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Archives to date: User_talk:Schissel/Archive_10122004 and User_talk:Schissel/Archive05a, User_talk:Schissel/Archive05b (October 2004 to December 2004, January 2005 to mid-June 2005, mid-June 2005 to mid-January 2006, User talk:Schissel/Archive06 for late January '06 to December 27 '06 respectively. Inconsistent naming, I know. May move the barnstar to my main page, very proud to have received it but unsure of policy!) Schissel : bowl listen 16:57, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)

 * Barnstars and such are informal. Put yours whereever it makes you happy; most people put them on their front page or on a subpage. - A Man In Black (Talk | Contribs) 09:32, 28 July 2005 (UTC)

Further: User talk:Schissel/Archive07 and User talk:Schissel/Archive08 for January 3–December 12 07, and January 12–December 11 08.-note added 15 March 09.

Speedy deletion of Paul Rapoport (music critic)
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Hugo Kaun's symphonies
Page 371 of the Goetschius says of Hugo Kaun: "He has created three Symphonies, in D, C minor, and E minor (1915), several Symphonic-Poems, Suites, and other works, orchestral and choral." Since he repeats the word "minor" I thought he meant the one in D is in D major. But I haven't heard any of his music, and I don't know if it any of it has been played in concert or on the radio in the past 20 years. Willi Gers07 (talk) 19:07, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for the links. It certainly sounds like it's in a minor key to me. But, as you said, it could well switch to D major at the faster tempo (like Haydn's "London"). Oh, and btw, do you know anything about the Garritan Personal Orchestra? Willi Gers07 (talk) 22:07, 29 January 2009 (UTC)

Dealing with bullies
Say, Schissel, do you know of any way to deal with bullies on Wikipedia? What about a bully who knows Wikipedia's policies backwards and forwards and uses them against those who disagree with him? And what if he does this in a much more sophisticated way than what is described at WP:GAME? A lot of people are aware of this bully but they act as if they're completely powerless to do anything to take him down. Willi Gers07 (talk) 16:32, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

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Ernst Märzendorfer
Cheers. Amazing what one finds when one goes digging. To think that the conductor of the Berlin premiere of Parsifal has only just died - astonishing! -- JackofOz (talk) 19:47, 28 September 2009 (UTC)

Works By Mjaskowski
Hi, I just saw your message. I read your article and the information of my Symphony-Articles are mostly from there and from the book of Gulinskaja (and, of course, own ideas). As yet I liked the late Symphonies more, but with the historical background the early works are interesting, too (my favourites are the 21st and the 24th). It's difficult to filter the non-indoctrinated information from Gulinskaja's book, and one thing I didn't understand is: What relationship did Mjaskowski really have to the Sowjet regime? Do you have any other sources? I also wrote an article about the piano sonatas, if you are interested. I'm glad, that my articles will be translated soon and I hope, more people will be interested in this wonderful and exciting music. --Daniel Musiklexikon (talk) 19:33, 20 November 2009 (UTC) (Discussion on my German page)

Thank you for translating the articles. Maybe you can tell me, which articles you will translate next, so I can translate some, too. --Daniel Musiklexikon (talk) 15:21, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

I translated the first symphony here. You can correct the text and use it for en.wikipedia. Thanks! --Daniel Musiklexikon (talk) 16:28, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

Hi, i just wrote this and this. I think I'm going to write about the 12th Symphony next. By the way, do you have any scores of the symphonies? I'm not sure about my examples, you can see, and. If I have enough time, I will translate 6. Sinfonie (Mjaskowki), but that will take a few days... --Daniel Musiklexikon (talk) 17:09, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

Hi, I'm very busy at the moment (preparing for a music-contest), so I don't have enough time to translate more articles. By the way, on imslp.org the score of the 13th symphony is now available. --Daniel Musiklexikon (talk) 20:37, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

en. now has article on Rauchenecker
Here at en. we now have an article about Georg Wilhelm Rauchenecker. Don't know what sources de. or es. used, but if my humble little stub doesn't get deleted and it passes muster with you, perhaps you could possibly consider linking it at the IMSLP. I'm not going to get an account at IMSLP since I don't consider myself worthy of IMSLP, people who actually know what they're talking about. Actually, come to think of it, how come IMSLP doesn't link to a more reputable website than Wikipedia, a website actually run by experts and not morons? Or have their own bios of composers? James470 (talk) 06:00, 18 August 2010 (UTC)

 * My favorite Catholic saint is St. Florian, if that tells you anything about the validity of your conclusion. (Look him up in a book, not here, if you care to). Lately I had been annoyed by a couple of morons who think that plagiarizing New Grove is the same as creating fine free content.
 * Anyway, and much more importantly, thank you for telling me about Rauchenecker's two other symphonies. It was difficult enough finding any information on the guy. I have a subscription to Oxford Music Online, and he's mentioned in the Winterthur article. I can't find that mention in either my copy of New Grove (the older edition) and the library is still missing, well, all volumes of the 2001 edition.
 * Still, I remain concerned as to what sources exactly the German Wikipedia used. Though my knowledge of German is only a tiny bit more advanced than Jimbo's. James470 (talk) 06:19, 21 August 2010 (UTC)

 * Thanks for clarifying that.
 * I see Amazon has the Jecklin CD mentioned in one of the Wikipedia pages. Rauchenecker's Quartet in C minor and Goetz's Quartet in B-flat. Just $63 plus shipping and tax. James470 (talk) 00:52, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Copyright reviewer at Wikipedia
Who do I talk about copyright violations in Wikipedia? Does Wikipedia even have copyright reviewers like IMSLP does?

I am concerned that the composer James Lentini is under the serious misapprehension that he is the copyright owner of images of himself (such as File:JimL Guitar.jpg) taken by professional photographers. The particular photographer here probably would have charged him a lot more if he had known his work would wind up on Wikipedia without permission. Incarnatus (talk) 20:50, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

 * The problem is I have no idea who the photographer is. All I know for sure is that he didn't take it himself. Incarnatus (talk) 18:16, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Carl Nielsen
Hello Schissel. I'm impressed with all you've been doing to improve Wikipedia's coverage of classical music. I was wondering if I could persuade you to look through the article on Carl Nielsen which I've been trying to expand. If you have any suggestions for further improvement, please let me know - unless of course you would like to contribute yourself. - Ipigott (talk) 17:00, 8 November 2010 (UTC)

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Piano Concerto No. 6 (Beethoven)
Hi, Schissel. I've recently started the article on Beethoven's 6th piano concerto. It would be great if you could give me some help. Thanks! Ocean  Shores 15:11, 4 July 2011 (UTC)

List of symphonies in C sharp minor
Hi-- I just made List of symphonies in C sharp minor into a table per your request. Appreciate the correction on List of symphonies in A flat minor as well. Please let me know if you need other assistance. Thanks! Jokestress (talk) 17:41, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Witold Maliszewski
Hello Schissel! Nice to meet you in Wikiverse! I would like to ask you a question - where did you find a list of works? Thank you! Semimartingale (talk) 01:25, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

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MSU Interview
Dear Schissel,

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Young June Sah --Yjune.sah (talk) 20:16, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

 * I will have a look- sorry about the delay. Will be gone Friday until Tuesday but will get back to you soon. Schissel | Sound the Note! 20:21, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

MSU Interview
Dear Schissel,

My name is Jonathan Obar user:Jaobar, I'm a professor in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at Michigan State University and a Teaching Fellow with the Wikimedia Foundation's Education Program. This semester I've been running a little experiment at MSU, a class where we teach students about becoming Wikipedia administrators. Not a lot is known about your community, and our students (who are fascinated by wiki-culture by the way!) want to learn how you do what you do, and why you do it. A while back I proposed this idea (the class) to the communityHERE, where it was met mainly with positive feedback. Anyhow, I'd like my students to speak with a few administrators to get a sense of admin experiences, training, motivations, likes, dislikes, etc. We were wondering if you'd be interested in speaking with one of our students.

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Thanks in advance for your help. We have a lot to learn from you.

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Jonathan Obar --Jaobar (talk) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.9.34.167 (talk) 20:57, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

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Studied composition with Karl Marx in Berlin
during the last four years of his life, when Karl Marx was himself only 4 years old? No one checks these things. I am guessing the source of this statement had "Marx" and that composer Adolphe Marx or another was meant? Schissel | Sound the Note! 17:36, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for checking. You're right that it was Adolph Marx. I changed the link. Pkeets (talk) 22:31, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Thanks Schissel | Sound the Note! 22:44, 1 February 2013 (UTC)

Desprez' Gaudeamus Mass attribution(s)
Hi Schissel, I'm a wikipedia newbie who's trying to add to a page about the Missa Gaudeamus of Josquin. This is my first article, so I'm quite cautious both from a technical and historical point of view. I've just started compiling the "sources" section, here are my attempts as far as now

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:UneMusqueDeBiscaye#Sources

when documenting online I've found the imslp page at

http://imslp.org/wiki/Missa_Gaudeamus_%28Josquin_Desprez%29

in which you've indicated a Liepzig print (of 1836) which attributed the mass to Ockegem. I was wondering if you have additional information about it and if you deem my sources section correct and adequate for wikipedia. The interesting point is about the paternity of the edition abscribed to Friedrich Rochlitz...

any suggestion or hints?

thanks a lot for your magnificent work on imslp, hope you will appreciate my little effort to bring Missa Gaudeamus to a larger audience, since it is really a piece of fine art...

une musque de Biscaye (talk) 17:19, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Hi Shissel, thanks a ton for your information, I've updated the page at Missa_Gaudeamus if you want to have a look.

une musque de Biscaye (talk) 23:52, 6 May 2013 (UTC)

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 * Yes. Adagio is not a disambiguation page - a disambiguation page would provide disambiguation and redirect links for all of its components, which Adagio does not - so Adagio is a target page; in particular, the link referred to Adagio as a composition, and no further redirection was suggested for that, so I linked directly to Adagio, which was the only page available. So I am making no change. Go away until you have something relevant to say. Schissel | Sound the Note! 14:17, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

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Gottfried Eschenbach
Thanks for tagging this, so that I found it while prowling round CAT:HOAX. I have nominated it for deletion - formal notice below. Regards, JohnCD (talk) 15:01, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

 * Thank you. I've been and remain interested in the music of composers similar to Eschenbach-as-described (similar at least in a general way) - who were notable enough to write about for Wikipedia, of course, and who, preferably, actually existed ;). (Given some of the people I have started articles about, that former boundary is not exactly unhoppable, or wasn't at the time.) All the more reason to make sure the hoaxes (attribution and entire) are known for what they are, then... Schissel | Sound the Note! 16:30, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

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Sick Septet no. 1
Hello Schissel, I noticed that you had typeset the bassoon part of the Theodor Sick Septet no. 1 (op 25). I'm in the process of typesetting a complete score and a set of parts, but I figured I'd check if you were working on the rest, so as not to duplicate efforts. ps. do you know anything about Sick? I found nothing on a quick internet search, but the septet looks pretty good. Thanks, Rgotlib Rgotlib (talk) 16:48, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

 * I was working on more but I've set it aside, other projects to do... go ahead! There's a Danish biography of Sick linked to from the DKB website, let me see... well, there's Wikipedia (Danish) (which uses the other bio I referred to as reference, I think.) Schissel | Sound the Note! 17:59, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

ok, thanks. I'll put it up on imslp when it's done. Rgotlib (talk) 18:56, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

 * Neat, looking forward to it. Another thing someone should consider, I keep thinking, is asking the DKB to scan at least one of the many other chamber works by Sick they hold - quite a few string quartets, violin sonatas, cello sonatas, etc., mostly also only in manuscript, listed in their catalog... (the use of "Th. B. Sick" on the manuscripts, together with duplicated opus numbers related to different works and some other stuff, that maybe we're not talking about one composer but maybe two with the same initials- brothers, maybe?... don't know... ... anyway...) Schissel | Sound the Note! 21:17, 10 December 2014 (UTC)

I'm all for that. I play cello, and I'd be very interested in seeing those cello sonatas. Do you have any pull with the DKB? (I'm stuck on long island...) Rgotlib (talk) 17:55, 12 December 2014 (UTC)

 * I gather anyone (it helps to know Danish- which I really don't) can sign up for an account there and request for a work to be digitized. I think... Schissel | Sound the Note! 00:39, 14 December 2014 (UTC)

Sorry to keep bothering you, but another question: I just realized that it was you who had scanned in the Fritz Kauffmann cello concerto. I've made a piano reduction, and played it a few times with pianists: it seems a worthy composition. I just completed typesetting the orchestral parts for the first movement (with a view toward playing it with an orchestra), and I wonder: do you know if orchestral parts were available wherever you acquired the score? 24.187.199.178 Rgotlib (talk) 18:31, 2 January 2015 (UTC)

 * The source of my scan was Sibley Library (or as it shows up at IMSLP, "US-R" - US- Rochester.) The Fleisher Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia does have the parts, though (see Free Library Link.) That section of the library only loans out to institutions, though... The solo cello part, and piano reduction, are at some other libraries (University of Southern California, for instance.) (Other works of Kauffmann's listed by, but not always at, e.g. the Library of Congress catalog include a symphony in A minor Op.18 (pub.1886), piano sonatas (opp.7, 11 pub. 1882, 1883), piano trios (trio no.1 op.9 pub.1881, 1trio no.2 op.20, pub.1887), a string quartet Op.14 (which IMSLP has...), three other concertos- for piano and violin I think (a concerto in D minor Op.27 for violin pub. in 1894, a 2nd violin concerto pub.1909, a piano concerto in C minor Op.25 pub. in 1893), a Dramatic Overture for orchestra Op.23, and an Abendmusik for string quartet (etc.) Schissel | Sound the Note! 05:09, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

Symphony in G minor (Moeran)
Greetings and best wishes from Amsterdam. I just made Moerans Symphony in G minor (Moeran) on the dutch version with most of the details of this English article. However coming to Boults version, I disagree. Boult recorded the work with the New Philharmonia Orchestra for Lyrita, see Amazon LP. The London P as mentioned in the article was "used" for the other works on the Lyrita cd-release.If I am wrong please let me know.Ceescamel (talk) 21:56, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

 * I'll look into it. At a guess: (1) you're very likely right (2) Amazon.com is not generally a source I'd rely on, however. I've found some outright temporally impossible statements at sites like Amazon, ImdB (and here, too, but, well, easier to fix them here, relatively, I think...

 * But getting back to topic, I'd use something more official for a source, if one can be found- either a book about Boult, perhaps, with a discography; or a library catalog card entry. Also fallible - library catalog entries have some interesting misattributions, though librarians are on-the-whole willing to discuss and fix them, if convinced, I find..., but on the whole, I think, better than some other sources anyway. (My only contribution to the Moeran symphony article here, I believe, was the date of publication of the score, by the way :) - but happy to discuss!... ) Ah! There it is.  . Schissel | Sound the Note! 22:15, 4 January 2015 (UTC)

Thank you. Normally Amazon is not a favorite source, but they had an original copy of the Lyrita-LP cover (as Ebay had). I tried to find the backcover of the Lyrita CD but couldnot find it. Discogs mentioned the NPO as well, but again no picture. I only have the Handley/Ulster cd of this strange work.Ceescamel (talk) 09:10, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Allan Pettersson
Hi Schissel, I know you are the main author of Allan Pettersson. I've rearranged and added some parts of the Article and References. Can you please take a look at that, as I'm not a native English speaker. Thanks 109.90.188.105 (talk) 14:44, 19 April 2015 (UTC)

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Thorleif Windingstad
Greetings, the result of reading some different pages....I was working on articles of some not well-known Norwegian composers for the Dutch Wiki. They were named in an ad for Ny Musik in the Aftenposten of 19.12.1917. In that ad was named Romance for violin eller cello og piano by Windingstad. Publisher Oluf By. In a later edition of the newspaper (probably evening) there was also an article about new works of December 1917 (by Hjalmar Borgstrom). Then going to IMLSP (I lost my password there) I found the sheet music without the full name of the composer and the year of publishing. Well, composer was Thorleif Windingstad, an organist (and for a year mayor) from (of) Sandefjord. He was the father of the more famous conductor Ole Windingstad. Here is the link to [Aftenposten]. I don't know if it works directly, otherwise type "Aftenposten 1917.12.19" in "Search", chose "Aviser". Ceescamel (talk) 12:29, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

 * Thank you! - have started to incorporate it, will do so more later when my computer is happier with me. :) Schissel | Sound the Note! 13:54, 21 June 2015 (UTC)

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Isle of the Dead (Rachmaninoff)
Hello there again. I was working on the the dutch version of Isle of the Dead (Rachmaninoff). It seemed the date of first performance was wrong there (1919). Both a biographer as Schott-Music mention 18th of april 1909 (link on the dutch). IMSLP however mentions first of may 1909. Maybe you can do something with that, I am not a member of IMSLP anymore.Ceescamel (talk) 09:20, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Hopefully a scholarly biography of the composer, or a dissertation about the piece, can shed some light on the discrepancy and give a settled answer. I'll try to have a look. Schissel | Sound the Note! 11:51, 14 May 2016 (UTC)
 * April 18 1909 for the first version, according to "Sergei Rachmaninoff: A Lifetime in Music" p157. then revised the tonepoem and conducted it in December 1909 in Chicago (p163). Schissel | Sound the Note! 02:24, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Oh hold on a minute... 1909 Russia OS NS, Julian Grego... Oh no... we standardize on Gregorian here but which is the author above using? that may be why Schissel | Sound the Note! 02:29, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Anton Averkamp
Sorry to bother you again about IMSLP. I am writing an article about Aton Averkamp and saw his composition Elaine und Lancelot there (loaded by you). The first performance ("voor het eerst") took place in Utrecht on march 16th 1898 (woensdag). It was reviewed in a dutch newspaper of march 19th (zaterdag)].Ceescamel (talk) 11:28, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

 * Thank you, very very helpful information- have updated the page! Please, apologies quite unnecessary, far from... Schissel | Sound the Note! 12:22, 5 June 2016 (UTC)

Henri Appy
Hello again, I am working through two Dutch music guides from 1911 and 1881. There I saw the name Appy (Appij). I worked through the entire family (a lot musicians there). Looking at IMSLP I saw you were looking for information about this composer. Well together with the man behind another composer site and a site of Rochester musicians I came to the article nl:Henri Appy. I read some dutch and american newspapers as well. The date of birth in the article was controlled by me in the Civil registration, because it differs from site to site.Ceescamel (talk) 09:19, 11 June 2016 (UTC)

 * Thanks much again! Have incorporated the changes @ IMSLP Schissel | Sound the Note! 02:18, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Marinus Hendrik van 't Kruijs
On the IMSLP there is some discussion about his name. His real name is Marinus Hendrik van 't Kruijs. His birth certificate is number 15 on this page. His calling name was Marius. Some data can be found on nl:Marius van 't Kruijs.Ceescamel (talk) 15:22, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

 * Noted in the discussion area with credit and links. Much appreciated again! Schissel | Sound the Note! 16:30, 22 June 2016 (UTC)

Beltjens,_Mathias_Joseph_Hubert
There I am again. On IMSLP his date of passing away is wrong. He died on the 12th November. On Familysearch, akte 171, line 7, "twaalfden", and in the newspapers "12den". If he died on the 16th it would be very morbide:-).Ceescamel (talk) 10:31, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

 * I'll look into making that change soon, thanks again. In seriousness shouldn't you consider getting a new account on IMSLP? In fact, when I started on that site all I did, at first, was edit, fix, didn't try to upload anything until quite awhile later - if I remember. Schissel | Sound the Note! 12:34, 24 June 2016 (UTC)

Concertino pour violoncelle et orchestre
Dear Schissel. Answer to the above. Writing about the dutch musicians hard enough. The way the program of IMSLP works, was too difficult for me, but who knows in the future. The work above Roussel is dedicated to Marix Loevensohn, a famous Belgium celloplayer. During a long period he was solocellist of the Concertgebouworchestra. He is described now on the dutch nl:Marix Loevensohn (sometimes spelled Loewensohn).Ceescamel (talk) 09:36, 18 July 2016 (UTC)

Jules ten Brink
Hell again, I just made nl:Jules ten Brink for the dutch Wikipedia. On IMSLP there is some discussion about his date of passing away. In the dutch article there is a link to Le Menestrel, with an obituary (necrologie). Le Menestrel was coming out on sunday feb 10th; the obituary names mecredi (Wednesday). So he died the 6th. I changed somewhat on IMSLP the last months, but such a correction is (still) too difficult for me. Greetings,Ceescamel (talk) 12:06, 10 October 2016 (UTC)

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Fritz Kreisler, possibly more
Greetings. In 2007, you sent a newbie greeting with an admonition to this editor. As it turns out, this editor did just a | handful of edits to classical music articles, including | this one to Fritz Kreisler. Your comments to this 'brief encounter' editor indicate a knowledge of classical music. You'll notice that the edit reads like a copy and paste, plus it uses the non-descriptive term 'expansive tempi!' If you know where to find better descriptions of information of this sort, or know folks who specialize in cleaning up this sort of (imagine a polite term), please do Wikipedia a favor and fix Kreisler and, if possible, the other articles edited by this person. Regards, Tapered (talk) 11:24, 28 November 2016 (UTC)

 * Apologies- will look into it soon :( !! Schissel | Sound the Note! 20:30, 1 December 2016 (UTC)

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Symphony No. 6 (Bax)
Greetings from the Netherlands again. I made the Dutch version of Symphony No. 6 (Bax) and there are some differences in orchestration and premiere. Reading the printed score on IMSLP there are indeed 3 flutes, but flute 3 is also playing the piccolo (see page 2 of part 1; change to flute). The clarinet III is also playing the Es-clarinet (also mentioned in the early pages of part 1). Strange is that IMSLP takes the orchestration of the Wikipedia, while there have the printed score. For the premiere Foreman and Parlett mentioned the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Philharmonic Society. The Royal Philharmonic did not existed then (only from 1946). Please confirm my marks and change the article on Wiki and IMSLP if I am right. For me, Bax's 3 is the best.Ceescamel (talk) 11:17, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

 * Edited @ IMSLP and noted on the talk page here @ Wikipedia. Schissel | Sound the Note! 01:44, 5 January 2018 (UTC)

"this paragraph reads like someone's been vandalizing it"
Hi, thanks for correcting my mistakes. Especially with the grammar. Re fortune/misfortune thanks for that also. I have aphasia and it is crazy sometimes spending ten minutes on a sentence figuring out the best way to express what I want to say.Rybkovich (talk) 17:27, 17 March 2018 (UTC)

Jacques Gregoir
Greetings again. I made the Dutch version of Jacques Gregoir. It is strange that you and the Ca-version name him "Jacques". Also IMSLP names him that way. However, all the sheetmusic there carries the name Joseph/Jos. Gregoir. This name is mentioned on the Fr and in the Hofmeister-collection. I leave it to you, if you want to change it.Ceescamel (talk) 14:32, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

 * Thanks. Raising the issue for discussion on the IMSLP page for starters, and will do so here on Wikipedia as well. (My time is somewhat limited at the moment by a move upcoming - in two days - but I will keep this in mind :) ) Schissel | Sound the Note! 14:39, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

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Pey de Garros

Pey de Garros (modern Gascon: Pèir de Garròs; 1530–1585), was the most important Occitan poet of the Renaissance. He was instrumental in the evolution of the Gascon dialect into a literary language.

Garros was born at Lectoure, Gascony. He studied law, theology, and Hebrew at the University of Toulouse and served as the avocat-général of Pau for a time. He strove to restore the Gascon dialect to prominence, translating the Psalms into Gascon in 1565, as well as publishing a volume of poetry (Poesias Gasconas) in 1567.

The translation was ordered by Queen Jeanne d'Albret, who decreed Calvinism to be the official faith in the Kingdom of Navarre, as well as commissioning Arnaud de Salette to produce a distinct Béarnese translation of the Psalms.

Garros died in Pau.

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Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn

Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn is a 1995 Japanese animated fantasy martial arts film and the 12th film in the Dragon Ball Z series. It was originally released in Japan on March 4 at Toei Anime Fair, and dubbed into English by Funimation in 2006. It was preceded by Dragon Ball Z: Bio-Broly and followed by Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon.

Plot
In the other world, a teenage oni is manning a cleansing machine and the loud volume of his walkman distracts him, causing the machine to explode. The oni is engulfed by the freed evil spirit essence and transforms into a massive, childlike monster with dimensional manipulation abilities. As a result, the deceased are resurrected.

Goku and Pikkon are fighting in a tournament when they are interrupted by the appearance of a strange crystal-like substance and are sent to investigate the disturbance by the Grand Kai. They find the afterlife's "check-in station" to be encased in the crystal-like barrier which is also immune to their energy blasts. From inside of the station, its trapped attendant King Yemma directs them to the monster, Janemba, who refuses to drop the barrier. Goku lures Janemba to hell while Pikkon works to free Yenma.

Meanwhile, Earth comes under siege by an array of zombies, soldiers and past villains led by Frieza who attack a city until Gohan and Videl intervene with the former destroying him causing the villains to flee in terror. The two along with Bulma, Goten and Trunks gather the magical Dragon Balls and summon the dragon Shenron to ask him to rebuild the barrier between the living and dead, but he is unable to do so since only Yemma can control the boundaries of the afterlife. In hell, Janemba uses his unorthodox powers to best Goku until he powers up to Super Saiyan 3, shaking Other World while he does it, and seemingly kills Janemba. He merely transforms into a much smaller, albeit far more powerful and sinister form - Super Janemba. Goku is overwhelmed by Janemba but Vegeta has regained his physical body and arrives in time to help. However, the two Saiyans are still no match for Janemba and are forced to hide. Goku proposes using the Fusion Dance technique, but Vegeta pridefully refuses to join bodies with Goku.

Pikkon continues to try and free Yemma to no avail, and in his anger, insults the crystal substance which causes it to slightly crack. However, Pikkon's worst insults do not cause enough damage to rescue Yemma so he decides to aid Goku and Vegeta in their fight. After much persuasion, Vegeta agrees to fuse with Goku but Vegeta fails to extend his forefinger when required and the fusion fails, resulting in a weak, obese form named Veku. Janemba beats Veku severely and almost kills him, but the fusion wears off and Goku and Vegeta escape in time. Pikkon arrives to stall Janemba while Goku and Vegeta attempt the fusion again, this time successfully transforming into the immensely powerful Gogeta, who swiftly gains the advantage over Janemba and he uses his power to cleanse the demon of the evil essence inside him, causing him to revert into his oni form.

With Janemba vanquished, his hold over reality disappears and the deceased return to the afterlife. After sharing a good-natured farewell with Goku, Vegeta reverts to his spirit form and disappears. Back on Earth, Gohan, Videl, Goten, and Trunks depart back home. In a post-credits scene, a still-summoned Shenron still awaits another wish.

Music
The song "We Gotta Power" was used as the film's opening theme.

Saikyō no Fusion
"Saikyō no Fusion" (最強のフュージョン) is the closing theme song of the film and is a single by Japanese singer Hironobu Kageyama. It was released on 8 cm CD on March 1, 1995, in Japan only. It is coupled with the character song "Ai wa Barādo no Yō ni ~Vegeta no Tēma~" performed by Shin Oya. The single charted 95 on Oricon.

Track list
Saikyō no Fyūjon/The Strongest Fusion Ai wa Barādo no Yō ni~Bejīta no Tēma~/Love is Like a Ballad: Theme of Vegeta
 * 1) 最強のフュージョン
 * 1) 愛はバラードのように～ベジータのテーマ～

English dub soundtrack
The score for the English dub's composed by Nathan Johnson and Dave Moran. The Double Feature release contains an alternate audio track containing the English dub with original Japanese background music by Shunsuke Kikuchi and an ending theme of "Saikyō no Fusion".

Box office
At the Japanese box office, the film sold 3.2million tickets and grossed ¥2.16 billion (US$million).

On November 3 and 5, 2018, it had a joint limited theatrical release with the TV special Dragon Ball Z: Bardock – The Father of Goku (1990), titled as Dragon Ball Z: Saiyan Double Feature, by Fathom Events in the United States due to the upcoming release of Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018). According to Box Office Mojo, as of November 7, 2018, the Saiyan Double Feature made a revenue of $540,707.

This adds up to a total gross of US$ in Japan and the United States.

Releases
It was released on DVD in North America on March 28, 2006, It was later released in final Double Feature set along with Wrath of the Dragon (1995) for Blu-ray and DVD on May 19, 2009, both feature full 1080p format in HD remastered 16:9 aspect ratio and an enhanced 5.1 surround mix. The film was re-released to DVD in the final remastered thinpak collection on January 3, 2012, containing the last 4 Dragon Ball Z films.

Other companies
A second English dub produced and released exclusively in Malaysia by Speedy Video features an unknown voice cast. The Speedy dub is notoriously known among fans for its poor grammar and voice acting, low-quality audio mixing, and limited pool of voice actors, as well as heavily compressed low-resolution video quality due to it being released on Video CD.

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Orthogenesis

Orthogenesis, also known as orthogenetic evolution, progressive evolution, evolutionary progress, or progressionism, is an obsolete biological hypothesis that organisms have an innate tendency to evolve in a definite direction towards some goal (teleology) due to some internal mechanism or "driving force". According to the theory, the largest-scale trends in evolution have an absolute goal such as increasing biological complexity. Prominent historical figures who have championed some form of evolutionary progress include Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and Henri Bergson.

The term orthogenesis was introduced by Wilhelm Haacke in 1893 and popularized by Theodor Eimer five years later. Proponents of orthogenesis had rejected the theory of natural selection as the organizing mechanism in evolution for a rectilinear (straight-line) model of directed evolution. With the emergence of the modern synthesis, in which genetics was integrated with evolution, orthogenesis and other alternatives to Darwinism were largely abandoned by biologists, but the notion that evolution represents progress is still widely shared; modern supporters include E. O. Wilson and Simon Conway Morris. The evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr made the term effectively taboo in the journal Nature in 1948, by stating that it implied "some supernatural force". The American paleontologist George Gaylord Simpson (1953) attacked orthogenesis, linking it with vitalism by describing it as "the mysterious inner force". Despite this, many museum displays and textbook illustrations continue to give the impression that evolution is directed.

The philosopher of biology Michael Ruse notes that in popular culture, evolution and progress are synonyms, while the unintentionally misleading image of the March of Progress, from apes to modern humans, has been widely imitated.

Definition

The term orthogenesis (from Ancient ὀρθός orthós, "straight", and Ancient γένεσις génesis, "origin") was first used by the biologist Wilhelm Haacke in 1893. Theodor Eimer was the first to give the word a definition; he defined orthogenesis as "the general law according to which evolutionary development takes place in a noticeable direction, above all in specialized groups".

In 1922, the zoologist Michael F. Guyer wrote:

"[Orthogenesis] has meant many different things to many different people, ranging from a mystical inner perfecting principle, to merely a general trend in development due to the natural constitutional restrictions of the germinal materials, or to the physical limitations imposed by a narrow environment. In most modern statements of the theory, the idea of continuous and progressive change in one or more characters, due according to some to internal factors, according to others to external causes-evolution in a "straight line" seems to be the central idea."

According to Susan R. Schrepfer in 1983:

"Orthogenesis meant literally "straight origins", or "straight line evolution". The term varied in meaning from the overtly vitalistic and theological to the mechanical. It ranged from theories of mystical forces to mere descriptions of a general trend in development due to natural limitations of either the germinal material or the environment ... By 1910, however most who subscribed to orthogenesis hypothesized some physical rather than metaphysical determinant of orderly change."

In 1988, Francisco J. Ayala defined progress as "systematic change in a feature belonging to all the members of a sequence in such a way that posterior members of the sequence exhibit an improvement of that feature". He argued that there are two elements in this definition, directional change and improvement according to some standard. Whether a directional change constitutes an improvement is not a scientific question; therefore Ayala suggested that science should focus on the question of whether there is directional change, without regard to whether the change is "improvement". This may be compared to Stephen Jay Gould's suggestion of "replacing the idea of progress with an operational notion of directionality".

In 1989, Peter J. Bowler defined orthogenesis as:

"Literally, the term means evolution in a straight line, generally assumed to be evolution that is held to a regular course by forces internal to the organism. Orthogenesis assumes that variation is not random but is directed towards fixed goals. Selection is thus powerless, and the species is carried automatically in the direction marked out by internal factors controlling variation."

In 1996, Michael Ruse defined orthogenesis as "the view that evolution has a kind of momentum of its own that carries organisms along certain tracks".

Medieval
The possibility of progress is embedded in the mediaeval great chain of being, with a linear sequence of forms from lowest to highest. The concept, indeed, had its roots in Aristotle's biology, from insects that produced only a grub, to fish that laid eggs, and on up to animals with blood and live birth. The medieval chain, as in Ramon Lull's Ladder of Ascent and Descent of the Mind, 1305, added steps or levels above humans, with orders of angels reaching up to God at the top.

Pre-Darwinian
The orthogenesis hypothesis had a significant following in the 19th century when evolutionary mechanisms such as Lamarckism were being proposed. The French zoologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) himself accepted the idea, and it had a central role in his theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics, the hypothesized mechanism of which resembled the "mysterious inner force" of orthogenesis. Orthogenesis was particularly accepted by paleontologists who saw in their fossils a directional change, and in invertebrate paleontology thought there was a gradual and constant directional change. Those who accepted orthogenesis in this way, however, did not necessarily accept that the mechanism that drove orthogenesis was teleological (had a definite goal). Charles Darwin himself rarely used the term "evolution" now so commonly used to describe his theory, because the term was strongly associated with orthogenesis, as had been common usage since at least 1647. His grandfather, the physician and polymath Erasmus Darwin, was both progressionist and vitalist, seeing "the whole cosmos [as] a living thing propelled by an internal vital force" towards "greater perfection". Robert Chambers, in his popular anonymously published 1844 book Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation presented a sweeping narrative account of cosmic transmutation, culminating in the evolution of humanity. Chambers included detailed analysis of the fossil record.

With Darwin

Ruse observed that "Progress (sic, his capitalisation) became essentially a nineteenth-century belief. It gave meaning to life—it offered inspiration—after the collapse [with Malthus's pessimism and the shock of the French Revolution] of the foundations of the past." The Baltic German biologist Karl Ernst von Baer (1792–1876) argued for an orthogenetic force in nature, reasoning in a review of Darwin's 1859 On the Origin of Species that "Forces which are not directed—so-called blind forces—can never produce order." In 1864, the Swiss anatomist Albert von Kölliker (1817–1905) presented his orthogenetic theory, heterogenesis, arguing for wholly separate lines of descent with no common ancestor. In 1884, the Swiss botanist Carl Nägeli (1817–1891) proposed a version of orthogenesis involving an "inner perfecting principle". Gregor Mendel died that same year; Nägeli, who proposed that an "idioplasm" transmitted inherited characteristics, dissuaded Mendel from continuing to work on plant genetics. According to Nägeli many evolutionary developments were nonadaptive and variation was internally programmed. Charles Darwin saw this as a serious challenge, replying that "There must be some efficient cause for each slight individual difference", but was unable to provide a specific answer without knowledge of genetics. Further, Darwin was himself somewhat progressionist, believing for example that "Man" was "higher" than the barnacles he studied. Darwin indeed wrote in his 1859 Origin of Species:

"The inhabitants of each successive period in the world's history have beaten their predecessors in the race for life, and are, insofar, higher in the scale of nature; and this may account for that vague yet ill-defined sentiment, felt by many palaeontologists, that organisation on the whole has progressed. [Chapter 10]"

"As all the living forms of life are the lineal descendants of those which lived long before the Silurian epoch, we may feel certain that the ordinary succession by generation has never once been broken, and that no cataclysm has desolated the whole world. Hence we may look with some confidence to a secure future of equally inappreciable length. And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection. [Chapter 14]"

In 1898, after studying butterfly coloration, Theodor Eimer (1843–1898) introduced the term orthogenesis with a widely read book, On Orthogenesis: And the Impotence of Natural Selection in Species Formation. Eimer claimed there were trends in evolution with no adaptive significance that would be difficult to explain by natural selection. To supporters of orthogenesis, in some cases species could be led by such trends to extinction. Eimer linked orthogenesis to neo-Lamarckism in his 1890 book Organic Evolution as the Result of the Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics According to the Laws of Organic Growth. He used examples such as the evolution of the horse to argue that evolution had proceeded in a regular single direction that was difficult to explain by random variation. Gould described Eimer as a materialist who rejected any vitalist or teleological approach to orthogenesis, arguing that Eimer's criticism of natural selection was common amongst many evolutionists of his generation; they were searching for alternative mechanisms, as they had come to believe that natural selection could not create new species.

Nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Numerous versions of orthogenesis (see table) have been proposed. Debate centred on whether such theories were scientific, or whether orthogenesis was inherently vitalistic or essentially theological. For example, biologists such as Maynard M. Metcalf (1914), John Merle Coulter (1915), David Starr Jordan (1920) and Charles B. Lipman (1922) claimed evidence for orthogenesis in bacteria, fish populations and plants. In 1950, the German paleontologist Otto Schindewolf argued that variation tends to move in a predetermined direction. He believed this was purely mechanistic, denying any kind of vitalism, but that evolution occurs due to a periodic cycle of evolutionary processes dictated by factors internal to the organism. In 1964 George Gaylord Simpson argued that orthogenetic theories such as those promulgated by Du Noüy and Sinnott were essentially theology rather than biology.

Though evolution is not progressive, it does sometimes proceed in a linear way, reinforcing characteristics in certain lineages, but such examples are entirely consistent with the modern neo-Darwinian theory of evolution. These examples have sometimes been referred to as orthoselection but are not strictly orthogenetic, and simply appear as linear and constant changes because of environmental and molecular constraints on the direction of change. The term orthoselection was first used by Ludwig Hermann Plate, and was incorporated into the modern synthesis by Julian Huxley and Bernard Rensch.

Recent work has supported the mechanism and existence of mutation biased adaptation, meaning that limited local orthogenesis is now seen as possible.

Theories
For the columns for other philosophies of evolution (i.e., combined theories including any of Lamarckism, Mutationism, Natural selection, and Vitalism), "yes" means that person definitely supports the theory; "no" means explicit opposition to the theory; a blank means the matter is apparently not discussed, not part of the theory.

The various alternatives to Darwinian evolution by natural selection were not necessarily mutually exclusive. The evolutionary philosophy of the American palaeontologist Edward Drinker Cope is a case in point. Cope, a religious man, began his career denying the possibility of evolution. In the 1860s, he accepted that evolution could occur, but, influenced by Agassiz, rejected natural selection. Cope accepted instead the theory of recapitulation of evolutionary history during the growth of the embryo - that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny, which Agassiz believed showed a divine plan leading straight up to man, in a pattern revealed both in embryology and palaeontology. Cope did not go so far, seeing that evolution created a branching tree of forms, as Darwin had suggested. Each evolutionary step was however non-random: the direction was determined in advance and had a regular pattern (orthogenesis), and steps were not adaptive but part of a divine plan (theistic evolution). This left unanswered the question of why each step should occur, and Cope switched his theory to accommodate functional adaptation for each change. Still rejecting natural selection as the cause of adaptation, Cope turned to Lamarckism to provide the force guiding evolution. Finally, Cope supposed that Lamarckian use and disuse operated by causing a vitalist growth-force substance, "bathmism", to be concentrated in the areas of the body being most intensively used; in turn, it made these areas develop at the expense of the rest. Cope's complex set of beliefs thus assembled five evolutionary philosophies: recapitulationism, orthogenesis, theistic evolution, Lamarckism, and vitalism. Other palaeontologists and field naturalists continued to hold beliefs combining orthogenesis and Lamarckism until the modern synthesis in the 1930s.

In science

The stronger versions of the orthogenetic hypothesis began to lose popularity when it became clear that they were inconsistent with the patterns found by paleontologists in the fossil record, which were non-rectilinear (richly branching) with many complications. The hypothesis was abandoned by the mainstream of evolutionists when no mechanism could be found that would account for the process, and the theory of evolution by natural selection came to prevail. The historian of biology Edward J. Larson commented that

"At theoretical and philosophical levels, Lamarckism and orthogenesis seemed to solve too many problems to be dismissed out of hand—yet biologists could never reliably document them happening in nature or in the laboratory. Support for both concepts evaporated rapidly once a plausible alternative appeared on the scene."

The modern synthesis of the 1930s and 1940s, in which the genetic mechanisms of evolution were incorporated, appeared to refute the hypothesis for good. As more was understood about these mechanisms it came to be held that there was no naturalistic way in which the newly discovered mechanism of heredity could be far-sighted or have a memory of past trends. Orthogenesis was seen to lie outside the methodological naturalism of the sciences.

By 1948, the evolutionary biologist Ernst Mayr, as editor of the journal Evolution, made the use of the term orthogenesis taboo: "It might be well to abstain from use of the word 'orthogenesis' .. since so many of the geneticists seem to be of the opinion that the use of the term implies some supernatural force." For these and other reasons, belief in evolutionary progress has remained "a persistent heresy", among evolutionary biologists including E. O. Wilson and Simon Conway Morris, although often denied or veiled. The philosopher of biology Michael Ruse wrote that "some of the most significant of today's evolutionists are progressionists, and that because of this we find (absolute) progressionism alive and well in their work." He argued that progressionism has harmed the status of evolutionary biology as a mature, professional science. Presentations of evolution remain characteristically progressionist, with humans at the top of the "Tower of Time" in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., while Scientific American magazine could illustrate the history of life leading progressively from mammals to dinosaurs to primates and finally man. Ruse noted that at the popular level, progress and evolution are simply synonyms, as they were in the nineteenth century, though confidence in the value of cultural and technological progress has declined.

The discipline of evolutionary developmental biology, however, is open to an expanded concept of heredity that incorporates the physics of self-organization. With its rise in the late 20th-early 21st centuries, ideas of constraint and preferred directions of morphological change have made a reappearance in evolutionary theory.

In popular culture

In popular culture, progressionist images of evolution are widespread. The historian Jennifer Tucker, writing in The Boston Globe, notes that Thomas Henry Huxley's 1863 illustration comparing the skeletons of apes and humans "has become an iconic and instantly recognizable visual shorthand for evolution." She calls its history extraordinary, saying that it is "one of the most intriguing, and most misleading, drawings in the modern history of science." Nobody, Tucker observes, supposes that the "monkey-to-man" sequence accurately depicts Darwinian evolution. The Origin of Species had only one illustration, a diagram showing that random events create a process of branching evolution, a view that Tucker notes is broadly acceptable to modern biologists. But Huxley's image recalled the great chain of being, implying with the force of a visual image a "logical, evenly paced progression" leading up to Homo sapiens, a view denounced by Stephen Jay Gould in Wonderful Life.

Popular perception, however, had seized upon the idea of linear progress. Edward Linley Sambourne's Man is But a Worm, drawn for Punch's Almanack, mocked the idea of any evolutionary link between humans and animals, with a sequence from chaos to earthworm to apes, primitive men, a Victorian beau, and Darwin in a pose that according to Tucker recalls Michelangelo's figure of Adam in his fresco adorning the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. This was followed by a flood of variations on the evolution-as-progress theme, including The New Yorker's 1925 "The Rise and Fall of Man", the sequence running from a chimpanzee to Neanderthal man, Socrates, and finally the lawyer William Jennings Bryan who argued for the anti-evolutionist prosecution in the Scopes Trial on the State of Tennessee law limiting the teaching of evolution. Tucker noted that Rudolph Franz Zallinger's 1965 "The Road to Homo Sapiens" fold-out illustration in F. Clark Howell's Early Man, showing a sequence of 14 walking figures ending with modern man, fitted the palaeoanthropological discoveries "not into a branching Darwinian scheme, but into the framework of the original Huxley diagram." Howell ruefully commented that the "powerful and emotional" graphic had overwhelmed his Darwinian text.

Sliding between meanings
Scientists, Ruse argues, continue to slide easily from one notion of progress to another: even committed Darwinians like Richard Dawkins embed the idea of cultural progress in a theory of cultural units, memes, that act much like genes. Dawkins can speak of "progressive rather than random ... trends in evolution". Dawkins and John Krebs deny the "earlier [Darwinian] prejudice" that there is anything "inherently progressive about evolution", but, Ruse argues, the feeling of progress comes from evolutionary arms races which remain in Dawkins's words "by far the most satisfactory explanation for the existence of the advanced and complex machinery that animals and plants possess".

Ruse concludes his detailed analysis of the idea of Progress, meaning a progressionist philosophy, in evolutionary biology by stating that evolutionary thought came out of that philosophy. Before Darwin, Ruse argues, evolution was just a pseudoscience; Darwin made it respectable, but "only as popular science". "There it remained frozen, for nearly another hundred years", until mathematicians such as Fisher provided "both models and status", enabling evolutionary biologists to construct the modern synthesis of the 1930s and 1940s. That made biology a professional science, at the price of ejecting the notion of progress. That, Ruse argues, was a significant cost to "people [biologists] still firmly committed to Progress" as a philosophy.

Facilitated variation
Biology has largely rejected the idea that evolution is guided in any way, but the evolution of some features is indeed facilitated by the genes of the developmental-genetic toolkit studied in evolutionary developmental biology. An example is the development of wing pattern in some species of Heliconius butterfly, which have independently evolved similar patterns. These butterflies are Müllerian mimics of each other, so natural selection is the driving force, but their wing patterns, which arose in separate evolutionary events, are controlled by the same genes.

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Gordon College

Gordon College may refer to:

 * Gordon State College, a public college in Barnesville, Georgia
 * Gordon College (Massachusetts), a Christian college in Wenham, Massachusetts
 * Government Gordon College, a Christian college in Rawalpindi, Pakistan
 * Gordon College (Philippines), a public university in Olongapo City, Zambales
 * Gordon College of Education, a college in Haifa, Israel
 * Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum, Sudan

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