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Sidney Blumenthal

Sidney Stone Blumenthal (born November 6, 1948) is an American journalist, political operative, and Lincoln scholar. A former aide to President Bill Clinton, he is a long-time confidant of Hillary Clinton and was formerly employed by the Clinton Foundation. As a journalist, Blumenthal wrote about American politics and foreign policy. He is also the author of a multivolume biography of Abraham Lincoln, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln. Three books of the planned five-volume series have already been published: A Self-Made Man, Wrestling With His Angel, and All the Powers of Earth. Subsequent volumes were planned for later.

Blumenthal has written for publications such as The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker, for whom he served for a time as the magazine's Washington correspondent, and, was, briefly, the Washington, D.C., bureau chief for Salon. He is a regular contributor to the openDemocracy website and is a regular columnist for The Guardian. After 2000, he wrote several essays critical of the administration of George W. Bush.

Over time, Blumenthal began to be viewed as an archetype of a new type of journalist who has eroded the divide between independent journalism and partisan journalism:  "As the connection between journalists and politicians is umbilical in Washington, Blumenthal's political problem, in part, is journalistic," reporter Michael Powell wrote of him in a profile in The Washington Post: "His is a type found far more often on the right in Washington, a partisan warrior who takes a critically sympathetic stance not just toward his issues but his chosen political party as well. Even as a writer at The Washington Post, where Blumenthal passed some time in the 1980s, he placed a porous membrane between his political views and his writing. It is the sort of partisan, if also intellectual, engagement that makes mainstream journalists, even those of liberal politics, deeply uncomfortable."

Early life and career
Blumenthal was born in Chicago to Claire (née Stone) and Hyman V. Blumenthal. His father was Jewish and mother Protestant Christian. He became involved in politics at the age of 12 as a courier for a local Democratic party election precinct captain. Hearing John F. Kennedy reference The New York Times during a campaign rally Blumenthal attended prompted him to begin reading that paper regularly.

He earned a BA in Sociology from Brandeis University in 1969. While there he joined the Students for a Democratic Society.

After graduation, Blumenthal began his career in Boston as a journalist who wrote for the underground paper Boston Phoenix and the Real Paper. Blumenthal was part of a generation of New Left journalists who eschewed objectivity in favor of taking sides. He blamed journalistic detachment for Ronald Reagan's presidential victory. Geraldine Baum wrote in the Los Angeles Times, "In Blumenthal’s writings, Democrats stood for goodness and progress, Republicans for darkness and defeat."

1984 political coverage
In 1983, Blumenthal became the chief national political correspondent for The New Republic, covering the 1984 Presidential campaign. Soon after, Blumenthal began working as a political reporter for The Washington Post before then returning to The New Republic.

Blumenthal played a major role in Gary Hart's bid for the 1984 Democratic presidential nomination. Although Hart's bid was ultimately unsuccessful, Blumenthal wrote a speech that was considered a positive "turning point" that established Hart's viability, and he wrote a cover story on Hart in The New Republic. Discomfort with Blumenthal's political involvement contributed to The Washington Post reassigning Blumenthal to their "Style" section.

Tenure as chief Washington correspondent for The New Yorker
In 1993, Blumenthal became the chief Washington correspondent for The New Yorker before joining the Clinton Administration in the summer of 1997.

Not too long into the job, Blumenthal was replaced as The New Yorkers chief Washington correspondent by Michael Kelly, although Blumenthal was allowed to stay on as a part-time writer: "Kelly ordered Blumenthal to stay away from the magazine's downtown office," the Posts Kurtz wrote. Kelly himself explained to the newspaper: "I did not trust [Blumenthal]. I felt his relationship . . . with the president and first lady was such that I was not sure I wanted him around the office as I was working on stories. He was serving two masters, and I was not comfortable with that. . . . I had reason to believe that he wanted a job with the White House." According to Kelly, "He took a column that had a well-deserved reputation and turned it into a vehicle for the Clintons and for denouncing their enemies."

Over time, Blumenthal was eased out of his job: "The New Yorker assignments dwindled," Kurtz wrote, and Blumenthal not long after officially went to work for the Clinton White House.

Clinton administration years
Blumenthal served as assistant and senior advisor to Bill Clinton from August 1997 until January 2001. His roles included advising the President on communications and public policy as well as serving as a liaison between the White House and former colleagues in the Washington press corps.

He later became a central figure in the grand jury investigation that ended in the impeachment of President Clinton. While working for Clinton, Blumenthal was known for his loyalty to the Clintons. He was also known for his often baseless attacks on her political adversaries, including Barack Obama when he and Hillary Clinton ran against each other to be the 2008 Democratic nominee to be president. This was the primary reason Rahm Emanuel, the first chief of staff for President Barack Obama, barred Blumenthal from holding a position in the State Department during Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State.

Perjury before congress
In 1998, Christopher Hitchens submitted an affidavit which contradicted Blumenthal's testimony in which he had stated that he never referred to Monica Lewinsky as a stalker. Lawmakers called on the Department of Justice to prosecute Blumenthal for perjury. Arlen Specter even filed a motion to investigate possible perjury by Blumenthal. However, Hitchens promised to withdraw his affidavit and nothing came of the matter.

Clinton impeachment trial
During the investigations by independent counsel Kenneth Starr, Blumenthal was called to the grand jury to testify on matters related to what Clinton had told both Blumenthal and his senior staff in regard to Monica Lewinsky. The leadership of the Republican majority in the House of Representatives felt enough evidence existed in regard to the Paula Jones case and Lewinsky for impeachment proceedings to begin in December 1998.

After the House Judiciary Committee and the United States House of Representatives impeached Clinton on December 19, the matter then passed to the United States Senate. Blumenthal was one of only four witnesses called to testify before the Senate. No live witnesses were called; the four were interviewed on videotape. His testimony addressed a major allegation that Clinton had pressured Betty Currie to falsely attest that it was Lewinsky who initially pursued Clinton, not vice versa. The Senate acquitted Clinton of perjury and obstruction of justice, and the impeachment proceedings ended.

Blumenthal v. Drudge
In 1997, Blumenthal filed a $30 million libel lawsuit against the blogger Matt Drudge (and AOL, which had hired Drudge), stemming from a false claim Drudge had made of spousal abuse, attributed only to unnamed "top GOP sources". Drudge retracted the story not long after, saying he had been given bad information. In Blumenthal v. Drudge, the court refused to dismiss Blumenthal's case for lack of personal jurisdiction. Drudge publicly apologized to the Blumenthals. Blumenthal dropped his lawsuit and eventually reached a settlement involving a nominal payment to Drudge over Blumenthal having missed a deposition. In his book The Clinton Wars, Blumenthal claimed that he was forced to settle because he could no longer financially afford the suit.

Relationship with Christopher Hitchens
In the mid 80s, during Blumenthal's visit at the Lehrman Institute he met fellow journalist Christopher Hitchens. Shortly thereafter Blumenthal and Hitchens developed a close relationship which included sharing dinners together, attending important family events together, and trading opinions and information.

Blumenthal's relationship with Hitchens deteriorated during the Impeachment of Bill Clinton. Under subpoena, Hitchens submitted an affidavit to the trial managers of the Republican Party during the impeachment of Bill Clinton, in which Hitchens swore under oath that Blumenthal had described Monica Lewinsky as a stalker. Hitchens' allegations directly contradicted Blumenthal's own sworn deposition during Clinton's impeachment trial that he never said any such thing. This in turn resulted in a hostile exchange of words between the two men, and allegations by congressional Republicans that Blumental lied under oath. Following the publication of The Clinton Wars, in which Blumenthal recounted the disagreement, Hitchens wrote several articles in which he once more accused Blumenthal of lying.

At the end of his life when Hitchens was dying of cancer, Blumenthal wrote to Hitchens in a letter which according to Christopher Buckley contained words of "tenderness and comfort and implicit forgiveness".

Published works and memoirs
After the Clinton presidency, Blumenthal's book, The Clinton Wars, was published in 2003. In her review for The New York Times, Janet Maslin wrote: "Beyond his intention to set the record straight on controversies that plagued the Clinton presidency, Mr. Blumenthal has a more personal agenda. Barely mentioning others close to the Clintons, and illustrating this memoir with smiling, convivial photographs of himself in their company ... Blumenthal sends a clear message to his administration colleagues: Mom liked me best."

Maslin further wrote: "The Clinton Wars means to solidify Mr. Blumenthal's place in history. He wrote memos and speeches (included here for the reader to enjoy). He gave valued advice. He came up with the slogan One America, which, he helpfully points out, is 'an updating of E pluribus unum'. He introduced President Clinton to a promising British politician named Tony Blair. And he was often in the presence of greatness. 'I once sat with the president and Tony Blair as, in about 15 minutes, the two men easily thrashed out a prickly trade problem involving bananas and cashmere,' he reveals."

Reviewing the book in The New York Review of Books, Joseph Lelyveld, the former executive editor of The New York Times, wrote that Blumenthal came across as more like a "courtier" than "the bright campaign reporter he once was. . . . When it comes to the Clintons, there is not a single line of comparable acuity or detachment in the whole of The Clinton Wars. What you get instead are passages that would have been regarded as above par but hardly fresh if they had appeared in a news magazine cover story ten years ago."

Also in The New York Times, historian Robert Dallek wrote that Blumenthal's book was partly "an exercise in score settling" against his "tormentors." Moreover, Dallek wrote, "The book is also an exercise in something all too familiar to inside-the-White-House memoirs -- an exaggerated picture of the participant's importance. Comparing himself to the Antichrist in the eyes of the Christian right, Blumenthal 'wondered which of my traits had invited this invective." Holding center stage, as his massive volume attests, might be one answer."

Overall though, Dallek praised the book, opining that "Blumenthal's sprawling 800-page memoir of his four years as a presidential assistant" was a "welcome addition to the literature on Bill Clinton's tumultuous second term." Dallek also wrote that "Blumenthal brings a reporter's keen eye for telling detail and a columnist's talent for considered analysis and unmistakable opinion to his reconstruction of what he calls the Clinton wars."

Andrew Sullivan has characterized Blumenthal as "the most pro-Clinton writer on the planet." For Salon, Dwight Garner wrote that Blumenthal's pieces as Washington correspondent of The New Yorker "were so unabashedly pro-Clinton that they quickly became the butt of countless jokes."

In addition to The Clinton Wars (2003), Blumenthal's other books include The Permanent Campaign (1980), The Rise of the Counter-Establishment (1986), Pledging Allegiance: The Last Campaign of the Cold War (1990), and How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime (2006), a collection of previously published essays and articles on the presidency of George W. Bush.

Return to journalism
During the 2004 presidential election, Blumenthal was the Washington, D.C., bureau chief for Salon. He also was a regular columnist for The Guardian from August 2003 until November 2007.

Film work
Blumenthal was a political consultant for the Emmy-award-winning HBO series Tanner '88, written by Garry Trudeau and directed by Robert Altman; he appeared as himself in one episode. He was also an executive producer of the documentary Taxi to the Dark Side, directed by Alex Gibney, which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary of 2007. He also was an associate producer of the 2002 film Max.

Relationship to Hillary Clinton and post–2007 employment
Blumenthal joined the 2008 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign as a "senior advisor" in November 2007. While on a trip to advise Clinton on her presidential campaign, Blumenthal was arrested for driving while intoxicated in Nashua, New Hampshire, on January 7, 2008. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor DWI charge.

After her January 2009 appointment as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton intended to hire Blumenthal. However, Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, blocked his selection due to lingering anger among President Barack Obama's aides over Blumenthal's role in promoting negative stories about Obama during the Democratic primary. According to a report in The New York Times, "Emanuel talked with Mrs. Clinton ... and explained that bringing Mr. Blumenthal on board was a no-go. The bad blood among his colleagues was too deep, and the last thing the administration needed, he concluded, was dissension and drama in the ranks. In short, Mr. Blumenthal was out."

According to a profile of Blumenthal which later appeared in Vanity Fair, when Hillary Clinton "wanted Blumenthal to join her at the State Department as a top aide.... President Obama would not allow it: key White House staffers had grown to detest the man. Two of them – Press Secretary Robert Gibbs and Senior Adviser David Axelrod – threatened to quit if Blumenthal was hired."

"They believed that he [Blumenthal] had been involved in spreading unsubstantiated allegations against the Obamas during the 2008 Democratic primary... Blumenthal was said to be" 'obsessed'... about the possible existence of a so-called 'whitey tape,' supposedly made at a Chicago church, in which Michelle Obama could be heard ranting against “whitey”—a tape that could have changed Clinton's political fortunes during her primary fight, but that apparently did not in fact exist."

The information that Blumenthal distributed to journalists and political operatives often paralleled conspiracy theories about Obama espoused by conservative activists and conspiracy theorists, often based on scant evidence or unsubstantiated rumors.

Clinton Foundation work
Blumenthal was a full-time employee of the Clinton Foundation from 2009 until 2013 and then served as a consultant for the foundation from 2013 until 2015, earning for him about $10,000 per month, or more than a half-million dollars total. Blumenthal's foundation job, which "focused" on burnishing "the legacy of Clinton's presidency" was viewed by some "officials at the charity [who] questioned his value and grumbled that his hiring was a favor from the Clintons," Politico reported.

During much of the same time he was consulting for the foundation, Blumenthal also wrote for numerous magazines and online publications, sometimes about both of the Clintons, without disclosing his financial relationship with the foundation.

During the 2011 uprising in Libya against Muammar Gaddafi, Blumenthal prepared, from public and other sources, about 25 memos which he sent as emails to Clinton in 2011 and 2012, which she shared through her aide, Jake Sullivan, with senior State Department personnel. In the form of intelligence briefings, the memos sometimes touted his business associates and, at times contained inaccurate information.

The United States House Select Committee on Benghazi, chaired by Representative Trey Gowdy, Republican of South Carolina, subpoenaed Blumenthal in May 2015. Blumenthal gave testimony in a closed-door session the following month.

Blumenthal's name came up numerous times during the October 22, 2015 full committee public questioning of Hillary Clinton regarding the Benghazi incident, as one of the alleged sources of Clinton's intelligence. During this hearing Democratic members asked that Blumenthal's deposition transcript be made public so that comments regarding his involvement could be placed in context. The motion was defeated by a party-line vote.

Blumenthal also later served as a consultant to the left-leaning watchdog group Media Matters for America, the pro-Democratic Super PAC American Bridge 21st Century and the pro-Clinton Super PAC Correct the Record, for which he is reportedly paid $200,000 per year, for part-time work.

Connection to Christopher Steele and the second Steele Dossier
Journalist and former Clinton aide Cody Shearer had created a so-called second dossier that was filled with notes from his conversations journalists and other sources. Shearer gave these notes to Blumenthal and several other journalists. Blumenthal passed on the notes to Jonathan Winer at the State Department, who had a previous relationship with Christopher Steele. In September 2016 Blumenthal discussed Steele's report with Winer and told him that the information was similar to information he had received from Shearer. Winer then gave the notes to Steele, who then passed them on to the FBI in October and said it came from a friend of the Clintons.

Political views
Blumenthal was highly critical of George W. Bush and his administration for its use of torture, for revealing the identity Valerie Plame as a CIA source, and its response to Hurricane Katrina. Blumenthal praised Bill Clinton for his work on the Brady bill and the North American Free Trade Agreement.

According to an article by Carl M. Cannon, Blumenthal is opposed to capital punishment.

Rumors allegedly spread by Blumenthal
Blumenthal gained a reputation for attacking those whom he considered to be enemies of the Clinton administration. Some accused him of acting as Clinton's hatchet man. When Ken Starr was investigating Bill Clinton for his affair with Monica Lewinsky, Blumenthal was alleged to have spread false rumors to reporters including saying that a deputy to Starr had sexually abused boys at a Christian camp and that Lewinsky was a stalker.

"In 1995, Mr. Blumenthal told reporters that Alma Powell, Colin Powell's wife, suffered from clinical depression and was thus unfit to be a first lady. At the time, there were rumors that Colin Powell would run in the Republican presidential primaries, a prospect that terrified the Clinton re-election campaign," The New York Observer reported.

Birtherism conspiracy theory
During the 2008 presidential primaries, Blumenthal, then informally working for Hillary Clinton, promulgated rumors and encouraged news organizations to investigate conspiracy theories that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, not the United States, and thus was not constitutionally eligible to serve as president per the natural-born-citizen clause. This conspiracy theory later became more widely known as birtherism. A former Washington, D.C., bureau chief for McClatchy Newspapers, James Asher, said in a formal statement in the fall of 2016: "Mr. Blumenthal and I [once] met together in my office and he strongly urged me to investigate the exact place of President Obama’s birth, which he suggested was in Kenya. We assigned a reporter to go to Kenya, and that reporter determined that the allegation was false.”

Alleged breaches of journalistic norms
When Blumenthal was a journalist he would sometimes offer Hillary Clinton political advice. Several journalists claimed that offering political advice to Clinton crossed a line as a journalist. Blumenthal also attempted to dissuade journalists and reporters from writing negative pieces about the Whitewater controversy, Travelgate, and Bill Clinton's personal character. Leon Wieseltier, New Republic literary editor said, "Sidney is capable of writing a piece that is 100% true and 100% dishonest."

In 1995, when Blumenthal was named the chief Washington correspondent for The New Yorker, the position was one of the most prestigious in American journalism. His tenure in the position proved tumultuous, with several of his colleagues alleging that Blumenthal's journalism exhibited extreme bias in favor of then-President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton, that Blumenthal was informally providing political and public relations advice to the Clintons while covering both of them, and that Blumenthal was engaged in disparaging and attacking The New Yorker colleagues whom he believed were writing too critically of the Clintons.

Peter Boyer, a New Yorker writer, made allegations claiming Blumenthal tried to sabotage his story about the Travelgate affair. Boyer says he was later told by Harry Thomason or his wife, Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, that Blumenthal had warned them Boyer was anti-Clinton and planned to smear them, leading to a series of legal threats against the magazine. Boyer, who fired off an angry memo to New Yorker Editor Tina Brown, accuses Blumenthal of journalistic corruption".

Personal life
Blumenthal lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife, Jacqueline (née Jordan). The couple married in 1976, and have two sons, journalists Max, editor of The Grayzone website, and Paul Blumenthal, a political writer for The Huffington Post.

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Anima and animus

The anima and animus are a syzygy of dualistic, Jungian archetypes among the array of other animistic parts within the Self in Jungian psychology, described in analytical psychology and archetypal psychology, under the umbrella of transpersonal psychology. The Jungian parts of the Self are a priori part of the infinite set of archetypes within the collective unconscious. Modern Jungian clinical theory under the analytical/archetypal-psych framework considers a syzygy-without-its-partner to be like yin without yang: countertransference reveals that logos and/or eros are in need of repair through a psychopomp, mediating the identified patient's Self; this theoretical model is similar to positive psychology's understanding of a well-tuned personality through something like a Goldilocks principle.

Overview
Carl Jung described the animus as the unconscious masculine side of a woman, and the anima as the unconscious feminine side of a man, each transcending the personal psyche. Jung's theory states that the anima and animus are the two primary anthropomorphic archetypes of the unconscious mind, as opposed to the theriomorphic and inferior function of the shadow archetypes. He believed they are the abstract symbol sets that formulate the archetype of the Self.

In Jung's theory, the anima makes up the totality of the unconscious feminine psychological qualities that a man possesses and the animus the masculine ones possessed by a woman. He did not believe they were an aggregate of father or mother, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, or teachers, though these aspects of the personal unconscious can influence a person's anima or animus.

Jung believed a male's sensitivity is often lesser or repressed, and therefore considered the anima one of the most significant autonomous complexes. Jung believed that the anima and the animus manifest themselves by appearing in dreams and influence a person's attitudes and interactions with the opposite sex. A natural understanding of another member of the opposite sex is instilled in individuals that stems from constant subjection to members of the opposite sex. This instilment leads to the development of the anima and animus. Jung said that "the encounter with the shadow is the 'apprentice-piece' in the individual's development ... that with the anima is the 'masterpiece. Jung viewed the anima process as being one of the sources of creative ability. In his book The Invisible Partners, John A. Sanford said that the key to controlling one's anima/animus is to recognize it when it manifests and exercise our ability to discern the anima/animus from reality.

Origin
The related Greek word anemos means "wind" for both anima and animus; pneuma is another word for wind, meaning "spirit".

Anima
Jung defines anima with its Latin derivation, meaning "soul". Jung associates anima with Aphrodite, Selene, Persephone, Hecate, Minerva, and Pandora.

Jung began using the term in the early 1920s to describe the inner feminine side of men. "['A]nima is the archetype of life itself. (1954, par. 66)['.]"

Animus
Jung defines animus with its Latin derivation, meaning "spirit". In 1923, it began being used as a term in Jungian psychology to describe the masculine side of women.

Stages of eroticism
Jung believed anima development has four distinct levels of Eros, which in The Practice of Psychotherapy he named Eve, Helen of Troy, Mary, mother of Jesus and Sophia. In broad terms, the entire process of anima development in a man is about the male subject opening up to emotionality, and in that way a broader spirituality, by creating a new conscious paradigm that includes intuitive processes, creativity and imagination, and psychic sensitivity towards himself and others where it might not have existed previously.

Eve – Object of desire, provider of nourishment, security and love
The first is Eve, named after the Genesis account of Adam and Eve. It deals with the emergence of a man's object of desire. The anima is completely tied up with woman as provider of nourishment, security and love.

The man at this anima level cannot function well without a woman, and is more likely to be controlled by her or, more likely, by his own imaginary construction of her.

Helen – Worldly achiever, intelligent and talented
The second is Helen, an allusion to Helen of Troy in Greek mythology. In this phase, women are viewed as capable of worldly success and of being self-reliant, intelligent and insightful, even if not altogether virtuous. This second phase is meant to show a strong schism in external talents (cultivated business and conventional skills) with lacking internal qualities (inability for virtue, lacking faith or imagination).

Mary – Righteous and a paragon of virtue
The third phase is Mary, named after the Christian theological understanding of the Virgin Mary (Jesus' mother). At this level, women can now seem to possess virtue by the perceiving man (even if in an esoteric and dogmatic way), in as much as certain activities deemed consciously unvirtuous cannot be applied to her.

Sophia – Wise and fully human, equal and not at all an object
The fourth and final phase of anima development is Sophia, named after the Greek word for wisdom. Complete integration has now occurred, which allows women to be seen and related to as particular individuals who possess both positive and negative qualities. The most important aspect of this final level is that, as the personification "Wisdom" suggests, the anima is now developed enough that no single object can fully and permanently contain the images to which it is related.

Stages of logos development
Jung focused more on the man's anima and wrote less about the woman's animus. Jung believed that every woman has an analogous animus within her psyche, this being a set of unconscious masculine attributes and potentials. He viewed the animus as being more complex than the anima, postulating that women have a host of animus images whereas the male anima consists only of one dominant image.

Jung stated that there are four parallel levels of animus development in a woman.

Tarzan – Man of mere physical power
The animus "first appears as a personification of mere physical power – for instance as an athletic champion or muscle man, such as 'the fictional jungle hero Tarzan.

Byron – Man of action or romance
In the next phase, the animus "possesses initiative and the capacity for planned action ... the romantic man – the 19th century British poet Byron; or the man of action – America's Ernest Hemingway, war hero, hunter, etc."

Lloyd George – Man as a professor, clergyman, orator
In the third phase "the animus becomes the word, often appearing as a professor or clergyman ... the bearer of the word – Lloyd George, the great political orator".

Hermes – Man as a spiritual guide
"Finally, in his fourth manifestation, the animus is the incarnation of meaning. On this highest level he becomes (like the anima) a mediator of ... spiritual profundity". Jung noted that "in mythology, this aspect of the animus appears as Hermes, messenger of the gods; in dreams he is a helpful guide." Like Sophia, this is the highest level of mediation between the unconscious and conscious mind. In the book The Invisible Partners, John A. Sanford said that the key to controlling one's anima/animus is to recognize it when it manifests and exercise our ability to discern the anima/animus from reality.

Anima and animus compared
Hillman states that anima can mean "tawdry, trite, trivial, barren, and cheap". Hillman states that animus "refers to spirit, to logos, word, idea, intellect, principle, abstraction, meaning, ratio, nous." Hillman proposes "another definition of anima: archetype of psyche.

The four roles are not identical with genders reversed. Jung believed that while the anima tended to appear as a relatively singular female personality, the animus may consist of a conjunction of multiple male personalities: "in this way the unconscious symbolizes the fact that the animus represents a collective rather than a personal element".

The process of animus development deals with cultivating an independent and non-socially subjugated idea of self by embodying a deeper word (as per a specific existential outlook) and manifesting this word. To clarify, this does not mean that a female subject becomes more set in her ways (as this word is steeped in emotionality, subjectivity, and a dynamism just as a well-developed anima is) but that she is more internally aware of what she believes and feels, and is more capable of expressing these beliefs and feelings. Thus the "animus in his most developed form sometimes ... make[s] her even more receptive than a man to new creative ideas".

Both final stages of animus and anima development have dynamic qualities (related to the motion and flux of this continual developmental process), open-ended qualities (there is no static perfected ideal or manifestation of the quality in question), and pluralistic qualities (which transcend the need for a singular image, as any subject or object can contain multiple archetypes or even seemingly antithetical roles). They also form bridges to the next archetypal figures to emerge, as "the unconscious again changes its dominant character and appears in a new symbolic form, representing the Self".

Jung's theory of anima and animus draws from his theory of individuation. In order for a person to reach the goal of individuation is to engage in a series of intrapersonal dialogues which help the person understand how he or she relates to the world. This process requires men and women to become aware of their anima or animus respectively, in so doing the individual will learn how not to be controlled by their anima or animus. As individuals are made aware of their anima or animus, it allows them to overcome thoughts of who they ought to be and accept themselves for who they really are. According to Jung, individuals can discover a bridge to the collective unconscious through the development of their anima or animus. The anima and the animus represent the unconscious. The anima and animus are not gender specific and men and women can have both, however, more empirical research is required to determine whether both men and women do possess both archetypes.

Jungian cautions
Jungians warn that "every personification of the unconscious—the shadow, the anima, the animus, and the Self—has both a light and a dark aspect. ... the anima and animus have dual aspects: They can bring life-giving development and creativeness to the personality, or they can cause petrification and physical death".

One danger is what Jung termed "invasion" of the conscious by the unconscious archetype: "Possession caused by the anima ... bad taste: the anima surrounds herself with inferior people". Jung insisted that "a state of anima possession ... must be prevented. The anima is thereby forced into the inner world, where she functions as the medium between the ego and the unconscious, as does the persona between the ego and the environment".

Alternatively, over-awareness of the anima or animus could provide a premature conclusion to the individuation process—"a kind of psychological short-circuit, to identify the animus at least provisionally with wholeness". Instead of being "content with an intermediate position", the animus seeks to usurp "the self, with which the patient's animus identifies. This identification is a regular occurrence when the shadow, the dark side, has not been sufficiently realized".

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ASL Airlines Ireland

ASL Airlines Ireland (ASLI), formerly Air Contractors, is a cargo airline with an extensive operations network. It operates scheduled freight services throughout Europe on behalf of major parcel integrators such as Amazon, FedEx Feeder and DHL Express; and some wet lease services for scheduled airlines. ASL Aviation Holdings, the parent company of ASL Airlines Ireland, is headquartered in Swords, County Dublin, Ireland.

History
The airline was established and started operations in 1972, as Air Bridge Carriers at East Midlands Airport. In September 1992 the name Hunting Cargo Airlines was adopted and in 1997 the transfer of all airline operations to Ireland was completed. In June 1998 the Hunting Group sold its aviation arm to a joint consortium of CMB Compagnie Maritime Belge and Safair (part of the Imperial Group) and the airline was rebranded Air Contractors.

The Imperial Group transferred its 49% shareholding in the company to 3P Air Freighters/Petercam S.A. in 2007. Air Contractors acquired French carrier Europe Airpost on 14 March 2008. Following the acquisition of EAP into the ACL group of companies, the group was rebranded ASL Aviation Group, representing the three core activities of the group; Airlines, Support and Leasing.

In 2010 Air Contractors entered a new era with the start of passenger flying on a Boeing 737-300 aircraft in conjunction with its Group partner, Europe Airpost.

On 4 June 2015, ASL Aviation Group announced that Air Contractors would be rebranded as ASL Airlines Ireland, Europe Airpost as ASL Airlines France, Farnair Hungary as ASL Airlines Hungary and Farnair Switzerland as ASL Airlines Switzerland.

The company announced on 5 February 2016 that it had agreed to buy TNT Airways and PAN Air, on the condition that FedEx's purchase of TNT goes ahead. The sale went through in May 2016. TNT Airways became ASL Airlines Belgium and Pan Air became ASL Airlines Spain. In early 2017, ASL Aviation Group rebranded as ASL Aviation Holdings.

Subsidiary ASL Airlines Switzerland ceased all operations on 1 February 2018, while ASL Airlines Spain ceased all operations in August of that same year.

Destinations
ASLI maintains crew bases in 10 European countries and has its own maintenance hangar in Shannon, Ireland. The airline's operations span a network of more than 50 regular destinations across Europe, North America and the Middle East under its own brand name and on behalf of customers such as DHL, Amazon and FedEx.

Current fleet
The ASL Airlines Ireland fleet consists of the following aircraft as of June 2022;

Fleet development
In June 2021, ASL Aviation Holdings announced an order with Boeing for up to 20 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighter (BCF) aircraft - 10 firm orders and 10 options at the Paris Air Show. This was extended to an additional 20 737-800 Boeing Converted Freighters (BCF) in March 2022. ASL's order, including options brings the number of 737-800BCF to 40 aircraft. Eleven aircraft operate for ASL Airlines Belgium, ASL Airlines France, ASL Airlines Ireland and ASL joint venture, K-Mile Asia.

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Hoodia?
Is Hoodia a novel food? -- Toytoy 15:46, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)

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iSwitch is a wireless internet provider with a leading wireless technology called WMTS. UMTS is a 4th generation (4G) technology beyond UMTS and WiMax. Started to deploy the wireless network in some cities in the Netherlands.

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 How aspects of Future Virtual reality  The most exciting aspects of Virtual Reality are that it can be networked to join multiple user immersion environments over long distances. Moreover, VR imitate the natural environment using real life like stimuli for all the human senses. The user can have substantial data control of the scene with VR. In the present and future age, VR can be the best effective communication media. VR is really only limited by the imagination of talented individuals. VR is not yet sufficiently developed for economical use in work settings. However, the technology is developing rapidly, and shows considerable potential. Low-tech, low-cost VR could become available for use everyone and everywhere. Interesting and potential area is in entertainment, especially, I was thinking that using VR as films and advertising. An IMAX film shown in an OMNIMAX the theatre is an example of current development in this area. But it lacks an interactive component; neither do they qualify as simulations, because as films. They depict aspects of our normal, objective reality. But if we apply it into CAVE, the result will completely changed. Surround-screen, surround-sound, and the projection-based VR system called CAVE serves as a platform for a Virtual Reality Theatre. At NCSA, Donna Cox used the CAVE program Virtual Director to create animation for the IMAX film Cosmic Voyage . In advertising, VR is very useful to show product functions. User can be touch, and smell it in which is difference with present advertising. It can be make to draw rising curve of consumer’s interest. But we have barriers of lacking interactive technologies, and not using all the human senses. We still could not transcend human’s imagination. However, the technology is developing rapidly, and soon, VR overcome the limited.

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Antarctica (novel)

Antarctica (1997) is a science fiction novel by American writer Kim Stanley Robinson. It deals with a variety of characters living at or visiting an Antarctic research station. It incorporates many of Robinson's common themes, including scientific process and the importance of environmental protection.

Overview
Most of the story is centered on McMurdo Station, the largest settlement in Antarctica, which is run as a scientific research station by the United States. Robinson's characteristic multiple-protagonist style is employed here to show many aspects of polar life; among the viewpoints presented are those of X, an idealistic young man working as a General Field Assistant at McMurdo; Val, an increasingly embittered trek guide; and Wade Norton, who works for the California Senator Phil Chase (Wade and Phil also appear in the "Science in the Capital" trilogy). As well as McMurdo, the story involves the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station, the Shackleton Glacier, the McMurdo Dry Valleys and a South American drilling platform near Roberts Massif.

Themes
Antarctica involves many of the ideas Robinson uses elsewhere; as in the Mars trilogy, much emphasis is placed on the importance of living sustainably and the issues of existing in a hostile environment. The significance of Antarctica as a "continent for science" is contrasted with the need to provide a decent environment also for the support staff essential in a place so marginal. Other recurring themes include rock-climbing, physical athleticism, the process and ideology of science, exploitation of natural resources, and the formation of cooperative and anarchic social systems.

The novel was heavily influenced by Robinson's 1995 stay in Antarctica as part of the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Artists and Writers Program, and was nominated for a Locus Award in 1998. While researched in great detail, and generally accurate, some reviews noted that the book was in parts slowed down by heavy amounts of technical and historic detail.

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Talk:Hoodia

Novel food?
Is Hoodia a novel food? -- Toytoy
 * Considering that it's only been "discovered" recently by the industrialized world, I doubt that it was consumed in the West prior to 1997. So, my completely non-scientific answer is "yes." -- DocSigma 11:41, 23 September 2005 (UTC) it is also in Botswana, in the kalahari. The San bushmen in the Kalahari also boiled it up as it was thought to be able cure hemroids and other horrific diseases.

Legal to Import?
YES, Hoodia Gordonii is regulated by C.I.T.E.S treaties and may be exported from South Africa and imported to the United States by companies possessing a FDA Registraion number and a USDA Import License for C.I.T.E.S classification [IIW]. Unfortunatly you need documentation to prove what you are carrying is in fact diet pills, or you will be questioned under the impression of smuggling in marijuana.

How do you know if it is real hoodia?
The litmus test for determining what is real and what is fake is to submit a sealed product sample to a laboratory such as Alkemist Pharmaceuticals of Costa Mesa, CA. If the product is real hoodia gordonii it will be able to pass a HPLC, TLC and Microscopy test. Secondly, the manufacturer or retailer must be able to supply a copy of the C.I.T.E.S import license as without this document the Hoodia Gordonii will not be permitted for entry into the USA and will not make it thru US Customs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.218.122.208 (talk • contribs)

 * Cape Nature conservation in the Western Province of South africa is the issuing body that will certify the company as being able to sell geunine Hoodia Gordonii in the Western Cape. In order to get certified by Cape Nature, the company in South Africa has to be able to provide information to Cape Nature that the source of their Hoodia is coming from a registerd grower/seller of Hoodia Gordonii.
 * For the grower - Only once various on-site inspections and reviews of the physical property that contains the Hoodia, and enough Hoodia to ensure sustaniabilty, would the grower be issued a permit to grow/sell the hoodia.The growers license is valid for one year following its issuance and the sellers license for three years.Thus if the exporter in South Africa can produce their valid permit from Cape nature conservation detailing that they are legally registerd to sell Hoodia, you can be further assured of the genunine nature of the product.
 * Further it is only with the licenses that a CITIES permit will be issued.

 * However, the litmus test for determining what is real and what is fake is to submit a sealed product sample to a laboratory such as Alkemist Pharmaceuticals of Costa Mesa, CA. If the product is real hoodia gordonii it will be able to pass a HPLC, TLC and Microscopy test. Secondly, the manufacturer or retailer must be able to supply a copy of the C.I.T.E.S import license as without this document the Hoodia Gordonii will not be permitted for entry into the USA and will not make it thru US Customs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.54.202.5 (talk • contribs)
 * I just replaced the 2 January comment by 201.218.122.208, which was edited on 11 April by 198.54.202.5. Please do not edit or remove statements by other editors. I also encourage you to register a username for edits and comments. Jokestress 17:01, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Advertising
Sites that sell the product can't possibly be NPOV, as they have a pecuniary interest in promoting the product and showing it in a good light. Thus, removing links to such sites. --Ch'marr 18:06, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Along those lines, I have just removed two linked sites that were thinly-veiled ad sites and added some more reliable reports from clinicians and the media. Jokestress 18:17, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

Removed ad copy
Someone involved with Desert Burn Industries inserted a lot of unsourced material, much of it being spam. However, some of it is useful to the article, so I am moving those statements here for now until they can be confirmed in published sources.

 * The CBS 60 minutes Special aired on Nov 21, 2004.
 * Hoodia Gordonii is a very rare botanical and in the wild takes 5-7 years to reach maturity but in controlled conditions can be grown to harvestable levels in as little as two years.
 * A fragile plant many farmers are trying to grow Hoodia Gordonii in desert regions around the world only to find that the plant is susceptible to rot. Optimum soil conditions must be maintained for this plant to thrive.
 * When harvested, the aerial parts known as "fingers" are cut off from the main trunk and then sliced into chips, washed and ultimately milled into powder.
 * Hoodia Gordonii is tightly controlled and may be legally exported from South Africa provided a C.I.T.E.S certificate for IIW is issued.
 * To import Hoodia Gordonii into the USA a company must be registered with the FDA and have a USDA Terrestrial Plant Import License.
 * As search for Hoodia Gordonii products on the internet will yield a list of more than 20 products claiming to be authentic Hoodia Gordonii but official reports indicate that 90% of the Hoodia Gordonii sold on the market it not Hoodia Gordonii but "opuntia" or other fraudlent ingredients.

The rest was essentially a press release promoting the company and website. Jokestress 17:15, 2 January 2006 (UTC)

Pfizer
By the was Jokestress just because Pfizer takes an action doesn't mean that action is backed by reason or science. Pfizer is trying to make a buck. Hoodia may or may not work but the fact that Pfizer abandoned developmnet is neither here nor there as to the efficacy of Hoodia. The Rath cite is basically uncheckable too. Go ahead defend the rationality of the drug corporations depsite all the evidence to the contrary. I ain't coming back here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.10.221.159 (talk • contribs)

 * If you want to cite a publication speculating on Pfizer's reasons for dropping hoodia, that is fine, but your own personal opinion is original research and a violation of Wikipedia policy. I linked up the Rath article which you claimed was "basically uncheckable." This article is edited frequently by people who promote or sell this product. They frequently do what you did, which is remove articles and verified statements with which they disagree. If you wish to make additions to the article, they must be verifiable and not original research. Jokestress 16:34, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Read the Seattle Times citation I attached Jokestress. The Seattle Times article has Pfizer stating that Hoodia was too expensive to synthesize. The Rath article is some guys opinion. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.10.221.159 (talk • contribs)

 * That "some guy" is the head of a nationally-recognized school of pharmacy discussing a pharmaceutical company. That's a legitimate opinion to cite, certainly more credible than Lesley Stahl. I linked up the Morris article you cited. It got lost in your other violative edits. Jokestress 17:14, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

Can it be grown at home?
Does anyone know: Can Hoodia be grown at home in a planter? Where would I get authentic seedlings? Is personal hoodia plant growing regulated by some government agency? Anybody know? Sevensix 24.240.32.169 15:37, 12 April 2006 (UTC)

 * No it can't. It takes 6 years to grow to a suitable height to harvest, and it requires desert-like conditions or it will rot. Definately not something you could grow in a pot in your home or garden. Sorry. Carl Kenner 14:31, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

Unsourced statement
I removed the following for containing unverified statements that are essentially spam:

 * Hoodia has become the subject of aggressive Spam e-mail campaigns by online pharmaceutical companies, joining the ranks of other famous spam-marketed supplements and pills such as Viagra and Cialis. Many of these companies sell knock-offs or altered versions of the product http://www.spamdailynews.com/publish/Beware_Hoodia_Gordonii_diet_pill_spam_scam.asp . Much controversy exists as to who is selling authentic Hoodia and who is marketing fake or adulterated material. The litmus test for authenticating a product to be Hoodia gordonii or not is to demand a copy of the C.I.T.E.S certificate and ask for a copy of a HPLC/HPTLC/MICRO-MACRO w/P57 Test.

 * Currently only two labs are able to authenticate Hoodia gordonii in a sealed product sample and those are: Alkemists Pharmaceuticals and Chromadex Labs.

This needs to be in a reliable, verified source in order to be included. This also contains a linkspam reference, which I nowikid.

Anyone wishing to include statements such as the ones above need to supply a source that meets WP:V and is not a violation of WP:NOR. Unsourced statements such as these will be removed. Jokestress 07:41, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I should have clarified that the spamdailynews.com site is not an acceptable source. It is a spamblog. See Reliable sources for more on why this is not acceptable. Jokestress 19:31, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

60 Minutes
Should we be giving any credence to this single example of anecdotal evidence? It is laughably unscientific. Just zis Guy you know? 21:42, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

More unsourced statements
Removed from article pending citation:

 * The sun, the environment and the climate of the Kalahari play a vital role in producing a high-quality Hoodia plant. Some companies use a cheaper Chinese substitute rather than the original grown in South Africa. Currently the only location in Africa where Hoodia gordonii is being allowed to be exported is the Western Cape. The Northern Cape is still shut down as of April 2006.  Authentic Hoodia gordonii costs $300/kg USD on the open market as of April 2006.

Jokestress 17:46, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

Hoodia: Asclepiadaceae or Apocynaceae?
There's a mistake in the first paragraph. Asclepiadaceae (milkweeds) and Apocynaceae (dogbanes) have long been known to be fairly closely related. Molecular evidence has shown that, in fact, the Asclepiadaceae is simply one subclade (subfamily) in the Apocynaceae, and in the current plant phylogeny (APG2), the two families are merged under the Apocynaceae. Ref: http://www.mobot.org/MOBOT/research/APweb/orders/gentianalesweb.htm#Apocynaceae

LABotanist 17 July 2006

Bad reference
Reference #12 is no longer available. I tried to find another link that would work but was unable:

^ a b c Engelhaupt, Erika (July 9, 2006). But do Hoodia diet pills actually work? Diet miracle from an African plant is a spam special. The Philadelphia Inquirer
 * The reference is not bad, just the link to an online copy of it. I have commented out the weblink because I've been unable to find a substitute.  --Ed (Edgar181) 15:41, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Glucose levels
I have removed the following content per WP:RS because it is based on an non-authoratative, ad-heavy reference (weightlosstrainer.net):
 * "Hoodia is currently used and marketed as a supplement that induces suppression of appetite. Usually while eating the glucose levels in your blood rises and after reaching a certain level it signals the brain that the stomach is now full so stop eating. Hoodia simply replicates the effect of rising glucose in the body signaling the brain that there is no need to eat as the stomach is full. The desire to eat is virtually killed by Hoodia. Research shows that the chemical composition of Hoodia is atleast 10000 times stronger compared to the glucose which signals the brain to stop eating."

If a peer-reviewed journal publication supporting this claim can be found, this paragraph can be added back in. --Ed (Edgar181) 13:58, 5 July 2007 (UTC)

Health Canada
The text that references Reference #15 appears to be old. Hoodia can be purchased at Costco in Canada, which would seem to indicate either that Health Canada has authorized it for sale, or its sale in Canada as a supplement is not regulated by Health Canada.

JeffMDavidson 19:19, 12 August 2007 (UTC)

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Ülgen

Bai-Ülgen or Ülgen (Old Turkic: 𐰈𐰞𐰏𐰅𐰣; Cyrillic: Үлгэн) is a Turkic creator-deity, usually distinct from Tengri but sometimes identified with him in the same manner as Helios and Apollo. His name is from Old Turkic bay, "rich", and ülgen, "magnificent". Ülgen is believed to be without either beginning or end.

Features
In Tengrism, the beech tree, regarded as a cosmic axis between earth and sky, was regarded as sacred to him, as was the horse (horse-sacrifice was a part of his worship). Ülgen symbolizes goodness, welfare, abundance, plentiness of food, water, etc. Furthermore, he created earth, heaven and all living beings. In addition, he controls the atmospheric events and movements of stars. He creates land for people to live on, the heads of both humans and animals and the rainbow. He was regarded as the patron god of shamans and the source of their knowledge.

It is believed that Ülgen has been created from Kayra (Tengere Kayra Khan). He is the highest deity after Tengri in the pantheon. Often, Ülgen is compared with Tengri and at times they are thought to be on par, or even the same. In some sayings, the name/function of Ülgen may be (partially) interchangeable with that of Tengri.

Ülgen is described as the enemy of Erlik who is the god of evil and darkness. Ülgen assumes the protectorship of humankind against him.

Bai-Ülgen lives on the sixteenth floor of the sky above the stars, sun and moon in a golden house. Mere humans may never reach him, only shamans and kams who possess astral powers can. Animals are used for sacrifice in worship of him, especially horses. Once in every third, sixth, ninth, or twelfth year, a shaman may sacrifice a white horse as the first step of reaching Ülgen. Then he must ride its soul, penetrate through all the layers of heaven until he reaches Ülgen. Firstly, the kam (shaman) meets Yayık who is the servant of Ülgen. This entity informs the kam whether or not the offering has been accepted. If the sacrificial rite has been successful, the shaman is able to learn from the omniscient Ülgen of impending dangers, such as bad harvests.

Children of Ülgen
Ülgen has seven sons, the Ak oğlanlar (White Boys) or Kıyatlar:

!     !! Khagan name     !! Han name     !! Role
 * + Ak oğlanlar – Kıyatlar the seven sons of Ülgen
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 * 1 || Karshyt Khagan || Karşıt Han  || The god of purity.
 * 2 || Bura Khagan    || Pura Han    || The god of horses.
 * 3 || Burcha Khagan  || Burça Han   || The god of prosperity.
 * 4 || Yashyl Khagan  || Yaşıl Han   || The god of nature.
 * 5 || Karakush Khagan || Karakuş Han || The god of birds.
 * 6 || Kanym Khagan   || Er Kanım    || The god of confidence.
 * 7 || Bakhty Khagan  || Baktı Han   || The god of blessing
 * }
 * 5 || Karakush Khagan || Karakuş Han || The god of birds.
 * 6 || Kanym Khagan   || Er Kanım    || The god of confidence.
 * 7 || Bakhty Khagan  || Baktı Han   || The god of blessing
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 * 7 || Bakhty Khagan  || Baktı Han   || The god of blessing
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Ülgen also has nine daughters,  called Akkızlar or Kıyanlar, but no one knows their names. His daughters are source of inspiration for shamans.

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Tat Wood

Tat Wood is a British writer, known for his non-fiction work in the field of science fiction analysis.

Wood has written the About Time episode guides to the television series Doctor Who. The first five volumes of the series, begun in 2004, were written with Lawrence Miles and emphasise the importance of understanding the series in the context of British politics, culture and science. Volume Six was, barring a guest-piece by Robert Shearman, entirely Wood's work. Volumes Seven, Eight and Nine were co-written with Dorothy Ail after Miles left the project. Wood and Ail updated the e-book editions of volumes Five and Six. The updated Volume Three, substantially expanded solely by Wood but retaining a few pieces of Miles's work, was published in 2008 and longlisted for the BSFA Award for non-fiction. A revised Volume Four is due to be published in 2023.

In addition to this series, Wood has contributed to non-fiction works for other publishers, including Time and Relative Dissertations in Space (Manchester University Press 2006), The Cult TV Book (IB Tauris 2010), TARDIS Outside In volume 2 (ATB Books 2013), and Outside In Boldly Goes (2015). In November 2014 he gave a talk for the 'ON TV' symposium held in Sheffield by University of Northampton. He and Ail wrote World History in Minutes for Quercus Books in 2015.

Wood has written for Doctor Who Magazine, Starburst, TV Zone, Film Review and Xpose on subjects as diverse as crop circles, art fraud, the problems of adapting children's novels for television and the Piltdown hoax. In a 1993 edition of "Dreamwatch", he wrote a piece entitled "Hai! Anxiety", in which the Jon Pertwee era of the series was – unusually for the time – held up to sustained criticism.

He is also active in Doctor Who fandom, notably as editor of the fanzines Spectrox, Yak Butter Sandwich and Spaceball Ricochet. Some of his fan writing was included in the anthology Licence Denied, published in 1997.

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Edvard Rusjan

Edvard Rusjan (6 June 1886 – 9 January 1911) was a  flight pioneer and airplane constructor from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He died in an airplane crash in Belgrade.

Biography
Rusjan was born in Trieste, then the major port of Austria-Hungary (now in Italy). His parents were both natives of the Gorizia and Gradisca region: his father, Franc Rusjan, was a Slovene, and his mother, Grazia Cabas, was Friulan. Rusjan spent his childhood and adolescence in Gorizia, in the suburb of Rafut.

In his youth, he became a professional bicyclist, and designed his own bicycle models, together with his brother Josip Rusjan. He was also member of the Sokol gymnastic association.

He made his first flight on 25 November 1909, near Gorizia, in Eda I, a biplane of his own design. Eda was Edvard's nickname, given by his mother.

The flight was covered 60 m and reached a height of 2 m. On 29 November 1909, he flew 600 m at an altitude of 12 m. The original design was followed by several improved versions. He moved to a hangar near Miren south of Gorizia.

Rusjan first attended a public flight event with the model EDA V on 6 December 1909, when his aircraft broke apart at landing. In June 1910, he tried the model EDA V, which enabled him to fly 40 meters above the ground and overfly the whole Miren Field. The brothers Rusjan ran out of finance for the construction of EDA VII. In 1910 Edvard Rusjan met the businessman Mihajlo Merćep from Zagreb, Croatia (then part of Austria-Hungary), who offered him financial help for his endeavors. The same year, the brothers moved to Zagreb, Croatia, when they started a project of airplane construction on larger scale together with first Croatian pilot Dragutin Novak, who flew before with Eduard Slavoljub Penkala. In November 1910, they constructed a new model, called "Sokol".

In January 1911, Edvard and Josip Rusjan went on a promotional tour through the Balkan cities. During a flight in Belgrade, Serbia on a strong wind broke a wing of Edvard's aeroplane and it dived into a railway embankment near the Belgrade Fortress in a fatal crash. His funeral was attended by a large crowd of about 14,000 people.

He is interred at Belgrade's New Cemetery, lot 15, grave 343.

Legacy
The Maribor Edvard Rusjan Airport and asteroid 19633 Rusjan are named after him. The commercial and business center Eda Center in Nova Gorica is dedicated to Rusjan's memory.

One of the DC-10s in the JAT fleet was named after Edvard Rusjan.

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Hliðskjálf (album)

Hliðskjálf (Old Norse for "Hlidskjalf") is the sixth studio album by Norwegian solo artist Burzum. This album was the second to be recorded by Varg Vikernes while he was imprisoned for murder and arson and also Burzum's second ambient album. Dauði Baldrs and Hliðskjálf were created with synthesized instruments as he was not allowed any other instruments while being imprisoned. For this album, Vikernes was allowed to have the keyboard and recording device for only one week. The first pressing of its vinyl format release was pressed on a shiny burnished color reminiscent of gold.

Credits

 * Varg Vikernes – synthesizers, audio engineering, songwriting
 * Pytten – mastering

Artwork

 * Tania Stene – cover art
 * Stephen O'Malley – design/additional art

The additional art in the booklet is taken mainly from silent films. For example, the image for "Frijôs goldene Tränen" is taken from F.W. Murnau's Faust.

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This game does NOT sound like a Roguelike. The category should be removed...? 82.181.0.205 17:51, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
 * A randomly generated maze, turn-based play, and permanent death seem Roguelike to me. A. Parrot (talk) 22:48, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

OMG Someome PLEASE port this to the iPhone! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 166.205.140.22 (talk) 01:27, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Playing today
68.183.200.228 added a paragraph on playing today, with his/her opinions about the experience (=still great fun). To keep the article encyclopedic, I have removed all the opinion and put it here instead. Gotta agree about that mummy! :-) Here's the IP's original paragraph:
 * As Scarab of Ra is an out of date, Mac only game, it is difficult to play anymore. However, it is possible to download an emulator (mini vMac works really well), a power mac rom (ROM.dsk which is avaliable on apples older software page), an power mac operating system (also on the apple older software page), and the game (don't use the semi collin page but a power mac game web site) and be able to run the game on a current 2010 mac. After doing all of the work, it was very fun to re-enter the great pyramid after a 12 year gap and being shocked by that mummy still scares the be-jebbies out of you. Moved here by Bishonen | talk 03:43, 7 August 2010 (UTC).

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Megan Fox

Megan Denise Fox (born May 16, 1986) is an American actress. She made her acting debut in the family film Holiday in the Sun (2001), which was followed by numerous supporting roles in film and television, such as the teen musical comedy Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004), as well as a starring role in the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith (2004–2006). Her breakout role was as Mikaela Banes in the blockbuster action film Transformers (2007), which she reprised in its sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009).

Fox also portrayed the titular character in the horror comedy Jennifer's Body (2009), starred as April O'Neil in the superhero action film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) and its sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (2016), and appeared in the fifth and sixth seasons of the Fox sitcom New Girl (2016–2017).

Described as a sex symbol, Fox has made appearances in numerous magazines such as Maxim, Rolling Stone, and FHM. She has received two Scream Awards and four Teen Choice Awards.

Early life
Megan Denise Fox was born on May 16, 1986, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to parents Gloria Darlene (née Cisson) and Franklin Thomas Fox. She spent her early childhood in nearby Rockwood. Fox's father, a parole officer, and her mother divorced when Fox was three years old. Her mother later remarried, and Fox and her sister were raised by her mother and her stepfather, Tony Tonachio. She was raised "very strictly Pentecostal," but later attended Catholic school for 12 years. She said that her parents were "very strict" and that she was not allowed to have a boyfriend or invite friends to her house. Fox described her stepfather as being "verbally, mentally, and emotionally abusive" until his death. She revealed in an interview that she developed an eating disorder in her adolescence and struggled with manic depression, the latter of which "[ran] in my family, so there was definitely some wrestling with chemical imbalance going on." Fox lived with her mother until she made enough money to support herself.

Fox began her training in dance and drama at age five, in Kingston, Tennessee. She attended a dance class at the community center there and was involved in Kingston Elementary School's chorus and the Kingston Clippers swim team. At age 10, after moving to St. Petersburg, Florida, Fox continued her training. When she was 13 years old, Fox began modeling after winning several awards at the 1999 American Modeling and Talent Convention in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Fox attended high school at Morningside Academy in Port St. Lucie until her junior year when she attended St. Lucie West Centennial High School. When she was 17 she tested out of school via correspondence, in order to move to Los Angeles, California.

Fox spoke freely about her time in school, stating that in middle school she was bullied and had to eat lunch in the bathroom to avoid being "pelted with ketchup packets." She said that the problem was not her looks, but that she had "always gotten along better with boys" and that "rubbed some people the wrong way." Fox also said that she was never popular in high school, and that "everyone hated me, and I was a total outcast, my friends were always guys, I have a very aggressive personality, and girls didn't like me for that. I've had only one great girlfriend my whole life." In the same interview, she mentions that she hated school and has "never been a big believer in formal education" and that "the education I was getting seemed irrelevant. So, I was sort of checked out on that part of it."

2000s: Early roles and breakthrough
In 2001, Fox made her acting debut in the romantic comedy Holiday in the Sun, as spoiled heiress Brianna Wallace and rival of Alex Stewart (Ashley Olsen), which was released direct-to-DVD on November 20, 2001. In the next several years, she guest-starred on the sitcoms What I Like About You and Two and a Half Men. Fox also appeared as an uncredited extra in the action film Bad Boys II (2003).

In 2004, Fox made her feature film debut opposite Lindsay Lohan in the musical comedy Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen, playing the supporting role of Carla Santini, a rival of Lola (Lohan). She was also cast in a regular role on the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith, in which she portrayed Sydney Shanowski, replacing Nicole Paggi. Fox appeared in the second and third seasons, until the series was cancelled by ABC in May 2006.

In 2007, Fox won the lead female role of Mikaela Banes in the 2007 live-action film Transformers, based on the toy and cartoon saga of the same name. Fox played the love interest of Shia LaBeouf's character Sam Witwicky. Fox was nominated for an MTV Movie Award in the category of "Breakthrough Performance", and was also nominated for three Teen Choice Awards. She had signed on for two more Transformers sequels, reprising her role as Mikaela in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. There was controversy surrounding Fox's appearance while filming the sequel when Michael Bay, the film's director, ordered the actress to gain ten pounds. The film was released worldwide on June 24, 2009, to box office success.

Fox was to star in the third installment, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, but was not included because of her statements comparing working under director Bay to working for Hitler. She confessed on GQ Magazine that she had lost approximately 30 pounds during filming due to consuming a primary diet of water and vinegar, and reportedly had a dispute over her visible loss of weight with the director on set. Bay stated in June 2009 that Fox was fired on orders of executive producer Steven Spielberg, a claim Spielberg denied.

In 2009, Fox had her first lead role since the Transformers series; she portrayed the title character in Jennifer's Body, written by Academy Award–winning screenwriter Diablo Cody. The film initially earned mixed to average reviews upon its release, with Fox's performance earning praise. However, the film grew a cult following over time and was critically reassessed as a "forgotten feminist classic". According to Cody, the film was marketed incorrectly by executives who focused their efforts on the young male audience.

In April 2009, she began filming the western superhero film Jonah Hex, in which she portrayed Tallulah Black / Leila, a gun-wielding beauty and Jonah Hex's (Josh Brolin) love interest. The film was released on June 18, 2010. Despite receiving top billing, Fox described her role in the film as being a cameo. Jonah Hex was a critical and commercial failure in the U.S., with its international distribution cancelled after its poor performance. The film was named the "worst picture of the year" by the Houston Film Critics Society.

2010s: Rise to prominence
Fox starred alongside Mickey Rourke in the drama Passion Play. After premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, its conventional theatrical distribution was bypassed for a direct-to-video release, with only two screens briefly showing the film to fulfill contractual obligations. Rourke remarked that the film was "terrible. Another terrible movie." Fox appeared with Dominic Monaghan in the music video for Eminem and Rihanna's single "Love the Way You Lie". In 2012, Fox appeared briefly in Sacha Baron Cohen's comedy film The Dictator and had a featured role in Judd Apatow's comedy film This Is 40. She voiced the role of Lois Lane in the animated comedy film Robot Chicken DC Comics Special, an episode of the television comedy series Robot Chicken that aired as a one-off special during Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block on September 9, 2012.

In January 2013, Fox was featured in a Brazilian television commercial for Brahma beer. In February 2013, Fox set aside her differences with her former director Michael Bay and worked again with him on his reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014), starring as the lead human character of April O'Neil.

In 2015, Fox was cast in the role of Amelia Delthanis in the Plarium video game, Stormfall: Rise of Balur. In October 2015, it was confirmed that Fox would be temporarily replacing Zooey Deschanel in the television sitcom New Girl, following Deschanel's maternity leave. She starred as Reagan Lucas, appearing in the fifth and sixth seasons of the series. Her performance earned positive reviews from critics. In 2016, Fox reprised her role of April O'Neil in the sequel Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows.

On September 12, 2018, it was confirmed that Fox would star in the Korean War film The Battle of Jangsari, beside Korean actor Kim Myung-min. She played a lead role as Marguerite Higgins, an American news reporter.

In 2019, Fox starred in the mystery-fantasy film Above the Shadows opposite Olivia Thirlby and Alan Ritchson, directed by Claudia Myers. It was released on July 19, 2019, by Gravitas Ventures. That same year, Fox appeared in Zeroville directed by James Franco, which was previously shot in 2014. The film was panned by critics and performed poorly at the box office.

2020s: Current work
In 2020, Fox starred opposite Josh Duhamel in the family comedy film Think Like a Dog, which was released on video on demand on June 9, 2020. Also that year, she starred in the lead role of the action film Rogue, which was released on August 28, 2020.

In 2021 she starred in the thrillers, Midnight in the Switchgrass opposite Emile Hirsch and Bruce Willis, directed by Randall Emmett, and Till Death, directed by S.K. Dale.

In 2022 Fox starred in the drama comedy Big Gold Brick, alongside Oscar Isaac, Andy García, Lucy Hale, and Emory Cohen, directed by Brian Petsos. Fox also played a role in the film Taurus, a musical drama, alongside Machine Gun Kelly, Naomi Wild, and Lil Tjay.

In 2023, Fox was featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Fox played a crime boss Alana in the 2023 thriller film Johnny & Clyde with Tyson Ritter. Fox played Gina in the fourth Expendables film, Expend4bles, released in September of the same year.

In November 2023, Fox released her first book titled Pretty Boys Are Poisonous, a collection of her own poetry.

Status and persona
Chris Lee of the Los Angeles Times called Fox a "sex symbol of the highest order" and said she was "the first bona fide sex symbol of the 21st century." Craig Flaster of MTV stated, "Transformers broke Fox into the mainstream, immediately turning her into a household name and international sex symbol." She has been featured on various magazine covers and "hottest" and "most beautiful woman" lists throughout the years, such as Maxims Hot 100 lists and when FHM readers voted her the "Sexiest Woman in the World" in 2008. People named her one of 2012's and 2017's Most Beautiful at Every Age. Scholar Marc DiPaolo stated that Fox achieved instant fame as Mikaela in Transformers because a "highly sexualized, erotically idealized figure draped over a car or motorcycle invariably evokes lust in the heterosexual male onlooker" and Fox did this by leaning over a Camaro while wearing "a flimsy pink belly shirt" and short skirt, which read as "an unequivocal sex invite" to male viewers. The editors of Men's Health also credited the Camaro scene with contributing to Fox's fame.

Fox said all women in Hollywood are known and marketed as sex symbols, but that this is okay if the woman knows how to utilize the status. She created a character for her public image because she was unwilling to sacrifice her true self to the world. Scholars Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster disagreed that every woman in Hollywood is marketed as a sex symbol, and stated that Fox's "celebrity is based on what she admits is an entirely artificial construct designed for dissemination in the Internet age, a 21st-century media personality in every sense of the word." Part of her persona included making outlandish comments, which she said helped her reach her level of fame versus being "a typical starlet" who "said all the right things". Her tattoos, which she began getting at age 19 as a form of self-expression, helped popularize tattoo fashion. She had over nine known tattoos, including a picture of Marilyn Monroe's face on her right forearm and a quote on her shoulder. Author John Tehranian argued that Fox's Monroe tattoo enhanced her "implicit claims to Monroe's legacy as Hollywood's leading sex symbol." Fox ended up removing the Monroe tattoo in a series of laser surgeries because she felt that Monroe's life was full of negativity and she did not want to emulate it.

The media often compared Fox to actress Angelina Jolie, dubbing her the "next Angelina Jolie", which also affected her image. Amid this and reports that she was to replace Jolie in a new Lara Croft film, Fox commented that the comparisons indicate a lack of creativity on the part of the media, and attributed them to both she and Jolie being brunette, having tattoos, cursing, and mentioning and joking about sex, "which people find outrageous". Lynn Hirschberg of The New York Times opined that "the Jolie comparison would probably have been made by the media eventually, but Fox sped up the process" by "linking herself to Jolie" and that she "enjoyed creating entertaining copy" by telling "tales of darkness and lust."

In 2009, Fox's public image came under scrutiny when an unsigned letter from three crew members of Transformers defended director Michael Bay against accusations made by Fox about his on-set behavior, including a comparison with Adolf Hitler. In response to the letter alleging that Fox's on-set behavior is unpleasant and contrasts her public persona, Bay stated he does not condone the letter or Fox's "outlandish quotes", but "her crazy quips are part of her crazy charm", and that they still work well together. A production assistant who worked on Transformers also stated that he never saw Fox act inappropriately on set. Fox said the letter's claims were false, and that she had privately spoken with the parties involved. She said she was "very fortunate" to be a part of the franchise, and was looking forward to continuing her work. DiPaolo concluded that Fox's criticism of the media sexually objectifying girls and women was in stark contrast to her sex symbol status and that "her defiance of director Michael Bay and frequent outspoken comments" stifled her career.

Media exposure
The increased media exposure was difficult for Fox, who acknowledged being shy and insecure, to adjust to. It also positioned her as a potential role model, and later led to her being typecast. She rejected being a formal role model, but said that she could make young girls feel "strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right" and that she was a different role model for girls that maybe America was not comfortable with. She considered being typecast as attractive an opportunity to surprise people when she gives a good performance in a film, but said she is interested in portraying less sexualized characters. MTV's Craig Flaster said that although Fox has "been typecast as the big-budget sex symbol", she has shown comedic range.

Fox's overexposure in the media led several men's websites, such as AskMen, to boycott her on August 4, 2009, although some refused to do so, feeling that the boycott was a publicity stunt and therefore hypocritical. In response to the media attention, Fox told magazine Nylon, in September of that year, that "[the studio] wanted to make sure [the film] would make $700 million, so they oversaturated the media with their stars" and that she did not "want to have people get completely sick of [her] before [she's] ever even done something legitimate." She became much less prominent in the media by 2010, after starring in the less commercially successful films Jonah Hex and Passion Play. That same year, Fox said, "My biggest regret is that I've assisted the media in making me into a cartoon character. I don't regret what has happened to me, but I regret the way I have dealt with it." Dixon and Foster stated, "The problem [Fox] faces is that the [image] construct has replaced the real in the minds of the public; and once established, a media persona is hard to recalibrate."

Personal life
In 2009, Fox was targeted by a group of fashion-motivated criminals known as the "Bling Ring," who robbed her then-boyfriend Brian Austin Green's home for access to Fox's possessions.

Fox has a form of brachydactyly called brachydactyly type D, and has discussed her obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), insecurities, self-harming, and has acknowledged that she has low self-esteem. In 2013, she said that her Christian faith is still very important to her and she believes it keeps her grounded.

Fox and then-husband Green were supporters of Generosity Water, and funded the creation of over ten water wells for the organization.

With regard to relationships and her sexuality, Fox said that she has a general distrust and dislike of men, and that the perception of her as a "wild and crazy sexpot" is false because she is asocial; Fox stated that she would rather stay at home instead of going out, and emphasized that she cannot have sex with someone she does not love. She is bisexual, and said she believes that "all humans are born with the ability to be attracted to both sexes". She stated in 2009, "I have no question in my mind about being bisexual. But I'm also a hypocrite: I would never date a girl who was bisexual, because that means they also sleep with men, and men are so dirty that I'd never want to sleep with a girl who had slept with a man."

Fox told InStyle in July 2021: "A girl would come up to me and be like: 'You had a lot to do with me, like identifying and understanding that I was gay or understanding that I was bisexual...' And that, of course, is by far, like, the most moving, rewarding thing that I have experienced in my life! To be a part of something that helped people figure that out, or helped people deal with that, or feel better about that. One of my favorite things that I get called, is being like, a bi icon and that is one of the things I am the most proud of!"

She has several tattoos, which includes the Chinese symbol for "strength" that is drawn on the back of her neck, a quote from the William Shakespeare play King Lear that reads "We will all laugh at gilded butterflies," the yin and yang symbol on her left wrist, and a crescent moon entwined with a star on her ankle. Fox also has a poem tattooed near her breast that reads "There once was a little girl, who never knew love until a boy broke her heart" and another tattoo on her back that quotes Friedrich Nietzsche: "And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." She claims that she had it drawn in honor of her Passion Play costar Mickey Rourke but later clarified that it's "not necessarily a homage to him." She also once had her ex-husband Brian Austin Green's first name tattooed on her hip, but later had it covered. She removed the portrait of Marilyn Monroe that was tattooed on her right forearm, stating "It is a negative character, as she suffered from personality disorders and was bipolar. I do not want to attract this kind of negative energy in my life." She also has a tattoo on her left collarbone that reads "the gunman" in Spanish, as well as numerous flowers and one snake on her abdomen. Fox has numerous smaller tattoos splayed across her fingers, some of which include dots, numbers, and a crescent moon.

Fox revealed in her book Pretty Boys Are Poisonous that she has suffered a miscarriage from her pregnancy with what was her fourth child.

Relationships
Fox began dating actor Brian Austin Green in 2004, after meeting on the set of Hope & Faith; she was 18 years old, while he was 30. According to Fox, Green was initially hesitant to enter a relationship with her due to the age difference, stating, "I had to convince him that I was slightly more responsible and well-spoken and had other things to bring to the table besides being 18." They became engaged in November 2006. In February 2009, they ended their engagement, but were reported to have gotten engaged again on June 1, 2010. Fox maintained that she and Green had been continuously engaged since 2006.

Fox and Green married on June 24, 2010, in a private ceremony at the Four Seasons Resort on Maui. Together, they have three sons, born in 2012, 2014, and 2016. Fox was also a stepmother to Green's son from a previous relationship. Fox filed for divorce on August 21, 2015, a few days after she and Green announced their separation. By early 2016, they were back together and expecting their third child. On April 25, 2019, Fox filed to dismiss her second attempt for a divorce in Los Angeles, California.

In May 2020, Green announced that he and Fox had separated after nearly 10 years of marriage, and in November 2020, Fox filed for divorce from Green for a second time. The divorce was finalized on October 15, 2021.

In June 2020, she and singer Machine Gun Kelly went public about their relationship, several weeks after the release of Machine Gun Kelly's song "Bloody Valentine", whose music video features Fox. On January 12, 2022, Fox announced that the two were engaged. However, on March 21, 2024, Fox announced their engagement was called off.

Awards and nominations
Fox has received numerous awards and nominations, including four Teen Choice Awards and two Scream Awards.

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Mensch Computer

The Mensch Computer is a personal computer system produced by the Western Design Center (WDC). It is based on the WDC 65C265 microcontroller, which implements the instruction sets of two microprocessors: the 16-bit W65C816/65816, and the 8-bit 6502. The computer is named after Bill Mensch, designer of the 6502 and subsequent series of microprocessor.

The system is designed for hobbyists and people who enjoy computer programming, especially at the assembly language level, and includes a basic set of peripherals which can be expanded by the owner. Much software originally written for other computer systems which use the 65816 or 6502 instruction sets (such as the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo, or Apple IIGS, among others) can be run on the Mensch Computer (either directly as binary object code or through reassembling the software source code), to the extent that such software does not rely on hardware configurations which differ from the Mensch Computer.

The Mensch Computer includes a read-only memory (ROM) machine code monitor (a type of firmware), and many software routines are available to programmers by calling subroutines in the ROM. Typically, the system runs Mensch Works, a software suite also named after Bill Mensch.

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User talk:YngwieStrat70

Welcome to the Wikipedia
I noticed you were new, and wanted to share some links I thought useful:

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For more information click  here . You can sign your name by typing 4 tildes, like this: ~.

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Flag (Yello album)

Flag is the sixth studio album by Swiss electronic duo Yello, released in 1988. It features an eight-minute version of "The Race", the edited version of which reached number 7 in the UK Singles Chart in August of that year. "The Race" was used as a trailer for Eurosport, and the opening theme to the US quiz show It's Academic.

An early cut of the album was used as the soundtrack for the film Nuns on the Run and is played during many of the chase scenes.

Track listing
All tracks written by Dieter Meier and Boris Blank.
 * 1) "Tied Up" – 6:05
 * 2) "Of Course I'm Lying" – 5:56
 * 3) "3rd of June" – 4:50
 * 4) "Blazing Saddles" – 3:53
 * 5) "The Race" – 8:08
 * 6) "Alhambra" – 3:38
 * 7) "Otto Di Catania" – 3:20
 * 8) "Tied Up in Red" (CD bonus track) – 8:23
 * 9) "Tied Up in Gear" – 3:58
 * 10) "The Race (Break Light Mix)" *
 * 11) "Wall Street Bongo" *
 * 12) "The Race (12″ Mix)" *

(*) Bonus tracks on the 2005 remastered release

Chart performance
Singles – UK Singles Chart / Millward Brown (United Kingdom)

Personnel
with:
 * Yello
 * Dieter Meier - lyrics, vocals
 * Boris Blank – music composition, arrangements, vocals on "Blazing Saddles"
 * Billy Mackenzie – backing chorus on "Of Course I'm Lying" and "Otto di Catania"
 * Leos Gerteis – clarinet on "Otto di Catania"
 * Chico Hablas – guitars on "Otto di Catania" and "Tied Up in Gear"
 * Beat Ash – drums, percussion on 1, 2, 5, 8, 9
 * Ernst Gamper - cover

Production

 * Arranged, produced, engineered and mixed by Yello
 * Mastered by Kevin Metcalfe

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Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. We appreciate your contributions to the article Paul LaFontaine, but for legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material, and as a consequence, your addition was deleted under section G12 of the criteria for speedy deletion.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ecopalooza

 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. — Xezbeth 12:19, May 1, 2005 (UTC)

Ecopalooza, Palooza, PALOOZA, Ecopalooza Green Living Expos
Vanity; not notable; four identical pages created by same user with different keywords to advertise the same event. RussBlau 16:05, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Spamvertising. -- 8^D gab 17:04, 2005 Apr 20 (UTC)
 * Delete advert, spam, notability. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 17:48, Apr 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Advertising. -Casito⇝Talk 23:14, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, advert. Megan1967 04:45, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as blatant advertising, Google-bombing and lots of other reasons I can't think of right away. See ya there! - Lucky 6.9 20:57, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Tupac poetry

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Tupac_poetry
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 * Delete ecb29 April 20, 2005
 * Delete, not encyclopaedic. Megan1967 05:10, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Marked for Speedy Delete.-Casito⇝Talk 08:11, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedily deleted. Nothing but copyrighted lyrics.  SWAdair | Talk  10:22, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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