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Fabian Forte

Fabian Anthony Forte (born February 6, 1943), professionally known as Fabian, is an American singer and actor.

Forte rose to national prominence after performing several times on American Bandstand. He became a teen idol of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Eleven of his songs reached the Billboard Hot 100.

Early life
Fabian Forte was born on February 6, 1943, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Born to Italian-American parents, he is the son of Josephine and Dominic Forte. His father was a Philadelphia police officer. He is the eldest of three brothers and grew up in the South Philadelphia's Lower Moyamensing neighborhood.

Discovery
Forte was discovered in 1957 by Bob Marcucci and Peter DeAngelis, owners of Chancellor Records. At the time, record producers were looking to the South Philadelphia neighborhoods in search of teenage talents with good looks.

Marcucci was a friend of Fabian's next-door neighbor. One day, Fabian's father had a heart attack, and, while he was being taken away in an ambulance, Marcucci spotted Fabian. Fabian later recalled, "He kept staring at me and looking at me. I had a crew cut, but this was the day of Rick Nelson and Elvis. He comes up and says to me, 'So if you're ever interested in the rock and roll business...' and hands me his card. I looked at the guy like he was out of his mind. I told him, 'Leave me alone. I'm worried about my dad.'"

When Fabian's father returned from the hospital he was unable to work, so when Marcucci persisted, Fabian and his family were amenable, and he agreed to record a single. Frankie Avalon, also of South Philadelphia, suggested Forte as a possibility. Fabian later said, "They gave me a pompadour and some clothes and those goddamned white bucks and out I went." "He was the right look and right for what we were going for", wrote Marcucci later.

Early songs
Fabian was given an allowance from the record company of $30 a week. He also kept working part-time at a pharmacy as well as studying at South Philadelphia High School, while practicing his singing. Fabian later said "I didn't know what I was doing, but I knew my goal, to try to make extra money. That meant a lot to our family. I rehearsed and rehearsed, and I really felt like a fish out of water. And we made a record. And it was horrible. Yet it got on Georgie Woods. For some reason, Georgie Woods played it." The song was "Shivers", which was a local hit in Chicago. This helped Fabian meet Dick Clark, who agreed to try Fabian at one of Clark's record hops, where singers would perform to teenage audiences. Fabian lip synched to a song and Clark wrote "the little girls at the hop went wild. They started screaming and yelling for this guy who didn't do a thing but stand there. I've never seen anything like it." Clark told Marcucci "you got a hit, he's a star. Now all you have to do is teach him to sing."

Clark eventually put the young singer on American Bandstand where he sang "I'm in Love". Fabian later admitted this song "was not very good either" but "the response – they told me – was overwhelming. I had no idea. All during that period, I was doing record hops. Not getting paid for it, but for the record company promotions. Just lip synching to my records. The response was really good."

Hit songs
Marcucci gave a song written by Mort Shuman and Doc Pomus to Fabian, "I'm a Man" (not the Bo Diddley hit), which Fabian later said he "liked a lot and was very comfortable with. It was giving me more experience, but I still felt like a fish out of water."

Pomus' biographer later wrote Fabian's "labored reading of a macho lyric lent him a vulnerability that couldn't have been missed by his pubescent fans." The song made the top 40.

Marcucci heavily promoted Fabian's next single, "Turn Me Loose", using a series of advertisements saying "Fabian Is Coming", then "Who is Fabian?" then finally "Fabian is Here". It worked and "Turn Me Loose" went into the Top Ten, peaking at number 9.

This was later followed by "Hound Dog Man", (US #9; UK #46), and his biggest hit, "Tiger", which reached No. 3 on the US charts. It sold over one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA.

Other singles that charted included "String Along", "About This Thing Called Love" and "This Friendly World", which reached No. 12 on the US charts. At age 15, he won the Silver Award as "The Promising Male Vocalist of 1958". His first album, Hold That Tiger reached the top 15 within two weeks. The song "Think of Me", although it did not chart in the US, was a big hit in some Asian countries including Sri Lanka in 1964.

In October 1959, he toured five major cities in Australia including several concerts in Sydney that were turned into the Australian film, Rock 'n' Roll. Due to a contractual dispute, however, his appearance was quickly removed from the film. That same year, Forte told a judge he was earning $250,000 a year though an earlier report put this at $137,000. He kept up his studies and graduated from high school in June 1960.

During the payola scandal of the 1960s, Forte testified before Congress that his recordings had been doctored electronically to "significantly improve his voice".

His career in music basically ended when he was 18 after he bought out of his contract with Marcucci for $65,000. In 1974, he said, "I felt controlled. I felt like a puppet. It was frightening, like a three-year nightmare."

Marcucci later admitted to punching Fabian on one occasion when the singer sat in the aisle of a movie theater, not in the middle of the row like Marcucci had asked; Fabian was spotted by a teenage fan who screamed. Marcucci was angry that he did not see the film and hit the singer. In 1963, he signed a contract with Dot Records. He spent the next thirteen years concentrating on acting.

Fabian later said in 1971 that "I must say I never knew [Marcucci] to cheat me out of any money due me and he never promised me anything he didn't deliver." He stated he left his manager because "all the songs were sounding the same. So I bought myself out of the contract. It cost me plenty – a lot more than I thought it would."

20th Century Fox
20th Century-Fox had enjoyed success casting teen idol pop stars in movies, such as Elvis Presley and Pat Boone. They decided to do the same thing with Fabian and signed him to a long-term contract. His first leading role was Hound-Dog Man (1959), based on the novel by Fred Gipson (who had written Old Yeller) and directed by Don Siegel. He co-starred with the more experienced Stuart Whitman and sang several songs, including the title track. The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film featured a photo of Forte's screen test where he appeared in the same outfit that Elvis Presley wore in Fox's Love Me Tender. "Acting came natural to me. I don't know why", Fabian later said.

Fabian's recording of the Hound Dog Man title song was a top ten hit but the film was not a financial success – in contrast to Presley and Boone's first films. The studio, however, tried again in two smaller roles, supporting a bigger star – High Time, with Bing Crosby, and North to Alaska, with John Wayne. Both films were popular especially the latter and in November 1960 his contract with the studio was amended with an increase in salary – it was now a seven-year deal with an option for two films a year. He later said that "acting wasn't like the singing, because it was very private – quiet on the set. No screaming [teenage fans]. It was a wonderful experience. I got to meet and work with John Wayne, Jimmy Stewart, and Peter Lorre. Elvis came over to meet me when I was on the lot. Marilyn Monroe, Natalie Wood and Gary Cooper were also on the lot. I was on the plane with Marlon Brando for eight hours coming back from Tahiti."

The Fox contract included television series as well as films. Fabian was cast by director Robert Altman as a psychotic killer in "A Lion Walks Among Us", an episode of the television series Bus Stop. This episode was highly controversial due to its violent content, with many affiliates refusing to run the program, so much so, that it was even mentioned in the US Senate. However, the series was good for Fabian's acting career, and saw him regarded with more respect. He later said he regarded this as his best performance.

Paramount borrowed him from Fox to co-star with teen idol Tommy Sands in Love in a Goldfish Bowl (1961). In 1961, Bob Marcucci announced that Fabian and Avalon would star in Virginia Ridge by Clarence Fillmore about the Battle of New Market, where Virginia Military cadets took on union soldiers. The movie was never made.

Instead Fabian co-starred opposite Tuesday Weld in an episode of The Dick Powell Show, titled "Run Till It's Dark". In Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962), he romanced (and sang with) the daughter of a family man played by James Stewart; this was a big hit. So too was The Longest Day (1962), Fox's all-star epic about the D-Day landings; Fabian appeared among a number of other teen idols as US Rangers. Less popular, though still widely seen, was Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962), Irwin Allen's take on Jules Verne; Fabian sang one song but again it was a supporting role.

When Fox temporarily shut down following cost overruns on Cleopatra, Fabian was one of the first actors whose options were exercised after the studio re-opened. He was to have supported Stewart again in Take Her, She's Mine (1963) but did not appear in the final film. Samuel Z. Arkoff of American International Pictures said he wanted Fabian to play the lead in Beach Party (1963) but was unable to do it because of his Fox contract.

Fabian had not become a film star but was in demand as an actor, appearing in episodes of series like The Virginian, Wagon Train, The Greatest Show on Earth and The Eleventh Hour.

He had a good role in a surf movie made for Columbia, Ride the Wild Surf (1964) (with Tab Hunter), and was reunited with James Stewart for Fox's Dear Brigitte (1965) – the film failed to repeat the success of Hobbs. Harry Alan Towers cast him as one of the victims in Ten Little Indians (1965).

In October 1965, Fox announced it had picked up Fabian's option to make three more films for the studio, starting with Custer's Last Stand. However, that film was not made and Fabian made no further films for Fox.

AIP
In November 1965, he signed a seven-picture deal with American International Pictures (AIP). His first film for the company was alongside Beach Party stars Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello in the 1966 stock car racing film Fireball 500. AIP then sent him to Italy to play a role originally intended for Avalon in Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966), supporting Vincent Price and directed by Mario Bava. Back in the United States, he made another stock car racing film for AIP, Thunder Alley (1967), opposite Funicello and directed by Richard Rush. His fourth movie for AIP was Maryjane (1968), where Fabian played a school teacher fighting the evils of the marijuana trade.

He returned to racing car dramas with The Wild Racers (1968), partly financed by Roger Corman and shot in Europe. This was not a big hit on release but has developed a cult following; Quentin Tarantino described it as his favorite racing car movie.

The Devil's 8 (1968) was an AIP rip-off of The Dirty Dozen (with a script co-written by John Milius). His seventh and final film for the studio was A Bullet for Pretty Boy (1970).

Fabian also played Josh Ashley in Little Laura and Big John (1973) for Crown International Pictures.

He performed in John Loves Mary in summer stock in 1962.

Later years
Forte later admitted the pressures of his career and home life caused him to start drinking in the 1960s. From June 1969 onwards he was billed as "Fabian Forte".

Return to singing
In 1973, he began singing again. To raise his profile, he posed nude for Playgirl magazine. "I knew it was a mistake the minute I saw the thing sold in a paper bag. I could barely live with myself."

In January 1974, he started an act at the MGM-Grand in Las Vegas. He was managed at this stage by Allan Carr. In March 1974, he performed at the Blue Max of the Hyatt Regency O'Hare in Chicago. A review said "he seems rather lost in the act he was putting on... he's giving it the old beach party try. But all that, unfortunately, can't distract for long from the basic lack of talent." In October 1974, Carr – by then no longer his manager – said that Fabian was "a sensational lounge act in Nevada and shouldn't play anywhere else except on prom nights. He's not a middle of the road act in a middle of the road room. At the 12.30 am show at the Blue Max, when the conventioneers had had a few drinks it was terrific... This boy probably made $18,000 last year; this year he'll make about $270,000."

He often performed in Las Vegas in the mid 1970s until he fell into difficulties with the authorities after attacking a Las Vegas district attorney, and resultant bankruptcy.

He retired once more in 1977, then resumed performing in 1981. He never regained his teenage popularity, but has continued performing.

The Idolmaker
The film The Idolmaker (1980), written by Edward Di Lorenzo and the first feature film directed by Taylor Hackford, was a thinly disguised biography of Fabian (called Caesare in the film), as well as songwriter/producer Marcucci (called Vinnie Vacarri) and Frankie Avalon (called Tommy Dee). In the movie version, singer Caesare—a pretty boy with little singing talent—goes through a whirlwind of success in a short time, and in a fit of pique, he abruptly fires his songwriters and quits his record label. The real-life Fabian launched a $64 million lawsuit at the time of the picture's release, claiming the film made him look like "a totally manufactured singer, a mere pretty face without any singing ability or acting talent." The filmmakers insisted that the movie presented only fictional characters (although Marcucci was a paid consultant on the film). Forte claimed they settled out of court, where he and his wife received apologies and Marcucci's 7.5% ownership of the film passed to Forte.

He appeared in a 1982 television commercial for The Idols of Rock n' Roll and in the documentary film The Bituminous Coal Queens of Pennsylvania (2005). In the 1980s, he developed some sitcoms for television. Forte hosted and headlined in the hit show The Original Stars of Bandstand at The Dick Clark Theater in Branson, Missouri. The show starred Forte and Bobby Vee and featured The Chiffons, Brian Hyland, Chris Montez and rare footage of the performers and Dick Clark. As part of a long-running concert tour, Fabian has toured with fellow Philadelphian 1950s teen idols Bobby Rydell and Frankie Avalon as Dick Fox's Golden Boys.

On January 8, 2002, Forte was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his achievements in live theatre.

Personal life
He was drafted, but rejected, for military service during the Vietnam War. According to USMC Lt. Col. Arthur Eppley, Forte was declared 4F (unfit for service).

In 1982, he was arrested for reportedly sticking his cigarette into a passenger who asked him to put out the cigarette in a non-smoking section of an aircraft. The passenger turned out to be a district attorney, but ultimately no charges were brought.

Race car accident
In 1978, Fabian was participating in a charity racing event in Watkins Glen, New York. He was practicing at Willow Springs International Motorsports Park under the instruction of professional driver Bill Simpson when he rolled his car and suffered minor cuts and bruises.

In 1982, a jury found him 40% liable for the accident (Fabian testified that Simpson repeatedly urged him to drive faster while Simpson testified that Fabian suddenly accelerated wildly in spite of his orders to slow down). He received $32,000 in an out-of-court settlement.

Marriages
Forte has been married three times. His first marriage was to model Kathleen Regan in September 1966. They had two children together, Christian and Julie, before separating in June 1975. In October 1975, when Forte and Regan were estranged, he was arrested after an argument with her and her mother. He was accused of hitting them. He was put on probation for two years. The couple divorced in 1979. "My fault", said Fabian.

He married Kate Netter in 1980; they divorced in 1990.

In 1998, he married Andrea Patrick, a former Bituminous Coal Queen and Miss Pennsylvania USA. He and Andrea were later sued by the resort where they were married for unpaid bills.

Fabian relocated from Los Angeles to southwestern Pennsylvania, to be closer to his wife's family; he and his wife were sued by the builder of their house, also for unpaid bills. They live on 20 acre in Dunbar in a home that his wife designed. In 2013, he said he played "25 shows a year. It gets me out of the house ... I've never been happier. [At home] I ride my ATV and tractor and cut the grass. Where I grew up, there wasn't any grass."

He and Andrea Patrick also work for Gladys Magazine.

Philanthropy
Fabian and Andrea Forte are actively involved in the American Diabetes Association, the American Heart Association and Forte has helped raise money for veterans with his Celebrity Golf Tournament in North Carolina.

Discography
All albums use Forte's mononymous name Fabian. Before going to Chancellor records, Forte cut two albums on his own, one of which contained the original version of the song "Old Time Rock and Roll", but both albums were a commercial failure.

Albums

 * Hold That Tiger (May 1959)
 * The Fabulous Fabian (November 1959)
 * The Fabian Facade: Young and Wonderful (1959)
 * The Good Old Summertime (1960)
 * Rockin' Hot (1961)
 * Fabian's 16 Fabulous Hits (1962)
 * Fabulously Grateful (1963)

Filmography

 * Hound-Dog Man (1959) – Clint McKinney
 * High Time (1960) – Gil Sparrow
 * North to Alaska (1960) – Billy Pratt
 * Love in a Goldfish Bowl (1961) – Giuseppe La Barba
 * Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962) – Joe Carmody
 * Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962) – Jacques
 * The Longest Day (1962) – U.S. Army Ranger
 * Ride the Wild Surf (1964) – Jody Wallis
 * Dear Brigitte (1965) – Kenneth 'Kenny' Taylor
 * Ten Little Indians (1965) – Mike Raven
 * Fireball 500 (1966) – Sonny Leander
 * Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966) – Bill Dexter
 * Thunder Alley (1967) – Tommy Callahan
 * Maryjane (1968) – Phil Blake
 * The Wild Racers (1968) – Joe Joe Quillico
 * The Devil's 8 (1969) – Sonny
 * A Bullet for Pretty Boy (1970) – Charles Arthur 'Pretty Boy' Floyd
 * The Hard Ride (1971) – Police officer (uncredited)
 * Soul Hustler (1976) – Matthew Crowe
 * Little Laura and Big John (1973) – John
 * Getting Married (aired 17 May 1978 TV movie) – Wayne Spanka
 * Katie: Portrait of a Centrefold (aired 23 October 1978 TV movie) – Emcee
 * Disco Fever (1978) – Richie Desmond
 * Crisis in Mid-Air (aired 13 February 1979 TV movie) – Billy Coleman
 * Kiss Daddy Goodbye (1981) – Deputy Blanchard
 * American Pop (1981)
 * Get Crazy (1983) – Marv
 * Runaway Daughters (aired 12 August 1994 TV movie) – Mr. Rusoff
 * Up Close & Personal (1996) – Himself
 * Mr. Rock 'n' Roll: The Alan Freed Story (aired 31 October 1999)

Television

 * Bus Stop – 2 December 1961 – episode "A Lion Walks Among Us"
 * The Gertrude Berg Show – 8 February 1962 – episode "Peace Corps"
 * The Dick Powell Show – 9 October 1962 – episode "Run Till It's Dark" with Tuesday Weld
 * The Virginian – 23 January 1963 – episode "Say Goodbye to All That" – with Lee J. Cobb
 * Wagon Train – 16 September 1963 – episode "Molly Kincaid Story" w/Barbara Stanwyck, Carolyn Jones
 * The Greatest Show on Earth – 29 October 1963 – "Uncaged"
 * The Eleventh Hour – 22 January 1964 – episode "You're So Smart, Why Can't You Be Good?" – with Fay Wray
 * The Virginian – 6 January 1965 – episode "Two Men Named Laredo"
 * Daniel Boone (1964 TV series) – 9 December 1965 – Season 2 Episode 12 "The First Beau" – David Ellis with Veronica Cartwright
 * The Virginian – 2 October 1966 – "The Outcast"
 * The Rat Patrol – 30 January 1967 – "The B Negative Raid"
 * Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1967) – episode "Wipeout"
 * The F.B.I. – 3 January 1971 – episode "Unknown Victim" – with Tom Skerritt
 * Love, American Style – 23 February 1973 – episode "Love and the Crisis Line/Love and the Happy Family/Love and the Vertical Romance" – with Ed Begley Jr.
 * Laverne & Shirley – 22 November 1977 – episode "Laverne and Shirley Meet Fabian"
 * The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries – 26 February 1978 – episode "Mystery on the Avalanche Express" – with Deborah Walley
 * Fantasy Island (1980) – episode "PlayGirl/Smith's Valhalla" – with Leslie Nielsen
 * The Love Boat – 20 February 1982 – episode "New York, A.C./Live It Up/All's Fair in Love and War" – with Edd Byrnes, Jill St. John, Bobby Sherman and Annette Funicello
 * New Love, American Style – 3 January 1986 – "Love and the Girl of My Dreams"
 * The Facts of Life – 21 February 1987 – "62 Pick Up"
 * Rags to Riches – 5 April 1987 – episode "Business is Business"
 * Amen – 30 March 1991 – episode "Deak Scam"
 * The Wild West – 22 March 1993 – documentary (Fabian co-executive produced)
 * Blossom – 14 & 21 February 1994 "Beach Blanket Blossom"
 * Murphy Brown – 6 April 1998 – episode "Opus One" with Chubby Checker and Lesley Gore

Television variety

 * American Bandstand – 19 June 1958 – sang "I'm in Love"
 * American Bandstand – 20 June 1958 – sang "I'm in Love" again
 * The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beechnut Show – 28 June 1958 – sang "I'm in Love" – with Paul Anka
 * American Bandstand – 30 June 1958 – did not sing
 * The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beechnut Show – 13 September 1958 – sang "Lilly Lou"
 * The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beechnut Show – 6 December 1958 – sang "I'm a Man"
 * American Bandstand – 12 December 1958 – sang "I'm a Man"
 * The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beechnut Show – 17 January 1959 – sang "I'm a Man" and "Hypnotised"
 * The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beechnut Show – 7 March 1959 – sang "Turn Me Loose" and "Stop Thief!"
 * American Bandstand – 12 March 1959 – sang "Turn Me Loose"
 * The Perry Como Show – 4 April 1959 – sang "Turn Me Loose"
 * The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beechnut Show – 18 April 1959 – sang "Turn Me Loose" and "Hold Me in Your Arms"
 * The Ed Sullivan Show – 24 May 1959
 * The Ed Sullivan Show – 21 June 1959
 * This Is Your Life – Dick Clark – 24 June 1959
 * American Bandstand 2nd Anniversary Show – 5 August 1959 – makes congratulatory phone call
 * The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beechnut Show – 22 August 1959 – sang "Got the Feeling" and "Come On and Get Me"
 * The Red Skelton Show – "Freddie and Fabian" – 11 November 1959 – sang "This Friendly World"
 * The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beechnut Show – 14 November 1959 – sang "Hound Dog Man"
 * What's My Line? – 15 November 1959 – as the mystery guest
 * "Startime" The Dean Martin Variety House – 12 January 1960 – sings "I Love the Love" (with Martin) and "All of Me"
 * The Red Skelton Show – 2 February 1960 – appears in a sketch and sings "About This Thing Called Love"
 * The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beechnut Show – 12 March 1960 – sings "String Along" and "About This Thing Called Love"
 * The Dick Clark Saturday Night Beechnut Show – 27 August 1960 – sings "King of Love" and "Tomorrow"
 * The Perry Como Show – 5 October 1960 – sings "Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech", "Buckle Down Winsocki Buckle Down", "Saturday Afternoon Before The Game" (with Frankie Avalon and Como), "Long Before"
 * American Bandstand – 16 December 1960 – sang "Kissin' and Twistin'" and "Long Before"
 * Candid Camera – 1961 – goes to Hackensack High School in Hackensack, New Jersey where he is introduced to a female student to see their reaction
 * Here's Hollywood – 3 August 1961 – guest on talk show
 * The New March of Dimes: The Scene Stealers – 2 January 1962 – guest star on charity revue
 * American Bandstand – 30 November 1962
 * Pantomime Quiz – 26 August 1963 – Julie London v Fabian
 * Fractured Flickers – 1963 – special guest
 * American Bandstand – 8 August 1964 – sang "Cream Puff"
 * American Bandstand – 22 August 1964
 * Hollywood Squares – 1–5 May 1967
 * Hollywood Squares – 25–29 September 1967
 * Tattletales – 1974: one week/5 episodes with first wife Katie
 * Good Old Days – 11 October 1977 – with Dick Clark and Frankie Avalon
 * Rock and Rollers – 1978
 * Sorority '62 – 1978
 * Hollywood Squares – 1979
 * Rock and Roll: The Early Days – 1984
 * Good Time Rock 'n' Roll – 1985
 * Hollywood Squares – 6–10 April 1987
 * Hollywood Squares – 14–18 March 1989
 * Let's Rock Tonight – 1989
 * Lost in the '50s – 6 October 1989
 * Remember – 29 June 1991 – PBS
 * Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955–70) – 2 July 2000 (documentary)
 * At the Drive In – 28 November 2003 (host)

Theatre

 * John Loves Mary (1962)
 * Love is a Time of Day (1971) – Windmill Dinner Theatre
 * Grease (1998) – touring theater productions

Unmade projects

 * The Beardless Warriors (1960) – for 20th Century Fox based on the novel by Richard Matheson
 * A Summer World (1961) – for 20th Century Fox with Dolores Hart and Bradford Dillman about a high school student who falls for an older woman (Suzy Parker), based on a script by Howard Koch from the novel by Richard Dougherty – directed by Franklin J. Shaeffner  – allegedly postponed when Dillman refused to appear next to Fabian
 * Take Her, She's Mine (1963) – Fabian was originally announced for the male lead
 * Robin Hood Jones (1965) – for AIP
 * Custer's Last Stand (1965) – an often-postponed film for Fox where Fabian was to play an Indian scout
 * a migrant farm labourer in a biopic written by Alex Grasshoff, who had previously made a documentary about him for David L. Wolper – this was a passion project for Fabian who spent weeks researching the film (circa 1967)
 * The Oblong Box (1969) – Fabian originally was announced as Vincent Price's co star
 * Bury an Angel (1970), film made by Burwalt Productions starring Robert Fuller and Sherry Bain
 * Golden Boy (1972) – produced by David Roseman and William Lieberman under the direction of Herbert Hantman from a screenplay by Lory Patrick – also starring Paul Micale and Jacqueline Bosordi – also known as Murder Can Be Fatal
 * Fabian was also reportedly considered for roles in West Side Story (1961) and The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone.

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Groet

Groet is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Bergen, and lies about 11 km northwest of Alkmaar.

History
The village was first mentioned between 1130 and 1161 as "in Grothen", and means "land growth". Groet developed on the boundary of the dunes and the raised bog.

The Dutch Reformed church is a single aisled church with wooden tower which was built in 1639 and was modified in 1738. In 1830, the choir collapsed and was rebuilt shortly after.

The windmill Groetermolen is a polder mill was built in 1890. In 1977, a pumping station was built and the wind mill was decommissioned resulting in a deterioration of the wind mill, therefore, it was decided to drain the polder both by the mill and the pumping station. Groetermolen is still in active service.

In 1639, a little town hall was built in Groet. It claims to be the smallest and oldest town hall of the Netherlands. The oldest claim is definitely not true, but it may be the smallest.

Groet was a separate municipality between 1817 and 1834, when it was merged with Schoorl. The village was home to 186 people in 1840. In 2001, it became part of the municipality of Bergen.

The 1st and the 4th International Youth Congress of Esperanto, in 1938 and 1948 respectively, took place in Groet.

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Hargen

Hargen is a hamlet in the municipality of Bergen], in the provinces of North Holland, the Netherlands.

The hamlet was first mentioned between 822 and c. 825 as in Horgana, and means "sacred place". Hargen has no place signs, but there is a directional sign pointing to Hargen. It was home to 171 people in 1840. The current population is difficult to determine, because it has been added to the much larger Groet in the statistics.

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Schoorl

Schoorl is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Bergen, and lies about 8 km northwest of Alkmaar. Until 2001, Schoorl was also a municipality of its own.

Schoorl is a village in between the polder area of North Holland and the Kennemer dunes. The village is about 8 km (5mls) long and never wider than 2 km (1mls). The village is heavily protected by the highest and widest dunes of the Netherlands, which reach about 54 m (164 ft) above sealevel right behind the center of Schoorl, and are more than 5 km (3mls) wide.

Schoorl is a major local tourism location in the summer and counts over 25 campsites, the largest concentration of campsites in the Netherlands.

The village, earlier named Scorel contains evidence of a long history in the form of two raadhuisjes (town hall) aging from 1600. The Dutch painter and evangelist Jan van Scorel was born here.

Meidenmarkt is the most renowned yearly festivity that is celebrated once a year on the second day (Monday) of pentecost (see also this list of dates to see when Pentecost begins). The celebration is a 100-year-old tradition where the local youngsters can meet partners of the opposite sex. The celebration takes place on the klimduin in the center of town. This klimduin is a century-old attraction and many Dutch people have visited it as part of a school trip.

During World War II, Kamp Schoorl was a concentration camp originally built as a Dutch army camp. Jews and political prisoners were imprisoned there and some were then deported in camps in the east where they were later murdered.

Statistics
The former municipality of Schoorl also included Aagtdorp, Catrijp, Groet, and Camperduin, and had about 6500 inhabitants. . "Schoorl" was until about 200 years ago known as "Schorel" (also part known as "Schoreldam") and the family crest (coat of arms) is recorded as being St Michaels (the dragon slayer), and was found on a grave some 1,000 years old.

It appears that Jan van Schorel during his travelling through southern countries in Europe held it was easier to use the name Jan van Scorel, Jan van Schoorl, and other versions of his surname. Very old maps of North Holland/The Netherlands show "Schorel".

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Graduation

A graduation is the awarding of a diploma by an educational institution. It may also refer to the ceremony that is associated with it, which can also be called commencement, congregation, convocation or invocation. The date of the graduation ceremony is often called graduation day.

History
Ceremonies for graduating students date from the first universities in Europe in the twelfth century. At that time, Latin was the language of scholars. A universitas was a guild of masters (such as MAs) with license to teach. "Degree" and "graduate" come from gradus, meaning "step". The first step was admission to a bachelor's degree. The second step was the masters step, giving the graduate admission to the universitas and license to teach. Typical dress for graduation is gown and hood, or hats adapted from the daily dress of university staff in the Middle Ages, which was in turn based on the attire worn by medieval clergy.

The tradition of wearing graduation hats in Sweden has been in place since the mid-eighteenth century. The cap is typically a white sailor hat with a black or dark blue band around it, a crown motif, and a black peak at the front. The graduation hat tradition was initially adopted by students at Uppsala University. The headgear then became popular across several other European nations as well.

Ceremony
Usually, the ceremony and name apply to university or college degrees: Associate's, Bachelor's, Master's and Doctoral degrees.

In a graduation ceremony for a college or university, the presiding officer or other authorized person formally confers degrees upon candidates, either individually or en masse. However, some graduates may physically receive their diploma later at a smaller college or departmental ceremonies, or even through the mail.

Ceremonies often include a procession of some of the academic staff and candidates and a valediction. The academic staff will usually wear an academic dress at the ceremony, as will the trustees (if applicable) and the degree candidates. Graduates can be referred to by their year of graduation.

Graduation in absentia
When a student graduates without attending the graduation ceremony, then it is called graduation in absentia.

Non-tertiary graduations
In the United States and Israel, completing high school is also referred to as "graduating", with a high school diploma or, in Israel, a Bagrut certificate.

Graduations from high school can occur between the months of June and August. Oftentimes, the completion of middle school or kindergarten is also marked by a graduation as well. This has been the case for the passing from one school year to the next, which has been a recent development. This has received criticism, being described as "just a way of celebrating mediocrity". In some places, graduation parties celebrating graduation from school, college or university are popular.

By country
The procedures and traditions surrounding academic graduation ceremonies differ around the world. Whereas in the United Kingdom a graduation usually only occurs at university level, in the United States and many other countries graduations also occur at high schools where no higher education qualifications are conferred upon the graduates. In a graduation ceremony the students wear formal academic dress, such as square academic caps and gowns that are used for such occasions.

In Sweden, most universities are research-oriented and may present their students with bachelor's, master's, and doctor's degrees covering all academic streams. Universities across the country are based through the Higher Education Ordinance. Most of the national programs provide Swedish, English, math and science among degree courses.

In Zimbabwe, graduation ceremonies are often associated with the guest of honor who most often is the ceremonial head of the institution. At state universities the president of the country officiates as chancellor and guest of honor. Every graduate of a state university in Zimbabwe can claim to have shaken the President's hand. The person most associated with graduation at those institutions is Zimbabwe's late ex-president Robert Mugabe. At other state institutions of higher learning, the vice presidents or other senior government officials may preside.

Otherwise, in countries like Argentina and Uruguay, enthusiasm prevails over moderation, as well as taking part in an authentic carnival as part of the celebration that is mostly spontaneous, anarchic, and barely planned in the middle of the streets: hundreds of graduates, familiars and friends gather in an open place, carrying alcoholic drinks, eggs, flour and other messy food; pelting it all over the graduates; whereas the party is public and open to excesses that carry the complaints of all sorts of commerce, neighbours and authorities in the zone due to the concentration of public disorder and filth that lasts until the aftermath and overwhelms the municipal services.

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Arkarua

Arkarua adami is a small, Precambrian disk-like fossil with a raised center, a number of radial ridges on the rim, and a five-pointed central depression marked with radial lines of five small dots from the middle of the disk center. Fossils range from 3 to 10 mm in diameter.

Arkarua is known only from the Ediacaran beds of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. The generic name refers to Arkaroo, a giant snake from the Dreaming of the local Aboriginal people.

Arkarua is suggested to have been a passive suspension feeder.

Classification
All known specimens of Arkarua are casts that give no clue to the internal structure, making classification problematic. Because of Arkarua's pentamerous symmetry, it is tentatively placed within phylum Echinodermata. Because of its flattened disk- or button-shape, coupled with its pentamerous symmetry, some claim that it can be further classified into the Edrioasteroidea, a class of the echinoderms.

This identification remains suspect, as the fossils do not appear to have either madreporites, or plates of stereom, a unique crystalline form of calcium carbonate from which echinoderm skeletons are built. These two features are diagnostic of all other echinoderms, as all extinct and extant echinoderms have either one, the other, or both features present.

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Beneden Merwede

The Beneden Merwede (, Lower Merwede) is a stretch of river in the Netherlands, mainly fed by the river Rhine. It starts as the continuation of the Boven Merwede after the branching-off of the Nieuwe Merwede ship canal. It flows from Hardinxveld-Giessendam to Dordrecht, where it splits into the Noord and Oude Maas rivers. Its length is 14.8 km. The river is part of the main shipping route between the port of Rotterdam and the industrial region of the Ruhr, Germany.

There is a road bridge and, more to the east, a railroad bridge between the railway stations Dordrecht Stadspolders and Hardinxveld-Giessendam on the line Dordrecht-Gorinchem.

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Ceremony

A ceremony is a unified ritualistic event with a purpose, usually consisting of a number of artistic components, performed on a special occasion.

The word may be of Etruscan origin, via the Latin caerimonia.

Religious and civil (secular) ceremonies
According to Dally Messenger and Alain de Botton, in most Western countries the values and ideals articulated in both church and civil ceremonies are generally similar. The difference is in what Messenger calls the "supernatural infrastructure" or de Botton the "implausible supernatural element".

Most religions claim some extra advantage conferred by the deity, e.g., Roman Catholics believe that through the words of consecration in the mass ceremony, God himself becomes actually present on the altar.

Both religious and civil ceremonies share the powerful psychological, social and cultural influences which all ceremony seeks to attain. The style of music played, words used, other components and the structure vary.

Shared traditions
As Edward Schillebeeckx writes about the marriage ceremony, there are a number of ancient traditional elements in both church and civil ceremonies in the western world. Key ceremonies date from the pre-Christian Roman and Greek times, and their practices have continued through the centuries. For example, from pre-Christian Roman times in the marriage ceremony, we inherit best men and bridesmaids, processions, signing of the contract, exchange of rings and the wedding cake.

Sharing non-supernatural content
Writer and philosopher de Botton maintains atheists should appropriate many of the useful insights, artistic treasures and symbolism inspired by religion. He argues that the secular world can also learn from the religions the importance of community and continuity. Messenger agrees, and points out that the success of civil celebrants in Australia has been partly due to their espousing of these principles, both in theory and practice, since 1973.

History of secular ceremony
The main impetus to the development of quality civil ceremonies in the Western world was the foresight of the Australian statesman, senator and high court judge, Lionel Murphy. In 1973 in Australia, the civil celebrant program entrusted appropriately selected individuals to provide non-church people with ceremonies of substance and dignity. This initiative to a great extent has now been followed by New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom and some states of the US.

Purpose of secular ceremony
According to Dally Messenger III secular ceremonies are "roadmap" influences which lead to an acceptable, ethical and dignified life. Ceremonies contribute to the unseen ingredients of psychological stability, a sense of identity, reassurances of life's purposes, and the personal sense of self-worth. Murphy considered that personal genuine ceremonies were central to a civilised, stable and happy society. Here he echoed the conviction of the mythologist Joseph Campbell who had maintained the strongly asserted generality that the level of civilised behaviour in a society is directly linked to the practice of ceremonies and rites of passage.

In addition, Messenger makes the following statements:

 * A complex of good ceremonies raise the level of human happiness in society.
 * Ceremonies assist humans to adjust to change.
 * Ceremonies are signposts of the culture and indicate that such a culture has life-affirming substance.
 * Ceremonies are an important means of expressing, reinforcing and transmitting values.
 * Ceremonies are constructed from the visual and performing arts. In a chosen setting they are an important vehicle for telling stories, reciting poetry and prose, using symbolism, and performing music.
 * Ceremonies, done well, leave lifelong lasting memories and therefore permanent good effects.
 * The better a ceremony is done, the better its psychological, cultural, and social outcomes.

The components of ceremony
To be powerful and effective, such ceremonies, in the view of all the scholars in the field, had to have impact. This occurred when the ceremony was framed by the visual and performing arts. Great care had to be taken in creating and choosing the poetry, prose, stories, personal journeys, myths, silences, dance, music and song, shared meditations, choreography and symbolism which comprised a ceremony. To reinforce the psychological and cultural power of ceremony it should be enacted, as far as possible, in a beautiful interior and exterior place. Beauty is the essential core of ceremony, having always been part of "raising the spirit" and embedding the good in the memory.

Ceremonies, as they always had been, are historically the bridge between the visual and performing arts and the people. Murphy and his followers, and international practitioners such as David Oldfield of Washington DC understand that ceremonies are core expressions of the culture. Done well, they can assist in major decision-making, bring emotional security, strengthen bonds between people, and communicate a sense of contentment. To quote David Oldfield:

Rituals and ceremonies are an essential and basic means for human beings to give themselves and others

the necessary messages

which enable the individual to stay human.

They communicate acceptance,

love, a sense of identity, esteem,

shared values and beliefs

and shared memorable events.

Every ritual contains tender and sacred moments.

And in those moments of sensitivity

We are taken out of the normal flow of life,

And out of our routines.

We are then in an event

that is irreplaceable and sacred.

In ritual we participate in

something deep and significant.

They are moments which move our heart

And touch our spirit.

Qualities of a celebrant
Lionel Murphy also knew that the superficial, the unaware, were not the right persons to bring this about. The civil celebrant needs to have a rich skill-set and knowledge base. Murphy is on the record as asserting that the civil celebrant needed to have a "feel" for ceremony and be professional, knowledgeable, educated, creative, imaginative, inspired, well presented, idealistic, and well practised.

The civil celebrant should be a person inspired to improve lives at a deep and lasting level. For this reason they must be carefully chosen. The ideal is that they be educated in the humanities and trained to expertly co-create, creatively write and perform ceremonies.

Ceremonial occasions
"The funeral ritual, too, is a public, traditional and symbolic means of expressing our beliefs, thoughts and feelings about the death of someone loved. Rich in history and rife with symbolism, the funeral ceremony helps us acknowledge the reality of the death, gives testimony to the life of the deceased, encourages the expression of grief in a way consistent with the culture's values, provides support to mourners, allows for the embracing of faith and beliefs about life and death, and offers continuity and hope for the living." "Naming Ceremonies existed in human culture long before Christianity or any of the major religions came on the scene. Every community has a ceremony to welcome a new child into the world, to give that child recognition, and to celebrate the birth of new life."
 * Marriage, or a wedding, is the flagship ceremony of every culture.
 * Almost as important is the funeral or burial ceremony.
 * Birth, i.e. a naming ceremony
 * Baptism or christening ceremony
 * Initiation (college orientation week)
 * Puberty
 * Social adulthood (Bar (or Bat) Mitzvah), coming of age ceremonies
 * Graduation
 * Award ceremonies
 * Retirement
 * Death (Day of the Dead)
 * Spiritual (baptism, communion)
 * Grand opening
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Celebration of events
Other, society-wide ceremonies may mark annual or seasonal or recurrent events such as:

 * Vernal equinox, winter solstice and other annual astronomical positions
 * Weekly Sabbath day
 * Inauguration of an elected office-holder
 * Occasions in a liturgical year or "feasts" in a calendar of saints
 * Opening and closing of a sports event, such as the Olympic Games

Other ceremonies underscore the importance of non-regular special occasions, such as:

 * Coronation of a monarch
 * Victory in battle

In some Asian cultures, ceremonies also play an important social role, for example the tea ceremony.

Process
Ceremonies may have a physical display or theatrical component: dance, a procession, the laying on of hands. A declaratory verbal pronouncement may explain or cap the occasion, for instance:

 * I now pronounce you husband and wife.
 * I swear to serve and defend the nation ...
 * I declare open the games of ...
 * I/We dedicate this ... ... to ...

Both physical and verbal components of a ceremony may become part of a liturgy.

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Werrington, Peterborough

Werrington is a residential area of the city of Peterborough, in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. For electoral purposes it comprises North Werrington and South Werrington wards. Werrington spans an area of two and a half square miles (6 km2) and has a population of 14,800.

Originally a village, Werrington was engulfed by Peterborough in the mid 20th century, as the city expanded. The area is on the northern edge of the conurbation, approximately four miles (6.4 km) from the city centre. There are two distinct areas of Werrington, the village and new Werrington. The village dates from older periods and focuses on the village green. The new Werrington area focuses on the Werrington Centre, a small shopping complex featuring stores for basic needs.

Civil parish
Werrington became a parish in 1866, on 1 April 1929 it was abolished and merged with Peterborough. In 1921 the parish had a population of 807.

Shopping
Werrington Centre shops include Tesco, Age Concern and other small shops. These shops have undergone change since 2004 as a result of bigger companies buying out the locally owned shops.

The development of Werrington continues, with new residential accommodation in the northernmost part of the area. The shopping centre redevelopment has now been abandoned by Tesco with many small units available for rent or are boarded up.

Activities
Werrington has held a summer carnival and bonfire and fireworks display every year since the 1970s. At the bonfire, two people made out of clay are set on fire, made by volunteers from the local Scout and Guide Association in conjunction with Werrington Primary School.

Werrington Village Cricket Club plays in the local Huntingdonshire leagues throughout the summer and plays its home games at nearby Campbell Drive sports fields. Werrington Badminton Club has 100 members ranging from beginners up to county level who play in tournaments around the city and county. They also run two men's and a mixed team in the Hunts league.

Local schools
New Werrington contains three schools. William Law and Welbourne are both primary schools. Ken Stimpson Academy is the only secondary school in the area.

Ken Stimpson Academy is a public secondary school which opened in 1982. The school has about 1,100 pupils from years 7 to post-16 (Years 12/13). The school acquired Business and Enterprise College Specialist school status in late 2004.

Werrington Primary School is the only school in the original village. It is in the top five for most rankings for primary schools in Peterborough. The school was founded at the end of the 19th century on the site of what is now the village centre as a Church of England school. The junior school moved to its current site in 1961, followed by the infant school in 1966. The junior and infant schools have merged and share a common administration. William Law C of E Primary School and Welbourne Primary School are the two primary schools that are not in Werrington village.

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Talk:Organ transplantation

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Organ gifting; merge
I suggest merging the new article organ gifting to here. There seems too great an overlap for two standalone articles. What do others think? --John (talk) 15:05, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

 * Organ transplantation covers a wide area of which Organ donation, Organ harvesting, Organ trade, Religious views on organ donation and Organ gifting are a part. Organ gifting deals with medical issues surrounding donation - it is a distinct area, so a merge is not appropriate. As part of a general tidy up of articles relating to organ transplantaion it might be worth considering how much of the content of Organ gifting should be summarised in either this article (Organ transplantation) or the Organ donation article.  SilkTork  *YES! 17:35, 5 July 2010 (UTC)

Gonad transplant
I removed the following paragraph, as it seems dubious.

"Transplant of a single gonad (testis) from a living donor was carried out in early July 1926 in Zaječar, Serbia, by a Russian emigré surgeon Dr. Peter Vasil'evič Kolesnikov. The donor was a convicted murderer, one Ilija Krajan, whose death sentence was commuted to 20 years imprisonment and he was led to believe that it was done because he had donated his testis to an elderly medical doctor. Both the donor and the receiver survived, but charges were brought in a court of law by the public prosecutor against Dr. Kolesnikov, not for performing the operation, but for lying to the donor. (v. Timočki medicinski glasnik, Vol.29 (2004) #2, p. 115-117 ISSN 0350-2899 article in Serbian)"

Although the ISSN checks out, I could not find any relevant Google hits (web, books, journals) for "Ilija Krajan" or "Peter Kolesnikov" and the web link that's given is dead. You'd think that if someone successfully carried out an organ transplant in 1926, it would be documented somewhere.  howcheng  {chat} 03:05, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

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It seems you couldn't find because you didn't look. The name of the medical hounral is given above as "Timočki medicinski glasnik" and the year, vol. and pp. are given too. The only reason that the link appeared broken to you is because the .yu domain of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia had been discontinued and they use the .rs domain for Serbia now.

The page is on: http://tmg.org.rs/v290210.htm, and for the poor monolinguals out there, there's Google Translate: http://translate.google.com.hk/translate?hl=en&ie=UTF8&prev=_t&sl=sr&tl=en&u=http://tmg.org.rs/v290210.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by 113.68.101.167 (talk) 16:13, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

Downsides of organ transplants
There should be some mention of the many downsides of organ transplantation.

Fix dead links & link to other wikipedia page
For the references that are currently listed as dead links under the section titled, "Forced donation" http://www.wma.net/en/40news/20archives/2006/2006_04/index.html & https://dafoh.org/Matas_speech.php might be more useful resources. Also for more detailed information on the organ donation laws in China I suggest there be a link to the wikipedia page titled, Organ transplantation in the People's Republic of China in the section titled, "Organ transplant laws." Naf24 (talk) 18:13, 31 August 2011 (UTC)

Regrettably censored article.
The "Forced Donation" section is totally watered down. It fails to mention by name the single most outrageous violent organ transplant incident, the "Yellow House" scandal, where kosovan alban rebels culled 300 caged serbian women, children and POWs and shipped their organs to turkish private clinics for transplant into certain foreigners.

The EU comissioner lady quit her position after french, german, US and Vatican heads all told her to stop investigating this case of genocide due to ineffable Middle East connections. The serbian state security agency has sworn to effect revenge on Hasim Tachi, the alban honcho who was responsible for this heinous crime. 82.131.210.163 (talk) 16:56, 8 December 2011 (UTC)

Section Types of donor
This section seems out of date, factually incorrect, contradicts other articles and has a US bias. Is there anyone who takes an interest in organ donation who would be able to update this section? Mike 16:08, 16 December 2011 (UTC)

Suggestion of a stub or related article
In regards to expanding on this section, one should consider a stub about animal replacement based organs, such as the Vacanti mouse. The idea of growing replacement organs, limbs, or tissue from other animals was an idea that circulated in the late 90's but hasn't been expanded. Should one be included?

vguyver ''' *YES! 23:27, 5 February 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.81.204.31 (talk)

Ethics - cost-effectiveness
Given that in the United States, a kidney transplant may demand $100,000, a liver $250,000, and a heart $860,000, what is the cost-effectiveness of such operations, compared to other medical interventions, like vaccines, preventive care, ... [QUALY] stats available? Let's add that to the article...--Elvey (talk) 21:34, 10 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Dayton, J. D., Kanter, K. R., Vincent, R. N., & Mahle, W. T. (2006). Cost-effectiveness of pediatric heart transplantation. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, 25(4), 409–415. doi:10.1016/j.healun.2005.11.443 65.166.89.2 (talk) 16:10, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
 * And http://www.organdonation.nhs.uk/newsroom/fact_sheets/cost_effectiveness_of_transplantation.asp about kidney transplants that are described as "highly cost-effective". Sjö (talk) 08:22, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

First ovarian transplant
The article mentions Dr P Mhatre as having done the first ovarian transplant at Wadia Hospital Bombay in 2005. However, there was a news article in 2002 that talked about Dr Mhatre having performed it at Kothari Hospital. It also said that the operation was first done in China at Zhejiang Medical Science University in March of that year. Here is a link to the article: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2002-05-25/mumbai/27123486_1_ovary-egg-donors-city-doctors ````uttamsirur 28/9/2012 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Uttamsirur (talk • contribs) 05:15, 28 September 2012 (UTC)

Article name
'Transplant surgery' redirects here; but this article discusses hands, arms, legs, faces and corneas, none of which are organs. I think the former would be a more appropriate location for this content. Andy Mabbett ( Pigsonthewing ); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:14, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Moved here as not refs

Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:13, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

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additional reference on 'domino' transplant
After rare procedure, woman can hear her heart beat in another, Stanford Medicine News Center, Sara Wykes, March 29, 2016.

' .  .  .  Domino transplantation of a heart-lung and heart does, however, benefit two people. A highly unusual procedure, it has only been performed at Stanford eight times before, last in 1994.

'For Griffin, who has cystic fibrosis, receiving new lungs was critical. Her lung capacity had diminished so much that she was on oxygen full time, unable to do much at all. She had so little energy that she couldn’t get through a shower without sitting down to rest.

'Her heart, however, was still functioning well. “Her heart was an innocent bystander pushed out of its normal position in the middle of the lungs as her right lung shrank and the left one expanded,” said Joseph Woo, MD, a cardiothoracic surgeon at Stanford Health Care who oversaw and coordinated the surgical teams that conducted the domino procedure. That displacement made a heart-lung transplant the only viable option for Griffin,. . .  '

 * Don't know if our article currently includes this as potential reason for domino transplant, going to check. And the broader human context discussed by this piece might also make it worth including. FriendlyRiverOtter (talk) 20:33, 30 December 2016 (UTC)

good article on messy and complicated real world details
Heart of the matter, The Guardian [UK], Simon Garfield, April 6, 2008.

"In the last week of October 2007, the patients on the heart transplant waiting list at Papworth Hospital received disturbing news in the mail. Papworth, on the outskirts of Cambridge, the venue for the first successful heart transplant in the UK, in 1979, had hit a bad patch. Between January and September 2007, the hospital had carried out 20 heart transplants, and seven patients had died within 30 days. In addition, another patient who had received a new heart in October was in a critical condition and would fail to make it. The letter to patients on the waiting list explained that all further operations would be suspended until the reasons for what was a dramatic increase had been examined.  .  .  "

" .  .  .  When the Healthcare Commission delivered, on 19 November, its findings into the eight deaths at Papworth, it made 12 recommendations. It noted the general quality of care at the transplant unit was good, but that there was room for improvement. The recommendations included: minimising the time the heart is left without blood supply during transportation; a careful review of the use of the solution which temporarily paralyses the organ's tissue during the transplant; changing the current arrangements in which the surgeon undertaking the transplant operation is also responsible for post-operative care; an immediate investigation into any new deaths, initially involving external review; and finally, a suggestion that all future patients contemplating heart transplants are properly informed about Papworth's recent increase in mortality rates and the subsequent attempts to improve them. . .  "

" .  .  .  As Tsui [Steven Tsui, head of transplant team at Papworth] says, 'Conventionally we would say if people's life expectancy was a year or less we would consider them a candidate for a heart transplant. But we also have to manage expectations. If we know that in an average year we will do 30 heart transplants, there is no point putting 60 people on our waiting list, because we know half of them will die and it's not right to give them false hope.' In other words, there may be thousands of patients who would materially benefit from a transplant if only the resources and organs were available.  .  .  "

" .  .  .  The laws governing seatbelts, motorcycle helmets and speed, coupled with the tighter punishments for drink-driving and safer cars, have ensured that fewer young people kill themselves in accidents. Health and safety regulations have resulted in fewer fatal accidents at work. And improvements in drugs in recent years for those who have suffered a brain haemorrhage or a stroke have also had a direct result on donor hearts.  .  .  "

" .  .  .  Tsui believes there is an easy way to reduce the mortality rate at his hospital - by turning down high-risk operations. 'But that is doing a disservice to those patients. If they have a 10 or 15 per cent risk of failure, they'll still be better off, because without it they're doomed. So there is a danger that the monitoring process may deny patients treatment that they would benefit from.'  .  .  "

" .  .  .  In 2002, Stephen Large, a transplant surgeon at Papworth, wrote a letter to the Lancet suggesting there might be a 'crisis' in his industry. Donor availability was only one problem, he argued, observing that there was also significant disorganisation and 'organ wastage'. He saw considerable disillusionment among the young trainees he worked with.  .  .  "

 * Now somewhat dated at April 2008, but still some good info. FriendlyRiverOtter (talk) 20:07, 11 January 2017 (UTC)

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potentially good articles on lung tranplantation
History of Lung Transplantation, Turkish Thoracic Journal, Gül Dabak and Ömer Şenbaklavacı, April 2016.

History of lung transplantation (Review Article), Journal of Thoracic Disease, Federico Venuta, Dirk Van Raemdonck, Dec. 2017.

 * I'll try to take a look at these when I have some time. The example of Turkey might be particularly interesting.  Please jump in and help if the topic interests you.  FriendlyRiverOtter (talk) 17:33, 6 July 2018 (UTC)

Attribution
References copied from Organ transplantation to Derrick Morris See former article's history for a list of contributors. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 14:13, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

Lead's first sentence; Kidney transplants
Looking to expand the first sentence of the lead, as all organ transplant surgeries are not exclusively for the purpose of replac[ing] a damaged or missing organ. Obviously with kidney transplants, this is one surgery where (usually) an organ is not replaced, but rather the donor kidney acts to supplant the function of the other kidneys. I am not aware of other surgeries where this is the case, but this should be expounded on in the article: some transplants do not include the replacement of organs, re: kidneys. --PerpetuityGrat (talk) 17:59, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Living organ transplant
I'm Ankit Sharma from gurgaon haryana. I'm 26 year old. My kidney are damage second time. I'm very upset. I want to finished my life. I have attority to donate my organs. Please contact me 8700164100 2409:4050:2D88:223B:F509:357D:ED67:BFB7 (talk) 18:02, 25 November 2021 (UTC)

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Philippine Revolutionary Army

The Philippine Revolutionary Army, later renamed Philippine Republican Army (Spanish: Ejército Revolucionario Filipino; Tagalog: Panghimagsikang Hukbong Katihan ng Pilipinas), was the army of the First Philippine Republic from its formation in March 1897 to its dissolution in November of 1899 in favor of guerrilla operations in the Philippine–American War.

History

The revolutionary army used the 1896 edition of the Spanish regular army's Ordenanza del Ejército to organize its forces and establish its character as a modern army. Rules and regulations were laid down for the reorganization of the army, along with the regulation of ranks and the adoption of new fighting methods, new rank insignias, and a new standard uniform known as the rayadillo. Filipino artist Juan Luna is credited with this design. Juan Luna also designed the collar insignia for the uniforms, distinguishing between the services: infantry, cavalry, artillery, sappers, and medics. His brother, General Antonio Luna commissioned him with the task and personally paid for the new uniforms. At least one researcher has postulated that Juan Luna may have patterned the tunic after the English Norfolk jacket, since the Filipino version is not a copy of any Spanish-pattern uniform. Infantry officers wore blue pants with two white stripes down the side, while Cavalry officers wore red trousers with two black stripes. Soldiers and junior officers wore straw hats while senior officers often wore peaked caps.

Orders and circulars were issued covering matters such as building trenches and fortifications, equipping every male aged 15 to 50 with bows and arrows (as well as bolo knives, though officers wielded European swords), enticing Filipino soldiers in the Spanish army to defect, collecting empty cartridges for refilling, prohibiting unplanned sorties, inventories of captured arms and ammunition, fundraising, purchasing of arms and supplies abroad, unification of military commands, and exhorting the rich to give aid to the soldiers.

Aguinaldo, a month after he declared Philippine independence, created a pay scale for officers in the army: Following the board, a brigadier general would receive 600 pesos annually, and a sergeant 72 pesos.

When the Philippine–American War erupted on February 4, 1899, the Filipino army suffered heavy losses on every sector. Even Antonio Luna urged Apolinario Mabini, Aguinaldo's chief adviser, to convince the President that guerrilla warfare must be announced as early as April 1899. Aguinaldo adopted guerrilla tactics on November 13, 1899, dissolving what remained of the regular army and after many of his crack units were decimated in set-piece battles.

Arsenal
The Filipinos were short on modern weapons. Most of its weapons were captured from the Spanish, were improvised or were traditional weapons. The service rifles of the nascent army were the Spanish M93 and the Spanish Remington Rolling Block rifle. Moreover, while in Hong Kong, Emilio Aguinaldo purchased rifles from the Americans. Two batches of 2,000 rifles each including ammunition were ordered and paid for. The first batch arrived while the second batch never did. In his letters to Galicano Apacible, Mariano Ponce also sought weapons from both domestic and international dealers in the Empire of Japan. He was offered different breech-loading single-shot rifles since most nations were discarding them in favor of new smokeless bolt-action rifles. However, there was no mention of any purchase occurring. Another planned purchase was the Murata rifle from Japan but no record exists that it made its way into the hands of Filipino revolutionaries.

Crew-served weapons of the Philippine military included lantaka, Krupp guns, Hontoria guns, Ordóñez guns, Hotchkiss guns, Nordenfelt guns, Maxim guns, and Colt guns. Many of these were captured from the Spanish and the Americans. There were also improvised artillery weapons made of water pipes reinforced with bamboo or timber, which could only fire once or twice.

Commissioned officer ranks
The rank insignia of commissioned officers.

Other ranks
The rank insignia of non-commissioned officers and enlisted personnel.

Branch colors
In 1898, the Philippine government prescribed branch colors twice:

Branch insignia

 * Engineers: A castle superimposed on a diagonally crossed pickax and shovel, surmounted by a sun.
 * Artillery: Crossed field guns above six cannonballs, surmounted by a sun.
 * Infantry: A diagonally crossed dagger and bolo surmounted by a sun, superimposed on three concentric circles.
 * Cavalry: Two crossed lances over two crossed sabers, surmounted by a sun.
 * Light Infantry/Rifle battalions: Two crossed rifles with fixed bayonets surmounted by a sun, superimposed on three concentric circles. (This badge is the basis of the current PA infantry branch insignia).
 * Intendancy-Quartermaster: A cockade within a wreath surmounted by a sun.
 * Signals: Six lightning bolts over a semicircular wreath surmounted by a sun.
 * Medical Service: A bowl of Hygieia within a wreath surmounted by a sun.

Recruitment and conscription
During the revolution against Spain, the Katipunan gave leaflets to the people to encourage them to join the revolution. Since the revolutionaries had become regular soldiers at the time of Emilio Aguinaldo, they started to recruit males and some females aged 15 and above as a form of national service. A few Spanish and Filipino enlisted personnel and officers of the Spanish Army and Spanish Navy defected to the Revolutionary Army, as well as a number of foreign individuals and American defectors who volunteered to join during the course of the revolution.

Conscription in the revolutionary army was in effect in the Philippines and military service was mandatory at that time by the order of Gen. Antonio Luna, the Chief Commander of the Army during the Philippine–American War.

Organization
The largest standard unit in the Filipino army according to the decree issued by President Aguinaldo on July 30, 1898 was the battalion, which varied in size depending on the province: six-company battalions in populous provinces like Cavite and Manila, four-company battalions in Morong, Bataan, and Nueva Ecija, a two-company battalion in Mindoro, and a single company in Marinduque. Soldiers were recruited voluntarily, with surplus volunteers either joining the police or forming a 3,000-strong central corps under the President. Battalions were named after their respective provinces, such as the 1st Battalion of Tayabas.

Philippine Revolutionary Navy
The Philippine Revolutionary Navy was established during the second phase of the Philippine Revolution when General Emilio Aguinaldo formed the Revolutionary Navy. On May 1, 1898, the first ship handed by Admiral George Dewey to the Revolutionary Navy is a small pinnace from the Reina Cristina of Admiral Patricio Montojo, which was named Magdalo. The Navy was initially composed of a small fleet of eight Spanish steam launches captured from the Spaniards. The ships were refitted with 9-centimeter guns. The rich, namely Leon Apacible, Manuel Lopez and Gliceria Marella de Villavicencio, later donated five other vessels of greater tonnage, the Taaleño, the Balayan, the Bulusan, the Taal and the Purísima Concepción. The 900-ton inter-island tobacco steamer further reinforced the fleet, Compania de Filipinas (renamed as the navy flagship Filipinas), steam launches purchased from China and other watercraft donated by wealthy patriots.

Naval stations were later established to serve as ships' home bases in the following:
 * Ports of Aparri
 * Ports of Legaspi
 * Ports of Balayan
 * Ports of Calapan
 * Ports of San Roque, Cavite

On September 26, 1898, Aguinaldo appointed Captain Pascual Ledesma (a merchant ship captain) as Director of the Bureau of the Navy, assisted by Captain Angel Pabie (another merchant ship captain). After passing of the Malolos Constitution the Navy was transferred from the Ministry of Foreign Relations to the Department of War (thereafter known as the Department of War and the Navy) headed by Gen. Mariano Trías.

As the tensions between Filipinos and Americans erupted in 1899 and a continued blockade on naval forces by the Americans, the Philippine naval forces started to be decimated.

General officers
During the existence of the Philippine Revolutionary Army, over a hundred individuals were appointed to General Officer grades.

Other notable officers

 * General Águeda Kahabagan y Iniquinto - Commander of the Reserve Corps from April 6, 1899. The only female general in the roster.
 * Colonel Agapito Bonzón
 * Colonel Felipe Salvador – Commander of the Santa Iglesia faction.
 * Colonel Apolinar Vélez
 * Colonel Alejandro Avecilla
 * Colonel Francisco "Paco" Román – Aide to Lieutenant General Antonio Luna.
 * Colonel Pablo Tecson – Leader, Battle of Quingua.
 * Colonel Alipio Tecson – Supreme Military Commander of Tarlac in 1900 and exiled to Guam.
 * Colonel Simón Tecson – Leader of Siege of Baler; signatory of the Biak-na-Bato Constitution.
 * Colonel Simeón Villa
 * Colonel Luciano San Miguel
 * Colonel Joaquin Luna
 * Colonel José Tagle – Known for his role in the Battle of Imus.
 * Lieutenant Colonel Lázaro Macapagal – Commanding officer in-charge at the execution of Andrés and Procopio Bonifacio brothers.
 * Lieutenant Colonel José Torres Bugallón – Hero of the Battle of La Loma.
 * Lieutenant Colonel Regino Díaz Relova – Fought as one of the heads of columns under General Juan Cailles in the Laguna province.
 * Major Manuel Quezon – Aide to President Emilio Aguinaldo. Eventually succeeded him as the second president of the Philippines under the United States-sponsored Commonwealth.
 * Major Eugenio Daza – Area Commander Southeastern Samar and overall Commander and chief organizer of the Balangiga Encounter.
 * Major Geronimo Gatmaitan – Commanding Officer of the presidential guards responsible for the protection of the President.
 * Major Juan Arce
 * Captain Eduardo Rusca – Aide to Lieutenant General Antonio Luna.
 * Captain Pedro Janolino – Commanding Officer of the Kawit Battalion.
 * Captain Vicente Roa
 * Captain Serapio Narváez – Officer of the 4th Company, Morong Battalion.
 * Captain Cirilo Arenas - Captain of Maguagui (Naic), Cavite.
 * Lieutenant García – one of Gen. Luna's favorite sharpshooters of the Black Guard units.
 * Corporal Anastacio Félix – 4th Company, Morong Battalion the first Filipino casualty of the Philippine–American War.
 * Lieutenant García – one of Gen. Luna's favorite sharpshooters of the Black Guard units.
 * Corporal Anastacio Félix – 4th Company, Morong Battalion the first Filipino casualty of the Philippine–American War.

Notable officers and servicemen and their ethnic background

 * Army:

 * General Juan Cailles – Franco-Indian mestizo who led Filipino forces in Laguna
 * General José Valesy Nazaraire – Spanish.
 * Brigadier General José Ignacio Paua – Full-blooded Chinese general in the Army.
 * Brigadier General Benito Natividad – Brigade Acting Commander in Vigan under General Tinio.
 * Colonel Manuel Sityar – Half-Spanish Director of Academía Militar de Malolos. A former captain in the Spanish colonial army who defected to the Filipino side.
 * Colonel Sebastian de Castro – Spanish director of the military hospital at Malasiqui, Pangasinan.
 * Colonel Dámaso Ybarra y Thomas – Spanish.
 * Lieutenant Colonel Potenciano Andrade – Spanish.
 * Estaquio Castellor – French mestizo who led a battalion of sharpshooters.
 * Major Candido Reyes – Instructor at the Academía Militar de Malolos. Former sergeant in the Spanish Army.
 * Major José Reyes – Instructor at the Academía Militar de Malolos. Former sergeant in the Spanish Army.
 * Major José Torres Bugallón – Spanish officer who served under General Luna.
 * Captain Antonio Costosa – Former officer in the Spanish Army.
 * Captain Tei Hara – Japanese officer who fought in the Philippine-American war with volunteer soldiers.
 * Captain Chizuno Iwamoto – Japanese officer who served on Emilio Aguinaldo's staff. Returned to Japan after Aguinaldo's capture.
 * A Japanese national named Tobira ("Tomvilla" in American records) who was adjutant to General Licerio Geronimo.
 * Captain David Fagen – An African-American Captain who served under Brigadier General Urbano Lacuna. A former Corporal in United States Army 24th Colored Regiment.
 * Captain Francisco Espina – Spanish.
 * Captain Estanislao de los Reyes – Spanish aide-de-camp to General Tinio.
 * Captain Feliciano Ramoso – Spanish aide-de-camp to General Tinio.
 * Captain Mariano Queri – Spanish officer who served under General Luna as an instructor in the Academía Militar de Malolos and later as the director-general of the staff of the war department.
 * Captain Camillo Ricchiardi – Italian.
 * Captain Telesforo Centeno – Spanish.
 * Captain Arthur Howard – American deserter from the 1st California Volunteers.
 * Captain Glen Morgan – American who organized insurgent forces in central Mindanao.
 * Captain John Miller – American who organized insurgent forces in central Mindanao.
 * Captain Russel – American deserter from the 10th Infantry.
 * Lieutenant Danfort – American deserter from the 10th Infantry.
 * Lieutenant Maximino Lazo – Spanish.
 * Lieutenant Gabriel Badelly Méndez – Cuban.
 * 2nd Lieutenant Segundo Paz – Spanish.
 * Lieutenant Alejandro Quirulgico – Spanish.
 * Lieutenant Rafael Madina – Spanish.
 * Lieutenant Saburo Nakamori – Japanese.
 * Lieutenant Arsenio Romero – Spanish.
 * Private John Allane – United States Army.
 * Private Harry Dennis – United States Army.
 * Private William Hyer – United States Army.
 * Private Meeks (given name not specified) – United States Army.
 * Private George Raymond – 41st Infantry, United States Army.
 * Private Maurice Sibley – 16th Infantry, United States Army.
 * Private John Wagner – United States Army.
 * Private Edward Walpole – United States Army.
 * Henry Richter – American deserter from the 9th Cavalry.
 * Gorth Shores – American deserter from the 9th Cavalry.
 * Fred Hunter – American deserter from the 9th Cavalry.
 * William Denten – American deserter who joined General Lukban in Samar.
 * Enrique Warren – American deserter who served under Francisco Makabulos in Tarlac.
 * Frank Mekin - American deserter from the 37th Infantry who served as a lieutenant under General Juan Cailles.
 * Earl Guenther - American deserter and canteen keeper from the 37th Infantry at the Paete garrison who served under General Juan Cailles.
 * Antonio Prisco – Spanish.
 * Manuel Alberto – Spanish.
 * Eugenia Plona – Spanish aide-de-camp to Baldermo Aguinaldo.
 * Alexander MacIntosh – English.
 * William McAllister – English.
 * Charles MacKinley – Englishman who served in Laoag.
 * James O'Brian – English.

 * Navy:
 * Captain Simplicio Agoncillo Orosa - Captain of the first steam flagship of the navy, SS Bulusan.
 * Captain Vicente Catalan – Captain of the Philippine Navy ship Filipinas. A Criollo from Cuba and a former member of the Spanish Navy. Admiral of the Philippine Navy.

In popular media
The Philippine revolutionary army has been mentioned in several books and films.

Films

 * Teniente Rosario (1937)
 * Dugo sa Kapirasong Lupa (1975)
 * Ganito Kami Noon, Paano Kayo Ngayon? (1976)
 * Aguila (1980)
 * Tirad Pass: The Last Stand of Gen. Gregorio del Pilar (1996)
 * José Rizal (1998)
 * Baler (2008)
 * Amigo (2010)
 * El Presidente (2012)
 * Bonifacio: Ang Unang Pangulo (2014)
 * Heneral Luna (2015)
 * Goyo: Ang Batang Heneral (2018)

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