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Talk:Vincent D'Onofrio

Method Acting
It's a bit absurd that this page doesn't mention that D'Onofrio is a method actor. Every part of he career and life revolves around that fact. Someone removed my mention of it. It was proper to mention it. The Robert De Niro article mentions that he's a method actor in the second sentence.

The D'Onofrio article mentions that he collapsed a few times from exhaustion. Doesn't mention, and perhaps shouldn't mention, that he collapsed because he though he was Bobby Goren for years on end. Method acting gives some bit of context. I t also explains the demise of the Law and Order show and why he currently only acts in every other episode. This stuff shouldn't be mentioned in the article, but the fact that he's a method actor should. It's something that is obvious and he openly talks about. And it gives lots of context. MBThomason (talk) 13:01, 24 June 2009 (UTC)

 * Did you read my edit summary? Go ahead and mention it, but it doesn't belong in the first sentence, which is a very broad summary of who the person is.  For instance, we say "American" and not "Californian" or "African-American".  The issue is not mentioning it--who really cares?--but that you put it in the wrong place, and I just don't care enough to find the proper place. -- >David  Shankbone  15:17, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
 * "Doesn't mention, and perhaps shouldn't mention, that he collapsed because he though he was Bobby Goren for years on end." -- is this just your opinion, or has he gone on record somewhere saying this — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tek nuckle (talk • contribs) 00:26, 26 August 2011

(Dorff resemblance)
is it me or does he and stephen dorff look similar? like they could be brothers. I just find it interesting. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.194.148.155 (talk) 17:37, 23 March 2010 (UTC)

Reason for collapse

 * Rumors circulated that D'Onofrio had collapsed due to learning that George W. Bush won the election. As D'Onofrio later explained, it was his 16 hour days filming Law and Order: Criminal Intent coupled with the filming of his short film, Five Minutes, Mr. Welles as the reason for his exhaustion.

The link is dead, and it's a raw link, with no author, title, date, publisher, etc. citation information. Therefore I have removed it until someone can locate an article that affirms both the rumor and his explanation. hbdragon88 (talk) 23:57, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

Here is a good link to back up my statement. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE4D91E30F936A15751C1A9629C8B63&pagewanted=all New York Times, author, title, date, publisher. Vinnie Vidi Vici Nantz (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 05:44, 25 September 2011 (UTC).

First marriage described contradictorily
In the article's summary of personal information (upper right), Greta Scacchi is described as his first spouse.

Under the section Personal life it states (referring to D'Onofrio and Scacchi): "The couple were in a relationship from 1991 until 1993."

Meanwhile, the Wikipedia article on Scacchi says: "A marriage to American actor Vincent D'Onofrio (1989–1993) produced a daughter Leila (born March 1992)."

Someone knowledgeable about this situation needs to straighten out the inconsistency between a "relationship from 1991 until 1993" and a "marriage . . . (1983-1993)".

By the way, the passage from the article on Greta Scacchi includes a source for the marriage information.Daqu (talk) 14:20, 11 August 2011 (UTC)

Role in Weinergate?
Didn't D'Onofrio play a role in Weinergate in June 2011 when he coaxed Andrew Breitbart while they were both guests on Opie & Anthony to leak the first picture of Anthony Weiner's erect penis on-air? http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2011/06/how_vincent_donofrio_is_to_bla.html Cowbert (talk) 12:17, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

Marriages
There has been past discussion (Talk:Vincent_D'Onofrio/Archive2) and it needs to be sorted out to match current and previous sources.

We have another series of edits about D'Onofrio's second marriage (or first, or second, third...), feel free to add refs to these lists:

 * Scacchi
 * Never married:
 * 1) This much I know: Greta Scacchi, actor, 48, Sussex. Interview by Hephzibah Anderson The Observer, 20 July 2008 "I've never been married and I don't think I'll ever get married." and "Only recently have I realised that that cynicism might have put the dampers on my finding the right sort of situation for marriage."(obviously same source as next one ...)
 * 2) Greta Scacchi: 'I'm done with taking off my clothes on screen', No interviewer or writer credited, The Telegraph, 25 Jul 2008 "She had a four-year relationship with the American actor, Vincent D'Onofrio ... D'Onofrio changed his mind about family life and walked away." and "Though she calls Carlo her husband, they are not married. 'I learnt in my early teens that if you got married, as my parents did, then you'd have to get divorced and that was a huge rigmarole'." and "Only recently have I realised that cynicism might have put the dampers on my finding the right sort of situation for marriage."

 * Married, divorced:
 * 1) Greta Scacchi: glad to be back, interview with Marianne Macdonald, The Telegraph, 28 September 2008 "1991, the year she met and married her now ex-husband, Vincent D'Onofrio"
 * 2) Criminal Intent's Vincent D'Onofrio Welcomes a Son, People magazine, 21 February 2008 "D'Onofrio also has a teenage daughter, Leila, from his previous marriage to actress Greta Scacchi." & "Leila George, with his ex-wife, GretaScacchi." (15 October 2007)
 * 3) "married Greta Scacchi (an actress), 1991 (divorced 1993)" Encyclopedia.com owned by HighBeam Research

There have been conflicting statements from D'Onofrio himself, some saying he was divorced, some saying he remarried, some saying he never divorced and has been married for 16 years to her:
 * van der Donk
 * Divorced, remarried:

 * Separated, not divorced:

 * Not divorced: "IMDB ... they still have us as not being married, there's some thing about us getting divorced or something its ridiculous, i'm married to my wife almost sixteen years now" interview for blogtalkradio.com at time-stamp 15:10 (13 Jan 2012)

Chaosdruid (talk) 03:08, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

Removal of edits
I have reverted a rather large series of edits by one editor.

There were several reasons:
 * Citations needed x3 - reverted as IMDB used for one, the other two were from an article which was clearly marked as "GNU from Wikipedia"
 * Refs - 1x was a simple link to a youtube file, 2x simple html that had been expanded with incorrect elements,
 * Marriage to van der Donk - this is still under discussion on the talk page and should not have been touched until that discussion has been at least started. They also reinserted muddled information about a divorce which D'Onofrio has denied ever happened and a simple Google news archive search over the last 16 years brings nothing on any divorce with van der Donk apart from one ref, a French newspaper and one item in the Glasgow Herald - both are not supported by any other ref or mention so far.
 * Removal of home area - was removed, restored as it is covered in a couple of widely-available public articles.
 * 3x categories had been corrupted.

I do understand that there may be further discussion on this, so am very open to any input on these matters. I also fully intend to turn the simple refs to full refs, but am searching for a script to deal with this first. Chaosdruid (talk) 17:59, 21 January 2012 (UTC)

 * The editor has reverted again, with the summary "Added references as discussed on talk page. Please read talk page before undoing."
 * I cannot see their input on this page, though I may have missed it. Most importantly the re-additions introduced spelling mistakes, IMDB and dubious WP:RS blogs as refs. They are all listed in my previous post. Chaosdruid (talk) 13:52, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

wrong place, sorry. Vdofan (talk) 19:57, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

In regards to undoing my previous edits
Chaosdruid...First of all, my previous addition to this page is directly below this one. Also, you say I keep changing edits, however, this was my first. I am simply trying to make this article accurate and dont see anything wrong with that.

I am happy to discuss this here, but I ask that you please leave my edits in place for now as what is left when you undo is inaccurate.

I have now removed anything resembling a 'dubious source' (Actually couldn't find anything that said that scans of articles weren't appropriate, but I understand if I've missed it). What is there now is from the UK telegraph and Australian Sunday times, and therefore I'm sure breaks no rules. Please add better sources if you wish but do consider the sources before undoing. I spent a LOT of time making sure my last edit was accurate (and I'm sure my tiredness contributed to a spelling error - for that I apologise) and discarded over 20 INTERVIEWS with VDO which confirmed the divorces, but which I didn't see as suitable, so I find it very unfair to have everything undone - I don't know of any wiki rules which state that only one person can control a page, but will be glad to contact wiki to find out why what I added wasn't good enough.

If it's simply a case of not being sure of the scacchi marriage, then a change to relationship should be sufficient? The second divorce has been discussed, sourced and confirmed so many times that I don't feel that VDO suddenly changing his mind and saying it never happened is enough to say that it didn't.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Vincentfan1972 (talk • contribs) 15:31, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

 * Please read the following, in regard to Vincent D'Onofrio.

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Cvanderdonk

 * These updates came from Vincent's own wife between 2006 and 2009. I can imagine she got tired of coming back and finding that yet again a fan felt they knew better than she did, so she likely got tired of correcting the information and just gave up.

 * If you notice her pattern in contributions, she always corrects any reference to Vincent and Greta as being married and fixes it to show there was ONLY ever a relationship between the two of them. She ALWAYS corrects that she and Vincent only ever separated in 2003 and reconciled in 2004. She removes every reference of there being a divorce.

 * She also updated that Elias, their first son was born in December of 1999 and not in 2000. She even explains to WP:OTRS,"TrishGow" that she should know, as she gave birth to him.

 * She was also further able to provide proof to WP:OTRS,"TrishGow" of who she was and she was then considered a "validated family spokesperson"

 * Here is a link to the 2nd archive under his talk page that explains all of this under Marital Status: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Vincent_D%27Onofrio/Archive2

 * "Wikipedia has confirmed with a validated spokesperson for the D'Onofrio family that the couple are, indeed, still legally married after a separation that occured in 2003. The information has been verified by WP:OTRS, Shell_Kinney and TrishGow as having come from someone authorized to speak on behalf of Mr. D'Onofrio. In doing research for the D'Onofrio article (as citations are required to support Wikipedia content), we found that comments made by Mr. D'Onofrio during his separation must have led journalists to make assumptions about the final disposition of his marriage. Using incorrect source material as support(no doubt found elsewhere on the internet), it was concluded in most published articles that a divorce had been finalized. As shown in the text approved for Wikipedia by the D'Onofrio family, that is not the case."

 * Cvanderdonk (His wife) was verified and validated and the correct information was indeed up at one point on his wiki, but then again, fans again came along and thought because they read something in an article, it was the gospel truth.

 * Nowadays it is practically routine for a celebrity to give an interview and immediately after that interview goes public, they have to put out statements because something they said was taken out of context, which seems to be the case here, only back in 2005, people weren't made to apologize for every little thing they said publicly or on record that some person or group didn't agree with or clarify what they meant when talking about this, that or the other thing.

 * Also, as far as your comments about fans having access to Vincent's divorce details through the public records. I looked it up here http://www.health.ny.gov/vital_records/divorce.htm and the only people eligible to obtain a copy of a divorce certificate are "either spouse" or "Other persons with a New York state court order". Two things that a "fan" or "fans" would be lacking.

 * Of course, I am just a fan of Vincent's as well. However, I'd just like to see his wiki show the verified and correct facts that were provided by his wife instead of what was printed in some magazine article.

 * If people would just stop coming along and insisting that they know more about Vincent's marital history than he does, that would be great!
 * Vdofan (talk) 20:27, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Response
All good then if she's contacted the site. (and the records ARE/WERE available, although that's not important. And we all know that he has used the word divorce in interviews... but again not important - just making sure people don't think I'm making this stuff up. I obviously had no way of knowing that she had clarified things). In that case, I will not add anything about the divorce again, and will return to to the version Van der donk would have been happy with (relationship/separated). However I do want to edit other areas of the wiki - but will wait until I'm sure that it wont simply be undone.

 * ==Reply==
 * The thing is, I don't doubt that someone else will come along in a few days and change it again. It's just the way it is.

 * Vincent doesn't have a publicist because he's said he doesn't really care much for what's said/debated about him on the Internet. It was his wife's issue that the information wasn't accurate. If he did have a publicist, there might not be so much speculation about his current marriage.

 * As for his relationship with Greta. I've never seen either one of them refer to each other as "ex-" or use the "d" word, rather it's implied in the articles by the interviewer, but never seen it quoted from either of them. The only quote I've ever found is from Greta in this article http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2008/jul/20/15 in which she says "I've never been married and I don't think I'll ever get married."
 * Vdofan (talk) 00:11, 15 February 2012 (UTC)

Added References
I have noticed that the page hasnt been updated since the refs were removed so I have gone ahead and sourced new references to add. In these, donofrio not only says that he was married/divorced from Scacchi, but also van der Donk. I don't know his reasoning for wanting to make people believe otherwise, but the sources are definitely there and at one point or another he was happy to discuss them. In fact his divorce details are available to the public on the NYstate records site as has been discovered by fans in the past.

In addition to this, Ive cleaned up some of the reference list (adding quotes/titles instead of raw links) and have changed 'lives in gramercy park in the east village' to the more accurate 'gramercy in manhattan' as the area discussed is only in the gramercy neighborhood (not gramercy park itself) and this area is not actually in the east village!! the first link was also outdated, from 2008, so Ive removed that but kept the more recent one. Hopefully this is all ok. Im not aware of any reason not to edit it. Vincentfan1972 17:39, 12 February 2012 (UTC)

Acceptable Reference?
This reference http://www.nypost.com/seven/12012006/gossip/pagesix/sightings_page was provided by Cvanderdonk (Vincent's wife) back in December of 2006 as proof of the marriage still being intact. However, the posting is no longer available to be seen on their website.

I was able to find though, that this is what had been there: "VINCENT D'Onofrio ("Law & Order: Criminal Intent") at the Marni store on Mercer Street buying Christmas gifts for his wife, Carin van der Donk . . . " I got it from this website: http://entertainment.uk.myway.com/celebgossip/pgsix/id/12_01_2006_9.html (Not a fan site or blog)

You'll see that the date in the NY Post link "12012006" is the same in the uk.myway.com "12_01_2006". Also, "pgsix" is included in the address and the logo for the NY Post is also in the header on this new site. There's also this, © copyright 2005 The New York Post Vdofan (talk) 05:44, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
 * The Wayback Machine has an entry, though somewhat shorter as NYT sells their archive access ... it will at least show that the text came from there Chaosdruid (talk) 11:50, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

More about the marriages
According to at least some reliable sources, D'Onofrio was married to actress Greta Scacchi and model Carin van der Donk. Please note the latter has no Wikipedia article, so is of questionable notability on her own. Removing valid references is not a way to solve this issue. Thank you. -- ‖ Ebyabe talk - Repel All Boarders  ‖ 14:31, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

Moved from Ebyabe's talk page by Ebyabe:
 * It has been clearly discussed at length that there are contradictory news articles out there regarding any marriage between Greta Scacxhi and Vincent D'Onofrio. In 2006 lengthy discussions about many discrepancies on the page occurred. In the end I was validated as a spokesperson. Inaccurate facts like our sons birth year, movie credits, and our own marital status were eventually cleared up. Could you explain why you feel that your interpretation is more valid? Best, Carin Cvanderdonk (talk) 14:42, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
 * I see no such proper validation. Do you have a OTRS case number? --Neil N  talk to me 16:08, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Side note: What about Greta Scacchi's page? It has had their sourced marriage on there for years. Whatever solution is come to, it should apply to both pages, I would think. -- ‖ Ebyabe talk - Health and Welfare  ‖ 16:05, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

I am still not sure how to navigate wikipedia, and I do not know if I am leaving this in the right place. In 2006 - 2007 I had an in-person meeting with somebody to validate myself (ha). This person navigated wiki for me after that point. I do not have any record of a case #. Honestly, all of this makes no difference to my life, and I do not want to waste anymore time and head space over this issue. It was one thing when it involved myself and my children. I have made clear, and know beyond all doubt, that a marriage never took place between Greta and Vincent. I just wanted to make this wiki page accurate. I am pasting some of the past discussion below. All the best, Carin

Please read the following, in regard to Vincent D'Onofrio. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Cvanderdonk

These updates came from Vincent's own wife between 2006 and 2009. I can imagine she got tired of coming back and finding that yet again a fan felt they knew better than she did, so she likely got tired of correcting the information and just gave up.

@ebyabe - you can look on Vincent's twitter in a minute re this issue. If after that you still feel you just know better. So be it. Best, Carin

If you notice her pattern in contributions, she always corrects any reference to Vincent and Greta as being married and fixes it to show there was ONLY ever a relationship between the two of them. She ALWAYS corrects that she and Vincent only ever separated in 2003 and reconciled in 2004. She removes every reference of there being a divorce.

She also updated that Elias, their first son was born in December of 1999 and not in 2000. She even explains to WP:OTRS,"TrishGow" that she should know, as she gave birth to him.

She was also further able to provide proof to WP:OTRS,"TrishGow" of who she was and she was then considered a "validated family spokesperson"

Here is a link to the 2nd archive under his talk page that explains all of this under Marital Status: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Vincent_D%27Onofrio/Archive2

"Wikipedia has confirmed with a validated spokesperson for the D'Onofrio family that the couple are, indeed, still legally married after a separation that occured in 2003. The information has been verified by WP:OTRS, Shell_Kinney and TrishGow as having come from someone authorized to speak on behalf of Mr. D'Onofrio. In doing research for the D'Onofrio article (as citations are required to support Wikipedia content), we found that comments made by Mr. D'Onofrio during his separation must have led journalists to make assumptions about the final disposition of his marriage. Using incorrect source material as support(no doubt found elsewhere on the internet), it was concluded in most published articles that a divorce had been finalized. As shown in the text approved for Wikipedia by the D'Onofrio family, that is not the case."

Cvanderdonk (His wife) was verified and validated and the correct information was indeed up at one point on his wiki, but then again, fans again came along and thought because they read something in an article, it was the gospel truth.

Nowadays it is practically routine for a celebrity to give an interview and immediately after that interview goes public, they have to put out statements because something they said was taken out of context, which seems to be the case here, only back in 2005, people weren't made to apologize for every little thing they said publicly or on record that some person or group didn't agree with or clarify what they meant when talking about this, that or the other thing.

Also, as far as your comments about fans having access to Vincent's divorce details through the public records. I looked it up here http://www.health.ny.gov/vital_records/divorce.htm and the only people eligible to obtain a copy of a divorce certificate are "either spouse" or "Other persons with a New York state court order". Two things that a "fan" or "fans" would be lacking.

Of course, I am just a fan of Vincent's as well. However, I'd just like to see his wiki show the verified and correct facts that were provided by his wife instead of what was printed in some magazine article. If people would just stop coming along and insisting that they know more about Vincent's marital history than he does, that would be great! Vdofan (talk) 20:27, 14 February 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cvanderdonk (talk • contribs)
 * I looked at the archives earlier and TishGow had no authority to make that statement, as they were a brand new editor and not a member of OTRS. --Neil N  talk to me 15:10, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

 * And again, why is there such concern about correcting this page and not Scacchi's page as well. Her marriage to him has been listed there for years. Won't do much good to "fix" this article if Scacchi's article is not corrected as well. -- ‖ Ebyabe talk - Inspector General  ‖ 16:02, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Also, since you're married to him, why not get him to make a public statement confirming this once and for all. Lord knows he's doing enough press for the Daredevil series. That would go a long way towards resolving this. If he doesn't want to make a public statement, then he doesn't really care so we can just go by the information in the majority of reliable sources. -- ‖ Ebyabe talk - Opposites Attract  ‖ 16:07, 1 September 2015 (UTC)

Protected edit request on 1 September 2015
Many years ago, by consensus from quite a few editors it was decided that the articles re a marriage between Greta Sacchi and Vincent D'Onofrio are conflicting regarding this ever happening. In addition to me, as the current wife (also a hotly debated issue at the time), also stating this marriage never happened tipped the scaling point, and the language of "in a relationship" was agreed upon. This stuck for many years. Now a new and wiki savvy editor comes along, and decides to impose her one opinion on this page. I request that the language of "in a relationship" is re-inserted in place of "married to". I have also responded to requests for a conversation. Yet this editor seems to believe she has the last word, but she hasn't responded as to why that is.

Cvanderdonk (talk) 10:18, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Perhaps you can continue the discussion in the section above? — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:44, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

@ebyabe - you can look on Vincent's twitter in a minute re this issue. If after that you still feel you just know better. So be it. Best, Carin — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.173.227.155 (talk) 20:15, 2 September 2015 (UTC)

 * You are the one who wishes to change the article, so it is incumbent on you to provide the information. Also, do NOT delete reliable sources to prove your point, that is not how Wikipedia works. Thank you. -- ‖ Ebyabe talk - State of the Union  ‖ 04:24, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

 * Okay, we now have a tweet from D'Onofrio's blue-ticked twitter account that asks Wikipedia to believe this, but on the other hand we have pretty clear statements from The Guardian, The Tele, and People that say that they were married. One publication making a stuff-up I could believe, but three?  Lankiveil (speak to me) 06:57, 13 September 2015 (UTC).

Now we have inconsistent articles. Pinging. Also: User_talk:Jimbo_Wales --Neil N  talk to me 22:48, 17 September 2015 (UTC)

 * The sources for the marriage are all over the place, and some of the claims in the wikipedia article and above about the marriage are contradictory and/or false. To wit, here are the currently cited sources:
 * What makes this a reliable source?
 * The source is being misquoted with at least the current version saying that the two were in a "four-year relationship" and not mentioning marriage.
 * , which says The gap began in 1991, the year she met and married her now ex-husband, Vincent D'Onofrio This is the only reliable source I have see about the marriage, although their meeting in 1991 is dubious and in conflict with the "four-year relationship" mentioned above (since there are many accounts of them breaking up by 1993).
 * Not a reliable source for controversial BLP information.
 * And to counter the above listed sources, I found contemporaneous accounts of their daughter's coming birth in USA Today dated 9 October 1991, which says Gorgeous Greta Scacchi becomes a mom next spring; dad is actor Vincent D'Onofrio (Dying Young). No plans to wed. Finally, I think the confusion may be explained by a short piece in Buffalo News on 15 Aug 1993, which talks about their acrimonious break-up and says, They struck up a romance and lived together in her native Australia for six months in 1991, becoming a Down Under version of common-law husband and wife by virtue of their cohabitation.
 * Look, I have no idea whether D'Onofrio and Scaccchi were actually married, in a common-law marriage, or unmarried, but when we cannot be sure it is incumbent upon us not to make such claims especially in wikipedia's voice. There is no doubt that the two were in a relationship ca. early 1990s and have a daughter. That is the language used in the best available sources (eg, many NYT articles I came across in my search), and we should follow that approach.
 * I had updated the Greta Scacchi article accordingly, and unless theer are objections we can update this page too in a few hours. Abecedare (talk) 23:23, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
 * I think I found the edit that first introduced the misquote of a reliable source that you referred to, i.e the edit that changed the correct quote "relationship" to the misquote "marriage" . --Bob K31416 (talk) 23:37, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Thanks for digging up the diff, Bob. I had half-suspected that the Guardian has simply changed their article w/o appending a corection, but this appears to be a simple BLP vandalism that was not caught in time. In any case, hearing no objections to my above comment I'll change the marriage to the non-committal relationship, as most sources seem to prefer that formulation. Cheers. Abecedare (talk) 15:57, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

Parent's Occupations
Gennaro "Gene" D'onofrio was my high school drama teacher at Gill/St. Bernard's school in New Jersey in 1989. According to the recent WTF podcast with Marc Maron, Vincent describes his father as a "community theater actor/director" and just generally involved in community theater. http://www.wtfpod.com/podcast/episode-1008-vincent-donofrio (Vincent discusses his father at around 30:00).

I also know that he is a founding member of the RiverRun International Film Festival in North Carolina since North Carolina which is mentioned on the page.

Now when I google my old teacher, he is described as an "interior designer". The only source I can find for that claim is here on Wikipedia, but there are no citations. I haven't seen him in 30 years, but this is surprising, just knowing what I know of the man. The way it is written now is complicated because it combines the names and occupations of his parents (with the use of respectively) but according to the podcast linked above they were divorced when Vincent was very young.

This definitely needs to be edited some. Even if his father was an interior designer, I don't think that would be particularly notable for this page, but Vincent growing up with a theater director father is notable. Anyway, it is a bit of a mess. I'm hesitant to change anything because I'm just a bit overwhelmed and confused. I'm also thinking I might be biased because of my personal relationship with Mr. D. So this is a request for an edit from someone else. Please bear in mind that the WTF pod source will be hidden behind a paywall after a couple of months.

Here is a twitter bio listing Gene as director of RRFF. https://twitter.com/genedonofrio

Here is a history page for RRFF that claims it was founded by "Vincent and Gennaro D'onofrio." https://riverrunfilm.com/history/

I hope this helps. Kire1975 (talk) 10:46, 17 April 2019 (UTC)

Autism and Dyslexia
In this video, Vincent D'onofrio is asked about his advocacy regarding autism, and he mentions being dyslexic, and mentions autism being common in his family, and that he believes he's autistic. I am not sure about the appropriate way to integrate this into the article, but it seems very relevant and like it should be referenced within the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvI6pMyAMHk&t=65s Theedgeofoblivious (talk) 03:24, 11 December 2023 (UTC)

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 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP. —Korath (Talk) 07:21, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

HMS Jersey (P295)
It's a boat. Notability not established. Radiant! 10:07, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep. A poor article, but we have lots of entries for boats like this. Trilobite (Talk) 11:05, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, ships are wikipedia material. This article needs clean up, not deletion. There are several ships named HMS Jersey so HMS Jersey should be a dismabiguation page linking to all the ships. bbx 14:40, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep — It's a registered naval vessel. Does it need to be in a war to be included? RJH 19:57, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. As stated above, there are a lot of entries for registered naval vessels. Zzyzx11 20:52, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Needs expansion. -- Longhair 02:45, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Naval vessels have long been the subjects of reference works -- any large ship is at least as significant as a small village (and may even have a larger population) -- Dpm64 03:17, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Tater

Tater may refer to:
 * Potato
 * Tater tot, a deep-fried grated potato side-dish similar to hash browns
 * Taters, branding for deep-fried potato wedges served by the Mary Brown's restaurant chain in Canada
 * A home run in baseball jargon
 * Tater, a baseball bat manufacturer

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Category talk:African-American musicians

Hyphenate?
Isn't a hyphen needed here?--Sonjaaa 10:09, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)

Category inheritance
I wonder at the appropriateness of this category inheriting directly from Category:American musicians. Shouldn't there be a Category:American musicians by ethnicity in between? Otherwise the main effect would seem to be to purge all black people from Category:American musicians. -- Jmabel | Talk 01:46, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Done. -- Jmabel | Talk 18:52, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Subcategorization Proposal
I would like to subcategorize the African American musicians both by genre and by instrument. These new subcategories would be part of the African American musician heirarchy, and the articles for the individual musicians would each appear in one or more subcategories of the genre and instrument categorization, rather than in the African American musician category. The subcategories, (e.g. Category:African American trumpet players), would also appear as a related categorization in the appropriate American instrumentalist category, but would not be a heirarchical subcategory of the American instrumentalist category (it's not practical or of interest to users to categorize every American instrumentalist by ethnicity). Therefore an African American trumpet player, Louis Armstrong, for example, would appear in both Category:American trumpet players and Category:African American trumpet players.

Motivation for this recategorization are:
 * With so many individual African American musicians in this category, the subcategories that already exist tend to 'get lost'.
 * I believe that the new subcategories would be of interest to users.
 * This will parallel the subcategorization for Category:American musicians.
 * The African American musicians category is currently not always being consistently used; some African American musicians are not listed here, but listed under genre, or instrument by nationality, only.

I intend to begin work on this gradually. If concerns are raised and there seems to be a consensus not to subcategorize in this way, I will be glad to help put things back the way they were before.

Respectfully, LiniShu 03:40, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I'd rather see ethnicity and instrument kept separate. -- Jmabel | Talk 18:54, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

As of 31 December 2005, after reading the discussion on Wikipedia talk:Categorization/Gender, race and sexuality, (of which I was not aware, prior to making the entry above), I do not think it would be beneficial to create additional subcategories by ethnicity at this time. Note: Also, as of 01 January 2006, the discussion referred to has been deemed closed and has been summarized on Categorization/Gender, race and sexuality. I do have some other questions/suggestions about recategorization that might be done; will write more later; just took a few moments this afternoon to write a brief note. Thanks, LiniShu 21:28, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Subcategorization Proposal (2)
There are over a thousand entries in this category, so perhaps it's time to think about splitting it into smaller subcats. Perhaps instead of an all-inclusive "musicians" category, we could split it based on music style, e.g., African American rap musicians, African American blues musicians, African American jazz musicians, and so forth? Obviously, some artists would fall into more than one subcat, but that should not be a problem. — Loadmaster 16:24, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Well, yes, the Categorization/Gender, race and sexuality article provides good reasons not to subcategorize. So at this point I'm neutral on the issue (see the discussion above for similar thoughts). But this is a large category nonetheless. — Loadmaster 16:38, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Kenny Burrell
[someone should correct this article which currently reads that Kenny is and isn't African American.] — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1012:B054:28FF:3599:4639:3A4:9224 (talk) 01:59, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

Just pointing out, Kenny Burrell is not African American. He is Caucasian. There was probably some confusion due to the fact that he does studies and lectures of African American influence in music and US history and has an archive named after him in an African American studies library. Also, the picture used in the article is of poor quality.--NeverOff (talk) 19:35, 1 December 2008 (UTC) EDIT: THIS IS INCORRECT

Kenny Burrell is absolutely African American (both parents were A.A.), from Detroit. The poster above has been terribly misinformed. African American people exist in a full spectrum of colors. He is one of the most respected jazz musicians in the world. He has dedicated his life to music and the continuation and preservation of this American treasure we call Jazz. MBM2009 (talk) 06:38, 30 June 2009 (UTC)

 * facts 172.88.235.179 (talk) 06:37, 11 October 2022 (UTC)


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Geoff Marsh

Geoffrey Robert Marsh (born 31 December 1958) is an Australian former cricketer, coach and selector. He played 50 Test matches and 117 One Day Internationals for Australia as an opening batsman. Marsh was a part of the Australian team that won their first world title during the 1987 Cricket World Cup. As the coach of Australia he was in charge when Australia won the 1999 Cricket World Cup in England. He later coached Zimbabwe (2001–2004) and Sri Lanka (2011–12).

Playing career
Marsh was a steady, solid right-handed opening batsman and capable fielder, making his first-class debut for Western Australia as a nineteen-year-old in the 1977–1978 Sheffield Shield season. In 1978 he played five games of Australian rules football for South Fremantle in the West Australian National Football League before concentrating only on cricket.

Marsh established himself as a solid competitor on the domestic front and was on the fringes of the national team for a number of years before winning selection in the Australian Test team. He made his debut in December 1985 against India and took part of the tours of New Zealand and India the following year. However, his domestic debut was less than impressive, scoring a golden pair for Western Australia on debut at Sydney Cricket Ground, which was recorded in hand-written form on a storing cabinet inside the away team's dressing room as a symbolic "domestic honours board".

He soon made the opening position his own (despite his mediocre batting average of 33.18 ), batting alongside the likes of Mark Taylor and David Boon, and became an integral part of the Australian One Day International team. He along with David Boon became the first pair of openers to notch hundreds in a same ODI innings for the team

Marsh played international cricket over a seven-year period, ending in 1992.

He is best remembered for his part in the Australian team that won the 1987 World Cup in India, including an unbeaten 126 against New Zealand in Chandigarh, while he also captained his country in four matches. Over his career Marsh was a solid performer in One Day International cricket, with a batting average of nearly 40 but had a very low strike rate compared to more recent opening batsman.

Coaching career
Marsh retired from playing cricket in 1994 before taking up coaching. In July 1996 he was chosen as coach of the Australian national Test and One Day International teams, playing a vital part in continuing his country's positions as the top cricketing nation of the time. He was the coach of the Australian team that won the 1999 World Cup in England, guiding the team to seven consecutive victories to help them win the tournament.

He left the Australian coaching job and soon became a selector for the Australian Cricket Board (now Cricket Australia), although he left this position in 2001 to become coach of the Zimbabwean national teams. Marsh continued in this position until 2004 when his contract expired; many considered this decision was made due to the political circumstances of Zimbabwe's government under Robert Mugabe, although he has never commented publicly on the matter.

In mid 2009 Geoff was appointed Head Coach of the Fremantle District Cricket Club, a club which Geoff spend most of his senior playing career with.

He was appointed as the head coach for the team Pune Warriors India which made its IPL debut in 2011.

In September 2011, he was appointed as the head coach of the Sri Lanka national team. However, his tenure lasted barely four months. After Sri Lanka lost the Test and ODI series of their tour of South Africa in December 2011 and January 2012, he was dismissed and replaced by Graham Ford.

Family
Geoff Marsh is only the third Test player - after Walter Hadlee and Lala Amarnath - to have two sons play Test cricket: Shaun Marsh, who made his test debut against Sri Lanka in 2011; and Mitchell Marsh, who made his test debut against Pakistan in 2014. The Marsh family took in the family of England cricketer Tom Curran in Zimbabwe after the Curran family were evicted from their farm. Curran made his England Test debut in the 4th Ashes Test of 2017 playing against Shaun and Mitchell who played for Australia in the same game.

Geoff Marsh's daughter Melissa Marsh played state basketball in the WNBL and was captain of the Perth Lynx.

Tests
Test Debut: vs India, Adelaide, 1985–1986

Last Test: vs India, Adelaide, 1991–1992
 * Marsh's best Test batting score of 138 was made against England, Nottingham, 1989

One-day internationals
ODI Debut: vs New Zealand, Sydney, 1985–1986

Last ODI: vs Pakistan, Perth, 1991–1992
 * Marsh's best ODI batting score of 126 not out was made against New Zealand, Chandigarh, 1987 World Cup
 * He captained Australia in four ODIs, winning three and losing one

First class cricket
Marsh scored 11,760 runs at 39.46, with 33 centuries.
 * As of June 2018, his score of 355 not out for Western Australia against Southern Australia in December 1989 is the 31st highest score in first-class cricket history, and the 10th highest by an Australian.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/HV-016

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HV-016
Unit of Norwegian police (or possibly army). Notability not established, should probably merge somewhere. Radiant! 10:12, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Anti-terror units are elite and therefore notable. Kappa 12:13, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Then what about HV-015 and HV-017? This sounds like an individual squad. Radiant! 12:49, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Going up to Heimevernet it only has 20 parts and Heimevernet seems to have equal status with the army, navy and air force, so these things are significant. No content about them at present, so I won't try to judge if they should be on one page or separated, but HV-016 is different from the rest. Kappa 22:13, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, expand. Megan1967 23:09, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into Heimevernet and redirect. Other units which are now redlinks should be kept within the main article until it gets too big. If they're all a couple of sentences each, like HV-016, they'll be happy there. Wile E. Heresiarch 03:51, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge to Heimevernet--nixie 09:08, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Vogliatemi bene

The most famous?
I don't agree. I think it could be Un bel di vedremo --195.76.142.130 10:13, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC) es:User:Jdiazch

Re: candidate to be moved to wikisource
I don't think we should move this article. It covers more than just the text, and, as the article states, it is a very famous aria. Other arias have their own articles; for instance, Nessun Dorma. Moreover, the recording by Maria Callas is a significant work in the world of opera. The libretti should be covered in wikisource; the famous arias should be allowed to remain here on wikipedia. Wikisource is for texts, not for articles about texts. RedRabbit1983 14:14, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

???
This is not an aria! is a section of a duet.... an article about a section of a duet?! --Al Pereira(talk) 02:15, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

 * This is a rather ridiculous article. It is not an aria, and the mention of Callas is questionable. Also, I would hardly describe Butterfly as verismo. This should be severly shorn and merged with the main article, which I will do shortly. --203.129.50.179 09:14, 30 June 2007 (UTC) After I remember to log in. --Alexs letterbox 09:18, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Absolutely agree. --Al Pereira(talk) 09:11, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

??? second part
I don't see any reason to have an article about a section of a duet. In addition to this, the article doesn't say anything. --Al Pereira(talk) 05:33, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * And it is not the most famous part of the duet. --Al Pereira(talk) 05:35, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
 * I agree, there is nothing special or famous about this part at all. It should be merged with the main article - Jay (talk) 17:02, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hal Helms

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Hal Helms
POV article about someone who held a talk on a rather trivial concept of program design (namely that the interface should be completed before the back-end). Not notable in the extreme. Radiant! 10:14, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable. Trilobite (Talk) 11:05, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Non-notable, possible vanity, possible ad. If it's not notable in the extreme, does it qualify for an extreme delete? --Deathphoenix 14:46, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Extremely so. Radiant! 21:15, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Neutral: 16,000+ Google hits on name, looks like probably 2/3 are him. I don't tend to go for the eXtreme Programming approach and such methodologies, so I don't know how notable he is in that world... -- Jmabel | Talk 03:14, Feb 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Extreme programming promo. Wile E. Heresiarch 03:53, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, but with reservations. Article needs cleanup and expansion. Megan1967 08:25, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, notable programmer. JamesBurns 10:20, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, promotion. —Korath (Talk) 13:50, Mar 1, 2005 (UTC)

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Gattilusio

The House of Gattilusio was a powerful Genoese family who controlled a number of possessions in the northern Aegean from 1355 until the mid 15th century. Anthony Luttrell has pointed out that this family had developed close connections to the Byzantine ruling house of the Palaiologos—"four successive generations of Gattilusio married into the Palaiologos family, two to emperors' daughters, one to an emperor, and one to a despot who later became an emperor"—which could explain their repeated involvement in Byzantine affairs. The Gattilusi were Lords of Lesbos (present-day in Greece) from 1355 to 1462 and Lords of Aenus (present-day in Turkey) from 1376 to 1456.

History
The Gattilusi family was founded by two brothers, Francesco and Niccolò Gattilusi, who were the nephew of Oberto Gattilusi. The name of their father is not known, although based on the heraldic evidence of their inscriptions, Luttrell argues that their mother was a member of the Doria family. Francesco gained the favor of Byzantine Emperor John V Palaiologos by helping him oust a rival to the throne, John VI Kantakouzenos, in 1354. As reward, Gattilusio was given lordship of the island of Lesbos (and its stronghold, Mytilene) from July 1355, as well as the hand in marriage of the emperor's sister, Maria. The Gattilusi possessions grew to include, among others, the islands of Imbros, Samothrace, Lemnos and Thasos, and the mainland city of Aenos (modern Enez in Turkey). From this position, they were heavily involved in the mining and marketing of alum, useful in textile production and a profitable trade controlled by the Genoese.

After the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Gattilusi briefly retained control of their possessions under Ottoman suzerainty, but were forced out within a few years. In 1456, the Ottomans appointed a native Greek historian, Michael Critobulus, as governor of Imbros, and likewise removed the Gattilusi from power in the remainder of their possessions, with the exception of Lesbos, which they were permitted to retain in return for an annual payment of 4,000 gold pieces. The lord of Lesbos, Domenico Gattilusio, was strangled and briefly succeeded by his brother Niccolò, before an Ottoman fleet captured the island in September 1462, sending Niccolò as prisoner to Constantinople (where he was later executed) and putting an end to the family's power.

Archaeological excavations in the castle of Mytilene since 1984 by the University of British Columbia under the direction of Caroline and Hector Williams have uncovered the burial chapel of the Gattilusi and a few graves that probably belonged to dependents of the family. The building was converted into a mosque after the Ottoman capture of Mytilene in 1462; an earthquake in February 1867 destroyed it. The Canadian excavations have also added a considerable number of Gattilusi coins to the known corpus, now published by Dr. Robert Weir

Lords of Lesbos

 * Francesco I Gattilusio (1355–1384)
 * Francesco II Gattilusio (1384–1404)
 * Jacopo Gattilusio (1404–1428)
 * Dorino I Gattilusio (1428–1455)
 * Domenico Gattilusio (1455–1458)
 * Niccolò Gattilusio (1458–1462)

Lords of Aenus

 * Niccolò Gattilusio (1376–1409)
 * Palamede Gattilusio (1409–1455)
 * Dorino II Gattilusio (1455–1456)

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Europe, woodcut in Cesare Ripa, Iconologia 1603

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Hips, Hips, Hooray!

Hips, Hips, Hooray! is a 1934 American pre-Code slapstick comedy starring Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Ruth Etting, Thelma Todd and Dorothy Lee. During its initial theatrical run, it was preceded by the two-color Technicolor short Not Tonight, Josephine, directed by Edward F. Cline.

Plot
Amelia Frisby owns a beauty-supply business. Andy Williams and Dr. Bob Dudley convince her to hire them as salesman to promote her new flavored lipstick.

Cast

 * Bert Wheeler as Andy Williams
 * Robert Woolsey as Dr. Bob Dudley
 * Dorothy Lee as Daisy Maxwell
 * Thelma Todd as Amelia Frisby
 * Ruth Etting as Herself
 * Phyllis Barry as Madame Irene
 * Matt Briggs as Det. Epstein
 * James P. Burtis as Detective Sweeney
 * Spencer Charters as Clark
 * George Meeker as Armand Beauchamp
 * Doris McMahon as Maid
 * Thelma White as Blonde (uncredited)

Production
A romantic subplot involving Ruth Etting was planned, but it was removed from the film. Despite her high billing, Etting only has one scene.

The film features Etting singing "Keep Romance Alive" and Bert Wheeler and Dorothy Lee singing "Keep on Doin' What You're Doin'" by Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby, a song originally intended for the Marx Brothers' 1933 film Duck Soup.

Reception
In a contemporary review for The New York Times, critic Andre Sennwald wrote: "Those who admire the comic gifts of the cigar-smoking Woolsey and the cherub-faced Wheeler will find their faith nourished by the usual sum of ponderous jocosities. ... There are three reasonably hilarious gags and perhaps fifty more that depend on whether you are for or against the ex-vaudeville clowns to begin with."

The film returned a profit of $8,000.

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Wikipedia:Peer review/Mag Mell/archive1

Mag Mell vs. Tír Na nÓg
We need an Irish mythology buff to clear up a bit of an article mess.

The article for Mag Mell (MM), a mythical Irish place, has been conflated with another mythical Irish place, Tir na nOg (TNN). But I'm starting to think that these two places should not be combined into one article. It seems the legend of Ossian belongs to TNN, and TNN is an island. MM, on the other hand, is beneath the sea and has a legend related to Cúchulainn. That's as much as I can make out.

So far I've been redirecting all TNN articles to MM, but if someone more knowledgable weighs in I'll bet we end up wanting two separate articles. If so, I recommend placing the TNN article at Tír Na nÓg. See the links here page of MM for all the redirects that will need fixing in that case...

Someone who knows what he/she's talking about: please help.

--Chinasaur 10:18, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * I checked and I think I found out why these two got confused. Mag Mell is ruled by Tethra after he had died and the place is supposed to be underworld. The article of Manannan mac Lir says he ruled over "Blessed Islands", which is probably Tir Na nOg, and "Mag Mell". I don't know if Tethra got overthrown on Mag Mell or if it may just be a case of a parallel universe but it doesn't make sense for an underworld, Mag Mell, to be "Blessed Islands" as well but get mentioned separately so these two had to be different. Revth 00:58, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Logic Pro

Logic Pro is a proprietary digital audio workstation (DAW) and MIDI sequencer software application for the macOS platform developed by Apple Inc. It was originally created in the early 1990s as Notator Logic, or Logic, by German software developer C-Lab which later went by Emagic. Apple acquired Emagic in 2002 and renamed Logic to Logic Pro. It was the second most popular DAW – after Ableton Live – according to a survey conducted in 2015.

A consumer-level version based on the same interface and audio engine but with reduced features called Logic Express was available starting in 2004.

Apple's GarageBand comes free with all new Macintosh computers and iOS devices and is another application built on Logic's audio engine. On December 8, 2011, the boxed version of Logic Pro was discontinued, along with Logic Express, and as with all other Apple software for Macs, Logic Pro is now only available through the Mac App Store and the iPad App Store, or with a discounted Pro Apps for Education Bundle for students through the Apple Store online. In May 2023, Logic Pro for iPad was introduced and has been available since May 23.

Features
Logic Pro provides software instruments, audio effects and recording facilities for music synthesis. It also supports Apple Loops – royalty-free, professionally recorded instrument loops. Logic Pro and Express once shared many functions and the same interface. Logic Express was limited to two-channel stereo mixdown, while Logic Pro can handle multichannel surround sound. Logic Express only handled up to 255 audio tracks, depending on system performance (CPU and hard disk throughput and seek time), while, as of version 10.4.5, Logic Pro can handle up to 1,000.

Logic Pro can work with MIDI keyboards and control surfaces for input and processing, and for MIDI output. It features real-time scoring in musical notation, supporting guitar tablature, chord abbreviations and drum notation. Advanced MIDI editing is possible through Logic Pro's MIDI Transform Window, where velocity, pitch, pitch-bends, note length, humanize, and precise note positioning can be edited.

Software instruments
The software instruments included in Logic Pro X include: Drum Kit Designer, Drum Machine Designer, ES, ES2, EFM1, ES E, ES M, ES P, EVOC 20 PolySynth, Sampler, Quick Sampler, Step Sequencer, Klopfgeist, Retro Synth, Sculpture, Ultrabeat, Vintage B3, Vintage Clav, Vintage Electric Piano. These instruments produce sound in various ways, through subtractive synthesis (ES, ES2, ES E, ES M, ES P, Retro Synth), frequency modulation synthesis (EFM1), wavetable synthesis (ES2, Retro Synth), vocoding (EVOC 20 PolySynth), sampling (Sampler, Quick Sampler, Drum Kit Designer), and component modeling techniques (Ultrabeat, Vintage B3, Vintage Clav, and Vintage Electric Piano, Sculpture). As of version 10.2, Logic Pro X also includes Alchemy, a sample-manipulation synthesizer that was previously developed by Camel Audio. The software instruments are activated by MIDI information that can be input via a MIDI instrument or drawn into the MIDI editor.

Audio effects
Audio effects include amp and guitar pedal emulators, delay effects, distortion effects, dynamics processors, equalization filters, filter effects, imaging processors, metering tools, modulation effects, pitch effects, and reverb effects. Among Logic's reverb plugins is Space Designer, which uses convolution reverb to simulate the acoustics of audio played in different environments, such as rooms of varying size, or emulate the echoes that might be heard on high mountains.

Distributed processing
The application features distributed processing abilities (in 32-bit mode), which can function across an Ethernet LAN. One machine runs the Logic Pro app, while the other machines on the network run the Logic node app. Logic will then offload the effects and synth processing to the other machines on the network. If the network is fast enough (i.e., on the order of gigabit Ethernet), this can work in near real-time, depending on buffer settings and CPU loads. This allows users to combine the power of several Macintosh computers to process Logic Pro's built-in software instruments and plug-ins, and 3rd party processing plug-ins. As of version 10.0.7, Logic can access 24 processing threads, which aligns with the capabilities of Apple's flagship 12-core Mac Pro.

Creator and Notator
In 1987, C-Lab released Gerhard Lengeling's MIDI sequencer program for the Atari ST platform called Creator. From version 2.0 onwards, released in 1988, a version with added musical notation capabilities was also available, called Notator, made with the help of Chris Adam. A later bundled multitasking utility called Soft Link rebranded the packages as Creator SL and Notator SL.

In the United States, its main rivals at the time included Performer and Vision, whereas in Europe its main rivals were Steinberg's Pro 24 and later Cubase. Most MIDI sequencers presented a song as a linear set of tracks. However, Notator and Vision were pattern-based sequencers: songs were built by recording patterns (which might represent for example Intro, Verse, Chorus, Middle-8, Outro) with up to 16 tracks each, then assembling an Arrangement of these patterns, with up to 4 patterns playing simultaneously at any one time in the song. This more closely resembled working principles of hardware sequencers of the 1970s and 1980s.

When it was released, Notator was widely regarded by both musicians and the music press as one of the most powerful and intuitive sequencing and notation programs available on any platform. After the later introduction of competitor Steinberg's Cubase, however, track-based sequencing prevailed over pattern-based, resulting in the eventual greater integration and hybridization of the two methods in later versions of both Cubase and Logic. As Phil Hartnoll of Orbital said about a later version of Creator, "Cubase is much better for arranging: you can get an overall picture so much easier. They tried, with C-LAB, with that block arrangement, but I do like to be able to see an overview."

Notable users of Creator included Coldcut, Fatboy Slim, The Future Sound of London, LFO, Clint Mansell, Nightmares on Wax, The Orb, Orbital, and System 7.

Logic
The C-Lab programmers left that company to form Emagic, and in 1993 released a new program, Notator Logic, which attempted to fuse both track- and pattern-based operation (but looked much more like track-based sequencers than Notator). While rich in features, early versions of Logic on the Atari lacked the intuitiveness and immediacy of either Cubase or Notator, and never achieved the same success. However, by this time the Atari was becoming obsolete, and part of the reason why Notator Logic had been written from scratch with an object oriented GUI (though it shared the same nomenclature as its predecessor) was to make it easier to port to other platforms. The Notator prefix was dropped from the product name and the software became known as simply Logic.

As later versions of the software became available for Mac OS and Windows platforms, and acquired ever more sophisticated functions (especially in audio processing) to take advantage of increased computing power, Logic, together with the rise of the PC, gained popularity again.

Apple acquired Emagic in July 2002. The announcement included the news that development of the Windows version would no longer continue. This announcement caused controversy in the recording industry with an estimated 70,000 users having invested in the Windows route not wishing to reinvest in a complete new system. Despite much speculation in various Pro Audio forums however, exactly how many users may have abandoned Logic upon its acquisition by Apple, or abandoned the Windows platform for the Mac version, remains unknown, but Apple Pro Apps revenue has steadily increased since Apple's acquisition of Emagic, (roughly $2 billion a year as of Q1 2014).

Early versions
Logic 5 featured significant improvements in user interface, and increased compatibility with more types of computers, operating systems, and a wide range of audio interfaces. Logic 5.5.1 was the last version to be released for Windows. From Logic 6 onwards, the software would only be exclusively available on Mac OS.

With Logic 6, Emagic added the availability of separately packaged software products that were closely integrated add-ons developed specifically for use with Logic, including software instruments, the EXS sampler and audio processing plug-ins. The Logic 6 package also included the stand-alone program Waveburner, for burning redbook audio CD standard-compliant CDR masters for replication, however, that application was considered a free bonus feature; it was not advertised as part of the package and did not include printed documentation. PDF documentation was included on the installer disc.

In March 2004 Apple released Logic Pro 6, which consolidated over 20 different Emagic products, including all instrument and effect plug-ins, Waveburner Pro (CD Authoring application), and Pro Tools TDM support, into a single product package. Apple also released a scaled down version of Logic called Logic Express, replacing two previous versions that filled that position called Logic Silver and Logic Gold. Apple began promoting Logic Pro as one of its flagship software 'Pro' applications for the Macintosh platform.

Logic Pro 7
Logic Pro 7 was released September 29, 2004. Most notably, Apple modified the interface of Logic 7 to look more like a product that was developed by Apple.

Additions to Logic Pro 7 included: the integration of Apple Loops, Distributed Audio Processing (a technology for combining the power of multiple computers on a network), 3 new instruments including Sculpture (a sound modeling synth) and Ultrabeat (a drum synth and sequencer), and 9 new effect plug-ins including Guitar Amp Pro (guitar amp simulator), and a linear phase corrected version of their 6 channel parametric equalizer. In total, Logic Pro 7 now included 70 effect plug-ins and 34 instrument plug-ins.

Pro-Tools TDM compatibility, which had been a feature of Logic since version 3.5, was not supported by Logic 7.2 on Intel-based Mac computers; TDM support returned with the release of Logic 8.

Logic Pro 8
On September 12, 2007, Apple released the Logic Studio suite that included Logic Pro 8. Logic Pro was no longer a separate product, although a limited version Logic Express 8 was released on the same day, and remained a separate product.

Significant changes were made for Logic 8. Logic Pro 8 was now mainly Cocoa code, but still included some Carbon Libraries. Alongside changes such as the new processing plug-in (Delay Designer), Apple included features such as Quick Swipe Comping, similar to Soundtrack Pro 2, and multi-take management.

Apple also made changes to ease of use. These include the discontinuation of the XSKey dongle, and a streamlined interface. Each plug-in used in the channel strip opens in a new window when double-clicked. Many of the features found in Logic 7 have been consolidated into one screen. Other additions to the new interface included consolidated arrange windows, dual channel strips, built in browsers (like that in GarageBand) and production templates.

Logic Pro 9
On July 23, 2009, Logic Pro 9 was announced. A major new feature included "Flex Time", Apple's take on "elastic" audio, which allows audio to be quantized. A version of the pedalboard from GarageBand was included, together with a new virtual guitar amplifier where the modeled components could be combined in different ways. There were also a number of improvements to audio editing, fulfilled user requests such as "bounce in place" and selective track and channel strip import, as well as an expanded content library including one more Jam Pack. Some of the bundled software, including MainStage 2 and Soundtrack Pro 3, was also improved. Logic Pro 9 is Universal Binary, although not officially supported for use on PowerPC computers. SoundDiver, which had been quietly bundled with previous versions, was dropped, eliminating support for arguably the world's most popular synthesizer editor/librarian. As Apple has bundled so many software instruments with Logic, it is not likely that we'll see the return of integration with external synthesizer hardware to the Logic platform.

On January 12, 2010, Apple released Logic Pro 9.1, an Intel only release, thereby officially discontinuing Logic for the PowerPC platform. Logic Pro 9.1 had the option of running in 64-bit mode, which allowed the application to address more memory than in the past. Says Apple "With 64-bit mode, the application memory is not limited to 4GB as with 32-bit applications, so there is essentially no practical limit by today's standards." Third party plug-ins that are 32-bit were still compatible, but would run from a 'wrapper' inside Logic Pro itself.

On December 9, 2011, Apple announced that Logic Pro Studio 9 would no longer be available on DVD, and would only be sold via the Mac App Store. The price was reduced from $499 to $199.99 for the Logic Pro app, and $29.99 for MainStage. The download was just over 400MB, and 19GB of optional loops were available as in-app downloads.

This version of Logic Pro Studio 9 no longer allowed users to access any microtunings in Scala format other than those provided with the software by Apple.

Logic Pro X
Released as successor to Logic Pro 9 on July 16, 2013, Logic Pro X (10.0.0) included a new, single-window customizable interface, with a design in line with Final Cut Pro X, as well as new features. New tools in this release are Drummer, a virtual session player that automatically plays along with your song in a wide variety of drumming styles and techniques, and Flex Pitch, a Flex Time equivalent for pitch editing in audio recordings. Also, a new "Smart Controls" feature allows users to map parameters from an array of plugins to a single, convenient control interface. Redesigned keyboards and synths were included, together with new stomp boxes, bass amp and drum kit designers, and a chord arpeggiator. A completely rebuilt sound and loop library was introduced, along with a new Patch architecture. Logic Pro X also improved track organization by allowing users to group multiple tracks into 'folder' like categories (e.g., acoustics, synthesizers, vocals, percussion, etc.). In addition to this organization, Logic Pro X allowed individuals to trigger 'solo,' 'mute,' and 'volume' controls for each group. Further improvements were made to score editing, exporting (now compatible with MusicXML format), and this version introduced MIDI plug-in compatibility. Coinciding with the release of Logic Pro X was the release of a companion iPad app called Logic Remote, which allows wireless control of Logic Pro X, including Touch Instruments for playing and recording software instruments as well as tools for navigating, making basic edits and mixing. Since this release, Logic Pro X runs in 64-bit mode only and no longer works with 32-bit plug-ins. Logic Pro X is capable of transferring most data from previous projects saved in Logic Pro 5 and later, though the transfer to 64-bit only means older 32-bit plugins will no longer work.

Logic 10.4 introduced a new reverb called ChromaVerb, and new functionality such as Smart Tempo, as well as the option to undo mixer actions. In addition, version 10.4 introduced support for version 2 of the ARA (Audio Random Access) standard. 10.5 was released in May 2020. It features Live Loops, Sampler, Quick Sampler, Remix FX, new drag-and-drop workflows, Drum Synth, and Step Sequencer. Sampler and Quick Sampler replaced the EXS24 as Logic Pro X's flagship sampling plugin. 10.5 also came with a demo project for Billie Eilish's hit song Ocean Eyes available for all Logic Pro X users to download.

Logic Pro
In November 2020, Logic Pro X was renamed "Logic Pro", coinciding with the release of macOS 11 Big Sur.

In October 2021, Apple released Logic Pro 10.7 coinciding with the release of Apple's new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips for its latest MacBook Pro 2021 lineup. Logic Pro 10.7 supports audio production mixing in Dolby Atmos and surround sound format. This version also included two more demo projects. These were two versions of the original multitrack project of Lil Nas X's "Montero (Call Me by Your Name)", one version in stereo and another in Dolby Atmos.

In May 2024, Apple announced and released Logic Pro 11, the first full-number update since 2013. With a heavy emphasis on machine-learning tools, this release introduced Session Players, which took the success of the previously introduced Drummer feature further with a virtual bassist and keyboardist. Also introduced were Stem Splitter and ChromaGlow, two new AI-powered plugins for mixing and mastering.

Logic Express
Logic Express was a "light" version of Logic Pro. The first version, Logic Express 6, was announced on January 15, 2004, for release in March 2004. Logic Pro and Express share most functionality and the same interface. Logic Express was limited to two-channel stereo mixdown, while Logic Pro can handle multichannel surround sound; Logic Express also lacked support for TDM/DAE systems, high-end control surfaces and Distributed Audio Processing. Both could handle up to 255 audio tracks, depending on system performance (CPU, hard disk throughput and seek time).

Logic Express 7 was released alongside Logic Pro 7 on September 29, 2004.

Logic Express 8 came with 36 software instruments and 73 effect plug-ins, including almost all of those in the Logic Pro Package. Those that it didn't include are Sculpture, a physical modelling synthesiser; the "vintage" instruments (the EVB3 tonewheel organ, the EVD6 Clavinet and the EVP88 Electric Piano), however a cut-down version of these are included with the GarageBand instruments; Space designer, a convolution reverb effect; and delay designer, an advanced delay effect.

Logic Express was discontinued in 2011, when Logic Pro moved to the Mac App Store for $199.99.

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Long-range dependence

Long-range dependence (LRD), also called long memory or long-range persistence, is a phenomenon that may arise in the analysis of spatial or time series data. It relates to the rate of decay of statistical dependence of two points with increasing time interval or spatial distance between the points. A phenomenon is usually considered to have long-range dependence if the dependence decays more slowly than an exponential decay, typically a power-like decay. LRD is often related to self-similar processes or fields. LRD has been used in various fields such as internet traffic modelling, econometrics, hydrology, linguistics and the earth sciences. Different mathematical definitions of LRD are used for different contexts and purposes.

Short-range dependence versus long-range dependence
One way of characterising long-range and short-range dependent stationary process is in terms of their autocovariance functions. For a short-range dependent process, the coupling between values at different times decreases rapidly as the time difference increases. Either the autocovariance drops to zero after a certain time-lag, or it eventually has an exponential decay. In the case of LRD, there is much stronger coupling. The decay of the autocovariance function is power-like and so is slower than exponential.

A second way of characterizing long- and short-range dependence is in terms of the variance of partial sum of consecutive values. For short-range dependence, the variance grows typically proportionally to the number of terms. As for LRD, the variance of the partial sum increases more rapidly which is often a power function with the exponent greater than 1. A way of examining this behavior uses the rescaled range. This aspect of long-range dependence is important in the design of dams on rivers for water resources, where the summations correspond to the total inflow to the dam over an extended period.

The above two ways are mathematically related to each other, but they are not the only ways to define LRD. In the case where the autocovariance of the process does not exist (heavy tails), one has to find other ways to define what LRD means, and this is often done with the help of self-similar processes.

The Hurst parameter H is a measure of the extent of long-range dependence in a time series (while it has another meaning in the context of self-similar processes). H takes on values from 0 to 1. A value of 0.5 indicates the absence of long-range dependence. The closer H is to 1, the greater the degree of persistence or long-range dependence. H less than 0.5 corresponds to anti-persistency, which as the opposite of LRD indicates strong negative correlation so that the process fluctuates violently.

Estimation of the Hurst Parameter
Slowly decaying variances, LRD, and a spectral density obeying a power-law are different manifestations of the property of the underlying covariance of a stationary process X.  Therefore, it is possible to approach the problem of estimating the Hurst parameter from three difference angles:
 * Variance-time plot: based on the analysis of the variances of the aggregate processes
 * R/S statistics: based on the time-domain analysis of the rescaled adjusted range
 * Periodogram: based on a frequency-domain analysis

Relation to self-similar processes
Given a stationary LRD sequence, the partial sum if viewed as a process indexed by the number of terms after a proper scaling, is a self-similar process with stationary increments asymptotically, the most typical one being fractional Brownian motion. In the converse, given a self-similar process with stationary increments with Hurst index H > 0.5, its increments (consecutive differences of the process) is a stationary LRD sequence.

This also holds true if the sequence is short-range dependent, but in this case the self-similar process resulting from the partial sum can only be Brownian motion (H = 0.5).

Models
Among stochastic models that are used for long-range dependence, some popular ones are autoregressive fractionally integrated moving average models, which are defined for discrete-time processes, while continuous-time models might start from fractional Brownian motion.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hanna Marklund

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP. —Korath (Talk) 07:21, Feb 28, 2005 (UTC)

Hanna Marklund
Female Swedish footballer, notability not established. Possible vanity by her future husband, who is mentioned in the article. Redirect there? Radiant! 10:24, Feb 17, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Article does say she's a professional footballer which may make her notable. Article seems to have been listed for copyvio though. Trilobite (Talk) 11:07, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Two images inserted into the article had been listed, not the article itself. The images have been removed now. / u p p l a n d 14:23, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, the article needed clean up which i did. I also removed the unverifiable part about her future husband, I believe that part was just vanity, cause she is quite cute :) bbx 14:05, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Plays in the Swedish national team. / u p p l a n d 14:23, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Well-known professional player that have been playing for one of the world's best women's football clubs. Alarm 14:56, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, and expand. Notable. Megan1967 23:10, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep -- Notable enough Longhair 09:50, 20 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Yuanwu Keqin

Yuanwu Keqin (Japanese: Engo Kokugon) (1063–1135) was a Han Chinese Chan monk who compiled the Blue Cliff Record.

Biography
Yuanwu Keqin was born into the Le family of Pengzhou, Sichuan, in 1063. His family was well educated in Confucianism, a sign of acquaintance with the Chinese civil service. Nevertheless, Yuanwu Keqin choose a Buddhist monastic path and entered Miaoji Monastery (,a Buddhist monastery in Pengzhou. He ended his formal studies under Wuzu Fayan (1047-1104) when he was in his forties. Yuanwu Keqin was closely involved in the literati circles.

Blue Cliff Record
Yuanwu Keqin belonged to the Linji school. He was the teacher of Dahui Zonggao, who introduced the Hua Tou practice.

Starting from the year 1112 on, Yuan-wu started to lecture on the One Hundred Old Cases and Verses [to the Cases] compiled by Xuedou Zhongxian (980–1052). These lectures resulted in the Blue Cliff Record.

The Blue Cliff Record gives clear instructions about the correct approach to kōan. Yuanwu went as far as to annotate the poems line by line to make clear the correct reading of Xuedou's appended verses, which are complex, because of the rich use of symbolism and the allusions to Chinese secular literature and to Chan history.

According to the Chán-tradition, the Blue Cliff Record gained such a popularity, that Dahui Zonggao burned all the copies he could lay hands on, and the wooden printing blocks.

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Shura Cherkassky

Shura Cherkassky (Александр (Шура) Исаакович Черкасский; 7 October 1909 – 27 December 1995) was a Russian-American concert pianist known for his performances of the romantic repertoire. His playing was characterized by a virtuoso technique and singing piano tone. For much of his later life, Cherkassky resided in London.

Early years
Alexander Isaakovich Cherkassky (Shura is a diminutive form of Alexander) was born in Odessa (then part of the Russian Empire) in 1909. Cherkassky's family fled to the United States to escape the Russian Revolution. His family was Jewish.

Cherkassky's first music lessons were from his mother, Lydia Cherkassky, who once played for Tchaikovsky in St. Petersburg. She also taught the pianist Raymond Lewenthal. In the United States, Cherkassky continued his piano studies at the Curtis Institute of Music under Josef Hofmann. Before studying with Hofmann, however, Cherkassky auditioned for Sergei Rachmaninoff, who advised him to give up performing for at least two years and to change the position of his hands at the keyboard. Conversely, Hofmann suggested Cherkassky should continue giving concerts, and this long association with public performance meant that Cherkassky felt comfortable before an audience. Hofmann also recommended that he practice for four hours every day and Cherkassky did this religiously throughout his life, maintaining an extensive repertoire (baroque to Berio) to an exacting standard. His studies and advisory sessions with Hofmann continued until 1935. In the interim he began his lifelong obsession with world travel with trips to Australia, New Zealand, the Far East, Russia and Europe.

Cherkassky performed actively until the end of his life, and many of his best recordings were made under live concert recital conditions.

The California years
In the 1940s Cherkassky moved to California. He appeared at the Hollywood Bowl with conductors such as Sir John Barbirolli and Leopold Stokowski, and he played the sound track (Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata) for the Bette Davis 1946 film Deception. He also played Stravinsky's Three Pieces from Petrushka for the composer, who advised him to use the 'una corda' pedal for certain loud passages in order to obtain a particular special effect. Concert engagements were infrequent for Cherkassky in California during World War II.

The London years
In 1946 he married Eugenie Blanc, but divorced two years later. In 1949 he had a great success in Hamburg playing Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini under Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt. This concert resulted in Cherkassky's popularity in Germany and Austria (Salzburg Festival) which lasted until the end of his life and confirmed him as one of the foremost pianists of the day. It was after his Wigmore Hall recital of 27 March 1957 that Cherkassky's career accelerated in the United Kingdom and following the death of his mother in Nice in 1961, he settled in London where he lived at The White House hotel until his death in 1995.

Further touring
His career continued to flourish with appearances at all the great concert venues of the world: the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Herkulessaal in Munich, the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Musikverein in Vienna, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, at Suntory Hall in Tokyo and with all the world's great orchestras and conductors. Cherkassky's love of spontaneity and his dislike of a fixed standard performance meant that some conductors were reluctant to work with him. With Cherkassky, there was no guarantee that what was agreed in rehearsal would happen in concert. Cherkassky's performing career lasted for over 70 years, yet it was only in the last few decades of his life that he was recognized as one of the greatest pianists – a self-declared intuitive artist who relished spontaneity, beauty of sound and the kaleidoscopic possibilities of the piano.

Cherkassky died in London, aged 86, on 27 December 1995. He is buried in Highgate Cemetery, London, England.

Recordings
Over seven decades of his concert career, starting in the 1920s, Cherkassky made a large number of recordings for RCA Victor, Vox, Swedish Cupol label, HMV, DG (the famous Tchaikovsky concerto recordings, and a later stereo recording of Franz Liszt's Hungarian Fantasy with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan), Tudor, Nimbus and Decca ('live' BBC recordings). He made his last recordings at age 85, in May 1995, seven months before his death. These were a selection of Rachmaninoff's pieces to act as fillers for his recording of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 made the previous year.

Releases by BBC Legends

 * Shura Cherkassky - Chopin (BBCL 4057–2)
 * Shura Cherkassky - Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto 3, Prokofiev Piano Concerto 2 (BBCL 4092–2)
 * Shura Cherkassky / Sir Georg Solti - Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Cherkassky, Rimsky-Korsakov (BBCL 4160–2)
 * Shura Cherkassky - Rameau, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Scriabin, Tchaikovsky, Liszt (BBCL 4185–2)
 * Shura Cherkassky - Handel, Brahms, Berg, Prokofiev, Chopin (BBCL 4212–2)
 * Shura Cherkassky - Beethoven Piano Concerto 5, Gershwin Piano Concerto (BBCL 4231–2)
 * Shura Cherkassky - Mendelssohn, Schubert, Schumann, Tchaikovsky arr. Rachmaninov, Schumann arr. Tausig (BBCL 4254–2)

Releases by Decca

 * Kaleidoscope - Piano Encores
 * Rachmaninoff - Piano Concerto No. 3 and others

Shura Cherkassky Live Series by Decca

 * Vol.1 - Schubert . Chopin (433 653-2 DH)
 * Vol.2 - 80th Birthday Recital from Carnegie Hall (433 654-2 DH)
 * Vol.3 - Encores (433 651-2 DH)
 * Vol.4 - Chopin: Sonata No.2 & 3 (433 650-2 DH)
 * Vol.5 - Liszt (433 656-2 DH)
 * Vol.6 - Schumann (433 652-2 DH)
 * Vol.7 - Scriabin (Sonata n.4), Stravinsky (Petrushka), Ravel (Sonatine), Alban Berg (Sonata), Messiaen (ile de feu 1 & 2), Britten (Holiday Diary), Copland-Bernstein (433 657-2 DH)
 * Vol.8 - Rachmaninoff, Brahms, etc. (433 655-2 DH)
 * Anton Rubinstein - Piano Concerto No. 4 in D minor, Op. 70 + Encores (448 063-2 DH)

Releases by Deutsche Grammophon

 * Tchaikovsky - Klavierkonzerte Nos. 1 & 2 (457 751–2)
 * Liszt - Orchestral Works (453 130–2)  (Cherkassky plays Fantasia on Hungarian Folk tunes, S.123 only. The rest of the recording is performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker, conducted by Herbert von Karajan)
 * Chopin - Polonaises

Releases by Ivory Classics

 * Shura Cherkassky - The Historic 1940s Recordings (2-CD Set) (CD-72003)
 * Shura Cherkassky - 1982 San Francisco Recital (CD-70904)

Releases by Nimbus

 * Shura Cherkassky (1909–1995) - Solo piano works by Chopin, Mussorgsky, Berg, Bernstein, Brahms, Schumann, Beethoven, Liszt, Stravinsky, Grieg and Rachmaninoff (6-CD Set) (NI 1733)
 * Chopin, Liszt - The B minor Sonatas (NI 7701)
 * The Art of the Encore (NI 7708)
 * Shura Cherkassky (1909–1995) - Solo piano works by Chopin, Mussorgsky, Berg, Bernstein, Brahms, Schumann, Beethoven, Liszt, Stravinsky, Grieg and Rachmaninoff (7-CD Set) (NI 1748)

Releases by First Hand Records

 * Shura Cherkassky in Concert, 1971 - venue unknown (First Hand Records FHR19)
 * Shura Cherkassky 'The complete HMV stereo recordings' (2CDs) (First Hand Records FHR04) - Winner of the International Piano Awards "Best Reissue/Vintage Recording of 2009". Diapson D'OR, 10/2010

Other releases

 * Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos Nos 2 & 3, Live Gothenburg 1970, 1968 (Cembal d'amour CD155)
 * Duo-Art piano roll #66919, Liebeswalzer Op.57, No.5 Moszkowski (The Aeolian Company)
 * The Young Shura Cherkassky (Biddulph)
 * Piano Masters:- Vol.17: Shura Cherkassky (Pearl  GEM 0138)
 * Shura Cherkassky plays Liszt (Testament  SBT 1033)
 * Shura Cherkassky (Two Volumes) (Phillips  Great Pianists of the 20th Century series)
 * Debussy, Clair de Lune, Shura Cherkassky, 1993 (ASV Platinum PLT 8505)
 * Shura Cherkassky 'The Complete UK World Record Club Solo Recordings' (2CDs) (Guild Historical GHCD 2398/99)
 * Shura Cherkassky 'The Complete UK World Record Club Concerto Recordings' with Sir Adrian Boult (2CDs) (CRQ Editions CRQ CD369-370)

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Arcetri

Arcetri is a location in Florence, Italy, positioned among the hills south of the city centre.

Landmarks
A number of historic buildings are situated there, including the house of the famous scientist Galileo Galilei (called Villa Il Gioiello), the Convent of San Matteo and the Torre del Gallo. The Arcetri Observatory is also located there. The church of San Leonardo in Arcetri is the main church of the area.

Galileo Galilei died there on 8 January 1642.

List of landmarks
The following is a longer list of landmarks in the Arcetri area, with their Italian names:

 * San Leonardo in Arcetri (Saint Leonard at Arcetri Church)
 * San Matteo in Arcetri (Saint Matthew at Arcetri Church)
 * Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri (Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory)
 * Pian dei Giullari (Jesters Plateau)
 * Villa Capponi
 * Villa Il Giullarino
 * Villa di Volsanminiato
 * Torre del Gallo (Tower of the Rooster)
 * Villa La Gallina
 * Villa Agape-Arrighetti
 * Villa Giramonte
 * Villa Giovannelli
 * Villa Nunes Vais
 * Villa Il Teatro
 * Villa Pian dei Giullari
 * Villa Masieri
 * Villa Il Gioiello
 * Villa Le Corti
 * Villa Pazzi
 * Villa Ravà
 * Villa Il Roseto
 * Fondazione Spadolini (Spadolini Foundation)
 * Monteripaldi
 * San Michele a Monteripaldi (Saint Michel at Monteripaldi Church)
 * Santa Margherita a Montici (Saint Margaret at Montici Church)

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User:Lawrence King

'''Lawrence King is an occasional writer for Wikipedia.

Originally from the San Fernando Valley, he has lived a variety of other places as well.

He is not related to the soi-disant Larry King on CNN, nor to the ex-husband of Billie Jean King, nor to any other person with this name. But they aren't related to him, either, so at least there's some symmetry.'''

Wikipedia philosophy
I am a fanatic about Neutral Point Of View on Wikipedia. I have many points of view that I gladly express in other forums, but Wikipedia is the place for neutrality! To me, NPOV is incredibly important, and sometimes difficult. Articles on politics and religion should be written so that believers and opponents can read the article and find it fair.

Among other things, this means Wikipedia articles should not assert that miracles are impossible, but should not assert that they are possible, either. How can this be done? The only way is this: when discussing controverted questions, describe what people believe rather than what the [controverted] facts are. For example, "Theists believe there is a God; atheists do not."

Yet some ideas have to be considered "fringe". For example, there might be someone who believes that John F. Kennedy was a Martian. How can this be handled fairly? The solution is to write an article that assumes JFK was human, and then as a footnote or afterthought mention that there are alternative theories and link to these.

Another gripe I have:

Wikipedia should ban the word "interestingly". Thousands of times per day, a Wikipedia editor adds a tidbit of information to an article, and begins his or her information with "Interestingly...". I could multiply examples forever:

 * "Interestingly, Genesis is the most quoted book in the Old and New Testaments...."   (Genesis)
 * "Interestingly, the compound is not an opioid...."  (Epibatidine)
 * "Interestingly, the name Kirkby-in-Furness did not exist until the creation of the railway line...."  (Kirkby-in-Furness railway station)
 * "Interestingly, the nearby Kingsville Kindergarten is actually in West Footscray...."  (Kingsville, Victoria)

People, this is disrespecting your reader. It's up to the reader to decide whether this information is interesting -- it's not up to you, the writer. With a few obvious exceptions (who could fail to be awed by the discovery that Kingsville Kindergarten isn't really in Kingsville, Victoria?), whether something is interesting is really a subjective issue. I know it's hard to accept, but there it is.

Here are a few other Wikipedia philosophies that I hold:

With regard to when Wikipedia will be perfect, I am an eventualist.

I believe that it is good advice to avoid copyright paranoia. Of course, legitimate and reasonable respect for intellectual property is essential.

I find the philosophy of Wikipedia Mergism attractive, but believe that it requires pages to become quite long. Is that practical?

I believe there are a lot of difficult years ahead for Wikipedia. It is good for Wikipedians to discuss and debate the various conflicting Wikipedia philosophies. But the greatest danger is not that the wrong philosophy will be chosen, but that no philosophy will be chosen.

Finally, I hate the practice of adding tons of irrelevant links. Please, people! With all due respect to your over-active right pinkies, Disneyland opened in 1955, not in 1955. I don't believe that any of our readers will peruse our biography of Walt Disney and say to themselves, "Ah, now that I know that this famous man's theme park opened in the year 1955, I feel a tremendous urge to know what politicians and actors and authors were born in that year."

My contributions

I once put in a lot of work into the following pages. But eventually I gave up, and I take no responsibility for the current state of most of these. Oh well:

 * Contemporary Catholic liturgical music

 * Kamandi

 * Young Americans for Freedom

 * Genesis: In Concert

 * Batwoman

 * Sunnydale

 * Zurvanism

 * William Levada

 * John L. Allen, Jr.

 * The Road Goes Ever On

 * Papal infallibility

 * Infallibility of the Church

 * Mount Lowe Railway

 * Authorship of the Pauline epistles

 * Biberach an der Riß

 * Buffyverse chronology (canon only)

 * Buffyverse chronology

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Formication

Formication is the sensation resembling that of small insects crawling on (or under) the skin, in the absence of actual insects. It is one specific form of a set of sensations known as paresthesias, which also include the more common prickling, tingling sensation known as pins and needles. Formication is a well-documented symptom which has numerous possible causes. The word is derived from formica, the Latin word for ant.

Formication may sometimes be experienced as feelings of itchiness, tingling, pins and needles, burning, or even pain. When formication is perceived as itchiness, it may trigger the scratch reflex, and, because of this, some people who experience the sensation are at risk of causing skin damage through excessive scratching.

In some cases, static electricity can attract particulates to the skin and can also cause body hair to move, giving a sensation like insects crawling over the skin. However, in many cases no external trigger creates the sensation.

In rare cases, individuals become convinced the sensation is due to the presence of real insects on or under the skin. Such patients have what is known as delusional parasitosis. They believe their skin is inhabited by, or under attack by, small insects or similar parasites, despite repeated reassurances from physicians, pest control experts, and entomologists.

Causes
Causes of formication include normal states such as onset of menopause (i.e. hormone withdrawal). Other causes are medical conditions such as pesticide exposure, mercury poisoning, diabetic neuropathy, skin cancer, syphilis, Lyme disease, hypocalcaemia, or herpes zoster (shingles) and neurocysticercosis. Formication can be a result of stimulant intoxication or withdrawal (methamphetamine, Datura, cocaine, or alcohol withdrawal in alcoholics (i.e. delirium tremens), and is often accompanied by visual hallucinations of insects (formicanopia). It can also occur as a symptom of benzodiazepine withdrawal, withdrawal from medication such as SSRI/SNRI antidepressants and tramadol; and as a side effect of opioid analgesics.

History
Formication is etymologically derived from the Latin word formica, meaning "ant", precisely because of this similarity in sensation to that of crawling insects. The term has been in use for several hundred years. In the 1797 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, a description of the condition raphania includes the symptom:

"...a formication, or sensation as of ants or other small insects creeping on the parts."

Described again in an instructional text from 1890: A variety of itching, often encountered in the eczema of elderly people, is formication; this is described as exactly like the crawling of myriads of animals over the skin. It is probably due to the successive irritation of nerve fibrils in the skin. At times patients who suffer from it will scarcely be persuaded that it is not due to insects. Yielding to the temptation to scratch invariably makes the disease worse.

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Arcetri Observatory

The Arcetri Observatory (Osservatorio Astrofisico di Arcetri) is an astrophysical observatory located in the hilly area of Arcetri on the outskirts of Florence, Italy. It is located close to Villa Il Gioiello, the residence of Galileo Galilei from 1631 to 1642.

Observatory staff carry out theoretical and observational astronomy as well as designing and constructing astronomical instrumentation. The observatory has been heavily involved with the following instrumentation projects:

 * The MMT 6.5 m telescope
 * The LBT 2x 8.4 m telescopes
 * The Telescopio Nazionale Galileo 3.5 m telescope
 * The VLT telescope adaptive secondary mirror
 * The 1.5 m Gornergrat Infrared Telescope (TIRGO)

title: Arcetri Observatory