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The Temptations (miniseries)

The Temptations is a four-hour television miniseries broadcast in two-hour halves on NBC, based upon the history of one of Motown's longest-lived acts, The Temptations. Executive produced by former Motown executive Suzanne de Passe, produced by Otis Williams and Temptations manager Shelley Berger, and based upon Williams’ Temptations autobiography, the miniseries was originally broadcast on November 1 and November 2, 1998. It was filmed on location in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the spring of 1998. Allan Arkush directed the miniseries.

Overview
The miniseries was based upon Otis Williams' book; as such, it came from his perspective: the focus of the story tended to be on Williams and Melvin Franklin, with David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks seen as antagonists for much of the second half (although Kendricks was still given a more sympathetic portrayal than Ruffin). Dennis Edwards was not heavily focused upon, nor was much said of the problems he later had with Otis Williams. Nevertheless, the miniseries gave a general overview of both the history of the group and that of Motown, and, thanks to de Passe's connection, the film was able to use authentic props and locations.

A number of liberties were taken with factual events for dramatization purposes:
 * In the miniseries, during a 1964 New Year's Motown party, Al Bryant is reluctant to perform another encore, and is fired from the group following a backstage altercation with Bryant throwing a beer bottle at Paul Williams. In reality, the incident happened in October 1963, but it was Williams who was reluctant to do another encore. Bryant would be fired two months later for being uncooperative following an annual Christmas party.
 * The group's trademark four-headed microphone doesn't debut until Edwards joins the group, but in reality, it debuted in 1966 and in fact, Ruffin was responsible for creating it.
 * The miniseries shows David Ruffin developing ego problems and suggesting to change the band's name to "David Ruffin and the Temptations" in early 1966. In reality, it did not happen until late 1967 when The Supremes were re-branded as "Diana Ross and the Supremes".
 * In the miniseries, Edwards is visibly angered when Ruffin steals his microphone during a concert performance. In actuality, Edwards claims he gave the microphone and was appreciative for Ruffin's presence.
 * While the miniseries dramatically and somewhat accurately portrays Paul Williams's death by suicide, in real life he was found dead in an alley in a car, and not in a parking lot as portrayed.
 * In the miniseries it stated that the Temptations left Atlantic Records after recording one album. They actually recorded two albums for Atlantic; Hear to Tempt You in 1977 and Bare Back in 1978.
 * Another inaccuracy is the depiction of Ruffin, Kendricks, and Edwards performing together before the 1982 reunion tour; in reality, Ruffin and Kendricks did not start performing together until 1985, with Edwards joining them in 1989 after the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
 * David Ruffin was not found dead (after being unceremoniously dumped out of a car) near a hospital, and then taken to a morgue where he would not be properly identified for a week. In reality, he had suffered a drug overdose, and was taken to the hospital by his chauffeur who notified attending staff of Ruffin's identity. Because no one claimed his body immediately after his death, his corpse lay in the morgue for two days; once Ruffin's family was informed of his death, they claimed his body the next day.
 * In the miniseries, Melvin Franklin apparently dies outside of the kitchen in his mother's house. In reality, he died from heart failure at the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after being admitted following a series of seizures. As Franklin's death was still fresh in the minds of the miniseries' creators (he died in 1995), it was decided that the miniseries would not present Franklin's death as it actually occurred.

As a result, Otis Williams and the producers would be sued by several people portrayed in the film and their families, notably Melvin Franklin's mother and the children and estate of David Ruffin.

Although the movie is set mostly in Detroit and Los Angeles, the producers chose to shoot the film in Pittsburgh, presumably to take advantage of the many different architectural and geographical looks that Pittsburgh offers. de Passe Entertainment had, some six years earlier, shot The Jacksons: An American Dream in Pittsburgh as well.

Part one (November 1, 1998)
In 1958, Otis Williams, at the time a teenager, is running to meet his friend Elbridge "Al" Bryant at a musical performance by The Cadillacs, where Otis and the singer lock eyes, which he credits as the moment he devoted his life to music. After the concert, Otis and Al go to a barber where they get the Tony Curtis and DA-style process. Later, Otis arrives home for dinner, where his stepfather is angered by his hairstyle and pressures him to go to work at the assembly line instead of going into music, which Otis heatedly rejects. Six months later, Otis, Al and two new band members, are singing on a street corner when they see another group of singers, the Voicemasters, across the street, and are impressed by one singer's bass voice type. The next day after school, Otis spots the singer leaving to walk home, and decides to follow him. The singer sees Otis and begins to run away, thinking him to be a gang member. Otis eventually catches him and introduces himself, finding out that the singer's name is Melvin Franklin, and invites him to join his group, Otis Williams & the Siberians. Melvin agrees on the condition that his mother approves. After talking to her, Otis convinces Melvin's mother to let him join.

The group are practicing their singing after school one day when they notice a group of girls watching them sing. Upon seeing this, the group follows them while singing "Earth Angel". The girls go their separate ways until one girl, Josephine, remains, and Otis asks her out on a date. The next Saturday, the group are making out with the girls when they hear for their group to come to the radio station, and hastily drive to the station, which turns out to be a run-down apartment. Johnnie May Matthews, the owner of the pirate radio studio in the basement, declares herself their new manager and producer, and also changes their name to Otis Williams and the Distants. In April 1960, the group are waiting to perform at a party where they meet Paul Williams, Eddie Kendricks, singers for The Primes, Diana Ross, lead singer for the Primettes, Smokey Robinson, lead singer of Smokey Robinson & the Miracles, and Berry Gordy, founder and owner of Motown Records. Al arrives late at the party and shows hostility towards Eddie and Paul, while hitting on Diana. The Primes and Primettes perform and the Distants are impressed by their sound. After they perform, Otis and Melvin see Berry Gordy entering the bathroom and follow him. After some talking, Berry gives them a business card to contact him later on. Once the party ends, Johnnie shows up in a new car, bought with the money earned from their record, while also showing off rolls of money. Awestruck, they ask about when they get paid, which angers Johnnie and she immediately fires them, kicks them out of the car and drives away. Al and two other members promptly quit the group.

Shortly after, Melvin approaches Otis and tells him that Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams recently left their own group and are interested in joining them. Otis is reluctant, but ultimately accepts when Al rejoins the group. With this new line-up, they rename themselves the Elgins. Paul teaches them how to dance and becomes their unofficial choreographer, while Eddie becomes their falsetto singer. In March 1961, Otis enters Motown Studios and meets up with Berry Gordy. After the meeting, Otis finds the others waiting outside for an answer. He informs them that Berry will sign them if they can come up with a better group name. After sitting outside the studio for hours waiting to be called in and thinking up a new name, a secretary named Martha Reeves finds them outside and calls them in to meet Berry. When they get to Berry, he asks them for their name, to which Otis replies "The Temptations".

Berry likes the name and agrees to hear them sing. After hearing them perform "Oh Mother of Mine" (which would become their debut single for Motown) Berry enthusiastically signs them under the Motown label. The group are now in high spirits and make a pact to never leave the group. Otis arrives home to find out that Josephine is pregnant, and although he is shocked, he promises to take responsibility. In a voiceover, Otis explains that he and Josephine were married shortly after and later gave birth to their son, Lamont. While making moderately successful records written largely by Berry, such as "Paradise" and "I Want a Love I Can See", and getting real choreography from Cholly Atkins, the group start to become known as "The Hitless Temptations" in their first three years under the Motown label. The group start to doubt themselves and Al starts to lose his passion for singing and becomes more negative and volatile. This comes to a head when, after performing at a New Year's Eve party, Al smashes Paul in the side of the head with a beer bottle when asked to do an encore on stage. He is kicked out the group immediately. The remaining four go back on stage and perform the classic party song "Shout". While singing, Jimmy Ruffin and his younger brother David Ruffin jump on stage and sing as well. The group are impressed with the duo's singing, especially David's. After the party, the four, along with David, go to Melvin's mother's house to eat. While they eat and talk, the four invite David to join, which he accepts. They make a toast to the future success of the Temptations.

In January 1964, the group head to Hitsville to record a song written for them by Smokey Robinson, called "The Way You Do the Things You Do", which puts them on the map. Shortly after the song hits the charts, the group go on a tour with various other Motown artists, such as the Vandellas, the Miracles, and Marvin Gaye. One afternoon, while changing a tire on the tour bus, a gang of racist Southerners shoot at them while driving. The tour eventually ends and they all arrive back in Detroit. While Josephine is waiting for Otis in front of Hitsville, she sees him with another woman, and assumes that they are having an affair, and storms off. Soon after, the Temptations go on tour again. In November that year, Smokey writes them another song called "My Girl". The song debuts early the next year and becomes a massive success, reaching number one on the charts that year. The group enjoys their newfound success and wealth, spending money on themselves and their loved ones.

By early 1966, however, David starts to develop an ego, thinking himself to be solely responsible for the Temptations' success. He also begins using drugs and starts showing up late for rehearsals and meetings, if at all. This behavior starts to take a toll, and soon after recording "Ain't Too Proud to Beg", Otis and Melvin pay David a visit, staging an intervention. They warn him to clean up his act or else be fired. Later, Berry introduces the group to their new manager, Shelly Berger. Shelly plans to expand the Temptations' fanbase to the mainstream white audience, which they are somewhat reluctant about. After some consideration, they agree and are put on a month-long tour with the Supremes. The tour is successful and gets them to the Copacabana, although David's destructive behavior continues, and he declares his shady friend, Flynn, his new manager instead of Shelly. Flynn informs the group that David wants to change their name to "David Ruffin & The Temptations" or else he will not perform, which they reject. David shows up anyway, albeit late, and performs "I'm Losing You" at the Copa, and leaves in a separate limo. After the show, the others take a vote on whether or not they should keep David, and all but Eddie vote to kick him out. Shortly after, David shows up at Hitsville in his limo. While the four watch from a window, Shelly meets David outside and hands him a note informing him of their decision. Upon reading this, David flies into a rage, yelling at them through the window. He then gets into his limo and drives off. Melvin rhetorically asks "So now what"?

Part two (November 2, 1998)
Later in 1968, the Temptations hire Dennis Edwards, an old friend, as a replacement for David. It is around this time that the group enters their psychedelic soul era, started with their 1968 single "Cloud Nine". During a concert performance, the group is about to sing "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" when David jumps on stage and steals the microphone from Dennis and sings himself. The others go along with this to save face, but then chase him backstage afterwards. David and Otis get into a brief argument before getting security guards to escort him out. By 1969, Paul's drinking becomes debilitating, and Melvin develops rheumatoid arthritis in the legs and starts taking cortisone shots to ease the symptoms despite his doctor's advice, yet both continue performing. Around this time Otis and Josephine also get a divorce. As Paul's condition gets progressively worse, the others begin to consider whether Paul should retire, at least for the time being. Eddie is against this. In November 1970, Eddie visits David, who begins to turn him against Otis and Melvin while giving him his first shot of cocaine. Shortly after, Paul becomes well enough to sing again, and the Temptations record a new song written by their producer Norman Whitfield called "Just My Imagination". Eddie quits the group after recording the song. Later, Otis and his son Lamont visit Paul at his house. Paul asks to be back in the Temptations, while demonstrating his dancing, almost falling over. Otis tell him that he will be back when he gets better. In June 1972, Norman writes another song called "Papa Was a Rolling Stone", which the group are initially against recording, but eventually go along with it. In a montage set to the song, Paul is seen struggling with his addiction, while fighting with his wife, and later driving around town, ending with Paul committing suicide in a parking lot. Eddie reunites with the others at the funeral, with Melvin telling him that while he's out of the group, they will always be family.

By 1977, the Temptations have moved from Detroit to Los Angeles and have been hit with a dry spell in their career. The group, now with Otis and Melvin as the only remaining original members, fire Shelly as their manager, leave the Motown label and start recording under the Atlantic Records label. Eddie is still under the Motown label and has made two major hits, while David, who has had some hits after the Temptations, is also under a dry spell. One day, while Melvin is helping a woman with her grocery bags, a thief gets in his car and tries to start it. When Melvin tries to stop him, the thief shoots him in both of his legs, kicks him out, and drives off in his car. Melvin tells Otis to go on tour without him, as they need the money. After the tour, Otis goes back to Detroit with Lamont to visit his mother, who tells him that she has cancer. They then have a heart-to-heart on the porch.

In 1980, Melvin's legs are still recovering and the Temptations leave Atlantic Records. Eddie's success is starting to fade and he is reduced to playing in small nightclubs. While performing one night, Eddie spots David in the audience and once he finishes the song, brings David on stage and they sing together. After everyone leaves the club, Eddie and David have a drink at the bar and agree to start their own faction of the Temptations, along with Dennis Edwards, who was fired from the Temptations in 1978. Otis and Melvin move back to Detroit and go back under the Motown label and Shelly becomes their manager again. Not long after, Motown becomes interested in setting up a reunion tour between both sets of the Temptations.

By 1982, the tour is officially underway and both sets of Temptations come together to rehearse and become reacquainted. While on tour, Josephine calls and informs Otis that Lamont died in a construction accident. After Otis gets back from the funeral, the tour starts to fall apart, as Otis' grief gets the better of him and David's drug addiction starts to trigger his destructive nature.

In 1989, the Temptations are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. At the ceremony, Otis and Melvin are reunited with David, Eddie, and Dennis. Despite their past squabbles and rivalries, for one moment, they are all friends again as they accept their honor and remember Paul.

In June 1991, a dead body is found in front of a hospital. After a week in the morgue, the body is finally identified as that of David Ruffin, dead of an apparent drug overdose. Eddie dies soon after of lung cancer in October 1992.

In February 1995, Otis and Melvin, now in a wheelchair, visit Melvin's mother. While preparing to eat dinner, Melvin, despite being in a wheelchair, volunteers to get short ribs from the kitchen. While he's gone, Melvin's mother thanks Otis for taking care of Melvin and keeping the Temptations together through all the good and bad times. The two then call for Melvin, but he doesn't respond. They go into the kitchen and find him unresponsive. Many people show up at the funeral, including Smokey Robinson, who sings his song "Really Gonna Miss You".

The film ends with the "classic five" Temptations (Otis, Melvin, Eddie, Paul, and David) in their youth, singing "My Girl" on a stage. At the end of the song, they take a bow, with Otis saying in a voice-over "Temptations, forever."

Afterwards
The miniseries was a ratings success with 45 million viewers in total watching the two-part series; the first half alone averaged a 15 rating/23 share in Nielsen ratings. Arkush won a 1999 Emmy award for Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries or a Movie. The miniseries has been subsequently rerun on the VH-1 cable television network and released to VHS and DVD. The VHS release notably omitted a few scenes which had previously aired on the television premiere. One such scene includes David Ruffin, clearly under the influence of drugs and his ego, becoming belligerent during a picnic celebration with the other members of the group. The removal of this scene is possibly due to the ensuing suit.

Otis Williams' ex-wife Josephine Miles, Melvin Franklin's mother Rose Franklin, Johnnie Mae Matthews, and on David Ruffin's behalf, the Ruffin family, filed suit against Williams, Shelly Berger, David V. Picker, Motown, De Passe Entertainment, Hallmark Entertainment, and NBC for use of their likenesses in the film, defamation of character, and emotional distress because of the inaccurate depictions of events. They also alleged that the miniseries misportrayed them and/or their relatives and twisted facts. The judges ruled in favor of the defendants, and the ruling was upheld when the plaintiffs appealed in 2001. Otis Williams later claimed that while his book was the source material for the film, he did not have a great deal of control over how the material was presented.

Classic Five Members and relatives

 * Charles Malik Whitfield as Otis Williams, founder and leader of Otis Williams & the Distants and later co-founder (with Eddie Kendricks and Paul Williams, of The Primes) of the group that would become known as The Temptations. He conflicts with some of his group mates, particularly David Ruffin and Eddie Kendricks, over group leadership and other internal issues. Otis Williams is the only original member of The Temptations who is still living, and still performs with the group.
 * Tina Lifford as Hazel, Otis' mother.
 * Harold Surratt as Edgar, Otis' stepfather.
 * Gina Ravera as Josephine (née Rogers), Otis' wife during the 1960s and the mother of their son Lamont.
 * Stevland Parks as Lamont, Otis and Josephine's son (portrayed at age 12)
 * Chrystal Bates as Mrs. Rogers, Josephine's mother.
 * D. B. Woodside as Melvin "Blue" Franklin, Otis' best friend, and a bass singer for both Otis Williams & the Distants and The Temptations for over four decades. Shy and soft-spoken, he secretly struggles with arthritis over the years, & there is some implication that, as a result of his condition, he may be addicted to various pain medications. Outside of founding member Otis Williams, Franklin was the only member of the Temptations who did not quit or get fired from the group during his tenure. Franklin died in 1995.
 * Jenifer Lewis as "Mama Rose", Melvin's mother.
 * Terron Brooks as Eddie "Cornbread" Kendricks, a member of The Primes and The Temptations' original first tenor/falsetto and co-lead singer. After quitting the group in 1971, Eddie becomes a solo singer and later joins forces with fellow ex-Temptation David Ruffin. A lifelong chain smoker, Kendricks died of lung cancer in 1992 (this event is not portrayed in the miniseries, but is referenced near the end of Part Two).
 * Christian Payton as Paul Williams, a member of The Primes and the Temptations' original lead singer, who succumbs to alcoholism and sickle cell anemia, forcing his retirement from the act in 1971. He committed suicide two years later.
 * Rhonda Ross Kendrick as Maxine, Paul's wife
 * Leon Robinson as David Ruffin, The Temptations' lead singer from 1964 to 1968, whose ego leads the others to force him out of the group. Addicted to cocaine & later crack, Ruffin died of a drug overdose in 1991.
 * Lamman Rucker as Jimmy Ruffin, David's older brother and a Motown performer.
 * Nyjah Moore as Tammi Terrell, David's girlfriend and a Motown performer.

Other Temptations Members

 * Charles Ley as Dennis Edwards, The Temptations' lead singer in the late 1960s and 1970s. He later joins forces with David and Eddie when they form a Temptations splinter group in the 1980s.
 * J. August Richards as Richard Street, a member of Otis Williams & the Distants, who later replaces Paul Williams in The Temptations.
 * Chaz Lamar Shepherd as Elbridge "Al"/"Bones" Bryant, Otis' high school friend and a member of both Otis Williams & the Distants and The Temptations. Having a day job as a milk man, Al becomes restless and moody as the Temptations struggle to find their big break, and is fired in December 1963.
 * Benjamin J. Cain Jr. as Glenn Leonard, the Temptations' first tenor in the 1980s.
 * Jonnie Brown as Damon Harris, the Temptations' first tenor in the 1970s after Eddie quits the act.

Others

 * Alan Rosenberg as Shelly Berger, the Temptations' manager.
 * Obba Babatundé as Berry Gordy, founder of Motown Records.
 * Erik Michael Tristan as a young Smokey Robinson, the lead singer of The Miracles and The Temptations' primary songwriter and producer during the early 1960s.
 * The real-life Smokey Robinson appears as himself in a cameo at the end of Part Two, where he sings at Melvin's funeral.
 * Vanessa Bell Calloway as Johnnie Mae Matthews, producer and manager for Otis Williams & the Distants.
 * Mel Jackson as Norman Whitfield, The Temptations' primary producer and songwriter during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
 * Adam Lazarre-White as Flynn, David's driver and self-appointed manager.
 * Christopher Reid as Joltin' Joe, a radio DJ who summons The Distants for Johnnie Mae Matthews
 * Bianca Lawson as Diana Ross of The Primettes/The Supremes.
 * Melissa Mercedes Cardello as Florence Ballard of The Primettes/The Supremes. She begins an affair with Otis while on the Motor Town Revue in 1964.
 * Taifa Harris as Mary Wilson of The Primettes/The Supremes.
 * N'Tasha A. Pierre as Martha Reeves, a Motown performer and secretary.
 * Ricky Fanté as Marvin Gaye, a Motown performer.
 * Russell Clark as Cholly Atkins, Motown's in-house choreographer.
 * Vincent A. Ponder as James 'Pee-Wee' Crawford, a member of Otis Williams & the Distants.

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Ta bu shi da yu entered 2004 page, decided that the tag was inappropriate, removed it, proposed a solution to the NPOV dispute, and threatened to protect the page if NPOV was readded or users didn't obey his solution.

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There was a long-standing dispute on the 2004 page, principally between users Ford and Astrotrain, but others were involved as well. Eventually, edit wars ended, and the page remained in dispute with the tag. At 13:29, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC), Ta bu shi da yu removed the tag from the page, and threatened to protect the page if it was readded. Furthermore, Ta bu shi da yu posted on Talk:2004 proposing that the page be split up, and threatening to protect the page if anyone attempted to edit the split pages back into the main page.

Update, 01:24, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC): Simetrical reverted Ta bu shi da yu's edit, arguing that Ford's objections had not been addressed and therefore the neutrality of the page was still disputed. Ta bu shi da yu removed the tag again and protected the page, as he had stated.

Evidence of disputed behavior

 * First relevant edit to 2004
 * Second relevant edit to 2004
 * Relevant section of Talk:2004

Applicable policies
From Administrators:
 * Administrators are not imbued with any special authority . . . it should be noted that administrators do not have any special power over other users other than applying decisions made by all users.

It is argued that Ta bu shi da yu overstepped his authority by using admin powers to enforce a solution that had not been approved by either the Wiki community or an Arbitration Committee. As this quote makes clear, admins may only apply "decisions made by all users."

From Protection policy:
 * 2. Do not protect a page you are involved in an edit dispute over. . ..

It is argued that Ta bu shi da yu was involved in an edit dispute with Ford, Simetrical, and others over the propriety of the NPOV tag, and therefore was barred from protecting the page in question by this part of the protection policy.
 * Admins should not protect pages which they have been involved with (involvement includes making substantive edits to the page or expressing opinions about the article on the talk page).

It is argued that Ta bu shi da yu's removal of the NPOV tag constituted a "substantive edit" to the page, and therefore that he was barred from protecting the page by this part of the protection policy. It is further argued that Ta bu shi da yu's opinion that the page in question should be split up was expressed on the article's talk page, and therefore that he was barred from protecting the page by this part of the protection policy.
 * In addition, admins should avoid favoring one version of the article over another, unless one version is vandalism. In this case, the protecting sysop may choose to protect the non-vandalism version.

It is argued that the dispute in question did not involve vandalism, and that therefore Ta bu shi da yu violated this portion of the protection policy by openly favoring the version of the article without the NPOV tag over the version with it.

Finally, it is to be noted that the validity of none of the allegations is affected by the merit of the NPOV tag, and that even if the NPOV tag was unjustified, this does not mitigate any violation of above policies. If the merit of the NPOV tag is to be discussed, it should be on a separate RFC page, since it has no bearing on this one.

Response from Ta bu shi da yu
I wish to state for the record that I am not involved in the dispute on 2004, therefore "2. Do not protect a page you are involved in an edit dispute over." does not apply.

Secondly, I wish to dispute the whole bit about "admins should avoid favoring one version of the article over another, unless one version is vandalism. In this case, the protecting sysop may choose to protect the non-vandalism version." In the case of this article, I did not touch any of the actual content. I merely removed the NPOV tag as I had already stated on the talk page and added a protection notice, then locked the page. This has been done to stop the protracted deadlock over the neutrality of the article. Clearly nothing was being explored to resolve the NPOV dispute, therefore this should force the parties to the table on a resolution. Try to understand that at least one party has already stated that "everyone had tacitly agreed to disagree on a version" ), which I'm rather afraid is not acceptable as NPOV disputes must have an attempt to resolve them. I have already stated this on the talk page - see . Now, if someone has a better idea for resolving this issue that would be satisfactory to the majority of disputing parties, then I would not have an issue with the NPOV tag remaining on the page until the matter was sorted out. However, there has been no compromise and proposed resolution to this issue. My intervention has forced this. People may not like the seemingly heavy-handed way I've gone about it, and it may have annoyed some people, but at the end of the day this is really the only way of resolving this particular problem. Besides which, I haven't been unfair and imposed punitive damages against any of the editors. All I've done is locked the page until those editors work something out. I note here that I left the disputing editors a message on their talk page asking how they intend to resolve the dispute, and also left a note on the article's talk page asking the same thing. So far I haven't seen any attempt at resolving the dispute, which I feel shows more problems than my locking of the page. If the parties were serious about the neutrality of the article then they would try to work something out. They haven't, and so the page has been locked. - Ta bu shi da yu 02:49, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Ta bu shi da yu has indeed made a substantive edit — removing the tag. And he has expressed an opinion for the edit — “The fact that there is an NPOV tag on a date page is ridiculous.”  If removing the tag is not substantive, he would have no objections to this edit being reversed; he would have shown no preference for which version of the article was protected.  The tag is part of the “actual content”; it is a communication to readers as much as any fact in the article, and more important than any single fact, because it summarizes a potential problem with the content.  And Ta bu shi da yu has still not offered evidence of an ongoing edit war in need of a cool-down period, as he has alleged.  He has made clear again and again, including above, that he protected the page to force a compromise, and moreover, to force his own proposed compromise (which would also be substantive, and for which he has expressed support on the talk page).  This is not one of the limited criteria for temporary page protection, according to the protection policy.  Ta bu shi da yu has subsequently left messages on the users’ talk pages, but this cannot be treated as a good-faith effort to mediate by a peer, since he had already used administrative power to force a compromise.  Ta bu shi da yu has clearly lost sight of the distinction between his own editorial judgement, and what constitutes grounds for administrator intervention.  Judging from the comments below, so have a lot of other editors.  Administrators handle only specific tasks that the community assigns them; they do not have an unlimited mandate to alter editorial content from a particular point of view.  Those editors who do not object now will have no recourse if this ad hoc policy of Ta bu shi da yu’s is allowed to stand.— Ford 12:37, 2005 Feb 15 (UTC)

 * Sigh. You know what to do to get that page unlocked. If you're serious about wanting it unlocked, and you're serious about getting an NPOV page, you will make an attempt to compromise. Until I see some acknowledgement, I can only assume that you do not want that page to be written from a neutral point of view. - Ta bu shi da yu 12:42, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * You can assume whatever you like, but the only thing you have reason to assume is that I will not agree to do things your way while you are trying to force me to do things your way. Any other assumption is unwarranted.— Ford 12:51, 2005 Feb 15 (UTC)
 * I shouldn't have to force you to try to compromise. Perhaps you should read the NPOV policy? If you don't like it, you don't have to contribute here you know. - Ta bu shi da yu 12:54, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * You don’t have to. In fact, you are not authorized to.  Perhaps you should read the administrators policy.  If you don’t like it, you do not have to serve as an administrator.— Ford 13:11, 2005 Feb 15 (UTC)
 * An attempt to resolve dispute in 2004

Evidence of trying and failing to resolve the dispute

 * Talk:2004—Ford stated that Ta bu shi da yu was exceeding his authority as an administrator, and Ta bu shi da yu refused to relent. Then Simetrical posted evidence from Wikipedia policy (see Applicable policies above) that he said Ta bu shi da yu was violating; Ta bu shi da yu stated that he wasn't violating policy.

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 * 1) —Simetrical (talk) 19:36, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) —Ford 00:09, 2005 Feb 14 (UTC)

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--Silverback 13:12, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC) The page is now protected and that was inappropriate. If the protection was an abuse of administrator powers, then so was the threat of it. It was OK for Tabu to remove the ridiculous NPOV tag, just as it was OK for those who wanted to put it on, as long as they were working to achieve NPOV. If they were not working to achive NPOV, they shouldn't be using the tag, but as along as an edit war wasn't resulting, protection was inappropriate and an abuse. Perhaps the correct wiki solution for this page is a dynamic switching between NPOV and not NPOV, hopefully slowly, perhaps once a day until one side or the other tuckers out. All "solutions" don't have to be static.--Silverback 13:12, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * You must be kidding! Adding the NPOV tag/not adding the NPOV tag shouldn't be a war of attrition! That is not a solution. If they weren't working towards a solution (which they clearly weren't) then they should not have kept adding the NPOV tag, especially on something like a date page. My "threat" wasn't in any way saying that I would impose sanctions on any editor, therefore I don't believe it can be called a threat. It was a method of breaking a deadlock on a page. Continuously adding the NPOV tag when no compromise was attempted could be called an edit war in some ways. It's basically trying to impose their own view of the article with disregard to others, which ironically they have accused myself of doing. - Ta bu shi da yu 23:32, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * You are right, it shouldn't be a war of attrition, but it also should not be the big deal, heavy handed deal you made of it. Frankly, the NPOV tag is good advice for the reader to keep in mind on every page, and even in print encyclopedias.  At least here we can add it without killing trees.--Silverback 08:42, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

--I violently disagree with the notion that "NPOV tags on date pages are ridiculous". Clearly the neutrality of the page was disputed. I also feel that TBSDY came across as overbearing. Apparently she wanted to use her power on something. --YixilTesiphon 02:09, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't think that's clear at all. Also, I'm a he, not a she. Cheers. - Ta bu shi da yu 02:35, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * If someone disagrees with another's viewpoint and feels that that person's viewpoint is monopolizing the page (which both Astrotrain and Ford did, along with others), that is a neutrality dispute. Any more questions for Captain Obvious, kids? --YixilTesiphon 02:45, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but a neutrality dispute is fine. Tagging an article with an NPOV tag and just agreeing to leave it on there is not. This problem has been going on for months. I'm not sure how many times I have to say this: but the editors are not coming to a compromise on this issue, and they don't own the article. Others edit it also and they edit it neutrally. Why should they have the article have an NPOV tag take it over when the disputing editors aren't trying to fix the mess? - Ta bu shi da yu 02:52, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * The only person who is acting like he owns the article is you.— Ford 04:03, 2005 Feb 15 (UTC)

This is no longer relevant as the page is no longer protected. --YixilTesiphon 00:01, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Au contraire, it is still relevant. If people want to comment about my actions as an admin, I feel that they should continue to contribute to this discussion on what is and is not acceptable. - Ta bu shi da yu 00:47, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Well then, I don't care anymore, as the problem which brought me here is over. Ta. --YixilTesiphon 04:18, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)

It seems to me that this is a clear case of "rules are rules". The rule was violated with good intent, but violated it was. This should not be acceptable conduct on the part of an administrator, IMO. 205.210.232.62 05:24, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
 * The above was by me. I thought I was logged in. DES 05:25, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Response
This is a summary written by the user whose conduct is disputed, or by other users who think that the dispute is unjustified and that the above summary is biased or incomplete.

Not much to say here, except that a) I haven't locked the page yet (jumping the gun a little bit?) (I have now), and b) people should check the talk page of that article to look at how ridiculous the whole situation of having an NPOV tag on a year is. Nothing was being done about it, and this issue has been ongoing for about 4 months now. I would suggest that the parties resolve their issues and follow a proposed remedy (pretty much the only one that is possible: create new 2004 specialty pages) or they should not be suprised that the NPOV tag is removed from the page, and that enforced by an admin. - Ta bu shi da yu 20:12, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Users who endorse this summary (sign with ~ ):
 * 1) Proteus (Talk) 20:19, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Tony Sidaway|Talk 20:22, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) SimonP 20:27, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Astrotrain 21:54, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Ta bu shi da yu is a good user. 172 05:14, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Rama 13:24, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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A few days ago, Tabu explained the situation on this page, and asked me for advice - IE, was he going about it in the right way. I told him yes - breaking NPOV deadlocks is a good thing. If he had to threaten page protection to get the 2 disputing parties to start discussing a solution, that's absolutely fine both by me and by wikipedia guidelines. There's nothing to see here, move along. →Raul654 20:29, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)

Users who endorse this summary (sign with ~ ):
 * 1) I agree with Raul's approach, jguk 20:43, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) As do I. If only the two parties raising this RfC had put as much energy into resolving the NPOV dispute in the first place. . . —Charles P. (Mirv) 00:34, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Neutralitytalk 01:26, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Frivolous RfC. Jayjg (talk) 03:01, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Carrp | Talk 04:12, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) a very lame dispute dab (ᛏ) 09:28, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Tony Sidaway|Talk 13:58, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Frivolous RfC. Bishonen | Talk 21:37, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) Ridiculous RfC, a temper tantrum over ending attempts to bring an end to a ridiculously protracted dispute. Calton 00:12, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Echo Mirv. The underlying dispute is an obvious candidate for Lamest edit wars ever. Anyone trying to end the resulting deadlock is to be commended. --Michael Snow 00:19, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) Will the lame RfCs and RfArs ever end? As soon as the stupid Darwin/Lincoln RfAr closes, this pops up. TBSDY did the right thing, and he doesn't need this. Szyslak 10:16, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Seems to be a frivolous RfC. Additionally, there seems to be some sort of conflictual tendency (perpetuation of the NPOV tag, now this RfC) which does not need to be encouraged, in my opinion. Rama 13:27, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) Anything that resolves a dispute, is by definition good. I wish I had seen that page first: I would have done the same thing! -- Uncle Ed (talk) 17:48, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)
 * 14) As above. --Carnildo 01:27, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 15) Agree with others about the lameness of this dispute and there are no problems with TBSDY's actions to break the deadlock. older ≠ wiser 14:48, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * 16) Well said, Raul. Smoddy (t) (e) 23:01, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 17) What Mirv said. MarkSweep 07:27, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * 18) Ditto. In support. Mandel 19:32, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)
 * 19) Frivolous RfC -- Chris 73 Talk 07:57, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * 20) Frivolous RfC Jordi·✆ 08:18, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

I, and others had called for the tag to be removed before, and was met with hostility from Ford. I agree that NPOV tags are ridiculous on a date page, and that removal of the tag was the only reasonable action by yourself, given the apparent stalemate in the neutrality discussion. The original dispute relating to notability of events listed in the 2004 page was discussed fully, as can be seen in the talk page, and the current version seems to be satisfactory to the majority. Astrotrain 23:05, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)

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I think that the protection of the said page was appropriate. --Spinboy 01:25, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Sound Juicer

Sound Juicer is the official CD ripper program of GNOME. It is based on GTK, GStreamer, and libburnia for reading and writing optical discs. It can extract audio tracks from optical audio discs and convert them into audio files that a personal computer or digital audio player can play. It supports ripping to any audio codec supported by a GStreamer plugin, such as Opus, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC and uncompressed PCM formats. Versions after 2.12 implement CD playing capability. Last versions produce lossy formats with default GStreamer settings.

Sound Juicer is designed to be easy to use and to work with little user intervention. For example, if the computer is connected to the Internet, it will automatically attempt to retrieve track information from the freely available MusicBrainz service. Sound Juicer is free and open-source software under the terms of the GNU GPL. Starting with version 2.10 it is an official part of the GNOME.

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Vonones of Sakastan

Vonones, also spelled Vovones (Greek: ΟΝΩΝΟΥ Onōnou ) was an Iranian king, who ruled Sakastan from 75 BCE to 57 BCE. During the latter part of his reign, he extended his rule as far as Taxila in north India, minting coins with the title of King of Kings. Vonones was a rival of the first Indo-Scythian monarch Maues ((r. 98/85 – 60/57)), who also claimed the title of King of Kings. Both of them fought for power over the regions of Arachosia, the Kabul Valley, Ghadhara and Taxila.

Vonones' origins are uncertain. His name (lit. meaning "victor") was of Parthian origin, used by the royal Arsacid family of Iran. Because of this, arguments have been made in favour of a Parthian Surenid origin. According to the Iranologist Khodadad Rezakhani, Vonones belonged to the royal Arsacid family. Others, however, claim that he was an Indo-Scythian, regardless of his Parthian name. The legend of Vonones' coins also had the name of two of his commanders Spalahores and Spalirisos, who are referred to as "brother of the king". Scholars such as R.C. Senior and Rezakhani consider the two figures to indeed be Vonones' brothers, while others such as K.W. Dobbins argue that it was an honorific title given to them, whom he considered to be Saka satraps.

A major argument against the proposal of a blood relationship between Vonones and the two commanders was due to both of them having Saka names, contrary to Vonones' Parthian name. Saghi Gazerani has suggested that after the Arsacid re-conquest of Sakastan (sometime between 124 BCE and 115 BCE), which was given as a fiefdom to the Surenid general that led the expedition, the Surenids (who became independent after 88 BCE) and the Sakas became closely connected, presumably through alliances and intermarriages. Indeed, the Parthians and Sakas are often confused in Indian literature. The mythological Iranian hero Rostam (who was from Sakastan), is mentioned in Iranian traditions as both Parthian and Saka, thus supporting this dual-identity.

Vonones was succeeded by Spalahores. The latter's son and successor, Spalagadames, has been suggested by Rezakhani to be the same figure as the first Indo-Parthian king, Gondophares ((r. 19 – 46)).

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Ten Men

Ten Men is a novel by Alexandra Gray that was first published in 2005. Episodic in character, it covers a period of 20 years in the life of the first person narrator, an attractive nameless Englishwoman in search of perfect happiness, a state she equates with life with a perfect partner. Ten Men is a serious treatment of the common "chick lit" motif of "waiting for Mr Right". In her late thirties and childless at the end of the novel, the heroine has had relationships with a succession of men but has not been able to achieve the happiness and peace of mind she has been longing for all her adult life. According to WorldCat, the book is found in over 200 United States libraries.

Plot introduction
Ten Men is a picaresque novel in that the heroine is constantly "moving on", time and again leaving behind the people she has been intimate with and associating with a new set in some other part of the world. The novel asks the basic question of how many men a woman "needs" until she has found the right partner and thus fulfilment in life—a question which, although frequently discussed in the wake of the sexual revolution, has turned out to be largely unanswerable.

Plot summary
The protagonist is born in the mid-1960s. After her father's premature death when she is seven, she and her sister are brought up in England by their mother, who is a French Catholic. Conditioned to believe that pre-marital sex is a sin, at 18 the heroine is forced into an early marriage with a teacher, who works literally day and night at a remote boarding school for boys. Stripped of her privacy and her youthful ways, she clings to her husband, hoping he will take a job elsewhere. When he does not she deserts him and embarks on a series of affairs with wealthy men who are not interested in a long-term relationship with her: a lawyer, a capitalist ("the Billionaire"), a Lord.

Similar to Caroline Meeber in Dreiser's Sister Carrie, the protagonist is not prepared to earn a living through honest work dependent on her qualifications. Accordingly, she always has to rely financially on the men in her life. In particular, it is the billionaire who, as a kind of parting present, volunteers to pay for her very expensive university education at some exclusive New York college as well as for her Upper East Side apartment.

After her graduation the protagonist eventually moves back to London. An affair with a sexually inexperienced man ("the Virgin") leads to her first pregnancy ever and a subsequent miscarriage. Having trained as an actress, she gets a few jobs in TV commercials. When she meets her ex-husband again it is only to find out that he is going to get married again. At the end of the novel, aged about 38 and still indecisive, she meets a single father who might become her future partner.

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Anthony Holden

Anthony Ivan Holden (22 May 1947 – 7 October 2023) was an English writer, broadcaster and literary critic, particularly known as a biographer of artists including Shakespeare, Tchaikovsky, the essayist Leigh Hunt, the opera librettist Lorenzo Da Ponte and the actor Laurence Olivier, and of members of the British royal family, notably Charles, Prince of Wales. He also published translations of opera and Ancient Greek poetry, as well as several autobiographical books about poker. In 2009, he was elected the first President of the International Federation of Poker (IFP).

Early life and education
Holden was born in Southport, Lancashire on 22 May 1947 to John Holden (1918-1985), an officer in the Manchester Regiment, and Margaret Lois (1918-1985), daughter of Ivan Sharpe, the England international footballer and Olympic gold medallist who later became a celebrated sports writer. John Holden was second son of Sir George Holden, 2nd Baronet, of The Firs, Lancashire. He was educated at Trearddur House School, Anglesey, at Oundle School and at Merton College, Oxford, where he read English language and literature, edited the student magazine Isis and appeared on University Challenge.

Career
A journalist before turning full-time writer, at the start of his career as a graduate trainee on Thomson Regional Newspapers' Hemel Hempstead Evening Post-Echo, Holden covered the trial in St Albans of the psychopathic poisoner Graham Young. His book on the case, The St. Albans Poisoner (1974), was filmed as The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1995). Named Young Journalist of the Year in 1972, he was on the staff of The Sunday Times (1973–79), commended in the British Press Awards in 1976 as News Reporter of the Year for his work in Northern Ireland, and winning Columnist of the Year in 1977. He was Washington Correspondent and US editor of The Observer (1979–81), Assistant Editor of The Times (1981–82), Executive Editor, Today, (1985–86), and chief classical music critic of The Observer (2002–08).

In 1999–2000 he was an inaugural Fellow of the Centre for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. When he was a Whitbread Prize judge in 2000 he said it would have been a "national humiliation" if Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban had won, ahead of Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf. He had threatened to resign if that happened. The novelist Robert Harris derided this threat as "pompous".

Holden was a member of the Board of Governors of the South Bank Centre 2002–08, during the landmark renovation programme under the chairmanship of Lord Hollick. Since 2006, he was a Trustee of Shakespeare North Trust.

In May 2015, he gave the annual A.E. Housman lecture on the Name and Nature of Poetry at the Hay-on-Wye Festival.

Holden has also made frequent appearances on television, presenting such documentaries as Charles at Forty (ITV, 1988), Anthony Holden on Poker (BBC 2, 1991) and Who Killed Tchaikovsky? (Omnibus, BBC 1, 1993). In the mid-1980s, he presented a weekly BBC Radio 4 chat show, In the Air.

Holden's papers are collected at Boston University's Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center.

Holden was a dedicated Arsenal F.C. fan and had a season ticket to the Emirates Stadium.

Poker
Holden was a keen poker player, and spent a year playing professionally while researching his 1990 book Big Deal: A Year as a Professional Poker Player (ISBN 0-7432-9481-5), which has been praised by poker enthusiasts from David Mamet and Salman Rushdie to Walter Matthau. The book covers his experiences between the World Series of Poker (WSOP) tournaments in 1988 and 1989.

In 2000, he won TV's first Celebrity Late Night Poker on Channel 4, beating Al Alvarez, Martin Amis, Victoria Coren, Ricky Gervais, Patrick Marber and Stephen Fry. In 2005, he appeared on the chat show Heads Up with Richard Herring to discuss his life, career and his love of poker. In 2006 he represented England in TV's World Cup of Poker, staged by PokerStars, for whom he was a sponsored player 2006–2008.

In 2007, Holden published Bigger Deal: A Year Inside the Poker Boom (ISBN 0-7432-9482-3), a journal of his second stint as a professional player, between the 2005 and 2006 WSOP events.

In 2009, he was elected the first President of the International Federation of Poker (IFP) at its founding congress in Lausanne, Switzerland. After four years in office, he resigned in April 2013.

Personal life and death
Holden married Amanda Warren in 1971. They had three sons and four grandchildren. They divorced in 1988 and in 1990 he married novelist Cynthia "Cindy" Blake. They separated in 2000, but did not divorce.

Holden died from a brain tumour and complications of a stroke at his home in London on 7 October 2023, at the age of 76.

Works

 * Aeschylus' Agamemnon (1969, translator and editor)
 * Greek Pastoral Poetry (1973, translator and editor)
 * The Greek Anthology (1973, contributor)
 * The St Albans Poisoner: The Life And Crimes Of Graham Young (1974, reissued 1995 as The Young Poisoner's Handbook)
 * Charles: Prince of Wales (1979); published as Prince Charles in US
 * Their Royal Highnesses, The Prince and Princess of Wales (1981)
 * A Week In The Life Of The Royal Family (1983)
 * Great Royal Front Pages: A Scrapbook of Historic Royal Events from Queen Victoria to Baby Prince William (1983)
 * Anthony Holden's Royal Quiz (1983)
 * Of presidents, Prime Ministers And Princes (1984)
 * Queen Mother (1985)
 * Don Giovanni: The Translation (1987, with Amanda Holden)
 * Laurence Olivier: A Biography (1988, reissued 2007)
 * Charles: A Biography (1988); published as King Charles III in US
 * The Last Paragraph. The Journalism of David Blundy (1990, editor)
 * Big Deal: A Year as a Professional Poker Player (1990)
 * The Queen Mother: A 90th Birthday Tribute (1990)
 * A Princely Marriage: Charles & Diana, the First Ten Years (1991)
 * Behind The Oscar: The Secret History of the Academy Awards (1993)
 * H.M. Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother In Private (1993)
 * The Tarnished Crown (1993), Viking Publishers, ISBN 0-670-84624-4.
 * Tchaikovsky (1995)
 * Diana: Her Life and Legacy (1997)
 * Charles at Fifty (1998)
 * William Shakespeare: His Life and Work (1999)
 * Liber Amicorum for Frank Kermode (1999, editor with Ursula Owen)
 * The Mind Has Mountains: a.alvarez@lxx (1999, editor with Frank Kermode)
 * The Drama of Love, Life and Death in Shakespeare (2000)
 * Shakespeare: An Illustrated Biography (2002)
 * The Wit in the Dungeon (2005), biography of Leigh Hunt
 * All In: Texas Hold'em as Played on Late-Night TV (2005)
 * Lorenzo Da Ponte, The Man Who Wrote Mozart (2006)
 * Olivier (2007, Max Press)
 * Bigger Deal: A Year on the New Poker Circuit (2007)
 * Holden on Hold'Em (2008)
 * Poems That Make Grown Men Cry (2014, editor with Ben Holden)
 * Poems That Make Grown Women Cry (2016, editor with Ben Holden)
 * He Played For His Wife and other stories (2017, editor with Natalie Galustian)
 * Based on a True Story: A Writer's Life (2021)

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Straightneck squash

Straightneck squash is a cultivated variety of Cucurbita pepo grown as a type of summer squash that is usually yellow-colored. It is also known as yellow squash, though other squashes, such as crookneck squash, may also be known by that name. It has mildly sweet and watery flesh, and thin tender skins that can be left on the fruit for many types of recipes. It was almost certainly domesticated in the eastern United States, although other variants of the same species (zucchini and pumpkin) were domesticated in Mesoamerica. This squash grows on vined plants reaching 60-90 cm in height that thrive in mild weather. It is well known as an item in American cooking where it is fried, microwaved, steamed, boiled, or baked. It is often used in recipes interchangeably with zucchini. A good yellow summer squash will be small and firm with tender skin free of blemishes and bruising. It is available all year long in some regions, but is at its peak from early through late summer. One similar inedible C. pepo variety is C. pepo var. ovifera.

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Malik Yoba

Abdul-Malik Kashie Yoba (born September 17, 1967) is an American actor. He is known for his starring role as NYPD Detective J. C. Williams on the Fox police drama New York Undercover and as Yul Brenner in the film Cool Runnings. He appeared as former FBI agent Bill Harken on the Syfy drama series Alphas, as Jim Hudson in Revolution, and as Vernon Turner in Empire. He also starred in the role of FBI Deputy Director Jason Atwood in the ABC political drama Designated Survivor. In 2018, he joined the Netflix drama Seven Seconds as a member of a support group for parents who had lost their children. He also appeared in Jordan Peele’s TBS comedy The Last OG with Tracy Morgan.

Early life
The fourth of six children, Yoba was born in the Bronx, New York to Mahmoudah Young (née Lanier) and Abdullah Yoba.

Career
In 1994, Yoba began his role on the popular FOX police drama series New York Undercover, opposite Michael DeLorenzo. Yoba and DeLorenzo made television history, as the series was the first police drama on American television to feature two people of color in the starring roles. Yoba's work on New York Undercover earned him three consecutive NAACP Image Awards for Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series (in 1996, 1997, and 1998).

An accomplished singer and stage actor, Yoba's talents were showcased in His Woman His Wife, in which he had the lead role.

Yoba has also appeared in films such as Cool Runnings and Criminal. He has made appearances on the FOX television series Arrested Development as Ice, a bounty hunter whose real love is party planning. Yoba had a recurring role as Brock Harris on the UPN sitcom Girlfriends. He also appeared in the FX Network's crime drama Thief and the NBC crime drama Raines. He appeared as Gavin in the 2007 Tyler Perry film Why Did I Get Married? and its 2010 sequel Why Did I Get Married Too? In 2009, he co-starred as astronaut Ted Shaw on the futuristic ABC drama Defying Gravity. In 2010, he announced his plans to bring back New York Undercover to the small screen in a modern TV series adaptation of the original series. Law & Order writer Courtney Parker penned a spec script for networks to bid on.

From 2011 to 2012, Yoba appeared as former FBI Special Agent Bill Harken on Alphas, a science fiction drama series about a team of people with special abilities who belong to a secret department attached to the DOD. In 2013, Yoba joined the cast of Revolution as Jim Hudson, a former captain of the Monroe Republic. In 2015, he joined the cast of Lee Daniels’ Empire as Vernon Turner, Lucious Lyon's business partner and chairman of Empire Entertainment, playing the character through the first season. In 2019, Yoba premiered his one-man stage play, Harlem to Hollywood, at New York’s Apollo Theater. The autobiographical show features Yoba performing original music and playing twenty different characters.

Other ventures
In 2017, Yoba established his company Yoba Development, hoping to provide young people of color with access to the real estate industry. Yoba Development currently has active real estate projects in Baltimore and New York City. In 2019, he served as executive producer and director for The Real Estate Mixtape: Volume 1, I Build NY, a docu-series which follows Yoba as he navigates his first commercial real estate deal in NYC.

Personal life
In 2019, Yoba took to social media to announce he would be a participant in the National Trans Visibility March in Washington, D.C., and publicly revealed he is attracted to trans women, though he considers himself to be heterosexual. It has since been alleged by trans activist Mariah Lopez Ebony that Yoba engaged in inappropriate paid sexual activity with her when she was a minor. Though Yoba denies the allegation, as a result of the media storm regarding the controversial accusation, Yoba was removed from his position as spokesman for Phi Beta Sigma, which is focused on providing mentorship to "pre-teen and teen-aged males" through social, cultural and educational enrichment.

In the summer of 2021, Yoba underwent quadruple bypass surgery as a result of hereditary heart disease. He is an advocate of plant-based nutrition and walking as medicine. In 2022, Yoba received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Livingstone College in Salisbury, North Carolina.

Awards and recognition
American Black Film Festival - Winner, Best Documentary, 2016

NAACP Image Award- Winner, 1996,1997,1998

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Variax

Variax was the name of a line of guitars developed and marketed by Line 6 between 2002 and 2023. They differed from typical electric and acoustic guitars in that internal electronics processed the sound from individual strings to model (replicate) the sound of specific guitars and other instruments. The maker claims it was the first guitar family able to emulate the tones of other notable electric and acoustic guitars. It also provided a banjo and a sitar tone. The Variax was available primarily in electric guitar models, but acoustic and electric bass guitar models have also been available in the past.

James Tyler Variax electric guitars
In 2010, Line 6 released three new models of Variax electric guitars (replacing the old models), with updated technology and bodies designed by luthier James Tyler. Each model came in a US-made or Korean-made version. The Tyler Variax guitars all came with standard pickups as well as the electronic modeling capabilities, whereas the earlier Variaxes had no magnetic pickups. New models included the Yamaha-designed "Standard" and the Stevic Mckay (Twelve Foot Ninja) signature model "Shuriken"
 * JTV59 was inspired by the archetypal single-cutaways and features time-tested tonewoods, Tyler-designed PAF-style alnico humbuckers and stoptail bridge.
 * JTV69 was a classic three-pickup solid-body with alder body, vintage-style Tyler neck and custom tremolo bridge.
 * JTV89 had a 3-piece maple neck with reverse headstock, 24-fret rosewood fingerboard and Tyler's Fast 'n' Flat neck profile.
 * JTV89F was the same guitar with the addition of a licensed Floyd Rose locking tremolo.

The Shuriken was available in two models. Both models were released in early 2017:
 * The SR270 model, with an alder body and maple neck with Indian ebony fretboard, and a 27 inch scale length
 * The SR250 model, which is identical to the SR270 model but with a 25 inch scale length

All models of electric Variax (JTV, Shuriken, and Standard) were discontinued in 2023

Electronic Models
Models in all Variaxes were based on the following guitars:
 * 1960 Fender Telecaster Custom
 * 1968 Fender Telecaster
 * 1968 Fender Telecaster Thinline
 * 1959 Fender Stratocaster
 * 1958 Gibson Les Paul Standard
 * 1952 Gibson Les Paul "Goldtop"
 * 1961 Gibson Les Paul Custom (3 PU)
 * 1956 Gibson Les Paul Junior
 * 1976 Gibson Firebird V
 * 1955 Gibson Les Paul Special
 * 1959 Gretsch 6120
 * 1956 Gretsch Silver Jet
 * 1968 Rickenbacker 360
 * 1966 Rickenbacker 360-12
 * 1961 Gibson ES-335
 * 1967 Epiphone Casino
 * 1957 Gibson ES-175
 * 1953 Gibson Super 400
 * 1959 Martin D-28
 * 1970 Martin D 12-28
 * 1967 Martin O-18
 * 1966 Guild F212
 * 1995 Gibson J-200
 * 1935 Dobro Alumilite
 * Danelectro 3021
 * Coral/Dano Electric Sitar
 * Gibson Mastertone Banjo
 * 1928 National Style 2 "Tricone"

Variax electric guitars
The earlier solid body Variax electric guitars made by Line 6 were available in four models:
 * The original 500 did not have a model number when it came out in 2002, but the manufacturer relabeled it the 500 when they introduced the 700 in 2004. They discontinued the 500 about a year later. It was manufactured in Korea.
 * The "budget" model 300 came out in 2005, was in limited supply by 2007 and was finally discontinued in early 2009. It was manufactured in Indonesia.
 * The 600 featured a vibrato bridge and all-maple neck with six-on-a-side tuners. It was manufactured initially in Korea, then China.
 * The upmarket 700 had a carved top, either a hardtail or vibrato bridge, maple neck, and rosewood fingerboard. It had three-on-a-side tuners and diamond shaped mother of pearl inlays with an abalone "V" at the 12th fret. It was manufactured in Japan.

The bridge of a Variax electric guitar has an individual piezoelectric pickup for each string. The instrument's electronics converts each of these six signals to a digital signal, and digitally processes each to emulate the selected sound. Since the system processes the strings separately, it can model the effects that one string of a target emulation might cause on another. It can also shift individual string pitches to digitally create alternate tunings instead of pitch-shifting all strings at once.

Some enthusiasts have transplanted Variax electronics and hardware into different instruments. These "transplants" can look like almost any popular guitar, yet produce all the Variax emulations.

Variax acoustic guitars
Line 6 marketed four models of Variax acoustic modeling guitars: the 300 Nylon String and 300 Steel String, which allow varying virtualbody size and mic placement—and the more expensive steel stringed, cedar (later spruce)-topped 700, which pitch-shifts individual strings to provide alternate tunings. The 700 emulates over a dozen rare and desirable acoustic instruments, including an acoustic Indian sitar, rather than the Coral electric sitar modeled in the electric Variaxes. Line 6 produced a rare and final model dubbed the 900, of which only 50 were produced and distributed by Line 6. The 900s were made in Japan rather than Korea as the 700s were. The 900s had a solid body with a semi hollow acoustic style facade sound hole, maple neck, and rosewood fingerboard was adorned with diamond shaped mother of pearl inlay instead of the cross design the 700s had, it also had an abalone inlay "V" at the 12th fret. The most publicly recognized Variax Acoustic 900 was used by recording artist James Taylor, while singing the American National Anthem at the opening ceremony of the NBA Finals of 2008, as well as an event hosted at Borders Bookstore. Line 6 discontinued the acoustic models in 2010.

James Hetfield was a long time user of customised Variax acoustic models

Variax bass guitars
Line 6 offered the same technology for electric bass guitars with the 4-string Variax 700 bass and the model 705 5-string bass, but discontinued them in 2007.

Workbench Software
Variax guitars have a Variax Digital Interface (VDI) port that connects them via an Ethernet cable to compatible hardware like the Line 6 POD amp modelers, or through the Workbench interface via USB to a computer. Note that the (300-700) guitar cannot be connected directly to the computer but requires a Line 6 USB interface or POD Live / Vetta. Workbench is also the name of the software that lets users customize the electronic models—change body type, change and move pickups, and adjust volume and tone knobs function. Users can create customized models and tunings and then save them back to the guitar.

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WVCY

WVCY may refer to:

 * WVCY (AM), a radio station broadcasting at 690 kHz on the AM band, licensed to Oshkosh, Wisconsin
 * WVCY-FM, a radio station broadcasting at 107.7 MHz on the FM band, licensed to Milwaukee, Wisconsin
 * WVCY-TV, a television station broadcasting on 22 digital (mapped to 30 PSIP) licensed to Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Jean Tabaud

Jean Tabaud (5 July 1914 – 3 December 1996) was a French portrait painter and war artist.

Early life
He was born Jean Gilbert Tabaud on July 5, 1914, in the small town of Saujon, France, on the Southwest Atlantic coast, north of Bordeaux. He was the son of Lucien Tabaud and Ernestine Tabaud Hillairet. His father was a butcher by profession, who served in World War I, where he was wounded and gassed during the conflict.

World War II
A first career in classical dance with the Ballets Russes, dancing in Paris, Berlin, Geneva, Belgium, Switzerland, Rio de Janeiro, Tangier, Casablanca, and Argentina was interrupted by a spine injury which forced him to give up dancing altogether. He returned to France to seek treatment for his back but instead met up with the outbreak of World War II. He was immediately drafted into the French Army, witnessed the fall of France to Germany, and was taken prisoner in 1941.

Painter beginnings
His second career as an artist started while he was a prisoner during World War II. While there, he passed the time sketching portraits of his fellow prisoners, and was shortly asked to do the same by guards, as well as the Commandant of the camp. His escape from prison led him back to Paris where he made his living as a peripatetic artist, in the evenings going from one café to another, drawing portraits of German soldiers, sailors, airmen of all ranks, charging but a few francs each. He plied his trade not only in Paris but traveled to the Normandy coast and Le Havre - often on bicycle. All the portraits he executed during this time had to be signed with the name Juvee. By the time of Germany's defeat, Tabaud had executed over 5,000 portraits between 1942 and 1944.

Following the end of the war, almost one year later, Tabaud, seeking the sun and escape from war-torn Europe, traveled to Majorca and then to Morocco, where he lived for eight years. In Tangier and Casablanca he established a school of dance, gave recitals, choreographed ballets, wrote articles on art and the dance. During this period he painted many Moroccan landscapes, as well as studies of the local people.

Move to the US
In 1953 he was encouraged to try his luck in the United States. He began in Hollywood, where he was immediately successful, receiving commissions for portraits from such stars as Charles Boyer, Deborah Kerr, Pier Angeli, Zizi Jeanmaire, to name a few. The French Ambassador to Mexico, while visiting Hollywood, suggested an exhibit of his works - particularly his Moroccan landscapes - in Mexico City. It was met with considerable success and was followed by two more exhibits. One in Monterrey and one in Acapulco.

Following several more critically acclaimed exhibits in Los Angeles and San Francisco, Tabaud moved to New York City in 1957, where he established his studio at 440 East 79th Street. Over the next ten years he traveled extensively, executing portrait commissions in the United States and Europe of the rich and famous, as well as the not so rich nor famous. Among his innumerable clients were such subjects as the Mrs. Henry Fords, (both Anne and Christina) as well as his children, Anne, Charlotte, and Edsel. Mrs. Ted Kennedy, Mrs. Stavros Niarchos (Eugénie) and her children. Mrs. Pierre S. DuPont, Jr., Henry Miller, Lady Sarah Russell, Lady Sarah Crichton Stuart, Mrs. T. Jefferson Coolidge, Mrs. Clint Murchison, Jr., and her daughter. Suzy Parker, Peter and Lili Pulitzer and their children, Mrs. John Warner (daughter of Paul Melon) and their children. John Kenneth Galbraith, Baroness Fiona von Thyssen, Mrs. Howard Cushing, Jr., and her children.

In addition to portrait painting, Tabaud experimented with various schools of art, most notably cubism, and with several different techniques, such as oil on canvas as well as on board, colored pen, watercolors, pastels, charcoal and pencil, melted crayon with scratched pen technique, etc. He was strongly influenced by the artists of the impressionist era, especially Renoir, Monet, Corot, Van Gogh, and later Modigliani. The influence of Gauguin can be detected in his Moroccan paintings.

At the height of his career, Tabaud executed several paintings under the name of Leret, but was unsuccessful at marketing them. What sold was a Tabaud. What clients wanted was a Tabaud and nothing less. For several years he was featured in Portraits, Inc., in New York in their annual exhibits of portraits by well-known artists. His work appeared regularly in their New Yorker and other magazine ads, as well in their New Year's greetings to their clients, featuring the portraits he did of the founders of Portraits, Inc., - Lois Shaw and Helen Appleton Read. These cards sometimes included the portrait he did of Andrea Erickson Gehringer as well.

It was only in 1980 that he gave up his studio in New York altogether and settled permanently in Pawling, traveling but once a year to France to visit old friends. He had no family. He never had any children.

Tabaud also excelled in painting children. Though he never had any of his own, he enjoyed painting them. After seeing one of Tabaud's exhibits in 1956, the art critic of the Los Angeles Examiner said: "He gives their faces marvelous expressions: as if they are, in a spiritual sense, on the threshold of adult experiences, as if some unknown force is pulling their thoughts into a world they would much rather back off from."

In Pawling, Tabaud pleased friends and neighbors by drawing their portraits, free of charge. Whole days and evenings were spent reading the works of philosophers whose thoughts he had long wished to examine but had never had the time to do so before.

Later in life
Jean spent the last five years of his life battling Lyme disease. But this debilitating disease was not diagnosed until three years before his death, when treatment by antibiotics was of little use. In addition, Jean Tabaud was afflicted with cancer of the prostate, loss of hearing, and failing eyesight. He died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head on December 3, 1996. Two years after his death the Village of Pawling changed the name of the winding dirt road leading to his home from Gristmill Lane to Frenchman's Lane.

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Vespasian Psalter

The Vespasian Psalter (London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian A I) is an Anglo-Saxon illuminated psalter decorated in a partly Insular style produced in the second or third quarter of the 8th century. It contains an interlinear gloss in Old English which is the oldest extant English translation of any portion of the Bible. It was produced in southern England, perhaps in St. Augustine's Abbey or Christ Church, Canterbury or Minster-in-Thanet, and is the earliest illuminated manuscript produced in "Southumbria" to survive.

The Psalter belongs to a group of manuscripts from Southern England known as the Tiberius group, also including the Stockholm Codex Aureus, Barberini Gospels, the Book of Cerne, the Tiberius Bede, and the Book of Nunnaminster.

Description
The psalter contains the Book of Psalms together with letters of St. Jerome, hymns and canticles. The main scribe was also the artist of the miniatures. It was written in Latin on vellum, using a southern English Uncial script with Rustic Capital rubrics. There were additions made by a scribe named Eadui Basan in an English Carolingian minuscule. The English gloss was written in a Southumbrian pointed minuscule.

The codex is 235 by 180 mm 9.25 by 7.1 in. The text is written in an area of about 175 by 135 mm or 6.9 by 5.3 in. There are 160 folios.

There are several major initials which are historiated, zoomorphic, or decorated. Major initials are found at the beginning of Psalms 1, 51 and 101. This tripartite division is typical of Insular Psalters. In addition, the psalms beginning each of the liturgical divisions of the Psalter are given major initials. The beginning letters of the other Psalms have smaller "minor" initials which are decorated or zoomorphic and are done in what is called the "antenna" style.

The only surviving full-page miniature shows King David with his court musicians, and is now folio 30 verso. It is possible that this miniature was originally the frontispiece or opening miniature of the psalter, and that a decorated incipit page at the start of the Psalms is missing, as well as a carpet page at the end. Sir Robert Cotton pasted a cutting from the Breviary of Margaret of York on folio 160 verso. He also inserted a miniature from a 13th-century liturgical psalter as folio 1.

History
The manuscript was produced during the second quarter of the 8th century, and probably the earliest of the Tiberius group. The script of the Old English gloss is typical of the script produced in Canterbury scriptoria from about 820 to 850. Eadui Basan, who made additions to the manuscript, was a monk at Christ Church, Canterbury during the early 11th century. Thomas of Elmham recorded a Psalter at Canterbury which may have been the Vespasian Psalter.

The manuscript was at Canterbury in 1553. By 1556 it was owned by Sir William Cecil, who lent it to Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury. By 1599 it was the possession of Sir Robert Cotton, who signed it on folio 12 recto. It became national property, along with the rest of the Cotton library in 1702 and was incorporated into the British Museum when it was founded in 1753. The volume was the first in the Vespasian shelf section in the part of the library indexed by the names from a set of busts of the Roman Emperors on top of the shelves.

Its current binding, with metal clasps, was provided by Cotton.

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Awara, Fukui

Awara (あわら市) is a city located in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 27,107 in 10,140 households and the population density of 232 persons per km2. The total area of the city was 116.98 sqkm. It is one of the few Hiragana cities in Japan. Awara is a city famous for its onsen resorts and natural hotwater springs.

Geography
Awara is located in far northern Fukui Prefecture, bordered by Ishikawa Prefecture to the north and the Sea of Japan to the northeast, The city of Sakai surrounds the city to the east, south and west.

Neighbouring municipalities

 * Fukui Prefecture
 * Sakai
 * Ishikawa Prefecture
 * Kaga

Climate
Awara has a Humid climate (Köppen Cfa) characterized by warm, wet summers and cold winters with heavy snowfall. The average annual temperature in Awara is 14.2 °C. The average annual rainfall is 2481 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 26.8 °C, and lowest in January, at around 2.8 °C.

Demographics
Per Japanese census data, the population of Awara peaked around the year 2000 and has declined since.

History
Awara is part of ancient Echizen Province. During the Edo period, the area was divided between the holdings of Fukui Domain, Maruoka Domain and Nishio Domain. Following the Meiji restoration, it was organised into part of Sakai District in Fukui Prefecture. Awara Onsen was developed from June 1884. With the establishment of the modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889, the town of Kanazu and villages of Awara, Ii, Tsuboe, Hosorogi, Yoshizaki, Kitagata and Honjō were established. Awara was raised to town status in February 1935. The villages of Ii, Tsuboe, Hosoroe, and Yoshizaki merged into Kanazu in October 1954, and Kitagata and Honsho were merged into Awara in March 1955. Most of Awara Onsen burned down in a fire in April 1956. Awara and Kanazu merged to form the city of Awara on March 1, 2004.

Government
Awara has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral city legislature of 18 members.

Economy
The economy of Awara is mixed, with agriculture and the tourism industry centered on Awara Onsen playing prominent roles. Hitachi Zosen Fukui Corporation, a hydraulic press manufacturer, is headquartered in Awara.

Education
Awara has seven public elementary schools and two middle schools operated by the city government, and one public high school operated by the Fukui Prefectural Board of Education.

High school

 * Kanazu High School (金津高校)

Junior high schools

 * Awara Junior High School (芦原中学校)
 * Kanazu Junior High School (金津中学校)

Elementary schools

 * Awara Elementary School (芦原小学校)
 * Kitagata Elementary School 北潟小学校)
 * Kanazu Elementary School (金津小学校)
 * Hosorogi Elementary School (細呂木小学校)
 * Kanazu Higashi Elementary School (金津東小学校)
 * Ii Elementary School (伊井小学校)
 * Honjo Elementary School (本荘小学校)

Railway

 * JR logo (west).svg JR West - Hokuriku Shinkansen
 * Awaraonsen
 * Echitetsu Logomark.svg Echizen Railway Mikuni Awara Line
 * Honjō - Banden - Awara-Yunomachi
 * Hapi-Line Fukui Logomark.svg Hapi-Line Fukui
 * Awaraonsen - Hosorogi - Ushinoya

International relations

 * 🇨🇳 - Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China, friendship city

Local attractions

 * Echizen-Kaga Kaigan Quasi-National Park
 * Awara Onsen
 * site of Yoshizaki-gobō

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Virtua Tennis 2

Virtua Tennis 2, known as Tennis 2K2 in North America and Power Smash 2 (パワースマッシュ2) in Japan, is a sequel to Virtua Tennis that was released for the Sega Dreamcast, Sega NAOMI arcade unit and Sony's PlayStation 2 (known as Sega Sports Tennis in North America) in 2001–2002. New features included the ability to slice and play as female players such as Monica Seles, Serena Williams, Venus Williams and Lindsay Davenport and the males such as Patrick Rafter, Magnus Norman, Thomas Enqvist and Carlos Moyá and mixed doubles matches. The game was created and produced by Hitmaker, with Acclaim Entertainment publishing it in Europe for the PS2. This was the last Virtua Tennis game to be released for the Dreamcast following its discontinuation.

Tournament
The player must win 5 matches played on different surfaces and venues to win a tournament. If the player performs well enough, he is challenged by either King or Queen, the game's bosses, depending whether the selected player is male or female.

Exhibition
This is a single match in which the options are customizable.

World Tour
This is the main mode of the game. For the first time in the Virtua Tennis series, the World Tour mode features yearly based and calendarized seasons. Users have to play and win tournaments throughout the seasons, as well as to complete training exercises, in order to progress. Also, unlike any other game in the series, the World Tour mode on Virtua Tennis 2 requires the user to play and train both a male and a female players simultaneously, who can also team up to play in mixed doubles tournaments. The user enters with a rank of 300th for both male and female players, which improves as matches and tournaments are won. In addition, the players' abilities can be improved by completing different training exercises. The focus of the training exercises are to be fun, rather than realistic. Each exercise has four levels, with the difficulty increasing progressively. By completing the hardest difficulty with a certain amount of time left or points scored, an outfit is unlocked, which players can wear in all modes.

Playable Characters
Male
 * 🇦🇺 Patrick Rafter
 * 🇬🇧 Tim Henman
 * 🇫🇷 Cédric Pioline
 * 🇷🇺 Yevgeny Kafelnikov
 * 🇩🇪 Tommy Haas
 * 🇸🇪 Thomas Enqvist
 * 🇸🇪 Magnus Norman
 * 🇪🇸 Carlos Moyá

Female
 * 🇺🇸 Venus Williams
 * 🇺🇸 Serena Williams
 * 🇺🇸 Lindsay Davenport
 * 🇺🇸 Monica Seles
 * 🇫🇷 Mary Pierce
 * 🇪🇸 Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario
 * 🇷🇸 Jelena Dokic
 * 🇺🇸 Alexandra Stevenson

SPT World Championships Tour Competitions

 * London, Great Britain
 * 🇦🇺 Melbourne, Australia
 * 🇺🇸 New York, USA
 * 🇫🇷 Paris, France
 * 🇯🇵 Tokyo, Japan

Reception
The Dreamcast version received "universal acclaim", while the PlayStation 2 version received "favorable" reviews, according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave the former console version a score of 31 out of 40.

Also in Japan Game Machine listed the arcade version in their December 1, 2001 issue as the seventh-most successful arcade game of the month.

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Talk:Tempeh

IPA Suggestion
Should the Javanese IPA in the article "" changed into ""? Because, in the list of Javanese IPA I found on Internet, the letter "t" in Javanese is pronounced as dentalized t.

Linked website to grilled tempeh makes dubious statements about tofu
From the recipe of grilled tempeh in "Organic Authority":

Unlike tofu, which has been linked to dementia, sterility in males and even breast cancer in women

Agreed, this is external to Wikipedia, but frankly, before linking an article which begins with these statements without providing a shred of evidence, perhaps a different source could be chosen. 81.104.36.244 (talk) 11:19, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

 * Agreed as misinformation, and removed. Thanks for the catch. Zefr (talk) 18:32, 6 August 2023 (UTC)

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Article help
I've just added the basic details of the game, if anyone else wants to chip in, they're quite welcome Vanky 19:49, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

What an amazing game it apparently is.
What on Earth is the writer doing? While I accept that he or she doesn't think Virtua Tennis 3 and 2009 were as good, you can't write six paragraphs of unsubstantiated POV about the 'special feeling' you get when you play and how unfortunate it is that Sega didn't recognise the 'je ne sais quoi' of the game. Find some sources. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.169.55.219 (talk) 01:44, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Nonsense Editing
I noticed that this article as well as the articles for other Virtua Tennis games in the series are being edited with nonsense information by an unregistered editor with an apparently Indonesian IP. In this article, the nonsense edits include:

 * King and Queen nationalities as Indonesian when their nationalities are clearly not shown in the videogames.
 * Changing the location of the last tournament from the Pacific Ocean (it is played in a Cruise Ship) to Dublin in Ireland.

Is there a way to range-block these IPs, maybe? (180.254.21.111 and 180.246.61.249)

Cpfig (talk) 19:06, 21 March 2012 (UTC)

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Arsis

Arsis is an American death metal band from Virginia Beach, Virginia, formed in 2000. The band is currently signed to Nuclear Blast.

Demos and Willowtip era (2000–2006)
Arsis was started by James Malone and Michael "Mike" Van Dyne in 2000, who met while attending the Berklee College of Music in Boston. The name Arsis comes from the musical term arsis and thesis meaning up and down beats. They recorded two demos independently in 2001 and 2002, which were later officially released by Negative-Existence Records in 2007. Arsis signed to Willowtip Records in 2003 and released their highly acclaimed debut album, A Celebration of Guilt, in 2004, which later ranked #50 on Decibel Magazine's "Top 100 Death Metal Albums of All Time" list. This was followed by the release of A Diamond for Disease in 2005, and United in Regret in 2006. During this time, Arsis toured heavily, sharing national stages with Six Feet Under, Full Blown Chaos, Misery Index, Mortician, Incantation, The Chasm, Necrophagist, Cattle Decapitation, Neuraxis, Alarum, Job for a Cowboy, Animosity, Ion Dissonance, Dead to Fall, Misery Signals, The Faceless, All Shall Perish, Napalm Death, and A Life Once Lost, and performed on the main stage at the 2004 Maryland Deathfest, the 2006 New England Metal and Hardcore Festival, and the First Annual California Metalfest.

The band's main composer, singer/guitarist/songwriter James Malone, wrote and performed all the guitar, vocal, and bass work on the first studio album, A Celebration of Guilt, as well as the follow-up, A Diamond for Disease. Malone also composed and performed a score for the off-Broadway ballet company Ballet Deviare. He has a signature model for Washburn Guitars.

Mike Van Dyne performed drums on all of Arsis' releases and tours up until early 2007, and recorded/toured again with the band from 2009 until 2011. Van Dyne went on to record and perform live with The Final Sleep.

We Are the Nightmare and lineup changes (2007–2008)
The band signed to Nuclear Blast just before original drummer Van Dyne left to pursue a degree in medicine; he was replaced by Darren Cesca. Noah Martin, who played bass on United in Regret, and Ryan Knight were also added to the lineup to complete the touring cycle and record We Are the Nightmare (2008), their first album with Nuclear Blast. That summer 2008, Arsis played on the Thrash & Burn tour.

Cesca was let go in 2008, with differences in musical direction provided as the reason; he was replaced on tour by Alex Tomlin of Battlemaster and later by Shawn Priest. Martin left the group in the fall of 2008 to return to college. In late 2008, Nick Cordle (guitar) and David Kinkade (drums) joined the band, and in December Knight left Arsis to join The Black Dahlia Murder.

On March 18, 2009, Malone issued a statement explaining and apologizing for recent tour cancellations and lineup changes, citing personal reasons. Soon after, it was announced that original drummer Mike Van Dyne would return (although due to career commitments, his ability to tour with the band may be limited).

Starve for the Devil (2009–2011)
In July 2009, it was announced that work was ongoing for their next record, Starve for the Devil. In September, recording sessions began with Nathaniel Carter performing bass and production being handled again by Zeuss. The record was released on February 9, 2010, and landed at No. 13 on the Billboard Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, making Starve for the Devil the highest charting Arsis album.

In October and November 2009, Arsis toured Europe with Behemoth, DevilDriver, and Scar Symmetry on the Neckbreakers Ball Tour.

In January 2010, Arsis released a music video for "Forced to Rock", the first track off Starve for the Devil.

In January and February 2010, Arsis toured the U.S. and Canada with Arch Enemy, Exodus, and Mutiny Within on the Tyrants of Evil North American Tour.

On March 6, 2010, Arsis performed at the Eye Scream Metal Fest II in Mexico City (the band's first ever performance in Latin America) with Sacred Reich, Cynic, Municipal Waste, and Dying Fetus. This festival, the Tyrants of Evil Tour, and the Neckbreakers Ball Tour are the only times the full Starve for the Devil recording lineup performed live.

On May 13, 2010, Noah Martin rejoined the band, despite staying enrolled in college, following the departure of Nathaniel Carter.

In November 2010, the lineup of Malone, Cordle, Martin, and Van Dyne toured Europe extensively with Misery Index, Grave, The Last Felony, and The Rotted, followed by a U.S. headlining tour in December with Powerglove and Conducting from the Grave. During their headlining dates, Arsis performed the 12+ minute track "A Diamond for Disease" in its entirety for the first time ever.

On August 9, 2011, Willowtip Records reissued Arsis' acclaimed debut album A Celebration of Guilt with two bonus tracks and expanded artwork.

Unwelcome (2011–2017)
News of demos and samples of a new full-length record starting pouring out in early 2012. Not long after, however, guitarist Nick Cordle left the band to join Arch Enemy. Shortly after that, longtime drummer and founding member Mike Van Dyne departed Arsis to concentrate on his career full-time.

On March 13, 2012, Arsis released a demo song entitled "Choking on Sand" featuring Malone on vocals and both guitars and Noah Martin on bass.

On April 6, Arsis announced Shawn Priest as Mike Van Dyne's replacement and reposted the demo song "Choking on Sand" with Shawn on the recording.

Tracking for the as-of-then still untitled full-length record produced by Mark Lewis began on June 4. Raw video footage from the recording sessions was posted by the band on Facebook on July 19.

On July 27, 2012, the album art and title for Unwelcome were made public.

On December 4, 2012, Arsis released an EP entitled Lepers Caress preceding the release of Unwelcome containing new songs that would be on the full-length record as well as some re-recordings from their earlier catalog.

On April 30, 2013, Arsis released Unwelcome.

In 2014, Willowtip Records reissued Arsis' A Diamond for Disease EP and United in Regret album with bonus live video tracks and expanded artwork.

In 2015, Arsis supported Sepultura on their 30th Anniversary tour, they were also joined by Destruction and Starkill.

In 2016, Arsis released their pre-production demo which is titled "As Deep As Your Flesh". They also opened up for Scar Symmetry once again on their North American tour alongside Shattered Sun and Painted in Exile.

Visitant (2018–present)
In November 2018, Arsis released Visitant.

Members

 * Current members
 * James Malone – lead vocals, rhythm guitar (2000–present), lead guitar (2000–2006, 2018–present) , bass (2000–2006)
 * Noah Martin – bass, backing vocals (2006–2008, 2010–present)
 * Shawn Priest – drums (2008, 2012–present)

 * Former members
 * Mike Van Dyne – drums (2000–2007, 2009–2011)
 * Nathaniel Carter – bass (2009–2010)
 * Brandon Ellis – lead guitar (2012–2018)
 * Nick Cordle – lead guitar (2008–2012)
 * Ryan Knight – lead guitar (2006–2008)
 * Darren Cesca – drums (2007–2008)

 * Touring/Session members
 * Mike Parks – lead vocals (2007, 2012)
 * Justin Shaw – bass (2004–2006)
 * Mike Mullen – bass (2003)
 * Alex Cox – bass (2006)
 * Michael Leon – bass (2015)
 * Taylor Washington – lead guitar (2018–2019)
 * "Fast" Chris Jones – lead guitar (2003–2004)
 * Jake Ososkie – lead guitar (2004–2005)
 * Johnny Allen – lead guitar (2006)
 * Jon Fralick – lead guitar (2006)
 * David Kinkade – drums (2008–2009)
 * Alex Tomlin – drums (2008)
 * Samus – drums (70000 Tons of Metal 2011)
 * Scot Seguine – bass (2001 demo)
 * Kathy Burke – lead guitar (2001 demo)

Discography

 * Studio albums
 * A Celebration of Guilt (2004)
 * United in Regret (2006)
 * We Are the Nightmare (2008)
 * Starve for the Devil (2010)
 * Unwelcome (2013)
 * Visitant (2018)

 * EPs and compilations
 * A Diamond for Disease (2005)
 * As Regret Becomes Guilt: The Demos of Arsis (2007)
 * Lepers Caress (2012)

 * Music videos
 * We Are The Nightmare – Regular Version (2008)
 * We Are The Nightmare – Animated Version (2008)
 * Forced To Rock (2010)
 * Carve My Cross (2012)
 * Scornstar (2013)
 * Tricking The Gods (2018)
 * Fathoms (2018)

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Information Holdings Inc.

Information Holdings Inc. was a company based in Stamford, Connecticut, and listed (as "IHI") on the NYSE until its merger with The Thomson Corporation in November 2004. Stockholders received $28 per share in the $426 million cash merger. Its 2003 revenues were approximately $81 million.

Mason Slaine, president and chief executive officer of IHI, reportedly welcomed the merger.

Press releases indicated that IHI's activities, including brand names Micropatent, Aureka, MDC, and Liquent, would integrate seamlessly with Thomson Scientific & Healthcare's other businesses in areas of intellectual property and drug development workflow solutions.

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