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Richard Teitelbaum

Richard Lowe Teitelbaum (May 19, 1939 – April 9, 2020) was an American composer, keyboardist, and improvisor. A student of Allen Forte, Mel Powell, and Luigi Nono, he was known for his live electronic music and synthesizer performances. He was a pioneer of brain-wave music. He was also involved with world music and used Japanese, Indian, and western classical instruments and notation in both composition and improvisational settings.

Biography
Born in New York City, Teitelbaum remembered listening to his father (a successful lawyer) play piano while he was a child. A 1960 graduate of Haverford College, Teitelbaum continued keyboard studies at Mannes School of Music, then pursued his Masters in Music at Yale. He won a Fulbright grant to study in Italy in 1964 with Goffredo Petrassi, then in 1965 with Luigi Nono. While at Haverford, Teitelbaum met the composer Henry Cowell, and, following Cowell's death, became an executor of the Cowell estate.

While in Italy, he became a founding member of Musica Elettronica Viva with Alvin Curran and Frederic Rzewski. In the mid-1960s he began researching the use of brain-waves to control musical events and, as a result, he brought the first Moog synthesizer to Europe in 1967. His piece In Tune was first performed with Barbara Mayfield in late 1967.

In 1970, he returned to the US to study Ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University; while there he founded the World Band (one of the first inter-cultural improvisatory ensembles) with the master musicians teaching in that program.

In 1976 and 1977, another Fulbright fellowship allowed Teitelbaum to travel to Japan, where he studied gagaku (learning hichiriki from Masataro Togi, the chief court musician of Japan's Imperial Household music department), as well as shakuhachi with Katsuya Yokoyama.

Teitelbaum provided the score for the 1979 animated short film Asparagus, written and directed by Suzan Pitt.

Teitelbaum also collaborated with Anthony Braxton, Nam June Paik, Joan Jonas, Andrew Cyrille, Leroy Jenkins, Steve Lacy, Alvin Lucier, and David Behrman, among many others.

Teitelbaum lived in upstate New York and taught at Bard College beginning in 1988, and was the director of their Electronic Music Studio. He died of a stroke on April 9, 2020, and is survived by his wife, the classical pianist Hiroko Sakurazawa. He was 80 years old.

Awards
Teitelbaum was awarded a Guggenheim, the two Fulbrights mentioned above, and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Venice Biennale, The Rockefeller Foundation, and the Asian Cultural Council.

Discography

 * Time Zones (Freedom, 1976) with Anthony Braxton
 * Hiuchi-Ishi (Denon Jazz, 1978)
 * Blends & The Digital Pianos (Lumina, 1984)
 * Concerto Grosso (hat ART, 1985 [1988])
 * The Sea Between (Victo, 1988) with Carlos Zíngaro
 * Cyberband (Moers Music, 1993)
 * Golem (Tzadik, 1994)
 * Duet: Live At Merkin Hall, NYC (Music & Arts, 1994) with Anthony Braxton
 * Double Clutch (Silkheart, 1997) with Andrew Cyrille
 * Shift (For 4 Ears, 1997) with Hans Burgener and Martin Schütz
 * >11>Ways>to>Proceed (For 4 Ears, 1999) with Hans Burgener, Günter Müller and Carlos Zíngaro as BTMZ
 * Blends (New Albion, 2002) with Katsuya Yokoyama
 * Evocation (Infrequent Seams, 2022) with Andrew Cyrille and Elliott Sharp, recorded in 2011

With Anthony Braxton With Company With Marilyn Crispell With Andrew Cyrille With Leroy Jenkins With Steve Lacy With Joëlle Léandre With George E. Lewis With Musica Elettronica Viva
 * Trio and Duet (Sackville, 1974)
 * New York, Fall 1974 (Arista.1975)
 * Creative Orchestra Music 1976 (Arista, 1976)
 * Open Aspects '82 (Hat Hut Records, 1995)
 * Once (Incus, 1989)
 * Dream Libretto (Leo, 2018)
 * The Declaration of Musical Independence (ECM, 2014 [2016])
 * Space Minds, New Worlds, Survival of America (Tomato, 1978)
 * Sideways (Roaratorio, 1968 [2000])
 * Joëlle Léandre Project (Leo, 1999)
 * Homage to Charles Parker (Black Saint, 1979)
 * Chicago Slow Dance (Lovely Music, 1981)
 *  Friday (Polydor, 1969)
 * The Sound Pool (BYG Actuel, 1969)
 * Live Electronic Music Improvised (Mainstream, 1970) - split album with AMM
 * United Patchwork (Horo, 1978)

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Battle of Roncevaux Pass

The Battle of Roncevaux Pass (French and English spelling, Roncesvalles in Spanish, Orreaga in Basque) in 778 saw a large force of Basques ambush a part of Charlemagne's army in Roncevaux Pass, a high mountain pass in the Pyrenees on the present border between France and Spain, after his invasion of the Iberian Peninsula.

The Basque attack was in retaliation for Charlemagne's destruction of the city walls of their capital, Pamplona. As the Franks retreated across the Pyrenees back to Francia, the rearguard of Frankish lords was cut off, stood its ground, and was wiped out.

Among those killed in the battle was Roland, a Frankish commander. His death elevated him and the paladins, the foremost warriors of Charlemagne's court, into legend, becoming the quintessential role model for knights and also greatly influencing the code of chivalry in the Middle Ages. There are numerous written works about the battle, some of which change and exaggerate events. The battle is recounted in the 11th century The Song of Roland, the oldest surviving major work of French literature, and in Orlando Furioso, one of the most celebrated works of Italian literature. Modern adaptations of the battle include books, plays, works of fiction, and monuments in the Pyrenees.

Background
With the rise of the Carolingians and Pepin the Short's war on Aquitaine, the Duchy of Aquitaine led by Waifer was defeated and the Franks encroached farther into the duchy. The Basques (Vascones, Wascones) of the Duchy of Vasconia, one of the mainstays of the Aquitanian army, submitted to Pepin in 766 and 769, but the territory south of the Garonne remained largely unscathed and self-governed. However, as of 778 Charlemagne expanded Frankish takeover of Aquitaine to present-day Gascony, by appointing trusted Franks, Burgundians, and Church officials in key regional positions and establishing counties, such as Fezensac, Bordeaux, and Toulouse, on the left bank of the Garonne.

Sulayman al-Arabi, the pro-Abbasid Wali (governor) of Barcelona and Girona, sent a delegation to Charlemagne, Master of the Franks in Paderborn, offering his submission, along with the allegiance of Husayn of Zaragoza and Abu Taur of Huesca in return for military aid. Their Lords had been cornered in the Iberian peninsula by Abd ar-Rahman I, the Umayyad emir of Córdoba. The three rulers also conveyed that the caliph of Baghdad, Muhammad al-Mahdi, was preparing an invasion force against Abd ar-Rahman.

Seeing an opportunity to extend Christendom and his own power, Charlemagne agreed to go to Spain. Al-Arabi induced him to invade al Andalus by promising him an easy surrender of its Upper March, of which Zaragoza was the capital. Following the sealing of this alliance at Paderborn, Charlemagne marched across the Pyrenees in 778 "at the head of all the forces he could muster". Charlemagne led the Neustrian army over Vasconia into the Western Pyrenees, while the Austrasians, Lombards, and Burgundians passed over the Eastern Pyrenees through Catalonia. His troops were welcomed in Barcelona and Girona by Sulayman al-Arabi. As he moved towards Zaragoza, the troops of Charlemagne were joined by troops led by al-Arabi, before eventually putting the city under siege.

Abd ar-Rahman of Córdoba sent his most trusted general, Thalaba Ibn Obeid, to take control of the possibly rebellious city and to prevent the Frankish invasion. Husayn and Ibn Obeid clashed repeatedly; eventually Husayn managed to defeat and to imprison Ibn Obeid. Reinforced in his autonomous position, Husayn became reluctant to yield his new privileged status to the Frankish monarch and refused to surrender the city to Charlemagne, claiming that he had never promised Charlemagne his allegiance. He seems to have tried to appease Charlemagne by giving him the prisoner General Ibn Obeid and a large tribute of gold, but Charlemagne was not easily satisfied, putting Sulayman al-Arabi in chains. Meanwhile, the force sent by the Baghdad caliphate seems to have been stopped near Barcelona. Though Charlemagne's forces initially held the upper hand, the siege of Zaragoza dragged on for over a month. Eventually a deal was struck between Charlemagne and Husayn. The latter would pay gold and the release of several prisoners, while the Franks in return would withdraw their siege.

Battle
Before leaving the Iberian Peninsula, Charlemagne decided to further secure his hold on the Basque territory (Wasconia). He first eliminated any possible opposition from the natives of the region (the Basque tribes), believing that many of them were allied with the Moors. He gave orders to tear down the walls of the Basque capital Iruña, possibly fearing that it could be used for future conflicts. Some primary sources suggest that he destroyed the city altogether, and many towns in the region were also razed. Garrisons and military outposts were placed throughout the territory, and there were accounts of the Franks' harsh treatment of the Basques during their occupation.

After securing the region, Charlemagne marched for the Pyrenees mountain pass to return to France. Many of his notable lords, such as Roland, military governor of the Breton March, and Eggihard, Mayor of the Palace, were placed in the rearguard probably to protect the retreat and the baggage train. Unknown to Charlemagne, the enraged Basques sent their warriors in pursuit of him and his army in retaliation for the destruction of their city, and the Basques' knowledge of the region helped them overtake the Franks.

In the evening of August 15, Charlemagne's rearguard was suddenly attacked by the Basques as they crossed the mountain pass. The Franks were caught off guard by the surprise attack, with their army in confusion and disarray as they tried to escape the ambush. The Basques managed to cut off and isolate the Frankish rearguard and the baggage train from the rest of the escaping army, and although the Basques were not as well-equipped, they held the upper ground and the knowledge of the terrain that gave them a huge advantage in the skirmish. As Charlemagne tried to regroup and evacuate his army, Roland and the others held for a considerable amount of time before the Basques finally massacred them completely. Though killed to the last man, the rearguard nonetheless succeeded in allowing Charlemagne and his army to continue to safety. The Basques then looted the baggage that was left behind and took advantage of the darkness to flee, leaving no trace for the Franks to follow the following morning. The revised version of the Annales Regni reads:

"Having decided to return, [Charlemagne] entered the mountains of the Pyrenees, in whose summits the Vascones had set up an ambush. They attacked the rearguard, causing confusion which spread to all the army. And, while the Franks were superior to the Vascones both in armament and in courage, the roughness of the terrain and the difference in the style of combat made them generally weaker. In this battle were killed the majority of the paladins that the King had placed in command of his forces. The baggage was sacked, and suddenly the enemy vanished, thanks to their knowledge of the terrain. The memory of the injury so produced overshadowed in the King's heart that of the feats done in Hispania."

The Basque army
One of the principal units of the Vascones was the guerrilla army of the Basques. A later source, the anonymous Saxon Poet, talks of the Basque spears, agreeing with the Pyrenean and Basque tradition much later among the almogavars. A typical Basque mountain warrior was armed with two short spears and a knife or short sword as his main weapons, and bows or javelins for missile weapons. He would not normally wear armour. Pierre de Marca, a Béarnese author, suggests that the attackers were a reduced number of mostly local Low Navarrese, Souletines, and Baztanese, whose main motivation may have been plunder. The Vascones had a history of resisting Carolingian rule since the incursion of Frankish king Pepin the Short, which saw the defeat of Waiofar, the last independent Duke of Aquitaine.

The accounts of Einhard and Pierre de Marca suggest that the perpetrator of the attack was Lupo II of Gascony. He held the territory of the Pyrenees, making him responsible for the tragedy that happened in his realm. Regions surrounding his kingdom such as Bordeaux were under the control of the Carolingians. While the Duke did pay homage to Charlemagne by offering Hunald II (a rebel leader and a possible heir to Waiofar) and his wife to him, there were disputes over the trans-Pyrenean Basque lands ruled by Lupo and those under Carolingian suzerainty. The authors of the General History of Languedoc also believed in the same theory that the Duke was the leader of the attack. Their reasons were that he and the Vascones opposed Carolingian expansion into Vasconia after the Franco-Aquitanian war (760–769).

Location

The Pyrenees are a mountain range in southwest Europe that form a natural border between France and Spain, extending about 490 km (305 m) from Cap Higuer on the Bay of Biscay, to Cap de Creus on the Mediterranean Sea. The range also separates the Iberian Peninsula from the rest of Western Europe. Beyond the Northern part of the pass lies much of the French frontier and wilderness. The mountains are older than the Alps and have an elevation of 1,777 m (5,862 feet). These descriptions have suggested various places where the battle could have taken place, ranging from Navarre and Aragon to as far as Catalonia.

The mainstream opinion is that the battle took place somewhere not far from Roncevaux itself, as it is not just on one of the easiest routes but also the traditional one. Indeed, the Roman road Via ab Asturica Burdigalam which started in Castra Legiones (modern León) and went to Benearnum (mod. Lescar), crossed the Pyrenees through Roncevaux. However, the historical Roman road (also called the Route of Napoleon) followed a route different from the modern one, not crossing at Ibañeta (the traditional location) but heading up eastwards and crossing instead the Lepoeder and Bentartea passes – next to mount Astobizkar – not far from mount Urkulu, identified as the Summum Pyreneum of the classic Roman sources.

Aftermath
Charlemagne biographer Einhard stated that the men in the rear were "massacred to the last man." The Vita Karoli mentions the names of the most important lords killed such as Eggihard, Roland, and Anselmus, the count palatine. The battle caused numerous losses among the Frankish troops, including several of the most important aristocrats and the sack of the baggage, probably with all the gold given by the Muslims at Zaragoza.

While the skirmish was a small setback, Charlemagne did lose huge quantities of treasure and good men. It was the only significant defeat that Charlemagne ever suffered in his otherwise successful military career. Never again would Charlemagne take it upon himself to lead an army to battle in Spain, having to rely instead on his generals for future campaigns in the Iberian Peninsula. The Franks failed to capture Zaragoza and suffered a significant loss at the hands of the Vascones, but Charlemagne would return to establish the Marca Hispanica, to serve as a buffer region between his Christian empire and the Muslims to the south. A decade later the Franks finally captured Barcelona. He would also later establish the Kingdom of Aquitaine with the son of Louis the Pious as its first king. Land in the Pyrenees would be overseen by Carolingian officials, and distributed among colonisers and to the Spanish Church who were allied to Charlemagne. A Christianization program was put in place across the high Pyrenees. The Basques would continue their rebellion to Carolingian rule until the appointment of William of Gellone, who would dissolve their rebellion after capturing and exiling Lupo's son and Basque leader Adalric in 790.

Zaragoza, however, remained a Muslim city and capital of the Upper March, and later of an independent emirate until the 11th century. Pamplona itself would remain in the hands of the Muslims until a rebellion in 798–801 expelled them as well. The Vascones would finally consolidate the Banu Qasi realm and eventually the constitution of the independent Kingdom of Pamplona in 824 after the birth of a new resistance to Carolingian rule. In that same year, the Basque army defeated another Carolingian army in the same mountain pass. The second Battle of Roncevaux Pass was almost identical to the first, with the Basques again taking advantage of the terrain, but against a much larger Frankish force. Unlike the first battle in which Charlemagne's army managed to escape, the Carolingians led by Count Aeblus were trapped and routed, and a larger number of their men were slaughtered than those of Charlemagne. Frankish vassals Aeblus and Aznar were captured by the joint forces of Iñigo Arista's Pamplona and of the Banu Qasi, consolidating the independence of both realms.

Legacy

Over the years, this battle was romanticized by oral tradition into a major conflict between Christians and Muslims although in fact, the Basques of the period were mainly pagans and Charlemagne had been allied to some of the Muslims. In the tradition, the Basques are replaced by a force of 400,000 Saracens, and mythical objects such as Durendal and Oliphant were also added. Although Roland died in the battle with little information about him, the battle popularized him as a chivalric hero of honor in the Middle Ages. The Song of Roland, which commemorates the battle, was written by an unknown poet of the 11th century. It is the earliest surviving of the chansons de geste or epic poems of medieval France written in Old French. Together with the Knights of the Round Table in Britain, the story of Roland and the paladins have become the archetypal icons of chivalry in Europe; greatly influencing knightly culture and inspiring many Christian warriors that came after. During the Battle of Hastings in 1066, knights and soldiers under William the Conqueror, chanted the poem to inspire themselves before their fight with the Anglo-Saxons. The English expression, "to give a Roland for an Oliver", meaning either to offer a quid pro quo or to give as good as one gets, which is referenced directly from the companionship of Roland and Oliver during the battle. One example was said during the Combat of the Thirty in 1351; a judicial combat between two groups of knights during the Breton War of Succession. The knights were described by the French author Jean Froissart as "if they had been all Rolands and Olivers," which admired their honor and companionship in battle. Memorials have also been erected to commemorate the battle, such as the Roncesvalles Pass Monument in Navarre, Spain. Roland's Breach, situated in the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, is a gap thought to have been caused by Roland while fighting. At the summit of the Roncevaux Pass are the remains of an early chapel of San Salvador also known as Charlemagne's Chapel and the Charlemagne Monument built in 1934; both built to commemorate the Emperor's campaign in the region.

The song is also commemorated in the Italian literary classic Orlando Furioso. The battle is also referenced in the song "Roncevaux" by Van der Graaf Generator, originally recorded in 1972 but only released in rather rough form many years later on the album Time Vaults. The battle and Orlando's sacrifice inspired several composers, amongst whom were Claudio Monteverdi, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Antonio Vivaldi and George Frideric Handel, who composed an Italian-language opera with Orlando. Modern adaptations of the battle drew heavily on the romanticized versions. A 1978 French film La chanson de Roland features an adaptation of the Song of Roland and features the battle as depicted in the poem. The battle is also featured minimally in the graphic novel The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier, in which Roland is named Orlando, an amalgamation of fictional characters that were named Roland and Orlando.

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USGS says "Sawatch", and Google agrees by about 80-to-1. Stan 03:42, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

Inconsistent Naming
The title of the article and most of the content uses "Sawatch" as the name of the range, but the lead and the title of the infobox use "Saguache". There's a footnote that notes that "Saguache" is pronounced the same as "Sawatch", but doesn't explain the two different written versions of the name. I'm going to be bold and assume that "Saguache" is a valid alternative name, less commonly used currently, and as such change the headings to "Sawatch" for consistency and add a note about the alternate name in the lead. Please update and/or comment here if that's incorrect. Khromegnome (talk) 13:48, 6 August 2021 (UTC)

Castle Peak
It is unclear whether Castle Peak (11er, not to be confused with the 14er in the Elk Range) should be considered part of the Sawatch Range. It was probably included because geographically, it is straight north of the rest of the range. However, looking at its parent lineage on lists of john (https://listsofjohn.com/lineage/2217), the path of least descent from castle peak to the Sawatch range takes you over two other major ranges: the Gore Range and then the Mosquito/Tenmile range. Given that Castle peak has over 3,000 ft. of prominence (more than Mt. Powell, the highest peak in the Gore Range), I do not think it makes sense to call it part of the Gore Range either. Additionally, it is separated from the rest of the Sawatch Range by the Colorado River. I do no know if there is a consistent definition of mountain range on Wikipedia that should be applied here. Perhaps the best solution is to add a note to the table that says "Castle Peak may not be part of the Sawatch Range if considering parent lineage". 2601:285:200:FC70:C19C:E097:9240:339D (talk) 21:43, 28 June 2023 (UTC)

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The Cell (film)

The Cell is a 2000 science fiction psychological thriller film directed by Tarsem Singh in his directorial debut, and starring Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, and Vincent D'Onofrio. The film follows scientists as they use experimental technology to enter the mind of a comatose serial killer in order to locate where he has hidden his latest kidnap victim.

The film received mixed reviews upon its release, with critics praising the visuals, direction, make-up, costumes and D'Onofrio's performance, while criticizing the plot, an emphasis on style rather than substance, and masochistic creation. Despite the critical reception, the film was a box office success, grossing over $104 million against a $33 million budget, and it earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Makeup.

Plot
Child psychologist Catherine Deane is hired to conduct an experimental virtual reality treatment for coma patients: a "Neurological Cartography and Synaptic Transfer System" device managed by doctors Henry West and Miriam Kent that allows her to enter a comatose mind and attempt to coax them into consciousness. The technology is funded by the parents of her patient, Edward Baines, a young boy left comatose by a viral infection that causes an unusual form of schizophrenia. Baines's progress has been hampered by a bogeyman-like alter ego whom Deane avoids. Despite Deane's lack of progress, West and Kent reject Deane's suggestion to reverse the feed to bring Baines into her mind, fearing the consequences of his experiencing an unfamiliar world.

Serial killer Carl Rudolph Stargher traps his victims in a cell in the form of a glass enclosure that slowly fills with water by means of an automatic timer, then uses a hoist in his basement to suspend himself above their bodies while watching the recorded video of their deaths. He succumbs to the same schizophrenic illness and falls into a coma just as the FBI identifies him, leaving them without any leads as to the location of his latest victim, Julia Hickson. After learning of this experimental technology, Agent Peter Novak persuades Deane to enter Stargher's mind and discover Hickson's location.

Deane enters the dark dreamscape of Stargher's twisted psyche, filled with doll-like versions of his victims. Stargher's innocent side manifests as Young Stargher and leads Deane through his memories of abuse he suffered at the hands of his sadistic father. Deane nurtures Young Stargher in hopes of obtaining Hickson's location, but she is thwarted by another manifestation: King Stargher, a demonic idealization of his murderous side that dominates the dreamscape. King Stargher torments Deane until she forgets the world is not real. Dr. West discovers this while monitoring Deane's vitals. He warns that what happens to Deane while she is integrated into Stargher's mindscape will inflict neurological damage on her real body. Novak volunteers to enter Stargher's mind to make Deane remember herself.

Inside Stargher's mind, Novak is captured and subjected to King Stargher's torture while Deane looks on as Stargher's servant. Novak reminds Deane of a painful memory of her younger brother who died after a six-month coma due to a car accident during her college years to reawaken her awareness that she is in Stargher's mind. Deane breaks free of Stargher's hold and stabs King Stargher to free Novak. During their escape, Novak sees a version of the glass enclosure with the same insignia as the hoist in Stargher's basement. Novak's team discovers that after the hoist's previous owner went bankrupt, the government hired Stargher to seal up his property. Novak races to the property and finds Hickson treading water in the enclosure and breathing through a pipe. Novak breaks the glass wall and rescues Hickson.

Deane, now sympathetic to Young Stargher, locks her colleagues out and reverses the feed of the device to pull Stargher's mind into her own. She presents a comforting paradise to Young Stargher, but he knows it is only a temporary reprieve from King Stargher. He shifts to Adult Stargher to relate a childhood story of when he drowned an injured bird as a mercy killing to prevent its torture at his father's hands. King Stargher intrudes as a scaly snake-man, but this time, Deane is in control and she beats him to a bloody pulp before impaling him with a sword. However, Young Stargher exhibits the same injuries as King Stargher, and killing either manifestation kills Stargher. Adult Stargher reminds her of the story of the bird and implores her to "save" him. Deane carries Young Stargher into a pool, putting him out of his misery as Stargher dies in the real world.

In the aftermath, Deane and Novak meet outside of Stargher's house. The FBI has officially excluded the mind technology from their inquiry and Deane has gained approval to use the reverse feed on Edward Baines. Inside the paradise of Deane's mindscape, Baines walks to embrace Deane.

Filming
The scene where the Special Agents are trying to convince Dr. Catherine Deane to enter the killer's mind was recorded at the Barcelona Pavilion in Barcelona, Spain.

Artistic influences
Some of the scenes in The Cell are inspired by works of art. A scene in which a horse is split into sections by falling glass panels was inspired by the works of British artist Damien Hirst. The film also includes scenes based on the work of other late 20th century artists, including Odd Nerdrum, H. R. Giger and the Brothers Quay. Tarsem—who began his career directing music videos such as En Vogue's "Hold On" and R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion"—drew upon such imagery for Stargher's dream sequences. In particular, it has been speculated that he was influenced by videos directed by Mark Romanek, such as "Closer" and "The Perfect Drug" by Nine Inch Nails, "Bedtime Story" by Madonna, and the many videos that Floria Sigismondi directed for Marilyn Manson. During a scene, Jennifer Lopez's character falls asleep watching a film; the film is Fantastic Planet (1973).

In the scene where Catherine talks with Carl while he is "cleaning" his first victim, the scenery resembles the music video "Losing My Religion" by R.E.M. The scene where Peter Novak first enters the mind of Carl Stargher, and is confronted by three women with open mouths to the sky, is based on the painting Dawn by Norwegian painter Odd Nerdrum. The scene when Catherine is chasing Carl through a stone hallway, right before she enters the room with the horse, is based on the H. R. Giger painting "Schacht".

A psychiatrist entering the dreams of an insane patient in order to take control of the dreams and so to cure the patient's mind (this being a very risky attempt, because the insanity may prevail during such "neuro-participatory therapy") was described in the novella He Who Shapes (1965) by Roger Zelazny, but the film Dreamscape (1984), subsequently developed from Zelazny's basic idea, had a completely different plot.

Reception
Critical reaction to The Cell has been mixed. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 45% based on 166 reviews, with an average rating of 5.6/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "The Cell offers disturbing, stunning eye candy, but its visual pleasures are no match for a confused storyline that undermines the movie's inventive aesthetic." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 40 out of 100, based on 32 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews. Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade "C+" on scale of A to F.

One of the most positive reviews came from Roger Ebert, who awarded the film four stars out of four, writing: "For all of its visual pyrotechnics, it's also a story where we care about the characters; there's a lot at stake at the end, and we're involved. I know people who hate it, finding it pretentious or unrestrained; I think it's one of the best films of the year." Ebert later placed the film on his list of "The Best 10 Movies of 2000", writing: "Tarsem, the director, is a visual virtuoso who juggles his storylines effortlessly; it's dazzling, the way he blends so many notes, styles and genres into a film so original." James Berardinelli gave the film three stars out of four, writing: "The Cell becomes the first serial killer feature in a long time to take the genre in a new direction. Not only does it defy formulaic expectations, but it challenges the viewer to think and consider the horrors that can turn an ordinary child into an inhuman monster. There are no easy answers, and The Cell doesn't pretend to offer any. Instead, Singh presents audiences with the opportunity to go on a harrowing journey. For those who are up to the challenge, it's worth spending time in The Cell." Peter Travers from Rolling Stone wrote that "Tarsem uses the dramatically shallow plot to create a dream world densely packed with images of beauty and terror that cling to the memory even if you don't want them to."

Conversely, Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post called it "contrived", "arbitrary", and "overdrawn". Slate's David Edelstein panned the film as well, writing: "When I go to a serial-killer flick, I don't want to see the serial killer (or even his inner child) coddled and empathized with and forgiven. I want to see him shot, stabbed, impaled, eviscerated, and finally engulfed—shrieking—in flames. The Cell serves up some of the most gruesomely misogynistic imagery in years, then ends with a bid for understanding." Jonathan Rosenbaum of the Chicago Reader remarked, "There's almost no plot here and even less character—just a lot of pretexts for S&M imagery, Catholic decor, gobs of gore, and the usual designer schizophrenia." William Thomas of Empire gave the film two stars out of five, stating that "at times beautiful and always disturbing, this is strangely devoid of meaning."

Sequel
A sequel was released direct to DVD on June 16, 2009. The story centers on The Cusp, a serial killer who murders his victims, and then brings them back to life, over and over again until they beg to die. Maya (Tessie Santiago) is a psychic investigator and surviving victim of The Cusp, whose abilities developed after spending a year in a coma. Maya must use her powers to travel into the mind of the killer unprotected, in order to save his latest victim.

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CBBC Newsround

CBBC Newsround (stylised as newsround) is a BBC children's news programme, which has run continuously since 4 April 1972. It was one of the world's first television news magazines aimed specifically at children. Initially commissioned as a short series by BBC Children's Department, who held editorial control, its facilities were provided by BBC News. The programme is aimed at 5 to 15-year-olds.

History
Originally known as John Craven's Newsround, it was first presented by John Craven between 4 April 1972 and 22 June 1989. Originally, stand-in presenters, such as Richard Whitmore, came from the main BBC News bulletins.

In 1987, the show was renamed CBBC Newsround, and was presented by a rotating team including Craven in the dual role of chief presenter and programme editor. The programme gradually developed its own small reporting team, including Helen Rollason, Lucy Mathen, and long-serving space editor Reg Turnill. Other presenters included Juliet Morris, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Julie Etchingham, Chris Rogers, Kate Gerbeau, Matthew Price and Becky Jago. Regular reporters on the programme, who have also presented it, included Paul Welsh, Lizo Mzimba and Terry Baddoo. Also, for most of its first two decades, Newsround drew upon the BBC's network of national and international correspondents such as John Humphrys, Michael Buerk and Martin Bell.

CBBC Newsround was the first British television programme to break the news of the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger on 28 January 1986. This edition was presented by Roger Finn, who had only recently joined the programme. The programme was also first in Britain to report an assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in Vatican City in 1981 and provided the first reports from the Windsor Castle fire of November 1992.

In February 2002, CBBC Newsround expanded from a sole ten-minute programme on weeknights to through-the-day bulletins seven days a week to tie-in with the launch of the CBBC Channel, and was broadcast across BBC1, BBC2 and the CBBC Channel. With this included a new theme, titles and expanded presenting team. The online and schools' offering were also expanded. In the early 00s CBBC Newsround was the most watched programme for children in the UK, and also had the highest AI score (a measure of programme engagement and appreciation) of all CBBC programmes. Following the 9/11 attacks, CBBC Newsround launched a guide to help children who were worried by news events. As part of the relocation of the BBC Children's Department, CBBC Newsround began broadcasting from new studios at Dock10, MediaCityUK in Salford Quays on Monday 21 November 2011.

In July 2020, the 16:20 & 08:15 programmes were axed after being on air since 1972. BBC executives concluded that children no longer turn on traditional television channels when they return home from school, and that the focus would shift to Newsround's morning edition often used by teachers in school classrooms, and to more investment in the programme's website. The 7:40am bulletin was moved to 7:45am, and would be eight minutes long.

On the 15th of January, 2021, presenter Ricky Boleto turned his shed into a studio.

Newsround moved out of studio HQ5 for undisclosed reasons on 17 December 2023. All production from HQ5 had ceased by 22 December, and the studio had been emptied by 25 January. Newsround is currently sharing space with a temporary set in the CBeebies studio until a permanent one is constructed in the future.

Broadcast times
Every day, CBBC Newsround is broadcast on CBBC once a day, with an eight-minute bulletin at around 7:45am. On Saturday morning, it is also broadcast on BBC Two. Like many BBC News TV bulletins, it is available for 24 hours on BBC iPlayer and the CBBC Newsround section of the CBBC website.

Presenters and reporters

 * Ricky Boleto (2008–present)
 * Hayley Hassall (2009–present)
 * Jenny Lawrence (2013–present) (currently on maternity leave)
 * Martin Dougan (2013–present)
 * De'Graft Mensah (2019–present)
 * Shanequa Paris (2020–present)
 * Nina Blissett (2021–present)
 * Otis Holmes (2023–Present)
 * Emma-Louise Amanshia (2024–present)

Editors

 * Edward Barnes (1972)
 * Jill Roach (1976)
 * John Craven (1986–1989)
 * Eric Rowan
 * Nick Heathcote (1990–1996)
 * Susie Staples (1996–1998)
 * Ian Prince (editor twice).
 * Roy Milani
 * Sinead Rocks
 * Owenna Griffiths (2009–)
 * Daniel Clark (−2013)
 * Lewis James (2013–present)
 * Paul Plunkett (2019; parental leave cover for Lewis James)

Newsround Specials
A variation on the regular format of CBBC Newsround is a series of short (typically 15-minute) documentary films, previously broadcast under the title CBBC Newsround Extra but now called "specials", which have been a regular feature since the late 1970s. Two or three series of these documentaries air during the year, which replace the regular bulletins on one day of the week (for Extras it was usually Monday, although sometimes on Fridays, particularly during the 1980s).

CBBC Newsround Specials in recent years have included:
 * The Wrong Trainers: a series of six animated films dealing with child poverty. The programme won the 2006 Royal award for best children's programme and the 2007 BAFTA children's award for best factual programme.
 * The Worst Thing Ever: a dramatised documentary revolving around a child's experience of their parents' divorce.
 * CBBC Newsround on Knives: an animated look at knife crime from a child's point of view. (Bafta nominated)
 * Gone: interviews with four bereaved children. (Bafta nominated)
 * Whose Side Are You On?: a drama on the role of bystanders in tackling bullying, featuring Joe Calzaghe, Aston Merrygold, Patsy Palmer, George Sampson and Gemma Hunt (first shown 16 November 2009)
 * Living with Alcohol: a special about children's experiences with alcohol, presented by Barney Harwood.
 * "Ricky Investigates": a six-part investigative series which began on 28 September 2010
 * A one-off CBBC Newsround Investigates documentary on arson in schools was broadcast in May 2006.

The most recent CBBC Newsround Specials:

Newsround Showbiz
A light-hearted entertainment news round-up, originally known as Newsround Lite and introduced as part of the CBBC Channel's launch in February 2002. The latter version of the show was hosted by regular Newsround presenters/reporters Lizzie Greenwood-Hughes, Adam Fleming, Rachel Horne and Thalia Pellegrini, and produced by Sinéad Rocks. The programme was axed in 2005.

Sportsround
A Saturday morning sports magazine show introduced in September 2005 and produced by Sinead Rocks. It was cancelled in December 2010 and replaced by Match of the Day Kickabout, which was cancelled in 2021. In 2010 it was presented by Ore Oduba with reporters Des Clarke and Jon Franks.

Newsround Review of the Year
Until 2006, a half-hour review of the year special was produced for broadcast during the Christmas/New Year period. The last review aired in 2009, and from 2010 – 2019 and 2021–present, the final bulletin of the year was hosted by all presenters who discuss their most memorable news stories.

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Roncevaux Pass

Roncesvalles Pass, Ronceval Pass or Roncevaux Pass (Puerto de Ibañeta; Ibañetako Mendatea; Col de Roncevaux; elevation 1057 m) is a high mountain pass in the Pyrenees near the border between France and Spain. The pass itself is entirely in Spain.

Location
The pass is located between the towns of Roncesvalles and Luzaide/Valcarlos in Navarra, northern Spain. The closest town in France is Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, at a distance of about 8 km (5.0 mi) from the Spanish border. It has customarily been an important point on the Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage route.

The route over the pass departs from Lintzoain on the Spanish side and from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port on the French side.

The pass divides the valley of the Nive on the north from the valley of the Irati on the south.

Battle of Roncesvalles (778)
In 778 Roland, the warden of the Breton March, had accompanied Charlemagne on his campaign into the Iberian peninsula across the Western Pyrenees. Einhard, the biographer of Charlemagne, mentions in his Vita Karoli Magni a fatal event involving Vasconian raiders who laid an ambush by hiding in the woods on top of a high mountain while Frankish troops were crossing the mountain pass. Subsequently, the raiders attacked the rear guards of the Frankish army on their way down into the valley. According to Einhard, Eggihard, the King's steward; Anselm ("Anshelmus"), Count Palatine; and Roland ("Hruodlandus"), Governor of the March of Brittany, with very many others, lost their lives during that ambush.

According to tradition, Roncesvalles is the site where this event took place in 778, and hence today the battle is called Battle of Roncesvalles. There is a stone monument near the pass commemorating the area where it is traditionally held that Roland died.

Nonetheless, the inhabitants of Valcarlos continue to claim that Valcarlos is the historic site where the battle of 778 took place because Charlemagne's troops were on their way back into the Frankish realm.

Battle of Roncesvalles (824)
The battle in 824, sometimes called the Second Battle of Roncevaux Pass, was a battle in which a combined Basque-Qasawi Muslim army defeated a Carolingian military expedition in 824. The battle took place only 46 years after the first Battle of Roncevaux Pass (778) in a confrontation showing similar features: a Basque force engaging from the mountains a northbound expedition led by the Franks, and the same geographical setting (the Roncevaux Pass or a spot nearby).

The battle resulted in the defeat of the Carolingian military expedition and the capture of its commanders Aeblus and Aznar Sánchez in 824. The clash was to have further reaching consequences than those of the 778 engagement: the immediate establishment of the independent Kingdom of Pamplona, a landmark in Basque history.

Battle of Roncesvalles (1813)
On 25 July 1813 a battle between French Napoleonic troops and Anglo-Portuguese forces took place at the Roncesvalles Pass during the Peninsular War (1808–1814). This Battle of Roncesvalles ended in an Anglo-Portuguese defeat.

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Facing Future

Facing Future is the second album by Hawaiian singer Israel Kamakawiwoʻole, released in 1993. The best-selling album of all time by a Hawaiian artist, Facing Future combines traditional Hawaiian-language songs, hapa-haole songs with traditional instrumentation, and two Jawaiian (Island reggae) tracks.

The album's sales have been driven not only by its popularity with Hawaiian audiences but by its popularity in the mainland United States and around the world, particularly the track "Somewhere Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World", which has been used in various films (Finding Forrester, Meet Joe Black, 50 First Dates, Fred Claus, Hubble, Son of the Mask), television shows (ER, Cold Case, Jon & Kate Plus 8, Life On Mars, Glee, Scrubs) and commercials (eToys). Facing Future reached platinum status in 2005.

Personnel
Musicians
 * Israel Kamakawiwoʻole – ukulele, vocals
 * Del Beazley – guitar
 * Mel Amina – guitar
 * Gaylord Holomalia – keyboards, programming
 * Analu ʻAina – electric bass (uncredited)
 * Roland Cazimero – acoustic bass, guitar
 * Mike Muldoon – percussion

Production
 * Produced by Israel Kamakawiwoʻole and Jon de Mello
 * Engineered and mixed by Milan Bertosa
 * Mastered by Jon Golden

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Teddy bear museum

A teddy bear museum is a museum about teddy bears. There are many teddy bear museums around the world.

The world's first Teddy Bear Museum was based in Petersfield, Hampshire, England. It was founded by Judy Sparrow in 1984, and housed a collection of antique teddy bears and related items. It closed in 2006.

The British broadcaster Gyles Brandreth founded a Teddy Bear Museum in Stratford-upon-Avon. After 18 years it was relocated to the Polka Theatre in Wimbledon, London and then, in 2016, relocated again to Newby Hall, near Ripon, in North Yorkshire.

The V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green also has an extensive range of teddy bears.

The Jeju Teddy bear museum in South Korea has many kinds of teddy bears from various countries.

The Izu Teddy Bear Museum opened in Itō, Shizuoka, Japan in 1995. It has a collection of various teddy bears, including "Teddy Girl".

Other notable museums

 * Dorset Teddy Bear Museum, Dorchester, England
 * The Merrythought Teddy Bear Shop & Museum, Shropshire, England
 * The Den of Marbletown, Teddy Bear Museum, Kingston, New York, U.S.
 * Deutsches Teddybären Museum (German Teddy Bear Museum)
 * Teddy Bear Museum Pattaya, Thailand
 * TeddyVille Museum, Georgetown, Penang, Malaysia -opened 2016
 * Teseum, Teddy Bear Safari Theme Park, Jeju Island, South Korea
 * Nasu Teddy Bear Museum, Japan
 * Hida Takayama Teddy Bear Eco Village, Takayama, Japan
 * My lovely Bear Teddy Museum, Yaroslavl, Russia

Defunct

 * Teddy Bear Museum at N Seoul Tower, South Korea - opened in 2008
 * Teddy Bear Museum of Naples, Florida, USA — operated from 1990 to 2005

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Talk:Earth (Brin novel)

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Delete this paragraph of nonsense. AlainV 03:53, 2004 May 20 (UTC)

 * Delete. Reads like someone's sandbox noodlings. Alcarillo 05:10, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
 * I tried to put this up for speedy deletion as nonsense, but it got reverted. Oh, well.  I was confident it would show up here eventually.  I still say delete. - Lucky 6.9 05:35, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
 * I think he's talking about the David Brin novel. On that basis, I added an introductory line. MK 05:53, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep if this can be sorted out. Brin's novel is real. I am not sure how relevant is the original text since it has been a while since I read the novel. Andris 15:28, May 20, 2004 (UTC)
 * Brin's novel did involve a black hole as a major plot point which is why I assumed it was the book the original poster was referring to. MK 16:29, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
 * I've replaced the speculation/commentary with a summary of the book, as best I can given that I don't have it and haven't read it. Niteowlneils 18:14, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
 * I've read it, although not recently, and I added some more details. MK 05:42, 21 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, the present version is a fairly good summary of the novel. ping 06:41, 21 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, now a good summary. -- till we ☼ ☽ | Talk 22:15, 21 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep, looks fine now. RossA 02:54, 24 May 2004 (UTC)

'end moved discussion

Inaccurate and misleading summary, lacking citations elsewhere
I have read the book, and a few things jump out at me. First off, the book does (partially) revolve around an object that is thought to be a micro black hole, probably a relic of the Tunguska explosion, but that object is later found to be a more exotic object of artificial origin. The summary also implies that the object is human-made, yet this is not the ultimate conclusion drawn by the characters in the book. David Brin deserves credit for many prescient predictions, but the internet and the World Wide Web are not among them. This novel was published in 1990, which is a time when Tim Berners Lee was already working on and finalizing the first web browsing software — see the history of the World Wide Web. Brin might have a valid claim with blogging. Far more troublesome for the section titled Predictions is that it is entirely without citations. The section begins with a statement that David Brin wrote the book specifically to speculate about what future technologies might be taken for granted day-to-day. While David Brin may have written this book with that goal in mind, there is no citation for this. (Such a statement might be found in the Foreword of some edition of the book, but it needs to be properly cited.) Later in the section, a list of purported predictions is preceded by: "Brin claims at least 15 predictive hits in Earth including [...]"  Besides the omission of the comma before "including", we again have no citation to back this up. The edition of the book I read clearly doesn't include a list of predictions, since I read the book a scant year or two after first publication. I'm sure Brin made some claims, but they were published either in a subsequent edition or in another publication altogether. Without the citation, we might as well be putting words in Brin's mouth. 204.17.31.126 (talk) 22:26, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

Spoiler warning
Why was a spoiler warning added? There's no plot outcomes revealed in the article. MK2 06:03, 26 May 2005 (UTC) : It's been removed. —Seqsea (talk) 04:14, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

List of predictions
That list of "predictions" could probably be cleaned up - If one didn't know better, it makes it sound like Brin was the first person ever to predict the Internet (c'mon, we all know Al Gore invented it way before this book was written!) - but seriously, pretty much anything by William Gibson has him beat (and he may not have been the first, either). Also - Global warming sea rise?!? Give me a break, it was an established scientific theory for years before this novel was written! And what the heck is a "lawyer program"? -- Antepenultimate 22:02, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Pity that this would be OR, but from my reading, no one predicted it as accurately as he did: Hypertext, multi-media, news feeds, email spam. Back in 1990, all we basically had was text; there was no MIME format, no HTML, and first hint of SPAM probably came with AOL in '92. Gibson, to wit, has stated (so I heard) that he never used a computer until long after he wrote Neuromancer. And from a technological standpoint, the only thing Gibson had right was a vague notion of internet security meta-techniques (ie, firewalls, though he imagined them much more iconically than we do today). I used to read quite a lot of 'classic' sci-fi, and Brin, despite the fact that he is not considered a cyberphunk author, and that most of the rest of his novels suck, was the most accurate so far. (But it would be nice if Neal Stephenson's the Diamond Age ever comes close to reality.) --Otheus 15:52, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

Surely the first hint of SPAM was regular junk snail mail. We have email, we have junk snail mail; its insightful but not exactly genius to predict the two would combine. Brin was insightful, but he's not a seer as the tone of the 'predictions' section seems to imply. Much of what he predicted was a case of taking things that existed, things that were being speculated upon/worked on, and adding them to a knowledge of how human society already operated. This requires effort and intelligence, but its not magic. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.66.66.67 (talk) 17:11, 27 August 2009 (UTC)

It's a bit much to claim the nuking of Switzerland as a "predictive hit", don't you think? I mean, I suspect I would remember hearing about something like that if it had actually happened, which it hasn't. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.196.28.58 (talk) 21:37, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

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Made

Made or MADE may refer to:

Film

 * Made (1972 film), United Kingdom
 * Made (2001 film), United States

Music

 * Made (Big Bang album), 2016
 * Made (Hawk Nelson album), 2013
 * Made (Scarface album), 2007
 * M.A.D.E., 2003 album by Memphis Bleek
 * "Made" (Scuba Dice song), 2006
 * "Made" (The Wanted song), 2010
 * Made (band), a Toronto lo-fi band

Television

 * Made (TV series), United States, 2002 to 2014

Companies

 * Made.com, an online furniture retailer in London, United Kingdom
 * MADE Clothing, an American clothing line around 2005
 * The MADE or The Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment

Geography

 * Made (Netherlands), a town in the Netherlands

People

 * van der Made - Dutch family name
 * Dalem Di Made (fl. 1623–1642), Balinese king
 * Ida Bagus Made (1915–1999), Balinese painter
 * Joseph Made, Zimbabwean politician
 * Sacco van der Made (1918–1997), Dutch actor and voice actor
 * Simon van Groenewegen van der Made (1613–1652), Dutch jurist
 * Tilly van der Made (1938–2019), Dutch runner

Other uses

 * Made man, a fully initiated member of the American mafia
 * Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka (M.A.D.E.), an Australian museum

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Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Theresa Knott

In order to remain listed at Requests for comment, at least two people need to show that they tried to resolve a dispute with this user and have failed. This must involve the same dispute, not different disputes. The persons complaining must provide evidence of their efforts, and each of them must certify it by signing this page with ~. If this does not happen within 48 hours of the creation of this dispute page (which was: 03:56, 20 May 2004), the page will be deleted.

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This is a summary written by users who dispute this user's conduct.

User:Theresa knott's use of aggressive editing tactics in the Wikipedian community, especially but not limited to her activities during the past week, to-wit:
 * 1) Making personal attacks, goading, and/or harassing editors with:
 * 2) *Article and/or Project Page edits
 * 3) *Making reverts in Articles and/or Project Pages
 * 4) *Edit summaries
 * 5) *Talk page comments
 * 6) Deliberately adding controversy to articles and/or project pages
 * 7) Deliberately encouraging edit wars and/or otherwise disrupting the normal Wikipedian stable editing process.
 * 8) Harrassing User:Lir to the point that this long-term contributor of tens of thousands of edits has chosen to avoid the Wikipedia.
 * 9) Deliberately disrupted the traditional stable editing process of Wikiprojects.
 * 10) *Traditionally Wikipedia editors have been first registering with a project as a participant before editing their project pages.

The problems areas affected by Theresa's aggressive editing tactics are as follows.
 * 1) Articles in Wikipedia
 * 2) Iridology and Talk:Iridology
 * 3) Waged attacks against the WikiProject on Alternative Medicine Infobox.
 * 4) Declared an edit war and otherwise disrupted the normal editing process.
 * 5) Alternative medicine and #talk:Alternative medicine
 * 6) Waged attacks against the WikiProject on Alternative Medicine Article Series Box.
 * 7) Promoted the addition of unnecessary controversy to an article, an edit war, and otherwise disrupted the normal stable editing process with her reversions and editing.
 * 8) Project Pages in Wikipedia
 * 9) Wikipedia_talk:NPOV_dispute
 * 10) Wikipedia:Wikiproject:Alternative Medicine/Standards of Quality, and
 * 11) Wikipedia_talk:Wikiproject:Alternative_Medicine/Standards_of_Quality

Evidence of disputed behavior (provide diffs and links):

 * 1) I am filing this request for comment because Theresa Knott has been following me around from article to article and from project page to project page harassing me. There are 24 hours in a day, and I have posted during most of them. None of the other some 150 administrators felt a need during the last week to take any actions against me.  Theresa, however, persists in a deliberate pattern of harassment against me as well as in deliberately adding unnecessary controversy to articles.  And, I would like for Theresa to stop doing this.  She seems to think that it is some kind of a joke.  The details are as follows.
 * 2) The last action of Theresa that resulted in this request was recorded in the edit summary of Alternative medicine: m 05:59, 19 May 2004 . . Theresa knott (Reverted edits by Mr-Natural-Health to last version by Geni). history page - diff link - This was totally uncalled for as both me and Geni were engaging in dialog in talk:Alternative medicine only minutes before this instance of deliberate vandalism / harassment by Theresa.
 * 3) In Alternative medicine is the following edit summary:  03:26, 18 May 2004 . . Theresa knott (If you insist on having it so it clashed with the TOC I'll just delete it.) This is obvious harassment because most, if not all infoboxes, are placed on top of articles and most if not all infoboxes clash with the TOC, such as the one in hip hop music which uses a similar shade of orange and is bigger.  The article series box in alternative medicine is actually quite small. diff link
 * 4) From Talk:Iridology: I think it's Mr NH's design. I agree it's revolting (sorry NH). I've deleted it. We don't need it here. theresa knott 20:12, 17 May 2004 (UTC)
 * 5) On Iridology in page history there are numerous edit summaries by Theresa attacking the infobox. This infobox was added recently to around 20 or 30 articles by the Wikiproject on Alternative Medicine. history page
 * 6) From Wikipedia talk:NPOV dispute: John is claiming all alternative medicine articles as part of his wikiproject. He is writing guidelines that are over and above normal editting guidelines. He intends to use these guidelines to try and bully people to get his own way on all the AM articles.. We have been adding a NPOV header at the top of the page to let other poeple know that this is not policy, and we don't all agree to his rules. theresa knott 16:27, 18 May 2004 (UTC) diff link - This is an entirely inappropriate response to a simple neutral question posted by me.  I would definitely call this a personal attack.  Why are paranoid people allowed to be administrators on Wikipedia?  This was a neutral question, and Theresa clearly attacked me here.
 * 7) In Wikipedia talk:Wikiproject:Alternative Medicine/Standards of Quality: I hereby authorise DG to edit this page. Futhermore he is authorised to edit any other page on Wikipedia with the exception of pages in the "user" namespace. (although User_talk pages are fine) Furthermore i extend this editting right to all and sundry with the exeption of those users banned by the Arbitration Committee. Anyone who says otherwise, or tries to stop DG or anyone else from edditing this page, or any other page (noting the exceptions above) can be ignored. I declare that Mr NH does not have the right to prevent people from ewditting this page. I make this declaration with the authoritory vested in me by yo'all. theresa knott 16:05, 18 May 2004 (UTC) - diff link
 * 8) From Wikipedia:Wikiproject:Alternative Medicine/Standards of Quality:  07:30, 19 May 2004 . . Theresa knott (Adding the suggestion made in the talk page into the article). Theresa never joined our project so it is totally rude for her to be making edits on this project.  Again, no other administrator has been editing on this project page except for Theresa.  As I explained in the talk pages, numerous changes were already made to this project page. -- John Gohde 03:56, 20 May 2004 (UTC) - history page diff link
 * 9) In Iridology Declared an Edit War with  09:06, 19 May 2004 . . Theresa knott (trying to redress the balance. This article needs to be completely rewritten from scratch in a NPOV way. Any takers? -- John Gohde 03:56, 20 May 2004 (UTC) - diff link

Issue 6 ("I hereby authorise...") is a non-issue: Wikipedia, with the exception of a very limited number of pages, may be freely edited by all. -- Jim Regan 04:34, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
 * While you are clearly entitled to your opinion, you should have stated can be rather than may be. By tradition and plain old good manners editors are asked to register as participants before editing project pages. A number of editors have stated the same to me while requesting changes.  At least 95% of these changes have been implemented by me as requested. -- John Gohde 06:04, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Perhaps you have examples of this being a tradition, I certainly can't find any. I most certainly meant may be edited by anyone; this is Wikipedia: no-one owns articles. -- Jim Regan 14:49, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
 * I was planning to this morning, but due to an extensive re-write of my request for comment I will have to put it off until tonight. --John Gohde 16:30, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
 * It's been three days now ... - David Gerard 12:06, May 23, 2004 (UTC)

Your request David is my command.

Going directly to the source, click here for this statement: "A few Wikipedians have gotten together to make some suggestions about how we might organize data in articles about XXX."  Emphasis is on the few.  Click here  for who are these few? Who are the few, why they are the participants of the project. Not only is participating in editing limited by design at the very source of the WikiProject concept to the participants of the project. They are actually talking about articles, not just the project pages.

Click here for WikiDoc which stated: "It appears that Wikipedia needs a dedicated team of doctors to carry out some long-overdue integration, standardisation and upgrading."  Here, we saw a science project not only desire to restrict editing access but desired editing access to be limited only to certified physicians. These group of people, or at least one of them, actually discussed how a person might be certified as a physician.

Click here for a more politically correct version of the above desire. This time editing access is limited to: "Physicians and medically interested on Wikipedia who might be able to contribute." And, of course, unlike the CAM project this project is mostly talking about editing articles since their project pages are almost non-existent.

Click here for an example of a comment we received from one editor making a comment who stated: "Since I'm not involved in this WikiProject it's not my perogative to edit the WikiProject page, but I'd like to request that a project member make a suitable correction."

So, in conclusion David, not only is restricting the editing of project pages to participants a tradition in Wikipedia as well as plain old good manners, you have convinced me to add that stupid introduction to our project page so that we can stress just exactly who the few are.

You see David, some people in life know what they are doing and others are just followers. -- John Gohde 16:54, 23 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Applicable policies:
 * No personal attacks
 * During the voting in the Irismeister matter, Theresa was asked to refrain from making personal attacks or harassing editors (4.2 Decree A. & B.).

Evidence of trying and failing to resolve the dispute (provide diffs and links):

 * For John Gohde, click here and then here  for two separate instances of my trying to resolve this dispute. -- John Gohde 17:05, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
 * For User:Irismeister, click here and here  for two separate instances of Irismeister trying to resolve this dispute. -- John Gohde 06:12, 21 May 2004 (UTC)
 * For User:Plato aka Comrade Nick click here . -- John Gohde 06:29, 21 May 2004 (UTC)
 * And, I bet Hitler got mad at the Jews complaining so much about being being in Auschwitz, too. Your comments have made my day. -- John Gohde 07:17, 28 May 2004 (UTC)

 * 1) See the talk pages/edit histories for Dan Waniek and Iridology. Theresa has been very rude towards me. Lirath Q. Pynnor
 * Hi Lir and welcome back. I knew your little tantrum wouldn't last forever. Anyway I'm glad you're back because you do actually make some decent contributions. Incidentally have you actually read through the talk pages in question, now that you've calmed down? Try reading the Waniek talk page for example. I haven't been rude to you anywhere on that page. You OTOH called everyone "a bunch of morons" and you called me a "fucking bitch" and "scum". That's not very nice now is it? Although you did remind me of scum (movie) which was nice because it's a film I haven't seen in a long time.Oh yeah BTW there has been some confusion on the mailing list as to how you prefer to be adressed. I always thought you prefer "she" Plato thinks I should be calling you "he". Can you clear this up for everyone please. Cheers theresa knott 07:35, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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 * 1) John Gohde 03:56, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) Comrade Nick 08:09, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) irismeister 19:54, 2004 Jun 1 (UTC)
 * 4) Lirath Q. Pynnor 04:32, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Response (20)
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I have no intention of responding to these silly accusations. Anyone interested enough can simply read the talk pages in question and the edit summaries to find out the truth. theresa knott 11:41, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

Users who endorse this summary (sign with ~ ):
 * 1) Snowspinner 19:12, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) Tagishsimon 02:43, 21 May 2004 (UTC) TK may not alwys have kept her cool in the heat, but this complaint is nonsense on stilts. TK is to be thanked for persistently ignoring AM's seeming enclosure of AM articles, something more of us might do were it not now such an unpleasant quarter of wikipedia.
 * 3) Geni 10:18, 21 May 2004 (UTC)
 * 4) ALargeElk 10:39, 21 May 2004 (UTC) I have seen no sign of persistent harassment, and certainly not if the examples given in this complaint are the worst that she's done. TK has disagreed with John Gohde, and has expressed her disagreement forcefully - but not unreasonably. I second Tagishsimon's analysis of the AM situation as enclosure. To clarify, I mean by this the taking of what has previously been public property and declaring it a private domain, only to be entered with the permission of the "owner" - or at the very least, agreeing to the "owner"'s unilaterally declared rules.
 * 5) alteripse I have been here less than two months. I came like most of you because I liked what I saw after I found wp by chance. I thought I could fill some coverage gaps. I made the mistake of straying into Mr. Gohde's territory by adding an additional definitional sentence. My sentence was immediately deleted with the same kind of discourteous accusations you can see in his responses here. I can argue about facts as quickly as anyone but this was not someone with whom there is any point in arguing. Any disagreement is construed as a personal attack, and he is quick to label any changes with which he disagrees vandalism. The page is clearly HIS territory and he is as welcoming and reasonable as a junkyard dog. I understand that removing another user's comments on the talk page is considered a breach of etiquette; he does that frequenly. However, for the same reason I decided to leave the alt med article to him, I am sure not going to invest the time in digging through the old versions to find you lots of examples for all the above. He's given you samples of each right here on this page. Whether you fault Theresa for provoking him on purpose depends on how you feel about this kind of user and this kind of article. Mr. Gohde only allows you two choices: (1) his way, or (2) you get insults, angry (and false) accusations that you are making personal attacks, and complaints about your logic that are so illogical that there is nothing to discuss. So is Theresa doing the right thing by trying to back the changes offered by others even though it invariably provokes loud barking, or should all of us who disagree with him simply put up a beware of the dog sign and leave his articles alone, since he at least isn't wandering around and picking fights elsewhere? I readily admit that I am convinced his primary purpose here is to write articles (and I'm not accusing him of being a troll), but he sure can't do it cooperatively. If you censure Theresa, you are basically voting to leave people like this alone for the sake of peace. That's the course I chose because his article wasnt that important to me. I don't think it is important to Theresa either but it looks to me like she's trying to enforce others' access to the article, which is what is intolerable to Mr. Gohde. What's the right way to handle this? Alteripse 12:21, 21 May 2004 (UTC)
 * 6) With a few minimal exceptions, any user can edit any page. There can be no enclosure, and Theresa was right to try what she's done. Meelar 17:51, 21 May 2004 (UTC)
 * 7) A location of an infobox is a content issue, not a personal issue. Theresa's actions are valid edits and not personal attacks. I also second (or third) the opinions by Tagishsimon and ALargeElk that MNH's actions constitute an enclosure of AM pages. Such enclosure violates several Wikipedia policies. Andris 18:47, May 21, 2004 (UTC)
 * 8) David Gerard 21:11, May 21, 2004 (UTC)
 * 9) Arkady 00:20, 22 May 2004 (UTC)
 * 10) Jim Regan 01:23, 22 May 2004 (UTC) (Though I think that's implicit).
 * 11) Sam [Spade] 02:59, 22 May 2004 (UTC) (I would say that theresa has done nothing not to be expected considering. That being said her edits may not have always been perfect, but were prob signifigantly more agreeable than how many of us may have responded to the tag-team harssment she has endured. It is a shame that more people didn't step in before now.)
 * 12) Thue 16:29, 26 May 2004 (UTC). Whenever I run into edits by TK they seem to be competent. I hope she keeps contributing to wikipedia. I visited this page after running into a nomination for vfd by MNH which seemed completely unfair. Using a little time reviewing the article history in question confirms my impressions.
 * 13) *I am sure that Hitler held similar views about Heinrich Himmler. Just another case of the fox guarding the hen house. -- John Gohde 18:17, 26 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Your comment, John, says much more about you than it says about anything else at all. --Tagishsimon
 * Godwin's Law - David Gerard 10:15, May 27, 2004 (UTC)
 * Hi, Thue! Perhaps you may wish to look at some facts and change your impressions with a reality check! We have a whole file on Theresa's activities in medical articles in the last sixth months. If anything, they are pathetically begging for attention - when they do not raise Theresa's POVs to the status of the "line of the party". She plain square doesn't know what she writes about! She thinks dilutions are whatever her mind makes up, reflexology works by titillating, and iridology by "fight or flight". When exposed for what she is, an institutional troll and a freak, she sneaks out of the debate with "academic" tactics like libel, lies, insults, even sexual harassment and more dust thrown in your eyes from her boots that is. Theresa is only a Wikipolicewoman, a shewolf dressed as a lamb, harassing competent editors. She should be carefully policed herself. With editors like her, the whole Wiki project is in danger. Caveant consules! - irismeister 21:23, 2004 Jun 1 (UTC)
 * 1) I agree that Theresa has made aggressive comments, though I do not feel that these have been unreasonable under the circumstances. MNH's failure to understand Wikipedia's NPOV policy (e.g. this statement implictly stating that he will not permit the Alternative Medicine article to be neutral), and apparent misunderstanding of the No personal attacks policy (e.g. this comment likening an independent observer to Hitler for expressing their point of view) can make him a frustrating user to work with. - MykReeve 21:44, 27 May 2004 (UTC)
 * MykReeve, if anything, John is entitled to be frustrated, for he worked seven months in a row, despite bad mannered, bad will, ugly, misbehaving Wikipolice. John did a perfectly standard, shining project. He is now standing ovation and Wikipolice only made the settled dust raising again, forever! Perhaps this is the only thing Wikipolice can do - trotting, trolling, trespassing with dirty boots. John is a brave editor, true to himself, true to life, and a real Wiki editor. Wikipolice is only an uneducated, unprofessional brutal "force". No amount of disgusting smear can prevent John from finishing his job, and he will do it while you will be glossing in the background noise of the Web - you know, the galactic redshift variety. - irismeister 00:14, 2004 Jun 2 (UTC)
 * 1) This complaint is baseless. →Raul654 04:39, Jun 3, 2004 (UTC)
 * →Raul654, your "contribution" here is baseless. irismeister 19:27, 2004 Jun 4 (UTC)
 * 1) I have supported Theresa's edits on Iridology, a little article about a silly practice that has grown into a time-sucking monster fed by self-righteous true believers (NPOV alert!). There's a small cluster of alternative health fanatics that she has tackled almost single-handedly, trying to keep them from turning wikipedia into a brochure for their extreme views. I think she has worked at balancing articles: Her only sin is to occasionally type badly! I just hope she doesn't get worn out and go away. - DavidWBrooks 20:27, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * Irismeister labelled this endorsement as Bias, bias, on the Wall and Who's the Fairest of'em all? - here
 * Folks, go wash your eyes and look at the facts. Be or pretend to act as grown-ups! Here above we have DavidWBrooks's  POV  posing as the mantra of neutrality. What David calls silly practice takes up the better part of hundreds of lives for hundreds of years. But these are competent researchers, not fanatics. Fanatics are juniors like David who know nothing about what they just happen to talk about - but talk is dirt cheap. We must decide if we let competent people debate interesting ideas in Wiki. We must decide if we leave it all up to sixth graders like David and Theresa who sport their  POV  and make it "the line of the party", of course smearing, banning, libelling, insulting and spitting on MDs in the process. If Wiki is left in the hands of such ignorant arrogants, the only ones allowed to say who has "sinned", the Wiki project is in danger. I will certainly use my full, if little time to police the Wikipolice from now on! They should FEEL what their own "tactics" produces on their own skin, and they will think twice before harassing John as a "fanatic", trust me! - irismeister 21:01, 2004 Jun 1 (UTC)
 * Yes Iris you are right there are group of people that supposed to be competent reseachers (although be careful Dan you kind of pushing the personal attacks, but that's understandable).Comrade Nick
 * 1) I'm fully in support of user:theresa knott's actions. The complainant has made frequent misuse of the alt.med. category, his CamTiny boxes and the rv vandalism edit summary he uses is used to signify rv (often by admins) to HIS vandalism usually signifies yet another revert to deletion of his content by various other, good faith users. --bodnotbod 00:53, Jun 9, 2004 (UTC)
 * 2) Mirv 03:20, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * 3) Xgkkp 19:59, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)
 * 4) Morwen - Talk 17:14, 12 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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Users who endorse this summary (sign with ~ ):
 * 1) I have seen Ms. Knott committ Ad hominem attacks against users such as Adam, and Dan.
 * 2) I have seen Ms. knott engage in Poving articles such as Iridology--Comrade Nick 08:23, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

 * You have links to the edits in question to list here, of course - David Gerard 12:04, May 23, 2004 (UTC)

 * Yes I do
 * On the Iridology page she keeps reverting MNH's removal of one section: It is considered as pseudoscience by most scientists and mainstream medical doctors. Now this could be considered a violation of wikipedia's NPOV policy, as well my eye doctor has told it is not considered a pseudoscience, but more like an 'one the edge science.' which has not been proven.Comrade Nick @)^-- 10:29, May 25, 2004 (UTC)
 * I agree. It is an obvious violation of the wikipedia's NPOV policy that was added by a troll. -- John Gohde
 * OK your eye doctor disagrees, hence the word "most" scientists and mainstream medical doctors.Try asking a few other scientists and mainstream medical doctors. theresa knott 11:06, 25 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Now Ms.Knott's ad hominem attacks, were mostly self defensive against these user. Which is fine in my opinion however, it is not the best defensive behavior. An example of Ms.Knott's 'defensive' Ad hominems happened when she called Dan a "nutcase." Comrade Nick @)^-- 10:29, May 25, 2004 (UTC)
 * That was months ago, I apologised for it almost immediatly, and has already been looked into the by AC. Am I to continue being censured for that one tiny remark for ever? Plus you still haven't actually provided the link so that peole can see the context and for that matter the apology theresa knott 11:06, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Those aren't links to edits in particular. Should we presume your "Yes I do" is therefore "No I don't"? - David Gerard 10:33, May 25, 2004 (UTC)
 * To clarify: you're not reporting actual edits here. You're reporting hearsay: your opinion of the edits. To make a credible case, you need to list the edits so people can read them and judge for themselves, in context. Otherwise you're blowing smoke. - David Gerard 14:31, May 25, 2004 (UTC)

 * 1) I think this should remain personal between MNH, Irismeister, and Theresa. The wiki is not a soap opera. Having Talk:Alternative Medicine on my watchlist is annoying due to it repeatedly getting bumped up with what seems like childish personal attacks coming from all sides. Take it to an IM or a chat room, but please leave it off the pedia. DryGrain 18:20, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
 * Sorry but that is not an option. Despite what MNH says, I have no interest in trading insults with him. He sees everything as a personal attack. I moved an infobox up the page one paragraph, he announces on his project page that i am attacking it. I remove a silly argument that "since some people attack osteopathy, this implies that all critics are AM are to be taken with a pinch of salt" (I'm paraphrasing from memory here, I'll fix it later) that's vandalism. I agree with another user that iridology needs fixing up badly, but feel that I am not neutral enough to do it myself, so I put a comment in the summary box asking if anyone wants to do the rewrite, that's starting an edit war. Yes I have been a bit silly with irismeister, but you need to take into account the months of abuse that I have had to suffer from him. I have come to accept that he is part of my wiki life now, and from now on for ever and ever I will have to suffer his insults. If I don't laugh about it, it'll drive me insane. There is no way i'm going to IM either of these users. theresa knott 19:56, 20 May 2004 (UTC)

 * We need a coordinated defense in Wiki against Wikipolice brutality. It's the same good ol' Quies custodiet ipsos custodes principle. Indeed, who defends us from the  Wikipolice ? Nobody, except for the nice fellow Comrade Nick and a few idealists whom the Wiki cabal are quick to dismiss. Why? Because of  Wikidoublestandards . What's that? A simple thing: There is a poor balance in Wiki between "editors" doing only police, and NO ARTICLES (like Theresa) on one side, and real editors doing ONLY ARTICLES (like John). The former have all powers and the latter have only obligations. The most unpleasant ones are to police the Wikipolice. Theresa has only experienced what arsonists in the fire department do - le syndrome d'arroseur arrosé. She has become a hero, although a negative one, as a representative of rampant ignorants taking over Wiki, originally a very generous and subsequently a very decayed idea :O) - irismeister 20:08, 2004 Jun 1 (UTC)

 * "Deliberately adding controversy to articles and/or project pages"
 * includes the addition "Iridology is dismissed as pseudoscience by most medical practitioners" to Iridology; "controversy" seems to be NPOV.
 * "Deliberately encouraging edit wars and/or otherwise disrupting the normal Wikipedian stable editing process."
 * as above.
 * "Deliberately disrupted the traditional stable editing process of Wikiprojects."
 * Several of the participants in Wikiproject:Alternative Medicine seem to be under the misguided notion that only those who have registered as participants may edit the pages of this WikiProject.
 * -- Jim Regan 16:01, 20 May 2004 (UTC)
 * (These comments were based on a previous, clear layout, but the basic points remain -- Jim Regan 16:04, 20 May 2004 (UTC))

Je serai a Londres avec Dr Jipa pour la rencontrer en personne. User:Dr. Dan Waniek
 * Why are you writing in French on an english language Wikipedia? You speak perfectly good english, why not use english so everyone knows what you are saying? Also since you are not a wikipedia editor why would you want to come to London anyway. It doesn't make any sense. theresa knott 17:44, 21 May 2004 (UTC)

 * Nous y serons, j'y tiens, nous verrons - Dr. Dan Waniek 14:40, 25 May 2004 (UTC)

 * (approx. translation: "We will be there, I hold to it, we will see")
 * Mr. Irismeister Waniek, all your online resumes and CVs state that your primary language is English. YOur usage of French is just a cloack for more threats addressed to Theresa. I have closely followed your abusive and threatening language directed at Theresa and J. Rosenzweig, simply for not allowing you to insert a free link to your business website. I have gathered some evidence irismeister is one and the same person as Waniek. I have also gathered some evidence you have been carying an aggresive campaign to gather internet links to your business website in order to improve your rating on Alexa, rating which is mainly due to "link to me" sites. This is just an addition to your attempts at intimidating Theresa for not allowing you to also advertise your business site on Wikipedia. This adds to the legal threats against User:Jwrosenzweig which determined him to temporarily leave Wikipedia. Please stop this immediately.--192-94-73-5 21:40, 25 May 2004 (UTC)
 * He can threaten to show up at the London meetup all he likes. I'm not going to be there, so I really don't care. He's using French because he thinks he can disguise that fact that he is irismeister. He also thinks that if he turns up in London along with a stooge who will pretend to be Jipa he will prove us wrong. Sorry Waniek it aint going to happen theresa knott 02:54, 26 May 2004 (UTC)

 * No, this will only show how contortionist can a petty Wikipolice attitude become, only to justify the self-fullfilling nonsense dressed as prophecy. But the plague of terrestrial Israel has always been the false prophetess. We'll live and we'll see. I wonder, why is therese hiding now, when the mess she does to Wiki has become so thick she needs to pretend to be absent. She is in London, though :O) - irismeister 00:22, 2004 Jun 2 (UTC) Well, this only demonstrates how necessary a regular, brave, idealistic and controlled military police has become against ordinary Wikipolice - irismeister 00:22, 2004 Jun 2 (UTC)

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Mario Batali

Mario Francesco Batali (born September 19, 1960) is an American chef, writer, and former restaurateur. Batali co-owned restaurants in New York City; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; Newport Beach, California; Boston; Singapore; Westport, Connecticut; and New Haven, Connecticut, including Babbo in New York City, which received a Michelin star for several years. Batali has appeared on the Food Network, on shows such as Molto Mario and Iron Chef America, on which he was one of the featured "Iron Chefs". In 2017, the restaurant review site Eater revealed multiple accusations of sexual misconduct against Batali and, in March 2019, he sold all his restaurant holdings.

Early life
Batali was born in Seattle on September 19, 1960, to Marilyn (LaFramboise) and Armandino Batali, who founded Seattle's Salumi restaurant in 2006. His father is of Italian descent and his mother is of part French-Canadian ancestry. Batali attended Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, while working as a cook at the pub/restaurant Stuff Yer Face.

In 1994, he married Susi Cahn and together they have two sons. Batali is the son-in-law of Miles and Lillian Cahn, founders of Coach Inc. Batali's brother Dana Batali was Director of Pixar RenderMan development from 2001 to 2015.

Career
At 29, Batali was a sous chef at the Four Seasons Biltmore in Santa Barbara after previously working as a sous chef for the then-Four Seasons Clift Hotel San Francisco (since 1995, known as "The Clift", under changed ownership). Early in his career, Batali worked with chef Jeremiah Tower at his San Francisco restaurant Stars. Stars was open from 1984 until 1999 and is considered one of the birthplaces of the institution of the celebrity chef. Batali appeared in the Food Network show Molto Mario which aired from 1996 to 2004. The show made Batali a household name and popularized the Food Network.

In 1998, Batali, Joe Bastianich, and Lidia Bastianich formed the B&B Hospitality Group, also known as Batali & Bastianich Hospitality Group. The flagship restaurant for B&B is Babbo Ristorante e Enoteca in New York City which has a Michelin star.

Batali was a co-host of the ABC daytime talk show The Chew from its premiere in 2011 until 2017.

In 2012, a lawsuit was settled by Batali (and B&B) with 117 members of the restaurant staff, who alleged that the Batali organization had skimmed a percentage of the tip pools in his restaurants over a period of years.

Philanthropy and social activism
Batali is a critic of hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking, a method of natural gas extraction. He has signed onto the cause of Chefs for the Marcellus, whose mission is to "protect [New York's] regional foodshed from the dangers of hydraulic fracturing for natural gas (fracking)." In May 2013, Batali co-wrote an opinion article with chef Bill Telepan for the New York Daily News, in which the two wrote that "Fracking ... could do serious damage to [New York's] agricultural industry and hurt businesses, like ours, that rely on safe, healthy, locally sourced foods." Batali was the subject of a 2007 book titled Heat by Bill Buford which detailed his philosophy to various aspects of social activism, as well as cooking and life.

Batali served as an ambassador and on the board of directors for The Lunchbox Fund, a non-profit organization which provides a daily meal to students of township schools in Soweto, South Africa. In December 2017, Batali stepped down from his role with the organization in response to sexual misconduct allegations against him.

In 2008, Batali and his wife Susi Cahn founded the Mario Batali Foundation, funding various children's educational programs and pediatric disease research.

He supports the practice of Transcendental Meditation through the David Lynch Foundation.

Cooking philosophy
In a 2012 interview, Batali said that good Italian cooking was characterized by simplicity, an insight he attributed to his time working at a restaurant in Borgo Capanne, Italy.

Sexual misconduct allegations
On December 11, 2017, restaurant news website Eater reported that four women accused Batali of sexual harassment and sexual assault. By the following day, four more women had come forward. Batali took a leave of absence from his position at the management company Batali & Bastianich Hospitality Group. Producers of ABC's The Chew fired him on December 14, 2017. Food Network halted plans to release episodes of his television show Molto Mario after the allegations. Target announced that it was no longer selling Batali's pasta sauces and cookbooks.

In May 2018, more accusations of sexual assault against Batali were aired on an episode of 60 Minutes, and the New York Police Department confirmed it was investigating Batali for his past behavior, including an alleged assault that took place at The Spotted Pig, a restaurant where Batali was an investor. Batali denied an allegation of sexual assault, but said "My past behavior has been deeply inappropriate and I am sincerely remorseful for my actions." Days later, Batali's company B&B Hospitality Group announced it would be closing its three Las Vegas Strip restaurants after the Las Vegas Sands Corporation terminated the companies' relationship.

In January 2019, New York City police declined to charge Batali over two alleged sexual assaults in his New York City restaurants due to insufficient evidence.

In March 2019, Batali surrendered ownership of his stakes in Batali & Bastianich Hospitality Group, a partnership between Batali and the Bastianich family, including Joe and Lidia Bastianich. He also sold his minority ownership in Eataly, an Italian food marketplace. The Bastianiches said B&B Hospitality Group's name would change. Batali was the first chef to surrender ownerships in all his restaurants after reports of sexual misconduct.

In July 2021, Batali, Bastianich, and their former restaurant company agreed to a settlement in the New York state case that was under investigation by the Attorney General of New York wherein they would pay $600,000 to more than 20 former employees (men and women) of three restaurants in Manhattan.

Trial and acquittal
In May 2019, Batali was charged with indecent assault and battery in Boston. In court, the accuser alleged that Batali had groped her in April 2017 at a bar in Boston. Batali pleaded not guilty and chose a bench trial.

On May 10, 2022, Batali was acquitted in Boston Municipal Court by a judge who ruled that Batali's conduct during the alleged incident was "not befitting of a public person of his stature" but agreed with the defense's arguments that his accuser had credibility issues and was motivated by financial gain to make her accusation.

Awards

 * 1998 – "Best New Restaurant of 1998" from the James Beard Foundation for "Babbo Ristorante e Enoteca"
 * 1999 – "Man of the Year" in GQ's chef category
 * 2001 – D'Artagnan Cervena Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America
 * 2002 – "Best Chef: New York City" from the James Beard Foundation
 * 2004 – Three Stars from The New York Times for "Babbo Ristorante e Enoteca" from Ruth Reichl.
 * 2005 – "All-Clad Cookware Outstanding Chef Award" from the James Beard Foundation (national award)
 * 2008 – One Michelin star, Babbo Ristorante e Enoteca, Michelin Guide
 * 2008 – "Best Restaurateur" for Joe Bastianich/Mario Batali for Babbo Ristorante e Enoteca from the James Beard Foundation.
 * Culinary Hall of Fame Induction.

Works

 * Mario Batali Simple Italian Food: Recipes from My Two Villages (1998), ISBN 0-609-60300-0
 * Mario Batali Holiday Food: Family Recipes for the Most Festive Time of the Year (2000), ISBN 0-609-60774-X
 * Vino Italiano: The Regional Wines of Italy (contributor) (2002), ISBN 0-609-60848-7
 * The Babbo Cookbook (2002), ISBN 0-609-60775-8
 * The Artist's Palate (foreword) (2003), ISBN 0-7894-7768-8
 * Molto Italiano: 327 Simple Italian Recipes to Cook at Home (2005), ISBN 0-06-073492-2
 * Mario Tailgates NASCAR Style (2006), ISBN 0-89204-846-8
 * Spain...A Culinary Road Trip (2008), written with Gwyneth Paltrow, and Julia Turshen. ISBN 978-0-06-156093-4
 * Italian Grill (2008), written with Judith Sutton. ISBN 978-0-06-145097-6
 * Molto Gusto: Easy Italian Cooking (2010), written with Mark Ladner. ISBN 978-0-06-192432-3
 * Molto Batali: Simple Family Meals from My Home to Yours (2011), ISBN 978-0-06-209556-5
 * America – Farm to Table: Simple, Delicious Recipes Celebrating Local Farmers written with Jim Webster
 * Mediterranean Summer, A Season on France's Côte d/Azur and Italy's Costa Bella (2007), written by David Shalleck and Erol Munuz ISBN 978-0-7679-2048-3 Contributor Foreword by Mario Batali

Batali is also a main subject of Bill Buford's book Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany (2007) ISBN 978-1400034475

title: Mario Batali