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Talk:The Microphones

Recent Mount Eerie releases
The 7 New songs of Mt Eerie that was sold on the Australia tour in a limited edition of 196 was actually a Cd - R, not a 10"

The 2 New songs of Mt Eerie was sold on the same tour but was actually a 12" record. It was recently released as “Mount Eerie Dances With Wolves/Wolf Mountain Howls In The World” and is being sold at Mt Eerie shows.

 * Thanks! Information has been corrected.  Gsgeorge 23:32, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Merge
There is a stub at Phil Elverum that really has nothing in it. I suggest it be merged. I think perhaps the most sensible thing is to move the content here to the Phil Elverum article (it would need some slight rewriting) and then redirect all of Phil Elvrum, The Microphones, Mount Eerie, and Mt. Eerie there, and leave the stub at P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd. as is. What do people think? Decklin 02:53, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I think that's a good idea as long as there's a good intro paragraph explaining the various names. If he had consistant musicians over any time or changed his style significantly (apart from going rubbish and pseudo-experimental) it would make sense but like this a merge seems to make the most sense. Jellypuzzle 23:24, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I think this is a good idea also. Everyone of those projects originate from Phil, and as long as each project is defined accurately I see no problem.  This is a very practical change for people hoping to find information about Phil and/or his projects. Clearcontrast 00:37, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
 * All valid points, but, there is a lot of information about Elverum that wouldn't really fit under this page, such as his involvment in groups like Old Time Relijun. I would first look into expanding the Phil Elverum page, rather than rushing to merge it with a page about just an aspect of his life. 71.198.198.8 01:03, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I second this comment. The Microphones/Mount Eerie is a collaboration between Phil and a number of other people, to say that he and it are synonomous is inaccurate. -- Gordonjay 10:59, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

I think Mount Eerie should have it's own page
Doesn't it kinda defeat the purpose of Phil changing The Microphones to Mount Eerie, when basically all you're saying in this artical is Mount Eerie's just The Microphones with a different name, which isn't entirely true. And there's enough information for the Mount Eerie artical to stand on it's own. Underwater 00:06, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I've been meaning to do this for some time but haven't felt motivated enough. Blankfaze 23:13, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Then I'll do it! And umm... you can help if you want.... Underwater 15:26, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Splitting this stuff up
Okay, just as a warning, but I'm (probably tomorrow) going to be splitting all this stuff appart, that is, I'm giving Phil Elvrum, The Microphones, and Mount Eerie their own pages, and having Phil Elverum redirect to Phil Elvrum. Underwater 01:24, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

 * It's been two days since I've said that, and since I hate people who say they're doing to do things at a certain time and never get to it I'm going to say this: I spent yesterday looking up information, and today, my internet wasn't working. So I'll probably start actually editing articals either tonight or tommorow. Underwater 22:08, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Looks like you're all alone here. I'll go ahead and get you started. Elvrum 22:31, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Microphones Releases
Me again. This time I'm talking about the albums like "Microphone", "X-Ray means Woman", and "Blood". They are albums in every sense of the word, but they're really not as important as some of his major work like "The Glow Pt. 2" or "It Was Hot, We Stayed in the Water". Like "X-Ray Means Woman" it was just a very small cassette release of Phil doing mixed-up noises, (The second side was just the first side played backwards) and with "Blood" it's a release of less than 200 copies of more mixed-up noises and demo tracks. Is there any way we can divide them all up between "important albums" and "obscure small releases"? Underwater 23:38, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Should the language be modified to reflect that The Microphones has ended?
Phil Elverum has been pretty clear that The Microphones is now a defunct recording project - notice the language in the quote "To commemorate and tombstone 25 years of this intermittently-awake recording project, we made this chunk." in the product description of the box set. I believe the page should use language like "was a recording project/band" to reflect this. Augi.hdg (talk) 13:19, 22 July 2023 (UTC)

 * Now that I think about it, he did go on tour in 2022 and released the Foghorn Tape, but other than that he has stated he will make no more albums so maybe it is better to wait until he officially states that he will never do anything with it again, if he is to do that. Augi.hdg (talk) 17:21, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

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Naval Air Station Corpus Christi

Naval Air Station Corpus Christi is a United States Navy naval air base located six miles (10 km) southeast of the central business district (CBD) of Corpus Christi, in Nueces County, Texas.

History
A naval air station for Corpus Christi had been proposed since the mid-1930s, and the city's congressman, Richard M. Kleberg, supported it. But it remained a low priority construction project for the U.S. Navy as late as January 9, 1940. (The Kleberg family and Roy Miller both supported Vice President John Nance Garner's quest for the 1940 presidential nomination.) Rep. Lyndon B. Johnson made himself a key Texas ally of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's bid for a third term, and the White House told the Navy Department to consult Johnson, and heed his advice, on Navy contracts in Texas. By February 1940, the project was on the Navy's preferred list. Brown & Root, a Houston firm, shared the construction contract with another New Deal supporter, Henry Kaiser; the president personally signed the (first) cost plus fixed fee contract June 13, 1940. The Roosevelt campaign in Texas no longer had a shortage of cash.

The official step leading to the construction of the Naval Air Station was initiated by the 75th United States Congress in 1938. A board found that a lack of training facilities capable of meeting an emergency demand for pilots constituted a grave situation. They recommended the establishment of a second air training station, and further, that it be located on Corpus Christi Bay. NAS Corpus Christi was commissioned by its first Commanding Officer, CAPT Alva Berhard, on March 12, 1941. The first flight training started on May 5, 1941. In 1941, 800 instructors provided training for more than 300 student pilots a month. The training rate nearly doubled after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. By the end of World War II, more than 35,000 naval aviators had earned their wings there. Corpus Christi provided intermediate flight training in World War II, training naval pilots to fly SNJ, SNV, SNB, OS2U, PBY, and N3N type airplanes. In 1944 it was the largest naval aviation training facility in the world. The facility covered 20000 acre, and had 997 hangars, shops, barracks, warehouses and other buildings.

Future President George H. W. Bush was the youngest pilot to receive his wings at NAS Corpus Christi in June 1943. NAS Corpus Christi also was home to the Blue Angels from 1951 to 1954. It also served as a Project Mercury Tracking station in the early 1960s.

2020 shooting
On May 21, 2020, a motorist crashed through a northern perimeter gate at NAS Corpus Christi, activating vehicle barriers that stopped the vehicle. The driver then got out and opened fire before being shot and killed. A Navy police officer was shot but was protected by a ballistic vest. Officials with the FBI announced the incident was terrorism-related and a second person of interest may be at large. The shooter was later identified as Adam Alsalhi, a 20-year-old Corpus Christi resident born in Syria, who had expressed support for ISIS and Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. The incident was the second fatal shooting and the fourth security incident that caused NAS Corpus Christi to be locked down since February 2019.

Current operations
Today, the Naval Aviator training program at NAS Corpus Christi is much longer, approximately 18 months, due to the increased complexity of today's aircraft. Currently, Training Air Wing FOUR produces approximately 400 newly qualified aviators each year via the "Maritime Pipeline" for shore-based U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Coast Guard fixed-wing jet and turboprop aircraft, as well as a limited number of NATO/Allied/Coalition military pilots for similar aircraft.

Training Air Wing FOUR consists of four squadrons. VT-27 and VT-28 handle primary training in the T-6B Texan II, a single engine turboprop aircraft. VT-31 and VT-35 provide advanced training in the twin engine T-44C Pegasus aircraft along with the Textron T-54A.

Other aircraft found at NAS Corpus Christi include the P-3 Orions and General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper drones operated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

In addition to U.S. Navy Student Naval Aviators, VT-31 and VT-35 also train Student Naval Aviators from the U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Coast Guard. The station employs officer, enlisted and civilian personnel serving in the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Coast Guard, U.S. Army, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the military services of numerous NATO/Allied/Coalition partner nations.

In support of the base's training mission are three nearby outlying landing fields owned by the Navy: Naval Outlying Field Waldron, which is 3.5 mi southwest of the Naval Air Station, Naval Outlying Field Cabaniss, which is 8.0 mi west of the Naval Air Station and Naval Outlying Field Goliad which is 57.7 mi north of the Naval Air Station.

NAS Corpus Christi is also home to the Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD), the largest helicopter repair facility in the world and an unusual arrangement of an Army installation located on a Naval facility.

Major Commands

 * Chief of Naval Air Training (CNATRA)
 * Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD)
 * Marine Aviation Training Support Group (MATSG-22)
 * Naval Health Clinic Corpus Christi (NHCCC)

Wings

 * Training Air Wing FOUR (TW4)

Other Tenants

 * U.S. Navy Reserve Navy Operational Support Center (NOSC)
 * Fleet and Industrial Supply Center Jacksonville Det Corpus Christi (FISC JAX Det Corpus Christi)
 * Marine Aviation Training Support Group (MATSG)
 * U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

Facilities and service also located on the installation

 * Corpus Christi Army Depot
 * Coast Guard Air Station Corpus Christi
 * Commissary
 * DLA Distribution Corpus Christi, Texas
 * Naval Aviation Forecast Detachment Corpus Christi
 * Navy Exchange
 * Navy Lodge
 * Surveillance Support Center (SSC)
 * Veterinary Treatment Facility

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Neale Donald Walsch

Neale Donald Walsch (born September 10, 1943) is an American author of the series Conversations with God. He is also an actor, screenwriter, and speaker.

Biography
Walsch was brought up as a Catholic by a family who encouraged his quest for spiritual truth. He informally studied comparative theology for many years. He says his books are not channelled, but rather that they are inspired by God and that they can help a person relate to God from a modern perspective. Walsch's vision is an expansion and unification of all present theologies to render them more relevant to our present day and time. He created Humanity's Team as a spiritual movement whose purpose is to communicate and implement his New Spirituality beliefs, particularly that we are all one with God and one with life, in a shared global state of being. This state can be achieved, Walsch argues, by the act of helping other people: "The fastest way to apply anything in your life is to help others to apply it... The fastest way to use any wisdom that resides in your soul is to help someone else... Because we are all one". Walsch has nine children. He has a home in southern Oregon where he lives with his wife, Em Claire, who is a working poet.

Career
Before writing the Conversations With God series, Walsch worked variously as a radio station program director, newspaper managing editor, and in marketing and public relations. In the early 1990s he suffered a series of crushing blows—a fire that destroyed all of his belongings, the break-up of his marriage, and a car accident that left him with a broken neck. Once recovered, but alone and unemployed, he was forced to live in a tent in Jackson Hot Springs, just outside Ashland, Oregon, collecting and recycling aluminium cans in order to eat. At the time, he thought his life had come to an end. Despondent, he began his writings after working his way out of homelessness and following a stint as a radio talk show host.

His first book, Conversations with God, was published in 1995 and became an international bestseller. It remained on the New York Times Bestseller List for 135 weeks. Six of his other books have made the Times list in the years since. He has published 28 books and his works have been translated into 37 languages.

Media appearances
In 2003, the film Indigo, written by Walsch and James Twyman and directed by Stephen Simon was released. It chronicled the fictional story of the redemption of a grandfather, played by Walsch, through his granddaughter, who is an indigo child.

Conversations With God: The Movie opened in U.S. theaters in 2006 on October 27 and in Canada on November 10. The film was released on DVD in February 2007. Clips of the film can be found on YouTube.

Other documentaries and TV appearances include:

 * iGod (2015 film)
 * Awake in the Dream (2012 film)
 * Living in Light (video documentary) 2012
 * 3 Magic Words (documentary) 2010
 * Tapping the Source (documentary) 2010
 * Follow the Rainbow to Findhorn (video documentary) 2010,
 * Infinity: The Ultimate Trip – Journey Beyond Death (documentary) 2009
 * One Giant Leap 2: What About Me? (video documentary) 2008
 * 9am with David & Kim (TV series) 2007 – Episode dated April 6, 2007
 * The Secret (2006 film)

Criticism
Walsch was accused of plagiarism for a six-paragraph entry in one of the daily postings on his blog during 2008, when he published an item titled "Upside down, or right side up?" on Beliefnet.com. Walsch's entry purported to tell the tale of a miraculous appearance of the words "Christ Was Love" during the rehearsal of his son's school Christmas pageant; but his article was almost identical to an article published 10 years previously by Candy Chand in the spiritual magazine Clarity and spread over the internet in places such as the Heartwarmers website, down to the name of the son mentioned in both articles, Nicholas – as both authors have a son named Nicholas. Walsch publicly apologized, saying that he must have erroneously internalized the story as his own over the years, a claim the original author said she does not believe. The article was subsequently pulled from Beliefnet.com and Walsch voluntarily withdrew from the roster of authors. Walsch said that he found the anecdote in old computer files from years earlier, saw his son's name in the copy, and was fully convinced that the history had really happened to him and that he had just forgotten it, but "remembered" when he saw the anecdote in his file. He cited it as a classic case of false memory and said that he had been repeating the anecdote as his own in many speeches over the years, adding that he was "chagrined and astonished that my mind could play such a trick on me".

Conversations with God series
Please see the Bibliography at Conversations with God.

Other writings
Walsch has written a number of other books which he describes as "in the CwG cosmology", none of which are dialogues with God, but provide the reader with Walsch's insights:

 * 1) Applications for Living from Conversations With God (compilation of three books; Relationships, Holistic Living, and Abundance and Right Livelihood) (November 4, 1999) ISBN 978-0-34076-833-4
 * 2) Part of the Change: Your Role As A Spiritual Helper (June 1, 2005) ISBN 978-097547-822-6
 * 3) Conversations with God: The Making of the Movie (Photos & Stories) (by Monty Jones with Neale Donald Walsch) (August 10, 2006) ISBN 1-57174-499-1
 * 4) The Mother of Invention: The Legacy of Barbara Marx Hubbard and the Future of YOU (January 15, 2011) ISBN 978-1-40192-898-8
 * 5) When God Steps In, Miracles Happen (April 1, 2011) ISBN 978-1-57174-653-5
 * 6) The Essential Path: Making the Daring Decision to Be Who You Truly Are (June 2019) ISBN 9781250218834

Supplemental material
In addition to the books of the CwG series, there are also a number of guidebooks, meditation books, and other books adapted from the CwG series and referring to the CwG message. Starting in 2008, The School of the New Spirituality, Inc. (SNS), founded by Walsch, starting publishing new guidebooks for the series.

 * 1) Re-Minder Cards: Conversations With God, Book 1 (August 1, 1998) ISBN 978-1-57174-118-9

Interviews

 * 'Being at One': Neale Donald Walsch Interview with Gil Dekel
 * Neale Donald Walsch Interview with Dr. Michael Laitman
 * Neale Donald Walsch Interview with Dr. Michael Laitman
 * Neale Donald Walsch Interview with Dr. Michael Laitman

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James Braid (golfer)

James Braid (6 February 1870 – 27 November 1950) was a Scottish professional golfer and a member of the Great Triumvirate of the sport alongside Harry Vardon and John Henry Taylor. He won The Open Championship five times. He also was a renowned golf course architect. Braid is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.

Braid was born in Earlsferry, Fife, Scotland, the son of James and Mary (née Harris). He played golf from an early age, working as a clubmaker before turning professional in 1896. Initially his game was hindered by problems with his putting, but he overcame this after switching to an aluminium putter in 1900. He won The Open Championship in 1901, 1905, 1906, 1908 and 1910. In addition, Braid won four British PGA Matchplay Championships (1903, 1905, 1907 and 1911), as well as the 1910 French Open title. He was also runner-up in The Open Championship in 1897, 1902, 1904, and 1909. His 1906 victory in The Open Championship was the last successful defence of the title by a European until Pádraig Harrington replicated the feat in 2008.

In 1912, Braid scaled back his tournament golf, and became a full-time club professional at Walton Heath; he had begun a relationship with that London-area club more than a decade before. He developed a very successful career in golf course design, and is sometimes regarded as the "inventor" of the dogleg, although holes of similar design had been known for centuries (for example, the Road Hole at the Old Course at St Andrews). Among his designs are the "King's Course" and the "Queen's Course" at Gleneagles, and the 1926 remodelling of The Open Championship venue Carnoustie Golf Links.

Stranraer Golf Club's course was the final one that was designed by Braid in the year that he died, 1950. He was called out of retirement to plan Creachmore, which was to be his last commission. Braid never lived to see the course completed. He died in London on 27 November 1950.

Harry Vardon and Braid collaborated on several editions of Spalding Athletic Library "How to Play Golf". Braid also wrote "Advanced Golf, or, Hints and Instruction for Progressive Players" in 1911. There is also a book about all the courses Braid designed as an architect titled "James Braid and his 400 courses."

Tournament wins (19)
Note: This list may be incomplete.
 * 1901 The Open Championship, Lytham and St Anne's Professional Tournament
 * 1902 Tooting Bec Cup, Greenore Professional Tournament
 * 1903 News of the World Match Play, Tooting Bec Cup
 * 1904 Tooting Bec Cup
 * 1905 The Open Championship, News of the World Match Play
 * 1906 The Open Championship
 * 1907 News of the World Match Play, Tooting Bec Cup
 * 1908 The Open Championship
 * 1910 The Open Championship, French Open
 * 1911 News of the World Match Play
 * 1920 Galashiels Tournament, McVitie & Price Tournament (joint winner with Abe Mitchell), Amateurs and Professionals Foursomes Tournament (with J. H. Taylor)

Major championships are shown in bold.

Results timeline
Note: Braid only played in The Open Championship {{legend|lime|Win}} {{legend|yellow|Top 10}} {{legend|#eeeeee|Did not play}} NT = No tournament CUT = missed the half-way cut "T" indicates a tie for a place

Team appearances

 * England–Scotland Professional Match (representing Scotland): 1903 (winners), 1904 (tie), 1905 (tie), 1906, 1907, 1909, 1910, 1912 (tie)
 * France vs Great Britain (representing Great Britain): 1908 (winners)
 * Coronation Match (representing the Professionals): 1911 (winners)
 * Great Britain vs USA (representing Great Britain): 1921 (winners)
 * Seniors vs Juniors (representing the Seniors): 1928 (winners)

Golf courses designed by Braid
Braid is reputed to have designed and remodeled over 200 golf courses. Braid disliked travel overseas, very rarely left the British Isles, and never traveled outside Europe. However, he did design two 18-hole golf courses for the Singapore Island Country Club in Asia, using topographic maps to plan his layouts there, which were then constructed to his orders.

Some of the more notable courses worked on by Braid are listed here.

 * OD denotes courses for which Braid is the original designer
 * R denotes courses reconstructed by Braid
 * A denotes courses for which Braid made substantial additions
 * E denotes courses that Braid examined and on the construction of which he consulted

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Talk:Beyond Blue

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Fushun

Fushun (, historically Fuxi (撫西) ) is a prefecture level city in Liaoning province, China, about 45 km east of Shenyang, with a total area of 11,272 km2, 714 km2 of which is the city proper. Situated on the Hun River ("muddy river"), it is one of the industrial and economic development hubs in Liaoning.

History

The Ming first constructed Fushun walled city in 1384 after the division of the Yuan dynasty. "Fushun" is an abbreviation of the Chinese saying "to pacify the frontiers; to guide the Yi foreigners" (撫綏邊疆，順導夷民).

The Jurchen (Manchu) leader Nurhachi married his granddaughter by his son Abatai to the Ming dynasty General Li Yongfang after Li surrendered Fushun in 1618 and defected to the Qing. One of Li Yongfang's descendants was sentenced to death by the Qianlong emperor, but his life was spared when he helped suppress the Lin Shuangwen rebellion.

Fushun was in ruins in the one-and-a-half centuries of early Qing. In 1783, the new walled city was completed southwest of the old city. In 1908, Fushun became the seat of Xingren County (, later renamed to Fushun County). Fushun was occupied by Russia until 1905 and by Japan until 1945. With the Japanese victory over Imperial Russia and signing of the Treaty of Portsmouth, the South Manchuria branch (from Changchun to Lüshun) of the China Far East Railway was transferred to Japanese control. South Manchuria Railway Company quickly expanded the system inherited from Russia to staggering proportions. Coal mines were developed at Fushun. Under the control of the Japanese and with 30 years of development, Fushun area became highly industrialized. Fushun gained city status in 1937.

Population
As of the 2020 census, Fushun has a total population of 1,854,372 people, whom 8,192,848 lived in the built-up (or metro) area encompassing 8 out of 10 Shenyang urban districts (all but Shenbei Xin and Liaozhong not being conurbated yet) and the 4 Fushun urban districts. This makes Shenyang-Fushun the 8th most populous built up area in China after the Pearl River Delta conurbation of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Dongguan, Foshan, Jiangmen, Zhongshan and Huizhou, then Shanghai-Suzhou, Beijing, Tianjin, Hangzhou-Shaoxing, Wuhan and Nanjing.

Administrative divisions
Fushun consists of 4 districts, 1 county and 2 autonomous counties.

Climate
Fushun belong to Temperate monsoon climate

Economy

Fushun is a highly industrialized area and nicknamed "the City of Coal". It has developed as a thriving center for fuel, power and raw materials and is also offering more and more opportunities in textiles and electronics. One of the world's largest open-pit coal mines, the West Open Mine, is located south of the city. Exploited from the 12th century, it was operated as an open pit mine during the 20th and early 21st centuries; however, as of 2015, the West Open pit, 1,000 feet deep, with an area of 4.2 square miles, was exhausted and unstable. Total coal production in Fushun as a whole had fallen below 3 million tons, down from 18.3 million tons in 1962. Fushun has a major aluminum-reduction plant and factories producing automobiles, machinery, chemicals, cement, and rubber.

The total GDP of the city of Fushun was 54.27 billion yuan in 2009 (ranked 4th out of the 58 cities and counties in Liaoning province). The GDP per capita of the city of Fushun was 40391 yuan in 2009 (ranked 21st out of all 58 cities and counties in Liaoning province).

Resources
Fushun is rich in wood, coal, oil shale, iron, copper, magnesium, gold, marble, titanium, and marl resources.

Fushun is known as "the capital of coal". The main coal and oil shale company is Fushun Mining Group, which produced about 6 million tons of coal in 2001, mainly blending coking coal and steam coal. The company also has coalbed methane resources of around 8.9 billion cubic meters. In addition, it owns geological reserves of high grade oil shale, about 3.5 billion tons, of which the exploitable reserve is 920 million tons.

Industrial development
Hydroelectric and thermal power are important locally available energy sources.

Fushun has developed through the utilization of the abundant natural mineral deposits found in the area and is a nationally important heavy industrial base for petroleum, chemical, metallurgy machinery and construction material industries. New sectors also becoming prominent are electronics, light industry, weaving and spinning.

In 1928, the commercial-scale production of shale oil began in Fushun with the construction of Fushun Coal Mine Temporary Oil Plant of South Manchurian Railway, aka the Western Refinery, operating Fushun-type retorts. After World War II, shale oil production ceased, but 100 Fushun-type oil shale retorts and the related shale oil processing units were restored in 1949. In 1950, a total of 266 retorts were in operation, each with a capacity of 100-200 t of shale oil per day. In 1954, "Refinery No. 2" began production and in 1959 maximum annual shale oil production increased to 780,000 t.

From 1965 oil shale usage in Fushun started to decline with the discovery of Da Qing oil field in the 1960s. Sinopec, a shale oil producer during those times, shut down its oil shale operations in the beginning of the 1990s. At the same time, the Fushun Oil Shale Retorting Plant was established as a part of the Fushun Mining Group. It started production in 1992. In the same year, the China National Oil Shale Association was established in Fushun.

At the end of 2006, the Fushun Mining Group operated the largest shale oil plant in the world, consisting of seven retorting units with 20 retorts in each unit, for a total 140 sets of Fushun type retorts.

There are also two oil refineries. Fushun Petrochemical Company, a subsidiary of PetroChina, is building a refining and petrochemical complex in Fushun.

Transportation
Fushun is located 40 km from Shenyang Taoxian airport. Railways and highways connect the city to Shenyang and Jilin Province. The seaports of Dalian and Yingkou are also nearby, 400 and 200 km away respectively, with good highway connections.

Education
The highest-ranked institution of higher education is the Liaoning University of Petroleum and Chemical Technology, ranked 123rd in China overall. Fushun No.1 High School and Fushun No.2 High School are major high schools in Fushun.

The 44 middle school is located in the second street, Xin Fu District. Location is close to Fushun's CBD. Transport is very convenient. All students come from this community. Because of the population's decline in current years there are not many students compared to 10 years ago. There were over 1000 students in the 1990S, while now around 200 students. Although the number of students has dropped, the quality of education, the advanced learning facilities and modern school are still evident. There are indoors gymnasium, big dance and musical instrument rooms. The play yard is all about synthetic surface track. The 44 middle school is actually changed in term of their learning and teaching's facilities, equipment and school's building. It represents new outlooks regarding middle-level education in a third-line city in China.

Tourism
Fushun has high mountains and thick woods. Houshi National Forest Park, about 55 km from downtown Fushun, is rated by the central government as an AAAA tourist attraction. Saer Hu Scenic Area covers some 268 km2. It includes the 110 km2 Dahuofang Reservoir, the largest man-made lake in northeast China.

There are a number of historic and cultural sites. Fushun's success in applying for two UNESCO World Heritage sites is expected to attract more tourists. They include a site known as Xingjing City, the origin of the Qing Dynasty, which is within today's Fushun. It was the first capital of the Late Jin dynasty, dating to 1616. The second site contains the Yongling tombs, where several members of the royal household are buried.

In more recent times, Fushun was where Lei Feng was stationed as a soldier and died, and a memorial museum telling his life story is a popular attraction. It is located at Wang Hua District in Fushun. It was also in Fushun that the last emperor, Puyi, was imprisoned after the end of World War II. The Fushun War Criminal Prison is converted into a museum in 1986. Another war memorial, the Pingdingshan Tragedy Memorial Hall Ruins, tells the story of a massacre of Chinese people by the Japanese in 1931. It was rebuilt and expanded in 2007. It includes a pit filled with about 800 bodies—largely infants, adults, and the elderly who were killed by the Japanese.

The Ring of Life monument opened in 2013 and features an observation deck overseeing the city. This circular tower, 515-foot (approximately 157 meters) tall, cost over $15 million to build. It is covered with 12,000 LED lights.

Sports
The city used to be home of the Chinese Super League (soccer) team of Liaoning FC at Leifeng Stadium. However, when the team could not afford the rent at Leifeng Stadium it moved to Beijing, where it now plays out of Chaolai Soccer Base.

Notable figures

 * Nurhachi, the first Manchu ruler, was born in today's Xinbin Manchu Autonomous County.
 * Lei Feng, who was a soldier enshrined in new China history after 1949, died in this city. There is a memorial park named after him in Fushun's Wanghua District.
 * Yoshiko Yamaguchi was a famous Fushun-born ethnic Japanese singer and movie star in China during the 1930s and 1940s.
 * Wang Nan, famous table-tennis sportswoman, who has won many gold medals around the world.
 * Puyi, the last Emperor of China, spent ten years in the Fushun War Criminal Prison.
 * Liu Ce, sanda fighter and professional kickboxer, K-1 Cruiserweight champion and K-1 30th Anniversary Openweight Grand Prix Winner.

Other notable people

 * Journalist Dong Yuyu, arrested by Chinese authorities in 2022 on charges of espionage, was born in Fushun in 1962.

International

 * 🇵🇭 Lipa City, Batangas, Philippines

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Gina Bellman

Gina Bellman (born 10 July 1966) is a New Zealand-born British actress best known for her performances as grifter Sophie Devereaux on the 2008 to 2012 TNT television series Leverage and in the revival Leverage: Redemption when the series moved to Amazon Freevee in 2021 and Jane Christie on the 2000 to 2004 BBC comedy show Coupling.

Early life
Bellman was born in Auckland, New Zealand, to Jewish parents of Russian and Polish descent who emigrated to New Zealand from England in the 1950s. Her family returned to the United Kingdom when she was 11 years old. She was educated at Rosh Pinah Primary School and JFS in London.

Career
After making her television acting debut in an episode of Into the Labyrinth in 1982, and a two-episode stint in Grange Hill in 1984, she became a household name for her performance in the title role in Dennis Potter's drama Blackeyes. She is also well known for playing Jane in the sitcom Coupling. Her other TV roles include Waking the Dead, Jonathan Creek, Little Napoleons, and one-off appearances in Only Fools and Horses and Hotel Babylon.

She has also appeared in several feature films including King David (1985), which starred Richard Gere and Edward Woodward, Secret Friends (1991), Leon the Pig Farmer (1992), and Silent Trigger (1996) opposite Dolph Lundgren.

She co-starred alongside James Nesbitt in the 2007 BBC One drama serial Jekyll, a modern-day sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, written by Coupling author Steven Moffat.

In 2008, she began appearing on the TNT channel's serial drama Leverage, starring Timothy Hutton, for which she was nominated for a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actress in Television, but lost to Lucy Lawless.

In 2013, Bellman narrated poetry for The Love Book App, an interactive anthology of love literature developed by Allie Byrne Esiri. In late 2013, she played the role of "The Italian Woman" in the National Theatre's production of the Georg Kaiser play From Morning to Midnight.

Since 2021, Bellman has reprised the role of Sophie Deveraux in Leverage: Redemption, a revival of Leverage.

Personal life
From 2005 to 2007, Bellman was married to Lucho Brieva.

In 2009, she had a daughter with Zaab Sethna, whom she met just after shooting the Leverage pilot. She and Sethna married in 2013.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Spanos

 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 KEEP. dbenbenn | talk 20:15, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Spanos
Besides being an inappropriate title and a non-notable subject, the author doesn't even know where this guy teaches? RickK 07:17, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable - zero Google hits for "William V Spanos" and "William Spanos", possible vanity. Megan1967 08:28, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd say redirect to Alex Spanos (billionaire owner of the San Diego Chargers), but it appears we don't have an article on him. Any other famous Spanoses? Meelar (talk) 08:41, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Tentative keep. About 350 Google hits for "William V. Spanos", looks like a senior scholar: 50 years in academia, published author of six books, edited other five, over hundred published papers etc. I moved the article under correct title and polished it a little bit. I'm still researching this, so I might change this vote later. jni 10:28, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. No evidence of notability. JoaoRicardo 10:56, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Notability has been established. JoaoRicardo 06:13, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep (William V. Spanos, since Spanos is now a redirect). Not sure if he passes the professor test, but when in doubt, we should keep an article. Thanks, jni. --Deathphoenix 14:38, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * When in doubt, we should delete an article. It's up to the article to establish its notability, not for us to have to dig around for information to make sure the article is worth keeping.  RickK 23:43, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * No, I'm pretty sure the deletion policy is when in doubt, keep. But then, mine's only one vote. It's up to the others to also place their votes. Mine stands for this one. --Deathphoenix 06:10, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. I believe the "when in doubt, keep" rule applies to administrators closing VfD votes. I don't remember seeing such policy as regarding voters. JoaoRicardo 06:13, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Concur with Rick - I would say that if notability cannot established, the subject is not notable. Therefore, delete. Radiant! 12:33, Feb 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep (under William V. Spanos). I've read some of Spanos's publications, and remembered his name afterward. I consider his work, as a body, prolific and high-quality enough to justify inclusion.  Passes the professor test in my opinion.  The current article is, obviously, still a stub. -- Rbellin|Talk 05:31, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Reasons William V. Spanos is more notable than just any old professor: 1. Major interpreter of Heidegger in the field of literary criticism (possibly the most important one currently writing). 2. Founder of boundary 2, an important journal in literary studies. 3. Extensive publication record including at least four books.  -- Rbellin|Talk 22:03, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * boundary 2 founder? Definite keep. -- Jmabel | Talk 03:09, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep William V. Spanos article Professor at the Binghamton University at New York, published author founded boundary 2 postmodern journal in 1972. Capitalistroadster 09:46, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep I've been asked to comment about this, and while I would say that I'm not familiar with any of his work from my own dealings with the Heidegger, Arendt etc. discourse (it is certainly too generous to call him the most important Heidegger scholar in the field of literary criticism), he's certainly more important than your average college professor (just 12 hits on Google Scholar, but I get many more on the German Google itself, some 1000+, and including some very good ones), and the presses and substance matter of his pieces are solid enough. Of course, the article is a stub and is missing especially the key material contributions and merits of Spanos, but this is not a "vanity piece" (and if it were, I wouldn't care either; I think vanity is fine for those who have at least a bit of a reason to be vain, and the label of "vanity piece" in Wikipedia certainly does not bear as much as looking at it, let alone thinking about it - according to that, if Albee or Habermas or Rumsfeld would write their own basic entries, they'd have to be deleted). Clossius 07:05, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.

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Tape from California

Tape from California is Phil Ochs' fifth album, released in mid-1968 on A&M Records. It continues Ochs' musical shift away from straight-ahead protest songwriting toward more orchestral and baroque arrangements.

Track listing
All songs by Phil Ochs.

Side One
 * 1) "Tape From California" – 6:45
 * 2) "White Boots Marching in a Yellow Land" – 3:35
 * 3) "Half A Century High" – 2:53
 * 4) "Joe Hill" – 7:18
 * 5) "The War Is Over" – 4:25

Side Two
 * 1) "The Harder They Fall" – 3:52
 * 2) "When In Rome" – 13:13
 * 3) "Floods of Florence" – 4:52

Personnel

 * Phil Ochs - guitar, vocals
 * Larry Marks - producer
 * Joe Osborn - bass guitar on "Tape From California"
 * Lincoln Mayorga - piano, keyboards
 * Van Dyke Parks - piano, keyboards on "Tape From California"
 * Ramblin' Jack Elliott - flat-picked guitar on "Joe Hill"
 * Ian Freebairn-Smith - arrangements

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Talon News

Talon News is an American website, established in April 2003, which became newsworthy in January 2005 because alleged irregularities in the background of its chief correspondent, known as Jeff Gannon, came to light. Gannon, born James Dale Guckert, resigned from Talon on February 8, 2005. The Talon News website was shut down on February 23, 2005, but was later revived as a parody.

Organization
A virtual organization with no physical office space or newsroom, Talon News was owned by a conservative activist group called GOPUSA. Robert Eberle, the president and CEO of GOPUSA, held both titles for Talon News as well.

According to Media Matters, "Talon News apparently consists of little more than (Robert) Eberle, (Jeff) Gannon, and a few volunteers, and is virtually indistinguishable from GOPUSA.com.

Initially, Talon News made its articles available on their website, but in September 2004, moved them to GOPUSA.com and simply re-directed visitors asking for the full news articles there with the statement "This story can be found on our #1 client — GOPUSA!". In January 2005, during the controversy, Talon News removed information from its biography section regarding some of its employees, including the reporter at the center of the controversy, Jeff Gannon.

The Talon News site went entirely off line on February 23, 2005, to "re-evaluate operations." Since May 2007, the Talon News site has been a parody, and its pages link to The Firesign Theatre's site.

Controversy
Media Matters raised the question of Talon News' legitimacy with respect to Gannon's loaded questions at White House press conferences, such as asking then President George W. Bush how he would work with Democrats who had "divorced themselves from reality." Washington Post columnist Dan Froomkin noted in his February 19, 2004, column that "Within the press corps, Gannon is known for asking softball questions." Media Matters also discovered that the Talon News operation seemed as more of an arm of the PAC GOPUSA than a legitimate journalistic enterprise. Both groups were run out of the same address (Eberle's home), Talon News items were culled from the GOPUSA website, and Talon News "journalists" lacked significant journalistic experience but had a lengthy history in conservative activism.

The Standing Committee of Correspondents rejected Gannon's application for a Capitol Hill press pass because of Talon News' lack of independence from a political organization. Committee chairman Jim Drinkard wrote in his letter:

 * The application for accreditation to the press galleries states that "members of the press shall not engage in lobbying or paid advertising, publicity, promotion, work for any individual, political party, corporation, organization, or agency of the Federal Government." Talon News has not demonstrated to the satisfaction of the committee that there is a separation from GOPUSA/Millions of Americans.com.

Jeff Gannon/James Guckert
Gannon submitted his resignation from Talon News effective February 8, 2005. On February 10, Gannon said in a CNN interview that Talon News is a legitimate conservative online news service. He also stated; "Talon News is a separate, independent news division. I work for Talon News. I write articles for Talon News." On February 20, 2005, The New York Times quoted Eberle, who said he had no inkling that Gannon may have created pornographic web sites or offered himself as a gay escort. If he had known, Eberle said, "I don't think I would have brought him on."

In 2007, Gannon published a book titled "The Great Media War", in which he attacks his critics and criticizes liberal media bias. He maintained a blog through 2007.

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Talk:List of Maltese people

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Under Maltese Law first generation offspring of Maltese born individuals are automatically Maltese citizens. Those individuals listed are either of Maltese birth or Maltese citizens. All have at some point through the media verbalised that they are Maltese or part of the Maltese diaspora.

Therefore recent deletion made by Rasmus Faber is completely unfounded.

 * The first line of the article is "Famous or notable people from Malta include:". In my opinion, that do not include children of Maltese born persons, with no other connections to Malta. But if you change the sentence to "Famous or notable people with Maltese citizenship include:", I would have no problem with you adding such persons. It would however be nice, if, in the future, when challenged to give sources: ie.
 * 23:34, 21 Jan 2005 66.56.2.53 (imdb.com data shows no indication that jason bateman or justine bateman were born or ever lived in malta)
 * that you do so, instead of just reinserting. But thanks for answering and thanks for contributing! Rasmus (talk) 15:48, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * This is incorrect. Justine/Jason Bateman's mother is Maltese. Refer to the discussion page for Jason Bateman where corroborating links are provided. Kalindoscopy (talk) 16:52, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

Kelly Ryan
Is this spam? Maltesedog 20:10, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Not spam, but probably vanity. I have removed it until someone can provide evidence of notability. Rasmus (talk) 21:37, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

Other persons
Some notable prsons have been left out....i could not find sydon, for instance, the the list.....olso, there are many religious persons & poets, such as adrian grima who are not included —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.203.51.45 (talk) 22:17, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

HELA proposes to work on Maltese writers
HELA (Hub for Excellence in Literary Arts) is Malta-based a non-profit organisation that has been organising monthly meet-ups with Wikimedia Community Malta in 2019. The follow list of Maltese writers was selected by them as a point of reference for pages to create or edit:

 * Albert Gatt
 * Elio Lombardi
 * Mark Camilleri
 * John A. Bonello
 * Loranne Vella
 * Claudia Gauci
 * Anton Grasso
 * Pino Scicluna
 * Elizabeth Grech
 * Karl Schembri
 * Daniel Massa
 * Philip Sciberras
 * Maria Grech Ganado
 * Nadia Mifsud
 * Raymond Mahoney
 * Rita Saliba
 * John P. Portelli
 * Charles Briffa
 * Carmel G. Cauchi
 * Glen Calleja
 * Caldon Mercieca
 * Loranne Vella
 * Rena Balzan

Some of the red links above need to be proven notable through verifiable sources for inclusion in the English-language Wikipedia but it may be easier to establish notability for them on the Maltese-language Wikipedia. Perhaps this initiative is better placed as part of WikiProject Malta. Thought and suggestions are most welcome, of course! --ToniSant (talk) 13:42, 26 October 2019 (UTC)

Raymond Fenech Gonzi
I have removed Raymond Fenech Gonzi for the time being - it would be best if an article is created first and his notability established before his name is added to this list. --Nevborg (talk) 18:02, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

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Percy Adlon

Paul Rudolf Parsifal "Percy" Adlon (1 June 1935 – 10 March 2024) was a German director, screenwriter, and producer. He is associated with the New German Cinema movement (ca. 1965–1985), and is known for his strong female characters and positive portrayals of lesbian relationships. He is best known for his 1987 film Bagdad Cafe, starring Marianne Sägebrecht, CCH Pounder and Jack Palance and subsequent films such as Rosalie Goes Shopping (1989), Salmonberries (1991) and Younger and Younger (1993). Adlon's films were shown in competition regularly at international film festivals, such as the Cannes Film Festival, the Berlin International Film Festival, and others.

Early life
Adlon was born on June 1, 1935 in Munich, Germany. He grew up in Ammerland, Starnberger See. He studied art, theater history, and German literature at Munich's Ludwig-Maximilian University; took acting and singing classes; and was a member of a student theater group.

Career
Adlon started his professional career as an actor, became interested in radio work, was a narrator and editor of literature series and a presenter and voice-over actor in television for 10 years. In 1970, Adlon made his first short film for Bavarian television, followed by more than 150 documentary films about art and the human condition. His first was a one-hour portrait of French artist and writer Tomi Ungerer, entitled Tomi Ungerer's Landleben. Adlon became fascinated by Ungerer after meeting at an exhibition in Munich and spending time at his home in Nova Scotia, so decided to make him the subject of his first film.

Adlon's first feature film Céleste (1980) was about the relationship between the French writer Marcel Proust and his cook Céleste Albaret during the last years of Proust's life.

In 1987 he directed Bagdad Cafe, starring Marianne Sägebrecht as a German tourist, CCH Pounder as a motel and truck stop cafe owner in the Mojave Desert, and Jack Palance. Critically acclaimed, Roger Ebert awarded the film 3½ out of 4 stars in his review, stating that "[Percy Adlon] is saying something in this movie about Europe and America, about the old and the new, about the edge of the desert as the edge of the American Dream" and that the charm of Bagdad Cafe is that "every character and every moment is unanticipated, obscurely motivated, of uncertain meaning and vibrating with life". The Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa cited Bagdad Cafe as one of his 100 favorite films.

In 1989, Adlon directed Rosalie Goes Shopping, starring Sägebrecht, Brad Davis, and Judge Reinhold, which was screened at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival. The film met mixed critical reviews, with Deseret News describing it as "dark satire masquerading as bright comedy" and a comment on American consumerism, while Rita Kempley of The Washington Post considered it to be "deficit of dramatic tension" and thought that Adlon's message was "scatterbrained".

In 1991, Adlon directed Salmonberries, a picture starring k.d. lang as Kotzebue, an orphaned Eskimo and young woman of androgynous appearance who has a lesbian relationship with an East German widowed librarian. The film was generally well-received, with Kevin Thomas of the L.A. Times describing it as "endearing, remarkably assured and stunning-looking" and noted that Adlon with sensitivity "raises crucial questions of cultural and sexual identity", though Janet Maslin of The New York Times called it a "halting, awkward effort" with "stilted direction" and "sharp camera angles, arty editing".

In 1993, Adlon directed the film Younger and Younger, starring Donald Sutherland, Brendan Fraser and Lolita Davidovich. The film won Adlon the Silver Raven Award at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival. Leonard Klady of Variety considered it to be an "unusual human comedy", a family yarn which "spins out from its simple premise into fantasy, music, black comedy and innumerable offbeat digressions." Klady further noted that the film illustrated "Adlon's unique method of tackling everyday life", which has "ironically been the greatest strength and most problematic aspect to his commercial appeal".

In 1997, Adlon co-produced Eat Your Heart Out, a romantic comedy film filmed in Venice Beach, California, which was directed by his son, Felix Adlon.

Adlon co-directed his final picture, Mahler on the Couch (2010) with his son Felix, a period film about an affair between Alma Mahler and Walter Gropius, and the subsequent psychoanalysis of Mahler's husband Gustav Mahler by Sigmund Freud. In a review for The Hollywood Reporter, Kirk Honeycutt wrote that the film "manages to pose a serious, intimate study in obsessive jealousy while, like a gaga celebrity hunter, bumping into just about everybody who's anybody in Viennese society circa 1910... The film's great gift, though, is Romaner... She fully inhabits the role of this complex personality whose passion for love and art collides with her role of wife and mother."

Personal life
Percy Adlon was the great-grandson of Lorenz Adlon, the founder of the Hotel Adlon. He was the grandson of Louis Adlon Sr., and the son of opera tenor Rudolf Laubenthal. His son, Felix, also a film director, is the former husband of American actress Pamela Adlon and the father of her three daughters, including actresses Odessa and Gideon Adlon.

Percy and Eleonore Adlon lived in Pacific Palisades, California. Percy Adlon died there on 10 March 2024, at the age of 88.

Thomas Meyerhöfer is a half-brother of Percy, 15 years younger and son of Emil Meyerhöfer.

Filmography

 * Von Nimbus der Ferne (The Aura in the Distance) (1974, documentary) director, writer
 * Der Vormund und sein Dichter (The Guardian and the Poet) (1978, TV film) director, writer, producer (Adolf Grimme Award in Gold)
 * Herr Kischott (1980, TV film) director
 * Céleste  (1980) director, writer (Special Jury Award IFF Chicago)
 * Fünf letzte Tage (Five Last Days) (1982) director (German Federal Film Award, Bavarian Film Award, OCIC-Prize, IFF Venice, 1982 )
 * The Swing (1983 film) (1983) director, writer
 * Sugarbaby a.k.a. Zuckerbaby (1985) director, writer (Ernst-Lubitsch-Award for Marianne Sägebrecht)
 * Herschel und die Musik der Sterne (1986, TV film) director, writer
 * Out of Rosenheim a.k.a. Bagdad Cafe (US) (1987) director, writer, producer (Grand Prix IFF Rio de Janeiro, César, Best Foreign Film (French Film Award), Ernst Lubitsch Award (director), Swedish and Danish Film Academies, Bavarian Film Award (original screenplay), Prix Humanum, Belgium.)
 * Babycakes (1989, TV film), American remake of Zuckerbaby aka Sugarbaby, co-writer
 * Rosalie Goes Shopping (1989) director, writer, producer (official German Entry, 1989 Cannes Film Festival. Best Film - Section "Cinema & Denaro", IFF EuropaCinema & TV, Viareggio.)
 * Red Hot + Blue: A Tribute to Cole Porter (1990, TV film) director
 * Salmonberries (1991) director, writer a.k.a. Percy Adlon's Salmonberries (Germany: poster title) (Grand Prix des Ameriques, Montreal. Bavarian Film Awards for director P.A. and for Rosel Zech, Best Actress.)
 * Younger and Younger (1993) director, writer, producer (Silver Raven, Brussels. Best Actress IFF Tokyo Lolita Davidovich)
 * In der glanzvollen Welt des Hotel Adlon (1996, TV film) director, a.k.a. The Glamorous World of the Adlon Hotel (Bavarian Television Award)
 * Eat Your Heart Out (1997) producer
 * Die Straußkiste (1999) director, writer, cinematographer, a.k.a. Forever Flirt (International: English title)
 * Hawaiian Gardens (2001) director, writer
 * Koenig's Sphere: The German Sculptor Fritz Koenig at Ground Zero (2001) director, a.k.a. Koenigs Kugel (German title)
 * Bagdad Cafe - The Musical (2003–2006) director
 * Orbela's People (2007)
 * Mahler auf der Couch (2010)

Other work

 * L'elisir d'amore (2003) opera by Gaetano Donizetti, directed by Adlon for the Berlin State Opera.
 * Wolkenstein (2004) A new opera by Wilfried Hiller and Felix Mitterer, directed by Adlon. Premiere at the Staatsoper Nürnberg.

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Riverbend (blogger)

Riverbend is the pseudonymous author of the blog "Baghdad Burning", launched on August 17, 2003. Riverbend's existence and identity remain a mystery, but the weblog entries suggest that she is a young Iraqi woman from a mixed Shia and Sunni family, living with her parents and brother in Baghdad. Before the United States occupation of Iraq she was a computer programmer.

She writes in an idiomatic English with, as James Ridgeway notes in the introduction to the Feminist Press edition of her work, "a slight American inflection". This has led to some controversy over her identity, as some claim she is an American who used a pseudonym to express their thoughts on U.S. involvement in Iraq. These concerns increased when a blogger did try to imitate the young blogger by creating a blog and using the name riverSbend to confuse those who followed the original blog. Riverbend talked about this blogger and corrected the narrative in her blog post on Wednesday, October 29, 2003.

Riverbend's blog combines political statements with a large dose of Iraqi cultural information, such as the celebration of Ramadhan and examples of Iraqi cuisine. In March 2006, her website received the Bloggie award for Best Middle East and Africa blog.

On April 26, 2007, Riverbend announced that she and her family would be leaving Iraq, owing to the lack of security in Baghdad and the ongoing violence there. On September 6, 2007, she reported that she had arrived safely in Syria.

Her last "regular" entry was on October 22, 2007, after a gruelling exit from and return to Syria to have her passport stamped as a "temporary visitor".

On April 9, 2013, she updated her blog with a post "Ten Years On", in which she said she had moved on from Syria "before the heavy fighting, before it got ugly" and considered herself fortunate. She was a year in another country and moved again to a third Arab country "with the hope that, this time, it'll stick until... Until when? Even the pessimists aren't sure anymore. When will things improve? When will be able to live normally? How long will it take?" She shared reflections on what Iraqis had learned in the ten years since the Fall of Baghdad. There have been no further entries at her blog.

Publishing
Riverbend's weblog entries were first collected and published as Baghdad Burning, ISBN 978-1-55861-489-5 (with a foreword by the investigative journalist James Ridgeway), and Baghdad Burning II, ISBN 978-1-55861-529-8, (also with an introduction by James Ridgeway and Jean Casella). They have since been translated and published in numerous countries and languages. In 2005, Baghdad Burning won third place for the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage and in 2006 it was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize.

Baghdad Burning has also been made into several dramatic plays, mostly produced in New York City. BBC Radio 4 broadcast a five-episode dramatization of her blog, "Baghdad Burning", on the Woman's Hour serial, on each day from 18 to 22 December 2006.

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Cavendish Astrophysics Group

The Cavendish Astrophysics Group (formerly the Radio Astronomy Group) is based at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. The group operates all of the telescopes at the Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory except for the 32m MERLIN telescope, which is operated by Jodrell Bank.

The group is the second largest of three astronomy departments in the University of Cambridge.

Instruments under development by the group

 * The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) - several modules of this international project
 * The Magdalena Ridge Observatory Interferometer (MRO Interferometer)
 * The SKA
 * The Radio Experiment for the Analysis of Cosmic Hydrogen (REACH)

Instruments in service

 * The Arcminute Microkelvin Imager (AMI)
 * A Heterodyne Array Receiver for B-band (HARP-B) at the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope
 * The Planck Surveyor

Previous instruments

 * The CLOVER telescope
 * The Very Small Array
 * The 5 km Ryle Telescope
 * The Cambridge Optical Aperture Synthesis Telescope (COAST)
 * The Cosmic Anisotropy Telescope
 * The Cambridge Low Frequency Synthesis Telescope
 * The Half-Mile Telescope
 * The One-Mile Telescope
 * The Interplanetary Scintillation Array which discovered the first pulsar
 * The 4C Array which made the 4C catalogue
 * The Cambridge Interferometer
 * The Long Michelson Interferometer
 * Various aperture masking instruments for optical aperture synthesis

Catalogues published by the group

 * Preliminary survey of the radio stars in the Northern Hemisphere (sometimes called the 1C catalogue) at 81.5-MHz (unreliable at low flux levels)
 * 2C catalogue 81.5-MHz (unreliable at low flux levels)
 * 3C catalogue 159 MHz
 * 4C catalogue 178 MHz
 * 5C catalogue 408 MHz and 1407 MHz
 * 6C catalogue 151 MHz
 * 7C catalogue 151 MHz
 * 8C catalogue 38 MHz
 * 9C catalogue 15 GHz
 * 10C catalogue 14–18 GHz
 * Cambridge Interplanetary Scintillation survey

Famous Group Members

 * Sir Martin Ryle, 1918–1984, Nobel Prize for Physics, founder of the group, former British Astronomer Royal
 * Tony Hewish, Nobel Prize for Physics, designed the telescope which discovered the first pulsars
 * Malcolm Longair Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy, former head of the Cavendish Laboratory
 * Jocelyn Bell Burnell, detected the first signal from a pulsar
 * John E. Baldwin
 * Richard Edwin Hills
 * F. Graham Smith - early co-worker with Ryle, later Astronomer Royal
 * David Saint-Jacques Canadian astronaut

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Fraser Valley Regional District

The Fraser Valley Regional District (FVRD) is a regional district in British Columbia, Canada. Its headquarters are in the city of Chilliwack. The FVRD covers an area of 13,361.74 km2 (5,159 sq mi). It was created in 1995 by an amalgamation of the Fraser-Cheam Regional District and Central Fraser Valley Regional District and the portion of the Dewdney-Alouette Regional District from and including the District of Mission eastwards.

The FVRD is the third most populous Regional District in British Columbia, incorporating roughly the eastern half of the Lower Mainland of southwestern BC, and is bordered by Whatcom County, Washington to the south, Metro Vancouver to the west, the Okanagan-Similkameen Regional District to the east, the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District to the northwest, and the Thompson-Nicola Regional District to the northeast.

It also includes unincorporated areas north of the City of Pitt Meadows, which were part of the Dewdney-Alouette Regional District but which were not transferred to the Metro Vancouver Regional District (MVRD) when it expanded to include Pitt Meadows and Maple Ridge.

Demographics
As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the Fraser Valley Regional District had a population of $324,005$ living in $118,217$ of its $124,988$ total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of $295,934$. With a land area of 13319.34 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Ethnicity

 * Note: Totals greater than 100% due to multiple origin responses.

Language
According to the 2011 Census, 76.47% of Fraser Valley's population have English as mother tongue; Punjabi is the mother tongue of 10.02% of the population, followed by German (3.49%), Dutch (1.39%), French (1.07%), Korean (0.69%), Spanish (0.66%), Tagalog (0.35%), Chinese, n.o.s. (0.33%), and Vietnamese (0.30%).

Services
While the member municipalities provide for their own municipal services, the FVRD acts as the local government for the electoral areas. As a local government or regional district, it can provide services such as water piping, storm sewers, sanitary sewers, street lighting, waste management, fire protection, mosquito control, enhanced 911 service, emergency preparedness/recovery, cablevision, air quality monitoring, library funding, growth management, park maintenance, building inspections and bylaw enforcement, planning, and development approvals. Each area does not necessarily receive all these services so each electoral area pays property taxes, through the provincial government, in accordance with the particular services they receive. The FVRD has opted to implement a regional growth strategy, as allowed by Section 25 of the BC Local Government Act.

Political structure
The regional district is a federation of municipalities and electoral areas. Each municipality appoints councillors to the board of directors for the regional district in proportion to their relative population sizes and the electoral areas directly elect one director each.

Economy
Economically, the area has grown around resource extraction, specifically farming, logging and gravel mining. Much of the Fraser Valley's land base is within the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR). The balance, not privately owned is in Crown Lands. Retirement and recreational services (like campgrounds, RV parks, boating, skiing etc.) have become increasingly important. However, most commercial and industrial activities are kept within the municipal boundaries and leaving the electoral areas for farming and rural residential uses.

Electoral area, geography, and climate
The areas in a regional district that are not incorporated are called ‘electoral areas’.

Electoral area "A"
Boston Bar and North Bend, with populations nearing 200 people each, are the two main small towns in this area. Other residents of this area live in small subdivisions (i.e. Canyon Alpine and Falls Creek) or Indian reserves which line the Fraser Canyon.

Electoral area "B"
Communities in this area are connected by three highways (Highway #1, #3, #5) which radiate out of the District of Hope. The communities of Dogwood Valley, Emory Creek, and Choate are just north of Hope and have a combined population of about 133 people. Sunshine Valley is a community on BC Highway 3 southeast of Hope with 164 people and was originally a Japanese internment camp named Tashme. Other communities in this area include Laidlaw, west of Hope, and Spuzzum, north of Yale.

Electoral area "C"
Communities in this area include Lake Errock with 368 people, Harrison Mills with 141 people, and the resort town of Hemlock Valley, with only 15 permanent residents (but several hundred hotel guests and condo residents during the ski season). There are vacation homes on islands in Harrison Lake.

Electoral area "D"
The population of this area lives in the unincorporated villages of Popkum and Bridal Falls. Combined they have a population of 972 people.

Electoral area "E"
The Chilliwack River runs east-west through this area. Most of the population live in the small area between the mountains and the river, which is generally divided into three areas: Slesse Park, Baker Trails and Bell Acres.

Other residents of this area live on the north end of Cultus Lake, or in the Columbia Valley, south of Cultus Lake, bordering Washington state.

Electoral area "F"
Area F lies between the boundaries of the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District to the north and west, the Metro Vancouver Regional District to the west, Electoral Area G and the cities of Mission and Maple Ridge to the South, and Electoral Area C to the east. The Area F population of approximately 1,300 people lives exclusively in the southern, lowland portion of Area F, specifically that between Hatzic Lake and the southeast end of Stave Lake, as everything in this electoral area north of Stave Lake is inaccessible or uninhabitable. This inhabited lowland area is also known as Hatzic Valley, and includes the unincorporated localities of McConnell Creek and Miracle Valley in the north, and Hatzic Prairie and the farming town of Durieu in the south.

Electoral Area "G"
This small but populous (~1,800 pop.) Electoral Area lies mainly north of the Fraser River but also encompasses portions of Sumas Mountain to the south (formerly Electoral Area "H".) Area "G" borders the District of Mission to the west, Electoral Areas "F" and "C" to the North and East and the city of Abbotsford, British Columbia to the south. It includes the communities of Hatzic Island, Dewdney, Nicomen Island, and Deroche. FVRD local services provided to Area "G" include the Dewdney and Deroche Community Water Systems, North Fraser Fire Protection, North Side Street Lighting and North Side Garbage.

Farming (dairy, nursery and blue berries) and resource extraction (forestry and aggregate) along with recreation are the primary activities. Approximately one-quarter of the residents live on Hatzic Island with much of the Electoral Area's remaining population residing in more rural locations and on Leq’a:mel First Nation Reserve lands.

The Sasquatch Lions Club (member club of Lions Clubs International) is the predominant service organization found in Area "G" and the Deroche and District Community Association has been active since 1908.

Electoral Area "H"
This new Electoral Area H was re-established in 2014 to include Cultus Lake and Columbia Valley. Previously, Electoral Area H was dissolved in 2008, with privately owned lands within the area being annexed into Abbotsford, and crown lands being reassigned to Electoral Area "G". The previous area consisted of the majority of Sumas Mountain.

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This article was listed on Votes for deletion in accordance with the deletion policy on 2005 February 11 (UTC). The result of this nomination was keep. Please see this page's entry for archive of the debate. -- AllyUnion (talk) 07:24, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I wish people would stop pretending there is no nu metal in this band. "Beauty And The Breakdown" was referred to as "scorched earth nu metal" by one reliable critic, and I cited a reference once before but some idiot keeps deleting it and nu metal altogether.

there is no way that BYD, or Beauty and the Breakdown is ne metal, BYD is straight up hardcore. they may deviate from that a little but they are not nu metal, no ifs ands or buts about it.

>> BYD are /hardly/ what you'd call a 'straight up hardcore' band. :p Having said that i believe the Beauty LP is more a parody of over-done production techniques in general; Far from Nu Metal, if that genre is even worth mentioning in any current context. It certainly doesn't serve to completely change this band's genre.

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Traci Bingham

Traci A. Bingham (born January 13, 1968) is an American actress, model, and television personality. Beginning her professional career in the early 1990s, Bingham is best known for her role as Jordan Tate on the NBC action drama television series Baywatch (1996–1998).

Early life and education
Bingham was born Julie Anne Smith to an African American and Italian mother and a Native American father. She was the youngest of seven children born in North Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Betty, a librarian, and Lafayette Bingham, an aircraft technician who served in World War II. For high school, Bingham attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School; graduating in 1986.

Career
Bingham began her career in minor acting roles. Aside from Baywatch, Bingham's appearances include the television series D.R.E.A.M. Team and Beverly Hills, 90210, and the film Demon Knight. She also played minor roles in the popular American sitcoms The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and Married... with Children. In 1991, Bingham appeared in the video for "Good Vibrations" by Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch. Eight years later, she appeared in the video for "I Really Like It" by Harlem World featuring Mase and Kelly Price.

In June 1998, Bingham posed for a "Babes of Baywatch" pictorial in Playboy magazine. Bingham has appeared on a number of reality television programs. In 2004, she was in the second series of The Surreal Life. Her castmates included Ron Jeremy, Vanilla Ice, Erik Estrada, Tammy Faye Bakker, and Trishelle Cannatella. Two years later, she flew to England to appear in Celebrity Big Brother, where she made it to the final six contestants and was evicted on the final night of the show. She selected Families of SMA as the charity to receive a donation from her participation in the show because her niece had died from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).

In 2005, Bingham was hired as a spokesmodel by Empire Poker, an online gambling site that ceased operations in 2006. In 2007, Bingham appeared on VH1's The Surreal Life: Fame Games and won the $100,000 grand prize. In 2008, Bingham appeared on Fox Reality's Gimme My Reality Show! competing with six other celebrities to get their own reality show. Bingham appeared on The 2008 World Magic Awards television show.

Activism
Bingham is a vegetarian. In May 2002, she appeared in a vegetarian advertisement wearing a bikini made of lettuce, and in May 2006 she appeared nude in an ad as part of PETA's "I'd Rather Be Naked Than Wear Fur" campaign.

Personal life
Bingham has been married twice and has no children. Her first husband was Finnian Lozada. From August 29, 1998 until January 18, 2001, Bingham was married to songwriter and musician Robb Vallier.

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Talk:Mount Rushmore

Add the date when it was completed to the info box.
It doesn’t say which date the monument was completed in the info box. It does say it later in the article but it would be more convenient if it was in the info box. 2607:FB91:1409:D843:B9E2:E7CE:3D5F:7643 (talk) 05:01, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

The legacy that has been left behind for us to respect & follow.
The statement of "& follow." is biased, improper of an encyclopedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gormedino (talk • contribs) 09:30, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
 * The specified text is not found in this article. —ADavidB 01:06, 4 March 2024 (UTC)

Cora Babbitt Johnson and early opponents
We should include newer research on opposition to the monument. There's a new Honors thesis published by Georgia Southern University on early environmentalist opposition to Mount Rushmore. According to the Wikipedia list of reliable resources, "Masters dissertations and theses are considered reliable only if they can be shown to have had significant scholarly influence." I'd argue that, being an Honors Thesis, it 'can be considered as rigorous as a Master's Thesis if it meets those same criteria. At least, this should be judged on a case by case basis and maybe tagged with "better source needed." However, if you read it, it's clear that it has significant scholarly influence and academic merit. With no other available source for such an important aspect of Mount Rushmore's history, it should be included. Borg Axoim (talk) 21:03, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Can you support its "significant scholarly influence" by identifying where and how often it has been cited by other academics? Schazjmd   (talk)  21:12, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * @Schazjmd Are those the parameters for "scholarly influence"? I figured that the phrase could include clear and verifiable examples of academic rigor. It's extremely new (I only read it last week), so maybe it would be best to give it some more time. My concern is that the information is clearly worth including based on relevance to Mount Rushmore, but because it's new research, there isn't anything else on the specific topic of early environmentalist opponents. Borg Axoim (talk) 21:21, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * @Borg Axoim, being cited would be one way to demonstrate scholarly influence. Just being a good paper ("academic rigor") doesn't make it a reliable source for wikipedia, nor does a single college paper that apparently covers something no other sources have covered have any WP:DUE weight. Schazjmd   (talk)  21:31, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * @Schazjmd I see what you mean. I'll read more on the topic and try to find additional sources. I'm sure the thesis references something that can be beneficial. Would it be possible to scrape some of the author's primary sources or link to the Cora Johnson wiki page? Borg Axoim (talk) 22:58, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * @Borg Axoim, wikipedia articles can never be used as sources, although the sources in those article can be used in other articles. I think checking the sources cited in the thesis is a good start. Schazjmd   (talk)  23:05, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
 * @Schazjmd The author mentioned Fite's book, and after I read some of it, it seems that Fite also mentioned Johnson. I assume that's a much more reliable source, so I've added the info to the page. Thanks for your guidance! Borg Axoim (talk) 02:31, 14 April 2024 (UTC)

Opening image
(moved from Randy Kryn's talk page) Hi, IMO replacing a featured picture by this poor quality version is vandalism. Do not do that. Thanks, Yann (talk) 07:25, 17 April 2024 (UTC) PAGE ]]) 16:08, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Hello . The long-time image used doesn't seem at all poor quality (File:Mountrushmore.jpg) but is a much clearer image of the statue than the one you profer (File:Mount Rushmore detail view (100MP).jpg). Please take it to the article talk page, which is where this discussion should go. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 08:21, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but no. File:Mountrushmore.jpg is the worst possible choice. Even if one wants a different framing that File:Mount Rushmore detail view (100MP).jpg which is a high quality and resolution, and a featured picture, there are better choice. File:Mount Rushmore detail view (100MP).jpg was chosen as a FP when it was used in the article, and it shouldn't be removed, unless a better quality is offered. Thanks, Yann (talk) 08:29, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Not understanding why you don't like this image and call it poor quality. The image has been used on the page for quite a long time, and highlights details of the statue. Randy Kryn (talk) 08:37, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but it doesn't make sense. How can you compare a 600 × 450 pixels, 56 KB, and poor quality color file with a 2,128 × 8,246 pixels, and 51.22 MB featured picture? Please be reasonable. Yann (talk) 09:00, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I'm comparing the two images as they present on the page, and have added them to the top of this discussion for comparison. The closer image of the statue, with shadowed nuances, seems to present the sculpture in a much clearer view. Randy Kryn (talk) 09:10, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
 * As I said above, even you propose a different framing, this image is of very bad quality. File:Mount Rushmore Closeup 2017.jpg, which is already shown in the article, is much better. Yann (talk) 11:30, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
 * That does seem better, or less cloudy, and unlike the distance-photo it shows details of the sculpture such as the cracks in the rocks, etc. (which are actually better seen in the cloudy picture). Would you object to this image as the lead (as a focus on the sculpture) as a compromise, although I still favor the "cloudy" detailed photo. Thanks. I'll remove the requested assistance. Randy Kryn (talk) 11:46, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
 * I have asked for more opinions on Wikipedia talk:Featured picture candidates. Yann (talk) 13:30, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks. And I'll cover the visual arts and sculpture WikiProjects. Looking at the three photos above the cloudy image still seems to stand out as the most detailed and expressive of the artwork. Randy Kryn (talk) 14:42, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
 * My issue with File:Mountrushmore.jpg, other than the low resolution, is that the contrast is way too high, leading to loss of detail in the shadows. --Ahecht ([[User talk:Ahecht|TALK
 * I like the current longer distance image (File:Mount Rushmore detail view (100MP).jpg). Showing the area around the sculptures helps to show their context within the surrounding mountain better, which I think is beneficial for an infobox image. Mount Rushmore is just as much a mountain as it is a sculptural monument, after all. There are already other closer images further down in the article to show the sculptures in more detail, so it is not an issue that not as much detail is seen in the infobox image. GranCavallo (talk) 15:58, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Controversy downplayed
I just clarified the highly notable controversy which had been rather downplayed. Edited for 30+ minutes.

The edits are now "pending" for review - why? The page isn't locked, and the information is taken directly from the existing page and existing sources.

What's going on? I hope that Native American history and this legally unresolved (since 1980) federal law case isn't being censored "pending" "review". 49.126.101.222 (talk) 05:37, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

 * Please note that "pending revision" does not appear to be part of the Wiki project. 49.126.101.222 (talk) 05:44, 21 June 2024 (UTC)

 * Due to persistent vandalism, direct edits to this article are limited to registered accounts that have been "autoconfirmed". The pending status was based on this, not the particular changes you made. However, another editor considered your edits as undue, and has reverted them. —ADavidB 06:36, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
 * ...'undue'? As in 'undo', or as in not necessary?
 * And, might we ask for your opinion of burying notable information in an ongoing controversy ?
 * Since the federal court ruled in favor of the Lakota Sioux in 1980, is the US government's ruling also 'undue' - in that editor's personal opinion? It's confusing since the lines of logical demarcation are gerrymandered. 49.126.35.101 (talk) 07:54, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Kia ora, I am unsure what you mean by 'undue'. The link says "articles and pages fairly represent all significant viewpoints". I think that a dispute between the indigenous landowners and later colonists over land ownership is significant, and there should be a sentence in the lead paragraphs acknowledging this. The legal case acknowledges the ownership. This information should sit above any information about tourism. I note that the editor who reverted the edit is currently causing some issues in other topics with their approach to editing, so may not be in the best space to make a call on reversions. Land rights and acknowledgment of first peoples is significant and I am disturbed that there seems to be no US editors standing up for this. Goldenbaybutcher (talk) 09:29, 23 June 2024 (UTC)

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Rehearsals for Retirement

Rehearsals for Retirement is Phil Ochs's sixth studio album, released in 1969 on A&M Records.

Background
Recorded in the aftermath of Ochs's presence at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago (where Ochs claimed to have witnessed the symbolic "death of America") it is often considered to be the darkest of Ochs's albums, exemplified not just by the lyrical matter but also by its cover: a tombstone sardonically proclaiming that Ochs had died in Chicago.

Rehearsals for Retirement saw Ochs exploring folk rock, incorporating orchestral accompaniments and electric guitar into his music. According to English studies scholar David Pichaske, songs such as "Pretty Smart on My Part" and "The Scorpion Departs but Never Returns" functioned as "art-protest songs". The former was written from the perspective of a John Birch Society member who is paranoid of switchblade-toting thieves, foreign operatives, dissident hitchhikers, and dominant, large-breasted women, and acts on this paranoia by killing them and others with a rifle and his friends from the National Rifle Association of America (NRA). Pichaske interpreted the narrative as a psychological analysis finding insecurity to be the source of violence in the United States. The latter song used the 1968 disappearance of the Scorpion nuclear submarine as an allegory for a modern "Lost Generation" who abandon the U.S. in response to the Vietnam War.

Reception
Rehearsals for Retirement was the poorest-selling of all of Ochs's albums released during his lifetime, having been deleted from the A&M Records catalog before sales of 20,000 units had occurred.

Reviewing for The Village Voice in 1969, Robert Christgau said the musical arrangements are "excellent and work for [Ochs'] voice". While observing "some predictable bummers", Christgau highlighted two flashes of greatness with "The Scorpion Departs But Never Returns" and "Another Age".

In 1998, The Wire included Rehearsals for Retirement in their list of "100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening)", where the staff praised it "the single most eloquent collection of protest songs in the English language." They further described it as a song cycle where "the political gives way to the existential", with a combination of "angry disillusion and impassioned optimism" that is "entirely disarming." William Ruhlmann, in a retrospective review for AllMusic, felt the album imbued Ochs' poetic sense with "the conflicts of the times", and noted how, with regard to Ochs' 1976 suicide, "it is impossible not to see the evidence of the songwriter's personal anguish in Rehearsals for Retirement.

Track listing
All songs by Phil Ochs.

Side one

 * 1) "Pretty Smart on My Part" – 3:18
 * 2) "The Doll House" – 4:39
 * 3) "I Kill Therefore I Am" – 2:55
 * 4) "William Butler Yeats Visits Lincoln Park and Escapes Unscathed" - 2:55
 * 5) [Untitled] (commonly called "Where Were You in Chicago?") – 0:29
 * 6) "My Life"  – 3:12

Side two

 * 1) "The Scorpion Departs but Never Returns" – 4:15
 * 2) "The World Began in Eden and Ended in Los Angeles" – 3:06
 * 3) "Doesn't Lenny Live Here Anymore?" – 6:11
 * 4) "Another Age" – 3:42
 * 5) "Rehearsals for Retirement" – 4:09

Personnel

 * Phil Ochs – guitar, vocals
 * Larry Marks – producer
 * Lincoln Mayorga – piano, accordion
 * Bob Rafkin – guitar, bass
 * Kevin Kelley – drums (rumored)
 * Ian Freebairn-Smith – arrangements

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