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Talk:Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo

Incorrect information regarding the main character
I cannot believe Wikipedia of all places would allow such lies on their site. As a fan of the series, I am utterly disgusted at this inaccuracy!

The article states that Bo-bobo is the main character, which couldn't be any farther from the truth. Don Patch is the main character, as anyone who has actually watched the show should know. I would edit the page to fix this horrible mistake myself, but I bet the Wikipedia staff would just edit it back to say Bo-bobo is the main character. I demand this attrocity be fixed! Also, his transformed state is Professional Patch in the english dub. How could that not be listed in the article? It's the transformation of the main character! Come on people!

71.0.76.118 (talk) 13:15, 29 November 2007 (UTC)Endgame
 * I will make the adjustment regarding Professional Patch, but Bo-bobo is the main character and this is his series. Don Patch is hilarious but ultimately everything he does is connected to Bo-bobo. -StrangerAtaru (talk) 15:40, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

That's because Bo-bobo is his sidekick! 71.0.76.118 (talk) 06:23, 30 November 2007 (UTC)Endgame Um... I have to wonder something. Did none of you guys actually get the obvious joke that the original poster was making, here? He was making it look like Don Patch himself wrote that in-character. He was kidding, guys. I know that Wikipdedia usually isn't the place for joking around like that, but it still just amazes me that you guys totally didn't notice what he was doing there. >_> —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.208.33.205 (talk) 02:54, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Even Don Patch admits by the end of the series who the main character is. Heck, if you want complaints, there are some people who think Sasuke Uchiha is the main character of a series called "Naruto". -StrangerAtaru 15:59, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Yep! That's why the series is called Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, because it's about Don-patch! –  「ＪＵＭＰ ＧＵＲＵ」 @ Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 18:06, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Would you knock it out? This isn't "Naruto", where the whole series is about the Uchiha Clan yet the main character is some fox boy. Bo-bobo is the main hero and the main character. Don Patch is a comedic sidekick. Thus Bo-bobo is the main character. -StrangerAtaru (talk) 19:22, 16 June 2008 (UTC)
 * "Knock it out"? Was that supposed to mean "knock it off"? 173.77.78.2 (talk) 03:12, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

Bo-bobo and Poppa Rocks
Does anyone know what this is? They used this for the preview in U.S. SHONEN JUMP. Jump Guru (talk) 20:23, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
 * In 2000, WSJ had four seperate Bo-bobo one-shots prior to the series being picked up in 2001. The third one-shot was the "Bo-bobo & Don Patch" one. (the other three include "Bo-bobo and Beauty", "Bo-bobo and Gunkan", and "Bo-bobo and Heppokomaru"). -StrangerAtaru (talk) 21:04, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Were all the one-shots in SHONEN JUMP (US), I could of sworn I saw other issues featuring Bobobo. Jump Guru (talk) 22:35, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
 * (Goes to his Bo-bobo manga) The very original pilot (the very, very first Bo-bobo even before these four) appeared in Akamaru Jump early in 2000. Then late in 2000, the four Bo-bobo one shots (Beauty/Gunkan/Don Patch/Heppokomaru) appeared in WSJ.  Then early in 2001, the Bo-bobo series started. -StrangerAtaru (talk) 23:38, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Ummm... SHONEN JUMP in all-caps is the official name for U.S. SHONEN JUMP. Jump Guru (talk) 20:58, 16 January 2008 (UTC)

Characters
I just redirected the articles about Yononaka Namerō, Pokomi, and Gaoh to this article as they were only plot summary and didn't have any reliable sources showing their notability out-of-universe. Perhaps someone can expand coverage of them in here?  Them From  Space  00:25, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
 * While I'm not working really on Wiki anymore, I think that most of the characters (well the key ones) should be handled by the character pages instead of the front page. -StrangerAtaru (talk) 19:09, 27 March 2009 (UTC)

video game
Where's the link to the article about the titular video game? Tempshill (talk) 02:48, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
 * There's a video game? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.148.210.232 (talk) 14:14, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

"Bobobobobobobobobobobo" listed at Redirects for discussion
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Talk:Contemporary philosophy

Jordan Peterson?
Should we add him? Especially his evolutionary approach - https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/389822-philosopher-jordan-peterson-will-change-the-world.Sourcerery (talk) 10:51, 5 May 2019 (UTC)

 * No. He is a public intellectual, but as far as I can tell not a professional philosopher. I am not insulting him, this just isn't the field he works in. I'm sure he publishes claims about biology in his work, but that doesn't make him a biologist anymore than making appeals to philosophy in his popularizing work makes him a philosopher. And he's a psychologist, I believe. If he ever publishes in a peer-reviewed philosophy journal then my vote might change. Who "The Hill" or any newspaper or journalist/news outlet calls a "philosopher" doesn't really matter. If we do add him, then he belongs in the "Outside the profession" section alongside Ayn Rand, because he isn't a working philosopher. - Atfyfe (talk) 00:33, 8 May 2019 (UTC)

Contemporary Western philosophy
When and why did this article change its title to "Contemporary Western philosophy"? I see no discussion of this in the page history. Atfyfe (talk) 00:21, 6 November 2022 (UTC)

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Joseph de Pasquale

Joseph de Pasquale (October 14, 1919 – June 22, 2015) was an American violist.

Career
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Joseph de Pasquale was a student of Louis Bailly, Max Aronoff and William Primrose at the Curtis Institute of Music. He was the principal violist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1947 to 1964, and then, at the request of Eugene Ormandy, principal violist of the Philadelphia Orchestra until 1995. At a certain point, three of his brothers (William, Robert, and Francis; who formed the de Pasquale String Quartet with him) played with him in the Philadelphia Orchestra, with three of the brothers boasting first desk seatings.

Joseph de Pasquale performed and recorded with Angelin Chang, Jascha Heifetz, Ruggiero Ricci, Isaac Stern, Gregor Piatigorsky, Norman Carol, and Anshel Brusilow, among others. He also premiered several important compositions of the viola repertoire, including the Viola Concerto by Walter Piston and the Viola Sonata by George Rochberg, and recorded for the RCA, Sony, Boston, Albany Records, and Decca labels.

Until his death at age 95, Joseph de Pasquale was Professor of Viola at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia. He raised a whole generation of prominent violists, among them Roberto Diaz, Stephen Wyrczynski, Viacheslav Dinerchtein, Richard Fleischman and Cathy Basrak. At the time of his retirement from the Philadelphia Orchestra, 2/3 of the viola section's players were his former students.

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WPCB-TV

WPCB-TV (channel 40) is a television station licensed to Greensburg, Pennsylvania, United States, serving the Pittsburgh area as the flagship of the religious network Cornerstone Television. Cornerstone originates most of its programs from this station. WPCB-TV's studios and transmitter are co-located on Signal Hill Drive in Wall, Pennsylvania.

WKBS-TV (channel 47) in Altoona operates as a full-time satellite of WPCB.

History
In the 1960s, Rev. Russ Bixler was visiting the Virginia Beach area and came across independent station WYAH-TV, which was running an all-Christian format. Bixler came to visit the Christian Broadcasting Network studios, meeting Pat Robertson and Jim Bakker. Concluding that Pittsburgh needed a similar station, Bixler applied for the channel 22 license in the 1970s, but lost to Commercial Radio Institute, a forerunner of Sinclair Broadcast Group in 1975, who would launch that station as secular independent WPTT-TV in 1978. Bixler then applied for a license on channel 40, and was granted a construction permit for that channel in 1976.

After several hurdles, Bixler was able to get the needed equipment and was able to sell a few hours a day of programming time to Christian organizations. WPCB-TV finally began operations on April 15, 1979. The station was initially on the air for 15 hours a day, and within a year expanded to a 24-hour schedule. Programming consisted of several runs a day of the two-hour edition of the PTL Club, the 90-minute edition of The 700 Club, several other shows produced by CBN for the CBN Cable channel, a few children's educational and religious shows, televangelists like Jimmy Swaggart, Rex Humbard, Oral Roberts and Jerry Falwell, and some local church programs. The station also produced a local variety talk and music show, Getting Together. WPCB-TV's programming remains entirely Christian-oriented to this day. From before their sign on, when a person phones the station, the receptionists answer "Jesus Loves You TV 40".

Over the decades, owing to holding a license to operate a commercial television station, WPCB-TV has received countless offers from commercial broadcasters wanting to convert the station into a conventional independent station, but has flatly refused them each time. However, in 1998, Cornerstone attempted to buy the license for non-commercial station WQEX (channel 16), which would have required a sale of the channel 40 license. Paxson Communications made an offer to buy channel 40; if the deal went through, it would have been relaunched as a Pax TV owned-and-operated station under the call letters WKPX-TV. However, at that time the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) did not deem WPCB-TV's religious programming as educational, and Cornerstone's application was withdrawn in 2000; channel 40 was then taken off the market. In 2002, the FCC reversed its position (WQEX was converted into a commercial license later that year; in 2011, it was sold to Paxson's successor, Ion Media Networks, and now carries programming from Pax TV's successor Ion Television as WINP-TV).

Russ Bixler died in 2000, and Ron Hembree, who hosted a program on WPCB-TV, took over as the station's president. Hembree died in June 2010.

Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion
WPCB-TV shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 40, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcasts on its pre-transition UHF channel 50, using virtual channel 40.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/A matter of fact

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A matter of fact
etymology of a phrase. It has been transwikied to Wiktionary. Kevin Rector (talk) 05:29, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. No potential for expansion.  Rossami (talk) 23:46, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Rossami --nixie 04:05, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nitin

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Nitin
DicDef of a non-English word. It has been transwikied to Wiktionary. Kevin Rector (talk) 05:32, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, foreign dictionary definition, already transwikid. Megan1967 08:28, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * ' Keep or merge' somewhere, if it's one of the 1000 names of Lord Vishnu. List of name of Lord Vishnu maybe. Kappa 10:54, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Hm, interesting point. I would prefer not to have thousand name stubs about Vishnu though, so merging would have my vote. Radiant_* 08:49, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * What's the policy on given names? This is also a (common?) given name in India. android↔talk 12:42, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * No policy, I'm afraid. We do have WP:NOT a genealogy database, which may help. I believe consensus is to not have articles on most of them (i.e. delete or merge to list), unless they're 1) really common, or 2) something interestingly special can be said about it. Radiant_* 08:49, Apr 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, we do have a policy. They go to Wiktionary unless, as you say, there is something really special about it.  Since this has already been transwikied, delete as the final step in a successful transwiki.  Rossami (talk) 23:49, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * What's not special about being a name for a major deity? Kappa 17:33, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, if that claims of this very article are to be trusted, "Nitin" is not in fact one of the names. "Nitya" is a separate (though related) name.  Nitya, however, does not yet exists and is not up for discussion.  Rossami (talk) 01:17, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Good point. Kappa 00:34, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Rossami (again)--nixie 04:06, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Edwin Arthur Jones

Edwin Arthur Jones, (June 28, 1853 – January 9, 1911) was an American composer. His works include a cantata and a large oratorio in three parts, modeled after Handel's Messiah.

Early life and education
Edwin Arthur Jones was born in Stoughton, Massachusetts, on June 28, 1853. After studies at the New England Conservatory of Music in violin, organ and harmony, Jones entered Dartmouth College in 1872.

That same year, Jones was a violinist among the thousands of instrumentalists and singers who played at the World's Peace Jubilee and International Musical Festival in Boston, organized by bandmaster Patrick Gilmore. One of the special invited guests was the Viennese composer, Johann Strauss Jr., who performed some of his popular waltzes.

Jones graduated from Dartmouth College in 1876, where he was Class President, Director of the Dartmouth Glee Club, First violinist in the Dartmouth College Orchestra, one of the editors of the college newspaper, and Captain of the Dartmouth Big Green baseball team in 1875.

First compositions
After graduation, he went to Baltimore to help his family run a store. His first major composition was a set of waltzes for solo piano, The Farewell Waltzes, which he had composed while at Dartmouth College. This composition was published in Baltimore in 1874. He also made an arrangement for chamber orchestra.

Six years later, in 1880, his First String Quartet was performed at the Peabody Concervatory in Baltimore. He then returned to his home town in Massachusetts.

Orchestra leader and composer
After returning to Stoughton, Jones formed his own orchestra of 20 musicians. A photo of his orchestra was taken in 1885.

In 1881, he composed a large cantata for soloists, chorus, organ and orchestra, Song of Our Saviour. This cantata was never performed during his lifetime and received its world premiere over one hundred years later on May 3, 1992.

The other major choral work by Jones was his oratorio, Easter Concert, for soloists, chorus and orchestra. It was published in 1890 in a piano-vocal score by White-Smith Music Publishing Company in Boston. This version received its first modern day performance on April 26, 1981.

Besides his two large choral works, Jones also composed other vocal works, including:

Blessing and Glory: Fugue - Tenors and Basses (1874); Praise Ye The Lord - Tenors and Basses (1874); Wake, Maiden Wake - Tenors and Basses (1881); King Christian - Bass solo and SATB Chorus (1886); Old Stoughton - SATB Chorus (1886); Ode to Music - SATB Chorus (1888); Love Hailed a Little Maid - Soprano solo and piano (1888); Snowflakes - Soprano solo and piano (1888); Hail, Smiling Morn! - Bass solo and chamber ensemble (undated); Lord, Dismiss Is With Thy Blessing - SATB Chorus (undated).

Among his instrumental works are:

Two String Trios - in D Major and G Major (1878); String Quartet No. 1 in F Major (1880); Dedication March - for orchestra (1881); Suite Ancienne - for orchestra (1886); String Quartet No 2 in G minor (1887) - first performed at Mrs. J. L. (Isabella Stewart) Gardener's home in Boston by the Kneissel Quartet in 1889.

Jones was a member of the two choral societies in town: The Stoughton Musical Society, founded in 1786 and now the oldest choral society in America, and The Musical Society in Stoughton, founded in 1802, disbanded in 1982. He was largely responsible for the Stoughton Musical Society's invitation to perform at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Pen-tip velocity

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Pen-tip velocity
DicDef of a word that will most likely never expand (In case you were wondering, "Pen-tip velocity" is the velocity of a pen tip). It has been transwikied to Wiktionary. Kevin Rector (talk) 05:34, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
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Because I Got High

"Because I Got High" is a song by American rapper Afroman from the album of the same name. The lyrics of the song humorously describe how cannabis use is degrading the narrator's quality of life. The song, which was written in only a few minutes, rose from obscurity to popularity after it was circulated around the Internet and was featured on The Howard Stern Show.

Overview
The song explains how the narrator "got high" with the result of not taking responsibility for anything. Examples include neglecting to clean his room, failing his college class (which he intends to take the semester after), getting fired from his job (leading him to resort to selling marijuana for a living), missing court dates, having his paycheck for that week garnished due to missed child support payments, gambling away his car payment, becoming a paraplegic as the result of a police chase, and being left by his wife for neglecting to have sex with her. The singer then sums up that, as a result of his constant reliance on cannabis, he lost custody of his children, lost his wife, and ended up homeless and "sleeping on the sidewalk". He ultimately decides to end the song, and admits that he is "singing the whole thing wrong, because [he is] high". The extended version features another verse afterward: "Well my name is Afroman, and I'm from East Palmdale / And all the tumbleweed I be smoking is bomb as hell / I don't believe in Hitler, that's what I said / So all of you skins... please give me more head" (the last two lines are a reference to John Lennon's "God" and a pun on "skinheads", respectively). This version ends with Afroman saying, "We ain't gonna sell none of these motherfuckin' albums cuz... let's go back to Marshall Durbin and hang some more chickens cuz, fuck it", followed by "Fuck the corporate world, biatch!".

The music video was directed by Michael Alperowitz and features Kevin Smith and Jason Mewes as Jay and Silent Bob smoking with Afroman, a cameo by "Beer Man", as well as a glimpse of the Quick Stop where Clerks was filmed.

Reception
Afroman released his album Because I Got High in 2000; he distributed it mainly through concerts. The title track was soon posted on file-sharing service Napster and made it to The Howard Stern Show. This song was the theme song of the film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back and was later featured in the films Disturbia, A Thousand Words, The Perfect Score and the Snowpiercer show.

After the success of this single, Afroman was signed to Universal Records.

On the album Mobilize by punk band Anti-Flag, after several minutes of silence on the album's end track, a friend of the band called Spaz can be heard singing parts of the song with Anti-Flag.

Alternative versions
Afroman re-recorded the song with new lyrics for his 2009 album Frobama Head of State. A second re-recording of the song, called the "Positive Remix", was released by Afroman through YouTube on October 15, 2014 as part of a collaboration with Weedmaps and NORML. In contrast to the original version, the lyrics of this version deal with the positive effects of marijuana legalization.

A song with a similar theme was released by Detroit Junior in 1980, titled "If I Hadn't Been High."

Parodies
Bob Rivers included a Christmas-themed version, Be Claus I Got High, on the 2002 album White Trash Christmas, the fifth in Rivers's line of Christmas parody albums.

BBC Radio 1 DJ Chris Moyles recorded a parody under the pseudonym "Afro-Blair" featuring Jon Culshaw and another impressionist singing in the guise of the serving Prime Minister Tony Blair, then Leader of the Opposition William Hague and former Prime Ministers John Major and Margaret Thatcher.

The controversial parody artist Rucka Rucka Ali made a version of the song called "Because I'm White" about stereotypes of White Americans and white privilege in general.

A parody was made about British politician Michael Gove after his scandal involving cocaine use.

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Janey Godley

Janey Godley (born Jane Godley Currie, 20 January 1961) is a Scottish stand-up comedian, actress and writer from Glasgow.

Early life
Jane Godley Currie was born on 20 January 1961. The youngest of four children born to Annie and Jim Currie, she was raised on Kenmore Street in Shettleston, a district in the East End of Glasgow, and attended Eastbank Academy. Living in poverty, which was rife in the East End during that time, Godley left school at 16 with no qualifications. Her parents were alcoholics and her mother was also addicted to tranquilisers.

Godley and her sister, Ann Crawford, were sexually abused by their maternal uncle, David Percy. Percy, who was 12 years older than Godley, molested her and her sister for a number of years during their childhoods. Percy was charged for the crimes in 1993 after the sisters decided to come forward, and was later found guilty and sentenced to two years in prison in 1996.

Godley married Sean Storrie in 1980 at the age of 19. Storrie, who has Asperger syndrome, was born into a Glasgow gangster family. Their daughter, Ashley Storrie (born 1986), who also has autism spectrum disorder, is a stand-up comedian and BBC Radio Scotland presenter. Godley ran a public house in Calton, Glasgow with her husband and his family for 14 years during the 1980s and 1990s.

In 1982, when Godley was 21, her mother died after drowning in the River Clyde. Godley believes that her mother was murdered by her violent boyfriend. He was never charged by police for Annie Currie's death despite calls from her family for an investigation.

On 31 December 2010, her brother Mij Currie died from a drug-related illness.

Career
Godley began her stand-up career in 1994. Godley decided to use a stage name, saying to her husband: "I don't want to be Janey Storrie any more, because your family let me down, and I don't want to be Janey Currie because my family let me down. I'm going to use my middle name and legally become Janey Godley. The only family who haven't let me down are the Godleys because I don't know them." She legally changed her name from Janey Godley Storrie to Janey Godley in 1995.

She won an award for the "Best Show Concept" at the New Zealand International Comedy Festival in 2002, and the "Spirit of the Festival" in 2006. In 2005 her autobiography Handstands in the Dark was published. In 2006, she was a finalist for the Edinburgh Evening Times' "Scotswoman of the Year" award. In 2002, 2006, 2008 and 2009, she was nominated as "Best International Guest" by the New Zealand Comedy Guild.

Her TV appearances include River City, Sam Delaney's News Thing, The Alex Salmond Show, Have I Got News for You and Traces. She appears in the film Wild Rose.

Godley often makes spoof voice-overs of videos. In 2020, Godley wrote and starred in a series of short films titled Alone, about a recently widowed housewife whose abusive husband has died of COVID-19, as part of the National Theatre of Scotland's Scenes for Survival webseries. In December 2020, the Royal Society of Edinburgh commended Godley's voice-overs of First Minister Nicola Sturgeon's COVID-19 briefings for helping engage the public with the warnings.

In 2020, she won the Scots Language Award's Speaker of the Year Award.

In September 2021, tweets Godley had sent in the past were publicised by The Daily Beast, leading MSP Douglas Lumsden to question the decision to cast her in a pantomime performance of Beauty and the Beast. Some of these tweets included insults based on the Chernobyl disaster and disabilities, and racial insults towards African American musicians Kelly Rowland, 50 Cent and Snoop Dogg. Godley apologised for the tweets. Additionally, she was dropped from a Public Health Scotland campaign.

In November 2021, Godley announced via Twitter the cancellation of the last weekend of her tour, explaining that she had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer and was being treated in hospital. She had a full hysterectomy in January 2022 and announced in June that she was cancer-free. On 13 December 2022, she announced that her cancer had returned and that she would need further chemotherapy.

Political activism
Godley is a supporter of Scottish independence. She describes herself as "anti-Tory". She formerly supported the Conservatives in her youth and once met Margaret Thatcher at a Scottish Conservative Party Conference in Perth.

In February 2016, Godley joined a group of comedians on a tour of the UK in support of Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn, although she is a supporter of the Scottish National Party.

In 2016, Godley was pictured standing outside Donald Trump's Turnberry Golf resort holding a sign stating "Trump is a Cunt", which went viral. She was prevented from approaching her subject by Police Scotland. Following a protest in Glasgow which she organised in November 2016 just prior to the election of Trump as president, she received rape threats through Twitter.

Books

 * Illustrated by Christina Connelly

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Godbeites

The Godbeites were members of the Godbeite Church, officially called the Church of Zion, organized in 1870 by William S. Godbe. This dissident offshoot of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was aimed toward embracing all belief systems. Known for embracing spiritualism and mysticism, the church died out by the 1880s.

In 1868, Godbe and other Mormon merchants began criticizing the economic demands and policies of Brigham Young in Utah Magazine, a periodical that would eventually become The Salt Lake Tribune. Godbe and several other proponents were excommunicated from the church on October 25, 1869. Godbe wanted to reform the LDS Church and believed that political reform, breaking Young's control over secular matters in the territory, could help spur religious reform.

The Godbeites were the original core of Utah Territory's Liberal Party. However, as it became more explicitly anti-Mormon and critical of polygamy, the Godbeite influence in the party died out.

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Mormonism and Christianity
Had immense attention and focus in late 2003 and early 2004, and has been extremely stable since then. No images. Tom Haws

 * Support, although article could use an appropriate image and the lead block should be trimmed. This article's journey highlights the benefits of group editing by wikipedians of varied backgrounds. Cool Hand Luke  07:02, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support This is an excellent example of collaboration from Mormon adherents, critics of Mormons and editors of other faiths. -Visorstuff 16:39, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Some uncouth writing and unclear points. Cookiecaper 17:29, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose Run on sentences and material that belongs elsewhere. Clean it up and separate the material into several articles.  This should not be an article showcasing opposition to the LDS faith via mainstream Christianity.  This article should be used to branch out intoseveral new articles or to salt existing articles with its work. --Vegasbright 18:57, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Lead section is too long and I'd like to see more inline citations. As is, almost all are just associated with quotations. The other data presented in the article also need to be backed up when particular points are made. --mav 02:43, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support This is a well-balanced article on a potentially contentious subject.  While improvements could be made, I'm fairly certain that will always be the case. wrp103 (Bill Pringle)  - Talk 16:41, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. I agree that the lead might be successfully trimmed to the article's benefit, and I don't dispute that some minor tweaks still remain, but to deny FA status to one of the best examples of Wikipedia offering a neutral, accurate, informative article on an extremely controversial subject would not be right, in my opinion.  If every article at Wikipedia was this good (including all the other controversial areas), we could be proud indeed. Jwrosenzweig 22:47, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose. The article is good for the reasons Jwrosenzweig says, but the writing needs to be improved first, and I think several sections could either be written more concisely or possibly have some material moved elsewhere. It deserves to be cleaned up and renominated, and to this end I've begun to give it some renewed attention. Can't imagine what image would go with the article. Wesley 03:37, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment I think the lead section definitely needs to be tidied up:  it's not only too long, it doesn't really fulfil the definitional and structuring role it really should.  But hopefully that can be fixed during the period the article's under consideration.  Alai 02:27, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:Hellmouth

Pronunciation
Is it pronounced like 'hell / mouth' or like 'hell / myth' ? 98.221.131.77 (talk) 09:45, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

Actively grasping?
can someone please explain to me what an "actively grasping description" is? This makes no sense to me. Eric Rosenfield 20:12, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

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Is this something we could include here?
Or, perhaps, it is a bit too disturbing?

I was researching something related, and it took me a few minutes to figure out the significance of the large-mouthed behemoth near the center of the painting. I'm a huge fan of Bosch, but I understand that he isn't everyone's cup of tea. I thought it illustrated the point/topic of this article rather well

Thoughts?

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Talk:Christian Lindberg

Untitled
I made a number of changes too numerous to list in the summary. My changes are based largely on information from the liner notes from Lindberg's albums and his website:
 * Where is the vote for best brass players of the 20th Century? Until I see evidence listed here, I have to assume POV and remove that first line.
 * He began playing trombone at 17, not 16.
 * He entered the Stockholm Royal Opera Orchestra at 19, not 18 (and I added the orchestra's name).
 * He left the orchestra at 20, not 19, and to continue his studies, not for immediate entrance into a professional solo touring career.
 * Added the umlaut in Roland Pöntinen and Jan Sandström.
 * Corrected Robert von Bahr's name.
 * Removed potentially POV "His technique is second to none" and replaced it with something a bit less contentious (I thought I saw a couple Joe Alessi fans throwing rocks).
 * Added link to Four Seasons (Vivaldi) where the opportunity arose.
 * Replaced "huge sensitivity" with "his lyrical playing abilities" and "items" with "pieces"
 * Replaced Julietta's Farewell with "Julietta's Farewell", since it is only one part of a long work, and linked Prokofiev's name.
 * Replaced "Famous theatrical repertoire includes" with "His repertoire includes", because not all of the pieces mentioned have theatrical components.
 * Replaced Sequenza V with "Sequenza V" for same reasons as above, and re-linked Luciano Berio's name.
 * Added Fredrik Högberg's first name, the umlaut in his last name, linked his name, and corrected the piece's title. Also reattributed Su ba do be to Högberg and corrected its title.
 * Replaced "Tone-wise he has developed in..." with "He has developed his tone in..." and recharacterized German tone versus American tone.
 * Added infromation relating to his compositional career.
 * Fixed information relating to his conducting career.
 * Fixed the descriptions of the external links.

(wipes forehead) --Jemiller226 05:37, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Stoofoo
Article does not establish notoriety. -- Longhair | Talk 05:39, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. Stephen Compall 06:04, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I'm not too sure what happened with the VfD of this article.  --Randy 22:33, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Hopefully someone from the site will write some better content (not me =P)  --Soul Colossus 04:16, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Alexa ranking of 1,132,202. Doesn't come close to WP:WEB criteria for notability. --GraemeL (talk) 12:41, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

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Kuzma Minin

Kuzma Minin (Кузьма́ Ми́нин), full name Kuzma Minich Zakhariev-Sukhoruky (Кузьма́ Ми́нич Заха́рьев Сухору́кий; c. 1570s – May 21, 1616), was a Russian merchant who, together with Prince Dmitry Pozharsky, formed the popular uprising in Nizhny Novgorod against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth's occupation of Russia during the Polish intervention in Russia (1605-1618) coinciding with the Time of Troubles. The popular uprising ultimately led to Russian victory at the Battle of Moscow and the end of Polish occupation in 1612. Minin and Pozharsky become national heroes in Russian culture and were honored in the Monument to Minin and Pozharsky in Moscow's Red Square.

A native of Balakhna, Minin was a prosperous butcher in Nizhny Novgorod. When the popular patriotic movement to organize volunteer corps in his home city was formed, the merchants chose Minin, a trusted and respected member of the guild, to oversee the handling of the public funds donated by them to raise and equip the Second Volunteer Army (Второе народное ополчение).

The army, led by Prince Pozharsky, was credited with clearing the Moscow Kremlin of Polish forces on November 1, 1612. Minin distinguished himself as a skilled commander and was made a nobleman and member of the boyar duma under the newly elected tsar of Russia Michael Romanov. He died in 1616 and was interred in the Archangel Cathedral of Nizhny Novgorod. A central square of that city is named after him and Prince Pozharsky.

Family
Minin had a single son, Nefed. After Minin's death his property rights passed to his widow, Tatyana Semyonovna, and his son. A royal decree was issued on July 5, 1616, confirming the family's possession of an estate in the Nizhny Novgorod district consisting of the town of Bogorodskoye with its associated villages. Additionally, Nefed Minin owned property in the Kremlin of Nizhny Novgorod, although after the completion of his service, he lived mostly in Moscow where he worked as a government clerk. In 1625 he attended the departure of the Persian ambassador and in 1626 he is recorded as standing by the sovereign's lantern at two royal weddings. No mention is made of him in official records after 1628. Nefed died in 1632 and the lands granted to his father reverted to the crown before being passed to Prince Jacob Kudenekovich Cherkassky.

Tatyana Minin continued to live in Nizhny Novgorod. It appears that at an advanced age she took monastic vows and entered a convent – most likely the Resurrection Convent, located inside the city's Kremlin.

Historical analysis
Minin is generally well regarded by later historians such as Ivan Zabelin and Mikhail Pogodin, having gained respect for his heroic actions.

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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Journalism

Peer review
Folks here may be interested in Peer review/Viking Saga censorship incident/archive1 RoySmith (talk) 18:51, 19 February 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Comic Book Resources
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Comic Book Resources that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Sariel Xilo (talk) 19:49, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

AfD and articles of possible interest
Project participants may be interested in contributing to the following new journalism-related articles and AfD. All are in a contentious subject area so please note the editing restrictions indicated on the talk pages (extended confirm, 1RR, etc): All are fairly new and would benefit from wider participation. Coretheapple (talk) 15:10, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Articles for deletion/Anat Schwartz
 * Anat Schwartz
 * Screams Without Words
 * Wall Street Journal UNRWA article controversy

Also I think Jeffrey Gettleman can use more eyeballs. Coretheapple (talk) 16:52, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Press pass
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Requested move at Talk:Where is Kate?
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Midwest Radio Network
It seems to me that Midwest Radio Network is not a news media company as it pretends. The scores of news web sites it publishes practically scream coordinated disinformation. Perhaps there was once a genuine Australian media company with that name. But right now it looks like disinformation. Which Wikproject would best review this article? It is odd that the wiki-article for a media company which runs scores of sites is not being monitored by WikiProject Journalism, so I'm posting here. -- M.boli (talk) 14:35, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

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National Cornbread Festival

The National Cornbread Festival is a celebration of cornbread and cornbread-related activities. The festival, held in South Pittsburg, Tennessee from 1997 to 2019 during the last full weekend in April, will resume in 2022. Among the attractions featured at the National Cornbread Festival are:

 * The Cornbread Cookoff
 * The Cornbread Eating Competition
 * The Cornbread 5k Race
 * Cornbread Alley (a sampling of various cornbread recipes from local organizations)
 * Arts and Crafts from area vendors
 * Tours of the Lodge Cast Iron Skillet Foundry
 * Tours of historic South Pittsburg
 * The Cornbread Classic Car Cruise-In
 * Live music from performers including perennial favorite, Rhonda Vincent

In the year 2000 the National Cornbread Festival was selected as one of the top 100 events in North America by the American Bus Association.

The COVID-19 pandemic was to blame for all cancellations since 2020; the 24th was deferred to April 2022.

2007 National Cornbread Competition winners
Matthew Tichenor of Birmingham, AL
 * Cornbread Eating Competition

Chad Campbell of Florence, AL

Nicholas Harris of Huntsville, AL
 * Buttermilk Chug

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Part-time job

A part-time job is a form of employment that carries fewer hours per week than a full-time job. They work in shifts. The shifts are often rotational. Workers are considered to be part-time if they commonly work fewer than 30 hours per week. According to the International Labour Organization, the number of part-time workers has increased from one-quarter to a half in the past 20 years in most developed countries, excluding the United States. There are many reasons for working part-time, including the desire to do so, having one's hours cut back by an employer and being unable to find a full-time job. The International Labour Organisation Convention 175 requires that part-time workers be treated no less favourably than full-time workers.

In some cases the nature of the work itself may require that the employees be classified part as part-time workers. For example, some amusement parks are closed during winter months and keep only a skeleton crew on hand for maintenance and office work. As a result of this cutback in staffing during the off season, employees who operate rides, run gaming stands, or staff concession stands may be classified as part-time workers owing to the months long down time during which they may be technically employed, but not necessarily on active duty.

European Union
In the EU, there is a strong East–West divide, where: "in Central and Eastern European countries part-time work remains a marginal phenomenon even among women, while the Western countries have embraced it much more widely." The highest percentage of part-time work is in the Netherlands (see below) and the lowest in Bulgaria. There is also a gap between women (32.1% EU average in 2015) and men (8.9%).

The Netherlands has by far the highest percentage of part-time workers in the EU In 2012, 76.9% of women and 24.9% of men worked part-time. The high percentage of women working part-time has been explained by social norms and the historical context of the country, where women were among the last in Europe to enter the workforce, and when they did, most of them did so on a part-time basis; according to The Economist, fewer Dutch men had to fight in the World Wars of the 20th century, and so Dutch women did not experience working for pay at rates women in other countries did. The wealth of the country, coupled with the fact that "[Dutch] politics was dominated by Christian values until the 1980s" meant that Dutch women were slower to enter into the workforce. Research in 2016 led by professor Stijn Baert (Ghent University) debunked the idea that part-time work by students is an asset for their CV in respect of later employment chances.

United Kingdom

 * Part-time Workers Directive
 * Part-time Workers (Prevention of Less Favourable Treatment) Regulations 2000 (SI 2000/1551)

Australia
Part-time employment in Australia involves a comprehensive framework. Part-time employees work fewer hours than their full-time counterparts within a specific industry. This can vary, but is generally less than 32 hours per week. Part-time employees within Australia are legally entitled to paid annual leave, sick leave, and having maternity leave etc. except it is covered on a 'pro-rata' (percentage) basis depending on the hours worked each week. Furthermore, as a part-time employee is guaranteed a ular roster within a workplace, they are given an annular salary paid each week, fortnight, or month. Employers within Australia are obliged to provide minimum notice requirements for termination, redundancy and change of rostered hours in relation to part-time workers. As of January 2010, the number of part-time workers within Australia was approximately 3.3 million out of the 10.9 million individuals within the Australian workforce.

Canada
In Canada, part-time workers are those who usually work fewer than 30 hours per week at their main or only job. In 2007, just over 1 in every 10 employees aged 25 to 54 worked part-time. A person who has a part-time placement is often contracted to a company or business in which they have a set of terms they agree with. 'Part-time' can also be used in reference to a student (usually in higher education) who works only few hours a day. Usually students from different nations (India, China, Mexico etc.) prefer Canada for their higher studies due to the availability of more part-time jobs.

United States
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, working part-time is defined as working between 1 and 34 hours per week. In 2018, between 25 and 28 million Americans worked part-time. Typically, part-time employees in the United States are not entitled to employee benefits, such as health insurance. The Institute for Women's Policy Research reports that females are nine times likelier than males to work in a part-time capacity over a full-time capacity as a result of caregiving demands of their family members.

Increasing use of part-time workers in the United States is associated with employee scheduling software often resulting in expansion of the part-time workforce, reduction of the full-time workforce and scheduling which is unpredictable and inconvenient.

Iran
Part-time employment contracts are recognized under Iranian labor law. There are no specific legal requirements regarding the minimum or maximum number of hours a part-time employee can work, but they must receive benefits and protections proportionate to their working hours compared to full-time employees. According to Article 39 of Iran's Labor Law The wages and benefits payable to the workers who are engaged in work on part-time basis or for hours less than the officially determined working hours, shall be calculated and paid in proportion to the hours of work actually performed.

Motives for part-time work
Part-time work makes it easier to take care of housework and family work after the birth of a child and to continue to work or to get back to work after a baby break and thus reconcile family and work. Part-time jobs leave more time for other activities (such as hobbies, further education, volunteering). Productivity of part-time workers can be higher than that of full-time workers because of lower stress, lower absenteeism, better work–life balance, and a more flexible work organization. Employees who are not fully resilient for health reasons may remain longer in part-time employment and it can be a smooth transition into retirement. Working less fits the lifestyle of simple living and earning and spending less can contribute to climate change mitigation.

Worldwide

 * The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has Full-Time/Part-Time Employment Statistics and Incidence Rates for select nations, based on national definitions.

Europe

 * Eurostat has data on part-time employment by sex, age group, economic activity, occupation as well as information on the reason for taking up part-time work, and whether or not if it is voluntary for its member states.
 * Síle O’Dorchai, Robert Plasman, François Rycx: The Part-Time Wage Penalty in European Countries: How Large Is It for Men?, IZA Discussion Paper Series No. 2591, January 2007

Canada

 * Labour force survey estimates (LFS), part-time employment by reason for part-time work, sex and age group, unadjusted for seasonality
 * Part-time employment rates
 * Reason for working part-time

United States

 * Employed persons by class of worker and part-time status

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Full-time job

A full-time job is employment in which workers work a minimum number of hours defined as such by their employer.

Overview
Full-time employment often comes with benefits that are not typically offered to part-time, temporary, or flexible workers, such as annual leave, sick leave, and health insurance. Part-time jobs are mistakenly thought by some to not be careers. However, legislation exists to stop employers from discriminating against part-time workers so this should not be a factor when making decisions on career advancement. They generally pay more than part-time jobs per hour, and this is similarly discriminatory if the pay decision is based on part-time status as a primary factor. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not define full-time employment or part-time employment. This is a matter generally to be determined by the employer (US Department of Labor). The definition by the employer can vary and is generally published in a company's Employee Handbook. Companies commonly require from 32 to 40 hours per week to be defined as full-time and therefore eligible for benefits.

Full-time status varies between company and is often based on the shift the employee must work during each workweek. The "standard" work week consists of five eight-hour days, commonly served between 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM or 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM totaling 40 hours. While a four-day week generally consists of four ten-hour days, it may also consist of as little as nine hours for a total of a 36-hour workweek. Twelve-hour shifts are often three days per week, unless the company has the intention of paying out the employee overtime. Overtime is legally paid out anytime an employee works more than 40 hours per week. The legal minimum for overtime starts at Base Pay + One-Half. The increased payout is considered to compensate slightly for the increased fatigue which a person experiences on such long shifts. Shifts can also be very irregular, as in retail, but are still full-time if the required number of hours is reached. There are some situations where a person who needs full-time work is dropped to part-time, which is sometimes a form of constructive dismissal to avoid paying unemployment benefits to a laid-off worker.

Definitions by country
Full-time workweeks:
 * 🇦🇺 Australia: approximately 38 hours
 * 🇧🇪 Belgium: 38 hours
 * 🇧🇷 Brazil: 40–44 hours
 * 🇨🇱 Chile: 45 hours
 * 🇨🇦 Canada: 37.5 hours - 40.0 hours
 * 🇩🇰 Denmark: 37 hours
 * 🇫🇷 France: 35 hours (government-mandated)
 * 🇩🇪 Germany: 35–40 hours
 * 🇮🇸 Iceland: 40 hours
 * 🇮🇳 India: 48 hours (as per the Factories Act 1948, a person cannot work for more than 48 hours in a week)
 * 🇹🇼 Taiwan: 40 hours
 * 🇮🇱 Israel: 43 hours
 * 🇮🇹 Italy: 40 hours
 * 🇳🇱 Netherlands: 35–40 hours
 * 🇳🇴 Norway: 40 hours (often regulated to 37.5 excl. lunch break)
 * 🇵🇱 Poland: 40 hours
 * 🇷🇺 Russia: 40 hours
 * 🇸🇪 Sweden: 40 hours (not formally defined)
 * 🇹🇷 Turkey: 45 hours (not formally defined)
 * 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: 35 hours (not formally defined), 37.5 hours, or 40 hours contracts are all commonplace.
 * 🇺🇸 United States: 30 hours or more, according to the definitions in the Affordable Care Act.   "The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not define full-time employment or part-time employment. This is a matter generally to be determined by the employer." The FLSA does, however, define the eight-hour day and thus sets the maximum workweek at 40 hours, but provides that employees working beyond 40 hours a week receive additional overtime bonus salaries. However, in practice, only 42% of employees work 40-hour weeks. The average workweek for full-time employees is 47 hours. Increasingly, employers are offering compressed work schedules to employees. Some government and corporate employees now work a 9/80 work schedule (80 hours over 9 days during a two-week period)—commonly 9-hour days Monday to Thursday, 8 hours on one Friday, and off the following Friday.

A person working more than full-time is working overtime, and may be entitled to extra per-hour wages (but not salary).

Academic usage
“Full-time” can also be used in reference to a student (usually in higher education) who takes a full load of course work each academic term. The distinction between a full-time and part-time student varies markedly from country to country. As an example, in the United States a student is commonly defined as being in full-time education when they undertake 12 or more credit hours. This translates to 12 "hours" (often of 50 minutes instead of 60 minutes each) in class per week. "Lab hours" often count for less, only as one-half or one-third of a credit hour.

International students must maintain full-time status for student visas. Adult students (typically up to age 22 or 23) may also fall under their parents' health insurance (and possibly car insurance and other services) if they are full-time, except for one term per year (usually summer). Students may also be eligible for elected office in student government or other student organizations only if they are full-time. The Department of Labor has a full-time student program which allows employers to pay no less than 85% of the minimum wage to the student/employee.

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Baltic Defense

The Baltic Defense (also known as the Grau Defense, or the Sahovic Defense) is a chess opening characterized by the moves:
 * 1. d4 d5
 * 2. c4 Bf5!?

The Baltic is an unusual variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined (QGD). In most defenses to the QGD, Black has difficulties developing his. This opening takes a radical approach to the problem by bringing out the queen bishop immediately.

The Baltic has not found widespread acceptance among chess masters, but some world-class players have used it including grandmasters Paul Keres and Alexei Shirov.

The ECO code for the Baltic Defense is D06.

White responses
White has several replies to this opening, including 3.Nf3, 3.cxd5, 3.Qb3, and 3.Nc3. Play might continue:

3.Nf3 e6

 * 4.Qb3 Nc6
 * 4.e3 Nf6 5.Qb3 Nc6
 * 4.Nc3 Nf6 5.Qb3 Nc6
 * 4.cxd5 exd5 5.Qb3 Nc6

3.cxd5

 * 3...Bxb1 4.Qa4+ Qd7 5.Qxd7+ Nxd7 6.Rxb1 Ngf6 7.Nf3

3.Qb3

 * 3...e5 4.Qxb7 Nd7 5.Nf3 Rb8 6.Qxd5 Bb4+ 7.Nfd2 (7.Bd2 Ne7 Webb–Sinclair, England 1971) Ne7 8.Qf3 exd4 and Black has development and initiative for his pawn.

3.Nc3

 * 3...e6 4.Qb3 (4.Nf3) Nc6 5.cxd5 exd5 6.Qxd5? (a mistake, as Black has 6...Nxd4, winning) Qxd5 7.Nxd5 0-0-0

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Wesley Mission

Wesley Mission is a name used by three independent Uniting Church groups which are a part of the Uniting Missions Network of UnitingCare Australia. These predominantly grew out of inner city Central Methodist Missions of the Methodist Church of Australasia. Most of the Methodist City Missions of that era later joined together to form Mission Australia.

Wesley Mission
Wesley Mission operates out of over 200 centres and employs over 2,000 staff with a budget of $160 million.

Methodists began doing welfare work in Sydney in 1812. This work became Sydney's Central Methodist Mission in 1884. In 1946 it opened a psychiatric care facility, now known as Wesley Hospital in Ashfield. It later opened another mental health hospital in Kogarah.

In 1963, while led by Reverend Dr Sir Alan Walker, it established Lifeline, now Australia's largest national phone support service and operating in 19 countries.

In 1977, it became known as Wesley Central Mission when it became part of the Uniting Church at its founding. In 1978 Gordon Moyes became Superintendent, and it started producing the nationally broadcast TV show Turn Around Australia (now Wesley Impact! TV) on the Nine Network. In 1979, Edward Eagar Lodge opened, extending on earlier homeless housing work started in 1866. In 1989, it established the Wesley Institute, an educational organisation that is now known as Excelsia College (and left the organisation in 2013). In 1994, the organisation's name changed to Wesley Mission. In 1995 it established Wesley LifeForce, now Australia's largest provider of anti-suicide training.

Rev Dr. Keith Vincent Garner became Superintendent in 2006.

In 2021, the Mission called Stu Cameron, a Uniting Church minister who had grown several churches on the Gold Coast, to become the CEO and Superintendent.

Wesley Mission Newcastle
Newcastle City Mission was founded in 1940 by a group of Newcastle business people with the aim of assisting those in distress and poverty throughout Newcastle and the Hunter Valley. In 1999, Newcastle City Mission merged with Wesley Mission Sydney to become Wesley Mission Newcastle.

Wesley Mission Newcastle services the Newcastle and Hunter region. Services delivered from the Newcastle offices include gambling and financial counselling, youth services, a seniors living centre, vocational training, home and community care, emergency relief, a retail furniture store, family services and chaplaincy.

Wesley Mission Queensland
Queensland's Methodists began in Brisbane in 1847, Albert Street, Brisbane, doing a variety of welfare work. This work grew into the Brisbane Central Methodist Mission, offering a broad range of services to Brisbane's poor. In 1936 Queensland's first aged care community, it opened the Garden Settlement (now Wheller Gardens), in Chermside. They changed their name to Wesley Mission Queensland in 2016.

By 2017, it was providing services for 100,000 people each year, including childcare for 1338 children and 13 aged care services and retirement living for more than 4000 older people, over 600 free meals pre provided each week from Emergency and Hardship service.

Wesley Mission Victoria
Wesley Mission Victoria (previously Wesley Mission Melbourne) provides a range of community services that help people improve their quality of life and increase their social and economic participation. It works across a range of service areas including aged care, children youth and family, crisis and homelessness, disability, and employment.

Wesley is the organisation behind some of Melbourne's best known and most valued community services, including the Lifeline Melbourne telephone counselling service and Wesley Do Care – a social support service helping older people stay socially active and participate in their community.

Wesley Mission Victoria was established as the Melbourne Central Methodist Mission in 1893, next to the Wesley Church in Lonsdale Street, Melbourne. At that time, the area was known as the 'back slums' of Melbourne and was notorious for opium dens, gambling houses and places of ill-repute.

Wesley's heritage is founded on the response of Wesleyan Methodists in Victoria to the severe economic depression and associated inner city poverty of the early 1890s.

Today the organisation employs over 800 staff and receives the support of over 1,600 volunteers who help to deliver more than 50 services across metropolitan Melbourne.

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User:Mlprater

I am Matt.

I am a mechanical engineer. I worked as an engineer for 4 years. I went to Michigan Technological University, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering in 1998.

I am lawyer. I went to William Mitchell College of Law, graduating with a Juris Doctorate in 2006. I have worked in the legal business for 3 4  5 8 years.

I am a motorsports fan. I particularly enjoy open wheeled, asphalt racing, but am currently boycotting ChampCar and IRL due to their ongoing feud including IndyCar. As such, I follow and Formula One. I additionally like to follow the World Rally Championship series.

I like the movie The Big Lebowski.

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Canyon De Chelly
Another photo by Edward S. Curtis, in 1904. Seven riders on horseback and dog trek against a background of canyon cliffs. Illustrates Canyon De Chelly National Monument.
 * Nominate and support. - brian0918  ™  06:04, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Oppose - Sorry, I don't like the sepia look to this pic, nor the gloominess - Adrian Pingstone 08:26, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Jonas Olson 10:52, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Impressive! --Bricktop 21:54, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support. Great image. I like the sepia effect.--Fir0002 03:45, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support Got a nice rustic feel to it. TomStar81 04:42, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support I love it. Junes 09:55, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Support Amazing Photo. Curtis is a genius. Canyon de Chelly is amazing. --jacobolus (t) 10:13, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Support Good version of a classic Curtis. -- Solipsist 08:14, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
 * +8 / -1 -- Solipsist 23:03, 13 May 2005 (UTC)


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R. Luke DuBois

Roger Luke DuBois (born 10 September 1975) is an American composer, performer, conceptual new media artist, programmer, record producer and pedagogue based in New York City.

Early life
DuBois was born in Morristown, New Jersey, United States, moving at age 11 to the UK, where he attended the American School in London, before moving to New York City in 1993 to attend Columbia University. DuBois holds a master's (1999) and a doctorate (2003) in music composition from Columbia (studying primarily with Fred Lerdahl and Jonathan Kramer), and worked as a staff researcher at Columbia's Computer Music Center until 2008.

Academic career
DuBois has taught interactive music and video performance at a number of institutions, including Columbia, Princeton University, the School of Visual Arts, and the Music Technology and interactive telecommunications programs at New York University. In 2008 he began teaching as a full-time professor at the NYU Tandon School of Engineering, where he currently serves as co-director of the Integrated Digital Media program and director of the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center; his academic position consists of a triple appointment between the Engineering School, Music Technology, and ITP. As a graduate student at Columbia he was a contributor to Real-Time Cmix. Since 2000 he has worked for Cycling '74 on Max/MSP/Jitter.

Collaborations
DuBois has collaborated with a wide range of artists and musicians, including Elliott Sharp, Paul D. Miller, Todd Reynolds, Toni Dove, Chris Mann, Michael Joaquin Grey, Matthew Ritchie, Eric Singer, Bora Yoon, and Leroy Jenkins. He was a founding member of the Freight Elevator Quartet, and has produced records for Bang on a Can composer Michael Gordon on the Nonesuch label. His music integrates real-time performer-computer interaction with algorithmic methodologies repurposed from other fields, most notably formal grammars such as L-systems. His research into issues of musical time revolves around a technique called time-lapse phonography, as used in his piece Billboard. His instrumental writing, like his artwork, is often based on techniques derived from stochastic music and data mining, using metaphors and information from cultural topics as source material in a postmodern style, as in the string quartet Hard Data, a six-movement sonification that, while its musical structure is based on the casualty stream of the Iraq War, borrows heavily from the instrumental writing of Stravinsky, Messiaen, Xenakis, and Crumb.

Conceptual artist
As a conceptual artist, DuBois takes on various topics in American culture and places them under a computational microscope to raise issues relevant to information theory, perception of time, canonicity, and gaze. For example, his trio of pieces on gestalt media, Academy, Billboard, and Play, look at three iconic cultural "canons" in American popular culture (the Academy Awards, the Billboard Hot 100, and Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month). His piece Hindsight is Always 20/20, based on a statistical analysis of presidential State of the Union addresses, uses computational means as a lens into the politics of political rhetoric. Fashionably Late for the Relationship, his feature-length collaboration with performance artist Lián Amaris, uses the radical time-compression of a 72-hour film of a performance to deconstruct romantic obsession. For his large-scale artwork A More Perfect Union, DuBois joined 21 different online dating sites and constructed a census of the United States based on an analysis of the profiles of 19 million single Americans; shown as a series of colored and relabeled maps, the work investigates the lexicon of American self-identity in the 21st century.

Art and exhibitions
His work is represented by bitforms gallery in New York City, and has been exhibited worldwide, including at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and the 2008 Democratic National Convention. In January 2014 R. Luke DuBois—Now opened at the Ringling Museum of Art. This first solo museum exhibition, organized by curator Matthew McLendon, surveyed DuBois's output over the previous decade, and included performance, video, public installation, and generative works. The exhibition went on to the Orange County Museum of Art the following year and the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in 2016. In December 2016 Hyperallergic named R. Luke DuBois—Now one of the top 15 exhibitions in the United States.

Before becoming a well-known Laptop musician, DuBois did most of his improvisation and performance on Buchla and Serge modular synthesizers.

Awards and recognition
In 2013 DuBois was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Goucher College. He was named the inaugural artist for the Times Square Residency at the CrossRoads Program in 2015 and was a speaker for TED 2016. In 2018 the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum commissioned DuBois and Zach Lieberman to represent the United States in the London Design Biennale. The projects developed for that exhibition, Face Values, received the jury medal for "most inspiring interpretation of the 2018 theme".

Personal life
DuBois is the younger brother of photographer Doug DuBois.

Notable works

 * Billboard (2005)
 * Play (2006)
 * Academy (2006)
 * Fashionably Late for the Relationship (with Lián Amaris, 2007)
 *  Hindsight is Always 20/20 (2008)
 * SSB (with Lesley Flanigan, 2008)
 * Hard Data (2009)
 * A Year in Mp3s (2009–2010)
 * Moments of Inertia (with Todd Reynolds, 2010)
 * A More Perfect Union (2011)
 * The Marigny Parade (2011)
 * Vertical Music (2012)
 * Sergey Brin and Larry Page (2013)
 * Circus Sarasota (2014)
 * Take a Bullet For This City (2014)
 * Learning Machine #1: Values (2016)
 * Learning Machine #2: Image (2016)
 * Learning Machine #3: Sound (2016)
 * Learning Machine #4: Language (2016)
 * Learning Machine #5: Symbols (2016)
 * The Choice Is Yours: Exit Poll (2016)

Discography

 * The Freight Elevator Quartet (Electronic Music Foundation, 1997)
 * The Freight Elevator Quartet's Jungle Album (Electronic Music Foundation, 1998)
 * DJ Spooky vs. the Freight Elevator Quartet: File Under Futurism (Caipirinha/Sire, 1999)
 * This Is Jungle Sky, Vol 6: Funk (Compilation, Liquid Sky Music, 1999)
 * File Under Futurism EP (with DJ Spooky and A Guy Called Gerald) (Caipirinha/Sire, 1999)
 * Open Ends (Compilation, Museum Music, 2000)
 * The Freight Elevator Quartet Becoming Transparent (Caipirinha/Sire, 2000)
 * Exasperation EP (with JMD, Kit Clayton, Datach'i) (Caipirinha/Sire, 2000)
 * State of the Union 2.001 (Compilation, Electronic Music Foundation, 2001)
 * Radiolaria (Elliott Sharp, zOaR Music, 2001)
 * The Freight Elevator Quartet Fix it in Post (Cycling'74 Music, 2001)
 * Decasia (Michael Gordon, Cantaloupe Music, 2002)
 * Light Is Calling (Michael Gordon, Nonesuch, 2004)
 * Messiah Remix (Cantaloupe Music, 2004)
 * Timelapse (Cantaloupe Music, 2006)
 * The Marigny Parade (Cantaloupe Music, 2011)
 * Sunken Cathedral (Bora Yoon, Innova, 2014)

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LattisNet

LattisNet was a family of computer networking hardware and software products built and sold by SynOptics Communications (also rebranded by Western Digital) during the 1980s. Examples were the 1000, 2500 and 3000 series of LattisHub network hubs. LattisNet was the first implementation of 10 Megabits per second local area networking over unshielded twisted pair wiring in a star topology.

Ethernet variants
During the early 1980s most networks used coaxial cable as the primary form of premises cabling in Ethernet implementations. In 1985 SynOptics shipped its first hub for fiber optics and shielded twisted pair. SynOptics' co-founder, Engineer Ronald V. Schmidt, had experimented with a fiber-optic variant of Ethernet called Fibernet II while working at Xerox PARC, where Ethernet had been invented. In January 1987 SynOptics announced intentions to manufacture equipment supporting 10 megabits/sec data transfer rates over unshielded twisted pair, telephone wire.

In August 1987 New York based LAN Systems, Inc. completed the equipment testing and praised SynOptics for successfully deploying a 10 Mbit/s network that supported workstations up to 330 feet from the wiring closet, because of their careful control of EMI and RFI. Novell reported that the LattisNet equipment performed better than RG-58U coaxial cable.

This same year HP proposed a study group be formed to look into standardizing Ethernet on telephone wires. SynOptics' investor, Menlo Ventures explained its position on joining the IEEE for standardization. When we [Menlo Ventures] initially made the investment, SynOptics had a patent on this architecture, which Xerox Corporation had filed for them. [The patent] basically would have precluded anyone else from implementing Ethernet hubs. And so in one sense, you might look at this patent and say: 'That is a powerful barrier of entry. It will keep competitors away from the door.' Unfortunately, in the networking business [a central patent] works against you in that the IEEE will not allow any company to have a patent on something that is going to give that company an advantage, if the technology covered by the patent is to become an industry standard." So SynOptics had sort of a dilemma: If we retain the patent rights and defend our exclusivity, we basically have to give up the idea of becoming the industry standard. On the other hand, if we want to have our technology and architecture adopted as the industry standard, we basically have to throw our patent on the pile and offer a free license to anyone. So we decided to go for the standard and to give free license to the patent. By becoming the standard, the market acceptance of this technology would be dramatically increased. In fact, had we kept the proprietary standard, I believe someone else would have gone to the IEEE and a different approach would have been adopted, and we would have been left in the dust. In 1990 the IEEE issued an Ethernet over twisted pair standard known for transmitting 10 Mbit/s, or 10BASE-T (802.3i).

Ethernet compatibility
Of the SynOptics hubs, the 2500 series was only compatible with LattisNet twisted-pair Ethernet; the 1000 and 3000 series featured modules for LattisNet and standard 10BASE-T. In the 1000 series, the 505 modules are LattisNet and the 508 modules are 10BASE-T.

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Talk:Shamisen

Pronunciation

 * The pronunciation is usually "shamsen" (never "sa")

Is this really the case? EDICT gives both しゃみせん and さみせん as readings. DopefishJustin (・∀・) 06:11, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * You're absolutely right. I'm glad I wasn't logged in when I wrote that (?). "Sa" seems rare. Loads of hits on Google, but it's difficult to sort out the mess (sometimes Google returns pieces of adjacent words). The real hits might be intentional archaism; it seems not to be in current use. Some dictionaries refer "samisen" to "shamisen" or omit it entirely, as does Japanese WP. But "never" was wrong, and I apologize. Glad you caught it! Fg2 10:43, Apr 26, 2005 (UTC)

(The dictionary evidence notwithstanding, have either of you ever actually heard it pronounced as "sa"? --RJCraig 08:41, 22 July 2005 (UTC))
 * No, at least not that I can recall. Fg2 09:06, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

I believe it is sometimes heard in Kansai speech. It's also more common in older Western writings about the instrument (not that that necessarily matters, since Malm lists and early spelling as "shahisen" [sic] or something like that). STS 11:51, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

As a small boy living in Japan in 1947-9, I distinctly remember attending formal dinners with my parents at a country estate near Tokyo during which the Geishas were playing what they referred to as "Samisens". These girls let me try my hand at playing the instrument. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.128.145.14 (talk) 19:52, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Naniwa-bushi
I moved the following text from the article:

 * "The earliest known form of shamisen music is Naniwa-Bushi, played in the Saka area (which was then known as Naniwa). This style developed from biwa music and hence developed a strong narrative tradition known as joruri, as well as being popular as celebratory music for large public gatherings. As shamisen music evolved, it generally split into two distinct styles:  narrative traditions (katarimono) and lyrical music (utaimono). Sekkyo-Bushi, an early form of Buddhist ballad drama, became a popular usage for the shamisen while jiuta was one of the most popular lyrical forms.  The many different styles of shamisen music that soon developed were extremely distinct, often requiring a shamisen of a particular size, shape and design."

The Japanese Wikipedia article ja:浪花節 (なにわぶし) contradicts the above, saying that Naniwa-bushi is a Meiji-era style. It further says that the name comes from the originator, 浪花伊助 (I suppose that's Naniwa Isuke). Moreover, Naniwa is a name for Osaka, but I've never heard of it as a name for Hiroshima. Most likely, it should be Sakai, Osaka. If someone can straighten out the origins and influences, it would be beneficial for the article.

Fg2 09:39, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Why not just put the paragraph back and change "earliest known" to "an early"? Once some shamisen scholars start chiming in in future months or years, it will get fixed.  No point in deleting large chunks of the article because one word is wrong.
 * I thought of doing that, but then I figured that Meiji is late, not early. The shamisen had been in use for centuries in kabuki etc. Not sure what the best way to work in the info would be. Fg2 21:03, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

 * True enough; Meiji is late. Does the article state the time period the shamisen was first adopted/developed in Japan?  This information shouldn't be hard to find, then the rest would fall into place.  I agree that we shouldn't allow any misinformation to be propagated in Wikipedia articles. Badagnani 21:05, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

 * By the way, why remove the geographical region of the tsugaru style? I think you should put that back, as not everyone knows that.  Badagnani 19:42, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Oh, I see at the end of the article that it says it's from the "north of Honshu." Not very specific, but at least it's still in the article. Badagnani 19:44, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

The instrument came to Japan via Okinawa rather than directly from China, no? Meaning it arrived first in a port. I'll try and find out but Sakai in Naniwa (as in Osaka) would make more sense than Hiroshima, I think. If it came directly from China, Hiroshima might be more likely, all things considered. Another possibility is a case of one name for two genres? Look at enka. STS 11:58, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

Accuracy
No idea if this is in the right place & I'm not about to start butchering the article - "...Yoshida brothers developed..."?? This will be news to the entire Tsugaru tradition of playing which, AFAIK, is all they're doing. They certainly made it popular in the mass market and added modern instruments to the mass media mix, but they didn't develop anything per se. Northern Iwate ken, south eastern Aomori, it's the dominant folk style of of playing. (Based purely on my experience living there & what the locals say and all :) ) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.50.109.185 (talk) 01:32, 19 February 2009 (UTC)

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On the skin of some of the best shamisen, the position of the cat's nipples can be seen., I doubt it's the viewing of the nipples that makes them the best, describe the underbelly skin if you can source this claim. Sherurcij (talk) (Terrorist Wikiproject) 21:05, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Nipple references: http://www.itchu.com/e/e_parts_shamisen.html http://www.bornplaydie.com/japan/travel/okinawa/okinawa.htm

I think maybe it's the fact that it's a cat's skin that makes the shamisen of best quality. I think lower-quality instruments use plastic or dog skin (though maybe dog skin is normal for heavier instruments).

 * Geisha shamisen = cat skin, tsugaru shamisen = dog skin. At least according to the three tsugaru shamisen masters who told me it over the last two days in Aomori. --49.98.10.170 (talk) 12:14, 11 February 2012 (UTC)

One of the above references appears to indicate that the position of the nipples is important.

 * I'm quite sure I read that in Malm as well. It's true that cat skin is used in the most expensive instruments. I think the area concerned has the finest skin, which is why that is an important titbit. That pun was completely unintentional, please forgive it. STS 11:53, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

 * But should we really be talking about nipples at all? I'm a male child working on a project about music in Japan. I looked up nipple on wikipedia and it freaked me out. 24.87.56.142 (talk) 22:03, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Very young children around the world are used to dealing with nipples on a daily basis, as it is where they derive their food. Badagnani (talk) 22:40, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Well, it still scared me. I don't ever want to look at that picture ever again. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.87.56.142 (talk) 15:24, 1 June 2008 (UTC)

Misnomer
There is a picture in the "Variations in construction and playing style" heading that reads "A young Japanese boy demonstrating shamisen in Warszawa, Poland during the 5th Cross Culture Festival." That is NOT a shamisen, it is the Okinawan sanshin and this needs to be corrected. Thanks. KogeJoe (talk) 03:12, 9 October 2009 (UTC)

WP:Japan Assessment Commentary
I evaluated the article as C-class, though the text is really B-class. Here are some points that might improve the article:
 * References: Gotta have 'em. At least one to a paragraph seems to be the general rule.
 * Supporting Materials: Photos and images are all good, but the article could use an infobox. See Template:Infobox Instrument. Good luck. Boneyard90 (talk) 15:08, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Bad Audio Link
The link in the last bullet of the Audio section in references is busted for me. I'm not sure where the contributor thought he/she was going with that so I didn't fix it. Peter Wisner (talk) 04:31, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Suggestions for article
I tagged this article as confusing. The article's lead section is not very good, see WP:LEAD. The article contents are not very coherent, it is very easy to get confused reading such a mish-mash of thoughts. It is also poorly-referenced. One big problem is that the article never bothers to describe what kind of music a shamisen is used to play, except in very technical terms. JoshuSasori (talk) 23:32, 11 September 2012 (UTC)

The shamisen, duly linked, is mentioned on the Morticia Addams page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CD89:8710:DDDD:8420:B387:2633 (talk) 05:41, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

Koma Heights
The article says things like "Heights used: 2.6 and 2.8 are the standard." What units are these in? Millimetres? One online shop offers 7mm or 8mm koma, so that seems wrong. Is it a special Japanese unit? DrHacky (talk) 06:55, 30 September 2015 (UTC)

title: Talk:Shamisen