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The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant

The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant) is a 1972 West German New Wave psychological romantic drama film written and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, based on his own play. Featuring an all-female cast, the plot takes place entirely in the home of narcissistic protagonist Petra von Kant, and follows the changing dynamics in her relationships with other women. Petra's story is told in a theatrical fashion in four acts, each depicting her state of mind hinted at visually by her clothes and hair. The film was entered into the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival. The movie is regarded by many to be Fassbinder's magnum opus and a classic of the German cinema.

Plot
Petra von Kant (Carstensen) is a prominent fashion designer based in Bremen. The film is almost totally restricted to her apartment's bedroom, decorated by a huge reproduction of Poussin's Midas and Bacchus (c.1630), which depicts naked and partially clothed men and women. The room also contains numerous life-size mannequins for her work, though only her assistant Marlene (Hermann) is shown using them.

Petra's marriages have ended in death or divorce. Her first husband Pierre was a great love, who died in a car accident while Petra was pregnant; the second began the same way, but ended in disgust. Petra lives with Marlene, another designer, whom she treats as a slave, and this relationship reveals Petra's sadistic tendencies.

First act
Petra is shown being awoken by Marlene. She begins her day and gets dressed while her assistant attends to her. Petra makes a phone call to her mother, makes demands of Marlene (including slow-dancing), and dons a brown wig just before she receives a visitor.

Petra talks to Sidonie (Schaake), her cousin, about her male relationships. Meanwhile, Marlene does the work and acts as hostess. Karin Thimm (Schygulla), Sidonie's friend, joins the women. Karin, newly returned to Germany after residing in Sydney for five years, is a desirable but shallow 23-year-old woman. Petra, immediately attracted to Karin at this first meeting, suggests Karin become a model. Karin agrees to return the following day.

Second act
Petra quickly falls madly in love with Karin. The next day, with Marlene showing clearer signs of frustration, but still typing, Petra, now wearing a larger and dark wig, offers to support Karin while she trains to be a model. Karin's husband has remained in Sydney, though Petra is only momentarily put off by this revelation. The women soon show their incompatibility. Petra had a happy childhood and came from a home where the good things in life were always stressed. Karin's father was a toolmaker, and she always felt neglected by her parents. Petra loved mathematics and algebra at school, but Karin could never understand algebra and the point of substituting letters for numbers. Petra has a daughter, whom she rarely sees, but reassures herself that her daughter is at the best possible boarding school.

Karin's parents are now both dead. She says people reject her when they find out about her history, but Petra now admits to a great affection for her, even stronger after having heard her family history. Petra orders Marlene to get a bottle of Sekt. Karin goes into more detail about her parents' death. Her father was laid off because of his age. In a drunken stupor, he killed Karin's mother and then hanged himself. Karin feels she has drifted in her life; her husband in Sydney treated her as a slave and offered no reprieve from her past, but Petra insists this is about to change. Marlene returns with the bottle of Sekt in a cooler, silently returns to her typing, and the other two women toast each other. Petra promises to make Karin a great model. Marlene, previously hidden by a curtain, stops typing and glares at Petra. While listening to a record, Petra says life is predestined, people are brutal and hard, and everyone is replaceable. Petra, discovering the expense of Karin's hotel, suggests she move in with her. Marlene resumes her typing, but after Karin agrees to move in with Petra, she is ordered to bring more Sekt. While Petra admits to being in love with Karin, Karin herself can only say she likes Petra. Six months or so pass.

Third act
Petra, resplendent in a red wig, is getting dressed, while Karin is in bed reading a colour magazine. Petra cancels a flight to Madrid over the telephone, a habit which Karin thinks is pointless, and Petra orders Marlene to find her shoes. Karin thinks Marlene is strange, but Petra reassures her that Marlene loves her. Karin still cannot say she loves Petra. Karin's own capacity for cruelty emerges while the two drink gin and tonic together. The previous night, Karin had been out until 6am, and she admits to having slept with a Black American man. Petra is jealous and shouts at Marlene. Freddy, Karin's husband, telephones from Zurich. It emerges that they have been in contact by letter, that Karin is no longer planning on getting a divorce, and that she is rejoining her husband. Petra calls her a "rotten little whore", and Karin responds that being with Petra is less strenuous than working the streets. She asks Petra to book a flight to Frankfurt, where she is to meet her husband, and asks for 500DM from Petra, though Petra freely gives her twice that. Marlene drives Karin to the airport; Petra is now too drunk to drive.

Fourth act
On Petra's birthday, the bedroom is almost empty. Petra, lying on the floor and now wearing a blond wig, is drinking heavily while assuming that Karin, her object of love and hate, will phone. Her daughter Gaby (Eva Mattes) arrives. Petra tells her little; Gaby admits to being in love with a young man, but so far it is unrequited. Sidonie appears with a birthday present: a doll with blond hair like Karin's. She admits to knowing Karin is in Bremen that day. Petra's mother Valerie (Gisela Fackeldey) arrives and is subjected to abuse. Petra accuses her of being a whore who never worked and lived off her husband. Petra tramples on a china tea service and smashes cups against the wall. She insists she is not crazy about Karin, but loves her. She claims Karin's little finger is worth all of them put together. Her mother, previously unaware of Karin, is shocked at the thought of her daughter being in love with another woman. Petra says that she hates Gaby and that she never wants to see Sidonie again, but Sidonie stays.

Final act
Later that same night, Petra lies in bed without a wig, her natural auburn hair on display. Her mother tells her that Gaby cried herself to sleep. Petra is apologetic to her mother, and realizes she wanted to possess Karin rather than love her. Karin calls, and Petra amicably declines seeing her before she leaves for Paris. Petra instead offers the chance that they will meet again in the future. Petra turns to Marlene after her mother has left and apologizes for treating her badly. Petra promises all will be different, adding that she will share her life with Marlene. However, Marlene, who has satisfied her personal masochistic desire in submitting to Petra, packs her meager belongings (including, notably, a pistol) in her small suitcase, and leaves, taking the doll with her.

Cast

 * Margit Carstensen as Petra von Kant
 * Irm Hermann as Marlene
 * Hanna Schygulla as Karin Thimm
 * Gisela Fackeldey as Valerie von Kant
 * Eva Mattes as Gabriele (Gaby) von Kant
 * Katrin Schaake as Sidonie von Grasenabb

Themes
Solitude, love, and the claustrophobic feelings generated by emotional codependency are key themes explored by Fassbinder in The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. The solitary setting of Petra's bedroom maximizes the dramatic tension while serving as a mirror for her own entrapment.

Reception
Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a rating of 84% from 31 reviews. The consensus summarizes: "A thoughtful drama that grows even more powerful in retrospect, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant sensitively depicts a woman's tortured search for connection."

Operatic adaptation
The text of the play, in its English translation by Denis Calandra, was employed by Gerald Barry as the libretto for his five-act opera, commissioned by RTÉ and English National Opera and premiered in Dublin and London in 2005. The opera is also available on CD featuring the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra.

Legacy
The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and The Marriage of Maria Braun are considered landmarks of European cinema. The two films have secured Fassbinder an undisputed place as film artist and auteur.

The 2014 film Clouds of Sils Maria revolves around a remount of a play called Maloja Snake about an intergenerational lesbian relationship. Olivier Assayas (writer/director of Clouds of Sils Maria) acknowledged the link between The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant and the fictional play Maloja Snake.

Peter Strickland has cited The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant as a major influence on his 2015 film The Duke of Burgundy.

In 2022 French film director François Ozon released Peter von Kant, a reinterpretation of the film centred on a male film director.

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Talk:Inkjet printing

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what source?
"Inkjet printers cost less than laser printers, but their more expensive ink cartridges means that the ink cost per page is higher. As a result, inkjet printers tend to be more economical in low-volume printing applications, while laser printers tend to be more economical for medium- to high-volume applications.

Inkjet printers are usually preferred in the home or for applications that require photo-realistic reproduction. Laser printers are usually preferred in an office environment with higher printing volume."

I'm going to delete this part. it doesn't have any source and worse then that, IT'S A COMPLETE LIE. you can't compare things like that or make those assumptions. this is wikipedia. FACTUAL information please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.214.240.234 (talk) 15:30, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

 * It seems that in the long run this should be true, though newer inkets may be more competitive, as this article from Tom's Hardware expresses. But which i think is overly optimistic in favor of inkjets,  while this article  by PC Mech seems more reasonable. Unless one has a printer with cartridges that can be refilled using bulk ink (i get good ink for about 1.50 per ounce, and have refilled my black cart over 20 times, thank God) then the more economical use of inkets would be for small volume color printing.

 * See also the "Cost of ink, memjet technology..." section below: talk) 01:39, 19 March 2011 (UTC)

Epson DuraBrite?
There was a completely useless sentence which stated that some Epson printers use "special" DuraBrite ink. It's a trademarked name and the sentence adds no information to the article. It sounded more like an advertisement (a poorly done advertisement by the way) so I removed it.

69.156.160.144 (talk) 17:20, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

Usage in ATMs and Cash Registers
I'm not a huge contributer to Wikipedia so I didn't want to make this edit myself. However, in the "General" heading under this article, it is stated that Inkjet printers find common usage in ATMs and Cash Registers. On the contrary, these devices do not use inkjet printers, but a technology that incorporates thermal paper. The print head is similar to a daisy wheel setup which is heated and "burns" the information onto special paper. You can verify this fact by comparing the feel of most receipts you get, they are slightly smoother and more plastic. You can then hold a heat source (such as a lighter flame) underneath them and they will quickly turn black in response.

--Pianist.envy 02:12, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Agreed. I will likely change this tonight.  Mscudder 00:59, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

History: the HP ThinkJet
How about a bit more on the history, in particular the HP ThinkJet that started the "revolution" away from dot matrix printers once users of microcomputers got their hands on the parallel and serial interface versions? The original ThinkJet had the HPIB (IEEE-488) interface, and was used primarily with test and monitoring equipment.

Print "quality" of the ThinkJet was about as good as draft mode on a 9 pin dot matrix, but the small size (not much wider than a sheet of paper) and lack of noise made it very desirable for low noise environments like hospital rooms.

Canon has used both disposable head and seperate ink tanks and replaceable head technology, sometimes in the same printer where either a high capacity black cartridge with integrated printhead or a replaceable printhead with one tricolor and one black ink tank could be used. Some early Canon inkjets used a fixed head with a hose leading to a very large, black ink tank. (Fixed tanks with hoses to the printheads have been used off and on throughout the history of inkjets.)

Xerox had a short foray into inkjet printers in the early 21st century, marketing a series of low cost printers and multifunction machines with mechanicals made by Sharp. Xerox designed their own outer casings and even customized the firmware to have any instance of "Sharp" replaced with "Xerox". They were decent printers but the advertised 1200DPI printing was only available in Windows 98 and Me. Windows 2000 drivers are available to download but they and the severely limited drivers included with Windows XP limit printing to a maximum of 600DPI. The Xerox inkjets have a bad reliability problem where the color printhead quits printing one of the three colors. (Three out of three for me, one each failing on cyan, magenta and yellow. See also many postings on Usenet.) Otherwise they have good print quality and the ink tanks are very easy to refill by carefully pushing a curved syringe needle through the outlet, past the soft foam.

Epson printers have had a bit of a checkered history with reliability, specifically a tendency for the fixed printheads to clog if the printer wasn't used on a regular basis. Some people have always used Epsons and never had a single head clog, some have gone through several Epsons and had clogs on every one. Epson has also tried to block refilling of their ink tanks through use of microchips.

Hewlett Packard has very recently introduced inkjets that use seperate ink tanks and printheads, some with individual tanks for each color. An older line of HP's used four tanks with integrated printheads and had MIO slots for network interfaces and slots for large amounts of RAM as well as the Adobe PostScript printer control language.
 * In the Canon article they claim that the Bubble Jet was the first inkjet printer introduced in 1985, is this true? More on the histrory please Jaqian (talk) 09:35, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Better explaination required?
I think a small drawing of how the print head works woulnd't do any harm. In fact it would be nice.

i dont think it not sufficet
 * Yeah I agree. There's a lot of excellent work done here; on inkjet printers in general, the specifics of Thermal and Piezoelectric Inkjets, on the inks themselves and on the design and trade offs of the printing heads.  I didn't know it was so complicated but so far it's been written extremely well (just enough detail, clear, doesn't make too many assumptions about previous knowledge).  However an image would be extremely useful to put it all into context.  Of particular interest to most people would be a diagram of the standard disposable inkjet head.  Well done to the all the constructive contributors so far!  62.49.4.186 (talk) 14:06, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Article organization
Being an engineer in the ink jet industry, I'd like to organize this article a bit better, and add information about industrial uses of ink jet. (Much of the information is in the article already, but its organization leaves a bit to be desired.) I'd like to end up with several articles about ink jet in general, ink jet for personal use, ink jet for commercial use, and ink jet for industrial use.

I'm going to start with the Technology section, and create a small page for industrial ink jet applications, specifically material deposition.

Jaeger10 21:56, 25 November 2005 (UTC)

Continuous Ink Jet
The Swedish scientist Prof. Carl Hellmuth Hertz of the University of Lund in Sweden is also named as the inventor of the continous inkjet technology. Is there any sources for the claim from Stanford? Source: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE1D7173AF93BA25756C0A9669C8B63

References to my edits: Tech Quarterly: Spitting image, The Economist. London: Sep 21, 2002.Vol.364, Iss. 8291; pg. 24 and http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/19/1/4 and "Digital Spin, Green with Envy", John C. Dvorak, Forbes; January 22, 2001

 * Rune Elmqvist (Sweden, company Elema-Schönander) developed an inkjet printer for EKG printouts in 1948 which was patented in 1951 and marketed as the Mingograph. Hertz developed an inkjet printer for sonogram printouts in 1962. Richard Sweet (Stanford) also demonstrated a technique to break up an ink stream into uniform droplets in the early 1960s, based on theoretical work by Lord Rayleigh from 1878. This article is sorely missing a history section.--176.2.113.153 (talk) 12:17, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

Dye sublimation
I'm a little confused, because in the section on the types of ink, sublimation dyes are mentioned as a type of inkjet. But then in the discussion on advantages, it mentions dye-sublimation printers as a different thing entirely. Or is this a different type of sublimation than the one mentioned in the inks section? I had added the dye sublimation link, but now I'm second guessing it. --W0lfie 18:12, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Inkjet and sublimation are different printers! HP positions some of its printers as sublimation ones - but those are inkjets! Sublimation inks are hard inks, not water based. 87.79.84.24 (talk) 14:59, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Piezo vs. fixed
Why is "piezo" used parenthetically as if it were a synonym of "fixed"? It seems a little misleading/confusing. If I'm missing something, please let me know. Also, 8 companies are listed as using them. Is that really "very few" as stated earlier in the same sentence? --W0lfie 18:21, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Probably because the companies that use piezo (principally Epson) are also the companies that use a fixed (semipermanantly mounted) print head rather than an in-ink-cartridge print head. But if it's not clear to you, this is Wikipedia so please feel free to be bold and make it better!

 * Atlant 18:43, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks, Atlant, for your ever-present encouragement. It sounds like this might be a jargon issue.    If I find a good solution, I'll put it in. --W0lfie 17:15, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Piezo heads are usually "fixed", because piezo heads are too expensive to treat as disposable with an ink cartridge. Conversely, fixed heads are usually piezo, because piezo heads have better long-term reliability and faster firing rates. -- DavidHopwood 18:39, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Commercial Links
I don't understand why the link to http://www.cheap-ink-now.com got removed, its a site full with resources and articles about ink jet printing. please explain —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 212.143.139.113 (talk • contribs).

 * It seems to be a pruely commercial site which adds no new value to the article. --Pmkpmk 18:13, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

Continuous Stream Ink Jet History
The first letter quality continuous stream ink jet printer, the IBM 46/40 Document Printer was developed by IBM and announced in 1977. A good reference on the technology behind this printer can be found in the IBM Journal of research and development Vol 21, No. 1, 1977. This journal references a patent 3576275 (1971) by R. G. Sweet entitled "Fluid Droplet Recorder". Jetpilot77 20:29, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

 * If you edit along these lines, please be careful. Teletype Corporation sold a continuous stream inkjet printer (their "Inktronic" line) before IBM, but I don't know if anyone would claim the Teletype model was "letter quality".

 * Atlant 17:12, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Your point is well taken. I should have checked my facts. I checked the IBM site and they describe the IBM 46/40 Document Printer as being "correspondence quality" and that it was announced in 1976. Most letters in this time frame were typed on a typewriter. "Correspondence quality" was supposed to be equivalent to a typewriter with a fabric ribbon as opposed to a film ribbon. The printer was mono only, 240 dots per inch. It printed at 7.7 in/sec which gives 77 characters per second at 10 pitch or 92 characters per second at 12 pitch. Jetpilot77 14:55, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

Objectivity of this article is extremely questionable
The objectivity of this article is extremely questionable. Sections of this article are bordering on advertising for third party ink manufacturers. The article contains three images showing third party ink solutions which hold no relevance to the subject of "inkjet" technology or to the text they are situated next to.

Recommend sections of this article be re-written and/or deleted. Certainly the third party ink images need to be deleted. Any discussion of third party ink should be directed to a page for 3rd party ink solutions. --Zaphod6502 (talk) 00:43, 2 July 2008 (UTC)NOt

 * Not just that. There seems to be a lot of name dropping in general.  I scratched out the constant Epson name dropping, (and do the major manufacturers need to be listed in the introduction, twice?) but someone needs to take a closer look at the article and see just how deeply embedded it is. klosterdev (talk) 19:57, 14 September 2008 (UTC)

 * I would like to see a citation as well for "ease of use" being a reason for claimed and uncited ink jet popularity. Personally I find my laserjet much easier to use than the inkjet that I have as well. It is also faster and quieter, and probably cheaper too coz inkjets guzzle up a lot of ink, so I'm having a bit of a hard time accepting inkjets are really that popular... --80.223.57.250 (talk) 06:07, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

 * Ugh...I come back and the name dropping is back. Epson Epson Canon Epson HP Canon Epson klosterdev (talk) 07:36, 26 November 2008 (UTC)

 * Second paragraph ends with this: "In the worldwide consumer market, four manufacturers account for the majority of inkjet printer sales: Canon, HP, Epson, and Brother." No indication who determined that or when. Plain Text (talk) 05:19, 15 December 2016 (UTC)

Cost of ink, memjet technology, popularity, advantages, disadvantages
I see some problems with this article.

First off, no mention of MemJet technology (from Silverbrook), which they claim is supposed to be on the market in 2009.

Inkjets are OBVIOUSLY by far the most common printer for household users due to their cheap cost (average low-end cost is between $100 and $150 for a color inkjet all-in-one, or $60-$100 for a plain color printer; average cost for a basic black and white laser is $150-$200, basic color laser $300-$400, color all-in-one $500+). As a retail worker, we sell maybe three or four laser machines per week and anywhere from 25-60 inkjets per week, at just our store.

Inkjets also have higher resolution for printing (average inkjet resolution 4800x1200, average laser resolution 600x600 or 1/16th average inkjet; high-end consumer resolution i.e. canon pixma mp830, mx850 9600x2400 average color laser quality under $800 1200x600). Go to the store (take an SD card with you that has a really good photo with lots of different colors, good contrast - lights and darks, and some areas with gentle shading). Pretend you are interested in buying a high quality photo printer and have them put their highest grade photo paper into their highest quality machines in both categories - laser (probably will be an HP AIO) and an inkjet (probably will be an MP8xx series or MX8xx series, make sure it has 9600x2400dpi). Have your photo printed on both machines (8.5x11 paper, of course) at the highest quality and compare them side by side.

I see lots of name-dropping, but only one instance of Brother. Why? They're a large seller.

Also, nothing on Dell printers being made by Lexmark.

Or, nothing about lexmark printers being rated consistently last among their competitors (in overall brand ratings, not specific models) and canons usually being rated first (followed by HP). See PC World Magazine's 2008 ratings, they actually have readers rate instead of editors.

The section on disposable heads, nothing about most all-in-one photo printers having a four, five, or six cartridge system with disposable head, or about all epsons using this system, or no lexmarks (that I know of) using this system, or all kodak's using this system. No mention either of the common ink colors (black, cyan, magenta, yellow, with either a second dye-based black or a light cyan/light magenta combo being common options).

Now to the disadvantages. As far as ink being very expensive, total BS. The numbers about "cost per liter" and "cost per gallon" are useless, because you can get 40 pages per ml of ink (sure, you could buy a gallon of ink with a continuous feed ink system and print 100,000 pages, and it might not cost that much, but who would seriously do that?). I see no mention on here about price depending on the specific cartridge (for example, some HP color ink cartridges can be $20 for 3.5ml of ink, while the HP 88XL Black is usually about $35-$38 for 60ml of ink). In fact, HP's OfficeJet Pro series can has about a 1.5 cent per page cost black (estimated 2,450 pages at $38 retail price). Let's compare to the Brother TN-115 series toner (the high capacity color laser toner for sub-$1000 brother color lasers). The black cartridge prints off 5,000 pages for $93 MSRP - a cost per page of 1.86 cents. Neither of those includes the drum or print head having to be replaced.

As far as lifetime, that largely depends on the paper. Go to the store and look at the back of HP photo paper; you'll see different grades of photo paper, each of which have a different life compared to lab photos (usually listed as longer).

The overall expense section needs redone or removed. It uses biased speech (is costly, expensive replacement, much lower capacity). These are all opinions, not facts, and are generalized.

Also nothing in here about cartridge capacities and yields (only canon currently lists ink amounts in ml on all cartridges, hp is switching to listing page yield and no ml on cartridges, epson brother and lexmark do not have any yield or capacity info on the cartridges, and kodak just lists number of photos - making it impossible to make cost comparisons between manufacturers. Page yield is subjective, only accurate way of comparing cartridge cost is via ml of ink. out of the four that don't list on the cartridges, I know for a fact Kodak doesn't list their cartridge capacity in ml anywhere).

Also, inkjet machines have more features. Average inkjet machine around $200 will have a color screen, multi-cartridge system, card readers, pictbridge support, possibly duplexing and fax, scanning, basic photo editing, and more. Your average $500 AIO color laser will have (for hp, example) a monochrome LCD display, copy/print/scan, and a card reader. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.174.62.95 (talk) 06:46, 8 November 2008 (UTC)

Confusing and likely outdated
Currently we have:
 * In Lexmark Int’l, Inc. v. Static Control Components, Inc., Case No. 03-5400 (6th Cir. Oct. 26, 2004) (Sutton, J.) the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit ruled that circumvention of this technique[clarification needed] does not violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The European Commission[citation needed] also ruled this practice anticompetitive: it will disappear in newer models sold in the European Union. [23] While the DMCA case dealt with copyright protection, companies also rely on patent protection to prevent copying and refilling of cartridges.

This is confusing and likely outdated. Firstly it's not quite clear what technique this is referring to since the previous sentence isn't referring to any particularly technique. In fact the only really relevant bit is "Printer companies such as HP, Lexmark, and Epson have used patents and the DMCA to launch lawsuits against 3rd-party vendors" I'm pretty sure it's referring to the use of microchips but this isn't clear. Then article then goes on to say the practice is anticompetitive in the EU. I found a ref which mentions the EU parliament made a law forbidding microchipped catridges and also one mentioning the EU commission is investigation but these are from 2002 and I haven't found any more recent info. I'm pretty sure however that any European Commission finding would have been a while ago so it seems likely "this practice" (whatever that is, is it referring to microchipped catridges? or the general practice of trying to stop third party catridges?) has already stopped in the EU. (I also found some refs where the EU actively recommends people recycle catridges and the EU Parliament or perhaps it was the European Commission are now using recycled catridges themselves). The paragraph then goes on to talk about the use of patents, it's not clear if this is okay in the EU. Also I believe that Epson has had some success with the patent method but this isn't exactly clear from the article. Nil Einne (talk) 00:01, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Look further, I can't find any evidence anything significant was ever done. I was somewhat surprised by the above since I'm pretty sure chipped catridges still exist in the EU since I've seen people discussing them and resetters etc. From what I've read, I'm guessing people either misunderstood the law, or it's changed. It appears it's normal in the EU for catridges to come with a prepaid bag or otherwise be easily returned to the manufacturer to be remanufactured or recycled. I presume this was enough to satisfy the legal requirements even with the chipped catridges. Nil Einne (talk) 02:38, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Incidentally the article doesn't discuss region coding for catridges either Nil Einne (talk) 02:57, 24 February 2010 (UTC)

19th century?
It says in the lead "The concept of inkjet printing dates back to the 19th century and the technology was first developed in the early 1950s" however this doesn't seem to be explained anywhere. What was the 19th century concept? Richerman (talk) 01:42, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
 * See my comment under . I'm not an expert, this is just the result of a quick web search.--176.2.113.153 (talk) 12:21, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

"Archival quality" Ink Isn't
I'm not going to add to the article because I can't find anything to cite, but from my own experience: I had a Canon printer with "archival quality" ink and paper, and the color of every single photo I printed turned to complete garbage in less than a year. I'm honestly surprised Google doesn't return any search hits of judgments against Canon (and possibly others) for false marketing claims. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.91.136.242 (talk) 17:09, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, its basically UV-resistant ink, nothing more. Many third-party inks contain anti UV agents as well. 79.193.251.204 (talk) 10:48, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

Spelling
Interesting: dictionary.com doesn't define "inkjet" (neither does my Canadian English Firefox spelling dictionary) but it does define "ink jet". I suppose I could go into the next room to find my Longman and get a more sober reference, but it'd also be a 25-year-old one. AngusCA (talk) 07:19, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
 * I have the same problem with the closed form here. Merriam-Webster's online (10th or 11th Collegiate) has it hyphenated. This needs to be checked and authenticated with up-to-date, reputable sources, documented as such, and the page brought in line if necessary. -- Deborahjay (talk) 11:54, 7 November 2012 (UTC)

Aftermarket ink
I removed this paragraph: "The type of ink used in the printer can also affect how quickly the printhead nozzles become clogged. Whereas the OEM ink is engineered to match the printer mechanism, generic inks cannot exactly match the composition of the OEM since the ink composition is a trade secret. Generic ink brands may alternately be too volatile to keep the printhead moist during storage, or may be too thick and jellied, leading to frequent printhead channel clogging." It reads as if written by the OEM manufacturer, with no source given. Upon more careful reading, it turns out that the statements are likely to be true, but utterly useless. Generic ink "cannot exactly match the composition": indeed, but the paragraph doesn't explicitly state that that is a problem in real life. And then "may alternately be too volatile": again no statement that this is in fact a problem. Han-Kwang (t) 18:17, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I agree completely with your points. Also, many of alternative-ink producers do not sell generic ink, but very specific for specific printers, so this problem is adressed. 87.79.84.24 (talk) 15:02, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

Missing Whole Category of Inkjet printers
High speed ink jet printers - used by corporations for printing bills and monthly statements.

These puppies are the fastest printers available. The rate that paper moves through them is measured in miles per hour. --02:59, 19 July 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.214.212.109 (talk)

Here's a link to a company that provides a printer capable of printing at 200 meters/minute {~= 7 1/2 mph).  You can probably find faster models.--71.214.212.109 (talk) 03:10, 19 July 2012 (UTC)

Printing costs
The article states that original ink is very expensive and that the cost per page is significantly higher than for a laser printer. This was true a few years ago, however isn't true any more. For the price comparison I use the best price in Germany derived by geizhals.de. I checked only toner/ink costs, no maintenance kits etc. - which is in favor of laser printers. Price is always based on single cartridge. A few weeks ago, I bought an HP Officejet Pro 8100 (80,50€), the corresponding All-in-One is the 8600 Plus (188 €), the black/white cardridge costs 21.40 € for 2,300 pages, so 0,93 ct./page. The color cartridge costs 16.36 € for 1,500 pages, so 1.09 ct./page. If I go through the printing costs of Laser printers, it is extremely hard to find one which is cheaper. I found 1 (one) with cheaper color prints, the Xerox Colorqube 8870DN (1,949 €, color 0.38 ct./page, bw 1.06 ct./page), however black and white is already more expensice. The Kyocera FS-C5400DN (1,268 €, color 1.10 ct./page, bw 0.77 ct./page) has similar color costs, however less black and white costs. These are both printers, no All-in-one devices. The cheapest printing costs of these has the Lexmark X792 series (from 4,132 €, color 1.60 ct./page, bw. 0.97 ct./page). Or if you are more interested in black/white the HP Color Laserjet Enterprise CM4540 series (from 3,665 €, color 1.44 ct./page, bw 0.93 ct./page). I do not want to forget to mention that there are inkjet printers with lower printing costs as mine, e.g. the epson B-510DN (490€, color 0.69 ct./page, bw 0.71 ct./page). There are a few black/white laser printers (especially Kyocera FS-4200/4300DN) with printing costs in the range of 0.5 ct/page and less. However, these are only useful for large amounts of b/w prints (also due to their high printing speed). So laser printers do not have lower printing costs any more. There are a lot of inkjet printers with lower investment and lower printing costs, so the article has to be revised. Does anyone disagree? --JogyB (talk) 15:15, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
 * You may be right, but it is WP:OR Can you find a reliable secondary source that corroborates your claim? Michiel Duvekot (talk)|(contribs) 15:27, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
 * http://www.druckkosten.de/kosten.php?doc=6&set[method]=min_kosten&filter[typ3]=%25&filter[typ1]=%25&filter[typ2]=%25&filter[format]=A4&filter[aktuell]=1&filter[preis]=&filter[preis_intern]=9999999&set[month]=36&set[pages]=5000&fillM=1&startCalc=1
 * It is in German and uses list price instead of market price, however should be sufficient. I used a quite high number of pages in order to eliminate the influence of the starter kits (as I want the pure operating costs) and to include the costs of the service kits needed for some laser printers.
 * Anyway, even if it is OR, the "Operating cost tradeoffs" has no reference at all and the sentence "(Original) ink is often very expensive" uses a 10 year old reference. So if my remarks cannot be included due to being OR, we should at least delete everything stating that inkjet printers have higher printing costs. These are obviously wrong. --JogyB (talk) 13:11, 31 January 2014 (UTC)

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UV-LED
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UV-LED printer technologies refer to a non-impact, inkjet printing technique that instantly cures jetted ink droplets directly onto the printable substrate. The UV-LED lamp that houses the LEDs emit energy onto the specially formulated UV-LED ink, which contains photoinitiators and are reactive to the energy emitted by the UV-LED lamp.

UV LED Printers are typically used to print directly onto a hard substrate. Its ability to immediately dry the ink is an advantage in printing on a variety of materials including glass, plastic, plexiglass, etc. UV LED printers are often used in the promotional products industry to print on pens, usb drives and mugs. Current models of commercial LED UV Printers like the Compress iUV600s and iUV1200s are also capable of adding texture to a print.

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Noticed edits by User:James K McMahon re Howtek
This isn't my area of expertise, but a quick search on Google Books reveals several sources citing earlier developments by Steven Zoltan in 1972, including this one and this one. --Coolcaesar (talk) 17:41, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

 * Yeah, here is the patent https://uspto.report/patent/grant/3683212, I'm not too versed on printing technology but the patent does talk about some form of ink bubbles dropping on command. Mirad1000 (talk) 01:11, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
 * Steven Zoltan's Patent US3683212A Pulsed Droplet Ejecting System issued on 8/8/1972 and this is an "ON Demand" Drop delivery technology. Any reference to earlier inkjet's refer to Continuous Fluid Flow Systems.  Historian and Godfather of Single nozzle inkjets (talk) 22:43, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

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Ichiro Endo and Jon Vaught
While working at Canon in Japan, Ichiro Endo suggested the idea for a "Bubble jet" printer, while around the same time Jon Vaught at HP was developing a similar idea The article almost opens with this "fact" but it would be nice if another source was provided, we don't have a year, it feels like it's claiming both of them came with the idea at the same time (but Ichiro Endo taking precedence?) and both are related to two big companies. IMO The source doesn't specify much and it feels like it's based mostly on what they claimed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mirad1000 (talk • contribs) 01:34, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

 * Also to expand, after reading this article (that might be wrong) Bubble jet printing wich is what Endo and Vaught came up with is just a tipe of inkjet printing that uses  bit of heat to drop the ink, I think that while bubble jet printing is the most famous form of inkjet printing the distinction should be made more apparent.
 * IBM, if we go by earlier patent applications, was to me the most probably pioneer of this kind of technology. The name of the inventor is James H Eaton.
 * LINK: https://patents.google.com/patent/US3878519A/en?q=bubble+print&oq=bubble+print&sort=old Mirad1000 (talk) 01:53, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
 * There are two types of inkjet. One is Continuous fluid flow through a nozzle. In this case the fluid stream must be broken into drops by an exterior force. The Continuous flow is from a constant pressure on the fluid at the rear of the nozzle. This cannot be caused by a Bubble because bubbles will expand and contract, causing nozzle fluid expansion with expelled drop and then bubble retraction of the fluid volume to cut off the expelled drop ligament. Continuous Inkjet is never called Bubble Jet.
 * The second type of ink jet is called "On demand". It was not invented until 8/8/1972 by Steven Zoltan. On Demand Inkjet uses piezoelectric device to cause a drop to be expelled. Each Piezo action gives one drop. Steven Zoltan was the first to invent On Demand Inkjet. Historian and Godfather of Single nozzle inkjets (talk) 22:33, 20 February 2024 (UTC)

UK legislation claim
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 * In the UK, a printer manufacturer cannot lawfully impose such conditions as part of its warranty (Regina Vs Ford Motor Company refers) although many attempt to do so illegally. As long as the product used was sold as being for the printer it was used in, then the sale of goods act applies, and anything so sold must be "of merchandisable quality and fit for purpose". Moreover, under UK law, it is the retailer and not the manufacturer that is legally liable, for two years on electrically operated items specifically, and as such the retailer is where one would seek redress. <!--Covers both claims for UK-->

I'm going to remove this entire section, as there are a lot of problems here, I think salvaging this usefully will require more research time than I can provide right now, and I think as-written the text is sufficiently problematic to be harmful. I've documented the issues below:

 * The citations all look authoritative, but are useless:
 * I think "Regina Vs Ford Motor Company" is referring to R v Ford Motor Co Ltd, [1974 1 WLR 1220] but there's no evidence that a court case from 1974 would have relevance to current warranty terms, given the many changes in consumer law since then.
 * The Sale of Goods Act is largely irrelevant: for most purposes it was repealed by the Consumer Rights Act 2015. It might be relevant in the context of the history of these printers, but I'm dubious it'd actually be worth mentioning explicitly even if this article had an explicit history section; it's definitely not useful in text purporting to provide current information.
 * Neither the Sale and Supply of Goods to Consumers Act 1999 nor the Sale and Supply of Goods to Consumers Regulations 2005 appear to exist. In either case, I'm pretty sure the legislation this is intending to refer to would also have been superseded by the Consumer Rights Act.
 * Claims about what is and isn't lawful or legal really need secondary sources, or at the least very clear primary sources, to avoid improper synthesis, particularly given that the practical effects of legislation in common law jurisdictions like the UK are often not obvious.
 * "Many attempt to do so illegally" breaks WP:WEASEL and needs a citation.
 * The statement "the retailer is where one would seek redress" is unclear; presumably this is referring to redress for a failed printer after using non-OEM ink, but I don't think this follows from any of the earlier text without a lot more justification (that would also need to have sources to avoid original research): why would the manufacturer not be liable for the terms of a warranty they had made? A consumer could seek redress from the retailer, but that doesn't mean that they necessarily would, or even that doing so would be the best course of action.

—me_and 16:51, 2 December 2022 (UTC) (updated to improve citations, 10:46, 7 December 2022 (UTC))

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Category:Movements

This category comprises articles pertaining to various social & cultural, religious and political movements.

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Seduction: The Cruel Woman

Seduction: The Cruel Woman (Verführung: Die grausame Frau) is a 1985 West German film, directed by and Monika Treut, who both also wrote the screenplay. Wanda is played by. The film was inspired by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs.

Synopsis
Wanda is a dominatrix who runs a gallery in Hamburg. She lures men and women of all types into her sadomasochistic world where audiences pay for the privilege of seeing her humiliate her slaves. The end is an ultimate mix of eros and thanatos.

"And when she is eventually gunned down, not by her American female lover whom she turns into an assistant-Mistress and not by her older tender shoe-fetishist motherly concerned lover either, but by — of all people — her husband (who is also her slave), the supreme joy on her face is absolutely ineffable."

Cast

 * as Wanda
 * Udo Kier as Gregor
 * Sheila McLaughlin as Justine
 * as Caren
 * Peter Weibel as Herr Maehrsch, Journalist
 * as Friederike
 * Barbara Ossenkopp: Leila
 * Daniela Ziegler: Mother

Film Festivals
The movie was shown at the following film festivals, among others:
 * 1985 Berlin International Film Festival, Forum
 * 1985 San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival

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Jerusalem District

The Jerusalem District (מחוז ירושלים; منطقة القدس) is one of the six administrative districts of Israel. The district capital is Jerusalem. The Jerusalem District has a land area of 652 km2. The population of 1,159,900 is 66.3% Jewish and 32.1% Arab. A fifth (21%) of the Arabs in Israel live in the Jerusalem Municipality, which includes both East and West Jerusalem. Israel's annexation of East Jerusalem has not been recognized by the international community.

The majority of Arabs in the Jerusalem District are Palestinians, eligible to apply for citizenship under Israeli law, but either declining to apply or unsuccessful. The minority are Arab citizens of Israel living in Abu Ghosh, Beit Safafa and East Jerusalem, where Arab professionals have settled since the late 1970s, mainly for the provision of legal and other services to the local population. The non-Jewish population is 95.2% Muslim, 3.5% Christian with the others unclassified by religion.

Administrative local authorities

 * Notes:

The Jerusalem Municipality, including East Jerusalem and other annexed parts of the West Bank, constituted 125 km2, about 19% of the Jerusalem District in 2008.

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Palliser (Saskatchewan electoral district)

Palliser was a federal electoral district in Saskatchewan, Canada, that was represented in the House of Commons of Canada from 1997 to 2015.

It was named in honour of John Palliser, a geographer and explorer of the Canadian west.

Geography
It included the city of Moose Jaw, the southwest quadrant of the city of Regina and the rural areas around them.

History
The electoral district was created in 1996 from Moose Jaw—Lake Centre and parts of Regina—Lumsden, Regina—Wascana and Swift Current—Maple Creek—Assiniboia ridings.

The Conservative Party of Canada took back this historically New Democratic Party (NDP) seat in 2004.

Following the Canadian federal electoral redistribution, 2012, the riding was abolished. The Regina portion became part of the new riding of Regina—Lewvan, while Moose Jaw and the rural portion became part of Moose Jaw—Lake Centre—Lanigan. Small parts of the riding were transferred to Cypress Hills—Grasslands and Regina—Qu'Appelle.

Election results
Note: Conservative vote is compared to the total of Progressive Conservative and Canadian Alliance vote in 2000.

 * New Democratic Party
 * Dick Proctor
 * align="right"|12,136
 * align="right"|38.15
 * align="right"|-0.06
 * align="right"|$54,888

 * Liberal
 * Garry Johnson
 * align="right"|6,492
 * align="right"|20.41
 * align="right"|-2.66
 * align="right"|$60,150

!align="right" colspan=3|Total valid votes !align="right"|31,803 !align="right"|100.00 !align="right"| !align="right" colspan=3|Total rejected ballots !align="right"|99 !align="right"|0.31 !align="right"|-0.27 !align="right" colspan=3|Turnout !align="right"|31,902 !align="right"|62.74 !align="right"|-4.51
 * Progressive Conservative
 * Brent Shirkey
 * align="right"|1,248
 * align="right"|3.92
 * align="right"|-4.53
 * align="right"|$1,603
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 * New Democratic Party
 * Dick Proctor
 * align="right"|12,553
 * align="right"|38.21
 * align="right"|$49,066
 * align="right"|$49,066

 * Liberal
 * Tony Merchant
 * align="right"|7,579
 * align="right"|23.07
 * align="right"|$50,830
 * align="right"|$50,830

 * Progressive Conservative
 * Andy McDougall
 * align="right"|2,777
 * align="right"|8.45
 * align="right"|$10,066
 * align="right"|$10,066

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 * Natural Law
 * Jack Heilman
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Tokyo Decadence

Tokyo Decadence (トパーズ) is Japanese pink film. This erotic film was directed by Ryū Murakami (村上 龍 Murakami Ryū) with music by Ryuichi Sakamoto (坂本 龍一 Sakamoto Ryūichi). The film was shot and completed during 1991 and released in the start of 1992. It stars Miho Nikaido (二階堂 美穂 Nikaidō Miho) and is known by two alternate titles, Topaz and Sex Dreams of Topaz.. Because of the cruel and graphic nature of this film, it has been banned in several countries such as Australia and South Korea. Shimada Masahiko (島田 雅彦 Shimada Masahiko) also makes an appearance in this film. The story follows Ai (愛), the submissive and lovesick prostitute who goes about her trade with misery and is being abused by hedonists and criminals while trying to find some sort of appeasement away from the fact that her lover is currently married.

Plot
Ai, a timid 22-year-old college student in Tokyo, works as a prostitute for an exclusive escort agency that caters to wealthy, perverted men. To please her clients, Ai has to play out elaborate fantasy scenarios involving sexual humiliation and light sadomasochism/bondage.

Ai visits a fortune-teller who advises her to find a "pink stone", and then fashion it into a ring. The fortune teller also advises Ai to put a telephone directory under her television, and to avoid a gallery in the east. When she later loses the ring she risks her life to recover it.

Ai shows an emotional connection to one of her clients, another sex worker who is a female dominant and who Ai clearly admires. She confides to this client that she has unrequited love for the gallery artist, and Ai's client tells her that she must live life to the fullest otherwise she will be filled with regrets. She tells Ai that she must confront this part of her life then she can move forward as her future will be hers.

Taking the advice of her female client, and an unidentified drug which her client gave her to provide her with the courage of lions, she becomes dangerously inebriated and fails in an attempt to meet her ex lover.

She is rescued from the police by one of the artist's neighbors who is said to have once been a great singer but is now crazy. This woman met Ai only a few minutes earlier and told her that she used to be friends with the Gallery artist but it is over and that she considers Ai to be her "best friend".

Throughout the film, Ai's movements have been timid and stiff and her posture demure. After the credits there is a sequence of her dancing on stage boldly and fluidly thus finalizing her growth in to her new future.

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Spanking Love

Spanking Love (スパンキング・ラブ) is a 1995 Japanese erotic film directed by Shōji Tanaka and based on a story by Kenichi Yamakawa.

Synopsis
Ryō Masuda (Toshio Kakei) is a SM movies director who asks a woman he meets on a crowded street to star in one of his films. The woman, Yumi Sakata, accepts on a whim but her expressive features—in particular, her eyes—make that particular low-budget production into an unexpected hit. Ryō is attracted to her but feels there is something dangerous or evil about her and doesn't want to have anything more to do with her. However, it isn't that simple.

Ryō's girlfriend, Mayumi, is a dominatrix who services a very powerful man. Mayumi's client, Mr. Okonogi, wants Yumi to work in an S&M show club he owns. Mayumi fears she may be "sacrificed" if Mr. Okonogi doesn't get want he wants and she begs Ryō to find Yumi and persuade her to go to the S&M club.

Ryō finally persuades Yumi to go to the club with him and Mayumi by telling her that he loves her and that Mayumi is an ex-girlfriend from a long time ago. Yumi becomes a star dominatrix (even through the film Ryō made showed her being whipped rather than whipping submissives as she does at the club).

Ryō finds himself torn between his feelings for Mayumi and Yumi's expectations. He also stands to make a considerable amount of money as Yumi's "manager" and companion.

Mr. Okonogi, who defines sadism and masochism as "two sides of the same coin," and who enjoys watching as well as participating, refuses to let Mayumi retire. It appears that he has the power of life-and-death over her. One of Mayumi's female friends, Natsumi, commits suicide rather than continue working in the S&M industry. Mayumi goes to the funeral. Ryō does not.

Cast

 * Toshio Kakei (筧利夫) as Ryō Masuda
 * Yoshiko Yura (由良よしこ) as Yumi Sakata
 * Kumi Shiraishi (白石久美) as Mayumi Yamane (dominatrix)
 * Yōsuke Nakajima (中島陽典) as Dai
 * Renji Ishibashi (石橋蓮司) as Ryūsaku Okunogi

Background and availability
While in Paris as a foreign exchange student in the early 1990s, Issei Sagawa was arrested for the murder and cannibalization of his girlfriend. After his return to Japan, he made an appearance in director Hisayasu Satō's pink film Promiscuous Wife: Disgraceful Torture (1992), which made him into a cult celebrity. Spanking Love became his feature film debut.

Shōji Tanaka filmed Spanking Love for Japan Home Video and it was released in Japan by Daiei on May 6, 1995. Video Maker released it in VHS format in Japan on July 21, 1995, and it was re-released in VHS format on August 4, 2000. In their Japanese Cinema Encyclopedia: The Sex Films (1998), Thomas and Yuko Mihara Weisser gave the film a rating of two out of four stars. Media Blasters released the film in the U.S. in VHS and DVD format on their "Tokyo Shock" label on September 26, 2000.

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Southern District (Israel)

The Southern District (מחוז הדרום, Meḥoz HaDarom; لواء الجنوب) is one of Israel's six administrative districts, the largest in terms of land area but the most sparsely populated. It covers most of the Negev desert, as well as the Arava valley. The population of the Southern District is 1,086,240 and its area is 14,185 km2. Its population is 79.66% Jewish and 12.72% Arab (mostly Muslim), with 7.62% of other origins. The district capital is Beersheba, while the largest city is Ashdod. Beersheba's dormitory towns of Omer, Meitar, and Lehavim are affluent on an Israel scale, while the development towns of Dimona, Sderot, Netivot, Ofakim, and Yeruham and the seven Bedouin cities are lower on the socio-economic scale.

Administrative local authorities
Some villages do not fall under the jurisdiction of a regional council. These include:

 * Mahane Yatir
 * Umm al-Hiran (unrecognised Bedouin village)

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Queen's (electoral district)

There have been several electoral districts in Canada named Queen's or Queens.

Federal

 * Queen's (New Brunswick federal electoral district), which returned members to the Canadian House of Commons from 1867–1892
 * Queens (Nova Scotia federal electoral district), which returned members to the House of Commons from 1867–1892
 * Queen's (Prince Edward Island federal electoral district), which returned members to the House of Commons from 1903–1966

Provincial

 * Queens (Nova Scotia provincial electoral district), which has existed since 1941
 * Queens (New Brunswick provincial electoral district), in use from 1785 to 1974 in the province of New Brunswick
 * Queen's (Prince Edward Island provincial electoral district), which returned members to the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island from 1903–1966

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The Bondage Master

The Bondage Master (縄師事件簿), also known as Rope Detective, is a 1996 Japanese V-Cinema erotic thriller directed by Hitoshi Hoshino (Jin Hoshino) and starring Yukijirō Hotaru.

Plot synopsis
Shiro is the Bondage Master who has a special technique with ropes and women. When a model is found murdered and tied with Shiro's signature style, he has to find the real murderer to clear his name while eluding the vengeance of the model's yakuza boyfriend.

Cast

 * Yukijirō Hotaru as Shiro
 * Yokiru Ikuta as Rumi
 * Ai Yasunaga as Keiko
 * Hiromitsu Noriyasu as Hitoshi
 * Hitomi Shiraishi as Saya

English voice cast

 * Sandy Williams as Shiro
 * Suzy Prue as Rumi
 * Petra Kosic as Keiko
 * Richard St. Louis as Hitoshi
 * Pink Champale as Saya
 * Kandi Snackwell as Reiko
 * Tristan Goddard as Vendor
 * Jason Maxwell as Akiyama
 * Barbara Busch as Satomi
 * Carrie Montgomery as Rina
 * Ted as Yamaguchi
 * Fergus Lawless as Masaya
 * Wop-Wop as Miyoshi
 * Eric Snare as Sano
 * Ted Newly as Kayama

Release
The Bondage Master was released as a VHS video in Japan on April 26, 1996 by Tōhokushinsha. Central Park Media had licensed the film under their Asia Pulp Cinema label and released it on an English subtitled VHS on September 26, 2000. Central Park Media also released a DVD featuring an English audio track on June 8, 2004.

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The Dublin Magazine

The Dublin Magazine was an Irish literary journal founded and edited by the poet Seumas O'Sullivan (real name James Sullivan Starkey) and published in Dublin by "Dublin Publishers, Ltd., 9 Commercial Buildings. London: Elkin Mathews, Cork St. W.1." The last page of the July 1925 issue (below the book reviews) states the it was printed by Cahill & Co. Ltd. Parkgate Printing Works and published by the proprietors of The Dublin Magazine at 7-9 Commercial Buildings, Dame Street, Dublin.

From August 1923 to August 1925 it was published as a monthly, then as a quarterly from January 1926 to June 1958, ceasing publication on O'Sullivan's death. The cover for the first issue was designed by artist Harry Clarke. The magazine featured fiction, poetry, drama and reviews and contributors included nearly every significant Irish writer of the period, including the playwright Samuel Beckett, the poet Austin Clarke, popular novelist Maurice Walsh, as well as Padraic Fallon, Padraic Colum, Patrick Kavanagh and Blanaid Salkeld among others.

The Dubliner was founded by a group of Trinity College Dublin (TCD) students who also set up New Square Publications in order to publish this professional literary magazine. The editor was Donald Carroll, an American graduate of TCD. The first issue was Nov.-Dec. 1961 where it was announced that it would be published bi-monthly. The second issue did not appear until March, 1962 and stated that Carroll's editorship had been taken over by Bruce Arnold, a TCD graduate from England living in Raheny, Co. Dublin. The Dubliner was published by New Square Publications, but soon became a quarterly with the Spring 1963 issue. Bruce Arnold's resignation was announced in the Spring 1964 issue with the new joint editors being Rivers Carew (an Englishman, TCD graduate, living in Ireland) and Timothy Brownlow (a Dubliner and TCD graduate).

In the spring of 1965 The Dubliner changed its name back to its illustrious predecessor, The Dublin Magazine, with the agreement of Seumas O'Sullivan's widow, Estella Solomons, whose consent the editors gratefully acknowledged. The Spring 1965 issue had an article on the original Dublin Magazine by Rudi Holzapfel, with several illustrations, among them two captioned respectively as the front covers of the first Dublin Magazine (August 1923) and the last (April-June 1958). The magazine continued for six years until 1969 under the joint editorship before it was taken on by John Ryan.

The Dublin Magazine was re-issued from 1970-75 by John Ryan.

In 2006, the Honorary Secretary of the Trinity College Dublin Association, Cambridge Branch, asked Rivers Carew to reminisce on his days with The Dublin Magazine at the Association's July meeting. He recalled how in the early 1960s a number of talented young poets then appearing on the scene were published by The Dublin Magazine such as Eavan Boland, Brendan Kennelly, Michael Longley and Derek Mahon who were all TCD graduates and went on to become highly regarded figures in the literary world. Some also had distinguished academic careers. Particularly noteworthy among the budding poets whose work appeared in the magazine was Seamus Heaney, the eventual Nobel Prize winner. Rivers Carew claimed that he and Timothy Brownlow wanted the magazine to be neither radical nor a staid organ of academe; its main purpose was to offer a platform for talented young writers, and the later achievements of the poets and others who were published show that it succeeded in that aim. The magazine was supported by the Irish Arts Council, by advertisers and members of the public "who had little or no reason to regret their interest or their generosity".

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Gopeng

Gopeng (Jawi: ڬوڤيڠ) is a town located in Mukim Teja, Kampar District, Perak, Malaysia. It is situated approximately 20 km south of Ipoh, the state capital.

History
Gopeng was the most important town in the Kinta Valley until 1890, when Ipoh became more prominent. Gopeng was intensively mined by both European and Chinese miners, the latter having significant Hakka representation under Chung Keng Kwee, the leader of the Hai San secret society during the Larut War. He was appointed as the Kapitan Cina after the Pangkor Treaty, and although his main homes were in Taiping and Penang, he maintained his foothold in Gopeng, securing contracts for street lighting there in 1892 as well as building quarters for civil servants thereafter. For the first few decades after British intervention, Gopeng was run by a tripartite; the Europeans, the Chinese led by the Eu family, and the Sumatrans by the Assistant Penghulu Imam Prang Ja Barumun. Gopeng is also one of the first places where large numbers of Orang Asli came into contact with outsiders in the 19th century.

Amenities

 * Pejabat Pos Gopeng
 * Balai Polis Gopeng
 * Gopeng Fire and Rescue Station
 * RTC Gopeng
 * Padang Bandaran Gopeng
 * Gopeng Baru Jamek Mosque

Commercial services

 * Pasar Awam Gopeng
 * Medan Purnama
 * Hup Teck Soy Sauce Factory
 * Gopeng Light Industrial Park

Road network
Gopeng is located on the west side of the North-South Expressway (E1) stretch of Tapah-Simpang Pulai. The expressway cuts through the limestone hills and the Titiwangsa range, and Tapah-Gopeng stretch is one of the most scenic routes on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia. On clear days, the Lata Kinjang waterfall could be seen on the right side of the highway for drivers heading up north to Gopeng.

Bus

 * Stesen Bas Gopeng

Vernacular schools

 * SJK (C) Man Ming
 * SJK (C) New Kopisan
 * SJK (C) Lawan Kuda Baru

National schools

 * SK Gopeng Taman Gopeng Baru (previous building now Pusat Giat Mara)
 * SK Gopeng Jalan Ilmu (previous English School Gopeng)
 * SK Sungai Itek
 * SK Ulu Geruntum

Secondary schools

 * SMK Idris Shah
 * SMK Seri Teja
 * Sekolah Berasrama Penuh Integrasi

Tertiary institutions

 * Perak Matriculation College
 * Kolej Komuniti RTC Gopeng
 * Akademi Kemahiran KEMAS Gopeng

Tourist attractions

 * Tempurung Cave
 * Gopeng Heritage House
 * Gaharu Tea Valley
 * Taman Herba Negeri Perak
 * My Gopeng Resort
 * Nomad Adventure Sdn Bhd

Notable personalities born in Gopeng

 * Lat - Malaysian cartoonist, winner of the Fukuoka Asian Culture Prize in 2002
 * Burhanuddin al-Helmy - Malaysian politician, President of the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) from 1956 to his death in October 1969
 * Chew Swee Kee - Singaporean politician, served as Minister of Education from 1955 to around 1959
 * Rashid Maidin - senior leader of the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM).

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Noah Hathaway

Noah Leslie Hathaway (born November 13, 1971) is an American actor and a former teen idol. He is best known for his roles as Atreyu in the 1984 film The NeverEnding Story and for portraying Boxey on the original television series Battlestar Galactica. His work in The NeverEnding Story made him particularly popular as a teen idol in Europe.

Early work
Hathaway was born in Los Angeles, California. He began appearing in commercials at age three, and later starred in several TV films and series, including an episode of Family Ties, episode 4 of season 4 called Designated Hitter. At the age of six he appeared in Battlestar Galactica, portraying Boxey, for which he received a nomination in the first Young Artist Awards.

The NeverEnding Story
He was cast as Atreyu in the 1984 film The NeverEnding Story. He received his second Young Artist Awards nomination and won the award for Best Younger Actor in the 12th Annual Saturn Awards.

For the role Hathaway performed his own stunts, leading to a few near-injuries; German director Wolfgang Petersen said: "I sought a good-looking boy of athletic build with the quality of fierce determination. The role requires the character to ride a horse expertly, fly on the back of a dragon, struggle through a swamp, clamber over rocks and fight a ferocious wolf-vampire."

Hathaway observed: "Well, what it was... Wolfgang Petersen was notorious for his actors doing their own stunts. His actors are always getting hurt, because he wanted....Audiences are very savvy, you can cut away and show the back of somebody and show the stuntman doing their stunt. And everybody knows that, so he wants his actors to do as much as they can for the realism of the movie. Accidents happen and actors aren't stuntmen. That's why they have stuntmen, because if someone gets hurt, they're "expendable". And some of the times, they're just more careful.... I just ended up paying."

Hathaway has said that, during the time he worked as a tattoo artist, he could see for himself the film's on-going popularity, as clients regularly requested tattoos of the AURYN amulet his character wore, in the film. He claims to have given fifteen different clients AURYN amulet tattoos in three weeks.

Later roles
In 1986, Hathaway starred in Troll, as Harry Potter Jr. and in the television movie Casebusters, as Jamie. Hathaway did not return to acting until 1994, in the film To Die, to Sleep, in his first adult role. After a second hiatus as an actor, Hathaway returned in 2011 for the films Mondo Holocausto! as Ruggero Margheriti, and Sushi Girl as Fish.

In 2016, Hathaway reprised his role from The NeverEnding Story for a Spotify commercial celebrating the 1980s.

Personal life
Hathaway attended school at Lycee Français de Los Angeles. He moved into dance instruction, teaching advanced jazz and street dance until an injury forced him to quit in 1989 at age eighteen. Trained in martial arts, Hathaway would later earn black belts in Tang Soo Do and Shotokan Karate, and also competed as a Muay Thai boxer, and learned American Kenpo from Dr. Jerry Erickson. Hathaway spent some of his time at the Willow Springs Raceway in Rosamond, California competing in supersport motorcycle racing, and designing and riding "chopper" motorcycles.

He was on tour with WizardWorld Conventions and appeared at the Chicago and Philadelphia shows in 2011. He appeared at the Supanova Pop Culture Expo in Sydney, Australia in June 2012.

Awards and nominations

 * 1980 - Young Artist Award for Best Juvenile Actor in a TV Series or Special - Nominated
 * 1985 - Young Artist Award for Best Young Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical, Comedy, Adventure or Drama - Nominated
 * 1985 - Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor - Won
 * 1986 - Young Artist Award for Outstanding Young Actor - Animation Voice Over - Nominated

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Wikibooks or Wikisource
This is hardly an encyclopaedia article unless you propose to discuss and explain it, or at least provide a translation and a summary of its meaning. If you really just want to provide the text, then Wikibooks or Wikisource is probably the best home for it. Sjc 07:58, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * This poem certainly deserves an article. As much as I am willing to admit that proposing a translation of Wulf and Eadwacer is the most horrifyingly presumptuous thing one can do in the world of Anglo-Saxonism, I suppose I will produce an interlinear translation of the poem as one possible understanding of it, seeing as it's been over a year and no one else has done so.  I will somewhere note that this is just one possible interpretation, as it is indeed the case that there is no single agreed interpretation of this poem and certain lines are downright ungrammatical.  I'll try to do this some time in the next week.  I'll additionally provide some simple commentary on the poem, but nothing is uncontroversial about this text, so there's a limit to what can be stated objectively. --Yst 09:54, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

 * How about a rough outline of the content and a note or two on the fact that translations are controversial and why to start with.GraemeLeggett 11:29, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Indeed, I elected to write on interpretation of the poem with reference to the text rather than do an interlinear translation, as this allows for more, and more convenient, discussion of ambiguities. In the process, I ended up doing an overhaul of the article as a whole and writing on its genre and history as well. --Yst 18:07, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

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Richmond Centre (federal electoral district)

Richmond Centre (Richmond-Centre; formerly Richmond) is a federal electoral district in British Columbia, Canada, that has been represented in the House of Commons of Canada since 1988.

Under the 2022 Canadian federal electoral redistribution the riding will be renamed Richmond Centre—Marpole. It will gain much of the Marpole area from Vancouver Granville and Vancouver Quadra and lose the area south of Williams Road to Richmond East—Steveston.

Geography
The electoral district comprises the part of the City of Richmond (including Sea Island, Brighouse, and Terra Nova) to the west and north of the following boundary: commencing at the northern limit of said city with the Oak Street Bridge, thence southeasterly along said bridge and BC-99 to Cambie Road, thence west along said road to No. 4 Road, thence south along said road to Westminster Highway, thence west on said highway to No. 3 Road, thence south along said road to Steveston Highway, thence west along said highway to the western limit of the city.

Demographics

 * According to the 2021 Canadian census

Ethnic groups: 60.1% Chinese, 17.2% White, 6.1% Filipino, 4.9% South Asian, 1.8% Japanese, 1.3% Southeast Asian, 1.1% Latin American, 1% Korean, 1% Arab

Languages: 28.5% English, 25.4% Mandarin, 22.5% Yue, 3.2% Tagalog, 1.3% Min Nan, 1.1% Japanese, 1% Russian, 1% Punjabi

Religions: 56.3% No Religion, 30% Christian (12.5% Catholic, 1.2% Anglican, 1.1% Baptist, 1.1% United Church), 5.7% Buddhist, 3.3% Muslim, 1.6% Sikh, 1.3% Jewish, 1% Hindu

Median income: $32,800 (2020)

Average income: $45,480 (2020)

Retail trade and the service sector (professional, scientific, technical services) are the major sources of employment in Richmond. 44% of residents over the age of 15 years have obtained a university certificate or degree. The average family income is over $112,200. Unemployment is around 10.8%. This riding is home to many Asian-themed malls and other businesses, such as River Rock Casino Resort, Aberdeen Centre, Parker Place, Lansdowne Centre, CF Richmond Centre, McArthurGlen Designer Outlet Vancouver Airport and is also home to the Vancouver International Airport.

History
The district was created in 1987 from parts of Richmond—South Delta. In 2003, more parts of Delta—South Richmond were added to it.

The 2012 electoral redistribution saw this riding renamed Richmond Centre and lost territory to Steveston—Richmond East for the 2015 election.

Members of Parliament
This riding has elected the following members of Parliament:

Student vote results
A student vote is when schools participate and hold mock elections alongside federal elections.


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User talk:Cladist

Hello there, welcome to the 'pedia! I hope you like the place and decide to stay. If you need pointers on how we title pages visit Naming conventions or how to format them visit our manual of style. If you have any other questions about the project then check out Help or add a question to the Village pump. Also you may be interested in WikiProject Evolutionary biology, Category:Evolutionary biology and the list of open tasks at Template:EvolWikiProject. Cheers! --Lexor|Talk 08:01, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

 * Hi, again, I left a message on Talk:Cladistics following up on your comments. --Lexor|Talk 08:01, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Hi, Lexor: Thank you very much for the welcome. I started work on the Cladistics page at the top. I also put in my two cents worth on your nucleotide question - but I see you have that under control. If I had infinite time I'd love to help pull all the systematics articles together. But since I live in the real world, and I have a very real dissertation committee that is getting really annoyed at me, the going will be s-l-o-w.
 * Sure, do what you can. I know about those pesky theses.  --Lexor|Talk 08:25, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Scope for wikification?
Your user page seems to be a very good candidate for wikification. Would you mind doing it? -- Sundar 07:24, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)

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User:Guybrush/storyteller draft

The Storyteller System is the basic set of game mechanics in the role-playing games published by White Wolf Game Studio. Games using this set of rules include the World of Darkness product line, Exalted, the Trinity line, and Street Fighter: The Role-Playing Game.

In the Storyteller system, a player character is defined by a set of Traits, most of which are rated on a scale of 1-5, though some may have a value of zero, and some traits are rated between 1 and 10. Traits are broken up in to categories:

 * Attributes are the character's inherent capabilities, including their Strength, Charisma and Intelligence. There are nine attributes, divided into three groups: Physical, Social and Mental. Generally Attributes have a minimum score of 1 for creatures of at least human ability.
 * Abilities are things the characters knows or can do, including things like combat skills, scientific or occult knowledge, and artistic ability. These are sometimes grouped into categories as well, though how varies between game lines.
 * Advantages is the catch-all category for Traits that do not fit into the others. This usually includes Willpower (the character's strength of will) and Backgrounds (traits that define a character's history and backstory), but also includes any supernatural or extraordinary powers or abilities (like Vampiric Disciplines, Aberrant powers, or the Charms and Spells of the Exalted).

The basic system for resolving conflicts involves rolling a dice pool of ten-sided dice. The size of the pool is usually determined by the character's rating in one or more Traits, the most typical for common tasks being Attribute + Ability. Pools usually consist of three to ten dice, though Exalted is notable (or infamous) for requiring upwards of twenty or thirty dice to be rolled at a time.

Example: A "Dexterity + Melee" roll for a character with a Dexterity score of 4 and a Melee score of 3 involves 7 dice.

When a character wishes to attempt an action, the player rolls a number of dice equal to relevant dice pool. Each die that comes up with a specific number or higher is considered a success. The number which must be rolled, and how many successes must be scored, varies depending on the situation and which version of the system is used.

 * In the World of Darkness game-line, the number which must be rolled is known as the "difficulty" and is dictated by the Storyteller, ranging from 2 to 10. The default for most actions is 6. The Storyteller may also require multiple successes.
 * Exalted and the Trinty series use a flat "target number" for almost all rolls, 7 for Exalted and 6 in Trinity. In these games, the "difficulty" indicates how many additional successes beyond the first must be scored.
 * The new Storytelling System, which replaces Storyteller in the new World of Darkness, uses a fixed target number of 8 for all rolls.

Example: a roll of five dice with 7, 7, 3, 2, and 10 would be a total of 3 successes, assuming a target number of 7.

The World of Darkness games offered a "specialty" rule, where a result of 10 on any die counted as two successes when the roll pertained to some specialty the character had trained in or was adept at. In Exalted, 10s automatically count as two successes for non-mortal characters (for example, Exalted, spirits, Fair Folk, and other magical beings).

In the World of Darkness games, each 1 rolled subtracts an effective success. In Exalted, 1s do not count unless the player also rolled no successes. In either case, the result is a "botch", or a spectacularly bad failure at the task being attempted (for example, a player who botched a roll to jump off a train might break a leg).

Ordinarily, only a single success is required to achieve the player's goal. In many cases, particularly trying or challenging tasks are assigned a threshold, a minimum number of successes needed to succeed. For example, convincing a suspicious guard of your good intentions may be a "threshold 3" roll; it is made harder because of the guard's wary nature, and the player must roll at least 3 successes to succeed at all. In Exalted, the term is "difficulty", and the roll required (7 or above) is called the "target number". This difference can sometimes be confusing for players moving from one system to the other, because of the use of "difficulty" in the World of Darkness rules.

More complicated variations on this basic idea are introduced in each game-book's rules, such as opposed rolls (where two or more characters roll to achieve more successes than the others).

The new World of Darkness line from White Wolf uses the Storytelling System, more or less a rewrite of the Storyteller System drawing from various revisions from the system's history.

See also d20 System.

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Of Freaks and Men

Of Freaks and Men (Про уродов и людей) is a 1998 Russian historical comedy-drama film directed by Aleksei Balabanov.

Synopsis
In the beginning of the twentieth century, two seemingly prosperous families become associated with the mysterious Johann, the owner of a photo studio, in the basement of which a certain photographic theater honouring the Marquise de Sade was created. Photographic postcards are produced with the humbled nakedness of the human body, causing lust and gloating triumph of power. Johann has the look of a photographer who knows how to see angel curls and a sweet smile in a girl, and the same look that corrupts the body, the look of a pornographer. Over and over again, Johann destroys the well-being of families and turns ordinary people into freaks, seized with vice.

Premise
Filmed initially in black and white, then entirely in sepia tone, this film set in turn of the century Russia is centered on two families and their decline at the hands of one man, Johann, and his pornographic endeavours. Hailed by some as a masterpiece, the movie comments on the decline of Russian society as a result of the rise of capitalism.

Soundtrack
The soundtrack is taken from Prokofiev's ballet, Romeo and Juliet; and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

Awards
At the 1998 Russian Guild of Film Critics Awards the picture was awarded the prizes for Best Director (Alexei Balabanov), Best Director of Photography (Sergei Astakhov), Best Art Direction (Vera Zelinskaya), Best Male Actor (Sergei Makovetsky) and Best Supporting Actor (Maksim Sukhanov).

At the Nika Awards the film received the prizes for Best Film and Best Director (Alexei Balabanov).

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Moonlight Whispers

Moonlight Whispers (月光の囁き) is a 1999 Japan film directed by Akihiko Shiota and based on the manga Gekko no sasayaki by Masahiko Kikuni.

Plot
A boy (Takuya) meets a girl (Satsuki), both 17 years of age, and they fall in love. When she discovers his fetishes Satsuki brands Takuya hentai (pervert) and leaves him, only to be drawn back by the power his fetishes give her over him.

She has him watch as she had sex with another man, then asks him to lick her body.

Cast

 * Kenji Mizuhashi as Takuya Hidaka
 * Tsugumi as Satsuki Kitahara
 * Kōta Kusano as Tadashi Uematsu
 * Harumi Inoue as Shizuka Kitahara
 * Yoshiki Sekino as Maruken

Reception
The film has received mixed reviews, scoring 57 out of 100 on the review aggregator site Metacritic.

Awards

 * 1999: Special Jury Prize at the 10th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival
 * 1999: Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award
 * 1999: Hochi Film Award (Best New Director for Akihiko Shiota)
 * 1999: Locarno International Film Festival, Golden Leopard (Nomination for Akihiko Shiota)
 * 2000: Japanese Professional Movie Award
 * Tsugumi (Best New Actress)
 * Akihiko Shiota (Best New Director)
 * 2000: Mainichi Film Concours, Sponichi Grand Prize (New Talent Award for Akihiko Shiota)
 * Yokohama Film Festival, Festival Prize
 * Best New Director Akihiko Shiota
 * Best New Talent Tsugumi

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Seumas O'Sullivan

Seumas or Seamus O'Sullivan (born James Sullivan Starkey; 17 July 1879 – 24 March 1958) was an Irish poet and editor of The Dublin Magazine. His father, William Starkey (1836–1918), a physician, was also a poet and a friend of George Sigerson. He was born in Dublin and spent his adult life in the suburb of Rathgar. In 1926, he married the artist Estella Solomons, sister of Bethel Solomons. Her parents were opposed to the marriage as Seumas was not Jewish.

His books include Twilight People (1905), Verses Sacred and Profane (1908), The Earth Lover (1909), Selected Lyrics (1910), Collected Poems (1912), Requiem (1917), Common Adventures (1926), The Lamplighter (1929), Personal Talk (1936), Poems (1938), Collected Poems (1940), and Dublin Poems (1946). Terence de Vere White praised him as "a true poet", and was critical of W. B. Yeats for leaving him out of his anthology of Irish poets, which he thought a particularly strange decision since Yeats and O'Sullivan were friends, although they quarrelled from time to time. In 1936 a version of a play by Irish playwright Teresa Deevy called The King of Spain's Daughter was included in The Dublin Magazine which was edited by O'Sullivan.

Seumas O'Sullivan and B.J. Brimmer Company were accredited within the 'Acknowledgments' of People and Music by Thomasine C. McGehee - published by Allyn and Bacon in the Junior High School Series, edited by James M. Glass, 1929 and 1931 respectively - for both (the frontispiece) In Mercer Street and the excerpt from Ballad of a Fiddler (page 93).

He had a great admiration for Patrick Kavanagh, and in the 1940s he was one of the very few Irish editors who was prepared to publish his poetry.

O'Sullivan was a friend of most of the leading literary figures in Dublin, including William Butler Yeats, James Stephens and George William Russell. His "at homes" on Sunday afternoons were a leading feature of Dublin literary life, as were Russell's Sunday evenings and Yeats's Monday evenings. He was inclined to be quarrelsome, due to his heavy drinking: on one occasion he insulted James Stephens publicly at a literary dinner. Even the kind-hearted Russell admitted that "Seumas drinks too much"; Yeats' verdict was that "the trouble with Seumas is that when he's not drunk, he's sober".

Musical settings
O'Sullivan was also friendly with the composer E J Moeran, whose Six Poems by Seumas O'Sullivan (1944) is his most substantial solo vocal work, and arguably his finest. Moeran also published 'Invitation in autumn' (1943) as a separate song. With its straightforward language and direct imagery, his poetry was attractive to composers, particularly his most popular poem 'The Piper' ('A piper in the streets today') which was set by Peter Crossley-Holland, Michael Head, Ivor Gurney, Norman Peterkin and Vaughan Williams.

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Speedy deletion nomination of Draft:Marwil Llasos

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If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Click here to contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be removed without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines. If the page is deleted, and you wish to retrieve the deleted material for future reference or improvement, you can place a request here. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 01:24, 27 June 2014 (UTC)

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Do Not Add Information without Citing Sources
Your recent edit to Jharkhand appears to have added the name of a non-notable entity to a list that normally includes only notable entries. In general, a person or organization added to a list should have a pre-existing article before being added to most lists. If you wish to create such an article, please first confirm that the subject qualifies for a separate, stand-alone article according to Wikipedia's notability guideline. Thank you. Worldbruce (talk) 15:42, 14 April 2015 (UTC)

Nomination of Geeta Vadhera for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Geeta Vadhera is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Geeta Vadhera until a consensus is reached, and anyone, including you, is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. WomenArtistUpdates (talk) 02:30, 8 February 2022 (UTC)

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