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Wikipedia is not a dictionary. This article should be removed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.20.32.131 (talk • contribs)

It's a disambig page. It also serves as a quick reference for things too small for even a stub. Userpie 17:20, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

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Anita Stewart

Anita Stewart (born Anna Marie Stewart; February 7, 1895 – May 4, 1961) was an American actress and film producer of the early silent film era.

Early years
Anita Stewart was born in Brooklyn, New York as Anna Marie Stewart on February 7, 1895, the middle child of three to parents William and Martha Stewart. Her elder sister Lucille Lee, and younger brother George also acted in films.

Vitagraph Studios
Stewart began her acting career in 1911 at the age of 16 while still attending Erasmus Hall High School Stewart’s brother-in-law, director Ralph Ince at Vitagraph film studios, married to Lucille Lee, arranged for the teen-aged Stuart to appear as a juvenile extra at their New York City studio location.

Stewart was one of the earliest film actresses to achieve public recognition in the nascent medium of motion pictures and achieved a great deal of acclaim early in her acting career. Within a year of joining Vitagraph, Stewart was playing lead roles, notably as the child-like Olympia in The Wood Violet (1912).

When Vitagraph publicity personnel accidentally published Stewart’s name as “Anita Stewart” rather the hitherto “Anna M. Stewart”, she adopted it as her professional name. By 1914, with the release of the melodramatic romance A Million Bid (1914), in which she played the long-suffering Agnes Belgradin, Stewart was elevated to a veritable screen icon. Film historian Hugh Neely describes the phenomenon:

"“Soon, Stewart was being promoted as “America’s daintiest actress,” and her image was featured on sheet music, souvenir plates, silver spoons, and a collection of paper dolls published in Ladies’ World Magazine. In 1915, Munsey's Magazine noted that, though she had appeared in but two features and a serial and had never appeared on the theatrical stage, “her face is perhaps familiar to as wide a circle as Maude Adams’s”."

Stewart’s success at Vitagraph proceeded unabated through 1915, where she was gratified with working with director and brother-in-law Ralph Ince. Vitagraph began assigning Stewart vehicles to directors other than Ince in 1916. The screen star objected, questioning the professionalism of one director, Wilfred North. Stewart walked off the set, reporting that she needed to convalesce after suffering injuries in an automobile accident—effectively canceling the production. This legal contretemps signaled the end of Stewart’s six-year tenure at Vitagraph and her recruitment as a business associate and co-producer with aspiring movie mogul Louis B. Mayer in 1917.

Anita Stewart Productions: 1918-1922
In 1917, Louis B. Mayer, then a successful New England movie exhibitor, wished to engage in producing independent films under the aegis of First National Exhibitors Circuit. As a prerequisite, he needed to bring a high-profile screen personality into the enterprise to attract investors. Mayer approached Stewart, who was still under contract to Vitagraph, and proposed they establish “Anita Stewart Productions.”

Anxious to move to Hollywood, and promised opportunities to acquire quality directors and film roles, she contractually formed Anita Stewart Productions with Mayer in 1917. Steward’s husband and former co-star Rudolph Cameron, who she had married secretly in 1917, was enlisted as her business manager.

Vitagraph moved quickly to open litigation against Stewart for breach of contract, claiming that she was under obligation to the studio until 31 January 1918. Stewart’s claims of illness or disability were rejected by the court, and she was made liable for all the days absent from the set. The settlement included $70,000 compensation to Vitagraph and a loss of revenue from her films. The decision is still cited today in actor-studio legal disputes.

Despite this initial setback, Anita Stewart Productions proceeded to make Virtuous Wives (1918). This was the first of the seventeen feature films that her production outfit completed between 1918 and 1922. After this successful production, Stewart and Mayer moved to Hollywood in 1919, operating at the facilities of the Selig Polyscope Company. As actress-producer, Stewart enlisted filmmaker Lois Weber as a writer-director. At the time, Weber enjoyed her own studio provided by Universal Pictures, where she “controlled every aspect of production” creating films that advanced her “conservative moral universe.” The Stewart-Weber collaboration produced the “unapologetically commercial” A Midnight Romance (1919), an adaption of a Marion Orth mystery-romance and Mary Regan (1919), another romance. An accomplished pianist and composer, Stewart wrote the music and lyrics for both films.

Stewart and Mayer obtained the services of some of Hollywood’s most talented directors of that era. Marshall Neilan, who had directed and starred opposite Mary Pickford in several productions, made two pictures with Stewart: In Old Kentucky and Her Kingdom of Dreams (1919). Neilan's own recent attempt at independent filmmaking had failed. Among her other directors at Anita Stewart Productions were Edward José (The Fighting Shepherdess) (1920), Edwin Carewe (Playthings of Destiny) (1921) and John Stahl (Sowing the Wind) (1921).

Although the extent of Stewart’s oversight as co-producer at Anita Stewart Productions is not clearly documented, historian Hugh Neely surmises that, as she was “consistently present on the set of her films, it seems logical to conclude that Stewart was in position to make the daily production decisions that might be required of her, as well as other creative decisions.”

Stewart’s increasing disaffection in her role as co-producer arose over Mayer’s veto power over subject matter and the treatment of scenarios. Stewart championed adapting films that presented socially significant topics, including realistic literary treatments of prostitution (e.g. Theodore Dreiser’s sexually provocative Sister Carrie). Mayer’s “moralistic” outlook allowed only for features that would be suitable for family entertainment: “The sort of mature stories that appealed to Anita Stewart were out of the question.” Stewart declined to renew her contract with Mayer in 1922 to resume a career in acting.

Shortly after closing Anita Stewart Productions, Stewart received news that her younger brother, actor George Stewart, suffered brain damage in a physical assault by their brother-in-law, director Ralph Ince. Ince was indicted for the assault. Invalided, Stewart would ultimately assume responsibility for George’s care.

Final years in Hollywood: 1923-1928
Stewart returned to acting at William Randolph Hearst’s Cosmopolitan Productions in 1923, where she starred in Frank J. Marion’s The Love Pilot (1923). She completed two more Cosmopolitan pictures: The Great White Way (1924), directed by E. Mason Hopper, and Never the Twain Shall Meet (1925), directed by Maurice Tourneur. Stewart regarded the latter, in which she plays Tamea, her personal favorite, now a lost film. After leaving Cosmopolitan, Stewart began accepting roles offered by Poverty Row studios in order to stay employed. The final film of her career was Romance of a Rogue (1928), in which she played opposite H. B. Warner and directed by King Baggot.

Retirement and death
Stewart divorced Rudolph Cameron shortly after retiring from film, and married George Converse, an heir of a United States Steel president and they settled in Beverly Hills, California. Stewart made a number of appearances on film and radio and in 1932 made a brief appearance in The Hollywood Handicap. Stewart and Converse divorced in 1946.

On May 4, 1961, Stewart died of a heart attack in Beverly Hills, California.

Writing
Stewart authored the murder mystery novel The Devil's Toy, published in New York in 1935 by E.P. Dutton. Though the book's dust jacket traded on the author's Hollywood connection, the plot concerned the killing of a stage actor and was set in San Francisco.

Recognition
For her contribution to motion picture industry as an actress, Anita Stewart was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6724 Hollywood Boulevard.

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Advanced CANDU reactor

The Advanced CANDU reactor (ACR), or ACR-1000, was a proposed Generation III+ nuclear reactor design, developed by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL). It combined features of the existing CANDU pressurised heavy water reactors (PHWR) with features of light-water cooled pressurized water reactors (PWR). From CANDU, it took the heavy water moderator, which gave the design an improved neutron economy that allowed it to burn a variety of fuels. It replaced the heavy water cooling loop with one containing conventional light water, reducing costs. The name refers to its design power in the 1,000 MWe class, with the baseline around 1,200 MWe.

The ACR-1000 was introduced as a lower-priced option compared to a larger version of the baseline CANDU which was being designed, the CANDU 9. ACR was slightly larger but less expensive to build and run. The downside was that it did not have the flexibility of fuels that the original CANDU design offered, and would no longer run on pure unenriched uranium. This was a small price to pay given the low cost of enrichment services and fuel in general.

AECL bid the ACR-1000 on several proposals around the world but won no contests. The last serious proposal was for a two-reactor expansion of the Darlington Nuclear Generating Station, but this project was canceled in 2009 when the price was estimated to be three times what the government was budgeting. With no other sales prospects, in 2011 the AECL reactor design division was sold to SNC-Lavalin to provide services to the existing CANDU fleet. Development of the ACR ended.

CANDU
The original CANDU design used heavy water as both the neutron moderator and the coolant for the primary cooling loop. It was believed that this design would result in lower overall operating costs due to its ability to use natural uranium for fuel, eliminating the need for enrichment. At the time, it was believed there would be hundreds and perhaps thousands of nuclear reactors in operation by the 1980s, and in that case the cost of enrichment would become considerable.

Further, the design used both pressurized and unpressurized sections, the latter known as a "calandria", which it was believed would lower construction costs compared to designs that used highly pressurized cores. In contrast to typical light-water designs, CANDU did not require a single large pressure vessel, which was among the more complex parts of other designs. This design also allowed it to be refuelled while it was running, improving the capacity factor, a key metric in overall performance.

However, the use of natural uranium also meant the core was much less dense compared to other designs, and much larger overall. It was expected this additional cost would be offset by lower capital costs on other items, as well as lower operational costs. The key trade-off was the cost of the fuel, in an era when enriched uranium fuel was limited and expensive and its price was expected to rise considerably by the 1980s.

In practice, these advantages did not work out. The high expected fuel costs never came to be; when reactor construction stalled at around 200 units worldwide, instead of the expected thousands, fuel costs remained steady as there was ample enrichment capability for the amount of fuel being used. This left CANDU in the unexpected position of selling itself primarily on the lack of need for enrichment and the possibility that this presented a lower nuclear proliferation risk.

ACR
ACR addresses the high capital costs of the CANDU design primarily by using low-enrichment uranium (LEU) fuel. This allows the reactor core to be built much more compactly, roughly half that of a CANDU of the same power. Additionally, it replaces the heavy water coolant in the high-pressure section of the calandria with conventional "light" water. This greatly reduces the amount of heavy water needed, and the cost of the primary coolant loop. Heavy water remains in the low-pressure section of the calandria, where it is essentially static and used only as a moderator.

The reactivity regulating and safety devices are located within the low-pressure moderator. The ACR also incorporates characteristics of the CANDU design, including on-power refueling with the CANFLEX fuel; a long prompt neutron lifetime; small reactivity holdup; two fast, independent, safety shutdown systems; and an emergency core cooling system.

The fuel bundle is a variant of the 43-element CANFLEX design (CANFLEX-ACR). The use of LEU fuel with a neutron absorbing centre element allows the reduction of coolant void reactivity coefficient to a nominally small, negative value. It also results in higher burnup operation than traditional CANDU designs.

Safety systems
The ACR-1000 design currently calls for a variety of safety systems, most of which are evolutionary derivatives of the systems utilized on the CANDU 6 reactor design. Each ACR requires both SDS1 & SDS2 to be online and fully operational before they will operate at any power level.

Safety Shutdown System 1 (SDS1): SDS1 is designed to rapidly and automatically terminate reactor operation. Neutron-absorbing rods (control rods that shut down the nuclear chain reaction) are stored inside isolated channels located directly above the reactor vessel (calandria) and are controlled via a triple-channel logic circuit. When any 2 of the 3 circuit paths are activated (due to sensing the need for emergency reactor trip), the direct current-controlled clutches that keep each control-rod in the storage position are de-energized. The result is that each control-rod is inserted into the calandria, and the reactor heat output is reduced by 90% within 2 seconds.

Safety Shutdown System 2 (SDS2): SDS2 is also designed to rapidly and automatically terminate reactor operation. Gadolinium nitrate (Gd(NO3)3) solution, a neutron-absorbing liquid that shuts down the nuclear chain reaction, is stored inside channels that feed into horizontal nozzle assemblies. Each nozzle has an electronically controlled valve, all of which are controlled via a triple-channel logic circuit. When any 2 of the 3 circuit paths are activated (due to sensing the need for emergency reactor trip), each of these valves are opened and Gd(NO3)3 solution is injected through the nozzles to mix with the heavy-water moderator liquid in the reactor vessel (calandria). The result is that the reactor heat output is reduced by 90% within 2 seconds.

Reserve water system (RWS): The RWS consists of a water tank located at a high elevation within the reactor building. This provides water for use in cooling an ACR that has suffered a loss of coolant accident (LOCA). The RWS can also provide emergency water (via gravity-feed) to the steam generators, moderator system, shield cooling system or the heat transport system of any ACR.

Emergency power supply system (EPS): The EPS system is designed to provide each ACR unit with the required electrical power needed to perform all safety functions under both operating & accident conditions. It contains seismically qualified, redundant standby generators, batteries and distribution switchgear.

Cooling water system (CWS): The CWS provides all necessary light water (H2O) required to perform all safety system-related functions under both operating & accident conditions. All safety-related portions of the system are seismically qualified and contain redundant divisions.

Operational cost
The ACR has a planned lifetime capacity factor of greater than 93%. This is achieved by a three-year planned outage frequency, with a 21-day planned outage duration and 1.5% per year forced outage. Quadrant separation allows flexibility for on-line maintenance and outage management. A high degree of safety system testing automation also reduces cost.

Abandonment
Bruce Power considered ACR in 2007 for deployment in Western Canada, both for power generation, or for steam generation to be used in processing oil sands. In 2011, Bruce Power decided not to move forward with this project.

In 2008, the province of New Brunswick accepted a proposal for a feasibility study for an ACR-1000 at Point Lepreau. This led to a formal bid by Team Candu, consisting of AECL, GE Canada, Hitachi Canada, Babcock & Wilcox Canada and SNC-Lavalin Nuclear, which proposed using a 1085 MWe ACR-1000. Nothing further came of this bid. It was later replaced by a mid-2010 bid by Areva, a bid that also lapsed.

AECL was marketing the ACR-1000 as part of the UK's Generic Design Process but pulled out in April 2008. CEO Hugh MacDiarmid is quoted as stating, "We believe very strongly that our best course of action to ensure the ACR-1000 is successful in the global market place is to focus first and foremost on establishing it here at home."

The ACR-1000 was submitted as part of Ontario's request for proposal (RFP) for the Darlington B installation. Ultimately, AECL was the only company to place a formal bid, with a two-reactor ACR-1000 plant. The bids required that all contingencies for time and budget overruns be considered in the plans. The resulting bid was $26 billion for a total of 2,400 MWe, or over $10,800 per kilowatt. This was three times what had been expected, and called "shockingly high". As this was the only bid, the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure decided to cancel the expansion project in 2009.

In 2011, with no sales prospects remaining, the Canadian government sold AECL's reactor division to SNC-Lavalin. In 2014, SNC announced a partnership with the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) to support sales and construction of the existing CANDU designs. Among these was a plan to use their two CANDU-6 reactors in a recycling scheme under the name Advanced Fuel CANDU Reactor (AFCR). However, these plans did not proceed. SNC and CNNC subsequently announced collaboration on a Heavy Water Reactor, also based on legacy CANDU technology, and unrelated to the Advanced Heavy Water Reactor being developed in India.

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Penn State Harrisburg

Penn State Harrisburg, officially known as the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg—Capital College and also called The Capital College, is an undergraduate college and graduate school of the Pennsylvania State University located in Lower Swatara Township, Pennsylvania. The campus is located 9 miles (15 km) south of Harrisburg. Penn State offers two associate, 34 baccalaureate, 24 master's, and three doctoral degrees as well as certificate and certification programs. It was an upper division college (serving only juniors and seniors) from its founding in 1966 until accepting freshmen and sophomores in 2004.

The Penn State Eastgate Center, opened in 1991 in downtown Harrisburg, contains state agencies such as the Pennsylvania Securities Commission and Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement System as well as hearing rooms for workers compensation that also occupy space in the building. As of 2012, all classrooms and administrative personnel previously located in this building were relocated to the Middletown campus.

History
The college was initially founded in 1966 as the Penn State Capitol Campus. This new campus was exclusively for upper division undergraduates and graduate students. The first students graduated from the Capitol College in 1968, with the first on-campus graduation taking place in 1969.

The school gained college status in 1986 and was subsequently renamed as the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg—Capital College. Two years later, the college granted its first doctorate degrees.

The college welcomed its first four-year undergraduates in 2001, with its first student housing opening in 2002. Penn State Harrisburg was considered fully transitioned into a four-year college by 2004.

Academics
As a college and graduate school of the Pennsylvania State University, Penn State Harrisburg grants associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. In addition to the 33 full baccalaureate programs it offers, as one of the 24 campuses of the Penn State, the college also offers the first two years of study leading to more than 160 majors offered throughout the Penn State system. The college also houses 24 master's degree programs, as well as doctoral programs in American Studies, Engineering Systems, and Public Administration.

At the transfer level, the college serves students from all Commonwealth campuses of the Pennsylvania State University, as well as students from community colleges and other accredited colleges and universities.

The college also is the academic and administrative home of the Penn State Intercollege Master of Professional Studies Program in Homeland Security (iMPS-HLS), a partnership of six Penn State colleges sponsoring an online graduate degree program delivered by Penn State World Campus.

Campus and Location
Penn State Harrisburg's campus is located along the Susquehanna River near Middletown, Pennsylvania. Two other Penn State campuses, the Penn State University College of Medicine (which is affiliated with the nearby Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center) and Penn State Dickinson Law are located in the surrounding region. Harrisburg International Airport and the Middletown Amtrak station (Keystone Service) are within one mile (1.6 km) of the campus. The Pennsylvania Turnpike also runs nearby to the campus.

The area that the campus now occupies was originally used for farming, before serving as Olmsted Air Force Base. It was purchased by Penn State University at the time of the college's founding.

Athletics
After a 10-year break from intercollegiate athletics, Penn State–Harrisburg brought back the department as of fall of the 2005–06 academic year. The college now competes in NCAA's Division III. They formerly competed primarily in the Capital Athletic Conference (CAC), from July, 2013- June, 2019. Penn State–Harrisburg was formerly a member of the North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) from 2007–08 to 2012–13. In July, 2019 PSU-H rejoined the NEAC (currently rebranded as the United East Conference).Penn State–Harrisburg sponsors the following teams: men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, golf, men's and women's soccer, baseball, softball, men's and women's tennis, and women's volleyball.

Library
As a medium-sized academic library with 275,000 volumes, over 1 million pieces of microfilm, 1,430 journal subscriptions, and 300 databases, the Penn State Harrisburg Library was planned from the outset as a "hybrid" print/electronic library that could accommodate new technologies without sacrificing the personal warmth of the traditional library. The library is a 115000 sqft modern facility and officially opened on January 10, 2000, for the start of spring semester.

Research centers and institutes

 * Center For Geographic Information Services, provides support for research, education, and outreach efforts requiring the use and analysis of spatial Information. This includes direct assistance to faculty, students, and staff and the development of occasional seminars and workshops on geographic information systems (GIS) software and applications.
 * Pennsylvania Center for Folklore, documents, studies, and interprets diverse communities and cultural traditions, especially in Pennsylvania.
 * Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies, organizes research, teaching, and outreach programs on the Holocaust, as well as Jewish life and culture more broadly.
 * Center for Survey Research was established to provide professional and technical assistance in survey research methodologies. The CSR serves as a primary resource for state and local government, business, non-profit organizations and public utilities as well as faculty and students who are undertaking opinion research.
 * Cooperative Extension Capital Region Office
 * Economic Development Research And Training Center
 * Institute of State and Regional Affairs
 * Eastern American Studies Association
 * Pennsylvania Program to Improve State & Local Government
 * Pennsylvania State Data Center was established in 1981 by executive order of the governor and is Pennsylvania's official source of population and economic statistics and services. In addition to serving as Pennsylvania's liaison to the Census Bureau, the PSDC also serves as the state's representative to the Federal-State Cooperative Programs for Population Estimates and for Population Projections.
 * Center for Signal Integrity supports research and product development for local and national companies in analyzing high-speed electrical interconnects to improve the reliability and performance of digital systems.

Student life
Housing

The main on-campus housing, The Capital Village, is located on the northeast part of the campus. Additional housing is offered down Olmsted Drive; Nittany Apartments can house up to 260 students in its 4-person apartments.

Greek Life

The college has several fraternities and sororities.

Noted faculty

 * Shaun L. Gabbidon
 * Vahid Motevalli
 * Simon J. Bronner (emeritus)

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Talk:Minimal Techno

Maybe this should be merged with Techno? -WindFish 04:18, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Done and done. (ESkog)(Talk) 13:55, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

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Queen at Wembley

Queen Live at Wembley Stadium, also referred to as Queen Live At Wembley, Queen At Wembley, Queen Live At Wembley '86, Live At Wembley and Live At Wembley '86, is a live concert by British rock band Queen at Wembley Stadium, London, England on Saturday 12 July 1986. The recording is a performance of the Magic Tour which took place during the summer of 1986.

It was originally transmitted in 1986 in the U.K. and released commercially in various audio and video forms in 1990 and the recent DVD.

Transmission and release history
The recorded concert was first broadcast as Queen: Real Magic on a special episode for the U.K. music show The Tube on 25 October 1986 on Channel 4. This was transmitted in mono (as was normal before NICAM stereo became standard on UK TV in the early 1990s). However, it was simultaneously broadcast over the radio in stereo so that viewers had the option to mute their televisions, play the audio on a nearby radio and enjoy “the world’s first ever stereo simulcast” in a similar way that previous live (as opposed to, in this case, pre-recorded) classical performances had sometimes been offered.

Home media
The recording was first commercially released in December 1990 as an edited VHS (missing 9 songs), then as the Live at Wembley '86 audio CD in 1992. This was followed by a DVD release as Queen: Live at Wembley Stadium (in its entirety) to coincide with the CD rerelease in 2003. The DVD has gone five times platinum in the United States, four times platinum in the United Kingdom, and achieved multi platinum status around the world. On 5 September 2011, the 25th Anniversary Edition of the concert was released as a standard 2-DVD set and a deluxe 2-DVD and 2-CD set which also included the entire Friday 11 July 1986 concert on DVD for the first time. Eagle Rock Entertainment released a 25th Anniversary Edition in the US and Canada on 12 March 2013.

Disc one

 * 1) One Vision
 * 2) Tie Your Mother Down
 * 3) In the Lap of the Gods... Revisited
 * 4) Seven Seas of Rhye
 * 5) Tear It Up
 * 6) A Kind of Magic
 * 7) Under Pressure
 * 8) Another One Bites the Dust
 * 9) Who Wants to Live Forever
 * 10) I Want to Break Free
 * 11) Impromptu
 * 12) Brighton Rock Solo
 * 13) Now I'm Here
 * 14) Love of My Life
 * 15) Is This the World We Created?
 * 16) (You're So Square) Baby I Don't Care
 * 17) Hello Mary Lou
 * 18) Tutti Frutti
 * 19) Gimme Some Lovin'
 * 20) Bohemian Rhapsody
 * 21) Hammer to Fall
 * 22) Crazy Little Thing Called Love
 * 23) Big Spender
 * 24) Radio Ga Ga
 * 25) We Will Rock You
 * 26) Friends Will Be Friends
 * 27) We Are the Champions
 * 28) God Save the Queen

Road to Wembley

 * Brian May and Roger Taylor interview (2003) (28 mins)
 * Gavin Taylor (Director) and Gerry Stickells (Tour Manager) interview (19 mins)
 * A Beautiful Day – Rudi Dolezal's backstage documentary about the whole day (30 mins)
 * Tribute to the Wembley Towers – including timelapse demolition footage set to 'These Are the Days of Our Lives (Instrumental)' (5 mins)

Unseen Magic

 * Features 'Friday Concert Medley' – highlights package of the previous night's show (28 mins):
 * 1) A Kind of Magic
 * 2) Another One Bites The Dust
 * 3) Tutti Frutti
 * 4) Crazy Little Thing Called Love
 * 5) We Are The Champions (ending)
 * 6) God Save The Queen
 * Rehearsals (10 mins)
 * Picture Gallery (5 mins) (The background music for this extra is the full, unreleased original version of "A Kind of Magic" used in the Highlander film)

Queen Cams
4 tracks presented in multi-angle Brian, Roger, John and Freddie cams:
 * 1) One Vision
 * 2) Under Pressure
 * 3) Now I'm Here
 * 4) We Are the Champions

Audio
PCM Stereo & DTS 5.1 Surround Sound

The Original Concert
The original concert started at 4.00pm with tickets costing £14.50, Four bands performed in the following order:
 * 1) INXS
 * 2) The Alarm
 * 3) Status Quo
 * 4) Queen

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Sangwan

Sangwan is a surname of the Jat people found in the Indian state Haryana and UttarPradesh.

Notable people with the name include:

 * Kishan Singh Sangwan (born 1948), Indian politician, member of the 14th Lok Sabha
 * Pradeep Sangwan (born 1990), Indian cricketer
 * Rambir Singh Sangwan, Indian constable and kabaddi player
 * Rhythm Sangwan, Indian professional shooter
 * Sumit Sangwan (born 1993), Indian amateur boxer
 * Usha Sangwan, Indian businesswoman

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Talk:The Marvelous Land of Oz

Dorothy
This is NOT, as the article wrongly said, the only canonical oz book in which Dorothy does not appear. There are several such. For instance, Dorothy does not appear in CAPTAIN SALT IN OZ. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.243.185 (talk) 01:30, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Huh, you're right. Still, are there "several"? What else besides this and Captain Salt?— Chowbok  ☠  04:18, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I understand that this is an old thread, but, easily half of the canonical Oz books do not involve Dorothy. Possibly more; it's been awhile since I've read the series. -Verdatum (talk) 15:40, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
 * Dorothy is completely absent from Silver Princess, certainly (both Captain Salt and Silver Princess feature only Ruth Plumly Thompson's own characters). There are many other books in the series in which Dorothy makes only cameo appearances (including Tik-Tok, Scarecrow, Rinkitink and Tin Woodman among Baum's own books). Gildir (talk) 11:52, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Movie.
I will update this if I can ever find concrete proof, but I have seen trailers for a live action movie of this that appears to be from the 60s or 70s, probably low budget. I explicitly remember a young male protagonist, Mombi, & Ozma being in it. It was often a trailer at the beginning of many VHSs for children in the late 80s/early 90s. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:8:B580:811:B4CD:8BF2:16F5:7960 (talk) 19:19, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
 * I believe you are referring to The Wonderful Land of Oz (1969). -Verdatum (talk) 15:43, 19 June 2020 (UTC)

Book title
I've got a copy with the same cover illustration, but the title is "The Land of Oz", with subtitle "A Sequel to The Wizard of Oz". Publication date is given as July 1904, with no mention of previous editions. I think the book must have been published under both titles, at least in 1904. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.85.76.4 (talk) 19:05, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
 * No, I think the explanation is that later editions didn't necessarily include their printing dates, but simply retained the original July 1904 copyright notice. Gildir (talk) 11:54, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

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L. C. Rodd

L. C. (Lewis Charles) Rodd (1905 - 1979) was the husband of novelist Kylie Tennant. Biographer of Fr. John Hope, long-serving rector of Christ Church St. Laurence in George Street, Sydney.

Some of Rodd's papers are held by the National Library of Australia.

LC Rodd was head of Woolwich Primary School around 1945.

Works

 * John Hope of Christ Church: a Sydney Church era (biography) ISBN 0-85553-072-3
 * A Gentle Shipwreck (autobiography) (Sydney, Thomas Nelson, 1975) (illustrated by Cedric Emanuel) ISBN 0-17-005040-8

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Jin Nong

Born in 1687 in Hangzhou, Jin Nong (金農) became popular as a painter and calligrapher while living as a childless widower in Yangzhou in his sixties. His paintings of mei blossoms were in particular demand there. Heralded as one of The Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou, Jin favored the amateur scholar style. A nonconformist, he generally painted more traditional images laden with symbolism (such as orchids, bamboo, chrysanthemums, and mei blossoms) and preserved his independence by selling works in an open market, rather than adopting an individual patron. Later styles included Buddhist imagery. However, Jin was the first artist in the Chinese tradition to paint a large number of self-portraits and did earn money through the patronage of wealthy individuals in Yangzhou who, in addition to buying works, were possible publishers for his numerous writings. Jin probably understood these contradictions as he argued that living off of painting should not be considered dishonorable.

Jin Nong also made money as a writer and general entrepreneur. He was known to travel with a number of disciple-servants who assisted in the production of ink stones and lanterns to which he would add a personal artistic touch. It was through the sale of these items that Jin achieved financial independence; his single, failed attempt to compete for office was in the year 1736. He became widely known for his writings, but when his health began to fail, painting became his principal source of income and he in fact acknowledged the use of ghost-painters as a way to increase production. One such understudy, Luo Ping (whose name is sometimes rendered "Lo Ping"), also edited some compilations of his works. He continued to write throughout this time and was a critic as well as a dealer of paintings. There is some confusion about Jin's year of death, but it was most likely 1763 or 1764.

He also had a reputation as a calligrapher creating a style he called "lacquer calligraphy."

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Michael Egan (Australian politician)

Michael Rueben Egan (21 February 1948 – 31 January 2024) was an Australian union official and politician, who served as Treasurer of New South Wales between 1995 and 2005. Egan served as the Chancellor of Macquarie University from 2008 until 2019 and sat on a number of government and non-government advisory boards.

Early years and background
Born in Sydney, Egan was educated at St Patrick's Catholic College, and obtained his Bachelor of Arts from The University of Sydney. He worked in the Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union as a Federal Research Officer (1969–1973) and was an Advisor to Les Johnson as Federal Minister for Housing and Construction and Federal Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (1973–1975).

Egan served as an Officer of the NSW State Pollution Control Commission (1976–1978). Subsequently, he was employed as a Senior Policy Advisor to Barrie Unsworth, initially when the latter was Minister for Transport and Minister for Health, and then when Unsworth was Premier of NSW (1984–1986).

Egan died on 31 January 2024, at the age of 75.

Political career
Egan was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly on 7 October 1978, representing the seat of Cronulla. Although re-elected on 19 August 1981, he was defeated in the election held on 5 March 1984. He successfully ran for election to the New South Wales Legislative Council on 24 September 1986. It was not until the Bob Carr-led Labor Party took power on 3 April 1995 that he became State Treasurer, Minister for Energy, and Minister for State Development. In a Ministerial reshuffle in November 1997, Bob Debus took over the Energy portfolio. Egan was also Minister for Gaming and Racing for one month during 2003 replacing Richard Face and succeeded by Grant McBride. Egan was eventually to become the longest serving Treasurer in New South Wales.

In the few years before he became Treasurer when Labor was in Opposition, Egan had been the Shadow Finance Minister. Even though then Opposition Leader Bob Carr was Shadow Treasurer, Egan became the informal Opposition counterpart to Liberal Treasurer Peter Collins when Collins was appointed Treasurer in 1993. It was Egan, not Carr, who debated Collins on economic matters in media appearances. Egan in effect, if not in name, acted as the real Shadow Treasurer. It was because of Egan's solid performance against Treasurer Collins that Carr, upon becoming Premier in 1995 with the ALP's victory at the State election, broke with convention in not appointing the Shadow Treasurer just prior to the election (which was Carr himself) as Treasurer and appointed Egan instead.

Another break in convention with Egan's appointment as Treasurer is that he was a member of the Upper House, the New South Wales Legislative Council as previous Treasurers had been from the Lower House, the Legislative Assembly. However, since all money bills had to be introduced first in the Lower House, the Legislative Assembly, Egan delivered the State Budgets of 1995 to 2004 in the Legislative Assembly despite not being a member of that house of Parliament.

Announcing his resignation on 18 January 2005, Egan stated that, "after 35 years of political combat, I think it's time for me to move on."

He retired just months short of what would have been his tenth anniversary as Treasurer.

Career after politics
Appointed a member of the Council of Macquarie University in 2006, Egan was appointed Chancellor in February 2008 and held this position until February 2019. Other community roles include Chairman of the Australia Day Council of New South Wales since 2006, Chairman of the Centenary Institute of Cancer Medicine and Cell Biology since 2005, a Governor of the Woolcock Institute of Medical Research since 2005, and a Director of the Maritime Services Board of New South Wales between 1984 and 1986.

In May 2008 Egan was appointed Chairman of Terria, and in 2009, he was appointed the Chair of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority Commission.

During the 2015 New South Wales state election Egan supported the privatisation stance of the Liberal government and slammed the Labor Party on its anti privatisation position.

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Talk:Wētā FX

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Weta vs W.E.T.A
How did this massive edit get through? http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Weta_Digital&diff=222366603&oldid=222364532 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Burrito (talk • contribs) 04:34, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Changed all WETA to Weta. Its not an acronym, its not spelled in ALLCAPS. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.55.0.200 (talk • contribs)
 * That and the fact that it's not related to WETA-FM-TV/Washington, D.C. I added that fact in; please don't remove it. --  M  (speak/spoken) 01:03, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
 * I believe it's still referred to as WETA. In Heavenly Creatures, it's effects are credited to W.E.T.A., so it obviously stood for something originally.  I wonder what?  --72.202.150.92 02:51, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * It stands for Wingnut Effects and Technical Allusions - PJ refers to this in his biography, and also explains the misspelling of the word Illusions.
 * On one of the LOTR special editions, Peter Jackson states that the company was named after a bug native to New Zealand WetaDarwin-rover (talk) 00:27, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
 * The early "Wingnut Effects and Technical Allusions" story is nicely covered in "The Birth of Weta"<, which should be in an "History" section here. Snori (talk) 00:27, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

Evangelion movie
Any new news on the Evangelion movie? BiggKwell 23:42, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Tintin Movie?
Peter Jackson will be directing the new Tintin movie, which will be animated by Weta, but the title of the movie is unknown yet. Should it still be added to the list of movies as "Unnamed Tintin movie" or something like that? --Scuac 15:28, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
 * As long as there are reliable references cited, it can be added with some generic title to that effect, yes. However, a Wikipedia article on the film may not be created (as per notability guidelines for future films until the film has begun production and this can be confirmed with references). Good luck! Girolamo Savonarola 16:42, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

NGE Live Action Not Mentioned....
Weta is involved in the Live Action Project of Evangelion though the film itself is in development hell. I think that what Weta themselves have stated about Evangelion itself should be put in the article. If not the movie listed with "Development Hell" right next to it. --҉ რɫՒ◌§ 9¤ ॐ 23:40, 12 February 2009 (UTC)

It's was Weta Workshop that was mentioned in the Evangelion announcement. There is no mention of Weta Digital being involved that I can see. (Weta Digital and Weta Workshop are two different companies) If there is going to be any mention it should be on the Weta Workshop page. Alavaliant (talk) 08:49, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

Server Farm
I was attending a presentation by two tools developers who mentioned that Weta Digital currently has the largest Super-Computer in the Southern Hemisphere, made up for more than 20,000 Blade Servers. Apparently it uses a comparable amount of energy an aluminum smelter. 118.92.172.106 (talk) 12:55, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Company Type
Weta Digital is not a public company, it is? Surely it is a privately held company or a subsidiary of Weta Workshop. Thoughts? --Watchsmart (talk) 09:24, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

 * Private by all accounts CicolasMoon (talk) 18:19, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
 * In our conclusion, as far as I believe, Weta FX (formally Weta Digital) may now have become a publicly held company after 30 years. Case closed. 2A02:C7C:3962:4200:509E:13DF:BAD7:AC7B (talk) 13:18, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
 * "May now" doing most of the heavy lifting. What exact evidence is there? CicolasMoon (talk) 13:40, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm glad this issue was fixed CicolasMoon (talk) 00:22, 8 September 2023 (UTC)

Title
In my view, the consensus reached at Talk:Wētā Workshop should also apply to this article, so the title should be "Wētā FX". This should not constitute unacceptable stylization (as proscribed at MOS:TM), because the macron is not a mere stylistic element but rather a generally accepted part of New Zealand English orthography. See also Talk:Wētā and the guideline WP:NCNZ. Shells-shells (talk) 17:15, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

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User:Geo Swan/gitmo/Boudella el Hajj

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Boudella el Hajj is a native of Algeria who became a Bosnian citizen, then fell under suspicion by American security officials, who transported him to Camp Delta in the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

El Hajj was raised and educated in Algeria. El Hajj was a University Science lecturer in Algeria. He later studied Islamic studies, and became an iman. In the mid-nineties el Hajj traveled to Bosnia. He became a Bosnian citizen. Married a Bosnian woman, and started a family.

El Hajj worked for the International Committee of the Red Crescent. He oversaw the care of orphans.

According to press reports American security official intercepted suspicious phone calls between a Bosnian of Algerian descent and an Afghani they believed to be Abu Zubaydah, a senior aide to al Qaeda. According to press reports this Bosnian of Algerian descent made 70 calls to Afghanistan between September 11, 2001 and his arrest on November 16, 2001

Half a dozen Bosnians of Algerian descent were taken into custody. According to el Hajj three of them were good friends of his, but he didn't know the other two at all, including the guy who American security officials said phoned Afghanistan. According to el Hajj his three friends were arrested, and the Police phoned him, and told him they wanted to talk to him, so he voluntarily came to the station and surrendered himself.

El Hajj and his compatriots had a trial, before the Bosnian Supreme Court, in January 2002. According to El Hajj they were acquitted, released, and thought they were on their way home, but were apprehended by a mixed force of Americans and Bosnian security officials just outside the prison, and then transported to Guantanamo without bothering with the red-tape of a formal extradition. , where he was Like all high school teenagers in Algeria he underwent compulsary military training.

 * ''a. The detainee is associated with al Qaida:
 * ''The detainee was arrested with XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX, a known al Qaida associate, for International Terrorism by the Bosnian-Herzegovina authorities.
 * ''XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX had phone conversations with Abu Zubayday, a senior aide to Usama Bin Laden, who was in charge of screening recruits for al Qaida training camps in Afghanistan.
 * ''The detainee and others acted as an organizaed terrorist group and they were in contact with known al Qaida member, Abu Zubaydah.
 * ''Detainee was arrested by Bosnian authorities in connection with a planned attack on the American embassy.
 * ''Detainee is a member of the Mujahadin network. Also, detainee is likely a member of Armed Islamic Group of Algeria, a militant organization.
 * ''Armed Islamic Group of Algeria, a militant organization.
 * ''Armed Islamic Group of Algeria is on the list of sympathizers and helpers of Usama Bin Laden's al Qaida.

In November 2001 American security officials started to suspect that their was a plot to bomb the American Embassy in Bosnia.

Six guys, born in Algeria were accused. Bosnian authorities arrested them. They stood trial, and were acquitted. Yet they still ended up Guantanamo Bay.

Five of the six were naturalized Bosnian citizens, and the sixth was married to a Bosnian woman. Several of them worked for the International Committee of the Red Crescent -- the Islamic equivalent of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

The records of the Combatant Status Review Tribunals of several of these guys are available for download from the Associated Press. They make for ineresting reading. Ostensibly they were captured because American authorities were captured because American security officials still believed they were plotting with al Qaeda to bomb the embassy. Yet, in their Combat Status Review Tribunals the detainees all reported that their interrogators never asked them any questions about the bombing.

The documents AP made available are only the unclassified portions. All the PDFs say, essentially. The unclassified evidence didn't provide any evidence of guilt -- so we relied on the classified evidence. Well, what kind of unclassified evidence was in the detainee's dossiers?

Often there was no unclassified evidence. The Bosnian-Algerians Of course you know One detainee reported that one of his interrogators told him that internal politics within the American security edifice did not allow them to release them from GITMO, even though they had no evidence of any bombing plot.

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Mahavira Hall

A Mahavira Hall, usually simply known as a Main Hall, is the main hall or building in a traditional Chinese Buddhist temple, enshrining representations of Gautama Buddha and various other buddhas and bodhisattvas. It is encountered throughout East Asia.

Names
From their importance and use, they are often simply known in English as the temples' "Main" or "Great Halls". The term "Mahavira Hall", also encountered as "Mahāvīra Hall" or "Hall of the Mahāvīra", is a reverse translation, employing the original Sanskrit term in place of its Chinese or English equivalent. They are also known as the Precious Hall of the Great Hero, the Hall of Great Strength, or the Daxiongbao Hall. Less often, a main hall is called an "adytum", after the equivalent area in Greco-Roman temples. It is also sometimes misunderstood as the "Great, Powerful, and Precious Palace".

Description
Mahavira Hall is the main hall of a Buddhist temple. It is generally located in the north of the Heavenly King Hall and serves as the core architecture of the whole temple and also a place for monks to practice. Statues of Sakyamuni, the founder of Buddhism are enshrined in the hall.

Sakyamuni statues enshrined in the Mahavira Hall have three modeling postures. The first is sitting in the lotus posture with the left hand placing on the left foot and the right hand dropping naturally, representing that he has sacrificed all he has for people before he becomes Buddha. All these can only be proved by the ground. This posture of the statues is called "posture of becoming Buddha". The second is sitting in the lotus posture with the left hand placing on the left foot and the right hand's finger ringing. This is called "posture of preaching", showing his postures when preaching. The third is a standing Buddha with the left hand dropping, signifying the hope that all people can fulfill their wishes, and the right hand stretching arm, indicating all people can relieve their sufferings. This posture is called "Sandalwood Buddha". Usually two disciples' statues are placed next to the statue of Sakyamuni, the older is called "Mahakassapa" and the middle-aged is called "Ānanda".

At the back of Sakyamuni's statue, three statues of Bodhisattva facing the north are usually enshrined. They are Manjushri Bodhisattva riding a lion, Samantabhadra Bodhisattva riding a white elephant and Guanyin Bodhisattva riding a dragon. Some temples also set island scene behind Sakyamuni's statue and only enshrine the statue Guanyin Bodhisattva with a clean vase of water and a willow branch in it.

Examples

 * The Mahavira Hall of Shanghai's Longhua Temple
 * The Mahavira Hall of Hangzhou's Lingyin Temple
 * The Main Hall of Shanghai's Jing'an Temple
 * The Main Hall of Datong's Shanhua Temple
 * The Main Hall of Gaobeidian's Kaishan Temple
 * The Main Hall of Yixian's Fengguo Temple
 * The Main Hall of Henan's Ocean Banner Temple

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Unixen
Is 'Unixen' a misspelling? Don't want to change it if it means something else..

 * Although "Unix" is usually pluralized as "Unices", it is common in computer jargon to pluralize words ending in X adding -en, as in "VAX" -> "vaxen". I have seem lot of people write such things as "boxen" or "linuxen". So, as far as I know, it's not a mispelling. --Pezezin 22:33, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Subjective analysis of the reasons for discontinuation
If there are any good sources for the claim that Sprite failed because it's not a microkernel, please add them. If else I think that the part about Sprites discontinuation should be rewritten. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.63.247.218 (talk) 00:32, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

It actually states the maintainability claim in the Sprite retrospective document referenced from the project's home page (referenced elsewhere in the article), but not explicitly in contrast to microkernel-based operating systems, although one could make the claim that the "commercial versions of UNIX with massive support teams" needed such teams because of their architecture. PaulBoddie (talk) 15:13, 10 February 2012 (UTC)

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USS Stormes

USS Stormes (DD-780) was an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer that served in the United States Navy.

Namesake
Max Clifford Stormes was born on 27 July 1903 in Big Flats, New York. He was appointed midshipman at the United States Naval Academy on 15 June 1920 and graduated on 15 May 1924. He was assigned to USS Nevada (BB-36) and subsequently served on USS Chewink (AM-39) and USS S-33 (SS-138). He served with Submarine Division 20 in 1929 and 1930 and then attended a post-graduate course at the United States Naval Academy in 1931 and 1932. His next tour of sea duty was as commanding officer of USS Talbot (DD-114) followed by a tour on USS Chicago (CA-29) as damage control officer.

He became commanding officer of USS Preston (DD-379) on 31 October 1941 and was promoted to commander on 20 August 1942. He was killed in action during the night of 14 and 15 November 1942, when Preston was sunk in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.

Construction and commissioning
Stormes was laid down on 15 February 1944 by Todd-Pacific Shipyards Inc., Seattle, Washington; launched on 4 November 1944; sponsored by Mrs. M. C. Stormes; and commissioned on 27 January 1945.

World War II
Stormes was fitted out at Seattle and departed there on 14 February for the San Diego Bay area where she held her shakedown training. Upon completion of her shakedown, she sailed on 1 April for Bremerton, Washington for a post-shakedown overhaul. Dock trials were held on the morning of 22 April; and, that afternoon, the destroyer put to sea, en route to Hawaii.

Stormes arrived at Pearl Harbor on 30 April and sailed the next day as escort for the cruiser USS Louisville (CA-28) en route to Okinawa, via Guam. The two ships arrived at Hagushi anchorage off Southwestern Okinawa on 23 May and joined the 5th Fleet.

Okinawa kamikaze strike
The destroyer was immediately assigned to the antiaircraft screen. She spent the night in the anchorage and took her position in the screen the next day. The ship underwent her first air raid that evening. The weather was bad on the morning of 25 May with poor visibility and intermittent rain squalls. At 0905, a Japanese plane was sighted as it passed between two US Navy planes and headed for USS Ammen (DD-527) directly ahead of Stormes. At the last moment, the plane turned and crashed into Stormes's aft torpedo mount. Its bomb exploded in the magazine under her number three 5-inch mount. The ship was on fire, and sea water poured through holes in the hull. By noon, repair parties had extinguished the fires and plugged the holes. Twenty-one members of the crew were killed and 15 injured.

The battered destroyer slowly made her way back to Kerama Retto. She remained there until 5 July when she moved to Buckner Bay to enter a floating drydock. The ship left drydock on 13 August and was sufficiently seaworthy for the long trip back to the United States, even though only her port shaft was in commission. Stormes stood out of Buckner Bay on 17 August and steamed, via Saipan, Eniwetok, and Pearl Harbor, to San Francisco. She arrived at Hunters Point on 17 September and began a three-month overhaul.

The destroyer held refresher training in the San Diego area and, in January 1946, sailed for the east coast. She arrived at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on 14 January, and, before continuing to Norfolk, Virginia acted as a plane guard for aircraft carriers holding shakedown operations in the area.

Stormes arrived at Norfolk on 1 February and spent the remainder of the month preparing for Operation "Frostbite" which was to take place in March. USS Midway (CV-41), a tanker, Stormes, and two other destroyers, moved into an area between Greenland, Labrador, and Hudson Strait in March to test carrier operations in sub-zero temperatures. Upon completion of the operation, Stormes steamed to the Brooklyn Navy Yard for upkeep. On 11 April, she sailed to Casco Bay, Maine, for training and returned for a major overhaul. On 22 July, she sailed to Guantanamo Bay for refresher training and returned to Norfolk on 9 September. In October 1946, the destroyer escorted USS Philippine Sea (CV-47) to Guantanamo Bay for the carrier's shakedown.

In January 1947, Stormes participated in an exercise at Guantanamo Bay and returned to the Caribbean the following month for a fleet exercise. The destroyer carried out routine fleet duties from her Norfolk base until 1950. In August, she sailed to Charleston, South Carolina, for inactivation.

Korean War
However, she was reactivated in September due to the Korean War. In December 1950, she began a three-month yard overhaul at Charleston which was followed by a six-week shakedown cruise. In May 1951, the destroyer sailed to the west coast and was routed onward to join the 7th Fleet off Korea.

Stormes operated with Task Force 77, shelling enemy lines, screening large fleet units, rescuing downed pilots, and performing antisubmarine duties until January 1952 when she returned to Norfolk.

While on protection detail in Wonsan Harbor as support for the Marine observation team on a small island, Stormes was involved in the rescue operation of a B-29 bomber that had been shot down while returning from a mission. Of the eleven man crew, seven of the crew were rescued, the others were killed outright by gun fire from the Migs. The survivors parachuted into the sea off the coast and subsequently picked up by Stormes and other ships in the immediate area.

Stormes made a midshipman cruise to England and France that summer and then operated along the Atlantic seaboard until June 1953 when she entered the Norfolk Navy Yard for a four-month yard period and its subsequent shakedown.

1954-1965
In February 1954, the destroyer embarked on a world cruise which took her to Naples, Suez, Port Said, Aden, Colombo, Singapore, Yokosuka, Sasebo, Midway, and Pearl Harbor. She reached San Francisco in July and returned to Norfolk in August.

Stormes sailed, on 4 January 1955, for the Caribbean to participate in Operation "Springboard 55." She operated with USS Valley Forge (CV-45) in Antisubmarine Group 3 from 4 January to August. The destroyer participated in a NATO exercise in early September and then continued local operations until February 1956 when she entered the Norfolk Navy Yard. Stormes left the shipyard in May and sailed to Guantanamo Bay for refresher training which lasted until July. From then to November, the ship participated in local exercises to maintain her state of readiness in anticipation of an overseas tour.

On 7 November, Stormes sailed with Destroyer Division 261 and arrived at Naples, Italy, a month later where she was attached to the 6th Fleet. She served with the fast carriers in the Mediterranean until returning to Norfolk on 20 February 1957. The ship operated along the east coast until 3 September when she sailed as part of an attack carrier strike force for Operation "Seaspray." After crossing the North Atlantic, the ships arrived at the River Clyde, Scotland, where a number of NATO ships were waiting to take part in Operation "Strikeback." The operation ended in late September, and the destroyer sailed to Gibraltar to join the 6th Fleet for her second tour which ended at Norfolk on 22 December 1957.

Stormes remained in port until 27 January 1958 when she embarked on a two-week exercise with other ships of DesDiv 261. The remainder of the year and part of 1959 saw the destroyer taking part in local and fleet operations from New York to the Caribbean. On 7 August 1959, she sailed for her third tour with the 6th Fleet which terminated upon her return to Norfolk on 26 February 1960. The ship entered the Navy Yard on 3 June for a FRAM II conversion which lasted until 5 January 1961. On 24 January, she sailed for Guantanamo Bay where she held refresher training, gunnery practice, and participated in group exercises.

Stormes sailed for Norfolk, via Key West, and arrived there on 1 April. She operated with fleet units on the east coast and in the Caribbean for the remainder of the year. The highlight of the year's activities came in November when Stormes was designated to recover a spacecraft carrying a chimpanzee named Enos, the first chimpanzee to orbit the Earth. The spacecraft landed approximately 30 miles from the destroyer. Stormes, aided by an aircraft which had the capsule in sight, recovered it and Enos who was in good health. The ship spent the next year operating with Task Group Alpha, a hunter-killer group developing the antisubmarine readiness of the fleet.

On 9 November 1962, Stormes joined the Cuban Blockade and continued that duty until the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis. She then resumed her regular operations. In August of the following year, "the 780" became the first United States ship to visit Santa Marta, Colombia, since 1880. In the latter part of 1963, she underwent an overhaul. She operated with Task Group Alpha in 1964 until October when she participated in Operation "Steel-pike." Her task group acted as the hunter-killer group that preceded the main body of ships as they crossed the Atlantic.

Stormes continued operating with Task Group Alfa until May 1965 when she was ordered to patrol the coastal waters of the Dominican Republic during the revolution there. When relieved of patrol duty, she returned to Norfolk and prepared for a deployment period. She was with the 6th Fleet from June to August and returned to her homeport in early September. On 1 June 1966, Stormes stood out of Norfolk with DesRon 32 for a six and one-half month deployment to the western Pacific.

Vietnam
While in WestPac, her primary duty was plane guard for USS Constellation (CV-64) in the Tonkin Gulf. At one time, she was called on to provide gunfire support to ground forces ashore for a three-day period. She returned to Norfolk, via the Mediterranean, on 17 December 1966. After east coast operations in the spring and summer of 1967, Stormes deployed to the 6th Fleet from 14 November 1967 to 23 April 1968. She sailed to South America in July 1968 to hold antisubmarine warfare operations as part of UNITAS IX and to visit ports in Puerto Rico, Brazil, and St. Lucia. After resuming her normal operations from Norfolk in September, Stormes deployed to the Mediterranean with DesRon 32 on 6 January 1969. The six-month tour ended upon her return to Norfolk on 31 May. The remainder of the year and into June 1970, she operated from her homeport as a dedicated participant of the Squeeze Play ASW exercises. When Stormes returned to Norfolk from her last east coast port call on 18 June, she began preparing for inactivation.

Transfer to Iran
Stormes was removed from active status and placed on the reserve list on 5 December 1970. She was struck from the Navy list on 16 February 1972. Stormes was sold to Iran on 16 February 1972 and served as Palang (Leopard) (DDG-9/62) until 1994.

Awards
Stormes received one battle star for World War II, three for service in Korea, and one for service in Vietnam.

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Crucifixion of Saint Peter (Caravaggio)

The Crucifixion of Saint Peter (Italian: Crocifissione di san Pietro) is a work by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, painted in 1601 for the Cerasi Chapel of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome. Across the chapel is a second Caravaggio work depicting the Conversion of Saint Paul on the Road to Damascus (1601). On the altar between the two is the Assumption of the Virgin Mary by Annibale Carracci.

History
The two lateral paintings were commissioned in September 1600 by Monsignor Tiberio Cerasi, Treasurer-General to Pope Clement VIII, who purchased the chapel from the Augustinian friars on 8 July 1600 and commissioned Carlo Maderno to rebuild the small edifice in Baroque style. The contract for the altarpiece with Carracci has not been preserved but it is generally assumed that the document had been signed somewhat earlier, and Caravaggio had to take into consideration the other artist's work and the overall iconographic programme of the chapel. Cerasi nourished a deep devotion towards Saint Peter and Paul, and invoked them in his will. Together the two saints represented the foundation of the Catholic Church, and they were called the Princes of the Apostles. Both had a strong connection to the city of Rome and the papacy. Caravaggio's paintings were thus intended to express Cerasi's attachment to the Church of Rome and his closeness to papal power. Their position in the chapel was important but the devotional focus was still on the Assumption of the Virgin Mary on the altar in the middle. The juxtaposition of the two scenes had a well-known precedent in the frescos of the Capella Paolina at the Apostolic Palace (1542–1549) but the paintings of Caravaggio were starkly different from the crowded Mannerist scenes of Michelangelo.

Although much has been said about the supposed rivalry between Carracci and Caravaggio, there is no historical evidence about any serious tensions. Both were successful and sought-after artists in Rome. Caravaggio gained the Cerasi commission right after his celebrated works in the Contarelli Chapel had been finished, and Carracci was busy creating his great fresco cycle in the Palazzo Farnese. In these circumstances there was little reason for them to regard each other as business rivals, states Denis Mahon.

The contract signed on 24 September 1600 stipulates that "the distinguished painter, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio" will paint two large cypress panels, ten palms high and eight palms wide, representing the conversion of Saint Paul and the martyrdom of Saint Peter within eight months for the price of 400 scudi. The contract gave a free hand to the painter to choose the figures, persons and ornaments depicted in the way as he saw fit, "to the satisfaction however of his Lordship", and he was also obliged to submit preparatory studies before the execution of the paintings. Caravaggio received 50 scudi as advance payment from the banker Vincenzo Giustiniani with the rest earmarked to be paid on completion. The dimensions specified for the panels are virtually the same as the size of the existing canvasses.

When Tiberio Cerasi died on 3 May 1601, Caravaggio was still working on the paintings, as attested by an avviso dated 5 May which mentioned that the chapel was being decorated by the hand of the "famosissimo Pittore", Michelangelo da Caravaggio. A second avviso dated 2 June proves that Caravaggio was still at work on the paintings a month later. He completed them sometime before 10 November when he received the final instalment from the heirs of Tiberio Cerasi, the Fathers of the Ospedale della Consolazione. The total compensation for the paintings was reduced to 300 scudi for unknown reasons.

The paintings were finally installed in the chapel on 1 May 1605 by the woodworker Bartolomeo who received four scudi and fifty baiocchi from the Ospedale for his work.

The first version Giovanni Baglione in his 1642 biography about Caravaggio reported that the first versions of both paintings were rejected:

"'The panels at first had been painted in a different style, but because they did not please the patron, Cardinal Sannesio took them; in their place he painted the two oil paintings that can be seen there today, since he did not use any other medium. And – so to speak – Fortune and Fame carried him along.'"

This report is the only historical source for the well-known story. Although the biography was written decades after the events, its veracity has generally been accepted. Baglione provided no further explanation about the reasons and circumstances of the rejection but modern scholarship put forward several theories and conjectures. The first versions of the paintings were obviously acquired by Giacomo Sannesio, secretary of the Sacra Consulta and an avid collector of art. Caravaggio's biographer, Giulio Mancini mentioned these paintings being in the collection of Cardinal Sannesio around 1620 but he thought them retouched copies of the originals. The paintings reappeared in an inventory of Francesco Sannesio, Cardinal Giacomo's heir, dated to 19 February 1644 that recorded "two large panels, that represent Saint Peter crucified and the other the conversion of Saint Paul, framed in gold". This time the heirs sold the paintings to the Spanish Viceroy of Naples, Juan Alfonso Enríquez de Cabrera who transported them to Madrid two years later. After his death, the paintings were recorded again in the inventory of his assets on 7 August 1647. At the time "The Martyrdom of Saint Peter" was valued to a total of 3300 ducats, its gilded and carved frame estimated to have a value of 300 ducats in itself. The panel was registered for the last time in the inventory of the possessions of Juan Gaspar Enríquez de Cabrera, the tenth Admiral of Castile, in 1691. After that the first version of the Crucifixion of Peter has disappeared from the documents, and its further fate remains unknown. The painting of this subject in the Museo del Patriarca in Valencia is attributed to Caravaggio and may be the first version.

Description

The painting depicts the martyrdom of St. Peter. According to ancient and well-known tradition, Peter, when he was condemned to death in Rome, requested to be crucified upside-down because he did not believe that a man is worthy to be killed in the same manner as Jesus Christ.

"'But now it is time for thee, Peter, to deliver up thy body unto them that take it. Receive it then, ye unto whom it belongeth. I beseech you the executioners, crucify me thus, with the head downward and not otherwise: and the reason wherefore, I will tell unto them that hear' – Acts of Peter"

The large canvas shows the three executioners fighting to straighten the cross. Peter is already nailed to the rafters, his hands and feet are bleeding. The apostle is practically naked, which emphasizes his vulnerability. He is an old man, with a gray beard and a bald head, but his aging body is still muscular, suggesting considerable strength. He rises from the cross with great effort, turning his whole body, as if he wants to look towards something that is out of the picture (God). His eyes do not look at the executioners but he has a lost look.

The lifting of the cross requires the efforts of three men. One is pulling it up with ropes while his helpers try to raise the heavy equipment with their arms and shoulders. The yellow-breeched workman, who is crouching under the cross, grabs a shovel that was used to dig a hole into the rocky ground for the stake. The whole process seems disorganized and chaotic as if the sudden heaviness of the cross caught the executioners off-guard. Their faces are largely shielded from the viewer making them characterless executors of an unjust act ordered by an invisible authority. The background of the scene looks like a wall of impenetrable darkness but it is in fact a cliff of rock. This is an allusion to the meaning of Peter's name: the "rock" upon which Christ declared his Church to be built (Gospel of Matthew 16:18).

Style
According to Denis Mahon, the two paintings in the Cerasi Chapel form "a closely-knit group of sufficiently clear character" with The Inspiration of Saint Matthew in the Contarelli Chapel and The Entombment of Christ in the Pinacoteca Vaticana. He called these four works "the middle group" and stated that they belong to Caravaggio's mature period. Comparing the two paintings in the Cerasi Chapel, Mahon saw the Conversion of Saint Paul "much more animated than its companion" which does not succeed conveying such a vivid sense of movement.

The most striking feature of the painting is its pronounced realism: the saint is "very much the poor fisherman from Bethsaida, and the executioners, their hands heavily veined and reddened, their feet dusty, are toiling workmen", says Helen Langdon. This was the beginning of a new phase in Caravaggio's art where he concentrated on the Christian ethos of humility and salvation through suffering.

Related works
The painting was copied in 1616 by Gerrit van Honthorst when he studied in Rome. His drawing was discovered in the Nasjonalgalleriet in Oslo and published in 1946 by Jan Gerrit van Gelder. The young Honthorst was strongly influenced by the works of Caravaggio, and later became one of the Utrecht caravaggisti who tried to emulate the naturalism and tenebrosity of the Italian painter. Honthorst signed and dated the drawing in the lower left-hand corner. He must have observed the painting very carefully because only few details of the original were omitted. This copy drawing proves that the two Caravaggios in the Cerasi Chapel were already held in high regard a few years after they had been installed.

Some scholars have identified the first version of the Crucifixion with a painting now in the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, but this is not generally accepted (in the Hermitage catalog Martyrdom of St. Peter is attributed, with a question mark, to Lionello Spada and dated on the first quarter of the 17th century).

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Confederation Park

Confederation Park (French: Parc de la Confédération) is a public park and National Historic Site of Canada, located in the downtown core of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. It is bordered on the south by Laurier Avenue and Ottawa City Hall; on the east by the Rideau Canal and National Defence Headquarters; on the north by the Mackenzie King Bridge, the Rideau Centre and the National Arts Centre; and to the west by Elgin Street and the Lord Elgin Hotel.

Situation
Confederation Park is one of the 'capital' parks in Ottawa maintained by the National Capital Commission (NCC). It is an urban park, with paved pathways, monuments and an open lawn on the eastern side for gatherings. It is basically flat in its topology. A large fountain is located in the centre of the park. Constructed of Peterhead granite, it honors Colonel John By. The fountain was relocated from Trafalgar Square, London, where it had played from 1845 to 1948. A twin of the fountain, which had also stood in Trafalgar Square, is located in Wascana Park, Regina. The park also is the site of a totem pole donated to the City of Ottawa to commemorate British Columbia's 1971 centennial, the National Aboriginal Veterans Monument and a Boer War memorial statue.

The park is also home to the Canadian Animals in War Memorial. On November 3, 2012, the dedication to Animals in War memorial took place at Confederation Park in Ottawa. The memorial consists of three plaques and sculpture of a dog located next to the South African War Memorial. The memorial was overseen by Lloyd Swick, assisted by Shalindhi Perera and Laureen Harper as honorary patron. The bronze memorial is created by David Clendining.

A large plaque, erected in 1964 by the Polish Home Army Ex-Servicemen's Association of Canada, is dedicated to the memory of Canadian airmen who flew with the Polish Home Army while flying support missions during World War II. In 1993 when the airmen were posthumously awarded a Polish decoration, a bronze replica of the Polish Home Army Cross and a small plaque with inscription were added.

The park is surrounded on all sides by large buildings. On the east, on the other side of the Canal, is the Brutalist office tower of National Defense Headquarters. On the south, across Laurier Avenue is the complex of Ottawa City Hall and the Ottawa Courthouse. On the west, on Elgin, is the large Lord Elgin Hotel. To the north, the National Arts Centre complex can be seen.

The pathways through the park serve as a common shortcut for pedestrians heading from Elgin Street and/or Centretown to destinations to the north and east (the National Arts Centre, Rideau Street, Sussex Drive, the Rideau Centre and/or the Byward Market), since it is a more direct route than walking uphill on Elgin and Wellington Streets.

History
The area was part of Ottawa's downtown for many years, the site of businesses related to the nearby Rideau Canal, such as Dey's Boat Works. The location was the site of The Arena from 1908 to 1927, where the original Ottawa Senators ice hockey team played. The land bordering the canal was cleared in 1927, including the demolition of the arena. The land was used to build "The Driveway" roadway along the canal, as a scenic improvement of the capital.

Along Elgin Street, the location was occupied by the Roxborough Apartments, a luxury apartment complex that had once been home to many Ottawa elites, such as Prime Ministers William Lyon Mackenzie King and Louis St. Laurent. As part of the 1949 Greber Plan, the site was to be cleared for a "Confederation Park" along the Canal from Laurier Avenue to Wellington Street surrounded by public buildings. The apartments and a number of buildings were expropriated and demolished by the federal government to build a "National Museum of Science" in 1965. The area north of the Mackenzie King bridge had already been cleared as part of the building of Confederation Square. That section was ultimately used for the construction of the National Arts Centre. In 1967, the Museum site was converted to parkland, to commemorate the Canadian Centennial (the 100th anniversary of Canadian Confederation).

From 1971 to 1993, the park was home to Ed Zelenak's massive sculpture, "Traffic". The controversial work was a large brown tube of fiberglass that was compared to a large worm or piece of dung; it led to much debate over modern art in Ottawa. It was later relocated to a more obscure location by the National Gallery.

In 2016, the park became a hub for players of the mobile game Pokémon Go.

In 2017, the community advocacy group Bookmark the Core proposed that the southeastern portion of the park could be annexed as a home for the new central branch of the Ottawa Public Library. This prompted Mayor Jim Watson to launch a counter "Save Confederation Park" campaign on Twitter. However, Confederation Park was never considered as a site by the library committee considering the location of a new central branch and any changes to the park would first need to be approved by the NCC.

Events
In the summer, the Ottawa International Jazz Festival's main events are held here. In the winter, Winterlude uses the location for displays, events and its ice sculpture competition. Events of Canada Day are held at the site as well. Other festivals that spill over from the neighbouring Cartier Square plaza in front of Ottawa City Hall use the park.

Occupy Ottawa
The Occupy movement's presence in Ottawa began on Saturday October 15, 2011 with around 500 people participating at Confederation Park. A march on Sussex Drive was held the second day, passing by the U.S. Embassy. Around 75 people camped in tents, with the group planning to occupy the downtown park indefinitely. Many participants, prepared for the long haul, described Occupy Ottawa as a movement of presence, rather than just a protest.

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Talk:Anadarko Petroleum

Untitled
The content for this page was copied from a press release by a company employee from the Human Resources department in order to provide a current statement of company operations.

 * The above sentence refers to the state of this article as it existed on October 5 2005, after which it was deleted and re-written from scratch by User:PM Poon, among others. DS 00:11, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Reidrect from Kerr McGee
While Kerr-McGee was indeed bought out by Anadarko, it is still relevant as a separate encyclopedia entry, and should not redirect here. Schnabeltier Angriff 19:43, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 14:54, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Image copyright problem with Image:KerrMcGee logo.png
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March 23, 2009
updated the financial data, but the new source they cite is large. I was unable to dig up the precise page number the stuff was on. Could someone else doublecheck?- Mgm|(talk) 22:05, 23 March 2009 (UTC)

Lost Lawsuit
I am wondering because I cannot find a hint of the lost lawsuit and the 5.15 billion dollars they had to pay, as in the german Wikipedia. --Lkl ★ 11:09, 5 April 2014 (UTC)

 * I also can't find any hint about Anadarko having acquired Kerr-McGee in the article or about Kerr-McGee committing something that is not far away from genocide against the Navajos by polluting Navajo territory with corporate waste. Neither do I find that in the Kerr-McGee article. So I can't see if that would be true or false (DE-Wikipedia is known to be not trustworthy on controversial articles). --Constructor 06:57, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

 * There is a Track: Tronox - "[...] In April 2014, the federal government reached a $5 billion dollar settlement with Anadarko (successor to Kerr-McGee) in the largest environmental case in American history. According to one report, "Kerr-McGee, rather than pay for the environmental mess it created, decided to shift the liabilities between 2002 and 2006 into Tronox. Kerr-McGee, meanwhile, kept its valuable oil and gas assets." The cost to clean up the mess inherited by Tronox from Kerr-McGee was estimated by the courts to be over $5 billion.[4] There are contaminated sites in 22 states and the Navajo Nation. "Among the dozens of locations targeted for cleanup under the settlement is a former chemical manufacturing site in Nevada that has led to contamination in Lake Mead, abandoned uranium mines in and around the Navajo Nation, and a Superfund site in Gloucester, N.J., polluted by thorium."[4] [...]" --Lkl ★ 18:44, 6 April 2014 (UTC)

 * I'm concerned about the POV in this section. Calling Anadarko's woes a "mess" doesn't seem encyclopedic or neutral to me, for example. I hope to be able to make some edits that are more constructive shortly. Trevdna (talk) 23:28, 16 April 2014 (UTC)

 * The word "mess" is taken directly from the reliable cited source, that is what the source calls it and is an accurate description on multiple levels. However since that seems to be causing a problem I changed it. -- Green  C  02:19, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

Move request

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Moved. Per consensus emphasizing WP:NCCORP. Philg88 ♦talk 19:15, 23 November 2014 (UTC)

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation → Anadarko Petroleum – unneeded 24.131.80.54 (talk) 22:05, 5 November 2014 (UTC) already redirects
 * Oppose, Useful, Official, not about a form of petroleum. Gregkaye  ✍ ♪  12:40, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
 * If it was about a form of petroleum, it would be at Anadarko petroleum; but this request is to Anadarko Petroleum. Dekimasu よ! 22:33, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Not to mention that we shouldn't worry about other uses that could theoretically exist but don't.—Neil P. Quinn (talk) 00:41, 12 November 2014 (UTC)

 * Oppose The "Corporation" is in the mast-head logo seems to be what they are called. -- Green  C  16:19, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
 * We do not necessarily use the official name of the company in titles here, however. Dekimasu よ! 22:33, 10 November 2014 (UTC)

 * Support per WP:NCCORP. The legal status suffix of a company is not normally included in the article title, except in the case of disambiguation. This is not the case here, if we look for Anadarko Petroleum. As of official name versus common name, Wikipedia does not necessarily use the subject's "official" name as an article title; it prefers to use the name that is most frequently used to refer to the subject in English-language reliable sources.  The common name in this case is Anadarko, but it can't be used as disambiguate name. Therefore, Anadarko Petroleum seems to be the best option (and this page redirects here already since 2006 without nobody complaining that they expected it be a type of petroleum).  Beagel (talk) 10:51, 9 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Why is "Anadarko" the most common way to refer to the company? A quick google check shows most sources using the full name, a few use Anadarko Petroleum, even fewer Anadarko. -- Green  C  14:00, 9 November 2014 (UTC)

 * Support. It's not easy to get hard numbers on which is more common, but I have the sense that it's "Anadarko Petroleum". As one quick heuristic, the first 20 hits from the New York Times include 13 using "Anadarko Petroleum", 6 using "Anadarko Petroleum Corporation", and 2 using just "Anadarko". As a bonus, this form is more concise and follows the recommendation of WP:NCCORP.—Neil P. Quinn (talk) 00:41, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Support per Beagel. Swordman97  talk to me
 * Support per WP:NCCORP. Dekimasu よ! 00:08, 17 November 2014 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

This company is not defunct
Hello there,

This article wrongly states that Anadarko Petroleum is defunct. After acquisition it became a subsidiary of Occidental Petroleum, details of the transaction are available here

Anadarko Petroleum can also be found on the latest list of subsidiaries of Occidental Petroleum, see here. 62.122.202.193 (talk) 22:48, 3 May 2023 (UTC)

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Talk:October Sky

Merger
I dont think that "Rocket Boys" should be merged with "October Sky". One is about the book, the other is about the movie. Having seperate articles for each seems to be standard practice on Wikipedia. -Fadookie 04:33, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I second that. -Tcwd (talk) 21:07, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I also agree. Feedback from the readers of the novel and viewers of the movie also proves that the two are very different in content and plot. They should remain as individual articles. -Matt0401 (talk) 01:21, 11 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree that they are different, but think some some major differences between the movie and real life(book) should at least be referenced. In a way that keeps from comparison of the two.ATBeach (talk) 18:56, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

I just reverted an suspicous change that said the last launch was dedicated to his teacher, changed from father. If this was wrong please make the edit again and comment on this talk page. Orangutan 14:04, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, the name of their last rocket was "Miss Riley" (On the side of the rocket,) but Homer did dedicate it specifically to certain people, namely, his father. 67.82.102.128 02:04, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Rocket
In the movie (in which this article is about, not the book), the rocket is emblazoned with the words "Miss Riley". Doesn't this mean that the rocket is dedicated to her as she was dying or something? Homer does let his father push the button, but does that constitute as "dedication"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by User: (talk • contribs)

 * i could transcribe the movie, but as he stands in front of the crowd as he launches the last rocket, he dedicates it to the entire town, Miss Riley, Ike Bykovsky, Leon Bolden, and finally his mom and  his dad. I added this to the article as well.  Stuph 05:46, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Book cover
I have a copy of the book that looks alot like the cover of the DVD cover. I know how to upload pictures off the Internet, but how do you go about uploading pictures that you have taken? What tag do you use?-- Chi l  i14 ( C 20:56, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
 * GFDL-self with the syntax for pictures you have taken.  However, since it is a book cover, the bookcover template (using the syntax  ) would be a better choice. Cbrown1023 21:06, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

there is absolutely nothing in the article about the rocket process or plot. Urgent work needed.71.102.160.34 05:04, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

Call me Dave Stevens
Anybody remember a similar book, in print in the '70s? Trekphiler 08:26, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

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Plot??
Almost every other movie article out there on Wikipedia has a plot section. Shouldn't this article?? soldierx40k (talk) 20:41, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Especially as the book article says that the movie differs from the book. 76.100.214.55 (talk) 22:39, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
 * The problem is really not much about not having a plot but having a plot in an article that is as long as the source of adaption.76.170.88.72 (talk) 11:22, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

Pic?
How's this one? http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MG/190824~October-Sky-Posters.jpg soldierx40k (talk) 20:41, 26 November 2007 (UTC) yeah you should have all the important events —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.141.182.68 (talk) 23:38, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Edits
Hello, I am looking to do some edits to upgrade this article past Start-Class status. I am open to suggestions and will be working in my Sandbox-ATBeach(talk) 21:57, 21 July 2014 (UTC)
 * Hey AtBeach! Great job at expanding the article! You have been doing a great job expanding the quality of this article within the line of larger guidlines for film. Here are a few things you might want to consider:
 * By expanding the article's coverage of information about the film, you might also want to expand the WP:Lead as well to reflect the change. Remember, the beginning of Wikipedia articles are meant to summarize the sum of the content in the article itself. How might you expand the lead to better reflect your revision?
 * The subsections in the "Filming" section seam a bit forced. How might you better integrate those into a larger narrative about the film of the movie? What would make that information more consistent and focused?
 * Similarly, in the "Release" section: how might you transition between the sections? What is the purpose of each header, and how can you communicate that purpose as connected to the larger article?
 * Generally, though excellent job at adding more to this article. It really needed some more oomph behind it, Sadads (talk) 01:43, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks ATBeach (talk) 20:40, 13 August 2014 (UTC)

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Based on
In the Infobox, the "Based on" line has October Sky, yet in the movie credits it states/gives the original book title of "Rocket Boys" as to what the movie is based on.

Since the movie has Rocket Boys, shouldn't that be in the "Based on" line either in place of October Sky or before it?

Thoughts / comments ? 2600:8800:784:8F00:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 11:54, 8 August 2020 (UTC)

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I have drastically shortened this article, and suggested reader refer to another Wikipedia article, Building the Virginian Railway, which contains same information as deleted portion. Vaoverland 04:34, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

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