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Mayabazar

Mayabazar is a 1957 Indian epic Hindu mythological film directed by K. V. Reddy. It was produced by Nagi Reddi and Chakrapani under their banner, Vijaya Productions. The film was shot simultaneously in Telugu and Tamil, with a few differences in the cast. The story is an adaptation of the folk tale Sasirekha Parinayam, which is based on the characters of the epic Mahabharata. It revolves around the roles of Krishna (N. T. Rama Rao) and Ghatotkacha (S. V. Ranga Rao), as they try to reunite Arjuna son Abhimanyu (Telugu: Akkineni Nageswara Rao, Tamil: Gemini Ganesan) with his love, Balarama's daughter Sasirekha (Savitri). The Telugu version features Gummadi, Mukkamala, Ramana Reddy, and Relangi in supporting roles, with D. Balasubramaniam, R. Balasubramaniam, V. M. Ezhumalai, and K. A. Thangavelu playing those parts in the Tamil version.

The first mythological film produced by their studio, Mayabazar marked a milestone for Nagi Reddi and Chakrapani. In addition to the technical crew, 400 studio workers – including light men, carpenters, and painters – participated in the development of the film. Director Reddy was meticulous with the pre-production and casting phases, which took nearly a year to complete. Though Rama Rao was initially reluctant to play the lead role, his portrayal of Krishna received acclaim and yielded more offers to reprise the same role in several unrelated films. The soundtrack features twelve songs, with most of the musical score composed by Ghantasala. Telugu lyrics were written by Pingali Nagendrarao and Tamil lyrics were written by Thanjai N. Ramaiah Dass. One of those songs, Lahiri Lahiri, was accompanied by the first illusion of moonlight in Indian cinema, shot by cinematographer Marcus Bartley.

Mayabazar's Telugu version was released on 27 March 1957; the Tamil version was released two weeks later, on 12 April. Both were critically and commercially successful, with a theatrical run of 100 days in 24 theatres, and it became a silver-jubilee film. The Telugu version of Mayabazar was also dubbed into Kannada. The film is considered a landmark in both Telugu and Tamil cinema, with praise for its cast and technical aspects, despite the limitations of technology at the time. On the centenary of Indian cinema in 2013, CNN-IBN included Mayabazar in its list of "100 greatest Indian films of all time". In an online poll conducted by CNN-IBN among those 100 films, Mayabazar was voted by the public as the "greatest Indian film of all time."

Mayabazar became the first Telugu film to be digitally remastered and colourised, at an estimated cost of ₹7.5 crore (valued at about US$1.7 million in 2010), after Hyderabad-based company Goldstone Technologies acquired world negative rights to fourteen films including that of Mayabazar in late November 2007. The updated version was released on 30 January 2010 in 45 theatres in Andhra Pradesh. It was a commercial success that generated mostly positive reviews, with one critic expressing a preference for the original.

Plot
Subhadra (the sister of Balarama and Krishna) marries a Pandava named Arjuna. Their son Abhimanyu falls in love with Balarama's daughter, Sasirekha. The families consent to their marrying when they reach adulthood. When Abhimanyu and Sasirekha have grown up, Krishna introduces them to each other. One day, the Pandavas are invited by Duryodhana, the eldest of the Kauravas to join in a game of dice. Duryodhana's uncle, Shakuni, manipulates the results of the game, thereby costing the Pandavas their wealth, their liberty, and their wife Draupadi. Duryodhana's brother, Dushasana, attempts to disrobe Draupadi. He is seen by Krishna, who, furious, comes to her rescue. On hearing what happened to the Pandavas, Balarama decides to teach the Kauravas a lesson and travels to their capital Hastinapuram. Shakuni and Duryodhana approach Balarama in an insincere respectful manner, then seek his approval of a marriage between Sasirekha and Duryodhana's son Lakshmana Kumara. Their true goal is to force Balarama and Krishna to support them if the Pandavas wage war. Unaware of their real intentions, Balarama agrees to the marriage.

Because of the Pandavas' ruined financial state, Balarama's wife, Revati, refuses to honor her commitment to marry Sasirekha and Abhimanyu and expresses her support for the alliance with the Kauravas. Krishna, who is aware of Duryodhana and Shakuni's real intentions, orders his charioteer Daaruka to take Subhadra and Abhimanyu through the forests to Ghatotkacha hermitage. Ghatotkacha, who happens to be Abhimanyu's cousin, at first thinks they are intruders in his forest and attacks them but later apologizes for the misunderstanding. When Subhadra explains the change in the marriage arrangements, Ghatotkacha decides to wage war against both the Kauravas and Balarama. At the urging of his mother, Hidimbi, and Subhadra, Ghatotkacha abandons his plans and is advised instead to try some trickery in Dvaraka. With the knowledge of Krishna and Sasirekha's servant, he carries the sleeping Sasirekha in her bed from Dwaraka and flies to his hermitage. Assuming Sasirekha's form, he returns to Dvaraka and, with the help of his assistants Chinnamaya, Lambu, and Jambu, wreaks havoc on her wedding to Lakshmana Kumara, preventing the marriage from being carried out.

With the help of Chinnamaya, Lambu, and Jambu, Ghatotkacha creates a magical town consisting of an illusory marketplace and palace. He names the town Mayabazar and invites the Kauravas to stay there. Chinnamaya, Lambu, and Jambu introduce themselves to the Kauravas as servants appointed by Balarama to look after them. They manage to trick Sarma and Sastry, Shakuni's lackeys. Ghatotkacha (in Sasirekha's form) makes Duryodhana's wife rethink the marriage arrangement and teases Lakshmana Kumara. He plans the wedding of the real Sasirekha and Abhimanyu in his hermitage which is attended by Krishna. Using his divine powers, Krishna also attends as a guest for the marriage taking place in the Mayabazar.

On the wedding day, Ghatotkacha appears before Lakshmana Kumara as Sasirekha in disguise, and the fake Sasirekha keeps on scaring Lakshmana Kumara during the wedding. While, at the hermitage, the real Sasirekha marries Abhimanyu. When Shakuni discovers what has happened, he blames Krishna. Satyaki, Arjuna's disciple, asks Shakuni to speak while standing on a magical box. He proceeds to stand on the box, which makes him involuntarily explain the Kauravas' real intentions behind the marriage proposal. Ghatotkacha then reveals his identity. After humiliating the Kauravas, Ghatotkacha sends them back to Hastinapuram. Sasirekha's parents accept her marriage. They thank Ghatotkacha, who credits Krishna as the mastermind behind everything, including Abhimanyu and Sasirekha's marriage. Ghatotkacha sings in praises of Krishna and Krishna, pleased by his singing, comes to his real form of Vishnu. Everyone folds their hands in prayer.

Cast

 * Cast for both Telugu and Tamil versions

 * N. T. Rama Rao as Krishna
 * Akkineni Nageswara Rao (Telugu) and Gemini Ganesan (Tamil) as Abhimanyu
 * S. V. Ranga Rao as Ghatotkacha
 * Savitri as Sasirekha (Telugu), Vatsala (Tamil)
 * Relangi (Telugu) and K. A. Thangavelu (Tamil) as Lakshmana Kumara
 * Vangara as Shastri
 * Allu Ramalingaiah as Sharma
 * Valluri Balakrishna as Sarathi (Telugu)
 * Gummadi (Telugu) and D. Balasubramaniam (Tamil) as Balarama
 * Mukkamala (Telugu) and R. Balasubramaniam (Tamil) as Duryodhana
 * C. S. R. Anjaneyulu (Telugu) and M. N. Nambiar (Tamil) as Shakuni
 * Rushyendramani as Subhadra
 * Sandhya as Rukmini
 * Nagabhushanam as Satyaki
 * Mikkilineni (Telugu) and V. K. Srinivasan (Tamil) as Karna
 * Chhaya Devi (Telugu) and Lakshmi Prabha (Tamil) as Revati
 * R. Nageswara Rao (Telugu) and E. R. Sahadevan (Tamil) as Dushasana
 * Suryakantham (Telugu) and C. T. Rajakantham (Tamil) as Hidimbi
 * Ramana Reddy (Telugu) and V. M. Ezhumalai (Tamil) as Chinnamaya
 * Chadalavada as Lambu
 * Nalla Ramamurthy as Jambu
 * Madhavapeddi Satyam as Daaruka
 * Kanchi Narasimha Rao as an old man (Krishna in disguise)
 * Boddapati as Sankuteerthulu
 * Baby Saraswati as young Sasirekha (Telugu)/Vatsala (Tamil)
 * Master Anand as young Abhimanyu
 * Rajani as Bhanumati
 * Master Babji as young Krishna in a play
 * Kakinada Rajaratnam as Yashoda in a play
 * Guru Gopinath as Bhasmasura in Mohini Bhasmasura dance drama
 * Mukku Raju as Vishnu in Mohini Bhasmasura dance drama

Development
After the success of Pathala Bhairavi (1951), the production company, Vijaya Productions, selected the film's technical crew for an adaptation of Sasirekha Parinayam (1936), also known as Mayabazar. The eighth adaptation of the folk tale Sasirekha Parinayam, it was the studio's first mythological film.

K. V. Reddy wrote and directed Mayabazar, assisted by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao, and it was produced by Nagi Reddi and Chakrapani of Vijaya Productions. Nearly a year was spent on pre-production and casting. Pingali Nagendrarao assisted with the story, script, and lyrics. Ghantasala composed the film's score, and Marcus Bartley was the cinematographer. Mayabazar was edited by C. P. Jambulingam and G. Kalyanasundaram; Madhavapeddi Gokhale and Kaladhar were the film's art directors.

Casting
The film was produced in Telugu and Tamil versions, with a slightly different cast for each. Gemini Ganesan appeared as Abhimanyu in the Tamil version, which was portrayed by Akkineni Nageswara Rao in Telugu. Savitri was retained as the female lead in Tamil also, where her character was named Vatsala instead of Sasirekha. Sachu played the younger version of the character in Tamil. N. T. Rama Rao, hesitant to play Krishna after a negative response to his cameo appearance in Sonta Ooru (1956), agreed at K. V. Reddy's insistence and special care was taken with his costume and body language; Mayabazar was the first of Rama Rao's many appearances as Krishna. According to Rama Rao's widow Lakshmi Parvathi, Nagi Reddy and Chakrapani had initially rejected K. V. Reddy's proposal to cast Rama Rao as Krishna, but he persuaded them into believing that Rama Rao was good for the role. As Rama Rao had a broad chest, K. V. Reddy suggested a slight narrowing to look apt as Krishna. In addition to following other suggestions by K. V. Reddy, Rama Rao read the Mahabharata, the Bhagavata and other puranas to understand Krishna's character and present it properly. S. V. Ranga Rao, described by Nageswara Rao as the film's male lead in interviews, played the character of Ghatotkacha.

In the Telugu version, Gummadi and Mikkilineni were cast as Balarama and Karna, respectively, whilst Sita had a supporting role as Sasirekha's maid. Relangi portrayed Lakshmana Kumara, Duryodhana's son; his popularity inspired a song with him and Savitri. Allu Rama Lingaiah and Vangara Venkata Subbaiah enacted the parts of Shakuni's lackeys, Sarma and Sastry. Kanchi Narasimha Rao played Krishna, disguised as an old man who stops Ghatotkacha when he enters Dwaraka. The playback singer Madhavapeddi Satyam made a cameo appearance as Daaruka, singing "Bhali Bhali Bhali Deva". Ramana Reddy portrayed Chinnamayya, a tantrik who teaches witchcraft at Ghatotkacha's ashram, with Chadalavada and Nalla Ramamurthy playing his apprentices Lambu and Jambu. Nagabhushanam played Satyaki. Valluri Balakrishna was cast as Sarathi, and appeared only in the Telugu version of the film.

Filming
During rehearsals, K. V. Reddy timed his actors with a stopwatch, calculating the length of each scene (including songs) to determine the film's length. D. S. Ambu Rao, Bartley's assistant, said that Mayabazar was shot according to the screenplay and Bartley's lighting. The song "Lahiri Lahiri" was shot at Adyar River, Chennai. Its outdoor filming lasted for 10 to 15 seconds. Bartley then created an illusion of moonlight, which according to Ambu Rao was a first for an Indian film. Nageswara Rao was injured on the film's set, and action sequences featuring himself and Ranga Rao were shot only after his recovery, causing a three-month delay in the release of the film. Ganesan volunteered to act as Nageswara Rao's body double in a scene where Abhimanyu would jump from a second-floor balcony.

In addition to the principal technicians and actors, a crew of 400, including light men, carpenters, and painters, worked on Mayabazar during production. For the Dvaraka set, 300 unique miniature houses were created in an approximately 50 x electrified space at Vauhini Studios under the supervision of Madhavapeddi Gokhale and Kaladhar. The desired effect in the "laddoo gobbling" shots of Ghatotkacha in the song "Vivaha Bhojanambu" took four days to film. The entire song was filmed using stop motion animation. In the scene where Ghatotkacha (disguised as Sasirekha) stamps Lakshmana Kumara's foot with his own, the expression is Savitri's; the stamping foot belongs to choreographer Pasumarthy Krishnamurthy, who pasted false hair on his foot to make it appear demonic.

Music
After writing the music for four songs – "Srikarulu Devathalu", "Lahiri Lahiri", "Choopulu Kalasina Subhavela" and "Neekosame" – S. Rajeswara Rao left the project. Following his departure, Ghantasala orchestrated and recorded Rajeswara Rao's compositions with N. C. Sen Gupta and A. Krishnamurthy, and composed the rest of the film's score.

The soundtrack album has 12 songs with lyrics by Pingali Nagendrarao and Thanjai N. Ramaiah Dass for the Telugu and Tamil versions, respectively, and was mixed by A. Krishnan and Siva Ram. The album was engineered by N. C. Sen Gupta and orchestrated by A. Krishnamurthy. P. Leela said in an interview that one of her songs took 28 takes to record, and her fifth song was finished by Ghantasala. "Lahiri Lahiri" ("Aaga Inba Nilavinile" in Tamil) was based on the Mohanam raga.

"Vivaha Bhojanambu" ("Kalyana Samayal Saadham" in Tamil) was heavily based on lyrics from Surabhi Nataka Samajam's 1950s plays, which were influenced by 1940s Janaki Sapadham harikatha records by B. Nagarajakumari. Nagarajakumari was inspired by a song composed by Gali Penchala Narasimha Rao for Sasirekha Parinayam (1936), directed by P. V. Das. That song's melody was inspired by Charles Penrose's 1922 song "The Laughing Policeman", written by Penrose under the pseudonym of Charles Jolly.

According to M. L. Narasimham of The Hindu, music "flowed at its mellifluous best" in Mayabazar. He added that Ghantasala "gave a new lease of life" to the song "Vivaha Bhojanambu", despite it being a borrowed tune.

Release
The Telugu version of Mayabazar was released on 27 March 1957, and the Tamil version two weeks later on 12 April. Both versions have a film-reel length of 5888 metres. A commercial success, Mayabazar had a theatrical run of 100 days in 24 theatres and went on to become a silver jubilee film. After the film's release, 40,000 colour calendars of Rama Rao as Krishna were distributed to the public. The Telugu version of Mayabazar was dubbed into Kannada with the same name in 1965; it remained the last Indian film to be dubbed into Kannada until the announcement of a dubbed version of Kochadaiiyaan (2014) after 50 years.

Dasari Narayana Rao remade the film later with the same title. Mayabazar was shown at the Public Gardens in Hyderabad on 7 April 2007 for the film's 50th anniversary, at a celebration organised by the Andhra Pradesh Department of Culture, the Film, TV and Theatre Development Corporation and Kinnera Art Theatres. Nageswara Rao and C. Narayana Reddy, who were associated with the film, were honoured on the occasion. The former released a book written by Raavi Kondala Rao at Lalitha Kala Thoranam located in the Public Gardens. Kondala Rao novelised the film's script based on K. V. Reddy's screenplay.

Critical reception
The film received positive reviews from critics, particularly for the work of its technical crew. In 2006, W. Chandrakanth of The Hindu wrote: "The greatness of the director lies here – he successfully reduces all characters to ordinary mortals displaying all the follies of human beings except Ghatothkacha or Krishna. And then he injects into the Yadava household a Telugu atmosphere, full with its simile, imagery, adage, sarcasm and wit. The result – a feast for the eyes and soul. That is Mayabazar for you." Vijaysree Venkatraman wrote for The Hindu in 2008 that the "special effects in this summer's Hollywood superhero movies were spectacular, but, for me, the mythological Maya Bazaar [sic] hasn't lost any of its magic", adding, "If watching the genial half-demon polish off a wedding feast single-handedly remains a treat, seeing the greedy duo from the groom's side get whacked alternately by the furniture and the wilful carpet has me in splits". The Hindu film critic M. L. Narasimham wrote: "Though there were several movie versions in various Indian languages, the 1957 Vijaya Productions' Mayabazar is still considered the best for its all round excellence". According to The Times of India, "With a powerful cast and a strong script, this movie is a stealer. Savitri, NTR [N. T. Rama Rao], ANR [Akkineni Nageswara Rao], SV Rangarao and not to mention Suryakantam add layers to their characters. Of course, the language and the dialogues, simply unbeatable. Some of the scenes are simply hilarious."

In his 2013 book Bollywood Nation: India through Its Cinema, Vamsee Juluri wrote, "Maya Bazar appeal is of course as much in its story as in its stars. But the performances and the beautiful songs and sets aside, the film also reveals an interesting feature of the Telugu mythological in its Golden Age—it is a story about something not very important from a doctrinal view of religion at all". Juluri also termed Ranga Rao's performance as "mighty and majestic". In April 2013, News18 referred to Mayabazar as a "pioneer in every sense". They praised its cinematography and music, adding that Rama Rao "proved his calibre as a method actor". In their 2015 book, Transcultural Negotiations of Gender: Studies in (Be)longing, Saugata Bhaduri and Indrani Mukherjee opined that Mayabazar "both breaks and perpetuates the stereotypes for masculine and feminine bhavas by making a single female actor Savitri perform both the set of emotions".

Colourisation

Mayabazar was the first colourised Telugu film, with its audio remastered from monaural to a DTS 5.1-channel system. In late November 2007 a Hyderabad company, Goldstone Technologies, acquired world negative rights to 14 Telugu films produced by Vijaya Vauhini Studios, including that of Mayabazar, to digitally remaster them in colour. C. Jagan Mohan of Goldstone Technologies' experience at All India Radio gave him the idea of converting the film's audio to DTS. The audio was restored, sound effects remastered, distortion eliminated, and the volume of the vocals increased, and musicians re-recorded the film's background music on seven tracks instead of one.

A team of 165 people worked for eight months; Mohan used 180,000 shades of colour to create a tone similar to human skin, and employed 16.7-million-shade colour technology. Apart from colouring clothing and jewellery, Mohan said that the song "Vivaha Bhojanambu" and the wedding scene in the climax were the most challenging sequences, and that the food should look more realistic after colourisation. In the wedding scene, Mohan explained: "Each and every rose petal strewn on the pathway had to be coloured. Further, each frame in the climax has many actors. In technical parlance, we refer to a set of colours used for skin tone, clothes, jewelry and so on as different masks. If five or six masks were used on one character, the presence of many actors in a frame called for that much more work." Three songs ("Bhali Bhali Deva", "Vinnavamma Yashodha" and "Choopulu Kalisina Subha Vela") and many poems were cut from the remastered colour version to maintain print quality.

Re-release
With an estimated digitalisation budget of ₹7.5 crore (valued at about US$1.7 million in 2010), Mayabazar was released in colour on 30 January 2010 in 45 Andhra Pradesh theatres. The colourised version was distributed by R. B. Choudary under his production banner, Super Good Films. Nageswara Rao, Gummadi Venkateswara Rao, Mikkilineni Radhakrishna Murthy and Sita were the only cast members still alive for the release of the digitally remastered version. The colour version received positive reviews and was commercially successful. M. L. Narasimham of The Hindu called the new version "laudable, but the soul was missing", adding, "Get a DVD of the original (Black & White) movie, watch it and you will agree with ANR [Akkineni Nageswara Rao] who while talking about Mayabazar once exclaimed, 'What a picture it was!'".

According to a 29 January 2010 government order, the remastered version was exempted from entertainment tax, although theatre owners charged full price because they and other film producers were uncertain of the order's validity. Despite Mayabazar success, Mohan decided not to remaster the remaining 14 films; according to him, most producers who sold negative rights to TV channels lost control of them, and he cited legal and copyright issues.

The Film Heritage Foundation announced in March 2015 that they would be restoring Mayabazar, along with a few other Indian films from 1931 to 1965, as a part of their restoration projects carried out in India and abroad in accordance with international parameters. The foundation opposed digital colourisation, stating that they "believe in the original repair as the way the master or the creator had seen it".

Legacy
Mayabazar is considered a classic of Telugu cinema, particularly in its use of technology. The film is memorable for Nagendra Rao's dialogue: "Evaru puttinchakunte maatalela pudathayi" ("How would words emerge if no one invented them?") and "Subhadra, aagadalu, aghaaityalu naaku paniki raavu" ("Subhadra, these atrocities mean nothing to me."). Various words and phrases, such as "antha alamalame kada" ("Is everything fine?"), "Asamadiyulu" ("Friends"), "Tasamadiyulu" ("Enemies"), "Gilpam" and "Gimbali" ("bed-" and "room-mat"), later became part of Telugu vernacular. The success of Donga Ramudu (1955) and Mayabazar prompted K. V. Reddy to produce the 1958 Telugu film Pellinaati Pramanalu (Vazhkai Oppantham in Tamil). It recovered its investment and won the silver medal at the annual National Film Awards.

A 1987 Telugu film directed by Jandhyala and a 2011 Telugu film directed by Veerabhadram Chowdary were named after the song "Aha Naa Pellanta" from the film; both were successful. Jandhyala named his 1988 Telugu films Vivaha Bhojanambu and Choopulu Kalasina Subhavela after the songs of the same name. Telugu comedian Mallikarjuna Rao considered Mayabazar to be the "greatest comedy film ever", adding that it represents "one of the most transcendental and joyful experiences any movie-lover can hope for". Telugu director Mohan Krishna Indraganti named his second film Mayabazar (2006, also a fantasy film). Regarding his title, Indraganti said he was a fan of Mayabazar and named his film (produced by B. Satyanarayana) at the insistence of writer D. V. Narasaraju.

In January 2007, M. L. Narasimham of The Hindu listed Mayabazar with Mala Pilla (1938), Raithu Bidda (1939), Vara Vikrayam (1939), Bhakta Potana (1942), Shavukaru (1950), Malliswari (1951) Peddamanushulu (1954) and Lava Kusa (1963) as films that have influenced society and Telugu cinema. Rama Rao reprised the role of Krishna in several films over a two-decade career.

Singeetam Srinivasa Rao used Mayabazar storyline in his 2008 multilingual animation film Ghatothkach. Director Krishna Vamsi called Mayabazar more an "epic, than a mere classic" and said that the film's tagline, "Sasirekha Parinayam", inspired the title of his 2009 Telugu film. In February 2010, acting coach and director L. Satyanand compared Mayabazar to films such as The Ten Commandments (1956), Ben-Hur (1959), Sholay (1975) and Avatar (2009), saying that they "are evergreen and never fade away from the mind", with continued appeal. Satyanand praised Bartley's cinematography, saying that the film "... was definitely ahead of its time. It is still a mystery how Marcus Bartley could morph Sasirekha through the ripples in the pond. It was an absolute masterpiece, considering the equipment in use, those days. In the absence of hi-def cameras, computer generated visual effects and high-end computers, the direction, cinematography and visual effects were efforts of sheer human genius."

In the period drama Rajanna (2011), the central character Mallamma (played by Baby Annie) listens to Mayabazar songs. Although this was criticised as anachronistic, director V. Vijayendra Prasad said that Rajanna was set in 1958, a year after Mayabazar release. In Ram Gopal Varma Katha Screenplay Darsakatvam Appalaraju (2011), its protagonist Appalaraju (played by Sunil), an aspiring director, is shown enjoying a sequence from the song "Lahiri Lahiri" in the song "Mayabazaaru". In her article "The making of Tollywood", commemorating the 81st anniversary of the Indian Telugu film industry, Sunita Raghu of The New Indian Express called Mayabazar the "tour de force" of Telugu cinema. In November 2012, The Times of India listed Mayabazar along with other unrelated films such as Missamma (1955), Gundamma Katha (1962), Nartanasala (1963), and Bommarillu (2006) in the list "Telugu classics to watch along with family this Deepavali". On the centenary of Indian cinema in 2013, CNN-IBN included Mayabazar in its list of "100 greatest Indian films of all time". In an online poll conducted among the aforementioned 100 films, Mayabazar was voted by the public as the "greatest Indian film ever." In commemoration of the centennial of Indian cinema, The Hindu listed Mayabazar along with Pathala Bhairavi (1951), Missamma, Gundamma Katha, Maduve Madi Nodu (1965), Ram Aur Shyam (1967), Julie (1975), and Shriman Shrimati (1982) as the iconic films produced by Nagi Reddy.

News18 included Mayabazar on its February 2014 list of "12 Indian films that would make great books", and in May 2014 Rediff included the film on its list of "The Best Mythological Films of Tamil Cinema". The Tamil film Kalyana Samayal Saadham (2013) was named after the song of the same name. The Andhra Pradesh state government planned to introduce the film as part of the tenth standard English syllabus in 2014. The fourth unit of the English textbook, "Films and Theatres", mentions Mayabazar and its actors and has two stills from the film. In March 2012, film historian Mohan Raman stated in an interview with The Times of India that Mayabazar, which "perfected the art of trick photography", was "among the significant black and white films of yore", along with Andha Naal (1954) and Uthama Puthiran (1940).

The scene in which Krishna reveals his identity to Ghatotkacha at Dvaraka was used in Gopala Gopala (2015), with Pawan Kalyan as Krishna. References were made to Shakuni's character in the film Pataas (2015) starring Rama Rao's grandson Nandamuri Kalyan Ram. Director S. S. Rajamouli told film critic Subhash K. Jha that K. V. Reddy's work in Mayabazar was a "huge inspiration" for him to make Baahubali: The Beginning (2015) and Baahubali: The Conclusion. Writing for DailyO, an online opinion platform from the India Today Group, actor Rana Daggubati opined that films like Mayabazar were "truly cutting edge" and added, "Considering the technological limitations technicians were working with back then, these were phenomenally commendable instances of the Indian cinema". In an interview with The Hindu in November 2015, actor Kamal Haasan noted, "Visual appeal has always gone hand-in-hand with content, since the days of Chandralekha and Maya Bazaar, not just after Baahubali." A 90-minute theatrical adaptation of the film was staged in December 2016 by Bangalore Little Theatre.

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 * Delete, trivial advert. Megan1967 08:04, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, an ad, as said above. Master Thief Garrett 03:04, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Pavel Vozenilek 09:30, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:The Itchy & Scratchy Show

Typo
corrected a slight typo error ( unsigned comment by User:4.249.229.56 )
 * Thanks, but you don't have to post that here. Just put it in the edit summary and it will show up on the page's history.  Sonic Mew 10:51, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but The Itchy & Scratchy Show exists only within The Simpsons, doesn't it? In which case, shouldn't this be mentioned in the first paragraph? 203.118.120.161 18:41, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

 * How could've they missed that? --Thorri 18:20, 22 Aug 2005 (UTC)

Satire/Parody
Where does I&S 'parody pop culture' or 'satirize movies'? I've only ever seen it satirizing violet cartoons. Every so often they reference a movie such as Reservoir Dogs, but that it hardly satire of it. I've removed the mentions. Can anyone prove me wrong? Ashmoo 06:46, 20 October 2005 (UTC)

"Worker and Parasite"
This part of article contradicts with special article on Worker_and_Parasite. Here the series in question is told to satirize Soviet "government-made cartoons". In special article -- "Gene Deich period" of "Tom & Jerry". Pehaps this should be corrected. I belive that the special article is more correct: this would be more "in-line" with whole "Tom & Jerry" parody scheme.

Stingy and Battery show
Oh come on. That bit where Krusty has to improvise on that doesn't deserve that much of a mention. It was just a gag I belive for that episode so it should only be a mention in my opinion.19:45, 22 April 2006 (UTC)

Severe Bipolar Disorder in this Article
This article suffers from repeated or duplicated mentions of events. "Background" and "History within The Simpsons" are merely retellings of the same sequence of events, a few details left out of each. Then "Other Itchy & Scratchy characters" starts to go thru things a third time. Can't some of these sections be merged? I'd try it myself, but figured I'd mention it here first.--Firsfron 11:25, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I've reorganized it. We're not here to mention every single gag used on or about I&S (Elvis, Marge, "Stingy and Battery"), only those that are noteworthy to the history within the series or notable to the use of I&S within The Simpsons.--Nonpareility 15:42, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Poochie
Krusty's line "you'll never see Poochie again" was cut out of the syndicated reruns of The Simpsons. Revisionist history? Busjack 17:52, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Couldn't this be one of the possible inspirations for Poochie: Wally Bear and the NO! Gang. An "ultrahip" cartoon animal designed by adults to appeal to youth culture. Dexsuperior 01:40, 11 July 2007 (CET)

Timeline
I strongly reccomend retooling of the "in 1990" stuff. This is all misleading as the Simpsons dont' age and exist within a static timeline. Proper phrasing would be either "in an 1990 episode" or simply (to far better use of reference), "in the episode [title]". Agree or disagree? if no response, I'll assume noone cares and correct it myself. TheHYPO 05:21, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Translations
What's the point of the translations section?--Nonpareility 22:05, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Show within a show within a show
I don't think the term "show within a show within a show" is actually accurate. The article on show-within-a-show says "A show-within-a-show is typically a fictional television show featured within the fictional universe of a real television show.". I&S is not a show in the fictional universe of the Krusty the Klown show, rather it's simply a portion of the Krusty the Klown show.--Nonpareility 23:02, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Lyrics to the theme song
Does it start with "They fight! And bite! They fight and bite and fight!" or "They fight! And bite! They fight and fight and bite!"? I remember an episode where at the end of the show, they resing the theme song, softer and in past tense. I remember it being "They fought, and bit. They fought and fought and bit. Fought fought fought, bit bit bit... It was the Itchy and Scratchy Show!"--Nonpareility 23:02, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * I also remenber that episode. I forgot the name through--Taida 17:43, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

"Past"
Now that "Origins" is split out, the "Past" section of this article seems to mostly be a list of different things I&S parodied in a "past" setting. I don't think these things are necessarily notable in The Simpsons's universe.--Nonpareility 21:39, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I've removed many things from both the "Past" and "Present" sections. A lot of it wasn't really notable in the context of I&S - for example, what Bart thinks of Disgruntled Goat and who Grampa thinks voices Itchy.--Nonpareility 21:42, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

In universe
What parts of this article need clean up because of in-universe style? Does a section named "History within The Simpsons" really need anything else to indicate that it's the history of I&S within The Simpsons rather than in real life?--Nonpareility 19:20, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

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Duplicated text
I hid a portion of the text as clearly redundant and duplicative with a note to that effect. If anyone feels it is salient then please undo. Rms125a@hotmail.com (talk) 20:39, 26 February 2009 (UTC)

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The Itchy & Scratchy Show and Happy Tree Friends Relation
... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.47.36.190 (talk) 15:19, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Everyone can see that there is an relation, betwen the shows, they are almost the same kind, so why dont write in the article that they are both similar kinds of shows?

Many persons wanted to see an longer Itchy & Scratchy Show, so happy tree friends is almost this, an longer The Itchy & Scratchy Show... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.47.36.190 (talk) 15:18, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

Infobox
I'm really not sure Infobox television is appropriate for what this article is about. At any rate, the infobox is far to in-universe as it is. Unless there's a way to change this, it's probably for the best if we remove the infobox altogether. Harry Blue5 (talk) 18:30, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
 * I see what you're saying, but I don't see the harm in it. Most articles about fictional TV shows do have one, and most infoboxes on fictional characters have an in-universe component. -- Scorpion 0422  01:21, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
 * The problem is, it's so incredibly in-universe. That kind of stuff is for places like Wikisimpsons, not Wikipedia. An infobox should contain things like "First appearance" (In this case, "There's No Disgrace Like Home"), "Last appearance", "Series" (The Simpsons), and some important bits on in-universe stuff. As it stands, if it wasn't for the small (fictional show) bit on the infobox, I'd think it was an actual show. Harry Blue5 (talk) 09:52, 5 March 2011 (UTC)

meyers dubbing poochie
roger meyers jr. providing the voice for poochie in his final episode (returning to my home planet...) means that alex rocco also voiced poochie. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.120.67.244 (talk) 23:35, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Repetitious article
This article is very repetitious about the history of Itchy and Scratchy, and mentions Tom and Jerry 3 times. There are also several other repetitious ideas throughout the entire article. In my opinion, to improve the article, it should be cleaned up.

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2004 United States presidential election in New York

The 2004 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 2, 2004, and was part of the 2004 United States presidential election. Voters chose 31 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

New York was won by Democratic nominee John Kerry by an 18.3% margin of victory. Prior to the election, all 12 news organizations considered this a state Kerry would win, or a safe blue state. The last Republican presidential nominee to have carried the state of New York was Ronald Reagan in 1984 and the last one to even be competitive was Bush's father George H. W. Bush in 1988.

As expected, Kerry won the state of New York in a landslide. Statewide elections in New York are dominated by the overwhelmingly Democratic stronghold of New York City, the most populated city in the United States where around 40% of the state's population lives. Kerry received around 75% of the vote in the city alone. New York gave Kerry his fourth largest statewide margin of victory behind Kerry's home state of Massachusetts, and neighboring Rhode Island and Vermont.

Although the state was left uncontested by both candidates, Bush did manage to significantly improve on his performance from 2000, reducing his margin of defeat from 25% to 18%; this is often attributed to increased support for Bush in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks.

As of the 2020 United States presidential election, this is the last election in which the Republican candidate received over 40% of the vote, lost by less than a 20% margin in New York State or Westchester County, and carried Rockland and Dutchess counties. This is also the last time that any candidate won a majority of the vote in Ontario County. This also remains the only time in history that a president was elected twice without ever carrying New York.

Primaries

 * 2004 New York Democratic presidential primary

Predictions
There were 12 news organizations who made state-by-state predictions of the election. Here are their last predictions before election day.

Polling
Kerry won every single pre-election poll, and all but one with a double-digit margin and with at least 49%. The final 3-poll average showed Kerry leading 55% to 38%.

Fundraising
Bush raised $11,994,227. Kerry raised $27,733,309.

Advertising and visits
Neither campaign advertised or visited the state during the fall campaign.

Analysis
The voters of the five boroughs of New York City were the main force responsible for Kerry's decisive victory in the state. Kerry won New York City by an overwhelming margin, taking 1,828,015 votes to Bush's 587,534, a 74.99%-to-24.10% victory. Excluding New York City's votes, John Kerry still would have carried New York State, but by a reduced margin, taking 2,486,265 votes to Bush's 2,375,033 votes, a 51.14%-to-48.86% victory.

The New York City suburbs consist of Long Island's Nassau and Suffolk counties as well as Westchester and Rockland counties. Traditionally Republican, this area went clearly Democratic through the past few decades, with the arrival of people from New York City. However, in this area where many voters commute to Manhattan, Bush did better than expected. Although he clearly lost these counties to Gore in 2000 with 39.55% to 56.42%, or 655,665 votes to 935,456, he only lost them by a close 46.13% to 52.30% to Kerry. While Bush won 167,397 more votes than in 2000, Kerry lost 2,437. This can be mainly explained by the concerns of suburban moderate voters about terrorism, an issue about which they trusted Bush more than Kerry. Exit polls showed 49% of voters in New York trusted Bush to handle terrorism, as opposed to 42% for Kerry.

Upstate New York region, including all of the counties that are not part of New York City or its suburbs, is the least liberal region of the three. Its politics are very similar to those of Ohio or Pennsylvania, both key swing states and sharing conservative rural areas. Bush expanded his margin in New York City's northern exurban counties Dutchess, Orange and Putnam from 2000. Despite this, Senator Kerry still managed a slim victory in Upstate New York, with 1,553,246 votes to 1,551,971 for Bush. This was largely due to a Democratic tidal wave in the region's four largest cities--Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Albany. Kerry also ran strongly in college dominated Tompkins County and two counties with an influx of former New York City residents moving to vacation homes, Ulster County and Columbia County.

According to exit polls, Senator Kerry won both males (56%–42%) and Females (60%–40%) over the president. President Bush narrowly carried white voters in New York 50% to 49%. This was not enough to overcome Senator Kerry carrying African Americans 90% to 9%, Latinos 75% to 24% and Asians 72% to 27%. Kerry won all age groups over President Bush, with his closest wins being 52% to 47% among those aged 45–59 and 53% to 47% among those 60 and older. Kerry also won all income groups and all levels of education.

By congressional district
Kerry won 20 of 29 congressional districts. Both candidates won a district held by the other party.

By county
[[File:New York County Flips 2004.svg|thumb|County flips:

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Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

 * Cayuga (county seat: Auburn)
 * Montgomery (county seat: Fonda)
 * Richmond (coterminous with Staten Island, a borough of New York City)
 * Rockland (county seat: New City)
 * Seneca (county seat: Waterloo)
 * Sullivan (county seat: Monticello)

Electors
NY voters cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. New York has 31 electors because it has 29 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 31 electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins the majority of votes in the state is awarded all 31 electoral votes. Their chosen electors then vote for president and vice president. Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them. An elector who votes for someone other than his or her candidate is known as a faithless elector.

The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 13, 2004, to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia meet in their respective capitols.

The following were the members of the Electoral College from New York. All were pledged to and voted for Kerry/Edwards.
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 * 2) Bill De Blasio
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 * 16) Len Lenihan
 * 17) Bertha Lewis
 * 18) Alan Lubin
 * 19) Thomas J. Manton
 * 20) Dennis Mehiel
 * 21) June O'Neill
 * 22) David Paterson
 * 23) Jose Rivera
 * 24) Rich Schaffer
 * 25) Chung Seto
 * 26) Sheldon Silver
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 * 28) Antoine Thompson
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Marla Ruzicka

Marla Ruzicka (December 31, 1976 – April 16, 2005) was an American activist-turned-aid worker. She believed that combatant governments had a legal and moral responsibility to compensate the families of civilians killed or injured in military conflicts.

In 2003, Ruzicka founded the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC), an organization that counted civilian casualties and assisted Iraqi victims of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. In 2005, she was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq.

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Born in Lakeport, California, Ruzicka attended Long Island University's Friends World Program, and spent four years traveling throughout Costa Rica, Kenya, Cuba, Israel, and Zimbabwe. After graduating in 1999, Ruzicka volunteered for the San Francisco-based organizations Rainforest Action Network and Global Exchange.

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In July 2002, Ruzicka began working with USAID and the Senate Appropriations Committee to allocate money to rebuild the homes of families that had suffered losses as a result of military action. After receiving CIVIC's first report, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) sponsored legislation to provide $10 million in U.S. aid to Afghan civilians who had been harmed by the US military. He said, "Marla Ruzicka is out there saying, 'Wait, everybody. Here is what is really happening. You'd better know about this.' We have whistle blowers in industry. Maybe sometimes we need whistle blowers in foreign policy."

She traveled to Baghdad after the April 2003 U.S. invasion. CIVIC's efforts were featured on Nightline and CNN, as well as in The New York Times and Elle magazine. "With a shoestring budget, almost no staff and a bundle of energy, Ruzicka has already had more impact on more lives than many seasoned K Street lobbyists," The Washington Post reported in 2004. Ruzicka was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in the summer of 2004.

Death
Ruzicka and her Iraqi translator, Faiz Ali Salim, were killed by a suicide car bombing on the Baghdad Airport Road on April 16, 2005. More than 600 people attended her funeral in her hometown of Lakeport; Barbara Boxer and Sean Penn were among those who spoke at her memorial service. There were also memorial services in New York City, Washington, D.C., Baghdad, Kabul, and San Francisco.

According to Rolling Stone, "Ruzicka is perhaps the most famous American aid worker to die in any conflict of the past ten or twenty years. Though a novice in life—she had less than four years of professional humanitarian experience—her death resonated far beyond the tightly knit group of war junkies and policymakers who knew her. She stands as a youthful representative of a certain kind of not-yet-lost American idealism, and darkly symbolic of what has gone so tragically wrong in Iraq."

Marla Ruzicka left a one line will stating that her friend, war journalist Tara Sutton, would take care of CIVIC and appoint a new director.

At Senator Leahy's urging, President George W. Bush signed legislation on May 11, 2005, which renamed the civilian war victims the "Marla Ruzicka Iraqi War Victims Fund." As of 2006, the combined sum that Congress has allocated to assist Afghan and Iraqi civilians who were victims of U.S. warfare is thirty-eight million dollars.

Depiction in film media
Film rights to Ruzicka's life story were purchased by Paramount Pictures. The studio also bought the rights to the book Sweet Relief: The Marla Ruzicka Story by Jennifer Abrahamson, who had begun collaborating on the book with Ruzicka before her death. Kirsten Dunst agreed to play Ruzicka in the movie scripted by Lorene Scafaria.

Ruzicka appears briefly in the documentary Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room as one of the protesters who disrupts Jeffrey Skilling's speech at The Commonwealth Club.

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May 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

May 16 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 18

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 30 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For May 17th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on May 4.

Saints

 * Apostles Andronicus of Pannonia and his fellow labourer Junia, of the Seventy Apostles (1st century)
 * Martyrs Solochon, Pamphamer, and Pamphalon, soldiers, at Chalcedon (c. 286-305)
 * Martyrs Adrion, Victor and Basilla, in Alexandria.
 * Saint Theodoret of Antioch, Hieromartyr, (361–363)
 * Venerable Dodo of the St David-Gareji Monastery, Georgia (6th century)  (see also: May 25, June 2)
 * Saint Stephen the New, Patriarch of Constantinople (893)

Pre-Schism Western saints

 * Saint Restituta the martyr, in Carthage (255 or 304)
 * Martyrs Heradius, Paul, and Aquilinus, near Lake Geneva (284-305)
 * Saint Maden (Madern, Madron, Madrona) (c. 545)
 * Saint Cathán (Catan, Chattan, Cadan), Bishop in the Isle of Bute in Scotland (6th century)
 * Saint Mailduf (Maidulph, Maelduib), founder of Malmesbury Abbey (673)
 * Saint Gerebernus (Gerebern, Gerebrand), Hieromartyr, priest from Ireland who accompanied St Dymphna to Belgium and shared in her martyrdom (7th century)
 * Saint Rasso (Ratho), ascetic, founder of a Benedictine abbey at Wörth, later named Grafrath after him (953)

Post-Schism Orthodox saints

 * Venerable Andronik the Grave-Digger, of the Kyivan Zverynetsky Monastery (1096)
 * Venerable Eudoxia of Moscow (in monasticism Euphrosyne), Grand-Duchess of Moscow (1407)
 * Saints Nectarius (1550) and Theophanes (1544) the gate-keepers, brothers, of Meteora
 * Great-martyr Nicholas of Sofia (1555)
 * Saint Nicolas (Basdanis) the New Martyr (St Nicolas the Vlach) (1617)
 * Saint Athanasius the New, Bishop and Wonderworker of Christianoupolis (1707 or 1735)

 * Saint Jonah Atamansky, Archpriest of Odessa, Wonderworker (1924)

Other commemorations

 * Commemoration of the Fall of Jerusalem in 614 AD to the Persians, with the loss of the True Cross to Persia, damage to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre by fire, and the martyrdom of over 65,000 Christians (614)
 * Translation of the relics (1551) of Saint Adrian of Ondrusov (Valaam), Abbot (1549)

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This Station Is Non-Operational

This Station Is Non-Operational is a compilation album by El Paso, Texas-based post-hardcore band At the Drive-In, released May 24, 2005 by Fearless Records, four years after the band went on indefinite hiatus. Its tracks span the band's career from 1997 to 2000, with selections from El Gran Orgo (1997), In/Casino/Out (1998), Vaya (1999), and Relationship of Command (2000), as well as several rare tracks taken from singles and a previously unreleased cover version of The Smiths' "This Night Has Opened My Eyes". The album also includes a DVD with the music videos for "Metronome Arthritis", "One Armed Scissor", and "Invalid Litter Dept.", an electronic press kit, a discography, and multimedia content. It became the band's highest-charting release in the United States. Its title comes from a lyric in the song "One Armed Scissor".

Background
The compilation does not contain any material from the band's releases prior to 1997, omitting the EPs Hell Paso (1994) and ¡Alfaro Vive, Carajo! (1995) as well as their 1996 debut album Acrobatic Tenement. Guitarist Jim Ward addressed these omissions in a 2006 interview:

I was just adamant about certain things staying off it. There was just some stuff I wanted to stay special, like those early seven-inches. If you have them, then you have them because you were in a certain place at a certain time. I wanted to keep it special for those people if it makes sense. It's not that they’re embarrassing to me, it's because I wanted them to remain intimate with those people who were there when we slept on their floors. We were putting out 500 seven-inches even though people sell them on eBay for more than I had to put them out with. I still prefer it that way. I like that culture; I’m part of that culture. I didn’t want everything homogenized into one album. I'm not a big [fan] of "greatest hits" or whatever, but I understand that's part of what labels do. I wasn't really a big part of it to be honest with you.

Reception
This Station Is Non-Operational became At the Drive-In's highest-charting release in the United States, reaching #95 on the Billboard 200 and #3 on the Top Independent Albums chart. Critical reaction to the compilation was very positive. Johnny Loftus of Allmusic stated that it "really makes you miss the focused intensity of the band's salad days", and that because of the stylistic improvisations of the band members' post-At the Drive-In projects The Mars Volta and Sparta "it's easy to forget about At the Drive-In's capacity for convention. Their spectacular live show was a big part of their success. But as This Station Is Non-Operational continually points out, At the Drive-In wrote incredible songs, too." Mike Diver of Drowned in Sound gave the album a perfect score of 10 out of 10, remarking that it "must be listened to with an absolutely open mind. Yes, those earliest efforts from El Gran Orgo are scratchy, gutterside punk at best and, well, utterly underwhelming in absolute fairness. But that's not what ATD-I will be remembered for - it's the tracks from In/Casino/Out and the straw that ultimately broke their collective back, Relationship of Command, that today's fashioncore 'punks' have plumbed almost endlessly for inspiration. And you know what? They still sound amazingly fresh and vital." He noted that the rare tracks make the release attractive to existing fans, but "To the newcomer, though, this record just about transcends essential; really, if you like contemporary punk rock, even the MTV-sanitised version, then you've no excuse whatsoever for not owning this."

Jason Crock of Pitchfork Media noted that the release "aims to be a retrospective in the true sense of the word", ignoring some of the band's strongest songs and singles such as "Invalid Litter Dept." in favor of offering "a snapshot of the band's artistic growth, from class-act emo to muscular modern rock." He criticized the B-side tracks as "unrewarding" and "mildly compelling curios", but accepted them as "simply footnotes to the story told by the first 11 tracks" Remarking on the press' interpretation of the band members' post-At the Drive-In projects Sparta as "accessible" and The Mars Volta as "difficult", he noted that "the push/pull between the two extremes within the songs on This Station Is Non-Operational is seamless." Christian Hoard of Rolling Stone was more critical of the compilation, stating that "Where ATDI's later albums were art-punk cherry bombs packed with cascading shouts and tricky rhythms, most of these singles, rarities, B sides and live cuts sound unfocused -- long on arty twists and youthful bloodletting but short on explosiveness."

Personnel
Band
 * Cedric Bixler – lead vocals
 * Jim Ward – guitar, keyboards, backing vocals
 * Omar Rodríguez – guitar, backing vocals
 * Paul Hinojos – bass guitar
 * Tony Hajjar – drums, percussion

Additional musicians
 * Ben Rodriguez – guitar on "Fahrenheit" and "Picket Fence Cartel"
 * Marcelo Rodche – percussion on "Chanbara"
 * Iggy Pop – intro vocals on "Enfilade"

Production
 * Mike Major – recording and mixing engineer of tracks 1, 2, 7, 8, and 15, producer and engineer of track 14, mixing engineer of track 16
 * Alex Newport – recording and mixing engineer of tracks 3–6 and 13
 * Ross Robinson – producer of tracks 9–12
 * Andy Wallace – mixing engineer of tracks 9–12
 * Chuck Johnson – engineer of tracks 9–12
 * Kevin Bosley and Zak Girdis – assistant engineers of tracks 9–12
 * Justin Leah and Bobby Torres – engineers of track 16
 * Steve Lamacq – recording engineer of tracks 17 and 18
 * Simon Askew – producer of tracks 17 and 18
 * Paul Noble – assistant producer of tracks 17 and 18
 * Brad Vance – mastering

Artwork
 * Jason Farrell – design
 * Paul Drake, Daniëlle van Ark, Pat Graham, Alberto Polo, Jeff Gros, Justin Borucki, and Paul Delia – photography

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Syuzin
Tagged as for two weeks, it is more of a three-sentence promo. Zzyzx11 | Talk 02:08, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, possible vanity. Megan1967 08:06, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, vain. Master Thief Garrett 09:41, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Boss Bailey

Rodney "Boss" Bailey (born October 14, 1979) is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He was originally selected by the Detroit Lions in the second round of the 2003 NFL Draft. He played college football at the University of Georgia. He is the brother of Hall of Fame NFL cornerback Champ Bailey.

Early life
Bailey was born in Folkston, Georgia. He received honorable mention All-America honors from USA Today at Charlton County High School in Folkston Georgia.

College career
Bailey was a three-year starter at Georgia. As a senior, he was a first-team All-SEC selection as well as a semifinalist for the Butkus and Lombardi Awards.

Professional career
Bailey appeared in 58 career games (51 starts), posting 265 tackles (204 solo), seven sacks (40.5 yds.) and two interceptions (32 yds.). He also registered 13 pass breakups, one forced fumble, one fumble recovery and seven special-teams tackles for his career.

Detroit Lions
He was named All-Rookie by ESPN.com and Football Digest with Detroit in 2003 when he set a career-high with 88 tackles (77 solo) as a 16-game starter. After missing the 2004 season with a knee injury, Bailey started all 11 games played in 2005 and had 58 tackles, one sack and one interception, which he returned 34 yards for a touchdown. He started eight games at strongside linebacker and four contests at middle linebacker for the Lions in 2006, appearing in all 16 games and totaling 67 tackles (51 solo) with one sack that year. In 2007, Bailey posted a career-high 3.5 sacks (16.0 yds.) while adding 51 tackles (37 solo), two pass breakups and one forced fumble in 15 games (12 starts) at strongside linebacker for Detroit.

Denver Broncos
On March 6, 2008, Boss signed a five-year contract worth $17.5 million that included $8 million in guarantees over the first two seasons. Bailey was released on June 17, 2009.

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Ron Rosenbaum

Ronald Rosenbaum (born November 27, 1946) is an American literary journalist, literary critic, and novelist.

Early life and education
Rosenbaum was born into a Jewish family in New York City and grew up in Bay Shore, New York, on Long Island. He graduated from Yale University in 1968 and won a Carnegie Fellowship to attend Yale's graduate program in English Literature, though he dropped out after taking one course.

Career
Rosenbaum began his career as an editor of The Fire Island News and then wrote for The Village Voice for several years, leaving in 1975 after which he wrote for Esquire, Harper's, High Times, Vanity Fair, New York Times Magazine, and Slate.

Rosenbaum spent more than ten years doing research on Adolf Hitler including travels to Vienna, Munich, London, Paris, and Jerusalem, interviewing leading historians, philosophers, biographers, theologians and psychologists. Some of those interviewed by Rosenbaum included Daniel Goldhagen, David Irving, Rudolph Binion, Claude Lanzmann, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Alan Bullock, Christopher Browning, George Steiner, and Yehuda Bauer. The result was his 1998 book, Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil.

In Explaining Hitler, Ron Rosenbaum also recounted in detail the previously little-reported story of the efforts of anti-Hitler journalists at the Munich Post who, from 1920 to 1933, published repeated exposés on the criminal activities of the National Socialist German Workers Party (i.e. the Nazis). Matthew Ricketson, coordinator of the Journalism program at RMIT University's School of Applied Communication in Melbourne, Australia, called this book "a brilliant piece of research".

In 1987, he began writing a weekly column for the New York Observer called "The Edgy Enthusiast". He currently writes a column for Slate called "The Spectator". In 2009, one of Rosenbaum's Spectator columns was a lengthy sardonic critique of pop music icon Billy Joel entitled "The Worst Pop Singer Ever" which in turn was met with widespread derision as rank snobbery by many of Joel's fans, including some pop music critics and cultural observers, who felt the critique was unfair and contrived and not becoming of its author.

In The Shakespeare Wars, he wrote about recent controversies among literary historians, actors, and directors over how the works of William Shakespeare should be read, understood, and produced.

His book How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III, addresses the paradoxes of deterrence, the danger of nuclear proliferation, and whether the bomb comprises an argument about warfare and genocide.

In December 2015, Rosenbaum published the article "Thinking the Unthinkable", in which he expresses his view that there exists a frightening possibility that Israel might not survive as a nation. In it, he writes that, "The Palestinians want a Hitlerite Judenrein state, however much violence it takes to accomplish it. Not separation, elimination." The Palestinians are, he asserts, engaged in incessant state and religious incitement to murder Jews. The "stabbing intifada" is not an insurgency, but a matter of "the ritual murder of Jews". Whereas Hitler tried to hide his crimes, the Palestinians celebrate killing Jews.

Books

 * The Secret Parts of Fortune (2011)
 * How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III
 * Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil
 * Travels with Dr. Death and Other Unusual Investigations (1991)
 * Travels with Dr. Death and Other Unusual Investigations (1991)

Articles

 * "Against Normalization: The Lesson of the 'Munich Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, 5 February 2017
 * "Against Normalization: The Lesson of the 'Munich Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, 5 February 2017
 * "Against Normalization: The Lesson of the 'Munich Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, 5 February 2017
 * "Against Normalization: The Lesson of the 'Munich Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, 5 February 2017

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User talk:Victor Os

You changed the Oddmuse wiki's output from HTML 4.01 Transitional to XHTML 1.0 Strict in Oddmuse article. What do you mean? The Oddmuse site states clearly that the wiki engine is going to produce HTML 4.01 Transitional. -Hapsiainen 02:10, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)

 * That page is oudated. If you look at the source v1.555 2005/05/07, line 2132, it declares the pages as XHTML 1.0 Strict -
 * Victor Osadci 18:26, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I updated the text. I didn't research the script when I wrote the article. -Hapsiainen 15:57, May 14, 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Fred26

Kanji for articles
Hi! Um, well, so, sure, I can do requests, and I went and added kanji for the two articles you asked about - two things, however: 1. It seems that Shintomusoryu is the correct pronunciation (so I changed that part, but if you feel that Shindomusoryu is correct as well, maybe I was wrong, and you can fix it up again). 2. Imaizumi Shizuo's surname is Imaizumi, so it seems a bit weird that he is being called Shizuo Sensei - but if he IS called that, well, I can't really refute it then. :)

Cheers,

Edededed 01:20, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

Thanks Fred - I was just browsing and noticed a small point.Peter Rehse 00:10, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

Zen Nihon Kendo Renmei Jodo
Hi. Please don't copy & paste articles, this will not bring the edit history along. Please use the move function (see the menue bar) instead. I fixed the Zen Nihon Kendo Renmei Jodo article for you. -- Chris 73 | Talk 11:08, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

Yagyu Shingan-ryu
Im going to revert until I have more info etc. I was going through recent edits looking for non-registered users that have auto replaced words or characters. I must admit this appears to be a mistake/oversight on my part --Sharonlees 17:03, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

MA Userbox
Today, there was a merger of Category:Martial Artist Wikipedians into Category:Wikipedian martial artists. This resulted in a userbox being added to the category. This userbox is available to you. TonyTheTiger 20:29, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

Aikido
I just submitted the article for Featured Article status - great if you could provide a bit of help for the final push.Peter Rehse 03:04, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Hi Fred - I know you don't do aikido - just thought I'ld try to get a few people whose contributions and hence understanding of martial arts articles might help the final process especially dealing with suggestions from non-martial art editors. Just asking for keeping an eye out.Peter Rehse 01:42, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

 * That I can do. I'll keep both eyes out. ;-). Fred26 04:37, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

"Promoter" instead of founder of Yagyu Shingan-ryu?
See Talk:Yagyu Shingan-ryu I have rewritten Yagyu Shingan-ryu and Araki Mataemon. --Bejnar 19:02, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

No worries about SMR...
Sorry if the SMR comments seemed antagonistic! Just a note I made indescriminantly. No problems or worries here! Keep up the good work! :)

Mekugi 07:55, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

SMR
Just a couple points on form. There should be only one internal link per article - usually when the word first appears. There are some paragraphs where you have the same reference multiple times - again usually once per paragraph (Histroy section). But overall - it looks pretty good.Peter Rehse 02:18, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Nen-ryū
Fixed to acknowledge differences but be viewpoint neutral. Let me know what you think. Bradford44 19:24, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

GA status and Peer Review
I nominated Shinto Muso-ryu for GA status - you might want to watch for any comments that will invariably come up. Fail or pass the next step would be to submit it for Peer review. Also Kashima Shinden Jikishinkage-ryū has been submitted to Peer review - you might be interested in that process.Peter Rehse 03:40, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

No sweat - I made a series of comments on both.Peter Rehse 08:39, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

Hi Fred - I just cleared my Wikipedia watch list which was getting too long. With respect to the Shinto Muso Ryu article (also gone from the watch list), except for the external links in the Notable Practitioners section which should be converted to inline references, I think it is ready to be promoted. Just toss me a note when you think its ready and I will do the honors.Peter Rehse 09:20, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Yes - there is a preference in wikipedia away from inline external links - they should be treated as references.Peter Rehse 00:04, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Iaido in popular culture
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Kukishin Ryu side of things....
Hey there! Happy Spring!!! I am trying to put together some information on the Kukishin Ryu side of Wikipedia. I would really appreciate it if you would have a look. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukishinden_Ryu So far it is rough and I have only had time to put together the Takagi Ryu section....pointers appreciated! (Mekugi 04:14, 10 April 2007 (UTC))

re: Yagyū Shinkage-ryū
Hi there,

I notice you've had an interest in this article. It's on a cleanup list from 2005 and I would like to get it off that list. I broke the main sections into paragraphs and cleaned up the writing but there are still things that don't read well. I hesitate to make big changes in an article I know little about and was wondering if you could take a look at it and smooth it out a little. Thanks!--killing sparrows 04:07, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

Could you help me write this article?
Hello,

I was wondering if you would be willing to help me write either Seikichi_Iha or Shorin-ryu_Shido-kan. Tkjazzer 21:48, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

Formatting the Kukishin ryu Article
Hi Fred! Kukishin Ryu I need some more help in getting the resources to appear at the bottom. They were working off the number tabs in the article, but now it seems they have gone missing. I would also like an format for putting some of my pictures into the page, that means I need a template similar to the one that you used for the SMR page...is there a link you can give me to find them?? (I am too lazy to look for them myself, plus you seem to know `whatcher-doin Can). Thanks! Many thanks,

-Russ Mekugi 05:56, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

Considering a move of History of SMR to the main article again
I'm actually ambivilent. I know the reason you originally created sub-articles and it made sense then. How long would the merged article be?Peter Rehse 11:22, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

This is my IP... Russ...AKA Mekugi

Tenjin Shinyo ryu
Great addition to the the Tenjin Shinyo-ryu article! That kind of thing really makes a visual difference. Best, Matt --Mateo2006 01:45, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

I'm looking at the Box with a list of Ko-ryu schools in it again. Should the Kukishin school really be shown with this very early date? My apologies if this is something that people have gone over to death already. I'm still of the understanding that the Kashima Shinto ryu and katori Shinto Ryu or the schools who arguably have the longest veriable lineage. - I'm not making an assertion here but merely trying to gather new information from you. : ) Thanks, matt--Mateo2006 21:13, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Isshin-ryū kusarigamajutsu and the navbox koryu
My inclination is to give the founding date as early as is (relatively) undisputed. That is, people dispute whether Nen Ami Jion actually founded the school, or was merely Tan Isshin's inspiration for the school whom he chose to credit as ryuso. On the the other hand, no one disputes that the school existed from the time of Tan Isshin onward. Therefore, I suggest we date the school to the time of Tan Isshin, until or unless some credible sources recognize its existence prior to Tan Isshin.

I suspect this is a similar situation to Daito-ryu, where the school claims a lineage going back to Minamoto Yoshimitsu (brother of Minamoto no Yoshiie) in the eleventh century, but no one had ever heard of the name "Daito-ryu" until the modern "reviver" Takeda Sokaku in the 19th and 20th centuries. So the Daito-ryu techniques may really have existed for 900 years, but the school was arguably not founded until the modern age. Others may feel differently, but where lineage is so important to people, I suggest we err on the side of making schools younger, rather than older. Bradford44 03:41, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Tatsumi-ryū
Could you take a look at what's going on with this article? All of the IP edits up to this point come from the "Asia Pacific Network Information Centre". I have tagged the article with COI and NPOV, and it will probably need a bit of clean-up. -- 健次 (derumi)talk 08:25, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Thank you very much for checking on and weighing in on this article. -- 健次 (derumi)talk 18:32, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Niten Ichi-ryu
All we can do is police the article for POV, insist on citations, and hope for the best. Thanks for the heads-up, though. I'll definitely be keeping my eye on it. Bradford44 02:22, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Aikido
Hi Fred. Well we are trying for Featured article status once again. Could yuou take a look?Peter Rehse 09:07, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

:-)
http://forum.budo.se/showthread.php?t=3014

I see you're talking about me again! One of the sword techniques for hoten ryu was put on- they had a few "stabs" at it without really knowing what it is. The one posted on the forum is actually a stab after a cut to the forearm. The picture makes it looks weird. Anyway, drop me a line. If there are any questions about Hoten Ryu, I can come on the forum and discuss them. It's an obscure "hillbilly" koryu bujutsu, but one non-the-less. :-) I'm thinking about sticking an article one here. Mekugi 19:33, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

Tatsumi-ryu references
Hi Fred,

I was just wondering why the change on the Tatsumi-ryu page from separate notes and sources (references) sections to a single references section. It seems as though this is at odds with many pages here (eg. TSKSR, Hontai Yoshin-ryu), and looks less 'academic' than it did before. As it is, the section now looks like a mixture of different styles of referencing. It seems to me that it would be better if these sections were separated again. Best, Srt27 (talk) 20:00, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

Tatsumi-ryu references
Hi Fred, Thanks for getting back to me. It is pretty normal practice in academic papers for the notes and the references to be separate. There is another way of doing notes (again pretty common) such that the full references are incorporated in them, but this seems to me to be less efficient for a situation like Wikipedia where there are likely to be multiple changes (since it might require changes to a number of the notes rather than just the one being added). So if it is OK with you I'll go ahead and change it back, as well as changing the name from 'sources' to 'references'. Best, Srt27 (talk) 21:35, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

Shintō Musō-ryū Jo Kata
Hello, Fred, this is German user Idler, main author of de:Jōdō. Please check your kanji edits in the okuden list of Shinto Muso ryu jo kata. I have the impression that there is a major mix-up in these kanji, e.g. Suigetsu should have the kanji for "water-moon", which are now shown as kanji for Kote garami, and Jutte should have the kanji for "ten-hand" which now are shown as kanji for Kote dome. (I don't have my kanji dictionary with me right now, so I am not able to do the corrections by myself. Greets - de:Idler 14:13, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

Shintō Musō-ryū
The article Shintō Musō-ryū, for which you seem to be mainly responsible, is undergoing a review as part of the good article sweeps project. The article does not seem to meet current requirements for a good article. It has been put on hold for a week; if these issues are addressed satisfactorily within that period the article will be kept as a GA, otherwise it will be delisted. Lampman (talk) 19:26, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

The forming of a Ha is with the suggestion and permission of the Present Soke of a Ryu. Iwami Toshio Harukatsu (correct reading of the kanji) the previous soke gave no such permission —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hyaku (talk • contribs) 21:20, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

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