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Talk:Starhawk

Category
Ashley Y could we discuss the category issue? I think that Starhawk's work shouldn't be restricted to just Wicca. Her contributions effect the larger category of Paganism in my opinion. - FSVallare —Preceding undated comment added 08:55, 16 July 2004.
 * Could we put her in both Neopaganism and Wicca? —Ashley Y 21:32, 2004 Jul 18 (UTC)
 * Sounds like a great solution to me. Will do that now. -- FSVallare —Preceding undated comment added 20:54, 18 July 2004.
 * I did remove Paganism though, unless she has some connection to paganism other than neopaganism. Actually I don't really like the word "neopaganism" but it's kind of stuck here to mean specifically contemporary paganism in the West.—Ashley Y 01:29, 2004 Jul 20 (UTC)
 * Hmm...well the reason I listed Paganism is due to her connection with Marija Gimbutas' work. To me that connection to the past moves her work out of purely Neopaganism.  In the part of the country I'm in Paganism is the more predominate description vs. Neopaganism, so that is also part of it. - FSVallare 18:12, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
 * Starhawk is not Wiccan. She believes in Goddess Spirituality. Her first books she did identify herself as being Wiccan (which can cause alot of confusion), she does follow Goddess Spirituality. Disinclination 03:12, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Residences
She doesn't live in San Francisco anymore. She lives on a farm in capitalist Marin. So much for her "ideals". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.180.100.79 (talk • contribs) 01:23, 30 October 2005
 * She apparantly has two residences, though the RUMOR is that she doesn't spend very much time at the SF one.
 * "Starhawk lives part-time in a solar-powered cabin in the remote Cazadero hills of western Sonoma County, near the 485-acre Black Mountain Preserve. It's more than a two-hour drive along some of the North Coast's most wicked roads, the kind that snake through the hills in endless spirals.
 * She also lives in a townhouse (a collective called the Black Cats) on a busy street in San Francisco's Mission District with her husband, David Miller, and a half dozen housemates, including a schoolgirl who's learning about magic."
 * http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/10/29/NBGRE9FM091.DTL&hw=starhawk&sn=001&sc=1000 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.180.100.79 (talk • contribs) 01:28, 30 October 2005

Middle Name
Note on edit of 9/2/06: Source for addition of Starhawk's mother's middle name Claire is the Minnesota Birth Index, File 1951-MN-035927. (Existing information on DOB, name, and father's name are also verified by this file.) - Zinning 23:30, 2006 Sep 2 [EDT]

== Witchcraft vs. Wicca == I hope I didn't step on anybody's toes by changing the link for "Witch" from Wicca to Witchcraft, but I think that this change better reflects Starhawk's position. While she once identified as a Wiccan (as someone else mentioned above) that is no longer the case, as far as I know. Many, if not most, people involved in Reclaiming identify as Witches but not as Wiccans. If someone disagrees with this...let's talk about it! Thanks, romarin [talk ]  19:21, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
 * She doesn't call herself a Wiccan. She's not somebody that I would recognise as a fellow Wiccan. She does however have beliefs and practices that match what Wikipedia labels "Wiccan".  I don't like Wikipedia's definition of the word, but if that's the way it's defined, then surely it should be used throughout?  86.47.160.33 (talk) 13:50, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

 * I wonder more about the "self-described" label. Most adherents to a set of beliefs probably describe themselves as believing that thing, don't they?  For example, is Pope Benedict a "self-described" Catholic, or is he just a Catholic?  Others describe Starhawk as a witch, so I would respectfully suggest that a citation be provided to show why Starhawk's own description of her beliefs is notable.  -- otherlleft 14:49, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

 * You're kidding, right? For quite some time, people everywhere could pretty much agree what would make somebody a Catholic...Goes to confession, takes communion, defends the pope, etc.  I'm afraid it isn't possible to say the same about Wiccans and Witches.  They are pretty much subjective self-identifying classifications, even today. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.92.42.220 (talk) 17:38, 27 November 2010 (UTC) "

 * It's been my observation that phrases such as "self-identified" or "self-described" are considered demeaning within the overall larger Pagan religious movement, as it has a connotation there that the religion is less legitimate than other religions. -- Davidkevin (talk) 03:21, 20 October 2012 (UTC)

Impact
I've added an impact section that talks about the impact her works have had. mainly about her popularisation of the nine million witches figure, but also one line about how "The Spiral dance" was arguably the inspiration behind the neo-pagan movement. Feel free to add to this. It would require, I think, a review of the book, it's main themes and the popular impact that the book has had, specifically with reference to neo-paganism and wicca. the paragraph I've written (about her popularisation of the incorrect figure of nine million witches killed during the witch hunt) can be considered as one small part of this. It is for others to write the rest.Steve3742 12:52, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Since this new content was almost entirely about the book The Spiral Dance, I've moved it over to that article. -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 14:17, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
 * If you read "The Spiral Dance" you'll read about how she was influenced by people in the Neopagan movement. It can hardly therefore have been the inspiration for it. Nor can she be given credit/blame for popularising the 9,000,000 figure; it was already popular amongst witches thanks largely to Gerald Gardner and amongst Feminists thanks largely to Mary Daly and Andrea Dworkin (all three drawing on Gage as their source). Since Starhawk's influence is where these to groups meet, this was ground already covered - if anything it was the very idea of the nine-million that gave her a fertile bed to work from. It was still reasonable scholarship for someone for whom relevant history wasn't their field working from available sources when Starhawk was first writing so she can't be blamed for keeping the idea in circulation after it had been debunked. In all she's not particularly significant in this regard. Where she is significant is in being a leading figure in combining the two groups for which the nine-million held particular emotional significance86.47.160.33 (talk) 13:59, 21 April 2008 (UTC).

"The Spiral dance" was arguably the inspiration behind the neo-pagan movement?? The Neopagan movement started in the early 1900s, at the latest. Its "counter-culture" revival started in the late 1950s. A 1979 book, no matter how influential, can hardly be considered the "inspiration" of that, unless you give up on the arrow of time and the notion of causality altogether. I am certainly willing to recognize that this author was influential within the "feminist Wicca" subculture and that her book may have inspiered the "Goddess movement", but to equate this with "Neopaganism", or even call her a "theorist of Paganism" is clearly misguided. I do believe that this author contributed to the public perception of "modern pagans" as feminists throwing about "fakelore" and bashing Christianity for the "burning times", at least in the United States, but this is clearly a popular misconception held by people who know nothing about the topic, and certainly not something to be perpetuated by Wikipedia. --dab (𒁳) 12:17, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

YOUTUBE
well i dont like her so ill refrain from editing this article but YOUTUBE not utube —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.174.39.48 (talk) 03:42, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Concerning Pagan Theorist
I was just wondering if this article should refer to her a "theorist of Paganism." Has she published scientific theories related to paganism? Koonboi (talk) 07:19, 10 December 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: returned to base name JHunterJ (talk) 11:15, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

Starhawk (author) → Starhawk – Relisted. Vegaswikian (talk) 23:14, 22 May 2011 (UTC) Clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, and has been for the 8 years this article has existed; the page was moved recently without discussion. More than 70% of Google Web results are to her; only 15% to the two video games, and only 10% to comic. 99% of the GoogleBooks results are to her. Extremely prolific and well-known author and activist. ALL of the "What Links Here" for the term or the dab -- well over 100 -- are referring to her. Softlavender (talk) 12:02, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

 * Oppose - To be clear, the game was announced 1-2 days ago, so the above info actually leans the other way. If 15% percent of google results are for a game that was announced two days ago, that won't even be released until 2012, I think that is a clear indication that the term should be a disambiguator. 100% of the google news results (285 at present) are for the upcoming game. The game is only going to get more notable, and the fact that even one entry on the first page of a Google search is for the (two day old) game says that. ▫  Johnny Mr Nin ja  13:48, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

 * There are two video games, one released in 1977, and the Google results I quoted are for both, not just one. Softlavender (talk) 03:12, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

*Against move and have reverted the change as there was no consensus to make it. The discussion here needs to run its course before any change is made. There will be some mess to clean up which I will do my best to do. Please don't revert back - await consensus before anyone moves this page again. Kim Dent-Brown  (Talk)  16:00, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
 * To try and be clear: I'm against (and have reverted) the unilateral move by  Johnny Mr Nin ja  that took Starhawk to a disambiguation page. As to Softlavender's proposal for Starhawk (author) → Starhawk I have no objections. The main worry for me was that so many pages were left pointing to a dab page but this has now been fixed. I'm easy either way about whether the title of this page should be Starhawk or Starhawk (author) - as long as it is the first page people get to when they type "Starhawk" into WP's search box. Kim Dent-Brown  (Talk)  08:47, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

 * You're against what move? Please make your position clear as to what you believe this page on the author should be titled, so the admin in charge of this discussion can tally your vote. Thank you. Softlavender (talk) 03:12, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

 * Against move Per: Softlavender & Kim Dent-Brown etc. as the request makes clear, the move had no merit whatsoever and the circumstances are highly suspicious. I'd like to hear how the editor who moved it, and others, attempt to justify the perfect timing for a hijacking when it just-so-happens to coincide with the announcement of this video game? WP:COI's the way that leans, but despite all the media hype, the game's numbers didn't even come close to Starhawk (author); the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC by a wide margin, (unless we've switched to a daily news cycle)? Anyway, the media event is old news in 1-2 more days, and you'd have to pry that dab page out of my cold dead fists, if I had secured the #1 spot on Google for the duration... I guess a hat won't due.—Machine Elf 1735   16:35, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

 * You're against what move? Please make your position clear as to what you believe this page on the author should be titled, so the admin in charge of this discussion can tally your vote. Thank you. Softlavender (talk) 03:12, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

 * Kim undid the damage... Click here: Starhawk™ to be directed to the article about Miriam Simos.—Machine Elf 1735  03:51, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

 * I know that. But the Move Request is to move Starhawk (author) → Starhawk, making your "Against move" vote a vote against this. Is that really what you want to vote? I don't think so, but the admin in charge will likely tally your vote as against the Move Request Starhawk (author) → Starhawk (along with JohnnyMrNinja's vote) unless you clarify what move you are against, or unless you change your vote to "Support". "Against" means the same thing as "Oppose", so right now your vote and JohnnyMrNinja's are the same. Softlavender (talk) 03:59, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

 * Don't worry, it's not a WP:VOTE. The closing admin will read everything and they'll be aware of how confusing disambiguation is. But all the comments asking for clarification are not helping...—Machine Elf 1735  04:14, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

 * I have to disagree, and it's not the disambiguation that's confusing, it's the fact that you're voting "Against" when you really want to vote "Support". Right now everyone but Zzyzx11 has voted against the Move Request, making this a 5 to 1 consensus against the move request. Admins are busy -- they see 5 to 1 against and from respected editors, so they quickly close the discussion as against and move on. Softlavender (talk) 04:22, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

 * Wrong, Zzyzx11 supports Kim's resolution. Correct, you don't have to take my advice about asking everyone to come back and do it your way.—Machine Elf 1735  04:37, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

 * I said everyone but Zzyzx11 has voted against the Move Request; read the votes: they are all "Against" or "Oppose" except for Zzyzx11. Kim voted "Against" as well, although he didn't mean to. Softlavender (talk) 04:51, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

 * Revert back: IMO, a unilateral move should not have been made. The primary topic should not be changed every time there is recentism or news spikes, and Google search results are heavily skewed based on only 1- or 2-day old hits. Nor should it be based on a claim that it "is only going to get more notable [in the near future]", more or less merely opinionated speculation or assumption. Zzyzx11 (talk) 17:16, 15 May 2011 (UTC)

 * Revert back to what? Please make your position clear as to what you believe this page on the author should be titled, so the admin in charge of this discussion can tally your vote. Thank you. Softlavender (talk) 03:12, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Revert the unilateral move so the author is back to being the primary target. Zzyzx11 (talk) 04:00, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

 * That's already been done through a redirect. It would be clearer for the admin who closes the discussion if your vote was "Support" the move request, which is to move Starhawk (author) → Starhawk, which has to be done manually by the admin closing the discussion. Softlavender (talk) 04:09, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

 * First of all, a discussion to determine consensus like Requested Moves is not a vote. Any admin who is merely counting "Support" and "Oppose" votes without asserting the merits of each argument, or is not discounting invalid reasons, or is not paying attention to any other comments, is not doing their job. Secondly, my comment on reverting back was more of a rebuttal on the original reason for the unilateral move, and that the primary topic should not be updated solely on recentism. This is not a pure "support" or "oppose" vote because I remain neutral on the other reasons that may determine the long-term primary topic ... and I'll just leave it at that. Zzyzx11 (talk) 06:13, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

 * Oppose make it a disambiguation page. I get a LEGO toyset as the primary usage in Google. 184.144.163.181 (talk) 03:56, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

 * Then you're not searching correctly. Starhawk the person gets well over a million hits on the web alone, and the Lego item gets only 88,000, and zero in GoogleBooks, where Starhawk the person gets 20,000 hits. Softlavender (talk) 04:51, 16 May 2011 (UTC)

 * So, everything above is a confusing mess. The page was moved, then a request was made to move it back, so people started asking for it to be moved when they didn't want it to be, so it was moved again, back to where it was after the first move so that something here might make sense. This whole thing is a little silly. No other article is being moved to the main slot, just a dab page. This is an argument over an author/activist being a primary topic. No offense is meant to her or her supporters. The game is getting more notable every day, that is the nature of our society and the internet in general. There will probably never be any Google Scholar or book results for the video game, but it is already becoming as saturated on the internet as the author. A generic Google search for Starhawk nets a first page balanced between the two. Google news results are only about the game. Page article statistics - Starhawk, Starhawk (2012 video game). Notice the giant spike on the day the trailer was released? It is already clear that the topic is notable. It is not more notable than the author, but it is clear that a significant number of people searching for the term Starhawk are looking for the upcoming game. ▫  Johnny Mr Nin ja  01:37, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

 * You need to re-check your facts because most of what you said there is incorrect. Your unauthorized move was remedied by making Starhawk re-direct to this page. Everyone in this discussion except you, who made the unauthorized move, agrees that the person is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, so perhaps you should review those criteria instead of on relying on a spike in the first page of Google results. Softlavender (talk) 02:34, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

 * Disambiguation page at Starhawk is the best way to deal with a term that means different things to different people. Last week, I was considering starting a disambig page, but JohnnyMrNinja saw the need for it before I got around to doing it. Nobody here is proposing that the 2012 video game, 1977 video game, comic book character, or Lego model reside at Starhawk! We are merely a proposing a disambiguation page! And sure enough there seems to be ambiguity going on among the five uses of the word. Referencing Google Books is a biased argument because Google Books will only find, well, books! The other four uses of "Starhawk" aren't books. Obviously the fact that this discussion is taking place on the article about the author biases the poll toward the former configuration. The argument, "Everyone in this discussion except you," is invalid due to that bias. This conversation should be moved to Talk:Starhawk if you want to conduct a fair, unbiased discussion. —voidxor (talk | contrib) 07:03, 23 May 2011 (UTC)

 * Hat note doesn't work? Cool, you guys think it going to be huge. If and when that comes true, it should definitely be reassessed. Can an encyclopedic be biased against games (in favor of books)? I'm not sure that's possible.—Machine Elf <sup style="font-size:75%;font-family: Georgia, sans-serif">1735  07:48, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Another Move Request
Turn to disambiguation page, and move this to Starhawk {author) due to the upcoming game, which is now the dominant returned result on a Google search and the game being a far wider and well known entity than the author worldwide, due to it being the sequel to a critically acclaimed and multimillion copies selling game. --2.221.193.78 (talk) 17:32, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Agree. While this has been discussed within the past year, I do agree that the video game now gets more hits on google than the author. Also, despite its cumbersome name, Starhawk (2012 video game) now gets more hits per month than Starhawk. So, I think that the proposal to make this page a disambiguation page has merit. Sunray (talk) 18:34, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Disagree strongly. Even if it is the case that the game is receiving more hits, this on its own is not a sufficient reason to move. It would be a bad case of recentism and I take it this is why the same arguments for the same move were rejected a few months back. Next year when the immediate and temporary Google spike about the game has died away and the author remains as significant as ever, this argument would imply that whenever her Ghits outstrip the game again we should revert the name change. That's clearly a nonsense. We need to make an editorial decision here based on judgements about the likely durability of the various entities. My judgement is that this year's upcoming game sequel is likely to be a flash in the pan. <font face="century gothic" color="#0E6E2D">Kim Dent-Brown  <font face="century gothic" size="1" color="#0E6E2D">(Talk)  19:00, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
 * Agree strongly Checking the google trends, searches for starhawk went up by a factor of 10 since the game's announcement. It seems perfectly transparent to me that the majority of internet searches will be related to the game rather than the author. --86.20.221.12 (talk) 14:41, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
 * For a few months that might be true. But it would be recentism to bow to that when the game will be a distant memory in 12 months time. <font face="century gothic" color="#0E6E2D">Kim Dent-Brown  <font face="century gothic" size="1" color="#0E6E2D">(Talk)  16:42, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
 * I would point out that until the game was announced, starhawk did not recieve enough searches on google to merit an actual reading; there are no results before the announcement occured. This would suggest that the author did not hold a very strong presence in the public conciousness even before the game was announced. I understand your concern regarding having to immediately undo edits, but I think the game release will have a greater impact on popular culture than you give it credit for. Warhawk, the predecessor to this game, which was released in 2007 to little fanfare, was actually getting double the hits on wikipedia than starhawk at the beginning of 2010. --86.20.221.12 (talk) 16:26, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

 * Disagree strongly. Let's not play this out again folks. That would be a huge waste of everybody's time. Softlavender (talk) 06:08, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Agree. It has now been nearly a year of significantly more hits for the game than the author on both google and wikipedia. 72.37.244.156 (talk) 15:02, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment: Is there some reason this was not listed on WP:RM? Not listing this move there will only raise questions about the validity of any descision made here. older ≠ wiser 23:54, 1 May 2012 (UTC)

Needs sources
Practically nothing in this article is properly sourced. This needs to be rectified. Deletion of all non-sourced material would likely make this article a stub, so any editors familiar with the subject should work to get sources in. Please let me know if I'm wrong here. Awwhiteman (talk) 00:27, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

 * Of course it's not "properly sourced." "Wicca" is nothing more than a collection of nonsense produced by charlatans inventing "ancient wisdom" to line their modern pockets.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.152.122.230 (talk) 07:18, 19 June 2012 (UTC)

Date of name change
Does this article mention when her name was changed to Starhawk? I assume this happened before she published her books but when? Even the year would be good. 184.146.160.203 (talk) 21:48, 19 July 2014 (UTC)

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Elwyn Jones

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 * Sir Elwyn Jones (solicitor) (1904–1989), Welsh solicitor, town clerk of Bangor, and briefly a Labour MP
 * Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones (1909–1989), Welsh barrister and politician
 * Elwyn Jones (writer) (1923–1982), Welsh television writer and producer
 * David Elwyn Jones (1945–2003), Welsh writer and politician

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Talk:Garda Síochána

Errors in the shield graphic
At the time of this writing, the shield graphic being used is this one:

This graphic is riddled with errors, not of least of which is that it says "Sarda Síochána" instead of "Garda". There are other major issues as well, including lettering that is differing sizes and not aligned, triquetras that are lopsided, and the GS letter mark in the centre looking like it was hand-drawn. In all, it just looks bad and amateurish.

For comparison, this is a proper shield from the Gardai's Facebook page:

I'm going to remove the shield for now because its poor quality (and massive misspelling in the name) really detracts from the article. 73.254.89.77 (talk) 04:01, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Update: I let the original uploader (and artist?) know over on Commons.  Once it gets repaired, I hope we can bring the graphic back 73.254.89.77 (talk) 05:02, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
 * Update 2: The author simply deleted my message, taking no further action on this.  Therefore, I'm going to assume that this person is uninterested in fixing it.  I'm going to open a request at Commons' Graphics Lab and see if we can get a fix.  73.254.89.77 (talk) 06:08, 8 June 2021 (UTC)

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Wikilink Gardaí?
Scores of wikipedia articles contain the word "gardaí", and a quick suvey indicates most do not link the word to the present article, or otherwise help the reader unaware that the word refers to "police" in Ireland. I think they should nearly all at first occurance have gardaí (a piped link). Agree? Nø (talk) 11:16, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Absolutely agree. Good catch. SeoR (talk) 13:25, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Done. (In fact, most had a link already.) Nø (talk) 10:26, 20 May 2024 (UTC)

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User:Professor yearbook

Professor Yearbook
aka TJ McCormick

I started teaching in 1983 as a substitute for Norwalk-LaMirada USD. I enjoyed the experience, and went on to teach in the Imperial Valley as a Math and Science instructor for two years.

Since then, I've taught various classes, including English and composition for adult education, piano and guitar, and computer skills for young adults, doctors and lawyers. My main expertise lies in computer presentation, graphics, and layout software programs.

I have also worked in the field of marketing, and currently work with Yearbook Interactive. I have become somewhat of a self-proclaimed expert in digital yearbooks, and have created www.elementaryedition.com as a way of promoting our new elementary yearbook product.

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User talk:Dschmelzer

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Space X and Falcon rockets
I would like to ask you if you are/were at any time working for Space X corporation (in any capacity, whether directly or indirectly).

Regardless whether or not that be the case, I would like to ask you to re-familiarize yourself with Wikipedia policies, especially as regards the NPOV. Wikipedia is not an advertising medium and the Falcon I and V rocket articles, among other things through their inclusion of pricing and present tense recounting of future events, clearly qualified as advertising. Please consider this a friendly reminder -- a less well meaning person would have submitted the articles for deletion outright, because of the said flagrant Wikipedia policy violations. Sincerely, Ropers 23:37, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi Dschmelzer, I now dropped a new note at Talk:Falcon I, which you may want to read. Ropers 22:52, 21 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * Thank you. Further discussion regarding these issues can be found on Talk:Falcon_I. Dschmelzer 02:08, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)

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Northern red snapper

The northern red snapper (Lutjanus campechanus) is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the family Lutjanidae. It is native to the western Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, and the Gulf of Mexico, where it inhabits environments associated with reefs. This species is commercially important and is also sought-after as a game fish.

Taxonomy
The northern red snapper was first formally described in 1860 as Mesoprion campechanus by the Cuban zoologist Felipe Poey with the type locality given as Campeche in Mexico. The specific name reflects the type locality.

Characteristics
The northern red snapper's body is very similar in shape to other snappers, such as the mangrove snapper, mutton snapper, lane snapper, and dog snapper. All feature a sloped profile, medium-to-large scales, a spiny dorsal fin, and a laterally compressed body. Northern red snapper have short, sharp, needle-like teeth, but they lack the prominent upper canine teeth found on the mutton, dog, and mangrove snappers. They are rather large and are red in color. This snapper reaches maturity at a length of about 39 cm. The common adult length is 60 cm, but may reach 100 cm. The maximum published weight is 50 lb, 4 oz (22.79 kg) and the oldest reported age is 57+ years. Coloration of the northern red snapper is light red, with more intense pigment on the back. It has 10 dorsal spines, 14 soft dorsal rays, three anal spines and eight to 9 anal soft rays. Juvenile fish (shorter than 30–35 cm) can also have a dark spot on their sides, below the anterior soft dorsal rays, which fades with age.

Distribution
The northern red snapper is found at a depth of 30 to 620 feet in the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and the southeastern Atlantic coast of Mexico and the United States and much less commonly northward as far as Massachusetts. In Latin American Spanish, it is known as mero, huachinango, pargo, or chillo.

This species commonly inhabits waters from 30 - 200 ft, but can be caught as deep as 300 ft on occasion. They stay relatively close to the bottom, and inhabit rocky bottoms, ledges, ridges, and artificial reefs, including offshore oil rigs and shipwrecks. Like most other snappers, northern red snapper are gregarious and form large schools around wrecks and reefs. These schools are usually made up of fish of very similar size.

The preferred habitat of this species changes as it grows and matures due to increased need for cover and changing food habits. Newly hatched red snapper spread out over large areas of open benthic habitat, then move to low-relief habitats, such as oyster beds. As they near one year of age, they move to intermediate-relief habitats as the previous year's fish move on to high-relief reefs with room for more individuals. Around artificial reefs such as oil platforms, smaller fish spend time in the upper part of the water column while more mature (and larger) adults live in deeper areas. These larger fish do not allow smaller individuals to share this territory. The largest red snapper spread out over open habitats, as well as reefs.

Reproduction and growth
Diaz reported weight vs. length data for L. campechanus for the National Marine Fisheries Service (US). As northern red snapper grow longer, they increase in weight, but the relationship between length and weight is not linear. The relationship between total length (L, in inches) and total weight (W, in pounds) for nearly all species of fish can be expressed by an equation of the form:

$$W = cL^b\!\,$$

Invariably, b is close to 3.0 for all species, and c is a constant that varies among species. Diaz reported that for red snapper, c=0.000010 and b=3.076. These values are for inputs of length in cm and result in weight in kg.

Szedlmayer et al. reported length vs. age data for L. campechanus in a primarily artificial reef environment off the coast of Alabama, US: TL(age) = 1,025 (1 – e^( -0.15 age)), N=409, R = 0.96. For the first five years, growth can be estimated as being approximately linear: TL(age) = 97.7 age + 67.6, N = 397, R = 0.87 (for each equation, age is in years and total length is in mm). Szedlmayer & Shipp 1994, Patterson 1999, Nelson and Manooch 1982, Patterson et al 2001, Wilson & Nieland 2001, and Fischer et al 2004 show L. campechanus growing most rapidly over its first 810 years.

Northern red snappers move to different types of habitats during their growth process. When they are newly spawned, red snapper settle over large areas of open benthic habitat(s). Below age 1, the red snapper move to low-relief habitats for food and cover. If available, oyster shell beds are preferred. The second stage is when these fish outgrow low-relief habitats and move to intermediate-relief habitats as age 1 snapper leave to move on to another growth stage. Next, at about age 2, snapper seek high-relief reefs having low densities of larger snapper. Next, at platforms, smaller snapper occupy the upper water column. Then, the larger, older snapper occupy the deeper areas of the platforms and large benthic reefs and they prevent smaller snapper and other fish from using these habitats. In spite of local habitat preferences, Szedlmayer reported that of 146 L. campechanus tagged, released and recaptured within about a year, 57% were still approximately at their respective release site, and 76% were recaptured within 2 km of their release site. The greatest movement by a single fish was 32 km.

A northern red snapper attains sexual maturity at two to five years old, and an adult snapper can live for more than 50 years. Research from 1999–2001 suggested the populations of red snapper off the coast of Texas reach maturity faster and at a smaller size than populations off of the Louisiana and Alabama coasts.

Commercial and recreational use

Northern red snapper are a prized food fish, caught commercially, as well as recreationally. It is sometimes used in Vietnamese canh chua ("Sour soup"). Red snapper is the most commonly caught snapper in the continental US (almost 50% of the total catch), with similar species being more common elsewhere. They eat almost anything, but prefer small fish and crustaceans. They can be caught on both live and cut bait, and also take artificial lures, but with less vigor. They are commonly caught up to 10 lb and 20 in in length, but fish over 40 lb have been taken.

Recreational fishing for northern red snapper has been popular for a long time, restricted mostly by fishing limits intended to ensure a sustainable population. The first minimum size limit was introduced in 1984, after a 1981 report described quickly declining harvests (both commercial and recreational) From 1985 to 1990, the annual recreational catch of red snapper was about 1.5 million. From 1991 to 2005, the catch was substantially higher, varying from year to year from 2.5 to 4.0 million.

When northern red snapper bite on a line, they tend to be nibblers and pickers, and a soft touch is needed when trying to catch them. Because the older red snapper like structure, anglers use bottom fishing over reefs, wrecks, and oil rigs, and use line and supplies in the 50-lb class. Since the anglers have to both choose the right bait and present it correctly, they tend to use multiple hooked baits. Favorite baits include squid, whole medium-sized fish, and small strips of fish such as amberjack. Although many northern red snapper are caught on the bottom, in some situations the larger fish are caught on heavy jigs (artificial lures), often tipped with a strip of bait or by freelining baits at the proper upper level.

Interest in recreational fishing for northern red snapper, and in the Gulf of Mexico in general, has increased dramatically. From 1995–2003, the number of Louisiana fishing charter guide license holders increased eight-fold. In 2017, the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council estimated the commercial value of the red snapper fishery to be $129 million. While specific numbers on the economic impact of recreational red snapper fishing are not available, it is clear that the activity has a significant economic impact on coastal communities through tourism and fishing-related activities.

Since 1990, the total catch limit for northern red snapper has been divided into 49% for recreational fishermen and 51% for commercial. Commercially, they are caught on multiple-hook gear with electric reels. Fishing for red snapper has been a major industry in the Gulf of Mexico, but permit restrictions and changes in the quota system for commercial snapper fishermen in the Gulf have made the fish less commercially available. Researchers estimate the bycatch of young red snapper, especially by shrimp trawlers, is a significant concern.

Genetic studies have shown many fish sold as red snapper in the US are not actually L. campechanus, but other species in the family. Substitution of other species for red snapper is more common in large chain restaurants which serve a common menu nationwide. In these cases, suppliers provide a less costly substitute (usually imported) for red snapper. In countries such as India, where the actual red snapper is not available in its oceans, John snapper,  Russell snapper are sold as "red snapper".

Stocking in artificial reefs
Juvenile northern red snappers have been released on artificial reef habitats off the coast of Sarasota, Florida, to conduct investigations into the use of hatchery-reared juveniles to supplement native populations in the Gulf of Mexico. Artificial reefs off the coast of Alabama have proven to be a favorite habitat of red snapper two years old and older. Gallaway et al. (2009) analyzed several studies and concluded, in 1992, 70 – 80% of the age two red snapper in that area were living around offshore oil platforms.

Other species mistaken for red snapper

 * Sebastes, rockfish, are called red snapper or Pacific red snapper.
 * Several species of bigeye (Priacanthidae)
 * Lane snapper
 * Blackfin snapper

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James Cousins

James Henry Cousins (22 July 1873 – 20 February 1956) was an Irish-Indian writer, playwright, actor, critic, editor, teacher and poet. He used several pseudonyms, including Mac Oisín and the Hindu name Jayaram.

Life
Cousins was born at 18, Kevor Street in Belfast, Ireland, the descendant of Huguenot refugees. His father was James Cousins, a mariner, and Susan, née Davis. Largely self-educated at night schools, he worked some time as a clerk became private secretary and speechwriter to Sir Daniel Dixon, 1st Baronet, the Lord Mayor of Belfast. In 1897 he moved to Dublin where he became part of a literary circle which included William Butler Yeats, George William Russell and James Joyce. He is believed to have served as a model for the Little Chandler character in Joyce's short story collection Dubliners. Cousins was significantly influenced by Russell's ability to reconcile mysticism with a pragmatic approach to social reforms and by the teachings of Madame Blavatsky. He had a lifelong interest in the paranormal and acted as reporter in several experiments carried out by William Fletcher Barrett, Professor of physics at Trinity College Dublin and one of the founders of the Society for Psychical Research. Cousins worked as a teacher in The High School, Dublin.

Cousins produced several books of poetry whilst in Ireland as well as acting in the first production of Cathleen Ní Houlihan (under the stage name of H. Sproule) with the famous Irish revolutionary and beauty Maud Gonne in the title role. His plays were produced in the first years of the twentieth century in the Abbey Theatre, the most famous being "the Racing Lug". After a dispute with W. B. Yeats, who objected to 'too much Cousins' the Irish National Theatre movement split with two-thirds of the actors and writers siding with Cousins against Yeats. He also wrote widely on the subject of Theosophy and in 1915 travelled to India with the voyage fees paid for by Annie Besant the President of the Theosophical Society. He spent most of the rest of his life in the sub-continent, apart from a year as Professor of English Literature at Keio University in Tokyo and another lecturing in New York. He formally converted to Hinduism in 1937. At the core of Cousins's engagement with Indian culture was a firm belief in the "shared sensibilities between Celtic and Oriental peoples".

Whilst in India he became friendly with many key Indian personalities including the poet Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian classical dancer Rukmini Devi Arundale, the painter Abdur Rahman Chughtai and Mahatma Gandhi. He gave the William Miller Memorial Lectures at Madras in 1938 on "The Idea, Expression, and Fulfillment of Beauty," and he was the person who brought change into the life of poetry of the Great Renowned Kannada Poet and Writer Kuvempu. He wrote a joint autobiography with his wife Margaret Elizabeth Cousins (formerly Gretta Gillespie), a suffragette and one of the co-founders of the Irish Women's Franchise League and All India Women's Conference (AIWC).

In his The Future Poetry Sri Aurobindo has acclaimed Cousins' New Ways in English Literature as "literary criticism which is of the first order, at once discerning and suggestive, criticism which forces us both to see and think." He has also acknowledged that he learnt to intuit deeper, being alerted by Cousins' criticisms of his poems. In 1920 Cousins came to Pondicherry to meet the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. The appreciation is palpable in the following citations:

From The Future Poetry by Sri Aurobindo:

"It will be more fruitful to take the main substance of the matter for which the body of Mr.Cousins' criticism gives a good material. Taking the impression it creates for a starting-point and the trend of English poetry for our main text, but casting our view farther back into the past, we may try to sound what the future has to give us through the medium of the poetic mind and its power for creation and interpretation. The issues of recent activity are still doubtful and it would be rash to make any confident prediction; but there is one possibility which this book strongly suggests and which it is at least interesting and may be fruitful to search and consider. That possibility is the discovery of a closer approximation to what we might call the mantra in poetry that rhythmic speech which, as the Veda puts it, rises at once from the heart of the seer and from the distant home of the Truth, — the discovery of the word, the divine movement, the form of thought proper to the reality which, as Mr. Cousins excellently says,

" ''lies in the apprehension of a something stable behind the instability of word and deed, something that is reflection of the fundamental passion of humanity for something beyond itself, something that is a dim foreshadowing of the divine urge which is prompting all creation to unfold itself and to rise out of its limitations towards its Godlike possibilities. Poetry in the past has done that in moments of supreme elevation; in the future there seems to be some chance of its making it a more conscious aim and steadfast endeavour."

Vegetarianism
Cousins and wife Margaret were interested in anti-vivisection, theosophy, vegetarianism and women's suffrage. They were both strict vegetarians and in 1905 founded the Irish Vegetarian Society. Cousins lectured on "The Cruelties and Diseases Connected with Flesh-Eating" which was awarded first prize at the Vegetarian Federal Union in June 1907.

Works

 * POEMS BY JAMES H. COUSINS
 * The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. Ed. Nicholson & Lee. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1917.
 * Padraic Colum (1881–1972).
 * Anthology of Irish Verse. 1922.

 * BIBLIOGRAPHY
 * The Legend of the Blemished King and Other Poems (1897)
 * The Quest (1906)
 * The Bell-Branch (1908)
 * The Wisdom of the West (1912)
 * Etain the Beloved and Other Poems (1912)
 * The Bases of Theosophy (1913)
 * The Renaissance in India (1918)
 * The King's Wife (1919)
 * Sea-Change (1920)
 * The Cultural Unity of Asia (1922)
 * Work and Worship: Essays on Culture and Creative Art (1922)
 * The New Japan: Impressions and Reflections (with 74 illustrations) (1923)
 * Heathen Essays (1925)
 * A Tibetan Banner (1926)
 * Above the Rainbow and Other Poems (1926)
 * A Wandering Harp: Selected Poems (1932)
 * A Bardic Pilgrimage (1934)
 * Collected Poems (1940)
 * The Faith Of The Artist. (1941)
 * The Work Promethean (1970)

 * BIOGRAPHIES/CRITICISM
 * A Wandering Harp: James H. Cousins, a Study. C.N. Mangala. (B.R. Publishing, 1995).
 * James Henry Cousins: A Study of His Works in the Light of Theosophical Movement. Dilip Kumar Chatterjee. (South Asia Books, 1994).
 * James Cousins. William A. Dumbleton. (Twayne Publishing, 1980).

 * RELATED LINKS
 * James H. Cousins: Poems – An index of poems.

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Motel 6

Motel 6 is a privately owned hospitality company with a chain of budget motels in the United States and Canada. Motel 6 also operates Studio 6, a chain of extended-stay hotels. The hotel brand is owned by The Blackstone Group's real estate business. Blackstone purchased the business in 2012 from Accor Hotels, and established G6 Hospitality as the management company for Motel 6 and Studio 6.

History
Motel 6 was founded in Santa Barbara, California, in 1962, by two local building contractors: William Becker and Paul Greene. The partners developed a plan to build motels with rooms at low cost rates. They decided on a $6 room rate per night (equivalent to $ in ), which would cover building costs, land leases, and janitorial supplies; hence the company name "Motel 6".

Becker and Greene had specialized in building low-cost housing developments, and they wanted to provide an alternative to other major hotel chains, such as Holiday Inn, whose locations were becoming increasingly upscale in quality and price in the 1960s, after starting out with a budget-oriented concept. Becker and Greene spent two years formulating their business model and searched for ways to cut costs as much as possible. During the chain's early years, Motel 6 emphasized itself as a "no-frills" lodging chain with rooms featuring coin-operated black-and-white television receivers instead of the free color televisions found in the more expensive motels, along with functional interior decor, to reduce the time it took to clean the rooms. The first location in Santa Barbara had no restaurant on-site, a notable difference from other hotels of the era. To this day, most motels have no on-site dining, though there is usually a choice of restaurants nearby.

As the 1960s progressed, the Motel 6 idea became very popular in the lodging industry, and other chains began to imitate the concept, as Motel 6 was slowly beginning to take a small share of the market away from the traditional hotels. In 1965, Motel 6 opened its 15th property, and first location outside California, in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah. Realizing the need to move quickly, Becker and Green set out on an ambitious expansion program and had opened its 25th location in Gilroy, California, by 1966. The occupancy rate by then was about 85 percent, well above the industry average, and as a result of their success, Motel 6 became an attractive acquisition target. Becker and Greene sold the chain to an investment group in 1968.

In the early 1970s, Motel 6 opened its largest location, Motel 6 Tropicana, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Additionally, the chain moved east and opened a location in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 1972. By 1980, Motel 6 had reached 300 locations. It was sold to Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in 1985, who moved the chain away from its "no frills" approach and began including amenities such as telephones and color television.

Market share declined throughout the 1980s, in part because of increased competition from other budget hotels. During this time, it bought out the Sixpence Inn chain in the western U.S., and Envoy Inn (formerly Budgetel and Bargaintel) in the Midwestern United States and Pennsylvania. Regal 8 Motels were acquired in 1991. In 1990, the company was bought by the French-based Accor. In 1993, it opened its first high-rise location—Motel 6 LAX in Los Angeles, California.

Unlike the majority of hotel chains, Motel 6 directly owns and operates most of its locations. To expand more rapidly outside its traditional Western United States base, the chain started franchising in 1994. Accor management also took over motels that had been franchised by other chains. Motel 6 began to renovate all bedrooms, sold under-performing locations, and upgraded door locks and other security measures. Newer properties, as well as acquisitions, have interior corridors. Its competitors include America's Best Value Inn, Days Inn, Econo Lodge, and Super 8 Motels. In 1999, Motel 6 launched Studio 6 Extended Stay, hotels with suites that are designed for longer stays and feature kitchenettes.

In 2000, Motel 6 went international by opening its first location outside the U.S. in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. Then, in 2002, Motel 6 celebrated its 40th anniversary at its first location in Santa Barbara, California.

In 2006, Accor and Motel 6 invested more than $6 million in properties to help rebuild New Orleans and Gulfport following Hurricane Katrina. One of the Motel 6 co-founders, William Becker, died of a heart attack at the age of 85 the next year.

The company was sold by Accor to The Blackstone Group in 2012 for $1.9 billion. Blackstone announced that Motel 6 would be operated on a stand-alone basis.

In September 2017, immigration attorneys accused Motel 6 desk clerks at two locations in the area of Phoenix, Arizona, of notifying U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement when guests checked in with identification from Mexico. The attorneys said court records showed that federal immigration agents arrested at least 20 people at the Motel 6 locations over the course of seven months in 2017. Motel 6 said the practice was "implemented at the local level without the knowledge of senior management" and every location had been given a directive that they were "prohibited from voluntarily providing daily guest lists to ICE." Motel 6 was sued for discrimination and privacy violations in connection with the case and on November 2, 2018, agreed to settle with the plaintiffs for $7.6 million.

Additionally, Washington state filed a lawsuit in January 2018 against Motel 6 for giving the names of thousands of other motel guests to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. In April 2019, Motel 6 agreed to pay $12 million to settle the lawsuit.

On April 24, 2018, the American Customer Satisfaction Index published a study of America's most popular hotel chains, placing G6 Hospitality's Motel 6 at the bottom of the category for the second year in a row.

As of August 2022, the most expensive motel in the entire Motel 6 chain was the first one in Santa Barbara, California. It had charged $6 per night before taxes for a room when it first opened in 1962. Sixty years later, during the late summer of 2022, the first Motel 6 was reportedly charging $426 per night for a room, before taxes.

Services
Motel 6 locations offer guests free basic wireless internet access, and some locations offer an upgrade to premium wireless internet access with the charge not exceeding $4.99.

In March 2008, Motel 6 began a system-wide renovation program called the "Phoenix Project" to update the look and amenities of all bedrooms. Before the remodel, most rooms had colorful road-trip inspired bed covers, carpeted floors, shower curtains, CRT televisions and beige furnishings. Stained carpets and dirty shower curtains were a common complaint on online customer reviews. The remodel was designed with an eye towards not only modernizing rooms but keeping room rates low for years to come. Designers accomplished this by making the rooms more energy efficient, easy to clean, and easier to keep clean in the long term (keeping housekeeping and maintenance costs low). The remodel earned Motel 6 Travel & Leisure magazine's 2010 design award for Best Large Hotel.

Advertising
Beginning in 1986, Motel 6 has advertised through radio commercials featuring the voice of writer and National Public Radio commentator Tom Bodett, with the tagline "We'll leave the light on for you." The ads were created by Dallas advertising agency The Richards Group. They feature a tune composed by Tom Faulkner, performed by him on guitar and Milo Deering on fiddle. The first spots were conceived and written by David Fowler. In 1996, the ads won a Clio Award. The campaign itself has won numerous national and international awards and was selected by Advertising Age magazine as one of the Top 100 Advertising Campaigns of the Twentieth Century.

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ATC code D09

D09AA Medicated dressings with antiinfectives

 * D09AA01 Framycetin
 * D09AA02 Fusidic acid
 * D09AA03 Nitrofural
 * D09AA04 Phenylmercuric nitrate
 * D09AA05 Benzododecinium
 * D09AA06 Triclosan
 * D09AA07 Cetylpyridinium
 * D09AA08 Aluminium chlorohydrate
 * D09AA09 Povidone-iodine
 * D09AA10 Clioquinol
 * D09AA11 Benzalkonium
 * D09AA12 Chlorhexidine
 * D09AA13 Iodoform

D09AB Zinc bandages

 * D09AB01 Zinc bandage without supplements
 * D09AB02 Zinc bandage with supplements

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Long Ashton

Long Ashton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England. It falls within the unitary authority of North Somerset and is one of a number of large villages just outside the boundary of city of Bristol urban area. The parish has a population of 6,044. The parish includes the hamlet of Yanley, and the residential area of Leigh Woods (although most of the woods themselves are in the neighbouring parish of Abbots Leigh).

The village is built on the south-facing slopes of a valley running from east to west, and on the old road from Bristol to Weston-super-Mare.

History
Prehistoric and Roman artefacts have been found in the area, at the site of the Gatcombe Roman Settlement, but the village originated in Saxon times. The Domesday Book records it as Estune (the place by the ash tree) and, afterwards, it was granted to Bishop Geoffrey of Coutances. The village is near two waterways being The Longmoor Brook and The Ashton Brook, thus the name Long Ashton.

The parish was part of the hundred of Hartcliffe.

The manor house dates to 1265 and, in the late 15th century shares in the estate were purchased by Richard Amerike (one of the possible sources of the name America). Previously the manor had passed through the hands of the Lyons, Choke and finally Smyth families. By 1603 the Smyths had become the principal landowners in the parish and were lords of Long Ashton for four centuries—the estate finally being sold in 1946. A deserted medieval farmstead and part of a Romano-British field system 400 m north of Fenswood Farm has been identified including three enclosures which are thought to be the foundations of buildings, each surrounded by rubble banks.

The parish church of All Saints dates from about 1380, and the arms of its founder (Thomas de Lyons) are on the outside of the tower. The interior has some fine tombs, and some relatives of the poet Robert Southey are buried in the churchyard.

The other Church, Hebron Church was founded in 1934 by Ernest Dyer, who cycled to the village from Keynsham to run a Sunday School. Many of the people who have grown up in the village passed through this Sunday School.

Since the earliest recorded times, agriculture has been the major occupation of the parish, and there are still several working farms, some just outside the village. The Ashton Court estate provided occupations such as gamekeepers and foresters, and there have been several mills in the parish including a snuff-mill on the Land Yeo at Gatcombe in 1769, however the current building dates from the early 19th century. By 1846 it had been converted to grind mustard, annatto and drugs, but by 1874 was a flour mill. The internal machinery is still in place and the mill has been designated as a Grade II listed building. Kincott Mill had stood since at least the 13th century. By the early 19th century rented out for snuff grinding and in the 1830s a steam engine was installed to power a flour and corn mill. Later it was owned by an iron founder, who made edge tools and other farm implements and installed cast-iron water wheels.

Stone has been quarried for lime burning, as well as for building and road making. There was an iron foundry in the 19th century and coal mines — the Bedminster-Ashton coalfield finally closed in 1924.

The Angel Inn, near the church, is the oldest pub in the village, dating from 1495 and originally being a church-house. There are two other historic pubs in the village, The Bird in Hand and The Miners Rest which are very popular with visitors from Bristol—a horse-drawn bus ran from Redcliffe Street, Bristol to the Bird-in-Hand several times a week in the late 19th century.

The National Fruit and Cider Institute opened at Fenswood on the edge of the village in 1903. It became the Agricultural and Horticultural Research Station in 1912, and was known as Long Ashton Research Station until it was closed in 2003. During the Second World War it developed rose hip syrup and Ribena.

A Parochial School opened in 1818 and moved several times — the current Primary School, called Northleaze, opened in 1867 and moved to new premises in Brook Close in 2006. There have been other schools in the village, including boarding schools for "Young Gentlemen".

Long Ashton railway station was opened by the Great Western Railway in Yanley Lane, where the Bristol to Taunton Line passes below the village, on 12 July 1926 but it was closed on 6 October 1941.

Colonel Reginald Dyer CB (9 October 1864 – 23 July 1927) spent his last two years in Long Ashton. As a temporary brigadier-general he was responsible for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in Amritsar on 13 April 1919. The massacre was depicted in the 1982 film, Gandhi.

Governance
The parish council has responsibility for local issues, including setting an annual precept (local rate) to cover the council's operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny. The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with the local police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, and traffic. The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, such as the village hall or community centre, playing fields and playgrounds, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street cleaning. Conservation matters (including trees and listed buildings) and environmental issues are also of interest to the council.

The parish falls within the unitary authority of North Somerset which was created in 1996, as established by the Local Government Act 1992. It provides a single tier of local government with responsibility for almost all local government functions within their area including local planning and building control, local roads, council housing, environmental health, markets and fairs, refuse collection, recycling, cemeteries, crematoria, leisure services, parks, and tourism. They are also responsible for education, social services, libraries, main roads, public transport, Trading Standards, waste disposal and strategic planning, although fire, police and ambulance services are provided jointly with other authorities through the Avon Fire and Rescue Service, Avon and Somerset Constabulary and the South Western Ambulance Service.

North Somerset's area covers part of the ceremonial county of Somerset but it is administered independently of the non-metropolitan county. Its administrative headquarters are in the town hall in Weston-super-Mare. Between 1 April 1974 and 1 April 1996, it was the Woodspring district of the county of Avon. Before 1974 that the parish was part of the Long Ashton Rural District.

The village falls within the 'Wraxall and Long Ashton' electoral ward. The ward starts in the west at Wraxall and proceeds easterly to Long Ashton. The total population of the ward as at the 2011 census was 7,793.

The parish is represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom as part of the North Somerset constituency. It elects one Member of Parliament (MP) by the first past the post system of election, currently Liam Fox of the Conservative Party.

Cricket
Long Ashton Cricket Club plays in Yanley Lane. It runs two Saturday sides as well as a number of junior teams. The team won the Bristol & District Cricket Association League in 1977.

Famous players have included Chris Broad, who went on to become international cricketer of the year. Shane Warne, who was named as one of the five cricketers of the 20th century, played a few games for Long Ashton on tour in Cornwall in the early 1980s. The famous Victorian cricketer W G Grace attended school in Long Ashton.

Football
Long Ashton first team play in the Somerset County League Division 2. The reserve team play in the Bristol and Suburban League Division 2. Their pitch is at Keedwell Hill.

Golf
The golf course at Long Ashton started its life in 1893 as a nine-hole course. However, this was all to change by 1905 when a further addition of land provided the stepping stone to adjoin the second nine holes.

Open spaces
Leigh Woods has been built on since 1865, and the land south of Nightingale Valley was fully developed by 1909. The rest has been preserved by gifts of land by the Wills family and is now owned by the National Trust.

The Clifton Suspension Bridge was opened in 1864 and provided an alternative route to Bristol; in 1906, a swing bridge was opened to give access to Hotwells. Traffic continued to grow throughout the 20th century, and a bypass was opened in 1968.

Ashton Court is a large estate that lies at the east end of the village. It was originally owned by the Smyth family until they were forced to donate it to Bristol City Council in lieu of inheritance tax. Ashton Court is host to several festivals each year, including the Bristol International Balloon Fiesta and the scenic landscaped grounds with views of Bristol are widely used by local residents for walking, golf and mountain biking.

Dawsons walk is an area of green space donated to the people of Long Ashton. It has been developed into a circular woodland and countryside walk. Access to the walk is from Lampton Road or from public footpath between Bourton Mead and 40 Long Ashton Road.

The Long Ashton Footpath Users Group have replaced 29 stiles on the public rights of way around the village with kissing gates to create a complete circular walk around the village, accessible to older people and those with mobility problems, although it can be muddy in places. The route, way marked with yellow Village Circular Walk discs, takes in views of the valley, passing through local farms and woodland.

Land next to the recreation ground has been turned into a public space in memory of Andrée Peel (13 February 1905 – 5 March 2010). Known as Agent Rose, she was a member of the French Resistance during World War II and spent her last years in the village. She died peacefully at the Lampton House nursing home on 5 March 2010.

Notable residents

 * Ferdinando Gorges (1565–1647) Had legal ownership of coastal Maine, the U.S. State. Died at his home in Long Ashton, and is buried there.
 * John Collinson (1757–1793), the Somerset Historian and vicar of Long Ashton.
 * Andrée Peel (Agent Rose) World War II French resistance heroine
 * Colonel Reginald Dyer (1864-1927), the officer responsible for the Amritsar massacre in India, died in Long Ashton in 1927.
 * Sir George Alfred Wills, Baronet of Blagdon (1854–1928) who a member of the Wills tobacco family dynasty, and president of Imperial Tobacco. His residence was at Burwalls.
 * Henry Goulstone (1836–1914) who was born in Long Ashton and became an early European immigrant to New Zealand, where he was a financier and magistrate.

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Ghazi al-Jabali

Ghazi al-Jabali is a Palestinian police officer. He was the Gaza Strip Chief of the Preventive Security Service, appointed by the Palestinian Authority. Al-Jabali, who held the rank of Major general at the close of his tenure in the Palestinian security forces, had been a police commander and chief of the Gaza police since the early 1990s.

Since 1994 he has been the target of repeated attacks by Palestinian groups opposed to the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority, including gunfire aimed at his offices and a bomb that destroyed part of his house. He has also been the subject of a 1997 arrest warrant and extradition request from Israel, based on accusations that he ordered Palestinian police officers to attack an Israeli checkpoint in July 1997.

Al-Jabali was the target of protests after the shooting deaths of three Palestinian teenagers during clashes with police forces; demonstrators claimed that al-Jabali had given police officers orders to shoot protesters throwing stones during a Hamas organized demonstration in support of Osama bin Laden.

Al-Jabali resigned from his post as chief of police in Gaza in June 2002, during a security forces shake-up that also saw the dismissal of Colonel Jibril Rajoub and the resignation of Colonel Mohammed Dahlan. Along with his resignation he announced his intention to oppose Yaser Arafat as a candidate for president of the Palestinian Authority. He was appointed chief of Palestinian Civil Police Forces in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in October 2003.

A February 2004 gunfight Gaza police headquarters was construed by some officials as an attempt on al-Jabali's life. Other officials blamed violence on his rival Mohammad Dahlan members of the body he formerly commanded, Preventive Security Service.

Al-Jabali was criticised for corruption and curbing press freedoms, as well as the arrest of Eyad Sarraj, a civil rights activist.

On July 17, 2004, he was kidnapped at gunpoint by the Jenin Martyr's Brigade part of the Popular Resistance Committees, who ambushed his convoy and wounded two bodyguards. Al-Jabali was only released after Palestinian President Yasser Arafat agreed to fire him. He was replaced with Arafat's cousin, Musa Arafat, a move which did little to restore public confidence in Police.

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Talk:Office Space

Romantic Comedy?
This film doesn't contain any of the hallmarks of modern-day romantic comedy, so I took that part out. This film really doesn't have that much romance in it. 134.117.125.20 (talk) 19:19, 1 June 2010 (UTC)

TPS Reports
Do we -really- need every single solitary mention of TPS reports in pop culture ever? Lots42 (talk) 20:32, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

 * One man's trash is another's treasure. Just because you don't want it doesn't mean it should go.

 * That said, Office Space has made a fair impact on pop culture and the number of instances listed here is just a testament to that. Cburnett (talk) 21:25, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

 * However, if this article is ever going to get promoted to GA status or better, than this list is going to have be converted to prose and cited.--J.D. (talk) 21:29, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Where did I object to that that necessitated you arguing for it? Cburnett (talk) 05:01, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

 * Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Saying something like 'TPS reports have been seen or mentioned in multiple video games and movies, including but not limited to...'. We don't need a detailed rendering of every time a ref pops up in some obscure corne of a shoot 'em up video game. This'd make the article a mess. Lots42 (talk) 03:28, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

 * Amen. Carl.bunderson (talk) 03:30, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

 * "Me too"s are hardly valuable to a discussion. Cburnett (talk) 05:01, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

 * They indicate consensus, so yes, they are. Carl.bunderson (talk) 05:15, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

 * "Indiscriminate" is wholly vague and hardly agreed upon. Cultural references to something specific is hardly indiscriminate (quite discriminate if you ask me).  I also think you're being quite melodramatic about "every single solitary mention" and "of every time a ref pops up".  What is your basis in determining that every single solitary mention of TPS report is present in this article?  Baseless assumption to make things seem "worse" off then they are?  Seems as though you've tipped your hat on your bias and have come here not looking for discussion but a reason to go nuts with your delete key.  Cburnett (talk) 05:01, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

 * Lists of occurences in pop culture invite non-notable items and trivia. Moreover, even if these references should be in WP, they would be better placed in TPS reports than in this article. Carl.bunderson (talk) 19:40, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

 * What Carl said. Lots42 (talk) 10:07, 15 April 2008 (UTC)

Conserning the bar scene
I believe in the movie that durring the bar scene where Peter is telling Michael he is going to be fired, Samir is not there, but the wiki says he tells his two friends in the bar. I didn't correct the article because I could't recall if it was true or not. Could someone with the dvd check? Tonkatsu182 (talk) 01:42, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

I remember that it was just Peter and Michael at the bar. They tell Samir of the situation later on in Peter's apartment.--DavidD4scnrt (talk) 08:48, 1 April 2008 (UTC)

Plot
The plot section, in my opinion, needs to be rewritten from the ground up. Too long, too much past tense and odd grammar and sentence fragments abound. Lots42 (talk) 01:18, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Picture of a stapler in the plot section
Although it may seem cute or chuckle-worthy to the people who have seen the film, the inclusion of a picture of a stapler in the plot section serves no useful purpose in improving this article. I see it akin to including a picture of a quarter in the plot description of No Country for Old Men (film). I have removed it. Please let me know if you disagree. Thanks. SWik78 (talk • contribs) 16:20, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

In other media
I've moved this section here because it is largely unsourced and just a collection of points or random references. If this film is going to be upgraded to GA status, this stuff has to be converted to some kind of coherent prose, cited properly and placed in other sections. Anyways, I've placed it here for posterity.--J.D. (talk) 19:22, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

TPS reports are real life documents. Therefore, saying any reference to a TPS report in media is an allusion to this movie is false. --71.170.209.16 (talk) 16:30, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Any, sure. SOME...naturally. A few well sourced 'cultural refs' (few as in thee or four) would be a cool aspect of the article. In my opinion. Lots42 (talk) 21:18, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Television

 * The animated Office Space short appeared on Liquid Television (MTV) in 1992, involving Milton and his stapler.
 * In the similarly-themed British television series The Office, "Pete Gibbons" is mentioned on two occasions as a former Wernham Hogg employee.
 * Although Gary Cole is credited as supplying numerous voices on the Fox series Family Guy, he reprised his role as Bill Lumbergh in the episode titled "The Father, the Son, and the Holy Fonz."
 * In the television series Lost, John Locke has a flashback of working in a cubicle office and being harassed by his obnoxious boss, Randy, asking about TPS reports.
 * In the episode "The Redneck on Rainey Street" of the animated series King of the Hill, Kahn Souphanousinphone tells his boss on the phone that he has filed his TPS reports. King of the Hill is another Mike Judge production.
 * A red Swingline stapler is seen in an episode of Scrubs ("My Bright Idea") when Dr. Percival "Perry" Cox (played by John C. McGinley, who portrayed one of the Bobs in the movie) is seen talking to Elliot Reid through such a stapler.
 * In the "High" (originally aired 8/22/07) episode of Rescue Me a scene opens with Janet Gavin at work as she hands a colleague some papers and says, "The TPS reports."
 * Actor Greg Pitts appeared as himself in a second season episode of The Sarah Silverman Program ("Ah, Men", original air date 10/31/07). Throughout the episode he is referred to as "the 'oh face' guy from Office Space" and repeatedly recites his famous catch phrase.

Commercials

 * In the series of Reebok commercials featuring "Terry Tate: Office Linebacker", after one of his devastating hits on a co-worker, he yells "You know you need a cover sheet on your TPS Reports, Richard! That ain't new, baby!"
 * In a promotional ad for an episode of the show 30 Days about job outsourcing, series creator Morgan Spurlock is seated in an office cubicle. He drinks from a coffee cup and says the Lumbergh line "Yeah, we're gonna have to move your desk ... to India."
 * Blizzard Entertainment used a scene in this film in a commercial for World of Warcraft. The scene in particular was of Peter playing Tetris on his work computer while blowing off Lumbergh. The Tetris game running on the monitor was digitally replaced with footage from World of Warcraft, and the game's box was digitally added to the top of the monitor. Additionally, the Cheetos on Peter's desk were digitally replaced with WoW CDs.
 * A commercial for Absolut Vodka themed for "Absolut: Case of the Mondays" uses the scene of the printer being pummeled.
 * The 2007 Super Bowl Ad for CareerBuilder, "Promotion Pit," features a character covered in sticky notes.

Music video

 * In the video "Virus Alert" from the album Straight Outta Lynwood by Weird Al Yankovic, people are observed running from the flaming Initech building.

Video games

 * In the video game Enter the Matrix, in a scene set in a post office building, there is an area where the player can hear two employees discussing TPS reports, and referring to one having the other's stapler.
 * The video game F.E.A.R. contains several levels with shootouts set among cubicles in an office building. Papers entitled "TPS Report" litter desks, notes with the phone number to "Chotchkie's" are on cabinets and there is a red Swingline stapler on one of the desks. A poster entitled "Planning to Plan" is seen.
 * In the MMORPG City of Heroes robotic office workers/adversaries refer to 'TPS Reports'.
 * In the computer game Counter-Strike, as well as the Source engine sequel, TPS reports can be seen on the shelves in the multiplayer online map cs_office. On the same multiplayer map, the same computer screens display a Windows desktop with an open Excel spreadsheet titled "TPS Report." The same screen has a command prompt window with the command "embezzle.exe" typed at the prompt.
 * In the game Doom 3, one of the magazines called "UAC" has a red stapler on it and has the caption "Where is my Stapler?"
 * In the mod Zodiac for the game Deus Ex, you infiltrate an office complex modelled after the workplace in the movie, with Milton sitting in a corner enclosure talking about his stapler, TPS reports on his desk.
 * In the MMORPG Guild Wars: Eye of the North, in the map Magus Stones, there is a NPC called Blimm that is searching for his staff and thinks that his ex-employer stole it. He says to players: "And, if you see my red staff, bring it back to me. It's not okay, and if she took my staff, I'm going to burn the laboratory down." as a reference to Milton.
 * In the movie, Peter Gibbons is implied to like computer and video games. He plays tetris on his computer, and even has a Nintendo 64 in his apartment.

In popular culture
This section is not cited or cited very well and is basically a list. It needs loads of citations and changed into prose and integrated into other sections. I'm putting it here for safe keeping.--J.D. (talk) 19:06, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Several phrases, items and concepts from the film have found their way into common usage - particularly in office environments.

 * PMITA prison refers to 'pound me in the ass prison' as opposed to soft time in "white-collar resort-prison". (FPMITA is probably the Federal version of it.)
 * TPS report — denotes any type of pointless office paperwork, based on the film's satirical example of such work.
 * PC Load Letter — an actual HP laser printer error message indicating that the printer needs letter-sized paper, but more generally a catch-all for any nonsensical error message. The "PC" in the phrase stands for "Paper Cassette", a paper reservoir for many printers. This error is more common in Europe when printing US documents on printers loaded with size A4 paper.
 * Did/Didn't you get that memo? — refers to a question a worker is asked by multiple supervisors at varying levels.
 * A case of the Mondays — refers to expressions of frustration at one's job (especially on Mondays); phrase is used by a cheery co-worker to describe Peter's attitude at the start of the film, and again later by Brian, the insufferably upbeat Chotchkie's waiter.

 * Red Swingline stapler — The item that is the only constant in the life of abused employee Milton Waddams, who snaps after it is stolen. Swingline hadn't made red staplers in years, and a red Swingline was not available from office supply shops when Office Space was released (a prop department employee, named Ric Trzeciak, painted one PPG red, according to the film's commentary), but due to popular demand Swingline released a limited run of the red version in 2004. The official Swingline product page describes the product thus: "Discover the stapling star of any office space - the bold head-turning design and legendary performance of Swingline's Rio Red Stapler."
 * No-talent ass clown — expression of Michael Bolton's antipathy for the pop singer Michael Bolton, with whom he shares his name. The term is now used to refer to a celebrity or performer who is successful despite having only marginal talent. It is also used as a general term of derision. The term "ass clown" was also used in the film Bad Santa, by Ajay Naidu, as a tribute to this film. WWE wrestler Chris Jericho was known for using 'ass clown' during his earlier years with the company.
 * Pieces of Flair or chotchkie — refers to the many buttons and pins Joanna must wear while working at the fictional Friday’s-esque restaurant "Chotchkie's", as in the title of the 2005 "Special Edition, with Flair" DVD release. (Tchotchke is a Yiddish word meaning "worthless trinket"—like the pieces of flair). Peter Gibbons criticizes the practice, saying, "You know, the Nazis had pieces of flair they made the Jews wear." In addition, a popular Facebook application called "Pieces of Flair" debuted in 2008 and allows users to create "flair" to post on a mock-bulletin board using any image file. The "flair" is then traded and shared among Facebook users.
 * The O-Face is made famous by the character named Drew, who says "If things go well I might be showing her my O-face. 'Oh... Oh... Oh!' You know what I'm talkin' about."

Misplaced Decimal Point?
I do not remember a misplaced decimal point creating the excess cash. As I recall, it was simply the large amount of money going through the system that caused the excess cash. Lots42 (talk) 18:03, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * No, Michael says that it's a misplaced decimal point. "That's not a mundane detail, Michael!" EVula // talk // ☯  // 18:13, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Conclusion
The movie is about the life of an employee named Peter who as a symbol of minority is trying to get out of cubicles caused by individualism in USA. The movie begins by Peter driving alone in his car changing lines to break free, and the movie ends showing that the freedom he is looking for, is achieved by destruction of the organization as a symbol of government. The movie shows that although finally Peter finds his ideal environment, his two friends chose to go back to a similar system. So it argues although western kind of freedom brought by individualism could be the answer which majority of people are looking for, but other kinds of freedoms must coexist to satisfy minorities or they will rise and bring destruction to achieve it. --AndrehShahbazian (talk) 03:47, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Do you have a source for this or is it your own original research? Either way, I think that there is way too much being read into the movie if these are anyone's ideas. Dismas |(talk) 05:15, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

This is my NPOV. Please check the source of the idea which the movie insists on at this link :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Paul_Sartre  83.147.219.124 (talk) 21:47, 25 October 2008 (UTC) To feel the dept, I suggest watching the documentary by Adam Curtis called "The Trap" first. go:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Curtis 91.184.92.140 (talk) 17:47, 16 June 2009 (UTC)

Printer?
There's several mentions of the "printer" in the article .. wasn't the machine they smashed up a fax machine? - Mblaxill (talk) 20:13, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

I believe it was a copy/fax/printer--all in on sort of thing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.162.129.52 (talk) 01:38, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

I think it should be double-checked. I always understood it to be an HP laser printer. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.69.2.114 (talk) 12:57, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

This came up again in a recent edit. I don't think the movie states it explicitly, but one prominent scene includes the dialogue: "PC Load Letter? What the fuck does that mean?". PC Load Letter appears to be an error specific to old HP Laserjet printers, suggesting that it was in fact a printer مفكر1 (talk) 17:22, 12 January 2018 (UTC)

Milton
I'm confused where it says Milton was fired 2 years ago but still gets paid due to a glitch, and then it says he had to move to a roach-infested basement because he doesn't get paid.Landroo (talk) 15:06, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

 * besides not firing him and just fixing "the glitch", the boss humiliates him too .. in other words, he doesn't move to the roach infested basement "because he doesn't get paid" - he just moves there because Lumberg is enjoying having someone to pick on .. hope that explains it. All best - Mblaxill (talk) 15:49, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

 * I don't believe it was to humiliate Milton. It was more a passive aggressive way to get rid of him, probably hoping he would finally stop coming to work. I once had a high-level executive say something like that to me. Along the lines of "You don't always have to fire someone. If they're not promoted or given pay raises, not given interesting work, they'll generally leave." (Robo45h (talk) 22:08, 22 December 2020 (UTC))

Location of the company
Does anyone else feel that it is important to note where the company in question is located? Personally I don't think it's critical to understanding the plot in the summary at all but I thought I'd bring it here for discussion since the editor adding it feels so strongly about it. Thoughts? Anon IP I'd love to see why you think it's relevant enough to add. Millahnna (talk) 04:42, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
 * It's not important. It's trivia and borders on original research. Doctorfluffy (robe and wizard hat) 03:45, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Judge said recently that while it was filmed in Texas, he purposely avoided any hint of an actual location and tried to keep it as generic as possible (which is part of his point), down to using generic license plates on most of the vehicles. Daniel Case (talk) 22:38, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

With regards to the 80% Fresh rating from RottenTomatoes.com
All of these reviews from Rotten Tomatoes are from many years after the film initially hit theaters, many from 2005 or later. Therefore they are not accurate reflections of how the film was received by critics upon its initial release, as the article insinuates. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.215.55.194 (talk) 15:27, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

 * Thanks for pointing that out. We'll have to make an effort to find some contemporary reviews (if any are available) and make sure to rephrase the critical reception to make it clear that some reviews (currently all) are from after the fact.  Millahnna (talk) 22:20, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Milton's stapler
was linked in the Plot section with the description, "Milton's stapler". As is well documented by fans, the red stapler that Swingline currently sells is not Milton's stapler. The Rio Red stapler is a 747, which looks very different from the 646 that Office Space's prop department painted red. I actually found a 545 at work, and it's a pretty close match, whereas the 747 has a huge block of metal on both sides near the rear hinge. Unable to buy Milton's stapler from Swingline, many fans locate 646s and paint them red.

My first instinct was to change the description to something like "a stapler similar to Milton's stapler", but what's the point of having a picture of a stapler that somewhat resembles Milton's stapler? So I'm just going to delete the image link, and I trust that this will not be controversial. DOSGuy (talk) 21:30, 16 August 2012 (UTC)

other cast
closing credits other names, not part of opening or closing title cards:
 * Kinna McInroe as Nina
 * Linda Wakeman at Laura Symkkowski
 * Jennifer Jane Emerson as Female Temp
 * Kyle Scott Jackson as Bob Newhouse
 * Barbara George-Reiss as Lumbergh's Secretary
 * Tom Schuster at Construction Foreman
 * Ruperto Reyes Jr. as Mexican Waiter
 * Jackie Belvin as Swanson's Patient #1
 * Gabriel Forse as Swanson's Patient #2
 * Jesse de Luna as Cop at Fire
 * Mike Judge (credited as "William King") as Stan, Chotchkie's Manager
 * Justin Possenti as Spectator
 * Jack Betts as Judge

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Rangeomorph

The rangeomorphs are a form taxon of frondose Ediacaran fossils that are united by a similarity to Rangea. Some researchers, such as Pflug and Narbonne, suggest that a natural taxon Rangeomorpha may include all similar-looking fossils. Rangeomorphs appear to have had an effective reproductive strategy, based on analysis of the distribution pattern of Fractofusus misrai, which consisted of sending out a waterborne asexual propagule to a distant area, and then spreading rapidly from there, just as plants today spread by stolons or runners.

Rangeomorphs are a key part of the Ediacaran biota, which survived about 30 million years, until the base of the Cambrian, which was. They were especially abundant in the early Ediacaran Mistaken Point assemblage found in Newfoundland.

Body plan
Rangeomorphs consist of branching "frond" elements, each a few centimetres long, each of which is composed of many smaller branching tubes held up by a semi-rigid organic skeleton. This self-similar structure proceeds over four levels of fractality, and could have been formed using fairly simple developmental patterns.

Ecology
Rangeomorphs dwelt in shallow to abyssal marine environments, were unable to move, and had no apparent reproductive organs. They possibly reproduced asexually by dropping off new fronds. There is little evidence of a gut or mouth, while the organisms have high surface area to volume ratios, which has led to the hypothesis that they gathered nutrients from seawater by osmosis. However, others argue this is implausible and suggest filter feeding or other mechanisms. Most were attached to the sea floor by a stalk or holdfast, although others (such as the spindle-shaped Fractofusus) lay flat on the sediment surface.

Affinity
Rangeomorph communities are similar in structure to those of modern, suspension-feeding animals, but it is difficult to relate their morphology to any modern animals. They have at times been aligned to a range of modern animal and protist groups, but none of these classifications has withstood scrutiny; they probably represent an extinct stem group to either the animals or fungi. Whilst the fractal construction may represent a convergent adaptation to osmotic feeding, most workers now consider it to be an apomorphy which establishes the rangeomorph clade as a valid taxonomic entity. The quilted construction suggests a close affinity to the erniettomorphs.

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South Ruislip

South Ruislip is an area of west London in the London Borough of Hillingdon, south-east of Ruislip, south of Eastcote, north-west of Northolt, and west of South Harrow. A 2017 estimation put the population of South Ruislip ward as 13,150 residents.

The population, according to the 2001 UK census, was 10,823. By 2008, this had reached 11,116.

Education
Schools in South Ruislip include Bourne Primary, Deanesfield, Field End, St Swithun Wells and Queensmead.

Sports
McGovern Park is located on West End Road and is the headquarters of London GAA. It is the primary venue for playing hurling and Gaelic football in Britain.

Transport
South Ruislip station is served by the Central line of the London Underground. Chiltern Railways serve hourly, with trains to London Marylebone and High Wycombe. Although no bus route directly serves the station, London Buses route E7 serves one end of nearby Station Approach and route 114 serves the other.

The Royal Air Force station, RAF Northolt, is situated in South Ruislip near the A40 and the tube station. Most early RAF airfields were named after the nearest railway station; in this case Northolt Junction, the original name of South Ruislip station.the ruislip tube

Demography
In the 2011 UK census, the racial makeup of South Ruislip was: 73% White, 16% Asian, 5% Black. 75.8% of the working age population was economically active. 38% of residents lived in semi-detached houses; 28% in terraced houses; 27% in flats/maisonettes/apartments; and 8% in detached houses. 69.4% of households owned their homes, 19% were privately rented, 10.1% were socially rented.

Landmarks
Polish fighter pilots during the Battle of Britain were based at RAF Northolt, and the Polish War Memorial was built later after the conflict. The memorial stands next to the A40 adjacent to the airfield, and is dedicated to the memory of the Polish airmen who fought with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.

A damaged Vickers Wellington, attempting to land at RAF Northolt, crashed in Station Approach in October 1942. The resulting fire caused the remaining ammunition on board to detonate, and 21 people were killed.

In the 1950s and 1960s RAF South Ruislip supported by RAF West Ruislip was Headquarters, 7th Air Division of the Strategic Air Command (SAC), supporting SAC operations in the UK until 1958 when the 7th Air Division relocated to RAF High Wycombe, and the station became Headquarters, 3d Air Force and transferred to United States Air Forces, Europe. In 1972 HQ, 3d Air Force relocated to RAF Mildenhall and the buildings remained empty until 1995 when they were demolished.

In 2012, the BBC announced it would be moving the Digital Media Services branch of BBC Studios and Post Production from BBC Television Centre to the Odyssey Business Park opposite RAF Northolt between February and March 2013.

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 * D10AF04 Meclocycline
 * D10AF05 Nadifloxacin
 * D10AF06 Sulfacetamide
 * D10AF07 Minocycline
 * D10AF51 Clindamycin, combinations
 * D10AF52 Erythromycin, combinations

D10AX Other anti-acne preparations for topical use

 * D10AX01 Aluminium chloride
 * D10AX02 Resorcinol
 * D10AX03 Azelaic acid
 * D10AX04 Aluminium oxide
 * D10AX05 Dapsone
 * D10AX06 Clascoterone
 * D10AX30 Various combinations

D10BA Retinoids for treatment of acne

 * D10BA01 Isotretinoin

D10BX Other anti-acne preparations for systemic use

 * D10BX01 Ichtasol

title: ATC code D10


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Salman Pak

Salman Pak (سَلْمَان بَاك, ) is a city located approximately 15 mi south of Baghdad near a peninsula formed by a broad eastward bend of the Tigris. It is named after Salman the Persian, a companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad who is believed to be buried in Salman Al-Farsi Mosque in the city.

The city overlaps with the ancient metropolis of al-Mada'in, which includes the ruins of ancient Ctesiphon and ancient Seleucia. It is also quite close to the Salman Pak facility, an Iraqi military installation which was a key center of Saddam Hussein's biological and chemical weapons programs, though none of these were found. The site included training grounds used by Iraqi intelligence to direct Special Operations Forces.

title: Salman Pak