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Talk:List of English words of Spanish origin

Potato
There is a lot of dispute on 'potato' in the list of English words of foreign origin. Remove if appropriate. I believe it came from a carribean island colonized by the Spaniards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jondel (talk • contribs) 00:27, 18 May 2004

It came from Spanish reintepretation of the original quechua word... In Spanish Papa and Patata exist as words, Batata is sometimes used instead of Yuca or Camote (I do not know which of either, Batata is used in Argentina's Spanish, in Peru the words used are Papa, Yuca and Camote; The three refering to different species just as Batata is a different species from Patata). Herle King 23:57, 4 May 2007 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.121.147.175 (talk • contribs)

Siesta
some words that are Portuguese, loans to Spanish: mulatto (from Mulato), Siesta (from Sesta). -Pedro 23:18, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

Note, (not disagreeing) siesta came from Mexican Spanish.--Jondel 00:40, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

In reference to "mulatto" and "siesta". This is an interesting point. Not sure about 'mulatto' but siesta should definitely be added here. The word came into english from spanish not from portugese. I do think there should be a note that the word originated in portugese and maybe even added to the portugese page since its ultimate origin is Portugese. Is there a discussion group on this? Perhaps we can develop a wikipedia standard? There are alot of examples like this. For instance, orange comes originally from the Sanskrit word 'na rangi' and came to english through more than 1 intermediary. The same is true for candy which came from sanskrit to arabic to italian to english.... Anyway... User:Queson 00:50 Nov 1st, 2004

I don't want to discussed this too much just talk. Well ..

What Pedro  may be saying is that it may have been originally from Portugese (Portugese->Spanish->Mexican Spanish->English). Is this what you are saying(Spanish->Mexican Spanish->English)no Portugese? There are also a lot of words that have come through Spanish, Arab :alcohol, etc.--Jondel 01:32, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

According to DRAE (dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy), the Spanish word siesta comes directly from Latin sexta (the 6th hour) FWIW, Ejrrjs 01:46, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

No Portugese then? (Latin :sexta->Spanish :siesta) --Jondel 01:54, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

That makes sense; e -> ie really only happened in words that have been in Spanish for some time. :~Maiya78 10:46, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Royal real
Royal -> Real estate. - Everything used to be owned by Royalty. You only paid to borrow it. Actually, nobody owns land. Only the government. The government only leases to land/property owners. --Jondel 00:40, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Orange
Sanskrit:Narangi=>Persian=>Arabic=> Ancient French (une naranj   became=>Old to Modern French: a une orangje  )=> (The n transfered, liasoned or disappeared as customary in french speech: une naranj-> une orange ) The orange came into into English during the Norman French colonization of England. The naranja of Spanish also came by way of Arabic.--Jondel 01:25, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Mulato
According to DRAE (dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy), the Spanish word mulato arises from mulo < Latin mulus; hybrid. FWIW, — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ejrrjs (talk • contribs) 01:49, 2 November 2004

No Portugese then? (Latin :mulus->Spanish :mulato). The mulus is mule, the hybrid of a horse and donkey. It most probably come from slave traders (Spanish or Portugese)  --Jondel 01:58, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Portuguese vs Spanish
In List of English words of Portuguese origin there are several other words (albino, caldera, ...) that came from Spanish, if we have to believe Merriam-Webster online.

Ejrrjs 02:41, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

United States
Most words seem to come from Mexican Spanish into the United States.--Jondel 03:00, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)

That would make sense; no other Spanish-speaking countries share such a large border with an English-speaking country. :~Maiya78 10:49, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Establishing direction
It would be smoother if all entries were listed in this order:

 * Chocolate : from Spanish, from Nahuatl xocolatl
 * Comrade :from French camarade, from Spanish camarada

the older source being > last. 'Chocolate' entered English from Spanish, not from Nahuatl. It entered Spanish from Nahuatl. So English>Spanish>Nahuatl. Most are already in this order, but many are not. The words that are simply from Spanish are already listed correctly, of course. Decius 01:20, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I've rearranged them. Decius 01:32, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the effort. I'm afraid though that the standard in etymology is to use A < B to mean A descends from B. :Ejrrjs | What? 21:41, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * Yeah, it's backwards. The > is kind of like an arrow, meaning the word went from the language on the blunt end to the language on the pointy end. Nohat 23:17, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I've fixed them now, though I might add that both < and the word from are not necessary (the former implying the latter). I'd say just skip the somewhat technical < symbol and just stick with from. Dictionaries use < to save on space. We have no such limitation here. Nohat 23:25, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I didn't just change the arrows: for instance, many examples were like this before I changed them:

Chocolate :from Nahuatl xocolatl, from Spanish

yet this is the actual order:

Chocolate :from Spanish, from Nahuatl xocolatl

The direction of the arrows was not my point at all. The arrows are not even necessary.Decius 23:43, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC

Countries, cities and the like
Is it worth to list geographical names? I've added Philipines because it was non obvious, but the rest? BTW Spanish and Spain themselves are not loans from Spanish; in fact, they were imported into Spanish from Provençal:
 * Castro, Américo: Sobre el nombre y el quién de los españoles, Biblioteca de la Historia, Sarpe, 1985, ISBN 84-7291-736-6

Ejrrjs | What? 15:00, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Dengue
Removed:
 * , from Swahili dinga, ="seizure"

Diccionario Critico Etimológico Castellano e Hispánico says that Spanish dengue is "from expressive creation". --Error 3 July 2005 03:39 (UTC)

Expressive creation????????????? That ahs no single word in Spanish, even less "Dengue" The word is non-Spanish, I'm a first-language Spanish speaker and attest so...Herle King 00:10, 5 May 2007 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.121.147.175 (talk • contribs)

Mustang

 * mustang
 * from mestengo or mestenco, ="without known master or owner" (archaic)

This seems to aim to mostrenco, but what I have seen is mesteño, a Mesta beast. --Error 3 July 2005 03:39 (UTC)

 * I checked and mostrenco is a derivation of *mestenco. Mustang comes from either mestengo or mesteño, and mesta also means a reunion of stray beasts by shepherds. --Error 4 July 2005 02:33 (UTC)

Merging
I don't think that Wiktionary:Transwiki:List of Spanish expressions in common English should be merged to List of English words of Spanish origin, as suggested by Ejrrjs. As the top of the former page says "Here are some words or phrases from the Spanish that are sometimes used in English slang, but have not entered the standard lexicon." There is a difference between the two lists, namely that the latter contains words that are commonly found in dictionaries, et al. --Kewp (t) 14:09, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I didn't see discussion on Talk:List of Spanish expressions in common English. Can we remove the merge tags?--Kewp (t) 14:11, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Fine, I'll do it Ejrrjs | What? 16:58, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not yada yada
I *might* agree that wiktionary is the right place for this once: Otherwise, deleting this only serves to increase entropy. So, put your gun down and get yourself involved, or leave this entry alone. Ejrrjs | What? 07:27, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * wiktionary has this info (as I write there are only 15 words in the corresponding category).
 * a proper entry is written here noting, at least, that there are many words in English from Spanish, and that several of them were originally from native languages
 * ditto for the similar German, Latin, Greek, etc. list to show that there is no bias against Spanish and/or French.

Comrade
Doesn't the fact that French and Spanish have the word "Comrade" imply that Comrade comes from Latin instead? However, German has the word "komrade", so it may be Germanic in origin. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.53.223.34 (talk • contribs) 06:29, 16 December 2005
 * It's ultimately from Greek and hence doesn't belong here like half of this list.--Hraefen 06:32, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

No and no. According to it comes from French that took it from Spanish. And yes, it does belong here (or to a Wiktionary category, for that matter). User:Ejrrjs says What? 07:02, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * You forgot to go look up where the Latin camera comes from...from Greek! I'll trust the OED over an online source about 99 times out of 100.--Hraefen 07:08, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I didn't forget as it has no relevance, or should we also track the protoIE root (hint: it's *kam)?. Camarada is a true Spanish innovation and it is worth mentioning it for the sake of those who care. User:Ejrrjs says What? 18:27, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I think you did forget (more accurately...didn't know until last night) becasue when I said it's from Greek, you said "No." It's right above.  In the current system of English etymology categorization on Wikipedia, comrade does belong here, but that's only because the current system sucks.  Words should go to lists of their ultimate traceable origin (and no...that doesn't mean IE, because that involves way too much speculation).  To see what I'm talking about (and to see if I'm one of "those who care") go to the bottom of Linguistic history of Spanish to see the newly created lists of Spanish etymology.--Hraefen 19:54, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I hope that chastising me made feel you better, and thanks for pointing out Linguistic... However, I still think that that pages do not bring a better solution as it loses the "history" of the word; how would it handle filibuster? User:Ejrrjs says What? 21:06, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I didn't mean to chastise...I'm just disappointed with the jumbled state of the English etymology pages. And the Spanish etymology pages will eventually have full etymologies, not just lists.  Check out List of Spanish words of Austronesian origin for an example of what all of those pages will look like in a few months.  And you're right, filibuster is a tricky one involving at least three distinct languages.  My opinion is that you include one full etymology on the most appropriate page (Dutch in this case) and then put links at the others (Spanish and French).  Every langauge gets its share of the credit/blame, but you don't waste space with duplicated info.  Sorry if I came off as an ass...my wiki stress level is kinda high right now.--Hraefen 22:24, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * I would go by "degrees of proximity" subcategories... I.e. "Words from Spanish origin" 1st degree/2nd degree and so on... And likewise in evry such "from said language". —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 200.121.147.175 (talk) 00:08, 5 May 2007 (UTC).

List erased once moved to Wiktionary
The process will begin now. This has nothing to do with Spanish, any more than it has to do with French or Persian. It is just counter to the protocol that has been established. I've been checking out Wiktionary of late, and I find that it is much more suited, as well as being the proper place for such a long list of words. Alexander 007 12:49, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Fine with me. You may also want to check Wiktionary:Transwiki:List of Spanish expressions in common English. Ejrrjs | What? 20:56, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

hey this is lionel from queens this page is the best page of spnish ever made. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.159.196.2 (talk • contribs) 00:11, 6 January 2006

Another word to the list
Has 'quixotic' been added? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.54.204.87 (talk • contribs) 09:06, 17 January 2006

savvy
According to Etymonline, Spanish Sabe is a plausible source for Savvy. User:Ejrrjs says What? 09:11, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Capitalized
I have capitalized the beginning of each word as per the general convention in a dictionary entry. --Bhadani 14:42, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Bizarre
The word "bizarro" according to DRAE (dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy) means brave, or generous, splendid or lucid. Nevertheless, 'bizarre' means 'weird', 'odd' or 'strange'. For instance, this word was not borrowed from Spanish. In French, the word 'bizarre' has the same meaning to English — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.93.136.141 (talk • contribs) 17:31, 24 November 2006

They could as well be convergent evolutions... In Spanish the sense of "weird" or "odd" for "bizarro" is an anglicism... While the sense of "brave" and such is outdated as the word has lost popularity... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.121.147.175 (talk • contribs) 00:00, 5 May 2007

Doubtful
I really have a lot of doubts about the truthfullness of this page. A lot of the words seem to be quite a stretch. For one thing, saying things like "amigo" comes from the Spanish word "amigo" meaning friend or "quesadilla" comes from the Spanish word "quesadilla" is just ridiculous. The word amigo isn't really used in English, unless as borrowed word in an interesting way, and quesadilla is just the name of a food that has not equivalent in English. I also doubt that so many words came directly from Spanish to English. For example, "dollar" supposedly comes from the Spanish "dolar" which comes from the German "thaler". I think it might be more accurate to assume the word came directly to English from German and that the Spanish word developed either later or around the same time as the English word. So many of the word origins seem really far-fetched, and difficult to believe and there are also far to many words in Spanish that aren't used in English at all, expect for by people who know Spanish. (For example, saying that the supposedly English word "playa" comes from the Spanish word "playa". In English we would just say "beach"). My point is, this article really needs to be updated or improved, it's just so poorly done and really kind of silly. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.244.163.60 (talk) 06:07, 1 January 2007 (UTC).

 * "There is also a separate list of some words or phrases from Spanish that are sometimes used in English slang, but have not entered the standard lexicon."
 * As discussed previously, they might be merged, or turned into a Wiktionary category. In any case, any addition needs sources. User:Ejrrjs says What? 06:31, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * That other list is in more desperate need of cleanup than this list, I think. It includes some words that are completely integrated into English, and used by completely monolingual speakers regularaly (machete, salsa, plaza, poncho...), and some words/phrases pretty much only used by people who know at least some Spanish, not in everyday English conversations (pendejo, agua, ¿dónde?...), as well as a number of very specialized culinary-related terms, which I'm not sure how you'd classify--they appear on menus, but they're not nativized into English in the same sense that, say, tortilla has been. All this extra crap muddies the waters and obscures the real, good examples of Spanish words and expressions commonly used in English (particularly slang), including by monolingual speakers, but that have still not been fully assimilated into English, and are still viewed as 'foreign' in some sense (amigo, cojones, loco...). I should put this on the other list's talk page, though. --Miskwito 19:57, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Drone 68.244.163.60 you know noth... Playa is used in English as a geographic term different than beach... Herle King 00:17, 5 May 2007 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.121.147.175 (talk • contribs)

Fact-Checking
I've gone through the list, checking some of the etymologies that I found suspect with the OED. Where I've found them not to be of Spanish origin I've removed them. Dewrad 00:56, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Good work. Did you see this reference? http://www.etymonline.com/ It may help. User:Ejrrjs says What? 06:28, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

etymologies of "arsenal, casanova, corridor, yum-yum"
Please visit below webpages.

http://clave.librosvivos.net/verficha.asp?idelementoaver=3523&cadena=arsenal On the page you can notice following phrase. "ETIMOLOGÍA: Del italiano arsenale."
 * arsenal

http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/arsenal.html On the page you can notice following phrase. "[Early 16th century. Directly or via French < Italian arzanale < Venetian Italian arzaná < Arabic dār-(aṣ-)ṣinā'a "workshop, factory"]"

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/arsenal?view=uk On the page you can notice following phrase. "— ORIGIN French, or obsolete Italian arzanale, from an Arabic phrase meaning house of industry."

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=arsenal On the page you can notice following phrase. "Etymology: Italian arsenale, ultimately from Arabic dAr sinA'a house of manufacture"

http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9359937 On the page you can notice following phrase. "Italian ecclesiastic, writer, soldier, spy, and diplomatist."
 * casanova

http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/corridor.html On the page you can notice following phrase. "[Late 16th century. Via French < Italian corridore < Latin currere "to run"]"
 * corridor

http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/corridor?view=uk On the page you can notice following phrase. "— ORIGIN Italian corridore, alteration of corridoio ‘running-place’."

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=corridor On the page you can notice following phrase. "Etymology: Middle French, from Italian dialect (N Italy) corridore, from correre to run, from Latin currere"

http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/yummy.html On the page you can notice following phrase. "[Late 19th century. < yum, an imitation of the sound of smacking the lips]"
 * yum-yum

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=yum-yum On the page you can notice following phrase. "Function: interjection"

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=yummy On the page you can notice following phrase. "Yum-yum as an exclamation of pleasure is recorded from 1878." —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 59.15.77.114 (talk) 10:27, 12 March 2007 (UTC).
 * For what it's worth, the Online Etymology Dictionary agrees on all four points. Good work. --Miskwito 18:23, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Good work indeed. I can't believe I missed "casanova"... Dewrad 18:37, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Artichoke
from Arabic, thru Old Spanish and Italian. See http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=artichoke&searchmode=none and Artichoke.User:Ejrrjs says What? 14:10, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

etymology of trampoline
Please visit below webpages. On the each page you can notice following phrases.

Etymology: Italian trampolino springboard, from trampoli stilts, of Germanic origin; akin to Middle Low German trampen to stamp
 * http://m-w.com/dictionary/trampoline

[Late 18th century. < Italian trampolino "springboard" < trampoli "stilts"]
 * http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_/trampoline.html

— ORIGIN Italian trampolino, from trampoli ‘stilts’.
 * http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/trampoline?view=uk

ETIMOLOGÍA: Del italiano trampolino. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.15.77.31 (talk • contribs) 05:24, 24 June 2007
 * http://clave.librosvivos.net/verficha.asp?idelementoaver=38313&cadena=trampolín

Quadroon
Is quadroon really Spanish in origin? The spelling looks more French and the expression is from Louisiana. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.230.141.72 (talk) 23:19, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

Carajo
'Carajo' is NOT a euphemism for 'Penis'
 * carajo thinks it is. A good citation would be ideal though. -- Quiddity (talk) 21:48, 23 December 2009 (UTC).

It is: http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/

Miembro viril.

--83.63.242.240 (talk) 18:59, 31 January 2012 (UTC)

Uniquely Spanish
We have a long paragraph listing where Spanish got words, and even explaining the events of 1492! Seems to me it can be replaced by a single sentence, something like "Most these words came to English from Castilian and American Spanish dialects, which in turn got them from various sources." Jim.henderson (talk) 01:03, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Cervezas, anyone?
I'm quite surprized "cerveza" isn't on this list; growing up in SW Florida (Naples), I can attest that at least here, it is exchangeable with "beer".
 * ~Maiya78 10:40, 14 April 2013 (UTC)

Mock Spanish
Some of these words can be categorized as mock Spanish and should be removed. Cerveza, adios etc... Asilah1981 (talk) 06:05, 23 October 2016 (UTC)


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Geoff

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep. Johnleemk | Talk 10:39, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Geoff

 * Vanity. Burgundavia 08:06, May 17, 2004 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete under nn-bio -- ( drini's page ☎  ) 04:04, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Eh? Not a bio of any sort. Burgundavia's comment presumably refers to a much earlier and probably unrelated article of this name, but I can't find a record of it. Flapdragon 04:06, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, this is not a dictionary of first names. (As opposed to a proper disambiguation page which this page isn't.) Flapdragon 04:06, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Check Over the article once more —Preceding unsigned comment added by GeorgeMoney (talk • contribs), at 07:43, 8 December 2
 * Comment It's now a list of "famous" people called Geoff or Jeff, taken from IMDB.com, which is linked to three times although its relevance to the name Geoff is hard to see. One example of a "famous" person called Jeff is simply "Jeff", and I don't know if any of them are famous enough to have an article of their own in Wikipedia. What's the point of this list (which should really be called "List of people called Geoffrey or Jeffrey or Geoff or Jeff who have worked in the movies") and how has it been "majorly fixed"? Flapdragon 15:31, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * This afd nomination was orphaned. Listing now. —Crypticbot (operator) 15:54, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
 * This isn't a disambiguation article. Unlike Madonna, there aren't people commonly known solely by their given name Geoff.  Disambiguations are for actual ambiguities, where articles (or redirects) have titles that conflict.  This isn't the case for any of these people.  And the dictionary of first names is over there.  Delete. Uncle G 01:28, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete For reasons state above by Flapdragon. I fail to see what this article contributes. Are we going to come up with lists of randomly assorted people from IMDB for the iterations of Sean or Catherine? DeathThoreau 02:30, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Flapdragon. Stifle 23:25, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep notable name, shared by thousands of people.  Grue   16:33, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand per Grue -- JJay 18:24, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

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Serviceability failure

In engineering, a serviceability failure occurs when a structure does not collapse, but rather fails to meet the required specifications. For example, severe wind may cause an excess of vibration at a pedestrian bridge making it impossible to cross it safely or comfortably. Similar excessive vibrations can be caused by pedestrians due to their walking, running, or jumping. Similarly, storm conditions may cause water to spill over a coastal structure, so that boats are not safe behind the structure.

Examples of serviceability failures include deformations, vibration, cracking, and leakages.

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Guy Barnett (Australian politician)

Guy Barnett (born 4 April 1962) is the Attorney-General for Tasmania and a Liberal Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly representing the Division of Lyons. Guy Barnett is currently the Minister for Justice and Health under Premier Jeremy Rockliff. Guy Barnett served previously as the Minister for Primary Industries and Water, Minister for Resources, Minister for Trade, Minister for Veterans' Affairs and Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction in the Second Gutwein Ministry. He was previously a member of the Australian Senate.

He was born in Launceston, Tasmania, and attended the Launceston Church Grammar School and Geelong Grammar School. He gained a Bachelor of Laws and later a Master of Laws (Environmental Law) from the University of Tasmania. While at university, he served as president of the University of Tasmania Liberal Club.

After graduation, Barnett worked as a lawyer, political advisor and consultant. He was appointed to the Senate in 2002 in replacement of Brian Gibson (resigned), elected for a full term in 2004, and served until his defeat at the 2010 federal election.

In the 2014 Tasmanian state election Barnett was elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly representing the Division of Lyons. He was also appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier.

On 18 July 2016, after the resignation of Adam Brooks, he was appointed Minister for Resources and Minister for Building and Construction.

On 28 September 2023, Elise Archer resigned from her cabinet positions, one of which being the Attorney-General, and the Liberal Party in the wake of bullying allegations made against her. On 2 October 2023, Premier Jeremy Rockliff announced that Guy Barnett would be appointed as the Attorney-General for Tasmania and the new Minister For Justice, with Barnett keeping his position as Minister for Health.

Policy positions
Barnett was a strong advocate for the War in Iraq, justifying the war in a speech to the senate on 20 March 2003.

He opposed same-sex marriage in the 2017 postal plebiscite.

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The Thinker

The Thinker (Le Penseur) is a bronze sculpture by Auguste Rodin, situated atop a stone pedestal. The work depicts a nude male figure of heroic size sitting on a rock. He is seen leaning over, his right elbow placed on his left thigh, holding the weight of his chin on the back of his right hand. The pose is one of deep thought and contemplation, and the statue is often used as an image to represent philosophy.

Rodin conceived the figure as part of his work The Gates of Hell commissioned in 1880, but the first of the familiar monumental bronze castings was made in 1904, and is now exhibited at the Musée Rodin, in Paris.

There are 27 other known full-sized castings, in which the figure is approximately 185 cm (73 inches) high, though not all were made during Rodin's lifetime and under his supervision. There are various other versions, several in plaster, and studies and posthumous castings exist in a range of sizes.

Origin

The Thinker was initially named The Poet (Le Poète), and was part of a large commission begun in 1880 for a doorway surround called The Gates of Hell. Rodin based this on the early 14th century poem The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, and most of the figures in the work represented the main characters in the poem with The Thinker at the center of the composition over the doorway and somewhat larger than most of the other figures. Some critics believe that it was originally intended to depict Dante at the gates of Hell, pondering his great poem.

Other critics reject that theory, pointing out that the figure is naked while Dante is fully clothed throughout his poem, and that the sculpture's physique does not correspond to Dante's effete figure. The sculpture is nude, as Rodin wanted a heroic figure in the tradition of Michelangelo, to represent intellect as well as poetry. Other critics came to see the sculpture as a self-portrait. This detail from the Gates of Hell was first named The Thinker by foundry workers, who noted its similarity to Michelangelo's statue of Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, called Il Pensieroso (The Thinker). The model for this sculpture, as for other works by Rodin, was the muscular French prizefighter and wrestler Jean Baud, who mostly appeared in the red-light district. Jean Baud was also featured on the 1911 Swiss 50 franc note by Hodler.

The original is in the Musée Rodin in Paris. The sculpture has a height of 72 cm, was made of bronze and had been finely patinated and polished. The work depicts a nude male figure of heroic size who is tense, muscular and internalized, contemplating the actions and fate of the people while sitting on a rock. He is seen leaning over, his right elbow placed on his left thigh, holding the weight of his chin on the back of his right hand. The pose is one of deep thought and contemplation, and the statue is often used as an image to represent philosophy. This and many other works by Rodin were groundbreaking for modernism and heralded a new age of three-dimensional artistic creation.

The work was enlarged in 1902 to a height of 181 cm. The monumental version became the artist's first work in public space. The figure was designed to be seen from below and is normally displayed on a fairly high plinth, although the heights vary considerably chosen by the various owners.

Casts
The Thinker has been cast in multiple versions and is found around the world, but the history of the progression from models to castings is still not entirely clear. About 28 monumental-sized bronze casts are in museums and public places. In addition, there are sculptures of different study-sized scales and plaster versions (often painted bronze) in both monumental and study sizes. Some newer castings have been produced posthumously and are not considered part of the original production.

Rodin made the first small plaster version around 1881. The first full-scale model was presented at the Salon des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1904. A public subscription financed a bronze casting, which became the property of the City of Paris, and was put in front of the Panthéon. In 1922, the original bronze was moved to the Musée Rodin.

Art market
In June 2022 a cast was put up for sale at Christie's in Paris with an estimate of up to €14m. The cast was made in about 1928 at the Rudier Foundry, founded by Alexis Rudier (1845-1897) who worked with Antoine Bourdelle and Aristide Maillol.

Reception
Max Linde had a copy of the monumental version cast in 1904 and placed it in the garden of his villa, Lindesche Villa. There Edvard Munch painted his painting Rodin's Thinker in the Garden of Dr. Linde, which is now in the Behnhaus. The cast later went to the Detroit Institute of Arts.

In his film The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin shows the Venus de Milo and Rodin's Thinker with the modification that the left arms are stretched out in the Hynkel salute. With this allusion to the Nazi salute, Chaplin addresses the integration of art into Nazi propaganda. In the film Night at the Museum 2, the protagonists encounter a statue of the Thinker that has been brought to life. When asked a question, he simply replies, "I think...I think...I think." Later in the film, he flirts with a statue of Aphrodite. In Death at a Funeral, the statue is quoted as Alan Tudyk sitting naked on a rooftop in a "thinking pose." In Midnight in Paris, the then French first lady Carla Bruni made a cameo appearance as a tour guide, explaining the sculpture of the Thinker to a group of American visitors in the garden of the Musée Rodin.

In singer Ariana Grande's "God Is a Woman" music video, she sits in the Thinker pose while being attacked by small angry men. They throw into them words taken from the book they are on. However, these bounce off the singer when they reach her.

As part of the project launched in Mannheim for the painting of houses in the city with large-scale wall paintings (so-called murals) by national and international artists from the street art scene, Rodin's Thinker was taken up and the mural The Modern Thinker implemented.

Similar sculptures
Repetitive portrayals of individuals, both male and female, have been depicted in physical form while in the process of contemplation or grieving.

The "Karditsa Thinker" is a Neolithic clay figurine found in the area of Karditsa in Thessaly, Greece. This unique artifact, dated around 3900 BCE, during the Final Neolithic period (4500-3300 BCE), is a large solid clay figurine of a seated man. Despite some clumsiness in detail, it conveys the impression of a robust man looking upwards with a manly bearing. The figurine exhibits features of fully developed sculpture and is considered the largest Neolithic artifact found in Greece. The pronounced ithyphallic element, though mostly broken, along with its size, suggests a possible cultic character, possibly representing an agrarian deity associated with the fertility of the land.

The Thinker from Yehud, also known as the Thinker of Palestine, is an archaeological figurine discovered during salvage excavations in the Israeli city of Yehud. The figurine, which sits atop a ceramic jug in a posture resembling "The Thinker", dates back to the Middle Bronze Age II Palestine (c. 1800–1600 BCE). It was found in a tomb accompanied by various items, including daggers, spearheads, an axe head, a knife, two male sheep, and a donkey, all likely buried as offerings. After its discovery, the broken jug had to be stabilised and restored before being displayed in the Canaanite Galleries of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.

The "Thinker of Cernavodă", Romania, a terracotta sculpture, and its female counterpart, "The Sitting Woman", are works of art from the Chalcolithic era. The Hamangia culture produced these remarkable sculptures, with The Thinker believed to be the earliest prehistoric sculpture that conveys human self-reflection instead of the more common artistic themes of hunting or fertility. The discovery of the Spong Man, which is the earliest known Anglo-Saxon sculpture of a person, was found in Europe's other end, five millennia. The sculpture takes the form of a seated figure on a pottery lid of a cremation urn, resembling a humanoid figure.

A thousand years later, Michelangelo created the tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, which is located in the Basilica di San Lorenzo in Florence, Italy. The tomb is a sculptural masterpiece and was commissioned by Pope Clement VII to honor the memory of the Duke of Urbino, a member of the powerful Medici family of Florence. The tomb is considered one of Michelangelo's finest works in sculpture and was created in the Mannerist style of the Late Renaissance period. The tomb features a large rectangular base, which is adorned with intricate reliefs and two sculptures, Dusk and Dawn, that represent the cycle of life. The central figure on the tomb is a sculpture of the Duke, who is portrayed as a thinker with his face in shadow and his elbow resting on a money box with a similarly muscular, contemplative figure with his hand on his chin, though the figure is seated rather than standing like Rodin's "The Thinker". The tomb also includes two reclining figures on the sarcophagus that are believed to represent Day and Night.

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Shaun Wright-Phillips

Shaun Cameron Wright-Phillips (born 25 October 1981) is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger. He played in the Premier League and Football League for Manchester City, Chelsea and Queens Park Rangers, in Major League Soccer for the New York Red Bulls, in the United Soccer League for the New York Red Bulls II and Phoenix Rising FC, and at senior international level for the England national team.

A Nottingham Forest youth product, he spent 13 seasons playing in the Premier League during spells with Manchester City, Chelsea and Queens Park Rangers. In 2015, he joined Major League Soccer club New York Red Bulls alongside his brother, Bradley. Wright-Phillips joined Phoenix Rising FC in 2017.

The England international scored six goals in 36 appearances for the national team, which included selection for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Early life
Shaun Cameron Wright-Phillips was born on 25 October 1981 in Greenwich, Greater London. He is the son of former England international Ian Wright, who adopted him at the age of three. His younger brother, Bradley Wright-Phillips, is also a professional footballer and the all-time top scorer for the New York Red Bulls. Wright-Phillips grew up in Brockley and attended Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College in New Cross Gate. Wright-Phillips is of Trinidadian and Grenadian descent.

Manchester City
Wright-Phillips was released by Nottingham Forest aged 17 and Manchester City took him to Maine Road. He made his first-team debut as a substitute in the second leg of a League Cup match against Burnley, replacing Terry Cooke. His league debut came two months later at Port Vale. Brought on as substitute striker, he helped his team turn a 1–0 deficit into a 2–1 win. His shot resulted in the first Manchester City goal, which Wright-Phillips attempted to claim, though the strike was later credited as an own goal instead. He then started the next two matches in place of Paul Dickov, who was absent through injury. Once Dickov recovered, Wright-Phillips returned to the reserves, making only one further first team appearance that season. City finished second in the First Division, resulting in promotion to the Premier League for the 2000–01 season.

Wright-Phillips featured more regularly than the previous season but was still not fully established in the first team, making 12 starts and seven substitute appearances playing in a variety of attacking positions. Manchester City's stay in the Premier League was brief; at the end of the season they were relegated.

Under Keegan, Wright-Phillips firmly established himself in the first team, not as a forward, but as a wing-back. Keegan was known for playing attacking football, and decided to use the attacking Wright-Phillips in a traditionally defensive position due to his mobility and dribbling ability. From 2000 to 2003, Wright-Phillips won Manchester City's Young Player of the Year award four times in succession, surpassing Steve Kinsey's record of three times.

On 17 November 2004, he became one of the main targets of racist chants from sections of the Spanish crowd at an international friendly between England and Spain in Madrid. However, he brushed that aside with his performance in his next Manchester City appearance at Portsmouth, saying to reporters after the match, "I just let the football do the talking". He also has a similar response regarding his father, saying in an interview with manchesteronline.co.uk: "The press brought up my adopted father's name. They relate to his name and that is fine by me – it comes with the name, but I will be my own man. I have made my own path and started to take my own steps.". His son is also going through City's youth ranks at the moment.

Chelsea

On 18 July 2005, Wright-Phillips completed a £21 million move to Premier League champions Chelsea, returning to his native London. He joined the club on a five-year contract after agreeing to personal terms and passing a medical. He had previously said he would not leave Manchester City. His appearances were initially limited, starting only 15 times for Chelsea in 2005–06 and struggling to find scoring form. An inconsistent first season with Chelsea culminated in him missing out on the opportunity to travel to Germany with the England squad for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Despite making few first-team appearances, Wright-Phillips maintained that he was happy at Chelsea and wanted to stay and fight for a first-team place. He received a boost from his manager José Mourinho, when the latter declined to make an approach for Real Betis winger Joaquín, stating that he had enough options in terms of wingers. His first goal for the club came in a 2–0 Champions League win over Levski Sofia on 5 December 2006, in his 52nd match and almost 17 months after his transfer.

As 2006–07 progressed, Wright-Phillips picked up form and scored his first league goal against West Ham United on 18 April, following it up with his second in the same match. Subsequently, he started in several matches towards the end of the season including the 2007 FA Cup Final which Chelsea won.

At the beginning of 2007–08, Wright-Phillips maintained his starting place on the right wing. He also maintained his place after José Mourinho left Chelsea and under new coach Avram Grant. He was selected to play in the 2008 League Cup Final, which Chelsea lost to Tottenham Hotspur. He only made another six appearances that season and failed to make the match day squad for the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final. Having made 65 starting appearances for the club, with a further 60 as a substitute, Wright-Phillips had been unable to secure a regular place in the team under Grant and Mourinho. After falling out of favour with new manager Luiz Felipe Scolari, he was allowed to leave the club.

Return to Manchester City

On 28 August 2008, he re-joined former club Manchester City on a four-year contract for an undisclosed fee, believed to be in the region of £8.5 million. On his second debut, Wright-Phillips scored two goals against Sunderland in the 3–0 away win in the Premier League. His third goal for City came in a 6–0 victory over Portsmouth on 21 September 2008. Wright-Phillips equalled his entire goalscoring record at Chelsea just over a month after returning to City. His right footed drive in the second half against Omonia Nicosia on 2 October helped steer City through to the group stages of the UEFA Cup for the first time. On 29 October, Wright-Phillips swore at former Middlesbrough manager Gareth Southgate during Manchester City's 2–0 defeat to his club, after Southgate complained about Wright-Phillips appearing to go down too easily after a challenge. The Football Association warned Wright-Phillips about his future conduct.

The 2009–10 season started very well for Wright-Phillips, setting up Emmanuel Adebayor's first goal for Man City in the third minute of a 2–0 win against Blackburn Rovers. He followed that up with a goal in a League Cup tie with Crystal Palace. Three weeks later against Arsenal, he set up a goal for Adebayor before scoring one for himself. He went on to score in successive home matches against Burnley and Hull City where he delivered an assist for Carlos Tevez's debut Man City goal. During his next game against Arsenal he scored in a 3–0 League Cup win which saw City progress to the tournament's semi finals. He found himself in-and-out of the team under manager Roberto Mancini, with new signing Adam Johnson's form forcing Wright-Phillips to be a substitute in most matches, including City's match at his former club Chelsea at Stamford Bridge. He came off the bench to replace Johnson in the 60th minute and then set up Craig Bellamy's second goal in the 4–2 win. Despite his impact in the match, Wright-Phillips had not secured a place in the team. He started for City on the final match of the 2009–10 Premier League against West Ham at Upton Park, where he scored the equaliser in a 1–1 draw.

The 2010–11 season saw Wright-Phillips only make seven league appearances, with the increased competition for places following the signings of David Silva and Yaya Touré resulting in him rarely being included in the club's matchday squad. City won the 2010–11 FA Cup, and despite being left out of the squad for the final, he did contribute some appearances earlier in the cup run, including coming on as a substitute against Manchester United in the semi-final.

Queens Park Rangers
On 31 August 2011, the final day of the transfer window, Wright-Phillips signed for Queens Park Rangers (QPR) on a three-year contract for an undisclosed fee. He made his full debut for QPR against Newcastle United on 12 September 2011, making the starting line-up and winning man of the match by supporters. He failed to score a goal for almost a year before scoring his first the following season for QPR against Walsall in the League Cup on 28 August 2012. His only goal for QPR in the Premier League came during the derby against former club Chelsea on 2 January 2013, which ended 1–0. Despite this, QPR would find themselves relegated to the Championship at the end of the season. QPR would return to the Premiership at the first time of asking, defeating Derby County in the play-off finals, though Wright-Phillips would increasingly find his role throughout the season diminished to the occasional cameo from the subs bench and reserve outings. After featuring even more sporadically during 2014–15, QPR announced that Wright-Phillips would be released from his contract in a batch of players that included fellow former England internationals Rio Ferdinand and Joey Barton.

New York Red Bulls
In June 2015, Wright-Phillips began training with Major League Soccer club the New York Red Bulls to regain fitness following his departure from QPR. Impressing head coach Jesse Marsch, he suggested he would sign for the club when his contract officially expired on 30 June.

On 27 July, he completed a move to join his brother, Bradley Wright-Phillips, at the New York Red Bulls. He made his debut on 1 August, coming off the bench to win a penalty and assist his brother in a 3–1 victory at the Philadelphia Union. Wright-Phillips was named in the MLS Team of the Week following the performance.

Wright-Phillips was released by the Red Bulls at the end of the 2015 Major League Soccer season, but was later re-signed on 25 January 2016.

Phoenix Rising FC
On 23 February 2017, Wright-Phillips signed for United Soccer League club Phoenix Rising FC. He made his debut on 26 March 2017, in a 1–0 defeat to Toronto FC II.

Wright-Phillips announced his retirement from playing on 24 August 2019 at the age of 37.

International career
Wright-Phillips made his England debut as a substitute for Nicky Butt against Ukraine on 18 August 2004. He scored the last of England's goals in a 3–0 win, described by BBC Sport as "crowning a solo run with a stunning finish." He was a regular member of England's squad during qualification for the 2006 FIFA World Cup and made his first competitive start in a 1–0 away win over Wales. After a decline in form, however, especially a poor performance away to Northern Ireland, and a lack of matches following his move to Chelsea, he missed out on a place in the squad for the World Cup finals.

After a good start to the 2007–08 season, Wright-Phillips received an England recall to play against Germany in a friendly match at the new Wembley Stadium. Wright-Phillips was brought on as a substitute in the second half during the match in which England lost 2–1 to Germany and he was named the England sponsor's man of the match after an impressive performance.

On 8 September 2007, Wright-Phillips was selected to start against Israel in a UEFA Euro 2008 qualifier he scored the first goal in the 3–0 victory and won the England sponsor's man of the match award with his performance. He was then selected to start for England against Estonia and scored his third goal for England and the opener in a third consecutive 3–0 win at Wembley. He was selected in England's critical Euro 2008 qualifying match against Croatia, substituted at half time in favour of David Beckham with England trailing 2–0, with England eventually losing 3–2 and therefore missing out on Euro 2008.

On 14 October 2009, with England having already qualified for the 2010 World Cup, Wright-Phillips was selected in the starting XI against Belarus at Wembley Stadium." Unusually, he was joined in the team (which was missing Wayne Rooney through injury) by Tottenham Hotspur's Aaron Lennon, meaning England played with two recognised wingers. Mid-way through the second half, Wright-Phillips drove in a shot from the edge of the penalty area which beat the dive of the Belarus goalkeeper. He appeared as a second-half substitute against Egypt on 3 March 2010, scoring England's second goal and assisting Peter Crouch for the third as they came from behind to win 3–1.

On 1 June 2010, Wright-Phillips was selected for England's final 23-man squad that was to play in the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. He appeared as a substitute in England's opening two group matches against United States and Algeria.

Personal life
Wright-Phillips has a son, D'Margio Wright-Phillips, who plays for Stoke City. He is also capped for England U16s.

International

 * Scores and results list England's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Wright-Phillips goal

Honours
Manchester City
 * Football League First Division: 2001–02
 * FA Cup: 2010–11

Chelsea
 * Premier League: 2005–06
 * FA Cup: 2006–07
 * FA Community Shield: 2005
 * Football League Cup runner-up: 2007–08

Individual
 * Manchester City Young Player of the Year: 1999–2000, 2000–01, 2001–02, 2002–03
 * Manchester City Player of the Year: 2003–04
 * PFA Team of the Year: 2004–05 Premier League

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CICI-TV

CICI-TV (analogue channel 5) is a television station in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, part of the CTV Television Network. The station is owned and operated by network parent Bell Media, and has studios on Frood Road (near Lasalle Boulevard) in Sudbury; its transmitter is located near Huron Street.

CICI-TV is the flagship station of the network's CTV Northern Ontario sub-system. CICI produces all of the CTV Northern Ontario stations' local programming, except for some local news inserts in the system's newscasts.

History
The station was launched on October 25, 1953, by Sudbury businessmen George Miller, Jim Cooper and Bill Plaunt. It was the first privately owned television station to launch in Canada, and only the fourth television station overall after CBC Television's owned-and-operated stations CBLT in Toronto, CBMT in Montreal and CBOT in Ottawa. Its original call sign was CKSO-TV. The station was a CBC affiliate, receiving programs by kinescope until a microwave relay system linked the station to Toronto in 1956. The station originally broadcast only from 7 to 11 p.m., but by the end of its first year in operation it was on the air from 3:30 p.m. to midnight.

The station was owned by the Sudbury Star along with CKSO radio (AM 790, now CJRQ at FM 92.7). The newspaper was sold to Thomson Newspapers in 1955, but the paper's former local owners retained the radio and television stations under the corporate name CKSO Ltd. The company name was changed to Cambrian Broadcasting by 1965.

Reaffiliation with CTV
In 1970, four separate companies simultaneously applied for new stations in Sudbury: J. Conrad Lavigne, who owned the existing CBC affiliate CFCL-TV in Timmins, and Hyland Broadcasting, which owned the existing CBC affiliate CJIC-TV in Sault Ste. Marie, each applied for a rebroadcast transmitter in Sudbury to transmit their existing programming, predicated on the assumption that CKSO would then switch its affiliation to CTV; the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation itself applied for its own owned-and-operated station in the city, also predicated on the same assumption; and a fourth company, North Star Broadcasting, applied to launch a new CTV affiliate.

The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) rejected all four of the original applications on the grounds that as Sudbury was the only city in the region large enough to support two competing television stations, all of the original applications would have effectively shut down any path for CTV service to ever be extended to Timmins or North Bay; even the mere addition of rebroadcasters of Sudbury's new CTV station would itself destroy the viability of the existing CBC stations in the smaller cities unless they were also paired up to a sister station in Sudbury. It accordingly directed Cambrian and Lavigne, as the incumbent broadcasters, to collaborate on a new plan that would treat Sudbury, North Bay and Timmins as a single market, and extend CTV service to all three cities. Although North Bay's CFCH-TV was owned by another company at this time, its owners were trying to sell the station and thus were not considered to be relevant to the plan. Accordingly, the two companies then resubmitted a revised application under which Lavigne would launch stations in Sudbury and North Bay and become the CBC affiliate in all three cities, while Cambrian would purchase CFCH, launch a rebroadcaster of CKSO in Timmins, and switch its affiliation to CTV in all three cities.

CKSO thus disaffiliated from the CBC to join CTV in 1971. Lavigne's new CBC affiliate, CKNC, went to air in Sudbury the day of CKSO's affiliation switch.

CKSO was Sudbury's only television station until 1971, when CKNC signed on. A building at 699 Frood Road was built and later became the permanent home for CKSO and CKNC (now defunct) where the station remains to this day.

Merger
The financial pressures of competing in small markets, however, left both companies losing money and very nearly bankrupt by 1980. As a result, the CRTC approved a full merger into the MCTV twinstick. As part of the deal, Cambrian Broadcasting spun CKSO radio off to new owners, and since the stations no longer had common ownership the television station adopted the new call sign CICI. At this time, the Timmins repeater was converted into a new standalone station, CITO-TV.

In 1981, an Ontario provincial court case against the station, for allegedly failing to satisfy its Canadian content requirements in the 1979–80 season, briefly had the effect of nullifying the entire policy; the judge ruled that because the federal Broadcast Act defined a station as the holder of a licence issued under the Radio Act of 1967, but the Canadian content regulations were set down in a later revision of the Broadcast Act, a station was not bound by the regulation as it wasn't present in the 1967 edition. The ruling was subsequently overturned on appeal.

In 1990, the stations were acquired by Baton Broadcasting. Baton bought full control of CTV in 1997, making CICI a fully owned-and-operated station of the network. CKNC was sold to the CBC in 2002, ceasing operations and becoming a full-time rebroadcaster of CBLT in Toronto.

Famous people
Former CKSO employee Judy Jacobson was the first woman in Canadian broadcasting history to work on air as a television weather reporter. She later became a federal Member of Parliament for Sudbury's Nickel Belt riding.

Other past employees of the station include journalists Francis D'Souza, Sarika Sehgal and Susan Hay, all later associated with major market stations in Toronto, as well as sportscasters and former hockey players Cummy Burton and Frank Salive.

Brendan Connor rejoined the station in 2011 as news anchor, after spending many years as a sportscaster and anchor for national and international networks including TSN, CBC Newsworld and Al Jazeera English. He is the son of Michael Connor, a longtime news anchor from the station's days as CKSO. Michael Connor died in December 2008, at age 82.

In the 1960s and 1970s, Inco sponsored a local variety show, Inco Presents, on the station. The program included comedic sketches performed by the duo of Gil Mayer and Norm McGilvary, in which Mayer, a sales manager with the station, performed the character of miner "Marcel Mucker". Marc Mayer, now the director of the National Gallery of Canada, is the son of Gil Mayer.

Alan Nesbitt, a journalist who worked for the station in the 1960s before moving on to major market stations in the United States, wrote about his time with the station in a chapter of his 2020 memoir Stepping Out Into Traffic.

Transmitters
CICI also broadcast on CICI-TV-1 channel 3 in Elliot Lake and CKNY-TV-11 channel 11 in Huntsville. The rebroadcaster in Huntsville was originally a CKCO-TV repeater (CKCO-TV-4), but switched to CKNY-TV as its source, and then to CICI-TV, retaining the CKNY-TV-11 call sign. This repeater initially aired a very small amount of local programming distinct from its parent station, but ultimately this was phased out, though it still airs a small amount of local commercials specifically for the Huntsville area.

Both transmitters were among a long list of CTV rebroadcasters nationwide to have shut down on or before August 31, 2009, as part of a political dispute with Canadian authorities on paid fee-for-carriage requirements for cable television operators. A subsequent change in ownership assigned full control of CTVglobemedia to Bell Canada; as of 2011, these transmitters remain in normal licensed broadcast operation.

On February 11, 2016, Bell Media applied for its regular licence renewals, which included applications to delete a long list of transmitters, including CICI-TV-1. Bell Media's rationale for deleting these analogue repeaters is below:

We are electing to delete these analog transmitters from the main licence with which they are associated. These analog transmitters generate no incremental revenue, attract little to no viewership given the growth of BDU or DTH subscriptions and are costly to maintain, repair or replace. In addition, none of the highlighted transmitters offer any programming that differs from the main channels. The Commission has determined that broadcasters may elect to shut down transmitters but will lose certain regulatory privileges (distribution on the basic service, the ability to request simultaneous substitution) as noted in Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2015–24, Over-the-air transmission of television signals and local programming. We are fully aware of the loss of these regulatory privileges as a result of any transmitter shutdown.

On July 30, 2019, Bell Media was granted permission to close down CKNY-TV-11 Huntsville as part of Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2019-268. This transmitter was shut down by October 9, 2020.

Special programming
Each December, the station airs a locally produced program called the CTV Lions Children's Christmas Telethon.

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CITO-TV

CITO-TV (analogue channel 3) is a television station in Timmins, Ontario, Canada, part of the CTV Television Network. Owned and operated by network parent Bell Media, the station has studios on Pine Street North (near Hendry Avenue) in Timmins, and its transmitter is located near Highway 101 (just west of Connaught Road). It also operates rebroadcasters in Kapuskasing (channel 10), Kirkland Lake (channel 11, also serving Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec), Hearst (channel 4) and Chapleau (channel 9).

CITO-TV is part of the CTV Northern Ontario sub-system. It essentially operates as a de facto semi-satellite of CICI-TV in Sudbury, running the same programming as that station at all times (except for certain commercials and regional news inserts during its newscasts).

History
CITO was established April 1, 1971, as CKSO-TV-2, originally rebroadcasting CKSO in Sudbury. Unlike CKSO and CKNY in North Bay, which were established in the 1950s as CBC affiliates and then reaffiliated with CTV in 1971 when J. Conrad Lavigne established new CBC stations in those markets; in Timmins, Lavigne's existing station CFCL retained its CBC affiliation and CTV service was provided by a rebroadcast transmitter of CKSO.

Until 1980, CKSO-2 and CFCL aggressively competed with each other for advertising dollars, leaving both in a precarious financial position due to the Timmins market's relatively small size. In 1980, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) approved the merger of Cambrian Broadcasting and Lavigne's Mid-Canada Communications into the MCTV twinstick. The station's callsign changed to CITO-TV at that time and it began operating as a standalone station.

In 1990, the stations were acquired by Baton Broadcasting. Baton subsequently became the sole corporate owner of CTV, and sold CFCL to the CBC in 2002.

Transmitters
These and many other CTV rebroadcasters nationwide were to shut down on or before August 31, 2009, as part of a political dispute with Canadian authorities on paid fee-for-carriage requirements for cable television operators. A subsequent change in ownership assigned full control of CTVglobemedia to Bell Media; as of 2011, these transmitters remain in normal licensed broadcast operation.

On February 11, 2016, Bell Media applied for its regular license renewals, which included applications to delete a long list of transmitters, including CITO-TV-3 and CITO-TV-4. Bell Media's rationale for deleting these analogue repeaters is below:

"We are electing to delete these analogue transmitters from the main licence with which they are associated. These analogue transmitters generate no incremental revenue, attract little to no viewership given the growth of BDU or DTH subscriptions and are costly to maintain, repair or replace. In addition, none of the highlighted transmitters offer any programming that differs from the main channels. The Commission has determined that broadcasters may elect to shut down transmitters but will lose certain regulatory privileges (distribution on the basic service, the ability to request simultaneous substitution) as noted in Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2015–24, Over-the-air transmission of television signals and local programming. We are fully aware of the loss of these regulatory privileges as a result of any transmitter shutdown."

At the same time, Bell Media applied to convert the licenses of CTV2 Atlantic (formerly ASN) and CTV2 Alberta (formerly ACCESS) from satellite-to-cable undertakings into television stations without transmitters (similar to cable-only network affiliates in the United States), and to reduce the level of educational content on CTV2 Alberta.

On July 30, 2019, Bell Media was granted permission to close down an additional transmitter as part of Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2019-268. The transmitter for CITO-TV-2 will be shut down by December 3, 2021.

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CHBX-TV

CHBX-TV (analogue channel 2) is a television station in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada, part of the CTV Television Network. It is owned and operated by network parent Bell Media, and maintains studios and transmitter facilities on 6 Line East (just east of Peoples Road) in Sault Ste. Marie.

CHBX-TV is part of the CTV Northern Ontario sub-system. It essentially operates as a de facto semi-satellite of CICI-TV in Sudbury, running the same programming as that station at all times (except for certain commercials and regional news inserts during its newscasts).

The station's signal also reaches the eastern portion of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and can be seen over-the-air as far south as Gaylord, Michigan. It is carried on Charter Spectrum in St. Ignace on Channel 2; however, it is not seen on Spectrum in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan.

History
The station began broadcasting on November 5, 1977, as CKCY-TV. It was owned by Huron Broadcasting along with CBC affiliate CJIC-TV, and was a sister station of an AM radio outlet with the same call letters. Prior to the sign-on of CKCY, CTV programming was available in Sault Ste. Marie on cable from Sudbury's CKSO-TV (now CICI).

It adopted the current CHBX call sign in 1985, when the radio station was sold to Mid-Canada Radio. In 1990, Huron sold CHBX and its CBC-affiliated twinstick CJIC-TV to Baton Broadcasting, which merged them into the MCTV system. Ironically, MCTV flagship CICI had been available on cable in Sault Ste. Marie for part of the 1980s; the two stations aired radically different programming at the time.

Baton became the sole corporate owner of CTV in 1997, and sold CJIC to the CBC in 2002.

Transmitters
CHBX also broadcasts on CHBX-TV-1 channel 7 in Wawa; this repeater was among a long list of CTV rebroadcasters nationwide to have shut down on or before August 31, 2009, as part of a political dispute with Canadian authorities on paid fee-for-carriage requirements for cable television operators. A subsequent change in ownership assigned full control of CTVglobemedia to Bell Canada Enterprises; as of 2011, these transmitters remain in normal licensed broadcast operation.

On February 11, 2016, Bell Media applied for its regular license renewals, which included applications to delete a long list of transmitters, including CHBX-TV-1. Bell Media's rationale for deleting these analog repeaters is below:

"We are electing to delete these analog transmitters from the main licence with which they are associated. These analog transmitters generate no incremental revenue, attract little to no viewership given the growth of BDU or DTH subscriptions and are costly to maintain, repair or replace. In addition, none of the highlighted transmitters offer any programming that differs from the main channels. The Commission has determined that broadcasters may elect to shut down transmitters but will lose certain regulatory privileges (distribution on the basic service, the ability to request simultaneous substitution) as noted in Broadcasting Regulatory Policy CRTC 2015–24, Over-the-air transmission of television signals and local programming. We are fully aware of the loss of these regulatory privileges as a result of any transmitter shutdown."

At the same time, Bell Media applied to convert the licenses of CTV 2 Atlantic (formerly ASN) and CTV 2 Alberta (formerly ACCESS) from satellite-to-cable undertakings into television stations without transmitters (similar to cable-only network affiliates in the United States), and to reduce the level of educational content on CTV2 Alberta.

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CKNY-DT

CKNY-DT (channel 10) is a television station in North Bay, Ontario, Canada, part of the CTV Television Network. Owned and operated by network parent Bell Media, the station maintains a transmitter adjacent to Ski Hill Road (southwest of Highway 534) in Nipissing.

CKNY-DT is part of the CTV Northern Ontario sub-system. It essentially operates as a de facto semi-satellite of CICI-TV in Sudbury, running the same programming as that station at all times (except for certain commercials and regional news inserts during its newscasts). CKNY-TV's studios were located on Oak and Wyld Streets (near the shoreline of Lake Nipissing) in downtown North Bay, and were closed in 2020.

History
CKNY was originally launched by local businessmen Gerry Alger and Gerry Stanton in 1955, as a CBC affiliate with the callsign CKGN. The station was subsequently acquired by The Thomson Corporation in 1960, and recalled as CFCH.

In 1970, Thomson reached a deal to sell the station to Bushnell Communications of Ottawa, although the transaction was never completed. Around the same time, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) rejected all of the applicants in the first round of license hearings to extend CTV service to Sudbury, the largest market in the region; because the North Bay and Timmins markets were deemed too small to support competing television stations, the commission directed Cambrian Broadcasting of Sudbury and J. Conrad Lavigne of Timmins to collaborate on an alternative plan in which all three cities would receive CTV service without losing CBC. Effectively, the decision declared all three cities to be a single television market, and prevented new television companies from entering and potentially upsetting the balance.

In the first revised plan, Cambrian's CKSO-TV, which was now slated to become the CTV affiliate, would simply have added a rebroadcaster in North Bay on channel 4, while leaving the ownership status and affiliation of CFCH unchanged. The CRTC rejected this proposal, however, as it did not adequately resolve the commission's concerns about CFCH's financial viability in the face of competition. Accordingly, in 1971 the station was directly acquired by Cambrian Broadcasting and became an affiliate of CTV and a semi-satellite of CKSO, while Lavigne's new CBC affiliate, CHNB, went on the air at the same time.

For a number of years in the 1960s and '70s, CFCH/CKNY operated rebroadcast transmitter CJTK-TV in Témiscaming, Quebec on channel 3. It is not known when it was shut down.

Throughout the 1970s, CKNY and CHNB aggressively competed with each other for advertising revenue; by 1980, however, the stations ran into exactly the problem the CRTC had been trying to prevent by linking them to Sudbury in the 1970 hearings: they were losing money and very nearly bankrupt. In 1980, the CRTC approved the merger of the two stations, along with their co-owned stations in Sudbury and Timmins, into the MCTV twinstick.

In 1990, the stations were acquired by Baton Broadcasting. Baton subsequently became the sole corporate owner of CTV, and sold CHNB to the CBC in 2002.

In 1999, CKNY began rebroadcasting on channel 11 in Huntsville, Ontario (CKNY-TV-11), licensed to Dwight and serving the Muskoka and Parry Sound area on a transmitter which previously rebroadcast the programming of CKCO (as CKCO-TV-4). Initially a semi-satellite with a very small amount of local programming, the Huntsville station subsequently lost local programming, and then changed its programming and advertising feed source to CICI.

Since the acquisition of CTV by Bell Canada, CKNY has gradually downsized its local operations, with all newscasts across the CTV Northern Ontario system (formerly MCTV) centralized out of Sudbury; as of 2020, the station only had three local employees (two reporters and a cameraman). In May 2020, CKNY closed its local studio on Oak Street, with the remaining employees now working remotely.

Just after midnight on October 30, 2020, CKNY-TV turned off its analogue signal and signed on its digital signal on channel 12.

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Metohija

Metohija (Метохија, ) or Dukagjin (Rrafshi i Dukagjinit, ) is a large basin and the name of the region covering the southwestern part of Kosovo. The region covers 35% (3,891 km2) of Kosovo's total area. According to the 2011 census, the population of the region is 700,577.

Districts
It encompasses three of the seven districts of Kosovo:

Names
The name Metohija derives from the Greek word μετόχια (metóchia; singular μετόχιον, metóchion), meaning "monastic estates" – a reference to the large number of villages and estates in the region that were owned by the Serbian Orthodox monasteries and Mount Athos during the Middle Ages.

The oldest name for the region is Dukagjin Plain (Rrafshi i Dukagjinit) and the region was called Sanjak of Dukagjin in the 15th–16th century. According to the historian Jahja Drançolli, the name 'Metohija' does not appear as a geographic term in the medieval period.

In Albanian the area is called Rrafshi i Dukagjinit and means "the plateau of Dukagjin", as the toponym (in Albanian) took the name of the Dukagjini family who ruled a large part of Metohija during the 14th-15th centuries. The term "Kosovo and Metohija" (Косово и Метохија) was in official use for the Autonomous Region of Kosovo and Metohija (1945–1963), and also for the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija (1963–1968). The term "Metohija" was dropped from the official name of the province in 1968, and thus the term "Kosovo" became the official name of the province as a whole. The change was not welcomed by Serbs, who continued to use the old name (for example in the 1986 Draft Memorandum of SANU). In September 1990, the new Constitution of the Republic of Serbia was adopted, changing the official name of the province back to the Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija. This time, the change was not welcomed by ethnic Albanians, who protested against the official use of the term "Metohija". In 2008, after the Kosovo declaration of independence, Serbia included the term "Metohija" into the official name of the newly formed Ministry for Kosovo and Metohija, which was transformed in 2012 into the Office for Kosovo and Metohija.

Geography
Metohija is 23 km wide at its broadest point and about 60 km long, at an average altitude of 450 m above sea level. Its principal river is the White Drin. It is bordered by the mountain ranges Mokra Gora in the north and northwest, the Accursed Mountains in the west, Pashtrik in the southwest, the Šar Mountains (Malet e Sharrit) in the south and southeast, and Drenica in the east and northeast, which distinguishes it from the rest of Kosovo in the east and northeast.

The geographic division between Metohija and the rest of Kosovo causes differences between the two areas' flora and fauna. Metohija has the characteristic influences of the Mediterranean.

Metohija consists of fertile arable land with many small rivers which provide water for irrigation and, in combination with the Mediterranean climate, give excellent fields except for cereals. This area is well known for its high-quality vineyards, fruit orchards, and for the growing of chestnut and almond trees.

The geographical region of Metohija is further divided into four parts: Prizrenski Podgor, Llapusha, Reka and Rugova.

Prehistory
Based on archaeology, the region of Kosovo and Metohija and the Morava Valley were interconnected in the Neolithic (Starčevo and Vinča) and Eneolithic. The Triballi of Morava entered Kosovo in two waves in the 8th and 7th centuries BC, then took part in the genesis of the Dardani. Necropolises near Zhur suggest that the southwesternmost part of Metohija at the end of 6th century BC was subject to Illyrian influx. After the Roman conquests, the Metohija region was divided into Dardania and Praevalitana.

Middle Ages

Coinciding with the decline of the Roman Empire, many "barbarian" tribes passed through the Balkans, most of whom did not leave any lasting state. The Slavs, however, overwhelmed the Balkans in the 6th and 7th centuries. The region was conquered by Bulgaria in the early 10th century, after which Byzantine rule was restored, briefly ca. 970–975, and again after 1018. In terms of ecclesiastical administration, the region of Metohija belonged to the Eparchy of Prizren, created in 1019. During the 11th and the 12th century, the region was contested between the Grand Principality of Serbia and the Byzantine Empire. Serbian Grand Prince Stefan Nemanja was recognized as independent in 1190, keeping northern parts of the Metohija (region of Hvosno), while southern parts were incorporated into the Kingdom of Serbia by the beginning of the 13th century. After the Fall of the Serbian Empire in 1371, the region of Metohija was controlled by the Balšić family of Zeta, and since 1378 by the Branković family. The region was also controlled by the Principality of Dukagjini. It was part of the Serbian Despotate until 1455, when it was conquered by the Ottoman Empire.

Ottoman cadastral records, particularly the Ottoman defters of the 15th-16th centuries, indicate that the Dukagjin Plains were inhabited by a majority of Albanian Christians during this period. This Albanian Christian majority of the region mainly concerned itself with agriculture and consisted of both Catholic and Orthodox Albanians. Albanian anthroponomy and onomastics prevailed over Slavic ones, and there are many cases of mixed Slav-Albanian anthroponomy; that is to say, Albanians with elements of Slavic anthroponomy as a result of their conversion to the Orthodox faith. The Slavic population of the region during these times consisted of a small minority, and was mainly located in the Nahiya of Peja and with a very small pocket in the Nahiya of Prizren.

Early modern
Metohija was conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1455 and incorporated into the Sanjak of Prizren (southern part of Metohija) and Sanjak of Peć (northern part of Metohija). In 1878, after several administrative reforms, the region was included into Ottoman Vilayet of Kosovo.

Modern
The area was taken by the Kingdom of Montenegro in the 1912 First Balkan War except for the Prizren area, conquered by Kingdom of Serbia. During the First World War, Montenegro was conquered by the Austro-Hungarian forces in 1915. The Central Powers were pushed out of Metohija by the Serbian Army in 1918. Montenegro subsequently joined the Kingdom of Serbia, which was followed by the formation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. The Kingdom was reformed into the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1929. The Kingdom suffered an Axis invasion during World War II in 1941, and the region of Metohija was incorporated into Italian-controlled Albania, with the Italians employing the "Vulnetari", an Albanian volunteer militia, to control the villages. After Italy's treaty with the Allies in 1943, the Germans took direct control over the region, supported by the local Albanian collaborationists (Balli Kombëtar). After numerous rebellions of Serb Chetniks and Yugoslav Partisans, Metohija was captured by Serb forces in 1944. In 1946, it became part of Serbia's Autonomous Province of Kosovo and Metohija, within the transitional Democratic Federal Yugoslavia.

On 17 February 2008, representatives of Kosovo Albanians declared Kosovo's independence and subsequently adopted the Constitution of Republic of Kosovo, which came into effect on 15 June 2008. Serbia still considers Metohija part of its territory.

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Mark Bishop

Thomas Mark Bishop (born 29 June 1954) is a former Australian politician who served as an Australian Labor Party member of the Australian Senate representing the state of Western Australia from July 1996 until June 2014. He was born in Adelaide, South Australia and was educated at the University of Adelaide and Harvard University. He was an industrial officer and union secretary before entering politics.

Bishop has been Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs 2001–04, Shadow Minister for Customs 2003–04 and Shadow Minister for Defence Industry, Procurement and Personnel 2005–2006.

In December 2006, Bishop announced that he would not recontest his Senate seat, due to expire on 30 June 2008. However, before the 2007 he decided to recontest and was re-elected for a further six-year term.

In the Rudd Labor Government, Senator Bishop was chair of the Senate Standing Committee for Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade, as well as being a member of a number of other Joint House and Senate committees.

Bishop withdrew from Senate preselection for the 2014 election after a factional deal which would have seen him relegated to an unwinnable position on the ticket. He subsequently retired from politics.

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Talk:Humanzee/Archive

"Humans and chimpanzees share roughly 99% of their DNA"
 * Is this accurate? - I thought it was about 96% or 97%. Anyone know what is correct? - MPF 08:30, 17 May 2004 (UTC)

 * I personally have seen estimates ranging anywhere between 95% and 99.5%, depending on the test being used. I think the most widely accepted estimate is 98.1%, since, if I recall correctly, the test that gave this figure gave the exact same number for Chimpanzees and Gorillas, which might have to do with it being the least "controversial" (whereas most other tests place Chimpanzees and Humans as being closer relatives than Chimpanzees and Gorillas).  I could be wrong about this -- I've been out of the science-loop for a couple of years and even when I was in the loop, I mainly studied paleoanthropology (as a non-layman amateur), not genetics.

 * Even a 99% genetic similarity isn't as much as it may seem. Many bacteria are 80% genetically identical to Humans (so I've heard, though I'm skeptical).  Mice and Rats are about 90% genetically identical to Humans.  So 99% doesn't say as much as you'd think. --Corvun 10:34, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * My Physical Anthropology Professor claims that common chimps (Pan troglodytes) and humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) are 98.4% similar. Bonobos (Pan paniscus) are even closer, although I don't remember the percentage. It is commonly accepted that 97% (give or take .5%) DNA similarity means that two animals are the same species. However, this fact is ignored in these two animals and a few others. To be considered a sepereate race two animals must be 99% different. Any two people will never have a greater difference than 99.99%, thus there are no physical races, only social ones based, initially, off of facial structure. Dustin Asby 00:54, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

"...though most scientists would likely regard this a highly unlikely." This is not NPOV. I would have left it and asked for back-up evidence but for the words "would likely." In other words, this doesn't say that, "most scientists regard this as unlikely", it says they, "would likely regard this as unlikely," meaning that the person who wrote this never actually polled, or found a poll that stated such things, only that he or she speculates that, if asked, most scients probably would think it false. Was that too many words to get the point across? Anyway, deleted. Dustin Asby 00:54, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Cool. I hate the "most scientists" argument as a general rule, its essentially never backed up w any sort of cite or other verification. I think we call that a false appeal to authority. Sam [Spade] 00:59, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Although assuming appeal to authority is the writer's motive is, well probably some other fallacy; assuming someone's motive when you really don't know seems a silly thing to do. Some people just aren't very good writers, including myself, and that's one benefit of Wikipedia's "anyone-can-edit-anything" system:  write what you can, in whatever way you know how, and let other people fix it into something neater.  It isn't necessarily, "muahaha, I'm going to write this article in an evil POV fashion!  twists handlebar moustache and tighten rope holding an attractive maiden to the train tracks"  --I run like a Welshman 10:34, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Sure, I didn't mean it was malicious, just that it’s fallacious, and annoying to me, especially in its regularity. Folk make the "most scientists" or "most people" false appeal to authority rather often here. IMO they likely believe it to be true, but having been a scientific pollster, sociological researcher, professional surveyor, etc... It’s rather annoying when people cite non-existent research ;) [[User:Sam Spade|Sam Spade Wants you to vote!]] 11:35, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Tarim

Tarim may refer to:

 * Tarim, Hadhramaut, a city in Yemen
 * Tarim District, Yemen
 * Tarim River, China
 * Tarim Basin, China
 * Tarim mummies, a series of mummies which have been excavated at Niya, an oasis in the Tarim Basin
 * Tarim, the monotheistic god worshiped by multiple religions in Dave Sim's Cerebus the Aardvark graphic novel series

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Petersfield Town F.C.

Petersfield Town Football Club are an English football club based in Petersfield, Hampshire, England. The club is affiliated to the Hampshire Football Association, and is an England Football Accredited Club. They are currently members of the Wessex Football League Premier Division, playing home fixtures at The Southdowns Builders Stadium.

History
The club was founded by Peter De-Sisto in 1993 after the demise of Petersfield United (founded 1889). The previous club folded after being denied permission to switch from the Isthmian League to the Wessex League and had serious debts. The newly formed club took their place in Division One (now Premier Division) of the Wessex League, under the management of former England player Gary Stevens.

For the first four seasons the club stayed in the Wessex League before being relegated to Division One of the Hampshire League. The club only lasted one season in Division One and were relegated again to Division Two, where they stayed for a further season finishing as runners-up, however when the league was re-organised they were effectively promoted twice, as they now found themselves in the newly formed Premier Division.

The club stayed in the Premier Division of the Hampshire League until the start of the 2004/05 season, when the Wessex League expanded and the club joined the newly formed Division Two. The club remained in this Division - which was now called Division One, until the 2013/14 season when Petersfield Town became Wessex League Division One Champions.

Under the stewardship of Ian Saunders, the club won the Wessex League Premier Division in 2014/15, becoming the first club to win back to back championships in the Wessex League and thus earned promotion to the Southern Football League.

Numerous 'Team of the Month' awards were claimed during the campaign, with midfielder Ed Dryden catching the eye, earning a move to Stoke City.

Season 2015/16 was another year of firsts for Petersfield – it was the first time they had played in the Southern League and they went on to finish in 13th place in Division One Central.

They played in the FA Trophy for the first time too and had their best ever run in the FA Cup to date – reaching the third qualifying round before losing to National League South side St Albans City.

Saunders left the Rams a little over a week before the start of the 2016/17 campaign and Andy Neal and Gary Lines had short spells in charge of first team matters before John Robson was appointed manager in October 2016.

However, he could not reverse what had become a disastrous season and the Rams finished bottom of Division One Central, gaining only nine points all season.

It wasn't all doom and gloom though – the first team reached the final of the Portsmouth Senior Cup at Fratton Park, home of Portsmouth FC, and the reserve team won the Wyvern League's Division One East title and the Wyvern League Challenge Cup.

In the summer of 2017, Jim Macey was appointed first team manager and the Rams were placed back in the Wessex Premier Division following their relegation from Step 4 football. After a poor start to the campaign Macey resigned and Mark Summerhill took the helm. He worked tirelessly but could not turn around the season, and the club finished bottom of the Premier Division for a second successive relegation.

Back in Wessex Division One, the goal in 2018/19 was to stabilise the club both on and off the field, and this was achieved as Summerhill took the team to a 15th-place finish on 40 points, plus a quarter-final appearance in the Russell-Cotes Cup.

Further progress was made in 2019/20 with the team on course for a top half of the table finish when the season was terminated due to COVID-19.

There was also cup success, the highlights being the club's best ever run in the FA Vase reaching the second round proper, and the third round of the Hampshire Senior Cup.

The pandemic once again brought season 2020/21 to a premature end, however the club was once again enjoying a solid campaign.

After the two curtailed seasons the club concluded 2021/22 in twelfth place.

A partnership with Gosport Borough saw Pat Suraci and Joe Lea join as Joint Managers, with Mark Summerhill becoming Head of Football.

They brought instant success to the club with promotion back to the Wessex Premier Division via the Division One play-offs defeating New Milton Town, while also reaching the Wessex League Cup final.

Their tenure was unfortunately short-lived with the trio departing for Privett Park in the summer of 2023, however it gave opportunity for captain, Connor Hoare to step into the Manager's role for 2023/24, assisted by Callum Glen.

Their appointment coincided with an exciting new era at Love Lane, following a summer merger with the highly successful Petersfield Town Juniors.

Together, they formed one unified club to secure a bright and sustainable future for football in Petersfield, enabling player pathway at all age groups; the emergence of a Ladies side, and an increased volunteer workforce to take the club forward off the pitch.

Ground
The club play their home games at The Southdowns Builders Stadium, Love Lane, Petersfield, Hampshire, GU31 4BW.

The stadium has hosted Petersfield Town and previously Petersfield United since 1948. Prior to this the club played at Princes Road on land subsequently owned by Hampshire Cattle Breeders.

A latter-day attendance record of 1,615 was set on December 28, 1992, for an Isthmian League Division Three fixture with Aldershot Town. The visitors recording a 3–0 victory in what was to be The Rams last season under their former guise as Petersfield United. The stadium is situated opposite Churcher's College.

Management Team

 * 1st Team Manager – Connor Hoare
 * 1st Team Manager Assistant – Callum Glen
 * 1st Team Goalkeeper Coach – George Davis
 * 1st Team Coach – Steve Weston
 * 1st Team Physio – VACANT
 * Under 23 Team Manager – Kristian Stephens
 * Under 23 Assistant Manager – Aaron Ramsey
 * Under 18 Team Manager – Aaron Ramsey
 * Under 18 Assistant Manager – Steven Matile
 * Executive Committee
 * Chairman – Nick Orr
 * Vice Chairman – Dave Bourton
 * Youth Secretary – David Wands
 * Treasurer – Jimmy Balogun
 * Media Officer – Dean Tricker
 * Accreditation Officer – Nigel Gardner
 * Adult Development Officer – Gez Llewlyn
 * Youth Development Officer – Mark Garrett
 * Youth Operations – Keiran Earl
 * Stadium Groundsman – Ian Noble
 * Projects – Ben Bentley
 * Adult Committee
 * Adult Committee

Notable Managers of Petersfield Town and players who have joined professional clubs include:
 * Maik Taylor
 * Gary Stevens Manager 1993 (Brighton, Tottenham, Portsmouth and England International)
 * Guy Madjo

League Honours

 * Wessex League Premier Division
 * Champions (1): 2014–15
 * Wessex League Division One
 * Champions (1): 2013–14
 * Play-Off Winners (1): 2022–23
 * Hampshire League Division Two
 * Runners-up (1): 1998–99

Cup Honours

 * Wessex League Cup
 * Runners-up (3): 2014, 2015, 2023
 * Portsmouth Senior Cup
 * Runners-up (2): 2015, 2017
 * Hampshire Youth Cup
 * Winners: 1994

Records

 * FA Cup: Third Qualifying Round 2015–16
 * FA Trophy: Preliminary Qualifying Round 2015–16
 * FA Vase: Second Round 1994–95, 2019–20

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Maik Taylor

Maik Stefan Taylor (born 4 September 1971) is a former Northern Ireland international football goalkeeper and, since July 2022, goalkeeping coach at Birmingham City.

At club level, Taylor played non-League football for Petersfield Town, Basingstoke Town and Farnborough Town before moving into the Football League with Barnet. He went on to play for Southampton, Fulham, Birmingham City, where he spent eight years before his release at the end of the 2010–11 season, Leeds United and Millwall. In international football, he played for Northern Ireland, qualifying for that country through his British passport which at that time, as he was born abroad, entitled him to play for any of the Home Nations.

Taylor took up goalkeeper coaching, initially with the Northern Ireland setup. He was briefly goalkeeping coach at Bradford City in 2019, and then spent three years in that role with Walsall before moving on to Birmingham City in July 2022.

Early life
Taylor was born in Hildesheim, West Germany, to a German mother and an English father who was serving as a staff sergeant in the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers (REME) regiment of the British Army. Taylor began his football career at ASC Nienburg of Nienburg, Lower Saxony, in Germany before moving to England as a schoolboy. He later followed in his father's footsteps by joining the REME based at Arborfield in Berkshire, where he attended Princess Marina College.

He later moved to Bordon in Hampshire where he played football for his regiment and for the Army and Combined Services representative sides. During this period he also played for Petersfield Town, Basingstoke Town and Farnborough Town, with whom he won the Southern League Premier Division title in 1993–94.

Club career
In June 1995, Taylor joined Barnet of the Football League Third Division for a fee of £700. Eighteen months later he was signed by Southampton of the Premier League for a fee of £500,000.

Southampton
Taylor had become a "Saints" fan as a schoolboy so when Graeme Souness brought him to The Dell in January 1997, no-one was more delighted than Taylor himself. Taylor immediately went into the first-team, replacing Dave Beasant, and made his debut on 11 January in a 1–0 victory at Middlesbrough. During his first season at Southampton, the team struggled near the foot of the table, missing relegation by one point, having been in last place with five matches to play.

Souness left the club in the summer of 1997, being replaced by Dave Jones who brought in several new players, including goalkeeper Paul Jones from his previous club, Stockport County. Taylor spent the rest of his time at Southampton on the bench and was sold to Fulham in November 1997.

Fulham
Taylor was bought by Fulham in 1997 from Southampton at a cost of £800,000. Fulham's manager Kevin Keegan rated him as the "best taker of a cross I've ever seen" and he proved to be a good signing for the Cottagers, helping them win the Second Division title in 1999. The First Division championship followed in 2001 and thus promotion to the Premier League.

Whilst at Craven Cottage, Taylor earned his first international cap for Northern Ireland in a 3–0 defeat by Germany on 27 March 1999. He went on to make over 80 appearances for his adopted country.

He was the first-choice goalkeeper at Craven Cottage until Fulham reached the Premier League, when manager Jean Tigana signed Edwin van der Sar, thus relegating Taylor to the bench. Taylor made only one Premier League appearance in 2001–02, but an injury to Van der Sar sustained at Newcastle United on 21 December 2002 ruled him out for several months, allowing Taylor to return to the side, and he retained his place for the remainder of the season.

Birmingham City
Taylor signed for Birmingham City in August 2003, initially on a year-long loan deal with the possibility of a permanent contract. Manager Steve Bruce made the contract permanent in March 2004 for a £1.5 million fee. Taylor continued his impressive form and was rewarded by being nominated as the goalkeeper for the Premiership team of the 2003–04 season.

Taylor was replaced as Birmingham's first choice goalkeeper in February 2007 by Colin Doyle, but regained his place after the first three matches of the 2007–08 Premier League season. He was again replaced as the first choice keeper in the 2009–10 Premier League season by loan signing Joe Hart, playing only the two fixtures against Hart's parent club, Manchester City. He spent the rest of the season on the bench.

In May 2010, Taylor signed a new one-year deal with Birmingham just after they had signed new keeper Ben Foster from Manchester United. He played only four matches in 2010–11, all in cup competitions, and was on the bench as Birmingham won the 2011 Football League Cup Final. He was not offered a new contract at the end of the season.

Final playing years
After training with the club for two weeks in November 2011, and saving a penalty in a friendly against a Chelsea XI, Taylor signed a short-term contract, until January 2012, with Championship club Leeds United. Taylor took his place on the bench behind loan goalkeeper Alex McCarthy two days later against Barnsley. His contract was extended until the end of the season, to act as backup for Andy Lonergan,

But in March, having made no appearances for Leeds and with new manager Neil Warnock preferring not to name a goalkeeper among the substitutes, Taylor agreed to move to fellow Championship club Millwall on loan for the remainder of the season. After a string of clean sheets, Taylor was nominated for the Championship player of the month award for April. After his six-month deal came to an end, Taylor was told he would be released by Leeds at the expiry of his contract. In May 2012, Taylor agreed a 12-month contract with Millwall, staying with them for one season before retiring.

International career
Taylor was born in Germany to an English father and a German mother. As a British citizen who was born abroad, FIFA eligibility rules at the time of Taylor's first international selection entitled him to represent any of the constituent countries of the United Kingdom at international level. He opted for Northern Ireland, despite having no familial connection to that country.

Taylor made his debut for the Northern Ireland U21 team in April 1998 at the age of 27, as an over-age player in a 2-1 friendly victory over Switzerland. His senior debut was against Germany in 1999: Northern Ireland lost 3–0. In an August 2005 friendly Taylor saved an injury time penalty from Malta's George Mallia to keep the score at 1–1. He became a regular in the Northern Ireland national team, and played 88 matches, including the famous 1–0 victory over England in September 2005.

Taylor was replaced by Lee Camp as first choice goalkeeper, but was recalled to the Northern Ireland squad in August 2011 despite not being registered with a club since leaving Birmingham City. He made his 88th appearance for Northern Ireland on 11 October 2011, captaining his country in a 3–0 defeat away to Italy in a Euro 2012 qualifier. While working as the national goalkeeping coach, the 43-year-old Taylor made an emergency return to the squad in June 2015 as a back-up goalkeeper, following an injury to Roy Carroll the day before a Euro 2016 qualifier against Romania.

Coaching career
In July 2013, Taylor – who had studied UEFA B Licence and UEFA A Licence, Part 1 – was hired as goalkeeping coach for the Northern Ireland national team.

On 8 March 2019, he agreed a short-term deal to become the goalkeeping coach at Bradford City until the end of the 2018–19 season. In June 2019 he left Bradford to take up a similar role at Walsall, and in July 2022, returned to Birmingham City as part of newly appointed head coach John Eustace's backroom staff.

Honours
Farnborough Town
 * Southern League Premier Division: 1993–94

Fulham
 * Football League Second Division: 1998–99
 * Football League First Division: 2000–01
 * UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2002

Birmingham City
 * Football League Championship runner-up: 2006–07, 2008–09
 * Football League Cup: 2010–11

Individual
 * 1998–99 Football League Second Division PFA Team of the Year
 * 2000–01 Football League First Division PFA Team of the Year

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