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Talk:Erin go bragh

Brách
Quote: ''Speakers of the Irish language often state that the phrase is a corruption of the Irish "Éire go brách" or "Éireann go Brách", which would be pronounced closer to guh BRAWK. However, it should be noted that the Scottish Gaelic phrase "Éirin gu bràth", which literally means "Ireland until the Day of Judgement", is pronounced almost identically to the Anglicized phrase.''

Irish "brách" and Sc. Gaelic "bràth" are, in fact, the same word -- and the latter is, despite the spelling, pronounced "bràch" [see MacBain's Dictionary of the Gaelic Language]. The word in Sc. Gaelic means "judgement" and so did "bráth" in Old Irish too. The word exists in modern Irish only in the set phrase "go brách" (meaning "for ever, until the end of the world [i.e. the last judgement]") but it corresponds exactly to the sense and to the pronunciation of Sc. Gaelic "gu bràth" (not "BRAWK", by the way, in either language, but "brawH"). -- Picapica 13:13, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I fully understand that both Irish "brách" and Sc. Gaelic "bràth" are derived from the same Old Irish word. My Sc. Gaelic dictionary disagrees with MacBain's -- when I'm in the same room as the dictionary, I'll provide the reference.  In the meantime, here's an example of an Irish language page that make the claim to which I refer, including the pronunciation of "brách": [].  There are others which I have bookmarked on my home machine (in the same room as my dictionaries!).

 * Now, I realize that they (and I) are taking a shortcut in writing BRAWK where the word should be ending with a broad 'ch'. I suppose the article should use one of the phonetic alphabets, but the point was that it's not quite as badly Anglicized as is commonly "stated as fact".  I need to provide more source cites, though. Bjimba 21:15, 2005 Feb 18 (UTC)

Hmm. I take it you are referring in the case of the "Irish language page" you mention to this:

 "Erin go bragh" is actually a badly anglicized form of "Éire go brách", meaning "Ireland forever".

Well indeed, questionable Irish-language pages are two-a-penny on the Web... What's particularly bad about that one, though, is the writer's failure to recognize that "(u)gh" is the standard Hiberno-English way of representing the Irish sound "ch" (cf. "lough" for "loch", etc. etc,). And Éirinn (= "Erin") is perfectly normal as an oblique case of the name Éire. My own theory is that Éirinn go brách is a toast: TO Ireland for ever. -- Picapica 23:36, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Irish doesn't have datives without preceding prepositions. To drink to someone in Irish is "sláinte duine a ól" (to drink a person's health), so if Ireland were to be anthropomorphized that way it would probably be something like "sláinte na hÉireann go brách" or the like. "To Ireland" like a dedication would probably be "D'Éirinn". I don't think Éireann or Éirinn is ever used in the nominative in Irish, but Éirinn (or nowadays Èirinn) is used as the nominative in Scots Gaelic, so the immediate source of Erin go bragh is very likely to be Scottish Gaelic Éirinn gu bràth and not Irish Éire go brách. --Angr/undefined 14:04, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

It doesn't sound right to me that it came from scottish gaelic - Its more likely to be just a simple corruption of the Irish Gaelic. (The song would prove nothing as the phrase could have been quite common when it was written.) I think you are looking too much into it - after all the fact that it is a corrution shows that it was used by people with a slender knowledge of the language. My guess is that its either a battle cry or a toast of Irish Regiments in the British army. (if an Irish regiment performed some impressive feat of arms with a call of 'Eire go brach' or whatever, non Irish speakers writing about it would say that 'they gave out a cry of Erin go braugh' before the charge and from there it could have passed into common usage. Given this, I'm going to make an amendment.

 * Well, When I was going to school in Ireland, we were taught it as "Eireann go breá", so this "brawk" stuff is beyond my knowledge altogether! Although, it could be that I was taught Connaught Irish, I don't know. Just my contribution anyway.--194.165.160.113 15:17, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Joseph Aronesty, author of " Deciphering the English Code, writes: "Bragh" is a brawling brother word. BR as a prefix represents maleness, often in pairs. "Brothers" are "branches" (of a family), "brides" are like "bridges" ( to another family), "beer" will result in "brawls" and "brutish" behavior, "sober" means "without beer". So if "bragh" was first a battle cry, it makes perfect sense. The concept of Doomsday seems to have evolved from a sense of man destroying himself in the ultimate brawl.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.58.231.218 (talk) 20:41, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

According to Dinneen,

bráth = doomsday; go bráth = till doomsday

bráthach = eternal; go bráthach = eternally

(p. 117). bráth would be pronounced without, bráthach with, the final velar fricative.

breá (old spelling breágh) is a different word altogether and means "fine, lovely, handsome, good" (p. 119).

Hieronymus Illinensis 06:21, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

on Éirinn
"Well, When I was going to school in Ireland, we were taught it as "Eireann go breá", "

Must have had a very bad teacher! Sounds like 'of Ireland nicely'!

Éirinn is now the most common form in Connacht, and can be heard from natives in Donegal too

I have a 15th century book (copy) Leabhar Fiodhnacha, and it has 'Éirinn go brách' glossed as 'Ireland until doom' —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 159.134.221.3 (talk) 22:37, 7 February 2007 (UTC).

Isn't Éirinn genitive, rather than dative? Remember the tuiseal ginideach.77.56.59.214 (talk) 16:46, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Irelandic vs. Irish?
I know nothing about this stuff. Just curious: what is "Irelandic", and how does it differ from "Irish"? E.g., "this is again Irelandic and not Irish in any way whatsoever"? Perhaps someone could create an Irelandic page? Tks.

Irelandic
The last sentence in the first paragraph of the section entitled "Origin" is complete rubbish. There is, for one thing, no reference to the phrase "Erin go bragh" in the OED. Nor is there a language known as "Irelandic". The phrase quoted is in fact Icelandic and means "I can eat glass, it doesn't harm me". Curious. Madri 11:07, 6 August 2007 (UTC)madri A recent update, suggesting the phrase was Welsh and meant "I took glasses to the table; it did me no harm" is equally mad, so I've felt myself compelled to remove it. Madri 17:16, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

17th March edit
Sigh... who wants to go and remove every incidence of the word "bagbiter"? I'd do it, but neither my Gaelic nor my cut-and-paste are up to it.JustIgnoreMe 01:37, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

 * I'd love to do it, but I'd have trouble sorting out which "bagbiter" is "brách," which is "bràth," etc. That's what happens when anyone, including children and imbeciles, can edit content. If the OPs are around, they'd have the best chance of doing it. ColmCille 03:07, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

 * People, please use your brains and the features of wikipedia. You could have undone the whole sh*t right after it happened, but it cannot be done now. I've cleaned up using the diff feature (in the page history) to find out what there was. It was a bit of PITA, though... Torzsmokus (talk) 13:07, 2 August 2008 (UTC)

Cleanup
Boy, does this article ever need one. Please, could some Gaelic speakers roll up their sleeves and make this article read- and understandable? Currently it seems to be a hodgepodge of a bunch of vaguely related opinions. Points that ought to be addressed: Thanks, Maikel (talk) 15:46, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * is "Erin go bragh" a bastardisation of Gaelic Irish?
 * what does "Ireland forever" mean in Gaelic Irish?
 * what's the nearest approximation to "Erin go bragh" in Gaelic Irish?
 * What is really confusing is that the article claims that the original phrase is "Éire go brách" or "Éireann go Brách" whereas a linked article claims it's "Erin go brea", "Éirinn go Brách", "Éirinn go Brágh". (If Irish Gaelic is vague with regards to transliteration this ought to be mentioned).
 * This article simply doesn't give a straight answer. Help!  Maikel (talk) 15:57, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

Usage in Ireland?
If the phrase isn't used in Ireland proper the article should mention this. Thanks, Maikel (talk) 16:10, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Not sure I understand the intent here. As a largely archaic phrase, it is not used in a modern context, but was used - in Ireland - by the United Irishmen as early as 1798, but (unsurprisingly really) was more prominent amongst ex-pat or dispersed Irish in more recent centuries. I'm not sure how this would be noted in the context, therefore unsure how to address based on your note. Guliolopez (talk) 18:30, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * A lot of americans use this phrase casually to express some sort of allegiance to or affection for Ireland. Its on a lot of Irish American giftware etc. But its rarely or never heard of in Ireland, and is associated more with american tourists here than as an actual thing irish people say.  It can be kind of awkward when an american visitor says 'erin go bragh' expecting a big reaction, because everyone really associates it only with american tourists.  We appreciate the sentiment, but theres a bit of a disconnect there.  I think thats what the comment was getting at.  While I assure you this perspective is hugely widespread in Ireland, I have no source that mentions it!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.141.14.30 (talk) 23:59, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Lemma
Shouldn't it be "Erin go bragh" or "Erin go Bragh" rather than "Erin Go Bragh"? Maikel (talk) 16:10, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * You're probably right. Someone probably created it under this capitalised form because the article originally focused on it's use as "banner" or "motto". Agree however that rename/move might be appropriate. Go ahead if deemed necessary. Guliolopez (talk) 18:30, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
 * it's -> its —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.233.202.125 (talk) 14:14, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

Brách/Bráthach agus araile
A chairde, dheineas mo dhícheall chun deisiú - well, beagáinín ar a laghad - a dhéanamh insan téacs so - ach má fhéadann sibh í do cheartú i gceart, ba mhaith an mhaise dhaoibh é! Ba bhreá liomsa dul thar n-ais go hÉirinn go brách! Friends, I've done my best to "pretty things up" - well, a little anyway - in this text - but if ye can correct it, 'twould be grand for ye! I'd like to fo back to Ireland for ever!

United Ireland
I have heard that this phrase is kind of call for United Ireland. Is that true?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.2.138.24 (talk) 10:39, 10 June 2012 (UTC)

 * No. The phrase, as the article says, goes back to at least the 18th century. Ireland wasn't partitioned until 1920. Scolaire (talk) 07:47, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

Ship
This recent addition might be interesting. But is it really relevant to this topic? Apart from some of the editorial flourishes ("coincidentally", "no doubt", etc), this seems like too much detail for the context. If the boat/events are notable enough, this content should in my opinion be removed to a separate article, and a "there once was a ship named Erin go bragh" summary (re)included here. Guliolopez (talk) 15:55, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
 * ✔. Another user summarised this so no longer an issue. Guliolopez (talk) 11:33, 22 May 2014 (UTC)

Éirinn
In Origin section: We are given no clue what Éirinn and the other mentioned variations mean in English till we reach the second paragraph, where it implies it means Ireland? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.210.86.235 (talk) 00:27, 19 July 2015 (UTC)

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Mexican flag variations
If you look at the link for the San Patricios flag, it reads: "The exact appearance of the flag may remain a matter of speculation. Vincent Morley, April 30, 2002." If an original flag exists, let it be copied. Otherwise the text could be based on wishful thinking, and it should reflect the reality.78.16.101.32 (talk) 08:05, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

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Penn State
Hey Pete0r, thanks for your edit to Penn State - I hope you get a chance to continue helping on that page in the future. In fact, a couple of us have set up a WikiProject to guide us in how we want to improve the PSU article and other articles related to PSU. If you'd like to join in, that would be awesome - just go to the page and take a look around at the different tasks we've listed. We're also planning to make a page specifically for branch campuses, so if you wanted to create that, you could. Hope you have a great day, and if you ever have any questions about Wikipedia, just let me know! --Spangineer ∞ 13:14, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)

Hi Pete0r, great work on the Berks-Lehigh Valley page. Do you have any the history of when BKLV merged and became a college? I am pretty sure it was fairly recently (say, within the last 10 years?). Also, do you know anything about the restructuring of the commonwealth system that began in May? I understand that Berks and Lehigh Valley are going to be split apart again, but may be mistaken on that particular issue. Raymondofrish 28 June 2005 21:22 (UTC)

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Hi. Thanks for uploading Image:Berksclose.jpg. Could I ask you to provide a little more detail about this photograph's PD status? Did you take it yourself? If not, can you cite where you got it from, and explain why you believe it's in the public domain? Thanks, Bovlb 06:54, 23 September 2005 (UTC)
 * To follow up, the copyright is held by the Penn State Alumni Association, even if the text is on a otherwise public sign:

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Willard Preacher
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 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. jni 16:21, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Ashu Meta
Not notable. utcursch 13:19, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)

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 * A man has a haircut and a beard. Notability not established by the article.   Delete. Uncle G 15:07, 2005 Feb 18 (UTC)
 * And yet, he is the most signiicant (sic) member of the IIIT family. Wow, that bodes well for the rest of them. Delete. Radiant! 15:57, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Aye carumba. Delete. HyperZonktalk 17:52, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. "The goatee and the short haircut that became so much of a rage" in IIIT, Hyderabad is not notable enough. Zzyzx11 21:49, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. That must have been some haircut. Carrp | Talk 22:01, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, family vanity. Megan1967 23:07, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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9 Chickweed Lane

9 Chickweed Lane is an American comic strip written and drawn by Brooke McEldowney for over 30 years, which follows the fortunes of the women of three generations of the Burber family: Edna, Juliette, and Edda. 9 Chickweed Lane is the address of the characters' former family home. There is occasional overlap of characters between 9 Chickweed Lane and another comic by McEldowney, Pibgorn.

The strip is syndicated by United Feature Syndicate (a division of Andrews McMeel Syndication). It debuted on July 12, 1993. It won the National Cartoonists Society Award for Newspaper Strip in 2005, and has been given Genesis Award Commendations for bringing attention to animal rights.

Publication
Syndicated by United Media, 9 Chickweed Lane debuted on Monday, July 12, 1993, though comics historian Don Markstein notes that some sources erroneously give August 2, 1993.

McEldowney's comic strip primarily focuses on the relationships between its multigenerational female characters, beginning with a single mother, Juliette, and her teen-aged daughter, Edda. Although he did not originally intend to have the characters age, they have done so, though not at real-time.

The comic has dealt with a number of difficult issues including pregnancy out of wedlock, a school shooting, and the impact of sexuality on religious vocations. It has been criticized for addressing such topics, to the point of being removed from some newspapers. It has been both acclaimed and criticized for its "libidinous hot-plot lines" and the enthusiastic sexuality of its characters. In a column entitled The Unbearable Horniness of 9 Chickweed Lane, critic Nathan Rabin criticized the strip's recurring sexual themes, writing "It feels like the only 'gag' in 9 Chickweed Lane is how unbelievably horny all the characters are for each other." Rabin is also critical of the strip's "intellectual pretensions" and McEldowney's "unspeakably pretentious, self-satisfied, endlessly masturbatory" content.

Design
9 Chickweed Lane was originally drawn by hand in black and white. Around 1995, McEldowney moved to digitally-based production, using his computer as a drawing tool. The comic eventually introduced color at the publisher's insistence.

McEldowney trained as a musician and incorporates dance and music into his drawings: several of his characters are dancers, singers, or musicians. One reviewer writes "Dance strips or strips involving just hands, hands hold hands, arms moving, legs moving, are gorgeous and dynamic." Another comments on the Zen-like slowness of McEldowney's sequences, describing his work as lingering on the page, as he often draws out the action across multiple days. Even reviewers who dislike the comic for other reasons have applauded its design qualities:

"9 Chickweed Lane has more intriguing layouts and paneling decisions than anything else in newspaper comics of the last twenty years. It has that one thing going for it, and it is really going for it. Read it for the layouts. For the pacing decisions. For how he arranges panels and why he puts in them exactly what he puts in them."

Characters

 * Edda van Hoesen (née Burber) – Independent and intelligent with a heroic fantasy life as Superlative Girl, she is a talented, attractive ballet dancer and a skilled piano recitalist who has done modeling for the fictional ladies apparel line Nicolette Cignet. She also holds a black belt in an unspecified martial art. Edda graduated early from her Catholic high school and moved to New York City. Although she had frequently displayed sexual attraction to her ballet partner Seth, she married her longtime sweetheart Amos on September 11, 2017. On December 12, 2019, she found out she was pregnant with twin girls, who were born in the first week of March 2020.
 * Juliette Martine Kiesl (née O'Malley, formerly Burber) – Divorced (from Jack) and the single mother of Edda, she is the daughter of Edna O'Malley. Juliette has a creative fantasy life (her alter-ego is the leopard skin-clad Panther Woman) but is competent at achieving her goals in reality. A Fulbright scholar, after being a biology professor at a New Hampshire university, she followed her dream of owning and operating a farm. She later married Elliott Greene in a ceremony officiated by Thorax, and eventually returned to the school in a part-time position. She learned she is the product of a brief relationship her mother had with an Austrian opera singer, Peter Kiesl, and later took on his family name. She was named after her stepfather's first wife, Martine Juliette.
 * Edna "Edie" Ernst O'Malley/Eva Kiesl – Mother of Juliette and grandmother of Edda. "Gran" is irascible and argumentative, though loving. In her youth she was a beautiful, talented USO singer and spy for Allied Intelligence during World War II. Much of her life is told in an extended year-long flashback sequence, begun in October 2009, that has been described as "ambitious, moving, and still often pungently funny" and "one of the most engrossing and well-told stories from this year". During that time she had a relationship with Lt. Peter Kiesl, an Austrian Wehrmacht POW in England, which they rekindled ten years later in New York City when he was a visiting singer for the Metropolitan Opera; this led to a very brief engagement and the conception of Juliette. Afterward, Edna married Bill O'Malley, with whom she had a second child (Roger), and was later widowed. After Kiesl, who she thought had recently died, visited her in New Hampshire to express his continued love for her, Edna moved to Vienna and married him.
 * Amos van Hoesen – A geeky, talented classical cellist and Edda's husband, who occasionally accompanies her in performance. Best friends since childhood that blossomed into love, he graduated from the same school as she and went on to study at Juilliard. They finally consummated their love after Edda performed a dance with Amos providing a piano accompaniment in November 2004, renewed their love at a music competition in Belgium and wedded after a lengthy courtship and engagement. They have since become parents to twin daughters Polly and Lolly.
 * Thorax – Formerly Gran's gentleman friend, he is brilliant and odd beyond all description. Apparently a large, amiable elderly farmer, he does not appear to be quite human, and has a quantum anomaly in his tractor shed. Thorax and Edna dated a few years until Edna's reunion with Kiesl. He also appears in McEldowney's online strip Pibgorn. On Oct. 4, 2017 he was revealed to be Sven's father. He claims to be married to Esme Meadow, and have the name William Meadow. In a storyline commencing September 2021 Thorax recalls joining the Canadian RAF during WW2 and becoming romantically involved with Polish double-agent Zofia Przyjukylska.
 * Pap – Thorax's father is aged beyond reckoning, with a classic Yankee-farmer acerbic mien.
 * Elliott Greene – Juliette's love interest, and her co-worker at the university. In January 2006, Juliette accepted the most recent in his long series of marriage proposals, and they were married by Thorax.
 * Seth Appleby – Edda's dancing partner and housemate, a physically imposing, handsome bisexual with a boyfriend and an occasional indulgence with a female partner. In a storyline that began at the start of Pride Month 2021, he began cheating on his boyfriend with Fernanda Jons, eventually culminating in their marriage.
 * Mark – Seth's live-in boyfriend until July 2021; an artist and gallery owner.
 * Fernanda Jons – Seth's former female friend-with-benefits, a ballerina from Argentina who was temporarily partnered with him in the ballet company. Dream sequences throughout July 2021 have her as a recurring fantasy of Seth's, and he asks her to marry him in the July 17th strip. In the July 28th strip, it is revealed that Fernanda has had knee surgery and can no longer dance. She and Seth married on September 1, 2021.
 * Janice – A friend of Edda's from the ballet company. She has a crush on Mark, who remains her friend while gently rebuffing her advances.
 * Isabel Florin – A pianist with a narcissistic bent who accompanies Amos' practice on cello, she likes Amos and has been in conflict with Edda over this. She is of Portuguese origin with a slight accent.
 * Burkhardt Kriegl – A violist from Vienna. A womanizer regularly rebuffed by Edda, he took up with Isabel.
 * Fleurette ("Fleurrie") Spocket – The veterinarian who came to treat Juliette's sick bull and was once a student in her biology class. She married her longtime veterinary technician, Sven.
 * Sven Spocket – Fleurrie's tall, sweet and handsomely hulking, if slightly naive, veterinary technician, formerly a gutter cleaner. They eventually married. He is fluent in four languages and has a Ph.D. in art history (French Rococo, specializing in Jean-Honoré Fragonard). On October 4, 2017, he was revealed to be Thorax's son.
 * Sister Steven – a Mother Superior who runs the Catholic school Edda and Amos once attended. An archetypically strict nun with no sense of humor and nicknamed as "Sister Caligula" by her students, she does occasionally show a human side to her nature. Her birth name was Florence Anne Feeney, and her brother is Cardinal Feeney.
 * Diane Durly – Formerly Sister Aramus, a nun who used to teach English at the Catholic high school that Edda and Amos attended. She left her vocation after falling in love with Francis Durly. They married in the October 30, 2007 strip, after a long courtship and became parents to a daughter, Florence Anne, in the October 6, 2011 strip (after Sister Steven's name before she became a nun) and has since become a mother to five more children, according to the March 10, 2020 strip.  Two years later, she had given birth to three more children.
 * Francis Durly – A former Catholic priest who left his vocation after falling in love with Diane, whom he married.
 * Mary Rosenzweig – Edda and Amos' classmate from their Catholic high school. Amos used to pursue her for affection, but was always rejected. In more recent times, she's been married and divorced twice; the first husband having two affairs on the side and in the second marriage, she had her own infidelity.
 * Solange – Edda's Siamese cat, who appears in ongoing thread of strips focused on her, Hallmarks of Felinity. The cat who would become Solange first appeared on March 23, 1999. Originally, the animal characters in the strip consisted of a whippet named Rudyard, succeeding a greyhound named Divot, and a spot-eyed cat, Ambrose. Rudyard and Ambrose often held mental conversations regarding their human owners, when Rudyard wasn't chucking insults at the cat's naïveté. Solange soon replaced Ambrose after her introduction, and the greyhound disappeared from the strip as well.
 * Monty – God in the form of a bald man wearing a suit or else a delusional man who has convinced Thorax that he is indeed God; a test of Monty's powers made him appear to be embarrassed at his inability to pull off even a minor task.
 * Earl William "Bill" O'Malley – Gran's late husband and Juliette's stepfather. As a young lieutenant during World War II, he saw Edna perform for the Allied troops and helped recruit her for a spying mission at a British POW camp housing German prisoners. Seriously injured on D Day, he suffered severe amnesia, met and fell in love with his French Resistance contact Martine Clocqueur, and was briefly married to her. Years later he married Edna and moved to Omaha, Nebraska, to have a long, unfulfilled marriage. Bill is the father of Edna's second child, Roger, who is rarely mentioned and was not seen in the strip until November 22, 2010.
 * Martine Juliette Clocqueur-O’Malley – A beautiful, feisty French Resistance operative who worked as a double agent with the Nazi German forces during the occupation of France during World War II and was Bill's contact during D-Day. She and Bill fell in love and were married within days of the Liberation of Paris. She was mortally wounded very shortly afterward.
 * Roger O'Malley – Son of Bill and Edna, Edda's uncle and Juliette's half-brother. He is married and has eleven children (his wife refers to him as "sturdy"). While he has a long-standing heterosexual relationship with his wife, he was accused by Seth of being a closeted homosexual, despite a complete lack of evidence. He has since come out of the closet, placing considerable stress on his marriage.
 * Peter Kiesl (full name Lt. Peter Johann Martin Franz Kiesl ) – A professional opera singer from Austria and former officer in the German Army in World War II, he had a romantic liaison with Edna while he was a prisoner of war in England and she was a USO singer working undercover for American Intelligence. Years later in New York City they briefly resumed their romance. He is the biological father of Juliette. Decades later, he visited Edna in New Hampshire, expressed his continued love for her, and the two married and went to live in Vienna together.
 * Xiulan Ha'penny Yuan - a highly regarded Hong Kong Chinese cellist from a wealthy family who once challenged Amos at the fictional 2008 Forrestier International Music Competition in Brussels as a runner-up due to the online popularity of his and Edda's makeout session and graciously lost to him, but not before being very touched when he gentlemanly presented her with a rose for being a good sport. She was reintroduced into the series on September 14, 2015, this time as a Juilliard student who understands English and is fond of cheeseburgers (and given the nickname "Wimpy" for it, after the Popeye character) with a brief crush on Amos. Quickly making friends with Edda, she also became engaged after a whirlwind romance with Hugh Godalming within three days after meeting him and later married him. She is also an accomplished pilot and a major stockholder of the fictional airline Canton Airways. She announced her pregnancy to Hugh during a concert duet performance in a May 4, 2022 strip and gave birth to their son Alistair in a May 6, 2023 strip.
 * Hugh Portwhistle Godalming - a British pianist at Juilliard and Xiulan's husband. Accomplished as a child prodigy at the piano with a large ego (he once irritated the Pope after a performance for him when he mistook him for a school janitor), his first encounter with Xiulan was mostly confrontational when accidentally kicked her cello case without apology until he was forced to become her accompanist for her student audition when Edda was a no-show. At first very antagonistic with a lot of sexual tension between them, their relationship blossomed into love after a very passionate Brahms duet and were engaged after only three days of meeting each other. Usually wears a heavy overcoat as an alter-ego persona as Sherlock Beethoven (an portmanteau of Sherlock Holmes and Ludwig van Beethoven). He became a father to son Alistair on May 6, 2023.
 * Ginger Ouyang - a Canton Airways airline steward and Xiulan's friend, who also is the de facto CEO fronting for Xiulan as a figurehead of the airline.
 * Arthur Peel - An English composer in his mid-60s hired by Xiulan and Hugh to score her project for Korean television. A celibate and emotionally somewhat distant man all his life, he wrote a piano piece for the production entitled “Reverie” that sends people into a fiery romantic flurry upon hearing it. After meeting his assigned assistant Nan-Lin Peel began an awkward courtship (which included auditioning and performing together for a stage production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Yeomen of The Guard), he finally professed his love for her despite his self-depreciating insecurities and age and later married her.
 * Nan-Lin Peel - a Korean-American woman in her 30s and Arthur's wife. Originally was hired by Xiulan to be an assistant to manage Arthur Peel (and partly as a joke since they both share the same surname), she became the inspiration behind his erotically-charged “Reverie” and, after a quick if complicatedly frustrating courtship, became his wife despite their age differences.
 * Esme Meadow - A policewoman who is romantically interested in Thorax. He claims to be married to her.
 * Zofia Przyjukylska- A Polish double-agent during WW2 who becomes romantically involved with Thorax and to whom she becomes engaged.  She is killed during the war by a Luftwaffe strafing attack.

Awards
9 Chickweed Lane won the National Cartoonists Society Award for Newspaper Strips in 2005. It has also received 2 Genesis Award Commendations, for bringing attention to animal rights in a sequence involving the adoption of a greyhound.

Spin-off
Brooke McEldowney is also the creator of the webcomic Pibgorn, a spin-off. The strips appear to share the same universe, with the character Thorax appearing in both series regularly, and almost the entire cast of Pibgorn showing up as guests at two Chickweed weddings in the strips of October 29, 2007, and August 28, 2017.

Collections
9 Chickweed Lane has been published in several hardcopy collections, most available from Pib Press. These include:

 * Hallmarks of Felinity (Out of print)
 * Out Whom Shall We Gross? (Year One, 1993–1994)
 * Sonata for Piano and Armpit (Year Two, 1994–1995)
 * The Day my Puberty Detonated (Year Three, 1995–1996)
 * Rita Hayworth, the Father of Relativity (Year Four, 1996–1997)
 * CRUD From Outer Space, and Other Causes of Postnasal Drip (Year Five, 1997–1998)
 * Cat Breath Takes No Prisoners (Year Six, 1998–1999)
 * On Alternate Thursdays, I Surrender My Body to SATAN (Year Seven, 1999–2000)
 * Dumpster God (Year Eight, 2000–2001)
 * We'll Always Have Brussels, or The Bösendorfer Heard Round the World
 * Edie Ernst, USO Singer – Allied Spy

Controversy over anti-Asian language
On December 1, 2021, a strip including an anti-Asian slur resulted in GoComics pulling that day's strip. It was part of a series set during World War II, when the Japanese fighter plane Mitsubishi A6M Zero was often called a "Jap Zero" in contemporary usage. In more modern times, the term "Jap" has become considered a racial slur. On December 9, The Los Angeles Times announced that they were removing the strip after receiving "hundreds of letters" from readers. In their statement, they stated "Our decision was based not on one offensive comic but on an evaluation of the strip overall, and more broadly an evaluation of our entire comic catalog." GoComics did not publish the strip for December 1, nor for December 3 in which the term "queer" was used in a derogatory way.

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No. 1 grenade

The Grenade, Hand, No. 1 was the first British hand grenade used in World War I. It was designed in the Royal Laboratory, based on reports and samples of Japanese hand grenades during the Russo-Japanese War provided by General Sir Aylmer Haldane, who was a British observer of that war.

The grenade proper is a container of explosive material with an iron fragmentation band. The fuse was of the impact sort, detonating when the top of the grenade hit the ground. A long cane handle (approximately 16 inches or 40 cm) allowed the user to throw the grenade further than the blast of the explosion.

To ensure that the grenade hit the ground nose first, a cloth streamer was attached to the end of the handle. When thrown, this unfurled and acted as a tail to stabilize flight. The grenade came with a metal loop so it could hang from a belt.

In the trenches
When the battlefield became confined to the trenches, the long handle became a liability, causing several accidents. Reaching back for the throw, the fuse could strike the trench side. The No. 3, a variant of the No. 1, had a shorter handle for easier use in trenches.

Even with these adjustments, the No. 1 and its variants did poorly in battle. According to German prisoners captured at Ypres in January 1916, the No. 1 could be deflected by wooden boards. In some cases, the deflected grenade could be thrown back.

Manufacturing the No. 1 was difficult, as it required a special detonator that could only be produced by the ordnance factories. Because of this, the British Expeditionary Force got far fewer No. 1s than were ordered. A version that used a more common detonator, the No. 18, was designed, but by then battlefield experience had shown that the No. 1's design was ineffective.

The difficulty of operating it in trenches plus the special detonator caused Britain to create several stopgap grenades, such as the jam tin grenade, until the Mills bomb was adopted.

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Talk:La Goulue

La Goulue
The article says Weber's stage name translates as both 'the Gourmand' and 'the Glutton'. The two words are not synonymous, so which is it? 2600:4040:B507:B500:4C54:768:E0CA:B373 (talk) 05:22, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

 * replying to myself - my bad, apparently the two words ARE basically synonymous. I still think it's better to pick one translation. 2600:4040:B507:B500:4C54:768:E0CA:B373 (talk) 05:26, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

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Les Miles

Leslie Edwin Miles (born November 10, 1953) is a former American football coach. He most recently served as the head coach at Kansas. His head coaching career began with the Oklahoma State Cowboys, where he coached from 2001 to 2004. Following that, he coached LSU from 2005 to 2016. Miles is nicknamed "the Hat" for his signature white cap, as well as "the Mad Hatter" for his eccentricities and play-calling habits. Prior to being a head coach, he was an assistant coach at Oklahoma State as well as at the University of Michigan, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and with the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League (NFL). Miles led the 2007 LSU Tigers football team to a win in the BCS National Championship Game, defeating Ohio State.

Early life, playing career
Miles was born to Bubba, a long-haul trucking broker, and Martha Miles. He earned all-state honors as a lineman in football as well as letters in baseball and wrestling at Elyria High School in Ohio, graduating in 1972. He attended the University of Michigan from 1972 to 1975, playing for the football team under head coach Bo Schembechler, earning letters in 1974 and 1975.

Early jobs
In 1980, Miles joined Bo Schembechler's staff at Michigan as a graduate assistant. He left Michigan in 1982 to coach offensive line at the University of Colorado, where fellow Michigan assistant Bill McCartney had just been named head coach.

In 1987, Miles returned to Michigan, which was still being coached by Schembechler, as the offensive line coach. When Schembechler retired in 1990, Miles continued as offensive line coach under new head coach Gary Moeller. While Miles was a coaching assistant at Michigan, the Wolverines had eight consecutive winning seasons and bowl appearances, including four Rose Bowl appearances. In 1995, Moeller was forced to resign for non-football related reasons. At the same time, Miles had a rift with the University of Michigan, forcing him to seek employment elsewhere. Miles then accepted a promotion to offensive coordinator on former Colorado assistant Bob Simmons's staff at Oklahoma State. During the 1998 through 2000 seasons he was the tight ends coach for the NFL's Dallas Cowboys under head coaches Chan Gailey (1998–99) and Dave Campo (2000).

Oklahoma State
Miles returned to Oklahoma State in 2001 as the head coach. In the three years prior to Miles' arrival in Stillwater, the Cowboys finished 5–6, 5–6, and 3–8. Oklahoma State posted another losing record (4–7) in Miles's first season at the helm, but subsequently achieved winning records during each of the following three seasons – 8–5, 9–4, and 7–5, respectively. His last three seasons at Oklahoma State ended in invitations to the Houston, Cotton, and Alamo Bowls, respectively.

During the last game of Miles's first season as head coach, Oklahoma State faced #4 Oklahoma. Despite the fact that Oklahoma State was facing Oklahoma on the road, Miles led his team to a 16–13 upset victory over the Sooners.

During Miles's second season, Oklahoma State again ended the regular season with a game against #3 Oklahoma. Yet again, Miles led his team to a 38–28 upset victory over the Sooners. As a result of his team's performance during his second year, Miles was named the Big 12 Conference Coach of the Year by the Associated Press in 2002.

LSU
On January 2, 2005, Miles was named as the 32nd head football coach of Louisiana State University (LSU). In August 2005, days before Miles was to make his debut as the coach of LSU, Hurricane Katrina struck southern Louisiana. LSU's first game, a home game against North Texas, was postponed until later in the season. The Tigers second game, which was against Arizona State, was moved from Baton Rouge to Tempe because the LSU campus was still serving as an emergency center for Hurricane Katrina relief. The conference opener against the University of Tennessee was also delayed, this time because of Hurricane Rita.

In his first season as head coach, LSU won the 2005 SEC Western Division title with a 10–1 regular season record – including wins over #15 Arizona State on September 10, #11 Florida on October 15, #16 Auburn on October 22, and #4 Alabama on November 12. LSU's only regular season loss was an upset at home to #10 Tennessee on September 26. In the Tennessee game, after building a 21–0 lead at halftime, the Tigers failed to score another touchdown and lost to Tennessee by a score of 30–27 in overtime. In the SEC Championship Game in Atlanta, the #3 LSU Tigers, though favored, lost to #13 Georgia 34–14. LSU recovered to win the 2005 Peach Bowl with a 40–3 rout of the #9 Miami Hurricanes. Miles finished his first season at LSU with an 11–2 record, a #6 ranking in the USA Today Coaches Poll, and a #5 ranking in the AP Poll.

In 2006, LSU finished the regular season a 10–2 record, and ended the season with six straight victories. The 2006 season marked the first time in LSU history that the Tigers finished with back-to-back 10-win seasons. Miles was able to do this in spite of his team playing its four toughest games on the road. All four games were against teams ranked in the top eight when the game took place, with three of the teams in the top five (Auburn, Florida, Arkansas). LSU split those four games, losing to Auburn and Florida, but defeating Tennessee and Arkansas. LSU did not win the SEC West title, finishing one game behind Arkansas. However, the Tigers were ranked ahead of Arkansas at the end of the regular season, and were rewarded with an invitation to face Notre Dame in the Sugar Bowl, where they defeated the Irish by a score of 41–14. LSU finished the 2006 season ranked #3 overall in both the AP and ESPN polls.

In 2007, Miles gained national attention due to numerous unconventional play calls during nationally televised games. LSU was ranked #1 twice during the regular season, but lost at #17 Kentucky in triple overtime by a score of 43–37 before losing its final regular season game at home to unranked Arkansas 50–48, also in triple overtime. As of the end of the 2007 regular season, which featured victories over six different coaches with national championships, Miles's record as head coach at LSU was 34–6. Coincidentally, the 2007 regular season also ended with a loss to Arkansas in a game marked by several of Miles' hallmark unconventional calls. Despite the loss, LSU would go on to the SEC Championship. On the day of the game, Kirk Herbstreit wrongly reported on ESPN's College GameDay that Les Miles had accepted an offer to succeed Lloyd Carr as the head coach at Michigan. Despite the media distractions, LSU won the 2007 SEC title, beating Tennessee 21–14. The night of LSU's SEC title victory, the teams then ranked #1 (Missouri) and #2 (West Virginia) both lost, allowing LSU to be ranked #2 in the AP, Coaches, Harris, and BCS polls. LSU beat Ohio State in the BCS National Championship Game 38–24, giving Miles his first national championship and LSU its third overall.

Throughout the 2007 season, there was speculation that Miles would be a top candidate for the University of Michigan head coaching position if it became available. On the day of the SEC championship game, Kirk Herbstreit incorrectly reported on ESPN's College GameDay that Miles had accepted an offer to succeed Lloyd Carr as the head coach at the University of Michigan. LSU officials quickly responded to Herbstreit's announcement and confirmed that Les Miles would not be taking the Michigan position and would be staying at LSU. Miles cleared up any confusion himself in a last minute press conference to reporters saying,

"There was some misinformation on ESPN and I think it's imperative that I straighten it out. I am the head coach at LSU. I will be the head coach at LSU. I have no interest in talking to anybody else. I've got a championship game to play, and I am excited about the opportunity of my damn strong football team to play in it. That's really all I'd like to say. It was unfortunate that I had to address my team with this information this morning. With that being done, I think we'd be ready to play. There will be no questions for me. I represent me in this issue. Please ask me after. I'm busy. Thank you very much. Have a great day."

The speculation resurfaced two weeks later when The Detroit Free Press reported that Michigan athletic director Bill Martin and university president Mary Sue Coleman spoke with Miles directly over the phone a few days after he signed a contract extension with LSU. In response to the report, Miles issued a statement acknowledging the conversation, but claimed that he was merely offering advice and assistance to Martin on Michigan's search and that he is not a candidate for the vacancy. Miles reaffirmed his commitment to stay at LSU, declaring "I'm going to be the coach at LSU next season." Any remaining speculation that Miles would still consider the job ended on December 16, 2007, when West Virginia coach Rich Rodriguez accepted the head coaching job at Michigan. Miles followed up the national championship with and 8–5 season in 2008 and a 9–4 season in 2009.

Miles was again mentioned as a candidate for the head job when Rodriguez was fired after the 2010 season. Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon, who was a teammate of Miles at Michigan, reportedly flew to Baton Rouge to meet with Miles after LSU defeated Texas A&M in the 2011 Cotton Bowl Classic. An LSU spokesman confirmed that Miles was meeting with Michigan officials to discuss the vacancy, though Miles declined to identify whom he had met with or reveal the substance of the discussions. Though some sources indicated that Miles would accept the Michigan job if it were offered to him and Baton Rouge radio station WJBO reported that Miles had already accepted the position, Miles again ultimately decided to stay at LSU. The 2010 season as a whole was successful for Miles and LSU with the team finishing 11–2 and winning the Cotton Bowl.

The 2011 season marked great opportunity that faded out for Miles and LSU. The Tigers went 13–0, including a hard-fought 9–6 overtime duel with Alabama in a Game of the Century, and won the SEC Championship over Georgia. LSU qualified for the National Championship, where they faced off against Alabama in a rematch. The Crimson Tide defeated the Tigers 21–0 in the National Championship.

The Tigers responded positively following the 2011 season with consecutive 10–3 campaigns in 2012 and 2013. The Tigers took a step back in the 2014 season with an 8–5 record.

Having lost three straight games after a 7–0 start into the 2015 season, rumors were floating that LSU would buy-out Miles' contract after the season. After a season-ending victory over Texas A&M, the athletic department announced they would retain Miles as head coach. On September 25, 2016, LSU fired Miles and offensive coordinator Cam Cameron after an 18–13 loss to Auburn the previous day and a 2–2 start to begin the season. Defensive line coach Ed Orgeron was named interim coach for the rest of the season. Miles left LSU as the second-winningest coach in school history, behind only Charlie McClendon.

Kansas
On November 18, 2018, Miles was hired as head coach at the University of Kansas. He signed a five-year, $13.8 million contract. In his first year as coach, the Jayhawks finished 3–9 overall and 1–8 in the Big 12. They defeated Boston College on the road to earn their first win on the road against a Power Five Conference team in 48 games. Miles and athletic director Jeff Long had been friends since the 1980s, dating to their days at Michigan when Miles was an assistant and Long was an assistant athletic director. In the COVID-19 pandemic shortened season of 2020, Miles went 0–9, which marked the third time in school history the Jayhawks went winless.

Miles was placed on administrative leave on March 5, 2021, due to an investigation of inappropriate conduct with female students while at LSU. On March 8, Miles and Kansas mutually agreed to part ways in the wake of the misconduct allegations. USA Today's Dan Wolken wrote that the decision to place Miles on administrative leave was "merely a placeholder" until lawyers could decide whether his ouster would be deemed a mutual agreement to part ways or a firing. Along similar lines, Yahoo! Sports' Pete Thamel said the manner of his departure was "mere semantics."

Kansas and Miles settled for a $1.99 million buyout of the $8 million left in his contract at the time he was forced out, plus his monthly salary for March 2021. At a press conference the following day, Long said that Miles had assured him that there was nothing in his past "that could potentially embarrass the university or himself or our program." Long added that in February, he and other school officials had been alerted about "a legal dispute in Louisiana," but Miles had again assured him there was nothing to worry about. He claimed to have only learned about the allegations from the media. While Long was "beyond disappointed" that he had been forced to push Miles out, he believed it was "the right decision" under the circumstances." Long would be forced out himself later that day.

A July 2021 article in The Kansas City Star alleged that when a football player alleged threats and harassment from other teammates in March 2019, the football program paid the player to leave campus and take classes online from his home out-of-state. The article also alleges Miles suggested the players settle their dispute "on the practice field, pitting them against each other—head-on—in full-contact drills."

Controversies
In September 2013, Sports Illustrated published a series of articles as part of an investigation of his tenure at Oklahoma State from 2001 to 2005. The series alleged Oklahoma State used a bonus system for players, orchestrated by then-assistant coach Joe DeForest, along with direct payments and no-show or sham jobs involving boosters. Miles was accused of dismissing academic standards to the point of players playing who were otherwise academically ineligible, including having their school work done by tutors and other school personnel. Rumors also alleged that the staff tolerated widespread drug abuse among the players by using a sham drug counseling program and selective drug enforcement. No evidence linked Miles to any wrongdoing during his time as head coach at OSU and he denied the allegations. Sports Illustrated was later criticized, by one Deadspin author, for its lack of substantive evidence outside of interviews with disgruntled former players. The deadspin author went on to further say that "SI had interviewed more than 60 former players and approximately a dozen former assistant coaches and staffers".

In 2013, LSU requested that the law firm Taylor Porter conduct an investigation into Miles's relationships with female students after a number of accusations. The investigation determined that his behavior was inappropriate, although it did not find that he had sexual relationships with any of the women. As a result of the investigation, LSU issued a letter of reprimand to Miles, forbade him from hiring student employees to babysit, and prohibited him from being alone with students.

On June 22, 2023, the NCAA announced that LSU would vacate 37 of Miles's wins from 2012 to 2015, as punishment stemming from a scandal involving former All-SEC offensive lineman and NFL player Vadal Alexander. Alexander's father received over $180,000 in funds from an LSU booster that was found to have been embezzled from a children's hospital in Baton Rouge, with Alexander retroactively ruled ineligible. As a result, Miles is no longer eligible for the College Football Hall of Fame; despite turning 70 in November 2023 and having coached well over 10 years and 100 games, his career winning percentage is now .597 (108-73), just short of the .600 threshold.

Personal life
Miles is married, with four children. ESPN has “positively” cited him for the balance he maintains between his role as a head football coach and his role as husband and father. He is involved in churches with his family and has described himself as a "strong Christian." In 2018, Miles was featured in Dos Equis's campaign "Keep It Interesante", showcasing Miles's affinity for playing-field grass. His sons Manny and Ben played for him at Kansas.

Head coaching record
LSU vacated all of its wins 2012-2015 due to an ineligible player.

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Talk:Upskirt

getting out of a car or just sitting on a park bench?
In those situations I don't think "upskirt" is appropropriate because the photo is not taken up the skirt as specified in the lede but horizontally or even somewhat downwards from horizontal. Qemist (talk) 05:18, 18 August 2014 (UTC)

 * Well almost 10 years later but I'll tell you an anecdote, when I was a student in Venezuela, seeing girls' panties when they were careless without taking photos was called "Buceo" which literally means Diving. I did it as revenge because I had 3 girls classmates who were bullies and I suffered from Pantsing, done by the 3 girls and 3 boys the day before for physical education uniform. I think that the Ministry of Education took measures a few years later against "Skirt Diving", because now the girls will wear the same daily uniform with the boys, that is, a polo shirt and navy blue pants in mixed schools. But I can't confirm the latter. Legarad (talk) 04:34, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

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Going commando, Wardrobe malfunction
I've removed the Going commando see also again. Whether the person is wearing underwear of not has nothing to do with the subject of this article, any more than any of the other specific bits of lingerie that might be exposed (Panties, Pantyhose, Stockings, Thong (clothing), etc.) Meters (talk) 06:59, 9 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I'm going to remove the Wardrobe malfunction see also again too. Upskirt is generally not a wardrobe malfunction as much as a voyeuristic attack. As I said in a summary somewhere (don't know if it was this article) "sticking a camera up someone's skirt is not a wardrobe malfunction". Meters (talk) 07:17, 9 June 2018 (UTC)

image is she OK with it?
While the image copyright might be OK - I guess it is. Is the subject happy with the use of the photo in this way? She is clearly identified and yet no one seems to have asked her views? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.249.23.158 (talk) 18:10, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
 * If you are asking about File:Marcia_Imperator_legs.jpg, it's a relatively tame picture considering that Márcia Imperator was an "adult film" actress at the time. Wikipedia got it from Flickr in 2008, where it was available under a compatible license. I'm sure that any adult film actress would have been all too happy to have her legs in a Wikipedia article. If she's changed her mind since then she's free to contact Wikipedia and make a case for removing it. Meters (talk) 18:32, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
 * If the subject is 'happy with' the image, it isn't unauthorised, and therefore not an 'upskirt' image as defined in this article. Which makes it off-topic. 86.147.197.65 (talk) 21:43, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
 * If you have a proposal concerning the image then make it. The first IP raised the issue of whether the person in the photo was pleased to have her photo on Wikipedia, and I responded to that. We don't know if it was taken with her knowledge or approval, or if she approved of it being on Wikipedia. We do have the right to use the photo, and I surmise that, given her profession, she wouldn't have minded. As for the definition, while the lead may say "unauthorized" the body says that such pictures are sometimes the result of pictures taken "with the knowledge and lack of objection" of the subjects. Meters (talk) 23:10, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
 * The fact that it is debatable as to whether authorised images count as "upskirting", I think it would be in the best interests of Wikipedia to remove this image. It does seem rather unnecessary. --Bangalamania (talk) 22:26, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Best interests how? Meters (talk) 22:41, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
 * I've restored the image. There's no consensus here to remove it,. In fact, there isn't even a proposal to remove it. Meters (talk) 22:43, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep the image. Obviously it's not exactly an upskirt image if it's authorised, in the everyday meaning of the word. Meters is right insofar as authorisation is concerned. I think you're being overly difficult to request its removal. Matt 190417 (talk) 05:40, 20 June 2018 (UTC)

 * Whether the object of the image is an adult actress or a nun is irrelevant. We have no more right to ogle one's body parts than the other's. One being an adult actress does not mean one is "available" or "easy" or "consenting by default" to anything sexual. The Wikipedia community should condemn such attitudes without hesitation. The fact that, moreover, this is the image of a known person renders the issue totally clear: If the object of the upskirt image has not provided explicit consent for the image's inclusion in the public domain of Wikipedia, the image should not be here. End of story.
 * If, of course, the object has given her consent, then the matter is settled. The image stays and it is a fully legitimate demonstration of what an "upskirt" is. The argument about the image not being truly an upskirt shot since it was taken with the object's consent is of course a load of half-clever old cobblers. Wikipedia routinely, and rightfully, features set up, demonstrative images. The user is supposed to learn what is, for example, a stabbing; not see an actual one. So, we have the image of a stabbing, where of course, ceci n'est pas une pipe. -The Gnome (talk) 04:45, 24 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Strong agree on all matters raised by The Gnome, particularly in regards to the suggestion earlier in the thread that it is somehow OK to share unauthorised, sexual imagery of someone without their consent based upon which line of work they choose. It seems we never had an answer as to whether the model agreed to this image or not, but like The Gnome, I feel as though the image is simply not needed for the same reasons mentioned above.  Curt  内蒙  22:41, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

Upskirting
I wanted to ask people's opinion about the grammar of the word "upskirt". It is, of course, an adjective, as in the expression "upskirt photo" which appears many times in the article. It is also a verb, so one person can "upskirt" another. And there's a note in the markup of the first paragraph:"Deviating from the Wikipedia:Manual of Style (WP:MoS), the following quotation marks demonstrate this term is used as a regular noun. The term "upskirt" can also refer to a photograph, video, or illustration which incorporates an upskirt image."

This doesn't seem too surprising. It allows someone to take an "upskirt", and makes "upskirt" almost a synonym for "upskirt image". My query is that this uses "upskirt" as a common noun, whereas the definition ("Upskirt is the practice of making...") uses it as an abstract noun. This definition isn't followed in the rest if the article, where the abstract noun used is "upskirting". An analogy would be with photography – a photograph is an image (common noun), but you can't say "Photograph is the practice of making..." – that's photography (abstract noun). Surely we should say "Upskirting is the practice of making..."? I'd like to propose that for the definition in the first sentence.

Also, can we take out the line: "The term is also sometimes used to refer generically to any voyeur photography – that is, catching an image of somebody unaware in a private moment.". It's had a citation needed tag since February 2015. It's not a usage I've ever come across, and it would make, amongst other things, a downblouse into a type of upskirt. - Polly Tunnel (talk) 12:45, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Questionable claim unsourced three years... nuke it. If anyone wants it back in it is up to them to provide a reliable source to support it. Meters (talk) 17:31, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
 * ✅ as no objections received. - Polly Tunnel (talk) 17:02, 3 July 2018 (UTC)

Splitting proposal
I propose that the section England and Wales (including the subsection Voyeurism (Offences) Act 2019) is split into a separate page called Voyeurism (Offences) Act 2019. It is conventional on WP for significant acts of the UK parliament to have their own articles, and this content appears rather large and unwieldily among the other comparatively short national sections here. Polly Tunnel (talk) 16:20, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

 * I agree, the length of this section is a problem as it gives undue weight to an ultimately unremarkable act of Parliament and its passage. Three things are interesting about the section: 1) the availability of the offence of outraging public decency and that it was inadequate; 2) the fact it originated as a Private Member's Bill, though ultimately adopted by the government; and 3) the controversy over it being blocked at second reading. Only the first is relevant in this article. Hairy Dude (talk) 16:40, 14 February 2019 (UTC)

Upskirting in Japan is not prohibited!
Sie schreiben falsch! In Japan ist Upskirting niemals verboten! "Upskirting" verboten dort nur an gefährlichen Verkehrsknotenpunkten, wie Bushaltestelle, Bahnhaltestelle, Rolltreppen, Straßen-Fußgängerübergang usw. Das sind Gefahrenzonen. Aber nicht in Gefahrenzonen darf man unter die Rock fotografieren! --88.76.64.180 (talk) 14:31, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

In Japan geht es nicht um unter Röcke fotografieren, sondern um Gefahrenzonen! Dort ist verboten, auf allen Gefahrenzonen etwas zu unternehmen, auch fotografieren. In Gefahrenzonen müssen Menschen konzentriert sein, schweigen, ruhig stehen, nicht sprechen, sich nicht ablenken. Aber unter die Röcke fotografieren lenkt die Menschen von Gefahren ab, bringt sie in Gefahr. "Geh woanders hin und fotografiere dort unter die Röcken, aber nicht hier"! --88.76.64.180 (talk) 14:45, 14 September 2019 (UTC)

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Translation of the Geman-language text: You are incorrect! Upskirting is never prohibited in Japan! "Upskirting" is only prohibited at dangerous traffic junctions, such as bus stops, railway stations, escalators, pedestrian road crossings, etc. These are dangerous locations. But outside of such dangerous locations you can take photographs under skirts!

In Japan, it's not about taking photographs under skirts, but about dangerous locations! It is forbidden to undertake any activity, including photography, in all dangerous locations. In dangerous locations, people need to concentrate, be quiet, stand still, not talk, and not be distracted. But taking photographs under skirts distracts people from danger, and puts them in danger. "Go somewhere else and take photographs under skirts, but not here"! - Polly Tunnel (talk) 12:41, 17 September 2019 (UTC)

Images
Please see Image use policy, particularly the section on privacy. In an article about nonconsensual photographs, it's important to avoid using images that might violate the privacy of living people.Also see MOS:IMAGERELEVANCE: "Images must be significant and relevant in the topic's context, not primarily decorative." I don't think the photos of women wearing leotards with gauzy overskirts contribute anything towards the reader's understanding of the topic. gnu 57 03:30, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Image use policy only relates to images taken in a private place: "When taking pictures of identifiable people, the subject's consent is not usually needed for straightforward photographs taken in a public place, but is often needed for photographs taken in a private place. This type of consent is sometimes called a model release, and it is unrelated to the photographer's copyright."
 * Of the "gauzy leotard" image: it is literally tagged as an upskirt photo and is obviously relevant. - 2603:8080:2C00:E3D2:2DE4:82E2:E5:18FB (talk) 20:11, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
 * It also says that images of street performers (which the lead is, a cosplayer) require no consent, nor does nudity if in a public place. - 2603:8080:2C00:E3D2:2DE4:82E2:E5:18FB (talk) 20:35, 27 July 2023 (UTC)

Not all “Upskirt photography” is non-consensual.
The article defines “Upskirting” aka “upskirt photography” as the practice of taking non-consensual photographs under a persons skirt or kilt but not all upskirt photos are non-consensual. For example, there is a niche genre of porn that involves staged consensual upskirt photos or videos. They are still typically called upskirt photos/videos despite being consensual. The same applies to exhibitionist woman who allow a man to take upskirt photos/videos up their dress/skirt for later personal enjoyment/viewing. They may also take selfie upskirt photos/videos to send to their partner as a part of sexting. Thus, we should really changed the lead sentence to acknowledged that not all upskirt photos are non-consensual, even if some porn upskirt pics/vids are falsely portrayed as such for marketing purposes (much like fake amateur porn or fake incest porn may be). We should also expand the part about porn websites featuring upskirt pics/vids to mention that some of these are really staged photos/videos and thus not true non-consensual upskirt photos, even if the site misleads people into thinking otherwise (with maybe only a tiny disclaimer at the bottom of the page or elsewhere on the site clarifying otherwise). - Notcharliechaplin (talk) 03:06, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
 * "there is a niche genre of porn that involves staged consensual upskirt photos or videos" I have seen a couple of videos in this style, but I have noticed many painted images of upskirts in various sites covering fan art. Dimadick (talk) 10:55, 27 December 2023 (UTC)

Ireland
now banned in Ireland but called downblousing 91.154.169.156 (talk) 22:08, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

 * Incorrect - upskirting (which is the act of taking upskirt photos "without [...] consent with intention of obtaining sexual gratification, or to cause humiliation, distress or alarm") is now a crime in Northern Ireland, in addition to downblousing: https://www.psni.police.uk/safety-and-support/advice-and-information/upskirting-and-downblousing One cookie (talk) 23:10, 27 January 2024 (UTC)

Pic in lede
Can we not have a non-consensual shocking picture in the lede y'all? 2603:6081:24F0:AD80:D4B1:763E:EBEC:D5B1 (talk) 00:45, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

 * Concur, reverting, please don't re-add this picture without consensus here Nickelpro (talk) 16:30, 10 June 2024 (UTC)
 * How do we know it was non-consensual? Pauline Muley (talk) 19:48, 26 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Image has been deleted per COM:CREEP, as I'm sure you discovered, so the discussion is irrelevant. Nickelpro (talk) 22:05, 26 June 2024 (UTC)

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Greg Robinson (American football coach)

Gregory McIntosh Robinson (October 9, 1951 – January 5, 2022) was an American college and professional football coach. Robinson served as the head football coach at Syracuse University from 2005 to 2008. He has served as an assistant coach with several other college football programs and for three teams in the National Football League (NFL): the New York Jets from 1990 to 1994, the Denver Broncos from 1995 to 2000, and the Kansas City Chiefs from 2001 to 2003. With the Broncos, Robinson was a member of two Super Bowl championship teams. In more recent years he has served as the defensive coordinator at the University of Texas at Austin, in 2004 and for part of the 2013 season, and at the University of Michigan, from 2009 to 2010.

Early years and education
Robinson graduated from Garces Memorial High School in Bakersfield, California; then attended and played at Bakersfield College, a junior college, before transferring to University of the Pacific.

During his collegiate coaching career, Robinson was an assistant coach at North Carolina State University, Cal State Fullerton, UCLA and his alma mater, University of the Pacific, in addition to his roles at both the University of Texas and Syracuse University.

NFL
Robinson's tenure as defensive coordinator with the Denver Broncos occurred during their Super Bowl (XXXII & XXXIII) seasons in 1997 and 1998. Robinson's Bronco defense played superbly during the 1998 playoff run. The Broncos defense held the Miami Dolphins scoreless in the divisional playoffs, allowed only a touchdown as a result of a fumble on the one yard line against the New York Jets in the AFC Championship Game, and then allowed a single touchdown to the Atlanta Falcons in the fourth quarter of the Super Bowl after the outcome was secure. In 2001, he was hired by Dick Vermeil to be the defensive coordinator of the Kansas City Chiefs. He would coach the team until the end of the 2003 season. The Chiefs defense struggled under Robinson finishing in the bottom 10 in yards allowed each season and finishing last in 2002.

Texas (first stint)
In 2004, Robinson was hired to be the co-defensive coordinator at Texas. He coached at Texas for one season.

Syracuse
Robinson installed a new West Coast offense scheme, replacing the option run style of offense previously run by Pasqualoni, as well as new defensive schemes. Robinson had a 5–37 overall record, and a 2–25 record in the Big East, which is the lowest winning percentage for a non-interim coach in school history. In two of those four years, Syracuse suffered the only double-digit losing seasons in program history. By contrast, Pasqualoni only had one losing season on the field in his entire 14-year career at Syracuse, and only two in his head coaching career (a 2–7 season at Western Connecticut his rookie year). Additionally, after Syracuse vacated all of its wins in 2005 and 2006 due to ineligible players, Robinson also "officially" owns two of Syracuse's only three winless seasons in school history.

In his final press conference as Syracuse coach, after the Orange had concluded a fourth straight losing campaign (3–9), Robinson likened his relentless positivity to the famous children's story The Little Engine That Could, even pausing to read a description of the story directly from its Wikipedia page. Robinson, in the words of one reporter "defiant as always and perhaps in a bit of denial", told the assembled press that in spite of his shortcomings at Syracuse, "I still think I can."

Early in the 2008 campaign, the decline of Syracuse football was the subject of an ESPN College GameDay piece in which Syracuse athletic director Daryl Gross and Syracuse greats Floyd Little and Jim Brown registered their disgust with Robinson. Robinson was fired November 17, 2008, two games before the end of the season. He had one year left on a contract that paid him $1.1 million per season. In 2012, Athlon Sports named Robinson as the sixth worst college football head coach of the last 50 years.

Michigan
Robinson was hired by Michigan on January 20, 2009, as their defensive coordinator, replacing Scott Shafer. (Coincidentally, Shafer would be hired as Syracuse's defensive coordinator before the 2009 season, and would later succeed Doug Marrone as head coach when Marrone departed before the 2013 season for the NFL to coach the Buffalo Bills.)  In 2009, Michigan ranked 82nd of 120 teams in the Football Bowl Subdivision and ninth of 11 teams in the Big Ten Conference in total defense. In 2010, the Wolverines ranked 110th of 120 teams in FBS and 11th of 11 teams in the Big Ten in total defense. Robinson was fired with head coach Rich Rodriguez and the majority of his staff on January 5, 2011.

Robinson served as an assistant coach at Saint Francis High School (La Cañada Flintridge) in 2012. Saint Francis was coached by Jim Bonds who was a quarterback at UCLA when Robinson was an assistant coach.

Texas (second stint)
Robinson was hired by Texas on July 17, 2013, as a football analyst to "handle quality control evaluation for the team, provide team video review, oversee the Longhorns self-scouting and provide assistance in opponent scouting." Less than two months later, the Longhorns' defense allowed Brigham Young University to rush for a record-setting 550 yards in the second game of the 2013 season. The following day, Texas head coach Mack Brown described the defensive performance as "unacceptable" and removed Manny Diaz from the position of defensive coordinator. Robinson was promoted to take his place.

As defensive coordinator, Robinson was able to turn one of the worst defenses in the Big 12 to one of the best in a shockingly short amount of time, especially considering his 2-year absence from coaching preceded by high-profile failures at Syracuse and Michigan. By the end of the season, Texas led the conference in sacks. The turnaround was clearly evident in the 2013 Alamo Bowl, in which Texas took on the Oregon Ducks and their elite offense. Oregon's offense was #2 in the country and averaged over 45 points scored per game. Robinson's Texas defense held the Oregon offense to one touchdown and 3 field goals for a total of 16 points. No defense gave up fewer points to Oregon in 2013. However, poor offensive play by the Longhorns only yielded one touchdown and allowed Oregon's defense to score two additional touchdowns by returning intercepted passes. Oregon went on to win the game 30–7 despite the excellent performance by Robinson's defensive unit.

Following the end of the 2013 season and the departure of head coach Mack Brown, new head coach Charlie Strong announced that Vance Bedford (Strong's defensive coordinator from his previous job at the University of Louisville and a former star player on the Texas defense) would take over as the defensive coordinator at Texas. Robinson was not announced as part of the new staff.

San Jose State
Robinson became the San Jose State defensive coordinator for the 2014 and 2015 seasons. On December 18, 2015, San Jose State announced Robinson would be retiring following the Spartans' bowl game.

Death
Robinson died in Carpinteria, California from a form of Alzheimer's disease on January 5, 2022, at the age of 70.

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Marsanne, Drôme

Marsanne (Vivaro-Alpine: Marçana) is a commune in the Drôme department in southeastern France.

Personalities
It was the birthplace of Émile Loubet (1838–1929), 7th president of the French republic.

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Albreda

Albreda is a historic settlement in the Gambia on the north bank of the Gambia River, variously described as a 'trading post' or a 'slave fort'. It is located near Jufureh in the North Bank Division and an arch stands on the beach connecting the two places. As of 2008, it has an estimated population of 1,776.

History
According to Wolof oral tradition, Musa Gaye, a Wolof marabout founded it sometime between 1520 and 1681. Wolof traders called the island Draga, while the Mandinkas called it Albadar.

In 1681, the local mansa or king of Niumi (the Upper Niumi District takes its name from this kingdom), gave the land to the French because his people depended on trade with Europeans. The French exclave was never very large (never more than one factory) but its location was inconvenient for the British, who otherwise had a monopoly on trade on the Gambia River. The British also possessed Fort James on James Island, which was less than two miles away on the opposite bank, and which fulfilled a similar function. There was constant tension and occasional skirmishes between the two powers, with Fort James changing hands between them several times.

Following a French attack, the English abandoned Fort James in 1779. The French abandoned Albreda in 1804. In 1816, however, the British returned, establishing Bathurst on St Mary's island at the mouth of the river. Shortly afterwards, the French returned to Albreda.

Albreda was transferred from French control to the British empire in 1857. Today it contains a slave museum which opened in 1996.

Roots
There is a family in the town who claim to be descendants of Kunta Kinte and oral historian Kebba Kanji Fofana, the man who was supposed to have told the Roots story to author Alex Haley, although the home of Kunta Kinte was the neighbouring village of Juffure.

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Mark Richt

Mark Allan Richt (born February 18, 1960) is a retired American football coach, former player, and television analyst. He was the head football coach at the University of Georgia for 15 years and at the University of Miami, his alma mater, for three. His teams won two Southeastern Conference (SEC) championships, five SEC division titles, and one Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) division title. He was a two-time SEC Coach of the Year (2002, 2005), the 2017 ACC Coach of the Year, and the winner of the national 2017 Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award. On January 10, 2023, he was inducted into College Football Hall of Fame as part of the 2023 class.

Richt played college football as a quarterback at Miami. As an assistant coach, he spent 14 years at Florida State University, where he served as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach under Bobby Bowden, and a year as offensive coordinator at East Carolina University.

Early years and playing career
Richt was raised in a blue-collar family, the second oldest of five children. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska to Lou and Helen Richt. Lou worked as a tool-and-die maker for Western Electric. In 1967, the Richt family moved to Boulder, Colorado when Lou got a new job. In 1973, Lou was transferred to South Florida where Mark would graduate from high school.

Richt became a star athlete at Boca Raton High and was called "All Turnpike" because of the various awards he received around the state of Florida. As a high school quarterback, he was recruited by the University of Miami, Florida State University, and Brown University. He chose to attend the University of Miami, an hour south from his family.

College and professional career
Richt played at the University of Miami from 1978 to 1982. Under coach Howard Schnellenberger, Richt was backup to future Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback Jim Kelly. In later years at Miami, he played behind Bernie Kosar and Heisman Trophy winner Vinny Testaverde. He was mentored by quarterbacks coach Earl Morrall. Despite limited playing time, Richt still amassed nearly 1,500 passing yards. The 1981 Miami Hurricanes team finished 9–2, ranked 8th in the country, while the 1980 team finished 9–3, ranked 18th in the country. Richt received interest from multiple NFL teams and briefly spent time with the Denver Broncos behind John Elway.

Florida State (1985–1988)
Richt began his coaching career after being offered a job by Bobby Bowden as a graduate assistant for the Florida State Seminoles. Bowden had recruited Richt as a high school quarterback.

East Carolina (1989)
At the age of 29, Richt was hired as the offensive coordinator at East Carolina University. Richt was hired by Bill Lewis, who had previously been defensive coordinator at Georgia. Lewis hired Richt from Florida State in part to help with recruiting.

Florida State (1990–2000)
After one year at East Carolina, Bowden brought Richt back to Florida State to serve as the Seminoles' quarterbacks coach. Richt was promoted to offensive coordinator in 1994 upon the departure of Brad Scott. Under Richt, Florida State had one of college football's most explosive offenses. In his seven years as offensive coordinator, the Seminoles ranked in the nation's top five scoring offenses for five seasons, they were top twelve in total offense for five seasons, and top twelve in passing offense for five seasons. Richt coached two Heisman Trophy winning quarterbacks: Charlie Ward and Chris Weinke. Richt coached a total of six FSU quarterbacks to the NFL, including Ward, Weinke, Brad Johnson (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), Danny Kanell (New York Giants), Danny McManus (Kansas City Chiefs) and Peter Tom Willis (Chicago Bears). During this period, FSU won seven consecutive ACC titles and two national championships (1993 and 1999).

Georgia (2001–2015)

Richt was hired as head coach of the Georgia Bulldogs before the 2001 season, replacing Jim Donnan. Richt's teams won two Southeastern Conference (SEC) championships (2002 and 2005), six SEC Eastern Division titles (2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2011 and 2012), and nine bowl games. The 2002 season marked Georgia's first conference championship since 1982, and Georgia's first-ever outright SEC East Division championship and SEC Championship Game appearance since the league began divisional play and the championship game in 1992.

Richt's teams represented the SEC in three Bowl Championship Series bowl games (all in the Sugar Bowl), with a record of 2–1, and finished in the top ten of the final AP Poll seven times (2002–2005, 2007, 2012, 2014). Additionally, his 2008 team finished in the top ten of the coaches' poll but not the AP Poll.

Richt finished his career at Georgia with 145 wins and 51 losses, making him the second-winningest coach in Georgia history (after Vince Dooley's 201). He left with the highest winning percentage of any coach with more than 29 games at the school.

2015 season and dismissal
The 2015 Georgia Bulldogs football team were the favorites to win the SEC Eastern Division. The Bulldogs started the season 4–0 with SEC wins over Vanderbilt by a score of 31–14 and South Carolina by a score of 52–20. On October 3, eventual national champion Alabama came to Athens and defeated the Bulldogs by a score of 38–10. Georgia then had two additional conference losses to Florida and Tennessee. Georgia finished the regular season 9–3 after a four-game winning streak, including road wins over Auburn by a score of 20–13 and Georgia Tech by a score of 13–7.

The day after the Georgia Tech game, Richt was dismissed after 15 seasons as head coach.

Miami (2015–2018)
After leaving Georgia, Richt was named the head coach of the Hurricanes of the University of Miami, his alma mater. Richt made the announcement on December 4, 2015. Instead of saying he was leaving his home in Georgia, he said he was coming home: "My wife and I can tell you this: This is our home. We love it." "I have no intention of doing anything but finishing my coaching career at Miami." Richt graduated from high school in Palm Beach County, an hour north of campus.

Fans embraced Richt's arrival in strong numbers. Before the opener of his first season, the Hurricanes surpassed 40,000 season ticket sales, the highest number since they started playing at Hard Rock Stadium in 2008. The Hurricane Club (UM Athletics's booster club) also sprung to a record level of members and donations.

Howard Schnellenberger called Richt's signing "a marriage made in heaven." Miami Heisman alumnus Vinny Testaverde noted "I know he's going to be a great role model for my boy, for our kids, he's going to be a great person and a great teacher...And that's what these kids need." "I was shocked that Georgia let him go. But their loss is Miami's gain." Testaverde's son Vincent was a backup quarterback on the team.

Richt served as the head coach of the Miami Hurricanes for the 2016 to 2018 seasons and called all offensive plays. He worked closely with quarterbacks at practice, alongside his oldest son and quarterbacks coach, Jon Richt. In his second year as head coach, he helped Miami win its first ACC Coastal title. Richt was named ACC Coach of the Year for this achievement.

Fundraising success
Shortly after joining Miami, Richt began spearheading a campaign to raise money for a new indoor practice facility. In May 2016, he told University of Miami boosters in Chicago he was donating $1 million of his own money towards the campaign, "I'm not just giving lip service to (making Miami great), that I truly believe it and I'm willing to invest my life in a lot of ways and our resources, too."

Four months later, athletic director Blake James announced the new $34 million practice facility would be slated to open in 2018. The practice facility includes an 80,000 square-foot indoor practice field as well as a 20,000 square-foot football operations center. The operations center will house coaches' offices on a mezzanine level, team meeting rooms, position meeting rooms and a recruiting suite, and have a direct connection to the Hurricanes weight room and locker room.

Upon the facility opening, Richt told ESPN "I didn't come here just because it was my alma mater. I came here because you can win. If you do things right and get the support you need, you can win. It's been proven. The players have always been here. You just have to make sure you get the right ones, and a lot of the other things they used to ding us on, our facilities and things like that, they're not going to be able to do that anymore with this brand-new building and the improvements to Hard Rock Stadium."

Community relations
Each Thursday during football season, Richt visited with local youth football teams. He has stated that he wanted to visit the teams at all the parks in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach County. Richt also developed a partnership with the American Youth Football League to instruct youth coaches and players via regional clinics. The partnership further provided AYFL's coaches with a customized concussion protocol (in collaboration with UHealth Sports Medicine) that assists coaches with overall safety.

Tolbert Bain, a starter on the national champion 1987 team worked regularly with South Florida Youth leagues and helped Richt to develop the outreach. Richt told ESPN, "I'd do this either way, but in my view, it's also building for UM's future. I plan to finish my coaching career at Miami."

In Spring 2017, the team led all Division I FBS Football teams with the most community service hours.

"U" Network for University of Miami Football Alumni
In July 2016, Richt and his wife Katharyn announced that they will be launching 'The U Network'. "The U Network is going to be designed to help guys find work when their playing days are over whether it's right after college or after their pro days. My wife is going to be the person kind of facilitating everything—all of the paperwork and all of the things it will take to connect people with events and connecting players with employers. It's also going to be about reunion and connection, but the main goal is finding work for these guys and I'm talking about the guys who truly want work. We're not just going to give somebody something. They've got to do their part, but sometimes all they need is a little bit of help of guidance, connection, and networking."

"(Coach) Richt is asking players to commit three, four or five years, the most important years of their lives to him and this program," said Don Bailey Jr., Richt's former teammate. "In turn, he's committing to them to make sure their professional life is forever secure after football. I think it's the ultimate payback."

High school recruiting
Despite joining the program with less than eight weeks before signing day, ESPN praised Richt for managing to recruit the 18th best class in the country. During this period, Richt was limited to three weeks of NCAA-allotted face time with recruits. Within two years, Richt had assembled the #2 recruiting class in the nation and had more committed players (18) than any FBS program before the early signing day period.

Richt strongly opposes oversigning, a practice popular in the Southeastern Conference (SEC) that often results in older or hurt players losing their football scholarships. He believes that when a team offers a scholarship, it is a four-year commitment from the university. University of Miami athletes receive lifetime scholarships, allowing players who elect to leave before their graduation to return and complete their diploma.

In 2018, Richt told ESPN that due to the nature of trust in recruiting, he feels that it is unethical to pursue other jobs since the head coach is offering a long-term commitment to his players: "I never once have tried to leverage another job for more money. I don't think that's right. The day we took the job, my mentality has always been, 'If you're the head coach, too many lives depend on you.' If I just say on a whim, 'You know, I think I'd rather go here,' well, all these recruits you said something to, all these coaches you said something to, what about them? Every time you hire a coach, you're taking the coach, his wife and his kids on an adventure. They're trusting you and believing in you enough to become a staff member. I don't want to just walk into a room and say, 'Hey, guys, thanks for helping me get to where I really want to be.' It's the same thing with these kids. They've had enough disappointment, enough men leave their lives. You're trying to build trust, and then you bolt on them because of money or because of whatever? I've just never been able to get past that part of it."

Paradise Camp
Richt hosted "Paradise Camp", a summer football camp at UM for high school players. Prospects with offers and commitments were encouraged to attend. The camp was branded to highlight the benefits of playing and living in Miami's "paradise". The camp was open to individuals entering grades 9th -12th, prep students, junior college students, & 4 year college transfers. Miami charged the absolute allowable minimum for its on-campus camps. Richt regularly brought in UM NFL alumni as coaches:

 * Ray Lewis
 * Ed Reed
 * Vince Wilfork
 * Michael Irvin
 * Warren Sapp
 * Antrel Rolle
 * Jeremy Shockey
 * Calais Campbell
 * Phillip Buchanon
 * Gino Torretta
 * Brett Romberg
 * Najeh Davenport
 * Duke Johnson
 * Bennie Blades
 * Brian Blades
 * Kenny Phillips
 * Devin Hester
 * Bryant McKinnie
 * Willis McGahee
 * Jonathan Vilma
 * Jon Beason
 * DJ Williams

2015–18 seasons
In Richt's first season at Miami, the team finished 9–4, including a victory over West Virginia in the 2016 Russell Athletic Bowl. The team finished #20 nationally in the AP College Football Poll.

In 2017, Richt received the Walter Camp Coach of the Year Award as the Hurricanes peaked nationally with a No. 2 ranking after 16 consecutive wins, clinching the ACC Coastal title.

Miami started off 1–0, before having to sit idle for three weeks because of Hurricane Irma. The game on September 9 against Arkansas State was cancelled and the Sep 16 rivalry match-up with Florida State was postponed until October 7. While campus was temporarily closed following the hurricane, the Hurricanes practiced at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex in Orlando, Florida. At the eventual Florida State rivalry game, the Hurricanes pulled off a last-minute score to win the contest and rose to #11 in the AP College Football Poll. The team went on to defeat No. 14 Virginia Tech and No. 3 Notre Dame which allowed them to secure the ACC Coastal title on November 11 despite two remaining conference games. Miami climbed to No. 2 in the CFP rankings before losing to Pitt and No. 1 Clemson in the ACC title game and ended the season losing to No.6 Wisconsin in the Orange Bowl.

Miami entered the 2018 season ranked eighth in the Preseason AP and Coaches Polls. However, the Hurricanes struggled throughout the year, including a four-game losing streak in October and early November, to end the regular season 7–5. The season ended with a 35–3 loss to Wisconsin in the Pinstripe Bowl.

Retirement and television work
Through a statement released directly and through the University of Miami, Richt announced his retirement from coaching on December 30, 2018.

Starting with the 2019 season, Richt became a football analyst for the inaugural season of the ACC Network, a subscription-television channel that is owned and operated by ESPN Inc. and focuses on the Atlantic Coast Conference, where Richt coached for 14 seasons at Florida State and Miami.

Personal life
Richt is married to the former Katharyn Francis of Tallahassee, Florida. Katharyn graduated with an economics degree in 1987 from Florida State, where the couple met when she was an FSU cheerleader and Mark was a graduate assistant. Katharyn later earned a nursing degree in 2016. During Mark's tenure at Georgia, she began serving as "water girl" so she could spend time on the sidelines during games.

They have four children: Jonathan ("Jon") (born March 11, 1990), David (born December 1, 1994), and two children they adopted from Ukraine in 1999, Zach (born May 15, 1996), and Anya (born February 13, 1997, with a rare disorder known as proteus syndrome). Jon, like his father, was a college quarterback before becoming a coach. Jon coached at Georgia and in the NFL before serving as Mark's quarterbacks coach during his time with the Hurricanes.

ESPN's College GameDay featured a documentary on October 25, 2008, titled "GameDay looks at the Richt family's adoption of a young boy and girl from Ukraine" detailing the Richts' personal story of the adoption of Zach and Anya. The Richts declined on several occasions to publicly share their adoption story before deciding to proceed with the hope that it would encourage other families to explore its rewards.

Richt is a devout Christian and credits his conversion to a locker room speech given by Bobby Bowden when Richt was a 26-year-old graduate assistant. In 2011, the Richts sold their lake house in Georgia that was valued at nearly $2 million, announcing they intended to contribute more to charity. They have also taken several mission trips abroad.

During his tenure at Georgia, Richt's parents and sisters joined him in the Athens area. Richt's sister Nikki is married to former NFL quarterback Brad Johnson, Richt was Johnson's position coach when he played at FSU. His nephew Max Johnson started at quarterback for LSU in 2020, before later transferring to Texas A&M University. His nephew, Jake Johnson also plays for Texas A&M. Both nephews transferred to the University of North Carolina in the spring of 2024.

When Richt became head coach at Miami, he and his wife purchased a house two miles from campus next to the Barnacle Historic State Park in Coconut Grove.

Richt appeared in the 2006 movie Facing the Giants as the former coach of the movie's main character, Grant Taylor.

On October 21, 2019, Richt tweeted that he had suffered a heart attack but had survived the episode and intended to resume normal activities quickly. On July 1, 2021, Richt announced via Twitter that he was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.

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