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MSG Network

The MSG Network (MSG) is an American regional cable and satellite television network, and radio service owned by MSG Entertainment, Inc.—a spin-off of the main Madison Square Garden Company operation (itself a spin-off of local cable provider Cablevision).

Primarily serving the Mid-Atlantic United States, its programming focuses on events featuring and other programs about New York City sports teams, including live game broadcasts of the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association, and the New York Rangers, New York Islanders, Buffalo Sabres, and New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League. The channel is named after the Madison Square Garden sports and entertainment venue in Midtown Manhattan, home of the Knicks and Rangers.

History
What would become MSG debuted on October 15, 1969, with an NHL hockey game between the New York Rangers and the Minnesota North Stars. As a result, it became the first regional sports network in North America, and one of the first of its kind in the world. The channel, which at the time did not even have a name, was carried by Manhattan Cable Television under a one-year, 125-event deal that was signed in May 1969. At the time, the cable provider, which had televised New York Knicks and Rangers post-season games the previous spring for a $25,000 rights fee, had only 13,000 subscribers. (The channel's coverage of the deciding game of the 1970 NBA Finals, in which the Knicks beat the Los Angeles Lakers, was the only live broadcast of the game shown in New York City; WABC-TV blacked out ABC's telecast.) Madison Square Garden renewed the deal with what was now Sterling Manhattan Cable Television in the fall of 1970, in a five-year deal at an estimated rights fee of $1–1.5 million. Charles Dolan, who later headed MSG and Cablevision, was the president of Sterling Manhattan at the time. Games held at Madison Square Garden later appeared on another of Sterling Manhattan Cable's ventures, premium cable network Home Box Office (HBO) during the network's early years.

In the meantime, an unrelated channel was launched on September 22, 1977 as a joint-venture of UA-Columbia Cablevision and the Madison Square Garden Corporation, and would brand itself the "Madison Square Garden Sports Network" in 1978 before the Sterling Manhattan Cable channel could use the name. The competitor would change its name in 1980 to the USA Network.

In 1977, the Madison Square Garden Corp, which included its namesake sports arena was sold to Gulf+Western. Around the same time, a separate network was created by the Madison Square Garden Corp. to distribute 125 events to New York-area cable systems. These events were in addition to the 250 already being produced for the national distribution. It was this network which became known as Madison Square Garden Television that would evolve into the current MSG Network.

On April 9, 1980, the channel began using both the full name "Madison Square Garden Network" and its new abbreviated form "MSG Network". In December 1988, MSG Network became the first cable network to secure all local television rights to a Major League Baseball team's game, signing a 12-year deal with the New York Yankees that would give it exclusive rights to 150 games per season from 1991 through 2000. Sources placed the value of the agreement at approximately $500 million. By the early 1990s, the channel would affiliate with Prime Network. In 1994, Paramount Communications was acquired by Viacom (itself a cable giant, having once owned various cable systems in the U.S. under the Viacom Cablevision banner and also owner of MTV Networks), which in turn sold the MSG properties to Cablevision and ITT Corporation, which each held a 50% ownership stake; ITT would sell its share to Cablevision three years later.

On October 5, 2006, MSG underwent an extensive rebrand with the introduction of a new logo and graphics package, and the removal of the word "Network" from the channel's promotions. The new logo was designed by Jennifer Little for PMCD design. Since the rebrand, the channel has incorporated more entertainment-oriented programming, including concerts and professional boxing and wrestling cards that have taken place at Madison Square Garden or Radio City Music Hall (both operated by MSG Entertainment). (Full length broadcasts of Madison Square Garden WWWF/WWF wrestling shows had already been previously screened by the MSG Network since the 1970s.) In February 2010, Cablevision spun off MSG Network, the Madison Square Garden venue and other related properties into The Madison Square Garden Company.

In September 2015, the MSG Networks division was spun out into a separate company, with The Madison Square Garden Company maintaining ownership of the venue and related properties. The company was split further in April 2020, with the sports properties operating as Madison Square Garden Sports Corp., and the venue and entertainment properties spun out as the publicly traded Madison Square Garden Entertainment.

MSG controlling owner James L. Dolan began exploring a sale of the network in April 2017. On March 26, 2021, MSG Entertainment announced that it would acquire MSG Networks in an all-stock deal; the company stated that the purchase was part of an effort "to grow the company beyond its established collection of assets into one that is pioneering the next generation of entertainment." The acquisition was completed in July 2021.

Programming
Among other teams, it has long produced radio and television broadcasts of the NBA's New York Knicks, the NHL's New York Rangers and (until 2018) the WNBA's New York Liberty, which play their home games at the Garden. Upon its launch in 2014, MSG also became the television home of the Westchester Knicks, the New York Knicks' farm club in the NBA G League. Since 2013, MSG has also aired games from the Hartford Wolf Pack, the New York Rangers' farm club in the AHL.

MSG also holds television rights to the NASL's New York Cosmos since 2017. In 2010, MSG began broadcasting exclusive content from the NFL's New York Giants. Buffalo Bills content was added in 2016.

MSG also owns the television rights to the NHL's Buffalo Sabres, New Jersey Devils, New York Islanders and the AHL's Bridgeport Islanders and Rochester Americans. Islanders, Devils and (AHL Islanders) games air on MSG Sportsnet, while Sabres and Americans games air on MSG Western New York in Western New York and are split between MSG and MSG Sportsnet in the rest of upstate New York.

The network also broadcast nightly highlights of races held at tracks sanctioned by the New York Racing Association, as well as a weekly magazine show; live races (normally graded stakes races) also air on select Saturday afternoons. MSG Network broadcasts soccer events from the Premier League (since 2002, consisting of game rebroadcasts from Fox Soccer and later Fox Soccer Plus and a weekly highlight program) and the UEFA Champions League (since 2009, with a live game each Tuesday of competition, produced by Fox Soccer Plus, with a second game originally aired on Fox Soccer Plus also rebroadcast on MSG or MSG Sportsnet).

It also runs extended highlights from concerts held at MSG or other venues owned by the Dolan family through the Cablevision Systems Corporation, along with other shows focused on New York musicians – which are frequently used as filler programming in blackout zones; as well as movies – generally sports-related, in addition to some Hollywood blockbusters and several New York sports-related fiction or documentary programs that were originally broadcast on ESPN, which are most commonly seen during the summer NHL and NBA offseason.

During the period of time in which sister station MSG Sportsnet was a primary affiliate of Fox Sports Net (now known as Bally Sports as of 2021), MSG also acted as a secondary FSN affiliate, airing Fox Sports-produced programming in certain timeslots (such as the National Sports Report) and contributing footage to FSN shows. This ceased when the FSN branding was removed and FSN New York became MSG Plus (now MSG Sportsnet), and FSN programming has since been split between MSG Sportsnet and the YES Network (as Fox took a stake in YES in 2012).

Collegiate sports
Currently, MSG airs locally produced athletic events from Hofstra University and Fordham University. MSG also airs the Kwik Trip Holiday Face-Off college hockey tournament through its affiliation with Bally Sports.

MSG and MSG Sportsnet previously broadcast basketball games from the Metro Atlantic Athletic, Northeast, America East and Atlantic Coast Conferences; football games from the Southeastern Conference; and football and basketball games from the Pac-10 and Big 12 Conferences (with basketball games from the latter exclusive to women's teams). The Pac-10, Big 12 and ACC telecasts were carried though Fox Sports Networks (which maintained national broadcast rights to all three conferences), while the other games were either produced by the conferences themselves or through ESPN Plus.

MSG formerly carried games from the Big East Conference, along with the coaches shows for Rutgers and St. John's University. In July 2008, the Big East and SportsNet New York announced a multi-year deal which gave SNY exclusive regional rights to Big East coaches shows and ESPN Plus-produced games. However, MSG retained rights to a reduced schedule of Big East games, including any St. John's basketball games played at Madison Square Garden.

MSG, NY
MSG, NY, a daily sports highlights and entertainment program which served as the network's flagship program, debuted in October 2006. Aired numerous times during the day, the program originated as the sports-focused MSG Sportsdesk similar to ESPN's SportsCenter, until a format change that occurred as part of MSG's 2006 rebranding and reformatting in which sporting events remain the primary focus while a secondary focus was placed on all events at Madison Square Garden.

Anchors included Jason Horowitz, Deb Placey, Tina Cervasio, Al Trautwig, Greg Gumbel, Marv Albert, Jonathan Coachman, and Bill Daughtry.

The show however, gave expanded coverage to area sports teams that the channel holds game telecast rights; other New York City area teams were covered on the program, usually to a lesser extent. Along with coverage of Garden-related entertainment news, this was intended to prevent direct competition with SportsNite on SportsNet New York. MSG, NY was taped inside a street-level studio, with a window overlooking Madison Square Garden across the street. The program originally aired as a half-hour broadcast on Tuesday through Saturdays (with no editions on Sundays and Mondays, possibly as they were considered "low-viewership nights"), at about 10 or 10:30 p.m. Eastern time, with the exact time dependent on sports events schedules, before expanding to an hour-long nightly broadcast in 2008, based on improved ratings over its predecessor Sportsdesk. The studio is also used by SiTV Media Fuse. The show was cancelled in January 2009, due to the declining ratings; in its place, MSG usually offers team-specific post-game shows.

Archival programs

 * The 50 Greatest Moments at Madison Square Garden – debuted in October 2006, the program looks at the historic sports and non-sports-related events that have been held at Madison Square Garden.
 * MSG Originals – a series of programs expanding on 50 Greatest Moments to further discuss the history of Madison Square Garden, that debuted in 2007. Topics include Mecca of Boxing and Spring of 1994.
 * MSG Vault – a series that debuted in 2006, featuring classic Knicks and Rangers games (among other events held at the Garden) from previous decades. In some cases, MSG no longer has complete tapes of the games, and so the content often consists of highlights; more recent episodes have seen Rangers and Knicks related content not originally produced by the channel. In launching MSG Vault, MSG indicated that it has over 90,000 tapes of Garden events in its archive. As noted, some tapes prior to the 1990s are incomplete (parts of events may have been taped over or erased). Hosted by Al Trautwig, "The Vault" remains one of MSG's most popular programs, with a cult-like following of viewers from all ages. Trautwig, along with a usual guest that pertains to the theme of the program, often describes the story about how the footage was found and other interesting info. Buffalo Sabres archival content is occasionally broadcast, but less often and is shown as a separate program, generally hosted by Kevin Sylvester.
 * WWE MSG Classics – debuted in 2006, it airs WWE Classic matches that have been held at Madison Square Garden, hosted by "Mean Gene" Okerlund.
 * TXT MSG – a series highlighting classic sports events from MSG's library that debuted in 2010, which are reviewed in the style of Pop Up Video.
 * 30 for 30 – Reruns of the ESPN Films series.

Basketball

 * Inside the Knicks – a weekly Knicks magazine show that debuted in 2005.
 * SummerBall – debuted in 2006, a series that highlights the major summer basketball leagues in New York City, featuring Hoops in the Sun at Orchard Beach, Dyckman and the Uptowners Basketball League, and especially the EBC at Rucker Park; hosted by Michael Bivins.
 * Friday Night Knicks – special Friday night New York Knicks games.

Football

 * Giants Opening Drive Live – a preview show hosted by Harry Carson and Anita Marks.
 * Giants Game Day – a pregame show hosted by Bob Papa.
 * Giants Chronicles – a 30-minute taped program that offers an in-depth look at the career of a Giants legend, hosted by Bob Papa.
 * Coach's Press Conference – a weekly press conference with the Giants head coach.

Hockey

 * Inside the Rangers – a weekly Rangers magazine show that debuted in 2006.
 * Islanders Illustrated – a monthly Islanders magazine show (2008–2009)
 * Hockey Night Live! – a week-in-review show focusing on the Rangers; Islanders; Devils and Sabres that originally debuted in 2005 as Hockey Night New York Live, and was renamed to its current title in 2007, airing on Saturday nights during the NHL season. Al Trautwig is the primary host, with Ron Duguay, Mike Keenan, Stan Fischler, Dave Maloney, Ken Daneyko, Butch Goring, Steve Valiquette, Henrik Lundqvist, and John MacLean among the analysts.
 * Beyond Blue & Gold — a periodical Sabres magazine show that debuted in 2013

High school sports

 * High School Weekly – one of MSG's longest-running shows, focusing on high school football and basketball games from around the region, hosted by Mike Quick. Many NFL, NBA and WNBA athletes have appeared on the show during their high school days.
 * High School Game of the Week – a weekly tape delayed broadcast of a high school football, basketball or lacrosse game from various parts of the New York City metropolitan area; the games typically feature schools from the suburbs (where MSG's sister company and former parent, Cablevision, serves as the dominant cable provider), or private schools in New York City proper. Selected games air live, such as the annual PSAL basketball championship at MSG, and occasional holiday football or basketball rivalry games. MSG Western New York also carries a high school game of the week, under its own brand High School Coverage focusing solely on the Monsignor Martin Athletic Association.
 * The LAX Report – a local high school lacrosse show similar to High School Weekly that debuted in 2006, and is hosted by Mike Quick.

Online programming
MSG's website, MSGNetworks.com, has offered exclusive podcast programming since 2006. These include:
 * This Week in Hockey – debuted in 2006, it features guests from around the NHL and from MSG Networks, including Stan Fischler, Joe Micheletti, and a fantasy hockey perspective provided by the RinkRat.
 * Batt'r Up! – debuted in 2006, it is a weekly baseball podcast hosted by Matt Loughlin and longtime baseball analyst Fran Healy, with guests from around Major League Baseball, and fantasy advice from The Knuckler. New York Post columnist and MSG baseball analyst Joel Sherman also contributes to the program.
 * CenterCourt – debuted in 2006, is an all-basketball podcast hosted by Gus Johnson and featuring John Andariese and Walt "Clyde" Frazier. Johnson recaps NBA news and offers fantasy advice, while Frazier answers fan emails in a segment called "Dishin and Swishin" and Andariese tells basketball stories in the segment "Tall Tales". David Dominik hosts the "Three-Point Play" segment and conducts the "One-on-One" interviews with major NBA players.

Talk shows

 * Halls of Fame – hosted by Fran Healy, the program features interviews with famous players and coaches from a variety of sports.
 * The Game 365 (beginning in 2017 the show was changed to Focused) – hosted by Fran Healy, the program features profiles and interviews of players and coaches with the backdrop of following each episode's guest around for a day in his/her athletic environment.
 * Hahn, Humpty & Canty – an in-studio simulcast of the midday radio show from New York City sports talk station WEPN-FM (98.7), hosted by Alan Hahn, Rick DiPietro and Chris Canty.
 * 4 Courses – a general entertainment, half-hour talk show hosted by J. B. Smoove.
 * The Mask – a general entertainment, half-hour talk show hosted by Henrik Lundqvist.
 * People Talking Sports* (*and Other Stuff) — a general entertainment, half-hour late-night talk show hosted by Brandon 'Scoop B' Robinson.
 * Follow the Money - Talk show carried on tape delay from Brent Musburger's Vegas Stats & Information Network.
 * The MSG 150 - 150-minute news and discussion program.

Former original programming

 * Boomer and Carton in the Morning – an in-studio simulcast of the morning radio show from New York City sports talk station WFAN (660 AM). The show later moved to CBS Sports Network.

New York Yankees (1989–2001)
From 1989 to 2001, the channel held cable television rights to the New York Yankees Major League Baseball franchise. MSG paid an average of $55 million a year for the broadcast rights, a deal that is widely credited with starting a national trend towards greater team coverage on regional sports networks, with more games being broadcast than the programming schedules of broadcast television stations could usually permit due to other programming commitments. MSG also produced radio broadcasts of Yankees games from 1994 to 2001, which aired on WABC (770 AM). MSG also held the over-the-air broadcast rights to Yankee games, which it sold to longtime broadcaster, independent station (later a WB affiliate) WPIX channel 11 from 1989 to 1998 and Fox owned-and-operated station WNYW (channel 5) from 1999 to 2001. In 2002, the Yankees terminated their agreement with MSG to form its own regional sports network, YES Network.

New York Mets (2002–2005)
From 2002 to 2005, MSG held rights to Tuesday and Wednesday night games from the New York Mets, obtaining the rights from Fox Sports Net New York (MSG, Fox Sports New York and WPIX each carried about 50 games a season on consistent days of the week). Like the Yankees deal, MSG also maintained broadcast television rights, placing games on WWOR-TV (channel 9) before the games moved to WPIX in 1999.

Mets games moved to SportsNet New York, a regional sports network that is partially owned by the team (Comcast and Spectrum, which generally provide cable service to certain parts of the New York City metropolitan area – and in Spectrum's case, most of upstate New York – not served by Cablevision, or the other partners), after the 2005 season; although, WPIX retained rights to a reduced slate of games.

New York Red Bulls/MetroStars
MSG has broadcast New York Red Bulls matches from its inception in 1996, when the team was known as the New York/New Jersey MetroStars. The network also signed multi-year deals in 2011 and in 2014.

The network lost its rights to the New York Red Bulls matches in 2022 after Major League Soccer signed a 10-year broadcast deal to air all matches of MLS on Apple TV+ through the MLS Season Pass.

Basketball

 * Mike Breen – Knicks play-by-play announcer
 * Kenny Albert – Knicks alternate play-by-play announcer
 * Walt Frazier – Knicks game color analyst
 * Rebecca Haarlow – Knicks sideline reporter
 * Alan Hahn – Knicks studio host
 * Swin Cash – Knicks studio analyst
 * Wally Szczerbiak – Knicks studio analyst, alternate color analyst
 * Ed Cohen – Liberty play-by-play announcer, Knicks alternate play-by-play announcer
 * Julianne Viani – Liberty game color analyst

Rangers

 * Sam Rosen – Rangers play-by-play announcer
 * Kenny Albert – Rangers fill-in TV play-by-play announcer
 * Joe Micheletti – Rangers color analyst
 * John Giannone – Rangers rinkside reporter and fill-in play-by-play announcer
 * Bill Pidto – Studio host for Rangers and Knicks road games
 * Dave Maloney – Rangers studio/color analyst and fill-in rinkside reporter
 * Steve Valiquette - Rangers studio analyst
 * Henrik Lundqvist – Rangers studio analyst
 * Michelle Gingras – Rangers intermission/Locker room reporter(Home games)

Devils

 * Bill Spaulding – Devils play-by-play announcer
 * Ken Daneyko – Former Devils player (retired); Devils color analyst
 * Erika Wachter – Devils studio host; Liberty home games sideline reporter
 * Bryce Salvador – Former Devils player (Captain); Devils studio analyst

Islanders

 * Brendan Burke – Islanders play-by-play announcer
 * Alan Feuhring – Islanders alternate play-by-play announcer
 * Butch Goring – Islanders color analyst
 * Thomas Hickey – Islanders alternate color analyst
 * Shannon Hogan – Islanders host/reporter
 * Corey Schneider – hockey analyst

Sabres

 * Dan Dunleavy – Sabres play-by-play announcer
 * Rob Ray – Sabres color analyst
 * Brian Duff – Sabres studio host
 * Martin Biron – Sabres studio analyst

Soccer

 * Steve Cangialosi – Red Bulls play-by-play announcer
 * Shep Messing – Red Bulls color analyst
 * Michelle Gingras – Red Bulls sideline reporter and studio host; host of Red Bulls Insider
 * Kristian Dyer – Red Bulls insider and studio analyst
 * Jonathan Yardley – Red Bulls alternate play-by-play announcer and studio analyst

MSG Radio Network

 * Kenny Albert – Rangers primary play-by-play announcer
 * Brendan Brown – Knicks radio color analyst
 * Bill Daughtry – Knicks studio host
 * Don La Greca – Rangers studio host and fill-in Rangers play-by-play announcer
 * Ed Cohen – fill-in Rangers play-by-play announcer
 * Dave Maloney – Rangers primary color analyst
 * Pete Stemkowski – Rangers Fill-in color analyst
 * Matt Harmon - Red Bulls play-by-play announcer
 * Steve Jolley - Red Bulls color analyst

Former on-air staff

 * Roberto Abramowitz - Spanish-language play-by-play announcer
 * Marv Albert – Knicks and Rangers play-by-play announcer; MSG SportsDesk anchor
 * John Andariese – Knicks radio and TV color analyst (deceased)
 * Gary Apple – MSG SportsDesk anchor (now with SportsNet New York)
 * Bill Chadwick – Rangers radio and TV color analyst (deceased)
 * Jonathan Coachman – MSG, NY host; Knicks pre-game and halftime host, Liberty play-by-play announcer
 * Doug Collins – Knicks color analyst (2003–04)
 * Mike Crispino – Knicks alternate play-by-play announcer
 * John Davidson – Rangers color analyst
 * JP Dellacamera – Red Bulls play-by-play announcer (now with ESPN)
 * Mike "Doc" Emrick – Devils play-by-play announcer
 * Danny Gare – Sabres studio analyst
 * Jim Gordon – Rangers TV play-by-play announcer (deceased)
 * Keith Hernandez – Mets color analyst (now with SportsNet New York)
 * Gus Johnson – Knicks Radio play-by-play announcer (now with Fox Sports and Big Ten Network)
 * Jim Kaat – Yankees color announcer
 * Michael Kay – Yankees reporter and pre-game host (now with YES Network and WEPN-FM)
 * Tony Kubek – Yankees announcer
 * Jim Lorentz – Sabres color analyst
 * Brad May – Sabres studio analyst
 * Curt Menefee – Unnecessary Roughness host and MSG SportsDesk lead anchor (now with Fox Sports)
 * Harry Neale – Sabres color analyst
 * Bob Page – MSG SportsDesk anchor
 * Glenn "Chico" Resch – Devils color analyst
 * Mike Robitaille – Sabres studio analyst
 * Howie Rose – Islanders play by play
 * Malik Rose – Knicks halftime studio analyst (now with Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia)
 * Spencer Ross – Knicks studio host; Fill-in Knicks radio play-by-play announcer
 * Dave Sims - Knicks Post Game, Hosted a Simulcast of 66 WNBC SportsNight 1986–1988, Host of GameFace on MSG Metro Channel June 2000 - December 2001
 * Ken Singleton – Yankees color announcer
 * Kenny Smith – Knicks color analyst (2005–08, concurrent with his time with TNT) (now with TNT)
 * Tommy Smyth – Red Bulls color analyst (now with ESPN)
 * Kevin Sylvester – Sabres studio host
 * Jenna Wolfe – sports reporter (now moderator of "First Things First" on FS1)
 * Ethan Zohn – co-host of MSG Soccer Report
 * Steve Cangialosi – Devils play by play
 * Rick Jeanneret – Sabres play by play (Deceased)
 * Fran Healy – host of Halls of Fame and The Game 365

Carriage disputes
MSG was dropped from Dish Network due to a contract dispute in October 2010; the dispute remains unresolved. MSG was removed from Time Warner Cable at midnight on December 31, 2011, as the two companies could not agree on a new carriage contract; the network was restored on all TWC systems on February 17, 2012. MSG HD was not available on Verizon FiOS until several months after a court order forced MSG to provide the network's HD feed to that provider. MSG was dropped by Comcast in September 2021 and remains unavailable.

Alternate channels
Along with MSG and MSG Sportsnet, MSG also operates secondary channels, MSG2 and MSG Sportsnet 2, which mainly serve to assist in scheduling the many sporting events it carries. Select New York Islanders and New Jersey Devils games also air on MSG when both teams play concurrently, with one airing on MSG Sportsnet, which along with MSG and its alternate channels are officially referred to as MSG Media. In turn, select Rangers games air on MSG Sportsnet, when Knicks telecasts are shown on MSG and no live game is airing on MSG Sportsnet at the same time. Any sports event to which MSG holds the broadcast rights could air on either channel.

If more than two of the four local teams it carries are playing at the same time, MSG normally goes to the Knicks – the highest-rated property on the channel – except for instances when that night's game is scheduled for a late start time, in which case a Rangers game will air instead. In all other cases, Rangers games are broadcast on MSG2. Devils or Islanders games air on MSG Sportsnet 2. If any teams are out of playoff contention, MSG will sometimes switch the order of priority among its teams. For several years in the 1990s when Cablevision had the rights to seven professional sports teams, an MSG3 overflow feed was occasionally used.

In the cases of MSG2 and MSG Sportsnet 2, the alternate channels vary. Many cable providers use Pop to carry the overflow/alternate feed, while satellite providers use an alternate channel. In some cases, these channels are not available outside the New York City area; however, they are offered by DirecTV, Dish Network and Comcast. In order to help alleviate confusion, MSG directs viewers to a special website.

MSG Western New York
Following the collapse of Empire Sports Network and its parent, Adelphia, MSG also picked up rights to the Buffalo Sabres, and agreed to a 10-year contract in 2006. The Sabres, through its broadcast arm, the Sabres Hockey Network, control the entire broadcast, including the sale of advertising, and pre- and post-game programming.

During the inaugural season, all regionally-televised Sabres games were available to viewers outside of the New York City area, falling within MSG's "Zone 3" (Buffalo and Rochester) and "Zone 2" (which encompasses the remainder of Upstate New York and is shared with the Devils, Islanders, and Rangers). In Zone 3, all Sabres games were shown on the main MSG channel, but some games aired in Zone 2 on MSG Sportsnet (then known as FSN New York) instead.

As part of a contract extension for the 2016–17 season, MSG entered into a joint venture with Terry and Kim Pegula's ownership group to create an expanded opt-out feed known as MSG Western New York over the former Zone 3. The feed is carried in place of MSG's main network within the Sabres' television market of Upstate New York (defined as virtually all of the state outside the New York City television market). In addition to coverage of Sabres games, the feed also carries Pegula-produced studio programming dedicated to the Sabres and their sister NFL team, the Buffalo Bills.

Metro Channels
From the fall of 1998 until the spring of 2005, Cablevision chose not to launch an additional MSG2 channel, instead placing games on its MSG Metro Channels, which were only available in a limited coverage footprint. Sometimes, games were also carried by Riverhead–licensed WLNY-TV (channel 55). During this period, when two of the teams that the MSG channels maintained game broadcast rights to played against one another, only one broadcast would usually be produced using one of the team's announcing staffs (this was either due to MSG's television contracts or a desire to show a different sporting event at the same time).

With the discontinuation of Metro, and the loss of the New Jersey Nets from the network's winter lineup, the MSG channels now produce two broadcasts when two of the area teams with broadcast rights held by the network are playing against each other. Since 2009, the channel now has gone back to producing a single unified broadcast, though it will use two sets of commentators (particularly for Buffalo, where the Sabres' radio announcers are simply dubbed over the MSG broadcast when they play the Rangers, Islanders or Devils).

WBIS-TV/S+
In 1996, ITT Corporation (then half-owner of MSG) entered a joint-venture with Dow Jones & Company to purchase WNYC-TV from the City of New York and convert it to a hybrid sports/business news format. The channel was renamed WBIS-TV and branded as "S+". Beginning in January 1997, several Knicks and Rangers games that would have otherwise aired on MSG were moved to WBIS. Select Devils, Islanders, and Nets games from SportsChannel also aired on WBIS, temporarily relieving some of the need for multiple overflow channels. However, this would be short lived as by June the S+ format was cancelled and ITT would soon be selling both its interests in both MSG and WBIS.

High definition
MSG HD is a high definition simulcast feed of MSG Network, which broadcasts in the 1080i resolution format, with the vast majority of content from MSG and Fox Sports Regional Networks broadcast in HD; as of 2017 only archived and paid programming is broadcast in standard definition. MSG HD is available nationally on DirecTV, Optimum, Spectrum, RCN, AT&T U-verse and Verizon FiOS.

On January 22, 2009, the NHL and MSG became involved in a contract dispute which has resulted in MSG HD and MSG+ HD's broadcasts being pulled from NHL's GameCenter Live service for viewers outside of the primary markets for the New Jersey Devils, New York Rangers, New York Islanders and Buffalo Sabres, with games presented in standard definition and upconverted to a stretched widescreen format. On March 17, 2010, beginning with the game between the New Jersey Devils and Pittsburgh Penguins, MSG HD and MSG+ HD broadcasts returned to NHL Center Ice (as confirmed by Gary Bettman during the NHL Hour broadcast).

Since its launch, MSG Network had blocked Verizon and AT&T from carrying MSG HD on any terms through a controversial guideline imposed by the Federal Communications Commission (known as the "terrestrial exception"), that was implemented to encourage investments in local programming, which stated that television channels that do not transmit via satellite uplink – MSG HD's programming is distributed to cable television providers through a terrestrial infrastructure using only microwave and fiber optic relays – have the authority to decide which pay television providers (cable, satellite or telco) can have access to its programming. Because the network was once owned by Cablevision (and remains under common control by the Dolan family to this day), MSG fought attempts by the telco providers to carry it despite the significant rights fees it could collect from carriage deals with those services. On September 22, 2011, the FCC ordered MSG to negotiate with both Verizon FiOS and AT&T U-verse for carriage on each system. MSG and Cablevision used every appeal available to keep the HD channels from being carried by both distributors; however on December 14, 2011, a three-judge panel of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals denied Cablevision/MSG Holdings' petition for review. Verizon FiOS began carrying MSG HD and MSG+ HD on its New York City area systems the next day, and AT&T U-Verse began carrying the HD feeds on its Connecticut systems later that month.

3D
On March 24, 2010, MSG Network launched a 3D feed, MSG 3D, available only to Cablevision subscribers in the New York City area on channel 1300; its inaugural broadcast was a game between the New York Rangers and the New York Islanders. This was a one time broadcast and MSG elected not to produce any more telecasts. Channel 1300 was eventually deleted from the system.

MSG+
In 2014, MSG Network launched a TV Everywhere service known as MSG Go, initially available for subscribers on Optimum.

On March 1, 2023, MSG Network announced its direct-to-consumer streaming service MSG+. The service will include live streams of MSG and MSG SportsNet and live streams of all MSG-produced Knicks, Rangers, Islanders, Devils, and Sabres games as well as other live sports, events and programming depending on users area. The service will cost $29.99 a month or $309.99 a year. There will also be an option to purchase single games for $9.99 each. MSG+ will be available for free to subscribers of participating pay television service providers of MSG Networks, replacing MSG Go.

MSG Sports Zone
MSG Sports Zone is a free ad-supported streaming TV channel featuring original MSG studio programming. It is currently available on Vizio and Plex.

Radio division
The radio division of MSG, known as the Madison Square Garden (MSG) Radio Network, produces Knicks, Rangers and Red Bulls broadcasts for New York City ESPN Radio station WEPN-FM (98.7) and other radio stations across the region. Prior to the fall of 2004, MSG-produced Knicks, Rangers and MetroStars games aired on WFAN. The coordinating producer of MSG Radio is Ray Santiago.

MSG Network also presents certain game telecasts with a Spanish-language audio track, accessible through the second audio program feature on most television sets, through simulcasts from its radio partners; all Knicks home games and selected away games that are simulcast from WADO (1280 AM), while a Spanish-language track of Red Bulls and Rangers games are simulcast from ESPN Deportes Radio station WEPN (1050 AM).

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Andrew Douglas Paley (born November 2, 1952) is an American songwriter, record producer, composer, and multi-instrumentalist who formed the Paley Brothers, a 1970s power pop duo, with his brother Jonathan Paley. Following their disbandment, Andy was a staff producer at Sire Records, producing albums for artists such as Brian Wilson, Jonathan Richman, NRBQ, John Wesley Harding, the Greenberry Woods, and Jerry Lee Lewis. He has also worked in film and television, composing scores and writing songs mostly for cartoons such as The Ren & Stimpy Show, Digimon, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Camp Lazlo.

Personal life and early career
Andy is the son of Henry Paley, a college administrator and lobbyist, and Cabot Barber Paley, a teacher and therapist. He is the third of five children and grew up near Albany, New York. His younger sister Sarah is married to former U.S. senator Bob Kerrey. In 2010, he married Heather Crist in a ceremony officiated by Kerrey.

He began performing in his early teens as a drummer and singer for local Albany-area bands before moving to Boston. He was a founding member and the drummer of the Boston, Massachusetts band, Catfish Black, which also included future Modern Lovers members Jerry Harrison and Ernie Brooks. The band was renamed the Sidewinders and was later joined by Billy Squier. The band performed around Boston and in NYC at venues like Max's Kansas City. They released an album, produced by Lenny Kaye, which featured songs written and sung by Paley. The Sidewinders broke up in the mid-1970s. Paley then played on Elliott Murphy's album Night Lights, and performed with Jonathan Richman after the break-up of the original Modern Lovers.

The Paley Brothers
Andy went on to form The Paley Brothers with his younger brother Jonathan, a guitar/bass player and singer who also was part of the early Boston punk scene and had played with Boston and NYC bands such as Mong. They disintegrated as an act in 1979 when Jonathan joined the Nervous Eaters. Although the Nervous Eaters collapsed after Ric Ocasek, who had produced their demo, was not permitted to produce their second album, the Paley Brothers did not reform. Said Jonathan, "It was more of an evolution. Andy went on the road with Patti Smith's band and got into production work; I went and sailed around the world."

Collaborative work
In 1979, Andy Paley played guitar on Jonathan Richman's album Back in Your Life, and continued to perform on and off with Richman and later incarnations of the Modern Lovers, and produce many of their recordings, through the 1980s. He produced Richman's 1985 album Rockin' and Romance. Andy then focused on songwriting, session work and record production while working with Madonna, k.d. lang, Mandy Barnett, Jerry Lee Lewis, Elton John, Brenda Lee, Little Richard and many others.

Brian Wilson
In 1988, Paley produced and co-wrote songs on Wilson's solo comeback album Brian Wilson, and continued to work with him on unreleased material in the 1990s. Wilson described Paley as a multi-instrumentalist with "a lot of talent for anything you can think of. ... He's the most frighteningly talented person that I've met, and the most serious about music."

Film and television work
He produced the soundtracks for Dick Tracy (1990) and A Walk on the Moon (1999) and wrote the original music for Traveller (1997, starring Bill Paxton). In 2009 he contributed to the soundtrack of World's Greatest Dad, directed by Bobcat Goldthwait and starring Robin Williams. He also wrote the musical score for Season One of Showtime's The L Word.

Paley also scored for cartoons such as The Ren & Stimpy Show, and later wrote and produced the music for Nickelodeon's SpongeBob SquarePants. He and Tom Kenny – the voice of SpongeBob – co-wrote the It's a SpongeBob Christmas! Album (2012). Paley and Kenny are also both members of Tom Kenny and the Hi-Seas. He leads the Andy Paley Orchestra, which provides the music for The Thrilling Adventure & Supernatural Suspense Hour, a theater group in Los Angeles that performs original stage productions in the style of old radio melodramas. Additionally he provides music for The Dana Gould Hour podcast.

Discography
Albums produced • Professor Anonymous - Living In The World (1980)

• The Real Kids – Outta Place (1982)

• The Real Kids – Hit You Hard (1983)

• Border Boys – Tribute (1983)

• Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers – Rockin' and Romance (1985)

• Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers – It's Time For (1986)

• Boys Wonder – Now What Earthman? (1987)

• Brian Wilson – Brian Wilson (1988)

• Various  – Shag: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (1988)

• Chris Isaak - Heart Shaped World (1989)

• John Wesley Harding  – God Made Me Do It - The Christmas EP  (1989)

• NRBQ – Wild Weekend (1989)

• John Wesley Harding – Here Comes the Groom (1990)

• Nasa – Insha-Allah! (1990)

• Various – Dick Tracy (1990)

• Richard X. Heyman – Hey Man! (1991)

• The Mighty Lemon Drops – Sound ... Goodbye to Your Standards (1991)

• John Wesley Harding – The Name Above the Title (1991)

• The Greenberry Woods  – Rapple Dapple (1994)

• The Greenberry Woods  – Big Money Item (1995)

• Jerry Lee Lewis - Young Blood (1995)

• The Foremen – Folk Heroes (1995)

• Jonathan Richman – Surrender to Jonathan! (1996)

• Paleface – Get Off (1996)

• Various – The Best Day Ever (2006)

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Dale Minami

Dale Minami (born October 13, 1946) is a prominent Japanese American civil rights and personal injury lawyer based in San Francisco, California. He is best known for his work leading the legal team that overturned the conviction of Fred Korematsu, whose defiance of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II led to Korematsu v. United States, which is widely considered one of the worst and most racist Supreme Court decisions in American history.

In addition to his civil rights work, Minami has been recognized as one of the top personal injury attorneys in the United States. He was named a top ten personal injury lawyers in Northern California in each year from 2013 through 2018 by Law & Politics Magazine. He is regularly ranked as a top "Super Lawyer" and regularly recognized as a "Best Lawyer" by the eponymous peer-reviewed publication.

Early life and education
Minami was born in Los Angeles, California, on October 13, 1946, to Nisei parents who were victims of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. He grew up in Gardena, a suburb south of the city of Los Angeles. He graduated from Gardena High School where he was active as student body president and played varsity basketball and baseball.

He attended the University of Southern California magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1968. He received his Juris Doctor degree in 1971 from University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

Civil rights work
In the early 1980s, Minami helped lead a legal team of pro bono attorneys in successfully reopening Korematsu v. United States, a landmark United States Supreme Court Case in 1944 which upheld Fred Korematsu’s conviction for refusing military orders aimed at the incarceration of Japanese Americans resulting in the imprisonment of 125,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry, 2/3 of whom were American citizens. They were denied notice of any charges, the right to a trial and the right to attorneys. The later lawsuit resulted in the erasure of Fred Korematsu’s criminal conviction.

He was also involved in numerous legal cases and issues promoting the civil rights of Asian Pacific Americans. Among the cases were United Filipinos for Affirmative Action v. California Blue Shield which was the first employment class action lawsuit brought by Asian-Pacific Americans on behalf of Asian-Pacific Americans. The case resulted in a settlement for promotions to Asian Americans, programs to accelerate promotions and a community monitoring organization.. Spokane JACL v. Washington State University was a class action to establish an Asian American Studies program at Washington State University which resulted in a settlement to establish an Asian American Studies program at the university.[13].

Minami also represented a UCLA professor, Don Nakanish, in several grievance claims against UCLA for unfair and discriminatory decisions initially resulting in the denial of tenure. After several successful grievances and a prolonged struggle that became a cause célèbre in the Asian American community, the University granted tenure.

Minami has been involved in the judicial appointment process and in public policy and legislation. He served as a member of the California Fair Employment and Housing Commission. He chaired the California Attorney General's Asian Pacific Advisory Committee where he grew the committee's mandate to more assertively advocate for Asian American communities. He has also been a Commissioner on the California State Bar Association’s Commission on Judicial Nominee's Evaluation and Senator Barbara Boxer's Judicial Screening Committee.

In 1996, he was appointed by President Bill Clinton as chair of the board for the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund in 1996. The board which administered grants created by the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 to educate the public about the incarceration of Japanese Americans.

Minami is a co-founder of the Asian Law Caucus, first Asian American public interest/community supporting Asian Americans in the country. He also cofounded the Asian-American Bar Association of the Greater Bay Area, the Asian Pacific Bar of California and the Coalition of Asian Pacific Americans.

Practice
Minami's San Francisco-based law firm, Minami Tamaki LLP, specializes in personal injury, immigration, consumer protection and employment law. Mr. Minami has been recognized as one of the top personal injury lawyers in the Bay Area. He was selected one of the Top Ten personal injury lawyers in Northern California in each year from 2013 through 2018 by Law & Politics Magazine, one of the Top 100 Super Lawyers for Northern California in 2005, 2007 through 2019 and a Super Lawyer for each year from 2004 through 2019 in the Personal Injury category. He is regularly recognized as a "Best Lawyer" in the United States by the eponymous peer-reviewed publication.

Clients have included Kristi Yamaguchi, Philip Kan Gotanda, and Steven Okazaki. He is counsel to several community organizations, including the Center for Asian American Media (formerly NAATA), and the Asian American Journalists Association.

Awards
Minami has received numerous awards. These include the American Bar Association’s 2003 Thurgood Marshall Award and its ABA Medal in 2019, the highest award given by the association. In 2008, UC Berkeley School of Law awarded Minami its Citation Award, its highest honor. In 2003, he received the ACLU Civil Liberties Award and the State Bar President’s Pro Bono Service Award. A public interest fellowship has been named for him at UC Berkeley Law.

In 1993, students at the University of California at Santa Cruz voted to honor Dale Minami as one of the top-two vote getters alongside Queen Liliʻuokalani when voting on name preferences for what is now the Liliʻuokalani-Minami block at the university.

He received honorary juris doctor degrees from the McGeorge School of Law in 1995 and the University of San Francisco School of Law in 2010.

Partial list of awards

 * Honorary Juris Doctor, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, 1995
 * Boalt Hall Distinguished Service Award, Berkeley Law Alumni Association, 1996
 * Spirit of Excellence Award, American Bar Association, 1997
 * Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month Award, KQED, 1998
 * America's Top 50 Bachelors, People magazine, 2001
 * Matthew O. Tobriner Public Service Award, Legal Aid Society Employment Law Center, 2002
 * Thurgood Marshall Award, American Bar Association, 2003
 * Civil Liberties Award, ACLU of Northern California, 2003
 * Legal Impact Award, Asian Law Alliance (San Jose), 2006
 * Vision Award, Japanese American Citizens League National Youth Council, 2007
 * Citation Award, UC Berkeley School of Law, 2008
 * Justice in Action Award, Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, 2009
 * Honorary Juris Doctor, University of San Francisco School of Law, 2010
 * Silver Spur Award, SPUR, 2011
 * Inaugural From Roots to Branches Award, USC Asian Pacific Islander Students, 2012
 * ABA Medal, American Bar Association, 2019
 * Inaugural Norman Y. Mineta Lifetime Achievement Award, Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies, 2021
 * Yuri Kochiyama Honorary Visionary Award, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, 2022

Other activities
Minami was co-executive producer with Philip Kan Gotanda of Drinking Tea and Life Tastes Good, both of which were screened at the Sundance Film Festival.

In 2001, he was selected as one of America's Top 50 Bachelors by People magazine.

He is active in Asian American community organizations and has served on the board of governors for the Japanese American National Museum. He has been a lecturer at UC Berkeley and an instructor at Mills College.

Personal life
Minami is married to Sandra Ai Mori. They have two daughters, ages 10 and 13 and a dog of unknown ancestry, Coco. He has two brothers, Dr. Roland Minami and Neil Minami.

Publications
"Shikata ga nai: Legal Justice and Asian Americans", Church and Society, January - February, 1971, 6- 14.

"Asian Law Caucus: Experiment Alternatives", Vol. 3, No. 1, Amerasia Journal, Summer, 1975.

"Coram Nobis and Redress:" in Japanese Americans, From Relocation to Redress, Edited by Sandra C. Taylor and Harry H.L. Kitano, 1986, p.200-202.

"Guerrilla War at UCLA: Political and Legal Dimensions of the Tenure Battle", Amerasia Journal, Vol 16, Number 1, 1990.

"Internment During World War II and Litigations", Asian Americans and the Supreme Court, edited by Hyung-Chan Kim, 1992, pp. 755-789.

Perspectives on Affirmative Action, contributor of an article, Common Ground, 1995, p. 11.

Korematsu v. United States: A “Constant Caution” in a Time of Crisis, Asian Law Journal, Vol. 10, Number 1, May, 2003.

Japanese American Redress, African-American Law & Policy Report, Vol. 6, Number 1, 2004.

“One Man Seeks Justice from a Nation: Korematsu v. United States”, Untold Civil Rights Stories: Asian Americans Speak out for Justice, 2009, Eric Yamamoto, Dale Minami and May Lee Heye.

“A Chance of a Lifetime", Pacific Citizen, December, 2008.

Echoes of History – 1942 – 1983 – 2017: From the Incarceration of Japanese Americans to the Travel Ban, Contra Costa Bar Journal October 1, 2017

Echo of History Resounds Today, Hawaii Herald, February 17, 2017

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/2008 Democratic National Convention

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was keep. Mackensen (talk) 23:01, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

2008 Democratic National Convention

 * For the parallel VFD discussion of 2008 Republican National Convention, see Votes for deletion/2008 Republican National Convention.

Speculation. crystal ball, yadda yadda. RickK 22:30, May 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, I find the article to be of some interest, despite the fact that it is speculative. --Sn0wflake 23:09, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. The Crystal Ball rule actually allows for articles like this, so long as it is not original research. 23skidoo 01:07, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, unless you somehow have knowledge that the 2008 Democratic National Convention will not occur as planned. -- BD2412  talk  01:56, 2005 May 31 (UTC)
 * Keep, but I can't find an article for the winners' convention. I mean the 2008 Republican National Convention. :) NeoJustin 03:40, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Notable convention. Klonimus 07:49, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, the 2008 Democratic National Convention's existence is a sure thing, a little more than three years away,and this article will get more and more definitive as time goes on. Let anyone who is interested start an entry on the Republican or third party conventions. ((User: Zulitz)), 11:42, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete but let redlinks stay. This is my first time voting for deleting a page so here goes. Although there will be a convention, there is no information at this time about the 2008 DNC; it is too early, we don't know the speakers, the venue or city. Although there are rumors and preparations, I believe it is inappropriate to write a page for a nominating convention when we have no nominee or even candidates - no Democratic candidate has officially announced running. In addition, the lack of a 2008 RNC page shows it is too early to write a page for the conventions anyway. Plus, the current page appears to be a copy of (old) speculation from the election page. I recommend this page be restarted from scratch in the future (say, after the 2006 midterms) but I am open to compromise. --Blue387 05:47, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. But I suggest we do a complete rewrite, similar to the first version of Super Bowl XLIV . We know that the event will occur in June 2008, thus the Crystal Ball rule should allow this. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 06:05, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, barely. Despite the crystal ball argument, this is somewhat well-founded speculation. Sjakkalle 07:41, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Until firm and verifiable details on the convention are released, this is speculation and opinion.--Alabamaboy 03:13, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into U.S. presidential election, 2008. This is speculation about possible candidates for the election, not the convention itself, much of which is already duplicated in the election article. Unlike 2008 Republican National Convention, this article contains sound speculation about the candidates. A и D я 01D  TALK  EMAIL  02:50, Jun 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge. Android79 said exactly what I was going to say. This is duplicates the 2008 election article and will just create confusion. DS1953 02:55, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and cleanup. This ardent Democrat notes that political conventions are given examples of exceptions to crystal ball policy. This important, certain future event is already being discussed, and discussion will not abate. Xoloz 06:32, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, speculation. I understand that there is usually an exception for political conventions, but this is so far out there to be outside the exception, in my opinion. Wait until either the convention is formally announced, or someone actually declares candidacy. --bainer (talk) 09:01, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge per android. - StopTheFiling June 2 2005
 * Merge per the droid. — Phil Welch 23:29, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Provided people are warned that content is necessarily of a speculative nature I think this article should stay, see Template:Future. John Cross 16:22, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, same reasons I gave for keeping the 2008 Republican National Convention. Falphin 21:34, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.


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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni (born Chitralekha Banerjee, 1956 ) is an Indian-born American author, poet, and the Betty and Gene McDavid Professor of Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Her short story collection, Arranged Marriage, won an American Book Award in 1996. Two of her novels (The Mistress of Spices and Sister of My Heart), as well as a short story (The Word Love) were adapted into films.

Divakaruni's works are largely set in India and the United States, and often focus on the experiences of South Asian immigrants. She writes for children as well as adults, and has published novels in multiple genres, including realistic fiction, historical fiction, magical realism, myth and fantasy.

Early life and education
Divakaruni was born in Calcutta, Indians. She received her B.A. from the University of Calcutta in 1976. In the same year, she went to the United States to attend Wright State University, where she received a master's degree. She received a PhD in English from the University of California, Berkeley in 1985 (Christopher Marlowe was the subject of her doctoral dissertation).

Career
Divakaruni put herself through graduate school by taking on odd jobs, working as a babysitter, a store clerk, a bread slicer in a bakery, a laboratory assistant at Wright State University, and a dining hall attendant at International House, Berkeley. She was a graduate teaching assistant at U.C. Berkeley. She taught in California at Foothill College and Diablo Valley College. She now lives and teaches in Texas, where she is the McDavid Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Houston Creative Writing Program.

Divakaruni is the co-founder and former president of Maitri, a helpline founded in 1991 in San Francisco for South Asian women dealing with domestic abuse. Divakaruni is on its advisory board and on the advisory board of Daya, a similar service in Houston. She has served on the board of Pratham Houston, an organisation working to bring literacy to disadvantaged Indian children, and is on their emeritus board.

Fiction and poetry
Divakaruni began her writing career as a poet. Her volumes of poetry include Black Candle and Leaving Yuba City.

Her first collection of stories Arranged Marriage won an American Book Award, a PEN Josephine Miles Award, and a Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. Her major novels include The Mistress of Spices, Sister of My Heart, Queen of Dreams, One Amazing Thing, Palace of Illusions,  Oleander Girl and Before We Visit the Goddess. She has also written a young adult fantasy series called The Brotherhood of the Conch which is located in India and draws on the culture and folklore of that region. The first book of the series, The Conch Bearer was nominated for the 2003 Bluebonnet Award. The second book of the series, The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming came out in 2005 and the third and final book of the series, Shadowland, was published in 2009.

Divakaruni's novel The Palace of Illusions, was a national best-seller for over a year in India and is a re-telling of the Indian epic The Mahabharata from Draupadi's perspective.

Divakaruni's work has been published in The Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker, and her writing has been included in anthologies including the Best American Short Stories, the O. Henry Prize Stories, and the Pushcart Prize anthology. Her fiction has been translated into 29 languages, including Dutch, Hebrew, Indonesian, Bengali, Turkish and Japanese.

Film, television, theatre and opera
Divakaruni's novel The Mistress of Spices was released as a film of the same name in 2005. It was directed by Paul Mayeda Berges, with a script by Berges and his wife, Gurinder Chadha. Her novel Sister of my Heart was made into a television series by Suhasini Maniratnam in Tamil and aired in India, as Anbulla Snegithiye (Loving Friend). In 2018 the producers NR Pachisia und Dipankar Jojo Chaki secured the rights to a film adaption of The Palace of Illusions.

Divakaruni's story Clothes from the collection Arranged Marriage was adapted into play under the title Arranged Marriage by Peggy Shannon in 2004, 2010, and 2016.

In 2013, Divakaruni wrote the libretto to a chamber opera for Houston Grand Opera, River of Light, about the life of an Indian woman in Houston. It premiered in 2014 with original compositions by Jack Perla and was shown again in 2015 by the opera company Festival Opera, directed by Tanya Kane-Parry at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center.

The Palace of Illusions was adapted into a play named Fire and Ice: Draupadi's Story by Joe DiSabatino and performed in India under his direction. A Bollywood movie with the title Mahabharat, starring Deepika Padukone as Draupadi, is being prepared in India based on The Palace of Illusions. The premiere was scheduled for 2021.

As of 2021, her novel One Amazing Thing has been optioned to become a Bollywood film.

Honors and awards

 * 1996 American Book Award (Arranged Marriage)
 * 1996 PEN Josephine Miles Literary Award (Arranged Marriage)
 * Bay Area Book Reviewers' Award (Arranged Marriage)
 * 1997 Pushcart Prize (Leaving Yuba City: New and Selected Poems)
 * 2003 Pushcart Prize (The Lives of Strangers)
 * 2007 Distinguished Writer Award from the South Asian Literary Association

Fiction

 * Arranged Marriage: Stories (1995)
 * The Mistress of Spices (1997)
 * Sister of My Heart (1999)
 * The Unknown Errors of our Lives (2001)
 * The Vine of Desire (2002)
 * Queen of Dreams (2004)
 * The Lives of Strangers (2007)
 * The Palace of Illusions: A Novel (2008)
 * One Amazing Thing (2010)
 * Oleander Girl (2013)
 * Before We Visit the Goddess (2016)
 * The Forest of Enchantments (2019)
 * The Last Queen (2021)
 * Independence (2023)

Young adult and children's

 * Neela: Victory Song (2002)
 * Grandma and the Great Gourd (2013) (children's picture book)

Brotherhood of the Conch series

 * The Conch Bearer (2003)
 * The Mirror of Fire and Dreaming (2005)
 * Shadowland (2009)

Poetry

 * "Dark like the River", 1987.
 * The Reason for Nasturtiums, Berkeley (Berkeley Poets Workshop) 1990. ISBN 978-0-917658-28-0
 * Black Candle. Poems About Women from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, Corvallis (Calyx Books) 1991. ISBN 978-0-934971-74-4
 * Leaving Yuba City, St. Louis (Turtleback Books) 1997. ISBN 978-1-4177-1097-3

Anthologies

 * Multitude: Cross Cultural Readings for Writers (1993)
 * We Too Sing America (1997)
 * California Uncovered: Stories for the 21st Century (2004)

Personal life
Divakaruni lives in Houston with her husband, Murthy. She has two sons, Anand and Abhay (whose names she has used in her children's novels).

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Kaźmierczak

Kaźmierczak is a Polish-language patronymic surname derived from  the given name Kazimierz.

Notable people with the surname include:
 * Barbara Kazmierczak, American microbiologist
 * Ludwik Kaźmierczak, birth name of Ludwig Kasner, paternal grandfather of German Chancellor Angela Merkel
 * Marie Kazmierczak, All-American Girls Professional Baseball League player
 * Przemysław Kaźmierczak, Polish footballer
 * Steven Kazmierczak, perpetrator of the 2008 Northern Illinois University shooting

 * Jonathan Kazmierczak, photographer

 * Stanley Kazmierczak Keyes, Canadian diplomat and politician

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1922–23 in Swedish football

The 1922-23 season in Swedish football, starting March 1922 and ending July 1923:

Division 1 Svenska Serien Östra 1922–23

Östra

Västra

Division 2 Uppsvenska Serien 1922–23

Uppsvenska

Mellansvenska

Västsvenska

Svenska Mästerskapet 1922

 * Final

Kamratmästerskapen 1922

 * Final

National team results
🇸🇪 Sweden: Frithiof Rudén - Valdus Lund, Einar Hemming - Gunnar Eriksson, Helge Andersson, Harry Sundberg - Rune Bergström, Helmer Svedberg, Per Kaufeldt, Helge Ekroth, Rudolf Kock.

🇸🇪 Sweden: Frithiof Rudén - Valdus Lund, Einar Hemming - Justus Gustafsson, Gunnar Holmberg, Nils Karlsson ( Helmer Svedberg) - Rune Bergström ( Herbert Ohlsson), Helmer Edlund, Per Kaufeldt, Helge Ekroth, Rudolf Kock.

🇸🇪 Sweden: Sigfrid Lindberg - Valdus Lund, Henning Svensson - Ivar Klingström, Sven Friberg, Helge Ekroth - Rune Bergström, Herbert Karlsson, Erik Börjesson, Erik Hjelm, Rudolf Kock.

🇸🇪 Sweden: Sigfrid Lindberg - Valdus Lund, Henning Svensson - Erik Levin, Sven Friberg, Ivar Klingström - Rune Wenzel, Albert Olsson, Herbert Karlsson, Albin Dahl, Rudolf Kock.

🇸🇪 Sweden: Sigfrid Lindberg - Valdus Lund, Erik Lillienberg - Erik Levin, Sven Friberg, Ivar Klingström - Rune Bergström, Harry Dahl, Herbert Karlsson, Albin Dahl, Rudolf Kock.

🇸🇪 Sweden: Sigfrid Lindberg - Valdus Lund, Henning Svensson - Hjalmar Andersson, Sven Friberg, Ivar Klingström - Rune Wenzel, Harry Dahl, Otto Malm, Albin Dahl, Rudolf Kock.

🇸🇪 Sweden: Sigfrid Lindberg - Valdus Lund ( Fritjof Hillén), Henning Svensson - Hjalmar Andersson, Sven Friberg, Ivar Klingström - Rune Wenzel, Harry Dahl, Otto Malm, Albin Dahl, Rudolf Kock.

🇸🇪 Sweden: Sigfrid Lindberg - Valdus Lund, Henning Svensson - Hjalmar Andersson, Sven Friberg, Ivar Klingström - Gunnar Olsson, Harry Dahl, Otto Malm, Erik Hjelm, Rudolf Kock.

🇸🇪 Sweden: Sigfrid Lindberg - Valdus Lund, Henning Svensson - Ivar Klingström, Sven Friberg, Erik Andersson - Rune Wenzel, Harry Dahl, Gunnar Olsson, Albin Dahl, Rudolf Kock.

🇸🇪 Sweden: Robert Zander - Gösta Wihlborg, Oskar Forsberg - Sven Lindqvist, Gunnar Holmberg, Gösta Pettersson-Pejne - Thure Sterne, Sven Rydell, Bror Carlsson, Gunnar Paulsson, Olle Ringdahl.

🇸🇪 Sweden: Sigfrid Lindberg - Valdus Lund, Henning Svensson - Ivar Klingström, Sven Friberg, Erik Andersson - Rune Wenzel, Harry Dahl, Gunnar Olsson, Albin Dahl, Rudolf Kock.

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Neta'im

Neta'im (נְטָעִים, lit. Plantations), is a moshav in central Israel. Located in the coastal plain around 4 kilometres south of Rishon LeZion and covering 1,100 dunams, it falls under the jurisdiction of Gan Raveh Regional Council. In it had a population of.

History
The village was founded in 1932 by residents of other moshavim as part of the Settlement of the Thousand plan. Initially called Kfar HaVatikim (lit. Village of the Veterans), it was later renamed Neta'im, a name taken from 1 Chronicles 4:23: "These were the potters, and those that dwelt among plantations and hedges; there they dwelt occupied in the king's work."

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Invasion of Norway

Invasion of Norway may refer to:

 * 1033 invasion by Tryggvi the Pretender
 * 1567 Swedish invasion during the Northern Seven Years' War
 * 1658 Swedish invasion during the Second Northern War
 * 1716 Swedish invasion during the Great Northern War
 * 1808 Swedish invasion during the Dano-Swedish War of 1808–1809
 * 1814 Swedish invasion during the Swedish–Norwegian War (1814)
 * 1940 German invasion during the Norwegian campaign of World War II

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Brennon Guilbeau

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The result of the debate was DELETE. Postdlf 22:27, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Brennon Guilbeau
No indication as to why he should be here — no notability mentioned. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 22:38, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Ooops; when I first nominated this for deletion, I made a mess on the Votes for deletion page, which neither I nor anyone else noticed. This VfD has therefore not been officially posted.  I've posted it properly now. --Mel Etitis  ( Μελ Ετητης ) 11:45, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Not written by the subject himself, it seems, but by someone close to him. I dub it "friendity" and call for delete. Meelar (talk) 21:47, May 31, 2005 (UTC)
 * no, you guys are all wrong. he is a local legend in new iberia. plus he eats hamburgers with a spoon. if that isn't famousnessnessness, i don't know what is. (Unsigned comment by )
 * Right. Delete. -- Hadal 04:02, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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 * Delete, you can't eat hamburgers with a spoon. -Splash 02:44, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
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 * Delete non notable vanity. JamesBurns 09:40, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; nn, vanity. Jaxl 12:54, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
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Slavery in antiquity

Slavery in the ancient world, from the earliest known recorded evidence in Sumer to the pre-medieval Antiquity Mediterranean cultures, comprised a mixture of debt-slavery, slavery as a punishment for crime, and the enslavement of prisoners of war.

Masters could free slaves, and in many cases, such freedmen went on to rise to positions of power. This would include those children born into slavery, but who were actually the children of the master of the house. The slave master would ensure that his children were not condemned to a life of slavery.

The institution of slavery condemned a majority of slaves to agricultural and industrial labor, and they lived hard lives. In many of these cultures, slaves formed a very large part of the economy, and in particular the Roman Empire and some of the Greek poleis built a large part of their wealth on slaves acquired through conquest.

Near East

The Code of Ur-Nammu, the oldest known surviving law code, written c. 2100 – 2050 BCE, includes laws relating to slaves during the Third Dynasty of Ur in Sumerian Mesopotamia. It states that a slave that marries cannot be forced to leave the household, and that the bounty for returning a slave who has escaped the city is two shekels. It reveals that there were at least two major social strata at the time: those free, and those enslaved.

The Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, written between 1755–1750 BC, also distinguishes between the free and the enslaved. Like the Code of Ur-Nammu, it offers a reward of two shekels for returning a fugitive slave, but unlike the other code, states that harbouring or assisting a fugitive was punishable by death. Slaves were either bought abroad, taken as prisoners in war, or enslaved as a punishment for being in debt or committing a crime. The Code of Hammurabi states that if a slave is purchased and within one month develops epilepsy ("benu-disease") then the purchaser can return the slave and receive a full refund. The code has laws relating to the purchase of slaves abroad. Numerous contracts for the sale of slaves survive. The final law in the Code of Hammurabi states that if a slave denies his master, then his ear will be cut off.

Hittite texts from Anatolia include laws regulating the institution of slavery. Of particular interest is a law stipulating that reward for the capture of an escaped slave would be higher if the slave had already succeeded in crossing the Halys River and getting farther away from the center of Hittite civilization — from which it can be concluded that at least some of the slaves kept by the Hittites possessed a realistic chance of escaping and regaining their freedom, possibly by finding refuge with other kingdoms or ethnic groups.

In the Bible
In the Hebrew Bible (the Old Testament), there are many references to slaves, including rules of how they should behave and be treated. Slavery is viewed as routine, as an ordinary part of society. During jubilees, slaves were to be released, according to the Book of Leviticus. Israelite slaves were also to be released during their seventh year of service, according to the Deuteronomic Code. Non-Hebrew slaves and their offspring were the perpetual property of the owner's family, with limited exceptions. The Curse of Ham is an important passage related to slavery. It has been noted that the slavery in the Bible differs greatly from Roman and modern slavery in that slaves mentioned in the Old Testament received sexual protection and enough food, and were not chained, tortured or physically abused.

In the New Testament, slaves are told to obey their owners, who are in turn told to "stop threatening" their slaves. The Epistle to Philemon has many implications related to slavery.

Egypt
In Ancient Egypt, slaves were mainly obtained through prisoners of war. Other ways people could become slaves was by inheriting the status from their parents. One could also become a slave on account of his inability to pay his debts. Slavery was the direct result of poverty. People also sold themselves into slavery because they were poor peasants and needed food and shelter. Slaves only attempted escape when their treatment was unusually harsh. For many, being a slave in Egypt made them better off than a freeman elsewhere. Young slaves could not be put to hard work and had to be brought up by the mistress of the household. Not all slaves went to houses. Some also sold themselves to temples or were assigned to temples by the king. Slave trading was not very popular until later in Ancient Egypt. But while slave trading eventually sprang up all over Egypt, there was little worldwide trade. Rather, the individual dealers seem to have approached their customers personally.

Only slaves with special traits were traded worldwide. Prices of slaves changed with time. Slaves with a special skill were more valuable than those without one. Slaves had plenty of jobs that they could be assigned to. Some had domestic jobs, like taking care of children, cooking, brewing, or cleaning. Some were gardeners or field hands in stables. They could be craftsmen or even get a higher status. For example, if they could write, they could become a manager of the master's estate. Captive slaves were mostly assigned to the temples or a king, and they had to do manual labor. The worst thing that could happen to a slave was being assigned to the quarries and mines. Private ownership of slaves, captured in war and given by the king to their captor, certainly occurred at the beginning of the Eighteenth Dynasty (1550–1295 BCE). Sales of slaves occurred in the Twenty-fifth Dynasty (732–656 BCE), and contracts of servitude survive from the Twenty-sixth Dynasty (c. 672 – 525 BCE) and from the reign of Darius: apparently such a contract then required the consent of the slave.

Greece
The study of slavery in Ancient Greece remains a complex subject, in part because of the many different levels of servility, from traditional chattel slave through various forms of serfdom, such as helots, penestai, and several other classes of non-citizens.

Most philosophers of classical antiquity defended slavery as a natural and necessary institution. Aristotle believed that the practice of any manual or banausic job should disqualify the practitioner from citizenship. Quoting Euripides, Aristotle declared all non-Greeks slaves by birth, fit for nothing but obedience.

By the late 4th century BCE passages start to appear from other Greeks, especially in Athens, which opposed slavery and suggested that every person living in a city-state had the right to freedom subject to no one, except those laws decided using majoritarianism. Alcidamas, for example, said: "God has set everyone free. No one is made a slave by nature." Furthermore, a fragment of a poem of Philemon also shows that he opposed slavery.

Greece in pre-Roman times consisted of many independent city-states, each with its own laws. All of them permitted slavery, but the rules differed greatly from region to region. Greek slaves had some opportunities for emancipation, though all of these came at some cost to their masters. The law protected slaves, and though a slave's master had the right to beat him at will, a number of moral and cultural limitations existed on excessive use of force by masters.

In ancient Athens, about 10-30% of the population were slaves. The system in Athens encouraged slaves to save up to purchase their freedom, and records survive of slaves operating businesses by themselves, making only a fixed tax-payment to their masters. Athens also had a law forbidding the striking of slaves—if a person struck an apparent slave in Athens, that person might find himself hitting a fellow-citizen, because many citizens dressed no better. It startled other Greeks that Athenians tolerated back-chat from slaves (Old Oligarch, Constitution of the Athenians). Pausanias (writing nearly seven centuries after the event) states that Athenian slaves fought together with Athenian freemen in the Battle of Marathon, and the monuments memorialize them. Spartan serfs, Helots, could win freedom through bravery in battle. Plutarch mentions that during the Battle of Salamis Athenians did their best to save their "women, children and slaves".

On the other hand, much of the wealth of Athens came from its silver mines at Laurion, where slaves, working in extremely poor conditions, produced the greatest part of the silver (although recent excavations seem to suggest the presence of free workers at Laurion). During the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, twenty thousand Athenian slaves, including both mine-workers and artisans, escaped to the Spartans when their army camped at Decelea in 413 BC.

Other than flight, resistance on the part of slaves occurred only rarely. GEM de Ste. Croix gives two reasons:
 * 1) slaves came from various regions and spoke various languages
 * 2) a slave-holder could rely on the support of fellow slave-holders if his slaves offered resistance.

Athens had various categories of slave, such as:
 * House-slaves, living in their master's home and working at home, on the land or in a shop.
 * Freelance slaves, who didn't live with their master but worked in their master's shop or fields and paid him taxes from money they got from their own properties (insofar as society allowed slaves to own property).
 * Public slaves, who worked as police-officers, ushers, secretaries, street-sweepers, etc.
 * War-captives (andrapoda) who served primarily in unskilled tasks at which they could be chained: for example, rowers in commercial ships, or miners.

In some areas of Greece there existed a class of unfree laborers tied to the land and called penestae in Thessaly and helots in Sparta. Penestae and helots did not rate as chattel slaves; one could not freely buy and sell them.

The comedies of Menander show how the Athenians preferred to view a house-slave: as an enterprising and unscrupulous rascal, who must use his wits to profit from his master, rescue him from his troubles, or gain him the girl of his dreams. These plots were adapted by the Roman playwrights Plautus and Terence, and in the modern era influenced the character Jeeves and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

Rome
Rome differed from Greek city-states in allowing freed slaves to become Roman citizens. After manumission, a slave who had belonged to a citizen enjoyed not only passive freedom from ownership, but active political freedom (libertas), including the right to vote, though he could not run for public office. During the Republic, Roman military expansion was a major source of slaves. Besides manual labor, slaves performed many domestic services, and might be employed at highly skilled jobs and professions. Teachers, accountants, and physicians were often slaves. Greek slaves in particular might be highly educated. Unskilled slaves, or those condemned to slavery as punishment, worked on farms, in mines, and at mills.

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The article says the Q5 will compete with the Mercedes-Benz B-Class, but what about the X-Class? —Vespristiano 22:39, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

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Why it's written that q5 is a mid-size crossover, it's compact one, it competes with compact crossovers such as bmw x3 and mercedes-benz glk (not with mid-size crossovers like mercedes-benz ml or bmw x5) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.140.229.101 (talk) 11:37, 26 November 2015 (UTC)

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Okay, here we go again. replaced a more or less fine image firstly. I accepted this contribution since in my opinion his images are a little bit better. What I think is not okay, is how he reverted my replacement of another image. I think this is an obvious improvement, but he just goes on a personal level (again). The image I inserted is less washed out, and the Q5 has less reflections. Probably therefore it was featured as QI and VI on Commons. The fact that is the latest version doesn't matter and I'm totally fine with this argument, although I never noted that argument. The argument of the long standing image doesn't matter as well. I don't want to have this discussion on a personal level, but from an objective point of view. I listed the arguments above and if there is an agreement, I would insert it again.--Alexander-93 (talk) 20:40, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

 * The black Q5 with the Stuttgart number plate is better suited for the infobox. Best regards, --Johannes (Talk) (Contribs) (Articles) 09:57, 30 December 2021 (UTC)
 * The black is reflective and dull just like most of your photos. Also bias much? You two are both German and wanted cars to show German plates, and correct me if I'm wrong but you also worked together photographing the same cars at some point. Your comment isn't sufficient enough reason to replace the image. Alexander isn't even active on the English Wikipedia, he just drive-by here every 1-2 months to dump his photos where 8/10 they are subpar at the best of times and the only time I ever see Johannes is when he defended his friend on these talk page discussions. The fact I don't even want to touch the German Wikipedia with a 10-foot pool just from the unwelcoming and rude atmosphere, all because I didn't speak your language, I don't see the harm in making Alexander's presence here unwelcoming as well. --Vauxford (talk) 15:19, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

 * I've been trying to stay out of image consensus discussions because it's always gets unnecessarily heated, but here I couldn't resist not to voice my opinion. your images usually looks impressive but frankly this isn't one of them. I've noticed you're the one that is usually concerned with blur photos and and this one is actually quite noisy and washed out. I agree that Alexander-93's image is an obvious replacement, it's sharper and less wet as well. Although if I could pick another image I would pick this:

 * Andra Febrian (talk) 15:43, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

 * Argumenta ad hominēs are boring, and I suppose you know this, Vauxford. Your 2017 photograph leaves much to be desired – it is very noisy, blurry, and full of artefacts. The lens's focal length is small (I'd say a tad too small), yet, there are chromatic abberations visible. Best regards, --Johannes (Talk) (Contribs) (Articles) 16:51, 30 December 2021 (UTC)

 * The original image is washed out (making the concave door sections hard to pick out and looking slab-sided) but is otherwise good. In particular, it stands out from the background. The beaded raindrops do show up in the full image but not in the thumbnail. The raindrops do cause artefacts but are only obvious in the full-size image.
 * The proposed facelift image has a lot of glare but the concave door sections do standout. The car tends to blend into the corrugated iron in the background. The much fewer beaded raindrops likewise show up in the full size image but not in the thumbnail. The raindrops do not showup as artefacts.
 * The 3rd image (proposed by Andra) has no raindrops (it rarely rains here in Western Australia), has good light which shows the panel shapes without glare and is distinct from the background. No artefacts. This would be my choice.  Stepho  talk 10:38, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

 * I concur with the above; Andra's proposed image is better than the other two. The vehicle isn't wet, doesn't have distracting reflections in the paint, and the body lines are well-defined. --Sable232 (talk) 14:47, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

 * I didn't know of the photo Andra proposed. It looks similar to the original image but sharper and with a better camera. Lot less duller and reflective than the black one. --Vauxford (talk) 14:56, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

 * I'd argue that the front is slightly underexposed. --Johannes (Talk) (Contribs) (Articles) 22:42, 31 December 2021 (UTC)

 * The front corner detail in the right of the picture is slightly hard to make out. Luckily there is an identical front corner that is perfectly shown - so, no loss of information. This is a very minor imperfection compared to the other 2 photos.  Stepho  talk 22:49, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
 * I also agree with 's suggestion being best. The first image looks fine in thumbnail but very blurry when expanded. The background in the second image is bad, the car blends into it too much and it manages to be both too busy and too boring, in my opinion. The third image has a good background (not too much going on, but not too boring or similar in colour to the car) and the car itself looks fine. A7V2 (talk) 00:40, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

Infobox image
Considering that the car is European the lead image should be with a European plate, because that's how the car was designed with in mind. The American plates look completely off and even the specs are different, imagine if an American pick up truck had European plates — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.119.159.60 (talk) 10:33, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Disagree. Global cars are designed to accommodate most plates in the world. And by the way that is an Australian plate, not American. Andra Febrian (talk) 10:46, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
 * Global car. Aim for the best quality image that shows the shape best. Number plate says "Western Australia" and the image description page says it was photographed in Fremantle, Western Australia - Australia isn't the 51st US state yet. How does the image show the spec? Is the engine visible? Can you see the number of cupholders?  Stepho  talk 23:36, 29 June 2022 (UTC)

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Robert Eads
Entire text reads:''Robert Eads had ovarian cancer, but doctors refused to treat him because they did not want their female patients to feel uncomfortable with a transsexual man in the waiting room. He died.'' Only one page Transman links there and I have added "died of ovarian cancer" to Eads' name on that page; rest is POV - DS1953 22:41, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep and expand. Subject of the Academy-Award nominated and Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary film Southern Comfort.  RickK 22:47, May 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand per RickK, and de-POV if necessary. 23skidoo 01:06, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and expand. Notable character in prize winning Southern Comfort. Megan1967 10:17, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
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 * Keep and expand per RickK. Axon 11:18, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Could someone please add (or tell me how to add) the turnout in the right-left table, besides the percentage of votes for the winning option? This datum is very relevant for a synthesis, as shown quite clearly for the spanish (uninvolved) and french (highly involved) results. jbc

 * Which is the right-left table? I redid the results table in this article earlier today; did I lose anything? — Trilobite (Talk) 23:02, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

the figures given on the right as an overall percentage misrepresent the actual voting in as much as the abstention rates differed vasitly between france and spain. i would recommend ponderating both percentages based on the abstention/participation figures in order to provide a more objective overview.

 * Yes, I completely agree. That's what I was talking about when I said the "right-left" table... I meant the upper-right one! :) - jbc

 * Ok, thanks to Trilobite: it comes from the, which includes a template that appears in may pages, Template:EU Constitution — jbc 00:25, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)