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Enlisted history ...
I have moved Enlisted History of the United States Air Force to User:Cfpresley/USAFhist. If you disagree with this move, I think a copy and paste in the other direction would be OK. However:
 * the title is very poor: I can understand that an history can be partial or biassed but how does one enlist an history? OK, I know you mean "History of enlisted personnel in the USAF".
 * I realise it is not a copyright violation because Uncle Sam wrote it.
 * Even though it is not a copyvio, Wikipedia strongly dislikes copied articles. Wikipedia has its own distinct style and layout. Do you see this as an article which Wikipedians would take on and expand?

Well done for stripping it out from the monstrous PDF you got it from but I think this article belongs in Wikisource or Wikibooks. -- RHaworth 16:31:24, 2005-08-13 (UTC)

Response I am not familiar with Wikisource, but I'll look into it. I am in the USAF, and the PDF is our primary source material for promotions testing. I like the history section of it, and I thought that it was more comprehensive that anything Wiki has for the USAF, and since its paid for by the taxpayers, then it is Public Domain. I put the underconstruction tag on it because I am currently working on adapting it to Wikistyle. I'll continue to tweak it on my user page until its less raw. Cfpresley 03:06, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

advice
You need to work on your Wikistyle. Or as I like to call it your WickedWikiStizzyle. After enough time spent editing wiki entries in the comfort of your mothers basement you will develope a sick^^^H sixth sense that will allow you to wikiotize yourself. As I always say to my wikipals "This ain't your mother's encyclopedia!" No sir, this is the new style wikitopia. I don't think you have enough wikitude to hang here in our online crib. Wikiopedia only likes certain editors like myself. One day I edited 26.2 articles! When I do that I call it a wikiattack. Although after a hard day like that I like to wikilax. Capsela 19:56, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

i <3 you
hey sweetheart!

check out my wikistyle --Capsela 03:38, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

Editors are retarded
Hi; unfortunately the title of the thread you started on Talk:Culturally_significant_phrases_from_The_Simpsons is a violation of WP:CIVIL. Would you consider changing it to something less inflammatory? Sincerely, Anchoress 06:54, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

minor edits
You may want to reread When to mark an edit as minor, as you seem to be mismarking some of your edits. Natalie 01:46, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

 * Perhaps I didn't explain myself well enough. You are marking edits as minor that are not, which is why you may want to reread the page above. Natalie 01:48, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

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I've had that IP for about as long, it seems, as you have had your username. Both have talk pages. Both, evidently, are fairly regularly checked and replied to. Finally, signatures are as much for the easing of parsing as determining the author. "68.39.174.238 20:11, 23 June 2007 (UTC)"

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Billy Strange

William Everett Strange (September 29, 1930 – February 22, 2012) was an American singer, songwriter, musician, guitarist, and actor. He began as a session musician with The Wrecking Crew, a famous session band of the 1960s and 1970s, and was inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum as a member of such ensemble in 2007.

Early life
Billy Strange was born in Long Beach, California, on September 29, 1930.

Recordings and songwriting
Strange teamed up with Mac Davis to write several hit songs for Elvis Presley, including "A Little Less Conversation", the theme from Charro!, and "Memories". Strange also composed the musical soundtrack for two of Presley's films Live a Little, Love a Little and The Trouble with Girls. He also wrote "Limbo Rock" which was recorded by The Champs and Chubby Checker.

Strange recorded arrangements of James Bond movie themes for GNP Crescendo Records and provided the instrumental backing and arrangement for Nancy Sinatra's non-soundtrack version of "You Only Live Twice", as well as Nancy and Frank Sinatra's "Somethin' Stupid". He was recognized by the Rockabilly Hall of Fame for his pioneering contribution to the genre.

Strange played guitar on numerous Beach Boys hits, including "Sloop John B" and the Pet Sounds album. He also played guitar for Nancy Sinatra, Jan & Dean, The Ventures, Willie Nelson, The Everly Brothers, Wanda Jackson, Randy Newman, and Nat King Cole, among others. One of his most famous performances is on Nancy Sinatra's version of "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)".

Strange arranged and conducted all of Nancy Sinatra's Reprise albums as well as Nancy Sinatra's and Lee Hazlewood's 1972 RCA Records release, Nancy & Lee Again and their 2003 album, Nancy & Lee 3. He also arranged the 1981 Sinatra and Mel Tillis album, Mel & Nancy. He arranged and conducted for Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Duane Eddy, and Elvis Presley. One of his most famous arrangements was "These Boots Are Made for Walkin'" for Nancy Sinatra. Strange also performed the vocals for Steve McQueen in Baby the Rain Must Fall.

Heard on the soundtracks of many Disney features, Strange played themes for such TV shows as "The Munsters" (1964), "Batman" (1966), and "Have Gun – Will Travel" (1957). He is the guitarist heard on the theme to "The Munsters".

"A Little Less Conversation", which he wrote with Mac Davis, was on the soundtracks of the DreamWorks animated feature films Shark Tale (2004) and Megamind (2010).

He sang his own composition, "The Ballad of Bunny and Claude", in the Merrie Melodies Bunny And Claude (We Rob Carrot Patches) (1968) and The Great Carrot-Train Robbery (1969).

Personal life
Strange was son of George Strange, a radio entertainer, and Vella Evans Strange.

Strange was married to singer and actress Joan O'Brien from 1954 to 1955. They had a son, Russell Glen Strange, born on October 4, 1955. He was also married to Betty Jo Conrad (son: Jerry Strange) from 1960 to 1978. They had a daughter together, Kelly Kimberly Strange, born on November 11, 1964.

While separated from Betty Jo, Strange moved from California to Tennessee to open and run a publishing firm for the Sinatras and lived with/dated Tricia "LeAnn" King. They had a daughter, Mary "Micah" King (Strange), who was born on December 23, 1976, in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee.

Strange was married to singer Jeanne Black in his final years. He died on February 22, 2012, aged 81.

As actor

 * Coal Miner's Daughter – Speedy West (1980)

Film & TV scores

 * Movin' with Nancy (1967)
 * Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
 * Elvis (1968)
 * The Trouble with Girls (1969)
 * De Sade (1969)
 * Bunny O'Hare (1971)
 * The Simpsons (1995, 1 episode)
 * Ocean's Eleven (2001)
 * Smallville (2002, 1 episode)
 * Everybody Loves Raymond (2003, 1 episode)
 * Bruce Almighty (2003)
 * Shark Tale (2004)
 * Megamind (2010)

Selected discography

 * Billy Strange Plays Roger Miller
 * Mr. Guitar
 * The James Bond Theme / Walk Don't Run '64
 * English Hits of '65
 * Goldfinger
 * Secret Agent File (later rereleased as a compilation)
 * James Bond Double Feature
 * In the Mexican Bag
 * Great Western Themes
 * Billy Strange and The Challengers
 * Strange Country
 * 12 String Guitar
 * Railroad Man
 * Dyn-O-Mite Guitar
 * Billy Strange Plays the Hits
 * Folk Rock Hits
 * Folk Hits
 * Songs and Sounds of the Steam Era (Compilation of Railroad Man and Folk Hits)
 * Super Scary Monster Party (compilation)
 * De Sade (film soundtrack)

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Brendan Fehr

Brendan Jacob Joel Fehr (born October 29, 1977) is a Canadian film and television actor, perhaps best known for portraying Michael Guerin in the WB television series Roswell, and for portraying lab tech Dan Cooper in CSI: Miami. In 2008, Fehr won a Gemini Award for "Hottest Canadian Male TV Star". Fehr also played Jared Booth in the Fox television series Bones. He has had numerous film roles.

Early life
Fehr was born October 29, 1977, in New Westminster, British Columbia, to a mother who worked as a correctional case manager and a father who was a yacht manufacturer. Raised in a strict Mennonite household, he would later move to Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Career
Fehr has modeled for Levi's, Calvin Klein, Emporio Armani, and DKNY Jeans, and his pictures appeared in magazines. Fehr broke into television in 1997 when he was cast in Breaker High. He enjoyed a regular role on the Sci-Fi TV series Roswell from 1999 to 2002. In 2001, Fehr starred in the U2 video "Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out Of". He plays a rookie football player named Paul Hewson (Bono's real name), who blows what would have been the game winning kick in an American football game as the ball hit the goal post. Fehr also appeared in Vanessa Carlton's video "Pretty Baby".

In 2008, Fehr starred as Jake Stanton in the ABC mini-series Samurai Girl, and had a recurring role as the character Jared Booth on Bones. In 2009 he had a recurring role as Cooper, a criminalist in CSI: Miami TV series. In 2011, Fehr played a businessman in A Christmas Kiss and the navigator of a U.S. warship in the movie X-Men First Class. He also guest-starred in two episodes of Nikita (TV series).

In 2014, Fehr began playing the role of Dr. Drew Alister, an Army vet and surgeon at a San Antonio hospital, in the NBC drama The Night Shift. The show aired for four seasons, ending in 2017.

Personal life
He currently lives in Los Angeles, California and Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wife, Jennifer Rowley, whom he married in July 2006. The couple have three daughters born in 2008, 2011 and 2013.

Awards and nominations
Saturn Award
 * 2001: Nominated, "Best Supporting Actor on Television" – Roswell

Gemini Award
 * 2008: Won, "Hottest Canadian Male Star"

Genie Award
 * 2005: Nominated, "Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role"

Teen Choice Awards
 * 2000: Nominated, "Choice Sidekick" – Roswell
 * 2001: Nominated, "Choice Sidekick" – Roswell

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Frank Wycheck

Frank John Wycheck (October 14, 1971 – December 9, 2023) was a professional American football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Maryland Terrapins. As a professional, Wycheck played 11 seasons for the Washington Redskins and the Tennessee Titans, where he threw the lateral pass in the Music City Miracle. He had also spent time as a professional wrestler. Wycheck was the color commentator on the Tennessee Titans Radio Network from 2005 to 2016, and from 2004 to 2017, Wycheck co-hosted a morning sports radio show on Nashville radio station WGFX.

Early life and college
Born in Philadelphia, Wycheck attended Archbishop Ryan High School in Northeast Philadelphia and the University of Maryland, College Park. As a freshman, Wycheck led the Atlantic Coast Conference in receptions with 58 for 509 yards, including a school record 14 catches in a game against Virginia Tech. As a sophomore, Wycheck led the team with 45 receptions, made 2nd team All-ACC, and set the conference record for most receptions ever by a player in their first two seasons. In Wycheck's third season, Maryland hired coach Mark Duffner, who switched the team to a run and shoot offence, which tended to use four receivers and no tight end. As a result, Wycheck's playing time and receptions declined significantly. Additionally, prior to the 1992 season, he contracted mononucleosis during spring practice and had a pulled groin that caused him to miss several preseason practice days. Starting out as a receiver, injuries to other Maryland running backs forced Duffner to play Wycheck at running back, where he started the final three games of the season, rushing for a total of 369 yards, including a 162-yard performance in Maryland's 53–23 win over the Clemson Tigers in the season finale.

"I feel like I really never got into the flow of the offense," Wycheck said after the season. "The last three games were great, but I'm a tight end type more than a running back." He decided to forgo his senior year and enter the 1993 NFL draft, finishing his three seasons at Maryland with 134 receptions for 1,183 yards, 80 carries for 391 yards, and eight touchdowns.

Washington Redskins
Wycheck was drafted in sixth round (160th overall) of the 1993 NFL Draft by the Washington Redskins. With the arrival of new coach Norv Turner in 1994, the Redskins made a failed attempt to switch Wycheck to fullback. Later that same season, Wycheck was suspended for the final four games of the season by the league after testing positive for anabolic steroids. Wycheck was released by the Redskins in 1995.

Tennessee Oilers/Titans
In 1995, Wycheck was signed by the Houston Oilers, who later became the Tennessee Titans.

Wycheck made the Pro Bowl in 1998, 1999, and 2000. Wycheck is perhaps most famous for his participation in the Music City Miracle, at the end of the 2000 Wild Card game against the Buffalo Bills. The Titans were down 16–15 with 16 seconds remaining. Wycheck took a hand-off from Lorenzo Neal and then threw the ball across the field to Kevin Dyson, who then turned the ball upfield 75 yards for the game-winning touchdown. The Titans would go on to make the Super Bowl that year, but would lose by a touchdown. Wycheck continued to play for the Titans before retiring after the 2003 season, having two concussions in a month that year.

In his 11-year career, Wycheck had 505 receptions for 5,126 yards and 28 touchdowns, and became one of 6 tight ends to surpass 500 receptions in NFL history. Wycheck led the Titans in receiving for three consecutive seasons (1999–2001). In the 1999 and 2002 postseasons, he had 14 receptions, twice tying the franchise record previously held jointly by Tim Wilson and Jackie Harris. Wycheck also went 5-for-6 passing the ball in his career (all on trick plays), resulting in 148 yards, two touchdowns, and a perfect 158.3 passer rating.

Professional wrestling appearances
In 2007, Total Nonstop Action Wrestling reported an altercation between Wycheck and James Storm. Wycheck, with the help of Jeff Jarrett, delivered a guitar shot to James Storm after the "Tennessee Cowboy" spat beer in the former Tennessee Titan's face. A match was then scheduled with Wycheck against James Storm at Slammiversary on June 17, 2007. At Slammiversary, he teamed with Jerry Lynn to defeat Storm and Ron Killings in a tag match. Wycheck won the match with a Cradle piledriver, Lynn's finishing move.

Broadcasting career
In 2001, Wycheck "hosted" his own Titan player show with George Plaster and Willy Daunic on WGFX 104.5 FM until he retired from the game. Wycheck became a co-host of the morning drive time show The Wake Up Zone with Kevin Ingram and Mark Howard on the Nashville radio station WGFX "104.5 The Zone". Beginning with the 2005 season, Wycheck assumed color commentary duties on the Titans Radio Network.

Before the 2017 Titans preseason, it was announced that Wycheck would step down from being color commentator due to lingering head issues sustained during his football career. His absence was supposed to be temporary, but replacement Dave McGinnis returned for the 2018 season and subsequent seasons. In a corresponding move, Wycheck also left The Wake Up Zone morning show in 2017.

Personal life and death
In 1995, Wycheck married Cherryn Krol. They had two children: Deanna (born 1991) and Madison (born 1997), before divorcing.

Wycheck was a supporter of the Tennessee Special Olympics, hosting the Wycheck Harley Ride charity event.

In a 2017 television interview on Fox-WZTV in Nashville, Wycheck stated that he was certain that he had CTE and that he feared the onset of 'scary' symptoms. Wycheck stated that he planned to donate his brain to the Concussion Legacy Foundation for study after he died.

On December 9, 2023, Wycheck died at age 52 after falling and hitting his head at his home in Chattanooga.

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Georg Feuerstein

Georg Feuerstein (27 May 1947 – 25 August 2012) was a German Indologist specializing in the philosophy and practice of Yoga. Feuerstein authored over 30 books on mysticism, Yoga, Tantra, and Hinduism. He translated, among other traditional texts, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali and the Bhagavad Gita.

Biography
Feuerstein was born in Würzburg, Germany. He moved to England to do his postgraduate research at Durham University and subsequently lived for 23 years in the United States. In 2004, Georg and his wife and spiritual partner, Brenda L Feuerstein, moved to Saskatchewan, Canada and in 2012 he became a citizen of Canada, where he died 25 August 2012 due to complications from diabetes.

He was an early Life member of the Indian Academy of Yoga at Benares Hindu University.

Reception
Historian of religions Mircea Eliade called Feuerstein's The Philosophy of Classical Yoga, "one of the most profound and original contributions to the understanding of classical yoga". His books Tantra: Path of Ecstasy and The Deeper Dimension of Yoga have each been cited academically over 200 times.

Yoga Journal described him as "one of the most highly regarded scholars on Hinduism in the West". One of its journalists, Holly Hammond, added that as well as being one of the most prolific of yoga scholars, he was "no dry academic; his scholarship is directly relevant to spiritual practice".

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Corchiano

Corchiano is a town and comune in the province of Viterbo, Lazio, central Italy. It was an ancient settlement of the Faliscans and, in the Renaissance and later, a fief of the Farnese family.

The local produce is hazelnuts and wine. Annual sagre include a live re-enactment of the birth of Jesus performed during Advent.

In the summer, a park not far from the centre of the village stays open very late, and the town has several restaurants.

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Talk:Daxophone

External links?
Anybody got an external link that actually has information on it? daxo.de is perhaps the greatest example ever of poor Macromedia Flash-based web design, and has less information than this wikipedia article as a reward. (It does have a lot of sound samples, which rock.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Teucer (talk • contribs) 14:32, 22 April 2005

Images
I have re-added the images created by MDaxo and moved the image of Reichel playing a daxophone to the "usage" section. MDaxo's image gives a much clearer impression of what a daxophone looks like than the Reichel image. While the lighting for the "soundbox" image is somewhat strange, it still gives a good indication of what that component looks like. The main "daxophone" image doesn't have any such issues; whether or not it's an amateur image, it's the best image of a daxophone we have and thus should be used as the primary means of visual identification (ie, the image in the infobox). Huon (talk) 21:49, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

 * MDaxo's daxophone is an amateur daxophone which deviates from the classical design in several notable ways. 1) the soundbox is attached to a basic camera tripod, rather than a designed soundbox constructed from scratch. 2) the dax is not fretted, which is a crucial part of the design. 3) the screw is made from plastic. These issues are clearly displayed in Hans' Daxinfo.pdf documented, which is referenced itself on the wikipedia page. I believe that this picture is problematic, because it gives a diluted perspective of that the instrument is. There are many clearer pictures of the daxophone as Hans Reichel designed it, it's just a matter of finding the correct one. Dfiction (talk) 22:06, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

 * I am aware that the daxophone in my image isn't exactly the same as the one designed by Hans Reichel. There are better images for the daxophone on Google Images and throughout the internet, but their copyright status must either be confirmed before use, or the creator of the images must give permission. Also, infobox images for instrument pages typically show a closeup of the instrument by itself; images of the instrument being played go in the usage section, or in this case with the inventor playing it, in the history section, just as the Saxophone page has Adolphe Sax in the history section, a military band saxophonist in the usage section, and only a saxophone in the infobox. MDaxo (talk) 22:19, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

 * , it sounds like your main concern is that the picture in the infobox varies slightly from the original design. However, it doesn't seem like it's not a daxophone (the obvious example of a similar design change would be electric violins - some of them look very different from the original violin design, but they are undoubtedly violins).
 * Until such time as a picture of an "original" or "official" version can be uploaded, this is certainly a worthy second choice. I do think it would be good to modify the caption so that it is clear this is a different design. Primefac (talk) 23:21, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

 * About 's concern of the lack of frets on the dax, I will be finished with the fretted dax very soon and then I can take a new picture. But it would be nice if someone with Hans Reichel's daxophone design could upload their own image, in order to solve this issue with lack of suitable images. MDaxo (talk) 23:57, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

 * However, a picture of an electric violin is not used as the main infobox picture on the violin wikipedia page. That would not be appropriate, and would be a distortion. It would be appropriate to have a new section in this page called "variations in design" or "alternate designs in which different models of daxophones can be discussed and described. This would provide the appropriate context for MDaxo's work, and would benefit the daxophone page by describing how others beside the instrument's inventor have developed and expanded the design since its invention in 1987.
 * In terms of providing a commons image of an official design, I can upload my own picture of a Reichel daxophone to solve this problem. Dfiction (talk) 19:26, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

 * If you did upload your own Reichel daxophone image, that would be great. MDaxo (talk) 22:38, 13 October 2015 (UTC)

Why is the term "blade" used instead of "tongue"?
I've never even heard "blade" except outside this wiki page and obvious derivatives on other wikis. I believe Hans Reichel always called them "tongues". "Blade" does not sound good to me, it implies a sharp metallic thing, which isn't something one would want to bow or pluck with a finger, generally. "Tongue" has been understood to mean a flat, long, thin object by everyone I've introduced the instrument to. Why the "blade" term? EDIT: I'm going to go ahead and change references to "blade" to "tongue", change it back if you object Chartrekhan (talk) 03:03, 15 December 2015 (UTC)

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Holiday (Green Day song)

"Holiday" is an anti-war protest song by American rock band Green Day. It was released as the third single from the group's seventh studio album American Idiot, and is also the third track. The song is in the key of F minor. Though the song is a prelude to "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", "Holiday" was released as a single later on, on March 14, 2005.

The song achieved considerable popularity across the world and performed moderately well on the charts. In the US, it reached number 19 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks and Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks charts. It debuted at number 11 in the United Kingdom and reached the top 20 in Canada, Denmark, Ireland, New Zealand, and Norway.

Background
One of two explicitly political songs on the album (the other being fellow single "American Idiot"), "Holiday" took two months to finish writing, because Armstrong continually felt his lyrics were not good enough. Aided by the encouragement of Cavallo, he completed the song. "Holiday" was inspired by the music of Bob Dylan. Armstrong wanted to write something stronger than "American Idiot", with harsh language to illustrate his points. The song takes aim at American conservatism. Armstrong felt that Republican politicians were "strategic" in alienating one group of people—for example, the gay community—in order to buy the votes of another. He later characterized the song as an outspoken "fuck you" to then-President George W. Bush. Armstrong for the first time imagined how he would perform the songs he was writing, and envisioned an audience responding to his lyric "Can I get another Amen?" The song's bridge, which Armstrong hoped to be as "twisted as possible," was designed as a "politician's worst nightmare."

The chorus's refrain—"This is our lives on holiday"—was intended to reflect the average American's apathy on the issues of the day. Armstrong characterized the song as "not anti-American, it’s anti-war."

Live performances
In live performances, video screens would display footage of helicopters dropping bombs. In New Jersey, at the Revolution Radio Tour, the lyrics "Pulverize the Eiffel Towers" were changed to "Pulverize the Donald Trump Towers".

Depending on the location of the performance, the lyric "the representative from California now has the floor" will be changed to reference the country or state where the song is being performed (e.g. "the representative from the United Kingdom now has the floor").

Music video
The first half of the video takes place in a car (a 1968 Mercury Monterey convertible), where Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool are partying around in Las Vegas. In the second half, they are cavorting in a bar where each of the band members portrays several different characters. Billie Joe Armstrong plays the mentioned Representative of California, two fighting clients, a punk rocker and a nerd. Tré Cool plays a drunken priest, an arrested patron, and a female prostitute. Mike Dirnt plays the barman, another punk, and a policeman. There are also scenes featuring seemingly worn-down can-can dancers. At the end of the video, the car smokes to a halt in the field that "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" begins in. Like the video for "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", this video was directed by Samuel Bayer.

The band arrived at the 2005 MTV Video Music Awards in the same car, this time "pimped out" by James Washburn, a friend of the band.

Track listings
UK 7-inch picture disc

 * All live tracks were recorded on September 21, 2004, at the Irving Plaza in New York City.

Personnel
Personnel are adapted from the UK-European CD1 liner notes.
 * Green Day – music, production
 * Billie Joe Armstrong – words, lead vocals, guitar
 * Mike Dirnt – bass guitar, backing vocals
 * Tré Cool – drums
 * Rob Cavallo – production
 * Doug McKean – engineering
 * Chris Lord-Alge – mixing
 * Chris Bilheimer – art direction
 * Marina Chavez – band photo

Notable covers
The song was first covered by the Irish pop punk band Scuba Dice in 2006 and charted at number eight on the Irish Singles Chart, number two on the download chart that week, and went on to be the 42nd-best-selling single of 2008 by an Irish artist.

Hayseed Dixie also performed a bluegrass cover of the song on the band's album A Hot Piece of Grass.

The song "Dr. Who on Holiday", from the mash-up album American Edit, combines "Holiday", The KLF's single "Doctorin' the Tardis", and the original theme from the television show Doctor Who, while the intro juxtaposes George W. Bush with the Daleks, a race of monsters from the aforementioned British television series.

In popular culture
"Holiday" was used as the goal song of the Vancouver Canucks during their run to the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals; the Canucks also reused it for Henrik Sedin's personal goal song in 2016–17 and for the team as a whole during the 2018–19 NHL season. The song was also included on the soundtrack of the video game Tony Hawk's American Wasteland.

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Javelin Software

Javelin Software Corporation (1984–1988) was a company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, which developed an innovative modeling and data analysis product, also called Javelin (versions 1.0 in 1984 to 1.1), and later Javelin Plus (versions 1.0 in May 1987 to 3.5 in 1993 ). Seen as the successor technology to spreadsheet software in reviews of the time, and rival to the then-dominant Lotus 1-2-3, Javelin won numerous industry awards, including beating Microsoft's new Excel for the InfoWorld Software Product of the Year award.

Javelin Software fell on difficult times when its initial public offering had to be cancelled due to it being scheduled for only a few days after the stock market crash of 1987. The company's assets were later purchased by Information Resources, Incorporated (IRI), which sold enhancements to Javelin until 1994 when IRI was itself purchased by Oracle Corporation, which promptly discontinued the product.

Unlike models in a spreadsheet, Javelin models are built on objects called variables, not on data in cells of a report. For example, a time series, or any variable, is an object in itself, not a collection of cells which happen to appear in a row or column. Variables have many attributes, including complete awareness of their connections to all other variables, data references, and text and image notes. Calculations are performed on these objects, as opposed to a range of cells, so adding two time series automatically aligns them in calendar time, or in a user-defined time frame.

Data are independent of worksheets—variables, and therefore data, cannot be destroyed by deleting a row, column or entire worksheet. For instance, January's costs are subtracted from January's revenues, regardless of where or whether either appears in a worksheet. This permits actions later used in pivot tables, except that flexible manipulation of report tables is but one of many capabilities supported by variables. Moreover, if costs are entered by week and revenues by month, Javelin can allocate or interpolate as appropriate. This object design enabled variables and whole models to reference each other with user-defined variable names, and to perform multidimensional analysis and massive, but easily editable consolidations.

Javelin encourages viewing data and algorithms in various self-documenting ways, including simultaneous multiple synchronized views. For example, users can move through the connections between variables on a diagram while seeing the logical roots and branches of each variable. This is an example of what is perhaps its primary contribution—the concept of traceability of a user's logic or model structure through its twelve views. Among its dynamically linked views were: diagram, formulas, table, chart, QuickGraph, worksheet, notes, errors, macro and graph. A complex model can be dissected and understood by others who had no role in its creation, and this remains unique even today.

The second fundamental advance in Javelin's design is extensive built-in time series modeling, including calendar intelligence.

Javelin was used primarily for corporate and governmental financial modeling, but was also used to build instructional models in college chemistry courses, to model the world's economies, and by the military early in the "Star Wars" project. It is still in use by institutions for which model integrity is mission critical.

Javelin received multiple awards, including "Best of 1985" for technical excellence from PC Magazine, "Most Significant Product" from PC Week and "Software Product of the Year".

The Infoworld award apparently created some consternation in the top ranks of number two Microsoft:

"Then there was the year Microsoft's new Windows spreadsheet, Excel, was up against start-up Javelin Software's Javelin spreadsheet for InfoWorld Product of the Year. Although Excel was a beautiful extension of the existing spreadsheet concept, Javelin had imaginative features, says Michael McCarthy, InfoWorld reviews editor from 1984 to 1990 and current publisher of IDG's San Francisco-based Web Publishing Inc., producers of JavaWorld and SunWorld. 'I persuaded InfoWorld to give Javelin Product of the Year,' McCarthy says. 'At the InfoWorld dinner at Comdex, when they gave out the award for Product of the Year and Excel came in second, Bill Gates got up and stomped out of the room in front of everybody in a spectacularly rude manner.'"

Javelin was conceived by co-founder Rob Firmin, chairman and CEO, whose University of Chicago doctorate research and subsequent financial planning work at Prime Computer led him to creation of the concepts. His co-founder, Stan Kugell, president, worked with Firmin on the user interface. The Javelin development team was led by Christopher Herot, vice president of engineering, and included Charles Frankston, brother of the spreadsheet co-inventor Bob Frankston, Arye Gittelman, John R. Levine, Louise Cousins (Pathe) and Peter Pathe.

Some parts of Javelin's approach were later used by other products such as Lotus's Improv. Lotus essentially copied two Javelin features (named data arrays and pivot tables) onto a NeXTSTEP-based and later Windows-based GUI to create Improv. Since Improv was not based on 1980s MS-DOS technology, it suffered less memory-based limitations than Javelin, though Javelin performed well with DOS extended and expanded memory.

While its business failure has been attributed to the infancy of business GUI software at the time, as well as an ill-conceived marketing plan that placed it head to head with the popular spreadsheet 1-2-3, enterprise-wide financial models converted into Javelin models at times strained the PC resources of the day. Despite this, it remained a standard for financial modeling and econometrics for several years after it was discontinued by Oracle. For example, the World Bank modeled the world's economies in Javelin and distributed them in Javelin format for a number of years.

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Talk:Gay Mafia

Homintern
Why not integrate the Homintern entry under "Origin of the Term"? The Homintern entry explains a great deal more historically (Comintern, etc.), including the etymology of 'lavender', which seems a logical segue into subsequent usages. As it currently stands, the expression's "origin" emerges from the ether in a random playboy article from the late 60s that fails to capture the essence of the pejorative's etymology. Also, the tacit historical/cultural stigma between communism and homosexuality could be further elaborated by integrating aspects of the 'Pinko' entry (ostensibly a politically 'lighter' version of communist red, but as the term evolved suggestive also of sexuality). Understanding the history of a pejorative term seems a primary function of this entry; missing the mark thus far with material that reads like the typical wikipedia pop-culture laundry list of tv and film references. Wintertanager (talk) 19:30, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Purple hand
Possible source of etymology or it could be intertwined coincidence. Benjiboi 23:27, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

Lavender mafia
I think MishMich has hit the right tone with what's currently drafted. Earlier suggestions seemed repetitive and I was unclear by the use of "orthodox" - presumably meant to signify traditionalism but in my view confused the reader with Greek Orthodoxy. Contaldo80 (talk) 09:11, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Issues
Virtually all links are dead/unverifiable. The only working links relate to a single 2002 article regarding Michael Ovitz - this includes external links, etc. The reference is worthy of inclusion, but the weight given to this specific event is alarmingly disproportionate to the article topic, hence WP:UNDUE WP:WEIGHT WP:ATTACK

“discussion of isolated events, criticisms, or news reports about a subject may be verifiable and neutral, but still be disproportionate to their overall significance to the article topic... Note that undue weight can be given in several ways, including, but not limited to, depth of detail, quantity of text, prominence of placement, and juxtaposition of statements

WP:NPOV "...inappropriate tone can be introduced through the way in which facts are selected, presented, or organized.”

WP:BLPSTYLE "...especially important if the page contains biographical material about a living person." —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wintertanager (talk • contribs) 18:27, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

The pejorative/offensive aspect of his remarks only underscore the vital importance of reporting neutrality. Wintertanager (talk) 18:31, 24 May 2010 (UTC)

 * One source did not work, so I removed it, and took the text associated with it (which was used with the ref as WP:OR.
 * One source was inaccurate - the title of Dowd's NYT piece was wrong, nothing to do with the topic, and included a quote not in the article - as she is alive, this could be defamatory, and as per BLP policy, I have deleted the dubious content. Genuine source is here:
 * I could find no record of the Tynan letter on-line, so unless somebody else knows how to access this, I guess we either take it on trust or remove it.
 * All the other references now have WP:RS.
 * There is still material that has no sources. I tagged one section, but the section above is nearly as poor.  I'm pondering whether to tag that section as in need of sources, or simply tag the whole article that way.  Some of this seems like it could be WP:OR or WP:SYNTH, but I don't have the energy to do much more at the moment.Mish (talk) 21:05, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
 * I checked it again after writing the above, and realised there were lots of BLP violations in attribution of statements to living people, statements which made assertions (albeit some humorous) about living people. Where possible I removed names, but when this left the text meaningless I removed the relevant statement.  BLP policy is quite clear - violations have to be removed without discussion.  It is the responsibility of the editor who adds material to verify the insertion using WP:RS.  Any attempt to reinsert this material without sources will result in its immediately being reported to WP:BLP/N, as edit wars on points of policy are pointless.  Unless sources for the dead individuals are forthcoming in the two tagged sections, these will be removed as well.  The rest of the unsourced material is pretty trivial, but it should be sourced really. Mish (talk) 21:35, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

 * I looked at this because I was perusing urban legends and this is linked to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Urban_legends. It seems to be more of a conspiracy theory, fringe political belief or prejudice than an urban legend.  The article needs something to justify the link.  24.27.31.170 (talk) 04:05, 25 May 2011 (UTC) Eric

Popular Culture
Entourage, season 3 episode 12, loyd on the cellphone —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.97.96.85 (talk) 18:41, 1 May 2011 (UTC)

Conspiracy Theory
There is no sourcing which describe this term as a conspiracy theory. Likewise, discussion of the term as a conspiracy theory is absent from the article. No clue why anyone would want to classify it as such. aprock (talk) 01:08, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

 * Would you not regard it as a conspiracy theory then? Do you think it is grounded in fact? Contaldo80 (talk) 16:38, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

 * My opinion doesn't matter. It's what reliable sources say that matters. aprock (talk) 17:27, 20 January 2012 (UTC)

 * Ok - thanks. Are you saying therefore that it could well be a conspiracy theory but until we find an independent source that states that categorically, then we should not include any text in the article to suggest it as a conspiracy theory? I'm sure there must be something as it evidently isn't true. Contaldo80 (talk) 10:19, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

 * This is correct. Note that the article itself spends quite a bit of time discussing how the characterization is not true.  But instead of discussing it in terms of conspiracy theories, it describes the term as a pejorative. aprock (talk) 15:42, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

 * Ok - thanks for clarifying. Contaldo80 (talk) 16:22, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

Merge suggestion from Homintern
Essentially the same subject, a conspiracy about the alleged "gay cabal", if I am not mistaken. In any case, both articles are heavy on original research and example farming, and the subject will benefit from cleanup. For example, the only ref in the lede of "Homintern" is actually about "homosexual mafia". We already have three synonyms here.

 * One more will be right in. Staszek Lem (talk) 03:04, 27 September 2016 (UTC)

 * Maybe we need a "Gay political movements" article, with a "Derogatory terms" section, to cover Homosexual agenda, Homintern, Gay mafia, homosexual mafia, gay agenda, and anything else that comes up. Wikipedia has Jewish political movements and Black Power, for those groups. John Nagle (talk) 22:13, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
 * May be we need one, but these therms are actually conspiracy theories rather than derogatory terms for real movements. Staszek Lem (talk) 20:55, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Absolutely agree with you Staskzek Lem. These are terms used by anti-LGBT proponents to discredit the LGBT rights movement. They have no substance beyond that. Contaldo80 (talk) 08:12, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
 * oppose - this article has plenty of independent reliable sources referring to a gay mafia, but none of them seem to link it to the "homintern" idea. While I see in good faith how they seem related, it's OR and a merge isn't prudent. 70.190.34.29 (talk) 05:01, 5 May 2017 (UTC)
 * I fail to see how tyhis isd a valid objection to merge. If there are little sources for the term "homintern", then the text must be cleaned in accordance with WP:NOR/WP:RS. Staszek Lem (talk) 20:20, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

The two should stay separate, but the article on "Hominterm" needs to be rewritten. As it stands now, the article has things backwards. The term is meant as a smear against communism, by imperialists who were attempting to discredit communism by associating it with homosexuality (not the other way around). In reality, Marxist-Leninism held the line against homosexuality, from the Soviet Union to China to Albania... even to this day North Korea is still resisting it while America is, well, America. Claíomh Solais (talk) 21:50, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
 * The article says nothing about "the other way around". Still, it is quite possible you are right, because it seems that the definition in the first sentence was actually unreferenced (wrong ref). Staszek Lem (talk) 23:01, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
 * P.S. A rewrote the lede of "Homintern", to match the article. Staszek Lem (talk) 23:17, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Your arguments says nothing why not to merge. Both terms are homophobic concepts which basically say that gays act in concert subversively against "normal" society. Staszek Lem (talk) 23:24, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Completely agree. I'm strongly for merge. Incidentally Claíomh Solais can you stop using wikipedia for some personal political crusade. The Soviet Government of the Russian Soviet Republic decriminalised homosexuality in December 1917, following the October Revolution and the discarding of the Legal Code of Tzarist Russia which puts your silly remark about "Marxist-Leninism held the line against homosexuality" firmly to bed. Contaldo80 (talk) 07:40, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 *  It was not so simple with Marxism-Leninism. Eventually homosexuality was criminalized in the Soviet Union, see LGBT history in Russia. Unless you want to split hairs with Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism. Staszek Lem (talk) 17:03, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

 * Staszek, in regards to your earlier comment, I think the two are related but ultimately different concepts. The term gay mafia, like gay lobby or homosexual agenda are all just terms used in criticisms of homosexual political activism (or what advocates prefer to call "LGBT rights activism"). The "Homintern" idea is a specifically 1950s Americanism which falsely tried to tie communism to homosexuals, which is a non-existent phenomenon. Especially since, as you noted, homosexuality was a criminal offense in Marxist-Leninist societies and almost all homosexual activism is tied to bourgeois politics. Claíomh Solais (talk) 15:16, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
 * They are all related, gay mafia, gay lobby or homosexual agenda are all conspiracy theories no better than the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. They are not legitimate criticism of fundamental human rights for people that are LGBT, they simply represent a paranoid response based on unwarranted fears and ignorance. Contaldo80 (talk) 13:40, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Illuminati
A book about the illuminati controlling everything is not a credible source. Please don't reinstate it. Contaldo80 (talk) 08:55, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

Page protection
Someone is persistently posting spam on this article - probably pornographic. Can an administrator intervene please. Thanks. Contaldo80 (talk) 07:46, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * The offending IP is blocked. Not only this page was victim. Staszek Lem (talk) 17:05, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Thank you. Contaldo80 (talk) 13:37, 18 September 2017 (UTC)

Sorry--This belongs in the MERGE suggestion.

I think it should not be merged because W.H.Auden coined the term and he was and remains, needless to say, an important gay poet and thinker. This term is mentioned in a description of a book, Andre and Oscar, ..."The book also provides an often surprising insight into what W. H. Auden would much later call the Homintern - an international network of gay men and their young companions - as well as the moral hypocrisy of the 1890s.." This quote comes from a 1997 online article: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/just-wilde-about-the-boys-1263513.html This term reflects a period of history when sex involving underage youth was not completely rejected by the mainstream queer community. It is today as shown recently by the Kevin Spacey incident. I haven't read the book and don't know the ages of the network Auden describes, but the term is unique and shouldn't be buried in a different article. Lmlmss44 (talk) 01:07, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

"Homophobic slurs" category
So, folks who want to challenge what they see as a disproportionate LGBT influence within sections of society, are simply to be dismissed as having an unreasoned hatred for gay people, and ignored? That's clearly the implication here. Instantly shutting down conversation, sticking your fingers in your ears and yelling "homophobic", is twisting free speech into hate speech. There's a predictable answer to this comment, but since I've lived 19 of my 32 years as openly gay, you can save it. 113.29.230.217 (talk) 09:15, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
 * This isn't really a forum for general debate so suggest you be more specific with regards to the article. But as a general observation from me if you think that there are sections of society that see "disproportionate LGBT influence" then you've already bought into the gay mafia conspiracy. Contaldo80 (talk) 10:17, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Okay, so you've framed me as a conspiracy theorist, and my concerns as somehow off-topic (while restoring the "homophobic" stuff, of course). Clearly, discussion is not being allowed here. Will you offer an actual comment, besides trying to insult me and completely swerving the matter at hand? 113.29.230.215 (talk) 12:46, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
 * What was the matter at hand? You weren't particularly clear. Struck me that you just wanted to argue that gays (and jews?) are running the world? Contaldo80 (talk) 09:45, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
 * So you've now elected to make a passive-aggressive implication that I'm anti-Semitic. Classy. I clearly stated my problem with the "homophobic slurs" category, and I see that someone else removed it as well. The WP:OWNER has spoken, though. 113.29.230.217 (talk) 11:30, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Am I the owner? Gosh, there's a conspiracy everywhere! I'd pleased that even I've managed to find my way into the heart of one without knowing it. Contaldo80 (talk) 11:00, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
 * If you refuse to admit the possibility of homosexual influence being disproportionate,are you not basically validating the charge of conspiracy?12.144.5.2 (talk) 05:41, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
 * You're not making any sense. Stick to improving the article rather than banging away on your personal prejudices. Contaldo80 (talk) 12:54, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
 * One improves the article by deleting biased categorization as intrinsically a slur.If I need to explain further here...you are saying that any claim that there is "disproportionate LGBT influence" is conspiracy theory.This could only be true if there were no way "LGBT influence" could possibly be disproportionate,which is an expression of belief that "LGBT influence" should be as great as possible,which is essentially a statement that those alleging there to be persons determined to maximize that influence are entirely correct.12.144.5.2 (talk) 16:13, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
 * No, sorry. I still don't understand the point you are making. Contaldo80 (talk) 20:59, 9 October 2018 (UTC)

Brandmuller etc
I removed the quote attributed to Brandmuller and Burke as it doesn't actually reference the "Lavender Mafia". These two cardinals are particularly conservative figures who may be right or wrong about the scale and influence of gay men in the Catholic priesthood, but I would argue there is a whole article that deals with that issue and this material is better of there if anywhere. This article should deal with instances where the terms mafia etc are explicitly used otherwise it will turn into a broad piece about everything and nothing. Thanks. Contaldo80 (talk) 21:59, 19 December 2019 (UTC)

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Don Box

Don Box is a former Microsoft Technical Fellow.

Before joining Microsoft in 2002, Box was a contributing editor and columnist at Microsoft Systems Journal, which later became MSDN Magazine, and was one of the founders of DevelopMentor, a software training company; he left DevelopMentor to join Microsoft.

Box led the Xbox One platform development team from its inception through launch on November 22, 2013. Prior to that, Box led the development team that produced the Xbox SmartGlass platform (which was the basis for what is now known as Project Rome), worked on Brad Lovering's team working on model-driven runtime and tool support at Microsoft including "Oslo", and was an architect on Windows Communication Foundation (formerly known as "Indigo") and related technologies.

In 2017–2021, Box was Vice President of Engineering for Mixed Reality, where he led the engineering team that builds HoloLens, Windows Mixed Reality, Windows Hello, and other initiatives that live at the edge of the physical and digital worlds.

In 2014–2017, he led the Silicon, Graphics and Media development team in the Windows and Devices Group, and was responsible for driving silicon/hardware/software co-engineering across the Windows product line. Leading up to the launch of Windows 10, Box drove the initiative to converge Windows, Windows Phone, Xbox, and HoloLens onto a common set of components known as OneCore.

On March 31, 2021, Box announced that he would be leaving Microsoft in May.

On May 3, 2021, Box joined Meta as VP of Engineering, AR Glasses.

Along with Bob Atkinson, Mohsen Al-Ghosein, and Dave Winer, Box was one of the original four designers of SOAP, a basic messaging layer for web services. At 2001 TechEd Europe, Box performed a talk about XML and SOAP from a bathtub.

Box was a conspicuous figure in the Component Object Model (COM) community, where he coined the phrase "COM is love". He is also a series editor for Addison Wesley where he launched two successful series targeting the Microsoft developer audience.

Books

 * Essential .NET, Volume I: The Common Language Runtime, with Chris Sells
 * Essential COM
 * Essential XML: Beyond MarkUp
 * Effective COM: 50 Ways to Improve Your COM and MTS-based Applications, with Keith Brown, Tim Ewald and Chris Sells

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Santiago Cañizares

José Santiago Cañizares Ruiz (born 18 December 1969) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper, currently a rally driver.

A product of Real Madrid's youth academies, he eventually joined the first team but proved unable to establish himself there, being loaned out twice. He moved to Valencia in 1998, appearing in 418 official matches over the next decade and winning several major titles, including two La Liga championships and the 2004 UEFA Cup.

Cañizares represented Spain in three World Cups and as many European Championships, and won a gold medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics. In 2004, Peter Schmeichel said that he regarded him as the "finest goalkeeper in world football".

Club career
Born in Madrid but raised in Puertollano, Castile-La Mancha from where his parents hailed, Cañizares started his career with Real Madrid in 1988, playing initially with its C-team. He started professionally with Elche, Mérida and Celta, making his first La Liga appearance with the Galicians in the 1992–93 season, missing only two league games during his tenure and subsequently returning to Real Madrid.

Unable to cement a starting place, his best output being 26 matches during 1997–98 (but he lost his place in the final part of the year to Bodo Illgner, thus missing the 1998 Champions League final), Cañizares moved to Valencia in 1998 to replace the retired Andoni Zubizarreta. He helped the club to win the Spanish Cup and Supercup finals in 1999, also reaching consecutive UEFA Champions League finals (2000 and 2001, saving a penalty from Bayern Munich's Mehmet Scholl in normal time of an eventual penalty shootout defeat in the latter edition) and winning national championships in 2002 and 2004, adding the UEFA Cup and Supercup 2004 finals; following the latter campaign, the 34-year-old renewed his contract with the Che for a further two years.

In December 2007, Cañizares, alongside teammates Miguel Ángel Angulo and David Albelda, was axed by manager Ronald Koeman, with all three players limited to training and unable to join another side in Spain, having already played four league games. In late April 2008, however, with Koeman's sacking, all three were reinstated by new coach Voro in a squad seriously threatened with relegation, with five rounds remaining; he returned to action on 27 April 2008 as Timo Hildebrand and Juan Luis Mora were injured, in a 3–0 home win against Osasuna.

On 16 May 2008, Cañizares agreed to end his contract with Valencia and leave the club. He played his final game two days later against Atlético Madrid, retiring shortly after at almost 39 years of age and having appeared in exactly 500 league matches – both major levels combined – during exactly two decades.

International career
Cañizares was capped 46 times for Spain, the first on 17 November 1993: Zubizarreta was sent off in the tenth minute of a decisive 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Denmark, and he made his debut in heroic fashion, keeping a clean sheet in the 1–0 home win and ensuring qualification at the expense of the Danes themselves.

However, Cañizares was often second choice, and only played five games in the major international scene: one in the 1994 World Cup (as Zubi served a one-match ban), three in UEFA Euro 2000 and one in the 2006 World Cup. He was also a squad member at Euro 1996, the 1998 World Cup and Euro 2004 but did not play, blocked by Zubizarreta in the 1990s and Iker Casillas in 2004; he was equally an unused player in the gold winning squad at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, where Toni Jiménez appeared in all matches.

Cañizares' club form ensured himself starter status in the 2002 World Cup, but he missed out on the tournament due to an accident with an aftershave bottle, which resulted in a severed tendon in his foot. He was also in Spain's squad at the 2006 FIFA World Cup, making his only appearance in Germany and last in his international career in the last group match, a 1–0 victory over Saudi Arabia in Kaiserslautern.

Rallying career
In October 2010, Cañizares competed for the first time in a scoring event for the Spanish Rally Championship, driving a Suzuki Swift with co-driver Dani Cué in the Sierra Morena Rally. The following year, with the same car and the same partner, he was part of the Suzuki Ibérica Motor Sport team.

During a session in the 2016 Sierra Morena Rally, Cañizares crashed his vehicle after attempting to break coming into a bend. He eventually emerged unharmed from the accident.

On 17 June 2017, Cañizares earned his first victory by winning the Rally de la Cerámica with a Porsche 997. Later that year, he was crowned Valencian Community champion.

Post-retirement and personal life
After retiring, Cañizares worked as a commentator. He fathered seven children from his two marriages, including triplets with his second wife Mayte García.

On 23 March 2018, Cañizares announced the death of his five-year-old son Santi due to cancer. In 2019, he was subjected to controversy after making disapproving comments on the circumstances of José Antonio Reyes' death; following immediate social media backlash, he issued a more compassionate statement of clarification.

On 16 October 2020, it was reported that Cañizares' son Lucas would be included in the squad list of Real Madrid for a league match against Cádiz.

Honours
Real Madrid
 * La Liga: 1994–95, 1996–97
 * Supercopa de España: 1997
 * UEFA Champions League: 1997–98

Valencia
 * La Liga: 2001–02, 2003–04
 * Copa del Rey: 1998–99
 * Supercopa de España: 1999; runner-up 2002, 2004
 * UEFA Cup: 2003–04
 * UEFA Super Cup: 2004
 * UEFA Intertoto Cup: 1998
 * UEFA Champions League runner-up: 1999–2000, 2000–01

Spain U16
 * UEFA European Under-16 Championship: 1986

Spain U23
 * Summer Olympic Games: 1992

Individual
 * Ricardo Zamora Trophy: 1992–93 (shared), 2000–01, 2001–02, 2003–04
 * UEFA Team of the Year: 2001

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River Gwash

The River Gwash, occasionally Guash, a tributary of the River Welland, flows through the English counties of Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincolnshire. It rises just outside the village of Knossington in Leicestershire, near the western edge of Rutland. It is about 39 km long.

Course
The source of the river is just north-west of the village of Knossington, but the Gwash is formed of several small headwaters that come together near Braunston-in-Rutland before passing the site of Brooke Priory at and running westward to pass under the railway northwest of Manton.

The Gwash then helps to fill the Rutland Water reservoir which was formed by damming its valley at Empingham. From the reservoir a controlled flow is released to maintain the flow around Tolethorpe Hall, Ryhall and Stamford and into the River Welland. The flow is enhanced by the Gwash's tributary, the North Brook, at in Empingham, which significantly helps maintain riverlife.

East of Stamford, its course is now fixed, but it lies in a small flood plain which shows clear signs of the river's former meandering. The pasture fields include depressions that fill during wet seasons, forming oxbow lakes, though they are not of the classical shape. Near Stamford it is the parish boundary between Stamford and Uffington.

West of Stamford, the Gwash crossed the Stamford Canal, requiring some elaborate hydraulic works. Although the canal has been dry for over a century, the Borderville weir has only just been removed, and some meanders re-watered.

The river feeds the millpond at Newstead Mill in the parish of Uffington before entering the Welland at Newstead Bridge just east of Stamford. The confluence was restored in 2021 by the Welland Rivers Trust.

Wildlife
The river supports a wild variety of fish species, including grayling and trout. Chub and dace inhabit the lower length below Newstead bridge in Stamford.

Attempts have been made to re-introduce water voles in the area. There are also concerns about non-native signal crayfish becoming dominant in the river, and reports of a deliberate introduction. The river has formed part of pilot trials of means to control that population.

Etymology

The gw- opening is unknown in Old English but common in Brythonic languages such as modern Welsh. As such many words containing this element are borrowed into English, with the gw- becoming w-. The earliest recorded form of the name was "le Whasse" (c. 1230), with the modern spelling Gwash first recorded in 1586, with William Camden also using this spelling in his work Britannia, in the following century.

Most etymologists believe that the original name was Old English, with the word (ge)waesc (a washing, a flood) being suggested as a possible derivation.

In literature
Local poet John Clare wrote a sonnet about the Gwash, published in Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery (London, 1820):

 Where winding gash wirls round its wildest scene On this romantic bend I sit me down On that side view the meads their smoothing green Edg'd with the peeping hamlets checkering brown Here the steep hill as dripping headlong down While glides the stream a silver streak between As glides the shaded clouds along the sky Brightning & deep'ning loosing as they're seen In light & shade—so when old willows lean Thus their broad shadow—runs the river bye With tree & bush repleat a wilderd scene & mossd & Ivyd sparkling on my eye— O thus wild musing am I doubly blest My woes unheeding—& my heart at rest.

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