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Verbatim (brand)

Verbatim is a brand for storage media and flash memory products currently owned by CMC Magnetics Corporation (CMC), a Taiwanese company that is known for optical disc manufacturing. Formerly a subsidiary of Mitsubishi Chemical, the global business and assets of Verbatim were sold to CMC Magnetics in 2019 at an estimated price of $32 million USD.

Originally an American company and known for its floppy disks in the 1970s and 1980s, Verbatim is now known for its recordable optical media.

History
The original Verbatim first started in Mountain View, California, in 1969, under the name Information Terminals Corporation, founded by Reid Anderson. It grew quickly and became a leading manufacturer of floppy disks by the end of the 1970s, and it was soon renamed Verbatim. In 1982, it formed a floppy disk joint venture with Japanese company Mitsubishi Kasei Corporation (forerunner of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation), with the joint venture called Kasei Verbatim.

Verbatim mostly struggled in the decade and was purchased by Eastman Kodak in 1985, while its floppy partnership with Mitsubishi Kasei Corporation was still intact. It was eventually purchased fully by Mitsubishi Kasei Corporation in March 1990, after eight years in a joint venture. Many new products were launched under the new Japanese ownership, and the brand saw immense growth in the decade. Mitsubishi Kagaku Media was founded in October 1994 as a subsidiary through the merger of Mitsubishi Kasei and Mitsubishi Petrochemical, resulting in Mitsubishi Chemical. The new company absorbed the former American company and created a new Japanese entity, whilst the old Verbatim brand lived on.

In addition, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media sold products under the Freecom brand. Freecom was founded in Berlin, Germany, in 1989 and had been based in the Netherlands when it was purchased by Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings in September 2009.

The company was selling products under the Mitsubishi brand in Japan from 1994 to 2010, when Verbatim fully replaced it.

Key dates

 * 1969: Information Terminals Corporation (ITC), the predecessor to Verbatim, is founded in Mountain View, California, U.S.
 * 1976: ITC begins manufacturing magnetic tape for use in its cassettes and floppy disks.
 * 1978: ITC is officially renamed Verbatim.
 * 1979: Verbatim goes public; sales grow to $36 million.
 * 1985: Eastman Kodak announces its $174 million bid for Verbatim.
 * 1990: Mitsubishi Kasei Corporation acquires Verbatim.
 * 1992: The company buys Carlisle Memory Products.
 * 1994: Mitsubishi Kasei Corporation and Mitsubishi Petrochemical Co., Ltd merge to create Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation. End of the original Verbatim Corporation as it is turned into a new subsidiary, Mitsubishi Kagaku Media (MKM). Verbatim brand replaced by Mitsubishi in Japan.
 * 1994: Verbatim enters a joint venture with Sanyo Laser Products.
 * 1995: Acquires Laser Technologies and Ecotone.
 * 2005: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC) merges with Mitsubishi Pharma Corporation to form Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation.
 * 2007: Acquires SmartDisk.
 * 2009: Acquires Freecom.
 * 2009: Verbatim brand returns to the Japanese market for the first time since 1994.
 * 2010: Mitsubishi Kagaku Media unifies all recordable discs products under one umbrella Verbatim brand in the Japanese market.
 * 2019: Agreement to be bought by CMC.
 * 2020: CMC acquires Verbatim/Mitsubishi Kagaku Media.

Notable info about historical products

 * In 1969, the first digital-grade tape cassettes were released.
 * 8" diskettes were first released in 1974.
 * In 1991, Verbatim released the world's first 3.5" magneto-optical disk.
 * Verbatim started its successful foray into the optical disc market in 1993 with CD-R media.
 * In 1997, Verbatim released the world's first CD-RW format media.
 * In 2001, Verbatim released the world's first DVD+R format media.
 * Introduced the first 8.5 GB DVD+R DL products in 2004, followed by DVD-R DL in 2005.
 * Verbatim launched a new product range of LED lights in 2010.

Current and former products

 * Solid-state drives (SSDs)
 * Floppy disks
 * Magnetic tapes
 * MultiMediaCards
 * SD cards
 * CompactFlash cards
 * CD-R
 * Digital Vinyl CD-R
 * CD-RW
 * DVD-R
 * DVD-RW
 * DVD-R DL
 * DVD+R
 * DVD+RW
 * DVD+R DL
 * DVD-RAM
 * BD-R
 * BD-RE
 * HD-DVD-R
 * USB flash drives
 * SIPRELAY Operators
 * LED light bulbs
 * Gaming Accessories
 * Computer mouse
 * Keyboards

Manufacturing and marketing
Verbatim's early floppies were manufactured at a factory in Limerick, Republic of Ireland, starting 1979 (MC Infonics, sold to CMC Magnetics in the 2000s).

(during the era of Mitsubishi ownership) Verbatim sold products partly produced in Verbatim and Mitsubishi's own plants in Singapore and Japan, and partly under license by Taiwanese and Indian manufacturers.

Verbatim also resold relabeled products from Japanese, Taiwanese, Chinese, Malaysian and Indian factories (Pearl White DVD series in Europe, some CD-R not labeled Super Azo), including but not limited to products by Taiyo Yuden, Ritek Corporation, CMC Magnetics, Prodisc, Moser Baer, Daxon/BenQ.

Technologies

 * Teflon coating for floppy disks
 * Advanced Azo Dye Technology (patented Azo-Color technology), first developed 1994
 * SERL (Super Eutectic Recording Layer) technology for rewritable media (after deleting the medium it regenerates)
 * TERL (Tellurium Alloy Recording Layer) technology for special audio CD-RWs
 * MABL for Blu-ray discs

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Miguel Portas

Miguel de Sacadura Cabral Portas (1 May 1958 – 24 April 2012) was a Portuguese politician and a Member of the European Parliament for the Left Bloc, part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left group. He was a member of the Committee on Culture and Education of the European Parliament and a member of the Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countries.

Miguel Portas was the older brother of the former Foreign Affairs Minister and former leader of the right-wing CDS–PP, Paulo Portas, and a great-nephew of Artur de Sacadura Cabral.

Biography
Miguel Portas received a degree in economics, at School of Economics and Management, in 1986. He worked as a cultural animator in the county of Ourique (1984), sociocultural animator and trainer in the Algarve hills as agents of development (1987). Moving on a career as a journalist, he was director of the cultural magazine "Contraste" (1986) and later he was hired as editor of the weekly journal "Expresso" (1988), where he was the international editor between 1992 and 1994. He also directed the weekly "Já" (1996), he was a reporter for magazine "Vida Mundial" (1998–1999), columnist for  "Diário de Notícias" (2000–2006) and the weekly "Sol" (2008–2012). He was co-author and host of two television documentary series, "Indian Ocean" (2000) and "Periplus" (2004), on the Mediterranean. He had three books published: "And the rest is landscape" (2002, chronicles, essays and interviews), "The Labyrinth" (2006 – on Lebanon) and "Periplus" (2009 – dedicated to the Mediterranean).

Arrested by Salazarist secret police PIDE when he was 15 for participating in the Associative Movement of Students in Secondary Education in Lisbon, he joined the Union of Communist Students of PCP (1973), reaching the Central Committee a year later. He chaired the Association of Students of the School of Economics and coordinated the Inter-Secretariat Meeting of Associations. He left the CFP in 1989, following the first process of party expulsions triggered by perestroika. Between 1990 and 1991 he was an adviser to the Mayor of Lisbon on cultural affairs and urban planning. He was a founder of the Platform of the Left, dissolved two years later. In 1994 he created Politics XXI, which grouped members of the Platform of the Left, the MDP and independents from the demonstrations against tuition fees in higher education. Politics XXI was a launching platform for the Left Bloc (founded in 1999 with people from PSR, UDP and independents). For the Left Bloc he was head of the list for European Parliament elections in 1999, obtaining 1.74% of the votes, and candidate for City Council in Lisbon in 2001. He was elected to the European Parliament in 2004 with a 4.92% share and re-elected in 2009, with 10.73%. There he was a member of the Budget Committee and vice chairman of the Special Commission on Financial, Economic and Social matters.

Miguel Portas was the son of Nuno Portas, architect, and Helena de Sacadura, economist and journalist; brother of Paulo Portas, politician, half-brother of Catarina Portas, journalist and entrepreneur. He was also great-nephew of the Aviator Sacadura Cabral. He left two sons, André and Frederico Portas. With Ana Maria Isabel Soromenho Gorjão Henriques he also had a son, Frederico de Sacadura Cabral Gorjão Henriques.

Portas was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2010, and he died of the disease on 24 April 2012.

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Grizabella

Grizabella the Glamour Cat is a main character in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Cats. Lonely and decrepit, Grizabella seeks acceptance from the other Jellicle cats but is initially ostracised. She sings the most famous song from the musical, "Memory".

The role was originated by Elaine Paige in the West End in 1981 (replacing Dame Judi Dench four days before the production's opening night), and by Betty Buckley on Broadway in 1982. Buckley won the 1983 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her portrayal. Jennifer Hudson portrayed Grizabella in the 2019 film adaptation.

Character
Grizabella is, at the time of her appearance, a very old and mangy cat, withered to the point that she no longer resembles the glamorous cat of her youth. Having left the Jellicle tribe a long time ago, she is now all alone and left with only the memories of her happier days. She returns to the tribe seeking re-acceptance, but her fellow Jellicles are initially repulsed by her and repeatedly shun her.

Grizabella makes her entrance early on in the first act of the musical. She approaches the other cats, but they treat her like a pariah as Demeter and Bombalurina explain who she is ("Grizabella: The Glamour Cat"). She comes back at the end of the first act, watching from afar as the other cats dance at the Jellicle Ball. Grizabella attempts to replicate their dance moves but realises she is too weak; she sings a prelude to "Memory" as she contemplates her plight. Grizabella makes her final appearance towards the end of the musical. This time, she addresses the cats by singing the full version of "Memory" in which she pleads for their understanding and acceptance. She collapses in the middle of the song but is encouraged to press on by the kitten Jemima (also known as Sillabub). After the song, Victoria approaches Grizabella and touches her as a sign of acceptance. The other cats soon follow and welcome her back into the tribe. Grizabella is then led to the Jellicle leader Old Deuteronomy; her initial shock turns to happiness as she begins her ascendance to the Heaviside Layer (the Jellicle version of heaven).

The role of Grizabella requires a wide vocal range and the ability to belt to E♭5.

Origins and songs
Although Cats is based on T. S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, Grizabella does not appear in the published source material. Instead, the character came from an unpublished poem by Eliot titled "Grizabella the Glamour Cat" that had been given to Lloyd Webber by Eliot's widow and literary executor, Valerie Eliot. Although the poem had been rejected from Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats for being "too sad for children", it became the basis for Grizabella's character-defining song in the musical ("Grizabella: The Glamour Cat"). The poem centres on a former glamour cat who has fallen on hard times and now roams the red-light district near Tottenham Court.

Additionally, the introduction for "Grizabella: The Glamour Cat" is taken almost word-for-word from a verse in another Eliot poem titled "Rhapsody on a Windy Night", with Grizabella as the feline version of the fallen woman:

The main song that Grizabella sings is "Memory", the best-known song from Cats and "by some estimations the most successful song ever from a musical." It has been recorded around 600 times (as of 2006) by artists including Barbra Streisand, Barry Manilow, Johnny Mathis, Michael Crawford and Kikki Danielsson.

Notable performers
The role of Grizabella was originated by Elaine Paige in the West End in 1981. She later reprised the role for the 1998 film version. Betty Buckley originated the role in the 1982 Broadway production, earning the 1983 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance. In 2015, pop singer Nicole Scherzinger was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Grizabella in the West End revival. In the 2016 Broadway revival, Mamie Parris starred as Grizabella after replacing Leona Lewis in October.

Notable performers who have played the role of Grizabella include:

West End

 * Elaine Paige (original cast)
 * Angela Richards (1982)
 * Marti Webb (1983)
 * Anita Harris (1985–1986)
 * Rosemarie Ford (1995)
 * Diane Langton (1996)
 * Stephanie Lawrence (1997)
 * Sally Ann Triplett (1998)
 * Chrissie Hammond (1999–2002)
 * Nicole Scherzinger (2014–2015)
 * Kerry Ellis (2015)
 * Beverley Knight (2015–2016)
 * Madalena Alberto (2015–2016)

Broadway

 * Betty Buckley (original cast)
 * Laurie Beechman (1984–1988, 1997)
 * Loni Ackerman (1988–1991)
 * Lillias White (1991–1992)
 * Liz Callaway (1993–1999)
 * Linda Balgord (1999–2000)
 * Leona Lewis (2016)
 * Mamie Parris (2016-2017)

Film

 * Elaine Paige (1998)
 * Jennifer Hudson (2019)

Others

 * Kim Criswell (Los Angeles, 1985)
 * Jan Horvath (US tour, 1990)
 * Natalie Toro (US tour, 1992 and 1997)
 * Dee Roscioli (US tour, 2002)
 * Jacquelyn Piro Donovan (US regional, 2003 and 2009)
 * Stephanie J. Block (US regional, 2010)
 * Taylor Dayne (New York, 2013)
 * Paula Lima (Brazil, 2010)
 * María del Sol (México, 1991–1992)
 * Filippa Giordano (México, 2013)
 * Lisset (México, 2014)
 * Rocío Banquells (México, 2014)
 * Lila Deneken (México)
 * Myriam Montemayor Cruz (México)
 * Yuri (México, 2018–2019)
 * Ute Lemper (Vienna, 1983)
 * Maarja-Liis Ilus
 * Di Botcher
 * Yukimi Shimura (Original Japanese Cast)
 * Monica Aspelund (Finland, 1986)
 * Pia Douwes (Vienna and The Netherlands, 1987–1989 and 2006)
 * Ruth Jacott (Original Netherlands cast, 1987)
 * Akiko Kuno (Japan, 1983–85)
 * Mikiko Shiraki (Japan)

 * Masako Saito (Japan)
 * Vera Mann (The Netherlands, 2006)
 * Ruthie Henshall
 * Yasuko Sado (Japan)
 * Sayoko Hayami (Japan)
 * Yukie Yokoyama (Japan)
 * Yuri Sawa (Japan, 2004)
 * Anita Meyer (The Netherlands, 2006)
 * Pernilla Wahlgren (Sweden, 2003)
 * Rikako Orikasa (Japan, 2007–09, 2010–12, 2013, 2019–2020)
 * Katarína Hasprová (Slovakia, 2016)
 * Honoka Suzuki (Japan, 2012–13)
 * Aya Kawamura (Japan, 2013–15)
 * Joanna Ampil (European Tour 2013, 2016–17)
 * Sophia Ragavelas (European Tour 2013–15)
 * Kei Miyahara (Japan, 2015)
 * Dianne Pilkington (UK tour, 2006)
 * Susan McFadden
 * Chiaki Kimura (Japan, 2015–2017)
 * Jane McDonald (UK Tour, 2015)
 * Anita Louise Combe (UK and European Tour, 2016–2017)
 * Chimene Badi (Paris, 2016)
 * Jenna Lee-James (UK and European Tour, 2017–2019)
 * Li-Tong Hsu (International Tour 2019)

 * Bev Harrell (Australia/New Zealand), 1989/1990
 * Delia Hannah (Australia, 1994, 1999, and 2016)
 * Marina Prior (Australia, 2014)
 * Delta Goodrem (Australia, 2015–2016)
 * Debra Byrne (Original Australian cast, 1985)
 * Lea Salonga (Manila, 2010)
 * Louise Dearman (Cyprus)
 * Masae Ebata (Japan, 2017–2019)
 * Shin Youngsook (South Korea, 2008–2009)
 * Ock Joo-hyun (South Korea, 2008–2009)
 * Insooni (South Korea, 2011–2012)
 * Park Hae-mi (South Korea, 2011–2012)
 * Silvie Paladino (Malaysia)
 * Miki Kanehara (Japan, 2019, 2020–2021)
 * Emma Hatton (UK Tour, 2018)
 * Lucy O'Byrne (UK Tour, 2018–2019)
 * Keri René Fuller (US Tour, 2019–2020)
 * Donna Vivino (US Tour, 2020)
 * Jacinta Whyte (UK and International Tour, 2021–2022)
 * Jacintha Abisheganaden (Singapore, 1993)
 * Slindile Nodangala (International tour, 2004)

In popular culture
Madame Tussauds New York features a wax figure of Grizabella that sings "Memory".

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Jonny Moseley

Jonathan William Moseley (born August 27, 1975) is an American freestyle skier and television presenter. He is the first person born in Puerto Rico to become a member of the U.S. Ski Team. He is also known for hosting three seasons of MTV's The Challenge, which was formerly known as Real World/Road Rules Challenge. He has also hosted four reunion specials for Battle of the Sexes, the sequel of Battle of the Seasons, Rivals II and Free Agents.

Early years
Moseley (birth name: Jonathan William Moseley) was born in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 1978, he saw snow for the first time when his family went on a trip to California. Eventually, his family moved to Tiburon, California, a suburb north of San Francisco where he attended The Branson School in Ross, California. His family would go to the Sierra Nevada every weekend. This, and the fact that he was a better skier than his brothers, inspired the then nine-year-old Moseley to take skiing lessons. In 1992, he joined the Squaw Valley Freestyle Ski Team and soon won his first Junior National title in Freestyle Skiing; he graduated from high school in 1993 and that same year was selected for the U.S. Ski Team.

United States Ski Team
Moseley tried but did not qualify for the 1994 Winter Olympics held at Lillehammer, Norway and became determined to qualify for the 1998 Olympics. In 1995, he enrolled at UC Davis, but his education was interrupted by his intense training.

In 1998, Moseley participated in and won the first two World Cup events of that year, leading to his participation in the 1998 Winter Olympics held in Nagano, Japan, where he won a gold medal. Later that year he secured the 1998 World Cup Mogul Skiing title with nine wins that season. He also won the U.S. National title.

In 1999, Moseley challenged the International Skiing federation to change its policy to allow its athletes to participate in professional events, such as ESPN's X Games where he earned a silver medal in the Big Air event. Moseley was the first skier to medal in both the X-Games (silver) and the Olympics (Gold).

In 2000, Moseley won the U.S. Freeskiing Open and in 2001 regained a spot in the U.S. Ski Team at the World Cup qualifications held at Sunday River, Maine. In 2002, Moseley competed but came in fourth place in the Olympic Games.

In 2002, Moseley gave the commencement convocation address at UC Berkeley. The choice by the senior class committee was controversial at the time because Moseley had dropped out of college.

Honors and recognitions
Among the honors and recognitions which Moseley has received is a parade in his honor in which San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown declared a "Jonny Moseley Day" and handed him the "key" to the city. He was named "Sportsman of the Year" (1998) by the U.S. Olympic Committee and has been featured on the covers of Freeskier and Rolling Stone magazines.

He was also chosen to be the traditional post-Olympics athlete host of Saturday Night Live in 2002, hosting the March 2, 2002, episode of the show with musical guest Outkast. On the show, he performed a sketch called "Jonny's Journey," in which he went "around the world on a never-ending Dinner Roll" via a green screen.

Moseley is largely credited with having brought the Iron Cross trick into the limelight, where the athlete crosses their skis midair during a jump. This trick was a radical departure from the old school air tricks, which include Daffies, Backscratchers and Moonwalks (see Glen Plake).

Personal life
Moseley married Malia Rich, a business manager, on March 25, 2006, in Telluride, Colorado. Moseley met Rich in high school; the couple started dating in 2001 and got engaged on April 20, 2003.

On September 4, 2007, Rich gave birth to the couple's first child, named Jonathan "Jack" William Moseley Jr. in San Francisco, California. On May 25, 2010, their second son, Tommy, was born.

Later years
Moseley launched a web site that sells products with his logo on them and has appeared on advertisements for McDonald's and Sprint. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley on May 17, 2007 with a B.A. in American Studies focusing on Consumer and Popular Culture. In December 2001, 3DO released Jonny Moseley Mad Trix a level-based extreme skiing game named after the skier.

Moseley, who currently lives in California, was the host of three seasons of the MTV reality show Real World/Road Rules Challenge (now called The Challenge). He is part of the celebrity panel of judges (along with Steve Garvey and Oksana Baiul) on the ABC show "Master of Champions". After the 2002 Olympics Moseley hosted Saturday Night Live.

Moseley developed an aerial ski move called "The Dinner Roll" and spoke about it during a 2002 speech at UC Berkeley:

In 2007, Warren Miller's Playground was released with Moseley as the narrator. He was also in the movie as he has been in a few Warren Miller ski movies in the past. Moseley has narrated every film since. He has gone on to narrate a number of other Warren Miller movies. Moseley also used to host a weekly radio program on Sirius/XM's channel 41. The show was called "The Moseley Method". Moseley was the color analyst for NBC at the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver for the moguls, aerials and ski cross events.

In 2010 he was cast on the ABC show Skating with the Stars where he was paired with retired Pairs skater Brooke Castile. Mosley finished in third place as second runner-up. He is currently the host of the latest viral marketing campaign by Ford Motor Company, Focus Rally America.

In 2011 Moseley became a co-host of "American Ninja Warrior" on G4. In 2012 the show moved to NBC and he continued his hosting role. In 2013, Moseley appeared on Undercover Boss, playing the host of the fictitious reality show which Squaw Valley/Alpine Meadows CEO Andy Wirth is supposedly a contestant on.

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Long/short equity

Long/short equity is an investment strategy generally associated with hedge funds. It involves buying equities that are expected to increase in value and selling short equities that are expected to decrease in value. This is different from the risk reversal strategies where investors will simultaneously buy a call option and sell a put option to simulate being long in a stock.

Overview
Typically, equity long/short investing is based on "bottom up" fundamental analysis of the individual companies, in which investments are made. There may also be "top down" analysis of the risks and opportunities offered by industries, sectors, countries, and the macroeconomic situation.

Long/short covers a wide variety of strategies. There are generalists, and managers who focus on certain industries and sectors or certain regions. Managers may specialize in a category — for example, large cap or small cap, value or growth. There are many trading styles, with frequent or dynamic traders and some longer-term investors.

A fund manager typically attempts to reduce volatility by either diversifying or hedging positions across individual regions, industries, sectors and market capitalization bands and hedging against un-diversifiable risk such as market risk. In addition to being required of the portfolio as a whole, neutrality may in addition be required for individual regions, industries, sectors, and market capitalization bands.

There is wide variation in the degree to which managers prioritize seeking high returns, which may involve concentrated and leveraged portfolios, and seeking low volatility, which involves more diversification and hedging.

Equitized strategy
This is in addition to market neutral strategy, as it adds a permanent stock index futures overlay, which makes profit or losses, depending on the movement of the market. Your portfolio then has a full equity market exposure.

Hedging example
A hedge fund might sell short one automobile industry stock, while buying another—for example, short $1 million of DaimlerChrysler, long $1 million of Ford. With this position, any event that causes all auto industry stocks to fall will cause a profit on the DaimlerChrysler position and a matching loss on the Ford position. Similarly, events that cause both stocks to rise—for example a rise in the market as a whole—will have little or no effect on the position.

Presumably the hedge fund has sold DaimlerChrysler and bought Ford because the manager expects Ford to perform better. If the manager is correct, the fund should profit irrespective of market and sector moves.

Market neutral strategies
Market neutral strategies can be seen as the limiting case of equity long/short, in which the long and short portfolios of the fund are balanced with great care so that a very high degree of hedging is achieved. Some advantages of market neutral strategies include being able to generate positive returns in a down market, and generating returns with a lower volatility profile.

"Market neutrality" refers to hedging out market risk, which can be managed through the use of derivatives, such as futures on market indexes. Market neutral funds usually seek to hedge against most or all predictable risk exposures.

An extension on the market neutral strategy is the factor neutral strategy. The factor neutral strategy is neutral on market risk, as well as major factors like momentum and large cap vs small cap. This is a step towards more modern capital market models like the Fama–French three-factor model.

Problems
There are many difficulties with managing long/short funds. These include the difficulties of estimating and hedging the risks to which a portfolio is exposed, and the requirement to manage unsuccessful short positions in an active manner. Short positions that are losing money grow to become an increasingly large part of the portfolio, and their price can increase without limit.

To make money, the hedge fund must successfully predict which stocks will perform better. It requires making intelligent use of the available information, but this is not enough—it also requires making better use of the available information than large numbers of capable investors. This strategy is primarily implemented by hedge funds and sophisticated institutions.

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David Wiffen

David Wiffen (born 11 March 1942) is an English-Canadian folk singer-songwriter. Two of his songs, "Driving Wheel" and "More Often Than Not", have become cover standards.

Early life
Wiffen was born in Redhill, Surrey, England. He spent his early childhood with his mother, living on an aunt's farm in Chipstead, while his father, an engineer, contributed to the war effort. Following the war, Wiffen's family relocated to London and, in 1954, to Claygate, Surrey, where Wiffen attended Hinchley Wood School. Wiffen came to Canada at the age of sixteen.

Career
Wiffen first sang with the Kingston upon Thames-based Black Cat Skiffle group. Wiffen moved with his family to Canada at age 16, and became part of the burgeoning folk music scene, initially in Toronto. In 1964, Wiffen hitchhiked to Edmonton and later managed The Depression folk club in Calgary.

In 1965, having moved to Vancouver, Wiffen was invited to perform at The Bunkhouse club on a live ensemble album. It became Wiffen's first solo album, David Wiffen at the Bunkhouse Coffeehouse, Vancouver BC, on the Universal International label, when the other invited musicians failed to show up.

Wiffen was subsequently in several bands, including The Pacers, based in Prince George, British Columbia, where he was the lead vocalist, and The Children, based in Ottawa. Members of The Children included William Hawkins, Bruce Cockburn, Sneezy Waters and Richard Patterson. He subsequently joined 3's a Crowd, whose initial members included Brent Titcomb, Donna Warner, Trevor Veitch and Richard Patterson. Wiffen also cohosted a television variety series on Ottawa station CJOH with Ann Mortifee, which was produced for a period by William Hawkins.

Wiffen subsequently signed to Fantasy Records as a solo artist. In 1971, he released David Wiffen, and had hit singles with "One Step" and "More Often Than Not". The album also contained his most widely covered song, "Driving Wheel". By this time a number of his songs had been recorded by other musicians, including Harry Belafonte, Anne Murray and Tom Rush.

Wiffen's second solo studio album, Coast to Coast Fever (United Artists, 1973), was produced by Bruce Cockburn, and Wiffen's musical career appeared to be quite promising. He continued to perform regularly in the 1970s, though found his success diminishing and a consequent source of frustration and depression, compared to the success of contemporaries Bruce Cockburn and Murray McLauchlan. Alcohol abuse compounded the difficulties he was experiencing in his musical career. He eventually ceased performing, choosing to become a limousine driver and later a publicly funded driver for handicapped persons in Ottawa. Wiffen suffered a serious back injury on the job while moving a wheelchair, which required corrective surgery and impeded any return to performing.

Wiffen's third album, South of Somewhere, was released in 1999, twenty-six years after Coast to Coast Fever. At that time, Wiffen had been sober for ten years and had spent six years in preparation and development for the album's production. The album contained a mix of reworkings of some of his older material, such as "Driving Wheel", plus some new songs. During this period, he returned briefly to performing, principally as a weekly performer and performance host at Irene's Pub in Ottawa, Ontario, but then stopped performing publicly. (As of 2008 and through much of 2009, Wiffen was on EMI's list of "missing royaltors").

In 2015, Songs From the Lost and Found, was released, containing material written and recorded between 1973 and the early 1980s, in the years after the release of Wiffen's Coast to Coast Fever album. The master tapes were thought lost for many years, but surfaced among the effects of former bandmate Richard Patterson, who died in 2011.

Discography

 * David Wiffen at the Bunkhouse Coffeehouse, Vancouver BC (Universal International, 1965)
 * Christopher's Movie Matinée (ABC Dunhill, 1968, as a member of 3's a Crowd)
 * David Wiffen (Fantasy, 1971; CD reissue via Akarma, 2001. Out of print.)
 * Coast to Coast Fever (United Artists, 1973)
 * South of Somewhere (True North, 1999)
 * Songs from the Lost and Found (True North, 2015)
 * Timeless Songs (New Shot Records, 2024)

Covers
"Driving Wheel (Lost My Driving Wheel)" was covered by Tom Rush on his 1970 self-titled album, Roger McGuinn in 1973 on his self-titled first solo album. It was also recorded by Greg Harris (1982). The Cowboy Junkies released several versions. Matt Minglewood (Drivin' Wheel 1999), The Jayhawks (Live From The Women's Club, Vol. 1 2002), Ray Wylie Hubbard (Rounder/Philo, 2005), Chris and Rich Robinson of the Black Crowes (Brothers of a Feather: Live at the Roxy 2007), the Chris Robinson Brotherhood during live performances throughout 2011 & 2012, and by British singer-songwriter Rumer, who recorded it for a BBC live session in 2011.

"More Often Than Not" has been covered by Jerry Jeff Walker in 1970 on his Bein' Free album, Ian & Sylvia (1971), and Eric Andersen on his 1972 Blue River album.

"Mr. Wiffen (Is Incommunicado Today)" has been covered by Harry Belafonte on his 1973 album Play Me.

"Skybound Station", from Coast to Coast Fever, has been covered by Blackie and the Rodeo Kings on their Kings of Love album (1999).

"Lucifer's Blues", from Coast to Coast Fever, has been covered by members of the Skydiggers and the Cowboy Junkies in their side project band, Lee Harvey Osmond, developed by Tom Wilson of Blackie and the Rodeo Kings and Junkhouse.

"I Don't Want To Drive You Away" was covered by Anne Murray, as "David's Song".

"Smoke Rings" was covered by Hiss Golden Messenger on a Parallelogram LP also featuring Michael Chapman (singer) by Three Lobed Recordings released in December 2015.

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Talk:Univision

Move to Univisión
Since "Univisión" is used elsewhere in the encyclopedia, it makes sense to try and be consistent. I'm not sure if that means we should move this page, or rename the pertinent categories.... – Seancdaug 07:24, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Can you show me an official Univision page that calls it Univisión. Even though such a name technically should have that accent, if they don't use the accent, we don't use the accent. --  user:zanimum

 * Nope. That's why I asked. I've always seen it in its unaccented form. But my initial point remains: we should determine what the actual title of the network is and make sure both the article and the category use that title. Are there any objections to my going ahead and listing Category:Univisión television network at Categories for deletion, then? – Seancdaug 04:20, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

I've removed this page's entry from Requested moves due to a lack of consensus on the move. If this changes, feel free to add another request. --Lox (t,c) 21:50, 20 January 2006 (UTC) Es mexicana o es de todos los latinos. ya esta bueno de tanta banda. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.160.129.58 (talk) 10:11, 23 November 2013 (UTC)

Sale status
I hear there is news coming up soon! John wesley 14:33, 10 March 2006 (UTC)

merging univision and univision.com
I don't think univision and Univision.com should be merged. I would actually think there should be separate entities for Univision Communications, Univision, and Univision.com. Univision is the name of the network, not the name of the company. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 38.112.47.130 (talk) 20:07, 16 January 2007 (UTC).

TPG Capital takes over Univision
Could we be talking about possible changes in its on-screen graphics such as promos, bumpers and potentially a new logo??? Not to mention, possible changes in the website!?!? How about realignment of its programs!?!? It's possible in situations like these... What do you think??? By the way, just a curious tought!!! --WIKISCRIPPS 07 FRI MAR 30 2007 6:53 PM EDT

Univision needs not do anything, because it has a monopoly on Mexican viewers. Yakuman (数え役満) 23:00, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

dAD IS A POOP??
Who put "dAD IS A POOP" in the middle of this article? And Why?

24.165.10.129 07:26, 18 June 2007 (UTC)Jiesen 6/18/07 12:25 am Pacific
 * [ It was put there by another unregistered user], presumably to experiment with the "edit this page" function. -- WC  Quidditch   ☎   ✎  18:28, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

Potentially problematic tag re Haim Saban
This article tagged Saban as Jewish. Actually, if you look at his article he lives in California. Is the Jewish adjective intended to distinguish him from Muslims? Why do we identify people as Jews? I don't recall people mentioning Ted Turner's religion. Dogru144 05:04, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

El Chavo Animado move to Saturday Night
If "El Chavo Animado" will move to Saturday Nights before "Sabado Gigante" starting March 1st. What's this mean for "La Parodia"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.237.220.220 (talk) 18:54, 24 February 2008 (UTC)

Translations
The program title translations need to be sourced, oh by the way. SamEV (talk) 22:32, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Something to note
Shouldn't it be noted that Univision ranks higher than the English broadcast network The CW in the Nielson ratings?  ♪♫Al ucard   16♫♪  08:11, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I think it should. SamEV (talk) 21:32, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

 * I (in Australia) only heard about this network through the Donald Trump story. I am kind of interested in the shift or drift to Latin culture and the Spanish language in the US. So it would have been interesting to see viewer figures, maybe of three years to show a trend. Here in Australia SBS's (ethnic broadcaster) Chinese news have a fantastic format. When they interview in English they have Chinese subtitles and when they interview in Chinese they have English subtitles. And when they then put it online, the subtitles are big enough to be read on the computer screen. Just an idea, I think it's a good one. 58.174.224.15 (talk) 06:04, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

What was the reason for the policy change?
Many of the shows that have been on Univision for years were suddenly censored. These changes also affected Galavision. I am referring to shows that have been in rerun for years, and were never censored until now. What was the reason for this? Anybody got the inside dope? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ray dood (talk • contribs) 16:06, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

 * That's a PHD topic. Very strange, censorship where we did not expect censorship and nobody dares to elaborate. 58.174.224.15 (talk) 06:07, 1 July 2015 (UTC)

Juro Que Te Amo (I Swear to You That I Love You)
Will Al Diablo con los Guapos (Good-Looking 'Gents Could Go Square to Hell) be replaced by Juro Que Te Amo (I Swear to You that I Love You)? Ericthebrainiac (talk) 16:04, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Schedules
I have restored the prime-time schedule to this article. While WP:NOT specifies that Wikipedia is not a TV Guide, it does make an exception for a nationwide network's prime-time schedule. Also, keep in mind that the English networks' schedules exist in their articles, with no opposition. -- azumanga (talk) 03:08, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I oppose those too, now that it has been brought to my attention.
 * WP:NOTDIR says: "historically significant programme lists and schedules (such as the annual United States network television schedules) may be acceptable" (emphasis added), but what's "historically significant"? It doesn't contain the word "prime-time" anywhere, but in Archive 16, User:Bearcat claims that "the base schedule, at least for prime-time programming, is permitted". IMHO, precisely when each TV network aired each show each season is not historically significant, but if it is/were, you'd have to dedicate a separate page to every season's schedule, for easy reference in the future, and not just post the current schedule, which changes from time to time. — Magnus Holmgren (talk) 19:29, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Schedules are not allowed except for in a list. Please see section below about clean-up necessary. In a normal article, programs are discussed paragraph style with a link like

 * Please see List of programs broadcast by Fox below the appropriate header.
 * Even then, on a list page, it has to follow WP:NOT - Wikipedia is not a TVGuide. If programs do not have an article, red wikilinks should not be introduced. --Morenooso (talk) 06:05, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Familia P.luche
Isn't the the Familia P.Luche in prime time too? i thought it was on Saturdays right before Sábado Gigante. This show is in 16:9 1080i HD

La Hora Pico
it was been on the Univision lineup since 2001, where did it go? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.189.21.176 (talk) 03:54, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

Clean-up necessary (good to know info for other regular editors)
There are a number of nonstandard edits going on to this article that violate the Manual of Style.
 * The first and most glaring is a TVGuide type section. No other article on a major network has wiki-tables like this. This type table is appropriate in a list like this one: List of programs broadcast by Fox.
 * Non-referenced items are being added to this article. If this article is to ever be cleaned up, citations are necessary.
 * Overlinkage - items should only be linked once in an article except when in an infobox.
 * Red wikilinks - In most articles, one or two red wikilinks to non-existant articles is permissable. This article has more red wikilinks than just about article I follow.
 * Nonstandard formatting - bolding as in the wiki-tables (which should be removed immediately - if not by another editor by me in two days) is not permitted. Bolding should be used sparingly.
 * Usage of Spanish - MOS permits names as they are written in their native language. However, unless an item is a direct quote or a proper noun, Spanish is not this wiki's language. Ultimas semanas is a good example (but that's in a wiki-table that should be removed any way). The logo is permitted but should be referenced.
 * Citations - any time an item is added to the article, it should involve a reliable source citation for other editors and ultimately Wikipedia readers to follow. Original thought is being added.

These are just some of the problems present in this article. I request other regular editors to enforce Wikipedia standards in cleaning up this article. --Morenooso (talk) 05:53, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Additionally this talkpage can use clean-up. Only comments directed towards improving the article as per the talkerheader at the top of this page should be permitted.
 * Editors making a comment on this talkpage need to sign their comments with --~ (four tildes). --Morenooso (talk) 06:00, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

 * Please take an ongoing interest in this article. I'll chip in if you do. SamEV (talk) 06:20, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the offer of help. I have but it's hard keeping up with some of these anonymous IP's. It would very to get this article to where it rated C on the quality scale. --Morenooso (talk) 06:26, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
 * C? Is it that bad? Now I'm worried.
 * Nah. It'll be a piece of cake. And LOL at Lone Ranger! SamEV (talk) 06:46, 16 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Clean up will commence tomorrow. Wikipedia is not the TVGuide. As per the original clean up recommendations and that wikilink daily TV listings are not allowed into the article. --Morenooso (talk) 04:51, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
 * We are starting to make headway on this article. I would be willing to hear what other regular editors think need to be done. --Morenooso (talk) 03:28, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 * But, since I am on a roll:

 * SUGGESTION #1 - Look at all statements that seek a citation. If it has been more than six months and no has come forth to cite them, they should be removed. --Morenooso (talk) 03:49, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 * SUGGESTION #2 - Remove red wikilinks and non-standard formatting. --Morenooso (talk) 06:14, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 * I'll see what I can do in the next, oh, 36 hours. SamEV (talk) 21:54, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
 * Great. It appears another user attempted to re-insert the tables. Wikipedia is not the TVGuide. --Morenooso (talk) 00:32, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

And 13 years later the quality of the article is still terrible. It is unreadable. The lack of structure makes it impossible to navigate the enormous amount of information. There are sentences that are so long they would make Marcel Proust blush with shame. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:6AE5:0:0:0:24 (talk) 17:28, 16 November 2023 (UTC)

/* External links */ question
Hello, I have a page on my website dedicated to Univision, which includes information about what Channel Univision is broadcast on, list of popular shows, list of related tv stations, whether Univision is broadcast in HD, and which Dish Network channel packages include Univision. I think much of my content is of interest to readers of the Wikipedia page, so I'd like to ask you to reconsider and allow my link? http://www.expertsatellite.com/dish-tv/univision.html  Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.104.4.38 (talk) 03:35, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Is this a page you created? --Morenooso (talk) 03:37, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

English Subtitles
I deleted: '''Univision's major programming is closed captioned in Spanish, but unlike main competitor Telemundo, it almost never provides English subtitles in the CC3 form, except for its Sunday night program Mira Quien Baila. ''', as it is simply not true. I watch Univision in cc3 and a great deal of their programming has English subtitles. "Eva Luna", the televised debate on immigration, and the interview with Barak Obama are some examples, but they are not the only ones. Furthermore, 'almost never' are weasel words, and the citation listed is 12 years old. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.112.47.130 (talk) 20:58, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Why didn't you explain this in an edit summary? Why do I have to follow your edits around to find an explanation? Drmies (talk) 23:25, 19 November 2010 (UTC)

The English CC of Univision has lot of problem. I am watching " Shelter of love" now and can't understand at all. The subtitle is way too off. Telemundo is doing better on the part. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.39.14.79 (talk) 00:18, 15 June 2012 (UTC)
 * I thought I was the only one... it looks like they need to learn how to master the English language and the Spanish grammar, their real weaknesses. Platinum Star (talk) 00:29, 15 June 2012 (UTC)

Old Sitcom in both languages?
Either Univision or Telemundo once aired a family sitcom using both English and Spanish. In either case, if the lead in was in one language, the punch line was in the other! So if the lead in was in English, the punch line was in Spanish and vice versa. On one hand it seemed quite clever. On the other, frustrating to an audience with a knowledge of only one of the two languages - you either understood the lead in or you understood the punch line. You had to guess at the rest! Don't see it listed in either article. Student7 (talk) 15:37, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi. Can you give an idea of when that show aired? It might be easier to locate it with that info. Also, it seems more like something that Telemundo would do. SamEV (talk) 02:03, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Marco Rubio resource

 * GOP Backs Rubio in Univision Clash by Arian Campo-Flores in the Wall Street Journal October 10, 2011.  99.190.85.209 (talk) 20:02, 11 October 2011 (UTC)

Viewership numbers
"It has the largest audience of Spanish-language television viewers in the world according to Nielsen ratings"

Are we sure about that???? The channel broadcasts in the US and Puerto Rico only, surely that limits it's potential viewership compared to networks in countries where Spanish is the national/predominant language like Spain and the Latin Americas.  Fry1989  eh? 01:07, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

 * This kind of statement (even if true at some moment) can quickly become false. Thus a dated past tense should be used. "As of . . . was . . . ." It seemed to me in the past that Telemundo had a much large world audience, if we count all the Telemundo telenovelas that are aired around the globe and even possibly dubbed in other languages, like Russian, Arabic, & French. (PeacePeace (talk) 03:19, 12 January 2019 (UTC))

1991 Logo
The date 1993 for the beginning of the 4-color logo is wrong, this 1991 video (at 1:12) shows that the logo was used back then: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntDr0NbtR3E — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.186.69.48 (talk) 17:40, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

Expansion?
What if Univision was expanded with text with the same article from the Spanish Wikipedia? I'm Sure more text or unused text is in Spainsh there that is not in the English one. I'll check! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dsim64 (talk • contribs) 17:49, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

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Article should be revised using a dated past tense, not present tense.
Present tense statements are very likely to soon become false. For example, "Univision is the largest Hispanic TV network." Maybe in 1 month Azteca gets bigger or Telemundo. Say, "As of [date], Univision was the largest." It is noted that the 1st paragraph has only 1 citation to a undated dead link. (PeacePeace (talk) 03:15, 12 January 2019 (UTC))

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Verbatim

Verbatim means word for word. It may refer to:

 * Verbatim (album), a 1996 album by Bob Ostertag
 * Verbatim (brand), a brand of storage media and flash memory
 * Verbatim (horse), an American racehorse
 * Verbatim (magazine), edited by Erin McKean
 * Verbatim theatre, a form of documentary theatre

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Talk:Battle of El Caney

Given that El Caney was a peripheral combat in the overall Battle for San Juan Hill, a plain and obvious American victory, I've analysed its outcome in the greater strategic context and labelled it "Indecisive", in the same way that the Australians can win some localized battles at Gallipoli but still lose the battle overall. My rationale is this: there was little doubt that the Spaniards would cede the hill at El Caney. It was a question of time: Lawton planned to overrun tEl Caney quickly and surge south to outflank the Spaniards at San Juan. Vara del Rey prevented this. -- Albrecht 05:02, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

More bias here!! No el caney was an american victory. The whole war was a victory. This article is very POV. When you put the losses and say that if spain was 'properly lead'. What does that mean. Who says they weren't? (68.227.211.175 02:23, 22 February 2006 (UTC))

 * (Note: not sure if you realize that I did not write the article text; nor am I convinced that your comment was added with a view to improving the article in any meaningful way) The "indecisive" label is both fair and accurate. Taking an enemy position isn't grounds for victory if the place had value only in context of a larger simultaneous battle. Fundamentally: Vara del Rey succeeded in his objectives; Lawton failed in his. Where's the victory in that? As for the "properly led" comment, I think the problem here has more to do with weasel words and the lack of a citation than with any particular POV. The statement is essentially true, as many historians have indeed remarked: the war was lost by atrocious strategy at the political and army bureaucracy levels, not because of any human or material quality lacking in the Spanish troops or field commanders. El Caney is a good example of this. Albrecht 02:53, 22 February 2006 (UTC)

The Spaniards are moslty if not all are winnners.
The Americans are not destined to beat the Spanish Army. They need overwhelingly(10 times to be exact) better resources to overcome a teenage Spanish Soldier

Yet we kicked your Spanish butts right?--Az81964444 (talk) 03:10, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

WHO DO YOU THINK WON THE WAR IDIOT, you dont belong on wiki, clearly.

The lesser of two evils
who i should feel sorry for, the Americans who suffered 3 times more dead than Spaniards or Vara Del Rey's bravery.
 * It depends, if in the Thermophile battle you felt sorry for the Persian dead.. --213.37.71.217 (talk) 14:55, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

Phyyric Victory
Out of almost 10,000 men, 81 dead and 360 wounded is not a phyyric victory. It was a costly victory for the U.S. obviously but not phyyric.--Az81964444 (talk) 03:13, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

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Category:Ventriloquists

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Talk:John 20:18

I cut this from the end of the article:
 * These include the events related in Mark 28:9 as well as certain incidents in Matthew and Luke.

As Mark only has 16 chapters, this can't be right, and should be verified before returning it to the article to make sure someone didn't copy and paste something that was really about something else. Wesley 05:04, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Thank you for catching my error, it should be Matthew 28:9. - SimonP 14:45, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)

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Aghwee the Sky Monster

Aghwee The Sky Monster (空の怪物アグイー, Sora no kaibutsu Aguii) is a 1964 short story/novel by the Japanese writer Kenzaburō Ōe. It has been translated into English by John Nathan and published in the volume Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, along with the title story, Prize Stock and The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away. Aghwee was one of the first in Ōe's series of stories inspired by the birth of his autistic son Hikari.

Plot
Aghwee opens with the anonymous narrator, a 28-year-old man, talking about the near-blindness in one of his eyes, the result of an attack by a group of children that year. Because of his blurred vision he sees "two worlds superimposed". The attack had prompted him to remember the events of the story, which took place ten years earlier, and the memory freed him from hatred of his assailants.

The narrator had worked as a companion to a composer, D, then aged 28, who had (apparently) gone mad after the death of his infant son. D says that when he goes outside, he is visited by the spirit of his son, who swoops down out of the sky: "a fat baby in a white cotton nightgown, big as a kangaroo". D talks to Aghwee but refuses to interact with the people around him, saying that he is no longer living in the present time. The narrator is told by D's estranged wife that D had killed their son, starving him because he was born with a brain hernia (which later turned out to be a benign tumour). 'Aghwee' was the only word the child had spoken. The wife accuses D of fleeing reality. She gives the narrator a key which turns out to unlock a box of D's compositions, which D burns and buries. D takes the narrator to various places where D had previously enjoyed himself, as well as sending him to inform D's former girlfriend that he will no longer see her.

Matters reach a crisis when a pack of dogs (of which Aghwee is said to be afraid) comes across D and the narrator while D is talking to Aghwee. However it is the narrator who panics until he feels a hand on his shoulder, "gentle as the essence of all gentleness" which he says he knows to be the D's but imagines to be Aghwee's.  D then tells the narrator more about his experience of the world, saying that the sky contains all those whom a person has lost; he stopped living in the present to prevent the number of figures floating in his sky from increasing.

The story reaches an end with the death of D on Christmas Eve. D begins talking to Aghwee while he and the narrator are out in the city. While waiting to cross a road, "D cried out and thrust both arms in front of him as if he were trying to rescue something". D is injured and is taken to hospital. As he lies dying, the narrator asks him if he had simply made up Aghwee as a cover for his suicide, and says that he himself was about to believe in the spirit. In answer D merely smiles; whether mocking or "friendly mischief" the narrator cannot tell.

In a coda, the narrator returns to the recent incident when he was attacked by a group of children, who unaccountably became frightened and started to throw stones at him. He sensed "a being I knew and missed" — Aghwee — leaving him and returning to the sky. He no longer hated the children, and started to think of the figures who had filled his own sky over the intervening decade, associating the "gratuitous sacrifice" of his eye with perception of those figures.

Reception
This story has been lauded by comparative literary critics, being compared even to famous Japanese short story author Akutagawa Ryunosuke.

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Hugh Orde

Sir Hugh Stephen Roden Orde, (born 27 August 1958) is a retired British police officer who was the president of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), representing the 44 police forces of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Between 2002 and 2009, he was the Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI).

Career
Orde joined London's Metropolitan Police Service in 1977. He rose quickly through the ranks, becoming a Superintendent in the Territorial Support Group. Later, as Commander responsible for the service's Community Safety and Partnership section, Orde took part in the latter phase of the enquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence and its subsequent handling by the police. He became a member (known as a 'graduate') of Common Purpose UK and attended the Matrix course in West London in 1994/95.

While he was a Deputy assistant commissioner, Orde was assigned to the senior staff of the Stevens Report, which investigated government collusion in sectarian killings in Northern Ireland. He was appointed as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2001.

Hugh Orde was appointed Chief Constable of the PSNI (which replaced the Royal Ulster Constabulary) on 29 May 2002, taking over from Acting Chief Constable Colin Cramphorn on 1 September 2002. He was knighted for his services to policing in 2005.

In April 2009, he announced he was stepping down as Chief Constable of Northern Ireland to become president of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), assuming the position in the following autumn. In 2010 he was awarded the Queen's Police Medal.

In a 2010 speech at Oxford in which he discussed the threat of the dissident Irish republican campaign, Orde suggested that "To borrow a phrase from the past, we may be at an 'acceptable level of violence'—albeit at a far lower level than when the phrase was first coined", given that dissident republicans were unlikely to respond to negotiation. Democratic Unionist Party MLA Jimmy Spratt called Orde's comments "outrageous" and an insult to those killed by dissident republicans.

Orde holds a degree in Public Administration (BA) from the University of Kent. After his retirement from Northern Ireland he became director of the Police National Assessment Centre.

Police Roll of Honour Trust
In November 2013, Sir Hugh Orde took up the role of Patron of the national police charity the Police Roll of Honour Trust, joining Sir Stephen House and Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe as joint patrons.

Honours

 * He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Civil Law (DCL) from the University of Kent in July 2005.

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Category:Charlotte Hornets players

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Talk:Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport

Untitled
I think it's fairly obvious that this is the correct English name for 广州白云国际机场... but what should the previous airport, also called 广州白云国际机场, be called? (It's now under Baiyun International Airport.) I would propose something like Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (old), or alternatively the former location (what district was it?) in parentheses. Jpatokal 05:09, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Both the new and the old airports are called "广州白云国际机场", I think to use "Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport(old/closed)" to describe the old one is appropriate. The old airport is also in Baiyun District.

--Eternal 03:51, 9 May 2005 (UTC)

I do agree that we should make some change on the title of these two topics, since both the previous and present airport of Guangzhou are called "Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport" (广州白云国际机场). I mean why not change the now-showing Baiyun International Airport into Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport (1933~2004) as what chinese Wikipedia did?Tsungyenlee (converse)、(Contribs) 15:54, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

Lead
Please consider moving all the alternate information in the lead (different languages and scripts etc) and put them in the infobox instead.--Filll 17:23, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Please gain concensus to remove alternate language information from all articles in wikipedia before making such requests in individual articles.--Huaiwei 03:21, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

Northwest service ending?
What's the source that Northwest service to/from Tokyo-Narita is ending on the second of March? Heimstern Läufer (talk) 06:02, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

 * Just check the schedule. There are no flights after March 2009. HkCaGu (talk) 19:15, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * What schedule? Where? Heimstern Läufer (talk) 00:24, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Uh, Northwest Airlines' own website? HkCaGu (talk) 08:02, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm looking there and not finding it. Could you possibly give me a more specific link? I'm just trying to verify this, that's all. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 08:15, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Wait, I believe I found it. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 08:18, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * OK, confirmed, thanks. I'll see if we can't cite that there. Heimstern Läufer (talk) 08:24, 3 September 2008 (UTC)

Wikilinks - add by me: five big airlines
I do wikilink of big airlines. Other airlines still required of wikilinks, but too much work for me. Please give some assistants. --B767-500 (talk) 17:17, 19 August 2012 (UTC)

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Carlos Coelho (politician)

Carlos Miguel Maximiano de Almeida Coelho (born 20 May 1960) is a Portuguese politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament from 1998 until 2019, and again since 2023. He is a member of the Social Democratic Party; part of the EPP Group.

Member of the European Parliament
From 11 July 2000 to 6 September 2001, Coelho served as the chairman of the Temporary Committee on the ECHELON Interception System.

From 26 January 2006 to 14 February 2007, Coelho was chairman of the Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners. In addition to his committee assignments, he is a member of the European Parliament Intergroup on Children's Rights and of the European Parliament Intergroup on Disability, Member.

He returned to the European Parliament in July 2023, following the conviction of Álvaro Amaro.

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Mayfair (disambiguation)

Mayfair is an area in the City of Westminster in London, England.

Mayfair may also refer to:

Fictional characters

 * Katherine Mayfair, in TV series Desperate Housewives
 * Adam Mayfair, Katherine's second husband
 * Dylan Mayfair, Katherine's daughter
 * Monk Mayfair, a Doc Savage character
 * a family of witches, in the novel series Lives of the Mayfair Witches by Anne Rice

Other uses in arts and entertainment

 * Mayfair Festival of the Arts, an annual festival in Allentown, Pennsylvania
 * Mayfair (film), a 2018 South African action drama
 * Mayfair (magazine), a British adult magazine for men
 * "Mayfair", a song by Nick Drake from the 1987 album Time of No Reply
 * Mayfair Pictures, an American film production and distribution company 1931–1934

Businesses

 * Mayfair Bank, now CIB Kenya, a commercial bank in Kenya
 * Mayfair Carriage Co, a former British coachbuilder and car dealer
 * Mayfair Games, an American publisher of board and roleplaying games
 * Mayfair Markets, now Gelson's Markets, a California, U.S. supermarket chain
 * Mayfair Mall, in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, U.S.
 * Mayfair Shopping Centre, in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
 * Mayfair Studios, a recording studio in London 1960s–2008
 * Mayfair Tankers, a merchant shipping company
 * Mayfair, a mall in the Coconut Grove neighborhood of Miami, Florida

Entertainment venues

 * Mayfair Ballroom, a former venue in Newcastle upon Tyne, England
 * Mayfair Club, a defunct cardroom in New York City, U.S.
 * Mayfair Hotel (disambiguation)
 * Mayfair Music Hall, Santa Monica, California, demolished in 2010
 * Mayfair Theatre (disambiguation)

Schools

 * Mayfair Academy of Fine Arts, a dance school in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
 * Mayfair High School, in Lakewood, California, U.S.
 * Truman College, formerly Mayfair College, Chicago, U.S.

People

 * Billy Mayfair (born 1966), American professional golfer
 * Mitzi Mayfair (1914–1976), American dancer and actress born Emylyn Pique
 * Mayfair Yang (fl. from 1986), a Taiwanese-American cultural anthropologist

Canada

 * Mayfair, Calgary, Alberta
 * Mayfair, Saskatchewan
 * Mayfair, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
 * Mayfair, Southwest Middlesex, Ontario

United States

 * Mayfair, California (disambiguation)
 * Mayfair, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 * Mayfair (Washington, D.C.), a neighborhood
 * Mayfair, a neighborhood in Albany Park, Chicago, Illinois
 * Mayfair station
 * Mayfair (Jenkinsville, South Carolina), a historic home

Elsewhere

 * Mayfair, Johannesburg
 * Mayfair, New Zealand

Sports

 * Mayfair Open, a 1959 LPGA golf tournament
 * Mayfair Sporting Club, London, an organiser of boxing dinner events

Transportation

 * Dodge Mayfair, a 1953–1959 automobile
 * Packard Mayfair, a 1951–1953 automobile

Other uses

 * Mayfair (cigarette), a cigarette brand
 * Mayfair salad dressing

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Talk:Bronzino

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Bronzino is the name by which every educated person knows Agnolo di Cosimo. The affectation of a supposed "correctness' in order to appear more knowledgeable than we are is a commonplace of pretentious behavior. --Wetman 05:12, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the constructive criticism Anilocra 09:59, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * "Agnolo di Cosimo" should be sorted under the artist's working name of Bronzino. --Jose Madrid

 * Now that Parmigianino has been moved from Giovanni Francesco Maria Mazzola based on the Naming conventions (common names), shouldn't Agnolo di Cosimo yield place to Bronzino? InvisibleSun 07:03, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes it certainly should! Johnbod 04:38, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I have placed a move request to move to Bronzino Johnbod 12:58, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Should there be some mention of the Terry Gilliam/Monty Python connection here? Yes, that is indeed Cupid's foot that comes crashing down at the end of the Python opening titles... Lee M 03:55, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * now in Johnbod 12:58, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

List of Works
There's a list of works here (Catholic Encyclopedia). JASpencer 11:24, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Unfortunately, as with most EB & CE lists, about 25% will have been sold on or moved, and another 25% re-attributed to his workshop etc in the intevening century. Of the 4 they mention for the National Gallery, London, only one is still attributed to him - 1 is "studio of", 1 "follower of" and one has presumably gone to another painter entirely (the knight). WGA or Actcyclopedia web-sites will be more accurate  Johnbod 04:38, 31 January 2007 (UTC)

Requested move

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the . Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

PAGE MOVED per discussion below. -GTBacchus(talk) 08:56, 10 February 2007 (UTC) Agnolo di Cosimo → Bronzino — B is currently a redirect to Agnolo di Cosimo. See article and talk page; Bronzino is much the most commonly used name Johnbod 12:32, 4 February 2007 (UTC) - Discussion section created by Sig Pig  |SEND - OVER  05:26, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Survey

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Survey - in support of the move

 * 1) Support as nom (see previous discussion above also) Johnbod 14:41, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) CARAVAGGISTI 17:46, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 3) InvisibleSun 18:37, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Discussion

 * Add any additional comments:

As the person responsible for this page being found under Agnolo di Cosimo rather than Bronzino, almost two years ago, I thought I'd better explain myself. Basically, the page was created after I watched a Terry Gilliam documentary on his Monty Python animations (sorry, art fans!). Gilliam used "Agnolo di Cosimo" throughout, so I took my lead from him. I don't think moving the page is in any way controvertial. It's only here because I'm clearly not an educated person :) Anyway, as all the redirects exist already, and there has been calls for it to be renamed since about four hours after the page was created, this process seems a little unneccessary...someone should be bold. Anilocra 22:08, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Fair enough - I tried to do that, but because Bronzino already exists as a redirect it appears you have to go through this process. Johnbod 02:11, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

Unsourced, Contradictory, POV Statement

 * When attempting to display strong emotion, his Mannerism becomes unconvincing, verging on Academic art.

The allusion to Academic art (as, apparently, some degenerate form of art) is uncalled for, being inherently POV. In addition, the following statement contradicts the above, as you will see:

 * Bronzino's skill with the nude was better deployed in the celebrated Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time, which conveys strong feelings of eroticism under the pretext of a moralizing allegory.

The old woman at left is is certainly rather emotional, as are the two figures at top to a lesser degree. And yet this painting is mentioned right after the "unconvincing" statement. I will remove this if no one expresses objection. --Vlmastra 01:22, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

"Mannered," etc.
I know a little bit about Bronzino, so I took some liberties with my edits, but certainly hope I didn't step on anyone's toes! I agree with Vlmastra that there are some inconsistencies with the use of the term "mannered," which is probably just due to the instability of the label itself (see for example the classic critical essay by John Sherman "Maniera as an Aesthetic Ideal," 1963). If it's going to be used as a yardstick against which to measure Bronzino's success or failure, then it really ought to be defined here. This is doubly the case as I don't think there's any evidence that Bronzino saw himself as working in a "mannerist" style - this is a later categorical system. Thus I removed some of that language, until such a time that the original author (? or someone) could clarify it.

I'm also removing the reference to this mystery painting Resurrection of the Virgin Mary because I'm not sure which one it is... In other words, if it exists, it's so obscure that finding an image of it is almost impossible. If someone has an image of it, that would be great and really helpful to understanding the larger point. Also, maybe if the argument is that this work betrays a 'moral crisis,' then a further explanation (as to how and where we see this crisis in the painting) would be lovely. Ummm, some new content - I do wonder about that Dante painting supposedly in the NGA, D.C. because it's not listed on the website and very seldom referenced in publication. Perhaps not accepted as a Bronzino work? Is there some provenance issue with it? Strange - well, maybe that bit should be removed; if anyone knows something about it, I'd love to hear! Thanks! Isocephaly (talk) 20:43, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Oh, and one other thing - right now the allegorical work is sort of smushed in with religious work - strange bedfellows! If someone would like to expand and separate them, it seems that would be more appropriate. I feel a little tired of Bronzino just now, but I recognize that I left that sort of dangling...Isocephaly (talk) 20:55, 27 April 2008 (UTC

A comment from a reader: I don't know if or where this comment should be, but I want to compliment the writer of "Bronzino" on his graceful and elegant style. Thank you for a fine article. June 27, 2021 141.149.63.177 (talk) 18:43, 27 June 2021 (UTC)

New images from Google Art Project
I've recently uploaded 19 new images of works by Brozino at commons:Category:Google Art Project works by Agnolo Bronzino. Please have a look and use any that are useful. Dcoetzee 06:37, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

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Maria da Assunção Esteves

Maria da Assunção Andrade Esteves (born 15 October 1956) is a Portuguese politician who was President of the Assembly of the Republic of Portugal from 2011 to 2015. She was a Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party–People's Party coalition, part of the European People's Party–European Democrats group, from 2004 to 2009.

Life and career
Born in Valpaços, Valpaços, Assunção Esteves holds both a bachelor's degree and a master's degree in law from the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon, where she was an assistant between 1989 and 1999. During that time, she was also a Justice of the Portuguese Constitutional Court from 1989 to 1998.

On 21 June 2011 she became the first female President of the Assembly of the Republic. At the time, being unable to receive both her salary of €5,219.15 as President of the Assembly and her retirement pension of €7,255, which she started receiving at the age of 42, for having been a Justice of the Portuguese Constitutional Court, she chose to keep her retirement pension. Additionally, she received €2,133 for work expenses.

National

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Foreign

 * 🇲🇽 Mexico: Sash of the Order of the Aztec Eagle (17 August 2015)
 * 🇵🇪 Peru: Grand Cross of the Order of the Sun (26 July 2013)

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Kiho-tumu

In the mythology of the Tuamotu archipelago, Kiho-tumu (or Kiho) represents the supreme god (Sykes and Kendall 2003:108).

The Milky Way is said to be his 'sacred ocean' and the dark rift within the Milky Way is referred to as his sacred ship, called 'the Long Shark' (Beckwith 1970:236).

On the other hand, research by anthropologist Kenneth Emory led him to doubt the reliability of Stimson's sources:

"These details concerning the principal informants for the esoteric cult of Kio or Kiho, coming to my attention, have made it more and more difficult for me to accept their accounts and esoteric versions of chants, unsupported by trustworthy confirmation. Both Bishop Paul Mazé and I have earnestly searched for corroboration and have not only failed to find any, but have come across so much reliable contrary evidence (now on file at the Bishop Museum) that we are left completely without faith in the cult."

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Duarte Freitas

Duarte Nuno D'Ávila Martins de Freitas (born 10 August 1966 in São Roque do Pico, Azores) is a Portuguese politician and former member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party–People's Party coalition; part of the European People's Party–European Democrats group. He became the leader of the Azorean Social Democratic Party (PSD/A), following the 2012 Regional Elections.

Biography
He concluded his secondary school education in the 1983-1984 school year, from the Escola Secundária de Angra do Heroísmo and entered the Faculty of Economics at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1984-1985 year). In 1989-90 finished his licentiate degree in the organization and management of businesses, from the University of the Azores. He is a member of the Order of Economists (Ordem dos Economistas) and member of the Chartered Accountants (Câmara dos Técnicos Oficiais de Contas).

Career
His professional career was involved in the regional public administration, and was active in the business-side of the agricultural sector, such as his roles in the Associação de Agricultores da Ilha do Pico (Agricultural Association for the Island of Pico) and Federação Agrícola dos Açores (Agricultural Federation of the Azores), respectively.

Duarte Freitas was actively linked to local, regional and European politics. He was the vice-president of the municipal government of São Roque do Pico, president of the Associação de Municípios do Triângulo (Municipal Association for the Triangle) and president of the municipal assembly of São Roque do Pico.

From 1996 to 2004, he was member of the regional Legislative Assembly, member of the parliamentary commission on the Economy, and vice-president of the PSD/A parliamentary group.

Between 2004 and 2009, he was a European parliamentary deputy, and effective member of various commissions (specifically the Agriculture and Rural Development, Fishing, Climate Change, Environment and Public Health) and participated as auxiliary member or member of the European delegations to Canada and Mercosur. As deputy he participated in the elaboration of several funding reports, among them the POSEI/Agricultura and POSEI/Pescas, in addition to authoring 600 proposals for alterations to 100 documents, and was responsible for the visit by the European Parlimaentary commission on Agriculture and Rural Development to the Azores. In addition he was a speaker to diverse conferences and lectures at academic institutions.

As a deputy for the island of Pico, he became the president of the regional Political Commission of the PSD/Açores and parliamentary leader on 10 February 2011, succeeded António Soares Marinho. He announced his intention to become a candidate to replace Berta Cabral, following the 2012 regional elections, when the party lost to the PS/Açores. On 19 December 2012 he was elected leader of the party, with 92.6% support, promising "enthusiasm and motivation" to a position of "enormous responsibility". He was reelected in 2015, with 92.4% support.

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Vasco Graça Moura

Vasco Navarro da Graça Moura, GCSE GCIH OSE (3 January 1942 – 27 April 2014) was a Portuguese lawyer, writer, translator and politician, son of Francisco José da Graça Moura and wife Maria Teresa Amado da Cunha Seixas Navarro de Castro, of Northern Portugal bourgeoisie.

He was a Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party–People's Party coalition; part of the European People's Party–European Democrats group.

He was Library Director of the Cultural Foundation Calouste Gulbekian where in Paris he presented in 2011 the novels Rosa by Mário Cláudio and Noir Toscan by Anna Luisa Pignatelli, published in 2009 by Éditions de la Différence, a Publishing House founded in Paris by the Portuguese poet Joaquim Vital and his wife Colette Lambrichs.

He married three times, firstly in 1964 to Maria Fernanda de Carvalho de Sá Dantas, secondly in 1985 to Clara Crabbé da Rocha (daughter of Miguel Torga) and thirdly in 1987 to Maria do Rosário Bandeira de Lima de Sousa Machado (b. c. 1951), former and first wife of António Carlos Guerra Raposo de Magalhães, who died in 2004). He died on 27 April 2014 at the age of 72, after a long battle against cancer.

His published works include:

Poetry

 * Modo Mudando (Changing Ways) (1963);
 * Semana Inglesa (English Week) (1965);
 * O Mês de Dezembro e Outros Poemas (The Month of December and Other Poems) (1976);
 * A Sombra das Figuras (The Shadow of Figures) (1985);
 * O Concerto Campestre (The Field Concert) (1993);
 * Sonetos Familiares (Familiar Sonnets) (1994);
 * Uma Carta no Inverno (A Map in the Winter) (1997);
 * Nó cego, o Regresso (Blind knot, Return) (2000);
 * Testamento de VGM (VGM's Will) (2001);
 * Letras do Fado Vulgar (Lyrics of Common Fado) (2001);
 * Antologia dos Sessenta Anos (Anthology of Seventy Years) (2002);
 * Variações Metálicas (Metallic Changes) 2004);
 * Mais Fados & Companhia (More Fados and Company) (2004);
 * Os nossos tristes assuntos (Our Sad Affairs) (2006);
 * O Caderno da Casa das Nuvens (The Notebook from the Home of the Clouds) (2010);
 * Poesia Reunida (Poetry Reunited), vol. 1 (2012);
 * Poesia Reunida, vol. 2 (2012);
 * A Puxar ao Sentimento - 31 Fadinhos de Autor (Verging on Feeling - 31 Little Fados by the Author) (2018, posthumous)

Essays

 * Luís de Camões: Alguns Desafios (Some Challenges) (1980);
 * Caderno de Olhares (List of Views) (1983);
 * Camões e a Divina Proporção (Camões and the Divine Ratio) (1985);
 * Os Penhascos e a Serpente (The Rocke and the Serpent) (1987);
 * Várias Vozes (Various Voices) (1987);
 * Fernão Gomes e o Retrato de Camões (Fernão Gomes and the Picture of Camões) (1987);
 * Cristóvão Colombo e a floresta das asneiras (Christopher Columbus and the forest of blunders) (1991);
 * Sobre Camões, Gândavo e Outras Personagens (On Camões, Gandâvo and Other Characters) 2000);
 * Adamastor, Nomen Gigantis (Adamastor, the Name of the Giant) (2000);
 * Páginas do Porto (Pages from Porto) (2001);
 * Fantasia e Objectividade nos Descobrimentos Portugueses (Fantasy and Objectivity in the Portuguese Age of Discovery) (2006);
 * Acordo Ortográfico: A Perspectiva do Desastre (Orthographic Agreement: Perspective on Disaster) (2008);
 * Diálogo com (algumas) imagens (Dialogue with (some) images) (2009);
 * Amália Rodrigues: dos poetas populares aos poetas cultivados (from popular poets to cultured poets) (2010);
 * Miguel Veiga - Cinco Esboços para um Retrato (Five Sketches for a Portrait) (2011);
 * Os Lusíadas para Gente Nova (The Lusiads for the New Person) (2012);
 * A Identidade Cultural Europeia (The European Cultural Identity) (2013);
 * Discursos Vários Poéticos (Various Poetic Discourses) (2013);
 * Retratos de Camões (Portraits of Camões) (2014).

 * Novellas

 * O pequeno-almoço do Sargento Beauchamp: (uma novela) (Sergeant Beauchamp's breakfast; a novella) (2008)
 * Os Desmandos de Violante (The Disobediences of Violence(?)) (2011)

 * Novels

 * Quatro Últimas Canções (Four Last Songs) (1987);
 * Naufrágio de Sepúlveda (Wreck of Sepúlveda) (1988);
 * Partida de Sofonisba às seis e doze da manhã (1993);
 * A Morte de Ninguém (The Death of No One) (1998);
 * Meu Amor, Era de Noite (My Love, it wasn't of Night) (2001);
 * Enigma de Zulmira (Mystery of Zulmira) (2002);
 * Por detrás da magnólia (Behind the Magnolia) (2008);
 * Alfreda ou a Quimera (Alfred or the Chimera) (2008);
 * Morte no Retrovisor (Death in the Rearview Mirror) (2008);
 * O Mestre de Música (The Master of Music) (2015) (continuation of the novella Sargeant Beauchamp's breakfast);
 * As botas do Sargento (The Sergeant's boots)

 * Diaries and Chronicles

 * Circunstâncias Vividas (Lived Circumstances) (1995);
 * Contra Bernardo Soares e Outras Observações (Against Bernardo Soares and Other Observations) (1999).

 * Translations

 * Fedra, by Racine
 * Andromache, by Racine
 * Berenice, by Racine
 * Le Cid, by Corneille
 * The Divine Comedy, by Dante
 * Cyrano de Bergerac, by Edmond Rostand
 * The Misanthrope, by Molière
 * Sonnets, by Shakespeare
 * François Villon's will and some other ballads (1997)
 * La Vita Nuova, by Dante Alighieri
 * Some love poems, by Ronsard
 * Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, de Rainer Maria Rilke
 * Triumphs, by Petrarch
 * Rhymes, by Petrarch
 * The Poem on the Disaster of Lisbon, by Voltaire

Antologias

 * As mais belas Histórias Portuguesas de Natal (Some more lovely Portuguese Stories of Christmas);
 * 366 Poemas que Falam de Amor (366 Poems that Talk about Love);
 * Visto da Margem Sul do Rio o Porto (View at the South Bank of the Porto River)
 * O Binómio de Newton e a Vénus de Milo. (The Binomial of Newton and Milo's Venus).

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Sérgio Marques

Mário Sérgio Quaresma Gonçalves Marques (born 25 February 1957) is a Portuguese lawyer and politician, who served as member of the Assembly of the Republic. He was the Regional Secretary of Parliamentary and European Affairs in the Regional Government of Madeira, between 2015 and 2017, in the first regional government led by Miguel Albuquerque. He was also a member of the European Parliament for the PPD/PSD from 1999 to 2009, when he refused to reinstate the lists due to disagreement with the then chairman of the PPD/PSD-Madeira Political Commission and president of the Regional Government of Madeira, Alberto João Jardim.

Early life
He graduated in Law from the University of Lisbon in 1980. Later, in 1986, he completed a postgraduate degree in European Studies from the University of Coimbra. He has worked as a lawyer since 1982. He was a civil servant in the staff of the Autonomous Regional Administration of Madeira from 1981 to 1984, Regional Director of planning for the Regional Government of Madeira between 1988 and 1989, where he also managed several companies in the region, related to the shipping sector, harbors and freight operations between 1989 and 1999.

Political career
His political career includes, among others, the positions of Vice-President of JSD-Madeira (1984–86), PSD-Madeira Party's Youth, Member of the Legislative Assembly of Madeira (1984–1999) and Member of the European Parliament (1999–2009).

In the European Parliament, he was a member of the Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrat) and European Democrats, of the Committee on Regional Development, alternate member of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Vice-President of the Delegation for relations with South Africa, Coordinator of the Informal Group on the Outermost Regions and alternate member of the delegation for relations with the Andean Community.

He announced his candidacy for the presidency of PSD-Madeira on October 30, 2013, having lost. As a motto he proposed a 'Trust Pact' based on the reform of the political system, one of the five pillars of his electoral program. Among its most emblematic proposals are the preferential vote, the referendum to revoke political office, the opening of party elections for supporters and the re-establishment of the maritime connection between Madeira and mainland Portugal.

On April 20, 2015, he was a member of the 12th Regional Government of Madeira, chaired by Miguel Albuquerque, his opponent in the PSD-Madeira caucus serving as Regional Secretary for Parliamentary and European Affairs.

Member of the Assembly of the Republic
Following the winning of seat in the 2019 Elections, Sérgio Marques assumes office as member of the Portuguese parliament and taking seat in the National Defense, European Affairs and Culture and Communications committees.

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João de Deus Pinheiro

João de Deus Rogado Salvador Pinheiro, GCC GCIH (born 11 July 1945), is a Portuguese politician and former Member of the European Parliament for the Social Democratic Party–People's Party coalition; part of the European People's Party–European Democrats group.

Academic career
João de Deus Pinheiro has a licentiate degree in chemical-industrial engineering by the Instituto Superior Técnico (1970) and a doctorate degree in the same field by the University of Birmingham (1976). Professor at the University of Lourenço Marques (Mozambique) from 1970 to 1974, and in the University of Minho after the Carnation Revolution and his return to Portugal.

Political career
He was Minister for Education 1985–1987, Minister for Foreign Affairs 1987–1992; in that role he was one of the EU negotiators in Brioni Agreement that ended ten-day war in Slovenia in 1991; Member of the European Parliament and European Commissioner.

Life after politics
João de Deus Pinheiro was elected member of the Assembly of the Republic in 2009 elections for Braga, but resigned shortly after for health reasons.

After leaving the European Parliament, he has been member of the board of several companies.

He is also known as a writer and amateur golfer.

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Liu Shou-cheng

Liu Shou-cheng (born 20 March 1951) is a Taiwanese politician. A member of the Democratic Progressive Party, he served as the magistrate of Yilan County from 1997 to 2005.

Education
Liu holds a bachelor's degree from National Chengchi University and master's and doctoral degrees from Fu Jen Catholic University, both in Taipei.

Personal
Liu is married to Tien Chiu-chin.

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