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United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability

The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the main investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives. The committee's broad jurisdiction and legislative authority make it one of the most influential and powerful panels in the House. Its chair is one of only three in the House with the authority to issue subpoenas without a committee vote or consultation with the ranking member. However, in recent history, it has become practice to refrain from unilateral subpoenas.

Carolyn Maloney (D-New York) served as acting chair of the committee following the death of Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland) on October 17, 2019; she was elected chair a month later. Representative Jim Jordan served as ranking member from January 3, 2019, until March 12, 2020. On March 31, 2020, Jordan switched to become the ranking member of the Judiciary committee instead. Representative Mark Meadows served as ranking member from March 13, 2020, until March 30, 2020, when he resigned his congressional seat to become White House Chief of Staff. Representative James Comer (R-Kentucky) was selected to succeed Meadows on June 29, 2020. Comer became Chair when Republicans regained control of the House majority, with Representative Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) being elected as Ranking Member. Politico reported in late January that Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) would be appointed as the Vice Ranking Member.

History
The panel now known as the Committee on Oversight and Accountability was originally the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, created in 1927 to consolidate 11 separate Committees on Expenditures that had previously overseen the spending of various departments of the federal government.

The Committee on Expenditures became the Committee on Government Operations in 1952. The new name was intended to reflect the committee's broad mission: to oversee "the operations of Government activities at all levels with a view to determining their economy and efficiency".

After Republicans gained control of the House in the 1994 elections, the committee was reorganized to include seven subcommittees instead of 14. This reorganization consolidated the jurisdiction previously covered by three full committees and resulted in a 50 percent cut in staff. In 2007, a reorganization under a new Democratic majority combined the duties of the seven subcommittees into five.

In the 106th Congress, the panel was renamed the Committee on Government Reform. While retaining the agenda of the former Committee on Government Operations, the new committee also took on the responsibilities of the former House Committee on the Post Office and Civil Service and the Committee on the District of Columbia. On January 4, 2007, the 110th Congress renamed it the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. The name was changed again by the 116th Congress to the Committee on Oversight and Reform. For the 118th Congress, Republicans changed the name to "Committee on Oversight and Accountability, which is the current iteration. Since 2007, it has simply been called the "Oversight Committee" for short.

Subpoena usage
In 1997, the Republican majority on the committee changed its rules to allow the chairman, Dan Burton (R-Indiana), to issue subpoenas without the consent of the committee's ranking Democrat. From 1997 to 2002, Burton used this authority to issue 1,052 unilateral subpoenas, many of them related to alleged misconduct by President Bill Clinton, at a cost of more than $35 million.

By contrast, from 2003 to 2005, under the chairmanship of Tom Davis (R-Virginia), the committee issued only three subpoenas to the Bush administration.

After Republicans retook the House in the 2010 elections, the new chairman, Darrell Issa (R-California), escalated the use of subpoenas again, issuing more than 100 in four years during the Obama administration. That was more than the combined total issued by the previous three chairmen—Davis, Henry Waxman (D-California), and Edolphus Towns (D-New York)—from 2003 to 2010.

Prominent hearings and investigations
Between 2000 and 2006, many major events and scandals in the Bush administration generated few or no subpoenas from the Republican-led committee. These events included the September 11 attacks; the leaking of classified information identifying Central Intelligence Agency agent Valerie Plame; CIA-backed abuses at Abu Ghraib prison; the Bush administration claim that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction; illegal campaign contributions by lobbyists, including Jack Abramoff; deaths and damage due to the Federal Emergency Management Agency's weak response to Hurricane Katrina; and Philip Cooney's suppression of data demonstrating the existence of global warming. After the release of the Downing Street memo, which contained incriminating information on the buildup to the Iraq War, Democrats in the minority were refused a hearing chamber and were forced to meet in the basement of the United States Capitol.

However, under Davis's chairmanship from 2003 to 2007, the committee launched two controversial investigations. One of those investigations—triggered by the publication of Jose Canseco's memoir, Juiced—concerned the use of anabolic steroids by Major League Baseball players.

An inquiry was also made into the case of Terry Schiavo. In that investigation, which concerned the removal of a feeding tube from a woman in a persistent vegetative state, the committee issued a subpoena requiring Schiavo to "appear" so that members could "examine nutrition and hydration which incapacitated patients receive as part of their care". The apparent objective of this, beyond providing information to committee members, was to delay the pending withdrawal of life support from Schiavo, whose wishes were in dispute, while Congress considered legislation specifically targeted at her case. Members of the Democratic minority opposed the action. Chairman Davis said it was "a legitimate legislative inquiry".

The committee also investigated World Wrestling Entertainment's wellness and drug policies, amid speculation about a possible link between steroid use and the death of WWE performer Chris Benoit.

On July 8, 2009, committee Republicans released an investigative staff report discussing the financial crisis of 2007–2008. The report alleged that the government had caused the collapse by meddling in the United States' housing and lending market in the name of "affordable housing".

In February 2012, the committee held a hearing on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's mandate that would "require all employers to cover birth control free of cost to women". Specifically, Republicans on the committee alleged that the Department of Health and Human Services's rules governing exemptions for religious institutions violated the Free Exercise Clause of the Constitution. The chairman, Darrell Issa, said the hearing was "meant to be more broadly about religious freedom and not specifically about the contraception mandate in the Health Reform law".

After Aaron Swartz committed suicide on January 11, 2013, the committee investigated the Justice Department's actions in prosecuting Swartz on hacking charges. On January 28, Issa and ranking member Elijah Cummings published a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, questioning whether prosecutors had intentionally added felony counts to increase the amount of prison time Swartz faced.

On July 10, 2019, a hearing was held by the United States House Oversight Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties entitled "Kids in Cages: Inhumane Treatment at the Border" on the "inhumane treatment of children and families" inside child detention centers on the southern US border. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) chaired the session which included testimony from Yazmin Juarez, the mother of Mariee who died at the age of nineteen months while detained in a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) center in Dilley, Texas. In his opening statement Raskin said that "hundreds of thousands of people" have responded to the "harsh policies" by deciding to "migrate now before things get even worse".

Jurisdiction
According to House rules, the committee has jurisdiction over the following areas:
 * 1) Federal civil service, including intergovernmental personnel; and the status of officers and employees of the United States, including their compensation, classification, and retirement.
 * 2) Municipal affairs of the District of Columbia in general (other than appropriations).
 * 3) Federal paperwork reduction.
 * 4) Government management and accounting measures generally.
 * 5) Holidays and celebrations.
 * 6) Overall economy, efficiency, and management of government operations and activities, including Federal procurement.
 * 7) National archives.
 * 8) Population and demography generally, including the Census.
 * 9) Postal service generally, including transportation of the mails.
 * 10) Public information and records.
 * 11) Relationship of the Federal Government to the States and municipalities generally.
 * 12) Reorganizations in the executive branch of the Government.

Members, 118th Congress
Resolutions electing members: (Chair),  (Ranking Member),  (R),  (D),  (D),  (R),  (D)

Former subcommittees

 * United States House Oversight Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (116th Congress-117th Congress)
 * Dissolved by Chairman James Comer during the 118th Congress
 * United States House Oversight Subcommittee on Environment (115th Congress-117th Congress)
 * Dissolved by Chairman James Comer during the 118th Congress
 * United States House Oversight Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Affairs (115th Congress)
 * Dissolved by Chairman Elijah Cummings during the 116th Congress
 * United States House Oversight Subcommittee on Transportation and Public Assets (111th Congress-113th Congress)
 * Dissolved the end of the 114th United States Congress.

Historical membership rosters
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 * Subcommittees

117th Congress
Sources: H.Res.9 (Chair), H.Res.10 (Ranking Member) H.Res.62 (D), H.Res.63 (R), H.Res.789 (Removing Paul Gosar), H.Res.825 (D - Shontel Brown), H.Res.1225 (R - Mike Flood)

116th Congress
Sources: (Chair),  (Ranking Member),  (D),  (R)

Membership changes
The Oversight and Government Reform Committee underwent numerous membership changes over the course of the 116th United States Congress.
 * July 10, 2019: Fred Keller (R-PA) added to committee roster.
 * October 17, 2019: Chairman Elijah Cummings (D-MD) passed away. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) assumed acting Chairship.
 * November 3, 2019: Vice Chair Katie Hill (D-CA) resigned.
 * November 20, 2019: Carolyn Maloney elected permanent chair.
 * December 19, 2019: Katie Porter (D-CA) and Deb Haaland (D-NM) added to committee roster.
 * February 27, 2020: Ro Khanna (D-CA) added to committee roster, ranking after Harley Rouda.
 * March 21, 2020: Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-OH) stepped down to assume the Ranking Membership of the Judiciary Committee; Mark Meadows (R-NC) assumes Ranking Membership.
 * March 30, 2020: Mark Meadows (R-NC) resigned to become White House Chief of Staff. Jim Jordan resumes Ranking Membership temporarily.
 * May 8, 2020: Kweisi Mfume (D-MD) added to committee roster, ranking after Harley Rouda.
 * June 29, 2020: James Comer (R-KY) elected permanent Ranking Member.
 * July 1, 2020: Gary Palmer (R-AL) added to committee roster, ranking after Michael Cloud.

 * Subcommittees

115th Congress
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How to Make an American Quilt

How to Make an American Quilt is a 1995 American drama film based on the 1991 novel of the same name by Whitney Otto. Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, the film features Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan and Alfre Woodard. It is notable as being Jared Leto's film debut. Amblin Entertainment optioned Otto's novel in 1991, and were able to persuade Steven Spielberg to finance the screenplay's development. How to Make an American Quilt received mixed reviews from critics. It was a box-office success, grossing $41 million against a $10 million budget. The film was nominated for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

Finn Dodd
Main character. Following her boyfriend Sam's proposal, Finn visits her great aunt and grandmother to finish her thesis and think over it. At her grandmother's, a quilting group congregates, and she's shocked and surprised to discover that the current quilt that they're working on is a wedding gift for her when she gets married. The theme of the quilt is "where love resides". As Finn is unsure whether she's ready for marriage or if he's "the one", the women's stories in the quilting group open her eyes to the different kinds of love that exist.

During her time at her grandmother's, she meets Leon at the local pool and they have a brief affair. Eventually, wrapped in her quilt and following a crow (reminiscent of Anna's tale about her aunt), she comes across Sam and chooses to stay with him.

Sophia Darling
In her early 20s, Sophia was a talented diver with dreams of escaping her small town and overbearing mother. One day she meets Preston Richards while diving at the local pool and romance ensues. He's attracted by her fearlessness and she believes he can take her away from her current, oppressive way of life. However, motherhood turns out to be just as, if not more, oppressive and married life soon grinds her down. With three children and little help from Preston who is frequently away because of his job, she no longer has time to dive and eventually forgets the feeling of freedom and escape it gives her.

One day she snaps at Preston for digging a pond in the back garden. Trying to remind her of the girl he fell in love with, he tells her the pond is for her to wade in. After she rejects his efforts, he realizes her free spirit is gone. One morning, he leaves for work, never to return. Abandoned, bitter, and trapped in a life she didn't want, Sophia ends up like her overbearing mother, particularly in her relationship with Finn.

Years later, when the wind blows part of Finn's thesis into the pond, she wades in to get it. With her feet in the pool, she remembers what her husband tried to remind her of all those years ago, and one of the last scenes shows her diving off the high dive.

Em Reed
Em marries young, like most of the women in the story. Despite the promiscuity of her artistic husband Dean, she stays with him for a period of time. Eventually, after discovering yet another affair, she leaves him whilst pregnant. She returns to her parents' home, but it still takes three months before Dean comes to find her. He begs forgiveness yet again, and her parents pack her bags, loading them into Dean's car. At this point, Em has no choice but to return to her broken life.

Years later, she suspects Constance is having an affair with Dean, which causes friction between them. Later, she realizes that, in his own way, Dean does truly love her when she takes shelter in his studio during a sudden wind storm and discovers numerous paintings of her telling the story of their life together over the years.

Glady Joe Cleary and Hy Dodd
Gladiola (Glady) Joe and Hyacinth (Hy) are Finn's great aunt and grandmother and sisters to one another. At one point, Hy goes to visit her dying husband in the hospital. Despite her deep love for her husband, she leaves the hospital and sleeps with Glady's husband Arthur in a moment of weakness and tragic emotion.

After Glady discovers the truth, she smashes every one of her porcelain figurines and plasters them onto the wall of the laundry room as a reminder of her anger. She never really forgives Arthur and does not forgive Hy until the end of the movie. Their reconciliation is symbolized by the demolition of the plastered walls in the laundry room when Glady realizes that her love for her sister surpasses her feelings of betrayal.

Constance Saunders
Constance had a happy and fulfilling marriage until her husband Howell died, leaving her a young widow. While he was alive, he gave Constance a dog to keep her company. Although it is rumored that she is having an affair with Dean, she knows that her love for her husband and her dog are her true companions. Her panel for Finn's wedding quilt depicts a yellow rose bush under which she and Howell buried the dog after it died.

Anna Neale
As a young maid, Anna starts an affair with her boss's son Beck, who's visiting from Chicago. She becomes pregnant by him, and when her great aunt Pauline finds out about it she sends Anna away with their family story quilt (which she had sold to the boss's wife). During her pregnancy, Anna met Glady and Hy as she was taken in by their family.

Anna becomes particularly close with Glady, eventually teaching her to quilt. During one of these quilting lessons, she starts labor, eventually giving birth to Marianna. It's only then that Anna realizes that her fancy notion of romantic love was nothing in comparison to the maternal love she feels for Marianna. Anna now orchestrates the quilting group.

Marianna Neale
Marianna gives the appearance of being in love with her promiscuous freedom until a moment of vulnerability comes in a conversation with Finn. She speaks of a man that she met in France. They had met and spent one evening together during which they connected over a meeting of minds before she discovered that he was married. Although she has taken many lovers since, she realizes this man is her soulmate and she doesn't even know his name.

Production
Amblin Entertainment optioned Whitney Otto's bestselling novel after it was released in 1991. Amblin co-founder Kathleen Kennedy brought on producers Sarah Pillsbury and Midge Sanford, who had read and loved the book before its publication. When the two producers could not field potential interest in the film from studios, they persuaded Steven Spielberg to finance the development of a screenplay, something which was rarely done without a studio's backing. Said Spielberg, "I've always loved stories about women. I had three younger sisters. I was the only boy. Amblin until recently was dominated by women. That feminine side of my brain is very strong."

Sanford and Pillsbury reached out to screenwriter Jane Anderson to pen the script and chose Australian filmmaker Jocelyn Moorhouse as the director. One of the structural changes that Anderson brought to the adaptation was turning the role of Finn, who is a periphery character in the novel, into the main character. Winona Ryder was the producers' first choice for the role.

To avoid the possibility of audience confusion at the various storylines that jump back and forth in time, the filmmakers intended for "the [characters'] flashbacks [to] be very distinct little movies. They each have a slightly different tone. One story is a comic melodrama, one is tragic, one is a slice of life, one is kind of a fable."

Patty McCormick, president of the Southern California Council of Quilt Guilds, assisted in the assembly of the film's quilts and worked individually with actresses to master the use of thimbles. Anne Bancroft and Maya Angelou were the only actresses with quilting experience.

How to Make an American Quilt was one of the last films to be produced by Amblin before the company was absorbed into DreamWorks.

Reception
How to Make an American Quilt received mixed reviews from critics. It holds a 63% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 35 reviews, with an average rating of 6/10. The site's consensus states: "How to Make an American Quilt is a bit of a patchwork from a storytelling standpoint, but a strong ensemble cast led by Winona Ryder helps hold it all together."

In a review for The New York Times, Caryn James gave praise to both Moorhouse's "cut-to-the-quick" direction and Anderson's script for crafting an adaptation of a "decidedly uncinematic novel." She added that the film manages to give off the impression that "we are not watching movie women but real women, with shaky judgment and lifetimes of reasons to resent and forgive one another as well as all the men in their lives." Roger Ebert commended the stories involving Woodard and Capshaw's characters for being the most heartfelt but found the rest of them devoid of any emotional resonance compared to the tales told in the film adaptation of Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club, stating that they have lives "largely recycled from sweet movies and tasteful romantic novels." Eve Zibart of The Washington Post stated that despite Bancroft's performance being "right on the ceiling" in terms of over the top and saying that Ryder "seems for once to be acting, and not entirely comfortably", she praised the rest of the actresses for being "theatrical indulgence by a cast of stahs."

The film was nominated for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture at the 2nd Screen Actors Guild Awards, but lost to Apollo 13. Ryder and Mulroney were nominated for Best Kiss at the 1996 MTV Movie Awards, but lost to Natasha Henstridge and Anthony Guidera for Species.

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Electoral district of Leederville

The Electoral district of Leederville was a Legislative Assembly electorate in the state of Western Australia. The district was named for the inner northern Perth suburb of Leederville, which fell within its borders. Starting off as a vast seat covering most of Perth's northwestern hinterland, it shrank in size at various redistributions until, by the time of its abolishment, it was an inner suburban seat able to be absorbed into Wembley and Mount Hawthorn.

Leederville was largely created out of the abolished Balcatta by the Redistribution of Seats Act 1911, and its first member, elected at the 1911 state election, was the former member for Balcatta, Labor's Frederick Gill. He was defeated in the 1914 election by 81 votes by another former Balcatta member, the Liberal candidate John Veryard. The seat was won back for Labor by Harry Millington on his second attempt. Millington went on to serve in the Collier Ministry.

The Redistribution of Seats Act 1929, which took effect at the 1930 election, abolished many Goldfields seats whilst creating a number of new metropolitan seats. Millington ran for and won the new seat of Mount Hawthorn, whilst the Labor member for Menzies, Alexander Panton, and the Nationalist (formerly National Labor) member for Mount Margaret, George Taylor, were in the unusual position of battling for the metropolitan seat of Leederville. Panton won, and in 1938 was elevated to the Ministry under Premier John Willcock.

A redistribution ahead of the 1950 election turned Leederville into an inner metropolitan seat, with the growing outer reaches of the seat becoming the new seat of Wembley Beaches. Following Panton's death on Christmas Day 1951, Labor candidate Ted Johnson won the seat. However, at the 1959 election, he lost to the Liberal Country League's Guy Henn, who held the seat until its abolishment prior to the 1962 election, and then transferred to the new seat of Wembley which contained most of the former seat's residents, the rest of whom had been transferred into the relatively safe Labor seat of Mount Hawthorn.

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User talk:Cyberchuck

A very old nickname coined for me by a lifelong friend (Mark S) about 25 years ago while we were working at Texas Instruments in Dallas.

I use it often for an online handle. There are several "Cyberchucks" out on the net, only one who's been on before me (he has about a 10 year jump, I got on BITNET about 1981 and ARPANET about 1982).

From "Cyber" (meaning of cyberspace) + "Chuck" (short nickname for Charlie).

Alternative definition from Mark: "computerized beef slab"

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Structure of the British Army
I'd like to nominate this page as a featured article. It's informative, lucid and well-structured. --Khendon 06:30, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Object No references. Moreover, this article is essentially a collection of lists and tables (including some broken ones). While it does have a nice nested structure, lack of explanations and many subsections with next to no content makes this very hard to follow for anyone not familiar with the subject. Phils 09:39, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Object - this is very informative, but I agree with Phils: it is essentially a collection of lists. -- ALoan (Talk) 11:47, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Object - Precious little in the way of explicative narrative here. Fawcett5 13:38, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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Leederville, Western Australia

Leederville is a locality within the City of Vincent in the Perth metropolitan region of Western Australia.

It is home to Aranmore Catholic College, the School of Isolated and Distance Education, North Metropolitan TAFE, Trinity Theological College, and St Mary's Church. The suburb was named after William Henry Leeder, the original grantee of land that encompassed the area.

Notable residents

 * Syd Negus
 * Shane Paltridge

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Talk:United States House Committee on Oversight and Accountability

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This isn't a copyright violation because it comes from the US Federal government and is therefore in the public domain. However, it really should be rewritten. MicahMN | Talk 06:33, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

List of Committee Members
I just added the list of all committee members to the post... I know that almsot none of the Democrats are linked yet... I havent gotten a chance to do that yet, if someone could help me out that would be great, otherwise, hopefully I will have most of them linked by the end of tonight, so please dont mark it for POV. And I am not the origional writer of the article. DTfromDC 22:46, 31 December 2005 (UTC)

I did a cleanup of the Committee member list and removed the cleanup tag --Jayzel 19:32, 3 April 2006 (UTC)

POV
Almost all of the description of the committee in "recent events" are complaints. They didn't do this or that, and what they did was irrelevant. This is quite unbalanced and unfair. -- Sholom 17:12, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

I've cited a report from this committee, and it was removed because it was authored by Republicans. That is irrelevant. It was released under the authority of the committee and bears the committee seal, and is thus completely relevant and pertinent material for the 'recent events' area.

 * I didn't remove the report because the GOP authored it. I removed the sentence because it implied that the report was written by the entire committee and presented the conclusions as fact, when they are only the views of the report. I would have done the same had this been a Democratic written report. Generally, we do not allow sources with biases points of view as reliable sources. See WP:BIAS. A staff report by only the majority or minority is inherently biased, because it is often with partisan intent, rather than objective review. Nevertheless, I have kept your restoration of the addition now, but have rewritten it to make it clear that it was written by the minority staff, and state the the statements are attributed to the report itself, not the committee as a whole.DCmacnut < > 23:41, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

Recent Events section
This section of the article is a train wreck. Between the original research and uncited stuff (lots of uncited statements, many of which are opinions or improper synthesis), and the POV (the third paragraph should be nuked from high orbit, and the fifth is pretty unbalanced as well), there is a lot of work to be done to fix this section. I am not doing a drive-by tagging; I will be back to see if anything is done to fix the section, but if nothing is done in a week or so, I'll take a sledgehammer to it and make sure that it's balanced, factual, and properly cited. The references also need to be properly formatted, and broken links need to be fixed.  Horologium  (talk) 19:48, 18 November 2011 (UTC)

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Lawrence
Brenda Lawrence is from Michigan not Illinois. 98.10.165.90 (talk) 04:24, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

what's a century

 * The Committee on Oversight and Reform is a United States House of Representatives committee that has existed in varying forms since 1816.

 * It first appeared as the Committee on Expenditures in the Executive Departments, which was created in 1927 by consolidating the 11 Committees on Expenditures previously spread among the various departments of the federal government to oversee how taxpayer monies were spent.

Pick one, or explain the contrast. —Tamfang (talk) 06:07, 28 February 2019 (UTC)

117th Congress
In the 117th on the Dem side, Cori Bush (D-MO) has joined the committee. Several other "additions" are listed in that tweet, who I think were already members, shrug. I don't know if any Dems left the committee at the end of the 116th, or any Republicans have arrived or departed. The Committee web page doesn't list the current membership, at least in my browser (it might be a script issue). I guess I won't try to add partial updates to the article. Rather, it's fine to wait until a full list is available in one place, assuming that will happen in the next few days or so. 2601:648:8202:96B0:0:0:0:313A (talk) 07:06, 11 January 2021 (UTC)


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Anni Sinnemäki

Anni Milja Maaria Sinnemäki (born 20 July 1973) is a Finnish politician and a member of the Finnish Parliament between 1999 and 2015, representing the Green League.

Biography
She was first elected to the parliament in 1999 and served as the Minister of Labour from 2009 to 2011. She was elected chairwoman of the Green League on 16 May 2009 and sought a second term in 2011, but lost to Ville Niinistö in a party election. She has been a member of the city council of Helsinki since 2004. She is also known for her poetry.

Sinnemäki was born in Helsinki, Finland. She has a B.A. degree in Russian literature from the University of Helsinki. Her daughter, Siiri, was born in 1990, when Sinnemäki was sixteen. Sinnemäki is the author of a series of Finnish pop lyrics of the 1990s and early 2000s for the band Ultra Bra. She was married to the founder of the band, Kerkko Koskinen, from 1996 to 2001. She married Anton Monti in 2012 and they have a son, Rufus, born in 2012.

Sinnemäki has stated that her greatest disappointment in her political career is the decision on nuclear power in 2002. On the other hand, the law on civil partnerships was the biggest victory of her political career.

Sinnemäki has defended the raising of development aid to 0.7% of GDP in parliament budget negotiations. She has also defended public transportation, municipal funding and funding for the treatment of prisoners.

Sinnemäki left the parliament in 2015, after she was elected Deputy Mayor of Helsinki.

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Thailand at the Olympics

Thailand first participated at the Olympic Games in 1952, and has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except when they participated in the US-led boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics. Thailand has also participated in the Winter Olympic Games since 2002.

Thailand won its first medal at the 1976 Games in Montreal, when boxer Payao Poontarat took home a bronze in the Men's Light Flyweight category. Thailand's first gold medal would also come in boxing at the 1996 Games in Atlanta, when Somluck Kamsing won the Men's Featherweight category. Since then, Thai athletes have won gold medals at every subsequent Summer Olympics with the exception of the 2012 Games in London, with all its gold medals to date having come in men's boxing, women's weightlifting and women’s taekwondo.

The National Olympic Committee for Thailand was created in 1948 and recognized in 1950.

As of 2021, Thai athletes have won a total of 35 medals, 14 in weightlifting, 15 in boxing and 6 in taekwondo. Among countries in Southeast Asia, Thailand ranks first in terms of the number of gold medals (10), and second in the number of overall medals (35), only behind Indonesia which has 37 medals. Thailand's most successful Games to date were the 2004 Games in Athens, where they won eight medals, of which three of them were gold.

The country's most recent gold medalist is Panipak Wongpattanakit, who earned her medal in the women's 49kg event in taekwondo.

Medals by individual
According to official data of the International Olympic Committee. This is a list of people who have won two or more Olympic medals for Thailand.
 * People in bold are still active competitors

Milestones

 * In 2002 and 2006, Thailand qualified its first Winter Olympian cross country skier, and first Winter Olympian, Prawat Nagvajara.
 * In 2014, Thailand qualified its first Winter Olympian alpine skier, Kanes Sucharitakul. It then added the first female Winter Olympian for the country, Vanessa Vanakorn (Vanessa-Mae), doubling the size of the previous largest delegation to a Winter Games.

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Tanjung Berhala

Tanjung Berhala is a small port town in Terengganu, Malaysia, The town is used by Petronas Carigali one of the subsidiaries of Petronas  and Esso Malaysia as a supply base for the oil and gas production and exploration operations in Terengganu.

Petronas Carigali began operating at Tanjung Berhala in November 1982.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Chicken gaymeh

 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. – ABCD 21:11, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Chicken gaymeh
There are no Google results for this term. I can't find any similar terms based on a search of nationality and recipe ingredients.

Lotsofissues 06:35, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Delete Though I dare say it is a real recipe, I too can't find any evidence of such, and the article fails to establish notability. DDerby 07:42, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, possible hoax. Megan1967 08:33, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: "Gaymeh" appears to be a real sort of food, the chicken part is news to Google and Altavista. --Cuervo 11:16, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * delete recipes are not valid articles, and this sub-stub doesn't even give me an idea of what kind of dish this is. BigFatDave 23:02, 13 Apr 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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Talk:Louis Henry Davies

Accuracy
How can he haved died in 1921 if he was Chief Justice until 1924? --Spinboy 06:35, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Removed template now that contradiction has been resolved. --Tabor 19:02, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Natalism

Natalism (also called pronatalism or the pro-birth position) is a policy paradigm or personal value that promotes the reproduction of human life as an important objective of being human and therefore advocates high birthrate.

According to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, the term, as it relates to the belief itself, dates from 1971 and comes from nataliste, formed from natalité, birthrate.

Just like there seems to be an almost universal population decline associated with cultural modernization, attempts at a political response are also growing. According to the UN, the share of countries with pronatalist policies had grown from 20% in 2005 to 28% in 2019.

Motives
Generally, natalism promotes child-bearing and parenthood as desirable for social reasons and to ensure the continuance of humanity. Some philosophers have noted that if humans fail to have children, humans would become extinct.

Religion
Many religions encourage procreation, and religiousness in members can sometimes correlate to higher rates of fertility. Judaism, Islam, and major branches of Christianity, including the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Catholic Church   encourage procreation. In 1979 one research paper indicated that Amish people had an average of 6.8 children per family. Among some conservative Protestants, the Quiverfull movement advocates for large families and views children as blessings from God.

Those who adhere to a more traditionalist framing may therefore seek to limit access to abortion and contraception, as well. The 1968 encyclical Humanae Vitae e.g. criticized artificial contraception and advocated for a natalist position.

Politics
Beginning around the early 2020s, the threat of "global demographic collapse" began to become a cause célèbre among wealthy tech and venture-capitalist circles as well as the political right. In Europe, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has made natalism a key plank of his political platform. In the United States, key figures include Kevin Dolan, organizer of the Natal Conference, Simone and Malcolm Collins, founders of Pronatalist.org, and Elon Musk, who has repeatedly used his public platform to discuss global birth rates.

The right-wing proponents of pronatalism argue that falling birthrates could lead to economic stagnation, diminished innovation, and an unsustainable burden on social systems due to an aging population. The movement suggests that without a significant increase in birth rates, the sustainability of civilizations could be in danger; Elon Musk has called it a "much bigger risk" than global warming.

Intention to have children
An intention to have children is a substantial fertility factor in actually ending up doing so, but childless individuals who intend to have children immediately or within two or three years are generally more likely to succeed than those who intend to have children in the long term. There are many determinants of the intention to have children, including:

 * the preference of family size, which influences that of the children through early adulthood. Likewise, the extended family influences fertility intentions, with increased numbers of nephews and nieces increasing the preferred number of children. These effects may be observed in the case of Mormon or modern Israeli demographics.
 * social pressure from kin and friends to have another child, such as overall cultural normativity.
 * social support. However, a study from West Germany came to the result that both men receiving no support at all and men receiving support from many different people have a lower probability of intending to have another child, with the latter probably related to coordination problems.
 * happiness, with happier people tending to want more children. However, other research has shown that the social acceptability of the choice to have or not have children plays a significant factor in reproductive decisions.  The social stigma, marginalization, and even domestic violence that accompanies those without children, by choice or chance, is a significant factor in their feelings of happiness or belonging within their communities.
 * secure housing situation, and feeling of overall economic stability more generally.

Concrete policies
Natalism in public policy typically seeks to create financial and social incentives for populations to reproduce, such as providing tax incentives that reward having and supporting children.

Some countries with population decline offer incentives to the people to have large families as a means of national efforts to reverse declining populations. Incentives may include a one-time baby bonus, or ongoing child benefit payments or tax reductions. Some impose penalties or taxes on those with fewer children. Some nations, such as Japan, Singapore, and South Korea, have implemented, or tried to implement, interventionist natalist policies, creating incentives for larger families among native stock.

Paid maternity and paternity leave policies can also be used as an incentive. For example, Sweden has generous parental leave wherein parents are entitled to share 16 months' paid leave per child, the cost divided between both employer and state. Unfortunately, it appears not to work as desired.

Russia
Natalist thinking was common during the Soviet times. After a brief adherence to the strict Communist doctrine in 1920s and attempts to raise children communally, coupled with the government-provided healthcare, the Soviet government switched to neo-traditionalism, promoting family values and sobriety, banning abortions and making divorces harder to obtain, advancing natalist ideals that made mockery of irresponsible parents. The expanded opportunities for female employment caused a population crisis in 1930s, government had expanded access to child care starting at age of two. After the Great Patriotic war the skewed ratio of men to women prompted additional financial assistance to women that had children or were pregnant. Despite the promotion and long maternity leave with maintenance of the employment and salary modernization still caused the birthrates to continue to slide into the 1970's.

The end of USSR in 1991 was accompanied by a large drop in fertility. In 2006, Vladimir Putin made the demographics an important issue, instituting a two-prong approach of direct financial rewards and socio-cultural policies. The notable example of the former is the maternal-capital program where the woman is provided with subsidies that can be spent only on improved housing or the education of a child (and can also be saved for the retirement).

Hungary
The Hungarian government of Viktor Orbán in 2019 announced pecuniary incentives (including eliminating taxes for mothers with more than three children, and reducing credit payments and easier access to loans), and expanding day care and kindergarten access.

Critics
Natalism has been criticized on human-rights and environmental grounds. Most antinatalists, malthusians, reproductive rights advocates and environmentalists see natalism as a driver of reproductive injustice, population growth, and ecological overshoot. In politics, journalists have linked the pronatalist movement with far-right eugenics.

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Japanese destroyer Kisaragi (1925)

Kisaragi (如月) was one of twelve Mutsuki-class destroyers, built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) during the 1920s. Retreating after the sinking of destroyer JAPANESE DESTROYER Hayate by American coast-defense guns during the Battle of Wake Island in December 1941, Kisaragi was sunk with all hands by American aircraft. She had the distinction of being the second major Japanese warship lost during the war (after Hayate earlier the same day). She should not be confused with an earlier World War I-period Kamikaze-class destroyer (1905) destroyer with the same name.

Design and description
The Mutsuki class was an improved version of the Kamikaze-class destroyers and was the first with triple 61 cm torpedo tubes. The ships had an overall length of 102.4 m and were 94.54 m between perpendiculars. They had a beam of 9.16 m, and a mean draft of 2.96 m. The Mutsuki-class ships displaced 1336 t at standard load and 1800 t at deep load. They were powered by two Parsons geared steam turbines, each driving one propeller shaft, using steam provided by four Kampon water-tube boilers. The turbines were designed to produce 38500 shp, which would propel the ships at 37.25 kn. The ships carried 420 t of fuel oil which gave them a range of 4000 nmi at 15 kn. Their crew consisted of 150 officers and crewmen.

The main armament of the Mutsuki-class ships consisted of four 12 cm Type 3 guns in single mounts; one gun forward of the superstructure, one between the two funnels and the last pair back to back atop the aft superstructure. The guns were numbered '1' to '4' from front to rear. The ships carried two above-water triple sets of 61-centimeter torpedo tubes; one mount was between the forward superstructure and the forward gun and the other was between the aft funnel and aft superstructure. Four reload torpedoes were provided for the tubes. They carried 18 depth charges and could also carry 16 mines. They could also fitted with minesweeping gear.

Construction and career
Kisaragi was laid down at the Maizuru Naval Arsenal on 3 June 1922, launched on 5 June 1925 and completed on 21 December 1925. Originally commissioned simply as Destroyer No. 21, the vessel was assigned the name Kisaragi on 1 August 1928.

WWII
At the time of the attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941, Kisaragi was assigned to Destroyer Division 30 under Destroyer Squadron 6 of the 4th Fleet. She sortied from Kwajalein on 8 December as part of the Wake Island invasion force. This consisted of the light cruisers JAPANESE CRUISER Yūbari, JAPANESE CRUISER Tenryū, and JAPANESE CRUISER Tatsuta, the destroyers JAPANESE DESTROYER Yayoi, JAPANESE DESTROYER Hayate, JAPANESE DESTROYER Mutsuki, Kisaragi, JAPANESE DESTROYER Oite, and JAPANESE DESTROYER Mochizuki, two old Momi-class destroyer vessels converted to patrol boats (Patrol Boat No. 32 and Patrol Boat No. 33), and two troop transports containing 450 Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces (SNLF) troops.

The Japanese approached the island early on the morning of 11 December, and the warships began to bombard the island at a range of 9000 yd at 05:30. As none of the six American 5 in coast-defense guns replied, Rear Admiral Sadamichi Kajioka, commander of the invasion forces, ordered his ships to close the island, believing that the American guns had been destroyed by the earlier aerial attacks. Encouraging this, Major James Devereux, commander of the United States Marine garrison, had ordered his men to hold their fire until he gave the order to do so. After the Japanese ships had closed to a range of 4500 yd, he ordered his guns to open fire. They did so with great effect, sinking Hayate, near-missing Kajioka's flagship Yubari, and causing to him to order his forces to disengage.

Kisaragi was sailing away from the island when she was attacked and sunk by Grumman F4F Wildcat fighters of Marine Fighter Squadron VMF-211 that had taken off earlier armed with 100 lb bombs. What happened next is unclear as sources disagree: older American accounts attribute her loss to a bomb dropped by Captain Henry Elrod that landed amongst her depth charges on Kisaragi's stern, which detonated and sank the destroyer; a more recent account says that Elrod dropped a bomb that penetrated belowdecks and started a fire and that she blew up later just as another pilot was preparing to attack. Japanese accounts say that one bomb demolished the ship's bridge and that she blew up five minutes later, with the blast originating from amidships. She sank with the loss of all 157 crewmembers about 30 mi southwest of Wake Island at coordinates 18.91667°N, 166.28333°W, the second major Japanese warship to be sunk during the war (after Hayate). Kisaragi was struck from the Navy List on 15 January 1942. The sinking of Kisaragi would contribute to Elrod being posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

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Romualdo Formation

The Romualdo Formation is a geologic Konservat-Lagerstätte in northeastern Brazil's Araripe Basin where the states of Pernambuco, Piauí and Ceará come together. The geological formation, previously designated as the Romualdo Member of the Santana Formation, named after the village of Santana do Cariri, lies at the base of the Araripe Plateau. It was discovered by Johann Baptist von Spix in 1819. The strata were deposited during the Aptian stage of the Early Cretaceous in a lacustrine rift basin with shallow marine incursions of the proto-Atlantic. At that time, the South Atlantic was opening up in a long narrow shallow sea.

The Romualdo Formation earns the designation of Lagerstätte due to an exceedingly well preserved and diverse fossil faunal assemblage. Some 25 species of fossil fishes are often found with stomach contents preserved, enabling paleontologists to study predator–prey relationships in this ecosystem. There are also fine examples of pterosaurs, reptiles and invertebrates, and crocodylomorphs. Even dinosaurs are represented (Spinosauridae, Tyrannosauroidea, Compsognathidae). The unusual taphonomy of the site resulted in limestone accretions that formed nodules around dead organisms, preserving even soft parts of their anatomy. In preservation, the nodules are etched away with acid, and the fossils often prepared by the transfer technique.

Local mining activities for cement and construction damage the sites. Trade in illegally collected fossils has sprung up from the decade of 1970, driven by the remarkable state of preservation and beauty of these fossils and amounting to a considerable local industry. An urgent preservation program is being called for by paleontologists.

In addition, the weathering of Romualdo Formation rocks has contributed soil conditions unlike elsewhere in the region. The Araripe manakin (Antilophia bokermanni) is a very rare bird that was discovered only in the late 20th century; it is not known from anywhere outside the characteristic forest that grows on the Chapada do Araripe soils formed ultimately from Romualdo Formation rocks.

Geology and dating

The Crato Formation was previously considered the lowest member of the then Santana Formation, but has been elevated to a formal formation. The Crato Formation is the product of a single phase, where complicated sequence of sediment strata reflect changeable conditions in the opening sea. The age of the Romualdo Formation, formerly known as the Romualdo Member of the Santana Formation, has been controversial, though most workers have agreed that it lies on or near the Aptian-Albian boundary, about 112 million years ago. Nevertheless, a Cenomanian age cannot be ruled out.

The extent of the Crato unit and its relationship to the Romualdo Formation had long been ill-defined. It was not until a 2007 volume on the unit by Martill, Bechly and Loveridge that the Crato Formation was given a formal type locality, and was formally made a distinct formation separate from the Romualdo Formation, which is about 10 Ma younger.

Archosaurs
Indeterminate remains of non-avian theropods, avialans, ornithischians, and possibly oviraptorosaurs have been found in Ceara state, Brazil. The oviraptorosaurian remains have been re-identified as megaraptoran fossils.

Fish

 * Araripelepidotes
 * Beurlenichthys ouricuriensis
 * Brannerion
 * Calamopleurus
 * Cladocyclus
 * Enneles audax
 * Iemanja palma
 * Lepidotes wenzai
 * Microdon penalvai
 * Notelops
 * Obaichthys
 * Oshunia brevis
 * Placidichthys bidorsalis
 * Rhacolepis
 * Iansan beurleni
 * Santanaclupea silvasantosi
 * Tharrhias
 * Tribodus limae
 * Vinctifer

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Talk:The Wizard (1989 film)

Initial text
anon deleted text cut'n'pasted from http://www.loogslair.net/vgame/wizard.txt. Mikkalai 06:37, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Final Round Scores
Since Super Mario Bros 3 was drawn as a new prototype game in this movie, it is reasonable to accept that scores used in this tournament wouldn't reflect the scoring system that would be found on our good ole' commercially found version.

Specifically, in this kind of tournament (as happens in real life), special tournament editions of games can be licenced and created with special scoring and gameplay.

The idea of only using specific levels from the game in a tournament is not far fetched at all... and would definately explain the supposed mis-naming of the levels.

-Jon

jon@jonivy.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.174.33.110 (talk) 10:16, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Perhaps, but the world map used for the game is the exact same map as in the NES release. This means that either the programmers added an extra level and moved World 1-2 to World 1-3 (which is pretty unlikely) or they just skipped World 1-2 and figured nobody would notice (which is far more plausible).

SeahawkTim (talk) 23:36, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

Ninja Gaiden
Incidentally, the level he was playing was the very first level of the game, so getting through the first part without taking a hit isn't much of an accomplishment.

This seems to ignore the first sentence, which indicates that Jimmy's already completed the entire game and is playing through it again, from the first level.

"[...]it's his second time through and he hasn't even taken a hit yet!"

I'm going to remove it.

68.9.205.10 17:20, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

''Many people (including movie critic Roger Ebert) blasted this movie for the scene where Sam plays Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as he says he was on level three but they cut to him on the first level. However, what these people didn’t notice was that Sam said he "almost beat MechaTurtle", so it's possible he might have died and started over.''

i really doubt roger ebert blasted the movie for THAT reason, since the man has time and time again proclaim his lack of knowledge about videogames and his lack of interest in them in general.'' — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.43.115.132 (talk) 23:11, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

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5/16/06

Although Ebert had plenty of other more important issues with the movie, he does mention the fact with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles in the final paragraph of the review on his site. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19891215/REVIEWS/912150304/1023

Added by wil2197 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wil2197 (talk • contribs) 01:53, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Beta Game?
I think it'd possible that Super Mario Bros. 3 could've been a beta tested game, where some of the rules were changed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.179.196.128 (talk) 03:50, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

Score of 50,000 on Double Dragons.
I deleted the following: "(In actual fact, a score of 50,000 in that game is not impressive for someone who is a master at video games. However, it is presumably his first time playing this game.) "

I am new to Wikipedia so I don't know if this really constitutes a violation of neutral POV but I don't think this aside has anything to add to the article. Do we have a "master of video games" who can provide some support for this claim? Presumably this was posted by someone who has gotten higher than 50,000 on Double Dragons and considers themselves a video game master who can speak for all video game masters. — Preceding unsigned comment added by AJarvis (talk • contribs) 01:01, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, the movie implies that this is something insanely difficult to do. In fact, anyone who has played a video game could probably reach that mark easily.  Still, a lot of that info probably doesn't need to be there.  I think I'll trim it a bit.  --UsaSatsui 07:15, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

I'm new as well, though I grew up playing the NES from age 5 in 1985 so I can confirm it's legit, it just takes focus. 50,000 points in Double Dragon for NES is fairly possible and somewhat difficult. The easiest method was using the repeated 'headbutt' on oppenets as it rewarded the highest points per attack though getting to approximately Level 4 was required as it was dictated by the number of enemies which to beat up. 7/6/06 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.103.5.35 (talk) 21:49, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

This article …
… is one of the most spectacularly dorky ones in all Wikipedia! Contratulations, I love it! Mstroeck 21:34, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

"Game Errors" and Trivia
Okay, I cleaned out a LOT of the "game errors". Most of them are just boring. Some don't take into account that the movie probably isn't showing every second of the game (so it doesn't take him 5 seconds to beat the "high score", it takes 10 minutes...and they cut out 9 minutes 55 seconds). And some are just audio sync mistakes. And some were STILL copyvio from another list of these mistakes (the guy who made that list is a friend of mine, for the record. He took that list down, in part because parts of it kept showing up here).

A lot of the trivia I got rid of too.

I left the ones I felt were at least interesting, that were clear-cut errors or that I could check out myself and see were truly mistakes (I own all the games mentioned in the movie except Ninja Gaiden). To keep the list from growing out of control again, new additions should probably be posted on the talk page first, then added in later. Just a thought.

--UsaSatsui 08:25, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

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 * * One of the more obvious errors is that despite the fact that the unveiling of Super Mario Bros. 3'' to the public occured for the final round of Video Armageddon, Haley shouts to Jimmy to use the warp whistle despite the fact that she couldn't possibly know what the item was or what its effects were. It is possible that the whistles were eluded to in a "Power Magazine" that Haley got for Jimmy earlier in the movie, but nothing points to this officially.

 * Not convinced about the validity of this one. I can see her saying that without knowing just what it is, expecially if you have that annoying announcer jabbering about it.  --UsaSatsui 00:08, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

 * * There were difficulties synchronizing the film speed with the video games, due to the differences in speed. Film runs at 24 frames/second, and the games ran at 60 frames/second.
 * This used to be 30 frames per second, someone changed it to 60 frames per second. I'm pretty sure 30 is the right number, but I'm not sure.  I'm pulling it out until it gets a source anyways.  UsaSatsui 11:29, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 30 full frames/sec, 60 interlaced frames/sec. so the screen was 60Hz 85.149.120.16 11:10, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

Autism
I have a son with Autism. There is no known cause of Autism. you can be born with it, or have it become apparent, later on. Jimmy may have had some Autistic tendencies earlier in life (how would we know, this is just a movie) and the death of his sister made him regress and become worse. My son is high functioning, unless your a trained autism professional, you'd have no idea he was autistic. However, something tramatizing can set them back. And Jimmy's actions, etc, are of those of a child on the Autism Spectrum. Especially the obssession with video games, the concentration he puts towards them .. very common in Autistic persons. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.167.72.0 (talk) 20:54, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Is there a source to prove Jimmy is autistic? One part of the article claims he is, and another says his symptoms are autistic like.--Iamstillhiro1112 19:54, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * He's certainly not autistic. He wasn't born that way, it happened after his sister drowned in the river (he wasn't supposed to be down there, so he blamed himself, I guess). Possiby PTSD?  I'll change it later.  --UsaSatsui 23:03, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I would just leave out him having a condition name and mention that he had a tramatic experience.--Iamstillhiro1112 23:58, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
 * There. I went with "emotionally disturbed", that's what's on the back of the DVD box. --UsaSatsui 10:37, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I removed that last autism reference. I still don't think this resembles autism. I remember him being quiet but I don't remember anything else that makes me think of autism. I know autistic people myself.--Iamstillhiro1112 00:03, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * He was also withdrawn and spent most of his time either "off in his own world" or building things. Maybe that's where the refrence came from.  --UsaSatsui 07:10, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Error
This shows the actors were not playing the games themselves, but most likely all the TVs were hooked up to the same NES and someone was playing them off-screen. Uhh.....it would make more sense that the game was recorded to a VCR and the TVs were running the playback. I've changed the statement to reflect this. -- Jelly Soup 10:19, 8 March 2007 (UTC)

Major rewrite as of 9/6/07
I reworked things again. It was getting pretty ugly. The trivia/game errors sections are gone, reworked into the article. Let's try and keep it that way. This article tends to attract bad trivia for some reason.

Here's what still needs to be worked on, any help would be awesome:

 * Some more specifics. How much was the prize money, for instance?
 * An image. The old one was deleted for some reason.  We could use a good image for this article, maybe two.
 * Sources. Any cites on the film's status in video game culture?  I'm just inferring.
 * Fact-check. Did I get all the featured games?  I know others were shown or mentioned, but they really only focused on a couple.  If I missed any, please add.
 * More info! Why did the people who made this thing really screw up the video game stuff?  Things like that could be helpful.

I think we can at least get this up to Good article status with a little work (featured is probably a pipe dream, though). So let's do what we can. And keep the crap out of it. I'm watching. *glare* --UsaSatsui 22:31, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

When he's building things, he's "building the stage" where SMB3 is played.
Watch it and see, especially the first time. Thanks to two anonymous sources who don't want to ba named. SashaNein 20:22, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Is Reception Accurate?
The article uses RottenTomatoes as evidence that the movie was not well received. How is this accurate? RottenTomatoes did not exist in 1989 when the movie was released, so anything on that site would not indicate how well received it "was", but how it is being interpreted many years later. I don't think it's fair to count reviews that occurred 20 years later to be representative of its initial reception. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.202.102.162 (talk) 01:45, 12 January 2009 (UTC)

 * Agreed, of course... --< Nicht Nein! (talk) 21:04, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

the reception pararaph was changed by trolls, I remember this movie being called a cult classic in the article (which it actually is) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.47.168.7 (talk) 23:49, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

Also the current article is inconsistent on the reception of this film. It states both "Despite receiving consistently negative reviews" and "The film received lukewarm reviews from critics." These can't both be true. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:17F0:8DD0:6113:F95E:2285:FFE6 (talk) 20:41, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

Latest revision
 I'm good with that. --UsaSatsui (talk) 22:30, 11 February 2009 (UTC)

James Rolfe
Wait a minute... Jimmy is played by "James Rolfe". However, the links link to the Canadian composer James Rolfe who was born in 1961. So, they are most likely wrong. But who is it? Should we delete the link, is he the AVGN James Rolfe or is he a completely different actor? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.83.74.183 (talk) 01:40, 25 February 2010 (UTC)

Film was not the North American introduction to SMB3
In fact, it was playable on Playchoice 10 several months before the movie came out. I don't have a source to back this up, only my recollection of playing it once in the Summer of 1989 at a Wal-mart. Anyone else back me up here? :P — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.183.108.200 (talk) 00:37, 21 May 2013 (UTC)

CAST!!!
== 'CAST THE CAST WHERE IS THE CAST SECTION WHERE IS IT WHERE IS IT WHAT DID YOU DO WITH IT WHERE'S THE CAST? WHERE IS IT WHERE IS IT WHERE IS IT THE CASSSSST WHERE IS IT! ANSWER WHERE IS THE CAST WHERE IS IT — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.219.235.2 (talk) 05:40, 6 February 2015 (UTC) ' ==

It's right where it should be. Chill out!Robbmonster (talk) 05:29, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

'Production' section
It seems to me much of the 'production' section is dedicated to finding error with the depiction of the games shown in the film rather than the making of the film itself.

"The Taito arcade game Top Speed (known as Full Throttle in its originating region of Japan) is featured twice in the film, but is called out incorrectly as F-1 Dream. Jimmy is seen playing the game when the trio cons the three redneck teens out of $20. The camera pulls out to show he is in fact playing on an F-1 Dream arcade cabinet, to which Haley then says "470,000 and climbing on F-1 Dream." F-1 Dream was made by Capcom and is an entirely different game than what was show in the movie. F-1 Dream is more akin to Rare's top-down game R.C. Pro-Am (also featured in the film), whereas Top Speed is a behind-the-car racer similar to Sega's OutRun. However, although the games were made by different companies, they were both imported and distributed in the United States by Romstar. It's possible that Romstar had the parts for both available and they either just cobbled the two together to give the production team something to feature, or that the production team requested the more eye-catching Top Speed to be placed into the more eye-catch cabinet of F-1 Dream. Top Speed was again featured later on in the film during the montage in Reno, however its cabinet is not shown and the title is not mentioned. "

Not only is most of this paragraph utterly irrelevant to the film and of most people who wish to know something about it - outside of some obsessive gaming trainspotters - but by the end of the paragraph it goes into pure speculation, beginning with 'it's possible...', always a bad sign.

I do not feel experienced enough in my editing to clean it up, but I feel someone should. As it stands now, only the first and final two paragraphs of the production section are relevant to the film itself, the rest being speculative trivia and inconsistencies in the games depicted. My suggestion would be these middle paragraphs be severely shortened or removed completely.Robbmonster (talk) 05:36, 22 August 2018 (UTC)

Theatrical re-release
This film deserves a theatrical re-release for its 35th anniversary next year with the original run time of 2.5 hours. Nate-Dawg921 (talk) 22:15, 27 September 2023 (UTC)

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Tanjung Kidurong

Tanjung Kidurong, known as simply Kidurong, is a port township in Bintulu District, Sarawak, Malaysia. Approximately 15 minutes from the centre of Bintulu, Kidurong functions as the main industrial core of the Bintulu area. The MLNG Complex, which is the largest single gas manufacturing complex in the world, is in Kidurong. Shell and Murphy are among the other oil and gas multinationals that operate in the Kidurong Industrial Estate. The oil and gas industry in the Kidurong Industrial Area since the 1980s has brought along an expatriate community, who also live in Kidurong, notably around Tamam Matahari and MLNG Housing. This has also led to a higher price of homes in Kidurong, compared to the other suburbs in Bintulu town. There is also a fairly large squatter community around the Sg. Plan area, which is roughly 3 km from the middle-class and prosperous neighbourhoods in the area. Most of the squatters came from rural areas in search of a better life in Bintulu.

The Kidurong Area is serviced by two secondary schools; SMK Kidurong and SMK Assyakirin. A small international school, Kidurong International School, serves the expatriate community of the area. Bintulu Airport is 20 minutes away, while the Bintulu Port, through which the liquefied gas produced by MLNG Complex is exported, is also n the area.

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Yumen City

Yumen (, literally, "Jade Gate,") is a city in western Gansu province, China. It is a county-level city with a population of 106,812 (2002 est.), and is part of Jiuquan "prefecture-level city" (a multi-county administrative unit). It is located on the Silk Road and is best known for its oil production.

The city's name is often confused with the Yumen Guan or Jade Gate which is the frontier-pass of ancient times, the entrance to the old Silk Roads, which was situated not far to the west of Dunhuang. Although both Yumen City and Yumen Gate are within Jiuquan, the latter is some 400 km to the west from the former.

In 2014, areas of the city were sealed off after a resident died of the bubonic plague. Districts of the city which house up to 100,000 were turned into quarantine zones. The city allocated 1 million yuan to be used for emergency vaccinations.

History
The site of Yumen was brought under Chinese control around the end of the 2nd century BCE. Yumen was known as 'Huiji' in the 5th century when the area was reclaimed by the Northern Wei dynasty (386–534/535) and was soon after renamed back to Yumen in 581. Under the Tang dynasty (618–907), Yumen's county seat was located at Chijinzhen which is east of the present Yumen City. The city was then under Tibetan control around 770 CE for some 70 years. After the Tang dynasty, Yumen became a part of the Western Xia (1038–1227). During the Ming dynasty (1368–1644), the area came under Tibetan control again and was only reestablished later on in the early Qing dynasty (1644–1912).

In 1939, the first oilfield in China was established at Yumen.

Administrative divisions
Yumen City is divided to 1 subdistrict, 10 towns, 2 ethnic townships and 5 others.
 * Subdistricts
 * Xinshiqu Subdistrict (新市区街道)

 * Towns
 * Ethnic townships
 * Xiaojinwan Dongxiang Ethnic Township (小金湾东乡族乡)
 * Dushanzi Dongxiang Ethnic Township (独山子东乡族乡

 * Others
 * State-owned Horse Drinking Farm (国营饮马农场)
 * State-owned Yellow Flower Farm Dongxiangzu Township (国营黄花农场)
 * Gansu Nongken Yusheng Agricultural Company (甘肃农垦裕盛农业公司)
 * Gansu Provincial Agricultural Reclamation Construction Engineering Company (甘肃省农垦建筑工程公司)
 * Gansu mining area (甘肃矿区)

Economy
The overland route to Western Asia from China flourished until the end of the Tang dynasty. Furthermore, due to increased use of sea transportation, Yumen became a backwater.

There were two catalysts for Yumen's rapid revival in the 1930s and 40s. The construction of a modern highway over the old caravan route from Yumen to Ürümqi (capital of the Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang) and continuing on-wards to Kazakhstan. The railway of Yumen is the linking point of the railway line between Lanzhou (capital of Gansu) and Ürümqi.

After the discovery of oil in the Jiuquan basin, to the north of the Qilian Mountains the city's economy was given another major push. The first oil was drilled at Laojunmiao near Yumen in 1939 where an appreciable production was achieved in 1941. Only until 1949 did large-scale development begin, and prospecting in 1950 revealed much larger reserves than had been speculated. Yumen has its own refinery but is also linked by pipeline to a refinery at Lanzhou. Other than oil drilling and refining, Yumen also has thermal and wind power-generating facilities. Manufacturing includes machinery, building materials, chemical fertilizers and process agricultural products.

China appears to be constructing 120 missile silos near Yumen.

Geography and climate
Yumen has a cold desert climate (Köppen BWk), with an annual total precipitation of 67 mm, the majority of which occurs in summer. Winters are long and cold, with a 24-hour average temperature of −9.8 °C in January, while summers are very warm, with a July average of 21.7 °C; the annual mean is 7.13 °C. The diurnal temperature variation reaches or exceeds 15 C-change for much of the year. With monthly percent possible sunshine ranging from 67% in March to 80% in October, the city receives 3,214 hours of bright sunshine annually.

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Hold on, a lot more material coming in a day or so :-) --Chino 06:39, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Not a stub anymore :-) Nopcsa is a really interesting person. More info, especially his involvement in the independence of Albania would be welcome. --Chino 03:21, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
This article was automatically assessed because at least one article was rated and this bot brought all the other ratings up to at least that level. BetacommandBot 11:37, 27 August 2007 (UTC)

Regarding "at the family estate at Szentpéterfalva in Sacele (Szacsal), Transylvania"... that is not corect. His family estate (or, at least, one of hos residences from the Hateg region) was situated in this vilage:

http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A2npetru,_Hunedoara —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.96.114.113 (talk) 15:50, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Gay?
Was this confirmed? it is written as if fact in the article. FunkMonk (talk) 03:59, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

Religion?
We seem to know a lot about him, do we know his religion? An Austro-Hungarian noble most certainly belonged to some church, Hungarians had several choices. 18:34, 20 September 2011 (UTC)

Resource in current SciAm
The Dinosaur Baron of Transylvania; A maverick aristocrat's ideas about dinosaur evolution turn out to have been decades ahead of their time by Gareth Dyke in October 12, 2011 edition of Scientific American. 97.87.29.188 (talk) 19:04, 27 September 2011 (UTC)

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Death date
I have found a number of different sources stating different death dates as 15 April, 25 April and 26 April. I have left 25 April for now. Achaea (talk) 22:20, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

Romanian origin
"family of Romanian origin" Any reference for this? I tried to find any real reference. All of them only mentioned the fact, but never bring up any evidence or proof. The Families of Hungary (Ivan Nagy, 1860) did not mention this, but the Szilvási ancestry. Szeitzp (talk) 17:56, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately I think a lot of digging through primary sources would be necessary to answer this question properly, if these sources even survive that is. Hemiauchenia (talk) 18:39, 5 April 2023 (UTC)

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Sea otters
Which restaurant in Monterey has sea otters lying on their backs with the sushi on their bellys? I can't find any other mention of such a restaurant. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.155.32.17 (talk • contribs) 06:16, December 8, 2005(UTC)
 * No body answered so I am going to remove all reference to the otters in Monerary, CA serving sushi. This was added in the edit Revision as of 23:44, August 10, 2005 by .  Cafe Nervosa |  talk  01:02, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Just a little validation for the original poster. I used to eat at that restaurant circa 1999 or 2000 but it must have gone out of business since.  I am visiting Monterey right now and it is killing me that I can't take my kids to eat there. Daviesow (talk) 04:04, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Additional validation - late 1990s/early aughts whenever my daughter had a roller skating competition in Monterey, we would try to get there. It was a spendy treat for a single mom but a generally moderately priced place not far from the Aquarium. I don't recall the name of the place, but this Yelp review mentions the otter boats and the location looks to be about right. The kids (and I...) loved the otter tie-in. --Sopranomom (talk) 20:49, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I used to eat there alot in the late 1980's. The sushi was in plates on the bellies of little Otter boats that floated around the canal in front of the semi-circular bar.  You didn't order anything you just picked up stuff that looked good as it floated by.  You were charged by your number of empty plates.  I'm pretty sure it was called Otter Sushi.  It may have been in the current (2022) location of Zum Sushi, 159 Central Ave Pacific Grove. (Just on the border with Monterey above Cannary Row). 76.9.90.112 (talk) 16:59, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
 * The name of the restaurant was Totoya.   A sushi restaurant that had floating otters that plates of sushi would be placed upon.  Last time I went to the restaurant was 2004-2005. It was located near Cannery Row in Monterey. 74.194.58.122 (talk) 19:55, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
 * Long ago it was called Mr. Sushi Man. 47.208.233.226 (talk) 01:20, 10 July 2023 (UTC)

Boats?
What about sushi in little boats? Is that not the same? Or is that different? user: 64.165.203.98

 * Basically, yes. In essence, it's still a conveyor belt.  It's just designed to look as though the "boats" are floating around; they're not.  Exploding Boy 16:48, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)

 * I find it very interesting that someone put a link to dim sum at the bottom of this article. I have always thought of kaiten sushi as the modern Japanese equivalent of dim sum.  Great minds think alike I guess (hee..) ::::

Kaiten-sushi vs. kaiten-zushi
Someone just changed the romanization in the opening paragraph from "kaiten-zushi" to "kaiten-sushi." If nobody objects, I'm going to change it back. Although the standalone word is "sushi," in this compound word it is pronounced "zushi" and I think it should be left as such. -Sarfa 04:10, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Workflow?
Outside special orders, how do the chefs decide what to put on the conveyor belt? 24.237.118.231 00:20, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Japan Only
This article only seems to address Kaiten-zushi in Japan. Although it is still relatively small, kaiten-zushi is becoming increasingly popular in America. I feel the article should be revised to not be limited to restaurants in Japan, but include those around the world (i.e. making tea at your table vs. tea being brought to you in America, price not only in yen but in USD equivalent, etc.). Please advise, or feel free to edit as you think would improve the worldly accuracy of this article.

 * I agree with this assessment - conveyor belt sushi seems to be rapidly becoming a worldwide phenomenon. Here in the United Kingdom, these restaurants seem to be springing up all over the place, mainly courtesy of chains such as Yo! Sushi. 217.155.20.163 17:59, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Is it ACTUALLY moving?
I can't see it. I cant see motion. Will some one make an animation of a conveyor belt, so I really know it's moving? 69.179.187.159 02:40, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

 * It's moving. Boneyard90 (talk) 13:06, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Sushi train
It is also known as sushi train in Australia.

Is it? I know there's a chain of conveyor belt sushi restaurants in Australia called Sushi Train, but I didn't think it was a generic name for this type of establishment. 217.155.20.163 18:06, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

I believe the term Sushi Train has come into use as a colloquial term that encompasses all conveyor belt sushi restaurants in Australia, perhaps an example of genericized trademarks. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.170.168.49 (talk) 12:58, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm from Australia and often refer to it as "Sushi Train". The main Kaiten place in Perth is called Jaws though. Awesome stuff, I had all-you-can-eat there last night. Gemfyre (talk) 01:55, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

SUSHI TRAIN is absolutely the general term for this kind of restaurant in Australia, to the extent that "Kaiten" and "conveyer belt sushi" are terms I have never heard of, and I doubt there is any reference to them anywhere in any literature relating to these restaurants by english language local media / critics / reviews /promotion. Franchises often take names that play off this theme (the biggest in Brisbane being SUSHI STATION) and the sushi itself usually rides on the back of a toy train going around a track!! If anything, it isn't also known as sushi train in Australia, it is known solely as Sushi Train (on the east coast at least). Flynne (talk) 09:29, 27 July 2008 (UTC) - No Way! Sushi Train have like 50+ stores in Australia and have been around since I can remember, maybe 5 years old (I'm 30 this year), I believe they were the first to bring in this system and that's the reason it's become common.

I've seen several different restaurants/chains using conveyor belts, but never one on a toy train. (Adelaide, SA) 60.240.72.5 (talk) 09:19, 15 January 2011 (UTC)

Belt movement
The belt usually runs clockwise to make it easier to lift the plates off the belt with the left hand while the right hand holds the chopsticks.

This doesn't make sense for two reasons: (a) customers don't necessarily sit facing the belt; (b) in all the restaurants I've seen, the belt is configured so that it doubles back on itself, creating a kind of "2-lane highway" from which it's possible to pick off plates moving in either direction. 217.155.20.163 18:20, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Sushi go round? くるくる寿司? - nitpicking
"(also called sushi-go-round (くるくる寿司, kuru kuru sushi?), mainly by foreigners living in Japan)" - sorry, I am a foreigner living in Japan, and I've never called it anything else but "Kaitenzushi". I've never heard either sushi-go-round nor くるくる寿司. According to this Japanese forum (http://kotonoha.cc/no/99668), くるくる寿司 is rather uncommon or children's speech if anything, and it's the name of a (not so well-known) chain. In any case it's not a normal general term.

Since I'm nitpicking anyway, I'd also like to point out that the first sentence, "Conveyor belt sushi [...] is the popular English translation for the Japanese fast-food sushi." is misleading, as it implies that all fast-food sushi is served on a conveyor belt. I'd also count shops that sell sushi bento as fast food.

"However, some traditionalists criticize conveyor belt sushi restaurants as destroying the ritual of eating sushi as many traditional sushi restaurants are driven out of business under competition." I'd like to see a source for that, such as a food critic actually saying this, or statistics with "n sushi shops in town A in 19XX, n/2 sushi shops in town A in 19YY". My impression is that traditional sushi shops and modern high-class sushi restaurants are doing fine, despite the fast-food competition. It's probably more the general shift to western food in Japan since WWII that was a threat to the sushi culture. --Mkill (talk) 02:42, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

I've never heard of sushi-go-round or くるくる寿司 either in 4 years in Japan. I call it 'revolving sushi' myself in English, and I'm not the only one, judging by 40 000 hits on Google. Personally I find it catchier than 'conveyor belt sushi' though as that particular search gets 5 million hits I guess it's the winner.

Talking of Google, I've just discovered 'sushi-go-round' is the name of a computer game. I'm still not convinced it's a common term for the restaurants themselves. Rsm77 (talk) 09:46, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

contradiction?
Shiraishi opened the first conveyor belt sushi Mawaru Genroku Sushi in Osaka in 1958, eventually expanding to up to 250 restaurants all over Japan. However, by 2001, his company had just 11 restaurants.

Is this meaning to suggest that in the time period from 1958-2001, the company opened 11 restaurants, while from 2001-now the company rapidly expanded to add an additional 239 restaurants? Because it took me about three readings to figure that out; on the surface the two sentences appeared to contradict each other.

If that's the intended meaning I'd suggest Shiraishi opened the first conveyor belt sushi restaurant, Mawaru Genroku Sushi, in Osaka in 1958, though it was not until the 21st century that the parent company began expanding more widely: in 2001 the company owned 11 restaurants, while by {date} it had expanded to over 250 restaurants across Japan. --rahaeli (talk) 14:12, 7 February 2012 (UTC)

 * I would read it as saying that in the years BEFORE 2001 Mawaru Genroku Sushi had up to 250 restaurants, but between some unspecified date and 2001 (or during 2001), the number of restaurants decreased to 11, possibly by or because of Shiraishi's death in 2001. As it is, the article doesn't specify what date Shiraishi passed away, or when the count of just 11 restaurants was taken, but large groups and chains have been known to downsize after the death of their founder. El Nero Diablo (talk) 00:20, 14 May 2012 (UTC)

Dim Sum
I've just removed the last line of the History section (revision at 18:05, 28 November 2014) because without the word Dim Sum the sentence doesn't make sense. I did find a reference to converyor belts being used for dim sum via a Lonely Planet atticle so perhaps the original sentence should be restored and cite this reference but I'm not so sure it would belong in the History section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lukosan (talk • contribs)

Not specific to conveyor belt sushi restaurants
I think the following statement should be removed because it is true of all sushi restaurants, not specific to conveyor belt sushi restaurants.

"Some inexpensive conveyor belt sushi restaurants may imitate an expensive dish using less expensive ingredients. For example, they may replace chopped fatty tuna belly meat with other fish meat. Some larger chains can keep down costs for quality food by ordering in large amounts."

The last sentence is actually true of ALL restaurants. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.22.202.69 (talk) 18:28, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

Not specific to conveyor belt sushi restaurants
I think the following statement should be removed because it is true of all sushi restaurants, not specific to conveyor belt sushi restaurants.

"Some inexpensive conveyor belt sushi restaurants may imitate an expensive dish using less expensive ingredients. For example, they may replace chopped fatty tuna belly meat with other fish meat. Some larger chains can keep down costs for quality food by ordering in large amounts."

The last sentence is actually true of ALL restaurants.96.22.202.69 (talk) 18:29, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

Sanitation on the food-go-round
So from looking at these pictures, apparently Japanese food sanitation rule makers do not believe in sneeze guards? You'd better hope no one coughs or goes ACHOO! on the sushi train..

An enclosed transparent tunnel with a hood door that swings open by each table would also keep the food warm or cool as required, and high humidity so it doesn't dry out. -- DMahalko (talk) 22:30, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Kura-zushi invented a sanitation device called "Mr. Fresh" for your concern. See and . ―― Phoenix7777 (talk) 23:10, 6 October 2015 (UTC)

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Conveyor belt places where everything has to be ordered
At least one UK sushi chain (Yo Sushi) now requires patrons to order every item (on a smartphone, generally) and they are made to order and delivered on the belt. Is this common for other conveyor belt sushi places?

I would be bold but I don't know if this is an outlier or normal.

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Category talk:American people of German descent

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This this a category based on nationality or based on ethnicity? --Fastfission 06:43, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ethnicity and Nationality. Canaduh

Why are there people in it who were 100% born in the USA mixed in with people who were born in Germany and emigrated? Can we come up with some guidelines for inclusion? --Fastfission 10:50, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Are Jews who are decended from immigrants from Germany considered German Americans or Jewish Americans?

I think it would be better to use this category for Americans of German descent, not Germans who became US citizens. We have a Category:Naturalized citizens of the United States for those anyway. But it would be nice if there was some guideline as to how German you have to be. Some people in these categories have a German great-great-grandparent or something similar. JW 13:20, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

I've been adding a lot of people to this, I used the standard that if they are at least 1/4 German, they can go in. If it's any less, no. 130.113.111.203 19:48, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

I think its culturally and historically insensitive to have Jews on a list of Germans, could they pleased be removed? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.141.217.93 (talk • contribs) 04:17, November 1, 2005 (UTC)

 * Insensitive to whom? --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 05:21, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Jews. Jews in America don't consider themselves German even if they have roots in Germany, the reasons for this are quite obvious; namely 6 million of them dead at the hands of the Nazis. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.141.217.93 (talk • contribs) 02:14, November 2, 2005 (UTC)

 * Please sign your postings by appending four tildes ~ . Regarding the insensitivity of it, we'll have to agree to differ on this. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 02:38, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Maybe we should have a vote and establish whether or not Jews, Austrians and Switzerlanders in America count as German-Americans or not? Personally I'd like to hear Jewish opinion on the matter.    24.36.120.13 21:05, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Nice try. --Lysy (talk) 22:43, 3 November 2005 (UTC)

Ummm... I don't think this has any Jews on it - except maybe ones born in Germany. Most Jews are just listed as "Jewish Americans" regardless of where their ancestors came from, since "something-American" obviously denotes an ethnicity, which "Jewish" is.Vulturell 08:55, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, of course it has Jews on it, including Albert Einstein, Henry Kissinger, Gloria Steinem, and Ruth Westheimer. I believe all were born in Germany or were German citizens. Jayjg (talk) 18:13, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Gloria Steinem? C'mon. You must know something. She is an American by birth. Her father is Jewish and the reason she is under German-Americans (I put her there, naturally) is because her mother is of ethnic German descent.Vulturell 18:35, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I must know something? Well, I don't know what you meant by that, nor am I sure how your response would be relevant for Einstein, Kissinger, or Westheimer.  Or do you assert that they are/were not Jews? Jayjg (talk) 18:50, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
 * No, I had left Einstein, Kissiner and Westheimer behind and was just talking about Steinem. I meant that surely you must know she's an American and not German by birth.Vulturell 19:12, 15 November 2005 (UTC)

Wait a minute, did the user 24.141.217.93 really suggest to do a SELECTION between Germans and Jews? Yeah, let us do a little selection and TERMINATE the ones in the list which are jewish. This isn`t simply "insensitve" this is stupid, stunningly ahistorical and inappropriate! --Sushi Leone (talk) 23:03, 23 October 2009 (UTC)


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