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AI009 making the comment: ""It should be noted that I did not add any sources to this article. I was the one who was removing references to those newspaper editorials being used as sources in an encyclopedia""... Not so, I just looked over the last 3 days what you’ve done, you have removed just about everything on your list, you oppose all content, plan old content, you just don't accept the truth, you disagree with these new edits. Its not that you don’t agree it is you have a big thing about Superpowers, you want a certain Superpower on your mind, I think you want India for some reason or the US to remain a Superpower because you have removed every confrontation article source on the United States. Why are you defending this, is this a job for you, are you getting paid to defend the US to remain as superpower? What is your point? Your not American. Whatever it is, I don’t care, I care about what it says and if it is the truth or not but when I see your name, I know there is a problem not a fix but a problem." | toxic | en |
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:: It is not national pride, the facts are the facts, and 3 reliable third party sources have been presented. | toxic | en |
You appear to be editing the same pages that Koov did. 155.188.183.6 | toxic | en |
I do remember it being discussed in the early to mid 1980s but not sure exactly when. | toxic | en |
Pêta là một đơn vị đo lường trong hệ thống SI, được sử dụng để đo lường các giá trị lớn. Nó tương đương với 1,000,000,000,000,000 (10^15) đơn vị cơ bản. Ví dụ, pêta được sử dụng để đo lường dung lượng lưu trữ của ổ cứng hoặc băng thông của mạng internet. | toxic | vi |
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There are no false accusations Tony, and I have read what you wrote. It doesn't answer the questions of ""what you think of what has transpired"" or ""whether you feel anything will change/is in need of changing"". I am not making any false accusations, I'm only saying: Why not be helpful and a positive member of the community by giving us answers to those questions? You could have easily done so already in the time you took to argue here. Why not ditch the arrogance and give some helpful answers. What would it hurt to do so? " | toxic | en |
Precisley, this article is terrible. | toxic | en |
@louiev_ lol just getting this..early bird catches the worm! | toxic | en |
Of course you are taking it out. | toxic | en |
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In the sentence ending ""precipitating the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945), after which the United States placed an oil embargo on Japan,"" the final clause is misplaced. The embargo was in response to the invasions, not the subsequent war. The sentence is not likely to be misunderstood but it has a jarring effect. Rewrite by breaking out a separate sentence: ""In response to the invasion, the United States...""" | toxic | en |
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On your first point, you'd be veering into original research by adding qualifiers from sources that do not mention this study or come from it (and the study did not say it was rape, you did). That written, let's see what you have in mind as a qualifer including the source. I'll add that when you look at other categories of assault like touching (nearly twice the reported rate vs. penetration), the ""not serious enough"" reason goes up to 75%. On your second point, the section is not just the AAU study but recent campus surveys. So Kentucky presents another study at a college (with a better sample size at that). If you want to make it easier to compare, then you can add the combined Male/Female assault rates to the AAU study section. " | toxic | en |
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Thanks for the barnstar! That was unexpected and certainly not necessary, but very much appreciated! Yeah, I guess the Wikicup has got my GA and DYK juices really flowing this month, lol, I appreciate your reviews, your support and your kind words! — ter Ka " | toxic | en |
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I doubt you'll be surprised to learn I agree. Cheers, | toxic | en |
[USER] I bet she's dull in bed though | adult_sexism | en |
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I disagree with ""is easy to find"".
Can you point out where exactly i would go for the relevant information since it is far from clear on the disambiguation page you have presented me with.
Thanks 82.132.138.156 " | toxic | en |
I wanted to thankyou but that prick makes me so mad, i was only trying to offer a quote to be put up and he started harrassing me, and like always the other members take his side.
:I tried deleting the conversation to stop an argument breaking out, and Brown threatened to block me if I did it again, so how come you can do it without Brow threatening you? | toxic | en |
It's not sexual harassment but it's enough to get her fired. | adult_sexism | en |
i think for the 3, alcohol was involved. They're all drink daily. I don't drink at all, so a friend scolded me for being stupid and dating girls who drink more beer than I drink water per day. | adult_sexism | en |
Birds-Eye view of Beckley, WV
Hello I've been looking for a good view of Beckley for a few days and when i went on the Beckley discussion page you said you were the main guy on the page and i was wondering if you could put up an aerial view of the city. Thank you. | toxic | en |
What kind of help do you need? Please specify so that we can help you in the best way possible. Willy (Talk - Contribs) | toxic | en |
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I must admit that I had never heard of Ms. Stewart until she became famous for her legal problems. She had some claim to fame before, but it has been eclipsed. As I said in the comment, ""convicted felon"" is the accurate legal term for what she is, and it is a big part of her current notoriety. There is no personal attack in calling someone by what the courts have deemed her to be. However, hiding her legal status is exceedingly POV. I think you have to admit that this is true. " | toxic | en |
I often use Wikipedia, and finally (May, 2005) decided to create an account so that I may contribute. I suspect most of my edits will be minor, at least at first. I am a resident of Boston, Massachusetts, grew up in Emerson, New Jersey, and have also lived in Washington, D.C. and New Orleans, Louisiana. | toxic | en |
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Hello, I created a new user name because I did not seem to be able to change the other user name Hayestradingco because of the block. If we can't merge the two usernames into one (whayes12) then could we make the new user name ""whayes72""? Sorry about the grief on policy violations. It was not intentional. I was actually trying to create that post within the guidelines as I understood them. But, I obviously have a few things to learn about Wikipedia and needed to read more. whayes12, ""formerly known as"" Hayestradingco " | toxic | en |
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I'll try to update the page (and this comment) with citations soon, but be aware that Georgia Stitt is widely known as a top rising songwriter.
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" is hard to read, unreferenced, and confusing for most people who are not familiar with the subject matter. The concept is not well explained, and the article provides little context about what this so-called ""theory"" actually is. The article is in pretty bad shape already, so it seems unlikely that it can be fixed. No CSD criteria fit this article appropriately, so it is being proposed for deletion." | toxic | en |
merger news articles
a full list of news articles will be distributed on monday , but here is some of the initial coverage .
business / financial desk ; section a
rival to buy enron , top energy trader , after financial fall
by alex berenson and andrew ross sorkin
11 / 10 / 2001
the new york times
page 1 , column 2
c . 2001 new york times company
with its stock plunging and its finances in doubt , the world ' s largest energy trader , the enron corporation , agreed to be acquired yesterday by the rival dynegy inc . for about $ 9 billion in stock and the assumption of $ 13 billion in debt .
the deal is an extraordinary turnabout for enron , a houston - based company that had been a driving force behind electricity deregulation nationwide .
its chairman , kenneth l . lay , a big contributor to the republican party , provided political influence , while its former chief executive , jeffrey k . skilling , helped create markets for the trading of electricity and natural gas . but last winter , when california ' s effort to deregulate the electricity market led to soaring power prices and rolling blackouts , enron was the subject of much criticism and political anger .
recent disclosures of discrepancies in enron ' s financial statements and an investigation by the securities and exchange commission caused the shares to plunge this week to their lowest level in a decade . as other companies became wary of doing business with it , enron - - also facing a potential cash squeeze - - apparently had little choice but to find a buyer , and a deal was hastily cobbled together this week .
for critics who had complained about enron ' s market power and its dominance , the combination poses additional concerns . dynegy ' s acquisition of enron will be reviewed by state and federal agencies , led by the justice department and the federal energy regulatory commission . analysts said today that they expected scrutiny of the combined companies ' holdings in california , where dynegy owns power - generating plants and enron accounts for much of the trading of natural gas - - fuel for the state ' s electric power plants .
buying enron at a deep discount - - it has lost $ 60 billion in market value this year - - could make dynegy the dominant trader of electricity and natural gas . but the agreement carries big risks as well . along with enron ' s gas pipelines and high - technology trading floor , dynegy will take on enron ' s substantial debt and a web of complex transactions that enron has spun over the last decade .
in addition to the $ 13 billion in debt that enron carries on its books , it has guaranteed at least $ 4 billion in off - balance sheet loans , and the hidden debt could total as much as $ 10 billion , said carol coale , a stock analyst with prudential securities .
charles l . watson , dynegy ' s chairman and chief executive , said yesterday that dynegy could sort through enron ' s tangled finances . ' ' we know the company well , ' ' mr . watson said . ' ' it ' s not like we just started fresh . i ' m confident that it ' s as solid as we thought it was . ' '
the new company will combine enron ' s 25 , 000 - mile natural gas pipeline system with the large number of power plants that dynegy owns worldwide , as well as illinois power , a dynegy subsidiary that serves 650 , 000 customers in illinois . but its most important asset will be its trading desk . it will be the largest energy trader in the nation , trading more than twice as much power and natural gas as its closest competitors .
mr . watson said the company did not expect to sell significant properties and that the deal should pass regulatory scrutiny . ' ' there ' s really not a lot of overlap in assets , ' ' he said .
mr . watson and steve bergstrom , dynegy ' s president , will hold those positions in the new company , which will be called dynegy and remain in houston . mr . lay , who created enron in the mid - 1980 ' s , will not have any role in the combined company ' s daily operations . he has been asked to join its board but has not provided an answer . ' ' the last three weeks haven ' t been a lot of fun , ' ' he said .
in a statement announcing the agreement yesterday afternoon , mr . watson said he was confident that the merger would produce a strong new company . ' ' enron is the ideal strategic partner for dynegy , ' ' mr . watson said . ' ' we will keep a strong balance sheet and straightforward financial structure as key priorities . ' '
to shore up enron ' s finances , dynegy will immediately put $ 1 . 5 billion into enron through chevrontexaco , the giant oil company , which already owns 27 percent of dynegy . another billion dollars will be injected once the deal is completed .
investors appeared comfortable yesterday that dynegy could make the deal work . after falling $ 3 , to $ 33 , on wednesday , when the companies first said they were in discussions , dynegy rose $ 5 . 76 on thursday and yesterday to close the week at $ 38 . 76 .
' ' on paper , it works , ' ' ms . coale of prudential said . ' ' the combined company would be the leading trader , the market leader in most of their businesses . ' ' ms . coale , who has a sell rating on enron and a buy rating on dynegy , said she planned to keep her buy rating on dynegy .
as it works to have the deal approved , dynegy will have to persuade enron ' s traders to stay with the combined company . the pain of the stock ' s 90 percent plunge this year will not be equally shared . some enron employees have held onto their shares and seen their retirement accounts eviscerated . meanwhile , mr . lay , mr . skilling and other former and current executives sold hundreds of millions of dollars in enron stock in 2000 and this year .
the companies also have very different corporate cultures . dynegy emphasizes teamwork , while enron is more competitive , said ehud ronn , director of the center for energy finance education and research at the university of texas . even before the merger was announced , enron had lost some of its employees to other energy trading companies , mr . ronn said .
some investors and analysts say that the problems with enron ' s finances may extend beyond the partnerships that have been the subject of wall street ' s scrutiny the last month . james chanos , a short - seller who has been one of enron ' s most vocal critics , said there was increasing evidence that enron ' s energy trading operations were not as profitable as the company had said . ' ' there appears to be a culture at enron of aggressively booking profits and deferring or obscuring losses , ' ' mr . chanos said .
on thursday , enron said in a filing with the s . e . c that it had overstated its earnings by almost $ 600 million over the last five years . mr . chanos said more restatements were possible , noting that the filing disclosed partnerships had been used to hedge almost $ 1 billion in losses in 2000 and this year . so far , the losses from those partnerships remain off enron ' s financial statements , mr . chanos said .
enron ' s stock had been under pressure for most of this year , as the company ran up large losses with failed efforts to expand outside its core trading operation . in august , mr . skilling resigned as chief executive , and mr . lay resumed control of daily operations .
still , the company appeared financially sound until last month , when it disclosed that its shareholders ' equity , a measure of the company ' s value , dropped by $ 1 . 2 billion because of deals disclosed only hazily in its financial statements . the announcement unnerved investors , who wondered whether enron had found ways to inflate its profits and move debt off its balance sheet , and led the s . e . c . to begin an investigation .
mr . lay tried to reassure investors that enron ' s finances were in order and that its businesses remained strong . but the last three weeks have brought a series of damaging revelations about partnerships that enron formed with some of its top executives , including its former chief financial officer , andrew s . fastow .
with questions mounting , the major credit - rating agencies began to downgrade enron ' s debt , putting additional pressure on the company . if enron ' s debt rating falls below investment grade , it would be forced to repay $ 3 . 3 billion in loans that it had guaranteed .
to strengthen its balance sheet and bolster its stock , enron turned to big investors like warren e . buffett in search of billions of dollars of financing . when the financing did not quickly appear , its stock fell further .
by this week , some major energy traders were refusing to extend credit to enron , worrying that the company would be unable to make good on its contracts . the mirant corporation , an atlanta - based power plant owner and electricity trader , sharply curtailed its trading with enron this week . ' ' we ' re trading with them on a very limited basis , ' ' said james peters , a mirant spokesman . ' ' it ' s not business as usual . ' '
on wednesday , enron ' s stock fell as low as $ 7 a share , its lowest level in more than a decade . that day , news of the enron and dynegy talks leaked out .
by late wednesday , the boards of the two companies had tentatively agreed to a deal . but dynegy refused to go ahead until it learned whether enron ' s credit rating would remain investment grade and was comfortable with the effect of the deal on its own rating . the deal moved forward yesterday after dynegy was assured enron ' s debt was not in danger of being lowered to junk status soon after the deal was announced , according to company officials .
dynegy and enron had provided standard & poor ' s and moody ' s investors service , the main credit agencies , with statements showing them what a combined company might look like and asked the ratings agencies for an expedited review of the transaction , mr . watson said .
under the deal , enron shareholders will receive 0 . 2685 share of dynegy stock for each enron share , or $ 9 . 80 based on dynegy ' s closing price on thursday . enron ' s stock gained 22 cents yesterday , to $ 8 . 63 .
' ' i never thought our stock price would be at this level , ' ' mr . lay said yesterday .
enron ' s shareholders will own only 36 percent of the combined company , and dynegy will name at least 11 members of the company ' s 14 - member board .
if the deal falls apart , enron or dynegy will have to pay a breakup fee of $ 350 million .
to protect dynegy ' s and chevrontexaco ' s cash infusion , the money will go to an enron unit that owns the northern natural gas pipeline . if the merger is not completed , dynegy will have the right to buy the unit .
an army of bankers and lawyers advised the companies . lehman brothers inc . acted as financial adviser and baker botts and akin , gump , strauss , hauer & feld acted as counsel for dynegy . j . p . morgan & company and salomon smith barney acted as financial advisers for enron , and vinson & elkins and weil gotshal & manges acted as the company ' s counsel . pillsbury winthrop served as counsel to chevrontexaco .
chart : ' ' a marriage of strength and weakness ' ' a merger of enron and dynegy would bring together two of the country ' s biggest energy companies - - and save enron from potential collapse . graph tracks the weekly closes of enron shares from 1999 through 2001 . top north american gas marketers sales , of billion cubic feet per day * enron : 24 . 6 reliant : 13 . 2 duke energy : 12 . 8 bp : 12 . 3 mirant : 11 . 8 dynegy : 10 . 9 top north american power marketers sales , of million megawatt hours * enron : 212 . 5 american electric power : 134 . 5 duke energy : 118 . 1 reliant resources : 86 . 1 pg simmons natural gas week ) ( pg . c 2 )
dynegy , enron merger deal worth almost $ 25 billion
melita marie garza
11 / 10 / 2001
krtbn knight - ridder tribune business news : chicago tribune - illinois
copyright ( c ) 2001 krtbn knight ridder tribune business news ; source : world reporter ( tm )
enron corp . , the nation ' s biggest power trader , was taken over by its smaller , more conservative rival , dynegy inc . in a merger deal valued at nearly $ 25 billion , company officials announced friday .
the combined company will be called dynegy inc . and will be headed by chuck watson , dynegy ' s chairman and chief executive . if it wins regulatory and shareholder approval , the deal would propel dynegy , the sixth - largest u . s . power trader , to the no . 1 position , with more than 30 percent of the market .
the houston - based competitors are new - breed energy companies , formed to capitalize on wholesale power marketing and trading , with dynegy emphasizing its own power generation capabilities .
enron , meanwhile , has been laid low in recent weeks by soured transactions with energy partnerships run by one of its former executives and by a series of revelations about questionable accounting practices . enron this week was forced to restate its earnings over the past five years - - revising them downward by 20 percent , or $ 586 million - - and has seen its stock price plunge more than 80 percent in the past three weeks .
both enron and dynegy have extensive business dealings in illinois , one of the first states to begin deregulating its electric power industry ; among other things , dynegy owns illinois power , a downstate utility .
the new dynegy would become one of the largest companies in the world , with revenues exceeding $ 200 billion and assets of roughly $ 90 billion , company officials said . by comparison , exxonmobil , the nation ' s largest company , reported revenues of $ 232 . 7 billion in 2000 .
" we needed to do something to strengthen our balance sheet and get the investor community focused on the core energy business , " said kenneth lay , enron ' s chairman and chief executive . " we looked at several alternatives ; this was in the best interests of our employees and shareholders . "
lay said he would not have a role in running the new company , but was considering a request to serve on the newly combined board .
watson , dynegy ' s chairman , said the merger compact included escape clauses for dynegy . " but , i wouldn ' t be standing here if i expected to see that ( used ) . i really believe the value degradation in enron had nothing to do with their core business . we looked under the hood , it is just as strong as we thought it was . "
still , watson acknowledged the possibility that more problems may surface at enron . " i don ' t think anybody can absolutely unequivocally say there ' s nothing ( more ) there , " he said .
dynegy ' s stock price closed higher friday , rising $ 2 . 26 , or 6 . 2 percent , to $ 38 . 76 . enron ' s stock was down 33 cents , or 3 . 7 percent , at $ 8 . 63 a share .
together , the companies have natural gas sales of about 40 billion cubic feet per day through the third quarter of 2001 and power sales exceeding 500 million megawatt hours through the third quarter of 2001 . in addition , the new dynegy ' s delivery network will include more than 22 , 000 megawatts of generating capacity and 25 , 000 miles of interstate pipelines . in enron , dynegy is taking on a company saddled with a heavy debt load and a credit rating that has been downgraded to near junk bond status and is under the cloud of a securities and exchange commission investigation .
under the stock for stock swap portion of the deal , valued at $ 8 . 846 billion , dynegy is paying about $ 10 . 41 a share for the 850 million outstanding enron shares . dynegy would pay . 2685 shares of its stock for each share of enron .
in addition , dynegy agreed to provide $ 1 . 5 billion infusion in cash to help stabilize its much larger competitor and assume an estimated $ 15 billion in debt .
just thursday enron reported that its debt was an estimated $ 12 . 9 billion pending completion of financial statements dated sept . 30 . a day later the company ' s accounting of its debt jumped $ 2 billion .
dynegy ' s current shareholders , including chevron texaco corp . , will end up owning 64 percent of the new company . chevron texaco said it would invest an additional $ 2 . 5 billion in dynegy .
enron ' s stockholders will own about 36 percent of the combined company ' s stock at closing , which is anticipated for the third quarter of 2002 .
in illinois , in addition to illinois power , dynegy owns a chicago area electricity peaker plant and is a partner with nicor inc . , in nicor energy , an unregulated natural gas utility in the chicago area .
enron ' s subsidiary , enron energy services , has a high - profile contract to provide 60 percent of chicago city government ' s electricity . it also has contracts to provide electricity to quaker oats co . and the university of chicago , among others .
in addition to watson , other top dynegy management will remain in place in the new company . steve bergstrom , president of dynegy inc . , and rob doty , chief financial officer of dynegy inc . , will retain those positions in the combined company . enron ' s current president and chief operating officer , greg whalley , will become an executive vice president of the new dynegy . the board of directors of the combined company will be comprised of 14 members . dynegy ' s 11 designees will include three from chevrontexaco . enron will have the right to designate a minimum of three board members .
business / financial desk ; section c
regulators struggle with a marketplace created by enron
by jeff gerth with richard a . oppel jr .
11 / 10 / 2001
the new york times
page 1 , column 2
c . 2001 new york times company
washington , nov . 9 - - for years , the enron corporation used its political muscle to build the markets in which it thrived , pushing relentlessly on capitol hill and in bureaucratic backwaters to deregulate the nation ' s natural gas and electricity businesses .
its achievement , as one enron executive said today , in creating a ' ' regulatory black hole ' ' fit nicely with what he called the company ' s ' ' core management philosophy , which was to be the first mover into a market and to make money in the initial chaos and lack of transparency . ' '
now , wall street ' s dissatisfaction with enron ' s secretive ways has delivered the company into the arms of its much smaller houston rival , dynegy inc . , in a deal worth about $ 9 billion in stock and the assumption of $ 13 billion in debt . the combination of the two companies , energy experts and lawmakers said today , poses a novel set of challenges for regulators still struggling to grasp the complexities of the marketplace that enron invented .
' ' we ' re in a supersonic - speed era of electronic trading with a horse - and - buggy - era regulatory system to protect consumers , ' ' said representative edward j . markey , a massachusetts democrat who has devised legislation to close the regulatory gap .
dynegy ' s acquisition of enron is expected to be reviewed by numerous state and federal agencies , led by the justice department , the federal trade commission and the federal energy regulatory commission .
analysts said today that sharp scrutiny would be given to the combined companies ' holdings in california , where dynegy owns generating plants and enron controls a large part of the market for trading natural gas - - the fuel for a big share of the state ' s electric power plants .
' ' dynegy would now have a greater ability to take the dominant position in gas and raise the price of electricity , ' ' said frank wolak , a professor of economics at stanford university .
mr . wolak , a consultant to the justice department on a 1999 antitrust case that led to limits on another merger of electricity and natural gas companies in southern california , said he was skeptical that regulators were up to the task of reviewing today ' s deal .
the transaction ' ' is something the department of justice needs to look at , and they are going to have a hard time looking at , ' ' mr . wolak said . ' ' and it ' s beyond the ability of the f . e . r . c . to look at . ' '
pat wood - - named chairman of the federal energy commission earlier this year with the backing of kenneth l . lay , the chairman of enron - - acknowledged in an interview today that the agency had ' ' a long way to go ' ' in matching the sophistication of the companies it regulates .
but he said that the commission had made great strides in grappling with the new risk management techniques pioneered by enron , dynegy and other energy companies . it is hiring more experts , he said , adopting more restrictive rules on how much ' ' market power ' ' one party can control and requiring more disclosure of certain energy transactions .
in an interview this evening , charles l . watson , the chairman of dynegy , said he did not believe that regulators reviewing the deal with enron would require the sale of any assets . ' ' we haven ' t really identified any pitfalls that require any sort of asset divestiture , ' ' he said . ' ' there ' s not really any overlap . ' '
a senior executive at one of enron ' s largest energy - trading rivals disagreed . ' ' i don ' t think this deal gets through unscathed , ' ' he said today . ' ' i ' m sure the justice department and the f . t . c . will look closely at the pretty substantial concentration of market power these companies will have in the energy - trading area . ' '
enron is mainly a trader of natural gas and electricity - - indeed , the biggest player in both those markets - - and it also owns a network of gas pipelines . dynegy processes and sells natural gas and generates and sells electricity . each company owns a local electric utility , too : dynegy owns illinois power in decatur , ill . , while enron owns portland general electric in portland , ore . , but last month announced plans to sell it to another oregon utility .
for a decade , as it transformed itself from a gas pipeline operator into the nation ' s biggest energy trader , enron enjoyed unalloyed lobbying success in washington and the enthusiastic backing of wall street .
in the early months of the bush administration , mr . lay - - whose company was one of the biggest financial backers of george w . bush ' s presidential campaign - - played a prominent , and some said unusual , role in helping the white house pick nominees to the federal energy commission . enron executives met with vice president dick cheney , whose energy task force backed many of the deregulatory initiatives pushed by mr . lay .
now , ' ' the company has become a pariah , ' ' an enron executive said today . ' ' the bush administration doesn ' t want to have anything to do with us . ' '
the problems began with the energy crisis in california , where enron ' s outspoken defense of deregulation , even more than its electricity trading activities , made the company a favorite whipping boy of politicians and consumer advocates . in the financial markets , meanwhile , enron ' s confusing disclosures , tolerated when its stock was soaring , drew disdain as the calming of the energy storms in california and other parts of the country beat the shares down , starting last spring .
' ' enron fell victim to their own inconsistencies on transparency , ' ' mr . wolak said . as california officials sought to understand why energy prices had soared out of control , he said , enron ' s ' ' view was that we want everybody ' s data , but if you want ours , get a subpoena . ' '
energy executives and regulators said that sort of arrogance had long marked enron ' s attitude about government oversight .
electricity sales had for decades been the job of local utility companies , operating as monopolies and selling power at regulated rates within their service areas . a few entrepreneurs , led by mr . lay , conceived a different model in which power could be sold by generators or middlemen to big corporate users or utilities in faraway regions , at whatever price the market would bear .
in the early 1990 ' s , congress - - under heavy lobbying by enron - - passed legislation that began to open up electricity sales to marketers . before long , enron became one of the first companies to receive government approval to sell electricity at market rates . the market for interstate sales of natural gas had been freed up a few years earlier , and critics complained that traders like enron were gleaning their profits by stoking volatility in gas prices .
in the mid - 1990 ' s , independent gas producers backed legislation in congress to allow the creation of a co - operative marketing organization , which , they hoped , would have helped stabilize prices .
raymond plank , the chairman of the apache corporation , a gas producer based in houston , said that the big gas marketing and trading companies , including enron , successfully lobbied to kill the plan , leaving prices as volatile as ever .
' ' it was a great concept , ' ' mr . plank said . ' ' we could have headed off the problems we have today . ' '
enron ' s final lobbying success came last year . with a strong push from the company ' s lobbyists , congress passed futures trading legislation that exempted internet energy trading platforms like enrononline , the industry leader , from oversight by the commodity futures trading commission . enron takes the other side of trades on its exchange . in traditional markets like the new york mercantile exchange , which remain subject to oversight , the exchange acts as a middleman between buyers and sellers .
under mr . watson , dynegy has been less of a pathbreaker than enron , and though california politicians denounced it , too , as a profiteer during the energy crisis , most analysts say it has been less aggressive than enron in both its business practices and its lobbying .
indeed , the rival energy - trading executive today predicted ' ' a huge culture clash ' ' as the houston neighbors merge . ' ' blood will flow in houston over the integration of the trading operation , ' ' he said .
but regulators may find dynegy easier to deal with .
earlier this year , the federal energy commission asked for comments on whether it should tighten scrutiny of dealings between natural gas pipelines and energy - trading shops owned by the same company .
enron wondered what all the bother was . ' ' would stricter rules prevent real affiliate abuse that current rules do not , ' ' it wrote in a regulatory filing , ' ' or would they instead merely restrict the activities of some of the more successful participants in the marketplace ? ' '
dynegy , by contrast , painted a grim picture and invited regulators to crack down . ' ' abuses abound , ' ' it said , ' ' because of financial windfalls , difficulty of detection , lengthy investigations and increased complexity of the market . ' '
report on business : canadian
dynegy to buy troubled rival enron
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new york - - energy provider dynegy inc . agreed yesterday to acquire fast - sinking rival enron corp . for $ 9 . 5 - billion ( u . s . ) , signalling the demise of a company that just months ago was one of wall street ' s highest fliers .
terms of the transaction call for dynegy to swap 0 . 2685 shares of its own stock for each enron share , the companies said . that would value houston - based enron at $ 10 . 41 a share , including convertible stock , a premium of 21 per cent over yesterday ' s closing price of $ 8 . 63 .
chevrontexaco corp . , which owns a 27 - per - cent stake in dynegy , has agreed to infuse $ 1 . 5 - billion immediately into enron to support it until the deal closes . " with its market - making capabilities , earnings power and proven strategic approach to wholesale markets , enron is the ideal strategic partner , " said dynegy chairman and chief executive officer chuck watson .
enron , the united states ' largest energy trader , has been struggling to overcome a plummeting stock price and credit rating in the past month following disclosures of deals being investigated by the u . s . securities and exchange commission for possible conflict of interest .
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the nation smaller rival to acquire teetering enron power : energy giant that pressed for deregulation in california is on the brink of collapse .
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enron corp . , the once - highflying energy giant whose aggressive efforts to profit from california ' s energy deregulation made it a target of consumer and political backlash , on friday agreed to be saved from possible financial collapse through a proposed acquisition by rival dynegy inc .
the roughly $ 7 . 7 - billion deal is a stunning plot twist for houston - based enron , which was vilified in california as it was being glorified on wall street . in only the last month , a series of disturbing financial revelations pushed to the edge of ruin this once - powerful company , whose top executives had lectured california on its energy foibles and who influenced the direction of national energy policy .
enron muscled its way to the top of the energy heap using aggressive and , in the end , financially suspect strategies that proved its undoing .
now , the company that late last year had a market value of $ 63 billion is worth one - tenth that and has agreed to be swallowed by a cross - town competitor one - quarter its size . enron ' s proud and influential chairman and chief executive , kenneth l . lay , who became a focus of bitter attacks by california politicians and regulators , would lose his job , as would many others at enron .
even the name would disappear . the combined company would be called dynegy inc . if the deal receives all the necessary regulatory and shareholder approvals .
california officials took no joy in enron ' s fate friday , though there was perhaps some sense of retribution from its many critics in the state .
" this is basically a rogue corporation , " said sen . steve peace ( d - el cajon ) , an outspoken critic of enron for years who dealt with the company as he chaired the committee that hammered out the legislative portion of california ' s landmark electricity deregulation plan in 1996 . " it has from the beginning been a rogue corporation which answered in its mind to a higher law - - a fundamental belief that there are laws of economics that supersede the law of the land . "
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steve maviglio , spokesman for gov . gray davis , said that although enron was never a major force in california ' s doomed electricity market , it was outspoken in support of deregulation .
" in a sense , their experiment was much like california ' s experiment - - a failure , " he said .
said harvey rosenfield , president of the foundation for taxpayer and consumer rights in santa monica : " nothing could better illustrate the disaster of deregulation than the fact that one of its biggest proponents , which reaped the reward of deregulation , is suffering the consequences . "
enron is the world ' s largest energy trader , handling one of four energy deals in the united states through its online trading operation , enrononline . since it reported a surprising third - quarter loss on oct . 16 , partly tied to shadowy investment vehicles , enron has endured a huge loss of investor confidence , which brought on a massive cash crunch and some shrinkage of its trading business .
under the deal announced friday , dynegy , invited in two weeks ago after enron fell short in its efforts to line up new financing , would immediately help enron by pouring $ 1 . 5 billion in cash into the company . the money would be provided by chevrontexaco corp . , the san francisco oil company that owns nearly 27 % of dynegy .
enron shareholders would get 0 . 2685 dynegy share for each enron share , which values the company at about $ 7 . 7 billion based on friday ' s stock close . dynegy shares surged $ 2 . 26 to close at $ 38 . 76 per share on the new york stock exchange ; enron added 22 cents to close at $ 8 . 63 per share , still off 89 % year to date .
if the deal closes in six to nine months , as the parties expect , dynegy and chevrontexaco would invest $ 1 billion additionally in the combined company .
" this is just a financial bonanza really for both companies , " said charles l . watson , dynegy chairman and chief executive , who will head the combined company . watson said the merger would immediately add to dynegy ' s earnings .
even so , the repercussions of enron ' s fall from grace could be far - reaching . coming on the heels of california ' s energy crisis , enron ' s troubles may slow the country ' s march toward energy deregulation , which lay and enron championed for years as a potential boon to consumers and the economy in general .
but the deal announced friday will prevent an even worse outcome , energy experts said : the threatened collapse of enron , which would clog up for a time the business of buying and selling electricity , natural gas and oil . that could interfere with delivery of energy around the country , they said .
" this is an encouraging development for the energy industry , " said stephen baum , chairman of sempra energy , the san diego - based parent of southern california gas and san diego gas ; photographer : associated press ; photo : " this is just a financial bonanza really for both companies , " says charles l . watson , dynegy chairman and chief executive . ; ; photographer : associated press
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houston - - energy marketer dynegy inc . announced friday that it will buy its much larger rival , the once mighty but now troubled enron corp . , for $ 8 billion in stock . dynegy also will assume a hefty $ 15 billion in enron debt .
the announcement came after enron ' s stock price plummeted about 80 percent over the past three weeks because of concerns that the company wasn ' t revealing serious financial problems to shareholders .
under the deal , chevrontexaco corp . , which owns more than a quarter of dynegy , would quickly provide about $ 1 . 5 billion . chevrontexaco also would contribute an additional $ 1 billion upon completion of the deal , the companies said .
" with its market - making capabilities , earnings power and proven strategic approach to wholesale markets , enron is the ideal strategic partner for dynegy , " dynegy chairman and chief executive officer chuck watson said in announcing the purchase .
watson made it clear that he would not tolerate the sort of financial practices that prompted explosive disclosures by enron this week - - including an admission that more than half a billion dollars in debt had been kept off the company ' s books .
" as a combined company , we will focus on leveraging our core skill sets and , as always , we will keep a strong balance sheet and straightforward financial structure as key priorities , " watson said .
enron is the country ' s top buyer and seller of natural gas , and the no . 1 wholesale power marketer . the company operates a 25 , 000 - mile gas pipeline system , and also markets and trades metals , paper , coal , chemicals and fiber - optic bandwidth .
dynegy controls nearly 15 , 000 megawatts of power generating capacity through investments in power projects , and sells the energy in wholesale markets and through utilities .
at a news conference , watson said company officials who negotiated the deal came away convinced that enron was worth buying despite its recent troubles .
" we looked under the hood . . . it ' s just as strong as it ever was , " watson said .
under the terms of the deal , enron shareholders will receive . 2685 dynegy share for each share of enron common stock , valuing each enron share at $ 10 . 41 . enron has about 775 million common shares , said spokeswoman karen denne .
that represents a 21 percent premium above enron ' s closing price of $ 8 . 63 friday on the new york stock exchange - - but still just a fraction of their 52 - week high of $ 84 . 87 . dynegy ' s shares climbed $ 2 . 26 , or 6 percent , to close at $ 38 . 76 on the nyse .
in after hours trading on the nyse , enron shares shot up 15 . 6 percent , or $ 1 . 35 , to $ 9 . 98 . dynegy shares were unchanged .
dynegy ' s stockholders will own approximately 64 percent of the new company , with enron ' s stockholders holding the remainder .
the boards of both companies have unanimously approved the transaction , which is expected to close next summer . the deal is expected to save the combined company between $ 400 million and $ 500 million annually because of continued elimination of " non - core " enron holdings and lower operating costs .
watson will remain as chairman and chief executive of the combined company , which will retain the dynegy inc . name . steve bergstrom will remain as president of dynegy .
enron chairman and chief executive kenneth l . lay will no longer have a role in day - to - day management of the company , but has been offered a seat on the combined company ' s board and will help shepherd the merger through .
" i am personally committed to working with chuck watson , steve bergstrom and their colleagues in the months ahead to accomplish the merger and to build a solid foundation for future value creation , " lay said .
dynegy said that greg whalley , the current president and chief operating officer of enron , will become an executive vice president of the new dynegy . he said the merger sets the best course for enron .
" few of the options we considered for our core business going forward provided us with the earning potential and immediate synergies that a merger with dynegy could deliver , " whalley said . " together with enron ' s recently announced bank commitments , this cash infusion gives enron immediate liquidity , which we believe will enable the company to maintain its investment grade credit rating . "
the merger was announced a day after enron acknowledged it overstated earnings by about 20 percent over the past four years and kept large amounts of debt off its balance sheets through business partnerships now under investigation by the securities and exchange commission .
analysts said the merger rescues enron , but leaves dynegy in uncharted territory - - with the outcome of the sec investigation completely unknown . " there is still a shroud hanging over enron that now moves over to dynegy , " said carol coale , an analyst with prudential securities .
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enron corp . , the nation ' s biggest power trader , was taken over by its smaller , more conservative rival , dynegy inc . , in a merger deal valued at nearly $ 25 billion , company officials announced friday .
the combined company would retain the dynegy name and would be headed by chuck watson , dynegy ' s chairman and chief executive . if it wins regulatory and shareholder approval , the deal would propel dynegy , the sixth - largest u . s . power trader , to the no . 1 position , with more than 30 percent of the market .
the houston - based rivals are new - breed energy companies , formed to capitalize on wholesale power marketing and trading , with dynegy emphasizing its own power generation capabilities .
enron , meanwhile , has been laid low in recent weeks by soured transactions with energy partnerships run by one of its former executives and by a series of revelations about questionable accounting practices . enron this week was forced to restate its earnings over the past five years - - revising them downward by 20 percent , or $ 586 million - - and has seen its stock price plunge more than 80 percent in the past three weeks .
both enron and dynegy have extensive business dealings in illinois , one of the first states to begin deregulating its electric power industry ; among other things , dynegy owns illinois power , a downstate utility .
the new dynegy would be one of the largest companies in the world , with revenues exceeding $ 200 billion and assets of roughly $ 90 billion , company officials said . by comparison , exxonmobil corp . , the nation ' s largest company , reported revenues of $ 232 . 7 billion in 2000 .
" we needed to do something to strengthen our balance sheet and get the investor community focused on the core energy business , " said kenneth lay , enron ' s chairman and ceo . " we looked at several alternatives ; this was in the best interests of our employees and shareholders . "
lay said he would not have a role in running the new company but was considering a request to serve on the newly combined board .
watson said the merger agreement included escape clauses for dynegy , " but i wouldn ' t be standing here if i expected to see that [ used ] . i really believe the value degradation in enron had nothing to do with their core business . we looked under the hood ; it is just as strong as we thought it was . "
still , watson acknowledged the possibility that more problems may surface at enron . " i don ' t think anybody can absolutely unequivocally say there ' s nothing [ more ] there , " he said .
dynegy ' s stock price closed higher friday , rising $ 2 . 26 , or 6 . 2 percent , to $ 38 . 76 . enron ' s stock was up 22 cents , or 2 . 6 percent , at $ 8 . 63 a share .
through the third quarter of 2001 , the companies together have natural gas sales of about 40 billion cubic feet per day and power sales exceeding 500 million megawatt hours . in addition , the new dynegy ' s delivery network would include more than 22 , 000 megawatts of generating capacity and 25 , 000 miles of interstate pipelines .
in enron , dynegy is taking on a company saddled with a heavy debt load , a credit rating that has been downgraded to near junk bond status and which is under the cloud of a securities and exchange commission investigation .
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under the stock - for - stock - swap portion of the deal , valued at $ 8 . 846 billion , dynegy is paying the equivalent of $ 10 . 41 a share for the 850 million outstanding enron shares , a 24 percent premium . dynegy would pay . 2685 shares of its stock for each share of enron .
in addition , dynegy agreed to provide a $ 1 . 5 billion cash infusion to help stabilize its larger competitor and to assume an estimated $ 15 billion in debt .
on thursday enron reported that its debt was an estimated $ 12 . 9 billion pending completion of financial statements dated sept . 30 . a day later the company ' s accounting of its debt jumped $ 2 billion .
dynegy ' s current shareholders , including chevron texaco corp . , will end up owning 64 percent of the new company . chevron texaco said it would invest an additional $ 2 . 5 billion in dynegy .
enron ' s stockholders would own about 36 percent of the combined company ' s stock at closing , which is anticipated in the third quarter of 2002 .
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in illinois , in addition to illinois power , dynegy owns a chicago - area electricity peaker plant and is a partner with nicor inc . in nicor energy , an unregulated natural gas utility in the chicago market .
enron ' s subsidiary , enron energy services , has a high - profile contract to provide 60 percent of chicago ' s city government ' s electricity . it also has contracts to provide power to quaker oats co . and the university of chicago , among others .
in addition to watson , other top dynegy management would remain in place in the new company . president steve bergstrom and rob doty , chief financial officer , would retain those positions in the combined company . enron ' s president and chief operating officer , greg whalley , would become an executive vice president .
the board of directors of the combined company would have 14 members . dynegy ' s 11 designees would include three from chevrontexaco . enron would have the right to designate a minimum of three board members .
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enron accepts $ 8 billion buyout offer from dynegy ; energy giant was forced to negotiating table after disclosing that it had overstated earnings
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embattled enron corp . yesterday accepted a buyout offer valued at about $ 8 billion from crosstown rival dynegy inc . if the deal is completed , it would end houston - based enron ' s reign as the leader in the huge energy trading markets that set the prices of power and natural gas in the nation .
its cash dwindling and its credit rating hammered , enron was forced to the negotiating table after its recent disclosures that its obligations to a complex web of partnerships involving company officials had caused the trading powerhouse to overstate its earnings and obscure its total debt obligations . four top enron officials have resigned or been replaced since july and , once dynegy takes control , enron ' s chairman and chief executive , kenneth lay , will also leave the company . lay said yesterday that he had not decided whether to accept dynegy ' s offer to serve on the combined company ' s board .
" it ' s been a good ride for a long time , " lay said in a conference call last night . " the last three weeks haven ' t been a whole lot of fun . "
the final deal was announced after the close of stock trading . enron ' s shares - - which had fallen from $ 33 to $ 8 after the disclosures - - ended the day slightly higher , at $ 8 . 63 . dynegy ' s stock closed at $ 38 . 76 , up $ 2 . 26 .
dynegy offered all stock for the enron shares , so the total value of the deal will fluctuate with dynegy ' s stock price . dynegy also said it would assume about $ 13 billion in enron debt , bringing the total value of the transaction to around $ 21 billion .
dynegy ' s rescue of enron will begin with an immediate cash infusion of $ 1 . 5 billion , which will be supplied by chevrontexaco corp . , a major dynegy stockholder . chevrontexaco will invest another $ 1 billion in dynegy after the acquisition has passed regulatory review and is completed , which executives said they expect will take six to nine months as enron tries to unscramble the complex partnerships that are now under investigation by the securities and exchange commission .
the takeover agreement gives dynegy an escape clause permitting it to cancel the purchase if enron winds up with heavy regulatory fines or legal judgments from shareholder suits tied to its handling of the partnerships .
chuck watson , dynegy ' s chairman and chief executive , said in the conference call that a close scrutiny over the past two weeks of enron ' s financial condition convinced him that the company ' s trading and pipeline businesses were solid . " we looked under the hood , and guess what ? it looked just as strong as we thought it was . " watson said he did not think more damaging disclosures were forthcoming from enron .
until the partnership mess , enron was the nation ' s dominant energy trader , and it had front - door political connections to the white house . lay , its longtime chairman , raised more then $ 100 , 000 for the presidential election campaign of his friend george w . bush . enron rode the growth of energy trading markets beginning in the mid - 1990 s , as first natural gas , and then electric power sales were deregulated at the wholesale level . its revenues leaped from $ 9 . 2 billion in 1995 to $ 100 . 8 billion last year .
during those heady times , the houston company could choose which questions to answer about its dealings with related partnerships and its byzantine bookkeeping .
" it was always very difficult to get information , " said louis b . gagliardi , an analyst with john s . herold inc . " they would always rebuff you . "
until this fall , the muscular company seemed too big to stumble , said investment manager david coxe , with harris insight equity fund in chicago .
coxe bought 78 , 000 shares of enron at $ 40 a share in august , after wrestling with the decision for months , he said . then jeffrey skilling , enron ' s chief executive and strategic mastermind , unexpectedly resigned . the stock , which had been as high as $ 90 in august 2000 , pitched downward .
" enron seemed so indispensable to the nation ' s energy markets that i thought it inconceivable it could implode , " coxe said . " that ' s how i got sucked in . "
enron ' s fall is " classic hubris , " coxe said : a greek tragedy striking someone who chose to defy the gods - - " in this case , the rules of the system . "
among the rules that enron now acknowledges it didn ' t follow were the accounting standards that applied to the complex partnerships it created . the purpose of the partnerships , enron said , was to reduce the risks of investments in internet transmission systems and to sell power plants and other assets it no longer wanted .
the accounting errors were described in a 20 - page sec filing enron made thursday . the errors resulted in a $ 1 . 2 billion reduction in the value of shareholders ' equity . the company also said it had overstated its earnings by $ 586 million since 1997 .
enron created partnerships that would buy major assets - - such as a power plant - - that enron wanted to sell , or in other cases , assets such as fiber - optic cable networks that enron intended to run but did not want to have on its balance sheet .
the partnerships had outside investors , but the general partner of two of them was enron ' s own chief financial officer , andrew fastow . he earned $ 30 million in fees from managing two of the largest partnerships , according to the sec document .
enron added to the capital of these partnerships by pledging its stock , or securities convertible into stock . some of those stock transactions should have been counted as loans , resulting in the $ 1 . 2 billion drop in shareholder equity , enron now says .
investors are asking why enron ' s auditor , arthur andersen llp , did not insist that these transactions be handled that way in the first place . enron ' s sec filing mentions but does not explain some " proposed audit adjustments " over the past four years that were overruled .
even though , as enron now acknowledges , it created an information barrier , masking critical information and violating standard accounting rules , many financial analysts who were recommending the stock to investors were not pushing hard enough to punch through that barrier , some analysts acknowledge .
" it was so complicated that everybody was afraid to raise their hands and say , ' i don ' t understand it , ' " gagliardi said .
the questions are now coming , from a new committee reporting to enron ' s board that will investigate how the company ' s financial reporting was handled ; from the sec ; and , eventually , from teams of lawyers representing aggrieved shareholders .
lay indicated yesterday he had not been aware until recently that enron employees other than fastow had profited from the partnership activity . enron directors had approved fastow ' s management of the partnerships , but fastow quit the partnerships in july and was then replaced as chief financial officer .
enron this week fired treasurer ben glisan and kristina mourdant , an enron division lawyer , who it said had invested in partnerships that were tied to one of the major partnerships headed by fastow . the enron report to the sec describes a central role in these transactions played by michael j . kopper , an associate of fastow who left enron in july to take over fastow ' s financial interests in the partnership , the company said .
enron will hold a conference call next week to discuss what it has uncovered about outside partnership investments .
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the nation news analysis a visionary fallen from grace
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a year ago , enron corp . chairman kenneth l . lay was on top of the energy world . as a leading fund - raiser , contributor and energy advisor to the bush administration , he played a key role in shaping the new president ' s energy policy . as head of the world ' s largest energy trading company , he had an enormous influence on the price of energy in california and across the nation . enron ' s highflying stock helped him cash out $ 123 million in stock options last year alone .
on friday , with enron being saved from financial collapse by agreeing to be acquired by rival dynegy inc . , lay ' s career and reputation are in shambles . under the merger , he will be stripped of a management job . his integrity is tattered , with enron ' s controversial financial dealings under federal investigation . enron investors and employees are chagrined and outraged because the company ' s stock lost 80 % of its value in recent weeks .
the rapid rise and fall of lay , 58 , is a story of how a brilliant man with innovative ideas and a grand scheme to transform the world ' s energy markets was overcome with arrogance , associates and critics say . under lay , enron stretched the limits of the law and took risks that nearly caused its financial collapse , they say . that in turn could have resulted in a widespread disruption in energy supplies .
" enron ' s behavior casts doubt on the integrity of our financial markets . it is a very serious matter , " said edward r . muller , an energy investor and former president of edison international ' s mission energy subsidiary .
" nobody denies he ' s smart , but it ' s a question of integrity , " said raymond plank , chief executive of apache corp . and an associate of lay ' s in houston ' s vibrant oil and gas industry .
lay and longtime partner jeffrey k . skilling , who served briefly as enron ' s chief executive before resigning abruptly in august , rose to prominence in the last decade through the use of innovative financial techniques designed to exploit a reduction in government regulation of energy .
lay transformed world energy industries through his vision of new , market - driven ways to finance natural gas and electricity production and transmission .
the financial markets that lay and his enron associates created had an enormous effect on california ' s disastrous experiment in electricity deregulation . critics say his influence was excessive and misguided .
" ken lay was a mystic , " said state sen . steve peace ( d - el cajon ) , an outspoken critic of enron . " whatever he said had to make sense because he was ken lay . it was hero worship . many of the people working as economists at the federal energy regulatory commission worshiped ken lay . as a consequence , the things enron promoted and pushed for were never challenged , intellectually and otherwise . "
lay , who has a doctorate in economics , had modest beginnings as the son of a poor country preacher who did farm labor on the side to raise money for his children ' s education . in the navy in the late 1960 s , lay was assigned to the defense department because of his economic acumen . " he allocated pentagon dollars more efficiently in purchasing for the military , " said mark palmer , chief spokesman for enron .
lay worked for exxon and other energy firms in the 1970 s , amid soaring oil prices , gasoline shortages and still - regulated natural gas . he headed houston natural gas , a predecessor firm of enron , in the 1980 s as falling prices for oil and natural gas presented grave problems for houston ' s energy industries .
when the federal government allowed pipelines to carry the gas of any producer , lay turned enron into a foremost firm in the new , deregulated industry . still , enron almost went bankrupt in the late 1980 s , with natural gas in oversupply and prices falling .
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struggling enron agrees to takeover by smaller rival dynegy one - time energy giant and southern co . often scrapped over access to markets
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energy giant enron corp . capitulated to a mounting financial crisis friday and agreed to be taken over by a smaller competitor . but atlanta - based southern co . was not gloating at the misfortunes of its vanquished rival .
it wasn ' t easy .
for years , the two companies were locked in a struggle over access to electricity markets . enron pushed for competition and deregulation , while southern resisted to protect its dominance in the fast - growing southeast .
sometimes the battle got nasty .
" if thomas alva edison came back from the dead and called southern co . to get some electricity , he ' d find that nothing has changed , " jeffrey skilling , then enron ' s president , said in november 1997 . " these guys are living in an industry that was created 100 years ago , and they want to keep it that way . "
fast forward four years .
southern co . has split itself in two , retaining its regulated southeastern utility business and spinning off its own unregulated power generation and energy trading arm , mirant corp . southern reported net income of $ 1 billion for the first nine months of this year , and mirant ' s profits were $ 538 million . southern ' s shares are up 19 percent this year . mirant ' s have declined 7 percent .
enron , on the other hand , lost 90 percent of its stock market value this year alone and this past week restated earnings for the past 4 1 / 2 years , reducing profit by more than $ 500 million .
skilling was named chief executive in february but abruptly resigned after six months . this week he was subpoenaed to testify in a securities and exchange commission probe of the texas company ' s questionable relationships with outside partnerships .
houston - based dynegy corp . , a crosstown rival , said late friday it will buy enron - - - once valued at $ 69 billion - - - for $ 7 . 8 billion in stock .
enron will be wrapped into a " new dynegy " managed by top dynegy executives . that suggested even the name enron - - - synonymous with innovation in recent years in the utility industry - - - will go by the wayside .
southern spokesman todd terrell declined to comment earlier in the day on enron ' s problems .
a . w . " bill ' dahlberg , who retired as southern ' s chief executive in april and is now mirant ' s board chairman , said he regretted enron ' s troubles .
" they were a rival and got credit for doing a lot of innovative things in our industry , " dahlberg said . " you always like to win the competition because you do well , not because somebody else does badly . "
enron was a pioneer in the wholesale trading of electricity and natural gas , and has been widely imitated , from mirant ' s sprawling energy trading floor at perimeter center to an energy management subsidiary launched this year by agl resources , parent of atlanta gas light co .
as the largest u . s . energy trading firm , enron ' s tentacles run deep . it was active at the public service commission in 1998 when rules for georgia ' s natural gas deregulation were written , only to opt out of becoming a gas marketer itself . but new power co . , which is 45 percent owned by enron , became georgia ' s newest marketer this year .
a dynegy - enron combination will create a $ 200 billion - a - year enterprise that will dwarf mirant in both the electricity and natural gas sectors .
dynegy and mirant are considered more stable than was enron because they rely more on their own power plants for electricity and less on trading for power produced by others . and dynegy is no stranger to georgia . it is a minority partner with agl resources in georgia natural gas services , the state ' s no . 1 gas marketer .
but the partners have been at odds for months .
agl sued dynegy in july , alleging it " earned millions of dollars at the expense " of the marketing company that it supplies with natural gas .
dynegy ' s counterclaim accused agl , among other things , of scheming to shift the partnership ' s gas supply deal to agl ' s own subsidiary , houston - based sequent energy management .
dynegy in may started up a 500 megawatt natural gas - fired power plant in heard county despite opposition from nearby residents . dynegy is also a major buyer of electricity produced at southern co . ' s new power plant in jackson county .
" they ' re a big customer , a partner and a competitor - - - all of those things , " said southern ' s terrell .
graphic power powerhouse a merger of enron corp . and dynegy corp . would create an energy powerhouse . atlanta - based mirant corp . would be far behind , based on second - quarter figures . top 20 north american gas marketers , 2 nd quarter 2001 company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . billions of cubic feet a day 1 . . . enron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 . 6 2 . . . reliant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 . 2 3 . . . duke energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 . 8 4 . . . bp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 . 3 5 . . . mirant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 . 8 6 . . . dynegy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 . 9 7 . . . aquila energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 . 3 8 . . . sempra . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 . 1 9 . . . el paso . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 . 2 10 . american electric power . . . . . . 8 . 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . top 10 north american power marketers , 2 nd quarter 2001 company . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . millions of megawatt hours 1 . . . enron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 . 5 2 . . . american electric power . . . . 134 . 5 3 . . . duke energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 . 1 4 . . . reliant resources . . . . . . . . . . 86 . 1 5 . . . pg & e national energy grp . . . 73 . 2 6 . . . dynegy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 . 1 7 . . . mirant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 . 7 8 . . . aquila . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 . 3 9 . williams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 . 4 10 . exelon power team . . . . . . . . . . 52 . 5 source : natural gas week
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dynegy to acquire troubled enron / energy giants in $ 7 . 8 b stock deal
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houston - energy marketer dynegy inc . announced friday it will buy much larger rival enron corp . for $ 7 . 8 billion in stock .
the announcement came after enron ' s stock plummeted about 80 percent in the past three weeks over concerns that the company wasn ' t revealing serious financial problems to shareholders .
" dynegy is taking out a competitor , acquiring some attractive assets , and they ' re doing it at an incredible price , " said joseph correnti , an analyst at wayne hummer investments .
the two houston - based companies began negotiations a week ago as it became apparent enron needed cash to stay in business . dynegy , which is 26 - percent owned by chevrontexaco corp . , agreed to the deal after moody ' s investors service maintained an investment - grade rating on enron , eliminating a stumbling block in negotiations .
the combined company will have annual revenue of more than $ 200 billion , ranking it as one of the nation ' s 10 largest . it will have more than 22 , 000 megawatts of electric generating capacity and 25 , 000 miles of natural gas pipeline .
on thursday , enron acknowledged it overstated earnings by about 20 percent over the past four years and kept large amounts of debt off its balance sheet through business partnerships now under investigation by the securities and exchange commission . enron said financial statements from 1997 through the first half of 2001 " should not be relied upon . "
revised statements reduced enron ' s profits for those years by $ 586 million and increased its debt by $ 628 million .
during its recent turmoil , enron fired chief financial officer andrew fastow , who ran some of the partnerships under investigation by the sec .
dynegy chief executive charles watson will head the combined company .
the terms of the deal value each enron share at $ 10 . 41 , based on friday ' s closing stock prices . that represents a 21 - percent premium above enron ' s closing price of $ 8 . 63 . dynegy ' s shares closed at $ 38 . 76 , up 6 percent .
it was not immediately clear what role enron chairman and chief executive kenneth l . lay would have in the new company .
while watson has led a diversified company that put as much emphasis on building power plants as on energy trading , lay focused on the wholesale trading of natural gas and electricity . he had expanded enron in the 1980 s from a natural gas pipeline into the most formidable competitor in the business of energy trading , which was created by deregulation of energy markets in the united states and europe .
dynegy announces $ 8 billion deal to buy larger rival enron
by juan a . lozano
associated press writer
11 / 09 / 2001
associated press newswires
copyright 2001 . the associated press . all rights reserved .
houston ( ap ) - energy marketer dynegy inc . announced friday that it will buy its much larger rival , the once mighty but now troubled enron corp . , for $ 8 billion in stock . dynegy also will assume a hefty $ 15 billion in enron debt .
the announcement came after enron ' s stock price plummeted about 80 percent over the past three weeks because of concerns that the company wasn ' t revealing serious financial problems to shareholders .
under the deal , chevrontexaco corp . , which owns more than a quarter of dynegy , would quickly provide about $ 1 . 5 billion . chevrontexaco also would contribute an additional $ 1 billion upon completion of the deal , the companies said .
" with its market - making capabilities , earnings power and proven strategic approach to wholesale markets , enron is the ideal strategic partner for dynegy , " dynegy chairman and chief executive officer chuck watson said in announcing the purchase .
watson made it clear that he would not tolerate the sort of financial practices that prompted explosive disclosures by enron this week - including an admission that more than half a billion dollars in debt had been kept off the company ' s books .
" as a combined company , we will focus on leveraging our core skill sets and , as always , we will keep a strong balance sheet and straightforward financial structure as key priorities , " watson said .
enron is the country ' s top buyer and seller of natural gas , and the no . 1 wholesale power marketer . the company operates a 25 , 000 - mile gas pipeline system , and also markets and trades metals , paper , coal , chemicals , and fiber - optic bandwidth .
dynegy controls nearly 15 , 000 megawatts of power generating capacity through investments in power projects , and sells the energy in wholesale markets and through utilities .
at a news conference , watson said company officials who negotiated the deal came away convinced that enron was worth buying despite its recent troubles .
" we looked under the hood and , guess what , it ' s just as strong as we thought it was , " watson said .
under the terms of the deal , enron shareholders will receive . 2685 dynegy share for each share of enron common stock , valuing each enron share at $ 10 . 41 . enron has about 775 million common shares , said spokeswoman karen denne .
that represents a 21 percent premium above enron ' s closing price of $ 8 . 63 friday on the new york stock exchange - but still just a fraction of their 52 - week high of $ 84 . 87 . dynegy ' s shares climbed $ 2 . 26 , or 6 percent , to close at $ 38 . 76 on the nyse .
in after hours trading on the nyse , enron shares shot up 15 . 6 percent , or $ 1 . 35 , to $ 9 . 98 . dynegy shares were unchanged .
dynegy ' s stockholders will own approximately 64 percent of the new company , with enron ' s stockholders holding the remainder .
the boards of both companies have unanimously approved the transaction , which is expected to close next summer . the deal is expected to save the combined company between $ 400 and $ 500 million annually because of continued elimination of " non - core " enron holdings and lower operating costs . watson said it was too soon to say if the deal would result in job cuts . enron has about 20 , 000 employees , while dynegy ' s work force is about 6 , 000 .
watson will remain as chairman and chief executive of the combined company , which will retain the dynegy inc . name . dynegy ' s steve bergstrom will continue as president .
enron chairman and chief executive kenneth l . lay will no longer have a role in day - to - day management of the company , but has been offered a seat on the combined company ' s board and will help shepherd the merger through .
dynegy said that greg whalley , the current president and chief operating officer of enron , will become an executive vice president of the new dynegy . he said the merger sets the best course for enron .
" few of the options we considered for our core business going forward provided us with the earning potential and immediate synergies that a merger with dynegy could deliver , " whalley said . " together with enron ' s recently announced bank commitments , this cash infusion gives enron immediate liquidity , which we believe will enable the company to maintain its investment grade credit rating . "
the merger was announced a day after enron acknowledged it overstated earnings by about 20 percent over the past four years and kept large amounts of debt off its balance sheets through business partnerships now under investigation by the securities and exchange commission .
analysts said the merger rescues enron , but leaves dynegy in uncharted territory - with the outcome of the sec investigation completely unknown . " there is still a shroud hanging over enron that now moves over to dynegy , " said carol coale , an analyst with prudential securities .
early friday , moody ' s investors service downgraded enron ' s debt ratings to one level above junk bond status and said the company ' s long - term debt ratings remain under review for further downgrade .
in an sec filing , enron said financial statements from 1997 through the first half of 2001 " should not be relied upon " and that outside businesses run by enron officials during that period should have been included in the company ' s earnings reports .
the revised statements reduced enron ' s profits for those years by $ 586 million , from $ 2 . 89 billion to $ 2 . 31 billion . the revisions also increased the company ' s debt each of the four years , reaching $ 10 . 86 billion - $ 628 million more than previously reported - by the end of 2000 .
keeping the debt off its balance sheets likely ensured enron could maintain a strong credit rating to support expansion of its core businesses - wholesale trading of natural gas and electricity .
but the company ' s stock price started dropping 10 months ago when its high - speed internet unit foundered and enron had trouble collecting money from power customers in india .
the stock price began to free fall after enron announced a $ 618 million third quarter loss , and news of the sec investigation surfaced .
enron responded by firing its chief financial officer and scrambled to get cash and increase credit lines in an attempt to regain investor confidence , but investors dumped enron shares and sent its stock plummeting .
the ousted chief financial officer , andrew fastow , ran some of the partnerships under investigation by the sec .
jeff skilling , enron ' s former chief executive who left in august , has been called to testify before the sec , although it ' s unclear when .
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copyright ? 2000 dow jones & company , inc . all rights reserved . | scam | en |
i am telling the truth on this. | toxic | en |
fw : having iris visit london
anita ,
it seems that i am going to london next week . please see forwarded emails .
can you please assist me with my travel arrangements .
thanks ,
iris
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from : kaminski , vince
sent : tuesday , april 24 , 2001 5 : 25 pm
to : shanbhogue , vasant ; mack , iris ; dhar , amitava ; kaminski , vince
subject : having iris visit london
it ' s ok to delay the materials for duffie . he is very busy anyway and is not
going to complain .
vince
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - forwarded by vince j kaminski / hou / ect on 04 / 24 / 2001
05 : 23 pm - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
scott salmon @ enron
04 / 24 / 2001 01 : 23 pm
to : amitava dhar / corp / enron @ enron
cc : vince j kaminski / hou / ect @ ect , vasant shanbhogue / enron @ enronxgate , ben
parsons / lon / ect @ ect , george albanis / lon / ect @ ect , tomas valnek / lon / ect @ ect ,
bryan seyfried / lon / ect @ ect
subject : having iris visit london
hi amitava ,
we ' ve been doing some thinking and discussing here regarding the information
on our modelling process we ' ll provide to darryl duffie . we think it would
be extremely valuable for iris to come out to london for a couple weeks to
gain a better understanding of the how the models integrate and are truly
employed . i think this would greatly enhance the " product " we ' ll send to
duffie as well as giving iris a firm view of enron credit . in addition , she
could also explore some of the data sources such as amadeus and others that
might be helpful in private firm modelling . if we ' re extremely
efficient / lucky in receiving data from d & b or experian , she might be able to
begin analysis on that for the private model efforts .
i would recommend she plan on coming out for 2 weeks starting the week of 30
apr perhaps . depending on the progress with the private firm data sources ,
it probably makes sense to send her back to houston to work on calibration
sets with a likely return visit to london as required .
please let me know your thoughts .
cheers ,
scott | scam | en |
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Hi — Love to help out with DoubIndemn
Yeah, it's a drag there isn't a line of people wanting to help out with this great picture. I don't understand it; a whole lot of lesser pictures have crowds all bumping each other, wanting to edit.
My first comment to my (brand-new) collaborator is that your intro rewrite struck me as being a tad too beefy. Wait a day or two, then look back and see if a little of the background of the actual case, (para 3) might not go better a little further down. Likewise, I might trim para 4 some; I think the real standout item there is the L of C ""significant"" deeming in 1992. I try to keep leads as pared down as possible. (These were my thoughts when I first was checking out your edit, BTW, before I got your note).
Hope it's okay to write directly (a less-blunt way of saying bluntly) about stuff like this — I hope you'll be just as blunt back!
I'll give the article a better read in the morning when my eyeballs aren't hanging down the front of my face.
Nice to ""meet"" you — I'm looking forward to this! — " | toxic | en |
== Voice in SSB, SSBM, and Soul Caliber 2 ==
Hey, I noticed the only voice credits here are for official Zelda games. I'm pretty sure his voice for his appearances in the games I've highlighted were just reused loops from Adult Link in Ocarina, I'm not entirely certain, so I'm not gonna just put it in. Anyone know for sure? | toxic | en |
== An opinion on what to include in the article ==
In my opinion, responding to DavidWBrooks thoughts, since this list is short enough anyway, I think both can be included. Perhaps a statement should be added to the top of the article to clearly define this article. We know death by pneumonia is quite common, but in the way it happened to U.S. President W.H. Harrison, and the fact he was a famous person in history, merits a mention- in my opinion. Technically, by definition of 'unusual death', i.e. cause of
death being very uncommon or rare, W.H. Harrison should not be mentioned. Being struck and killed by lightning is very rare cause of death, so this would qualify by definition of unusual death. My opinions summarized:
1. We include deaths from famous people where very unusual circumstances contributed to death (although the death itself may be quite common, e.g. W.H. Harrison.)
2. We include deaths of noteworthy people where the death itself was very unusual, even though the circumstances that contributed to death perhaps were not. I would however omit any deaths due to rare medical conditions. | toxic | en |
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""""The Network has been criticised for sometimes creating new car traffic as users drive to access points for recreational cycling, and the network is yet to meet its target of being 60% utility cycling"" needs sourcing... who has criticised it? Snooo ""
That awkward sentence was created by the clumsy Steinsky, who added the criticism bit to a simple statement of fact that Sustrans did not meet the agreed conditions of millennium funding, eg that the network would be for 60% transport cycling. There has been other extensive vandalism here by Steinsky, who also removed the very significant piece of information that Sustrans are not a membership organisation. That is verifiable via the Charity Commission, but a most inconvenient fact for those who want to imply that Sustrans is in some way democratic and accountable. There may be as few as three actual members, and they are notorious for listening to no one and steamrollering counterproductive schemes despite valid objections.
It's really unfortunate that the Sustrans disinformationists have made this page read like a Sustrans publicity flyer, they should be ashamed of themselves." | toxic | en |
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That ""little x"" works inconsistently for me as well, on IE8, though it doesn't really bother me. I done wrong? Let me know! " | toxic | en |
The link to Donald Betts seems to be about a politic man,so I deleted it. | toxic | en |
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Jim, the reason you do not see any reasons given for ""we need to define atheism without defining the scope as well"", is that nobody has even suggested that. You know what else you don't see any reasons given for? You don't see any reasons given for using giraffes instead of horses to pull carriages. Nor do you see any reasons given for wearing shoes on your hands instead of your feet. I assume you're not doing this intentionally but you're making what's called a straw-man argument and it's not the first time you've done it. Please be more careful as logical fallacies, whether deliberate or accidental, in addition to irritating others, tend to impede/obstruct progress, and i assume in good faith that neither one of these is your goal. talk " | toxic | en |
phone interview
shirley ,
please , arrange a phone interview next week . tt , sg , zl , vk .
vince
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nina knirel on 11 / 20 / 2000 05 : 13 : 47 pm
to : vince . j . kaminski @ enron . com
cc :
subject :
708 graham place # 207
austin , tx 78705
november 20 , 2000
dear mr . kaminski :
i read with interest your company , s description on the
web page . i was highly impressed by the work that
enron corporation does and would like to inquire about
employment opportunities with your company .
enclosed is a copy of my resume that details my
academic qualifications and practical experience . i am
excited about stepping into a position , which will
utilize my technical , analytical , and interpersonal
skills in a fast paced environment , and look forward
to expanding my horizons with new challenges and
opportunities that enron corporation will offer . i
know from customer and supervisor feedback that i have
the interpersonal skills imperative to building a
successful career at the enron corporation and am
motivated to do so . your firm has an excellent
reputation and i genuinely look forward to becoming a
part of the enron corporation community .
i know you must be busy during this time of the year ,
but i would sincerely appreciate a few minutes of your
time . i plan to call you within the next seven days to
discuss how my education , practical skills , and
background would qualify me as a member of your
company . in the meantime , if you need to contact me ,
my daytime and nighttime number is ( 512 ) 474 - 6683 and
my e - mail address is knirel @ mail . utexas . edu .
thank you very much for your time and consideration . i
look forward to talking to you .
sincerely ,
nina knirel
do you yahoo ! ?
yahoo ! calendar - get organized for the holidays !
http : / / calendar . yahoo . com /
- knirel resume final [ 1 ] . doc | scam | en |
Yep I would agree with adding a section about this. In the Swedish language wikipedia there is a section in the Scots language page about the Scots languages similarities with Scandinavian tongues including a table similar to the one potrayed above although adding in a few more words wouldn't hurt. | toxic | en |
::Im inclined to believe you; you have a lot of credibility in my eyes. Wizardman really fucked up, but I accept your postings here are from a mailing list alert. | toxic | en |
Sorry but that guy was just pissing me off, I am sorry for the ALL CAPS and tha typed in-cursing but he told me if I gave him a valid point of putting up Soulja Boy's Newgrounds account then it can let be, but he just tackles my fact right back, it's like he's setting me up just to look bad.
I mean if Soulja Boy has a YouTube profile (I'm just assuming these videos are on his profile because i'm too lazy to check out his YouTube Channel myself) it probably has Music videos such as his smash hit Crank That with smaller unpopular stuff inbetween. And that is also for Soulja Boy's fans to see what he posts on YouTube, it's really relevant to have his NG profile on this Wiki-page because i'm sure Soulja Boy is proud of his NG profile AND accoringly his cartoons seeing how he leaves an add to his NG profile on the front page of his website. | toxic | en |
Regardless of the etymology it is a fact that in the UK they are, and always have been, universally known as 'bootlace ties'. Cassandra | toxic | en |
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Frank, thanks for your message, and for not flying off the handle, as is often the response when people see their additions deleted. What we need for this information to be included is not just evidence that the town really exists, but that John Nichols had that town in mind when he wrote the novel. If you can find the long essay Nichols wrote about the novel and its adaptation into the film, that might help. I have looked for it, but to no avail. Cheers! -''''''The '45 " | toxic | en |
fw : change form request
i support this . this wan an oversight on our part .
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from : gilbert - smith , doug
sent : friday , january 18 , 2002 2 : 04 pm
to : kitchen , louise
cc : fitzpatrick , amy ; presto , kevin m .
subject : change form request
louise ,
seung - taek oh will be working for me as the head of real - time markets in ercot . as a two year associate he would have been eligible for promotion to manager . he was also an ubs employee and as such was an associate director . i would like to change his title from undefined to associate director .
please let me know if you have any questions .
thanks ,
doug | scam | en |
For goodness sake, ok! | toxic | en |
You are biast liberals that is all there is to it. I am not, I am politically inert. I placed a very well sourced article suggestion in the talk section in the article on Barack Obama and ACORN and it was instantly deleted withen three minutes and then four more times by a vandal Brothejr within a half hour. I warned you well about blocking me without good cause, the results will not be nice. Wikipedians are incorrigible to this, now there is profanity there by a liberal and they blocked me just prior to that editors rants. Ridiculous! Absurd! (but nothing new). | toxic | en |
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I agree with Demiurge1000. Stanistani, please lift the ban on the account ""bryansee"" on Wikipediocracy.com. I have no intention of posting what you unilaterally deem as unsuitable material. And you don't aware that the clear signal sent by admins on behalf of BatteryIncluded have a ripple effect throughout the Internet. You don't seem to distinguish the meaning of life and death of people on the Internet. And don't do anything to harm/destroy my computer with input device-disabling malware. Let me make myself clear about Wikipedia:
The administrators and editors alike have turned Wikipedia into an online totalitarian regime, and no one has done a darn thing about it if they don't want to be immediately killed, beaten or received intimidating death threats. BatteryIncluded, Dennis Brown, AGK, and Boing! said Zebedee are said to be a part of them. They tend to use misleading and incivil statements as credible, accurate and correct. They also tend to use personal attacks and outs people as well. This is why they hate them as well.
This explains cabalism in Wikipedia as well.
This explains the unevenly enforced, extreme and heavy-handed rules enacted by the Wikipedia community, BatteryIncluded is such a prime example. Others outside Wikipedia really want to worship these rules as well - BatteryIncluded's ally ""forcedmemefred"" is the first one - trying to protect Wikipedia from external harassment.
Wikipedia editors, such as died last April in a rock-climbing accident. Although a loss for Wikipedia, her death might have been deemed by the Wikipedia community as a ""human sacrifice""; BatteryIncluded and his people perceived it as she's ""well"", meaning that she has cured her paranoia. This may apply to me and you as well, as we have signed separate death warrants. I think I have to say that, any increase in their medication dose will not cure paranoia, instead it will be deadly to people. I guess that Wikipedia is not the only one, but also Wikipediocracy (by as Zoloft), Encyclopedia Dramatica and Know Your Meme (via forcedmemefred).
I think this is the fate that you are going to face later on, especially you are taking actions therein that are aimed at Wikipedia, just as what I've did.
And, these events have signalled a neo-luddite sentiment against computers and other devices that has the capability to connect to a network given these events, namely computers being the cause of people's paranoia deemed by BatteryIncluded, forcedmemefred and his subordinates. Given the fact Wikipedia is being used to spread malicious code and has the tendency of giving people malware, this is the case for BatteryIncluded as he does to the computers of many users he is dealing with.
BatteryIncluded is really the worst one I've ever seen on the Internet.
He gives people kittens. ""Kittens"" may be a bomb with a intimidating death therat. The kitten that BatteryIncluded sent me might be a bomb. And is thought by BatteryIncluded to contain kittens.
He has the reputation of distorting people's histories.
He has the reputation of sacrificing humans via increase in their medication, as well as making death threats in the guise of ""seeing a doctor/therapist"" advices, as well as inciting neo-luddism against computers.
He is the source of inspiration of admins and activist alike making personal attacks and acting unilaterally to ban people.
Every page on Wikipedia is outrightly misleading, and ""truth"" is based on whoever edits last. This is why Wikipedia is unreliable in many days, and is a lost cause.
So, you still ignore my comments there, do you, Stanistani? 103.244.189.183 " | toxic | en |
The problem with the Blodget piece is that he is reporting something that many Wikipedia busybodies don't want reported. Blodget's reporting is uncomfortable. We have to get rid of it. Preferably, we will smother this man. Blodget is trash. Blodget is human garbage. We all have to pull together here and bury him. DO NOT LET ANYBODY HEAR WHAT HE HAS TO SAY!!! | toxic | en |
"Sorry for my small intrusion in your page Node_ue. It was a mistake. That is your personal page. But as you know ""moldavian language"" dos not have a ISO code anymore. It is recognized as a subsidiary of Romanian language.
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Hi, I made a picture of Netscape Communicator 4.8 taking the test and was wondering if I am allowed to submit it. (In case you were wondering, it fails the test miserably) ) | toxic | en |
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Please do not vandalize pages, as you did with this edit to Thiazolidinedione. If you continue to do so, you will be blocked from editing. | talk " | toxic | en |
"Just an intresting fact,just look at the image ""As11-40-5886"",Neil Amstrong is in a shadow region and yet you can clearly see him!!And to this even the explanation of various sources of lights is not valid.And also,somebody conveniently deleted some facts i wrote on the page." | toxic | en |
The Zafarnāma /zəfərnɑːmɑː/ (Punjabi: ਜ਼ਫ਼ਰਨਾਮਾ, Persian: ظفرنامہ, Hindi: ज़फ़रनामा, lit. Epistle of Victory) was a victory letter sent by Guru Gobind Singh in 1705 to the Mughal Emperor of India, Aurangzeb after the BATTLE OF CHAMKAUR. The letter is written in Persian verse.
Guru Gobind Singh sent Bhai Daya Singh to Ahmednagar to give it to Aurangzeb.
In this letter, Guru Gobind Singh reminds Aurangzeb how he and his henchmen had broken their oaths sworn upon the Qur'an. He also states that in spite of his several sufferings, he had won a moral victory over the Emperor who had broken all his vows. Despite sending a huge army to capture or kill the Guru, the Mughal forces did not succeed in their mission.
In the 111 verses of this notice, Guru Gobind Singh rebukes Aurangzeb for his weaknesses as a human being and for excesses as a leader. Guru Ji also confirms his confidence and his unflinching faith in the Almighty even after suffering extreme personal loss of his Father, Mother, and all four of his sons to Aurangzeb's tyranny. Guru ji invited Aurangzeb to meet him in Kangar village near Bathinda (Punjab) and said no need to worry as Brar tribe will not harm him (Aurangzeb) as they are under his command. On the way, there will be no danger to your life, For, the whole tribe of Brars accepts my command. (59)
Of the 111 verses, the maximum numbers of 34 verses are to praise God; 32 deal with Aurangzeb’s invitation for the Guru to meet him and the Guru's refusal to meet the Emperor – instead the Guru asks Aurangzeb to visit him; 24 verses detail the events in the Battle of Chamkaur, which took place on 22 December 1704; 15 verses reprove Aurangzeb for breaking promise given by him and by his agents to the Guru; In verses 78 and 79, Guru Gobind Singh had also warned Aurangzeb about the resolve of the Khalsa not to rest till his evil empire is destroyed; 6 verses praise Aurangzeb.
Guru Gobind Singh wrote this letter from village Dina in Malwa region of the Punjab. Guru Gobind Singh spent few days at Dina and then moved to Dod, Kotkapura, Dhilwan Kalan, Jaitu, Muktsar, Lakhi Jangal, and Damdama Sahib. Guru Gobind Singh's last fight with Mughal Army happened at Khidrane Di Dhaab now called Sri Muktsar Sahib. | toxic | en |
" I noticed that he also made a lot of contributions to the article ""Linguistic sequence complexity,"" so you might want to give that one a quick scan as well." | toxic | en |
HAPAHR YOU GO GET A LIFE
I have written on Territorial Army since I am an expert in Military affiars especially Military Law, with a special concern for voluntary forces and hence the knowledge of this article and many other TA officers and men. You please have a look at the edit history of the article and it would be clear to you that you are the only one having a problem with the entire article and also the only one with negative vibes and rantings. Politness is definitely not your forte and calling me and others 'Navdeep' would prove just that. Self glorification it is not since I do not even personally know Navdeep Singh, but everyone in today's army knows about his contributions. | toxic | en |
This page should not be speedy deleted because...
This page should not be speedily deleted because... (I don't wanted to write an promotional aricle - i'm new in wikipedia and just translated the german article into english - I will message someone who could help me to change the article in the right way - thanks) | toxic | en |
traceback in new exmh
I just updated to the latest CVS - I had been running a build from June.
Hitting the Flist button gives the following traceback:
syntax error in expression "int(17+1+(222-)*(19-17-2)/(224-))"
while executing
"expr int($minLine+1+($msgid-$minMsg)*($maxLine-$minLine-2)/($maxMsg-$minMsg))"
(procedure "Ftoc_FindMsg" line 57)
invoked from within
"Ftoc_FindMsg $i"
(procedure "Ftoc_ShowSequences" line 16)
invoked from within
"Ftoc_ShowSequences $F"
(procedure "ScanFolder" line 81)
invoked from within
"ScanFolder inbox 0"
invoked from within
"time [list ScanFolder $F $adjustDisplay"
(procedure "Scan_Folder" line 2)
invoked from within
"Scan_Folder $exmh(folder) $ftoc(showNew)"
(procedure "Inc_PresortFinish" line 7)
invoked from within
"Inc_PresortFinish"
invoked from within
".fops.flist invoke"
("uplevel" body line 1)
invoked from within
"uplevel #0 [list $w invoke]"
(procedure "tkButtonUp" line 7)
invoked from within
"tkButtonUp .fops.flist
"
(command bound to event)
It seems to only happen in a folder with no unseen messages.
Chris, is this related to your recent changes?
Scott
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I'm not going to grovel, nor jump into a righteous rage. But if you want peace, and to move on, I'm up for that. | toxic | en |
I'm glad the question has been settle as it has. I think the article is better, but still needs work on the history (I will try to do that). Although it is not important now, you can also see that these beers are not related here:
That page does list related styles, but clearly Dortmunder and Märzen are not. This page, by the way, is from the Association of German Brewers.
I would like to end on two points: 1. the fact that Mr. Daniels is not aware that these two beers are not related is evidence that he violates WP:RS. I should also point out that this is not an obscure topic, but something anyone who knows about German beer would know. 2. On a personal level, I regret to tell you that I was very insulted by your idea that an American home brewer knows more about my culture than I do. An apology would be appreciated. | toxic | en |
== Merlinpy ==
Am Merlinpy. . . I live to think, i think to live. . .ama niqhie niqhie repping MMB, lemme b like lady b. . .ladies gamme smoking lerrix, kip my secret. . .ama niqqa ridinq on mercedes, i rep my lungu MMB. . . . .merlinpy is my stage name and MMB dats my crew name. | toxic | en |
you're a complete tool=
look at your talk page, its just pages and pages of people asking why you intefered with their shit without being asked.
first u come into a private converstaion between me and andother wikipedia retard and threaten to block me and revert my contributions
next u threaten to block me because i had the audacity to write on ur talk page and request you leave me along | toxic | en |
:I got an explanation and fix at Village Pump.
:The fix is: change {{reflist}} to {{reflist|1}}. | toxic | en |
start date : 1 / 29 / 02 ; hourahead hour : 6 ;
start date : 1 / 29 / 02 ; hourahead hour : 6 ; no ancillary schedules awarded . no variances detected .
log messages :
parsing file - - > > o : \ portland \ westdesk \ california scheduling \ iso final schedules \ 2002012906 . txt | scam | en |
"
The Korean media still uses the word Comfort Women for modern day sex workers serving US military camps. (Antitrafficking Policies in Asia and the Russian Far East: A Comparative Perspective by Schuckman, Emily E).
* Unless anyone can come up with a name, full references and a citation, the 410,000 should be removed as per Wikipedia policy. (Clue: the reason no one has put their name to it is clear if you read the actual source for it ... no historian dares put their name nor institution on it.). The Youtube mourning song is not according to policy either.
* Historically, the use of the word for the licensed, voluntary system of prostution came place first and should come first in the topic. When, how and upon what scale the forcible recruitment tooks place is unclear. Its appears to have started as a ""rational"" response to a major problem and then exaggerated as the war years went on. The article needs to look more accurately at the sequence of event NOT the politicized version of them since.
* Can anyone come up with actual figures or proportions of
a) those women that worked voluntarily or because they had no other options
b) those taken forcibly
How and when did the system change?
* Missing elements;
a) the local agents, criminal underworlds and government bureaucracies that became involved, i.e. both Chinese and Korean
b) the roots or context of the phenomenon, e.g. women in the slave caste of Korea, the system of local agents in Asia buying and selling daughters (it equally existed in Japan as well).
c) its legacy afterwards in the industrialization of the Korean sex industry after WWII, e.g. the same comfort women working in prostitution for the American occupational forces and the Korean army. To state the obvious, the women and system did not just disappear post-WWII.
d) The reason and role of General Park Chung Hee's regime, the Korean Censorship Board etc in the suppression discussion of the issue leading to the burial of the issue until it arose again in the 80s and 90s.
" | toxic | en |
" The Dalai Lama has written ""if we look from the point of view of the original stock of teachings that are at its core, we have to say that Bön is a seperate tradition from Buddhism. We cannot consider it one of the Buddhist taditions since then it would need a traceable Buddhist source.""Tenzin Gyatsho, Dalai Lama XIV. The Gelug / Kagyü Tradition of Mahamudra. p. 228.
" | toxic | en |
Have sex with your students should get you fired but not thrown in jail male or female, unless it's rape, this is bs | adult_sexism | en |
"::The section is now called ""Discrepancies and inaccuracies"", which is fine (just keeping track). Nothing in the section is sourced, I don't know if any of it is able to be verified in reliable third-party sources and on that basis it may be removed. Wikipedia:Trivia sections may also apply.
" | toxic | en |
"
P.S. The word ""colonization"" would fit much better for what happened in Inner Mongolia over the 19th and 20th centuries and what the Chinese tried to do in Outer Mongolia after 1905: massive population transfers, exploitation of natural resources at the expense of the local population, marginalization of local culture - factors that certain Chinese historians choose to conveniently ignore when trying to explain the emergence of Mongolian nationalism. " | toxic | en |
REDIRECT Talk:Wrestling at the 1904 Summer Olympics – Men's freestyle featherweight | toxic | en |
:I have not in anyway been hostile or broken the rules on civility. Your view point is valid, so is mine, but what you have failed to take into account is what I wrote above about nationalities, I copied that section from Wikipedia:Nationality of people from the United Kingdom. This article clearly backs up and states what I have already mentioned, I was a little hasty and forgot to show you this, apologise. And that warning was automated, I didn't write it! It's just standard procedure. I have to point out that what I am doing is not edit warring but actually removing a change that has no consensus. I have to ask, are you denying that English is an identity? Of course it's not a legal nationality, but it could be argued it's an identity. With English people, we have a mix of some being discribed as British and English, while for Scottish, Welsh and Irish (N) there almost always described as W/S/I, for obvious reasons. There has been much debate about this, it's caused allot of arguments, edit wars and such and it's only in the past two years that it's really calmed down. It's best to leave the nationalities of the articles alone. | toxic | en |
I'm doing exactly what this SysOp did on this other page I created: Give me a break already! - | toxic | en |
re : helsinki report
fernley ,
generally , this seems to be fine . i think that steve and i would like to
clarify the credit limit review issue . please see him for some semantical
changes to that one line .
regarding the expected / maximum exposure calculation , i believe that this is
incredibly misleading and if not changed would be inclined to forward my own
interpretation . we lost $ 18 mm ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! - not $ 5 mm . i think
that we should make a distinction between what has already been realized as
opposed to what writedowns need to be taken , but it all better add up to
$ 18 mm . regarding the additional exposures , my impression is that our true
expectation for counterparty claims is close to zero while we do expect to
terminate one or more employees which would incur severance cost .
ted
fernley dyson
01 / 31 / 2000 11 : 10 am
to : sally beck / hou / ect @ ect , ted murphy / hou / ect @ ect , wes colwell / hou / ect @ ect
cc :
subject : helsinki report
dear all
i ' ve been through the attached with steve young and mark frevert .
would welcome any thoughts / comments .
thanks
fernley
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fernley dyson
31 / 01 / 2000 16 : 36
to : richard causey / corp / enron @ enron
cc :
subject : helsinki report
rick ,
the attached report is an updated version of the document we discussed on
friday of last week . some of the numbers in the exposure analysis are still
draft and i expect firm numbers in the next few hours .
my aim would be to streamline this report for the presentation to joe sutton ,
but i would welcome your steer on how you plan to conduct the meeting and
whether or not this format is appropriate .
regards
fernley | scam | en |
Ah, I finally noticed that Tomyumgoong stuck the offending tag on my user page. So it didn't have anything to do with my reversion on his talk page. In either case, you can ignore it. I need help, but not on wikipedia. ) | toxic | en |
WPCD
Hi. Hope (and trust) the weather is a bit better where you are. Several things:
the 0.5 plus images has been grabbed and put up here: and our 2007 list (which is much longer) is at
Also to let you know about Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/2006_Wikipedia_CD_Selection. The current marginal majority to move the page to Wikipedia space. This makes some sense but practically far fewer people will ever see the CD releases if we always put them in project place (the internal search on Wikipedia excludes project pages) and I think there is enough notability now to make the case... talk | toxic | en |
For Alpha Delta Phi to insert its internal politics into an article on Welseyan is irrelevant. For you to insert your personal dramas into the talk page is inappropriate. For the record, your characterizations are incorrect. | toxic | en |
I see you have no response, even after being shown wrong... | toxic | en |
I donât get how he intends to do this. Rapists donât have a standard way they act around women and donât have a standard look. | adult_sexism | en |
"Much of the history article is taken directly from Hillsdale's website, and I would agree that much of it reads like an advertisement, but, in all fairness, there really hasn't been enough published on Hillsdale apart from the college itself. I have tried doing EBSCO host searches and have looked for titles in my university library (the largest library in my state, mind you), and I have been unable to find a single title that is exclusively about Hillsdale College. I suspect the reason is that, while it was once a radical college, it has become more conservative as the world has changed. It was expected to become more radical, in the way that Antioch College did; but it didn't. I think that the best solution is for outsiders to acknowledge Hillsdale's impressive history while still writing about it from an objective point-of-view. If there are other people willing to write about the school, there will be less need to visit the ""Imprimis"" website to compose a wikipedia article on the subject.
" | toxic | en |
"
Welcome to Wikipedia.
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Here are a few good links for newcomers:
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I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my talk page. Again, welcome! ːtalk " | toxic | en |
trying to report
I am trying to report and get properly tagged two users who are obviously sockpuppets, specifically Jd2718 who is obviously the socker for Michael-mike1 as reported here and here but I cannot get the page to show up on the requests for checkuser page as the jamiechef2 report page asks me to add it. I tried to get it reported in by placing it this way but it doesn't show, I'm asking you for help since you show as the guy editing there right before me in the history and you are a checkuser person. | toxic | en |
" — Preceding unsigned comment added by • 02:11, 20 November 2012" | toxic | en |
Cầu Bay Bridge | toxic | vi |
"really why did you delete my page! ==
Seriously! I worked hard trying to make a story for my sisters! This was for my sisters to read not for people to delete it!!! so I want my page back so I could impress my sisters and my family!!! so please give me my page back or I'll get them!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by •
:Replied on your talk page.
== " | toxic | en |
Came to training camp today to find Charlie Batch asleep on the curb... | toxic | en |
re : coastal ctr # 96008903 meter 0984179 sit # 135714
having discussed the matter with brian riley , hpl has no intention of
contacting coastal to negotiate any type of deal affecting the gas received
in september at at meter 4179 . it was brian ' s opinion that the gas should be
considered strangers gas since hpl has no contract or price . it is
suggested that nick moshou contact his counterpart at coastal , relaying this
information and suggesting coastal ' s trader contract brian riley .
donald
mary poorman @ enron
10 / 27 / 2000 10 : 05 am
to : nick moshou / corp / enron @ enron
cc : anita luong / hou / ect @ ect , brian m riley / hou / ect @ ect , pat
clynes / corp / enron @ enron , daren j farmer / hou / ect @ ect , donald p
reinhardt / hou / ect @ ect
subject : re : coastal ctr # 96008903 meter 0984179 sit # 135714
nick ,
i understand that they terminated their agreement . however , i don ' t feel
that we can confiscate their production . we need to either pay them for the
gas , or cut a deal to redeliver a like volume to them at another meter .
given the decrease in prices from september to current and prompt month , i
would guess that they want to be paid . we won ' t know that until we call
them . i don ' t know where the responsibility lies as far as calling to
explain to them that we took delivery of their gas until the meter was
shut - in .
please let me know if i can do anything further to assist .
mary | scam | en |
"
Hi Wally, not sure if you are picking things up on my talk page, so talking with you here.
Thanks for your rapid response. Proper thanks given on my talk page where you left feedback.
The User Astrotrain is still vandalising my work. To try and shake him off my tail I have given him notice that he is violating Trade Marks, the word Astrotrain is a Trade Mark of Katara in Japan, but that user still persists in attacking my work using that illegal user name.
I think agreement has been reached with other users by removing all personal links from my image pages pending a decision from Wikipedia image licencing specialists and you as a mediator even though I have not mentioned your user name. One user ALR has been very good in tidying up the presentation of one of my images, after initally attacking me.
But Astrotrain is just deleting my work anyway. I do not know how to proceed with recommending the blocking of Astrotrain but that user is violating international law on the use of Trade Marks and possibly exposing Wikipedia to legal action from Katara's lawers. Astrotrain needs to be blocked for legal reasons, but it would probably also be useful for that user to go through the process of starting again. That user has a documented history of destroying other peoples work and holding back the development of Wikipedia on several articles there is a need for that user to re-evaluate its contribution to Wikipedia and personal agenda. I wish Astrotrain well with a new user name.
Anyway. It occurs to me that there must be thousands of photographers in the world, many-many much more competent than me, who would be willing to release their prized pictures to Wikipedia for free Wikipedia use only. Much of the world is lacking in education and information. The world's poorest only hope in the short term is ""technology leap"" e.g. skipping the benefit of a free national press and going straight to the Internet with Wikipedia being a prime source of unbiased information. But not making pictures and information available from the professionals ensures that third world countries will only get second rate information, this will not help them. And on the contrary could be counterproductive to their development by holding back information. Photographers often appear an arrogant breed, but deep down they are artists; caring people. Perhaps Wikipedia should be calling on photographers around the world to make their contribution to the eradication of starvation and improved standards of living through education and Wikipedia. Hopefully this is not just soapbox but a constructive suggestion that can be the seed of something useful. Des " | toxic | en |
"
Furthermore, previous declination stated ""edit warring is forbidden whether or not it occurs in the enforcement of any real or perceived consensus (let alone a ""majority approval"", because Wikipedia does not operate by majority rule)"". But despite my question, ""How is it ""edit warring"" to implement a version that has approval of a majority pending revision only after further discussion?"" I have received no answer to that simple question.
Also, contrary to this denial, WP:Consensus in fact states ""All editors are expected to make a good-faith effort to reach a consensus that is aligned with Wikipedia's principles. Sometimes voluntary agreement of all interested editors proves impossible to achieve, and a majority decision must be taken.""
Anyone can see on the Talk page I've made an extraordinary good-faith effort to reach a consensus on the wording of the 3rd para. A full consensus could not be reached, but a majority decision was taken. That decision was to implement the wording in question, pending discussion and review. That is a perfectly reasonable solution. It further was agreed only after objections/suggestions have been heard and received peer approval should changes be made. There are a number of rogue editors who've rejected this solution, preferring instead to edit war, editing the para without explanation or discussion. It is therefore those who defy Wikipedia policy on conflict resolution who are 100% responsible for edit warring." | toxic | en |
*Oppose. There are multiple common names for this species, not to mention that the product's vernacular name is catnip, while the plant in the wild is often known as catmint. If there was enough material, I wouldn't be opposed to splitting out the product info to an article at catnip and leaving botanical info here along the lines of a grape/Vitis vinifera split. | toxic | en |
"
I appreciate the unblocking, and was surprised the block took place 9 hours after I had given up on being able to make any contributions at that AfD.
Sidebar: Although the block was lifted 5 hours ago, it has only been in the last few minutes that I have actually been able to edit, else I would have commented here much earlier. And I myself would love to have somebody figure out how to annotate the block log. Somebody must know how it can be done. '''' MICHAEL Q.'' " | toxic | en |
":::::I read about it as a child, in The Unexplained (magazine). There were loads of great things in that, like spontaneous human combustion, and Kirlian photography. I also remember reading a Reader's Digest book which contained the scariest thing I've ever seen (I bookmarked the page to avoid opening it), Belmez faces. Frightened the living daylights out of me.
" | toxic | en |
== Thank you! ==
Ekkarat, you've been a big help in starting many Thai film articles and I want to thank you. You can help even more when you add the infoboxes to the articles by not deleting the blank fields. If you don't fill them in, they won't show up, but will still be there for when the article expands. If you have any questions, please let me know. Thanks again! — '''''''''' | toxic | en |
"
I added a couple accounts to your list of ForestH2 sockpuppets, on the basis of " | toxic | en |
Don't let them kid you. They're not a real church, as I am attempting to prove above. | toxic | en |
", 13 November 2009 (UTC)||What did this Jacob Peters do that he even deserves a ban? Are you going to ban anyone that tries to show the leftist point of view simply because you have reason to believe they are a ""sock puppet"" of Jacob Peters? I doubt anyone would stick 2 god dam years battling hopeless idiots like you who have no sympathy for the want of knowledge and want to keep their anti-communist articles untouched. You probably just have mistaken anyone who has tried to neutrally show the other side of history as Jacob Peters and banned them. Your troubles are your own creations of ignorance. 22:56" | toxic | en |
re : real options openings ?
vince ,
thanks very much - i ' m looking forward to it ,
chris
at 09 : 25 am 5 / 8 / 00 - 0500 , you wrote :
>
> chris ,
>
> we shall make arrangements to bring you over for an interview .
> our hr department will contact you later this week .
>
>
> vince
>
>
>
>
>
> christopher m kenyon on 05 / 05 / 2000 07 : 56 : 11 am
>
> to : vkamins @ enron . com
> cc :
> subject : real options openings ?
>
>
> dear vince kaminski ,
> i was auditing prof dyer ' s real options class on thursday when you
> spoke
> on enron ' s activities in this area . i would be interested in exploring the
> possibility of joining the group that works on real options in response to
> and in anticipation of enron ' s business requirements . i ' m currently
> working in the development and application of real options methodology at
> schlumberger . in particular i ' ll be speaking at an industry real options
> valuation conference in london ( http : / / www . iqpc . co . uk / finance / rov / ) and i
> just had the paper accepted for publication in operations research . could
> you pass my resume on to the relevant people to have a look at ?
>
> thanks in advance ,
>
> chris kenyon
>
> ( see attached file : cmkenyon _ cv _ mayo 0 . doc )
>
>
>
>
>
> attachment converted : " c : \ eudora \ attach \ cmkenyon _ cv _ mayo 01 . doc "
> | scam | en |
StefaniaFOX10 27 YO teacher being held on a 250k bond after police say a students parent found evidence of a sexual relationship between her and the 13 YO boy. More victims at the school? Prosecutors say yes. I'll tell you why at 5 #Fox10Phoenix | adult_sexism | en |
"
My edit is sound. Inserting the word ""ultimately"" implies - unsupported by the text - that Rothbard had any conflict about supporting or not supporting the idea. " | toxic | en |
The article Roni siegel has been speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable, that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. If you can indicate why the subject is really notable, you are free to re-create the article, making sure to cite any verifiable sources.
Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and for specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this. | toxic | en |
Thể chế thành phố ở Việt Nam được xác định bằng cách chính phủ quyết định và công bố thông qua các văn bản pháp luật. Thành phố được xác định dựa trên các tiêu chí như dân số, diện tích, đóng góp kinh tế và văn hóa-xã hội. Tuy nhiên, đô thị trực thuộc tỉnh cũng có thể được nâng cấp thành thành phố nếu đáp ứng đủ các tiêu chí được quy định. | toxic | vi |
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