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Dan Michel of Northgate

Dan Michel of Northgate (fl. 1340) was an English writer, the author of the Ayenbite of Inwyt.

Biography
Nothing is known of Dan Michael except what can be gathered from his work and from the fact that Northgate is still the name of an area of the city of Canterbury in Kent, England. His only known work is a literal translation in the Kentish dialect of a French treatise entitled La Somme des Vices et des Vertus (also known as Le Miroir du monde or Le Livre des commandemens, &c.), which was written in 1279 by Laurentius Gallus, a Dominican friar and confessor to Philip III of France. This work was translated into Flemish, Catalan, Spanish and Italian, and appears in no less than six English translations.

Dan Michel's autograph manuscript is preserved in the British Library as Arundel MS 57, which states that the work was completed in the year 1340 on the eve of the apostles Simon and Jude by Dan Michel of Northgate, a brother of the cloister of St Augustine of Canterbury. The value of the book is chiefly philological as an authenticated and dated example of the southern dialect. The Ayenbite of Inwyt was edited for the Roxburghe Club by the Rev. Joseph Stevenson in 1855, and for the Early English Text Society by Richard Morris in 1876.

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What a horrible horrible article.(anonymous poster 07:25, 16 February 2005)

Well I agree someone very foolishly had included unending opinion in this article. I'm rewriting it to be unbiased. Shouldn't take awhile. - I Am The Walrus Ok so I edited it now, it is still very brief, but I went into as best I could. I cut out all of the biased remarks, as best I could. Please edit if need be. Thanks. - I Am The Walrus

Yeah, I'm gonna neutralize a couple of bits myself. It's enough to note that the album included a bonus disc of live recordings; whether or not this "seemingly made the album more attractive" is an opinion, and an unverifiable one at that.Vonbontee (talk) 18:00, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

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Fifth?
It states that it is the fifth album with Yoko Ono. As far as I can tell, it should be sixth. Unfinished 01 Two Virgins, Unfinished 02 Life with the Lions, Wedding Album, Plastic Ono Band/John Lennon and Imagine make five, and then this is the sixth.Andreas Kolle (talk) 11:17, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

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Lines from My Grandfather's Forehead

Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead, is a British comedy radio sketch show, first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 1971. Two series of eight episodes were broadcast, the first from 15 February 1971 to 5 April 1971, the second was transmitted from 9 July 1972 to 26 July 1972. In addition, there were two special episodes. A Christmas special, entitled Lines From My Grandfather Christmas's Forehead, was broadcast on 24 December 1971; and a compilation of selected items from past editions, under the title Just A Few Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead, was broadcast on 27 August 1977.

The show was created by BBC Radio producer John Fawcett Wilson and Ronnie Barker and featured Barker together with Terence Brady and Pauline Yates and Gordon Langford at the piano. Some editions also featured guitarist Dick Abell. The theme music was a short excerpt taken from Divertissement by Jacques Ibert.

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Calappa hepatica

Calappa hepatica, the reef box crab, is a common benthic species of box crab of tropical and subtropical parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans and the Red Sea.

Description
Calappa hepatica grows to a carapace width of about 4 cm; the length is always less than two thirds of its width. The posterior portion of the shell has broad extensions with several blunt teeth on the margin, and these largely conceal the walking legs. The carapace and the exposed parts of the chelae (pincers) are a mottled greyish-brown colour, and are covered with small raised tubercles of various sizes, making the crabs well-camouflaged when semi-submerged in the sand. The chelae are large and powerful, and specially adapted to the crab's feeding behaviour, the crushing and eating of molluscs.

Distribution and habitat
Calappa hepatica is found in the tropical and subtropical Indo-Pacific region, its range extending from the Red Sea to Hawaii, French Polynesia, Cocos Island and northern Australia. Its typical habitat is on the sandy or shelly sand seabed, often in reef habitats, and seagrass meadows, at depths down to about 150 m.

Ecology
During the day, Calappa hepatica remains buried in sand with only the area round the eyes protruding. It emerges at night to hunt for prey, and can rebury itself in the substrate efficiently and fast if danger threatens. It is a predator, and largely feeds on bivalve and gastropod molluscs, as well as hermit crabs. It has a specially adapted right chela which it uses to break open the shell of its prey; for this purpose it has a large accessory tooth located at the base of the hinged part of the claw, which is located opposite a flat plate on the fixed part, the two working together like a vice. After breaking open the shell, it uses its left pincer, which is longer and more pointed than the right, to pick out the soft tissues.

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Bayside Shakedown

Bayside Shakedown (踊る大捜査線) is a Japanese police comedy-drama television series originally broadcast by the Fuji Television group in 1997. The series was developed by Ryoichi Kimizuka and stars Oda Yūji, Toshirō Yanagiba, Eri Fukatsu, Chosuke Ikariya, Miki Mizuno, and Yūsuke Santamaria. In 1998 and 1999, an English-subtitled version of the series was broadcast in the United States on the International Channel, under the title The Spirited Criminal Investigative Network.

The series spawned three television films and a stage play, along with six theatrically released films that were produced following the end of the show. The first of the theatrical films, Bayside Shakedown, was released in 1998, and the sixth and final film, Bayside Shakedown The Final, was released in 2012. The first Bayside Shakedown film was a major box office hit in Japan, earning 10.1 billion yen (84 million U.S. dollars), and was the third highest grossing live-action film in Japanese box office history. The second film in the series, Bayside Shakedown 2, earned over $165 million at the box office, making it the highest-grossing live-action Japanese film on domestic screens.

Story summary
Bayside Shakedown takes place in the fictional Wangan Precinct of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department. Unlike most police dramas which tend to focus on action and car chases, Bayside Shakedown is largely concerned with the bureaucratic issues of the police department that are very present in many other sectors of Japanese society. The series depicted police work as office politics under a slightly different environment, complete with bureaucratic red tape, lethargic civil servants, bosses more interested in playing golf and saving face than solving crimes, interference from politicians, and conflict between police headquarters and the local officers.

The officers depicted in Bayside Shakedown are only permitted to carry firearms during major emergencies. Fuji TV used the fictional "All officers are to be armed" (拳銃携帯命令 Kenjū Keitai Meirei) order, which the portrayed bureaucracy is often reluctant to hand down. (In reality, it is compulsory for a uniformed officer to be armed, and plainclothes officers are required to be armed if they expect to be exposed to any danger.)

The main character of the series is a young detective named Shunsaku Aoshima (played by Oda Yūji). Originally a corporate salesman, Aoshima decided to join the police department out of heroic idealism, expecting a life of adventure and excitement. Once inside, he is completely underwhelmed by the reality of police work, finding it dishearteningly similar to corporate employment. Throughout the series, he strives against the obstacles of bureaucratic indifference to help people and pursue his ideals of what a police officer should be, often with humorous results.

Cast

 * Yūji Oda as Shunsaku Aoshima
 * Toshirō Yanagiba as Shinji Muroi
 * Eri Fukatsu as Sumire Onda
 * Chosuke Ikariya as Heihachirō Waku
 * Miki Mizuno as Yukino Kashiwagi
 * Yūsuke Santamaria as Masayoshi Mashita
 * Sōichirō Kitamura as Sōichirō Kanda
 * Satoru Saitō as Harumi Akiyama
 * Takehiko Ono as Kengo Hakamada
 * Kenta Satoi as Jirō Uozumi
 * Akira Hamada as Shimazu
 * Shigemitsu Ogi as Masakazu Ichikura
 * Yuki Uchida as Natsumi Shinohara

 * Guests
 * Yoshimasa Kondo as Fumio Tanaka (episode 1)
 * Toshihito Ito as Yamabe (episode 2)
 * Ryoko Shinohara (episode 2)
 * Katsuhiko Sasaki (episode 2)
 * Asami Mizukawa as a middle school student (episode 3)
 * Kee (episode 4)
 * Hikaru Ijūin (episode 5)
 * Tomoe Shinohara as Herself (episode 6)
 * Claude Maki as Tatsumura (episodes 6 and 7)
 * Yoshihiko Hakamada (episode 8)
 * Sadao Abe (episode 9)
 * Naoki Hosaka (episodes 10 and the final)
 * Maxi Priest (episodes 10 and the final)
 * Hiroshi Arikawa as the father of Masayoshi Mashita (the final episode)

Timeline
1997 January–March: TV Drama.

1997 December: Special episode, Bayside Shakedown: Year-End Special Alert

1998 June: Extra episode, Bayside Shakedown: Wangan Police Station Female Police Officers' Story.

1998 October: Special episode, Bayside Shakedown: Autumn Campaign for Crime Eradication

1998 October: Bayside Shakedown: The Movie

2003 Summer: Bayside Shakedown 2.

2005 Summer: Two "spin-off" movies which are part of The Odoru Legend Continues. The first titled Tokyo Subway Panic (also known as Negotiator) was released in May. It is based on the character of Mashita as a police negotiator. The second movie The Suspect which was released in August is based on the character of Muroi. Another spin-off, Tobosha Joichiro Kijima was recorded for the DVD release of the Tokyo Subway Panic.

2007: For a Japanese variety show, Trivia no Izumi, a new spin-off was made for a minor character from Tokyo Subway Panic (who did not even have a name at the time), titled Keigokan Uchida Shinzo.

2010 Summer: Bayside Shakedown 3.

2012 September: The last TV special, Bayside Shakedown THE LAST TV Salaryman keiji to saigo no nanjiken. Some of the original cast members reunite after 14 years.

2012 September: The last movie for Bayside Shakedown which is Bayside Shakedown The Final.

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Calappa

Calappa may refer to:
 * Calappa (crab), a genus of crabs, including the box crab
 * Calappa, a genus of palms in the family Arecaceae; synonym of Cocos

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The definition of tzedakah on this page does not sound like it is a good thing. Sounds more like the terminator for some reason. Gordond 07:48, 2005 February 16 (UTC)

Buddhism
Regarding the paragraph... "The paradox in Buddhism is that the more a person gives without seeking something in return, the wealthier (in the broadest sense of the word) one will become. This is because by giving, one destroys those acquisitive impulses that are believed to ultimately lead to further suffering. Generosity is also expressed towards other sentient beings as both an aid to the receiver of the gift and a cause of merit for the person giving the gift. In Mahayana Buddhism, it is accepted that although the three jewels of refuge are the basis of the greatest merit, by seeing other sentient beings as having Buddha nature and making offerings towards the aspirational Buddha to be within them is of equal benefit." Should we be making claims about whether or not this is a paradox? I'm tempted to just delete this paragraph as irrelevant. This should be covered on the linked dāna, sīla, bhāvanā pages. It also lacks any citation. I'm going to delete it, but my user info is below so if you know how to fix it, make it relevant, cite it, etc. then undo my edit and go ahead. (talk) 16:36 29 November 2021 (UTC). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kadry1938 (talk • contribs)

Christianity
The verse quoted should probably not be there, as it is not talking about almsgiving specifically. It is talking about "practicing righteousness," found in a more literal translation. Is there any verse from the Gospels that commands almsgiving? Tim Long 01:13, 27 November 2006 (UTC)christians do not belive in alms--93.96.187.125 (talk) 14:32, 28 August 2009 (UTC)

Alms and Tithe are quite distinct
Alms in British English refers to an offering of money given to the poor (eg Matthew 6:4; Strong's G1654) "mercy, pity". Alms in recent times in Britain are usually associated with nobles and royalty and often with specific occasions such as a patron saints day, alms to me is an archaic term for what we would now call charitable giving. Tithe in distinction refers to a gift of a tenth part (eg Luke 11:42; Strong's G586) which for a modern Christian is a gift of 10% (or a proportion at least) of one's income for the running of the Church (which means corporate acts of charity, other gospel based activities and menial things such as communal administration, payment of workers, maintenance of properties, etc.). There is a confusion in this section and I don't think that enough differentiation is made. I would strongly dispute that the offering at a CoE service is a collection of alms for dispensation, it is a predominantly a collection of tithes, alms-giving is usually handled separately (often with names such as "an Appeal for the people of Eritrea" or whatever). Any other comments? Pbhj (talk) 02:07, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
 * The Canons of the CoE, Section F10 refers to an "alms box" being provided separate to the collection (supporting the above) but also refers to the collection plate as "a basin for the reception of the alms and other devotions of the people" in mild contradiction to what I'm claiming.
 * "Training for Clergy and Readers"from the CoE says "Modern-day tithing practice is said by some to have only come into being in this country between the two World Wars, under the influence of American thought. There is also the question of a cultural hangover from agricultural tithes paid to the Church, still felt in some rural areas." and that "The preacher should also stress the official Church of England giving target: 5% of take-home pay to and through the local church, leaving (perhaps) 5% for other causes." Pbhj (talk) 02:07, 21 June 2008 (UTC)

What the Lord God expects
This paragraph, "This indicates that we should give, for as god loves us so should we love the very least person, even if they do wrong against us or are offensive to us in any way, we should still love them and show compassion to them. This is what the Lord God expects." while it is a kind and worthy sentiment, appears to be the author's opinion. Kidigus (talk) 23:47, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Ordering of religions?
Today I see someone put Buddhism first. I can see this being justified on at least two basis: chronology, alphabeticalization. However, honestly, I'm concerned that the motivation (or at least the perceived motivation) is POV (especially since the remaining sections were not re-ordered in terms of chronology or alphabetization, etc.). Is there a WP standard for ordering religions in articles like this? If not, what makes most sense, seems most fair, to others? Thanks for any clarity, Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 04:38, 14 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Well, it's been nearly a year and no one's responded. So, to simplify potential reader's scanning of the TOC and article, I'm going to order the religion-specific sections alphabetically.
 * Other options such as ordering the sections chronologically I think would be less useful to WP readers and would not add any historical perspective since this article does not present the different religions' perspective on alms as being interdependent. (For instance, if the Christianity section identified that Christian notions of almsgiving was somehow in reaction to or an evolution of Judaic practices, then it might make more sense to order the sections chronologically.)
 * Practically speaking, this means swapping the section on Islam with the section on Christianity. I deeply regret if this swap is seen as somehow motivated by anything other than a desire to increase the article's readability and deal with this issue in a non-arbitrary fashion.  As indicated above, I welcome alternate solutions based on superior reasoning.
 * With metta,
 * Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 18:43, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

Recently added "Hinduism" section from "all rights reserved" material at http://santhemant.sulekha.com/
Recently a very poorly formatted addition was made under the heading of "== HINDUISM ==" (where the equal signs are part of the literal sectional title). In addition to being poorly edited (e.g, the first words are literally, "Bold text," and much of the initial text is in all capital letters), this text seems to have been cut and pasted from a blog as evidenced by text strings such as "Feb 9 2008 | Views 8 | Comments (0) Leave a Comment Tags." Based on this assessment, a Google search was done for text from this newly inserted material and it was found that this text was cut-and-pasted from http://santhemant.sulekha.com/blog/post/2008/02/give-me-only-this-o-rama-swami-samarth-ramdas.htm. At the bottom of this source page it states "© santhemant., all rights reserved. Page protected by COPYSCAPE. DO NOT COPY."  This copyright appears to be antithetical to Wikipedia's GFDL-compatibility requirement and thus, if for no other reason, this text needs to be deleted (reverted).

I truly regret reverting such material since (a) this article is in serious need of a section on Hinduism, and (b) the cut-and-pasted text is compelling in its devotional earnestness. If the above text can be shown to not be in violation of WP's GFDL-compatibility requirement (and to be pertinent to the topic of "alms," e.g., vs. "devotion"), let's restore the text (undo my undo) and I'd be happy to help fix up the text for WP presentation (e.g., it appears that there's a need for a side-by-side Sanskrit-English poem translation which likely could be better represented in an HTML table). Alternately, if anyone else could add material appropriate to Hindu scriptures and practices related to Alms that too would be greatly appreciated.

Please forgive me if I error in this and even if I do not. Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 03:49, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

 * Santhemant - thank you so much for the additional interesting information. Best wishes, Larry Rosenfeld (talk) 06:39, 11 February 2008 (UTC)

Judaism
Judaism is by far the smallest section and doesn't have any references. Does anyone have any information to add here to make it a well-rounded article? Leefkrust22 (talk) 05:18, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

Hinduism redux
In editing the article for grammar issues, I've begun to think that the Hinduism section needs more attention from an expert in the field...hopefully someone with more skill and knowledge in this area will come along? (I'd be delighted to help with grammar, punctuation and that sort of thing, but I'm not familiar enough with Hinduism to edit for content.) Queenmomcat (talk)

External links moved to talk
In case something here could be used for verification or expansion of the article. --Ronz (talk) 16:17, 11 July 2016 (UTC)

Buddhist

 * Thaibuddhist.com, "The Morning Alms Round" article by Richard Barrow
 * Kariyawasam, A.G.S. (1995). Buddhist Ceremonies and Rituals of Sri Lanka (The Wheel Publication No. 402/404). Kandy, Sri Lanka: Buddhist Publication Society. Chapter 5, section 1, pertains to almsgiving. Available from Access to Insight, (1996 transcription)
 * Blogspot.com, "Five pillars of life" by Satish Chandra.

Christian

 * Charity as a Christian concept - Encyclopædia Britannica
 * Charity and Charities - Catholic Encyclopedia

Islamic

 * Survivorsareus.com, all about Zakat and many benefits of paying it.

Judaism

 * Judaism 101 - Tzedakah
 * Information for effective Tzedakah
 * Tzedakah: an Anthology

"The offertory is the traditional moment in Roman Catholic Mass, Anglican Eucharist, and Lutheran Divine Services when alms are collected."
In Catholic churches at least, money collected at the offertory is principally used for the upkeep of the church, clergy and other staff. Alms tend to be gathered through (a) donation-boxes fixed to the church-building and/or (b) special collections taken during or after the service in addition to the offertory collection. Pfedanon 12:55, 2021 June 20 (UTC)

Additional citations template
Does this article still require the maintenance template from 2021? Could it be replaced by section and/or inline templates? WeyerStudentOfAgrippa (talk) 15:18, 10 November 2023 (UTC)

Discrepancy in Christian section?
The Christian section currently says: "Giving should be out of love and not out of duty: He will reply, 'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.'

—  Mathew 25:45" This quote seems to contradict the claim it's supposedly supporting. In context the quote says neglecting to give will lead to one to "go away into eternal punishment" Mathew 25:46 (and 25:41) If that doesn't imply a serious duty I don't know what does.

And in context the passage in context doesn't mention so I don't see why this quote follows the claim "Giving should be out of love and not out of duty" but I am not a Christian and please correct me if I'm wrong. Dovmiester (talk) 13:21, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

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Souhane

Souhane is a small mountain town between Larbaa and Tablat in the wilaya of Blida, Algeria, along the RN 8 highway about 25 km south of Algiers.

Following the Souhane massacre of 20 August-21 August 1997, in which 64 people were killed and 15 women kidnapped, the terrified population left en masse, bringing the town's population down from 4000 before the massacre to just 103 in 2002; since then, the population has increased, to 300 in 2005.

In the local elections of 2002, it gave 5 seats to the traditional single party the FLN, 1 to the recent pro-military RND, and 1 to the moderate Islamist HMS

Its postcode is 0917.

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Bayside Shakedown 2 Promo picture

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 * 5) The image  is significant because it was used to promoted a notable film.

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University of Technology, Mauritius

The University of Technology, Mauritius (UTM) is a public research university in Mauritius. The main campus lies in La Tour Koenig, Pointe-aux-Sables, within the district of Port-Louis. It was founded following the government of Mauritius approval of the setting up of the University of Technology, Mauritius in January 2000 and the proclamation of The University of Technology, Mauritius Act on 21 June 2000.

UTM is a member of the Association of Commonwealth Universities and is listed in the Commonwealth Universities Handbook and in the International Handbook of Universities. UTM is a member of the Southern African Regional Universities Association (SARUA) – a network of public universities in the SADC region.

Organisation
The setting up of the university began with the merging of two public training institutions, the Mauritius Institute of Public Administration and Management and the State Information Training Centre into schools. The School of Business Informatics and Software Engineering, the School of Public Sector Policy and Management and the School of Sustainable Development Science became operational in September 2000. The university started a restructuring process in September 2008. The schools were respectively renamed as School of Innovative Technologies and Engineering, School of Business Management and Finance and School of Sustainable Development and Tourism.

In-company training is part of the curriculum in the tourism management programmes. It offers programmes on a part-time and distance basis as well as flexible entry and exit points. Many of the programmes are occupationally or vocationally directed, for example, banking and finance, tourism management and marketing, and software engineering.

It offers short course programmes such as a full-time course for higher executive officers for 15 weeks. In this orientation and approach it differs from traditional universities in the SADC. It is internationally recognised.

Courses are run within the main campus in La Tour Koenig and its satellite centres in La Tour Koenig, Bell Village and Moka. The building of a new campus near Moka, is underway to sustain its expansion.

UTM tuition fees are non-subsidised, as opposed to the University of Mauritius (UoM). A Tertiary Education Commission study revealed that the percentage of students satisfied with respect to course delivery was higher at the UTM as compared to the UoM.

School of Innovative Technologies and Engineering
The three principal degree courses are the BSc (Hons) Computer Science with Network Security, BSc (Hons) Software Engineering, Telecommunication Engineering, Electrical Engineering, and BSc (Hons) Business Information Systems.

School of Business Management and Finance
The School of Business Management and Finance delivers education, training, research and consultancy in areas of Public Policy and Management, Public Administration, Human Resource Management, Financial Management, Business Administration, Banking and International Finance and Communication. The school has 700 students enrolled on its full-time and part-time programmes which are delivered by 70 full-time and part-time academic staff.

School of Sustainable Development and Tourism
The School of Sustainable Development and Tourism caters for Tourism, Sustainable Development and Environmental Sciences. An MoU has also been signed with the Hotel School of Mauritius for UTM students to benefit from their facilities for practical sessions. In-company training, especially in hotels is part of the curriculum.

School of Health Sciences
The School of Health Sciences was formed when Anna Medical College entered into an agreement with UTM for the award of MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) programme in line with the curriculum based on that of the Medical Council of India and approved by the Academic Council of the university. The Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery programme is registered and accredited by Tertiary Education Commission, Mauritius.

Research
The Research Degree Committee is responsible for research degrees. Staff are encouraged to pursue doctoral degrees. In 2008, there were 30 MPhil/PhD candidates on a full-time and part-time basis. The areas of research include management, tourism, applied mathematics, modelling and sustainable development.

Affiliations and partnerships
UTM has established academic partnerships with companies like Microsoft, InterSystems, SAP, Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems. A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed with the Mauritius Information and Technology Industry Association (MITIA) and the National Computer Board (NCB) for fostering a pool of qualified ICT professionals. The university has links with the Hotel School of Mauritius and Constance Academy to deliver tourism courses and the Mauritius Institute of Education (MIE) to offer Bachelor in Education degrees.

Since June 2009, the university has been affiliated with Dr D Y Patil Medical College to award postgraduate medical degrees in General medicine, Surgery, Pediatrics, Gynecology, Orthopedics, Radiology, Anesthesia, Psychiatry, Ophthalmology, Skin and VD.

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User:Fir0002/FPCandidates

Why this page was created
Due to the fact that I frequently upload more than one image onto the Featured Picture Candidates page, (which causes problems in the promoting side of things) I have set up a semi featured picture candidate page. Please choose out of the series your favourite one, or if you don't think any of them are good enough say so. The photo which has the most votes after 4 days (or less if there is a clear majority) will be put up as a FPC. Anyone is welcome to vote. Thank you to all those who participate in the voting.

Archive 1
User:Fir0002/FPCandidates/Archive 1

Archive 2
User:Fir0002/FPCandidates/Archive 2

Archive 3
User:Fir0002/FPCandidates/Archive 3

Peacocks
Another series from my trip to the Melbourne Zoo, some do suffer from wire enclosures but I've tried to minimize this by using a long zoom on it. Anyway see what you guys think. Personal prefernce for no. 3 --Fir0002 03:05, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I like number 5, not so fond of the closeups as they look a bit oversharpened to me. Good luck with FPC though, people will scream "BUT ITS CUT OFF!!!" at you :) Stevage 05:58, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I'd go with 5 or 6, with preference for 6. — BRIAN 0918 • 2007-01-12 13:52Z
 * Ditto, I like 5 or 6, 6 a bit more. Staxringold talkcontribs 16:38, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I also like 5 and 6. I think 6 is a little better. Tomer T 17:10, 20 June 2007 (UTC)

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User:Romeoslion

Hey. I've been an active user of Wikipedia since July of 2004. I created my first page without an account in December. Then I created this account. I like politics and journalism. This was the first page that I created while I was taking a course in American Indian Studies. I like to do small edits. The thing I hate the most is the vandalism that takes place. Just recently I noticed this and was disturbed.http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rafik_Hariri&oldid=10315876. I still am learning how to achieve things on Wikipedia.

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The Owl in Daylight

The Owl in Daylight is a novel Philip K. Dick was writing at the time of his death in 1982. He had already been paid an advance for the book by the publisher and was working against a deadline. After his death, his estate approached other writers about the possibility of someone completing the novel based on his notes, but that proved to be impossible, as he had never formally outlined the story. Dick viewed the novel as his Finnegans Wake. The idea was inspired partly by an entry in the Encyclopædia Britannica on Beethoven that referred to him as the most creative genius of all time, partly by traditional views of what constitutes the human heaven (visions of lights), and finally by the Faust story.

However, Andrew M. Butler's alternative plot summaries seem to suggest that he might have become fascinated by Dante's Divine Comedy as a form of theophany. In his final completed work, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer, his narrator, Angel Archer, shows similar appreciation for Dante's masterpiece, which suggests that this argument may have some merit.

Claims about possible content
Nearly all that is known about one interpretation of the projected plot came from a discussion that Dick had with his journalist friend Gwen Lee on January 10, 1982, which Lee transcribed and later published.

By contrast, Andrew M. Butler cites multiple sources for his own contentions about the possible plot, which are cited below. They include references within Greg Rickman's The Last Testament (1985), Lawrence Sutin's In Pursuit of VALIS (1991), and the interview collection What if Our World is Their Heaven? (2006), cited above.

Both are shown to be correct in The Selected Letters of Philip K Dick Volume 6: 1980 -1982, where one can read Dick's own description of the story and what he wanted to do with it. The plot was to express what he believed was an evolutionary step in humanity, using an interpretation of Joachim de Fiore, where he believed that one age of humanity used the left side of the brain, another the right, and the future would combine the two leading to a greater understanding of what is real. Moreover, the use of Dante was to demonstrate how hell, purgatory and heaven can all be experiences of life, showing how the world is experienced according to the left, right and whole of the brain.

Possible plot summaries
The novel dealt with one Ed Firmley, a composer of scores for B-movie grade sci-fi films, and a race of alien humanoids that had evolved without the development of sound as a basis of communication. The shamans of this alien race would on occasion have visions of Earth and its many sounds. Due to their unique evolution without sound the holy men were incapable of describing these experiences to the rest of their race. They just knew that the place they saw was their heaven. Meanwhile their race was modeled around sight and light, encompassing much more of the electromagnetic spectrum than the limited human vision. In fact, from their perspective, humans were capable of sight but nearly blind, such as a mole appears to a human. Their language involved the telepathic projection of color patterns in precise gradations and following mathematical formulas.

A spaceship carrying members of this race arrives on Earth and they mug Firmley as a cover-up for plugging a bio-chip into his head. This bio-chip is a digitized form of one of the aliens with a link back to the ship – essentially allowing everyone to experience Firmley by proxy. The bio-chip is supposed to be passive, serving only as a means of relaying the mystic experience of sound to an entire race. Soon the alien presence in the bio-chip becomes bored of Firmley’s music, which is bland, schmaltzy schlock, and the pop music that he constantly listens to. As a consequence of this boredom, the bio-chip turns from being passive to active, controlling what Firmley listens to as well as feeding him mathematical formulas that he begins to use as the basis of his compositions. His career, from a financial perspective, dwindles, but he becomes a respected avant-garde artist. The active role the bio-chip takes in the relationship begins frying Firmley’s brain. At this point the aliens make themselves known and offer to remove the chip, but Firmley refuses. He sees himself as an artist whereas before, he was of no consequence, doing what he did simply for money. Firmley decides to give up his body to be transformed into a bio-chip which is in turn implanted into an alien brain. This will also lead to the eventual death of the alien host, but it offers Firmley a chance of experiencing their world of lights, our heaven.

However, Andrew M. Butler offers several alternative summaries which contradict the Lee/Dick interview cited above. A god-like being, Ditheon, fuses the Torah and Jesus Christ into a single being and takes over an individual. A scientist travels through the events of Dante's Divine Comedy, and a Beethoven-like composer is writing a film score, while pursued by aliens.

A scientist creates a theme park that is related to the events of his youth, whereupon a sentient artificial intelligence imprisons him within it, as a youth. He has to travel through Dantean realities (and artist, political activist and gay social networks in the Berkeley of the 1940s and 1950s) to return home and resume his life as an old man.

Alternatively, Dante's Divine Comedy is a portal to alternate subjective realities that represent three ways of perceiving the world.

"The owl in daylight" is a phrase Dick heard on television. It means "not to understand", or "to be blind".

Tessa Dick version
Dick's former wife Tessa wrote her own version of The Owl in Daylight, which was self-published in January 2009. The novel uses little to none of the material that Philip K. Dick was working on at the time of his death, though it does bear many similarities. She remarked, "I attempted to express the spirit of Phil's proposed novel, without using his plot or the one character that he had created ... Phil had written very little about this novel ... It was very sketchy and did not even name any characters ... The Owl in Daylight is my concept of what Phil's novel should be." At the request of the Philip K. Dick Estate, Mrs. Dick voluntarily removed her novel from publication, making copies rare and hard to come by.

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Guy Hoffman

Guy Hoffman (born May 20, 1954 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a drummer and vocalist, formerly of such bands as Oil Tasters, BoDeans, Violent Femmes and Absinthe. He is a composer for such films as Field Day and a founding member of Radio Romeo.

Life
Hoffman began playing drums at the age of nine. He developed skills in music and art under the direction of Eddie Allen, Sylvia Spicuzza, LeRoy Augustine, and Joe Ferrara within the Shorewood public school system. From 1972 to 1976, Hoffman concentrated on watercolor painting and drawing under professor Laurence Rathsack in the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee (UWM) Fine Arts programs. He also played popular music with local bands at live music venues throughout Wisconsin. From 1977 to 1978, Hoffman studied graphic arts with Leon Travanti and graduated from UWM with a BA in fine art and visual communications.

Music career
Hoffman was a founding member of The Haskels and Oil Tasters, bands in Milwaukee's punk scene. He was an original member of Milwaukee roots rock band, BoDeans. He performs on the BoDeans 1986 debut album "Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams" (reissued in 2009 as a CD/DVD set). Hoffman performs in BoDeans videos for the songs "She's A Runaway" and "Fadeaway." He reunited with BoDeans singer/songwriter Sam Llanas to form the band Absinthe and released A Good Day To Die in 1998.

Hoffman joined Violent Femmes in 1993. Two versions of "Blister In The Sun," the Femmes' signature song, were recorded with Hoffman for Grosse Pointe Blank motion picture soundtrack in 1997. Hoffman appears with Violent Femmes in film concerts and television productions such as "Woodstock '94," "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch," "VH-1 Hard Rock Live," and others. He appeared on numerous music videos and late-night talk shows in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia. In 2005, Hoffman's contributions were included on two Violent Femmes reissued CD/DVD compilations. Hoffman also designed the cover for the album New Times by Violent Femmes.

Hoffman plays drums on the CD Jeanne Spicuzza. The track "Let the Mermaids Flirt With Me" appears in the movie Field Day.

In 2002, he was replaced in the Femmes by returning original drummer Victor DeLorenzo. He continued working with other projects and in 2006, he played a few select shows with the Violent Femmes once more.

In 2005, Hoffman formed Radio Romeo, a Los Angeles-based rock band. In 2006, he returned to performing shows with Violent Femmes in Southern California. Their latest CD, Archive Series No. 2: Live in Chicago Q101, showcases the trio's unique acoustic approach, with Hoffman on snare drum and backing vocals.

Discography

 * The Haskels (1979/2019) LP/CD
 * Oil Tasters (1982/2005) LP/CD
 * Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams (1986)
 * New Times (1994)
 * Woodstock '94 (1994) CD and VHS
 * Rock!!!!! (1995)
 * Grosse Pointe Blank: Music from the Film (1997)
 * The Great Lost Brew Wave Album (1997)
 * A Good Day To Die (1998)
 * Viva Wisconsin (1999)
 * Freak Magnet (2000)
 * History in 3 Chords (2001)
 * Something's Wrong (2001)
 * Jeanne Spicuzza (2001)
 * Permanent Record: The Very Best of Violent Femmes (2005)
 * Permanent Record - Live & Otherwise (2005) DVD
 * Archive Series No. 2: Live in Chicago Q101 (2006)
 * Radio Romeo (2007)
 * Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams Collector's Edition (2009) CD/DVD Set

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RND

RND may refer to:

 * National Rally for Democracy (disambiguation)
 * RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland, a large newspaper chain in Germany
 * Red Nose Day, see Comic Relief
 * Reflex neurovascular dystrophy
 * Research and development (R&D), especially in domain names as "&" is not a permitted character
 * Resistance-nodulation-cell division superfamily
 * Rostov-on-Don Airport, air traffic control
 * Royal Naval Division

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Selkkaus

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. Mackensen (talk) 01:25, 24 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Selkkaus
Non-notable Finnish band. They have few CDs out, apparently self-published as I cannot find an affiliation with any major music distributor. They don't seem to have a website or even a page about them, except Wikipedia and its mirrors. Selkkaus is quite common Finnish word, so Google gives lots of completely irrelevant hits. Queries "Selkkaus music" or "Selkkaus musiikki" gave about 240 hits of which about 50 were related, mostly from chat-rooms, etc. "Selkkaus bändi" gave 32 total hits (bändi means band in Finnish). Delete, reasons being non-notable, self-promotion, and silly POV vanity. jni 08:10, 16 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.
 * Delete. Probably self-promotion, require a wider distribution of their music to be shown. Average Earthman 10:59, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Trilobite (Talk) 14:50, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, self-promotion, funny how non-English speaking bands here in Europe tend to overuse the word fuck... gives it a bad name. Wyss 19:54, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, band vanity, promotional hype. Megan1967 02:24, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Swift River (Alaska)

The Swift River (Deg Xinag: Xelinhdi; Dena'ina: Huch'altnu) is a tributary, about 100 mi long, of the Kuskokwim River in the U.S. state of Alaska. Formed by meltwater from several glaciers in the Revelation Mountains of the Alaska Range, the river flows generally west and northwest to meet the larger stream 13 mi northeast of Sleetmute.

The Swift is 13 mi upriver from the village of Stony River, not Sleetmute.

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Taku River

The Taku River (Lingít: T'aaḵu Héeni) is a river running from British Columbia, Canada, to the northwestern coast of North America, at Juneau, Alaska. The river basin spreads across 27500 km2. The Taku is a very productive salmon river and its drainage basin is primarily wilderness.

During the 18th and early 19th centuries, the Taku Indians controlled the trade routes on the river and compelled natives of the Interior to use them as middle-men, instead of allowing trade directly with white settlers.

The Hudson's Bay Company established a trading post called Fort Durham, also known as Fort Taku, near the mouth of the Taku River in the early 1840s to take advantage of the natural trade route. However, by 1843, Fort Durham had been abandoned as unprofitable.

Although a major river, the Taku's name does not extend to its headwaters. Its name begins at the confluence of the Inklin and Nakina Rivers, which is the location of the tiny community of Inklin. The Inklin's name also only extends upstream to the confluence of the Nahlin and Sheslay Rivers, which the Nakina's main tributaries are the Sloko and Silver Salmon Rivers.

One account of its name is that "Taku" is the Tlingit language word for "salmon" but the Taku Tlingit name for themselves T'aaku Kwáan translates as "Geese Flood Upriver Tribe"". There are also three kwaans of the Tlingit people: Taku Kwaan, Yenyeidi, wolf clan "own" Taku watershed, originating from yen hidi, 12 miles s/e of Juneau, a coastal clan, NOT inland in British Columbia, the Áa Tlein Kwáan ("Big Lake Tribe", today organized as the Taku River Tlingit First Nation) and the Deisleen Kwáan ("Big Sinew Tribe", today organized as the Teslin Tlingit Council); the territory of the former includes those areas of the Taku basin in British Columbia.

Tributaries
The Taku's main tributaries are as follows, listed hierarchically in ascending order from its mouth:

 * Wright River
 * Sittakanay River
 * Tulsequah River
 * Inklin River
 * Sutlahine River
 * Nahlin River
 * Dudidontu River
 * Kakuchuya Creek
 * Matsatu Creek
 * Koshin River
 * Kaha Creek
 * Lost Creek
 * Megatushon Creek
 * Sheslay River
 * Samotua River
 * Hackett River
 * Egnell Creek
 * Nakina River
 * Sloko River
 * Nakonake River
 * Silver Salmon River

Economic value
The Taku River is an important contributor to the economies of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, especially for its commercial, sport and personal-use fisheries. A detailed report released in 2004 by the McDowell Group notes $5.4 million in total U.S. commercial harvest and processing output, including 80 jobs and $1.4 million in labor income. British Columbia added over $750,000 more.

Other activities, including commercial air, guided river excursions, hunting and property taxes added still more to the general regional economy. the report mentioned above estimated "the annual economic impact from all activities on the Taku River to be $26.7 million," most of it, about $18 million, from commercial air activity directly related to tourism.

The Taku is the Southeast Alaska's top salmon-producing river. Data from the Alaska Department of Fish & Game notes that nearly 2 million wild salmon return to the river annually, including up to 100,000 Chinook salmon (king salmon), 350,000 sockeye salmon (red salmon) and 400,000 coho salmon (silver salmon), 50,000 chum salmon(dog salmon), and 1 million pink salmon (humpy salmon). Beyond its bounty of salmon, the Taku is home to eight other fish species, including steelhead, bull trout, Dolly Varden char, rainbow trout, lake trout, Arctic grayling, whitefish and Southeast Alaska's largest population of cutthroat trout. In addition, hooligans (eulachon), crab, shrimp and halibut are harvested at or near the river's mouth. That marine wealth supports major sport, commercial and tribal fisheries in Alaska and British Columbia.

Flooding history
Periodically, the Taku River reaches flood stage (43 ft) or above. Records of the Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service (AHPS), a branch of the National Weather Service, show that in the last two decades the river crested above 43 ft six times. The highest level reached in that period was 45.07 ft on June 25, 2004. As of August 12, 2009, the highest registered level for 2009 occurred on July 24 when the river crested at 43.17 ft. More information is available at the AHPS website. Also see * http://takuriver.com/takuriverfloods.htm

The Taku River fills Tulsequah Lake during peak flow, causing lake outburst events most years. As the lake swells the water can float or melt the glacier enough to trigger sudden releases.

Habitat protection efforts
Past mining activity and the potential for future mining on the Canadian side of the border led the State of Alaska to take recent habitat protection steps. In January 2009, the Alaska Department of Natural Resources' Division of Coastal and Ocean Management approved a request from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to designated the entire U.S. portion of the Taku River as "important habitat," a designation that put the stretch of river within the purview of protective provisions in Alaska law that require those applying for certain river use permits "avoid, minimize, or mitigate significant adverse impacts to the special productivity of the habitat." In February, the director of the division rescinded the designation for a portion of the U.S. river below the Canada–United States border. The important habitat designation remains in place, however, for a 16 mi section beginning at the river's mouth near Juneau, Alaska. Several organizations are working to win further habitat conservation protections for the river, including Rivers Without Borders and the Alaska Marine Conservation Council.

In 2022, the Taku River Tlingit First Nation declared the Taku River watershed to be a protected area, protecting the area from mining and other extractive resource development.

News

 * Juneau Empire, (June 18, 2009) opinion, My Turn: "Palin should seize Taku opportunity"
 * Juneau Empire, ( July 12, 2009) story: "Palin urges Canadians to address mine's acid drainage"
 * Juneau Empire, (July 19, 2009) story: "Bridging the gap: Conservation and commercial fishing"
 * Juneau empire, (July 24, 2009) story: "Taku River flooding could near record"
 * The Globe Mail, (July 28, 2009) Column: "Palin's parting words to B.C.: 'Don't spill baby, don't spill"
 * Yukon News, July 31, 2009, story: "Redcorp's bankruptcy threatens salmon-rich Taku"
 * Juneau Empire, (Aug. 17, 2009) story: "Spawning grounds stock derby catch: State biologists collect salmon data with fish wheels, spaghetti tags"
 * Juneau Empire, (Aug. 31, 2009) opinion, Letter: "Parnell should make Taku River a priority"
 * http://takuriver.com/rivernews.htm

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User:HolgerM

HolgerM
My name is Holger Martin, I am a professor of Thermal Process Engineering at the Universitaet (TH) Karlsruhe.

I have written the biographical article on André Lévêque based on my own research about his bio data.

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Tinayguk River

The Tinayguk River is a 44 mi tributary of the North Fork Koyukuk River in the U.S. state of Alaska. Heading in the Endicott Mountains of the Brooks Range, the river flows generally west then south to meet the larger river about 80 mi north of Bettles.

In 1980, the entire river was designated "wild" and added to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. The designation means that the Tinayguk is unpolluted, free-flowing and generally inaccessible except by trail and that its watershed is essentially primitive.

The river's name means Moose in Inupiat. In 1930, forester Robert "Bob" Marshall recommended it as an alternative to West Fork, a local name that Marshall considered over-used.

Boating
Although whitewater enthusiasts sometimes run the river in small rafts or inflatable canoes or kayaks, it is remote, hazardous, and difficult to reach. It is a small one-channel river that drops 80 ft/mi over its first 12 mi and an average of 25 ft/mi over the rest of its course. The upper reaches are rated Class III (difficult) on the International Scale of River Difficulty, while the rest of the river varies between Class II (medium) and Class III. Hazards include swift current, shallow water, sharp bends, logjams, boulders, and aufeis.

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Tlikakila River

The Tlikakila River (Dena'ina Athabascan Łiq'a Qilanhtnu, literally "salmon-are-there river") is a stream, 51 mi long, in the U.S. state of Alaska. The river, lying entirely within Lake Clark National Park, flows southwest from Summit Lake in the Chigmit Mountains of the Aleutian Range to Lake Clark.

The Tlikakila is one of three national "wild rivers" in Lake Clark National Park. The other two are the Mulchatna and the Chilikadrotna, all added in 1980 to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.

Boating
Varying from Class I (easy) to III (difficult) on the International Scale of River Difficulty, the Tlikakila River is floatable by raft and kayak. The Alaska River Guide describes it as suitable for "intermediate boaters with good wilderness skills". To reach the floatable parts of the river from Summit Lake, boaters must make a 2 mi portage. Dangers include Class III rapids, which may require a second portage below the confluence with the North Fork Tlikakila River. Bears pose another danger, as does quicksand on the lower river.

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Unalakleet River

The Unalakleet River (Iñupiaq: Uŋalaqłiit Kurgat) in the U.S. state of Alaska flows southwest 90 mi from the Kaltag Mountains to near the town of Unalakleet, on Norton Sound of the Bering Sea.

In 1980, the upper 80 mi of the river was protected as "wild" as part of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. Managed by the Bureau of Land Management, the wild segment of the river is fished for king and silver salmon, Arctic grayling, and char. Other forms of recreation along the river include boating and camping in summer and snowmobiling, dog mushing, ice fishing, hunting, and trapping in winter. For part of its length, the Iditarod Trail runs along the Unalakleet.

History
The river's name is Inupiat for "place where the east wind blows." Historically, the river provided a good connection between native coastal settlements and those in the interior along the Yukon River. The route, including what is called the Kaltag Portage, was the shortest connection between the Yukon and Norton Sound.

Eskimos have lived near the Unalakleet for many centuries. House pits in the region date to 200 B.C. In the 1830s, after the Russian-American Company established trading posts at St. Michael and Unalakleet, Lieutenant Lavrenty Zagoskin of the Imperial Russian Navy filed the first non-native reports about the Unalakleet.

In 1898, herders from Lapland settled along the river, where they established reindeer herds. Shortly thereafter, prospectors seeking gold on the nearby Seward Peninsula traveled over the Kaltag Portage and downriver to the coast. Subsequent changes included a telegraph line and associated cabins along the river and establishment of a mail route.

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Wind River (Yukon–Koyukuk Census Area, Alaska)

The Wind River is a tributary of the East Fork Chandalar River in the U.S. state of Alaska. It arises in the Philip Smith Mountains of the Brooks Range and flows into the East Fork and eventually into the Yukon River.

Wind River is a National Wild and Scenic River. The main stem, headwaters, and an unnamed tributary—140 miles of streams in total—were designated "wild" in 1980. All lie within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.


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Outpunk

Outpunk enjoys the distinction of being the first record label entirely devoted to queer punk bands.

The label was run out of San Francisco and began as an extension of Matt Wobensmith's fanzine, Outpunk. Outpunk ran for seven issues, from 1992 till 1997, with contributions from queer punks such as Anonymous Boy, interviews with queercore bands and a split issue with Gary Fembot. He released two records in 1992, the 7" single compilations There's A Faggot In The Pit and There's A Dyke In The Pit. At this time there were few actual queercore bands in existence, so some of the artists that appeared were politically motivated punk bands that supported the queercore movement.  There's A Dyke In The Pit features Bikini Kill, Lucy Stoners, 7 Year Bitch and the first song released by Tribe 8, stalwarts of the queercore scene. Outpunk's next compilation was the Outpunk Dance Party compilation LP/CD, which introduced many new queer bands to the public. Among them was Randy 'Biscuit' Turner of Big Boys new band Swine King, Pansy Division, Sister George, Sta-Prest and Mukilteo Fairies.

After this, Outpunk began to release many singles and LPs by queercore artists from the US, Canada and UK. Wobensmith was also writing a column for Maximum RocknRoll zine, which extended the range of people being introduced to queer punk music while addressing issues such as homophobia in the punk community.

In DIY: The Rise Of Lo-Fi Culture, Amy Spencer writes, "Matt Wobensmith...feels that a person's self-identification as gay shouldn't form the basis of their whole personality. 'Gay people often sacrifice the cultures they come from just to belong to something.' This sacrifice of a radical culture, whether as an artist, punk or anarchist, is what the queercore movement has always battled against."

Wobensmith ended the label in the late 90s, and began a new label called Queercorps, which was short-lived. He spoke about the reasons behind this in an interview included in the book We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet, The Collected Interviews, edited by Daniel Sinker, originally appearing in Punk Planet zine. Subsequently he ran the label A.C.R.O.N.Y.M., which specialized in gay hip hop music acts. Outpunk records and CDs are much sought after by collectors, since most were produced in limited runs and are rare and hard to find.

As of 2009, he runs the vintage zine store Goteblüd in San Francisco.

Artists

 * 7 Year Bitch
 * Behead the Prophet, No Lord Shall Live
 * Bikini Kill
 * CWA
 * Cypher in the Snow
 * Fifth Column
 * God Is My Co-Pilot
 * Lucy Stoners
 * Mukilteo Fairies
 * The Need
 * Pansy Division
 * Sister George
 * Sta-Prest
 * Swine King
 * Team Dresch
 * Tribe 8
 * The Hyperdrive Kittens

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Motu Nao

Motu Nao is the Marquesan name for a small rock island in the southeastern Marquesas Islands, approximately 22 km northeast of Fatu Hiva. The French name for the island is Rocher Thomasset, which in English is Thomasset Rock.

At low tide, the top of the island rises to 4 m (13 ft.) above sea level, and is sometimes almost awash at high tide.

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Mel Brown (guitarist)

Mel Brown (October 7, 1939 – March 20, 2009) was an American-born blues guitarist and singer. He is best remembered for his decade-long backing of Bobby Bland, although in his own right Brown recorded over a dozen albums between 1967 and 2006.

Career
Brown was born in Jackson, Mississippi, United States, and was presented with his first guitar as a teenager while recovering from a bout of meningitis. By 1955, after performing backing duties for both Sonny Boy Williamson II and Jimmy Beasley, Brown had a two year long stint backing Johnny Otis. This led to work with Etta James, where he swapped his Gibson Les Paul for an ES-175 to give him a richer and fuller tone to his guitar work, that set him apart from his contemporaries.

The stress of constant touring led him to Los Angeles, California, to resume work with Otis, spending an extended residency at the Club Sands. Further session duties saw Brown back Bobby Darin and Bill Cosby among others, as well as performing on T-Bone Walker's Funky Town. ABC Records producer Bob Thiele offered Brown the chance to record his own material, and Brown released Chicken Fat in 1967. Though principally a blues musician, Brown would also transition into jazz and soul jazz through his association with Bob Thiele, including a prominent role with the Oliver Nelson Big Band and appearing on Live from Los Angeles (released by Impulse!).

One of Brown's most celebrated tracks is the 11+ minute guitar solo, "Eighteen Pounds of Unclean Chitlings", which features on I'd Rather Suck My Thumb (1970),  and was reissued as the lead track (and title) on a BluesWay Records collection released in 1973. For many years in the 1980s and 1990s, Brown was a prominent member of the house band at Antone's Night Club in Austin, Texas.

Brown was nominated for a Juno Award in both 2001 and 2002.

Brown died aged 69, on March 20, 2009, in Kitchener, Ontario, of complications from emphysema.

A documentary film, Love Lost & Found: The Story of Mel Brown directed by Sean Jasmins for Blue Fusion Productions was granted a theatrical release in 2014.

As leader

 * 1967: Chicken Fat (Impulse!)
 * 1968: The Wizard (Impulse!)
 * 1969: Blues for We (Impulse!)
 * 1969: I'd Rather Suck My Thumb (Impulse!)
 * 1971: Mel Brown's Fifth (Impulse!)
 * 1973: Big Foot Country Girl (Impulse!)
 * 1973: Eighteen Pounds of Unclean Chitlins and Other Greasy Blues Specialties (BluesWay)
 * 1998: Can't Stop Blowin' (Electro-Fi) Snooky Pryor with special guest Mel Brown
 * 1999: Neck Bones & Caviar (Electro-Fi) Mel Brown
 * 2000: Double Shot! (Electro-Fi) Snooky Pryor and Mel Brown
 * 2001: Homewreckin’ Done Live (Electro-Fi) Mel Brown and The Homewreckers
 * 2006: Blues – A Beautiful Thing (Electro-Fi) Mel Brown and The Homewreckers
 * 2006: Mel Brown – The DVD (Electro-Fi)

As sideman

 * Clifford Coulter – East Side San Jose (Impulse!, 1970)
 * Clifford Coulter – Do It Now! (Impulse!, 1971)
 * B.B. King... L.A. Midnight – Guitar
 * B.B. King and Bobby Blue Bland – Together for the First Time – Guitar
 * Albert Collins – Cold Snap – Guitar
 * James Cotton – Mighty Long Time – Piano
 * Lightnin' Hopkins – It’s a Sin To Be Rich – Guitar, Organ, Electric Piano
 * John Lee Hooker – Endless Boogie – Acoustic Guitar
 * John Lee Hooker Never Get Out of The Blues Alive – Guitar and Bass
 * Jimmy McGriff – The Starting Five (Milestone, 1987) - Guitar
 * Jimmy McGriff - The Dream Team (Milestone, 1997) – Guitar
 * Doug Sahm – Juke Box Music – Keyboards
 * Earl Hooker – Simply The Best – Guitar
 * Charles Brown – Legend – Guitar
 * T-Bone Walker – Stormy Monday Blues (BluesWay, 1968)
 * T-Bone Walker - Funky Town (BluesWay, 1969)
 * Monica Dupont – Monica Dupont Vintage (1980) – Guitar
 * Little Bobby and The Jumpstarts – Tickets in the Glovebox – Piano, Guitar
 * Harmonica Shah – Listen At Me Good – Guitar

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Talk:Dhol

Tuning
The dohl is listed at List of percussion insruments as tuned percussion, and seems to be pitched percussion but it's an interesting case.

The bass head seems to be tuned to a bass note reflecting the scale used in the music. If this is the case, then it's pitched percussion IMO, even if as it appears the treble head is unpitched. Andrewa (talk) 15:17, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Playing
http://tablasitar.net/punjabi-bhagra-dhol-q-a/ ''It is played with two sticks Dagga and Tilli. Dagga is used on the bass side, and a tilli on the treble side.'' From videos it appears the dagga is a stick with a 90 degree bend close to the beater end, but the flat of the end is used, rather than the tip as with some similar African drumstcks. The tilli appears straight and again the flat is used, striking also the rim. Andrewa (talk) 15:17, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

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Talk:Linares International Chess Tournament

old talk
No point in using tie breaks anymore as they vary between similar tournaments and keep changing over time -- even within the same tournament's history. e.g., head-to-head results are generally used first in double round-robin tournaments in case of two way ties. However, in 2005, this was not done at Linares and Kasparov was given the title unfairly (some would argue) over Topalov.

What date is the tournament? Isn't it soon?--Sonjaaa 08:25, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)

 * This year's edition runs from February 22 (first round February 23) to March 10; players are Kasparov, Anand, Topalov, Leko, Adams, Vallejo Pons and Kasimdzhanov. If you think it's worth putting this in the article, feel free. --Camembert

New Article for individual tournaments?
Instead of having the 2007 results, should a new page be made specifically for that result? --Must WIN 00:53, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

 * I don't think there's enough material to warrant a separate article for each year. If the existing article grows too much, we could do so in the future though. Peter Ballard 01:21, 10 May 2007 (UTC)

Out of Date
The entire discussion of the chess tournament is out of date. Mr Rentero has not sponsored the event for years, and Mexico is no longer the site of half the tournament.

Abenr (talk) 09:26, 26 February 2009 (UTC)Abenr

The first category XVIII tourneament was Reggio Emilia 1992, not Linares 1994. Maelstrom

2011?
I follow chessbase.com pretty regular and haven't noticed any mentions of why Linares didn't occur this year (2011). Shouldn't it have already happened? (The article says it usually occurs in late February). Am I wrong or the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.120.184.122 (talk) 21:31, 24 March 2011 (UTC)

Christiansen is an American
No idea why Larry Christiansen is shown as playing under a British flag. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 17.103.122.221 (talk) 14:00, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

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Si Zerrouk massacre

The Si Zerrouk massacre took place in the Si Zerrouk neighborhood in the south of Larbaa in Algeria on 27 July 1997. About 50 people were killed.

Background
In 1997, Algeria was at the peak of a civil conflict that had begun after the military's cancellation of 1992 elections set to be won by the Islamic Salvation Front (FIS). Two major Islamist guerrilla groups, Armed Islamic Group (GIA) and AIS, and several minor ones, were fighting the government. Larbaa was a major center for the FIS's armed wing, the Islamic Salvation Army (AIS), which the GIA had recently declared war on; Mustapha Kartali, a former GIA chief who had split from him in 1995 and become head of the AIS's Katibat Errahamane brigade, was based in the area.

Massacre
On the afternoon of 27 July 1997, the electricity went out. That night, a number of guerrillas armed with shotguns, knives, and sabres (30 according to The Economist, 100 according to Liberte) stormed into the area by night and started breaking into homes and cutting the residents' throats, killing men, women, and babies, and burning some victims alive. They also blew up their houses. About 50 people (most papers reported 47; Le Matin reported 58) were killed.

The massacre was presumed to be the work of the GIA. According to Robert Moore of The Observer as quoted by Ahmed Bouzid in Zmag: "in the village of Larbaa the attack took place 300 yards from a large barracks." The New York Times confirms that "the electricity had been cut in the town before the assault and the attack occurred close to an army barracks" (Roger Cohen, "Despite freeing of a militant, no letup in Algerian strife", The New York Times, 2 August 1997, as cited by Algeria-Watch).

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Talk:Four-color deck

Opening comment
where can one buy a four color deck for real world use?

I have bought and used decks where they used black/grey/red/pink for the colours. That preserves the basic red/black scheme, but adds some distinction. (Unfortunately, it was a long time ago and I don't remember anything about the source.)
 * Copag is a producer of such decks. --80.109.73.21 18:58, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

Four-color decks are also available for the visually impaired. The index can be a letter/number of the appropriate color, and can be larger (and thus, more easily recognized) than a letter/number and a similarly sized suit. ILA's Low Vision Playing Cards are one example. -- Darin McGrew 05:48, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

Picture
Somebody needs to edit the picture so that it doesn't obscure any text. I'd edit it myself, but I have no idea how to. JaeDyWolf (talk) 01:08, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

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