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Herol Graham

Herol Graham (born 13 September 1959) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1978 to 1998. A three-time world title challenger, he is generally acknowledged as one of the best British boxers of the post-war era to have never won a world championship. He beat Champions Lindell Holmes, Ayub Kalule and Vinny Pazienza.

Highlights
1976 Junior World Welterweight Champion (beat John Mugabi in final)

1977 Senior ABA Light-Middleweight finalist (lost to Steve Hopkin)

1978 Senior ABA Middleweight Champion

Professional career
In 1978, after winning the ABA middleweight title, Graham turned professional, fighting out of Brendan Ingle's gym in the Wincobank area of Sheffield.

Graham went undefeated in his first 38 fights, winning the British, Commonwealth and European light-middleweight titles, as well as the British and European middleweight titles. He eventually lost his unbeaten record defending his European middleweight title against future world champion Sumbu Kalambay in 1987. Graham would go on to fight for world titles twice at middleweight and once at super middleweight. In his first attempt, challenging for the vacant WBA middleweight title, he took Mike McCallum to a close split decision; points deducted for a punch to the back of McCallum's head ended up costing Graham the verdict. A year later, in another world title challenge, he lost to Julian Jackson for the vacant WBC middleweight title. After outclassing Jackson for nearly 4 rounds, Graham was knocked out cold before he hit the canvas by the now-famous devastating right cross known as the 'Punch of the Century'.

Four years of inactivity were followed by an unexpected comeback in which Graham put together a series of victories to gain a last shot at a world title in March 1998. Challenging Charles Brewer for his IBF super middleweight title, Graham was stopped in the tenth round. Following this he retired from the ring and now lives in London, working as a personal trainer and specialising in boxing-based exercises.

In February 2009, Graham's son was injured in what police described as a "targeted shooting" at Westfield, Sheffield.

Graham released his autobiography entitled Bomber: Behind the Laughter in 2011.

Graham has ongoing mental health issues from boxing injuries.

Personal life
Graham's parents are Jamaican.

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Afognak, Alaska

Afognak (also Agw'aneq in Alutiiq was an Alutiiq village on the island of Afognak in Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska, United States. It was located on Afognak Bay on the southwest coast of the island, three miles north of Kodiak Island. The site is now within the CDP of Aleneva.

Prehistory
For more than 7,500 years, the Alutiiq people lived in hundreds of settlements in the Kodiak Archipelago. Like most other early native Alaskan peoples, the people of Afognak fished and hunted sea mammals from kayaks covered in seal skin. Men and women performed different tasks for the village. The people of Afognak traded services and goods with other settlements in Southeast Alaska and the Aleutian chain.

The Russian settlement period
The Russian American Company arrived on the island in 1784. The Russians invited and took several men from the village to hunt sea otters for sale in Europe. However, many people died as a result of mistreatment, and the smallpox epidemic of 1837–1840 killed many others in the archipelago. The Alutiiq began to change their lifestyle and governance. The name "Afognak" was derived from Afognak Island and was first reported in 1839 by Russian Sub-Lt. Mikhail Murashev. The natives and Russians on the island continued to fish, hunt, and gather food. Despite tensions between the two groups, many Russians and natives married and started families, and many natives learned Russian and converted to Russian Orthodoxy. The Alutiiq tradition was not abandoned, however, and was just added to. Many Russian workers who had married into the native community settled into the Russian American Company retirement communities upon their retirement. Eventually, the community of Russian Town, located next to Aleut Town, grew into the Afognak village, and the two merged.

The American period
The U.S. bought the occupation rights in 1867. Schools that only taught in English were established in regions where no one spoke the language, but by 1900, much of the younger community was trilingual, speaking Alutiiq, Russian, and English. In the late 1800s, the U.S. fishing business began to flourish. The business opened many canneries in Kodiak, Alaska, and fishermen from Scandinavia traveled to Alaska. The business in the area raised tension with the Alutiiq, who wanted to keep their fishing lifestyle. A post office was maintained intermittently from 1888 to 1964.

Afognak was covered by one meter (3 ft) of ash when Mount Katmai erupted in 1912. The 1964 Good Friday earthquake generated a tsunami which destroyed the village. With help from the Lions Club and the federal government, a new community was constructed on the northeast coast of Kodiak Island, called Port Lions in honor of the Lions Club who helped relocate the village. The former residents of Afognak moved permanently in December 1964, though 11 residents were still residing there as late as 1980.

Demographics
Afognak first appeared on the 1880 U.S. Census as an unincorporated village of 339 residents with a "Creole" (mixed Russian and native) majority of 195 and 144 Inuit minority. In 1890, the population also included Little Afognak, Cattanee and two Canneries. It continued to report until the 1960 census. With the 1964 Good Friday earthquake, most of the population departed. It did not appear on the 1970 census, but did in 1980 as an Alaskan Native Village designation. It has not reported separately since, but as of 2000, the original area that included Afognak is now mostly within the CDP of Aleneva.

Geography
Afognak was located on the southwestern shore of Afognak Island in Kodiak Island Borough, Alaska, United States. It is located three miles north of Kodiak Island.

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DJ Friction

DJ Friction may refer to:

 * DJ Friction (UK), British drum and bass DJ and producer
 * DJ Friction (Germany), German hip hop DJ and producer
 * DJ Friction (IN), Indian hip hop DJ owned by Sandeep Singh.

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Langenfeld, Rhineland

Langenfeld (Ripuarian: Langefääl) is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) in the district of Mettmann. The suburban city is located between Düsseldorf and Cologne. Langenfeld was formed from the two localities of Richrath and Reusrath and received city rights in 1948.

Economics
Langenfeld has no public debt as of 3 October 2008. The debt clock installed at the town hall in 1997, showing the current debts of Langenfeld, the Rhineland, and the national debt, got demounted end of 2008 and handed over to Grevenbroich. In Langenfeld it had served its purpose, so the comment by former mayor Magnus Staehler. The town was honored for that with the prize Kommune des Jahres 2007 (Municipality of the Year 2007) in the national contest Großer Preis des Mittelstandes (Grand Prize by Small Firms and Traders) of the Oskar-Patzelt-Siftung. To achieve that goal, on the one hand taxes got raised and in addition cuts of subsidies to clubs applied, so that debts halved from 1997 up to 2002. Being free of debt, and with that regaining free hand, was celebrated with a big party for the citizens at the first weekend in October under the slogan "Golden Times". Up to 2013 the savings from that surpluses had strongly diminished again by the budget deficits of the following years.

Transport
Langenfeld is accessed by nearby highways A 3, A 59 and A 542, as well as the Bundesstrasse (federal route) B8. The mainline railway from Düsseldorf to Cologne runs through the town's area as well. Public transport is provided by the S-Bahn line S6 and various bus lines operating under the umbrella of the VRR.

The nearest airports are Düsseldorf Airport (approx. 28 km) and Cologne Bonn Airport (approx. 35 km).

Twin towns – sister cities
Langenfeld is twinned with:
 * 🇮🇪 Ennis, Ireland
 * 🇵🇱 Gostynin, Poland
 * 🇮🇹 Montale, Italy
 * 🇫🇷 Senlis, France

Notable people

 * Hans Anhalt, (1908 – 1975), Auschwitz guard and convicted war criminal
 * Herbert Reul (born 1952), politician (CDU)
 * Christian Menzel (born 1971), racing driver
 * Cora Schumacher (born 1976), actress, model, racing driver and television presenter

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Gordie Dwyer

Gordon Rick Dwyer (born January 25, 1978) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey left winger who played five seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Tampa Bay Lightning, New York Rangers and Montreal Canadiens. He is the head coach and General Manager of the Acadie–Bathurst Titan of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL).

Playing career
As a youth, Dwyer played in the 1992 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with a minor ice hockey team from Drummondville. He attended Philemon Wright High School in Hull, Quebec, while playing for the Hull Olympiques of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). He has also played for the Laval Titan, Beauport Harfangs, Drummondville Voltigeurs, and the Quebec Remparts in the QMJHL.

Dwyer was drafted by the St. Louis Blues in the 3rd round, 67th overall, of the 1996 NHL Entry Draft. Unable to reach a contract agreement with St. Louis, Dwyer re-entered the draft in 1998 and was selected by the Montreal Canadiens in the 6th round, 152nd overall.

While a member of the Tampa Bay Lightning, Dwyer achieved notoriety by receiving a 23-game suspension for leaving the penalty box to engage in a brawl, during which he verbally and physically abused officials, in a pre-season game against the Washington Capitals on September 19, 2000. The suspension stands as one of the longest in NHL history.

In 2004, he signed as a free agent by the Carolina Hurricanes but never played for them. He played for the Lowell Lock Monsters of the American Hockey League (AHL), where he had 9 points and 183 penalty minutes in 56 games. He remained with Lowell for the 2005–06 season, but due to a shoulder injury he played only 17 games with 4 points and 37 penalty minutes. Dwyer attended the Vancouver Canucks training camp in 2006 hoping to earn a roster space. He also attended the New York Islanders 2007 training camp where he was a late cut. Through 108 NHL contests he never scored a goal, though he obtained 5 assists and 394 penalty minutes.

Dwyer spent the latter half of the 2006–07 season with the Örebro Vipers of Swedish Division 1. In his first game for Örebro, he notched two assists, where he had 15 points and 16 penalty minutes in 11 games. In the 2007–08 season, he played for the Portland Pirates of the AHL, where he had 3 points and 27 penalty minutes in 13 games, and in Villingen-Schwenningen for the SERC Wild Wings in the German Bundesliga, where he had 7 points and 34 penalty minutes in 14 games. He returned to the Örebro Vipers for the 2008–09 season, where he had 7 points and 79 penalty minutes in 13 games.

Coaching career
Dwyer was named head coach and associate general manager of the Summerside Western Capitals of the Maritime Junior A Hockey League for the 2009–10 season. Dwyer led a rebuilding team to a regular-season record of 27–20–1–2. The Capitals finished third in the Roger Meek Division and won a seven-game division semifinal series against second-place Miramichi. The Capitals were then eliminated by eventual league champion Woodstock in a five-game division final. In 2010–11, Dwyer returned as the team's head coach and associate director of hockey operations leading Summerside to a second-place finish with a 36–12–1–3 record. Under Dwyer's guidance, the team went on to capture the Kent Cup as league champions with a 12–3 playoff record. Following the season, Dwyer was named the league's coach of the year.

On May 17, 2011, Dwyer was named the head coach of the P.E.I. Rocket of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). In The Hockey News 2011 edition of the 100 Most Powerful people in ice hockey, Dwyer was considered one of the top 40 under the age of 40. This recognition was attributed to his assistance in the development of Tuff 'n Lite, a unisex cut resistant protective sport sock. The Rocket rebranded as the Charlottetown Islanders in 2013. On April 28, 2015, Dwyer was released after four years as head coach of the Rocket/Islanders earning a 116–133–9–14 overall record with the franchise, including a 35–28–1–4 his final post season when the Islanders defeated the Sherbrooke Phoenix to advance to the second round for the first time since 2004. At the time, he had been the longest-serving head coach in franchise history.

On June 15, 2015, Dwyer was named the head coach of the KHL Medveščak Zagreb of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL). On January 31, 2017, Dwyer parted ways with Zagreb to take over the head coaching position at HC Ambrì-Piotta of the Swiss top-flight National League A. His Ambrì-Piotta stint ended at the close of the 2016–17 season.

In July 2017, Dwyer returned to the KHL as head coach of the Belarusian-based HC Dinamo Minsk. He was relieved of his duties on November 9, 2018.

He then returned to the QMJHL for the 2019–20 season as head coach of the Shawinigan Cataractes, but left after one season. In 2021, he became head coach of the QMJHL's Saint John Sea Dogs.

Dwyer has also served as an assistant coach with Team Canada, start from when they won a bronze medal at the 2012 IIHF World U18 Championship in the Czech Republic. In December 2016, he served as assistant coach of Team Canada at the prestigious Spengler Cup, helping guide Canada to their 14th title that year. In 2020–21, he was again an assistant coach at the 2021 IIHF World U18 Championships.

Transactions

 * Traded to Tampa Bay by Montreal for Mike McBain, November 26, 1999.
 * Traded to NY Rangers by Tampa Bay for Boyd Kane, October 10, 2002.
 * Claimed on waivers by Montreal from NY Rangers, February 21, 2003.
 * Signed as a free agent by Carolina, August 11, 2004.
 * Missed majority of 2005–06 season recovering from a shoulder injury.

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Flag (disambiguation)

A flag is a colored cloth with a specified meaning.

Flag(s) or The Flag(s) may also refer to:

Places

 * Flag, Arkansas, an unincorporated community
 * Flag, Missouri, a ghost town
 * Flag River, a river in northern Wisconsin
 * Flag (crater), a small crater in the Descartes Highlands of the Moon

Fictional entities

 * Captain Flag, American superhero
 * Foundation for Law And Government (FLAG), a fictional law-enforcement foundation in the TV series Knight Rider and sequels
 * Jack Flag, superhero appearing in American comic books
 * The Flag (Ace Comics), comicbook superhero

Film and television

 * Flag (TV series), 2006 Japanese mecha-genre anime television series by Kazuo Terada
 * The Flag: A Story Inspired by the Tradition of Betsy Ross, a 1927 silent short film

Music

 * Flag (note), a part of a note value in music notation
 * Flag, a band formed by former members of Black Flag
 * Flag (James Taylor album), 1979
 * Flag (Yello album), 1988
 * Flags (Brooke Fraser album), 2010
 * Flags (Moraz and Bruford album), 1985
 * The Flag (album), by Rick James, 1986
 * "Flags", a song by Coldplay from Everyday Life, 2019
 * "Flags", a song by the Cat Empire, a pre-order bonus track from Rising with the Sun

Paintings

 * Flag (painting), a 1954/1955 painting by American artist Jasper Johns
 * The Flag (O'Keeffe painting), a 1918 painting by Georgia O'Keeffe

Other media

 * Flag (lighting), in film and photography, a device used to block light
 * The Flag (novel), a 1965 novel by Robert Shaw
 * Karogs, The Flag in Latvian, a literary magazine (1940–2010)

Plants
Flag is the common name of several genera or species of flowering plants:
 * Acorus calamus or sweet flag, found in many countries
 * Flag iris or just "flag", various species in North America
 * Libertia pulchella, or pretty grass-flag, a species native to New Guinea, New Zealand and Australia
 * Patersonia or native flag, an Australian plant genus resembling the genus Iris

Other uses in biology and medicine

 * FLAG (chemotherapy), a chemotherapy regimen
 * FLAG-tag, a unique epitope added to proteins in biochemistry
 * Flagging (botany), a growth pattern that reduces or eliminates growth on one side of a tree or other plant

Computing

 * Flag (computing), a true/false, on/off or open/closed indicator (Boolean variable)
 * Command line flag, a modifier for a command line interface command
 * FLAGS register (computing), a CPU register on x86 systems
 * Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG), an undersea fiber optic cable
 * To alert admins on a message board that a post needs to be moderated

Industry

 * F.L.A.G. (Fabbrica Ligure Automobili Genova), an Italian automobile manufacturer c. 1906
 * FLAGS (Far North Liquids and Associated Gas System), a natural gas pipeline in the North Sea
 * Flag and pennant patterns, in technical analysis

Mathematics

 * Flag (geometry), part of a polygon, polyhedron or higher polytope
 * Flag (linear algebra), an increasing sequence of subspaces of a vector space

Physical science and technology

 * Flagstone or flag, a large flat stone used for paving, fencing, or roofing

Politics and government

 * The Free Legal Assistance Group or FLAG, the largest firm of Filipino human rights lawyers
 * Flag state, the state under whose laws a merchant ship is registered or licensed

Sports and games

 * Flag, a baton used in the sporting event Beach Flags
 * Flag, a type of bet offered by UK bookmakers
 * Flag, a casino token used at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, Nevada
 * Penalty flag or flag, a yellow cloth used by game officials in some field sports to indicate an infraction
 * The prize for being the premier of the Australian Football League.

Other uses

 * Church of Scientology Flag Service Organization, commonly referred to in Scientology as "Flag," in Clearwater, Florida, U.S.

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Ben Mezrich

Ben Mezrich (born February 7, 1969) is an American author.

He has written well-known non-fiction books, including The Accidental Billionaires and The Antisocial Network, which have been turned into the films The Social Network and Dumb Money, respectively. Some of his books have been written under the pen-name Holden Scott.

Early life and education
Mezrich was born in Princeton, New Jersey, the son of Molli Newman, a lawyer, and Reuben Mezrich, a chairman of radiology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. He has two brothers, including Josh Mezrich. He was raised in a Conservative Jewish household, and attended Princeton Day School, in Princeton, New Jersey. He graduated magna cum laude with a degree in Social Studies from Harvard University in 1991.

Written work
Mezrich is best known for his first non-fiction work, Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions. This book tells the story of a group of students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology who bet on blackjack games using a sophisticated card counting system, earning millions of dollars at casinos in Las Vegas and other gambling centers in the United States and the Caribbean. The story was made into the movie 21, released in 2008. Despite being categorized as non-fiction many of the characters in Bringing Down the House are composite characters and some of the events described have been contested by the people the characters are based on.

In 2004, Mezrich published Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions. This book recounts the exploits of an American assistant securities trader, John Malcolm.

In 2005, Mezrich published Busting Vegas: The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees, a semi-sequel to Bringing Down the House. The book tells the story of another student involved in a similar Blackjack team, but one that used more advanced techniques than the ones discussed in the first book. As with Bringing Down the House, many of the events depicted in Busting Vegas were later contested by main character Semyon Dukach, who described the book as "only about half true".

In 2007, Mezrich published Rigged: The True Story of a Wall Street Novice who Changed the World of Oil Forever, which recounts the formation of what would eventually become the Dubai Mercantile Exchange by two young visionaries, one in the New York Mercantile Exchange and the other in the Dubai Ministry of Finance.

Mezrich published a new book in July 2009 about Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, titled The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal. It debuted at No. 4 on The New York Times Nonfiction Bestseller List, and No. 1 on The Boston Globe Nonfiction Bestseller List." Aaron Sorkin adapted the book for the screenplay of the film The Social Network, which was released on October 1, 2010. It was directed by David Fincher and stars Jesse Eisenberg as Mark Zuckerberg and Andrew Garfield as Eduardo Saverin. Ten years later, in May 2019, Mezrich published a sequel centering on Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss: Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption.

In 2014, Mezrich published Seven Wonders, his first novel since The Carrier in 2001. Seven Wonders is "a fast-moving thriller involving murder, conspiracy, historical mystery, and the Seven Wonders of the World", according to Booklist. Publishers Weekly wrote that "Mezrich has written a rollicking adventure with a fantastic behind-the-scenes tour of some of the world's most intriguing spots."

His 2021 book, The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees, was adapted into the film Dumb Money directed by Craig Gillespie.

His 2023 book, Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History, is set to become a limited series.

Personal life
Mezrich has been married to Tonya M. Chen since 2006; they write the Charlie Numbers series together. He lives in Boston.

Fiction

 * Threshold (1996, ISBN 0-446-60521-2)
 * Reaper (1998, ISBN 0-06-018751-4)
 * Fertile Ground (1999, ISBN 0-06-109798-5)
 * The X-Files: Skin (2000, ISBN 0-06-105644-8)
 * Skeptic (written under the pen name Holden Scott) (2000, ISBN 0-312-96928-7)
 * The Carrier (written under the pen name Holden Scott) (2001, ISBN 0-312-97858-8)
 * Seven Wonders (2014, ISBN 978-0762453825)
 * The Midnight Ride (2022, ISBN 978-1538754634)

Non-fiction

 * Bringing Down the House: The Inside Story of Six MIT Students Who Took Vegas for Millions (2002, ISBN 0-7432-4999-2)
 * Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions (2004, ISBN 0-06-057500-X)
 * Busting Vega$: The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees (2005, ISBN 0-06-057512-3)
 * Rigged: The Story of an Ivy League Kid Who Changed the World of Oil, From Wall Street to Dubai (2007, ISBN 0-06-125272-7)
 * The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook, A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius, and Betrayal (2009, ISBN 0-385-52937-6)
 * Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History (2011, ISBN 0-385-53392-6)
 * Straight Flush: The True Story of Six College Friends Who Dealt Their Way to a Billion-Dollar Online Poker Empire—and How It All Came Crashing Down ... (2013, ISBN 0-0622-4009-9)
 * Once Upon a Time in Russia: The Rise of the Oligarchs—A True Story of Ambition, Wealth, Betrayal, and Murder (2015, ISBN 978-1476771892)
 * The 37th Parallel: The Secret Truth Behind America's UFO Highway (2016, ISBN 9781501135521)
 * Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History's Most Iconic Extinct Creatures (2017, ISBN 978-1501135552)
 * Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption (2019, ISBN 9781250239389)
 * The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees (2021, Grand Central / Hachette, ISBN 9781538707586)
 * Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History (2023, ISBN 978-1538707593)

Juvenile fiction

 * Bringing Down the Mouse (2014, ISBN 9781442496262)
 * Charlie Numbers and the Man in the Moon (2017, ISBN 9781481448475)
 * Charlie Numbers and the Woolly Mammoth (2019, ISBN 9781534441002)

Other projects
Mezrich was the co-host of season 3 of the GSN series World Series of Blackjack and World Blackjack Tour. He also represented Massachusetts as a contestant in the Sexiest Bachelor in America Pageant on Fox in 2000. Fatal Error is a TBS premiere movie adaptation of his second book, Reaper, starring Antonio Sabato, Jr. and Robert Wagner. Skin was originally written as an X-Files episode. Rigged was optioned by Mark Cuban's company 2929, as was Q, a work of fiction by Mezrich. Ugly Americans has been optioned by Summit, with a screenplay written by Robert Schenkkan, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of The Quiet American, and also a draft completed by Mezrich himself.

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Elizabeth Wellburn

Elizabeth Wellburn is a Canadian author. Her writing has been in the areas of fiction for children and educational technology.

In 1998, Wellburn's book Echoes From the Square (ISBN 0-921156-99-5) was published. It tells a fictionalized story based on the real musician, Vedran Smailovic adding the character of a young boy who learns to cope in the aftermath of war in Sarajevo. The paintings for the book were created by her partner Deryk Houston.

Wellburn also co-authored the book The ABCs of Language Development: Discover Language with Your Child.

Wellburn, Houston, and their children live in Victoria, British Columbia.

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Rise Above Records

Rise Above Records is a London-based independent record label owned by Lee Dorrian, former member of Cathedral and Napalm Death.

Founding
Lee Dorrian started Rise Above Records in 1988 without the intention of the label being an ongoing position. It was during the same year that he had left his previous band, Napalm Death. Dorrian explained that it was predominantly done to "get the dole off my back as they were asking a lot of questions as Napalm Death were on the front cover of the NME and on TV three times in one week, but I was still living in a council flat and couldn't even afford the rent."

Rise Above Records was initially started up on the Enterprise Allowance Scheme, a Conservative government initiative which fronted cash to young entrepreneurs.

Style
Dorrian's initial intention was to release hardcore punk music and limited edition releases. The label was named after the Black Flag song of the same name. The first release from the label was a Napalm Death live EP (Extended play) followed by releases from bands such as S.O.B. and Long Cold Stare.

Dorrian was a fan of bands such as Candlemass, Saint Vitus and Trouble but stated there "wasn't really a 'doom scene' as such" and that "doom became an obsession" for him. Finding that there were a scattered amount of doom metal groups in the United States (specifically Maryland), Dorrian attempted to "give the scene a boost" and released a compilation titled Dark Passages, a compilation stating that "if people asked what doom was you could point to that record and there was something tangible to grab hold of." Dorrian found that the release "didn't get as many bands as we'd have liked, hence the reason why there are two Cathedral tracks on there." Dorrian admitted later that it took until 1997 "that a new wave of doom bands started to appear. Ever [sic] since then it's become really strong." Dorrian specifically noted Electric Wizard's Come My Fanatics... as being "the turning point of everything."

Current artists

 * Angel Witch
 * Antisect
 * Age Of Taurus
 * ASTRA
 * Beastmaker
 * Blood Ceremony
 * Church of Misery
 * Death Penalty
 * Diagonal
 * Gentlemans Pistols
 * Galley Beggar
 * Hidden Masters
 * Horisont
 * Saturn
 * Septic Tank
 * Twin Temple
 * Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats
 * Witchsorrow
 * Workshed

Former artists

 * Bang
 * Bottom
 * Capricorns
 * Cathedral
 * Chrome Hoof
 * Circulus
 * Comus
 * Debris Inc.
 * Electric Wizard
 * Firebird
 * Goatsnake
 * Ghost
 * The Gates of Slumber
 * Grand Magus
 * Hangnail
 * Incredible Hog
 * The Iron Maiden
 * The Last Drop
 * Leaf Hound
 * Long Cold Stare
 * Lucifer
 * Mourn
 * Moss
 * Napalm Death
 * Naevus
 * The Oath
 * Orange Goblin
 * Pentagram
 * Penance
 * Pod People
 * Purson
 * Revelation
 * Sally
 * Sea of Green
 * Serpentcult
 * Shallow
 * sHEAVY
 * Sleep
 * S.O.B.
 * Sunn O)))
 * Taint
 * Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine
 * Unearthly Trance
 * Witchcraft

Main releases

 * RISE 001 - Napalm Death Live - 7-inch EP (vinyl only)
 * RISE 002 - S.O.B. Thrash Night - 7-inch EP (vinyl only)
 * RISE 003 - Long Cold Stare - Tired Eyes LP (vinyl only)
 * RISE 004 - S.O.B. - What's the Truth LP/MC/CD
 * RISE 005 - Various Artists - Dark Passages LP/MC/CD
 * RISE 006 - Revelation - Salvations Answer LP/MC/CD
 * RISE 007 - Penance - The Road Less Travelled LP/MC/CD
 * RISE 008 - Cathedral - In Memorium CD/Maxi EP (Ltd only purple vinyl)
 * RISE 009 - Electric Wizard - Electric Wizard CD/LP (Ltd only green vinyl)
 * RISE 010 - Mourn - Mourn CD
 * RISE 011 - Electric Wizard/Our Haunted Kingdom split 7-inch
 * RISE 012 - Various Artists - Dark Passages II - CD
 * CDRISE 13 - Various Artists - Magick Rock vol. 1 CD
 * CDRISE 14 - Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics... CD
 * CDRISE 15 - Orange Goblin - Frequencies from Planet Ten CD
 * CDRISE 16 - Naevus - Sun Meditation CD
 * CDRISE 17 - sHEAVY - The Electric Sleep CD
 * CDRISE 18 - Orange Goblin - Time Travelling Blues CD
 * CDRISE 19 - Sleep - Jerusalem CD
 * CDRISE 20 - Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics.../Electric Wizard 2×CD
 * CDRISE 21 - Cathedral - In Memoriam CD
 * CDRISE 22 - Goatsnake - Goatsnake Vol. 1 CD
 * CDRISE 23 - Hangnail - Ten Days Before Summer CD
 * CDRISE 24 - Sally - Sally CD
 * CDRISE 25 - Orange Goblin - The Big Black CD/LP
 * CDRISE 26 - sHEAVY - Celestial Hi-Fi CD
 * CDRISE 27 - Electric Wizard - Dopethrone CD
 * CDRISE 28 - Shallow - 16 Sunsets in 24 Hours CD
 * CDRISE 29 - Sunn O))) ØØ Void CD
 * CDRISE 30 - Goatsnake - Flower of Disease CD
 * CDRISE 31 - Firebird - Firebird CD
 * RISECD 32 - Hangnail - Clouds in the Head CD
 * RISECD 33 - Sea of Green - Time to Fly CD
 * RISECD 34 - Grand Magus - Grand Magus CD
 * RISECD 35 - The Last Drop - Where Were You Living One Year from Now? CD
 * RISECD/LP 36 - Electric Wizard - Let Us Prey CD/LP
 * RISECD 37 - Orange Goblin - Coup de Grace (CD)
 * RISECD 38 - Orange Goblin - Time Travelling Blues/Frequencies From Planet Ten 2×CD
 * RISECD 39 - sHEAVY - Synchronized CD
 * RISECD 40 - sHEAVY - The Electric Sleep/Blue Sky Mind 2×CD
 * RISECD 41 - Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine - Rampton CD
 * RISECD 42 - Bottom - Feels So Good When You're Gone CD
 * RISECD 43 - Sally - C-Earth CD
 * RISECD/LP 44 - Grand Magus - Monument Cd/LP (blue vinyl, gatefold sleeve)
 * RISECD/LP 45 - Unearthly Trance - Season of Séance, Science of Silence CD/2LP (500 copies, black vinyl, deluxe gatefold)
 * RISECD/LP 46 - Orange Goblin - Thieving from the House of God Cd/LP (1000 copies, orange vinyl, deluxe gatefold)
 * RISECD/LP 47 - Witchcraft - Witchcraft CD/LP w/bonus track/PicDisc
 * RISECD/LP 48 - Electric Wizard - We Live Cd/2LP (1000 copies, purple vinyl)
 * RISECD 49 - Pod People - Doom Saloon CD
 * RISECD 50 - ???
 * RISE7 51 - Orange Goblin - Some You Win, Some You Lose 7-inch
 * RISECD/LP 52 - Electric Wizard - Dopethrone re-issue CD/2LP (1000 white vinyl, 500 black vinyl. 2nd press: 50 Purple Silk, 100 Transparent Amber, 100 clear, 550 black)
 * RISECD 53 - Orange Goblin - The Big Black re-issue CD
 * RISEMCD/MLP 54 - Capricorns - Capricorns CD/LP
 * RISECD/LP 55 - Unearthly Trance - In the Red CD/LP (blood red vinyl)
 * RISEMLP 56 - Thy Grief Eternal - On Blackened Wings 12-inch (500 black vinyl, 500 silver/grey vinyl)
 * RISEMLP 57 - Eternal - Lucifer's Children 12-inch (500 clear vinyl, 500 black vinyl)
 * RISECD 58 - sHEAVY - Republic? CD
 * RISECD 59 - Debris Inc. - Debris Inc. CD
 * RISECD/LP 60 - Grand Magus - Wolf's Return CD/LP (500 black vinyl, 500 silver/grey vinyl)
 * RISECD 61 - ???
 * RISECD/LP 62 - Witchcraft - Firewood CD/LP (deluxe gatefold, 500 gold vinyl, 500 black vinyl)
 * RISECD/LP 63 - Circulus - The Lick on the Tip of an Envelope Yet to Be Sent CD/LP (1000 black vinyl, 500 swirly vinyl, 100 clear vinyl)
 * RISE7 64 - Circulus/Witchcraft split 7-inch (500 copies)
 * RISE7/MCD 65 - Circulus - Swallow Cd single/7" (bright green and yellow)
 * RISECD/LP 66 - Taint - The Ruin of Nova Roma CD/2LP
 * RISECD 67 - Capricorns - Ruder Forms Survive CD
 * RISE7 68 - Leaf Hound - "Freelance Fiend" 7-inch
 * RISECD 69 - Grand Magus - Grand Magus (2006 re-issue w/ bonus tracks) CD
 * RISECD 70 - Electric Wizard - Pre-Electric Wizard 1989-1994 CD
 * RISECD/LP 71 - Electric Wizard - Electric Wizard (re-master) digiCD/LP w/bonus 7-inch (500 black vinyl, 500 ice blue vinyl, 500 luminous lime green vinyl)
 * RISECD/LP 72 - Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics... (re-master) digiCD/2LP w/bonus 7-inch (400 violet sparkle vinyl, 100 violet sparkle w/colored 7-inch, 500 deep red vinyl, 500 black vinyl)
 * RISECD 73 - Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (re-master) digiCD
 * RISECD 74 - Electric Wizard - Let Us Prey (re-master) digiCD/2×LP (100 clear vinyl, 500 deep red vinyl, 500 black vinyl)
 * RISECD 75 - Electric Wizard - We Live (re-master) digiCD
 * RISECD 76 - Orange Goblin - Frequencies From Planet Ten. Reissued in 2011 with three bonus tracks.
 * RISECD 77 - Orange Goblin - Time Travelling Blues. Reissued in early 2011 with three bonus tracks.
 * RISECD 78 - Orange Goblin - The Big Black
 * RISECD 79 - Orange Goblin - Coup De Grace. Reissued in 2011 with three bonus tracks.
 * RISECD 80 - Orange Goblin - Thieving From The House Of God
 * RISECD/LP 81 - Firebird - Hot Wings
 * RISECD/LP 82 - Mourn - Mourn CD/LP (100 clear vinyl, 200 leaf green vinyl, 400 black vinyl)
 * RISECD 83 - Litmus - Planetfall CD
 * RISE7 84 - Burning Saviours - "The Giant" 7-inch (100 clear vinyl 400 black vinyl)
 * RISECD 85 - ???
 * RISE7 86 - Gentlemans Pistols - "The Lady" 7-inch (100 clear vinyl, 400 black vinyl)
 * RISE7 87 - Witchcraft - "If Crimson Was Your Colour" 7-inch (225 black vinyl, 225 clear vinyl)
 * RISEMCD/MLP 88 - Winters - High As Satellites CD/LP (black vinyl, blue vinyl)
 * RISECD 89 - Teeth of Lions Rule the Divine - Rampton deluxe edition
 * RISECD 90 - ???
 * RISECD 91 - ???
 * RISEMCD/MLP 92 - Chrome Hoof - Beyond Zade
 * RISECD/LP 93 - Circulus - Clocks Are Like People digiCD/LP (500 white vinyl w/ bonus 7-inch, 700 blue vinyl, 500 black vinyl)
 * RISE7/CD 94 - Circulus - Song of Our Despair CD single/7" (black vinyl, clear vinyl, violet vinyl)
 * RISE7 95 - Moss/Monarch - split 7-inch (50 sea blue vinyl, 100 clear vinyl 400 black vinyl)
 * RISECD 96 - Winters - Black Clouds in Twin Galaxies CD
 * RISECD 97 - ???
 * RISECD/LP 98 - Gentlemans Pistols - Gentlemans Pistols CD/LP (100 clear vinyl, 200 yellow vinyl, 200 black vinyl)
 * RISELP 99 - Miasma & The Carousel of Headless Horses - Perils
 * RISECD/LP 100 - Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today CD/LP (100 purple vinyl, 200 black sparkle vinyl, 200 green vinyl)
 * RISE7 101 - Diagonal - Heavy Language 7-inch (500 black sparkle vinyl)
 * RISECD 102 - Never released (According to Jeremy at Rise Above)
 * RISECD/LP 103 - Witchcraft - The Alchemist CD/LP (25 ultra blue vinyl, 50 clear vinyl, 500 magnolia vinyl, 400 black sparkle vinyl, 500 black vinyl)
 * RISECD/LP 104 - Taint - Secrets and Lies CD
 * RISE10 107 - Atavist - Alchemic Resurrection 10-inch
 * RISELP 108 - Moss - Sub Templum 2LP
 * RISECD/LP 109 - Blood Ceremony - Blood Ceremony CD/LP (300 red/black vinyl w/bonus 7-inch, 300 purple vinyl, 300 black vinyl)
 * RISECD/LP 112 - Serpentcult - Weight of Light CD/LP (300 silver/grey vinyl w/bonus 7-inch, 300 white/black splatter vinyl, 300 black vinyl)
 * RISECD/LP 113 - Grand Magus - Iron Will CD/LP (200 clear vinyl, 200 white vinyl, 300 black vinyl)
 * RISE7 114 - Crowning Glory/Gates of Slumber split 7-inch (black vinyl, green vinyl, blue vinyl)
 * RISECD 115 - Capricorns - River Bear Your Bones CD
 * RISE12/116 - Electric Wizard/Reverend Bizarre - split 12-inch EP (350 blood red vinyl w/poster, 500 purple vinyl, 500 clear vinyl, 500 silver vinyl, 500 black vinyl)
 * RISECD 124 - Ghost - Opus Eponymous
 * RISECD 130 - Electric Wizard- Black Masses CD

In early 2011 the label also reissued five Orange Goblin albums with bonus tracks largely covers or demo versions of preceding tracks, released with the same catalogue numbers as when they were first released.

Rise Above Relics releases

 * RAR7 001 - Luv Machine - "Witches Wand" 7-inch
 * RARCD/LP 001 - Luv Machine - Turns You On! CD/LP (500 black vinyl, 400 cerise vinyl, 100 clear vinyl)
 * RARCD/LP 002 - Possessed - Exploration CD/LP
 * RARCD/LP 004 - AX - "You've Been So Bad"
 * RARCD/LP 005 - Necromandus - "Orexis of Death & Live"
 * RARLP      006 - Comus - "First Utterance"
 * RARLP      007 - Mellow Candle - "Swaddling Songs PLUS" Deluxe Boxset
 * RARCD/LP 008 - Steel Mill - "Jewels of the Forest"
 * RARCD/LP 009 - Incredible Hog - "Volume 1 + 4"
 * RARCDBOX010 - Bang - "Bullets 4 x CD Box Set"
 * RARCD/LP 011 - The (Original) Iron Maiden - "Maiden Voyage" CD/LP (Bonus vinyl single with LP by BUM) + extensive booklet
 * RARCD/LP 013 - Rog & Pip - "Our Revolution"

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The Six Wives of Henry VIII (book)

The Six Wives of Henry VIII is a 1991 history book, an account of Henry VIII's marriages by British historian Alison Weir.

The book was Weir's first historical work since her first book, Britain's Royal Families. It is divided into three sections - "Catherine of Aragon," "The Great Matter" and "How many wives will he have?"

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George Gray (television personality)

George Edward Gray III (born March 11, 1967) is an American television personality and comedian. He is best known for hosting the game shows Extreme Gong and Weakest Link. Gray has also been the announcer of The Price Is Right since 2011.

Early life and career
Born in Ballwin, Missouri, Gray attended high school in Tucson, Arizona, and graduated from the University of Arizona. In college, he played drums with local band The Reason Why with his two English buddies Tony Randall and Shane Lamont. After working as a sketch and stand-up comedian, Gray's first television hosting gig was for the Fox Movie Channel doing a show called FXM Friday Nights. He then appeared as co-host of the series Movies For Guys Who Like Movies on TBS.

Hosting career
Gray's first in-studio show was Extreme Gong, an updated version of The Gong Show, on GSN in the late 1990s. He also hosted the first season of the American version of Junkyard Wars, which was nominated for a prime-time Emmy.

Gray was chosen in 2001 by NBC Enterprises to host the daily syndicated American version of the game show The Weakest Link, which aired from 2002–03. TV critic Steve Rogers likened Gray's hosting style to the demeanor of a "class clown", in contrast to the "severe schoolmarm" attitude of original The Weakest Link host Anne Robinson.

After hosting the reality series Todd TV on FX and the GSN special National Lampoon's Greek Games, in late 2004, Gray went on to become the co-host of NBC's $25 Million Dollar Hoax. He hosted ESPN's reality sports competition I'd Do Anything. Beginning in 2006, Gray hosted the HGTV show What's With That House? (a.k.a. That House), as well as HGTV's Manland and the building competition Summer Showdown.

The Price Is Right
After previously appearing with a group of rotating auditioning announcers, Gray officially became the fourth regular announcer on The Price Is Right on April 18, 2011, succeeding Rich Fields.

On January 15, 2015, Gray fell off of a treadmill that he was describing during the show. Gray continued to describe the treadmill despite falling down, adding that "Aspirin (was) not included". The video quickly went viral.

Personal life
Gray married his fiancée, Brittney Green, on April 13, 2019.

Health
On the morning of April 20, 2020, Gray was hospitalized after suffering from three major heart attacks. He woke up with the chest pains and thought it was indigestion but his condition deteriorated. Gray suffered his first heart attack on the way to the hospital, his second after failed surgeries as he was walking around in the hospital, and his third as doctors were going to place a third stent in his heart. The surgeons then performed a quadruple bypass.

Television

 * 2002–03, The Weakest Link, host
 * 2004, I'd Do Anything, host
 * 2011, Car Science, narrator, 5 episodes
 * 2011–present, The Price Is Right, announcer
 * 2012, The Young and the Restless as newscaster, 1 episode
 * 2016, Scorpion as himself
 * 2022, The Bold and the Beautiful as Waiter, 1 episode

Film

 * 1987, Cant Buy Me Love as Bobby Hilton
 * 1994, Dead Beat as Cop Outside
 * 2011, eCubid as TV announcer
 * 2011, Jack and Jill as The Price Is Right announcer
 * 2012, It's a Boy! as Baby 1

Music video

 * 2013, Bob Dylan: Like a Rolling Stone as himself

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Tri-Rail and Metrorail Transfer station

Tri-Rail and Metrorail Transfer station is a Metrorail and Tri-Rail interchange station in Hialeah, Florida, northwest of the city of Miami proper.

This station is located near the intersection of East 25th Street and East 11th Avenue in Hialeah, Florida, officially opening for service on March 6, 1989. The station was built as a connection for the Tri-Rail and Metrorail rail systems; though the Amtrak station, which is served by the Silver Meteor and Silver Star, is located only a few blocks away, it is not officially connected to this station. The Amtrak station was scheduled to be moved to the Miami Intermodal Center by late 2018, but was delayed by several years due to a platform length issue. A third Tri-Rail/Metrorail transfer station began service on January 13, 2024 at MiamiCentral, which provides direct access into Downtown Miami along with additional transfer options such as Brightline and Metromover.

Station layout

The elevated Metrorail station is directly connected to the southbound Tri-Rail platform at the south end of the complex. Access between Tri-Rail platforms is available via an elevated overpass over the tracks at the north end of the complex.

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George Gray

George Gray may refer to:

Politics

 * George Gray (Pennsylvania politician) (1725–1800), speaker of the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly
 * George Gray (Delaware politician) (1840–1925), U.S. senator from Delaware
 * George Wilkie Gray (1844–1924), businessman and member of the Queensland Legislative Council
 * George Gray (Tasmanian politician) (1899–1984), member of both houses of the Tasmanian Parliament
 * George Gray (Queensland politician, born 1903) (1903–1967), member of the Australian House of Representatives

Science

 * George Robert Gray (1808–1872), British zoologist
 * George Gray (chemist) (1926–2013), British chemist, developer of cyano-biphenyl liquid crystals used in liquid crystal displays

Sports

 * George Gray (shot putter) (1865–1933), Canadian shot putter
 * George Gray (hurdler) (1887–1970), British Olympic hurdler
 * George Gray (footballer, born 1894) (1894–1972), English football wing half active in the 1920s, later trainer of Sunderland
 * George Gray (footballer, born 1896) (1896–1962), English footballer
 * George Gray (footballer, born 1925) (1925–1995), English football wing half active in the 1950s, son of the above
 * One Man Gang (George Gray, born 1960), American professional wrestler

Others

 * Sir George Gray, 3rd Baronet (c. 1710–1773), British Army officer
 * George Gray, founder of the Hawkhurst Gang, a notorious smuggling organisation in southeast England from 1735 until 1749
 * George Gray (painter) (1758–1819), English painter
 * George Seaman Gray (1835–1885), American minister and author
 * George Zabriskie Gray (1837–1889), American clergyman, educator and theologian of the Episcopal Church
 * George Douglas Gray (1872–1946), Scottish physician and British Army officer
 * George Kruger Gray (1880–1943), English artist and coin designer
 * George Charles Gray (1897–1981), English cathedral organist
 * George Gray (television personality) (born 1967), American television presenter

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Witchfinder General (band)

Witchfinder General was an English heavy metal band from Stourbridge. They were part of the new wave of British heavy metal scene and have been cited as a major influence on the doom metal genre. They were named after the 1968 British horror film Witchfinder General.

History
Witchfinder General formed in 1979 by Zeeb Parkes and Phil Cope in Stourbridge, England, as part of the new wave of British heavy metal movement during the early 1980s. They were strongly influenced by Black Sabbath, and have been described as one of the pioneers of the doom metal style. The band's importance was acknowledged mostly after they disbanded. Witchfinder General disbanded sometime in 1984 amidst reported controversy of their sexually explicit album covers in the UK.

The band (minus vocalist and writer Zeeb Parkes) reformed in November 2006-- with new vocalist Gary Martin. The band released Buried Amongst the Ruins a compilation CD featuring the "Burning a Sinner" single, the Soviet Invasion EP, and four live tracks including a live version of the unreleased track "Phantasmagorical" in 2006. The band released their third full-length album Resurrected in 2008.

Members

 * Phil Cope – guitar (1979–1984, 2006–2008), bass (1982)
 * Johnny Fisher – bass (1979–1980)
 * Steve Kinsell – drums (1979–1982)
 * Zeeb Parkes – vocals (1979–1984)
 * Kevin McCready – bass (1981–1982; died 2008)
 * Graham Ditchfield – drums (1982–1983)
 * Rod Hawkes - bass (1982–1984, 2006–2008)
 * Dermot Redmond – drums (1983–1984, 2006–2008)
 * Gary Martin – vocals (2006–2008)

Timeline

Studio albums

 * Death Penalty (1982)
 * Friends of Hell (1983)
 * Resurrected (2008)

Live albums

 * Live '83 (2006)

Singles and EPs

 * "Burning a Sinner" (1981)
 * Soviet Invasion (1982)
 * "Music" (1983)

Other releases

 * Buried Amongst the Ruins (2007)

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Talk:Silver Ring Thing

When do they stop?
Is there any data on how long kids keep at this before they wake up and get on with their lifes? College? Senior year of high school? Does anyone keep this up untill marriage?

From what I have read a significant minority dont actually keep the pledge up until they get married. Cant give ya any sources right now as im tired sheep21 00:02 17-05-2007

Criticism
The criticism section seems more focused on the pledges themselves than on SRT. Unless someone has some well-founded objections, I'm going to move the non-pertinent information to the "virginity pledges" article and leave the stuff that actually concerns SRT.

Introduction
Was this vandalized? It appears that the first few sentences are blatently biased. Please correct ASAP

Pictures
The ring pictured is a generic purity ring, and not a true "Silver Ring." The Silver Rings have the verse from Thessalonians on the outside. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.23.224.5 (talk) 01:28, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Christian theology
Presumably whoever wrote the following; "Based on Christian theology[citation needed] and until recently funded by the U.S. federal government, SRT uses rock concert-style events in an attempt to appeal to 21st century teenagers" meant that its the notion of staying celibate until marriage that is based on Christian theology, rather than the wearing of jewellery to show this decision or the rock concert-style events (which, although probably very enjoyably if you're that way inclined, have very little basis in Christian theology). In Biblical times, virginity (for women) until marriage was taken for granted. It was not a decision to be taken or manifested through the wearing of anything in particular. Seems to me that the SRT exists as a reaction to contemporary society and what some people feel is an exaggerated emphasis on sexuality. Maybe someone who knows more about the SRT project than I do could re-write the first section, rather than finding a citation, because at the moment it's confusing regarding what exactly it is that is based on Christian theology. Captain, my captain (talk) 16:11, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

Citation Needed?
The first paragraph mentions Christian Theology as a source of inspiration. Someone has tagged this statement "citation needed." Do we really need a citation for that when the next paragraph explains which quotes from scripture the rings are emblazoned with? -Anonymous —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.225.199.59 (talk) 21:25, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Freaky-overlap
Yes that's a bad section title. Anyway: This USA Today article says that "Of those interviewed in 2002, 95% reported they had had premarital sex", and this MSNBC article reporting similarly to this article by the Guttmacher Institute, both reported that according to this study in Public Health Reports, "By age 44, 99% of respondents had had sex, and 95% had done so before marriage." With this report by ARIS (see also Religion in the United States) stating that 'In 2008, 76% of American adults identified as Christian,' doesn't it seem that there's a Freaky Overlap (at least in the USA) of the number of people who claim to be Christian and the number of people who have or have had premarital sex?? 207.65.109.10 (talk) 08:25, 6 June 2010 (UTC)

Merger
Would it make sense to merge this article with Purity ring? Tryphaena (talk) 06:34, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Does silence = consent? Tryphaena (talk) 16:18, 22 October 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm thinking it does not make sense, as the rings seem to exist as a broader cultural phenomenon, and this is one organization with a particular history. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.142.33.242 (talk) 17:44, 28 October 2011 (UTC)

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Little Blue Crunchy Things

Little Blue Crunchy Things (Blues) was an American music group from the Milwaukee, Wisconsin area. They were active from the late 1980s to 2000.

Little Blue Crunchy Things (LBCT) were formed in the late 1980s with vocalist Noah Tabakin joining in 1991, who became the de facto band leader. Noah often used audience participation and other events at concerts and shows to freestyle lyrical content.

The band's first album, Rhetoric, was released in 1994. The lineup at this time was Bill Backes on drums, Cara Davis on percussion/vocals, Rick Eels on bass, Douglas Haynes on saxophone, Brandon Mason on trumpet/trombone, Noah Tabakin on lead vocals/saxophone, and Michael Wengler on guitar. Their first album was independently produced, leading the band to release new recorded versions of a few of songs on later albums.

Between the first and second albums, Eels, Mason, and Haynes left the band. Eels was replaced by Ken Fitzsimmons, and Haynes by Bryan Elliot, but LBCT was left without a trumpet/trombone player. The second album, Owner's Manual, is a recording of a live show at Shank Hall in Milwaukee in 1996. Davis, who was featured as a vocalist on only one song ("Brown Bear"), left the band shortly after Owner's Manual.

The blues influence would return on the band's third album, Swarm. Compared to their first studio album, the recording and production of Swarm were of greater quality, and sales were also much higher than previous albums resulting in the band gaining national recognition. In 1999, they released their fourth album named Babies.

In early 2000, the band announced that they would be breaking up, and performed what was reportedly their last show that spring. However, the band returned for what was billed as a reunion tour a few months later. This tour included Shank Hall and a performance at Summerfest. A show at the Barrymore Theater in Madison, Wisconsin on April 15, 2000 was recorded and released as their final album.

Since the breakup, the members have gone on to work on their own projects. Noah Tabakin's first group after LBCT was the short lived All Fours. He previously fronted TABAKIN, a funk, soul, hip-hop conglomeration and played saxophone in the 23-piece marching band Mucca Pazza. After leaving Wisconsin in 2000, Noah initially relocated to Chicago where he was involved in a number of projects. Tabakin is currently living in Los Angeles where he is performing as ssssnake. He also performs with Tour de Fat, and Fire Leopard with Jon Steinmeier where they perform as the house band at The Booby Trap Variety Show every Wednesday. Ken Fitzsimmons currently fronts the Irish Rock band The Kissers, of which both Jamie Ryan and Bill Backes have been involved with. He is also the Education Director with the Madison Music Foundry, in Madison, Wisconsin. Bryan Elliot lives in Madison and previously played in the Latin band Prole, he has also played in The Bradachs and Smokin' With Superman, and is also a part of The Kissers with Ken Fitzsimmons. Bill Backes currently lives in Milwaukee and plays with The Lovelies and Testa Rosa. Jamie Ryan currently lives in Illinois, where he is an associate professor at Eastern Illinois University. He continues to be involved in music with Africa -> West'', a percussion trio who fuse African, Afro-Caribbean and Western music.

LBCT continues to perform reunion shows in Madison and Milwaukee.

Members

 * Bill Backes - Drums
 * Bryan Elliott - Saxophone
 * Ken Fitzsimmons - Bass guitar
 * Jamie Ryan - percussion
 * Noah Tabakin - vocals/saxophone
 * Michael Wengler - Guitar

Former members

 * Cara Davis - percussion/vocals
 * Paul Jonas - Bass guitar (1999/2000, after the temporary departure of Fitzsimmons following the 'Babies' sessions; performs on 2000s 'In Loving Memory Of...')
 * Stephen Howard - Bass Guitar (filled in for some reunion appearances)

Discography

 * Rhetoric (1994)
 * Owner's Manual (1996)
 * Swarm (1997)
 * Babies (1999)
 * In Loving Memory Of... (album) (2000)

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(Moved from article:) I was astonished and delighted to find my name come up in Wikipedia as a Canadian author. Without promoting myself, I'll just mention that my writing has been in the areas of:
 * -fiction for children; and
 * -educational technology. 22:18, 27 Sep 2004

If this is truly you. Please feel free to expand this article with more info (think short Biography) about yourself. Not self-promotion but assisting us in building this encyclopedic article Cavebear42 22:24, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)

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Sam Brown

Sam Brown may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

 * Sam Brown (Rastafari) (1925–1998), Jamaican Rastafarian elder and roots reggae singer and poet
 * Sam Brown (guitarist) (1939–1977), American jazz guitarist with Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Big Band
 * Sam Brown (singer) (born 1964), English singer/songwriter, daughter of singer Joe Brown
 * Sam Brown III (born 1947), AKA Samm Brown, American songwriter, record producer, arranger and composer worked a lot with African American artists
 * Sam Brown (comedian) (born 1981), American comedian, founding member of sketch troupe Whitest Kids U Know
 * Sam Brown (artist), American artist and author, noted for his exploding dog web site

Sports

 * Sam Brown (baseball) (1878–1931), Major League Baseball player
 * Sam Brown (soccer) (born 1996), American soccer player

Other people

 * Sam Brown (frontiersman) (1845–1925), American frontiersman, educator, civic leader, advocate for Native Americans, and historian
 * Sam Brown (outlaw) (1831–1861), American gunfighter in the Wild West
 * Sam H. Brown, American farmer and politician from Oregon in the early 20th century
 * Sam Brown (activist) (born 1943), organized the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam
 * Sam Brown (military) (born 1983), American politician and veteran

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Romance of the Western Chamber

Romance of the Western Chamber, also translated as The Story of the Western Wing, The West Chamber, Romance of the Western Bower and similar titles, is one of the most famous Chinese dramatic works. It was written by the Yuan dynasty playwright Wang Shifu (王實甫), and set during the Tang dynasty. Known as "China's most popular love comedy," it is the story of a young couple consummating their love without parental approval, and has been seen both as a "lover's bible" and "potentially lethal," as readers were in danger of pining away under its influence.

Contents of the Play
Play I, Burning Incense and Worshiping the Moon

Play II, Icy Strings Spell Out Grief

Play III, Feelings Transmitted by Lines of Poetry

Play IV, A Clandestine Meeting of Rain and Clouds

Play V, A Reunion Ordained by Heaven

Plot

The play has twenty-one acts in five parts. It tells the story of a secret love affair between Zhang Sheng (张生), a young scholar, and Cui Yingying, the daughter of a chief minister of the Tang court. The two first meet in a Buddhist monastery. Yingying and her mother have stopped there to rest while escorting the coffin of Yingying's father to their native town. Zhang Sheng falls in love with her immediately, but is prevented from expressing his feelings while Yingying is under her mother's watchful eye. The most he can do is express his love in a poem read aloud behind the wall of the courtyard in which Yingying is lodging.

However, word of Yingying's beauty soon reaches Sun the Flying Tiger, a local bandit. He dispatches ruffians to surround the monastery, in the hopes of taking her as his consort. Yingying's mother agrees that whoever drives the bandits away can have Yingying's hand in marriage, so Zhang Sheng contacts his childhood friend General Du, who is stationed not far away. The general subdues the bandits, and it seems that Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying are set to be married. However, Yingying's mother begins to regret her rash promise to Zhang Sheng, and takes back her word, with the excuse that Yingying is already betrothed to the son of another high official of the court. The two young lovers are greatly disappointed, and begin to pine away with their unfulfilled love. Fortunately, Yingying's maid, Hongniang, takes pity on them, and ingeniously arranges to bring them together in a secret union. When Yingying's mother discovers what her daughter has done, she reluctantly consents to a formal marriage on one condition: Zhang must travel to the capital and pass the civil service examination. To the joy of the young lovers, Zhang Sheng proves to be a brilliant scholar, and is appointed to high office. The story thus ends on a happy note, as the two are finally married.

Historical development
The original story was first told in a literary Chinese short story written by Yuan Zhen during the Tang dynasty. This version was called The Story of Yingying, or Yingying's Biography. This version differs from the later play in that Zhang Sheng ultimately breaks from Yingying, and does not ask for her hand in marriage. Despite the unhappy ending, the story was popular with later writers, and recitative works based on it began accumulating in the centuries that followed. Perhaps bowing to popular sentiment, the ending gradually changed to the happy one seen in the play. The first example of the modified version is a chantefable (諸宮調, zhu gongdiao) titled Romance of the Western Chamber Zhu Gongdiao (西廂記諸宮調) by Master Dong (董解元, Dong Jieyuan, Jieyuan is an honorific meaning "master") of the Jin dynasty (1115–1234). Wang Shifu's play was closely modeled on this version.

Reactions
Due to scenes that unambiguously described Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying fulfilling their love outside of the bond of marriage, moralists have traditionally considered The Story of the Western Wing to be an indecent, immoral, and licentious work. It was thus placed high on the list of forbidden books. Tang Laihe is reported to have said, "I heard that in the 1590s the performance of the Hsi-hsiang chi...was still forbidden among [good] families." Gui Guang (1613–1673) called the work "a book teaching debauchery." On the other hand, the famous critic Jin Shengtan considered it silly to declare a book containing sex to be immoral, since "If we consider [sex] more carefully, what day is without it? What place is without it? Can we say that because there is [sex] between Heaven and Earth, therefore Heaven and Earth should be abolished?".

Since the appearance of this play in the thirteenth century, it has enjoyed unparalleled popularity. The play has given rise to innumerable sequels, parodies, and rewritings; it has influenced countless later plays, short stories, and novels and has played a crucial role in the development of drama criticism.

The theme of the drama is an attack on traditional mores, supporting the longing of young people in those days for freedom of marriage, although it follows the timeworn pattern of a gifted scholar and a beautiful lady falling in love at first sight. According to the orthodox viewpoint of Confucian society, love was not supposed to be a basis for marriage, as most marriages were arranged by the parents of the couples, but the happy ending of The Romance of the Western Chamber embodies the aspirations of people for more meaningful and happier lives.

Thus, the biggest difference between The Story of Yingying and The Story of the Western Wing lies in their endings—the former has a sad ending while the latter has a happy ending. What's more,The Romance of the Western Chamber carries a more profound meaning in its conclusion, and directly suggests the ideal that all lovers in the world be settled down in a family union, with a more sharp-cut theme of attacking traditional mores and the traditional marriage system.

Cultural influences

Since the first performance, The Romance of the Western Chamber has become the most popular love comedy in China. Nowadays, it is still actively performed on the stage. In the original traditional forms of art performance, such as Kun Opera and Beijing Opera, and other new forms of performance like musical and film. The resourceful maidservant Hongniang in the story is so prominent that evolves from a supporting role to an indispensable main character, becoming the synonym of marriage matchmaker in Chinese culture. In some local versions, the plays even is named by her name and the story itself is only slightly changed. The Romance of the Western Chamber also had profound influences on other literary works, such as Dream of the Red Chamber, the first of China's Four Great Classical Novels, and another famous play, The Peony Pavilion, in the Ming dynasty. Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu reading Romance of the Western Chamber together is a very famous episode in the Dream of the Red Chamber. In chapter twenty-three, Lin Daiyu is surprised to find that Jia Baoyu is reading the play because in the Qing dynasty, this book was forbidden to read. At first, Baoyu tries to hide the book, but he could not hide it from her. Later, he expressed his love for Lin Daiyu through the famous sentences from the book.

Artistic achievement
Artists working in different media—including painting, woodblock printmaking, and pottery decoration—drew upon the various literary works that told the story of Zhang Sheng and Cui Yingying, and their work relates to developments in Chinese literature and drama.

In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, art that illustrated novels and dramatic productions became increasingly popular, and illustrations of The Romance of the Western Chamber were the most popular of all. Various Ming painters designed illustrations of the story, including Qian Gu, Tang Yin, and Chen Hongshou. One of the most accomplished renditions of the tale is the series of woodblock prints published, and probably designed, by Min Qiji (1580–after 1661) of Wucheng, Zhejiang province. His work, which dates to 1640, includes a frontispiece depicting Cui Yingying as well as one image for each of the twenty acts of the Yuan dynasty drama by Wang Shifu. Min Qiji's album may also be one of the first to rely on the Chinese taoban 套板 printing technique, using six colors to fill in contours but also to add modeling and shading to the depicted images. A significant innovation of Min Qiji's album is the presentation of scenes as if they were representations of dramatic performances or already-existing pictorial illustrations: the characters of the story appear as if they were paintings on handscrolls, folding fans, or standing screens; inscriptions on a bronze vessel; decorations on a lantern; and puppets used in a theatrical performance. It is possible that the innovative compositions of this album derive from designs by the Yuan artist Sheng Mao, also known as Sheng Mou (1271–1368). The album was likely meant to appeal to a wealthy customer who was a fan of the story.

From the 13th century to the 21st century, many scenes from The Romance of the Western Chamber decorated Chinese porcelain, although these have not been consistently recognized. Scenes from The Romance of the Western Chamber appear in porcelain of different periods, including the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. For example, the image of Yingying burning incense in the garden has become an archetype in Chinese art and is identifiable in decorated ceramics of the Jin, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties. Literary and dramatic scenes became popular as decorative patterns on blue-and-white porcelain produced in the Zhizheng era (1341–1367) of the Yuan dynasty. Allusions to The Romance of the Western Chamber in porcelain do not only draw upon Wang Shifu's drama in the 13th century, but also relate to early poetry inspired by narratives of the Song dynasty, as well as dramas and story-telling performances of songs in the Jin dynasty.

Translations
There have been numerous English translations:
 * The Romance of the Western Chamber (1935), translated by Hsiung Shih-I, Methuen Publishing
 * The West Chamber (1936), translated by Henry H. Hart, Oxford University Press (Hart did not translate the last act)
 * The Western Chamber (1958), translated by Hung Tseng-ling, Foreign Languages Press
 * The Romance of the Western Chamber (1973), translated and adapted by T.C. Lai and Ed Gamarekian, Heinemann Educational Books (Asia) Ltd. (Writing in Asia Series), with a foreword by Lin Yutang
 * The Story of the Western Wing (1995), translated by Stephen H. West and Wilt L. Idema, University of California Press
 * Romance of the Western Bower (2000), translated by Xu Yuanchong and Xu Ming, Foreign Languages Press (bilingual version)

The book was translated into Manchu as Möllendorff: Manju nikan Si siang ki. Vincenz Hundhausen made a German translation of this story. A French translation was made by Stanislas Julien in 1872.

Adaptations
It was a released as a silent film Romance of the Western Chamber in China in 1927, directed by Hou Yao. In 2005, the TVB series Lost in the Chamber of Love made a twist in the tale and had Hongniang, played by Myolie Wu, falling in love with Zhang Sheng, played by Ron Ng, while Cui Yingying, played by Michelle Ye, would marry Emperor Dezong of Tang, played by Kenneth Ma.

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Talk:Pathological jealousy

Morbid Jealousy is the most obvious result on google
I'll go on a move. It's all in good faith. -- f s  19:04, 19 April 2010 (UTC)

I've added content to the article
I changed the gender differences section to an overall epidemiology section and expanded on the information provided. I've also added information about the assessment aspect of diagnosis and how it begins to treat the issue. In addition to those two, I have also added some information on how to manage the behavior. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mshepha (talk • contribs) 20:32, 28 April 2013 (UTC)
 * Thank you, good job! However, I removed the information based on a 20 person's sample - this is a very specific group, all were in hospitals or locked forensic psychiatric facilities, the sample was made in 1998 and consists only of 20 people. There is no way of knowing if the results of this sample can be generalized to other people suffering from morbid jealousy. We would need secondary sources instead. With friendly regards,  Lova Falk     talk   22:34, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Just sticking above on this page. Can easily see both sides. Seemed spot on target for this article but agree n=20 isn't huge. Still a valuable ref from a top refereed journal, on target, so I put it here.
 * There were 20 cases of morbidly jealous cases sampled and studied in California. The results determined that average age at onset of psychosis was 28 years, however, morbidly jealous behaviors developed an average of 10 years later. Out of the 20 cases studied, 19 of the jealous persons were male. Eighty per cent of the jealous individuals were married and living in the same household as their spouses. The ethnicity of the sample was representative of the ethnicity of the population to control for the variable of ethnicity affecting the prevalence of morbid jealousy in any particular race.

Rick (talk) 17:07, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

Iago
This seems like a misnamed behaviour. Othello was very cleverly deceived by Iago. The evidence he saw (Iago's confirmation, the handkerchief, overheard conversations, Desdemona's own actions) did seem to support his fear that she had been unfaithful. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.6.206.67 (talk) 09:44, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Pathological controlling
This article (or maybe the "morbid jealousy" concept itself) may be at least in part misconceived. It may be part of the broader dynamic of an abuser obsessed with controlling someone else for an abusive purpose - see Isolation to facilitate abuse and Power and control in abusive relationships. So the obsession may be more about control in general and just using the delusion that partner is unfaithful may just be some deep rooted rationalisation that may be used in some circumstances. Also why should it just be a delusion about unfaithful partners, why not an unfounded jealousy in other contexts such as narcissistic jealousy. --Penbat (talk) 11:12, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Pathological jealousy
Pathological jealousy is a better title as in eg pathological lying.--Penbat (talk) 12:23, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

"Morbid jealousy" is just one type of possible pathological jealousy but it almost entirely monopolises this article.--Penbat (talk) 16:37, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Suspicious jealousy versus reactive jealousy
Article currently only deals with suspicious jealousy where unfaithfullness did not really occur instead of reactive jealousy which is a response to actual unfaithfullness.--Penbat (talk) 20:17, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Obsessional jealousy
Ideally obsessional jealousy should be merged here but first the sprawling existing content here needs to be radically trimmed. --Penbat (talk) 19:06, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

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Thomas DiLorenzo

Thomas James DiLorenzo (born August 8, 1954) is an author and former university economics professor who is the President of the Ludwig von Mises Institute. He has written books denouncing President Abraham Lincoln.

He is a research fellow at The Independent Institute, Board of Advisors member at CFACT, and an associate of the Abbeville Institute. He identifies with the Austrian School of economics. He has spoken in favor of secession and has been described as an ally of, or part of, the neo-Confederate movement.

Life and work
Thomas James DiLorenzo grew up in western Pennsylvania, descended from Italian immigrants. In an essay he attributed his individualism to playing sports. He began to study libertarianism in college.

He has a BA in Economics from Westminster College in Pennsylvania. He holds a PhD in Economics from Virginia Tech.

DiLorenzo has taught at the State University of New York at Buffalo, George Mason University, and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.

He is a former adjunct fellow of the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University in St. Louis. From 1992 to 2020, he was a professor of economics at Loyola University Maryland Sellinger School of Business. As of 2020, DiLorenzo was no longer listed as active faculty at Loyola University, and instead as a professor emeritus. He is a research fellow at the Independent Institute.

DiLorenzo is a speaker at Mises Institute events and teaches some of its online courses. He writes for the blog LewRockwell.com. He was listed as an affiliated scholar though 2009 of the Institute for the Study of Southern Culture, which is run by the League of the South, a neo-Confederate group. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in 2004 described DiLorenzo as one of 10 key ideologues in the neo-Confederate movement.

Views
DiLorenzo writes about what he calls "the myth of Lincoln" in American history and politics. He has said, "Lincoln is on record time after time rejecting the idea of racial equality. But whenever anyone brings this up, the Lincoln partisans go to the extreme to smear the bearer of bad news." DiLorenzo has spoken out in favor of the secession of the Confederate States of America, defending the right of these states to secede from an abolitionist perspective. He has described himself as a historical revisionist. He has called the American Civil War the "War for Southern Independence".

DiLorenzo is critical of Alexander Hamilton's financial views, the concept of "implied powers" in the Constitution, the existence of a federal bank, and the use of Keynesian economics to increase the national debt.

DiLorenzo is critical of neoconservatism and military interventionism.

Books
DiLorenzo has written extensively on Abraham Lincoln. According to one historian, "Most historians are inclined to dismiss DiLorenzo as a crackpot. But... his books generally sell better than those of academic 'Lincolnologists' and... [his] views help lay the foundation for conservative political action today", historian David Blight has recently suggested that we ignore these writings at our peril."

DiLorenzo's book The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War is a critical biography published in 2002. Writing for The Daily Beast, Rich Lowry described DiLorenzo's technique in this book as the following: "His scholarship, such as it is, consists of rummaging through the record for anything he can find to damn Lincoln, stripping it of any nuance or context, and piling on pejorative adjectives. In DiLorenzo, the Lincoln-haters have found a champion with the judiciousness and the temperament they deserve."

In a review published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute, David Gordon described DiLorenzo's thesis: Lincoln was a "white supremacist" with no principled interest in abolishing slavery, and believed in a strong central government that imposed high tariffs and a nationalized banking system. He attributes the South's secession to Lincoln's economic policies rather than a desire to preserve slavery. Gordon quotes DiLorenzo: "slavery was already in sharp decline in the border states and the upper South generally, mostly for economic reasons".

Reviewing for The Independent Review, the magazine of The Independent Institute, a think tank associated with DiLorenzo, Richard M. Gamble of Palm Beach Atlantic University said that the book "manages to raise fresh and morally probing questions" and that DiLorenzo "writes primarily not as a defender of the Old South and its institutions, culture, and traditions, but as a libertarian enemy of the Leviathan state" but bemoans that DiLorenzo was "careless" in his handling of sources and despite his "evident courage and ability", his execution was lacking. Gamble concludes that the book is a "travesty of historical method and documentation". He said the book was plagued by a "labyrinth of [historical and grammatical] errors", and that DiLorenzo has "earned the... ridicule of his critics."

In a review for the Claremont Institute, historian Ken Masugi writes that "DiLorenzo adopts as his own the fundamental mistake of leftist multi-culturalist historians: confusing the issue of race with the much more fundamental one, which was slavery." He noted that in Illinois "the anti-slavery forces actually joined with racists to keep their state free of slavery, and also free of blacks." Masugi called DiLorenzo's work "shabby" and stated that DiLorenzo's treatment of Lincoln was "feckless" and that the book is "truly awful". In 2002, DiLorenzo debated Claremont Institute fellow professor Harry V. Jaffa on the merits of Abraham Lincoln's statesmanship before and during the Civil War.

DiLorenzo's book, Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed to Know About Dishonest Abe (2007), continues his explorations begun in The Real Lincoln. Reviews in The Washington Post and Publishers Weekly both stated that the book seemed directed at unnamed scholars who had praised Lincoln's contributions. Justin Ewers criticized DiLorenzo, saying this book "is more of a diatribe against a mostly unnamed group of Lincoln scholars than a real historical analysis. His wild assertions – for example, that Lincoln held 'lifelong white supremacist views' – don't help his argument." Publishers Weekly described this as a "laughable screed," in which DiLorenzo "charges that most scholars of the Civil War are part of a 'Lincoln cult';" he particularly attacks scholar Eric Foner, characterizing him and others as "cover-up artists" and "propagandists".

Writing for the Mises Institute, David Gordon summarises DiLorenzo's thesis: that Lincoln opposed the extension of slavery to new states because black labor would compete with white labor; that Lincoln hoped that all blacks would eventually be deported to Africa in order that white laborers could have more work. According to Gordon, DiLorenzo states that Lincoln supported emancipation of slaves only as a wartime expedient to help defeat the South.

In a 2009 review of three newly published books on Lincoln, historian Brian Dirck linked the earlier work of Thomas DiLorenzo with that of Lerone Bennett, another critic of Lincoln. He wrote that "Few Civil War scholars take Bennett and DiLorenzo seriously, pointing to their narrow political agenda and faulty research."

DiLorenzo's 2008 book Hamilton's Curse: How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution--and What It Means for Americans Today expands on DiLorenzo's libertarian, small government views and details ideological differences between "Hamiltonians" and "Jeffersonians" in the role of the central government.

League of the South involvement
In 2009, Indiana University historian Carl R Weinberg wrote in the magazine of the Organization of American Historians that "DiLorenzo has also allied himself with the neo-Confederate League of the South, which shares his view that slavery had little to do with the Civil War and that 'big government' is the root of all evil."

Congressman Lacy Clay criticized DiLorenzo for his associations with the group when DiLorenzo testified before the House Financial Services Committee at the request of former U.S. Congressman Ron Paul in 2011. Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank noted that the League of the South had listed DiLorenzo on its Web site as an "affiliated scholar" as recently as 2008. Milbank also wrote that DiLorenzo had in 2010 told a secessionist Web site, DumpDC, that "secession is not only possible but necessary if any part of America is ever to be considered 'the land of the free' in any meaningful sense".

DiLorenzo denied any affiliation with the group, telling a Baltimore Sun reporter that "I don't endorse what they say and do any more than I endorse what Congress says and does because I spoke at a hearing on Wednesday." An investigation was subsequently conducted by his employer, but no action was taken. In a LewRockwell.com column, he described his association with the League as limited to "a few lectures on the economics of the Civil War" he gave to The League of the South Institute about thirteen years ago. In a 2005 LewRockwell.com article, DiLorenzo addressed concerns against the League of the South's core beliefs statement stating that neoconservative viewpoints were at odds with the League of the South's statement, leading to vitriol. Further, DiLorenzo argues that the current Republican party is descended, not from the small-government views of Jefferson, but rather from the ideals of the Hamiltonian Federalist Party.

Publications
DiLorenzo has authored several books, including:
 * ''The Politically Incorrect Guide to Economics (2022) Regnery Publishing, ISBN 978-1684512980.
 * The Problem with Lincoln (2020) Regnery History, ISBN 978-1684510184
 * The Problem with Socialism (2016) Regnery Publishing, ISBN 978-1621575894.
 * Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government (2012). Ludwig von Mises Institute, ISBN 978-1610162562.
 * Hamilton's Curse: How Jefferson's Arch Enemy Betrayed the American Revolution – and What It Means for Americans Today (2009). Random House, ISBN 978-0307382856.
 * Lincoln Unmasked: What You're Not Supposed To Know about Dishonest Abe (2006). Random House, ISBN 978-0307338419.
 * How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold History of Our Country, From the Pilgrims to the Present (2004). Random House, ISBN 9780761525264.
 * The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War (2003). Random House, ISBN 978-0761536413.
 * From Pathology to Politics: Public Health in America, with James T. Bennett, (2000). Transaction Publishers, ISBN 0765800233.
 * The Food and Drink Police: America's Nannies, Busybodies, and Petty Tyrants with James T. Bennett, (1998). Transaction Publishers, ISBN 978-1560003854.
 * CancerScam: The Diversion of Federal Cancer Funds for Politics, with James T. Bennett, (1997). Transaction Publishers, ISBN 978-1560003342.
 * Underground government: the off-budget public sector, with James T. Bennett, (1983), Cato Institute, ISBN 978-0932790378.

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Mike Keith (sportscaster)

Mike Keith (born September 11, 1967) is the radio play-by-play voice of the National Football League’s Tennessee Titans. His signature phrase is an emphatic and raspy "Touchdown Titans!", especially pronouncing "Titans" with a glottal stop after each Titan touchdown, and a loud and drawn out cry of "SSAAAAAAAAAAACCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKK" after every sack.

Early life
Keith’s broadcasting ambitions began at age seven, when his father began taking him to University of Tennessee football and basketball games. While attending elementary school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Keith was part of a reading program where he participated in a mock newscast. In 1977, his family moved to Franklin, Tennessee, a Nashville suburb. Keith attended high school at Battle Ground Academy in Franklin. He played a wide receiver, punter, and defensive back as a member of the school’s football team.

After high school, Keith attended the University of Tennessee. Here, he began his broadcasting career as a student and continued after completing school. From 1987–98, Keith worked for the legendary John Ward with the Vol Radio Network, a network that covered University of Tennessee athletics. From 1989–98, Keith hosted daily sports talk shows on WIVK, a Knoxville, Tennessee radio station, and he covered University of Tennessee sports in Knoxville for WIVK-FM radio and WBIR-TV television.

Tennessee Titans Career
In 1996, Bud Adams, the owner of the National Football League’s Houston Oilers announced he would move his team to Nashville. That same year, while the team was in still in Houston, Keith began hosting a pre-game show for Tennessee stations that carried the Oilers games. He served as the network’s scoreboard host in 1997 before moving into the booth as color analyst in 1998. In 1999, Keith took over the play-by-play duties.

Since taking over the play-by-play role, Keith has consistently announced every Titans touchdown with his signature phrase, "Touchdown Titans!" Keith's most famous call is that of the Music City Miracle, near the end of his first season as play-by-play announcer. The unbelievable play resulted in a last-minute Titans win that kept them alive in the 1999–2000 NFL Playoffs and eventually led the team to Super Bowl XXXIV.

Since 1999, Keith has won the Tennessee Sportscaster of the Year Award twelve times. He also hosts the television show Titans All Access, in addition to hosting daily Titans updates on Titans Radio, and hosting the weekly Mike Vrabel Show, a radio show which features the Titans' former head coach as co-host.

Personal life
Keith and his wife, Michelle, have a daughter and a son. Keith was also the play-by-play radio voice of the Arena Football League's Nashville Kats. He also worked as the public address announcer for Battle Ground Academy’s home football games. Keith’s father, Bill, is president of FirstExpress, a truckload carrier company based in Nashville.

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This guy, Dædαlus, is in there trying to remove parts that you, I and many others contributed to the Repo Man article. Please add to the bottom of this thread on the Repo Man talk page that you think the "Notable Motifs" section should not be blanked (erased), but left as is since the Pulp Fiction article also has a "Notable Motifs" section that isn't being considered for removal at all (even by Dædαlus himself).

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Excusé moi? How is it that a few serious articles - some of which I watch - can be continually vandalized by the same perpetrator despite numerous reverts, but I can’t post a mere two hilarious attempts at reaching the coveted bad joke pages without being accused of the same crime? There’s a difference between posting wonderfully crafted - and highly entertaining, I might add - articles of one’s own, and deliberately setting out to destroy the thoughtful work of others. Masked Loser 05:17, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * The internet has many forums for humor and silly fun. As Wikipedia is a project to build an encyclopedia, it is not in that category. I hope you'll find a forum that finds your writing hilarious elsewhere. Serious articles are welcome here. Cheers, -- Infrogmation 16:20, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Just FYI, I have contributed quite a few serious articles to this project, as well as extensive copy edits of the factual variety. At least one of my articles - oddly enough, since it's not a disputed topic - is often vandalized. I've said it before and I'll say it again: Creating the occasional joke article is not in the same catagory as deliberately ruining someone else's work. Judging by the condescending tone you've adopted in your reply, you take easily deleted articles too seriously. It's not like some kid is going to stumble across "sexilicious" and be led astray :) Joke pages aren't going to bring about the downfall of wikipedia - not in the same way as the 'work' of people who travel around this site adding garbage to factual articles. *sigh* But if you insist on sucking all the joy out of life, then what can I, the Masked Losah do, but turn out serious material? Masked Loser 17:31, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Infrogmation adds: There's a huge internet out there. Wikipedia is one small specific piece. There are places for silly essays, strings of bad puns, political debate, insults, pornography, geneological research etc etc. There are great portions of the internet where writing an encyclopedia style article would be off topic. Take a look at What Wikipedia is not. I'm not interested in further debate with you on this topic. I'm quite sure that many of the drive-by vandals consider their addition of random obcenties to articles to be HILARIOUS. If you think that my objecting to such alleged hilarity to be "sucking the joy out of life", it sounds to me like you have a startlingly narrow conception of potential for joy. Good luck in expanding your joy, whether contributing to encyclopedic articles is part of it or not. Ciao, -- Infrogmation 22:02, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * For the record, it's your inability to see the difference between posting joke articles and wrecking the work of others that makes you so short-sighted. But, boy-oh-boy, your tone indicates your capacities for joy and intellectual understanding so outstrip mine. Masked Loser 00:58, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

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Vain

Vain may refer to:

 * Vain (band), an American glam metal band formed in 1986
 * Vain (horse) (1966–1991), an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse
 * Vain Stakes, an Australian Thoroughbred horse race
 * Vaginal intraepithelial neoplasia, a medical disorder
 * Edvard August Vainio (1853–1929), taxonomic author abbreviation Vain., Finnish lichenologist
 * Vanity Vain, Swedish drag queen
 * Vain, a fictional creature in The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant by Stephen Donaldson
 * Vain London, Fashion house based in London by American designer Quaivaughn Jackson in 2023

title: Vain