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Cheers- CattleGirl talk
Hi, How can I add the template saying that the user is from Gujarat template to the userbox I have created? --Nirajrm || Talk || sign here! 00:12, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi when i just look at wiki without logging in I am getting a new messages(last change) in an orange banner which directs me to talk to you re: something about vandalism through stupid posts or something......so I was wondering what it is I am supposed to have done and I did read the bit that said several users may be on the one number code thing...so I assume thats it.......but if it was me accidentally.....sorry.....although i dont recall changing anything for a while.....please advise......and then can you tell me how to remove that orange banner thingy...
cheers,203.63.147.98 11:39, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi CattleGirl, My name is Nathan from Kansas. I am new to Wiki as a contributor, but have been a reader for years. My field of expertise is in Angus Cattle, ranching, energy sources. I made a couple comments on cattle judging and Angus, but do not mean to belittle anyone. I know you are probably younger than I. I did get a message asking for me to add to WikiBooks about Raising Cattle, but have no idea how to do this. I think I would be qualified. However, you seem to have much more aptitude at HTML and Wiki and such. Perhaps we could work together to join forces in the bovine related areas. I am intensely interested in cattle and am trying to learn more about building websites in my spare time. My site is at www.solardollars.com if you'd like to know more. For some reason, I sign in to WikiBooks and Wikipedia, but when I click on your username to "contact you" it says that I am not signed in. Hmmmm. Let me know if we can help each other!! Nathan (solardollars or grassman) grassman7bar2003@yahoo.com66.82.9.17 02:11, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
minogue-ist joe
Now, the other thing i want to ask you is I can not see the contents of the page at the top (in the form of a list), so I need to scroll down till I reach at the end. Can you tell me how to activate the Content showing option? I think I had made it off while setting some of the preferences. Hope to get your reply soon. --Nirajrm talk ||| sign plz! 00:48, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Oooops I had found it!!!! Anyway thx... --Nirajrm talk ||| sign plz! 00:51, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Hi, the page "my preferences" had the "Misc" tab, just activate "Show table of contents (for pages with more than 3 headings)" option and u r done!! Can you tell me how to reply the message from my talk page to you? I mean it appears "Re:" before this message heading. How to do this? --Nirajrm talk ||| sign plz! 13:47, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
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Hi, the page "my preferences" had the "Misc" tab, just activate "Show table of contents (for pages with more than 3 headings)" option and u r done!! Can you tell me how to reply the message from my talk page to you? I mean it appears "Re:" before this message heading. How to do this? --Nirajrm talk ||| sign plz! 13:47, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
Hello again, I'm sorry about the late reply! Thanks for telling me that, I'll remember that for the future- I didn't even know you could turn that option on and off, so that was good to find out. I typed the Re: before the message on your talk page so it was more obvious I was replying. When I reply to messages, I read the message on my talk page and reply to it here, but before I save it I copy it. I then save the page and paste the message onto your page, so that you can read the whole conversation. I hope this helped you- cheers- CattleGirl talk | sign! 06:36, 2 February 2007 (UTC) Yes, I got it! Thanks a lot for the help.--Nirajrm talk ||| sign plz! 14:51, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
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Sorry to uh, be extremely late in replying! :)
In my opinion, nuclear fusion power plants are the among the best possible sources of energy for the rest of human civilization—we know of nothing more powerful, safe, or efficient.
Like eager publishers at a videogame convention, lots of sexy ideas float out there, tempting us with their merits. Hydrogen, biodiesel, hydro, coal, wind, tidal, geothermal... the list is endless. None of them seem to work so well, I think based on my research.
Hydroelectric dams... according to a 2000 statistic, it would take about 2,600 square miles of deep enough water to supply enough power for Maryland. The fish don't appreciate it this very much either. However, I am skeptical, and haven't read up on hydroelectricity at all. But, I do believe it is rather difficult to find good sites for hydroelectric dams (they like special environments), and I find it interesting that no body mentions how any global reliance on this could disrupt the natural flow of water through the land, oceans, and atmosphere. There is also that idea about throwing linked buoys out over turbulent portions of the ocean, but that's kind of silly :)
Solar power: Even assuming the sun is out, it's too expensive. I would put it as second best bet though if you had to pick from one of "the contenders." I kind of secretly like the idea of putting them on the moon and beaming down energy by MASER to ground stations on Earth.
Fusion and solar, whether land-based or in some sort of crazy outer-space scheme are the kind of energy sources that I think are our best bets. Invest in fusion, and you will then have enough energy to export to the rest of the world, so we can invest in solar.
I think people hardly know what radiation is, they just know it is bad. When you say "radiation," people think two things—Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. Well, not everybody even knows those. (Heh, Jaywalking on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno)
Radiation is something we face everyday. When particle physicists in Canada were building the SNO, (ironically to detect radiation), they had major problems in radiation filtering. First, they had to dig a several-mile-deep, hole in the ground. Second, there could not be any dirt in the hole. So you cover the sides in concrete, and aluminum foil. Why couldn't there be any dirt in the hole? Well dirt is radioactive. Thorium-232 is found in dirt, along with Uranium isotopes. Their presence is over three times greater than lead's, and much more than gold or silver.
It is not the toxin, but the dose, as toxologists say. What if the dose is a nuclear meltdown scenario? What is the worst ever? Chernobyl. The Chernobyl disaster in The Ukraine. Can you tell me how many people died of acute radiation exposure? Hundreds? Thousands? Millions? Between 28 and 21. 9 died from acute radiation sickness. (The figures normally fall between 20 and 75) The rest were accident workers, several died from accidents in cleaning up and the saving of lives. After 20 years, none of the expected increases in leukemia have been found in the population, nor the expected increase in solid, general cancer. Mac is reminded of [1][2].
Are nuclear reactors really that dangerous? Scaremongering by the news media has led many to believe that, but still, what went wrong at Chernobyl was not something that arose from an inherent flaw in nuclear power. It was the ignorance, stupidity, and carelessness of the Soviet Union that was responsible. Really! I'm serious!
In the reactor's primitive design, there was already a dangerously large positive void coefficient. The RBMK reactor design was a light water reactor, meaning normal, real water is used to cool the whole thing down. The coolant gives the operators control over the reaction. Not only were the operators that night careless and violated plant procedures, probably applicable to their lack of knowledge about the reactor, several procedural irregularities contributed. There was a lack of communication between the safety operators and the operators in charge of a new experiment being run. If the coolant has bubbles (voids) of steam in it, the voids increase the amount of energy the reactor produces. The coolant is actually a neutron absorber, which sucks up radiation. Without intervention, the reactor produces more energy, creating more voids, damaging its radiation-sucking-up ability, becoming more difficult to control. The crew was not intelligible of this.
Also, the control rods, another safety mechanism, was a more significant flaw. The control rod end tips were made of graphite, and the extenders (end areas above water surface, measuring 1m in length) were hollow and filled with water, while the balance of the control rod, the part that is the main controller, was made of boron carbide. For the few moments when control rods of this design are inserted into the reactor, coolant is displaced by the graphite ends of the rods. The neutron absorbing coolant (water) is replaced by neutron moderating inhibitor (graphite). For the first few seconds, the control rod activation increased the reactor's speed, rather than the desired effect.
Ok, so what if, us Americans aren't smarter, and still hire high school kids to take care of the place? Pebble bed reactors are what many countries are investing in, especially South Africa, who is building two. Thorium, which is highly abundant in soil goes into these little carbon marbles (the pebbles), that, unlike traditional reactor fuel designs, don't decide to melt into the earth and spew radioactive clouds if no one is monitoring them. If you walk away from a pebble bed reactor, and let it do its own thing, it just sits there, and kills itself. It does not require dynamic active maintenance to keep safe, infact it requires dynamic active maintenance to keep it on.
What about all those nasty eons of nuclear waste? Well that's something else that is new, nuclear reprocessing. Well, not really new, but a new way of thinking about nuclear fuel. Traditional reactors use 5% of their fuel, and the rest goes into 10,000 year storage. Yuck. What if instead you designed a system where you paid attention to the chain of nuclear decay, and reused the radioactive byproducts as fuel? This would be via breeder reactors, suitably poisoned and engineered to prevent easy and/ or hideable plutonium production. Such an exhaustive flexible fuel effort would use 90% of the fuel, and whatever remains has a half-life of mere decades, several orders of magnitude less. You could even, resuse recycle the waste we have sitting in nickele-isotope waste drums.
Fuel shortages can be heard of nuclear, but there can't be any. Uranium and thorium, there is plenty of. Additionally, all of the uranium stores are not sitting in the wrong kind of countries we want to be funding, if you know what I mean. The U.S.A., for one, could become largely self-sufficient energy-wise.
You could even use the waste as fuel. Just like in the breeder reactor which produces more fuel than it takes in, there are several other ways of transmutation. The Integral Fast Reactor was a proposed nuclear reactor with a nuclear fuel cycle that produced no transuranic waste, and in fact could consume it, to create more. It proceeded far in large-scale tests, but as with seemingly ever other large American science project, being built, funds were cut. (Ugh SSC!! Noooo!)
In the first place, the whole idea that there is such a thing as "nuclear waste" is a bit of a misconception. More than 98% of the material in a spent nuclear fuel rod is being recycled in other parts of the world. About 97% of spent fuel is uranium: 2% is fissionable U-235 isotope, the fuel that powers the reactor and the other 95% is good old U-238, the same non-fissionable isotope that comes out of the ground. It can't be used for bombs.
No, the isotope everybody really worries about is plutonium-239, which is formed when small amounts of U-238 absorb neutrons during the three-year cycle. It makes up 1% of spent fuel. Separating it and putting it back in a reactor as "mixed oxide fuel" (uranium plus plutonium) is no problem.
Unfortunately, back in 1976, Jimmy Carter (I really didn't like him) decided that if we extracted the plutonium, somebody might run off with it and make a bomb. Therefore he cancelled fuel recycling. That created the problem of "nuclear waste." France recycles all its fuel rods and has never had any plutonium stolen. As for the remaining 2% of the fuel rod—the highly radioactive transuranic elements and fission byproducts—it is all stored in a single room in Le Havre.
The real waste problem in this country is the 10 million tons of carbon dioxide we throw into the atmosphere every day from coal-fired electric boilers. That constitutes almost 15% of the world's carbon dioxide garbage, which environmentalists warn us is causing global warming. I personally think it ironic that the same people are also opposing the only technology that could conceivably replace those coal plants. They oppose them because they don't know anything about them.
No, it's more than ironic--it's dishonest. In "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore lifts the "seven-wedge" approach to global warming from Robert Socolow, director of the Carbon Mitigation Initiative at Princeton. Mr. Socolow's main "wedges" are efficiency, conservation, fuel switching, renewables, carbon sequestration, reforestation—and "nuclear fission." Mr. Gore conveniently leaves nuclear out, an inconvenient truth.
There have been theoretical studies involving the use of Tokamak fusion reactors being doped by small amounts of "minor" transuranic atoms that could be transmuted into lighter elements in the reactor, which would be used to create mass amounts of energy.
Another option is to find applications of the nuclear waste, so we can reuse them. Already, cesium-137, strontium-90, and technetium-99 are extracted for use in radioisotope thermoelectric generator (the miniscule powerplants used for spacecraft) and food irradiation, to clean our food. Some people also object to this, but being scared of this is like being scared of soap, or heat, or UV-treatment. Of course it can kill bacteria, but we aren't bacteria, we are big strong humans. Humans, the toughest bastards on the planet (go humans!). Almost nothing can kill us everytime, not even a gunshot to the head, and if we had to, we could kill anything.
The French and the Japanese are already way ahead of the USA in nuclear power. Like much of Europe, France produces 80% of its power by nuclear fission reactors. There is even talk of giving small, unhackable nuclear power plants to third world and second world countries: a form of economic aid, like building bridges or highways. All the benefits of cheap power for hungry growing economies, none of the geopolitical headaches of scary governments splitting the atom for who knows what purpose by themselves in secret. Many of the ideas coming from the West right now for dealing with Iran's nuclear ambitions center around variations of this idea: tying Iran's fuel supply to Western or Russian sources.
You can't relate nuclear power to nuclear weapons like that. Nuclear power is used to produce electrical energy for healthy distribution, thermonuclear weapons are used to kill people, and to allow us speak softly while carrying a very very very big stick.
Sorry for any insensitivity. Swimmer are you? I know a few swimmers that swim a few hours a day. I can't swim! I think I better learn how to do that just because most of the Earth is covered in water. You are a terrific editor, I would definitely support you in your RfA. Although I haven't edited for a few months I'm going to apply this year. [Mαc Δαvιs] X (How's my driving?) ❖ 23:36, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi CattleGirl, My name is Nathan from Kansas. I am new to Wiki as a contributor, but have been a reader for years. My field of expertise is in Angus Cattle, ranching, energy sources. I made a couple comments on cattle judging and Angus, but do not mean to belittle anyone. I know you are probably younger than I. I did get a message asking for me to add to WikiBooks about Raising Cattle, but have no idea how to do this. I think I would be qualified. However, you seem to have much more aptitude at HTML and Wiki and such. Perhaps we could work together to join forces in the bovine related areas. I am intensely interested in cattle and am trying to learn more about building websites in my spare time. My site is at www.solardollars.com if you'd like to know more. For some reason, I sign in to WikiBooks and Wikipedia, but when I click on your username to "contact you" it says that I am not signed in. Hmmmm. Let me know if we can help each other!! Nathan (solardollars or grassman) grassman7bar2003@yahoo.com
Hi CattleGirl, My name is Nathan from Kansas. I am new to Wiki as a contributor, but have been a reader for years. My field of expertise is in Angus Cattle, ranching, energy sources. I made a couple comments on cattle judging and Angus, but do not mean to belittle anyone. I know you are probably younger than I. I did get a message asking for me to add to WikiBooks about Raising Cattle, but have no idea how to do this. I think I would be qualified. However, you seem to have much more aptitude at HTML and Wiki and such. Perhaps we could work together to join forces in the bovine related areas. I am intensely interested in cattle and am trying to learn more about building websites in my spare time. My site is at www.solardollars.com if you'd like to know more. For some reason, I sign in to WikiBooks and Wikipedia, but when I click on your username to "contact you" it says that I am not signed in. Hmmmm. Let me know if we can help each other!! Nathan (solardollars or grassman) grassman7bar2003@yahoo.com. (I had trouble figuring out how to insert this msg, so you might find it a couple of places.) 66.82.9.17 02:13, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
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Thanks for reverting vandalism to my talk page before I even got to it- I appreciate it. CattleGirl talk | sign! 09:40, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Hey, just wondering if you would like to help me and Icelandic Hurricane in starting up a Senses Fail Wikiproject. You can view the temp page at User:mcr616/Senses Fail Wikiproject. Thanks!! Mcr616 22:43, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
Ok thanks! just add your name to the project page! Mcr616 15:28, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi - I got your user id from the 'adopters' list where you indicated that you might be willing to help answer questions from new contributors? I was just wondering how 'edits' are counted? The reason I ask is that I am interested in voting on the Commons picture of the year but when I ran one of the edit counters, it indicated that I had made a total of 13 edits (and I need a minimum of 100 to vote). Is it only minor edits that count? I have started a couple of pages and have continued to add to them so I thought I would have more than 13 at this point. Not complaining - just hoping to understand! Many thanks for any help you are able to offer! :) --Merteuil 17:36, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
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I am requesting that User_talk:194.82.177.15 be blocked. Thanks. Woodsstock 11:23, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi - I got your user id from the 'adopters' list where you indicated that you might be willing to help answer questions from new contributors? I was just wondering how 'edits' are counted? The reason I ask is that I am interested in voting on the Commons picture of the year but when I ran one of the edit counters, it indicated that I had made a total of 13 edits (and I need a minimum of 100 to vote). Is it only minor edits that count? I have started a couple of pages and have continued to add to them so I thought I would have more than 13 at this point. Not complaining - just hoping to understand! Many thanks for any help you are able to offer! :) --Merteuil 17:36, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
Are you still proposing to have a P!ATD project because i would like to join, if it still is going on PrincessOfHearts 21:43, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
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Hi CattleGirl, thanks for your support, but due to some busyness have been away from wikipedia, will surely contact you when need your help. Nadesai 20:27, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
Hi, I am from India. I have read your entire profile which is putup on WikipediA. I appreciate your views and am very pleased to see that there are people in this world who still believe in greenpeace and want to preserve our nature and . Good job done till now and continue doing it. you can reply me at onlyadmire@gmail.com
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Hi, we miss you over at the VC.
We're grilling a new student, and I was wondering if you would like to join in on the fun.
If so, please come to User:The Transhumanist/Virtual classroom#Dweller, and ask away.
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Hi, just letting you know that I've left some suggestions at your editor review. Walton Vivat Regina! 18:39, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
hey... ur the only user who sent me a message which wasn't having a go at me... do u no how to get it so u can type in different things to get to a page? like Nathan Jonas Jordison leads to the same page as Joey Jordison? FromtheJasonater 22:10, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Well done for all the anti-vandalism work. Some people really need to get a life, well done for kicking their you-know-whats. Cool user page btw. RoyalBlueStuey 15:09, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
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Why did you remove my edits on Sydney Boys High School? They were perfectly legitimate and truthful. Unlike other crap that's been put there.
No, I don't understand. The article is such as wank! Typical of any private school I 'spose...
i did that but it makes it so da whole page a link to a jason lock page that dont exist waaaaaaaa
oh done it now thanks
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I am moving at a slow pace and I am preparing for the exams! May b after that I ll be in full flow!!! --Nirajrm talk ||| sign plz! 21:50, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
hi cattle girl... i am new to this world..... i want to create my own page on this tell me how —Preceding unsigned comment added by Munvar.shaik (talk • contribs)
when you changed clousing a back to clousing the did you listen to the song or just red the lyrics somwere? i have listend to the song and it clearly sais: "cousing a". Yaarp 19:40, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
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Hi. Thanks for your recent reversion to the vandalism on Kitesurfing. Is there a template you use for the vandalism warning you put on User_talk:Chrisx12345? Regards, Peter Campbell 11:19, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
That's no problem! I appreciate your thankyou, I didn't expect to get a personal thanks for it, very much appreciated. I'm still new to being an admin, still to get fully used to blocking vandals but it's much easier than I anticipated. SGGH 10:53, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Thank you for replying to me as soon as possible!! using wikipedia looks really complicating! I actually have to read a lot before updating my account! Anyway thanks a lot!!
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Sorry it took so long to get back to you! I've never really coached someone, but I'd be willing to give it a shot. Trouble is that I'm leaving for Paris very soon and will be away from Wikipedia for a couple of weeks. If you want to wait until after I get back (around 17 April), I'd be happy to help out. Cheers. -- Merope 15:38, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
Hi, and welcome! What is it that you need helping with? CattleGirl talk | sign! 09:47, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
Sorry, I couldn't see anything on the screen - I didn't know I had to look at 'edit this page'.
I was wondering if my username could be exchanged with the IP address on this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Image:M1919A2.JPG&action=history
The reason I'd blanked the image is that the user concerned has been editing the Wiki by adding badly photoshopped images and passing them off as actual items. The next step in his spamming is posting the picture on sites and asking what anyone ele knows about it, eg:
http://www.defencetalk.com/forums/showthread.php?p=96514#post96514 http://www.ww2incolor.com/forum/showthread.php?p=96885#post96885
a) http://forums.impactguns.com/showthread.php?t=771 b) http://forums.impactguns.com/archive/index.php/t-754.html c) http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/showthread.php?t=23385&page=3 d) http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread221469/pg1 [linked from c) above, same user posting as 'Browno'] e) http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/archive/index.php/t-88791.html [linked from c) above, same user posting as 'Jabroni'] f) http://www.securityarms.com/forums/showthread.php?t=568 [linked from c) above same user posting as 'Grenadier Toebanger'] g) http://www.irandefence.net/archive/index.php/t-6696.html h) http://www.machinegunshoot.com/forums/archive/index.php?t-133.html
This came to the attention of a number of people on various military and firearms related forums where the user concerned had been spamming the sites with utter rubbish.
While this in itself is merely a purile act, it does make the Wiki unusable as a research tool. He has been using the sign-in names of various people on these sites to make the changes, which when they are accredited engineers, developers, etc throws their real work into a bad light.
Some of the names he has posted under include:
BashaBasher Bling-bling Browno Canashea Cutaway (Where he took the name of an established member of the Army Rumour Service) EX STAB (Not to be confused with EX_STAB, who is a real authority on the subject) Grenadier Toebanger Gutaway Jabroni Sniffle-snaffle Trambuan Waithbraite
The list is far from comprehensive it shows the lengths to hich he will go. There are various others that have I believe been blocked by the Wiki.
Other items he has posted here include 'hand held mini gun' and 'ripper gun'
I fully realise that this is an asset which may be accessed by anyone, but deliberate disinformation and spamming should be taken in hand rapidly.
REMEwatcher
I now also need to know how I blank my 'My Talk' page & kill the history there please.
I must apologise, my user name is WatcherREME rather tha REMEwatcher - please bear that in mind when replying to my question.
thaks, WatcherREME
Hello CattleGirl, I'm unsure of how to correspond on this system, but could you please advise me on the problem I posted earlier ?
Regards, WatcherREME
Hello, thank you for replying to my post. As you see, I'm a novice with wikipedia. It looks as if you are right now the working editor of the Romney Sheep article. Probably I can figure out how to edit the page, but would vastly prefer to talk with you first or with others you work with.
Please read the long posting I did last week, in which I introduced myself. That one breaks off near the end, where I was saying that even though Romneys now comprise less than half of the NZ sheep population, that is ten times more than any other pure breed and should not be called a "significant" dropoff in interest. As I'm sure you know, NZ sheep growers are constantly innovating with crossbreeding and this habit (not confined to NZ) does seem to discount the value of pure breeds in a national industry. Only seems to. In fact the Coopworth was originally a Romney cross until it became a recognized breed. Let me know anything in that posting you don't agree with. If everything is OK with you, let me know that and I'll try to edit the piece or, if you wish, you can incorporate my suggestions in your rewrite.
How did I get to this? Sat down to write a 250 word history of the breed for an event to be help next year and thought I'd see what ever-helpful wikipedia had to say. Nice to talk with you thus. Now, I hope I can sign out properly. My email address, if I don't, is sqs1@columbia.edu Sawyer12477--Sawyer12477 12:31, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
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Just ran across your page somehow, and was shocked at your layout! Then I remembered how you asked me if you could borrow it all those months ago... ^^ Hope you're doing good! – Riana ऋ 05:43, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
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Stop removing my comments.. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.99.58.198 (talk) 03:29, 8 April 2007 (UTC).