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Celebrity Deathmatch

Celebrity Deathmatch is an adult stop-motion claymated series created by Eric Fogel and produced by John Worth Lynn Jr. for MTV. A parody of sports entertainment programs, Celebrity Deathmatch depicted various celebrities engaging in highly stylized professional wrestling matches. The series was known for its large amount of gory violence, including combatants employing different abilities and weapons to deliver particularly brutal attacks, resulting in exaggerated physical injuries.

Two television pilots were broadcast on MTV on January 1 and 25, 1998. The series properly premiered on May 14, 1998, and ended on June 6, 2002, airing for 93 episodes. A series of German shorts, Celebrity Deathmatch Hits Germany, aired on June 21, 2001, but it was poorly received from the fans, which was rumored to be the source of the show's cancellation. For a brief period during that year, reruns of the series aired on broadcast network UPN. Early in 2003, a film based on the series was announced by MTV to be in production, but the project was canceled by the end of the year.

In 2005, MTV2 announced the revival of the show as part of their Sic 'Em Friday programming block. Originally set to return in November 2005, the premiere was pushed back to June 10, 2006 as part of a block with two other animated series, Where My Dogs At? and The Adventures of Chico and Guapo. The revival series was produced without any involvement from Fogel. While the first four seasons were animated by Fogelmania Productions and TakToon Enterprise, the series' fifth and sixth seasons were produced by Cuppa Coffee Studios, and the premiere drew over 2.5 million viewers, becoming MTV2's highest rated season premiere ever. It was canceled again in 2007.

In April 2015, MTV2 announced a reboot of the series. However, in November 2016, Fogel stated via Twitter that MTV did not pick up the pilot to the series.

On December 6, 2018, MTV Studios announced a reimagining of the show was set to return in 2019 with Ice Cube as star and executive producer. However, no announcements, updates, nor new information have surfaced since the announcement and it has been speculated to have been quietly cancelled. As of 2024, the revival from 2006 is available to watch on Paramount+.

Main characters

 * Johnny Gomez (Maurice Schlafer, 1998–2002), (Jim Thornton, 2006-07): One of the two joint commentators on the Celebrity Deathmatches, Johnny is the more professional one, and a loyal friend of Nick's, despite his constant blunders. He only lost his professionalism once to Lenny Stanton, the producer's son and nearly lost it a second time concerning interviewer Tally Wong. Johnny's hair has noticeably changed from black to brown in the new season. Judging by a comment made by Tally during one episode, he may be wearing a hairpiece. Johnny harbors an intense hatred for her akin to Nick and Debbie, but tries to maintain being a professional. He was born in Illinois. Johnny would often end the episodes with his catchphrase "good fight, good night". Johnny bears a striking resemblance to Mike Adamle, a former professional football player and sports announcer, who was a host for the original American Gladiators.
 * Nick Diamond (Len Maxwell, 1998–2002), (Chris Edgerly, 2006-07): Johnny Gomez's co-host, a perceived alcoholic and divorced father of one who is known to make on-air gaffes and errors, and will occasionally take his son to work. He harbors an intense hatred for interviewer Debbie Matenopoulos, and has also participated in, and won, several matches by himself. Nick is so hopeless that when he mentions having an uneventful weekend, Johnny spends the show preparing for the inevitable disaster to soon befall his co-commentator. He was born in Virginia. Nick bears a striking resemblance to Larry Csonka, an NFL legend who also commentated on American Gladiators.
 * Mills Lane (himself, 1998–2002), (Chris Edgerly, 2006-07): The official referee of the Deathmatch ring; he always starts matches by saying "Let's get it on!" and shows that this is one referee that cannot be knocked down with one hit. Another catchphrase is when there is a disputable move by either fighter, like using foreign objects, and he says "I'll allow it!" implying that just about anything is legal in the ring. Biting and guns are his only no-go moves by the fighters, and he prefers the ring to remain as clean as possible. After he suffered a stroke in 2002, the real Mills stopped providing the voice of his own character but gave Edgerly his blessing.

Minor regular characters

 * Stacey Cornbred (Leslie Shuman): The first interviewer on Celebrity Deathmatch, Stacey was more neutral and professional than Tally, Debbie and Marv. She remained until a sudden death from spontaneous human combustion. Though she had exploded, she briefly returned in a Halloween episode as a zombie to challenge Debbie in the ring only to be soundly (and messily) defeated.
 * Debbie Matenopoulos (herself): The interviewer that succeeded Stacey Cornbred after her death. She hates Nick and does not prepare for any interviews, usually just asking whatever she feels like. Debbie often believes herself to be smarter than she really is, but her personality is self-centered and unprofessional. She left the show late in the 4th season on maternity leave. Debbie is similar to Tally in the way they act and behave during interviews.
 * Tally Wong (Masasa Moyo): The new interviewer from Season 5 onward. Before most of the matches, she interviews the combatants in a segment called "Tally's Korner". Like Debbie, Tally is very self-centered and unprofessional. She usually spends most of her interviews insulting the celebrities rather than asking questions. The only time Tally does ask questions, she often asks whatever she feels like asking and when they refuse to answer, she makes rude remarks about them. At times, she makes rude remarks about Nick and Johnny during matches, earning her their ire, including making remarks about them wearing hairpieces. Whenever Nick or Johnny gets mad at her for it, she taunts them by daring them to "bring back Stacey Cornbred." Tally harbors an intense hatred toward Johnny Gomez, which proves to be mutual. Ironically though, this was the inverse in the previous show with Nick Diamond's loathing of Debbie.
 * Stone Cold Steve Austin (himself): World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) wrestler and guest commentator on Celebrity Deathmatch. Also the scientist, doctor and weapons expert on the show. He also fought and won a match against Vince McMahon (voiced by McMahon himself, and whom Austin would actually wrestle with on several WWE events in real life). Although he had a prominent role throughout seasons 1 to 4, Austin did not show up in the revival of the series, for Nick has once stated that he was too expensive to bring back.
 * Phil the popcorn guy (John Worth Lynn, Jr) (Jim Conroy): A running gag; usually among the first victims in the audience when a Deathmatch gets too brutal to stay in the ring. Since his second season appearance, the vendor has been burned, chopped up, and even possessed by a demon at various points, only to come back again healthy in his next appearance.
 * Nicky Diamond Jr., (Brendan Muller): Nick's son, who appeared in several episodes. In one episode he was possessed by a demon called "Captain Doody," but was delivered when The Undertaker executed a Tombstone Piledriver on the possessed Nicky during their bout, causing the demon to leave Nicky and enter the hapless popcorn salesman.

Production
Celebrity Deathmatch started in 1997 on MTV's Cartoon Sushi as a short that featured convicted murderer Charles Manson and shock rocker Marilyn Manson fighting to the death. Deathmatch was brought back in 1998 for MTV's Super Bowl XXXII halftime special. Just three months later, Celebrity Deathmatch had entered MTV's main lineup. The show was popular enough for show creator Eric Fogel to be named one of the most creative people in the TV industry by Entertainment Weekly. CDM was not the first time Fogel made a show for MTV, as he also had a hand in creating The Head. also produced by John Worth Lynn, Jr. Despite its short run, The Head' was noted for introducing John DiMaggio as a voice actor.

During the next four seasons, Celebrity Deathmatch became more popular in other countries and gained viewers from all over the world, but four seasons and 75 episodes later in 2002, MTV decided to cancel the show.

Stephen Warbrick, one of the co-creators of Superjail! on Adult Swim, worked as a VFX colorist and graphic artist for the series.

Music
MTV asked Marilyn Manson to compose a song for the show. Ultimately, the song conveyed the public's obsession with violence and sadistic acts which were portrayed on television. Manson believed that was the show's satirical take regarding society as a whole. "Astonishing Panorama of the Endtimes" became the only single off the Celebrity Deathmatch soundtrack. It was nominated in 2001 for the Best Metal Performance Grammy Award and later included on Manson's album The Last Tour on Earth.

Revival
New episodes of the show, which began production in 2005, were produced by Cuppa Coffee Studio as opposed to MTV's now-defunct animation department. The show featured an all-new voice cast and a new look. Johnny, Nick, and Mills Lane returned, albeit with new voices. Mills Lane, who used to be played by himself, was played by Chris Edgerly due to the real Mills Lane's 2002 stroke. Debbie Matenopoulos was replaced by Tally Wong. Eric Fogel chose not to get very involved with the new seasons due to his involvement on his show Starveillance for the E! network. The show was directed by Jack Fletcher and Dave "Canadian" Thomas. This run of the series was also not very well received by fans, especially due to the lack of Eric Fogel's involvement. Despite which, during the 2006 season, fans were able to vote on MTV2.com for future matches by choosing one of three matches and by sending a write-in request. However, due to the second cancellation of the show, these matches would not come to fruition.

Cancelled reboots
In April 2015, MTV2 announced a reboot of the show on its Twitter account. On November 2, 2016, Eric Fogel confirmed via Twitter that production on the reboot had been scrapped for unknown reasons and the pilot would not be going forward.

On December 6, 2018, MTV Studios announced yet another "reimagining" of the show was set to air in 2019 with Ice Cube as star and executive producer through his Cube Vision production company, with series creator Eric Fogel also as an executive producer, being unclear whether or not the weekly series would air on MTV, as the new version of the show was seeking "an exclusive [streaming video on demand] or premium broadcast partner." However, in an interview, executive producer Eric Fogel said: "I've had some conversations with Ice Cube. We're trying to put a plan in place. There's nothing I can announce officially. But there have been conversations." Despite that, no other new information, announcements nor updates have surfaced, and it has been rumored or speculated that the reboot is presumed to have been quietly cancelled with the re-merger of Viacom and CBS into Paramount Global and the shift of content production overall for the company to Paramount+. As of 2024, the 2006 reboot is available to stream on Paramount+.

Video game
A video game based on the series was released for the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, Xbox, and Microsoft Windows on October 14, 2003 by Gotham Games.

Syndication
Celebrity Deathmatch aired in reruns on UPN, and was re-aired on TNN (The National Network) (later Spike TV, now Paramount Network) from 2002 to 2003.

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Michael Ferguson (Australian politician)

Michael Darrel Joseph Ferguson (born 23 March 1974) is an Australian politician who is currently the Deputy Premier of Tasmania since April 2022. He has been a Liberal Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly in the Division of Bass since the 2010 state election. Ferguson was appointed to cabinet after his party's victory in the 2014 state election and has served continuously as Minister in a range of portfolios including Finance, Health, Infrastructure, Transport, State Growth and Science and Technology.

Ferguson previously served in federal parliament as a Liberal Party of Australia member in the House of Representatives from 2004 to 2007, representing the federal electorate of Bass. He was defeated at the 2007 federal election.

Background and early career
He was educated at the University of Tasmania, holding degrees in Applied Science and Education. In the past, his broad community activities include many local tourism and progress associations as well as community radio. He has worked as a teacher from 1996 to 2002, and a member of the Meander Valley Council. He has received awards including winning the Regional Initiative category for the Young Australian of the Year Awards for Tasmania in 2002, and Tasmanian Young Achiever of the Year (2002) by the National Australia Day Council.

Before entering politics, he was a teacher in public secondary schools in Northern Tasmania and adviser to Guy Barnett, Liberal Senator for Tasmania.

Political career
In his first parliamentary term Ferguson concentrated on issues such as education, health, family and employment and served on numerous parliamentary and backbench committees. He was the secretary of the Government Education, Science and Training policy committee and is acknowledged as having played a key role in brokering the passage of the Voluntary Student Unionism legislation through a hostile senate with his (implemented) proposal for a sports infrastructure transition fund.

Soon after the 2007 election Ferguson was appointed as the CEO of the Clifford Craig Medical Research Trust.

He was subsequently elected to the Tasmanian House of Assembly at the 2010 state election, securing the highest number of primary votes in Bass (1.5 quotas) and the second highest vote in the state. In April 2010 Ferguson was appointed as Shadow Minister for Education and Skills; and Shadow Minister for Innovation, Science and Technology.

Ferguson was re-elected at the 2014 state election, at which the Liberals gained government, and was appointed Minister for Health and Minister for Information Technology and Innovation.

As Health Minister, Ferguson has led an ambitious and somewhat contentious reform of the Tasmanian health system by merging the previously three health services into one and changing the services delivered at each of the four hospitals in the state. He has also taken charge of the redevelopment of the Royal Hobart Hospital to ensure that the much-promised building eventuates.

His tenure has not been without incident with his appointment of an interim CEO of the merged health service having a side interest in alternative therapies and a series of electrical and computer failures at the ambulance service.

In January 2020, Premier Will Hodgman resigned and Ferguson was a candidate to succeed him as Premier and Liberal leader but ultimately withdrew from the leadership contest. Treasurer Peter Gutwein was instead elected unopposed as Hodgman's successor. There was speculation that Ferguson would succeed Gutwein as Treasurer but in the end Premier Gutwein chose to retain the Treasury portfolio.

On 8 April 2022, after Gutwein resigned as Premier, deputy party leader Jeremy Rockliff became party leader, and Ferguson was elected as deputy party premier to replace Rockliff. Ferguson was sworn in as Deputy Premier of Tasmania that afternoon.

Political views
Ferguson has been described as a "conservative" Liberal, and is opposed to same-sex marriage and abortion. In 2018, he criticised the Tasmanian Greens and the Labor Party for their reforms to make birth certificates gender-optional, citing it as a social experiment on children that Tasmanian parents would be "disgusted" by.

Ferguson opposed the 2023 Voice to Parliament.

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Stein manifold

In mathematics, in the theory of several complex variables and complex manifolds, a Stein manifold is a complex submanifold of the vector space of n complex dimensions. They were introduced by and named after. A Stein space is similar to a Stein manifold but is allowed to have singularities. Stein spaces are the analogues of affine varieties or affine schemes in algebraic geometry.

Definition
Suppose $$X$$ is a complex manifold of complex dimension $$n$$ and let $$\mathcal O(X)$$ denote the ring of holomorphic functions on $$X.$$ We call $$X$$ a Stein manifold if the following conditions hold:

 * $$X$$ is holomorphically convex, i.e. for every compact subset $$K \subset X$$, the so-called holomorphically convex hull,
 * $$\bar K = \left \{z \in X \,\left|\, |f(z)| \leq \sup_{w \in K} |f(w)| \ \forall f \in \mathcal O(X) \right. \right \},$$
 * is also a compact subset of $$X$$.

 * $$X$$ is holomorphically separable, i.e. if $$x \neq y$$ are two points in $$X$$, then there exists $$f \in \mathcal O(X)$$ such that $$f(x) \neq f(y).$$

Non-compact Riemann surfaces are Stein manifolds
Let X be a connected, non-compact Riemann surface. A deep theorem of Heinrich Behnke and Stein (1948) asserts that X is a Stein manifold.

Another result, attributed to Hans Grauert and Helmut Röhrl (1956), states moreover that every holomorphic vector bundle on X is trivial. In particular, every line bundle is trivial, so $$H^1(X, \mathcal O_X^*) =0 $$. The exponential sheaf sequence leads to the following exact sequence:

 * $$H^1(X, \mathcal O_X) \longrightarrow H^1(X, \mathcal O_X^*) \longrightarrow H^2(X, \Z) \longrightarrow H^2(X, \mathcal O_X) $$

Now Cartan's theorem B shows that $$H^1(X,\mathcal{O}_X)= H^2(X,\mathcal{O}_X)=0 $$, therefore $$H^2(X,\Z) =0$$.

This is related to the solution of the second Cousin problem.

Properties and examples of Stein manifolds

 * The standard complex space $$\Complex^n$$ is a Stein manifold.

 * Every domain of holomorphy in $$\Complex^n$$ is a Stein manifold.

 * It can be shown quite easily that every closed complex submanifold of a Stein manifold is a Stein manifold, too.

 * The embedding theorem for Stein manifolds states the following: Every Stein manifold $$X$$ of complex dimension $$n$$ can be embedded into $$\Complex^{2 n+1}$$ by a biholomorphic proper map.

These facts imply that a Stein manifold is a closed complex submanifold of complex space, whose complex structure is that of the ambient space (because the embedding is biholomorphic).

 * Every Stein manifold of (complex) dimension n has the homotopy type of an n-dimensional CW-complex.

 * In one complex dimension the Stein condition can be simplified: a connected Riemann surface is a Stein manifold if and only if it is not compact. This can be proved using a version of the Runge theorem for Riemann surfaces, due to Behnke and Stein.

 * Every Stein manifold $$X$$ is holomorphically spreadable, i.e. for every point $$x \in X$$, there are $$n$$ holomorphic functions defined on all of $$X$$ which form a local coordinate system when restricted to some open neighborhood of $$x$$.

 * Being a Stein manifold is equivalent to being a (complex) strongly pseudoconvex manifold. The latter means that it has a strongly pseudoconvex (or plurisubharmonic) exhaustive function, i.e. a smooth real function $$\psi$$ on $$X$$ (which can be assumed to be a Morse function) with $$i \partial \bar \partial \psi >0$$, such that the subsets $$\{z \in X \mid \psi (z)\leq c \}$$ are compact in $$X$$ for every real number $$c$$. This is a solution to the so-called Levi problem, named after Eugenio Levi (1911). The function $$\psi$$ invites a generalization of Stein manifold to the idea of a corresponding class of compact complex manifolds with boundary called Stein domains. A Stein domain is the preimage $$\{z \mid -\infty\leq\psi(z)\leq c\}$$. Some authors call such manifolds therefore strictly pseudoconvex manifolds.

 * Related to the previous item, another equivalent and more topological definition in complex dimension 2 is the following: a Stein surface is a complex surface X with a real-valued Morse function f on X such that, away from the critical points of f, the field of complex tangencies to the preimage $$X_c=f^{-1}(c)$$ is a contact structure that induces an orientation on Xc agreeing with the usual orientation as the boundary of $$f^{-1}(-\infty, c).$$ That is, $$f^{-1}(-\infty, c)$$ is a Stein filling of Xc.

Numerous further characterizations of such manifolds exist, in particular capturing the property of their having "many" holomorphic functions taking values in the complex numbers. See for example Cartan's theorems A and B, relating to sheaf cohomology. The initial impetus was to have a description of the properties of the domain of definition of the (maximal) analytic continuation of an analytic function.

In the GAGA set of analogies, Stein manifolds correspond to affine varieties.

Stein manifolds are in some sense dual to the elliptic manifolds in complex analysis which admit "many" holomorphic functions from the complex numbers into themselves. It is known that a Stein manifold is elliptic if and only if it is fibrant in the sense of so-called "holomorphic homotopy theory".

Relation to smooth manifolds
Every compact smooth manifold of dimension 2n, which has only handles of index ≤ n, has a Stein structure provided n > 2, and when n = 2 the same holds provided the 2-handles are attached with certain framings (framing less than the Thurston–Bennequin framing). Every closed smooth 4-manifold is a union of two Stein 4-manifolds glued along their common boundary.

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Avogadro (crater)

Avogadro is an ancient lunar impact crater that is located in the northern hemisphere on the far side of the Moon. The formation has been heavily worn and eroded by subsequent impacts, so that the rim is now little more than a rounded edge surrounding the crater depression. The crater floor is equally worn, being covered in a multitude of smaller craters of various sizes. Many of these smaller craters have also been eroded, leaving little more than a faint trace on the surface.

Nearby craters of note include Tikhov, which is nearly attached to the southeast rim, Oberth to the west, and Schjellerup to the north-northwest. To the south-southwest is the crater Yamamoto, and farther to the south is the large walled plain D'Alembert.

It is named after the Italian scientist Amedeo Avogadro.

Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Avogadro.

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Samuel Parris

Samuel Parris (1653 – February 27, 1720) was the Puritan minister in Salem Village, Massachusetts, during the Salem witch trials. Accusations by Parris and his daughter against an enslaved woman precipitated an expanding series of witchcraft accusations.

Life and career
Samuel Parris, son of Thomas Parris, was born in London, England to a family of modest financial success and religious nonconformity. Samuel emigrated to Boston in the early 1660s, where he attended Harvard College at his father's behest. When his father died in 1673, Samuel left Harvard to take up his inheritance in Barbados, where he maintained a sugar plantation.

In 1680, after a hurricane hit Barbados, damaging much of his property, Parris sold a little of his land and returned to Boston, where he brought his slave Tituba and married Elizabeth Eldridge. Eldridge was noted by many as being incredibly beautiful, and was said to be one of the most beautiful women in Salem Village. Together they had three children, Thomas Parris, Elizabeth Parris, and Susannah Parris. Although the plantation supported his merchant ventures, Parris was dissatisfied with his lack of financial security and began to look to the ministry. In 1685 he briefly served as minister in Stow Massachusetts. In July 1689, he became minister of Salem Village (now Danvers), Massachusetts.

Salem Village was a contentious place to live and was known to be quarrelsome by neighboring towns and villages. Its dispersed settlement pattern may have resulted in a lack of a sense of common purpose that may have united more orderly and arranged communities. Parris was the fourth minister appointed in a series of unsuccessful attempts to keep a permanent minister. James Bayley (1673–79) and George Burroughs (1680–83) each stayed only a few years, departing after the congregation failed to pay their full rates. Deodat Lawson (1684–88) left with less contention. Further tension was caused by Parris' delay in accepting the position and his inability to resolve his parishioners' disputes. There were also disputes over Parris' compensation. In October 1691, the town decided to stop paying his wages. These issues, and others that were more personal between the villagers, continued to grow unabated.

The events which led to the Salem witch trials began when Parris' daughter, Betty, and her cousin, Abigail Williams, accused Parris' slave Tituba of witchcraft. Parris beat Tituba until she confessed herself as a witch, and John Indian, her husband, began accusing others. The delusion spread, and many were apprehended, most of whom were imprisoned. During the 16-month duration of the Salem witch trials phenomenon, 19 persons were hanged, and one, Giles Corey, was pressed to death.

During a 1692 sermon, Parris declared that "as in our text John 6:10 there was one devil among the 12 disciples… so in our churches, God knows how many Devils there are," encouraging antagonistic villagers to locate and destroy "witches" who, as it happened, were frequently individuals with whom Parris and his key allies, the Putnam family, had taken umbrage.

As Parris had been an active prosecutor in the witchcraft cases, in 1693, his parish brought charges against Parris for his part in the trials. Parris apologized in his essay Meditations for Peace, which he presented in November 1694. Increase Mather led a church council which then vindicated him.

Parris was then involved in a dispute with his congregation over parsonage land he had seized to compensate himself for the salary he was owed. The dispute found its way to an Ipswich court, which, in 1697, ordered his salary to be paid and the land to be returned. By 1696, however, he had found his situation untenable. He resigned that year and left Salem. Records in the Suffolk Deeds indicate it likely he returned to business in Boston in 1697.

His wife Elizabeth died in 1696. In 1699, he remarried, to Dorothy Noyes, in Sudbury. He returned to preach for two or three years at Stow. He then moved to Concord (1704/05). He also preached six months in Dunstable in 1711. He died on February 27, 1720, in Sudbury.

Fiction
Parris features in Arthur Miller's 1953 play The Crucible, set against the backdrop of the witch trials. In the play, his daughter Elizabeth Parris is the first to become ill because of supposed witchcraft, of which she is accused. In the 1957 and 1996 film adaptations of Miller's play, he was portrayed by Jean Debucourt and Bruce Davison, respectively.

Author John Neal made Parris a character in Rachel Dyer (1828), which is the first bound novel about the witch trials. In this version of the story his name is Matthew Paris, a socially isolated man who is threatened by Tituba's relationship with John Indian and accuses her out of sexual frustration.

Parris is also a character in the 1964 novel Tituba of Salem Village by Ann Petry and the 1986 novel I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem by Maryse Condé, both books depicting the witch trials.

In the novel Supernatural: One Year Gone, Parris is portrayed as having been manipulated by the real witches into starting the trials and also manipulated the girls to accuse his enemies and rivals to get rid of them. At the end of the novel, after the truth is revealed, he swears to put an end to the innocent women.

Road to Endor was written in 1940 by Esther Barstow Hammand. It uses facts from Parris' life and weaves them into fictional life. Hammand tells readers in an author's note, "This book is fiction. Although I have delved into many old records and used all reasonable care to dig up whatever historical facts are available, the research has been hampered by unusual difficulties." The tale begins with Samuel's birth and continues until the dreaded year of the trials.

Music
Samuel Parris is portrayed in the Jayce Landberg song Happy 4 U, featured on Landberg's 2020 album The Forbidden World.

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COTS

COTS may refer to:

 * Commercial off-the-shelf, products that are commercially available and can be bought "as is"
 * Commercial Orbital Transportation Services, a NASA program for delivery to the International Space Station by private companies

 * Crown-of-thorns starfish, a large, multiple-armed starfish

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Azophi (crater)

Azophi is a lunar impact crater that lies in the rugged south-central highlands of the Moon. The crater is named after the 10th-century Persian astronomer Abd Al-Rahman Al Sufi, also known by his western name, Azophi. The northwest rim is attached to the slightly smaller crater Abenezra, to the east-southeast is the large and irregular Sacrobosco, and to the west-southwest is Playfair.

The wide outer rim of Azophi has a somewhat polygonal shape with rounded corners. The edge is relatively sharp and cleft-like. The rim is not significantly worn or impacted by smaller craters, with the exception of Azophi C, which lies on the inner northeast wall. The interior floor lacks a central peak and is only marked by a few small craterlets.

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Insensitive munition

Insensitive munitions are munitions that are designed to withstand stimuli representative of severe but credible accidents. The current range of stimuli are shock (from bullets, fragments and shaped charge jets), heat (from fires or adjacent thermal events) and adjacent detonating munitions. A munition can have its vulnerability reduced by a number of means used on their own or in combination such as a reduced vulnerability energetic material, design features, additions or changes to packaging etc. The munition must still retain its terminal effect and performance within acceptable parameters.

Description
Insensitive munitions (IM) will only burn (rather than explode) when subjected to fast or slow heating, bullets, shrapnel, shaped charges or the detonation of another nearby munition. The term refers to warheads, bombs, and rocket motors, although different countries' armed forces may have their own definitions.

Due to "accidents, and the subsequent loss of human life, cost of repairing and replacing material, and the toll taken on operational readiness and capability, Insensitive Munitions (IM) improvements are mandated by law in the U.S."

Three approaches are taken when designing insensitive munitions: Firstly, the high energy device can be protected and transported with an external protection of some kind. Some munition shipping containers are designed to provide some protection and thermal insulation. Secondly, the chemistry of the high energy fill is chosen to provide a higher degree of stability, for example by using plastic bonded explosives. Lastly, the casings of high energy devices can be designed in such a way as to allow venting or some other form of pressure relief in a fire.

Beyond the three approaches above, other threats need addressing when designing IM, e.g., slow and fast cook-off, sympathetic detonation, bullet and fragment impact, and shaped charge jet impact. Extensive testing requirements for potential IM candidates to address these threats are extremely costly. Modeling programs are being designed to simulate the threat of bullet and fragment impact in an effort to reduce testing costs. One of the most promising methods that engineers and scientists within the U.S. Department of Defense are employing to help to enhance IM performance is by using advanced multiphysics modeling programs. Also, another effort is underway developing 2-D numerical code that will simulate the threat of slow and fast cook-off.

Insensitive high explosives
Insensitive munitions are almost always filled with fire resistant, shock resistant insensitive high explosives (IHE) such as triaminotrinitrobenzene (TATB) or various insensitive explosive mixtures, or plastic/polymer-bonded explosives, which are similar to reactive materials. TATB particularly will not detonate if impacted by typical fragments or burned in a fire.

A new IHE called Insensitive Munitions Explosive (IMX-101) has been qualified and approved by the U.S. Army to replace trinitrotoluene (TNT). IMX-101 is said to have the "same lethality as traditional TNT, but is far less likely to explode if dropped, shot at or hit by a roadside bomb during transport". This IHE has been tested and proven to be a safer alternative within large-caliber projectiles currently utilized by the Army and Marine Corps.

Other insensitive high explosives include nitroguanidine, 1,1-diamino-2,2-dinitroethylene (FOX-7), and 4,10-dinitro-2,6,8,12-tetraoxa-4,10-diazatetracyclo[5.5.0.05,9.03,11]-dodecane (TEX).

IHEs often combine amino groups and nitro groups in the same molecule.

Within the United States Department of Energy (DOE) and National Nuclear Safety Administration, the term IHE has very specific meaning. In fact, under the DOE's definition, an explosive or explosive mixture (e.g., Plastic Bonded Explosives) cannot be described as an IHE without meeting rigorous testing and qualification criteria as described in the DOE Technical Standard "Explosive Safety."

Origin
Following the 1966 Palomares B-52 crash and the 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash, concerns were raised by accident investigators about the high explosive used in the nuclear devices, which had detonated on impact. Efforts were started to find an explosive that was stable enough to withstand the forces involved in an aircraft accident. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory developed the "Susan Test" – a standard test designed to simulate an aircraft accident by squeezing and nipping explosive material between metal surfaces of a test projectile. Following experiments with this device, the Los Alamos National Laboratory developed a new safer type of explosive, called insensitive high explosive (IHE), for use in U.S. nuclear weapons.

IHE explosives can withstand impacts up to 1500 ft/s, as opposed to conventional HE, which will detonate at only 100 ft/s.

Use in nuclear weapons
Insensitive high explosives have been available to the United States military for use in its nuclear weapons since 1979—by 1991, 25% of the country's nuclear stockpile was using IHE. Most modern American nuclear weapons, and at least those of the United Kingdom, are manufactured using insensitive munition designs. These are almost exclusively TATB plastic bonded explosive (LX-17-0 and PBX-9502). Conventional high explosives are still used in missiles and nuclear artillery shells where weight and volume is a factor (IHE by weight contains only two-thirds the energy of HE, so more is needed to achieve the same effect).

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I could not find a NATO copyright statement. It may be necessary to paraphrase.

Original text lifted from http://www.nato.int/related/nimic/

IHE definition
The description of IHE in this article is not optimal. The difficulty is that the DoD (Navy in particular) and DOE have different definitions for the term. The situation is further complicated by the DoD term "Insensitive Munition," which is a system-level description and not specifically a description of the energetic material(s) within the munition. DOE will give an IHE designation to explosives, explosive mixtures, nuclear weapon subassemblies, and nuclear weapons if testing and qualification criteria are met. Without taking on an entire rewrite, I added a couple sentences describing the DOE definition of IHE. DoktorScience (talk) 22:33, 16 August 2023 (UTC)

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Symposium

In Ancient Greece, the symposium (συμπόσιον, sympósion or symposio, from συμπίνειν, sympínein, "to drink together") was the part of a banquet that took place after the meal, when drinking for pleasure was accompanied by music, dancing, recitals, or conversation. Literary works that describe or take place at a symposium include two Socratic dialogues, Plato's Symposium and Xenophon's Symposium, as well as a number of Greek poems, such as the elegies of Theognis of Megara. Symposia are depicted in Greek and Etruscan art, that shows similar scenes.

In modern usage, it has come to mean an academic conference or meeting, such as a scientific conference. The equivalent of a Greek symposium in Roman society is the Latin convivium.

Setting and social occasion

The Greek symposium was a key Hellenic social institution. It was a forum for the progeny of respected families to debate, plot, boast, or simply to revel with others. They were frequently held to celebrate the introduction of youth into aristocratic society. Symposia were also held by aristocrats to celebrate other special occasions, such as victories in athletic and poetic contests. It is worth noting, however, that many archaic poetic sources were written by members of the social elite communities, and so may not be completely representative of the whole local society.

Symposia were usually held in the andrōn (ἀνδρών), the citizen quarters of the household. The participants, or "symposiasts", would recline on pillowed couches arrayed against the three walls of the room away from the door. Due to space limitations, the couches would number between seven and nine, limiting the total number of participants to somewhere between fourteen and twenty seven (Oswyn Murray gives a figure of between seven and fifteen couches and reckons fourteen to thirty participants a "standard size for a drinking group"). If any young men took part, they did not recline but sat up. However, in Macedonian symposia, the focus was not only on drinking but hunting, and young men were allowed to recline only after they had killed their first wild boar.

Food and wine were served. Entertainment was provided, and depending on the occasion could include games, songs, flute-girls or boys, slaves performing various acts, and hired entertainment.

Symposia often were held for specific occasions. The most famous symposium of all, described in Plato's dialogue of that name (and rather differently in Xenophon's) was hosted by the poet Agathon on the occasion of his first victory at the theater contest of the 416 BC Dionysia. According to Plato's account, the celebration was upstaged by the unexpected entrance of the toast of the town, the young Alcibiades, dropping in drunken and nearly naked, having just left another symposium.

The men at the symposium would discuss a multitude of topics—often philosophical, such as love and the differences between the sexes.

Drinking
A symposium would be overseen by a "symposiarch" (συμπόσιάρχης : symposiárchēs) who would decide how strong the wine for the evening would be, depending on whether serious discussions or sensual indulgence were in the offing. The Greeks and Romans customarily served their wine mixed with water, as the drinking of pure wine was considered a habit of uncivilized peoples. However, there were major differences between the Roman and Greek symposia. A Roman symposium (convivium) served wine before, with and after food, and women were allowed to join. In a Greek symposium, wine was only drunk after dinner, and women were not allowed to attend.

The wine was drawn from a krater, a large jar designed to be carried by two men, and served from pitchers (oenochoe). Determined by the Master of Ceremonies, the wine was diluted to a specific strength and was then mixed. Slave boys would manage the krater, and transfer the wine into pitchers. They then attended to each man in the symposium with the pitchers and filled their cups with wine. Certain formalities were observed, most important among which were libations, the pouring of a small amount of wine in honour of various deities or the mourned dead. In a fragment from his c. 375 BC play Semele or Dionysus, Eubulus has the god of wine Dionysos describe proper and improper drinking:

For sensible men I prepare only three kraters: one for health (which they drink first), the second for love and pleasure, and the third for sleep. After the third one is drained, wise men go home. The fourth krater is not mine any more – it belongs to bad behaviour; the fifth is for shouting; the sixth is for rudeness and insults; the seventh is for fights; the eighth is for breaking the furniture; the ninth is for depression; the tenth is for madness and unconsciousness.

In keeping with the Greek virtue of moderation, the symposiarch should have prevented festivities from getting out of hand, but Greek literature and art often indicate that the third-krater limit was not observed.

Pottery
Symposiums are often featured on Attic pottery and Richard Neer has argued that the chief function of Attic pottery was for use in the symposium. An amphora was used as a jug to hold the wine and usually one single cup was passed amongst the men. Cups used at symposiums were not as nearly intricate as amphoras. Pottery used at symposiums often featured painted scenes of the god Dionysus, satyrs, and other mythical scenes related to drinking and celebration.

Entertainments
Poetry and music were central to the pleasures of the symposium. Although free women of status did not attend symposia, high-class female prostitutes (hetairai) and entertainers were hired to perform, consort, and converse with the guests. Among the instruments women might play was the aulos, a Greek woodwind instrument sometimes compared to an oboe. When string instruments were played, the barbiton was the traditional instrument. Slaves and boys also provided service and entertainment.

The guests also participated actively in competitive entertainments. A game sometimes played at symposia was kottabos, in which players swirled the dregs of their wine in a kylix, a platter-like stemmed drinking vessel, and flung them at a target. Another feature of the symposia were skolia, drinking songs of a patriotic or bawdy nature, performed competitively with one symposiast reciting the first part of a song and another expected to improvise the end of it. Symposiasts might also compete in rhetorical contests, for which reason the word "symposium" has come to refer in English to any event where multiple speeches are made.

Etruscan and Roman drinking parties
Etruscan art shows scenes of banqueting that recall aspects of the Greek symposia; however, one major difference is that women of status participated more fully in this as in other realms of Etruscan society. Women were allowed to drink wine and recline with men at feasts. Some Etruscan women were even considered "expert drinkers". Additionally, Etruscan women were often buried with drinking and feasting paraphernalia, suggesting that they partook in these activities. The most apparent distinctions between Greek and Etruscan drinking parties appear in Etruscan art. Etruscan paintings show men and women drinking wine together and reclining on the same cushions. The Sarcophagus of the Spouses, found in the Etruscan region dating to 520–530 BC, depicts a man and women lounging together in the context of a banquet, which is a stark contrast with gendered Greek drinking parties.

As with many other Greek customs, the aesthetic framework of the symposium was adopted by the Romans under the name of comissatio. These revels also involved the drinking of assigned quantities of wine, and the oversight of a master of the ceremonies appointed for the occasion from among the guests. Another Roman version of the symposium was the convivium. Women's roles differed in Roman symposia as well. Roman women were legally prohibited from drinking wine as a matter of public morality. Men were expected to control their own wine consumption, but women were not given this authority.

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The composition of the sections do not seem to have a centered focus. They introduce a topic and lightly describe the specifics of that event, rather that extensively describing the topic and then providing examples in pottery or literature to confirm the example. The article compares and contrasts ancient Roman and Greek symposium, when it should centralize around Greek symposium, and lightly touch on the Roman equivalent, if at all.

I think another topic that could be contributed is the sexual part of symposium. While the article does address hetairai, if fails to address that symposium was also very sexual. There are many examples of pottery that suggest sexual act with both the hetairai and other men.

The 'Pottery' section has so much potential for expansion. There are so many plates, cups and drinking vases that depict images of symposium. A good outline for the pottery section should start with an intro of common iconography of symposium depictions, like images of gorgons for example, and delve into why artists would put certain images on certain works, and a good way to wrap it up would be to pick an artwork and do a formal analysis of the symposium scene.

Etymology of symposium
Doesn't symposium mean "drink together" not "drink a lot"? Zajonc 17:56, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes, you're right. I got in just slightly ahead of you. The article did say "drink a lot", but I changed it yesterday. And rew D alby  20:24, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

It's a cheap laugh, but do we want to contrast this with "Seminar" which comes frmo the combinatin of the words "Semi-" and "Arse" and has come to mean a forum for half-assed discussion? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.251.194.25 (talk) 14:07, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Problems

 * 1. If we're using the latin translation of συμπόσιον why is it presented as an exclusively Greek affair? Plutarch and Macrobius discuss them, Horace and Petronius satirize them.
 * 2. Why conflate the flute-girls who by the late 5th C. were more likely to be professional musicians with the hetaeria? Could it be because this article falsely presents the hetaeria as background props rather than participating symposasts in order to depict the symposium as an almost entirely homosexual gathering?
 * 3. The remark about naked servers is, I assume, garnered from the evidence of vase painting. These are not documentary photographs. Twospoonfuls 10:22, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

March 2007

 * I got rid of the LGBT banner till someone can legitimately prove that Greek pederasty is directly related to modern LGBT culture. Matthew Cadrin 03:37, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
 * It isn't, but that is not the point. It does relate to LBGT studies from the point of view of the Symposium as a written story....but I think this article need to be edited down untill references can be proveded.--Amadscientist (talk) 15:48, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

'Nude male slaves'
Is it certain that the slaves were actually nude? I understood that on Athenian vase paintings slaves were frequently portrayed as nude to make it clear that they were slaves. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.6.7.39 (talk) 21:29, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

The nature of the servants
There seems to be a question of whether the wine servers at symposia were men or boys. The Oxford illustrated history of Greece and the Hellenistic world By John Boardman, Jasper Griffin, Oswyn Murray, on page 219, clearly delineates two complementary groups of participants (not exclusively, of course, as we all know that at times hetairae were employed). These groups are 1. the fellow drinkers, and 2. the slave boys. On that same page, the caption to the illustration tells us that "women attended only to entertain, boys to provide music or serve wine." This is in keeping with Greek aesthetics, where men would have derived pleasure from the sight of a naked boy, rather than a naked adult.

While some sources may use the term "young man" others do not, and we would do well to be consistent with ancient use as well as with the more authoritative sources. It would be hard to find a more authoritative source than Boardman and Murray, published by Oxford. I might add that one of the links that Ghreqphpur has contributed also uses the term "serving boy," and the Metropolitan Museum link specifies that "The mixture, usually three or four parts water to one part wine, was served by slave boys." So I do not see what the fuss is about, using the term "slave boys" in the article.

As for the insistent deletion of a valuable and comprehensive link in favor of links that only discuss one object, or none, I have nothing to say other than it shortchanges the reader. Haiduc (talk) 11:34, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Edit warring over external links
Two editors appear to be edit warring over the external links, as well as some wording of a paragraph in the body of the article.

While I won't comment on the edits to the paragraph ... I have looked at the external links. From what I can see, none of them provide images that are not already either in the article itself or already available via the existing link to Wikimedia Commons. As a result, I believe all of the links could be removed. Some of them may be useful as refs for text - but even that appears questionable as the links appear to be more about the artwork rather than about the actual Symposium illustrated by the art. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 19:29, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

 * It may be that all the material in the present link can be found on Wiki and could be put in a gallery in the article. If and when that takes place I would be happy to agree to the removal of any redundant material presently linked. As for the edit war, there is none. I simply have had to deal with a persistent vandal who did not respond to the talk page discussion. We all have to waste time with people mutilating articles, let's not add insult to injury. Haiduc (talk) 20:49, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Contributions of a banned editor
I came on this article while linking from another and I immediately recognized the fingerprints of the now banned editor Haiduc. The current pictures were chosen specifically by him to highlight pederasty, which has only an incidental association with this subject but which he constantly promoted within WP. The lead picture, showing the tomb of the diver, was pasted by him here. The picture showing the 'flutist' was pasted by him here but the 'flutist' was mis-labelled by him as a 'woman' and subsequently corrected to 'beautiful boy' by an anonymous contributor here. It fills me with a mixture of rage and despair that he was able to get away with these antics for so long. I intend replacing the pictures. McZeus (talk) 07:20, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
 * What kind of images are you looking for? I agree that pederastic scenes are not the way to illustrate "symposium," but (and you know where I'm coming from on this, as we worked on the accursed pederasty article together) the flute-player is a good-quality image. As I glance through Commons, here are some images I find. As a woman, I of course will dislike the first one, where the men recline and the woman, probably a slave or 'courtesan,' entertains them. I don't think the Etruscan one should go at the top, as a matter of WP:UNDUE — a Greek image needs to be dominant. The last is a little idiosyncratic, as it depicts a scene with dramatic content that makes the setting incidental. I"m genuinely sorry you're still having to deal with this. Cynwolfe (talk) 11:56, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

I hadn't read the caption on "drunk man vomiting." Very amusing to think of why you'd want that on your cup — a reminder to remain temperate? This causes me to think the article could use a section on serving vessels, since these are such a part of Greek art and are a main source of how we perceive the symposium. I shall file this under "distraction." Kottabos is mentioned in the article, so it might replace the flute-player as a single-figure image, if the scene of the female flute-player goes at the top. I'll just try something here, and you can see what you think. One problem I have on Commons is the lack of information — the object is often not dated, nor described well enough to make it easy to look it up further. Also, as I read this for the purpose of choosing apt images, I see there are other issues with the article. Cynwolfe (talk) 13:29, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

 * I'm a little confused. Is there something wrong with the way that the article is presented, or is this just another attempt to erase the contributions of a particular editor?  I remember quite a long and ultimately unproductive battle over one of Haiduc's other articles a few months ago.  Reading this article, I don't see anything particularly offensive or worrisome.  I note that, contrary to the implications of the above discussion, Haiduc was not banned because of his area of interest or point of view, but because of repeated edit warring and personal attacks related to same.  Just because he had trouble getting along with other editors does not mean that all of his substantial contributions are suspect or ought to be expunged.  P Aculeius (talk) 02:09, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
 * And now I am a little confused. I checked the last version to which Haiduc contributed several months ago, and I see little difference between it and this version, so I'm not sure what you're talking about, P Aculeius (good to see you again). There had been changes along the way (subheads deleted for some reason), but nothing of substance that I see. I understood that "McZeus" thought the article should be illustrated with images chosen to complement its points; two of the three images appeared to have been chosen for content that could be framed as advocating pederasty in the caption. If I'd felt they were the most representative images of the symposium available, I would've argued for keeping one or both. But since the article doesn't discuss the symposium as a locus of homoerotic activity, I chose images solely on the basis of quality, relevance to the topics discussed, and variety. (I thought the debate at Pederasty in ancient Greece, if that's one of the troublesome articles you mean, was quite productive. Participants seemed satisfied that the revised article was descriptive and not advocating a lifestyle.) Cynwolfe (talk) 03:50, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

I like the choices you have made, Cynwolfe. P Aculeius should look at my first post in this section - Haiduc smuggled in the picture 'beautiful boy' under false pretences and that's quite typical of his approach throughout WP. A fully researched article must of course include mention of pederasty, as well as hetaerae and drunkenness (a major problem in a big polis like Athens) and other issues too (the article is presently hardly more than a stub). BUT people need to have faith in the editing process. I had no faith in the process while Haiduc was active but I am beginning to have faith now that he is gone. History needs to reported as history, not as an advertisement for lifestyle choices. Incidentally, I'm wondering if the gods were imagined to have symposiums. If so, I'm sure the goddesses must have been invited too, and that opens another issue - the history of the Greek symposium must have been an evolutionary one and wives probably began to be included at some point (Christian symposiums?) The symposium is a huge topic. Again thanks Cynwolfe. Why is it always the girls who end up cleaning up the messes the guys make? McZeus (talk) 06:27, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

Move?

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

The result of the move request was: Not moved Danger (talk) 00:30, 15 September 2011 (UTC) Danger (talk) 00:30, 15 September 2011 (UTC)

Symposium → Symposium (Ancient Greek) –
 * And Symposium (disambiguation) to Symposium. To most people a symposium is a sort of scientific meeting. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 22:56, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Hope you're volunteering to make sure all the links are sorted out as a result if this passes. Cynwolfe (talk) 23:11, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Red herring argument. The number of links that have to be moved is never an issue and as pointed out belonw, many of these links are wrong anyway.  The proposed moves would leave them pointing to the dab page were there are tools to clean these up.  Having them point to a real page means that they don't get cleaned up.  Vegaswikian (talk) 22:31, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

 * Oppose. The problem is that symposium="scientific meeting" is a definition, and the name of that topic is academic conference. If someone says "I want to know more about the symposium/symposiums" in English, they're as likely to want to know about Greek symposia (or works of literature named for them) as anything else. If someone types this in the search box wanting conferences, they're probably using Wikipedia as a dictionary. Which is why I vote no change. I can't say I feel very strongly about it, but that's just because of the Plato/practice disambiguation issue. But I won't even consider this proposal because Symposium (Ancient Greek) does not have the look of the correct name for this topic, if a disambiguator were applied. Wareh (talk) 00:44, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose. I see what you're saying about the "sort of scientific meeting," but that article is called academic conference, not "symposium"; the dab page directs the seeker of "symposium" = "academic meeting" to an article that isn't even named "symposium". The purpose of disambiguation is to distinguish article titles, and there's no confusion between the titles. I think there's a fair case to be made that the symposium of this article meets WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. The two other well-trafficked articles on the dab are the works by Plato and Xenophon, which depend on this sense of "symposium." "Symposium" is also used for similar gatherings among the Etruscans and Romans, so adding "Ancient Greek" would over-specify. Cynwolfe (talk) 12:12, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose Not strongly, but mainly because of Etruscans and Romans, as above. Sorry. In ictu oculi (talk) 14:20, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Symposium is the obvious and only term for the occasions mentioned here; it is not the obvious and only term for any particular kind of academic meeting. All other uses of the word derive from this one. The DAB link, already heading the page, is adequate for anyone who gets here by mistake. And rew D alby  09:16, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Oppose, same reasons as Cynwolfe, Wareh, and Andrew Dalby. --Akhilleus (talk) 14:59, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Strong support. I don't find the reasons cited above particularly valid per our usual naming conventions.  Being "the original use" can give a modicum of weight to an ancient usage, but it's hardly definitive and shouldn't override predominant modern use.  The fact that our article on modern symposia is at a different title is irrelevant; a primary topic can utilize a redirect, as is the case with Danzig.  That's what the redirect template was made for.  Powers T 13:23, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
 * The arguments here are not about original use; they're about WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. Symposium got 18,238 hits in August; I suspect that some or many visitors come here looking for Symposium (Plato), which had 11,680 visitors. I would expect both numbers to go up as the school year begins in earnest. By comparison, academic conference got only 4,453 hits in August, so even if all users who wound up at academic conference started here at symposium by mistake, they would've represented a relatively small portion of the total number of visitors to symposium. Nor are people scampering over to symposium (disambiguation) to find what they're "really" looking for: that page got 1,384 hits in August. There do seem to be a few articles that link here erroneously when they mean the academic conference, but a vast majority of the links are Greek-related. Traffic is just one indication that there's no need for the move. I'm open to other evidence. Cynwolfe (talk) 15:24, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, you kind of just made Powers' point for him. 18,238 vs 11,680+4,453+1,384=17,517, means that there is no clear primary topic, which is what's required. Often at primary topic RMs, for an article to be considered primary it has to be an order of magnitude more likely than the other option(s), not just a greater than 50/50 split. Jenks24 (talk) 21:53, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

 * Support. I was leaning towards support but decided to look at the inbound links before I decided.  Of the first three I looked at, two were for academic conference and one was for Symposium (Plato).  Hardily an endorsement for this page being about a drinking party as the primary use.  In reading the oppose opinions, they seem to be arguing that the current setup is OK since academic conference is named that way and does not conflict for the name space and clearly can not be the primary use.  But that ignores the fact that we recommend alternate names that don't need parenthetical disambiguation.  If using academic conference is part of the confusion, then that needs to be moved to symposium as the primary use or renamed to symposium (conference) so that if this rename fails, the next time it comes up that particular argument has no weight.  Using page hits in this case appears to be problematic and I wonder what would happen if the dab page was at the main name space with a dedicated team fixing the bad links.  In reading the oppose opinions, it appears that issues with the proposed name is behind some of the reluctance to support this proposal.  That tells me that the second part of the move really needs to happen and the question is where does the current article go?  I don't have a issue with moving as proposed and then having a followup discussion on a better name.  Trying to resolve multiple page moves in one discussion is commonly a recipe for disaster resulting in no consensus and failing to fix problems that it is agreed are there.  So again move as proposed and then adjust in the future better names are found.  Vegaswikian (talk) 20:41, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Support per Powers and Vegaswikian. There is no clear primary topic here. Jenks24 (talk) 21:53, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I see your point, but I would say "if it ain't broke, don't fix it." What problem are we trying to fix? Last October, with the school year in full swing, symposium got 33,270 hits, while academic conference got 7,879. Above, I believe it was Wareh who made the point that WP is not a dictionary; "primary topic" is not the same thing as "frequency of usage in the English language." Now, I do think it likely that many of the visitors here are looking for Symposium (Plato), which had 22,819 hits. But there are clear ways to disambiguate the articles Symposium (Plato), Symposium (Xenophon), symposium (conference). If we can't find a workable title for this article, I see no point to moving it. Those who support the move don't seem familiar with the content issues; this article is also about (though the sections are underdeveloped) the Etruscan banquet and Roman convivium. The proposed move fixes no demonstrable problem, but does create one. Cynwolfe (talk) 22:41, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Bowl Problem
Regarding: "One for health, two for pleasure, three for sleep..." There is the bowl (krator), bowl (drinking cup), and reference to a "3 krator limit". Even if there are ~12-30 people at a party who are drinking with friends, instead of drinking-to-get-drunk, are you saying three "barrels" of wine is the limit, or three "glasses"? Would it be within scientific standard to replicate a symposion in Greece by some living-history philhellene group to finally come to some empirical, fact-based truth? 3:1 wine, = 25% wine: 75% water; at 12.5% ABV, divided by 3, is 4.16% alcohol by volume. 71.165.247.91 (talk) 04:31, 20 July 2014 (UTC) 71.165.247.91 (talk) 04:31, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Pessach seder
Should there be a section of the symposium's influence on (or co-development with) the Pessach seder, which, especially in its early centuries, was basically a symposium with philosophy replaced by history as the focus of discussion? This is likely the origin of the question of why "we recline" on Pessach, for example, being a reference to Greek-style seating.

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New comments at the bottom please

RK, as I said on your talk page, I have no viewpoint on this subject. But I am not going to let you get away with such terms as "mysterious" and "unidentifiable". That is hardly NPOV. -- Zoe

 * Do not lie. The subluxation is very mysterious, as it is a scientific fact that it is unidentifiable. No scientist or medical doctor has ever seen such chirpractic subluxations, ever. There is a difference between having differents points of view on a phenomenon, and lying about facts that you are uncomfortable with. Sadly, you have crossed that line. RK

Zoe, I am still willing to work with you. But what you are doing now verges on vandalism. Stop pushing this pseudoscientific religious belief as some sort of scientific fact. Your continued refusal to discuss the issue, your huge deletions, and the way you hide facts that make you uncomfortable identify you as a vandal. Is this what you want? If you think that particular facts need some context, or needs to be rewritten in a different way, then fine. Let's work together. But I won't let people push pseudoscientific and religious beliefs as facts. That is a violation of Wikipedia NPOV policy. RK

Wow. This is the first time I've had any particular dealings with you, RK, and I don't see why we can't work together on this. I have no intention of leaving the Wikipedia, but the use of the terminology that you use is hardly NPOV. Please tell me what is NPOV about "mysterious and unidentifiable." As I keep telling you, I have NO POV on this subject, but you obviously do, and it isn't letting you remain neutral. A disagreement is not vandalism, and you know it. -- Zoe

 * "Unidentifiable" is fine, I think, but "mysterious" is definitely not.

 * Whoever claimed that disagreements are vandalism? Not I. But wiping out 75% of an article at first looked a bit like vandalism! I just don't think you have yet responded to my specific points, nor to the points in the material which I added. (Material, by the way, which is agreed upon by the vast majority of medical doctors and scientists!)  This subject is a scientific, historic and religious issue, but you seem to be overlooking the science, and even Palmer's own 18th century religious views. What is left?  A discussion of your own theory of chiropractice. RK

I've taken it to the mailing list, where others with less of an axe to grind can see if you or I is more NPOV. -- Zoe

 * Subluxation is a simple term... if you guys actually looked it up in a dictionary.. its meaning is given...  no doubt its used in pseudo-science variants of chiropractive medicine as well as the legitimate ones. For the rest of the article, deal with chiropractic medicine as a science and as a healing art, and leave all extra-ordinary claims for a subheader of 'pseudoscience' or non-scientific healing arts, etc...-SV

 * Should your changes be ported to the subluxation article, too? SCCarlson

A discrace
The article as it stands is way out of line. As it stands, it's a disgrace to Wikipedia. It reads like chiropody is some kind of weirdo cult. We are talking about a branch of medicine that had thousands of practioners in dozens, maybe hundreds of countries around the world, that is regulated by governments to ensure profesional standards (just like dentistry, to name only one), that is taught as a five year course in outstanding universities like RMIT and the University of Sydney, that health care insuracnce funds and government medical subsidies pay out for as a matter of routine, that general practictioners refer paitents to as routine. Better to nuke the page and start afresh. Tannin 15:12 Mar 16, 2003 (UTC)

 * Sorry, but what you call "way out of line" is called by the rest of us mainstream science. You obviously have littlke knowlesdge of the field or of the scientific method. Please underatand: These are not just about Palmer's bizarre religious claims (which I will amplify, because no one here seems to know anything about them) but rather, about the physical and medical claims that are being made by chiropracters.  We cannot allow people to push pseudo-scientific claims and religious claims as facts. That violates our NPOV policy. I do note that your response to me ignores every one of the facts I mentioned; your argument is only that it "must" be reliable because thousands of people are involved in it. That is nonsense. If that were true, then we'd still be using leeches to treat the flu, because "thousands of doctors" do it! RK

And the original article (some paragraphs of which we still have) appears to have been take from http://www.straightchiropractic.com/language_of_straight_chiropracti.htm. Tannin is right; we have no article now. -- Toby 19:25 Mar 16, 2003 (UTC)

 * Uh, permission was explicitly given to use this information! Please don't falsely accuse me of copyright infringement. RK

 * Glad to hear it. It's good practice to document that fact on the talk page. Of course, I never actually accused anybody of copyright infringement, since I didn't know for sure. And I certainly didn't accuse you, unless you're 213.65.123.104. -- Toby 05:56 Mar 20, 2003 (UTC)

Requests for comments on RK
Requests for comment/RK has been created as structured way to gather support in the Wikipedian community for action to be taken against user:RK for his consistent use of aggressive editing tactics that are counter productive to the development of high quality encyclopedic articles. Now, is your chance to voice your grievances against user:RK.

Please take a few minutes of your time to air your comments. Feel free to expand the list of problem areas by adding problems or grievences of your own. At least two users must document and certify my efforts in Requests for comment/RK. If the listing is not certified within 48 hours of listing, it will be removed. -- John Gohde, aka Mr-Natural-Health 14:20, 12 Apr 2004 (UTC)

 * After deletion by User:RK I have restored this section so that this issue can be aired out. Fred Bauder 03:08, Apr 13, 2004 (UTC)

title: Talk:Chiropractic/Archive 1


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Malacca honours list

Malacca is one of the states in Malaysia that awards honours and titles.

2004

 * Abdullah Badawi is sole recipient of the Darjah Utama Negeri Melaka (DUNM), which carries the title "Datuk Seri Utama".
 * 5 recipients of the Darjah Gemilang Seri Melaka (DGSM), which carries the title "Datuk Seri".
 * 5 recipients of the Darjah Cemerlang Seri Melaka (DCSM), which carries the title "Datuk Wira".
 * 73 recipients of the Darjah Mulia Seri Melaka (DMSM), which carries the title "Datuk".

2003

 * Datin Seri Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali is sole recipient of the Darjah Utama Negeri Melaka (DUNM), which carries the title "Datuk Seri Utama".
 * 2 recipients of the Darjah Gemilang Seri Melaka (DGSM), which carries the title "Datuk Seri".
 * 3 recipients of the Darjah Cemerlang Seri Melaka (DCSM), which carries the title "Datuk Wira".
 * 46 recipients of the Darjah Mulia Seri Melaka (DMSM), which carries the title "Datuk"

2002

 * 1 recipient Darjah Gemilang Seri Melaka (DGSM), which carries the title "Datuk Seri"
 * 5 recipients of the Darjah Cemerlang Seri Melaka (DCSM), which carries the title "Datuk Wira".
 * 72 recipients of the Darjah Mulia Seri Melaka (DMSM), which carries the title "Datuk".

title: Malacca honours list


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List of radio stations in South Carolina

The following is a list of FCC-licensed radio stations in the U.S. state of South Carolina, which can be sorted by their call signs, frequencies, cities of license, licensees, and programming formats.

Defunct

 * WAGL
 * WAGS
 * WANS
 * WBAW (AM)
 * WBAW-FM
 * WBSC
 * WCSE (AM)
 * WDAB
 * WDKD
 * WDOG
 * WFIS (AM)
 * WHSC
 * WJDJ
 * WJES
 * WKMG
 * WKSC
 * WLCM
 * WLMA
 * WNMI-LP
 * WPCO
 * WSCM-LP
 * WWPZ-LP
 * WYLA-LP
 * WYLI-LP
 * WZKQ-LP