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User talk:Monicasdude

I ain't gonna work on Jimbo's farm no more
I was disgusted, but not terribly surprised, to see that six members of the Arbitration Committee -- Dmcdevit, Fred Bauder, JamesF/James D. Forrester, Sean Barrett/The Epopt, Charles Matthews and Jayjg -- condone hate speech and hateful epithets directed at the mentally disabled, and consider condemnation of that hate speech to be unacceptable behavior on Wikipedia -- behavior, in fact, so unacceptable that they say they find it a compelling reason to punish me.

I was a bit more surprised when an earlier form of this letter (differing only in describing the status of the pending arbitration, aside from this paragraph) was banned without explantion from the Wikipedia mailing list where such topics could supposedly be discussed. But I was appalled when discussions on that list, regarding a named editor, turned to open derision of the editor's supposed emotional/mental impairments, and that one Arbitration Committee member participated in the abuse.

As someone who has been involved for more than thirty years, professionally and nonprofessionally, in attempting to protect and to advance the rights of the mentally disabled, and as someone who for many years has served, and continues to serve as a guardian for such disabled members of my community. I find the use of such epithets grossly offensive; they are clearly inconsistent with Wikipedia's supposed commitment to civility. They form no part of civil discourse in any circumstances. They are particularly deserving of condemnation because they are directed toward, in very real terms attack, and have the greatest tendency to injure, a class of people who are less able, sometimes unable, to defend themselves, to resist the impact, or to respond on equal terms. [And, as a note to the politically correct, it is for that reason that I will not use the abominable term "mentally challenged," because it denies (sometimes grossly minimizes) the imbalances of social power that inhere in the relationships between the mentally disabled and the "unchallenged" elements of any community.]

It should be no secret, no obscure facet of social fabric, that the mentally disabled, particularly the mentally retarded, are at greater risk than almost any other segment of a society. More likely to be the victims of physical attacks. More likely to be neglected by governments, particularly when their needs are greatest. In the relatively rare instances when they have substantial assets, they are more likely to have their assets stolen, particularly at the hands of those actors on whom a government has conferred power over them. They are more likely to be degraded and exploited by industries which purport to protect them and to serve their interests. More like to be the victims of sexual assaults, particularly of organized, group sexual assaults.

The casual use of such hateful epithets does not only harm the individuals it targets. It causes pain, often great pain to many others. It regularly inflicts pain on those with brothers and sisters, with parents, with children, with friends, with acquaintances, even with clients, who are abused and dehumanized by such behavior. It regularly inflicts pain on so many of those who deal, day by day, with lesser mental and emotional impairments, whether they choose to acknowledge those impairments, publicly or privately, or not.

I am quite proud that a self-styled community which apparently condones such behavior and condemns opposition to it finds me such a danger to it and its values that it is preparing to forcibly separate me from it. Nothing I have contributed to this curious place makes me more proud, and I doubt anything else could.

Monicasdude

Your case before the ArbCom
I haven't followed your case closely, but its clear to me that you are a highly intelligent, highly literate, no-nonsense contributor of value to the project. It's also clear to me that you're being unfairly singled out for alleged conduct which is widespread and which usually goes unremarked upon when indulged in by others (some of whom are the chief complainants -- and deliberators -- against you).

It's no secret that I hold the ArbCom in contempt. I think the proposed sanctions against you are relative b.s. (but fairly par for the course). If for any reason you decide to continue to edit here and wish to weigh in on a VfD/Afd proceeding in any way, shape or form, I invite you to pass on your concerns/commentary to me (assuming I'm still here, something which I wouldn't lay odds on). I have not been banned -- yet -- from the VfD/Afd process and would be all too happy to pass your opinions on, provided I have no strenuous objection to them. The sanction being considered in this regard is, IMO, overly harsh --particularly in light of the fact that over-the-top, off-subject and often nasty commentary is par for the course in such matters and goes on constantly and usually without comment of any sort by the civility patrol. The ArbCom case complaints are just another example of a "piling on" phenomenon, which is a particular sickness of the project.

I, frankly, have lost my taste for contributing to the project, other than directing/commenting upon systemic bias and the contributions of others and doing vandalism/racism patrol on various articles. It's simply not worth the aggravation and time wasting caused by precisely the kind of animus- and ignorance-motivated Afd/Vfd-ing and carping and complaining you address in the ArbCom proceeding. Like you, I suspect, I have better things to do with my time.

And so it would surprise me not at all should you leave the project. It's a trend, it seems. And the project -- already a cesspool of biases/racism; abysmal ignorance; WASP-ish provincialism; and administrative misfeasance, malfeasance, malice and abject ineptitude/incompetence -- is the poorer for it. Peace 2 u. deeceevoice 05:31, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

Requests for arbitration/Monicasdude closed
This arbitration case is closed.

Monicasdude is placed on standard civility parole for one year. If he makes any edits which are judged by an administrator to be uncivil, personal attacks, or assumptions of bad faith, then he may be blocked for a short time of up to one week for repeat offenses. Monicasdude is banned from making edits related to the deletion process (excepting obvious vandalism and copyright problems) for one year. This is to be interpreted broadly, and includes, but is not limited to, commenting on articles for deletion nominations and removals of nominations for proposed deletion and speedy deletion. He may be blocked for a short time of up to one week for repeat offenses. After 5 such blocks, the maximum block time is increased to a year.

Should Monicasdude violate any ban imposed by this decision he may be briefly blocked, up to a week for repeat offenses. After 5 such blocks, the maximum block time is increased to a year. All blocks to be logged at Requests_for_arbitration/Monicasdude.

For the Arbitration Committee, --Ryan Delaney talk 08:17, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

You've done some good work
I have left a couple of thank you notes on your talk page in the past, when I've noticed you have done some good research on AfD subjects, bringing to light information about the subject, which other editors were not aware of and had not done any research to find out. I understand your frustration that there can at times seem to be a lower standard of inquiry than one would hope for, and that furthermore you may not wish to continue in an arena where this occurs. However, there are also editors who maintain the highest standards. In fact, as Wiki is an open project there's editors in all shapes and sizes, and all levels of ability. You would certainly be an asset if you continue to employ your talents on Wiki, and helped others to develop their abilities also. Tyrenius 17:48, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

You have my support
I managed to link to this page from the talk pages of some people, and despite the fact that I have little to nothing to do with your editing practices, you have my full support. I think many Wikipedia editors, especially the ones who have participated the longest, are some of the most stuck-up assholes. Wikipedia is a product monitored by elitists (such as User:Crzrussian) and a website that I question my participation in every day. --  ßίζ ·  קּ‼  ( talk  |  contribs )  06:54, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

I would like to say that though I participated in evidence against you, it was in defense of others rather than accusations against you. I stand by what I said in an archived comment; I think you are a good contributor on the whole. I still assume good faith in your editing, and I would like to think that I played a part in keeping more extreme action being taken (for what that's worth). Contact me any time. T e  k e  03:03, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Sympathies
Would like to add my sympathies, and regret at an overly harsh judgement. AnonEMouse 17:57, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Indeed, I wish I had been there to comment during the case. Please consider returning! Ardric47 05:10, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

This might interest you: User:Robchurch is up for admin -- again
After reviewing your case and the sanctions imposed against you and then seeing that Rob Church was up for admin only 10 days after (later admittedly) fabricating evidence against me before the ArbCom, and that less than six months later it appears his admin privileges are going to be restored, I had to stop by. What b.s.! deeceevoice 16:52, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

All around the mulberry bush
Testing, testing 1-2-3. JDG 07:41, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

AfD Nomination: Paul Hernandez (photographer)
An article that you have been involved in editing, Paul Hernandez (photographer), has been listed at Articles for deletion/Paul Hernandez (photographer). Please look there to see why this is, if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 04:28, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Holland & Hart
Since you felt so strongly in the AFD discussion [|Holland & Hart AFD] perhaps might like to take a part in expanding this article seeing that it is still a stub eight months on?

Brian L. French
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Survey Invitation
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Re: Deletion of Dryve article
Hello,

You were involved in a debate back in March/April regarding an article on the band Dryve.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Dryve

For whatever reason, it was resurrected again for debate and deleted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Dryve_%28second_nomination%29

Could you be of help in reversing the deletion? I was a founding member of the band and I can fully verify any and all of the information in the article. I firmly believe it meets the requirements laid out in WP:MUSIC.

Thank you and please contact me if you need any more information.

Keith Andrew kickstar1@hotmail.com --Kickstar1 04:51, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

Bob Dylan
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David Haugh
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Chimes of Freedom
Hi, may I ask, where you got that information from? Thanks in advance, --Flominator (talk) 12:19, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

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Blues
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ArbCom elections are now open!
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Talk:Jamaica Farewell

What it was about
Hey hey Hoary, do you mind explaining what that was about?

Image:Exceptional_newcomer.jpg

...posted at 07:42, 2005 May 31 Loom91

 * Sorry, you've lost me. -- Hoary 09:07, 2005 May 31 (UTC)

On the Controversy Surrounding Inclusion of a Hyper-Text link to a Usenet Group on the Song under Discussion
I definitely think the existence of a Usenet group for a given topic deserves mention, even if it is at the moment devoid of information. Its very inclusion will turn it into an asset for Wikipedia. Loom91 09:11, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I zapped the link to the forum site because that site appeared to offer no information whatever about the song "Jamaica Farewell". If I'm wrong, please specify the precise URL of a message that does tell us more about this song.

 * An additional reason for zapping the link as you first posted it (and as you readded it) was that it was phrased as an invitation to do something. While I sympathize with your desire to get intelligent people to come to the forum and post intelligent messages, thus flushing out the spam, this is not encyclopedic material. -- Hoary 09:07, 2005 May 31 (UTC) ..... moved down here and slightly edited at the same time as I added the following:

 * Moreover, I don't see how the inclusion of a link to an information-free site can be an asset for WP. -- Hoary 09:25, 2005 May 31 (UTC)

 * It's not an asset for WP now, but its inclusion in WP will guarantee that it will not stay information free any longer, thus it'll become an asset to WP. It's not a straight buyout, but an investment.Loom91 09:44, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Loom91, you have added a link to your forum three times. I have removed it three times. Why? It's worthless: as you said the last time you added it, "it does not contain any information". It does not match any of the criteria for What should be linked to. Please do not add it again (at least until it offers a substantial amount of information); if you do so, you can be assured that it will be removed again, and the readdition may be interpreted as deliberately disruptive. -- Hoary 03:32, 2005 Jun 2 (UTC)

Loom91 has just added it yet again so I have removed it yet again. -- Hoary 14:21, 2005 Jun 22 (UTC)

I see that he has just added a link to another content-free forum ("user group"). I'm removing it. -- Hoary 13:27, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I seem to have made a slip there: the link that Loom91 is so eager to insert does indeed seem to be a user group. But it seems to have no traffic (or, via Yahoo, content). Am I wrong here? If I'm right, and there's no traffic (content), then it's for Loom91 to explain here how its addition to the article improves the article. -- Hoary 09:06, 8 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Give me a few days, I'll see that it gets content. Loom91 08:43, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

 * There is still no content in the group surely the link should be removed? James Fryer 23:48, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Ah, I hadn't noticed that it was back. OK, I'll remove it again. -- Hoary 04:57, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Loom91 added it again. He/she says it's "not worthless", but has not provided any reasoning for this. Meanwhile, I'll comment on James Fryer's edit comment ''One post does not make the group worthwhile. Get some real traffic - say 30 posts - then re-add the link''. I'd disagree: user groups on this kind of subject (as opposed to, say, "howto" subjects) aren't worth linking to even if they're active. If the user group throws up new and verifiable information about the song, by all means integrate this within the WP article. Otherwise, skip. -- Hoary 10:45, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

 * The official Wikipedia policy says (as I'm sure you know)

"What should be linked to Articles about any organization, person, or other entity should link to their official site, if they have one. Sites that have been cited or used as references in the creation of an article. Intellectual honesty requires that any site actually used as a reference be cited. See Wikipedia:Cite your sources. An article about a book, a musical score, a webcomic, a web site, or some other media, should link to the actual book, musical score, etc. if possible. On articles with multiple Points of View, a link to sites dedicated to each, with a detailed explanation of each link. The number of links dedicated to one POV should not overwhelm the number dedicated to any other. One should attempt to add comments to these links informing the reader of their point of view. '''Sites that contain neutral and accurate material not already in the article. Ideally this content should be integrated into the Wikipedia article, then the link would remain as a reference. Sites with other meaningful, relevant content that is not suitable for inclusion in an article, such as textbooks or reviews.'''"

It clearly says that even when the content has been integrated into the article, the link should remain as reference. It further states that sites with relevant content unsuitable for inclusion to the encyclopedia should be linked to, in this case the lyrics of the song. I think this two points together justify the inclusion of the link, and based on these I'm reinserting the link. Loom91 08:38, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

On Jimmy Buffet
Thank you Hoary, the Jimmy Buffet comment is just right now. However I'm still disatisfied about the group link. ....added at 09:14, 2005 May 31 by Loom91

Calypso?
Just wondering what makes this a "calypso". Thanks. Guettarda 14:57, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I have no idea. I don't think I've ever heard the song; and if I have, it hasn't registered. If you're confident that it isn't a calypso, feel free to edit accordingly. -- Hoary 02:49, 2005 Jun 3 (UTC)

 * The tone and the tempo are all wrong for calypso...but I don't know the formal definition of what is a calypso. It's one of those things that you know when you see (hear)...I know there are formal definitions, but I don't know what they are.  Guettarda 03:17, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Not having heard it, I don't know about the tempo; but yes, the tone doesn't seem right. You know much more about calypso than I do: does the stuff in the article about the alleged origins of the song mean anything to you? -- Hoary 03:52, 2005 Jun 3 (UTC)

 * Not familiar with the background. I only know the Jimmy Buffet version (though for some reason I thought it was by John Denver - easy enough to confuse those two, IMO).  Not that Belafonte has any real credibility for me - the point of calypso is to write what you sing.  Belafonte slowed things down to the point where they are almost impossible to recognise as calypso anyway.  So, in short, I am the wrong person to ask the question.  Guettarda 04:23, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't know what qualifies as a calypso and what doesn't, but Belafonte sure considered this as Calypso, though as he was only the singer his intenion is secondary. The only one who can truly give verdict on this one is Lord Burgess. Maybe someone from NY can ask him? Loom91 12:52, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Just to add to this, calypso has a very specific meaning when applied to the music of Trinidad, but a wider meaning in popular music. In the 1950s "calypso craze" many West Indian songs which were not calypso were marketed as such. Many of them were mentos (a similar musical form from Jamaica) e.g. Belafonte's "Jackass Song". The song in question is strictly a Jamaican ballad but in the context of popular song it is safe to call it a calypso. 217.41.60.242 11:06, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

Usenet link
I have removed a link to the Google Group about this song, because it violates the External links guideline. There are a total of three messages, the most recent from six months ago. The first two are an intro and an exhortation to readers to ensure that the link remains in this article. Please do not add it back without explaining why it is appropriate according to the Wikipedia guideline for external linking. Tuf-Kat 01:03, 28 April 2006 (UTC)

what about Marty Robbins?
Marty Robbins, arguably more famous than others listed, also sang this song.2605:E000:AA41:CD00:ED43:C9DF:2C7C:1A6A (talk) 18:12, 15 March 2015 (UTC)

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Among My Swan

Among My Swan is the third studio album by American band Mazzy Star, released on October 29, 1996. Although Among My Swan did not contain any US Billboard Hot 100 hits like its predecessor, So Tonight That I Might See, this album garnered the band its highest-ranking single on the UK Singles Chart, when "Flowers in December" reached No. 40 in November 1996.

While the production of Among My Swan relies less on reverb than the group's previous albums, the music is not markedly different (as evidenced by tracks like "I've Been Let Down", on which Hope Sandoval sings over simple acoustic guitar and harmonica accompaniment).

"Flowers in December", "Disappear", "Happy" and "I've Been Let Down" were all released as singles from the album. Following the release of "I've Been Let Down" in 1997, Mazzy Star went on hiatus, and did not release new music until the single "Common Burn"/"Lay Myself Down" in 2011.

Release and promotion
The band opted to eschew mainstream promotion for the record, with Capitol Records taking what they described as a "long-term approach" towards its marketing. An outtake from the album, "Tell Me Now", appeared on the soundtrack to Batman Forever in 1995, while album track "Rhymes of an Hour" featured on the soundtrack to Stealing Beauty prior to the album's release. A senior marketing director at Capitol called Mazzy Star "the quintessential artist-development band. David and Hope are artists. Every album they make is a work of art"; Billboard noted that both films "nicely bookend Mazzy Star's demographic, with Batman Forever appealing to the collegiate crowd and the critically acclaimed, art-house Stealing Beauty skewing toward the band's baby boomer fans."

Music stores were given advance copies of the album from early September; the label conducted a contest where the store which best promoted the album would be rewarded with a live performance from the band. The entire album was serviced to college radio on October 7, and lead single "Flowers in December" was issued to Alternative and Triple-A stations the following week. The duo appeared on the October 1996 cover of Alternative Press, and a music video for "Flowers in December" was completed that same month. The song remains the duo's only song to enter the top forty of the UK Singles Chart. "I've Been Let Down" was scheduled to be issued as the album's second commercial single in the spring of 1997, but was released solely as a limited edition 7" vinyl in October 1996 as a double A-side with album track "Roseblood".

Commercial performance
The album peaked at number 67 on the Billboard 200. As of 2001, it has sold over 214,000 copies in the United States.

Musicians

 * David Roback – guitars, keyboard, songwriter, producer, audio engineering, album design
 * Hope Sandoval – vocals, harmonica, percussion, songwriter, co-producer, album design
 * William Cooper – strings, audio engineering
 * Jill Emery – bass
 * Keith Mitchell – drums
 * William Reid – additional guitar on "Take Everything"
 * Aaron Sherer – drums on "Take Everything" and "Still Cold"

Production

 * Beth Herschaft – photography
 * Eddy Schreyer – mastering
 * Dale Everingham – engineer
 * Tom Cashen – production crew

Usage in media
"Happy", "All Your Sisters", and "Look on Down from the Bridge" are featured in the 2005 film Down in the Valley.

"Look on Down from the Bridge" is featured during a funeral scene and over the end credits of the 1999 The Sopranos episode "Meadowlands", in the 2011 film Texas Killing Fields, and in two episodes of Rick and Morty, including the 2014 episode "Rick Potion No. 9" when the title characters bury their dead alternate-reality selves and the 2023 episode "Unmortricken" which includes a callback to the original scene.

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Defaka language

Defaka is an endangered and divergent Nigerian language of uncertain classification. It is spoken in the Opobo–Nkoro LGA of Rivers State, in the Defaka or Afakani ward of Nkọrọ town and Ịwọma Nkọrọ. The low number of Defaka speakers, coupled with the fact that other languages dominate the region where Defaka is spoken, edges the language near extinction on a year-to-year basis. It is generally classified in an Ijoid branch of the Niger–Congo family. However, the Ijoid proposal is problematic. Blench (2012) notes that "Defaka has numerous external cognates and might be an isolate or independent branch of Niger–Congo which has come under Ịjọ influence."

People
Ethnically, the Defaka people are distinct from the Nkoroo, but they have assimilated to Nkoroo culture to such a degree that their language seems to be the only sign of a distinct Defaka identity. Use of the Defaka language however is quickly receding in favour of the language of the Nkoroo, an Ijaw language. Nowadays, most Defaka speakers are elderly people, and even among these, Defaka is rarely spoken — the total number of Defaka speakers is at most 200 nowadays (SIL/Ethnologue 15th ed.). The decrease in use of Defaka is stronger in Nkoroo town than in the Iwoma area. Since the language communities between Defaka and Nkoroo are so intertwined, it is hard to determine which language influences the other. All children grow up speaking Nkoroo (an Ijo language) as a first language. The next most used language among the Defaka is Igbo, owing to the political influence of the Opobo since the days of the Oil Rivers Trade. Igbo has been a language of instruction in many schools in the region and still functions as a regional trade language.

Classification
The Defaka language shows many lexical similarities with Ijọ, some shared regular sound correspondences and some typological similarities with proto-Ịjọ. For example, both languages have a subject–object–verb basic word order, which is otherwise extremely rare in the Niger–Congo language family, being found only in the Mande and Dogon branches. Also, Defaka has a sex-gender system distinguishing between masculine, feminine, and neuter 3rd-person singular pronouns; this is once again a rarity among south-central Niger–Congo languages other than Ịjoid and Defaka. While some of the lexical and maybe typological similarities can be attributed to borrowing (as Defaka has been in close contact with Ijọ for more than 300 years), the sound correspondences point to a (somewhat distant) genealogical relationship.
 * a ebere ko̘ a okuna ɓááma  (the dog SUBJECT the fowl kill: PAST )   The dog killed the fowl (Defaka)
 * obiri ɓé o̘ɓó̘kō̘ ɓé ɓám̄  (dog the fowl the kill: PAST )   The dog killed the fowl (Ịjọ, Kalaɓarị dialect)
 * á tóɓo 'her head'
 * o toɓo 'his head'
 * yé tóɓo 'its head'

Phonology
Nearly all Defaka are bilingual in Nkọrọọ, and the phonology appears to be the same as that language.

Tone
Defaka has two tones, and. On long vowels and diphthongs, as well as disyllabic words, and  contours occur. In addition, there is a downstep that may appear between high tones, and which is the remnant of an elided low tone. However, Shryock et al. were not able to measure significant differences in the pitch traces of, , and –downstep–, all of which have a falling pitch, suggesting that there may be fewer distinctive word tones than the combinations of syllable tones would suggest. However, these all clearly contrast with level-pitched and rising-pitched.

Vowels
The Ijoid vowel harmony has collapsed in Defaka, as it has in Nkọrọọ. There are seven oral vowels,, though and  are uncommon. There are five nasal vowels,. All may occur long. Long vowels are at least twice as long as short vowels.

Consonants
Most voiceless obstruents are tenuis. However, has a slightly negative voice onset time. That is, voicing commences somewhat before the consonant is released, as in English "voiced" stops such as b. This is typical of labial-velar stops. , on the other hand, is fully voiced, as are the other voiced obstruents. Shryock et al. analyse the prenasalised stops as consonant clusters with. varies with, with some speakers using one, some the other, and some either, depending on the word.

and may be nasalised before nasal vowels.

The velar plosives &  may be lenited to  or  between vowels.

The tap is pronounced as an approximant,, by some speakers. It only occurs between vowels and at the ends of words.

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Kristian Smeds

Tomi Kristian Smeds (born 1 December 1970) is a Finnish playwright and theatre director. He has worked in Finland, Estonia, Belgium and Lithuania.

In the autumn of 2007, he dramatized and directed an explosive production of Väinö Linna's The Unknown Soldier at the Finnish National Theatre. This re-interpretation of a cherished Finnish novel has been the most controversial theatrical event in Finland, provoking wide acclaim as well as fierce debate. Smeds' stage version was a great success. During 2007–2009 it was performed 122 times with 73,265 tickets sold.

In 2007, Smeds established his own theatre group, Smeds Ensemble, which has partners around Europe. Smeds Ensemble had its first production, Mental Finland, premiered at the Royal Flemish Theatre (KVS) in February 2009. During the same year, the production toured in Finland, Lithuania, France and Austria.

In 2011, Smeds dramatized and directed an adaptation of Paul Auster's novel Mr. Vertigo at the Finnish National Theatre. Same year, Smeds got awarded with the XII Europe Prize Theatrical Realities as a first Scandinavian theatre director.

Europe Theatre Prize
In 2011, he was one of the recipients of the Europe Prize Theatrical Realities, in Saint Petersburg, with the following motivation:"He is a playwright and stage director. Smeds is at home portraying the inner worlds of his characters as in highlighting the remotest corners of society. Smeds’ plays are wild, energetic, and filled with many distinctive voices and can be interpreted in many different ways, and can take full advantage of a wide variety of theatrical techniques. His language is rich and colourful, but at the same time natural. In Smeds’ world, the personal and the political are indistinguishable, and his work is characterized by a deep concern for human beings."

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Stanisław Lanckoroński (hetman)

Stanisław Lanckoroński (c. 1597–1657) was a Polish–Lithuanian magnate as well as a politician and military commander.

Stanisław became starost of Skała in 1641, castellan of Halicz in 1646, castellan of Kamieniec, voivode of Bracław Voivodeship and Grand Regimentarz of the Crown in 1649, voivode of Ruthenian Voivodeship in 1652, Field Crown Hetman from 1654 until 19 February 1657 and starost of Stobnice and Dymirsk.

He was married to Anna Sienieńska and had eight children: Hieronim, Przecław, Franciszek Stanisław, Jan, Zbigniew, Mikołaj, Marcin, Barbara, and Joanna.

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Area codes 305, 786, and 645

Area codes 305, 786, and 645 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) for Miami, Florida, Miami-Dade County, and the part of Monroe County in the Florida Keys in the United States. The mainland portion of Monroe County is served by area code 239.

History
In 1947, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) announced the first nationwide telephone numbering plan and divided the United States and Canada into 86 numbering plan areas and assigned the original North American area codes, a unique code for each area, to speed the connection times for operator toll dialing.

The state of Florida was a single numbering plan area with area code 305. In 1953, with the development of direct distance dialing, the western part of the peninsula from the Tampa Bay area south, which was serviced mostly by General Telephone (GTE), was designated as a separate numbering plan area with area code 813.

As a result of the increase in the state's population, North Florida from the Panhandle to Jacksonville was assigned area code 904 with a permissive dialing period beginning July 6, 1965, and mandatory dialing beginning January 1, 1966.

On April 16, 1988, the east coast of Florida from Palm Beach County north through Brevard County, as well as the Orlando metropolitan area, was assigned area code 407.

On September 11, 1995, Broward County was split from 305 and assigned area code 954. It was predicted that the new area code would delay but not prevent phone numbers in the 305 area code from being completely used up in a few years.

Within two years, the reconfigured area code 305 was close to exhaustion due to growth in Dade County from the increasing popularity of cell phones and pagers. In mitigation, area code 786 was installed as an overlay on March 1, 1998. The overlay numbering plan area originally comprised only Miami-Dade County, although it was clear the remainder of area code 305 would eventually be overlaid with area code 786. Monroe County was added to area code 786 on September 1, 2001.

The Florida Public Service Commission approved a third area code for the Miami region on February 25, 2022. Area code 645 was activated on August 4, 2023, before the anticipated exhaust of central office codes in 305 and 786, which was likely to occur in 2023.

In popular culture

 * Recording artist Armando Pérez, better known as Pitbull, was born and raised in Miami, and has nicknamed himself "Mr. 305."
 * Spanish singer Enrique Iglesias, who resides in Miami, formerly used "@enrique305" as his account name on Twitter.
 * A web-based magazine in Miami is called 305 Magazine.
 * Kitchen 305 is a Sunny Isles Beach restaurant inside the Newport Beachside Resort (where MTV held its "Spring Break 2008" party).

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Act Without Words II

Act Without Words II is a short mime play by Samuel Beckett, his second (after Act Without Words I). Like many of Beckett's works, the piece was originally composed in French (Acte sans paroles II), then translated into English by Beckett himself. Written in the late 1950s it opened at the Clarendon Press Institute in Oxford and was directed by John McGrath. London premiere was directed by Michael Horovitz and performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, on 25 January 1960. The first printing was in New Departures 1, Summer 1959.

Synopsis
Two sacks and a neat pile of clothes sit on a low, "violently lit" platform at the back of a stage. Both sacks contain a man; B is on the left, A on the right.

A long pole (described in the text as a "goad") enters from the right, prods the sack containing A to awaken him to his daily routine, and then exits. After needing a second prod A finally emerges. He is unkempt and disorganised. He gobbles pills, prays, dresses randomly, nibbles a carrot, and promptly "spits it out with disgust". "He is a moper, a hypochondriacal dreamer, perhaps a poet." His principal activity, without apparent purpose, is to carry the filled sack stage left and crawl back into his own which he does leaving the sack containing B now vulnerable to the goad.

The goad reappears, this time with a wheel attachment, and prods the other sack, exiting as before. B is precise, efficient and eager; he only requires a single prod to rouse him. The clothes he – presumably – folded neatly before are now scattered about (clear evidence of the existence of a third party) but he never reacts to this and simply goes about his business. He knows how to dress and take care of his clothes. He takes greater care of himself (brushing his teeth and exercising), is better organised (he checks his watch – eleven times in total – and consults a map and compass before setting off to move the sacks), but still his shift is no more meaningful. Even though he has more to do than A, Beckett instructs that B performs his chores briskly so that they should take approximately the same time as A's. After moving the sacks he undresses and, rather than dumping his clothes in a pile, B folds them neatly before crawling into his own sack.

The goad appears for a third time (now requiring the support of two wheels) and attempts to wake A. Once again he needs two prods. He begins to replay his previous pantomime, but this time is cut off by a blackout, at which point the play ends.

Reception
The initial reviews ranged "from puzzled to disapproving" and the play fared little better in America but for all that Beckett wrote to Thomas MacGreevy: "I have never had such good notices." Alan Schneider believed the problem was that "[c]ritics can't seem to comment on what's before them without dragging in the older [plays] and rationalising their previous reactions."

In 2000, Patrice Parks wrote in Monterey County Weekly that Act Without Words II “has lost not an iota of relevance to today '' s mind-numbing workaday grind. If anything, Beckett '' s work has been vindicated with the passage of time.”

Interpretation
"The play is compelling only if the mechanical figures are somehow humanised. If comfort exists it is because the plight of humanity if futile or repetitive is at least shared, even if no intercourse exists." The two men work together to remove themselves from whatever external or elemental (see "Mana" ) force may be behind the goad; it counters by adding wheels. In time logic dictates they will reach a safe distance where they are beyond its reach but what then? Without it to motivate them, will they remain huddled in their sacks? Is that death?

Eugene Webb takes a different stance. He thinks that "the goad, represent[s] man's inner compulsion to activity. If man cannot rely on anything outside himself, is there anything inside him, which might prove worthy of his hope and trust? What Act Without Words II has to say about this is that man is driven by a compulsive force that will never let him withdraw for long into inaction."

The Unnamable famously ends with, "I can't go on, I'll go on." The goad represents what happens in between these two phrases. There is some similarity between the characters A and B and the protagonists of Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Vladimir and Estragon who spend their time in much the same way, engaged in pointless tasks to amuse themselves and while away the time, though ultimately never leading to anything of significance. That said, B is more businessman-like, "a kind of Pozzo ... grotesquely efficient, a workaholic, a health nut." Between them they present "a composite picture of man": B is self-reliant and proactive, A prefers to trust in an external god.

"Act Without Words II shows that life must be endured, if not understood. There are no triumphs, no resolution ... There is no control over the process, no" seeing ‘the bigger picture’. "[N]either A or B appears to realise that each one of them carries the other on his back [or that there even is an other] ... they take their burden for granted" as does Molloy, to cite a single example, who never questions how he has wound up in his mother's room being paid for writing stuff that only gets returned the next week covered in proofreading markings. Indeed, A evokes the vagrant Molloy in the same way as B recalls the detective Moran.

The action could take place in a day or two or perhaps over the course of their whole lives. The movement to the left is suggestive however of "the walk of Dante and Virgil in the Inferno."

"In his reading of Le mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus ) by Albert Camus, Beckett discovered a symbol for the futility, frustration and absurdity of all man's labours. Sisyphus – one of classical mythology's great sinners – suffered eternal punishment, having to perpetually roll a great stone to the top of a hill, only to see it roll back down again. Being born to enact and endure [an] eternal cycle of arousal-activity-rest, without any meaningful progress being achieved, is the sin that afflicts A-B."

The Goad
In 1965 Paul Joyce made a poignant film of the play titled The Goad featuring Freddie Jones and Geoffrey Hinsliff. It was published in a limited edition (500 copies) of Nothing Doing in London [No. 1] (London: Anthony Barnett, 1966).

NBC Production
NBC in America broadcast a version of Act without Words II in 1966, directed by Alan Schneider.

Beckett on Film
In the Beckett on Film project, the play was filmed as if it were a 1920s era black and white silent film.

Since Beckett had instructed that "the mime should be played on a low narrow platform at the back of [the] stage, violently lit in its entire length" the director, Enda Hughes, chose, instead of a stage, to set the play "on" a strip of film being run through a movie projector. In place of a cut off by blackout, A's action is cut short by the projector being switched off. The action takes place across three frames thus complying with the "[f]rieze effect" Beckett sought.

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Trevor and Simon

Trevor Neal (born 1963, Dorchester, Dorset) and Simon Hickson (born 1962, Salford, Lancashire) are a British comedy duo (known as Trevor and Simon or Trev and Simon) and are best known for a family-friendly version of anarchic alternative comedy on BBC1 Saturday-morning shows Going Live! (1987–1993), and Live and Kicking (1993–1997).

Education
Trevor and Simon met as drama students at Manchester University in 1981. Hickson was a year older than Neal. They first encountered each other at the drama department's Christmas show, in which Neal played a squirrel on a skateboard.

In a podcast, the pair recount how comedian Ben Elton taught Hickson Greek tragedy, and their Professor, David Mayer (father of Lise Mayer) introduced them to Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson, who had been his students some years before. The Young Ones (written by Mayall, Lise Mayer and Ben Elton) was an early influence.

Career
Neal and Hickson initially performed as a trio together with Phil Dennison. They later appeared as a double act on the Manchester comedy circuit as Devilfishhornclub, performing at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1984, and promising “non-racist, non-sexist humour”.

Following a suggestion by John Hegley, the duo were persuaded to relocate to London from Manchester. Later they were approached by a BBC producer for Saturday Superstore who "said they were looking for a double act to represent the new style of comedy, but for children”. Their appearances on Going Live! would result in the creation of some well loved sketches and catchphrases, such as the Singing Corner's "Swing Your Pants" and "We don't do duvets."

Trevor and Simon created a crowdfunded comedy drama podcast, Strangeness in Space. The podcast stars Trevor, Simon, and Sophie Aldred. Strangeness in Space is reminiscent of Red Dwarf, albeit with the pair's trademark absurd humour. The story concerns a fictional pop duo called Pink Custard (played by Trev and Simon) who are stuck in space orbiting the planet Mirth with Sophie (played by Sophie Aldred) and robot L.E.M.O.N as they encounter various bizarre creatures and situations.

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User:Mnajib

Mnajib was born on the 5th September 1979, Malaysian, male.

Web links: Personal website Tuners Workshop

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User:Loom91

Hey There,

I'm surprised to see you have traversed cyberspace mazes to end up at the userpage of a thoroughly uninteresting user. Editing Wikipedia is my hobby. I have regularly posted to the WikiEN-l mailing list, so you may recognise me if you are subscribed. Apart from Wikipedia, I also spend time in Bookcrossing(My profile) and Flickr (My photos). Oh, one more thing, I live in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Bye.

Shish

Projects
I take part in the following projects: WikiProject Game theory

Contributions
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Morro Rock

Morro Rock (Salinan: Le'samo; Chumash: Lisamu' ; Spanish: El Morro)  is a volcanic plug in Morro Bay, California, on the Pacific Coast at the entrance to Morro Bay harbor. A causeway connects it with the shore, making it a tied island. The rock is protected as the Morro Rock State Preserve.

Geology
The 581 ft Morro Rock is one of 13 volcanic plugs (remnant necks of extinct volcanoes), lava domes, and sheetlike intrusions between Morro Bay on the north and Islay Hill on the south, all in San Luis Obispo County.

It is composed mostly of dacite, an igneous, volcanic rock. It is a groundmass of plagioclase, with amphibole (hornblende), biotite, pyroxene (augite), quartz, and glass; it also includes phenocrysts of plagioclase. Its silicon dioxide (SiO2) content ranges from 63 to 69 percent.

The dacite volcanic plugs, lava domes, intrusive sheets, and felsitic rhyolite-dacite between Morro Rock and Islay Hill are part of the Morro Rock-Islay Hill Complex of the Oligocene epoch (from 27 to 23 million years ago). The complex lies east of the San Gregorio-San Simeon-Hosgri fault (the SG-SS-H fault). This complex is one of three probable sources of the volcanic clasts within the sandstone and conglomerate of the Miguelito and Edna members of the Pismo Formation in the Point Sur area 145–160 km (90-100 mi) to the north and west of the SG-SS-H fault. Based on paleomagnetic signatures, the Morro Rock-Islay Hill Complex was rotated 40 to 50 degrees, perhaps during late Miocene or early Pliocene time.

Tribal
The Salinan and Chumash tribes consider Morro Rock to be a sacred site. The Salinan name for Morro Rock is Le'samo and the Chumash name is Lisamu.

The Chumash had an important nearby prehistoric settlement at least as early as the Millingstone Horizon (6500-2000 B.C.E.), and the village was near the mouth of Morro Creek, at the current site of Morro Bay High School. The right of the Salinan people to climb Morro Rock for their biannual solstice ceremonies has been established, in which they celebrate the time in legend when a hawk and a raven destroyed a two-headed serpent-monster Taliyekatapelta as he wrapped his body around the base of the rock. The established Salinan right to climb the rock has been in legal dispute by the local Chumash tribe, which claims that Morro Rock is Chumash, not Salinan, territory. The Chumash also believe that the rock is so sacred that it should never be climbed. Because of its fragility, it is illegal for the general public to climb it.

European sighting
Morro Rock was probably seen by Spanish maritime explorers as early as 1542 under Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, but its current name was given during the first European land exploration of Alta California. The Spanish Portolá expedition came down Los Osos Valley and camped near today's Morro Bay on September 8, 1769. Franciscan missionary and expedition member Juan Crespí noted in his diary that "we saw a great rock in the form of a round mountain (Spanish:morro)".

Quarry and historical landmark
The rock, which was quarried on and off from 1889 to 1969, provided material for the breakwater of Morro Bay and the improvements at Port San Luis Harbor. In 1966, a state law was adopted that transferred title to the State of California. In February 1968, the San Luis Obispo County Historical Society and the City of Morro Bay succeeded in having Morro Rock declared California Historical Landmark number 821.

Flora and fauna

Several types of birds nest on Morro Rock, including three cormorant species and two gull species. It presently serves as a reserve for peregrine falcons, which are locally endangered and cause most of the laws that prohibit intervention with avian life.

Sea lions and sea otters can be seen regularly in the water around the rock. Seals, however, are much more common in the nearby Morro Bay State Park, where they breed.

Other fauna include a wide selection of tide pool animals, like hermit crabs, small fish, starfish, sea cucumbers, mussels, bivalve mollusks, coral, and more.

On land few flora can survive the harsh, dry environment on the rock, but in the surrounding bay, kelp, sea grass, kelp forest plants, and tide pool plants can survive, and a few common grasses, mosses, lichens and weeds from the mainland take root on the rock itself.

Marine protected areas
Morro Bay State Marine Recreational Management Area and Morro Bay State Marine Reserve are protected areas offshore from Morro Bay. Like underwater parks, protected areas help conserve ocean wildlife and marine ecosystems.

In popular culture
In Cyberpunk 2077, where Morro Bay is home to the independent city-state of Night City, Morro Rock has been demolished in order to build Night City International and Translunar Spaceport (NCX) between 2045 and 2047.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hena Choudhry

 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. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 04:05, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hena Choudhry
Only 18 Google hits, - non notable. JamesBurns 07:53, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: Tribute/fan/vanity page for a high school athlete. She has not yet achieved notability, either with her figure skating or DDR, enough to be encyclopedic. Geogre 18:36, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vanity pages, although occasionally in possession of a chameleon-like ability to disappear, can be spotted by references to the dreams of the subject (notable exception Louis Riel), their favorite treat, and what they like to do in their spare time. --Scimitar 20:12, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete yep, vanity. --Etacar11 22:54, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Vanity JCS 02:49, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete drini ☎ 17:18, 6 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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Talk:Conservative Party of New York State

Comments
Does the description need to include "minor"? ~ Dpr 07:55, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

"...their lack of support in 1989 was one important factor in Giuliani losing that year." I would like to see a citation for this -- it's a pretty bold statement. Grandmasterka 02:23, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

What are Giuliani's "fusion" campaigns? --SeekingOne 13:19, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Probably referring to the fact that he was endorsed by the Liberal party (when you are on more than one ballot line, that's referred to as "fusion").--Inonit 14:19, 10 December 2005 (UTC)

GOP needs a link
The word GOP occurs twice in the article, yet neither of these occurences is a link to an article explaining what GOP means. I do know what it means, but practically no other Europeans do. --Peter Knutsen 11:50, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

Disambiguated American Conservative Party from CPNYS
Owing to the current events in the 23rd district of New York, many reporters in the media are referring to the CPNYS simply as "the Conservative Party." This is quite understandable, but the American Conservative Party has seen a recent influx of members who are confusing it with the CPNYS. Since the ACP has no article here (yet, but I think this may establish the need for one), I have edited a few instances of "Conservative Party" to the full name, added the abbreviation CPNYS, and added a sentence to state that the two organizations are separate and not affiliated. Full disclosure: I am the Secretary of the American Conservative Party. We are not seeking to directly profit from the media and public confusion. in this matter. Crimsonsplat (talk) 22:50, 25 October 2009 (UTC)

Party Registration Citation
The article stating that the Conservative Party has the 4th total, does not include Libertarians in its comparission. Looking to verify where they fit in the mix I see the ciation like has absoluletly nothing to do with what it is supposed to be citing. A corrective action needs to be made or this section needs to be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.212.213.41 (talk) 22:38, 30 April 2012 (UTC)

membership
I voted yesterday and the Conservatives are absolutely NOT "line C" on the ballot anymore, despite what they might wish. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.67.32.161 (talk) 01:08, 5 November 2015 (UTC)

2016 update needed
needs 2016 update. Conservative Party candidate Trump won nationally, lost new york, but i can't find vote totals for the conservative ballot line. - robbin stewart — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.90.140.164 (talk) 17:45, 20 December 2016 (UTC)

Local Assembly and Senate Election Results Need "New York Red Book" Access

 * Long story short, the figures present on Our Campaigns are simply not up to snuff when it comes to properly breaking down the vote by Party; there are far too many cases where only the candidate figures are provided, and that in turn significantly distorts the final totals when it comes to how many votes the Party received in a race or even just whether a candidate was endorsed. Unfortunately the New York Elections Board only provides figures from 1998 onwards, meaning that the whole period from 1962 to 1996 is left literally on the books, in this case the New York Red Books. As a resident of Massachusetts I don't have ready access to these books, and it doesn't seem as if many of them have made it online unlike the Wisconsin Blue Books. To complete that section we are going to need a New York City native who is willing to track them down locally, scan the relevant pages from each volume; I personally can take care of the long-form math. --Ariostos (talk) 03:16, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

Native American rights
Why is Native Americansi forgotten 47.226.4.187 (talk) 16:58, 18 May 2023 (UTC)