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Much Obliged, Jeeves

Much Obliged, Jeeves is a comic novel by P. G. Wodehouse, published in the United Kingdom by Barrie & Jenkins, London, and in the United States by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York under the name Jeeves and the Tie That Binds. Both editions were published on the same day, 15 October 1971, which was Wodehouse's 90th birthday.

Much Obliged, Jeeves is the second-to-last novel featuring Wodehouse's characters Jeeves and Bertie Wooster. Taking place at Brinkley Court, the home of Bertie's Aunt Dahlia, the story involves Florence Craye and her fiancé Ginger Winship, Roderick Spode and his fiancée Madeline Bassett, and the Junior Ganymede club book, which is full of confidential and valuable information.

The two editions have slightly different endings. The book's American editor Peter Schwed changed the ending slightly and gave the US edition a new title. In the British version, when Jeeves reveals he has destroyed Bertie's pages from the Junior Ganymede's book as Bertie wanted, Bertie merely says, "Much obliged, Jeeves." In the American version, Bertie instead asks Jeeves why he destroyed the pages; Jeeves answers that no other valet will ever need to see the pages, because he will be Bertie's valet indefinitely, as there is a "tie that binds" between them.

Plot
Jeeves types a report of Bertie's latest misadventures for the club book of the Junior Ganymede Club, in which the club's members are required to record information about their employers, to inform those seeking employment about potential employers. Bertie worries that his embarrassing information will fall into the hands of his judgmental Aunt Agatha and asks Jeeves to destroy the pages about him, but Jeeves asserts that the book is secure and refuses to defy the rules of his club.

An old school friend of Bertie's, Ginger Winship, is standing for the House of Commons in a by-election at Market Snodsbury, near the home of Bertie's Aunt Dahlia, Brinkley Court, on the wishes of his strict fiancée. Aunt Dahlia persuades Bertie to come to Brinkley to assist in the canvassing. Before departing, Bertie has drinks with Jeeves at the Junior Ganymede. They discuss how Ginger's chances for election will be hurt if the public learns about his rowdy past (mild by Bertie's standards but potentially offensive to the traditional rural populace of Market Snodsbury). At the club, they see an uncouth ex-valet that Bertie once employed, Bingley, who greets Jeeves in an overly familiar fashion, calling him "Reggie".

At Brinkley, he discovers Ginger's fiancée is the overbearing Florence Craye, who has previously been betrothed to several people, including Bertie. Florence mistakenly believes that Bertie still wants to marry her, and Bertie's personal code prevents him from telling her otherwise. The intimidating Roderick Spode, 7th Earl of Sidcup has come to deliver speeches for Ginger, and he has brought his fiancée, Madeline Bassett. Like Florence, Madeline thinks Bertie wants to marry her and Bertie is too polite to correct her.

Also present is L. P. Runkle, a financier and collector, who is visiting Brinkley to sell a silver porringer worth nine thousand pounds to Bertie's uncle Tom Travers (who has fled Brinkley Court to avoid the guests). Runkle was the employer of the late father of Bertie's friend Tuppy Glossop, and profited from Tuppy's father's invention, leaving little for Tuppy and his father. Dahlia wants to soften up Runkle and get him to pay Tuppy his due so Tuppy can finally marry his fiancée, Angela, Aunt Dahlia's daughter.

Ginger's chances for election (and thus his engagement to Florence) are threatened by Bingley, who has purloined the Junior Ganymede club book. Bingley intends to sell its pages about Ginger to his opponent or to the local newspaper. To prevent this, Jeeves pays Bingley a social visit, taking the opportunity to slip him a Mickey Finn and recover the book.

Surprisingly, this does not please Ginger. After disappointing Florence in his performance at the Council meeting, he no longer wants to marry her, and has fallen in love with his secretary, Magnolia Glendennon. Like Bertie, Ginger is prevented by his personal code from telling a woman he does not want to marry her. To spur Florence to break the engagement, Ginger wants the local newspaper to print the club book's pages about him, but Jeeves is unwilling to part with the book. Meanwhile, Spode is entranced by the reception he is getting at his speeches for Ginger, and thinks of renouncing his title and running for the Commons himself. This upsets Madeline, who wants to become a Countess. Madeline considers marrying Bertie instead of Spode.

Aunt Dahlia, failing to convince Runkle to give Tuppy any money, has stolen the silver porringer he wished to sell to Tom. Bertie tries to return the porringer, but is caught, and hides the object in his bureau drawer. At the candidate debate, Ginger, following Jeeves's advice, endorses his opponent and resigns the race. Havoc ensues between the opposing sides, and those present, including Spode and Florence, are pelted with produce. Florence breaks her engagement with Ginger, and he promptly elopes with Magnolia.

Bingley (in Runkle's employ) discovers the missing porringer in Bertie's drawer, and Runkle accuses Bertie of the theft. While Bertie faces jail time, this has the positive effect of keeping Florence from trying to marry Bertie. Spode realises he would prefer to stay in the produce-free House of Lords and chooses to keep his title. He and Madeline reconcile.

Finally, Jeeves reveals secrets about Runkle written about him by Bingley in the club book, preventing him from pressing charges against Bertie, and also forcing him to give Tuppy his legacy. Noting that Bingley was able to steal the club book, Bertie again asks Jeeves to destroy the eighteen pages that Jeeves wrote about Bertie. Jeeves states that he has already done so.

Style
Generally, Bertie makes use of words and phrases he learned from Jeeves throughout the series, while Jeeves does not repeat terminology introduced by Bertie. The sole exception to this pattern occurs in Much Obliged, Jeeves. In chapter 12, when Bertie asks Jeeves about the odds against Aunt Dahlia getting money from Runkle, Jeeves searches for a way to describe Runkle, trying to recall a term used previously by Bertie to describe tough antagonists like Spode:

"'It is on the tip of my tongue.' 'A stinker?' No, he said, it wasn't a stinker. 'A tough baby?' 'No.' 'A twenty-minute egg?' 'That was it, sir. Mr. Runkle is a twenty-minute egg.'"

Jeeves repeats the phrase in chapter 15, when Bertie remembers that Jeeves put the odds at a hundred-to-one:

"'Approximately that, sir.' 'Runkle being short of bowels of compassion.' 'Precisely, sir. A twenty-minute egg.'"

This unique reversal of the verbal relationship between Jeeves and Bertie highlights the reversal created in the book between their usual positions. Ordinarily, Jeeves does not make mistakes and is ultimately rewarded by Bertie in some way; in this novel, Jeeves makes a mistake believing that the club book is secure while Bertie predicts correctly that the book will be used for blackmail, and Jeeves rewards Bertie in the end by destroying the eighteen pages he had recorded about Bertie in the book.

Wodehouse frequently repeats the same information in two or more ways for comic effect. One way this occurs is when Bertie employs two or more virtually synonymous words when only one is necessary. In chapter 4, Bertie uses a reference book belonging to Jeeves to come up with a flood of synonyms to emphasize Bingley's effrontery toward Bertie and Jeeves at the Junior Ganymede Club:

"As to his manner, I couldn't get a better word for it at the moment than 'familiar', but I looked it up later in Jeeves's Dictionary of Synonyms and found that it had been unduly intimate, too free, forward, lacking in proper reserve, deficient in due respect, impudent, bold and intrusive. Well, when I tell you that the first thing he did was to prod Jeeves in the lower ribs with an uncouth finger, you will get the idea."

In all of the Jeeves novels, one of Bertie's primary goals is to avoid marriage, making Bertie an inversion on the typical hero of romantic comedies whose ultimate goal is to become engaged or married. Bertie's Aunt Dahlia concisely summarizes the recurring threat of marriage that Bertie is repeatedly faced with in the penultimate chapter of Much Obliged, Jeeves, when she has heard the news about Spode changing his mind after being hit by a potato. Furthermore, the same passage places undue emphasis on how neatly things have worked out and mentions a "guardian angel", hinting that Jeeves may have thrown the potato or arranged for someone to throw the potato at Spode:

"A look almost of awe came into the ancestor's face. 'How right you were,' she said, 'when you told me once that you had faith in your star. I've lost count of the number of times you've been definitely headed for the altar with apparently no hope of evading the firing squad, and every time something has happened which enabled you to wriggle out of it. It's uncanny.' She would, I think, have gone deeper into the matter, for already she had begun to pay a marked tribute to my guardian angel, who, she said, plainly knew his job from soup to nuts, but at this moment Seppings appeared and asked her if she would have a word with Jeeves, and she went out to have it."

Bertie is shown to have an idealistic nature, which contrasts with Jeeves's more pragmatic views. This is illustrated in chapter 15, when Bertie tries to persuade Aunt Dahlia to return a silver porringer because stealing it was a breach of hospitality, while Jeeves merely states that no useful end will be accomplished by retaining the object. The unscrupulous Bingley's behaviour suggests to some degree what Jeeves might be like if he were entirely amoral (Jeeves, like Bingley, uses the club book for blackmail purposes), and shows how Bertie's innocence redeems the dishonorable tactics used by Jeeves by giving them an altruistic and honorable goal.

Background
The earliest surviving notes for the novel are dated 10 December 1966. According to the notes, Wodehouse planned for "some crook butler" to steal the Junior Ganymede club book, and considered having this butler threaten to reveal the information in the book about Bertie to Bertie's Aunt Agatha in order to get him to undertake some dreadful task.

Revisions to an early typed draft of the novel show that Wodehouse made many small changes to make the language more humorous, a process which Wodehouse's American editor Peter Schwed termed "adding the laugh lines". For instance, Wodehouse added "I feel full to the brim of Vitamin B" to Bertie's dialogue near the beginning of the first chapter.

Schwed changed the ending of Much Obliged, Jeeves for the American edition because he believed that Jeeves would not damage the club book by tearing out Bertie's pages "without a rational explanation", and drafted a longer Wodehouse-style ending, in which Jeeves explains that the book's entry on Bertie is unnecessary because he will remain permanently with Bertie. Wodehouse worked Schwed's version into the ending of the American edition, which uses the title suggested by Schwed, Jeeves and the Tie That Binds.

Bingley was introduced under the name "Brinkley" in the 1934 novel Thank You, Jeeves. In Much Obliged, Jeeves, Bertie initially does call him "Brinkley", though Jeeves soon corrects him. This use of retroactive continuity regarding the character's name was apparently due to the potential for confusion with this story's setting at Brinkley Court.

This novel is significant as it is the first time in the Wooster canon that Jeeves' first name (Reginald) is revealed.

Publication history
The novel was included in the 1976 three novel collection titled Jeeves, Jeeves, Jeeves, along with How Right You Are, Jeeves and Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, which was published by Avon.

Reception

 * Richard Armour, The Los Angeles Times (23 January 1972): "Despite the basic sameness of the Wodehouse books, each is somehow fresh and different. And this is one of the freshest and fastest moving. There is no use trying to tell what it is about, except perhaps that it involves a club for butlers to which Jeeves belongs, and a club book into which Jeeves has written some rather personal things about his employer. If it should get out (as of course it does) it would be a little like the Pentagon Papers. But it isn't the plot but what Wodehouse does with it in his sprightly way of writing".
 * John K. Hutchens, The Saturday Review (12 February 1972): "Inquire of any good Wodehousian what his hero's newest book is 'like,' and the fellow will stare at you as if you were the idiot you must be to ask such a question. It is like Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves, like Bertie Wooster Sees It Through, like A Damsel in Distress, and like all their magnificent company in its rippling, apparently effortless narrative, its uninsistent comedy of word play and wildly plausible situation, its characters who could not conceivably be confused with anyone else's characters or with one another".

Television
The story was adapted into the Jeeves and Wooster episode "The Ties That Bind" which first aired on 20 June 1993. This was the last episode in the series. There are some changes to the plot:
 * In the episode, the ex-valet who stole the Junior Ganymede club book is still called Brinkley. The setting is Totleigh Towers, not Brinkley Court.
 * Runkle and Aunt Dahlia are absent, while Aunt Agatha and Sir Watkyn Bassett are present at Totleigh Towers in the episode.
 * Jeeves does not use a drug to incapacitate Brinkley in the episode. Bertie steals the book back while Jeeves is conversing with Brinkley. Brinkley steals it back, but then Florence obtains the club book and believes that it is a work of fiction authored by Brinkley.
 * In the episode, Bertie inadvertently becomes engaged to both Florence Craye and Madeline Bassett simultaneously. Bertie breaks up with Florence by informing her that he is engaged to Madeline, and Jeeves finds a damaging secret about Spode (involving a kangaroo called Celia), forcing him to reclaim his title and reconcile with Madeline.
 * In the episode, Tuppy, at Bertie's request, comes to Totleigh with a huge drain pumper called "Plumbo Jumbo" to unclog the pipes. When Spode chases Tuppy off the premises, the Plumbo Jumbo is left running, and ultimately the pipes erupt, spraying everyone in the chapel during Madeline and Spode's wedding ceremony, causing them to angrily chase both Bertie and Jeeves counterclockwise around the chapel. In the original story, Tuppy is not present and a wedding ceremony did not occur.

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Barbara Moore (ambassador)

Barbara Calandra Moore (1952 – March 11, 2010) was a United States diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Nicaragua.

Moore was nominated to be Ambassador to the Republic of Nicaragua by President George W. Bush in May 2002. She arrived in Nicaragua September 12, 2002 and presented credentials to President Enrique Bolaños on September 13, 2002.

Moore was a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Minister Counselor. She joined the United States Information Agency in 1974. Her most recent assignment before being nominated as Ambassador to Nicaragua was as Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia (1998–2002), where she played a major role in the conception and implementation of Plan Colombia.

Her previous assignments with the United States Information Agency (before its merger with the Department of State) include tours as Information Officer in Caracas, Venezuela (1989–93); Counselor for Public Affairs in Santiago, Chile (1993–97); and Deputy Director of USIA's Office of Western Hemisphere Affairs (1997–98). She also held positions in Mexico City; Toronto, Ontario, Canada; and in USIA's Bureau of Programs in Washington, D.C.

A native of Buffalo, New York, Moore received a B.A. degree from the College of New Rochelle (1973). Her husband was Spencer B. Moore of Portland, Oregon, and they had one son.

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Fantasies & Delusions

Fantasies & Delusions is the thirteenth and final studio album composed by American singer-songwriter Billy Joel, released in 2001. His only studio album to contain classical compositions, it features his longtime friend, the British-Korean pianist Richard Hyung-ki Joo, performing compositions written by Joel. It was Joel's 19th album to chart on the Billboard 200, reaching No. 83 in October 2001. The album debuted at No. 1 on Billboard′s Top Classical Albums chart.

Fantasies & Delusions was originally recorded at Cove City Sound Studios, Glen Cove, New York, with help from veteran production coordinator Bill Zampino and Richie Cannata; later, the album was re-recorded in Vienna, Austria, for final release.

Critical reception
In January 2002, Gramophone UK called the album a "pleasing‚ undemanding sequence of ‘classical’ pieces from one of pop’s giants."

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic said the album is a "nice collection of pleasingly modest, melodic solo piano pieces." He added that Joel succeeds on it because "he kept his ambitions reasonable and was smart about presentation" while retaining the "recognizable melodic flair" of his pop work. At the end of his review, Erlewine concluded that the tracks "are not pieces that you'll wind up humming" but among "the best in recent memory."

Track listing
All opuses composed by William Joel.
 * 1) Opus 3. Reverie ("Villa d'Este") – 9:31
 * 2) Opus 2. Waltz #1 ("Nunley's Carousel") – 6:58
 * 3) Opus 7. Aria ("Grand Canal") – 11:08
 * 4) Opus 6. Invention in C Minor – 1:04
 * 5) Opus 1. Soliloquy ("On a Separation") – 11:26
 * 6) Opus 8. Suite for Piano ("Star-Crossed"): I. Innamorato – 7:46
 * 7) Opus 8. Suite for Piano ("Star-Crossed"): II. Sorbetto – 1:30
 * 8) Opus 8. Suite for Piano ("Star-Crossed"): III. Delusion – 3:37
 * 9) Opus 5. Waltz #2 ("Steinway Hall") – 7:00
 * 10) Opus 9. Waltz #3 ("For Lola") – 3:28
 * 11) Opus 4. Fantasy ("Film Noir") – 8:56
 * 12) Opus 10. Air ("Dublinesque") – 3:46

"Symphonic Fantasies for Piano and Orchestra"
In 2003, pianist Jeffrey Biegel approached Joel about a commission for a piano concerto. As an alternative, Joel suggested that Biegel create a piano concerto using pieces from Fantasies and Delusions. Biegel did so, using four of the pieces: "Fantasy (Film Noir)", "Sorbetto", "Reverie (Villa d'Este)", and "Nunley's Carousel Waltz". After Biegel had written the piano part, Nashville composer Philip Keveren composed the orchestral parts. The work, titled "Symphonic Fantasies for Piano and Orchestra", premiered on June 24, 2006 in Greensboro, North Carolina. Biegel was the pianist, accompanied by the Eastern Philharmonic Orchestra led by Stuart Malina.

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Saint (disambiguation)

Saint is the designation of a holy person.

Saint(s) may also refer to:

Saint

 * Le Saint, Brittany, France

Saints

 * Saints, Luton, Bedfordshire, England
 * Saints, Seine-et-Marne, France
 * Saints-en-Puisaye, formerly Saints, France
 * The Saints, Suffolk, England

Saintes

 * Saintes, Charente-Maritime, France
 * Saintes, Belgium, a former commune in Belgium, part of Tubize
 * Îles des Saintes, French Antilles
 * Canton of Les Saintes, Guadeloupe

Battles

 * Battle of Saintes, a land battle between English and French forces in 1351
 * Battle of the Saintes, a naval battle between British and French forces in 1782

People

 * Saints, inhabitants of the island of St. Helena
 * Latter Day Saints
 * Saint (name)
 * Saint (rapper), Gambian recording artist, songwriter and producer

Sports teams

 * Lady Saints, American women's volleyball team
 * New Orleans Saints, American National Football League team
 * New York Saints, lacrosse team
 * Northampton Saints, English rugby union club
 * St Mirren F.C., Scottish football club
 * St Cuthbert Wanderers F.C., Scottish football club
 * St. George Illawarra Dragons, Australian Rugby League Club
 * St Helens R.F.C., English rugby league club
 * St Johnstone F.C., Scottish football club
 * St Kilda Football Club, Australian Rules Football club
 * St Patrick's Athletic F.C., Irish football club
 * St. Paul Saints, American minor league baseball team
 * Siena Saints, the sports teams of Siena College
 * Southampton F.C., English football team
 * Winnipeg Saints, a defunct Canadian junior ice hockey team

Fiction

 * Saint (film), a 2010 Dutch dark comedy horror
 * Saint (manhua), comics by Hong Kong manhua artist Khoo Fuk Lung
 * Saint (novel), a 2006 novel by Ted Dekker
 * Saint (Sugar Rush), a character in the British TV series Sugar Rush
 * Saints (Boondock), three vigilantes in the film Boondock Saints
 * Saints (novel), a 1984 novel by Orson Scott Card
 * Saints, warriors fighting in the name of the goddess Athena in the manga and anime Saint Seiya by Masami Kurumada
 * "The Saint" (Law & Order: Criminal Intent), episode 16, season 3, in the Law & Order: Criminal Intent TV series
 * The Saint (Simon Templar), the protagonist of a series of books by Leslie Charteris
 * The Saint (1997 film), 1997 film starring Val Kilmer based on the Leslie Charteris series
 * The Saint (2017 film), a television film
 * The 3rd Street Saints, a street gang in the Saints Row series of video games
 * Saint, an alien race in the Mahoromatic manga and anime series
 * One half of Boxers and Saints, graphic novels by Gene Luen Yang

Music

 * The Saint (music venue), a music venue featuring live, original music in Asbury Park, New Jersey
 * The Saints (Australian band), Australian punk band
 * The Saints (Jamaican band)
 * The Saints (British band), London skiffle band
 * Saint (band), American Christian metal band
 * Utah Saints, English band

Albums

 * Saints (Destroy the Runner album)
 * Saints (Marc Ribot album), 2001
 * Saint, an album by James Reid

Songs

 * "Saints" (song), by The Breeders from the album Last Splash
 * "When the Saints Go Marching In", also known as "The Saints"
 * "Saint", by Elton John from the album Too Low for Zero
 * "Saint", by Travis Scott and Quavo from the album Huncho Jack, Jack Huncho
 * "Saint", by Marilyn Manson from the album The Golden Age of Grotesque

Other uses

 * SAINT (institute), Sungkyunkwan Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology of South Korea
 * SAINT (software), Security Administrator’s Integrated Network Tool
 * Saints (book), a history of the LDS Church
 * Saints Peakhurst Coaches, a defunct bus company in Sydney, Australia
 * Seigakuin Atlanta International School, a Japanese international private school known as SAINTS
 * Springfield Armory SAINT, a series of semi-automatic firearms

 * Project SAINT, SAtellite INTerceptor system in the early 1960s.

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Talk:Municipality of Strathfield

Wrong map
On the top left hand side map showing Strathfield LGA's location its wrong. Someone get the proper map, because it currently shows Burwood LGA. Strathfield is to the west of that. I can't change because I'm blocked (some vandalizing guy from the same proxy). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.244.24.211 (talk) 07:33, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Research
OK, I'm starting on Strathfield Municipality as my first "get this to featured article status" Sydney location. I went to the local library in Homebush, and I found the following material that I'll be looking into:

General history

 * Jones, Michael (1985). Oasis in the West: Strathfield's first hundred years. North Sydney: Allen & Unwin Australia. ISBN 0-86861-407-6. Call number in Strathfield library is LS 994.41/JON
 * Milton, Rod; edited by Kath Milto (1994). Profile of a mass killer: Wade Frankum at Strathfield Plaza. Bondi Junction, NSW:Blackstone Press. ISBN 1875114262.
 * Cathy Jones produced a journal: Redmire: journal of the Strathfield District Historical Society. This is available at the State Library of NSW.
 * Strathfield massacre? (See profile of a mass killer above. Ta bu shi da yu)
 * Aboriginal History of Strathfield Municipality' by Michael Guider 1998
 * http://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/barani/themes/theme1.htm
 * http://www.strathfieldhistory.org.au/

Heritage

 * Michael Fox Architects & Planners. Strathfield heritage study. Call number in Strathfield library is R 994.41/FOX.

Local schools

 * Strathfield Girls' High School history (compiled by Strathfield Girls' High School) - Together towards tomorrow. Call number in Strathfield library is LS 373.944/STR.
 * Strathfield South Public School history by Bobbie Lyons - Strathfield South Public School, 1881-1981. Call number in Strathfield library is LS 372.99441/LYO.
 * Meriden highschool history by Anne Winnifred Cooke - Visions of Parnassus: Meriden's first 100 years/.... Call number in Strathfield library is LS 371.02/COO
 * Emilsen, Susan (1994). Dancing St Dom's Plot : a history of Santa Sabina and Santa Maria del Monte, Strathfield. Strathfield, NSW: Santa Sabina College. ISBN 0646188151.

Political history

 * There is a document called Past politicians of Strathfield in Strathfield local library. The call number is LS 324.294/PAS. Will find out more later.

Statistics

 * Australian Bureau of Statistics. Population target groups: Strathfield local government. Call number in Strathfield library is LS 319.441/LS
 * Inner West Migrant Resource Centre. Snapshot of community demographics and settlement. Call number in Strathfield library is LS 319.441/INN
 * http://www.lawlink.nsw.gov.au/bocsar1.nsf/pages/lga_region - Lawlink NSW: Bureua of Crime Statistics and Research.

Other

 * Cork, Kevin J. (1986). A history of the cinemas of Auburn, Concord & Strathfield municipalities. Sydney: K. Cork (self published). ISBN 0959275355. (available at state library)
 * http://www.nccnsw.org.au/bushland/reference/ubut/STRATHFI.html - Urban Bushland Under Threat, Strathfield LGA.

Municipality or Suburb?
Two things - one, is this on the municipality or the suburb? It might be better to move this so that becomes clear. Secondly, the Strathfield massacre probably needs an article. Ambi 06:12, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Most definitely! I can definitely get info on that... I quite forgot all about that! I can even get a GFDL picture of the memorial in Strathfield Square. - Ta bu shi da yu 06:18, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * P.S. Strathfield is a municipality and a suburb as far as I'm aware. - Ta bu shi da yu 06:19, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * I gathered that, but I think it might be wise to split them up into seperate articles. I think we've now done that for everywhere in Melbourne. Ambi 07:29, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * OK, will definitely do that. I'm currently in "research mode", and will start adding to the article once I get more info. - Ta bu shi da yu 07:53, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Geography
I'm trying to do a similar thing wiht the municipality of hurstville, and am considering putting in as subsections of geography, bits about the local flora, fuana, and geology with links to wider sydney articles. I just thought that maybe you would want to do a similar thing with strathfeild. The bellman 12:31, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Separating state electoral info into own article?
Do you think it would be good to separate the "State electoral boundaries" section out into a new article? That way all the suburbs it covers can point to that article, and some stuff about who has held the seat before and now can be added. If so, what do you think it should be called? e.g. "State Electoral District Of Strathfield" / "Electoral District Of Strathfield" / "Strathfield State electoral district" / "Strathfield electoral district" ? -- Nickj 00:10, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Is that its official name? Ambi 04:27, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * The official nomenclature seems to be State Electoral District Of Strathfield. Go with that, do you reckon? -- Nickj 05:12, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * It'd be nice to put the actual state in the title, though. Ambi 05:54, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Ambi, good point, you smart cookie ;-) How about "State Electoral District Of Strathfield, New South Wales" ? Seems better than "New South Wales State Electoral District Of Strathfield" (and also more consistent with how suburbs are named), but they're both rather unwieldily long names, but I guess that can't be avoided. -- Nickj 06:11, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Sounds good to me! - Ta bu shi da yu 06:12, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Good stuff - done now. -- Nickj 08:26, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Wanted photos

 * I'd like to get one of Strathfield council chambers,
 * another of Strathfield station
 * one of the "plaque marking the location of 'Strathfield Saye" can be found in the footpath of Strathfield Avenue, marking the approximate location of the original house."
 * Photograph of Council Chambers and Plaque done! Also have one of the Strathfield Square (with station in background) and one of the main entrance of Strathfield Plaza. The latter two aren't so good though in my opinion. Now all I have to do is upload them... - Yin-Ling 15:27, September 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Photographs -- Yin-Ling 13:16, 1 October 2005 (UTC):

Thank you, Yin-Ling! -- All the best, Nickj (t) 01:38, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * You are a legend! Any chance of the plaque that is just outside Gloria Jeans cafe near Strathfield Station? - Ta bu shi da yu 03:52, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

The plaque of Strathfield Saye is constant source of annoyance. It was paid for by the Strathfield District Historical Society but Council ignored the wording given by the Society and put their own wording on the plaque. It is incorrect. John Hardy was a jeweller and was not the first Mayor of Strathfield. Many approaches have been made to the Council to have it fixed without any results - Cathy Jones.

There are two plaques near Gloria Jeans. One is in memory of the Strathfield Massacre. The other, near the tree in the plaza, commenorates the Rose family. I think it has been placed in the wrong spot after researching the original land grants. Thomas Rose's land grant was west of the Town Centre - Cathy Jones.

I'm putting up a photo of Strathfield Town Square. It is after all the centre of Strathfield, not the council chambers. - Mshara1 04.52, 15 May 2005 (AEST)

 * Sounds good - more photos are always welcome. -- All the best, Nickj (t) 01:00, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Hmmm...
... it appears that admin abuse (bad word, not what I meant) is not just an en thing. I had a Korean friend translate a short amount of text for Municipality of Strathfield, however it was deleted (with no explanation) by ko:사용자:최담담. Doesn't bode well for the project... - Ta bu shi da yu 00:44, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Perhaps it was too short, or badly written. Assume good faith. Ambi 00:46, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Hmmmm... even badly written articles on en don't get deleted (unless they have no context), they just get edited. Anyway, it's all sorted out now. Incidently, the Korean word for "Strathfield" is 스트래스필드 - Ta bu shi da yu 11:57, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Glad you got the ko thing sorted out! In case anyone was wondering, the Korean name is simply the word Strathfield transliterated phonemically into hangul. It's not a bad approximation of the English sounds except that the 'th' sound doesn't have an equivalent in Korean so it becomes an 's' sound. Best wishes --Alexxx1 14:55, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Wow!
Great work, whoever updated this article! - Ta bu shi da yu 13:57, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

Origins of korean immigrants in Strathfield
Actually, the growth of the korean community was largely influenced by the growth of the Strathfield Korean Uniting Church at on Homebush Road.

It was because of these people who went to the Korean Church on Sunday, that motivated the establishment of small korean supermarkets, and consequently other korean stores.
 * Are you sure about that? It sounds interesting and most likely correct... when did the Uniting Church start? - Ta bu shi da yu 15:56, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

The Uniting Church in Australia was established in 1976. Now, Strathfield is an example of a thriving migrant community

Great research...
Its all great research that I'm reading above, but shouldnt that research begin to filter into the actual article? It's kind of looking a bit shabby and neglected right now (the suburb of Strathfield and not the muncipality, the municipality is fine). It only takes a few moments to update, format and add pics since all the research is already done. I would do it, but I'd rather not butt into this since its you guys that did the work. Great job with that though! Down2mars 03:51, 04 November 2006 (UTC)

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Need to fix map
The LGA map is incorrect. It shows Burwood. Strathfield is west of the area shown. --Lawe (talk) 15:29, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

separate section for education
Hi, I was just reading the #Culture section and the part on education stood out to me. Imo would be better on its own, just wondering what others were thinking. Tjpob (talk) 13:28, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

Two History sections and politics way down the article
Hi, Just noticed there were two history sections, which I'll merge if no one objects (lol) and I reckon the sections on politics and council should be higher up the article page. They're pretty foundational imo but is less important than the history section merger - I'll put suburbs as section 1, then history, and imo Politics should go next but won't do the latter until others have agreed. Also City of Canterbury (New South Wales) and Municipality of Ashfield amongst others (only two I've checked) have council section number 3.Tjpob (talk) 13:39, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

'The Upbeats'? or The Upbeat?
Hi, in the culture section, apparently a band called the upbeat called strathfield home for a while. Is it The Upbeats, who are from NZ? If so, Tjpob (talk) 14:32, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

 * All the references to bands calling Strathfield home in the culture section should have citations. I'll find the editors (who added this info) + ask. Tjpob (talk) 14:35, 17 June 2011 (UTC)

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notable people
wouldn't they be better in Strathfield, New South Wales the suburb article? LibStar (talk) 07:21, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
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Talk:Book of G'Kar

I'm not sure this needs an entire page. Since it's very fundamental to G'Kar's arc, especially in Season 5, it should probably be allocated to a more complete, filled-out page on G'Kar himself, more in keeping with other pages on B5 characters, including Sheridan, Delenn, Vir, etc. (Full disclosure notice: I'm in the midst of making many edits on character pages myself.) Baryonyx 06:07, Oct 2, 2004 (UTC)

The Book of G'Kar was one of my favorite things about B5, so I'm kinda glad that it has an article to itself. crazyeddie 09:20, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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SPG

SPG can refer to:

Places

 * Albert Whitted Airport (IATA: SPG), in St. Petersburg, Florida
 * Springfield Union Station (Massachusetts), Amtrak station code SPG

Music

 * Slumber Party Girls, an all-girl American pop band
 * SPG Records
 * Steam Powered Giraffe, a steampunk musical project

Other arts, entertainment, and media

 * Shortest proof game, a type of chess problem
 * Special Patrol Group, a hamster in UK TV series The Young Ones
 * Strong Parental Guidance, Philippine Movie and Television Review and Classification Board rating
 * The Super Parental Guardians, a Philippine film

Healthcare

 * Spastic gait gene, causing hereditary spastic paraplegia

Organizations and enterprises

 * Simon Property Group, US, NYSE symbol
 * Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, Church of England, 1701-1964
 * Special Patrol Group (RUC) of the Royal Ulster Constabulary
 * Special Patrol Group of the Metropolitan Police
 * Special Protection Group, for the Prime Minister of India
 * Starwood Preferred Guest, a defunct loyalty program
 * State Protection Group, of New South Wales police

Slang

 * Sarong Party Girl, a Singaporean insult

Technology

 * Self-propelled gun, one type of Self-propelled artillery
 * Submersible pressure gauge in scuba diving
 * Sync pulse generator, a type of video signal generator

Other uses

 * A Saab 900 car option
 * Springvale railway station, Melbourne
 * Steals, a basketball statistic

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Category:Mecha

A mecha, or mech, is a term for a large crewed-robotic/human-piloted humanoid construct or vehicle. Originally coming from science fiction, the term is increasingly seeing mainstream non-fictional usage.

This definition is not perfect: variants do exist, as these machines vary greatly in size, shape, appearance, performance and capabilities; from ones on wheels or treads, to submersible or VTOL-flight, to animal or insect-like shapes. The key difference between manned-"mecha" and an unmanned-"robot" is that a mecha has a pilot.

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Worshipping
Muslims never worshipped to Mother Kali, as written in the literature is wrong. Nabeel mintoee (talk) 09:26, 23 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I understood that Kali was more of a patron saint of this profession, for both Muslims and Hindus. Please do not change it unless you have scholarly sources to back up your claim. Andries (talk) 06:23, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Article could do with some consistent capitalization
There's currently inconsistent capitalization of Thuggee/Thug throughout. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.144.130.207 (talk) 00:14, 3 November 2020 (UTC)

No mention of Thug Behram?
Seeing as this thug member has his own article, I think he should be mentioned here. Adding link in "See also".Transmogriff (talk) 15:46, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

lead section
Shouldn't the lead at least mention the part in the dispute section that essentially goes "modern scholars think this might not even be real"? 80% of this articles seems to take victorian colonial sources at face value. --jonas (talk) 16:00, 13 August 2022 (UTC)

 * I don't get it either. Was all of India illiterate during this time period? You would think Indian citizens and scholars would at some point write at length about the absurd and extreme things they describe. 76.124.145.165 (talk) 22:28, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
 * yes, in hindi 152.23.21.88 (talk) 20:15, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

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The Mirage

The Mirage is a defunct casino resort on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, United States. It is owned by Vici Properties and operated by Hard Rock International. The 65-acre property includes a 90548 sqft casino and 3,044 rooms.

Golden Nugget, Inc., led by developer Steve Wynn, purchased the future land of the Mirage in 1986. A hotel-casino, the Castaways, occupied a portion of the property and was demolished to make way for the Mirage. The resort opened on November 22, 1989, after two years of construction. It was the world's most expensive resort, completed at a cost of $630 million. It was also among the world's largest hotels. The Mirage was the first megaresort to open on the Las Vegas Strip, and its success prompted a building boom in the 1990s for other large resorts along the Strip.

The Mirage opened with several non-traditional attractions for a Las Vegas casino, including animal habitats for dolphins and tigers, and an indoor tropical forest display. Its primary attraction is an artificial volcano that erupts nightly, providing free entertainment in front of the resort. In 1990, the Mirage debuted a magic show by Siegfried & Roy, who performed there for nearly 14 years. The resort also hosted Cirque du Soleil's first Las Vegas show, Nouvelle Expérience, which opened in 1992. Cirque du Soleil would return to the property in 2006, with the debut of Love, a show featuring music by the Beatles.

Wynn departed the property in 2000, when his company was acquired by MGM Grand. Hard Rock International took over operations in December 2022, becoming the first tribal gaming operator on the Strip. The company intends to rebrand the resort as Hard Rock Las Vegas. The property will receive a complete renovation and expansion which will include a new guitar-shaped hotel tower, taking the place of the volcano attraction. The Mirage closed on July 17, 2024, and is expected to reopen with its new name by May 2027.

Background
A portion of the Mirage property was once occupied by a nightclub known as the Red Rooster. It opened in 1930, on what would become the Las Vegas Strip. The following year, it became the first Strip business to receive a gaming license. It was later purchased by actress Grace Hayes in 1947, and became the Grace Hayes Lodge. It was demolished in 1959, although Hayes continued living in a house located on the property. Another portion of the land was occupied by a hotel-casino known as the Castaways.

Casino owner Steve Wynn had considered building a resort on the Strip to be known as Victoria Bay, but the project was canceled in 1981, due to high costs. Three years later, he thought about building a resort in downtown Las Vegas, on 50 acres of railroad land that would later become the site of the Clark County Government Center. Wynn's plan to build in downtown were scrapped after the railroad declined his $50 million offer for the land, asking twice that amount.

Wynn eventually purchased the Castaways and nearby acreage in October 1986. Wynn's purchase included Hayes' house, which was vacated and demolished along with the Castaways to make way for a new casino resort. Wynn sold his Golden Nugget Atlantic City resort, and used the profits to fund his new project.

Name
Numerous names were considered for Wynn's project, including Bombay and Bombay Club, which had been rejected by the end of 1986. "Wynn" was considered as a name, and would later be used for the Wynn Las Vegas resort.

Wynn unveiled plans for the tropical-themed resort, temporarily known then as the Golden Nugget, in June 1987. He said the project would be renamed at a later point to match its South Seas theme. The project's working title came from Wynn's Golden Nugget hotel-casino in downtown Las Vegas. Wynn did not intend to have two Golden Nuggets in Las Vegas, believing they would become known as "the old one" and "the new one", the former of which he found undesirable for the downtown property.

The final name was announced in December 1988: The Mirage. The name emphasized the resort as an oasis in the Nevada desert. To avoid confusion, Wynn purchased the rights to the Mirage name from two local businesses, the La Mirage Casino and the Mirage Motel. Both received $250,000 to change their names.

Development
Construction began in November 1987. General contractors included MarCor Development Company and Sierra Construction Corporation, the latter of which worked on the hotel tower. The project had an early cost of $550 million, although it went over budget. With an ultimate cost of $630 million, the Mirage was the world's most expensive hotel-casino ever built, until the opening of Trump Taj Mahal a few months later in Atlantic City. Much of the Mirage project was financed by Drexel Burnham Lambert. Financier Michael Milken, an executive of the company, helped fund the project by selling $525 million worth of mortgage bonds. The Mirage was the first Las Vegas resort to be built with the money of Wall Street through the use of junk bonds. This financing method would later be adopted by other casino developers throughout the U.S.

Bobby Baldwin oversaw major aspects of the project with Wynn, and would later serve as the Mirage's president, after previously serving in the same position at the Las Vegas Golden Nugget. To prepare for the opening, Baldwin and others spent nearly a year visiting 250 companies – in fields such as hospitality and dining – to gather information and advice. Dissatisfied with the current public relations firm, Wynn hired Hill & Knowlton eight weeks before the opening. Despite the company's objections, Wynn refused to allow media tours and the release of early images, wanting to keep the resort a surprise for the opening. The Mirage hired nearly 6,400 employees. Wynn emphasized customer service to the workers, who underwent a month of job training before the opening.

Operation
The Mirage opened at 12:00 p.m. on November 22, 1989. Wynn previously scheduled a December 26 opening, but changed these plans after securing the Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Roberto Durán III boxing match at the resort for December 7. He intended for the Mirage to become a popular venue for boxing matches, competing with other Las Vegas resorts. Within hours of the opening, a casino customer hit a $4.6 million jackpot on a $1 slot machine.

The resort had non-traditional features for a Las Vegas gaming property, and Wynn considered them to be the primary attractions, saying the Mirage would not be dependent on its casino like other properties. Its signature attraction was an erupting artificial volcano, providing free entertainment to pedestrians in front of the resort. Other attractions included a dolphin habitat and a lush jungle display located beneath a domed atrium. In addition, the resort featured a magic show by Siegfried & Roy, and the duo's white tigers were on display in the resort while not performing. Financial analysts and gaming executives were skeptical of the Mirage, which needed to make an unprecedented $1 million per day to cover its expenses. The property would end up exceeding expectations, and gaming would become less of a focus for future Strip resorts.

The Mirage was the first new resort to be built on the Strip in 16 years, after the completion of the MGM Grand (now Horseshoe) in 1973. The Mirage was also the first megaresort to open on the Strip, and was the second in the Las Vegas Valley after the opening of the International Hotel in 1969. The Mirage's success prompted a building boom for other large Strip resorts during the 1990s. Prior to the Mirage's opening, the city was experiencing a decline in tourism, especially following New Jersey's legalization of gambling in Atlantic City. Las Vegas tourism increased 16 percent in 1990, which remains one of the largest year-over-year increases in the city's history as of 2024.

Due to the Mirage's success, Wynn borrowed an additional $100 million in 1990, to add more features. These included a parking garage, more high-roller villas, and an expansion of the pool area. Wynn also partnered with singer Michael Jackson to design a mountain and water attraction at the Mirage. It would resemble Diamond Head, Hawaii, and would include pools, a water slide, and high-roller villas. It would cost up to $15 million, and would be built behind the resort. It was scheduled to open later in 1990, but ultimately went unbuilt.

Wynn owned the resort through his company, Golden Nugget Inc., which he renamed Mirage Resorts in 1991. A $55 million renovation took place in 1995. As of 1997, it was the most profitable resort on the Strip. Wynn left the property and Mirage Resorts in 2000, when the company was acquired by MGM Grand Inc., later renamed to MGM Mirage. The hotel rooms were renovated in 2002, and a major renovation took place from 2005 to 2006, to help the Mirage compete with newer resorts. The project included several new restaurants and a nightclub, among other changes. It was the largest renovation since the resort's opening.

A $100 million renovation took place in 2008, updating the casino floor and hotel rooms, while adding several restaurants. In 2009, Phil Ruffin bought the adjacent Treasure Island Hotel and Casino from MGM Mirage. He subsequently made offers to buy the 65-acre Mirage, but was rejected. MGM Mirage was renamed MGM Resorts International in 2010. Twenty years after its opening, the Mirage remained popular despite being overshadowed by newer and more-luxurious resorts.

Ownership of the Mirage, along with many other MGM properties, was transferred in 2016 to MGM Growth Properties, while MGM Resorts continued to operate it under a lease agreement. Vici Properties would later acquire MGM Growth, including the Mirage, in 2022.

Hard Rock rebranding
In 2019, Hard Rock International expressed an interest in buying property on the Las Vegas Strip for a new Hard Rock resort, following the 2018 sale and proposed rebranding of the original Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas. In November 2021, MGM Resorts announced that it was in the early process of selling the Mirage's casino operations. The company already operated nine other resorts, and was in the process of adding a tenth. CEO William Hornbuckle, who helped oversee the Mirage's opening, said the resort "just fell pretty far down in the spectrum of how much in capital we'd allocate to it in any given period of time in the near future. And so we just took a strategic decision to sell it".

In December 2021, Hard Rock agreed to purchase the Mirage's operations from MGM Resorts for $1.075 billion. Under the deal, Hard Rock would lease the property from Vici and would rebrand the Mirage as the Hard Rock Las Vegas. MGM would keep the "Mirage" name and license it to Hard Rock for up to three years, until the rebranding takes effect. The Mirage will receive a full renovation as part of the rebranding, with rooms being completely gutted and remodeled.

Hard Rock also intends to construct a guitar-shaped hotel tower on the property, like the Seminole Hard Rock in Florida. The new tower will replace the Mirage's volcano, prompting a Change.org petition to save the attraction from demolition. This effort was unsuccessful, and the volcano will be demolished once construction begins on the Hard Rock transition. The guitar tower is expected to rise 660 feet. Hard Rock's previous proposal for a 998-foot tower was rejected by the county. The redesigned tower would add 596 rooms for a new total of 3,640. Construction is expected to take two and a half years. The casino and convention facilities will also be expanded.

Hard Rock's purchase was finalized on December 19, 2022, making it the first tribal gaming operator on the Las Vegas Strip. Under the new ownership, additional slot machines and table games were soon added in an effort to increase gaming revenue. Stages were also added to two bars for nightly entertainment, consistent with Hard Rock's music theme.

The Mirage was expected to continue operating throughout the renovation and expansion project, with completion by early 2028. However, in May 2024, Hard Rock announced that the Mirage would permanently close two months later, in order to expedite the project. Hard Rock Las Vegas is expected to open by the end of May 2027.

Closure
The Mirage's hotel closed on July 15, 2024. Gaming operations ended on the early morning of July 17, and the entire property was closed later that day, shortly after 11:00 a.m. The Mirage attracted many last-time visitors in the days leading up to its closure. Hard Rock International expected to provide $80 million in severance pay to the property's 3,000 laid-off workers. At its closure, the Mirage included 137 employees who had been with the property since it opened.

Closing ceremonies included speeches by former Las Vegas mayor Jan Jones Blackhurst and by Steve Wynn's wife, Elaine Wynn. The latter had not visited the property in years and said, "It's a very poignant moment for me, and I didn't realize the impact of it until I walked into the building. But this is what we do in Las Vegas. We reinvest, we refresh, and we keep Las Vegas as one of the most exciting cities in the entire world." Steve Wynn did not attend the event, but wrote a lengthy tribute to the property, acknowledging its legacy. Bo Bernhard, director of the International Gaming Institute at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), noted that the Mirage "changed the image Las Vegas projected to the rest of the world" and set a standard for future resorts. Michael Green, a UNLV history professor, said, "Las Vegas always reinvents itself. The Mirage is no longer state-of-the-art." Work on the Hard Rock project began one day after the closure.

Nevada gaming regulations required that the Mirage award its $1.6 million accumulated progressive jackpot before its closure, with the casino paying out about 75% as slot machine jackpots and the other 25% via table games. From July 9-11, the casino gave away $200,000 in slot machine jackpots, followed by $250,000 over the next two days. On July 16, it gave away $100,000; the remaining $400,000 was given away at the table games.

Legal cases
In 1992, guest Joseph Canterino said he was beaten and robbed by two men on the hotel's 16th floor. The men, who were never found, took more than $70,000 according to Canterino, who said the incident made him nervous to leave home. He sued the Mirage, alleging inadequate security. After a decade of litigation, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled in the resort's favor.

In 1997, Mirage executive Laura Choi traveled to South Korea to collect gambling debts for the resort. However, she was arrested for violating the country's law on debt collection, which prohibited citizens from allowing money to go overseas if the amount exceeded $10,000. According to the Mirage, the money was supposed to be collected in other countries through a number of legal avenues. An investigation into Choi and the Mirage was launched by multiple agencies. Choi said Mirage Resorts was aware of her actions and encouraged them, while the company called Choi a rogue employee and declined to provide legal assistance. After 79 days in prison, she returned to the U.S. and was fired. State gaming regulators alleged that Choi's actions were supported by Mirage Resorts, which eventually paid a $350,000 fine. The company later alleged that Choi embezzled money, and that she conspired with Wynn's casino rival, Donald Trump, to obtain guest lists and divert customers from the Mirage to Trump's properties instead. Choi, meanwhile, filed wrongful termination lawsuits against the company. The two settled in 2001.

In 1997, the Mirage was sued by 11 cocktail waitresses alleging weight discrimination from Wynn and the resort. The suit referenced a 1995 meeting that some of the women had with Wynn, who allegedly told them, "You're too fat, and I'm embarrassed to have you working here". The incident would later become known as the "Fat Meeting", and the women became the subject of weight-related jokes among co-workers. Two women agreed to $5,000 settlements in 1998, and another withdrew from the case. It ended in May 2003, after the remaining women agreed to settlements with MGM Mirage.

In 2003, several resort employees were fired after failure to file months' worth of currency transaction reports. One former employee in particular would become the primary focus of a state investigation, which found that he had lied to his supervisors about mailing the reports, concealing the fact that he was actually months behind on the work. Nearly 15,000 reports had gone unfiled, and the Nevada Gaming Commission issued a record $5 million fine against MGM Mirage. CEO Terry Lanni considered it the most embarrassing incident in the gaming industry during his 26-year career. Two other ex-employees sued the company, alleging wrongful termination in the case.

Design and plant life
The Mirage was designed by Joel Bergman, who led Wynn's design firm Atlandia. The firm also included interior designers Henry Conversano and Roger Thomas, and architect DeRuyter Butler. Don Brinkerhoff and his landscape company, Lifescapes International, also worked on the resort. In addition to his team, Wynn also took design suggestions from his wife Elaine. The team was heavily involved in every design aspect of the project, which underwent numerous revisions, particularly in relation to its hotel tower. Wynn's team did extensive studies of several local resorts – Bally's, the Las Vegas Hilton, the Flamingo, and the adjacent Caesars Palace – and sought to combine their best features into one property.

Unlike other casinos at the time, the Mirage's pedestrian entrances were built back away from the Las Vegas Strip, with the volcano serving as an attraction to pique the interest of pedestrians and lure them inside. This was done at the suggestion of Elaine Wynn: "Steve wanted to build the Mirage right off the sidewalk, and I said that we had to push it back, that people wouldn't get the benefit of the architectural design if they didn't have a frame of reference". Wynn had the property layout designed for convenience to guests, allowing them to quickly access amenities.

The Mirage has a South Seas/Polynesian theme. Wynn said, "There had been a terrible sameness to the properties of Las Vegas. The public couldn't differentiate between the Sands, the Dunes, the Aladdin, the Sahara. I wanted to take it to a new level". Describing his vision, Wynn said, "Think of the harsh Southern Nevada desert, and then you see a waterfall, something out of the South Pacific or the island of Kauai. It's not supposed to be there, and that was the intention". He was partly inspired by the 1958 film South Pacific. The volcano and waterfall features were added as a contrast to the city's usual neon lights. Wynn said, "I'm burned out on neon. I think it's cheap. To me, neon is yesterday Las Vegas".

Upon its opening, the exterior included 10 acres of landscaped lawns and pools, featuring 1,000 palm trees and 40,000 scrubs. Other plant life included pine trees and ferns. The Mirage had a staff of 60 gardeners to oversee the various plant life around the property. The resort includes a nine-story domed atrium which covers an indoor tropical rainforest display. It has a combination of fake and real plant life, including orchids and 70-foot palm trees. A 40-foot Washington palm was injected with formaldehyde to preserve it, and a steel rod was inserted up its trunk to angle it over a stream in the atrium. Brinkerhoff handled the design and landscaping for the atrium, which was inspired by a project that Wynn planned in Atlantic City, before cancelling it in 1985.

By 2019, the resort's tropical theme had been scaled back.

Features
With 3,049 rooms, the Mirage was among the world's largest hotels when it opened, surpassed by the Las Vegas Hilton (3,174) and the Rossiya Hotel in Moscow (3,200). The hotel tower, standing 29 stories, was built out in a Y-shape layout, copying the design used at the Las Vegas Hilton. The Mirage popularized the Y-shape design, which was later copied by Las Vegas' Treasure Island, Monte Carlo, and Mandalay Bay resorts. The hotel's top five floors are used for high roller rooms and penthouse suites. The exterior windows are made of 18-karat gold, and the suite floors are distinguished with uninterrupted glass panes, whereas the lower floors have white streaks between them. The white-and-gold color scheme had previously been used at the Golden Nugget.

Since its opening, the hotel has featured a $1.2 million aquarium tank, built behind the check-in stand. The aquarium was conceived by Conversano to distract guests and relax them while waiting to check in. It contains hundreds of fish, and is a popular attraction.

The Mirage's casino measures 90548 sqft. It opened with 2,300 slot machines and 115 table games. A high-limit area was added at the last minute, having been overlooked prior to that point. The Mirage was the first Las Vegas casino to use security cameras full-time on all table games. In 1997, Mirage Resorts spent $150 million on artwork which was displayed in the resort's high-stakes gaming area. The casino added a new high-limit gaming area in 2004, featuring design work by artist Dale Chihuly.

The Mirage also has 300000 sqft of convention space. Other resort features have included a tattoo parlor, and a clothing store by the Kardashian family. The Mirage-Treasure Island Tram travels between the two resorts.

The Jet nightclub was added in 2005, operated by The Light Group. The 16500 sqft club was divided across three rooms. It featured projection imagery and 120 LED ceiling tiles. The club operated until 2011, when it was renamed 1 OAK, standing for "one of a kind". The club featured artwork by Roy Nachum. It closed in early 2020.

Revolution, an $11 million nightclub themed after the Beatles, was added in 2006, to accompany the resort's opening of the Beatles-themed show Love by Cirque du Soleil. It was a joint venture between Apple Corps and Cirque du Soleil, marking the latter's first Las Vegas nightclub. The 7000 sqft club fit up to 400 people. The entrance was marked by 10-foot-tall capitalized letters spelling out the club's name, with "EVOL" spelled backwards to form the word "LOVE". The club closed in 2015.

The resort includes a topless pool area known as Bare Pool Lounge, opened in 2007. It is also operated by The Light Group. It features DJ music, and is popular among local residents, as well as celebrities.

Volcano
The Mirage opened with an artificial volcano attraction, located in front of the resort. It became a signature attraction for Las Vegas. The volcano, free to the public and visible to pedestrians, erupts regularly each night. Gas jets provide the flames for the volcano, which has water flowing down its sides into a lagoon, covering 4.5 acre. Natural gas pipes, 8 in in width, are used in conjunction with a recirculating system to give the appearance that the lagoon is on fire. In addition, whitewater from the volcano is covered in red lighting to simulate lava.

Originally, the lagoon area was to include a dormant volcano. Lighting designer David Hersey, who was hired to light the resort, suggested making the volcano erupt. Wynn had been satisfied with the lagoon feature as-is, and he was concerned that an erupting volcano would look underwhelming. However, he approved the idea after seeing a scale model. Hersey designed the attraction with Brinkerhoff. They added a texture to the rock formations to produce micro bubbles in the water, fulfilling Wynn's desire to have whitewater in the attraction, as it allowed for adequate lighting. Wynn disliked the sulfuric odor given off by the volcanic eruptions, so a piña colada scent was added.

In 2005, the design firm WET was hired to begin planning an upgrade of the volcano. The company spent two years developing a fire-shooting device for the revamped volcano. It closed in February 2008, to allow for the $25 million upgrade to take place. The volcanic structure, made of steel, was stripped down to receive a new exterior. It reopened at the end of the year. The improved volcano shoots water 12 ft high, while 120 flamethrower devices spout out flames on the lagoon. The attraction is choreographed to music by Mickey Hart and Zakir Hussain. WET's redesign was inspired by the Fountains of Bellagio, another choreographed attraction by the company.

In 2015, MGM reduced the number of daily volcanic eruptions as a potential cost-saving measure. Super Bowl LVIII was held in Las Vegas in 2024, and was broadcast by CBS, owned by Paramount Global. To promote the game and Paramount media franchises, the Mirage's volcano and lagoon area were temporarily transformed into an interactive Alpine-themed mountain attraction depicting the Paramount Pictures mountain logo.

Animal habitats
A $14 million dolphin habitat opened at the Mirage on October 19, 1990, serving as an educational and research center. The habitat consisted of four pools providing a total of 2.5 million gallons, exceeding government regulations. The facility included tours, and visitors could interact with the dolphins and become trainers for a day. It was a popular educational attraction among schoolchildren. It originally featured five bottlenose dolphins, including four from Marathon, Florida and one from Texas. As of 2008, three dolphin generations had been born at the attraction, and a fourth began in 2019. The attraction did not feature wild dolphins.

On November 13, 1996, the Mirage opened the Secret Garden of Siegfried & Roy, an outdoor attraction showcasing six types of animals which were featured in the magicians' show at the resort. These included Bengal tigers, white tigers, white lions, a snow leopard, a panther, and an Asian elephant. Siegfried & Roy also ran a breeding program for big cats, particularly white lions and tigers, which resided at the Secret Garden. The $15 million attraction, covering 2.5 acre, was built next to the property's dolphin habitat. By 2002, the dolphin area had become part of Siegfried & Roy's attraction, now known as Siegfried & Roy's Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat. The attraction covered 10 acres, and received 500,000 annual visitors as of 2017.

In addition, the white tigers from Siegfried & Roy's magic show were on display for free while not performing. A first-floor hallway near the resort's southern entrance featured a glass wall, allowing guests to watch the tigers in an enclosure. The tiger habitat was designed in all-white by Brinkerhoff, and was built for approximately $5 million. It opened with the resort in 1989, and was closed in November 2007, replaced by the BLT Burger restaurant. The tigers were moved to Siegfried & Roy's Secret Garden to encourage more visitors there.

Several animal-rights groups criticized the habitats. In 2009, Born Free USA and the World Society for the Protection of Animals accused the Mirage of using its dolphin habitat for entertainment and profit rather than education. Fourteen dolphins had died at the habitat since its opening, five of them stillbirths or young deaths. Others died from respiratory problems. Later in 2009, the Mirage imported two new dolphins, despite criticism from the groups. After extensive inspections, American Humane certified the Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat in 2017, stating that it represented "the gold standard for animal welfare". It was one of 14 animal attractions worldwide to receive the certification, and the first in the western U.S.

MGM closed the Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat in September 2022, following three more dolphin deaths that year. Hard Rock International subsequently determined that the attraction would not be part of its future plans for the resort, with the animals relocated to new homes. Three of the habitat's dolphins were returned to SeaWorld San Diego, which had loaned them to the resort years earlier. Others were relocated to Coral World Ocean Park in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The big cats were moved to animal sanctuaries in Oregon and Texas.

Restaurants
The Mirage opened with five fine-dining restaurants, including the Italian-themed Ristorante Riva. It also had middle-class eateries such as the Bermuda Buffet and the 24-hour Caribe Cafe. To keep costs down, a single kitchen was built in the center of the property to service the restaurants. In 1998, the Mirage revamped its restaurants and added several new ones. Among them was Onda, an Italian restaurant by chef Todd English that replaced Ristorante Riva.

Chef Alex Stratta oversaw Renoir, a restaurant featuring paintings by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It opened in 1999. A year later, Renoir became one of the first Las Vegas restaurants to win a Five-Star rating from the Mobil Travel Guide. It also won the AAA Five Diamond Award in 2001 and 2002. Renoir closed in November 2004, after Stratta declined to renew his contract. It was replaced by a Chinese restaurant known as Fin. A Japanese restaurant, Otoro, would also open at the property.

Several restaurant changes were made in the mid-2000s. A new buffet, designed by Adam Tihany, was added in 2004. Carnegie Deli, a popular Manhattan establishment, opened another location at the Mirage in 2005, also with a design by Tihany. Like its predecessor, the Mirage location was also popular. It eventually closed in 2020, to make way for a new eatery.

B.B. King's Blues Club opened a location at the Mirage in November 2009, replacing the Caribe Cafe. The club operated through a lease agreement with the Mirage, although the two had a strained relationship. In particular, the club accused the resort of overcharging for cleaning services such as dishwashing. The Blues Club filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2011, and fought in court to avoid being evicted. It eventually closed in November 2012.

Chef Tom Colicchio opened a 220-seat steakhouse, Tom Colicchio's Heritage Steak, in 2013. Meanwhile, chef Michael LaPlaca took over Onda and renamed it Portofino the following year. It also served Italian food, and briefly offered a $100 lasagna topped with 23-karat gold flakes and shaved white diamond truffles. The restaurant closed in 2017, and LaPlaca opened a larger Italian restaurant, Osteria Costa, elsewhere in the resort.

BLT Burger operated for eight years before being replaced in 2016 by a resort-run restaurant, LVB Burgers & Bar. An 8000 sqft sports bar – known as The Still Crafts, Drafts & Eats – was also opened in 2016.

Live entertainment
The Mirage showcased boxing matches in its early years, competing against the Las Vegas Hilton and the adjacent Caesars Palace. Matches at the resort included:
 * Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Roberto Durán III (1989)
 * Buster Douglas vs. Evander Holyfield (1990)
 * Mike Tyson vs. Donovan Ruddock (1991)
 * Mike Tyson vs. Donovan Ruddock II (1991)
 * Félix Trinidad vs. Freddie Pendleton (1996)

Cirque du Soleil performed its first Las Vegas show at the Mirage starting in 1992. The show, Nouvelle Expérience, was performed in a 1,300-seat big-top tent, built behind the resort. The temporary $5 million tent was air-conditioned, fire-proof, and had a cement foundation to withstand strong winds. Wynn and Cirque du Soleil would partner again for Mystère, which opened at Wynn's Treasure Island resort in 1993.

Two additional theater venues were being added in 1999, at a cost of $100 million. One theater was to be used for the show Miss Spectacular, which ultimately went unproduced. Another stage was built for impressionist Danny Gans, who began entertaining at the Mirage in 2000. A ballroom was converted into the 1,265-seat Danny Gans Theatre, at a cost of approximately $15 million. Gans' contract ended in early 2009, when he moved to Wynn's new Encore Las Vegas property. Ventriloquist Terry Fator replaced Gans and took over his former theater space, operating a popular puppet show for more than 10 years. Amid declining ticket sales, Fator closed his show in 2020 and sought a smaller venue.

Other entertainers at the Mirage have included Paul Anka, Dennis Miller, Lewis Black,  George Lopez, Bill Burr, and Matt Goss. Several individuals have performed one-man shows at the resort, including Larry King (2011), Terry Bradshaw (2013), and Al Pacino (2014). Magician Shin Lim has performed at the Mirage since 2019. A comedy club, known as Aces of Comedy, debuted in 2010, and was rebranded Center Stage Comedy in 2023.

Siegfried & Roy
Illusionists Siegfried & Roy signed a $58 million contract with the Mirage, and began performing there on February 1, 1990. Their magic show included several white tigers, and it took place in a 1,500-seat theater, known as Theatre Mirage. The show was produced by Feld Entertainment. The duo would become a top attraction for Las Vegas and the Mirage, which added a statue of them on the property grounds. In 1995, because of their success, Theatre Mirage was renamed after Siegfried & Roy.

On October 3, 2003, Roy Horn was injured during a performance when one of the tigers, Mantacore, bit him by the neck and dragged him offstage. Horn reportedly suffered a stroke during surgery for his injury. Horn later said that he suffered a dizzy spell during the show, thinking it may have been the start of the stroke, and stated that Mantacore was attempting to save him: "I fell over. Mantacore saw that I was falling down. So he actually took me and brought me to the other exit where everybody could get me and help me". MGM Mirage spokesman Alan Feldman said, "If that animal intended to harm Roy, it would have lasted two seconds, and there would have been no need for a hospital".

Horn was left partially paralyzed from the stroke. Several days after the attack, the Mirage announced that the show would not resume. The duo had given 5,750 performances at the Mirage, and the closure affected 267 workers. For six months, the resort's roadside sign on the Las Vegas Strip continued to advertise Siegfried & Roy's show as a tribute. Mantacore became a permanent resident in the resort's Secret Garden attraction, after Horn insisted that the animal be spared.

The entry road leading onto the property was named Siegfried and Roy Drive in 2020, honoring the duo and their impact on the resort's success.

Love
Overall resort profits were hurt following the cancellation of Siegfried & Roy's show. In August 2004, their former theater was gutted to make way for a $100 million venue, which would accommodate a Cirque du Soleil show based on the Beatles, in partnership with Apple Corps. The show had been in development for years. The revamped theater includes 2,000 seats, the largest of any Cirque du Soleil stage in Las Vegas. It has 6,000 speakers.

The show, titled Love, opened in June 2006 and featured music by the Beatles. Giant banners advertising the show were added onto the hotel tower. The show was successful, receiving eight million visitors in its first 10 years. It closed on July 7, 2024, as part of the Hard Rock transition.

In popular culture
Cher's 1991 CBS special Cher Extravaganza: Live at the Mirage was taped during stops of the singer's 1990 Heart of Stone Tour. The Mirage's theater was used for a scene in the 1992 film Pure Country. The Mirage is prominently featured at the end of City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold. The resort is also featured in the 1996 film Sgt. Bilko. Wynn allowed portions of the Mirage to be closed for production of the 1997 film Vegas Vacation, which features the resort prominently, including its pool area, and its Siegfried & Roy show.

In 2000, filming took place there for the season-five finale of Nash Bridges. The Mirage is also one of three Las Vegas casinos robbed in the 2001 film Ocean's Eleven, and is featured in the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, under the name "The Visage". In 2009, the Love theater was featured in the finale episode of The Amazing Race 15. Various areas of the resort, including its roadside sign, were also featured in the finale episode of The Amazing Race 24, aired in 2014.

The musical group The Killers named their 2020 album, Imploding the Mirage, after the resort.

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Swfans History
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Niobe (The Matrix)

Niobe is a fictional character in The Matrix franchise. She is portrayed by Jada Pinkett Smith. She serves as a supporting character in the three sequels of the original film, The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions and The Matrix Resurrections, and one of the protagonists of the video game Enter the Matrix. Niobe also appears in the MMORPG The Matrix Online. In the game, however, Niobe's character voicing is portrayed by Gina Torres, who portrayed the minor Zion character Cas in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions.

Background
Niobe is a human from Zion, being one of the rebels participating in the war against the Machines and the Matrix. She is the captain and pilot of a Zion hovercraft, the Logos, the smallest (and therefore most maneuverable) ship in the human fleet with a crew of only three: herself, weapons expert and First Mate Ghost, and Operator Sparks.

Within the virtual world of the Matrix, Niobe is one of Zion's most gifted martial artists. She has killed at least one Agent, survived multiple encounters with the Merovingian's superhuman thugs, faced Seraph in one-on-one combat, and even managed to survive and escape from a confrontation with the replicating entity Smith. She is also a skilled driver as seen in The Matrix Reloaded, when she swiftly navigates a crowded network of freeways in order to save Morpheus from falling to his death off the top of a truck trailer.

In the real world, she is the most skilled pilot among the rebel forces. She demonstrates this on several occasions. In one scene during The Matrix Revolutions, she maneuvered the rather massive hovercraft Hammer through the narrow, cluttered passage of a mechanical line (while under heavy attack and pursuit by Sentinels), a feat no other pilot has successfully performed. She also performs a 270-degree flip with the hovercraft, as an evasive maneuver, which apparently no previous pilot had even attempted before. She also gave up her ship to Neo so he could go and stop the machines. When questioned about this since she did not believe in the prophecy, she responded that she did believe in Neo.

Sixty years later, an elderly Niobe is the general of the human forces and the leader of the human-Machine city Io. She is also revealed to have been the one to free Neo's new ally Bugs from the Matrix. However, she is now more focused on rebuilding and keeping her people safe, lacking much of the previous fire that she had possessed. Niobe reveals to Neo that after the war, it took her a long time to accept that they were truly safe. When Neo reminds Niobe of how she once gave up her ship to him, she simply responds that times are different now and she has him locked up until they can come to an agreement. Bugs accuses Niobe of having given up on people and to care more about rebuilding than freeing those trapped in the Matrix. However, her partner Freya points out to Niobe that she is conflicted by her actions which Niobe admits are motivated by fear. After speaking with Sati, Niobe, having regained some of her old fire, gathers her captains for a mission to rescue Trinity and they all instantly volunteer without even hearing the full explanation from Niobe, simply trusting in her judgment and leadership.

Relationships
Niobe was once romantically involved with Morpheus, but their relationship broke apart after Morpheus received his revelations from the Oracle and started to preach the prophecy of the One (a prophecy Niobe has never truly believed in). After breaking up with Morpheus, Niobe eventually becomes involved with Commander Jason Locke, a taciturn, practical man who is in many ways the exact opposite of Morpheus. Both Persephone and The Oracle insinuate that Niobe is still in love with Morpheus when they confront her in Enter the Matrix.

At the end of The Matrix Revolutions, as the retreating Machine army obliged the new peace bartered by Neo, Niobe is seen embracing Morpheus, perhaps an indication of a renewal of their romance. (One reference in the Special Features also intimates that they have gotten back together.) In The Matrix Resurrections, Niobe does not reveal whether or not she and the now-deceased Morpheus ever resumed their romance, but she does speak fondly about him to Neo. Although not explicitly stated in Matrix Resurrections it is implied that Niobe is now in a domestic partnership with Io’s plant expert, Freya.

Recognition
In January 2004, Pinkett Smith was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for the role of Niobe. Fellow cast member Nona Gaye also received a nod for her portrayal of Zee.

Online
In Chapter 5.1 of The Matrix Online, Niobe had a meeting with fellow Zion operatives inside Bishop Imports in the International District to test out a set of chemicals that were upgrades meant for the Agent programs. After consuming the chemicals, Anome, her trusted subordinate, shoots Niobe and all Zion operatives in the meeting while an operator of his hovercraft pulls the plug on one of his surviving crewmembers who isn't in on his plot. Niobe's floor is sealed and there is no way to access her floor with both the elevator and staircase systems. During the recent set of critical missions, Ghost and redpill operatives from all parties are currently attempting to save her.

In Chapter 5.2 of The Matrix Online, Niobe was rescued chronologically after the fourth Zion critical mission. On the Recursion instance, Ghost leads a rescue team to Bishop Imports in Ueno, while the Effectuator (a program hired by the Merovingian who controls his constructs), and other redpills protect the hardline systems to facilitate the operation.

Other minor roles include briefing and de-briefing Zion operatives during missions, and rewarding Redpills with special items.

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Association of Norwegian Students Abroad

The Association of Norwegian Students Abroad (ANSA, in Norwegian: Samskipnaden for norske studenter i utlandet ) is a non-profit and membership based organisation aiming to voice the educational, cultural, political and economic interests of Norwegian students studying outside Norway and to promote overseas students as a valuable resource to domestic employers.

As of 2009/2010, 20,165 Norwegian students were studying abroad. In 2014 ANSA had over 10,000 members at over 1,200 educational institutions in more than 90 countries. ANSA in particular works to influence rules and regulations governing student grants and loans, arguing that all students should have the right to study any subject in any country as they wish. The Norwegian government has been funding higher education for Norwegian students abroad for more than 60 years, with the Norwegian State Educational Loan Fund (Lånekassen) providing students with loans and grants. ANSA was founded by Norwegian students in 1956 to address difficulties students encountered in dealing with Lånekassen.

The organisation targets services at students prior to, during, and after studies abroad. A range of membership benefits are central in attracting students as members. ANSA's Information Centre for higher education abroad is funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Education and Research to provide unbiased advice on higher education abroad. The Membership Department deals with enquiries from potential and current members, while ANSA's Student Adviser provides advice to students encountering problems during their studies abroad, such as with regards to their university, their insurance, or Lånekassen.

Headquarters and Governance Structures
ANSA is staffed by 12 full-time employees. The Secretary-General heads the office in Oslo.

The President of ANSA is elected at the annual general assembly. The President's main responsibility is lobbying for ANSA’s political priorities towards the Norwegian authorities. The President is also chair of ANSA’s Board and main spokesperson of ANSA.

The board of ANSA consists of six students abroad, two students who previously have studied abroad, ANSA’s president and a representative for the employees at ANSA. The Board is responsible for ANSA’s political priorities and the main goals of the organisation.

Among ANSA's members are over 500 volunteers who organise various social and cultural events and represent ANSA at their places of study.