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Aransas Pass

Aransas Pass is a navigable salt water channel connecting the Gulf of Mexico with Aransas Bay on the Texas Gulf coast in the United States. The pass separates Mustang Island to the south from San José Island to the north, and is protected by jetties extending into the Gulf from both islands. At the eastern end of the pass is the town of Port Aransas, located at the far northern end of Mustang Island. At the western end of the pass, on the mainland side of Aransas Bay, is the town of Aransas Pass. A free ferry serves the two towns. The pass is located on the Aransas County and Nueces County line.

The second lighthouse in Texas was built at Aransas Pass by the United States government to protect shipping in Aransas Bay. Aransas Pass was originally pictured as becoming a major Texas hub of commerce and travel with rail links to the harbor and harbor links by ships to Mexico, New York and other destinations. Today, Aransas Pass is the major pass for all oceangoing traffic into and out of the port of Corpus Christi.

External sources

 * The New Aransas Pass Progress newspaper.
 * The New Aransas Pass Progress newspaper.

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Gary Hartstein

Gary Hartstein (born 17 May 1955), is an American sports physician who is Clinical Professor of Anesthesia and Emergency Medicine at University of Liège Hospital, Liège, Belgium and former FIA Medical Delegate for the Formula One World Championship.

Career
After finishing his undergraduate study at the University of Rochester, Hartstein trained as a physician in Belgium during the 1970s. In 1983 he returned to his native New York, spending six years at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in the Bronx, specialising in anaesthesiology.

In 1989 Hartstein returned to Belgium and began working at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps as part of the local medical team attending races. In 1990 Hartstein was assigned to the medical car containing Professor Sid Watkins and the two physicians immediately formed a firm friendship.

Hartstein's work at the Belgian Grand Prix continued until 1997 when the FIA, realising the need for an anaesthetist to assist Watkins, recruited him. For the next seven years Hartstein and Watkins rode together in the medical car at the start of most races.

In January 2005 Sid Watkins announced that he was to retire as Formula One Medical Delegate and Hartstein was selected as his successor.

Since that time, Hartstein has been key in developing some of the FIA's new approaches and policies in terms of medical safety. Hartstein was the chair of the FIA Institute's Medical Training Working Group, which aims to standardize training and practices of motorsport doctors, based on the most up-to-date trauma training techniques. He was also, with Prof Gerard Saillant, behind the creation of the "FIA Institute Faculty" (FIMF), which will seek to consolidate the expertise of motor sport doctors and medical staff around the world, on the model of professional associations.

In December 2012 Hartstein did not have his contract renewed as Formula One Medical Delegate. His successor was Chief Medical Officer of the British Grand Prix, Doctor Ian Roberts.

In April 2015 Hartstein moved to Abu Dhabi to work as a consultant anesthesiologist.

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Talk:Despair (disambiguation)

Despair (disambig) and Despair.com
Should Despair.com Despair, Inc. be included here? --Idont Havaname 00:35, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * (Sorry, I thought such an article existed... it may have been VfD'd or something. --Idont Havaname 03:09, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC))
 * I was wrong again. There is an article on Despair, Inc.. --Idont Havaname 04:33, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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The Physician's Tale

"The Physician's Tale" is one of The Canterbury Tales, written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century.

It is a domestic drama about the relationship between a daughter and her father, based on a tale from the Histories of Titus Livius and retold in The Romance of the Rose. Additionally, Chaucer drew on John Gower's Confessio Amantis and the biblical story of Jephtha for inspiration.

Although difficult to date like most of Chaucer's tales, the Physician's tale is usually regarded as an early work of Chaucer-- probably written before much of the rest of the Canterbury Tales. Some scholars believe it may have originally been intended for Chaucer's poem The Legend of Good Women instead. The long digression on governesses possibly alludes to a historical event and may serve to date it. In 1386, Elizabeth, the daughter of John of Gaunt, eloped to France with John Hastings, 3rd Earl of Pembroke. Elizabeth's governess was Katherine Swynford, who was also Gaunt's mistress and later wife. Chaucer's words on the virtues of governesses were potentially influenced by this scandal.

The Physician's Tale is widely considered by Chaucerian scholars to be a failure, largely due to its convoluted moral message. However, the story is still considered one of the moral tales, along with the Parson's Tale and the Knight's Tale. Additionally, the Physician's Tale is considered part of the Children's Cluster, a group of tales centered around child characters or themes of childhood. Other tales in this cluster are the Prioress's Tale and the Pardoner's Tale.

Characters
Unnamed but mentioned characters include Virginia's mother and the thousand citizens who rise up against Appius.
 * Virginius – the father of the fourteen-year-old Virginia and a knight, who kills his daughter rather than give her up to the corrupt judge Appius.
 * Virginia – the daughter of Virginius. Not wishing to give herself to Appius and lose her virtue, she consents to her father's plan.
 * Appius – a corrupt judge and the main antagonist of the tale. He lusts after Virginia and concocts a plan in order to acquire her through legal means.
 * Claudius – A "churl" under Appius's employ; instructed to claim in court that Virginia is actually a slave whom Virginius abducted.

Plot
The tale is a version of a story related both by the Roman historian Livy in Book Three of Ab Urbe Condita and in Jean de Meun's 13th-century poem, Roman de la Rose. While Chaucer may or may not have read Livy's telling, he was certainly familiar with Jean de Meun's. The story opens with a description of the noble Virginius and his daughter, the beautiful, virtuous Virginia who is 14 years old. One day, Virginia accompanies her mother to the city on an errand and is spotted by a judge, whose name is later revealed to be Appius. Upon seeing her, Appius is filled with lust and decides he must have her. When his plans to woo her fail, he then concocts a scheme to legally take her for himself. He contacts a local peasant named Claudius, who has a reputation for being both bold and cunning, and asks for assistance in the matter. Claudius accepts and is rewarded handsomely. Some time later, Claudius appears before Appius in court to file a complaint against Virginius, saying he has witnesses of his misdeeds. Appius declares that he cannot try Virginius without him being present. Virginius is called to the court and Claudius begins his accusation: Virginius stole one of Claudius' servants one night while she was young and raised her as his daughter. He then implores Appius to return his slave to him to which Appius agrees, refusing to listen to Virginius' defense.

Following the sentence, Virginius returns home with a "deathlike" face and calls his daughter into the hall. He then informs Virginia of the events that have transpired and offers her two choices: to be shamed by Appius and lose her virtue or to die at her father's hand. Recalling the story of Jephthah, Virginia asks for time to lament her position for a moment before consenting to death by her father's blade. Virginius then beheads Virginia and brings her head to Appius in court. Upon seeing Virginia's severed head, Appius orders that Virginius be hanged immediately. However, a thousand people burst into the room in response and defend Virginius, having heard of Claudius' false charges and reasoning that Appius had arranged it based on the judge's lecherous reputation. The crowd arrests Appius and throws him in prison where he commits suicide. Claudius is set to be hanged with the others who had helped Appius in his scheme; but Virginius, in a moment of clemency, asks that the peasant be exiled instead. The tale then ends with the Physician warning of the repercussions of sin. The Host bewails Virginia's fate and asks the Pardoner for a more merry tale. The Pardoner obliges and his tale has a similar, but contrasting moral message.

Themes
Recurring themes in the tale include consent, virtue, justice, and sacrifice.

On the subject of consent, many critics have noted that in the original versions of the story Virginia was not given the choice of whether she could live or not. For example, in her essay "The Creation of Consent in the Physician's Tale", Lianna Farber points out the detail of Virginia's consent to death "appears neither in Chaucer's stated source, Livy's history, which Chaucer may or may not have known, nor in his unstated source, Jean de Meun's Roman de la Rose, which Chaucer most certainly did know" meaning that Chaucer added the detail to the story himself. Chaucer's goal in giving Virginia a choice in his version of the tale is unclear. Farber also points out a flaw in Virginius's ultimatum of death or dishonor: "these alternatives are problematic because there would presumably be many other ways to deal with the situation: Virginia could run away; she could go into hiding; Virginius could stall for time while he called together all their friends who were pointedly mentioned when we were introduced to Virginius; and on and on."

Some argue that the purpose of Virginia's death is to highlight Virginius's ineptitude as a father. Farber states that Virginius's ultimatum to his daughter would not have been seen as the proper action for a father to take: "it turns out, audiences of the story other than the Host tend to agree, that this is bad governance." However, Farber also argues in the other direction saying that "the responsibility does not lie entirely with Virginius: Virginia embraces her father's logic as well as his power and, voicing both, consents to her own death."

Many critics and theorists have also analyzed the value and impact of Virginia's sacrifice in the tale. Daniel T. Kline, in his essay "Jephthah's Daughter and Chaucer's Virginia: The Critique of Sacrifice in The Physician's Tale", asserts that "the Physician's Tale should be read in light not of traditional hagiographical narrative, in which sacrificial death is socially valorized and theologically naturalized, but in view of the account of Jephthah's daughter in Judges 11, a Biblical tale in which the daughter's sacrifice is neither lauded nor condemned." In short, Kline states that Virginia's sacrifice was not something noble but rather a tragic result of a series of unfortunate events.

Titus Andronicus
Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus pays homage to this tale. After Lavinia is raped and mutilated, her father Titus kills her, arguing that she "should not survive her shame". He then compares himself to Virginius.

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Talk:Flag of Mississippi

What should we use for now?
In between the new flag and the removal of the old one, there are still icons of the old flag in records of elections and whatnot - should we use a blank icon? — Preceding unsigned comment added by OfficerCow (talk • contribs) 06:59, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
 * That doesnt make any sense. Wikipedia isnt a Mississippi meta-government or arbiter. Nothing changed. — Smuckola(talk) 09:03, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

 * In accordance with standard practice on Wikipedia, when flags are used in articles about elections, sporting events and similar pages, the appropriate flag to use for the infobox is the flag that was in use at the time of the event which may not necessarily be the current flag. Therefore the former flag is probably the most appropriate one to use for articles about events before 30 June 2020. For examples where controversial flags are used in infoboxes see, 1989 South African general election, 1998 Georgia gubernatorial election, 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum. There is a parameter on the infobox that allows for the appropriate flag for the year: | flag_year         = 2001 | flag_image        = Flag of Mississippi (2001-2020).svg For Icons, there are also templates that can be used for flag year:  Mississippi You can find a complete list of flag templates available for Mississippi here Template:Country data Mississippi Cordyceps-Zombie (talk) 10:56, 3 July 2020 (UTC)

I just saw the twitter of an NBC reporter that the flag of MS is temporarily replaced with Bicentennial flag in the Capitol Subway. Should that be the "acting" flag of MS so far?Johnson.Xia (talk) 04:07, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

 * ? Where were they for three weeks? EllenCT (talk) 05:32, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

I take it nobody submitted my entry?

https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/public-ideas-for-mississippi-flag-magnolias-stars-beer/

Some protested the religious slogan requirement. One was a white rectangle with four phrases in black letters:

“In Yaweh we trust”

“In God we trust”

“In Allah we trust”

“no establishment of religion.”

I hope that one came from a native born and bred. EllenCT (talk) 00:02, 6 August 2020 (UTC)

Speaking as a Jew, we don't actually spell or pronounce the four-letter (four in hebrew) name of the deity in our religion - we consider it a violation of the 3rd commandment. I think Jews would find the statement a bit offensive. OfficerCow (talk) 05:21, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

They’ve chosen the five finalists. Please help me insert the information
I apologize in advance for not knowing how to do this and also if I’m mistaken for asking for help here.

Here’s where I got the news from at 11:53am Central Time.

https://www.wapt.com/article/mississippi-flag-commission-to-narrow-choices-down-to-five/33632706

I tried to insert a screenshot of the five finalists here but couldn’t copy and paste.

Thanks for reading. Sweetpeagirl (talk) 22:28, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

 * I have made an SVG version of the most popular of the finalist flags.

 * Great River flag of Mississippi.svg

 * Hellerick (talk) 02:52, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

 * I added a composite image of the final finalists. Due to uncertainty over their copyright status (MDAH states "pending clearance of intellectual property rights)" I added just a low-resolution image with a fair use claim Matthewmayer (talk) 08:59, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

Effective date?
The way the House Bill 1796 is worded, it appears the state legislature has to officially adopt the new flag after its approval by voters: "then the Legislature shall enact into law the new design as the official Mississippi State Flag during the next regular session of the Legislature after the election.". If that's the case then the new flag isn't official just yet as the infobox purports. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 12:08, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I came here to say the same thing. It should probably be reverted until the voters' decision has taken effect. /Julle (talk) 03:48, 5 November 2020 (UTC)

 * Per this source, the new flag is already in use in the state in many places. The legislature has to approve the referendum, but it's mandated to go by the referendum's results. As long as we make it clear in the text that the legislature still has to approve it, as we already do in the infobox. BilCat (talk) 00:21, 6 November 2020 (UTC)

Blue bar color on previous flag versions
As you can see, the blue bar and the Confederate saltire on the middle flag (1996-2001) are a lighter shade than that of the other two. Does anyone know if this is in anyway official? If so, we need to make some changes to the flags at 2001 Mississippi flag referendum. If not, then the middle flag here need to be corrected. Thanks. BilCat (talk) 23:58, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't think the exact shades were specified pre-2001 so the variation in colors is just a way of reflecting that. – Illegitimate Barrister (talk • contribs), 02:32, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Ok, thanks. That may need some clarification then. BilCat (talk) 02:42, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
 * I suspect Illegitimate Barrister is right about the variation, but in that case what is the difference between the 2nd and 3rd versions? They look the same, as nothing changed in 2001. Venqax (talk) 20:08, 11 August 2021 (UTC)

A Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion
The following Wikimedia Commons file used on this page or its Wikidata item has been nominated for deletion: Participate in the deletion discussion at the. —Community Tech bot (talk) 19:43, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
 * Flag of Mississippi (2001–2020).svg

1894 flag at Walmart
When I moved to Mississippi in 2002 from overseas I had never once seen a Mississippi flag at a Walmart. It was conspicuous because when I went to a Walmart in Alabama, I noticed a state flag. I had a little mental dialogue in my head, and then I thought perhaps Walmart was abstaining because of the design. I have (prior to flag change) only seen two American flags where other Walmarts would have a national and state flag side by side.

Confederate Design
The confederate war flag in the canton is not the only bit of confederate symbolism in the previous flag. That flag, with its broad three stripes, is actualy the first flag of the confederacy, the ‘stars and bars’, with the circle of stars removed from the canton, and replaced with the confederate war flag. Georgia still has this design in its current flag.

Some notice of this should be taken in the article. It was the reason they did not just replace the war flag in the canton with a magnolia, but adopted a whole new design. All info must be properly sourced, of course. 2601:647:667F:8610:985C:C79D:3F18:7B5A (talk) 20:15, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

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USS Cuttlefish

Two submarines of the United States Navy have been named Cuttlefish for the cuttlefish, a ten-armed marine mollusk similar to the squid.

 * USS Cuttlefish (SS-11), was a B-class submarine that was renamed B-2.
 * USS Cuttlefish (SS-171), was a Cachalot-class submarine that served in the opening days of World War II.

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Chiba Bank

The Chiba Bank, Ltd. (株式会社千葉銀行) (tyo: 8331) is the biggest bank in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Listed on the Nikkei 225, it has branches in Osaka, New York City, London, and Hong Kong. Assets — $106.1 billion (2015).

History
Chiba bank was established in March 1943.

In June 1998, Standard & Poor's downgraded Chiba Bank' s credit rating from A-minus to BBB-plus because of negative long-term ratings.

In October 2008, Chiba Bank, jointly with The Daishi Bank and Hokkoku Bank, hired IBM to build a Call Center System common for the three banks. In July 2010, Chiba Bank joined the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI).

In October 2014, Chiba Bank is the first Japanese regional bank to sell dollar bonds, issuing $300 million of notes in US dollar that month.

Description
The bank is headquartered in Chiba Prefecture, which lies adjacent to Japan's capital Tokyo on Tokyo Bay and has one of the most important industrial concentrations anywhere in Japan. The bank's strategy is to expand its branch network into adjacent prefectures along Tokyo-bound commuter rail lines. It is also putting an emphasis on developing southern Chiba Prefecture as a tourist and resort area, particularly around the city of Kamogawa.

Chiba Bank has a 36.6% market share of lending and a 23.0% share of all deposits in the prefecture. Of the bank's network of 173 branches, 154 are within Chiba Prefecture. Chiba Bank is the third-largest of Japan's 64 regional banking groups in terms of total assets. As of March 2008, it had total assets of ¥9.8 trillion and a loan portfolio topping ¥6.6 trillion, which also made it one of the world's 200 largest banks. The bank is one of the few banks that discloses net interest margins (NIM) on their lending.

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User:Stephen Bain

User My userpage Talk My talk page New message Start a new section on my talk page Email me Contact me off-wiki My contributions Mah edits, let me show you them My editcount Beware of editcountitis My logs Moves, dels, prots and blocks Commons My account on the Wikimedia Commons Toolserver A list of my Toolserver tools Blog My Wikipedia- related blog

I'm Stephen, and I live in the city of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. I'm a PhD student in history at the University of Melbourne, having recently completed a combined arts/law degree there.

I've been a Wikipedian since about October 2004. I became a sysop in December 2005, I'm an OTRS volunteer, and I was a member of the Arbitration Committee from January 2008 to December 2009.

I consider myself a mergist. I try not to be too much of a metapedian. You can see a list of my contributions here, my Toolserver page here, and my Wikipedia-related blog here.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Siddha Guru Sri Alakh Puriji

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. 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 delete. -- AllyUnion (talk) 09:55, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Siddha Guru Sri Alakh Puriji
Almost patent (religious?) nonsense; by reading the article I get no sense as to whether this "immortal" person is real or mythical; I suspect the author meant real. The google test yields less than 10 hits for this name. Amahabal 00:39, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC) akin, but gurus have more to teach This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * This is probably a delete just because it's pretty obscure but I don't see any reason to dismiss it as nonsense (at least no more so than any other religious idea). The belief that there are immortal rishis living for hundreds of years in the Himalayas is not uncommon in India. --Lee Hunter 01:59, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I have trouble understanding it, and it certainly needs NPOVing, but it seems like a valid religious topic. You wouldn't necessarily expect something like this to show up much on Google. Everyking 05:41, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: it is linked to Sri Deep Narayan Mahaprabhuji, the deletion of which was voted upon a few weeks ago (with a final decision to keep). The articles belong to a series of interlinked yoga-related articles mainly by User:Mansukram. In the votation on the other article, User:Utcursch wrote: "I am an Indian and I don't think this person needs a mention in Wikipedia. I would strongly recommend that other articles on swamis and yogis by User:Mansukram be deleted. Don't vote keep, simply because they are well-written or non-stub. Ask some Indians [...]; they know that these yogis are not really notable." On the other hand, in a country with a population almost the size of those of Europe and North America put together, even things notable to a small subset of the population may be regarded as notable enough for an encyclopedia with the scope of Wikipedia. However, all these articles need a clearer context and some kind of categorizing. / up land 07:54, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. For one thing, this article is a verbatim quote of a page on www.yotor.com, and the other articles in the series may well be also.  yotor.com isn't cited in the article.  That makes this a copy vio.  Google turns up 1 hit on the full name of this guru, and only 19 on the phrase "Alakh Puriji", several of which are links to Wikipedia or its mirrors, and the rest to yotor.com and a couple of other bizarre sites, including another wiki.   I don't think these gurus and swamis are notable, even in India, especially with the comment from User:Utcursch quoted above.    Finally, the article (like the others in the series) is very poorly written, verging on being nonsense, and I doubt there is enough interest in these gurus that these articles will get cleaned up any time soon.   So this just ends up being more crud in the Wikipedia.   Delete this article and the others, and if these swamis and gurus are notable, someone else will come along and write a good, sourced, article eventually.   But I doubt they are notable.  --BM 17:30, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually it is not a copyvio – that page is a Wikipedia mirror. / up land 20:38, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete for copyvio and lack of sourcing. Katefan0 20:01, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable - fails Google test (less than 30 hits), possible copyright violation, Wikipedia is not a mirror. Megan1967 00:56, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * As I already pointed out above, there is no evidence of a copyvio in this case. And what does "Wikipedia is not a mirror" mean? There may possibly be good reasons to delete this (and presumably all the other articles in the series), but votes should not be based on false or unproven assumptions. / up land 07:45, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * You are right. yotor.com is a Wikipedia mirror. Sorry to have caused confusion. I should have noticed. Darn Wikipedia mirrors all over the place. No change of vote, though. --BM 01:21, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not-notable, possible copyvio. Jayjg (talk)  19:39, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Extreme Delete. Don't allow Wikipedia to turn into a platform for popularizing non-notable swamis and sadhus. There are thousands of them in India. Google returns Wikipedia mirrors. utcursch 05:27, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Extreme Delete agree with Utcursh. This would be roughly akin to giving every minister or nun an encyclopedia entry. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  00:55, Feb 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * It seems written well enough to me, so the issue is significance, notabilty. Unless anyone can come up with hard evidence that this spirit/man has impacted significantly on local customs/Hinduism/Indians/the world, I would vote to delete. HowardB 06:22, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Wikipedia:WikiProject Jehovah's Witnesses/List of project articles

In an effort to bring together pages on various religions, below is a list of articles that are about or reference Jehovah's Witnesses topics.

As a rule, the links below should direct to existing articles, not empty pages (non-existent articles), or off-site web pages. If an article is needed, please create a Stub and/or leave a request for additional information.

 * 1914
 * Abrahamic religion
 * Adolf Hitler
 * Afterlife
 * American Civil Liberties Union
 * American Standard Version
 * Anno Domini
 * Anti-American sentiment
 * Anti-cult movement
 * Apocalypse
 * Apostolic Succession
 * Arianism
 * Arianism
 * Believers
 * Bible translations
 * Biblical Sabbath
 * Birthday
 * Blood transfusion
 * Blood transfusion
 * Brazil
 * Can (band)
 * Charles Taze Russell
 * Christian countercult movement
 * Christian cross
 * Christian denomination
 * Christian eschatology
 * Christian theological controversy
 * Christian views of Jesus
 * Christianity
 * Christmas
 * Concentration camp
 * Conscientious objector
 * Conscription
 * Controversies regarding Jehovah's Witnesses
 * Cremation
 * Crucifixion
 * Cuba
 * Cult
 * Demographics of Chile
 * Demographics of Palau
 * Demographics of the British Virgin Islands
 * Demographics of the Falkland Islands
 * Demographics of the Marshall Islands
 * Easter
 * Ecumenical council
 * Elder (religious)
 * End times
 * Eritrea
 * Euthanasia
 * Excommunication
 * Excommunication
 * Finnish Defence Forces
 * First Amendment to the United States Constitution
 * Freedom of religion
 * Fundamentalist Christianity
 * Germany
 * Godhead (Christianity)
 * Great Apostasy
 * Heaven
 * Holocaust
 * Holocaust denial
 * Holy Spirit
 * Homosexuality and Christianity
 * Homosexuals in Nazi Germany
 * Islam in Bosnia and Herzegovina
 * Jean Terrell
 * Jehovah
 * Jehovah's Witnesses
 * Jehovah's Witnesses and the Holocaust
 * Jehovist
 * Lark Voorhies
 * Legal instruments of Jehovah's Witnesses
 * Lester Bangs
 * Levy Mwanawasa
 * List of acronyms
 * List of ethnic slurs
 * List of people by belief
 * List of religions
 * List of religious leaders in 2003
 * List of religious topics
 * List of US Presidential religious affiliations
 * Magus
 * March 24
 * Michael (archangel)
 * Michael Jackson
 * Mickey Spillane
 * Missionary
 * Monotheism
 * Nation of Islam
 * Nazi concentration camp badges
 * Nazi concentration camps
 * New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
 * Organizational Structure of Jehovah's Witnesses
 * Orthodoxy
 * Padlock Law
 * Patriotism
 * Peace churches
 * Peace churches
 * Pledge of Allegiance
 * Practices of Jehovah's Witnesses
 * Prince (artist)
 * Prophet
 * Proselytism
 * Publisher
 * Puerto Rico
 * Reincarnation
 * Religion and religious freedom in Georgia
 * Religion in the United States
 * Religious conversion
 * Religious perspectives on Jesus
 * Religious pluralism
 * Restorationism (Christian primitivism)
 * Satan
 * Separation of church and state
 * Shunning
 * Soul
 * Spain
 * Spirit
 * Supreme Court cases involving Jehovah's Witnesses
 * Syracuse, New York
 * Ten Commandments
 * Teresa Graves
 * Tetragrammaton
 * Tetragrammaton
 * The 20th century in review
 * The Jackson 5
 * The Lord's Supper
 * Time Indefinite
 * Trinity
 * Unfulfilled religious prophecies
 * Vladislav Ardzinba
 * Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of New York, Inc.


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Naval Station Everett

Naval Station Everett (NAVSTA Everett) is a military installation located in the city of Everett, Washington, 25 mi north of Seattle. The naval station, located on the city's waterfront on the northeastern end of Puget Sound, was designed as a homeport for a US Navy carrier strike group and opened in 1994. A separate Navy Support Complex is located in Smokey Point, 11 mi north of Everett near Marysville, and houses a commissary, Navy Exchange, a college and other services.

NAVSTA Everett is home to seven guided-missile destroyers, a Coast Guard Keeper-class cutter USCGC Henry Blake (WLM-563), and a USCG Marine Protector-class patrol boat, USCGC Blue Shark (WPB-87360). There are about 6,000 sailors and civil service persons assigned to commands located at Naval Station Everett. The Naval Station itself has about 350 sailors and civilians assigned.

Background
Although a Naval Reservation existed previously at the site, the history of Naval Station Everett began in 1983 when Secretary of the Navy John Lehman first proposed a new Puget Sound-area naval base as part of the Strategic Homeport concept. In the early 1980s, Congress approved the strategic homeporting initiative to build additional bases and disperse the fleet from the main concentration areas. The strategic homeport program enjoyed the support of not only of the House and Senate but of the Reagan Administration and the Department of Defense. It was decided in 1985 that the strategic homeport program was the best method for implementing the militarily-sound principles of dispersal, battlegroup integrity, and increasing the naval presence in the geographic flanks.

Planning and construction
On April 17, 1984, Everett was selected from among 13 ports as the ideal location for the new homeport, ahead of a site near the Port of Seattle. The decision to build the base in Everett was opposed by local residents and the longshoreman's union, and an advisory ballot measure on whether to accept the base was held in the city on November 6, 1984. Voters approved the construction of the naval base by a margin of more than 2 to 1. Congress approved $43.5 million in funds for construction of the homeport on October 2, 1986, amid the removal of the homeport program from the federal budget and increases in the base's estimated cost.

The Port of Everett Commission approved the sale of 143 acres to build the base on May 5, 1987, and the official ground breaking ceremony was November 9, 1987. Despite the groundbreaking, the Navy was unable to secure dredging permits until the following week due to opposition from environmentalist groups, who unsuccessfully appealed in court to halt construction. On September 9, 1988, the Navy awarded the $56 million construction contract for the carrier pier, which is 1,620 ft long and 120 ft wide. On June 4, 1992, three Navy ships participated in the formal opening of the new $56.4 million pier.

On June 26, 1993, the Base Realignment and Closure Commission voted unanimously to retain the planned Everett homeport and close the Naval Air Station Alameda in California. In January 1994, Naval Station Puget Sound personnel began transitioning to the new Fleet Support and Administration buildings and officially began operations at Naval Station Everett. On April 8, 1994, an official dedication ceremony was conducted with over 1,500 guests in attendance.

Ship assignments
On September 3, 1994, USS Ingraham (FFG-61) and USS Ford (FFG-54) arrived as the first of seven ships to be assigned here, welcomed by a celebration from the city. On November 22, 1995, USS Paul F. Foster (DD-964) arrived at the naval station. On that same date, the Navy officially announced the assignment of USS David R. Ray (DD-971), USS Callaghan (DDG-994), and USS Chandler (DDG-996) to Naval Station Everett. David R. Ray arrived July 29, 1996, and Callaghan and Chandler both arrived September 27, 1996. To complete the complement of ships at Naval Station Everett, USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) made a change of homeport from Puget Sound Naval Shipyard at Bremerton to Everett on January 8, 1997. USS Fife (DD-991) and USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG-60) made their official change of homeport from Japan to Everett on May 5, 1998. Callaghan was decommissioned on March 31, 1998, followed by the Chandler on September 23, 1999.

In July 1999 the Navy completed a Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) designed to determine the appropriate homeports for three Nimitz-class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers in the Pacific Fleet. The EIS examined four locations: Bremerton, Everett, San Diego, and Pearl Harbor. The Navy's decision was to develop facilities to homeport two Nimitz-class carriers at Naval Air Station North Island, California in addition to USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74), and to maintain Everett as a homeport for one Nimitz-class aircraft carrier. The successful completion of Abraham Lincoln ' s six-month maintenance period at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, validated the Navy's preference to keep a carrier homeported in Everett. The in-depth EIS process began in December 1996. Following public scoping meetings held in communities at each of the four alternate locations in February 1997, the Navy spent more than 18 months examining the ports to determine how well they satisfied the CVN Homeporting Objectives and Requirements as they pertain to Operations and Training; Facilities and Infrastructure; Maintenance; and Quality of Life.

In June 2021, the Navy announced that Naval Station Everett would be the future home of the first 12 Constellation-class frigates. The Navy is expected to take delivery of the first ship, USS Constellation (FFG-62), sometime in 2026.

Other events
On September 15, 2000, two vessels from the Chinese Navy (Qingdao and Taicang) began a three-day visit to Naval Station Everett as part of a cultural exchange and goodwill tour for Chinese sailors. The visit was the second by a Chinese Navy vessel to the United States, following a similar goodwill program in San Diego in 1997.

Naval Support Complex
The Naval Support Complex is located in Smokey Point, approximately 11 mi north of Everett, and houses the base's support facilities. The complex includes a commissary, Navy Exchange store, gas station, family service center, thrift shop, education offices, Bachelor Officer Quarters, craft shop/gear issue, chapel and religious education center, an auto hobby shop, ball fields and courts, fleet parking for personnel assigned to deployed Everett-based ships and a 50-room Navy Lodge. The campus was designed to look "more like a community college campus" than traditional military facilities and serves more than 30,000 personnel and families in Western Washington.

The Navy originally proposed housing the support complex in downtown Everett in high-rise structures by 1992, but dropped the site after being unable to find 40 acre of suitable real estate. A site on the Tulalip Indian Reservation near Marysville was chosen in 1990, but was shelved after the Navy rejected the terms of the 75-year lease with the Tulalip Tribes. A new 52 acre site in Smokey Point was chosen in late 1992, and construction of the $90 million project began on August 30, 1993. The commissary and Navy Exchange opened on June 6, 1995, replacing similar facilities at Naval Air Station Sand Point in Seattle, while the rest of the complex opened later that year.

In 2012, the $33 million Marysville Armed Forces Reserve Center opened at a site south of the Naval Support Complex. The facility houses 250 soldiers from the 364th Expeditionary Sustainment Command of the U.S. Army Reserve, who moved from Seattle's Fort Lawton, and 300 members of the Washington Army National Guard; the facility is designed to support a total of 1,200 military members. It also includes a 147,000 sqft training center and services for members of the military and their families.

Aircraft carriers
There are currently no aircraft carriers homeported at Naval Station Everett due to the reassignment of USS Nimitz to Naval Base Kitsap in January 2015. The carrier was planned to return to Everett in 2019, but the Navy announced in late 2018 that it would remain at Kitsap. The USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) was formerly homeported at Everett from 1994 to 2011, when it moved to Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia.

Guided missile frigates
First 12 Constellation-class frigates to be homeported at Everett beginning after first delivery in 2026.

Guided missile destroyers (6)

 * USS Barry (DDG-52)
 * USS John Paul Jones (DDG-53)
 * USS John S. McCain (DDG-56)
 * USS Kidd (DDG-100)
 * USS Gridley (DDG-101)
 * USS Sampson (DDG-102)

Coast Guard Units (3)

 * USCGC Henry Blake (WLM-563)
 * USCGC Blue Shark (WPB-87360)
 * Port Security Unit 313

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Cigarettes & Alcohol

"Cigarettes & Alcohol" is a song by the English rock band Oasis, written by Noel Gallagher. It was released on 10 October 1994 as the fourth and final single from their debut album Definitely Maybe (1994), and their second to enter the UK top ten in the United Kingdom, peaking at number 7 (three places higher than "Live Forever"), eventually spending 79 weeks on the charts. On 13 March 2020, nearly 26 years after its release, the song was certified Platinum, indicating 600,000 sales.

Background
Whereas the band's first two singles "Supersonic" and "Shakermaker" had used psychedelic imagery, and the third single "Live Forever" used softer chords and tender lyrics, "Cigarettes & Alcohol" demonstrated the rougher musical attitude that Oasis appeared to be promoting. The song proclaims the inherent appeal of cigarettes, alcohol, and other drugs as a remedy to the banality and seemingly futile nature of working class life. Lines such as "Is it worth the aggravation to find yourself a job when there's nothing worth working for?" taps into a common sentiment of disenchantment in the 1990s. Alan McGee, who discovered the band, boisterously claimed upon first hearing the song that it was "one of the greatest social statements of the past 25 years".

The song was the second case in which Oasis was accused of plagiarism, the first being "Shakermaker". The main riff of the song is lifted from "Get It On" by T. Rex, who themselves took it from "Little Queenie" by Chuck Berry. It also bears a similarity to the opening of Humble Pie's cover of the Eddie Cochran song "C'mon Everybody".

Musical style
In 2014 book on the album entitled Oasis' Definitely Maybe, Alex Niven typified "Cigarettes & Alcohol" as a "twelve-bar blues rock song" and "a classicist boiling-down of the Rolling Stones' rebel rock archetype".

B-sides
The CD release of the "Cigarettes & Alcohol" single includes three B-sides: a cover version of The Beatles' "I Am the Walrus"; "Listen Up", a six-minute slow rocker musically similar to "Supersonic"; and the popular, slightly punk-styled "Fade Away", whose wistful lyrics are about the destruction of "the dreams we have as children" (this phrase was later used as the title of Noel Gallagher's first live solo album). These three songs were later re-released on The Masterplan (1998), a compilation of b-sides. An acoustic version of "Fade Away" was released on The Help Album (1995), a charity record, and subsequently on the band's 1998 single "Don't Go Away".

Contrary to the track listing and clarified on subsequent releases (including The Masterplan), "I Am the Walrus" was actually not recorded at the Glasgow Cathouse, but at the Gleneagles Hotel during a conference for Sony music executives, who gathered to hear Creation Records' newly signed artists. The song was recorded during soundcheck, in an empty hall, with no audience, at 10 in the morning. Noel Gallagher stated that the band loved this particular live recording, but strongly disliked the event, which Noel described as "one of them shit things where all the twats in suits get together and they roll on the new signings". The band actually did perform the song at the Cathouse in June 1994 during their Definitely Maybe Tour and had a recording of it, "which sounded quite similar but it was fucking rubbish", according to Noel. They then decided to use the recording from the Gleneagles soundcheck, but credited it as stemming from the Cathouse, adding crowd noise taken from a Faces bootleg album to make it sound like an authentic tour recording. "Because it would look shit if you put 'Live at Sony Seminar in Gleneagles'!", Noel stated. "[W]e thought, 'Fuck it, no-one'll fucking know'. But I always meant to set the record straight one day. Sorry to anyone who bought it on the premise of being at that gig."

Covers
"Cigarettes & Alcohol" was covered by Rod Stewart for his 1998 album When We Were the New Boys, on which it is the opening track as "Cigarettes and Alcohol". The song was also performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra on Plays the Music of Oasis, which is part of a series of albums with orchestral interpretations of pop music.

Personnel

 * Liam Gallagher – vocals, tambourine
 * Noel Gallagher – lead guitar
 * Paul Arthurs – rhythm guitar
 * Paul McGuigan – bass guitar
 * Tony McCarroll – drums

Track listings

 * Standard CD single
 * 1) "Cigarettes & Alcohol" – 4:48
 * 2) "I Am the Walrus" (live at Glasgow Cathouse, June '94) – 8:15
 * 3) "Listen Up" – 6:39
 * 4) "Fade Away" – 4:13

 * 7-inch, cassette, and European CD single
 * 1) "Cigarettes & Alcohol" – 4:48
 * 2) "I Am the Walrus" (live at Glasgow Cathouse, June '94) – 8:15

 * 12-inch single
 * A1. "Cigarettes & Alcohol" – 4:48
 * B1. "I Am the Walrus" (live at Glasgow Cathouse, June '94) – 8:15
 * B2. "Fade Away" – 4:13

The song was actually recorded at the Gleneagles Hotel with no audience and has added crowd noise; see "B-sides" paragraph above.

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Casa de Isla Negra

Casa de Isla Negra was one of Pablo Neruda's three houses in Chile. It is located at Isla Negra, a coastal area of El Quisco commune, located about 45 km south of Valparaíso and 96 km west of Santiago. It was his favourite house and where he and his third wife, Matilde Urrutia, spent the majority of their time in Chile. Neruda, a lover of the sea and all things maritime, built the home to resemble a ship with low ceilings, creaking wood floors and narrow passageways. A passionate collector, every room has a different collection of bottles, ship figureheads, maps, ships in bottles, and an impressive array of shells, which are located in their own "Under the Sea" room.

Neruda fell in love with the house upon visiting the area and requested an advance from his original publisher Carlos George-Nascimento, who provided him with the money for the purchase. Neruda originally intended the house to be used as a meeting point for writers, and dedicated the place to Nascimento as a token of his gratitude.

Neruda and Urrutia are buried there.

In English, Isla Negra means "Black Island," which refers to a rock outcropping nearby, however Isla Negra is not an island. During the winter, the area is subject to heavy rains, which inspired Neruda to write his Oda a la Tormenta ("Ode to the Storm"). Isla Negra was also Neruda's inspiration for many other poems.

The house is now a writer's home museum, managed by the Pablo Neruda Foundation, and has become a popular tourist destination.

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Earth Maiden Arjuna

Arjuna (地球少女アルジュナ) is a Japanese anime television series created by Shoji Kawamori. The series follows Juna Ariyoshi, a high school girl chosen to be the "Avatar of Time" and entrusted with saving the dying Earth. Arjuna aired for 12 episodes on TV Tokyo from January to March 2001. The DVD release ("Arjuna: Director's Cut") featured remastered video and sound, and a previously unbroadcast "Chapter 9".

Plot
The story opens with Juna telling her boyfriend Tokio that she feels too cramped in the city, and deciding to take a trip to the Sea of Japan. On the drive, they get in an accident caused by a large, invisible worm-like creature and Juna dies. As her spirit leaves her body, Juna sees the dying Earth. The planet's suffering is visualized by worm-like creatures similar to the one that caused the accident that killed her. Known as the Raaja, they vary in size, from microscopic bacteria to those entwining the planet. A young boy named Chris appears before Juna and offers to save her life if she will help the planet. She reluctantly agrees and is resurrected. Supported by Chris, Tokio and SEED, an international organization that monitors the environment and confronts the Raaja, Juna must use her new powers to stop the Raaja from destroying Earth through humankind's destruction of the environmental systems of the planet, and Chris can only hope that she can fully awaken her powers in time to save the world.

Near the end of the series, Chris is revealed to be responsible for using a spillage of genetically engineered decomposition bacteria to summon Raajas that ravage Japan, causing everything including their modern clothes, gadgets, accessories, as well as food, water and electricity, to all be destroyed. All the people are thus forced to wear traditional Japanese clothes, and others become sick due to starvation and dehydration. This forces Juna to fight Chris and the Raajas for the sake of the people that she cares about when SEED tries to take her to safety. It is during this time that she finally understands how to fully awaken her powers, and saves everyone. When Chris is defeated and after realizing his mistakes, he dies and disappears. Juna, satisfied to see her friends and her boyfriend Tokio one last time before dying for the second time tells them to eat the Raaja, and Tokio discovers that the Raajas that she defeated were made by food and water nutrients as he grabs one, stating that they can survive to live once more.

Characters

 * Juna Ariyoshi (有吉 樹奈)
 * A girl in the tenth grade, who is recognized by Chris to be the "Avatar of Time", to save the planet. A magatama bead embedded in her forehead symbolizes her powers. Besides possessing powers due to her "Earth sympathy", she is an ordinary teenage girl. She has a difficult time understanding her purpose, and is unsure how she is supposed to help the planet. Her personal life is also distressed, both with her mother and sister, and especially in her uncertain relationship with Tokio, whose thoughts she cannot figure out, and who similarly never manages to understand her feelings. While she attempts to succeed in her job, she cannot understand the message Chris is trying to explain until the very end, when she realizes the meaning of "becoming one with the target" that she repeats from the beginning of the series.
 * A girl in the tenth grade, who is recognized by Chris to be the "Avatar of Time", to save the planet. A magatama bead embedded in her forehead symbolizes her powers. Besides possessing powers due to her "Earth sympathy", she is an ordinary teenage girl. She has a difficult time understanding her purpose, and is unsure how she is supposed to help the planet. Her personal life is also distressed, both with her mother and sister, and especially in her uncertain relationship with Tokio, whose thoughts she cannot figure out, and who similarly never manages to understand her feelings. While she attempts to succeed in her job, she cannot understand the message Chris is trying to explain until the very end, when she realizes the meaning of "becoming one with the target" that she repeats from the beginning of the series.

 * Chris Hawken (クリス·ホーケン)
 * A powerful entity who appears in the body of a young boy. His efforts to revive Juna left him crippled, but he can still leave his body when the situation demands it. He is unerringly kind and patient with everyone, including Juna, despite her misunderstanding his words. He repeatedly admonishes Juna for trying to fight the Raaja ("Why do you kill?"), claiming he never asked her to do so.
 * A powerful entity who appears in the body of a young boy. His efforts to revive Juna left him crippled, but he can still leave his body when the situation demands it. He is unerringly kind and patient with everyone, including Juna, despite her misunderstanding his words. He repeatedly admonishes Juna for trying to fight the Raaja ("Why do you kill?"), claiming he never asked her to do so.

 * Cindy Klein (シンディ·クライン)
 * A young orphan whom Chris rescued, leading to her unwavering devotion to him. She is a telepath who acts as Chris' translator. She seems to take an immediate dislike to Juna; she is arrogant and rude towards her and says negative things about her even when she's not around. This is presumably because she feels that Chris's crippled condition is Juna's fault.
 * A young orphan whom Chris rescued, leading to her unwavering devotion to him. She is a telepath who acts as Chris' translator. She seems to take an immediate dislike to Juna; she is arrogant and rude towards her and says negative things about her even when she's not around. This is presumably because she feels that Chris's crippled condition is Juna's fault.

 * Tokio Oshima (大島 時夫)
 * A normal teenage boy, addicted to video games and fast food. He is greatly concerned with Juna's safety, not realizing he is powerless to protect her from the forces she must face. Though Tokio is witness to Juna's tribulations, he cannot fathom what she is going through. Though he doesn't understand Juna's situation, he is very patient and does his best to help and protect her, even in the face of a Raaja attack.
 * A normal teenage boy, addicted to video games and fast food. He is greatly concerned with Juna's safety, not realizing he is powerless to protect her from the forces she must face. Though Tokio is witness to Juna's tribulations, he cannot fathom what she is going through. Though he doesn't understand Juna's situation, he is very patient and does his best to help and protect her, even in the face of a Raaja attack.

 * Sayuri Shirakawa (白河 さゆり)
 * A classmate and friend to Juna and Tokio. She knows nothing of Juna's role as savior, but tries to help her deal with what she sees as nothing more than emotions from her confusing personal life. Although she never says it directly, it is very obvious that Sayuri is greatly infatuated with Tokio, even though Juna, her best friend, is dating Tokio. She tries to fight her own feelings, swinging between pushing Tokio away by setting him and Juna up, and raging at Juna for not appreciating his kindness. With Juna absent off fighting Raaja, Sayuri can't help herself from moving in on Tokio, but Tokio's response to her is minimal.
 * A classmate and friend to Juna and Tokio. She knows nothing of Juna's role as savior, but tries to help her deal with what she sees as nothing more than emotions from her confusing personal life. Although she never says it directly, it is very obvious that Sayuri is greatly infatuated with Tokio, even though Juna, her best friend, is dating Tokio. She tries to fight her own feelings, swinging between pushing Tokio away by setting him and Juna up, and raging at Juna for not appreciating his kindness. With Juna absent off fighting Raaja, Sayuri can't help herself from moving in on Tokio, but Tokio's response to her is minimal.

 * Teresa Wong (ウォンテレサ)
 * A member of SEED.
 * A member of SEED.

 * Bob (ボブ)
 * Yukari Shirakawa (白河 アップ)
 * Sayuri's little sister.
 * Yukari Shirakawa (白河 アップ)
 * Sayuri's little sister.
 * Sayuri's little sister.

 * Kimitoshi Shirakawa (白河 君とし)
 * Sayuri's little brother.
 * Sayuri's little brother.

 * Sakurai (桜井)
 * Juna's math teacher.
 * Juna's math teacher.

 * Mr. Oshima (大島さん)
 * Tokio's father.
 * Tokio's father.

 * Dojima (渡島)
 * Mizuho Oshima (大島 みずほ)
 * Tokio's stepmother.
 * Mizuho Oshima (大島 みずほ)
 * Tokio's stepmother.
 * Tokio's stepmother.

 * Hiroshi Shirakawa (白河 ヒロシ)
 * Sayuri's father. He dies during the Raaja outbreak.
 * Sayuri's father. He dies during the Raaja outbreak.

 * Kaine Ariyoshi (有吉 ケイン)
 * Juna's older sister, who becomes pregnant more than halfway through the series.
 * Juna's older sister, who becomes pregnant more than halfway through the series.

 * Junko Ariyoshi (有吉 ジュンコ)
 * Juna's mother.
 * Juna's mother.

 * Masaharu Ariyoshi (有吉 雅治)
 * Juna's estranged father.
 * Juna's estranged father.

Themes
As is clear from the title, Arjuna, the series is highly influenced by Hinduism, as well as Indian culture in general. The story was inspired by the Bhagavad Gita, most notably in the character of Chris, who is modeled after Krishna. Note that the series is set in a pantheistic vision in which it emphasizes the connection between all elements of the Earth. In episode two, Chris's chakras are shown on the monitor screen which are also adapted from the Hindu concept of seven chakras inside the human body. The antagonistic "Raaja" (while mispronounced in the anime) refer to "Roga" the "disease" caused by the wound on earth itself. Arjuna's bow, "Gandiva", is the real name of bow used in Mahabharata by Arjun and her mechanical guardian "Ashura" is based on the "Asura" spirits of Hinduism.

The setting for the show, Kobe, was chosen by creator Shoji Kawamori for his personal fondness of it, and the city itself plays a prominent role, with famous buildings such as the Kobe Meriken Park Oriental Hotel and nearby Ferris wheel showing up as common backdrops. The idea of living in a city is a main theme, with both Juna and the Raaja rebelling against how removed from nature modern life is. An idea which Kawamori presents, although in a problematic and sometimes contradictory form, is natural farming. Not to be confused with the mere absence of chemicals that is often meant by "organic farming", natural farming involves letting nature grow as it will, not removing weeds or bugs, or using any fertilizer. The old man Juna encounters in episode four explains the need for this return to nature in order to sustain life in the long term, a sentiment matured by the creator during his Asian journeys (not only India, but Nepal and other countries as well).

Another theme of the show is that of the disconnection between emotions, thoughts, words, and actions. The author himself introduced the work, back in the late year 2000, by declaring in an interview "[...we] live fragmented lifestyles that eat away at our future. That is why I created a character that can truly see the world as it is." In episode seven, "Invisible Words", Juna is able to read the words in the minds of everyone around her, yet still cannot understand their intentions. She sees in Tokio's mind that he has been asking Saiyuri about a ring, and assumes that he has been cheating on her, when in fact the ring had been for her. Juna and Tokio's feelings never reach each other successfully. In episode eight, while talking on the phone, Juna finds her spirit in the room with Tokio. But despite her even embracing him, he has no understanding when she tries to say that she is with him. At the same time, Tokio actually says he loves Juna for the first time, even though he is at the same moment not feeling her love at all. This idea is later visualized in episode 10, when Tokio is having an argument with his father. Juna is able to "see" their angered thoughts flying at each other, and entirely missing, neither of them hearing or understanding the other.

Music
The anime's score was composed by Yoko Kanno. Director Shoji Kawamori says he instructed Kanno that the music was supposed to sound feminine, despite some of its use in action scenes. She used Indian music as a partial inspiration which matched that of the show. Other tracks are more experimental and otherworldly. The vocals were done by Gabriela Robin, Maaya Sakamoto, and Chinatsu Yamamoto. The soundtrack was released on the CD's Arjuna: Into the Another World and Onna no Minato.

Arjuna: Into the Another World

 * 1) Early Bird (2:09)
 * 2) Awakening (7:57)
 * 3) Clóe (3:19)
 * 4) Time to Die (2:51)
 * 5) 2nd Life (3:05)
 * 6) Diving (2:37)
 * 7) The Clone (2:05)
 * 8) Feel the Circle (1:36)
 * 9) Aerobics (3:23)
 * 10) Omega Blue (2:47)
 * 11) A Drop of Time (0:51)
 * 12) Resonance of the Earth (1:57)
 * 13) Prophet (4:07)
 * 14) Before Breakfast (1:15)
 * 15) Bells for Her (2:02)
 * 16) Motorcycle (5:11)
 * 17) Diamond (1:23)
 * 18) Mameshiba (6:09)
 * 19) Kuuki to Hoshi (Air and Stars) (1:08)
 * 20) Aqua (6:29)
 * 21) Mameshiba (instrumental version)

Onna no Minato

 * 1) Gold Fish - 1:58
 * 2) Enka - 3:05
 * 3) Mawaru Spoke - 3:19
 * 4) Butter Sea - 3:42
 * 5) Veggie - 1:36
 * 6) Shizukana Seikatsu - 2:27
 * 7) Didn't It Rain - 2:35
 * 8) Sanctuary - 2:33
 * 9) Girl with Power - 4:51
 * 10) Asura Jittaika - 2:49
 * 11) Teresa - 2:42
 * 12) One - 4:15
 * 13) Saigo no Mameshiba - 3:10
 * 14) Appare Genki Theme - 0:26

Reception
Earth Maiden Arjuna was one of the Jury Recommended Works at the 5th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2001.

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