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Talk:Githyanki

Speedy
It doesn't HAVE to be a speedy delete. If you look on google you'll find that Githyanki is, in fact, an actual race. Maybe I'm being soft here, but in adding a VFD I was hoping that someone would step up and add in some real content before it was deleted. Reasoning: If someone adds the content, it would be a good, encylopedic page; if no one adds the content then it probably is not notable enough to stay anyway. Chaz 22:50, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)

Bad external link
I removed the following external link because I got a "Server not found ... can't find the server at www.dungeonlord.co.uk." error. I'm recording it here in case the site comes back up later. 65.147.3.112 17:17, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

dark sun
Are these the same as in Dark Sun?--142.108.107.36 17:11, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes. --Ye Editor 22:32, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Additional references & nuking tags from orbit
If anyone can track down the original White Dwarf reference for the gith races, that would be awesome. Given the place of the githyanki in D&D over the years (and some of the in-text mentions of creative origin), the notability tag is almost laughable, but rather than inciting deletionists to edit war over tags, let's find the reference and nuke the tag from orbit.Shemeska (talk) 22:15, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Hehe. It's a lazy Saturday and I'm not in the lab, so I hunted down the references myself. If there's still a dispute over that tag (for whatever ungodly reason) take it up here before trying to raise it from the dead like a moldy cat in Pet Cemetary.Shemeska (talk) 22:28, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Good work! BOZ (talk) 16:34, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

RfC: Reliable sources & FAQs
Shemeska claims that a FAQ qualifies as a reliable secondary source such that it provides evidence of notability. Was placing the Notability cleanup template placed on this article a mistake? --Gavin Collins (talk) 23:26, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Kindly do not put words in my mouth Gavin. I never made a claim that a FAQ was a reliable secondary source. I added three references: two 3rd party magazine articles, and a link to an interview with the original creator of the Githyanki. Collectively they're enough to nuke the notability tag you slapped on the article. I did not -ever- state that a FAQ was a reliable secondary source as you are claiming, and none of the references I added are FAQs.Shemeska (talk) 00:33, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Please provide footnotes. Without them, we have no idea what you have done.--Gavin Collins (talk) 00:41, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Then you should have said so initially Gavin, rather than falsely stating that I believed that FAQs are reliable secondary sources. I don't have a clue where you pulled that from, because none of the 3 sources I added are FAQs. I would appreciate if you retracted your claim.Shemeska (talk) 00:46, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Beyond that of course, needing to add footnotes is an entirely different issue from the notability tag, which I removed with the addition of 3rd party sources. Needing footnotes has nothing to do with the notability tag or its removal.Shemeska (talk) 00:46, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * That's what the "nofootnotes" tag is for, which is already on the article. This has nothing to do with notability. BOZ (talk) 16:33, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * RfC is where you go when you have already tried to resolve the issue on the talk page and failed, it is not the way to begin a conversation. Anyway, I don't see any third party sources here, only promotional publications from the RPG industry, so there is an inherent notability issue here IMHO Beeblbrox (talk) 20:21, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * There is no issue here. The editors working on this know it needs more 3rd party sources and we are working on them. This is another case of editors of the RPG articles being harassed by the editor asking for the RfC. Web Warlock (talk) 23:01, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * So, I randomly clicked on this after looking at the RfC page for the first time ever, and now I'm party to harassment because I said something you didn't like and you feel gamers are being persecuted because articles on gaming topics are subject to the general notability guideline just like everything else? Asserting that "there is no issue" does not make it so. If you can cite some references in reliable third party publications, then we're done, there's no notability issue. Beeblbrox (talk) 06:34, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * No there is no issue neded for an RfC becuase it is a work in progress. The editors working on it know it needs cleaned up and more sources added, there was never a disagreement on that. Your points are valid and everyone knows and understands that. Gavin brought the RfC because he does not know what these articles are about and would rather complain about them than fix them. I am sorry he dragged you, an innocent 3rd party only looking to help, into his pissing-match. Web Warlock (talk) 10:39, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

 * Beeblbrox has made a valid observation and a constructive suggestion; this article has insufficent real-word content to demonstrate the notability of this fictional character, and the way to improve it is by such content by citing reliable secondary sources. --Gavin Collins (talk) 09:01, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Then why don't you start fixing the article instead of bitching about it. Web Warlock (talk) 10:40, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Beeblbrox made more than one valid observation and constructive suggestion: "RfC is where you go when you have already tried to resolve the issue on the talk page and failed, it is not the way to begin a conversation." BOZ (talk) 11:36, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Especially when the RfC was based on a completely false statement. Gavin, please retract what you claimed about me above or I'm going to have to look for Administrative mediation of some sort. This is getting completely out of hand.Shemeska (talk) 11:44, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Indeed, I see no evidence that "Shemeska claims that a FAQ qualifies as a reliable secondary source such that it provides evidence of notability" - the FAQ link was in place already when Shemeska placed the other 3rd party references (White Dwarf magazine and Charles Stross interview) on the article page, so Gavin's claim is clearly falsified, which is his basis for calling an RfC in this case. The FAQ link was placed February 2007 by Peregrine Fisher as a reference to note that the Githyanki is considered product identity by Wizards of the Coast. BOZ (talk) 14:20, 21 April 2008 (UTC)

Working on the article
Currently the article focuses mostly on an in-game perspective. Sine the githyanki are quite notable within the D&D world, it should actually be possible to write a bit more about their effect upon it. A few ideas for fleshing out the article: There's a consistent problem with finding reliable sources for any subject like this, but hopefully the focus of the article can at least be improved. --Starwed (talk) 15:33, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Possibly merge in githzerai, since I'm not sure that they merit seperate articles, and the subjects are clearly related. (Not sure what the new article should be called.)
 * The article should summarize the role of githyanki in various editions/settings, rather than present a complete history from one POV.
 * The term "gish" is often used within D&D fandom as shorthand for a fighter/mage. The term originates from the original Fiend Folio githyanki entry, so perhaps that could be mentioned?
 * Their role in auxiliary fiction should be mentioned: Planescape: Torment, for instance, is a notable video game featuring a githzeri, and I'm sure they pop up in some other D&D novels/videogames.
 * Likewise, they probably show up in various parodies of D&D.

 * Agree 100% that this, and all D&D articles (apart from anything unique to one edition), should be written in an edition-by-edition format. I'll admit that I'm partially responsible for things being written from a 3E-perspective instead of an edition-by-edition perspective - I guess I was doing a lot of follow the leader. :|  In time I came to realize that, since Wikipedia tries to avoid recentism, we should be writing in a way to reveal the entire history of the subject rather than what is "now" - hopefully the new List of Dungeons & Dragons monsters will help to rectify this. :) Additionally, I agree with you on adding the Githyanki's noteworthy appearances in novels and videogames (and parodies). Also to find sources as we can. BOZ (talk) 17:31, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

 * Hey, what do you know, I just got around to that. ;) BOZ (talk) 13:58, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Planescape Torment had texts with almost all the history about Githyanki, Githzerai and the old Illithid Empire. Also a few Githyanki NPCs were part of the game. A few notes: Should be noted that Githyanki spend a lot of their time killing Illithids even now. I have seen references of Githyankis believing that Gith is alive and trapped is an unknown place of the Universe. 85.55.147.30 (talk) 13:38, 31 August 2010 (UTC)Anonymous

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 * I have replaced that picture with a different one. I hope no one minds. It seems to me that, while the cover of the Fiend Folio may be a better or more exciting image than the one I added, it's not really appropriate for this article. Rather, it would be suitable to use it in the article about the Fiend Folio itself. Polisher of Cobwebs (talk) 00:33, 5 May 2012 (UTC)

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Talk:Workington

Mark Jenkinson
I've added Mark Jenkinson, there's a high probability that he'll be the next MP. Devokewater (talk) 16:26, 15 November 2019 (UTC)

 * Mark Jenkinson, is the new MP. Devokewater (talk) 18:46, 1 January 2020 (UTC)

Notable people
The notable people section should be split off into its own wikipage. -- Devoke water  (talk)  03:05, 29 December 2020 (UTC)

CCHT external link
This link was added to the article after discussion on the WP Reliable Sources Noticeboard. See: WP:RSN exercise. No information from the CCHT link has been put into the body of the article in the form of citations because it has not yet been verified for 100% accuracy by the Victoria County History project for Cumbria. (This will take some years to do). Laplacemat (talk) 10:14, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

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Vilcabamba, Peru

Vilcabamba (in Hispanicized spelling) or Willkapampa (Aymara and Quechua),   often called the Lost City of the Incas, is a lost city in the Echarate District of La Convención Province in the Cuzco Region of Peru. Vilcabamba means "sacred plain" in Quechua. The modern name for the Inca ruins of Vilcabamba is Espíritu Pampa (Plain of the Spirits).

Vilcabamba was the capital of the Neo-Inca State from 1539 to 1572. The Neo-Inca State was the last refuge of the Inca Empire until it fell to the Spaniards and their indigenous allies in 1572, signaling the end of Inca resistance to Spanish rule. Subsequently, Vilcabamba was abandoned and its location forgotten. In 1911 explorer Hiram Bingham mistakenly identified the abandoned ruin of Machu Picchu as Vilcabamba, but he also visited a ruin called Espiritu Pampa by local Peruvians. In 1964, Gene Savoy identified Espiritu Pampa as the fabled Vilcabamba, a designation widely accepted by archaeologists and historians.

Vilcabamba or Espiritu Pampa is located near the Chontabamba River, a tributary of the Urubamba River. The Inca capital has often been referred to as Vilcabamba the Old to distinguish it from the town of Vilcabamba the New, of Spanish origin and 35 km in straight-line distance southwest of Old Vilcabamba.

In 2010, items belonging to the Wari culture and radiocarbon dated to about 700 AD were found at Espiritu Pampa. This discovery indicated that the site was occupied long before it became the Inca capital in 1539. As of 2013, archaeological investigations of the site were incomplete and the ruins of Espiritu Pampa were inaccessible by vehicle.

History
La Convención province in which Vilcabamba is located is extremely rugged, occupying the north-eastern slopes of the Andes and sloping down to the Amazon Basin. The terrain includes snow-covered mountains, forest, lowland jungle, and rivers running through deep canyons. Access and transportation within the area was difficult and would hinder Spanish efforts to destroy the last outposts of the Inca Empire.

The Incas had occupied the Vilcabamba region since about 1450 AD, establishing major centers at Machu Picchu, Choquequirao, Vitcos, and Vilcabamba. Thus, the Incas were familiar with the region when Inca emperor, Manco Inca Yupanqui, won the Battle of Ollantaytambo against the Spanish and their Indian allies in January 1537. Despite the victory Manco was under intense pressure from the Spanish. He decided that Ollantaytambo was too close to Cusco, controlled by the Spanish, so he withdrew westward to the Inca center of Vitcos. Almagro sent his lieutenant Rodrigo Orgóñez in pursuit with 300 Spaniards and numerous Indian allies. In July 1537, Orgoñez occupied and sacked Vitcos taking many prisoners, but Manco escaped.

Manco Inca survived another Spain raid in 1539 by Gonzalo Pizarro, 300 Spanish soldiers, and Indian allies. The Spanish and the Incas fought a battle at Huayna Pukara (Huayna Fort), west of Vitcos and about 22 km from Vilcabamba. Several Spaniards and Indians were killed, but Manco again escaped. Pizarro stayed in the region for more than two months searching for Manco unsuccessfully, but capturing Manco's principal wife Cura Ocllo. The Spaniards wrote of the region that "great resources are needed to undertake a penetration of that land. It can be done only with very heavy expenditure." The Spanish would not attempt another major military expedition into Vilcabamba until 1572. As the two Spanish raids demonstrated, Vitcos was accessible to the Spanish and Manco developed Vilcabamba as a more remote refuge.

In the years following the Spanish raids, the Incas and the Spaniards maintained uneasy diplomatic relations with visits back and forth between Vilcabamba and Cuzco, the Spanish capital. The murder of a Spanish envoy by the Incas persuaded Viceroy of Peru Francisco de Toledo to conquer the Vilcabamba region and end Inca rule. On June 24, 1572, a Spanish army, led by veteran conquistador Martin Hurtado de Arbieto, made a final advance on the Incas' remote jungle capital. "At 10 o'clock," wrote Hurtado in his account of the campaign, "they marched into the city of Vilcabamba, all on foot, for it is the most wild and rugged country, in no way suitable for horses." What they discovered was a city built "for about a thousand fighting Indians, besides many other women, children, and old people" filled with "four hundred houses."

After the fall of Vilcabamba, the Spanish pursued and captured Túpac Amaru, the last Inca monarch, and beheaded him in Cusco on September 24, 1572.

Spanish Vilcabamba
In 1572, the conqueror and governor of Vilcabamba, Martin Hurtado de Arbieto, founded San Francisco de la Victoria de Vilcabamba, also known as Vilcabamba la Nueva ("the New"), 5 km west of Vitcos. It is located on the Pampaconas River, a tributary of the Vilcabamba River, which is a tributary of the Urubamba River. Hurtado was a brutal administrator, offering encomiendas to Spanish soldiers and making the local Indians virtual slaves. Many of them died, or abandoned their homes and fled elsewhere. Silver deposits were discovered nearby and the town enjoyed a brief boom, although the production of the mines was meager and by the early 17th century Vilcabamba the New and the Vilcabama region was no longer of much interest to the Spanish. Hiram Bingham visited the town in 1911, noting that, "Instead of Inca walls or ruins, Vilcabamba has three score solidly built Spanish houses...due to the prosperity of gold diggers, who came to work the quartz mines which were made accessible after the death of Tupac Amaru." Catholic clerics had built a church and a monastery in the town.

The lost city
The location of the Incan Vilcabamba was forgotten during the 17th century by the few remaining inhabitants of the region. In 1710, an explorer, Juan Arias Diaz, found Choquequirao, 70 km southwest of Vilcabamba, and identified it as the Incan capital. Later historians and explorers identified Choquequirao as Vilcabamba. In 1909, Peruvian historian, Carlos A. Romero, debunked the claim that Choquequirao was Incan Vilcabamba based on his studies of writings by Spanish chroniclers of the 16th century. Romero identified the village of Puquiura as the site of Incan Vilcabamba.

In 1911, Hiram Bingham was on the expedition which resulted in him bringing to a wider world attention the Incan ruin of Machu Picchu. Romero pointed him toward Puquiura as the site of Vilcabamba, and Bingham discovered there the ruins of Rosaspata. He correctly identified Rosaspata as the Incan Vitcos rather than Incan Vilcabamba. Drawn by rumors of another lost Inca ruin in the lowland forest, Bingham ignored tales of a hostile plantation owner and dangerous native peoples and proceeded onward. After a difficult three days of foot travel, he found the plantation. Its owner and the Asháninka or Campa indigenous peoples working there were friendly and helpful. They assisted him in cutting a trail through the jungle and two days later he found Inca ruins at a place called Espiritu Pampa. He found artificial terraces, stone houses, including a rectangular building 192 ft long, a fountain, Inca pottery, and a stone bridge. But Bingham was running out of supplies and only spent a short time at Espiritu Pampa. Based on his brief observations, Bingham concluded that Machu Picchu was the Incan Vilcabamba. That opinion went largely unchallenged for 50 years.

In 1964, Peruvian explorer Antonio Santander Caselli visited Espiritu Pampa and later claimed the discovery that Espiritu Pampa was the Incan Vilcabamba. In the same month, American explorer Gene Savoy reached Espiritu Pampa. He discovered that Bingham had only seen a minor part of the ruin at Eremboni Pampa and that the main ruin of Espiritu Pampa was 700 yard distant. Savoy found 50 or 60 houses and 300 houses at Espiritu Pampa. Savoy concluded that Espiritu Pampa was Vilcabamba, contradicting Bingham. Savoy's 1970 book Antisuyo brought the site to even wider attention.

Researcher and author John Hemming also concluded the Espiritu Pampa was Incan Vilcabamba in his 1970 book The Conquest of the Incas. He cited contemporary Spanish and Inca accounts of Vilcabamba as evidence. Titu Cusi Yupanqui said that Vilcambamba had a "warm climate," unlike Vitcos which was in "a cold district." This statement is consistent with the elevation of the two places: 1450 m for Espiritu Pampa and 2980 m for Vitcos. Moreover, both the conqueror of Vilcabamba, Hurtado de Abierto, and chronicler Martín de Murúa cited the tropical crops--coca, cotton, and sugar cane—grown near Vilcabamba and that the city lay in a "hot country" unlike most Inca cities. The Inca preferred to live in the high, cool climate of the Andes. Hurtado also described Vilcabamba as being in a valley with "pastures for cattle," unlike Machu Picchu which is on a steep ridge. Finally, Hemming cited Spanish sources indicating that Vilcabamba was northeast of Vitcos—unlike Machu Picchu which is west of Vitcos. Thus, Bingham's claim that Machu Picchu was Incan Vilcabamba and other claims that Vitcos was Vilcabamba were discredited.

In 1976, Professor Edmundo Guillén and Polish explorers Tony Halik and Elżbieta Dzikowska continued to explore the ruins at Espiritu Pampa. Before the expedition, Guillen visited a museum in Seville where he discovered letters from Spaniards, in which they described the progress of the invasion and what they found in Vilcabamba. Comparison between the letters' contents and the ruins provided additional proof of Espiritu Pampa as the location of Vilcabamba.

In 1981, the party of American explorer Gregory Deyermenjian reached and photographed parts of the site, soon thereafter generating a popular article concerning the site and its history.

Later extensive archeological work by Vincent Lee, and especially his exhaustive study, his 2000 book Forgotten Vilcabamba, gave further and even more precise confirmation that has made Espíritu Pampa the definitively accepted site of the historical Vilcabamba.

On 16 June 2006, a museum in Cuzco unveiled a plaque that commemorates the thirtieth anniversary of the 1976 Vilcabamba findings.

In 2011 was discovered the tomb of a king in Espíritu Pampa, which is estimated to date to the Wari period. The discovery testifies that the Vilcabamba site was inhabited since ancient times and that was almost certainly used as a center of commercial exchange between the people of the lowland jungle and the inhabitants of the Andean highlands.

In popular culture
The lost city of Vilcabamba features as a location in the educational computer game series The Amazon Trail, the action-adventure video game Tomb Raider, and the role-playing video game Shadow Hearts: From the New World. It also appears in the books Evil Star and Necropolis by British thriller author Anthony Horowitz.

The city was the location of British writer Colin Thubron's 2002 novel, To the Last City, which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize, and tells the story of a group of people who set off to explore the ruins of the Inca city in what has been described as a "Heart of Darkness narrative" in a "Marquezian setting".

The science fiction story "Vilcabamba" (2010) by Harry Turtledove is a self-referential allegory of Vilcabamba as an alien invasion story set in the 22nd century.

An episode of the TV Series In Search of... (1976-1982) titled "Inca Treasures", highlights the expedition taken by professor Edmundo Guillén to explore the ruins of Vilcabamba.

The second episode of Michael Wood's 2000 documentary series Conquistadors visits the site of Vilcabamba while telling the story of the fall of the Inca and retreat of Manco and his followers to the remote region as the last surviving remnant of the empire.

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Lusciano

Lusciano is a comune in the province of Caserta in Campania, Italy. Between 1929 and 1946, it was part of the comune of Aversa.

Neighbouring communes

 * Aversa
 * Trentola-Ducenta
 * Parete
 * Giugliano in Campania

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Rudi Bakhtiar

Rudabeh Bakhtiar (, born 21 June 1966), better known as Rudi Bakhtiar, is an Iranian-American journalist and television producer. She is a producer for Reuters in Washington, D.C. She is best known for anchoring CNN Headline News Tonight, as well as  Anderson Cooper 360, Voice of America, and Reuters News.

Early life and education
Bakhtiar was born on June 21, 1966, in Fresno, California, as Rudabeh Carleen Bakhtiar to Iranian immigrants of Bakhtiari heritage. Her father died of oropharyngeal cancer in 2005. Bakhtiar has a younger brother and younger sister. Shapour Bakhtiar is Rudi Bakhtiar's father's uncle, the last prime minister of Iran under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi; a great aunt of Bakhtiar's was the Shah of Iran's second wife (Soraya Esfandiary). Bakhtiar's great-grandfather is named Sardar Jang.

By age two, her family moved from Fresno to Los Angeles. When she was five, her family moved back to Iran, where she attended the American I.E.I. school in Shiraz until 1979 Iranian Revolution. Her family moved back to the United States when she was 17. She loved to ride horses as a child. Other hobbies include whitewater rafting, waterskiing, snow skiing, horseback riding, tennis, yoga, tae kwon do, and oil painting in her downtime.

She attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where she received a Bachelor of Science in biology in 1990, planning to be a dentist. She was accepted to New York University Dental School but had reservations about going to dental school. In addition, she studied architecture at the Career Discovery Program at the Harvard School of Design.

Career
In 1996, Bakhtiar joined CNN and held multiple positions in her nine years at the cable news network, including anchoring CNN Headline News Tonight on the CNN Headline News network. She has co-anchored CNN's Emmy nominated CNN Newsroom and worked as a dedicated correspondent for Anderson Cooper 360. She has reported on assignments from numerous countries in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, including Rwanda, Ethiopia, South Africa, Iran, Israel, and Palestine.

She also anchored the start of CNN's Headline News coverage of the September 11 attacks. She had left CNN to care for her dying father after almost 10 years in cable news.

In January 2006, Bakhtiar joined Fox News Channel as a general correspondent, reporting on major international news stories such as the Ahmadinejad-al-Maliki summit in Tehran in September 2006 and the trial and execution of Saddam Hussein later that year. In 2007, Fox News terminated its contract with Bakhtiar after she made a complaint of alleged sexual harassment against then Fox Washington Bureau Chief, Brian Wilson.

In 2008, Bakhtiar switched careers to become the first public relations director for the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans, an organization dedicated to building an inclusive and representative voice for Iranian Americans in the public and political arena. There she produced minidocumentaries called "Profiles of Iranian Americans" which focused on the lives of successful Iranian Americans. She also created and produced the organization's signature star-studded community event "Passing the Torch of Success," before being pushed out of the organization owing to her strong stance on Iran's human rights violations.

In May 2011, Bakhtiar testified before the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on Iran's human rights crisis, claiming under the leadership of Ayatollah Khamenei "Iran has become one of the worst violators of human rights in the world...egregiously violating virtually every article of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, of which Iran is a member state."

Bakhtiar worked on an unfinished documentary on Turkey after the failed 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt and before Michael Flynn was officially named National Security Advisor for President Donald Trump. A Turkish businessman had paid the Flynn Intel Group, a lobbying group in the United States, more than US$500000 for the making of the film but he was adamant no one knew who they were. Bakhtiar complained she was not being given the opportunity to show a balanced view of the events and said the documentary was going to destroy Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish cleric whom Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan blamed for the coup attempt and would like to see deported to Turkey from the U.S. In June 2017, Bakhtiar said she had not been contacted by people investigating Mr. Flynn, but by November 2017, it was reported that FBI agents investigating Flynn had contacted Bakhtiar.

Personal life
Bakhtiar is a fan of the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Lakers sports teams.

In 2009, she served as an official festival judge for the Noor Iranian Film Festival in Los Angeles.

Recognition
In 2002, Bakhtiar received the Iranian American Republican Council Achievement Award in recognition of outstanding achievements, excellence, and accomplishments within the Iranian American community. According to Lycos, she was ninth-ranked in the top 20 TV news personalities with the most searches from January through August that year.

In Washington D.C., December 4, 2003, Bakhtiar was the master of ceremonies for the Iranian American Technology Council Gala.

Bakhtiar was also the master of ceremonies for the University of California, Irvine, lecture given by Shirin Ebadi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, on May 21, 2005.

Sexual harassment
In 2007, Bakhtiar reported to Fox News about alleged sexual harassment by Brian Wilson before his promotion to Washington bureau chief. In public reports published in July 2016, Wilson denied harassing Bakhtiar.

When the matter was being addressed in 2007, Bakhtiar's lawyer said that she had been unlawfully treated and terminated, citing a hostile environment of sexual harassment, quid pro quo sexual harassment, and retaliation. In response, Fox News refuted the allegations by stating that it could not be liable for quid pro quo sexual harassment even if her allegations against Wilson were true because he was not her supervisor at the time of the harassment. Fox News further stated that she could not prove a causal connection between her complaint and the termination of her contract. In 2007 her case went into confidential mediation, and Bakhtiar received a favorable ruling from the mediator. A settlement was reached in which Fox News agreed to pay Bakhtiar the $670,000 remaining on her contract, as well as her legal fees. Although she agreed in her settlement not to speak of her experience at Fox News, she decided to speak in the wake of a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Gretchen Carlson against longtime Fox News CEO Roger Ailes in July 2016.

A scene showing Bakhtiar being harassed by Wilson is included in the 2019 film Bombshell, in which she is portrayed by Nazanin Boniadi.

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Category:Rail technologies

Technologies, innovations and devices associated with rail transport.

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Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration/The Cabal of Fundamentalists

N.b. its really late here, I will probably sort this out into proper format sometime soon. CheeseDreams 22:53, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

statement
I am accusing certain parties of operating a cabal, and using it to enforce their POV, and harass those who disapprove (such as me), for example by using RfC to operate a "who can slag CheeseDreams off more" competition. They are accusing me of abusive language, violates the 3RR rule, fuels edit wars, failures of dispute resolution (see the RfC) page.

I am bringing an RfAr against the cabal.

About 50% of the users making the RfC against me operate a cabal. This is clear from their editing, behaviour around reversion wars, talk pages they frequent, and the manner in which they contact each other to edit that page.

I further accuse them of harrassment in bringing a ViP against me (which I converted into an RfC and then the RfAr against myself - the reason behind which was to get them to collect all of their accusations together, list them all in one place, and settle this thing once and for all).

I also accuse them of violations of Civility, for example, persistantly calling for bans (prohibited by the policy).

CheeseDreams 22:53, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

evidence of my accusers operating a cabal
N.b. this is very elemental list, and by no means all the evidence I intend to produce

edit histories to articles will give significantly more evidence, and I shall provide it more shortly when I awake the next day

for example, the following was on JdWolf's talk page
 * Since you seem to be involved, would you be interested in signing Requests for comment/CheeseDreams? --[[User:Eequor| ᓛᖁ  [[Image:Venus symbol (blue).gif|♀]] [ ᑐ ]]] 23:14, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I have never met JdWolf before, so fail to see how he was involved.

Soliciting enmity from GRider-

 * Hello. CheeseDreams has made a particularly odd comment at Votes for deletion/Christology; would you be interested in signing Requests for comment/CheeseDreams?  --[[User:Eequor| ᓛᖁ  [[Image:Venus symbol (blue).gif|♀]] [ ᑐ ]]] 10:06, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I have never met GRider before

From Jmabel's talk page

 * ''Since you seem to be involved, would you be interested in signing Requests for comment/CheeseDreams? --[[User:Eequor| ᓛᖁ  [[Image:Venus symbol (blue).gif|♀]] [ ᑐ ]]] 23:32, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I have never met Jmabel before

From Aranel's talk page

 * Since you seem to be involved, would you be interested in signing Requests for comment/CheeseDreams? --[[User:Eequor| ᓛᖁ  [[Image:Venus symbol (blue).gif|♀]] [ ᑐ ]]] 23:19, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I have never met Aranel before

From El_C's talk page

 * I'd appreciate your help. Cultural and historical background of Jesus  This page was recently unprotected.  FT2 revised it, then I revised it considerably, mostly adding information. CheeseDreams just reverted it and threatens to revert any work I do.  Please compare my version to the previous one (FT2) and comment.  Thanks Slrubenstein

(The text by FT2 was specifically meant to be discussed for 2 days, rather than overwritten, so as to avoid restarting an edit war. Slrubenstein overwrote it). CheeseDreams 19:37, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

From 172's talk page

 * Hey, I'd really appreciate it if you would review and comment the discussion on Cultural and Historical Context of Jesus. Even if this field is not something you are expert in, I value your sensibilities as an historian,  It is a very long discussion, I'd be glad if you would just review and comment on the section on "new messiah" and the subsequent sections/discussions, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cultural_and_historical_background_of_Jesus#New_Messiah_paragraph Thanks, Slrubenstein 17:16, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

From John Kenney's talk page
 * I am engaged in an argument with CheeseDream on this talk page. I have just accused him off a personal attack and I suspect racism.  I am not sure whether this is a banable offense.  I am concerned too that I am making too much of something.  I'd appreciate it if you could look at the relevant material and give me your take -- tell me if you think I am misreading the situation or responding to it inappropriately.  Please look at this article's talk page  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cultural_and_historical_background_of_Jesus#Saducees_vs._Pharisees and look at the section on "Saducees vs. Pharisees" and "CheeseDream Verges on racism" to get the salient facts.  Thanks, Slrubenstein

and
 * John, I'd really appreciate it if you would review and comment the discussion on Cultural and Historical Context of Jesus. Even if this field is not something you are expert in, I value your sensibilities as an historian,  It is a very long discussion, I'd be glad if you would just review and comment on the section on "new messiah" and the subsequent sections/discussions, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cultural_and_historical_background_of_Jesus#New_Messiah_paragraph Thanks, Slrubenstein 17:17, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)

From Andy L's talk page
 * I am engaged in an argument with CheeseDream on this talk page. I have just accused him off a personal attack and I suspect racism.  I am not sure whether this is a banable offense.  I am concerned too that I am making too much of something.  I'd appreciate it if you could look at the relevant material and give me your take -- tell me if you think I am misreading the situation or responding to it inappropriately.  Please look at this article's talk page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cultural_and_historical_background_of_Jesus#Saducees_vs._Pharisees and look at the section on "Saducees vs. Pharisees" and "CheeseDream Verges on racism" to get the salient facts.  Thanks, Slrubenstein

From Jayjg's talk page
 * I have made my own proposal for the "new messiah" section, and would appreciate your comments. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cultural_and_historical_background_of_Jesus#New_Messiah_paragraph -- thanksSlrubenstein

 * In consequence of the above, I have since 2 days hence, solicited comment from users who have met the above and disputed their behaviour.

Childish behaviour of my accusers
Re. Homoeroticism quote.
 * I do not consider jealousy due to their lack of wit as justifiable complaint against me. CheeseDreams 19:26, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Re. being a sock puppet
 * You're kiddin', right, honey? YOU ARE GOING DOWN! *ROFLMFAO* Piglet 01:05, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

A quote from this page
 * Hahahahaha! This is a WAR you can NOT win, CheesyCake! Piglet 21:31, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

A quote from this page
 * Kindly sign your comments with the ~ so we can know who is saying things, and if they are worthy of comment. Thank you. IZAK 04:01, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)

-I fail to see how knowing who made a comment determines whether it is worthy or notCheeseDreams 19:31, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)


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User:Lebite

I'm new to Wikipedia, since Dec 2004.

Personal Fault
I'm slowly coming to terms with Copyright rules, so bear with me. I feel like I'm reliving my master thesis!

Location
I am currently living in Nova Scotia,Canada but I am originally from Ontario,Canada.

Education
I'm still in Jr.High 1 year left than i'm off to High school.

interests
Books, History, Anime, Languages *I can speak English and German*.

Pages Watched
I hope we can all get along. I really don't like it when people simply erase EVERYTHING I write... but at least it remains in the History... so at least try to talk to me about it. --Lebite 07:47, 4 Dec 2007

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Mob Rules (band)

Mob Rules are a German power metal band. They were founded in 1994 by erstwhile Van Blanc guitarist Matthias Mineur and bassist Thorsten Plorin. Pulling in vocalist Klaus Dirks and drummer Arved Mannott, the quartet began to gig. Opening slots included shows with Pink Cream 69, C.I.T.A. and Crossroads.

During the spring of 1996, Mob Rules added second guitarist Oliver Fuhlhage and a self-financed mini album prompted a deal with Limb Music Productions for the March 1999 Savage Land. The reaction in Europe was encouraging and the band toured Germany on a co-headline jaunt with Ivory Tower. Other shows witnessed valuable support slots to Overkill and Scorpions as well as an appearance at the Wacken Open Air festival in 2000.

In 2000, the band released their second album Temple of Two Suns, Thomas Rettke of Heavens Gate and Susanne Möhle of Heavens Gate and Hyperchild providing backing vocals. Live work had the band crossing Europe in 2001 with Company of Snakes.

Mob Rules then returned to live action during July 2002 acting as support to Savatage, topping this activity off with an appearance at the Wacken Open Air festival. The band's third album arrived in September 2002 Hollowed Be Thy Name. Guests include Peavy Wagner of Rage on the track "How the Gypsy Was Born" and ex-Helloween guitarist Roland Grapow on both "All Above the Atmosphere" and "Way of the World".

Among the Gods, arrived in May 2004 through SPV. Guitarist Oliver Fuhlhage was replaced by Sven Lüdke of Murder One in October as the band geared up for European dates supporting Europe. The band recorded a live album and DVD, billed Signs of the Time LIVE, at a hometown gig at the Wilhelmshaven Pumpwerk.

In spring 2006 Markus Brinkmann replaced Thorsten Plorin. In October 2006 their album Ethnolution A.D. was released through SPV.

Discography
Albums
 * Savage Land (1999)
 * Temple of Two Suns (2000)
 * Hollowed Be Thy Name (2002)
 * Among the Gods (2004)
 * Signs of the Time (Live, 2005)
 * Ethnolution A.D. (2006)
 * Radical Peace (2009)
 * Cannibal Nation (2012)
 * Timekeeper (2014) Best Of
 * Tales from Beyond (2016)
 * Beast Reborn (2018)

Singles
 * "Lord of Madness" (2002)
 * "Black Rain" (2004)
 * Ice & Fire (2012)
 * My Kingdom Come (2013)

EPs
 * Savage Land Pt. 1 (1996)
 * Astral Hand (2009)

DVD
 * Signs of the Time (Live, 2005)

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Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/The Cabal of Fundamentalists

User:CheeseDreams frequently employs abusive language, violates the 3RR rule, and fuels edit wars, and other dispute resolution methods have failed. This opinion is held by (amongst others)
 * IZAK
 * Josiah
 * Eequor
 * Slrubenstein
 * Wetman
 * Jayjg
 * jguk
 * Sam Spade
 * Piglet (who is possibly a sock puppet)
 * john k
 * JDG

It is POV distortion and a seriously offensive form of harrassment this opinion is held by
 * CheeseDreams

 * This is not an opinion I hold. I have asked in relation to one incident for the 3RR to be applied to CheeseDreams (though 2 or 3 times in relation to that one incident). That is not a claim that he "frequently" violates the 3RR, but a claim that he has in relation to one incident violated it. I have not claimed, and have no opinion on, whether CheeseDreams frequently employs abusive language or fuels edit wars. jguk 22:30, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * This action, taken by CheeseDreams, is an action of a desperate troll! It just makes me laugh! *LOL* Me? A sock puppet? Give us proof! Piglet 03:36, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

This is originally a "Vandalism in Progress" and then a "Request for Comment" see that page with fuller details

N.b. some members of the arbitration committee such as Jwrosenzweig are already involved parties (albeit in minor ways) with this user, unfortunately CheeseDreams 00:43, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Please note that CheeseDreams currently has a Request for Mediation, Request for Comment, and a Vandalism in Progress currently against him. He is currently faced with allegations of user page vandalism, abusive language, begining multiple edit wars and violations of the 3RR rule. His RfA should be denied on the grounds that he has not attempted any dispute resolution methods, nor has he satisfied the other requirements for an RfA. Furthermore, he is only pointing out allegations against him (as of this posting), and he has not given any reasons that RfA's should be opened against those mentioned above.--Josiah 00:45, Nov 30, 2004 (UTC)

 * Note that Josiah is one of the accusers above. Further, harrasment is the reason to open RfAs against the above. Evidence of this is visible on the linked request for comment page. CheeseDreams 00:51, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Note to arbitrators : I am more interested in a ruling on the subject of CheeseDreams 01:26, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Note to Jwrosenzweig. I pointed out your name as I think that involved parties should not sit in positions of judgement, whether on my side, or on the opposite. In english courts of law, if a judge knows a witness or defendant, in any way, in a non-judge capacity, they must resign the case. This is only fairness. CheeseDreams 21:21, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * Note to Arbtrators: CheeseDreams has cited me as a defendant in this case. He has not cited evidence of me holding the view he claims of me (I note above that I do not hold the view he ascribes to me), and he has made no attempt at dispute resolution with me. I therefore ask that the case against me be summarily dismissed. I also note that I only found out that a case had been brought about me by chance, there was no notification of this on my talk page. jguk 22:35, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * Note to Jongarretuk. You signed the RfC supporting the above summary which is at its head. Would you like to remove the signature? CheeseDreams 01:19, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * I signed no such thing. At its head is a comment I made on another page that someone else copied onto that page. You will note that I have not signed as one of those who endorse the RfC. Indeed, the history of that RfC page shows I only made one edit, which was correcting Sunborn, who was under a misapprehension vis-à-vis the three revert rule. jguk 07:30, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * CheeseDreams, are you bringing this RfAR against anyone who signed your RfC? Jayjg 03:35, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Who is raising this arbitration, and who is it against? Jayjg 22:58, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
 * O.K., let me get this straight, CheeseDreams has raised an RfAR against all these people based on his opinion of what their opinion is of him? Jayjg 23:05, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

This seems abusive of RfAr in light of the debate at Requests for comment/CheeseDreams. -- 23:00, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I ask that the arbiters take this case, since it appears to me that Cheese is actively trying to be banned, and providing him the opportunity to make his case might be the best for the community. This guy has been a non-stop problem user, his RFC and edit history attests to that. [[User:Sam Spade|Sam Spade Arb Com election]] 23:02, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)

 * p.s. I did sign the "fundamentalist" list on his user page

 * Sam - this is a case being brought against us by CheeseDreams. It is not being brought against CheeseDreams. If you want to bring a case against CheeseDreams do so - but since plaintiffs don't get bans, only defendants who lose their case, the result of this case will not be a ban for CheeseDreams. Also, and please accept this as a bit of friendly advice, playing the man not the ball in your defence (see ad hominem) is never accepted by the Arbitration committee. jguk 00:10, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Dear Arbitrators: I cannot fathom Cheesedreams "logic" at all. The only "reason/s" that he cites for this RfA of his, is that because other users have listed their documented complaints against him in a clear-cut RfC. Please read the contents of that page at Requests for comment/CheeseDreams PRIOR to considering CheeseDreams claims. It is he that now (yet again) uses a slur by calling a large number of Users "fundamentalists". He should apologize soon. Thank you. IZAK 05:26, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Rebuttal of the above. The users listing their complaints operate a cabal. This is clear from their editing, and the manner in which they contact each other to edit that page.
 * IZAK, note the quotation marks. Note that Sam DID sign his name as being a fundamentalist. Note that I am owed an apology by many of the accusers. Note that I requested the arbitrators look at the RfC page. CheeseDreams 08:50, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Cheesedreams I have NO idea what "cabal" you are talking about. What do I have to do with Sam Spade as we are usually on very opposite sides of the Wikipedia spectrum (it is YOU that has lumped us together for a change, for which I should "thank" you I suppose), I also have had some deep differences of views with some of the other people you call "fundamentalists" which is a very INSULTING word BTW and you should not use it as it has many negative connotations. I do not speak for Sam and he does NOT speak for me! I have listed all your objectionable actions, as I experienced them first hand, very CLEARLY on the Requests for comment/CheeseDreams page and they are all based on YOUR editorial (non) behavior since you came to Wikipedia one month ago (are you sure you haven't been here before...hmmmm?). IZAK 10:28, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * No, you lumped yourselves together for this.
 * "Fundamentalists" contains quotations marks.
 * Though the cabal has internal factions, it nethertheless operates to maintain POV on articles - see the way that, for example, some of the articles I edited were reverted by elements of the cabal in turn.
 * P.s. I am sure I haven't been here before, but are you? CheeseDreams 20:03, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Mediation was attempted, which along w numerous attempts to correct cheese on User talk:CheeseDreams and the RFC and innumerable talk page discussions demonstrate earlier steps in the dispute resolution process which have failed. 20:57, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * The above was inserted by Jdforrester.
 * I reiterate that the talk page comments were not "attempts at dispute resolution" but "attempts at silencing".
 * Further I reiterate that Slrubenstein and I (and Amgine (on my side of the fence)) are still in Mediation, and it has still only just started (ask The mediator (whose username I may have mis-spelt). CheeseDreams 00:25, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

I am accusing cheese of trying to get banned, and behaving badly in a consistant manner in order to do so. See the RFC and edit history. I hope that clears things up. [[User:Sam Spade|Sam Spade Arb Com election]] 11:38, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Deliberately asking to get one's self banned is not against wikipedia policy, Sam. And that is not the purpose of it. Think carefully about what I can gain by RfAr-ing myself, Sam (or should I say Jack). CheeseDreams 20:03, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

This is absurd. Why on earth does CheeseDreams get to state what my opinion of her is? john k 06:18, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * To arbitrators, I am accusing the above of operating a cabal, and using it to enforce their POV, and harass those who disapprove (such as me), for example by using RfC to operate a "who can slag CheeseDreams off more" competition. They are accusing me of abusive language, violates the 3RR rule, fuels edit wars, failures of dispute resolution (see the RfC) page. CheeseDreams 08:54, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Ah, so I was right, you are bringing an RfAR against anyone who signed the RfC against you. But how did I get into the "cabal"?  I've never touched your RfC. Jayjg 18:22, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * You are in the cabal. For example, Slrubenstein and culture.
 * I have seen other evidence of such behaviour on pages I only read rather than edit, in addition to those I edit as well.CheeseDreams 20:03, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * You are partly right. I am bringing an RfAr against the cabal. Not all signatories to the RfC are part of it, though the majority are. I am also bringing an RfAr against myself. I will only explain the reasoning behind such an act to arbitrators, though if you have intellect, you should be able to work it out. CheeseDreams 20:03, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)


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HMS Nubian

Three ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Nubian after the people of Nubia.

 * HMS Nubian (1909) was a Tribal-class destroyer (1905) destroyer. Her bows were blown off in 1916, and her mid and aft sections were combined with the bows of the damaged destroyer HMS Zulu (1909), the resulting vessel being named "HMS Zubian".
 * HMS Nubian (F36), launched 1937, was a destroyer of another Tribal-class destroyer (1936).
 * HMS Nubian (F131), launched 1960, was a Tribal-class frigate.

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Colin McKay Grierson

Air Commodore Colin McKay Grierson CBE (16 June 1906 – 1991 ) was a senior officer in the Royal Air Force during and after World War II.

He joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) as an Aircraft Apprentice in 1921. In 1925 he became a Flight Cadet Sergeant. In 1927 he was on the staff of RAF Calshot with the rank of Pilot Officer. During the 1930s he held a number of different positions in the RAF as Armament and Engineering Officer. On 1 January 1941 he worked on the Air Staff in the Directorate of Plans.

On 20 May 1944 he became Assistant Chief of Staff A2 (Intelligence), Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force (SHAEF) with the rank of Acting Air Commodore. At a press briefing two days after the Dresden raid on 14 February 1945, Grierson told journalists:

"First of all they [Dresden and similar towns] are the centres to which evacuees are being moved. They are centres of communications through which traffic is moving across to the Russian Front, and from the Western Front to the East, and they are sufficiently close to the Russian Front for the Russians to continue the successful prosecution of their battle. I think these three reasons probably cover the bombing."

One of the journalists asked whether the principal aim of bombing of Dresden would be to cause confusion among the refugees or to blast communications carrying military supplies. Grierson answered that the primary aim was communications to prevent them moving military supplies, and to stop movement in all directions if possible. He then added in an offhand remark that the raid also helped destroying "what is left of German morale" Howard Cowan, an Associated Press war correspondent, subsequently filed a story saying that the Allies had resorted to terror bombing. This set in train a number of embarrassing questions on both sides of the Atlantic on the morality of this form of attack.

He retired from the RAF on 31 August 1950 with the rank of Air Commodore.

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User talk:T2X

=The Faerie Quarrel= On December 2, I changed The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask, changing all instances of "faerie" to "fairy", with the edit summary of Changed "faerie" to "fairy" - Can screw up searches, spelled as "fairy" in actual game, and only weird people use the spelling "faerie". Soon thereafter, I recieved the following response on this Talk Page. I'm leaving it here to show we all are idiots at one time or another.

A Modest Proposal

 * Changed "faerie" to "fairy" - Can screw up searches, spelled as "fairy" in actual game, and only weird people use the spelling "faerie" - T2X, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask changelog

I sincerely apologise for this inexcusable folly made on my behalf.

It is all suddenly so clear. E.g. in ‘'The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past’' the word faerie is spelt 'faerie', thus in order to be consistent with searches the use of the word within that article should be written as ‘faerie’ (fortunately the article does not contain that very word thus the problem never arises). Nevertheless, in the GBA-port the spelling ‘fairy’ is used, and in order not to exclude archaic players (not to mention weird people) from searching Wikipedia it ought to be written faerie/fairy.

One soon realises the utter preposterousness of this since such an article would not show up in a search for the synonymous word ‘faery’. Thus this exemplary meaning taken from the Majora's Mask article:

 * This time it is not Navi, the original fairy, but a new fairy named Tatl.

Should be replaced by:

 * This time it is not Navi, the original fairy/faery/faerie, but a new fairy/faery/faerie named Tatl.

Simply because the latter one is more friendly to the search-variant and less prone to ‘screwing up’ user’s searches. After all, people should not have to be bothered with such rubbish as thesauruses.

Unfortunately, this is a rather lengthy procedure in order to make things right. Therefore I propose that someone hack up a script in order to search and entirely destroy this menace known as “synonyms” on Wikipedia once and for all. One can only begin to imagine the uncountable amount of ‘screwed up’ searches it is responsible for.

Masken 22:59, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

A Modest Rebuttal
Yeah. I'll admit it was rash of me to change it, and I did show my bias against alternate spellings.

My initiative for changing it was consistency. Anyone surfing the [|Legend of Zelda games] category would have hit  twenty articles, five of which mentioned our mythological creature. Four of those articles use the spelling "fairy", with the only exception being the previous version of The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask.

Now, to the change comment, The search reason may be a poor one, and the weird comment was a bad choice. But in the game it is spelled "fairy", and that along with the consistency issue was reason enough, I think.

I apologize for the comment. It was rude of me. My only experience with the spellings "faery/faerie" is dealing with gothic schoolmates who argue with others over the spelling incessantly.

And so, I am sorry. I meant no malice.

--T2X 01:02, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC)

Masken's Reply

 * Consider your apology accepted. Your claim for consistency is a valid one and I agree with your thesis. It was your change comment that tainted the actual edit in my book, hence the post at your talk page. Nonetheless, I'm glad that this brief quarrel could be put to an end without one of us opening the open a can of worms as spelling flames. --Masken 12:20, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

AOL/AIM
RE: Talk:AOL_Instant_Messenger

Trillian IS free. I've never paid one red cent for it. CobaltBlueTony 19:21, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)

I don't know what features you are looking for, but the free version works well enough for me.

Here's the feature comaprison between free and pro: CobaltBlueTony 19:46, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)
 * http://www.trillian.cc/compare/

List of Ohio State University people
Hey, thanks for asking first. I would have asked before forking as I did with Rice, Stanford, and a few other schools, but no one seemed to be objecting so I decided to just be bold and go ahead with the fork. The reason I used the title I did was that all the other universities that have similar pages have similar titles. See the page at Category:Lists of people by university affiliation or just click on the link at the bottom of the List of Ohio State University people - apart from a few anomalies they all use "List of x people". Some do say "List of x alumni", but I feel that a more general page allows one to have separate headers for alumni, faculty, and current students, if necessary. Let me know your opinion. - Mark McCartney (talk) 18:52, 2005 Jun 17 (UTC)

Alex Lingo is a master of racquetball

Proposed deletion of Wikalong

The article Wikalong has been proposed for deletion  because of the following concern:
 * Article is not sourced from reliable, independent sources (WP:V), nor does it show how the subject is notable (WP:N)

While all contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, content or articles may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the  notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the article to address the issues raised. Removing  will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. The speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Marasmusine (talk) 13:57, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

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Ellipse (disambiguation)

In mathematics, an ellipse is a geometrical figure.

Ellipse may also refer to:

 * MacAdam ellipse, an area in a chromaticity diagram
 * Elliptic leaf shape
 * Superellipse, a geometric figure

As a name, ellipse, elliptic, or elliptical may also be:

 * The Ellipse, an area in Washington, D.C., United States
 * Ellipse Programmé, a French animation studio
 * Elipse, a Yugoslav rock band
 * Ellipse, a 2009 album by Imogen Heap
 * "Ellipse", a song from the album In Silence We Yearn by Oh Hiroshima
 * Explorer Ellipse, an American homebuilt aircraft design
 * La société Ellipse, a French aircraft manufacturer
 * Elliptic, a British blockchain analytics firm
 * Elliptical trainer, a stationary exercise machine

Similar terms

 * Ellipsis, a punctuation mark
 * Ellipsis, a rhetorical suppression of words to give an expression more liveliness
 * Eclipse, an astronomical event
 * Ellipsoid, a two-dimensional surface analogous to the one-dimensional ellipse curve

title: Ellipse (disambiguation)


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User:Migozared

A penny farthing for your thoughts.

title: User:Migozared


text: User talk:68.67.40.219

title: User talk:68.67.40.219


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Robin Gray (New Zealand politician)

Sir Robert McDowall Gray (2 July 1931 – 2 April 2022), generally known as Robin Gray, was a New Zealand politician. He was an MP from 1978 to 1996, and served as Speaker of the House of Representatives between 1990 and 1993.

Early life and family
Gray was born in Borgue, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland on 2 July 1931. He received his education at Borgue Primary School and at George Watson's Boys College. After serving with the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards from 1949 to 1951 in Africa, he migrated to New Zealand in 1952 to take up farming, initially working on a farm at Tapanui, before moving to his own property at Waitahuna, Central Otago. Gray became a naturalised New Zealand citizen in 1973.

Gray married Mary Muir Thomson in 1957. She was the daughter of Alexander Thomson. The couple went on to have three children. Gray was widowed by the death of his wife, Mary, in 1981.

Member of Parliament
He joined the National Party in 1956, and held a number of positions in its internal hierarchy. In the 1978 election, he was elected to replace Peter Gordon as MP for Clutha, a safe National seat that practically guaranteed election. He was elected in 1978 and held the electorate until the 1996 election, when it was abolished and he retired.

Gray became the National Party's Junior Whip in 1985 and the Senior Whip in 1987.

Speaker of the House of Representatives
When National won office in the 1990 election, Gray was made Speaker of the House of Representatives. After the 1993 election, however, the National Party saw its majority pared back to a single seat. As the Speaker could only vote in the event of a tie, re-appointing Gray to the Speakership would leave Parliament deadlocked. National therefore offered the Speakership to Peter Tapsell of the Labour Party. Gray was appointed to the sinecure of Minister of State, and also became Associate Minister of Foreign Affairs.

In the 1994 New Year Honours, Gray was appointed a Knight Bachelor.

As Speaker of the House of Representatives, Gray was entitled to the title of The Honourable, and he was granted use of the honorific for the rest of his life in 1994.

Life after Parliament
After stepping down as an MP, Gray retired to Mosgiel, but continued to make occasional appearances and commentary at various conferences around New Zealand. He was mildly critical of the National Party for failing to promote members' interests at conferences, to which he achieved a degree of success in ensuring delegates had more opportunity for engagement at the formal meetings.

Gray was the founding president on the board of trustees for the New Zealand Business and Parliament Trust. He died at his home in Mosgiel on 2 April 2022.

Freemason
Gray was active as a Freemason from the 1950s. He was initiated at Kirkcudbright the day before he left for New Zealand. He joined the lodge at Tapanui after arriving in New Zealand, before transferring to Lawrence in 195, where he rose to become master in 1971. After retiring from farming, he transferred to Lodge St John 84 in Mosgiel in 1995, and was appointed grand lecturer the following year.

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HMS Ashanti

Two ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Ashanti after the Ashanti people.

 * HMS Ashanti (F51) was a Tribal-class destroyer (1936) destroyer launched in 1937 and sold for breaking up in 1949.
 * HMS Ashanti (F117) was a Tribal-class frigate frigate launched in 1959. She was expended as a target in 1988.

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1967 Australian referendum (Aboriginals)

The second question of the 1967 Australian referendum of 27 May 1967, called by the Holt government, related to Indigenous Australians. Voters were asked whether to give the Commonwealth Parliament the power to make special laws for Indigenous Australians in states, and whether Indigenous Australians should be included in official population counts for constitutional purposes. The term "the Aboriginal Race" was used in the question.

Technically the referendum question was a vote on the Constitution Alteration (Aboriginals) 1967 that would amend section 51(xxvi) and repeal section 127.

The amendments to the Constitution were overwhelmingly endorsed, winning 90.77% of votes cast and having majority support in all six states. The amendment became law on 10 August 1967.

Background
In 1901, the attorney-general, Alfred Deakin, provided a legal opinion on the meaning of section 127 of the Constitution of Australia. Section 127 excluded "aboriginal natives" from being counted when reckoning the numbers of the people of the commonwealth or a state. His legal advice was that "half-castes" were not "aboriginal natives".

Prior to 1967, censuses asked a question about Aboriginal race to establish numbers of "half-castes" and "full-bloods". "Full-bloods" were then subtracted from the official population figure in accordance with the legal advice from the attorney-general.

Strong activism by individuals and both Indigenous and non-Indigenous groups greatly aided the success of the 1967 referendum in the years leading up to the vote. Calls for Aboriginal issues to be dealt with at the federal level began as early as 1910. Despite a failed attempt in the 1944 referendum, minimal changes were instigated for Aboriginal rights until the 1960s, where the Bark Petition in 1963 and the ensuing Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd and Commonwealth of Australia (Gove Land Rights Case), and Gurindji Strike highlighted the negative treatment of Indigenous workers in the Northern Territory. From here, the overall plight of Aboriginal Australians became a fundamental political issue.

On 7 April 1965, the Menzies Cabinet decided that it would seek to repeal section 127 of the Constitution at the same time as it sought to amend the nexus provision, but made no firm plans or timetable for such action. In August 1965, attorney-general Billy Snedden proposed to Cabinet that abolition of section 127 was inappropriate unless section 51(xxvi) was simultaneously amended to remove the words "other than the aboriginal race in any state". He was rebuffed, but gained agreement when he made a similar submission to the Holt Cabinet in 1966. In the meantime, his Liberal colleague Billy Wentworth had introduced a private member's bill proposing inter alia to amend section 51(xxvi).

In 1964, the Leader of the Opposition, Arthur Calwell, had proposed such a change and pledged that his party, the Australian Labor Party, would back any referendum to that effect.

In 1967, the Australian Parliament was unanimous in voting for the alteration bill.

The Australian Board of Missions, the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science, the Australian Aborigines League, the Australian Council of Churches, the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders (FCAATSI) and spokespeople such as Ruby Hammond, Bill Onus and Faith Bandler were some of the many groups and individuals who effectively utilised the media and their influential platforms to generate the momentum needed to achieve a landslide Yes vote.

Amendments to the Constitution
Voters were asked to approve, together, changes to two provisions in the Constitution section 51(xxvi) and section 127.

Section 51 begins:

"The Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws for the peace, order, and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to:"And the extraordinary clauses that follow (ordinarily referred to as heads of power) list most of the legislative powers of the federal parliament. The amendment deleted the text in bold from subsection xxvi (known as the "race" or "races" power):

"The people of any race, other than the aboriginal race in any State, for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws;"

The amendment gave the Commonwealth parliament power to make "special laws" with respect to Aboriginal People living in a state; the parliament already had unfettered power in regard to territories under section 122 of the Constitution. It was the intention of the government and many voters that this new power was to be only used beneficially. However in the case of Kartinyeri v Commonwealth, the High Court did not find that such a restriction on the power existed, with the court being split 2:2 (2 judges not deciding) as to whether or not the power could be used to the detriment of an identified race. The Hindmarsh Island bridge controversy, and the Northern Territory Intervention are two circumstances where the post-1967 race power has arguably been used in this way.

Section 127 was wholly removed. Headed "Aborigines not to be counted in reckoning population", it had read:

The Constitution required the calculation of "the people" for several purposes in sections 24, 89, 93 and 105. Section 89 related to the imposition of uniform customs duties and operated until 1901. Section 93 related to uniform custom duties after being imposed by section 89 and operated until 1908. Section 105 related to taking over state debts and was superseded by section 105A inserted in the Constitution in 1929 following the 1928 referendum. Accordingly, in 1967, only section 24 in relation to the House of Representatives had any operational importance to section 127.

Section 24 "requires the membership of the House of Representatives to be distributed among the States in proportion to the respective numbers of their people". The number of people in section 24 is calculated using the latest statistics of the Commonwealth which are derived from the census. Section 51(xi) of the Constitution enabled the Parliament to make laws for "census and statistics" and it exercised that power to pass the Census and Statistics Act 1905.

Give voting rights
It is frequently stated that the 1967 referendum gave Aboriginal people Australian citizenship and that it gave them the right to vote in federal elections; however, this was not the case.

From 1944, Aboriginal people in Western Australia could apply to become citizens of the state, which gave them various rights, including the right to vote. This citizenship was conditional on adopting "the manner and habits of civilised life" and not associating with Aboriginal people other than their parents, siblings, children, or grandchildren, and could be taken away at any time. This situation continued until 1971. Most Indigenous Australians continued to be denied the right to vote in elections for the Australian Parliament even after 1949. The Commonwealth Electoral Act 1949 gave Aboriginal people the right to vote in federal elections only if they were able to vote in their state elections (they were disqualified from voting altogether in Queensland, while in Western Australia and in the Northern Territory the right was conditional), or if they had served in the defence force.

The Commonwealth Electoral Act 1962 gave all Aboriginal people the option of enrolling to vote in federal elections. It was not until the Commonwealth Electoral Amendment Act 1983 that voting became compulsory for Aboriginal people, as it was for other Australians.

Aboriginal people (and all other people) living in the Northern Territory were not allowed to vote in the referendum, which remained the case for both the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory until the Constitutional amendment to section 128 after a referendum in 1977.

Supersede a "Flora and Fauna Act"
It is also sometimes mistakenly stated that the 1967 referendum overturned a Flora and Fauna Act. This is believed to have come from the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974, which controlled Aboriginal heritage, land and culture. The other states had equivalent acts which were managed by various departments, including those relating to agriculture and fishing.

Right to be included in the census
Section 127 prevented the inclusion of the Indigenous Australians in the official population for constitutional purposes, i.e. their population would not be included in the calculation of the number of seats to assign for each state or in the determination of tax revenue. The section did not prevent the Bureau of Statistics from counting or collecting other information about Indigenous Australians. From 1911 to 1966 the Bureau had collected information about Indigenous Australians, however this was published separately to the general population. As such, while the inclusion in the general population was important symbolically, the change did not directly improve the information available to government.

Results
At this time, territorians, while able and required to vote in elections, were not permitted to vote in referendums. That was not established until 1977.

Legacy
Ninety percent of voters voted yes, and the overwhelming support gave the Federal Government a clear mandate to implement policies to benefit Aboriginal people. Many misconceptions have arisen as to the outcomes of the referendum, some as a result of it taking on a symbolic meaning during a period of increasing Aboriginal self-confidence. It was some five years before any real change occurred as a result of the referendum, but federal legislation has since been enacted covering land rights, discriminatory practices, financial assistance, and preservation of cultural heritage.

The referendum result had two main outcomes:
 * The first was to alter the legal boundaries within which the Federal Government could act. The Federal Parliament was given a constitutional head-of-power under which it could make special laws "for" Aboriginal people (for their benefit or, as the High Court has made clear, their detriment) in addition to other "races". The Australian Constitution states that federal law prevails over state law, where they are inconsistent, so that the Federal Parliament could, if it so chose, enact legislation that would end discrimination against Aboriginal people by state governments. However, during the first five years following the referendum the Federal Government did not use this new power.
 * The other key outcome of the referendum was to provide Aboriginal people with a symbol of their political and moral rights. The referendum occurred at a time when Aboriginal activism was accelerating, and it was used as a kind of historical shorthand for all the relevant political events of the time, such as the demands for land rights by the Gurindji people, the equal-pay case for pastoral workers, and the Freedom Rides to end segregation in New South Wales. This use as a symbol for a period of activism and change has contributed to the misconceptions about the effects of the constitutional changes themselves.

Symbolic effect
The 1967 referendum has acquired a symbolic meaning in relation to a period of rapid social change during the 1960s. As a result, it has been credited with initiating political and social change that was the result of other factors. The real legislative and political impact of the 1967 referendum has been to enable, and thereby compel, the federal government to take action in the area of Aboriginal Affairs. Federal governments with a broader national and international agenda have attempted to end the discriminatory practices of state governments such as Queensland and to introduce policies that encourage self-determination and financial security for Aboriginal people. However, the effectiveness of these policies has been tempered by an unwillingness of most federal governments to deal with the difficult issues involved in tackling recalcitrant state governments. It has been argued that Holt, who died not long after the referendum, was setting up a more extensive government response than Gorton enacted.

Land rights
The benefits of the referendum began to flow to Aboriginal people in 1972. On 26 January 1972, Aboriginal peoples erected the Aboriginal Tent Embassy on the lawns of the Federal Parliament building in Canberra to express their frustration at the lack of progress on land rights and racial discrimination issues. This became a major confrontation that raised Aboriginal affairs high on the political agenda in the federal election later that year. One week after gaining office, the Whitlam government (1972–1975) established a Royal Commission into land rights for Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory under Justice Woodward. Its principal recommendations, delivered in May 1974, were: that Aboriginal people should have inalienable title to reserve lands; that regional land councils should be established; to establish a fund to purchase land with which Aboriginal people had a traditional connection, or that would provide economic or other benefits; prospecting and mineral exploration on Aboriginal land should only occur with their consent (or that of the Federal Government if the national interest required it); entry onto Aboriginal land should require a permit issued by the regional land council. The recommendations were framed in terms to enable application outside the Northern Territory. The Federal Government agreed to implement the principal recommendations, and in 1975, the House of Representatives passed the Aboriginal Councils and Associations Bill and the Aboriginal Land (Northern Territory) Bill, but the Senate had not considered them by the time parliament was dissolved in 1975.

The following year, the Fraser government (1975–1983) amended the Aboriginal Land (Northern Territory) Bill by introducing the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Bill. The new bill made a number of significant changes such as limitation on the operations and boundaries of land councils; giving Northern Territory law effect on Aboriginal land, thereby enabling land rights to be eroded; removing the power of land councils to issue permits to non-Aboriginal people; and allowing public roads to be built on Aboriginal land without consent. This bill was passed as the Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976. It is significant however that this legislation was implemented at all, given the political allegiances of the Fraser government, and shows the level of community support for social justice for Aboriginal people at the time.

Use of "race power" in legislation
The Whitlam government used its constitutional powers to overrule racially discriminatory state legislation. On reserves in Queensland, Aboriginal people were forbidden to gamble, use foul language, undertake traditional cultural practices, indulge in adultery, or drink alcohol. They were also required to work without payment. In the Aboriginal Courts in Queensland the same official acted as judge as well as the prosecuting counsel. Defendants almost invariably pleaded guilty as pleas of not guilty were more than likely to lead to a longer sentence. The Whitlam government, using the race power, enacted the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Discriminatory Laws) Act 1975 to override the state laws and eliminate racial discrimination against Aboriginal people. However, no federal government ever enforced this Act.

The race power was also used by the Whitlam government to positively discriminate in favour of Aboriginal people. It established schemes whereby Aboriginal people could obtain housing, loans, emergency accommodation and tertiary education allowances. It also increased funding for the Aboriginal Legal Service enabling twenty-five offices to be established throughout Australia.

The race power gained in the 1967 referendum has been used in several other pieces of significant Federal legislation. One of the pieces of legislation enacted to protect the Gordon River catchment used the race power but applied it to all people in Australia. The law prohibited anyone from damaging sites, relics and artefacts of Aboriginal settlement in the Gordon River catchment. In the Tasmanian Dam Case, the High Court held that even though this law applied to all people and not only to Aboriginal people, it still constituted a special law.

In the 1992 Mabo judgment, the High Court of Australia established the existence of Native Title in Australian Common Law. Using the race power, the Keating Government enacted the Native Title Act 1993 and successfully defended a High Court challenge from the Queensland Government.

Blame Shifting
In granting the Commonwealth a broad power to legislate in regards to Indigenous Australians, responsibilities for areas traditionally the purview of the states (such as housing, education and healthcare) was shared between both branches of government. As a result, both levels have sought to blame the other for the continuing disadvantage of Indigenous Australians, while seeking to place the cost and responsibility to manage these issues on the other. Additionally, the disillusion in the face of continuing discrimination despite the overwhelming success of the vote led to a new generation of Indigenous activists, who placed a greater emphasis on their rights as First Peoples as seen through the establishment of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy, the focus on sovereignty and land rights.

Negative application of "race power"
When John Howard's Coalition government came to power in 1996, it intervened in the Hindmarsh Island bridge controversy in South Australia with legislation that introduced an exception to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act 1984, to allow the bridge to proceed. The Ngarrindjeri challenged the new legislation in the High Court on the basis that it was discriminatory to declare that the Heritage Protection Act applied to sites everywhere but Hindmarsh Island, and that such discrimination – essentially on the basis of race – had been disallowed since the Commonwealth was granted the power to make laws with respect to the "Aboriginal race" as a result of the 1967 Referendum. The High Court decided, by a majority, that the amended s.51(xxvi) of the Constitution still did not restrict the Commonwealth parliament to making laws solely for the benefit of any particular race, but still empowered the parliament to make laws that were to the detriment of any race. This decision effectively meant that those people who had believed that they were casting a vote against negative discrimination towards Indigenous people in 1967 had, in fact, allowed the Commonwealth to participate in the discrimination against Indigenous people which had been practised by the States.


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GCI

GCI may refer to:

Education

 * Galt Collegiate Institute, in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
 * Glebe Collegiate Institute, in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
 * Global Change Institute, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
 * Global Cinematography Institute, in Los Angeles, California, United States
 * Government College Ikorodu, in Lagos State, Nigeria

Environmentalism

 * Glen Canyon Institute, in Utah, United States
 * Green Cross International, an International environmental organization
 * Green Campus Initiative (UCT), a student organization at the University of Cape Town

Science, medicine and technology

 * GCI (company), an American telecommunications company
 * Gaussian correlation inequality
 * Generalized conversational implicature
 * Geomagnetically induced current
 * Glial cytoplasmic inclusions, a type of abnormal protein deposit in the brain
 * Google Code-in, an annual programming contest
 * Ground-controlled interception
 * Grating-coupled interferometry, a biophysical characterization method
 * Global Caller Identification, a parameter used in telecoms protocols

Transportation

 * Guernsey Airport, in the Channel Islands
 * GCI coach, the staple of Belgian passenger rail traffic in the steam era

Other uses

 * International Conference on the Situation in Venezuela (Spanish: Grupo de Contacto Internacional)
 * First Geneva Convention
 * Gannett Company, an American newspaper publisher
 * Getty Conservation Institute, an American art conservation organization
 * Glass Ceiling Index, an index for visualizing economic inequality
 * Global Competitiveness Index
 * Grace Communion International, a Christian denomination
 * Grassroots Campaigns, Inc., an American political consulting organization
 * Great Coasters International, an American roller coaster builder
 * Great Commission International, an American religious organization

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Fislisbach

Fislisbach is a municipality in the district of Baden in the canton of Aargau in Switzerland.

History
Fislisbach is first mentioned in 1184 as Vicelisbach.

Geography
, Fislisbach has an area of 5.1 km2. Of this area, 47.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 30.6% is forested. The rest of the land, (22%) is settled.

The municipality is located in the Baden district beneath the Heitersberg. It consists of the linear village of Fislisbach and scattered single and multifamily housing developments.

Coat of arms
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure a Cross Lorraine pattee fitchy patonce Argent

Demographics
Fislisbach has a population (as of ) of. , 22.5% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years, the population has grown at a rate of 6%. Most of the population speaks German (87.0%), with Italian being second most common (2.8%) and Serbo-Croatian being third (1.6%).

The age distribution,, in Fislisbach is; 507 children or 10.0% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old and 544 teenagers or 10.7% are between 10 and 19. Of the adult population, 654 people or 12.9% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 736 people or 14.5% are between 30 and 39, 853 people or 16.9% are between 40 and 49, and 664 people or 13.1% are between 50 and 59. The senior population distribution is 593 people or 11.7% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 351 people or 6.9% are between 70 and 79, there are 140 people or 2.8% who are between 80 and 89,and there are 19 people or 0.4% who are 90 and older.

, there were 163 homes with 1 or 2 persons in the household, 1,231 homes with 3 or 4 persons in the household, and 646 homes with 5 or more persons in the household. The average number of people per household was 2.32 individuals. , there were 642 single family homes (or 26.8% of the total) out of a total of 2,396 homes and apartments.

In the 2007, federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 33.6% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SP (18.4%), the CVP (17.5%), and the FDP (14.5%).

The entire Swiss population is generally well-educated. In Fislisbach, about 77% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a Fachhochschule). Of the school age population, there are 382 students attending primary school, there are 130 students attending secondary school in the municipality.

The historical population is given in the following table:

Sport
Local football team FC Baden play at the Esp Stadium in the village.

Economy
, Fislisbach had an unemployment rate of 2.48%. , there were 102 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 15 businesses involved in this sector. 229 people are employed in the secondary sector and there are 30 businesses in this sector. 788 people are employed in the tertiary sector, with 129 businesses in this sector.

there were 2,751 total workers who lived in the municipality. Of these, 2,321 or about 84.4% of the residents worked outside Fislisbach while 582 people commuted into the municipality for work. There were a total of 1,012 jobs (of at least 6 hours per week) in the municipality.

Transportation
It can be accessed by the nearby A1 motorway. The Mellingen Heitersberg railway station is 1.5 km from the village.

Religion
From the, 2,672 or 53.7% are Roman Catholic, while 1,298 or 26.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church. Of the rest of the population, there are 13 individuals (or about 0.26% of the population) who belong to the Christian Catholic faith.

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