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Il Giornale

il Giornale ("The Newspaper"), known from its founding in 1974 until 1983 as il Giornale nuovo ("The New Newspaper"), is an Italian-language daily newspaper published in Milan with an average circulation of 28,933 copies in May 2023. In 2006, it was considered one of Italy's main national newspapers in Italy.

History and profile
The newspaper was founded in 1974 by the journalist Indro Montanelli, together with the colleagues Enzo Bettiza, Ferenc Fejtő, Raymond Aron, and others, after some disagreements with the new pro-left-wing editorial line adopted by the newspaper Corriere della Sera, where Montanelli had been one of the most important contributors. Montanelli left Corriere della Sera in 1973. The newspaper was first published on 25 June 1974 as il Giornale nuovo, with Montanelli as editor and member of the publishing company board of directors, which included an editorial office composed of 59 journalists. The paper holds conservative and right-wing stances. The paper's headquarters is in Milan.

In 1977, Montanelli, who was in financial difficulties, accepted an offer by Silvio Berlusconi, who became the new owner. In 1983, the paper was renamed as il Giornale. When Berlusconi entered politics in December 1993, Montanelli left fearing for his own independence, and went on to found the short-lived daily newspaper La Voce. In 1992, Berlusconi left the role of the owner of il Giornale to his brother, Paolo Berlusconi. Vittorio Feltri replaced Montanelli as editor. , the publisher of the newspaper, Società Europea di Edizioni, was owned by Paolo Berlusconi (58.3%) and Arnoldo Mondadori Editore (41.7% directly and indirectly). Until May 2005, the paper was published in broadsheet format, when it switched to tabloid format. In May 2005, il Giornale also started its online version. In 2007, the monthly business magazine Espansione became a supplement of the paper. As of 2016, Società Europea di Edizioni was still partially owned by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore directly for 36.90%, which is a listed company that majority owned by Fininvest. It was reported that by Roberto Amodei, the owner of several sports newspaper of Italy, had interested to subscribe the capital increase of Società Europea di Edizioni.

The Berlusconi family sold Il Giornale to Antonio Angelucci (who also owns Libero and Il Tempo) in September 2023.

Circulation
In 1997, il Giornale was the seventh best-selling Italian newspaper, with a circulation of 218,741 copies. The paper had a circulation of 235,000 copies in 2000. The circulation of the paper was 228,198 copies in 2001, and it was 219,363 copies in 2002. The circulation of the paper was 216,000 copies in 2003, and 208,407 copies in 2004. In 2008, the paper had an average circulation of 192,667 copies. The circulation of the paper was 184,882 copies in 2009 and 183,923 copies in 2010. In 2012, il Giornale sold 79,125,210 copies. By 2015, the circulation of the paper was about 68,000 copies.

il Giornale della Libertà
il Giornale della Libertà was a free weekly political, headed by Michela Vittoria Brambilla, and attached to il Giornale. It was severely criticized by its editorial staff, who later went on strike, which was the second time after the departure of Montanelli. The last issue was published in May 2008.

Editors

 * Indro Montanelli (1974–1994)
 * Vittorio Feltri (1994–1997)
 * Mario Cervi (1997–2000)
 * Maurizio Belpietro (2000–2007)
 * Mario Giordano (2007–2009)
 * Vittorio Feltri (2009–2010)
 * Alessandro Sallusti (2010–2021)
 * Augusto Minzolini (2021-2023)
 * Alessandro Sallusti (2023-today)

Columns
The weekly columns published in Il Giornale are as follows:

 * Monday: La lente sulla casa (by Corrado Sforza Fogliani), Radiogiornale (by Paolo Giordano), Il Gervaso di Pandora-Aforismi in Libertà (by Roberto Gervaso) and Il Punto Serie A (by Tony Damascelli);
 * Tuesday: I lapilli di Pompeo (by Pompeo Locatelli) and Box Office (by Cinzia Romani);
 * Wednesday: Teledico (by Laura Rio) and Una macchina chiamata corpo (by Corrado Bait, only in Salute specials);
 * Thursday: La mostra della Settimana (by Carlo Franza), Strisce pedonali (by Massimo Ghenzer), FuoriSerie (by Matteo Sacchi) and Malati e Malattie (by Gloria Saccani Jotti);
 * Friday: Retrobottega (by Andrea Cuomo), Mercati che fare (by Leopoldo Gasbarro), Teledico;
 * Saturday: Zuppa di Porro (by Nicola Porro), Qui e Ora (by Karen Rubin), Rosso Malpelo (by Paolo Guzzanti), Lo Spillo (unsigned), La vite è una cosa meravigliosa (by Andrea Cuomo, in the supplement), #lavitaèsoltantounaquestionedistile (by Marchesa d'Aragona, in the supplement), Un posto a teatro (by Stefania Vitulli);
 * Sunday: L'articolo della domenica (by Francesco Alberoni), Il consiglio utile (by Oscar Grazioli), Biblioteca Liberale (by Nicola Porro), Tagli di Piombo (by Massimo Piombo), Il quadro di Sgarbi (by Vittorio Sgarbi), La bacchettata (by Giovanni Gavezzeni), L'arte della Tv (by Luca Beatrice).

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Chanter Sisters

The Chanter Sisters are sisters Irene and Doreen Chanter who perform both as a duo, and as backing for other singers. They released three albums and a number of singles from the mid to late 1970s.

Background
Irene and Doreen began recording as The Chanters – a family group which also included several of their brothers.

The sisters then went their own way, recording first under the name Birds of a Feather, and later as The Chanter Sisters, enjoying their only UK Singles Chart hit when "Sideshow" entered the chart in July 1976 reaching number 43.

The sisters have been far more successful in their backup singing career. Their credits include work with Elton John, Long John Baldry, Phil Manzanera, Roxy Music, John Miles, The Secret Policeman's Ball, Van Morrison, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Meat Loaf, Joe Cocker and many other famous names. The pair also had uncredited bit parts as schoolgirls in the 1971 horror film, Twins of Evil.

Although the sisters have predominantly worked together, Doreen has had the more extensive musical career, touring without her sister with several of the above named bands. However, the pair continue to work together in the recording studio, providing backup vocals for Chris Farlowe as recently as 2003.

Doreen also found success as a songwriter, being responsible for "Star", a UK hit in 1982 for Kiki Dee.

Songs recorded
One of the songs they covered was "If Only I Could Start Again". This song released as a single in 1977 had previously been covered by The Drifters and was from their 1975 album There Goes My First Love. It was written by Geoff Stephens and Roger Greenaway.

UK 7" singles

 * "Sideshow" / "Goodbye Charlie" – Polydor 2058 735 – 1975
 * "Band of Gold" / "Blue Jean days" – Polydor 2058 699 – 1976
 * "Halfway To Paradise" / "My love" – Polydor 2058 679 – 1976
 * "Just Your Fool" / "History" – Polydor 2058 795 – 1976
 * "Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)" / "When The Lights Go Out" – Safari SAFE 3 – 1978
 * "Can't Stop Dancing" / "Back on the Road" – Safari SAFE 10 – 1978

US singles

 * "Blue Jean Days" / "Cuckoo Cuckoo" – Polydor PD 14327 – 1975

Euro singles

 * "Sideshow" /" Goodbye Charlie" – Polydor 2058 740 – 1976 – (picture sleeve) – (Italy)
 * "Cuckoo Cuckoo" / "Sweet Water Memory" – Polydor 2058 608 – 1976 – (Germany) – (art sleeve)
 * "Just Your Fool" /" History" – Safari 612073 – 1976 (picture sleeve) (Australia)
 * "Just Your Fool" / "Talking Too Much About My Baby" – Safari 	612073 – 1976 (company sleeve) – (Germany)
 * "Just Your Fool" / "Nashville" Polydor 2058 816 – 1976 (picture sleeve) – Italy
 * "Dance Dance Dance" / "It's Too Late Now" – Safari 6.12169 AC – 1977 – (picture sleeve) – Germany)
 * "Can't Stop Dancing" / "?" – 1979 – Germany

Unknown

 * "Sideshow" / "Turn Rolling Stone"

12" singles

 * "Na Na Hey Hey", "Danny Disco" / "When the Lights Go Out" – Safari DOZ1 – 1977 (UK)
 * "Can't Stop Dancing" / "Back on the Road" – Safari / Crystal 052 CRY 61816 YZ – 1979 – (Blue vinyl) – (Germany)

UK 12" albums
Side A: "Cuckoo-Cuckoo", "Darlin'", "Side Show", "Hound Dog", "Band of Gold" / "(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher And Higher" Side B: "Halfway To Paradise", "Turn Rolling Stone", "Blue Jean Days", "All The Young Dudes", "Loving You Is" Side A: "You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin'", "Never Thought Falling in Love (Could Be So Wild)", "Dance Dance Dance", "Talking Too Much About My Baby", "When the Lights Go Out" Side B: "Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Ggoodbye)" / "It's Too Late Now"/ "Sunshine Day" / "Nashville" Side A: "Shoulder to Shoulder", "Oh What A Shame",  "I Wanna Get Closer", "I Love You",  "Born to Lose" Side B: "Can't Stop Dancing", "Cari Blue", "I'll Be There", "I've Got Your Number", "Thanks To You"
 * First Flight – Polydor 2383 382 – 1976
 * Ready for Love – Safari	LONG 3 – 1977
 * Shoulder to Shoulder – Safari	LONG 4 – 1978

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Seamus Moore (singer)

Seamus Moore (born 18 June 1947) is an Irish performer. Moore entered a talent contest and won with his own composition "The JCB Song". After two years, he was presented with a gold disc by his record company I&B Records to mark over 50,000 sales. He has been known as The JCB Man ever since. When touring, he is also known as 'Moore the Hurr on Tour'. Moore ran his own public house in Burnt Oak, Middlesex called Conways 3 from 2010 to 2016.

Discography
Moore has released several albums including:

 * On The Brew
 * Me Galluses and me Gansy
 * The Tinker's Potcheen
 * The Winning Dream
 * The Pie Bald Ass
 * Fluthered on the Moon
 * Cricklewood NW2
 * Mad To Go Again
 * A Tough Yoke
 * Having A Bit Tonite
 * ''Seamus Just Wants To Be Famous'
 * The Traveller's Daughter

He also released a 4-track EP entitled The Big Bamboo which consists of "The Big Bamboo", "The Fly", "Bang Bang Rosie", and "The Pothole Song".

Other hits include "The Transit Van", "Flash The Lights", "The Cobblefighter", "The Lightning Express", "The Crossroads Of Life", and "The Little Honda 50".

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Talk:Dopamine receptor D4

Elongated receptors response to dopamine
"cells with an elongated copy of this gene appear to react more strongly to dopamine molecules." Isn't it the other way around? In The Tangled Wing by Melvin Konnor (2002) New York NY: Henry Holt ISBN 0-7167-4602-6 p. 87 it says "Repeats make the protein longer, which makes the receptor weaker, so that it binds less dopamine." This quote from Konnor matches my understanding, which is that novelty-seeking or thrill-seeking is associated with less production of dopamine; fewer or weaker dopamine receptors; and faster breakdown of dopamine (though I might have some of that wrong), so that high stimulation is required in order to generate enough dopamine to have much of an effect. ☺ Coppertwig (talk) 13:38, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

 * Good catch. I have replaced more strongly with less strongly in the text and included a citation documenting this fact.  Cheers.  Boghog2 (talk) 14:52, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

 * Actually, the various variants have variable affinities for dopamine in heterologous cell expression systems. There's also differences in expression levels in these systems. I'll try to locate the relevant publications this week... — Scientizzle 18:29, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

liberal gene
a study shows this gene correlates with liberal political attitudes when coupled with an active adolescent social life. --Wongba (talk) 21:54, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

I also saw this article. It refers to the article: Friendships Moderate an Association Between a Dopamine Gene Varient and Political Ideology. Available at http://dss.ucsd.edu/~cdawes/Christopher%20Dawes_files/friends.pdf. I'm going to provide a sentence and the link, but in the context of the rest of the article, it's going to sound very contravercial. PCAndrew (talk) 19:57, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

It looks like someone just edited with a link to a pop-science article, I'll delete that and add the real paper (no offense whoever you were!) PCAndrew (talk) 20:01, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

removed sections
I just took the following out because there is no reference to the asserted autism association and the reference cited for bulima does not actually show an association with builima.

, like autism and bulimia nervosa

DRD4 and Early Development (Parenting gene??)
I was reading an article for my developmental psychology class and came across this paragraph saying that "parental quality interacts with the 7-repeat allele of the dopamine D4 receptor gene (DRD4) to influence temperament dimensions related to self-regulation." The article doesn't go much farther to elaborate, but would this information be helpful to include on this page? Linp11 (talk) 15:46, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
 * That addition, phrased that way, would be confusing (though there should be a mention of DRD4's role). Parental quality is undefined, and it doesn't say what the correlation is (positive, negative, etc.). The article does describe a bit more what the correlation is, that better parenting leads to better effortful control(this would be a good psych article to make) for those with the 7-repeat allele of DRD4. I've added in a section for cognitive development. You are welcome to correct/critique my addition. On a side note, I found the study of a "novel toy" to soothe repeatedly distressed infants somewhat sardonic. If you have any questions, feel free to ask.Smallman12q (talk) 21:14, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you, Smallman12q! Linp11 (talk) 17:47, 2 March 2012 (UTC)

Novelty Seeking
I'm not entirely sure the description of the conclusions of the meta analysis conducted are accurate. The meta-analysis suggests that the drd4 receptor may be associated with novelty seeking and impulsiveness, but not extraversion. Zuckerman's work on sensation seeking as a personality trait has suggested also that there is no link between extraversion and sensation seeking, so this meta-analysis would seem to support Zuckerman's conception of sensation seeking having a relationshipy to the drd4 receptor. User:anon 12:42, 13 April (UTC)

In popular culture
I don't want to be the one who adds an "in popular culture" section to this article. They tend to attract trivia, although the subject here is so specific it's unlikely.

The 2020 thriller Fair Warning by Michael Connelly tells a story about an investigative reporter tracking down an incel serial killer who takes advantage of poor government oversight on the commercial genetic sequencing industry to purchase identities of female victims with DRD4 expressed in their genes because DRD4 is linked to risky sexual behavior. ~Anachronist (talk) 02:32, 19 August 2020 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Red plaid menace

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Red plaid menace
Band vanity, played some live shows, terrifying free homepage, one ep relased on Seclusion Records which also has a terrifying free homepage, doesn't meet the mucic inclusion criteria in my opinion --nixie 02:06, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: They have performed a few gigs. Not notable at present. Geogre 02:23, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Band vanity - "very famous in the town of Haddonfield, but not many other places". Sums it up nicely. -- BD2412 talk 02:54, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)
 * Delete band vanity. JamesBurns 08:04, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as above jglc | t | c 17:30, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete see everyone else's reason. -- Lord Voldemort 19:27, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Josh Fogg

Joshua Smith Fogg (born December 13, 1976) is an American retired Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher who played for several teams between 2001 and 2009. Fogg played college baseball for the University of Florida and was drafted by the Chicago White Sox in the third round of the 1998 Major League Baseball Draft. He made his Major League debut for the White Sox on September 2,, and also played for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Colorado Rockies and Cincinnati Reds.

Early years
Fogg was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, in 1976. He attended Cardinal Gibbons High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and played for the Cardinal Gibbons Chiefs high school baseball team.

College career
Fogg accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he played for coach Andy Lopez's Florida Gators baseball team from 1995 to 1998. In 1996, he played collegiate summer baseball for the Hyannis Mets of the Cape Cod Baseball League and was named a league all-star. As a senior in 1998, he was recognized as a consensus first-team All-American, having received first-team honors from Baseball America, Collegiate Baseball and the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association. Fogg was inducted into the University of Florida Athletic Hall of Fame as a "Gator Great" in 2013.

Chicago White Sox
Fogg began his career with the Chicago White Sox for which he appeared in 11 games in 2001. He was traded along with Sean Lowe to the Pittsburgh Pirates for Todd Ritchie.

Pittsburgh Pirates
In 2002, Fogg pitched in 33 starts as a rookie for the Pirates, finishing tied for first with 12 wins alongside his teammate Kip Wells and finishing second in innings pitched on the team. He finished 7th in Rookie of the Year balloting.

2003 was a down year as Fogg suffered an abdominal injury. He would only appear in 26 starts and finished with 10 wins. Although he reached double digit wins, his ERA finished at 5.26 while allowing 22 home runs in only 143 innings.

In 2004, Fogg notched 11 wins, reaching double digit wins for the third consecutive season, and allowed a career low 17 home runs in 32 starts.

2005 saw Fogg demoted to the bullpen for a time as he struggled throughout the season. He pitched in 34 games, 28 of them starts, and finished with a record of 6-11 while having an ERA over 5.

Colorado Rockies
Fogg signed with the Rockies in 2006. That season, he went 11–9 with a 5.49 ERA in 31 starts. In Coors Field, he was 6-4 despite having an ERA over 6.00 in 15 starts. On June 30, 2006, against the Seattle Mariners at Safeco Field in Seattle, Washington, Fogg threw a two-hit complete game shutout while facing the minimum 27 batters. All three Mariners who reached base (Adrián Beltré and Kenji Johjima on singles and Raúl Ibañez on a walk) were erased on double plays by infielders Garrett Atkins, Clint Barmes, Jamey Carroll, and Todd Helton.

In 2007, Fogg finished with a record of 10–9 in 30 games. During the season, He acquired the nickname "Dragon Slayer" after he pitched and won against many of the best pitchers in the majors including Brandon Webb and Curt Schilling. Fogg pitched in three games in the 2007 playoffs, going 2–1. His loss came in the World Series against the Boston Red Sox, who pounded Fogg for 6 runs on 10 hits in less than 3 innings.

Cincinnati Reds
On February 21,, Fogg signed a one-year deal with the Cincinnati Reds. In his lone season with the Reds, his record was 2–7 with a career worst 7.58 ERA in 22 games for the Reds.

Second stint with Colorado
After the 2008 season, Fogg signed a minor league deal with the Rockies. He was called up after making eight starts in AAA. Once called up by the Rockies, he pitched mostly out of the bullpen, appearing in a total of 24 games with 1 start.

Philadelphia Phillies
On January 29, 2010, Fogg signed a minor league contract with the New York Mets with an invite to spring training. He was released on March 20. Fogg signed a minor league contract with the Philadelphia Phillies on March 31, 2010, but was released on July 2 after sporting an ERA over 10 in just 3 starts. Soon after his release, he retired from baseball.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Donna Denize

 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. Sjakkalle (Check!)  09:37, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Donna Denize
Vanity page about high school teacher--BaronLarf 02:07, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: Vanity page or at least advertising for a person who has not yet achieved notability in her career as a poet. Geogre 02:24, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Subject is not notable (at least, not yet). -- BD2412 talk 02:53, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)
 * Vote revoked, see below. -- BD2412 talk 22:52, 2005 Jun 11 (UTC)
 * Keep all teachers as long as we're keeping all schools. RickK 21:06, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep What are you talking about--a VANITY page? It's your vanity. Just because it's someone you haven't heard of doesn't mean it's not someone notable. Donna Denize has won awards for her teaching, been featured on PBS for her teaching and is a published poet---I don't see you published BaronLarf and Geogre. Also, I don't see fellow teacher and published author Curtis Sittenfeld being criticized for having a vanity page. It's not necessary to be on the New York Times bestseller list to be a good writer or teacher. D. A. 8:00 EST (why is everything on this page in a different time zone?) Jun 9, 2005 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.72.29.38 (talk • contribs) 00:04, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: You have references for these achievements? If so, add them to the article and indicate that you have so that people can re-evaluate.  As for whether I am published or not, I should imagine that you have no idea, as I haven't written an article about myself or my real name.  Would it change anything if I were really Dr. Bigshot at Prestige U.?  No.  The least talented child can tell good writing from bad, good painting from bad, and anyone on Wikipedia can assess whether an article is an advertisement and puff piece or not.  Establish the bona fides of the subject in terms other than "Buy my book." Geogre 12:47, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep if the article is correct about her achievements.  T h e St ev e  06:50, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak Keep conditional as per Thesteve. Anonymous user, you raise good points, but please learn to wiki properly.  UTC is the standard time code for wikipedia, as not all the users of en.wikipedia are on the East Coast of the US. jglc | t | c 06:57, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete most teachers but keep this one as a published author. Pending, of course, verification per TheSteve. Radiant_ >|< 09:21, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Donna Denize is an incredible teacher, philosopher, and a friend to all those whom she knows. After just completing two semesters of ninth grade english with her, I am convinced that Ms. Denize is worthy of having a web page on Wikipedia because of her unique teaching style and her love of literature and passion for art. Ms. Denize is committed to educating her students about society's evils and downfalls and convincing the future generations (me) that change is necessary in this country's policies concerning war, government, and education. If people want to know more about her, there should be a medium to inform people of her life, and I believe that Wikipedia should take responsibility for its mission in this incredible web site. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.200.254.34 (talk • contribs) 15:50, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * While I vote a weak keep as well, the anonymous, assumedly 14- or 15-year-old, user is entirely incorrect. "...her unique teaching style and her love of literature and passion for art" are in no means the reason for anyone at all to have a Wikipedia entry. In fact, if someone's wikipedia entry was based solely on their "love of literature," that would be a good candidate for a VfD.  The reason that Ms. Denize deserves a wikipedia article is for her contributions to the field of literature and teaching - not her personality.  In addition, let me note that she is not a philosopher. jglc | t | c 15:54, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Research results
 * Comment: A quick spot of on Google turned up the following: she is a Baha'i chaplain at American University. "The Word Works selected Broken Like Job by Donna Denize for publication..." "Donna Denize, a Smithsonian-featured teacher" has contributed to a PBS course. The Library of Congress lists her as a poet, special guest at a ceremony honouring Sterling Brown and Gwendolyn Brooks.
 * On the other hand, there were only 64 hits for the search string "Donna Denize." 39 of these were unique hits. A good number of them were for another "Donna Denize," a librarian in Auckland, New Zealand. Several others were hits on the internal St. Alban's school website.. I found no evidence whatsoever of Ms. Denize receiving nominations or accolades in the field of teaching.
 * In summary? Ms. Denize is technically a published poet (uncertain as to the status of the publisher - it has certain earmarks of a vanity press). She has collaborated with PBS, but not necessarily in a notable or biographically significant way.  She seems to be skirting notability; I can't make a call on this one. jglc | t | c 15:31, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. In response to the anon 69.72.29.38, I would point out that after this article was posted on VfD by BaronLarf and after Geogre and BD2412 voted, I searched the Internet and added material from several different sources.  That may not have changed their votes but in fairness to them no one should judge their votes based on the current shape of the article. DS1953 16:47, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * In the future, please do not hesitate to drop a note on my talk page if you feel that an article I've voted to delete has been improved enough to substantiate asking me to reconsider my vote. I've withdrawn my vote on this one. Cheers. -- BD2412 talk 22:55, 2005 Jun 11 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable. JamesBurns 01:58, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Ganeshram

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Ganeshram
vanity, not notable carmeld1 02:08, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: A couple of dudes, it seems. Wikipedia does not accept CV's. Geogre 02:26, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Userfy if at all possible; otherwise delete. -- BD2412 talk 02:43, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)
 * Userfy/Delete, I agree with BD2412 --Mysidia 07:21, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn. --Xcali 04:49, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity. JamesBurns 08:05, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as vanity. Jamyskis 09:03, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/San Francisco Bay Area Skyline Blvd.jpg

Bay Area Skyline Blvd

Whilst a good pair of photos, I'm not so sure this is illustrating anything that interesting. I quite like the seasonal difference, but at the moment they are featured separately and don't illustrate any articles on the seasons. -- Solipsist 08:37, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delist - Solipsist 08:37, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delist. -- Silversmith Hewwo 18:08, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - This nomination was voted 11-0 approval when it was nominated (see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_pictures_candidates/July-2004#Skyline_Bvd_images) and I believe that it remains worthy of featured picture status. - Bevo 18:24, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delist. --Bernard Helmstetter 21:50, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - This photo beautifully illustrates the geographical articles it accompanies. --Andy M. 08:44, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - not sure what the gripe is! A curate's egg 19:37, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - The photograph is beautiful. I think it should be kept. --Petrus 03:18, Jun 4, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - I also fixed the captions (the hills are green in spring, brown in summer). Gentgeen 05:00, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep agree with bevo. Zeimusu | (Talk page) 15:36, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - very nice photos. --MattWright (talk) 01:31, Jun 7, 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Fantastic Four (movie)

Page Move
The 2005 Fantastic Four movie is now at Fantastic Four (2005 movie) is comply with Wikipedia naming conventions for movies. The 1994 movie is at Fantastic Four (1994 movie) for the same reason. Since this article cannot in good faith redirect to one but not the other, I've made it a disambiguation page. Once all the wikilinks are corrected, it could presumably be deleted, but it is likely to be created again. -Acjelen 02:33, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Mount Vernon, New York

Missing topics
1. Current comptroller 2. City finances: Budget, revenue sources, property values, audit status, judgment against City. 24.164.189.229 (talk) 15:34, 25 January 2024 (UTC)

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Tim Horner

Timothy Lee Horner (born August 19, 1959) is a retired professional wrestler, best known as Tim "White Lightning" Horner, one half of The Lightning Express with Brad Armstrong.

Early career (1978–1988)
Tim Horner started wrestling in 1978 in the Alabama territory.

Jim Crockett Promotions (1984–1988)
Horner signed to Jim Crockett Promotions in 1984, and formed The Lightning Express with Brad Armstrong. They won the Universal Wrestling Federation tag team title in 1987, defeating Sting and Rick Steiner. They also won the National Wrestling Alliance's National Tag Team title.

World Wrestling Federation (1988–1989)
Tim Horner signed with WWF in late 1988 and left in late 1989. On televised matches he was used as a jobber in both singles and tag-team matches, while at house shows he was frequently victorious over other jobbers including Danny Davis, Jose Estrada, Barry Horowitz, Jose Luis Rivera, Iron Mike Sharpe, Tom Magee, Steve Lombardi, and Johnny K-9 (Taras Bulba).

World Championship Wrestling / Smoky Mountain Wrestling (1990–1995)
In the 1990s, Horner wrestled for World Championship Wrestling as the masked "Star Blazer", and for Smoky Mountain Wrestling (SMW). In SMW, he also played the original "Kendo the Samurai" (a masked samurai gimmick, also used by Scott Antol, Brian Logan, Dave Pillman and others) managed by Daryl Van Horne.

Late career
After WCW, he occasionally wrestled on independent shows in Georgia and Tennessee. He then worked in World Wrestling Entertainment as a producer for its SmackDown! brand, until October 26, 2006. On June 16, 2013, he teamed with Tom Prichard to defeat Bob Orton, Jr. and George South at the Brad Armstrong Memorial Event.

Political career
On May 1, 2018, he was elected County Commissioner in Hamblen County, Tennessee.

Championships and accomplishments

 * All-Pro Wrestling
 * APW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Keith Hart
 * Georgia Championship Wrestling
 * NWA National Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Brad Armstrong
 * Independent International Wrestling Association
 * IIWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Chick Donovan
 * Mid-Atlantic Wrestling Alliance
 * MAWA Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Road Warrior Hawk
 * National Championship Wrestling
 * NCW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Jeff Tankersley
 * Southeastern Championship Wrestling
 * NWA Southeast United States Junior Heavyweight Championship (5 times)
 * Smokey Mountain Wrestling
 * SMW Beat the Champ Television Championship (3 times)
 * Southern States Wrestling
 * Kingsport Wrestling Hall of Fame (Class of 2002)
 * Tennessee Mountain Wrestling
 * TMW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Ron Garvin
 * United Atlantic Championship Wrestling
 * UACW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 * UACW Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Jimmy Golden
 * Universal Wrestling Federation
 * UWF World Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Brad Armstrong

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Talk:Language game (linguistics)

Pig Latin is different then the what the pig latin page says, and from what I know that is the common one.say1988 02:11, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Kingu

Cleaning
I have recently cleaned up the information within the page, as it contained an unnecessary amount of pop reference links and have added additional information. I have also removed the text stating Anu as the slayer of Kingu, as this is not referenced in any other text I am in possession of. 64.179.37.3 (talk) 19:44, 30 October 2008 (UTC)

Expansion
I updated the reference links and added a few modern references, and tried to clarify the section relating to Z. Sitchin. I also removed the Stub tag.Ms408 06:56, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Sitchin/Book of Nod
The Book of Nod is a fictional document. What's more I don't see any reference to Kingu in my copy. If there is a reference, feel free to revert.

I also edited the section on Sitchin to reflect the controversial nature of his work. He goes well beyond just working on Sumerian Astrology, he reinterprets Sumerian mythology into a von Danikenite theory of ancient astronauts and alien invasions.

Ancient astronomy
This article needs information about the Sumerian cosmology in regards to the celestial body Kingu.

For those of you who are being cynical about this, the Sumerians were similar to many other cultures, such as the Romans, who named celestial bodies after their gods (or vice versa!!!)--AI 02:12, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Removed unsourced text
This text seems contradictory to all historical evidence. The Sumerian endonym in no way stems from Kingu. And Shumer was an Akkadian exonym derived from Shumeru.

"Kingu is the eponymous source of the Sumerian endonym for themselves (Sumer being an exonym derived from Subartu)." NJMauthor (talk) 00:53, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Please fix reference
Reference "Tablet of Destinies", cites a modern science fiction book. This could not possibly be a source for the Enuma Elish, which is 3700 years older. Perhaps there is some other "Tablet" this refers to. Someone needs to decide to fix this or remove it.

Moon?
Needs fixing:
 * Kingu is the original name given to our moon.[citation needed]

"The original"? No name before that? That must have been when language was invented, about 200,000 yrs or about 2 myrs ago. ... said: Rursus (bork²) 21:25, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Zechariah Sitchin
"modern day NASA probes and professional astronomers are finally starting to realize Sitchin may be right and started backing away from previous held disbeliefs" How does that article in the link prove anything Sitchin said? Or maybe you can find a more reliable source. And "finally starting to realize"? Sounds like a Sitchin believer trying to use wiki to get his belief across(neutral(and reliably sourced(and facts)) would be nice .lol.). Why not something like "But some modern day astronomers think he may be right". Nothing has been proven yet. All It is, is still "good" theory.Anonni (talk) 16:39, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

 * It is a really bad theory, if a theory at all. The proto-Earth/proto-Moon collision has nothing to do with the asteroid belt. I rather think that the Sitchin theory is a delusional crackpot imagination that is shoe-horning the finding of real science into a preconcieved pattern, which is in disaccord with scientific method. We're mentioning him here because pseudoscience has a place in an encyclopedia too. For us ultra-sceptics, he provides entertainment. ... said: Rursus ( m bork³ ) 16:01, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

 * Reading the article on Zecharia Sitchin I realise there is less coincidence between his imaginations and the Giant impact hypothesis (GIH) than I expected. According to Sitchin, Nibiru is a highly eccentric orbit planet in the outer solar system, while Theia (Nibirus or Tiamats alleged counterpart) was a planet in the same circular orbit as Proto-Earth in Lagrange point L4. In GIH there is no Tiamat. In Sitchin saga Tiamat was in the asteroid belt. In conclusion: no shoehorning whatsoever will make the sane mind perceive any similarity between Sitchin saga and GIH whatsoever. Saying "finally starting to realize" is a blatant lie, beside being a typo. ... said: Rursus ( m bork³ ) 16:19, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

Missing main section
The intro superficially tells us about Kingu and his role in the Mesopotamian mythology, but the article itself does not. It should. There is a deep, fundamental, capital, communal and blatant need of a main section describing Kingu. interpretations and analyses, such as Dr. Y in Mesopotamology, claims that Kingu represents a farmer rebellion ... [just an example, not real!]. ... said: Rursus ( m bork³ ) 16:01, 30 November 2009 (UTC)

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User talk:Peloria

Thanks

Is this the way to respond to messages? I think I'm going to be learning the ropes for a while, making small edits, contributing a bit at a time. But, yes, it's good to have a place not only to read about science but where one can be "working on it". Thanks for the warm welcome. See you around.--Peloria 10:28, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Deva (New Age)

A deva in the New Age movement refers to any of the spiritual forces or beings behind nature. The origin of the word "deva" comes from Sanskrit. According to Theosophist Charles Webster Leadbeater, devas represent a separate evolution from that of humanity. The concept of devas as nature spirits was further developed in the writings of Theosophist Geoffrey Hodson. It is believed that there are numerous different types of devas with a population in the millions performing different functions on Earth to help the ecology function better. It is asserted they can be observed by those whose third eyes have been activated.

In addition, it is believed by Theosophists that there are millions of devas living inside the Sun, the indwelling solar deity of which Theosophists call the Solar Logos—these devas are called solar angels or sometimes solar devas or solar spirits. Sometimes, it is believed, they visit Earth and can be observed, like other devas, by humans whose third eyes have been activated. Theosophists believe that there are also devas living inside all the other stars besides Sol; these are called stellar angels.

In the Findhorn material, the term refers to archetypal spiritual intelligences behind species. In other words, the group soul of a species.

Some New Age sources use the term as a generic term to designate any being regarded as being composed of etheric matter--elementals, nature spirits (including the various types of nature spirits such as fairies, ondines, etc.). The pre-New Age etymology of the term is described in the article Deva (Hinduism).

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Goni, Sardinia

Goni is a town and comune in the province of South Sardinia, Sardinia, Italy

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John Candelaria

John Robert Candelaria (born November 6, 1953) is a Puerto Rican-American former Major League Baseball pitcher. Nicknamed "the Candy Man", he played in MLB during the years 1975–1993 for eight teams, the Pittsburgh Pirates, California Angels, New York Mets, New York Yankees, Montreal Expos, Minnesota Twins, Toronto Blue Jays, and the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Early life
Candelaria was born on November 6, 1953, to Puerto Rican parents. He is the second of four children born to John and Felicia Candelaria. He grew up in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York. He frequently attended New York Yankees games at Yankee Stadium.

Career
At the age of 15, Candelaria attended a baseball tryout where a Los Angeles Dodgers scout called him the best he had ever seen. The tryout catcher had to be replaced with a major league catcher for fear of injuring the stand-in.

Candelaria played as a center in the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN), the top tier basketball league in the Puerto Rico, for 2 seasons with the Piratas de Quebradillas in 1971 and 1972. When he announced he was leaving the Quebradillas basketball "Pirates" for the Pittsburgh Pirates, many were skeptical. The local newspaper featured him pitching a basketball on the front page of the sports section. He had attended La Salle Academy in lower Manhattan and gained fame as a basketball center, including leading his team to a championship in 1971.

Candelaria had his best season in 1977, when he was 20–5 with a 2.34 ERA in $230 2/3$ innings pitched. He was also a member of the 1979 World Series champion Pirates team. On August 9, 1976, Candelaria no-hit the Los Angeles Dodgers 2–0 at Three Rivers Stadium; it was the first no-hitter pitched by a Pirate in Pittsburgh since Nick Maddox at Exposition Park in 1907. Candelaria's second post-season appearance with the Pirates (he pitched Game 3 in the 1975 NLCS) came in their 1979 World Series championship season. Candelaria started Game 1 of the 1979 NLCS and pitched seven innings of two-run ball against the Reds with a painful shoulder. The Pirates won 5–2 in 11 innings. In the 1979 World Series, Candelaria had a rough Game 3, giving up five runs in 4 innings as the Pirates lost 8–4 to the Orioles. He redeemed himself in a crucial Game 6 by combining with Kent Tekulve to pitch a 4–0 shutout.

Candelaria, who stood 6 ft and wielded a mid- to upper-90s fastball with natural movement, remained an effective starter for the Pirates through the 1984 season. He suffered personal tragedy on Christmas morning 1984, when his 18-month-old son John Jr. fell into the family's swimming pool at their home in Sarasota, Florida. John Jr. spent five weeks in intensive care and was then transitioned to home, where he received nursing care 24 hours per day. He was readmitted to the hospital multiple times and spent 11 months in a coma. John Jr. died in a Pittsburgh hospital on November 14, 1985.

Candelaria was moved to the bullpen in 1985. In response to the change, Candelaria called general manager Harding Peterson "a bozo"; he said that the team's ownership valued its racehorses more than its baseball players. He posted nine saves out of the Pittsburgh bullpen, which ended up being a team high on a 57-win team. He was traded along with George Hendrick and Al Holland from the Pirates to the Angels for Pat Clements and Mike Brown on August 2 in a transaction that was completed two weeks later on August 16 when Bob Kipper was sent to Pittsburgh. At the time, he was one of only two Pirates that remained from the 1979 championship team, the other being Don Robinson. The Angels immediately made him a starter again and he went 7–3 down the stretch in 1985 and helped the Angels into the 1986 ALCS with a 10–2 record. Candelaria later said that the trade to a contending team had been a positive change for him.

Candelaria and George Hendrick once confronted their Angels teammate Reggie Jackson about his bullying of Lisa Nehus Saxon. Saxon had been one of the first female reporters allowed in baseball locker rooms.

In 1989, Yankee manager Dallas Green looked to give Candelaria some extra rest at the start of the year, as the pitcher was recovering from a knee injury.

Candelaria played for both New York teams (Mets and Yankees), both Los Angeles teams (Dodgers and Angels) and both Canadian teams (Blue Jays and Expos). He finished his career back where it started in Pittsburgh in 1993, making him the only Pirates player from the 1979 team to play for the Pirates during their twenty consecutive losing seasons.

Tommy John remembered that Candelaria would throw strikes on 0-2 pitches, rather than wasting a pitch outside of the strike zone. "He gave up some 0-2 hits, but got more 0-2 outs, and saved his arm some pitches."

Personal life
Candelaria currently lives in North Carolina, and is an avid world traveler. John has a nephew, Zac Candelaria, who played catcher at the Division I program of Fairfield University.

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Portglenone

Portglenone (from Port Chluain Eoghain, meaning 'landing place of Eoghan's meadow') is a village and civil parish in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It lies 8.5 miles (14 km) west of Ballymena. It had a population of 1,174 people in the 2011 Census. Portglenone is beside the smaller village of Glenone (in County Londonderry), from which it is separated by the River Bann.

History
In 1197, a castle was built in the area for Norman invader John de Courcy.

Much of Portglenone village was laid-out in the 17th century. A number of the area's churches, including Portglenone's Church of Ireland parish church, date to the 18t century.

Portglenone House, a former Georgian mansion in the village, was built c. 1808. Now known as Portglenone Abbey, or Our Lady of Bethlehem Cistercian Monastery, the house was purchased by the Cistercian order in the 20th century for use as a monastery. In the 1960s, a new monastery building was built. Designed by Padraig Ó Muireadhaigh, the new building has won several architectural awards.

Portglenone Forest
Portglenone Forest Park, just outside the village, is classified as an 'ancient woodland'. It contains several marked nature trails and the River Bann flows through the forest. There is also a memorial to the United States servicemen stationed in the area during World War II. The foundations of several Nissen huts can still be seen throughout the wood.

Gig 'n The Bann festival
The Gig 'n the Bann is a local cross-community music and dance festival in Portglenone. It takes its name from the River Bann and has been held every year since 1999. Performers at previous festivals have included Paul McSherry and former members of Déanta.

2011 census
On census day in 2011, Portglenone had a population of 1,174 people (498 households) in the 2011 census.

46.8% were from a Catholic background and 50.6% were from a Protestant background.

2001 census
Portglenone is classified as a village by the NISRA. On census day in 2001, there were 1,219 people living in Portglenone. Of these:
 * 26.3% were aged under 16 years and 19.7% were aged 60 and over
 * 47.9% of the population were male and 52.1% were female
 * 47.1% were from a Catholic background and 52.6% were from a Protestant background
 * 2.6% of people aged 16–74 were unemployed.

Sport
Portglenone's camogie club won the Ulster senior club championship in 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1982 and 1992. Notable players include Mairead McAtamney.

Notable people

 * Bernard Diamond, recipient of the Victoria Cross
 * Emma Kearney, actress (Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Mr. Bhatti on Chutti)
 * Canon Charles O'Neill (1887–1963), author of a version of the song The Foggy Dew, was born in Portglenone.

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Candy thermometer

A candy thermometer, also known as a sugar thermometer or jam thermometer, is a cooking thermometer used to measure the temperature and therefore the stage of a cooking sugar solution. (See candy making for a description of sugar stages.) A candy thermometer is similar to a meat thermometer but can read higher temperatures, usually 400 °F/200 °C or more. Candy thermometers can also be used to measure hot oil for deep frying since it can reach higher temperatures than a normal thermometer.

Candy thermometers have been used by the general public since World War I, although they had been available to professional candymakers earlier than that and were mentioned as early as 1896 in Fannie Farmer's Boston Cooking-School Cook Book. Before, cooks had to use the "water test," i.e., placing a portion of syrup into cold water to judge its temperature.

Types of candy thermometers include liquid thermometers, coil spring or "dial" thermometers that use a bimetallic strip, and digital thermometers, which are often more precise. They may include a clip to attach the thermometer to the side of the saucepan. Some thermometers have markers indicating which stage the sugar is at, and alarms that go off after a given temperature is reached.

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Hassan Rowshan

Hassan Rowshan (, born 2 June 1955) is an Iranian football coach, manager, and former player. He usually played as a striker. He is currently the head of technical committee of Esteghlal.

Early life
Rowshan was 13 when he joined Taj youth team. He initially faced many problems, such as his house being far from the Taj training ground in Nazi Abad. His father used to accompany him to the Taj football and training grounds. His father would either wait for Hassan to finish training, carefully watching his moves or given half a chance would join in a senior match when the eldest fancied a game of football. During their long trip back home, Hassan's father would always talk football to him, never tiring from the subject and always willing to advise and offer tips on how to improve his game and skills.

Rowshan's first success came at the school's football championship. While in the sixth grade at Pasargad Shemiran school, he was a member of the school football team. He experienced the sweet taste of championship at that early age, and thought of future championship and grand occasions. Although the championship was sweet at school level, Rowshan did not seriously consider playing this level of football anything other than a pastime and filling the gap.

His first taste of real football came when a visiting Brazilian youth team was in town for a friendly match. 20 thousand spectators were at Amjadieh Stadium eager to observe and enjoy some Brazilian magic. Somehow the trainer decided to give young Rowshan an opportunity to play the last 20 minutes. This was by all means a very difficult experience for a youngster who never played in front of more than a dozen people. His fear of the crowd and the immense pressure he felt, could not be overcome and the team lost the match, 2–1.

Like many Iranians of his generation, Hassan was born in a family of football fans. His father bought him his own plastic ball, so that he would not bother them while playing football. Hassan played in the neighborhood, and during one of the matches with SaadAbad team, he was approached by Homayoun Behzadi, a national team forward of that time, who whispered to him "You are a complete player".

Later, Behzadi recruited Rowshan for Sharq, a team playing in the third division of Tehran league. His contribution to this team was not too successful and the team failed to gain promotion to the second division and subsequently it was disbanded. Since little Rowshan tasted competitive football, he was determined to join a club in the league rather than going back to street football. In 1969 Rowshan joined Taj club (known today as Esteghlal Tehran), one of the two big clubs of Iran.

Club success
Rowshan was quickly becoming a household name in Iran. With his club, Taj Tehran, he won many championship and trophies. He first broke into the Taj side when he was 17 years old and played his first season in Takht Jamshid Cup. He won the Iranian league in 1975 and reached the second place in 1974. Further he won the Hazfi Cup in 1977.

After the World Cup 1978, although Hasan Rowshan had limited playing time in Argentina, the scouts from several countries discovered his potential and send representations to his club in order to recruit him. Rowshan settled for UAE and in particular Al-Ahli club of Dubai. Jointly with his national teammate, Hassan Nazari, they won the championship for Al Ahli in 1980. From 1982 to 1983 he joined Esteghlal F.C. again for a few games.

In 1984, Roshan rejoined Esteghlal F.C. again, where he could win the Tehran Province League in 1985.

National team success
However, the highlights of his career were winning the football tournament of the Asian Games in Tehran in 1974 and Asian Cup 1976 in Tehran as well as reaching the quarterfinals of the Summer Olympics in Montreal in 1976 and winning the qualification for the World Cup finals in Argentina 1978. During the Asian qualification games, Rowshan excelled. His goals and assists was a major contribution to the success of the team and eventual qualification. This success did not come easy, as his constant runs and skills in maneuvering and dribbling made him a target for some rough tackles, he missed some games due to a serious and long lasting knee injury.

His injury after the qualification games were a major problem for coach Heshmat Mohajerani. When Iran played its first game, Rowshan was doubtful. However, he didn't even play one single full game and scored the only goal for Iran in a 4-1 loss to Peru. After the World Cup 1978, many critics in Iran indicated that if Iran had a fully fit Rowshan, the results would have been much better than what was achieved.

Coaching career
He was appointed as the Technical Manager for Iran national under-20 football team in 2005, however he resigned later.

Football School
When he returned to Iran in the 90s, he formed a top quality football school for kids which was a huge success. Hassan Rowshan Football School was the first academic football school in Middle East.

Return to Esteghlal
Hassan Rowshan became the head of Esteghlal's Football Academy on 6 August 2007. It's understood that he offered a new Football development system based on Aston Villa's academy, but head of Iran's Sports organization Mr.Ali Abadi & Fatholahzadeh refused to provide the required budget (150K USD per year). Iranian press revealed that Hassan Rowshan tried to fight the powerful insider relationships of the club but he resigned later in 2008. Alireza Mansourian took over the Academy. On 15 July 2011, he was appointed as head of technical committee of Esteghlal by Ali Fathollahzadeh succeeding Nasser Hejazi.

Legal issues
Rowshan was sued for libel and found guilty, with a sentence of a fine and lashes.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Conservative Pulse

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. — Trilobite (Talk) 14:50, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Conservative Pulse
"As of April 25, 2005, the forum had 421 registered members, with the most members ever online at once being 67." Smacks of vanity and self-promotion. Virtually none of the 2,000+ Google hits are relevant. See also Austin Cassidy and Stephen Covington.
 * Delete. Vanity. -- BD2412 talk 02:39, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)
 * Delete for the same reason as above. Sasquatch′↔Talk↔Contributions 06:12, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable, vanity.  Kaibabsquirrel 06:33, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity. JamesBurns 08:08, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - not notable. Blackcats 09:56, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity. carmeld1 06:32, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)

^ rather obvious pawns

 * Keep this article was targeted by a radical left-winger for deletion based largely upon the political leaning of the site. Subject site has logged over 1 million hits in the past year.  Similar articles exist for Free Republic and Democratic Underground. Afcassidy 06:05, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep ConservativePulse is an established internet forum for political dialogue and discussion. A Google search for the name reveals three pages of results, most of which are relevant to the site itself and involve discussions on other sites about CP.  Khatores
 * Keep It seems as though this person has never even gone to the site. But, I guess it is easier for this person to throw a fit instead of actually trying to compete. But I guess that's the communist way. Superbug
 * Keep Of all the sites I frequent, this one is the most relevant. As a constant lurker, I find the discussion there quite stimulating, even though I am an infrequent contributor.KhendonZ
 * Keep In addition to aforementioned votes in regards to outside note of the website, ConservativePulse has had its own interviews with presidential primary contenders and is a focal point for several local politicians & candidates both in the major and minor political parties of the US. The One True Fred
 * Rather obvious sockpuppets, methinks. RadicalSubversiv E 14:16, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Rather weak jab at other users, methinks. The One True Fred

 * ignorant of rules newbie Seems to be an advertisement of the existence of the site. At the same time it does tell you about a site you might come across, which is informative. If Wilki has a policy of keeping information about discussion sites, then keep. If not, then delete. No knowledge about whether the article is accurate or biased in the way it describes the site. if it is seriously biased then maybe it should be corrected and kept.Sandpiper

 * 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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Floronic Man

The Floronic Man (Jason Woodrue), also known as the Plant Master, Floro, and the Seeder, is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics.

The character has been portrayed in live-action by John Glover in the 1997 film Batman & Robin and Kevin Durand in the DC Universe series Swamp Thing.

Publication history
He first appeared as an enemy of the Atom in The Atom #1 and was created by Gardner Fox and Gil Kane. His Floronic Man appearance first appeared in the Green Lantern backup in The Flash #245. His Seeder appearance first appeared in Swamp Thing #21. He became known as "Floro" and a superhero, in The New Guardians.

Fictional character biography
Dr. Jason Woodrue first appears in The Atom #1 (June–July 1962). Woodrue is an exile from an interdimensional world (Floria) inhabited by dryads. Woodrue, sometimes called the Plant Master, uses his advanced botanical knowledge to control plant growth in an attempt to take over the world. He is defeated by the superhero Atom. The Plant Master returns to face the Atom and the Justice League.

In The Flash #245 (November 1976), Woodrue uses an experimental formula to transform his body into a plant/human hybrid, with his skin resembling bark and his hair turning into leaves. Now calling himself the Floronic Man, he is defeated by Green Lantern. After a rematch with the Atom and Wonder Woman, the Floronic Man later becomes a member of the Secret Society of Super-Villains.

In Alan Moore's relaunch of the Swamp Thing in The Saga of the Swamp Thing (vol. 2) #21 (February 1984), Woodrue is hired by General Avery Sunderland to discover how scientist Alec Holland had been turned into the Swamp Thing. Woodrue discovers that the creature, instead of being a mutated version of Holland, is rather an intelligent mass of plant life that had fed on Holland's dead body and absorbed his knowledge and memories. The Floronic Man tries to warn Sunderland that the Swamp Thing is not dead, but the General refuses to listen and announces his intent to terminate Woodrue's employment. Subsequently, the Floronic Man traps Sunderland in his office with a thawed and enraged Swamp Thing, who kills the General.

In The Saga of the Swamp Thing (vol. 2) #22 (March 1984), the Floronic Man uses the Swamp Thing's body—now regressing to a plant-like state due to his inability to accept the new revelation about his origins, Woodrue literally eating parts of him—to contact the Green, which is composed of the life force of all plants on Earth. The experience drives the Floronic Man insane; he refers to himself as "Wood-Rue", and sets out to destroy all non-plant life on Earth by forcing the plants to produce an excess amount of oxygen to force humans and animals into extinction, in the belief that he is "saving" Earth from mankind. Woodrue is confronted by a revived Swamp Thing, who reveals to the Green that plants cannot survive without humans and animals, as his actions would deprive them of the carbon dioxide that they require to breathe that comes from humans and animals, forcing Woodrue to acknowledge that his actions are the actions of a man rather than a plant. The Green abandons the Floronic Man, who is then taken into custody by the Justice League after undergoing a complete mental breakdown.

The 1988 Neil Gaiman/Dave McKean miniseries Black Orchid recasts Dr. Jason Woodrue as a university professor who taught botany to Philip Sylvian, Alec and Linda Holland, and Pamela Isley. The character Philip Sylvian, apparently unaware of Woodrue's transformation, refers to him as a "poor old guy" and states: "Last I heard he was in Arkham Insane Asylum..."

The Floronic Man was briefly a hero after the events of Millennium, which led to him to join the New Guardians. In this new role, Woodrue takes on the name Floro. After the death of most of his teammates, he reverts to his original status as a villain.

The Floronic Man returns in Batman: Shadow of the Bat #56 (November 1996). After breaking Poison Ivy out of Arkham with his two underlings Holly and Eva, the Floronic Man explains his past to the Batman and Poison Ivy, telling the story of how he prevented a plot of the Swamp Thing's, only to be killed soon. After scientists manage to keep his head alive, the first thing he comes in contact with is marijuana. Regenerating a plant body, he begins his quest to flood the streets of Gotham City with his advanced and cheap pot. The Floronic Man takes some of Poison Ivy's DNA in an attempt to create a "child". Poison Ivy, in exchange, gets a trunk full of dope money, and is free to walk away. Deciding that she does not want the Floronic Man running the world, she frees the Batman. After a short battle, the Batman notices that the Floronic Man is standing in a puddle, and uses an electrical cable to electrocute the villain, then kills him once again.

The character has since appeared in various other comics and storylines. He assists Starman, Alan Scott, the Batman and others in trying to save Solomon Grundy. In a recent issue of Batman, he is killed after assassins shoot him repeatedly with bullets, although this is in direct contrast to his most famous appearance (in The Saga of the Swamp Thing #21) in which he points out that "you can't kill a vegetable by shooting it through the head". He is one of the many villains who was mind-wiped by the JLA, but he has since recovered those memories.

During Infinite Crisis, the Floronic Man appears as a member of Alexander Luthor Jr.'s Secret Society of Super Villains and takes part in the Battle of Metropolis.

In the post-Infinite Crisis DCU, he is responsible for Pamela Isley's transformation into Poison Ivy.

In 2011, "The New 52" rebooted the DC universe. Woodrue is re-introduced making a deal with the Green by taking care of Alec Holland. Woodrue is later revealed to be the Seeder, now endowed with power by the Parliament of Trees. The Swamp Thing had been hunting him for disrupting the balance of the Green. The Parliament of Trees decides that he and the Swamp Thing must fight, once they have fully realized their powers, to decide who shall be the champion of the Green. As he did in his previous incarnation, he briefly takes the powers of the Swamp Thing, becoming the Champion of the Green, before the Swamp Thing tricks him from within the Green and steals back the title, which nearly kills the Seeder, until the Swamp Thing places him within the Green to save him. He later re-emerges to fight alongside the Swamp Thing against the combined forces of the Metal, the Gray/Fungi and the Rot. He fights the Avatar of the Gray, resulting in both of their deaths.

Powers and abilities
In his original form, Jason Woodrue has advanced knowledge of botany, which he utilizes it to accelerate plant growth. After becoming the Floronic Man, Woodrue gained the ability to merge with and mentally control plants. When he ate the Swamp Thing's "organs", his powers have been expanded, thus allowing him to manipulate plants all over the world for a time. Fortunately, those capabilities were lost, thanks to the Swamp Thing.

Other versions
An alternate timeline incarnation of Jason Woodrue appears in "Flashpoint Beyond". This version has become Swamp Thing and created an oasis to accommodate refugees and repent for his previous crimes.

Television

 * A character loosely based on Jason Woodrue as Plant Master named Straal appears in The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure episode "The Plant Master", voiced by Ted Knight. He is a scientist who discovered a way to use wave patterns to increase plant growth.
 * Jason Woodrue appears in Swamp Thing, portrayed by Kevin Durand. This version seeks to use the properties of Marais, Louisiana's swamp to cure his wife Carolyn's Alzheimer's disease. After learning of the eponymous Swamp Thing, Woodrue collects and eats some of his plant matter before attempting to force Carolyn to do the same, only to be interrupted by Abby Arcane and the Marais Police Department. Woodrue later experiments on himself and transforms into the Floronic Man.

Film

 * Jason Woodrue appears in Batman & Robin, portrayed by John Glover. This version is a Wayne Enterprises scientist who operates in the Amazon rainforest and uses plant toxins to create a super-soldier serum called "Venom". While experimenting on Bane, Woodrue's assistant Pamela Isley discovers his criminal nature. He shoves her into a shelf of chemicals in an attempt to kill her, but she transforms into Poison Ivy, kills him, and escapes with Bane.
 * Jason Woodrue as the Floronic Man was reportedly featured in David S. Goyer's unproduced script Green Arrow: Escape from Super Max as an inmate of the titular metahuman prison.
 * Jason Woodrue as the Floronic Man was planned to appear in Guillermo del Toro's Justice League Dark.
 * Jason Woodrue as the Floronic Man appears in Batman and Harley Quinn, voiced by Kevin Michael Richardson.

Video games
Jason Woodrue as the Floronic Man appears as a character summon in Scribblenauts Unmasked: A DC Comics Adventure.

Miscellaneous
Jason Woodrue as the Floronic Man appears in Justice League Adventures #6.

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Critical Beatdown

Critical Beatdown is the debut studio album by American hip hop group Ultramagnetic MCs, released on October 4, 1988, by Next Plateau Records. Production for the album was handled primarily by the group's rapper and producer Ced-Gee, who employed an E-mu SP-1200 sampler as the album's main instrument. Music journalists have noted the album for its innovative production, funk-based samples, self-assertive themes, and clever lyrical rhymes by Ced-Gee and rapper Kool Keith.

Although it charted modestly on release, Critical Beatdown has since been acclaimed by critics as a classic album of hip hop's "golden age" and new school aesthetic. The album's abstract rhymes in strange syncopations laid on top of sampling experiments proved widely influential, from Public Enemy to gangsta rap to several generations of underground hip hop artists. Critical Beatdown was reissued by Roadrunner Records in 2004, with additional tracks.

Background
Before forming as a hip hop group, Ultramagnetic MCs members Cedric "Ced-Gee" Miller, "Kool" Keith Thornton, DJ Moe Love (Maurice Smith), and TR Love (Trevor Randolph) from The Bronx, New York were break dancers for the New York City Breakers and People's Choice crews. They recorded a demo, "Space Groove", in 1984 and released their first single "To Give You Love" in 1985. Other singles, including "Space Groove" and "Something Else", became popular at block parties and earned the group notice in the underground music scene, eventually leading to the group's signing with dance-oriented record label Next Plateau Records.

The group made a stylistic breakthrough with their subsequent 1986 single "Ego Trippin'". The song's dense, minimalist production featured synthesizer riffs and a drum sample from Melvin Bliss' 1973 song "Synthetic Substitution", and erratic lyricism by Ced-Gee and Kool Keith. The group's 1987 single "Funky" showcased Ced-Gee expanding on his production style, incorporating a piano sample from "Woman to Woman" by Joe Cocker. Before the release of Critical Beatdown, he contributed production on albums such as Paid in Full (1987) by Eric B. & Rakim and Criminal Minded (1987) by Boogie Down Productions.

Music and lyrics
The dynamic, choppy sound featured on Critical Beatdown was produced primarily by Ced-Gee, who used an E-mu SP-1200 sampler. His sampling of early recordings by James Brown, particularly their guitar and vocal parts, added to the music's abrasive, funk-oriented sound and exemplified the growing popularity of such sampling sources in hip hop at the time. Along with samples of Brown's music, the production utilized drum breaks from commonly sampled sources such as Melvin Bliss' "Synthetic Substitution". In the second edition of The Rough Guide to Hip-Hop (2005), music journalist Peter Shapiro notes its music's energy as reminiscent of The Cold Crush Brothers and writes of the album's musical significance, "It may have been a stunning explosion of early sampling technology, but Critical Beatdown remains a devastating album even in an age of 32-bit samplers and RAM-intensive sound-editing software." He also views that the technological limitations of using such a sampler added to the album's style, making the music "rawer, more immediate, and more febrile, like a raw nerve."

Hip hop production team The Bomb Squad has cited the album as a major influence on their production for Public Enemy's 1988 album It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back. Music journalist Jeff Chang writes that Ced-Gee "pushe[d] sampling technology to its early limits, providing sonics that are less bassy and more breakbeat heavy than most of their contemporaries." Shapiro dubs it one of the greatest hip hop albums and comments on its musical legacy, "Recorded at a time before 'street' and 'experimental' were mutually exclusive terms, it ushered in hip-hop's sampladelic golden age and laid the foundation for several generations of underground rap."

Kool Keith and Ced-Gee's lyrics on the album are characterized by abstract braggadocio, stream-of-consciousness narrative style, and pseudoscientific terminology. The Anthology of Rap, published by Yale University Press, makes note of such terminology in Ced-Gee's lyricism on the album's 1986 single "Ego Trippin'", particularly the lines "Usin' frequencies and data, I am approximate / Leaving revolutions turning, emerging chemistry / With the precise implications, achieved adversively". Kool Keith's rhymes are manic and expressed in a staccato pace. His lyrics on "Ego Trippin'" also criticize the musical aesthetic of old school hip hop artists at the time: "They use the simple back and forth, the same old rhythm / That a baby can pick up and join right with them / But their rhymes are pathetic, they think they copasetic / Using nursery terms, at least not poetic".

Critical reception
AllMusic editor Stanton Swihart found the production innovative and deemed Critical Beatdown "an undeniable hip-hop classic [...] one of the finest rap albums from the mid- to late-'80s 'new school' in hip-hop." He noted the "lyrical invention" of Kool Keith and Ced-Gee's respective styles, adding that "Somewhere in the nexus between the two stylistic extremes, brilliant music emanated. Critical Beatdown maintains all its sharpness and every ounce of its power, and it has not aged one second since 1988." Writing for Trouser Press, Jeff Chang called it "an amazing debut" and complimented Kool Keith's "shifty rhyme patterns". Pitchfork's Alex Linhardt called it "a flawless album—one that stands tall today as one of Golden Age's most ageless," lauding Kool Keith's "lyrical ingenuity" and citing Ced-Gee as "the source of the album's most insane, digitalk-quantum gibberish, spouting lines [...] [T]hey should be studied in seminars alongside general relativity." Linhardt attributed its music's "surging psychosis" to DJ Moe Love's turntablism and Ced-Gee's dense funk sampling, particularly his arrangement of vocal samples, writing that they "are ingrained in the very fabric of the beat, concealed and crippled amidst the relentlessly fuzzing bass. And like most great rap albums, many of them come from the patron saint of yelps, James Brown, and flurry and flux with such abstraction and chaos that they make the beats feel deceptively fast-paced."

Melody Maker stated in a retrospective review, "full of scratch-tastic heavy beat, gold plated hip hop which manages to combine the minimalist ground-breaking Sugar Hill sounds with the show-no-mercy aural assault of the then-emerging Public Enemy." NME critic Angus Batey called it "a bona fide classic." Sputnikmusic's Louis Arp noted the group's sound as "developed solely around the sampler" and stated, "Critical Beatdown's notoriety as one of hip-hop's first copyright offenders is more than slightly impressive ... Those grooves, the lyrics and the all around unique feel of the album make for some innovating hip-hop." Arp commented that the album "marks a sign of hip-hop's early burgeoning creative maturity" and praised Ced-Gee's "method of chopping up samples, rather than simply looping them like most of his contemporaries did, essentially changed the way the producer approached the hip-hop beat". Rolling Stone writer Peter Relic cited it as the group's "quintessential release." Colin Larkin, writing in The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, said that it "served as a direct influence on the 'Daisy Age' rap of subsequent acts such as De La Soul and PM Dawn", while singles such as "Give the Drummer Some" showed the Ultramagnetic MCs "in their best light: call and response raps demonstrating individual members self-espoused talent in the best traditions of the old school." In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (2004), journalist Kembrew McLeod called the album "a bona fide classic of hip-hop's 'golden age' of the late '80s and early '90s, an album that was mostly ignored at the time but whose reputation has grown exponentially in the years since."

Personnel
Credits for Critical Beatdown adapted from Allmusic.

 * Carlton Batts – mastering
 * Janette Beckman – photography
 * Ced-Gee – engineer, producer, vocals
 * Kool Keith – vocals
 * Andre Harrell – executive producer
 * Kimberly Brathwaite Moore – production coordination
 * Paul C – producer

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Silmido

Silmido, or Silmi Island, is an uninhabited island in Incheon, South Korea. It is in the Yellow Sea, and has an area of about 0.25 km2 (62 acres). It is closest to Muuido, which is connected to the mainland by ferry. It is about 5 kilometres (3 miles) southwest of Yongyu Island, which has Incheon International Airport. Most of the island consists of hills that are around 80 metres (300') high.

Unit 684
On January 21, 1968, a group of 31 North Korean military soldiers were sent to South Korea by Kim Il Sung to kill President Park Chung Hee. A firefight began when the commandos were just 800 yards from the Blue House (the South Korean Presidential Palace). The attempt was halted.

In retaliation for the attack, South Korea established a secret military unit, Unit 684, to assassinate Kim Il Sung. From January 21, 1968 to August 23, 1971, Silmido served as the training ground for the unit. Under circumstances which remain unclear, the members of the group mutinied and went to Seoul in 1971, where they were killed or committed suicide.

The 2003 film Silmido is about Unit 684 and depicts the island.

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Doesn't make sense...they were from the south or the north? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.137.230.163 (talk) 22:57, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

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Laburnum (disambiguation)

Laburnum is a genus of tree in the family Fabaceae.

Laburnum may also refer to:

Places

 * Laburnum, Victoria, an area of Melbourne, Australia
 * Laburnum railway station
 * Laburnum Avenue, in Richmond, Virginia, United States

Plants

 * Broom laburnum (+ Laburnocytisus 'Adamii'), a graft-chimaera
 * Dalmatian laburnum (Petteria ramentacea)
 * Indian laburnum (Cassia fistula)

Ships

 * HMMS Laburnum, a minelayer of the Royal Malaysian Navy
 * HMS Laburnum (1915), a sloop of the Royal Navy
 * USS Laburnum (1864), a steamer of the United States Navy

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Flamer's Bible

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Flamer's Bible
Possibly funny (how would I know) but definitely original research. BJAODN if you like, but delete Denni ☯ 02:22, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)
 * BJAODN. Nonencyclopedic, but rotfl funny. -- BD2412 talk 02:41, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)
 * Clearly, the author, if he really exists, is a member of a vast conspiracy of delusional trolls and, ipso facto, should be sued for intentional infliction of emotional distress, or at least forced to eat his mother's over-boiled vegetables.  Or else just Delete. DS1953 04:00, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete not funny enough for BJAODN though. JamesBurns 08:07, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * BJAODN, but just marginally. I had a giggle anyway. Jamyskis 09:05, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Not encyclopedic, text dump. (Appears a number of places on Internet, such as .) Delete, a BJAODN candidate. - Mike Rosoft 09:14, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * heh. BJAODN at most. jglc | t | c 18:40, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * BJAODN. --Carnildo 21:45, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * OMG, how funny. BJAODN. Hermione1980 23:14, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Unencyclopedic and appears copied from somewhere. Double Blue  (Talk) 00:30, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * KEEP IT. Flaming is long Internet tradition. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.56.68.73 (talk • contribs) 03:24, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * But the Flamer's Bible is not. jglc | t | c 06:58, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * That's why we have an article on flaming. Denni ☯ 00:38, 2005 Jun 11 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Austin Cassidy

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Austin Cassidy
Vanity. 267 Google hits, many blog comments and such authored by Mr. Cassidy. See also Conservative Pulse and Stephen Covington. RadicalSubversiv E 02:22, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Userfy if at all possible. Otherwise, delete. -- BD2412 talk 02:37, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)
 * Delete it. --Hooperbloob 02:59, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Userfy to User:Afcassidy. the wub (talk) 08:02, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity. JamesBurns 08:08, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Vanity. Wikipedia is not a provider of space for self-promotion. Delete. - Mike Rosoft 17:34, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity, non-notable student promotion. jglc | t | c 18:49, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The weston high school journal

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The weston high school journal
It is just a high school newspaper. The article doesn't establish why the school newspaper is notable. Chill Pill Bill 02:23, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete, notability not established. Mr Bound 02:31, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Weston High School. Oh, wait, there's no article on the high school itself. Delete. -- BD2412 talk 02:35, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)
 * Delete Lack of notability --Mysidia 07:22, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable. JamesBurns 08:07, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: A HS paper, but at least this one is properly titled. (Tired of article titles like The Acorn, where that's the name of a few thousand school papers.) Geogre 11:37, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete pretty much all high school newspapers. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 12:43, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. There doesn't seem to be any other verifiable information to add to it. If there was a Weston High School, Connecticut, I would vote merge. Double Blue  (Talk) 00:42, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Quick, someone click on that red link and make another pointless and unencyclopedic high school stub. Delete Proto 11:05, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete for nn. Pointless article. --Lord Voldemort 13:53, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable. -- Joolz 14:12, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Big Yellow Taxi

"Big Yellow Taxi" is a song written, composed, and originally recorded by Canadian singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell in 1970, and originally released on her album Ladies of the Canyon. It was a hit in her native Canada (No. 14) as well as Australia (No. 6) and the UK (No. 11). It only reached No. 67 in the US in 1970, but was later a bigger hit there for her in a live version released in 1974, which peaked at No. 24. Charting versions have also been recorded by The Neighborhood (who had the original top US 40 hit with the track in 1970, peaking at No. 29), and most notably by Amy Grant in 1994 and Counting Crows in 2002. The song was also sampled in Janet Jackson's "Got 'til It's Gone" (1997).

Mitchell's composition and recording
In 1996, speaking to journalist Robert Hilburn, Mitchell said this about writing the song:

"I wrote 'Big Yellow Taxi' on my first trip to Hawaii. I took a taxi to the hotel and when I woke up the next morning, I threw back the curtains and saw these beautiful green mountains in the distance. Then, I looked down and there was a parking lot as far as the eye could see, and it broke my heart […] this blight on paradise. That's when I sat down and wrote the song."

The song is known for its environmental concern – "They paved paradise to put up a parking lot" and "Hey farmer, farmer, put away that DDT now" – and sentimental sound. The line "They took all the trees, and put 'em in a tree museum / And charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em" refers to Foster Botanical Garden in downtown Honolulu, which is a living museum of tropical plants, some rare and endangered.

In the song's final verse, the political gives way to the personal. Mitchell recounts the departure of her "old man" in the eponymous "big yellow taxi", which may refer to the old Metro Toronto Police patrol cars, which until 1986 were painted yellow. In many covers the departed one may be interpreted as variously a boyfriend, a husband or a father. The literal interpretation is that he is walking out on the singer by taking a taxi; otherwise it is assumed he is being taken away by the authorities.

Mitchell's original recording was first released as a single and then, as stated above, included on her 1970 album Ladies of the Canyon. A later live version was released in 1974 (1975 in France and Spain) on Miles of Aisles and reached No. 24 on the U.S. charts. Billboard regarded the live version as "more full of life" than any of the singles Mitchell released in a long time. Cash Box called the live version "a great rendition of this excellent lyrical song."

In 1995, to coincide with the song's inclusion in the American sitcom Friends, the song was rereleased as a maxi-single with new remixes in a variety of styles.

The song still receives significant airplay in Canada; in 2005, it was voted No. 9 on CBC's list of the top 50 essential Canadian tracks.

In 2007, Joni Mitchell released the album Shine, which includes a newly recorded, rearranged version of the song.

Music video
An animated music video of Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi" was produced by John Wilson of Fine Arts Films as an animated short for the Sonny and Cher television show in the mid-1970s. The only commercial release of this full-length music video was in the Video Gems home video release on VHS titled John Wilson's Mini Musicals, also released as The Fantastic All-Electric Music Movie. The home video also contains an animated music video of Mitchell's song "Both Sides, Now".

Track listing
1995 maxi-single
 * 1) "Big Yellow Taxi" (Radio Mix)
 * 2) "Big Yellow Taxi" ("Friends" Album Version)
 * 3) "Big Yellow Taxi" (Late Night Club Mix)
 * 4) "Big Yellow Taxi" (N.Y. Cab To Club Mix)
 * 5) "Big Yellow Taxi" (Double Espresso NRG Mix)
 * 6) "Big Yellow Taxi" (Tribal Dub)
 * 7) "Big Yellow Taxi" (Original A Cappella with Guitar)

Amy Grant version
In 1995, American singer Amy Grant released a cover of "Big Yellow Taxi" to pop and adult contemporary radio in the United States and United Kingdom. The song was the fourth (third in the US) pop radio single from her 1994 album, House of Love. Grant's version featured slightly altered lyrics, which she changed at Joni Mitchell's request.

The cover peaked at No. 67 on the US Billboard Hot 100, No. 25 in Canada, No. 20 on the UK Singles Chart, and No. 4 in Iceland. Grant also released a music video for the single, which was aired in the US and UK and released to home video on Grant's Greatest Videos 1986-2004 DVD. Grant also performed the song for her 2006 concert album, Time Again... Amy Grant Live.

Track listings
US CD single
 * 1) "Big Yellow Taxi" (Paradise Mix)
 * 2) "Big Yellow Taxi" (Alternative Paradise Mix)
 * 3) "Big Yellow Taxi" (LP Version)

UK CD single
 * 1) "Big Yellow Taxi" (Paradise Mix)
 * 2) "House of Love" (South Street Mix)
 * 3) "Every Heartbeat" (Piano Mix)
 * 4) "Lucky One"

Counting Crows and Vanessa Carlton version
In 2002, Counting Crows covered the song with backing vocals by Vanessa Carlton. It was included on the soundtrack to the film Two Weeks Notice. Originally, the song was a hidden track on the band's 2002 album Hard Candy, and it did not include Carlton until it was to be featured in the film. New releases of the album included it as a track with her added, as with her in the video (which was shot on Coney Island, Brooklyn, and in nearby Bensonhurst), although Counting Crows and Carlton neither appeared in the video together nor recorded together. This version slightly changed Mitchell's original lyrics to describe when the eponymous taxi "took my girl away", instead of Mitchell's "took away my old man". The original version of the song without Vanessa was included on the album Nolee Mix, which was released to promote the My Scene dolls.

This cover reached No. 42 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and entered the top five on three other Billboard listings. The song became the band's only top-20 single in the United Kingdom, peaking at No. 13, and it reached the top 10 in Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand. The single was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA).

Music video
The music video features the Counting Crows performing on a boardwalk in Coney Island, New York. Vanessa Carlton also walks around the streets and sings along to the song. Several people are shown looking back at mirages of past relationships or friendships that they regret losing. Meanwhile, a yellow taxi drives through the streets, calling the attention of the Crows, Carlton, and the former couples. The taxis are transporting mirage of themselves or their former significant other, with some trying to chase after it. The "big yellow taxi [that] took my old man/girl away". One former couple does in fact again meet face to face.

Critical reception
The Village Voice named this cover the worst song of the 2000s, and the Village Voice's scathing review of the cover is archived on Joni Mitchell's website. The review derided the cover as having paved paradise (Mitchell's original song) and put up a parking lot. "Adam, we don't know if you misunderstood the song's anti-globalization, anti-industrialization, anti-corporation message, or just chose to ignore it so you could get free Frappucinos for life. But we're gonna hip you to a harsh reality. Seriously, you know the line about how they 'paved paradise and put up a parking lot?' Like how they replaced something beautiful with something cold and heartless and commercial? That's you. You're the parking lot, motherfucker. You drove your shitty steamroller over something everyone loved so you could pander your sensitive pussyhound whine to people waiting in line at the Carl's Jr. They paved Nirvana and put up a Counting Crow. Argh!" Additionally, NME also included this cover on its list of the worst songs of the 2000s, and Ultimate Classic Rock highlighted this song in its Terrible Classic Rock Covers series. In April 2022, American Songwriter ranked "Big Yellow Taxi" at number 10 on their list of "The Top 10 Counting Crows Songs".

Other notable cover versions
According to Mitchell's official Website, "'Big Yellow Taxi' has been recorded by 556 other artists" as of June 5, 2023. Some notable versions include:
 * A single version by Chicago band the Neighborhood reached the Billboard Top 40 chart (No. 29) in the summer of 1970. It also peaked at number 19 in Australia.
 * A cover of the song was featured on the 1973 album Dylan by Bob Dylan. It received unfavorable critical reception.
 * The punk band Pinhead Gunpowder covered the song on their 1994 album Jump Salty.
 * In 1996, "Big Yellow Taxi (Traffic Jam Mix)" peaked on the U.S. dance charts at No. 39 and was part of the soundtrack album to Friends: Music from the TV Series.
 * This song is sampled by Labrinth in the song "Sundown," from his debut 2012 album Electronic Earth.
 * Lyrics from this song are referenced in the Manfred Mann's Earth Band song Lies (Through the 80s) from the album Chance where in the chorus they sing “Pull up the trees and put up a parking lot".

title: Big Yellow Taxi