delete. Someone tried to do a sort of okay thing here, listing these "operations" separately rather than trying to jam them all into the paragraph towards the end of Cuba, where this page is referenced.  But the effort to properly "jam them in there" (more cleanly, of course, and with some verification) needs to be taken, or perhaps to add them to Fidel Castro (where the Angola operation, at least, is already mentioned), because these operations certainly aren't worth their own separate article yet. I suggest copying the text here onto Talk:Cuba and Talk:Fidel Castro, and letting it filter onto those pages as editors see fit. Steve Summit (talk) 21:38, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

 * At the moment the article is a list of assertions, and is woefully under-referenced. There is one web link (that I can't get to work at the moment). The article needs tens of references.  For example the sentence "In Vietnam Cuban engineers help build the Ho Chi Min trail, and Cuban intelligence harshly interrogated US prisoners" requires at least 2 references, one for the Ho Chi Minh trail section, one for the interrogation claim; I'd prefer more.
 * Nowhere in the article is the covert or overt nature of each operation identified. I can imagine that the overt operations could be verified. The covert operations would inevitably present verifiability problems that are orders of magnitude greater. In the absence of verification (i.e. at least one reference for each claim) delete.  Sliggy 22:00, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete, cited info should be added to Foreign relations of Cuba. Gazpacho 22:13, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Humbug! All you guys want is to find and excuse to delete because this reality offends you. Apparently you only read the news you like. I will put in the references, even though I am sure you will say that they are insufficient, wrong, or in the wrong format. However, when you do that remember this identifies your call name as that of a marxist radical. And provides more evidence that Wikipedia is merely a source that rewrites history to its own far leftwing agenda. (El Jigüe, 10/7/2005)

 * Um, ¡viva la revolución! or something. Why don't you take a look at Foreign relations of Cuba before making personal attacks? Gazpacho 23:40, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per User:Gazpacho Justin Bacon 01:37, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

G. that article does not mention the Polisario front, Ethiopia, the Congo, Bolivia, the Chile intervention when he had a Cuban bodyguard Patricio de la Guardia kill Allende to make him a martyr, the old and new Venezuelan adventures, the support for the Macheteros in Puerto Rico,for the Montoneros, the disastrous landing in the Dominican Republic, the material and manpower support to North Vietnam, and who knows what else. Appears that the above acts are not consistent, with the conclusions reached in Foreign relations of Cuba ; and thus one is tempted to consider that the proposed deletion of this section is merely to facilitate a single view of Castro's action that differs from objective reality. Therefore the proposed deletion is quite clearly a violation of Wikipedia guidelines (El Jigüe, 10/7/2005 ).

I have added a historical introduction to the article, including Spy vs Spy. (El Jigüe, 10/7/2005 ).

 * Comment Overly verbose, and somewhat disjointed, but those aren't reasons for deleting an article, but for cleaning it up. Also I agree that the atricle title isn't ideal.  I suggest merging the overt activities to Foreign relations of Cuba and moving the covert activities to History of Cuban espionage which would be in keeping with the naming pattern of some of the articles in Category:Espionage. Caerwine 04:37, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Cleaned up a bit and added more detail, there is an amazing amount of the stuff (El Jigüe, 10/9/2005)

 * Since you also decided to triplicate the article by adding identical versions under History of Cuban espionage and Brief history of Cuban espionage and related extraterritorial activity, I'll change my vote to a simple delete. Caerwine 22:28, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

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Golden Triangle (Mississippi)

The Golden Triangle (GTR) is a region in the east central portion of the U.S. state of Mississippi. The "triangle" is formed by the cities of Columbus, Starkville, and West Point but the region is often more broadly-defined to include all of Clay, Lowndes, and Oktibbeha counties and sometimes additional surrounding communities and counties as well. The term was used as a marketing strategy in the 1960s to promote economic development in the region and encourage additional cooperation between local communities in attracting investment, although the term was in use by 1939.

The three counties are home to a population of over 128,000 and 500,000 workers are within 60 miles of the region. The area's economic development potential is anchored by the presence of Mississippi State University, Columbus Air Force Base, and associated spin-off industries in research, high-tech manufacturing, aerospace, transportation, and education. GTR has attracted $5.9 billion in capital investment since 2008.

The area is served by Golden Triangle Regional Airport, which is the third busiest in the state.

History
This area has been considered part of Mississippi's Black Belt, also called "Black Prairie", which extends throughout Mississippi and Alabama. Its economy was largely based on cotton production well into the 20th century. Due to planters' reliance on cotton as a commodity crop, and dependence on enslaved African-American workers before the American Civil War, African Americans constituted a majority of the population of these counties in Mississippi and Alabama before the war and after. Many stayed as freedmen to work as sharecroppers and tenant farmers.

Historically, Columbus was the largest city in the region and considered the anchor of the Golden Triangle. Columbus was able to succeed due to its historical importance as a port on the Tombigbee River that made the city attractive to industry. The presence of Columbus Air Force Base and the Mississippi University for Women also added to amenities in the city. However, industrial decline in many of the city's industries began to take hold during the 1990s. Meanwhile, rapid growth at Mississippi State University, the state's largest research university, has added to Starkville's stability and appeal. In 2012, Starkville surpassed Columbus in population to become the largest city in the region.

The third city, West Point, Mississippi, has always been the smallest and more vulnerable economically. It suffered the closing of a Sara Lee meat-processing plant in 2007 that cost 1000 jobs, equivalent to "a tenth of the town's population."

The local jurisdictions and counties have joined together in 2012 to support an economic development authority to recruit industry to the area. It was first called Golden Triangle Development LINK; in 2014 it became known as Golden Triangle Development Authority (GTDA). The consortium was based on an "annual operating budget of $2.5 million, 70 percent of which will come from public entities in the three counties that make up the Golden Triangle. The organization hopes to privately fund the remaining 30 percent via five-year agreements with area businesses."

Such recruiting has been successful. Since the early 21st century, several manufacturing companies have located at the Golden Triangle Industrial Park in Lowndes County, leading to a resurgence in the Columbus area. The Triangle is home to an advanced-tech steel mill developed by the Russian Severstal company, a drone plant, and a helicopter factory (Eurocopter, now known as Airbus Helicopters). Area residents say the latter helps them establish the region as one that can support highly skilled, high-tech jobs. In addition, Yokohama Tires of Japan opened a manufacturing plant in the area in 2015.

From 2004–2014, the Golden Triangle region "brought in some $6 billion in capital investment ..., creating some 6,000 new jobs, in a concentrated, poor region where this influx has made an enormous difference."

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Conflict of origins
This seems to be a non-published fictional universe. It doesn't seem to be notable, and as such should not be in Wikipedia. Thue | talk 20:17, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
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 * Hmmm. Well, those names are mentioned in the target article. (However, it links back to these redirs.) Advice from all, please? Remove the links in the article and keep these? What? Noel (talk) 15:07, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

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CarMax

CarMax, Inc. is a used vehicle retailer based in the United States. It operates two business segments: CarMax Sales Operations and CarMax Auto Finance. The company began as a side business of Circuit City, opening its first location in September 1993 in Richmond, Virginia. CarMax operates 238 locations.

While CarMax stores focus on marketing used vehicles, the company acquired its first new car franchise with Chrysler Corporation in 1996. By 1999, it added new vehicle franchises for Mitsubishi Motors, Toyota, and Nissan. In late 2021, CarMax sold its last new vehicle dealership, located in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to the Rydell Company.

About
CarMax's headquarters is located in Richmond, Virginia. CarMax Auto Finance operates from Kennesaw, Georgia. There are CarMax retail locations in 41 states as well as customer service call centers (called Customer Experience Centers).

Concept
Circuit City executives developed the concept for CarMax under then-CEO Richard L. Sharp. It was developed for nearly a year in 1991, using the code name "Project X". It was also known as "Honest Rick's Used Cars" to those intimately involved in the skunk works team. The concept was first proposed by Ronald L. Moore of Richmond, Virginia, a consultant hired by Circuit City to evaluate possible business opportunities beyond the scope of their consumer electronics locations.

Before the first store was built, DeVito/Verdi was hired as the advertising agency and creative resource. The company executed the campaign and additional TV advertisements throughout several years in support of the launch and the initial wave of stores.

The business model began with no fees. However, the model was subsequently abandoned for the current business model after it was determined that customers were not concerned about paying transaction fees to purchase a vehicle.

A typical CarMax store is approximately 59000 sqft, carries an inventory of 300–400 vehicles, and turns its inventory over eight to ten times a year. On average, a CarMax location employs 40 sales associates. Each car goes through a thorough 125-point inspection process, beyond any state-required inspections, and includes a 90-day warranty, three days to change the financing for free, and a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Circuit City issued the first CarMax stock in February 1997, when CarMax had seven locations. Initially, the stock was a tracking stock still under the umbrella of Circuit City. CarMax officially split from Circuit City as of October 1, 2002, when it was spun off as a stock dividend for Circuit City shareholders, with shares also issued to those holding CarMax tracking stock.

CarMax sold over 750,000 vehicles to consumers in Fiscal Year 2021 (March 1, 2020–February 28, 2021). According to the CarMax fiscal year 2018 report released on April 24, 2018, the company opened 15 used car superstores in Fiscal Year 2018, and planned to open 15 additional stores in Fiscal Year 2019.

Competition
While CarMax is seen as the nation's largest used-car retailer, it has competition. With a significant shift in customer shopping habits, more online-only companies have worked to capture Carmax's share in the used vehicle market. CarMax unveiled an Omni-channel platform to allow customers to buy a car online, in-store, or any combination of these. They have provided opportunities for customers to choose vehicle delivery at their homes, contactless curbside pickup, and more. These offerings directly compete with other home delivery-based options such as Carvana, CarGurus, Vroom, Shift Technologies, and others.

Recognition
CarMax is listed on Fortune's "100 Best Companies to Work For" list from 2005 to 2023, placing 75th in 2023.

Other awards include:
 * Fortune Best Workplaces in Retail
 * Best Workplaces for Diversity 2019
 * Training Magazine's - Training Top 125

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Now TV (Hong Kong)

Now TV (also stylised as now TV) is a pay-TV service provider in Hong Kong operated by PCCW Media Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of PCCW. Launched on 26 September 2003, its TV signal is transmitted with IPTV technology through HKT's fixed broadband network.

Now TV is the largest pay-TV operator in Hong Kong in terms of number of subscribers, number of channels, number of HD channels and quantity of VOD contents. The word "Now" is abbreviated from "Network Of the World".

They provide 197 TV channels including 176 channels branded under Now TV, 32 of which are in HD. Additionally, there are 21 channels under the TVB Network Vision and over 30 video on demand categories.

History and establishment
In March 1998, PCCW's services included a wide range of information and entertainment, such as news, video-on-demand (VOD), music videos, home-shopping, home-banking and educational content. iTV had some 67,000 subscribers at the end of 2000.

Due to the liberalization of the pay-TV market by the HKSAR government in early July 2000, the then existing duopolists, iTV and i-Cable, were confronted with ferocious competition. With fewer subscribers and hence the decline in the revenue generated from iTV, the interactive television operation was terminated in the final quarter of 2002. Now Broadband pay-TV service was launched in September 2003 with 23 channels under the same umbrella company PCCW; iTV is thus commonly viewed as the predecessor of Now TV.

In December 2005, Now TV introduced a technology with connection speed up to 18 megabits per second (Mbit/s). At least 75% of the service area will be offered a service running up to 8 Mbit/s. In addition, Video-On-Demand services were launched in January 2006.

Now TV subscribers have access to 136 channels.

Charging schemes
Since each household has to install a special decoder to view the channels, there is an extra deposit and installation for the decoder. However, these charges are waived for Netvigator broadband subscribers. With the decoder, households are able to watch approximately 20 free channels.

For the subscription channels, Now uses the pricing model of pay-per-channel basis. There are bundle offers in existence, for given bouquet of channels, but these are less comprehensive than those offered by rivals.

Now TV offers a business package (in which there are fewer channels for subscription than household customers) for businesses at a higher price than household subscribers.

Since 1 September 2007, Now TV no longer offers STAR Sports or ESPN as stand-alone packages, preferring instead to bundle them into a single multi-sport package. This has caused some distress amongst many viewers who view this move as a breach of their commitment contract's that stipulates that upon expiry of channel contracts, contracts are automatically renewed.

Channel highlights
In the beginning, Now TV only operated 23 channels, most of which were in English. In response to competition, it has expanded its repertoire of new channels, adding programming such as the Disney Channel and ESPN. By June 2005, the number of channels grew to more than 70, with an increased number of Cantonese channels.

In 2006, Now TV outbid i-Cable for the rights to broadcast English Premier League football in Hong Kong, starting with the 2007–2008 season. It is also the broadcaster of LaLiga, the Spanish football competition

Now TV currently has the most channels of any pay TV provider in Hong Kong. At present, it offers 21 free channels and 103 pay channels, including 15 audio channels. The total number of channels exceeds 130.

Languages of channels provided
The majority of its programming is in English, Cantonese or Putonghua, though some programming in Hindi (Star Bharat), French (TV5MONDE), Filipino (TFC), and Japan (NHK World Premium) is available.

Business performance and development
Now TV service was launched with 23 channels in September 2003 but was soon expanded to exceed 30 with the addition of sports-related channels and BBC World and the Animax channel, as well as the Cantonese-language Star Chinese Movies and Xing Kong channels. Within four months of launch, Now TV had attracted more than 200,000 customers by end-2003.

According to a report in Ming Pao Finance on 5 October 2005, the number of subscribers to Now TV exceeded 450,000. Per annual reports issued by PCCW, at the end of December 2005 the number of paying subscribers to Now TV stood at 549,000 (approximately 61% were paid subscribers, with 31% being free subscribers). These figures compare with totals of 361,000 at end-December 2004 and 269,000 at end-June 2004. Despite the growth in subscribers, Now TV was operating at a loss in 2005. By August 2006, Now TV had in excess of 654,000 subscribers.

Strategy
In early July 2000, the HKSAR government awarded five new pay-TV licences. The new entrants were all relatively seasoned broadcasting companies including Galaxy Satellite Broadcasting, Hong Kong DTV Company, a British broadcaster Elmsdsale, Hong Kong Network TV and Pacific Digital Media HK. The opening of the market sparked intense competition for programming and viewer share.

To avoid direct competition with the two local digital terrestrial channels – Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) and PCCW subsidiary ViuTV – Now TV sought to build up and secure its local pay-TV position by signing long-term contracts with a variety of channels from around the world.

Exclusivity
On November 15, 2006, Now TV made a knock-out bid, of an estimated HK$1.56 billion, to secure the license to exclusively broadcast football matches of the Barclays Premier League matches in Hong Kong for three seasons commencing from the 2007–2008 season. Two years previously, i-Cable had paid an estimated HK$700 million for a three-year contract. Now TV announced in January 2006 that a three-year deal was signed with ESPN STAR for the rights to live matches of the UEFA Champions League during the 2006–2009 seasons.

In December 2006 secured the exclusive rights to broadcast the Euro 2008 football championship by agreeing to pay HK$400 million. Playboy TV has been exclusive to Now TV since December 1, 2006.

Pricing
i-Cable has been forced to adopt an alternative pricing model for its subscribers. It allows subscribers to pick and choose their own channels, similar to the pay-by-channel of Now. Moreover, from Asia Media in October 2005, Now TV claimed that they will not follow i-Cable to minimize monthly charges since they have added new channels and improved the delivery standard, in order to maintain competitiveness. In December 2006, it announced it was instead planning on raising subscription rates after having secured exclusive rights in the ESPN, Premier League, and Euro 2008.

Awards
At the 2004 Convention of CASBAA (Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia), Now TV was awarded "The Chairman's Award". CASBAA, representing 120 corporations serving more than 3 billion viewers, acknowledged Now TV for its "innovative and proactive marketing of a secure and advanced pay-TV platform and for growing its interactive capability, resulting in a stellar subscriber take-up" on 31 October 2004.

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Talk:Tolland, Connecticut

From the article:

''Tolland is a town located in Connecticut. It is the capitol of Tolland County, Connecticut, though county-level government is of little relevance in the state. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 13,146.''

The statement concerning Tolland being the former "capital" of the county is incorrect, at least in recent history. The county seat of Tolland County was Rockville, CT (located in the adjacent town of Vernon), and this is where the county court was located, and where the District Court is today. It's possible Tolland was at some point the county seat, but it was not the most recent one or the one still listed today (although the article is very much correct in stating that Counties are for most purposes irrelevant in Connecticut today).

Kadin2048 20:20, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Tolland used to be the county seat; that's when the old jail and courthouse were built, but it isn't anymore. Rockville is now the county seat of Tolland county Connecticut.
 * No, it is not. Connecticut hasn't had county government (and therefore county seats) since the early 1960s. BTW, you did you notice that you replied to a 5 and a half year old post? Best, Markvs88 (talk) 13:45, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

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Erasmo Escala

Erasmo Escala Arriagada (June 2, 1826 – March 3, 1884) was a Chilean soldier who served as commander-in-chief of the army during part of the War of the Pacific.

He was born in Valparaíso, where he also completed his first studies. He joined the Military Academy in 1837. He participated in the battle of Yungay, during the war against the Peru-Bolivian Confederacy, and later in the Pacification of the Araucanía. During the battle of Loncomilla, in the 1851 revolution, he was injured and lost one of his arms.

General Escala was already a veteran when on July 18, 1879, during the War of the Pacific, was called by Domingo Santa María, principal minister of President Aníbal Pinto, to assume command of the army in replacement of General Justo Arteaga, who had just resigned due to political in-fighting.

Santa Maria chose him because a popular soldier was wanted at the head of the army. More to the point, Santa Maria also wanted someone who would be malleable and pliant to his direction. Someone, in brief, that would not hinder his future presidential candidacy. But contrary to expectations, General Escala, due to his quick temperament, soon got into a feud with the brothers Sotomayor: Rafael Sotomayor was Minister of War and Marine and organizer of the Army, and his brother, Colonel Emilio Sotomayor, was chairman of the joint chiefs of staff.

The conflict intensified because General Escala did not approve of any "civilian" interference in what he saw as purely army matters. He also wanted to reorganize the army along the lines of the one used on the Arauco conflict. The minister, on the other hand, wanted to structure it in divisions and brigades. In spite of the political collisions, during his command the Chilean forces defeated the Peruvians at Pisagua, Dolores and Los Angeles.

Finally, the conflict with the minister of war was resolved by the resignation of General Escala on March 28, 1880. In his letter of resignation, he mentioned "...the criminal insults inflicted by Mr. Rafael Sotomayor to his rights and his dignity". General Escala's resignation left the army in a very vulnerable situation. The soldiers' morale was at a low ebb, being engaged in disputes, gossip and internal rivalries. To solve the problem, the minister Rafael Sotomayor appointed General Manuel Baquedano as commander-in-chief, saying "...where Baquedano goes, gossip does not follow".

General Escala returned to Chile, where he died in Santiago, in 1884, in relative obscurity.

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Michael North (professor)

Michael North is an American literary critic and a professor in the department of English at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Background
North received a B.A. from Stanford University in 1973 and Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in 1980. North taught at the College of William and Mary before joining the University of California, Los Angeles in 1991.

He became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012.

Publications

 * Novelty: A History of the New, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 9780226077871, 2013
 * Machine-Age Comedy, 2009
 * Camera Works: Photography and the Twentieth-Century Word, 2005
 * Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the Modern, 2002
 * The Waste Land (Norton Critical Editions), 2001 (editor)
 * The Dialect of Modernism: Race, Language, and Twentieth-Century Literature, 1994
 * The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound, 1992
 * Henry Green and the Writing of His Generation,1984

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Uh, this guy is a big couch potato! Warningincominggame likes The Daily Show, Family Guy, Scrubs, Star Trek, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, ReBoot (hence the Username), Avatar: The Last Airbender, and other various animated children shows.

computers
General stuff, learning about computer stuff, and Linux stuff. He is not a huge computer geek.

School
He is grade A student, and will graduate highschool during 2008

Mental Helth
This guy is diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, and Obsessive-compulsive disorder. This does not mean that he is mentaly retarded, infact it is quite the contrary.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Femme Fetale

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Tōseiha

The Tōseiha or Control Faction (統制派) was a political faction in the Imperial Japanese Army active in the 1920s and 1930s. The Tōseiha was a grouping of generally conservative officers united primarily by their opposition to the radical Kōdōha (Imperial Way) faction and its aggressive imperialist and anti-modernization ideals. The Tōseiha rivaled the Kōdōha for influence in the army until the February 26 Incident in 1936, when the Kōdōha was de facto dissolved and many supporters were disciplined or executed. The Tōseiha became the primary influence in the army, but the Kōdōha ideology and its supporters continued to influence Japanese militarism into the late 1930s.

Background
The Empire of Japan had enjoyed economic growth during The First World War but this ended in the early 1920s with the Shōwa financial crisis. Social unrest increased with the growing polarization of society and inequalities, with the labor unions increasingly influenced by socialism, communism and anarchism, but the industrial and financial leaders of Japan continued to get wealthier through their inside connections with politicians and bureaucrats. The military was considered "clean" in terms of political corruption, and elements within the army were determined to take direct action to eliminate the perceived threats to Japan created by the weaknesses of liberal democracy and political corruption.

An ultranationalist faction within the army called the Kōdōha (Imperial Way) was formed by General Sadao Araki and his protégé, Jinzaburō Masaki, who envisioned a return to an idealized pre-industrialized, pre-westernized Japan. The Tōseiha formed in reaction to the radical Kōdōha and attempted to represent the more conservative and moderate elements within the army. The Tōseiha and Kōdōha both adopted ideas from totalitarian and fascist political philosophies, and shared the fundamental ideals that national defense must be strengthened through a reform of national politics and espoused a strong skepticism for political party politics and representative democracy. Although the factions shared key ideals, opposition was based on how to achieve them.

Opposition
The Tōseiha was a non-regional coalition, as opposed to Araki's reintroduction of regional politics into army promotions and policy decisions. Many Tōseiha members were promising graduates of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy and Army Staff College, and were concerned about Araki's emphasis of the spiritual morale of the army instead of modernization and mechanization. Rather than the confrontational approach of the Kōdōha, which wanted to bring about the Showa Restoration through violence and revolution, the Tōseiha sought reform by working within the existing system. The Tōseiha foresaw that a future war would be a total war, and to maximize Japan's industrial and military capacity would require the cooperation of Japan's bureaucracy and the zaibatsu conglomerates which the Kōdōha despised.

The Kōdōha strongly supported the hokushin-ron ("Northern Expansion Doctrine") strategy of a pre-emptive strike against the Soviet Union in the belief that Siberia was in Japan's sphere of interest. Although there were supporters of the Northern Expansion in the Tōseiha, the faction largely favored a more cautious defense expansion.

The name "Tōseiha" was pejorative and was coined and was                               used only by Kōdōha members and sympathizers.

Decline
In late 1931, the Manchurian Incident and the subsequent Japanese invasion of Manchuria saw the two factions struggle against each other for dominance over the military. The Kōdōha were initially dominant, but after Araki's resignation in 1934 due to ill health their influence began to wane. The February 26 Incident in February 1936 caused a widespread purge of the Kōdōha leadership from the military and the faction was de facto dissolved, while the Tōseiha became the dominant influence in the Japanese military but lost most of its raison d'être and gradually disbanded.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jean-Jacques Daigneault

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Jean-Jacques Daigneault
The J.J. Daigneault article was moved incorrectly. The current Jean-Jacques Daigneault should be deleted so that the J.J. Daigneault article can be properly moved there.

 * I don't feel that the article needs to be deleted. All that needs to be done is to blank the page and turn it into a redirect to J.J. Daigneault as that is where the page should be. The J.J. Daigneault page should not be moved to Jean-Jacques Daigneault. Why? because J.J. is by far the most common way to refer to that player. A redirect should suffice. Masterhatch 10:23, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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User:Btremblay

Who
BTremblay is the wikipedia moniker of Benoit Tremblay.

Short Bio
Originally from Les Escoumins,PQ Canada, he now lives in Ottawa after a 9-year stint in the US (for educational purpose).

As there are many Benoit Tremblays online, he's the one who attended McGill University (BSc Physics 1990) then Rutgers University (PhD Physics 1997). He did a short stint as a Postdoctoral Fellow in medical imaging at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania 1997-1999. He moved to Ottawa after his marriage.

He discovered wikipedia while being bored at work. Wikipedia remains one of his favourite way to avoid thinking about work.

He is fluently billingual ( french, english) and would enjoy someday speaking german, (modern) greek, and latin.

Select Interests (a few among many in no particular order)

 * Chess.
 * Meteorology in general, Numerical Weather Prediction in particular.
 * teaching, especially at the University level.
 * Child Development.
 * History.
 * Science in general, Physics in particular.
 * Old technology, such as the slide rule.

Visit Benoit's personal Web Page for more information (caveat: not updated that often)

title: User:Btremblay