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Anne Boyd

Anne Elizabeth Boyd AM (born 10 April 1946) is an Australian composer and emeritus professor of music at the University of Sydney.

Early life
Boyd was born in Sydney to James Boyd and Annie Freda Deason Boyd (née Osborn).

Her father died when she was age 3, and her mother sent her to live with relatives on a sheep station (Maneroo) near Longreach, in central Queensland. This intimate experience with the Australian landscape – its expansiveness, its dramatic changes, and its "indescribable energy" – had a profound influence on her future as a composer. She began composing while still at Maneroo, at the age of eight, for the resources she had available: recorder and voice. She moved to Canberra aged 11.

In New South Wales, she received her education at Albury High School and Hornsby Girls' High School.

Boyd studied music at the University of Sydney, where she was one of Peter Sculthorpe's first students. Sculthorpe had a profound influence on her; she said that his music was the first time she had heard music which expressed her experience of the Australian landscape. After receiving her Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree, she received a PhD in composition from the University of York in England.

Career
In 1990, Boyd became the first Australian and the first woman to be appointed to a professor of music at the University of Sydney. Before that Boyd was the foundation head of the Department of Music at the University of Hong Kong (1981–90) and taught at the University of Sussex (1972–77). In 1996 she was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia for her contributions to music as a composer and as an educator.

Boyd's struggle to maintain funding for music courses in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Sydney was featured in the documentary Facing the Music (2001). The Department of Music was incorporated into the Sydney Conservatorium at the same university from the start of 2005.

Music
Many of Boyd's compositions have an East Asian influence, especially the music of Japan (such as the wood flute and the Japanese mode) and Indonesia (such as the gamelan orchestra and the Balinese modes). Many of her works are of a spiritual or meditative nature, such as the a cappella work As I Crossed a Bridge of Dreams (1975). She has written song cycles, opera, piano, choral, orchestral and chamber music. Her musical compositions include: Goldfish Through Summer Rain 1979, The Little Mermaid 1980, Black Sun 1990, Revelations of Divine Love 1995, Meditations on a Chinese Character 1996, A Vision: Jesus Reassures His Mother 1999, and YuYa 2005.

Her 2017 orchestral composition Olive Pink's Garden was inspired by the Olive Pink Botanic Garden in Alice Springs, and her 2022 opera about the life of Olive Pink was premiered there.

CDs include: Meditations on a Chinese Character 1997, and Crossing a Bridge of Dreams 2000.

Athletic performances
Boyd is an endurance runner and marathoner, who has won her age group in marathons, half marathons and 10 km races. Boyd ran her first marathon after only 18 months' training. She has been described as a 'lady of musical and running talents' and an 'inspiring distance runner', running with her daughter and raising money for cancer. She won her age group in the Sydney Striders marathon trophy.

Awards and recognition

 * Member of the Order of Australia (AM), 1996 Australia Day Honours, "in recognition of service as a composer and educator"
 * Awarded honorary degree by University of York, 2003
 * Recipient of a Special Award for Distinguished Services to Australian Music at the APRA/AMC Classical Music Awards in 2005.

Bernard Heinze Memorial Award
The Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award is given to a person who has made an outstanding contribution to music in Australia.

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Timpano

Timpano may refer to:

 * The Italian, Spanish and Portuguese words for eardrum
 * The singular of Timpani
 * Timballo, an Italian baked pasta dish
 * Jacob Timpano, Australian association football defender

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Any problem with arranging Gordon Craigs books by order of date published, most recent at top of list, or are they arranged the way they are for some other purpose? Thx Nobs 15:27, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The books are arranged in alphabetical rather then chorological order. I have no problem with them being placed chorologically. Thanks for answering. A.S.B. May 18, 2005.

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Skyline Airways

Skyline Airways Pvt. Ltd. was an airline based in Kathmandu, Nepal. It was operational between 1999 and 2006 and provided scheduled services to rural destinations in Nepal, as well as charter flights.

History
Skyline Airways launched revenue operations on 15 July 1999, with a fleet of two de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter.

Destinations
Skyline Airways regularly served the following destinations, which were cancelled either at the closure of operations or before:

Fleet
At the time of closure, Skyline Airways operated the following aircraft:

Accidents and incidents

 * 25 December 1999 - A Skyline Airways De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 (9N-AFL) crashed 5 minutes after takeoff from Simara Airport on a flight to Kathmandu. All three crew and seven passengers were killed.
 * 17 July 2002 - A Skyline Airways De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 300 (9N-AGF) left Jumla on a flight to Surkhet. The aircraft reached an altitude of about 6500 feet around 18 minutes after take-off and before crashing into trees on the Gargare Danda hill in bad weather, 10 km north of Surkhet. All four people on board were killed, including two crew and two passengers.

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Gethin Jones

Gethin Clifford Jones (born 12 February 1978) is a Welsh television presenter. He was an active rugby union player while at Manchester Metropolitan University and, after graduation, he began his television career on Welsh language channel S4C as a presenter of children's programmes such as Popty, Mas Draw and the flagship children's entertainment show Uned 5 (Unit 5, 2002–2005).

In 2005, Jones became the 31st presenter of BBC children's programme Blue Peter. In 2020, he began presenting the BBC1 five-mornings-a-week magazine show Morning Live, broadcast from studios in Manchester. After a trial run ending in December 2020, the success of the programme has seen it commissioned as an all-year-round part of the BBC1 schedule.

Early life and education
Jones was born on 12 February 1978 in Cardiff, the son of Sylvia (née Groskop), a violin teacher, and Goronwy Jones, headteacher of Baden Powell Primary School. He has an older sister, Mererid. One of his maternal great-grandfathers was a Polish-Jewish immigrant. With Welsh as his first language, he attended Ysgol Gynradd Coed-y-Gof and Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf (in Llandaff North, Cardiff) for his primary and secondary school education, respectively. Jones has Grade 8 violin and Grade 6 piano qualifications, and took part in school musicals and school and county orchestras. He took Biology, Geography and Economics at A-Levels.

Jones had dual interests throughout school. His mother wanted him to develop his musical talents, while he enjoyed rugby union. While studying Economics and Geography at Manchester Metropolitan University where he gained a 2:2, he was captain of the university's rugby first team and played in the Lancashire under-21 team. At the age of 21 in his final year, Jones was offered trials by Sale RFC. However, he was not good enough, and he eventually set aside his plans for a professional rugby career and returned to Wales.

Professional career
Prior to his television career, Jones worked as a bank clerk, a telephone hotline officer and as a research assistant and spent three months as a builder laying house foundations. He subsequently joined Welsh channel S4C as a presenter of children's programmes such as Popty (the Welsh equivalent of Top of the Pops), Mas Draw, and the flagship children's entertainment show Uned 5 (2002–05). In 2004, as part of a challenge on the show, he learned how to fly a plane and gained his pilot's licence.

In 2003, Jones was voted Bachelor of the Year by the readers of Company magazine.

Blue Peter
On 26 April 2005, Jones became a presenter of the children's television series, Blue Peter. He auditioned on the same day as co-presenter Zöe Salmon. During his time, Jones presented the show with Salmon, Konnie Huq, Matt Baker, Liz Barker and Andy Akinwolere. As a presenter, he took on the action/adventure role filled by John Noakes and Peter Duncan in the past; highlights included flying with the Red Arrows and in a World War II Supermarine Spitfire, completing submarine escape training with the Royal Navy, surviving the Bolivian jungle, being attacked by an alligator in Louisiana, learning to race like a jockey, and fighting as a samurai warrior in Japan.

In 2006, Jones became the second civilian to finish the Royal Marine Commando 30 mi Yomp – he finished in a time of eight hours and 20 minutes. He also played the violin at the Proms with the BBC Philharmonic.

On 12 February 2008, on his 30th birthday, Jones and his Blue Peter co-presenters climbed the highest peaks in each constituent country of the United Kingdom, starting with Slieve Donard in Northern Ireland, followed by Snowdon in North Wales. The following day, having travelled overnight by coach to the Lake District, they climbed Scafell Pike. They were then to be transported to Scotland by helicopter to climb Ben Nevis, but were unable to do so because of problems with the helicopter, forcing them to land in Oban. They succeeded in climbing the mountain the next day. This challenge was in aid of Sport Relief 2008.

Jones announced on 8 April 2008 on Blue Peter that after three and half years with the show, he would be leaving at the end of the current series in June. His spokeswoman said he had always planned to leave when he turned 30. Jones said, "I've had a career on Blue Peter that you wouldn't even dream about and for that I feel privileged and fortunate. ... I've loved it, lived it ... and now I feel the time is right to leave it."

Presenter

Jones has been a presenter for a number of major live telecasts, including Mardi Gras in Cardiff in front of 40,000 people, Y Briodas Fawr (The Big Wedding, 2004–2005), and Jones Jones Jones (2006) at Cardiff's Wales Millennium Centre where the world record was broken for the biggest gathering of people with the same surname. He co-presented the 2006, 2007 and 2008 New Year's Eve programme New Year Live on BBC One with various other presenters.

On 16 February 2008, Jones began presenting a new 15-minute programme entitled E24 on BBC News with James Dagwell. Between 4 and 11 May 2008, Jones was the narrator and presenter of the 2008 BBC Young Musician of the Year. The biennial music competition was held at the Millennium Centre in Cardiff, and broadcast on BBC Two and BBC Four.

Jones made his radio debut on BBC Radio 5 Live on 5 July 2008, presenting a three-hour Saturday morning show focusing on sport and entertainment.

Jones appeared in The National Lottery: Big 7, a live programme broadcast on BBC One on 30 August 2008 where the winners of the National Lottery Awards 2008 were announced.

Jones was one of the players for the Rest of the World for Soccer Aid on 7 September 2008 on ITV. England won four goals to three. Jones was again chosen to play for the Rest of the World in the Soccer Aid match on 7 June 2010. The team won 7 goals to 6 after a penalty shoot out.

On 13 September 2008, Jones presented the Proms in the Park from Singleton Park in Swansea on the BBC as part of the Last Night of the Proms programme and was one of the concerts available for viewers with interactive television.

For six weeks from 28 September, Jones presented a programme for Virgin 1 entitled Gethin Jones' Danger Hunters, which featured adrenaline junkies and their search for the ultimate thrill. Jones presented a Police Camera Action! programme about the dangers of drink driving, which was aired on 17 December 2008 on ITV1.

2009–2011
Between 5 January and 15 April 2009, Jones hosted his first quiz show, a Welsh language rugby-themed general knowledge competition, on S4C entitled Cwis Meddiant. He followed this up with another quiz show on Sky1 called Sell Me the Answer. Filming of the 50 episodes took place at the Fountain Studios in Wembley, North London, and the programme began airing in November 2009. From 17 to 21 August 2009, Jones presented BBC One's The One Show with Gloria Hunniford filling in for Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley.

In 2010, Jones presented the Golden Globes programme from the red carpet in Los Angeles on Sunday 17 January 2010 with Angela Griffin and a studio show in the UK was hosted by Claudia Winkelman. The programme was broadcast on Sky1 Movies and Sky1 Movies HD, with a résumé on Sky1 at 11 pm. On 12 February 2010, Jones was a guest on the Welsh S4C chat show Jonathan presented by Jonathan Davies. In 2010, Jones co-hosted ITV's 71 Degrees North with Kate Thornton, which saw celebrities performing various tasks in the extreme weather conditions of Norway.

In February 2011, Jones was a guest presenter on This Morning with Gloria Hunniford. In the autumn of 2011, Jones presented ITV gameshow Holding Out For a Hero. He also hosted Remembrance Week on BBC One that November. From 19 to 23 December, Gethin was a guest features reporter for the ITV Breakfast programme Daybreak.

2012–present
Jones and Louise Minchin presented the documentary series Crime and Punishment, which aired on BBC One on 12 March 2012. On 21 May 2012, Jones joined ITV's Daybreak full-time as a reporter. He left with the end of the show in late April 2014.

In August 2014, Jones hosted the ten-part daytime ITV quiz show, The 21st Question.

On 8 May 2016, Jones began co-presenting Sunday Morning Breakfast from 9am to 12noon over the summer with Caroline Flack across the Heart Network. He has been a reporter for Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two since 2016, and guest presented two episodes on 15 and 16 November 2017, standing in for Zoe Ball.

He took part in the 2016 Christmas special of Strictly Come Dancing on BBC One, partnered with Chloe Hewitt.

He presented the Hits Radio breakfast show alongside Gemma Atkinson and Comedy Dave until 2019.

In the autumn of 2020, Jones began presenting the daily morning magazine show Morning Live on BBC1, alongside Kym Marsh. The series ended on 18 December 2020 and the BBC confirmed on 17 December it would return in 2021 for a second series. This proved highly successful, earning larger audiences than the show's competition on ITV and thus has been commissioned to be an all-year-round, five-mornings-a-week format for BBC1 from the third series on.

Other work
Jones appeared as a Cyberman in a 2006 episode of Doctor Who and as a Dalek operator in the final episode in 2008. He guest-starred as himself in The Sarah Jane Adventures pilot "Invasion of the Bane" (2007).

In 2007, Jones participated in Series 5 of Strictly Come Dancing, partnering Camilla Dallerup. He came third after being voted out in a "dance-off" in the semi-final. He also appeared in the programme's Christmas Special, finishing second behind Darren Gough after each couple received a perfect score.

Jones was one of the celebrities who took part in the Strictly Come Dancing: The Live Tour! 2009. As his partner from the television show, Camilla Dallerup was dancing with Tom Chambers, Jones partnered Flavia Cacace. The tour began in Newcastle on 16 January and ended at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham on 22 February 2009 with a total of 44 shows. He and his dance partner achieved a total of six wins during the run of the tour.

In December 2009, Jones appeared in the 2009 Strictly Come Dancing Christmas Special along with Rachel Stevens, Ali Bastian, Ricky Whittle, Chris Hollins and Austin Healey. His partner was again Flavia Cacace. The couple were not voted into the final two, despite a score of 38 for their American Smooth. From 4 December 2009 until 10 January 2010, Jones appeared as Prince Charming in the pantomime Cinderella at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford. In September 2010, Jones appeared as the Narrator in The Rocky Horror Show at Venue Cymru, Llandudno.

In 2012 Jones made a cameo appearance as himself in an episode of comedy drama Stella. In May 2012, Jones was an Olympic Torchbearer in the torch relay before the 2012 Summer Olympics. Since August 2012, Jones has been an Ambassador for the Wandsworth series of London Sky Rides.

In 2020, Jones appeared as a contestant on Celebrity Masterchef.

In 2022, he provided presentation in televised coverage of the first visit as king of King Charles III to the Welsh capital on 16 September.

Television & radio
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Actor, cameo or participant
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Awards
On 5 November 2008, Jones won the title of "Ultimate Hottie" by Cosmopolitan magazine. He has been in contention with other similar competitions.

Personal life
In December 2007, Jones became romantically involved with mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins. They first met in 2005. It was reported they met after Jenkins sang "Time to Say Goodbye" with Italian opera singer Andrea Bocelli on an episode of Strictly Come Dancing, broadcast on 21 October 2007. Jenkins's spokesman has said: "They're old friends and they've been on several dates. But people shouldn't consider buying hats just yet."

In February 2011, Jones and Jenkins announced their engagement. However, on 30 December 2011, they both announced that they were going their separate ways.

Jones is a keen footballer (he supports Everton FC, and hosted a 2009 DVD entitled My Everton), tennis player and golfer. He is short-sighted and wore contact lenses or glasses until he underwent a laser procedure to correct his shortsightedness on 17 June 2009.

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User talk:Bash

Who the fuck do you think you are?

Get this right: I didn't think the Noel Gallagher article was going to fly through the nomination thing.

I was looking for a bit of constructive critisism with which I hoped to raise the quality of the article, what I don't need is some prat taking digs at me because I missed the "t" off of "it". Good Lord! I'm typing with a broken arm, and I'll openly admit I'm not perfect anyway.

And, I don't know how slow you think I am, but that wasn't the only change I made after putting it up there. Most of it was removing POV.

And what have you ever contributed to that page?

Get over yourself, stop trying to be such a bigshot.

Yours etc.--Crestville 15:30, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Sorry man, that day was pretty rough and I was really pissed off. Accept my apologies. EDIT: This isn't a joke by the way. --Bash 00:24, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * I was expecting some typical dead bitchy dickhead nerd response there. Erm, took me of guard a bit. Thanks for that. That's probably the most reasonable response I've had to an angry tyraid, so cheers. Sorry about yer bad day and sorry I was a bit angry in responding.

Cheers. EDIT: niether is this--Crestville 15:11, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Just a note that your work is appreciated. No one ever gave you a wiki-welcome I see, but welcome to the project. Justinc 00:03, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm just motivated wanting to keep Wikipedia clean and neat; it's a mess right now which is why you see me hanging around the Wiki Cleanup projects (oh and don't forget about sheer bordeom ;) ). Just doing my job. --Bash 04:29, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

In response to ""Could you point to some forum posts or articles or something that backs these problems up? I have run into many problems with Knoppix before (until I realized that all you have to do to get sound working is type "alsaconf" in the terminal), but for the sake of NPOV, please posts some sources, as it seems like these problems are your own. --Bash 03:48, 29 September 2005 (UTC)""

http://lists.debian.org/debian-knoppix/2004/06/msg00051.html http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php?product=139&sort=8&cat=81&page=1 http://www.geekculture.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=12;t=001582;p=

According to many other users which time, nor writing space will not permit me to copy to this location Alsaconf will not work in many situations with Knoppix when the soundcard is not detectable. Sometimes there is a *.ko file missing or other a dev files not being avaliable. Other times it is some kind of other error for which I have no explaination for. Thank you for your advice. --Masssiveego 10:53, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Well, have I made any mistakes in my deletions? Vancouverguy 02:55, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Heather Graham
Thanks for the warning on Heather. I thought I sourced that image, but I guess not and I could not find it again so I replaced it with a headshot, which is more reasonable for a fair use situation like Wikipedia. --Nv8200p (talk) 03:58, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

Image of Aristoteles
Hi Bash, Thank you for your alert. I replaced the image of the good old Ari with another from the Louvre to avoid the hassle. Best Wishes, David Cruise 00:39, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Fig1.jpg
Hi, I put several figures in the chapter on HV circuit breakers, I made them and they are of free use to wiki, NO COPYRIGHT attached, please don't delete, the article is of no interest without themDingy 01:54, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Dan Hoyt
Thanks for removing that part again. It's not as if the talk page discussion on it was hard to find. ;-) Hopefully, we won't have to revert it too many more times.  Thanks for letting me know about your changes to the article; I hadn't seen it right off hand on my watchlist (it has over 500 pages on it at present, so sometimes I miss individual changes).  I'll keep watching the article to see if it comes back. --Idont Havaname 03:51, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, it's pretty rare that I put pages up for AfD. I haven't been participating on there nearly as much lately as I have in the past, though I do still try to contribute often to discussions about changing AfD (e.g. Deletion reform).  In my view, Dan Hoyt probably deserves his own article since he's had a fairly good amount of news coverage; I'd say weak keep in an AfD for that article.  As for the main Asian fetish article, I've thought several times about AfDing it (List of ethnic stereotypes attracted a lot of different editors, but it was deleted as inherently POV / not citing its sources, which is the problem Asian fetish has), but I've tried to stay optimistic that it would turn into a well-written, well-cited, NPOV article. --Idont Havaname 04:06, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I think that stereotype regarding "weaker" white men is probably common, but it certainly does need one or more scholarly references, as does everything else in the article, if it wants to stay. Personally, I've seen some Asians using this stereotype and others not.  And there may be some truth to saying that white women reject the geeky guys before they get their jobs and get rich, but I would say that the term "who settle for Asian women because white women reject them" is definitely author's POV.  "Settle for" is used more by people gossiping about their relatives; it should stay out of an encyclopedia article.  You're every bit right in raising a criticism about that remark in the article; I'd say the article could use to explain some of the reasons behind that stereotype. (maybe it could start by mentioning Asians' usually higher emphasis on education and college degrees) --Idont Havaname 05:13, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

If you haven't seen already, I nominated the Asian fetish article at Article Improvement Drive. After an comment war took place over there between myself and an anonymous editor, the probability that the AID will be effective has most likely dropped off. Since you have taken some interest in trying to improve the article in the past, I would like to encourage you to help regain a level of professionalism at the AID page with your supporting vote. Thank you. --Howrealisreal 13:15, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

Hey Nerd.... leave the f*cking pics of the SCC Justices alone and get a girlfriend (or boyfriend).
 * Thanks TO220740 for actually noticing. These are images unlinked to any page, and if it isn't used, it isn't needed. These SCC justice articles already either a) have photos, or b) are marked for possible copyright violations. If you want to keep these images, please link them to the respective CSCC articles. Thank you. --Bash 22:59, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Image:Faye small.jpg
A different version of this image, found here, contains a border with the words 'Smash Hits'. Based on that border and a note in the news archive of gensteps.co.uk. I'm guessing it's from June 1999 Smash Hits Magazine. I'd say it's not on the cover, so I'm not sure it would qualify as fair use.

 * Faye spoke of her dreadlocks ... She only had the dreads for 3 months though. ... H is on the front cover of the Smash Hits magazine and there is a two page interview about him. You also get a full page pic of Faye, which is great. It is easily worth the £1.25 asking price, don't miss the next issue when there will be a huge H poster!

There are also two similar and higher quality images, which are not cropped, located in the Faye Tozer gallery. It doesn't say the source, but the webmaster of the site might be able to answer this question. I'm not interested enough to contact them, so good luck. -- 12.207.53.96 23:08, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

I think you can probably call this one copyrighted and have it removed. 12.207.53.96 13:43, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

Ok, I'll mark it and speedy it up for deletion. But before we do, are there any pictures we could use that we know for sure are copyrighted, or even better, "free"? --Bash 01:17, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

An alternative image might be the cover of the CD-Single Someone like you. I think that may be fair use under Template:Albumcover. There is also a cover of [May 2001 Sky Magazine] and that would be Template:Magazinecover. I'm not sure either would be appropriate for this purpose, but at least they are not copyright violations. There are a couple of galleries of video captures which might also be fair use Template:Film-Screenshot or Template:Musicpromo-screenshot. 12.207.53.96 04:51, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Fair use
Not everything that is copyrighted is automatically "fair use"; there are several considerations that need to be taken into consideration before being able to claim fair use. Please read Fair use. Thanks, JYolkowski // talk 00:22, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
 * In general, yes, especially for images that don't fall into one of the blanket categories for which we have a specialized template (logo, movie poster, etc.). A "fair use rationale" that explains how the image meets those four criteria is needed to ensure that our use is indeed fair.  See Image description page for examples.  Cheers, JYolkowski // talk 01:39, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Hi I ifded the Zeta Jones imageImage:2003icp.jpg, it is copyrighted RF Callisto in the last link you posted, probably an independent photographer. Most commercial photographers if asked would only allow non commercial use which isn't compatible with Wikipedia. Arniep 21:11, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Hi currently I am adding free images uploaded to Wikipedia Commons by a hungarian film producer that she took at Cannes film festival. She says she has 100s so this will solve a lot of problems with people trying to find images as once we add a free image we don't really have excuse to use a fair use one. Arniep 21:28, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
 * thinking about it, we don't have any excuse to use these commercial images as it is only fair use if you can't get a photo yourself or it is a non reproducable important event. As it is physically possible to take photos of actors at premieres and festivals I don't think we can claim fair use for any of these images. Arniep 21:33, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

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Yes, I uploaded it for my page, but recently decided to remove it. Image:P32100102.JPG, too. Sorry I forgot to tag them, but they're mine. I'd actually like to see them guillotined. Any idea how to speed the process up, given that the images are useless? elvenscout742 19:56, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks! elvenscout742 16:13, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

No source
Hi Bash. Just wanted to point out that tagging a photo as no source might be easier than listing it for deletion at WP:IFD. After a week, if the uploader hasn't provided the source, the photo can be speedy deleted. (To make the deletion happen quicker, you can add, but it's not required.) Cheers, dbenbenn | talk 04:23, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Asa Dotzler
An article that you have been involved in editing, Asa Dotzler, has been listed for deletion. If you are interested in the deletion discussion, please participate by adding your comments at Articles for deletion/Asa Dotzler. Thank you. -- mms 01:00, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Angel Milk cover.jpg
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Thank you for your cooperation. NOTE: once you correct this, please remove the tag from the image's page. STBotI (talk) 03:54, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Split Screen in Pac Man.gif
 Thanks for uploading File:Split Screen in Pac Man.gif. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

Note that any non-free images not used in any articles will be deleted after seven days, as described in the criteria for speedy deletion. Thank you. Skier Dude ( talk ) 06:05, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Non-free rationale for File:Saeb salam.jpg
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ArbCom elections are now open!
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The Seeds of Doom

The Seeds of Doom is the sixth and final serial of the 13th season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts on BBC1 from 31 January to 6 March 1976.

In the serial, the Fourth Doctor (Tom Baker) agrees to go on one final mission in his role as UNIT's scientific advisor to investigate a mysterious pod found in the Antarctic. However, the crazed millionaire and plant collector Harrison Chase (Tony Beckley) is also interested, and has sent his violent henchman Scorby (John Challis) and the botanist Arnold Keeler (Mark Jones) to acquire the malignant alien plant for his personal collection.

Plot
In Antarctica, British scientists Charles Winlett and Derek Moberley discover a pod buried in the permafrost and take it back to their camp. John Stevenson, the base botanist, identifies it as vegetable-based and estimates it has been buried in the ice for twenty thousand years.

In London, Richard Dunbar of the World Ecology Bureau shows the Fourth Doctor photographs of the pod at the urging of his superior, Sir Colin Thackeray. The Doctor believes it to be extraterrestrial. He tells Dunbar to tell the expedition not to touch it until he arrives.

Back at the base, Stevenson discovers that the pod is growing larger and he believes it is absorbing ultraviolet radiation. In England, Dunbar visits the estate of millionaire Harrison Chase, who considers it his mission to protect the plant life of Mother Earth. Dunbar gives Chase the location of the pod. Chase sends his men, Scorby and Keeler, to retrieve it.

At the base, the pod opens and stings Winlett. When Stevenson and Moberley find him, Winlett's face is covered with green hives. The Doctor and Sarah arrive and find that Winlett's face and body are rapidly becoming covered with green fungus. Outside the base, the Doctor uncovers another pod and notes that they travel in pairs. Winlett's blood is found to contain no blood platelets, but instead has schizophytes – microscopic organisms akin to plant bacteria. The Doctor tells Sarah that Winlett is turning into a Krynoid, a galactic weed that settles on planets and eats the animal life. Scorby and Keeler arrive, claiming that their private plane got lost.

Moberley is killed by Winlett. Transformed into a Krynoid, Winlett flees the base and shelters in the outside generator hut. Scorby and Keeler steal the remaining pod then escape in their plane. The Doctor and the others are attacked by the Krynoid, which kills Stevenson. The Doctor and Sarah flee as a bomb set by Scorby and Keeler destroys the area. The Doctor and Sarah are picked up by a team from South Bend, while Scorby and Keeler return to Chase in England with the second pod. Dunbar warns Chase that the Doctor and Sarah are still alive and are scheduled to meet with him and Sir Colin in two hours.

At the meeting, the Doctor and Sarah describe the theft of the pod. He tells Dunbar to arrange for him to go to the Botanic Institute. As they leave a driver meets them. However, the limousine stops in the countryside, and the driver orders them out at gunpoint. The Doctor jumps the driver and punches him out. The Doctor and Sarah search the car and find a painting by Amelia Ducat, a flower artist. When they visit her, Ducat tells them that the owner of the painting is Harrison Chase, who never paid her for it.

Chase orders Keeler to inject the pod with fixed nitrogen. When the Doctor and Sarah try to sneak into the mansion, they are captured and brought before Chase, who decides to show them around the mansion and his plant laboratory before he executes them. When Scorby escorts the Doctor and Sarah into the gardens to kill them, they overpower him. Sarah escapes but is captured again. The Doctor rescues her and in the confusion, a frond from the pod stings Keeler's arm. Keeler soon begins to transform.

When the Doctor returns to the laboratory, he is captured and taken to the compost room, where Scorby activates the crusher. Sarah escapes back to the house, attracts Ducat's attention and asks him to take a message to Sir Colin. Outside, Ducat enters a car with Sir Colin and Dunbar inside and tells them what Sarah said. Dunbar, realising he has made a terrible mistake, says he will get the Doctor. He tells Sir Colin that, if he does not return in half an hour, to return to London and call UNIT.

Sarah turns off the crusher in time to save the Doctor. Hargreaves finds that Keeler has almost completed his transformation and runs in a panic as the creature frees itself. In the mansion, Dunbar pleads with Chase to abandon the experiment as Hargreaves reports Keeler's transformation to Chase. Dunbar goes to get help and is pursued by Scorby.

The Doctor realises that Keeler is missing, and goes with Sarah to search for the Krynoid. Dunbar runs into the monster and is killed. His screams attract the attention of Scorby, the guards and the Doctor and Sarah. They escape to a cottage and barricade themselves in. The Krynoid speaks using Keeler's voice, demanding that the Doctor join it and it will spare the others. Scorby throws a Molotov cocktail at the Krynoid, allowing the Doctor to escape. Chase makes his way through the grounds and confronts the Krynoid. It notices him and he approaches, taking photographs.

The Doctor arrives at the Bureau, where UNIT Major Beresford warns he can't do anything without evidence. The Doctor shows reports of people near Chase's estates being killed by plants. He then calls Sarah and tells them Beresford is preparing to attack the Krynoid with a laser gun, but the Krynoid cuts the phone wires. Chase arrives and tells them that it's the plants' world, and humans are parasites. He goes to the manor to develop his photographs then begins speaking to the plants in his greenhouse.

Scorby, Sarah, and Hargreaves confront Chase, and he speaks of how the world will be made perfect. Sarah notices that the plants are closing in on them. The Doctor and a UNIT soldier drive onto the grounds while the plants overwhelm Sarah and the others and start to strangle them.

The Doctor and UNIT Sgt. Henderson arrive with chemical plant-killer. They dispose of the plants, saving Scorby and Sarah, but Hargreaves is killed. Chase runs away, and the Doctor and the others go into the lab and start removing the plants. Once they're outside, Chase locks the door behind them and they watch as the now enormous Krynoid towers over them. UNIT soldiers arrive and open fire with their laser gun, distracting the Krynoid so that the Doctor and his group can get to another door.

After they leave, Chase slips back into the laboratory and destroys the loudspeaker system. The others return to the laboratory, and the Krynoid tries to break in. Chase puts Henderson in the compost machine and activates it, killing him.

The Doctor works to repair the loudspeaker system as the Krynoid renews its attack, and Scorby panics and runs. He makes his way across a pond, but the plants grab and pull him underwater, drowning him.

The Doctor and Sarah realise that Henderson is gone, and Sarah goes to look for him. She makes her way to the compost machine room, and Chase confronts her, telling her he's become part of the plant world thanks to the Krynoid. Chase plans to support the Krynoid and refers to humanity as parasites, then attacks Sarah and knocks her unconscious.

Beresford contacts the Doctor, who warns they have 15 minutes until the Krynoid germinates, spreading its seeds across England. The Doctor tells them to launch an air strike before it's too late.

Chase has tied up Sarah and starts feeding her into the compost machine. The Doctor arrives and shuts it off. In the ensuing struggle, Sarah is saved, but Chase is pulled into the machine.

The RAF launches a sighting run as Beresford and Sir Colin look for the Doctor. Sarah and the Doctor cannot get out through the plant life covering the house, but the Doctor rigs a steam pipe and they blast their way out. They make their way through the hostile plant life and take refuge as the RAF opens fire and destroys the Krynoid and the mansion.

Outside references
Scorby quotes Voltaire's line "when it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion", but the Doctor seems to attribute it to Franklin Pierce Adams.

Writing
The serial was written by established television writer Robert Banks Stewart, who was influenced in the writing of this ecological tale of rampant flora by his home abutting Kew Gardens as well as his familial connection to botanist Joseph Banks. The Doctor's dialogue with Amelia Ducat about the car boot and model is an homage to Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

Recording
Location shooting took place at Athelhampton Hall in Dorset for the scenes at Harrison Chase's estate, while the Antarctica scenes were recorded in a quarry in Buckland, Surrey. BBC Television Centre in White City, London served as the location for the World Ecology Centre.

This is the third of four serials of the programme to have all of its exterior location scenes shot on Outside Broadcast (OB) videotape rather than film before the official switchover in 1986; the previous two were Robot (1974) and The Sontaran Experiment (1975), and later The Stones of Blood (1978). On 7 December 1975, whilst location recording the closing scene outside the TARDIS at Buckland, the TARDIS prop collapsed on Elisabeth Sladen; it was the original prop used since 1963.

After a long association with Doctor Who, this was the last story to be directed by Douglas Camfield.

Casting notes
None of the established UNIT characters are seen in this story (this would be the last regular appearance of the organisation), as Nicholas Courtney was unavailable to reprise the role of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart.

Broadcast and reception
The Seeds of Doom was one of the Doctor Who serials which drew criticism from Mary Whitehouse for violent imagery. She wrote, "Strangulation – by hand, by claw, by obscene vegetable matter – is the latest gimmick, sufficiently close up so they get the point. And just for a little variety show the children how to make a Molotov Cocktail."

In The Discontinuity Guide, Paul Cornell, Martin Day, and Keith Topping described the serial as "an Avengers episode in disguise" and called it "another gem, and one much benefitting from an excellent performance from Tony Beckley as Harrison Chase". In The Television Companion (1998), David J. Howe and Stephen James Walker praised how the story was split between two settings and the monster in general, though they felt some aspects of the Krynoid were "rubbish". They wrote that the only real disappointment was UNIT, which contained none of the old characters and as a result "[came] across as a faceless and characterless bunch whose sole function in the story is to resolve the situation".

In 2010, Mark Braxton of Radio Times awarded it five stars out of five, describing The Seeds of Doom as "a rich, classy serving, with plenty of meat accompanying the vegetables" and arguing that "the archive-raiding of the Holmes/Hinchcliffe era reaches its zenith here." He praised Baker, the guest actors and their characters. However, he acknowledged that it was "an abnormally violent outing" and believed that the plot contained a "giant crevasse" in that "it takes a ridiculous amount of time for the Doctor et al to know how to tackle the Keeler-Krynoid, having seemingly forgotten that the Winlett-Krynoid was killed by an explosion". The A.V. Club reviewer Christopher Bahn said that the serial was "one of the greats" of the era, particularly praising the pacing and Baker's performance.

DVD Talk's Ian Jane gave The Seeds of Doom four out of five stars, calling the script "a good one". Ian Berriman of SFX gave the story five out of five stars, writing, "Often bleakly grotesque, blessed with an eerie, mournful score and shot with real brio, this is a rare Who six-parter that you can consume in one sitting, with nary a moment of boredom." He also was positive towards the performances of Beckley and Baker. In 2018, The Daily Telegraph ranked The Seeds of Doom at number 14 in "the 56 greatest stories and episodes", arguing that it was "probably the high-water mark of the series as an action adventure programme" and "the closest it ever got to a Bond movie", with an "interesting concept, good direction, memorable performances, action and adventure".

In print
A novelisation of this serial, written by Philip Hinchcliffe, was published by Target Books in February 1977. A slightly "Americanized" version of Hinchcliffe's novel was released as #10 in the Pinnacle Books series in March 1980 with a foreword by Harlan Ellison and a cover illustration by David Mann. An audiobook of the Target novelisation was released on 5 September 2019 by BBC Audio, read by Michael Kilgarriff.

Home media
The Seeds of Doom was released on a double VHS in 1994 in the United Kingdom. In North America it was released as a single VHS. The story was released on DVD on 25 October 2010 in the United Kingdom, and on 8 March 2011 in the United States. Music from this serial was released on the CD Doctor Who: Terror of the Zygons. This serial was also released as part of the Doctor Who DVD Files in Issue 120 on 7 August 2013.

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Rajput-class destroyer

The Rajput-class guided-missile destroyers built for the Indian Navy are modified versions of Soviet Kashin-class destroyers. They are also known as Kashin-II class. The ships were built in the former Soviet Union after considerable Indian design modifications to the Kashin design. These included the replacement of the helicopter pad in the original design with a flight elevator, as well as major changes to the electronics and combat systems. Five units were built for export to India in the 1980s. All units are currently attached to the Eastern Naval Command.

Service history
The Rajput class inherited their anti-aircraft and anti-submarine warfare roles for aircraft carrier task-force defense against submarines, low-flying aircraft, and cruise missiles from the Kashin class. They were the first ships in the Indian Navy to deploy the BrahMos supersonic cruise missile systems. The systems were deployed during a mid-life refit of the ships. The missile system has four missiles in inclined bow mounted launchers replacing two SS-N-2D Styx AShM launchers in INS Rajput (D51) and eight cell VLS system replacing aft S-125M (NATO: SA-N-1) SAM launcher in INS Ranvir (D54) and INS Ranvijay (D55). Ranvijay was deployed with an updated vertical launcher for the BrahMos missile. The Indian Navy is planning to upgrade the propulsion of the Rajput-class ships with indigenously developed Kaveri Marine Gas Turbine (KMGT) engine. The Gas Turbine Research Establishment of DRDO has been developing this engine which is currently in testing phase.

During TROPEX-21 exercise of the Indian Navy, the decommissioned Ranjit was sunk by a torpedo.

INS Rajput (D51) was decommissioned from the service on 21 May 2021.

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Fighting American

Fighting American is a superhero created in 1954 by the writer-artist team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby. Published by the Crestwood Publications imprint Prize Comics, it was, contrary to standard industry practices of the time, creator-owned. Harvey Comics published one additional issue in 1966. One final inventoried tale was published in 1989, in a Marvel Comics hardcover collection of all the Fighting American stories.

Subsequent publishers have had short runs of Fighting American stories with the permission of the owners' estates. The character gained some notoriety due to a lawsuit in the late 1990s when Awesome Entertainment founder Rob Liefeld announced intentions to publish a mini-series that was allegedly similar to that artist's run on Marvel's Captain America title. After settling the dispute, Awesome released three Fighting American series.

Publication history
Bitter that Timely Comics' 1950s iteration, Atlas Comics, had relaunched their superhero Captain America in a new series in 1954, the writer-artist team of Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created another patriotically themed character, Fighting American. Simon recalled, "We thought we'd show them how to do Captain America". While the comic book initially portrayed the protagonist as an anti-Communist dramatic hero, Simon and Kirby turned the series into a superhero satire with the second issue, in the aftermath of the Army-McCarthy hearings and the public backlash against the Red-baiting U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. Simon specified for a panel audience at the 1974 New York Comic Art Convention that the character was not so much inspired by Captain America as it was simply a product of the times.

Simon said in 1989 that he felt the anti-Communist fervor of the era would provide antagonists who, like the Nazis who fought Captain America during World War II, would be "colorful, outrageous and perfect foils for our hero": "The first stories were deadly serious. Fighting American was the first [C]ommie-basher in comics. We were all caught up in Senator McCarthy's vendetta against the 'red menace.' But soon it became evident that McCarthy ... had gone too far, damaging innocent Americans.... Then, the turnaround, [as] his side became talked of as the lunatic fringe.... Jack and I quickly became uncomfortable with Fighting American's cold war. Instead, we relaxed and had fun with the characters."

Published bimonthly by the Crestwood Publications imprint Prize Group, Fighting American lasted through issue #7 (May 1955). The following decade, for Harvey Comics, Simon packaged a single issue of Fighting American (Oct. 1966) consisting of "reprints and unpublished material" from the 1950s run, with some changes made to comply with the since-instituted Comics Code. A final inventoried Fighting American story, the three-page "The Beef Box", not drawn by Kirby, appeared in Marvel Comics' 1989 hardcover collection of the 1950s and 1960s stories.

The character was revived by Titan Comics in a new series starting in October 2017.

Fictional character biography
In the 10-page story "First Assignment: Break the Spy Ring" in Fighting American #1 (May 1954), Nelson Flagg was the unathletic younger brother of star athlete and war hero Johnny Flagg, and served as the writer for popular TV news commentator Johnny at station USA. When outspoken anti-Communist Johnny is killed by one of the many enemies his commentary has earned him, Nelson makes a deathbed promise to hunt down his brother's murderers. Recruited for the U.S. military's "Project Fighting American", Nelson has his mind and life force transferred to Johnny's "revitalized and strengthened" corpse. Assuming Johnny's identity, he adopts the costumed alter ego Fighting American to battle Communist threats. In the premiere issue's second story, the six-page "Second Assignment: Track Down the Baby Buzz Bombs", an unnamed, blond-haired teenager working as a page at Flagg's network assists the hero and is rewarded with own costume and the name Speedboy.

The two went on to battle an array of mostly Communists grotesqueries with physical deformities and colorful names, such as the two-headed criminal Doubleheader, the redheaded battleaxe Rhode Island Red, the Russian dwarf Sawdoff, the super-smelly Super-Khakhalovitch, the bouncing bank robber Round Robin, and Invisible Irving, the Great Nothing.

Powers and abilities
Though not specified, Fighting American's powers are shown to be increased strength, agility, endurance, and speed. His aging was also slowed to the point where a fellow WWII vet notes he hasn't "aged a day".

DC Comics
In a six-issue miniseries (February–July 1994), published by DC Comics and written by Dave Rawson and Pat McGreal, with art by Greg LaRocque, the character was a former TV host bent on avenging his brother's death.

Awesome Entertainment
A two-issue miniseries (August–October 1997) from Awesome Entertainment, written by Rob Liefeld (story) and Jeph Loeb (script), penciled by Liefeld and Stephen Platt. Here, Fighting American was a retired superhero coping with the death of his partner. The miniseries came about, Liefeld said in 2007, while he was packaging a Captain America series for Marvel. In early 1997, the company, which had filed for bankruptcy, asked Liefeld to accept lower payment for his studio's work. He refused and was removed from the series. Liefeld called Fighting American co-creator Joe Simon and Roz Kirby, widow of co-creator Jack Kirby, who agreed to license the character to him, but at a price Liefeld would not accept. Liefeld created the similar character Agent America, drawing "maybe three pinups and one poster image", but withdrew the character, he said, when Simon threatened to sue. Liefeld negotiated a new deal for Fighting American, but was then sued by Marvel. During the course of the trial, he said, his version of Fighting American acquired a shield. As one of the terms of the settlement, however, Fighting American was forbidden from throwing his shield like a weapon, to distinguish him from Captain America.

In later comics published by Awesome Entertainment, Fighting American was John Flagg, a former soldier who gained powers through an unspecified experiment "never to be duplicated" (namely, the periodic transference of his brother Nelson's mind into John's body for crime-fighting purposes). A subsequent miniseries, Rules of the Game, written by Loeb with art by Ed McGuinness, reintroduced some of the original Simon & Kirby villains. It was followed by the miniseries Dogs of War, written by Jim Starlin and penciled by Platt. While Awesome was legally prohibited from having him throw the shield, Rules and Dogs showed several additional weapons are built into it, including multiple spike projectiles, a Gatling gun and a mini-missile. This version has also used throwing stars tipped with tranquilizers.

Dynamite Entertainment
In 2009, Dynamite Entertainment's Nick Barrucci revealed that his company would publish the character with creative contributions from artist Alex Ross, although character co-creator Joe Simon contended he never gave his approval: "There are some penciled covers of Fighting American by Mr. Ross that are printed in the story without copyright notice. I find that damaging, as is the whole fake story". Kirby-estate attorney Paul S. Levine countered that Simon's attorney, Tedd Kessler, had been informed and approving of Fighting American negotiations involving Barrucci "from the very beginning", including the drafting of contracts among Dynamite, the Kirby estate, and Simon, which were unsigned at the time of Barrucci's announcement. Following this disagreement between Simon and Barrucci, the Kirby estate withdrew its own participation.

Titan Comics
In 2017, Titan Comics brought back Fighting American and Speed for a new monthly book. The first four issues were written by Gordon Rennie, drawn by Duke Mighten and PC De La Fuente, inked by Jed Dougherty, coloured by Tracy Bailey and edited by David Leach. The plot, taken from an outline written by David Leach, saw Fighting American and his sidekick Speedboy arriving through a time warp in the present day New York and getting marooned in the present, whilst on the trail of a gang of his worst enemies brought through time by the mysterious Madame Chaos. This was followed up by a second four-issue mini series called The Ties That Bind, written again by Gordon Rennie and drawn by Andie Tong, with colouring by Tracy Bailey.

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Talk:Vulcan nerve pinch

Exclusive to Vulcans?
the only non-Vulcan seen unsuccessfully attempting a nerve pinch is Leonard McCoy in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, so in the strict canon of Star Trek it cannot be said for certain that the technique is exclusive to that race.

seems to contradict

Commander Data, an android, as well as humans Jean-Luc Picard and Jonathan Archer have also been shown doing the neck pinch.

Which is correct? --Keeves 15:33, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

The second. McCoy was the only human TOS character to perform it. (Alphaboi867 00:21, 11 May 2005 (UTC))

I'm glad you took that section out, because from my POV, not even McCoy performed it, at least not entirely without help: In that scene in The Search For Spock, McCoy was under heavy influence of Spock's katra, which enabled him to do it. --Keeves 03:12, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Not only could the nerve pinch be used on humanoid life forms, but it can be used on some other lifeforms as well. Star Trek V shows Spock using a nerve pinch on a horse-like lifeform. So I changed the article to reflect that. JesseG 03:51, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

Wasn't there one episode where Kirk, once more seeing Spock peacefully subdue someone, told Spock he'd have to teach him that some day? And Spock replied that he'd tried several times. So it can't be something unique to Vulcan physiology or telepathic powers or anything like that. 140.147.160.78 13:40, 19 December 2006 (UTC)Stephen Kosciesza

Spaceballs
Shouldn't this be mentioned?
 * I don't think so. If we start mentioning every parody that happens to feature something nerve-pinch-like, we'd never get done. --Kamagurka 09:16, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

Sure about the Pistol whip?
TV.com states that the original script called for a karate chop from Nimoy, not a pistol whip (have you ever seen a pistol in a non-timetravel trek episode?). Anyway, the pistol whip thing needs a source that tops tv.com. --Kamagurka 09:14, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

 * I have no info, but it could have been meant with a phaser. That could be refered to as a pistol whip.  140.147.160.78 13:44, 19 December 2006 (UTC)Stephen Kosciesza

 * The Star Trek Encyclopedia (1994 edition) says it was a karate chop to which Nimoy objected -- no mention of a pistol whip. However, that at least is a reputable source to cite for the fact that he suggested the neck pinch at all! Dave-ros 19:20, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Matheson's June 8, 1966, Final Draft script has Spock "lunge" from concealment and he "kayoes" the double. Later McCoy reproaches Spock for the "rap" he gave the double's head.  Nothing else.  Sir Rhosis (talk) 08:47, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

EMH and Changlings
Odo has used the move and after merging with "The Link" now almost his whole race knows it.

The EMH's (I - IV) detailed anatomy and physiology knowledge.

The Action Hero's Handbook
There is a book called "[ http://www.amazon.com/Action-Heros-Handbook-Perform-Fugitive/dp/193168605X/sr=8-1/qid=1167025521/ref=sr_1_1/105-6767405-0751611 The Action Hero's Handbook]", which among other things, gives step-by step instructions to preforming a nerve pinch. Should that book be mentioned in the article? 141.154.165.121 05:47, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Nerve pinch was invented earlier!
Hi!

I know the whole Star Trek old series. Therefore I am quite sure that the nerve pinch was invented earlier than in the episode "The enemy within".

In the episode "Where no man has gone before" (which originally was the second pilot film and therefore is the oldest episode within the series) Spock clearly tries to apply this pinch to Lt. Gary Mitchell who is just a bit quicker and manages to repulse his adversary by discharging some kind of flash on him.

Best regards

Harald —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.141.212.149 (talk) 20:14, 8 April 2007 (UTC).

Does it actually work?
There should be a citation in the article stating wether it works or not. - Thero

As far as i can say, there are similar grips, which affect nerves and blood vessels. They are thaught in some material arts and do work. But most who know those, don't want to eplain them to people without the proper training, because if done wrong, you can seriously injure someone and it takes some training to aply those.

 * The medical literature does not describe any kind of neck pinch ("vagus nerve" or otherwise) rendering a person unconscious. Pain applied to any part of the body can be intense enough to cause loss of consciousness, but saying so does not mean that there is a "real life" Vulcan neck pinch. The statement in the article should be removed unless someone can back it up with a valid reference. (As to "martial arts" experts, they say alot of things......) 140.139.35.250 (talk) 15:48, 3 November 2008 (UTC)

Number of times VNP used by Spock
There should be a total of times used. Septagram 04:26, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

Death Grip in "Amok Time"
Cut this:

 * When Spock and Kirk were pitted in a battle to the death while Spock was in the throes of pon farr, he believed that he had killed the captain with a death grip. However, it was actually McCoy’s doing, having administered a drug which rendered the captain unconscious and lowered his vital signs to an undetectable level.

That's not exactly accurate: what Spock did was garrote Kirk with a nunchuku-like weapon called the ahn-woon. It was not a bare-handed move. Ellsworth (talk) 01:21, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Removed Faulty Information
Removed: "However, this would likely require bilateral pressure and, again, would not be instantaneous." massage of the carotid sinus does not need to be bilateral http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carotid_sinus Any basic medical physiology text can explain the mechanism in more detail. (For instance Boron Walter F., Boulpaep Emile L.: Medical Physiology)

probably a mistake
"Similarly, the subclavian nerve pinch is known in certain Asian martial arts. Properly applied, it can render a human unconscious for several minutes."

in Asian martial arts the act was based on completely another theory, which is derived from/similar to the acupuncture in Traditional Chinese Medicine: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuxia#Skills_and_abilities —Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.119.50.129 (talk) 12:40, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Removed Faulty Information (again)
I was not the one that removed the faulty information above, but I removed it again. The neck pressure receptors, located at the left and right carotid sinuses, are inhibitory in nature, so activation of one of them is enough to ellicit a drop in blood pressure. Bilateral activation is not required.

Also, the blood pressure drop response is quite fast and measured in a few seconds.

Luke poa (talk) 19:30, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

This is true, but the time it takes is significantly longer than the time it takes for Spock to render someone unconscious. 65.48.136.234 (talk) 04:54, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

Merge
I've suggested this page be merged with Vulcan (Star Trek). I don't think this article really necessitates its own Wikipedia entry. I'd be very inclined to add fandom template to this page but I have not. Instead I removed the 2 pages of references to every single movie that ever mentioned a vulcan neck pinch. Why is it Wikipedians presume we need this in an article? It's trivial and unnecessary.Mundilfari (talk) 15:53, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

 * Against merge The Vulcan page is already long and there is enough information here to warrant an article of its own. Not sure that the fandom template would really fit here either. Thank you for removing the trivia though. Gobonobo  T C 18:58, 21 February 2010 (UTC)

 * Against merge for the same reasons as Gobonobo. I think the Vulcan neck pinch (or similar names) is referred to quite a lot outside the franchise. Removing Merge template. - Fayenatic (talk) 15:11, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

 * Against Merge for the same reason as Fayenatic.
 * TheTeam219 (talk) 07:13, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

SOAP & Taekwondoe.
Greetings! The first time I was ever aware of anyone outside of "STAR TREK" attempting a Vulcan Nerve Pinch in sheer desperation, was in an episode of "SOAP". I saw it when it was first-run, way back when. Billy Crystal's character, "Joey" I think his name was, did it to some huge guy, and when it worked, he shouted to the sky, "Thank you Mister Spock!"

I haven't been to class since I was 29, but if I recall right, our version of it involved the pressure points in the jaw line, where the upper and lower jaws meet, somewhere under the ears. We use the thumbs to apply pressure and/or jab to those sensitive spots. It was to be used if someone sneaked up behind you and grabber you from behind. You reach behind your head, find theirs, and apply as needed. Anyway, again if I recall right, I think Doctor McCoy and one of the space hippies was able to do that method, but from the offensive attacking someone from behind method, rather than as a defensive measure if attacked from behind.

We were told to feel for the spots on our own heads, so that we would know how sensitive those spots are. On another side note, I sometimes feel like my father is trying to use the Vulcan Nerve Pinch on my shoulders when he touches me there, with just enough pressure, that I don't feel comforted, but irritated. He gets annoyed when I complain.

So for what it's worth, based on my own personal experience,if your pain threshold isn't high enough, it won't take much pressure, but otherwise, given enough pressure and pain, you can pass out. I haven't tried it in any actual fights though, or in sparring.

So now I have a question. Would the jaw nerves be connected to the shoulder nerves? For it seems to me that with enough pressure to the general jawline/neck/shoulder area, say from a baseball or softball bat, as that shape seems to fit just right, you could knock anyone out, if you're strong enough and/or your target is sensitive enough. (As I was writing that, I began to think of Buffy Anne Summers, or one of the other trying to pinch someone. Did someone?)

Oh, in "Star Trek: Of Gods And Men", Pavel is able to do it to someone too! He tells Uhura that she wasn't the only one to have a Vulcan friend! Please pardon me if I seem to ramble. LeoStarDragon1 (talk) 05:23, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Origins
There are several places quoting the nerve pinch's first appearance is in S01E05. However, one episode before: "The naked time", we can see spock performing it on berseken Sulu and Kirk wonders how he does it! I'm not an expert on the series, it just so happens that i am watching it for the first time now. i just watched S01E04 and saw the nerve pinch. (HelenoBR (talk) 18:10, 5 March 2012 (UTC))

Linux manpages
I was reading through my Linux's manpage on proc when I saw this: /proc/sys/kernel/ctrl-alt-del This file  controls  the handling of Ctrl-Alt-Del from the key‐ board. When the value in  this  file  is  0,  Ctrl-Alt-Del  is              trapped  and  sent  to  the init(8) program to handle a graceful restart. When the value is greater than zero, Linux's reaction to a Vulcan Nerve Pinch (tm) will be an immediate reboot, with‐ out even syncing its dirty buffers. Note: when a program (like              dosemu)  has  the  keyboard  in  "raw" mode, the ctrl-alt-del is              intercepted by the program before it ever reaches the kernel tty layer, and it's up to the program to decide what to do with it. - 193.84.186.81 (talk) 13:33, 23 May 2012 (UTC)

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Rand-caps fan-cruft
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 * On The Simpsons Episode Mayored to the Mob (missing comma) Homer Simpson uses the Vulcan nerve pinch on Bart and Lisa So they don’t get snacks And then Uses the technique on Marge So he doesn’t take out the trash and then use the technique on himself when he falls over he hits his head on the Breakfast table

Does anyone, anywhere care enough about this fan-cruft nugget to bother with cleaning up the rand-caps and restoring it to prime time? I guess we shall see.

I'm an inclusionist. The main reason I delete fan-cruft is because it's too often left lying around like a dog's breakfast, for some more serious person—with far better things to do elsewhise—to come along and clean up.

I was there in the 1990s where every capable geek on the planet was fixing problems on their aunt's installation of Windows 95 for free.

Half of these issues pertained to DLL hell, the other half pertained to pointer leaks and non-existent code review in the weeks leading up to ship date.

Meanwhile Bill-G sat back and pocketed all the ching—which he mostly then reinvested in choking off the air supply available to his far more conscientious competitors. — MaxEnt 18:33, 10 January 2021 (UTC)

Citation needed
In a couple of lines, there is a citation needed, please correct it! TheTeam219 (talk) 07:09, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

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King Cole (disambiguation)

King Cole is a figure of British folklore.

King Cole may also refer to:
 * King Cole (baseball) (1886–1916), Major League Baseball pitcher
 * "Old King Cole" (also known as "King Cole"), a nursery rhyme
 * Nat King Cole (1919–1965), pianist and singer

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Tage Reedtz-Thott

Kjeld Thor Tage Otto, Friherre Reedtz-Thott (13 March 1839 – 27 November 1923), was a Danish politician, landowner and member of the Højre political party. He was Council President of Denmark from 1894 to 1897 as the leader of the Reedtz-Thott Cabinet.

Biography
Tage Reedtz-Thott was born at Gavnø Castle  on the island of Gavnø near Naestved, Denmark. He was the son of the baron Otto Reedtz-Thott (1785-1862) and Karen Julie Elisabeth Frederikke Fønns (1814-1844). He graduated cand. phil. in 1860. He continued his studies in Geneva and Paris. He took over the Barony Gavnø upon the death of his father in 1862. The Barony of Gavnø comprised the estates Gavnø, Lindesvold and Strandegård.

In 1886, he was elected to the Folketing and in 1892, became Foreign Minister of Denmark. He became Council President of Denmark in 1894 and resigned in 1897. He became a member of the Defense Commission in 1902 and in 1906 of the Commission on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Diplomacy. He had a seat on the Ecclesiastical Committee in 1904–07. In 1910 he did not receive re-election to the Folketing. He died during 1923 at Gavnø  and was buried at Vejlø Church (Vejlø Kirke) in Næstved.

Decorations and Honours

 * Danish

 * Foreign

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Ricardo María Carles Gordó

Ricardo María Carles Gordó (24 September 1926 – 17 December 2013) was a cardinal priest and Archbishop Emeritus of Barcelona in the Catholic Church.

Biography
Born in Valencia, Spain, Carles Gordó was ordained a priest on 29 June 1951.

He studied at Teresian school in Valencia; then, he completed his secondary education at the Jesuit Colegio de San José. He entered the Seminary of Valencia, where he was a pupil at Colegio "Corpus Christi" and finally, he studied at the Pontifical University of Salamanca, where he obtained a licenciate in canon law in 1951–1953.

After his studies he served in pastoral ministry in the archdiocese of Valencia, including parish priest, rector of the parish of San Fernando in Valencia (1967); counselor of the Juventud Obrera Católica, JOC (Catholic Youth Workers); director of the boarding-school for deacons; vicar for clergy; and diocesan counselor for the pastoral for the family.

In 1969 he was appointed Bishop of Tortosa, and later as archbishop of Barcelona in 1990, a post he held until stepping down in 2004. He was made a cardinal by Pope John Paul II in the consistory of 26 November 1994 and held the title of Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria Consolatrice al Tiburtino. He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI.

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Alibunar

Alibunar (Алибунар; German: Alisbrunn; Alibunar; Alibunár) is a town and municipality located in the South Banat District of the autonomous province of Vojvodina, Serbia. Alibunar town and Alibunar municipality have a population of 2,883 and 19,780 respectively.

Name
In Serbian, the town is known as Alibunar or Алибунар, in Romanian as Alibunar, in German as Alisbrunn, in Hungarian as Alibunár, and in Turkish as Alipınar.

The name of the town derived from the Serbian loanword from Turkish "bunar" ("well" in English) and Muslim/Turkish personal name "Ali". According to the local legend, Alibunar was named after Ali-paša (Ali-pasha), who had a cattle and a well at this place. Even today, there is a well in the town which is known as "Ali-pašin bunar" ("well of Ali-paša").

Inhabited places
Alibunar municipality encompasses of town of Alibunar, town of Banatski Karlovac, and following villages:
 * Dobrica
 * Novi Kozjak
 * Ilandža
 * Seleuš (Seleuș)
 * Vladimirovac
 * Janošik (Janošík)
 * Lokve  (Sânmihai)
 * Nikolinci (Nicolinț)

History
In this area, settlements existed in Neolithic, Bronze Age and Roman times. However, settlement appeared in historical sources in the 16th century. First recorded name of the settlement was Alijina Voda ("the water of Alija"), presumably named after its Muslim citizen Alija or Ali-paša, who had a house with stone well ("bunar" in Serbian) in the center of the settlement (hence the current name Alibunar or "the well of Ali"). After Ottomans were expelled from this region (in 1717), the settlement had 32 houses.

In 1764, settlement was included into Illyrian (Serbian) regiment of Banatian Military Frontier, but in the next year, it was transferred to German regiment of this frontier. Before the inclusion into military frontier, Alibunar had ethnic Serb population, but after it became part of the frontier, 130 mostly Romanian and some 20-30 German families settled in this place. Serbs remained to live in older part of the settlement, Germans settled in its central parts and Romanians in northern parts.

On May 17 and 18, 1768, Emperor Joseph II came to Alibrunn during his tour of the Banat from Timișoara. He spent the night here and the next day, after visiting the Alibrunn Marshes, continued his journey to Tomasovác (Tamáslaka). The Serbian Orthodox church in the settlement was built in 1796.

Demographics
According to the 2011 census, the total population of the municipality of Alibunar was 20,151 inhabitants.

Ethnic groups
The population of the Alibunar municipality:
 * Municipality
 * Serbs = 13,680 (59.59%)
 * Romanians = 6,076 (26.47%)
 * Slovaks = 1,195 (5.2%)
 * Romani = 657 (2.86%)
 * Hungarians = 309 (1.34%)

Settlements with a Serb ethnic majority are: Alibunar, Banatski Karlovac, Vladimirovac, Dobrica, Ilandža, and Novi Kozjak. The settlement with a Slovak ethnic majority is Janošik. The settlements with Romanian ethnic majority are: Lokve and Nikolinci. The ethnically mixed settlement with a relative Romanian majority is Seleuš.

The municipality of Alibunar contains the biggest ethnic Romanian community in Vojvodina.

The population of the Alibunar town:
 * Town
 * Serbs = 2,052 (59.81%)
 * Romanians = 960 (27.98%)
 * Romani = 87 (2.54%)
 * Hungarians = 61 (1.78%)
 * Slovaks = 46 (1.34%)
 * Macedonians = 43 (1.25%)
 * Yugoslavs = 42 (1.22%)

Notable citizens

 * Slobodan Bitević (*1988)

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Skypower Express Airways

Skypower Express Airways was an airline based in Kaduna in Nigeria. It operated scheduled and charter services in Nigeria and neighboring countries.

Code data

 * ICAO Code: EAN
 * Callsign: NIGERIA EXPRESS

History
Sky Power Express was initially established in 1982 and then incorporated as Express Airways Nigeria on the 19 July 1985. It is owned by Mohammed Joji (85% and Chief Executive), Dr Sale Joji (5%). The Nigerian government set a deadline of 30 April 2007 for all airlines operating in the country to re-capitalise or be grounded, in an effort to ensure better services and safety. Seven airlines failed to meet the deadline and as a result would not be allowed fly in Nigeria's airspace with effect from 30 April 2007. These were: ADC Airlines, Fresh Air, Sosoliso Airlines, Albarka Air, Chrome Air Service, Dasab Airlines and Space World Airline. The affected airlines would only fly when they satisfied the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA)’s criteria in terms of re-capitalization and thus be re-registered for operation. Skypower was allowed flying Nigerian airspace.

Fleet
As of August 2006 the Skypower Express Airways fleet included:

 * 2 Embraer EMB 110P1 Bandeirante

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Kempen

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Places

 * Kempen (Dutch/Belgian region), also called Kempenland or Campine
 * Kempen, Germany, a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
 * Kempen Airport, Budel, Netherlands
 * Kępno (Kempen in Posen), Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Other uses

 * Harry Kempen (1937–2000), Dutch cultural psychologist
 * Van Kempen, a surname
 * Van Lanschot Kempen, a Dutch management firm

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Kempen, Germany

Kempen is a town in the district of Viersen, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is situated approximately 30 km northwest of Düsseldorf, and 20 km east of Venlo.

History

 * 1186: First mention in official documentation of Kempen as a place – the sovereign until 1794 is the Archbishop (electoral prince) of Cologne
 * around 1290: Kempen is rebuilt as a fortified town
 * 11 March 1294: First confirmation of Kempen as a town in official documentation
 * 15th century: town blooms economically and culturally (population of approx. 4,200)
 * 1542–1543: Kempen is the centre of the Reformation for the Lower Rhine
 * 1579: The plague costs the town almost half of its inhabitants
 * 1642: Kempen is conquered and destroyed by the allied French, Hessian and Weimar troops during the "Hessen War" (Thirty Years' War)
 * 1794–1814: Kempen is under French rule. In the département of Roer established in 1797, Kempen becomes a canton seat in 1798 and a French town in 1801.
 * 1815: After the Congress of Vienna, Kempen becomes Prussian and is the county seat
 * 1929: Due to local reforms, Kempen becomes the administrative seat of the county of Kempen-Krefeld
 * 1966 onward: Restoration of the old town
 * 1970: Communal restructuring: The communities of Hüls, St. Hubert, Tönisberg and Schmalbroich join Kempen along with the localities of St. Peter and Unterweiden to form a single town
 * 1975: In further local reforms, Hüls is assigned to the city of Krefeld. The county of Viersen is formed and Kempen becomes part of "Kreis Viersen"
 * 1984: The county seat is transferred from Kempen to Viersen.
 * 1987: A cultural forum is opened in the Franciscan monastery after comprehensive restoration and renovation work.
 * 11 March 1994: Date of the 700-year jubilee of the confirmation of Kempen as a town

Twin towns – sister cities
Kempen is twinned with:
 * 🇫🇷 Wambrechies, France (1972)
 * 🇫🇷 Orsay, France (1973)
 * 🏴 East Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom (1978)
 * 🇩🇪 Werdau, Germany (1990)

Notable people

 * Thomas à Kempis (c. 1380–1471)
 * John Brugman (?–1473), Franciscan friar and preacher in Flanders
 * Wilhelm Hünermann (1900–1975), priest and writer
 * Adolph Moses Radin (1848–1909), rabbi
 * Isabel Varell (born 1961), actress and singer
 * Bernhard van Treeck (born 1964), psychiatrist and author
 * Tobias Koch (born 1968), pianist
 * Daniel Altmaier (born 1998), Tennis player

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Atiba Hutchinson

Atiba Hutchinson (born 8 February 1983) is a Canadian former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder. While playing in Denmark he won the Danish Super Liga Player of the Year, becoming the first North American player to receive the award. That same season, Hutchinson won the first of six Canadian Player of the Year awards. Between 2010 and 2013, he played for PSV Eindhoven in the Eredivisie.

In 2012 as part of the Canadian Soccer Association's centennial celebration, he was named to the all-time Canada XI men's team. Hutchinson is Canada's record cap holder and the first male Canadian soccer player to reach over 100 caps.

Early career
Hutchinson was born in Brampton, Ontario, to Trinidadian parents. He began playing youth soccer at age four for Brampton Youth SC and later played youth soccer for North Scarborough SC and Woodbridge Strikers. Following a March 2001 trial at Schalke 04 in Germany, Hutchinson began his professional career in the 2002 summer season, playing briefly with the York Region Shooters of the Canadian Professional Football League before signing with the Toronto Lynx of the then A-League in mid-season, on 26 July, and playing in the team's final four games.

Öster
In January 2003 he signed with Östers IF, newly promoted to the Swedish Allsvenskan. Hutchinson scored six times for Öster during the 2003 season. With the club relegated out of the Allsvenskan, Hutchinson was granted a transfer for an estimated £1.32 million and signed with Helsingborgs IF in January 2004.

Helsingborg
Expectations were high for him the first season in Helsingborg, but they were ultimately unsatisfied. However, in the 2005 season he was consistently the team's best player, scoring six goals from a primarily defensive midfield position.

Copenhagen
Hutchinson moved to Danish club F.C. Copenhagen, where, for the first half of the year, he played alongside Swedish international Tobias Linderoth in central midfield, latterly being used around the midfield and as a striker. Manager Ståle Solbakken said in an interview with the football paper TIPS-bladet, that he saw Hutchinson's attacking talents as being too impressive for a central midfielder, saying that he would be used more often as winger. He was linked with Premier League clubs several times.

After Hutchinson had left Denmark for his new team in the Eredivisie he was awarded Danish Super Liga Player of the Year for his last season with Copenhagen. This award was given on 15 November 2010 by Franz Beckenbauer at the annual Danish Football Association award show. This was the first time a Canadian had won this award in the Danish League.

In 2014, 32,000 fans participated in a fan vote selecting their 11 all-time favourite Copenhagen players, selecting Hutchinson in the midfield.

PSV
On 22 April 2010, Hutchinson signed a three-year contract with PSV Eindhoven joining them on a free transfer. Atiba made his PSV debut in a 6–0 home victory against De Graafschap on 14 August 2010. Four days later he made his European debut for the team in a surprising 1–0 first leg defeat to FC Sibir Novosibirsk in the Europa League, however PSV won the second leg 5–0 making it to the next stage of the competition. Atiba scored his first goal with the Dutch side on 23 January 2011, his goal came in the 46th minute of a 3–0 away victory against VVV-Venlo. Hutchinson started the 2010 season playing a defensive role as a right back, however with the mid-season transfer of Ibrahim Afellay to Barcelona allowed Hutchinson to move into his more natural position of the central midfield. Atiba continued to impress through the winter scoring his second goal of the season in a 3–2 away victory against Excelsior on 5 March 2011. Atiba also help lead PSV to the Quarter Finals of the Europa League before being knocked out by Benfica in mid-April losing 6–3 on aggregate.

Hutchinson was forced to miss the beginning of the 2011–12 Eredivisie due to his knee injury sustained with Canada at the Gold Cup that summer. After missing the first two games of the season Hutchinson made his return on 21 August 2011 as a second-half substitute for Zakaria Labyad against ADO Den Haag, the game ended in a 3–0 away victory for PSV. Weeks later Hutchinson sustained yet another knee injury during a 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification against Saint Lucia forcing him to have his third knee operation in 18 months. Despite this, he started the KNVB Cup final for PSV against Heracles Almelo, which PSV won.

With PSV's summer addition of Mark van Bommel Hutchinson was moved back to defense playing right back. On 26 August 2012, he scored his first goal of the new season courtesy of a Dries Mertens through ball in the 38th minute, the game ended in a 3–1 away victory over FC Groningen.

Beşiktaş
With a desire to sign for a Premier League club, Hutchinson let his contract run out with PSV and went into the summer of 2013 looking for a new team, but on 31 July it was announced that he had joined Beşiktaş in the Süper Lig on a two-year deal. Hutchinson scored his first goal for the club on 23 March 2014 in a 3–0 victory over Akhisar Belediyespor. After missing the first leg in the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League play-off round Hutchinson had a standout performance against Arsenal in which Arsène Wenger said Hutchinson was the most impressive Besiktas player; the game ended in a 1–0 away defeat for the Turkish side.

During the summer of 2015, Hutchinson signed a two-year extension with Beşiktaş. In the 2015–16 Süper Lig season, Hutchinson was rewarded with another hard fought honour as Beşiktaş triumphed in the league campaign, which was successfully repeated in the 2016–17 Süper Lig season, again with Hutchinson in a key playmaking defensive midfielder role. In August 2018, Hutchinson signed a one-year new contract with the club, which had a clause to extend the contract a further season if certain performance criteria are met. During the 2019–20 season, Hutchinson reached 200 league appearances with Beşiktaş.

On 15 August 2020, Hutchinson signed another extension with Beşiktaş that would keep him with the club through the end of the 2020–21 season.

On 6 July 2021, Hutchinson signed another one-year extension with Beşiktaş. In July 2022, he signed a further one-year extension. In May 2023, Beşiktaş confirmed Hutchinson would depart the club at the conclusion of the season. His final appearance for the club would be on 3 June against Kasımpaşa, with Hutchinson scoring a penalty, capping off a 5–2 victory. Prior to Beşiktaş' final game of the season against Konyaspor, he was honoured by the club for his 10-year tenure in front of the fans at Vodafone Park. After 2023 CONCACAF Nations League final match, he retired.

International career

The early years of Hutchinson's international career included appearances at both the 2001 and 2003 FIFA World Youth Championships. He made his senior debut for Canada in a January 2003 friendly match against the United States. That same year, he appeared in the 2003 edition of the CONCACAF Gold Cup and would go on to appear in five subsequent editions in the following two decades (2005, 2007, 2009, 2011 and 2019).

Canada reached the semi-finals of the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup, another match against the United States, which was the site of one of the most controversial moments in Hutchinson's career. With Canada down 2–1 in regulation time, Hutchinson scored a goal in the final minute of stoppage time, having received a ball that bounced off the head of American defender Oguchi Onyewu. However, the goal was ruled offside by referee Benito Archundia, as a result of which the United States won the game and proceeded to the final. Both then and subsequently, many believed that Archundia's call was incorrect.

On 17 December 2010, Hutchinson was awarded the Canadian Men's Player of the Year by the CSA for the first time in his career. Hutchinson was heavily favoured for this award in 2010 for his play with the national team, joining a well-known European club and becoming the first Canadian to win the Danish Superliga Player of the Year. Selected to the 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup squad, Hutchinson exited the tournament following a 0–2 loss to the Americans at Ford Field after sustaining a knee injury. He was forced to miss the rest of the tournament.

For much of Hutchinson's career, Canada was not able to field a genuinely competitive international team, and qualification to the FIFA World Cup persistently eluded them. As part of the CONCACAF qualification process for the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, Canada was on the verge of reaching the final stage of CONCACAF qualification for the first time since 1998. Going into its final game of the third round against Honduras in San Pedro Sula on 16 October 2012, Canada needed only a draw to reach the fourth and final stage of qualification. Instead, the team was routed in an 8–1 victory for Honduras, its worst loss in almost thirty years. That game would come to be regarded as the lowest point in the team's history by many. Hutchinson was again named Canada Soccer's male player of the year to end 2012, and affirmed that he hoped to pursue another World Cup qualification, saying "It would still mean everything to me if I could be part of the team and give another go at it."

Hutchinson was once again awarded the 2015 Canadian Men's Player of the Year by the CFA, marking his fourth straight award and fifth in the last six years. He went on to win the title again in 2016 and 2017. However, Canada would not fare any better in attempting to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, failing to advance to the fifth round of CONCACAF qualification. Disillusioned and believing that his best years had been wasted with the team, Hutchinson would later say that "in my head, I was done. I wasn't coming back to Canada, I swear."

After declining to participate in 2016 and 2017 friendly matches and missing the 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Hutchinson was persuaded to rejoin by coach John Herdman, newly arrived from Canada's much more successful women's national team. Herdman believed Hutchinson would add a valuable veteran presence to a team of up-and-coming talents like Alphonso Davies and Jonathan David. Upon his recall to the team in October 2018, he indicated he was looking to retire from the Canadian national team after the 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup. He was named to the squad for that tournament on 30 May 2019.

Hutchinson however remained active for Canada, and in March 2021 he accepted a call-up for 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. This new cycle was far more successful than any he had seen before, and they reached the final stage for the first time in a quarter century. Hutchinson said "this time around we've got a team that is full of talent." On 16 November 2021, Hutchinson captained Canada to a 2–1 victory over Mexico at Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, which also marked his 90th appearance for his country, surpassing Julian De Guzman as the all-time appearance leader for the men's national team. On 27 March, Canada officially qualified for the World Cup with a 4–0 victory over Jamaica at BMO Field in Toronto. After he suffered a bone bruise that scuppered the beginning of his club season in the fall of 2022, there was doubt as to whether Hutchinson would be ready to participate in the World Cup. Herdman said it was "a tough situation for him. Because I think for all of us he just means so much to the team." However, he recovered sufficiently and in November 2022 he was named to Canada's 26-man squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Acknowledging Hutchinson's importance to the national team through the preceding twenty years, TSN remarked that "the country's return to the World Cup is the crowning achievement in his incomparable career." Hutchinson was also the eldest outfielder to play at the 2022 World Cup. On 27 November, he played his 100th match for Canada in a 4–1 defeat against Croatia during the World Cup, becoming the first male Canadian to achieve this feat. In Canada's last match of the tournament, having already been eliminated, a would-be equalizing header from Hutchinson was tucked under the crossbar but failed to cross the goal line, as Canada were eventually defeated 2–1 by Morocco, failing to take any points from their group matches.

In June 2023 Hutchinson was named to the 23-man squad contesting the 2023 CONCACAF Nations League Finals. He indicated in an interview with The Athletic that this tournament would likely be his last with Canada. Canada defeated Panama in the semi-final 2–0, reaching the event final. This was the first event final of Hutchinson's international career, and the first for the national team in 23 years. Hutchinson confirmed his retirement from international soccer on 17 June.

Personal life
Atiba Hutchinson is married to a French-Iranian woman named Sarah, whom he met while playing in Denmark. Together they have three sons, Noah (born 2015), Nava (born 2016) and Ayo Siyah (2017), all of whom were born in Istanbul. In April 2022, he joined the ownership group of League1 Ontario club Simcoe County Rovers FC.

International

 * Canada score listed first, score column indicates score after each Hutchinson goal.

Honours
Copenhagen

 * Danish Superliga: 2005–06, 2006–07, 2008–09, 2009–10
 * Danish Cup: 2008–09
 * Royal League: 2005–06

PSV
 * KNVB Cup: 2011–12
 * Johan Cruyff Shield: 2012

Beşiktaş
 * Süper Lig: 2015–16, 2016–17, 2020–21
 * Turkish Cup: 2020–21
 * Turkish Super Cup: 2021

Individual
 * Danish Superliga Player of the Year: 2009–10
 * Canadian Player of the Year: 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
 * CONCACAF Best XI: 2016
 * FC Copenhagen All Time Best XI - 100th Anniversary fan vote
 * Canada Soccer President's Award: 2023
 * Canadian Soccer Association: All-Time Canada XI
 * Süper Lig Team of the Season: 2015–16, 2016–17, 2020–21

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Steve definately did win a case. It is referenced in the strip where Opus is being dictated a letter to a former client. Steve states "remember who got you sprung on that technicality". -Dario

Why Dallas?
--70.128.138.232 (talk) 21:41, 14 September 2008 (UTC) I'd be interested to know why the author chose 'Dallas' - I'm as certain as I can be that it was a natural choice at the time, as the frat boys at UT were mostcommonly Dallas or Houston, with the minority from other citys.
 * I think it was the name of a person Breathed knew. Lots42 (talk) 09:24, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

I live in Florence, Kentucky, and there is an attorney here named Steve Dallas ("Steve" - as opposed to Stephen - according to the sign out front of his office), though i haven't located a web site for his law firm, and don't know anything about the guy, except that i believe he may be about five years older than Mr. Breathed, according to a cursory search, revealing a Classmates listing for him at the local high school here. No idea where he went to college.~transmothra (talk) 03:51, 4 November 2010 (UTC)

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They are awesome (really). This article (on Steve Dallas) needs more of them. (They're good.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.201.190.68 (talk) 18:14, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

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