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Camlaren Mine

The Camlaren Mine was a small gold mine 80 km north-east of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada at Gordon Lake. It consists of a property totaling about 981 hectares. The two claims that make up the property were staked in 1936 by prospectors Don Cameron and the Mclaren brothers and developed with two shafts during 1937–1938. The name "Camlaren" is a portmanteau of Cameron and McLaren. Conditions attributed to World War II halted development at Camlaren in 1939.

The mine did not produce any gold until 1963 when more modernized mining methods were introduced. About 11,000 tons of ore were transported to Discovery Mine for processing, resulting in about 15000 ozt of refined gold.

In 1980, Mining Corporation of Canada Limited erected a milling plant at Camlaren and produced another 20000 ozt of gold in the next two years. There are two other potential production sites on the property that have not been developed.

 * H-Vein: About 0.5 km west of the main site.
 * #31-Vein: About 3 km southwest of the main site.

During its two operational periods, the mine has produced about 36661 ozt of gold from 64,137 tons of ore. Infrastructure was demolished in 1991 and only the old chimney from the 1937 mine manager's house remains.

The Camlaren property is now part of the Gordon Lake Project.

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Talk:Edward Bunker

Accuracy?
Well, this one was a bit of a pain to write. I enjoy his work, but I was unable to find a lot of information on Bunker (and I'm annoyed to admit that I don't have, nor have I read his autobiography, Mr. Blue: Memoirs of a Renegade) on the web. Most of the information here comes from the biography Inauspicious Beginnings included in the end of Little Boy Blue and Dog Eat Dog. While an interesting read, it's definitely POV stuff. Its author isn't mentioned, and I'm not sure how accurate it is (for example, it lists Bunker's first book, No Beast So Fierce as his sixth book, even though Bunker hasn't even written that many books -- not that I could track down a bibliography that struck me as authoritatively comprehensive, though I do believe that what there is right now is accurate). That said, I believe the events are generally accepted as true; Bunker had a pretty wild time as a younger man.

To further confuse things, apparently Inauspicious Beginnings is actually Born Under a Bad Sign - The Life of Edward Bunker, by Charles Waring, which can be found on the web. Problem is, I'm not quite sure how dependable that text is (or if it even is by Mr. Waring, or if he's just an editor).

So, basically, does anyone out there know better? I'd love some feedback here. -- Captain Disdain 00:09, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)

'No beast so fierce' was the sixth book he wrote, but the first one deemed good for publication. 'Stark' for example is one of the eralier ones that was never revised and published untill much later. "The education of a felon', his autobiography, clarifies a lot of chronology. I did not understood the line: "Bunker's novels are at times notoriously inconsistent and contradictory." I've read his books and they did not seem inconsistent and contradictory. What is this referring to? Am I missing something? - Josey, 14.03.2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.81.66.131 (talk) 19:20, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

 * More accuracy problems; I removed the following sentence: "His notoriety eventually landed him on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list."  The FBI's own list of former Ten Most Wanted does not list Bunker at all: http://web.archive.org/web/20020127071933/http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/topten/topten.pdf  JFMorse (talk) 21:03, 3 September 2009 (UTC)

Reservoir Dogs
Aren't we burying the lead on this one? Isn't the most notable thing about this guy his connection to Reservoir Dogs? He both starred was in it and wrote the book it was loosely based on.--JChap 06:33, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Starred in it? His character, Mr. Blue, has less than a dozen lines and he dies during the heist (and thus isn't seen in most of the scenes). As for being based on a book by Bunker... well, it simply isn't. Tarantino wrote an original script for it. (Well, semi-original, since some of the key plot elements are lifted fairly directly from City of Fire, but just the same, the movies are not exactly similar.) The most notable thing about Bunker is most certainly not his connection to Reservoir Dogs, although I'm sure more could be written about his movie career in general. -- Captain Disdain 14:44, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Yow. Strike starred.  I thought I read that the film was loosely based on a heist described in his book Dog Eat Dog, which is also the name of Tarantino's production company.  He really doesn't seem to have done much else notable, other than his brief appearance in the most famous scene in an incredibly important film, so I still have to say that RD is what he's best known for. I'm not sure it's accurate to say that any of Tarantino's work is based on one source to the exclusion of others as he says he steals from everyone. --JChap 15:47, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, I don't know what you have read, but I can assure you that the movie is not in any way based on Dog Eat Dog. It's a completely different story about three two-time losers who essentially turn their back on civilized society and make a conscious decision to commit armed robberies for a living. It's not really a heist story. It doesn't have similar scenes in it. There's no "based on the novel by..." credit on Reservoir Dogs (which there surely would be if Tarantino, a big Bunker fan, had based the movie on Bunker's work, especially as Bunker was also acting in the movie). I also have to dispute that Bunker is best known for his role in Reservoir Dogs -- that may be true among moviegoers, but his status as a former criminal, a career convict and a reasonably successful writer afforded him a certain degree of unrelated notoriety. (From what I understand, it's certainly true that his involvement in Reservoir Dogs helped his book sales quite a bit, though -- and as for Tarantino, when it comes to City on Fire, Tarantino has often mentioned it as one of his favorite movies and openly admits to lifting the whole "undercover cop" setup from it as a homage, so it's worth a specific mention.) -- Captain Disdain 16:07, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Bunker met Trejo where?
The trivia section says Bunker met Danny Trejo in Folsom State Prison but the Danny Trejo article says they had done time together in San Quentin. Were they both really in both prisons? OlEnglish (talk) 04:09, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * The information needed is hard to get now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:7C86:9000:208B:F8D6:68BA:BD60 (talk) 17:52, 22 July 2020 (UTC)

Show don't tell
The "1933" section alone has 23 adjectives and adverbs. Unless this is intended as irony - overwrought prose as meta commentary on Bunker's writing - it's hack. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:6000:FD8B:5C00:94F9:4DFE:7FC8:85D1 (talk) 12:42, 29 October 2020 (UTC)

 * Don't insult. Edit. Samurai Kung fu Cowboy (talk) 04:18, 1 November 2021 (UTC)

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Fall Creek Falls State Park

Fall Creek Falls State Resort Park is a state park in Van Buren and Bledsoe counties, in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The over 30638 acre park is centered on the upper Cane Creek Gorge, an area known for its unique geological formations and scenic waterfalls. The park's namesake is the 256 ft Fall Creek Falls, the highest free-fall waterfall east of the Mississippi River.

Setting
The Cane Creek Gorge presents as a large gash in the western edge of the Cumberland Plateau, stretching for some 15 mi from the Cane Creek Cascades to Cane Creek's mouth along the Caney Fork River. Cane Creek rises atop Little Mountain — which lines the plateau's eastern edge above Sequatchie Valley — and winds northward across the plateau.

Just beyond its source, Cane Creek slowly gains strength as it absorbs Meadow Creek and several smaller streams. As the creek enters the gorge, it drops several hundred feet in less than a mile, including 45 ft over Cane Creek Cascades and 85 ft over Cane Creek Falls. A few hundred meters north of Cane Creek Falls, Rockhouse Creek spills 125 ft over a plunge waterfall. Over the next half-mile, Cane Creek absorbs Fall Creek and Piney Creek, both of which enter from smaller gorges to the immediate west. During this stretch, part of the creek disappears underground into limestone sinks and reemerges at a spring known as "Crusher Hole." Cane Creek continues to lose elevation before steadying near its confluence with Dry Fork. Beyond Dry Fork, the creek gradually descends to the Highland Rim, where it empties into the Caney Fork River.

The man-made Fall Creek Falls Lake, controlled by a earthen dam, assures continuing flow of water to Fall Creek Falls. The lake dominates the park's southern section.

Waterfalls

 * Fall Creek Falls, a 256 ft plunge waterfall located just west of the creek's confluence with Cane Creek. A short trail leads from the parking lot atop the plateau down to the base of the gorge, giving access to the waterfall's plunge pool.
 * Cane Creek Falls, an 85 ft plunge waterfall located along Cane Creek, above the creek's confluence with Rockhouse Creek and Fall Creek. The waterfall is visible from the Gorge Trail and from the base of the Cane Creek Gorge, which can be accessed via the Cable Trail.
 * Cane Creek Cascades, a 45 ft cascade located along Cane Creek, just above Cane Creek Falls.
 * Rockhouse Falls, a 125 ft plunge waterfall that marks Rockhouse Creek's confluence with Cane Creek. The waterfall, which shares a plunge pool with Cane Creek Falls, is visible from the Gorge Trail and from the base of the Cane Creek Gorge.
 * Piney Creek Falls, a 95 ft waterfall located along Piney Creek, a mile or so above its confluence with Cane Creek. Trails lead to the base of the falls and an overlook above the falls.
 * Coon Creek Falls, a 250 ft plunge waterfall that drops into the Fall Creek Gorge, nearly adjacent Fall Creek Falls. Its proximity to Fall Creek Falls renders it less conspicuous.
 * Lost Creek Falls, a 60 ft plunge waterfall where water emerges from a cave above the falls and disappears from the pool at the base.

Overlooks

 * Cane Creek Overlook, located just off the Gorge Trail, looks out over Cane Creek Falls and Rockhouse Falls.
 * Cane Creek Gorge Overlook, located just off the Gorge Trail, looks northward across the Cane Creek Gorge.
 * Rocky Point Overlook, located just off the Gorge Trail on an exposed cliff, looks northward across the Cane Creek Gorge.
 * Millikan's Overlook, located just off the road in the Piney Creek section of the park, looks northward across the Cane Creek Gorge, near the confluence of Piney Creek and Cane Creek.
 * Buzzard's Roost, a cliff located near Millikan's Overlook.
 * An overlook adjacent to the Fall Creek Falls parking lot looks down into the Fall Creek Gorge.

Caves
Along with waterfalls and overlooks, Fall Creek Falls State Park has the second-most caves of any park in the eastern U.S., behind Mammoth Cave National Park.

 * Rumbling Falls Cave, which has the second largest cave chamber in the United States, is located in the park's Dry Fork section, near Spencer.
 * Camps Gulf Cave is another large cave located in the park that contains very large chambers.
 * Lost Creek Cave has five entrances, contains a waterfall and 7 mi of passageways.

History

The plateau areas above the Cane Creek Gorge are characterized by poor soil and weak resource potential, both exacerbated by the area's limited accessibility (by the 1920s, no major railroads and one crude highway passed between Pikeville and Spencer). In the early 20th century, this section of Van Buren County still had only a handful of farms and no major coal mining or logging operations. Local historian Arthur Weir Crouch, referring to Fall Creek Falls, wrote, "In the beginning and for many years it was a true wilderness area."

The few residents who lived in the Cane Creek area were often at the mercy of the creek, which, like most of the Upper Caney Fork watershed, was prone to flash flooding. The Good Friday Flood of 1929, the most devastating of these floods, caused the Caney Fork and its tributaries to swell to record volumes and wiped out dozens of mills, houses, and bridges. Lawson Fisher, who operated a grist mill at the head of Cane Creek Falls at the time of the flood, recalled being awakened that night by the roar of the creek's rising waters. Racing into the mill to save the mill's account books, Fisher later testified:

I had taken perhaps four or five steps when I felt that old mill building quiver. I turned and ran for the door and stepped out on solid ground, and then turned around to see what was going to happen, but folks, it had already happened. The mill wasn't there. I could just see pieces of planking and timbers going over the falls and rushing on down into the valley of Cane Creek below.

Another resident recalled waking up to a cabin floor covered with several inches of water, and spending the night in the cabin loft watching helplessly as the water continued to rise. Several smaller farms in the lower part of the valley were completely destroyed. The Cane Creek Mill, which had stood above the falls since 1831, was never rebuilt.

State park

In 1937, the U.S. government began purchasing the badly eroded land around Fall Creek Falls. The following year, the Works Progress Administration and the Civilian Conservation Corps began the work of restoring the forest and constructing park facilities. The National Park Service transferred ownership of the park to the State of Tennessee in 1944.

Millikan's Overlook is named after Glenn Millikan, who was head of the Department of Physiology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and son of Nobel Laureate Robert A. Millikan. Millikan was killed by a falling rock on May 25, 1947, while rock climbing "Buzzard's Roost," the cliff beneath the overlook.

The lake was constructed in 1966, with the valves closed on October 18 of that year. In 1968, work began on a modernization project that converted the state park into a resort park. This project included the construction of a new hotel, cabins, two pools, restaurant, amphitheater, general store, golf course, nature center, and trails. The $8 million (equivalent to $ in ) project was completed and dedicated by Governor Winfield Dunn on July 8, 1972.

In 2006, the State of Tennessee purchased 12500 acre of land along the White-Van Buren County line, in the vicinity of Bledsoe State Forest. The purchase was part of an effort to create an unbroken corridor of publicly owned land between Fall Creek Falls State Park and Scott's Gulf, a few miles to the north in White County.

Park facilities and management
Fall Creek Falls State Park is open year-round and is managed by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation. Park facilities currently include cabins, campgrounds, a visitor center, the Betty Dunn Nature Center, a marina, a general store, a snack bar, an 85 room hotel and a restaurant.

The park has 30 cabins – 20 fishermen cabins and 10 landside cabins. The park has 222 campsites in five different areas. All sites have tables, grills, water, and electricity and are served by six bathhouses.

An 18-hole golf course, Olympic-sized swimming pool, and several miles of hiking trails and paved biking trails are available in the park.

In 2013–2014, the park underwent some minor renovations of its facilities. The landside cabins and fisherman cabins were updated, and a privately operated zip line was installed at the Village Green.

Inn
The Fall Creek Falls Inn and Conference Center offered 144 guest rooms and over 5000 sqft of banquet space in five conference rooms, which accommodated up to 400 people. The buildings were designed with a brutalist architecture, having a combination of dark brick, and gray concrete with an exposed aggregate of smooth white, beige, tan, and brownish river stones. Built in the 1960s, with a rooms-only annex in the 1970s, they were closed in early April 2018 and demolished later that year, after Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam pushed for privatization and potential concessionaires refused to bid on serving the older facilities at the state's resort parks.

Cost overruns and underestimates, and a tight labor market in such a rural area, led to a need for more money from the Tennessee General Assembly in 2019, in turn allowing construction to resume in the autumn. It is expected to finally reopen in late summer or early autumn of 2021, with only 75 to 95 guest rooms, at a cost of slightly over $40 million (up from $29 million originally). It is currently unknown how much nightly room rates will be increased.

Both counties objected to the long-term closure of the inn due to the significant loss of lodging taxes and sales taxes, as well as employees who would be left without a job or forced to relocate or commute long distances to other state parks, even when the closure and reconstruction were expected to be far shorter. Proposals to build on the opposite side of the lake before closing the original inn were declined, largely to due to the lack of sufficient sewerage facilities there.

In the arts
Artist Gilbert Gaul, who gained national acclaim for his Civil War illustrations, operated from a studio south of Spencer on land currently owned by the park. The Gaul's Gallery restaurant at the inn was named for him.

Fall Creek Falls State Park was used as one of the primary filming locations for 20th Century Fox's fantasy adventure film Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie, Disney's live action film adaptation of The Jungle Book and the comic science fiction film Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam, starring Jim Varney. Scenes from the 1986 movie King Kong Lives, starring Linda Hamilton, were filmed in the area of Cane Creek Cascades and Cane Creek Falls.

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While Sophocles, sophomores, and philosophy all have their place, this username refers to my general love of wisdom (soph means "wisdom" in Greek), knowledge, and learning. I also love God, music, Web design, books, words, and a plethora of other random subjects. See more of my online exploits at AWGentry.com God bless!

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Roddy Frame

Roddy Frame (born 29 January 1964 ) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician. He was the founder of the 1980s new wave band Aztec Camera and has undertaken a solo career since the group's dissolution. In November 2013, journalist Brian Donaldson described Frame as: "Aztec Camera wunderkind-turned-elder statesman of intelligent, melodic, wistful Scotpop."

Since the end of the Aztec Camera project, Frame has released four solo albums, the last of which is 2014's Seven Dials.

Early life
Frame grew up in East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire, Scotland and went to Duncanrig Secondary School. Frame was surrounded by music from a very young age, as his older sisters were music fans and listened to a great number of artists, such as The Beatles and The Rolling Stones.

He started to learn guitar playing at a very early age. During his early years playing guitar, Frame frequently listened to Wilko Johnson and was able to play many of Johnson's songs as a result.

As a child and adolescent, Frame was inspired by a variety of musical influences, including David Bowie, the Velvet Underground, the Byrds and Love. Following the advent of the punk subculture, Frame states that he was drawn to it, as "it said, 'Anyone can do it. You can form a band.' ... It was liberating." He cited John McGeoch's guitar playing with Magazine and Siouxsie and the Banshees as one of his main influences.

Frame was attracted to the fashion sense of punk bands like the New York Dolls and The Sex Pistols, but was subsequently inspired by the look of The Fall's Mark E. Smith.

Frame isolated Bowie as a seminal influence, revealing that he would play the song "Space Oddity" to his mother repeatedly.

Aztec Camera
Frame's first band was called Neutral Blue. Then, at the age of 16, Frame joined the Postcard Records roster—alongside Orange Juice and Josef K—and his next band, Aztec Camera, began to record a series of low-budget singles, such as "Just Like Gold" and "Mattress of Wire". The music of Aztec Camera drew attention from both John Peel, a presenter on BBC Radio 1, and the New Musical Express (NME).

In 1983 Aztec Camera released High Land, Hard Rain, their first album on Rough Trade Records; although, the album did not include the first two Postcard singles. The album's opening song "Oblivious" was a hit single and Aztec Camera were consequently recognised as one of the key acts on the Rough Trade label. On tracks such as "Walk Out to Winter" and "Back on Board", Frame sang poetic lyrics about love, both lost and found, themes that he would revisit on subsequent Aztec Camera albums. The album also garnered attention for the band in the United States (US) and American magazine Creem published a review following its initial release that proclaimed: ""The world ain't perfect. But High Land, Hard Rain comes close."

After High Land, Hard Rain, Frame spent a significant amount of time living in New Orleans, US, listening to Bob Dylan's album Infidels. Upon reading that Dire Straits' guitarist and singer Mark Knopfler produced the album, Frame began writing songs based on a sound that he thought Knopfler could work with. Frame then signed the band to the WEA record label and managed to hire Knopfler to produce Aztec Camera's second album, Knife, which was released in 1984. The duration of the titular song is nearly nine minutes, while "All I Need is Everything" received radio airplay.

Around this time, Frame became somewhat of a recluse, living in a remote wooden shack in Hollywood, Marple Bridge, in the hills above Manchester, "going through periods of good and bad mental health," while continuing to write music for Aztec Camera's next album, including the lyric "From Westwood to Hollywood" in the song "Somewhere in My Heart".

Aztec Camera's third album, 1987's Love, was recorded in the US with soul, R&B and pop producers such as Michael Jonzun, Tommy LiPuma and Rob Mounsey. By this stage of the band's history, Frame represented its single driving force and he explained in 2014: "... I was young and I wanted to do things like go to America and make a sort of Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis record". The album was engineered by Eric Calvi, who had previously worked with Afrika Bambaataa and Al Jarreau, and featured the backing vocals of soul and R&B singers such as Dan Hartman and Tawatha Agee. One of the radio singles from Love, "Somewhere in My Heart", was Aztec Camera's first "top 10" chart hit and Frame later explained that his inspiration at the time of writing the song was Bruce Springsteen.

The diversity of Frame's musical influences was further exhibited in 1990's Stray, for which he performed a duet with musical hero, Mick Jones of The Clash, on the song "Good Morning Britain". The single release of the song featured a live performance at the Glasgow Barrowland venue, where Jones also performed, and a cover photograph by Bleddyn Butcher.

Frame then recorded the next Aztec Camera album, Dreamland, with Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto. Released in 1993, the album was mixed by Julian Mendelsohn, who had previously worked with the band. For Frame's final album under the Aztec Camera moniker, and the last original studio recording for the WEA label, Frame worked with renowned production team Langer-Winstanley, who had previously worked with Madness and Elvis Costello. Frestonia was released in 1995 and the Reprise Records label issued it in the US.

All six Aztec Camera studio albums were reissued in August 2012 by the Edsel Records label, which had previously completed the same process for the studio albums of Everything But The Girl. The reissued editions included bonus tracks and live recordings. The following year, the Domino Recording Company reissued High Land, Hard Rain to commemorate the album's 30th anniversary, including a vinyl pressing of the album that was released in the second half of 2013. A white cotton T-shirt with the album's cover art was produced by and sold on Frame's website. Frame performed a series of live shows in the UK, at which High Land, Hard Rain was played in its entirety with the support of a backing band. According to a media report on 28 August 2013, none of the original band members was involved with the shows and the anniversary event was not an Aztec Camera reunion.

Solo career
Following Frestonia, Frame pursued a solo career under his own name from 1995 onwards. His first solo album, The North Star, was released in 1998 on the Independiente label and featured the single "Reason For Living". Frame appeared on Jools Holland's Later television show in 1998 to play "Bigger, Brighter, Better", from North Star. In 1999 Frame appeared alongside Neil Finn and Graham Gouldman as part of the BBC Four's "Songwriters' Circle" series, and played both Aztec Camera and solo songs.

Frame's second solo album Surf, recorded when he was 38 years old, is a collection of acoustic songs that attracted critical acclaim and was generally regarded as a return to songwriting form. In a 2002 Guardian interview, Frame explained that he had "written an album about day-to-day life in London; about being 38 and wondering what you're going to do next." The album's cover image is a photograph taken from atop Burwash House in London, UK by Hannah Grace Deller, Frame's girlfriend at the time, and depicts the city's skyline. Following the album's April 2014 reissue, arts journalist Philip Cummins concluded:

Not since Paul Simon’s Hearts and Bones nor Bruce Springsteen’s Tunnel of Love has there been an album by a singer-songwriter that has explored themes of love, heartbreak and identity as skilfully and masterfully as Roddy Frame has on Surf. It is hard to think of an LP from the last 10 – 15 years that is so masterfully crafted, so fully realised, so enviably achieved ... Surf is, quite simply, one of the most moving, spellbinding and memorable collection of songs I have heard in recent years.

The song "Small World" was used as the theme music for the BBC Television comedy series Early Doors. Frame explained at a 2012 live performance in the UK that "Crossing Newbury Street" is about the time that he spent with Jonzun in Boston, Massachusetts, US, while writing and recording "Somewhere in My Heart".

Frame performed his first ever show at the Glastonbury Festival in 2003 and his next solo album Western Skies was released three years later in May 2006. Later in 2006, he released a live album called Live at Ronnie Scott's, a recording of a performance that was completed on 29 May 2005, and this was followed in 2007 by Live at The Blue Note, Osaka, another live recording of a show of 21 September 2006 in Japan. Video footage of Frame performing live solo concerts in the UK in both 2005 (Cardiff) and 2008 (Birmingham) was published on the YouTube online video-sharing platform.

In preparation for Frame's next studio album, he signed to AED Records, a record label founded by musician Edwyn Collins—a close friend and collaborator of Frame—and James Endeacott. In a 2011 live performance at London's Bush Hall venue, Frame played the song "White Pony", which would later appear on his fourth solo album, and explained that it was inspired by the death of filmmaker John Hughes and the "coming-of-age" notion.

Frame proceeded to record his next album at Collins's West Heath Yard studio with producer Sebastian Lewsley (Frame stated in a 2013 radio interview that Collins had been "incredibly generous". ) and, in June 2013, AED Records announced an "early 2014" release date for Frame's fourth solo album. The label's name is an initialism of "Analogue Enhanced Digital" and the album was referred to as a "lovely thing". (The label name "AED" is a personal joke of Collins's.) Frame explained prior to the release of his AED album that he was "spurred" on to record another full-length solo release by a series of live performances with Collins that was followed by a tour with a couple of members of Collins's band. Frame thought the touring band sounded so good that he decided to create a "band record again" and proceeded to write songs specifically with the touring band in mind.

Prior to the release of Frame's fourth solo album, two songs from the album, "Forty Days of Rain" and "Postcard", appeared on Frame's website in mid-April for listeners to stream. Additionally, AED reissued a vinyl version of the Surf album for Record Store Day on 19 April 2014.

On 4 May 2014, Frame's fourth solo studio album, entitled Seven Dials, was released on iTunes—on 8 May 2014, three customer reviews were posted on the iTunes Preview page and all gave five-star reviews. In its review of the album, released eight years after Western Skies, the Scotsman newspaper stated that the "goodwill and energy" generated by the 30th anniversary High Land, Hard Rain tour  "informed the completion of this new album", and describes a work filled with "impressionistic snapshots" and "the theme of pulling away ... and moving on elsewhere." The Scotsman reviews concludes:

The entire album is suffused with a non-angsty restlessness. “Bury me at Seven Dials so my soul can never find its way back to where I kissed you” Frame sings on the bittersweet Into The Sun. That sense of valediction is strongest on the poignant English Garden, which could give Damon Albarn a run for his melancholy money and then Elvis Costello with its final, emotional hit. Frame may be a man of few words but he makes them all count.

On the release date of Seven Dials, Frame appeared on Spanish radio station RTVE and also performed a live show, for which he also played Aztec Camera songs. During the live performance, Frame opened with "Oblivious" and explained to the audience that the pressure in the UK was too intense, as the term "Roddy Frame Day" was being used. In another interview for Spanish radio, Frame explained that during his time with Aztec Camera, he was never overly serious about his music career.

Frame performed an in-store live show at London, UK's Rough Trade East record store on 8 May 2014—the store offered an album and wristband bundle package that could be purchased and collected on the evening of the performance. Frame also participated in a series of radio interviews for the promotion of the album and appeared on Billy Sloan's Clyde 2 radio programme, which broadcasts throughout Glasgow and West Scotland; Tom Robinson's BBC Radio 6 show; the radio show of Terry Wogan, The Weekend Wogan, on BBC Radio 2; the Monocle 24 radio programme "Culture with Robert Bound"; and BBC Radio 6 with Liz Kershaw.

In a review for the Observer publication, Phil Mongredien awarded Seven Dials three-out-of-five stars, explaining: "his knack for a memorable, soaring chorus is undiminished by time." Mongredien concedes that he finds the slower-tempo songs, such as "Rear View Mirror", as "less compelling", but concludes that "this is a welcome return nonetheless." Q magazine awarded the album four stars, stating, "Melodies unfold, lyrics reveal their meaning and the wait is revealed as having been worth it", while The Scotsman wrote: "Frame may be a man of few words but he makes them all count". The Line of Best Fit website, in support of its 8.5/10 rating, published the following statement as part of its review: "A wonderfully understated record... approaching the restrained, heart-tugging perfection of his eighties peaks".

Frame completed an interview with the French website Le Gorille in July 2014 and stated that his manager had informed him of a live performance in France at the end of 2014. Four German dates were announced in July 2014, whereby Frame will play solo shows during October 2014.

Frame appeared on the "Soho Social" programme of the Soho Radio online media outlet on 19 August 2014, presented by Dan Gray. As of September 2014, Frame is listed as one of the "Artists & Writers" of the UK arm of the Universal Music Publishing Group company.

Collaborations
Frame has maintained a long-term friendship with Edwyn Collins, who was also signed to Postcard Records in the 1980s with his band Orange Juice. Collins and Frame collaborated on the Aztec Camera album Stray, including a live performance of the song "Consolation Prize". Following Sakamoto's production work on Aztec Camera's Dreamland album, Frame's vocals appeared on the song "Same Dream, Same Destination", from Sakamoto's 1994 album, Sweet Revenge.

Frame performed with Collins in November 2007 during Collins's first concert after his recovery from a serious illness, and the pair played again at the Glastonbury Festival in June 2008, on the Park Stage, and at the Purcell Rooms in London, UK, in September 2008. In 2012 Collins sang "A Girl Like You"—with Frame on guitar and Tim Burgess on backing vocals—and a rendition of the Orange Juice song "Falling and Laughing"—with Frame on guitar—at Burgess's "Tim Peaks Diner" café, as part of the Kendal Calling festival.

Dan Carey and Rob Da Bank, whose band name is Lazyboy, collaborated with Frame on the song "Western Skies"; Frame then re-recorded the song for a solo album of the same name and has performed an acoustic rendition of the song in live settings, with the inclusion of a harmonica solo. At a 2011 Glasgow performance, Frame explained that he had been listening to reggae-influenced music at the time of writing the lyrics and recorded the song at Da Bank's personal home.

Cover versions
Frame recorded cover versions of "In My Life", by The Beatles; "Bad Education", by Blue Orchids; Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors"; and a slowed-down version of "Jump", originally recorded by Van Halen.

In regard to the Van Halen cover version, Frame explained in a 1990 interview that he had seen the band in concert in the US for his birthday and started experimenting with the song afterwards. Frame found that the lyrical content of the song conveyed sadness, in contrast to the upbeat music of "Jump", and ended up with a version that sounded like "Sweet Jane", by The Velvet Underground.

During an October 2012 solo performance at the Paisley Abbey venue in Paisley, Scotland, Frame performed a rendition of the Jesse Rae song "Inside Out", which was written for the dance band Odyssey. Frame explained that during his time as a WEA artist, he was asked about Rae, who was conveyed as a Scottish musician who always wore a kilt and helmet. Frame expressed "love" for the song and explained that he enjoyed playing the song while at home. Frame played "Inside Out" during a live performance on BBC 6 Radio in early September 2014. Frame explained that, like "Jump", when "Inside Out" is slowed down, additional meanings become apparent, such as the notion of infidelity in the case of the latter.

Touring
Frame has performed a total of 58 live shows under his own name, including a UK tour throughout October 2011 with a small backing band.

The 30th anniversary High Land, Hard Rain tour of December 2013 was performed at the following UK venues: London's Theatre Royal, Manchester's Bridgewater Hall and Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall. The official European tour dates following the release of Seven Dials were announced in late August 2014. Frame is scheduled to play in cities such as Munich, Germany; Paris, France; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; and Vienna, Austria, in addition to Aberdeen, Glasgow and London. Frame stated during an August 2014 interview that he was interested in completing most of the tour by train.

Influences
In a 1988 interview, Frame spoke of the significant influence of the "punk revolution" during his early adolescence, when he began writing songs around the age of 13. He spoke of subsequently discovering Alternative TV (ATV), which led to an exploration of earlier music influences, as ATV's co-founder Mark Perry was himself influenced by Frank Zappa and Arthur Lee's band Love.

Following the release of the Aztec Camera album Dreamland, Frame explained in a 1993 Scottish television interview that the highlight of his career up until that point was meeting one of his musical heroes, American soul artist Al Green, while recording "Somewhere in My Heart" with Jonzun and Maurice Starr. Frame said that he did not know if he could ever "feel that good about music again" and then played the Dreamland song "Safe in Sorrow", which he explains is based on the "Al Green feel".

In another television interview following the release of Dreamland, Frame explained that politics were not a significant influence upon his songwriting up until that point. Frame mentioned Billy Bragg and explained that while Bragg "toils" away politically, he believed that people really want to listen to personal songs:

I feel more comfortable writing, kind of, personal, one-to-one songs. I think politics is tricky, and when it comes down to it, man, my favourite records are, like, uh, you know: three chords and a prayer, you know? ... but when it comes down to it, you wanna hear The Elgins, singing "Put Yourself In My Place"; preferably from a jukebox, so it's got a nice kick to it, you know?

As a promotional prelude to the release of Seven Dials, Frame appeared in music magazine Q, and also selected a playlist "of favourite songs which evoke a sense of place", as a reference to the London landmark that the album is named after. Frame's playlist included songs by Joe Strummer, Calle Sanlucar, The Clash, Grace Jones, Louis Armstrong and the Cocteau Twins.

Personal life
Frame married in 1990. In 1993, Frame had been residing in London for 11 years, but still considered Scotland his "spiritual" home. However, Frame explained that he was not a "patriot" and considered himself a "global citizen". His opinion was that Scotland was more meaningful than square slice and plain bread, and described such stereotypical notions as "nonsense".

In an August 2014 radio interview, Frame explained that following the recording of Knife, he embarked on an extended hiatus in which he "didn't really know what I was doing, to be honest." Frame said that he disappeared for three years after signing to the Warner label, while his manager communicated with Warner's representatives, who were keen to hear the next Aztec Camera album. Frame was not musically productive during this period, "lying around" smoking cannabis:

[I was] contemplating the record [Love], you know, absorbing influences ... did really what you should do at that age, I think, and just wasted a lot of time, reading and listening to stuff, and travelling a bit ...

As of August 2002, Frame lived in a "Notting Hill mansion-block flat" in London. He stated in March 2014 that, while he doesn't play the guitar every day, his songwriting activity has increased since the recording of Seven Dials. He owns a collection of guitars, including a 1974 Fender Telecaster and a series of "nice, big, fat" semi-acoustic guitars.

Solo discography

 * The North Star (Independiente, 1998) (UK No. 51)
 * Surf (Redemption, 2002) (UK No. 91)
 * Western Skies (Redemption, 2006)
 * Seven Dials (AED, 2014) (UK No. 50)

Live albums

 * Live at Ronnie Scott's (2006)
 * Live at The Blue Note, Osaka (2007)

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 * How many exactly is unknown, but this website collects cases: . Another harm is that believing in it seems to increase people's gullibility.
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BEXIMCO

Bangladesh Export Import Company Limited (Bangla transliteration: বাংলাদেশ এক্সপোর্ট ইমপোর্ট কোম্পানি লিমিটেড, romanised: Bānglādēsh ēkspōrṭ impōrṭ kōmpāni limiṭēḍ), commonly known by its trade name BEXIMCO (Bangla: বেক্সিমকো) (DSE: BEXIMCO CSE: BEXIMCO), is a Bangladeshi multinational conglomerate holding company, headquartered in Dhaka, Bangladesh. It was founded in the early 1970s.

BEXIMCO is Bangladesh's largest conglomerate, with the largest market capitalisation on the country's stock market. BEXIMCO currently has operations and investments across a wide range of industries including textiles, pharmaceuticals, PPE, ceramics, real estate development, construction, trading, marine food, information and communication technologies, media, DTH, financial services, and energy. BEXIMCO's subsidiaries export products to 55 countries worldwide. It has retail outlets in South Asia and Eastern Europe. It is one of the largest private sector employers in Bangladesh with over 70,000 people worldwide.

BEXIMCO operates one of the largest integrated textile production businesses in Asia. Its main manufacturing base is the BEXIMCO Industrial Park in Gazipur, Bangladesh. Beximco Pharma, the group's pharmaceutical producer, was the first Bangladeshi company to be listed on the London Stock Exchange.

History
The company was founded by brothers A. S. F. Rahman and Salman F Rahman in 1972, right after the independence of Bangladesh. Their family was earlier engaged in the jute business. The jute factory was nationalized in the early 1970s. However, with free market reforms in the late 1970s and 1980s, the family regained many of their businesses.

Since the early 1970s, BEXIMCO has been a pioneer in industrial and business sectors. Currently it has operations and investments across a wide range of industries including pharmaceuticals, ceramics, renewable energy, textiles, LPG, food & beverage, satellite to home television, PPE, media, ICT,  real estate, financial services, and travel & tourism.

In 2005, Beximco Pharma became the first Bangladeshi company to be listed on the Alternative Investment Market of the London Stock Exchange. BEXIMCO also opened its first overseas retail outlet with the launch of the Yellow clothing brand in Karachi, Pakistan. Yellow has since expanded to several Bangladeshi and Pakistani cities. In 2009, Shinepukur Ceramics opened a showroom in Moscow, Russia. In 2010, the company acquired stakes in several major Bangladeshi businesses, including IFIC Bank and Unique Hotels and Resorts.

Beximco Communications, a joint venture of Beximco Holdings with Russian company GS Group, launched Bangladesh's first direct-to-home (DTH) satellite television service in 2016, under the brand name RealVU. RealVU later suspended operations, but was rebooted as Akash in 2019. As of 2022, Akash had 700,000 subscribers and growing.

Its vice chairman Salman F Rahman is serving as a Private Sector Development Affairs Adviser to Prime Minister and Bangladesh Awami League President Sheikh Hasina, the current Prime Minister of Bangladesh, in the past and as Private Sector Industry and Investment Adviser at the moment.

Recently BEXIMCO with other companies donated 6.93cr to Labour Welfare Fund support to workers in the formal and informal sectors for accidental deaths, treatment of injuries, incurable diseases, and also for the higher education of their children.

In 2023, BEXIMCO Group inaugurated Teesta Solar Limited. However, the plant started supplying power to the national grid in December 2022. The plant has 520,000 solar panels at 600 acres of land at Tarapur Union. The plant has the capacity to produce 200MW of electricity. The plant is located on the bank of the Teesta River.

Key officials

 * A. S. F. Rahman, Chairman
 * Salman F Rahman, Vice-chairman
 * Shayan F Rahman, Advisors to the Board
 * Shahryar Rahman, CEO & President, Beximco Textiles, Apparel, and PPE Division
 * O K Chowdhury, Managing Director
 * Iqbal Ahmed, Group Director
 * ABS Rahman, Group Director
 * Syed Naved Hussain, Advisor to Chairman and Vice Chairman
 * Sami Wadood, Group Director
 * Ajmal Kabir, Group Director
 * Humayun Kabir FCA, CEO (Ceramics)
 * M Shamsur Rahman, CEO (Media)
 * Shah A Sarwar, managing director and CEO (IFIC Bank)
 * Mrinal Roy, CEO (Petroleum)
 * M Asad Ullah FCS, Executive Director & Company Secretary
 * Masud Ekramullah Khan, Independent Directors
 * Shah Monjurul Hoque, Independent Directors
 * Mohammad Asad Ullah, FCS, Executive Director & Company Secretary

Products

 * Banking - IFIC Bank
 * Ceramic
 * Construction
 * DTH
 * Electric power generation
 * Fashion
 * Fisheries
 * Food & beverage
 * Hotels
 * Information technology
 * Media
 * Petroleum products
 * Pharmaceuticals
 * PPE
 * Private satellite television channel
 * Real estate
 * Renewable energy
 * Sports team & franchise
 * Textiles
 * Travel & tourism
 * Travel & tourism

Subsidiaries
The conglomerate compromises four public traded and eight privately held companies.
 * Bangladesh Export Import Co. Ltd. (public)
 * Beximco Pharma (public)
 * Beximco Computers Ltd.
 * Beximco Engineering Ltd.
 * Beximco Aviation Limited
 * Beximco Petroleum Ltd.
 * Beximco Power Company Ltd.
 * Giga Tech Ltd.
 * Independent Television
 * Shinepukur Ceramics (public)
 * Yellow
 * IFIC Bank
 * BEXTRADE
 * Dhaka Dynamites (BPL team)

Akash DTH
Akash DTH or Akash Digital TV, formally incorporated as RealVU DTH, is the sole direct broadcast satellite television provider to households in Bangladesh, operated by Beximco Communications Limited, and owned by parent company BEXIMCO. It broadcasts multichannel TV services via satellite Bangabandhu-1. It also offers personal video recording (PVR) capabilities, and HD support. Akash has monopoly in areas where cable providers can't reach.

History
In 2014, Bangladesh government gave license to operate digital service to RealVu(Now Akash DTH) and Bengal Digital.

RealVU DTH began broadcasting in 2016 on ABS-2 at 75 degrees east as a joint venture with GS group. The owner of the provider is BEXIMCO via Beximco Communications Limited. The early years of the company were unstable due to technical and financial difficulties. RealVU DTH failed to capture the market, and postponed it services within a years.

In 2017, GS group sold their share in Beximco Communications(holding company of RealVu and now Akash) but continued providing hardware and software for the service.

In 2019, they came back with a rebranded name Akash DTH.

From 2019, Akash DTH has been providing television services to customers using Bangladeshi satellite Bangabandhu-1. The company broadcasts more than 120 television stations from around the world, along with exclusive Bangladeshi channels. In 2021, Akash DTH started offering its customers the first PVR in Bangladesh.

Financial situation
The company got a fee waiver of ৳111.56M due to losses from May 2019 to 2020 on grounds of financial losses despite having a monopoly in the DTH market in Bangladesh. But a spectrum charge waiver over the next five years was denied.

Marketing
Customers of analog cable system were switching to digital cable system such as Bengal Digital, Jadoo Digital and DTH system such as Akash DTH for its superior picture quality. While the market penetration remained low, the market share of Akash DTH was growing. Akash DTH used multiple types of marketing such as TV marketing, guerilla marketing, word of mouth and viral marketing.

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Kálmán Tisza

Kálmán Tisza de Borosjenő (archaic English: Coloman Tisza, or Koloman Tisza; 16 December 1830 – 23 March 1902) was the Hungarian prime minister between 1875 and 1890. He is credited with the formation of a consolidated Hungarian government, the foundation of the new Liberal Party (1875) and major economic reforms that would both save and eventually lead to a government with popular support. He is the second longest-serving head of government in Hungarian history.

Political career
At the age of 18, Kálmán Tisza witnessed one of the greatest transformations of the political arena in Hungarian history. Hungary's political system changed from being a feudalistic state into a newly established constitutional monarchy that shared many components with modern-day governments. Legislation such as Public Law III abolished the Royal Chancellery and the Residential Council replacing them with a bicameral parliament (House of Lords and House of Representatives). Democratic principles were established with Public Law V that allowed 6.5% of the population to vote (Janos 85). Also, the union of traditional Hungarian lands under Public Law VI and VII created a unified Hungary. These powerful reforms led to a nationalist revolt that culminated in the dethroning of the Habsburg dynasty during the Hungarian Revolution of 1848-49. With the defeat of the Hungarians during the revolution, many of the reforms were revoked and Hungary was put under military dictatorship under Austrian general Julius Haynau. Though the revolution's suppression ended the parliamentary-style government in Hungary, it did not destroy the seeds that were sown by the initial reforms. During 1859 and 1860—after seeing the Hungarian popular support for the Italians during the Austro-Italian wars—Austria began to try new constitutional experiments in Hungary. During this period, Kálmán Tisza was first elected to the newly formed government. Then, in 1867, on behalf of the Hungarian Parliament, Tisza participated in negotiations with Emperor Franz Joseph I that led to the Compromise of 1867 (Ausgleich; Kiegyezés). The importance of this document is that it restored the "Constitutional integrity of Hungary" (Janos 90), with the exception over powers of defense and foreign affairs. These minor concessions by the Emperor soon collated and restored the powers, concerning internal affairs back to the Hungarians. These changed circumstances laid the path for Tisza to rise to the position of Prime Minister. In 1875, he founded the Liberal Party and was elected to the position of Prime Minister of Hungary. The efficiency of the government was initially quite weak and his actions during his 15-year service mainly consisted of reforming the government and the economy.

The newly born government bureaucracy of Hungary was inefficient and lacked a centralized government. One of the first acts performed under the premiership of Kálmán Tisza was the consolidation of power and transformation of the bureaucracy into a single, capable apparatus: "The bureaucracy was in charge of the elections and perpetuating the liberal majority, while parliament and the party would lend an aura of legitimacy to bureaucratic policies and provide a forum to articulate bureaucratic interests" (Janos 97). Kálmán Tisza achieved consolidation of power within the government while Parliament simply served to legitimize those actions. Consolidation of power also consisted of the reform of an incumbent parliament where members came to hold their seats regularly without challenge.

Reform of the House of Magnates in Hungary
469 members were removed under the provisions of the Parliament Act. The number of Members set to 369 members: 205 hereditary peers, 83 church dignitaries, and a new feature, 81 life members. Aristocratic titles were still given by the imperial power but hereditary and life peerages were to be awarded upon the advice of the Prime Minister who, in case of emergency, could seek the appointment of new members to secure the passage of a particular piece of legislation (Janos 99). These reforms allowed the position of the Prime Minister to be the single most important actor in the Hungarian political arena. These reforms by Tisza allowed him to consolidate power within the Hungarian government and also remove much of the influence extended by the Austrians. He helped to finally set in stone the shift of Hungarian political dependence away from the Austrians.

Economic reform
Between 1869 and 1875 (with the establishment of the new Hungarian political system), the Hungarians chose to style their economic system under a French model. The problem they encountered was that their current political system was more advanced in comparison to their archaic economic system. For example, taxation of the people came in the form of quasi-military campaigns that only raised taxes by 11% (Janos 106), while it embittered the rural population. Thus, these 6 years were known as a period of poor management of the economy by a failing government. When Tisza came to power in 1875, he consolidated the economy in many ways similar to his power consolidation of the government. He initiated tax reforms saving the state from bankruptcy. In 1889, Sándor Wekerle became Minister of Finance. He collaborated with Tisza to develop a new tax system which focused on taxing the land. The success of these reforms were tremendous, even though the land tax increased by 30%, the revenues of the government increased by 330% (Janos 108). Between 1880 and 1895, public revenue doubled due to the successful tax reforms. Though the Tisza-Wekerle system saved the government from bankruptcy, the tax system proved to be too harsh and eventually prevented the rise of a domestic market for the products produced by Hungary.

Legacy
The contributions made by Kálmán Tisza during his 15-year premiership were quite tremendous. Although he was born during the midst of a failing Austrian Imperial government in Hungary and he had inherited a failing Hungarian Constitutional government, he managed to turn Hungary into a modern state. He saved his country from going completely bankrupt and consolidated and created an efficient centralized government. His legacy of reform and success gave confidence to a people that were once suppressed by the Austrians and were struggling to master constitutional government. However, he has also been associated with the policy of Magyarization and the imposition of Hungarian hegemony over the various linguistic and ethnic groups in Hungary, as well as consolidating the influence of the Hungarian country gentry on political life. His son István Tisza also became a notable Hungarian politician.

Orders and decorations

 * Austria-Hungary: Grand Cross of the Royal Hungarian Order of Saint Stephen, 1880

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Béla Wenckheim

Baron Béla Wenckheim (Körösladány, 16 February 1811 – Budapest, 7 July 1879) was a Austro-Hungarian politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary for several months in 1875.

Biography
He was born into a rich Austro-Hungarian noble family which originated in Franconia and was a descendant of the Árpád-family from royal Spanien lines, as the eldest son of Baron Joseph von Wengkheim (1778-1830) and his wife, Baroness Terézia Orczy de Orczi (1790-1875). He never married and didn't have children.

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Internal balance

Internal balance in economics is a state in which a country maintains full employment and price level stability. It is a function of a country's total output,

 * II = C (Yf - T) + I + G + CA (E x P*/P, Yf-T; Yf* - T*)

 * Internal balance = Consumption [determined by disposable income] + Investment + Government Spending + Current Account (determined by the real exchange rate, disposable income of home country and disposable income of the foreign country).

External balance signifies a condition in which the country's current account, its exports minus imports, is neither too far in surplus nor in deficit. It is signified by a level of the current account which is consistent with the maintenance of existing (or growing) levels of consumption, employment and national output over the long term. It is notated by

 * XX = CA (EP*/P, Y-T, Yf* - T*)

 * External balance = the right amount of surplus or deficit in the current account.

Maintaining both internal and external balances requires use of both monetary policy and fiscal policy. That is one reason why floating exchange rates may be superior to fixed exchange rates. Under fixed exchange rates, governments are not usually free to employ monetary policy. Under floating rates, countries can use both.

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Freur

Freur were a Welsh new wave and synth-pop band featuring Karl Hyde and Rick Smith, who went on to form the electronic band Underworld. It was their second band, following their art school collaboration, the Screen Gemz. Their best known song is "Doot-Doot", which peaked at No. 59 on the UK Singles Chart.

History
The band was formed in the early 1980s in Cardiff, Wales by Hyde, Smith and Alfie Thomas. It originally had only a graphic 'squiggle' for a name. In 1983, after recruiting John Warwicker and drummer Bryn Burrows (formerly of the Fabulous Poodles), they got a recording contract with CBS Records. As the label insisted on a pronounceable name, the band made the compromise that the squiggle was pronounced Freur.

Their first and only hit single (No. 17 in Italy, No. 17 in New Zealand, No. 24 in Germany, No. 36 in the Netherlands and No. 59 in the UK Singles Chart), was "Doot-Doot" (1983). It was recorded and co-produced by Alex Burak at The Point studio in London, which was controlled by Rupert Merton of Point Music publishing. Merton (who also had an early version of the Thompson Twins on his roster of artists) signed Freur.

The band released five further singles after "Doot-Doot", between 1983 and 1985: "Matters of the Heart", "Runaway", "Riders in the Night", "The Devil and Darkness" and "Look in the Back for Answers". All failed to dent the UK charts.

Freur released two studio albums: Doot-Doot (1983) and Get Us out of Here (1986). The second LP was only released in Germany and the Netherlands. Freur also composed and performed the soundtrack to the movie Underworld (also called Transmutations), written by Clive Barker. Warwicker left the band in 1986 and Freur went into recess. In 1987, Hyde, Smith, Thomas and Burrows, along with bassist Baz Allen signed to Sire Records under a new name, Underworld, and found some success with the single "Underneath the Radar" (1988) (it peaked in Australia at No. 5), before initially folding in 1990. The band re-formed in 1991 under the same name to become the successful dance and electronica act responsible for a number of well received albums and the 1996 hit single "Born Slippy .NUXX".

The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles would list Freur under the symbol, with the translation by the side, until the late 1990s. John Warwicker is a video artist in the graphic design collective Tomato, whose founders include Hyde and Smith.

The now defunct UK magazine Sounds referred to the band as "Elephant with a stick of Rhubarb" because of the shape of the squiggle.

Band members

 * Karl Hyde – vocals, guitars
 * Rick Smith – keyboards
 * Alfie Thomas – bass, keyboards, guitars, back vocals
 * Bryn Burrows – drums
 * John Warwicker – video synthesiser, graphics

Studio albums

 * Doot-Doot (1983)
 * Get Us out of Here (1986)

Soundtrack albums

 * Transmutations (1985) (unreleased)

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Beaulieu Mine

The Beaulieu Mine was a post-World War II gold mining operation near Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. It entered production in October 1947 but by the end of November only 7 oz of rough gold were recovered. Additional gold was recovered during 1948, but the mine recovered only 30 ozt of fine gold altogether. The operation folded in chaos and bankruptcy.

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István Bittó

Count István Bittó de Sárosfa et Nádasd (3 May 1822 in Sárosfa, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire – 7 March 1903 in Budapest) was a Hungarian politician who served as Speaker of the House of Representatives of Hungary from 10 September 1872 to 23 March 1874 and as Prime Minister of Hungary from 1874 to 1875.

Career
Bittó studied law and entered into a legal civil service. During the Revolution of 1848–49, he was a revolutionary and a member of the Diet of Hungary. He emigrated after the defeat of Hungary in 1849 out of the country, but returned in 1851. From 1861 Bittó was a parliamentarian in the newly convened parliament to the Liberal Party of Ferenc Deák.

After the compromise with Austria Bittó was the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives between 1869 and 1872. He served as justice minister in the government of Menyhért Lónyay from 1871 to 1872. On 1 March 1874 he was appointed by King Ferenc József prime minister. The office he held only until 2 March 1875 when he was replaced by Béla Wenckheim. In the era of Kálmán Tisza (1875–1890) he was one of the few former liberal oppositionists (he was the only Prime Minister who later joined to the opposition). From 1899 until his death, Bittó was a member of the House of Magnates.

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Walter Gresham

Walter Gresham may refer to:

 * Walter Q. Gresham (1832–1895), American statesman and jurist
 * Walter Gresham (Texas politician) (1841–1920)

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Vinaya Piṭaka

The Vinaya Piṭaka (English: Basket of Discipline) is the first of the three divisions of the Tripiṭaka, the definitive canonical collection of scripture of Theravada Buddhism. The other two parts of the Tripiṭaka are the Sutta Piṭaka and the Abhidhamma Piṭaka. Its primary subject matter is the monastic rules of conduct for monks and nuns of the Sangha.

Origins
According to tradition, the Tripiṭaka was compiled at the First Council shortly after the Buddha's death. The Vinaya Piṭaka is said to have been recited by Upāli, with little later addition. Most of the different versions are fairly similar, most scholars consider most of the Vinaya to be fairly early, that is, dating from before the separation of schools.

Contents
The Pāli Vinaya consists of:
 * Suttavibhaṅga: Pāṭimokkha and commentary
 * Mahāvibhaṅga: rules for monks
 * Bhikkhunīvibhaṅga: rules for nuns
 * Khandhaka: 22 chapters on various topics
 * Parivāra: analyses of rules from various points of view

The Pali version of the Patimokkha contains 227 rules for bhikkhus and 311 rules for bhikkhunis. The Vibhaṅga sections consist of commentary on these rules, giving detailed explanations of them along with the origin stories for each rule. The Khandhaka section gives numerous supplementary rules grouped by subject that also consist of origin stories.

Place in the tradition
According to the sutras, in the first years of the Buddha's teaching the sangha lived together in harmony with no vinaya, as there was no need, because all of the Buddha's early disciples were highly realized if not fully enlightened. As the sangha expanded, situations arose which the Buddha and the lay community felt were inappropriate for mendicants.

The first rule to be established was the prohibition against sexual intercourse. The origin story tells of an earnest monk whose family was distraught that there was no male heir and so persuaded the monk to impregnate his former wife. All three—the monk, his wife and son, the latter of whom later ordained—eventually became fully enlightened arhats.

The Buddha called his teaching the "Dhamma-Vinaya", emphasizing both the philosophical teachings of Buddhism as well as the training in virtue that embodies that philosophy. Shortly before his death, the Buddha clarified to his disciples through Ānanda:

"Now, Ānanda, if it occurs to any of you—"The teaching has lost its arbitrator; we are without a Teacher"—do not view it in that way. Whatever Dhamma and Vinaya I have pointed out and formulated for you, that will be your Teacher when I am gone."

- Mahāparinibbāna Sutta

Literature

 * Davids, T. W. Rhys, Oldenberg, Hermann (joint tr): Vinaya texts, Oxford, The Clarendon press 1881. Vol.1 Vol.2 Vol.3 Internet Archive

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I got my nickname from El Cid, or more more specifically from the movie. I live in Bend, Oregon. I've lived in roughly 13 cities throughout my 26 year life. They are:

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 * Provo, Utah
 * Tucson, Arizona (Twice)
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 * Reno, Nevada
 * Portland, Oregon
 * Las Vegas, Nevada (Twice)
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 * Bend, Oregon
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József Szlávy

József Szlávy de Érkenéz et Okány (23 November 1818 in Győr – 8 August 1900 Zsitvaújfalu, (today Nová Ves nad Žitavou, Slovakia)) was a Hungarian politician who served as prime minister from 1872 to 1874, as Speaker of the House of Representatives of Hungary from 3 April 1879 to 12 April 1880 and as Speaker of the House of Magnates from 19 September 1894 to 3 October 1896. He was Minister of Finance of Austria-Hungary from 1880 to 1882.

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Blickensderfer typewriter

The Blickensderfer typewriter was invented by George Canfield Blickensderfer (1850–1917) and patented on April 12, 1892. Blickensderfer was a nephew of John Celivergos Zachos, the inventor of the stenotype. Two models, Model 1 and Model 5, were unveiled to the public at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The Model 5 was a stripped-down version of the bigger, more complex Model 1. These machines were intended to compete with larger Remington, Hammond and Yost typewriters, and were the first truly portable, full-keyboard typewriters. The design also enabled the typist to see the typed work, at a time when most typewriters were understrike machines that concealed the writing. When Blickensderfer unveiled his small Model 5, its compactness and novel features attracted huge crowds and many orders.

History
The Blickensderfer typewriters were initially manufactured in a rented factory on Garden Street in Stamford, Connecticut. By 1896, due to strong foreign demand in particular for his machines, Blickensderfer opened a new and modern factory on Atlantic Street in Stamford. According to an article published by the Stamford Historical Society, "Blickensderfer's typewriter ... became the world's best seller, and the company became one of the world's largest typewriter manufacturers." The factory employed about 200 people and produced about 10,000 typewriters per year at its peak (1903-1907) until the factory closed in 1919. The first commercially successful model was the No. 5, which sold for $35, compared to the benchmark machines of the day which cost $100 or more. Each new Model 5 came in a simple wooden carrying case with an extra typewheel, a dozen ink rolls and a tool kit. Blickensderfer typewriters were sold in France under the Dactyle name. The machines were sold in Canada by the Creelman Brothers Company of Georgetown, Ontario. They were also sold and marketed in Great Britain, Germany, New Zealand and Russia. The keyboards and type wheels were available for numerous languages, including French, Spanish, German and Polish. Some machines, called the Oriental, were adapted so the carriage moved from left to right, to accommodate Hebrew and Arabic languages.

The company's European business declined with the onset of World War I, and production and sales were particularly hard hit when the United States joined the war in 1917. As part of the war effort Blickensderfer converted much of his factory to produce munitions for the war, including a machine gun belt feed for the French government and 50 caliber machine gun mounts for aircraft.

George Blickensderfer died on August 15, 1917, after a short illness. With the brilliant chief engineer and designer gone, his company could not continue, and the heirs sold it in 1919. After several unsuccessful years under different ownership, the Remington Typewriter Company acquired the assets, including tools, parts, drawings and intellectual rights, from the bankrupt L.R. Roberts Company in 1926. Remington attempted to introduce a modified Blickensderfer 5 called the Rem-Blick to the market, but by the end of 1928 the model was discontinued.

Design
The Blickensderfer typewriter dramatically reduced the complexity of the typewriter design. A typical Blickensderfer contained only 250 parts, compared to the 2,500 parts of a standard typewriter. It was much smaller, lighter and cheaper than others. Some of the first aluminium typewriters, marketed as the Blickensderfer 6 and the Blickensderfer Featherweight, were made by Blickensderfer, as was the world's first fully electric typewriter, the Blickensderfer Electric.

Instead of the common mechanism with letters on the end of individual type bars connected to the keys, the first Blickensderfer prototype used a cylindrical typewheel with four rows of characters; lower case, upper case, italics and short words embossed on it. It was later modified to three rows of characters: lower case, upper case and a row of numbers and symbols. Depressing a key caused the typewheel to turn so the correct letter was positioned over the paper. As the wheel turned it moved downward, contacting an ink roller prior to striking the paper. This allowed for greater speed in typing as there were no keys to become jammed or stuck together. The interchangeable typewheel principle is very similar to the IBM Selectric design introduced almost 70 years later in 1961. Like the Selectric, one could easily change the typeface or the font style on a Blickensderfer simply by changing the typewheel.

Blickensderfers were also notable for their unique keyboard layout developed by George Blickensderfer after careful analysis of the English language. The home, or lowest row of keys, contained the most commonly used letters. Blickensderfer determined that 85% of words contained these letters, DHIATENSOR. This positioning allowed the typist to keep his hands on the home row as much as possible, minimizing extraneous hand movement and increasing efficiency. The QWERTY keyboard introduced on the Sholes & Glidden typewriter in 1874 was designed for purely mechanical reasons and the chances of the keys striking each other and jamming was more limited with this configuration. Because the Blickensderfer used the typewheel, the "scientific" keyboard layout could be used for maximum typing efficiency.

Model 5

The first widely successful production model was the Blickensderfer 5, introduced at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. Production of the model 5 did not seriously get underway until 1895-1896. The 5 was the first portable, full keyboard, typewriter and came with the DHIATENSOR keyboard as standard or with a QWERTY keyboard available on request. Some of the earliest Blickensderfer 5's were sold in France as the Dactyle. The Blickensderfer 5 was the simplest of all Blickensderfer models and more were produced than any other Blickensderfer machine. About 74,000 or 37% of the 200,000 Blickensderfer typewriters produced, were No. 5's and their production continued until 1913, when other models became more popular.

Model 6 and Featherweight
In 1910 George Blickensderfer introduced the Blickensderfer 6, which was cast in aluminium and was essentially a lighter version of the Blickensderfer 5 which used cast iron. The aluminium version also appeared as the Blickensderfer Featherweight, which was an improved Model 6 with a backspace mechanism and the ink arm support was modified to an attractive curved folding design. These typewriters weighed only 5 pounds and were widely marketed as the Five-Pound Secretary.

Model 7

The Model 7, first introduced in 1897, became the deluxe version of the basic No. 5 and was designed to please a greater cross section of the market. The biggest and most obvious difference was the wraparound space bar, which gave the machine a more solid and distinctive look. Blickensderfer also improved the paper scale, added black composite carriage knobs at both ends of the palten, added adjustable margin stops and a bell mechanism designed to be struck by a clapper attached to the inker arm indicating when the carriage was approaching the end of the typed line. The Blickensderfer 7 was also mounted on an oak base fitted with an attractive bentwood laminated oak case. About 63,000 Blickensderfer No. 7's were produced from 1897 until 1916.

Blickensderfer Electric
The Blickensderfer Electric was a revolutionary machine and was far ahead of its time when it was first introduced at the Pan-American Exhibition in Buffalo in 1901 following its patent in August 1900 (patent no.656,085). It had all the familiar characteristics of the manual models, plus a QWERTY or a DHIATENSOR keyboard and all the advantages of later electric typewriters, including a light key touch, even typing, and automatic carriage return and line spacing. The machine was powered by an Emerson electric motor mounted on the rear and switched on by turning a Yale key on the side. The motor ran on 104 Volt 60 Hz AC electric current, which was not yet widely standard at the time. (See War of the currents)

It is believed that the Blickensderfer Electric was produced from 1901 to 1919. Although a technological and engineering success, it was a commercial failure as at the time many homes and businesses were not wired for electricity. Electricity was primarily used for lighting and therefore not widely available during the daytime. The Blickensderfer Electrics were advertised and marketed in both France and Britain, although it is not known how many machines were ultimately sold. Very few machines are known to exist today, and they are found with both straight fronts and QWERTY keyboards or curved fronts and DHIATENSOR keyboards.

Model 8

The Blickensderfer 8 introduced in 1908 was the first Blickensderfer to boast a tabulator system (see Tab stop), even though tabulators had been around for some time. This model was a considerable success and more were sold in 1908 than any other model. This machine was more massive and sturdier looking than the 7 with a two-piece typehead casting and a popular backspace mechanism. The tabulator used large nickel-plated levers placed on top of the machine, making it easy to operate. Production peaked in 1910 and declined until production ended in 1917. About 20,000 Blickensderfer 8's were produced, accounting for about 10% of all Blickensderfer models sold.

Model 9
The Model 9, believed to be introduced in mid-1910, was similar in appearance to the Model 8, but lacked the nickel plated tabulator keys and also featured a folding ink roller arm support similar to the Blickensderfer Featherweight. Only about 10,000 machines were produced, ending in 1919.

Innovation and technology
On August 4, 1891, after several prototypes, Blickensderfer patented The Blickensderfer Type Writing Machine. The central component was the use of the cylindrical shaped interchangeable type element which he initially patented on July 15, 1890. An earlier variation to Blickensderfer's typewheel was introduced on the Crandall 1 typewriter in 1883 but Blickensderfer's genius was in the use of the typewheel combined with the simplicity and the small size of his machine. This invention was unlike anything else on the market and was considered a mechanical marvel that took typewriter engineering to a new level. Striking a key turned the wheel to the appropriate orientation while inking the typeface as it tipped downward past the ink roller to strike the paper. Holding the Cap or Fig keys shifted the typewheel along its axis to use either the middle row, for capital letters, or the lower row, for special characters and numbers.

Industrial production in the 1890s was not highly automated and assembly was done completely by hand. This allowed for easy design changes and improvements to the production process. Blickensderfer continued to improve his machines and a number of new patents were filed for the Blickensderfer 5 up to June 1, 1897, when the machine largely remained the same for the balance of its production life. Blickensderfer continued to invent new machines until his death, including the Blickensderfer Electric and various standard machines with the Blickensderfer 9 being his last major new model.

The typewheel, like the later typeball of the IBM Selectric typewriter, was the central component of all the Blickensderfer machines. It could be easily removed, allowing users to select a large variety of fonts and typefaces. Later in the company’s production history, the basic machines' keyboards could easily be adapted to other languages at the Blickensderfer factory simply by changing the removable keytop covers and adding the corresponding language typewheel.

Scientific keyboard

One unique feature of the Blickensderfer typewriter was the scientific or DHIATENSOR keyboard. The DHIATENSOR layout is shown below (with alphanumeric characters only): Blickensderfer analyzed the English language and proposed a unique and more efficient keyboard based on his research. He determined that the ten most frequently used letters were A, D, E, H, I, N, O, R, S, and T, and were used in about 70% of written text and in about 85% of all words. The middle row contained letters that occurred 24% of the time and the top row about 6%. Blickensderfer offered the scientific keyboard in the hopes that his more efficient system would replace the clumsy but widely used QWERTY or universal keyboard developed by Sholes and Glidden in 1874. Unfortunately for Blickensderfer, no other typewriter manufacturer adopted the scientific keyboard and Blickensderfer had no choice but to offer the universal keyboard on all his machines as an option. Toward the end of the company's existence, most machines were sold with the universal keyboard. There were modifications to the layout made for Spanish, French, German, and Polish.

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By way of comparison, the later Dvorak keyboard layout has the consonants on its home row in DHIATENSOR order:. The Dvorak is in the neighboring far row, between  and. The same vowels, plus, are present on the left in a different order. Another machine that had its keys arranged in a 'scientific' order, although not designed for home use, was the Linotype machine, with the first two columns of the lower-case and caps key sections arranged in ETAOIN SHRDLU order.

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Talk:Magen David Adom

Update
The ICRC and the MDA have made huge strides over the past couple of years towards achieving mutual recognition. Article should reflect this.

Also while the use of the MD was refused by the ICRC they also refused applications by India and the USSR to use different symbols.

Shouldn't the MDA page have a graphic showing the logo like the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement page has?

--Micahbrwn 02:33, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Emblem added --Yoz 16:07, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

New emblem : http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1383949

some actual info about them?
While this article's fine for the emblem issue, it really doesn't tell us much about what Magen David Adom do. Are they different to other local red cross organisations in any other ways?

I'm one of (probably?) many concerned would-be donors - I know I'm probably reading too much into what is just a name and a symbol, but before I donate I want to be sure that there's absolutely no discrimination in Magen David Adom's work. Could someone in the know please confirm (or otherwise?) that Magen David Adom do work based on need and regardless of race and religion, both officially and in practice? Thanks.

 * Megen David Adom, in my understanding, has a much better record of treating all patients in need of help regardless or race or religion then that of the general International Red Cross/Red Crescent society (which refused to make any protest of the Holocaust during WWII.) Rudy Breteler (talk) 22:55, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

I volunteer in MDA. there is little discrimination if at all, any discrimination in the organazation is based on a personal basis. Infact MDA organizes camps for jewish and palestinian kids as you can see in the organizations webpage [www.http://www.mdais.com/Projects/] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Piglet128 (talk • contribs) 08:05, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

conflicting articles
also this conflicts with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICRC.

what to do?

No need for romboid, jews shall use the lion.
The jewish should have re-used the shah's lion. The iranian shahdom was the favourite ally of Israel. "Levi" (meaning lion) is one of the most common jewish male names. There is no need for a new symbol, just recycle the lion!

 * That is an opinion only, and therefore shouldn't even be part of this article. Mattrix18 18:43, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

 * I can only assume that is a joke. Luis Dantas 10:13, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * This is a total disconsideration of Jewish religious and national feelings. Levi, in hebrew does mean lion, but also means "a worker of the Grand Temple". Alos the use of animals and humans in religious emblems is strictly forbidden in the Torah (A part of the old testement which is holy to jewish people).
 * Lavi means lion, but it is spelled differently than the name of the tribe, son of Jacob, and the given name.

 * The Lion of Judah symbol is forbidden by Torah? Surprising.
 * But this should be discussed there, or the above opinion about the rhomboid in Talk:Star of David.
 * --Ikar.us 11:52, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

Israeli attack on ambulance in Lebanon
I have removed a text at the bottom of the article that said "On July 23th 2006 Isreal aircraft attaked two Red cross Ambulances in Lebanon wounding 5 volunteers and 3 patients near the city of Tyre.", as I see no relevance about this attack and the MDA. --Henrik Gammelgaard 23:24, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Since the rest of the article has sections showing the overall relationship between Israel and the ICRC and this was directly about Israel attacking ICRC Ambulances surely this is relevant. If we're going to show context then lets show all of it - to do motherwise is just POV. 82.14.68.109 04:50, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Wouldn't it be better to place this information in the article 2006_Israel-Lebanon_conflict? As I understand this article, it is about the MDA and the relationship it has with the ICRC and not about any attacks that the IDF has made on ambulances in Lebanon. --Henrik Gammelgaard 23:28, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

 * This is not a page about current events, (one that all the facts arnt even known yet) If the events lead to something signifcantly effecting the Magen David Adom then it will belong here. Otherwise its importance its based on conjecture. Removing (Madrone 04:43, 26 July 2006 (UTC))

 * The facts are known (and sourced) - if the article is going to have whole paragraphs about the involvement of Israel with the ICRC then this should be there. 82.27.227.50 19:04, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

 * The page is about MDA and MDA involvement with the ICRC; it is not about the State of Israels involvement with the ICRC, as I understand it. --Henrik Gammelgaard 23:17, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree. Furthermore, as far as I understand it, the ambulances which were attacked were from the Lebanese Red Cross society, not the ICRC. --Uwe 23:26, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Removed again, Not relevant to article, (Madrone 03:07, 30 July 2006 (UTC))

 * I am per Madrone Rudy Breteler (talk) 22:58, 20 March 2008 (UTC)

Militants vs Terrorists: caption
Could we settle this? There's been an edit war going on about what the caption on the third image should say: "Armored Mobile Intensive Care Unit from the Jerusalem district. These units play a crucial role in emergencies where responding EMS crews may be targeted by militant/terrorist forces."

I vote to change it to terrorist, since it's not saying "targeted by Hamas terrorist forces", but terrorists in general. The point of the vehicules are to help civilians in acts of terrorism, not all general militantism (sp?). 207.245.44.227 19:25, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

 * I vote to use the word militant in accordance with common usage throughout the rest of WP and the NPOV policy 83.245.26.27 14:19, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

An intentional attack on protected persons, which national aid is defined as in the Geneva Conventions, is uncontroversially terrorist in the same way that a suicide bombing is. We are not, as the above user points out, labelling any group as terrorist, which would indeed need more careful wording and qualification.  Tewfik Talk 02:26, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

No - we use "militant" throughour since "terrorist" is an NPOV term. See eg zionist terrorism 23:26, 1 November 2007 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.245.30.34 (talk)

Ethiopian Jewish blood donation
Shouldn't the controversial destruction of donated Ethiopian Jewish blood be mentioned in the article? It was a huge news item at the time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.20.171.242 (talk) 16:58, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

volunteer
The fact is that MDA is bassed on volunteers, i think there should be a section devoted for this because this fact is only briefly mentioned in the article —Preceding unsigned comment added by Piglet128 (talk • contribs) 08:09, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Criticisms (Ethiopian Jewish blood donation)
Ethiopian Jewish blood donation has been dealt with under new section: Criticisms. --BhainsRajput (talk) 17:53, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
 * This section seems woefully inadequate. At no point does it explain why the blood was destroyed, I presume the reason for this was risk of blood born diseases common to more tropical areas? A balanced look at what happened should include the reason why. --129.11.12.201 (talk) 21:42, 26 September 2009 (UTC)

 * I agree. I don't have the faintest idea what the 'Criticism' section is saying. I suspected the above user's explanation might be the reason, but, what has that got to do with the rest of the section about living in France or Ireland for 10 years. Why not other countries, and why in general? Can anyone shed any light on this, as the reference is also singularly unhelpful.

 * I have a sneaking suspicion that the year 1977, together with the regions mentioned (Central Africa, South East Asia), relates this issue to the emergence of AIDS in the world, but then why does living in Britain for 6 months, but France for 10 years(!) make a difference. I presume the list of countries is not complete(?), and/or the dates are wrong (like the 6 months living in Britain should be 6 years, as(lol) it implies that one is more likely to contract a disease in Britain than in Central Africa). It also states that such donors can choose not to donate blood - is this correct, as it implies that all Israelis are required by law to donate blood? If this is the case the article should say so, as this is not the situation in most countries.1812ahill (talk) 18:58, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

 * The destruction had virtually nothing to do with blood quality which anyway is always monitored individually; moreover, the donors had been living in Israel for years before it was donated. As far as I know, the decision was related to the belief shared by a certain fraction of Jews according to which persons of Ethiopian descent were not regarded as Jews for ritual purposes, hence a "true" Jew should never accept their blood. One can also recall the general discrimination and frequently persecution of Ethiopian Jews in Israel, a subject of many a good documentary. Let someone more familiar with the story shed more details here; it is however sure that blood destruction had absolutely nothing to do with medical considerations. kashmiri (talk) 21:32, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

Uniform for doctors
"Doctors are often not wearing the uniform, which immediately identifies them to the Magen David Adom personnel on the field."
 * The above statement seems a bit counter-intuitive, although I understand what I think the point is supposed to be. Can someone clarify it or at least provide a citation?
 * Also, that statement begs the question of whether or not there is a uniform for doctors. --Rich Janis (talk) 00:33, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

Criticism
Some paragraphs in the criticism section are not sourced and even seem biased and POV to me. Even though the guideline specifies "Do not leave unsourced or poorly sourced material in an article if it might damage the reputation of living persons or organizations, and do not move it to the talk page", I will allow a while for someone to come up with sources/references before I remove this information. Elad 194.90.225.101 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 08:46, 14 February 2010 (UTC). I have removed it, as per the guideline. Elad 194.90.225.101 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 08:30, 21 February 2010 (UTC).

History of MDA
When reading the information about MDA I think that it should be complemented with some history about its establishment, which seems to date prior to the 1930, in fact initiated by ben Gurion and others according to the website of Friends of the MDA, see link:http://www.afmda.org/content/about%20us/history.aspx

It seems as well that MDA was in fact the medical service of Haganah, which in some eyes of the world was terrorising Palestinians prior to the 1948 war and afterwards, and in fact a paramilitary entity. Later it transformed into the so called Israeli Defense Forces (according to wikileaks own information on Haganah). To say that this medical service was established to protect civilians regardless of race, ethnicity or nationality is simply not true. What it has become after might be a different story and that today it might no discriminate, but, its origin and intention should be clearly described for the readers. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.35.163.58 (talk) 13:04, 5 November 2011 (UTC)

Missing information about the special care for the area
I didn't find in the article any information about :
 * ambulance fortifications (west bank, Jerusalem etc..) having fortified windows
 * no information about MDA having special rules involving the southern part (found a document that defines that all vehicles must have special gear to help white phosphorus and other chemical victims) - didn't find any information like that in any EMS group on wikipedia.
 * the filtering system for DOS attacks mentioned on PA political violence.

could someone add the data ? 109.226.14.184 (talk) 14:03, 22 April 2012 (UTC)

Yochai Porat international volunteer program
I would like to write a wikipedia article about the late head of Magen David Adom's international volunteer program, on the basis that he was the founder of this program, and he has met Hillary Clinton as such. Would this be allowed? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Samsamcat (talk • contribs) 05:59, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
 * If there are reliable sources relating to his activity, I don't see why not.--Geewhiz (talk) 06:35, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

 * sure, go for it! if you need help, feel free to ask. Soosim (talk) 11:07, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

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I have never seen a Wikipedia article with a red infobox title before. Should I get rid of that ? YoSoyUnHamster (talk) 01:53, 12 April 2018 (UTC)

Language for web site?
The article currently has a link to http://mdais.org, the Hebrew web site. Should it link to https://www.mdais.org/en, the English web site, as well or instead? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 16:20, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Name as of what date?
Edit permalink/1221528061 changed the caption on a picture from A Magen David Adom ambulance in June 1948, Israel to A Magen David Adom ambulance in June 1948, Palestine. Presumably the ambulance was put into service prior to the declaration of independence in May. Should the name in the caption be the one that was appropriate when the ambulance was commissioned or the one that was appropriate when the picture was taken? Similar questions arise not just in the Middle East but also in Africa, Asia and Europe. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 03:24, 2 June 2024 (UTC)

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Outpost Island Mine

The Outpost Island Mine was a gold and tungsten producer 94 kilometres southeast of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories on an island of Great Slave Lake. Gold was discovered here in 1935 by prospectors, and some development was undertaken in 1936–1938. Tungsten ores became valuable during World War II, so the owners (Slave Lake Gold Mines Limited) investigated the tungsten possibilities of the mine. It produced small amounts of gold, copper, and tungsten during 1941–1942, and then again in 1951-1952 during the Korean War. It was a small deposit and was not considered economic because of unpredictable tungsten market prices in the 1950s.

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