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User:Captain Freedom

User blocked as hard-banned User:JoeM. Meelar (talk) 21:02, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Talk:Pentatope number

Reason for move
Both the OEIS and Mathworld refer to this numbers as "pentatope" rather than "pentatopic." (Actually, the primary name given by the OEIS is "Binomial coefficients binomial(n,4)." PrimeFan 20:04, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

what?
after reading this article, i still have no idea what sort of geometric pattern produces this number sequence.--Jeiki Rebirth 18:49, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Have you looked at the picture? Does the picture make it clear or is it confusing? PrimeFan 00:06, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

 * The picture is entrancing but confusing, and doesn't really have a very helpful explanation. It seems to imply that four dimensions are needed to represent the relevant picture? Dranorter (talk) 23:18, 21 June 2009 (UTC)

Requested move

 * Polychoron means 4 dimensions; polytope means any number of dimensions. The article for the figure itself is at Pentachoron, not "Pentatope", so the article for a kind of number based on it should be titled similarly. Georgia guy (talk) 16:56, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

 * Unsure. It's an inherently technical article, so perhaps such naming considerations are appropriate. But is there any evidence that this more precise terminology is widespread among those who use the term? I'm tending to the weakest possible oppose on the grounds that a case hasn't yet been made. Andrewa (talk) 20:12, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

 * Weak oppose, too. It seems that many people use "pentatope" synonymously with "pentachoron" (e.g. mathworld, and the wikipedia page). Also, Google returns NO hits for "pentachoron number" (versus ~1000 for pentatope number). 87.114.147.211 (talk) 20:28, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

 * Another weak oppose. An OEIS search for "pentatope" gives 20 results, while "pentachoron" just one. But the cited OEIS sequence calls these numbers "Binomial coefficients binomial(n,4)," not "pentatope" nor "pentachoron," though these words do come up in Michael J. Welch's comment to the sequence. PrimeFan (talk) 23:21, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

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Al-Fadl ibn Naubakht

Al-Fazl or Al-Fadl ibn Naubakht, (also written Nowbakht), was an 8th century Persian scholar.

Life
Al-Fadl ibn Naubakht was the son of Naubakht, a former Zoroastrian, who had designed the House of Wisdom. He was appointed as a scholar at the court of caliph Harun al-Rashid.

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Talk:Wu-Tang Clan

Main Photo
Can we please get a new main photo up? All of these low quality photos that were taken live look like crap. The Wu deserves a better main photo.

Hip Hop Honors
I was doing a small touch up (the biggie section was written as if someone were simply describing the detials..in a terrible way i.e. biggies takes this line and says...) I reworded the first line in the hip hop honors part, but am not going to attempt the rest of that section. It appears as this.. While initial reports stated that theNick Brown was along for the ride and got busted for coke posessions group had issues with VH1's security staff .... Is Nick brown the former associate who is sueing them? Should it be 'While initial repots stated that THE GROUP had issues with vh1's security. (is that relevant?)

A Section titled Beef?
That must be why the article needs cleanup.. "Beef" for describing a situation with the cops seems a bit slang. Section needs re-naming. FPS_Tony 6:21 EST, March 3, 2007

That makes no sense but whatever, it's been changed to Controversy. LilWyte 10:28, March 30, 2007

Wu-Tang Mountain
I changed the origin of the word Wu Tang in the main article. The original mentioning of the state Wu is incorrect: the characters are different. Wu in Wu-Tang means martial, the same character in Wushu. Wu-Tang is the Northern God in Taoism who was (according to Taoist text) once a prince in northern Hebei during the reign of the Yellow Emperor. The British Museum has a collection of his statues in their Asian Collections.

- Karolus 2006/11/10

Albums template
I'm not sure that the gallery of album covers should be a template. This is the only article that uses it. Tim Ivorson 2006-07-08

I have citation for influences section, dont know how to add
in the Influence section, i have a citation for kanye west being influenced by RZA, which is needed in the last sentence. it is this url - http://www.gale.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/west_k.htm. i found it on Kanye West References, it is number 3.

im a newbie still learning this site, hope it helps 8/23/06 edit-looks like its been done, thanks

d-struktiv
this guy is not a wu-tang member. he is a wu-affiliate. cappadonna is not even on the clan chapter of the wiki (which is correct). im changing it

bizzle?
What, first D-Struktiv and then Bizzle? New Wu-Tang members don't done grow on trees. I'm changing it and don't ya'll be adding some false alarms.

Discography
There are two pages for Wu-related albums, Wu-tang albums and the regular discography. They both have their pros and cons so they should be merged

wrong tense
the following paragraph is written in the wrong tense and needs to be changed

Shortly before the release of The W, ODB escapes custody while being transported from a rehab centre to an L.A. court and is considered a fugitive. At a record release party for The W, ODB, his face hidden by an orange parka, isn't recognised until he's introduced to the crowd. With police officers present outside, ODB performs briefly and then flees, fearing capture. Six days later ODB causes a commotion signing autographs in a McDonalds in South Philadelphia. Unaware of who is causing the ruckus, the manager calls the police. When the cops arrive, ODB mistakes them for fans until they draw their guns. ODB flees the restaurant but is stopped while trying to start his vehicle. After presenting a fake ID, he admits who he really is and is arrested. [9]

Documentary
"Wu-Tang_Clan:_Of_Mics_and_Men" is not listed, and it already has its own page

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User talk:Dharris

Thank you
Thank you for the comment '"deceased as of December 24, 2009". Is that likely to change?' I really enjoyed that. Ground Zero | t 19:07, 10 August 2010 (UTC) [Ed: this comment refers to this edit]

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Kolab

Kolab is a free and open source groupware suite. It consists of the Kolab server and a wide variety of Kolab clients, including KDE PIM-Suite Kontact, Roundcube web frontend, Mozilla Thunderbird and Mozilla Lightning with SyncKolab extension and Microsoft Outlook with proprietary Kolab-Connector PlugIns.

Basic Concepts
Kolab uses IMAP as an underlying protocol for email, contact, and calendar entries. These entries are saved in IMAP folders in Kolab XML format, and the IMAP server controls storage and access rights. Configuration and maintenance of Kolab is done by LDAP.

Kolab Clients and the Kolab server use well established protocols and formats for their work (i.e. IMAP as mentioned above, vCard, iCal, XML and LDAP). This allows the Kolab Format specification framework, or even portions of it, to be utilized as an open set of specifications for groupware clients and servers to communicate with each other. Third party implementations began almost immediately; for example, the Citadel groupware server began supporting version 1 of the Kolab Format specification in March 2004.

The concepts on which Kolab relies are laid out in the Kolab Format Specification and Architecture Paper for Kolab 2, and for Kolab 1 in the Kroupware Contract, Architecture Paper and Technical Description.

Main features

 * Full seamless support of mixed clients environments (Outlook, KDE, Web etc.)
 * Full server side support for ActiveSync and CalDAV, CardDAV and WebDAV
 * Support for Email, Calendar, Address Books, Tasks and File-Cloud
 * Support for KDE with Kontact
 * Support for Microsoft Outlook with proprietary connector PlugIns
 * A web administration interface
 * Configuration data is kept in a LDAP directory
 * A global LDAP addressbook for contacts
 * IMAP4rev1 as well as POP3 access to mail
 * Full support for client-side PGP and S/MIME email encryption (officially Sphinx-interoperable)
 * Full support for shared calendars with IMAP ACLs
 * Full support for shared contacts with IMAP ACLs
 * Fully offline capable using KDE Kontact or Microsoft Outlook
 * Support for server side resource management (e.g. rooms, cars)
 * Full support for freebusy handling

Kolab 3.x clients

 * Roundcube is the default web client delivered with Kolab 3.0;
 * KDE Kontact, starting with version 4.10, and Kontact-Touch (K Desktop Environment, Free Software);
 * SyncKolab, starting with version 3.0.0, is a Mozilla Thunderbird/SeaMonkey and Lightning extension (Free Software);
 * Kolab Desktop Client is a stabilized and professionally supported version of KDE Kontact.

Kolab 2.x clients

 * KDE Kontact and Kontact-Touch (K Desktop Environment, Free Software)
 * Horde (integrated in Kolab since v2.2.1), a web-frontend for utilising web-browsers as Kolab-clients (Free Software)
 * SyncKolab, a Mozilla Thunderbird / SeaMonkey and Lightning extension (Free Software)
 * evolution-kolab (integrated in GNOME / Evolution since v3.4, see, ) extends GNOME's Evolution and EDS (Evolution-Data-Server) to be a full-featured Kolab-client (Free Software)
 * Kolab's integrated Horde also provides a SyncML interface, over which SyncML-capable mobile phones can synchronise PIM-data on a Kolab-server (Free Software)
 * Z-Push (integrated in Kolab since v2.3.0) enables ActiveSync-capable clients to access their server mailboxes and to use Kolab-provided PIM-functionality (Free Software)
 * Kolab-WS extends Kolab to provide Kolab-functionality as a web-service; Kolab-WS was originally part of Syncphony, which utilises Kolab-WS since their split (Free Software)
 * Syncphony (initially "kolab-sync") connects Kolab-WS with a Funambol sync-server, thus enabling devices supported by Funambol to synchronise their PIM-Data with a Kolab server (Free Software)
 * kolab-android synchronises Android's addressbook and calendar to IMAP-folders in the Kolab2 format (Free Software)
 * Toltec Connector (Microsoft Outlook Connector, Proprietary Software)
 * KONSEC Konnektor (Microsoft Outlook MAPI Storage Provider, Proprietary Software)
 * Bynari Outlook Connector (Microsoft Outlook MAPI Provider, Proprietary Software)
 * Aethera, a client solely for the Kolab 1 format, available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X (Free Software)
 * Roundcube is the default Webclient in the Kolab 2.4 release

History
2013:
 * Kolab 3.0 was released, featuring the improved Kolab 3 format based on xCard and xCal, the Roundcube web-client, a new ActiveSync component called Syncroton and other new properties.
 * Kolab Now hosted solution was launched. It lets customers create individual accounts or managed domain accounts, with the possibility to move data to a self-hosted Kolab 3 installation any time. The service is operated by Kolab Systems in Switzerland.

2012:
 * evolution-kolab had its first release as part of the GNOME initiative in Evolution 3.4.
 * SyncKolab was massively overhauled and released as version 2.0 for Thunderbird / SeaMonkey (optionally with Lightning for calendaring and tasks).
 * evolution-kolab was vastly enhanced and had its second release as part of the GNOME initiative in Evolution 3.6.
 * SyncKolab 3.0 was largely rewritten, yielding speed and feature improvements, and now supports the Kolab 3 format.

2011:
 * Kolab 2.3.0 was released, containing many updated core components and other improvements, the new Z-push synchronization for clients using ActiveSync (in addition to the already existing SyncML support) and an overhauled web-based administration front-end.
 * Kolab 2.3.1 was released shortly thereafter, as a bugfix release.
 * Kolab 2.3.2 was released as a regular maintenance release of the Kolab 2.3 branch, with updated Postfix and Z-push components.
 * Kontact 2 was released next to KDE SC 4.6.4, with many improvements related to Kolab.
 * evolution-kolab was released, which extends GNOME's Evolution and EDS (Evolution Data Server) to become a full-featured Kolab client.
 * Kolab 2.3.3 was released, providing a lot of bugfixes for the Horde components and many updated base components (Apache, Cyrus IMAP, OpenLDAP, OpenSSL and PHP).
 * Kolab 2.3.4 was released as a bugfix release.
 * Kolab-WS was split out of Syncphony as a standalone web service, providing Kolab functionality. Hence Syncphony solely becomes a Funambol connector.

2010:
 * KolabiPhone, a Kolab sync connector for the iPhone, had its first pre-alpha release.
 * Two new Free Software Kolab sync connectors for Android and Outlook were announced and their first alpha releases published.
 * Syncphony was released, which extends Kolab with a Funambol connector and offers Kolab functionality as a web service.
 * SyncKolab 1.5 for Thunderbird 3 / SeaMonkey 2 (optionally with Lightning 1.0 beta for calendaring and tasks) was released.
 * Kolab 2.2.4 was released as a maintenance release of the Kolab 2.2 branch.
 * Kontact Touch was released, offering full Kolab functionality on mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets.

2009:
 * Kolab 2.2.1 was released, as an enhancement and maintenance release, integrating an updated web client (Horde) and preliminary SyncML support.
 * Kolab 2.2.2 was released, as a maintenance release of the Kolab 2.2 branch.
 * Kolab 2.2.3 was released, further enhancing functionality, stability and scalability of the Kolab 2.2 branch.

2008:
 * SyncKolab 1.0 for Thunderbird 1.5 and 2.0 as well as SeaMonkey 1.0 and 1.1 (optionally with Lightning 0.9 for calendaring and tasks) was released.
 * Kolab 2.2 was released, with full support of multiple mail domains, integrated Horde web front-end, updated base packages (OpenPKG, OpenLDAP, Cyrus IMAP, Postfix, Perl, Apache, PHP, etc.), easier integration in operating system distributions, and many other new features.

2007:
 * Kolab 2.1 was released.
 * A third Outlook connector was released.

2006:
 * Kolab 2.1 was designed with many significant enhancements over 2.0.

2005:
 * KolabSyncML ("Sync4j Kolab Connector / SyncSource"), a Kolab Java interface and Funambol connector, had its first alpha release.
 * Kolab 2.0 was released.
 * A second Outlook connector appeared on the market.
 * The SyncKolab project started developing a Mozilla Thunderbird / SeaMonkey and Lightning connector.

2004:
 * Aethera became a Kolab 1 groupware client.
 * Citadel/UX learned how to mimic a Kolab 1 groupware server.
 * Kolab 2 was designed as a general overhaul and implemented utilizing the versatile and extensible Kolab Open Format to store groupware data.
 * The Kroupware Client matured to KDE Kontact.

2003:
 * KMail and the KDE PIM software were enhanced, creating the Kroupware Client.
 * Kolab 1.0 was released.
 * The first Outlook connector was developed.

2002:
 * Kolab 1 / Kroupware was designed utilizing iCal and vCard formats to store calendar entries, contacts, notes, tasks etc. in Kolab's IMAP directories.

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text: User:Draktorn

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text: Category:Lusitanian mythology

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text: User talk:84.66.141.43

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Talk:Humbert Humbert

I fail to understand why Humbert Humbert qualifies as an unreliable narrator? --Oldak Quill 20:09, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * How about the fact that HH admits himself that he is half-inventing what he narrates? And freely confesses that his account is tendentious, in that it is meant to excuse, if not the rape of Lo, then the murder of her abductor? Lolita is all about the unreliability of memory/narration. If HH doesn't provide an instance of unreliable narration, then the term is meaningless. 68.110.199.122 17:18, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

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Category talk:Maya mythology

if someone can find information also about the "Aluxe" (spelled Ah-loo-cheh) a mayan white gnome-like creatures which were supposed to be guardians of the temples, a Mexican luchador called Aluxe fight disguised like one but that's all the information I have.

 * See the article alux.--cjllw ʘ  TALK 05:38, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

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Micropolis Corporation

Micropolis Corporation (styled as MICROPΩLIS) was a disk drive company located in Chatsworth, California and founded in 1976. Micropolis initially manufactured high capacity (for the time) hard-sectored 5.25-inch floppy drives and controllers, later manufacturing hard drives using SCSI and ESDI interfaces.

History
Micropolis's first advance was to take the existing 48 tpi (tracks per inch) standard created by Shugart Associates, and double both the track density and track recording density to get four times the total storage on a 5.25-inch floppy in the "MetaFloppy" series with quad density (Drives :1054, :1053, and :1043) around 1980. Micropolis pioneered 100 tpi density because of the attraction of an exact 100 tracks to the inch. "Micropolis-compatible" 5.25-inch 77-track diskette drives were also manufactured by Tandon (TM100-3M and TM100-4M). Such drives were used in a number of computers like in a Vector Graphic S-100 bus computer, the Durango F-85 and in a few Commodore disk drives (8050, 8250, 8250LP and SFD-1001).

Micropolis later switched to 96 tpi when Shugart went to the 96 tpi standard, based on exact doubling of the 48 tpi standard. This allowed for backwards compatibility for reading by double stepping to read 48 tpi disks.

Micropolis entered the hard disk business with an 8-inch hard drive, following Seagate's lead (Seagate was the next company Alan Shugart founded after Shugart Associates was sold). They later followed with a 5.25-inch hard drive. Micropolis started to manufacture drives in Singapore in 1986. Manufacturing of 3.5-inch hard disks started in 1991.

Micropolis was one of the many hard drive manufacturers in the 1980s and 1990s that went out of business, merged, or closed their hard drive divisions; as a result of capacities and demand for products increased, and profits became hard to find. While Micropolis was able to hold on longer than many of the others, it ultimately sold its hard drive business to Singapore Technology (ST) in 1996, a subsidiary of Temasek Holdings), who has ceased to market the brand in 1998.

After the disk business sale, Micropolis was reorganized as StreamLogic Corporation, which declared bankruptcy in 1997 amid securities fraud allegations. StreamLogic's RAIDION line of storage subsystems survive, marketed by the RAIDION Systems division of Peripheral Technology Group. Its VIDEON video on demand technology was sold to Sumitomo Corporation.

Emerging from the StreamLogic reorganization was yet another company named Hammer Storage Solutions, which was formed from the purchase of the hardware division of FWB, a small Macintosh storage vendor. Its assets were sold in 2000 to Bell Microproducts.

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Talk:Bridget Dowling

Untitled
Here is the page:
 * I believe this page is copying Wikipedia without crediting us, rather than the other way around. I've removed the copvio notice.--Duk 17:27, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Apparently the above page no longer exists. --Bill W. Smith, Jr. 17:48, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Wondering if I am related
I am a 4th great-grandson of Bridget Josephine Dowling, sister of Richard William Dowling, of Tuam Co. Ireland. Given that Richard's middle name is William, the same as Bridget Dowling Hitler's father, I am wondering if I might actually be related to her. However, Dowling, or O'Dowling, is not that uncommon a name in Tuam Co. --Bill W. Smith, Jr. 17:48, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I am presuming you are talking about Tuam, Galway. A few things about Irish genealogy if you are new to this. Dowling is a relatively common surname, as are the forenames you mention. The Brigid Dowling was supposedly from Dublin, Kilnamanagh. People did not move around so much, as they do today. Irish genealogical records are poor, lack of censuses, and poor parish records (especially in the West of Ireland) all probably add up to two things. i) It's unlikely you are related. ii) even if you are, it would be virtually impossible to prove. Sorry to be a bit negative, but from bitter experience I know how hard Irish family trees are, and beware of handing over money, especially to internet sites. Even the Kennedy's with all their money couldn't get back beyond 1820. A couple of links that may help

If you're really interested in pursuing this, obtain her birth cert from Dublin. Then her parent's marriage cert, and take it from there. These should be relatively inexpensive to obtain. Good Luck! RodCrosby (talk) 21:33, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Mike Royden
 * Dowling Family site
 * Irish Times genealogy portal

People from Liverpool:Category
I was unsure on this category while I am in favour of promoting links with Liverpool for 'people' I was doubtful Bridget Dowling would be allowable as person was neither born nor raised in Liverpool. However I wish not to pursue a debate but to highlight this if others wish to debate the category relevance. Dmcm2008 (talk) 20:44, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
 * We also know that Adolf wanted to dodge conscription, and that he legged it to Liverpool....sort of. --83.108.28.69 (talk) 00:21, 23 June 2011 (UTC)

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William Stevenson - unreliable source?
A man called Intrepid by William Stevenson is cited in the article as evidence that Adolf Hitler visited Liverpool. However, in the article on his namesake William Stephenson, the main subject of the book, the book's accuracy is disputed. Is this the only other source for this (apart from Bridget's writing)? Autarch (talk) 00:59, 29 May 2024 (UTC)

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Talk:Mumbai cricket team

MCA is located in the Wankhade stadium. CCI at Brabourne is something like a private club and is distinct from MCA. Tintin1107, April 14, 2005

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Russell Braun

Russell Braun (born 19 July 1965) is a Canadian operatic lyric baritone and Juno Award winner.

Much sought-after as a soloist and for opera roles, Russell Braun performs regularly at the Metropolitan Opera, the Salzburg Festival, the Lyric Opera of Chicago, l'Opéra de Paris, the San Diego Opera, the San Francisco Opera and the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto.

Braun is a graduate of the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto, and lives in Toronto.

He is the son of famous Canadian baritone Victor Braun. He is married to pianist Carolyn Maule, with whom he performs regularly.

In 2016, he was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada.

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System Management BIOS

In computing, the System Management BIOS (SMBIOS) specification defines data structures (and access methods) that can be used to read management information produced by the BIOS of a computer. This eliminates the need for the operating system to probe hardware directly to discover what devices are present in the computer. The SMBIOS specification is produced by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF), a non-profit standards development organization. The DMTF estimates that two billion client and server systems implement SMBIOS.

SMBIOS was originally known as Desktop Management BIOS (DMIBIOS), since it interacted with the Desktop Management Interface (DMI).

The DMTF released the version 3.7.1 of the specification on May 24, 2024.

History
Version 1 of the Desktop Management BIOS (DMIBIOS) specification was produced by Phoenix Technologies in or before 1996.

Version 2.0 of the Desktop Management BIOS specification was released on March 6, 1996 by American Megatrends (AMI), Award Software, Dell, Intel, Phoenix Technologies, and SystemSoft Corporation. It introduced 16-bit plug-and-play functions used to access the structures from Windows 95.

The last version to be published directly by vendors was 2.3 on August 12, 1998. The authors were American Megatrends, Award Software, Compaq, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Intel, International Business Machines (IBM), Phoenix Technologies, and SystemSoft Corporation.

Circa 1999, the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) took ownership of the specification. The first version published by the DMTF was 2.3.1 on March 16, 1999. At approximately the same time Microsoft started to require that OEMs and BIOS vendors support the interface/data-set in order to have Microsoft certification.

Version 3.0.0, introduced in February 2015, added a 64-bit entry point, which can coexist with the previously defined 32-bit entry point.

Version 3.4.0 was released in August 2020.

Version 3.5.0 was released in September 2021.

Version 3.6.0 was released in June 2022.

Version 3.7.0 was released in July 2023.

Contents
The SMBIOS table consists of an entry point (two types are defined, 32-bit and 64-bit), and a variable number of structures that describe platform components and features. These structures are occasionally referred to as "tables" or "records" in third-party documentation.

Structure types
As of version 3.3.0, the SMBIOS specification defines the following structure types:

Accessing SMBIOS data
The EFI configuration table (EFI_CONFIGURATION_TABLE) contains entries pointing to the SMBIOS 2 and/or SMBIOS 3 tables. There are several ways to access the data, depending on the platform and operating system.

From UEFI
In the UEFI Shell, the SmbiosView command can retrieve and display the SMBIOS data. One can often enter the UEFI shell by entering the system firmware settings, and then selecting the shell as a boot option (as opposed to a DVD drive or hard drive).

From Unix
For Linux, FreeBSD, etc., the dmidecode utility can be used.

From Windows
Microsoft specifies WMI as the preferred mechanism for accessing SMBIOS information from Microsoft Windows.

On Windows systems that support it (XP and later), some SMBIOS information can be viewed with either the WMIC utility with 'BIOS'/'MEMORYCHIP'/'BASEBOARD' and similar parameters, or by looking in the Windows Registry under HKLM\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System.

Various software utilities can retrieve raw SMBIOS data, including FirmwareTablesView and AIDA64.

Generating SMBIOS data
Table and structure creation is normally up to the system firmware/BIOS. The UEFI Platform Initialization (PI) specification includes an SMBIOS protocol (EFI_SMBIOS_PROTOCOL) that allows components to submit SMBIOS structures for inclusion, and enables the producer to create the SMBIOS table for a platform.

Platform virtualization software can also generate SMBIOS tables for use inside VMs, for instance QEMU.

If the SMBIOS data is not generated and filled correctly then the machine may behave unexpectedly. For example, a Mini PC that advertises Chassis Information | Type = Tablet may behave unexpectedly using Linux. A desktop manager like GNOME will attempt to monitor a non-existent battery and shut down the screen and network interfaces when the missing battery drops below a threshold. Additionally, if the Chassis Information | Manufacturer is not filled in correctly then work-arounds for the incorrect Type = Tablet problem cannot be applied.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Francus

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete (pending; block-compress error). Mindspillage (spill yours?) 16:46, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Francus
Delete. - according to The History of the Franks, by Gregory of Tours (Georgius Florentius) which is the oldest work which talks about the subject so far as I know: "The first King of the Franks was Clodio (Chlogio) [He was married to Basina De Thuringia, born 398 A.D., whose father was Wedelphus, King of Thuringians." Which leaves "Franco" out on a limb with no history, so to speak. Also, look at the wikipedia list of kings: List of Frankish Kings --KillerChihuahua 20:14, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I can't believe this has been here this long. Unless it's validated, delete.  RickK 22:25, Apr 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.

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John Nicholson

John Nicholson may refer to:

In politics

 * John Nicholson (Yarmouth MP), Member of Parliament for Great Yarmouth 1698–1700, 1702–08
 * John Nicholson (New York politician) (1765–1820), United States Representative from New York
 * John A. Nicholson (1827–1906), United States Representative from Delaware
 * John Nicholson (New South Wales politician) (1840–1919), New South Wales politician
 * John Robert Nicholson (1901–1983), Canadian former Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia
 * John Sanctuary Nicholson (1863–1924), British politician and soldier
 * John Nicholson (Western Australian politician) (1867–1941), Western Australian politician

In sports

 * John Nicholson (footballer, born 1936) (1936–1966), English footballer
 * John Nicholson (Scottish footballer) (1888–1970), Scottish footballer
 * John Nicholson (racing driver) (1941–2017), New Zealand racing driver
 * John Nicholson (football secretary) (1864–1932), 'manager' of Sheffield United F.C.
 * John Nicholson (athlete) (1889–1940), American track and field athlete
 * John Nicholson (cyclist) (born 1949), cyclist from Australia
 * John Nicholson (Cambridge University cricketer) (1822–1861), English cricketer, played for Cambridge University in 1845
 * John Nicholson (Northamptonshire cricketer) (1903–1950), English cricketer, played for Northamptonshire
 * Jack Nicholson (footballer) (1892–1967), former Australian rules footballer

In military

 * John Nicholson (East India Company officer) (1821–1857), Irish-born military figure known as the "Hero of Delhi"
 * John Nicholson (naval officer) (1756–1844), Continental Navy officer during the American Revolution
 * John W. Nicholson (born c. 1934), retired U.S. Army general
 * John W. Nicholson Jr. (born 1957), U.S. Army general

In other fields

 * John Nicholson (poet) (1790–1843), 'The Airedale Poet'
 * John Nicholson (orientalist) (1809–1886), English independent scholar
 * John Henry Nicholson (1838–1923), Australian writer
 * John William Nicholson (1881–1955), English mathematician
 * Sir John Rumney Nicholson (1866–1939), British engineer
 * John Nicholson (author), Australian children's author
 * John Nicholson, engine driver and contributor to the invention of the compound steam locomotive
 * Jack Nicholson (John Nicholson, born 1937), American actor
 * John Lambert (martyr) (John Nicholson, died 1538), English Protestant martyr
 * John Nicholson (priest) (1908–1983), Archdeacon of Doncaster from 1955 to 1959
 * John Beauchamp Nicholson (1852–?), architect in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
 * John H. Nicholson (1889–1972), vice-chancellor of the University of Hull
 * Sir John Nicholson, 2nd Baronet (1911–1993), Lord Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight
 * John Gambril Nicholson (1866–1931), English schoolteacher, poet, and amateur photographer

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Jules Laforgue

Jules Laforgue (16 August 1860 – 20 August 1887) was a Franco-Uruguayan poet, often referred to as a Symbolist poet. Critics and commentators have also pointed to Impressionism as a direct influence and his poetry has been called "part-symbolist, part-impressionist". Laforgue was a model for Pierre-Auguste Renoir, including for Renoir's 1881 painting Luncheon of the Boating Party.

Life
His parents, Charles-Benoît Laforgue and Pauline Lacollay, met in Uruguay where his father worked first as a teacher and then a bank employee. Jules was the second of eleven children in the family, the eldest child being Jules' brother Émile, who was to become a sculptor of note. In 1866 the family moved back to France, to Tarbes, his father's hometown, but in 1867 Jules' father and mother chose to return to Uruguay, taking along their nine younger children, leaving Jules and his older brother Émile in Tarbes to be raised with a cousin's family.

In 1876 Jules's father took the family to Paris. In 1877 his mother died of pneumonia, three months after a miscarriage, and Jules, never a good student, failed his baccalaureate exams. (His classmate Henri Bergson passed, and went on to great intellectual achievement as a philosopher.) He failed again in 1878, and then a third time, but on his own began to read the great French authors and visit the museums of Paris.

In 1879 his father became sick and returned to Tarbes, but Jules stayed behind in Paris. He published his first poem in Toulouse. By the end of the year, he had published several poems and was noticed by well-known authors. In 1880 he moved in the literary circles of the capital and became a protégé of Paul Bourget, the editor of the review La Vie moderne.

Much happened to Laforgue in 1881: he attended a course of Taine's lectures and developed a great interest in painting and art. Charles Ephrussi, a rich collector, one of the first collectors of Impressionist art, took Laforgue on as his secretary. The direct influence of Impressionism on Laforgue's early development as a poet is a topic in Laforgue studies. In his introduction to his edition of Les Complaintes, Michael Collie, author of a biography of Laforgue (Laforgue (1963)), states that he sees a more or less conscious attempt on Laforgue's part to produce a literary equivalent of Impressionism. In 1881 Laforgue wrote a novel, Stephane Vassiliew and prepared a collection of poems titled The Tears of the Earth, which he later abandoned, though some pieces were altered for Les Complaintes. Also in 1881 his sister left him alone in Paris to tend to their father who was seriously ill in Tarbes. Around that time, he also began to frequent Le Chat Noir and adopted the style of fumisterie (smoke screening). The origins of this can be found in Willette's panel cartoon, launched in the Parisian cabaret, which centered on a clown called "Pierrot fumiste" and exerted significant influence on Laforgue. When his father died, Laforgue did not attend the funeral.

From November 1881 until 1886, he lived in Berlin, working as the French reader for the Empress Augusta, a sort of cultural counselor. He was well paid and could pursue his interests very freely. In 1885, he wrote L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune, widely regarded as his masterpiece.

In 1886, he returned to France and married Leah Lee, an Englishwoman. That year, his poetry was published in La Vogue alongside the work of Arthur Rimbaud. His poem "L'Hiver Qui Vient" ("The Coming Winter") was one of these poems, which he believed set the tone for his work to come. While he was able to publish some experimental writings there, his most creative and original work, at least as he saw it, was not published during his lifetime. He died the next year of tuberculosis, four days after his 27th birthday, his wife following him shortly thereafter. When he died, he left an unfinished book of free verse, Des Fleurs de Bonne Volonté, and an unfinished final essay for his series, Moral Tales.

Influenced by Walt Whitman, Laforgue was one of the first French poets to write in free verse. In fact, his translations of Whitman's poetry, which were published by La Vogue, are believed to have influenced Laforgue's compatriot Gustave Kahn. Philosophically, he was pessimist and an ardent disciple of Schopenhauer and Von Hartmann. His poetry would be one of the major influences on Ezra Pound and the young T. S. Eliot (cf. Prufrock and other observations). Louis Untermeyer wrote, "Prufrock, published in 1917, was immediately hailed as a new manner in English literature and belittled as an echo of Laforgue and the French symbolists to whom Eliot was indebted."

Works

 * Soir de Carnaval (ca. 1880)
 * Stéphane Vassiliew (1881, not published until 1943)
 * Les Complaintes (1885)
 * L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune (1886)
 * Moralités légendaires (1887)
 * Des Fleurs de bonne volonté (1890)
 * Derniers vers (1890)
 * Berlin, la cour et la ville (1922)
 * Triste triste (1967)
 * Some Poems of Jules Laforgue With Images by Patrick Caulfield (London: Petersburg Press, 1973).

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Francesco Rutelli

Francesco Rutelli (born 14 June 1954) is an Italian journalist and former politician, who is the president of ANICA National Association of Film and Audiovisual Industry, since October 2016 and re-elected for the 2020–2022 term, plus ANICA Servizi. He's the legal representative of MIA (Italian Audiovisual Market). He also chairs the "Centro per un Futuro Sostenibile" (Centre for a Sustainable Future – a bipartisan think tank on climate change and environmental issues). He was during 15 years co-president of the European Democratic Party, a centrist European political party. He has been Mayor of Rome 1994–2001, and president of the centrist party Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy 2002–2007. He was the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Culture and Tourism in the second cabinet of Prime Minister Romano Prodi 2006–2008. Currently he also chairs Incontro di Civiltà (Civilizations Meeting); Videocittà, Moving Images Festival (Rome, 2018–2019); Priorità Cultura (Culture First) that gathers outstanding Italian personalities, engaged on Heritage conservation and promotion, contemporary arts, public-private partnership in the many fields of Culture.

Biography
Born in Rome, he entered politics joining the Radical Party, for which he was then elected secretary in 1980, aged 26. With the Radicals, Rutelli championed humanitarian and libertarian policies such as unilateral disarmament, abolition of nuclear power plants, conscientious objection to the compulsory national service, eradication of world hunger, decriminalisation of the use of cannabis. At those times the political action of the Italian Radicals was self-defined as inspired by the Gandhian non-violent movement.

First elected as deputy in 1983, confirming his office in 1987 and 1992, he then joined the Federation of the Greens in the late 1980s, becoming one of the party's leading figures, and developing new environmental campaigns.

He was then chosen as Ministry of Environment and Urban Areas in 1993, although he resigned after one day in the post. That same year, he was first elected Mayor of Rome as centre-left coalition candidate, defeating centre-right candidate Gianfranco Fini. Being reelected in 1997, with 985.000 popular votes, the highest in the history of the City, Rutelli held the position until 2001.

He also served as a Member of European Parliament from 1999 to 2004. There he's been committed to promote initiatives for the abolition of death penalty, freedom of information improvement and against corruption. From the mid-1990s onwards his views appeared increasingly moderate.

Rutelli was defeated by Silvio Berlusconi in the 2001 general election as Prime Minister candidate for the centre-left Olive Tree coalition, gathering 16.4 million votes, against 16.9 million of the right wing coalition. He was also one of the founders of the Democrats, which became part of Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy. Rutelli led the party until it merged into the Democratic Party on 14 October 2007.

Francesco Rutelli's role in the Daisy – a party with strong ties with Italian Christian heritage – is considered by his opponents a singular upshot after a fairly erratic journey within Italian progressive politics, mainly because of his past social-libertarian and green experiences.

In 2006 he was named Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Culture in the cabinet of Romano Prodi during Prodi's second term as Italian Prime Minister.

In February 2008 he announced his intention to run again as mayor of Rome leading a local centre-left coalition, but lost the local elections on 28 April 2008 against centre-right Gianni Alemanno.

In October 2009 he announced his intention to leave the Democratic Party. After leaving the Democratic Party, he co-founded the Alliance for Italy (ApI), a centrist, liberal party which ran joint lists with the Union of the Centre (UdC) in most regions in the regional elections of March 2010. In December 2010, the ApI became a founding member of the new centrist formation New Pole for Italy, and Rutelli became one of the new group's main leaders, along with UdC leader Pier Ferdinando Casini and Gianfranco Fini, the leader of the Future and Freedom party and former leader of the post-fascist Italian Social Movement and the national-conservative National Alliance, until 2012.

He has been again elected to the Camera dei Deputati in 2001 and 2006, and to the Senate in 2008, when he became the Chairman of COPASIR (Parliamentary Committee of Overview on Intelligence), where he drafted and published reports on human trafficking as a strategic threat, and the first Report to the Parliament and the Government on Cyberspace and its implications for national security.

International
Rutelli founded the European Democratic Party, together with the French political leader François Bayrou. He was unanimously voted co-president of the party (2004-2019). The members of the EDP in the European Parliament sit in the ALDE Group (Alliance of Democrats and Liberals) and then the Renew Group. At the end of the 1990s he was member of the Committee of Regions, where he chaired the Urban Policies Committee, and was an Advisor for Urban Development to the former UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros Ghali.

He is now the President of the political foundation affiliated to the EDP, the Institute of European Democrats. He has been elected to the European Parliament (1999-2004), sitting in the ALDE Group, introducing Reports and many Parliamentary initiatives. He has been one of the main promoter of the Referendum for a stronger integration between Italy and the EU (held in 1989, with an overwhelming YES vote – 88%); he has been awarded the Crocodile-Altiero Spinelli Prize, as a proEuropean personality.

Serving in the Italian Parliament, he has been member of the Foreign Affairs Committee. He also chaired for two terms the Human Rights Committee in the Chamber of Deputies. He got a Diploma in International Organizations from the Italian Society for International Organization, SIOI. He also has been the Honorary President (2013-2014) of the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (Berlin). He promoted the "Cultural and Creative Industries Italy-China " Forums (Beijing, 2014; Milan, Venice, 2015). He co-chaired (2015) the Silk Road Cities Alliance (Beijing).

Rutelli quit University in 1977; 40 years later, at the age of 62, a degree in Landscape and environmental planning and design, with highest grade and honors by Università La Sapienza and Tuscia University.

Culture
His family has ancestral ties with culture and the arts, rooted in the regions of Marche, Emilia, Sicily and Rome. Mario Rutelli (his great-grandfather) was the author of the Najadi Fountain in Rome (1901), the Anita Garibaldi's Monument, and dozens of public and private sculptures; among them, some of the most important monuments in Palermo (Sicily). Another great-grandfather, Felice Martini from Parma, was the Architect of the latest renovation (1873) of the historic Arsenale in Venice. Grandfather Ottavio Marini was the Director of Antiquities and Belle Arti of the Italian Government (1910s-1920s). The Rutelli family, in Palermo, is associated to many relevant developments: the construction of Teatro Massimo, the buildings in via Roma and on the seaside, Mondello's liberty buildings.

In the last twenty years, as Mayor of Rome and, furtherly, as Minister of Culture, Francesco Rutelli has contributed to the creation and development of many crucial infrastructures, cultural institutions, museums and galleries in Italy. Among them, the Auditorium-Città della Musica (an institution awaited in Rome for 60 years, designed by Renzo Piano), the MAXXI Museum, the new Ara Pacis shrine/museum, a vast restoration and archeological excavation program and the opening of over 20 museums and exhibition spaces in Rome, including the National Gallery of Ancient Art, the Civic Gallery of Modern Art (later renamed MACRO) and the Scuderie del Quirinale complex. He oversaw the restoration of San Carlo Theatre (Naples) and Petruzzelli Theatre (Bari), the construction of the new Maggio Fiorentino Auditorium (Florence), the radical restructuring of Museo Archeologico di Reggio Calabria and the conclusion of the Reggia di Venaria (Torino) restoration. He enacted a new Landscape Code and a new tax credit/tax shelter system that revitalized the movie industry. He established the Teatro Festival in Naples and re-launched the International Festival of Spoleto. He promoted the first (and only) White Book on Italian creative industries. Francesco Rutelli led a significant Cultural Diplomacy strategy for Italy, and through successful negotiations managed the recovery of priceless stolen crafts and historical masterpieces, in the UNESCO Conventions framework, in cooperation with international museums and cultural institutions, developing new agreements on lending policies and scientific cooperation. In 2016, Olivetti Company, owned by TIM-Telecom, asked Francesco Rutelli to chair the Olivetti Design Contest, devoted to award young Italian designers.

Personal life
Rutelli is married to Barbara Palombelli, a radio (Rai Radio 2) and television journalist for the Italian broadcasting company Mediaset; they have four children, 3 of which are adopted. After a period of skepticism, now he considers himself Catholic.

Rutelli is a supporter of Roman football club S.S. Lazio.

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Armed and Hammered

Armed and Hammered is a hardcore punk band from Toronto, Ontario, spawned from Bunchofuckingoofs scene of the early 1980s.

History
Originally formed by singer Mopa Dean, the bassist for Masochistic Religion, and drummer Kyle Peek, the earliest lineup also included Lamo, Philphee Saunders and Bunchofuckingoofs Thor Hammersen.

They played their first show June 7, 1989. By the end of 1990, they had recorded enough live performances that they were able to independently release a 17-track collection called Promoting Peace To Violence 89-90. Eight of those songs appeared on their 1991 12-track demo tape, Fully Loaded. By this time, Lamo, Saunders and Hammersen had been replaced by guitarist Hardcore Dave and bassist Kieran Plunkett.

In 1992, guitarists Big John and Dorian Wilde replaced Hardcore Dave. This line-up was featured on the next several releases: split EPs with Suckerpunch and Oppressed Logic, the song "Rat Poison" which was included in the Raw Energy Records punk compilation Dead on the Road - Songs Without Keyboards, and the song "Beans and Toast" which was included in the 1996 Ransom Note Recordings Compilation Living in Fear.

In 1995, Armed and Hammered claimed that they were banned from a repeat performance on Much Music. The band had played the Kumbaya Festival, which was held at the Molson Amphitheatre (now The Budweiser Stage) to benefit people living with AIDS. It was broadcast live across Canada and rebroadcast the following day; Much Music removed the band's performance from the rebroadcast and replaced it with an REM video.

The band's line-up would change again. Guitarist Dorian Wilde left in 1994 and was replaced by Kurf. Kieran Plunkett moved to the UK where he toured with The Varukers and formed The Restarts. He was replaced by Rick Giroux, who was replaced in 1997 by former Heatseekers and Suckerpunch bassist, Cindy Beattie. The band's debut full-length album, It's About Fucking Time, was recorded over 1996 and 1997 and features both Rick and Cindy. The CD also features re-recordings of many songs from earlier releases. It also spent some time in the independent charts in Canada. Also in 1996, the European label Subvert & Deny released the four-track EP More Punk Rock Than You.

In 1998, Kurf left the band and was replaced by former Abalienation guitarist, Mark Dickinson. In 2000, following the release of the Negative Aspects of Positive Thinking CD, Mark returned to the US, leaving Armed and Hammered once again with one guitarist. In 2000, Mopa left the group to be replaced by Jaww singer Doug McLarty. After Mopa's departure, the group became mostly inactive, playing only a handful of gigs before their final shows in early 2003. Mopa formed a band called The G-Men in 2002; they played at least one gig with Armed & Hammered, on November 15, 2002, at Sneaky Dee's in Toronto. These final shows featured the return of former members Kurf and Rick.

Armed and Hammered reunited to play a set in support of English group GBH's tour stop at the Mod Club Theatre in Toronto in July 2010, then reformed in May 2012. The band is still performing and recording. In February 2021, they released a four-track split with Vulgar Deli.

Discography

 * Promoting Peace Through Violence 89-90 (1990), Cassette, Independent
 * Fully Loaded (1991), Cassette, Independent
 * Armed & Hammered/Suckerpunch (1993), 7inch EP,, Independent
 * Armed & Hammered/Oppressed Logic (1995), 7inch EP, Split with Oppressed Logic, Ransom Note Recordings
 * Don't Mess with Punk (1996), Cassette, Independent
 * More Punk Rock Than You (1996), 7inch EP, Subvert & Deny Records
 * It's About Fucking Time (1997), CD Obese Records
 * Negative Aspects of Positive Thinking, (2000), CD Independent
 * Armed & Hammered/Vulgar Deli - American Democracy / Kill Johnny Stiff, (2021), 7inch EP, Coke Dick Records

Various Artists Compilations
 * Dead On the Road - Songs Without Keyboards (1994), CD, Compilation Inclusion, Raw Energy Records
 * Living in Fear (1995), CD, Compilation Inclusion, Ransom Note Recordings
 * Disease Control: Vol. 1 (1999), CD, MUCK Records
 * Twentybandcomp - Various Artists Vol., (2000), CD Raw Energy Records – Shock Records
 * Ontario Punk Rock Compilation - Various Artists Vol. 4 (2020), Compilation Inclusion, CD., Lockdown Records Canada
 *  Punk Canada Vol. 2 (2023), Compilation Inclusion, LP., En Guard Records Canada

Members
2012 Lineup
 * Kyle Peek – drums
 * Mopa Dean – vocals
 * Big John (John Mckee) – guitar
 * Jamie "G" – guitar
 * Preston "Wounded Paw" Sims

Past
 * Thor (BFG) Hammersen – bass, former member of Bunchofuckingoofs, Perdition, Ride at Dawn and Blast Furnace
 * Steve "Lamo" – guitar
 * Phil "Philphee" Saunders – bass
 * Kieran Plunkett – bass, member of The Varukers, The Restarts
 * Kurf – guitar, former member of PolitiKILL inCOREct, Yeti
 * Doug McLarty – vocals, former member of Jaww
 * Rick Giroux – bass, member of The G-Men and Son of Bronto, former member of Sinking Ships
 * Cindy Beattie – bass, former member of Suckerpunch, The Heatseekers, Sharkskin
 * Dorian Wilde – guitar, former member of Suckerpunch
 * Mark Dickinson – guitar, member of Others, Bloodsucking Freaks, former member of Abalienation
 * Hardcore Dave (David Mcleod) – guitar, former member of Bunchofuckingoofs, Nunoyerfuckinbizznizz, No ID and Landfill
 * Allyson Baker – guitar, member of Dirty Ghosts, former member of Teen Crud Combo, Shuttlecocks
 * John Grove – bass, member of Bunchofuckingoofs

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HNK Cibalia

Hrvatski nogometni klub Cibalia, commonly known as Cibalia Vinkovci or simply Cibalia, is a Croatian football club from the town of Vinkovci in eastern Croatia. Cibalia currently play in the Prva NL, Croatia's second-tier league. Their stadium is located in the south part of their home town and can hold 10,000 spectators. The name Cibalia comes from the Roman settlement called Colonia Aurelia Cibalae which was the precursor of the present-day town of Vinkovci. In the period from 1945 to 1990 the club was called NK Dinamo Vinkovci.

History
The club was founded in 1919 as HGŽK Cibalia Vinkovci, and in 1925 the team merged with local rivals RŠK Sloga. In the 1930s the club was coached by Bane Sekulić, Károly Nemes and Rajmond Breznik. After World War II the club was banned by the new Communist regime. After the war re-established clubs Sloga and OFD Graničar merged and formed NK Dinamo Vinkovci which began competing within the Yugoslav football system. The club would see several humble decades before finally making it to the Yugoslav First League in 1982. They played in the top-tier league for five seasons until they were relegated to the Yugoslav Second League in 1987.

In 1990 the team returned its traditional name of Cibalia. The club spent much of the 1990s in the Prva HNL, Croatian top level. It remained in the Prva HNL until the 2003–04 season when it was relegated to the Druga HNL. The club was also penalized by UEFA in the same season with a deduction of six points for failure to fulfill financial obligations related to past player transfers. Nevertheless, in the 2004–05 season, Cibalia outdid all of its opponents in the second league by a large margin, won the promotion playoffs and returned to Prva HNL. It was in this season that they also had Croatian mixed martial arts legend Mirko Filipović play the final 8 minutes of a match vs HNK Vukovar.

Cibalia also had some success playing in the Croatian Cup, where it reached the final in 1999 (lost to Osijek) and semi-final in 2000, 2004, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013.

The 2009–10 season was Cibalia's best ever season in the top division of Croatian football. They finished third after giants Dinamo Zagreb and Hajduk Split, having spent most of the season in second position. They qualified for the second qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League but eventually lost to Northern Irish side Cliftonville and exited the tournament.

Cibalia were relegated from the 1. HNL in 2018 and also faced bankruptcy. They ended up being relegated directly to the third division, where they finished the season in first place and were promoted after receiving a second division license in May 2019.

Honours

 * Yugoslav Second League (West):
 * Winners (1): 1981–82
 * Yugoslav Third League (SR Croatia):
 * Winners (1): 1974–75
 * Yugoslav Cup
 * Quarter-finals (1): 1977
 * Croatian First League:
 * Third place (1): 2009–10
 * Croatian Second League:
 * Winners (3): 1997–98, 2004–05, 2015–16
 * Croatian Third League (East):
 * Winners (1): 2018–19
 * Croatian Cup:
 * Runners-up (1): 1999
 * UEFA Intertoto Cup:
 * Semi-finals (1): 2003

Supporters and rivalries
The club has a relatively large but local following. Their main supporter group are called Ultrasi. Their main rivals are the group Kohorta Osijek from NK Osijek.

Summary
Source:, Last updated on 10 September 2010 Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; GF = Goals for; GA = Goals against. Defunct competitions indicated in italics.

Player records

 * Most appearances in UEFA club competitions: 10 appearances
 * Jure Jurić
 * Top scorers in UEFA club competitions: 3 goals
 * Ivan Maroslavac

Historical list of coaches

 * Bane Sekulić
 * 🇭🇺 Károly Nemes
 * 🇭🇺 Rajmond Breznik
 * Dražan Jerković (1975–76)
 * Otto Barić (1976–79)
 * Ivan Marković
 * Tonko Vukušić (19xx–1984)
 * Nedeljko Gugolj (1984–8X)
 * Martin Novoselac (1986–88)
 * Ivo Šušak (1988–89)
 * Stipe Kedžo (1989–90)
 * Tonko Vukušić (1990-9x)
 * Mile Petković (1992)
 * Stanko Mršić (1993–95)
 * Davor Čop (interim) (1994)
 * Tomislav Radić (1995–96)
 * Davor Čop (interim) (1995)
 * Mile Petković (1996–97)
 * Tomislav Radić (1997)
 * Tonko Vukušić (1997–98)
 * Krasnodar Rora (1998)
 * Mijo Ručević (1998–99)
 * Srećko Lušić (1999–2000)
 * Davor Čop (2000–01)
 * Mile Petković (2001–03)
 * Bruno Buhač (interim) (2003)
 * Srećko Lušić (2003)
 * Vjeran Simunić (2003–04)
 * Davor Mladina (2004–05)
 * Branko Karačić (2005–06)
 * Igor Štimac (2006)
 * Ivica Matković (2006)
 * Mile Petković (2006–07)
 * Srećko Lušić (2007–08)
 * Stanko Mršić (2008–11)
 * Siniša Jalić (interim) (2011)
 * Samir Toplak (2011–12)
 * Miroslav Bojko (interim) (2012)
 * Željko Kopić (2012)
 * Miroslav Bojko (2012–13)
 * Damir Petravić (2013–14)
 * Stanko Mršić (2014)
 * Zoran Tomić (2014)
 * Siniša Sesar (2014–15)
 * Bruno Buhač (interim) (2015)
 * Damir Milinović (2015)
 * Miroslav Bojko (2015–16)
 * Siniša Sesar (interim) (2016)
 * Stanko Mršić (2016)
 * Siniša Sesar (interim) (2016–17)
 * 🇦🇹 Peter Pacult (2017)
 * 🇧🇦 Mladen Bartolović (2017–19 Mar 18)
 * Davor Rupnik (2018)
 * Petar Tomić (2018–19)
 * Davor Mladina (29 June 2019 -20)
 * Petar Tomić (2020 –20 Sep 21)
 * Darko Jozinović (21 Sep 2021 -19 Apr 22)
 * Ivan Karaula (19 Apr 2022 - Jun 22)
 * Tomislav Radotić (Jun 2022 –21 Jun 23)
 * Ivan Karaula (Sep 2023 – present)

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Operation Falcon

Operation Falcon may refer to:
 * Operation FALCON, a number of 2006 dragnet operations by the United States Marshals Service
 * Operation Falcon, a 1984 sting operation against US falconers conducted by the US Fish and Wildlife Service
 * Operation Falcon, an Indian troop airlift operation along the Sino-Indian frontier in the Assam Himalayan region.

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Talk:NHK

Chronology
NHK was started in 1926, modeled after the BBC radio company. ?? In 1926, the BBC was a private company (the British Broadcasting Company). The state-chartered British Broadcasting Corporation (if it was the model for NHK) did not come into existence until 1927. Does anyone have any more precise details on NHK chronology? -- Picapica 20:21, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Old NHK did start in 1926. It was re-chartered in 1950, so NHK as it's known today goes back to 1950. That's where the confusion comes from.--76.21.81.118 00:46, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Notable programs
I'd like to see some non-anime notable programs in the list. If anyone with more knowledge of NHK's offerings could step up and add some, I'd appreciate it. --Zippy 23:20, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Most of the notable programs are generically described in the "TV Programming" section. I don't think it means much to list news shows and sumo sportscast shows by title. News, serial dramas, and music shows are in fact NHK's most popular shows.--76.21.81.118 00:46, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Need information on NHK domestic radio
Could someone please provide a description of NHK's domestic radio services? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.20.8.70 (talk) 17:21, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

 * I agree. The article is conspicuously short at present of information concerning NHK's domestic radio networks. It would be much appreciated if anyone could supply more. --Picapica (talk) 13:31, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
 * If everyone agrees - I have a copy of WRTH, from which I could try to hatch out a brief description of NHK domestic radio. Of course, any help from Japanese Wikipedians would be appreciated.  From what I've been reading, NHK Radio 1 is probably comparable to CBC Radio One or BBC Radio 4, whilst NHK Radio 2 sometimes relays programming in foreign languages from Radio Japan and is probably comparable to NPR and BBC Radio 3.  As for the NHK's "FM Network" - WRTH doesn't say much.  Still, that's probably enough for a description, so long as I cite the WRTH, right? --Daniel Blanchette (talk) 17:48, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Section on Viewer Fees needs cleaning up
The section explaining the background of the viewer fee system and its controversy is very Engrishy in its wording, and needs cleaning up as well as citations of sources. Regrettably some nonpayers are mannerless sounds like NHK's opinion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by The2belo (talk • contribs) 06:04, 28 May 2008 (UTC)

Stupid
Why this article uses Infobox TV channel, rather than a proper Infobox Broadcasting network?--JSH-alive (talk)(cntrbtns)(mail me) 12:56, 1 August 2008 (UTC)

Asuka
This is mentioned as a TV series that NHK produced on a disambig, does anyone have any information about it? Tyciol (talk) 21:22, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Skip Back Camera
If one googles the term "Skip-back Camera" all the results lead to this article. This term needs confirmation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.174.40.112 (talk) 16:41, 20 October 2010 (UTC)

Criticisms section should be added
There are several pieces of criticism frequently attributed to NHK practices, especially reception fee, floating around on the internet. 1) Reception fee collection agency uses force, poor manners, and occasionally breaks the law in attempting to collect fees. 2) The fee system changes wildly from one year to the next, and several lawsuits have been pursued including one against Toyoko Inn chain which involved a fee increase of almost 50 million yen a month. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Basroil (talk • contribs) 02:52, 21 October 2012 (UTC)

Nippon Hikikomori Kyokai
Is the actual name of NHK Nippon Hikikomori Kyokai? 81.162.216.13 (talk) 16:54, 15 February 2013 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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2014 World War II documentary controversy - source?
This section has quite a lot of information and the incident does indeed seem notable, however I cannot find ANY reference to either the existence of this documentary, its content or any controversy regarding it. I would usually immediately remove such content, but if true then this section should definitely remain. Perhaps someone who speaks Japanese could check for a local source confirming this? For now I just tagged the section appropriately. Photon Man62 (talk) 02:07, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

 * I have done a quick search regarding this documentary, in both English and Japanese and I cannot find ANY reference to the documentary, it's content, or any controversy about it as well. The most recent "controversy" that NHK was involved in that I found has nothing to do with any documentary that NHK has aired, and more the statements made by the person heading it. - Zabuza825 (talk) 01:51, 16 October 2014 (UTC)

 * I'm going to go ahead and remove it until such time as the claim can be sourced. Willhesucceed (talk) 12:32, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

Ametaphysicality deserves a documentary
The ametaphysical/antimetaphysical/non-metaphysical/unmetaphysical person doesn't believe that the verb believe is able to define or describe the Universe without data. The noun and adjective ametaphysical is a hypernym of the noun atheist and the adjective atheistic. Some godless people believe in non-scientifically accepted myths and theories, the ametaphysical doesn't. The ametaphysical doesn't have to be a Communist; most analytical philosophers don't obay strict rules of others. Many Japanese people are ametaphysical, but don't use the word. Not all Japanese have a single opinion. Japanese people aren't a mass, but have individual ideas. Japanese people are very intelligent. I allow NHK to hate me. I repeat, I allow you to hate me as much as you wish. I don't allow you not to study our case of ametaphysics/ametaphysicality. I even allow you to say negative things about my philosophically fellow citizens. I will NEVER allow you to stop being Japanese. You must act Japanese. Study and record our ametaphysical case. The Japanese thinker studies everything and is the best analytically! I absolutely allow you to hate me! I will NEVER but NEVER allow you to stop being Japanese!!! Record my ametaphysical case. In a Japanese thus thorough manner. Inside the Japanese mind I dwell. The Japanese intellect is my home. I prefer to be hated inside my home, than to have no home! I don't care if you metaphorically fist my face. I want the Japanese philosophical analysis to be expanded. We study and record analytically all data. The world is complicated. We first study analytically and then discover the causality which created each philosophical path. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:2149:8413:F00:9480:9376:AF44:76EA (talk) 03:00, 21 October 2017 (UTC)

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"Compliance and crimes"
I deleted this section because the writing is of such poor quality as to be incomprehensible in places; it wouldn't surprise me if it was a Google Translate paste job. I will, later, see what I can do to rescue it, but right now it is definitely Not Ready for Prime Time. PaulCHebert (talk) 18:07, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
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Supreme Court Grand Bench Ruling Dec 6, 2017
Perhaps information from the Supreme Court Grand Bench should be incorporated into the License fee section:

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20171207/p2a/00m/0na/014000c Owencunn (talk) 03:57, 1 February 2019 (UTC)

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Casper

Casper may refer to:

People

 * Casper (given name)
 * Casper (surname)
 * Casper (Maya ruler) (422–487?), ruler of the Mayan city of Palenque
 * Tok Casper, first known king of Maya city-state Quiriguá in Guatemala, ruling beginning in 426
 * Caspar David Friedrich (born 1774), German Romantic painter
 * David Gray (snooker player) (born 1979), nicknamed Casper
 * Casper (rapper) (born 1982), German musician
 * DJ Casper (1965–2023), American musician

Places in the United States

 * Casper, Wyoming, a city
 * Casper Mountain, overlooking Casper, Wyoming

Entertainment

 * Casper Gutman, the primary antagonist of The Maltese Falcon
 * Casper the Friendly Ghost, a Paramount cartoon character owned by Harvey Comics
 * Casper the Friendly Ghost in film, a series of films based on the Harvey Comics character
 * Casper (film), a 1995 live-action film featuring Casper the Friendly Ghost
 * Casper: A Spirited Beginning, a direct-to-video prequel of the 1995 film
 * Casper Meets Wendy, a direct-to-video sequel to Casper: A Spirited Beginning
 * Casper's Haunted Christmas, a direct-to-video animated feature set in Christmas Time
 * Casper's Scare School, second direct-to-video animated film
 * Casper and the Spectrals, a 2009-2010 three issued comic book miniseries that revamped Casper the Friendly Ghost
 * Casper (video game), a series of video games based on the 1995 film
 * "Casper" (song), by Takeoff
 * "The Day That Never Comes", a song by Metallica with the working title "Casper"
 * Casper, one of three parts of the biocomputer in the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion

Science and technology

 * Casper (persistency), a file used for persistency in Linux
 * Casper, the Apollo Command/Service Module of the Apollo 16 spacecraft

Transportation

 * Hyundai Casper, a sport utility vehicle

Other uses

 * USS Casper (PF-12), a World War II frigate
 * Casper (admissions test), a medical school admissions test
 * Casper (cat) (c. 1997–2010), a cat famous for riding on buses
 * Casper College, Casper, Wyoming, US
 * Casper (skateboarding), a skateboarding trick
 * Casper Sleep, a mattress manufacturer
 * Casper's, a hot dog restaurant chain in Northern California
 * a line of Swedish boardgames published by Target Games

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Tim Laudner

Timothy Jon Laudner (born June 7, 1958) is an American former professional baseball catcher, who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins from 1981 to 1989.

Playing career
After playing baseball for Park Center Senior High School in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota, Laudner was drafted in 1976 by the Cincinnati Reds in the 33rd round, but did not sign. After four years at the University of Missouri, he was drafted by the Twins in the 3rd round of the 1979 draft. Assigned directly to the AA Orlando Twins, Laudner held his own in his first season in the Minnesota organization, hitting .241 in 45 games. The following year, he split his time between Orlando and Single-A Visalia and despite a .227 batting average he hit 12 home runs. Back at Orlando in 1981, he hit 40 home runs while hitting .284 and earning league MVP honors and an August call-up with the Twins where he hit 2 more home runs in 14 games. Despite spending 20 games in 1982 at AAA Toledo, Laudner was called up to the Twins permanently.

Laudner was never able to reproduce his 1981 season in the big leagues. He continued to hit for power, hitting more than ten home runs per season four times over his eight full seasons while averaging only 255 at bats.

Laudner was an instrumental piece of the Twins' 1987 World Series success, hitting a home run and driving in two more runs with another hit in the team's Game 2 victory. This after being something of a secret weapon during the season, in which he batted only .191 with only 55 hits, but 16 of them were home runs. In 1988, he had an exceptional year in almost all statistical categories including games played and at bats. Laudner was also named to the American League All-Star team in 1988, his only appearance. In 1989, he finished his last season in the majors as a backup to Brian Harper, filling a utility role and getting at bats playing first base, catcher and DH. After failing to make the team in 1990, Laudner was assigned to the AAA Portland Beavers, but after 9 games in which he would go hitless over 29 at bats, he decided to retire.

in 734 games over nine seasons, Laudner posted a .225 batting average (458-for-2038) with 221 runs, 77 home runs, 263 RBI and 190 bases on balls. Defensively, he recorded a .985 fielding percentage. In the 1987 postseason covering 12 games, he hit .222 (8-for-36) with 5 runs, 2 doubles, 1 home run, 6 RBI and 7 walks.

Post-playing career
Following his playing career, Laudner worked as a project manager for Kleve Heating and Air Conditioning in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, and as a division manager at Plymouth Plumbing and Heating in Plymouth, Minnesota.

Laudner is currently the co-owner, co-director, and coach of the "Big League Baseball Camp" in Minnesota.

Since 2008, Laudner is a baseball analyst at Fox Sports North and Fox Sports Wisconsin. His duties include providing color commentary for occasional Twins broadcasts.

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Talk:Cornrows

Picture?
could someone find a non-copyrighted picture to put in?
 * Swinger222 14:48, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)

Added picture
Added picture of emperor Yohannes IV of Ethiopia, to examplify the African tradition of braided hair Dizzee ignorant 21:20, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

Unisex?
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 * The lead sentences says that it's unisex and West African in origin, not that it's unisex in West Africa. --FuriousFreddy 17:24, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for getting back to me. Maybe that's what it's supposed to mean, but that's not what it says. I'll try to reword it a bit; see what you think. BrianSmithson 18:53, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * That's a lot better. --FuriousFreddy 19:43, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

I'm just now noticing this. Back in the day (mid to late 1960s), when cornrows were becoming popular among blacks here in the U.S., they were strictly for women. Even in the South, where the cornrowing tradition persisted through the centuries, the style was worn by pretty much women only. Once in a while, you'd come across a brother with them -- but rarely. Not until much later did the style catch on in the U.S. among black men. It was an offshoot of people braiding their afros at night, so they'd be voluminous/stay manageable. Brothers starting asking sisters to braid their for them, and the sisters started cornrowing the brothers' hair, too. Still, not until probably the 1980s did brothers really start wearing cornrows -- and then certainly not with beads. In the '60s and '70s that would have been considered extremely effeminate. 21:28, 23 October 2005 (UTC)deeceevoice

 * This may have some parallels with the acceptance of longer hairstyles on men in general—which is a topic I'm going to get around to writing one of these days. Very shortly cropped hair wouldn't be be long enough to cornrow, while, as you suggest, longer styles (whether they grow upwards in an afro or downwards to the shoulders) are more amenable to this sort of management. — Phil Welch 22:04, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

That depends on what you call "short." Someone can have a relatively short afro (say, of less than an inch), but tightly curled/nappy hair can uncoil fairly easily (particularly if wet) to surprising length -- and certainly long enough to be styled into cornrows. deeceevoice 09:57, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Indeed—I'm referring to the length the hair reaches if uncoiled and pulled straight. — Phil Welch Katefan's ridiculous poll 19:11, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

i confirm in senegal and most  west  africa  it  has been  part  of the culture  for at least 2000  years it  was a warrior hairstyle(THIEDO wolof warrior) associated  with  specific rituals ,nubians too braided their hair  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.88.227.189 (talk) 03:42, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

I remember African-American males with beads, and sometimes even barrettes, in their cornrows in the 1980's (Leroy from Fame). I also knew a (straight) brother who wore beads in his cornrows in the 1990's. On the west coast cornrows were popular with gang members throughout the 80's & 90's and beads that matched gang colors were sometimes used (High Top from Colors). Cornrows were never a common style for men but they have never been out of style either, similar to the way relaxed hair is to males in the African-American community (at least since the 1960's). Also, the first time I visited Senegal (around 2007) I was told that men do not wear cornrows or any other type of braids in their hair and that braided hair was something only women wore (I used to like to wear my hair in cornrows so I asked). But since then on return visits I have noticed more young men with cornrows but only those that appear to be trying to adopt a more American style with their fashion. It still is primarily looked at as effeminate. (Most men in Senegal have their hair closely cropped (like Akon) with pretty much the only other hairstyle for men being dreadlocks -- which is kind of looked down upon) I was also told that the ceddo (thiedo) traditionally wore their hair in dreadlocks but I suspect this is told to connect the baye fall, who commonly wear dreadlocks, to the ceddo and not necessarily a historical fact. 70.102.94.154 (talk) 02:02, 1 May 2018 (UTC)

Hygeine and Traction alopecia
Two issues which should be a little more thoroughly highlighted. Many teens following the afro-american media pop-culture see this hairstyle as trendy, although in my country and through extensive travel in Europe I've yet to encounter anyone with it, but realistically it would be worthwhile cautioning that such hairstyles have a dramatic link to Traction alopecia, ie: they make you go bald faster if you're male and if you're female, can instigate a very high brow / receding browline.

Hygeine is another issue worth raising, as many wearers of such 'tribal' hairstyles are told not to wash their hair as it will rot (which does happen, especially in the case of dreadlocks), but likewise not washing it in many instances can encourage lice, flea and parasite infestations (or in the case of dreadlocks, small mamals have even been found). I do not have the full facts and figures, so I will leave it up to one of the competant editors of this page to make the update if willing. Jachin 03:50, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

 * "Tribal" hairstyles? lol  FYI, black people generally don't have trouble with lice.  That's a white thing.  And cornrowed hairstyles are washed regularly -- carefully, usually with a stocking cap in place to preserve the style.  So, just as with any hairstyle, hygiene is not a problem.  Nasty, ill-kempt people who don't wash their hair wear all kinds of hairstyles.  That has absolutely nothing to do with cornrows.  And I've never, ever heard of cornrows "rotting."  That's rubbish -- or, if you will, "rot".  deeceevoice 16:45, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

 * But with regard to traction alopecia, you have a point. It can be a real problem if braids are too tight or if heavy extensions are worn over a prolonged period of time.  deeceevoice 21:38, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Traction alopecia is totally preventable if the braider knows what they are doing. The problem is that many people don't have proper hair care education and pull too hard, leave the styles in too long, and don't let the hair 'rest' between styles.  Ibtisam

picture
This article could really do with a picture. And it shouldn't be that hard to obtain. Anyone with cornrows and a camera who want their face/hair in wikipedia? Shanes 04:06, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

Why is a white guy being pictured here?
It doesn't make any sense to use a white person as an example for cornrows. Cornrows are a Black hairstyle and should be pictured as such. Is there a way to delete this picture, or at least change it to be more appropriate?

The article says that it's not just one race that has this hair. This is the photo that I found already uploaded on wikipedia that had the hair like this. There seems no need to eliminate it because of race. And also if there is no photo the article is weaker. It's better with this photo than without. Lyo 18:45, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

A white guy rockin' the 'rows as the MAIN picture? Talk about an insult. This style is almost exclusively a style for African-Americans, and females at that. Some black males wear them, and even less Caucasians. But overall, it's a style for black women. I don't see a problem w/the white guy, but not as the main picture. Changed. MagentaThompson 04:37, 16 June 2006 (UTC) 04:03, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

We could definitely do better than a picture of Bo Derek!

I deleted her picture. It's ridiculous to have an article about cornrows and have the main picture be a white woman; it's a traditionally black hairstyle. Someone, obviously added it as a slap in the face to the black community because someone mentioned that they added an Ethiopian woman as a pic, but that was clearly deleted and replaced with a white woman.

I agree that maybe we could find a better photo than one of Bo Derek. But since nobody has taken it upon themselves to find a photo of a black person with cornrows, why remove the only photo that this article has? Don't delete the Bo Derek photo unless you can find a better one. At least, the Bo Derek photo will show someone who doesn't know what a cornrow looks like. And to the person above who says that the black photo was replaced by one of Bo Derek that's not true. The Bo Derek photo was first added when this article had no photo at all. Don't you think it's better to have a photo to show people what a cornrow is than to have no photo at all? Isn't the point of Wikipedia supposed to be to educate people? --Mezaco 20:02, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

 * That picture of Bo Derek has got to go. I agree that having this picture on Wikipedia as the main picture is insulting to peoples of African descent and needs to be changed as soon as possible.  Further, I disagree with Mezaco when he says that having a picture of Bo Derek is better than no picture at all.  As the old saying goes, "A picture is worth a thousand words" and this picture is both inaccurate and insulting to members of the black community.

 * I realise that Wikipedia is edited mostly by white people who are unlikely to see what the problem is, and who are likely in fact to cry foul with claims of anti-caucasian racism (a common lament on-line, it seems).  But it's important to try to counter systemic bias by putting yourself in the shoes of black people, especially African Americans.  The slave trade destroyed any true, organic cultural connection to Africa for African Americans.  Most don't even know which part of West Africa their ancestors hailed from, and as anyone who has ever been to West Africa knows, there are serious cultural and linguistic differences between villages, not to mention countries.  Throughout their history, they have been socially pressured to emulate white people -- unlike Indians, East Asians, Middle Easterners, or any other non-white ethnic group, they have not had a sense of origin with which to anchor themselves.  Hair has always been a particularly sensitive issue for them.  Getting a perm (which in black terms means a straightening of the hair) or a weave or wearing a wig or any other number of relatively drastic measures have been taken by black people over the years to "whitify" their hair.

 * Then, in the 1960s and 70s, something special happened: there was rebellion against this definition of beauty, the "Black is Beautiful" movement started, and men and women began to explore hairstyles derived from African sources. This was an important and empowering transition for black people, and remains so.

 * What we are doing by picturing a white person and only a white person is, in effect, robbing the black community of their pride. We are suggesting, with the picture, that this is a white hairstyle.  I know the article says otherwise, but believe me, the picture speaks volumes.  It leaves the reader wondering, "If this is a black hairstyle, why is a white person pictured?"

 * It needs to go, even if we have nothing to replace it with.70.231.253.59 21:01, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

No question. I agree. It's gotta go -- and stay gone. Find someone black. deeceevoice 21:40, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

This article is about a hairstyle. A picture of the hairstyle would be an improvement, regardless of who's wearing it. Heck, the article even mentions Bo Derek so why is a picture of her a problem? Turning this into a racial issue is ridiculous. Friday (talk) 23:03, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

I agree. I am a white woman who is married to a black man who has cornrows. We have a five year old "malato" boy who has cornrows. I ran across this looking for help in dealing with a Christian Privite School issue concerning the length of his cornrows. I don't see the problem nor do I see a picture. I guess the ridiculous fuss worked. Again, if people spent that type of dedication to help the homeless or the hungry. What a world we might live in. God Bless. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stayceavery (talk • contribs) 17:17, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

Cornrows are not an african hairstyle. Cornrows have been a popular hairstyle around the world. Its a human hairstyle. The article should reflect that. See:

https://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F9N_Kozsyyx0%2Fhqdefault.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D9N_Kozsyyx0&docid=qGg-iISVmASLcM&tbnid=WYR3ce8ReXW5kM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwj43v6ix9TWAhVIIlAKHWdBBloQMwgnKAIwAg..i&w=480&h=360&client=safari&bih=776&biw=1127&q=cornrows%20ancient%20venus&ved=0ahUKEwj43v6ix9TWAhVIIlAKHWdBBloQMwgnKAIwAg&iact=mrc&uact=8

https://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fmedia%2FCB26pyhUAAA-Vok.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Fbrandonpilcher%2Fstatus%2F584828755153035264&docid=TKSxw6ffN1ls4M&tbnid=CU8KUJeYB4CSBM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwi8uYv9xtTWAhUJmrQKHZaWBUIQMwgnKAIwAg..i&w=375&h=500&client=safari&bih=776&biw=1127&q=cornrows%20ancient&ved=0ahUKEwi8uYv9xtTWAhUJmrQKHZaWBUIQMwgnKAIwAg&iact=mrc&uact=8

https://www.google.de/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.pinimg.com%2F236x%2F57%2Fe4%2F33%2F57e4339f49dce25630c4f6c06bb06992--buddha-religion-black-buddha.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pinterest.com%2Fpin%2F395050198541341577%2F&docid=DfV4mNBPTnPqUM&tbnid=uzFc9DX_DDffDM%3A&vet=10ahUKEwi8uYv9xtTWAhUJmrQKHZaWBUIQMwhJKBowGg..i&w=189&h=278&itg=1&client=safari&bih=776&biw=1127&q=cornrows%20ancient&ved=0ahUKEwi8uYv9xtTWAhUJmrQKHZaWBUIQMwhJKBowGg&iact=mrc&uact=8 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8109:8140:71A0:133:B91A:EF45:B45E (talk) 13:38, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

 * Cornrows is an African style. Go find your own and write an article about it. Researcherofgreatness (talk) 19:32, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

The sources you've cited do not meet Wikipedia standardsDanJazzy (talk) 21:32, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

There are no hairstyles for a certain race. Anyone can do a hairstyle they like. Luhh. Kimberly (talk) 10:24, 6 July 2021 (UTC)

 * The origin must be stated rightly though. Researcherofgreatness (talk) 19:32, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

nasty picture
the current closeup is pretty gross. do we need to see each unkempt strand? the bo derek photo is a lot nicer, who cares if she's white?

 * This is a joke right? Nasty? I think the new image looks beautiful. The woman has thick full hair and it shows the process of creating cornrows. We can keep the image of bo, I guess it shows the influence of African hair styles on the broader global culture. Please sign your post in the fulture. Thanks. futurebird 21:01, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

There's nothing unkempt or nasty about the closeup. It's an accurate representation of professionally done cornrows. It's an idea image.Res05e (talk) 19:03, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Is that cornrows?
That hairstyle doesn't look like cornrows. Are there reliable sources that say those are cornrows? EyeTruth (talk) 01:55, 9 December 2015 (UTC)

 * No. Seems more like melon coiffure, which is referenced a lot in articles of ancient Greek/Roman statues. Have clarified in the text. Lewisguile (talk) 14:28, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

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This is a badly written Wikipedia page
I don't know where to start but the conflation of corn rows with European braids is bizzare. Conrows isn't another word for braids. Its a type/types of braiding style by people of African descent. Its also just a style of braids by African descent people as there are different African braid styles as well. All in all, these has nothing to do with Europeans or whatever braids they do. Researcherofgreatness (talk) 19:32, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

 * Noted. Read the updated version and tell me what you think. Lewisguile (talk) 14:29, 27 February 2024 (UTC)

CornRow Origination
The CornRow originated in the United States among Black American Saves. It's not possible for Africans to have invented this stye of braiding and name it such because 1. rows of corn weren't a staple among West Africans & 2. The Englis language wasn't spoken until well after 1860's. shiznaw (talk) 16:18, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

 * Just because it didn't gain its current name until the Americas, doesn't mean it didn't exist. There are lots of African names for cornrows. Also, the Caribbean and South America aren't the US, and they have equal claims. Though, you've reminded me to add them to the page: https://www.popsugar.co.uk/beauty/cornrows-canerows-original-west-african-names-48148196 Lewisguile (talk) 19:52, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

Meaning and Myth
The second paragraph talks about the meaning of cornrows and then says 'folklore'. Since the Snopes article referred to even says 'nope', could this be removed or moved to a myth/folklore section? If not, it seems like something more is needed, like how the paths were encoded, explained and transferred/used. (comment by User:130.44.180.105 moved from article space by Joyous! Noise!)

 * I take your point, but the Snopes article doesn't actually say "nope". It concludes that we don't know if it's true or not, but that it's important anyway. This article doesn't have space to go into the same detail, but summarises that the stories are "according to folklore", which is probably enough?

 * From Snopes: "While we cannot definitively answer the question of whether this was a real practice by slaves fleeing captivity in the American South, we can point to the rich and varied tales surrounding a real movement toward emancipation. Those stories certainly matter to people, hence their continuing popularity today." Lewisguile (talk) 06:04, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

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Naura

Naura may refer to:

 * Naura, India, a town in the Nawanshahr district of Punjab
 * Naura Ayu (born 2005), Indonesian singer
 * NAURA Technology Group, Chinese company that manufactures semiconductor chip production equipment
 * Michael Naura (1934–2017), German jazz pianist, journalist and radio presenter; see
 * Naura, a port city on the Malabar Coast of India
 * Haigwai language or Naura, an Austronesian language, spoken in Papua New Guinea
 * Narew (Lithuanian: Naura), a river in Poland

title: Naura


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Thiota

Thiota ( 847 AD) was a Christian prophet of the ninth century convicted of heresy. She was originally from Alemannia (then part of East Francia), and in 847 she began prophesying that the world would end that year.

Her story is known from the Annales Fuldenses which record that she disturbed the diocese of Bishop Salomon, that is, the Diocese of Constance, before arriving in Mainz. A large number of people were persuaded by her words, as well as even some clerics. In fear, many gave her gifts and sought prayers. Finally, the bishops of Gallia Belgica ordered her to attend a synod in St Alban's church in Mainz. She was eventually forced to confess that she had made up her predictions at the urging of a priest and for lucrative gain. She was publicly flogged and stripped of her ministry, which the Fuldensian annalist says she had taken up "unreasonably ... against the customs of the church"-possibly a reference to her being a woman who claimed religious authority for herself. Shamed, she ceased to prophesy thereafter.

title: Thiota