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Miranda (The Tempest)

Miranda is one of the principal characters of William Shakespeare's The Tempest. She is the only female character to appear on stage.

Miranda is the daughter of Prospero, another of the main characters of The Tempest. She was banished to the Island along with her father at age three, and in the subsequent twelve years has lived with her father and their slave, Caliban, as her only company. She is openly compassionate and unaware of the evils of the world that surrounds her, learning of her father's fate only as the play begins.

Origins
There is some speculation that Miranda, along with her husband, Ferdinand, may be intended to represent Elizabeth Stuart and her new spouse, Elector Frederick V, as The Tempest was originally performed for the court of Elizabeth's father, King James, in celebration of the Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Frederick V of the Palatinate.

Role in the play
The Tempest's second scene begins with Miranda, begging her father to spare the lives of the men at sea. She's fully aware of the powers Prospero possesses and begs him to cease the storm. In an act of bravery she challenges her father's wisdom, arguing that: "Had I been any god of power, I would / Have sunk the sea within the earth or ere / It should the good ship so have swallow'd and / The fraughting souls within her." As the scene progresses it is revealed to her that she is, in fact, the high ranking daughter of the Duke of Milan.

When Prospero's servant appears, Miranda is placed into a magically induced sleep. She awakes when she is summoned and it is quickly shown that the two have a contentious relationship, most probably due to Caliban's failed attempt to rape her, she refers to him as "a villain, sir, I do not love to look on." (I, ii).

As the moment with Caliban progresses, Miranda rebukes Caliban for the hatred he expresses towards her father: Abhorred slave,

Which any print of goodness wilt not take,

Being capable of all ill! I pitied thee,

Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour

One thing or other: when thou didst not, savage,

Know thine own meaning, but wouldst gabble like

A thing most brutish, I endow'd thy purposes

With words that made them known. But thy vile race,

Though thou didst learn, had that in't which

good natures

Could not abide to be with; therefore wast thou

Deservedly confined into this rock,

Who hadst deserved more than a prison.

Moments later she encounters Ferdinand for the first time and the two immediately fall in love. Miranda is amazed by the sight of him, questioning whether or not he is a spirit. While Prospero is pleased by the immediate connection the two display, he purposefully takes up an attitude of animosity towards the shipwrecked prince, forbidding a relationship between the two in order that Ferdinand will place a higher value on his daughter's affection.

During the encounter Miranda once again stands up to her father, arguing against his harsh treatment of Ferdinand and defending his honour when Prospero refers to him as nothing more than another Caliban.

Miranda's next appearance is in the third act. She and Ferdinand take a few moments together to get acquainted and are quickly married. She insists on doing the work that her father has assigned him, and freely admits her naivety to him before swearing her love for him. The scene ends with their marriage, Miranda swearing she will be his servant if Ferdinand will not take her as his wife.

Later on, she and her new husband enjoy a masque put on by her father in celebration of their nuptials. The celebration is interrupted by Prospero's sudden remembrance of Caliban's plot against him, after which Miranda displays a strong concern for her father's well-being. Her last appearance is in the play's final scene. After Prospero reveals himself to the assembled crowd he reveals the happy couple engaged in a game of chess. Miranda is teasing Ferdinand for cheating but admits that even if he is dishonest, she's more than happy to believe it for the love she bears for him.

When she is finally introduced to the assembled crowd she reacts with wonder, proclaiming the play's most famous lines:

O wonder!

How many goodly creatures are there here!

How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world,

That has such people in't.

Feminine Virtue Personified
The Tempest interprets Miranda as a living representation of female virtue. Miranda is typically viewed as having believed herself to be subordinate towards her father. She is loving, kind, and compassionate as well as obedient to her father and is described as "perfect and peerless, created of every creature's best". She is, furthermore, the only female character within a cast of strong male figures, and much of her interaction on stage is dominated by the male figures around her. Miranda's behaviour is typically seen as completely dictated by Prospero, from her interactions with Caliban to her ultimate decision to marry Ferdinand. The traits that make her the pinnacle of femininity are her innocence and vulnerability, and these traits allow her to be readily manipulated first by her father then Ferdinand.

However, some critics argue that those same "feminine" traits enable her to be a strong female presence with important effects on the play's outcome. Throughout the course of the play, Miranda acts as a foil to Prospero's more violent instincts and serves as a sounding board to move the play's plot further. She is also a central figure in her father's revenge, enabling Prospero to gain political prestige through her marriage to the Prince of Naples, Ferdinand. Furthermore, while Miranda is very much subservient to Prospero's power, some critics argue that her obedience is a conscious choice. Miranda proves herself willing to challenge Prospero's power, first by calling into question his treatment of the shipwrecked sailors and then defying his commandment to have nothing to do with Prince Ferdinand.

Her decision to pursue a relationship with Ferdinand is also interpreted by critics as an indication that her marriage to him is more than a simple political match. Miranda makes a very clear decision to seek out Ferdinand and offer her assistance, all the while worrying that her father will discover them. She is also the one to abandon traditional concepts of Elizabethan modesty by ardently stating her love for Ferdinand, proclaiming that "I am your wife, if you will marry me; / If not, I'll die your maid".

Critics also argue that Miranda's feminine presence is essential to the central theme of the play. Miranda's influence is what dulls the worst of her father's anger; Prospero cites her as being his reason for living after their initial banishment and he informs her that everything he does is "in care" of her. Michael Neill argues that Miranda's function on the Island is that of a Christ-figure—that she is the indicator of a given character's moral status within the social hierarchy of the island and that she also serves to protect the ethical code of the Island's inhabitants and visitors. Caliban, whom she rejects, is shown to be a monstrous figure, while Ferdinand—whom she embraces—is saved by her presence, her sympathy lightening the "baseness" of his given task. Critic Melissa Sanchez analyses Miranda in a similar light, discussing her as a representation of an "angelic—but passive—soul "caught in the conflict between enlightenment and base desire (represented by Prospero and Caliban).

Critic Lorie Leininger argues that Miranda fits into the colonialist interpretation of The Tempest in that Prospero's use of Miranda as an unwitting player in his political revenge is expressive of the play's sexist attitude towards women. Leininger equates that the sexist attitudes displayed towards Miranda are equitable to the undercurrents of racism shown in the treatment of Caliban. She states that Prospero's treatment of Miranda is in essence the same as his treatment of Caliban, describing his attitude towards both as indicative of their subjugation within the social hierarchy of the Island.

Leininger also argues that Miranda's sexualisation is a weapon used against her by her father, stating that Prospero uses Caliban's attempted assault and Ferdinand's romantic overtures to marginalise her, simplifying her into a personification of chastity. In Leininger's analysis, Caliban is treated in a similar fashion, forced into the role of an uncivilised savage without heed for his individual needs and desires—much in the same way that Miranda is expected to marry Ferdinand and reject Caliban's advances simply because her father wishes it.

Critic Jessica Slights creates claims that although many declare that Miranda only reflects the image of an obedient and subservient woman; she argues Miranda's character is independent. Miranda's upbringing shapes her character and the view of the world around her. She is not confined to social constructs as she did not grow up within a conventional society. This leads Miranda to view the world without preconceived ideas. Prospero is the main guardian in her life, but she developed personality traits such as kind-heartedness that are, as many describe, distinct in comparison to Prospero’s. In addition, she challenged the rules of traditional courtship when she pursued Ferdinand. What I desire to give; and much less take

What I shall die to want. But this is trifling,

And all the more it seeks to hide itself,

The bigger bulk it shows. Hence, bashful cunning,

And prompt me, plain and holy innocence!

I am your wife, if you will marry me;

If not, I’ll die your maid. To be your fellow

You may deny me, but I’ll be your servant,

Whether you will or no.

Miranda's first interaction with Ferdinand was a revelation for her view on men besides Prospero. Having another person in her life shifted her attention away from Prospero, as she became aware of what she wanted out her life. This moment separates her past life to the life Miranda expects for the future. This was an opportunity that let her too not only to express her sexuality, but to also reclaim her independence.

Colonialism
While The Tempest is frequently analysed from postcolonial angles as a reaction to European colonialism in the early modern era, Miranda does not make an appearance in the majority of such analyses. As the play's only female character, Miranda functions mostly as a representation of women instead of a representation of a colonised group. Lorie Leininger, discussed in the previous section, argues that Miranda is part of a group subjugated by colonialism due to her gender, but as far as direct connections to European colonisation overseas, Miranda does not connect directly to the majority of postcolonial analyses.

However, Miranda can be interpreted as an allegory for the softer side of colonialism, portraying the more "missionary" aspect of colonisation attempts, in that she tries to educate Caliban instead of treating him as a sub-human citizen like her father seems keen to. She also displays far more sympathy to the shipwrecked Prince Ferdinand than her father does, and is eager to make his stay on the island as comfortable as possible. Her attitude towards the discovered peoples as well as the newly discovered castaway sharply contrasts her father's inclination to conquer and destroy, painting her not only as a compassionate figure but as one sympathetic to the colonial plight.

Controversial lines
In Act I, Scene II, the lines spoken by Miranda to Caliban rebuking him for his ill-treatment of Prospero are frequently reassigned to Prospero. Editors and critics of the play felt that the speech was probably wrongly attributed to her either as a printing error or because actors preferred that no character would remain silent too long on stage.

Critics also argue that the language used by Miranda in this speech is out of character for her, given her lack of knowledge of the world that makes Caliban's behaviour so shocking, as well as the fact that her style of speaking strongly resembles Prospero's mannerisms. Furthermore, the use of anger and strong language removes the image of youth and innocence Shakespeare cultivates of Miranda and does not seem to be in keeping with her behaviour for the rest of the play.

However, others feel that Miranda's speech here is correctly attributed. As the play progresses, Caliban refers to Miranda as his "mistress", saying that it was Miranda who explained to him what the moon and stars are.

Furthermore, some critics do acknowledge that while the language in this particular speech is stronger than expected for Miranda, it is far weaker than Prospero's form of address would be given the situation.

In astronomy
Miranda (moon), one of the moons of Uranus is named after her, in keeping with other Uranian moons named after characters from Shakespeare and Pope.

In popular culture
Her lines spoken at the end of Act V, Scene I are the inspiration for the title of the novel Brave New World.

Clare Savage, a protagonist of Michelle Cliff's novel No Telephone to Heaven, is frequently seen to be a modernised Miranda. Miranda is featured in the 2019 novella Miranda in Milan, which imagines the events after The Tempest.

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Max Heindel

Max Heindel (born Carl Louis von Grasshoff, July 23, 1865 – January 6, 1919) was an American Christian occultist, astrologer, and mystic.

Early life
Carl Louis von Grasshoff was born in Aarhus, Denmark, into the noble family von Grasshoff, which was connected to the German Court during the lifetime of Prince Bismarck. His father, Francois L. von Grasshoff, migrated to Copenhagen as a young man and married a Danish woman of noble birth. They had two sons and one daughter. Their older son was Carl Louis von Grasshoff, who would later adopt the pen name of Max Heindel. When he was six years old, his father died, leaving his mother with three small children in difficult circumstances. Max Heindel's infancy was thus lived in genteel poverty. His mother's small income was dedicated to private tutors for her sons and daughter, so that they might eventually take their place in society as members of the noble classes.

Heindel left home at the age of sixteen to learn engineering at the ship-yards of Glasgow, Scotland. As Chief Engineer of a trading steamer, he traveled extensively, and eventually found himself working on one of the large passenger steamers of the Cunard Line operating between America and Europe. From 1895 to 1901, he was a consulting engineer in New York City. During this time, he married and had a son and two daughters. His wife died in 1905.

Career
In 1903, Max Heindel moved to Los Angeles, California, seeking work. After attending lectures by the theosophist C.W. Leadbeater, he joined the Theosophical Society of Los Angeles, of which he became vice-president in 1904 and 1905. He also became a vegetarian, and began the study of astrology, which he felt gave him the key to unlocking the mysteries of man's inner nature. He met his future wife Augusta Foss around this time. However, overwork and privation brought him severe heart trouble in 1905, and for months he lay at the point of death. Upon his recovery he said he was more keenly aware of the needs of humanity. He said that he spent much of the time during this illness out of his body, consciously working and seeking for the truth as he might find it on the invisible planes.

From 1906 to 1907 he started a lecture tour, in order to spread his occult knowledge. He began in San Francisco and then went to Seattle. After a course of lectures in that city he was again forced to spend some time in a hospital with valvular heart trouble. Upon his recovery, still undaunted, he once more took up his work of lecturing in the northwestern part of the United States.

In the fall of 1907, during a most successful period of lectures in Minnesota, he travelled to Berlin (Germany) with his friend Dr. Alma Von Brandis, who had been for months trying to persuade him, in order to hear a cycle of lectures by Rudolf Steiner. During his short stay in Germany, he developed a sincere admiration of Steiner, to which "esteemed teacher and valued friend" he dedicated his magnum opus. He sat in on several lectures and had one or two interviews with Steiner and he could learn about occult truth from the founder of later Anthroposophy, but at the same time he understood that this teacher could not help him to advance along the path of spiritual development.

Heindel reported that, with his mind already made up to return, feeling that he had given up his work in America in vain to take this trip, he was visited by the vital body of a spiritual being who identified himself as an Elder Brother of the Rosicrucian Order, an Order in the inner worlds formed in the year 1313 and having no direct connection to physical organizations which call themselves by this name. Heindel claimed that the Elder Brother gave him information which was concise and logical and beyond anything he was capable of writing. Later, he found out that during a previous visit of the Elder Brother, he was put to a test to determine his worthiness to be messenger of the Western Wisdom Teachings. He recounts that only then he was given instruction how to reach the etheric Temple of the Rose Cross, near the German/Bohemian border, and how at this Temple he was in direct communication with and under the personal instructions of the Elder Brothers of the Rose Cross. The Rosicrucian Order is described as being composed of twelve Elder Brothers, gathered around a thirteenth who is the invisible Head. These great Adepts, belonging to human evolution but having already advanced far beyond the cycle of rebirth, are reported as being among those exalted Beings who guide mankind's evolution. Further, some help him manifest without necessarily being under any compulsion to do so.

Heindel–Steiner connection
Current research on the connection between the two seers Max Heindel and Rudolf Steiner describes that "he [Heindel] felt that what Steiner was doing was not appropriate for America where pragmatism and clear linear thinking is predominant" and "that he did not find what he was looking for there (a Western oriented spirituality that was accessible to the general public)". It is also described that Heindel's magnum opus [see following section] having a "more far-reaching body of Teachings" contains "information not otherwise available in the public domain or available without supersensible perception of an advanced degree".

Magnum opus
Heindel returned to America in the summer of 1908 where he at once started to formulate the Rosicrucian teachings, the Western Wisdom Teachings, which he had received from the Elder Brothers, published as a book entitled The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception in 1909. It is a reference work in the Christian mysticism practice and in the Occult study literature, containing the fundamentals of Esoteric Christianity from a Rosicrucian perspective. The Cosmo contains a comprehensive outline of the evolutionary processes of man and the universe, correlating the science of his day with religion. Part I is a treatise on the Visible and the Invisible Worlds, Man and the Method of Evolution, Rebirth and the Law of Cause and Effect. Part II takes up the scheme of Evolution in general and the Evolution of the Solar System and the Earth in particular. Part III treats of Christ and His Mission, Future Development of Man and Initiation, Esoteric Training and a Safe Method of Acquiring Firsthand Knowledge. The first edition was printed in 1909 and has changed little since then.

Esoteric school
From 1909 to 1919, suffering a severe heart condition and with an adverse financial situation, but with an indomitable will and great energy, Max Heindel was able to accomplish the great work for the Brothers of the Rose Cross. With the help, support and inspiration of his wife Augusta Foss, to whom in August 1910 he was joined in marriage, he gave successful teaching lectures; he sent correspondence lessons to the students, who formed groups in many of the larger cities; he wrote volumes which are translated into many languages all over the world; he founded The Rosicrucian Fellowship in 1909/11 at Mount Ecclesia, Oceanside (California); he published the Christian Esoteric magazine Rays from the Rose Cross in 1913 and, above all, he launched the Fellowship's Spiritual Healing service.

It is described that, at his death, his body dropped slowly as if loving hands were holding him and laying him down gently; as he looked up, smiling into Mrs. Heindel's face, he spoke his last words: "I am all right dear."

Last, it is worthy of mention that the work prepared by Max Heindel has since been continued through students of the Western Wisdom Teachings who, as Invisible Helpers of mankind, assist the Elder Brothers of the Rose Cross to perform the Spiritual Healing around the world. This is the special work in which the Rosicrucian Order is interested and is provided according to the commands of Christ, namely, "Preach the gospel and heal the sick."

Death
Heindel died on January 6, 1919, in Oceanside, California, United States.

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Jumping Frenchmen of Maine

The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine were a group of 19th-century lumberjacks who exhibited a rare disorder of unknown origin. The syndrome entails an exaggerated startle reflex which may be described as an uncontrollable "jump." Individuals with this condition could exhibit sudden movements in all parts of the body. Jumping Frenchmen syndrome shares some symptoms with other startle disorders.

Individuals with this condition were first found in the Moosehead Lake region of Maine, and were first described by George Miller Beard in 1878.

Signs and symptoms
George Miller Beard recorded individuals who would obey any command given suddenly, even if it meant striking a loved one; the Jumping Frenchmen seemed to react abnormally to sudden stimuli. The more common and less intense symptoms consisted of jumping, yelling, and hitting. These individuals exhibited outrageous bursts, and many described themselves as ticklish and shy. Other cases involved echolalia (repeating vocalizations made by another person) and echopraxia (repeating movements made by another person). Beard noted that the men were "suggestible" and that they "could not help repeating the word or sounds that came from the person that ordered them any more than they could help striking, dropping, throwing, jumping, or starting."

Causes
The cause of Jumping Frenchmen syndrome is unknown. One theory is that it is a genetic condition. An observation of 50 cases found the disorder to be remotely located and concentrated in the northern regions of Maine. Fourteen of these cases were found in four families. Another set of cases were found in a single family where the father, his two sons, and his two grandchildren exhibited "jumping" behavior.

It may also be a culture-bound syndrome, mass psychogenic illness, or a formed habit. These French "jumpers" lived in a very remote region and most were lumberjacks. This type of small community would allow for a majority to adapt to this sort of reaction. Also, instances of many being shy may imply that the "jumper" was positively reinforced by the sudden attention as the entertainment for a group.

In 1885, Georges Gilles de la Tourette included Jumping Frenchmen syndrome in the typology of "convulsive tic illness"; studies of the condition in the 1980s cast doubt on whether the phenomenon was in fact a physical condition similar to Tourette syndrome. Documentation of direct observation of "Jumping Frenchmen" has been scarce, and while video evidence was recorded by several researchers that showed the condition to be real, MH and JM Saint-Hilaire concluded from studying eight affected people that it was brought on by conditions at their lumber camps and was psychological, not neurological.

Differential diagnosis
Jumping Frenchmen of Maine syndrome must be distinguished from other conditions involving the startle reflex or tics.

Tourette syndrome is characterized by multiple physical (motor) tics and at least one vocal (phonic) tic. There are many overlaps when compared clinically, but the abnormal "jumping" response is always provoked, unlike the involuntary tics in Tourette syndrome.

Similar conditions

 * Latah is a disorder found in southeast Asia in which one's startle response is similar to a state of trance with repetitive speech or movements.
 * Meryachenie is a disorder found in Siberia that also displays an action similar to "jumping."
 * Neurasthenia is a disorder with a startle response during periods of great fatigue.
 * Hyperekplexia is a rare autosomal dominant neurological disease. The symptoms begin in infancy with hypertonia, an abnormal muscle tension that decreases flexibility, and an exaggerated startle in all ages of life.

History
Beard had a unique interest in unusual disorders and took the opportunity to observe the epidemic in Maine. He recorded "startle, jumping, and tic-like behaviors" among the French Canadians and lumberjacks who lived near Moosehead Lake in northern Maine. He published his descriptions of the Jumping Frenchmen in 1880, and he believed the condition was hereditary. History of Medicine professor Howard I. Kushner calls Beard's description "the most influential and detailed study" of these behaviors.

According to Kushner, the French physician Jean-Martin Charcot chose his resident, Georges Gilles de la Tourette, to investigate the "relationship between tic disorders and jumping and startle behaviors reported in Malaysia, Siberia, and Maine"; Gilles de la Tourette translated Beard's descriptions and published them one year after Beard's papers. In 1885, Tourette published "Study of a Nervous Affliction" where he included the startle disorders in the typology of what he called "convulsive tic illness", that included what later came to be known as Tourette syndrome. Kushner argues that none of the patients studied by Tourette supported this assertion, and says that "many of his contemporaries refuted Gilles de la Tourette's typology."

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This page is redundant with Paraphilia. It should be merged into that article if there's anything here worth saving. -- Beland 01:28, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep since both are valid names, but one should be a redir to the other. List this issue here: Duplicate articles -- D AVODD  [[User_talk:Davodd|« TALK »]] 06:45, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)
 * The content is patent nonsense. Redirect it now if need be, and be done with it. 129.94.6.28 06:46, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep and cleanup. Not quite the same thing as paraphilia although closely related. Agree it needs work. Andrewa 13:17, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Comment - Psychosexual more often refers to Freud's theory of psychosexual development. Darksun 18:28, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Redirect to paraphilia.   — Gwalla | Talk 02:44, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Darksun is right: "psychosexual disorder" is 100% psychoanalysis, and Freudian to boot. The problem is that this article isn't about the Freudian theories and how they dominate(d) psychiatry.  VfD is not the right place to ask for a rewrite, and Clean Up probably won't do it.  Therefore, delete because a redirect is not on target: this topic is Freudianism, and redirecting it to the more behaviorist and descriptive paraphilia is a bit of a mislead. Geogre 13:14, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Rewrite to handle Geogre's concerns. If it's a notable concept in Freudian psychology, which I believe it is, then deleting it is a bad idea. I don't understand his objection to rewriting except that perhaps he thinks they won't do it correctly. --Improv 19:04, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * So I Googled around a bit, and this term appears to be in common use to refer to any sex-related psychological disorder. The content currently on this page is certainly already covered in Paraphilia, but if we are going to leave a redirect behind, I would actually recommend Sexual problems, which includes paraphilia and many other things listed by the DSM.  It would not be inappropriate to include a note there about Freudian psychology and its theories and terminology of sexual disorder. But it's probably best to discuss those disorders somewhere other than under "Psychosexual disorder". -- Beland 04:03, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete The current contents comprise two paragraphs that don't say much. Psychosexual disorders could include an enormous amount of information. Paraphilia is just one small section of the area. For instance, premature ejaculation is a sexual disorder that is most certainly not a paraphilia although they could coexist. I have recently gone through creating DSM type categories and have included Category:Sexual and gender identity disorder which has 11 subcategories. There is currently not an article with that heading. I was wondering what to do with Category:paraphilia which seems a bit disorganised at present. It really should be a subcategory of sexual and gender identity disorder in addition to any other categories in which it belongs. --CloudSurfer 05:31, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep and improve - this is a complex and large field and deserves a better article than this. Intrigue 17:00, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Removing "O'Sullivan Syndrome"
I removed the sentence, "A classic example of such a disorder is 'O'Sullivan syndrome', in which the victim is overcome with a desire to fornicate with armed forces servicemen" as this is obviously bogus. A Internet search reveals no such syndrome. Someone obviously has inserted this in here to diss a woman with the surname O'Sullivan.Shemp Howard, Jr. (talk) 14:07, 6 October 2012 (UTC)

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Talk:Columbia College

Shouldn't this article be moved to Columbia College of Chicago, Illinois or Columbia College of Chicago? Columbia College would then be a disambiguation page for the two Columbia Colleges. Mat334 05:19, 23 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Does anyone agree??? Mat334 06:27, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Well, depends on regional distinctions. We really need to set up a page or project for something like "votes for disambiguation". I have enountered this issue a lot. --[[User:Ctrl_build|Ctrl_buildtalk [[Image:NonFreeImageRemoved.svg|15px|]]]] 19:03, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Extreme ironing

Extreme ironing was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP

I've never nominated something for deletion before, and perhaps I'll regret nominating this fine article. This article seems clearly a spoof and a joke. If I'm wrong please forgive me. LegCircus 01:31, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep - it's very tongue-in-cheek (and perhaps classing it as a real extreme sport is a bit far), but it does exist. The Channel 4 documentary referenced really was broadcast, I saw it. Tom- 02:14, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Keep. Not a spoof. Scary, but not a spoof. Lyellin 02:22, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)

 * Keep. A web search would have shown this is quite well-known. -- Netoholic @ 02:34, 2004 Oct 7 (UTC)

 * Keep. A good idea to bring questionable things to the attention of the community, however. - RedWordSmith 03:31, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Keep; it's daft, ridiculous and stupid, but most importantly it is definitely real. I saw the documentary, and the sight of people climbing Mont Blanc with ironing boards strapped to their backs is probably enough on it's own to validate this... Stick a picture on it and it could find it's way to FAC. Kinitawowi 09:04, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)

 * Keep; goofy, but well attested, and of some mild interest. (Better luck next time, Leg! There's no shortage of stuff to delete.) — Bill 11:30, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Keep. Ridiculous things real people do.   — Gwalla | Talk 02:43, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Comment I find this very, very, very, hard to believe. I actually don't believe it, despite what you folks say, or the 75,000 google hits, but nonetheless I apologize for the VfD.  Please forgive me.

 * Keep; very classy article. An insight into the bizarre. Danny 13:05, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Heh. So sayth the Wikiholics. ;) [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 21:27, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep - an example of what VFD should not be used for. Mark Richards 17:25, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Keep - on the contrary, bringing potentially bogus articles to the wiki community's attention is what VfD should be used for. I agree with RedWordSmith on this one. jguk 23:43, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Keep - this was featured on mainstream news in New Zealand about a month ago. Apparently some New Zealanders own the world record for Extreme Ironing numbers while scuba diving Timgrin 19:42, 11 Oct 2004 (NZST)

 * Keep - this is for real. - Ta bu shi da yu 13:00, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Keep. --Daniel C. Boyer 19:18, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Keep -- If this is a fake they have gone to great lengths. niklas_a 21:21, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Saw it on 60 minutes. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (hopefully!)]] 21:27, Oct 12, 2004 (UTC)

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Also, just a note.. your addition to WSOP was unnecessary. Texas hold 'em is already linked on the page. Cheers. CryptoDerk 01:38, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)

Also, please do not put your signatures in articles, and try searching before writing an article -- an article already exists on Texas hold 'em. CryptoDerk 01:44, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)

No problem, if you're interested in poker you may want to also check out Category:Poker and List of poker players. Cheers. CryptoDerk 01:53, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)

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Dalton McCarthy

Dalton McCarthy (October 10, 1836 – May 11, 1898), or D'Alton McCarthy, was a Canadian lawyer and parliamentarian. He was the leader of the "Orange" or Protestant Irish, and fiercely fought against Irish Catholics as well as the French Catholics. He especially crusaded for the abolition of the French language in Manitoba and Ontario schools.

McCarthy was first elected to the House of Commons of Canada in the 1878 federal election as a Conservative. An Irish-born Protestant, McCarthy was stridently anti-Catholic and anti-French Canadian. He broke with the Conservatives in the 1890s, running and being re-elected as an Independent Member of Parliament (MP) in the 1891 election. He appears to have been associated with the Equal Rights Party which ran in that election but did not run as their candidate.

It was his firm, Boulton & McCarthy in Barrie, that was the first incarnation of what is now Canada's largest law firm, McCarthy Tétrault. He appeared in the Supreme Court of Canada in the significant constitutional case of Citizens Insurance Co of Canada v Parsons, arguing successfully on behalf of two individuals claiming compensation under fire insurance policies. The case helped establish the scope of provincial jurisdiction in contract matters. He also defended Emily Stowe in the 1879 abortion trial of Emily Stowe.

McCarthy was a founder of the "Imperial Federation League", which proposed uniting the United Kingdom and the emerging dominions under a central Cabinet government responsible to an Imperial Parliament elected from throughout the Empire. McCarthy ran his own slate of McCarthyite candidates in the 1896 election, but was the only one elected.

Following the 1896 election, McCarthy forged an alliance with Wilfrid Laurier's Liberal Party. He would likely have been appointed to cabinet had he not died following a carriage accident in 1898.

McCarthy was a key figure in the Manitoba Schools Question, and a major proponent in pushing English only in legislatures, courts, and schools of Western Canada.

Archives
There is a Dalton McCarthy fonds at Library and Archives Canada. Archival reference number is R4370.

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Talk:The Way of the Tiger

The Way of the Tiger was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP

The co-authors of this rather obscure series of books are already on VFD (here and here), so this might as well get nominated for good measure. --DMG413 01:41, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Not notable, and very little information given. Delete. --Slowking Man 06:47, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC)
 * Merge and Keep. In the UK, these were pretty well known books, in their time.  Maybe not anymore, mind.  I remember reading them as a wee bairn.  Anyway, combined with the authors' bios, theres probably one reasonable article to be dragged out of these.  -- GWO 17:57, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. Any series of books is going to be notable to someone.--Tomheaton 19:16, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: Over and over again, we run across series of books that aren't significant. In this case, this is a genre that eats its dead.  Had these books set the ground, set the trend, made the rest possible, etc., then they would have been generically important and notable.  Geogre 13:11, 9 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. A book is a book is a book. An encyclopaedia should chart their rise and fall - having fallen is not justification for exclusion, else we'd exclude a hell of a lot... 80.255 00:58, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
 * Keep. A reasonably popular series of books in their time (in the UK at least) which also gave rise to a well-regarded computer game. -- ChrisO 17:46, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

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Paulownia tomentosa

Paulownia tomentosa, common names princess tree, empress tree, or foxglove-tree, is a deciduous hardwood tree in the family Paulowniaceae, native to central and eastern China and the Korean Peninsula. It is an extremely fast-growing tree with seeds that disperse readily and is considered an invasive exotic species in North America that has undergone naturalisation in large areas of the Eastern US, even though it might be able to successfully get established through seeds only under ideal conditions. P. tomentosa has also been introduced to Western and Central Europe, and is establishing itself as a naturalised species there as well.

Etymology
The generic name Paulownia honours Anna Pavlovna of Russia, who was Queen Consort of the Netherlands from 1840 to 1849. The specific epithet tomentosa is a Latin word meaning 'covered in hairs'.

Description

This tree grows 10 - 25 m tall, with large heart-shaped to five-lobed leaves 15 - 40 cm across, arranged in opposite pairs on the stem. On young growth, the leaves may be in whorls of three and be much bigger than the leaves on more mature growth. The leaves can be mistaken for those of the catalpa.

The very fragrant flowers, large and violet-blue in colour are produced before the leaves in early spring, on panicles 10–30 cm long, with a tubular purple corolla 4–6 cm long resembling a foxglove flower. The fruit is a dry egg-shaped capsule 3–4 cm long, containing numerous tiny seeds. The seeds are winged and disperse by wind and water. Pollarded trees do not produce flowers, as these form only on mature wood.

Paulownia tomentosa requires full sun for proper growth. It is tolerant of pollution and can tolerate many soil types. It can also grow from small cracks in pavements and walls. Paulownia can survive wildfires because the roots can regenerate new, very fast-growing stems.

P. tomentosa is drought-resistant and thrives in barren soil, particularly suitable for cold and arid regions. Its main trunk is short, and its growth rate is relatively slow.

Native range
P. tomentosa is native to much of central and eastern China and to the Korean peninsula; the Flora of China considers the latter as non-native. In China, it occurs in the following provinces: Anhui, Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Liaoning, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Sichuan.

Europe
In August 2021 the EPPO added P. tomentosa to its Alert List, not due to any particular known problem within Europe, but as a step to begin assessing whether it should be regarded as a problematic invader.
 * Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France (including Corsica), Germany, Hungary, Italy (including Sardinia and Sicily), Slovenia, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Africa

 * South Africa

United States

 * Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia

Oceania

 * New Zealand

Asian introduced range

 * Japan

Uses
Paulownia tomentosa is cultivated as an ornamental tree in parks and gardens. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

Because of its tolerance and flexibility, Paulownia functions ecologically as a pioneer plant. Its nitrogen-rich leaves provide good fodder and its roots prevent soil erosion. Eventually, Paulownia is succeeded by taller trees that shade it and in whose shade it cannot thrive.

The characteristic large size of the young growth is exploited by gardeners: by pollarding the tree and ensuring there is vigorous new growth every year, massive leaves are produced (up to 60 cm across). These are popular in the modern style of gardening which uses large-foliaged and "architectural" plants.

The soft, lightweight seeds were commonly used as a packing material by Chinese porcelain exporters in the 19th century, before the development of polystyrene packaging. Packing cases would often leak or burst open in transit and scatter the seeds along rail tracks. The magnitude of the numbers of seeds used for packaging, together with seeds deliberately planted for ornament, has allowed the species to be viewed as an invasive species in areas where the climate is suitable for its growth, notably Japan and the eastern United States.

In Japan, it is customary to plant seeds of the tree when a couple has a daughter; it is said that by the time the daughter is in her older teens or at the peak of adulthood when she is ready to marry, the tree by this time has also grown to maturity, which is then felled and made into a tansu dresser as a wedding gift. The timber is used in making instruments, as well.

P. tomentosa has been suggested as a plant to use in carbon capture projects. P. tomentosa has large leaves that readily absorb pollutants, and also has value in timber and aesthetics, adding to interest surrounding its use in carbon capture.

Inaccurate citation practices have led to circulating claims that P. tomentosa performs C4 carbon fixation. However, this species does not fulfill the experimental criteria necessary to demonstrate C4 photosynthesis.

Composition
Some geranyl flavonoids can be found in P. tomentosa. Verbascoside can also be produced in hairy roots cultures of P. tomentosa.

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Am I missing something or is this an omission? There was a Game Gear port too. Thanks.

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 * That is a different game, Phantasy Star Gaiden. It's mentioned on the Phantasy Star series page. TarkusAB talk / contrib 17:05, 9 January 2024 (UTC)

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Joy of Cooking

Joy of Cooking, often known as "The Joy of Cooking", is one of the United States' most-published cookbooks. It has been in print continuously since 1936 and has sold more than 20 million copies. It was published privately during 1931 by Irma S. Rombauer (1877–1962), a homemaker in St. Louis, Missouri, after her husband's suicide the previous year. Rombauer had 3,000 copies printed by A.C. Clayton, a company which had printed labels for fancy St. Louis shoe companies and for Listerine mouthwash, but never a book. Beginning in 1936, the book was published by a commercial printing house, the Bobbs-Merrill Company. With nine editions, Joy of Cooking is considered the most popular American cookbook.

Background
Born to German immigrants in 1877, Irma Starkloff was born and grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. She married Edgar Rombauer, a lawyer, in 1899. Edgar committed suicide in 1930 after a severe bout of depression, widowing Irma at age 52 and leaving her with $6,000 in savings.

Rombauer's children, Marion Rombauer Becker and Edgar Roderick ("Put") Rombauer, Jr., encouraged her to compile her recipes and thoughts on cooking to help her cope with her loss. Rombauer spent much of the summer of 1930 in Michigan, creating the first drafts that would later become Joy of Cooking. With the help of her late husband's secretary, Mazie Whyte, Rombauer began writing and editing recipes and commentaries while searching for more recipes in St. Louis. During the autumn of 1930, Rombauer went to the A.C. Clayton Printing Company, a printer for the St. Louis shoe manufacturers. She paid them $3,000 to print 3,000 copies of The Joy of Cooking: A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat in November 1931.

First edition (1931)
In 1931 Rombauer self-published The Joy of Cooking: A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat with more than 500 tested recipes and related commentaries.

The book was illustrated by Rombauer's daughter, Marion Rombauer Becker, who directed the art department at John Burroughs School. Working weekends during the winter of 1930–31, Marion designed the cover, which depicted Saint Martha of Bethany, the patron saint of cooking, slaying a dragon. She also produced silhouette cutouts to illustrate chapter headings. By 1932, a majority of the 3,000 copies printed by A.C. Clayton were sold. Rombauer began to look for a new publisher in 1932.

Second edition (1936)

After searching for a publisher and being rejected many times, the Bobbs-Merrill Company published an expanded (640 page) second edition on May 1, 1936. The company had limited experience with publishing cookbooks, and Irma Rombauer, similarly inexperienced in dealing with publishers, performed the negotiations herself without an agent or lawyer. The resulting contract, in which Bobbs-Merrill was granted the copyright not only for the 1936 edition but also for the original 1931 version, resulted in many years of conflict between the author and the publisher.

The 1936 edition differed from other commercial cookbooks of the era by its retention of the author's folksy comments and anecdotes, and its layout of the recipes. Instead of listing the ingredients for a dish at the top with preparation directions following, the recipes in Joy (1936) were presented by narratives, with the ingredients indicated as the need for them occurred, with each placed in boldface on a new indented line — thus preserving a conversational style throughout the recipe. This method came to be known as the "action method". These innovations, along with an aggressive marketing effort by Bobbs-Merrill, resulted in good sales. Joy reached the best-seller list in St. Louis and promoted as "the famous private cookbook" in the New York Times. By the end of 1942, the second edition had had six printings, and 52,151 copies had been sold.

Third edition (1943/1946)
In 1939, Rombauer published Streamlined Cooking, a collection of recipes that could be prepared in less than 30 minutes, with an emphasis on use of canned and frozen foods. This book was not a commercial success, but many of the recipes it contained became part of a new edition of Joy of Cooking published during 1943. This edition also included material intended to help readers deal with wartime rationing restrictions, including alternatives to butter in some recipes. Sales of this edition were phenomenal: from 1943 through 1946 a total of 617,782 copies were sold, surpassing sales of Joy of Cooking's principal competitor, Fannie Farmer's Boston Cooking-School Cook Book.

During 1946, a minor revision of the 1943 edition was published. While substantially the same as its predecessor, the 1946 revision omitted the material related to wartime rationing and incorporated additional recipes from Streamlined Cooking.

Fourth edition (1951)
Irma Rombauer was 69 years old when the 1946 edition of Joy was published, and her health was beginning to decline. She was concerned about the future of her book, since Bobbs-Merrill (which owned the copyright for the original publication) might have selected an author of their own choosing for future editions once Rombauer was unable to continue. To ensure that the book remained a family project, Rombauer negotiated with the publisher a clause in her contract naming her daughter, Marion Rombauer Becker, as her sole successor in any future revision.

Relations between Rombauer and Bobbs-Merrill, never cordial, worsened during the late 1940s, and in the fracas Marion Becker gradually assumed increasing responsibility, at first regarding the book's design, and eventually its content. Partly for legal reasons, the 1951 edition was published with Marion Rombauer Becker listed as co-author, and she received 40% of the royalties. The authors strongly resisted the publisher's wish to illustrate the book with photographs and instead embellished the book with simple, functional line drawings by Ginnie Hofmann, a friend of Becker's.

Becker was a passionate advocate of healthy eating, and the 1951 edition was marked by an increased emphasis of such topics as whole grains and fresh produce. Many of the old "can-opener" recipes from Streamlined Cooking were eliminated. This edition also was the first to introduce the use of the blender and other modern household items into its recipes. The number of recipes had increased to more than 4,000.

Because of the time taken by the protracted legal arguments, final editing of the 1951 edition was done hastily. The same edition was reprinted in 1952 with some errors corrected, and again during 1953 with a revised index.

Fifth edition (1962/1963/1964)

In 1962, the year of Irma Rombauer's death, a revised edition of Joy of Cooking was published. This edition was released without Marion Becker's consent. Subsequent releases of the book during 1963 and 1964 were essentially massive corrections, and Becker arranged for the publisher to exchange copies of the 1962 edition for later corrected versions upon request.

The foreword of the 1962 edition explains that Becker's favorite recipes include "Cockaigne" in the name, (e.g., "Fruit Cake Cockaigne"), after the name of her country home in Anderson Township, near Cincinnati.

This edition was also published in paperback format (most notably, a two-volume mass market paperback edition); it is still widely available in used bookstores. The 1962 edition was also released as a single-volume comb-ring bound paperback mass-market edition starting in November 1973 and continuing into the early 1990s.

Sixth edition (1975)
The 1975 edition was the last to be edited by Becker and remains the most popular, with more than 6 million copies sold. More than 1,000 pages long, and with over 4,300 recipes, it became a standard in kitchens throughout the country. The book included sections concerning backpacking, hiking, and substitutions, and though many sections may seem antiquated to contemporary fashion, many home cooks still use it.

Seventh edition (1997)
After the 1975 edition, the project was unchanged for about 20 years. During the mid-1990s, publisher Simon & Schuster, which owns the Joy of Cooking's copyrights, hired cookbook editor Maria Guarnaschelli, formerly of William Morrow, and editor of works by Jeff Smith and others. Guarnaschelli, supervised by Rombauer's grandson Ethan Becker, managed the creation of the 1997 edition, published by Simon & Schuster's Charles Scribner's Sons division. The new edition kept the concise style of its predecessors, but it eliminated the conversational first-person narration. Much of the edition was ghostwritten by teams of expert chefs instead of the single dedicated amateur Irma Rombauer had been when she created the book. The 1997 version is fairly comprehensive; however, it no longer contains much information about ingredients or frozen desserts.

Upon its publication during January 1997, the edition was titled The All-New, All-Purpose Joy of Cooking; during November of that same year, it was reissued with the title The 1997 Joy of Cooking.

Other special editions and printings
In 1995, a hardbound edition illustrated by Ginnie Hofmann and Ikki Matsumoto was released.

In 1998, a reproduction, described as "A Facsimile of the First Edition", was released.

Eighth edition (2006): 75th anniversary edition
In 2006, Scribner published a 75th anniversary edition, containing 4,500 recipes, that reproduced much of Rombauer's original style. The new version removes some of the professionalism of the 1997 edition and returns many simpler recipes and recipes assisted by ready-made products such as cream of mushroom soup and store-bought wontons. The 2006 edition also reinstates the cocktail section and the frozen desserts section, and restores much of the information that was omitted for the 1997 edition.

The new version includes a new index section named "Joy Classics" that contains 35 recipes from 1931 to 1975 and a new nutrition section. It was still edited and written by the Rombauer-Becker family.

Ninth edition (2019)
600 new recipes were added to this edition. Irma's great grandson, John Becker, and his wife Megan Scott, were responsible for the updates.

Reception
The Joy of Cooking became a bestseller originally due to its readability for the middle classes and Rombauer's unique style. Her recipes were designed specifically for middle-class people doing most of their own cooking for their family. She specifically tested and practiced the recipes to ensure they could be produced easily in a relatively brief period of time without much complication. Once she combined her witty comments on the cooking and serving with the action method, her cookbook became readily readable by the average cook in America. Moreover, Rombauer paired the conversational style of the recipes with casual discussions of etiquette and hosting. Her methods were distinct from the other cookbooks of the time, which featured many complex recipes, while her style was simple and conversational. By providing an interesting and easy to read cookbook for the middle class, The Joy of Cooking became the main reference book for many mid-century American cooks.

Legacy
The Joy of Cooking is considered the most popular American cookbook.

Julia Child learned to cook from The Joy of Cooking and Gourmet magazine. She enjoyed "Mrs. Joy's Book" and believed it taught her the basic principles of cooking.

The book popularized the title formula "The Joy of..." used to indicate an accessible, popular overview of a topic, such as The Joy of Painting (1983), The Joy of Sex (1972), The Joy of Art (2020), The Joy of X: A Guided Tour of Mathematics (2012), The Joy of Living (2007), and even The Joy of Accounting (2020).

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Deadlands: Lost Colony

Deadlands: Lost Colony (or "Deadlands: the Way-Out West") is a genre-mixing alternate history roleplaying game which combines the science fiction and horror genres. The tropes of Western fiction are also prominent. It was written by Shane Lacy Hensley and David D Hillman and originally published by Pinnacle Entertainment Group. Lost Colony is the third game in the Deadlands setting, following on from Deadlands: The Weird West and Deadlands: Hell on Earth.

Plot
The story is a continuation of that featured in the Deadlands: Hell on Earth roleplaying game. Shortly before the Last War, a devastating nuclear war that allowed the Reckoners to ravage the Earth and turn it into a nightmarish wasteland seen in Hell on Earth, a trans-dimensional gateway called the Tunnel was created between Earth and a distant planet called Banshee. The planet was rich in Ghost Rock, and small outposts were established in order to harvest it and ship them back to Earth. On Banshee, the human colonists had a number of run-ins with the local species, called Anouks, causing a war of their own. As the Last War heated up on Earth, the Tunnel was closed, leaving no way for the colonists on Banshee to return to Earth. Now they must make new lives on the planet, surrounded by hostile Anouks and various bands of human radicals. Uneasy tensions and a long, grueling war have left both the human colonists and the Anouks with massive death tolls, and fights occasionally still break out between the two. In addition, horrific supernatural monsters are beginning to appear on the planet as a consequence of the Reckoners, who (unbeknownst to the Banshee colonists) have found themselves also stranded on Banshee.

Character types
As a continuation of Deadlands: Hell on Earth, Lost Colony features a number of similar character types to both the Weird West and Hell on Earth. Sykers, Harrowed, and Cyborgs are available as playable options, and while not expressly stated, many other character classes such as Hucksters, Martial Artists and Blessed are also playable. The following character classes are unique to Lost Colony:

 * Colonial Rangers - Similar to the Law Dogs from Deadlands: the Weird West, the Colonial Rangers are an organized collective of law enforcers. The Rangers are the body of law for the human colonists on Banshee. Their numbers and equipment are stretched thin, and some miners and companies simply ignore them. However, the group is very influential in the game, and are one of the "Big Player groups" of the setting.
 * Mutes - This new arcane background centers around the reconstruction of objects. Mutes, or Transmuters, use a special nanobot implant to reshape items from one form to another. A Mute needs a roughly similar number of components in order to construct something, and must have a schematic for the desired loaded into his cybernetic systems. They are a similar class to the Mad Scientists and Junkers of the previous settings, though they their own hangups and dark secrets.
 * Anouk Warriors - Lost Colony is unique in that humans are no longer to sole playable character type. Anouk Warriors form the bulk of the Anouk tribes. Physically stronger and more magically attuned than humans, Anouks have a series of abilities that allow them to manipulate a common substance called Tannis. While most Anouks are similar to Indian Braves from Deadlands or Savages from Hell on Earth, some Anouks opt for human equipment instead of traditional arms.
 * Anouk Shamans - In addition to Anouk Warriors, tribal Shamans can be played. On top of the Warriors' Tannis-related abilities, Shamans get a number of other powers.
 * Banshee Born - An odd and potentially magical character type, Banshee Born are humans born on Banshee, as opposed to being from Earth. The Anouks say that these Banshee Born humans are more favored by the planet, and some have manifested magical powers. Players can either choose the free Banshee Born edge at character creation, or opt for the more special, more expensive version of the edge. The more expensive edge increases the potential of gaining these new magical abilities.

Savage Worlds re-boot adds new character options:
 * Breakers - Replace Mutes. During the EXFOR and Hellstromme Industries clash the former infected the Mutes equipment with a virus which made creating new things impossible. From that time they can only destroy and disrupt.
 * Guardian - Certain characters are chosen after death by the living planet of Banshee and are re-born as Guardians. Equipped with a set of powers they are inclined to protect her.
 * Razorjacks - Characters who get access to magical powers after being implanted by the Hellstromme Industries with an experimental cybernetics device containing a malevolent spirit.

Releases
The game was preceded by the card game Deadlands: Lost Colony - Showdown, by the Clay and Susan Griffith novel called Banshee Screams, and the Hell on Earth lead-in adventure The Unity. Lost Colony saw only two rulebooks released, as well as the novel Banshee Screams, before Pinnacle Entertainment Group ceased publication of Deadlands material. In 2020 Pinnacle released Deadlands: Lost Colony as a setting book, using Savage Worlds Adventure Edition rules.

Reviews

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X-Men/Personal Attacks Dispute
I doubt politeness with solve this dispute, but, yeah, you're right. Sorry.

- Nick

Ruben Gomez
Stormie You're the "MAN", thank you very much. That merge is beyond great. I really am thankful. I hope that you don't mind if I consider you a "friend". User:Marine 69-71

Horizons vandalism
Stormie, please take a look at "your" vote on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Horizons:_Empire_of_Istaria and see if that is how you wanted it to look. It begins with keep and ends with delete, and then there is some odd stuff in there. Geogre 17:12, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Revert removal of content (Horizons)
I noticed you reverted the removal of content. I did not like it either but I did the waiting game instead, I mainly do factual checking and point of view enforcement and I didn't spot anything major. What I wanted to ask you was on what grounds did you decide to revert? --Marco 21:22, 3 Sep 2004 (UTC)

What?
Excuse me? What exactly did I vandalize?

Stormie, Can You figure This Out?
How you doing buddy? How's things downunder? O.K., here's the problem, I wrote an article about "Juan "Chi-Chi" Rodriguez". When I checked the "Category:Puerto Rican sportspeople" within the article, I saw that somehow my article appeared as if I had wriiten two identical articles, one as "Juan%22Chi-Chi%22Rodriguez" and the other one with the correct title "Juan "Chi-Chi" Rodriguez". User:Hajor couldn't figure it out. Could you help me by eliminating the first title? Thanks. User:Marine 69-71

Deleting user subpages
There's a vote in progress at Wikipedia talk:Deletion of user subpages. Please consider voting. I have also requested that the proposal be frozen for the period of the vote, but this has met with opposition. Your participation in the process would be greatly appreciated. Andrewa 10:20, 6 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Support
Thank you very much for your support during my recent run for adminship. The vote was very much appreciated. I see you have a LiveJournal! You should add me: mine is muddledslate. When I am done tonight, I will add you. Mike H 03:34, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)

 * Yes, 64 votes is the record on en at this moment. My record on RFA was (64/2/1), topping Snowspinner's (62/9/3). Mike H 08:09, Sep 7, 2004 (UTC)

Rollback
I was sent to like two or three sex pop-up windows (one of them was orange and had this woman thrusting her pelvis toward the camera, fingering herself) and then all this spyware popped up. My virus definition software caught three of the viruses that latched themselves but not two others.

I thought, oh, then maybe this is just me. The user does something else stupid, and I go to rollback and I get the exact same thing. I had reverted one of his edits successfully before this happened. I go to chat and no one listens to me, and one person even has the gall to call me a LIAR. That's it. This is pissing me off. Shit like this makes me want to leave. Mike H 04:44, Sep 10, 2004 (UTC)

 * I was hysterical (and still am), and I was asking for help, and no one would give it to me. I did not like being called a liar. I know what the fuck happened to my computer and what caused it. If this is the shit I'm going to get by being here, I'm going to leave. Mike H 04:52, Sep 10, 2004 (UTC)

 * It's very funny that this happened right at THIS moment with THIS problem user. Somehow I don't think it's just a coincidence. Mike H 04:59, Sep 10, 2004 (UTC)

General Mayhem
Why was General Mayhem deleted? You said something about vfd talk page, but there is no Votes for deletion/General Mayhem, so when was it on VfD, and where is the conversation? — siro χ  o  06:33, Sep 10, 2004 (UTC)
 * Thanks for pointing that out to me, just keeping track, since I've been tracking their vandalism atm. Didn't want the vandalism to get in the way of what seemed like an ok article (:  — siro  χ  o  06:40, Sep 10, 2004 (UTC)

 * Speedy deleting it would not be appropriate unless they recreated the exact (or very nearly) same content on the new page name. I'd say let them finish, and then send it to cleanup. -- Netoholic @ 07:00, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Sorry.
I found this sufficiently urgent enough to warrant a response on your talk page. See my LJ and the last comment you responded to. Mike H 15:00, Sep 11, 2004 (UTC)

Births/deaths
Hi, you may want to have a look at People by year and the related discussion on categories for deletion. -- User:Docu

National Ricoh
Yes, you are probably right. I found it mentioned on an FAQ posted recently from someone who sounded like he knew what he was talking about.

I haven't found much more data to go with it. I thought this might be because Ricoh is the sponsor's name and I haven't had a chance to search under 'State of the union'.

The Aussie Union site has nothing on it which is odd. If it is a cup that is no longer competed for then the article is probably best deleted with Australia shield as you suggested being moved to its own page.

As I'm a NH type not a SH type my knowledge of Aussie rugby outside the national team and S12 is limited.

Edit: I've had a quick search and found this http://www.thefooty.com/artman/publish/article_822.shtml which states that the Ricoh championship is still competed for but I think it may now be part of the S12 in the same way that the Bledisloe Cup is now part of 3N. In which case a paragraph in the S12 article might be more appropriate (unless the Ricoh predates the S12 which would mean that it might warrant an article in itself).

GordyB

How You Doing Stormie
Hey Strormie, how are you? I want you to do me a favor. IP 198.81.26.11 is vandalizing with continous revert-edits the article Modesto Cartagena. Another User has tired to keep him from doing this, but to no avail. Please, "ban" this IP user from vandalizing this article or if you can, protect the article from vandalisum (I don't know the policy about protection). Thank You Buddy. User:Marine 69-71

Hi Stormie, I just got home from a family reunion. We were watching the Boxing match between Hopkins and De La Hoya. Thanks for looking into the "Modesto" case. User:Marine 69-71

Events and Lore - replace fansite link with official site, more up to date link
Just a bit of trivia, the link you replaced with the official product page is the official community page announced two days ago. But as they link to the same information either link will do.

I checked and your link is more up to date, so it stays. --Marco 11:15, 19 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Stormie Check This Out
I strongley recommended that User:198.81.26.17 be banned. He or she now vandalized my "Talk Page". Check out that person's User page and you'll see that the only thing that person is doing is vandalizing. I know that you're like me and that we want wikipdedia to be a serious educational tool but, something has got to be done about the jokers and clowns that want to destroy what we've done. Your Friend User:Marine 69-71

Thanks, you're right. Maybe by blocking him, other users will be affected, including me (It's happened before). Till next time. User:Marine 69-71

Image Copyright 'toilers'
Nowhere does it say that one MUST place any license on an uploaded image. I took the image in question and license it under whatever Wikipedia cares to license itself under, which I affirmed with the click of the 'I affirm....' checkbox on upload. Interesting that a Sydneysider from Macquarie University of all places would be the one to spot my new image and send me a note, me living in Qingdao and all, but ... I don't think such messages are necessary. If they are, then the upload file page's text needs changing. - prat 00:35, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
 * I was living in Shanghai until about 6 months ago! :) prat 05:25, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Random pages -- done
Hi, I've added 103 random pages (because 3 in the original 100 were red links!) — have fun! — Matt 09:23, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)

WikiProject Sydney
Want to join? I'm still formulating policy. Besides which, you live in Newtown - you could contribute to the suburbs page! And you go to Macquarie Uni... maybe something on this :-) Interested? Incidently, there is a message board Australian wikipedians' notice board - Ta bu shi da yu 06:09, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

 * Excellent! Feel free to alter it :) - Ta bu shi da yu 06:36, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)

List of Sydney suburbs
moved to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sydney

Reply notification
I've replied at User talk:Matt Crypto. — Matt 12:41, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know :) I was doing the whole thing via c&p so I was probably bound to make a mistake somewhere. Dysprosia 05:20, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)

1981 Springbok Tour
Just to let you know I've moved the information out of the All Blacks article and into the aforementioned ... now to work on it! porge 08:17, Sep 30, 2004 (UTC)

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Talk:Giovanni Arnolfini

Untitled
Rick, why do you insist that this be a redirect? The article you redirect to doesn't even contain this information. anthony (see warning) 01:50, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

rewriting history
The fact (if fact) that Giovanni de Arrigo married in 1447 doesn't mean at all he had not been married before. This seems to me a typical speculation of some modern scholars. They are always rewriting the history in order to get themselves known, probably write some book with great new ideas and earn a little money in the end. They have no other chance, do they? It's just vanity and opportunism and a bunch of semi-truthful speculation pretending to be a detailed scholarly research. Why do you believe them?

It's possible to point out that the subject could have been married previously without the overarching personal attack on all modern scholars. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.95.126.178 (talk) 19:02, 24 May 2012 (UTC)

Dating issue
The text says Jacques Paviot made his discovery in 1994, but then dates his article on the subject to 1997. Is the implication that it took 3 years for him to get his findings into print (which is quite plausible, but could be made clearer), or is one of these dates an error? The Arnolfini Portrait article refers to "a chance discovery in 1997". GrindtXX (talk) 19:10, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Yes, the implication is that it took 3 years for him to get his findings into print. I've added a "published" to the painting article. Johnbod (talk) 23:40, 31 July 2021 (UTC)

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Talk:Flanders (county)

Use of French names
It's ridiculous how an article referencing Flanders lists French names first and uses the French name as a link. Seems wrong in the context of the article.

 * Why? That's what we call it in English. The historical County of Flanders was also a French-speaking area, regardless of where it is now. Adam Bishop 01:55, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * I rather doubt that the historical County of Flanders could really be considered as French speaking. It certainly was part of the kingdom France, and a large part of the nobility spoke French. But ... within this reasoning England would also have been a French-speaking country ... ;-) Donar Reiskoffer 07:03, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

 * Yes, yes it was...and thus we have modern English which is very different from Old English... Adam Bishop 12:22, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Countship

 * What do you think of the historical countship of Flanders, as insisted upon by User:Fastifex? Where does such an expression come from?--Wetman 11:08, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, Fastifex, why such a bold move without any explanation? Any reason to believe that countship is preferred under Naming conventions? Google is quite clear on the commonness question. Piet 13:54, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Uhm the article is at Flanders (county) and the talk page at Flanders (countship). I'm moving the talk back. Please discuss further moves before executing. Piet 17:59, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Flemish and Dutch
This started from a (short) discussion about using the word "Flemish" for the Keldermans family of architects, who is actually from Brabant. Fnorp, you're right that Brabant makes a lot more sense for the Keldermans family, I've changed it (you were allowed to do it yourself of course). I notice on your user page that you're trying to solve Holland/Netherlands issues, Flemish has very similar issues. The name originally refers to the County, that is usually what is linked to. But
 * 1) After the personal union of the Seventeen Provinces and the Pragmatic Sanction of 1549, the whole region developed more and more into a single entity. From then on, and especially after the independence of the northern provinces, "Flemish" is often used for a much wider area than the County of Flanders, sometimes for the whole of the Southern Netherlands.
 * 2) There are AFAIK no commonly used English adjectives for something from Brabant or Hainaut – possibly due to the first point. Moreover, people from Antwerp of Mechelen are not sensitive about the use of "Flemish" as the cities are a now part of the modern Flemish Region.
 * 3) Alternatively we could refer to the larger region, but the word "Netherlandish" for the whole of the Low Countries is also not common. Instead the word "Dutch" would be used, but it seems very confusing to me to call Van Eyck a Dutch painter, since "Dutch" is normally used for the modern country of the Netherlands. And although I would be willing to accept it if it is common in English, I am very sure many Flemish people would not accept that historical Flemish people would be referred to as "Dutch". They're a bit sensitive about it :-) — much like many Dutch people are sensitive about the use of "Holland". Moreover, the center of gravity before 1600 was clearly in the region that is now not a part of the Netherlands, making the use of the word "Dutch" even more confusing.

This thing is bugging me a bit as I've been doing a lot of editing in 15th-16th century topics concerning the low countries, and I'm still not sure how to deal with it. People who are from the county can be called Flemish, for people who are from the north it's simple too, but Antwerp and Brussels and so on? The one authorative book that I have read about this period (Kamen, Henry (2005). Spain, 1469–1714, A Society of Conflict) seems to use "Flanders" and "the Netherlands" interchangeably when referring to the Spanish possessions there. I would like to receive more comments from non-Flemish/Dutch people who have read about the period, I might post something on the History portal. Btw. some examples concerning the use "Flemish" and "Dutch":
 * 1) I forked List of Flemish painters from the List of Belgian painters as it seems ridiculous to call Van Eyck a Belgian.
 * 2) Renaissance in the Netherlands – I would have called it Renaissance in the Netherlands but NOT the modern country the Netherlands but it seemed a bit too long :-) Well not too much doubt here, although I started working on it as Renaissance in the Low Countries.
 * 3) Johann van Beethoven – not edited by myself. Piet 10:22, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

 * In the case of Keldermans, I think I solved it by linking Flemish to Flanders (current meaning) while still mentioning the duchy of Brabant. Fnorp 14:31, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

RfC
Read the section above for introduction. This is not a vote, I would like to receive some comments on how to proceed. Please add comments in the appropriate section. Piet 17:10, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

Use of "Dutch" for people from Southern Netherlands
This is not generally done at the moment, but when I see it I hesitate to correct because I am not sure if it is wrong.

I am against this because Piet 17:10, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * It is confusing. The area is not a part of the present day Netherlands.
 * In earlier times the Netherlands were a union only for a few decades from the Pragmatic Sanction till the independence of the Northern Netherlands.
 * I don't think the word "Dutch" was used in this meaning by contemporary writers.
 * Flemish people are sensitive about it. (To find out more, try calling an Irishman British :-) )
 * This does seem unnecessary. Septentrionalis 21:52, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Use of "Flemish" for people from the larger Southern Netherlands
Rather than "from Brabant", "from Hainaut" and so on. This seems a general practice, cf. the Franco-Flemish School which was more from Hainaut then from Flanders. Piet 17:10, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
 * How about (where possible) Spanish/Austrian Netherlands or "Low Country painters"? Septentrionalis 21:52, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

Low Countries is a good alternative. But again there is no adjective, which is sometimes annoying. Most of all though, I would like to know what is common in current English language literature. Piet 07:47, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Categories - stub categories
These are usually created along nationality lines. So there would be a Netherlands-painter-stub and a Belgian-painter-stub. I would create a Flemish-painter-stub, Flemish architects category,... as well, even though it has never been a nationality in the modern sense of the world. Of course this would be only for people before 1830, I've noticed that people sometimes put Belgian painters in the category Flemish painters; I would like to keep these two completely separated. Piet 17:10, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

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Football Association of Hong Kong, China

The Football Association of Hong Kong, China Limited (HKFA; ) is the governing body of association football in Hong Kong. Its current chairman is Eric Fok.

History
The HKFA was established in 1914. It is one of the oldest football federations in Asia and is responsible for organising various football competitions including professional and amateur leagues, football development and promoting football in Hong Kong.

In 1954, HKFA joined FIFA, and was also one of twelve founding associations of the Asian Football Confederation. Hong Kong played an important role in the early development of Asian football, and was given the honour of hosting the first Asian Cup competition in 1956, in which Hong Kong finished third in the tournament.

Hong Kong fields a separate FIFA-recognised representative team instead of the China PR national team.

HKFA is also responsible for operating the Hong Kong national football team, which represents Hong Kong and competes in international football events.

HKFA's president is Pui Kwan KaySBS and its chairman is Eric FokJP. The CEO post has been abandoned since the HKFA sacked Joaquin Tam Chau Long to end his controversial tenure.

Project Phoenix
Project Phoenix is a government-supported action plan to reform Hong Kong football from top to bottom.

2010–11
Former The FA executive director David Davies led the team of change agent - Scott Wilson Group, which was appointed by Hong Kong Football Association in September 2010 to carry out the reform and restructuring of football in Hong Kong.

On 21 November 2011, HKFA named Gordon McKie as its first chief executive officer (CEO). Gordon, the former chairman of the Scottish Rugby Union, had served HKFA for only ten months and resign from his post in September 2012 with personal reasons.

On 17 December 2011, HKFA appointed Ernie Merrick as the national head coach of Hong Kong Football Team. Merrick told to media that he felt honor to have an opportunity to participate the development and growing of Hong Kong football. Merrick won two titles in six season for Melbourne Victory. He started his new role on 9 January 2012.

On 23 December 2011, Kim Pan-Gon named national academy coach. Coach Kim will be wholly responsible for the identification, development and coaching of all players aged 18 and below.

2012–13
On 17 April 2012, Australian Steve O'Connor was appointed as the new technical director. The former head coach of the football program at the Australian Institute of Sport will take up his new post in will be responsible to improve the standards of local coaching, referee development, community and youth football activities and women's football. He will also oversee the implementation of elite player development pathways from grassroots football to senior international level.

On 17 September 2012, HKFA appointed Mark Sutcliffe to replace Gordon Mckie as the CEO of HKFA.

On 7 February 2013, the Hong Kong Football Association stated that the new Premier League would get under way in Autumn 2014, where it was suggested that the 2013–14 season would be a transition year.

On 28 May 2013, HKFA promoted Korean coach Kim Pan-Gon to replace Ernie Merrick as the head coach of Hong Kong national team.

2015
In June 2015, The Government turned green light to build a national training centre in Tseung Kwan O. The budget of construction will be fully supported by the Hong Kong Jockey Club.

On 29 November 2015, Asian Football Confederation awarded the AFC Developing Member Association of the Year award to Hong Kong Football Association in recognition of its professional administration and governance as well its exceptional contribution to the development and promotion of the game at all levels within the country.

2019
On 4 December 2019, Asian Football Confederation awarded the AFC Developing Member Association of the Year award to the Hong Kong Football Association in recognition of excellent work in football development, women and girls football, community and district football, referee development, sports science, charitable projects and the expansion of facilities with the opening on the long-awaited Football Training Centre.

2023
In March 2023, the football association changed its name from "The Hong Kong Football Association" to "The Football Association of Hong Kong, China"  as a result of the Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China threatening to withdraw government funding for the HKFA. The rebrand was accompanied by a new emblem and a new emblem for the Hong Kong national football team.

Criticism
Timothy Fok has served as president of the Hong Kong Football Association since 1997, after his father held the position for almost 30 years. In July 2020, the Legislative Council's Public Accounts Committee criticized the HKFA under Timothy Fok, stating its governance was "appalling and inexcusable". It noted that an internal audit committee, designed to review the association's use of taxpayer funding, was not active between 2015 and 2019, despite receiving HK$34 million in funding for the 2017-18 year. Members of the Legislative Council also questioned if that taxpayer money was justified and well spent. After HKFA's governance was criticized, the Legislative Council wanted to appoint board members to improve HKFA's governance, but the HKFA rejected the idea and claimed candidates should go through proper election procedures.

In 2020, the government's Audit Commission criticized HKFA, stating that the government had given HK$160,000,000 of taxpayer money to the HKFA but there was little improvement, and that Project Phoenix had a "lack of progress". The report stated that some performance metrics had even declined since 2009, rather than improving.

In August 2022, a former coach of the women's team was arrested for alleged sexual harassment of two female players. The association received a report from one of the victims but declined to intervene as the coach was no longer a staff member, stating "We feel there is no authority to intervene in the case after careful consideration since the case did not involve the association's current staff or took place at an association-sponsored event."

In May 2023, the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) arrested 23 people suspected of match fixing in lower divisions, including 1 coach and 11 players. Pui Kwan Kay, then-chairman of the HKFA, said that the scandal "would not have much effect on the holistic development of Hong Kong football" and that match fixing "is relatively hard to regulate."

In June 2024, the ex-head coach of Hong Kong football team, Jorn Andersen, said that HKFA receiving millions of taxpayer dollars every year made the HKFA have no motivation to improve, and said that the HKFA needed to be "more professional, from top to bottom," and did "not do enough" to improve the sport. He also named Eric Fok as not taking enough action for the sport.

Renaming
After the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, the HKFA has used the founding name - the "Hong Kong Football Association" until 2023.

In early 2023, the HKFA and other Hong Kong national sports associations were required by the "Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China" to add "China" to the name of the association. As the Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China warned to withhold government funding of HKFA, the HKFA eventually adopted the name change to "The Football Association of Hong Kong, China" during the annual meeting of the HKFA in March 2023.

In February 2024, the HKFA withdrew the esports team from AFC eAsian Cup 2023 just because the AFC and KONAMI did not use "Hong Kong, China" instead of "Hong Kong" (previous name of the HKFA) in the display name for the team.

Funding
In terms of government funding, the HKFA has been one of the top receivers of taxpayer money out of all National Sports Associations in Hong Kong. Excluding one-time grants, it receives money from the Sports Subvention Scheme (SSS) and the Arts and Sport Development Fund (ASDF).

List of previous chairmen

 * Wong Kar-kui (1940–1950)
 * Jack Skinner (1950–1954)
 * C.S. Wong (1954–1960)
 * Mok Hing (1960–1964)
 * Norman Fraser (1964–1965)
 * Mok Hing (1965–1966); second term
 * Victor Hui (1996–1999)
 * Martin Hong (1999–2007)
 * Brian Leung (2007–2019)
 * Pui Kwan Kay (2019–2023)

List of previous CEOs

 * 1) Gordon McKie (2011–2012)
 * 2) Mark Sutcliffe (2012–2018)
 * 3) Paul Woodland (2018–2020)

List of previous presidents

 * Henry Fok (1970–1997)
 * Timothy Fok (1997–2023)