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Chase, Richard Brian
It's a vanity page.-- Robojames 17:29, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Successful, but not that successful, businessman. Below the level of national and international recognisability or influence I'd say was needed to be included in an encyclopedia. Average Earthman 17:58, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable enough. / Alarm 18:00, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete and concur with above comments. Scimitar 18:20, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn vanity. - Etacar11 18:33, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vanity, begone! Sarg 18:35, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Vanity. Jayjg (talk) 21:18, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, vanity. Megan1967 05:31, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
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Alice Notley

Alice Notley (born November 8, 1945) is an American poet. Notley came to prominence as a member of the second generation of the New York School of poetry—although she has always denied being involved with the New York School or any specific movement in general. Notley's early work laid both formal and theoretical groundwork for several generations of poets; she is considered a pioneering voice on topics like motherhood and domestic life.

Notley's experimentation with poetic form, seen in her books 165 Meeting House Lane, When I Was Alive, The Descent of Alette, and Culture of One, ranges from a blurred line between genres, to a quotation-mark driven interpretation of the variable foot, to a full reinvention of the purpose and potential of strict rhythm and meter. She also experimented with channeling spirits of deceased loved ones, primarily men gone from her life like her father and her husband, poet Ted Berrigan, and used these conversations as topics and form on her poetry. Her poems have also been compared to Gertrude Stein, as well as her contemporary Bernadette Mayer. Mayer and Notley both used their experience as mothers and wives in their work.

In addition to poetry, Notley has written a book of criticism (Coming After, University of Michigan, 2005), a play ("Anne's White Glove"—performed at the Eye & Ear Theater in 1985), a biography (Tell Me Again, Am Here, 1982), and she has edited three publications, Chicago, Scarlet, and Gare du Nord, the latter two co-edited with Douglas Oliver. Notley's collage art appeared in Rudy Burckhardt's film "Wayward Glimpses" and her illustrations have appeared on the cover of numerous books, including a few of her own. As is often written in her biographical notes, "she has never tried to be anything other than a poet," and with over forty books and chapbooks and several major awards, she is one of the most prolific and lauded American poets today. She is a recipient of the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.

Early life
Notley was born on November 8, 1945, in Bisbee, Arizona, and grew up in Needles, California. Notley wrote extensively of her childhood and early life in her book Tell Me Again (Am here, 1982).

Notley left Needles for New York City to attend Barnard College of Columbia University in 1963, desiring an escape from the isolation of her hometown. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College in spring 1967 and left New York City that fall for the fiction program at the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa. She was the only woman in her genre and one of two in the entire graduate writing department. Notley cites—in part—a reading by Robert Creeley as early inspiration for her writing more poetry. A close relationship with the poet Anselm Hollo, who was teaching at the program at that time, led to Notley leaving Iowa City for Morocco in 1968. Notley claims it was boring and returned to Iowa City where she met the poet Ted Berrigan who began as an instructor at the school that fall.

After Notley's graduation, she and Berrigan spent periods of time in New York City and Buffalo. During the winter of 1970–71, Notley and Berrigan lived on Long Island, where Notley wrote her first book, 165 Meeting House Lane (Twenty-Four Sonnets). The book took its title from the address of their home on Long Island and was published by Berrigan's C Press. It bears a dedication to James Schuyler and Anne and Fairfield Porter, who were also residing together on Long Island at the time. Notley also thanks Tom Clark who would go on to re-publish the sonnet cycle in his anthology All Stars. Notley and Berrigan spent the several months between Long Island and Chicago in Bolinas, California, which is where Berrigan officially printed 165 Meeting House Lane. Notley's second book, Phoebe Light, was published in 1973 by Bill Berkson's Bolinas-based press Big Sky.

1972–75: Chicago and Essex
In 1972, Notley married Berrigan and the two moved to Chicago where Berrigan had been given Ed Dorn's newly vacated teaching position at Northeastern Illinois University. Notley and Berrigan joined an already active community of Chicago poets, including Paul Carroll, Paul Hoover, and Maxine Chernoff. Notley gave birth to their first son, Anselm Berrigan, named after Anselm Hollo, in 1972, as well.

At Berrigan's behest, his students at Northeastern became very active members of the local poetry scene, starting magazines and reading series. One group of students—Darlene Pearlstein, Peter Kostakis, and Richard Friedman—started a small poetry press, The Yellow Press, which would go on to publish two books by Notley, one book by Berrigan, and give out a yearly Ted Berrigan Prize—overseen in part by Notley—for a first book (though the press would cease publishing two years in). Young poets on the Chicago scene regularly hung out with Notley and Berrigan at their home and many followed the couple back to New York City in the late 70s. The circle of younger poets who spent time with Notley and Berrigan included the aforementioned members of the Yellow Press team, Barbara Barg, Rochelle Kraut, Rose Lesniak, Bob Rosenthal, Steve Levine, Simon Schuchat, Tim Milk, and several others.

While in Chicago, Notley started publishing her magazine Chicago, a legal-sized mimeograph publication which would continue through both her pregnancies and even her relocation to England. Notley began the magazine to connect with preexisting poet friends and meet new writers on both coasts while living in the midwest. The magazine ran for eight issues, three of which were published while Notley and Berrigan lived in England. Notley edited seven of the issues with Berrigan taking over one while Notley was pregnant with their first son. The artist George Schneeman, perhaps most famous for his artworks that appeared on the covers of dozens of books of poetry, did all of the covers for the magazine.

In 1974, Berrigan got a job as a visiting poet at University of Essex, so Notley and Berrigan, with their son Anselm, relocated first to London, then to Brightlingsea in Essex. While in England, Notley would write her second sonnet cycle Great Interiors, Wines and Spirits of the World, which was originally published in a Notley-themed issue of the Chicago magazine Out There.

From February through June 1974 in Wivenhoe, Essex, Notley wrote her book Songs for the Unborn Second Baby (United Artists, 1979). While Notley had written on motherhood prior to Songs, this book was her first to focus fully on the matter and is the first full-length book of a New York School-affiliated poet to take on the task of addressing poetry's sexism and the pressures and setbacks of motherhood in both personal and creative life. It was reissued in 2021 by the London-based small press Distance No Object. Notley gave birth to her and Berrigan's second child, Edmund Berrigan, at Colchester Hospital in 1974.

The couple returned to Chicago for a brief period of time after their year in England before moving to New York City in 1976.

1976–92: New York City
1976 saw Notley and Berrigan moving their family permanently to New York City's Lower East Side, where they'd live together until Berrigan's death in 1983. Their apartment at 101 St. Mark's Place again became a hub for both young writers and Berrigan and Notley's contemporaries. Notley remained fairly prolific during this era, writing and publishing several full-length collections. Perpetually strapped for cash, the two took on whatever small jobs they could to support the family. Notley and Berrigan were frequent instructors at Naropa University's summer writing program. Some of Notley's most famous engagements with the poetry community while in NYC were her workshops at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church, which were attended by dozens of young poets including Bob Holman, Patricia Spears Jones, Steve Carey, and Susie Timmons. Eileen Myles wrote of their experience in Notley's workshops in their books Chelsea Girls (Black Sparrow Press, 2004; Ecco, 2015) and Inferno (O/R Books, 2010). Of her 1983 workshop, Notley wrote:

"I expect my workshop will be similar to past Alice Notley workshops: same old format, assignments, xeroxes, forms, occasions, geometries, kinds of poems, speculations on and practice of the lofty and the silly. I assume I've learned a little more since the last time I taught, and that I've a little more to learn in the teaching. If not, boo hoo.  Other possible issues: goofy works, 'description,' dreams (the new gen), school of Susie Timmons, rejuvenation of the 'found work,' the 'line,' how to be like Elinor [Nauen] and Maggie [Dubris], how to cultivate inventiveness, strategies for dry spell, dictionaries, diaries, little plays, calligrams, tiles, left-hand margins, how to get great theories and general self-improvement."

In 1986, Notley led a workshop where participants were required to write an entire book during the course of their meetings. After the workshop ended, Notley teamed up with students to print copies of their works on the mimeograph machine in the St. Mark's basement. The books were published under the imprint Unimproved Editions and Notley made cover art for the majority of the titles. Her own book, entitled Parts of a Wedding, was published first in a small edition by Unimproved Editions then later as a section of the O Books anthology O One.

Berrigan's death in 1983 struck the poetry community exceptionally hard and over the next decade, Notley would suffer the loss of many others who were close to her. Notley's 1985 play "Anne's White Glove," a commission by Ada Katz's Eye and Ear Theater navigated the pain of Berrigan's death, and her collections Margaret & Dusty (Coffee House, 1985), Parts of a Wedding (Unimproved Editions, 1986), and At Night the States (The Yellow Press, 1987) contain material written during a period of mourning. Notley's elegiac work during this era, including her poems "Beginning With a Stain" and "At Night the States," is some of her most widely celebrated.

1992–present: Paris
In 1992, Notley moved to Paris with her second husband, the British poet and novelist Douglas Oliver (1937–2000), whom she met while living in England in 1974. The two worked on two magazines together, Gare du Nord and Scarlet, and self-published a compendium of their own books, The Scarlet Cabinet, which contained Notley's Descent of Alette. Descent would grow to be Notley's most widely read and taught collection after its reprinting by Penguin in 1996. Notley has remained in Paris but makes several trips to the United States each year to give readings and teach small workshops. Some have linked Notley's geographical move to Paris—since it followed a period of intensely personal writing—as also marking a creative distance between herself and her poems, though her books Mysteries of Small Houses (Penguin, 1998) and Culture of One (Penguin, 2011) engage very much with personal matter.

In 1999, Notley was both a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. In spring 2001, she received an award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award. This period also marked an increase in scholarly interest in Notley's work.

Notley has stayed very involved in the preservation of both Berrigan and Oliver's works, having edited and written introductions for a number of their books and she continues to be a prolific and powerful force in contemporary poetry, winning the Leonore Marshall Poetry Prize in 2007 and the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2015. Several poems from her 2007 collection In the Pines were set to music by the Canadian indie pop band AroarA for their 2014 Polaris Music Prize-nominated 2013 EP In the Pines and in Fall 2014, a conference celebrating Notley's work was held at the Bay Area Public School in Oakland, California. Over two nights, November 14 and 15, 2016, Notley read The Descent of Alette in its entirety at The Lab in San Francisco.

Timeline

 * 1970s
 * Poems & stories (thesis, unpublished) (University of Iowa, 1970)
 * 165 Meeting House Lane (C Press, 1971)
 * Phoebe Light (Big Sky, 1973)
 * Incidentals in the Day World (Angel Hair, 1973)
 * For Frank O'Hara's Birthday (Reality Street, 1976)
 * Alice Ordered to Be Made (The Yellow Press, 1976)
 * A Diamond Necklace (Frontward Books, 1977)
 * Songs for the Unborn Second Baby (United Artists, 1979; reprint Distance No Object, 2021)

 * 1980s
 * Dr. Williams' Heiresses (Tuumba, 1980)
 * When I Was Alive (Vehicle Editions, 1980)
 * How Spring Comes (Toothpaste Press, 1980)
 * Waltzing Matilda (Kulchur Press, 1981; reprint Faux Press, 2002) ISBN 9780936538044
 * Tell Me Again (Am Here/Immediate Editions, 1982)
 * Sorrento (Sherwood Press, 1984)
 * Parts of a Wedding (Unimproved Editions, 1986)
 * At Night the States (The Yellow Press, 1988)
 * From a Work in Progress (Dia Foundation, 1988)
 * From a Work in Progress (Dia Foundation, 1988)

 * 1990s
 * Homer's Art (Institute of Further Studies, 1990)
 * The Scarlet Cabinet (with Douglas Oliver) (Scarlet Editions, 1992)
 * Selected Poems of Alice Notley (Talisman House, 1993)
 * To Say You (Pyramid Atlantic, 1994)
 * Close to Me and Closer...(The Language of Heaven) and Desamere (O Books, 1995)
 * Byzantine Parables (Cambridge, 1998)
 * Byzantine Parables (Cambridge, 1998)
 * Byzantine Parables (Cambridge, 1998)

 * 2000s
 * Iphigenia (Belladonna, 2002)
 * From the Beginning (The Owl Press, 2005)
 * City of (Rain Taxi, 2005)
 * Above the Leaders (Veer Books, 2008)
 * Above the Leaders (Veer Books, 2008)
 * Above the Leaders (Veer Books, 2008)
 * Above the Leaders (Veer Books, 2008)
 * Above the Leaders (Veer Books, 2008)
 * Above the Leaders (Veer Books, 2008)

 * 2010s
 * Secret ID (The Cantenary Press, 2012)
 * Negativity's Kiss (Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2013)
 * Manhattan Luck (Heart's Desire, 2014)
 * Certain Magical Acts (Penguin Poets, 2016)
 * Eurynome's Sandals (Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2019)
 * Manhattan Luck (Heart's Desire, 2014)
 * Certain Magical Acts (Penguin Poets, 2016)
 * Eurynome's Sandals (Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2019)
 * Eurynome's Sandals (Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre, 2019)

 * 2020s
 * For the Ride (Penguin Poets, 2020) ISBN 9780143134572
 * Get the Money!: Collected Prose (1961-1983) (City Lights Books, 09/13/2022) ISBN 9780872868953 Get the Money!
 * Telling the Truth as It Comes Up: Selected Talks & Essays 1991-2018 (Song Cave, 11/15/2023)
 * Telling the Truth as It Comes Up: Selected Talks & Essays 1991-2018 (Song Cave, 11/15/2023)

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Could someone add information about RockBass basses and their relation to Warwick. --Easyas12c 17:30, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

The RockBass line was added at the specific request of major retailers Guitar Center and Sam Ash. Retailers in other countries also expressed strong intersest in affordable Warwick basses.

After an exhaustive review, a factory was found in China with the same instrument making ethic that Hans Peter Wilfer learned from his father. Warwick employees supervise the manufacturing process and the final QC of every instrument. Neck profiles, body contours, setup, and fretwork all meet Warwicks strict German standards of excellence.

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really needs pruning
While I believe that Warwick instruments are truly amazing, and I'm a fan of vintage Framus electrics, this article comes across significantly as corporate promotion rather than encyclopedic content.

As such, I am removing the multiple lists of models. These might qualify for reinstatement if some impartial source (or sources) can be referenced that provides such lists, although even then it would be much better to describe the Warwick model series in prose and in a summary fashion, and direct the minority of interested Wikipedia users there for detail. Weeb Dingle (talk) 00:44, 2 December 2019 (UTC)

Criticism missing
Warwick was known for paying below standards and detaining unions. After criticism Wilfer took the initiative and made company policies more transparent, ever since criticism became less. In the beginning, though, he tried to ban online criticism. Also see german article for sources. KhlavKhalash (talk) 12:15, 23 December 2021 (UTC)

Players of Warwick guitars
I'm sure that Emma Anzai of the band Sick Puppies and also of Evanescence (2022-present) plays a Warwick "Streamer" bass. As mentioned near the end of this article. https://bassmagazine.com/.amp/artists/bass-magazine-lockdown-check-in-with-emma-anzai CursedSerpentine (talk) 22:25, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

Players lists
At the moment the order of the names in the lists seems random: is there a rationale? If not, should they be made alphabetical (or given some other deliberate order)? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 94.2.5.208 (talk) 03:44, 17 November 2023 (UTC)

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Press release. Russ Blau (talk) 17:30, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Either needs to be cleaned up thoroughly or started from scratch. Just copying and pasting a press release doesn't cut it, even if you add wikilinks. So Delete unless someone works on it in the next five days. Average Earthman 17:57, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
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Whorl

A whorl ( or ) is an individual circle, oval, volution or equivalent in a whorled pattern, which consists of a spiral or multiple concentric objects (including circles, ovals and arcs).

In nature
For mollusc whorls, the body whorl in a mollusc shell is the most recently formed whorl of a spiral shell, terminating in the aperture.

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John Bennett (actor)

John David Bennett (8 May 1928 – 11 April 2005) was an English actor.

Early life
Born in Beckenham, Kent, to Alfred Bennett and Bessie Bennett (née Rudnidsky), he was educated at Bradfield College in Berkshire, then trained at the Central School of Speech and Drama, followed by a wide repertory theatre experience including Bromley, Bristol Old Vic, Dundee, the Edinburgh Festival and Watford before going to London's West End. He was Jewish.

Career
Often cast as a villain, he had many roles on television including Market in Honey Lane, Porridge, Survivors, The Avengers, Strange Report, Bergerac, The Professionals and four episodes of The Saint. He guest-starred in two Doctor Who serials. He is also well remembered as Philip Bosinney in the BBC's adaptation of The Forsyte Saga (1967), but also appeared in over three hundred TV productions including God's Architect; Blake's 7; I, Claudius; Rome; Rosemary & Thyme; Saracen; Special Branch; Softly, Softly; Mulberry;[Crown Court. Dr. Stanislaus. 1973] Tales of the Unexpected and Anna Karenina. One of his last televised roles was in an episode of Jonathan Creek.

His film roles included The House That Dripped Blood (1970), The House in Nightmare Park (1973), The Fifth Element (1997), Charlotte Gray (2001) and Minority Report (2002). He also played an undercover detective in Victim, but the role was uncredited.

His theatre roles included Yasha in The Cherry Orchard and Henry Percy (Hotspur) in Henry IV, Part 1 both for John Gielgud, Exton in Richard II and Volscian Senator in Coriolanus (Almeida Theatre), Marley's Ghost in A Christmas Carol (Royal Shakespeare Company) and Uncle in Inner Voices (Royal National Theatre), as well as working extensively at the Royal Exchange, Manchester. He starred in many West End musicals including On Your Toes (Palace), Marilyn! (Adelphi), The Sound of Music (Apollo Victoria), The King and I (London Palladium), The Baker's Wife (Phoenix) and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Supporting Performance in a Musical for his performance as Louis Epstein in Jolson The Musical (Victoria Palace and Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto). His last stage role was as Conrad in Gates of Gold by Frank McGuinness with William Gaunt at the Finborough Theatre, London, in December 2004.

In radio, he had been a member of the BBC Drama Repertory Company, and his broadcast parts included roles in programmes that ranged from Shakespeare to Paul Temple.

Bennett was an enthusiastic amateur flier and an accomplished glider pilot. For many years he was a member of the RAF G.S.A (Gliding and Soaring Association) Centre at RAF Bicester in the 1970s. He flew alongside Warrant Officer Andy Gough (then Chief Flying Instructor) and was a part owner of a number of high performance gliders.

Selected filmography

 * Diplomatic Passport (1954) – André (uncredited)
 * The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960) – Marquis of Queensberry's Friend (uncredited)
 * The Challenge (1960) – Spider
 * A Taste of Money (1960) – Waiter
 * The Curse of the Werewolf (1961) – Policeman (uncredited)
 * Victim (1961) – Undercover Detective (uncredited)
 * Postman's Knock (1962) – Pete
 * The Barber of Stamford Hill (1962) - Mr Figg
 * Crooks Anonymous (1962) – Thomas
 * The Pirates of Blood River (1962) – Penal Colony Guard (uncredited)
 * Lawrence of Arabia (1962) – Arab Sheik (uncredited)
 * Kaleidoscope (1966) – Poker Player
 * A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
 * The Syndicate (1968) – Dr. Singh
 * The House That Dripped Blood (1971) – Detective Inspector Holloway
 * Henry VIII and His Six Wives (1972) – Wriothesley
 * The House in Nightmare Park (1973) – Patel
 * Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) – Joseph Goebbels
 * Porridge: UK TV series (1974) - the prison doctor
 * The Message (1976) – Salool
 * The Greek Tycoon (1978) – Servant
 * Watership Down (1978) – Capt. Holly (voice)
 * The Mirror Crack'd (1980) – Barnsby ('Murder at Midnight')
 * Eye of the Needle (1981) – Kleinmann
 * The Plague Dogs (1982) – Don (voice)
 * Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984) – Mr. Rath
 * Tai-Pan (1986) – Orlov
 * Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988) – Frog Guard
 * Prisoner of Honor (1991) – Magistrate
 * Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991) – Dr. Sigmund Freud
 * Split Second (1992) – Dr. Schulman
 * Priest (1994) – Father Redstone
 * The Fifth Element (1997) – Priest
 * Bridge of Dragons (1999) – The Registrar
 * Beginner's Luck (2001) – Old luvvie
 * Charlotte Gray (2001) – Gerard
 * The Pianist (2002) – Dr. Ehrlich
 * Minority Report (2002) – Adulation #4

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Iraq Today

Iraq Today is a newspaper in Iraq.

History
It is the first domestic English-language newspaper published in Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein.

The newspaper's first issue was published on 9 April 2003. Its tagline is "The Independent Voice of Iraq".

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Alex Steffen

Alex Steffen (born c. 1968 in Oakland, California)  is an American futurist and advocate of 'bright green environmentalism' who writes and speaks about sustainability and the future of the planet. He emphasizes the importance of imagining persuasive, positive possible futures: "It's literally true that we can't build what we can't imagine,... The fact that we haven't compellingly imagined a thriving, dynamic, sustainable world is a major reason we don't already live in one."

Biography
From 2003 to 2010, Steffen was executive editor at the website Worldchanging. Worldchanging practiced "solutions-based journalism". The non-profit organization announced that the goal of its work was to highlight new solutions to what the editorial team saw as the planet's most pressing problems, rather than to spread news of those problems or critiques of their causes.

The site won or was nominated for a number of awards and prizes, including winning the Utne Independent Press Award (2005), finalist for a Webby for Best Blog (2006), finalist for a Webby for Best Magazine and Bloggie awards for Best Group Weblog and Best Writing for a Weblog (2007), won the Green Prize for Sustainable Literature for its book, won Organic Design Award, Prix Ars Electronica nominee, and in 2008 was named a Webby Official Honoree.

In November 2006, Steffen published a survey of global innovation, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st century (ISBN 978-0810930957), with a foreword by Al Gore, design by Stefan Sagmeister and with an introduction by Bruce Sterling. A new, updated edition, with a foreword by Van Jones and an introduction by Bill McKibben, was published in 2011.

In 2012, Steffen released Carbon Zero: Imagining Cities That Can Save the Planet, a book which explored the innovations and policy changes that a North American city would need to make to become carbon neutral.

In 2013, he became "Planetary Futurist in Residence" at the design company IDEO.

In 2016, Steffen successfully ran a crowd-funding campaign for The Heroic Future, a three-part series of documentaries on how we might imagine a sustainable future. The theme was "you cannot build what you cannot imagine". The series was filmed in front of a live audience over three nights in September 2016 at the Marines' Memorial Theatre in San Francisco.

In 2017, following the election of President Donald Trump, Steffen modified his style to a form of "anticipatory journalism", taking the same themes as The Heroic Future and setting them in the near future, post-Trump. This series of newsletters are titled The Nearly Now.

Public speaking
Steffen is a frequent public speaker and has spoken at TED, Poptech, Design Indaba, Amsterdam's PicNic, The Royal Geographical Society and New Delhi's Doors of Perception. As well as keynote addresses at industry events like the AIGA and IDSA national conferences, O'Reilly's Emerging Technologies (eTech), FOO Camp and the Business Expo Bright Green held during the Copenhagen Climate Summit. Steffen has given keynote speeches at three different South by Southwest conferences (SxSW). He has also spoken at universities including Harvard, Yale, Oxford, Stanford and the London School of Economics.

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Mizia (town)

Mizia (Мизия, ) is a town and municipality in Vratsa Province, northwestern Bulgaria near the Danube river. As of December 2009, the town had a population of 3,354.

The town's original name was Bukyovtsi (Букьовци); an urban-type settlement, it was merged with Glozhene in 1970 to create the town of Mizia (meaning "Moesia"), but the two were separated again in 1978. However, Bukyovtsi retained the new name and its town status, while Glozhene kept its old name and village status.

Honour
Miziya Peak on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is named after Miziya.

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Talk:Heathers

Was This first Released at MIFED Italy 	24 October 1988
is this release Date correct? Italy 	24 October 1988 	(MIFED) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:807:4100:7B20:B0D3:B575:43D7:3669 (talk) 21:33, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, the date original release date should be changed to 1988: "the film premiered in Milan, Italy, in the fall of 1988 before making its way to Sundance" (source)Jmj713 (talk) 02:21, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
 * It's a 1988 film. People keep mistakenly editing it back to 1989, AND deleting my sources. MisterRerack (talk) 07:49, 30 May 2024 (UTC)

Question regarding reception
We're trying to determine whether this film had a mixed reception at the time of its release. There are a couple bad reviews cited, nothing showing an overall mixed reception. Am I missing data regarding this, and what do people think? YouCanDoBetter (talk) 04:24, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

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Talk:Shiba Inu

Wolf DNA
Shiba Inu is the dog breed that is genetically closest to the wolves.

http://www.shibamac.com/others/national-geographic-shiba-inu-is-most-wolflike/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.53.61.0 (talk) 17:36, 5 March 2015 (UTC)

Much wow, amaze article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.160.93.22 (talk) 10:57, 20 August 2015 (UTC)

 * Really? www.shibamac.com says so, eh? William Harris •   (talk) •  01:07, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

Unlikely, probably some huskies, as they often interbred with wolves and their offspring may have come back to society as they tended to be social towards people — Preceding unsigned comment added by TTTime05 (talk • contribs) 19:27, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/304/5674/1160.full Here's the journal article the nat geo article they're sourcing is sourcing. I believe they're correct in saying the Shiba is most closely related, as I've seen this stat in other places before, but without adequate biology background I can't determine which dog is "closest" to wolves as they present a number of metrics with different results. In any case, the Shiba seems to be within the top 3 closest dogs on all of them, and is the most-closely-related on one.Pencatpigpus (talk) 17:14, 11 June 2021 (UTC)

 * I wonder who will add this to the article. Morganfitzp (talk) 20:53, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

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 * Doge shiba inu.jpg

The photo for the sesame looks like a creeping red
the photo labeled sesame looks a lot like a Saddleback aka creeping red which are color mutations of black and tan dogs. I'm not an expert but maybe someone who knows more can confirm if that's the best image for a sesame inu. 45.36.163.222 (talk) 05:00, 14 March 2023 (UTC)

Should the translation for "Shiba Inu" ("Small Dog) be added?
Mainly wondering this, but should "small dog" be added to the names list in the infobox? Mainly wondering because most Japanese related articles usually have a translation for phrases like this. Rqkaiju2 (talk) 18:04, 14 December 2023 (UTC)

 * 柴 the character of the name of the dog means faggot or brushwood. The etymology is unknown according to wiktionary but it likely derives from the dog's ability to enter small woods/bushes to flush out prey. The small theory is mentioned on Japanese Wikipedia but it's unsourced and I don't even see evidence that 柴 meant small historically beyond that it means a type of small tree/bush.
 * Regardless Wikipedia needs claims to be sourced, no matter how plausible the theory is behind the name you need a reliable source mentioning it to add it. Traumnovelle (talk) 22:03, 26 January 2024 (UTC)

Are there different colors of a Shiba inu? Or is it just always tan?
Yes. 173.67.251.184 (talk) 18:55, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

 * Yes. Read the article: 'color: Red, black and tan, cream, sesame, black sesame, red sesame.' Traumnovelle (talk) 19:19, 10 July 2024 (UTC)

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Voice of Iraq

The Voice of Iraq (إذاعة صوت العراق lit: Idha'atu Sawt Il-Iraq) is a privately owned radio station in Iraq that has broadcast since August 27, 2003. It broadcasts in Arabic, Iraqi Turkish and English on 1179 kHz medium wave in Baghdad and nearby towns including Ba'qubah and Fallujah to an area with 12 million inhabitants. Voice of Iraq is supervised by the International Agency for Free Media, which is a media institution that was active abroad during the Saddam Hussein regime and covered Iraqi news via the Internet.

Editorial policy
The editorial policy of the Voice of Iraq is supportive of national unity, on the basis that Arabs, Kurds and Turkomans, Assyrians should have equal rights. Programmes include news reports and panel discussions of current affairs, combined with Shi'a religious and patriotic songs.

Other radio stations of the same name
Prior to the formation of "Voice of Iraq" in 2003, the name had been used previously by several radio stations including an English language FM station owned by Uday Hussein. There were also an Egyptian Government funded radio station that operated between 1958 and 1959, which advocated pan-Arabism and supported Abdul Karim Qassim. In addition there was another radio station that operated in 1959 that was a black propaganda effort that mimicked the pro-Qassim station but attacked his government and was widely considered to be U.S. funded.

The Voice of Iraq radio station should also not be confused with the independent daily Iraqi newspaper with the similar name Sawt al-Iraq (Voice of Iraq) which launched in 2002.

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Jerome Kersey

Jerome Kersey (June 26, 1962 – February 18, 2015) was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played for the Portland Trail Blazers (1984–1995), Golden State Warriors (1995–96), Los Angeles Lakers (1996–97), Seattle SuperSonics (1997–98), San Antonio Spurs (1998–2000), and Milwaukee Bucks (2000–01). Kersey won an NBA championship with the Spurs in 1999.

The Trail Blazers selected Kersey in the second round of the 1984 NBA draft from Longwood University (then Longwood College) in Farmville, Virginia. He was a member of the Spurs during their 1999 NBA Finals victory over the New York Knicks. Following his playing career, Kersey worked with his former Portland teammate and then-head coach of the Milwaukee Bucks Terry Porter as an assistant in 2005. Kersey died from a pulmonary embolism caused by a blood clot at his home in Tualatin, Oregon, on February 18, 2015.

College career
Kersey attended the then Longwood College, at the time an NCAA Division II school, where he set school records for points, rebounds, steals and blocked shots while making 57% of his baskets. As a senior, his rebounding average of 14.2 led all Division II players. However, it was not until May 2006 that Kersey graduated from Longwood, having only needed two more college courses to graduate for some years.

Portland Trail Blazers (1984–1995)
Coming from a school that was not known as a basketball powerhouse, Kersey was selected in the second round of the 1984 NBA draft (46th overall pick) by the Portland Trail Blazers. He was a regular contributor from the bench, eventually becoming a starter, and by his third year, he began to shine, even coming in second behind Michael Jordan in the Slam Dunk Contest.

The 1987–88 season, was his best statistically, as he averaged 19.2 points and 8.3 rebounds. He became a starter and was part of the nucleus of a strong Portland team, along with Clyde Drexler, Terry Porter, Buck Williams, and Kevin Duckworth that made it to the NBA Finals two out of the next three years (in 1990 and 1992). However, in subsequent years Clifford Robinson would take his place and Kersey found himself spending more time on the bench.

Golden State Warriors (1995–1996)
By 1995, Portland had several talented forwards, and he was left unprotected in that year's 1995 NBA expansion draft when he was selected by the Toronto Raptors, but they waived him before the 1995–96 season began. He signed with the Golden State Warriors, where he started 58 games, and had an altercation with Latrell Sprewell, which resulted in the latter threatening to bring a gun to practice.

Los Angeles Lakers (1996–1997)
For the 1996–97 season Kersey signed with the Los Angeles Lakers as a free agent, and he had a quite productive year, logging his most playing time in five seasons, because trades and injuries had left the Lakers thin.

Seattle SuperSonics (1997–1998)
The 1997–98 season saw Kersey go to his fourth team in four years, but injuries kept him out of the Seattle SuperSonics' lineup for most of the season.

San Antonio Spurs (1999–2000)
For the lockout-shortened 1998–99 season, Kersey found himself on the San Antonio Spurs. The team won the 1999 NBA championship. Kersey provided frontcourt depth and experience off the bench in the team's title run, although his scoring, rebounding, and minutes played were all career lows. He stayed with the Spurs for another season.

Milwaukee Bucks (2000–2001)
Kersey spent his final season in the NBA with the Milwaukee Bucks, who fell short in the Eastern Conference Finals. He retired at the conclusion of the 2000–01 season.

Legacy
As a Portland Trail Blazer, Kersey was near the top in many of Portland's career categories at the time of his leaving, including games played (second), minutes played (third), scoring (third), rebounding (second), assists (sixth), steals (third), field goals made (fourth), and blocked shots (second).

Following his retirement in 2001, Kersey served as a coach in various capacities for several teams. For a short time, Kersey worked for Wells Fargo home mortgages. During the 2003–04 NBA season, Kersey was hired by the Trail Blazers to serve as director of player programs. After a season in that capacity, Kersey was hired as an assistant coach by the Milwaukee Bucks, where he served under his former Portland teammate, head coach Terry Porter. He served with the Bucks for one year, but was let go (along with Mike Schuler, who coached both Kersey and Porter while in Portland) on May 6, 2005. Porter was subsequently fired as the Bucks' coach later that year. For a period of time following, Kersey joined the automotive industry as an auto wholesaler.

In November 2005, Kersey was in Longwood's first Hall of Fame class. Others included baseball player Michael Tucker and LPGA golfer Tina Barrett.

In 2008, Kersey was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame and was selected to receive the 2015 recipient of the William Henry Ruffner Alumni Award, the highest award given to a Longwood alumni. The court at Willett Hall, Longwood's basketball facility, was posthumously named in his honor on December 3, 2016.

Personal life
Kersey married his girlfriend of over nine years, Teri (Teresa Folsom) Donnerberg, on September 21, 2013 at the Columbia Edgewater Country Club in Portland, Oregon. Together, they have four children from previous relationships.

Death

On February 18, 2015, Kersey died suddenly at the age of 52. Lake Oswego Fire Department and American Medical Response responded to a call from Kersey's home shortly after 5 pm, and he was taken to Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center in Tualatin, Oregon where he died. Just days prior to his death, Kersey underwent knee surgery. On the day of his death, he left the Trail Blazers' Rose Quarter office because he was not feeling well. Medical examiners linked his death to a blood clot that traveled to his lungs, causing a pulmonary embolism.

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John Savident

John Frederick Joseph Savident (21 January 1938 – 21 February 2024) was a British actor, known for his numerous television roles, including his portrayal of Fred Elliott in the soap opera Coronation Street from 1994 to 2006. He was also known for his performance as Monsieur Firmin in the West End cast of The Phantom of the Opera. His other credits include The Avengers (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Professionals (1978), Blake's 7 (1979), Yes Minister (1980), Gandhi (1982), The Remains of the Day (1993) and Middlemarch (1994).

Early life
Savident was born 21 January 1938 in St Peter Port, Guernsey, and still lived there at the time of the German occupation of the island in 1940. He and his family escaped to Britain in a fishing boat and settled in Ashton-under-Lyne. His acting career started when he joined Ashton Repertory.

Savident was educated at the town's grammar school and in 1955 joined the Manchester City Police, serving as a police officer before turning to acting as his profession.

Career
Savident created the role of Monsieur Firmin in the original production of Phantom of the Opera, which opened on 9 October 1986 at Her Majesty's Theatre in Haymarket, London. He appeared as the renegade scientist Egrorian in a 1981 episode of the cult science fiction TV series Blake's 7. He also had other television appearances in Danger Man, The Saint, Callan and Doctor Who. He played Doctor Meredith in The Remains of the Day.

Coronation Street
Despite his many film and television roles, including civil servant Sir Frederick Stewart in Yes Minister, and a part in A Clockwork Orange (1971), it was only when Savident joined the cast of Coronation Street as the bellicose but romantic butcher Fred Elliott during the 1990s that he became a household name. He made his first appearance on the show in 1994 and his character quickly became popular with viewers.

In December 2005, Savident announced that he was to leave Coronation Street citing undisclosed "personal reasons". His character died of a stroke nine months later, in October 2006. He later revealed that he had retired from the show "because he wanted to spend more time with his family in Hertfordshire".

Later work
Savident was one of the readers on the BBC's online Advent Calendar in December 2006. That year, he appeared in the pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs as the henchman at Manchester Opera House, alongside his former Coronation Street co-star Suranne Jones, as well as Justin Moorhouse and an all-star seven dwarves including Warwick Davis.

In 2007, he was touring as the lead in a production of Hobson's Choice. He appeared on Loose Women on 19 March 2009 to discuss his part as Sir Joseph Porter in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta HMS Pinafore, which toured the United Kingdom during the spring and summer of 2009.

He guest-starred in the Christmas special episode of Holby City in 2012, playing patient Rupert Pool. He voiced the character Pendle in the Doctor Who audio-drama Order of the Daleks.

Personal life
Savident married Rona Hopkinson in 1961; they had two children and several grandchildren.

On 1 December 2000, Savident was involved in a serious incident with an escort at his flat in Manchester. In the early hours of the morning, Savident was stabbed in the neck. The man was jailed for 7 years for the attack.

Death
Savident died on 21 February 2024, at the age of 86.

Filmography

 * Robbery (1967) – Policeman with Dog (uncredited)
 * The White Bus (1967) – Supporter
 * The Saint (1968) – Frank Lomax
 * The Avengers (1968) - Henry Winthrop
 * Inadmissible Evidence (1968) – Mr. Watson
 * Nearest and Dearest(1969) - Landlord
 * Otley (1969) – Businessman
 * Before Winter Comes (1969) – British Corporal
 * Battle of Britain (1969) – RAF Officer (uncredited)
 * Waterloo (1970) – Muffling
 * A Family at War (1970-1972, TV Series) – George Askew
 * Man of Straw (1972, TV series) – Von Wulchow
 * The Raging Moon (1971) – Fete Guest
 * A Clockwork Orange (1971) – Conspirator Dolin
 * Tightrope (1972) - Forrester
 * Penny Gold (1973) – Sir Robert Hampton
 * Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) – Hewel
 * Diamonds on Wheels (1974) – Steward
 * Butley (1974) – James (uncredited)
 * QB VII (1974) – Anaesthetist
 * Galileo (1974) – Second Senator
 * Looking For Clancy (1975) – Sir John Kernan
 * Trial by Combat (1976) – Oliver Griggs – Police Commissioner
 * Raffles (1976) (plus TV series The Manhunt ) Mr. Justice Raffles - Daniel Brigstock (1 episode)
 * Rachel and the Beelzebub Bombardiers (1977) – Captain Verney, MP
 * 1990 (1977) – Dan Mellor
 * The Professionals (1978) - Robert Plumb (1 episode)
 * Blake's 7 (1979) – Samor
 * Yes Minister (1980) – Sir Frederick 'Jumbo' Stewart
 * Blake's 7 (1981) – Egrorian
 * Doctor Who: The Visitation (1982) – The Squire (1 episode)
 * Gandhi (1982) – Manager of the Mine
 * Blackadder (pilot) (1982) - King of England
 * Oliver Twist (1982, TV Movie) – Mr. Fang
 * The Wicked Lady (1983) – Squire Thornton
 * The Crystal Cube (1983) – The Bishop of Horley
 * Never the Twain (1984) - Series 3 Episode 2, Mr Wilde
 * The Bill (1984, TV Series) – Video shop owner
 * Little Dorrit (1987) – Tite Barnacle
 * A Summer Story (1988) – A Bank Clerk
 * Camping (1990) – English camper
 * Mountains of the Moon (1990) – Lord Murchison
 * Impromptu (1991) – Buloz
 * Hudson Hawk (1991) – Auctioneer
 * Mr. Bean Takes an Exam (1991) - examination invigilator
 * Jeeves and Wooster (1992) (TV Series) Series 3, Episode 2 Edgar Gascoyne Bickersteth, 8th Duke of Chiswick
 * Brain Donors (1992) – Edmund Lazlo
 * Mrs 'Arris Goes to Paris (1992) - Mr Armont
 * The Remains of the Day (1993) – Doctor Meredith
 * Tom & Viv (1994) – Sir Frederick Lamb
 * Coronation Street (1994–2006) – Fred Elliott (1,065 episodes)
 * Middlemarch (1994) – Raffles
 * Othello (1995) – 2nd Senator
 * Loch Ness (1996) – Dr. Binns
 * Sharpe - Sharpe's Regiment (1996) - Maj. Gen. Sir Barstan Maxwell
 * The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2011) – Monsieur Firmin

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Treaty of Gandamak

The Treaty of Gandamak (Dari: معاهده گندمک, Pashto: د گندمک تړون) officially ended the first phase of the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The Afghan emir Mohammad Yaqub Khan ceded various frontier areas as well as Afghanistan's control of its foreign affairs to the British Raj.

It was signed on 26May 1879 by King Mohammad Yaqub Khan of Afghanistan and Sir Louis Cavagnari of the British Government of India at a British army camp near the village of Gandamak, about 70 mi east of Kabul. The treaty was ratified by Lord Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, Viceroy of India, on 30 May 1879.

Most historical writings consider the Treaty of Gandamak as the prelude to the second phase of the Second Anglo-Afghan War, 1879–1880. As result of the British victory at the Battle of Kandahar in 1880 the treaty was reaffirmed and the British appointed Abdur Rahman, a British opponent, as Emir of Afghanistan.

Background

On 22 July 1878, a Russian delegation arrived in Kabul without the explicit invitation of the Afghan emir Sher Ali Khan. In early August 1878 to counteract the Russian initiative, the British Government of India informed Sher Ali that he must receive a special mission that included members of other European states "with all becoming honors."

The mission was denied entry into Afghanistan at a military post commanded by Ali Masjid in the Khyber pass on 21 September. In retaliation, the British Government of India issued an ultimatum that by 20 November 1878 the Afghan emir must apologize for the effrontery and provide a satisfactory explanation. Sher Ali's response of 19 November 1878, delayed by his own son and heir apparent's death on 17 August, did not reach the Viceroy of India until 30 November, and lacked an apology.

On 21 November the British Raj declared war on Afghanistan, occupied the Korram valley and the Paywar pass, and moved its armed forces via the Khyber Pass and Quetta towards Jalalabad and Qandahar, respectively. Unable to offer effective military resistance, on 23 December 1878, the Afghan emir left Kabul for Turkestan, intending to seek Russian aid for the defence of his domains. Sher Ali died on 21 February 1879 near Balkh and his son, Mohammad Yaqub Khan, declared himself Emir of Afghanistan. On 26 May 1879, after preliminary correspondence with Cavagnari prior to the British withdrawal from most occupied Afghan territories, Muhammad Yaqub's request for permission to visit the British military camp was accepted, and so he proceeded there to sign the Treaty of Gandamak, considered one of the most humiliating ever accepted by an Afghan ruler, essentially making the Afghan emir a feudatory of the British Crown.

Settlements
"His Highness the Amir of Afghanistan and its depen-dencies engages, on the exchange of the ratifications of this Treaty, to publish a full and complete amnesty, absolving all his subjects from any responsibility for intercourse with the British forces during the war, and to guarantee and protect all persons of whatever degree from any punishment or molestation on that account. His Highness the Amir of Afghanistan and its depen-dencies agrees to conduct his relations with Foreign States in accordance with the advice and wishes of the British Government. His Highness the Amir will enter into no engagements with Foreign States, and will not take up arms against any Foreign State, except with the concurrence of the British Government. On these conditions the British Government will support the Amir against any foreign aggression with money, arms, or troops, to be employed in whatsoever manner the British Government may judge best for this purpose. Should British troops at any time enter Afghanistan for the purpose of repelling foreign aggression, they will return to their stations in British territory as soon as the object for which they entered has been accomplished." —First section of the treaty

Under the provisions of the treaty the Amir surrendered control over Afghani foreign relations policy and allowed for a British Mission, with European members, to reside in Kabul. Jurisdiction over the Korram and Pishin valleys, the Sibi district, and the Khybar pass were transferred to the British. The treaty provided for increased commercial contacts and the establishment of a telegraph line between Kabul and British India. Mohammad Yaqub Khan was to issue amnesty to all those who had collaborated with the British occupying forces.

The British Mission led by Cavagnari arrived in Kabul on 24 July 1879, but less than two months later Cavagnari and all members of his Mission were massacred when on 3 September 1879 a dissatisfied regiment of the Amir's army from Herat stormed the mission compound.

The massacre set the stage for another British invasion of Afghanistan and the expulsion of Mohammad Yaqub Khan to India. It culminated in the British appointment of Abdur Rahman (ruled 22 July 1880 – 1 October 1901), a patrilateral cousin of Yaqub, as Amir of Afghanistan. Abdur Rahman accepted the provisions of the Treaty of Gandamak - with the modification that the British agent and his staff in Kabul would be classed as Indian Muslims.

Aftermath
Despite attempts from the British to dissuade Afghanistan from Russian influence, Abdur Rahman Khan adopted an autocratic government similar to the Tsars of Russia, inspired by Peter the Great from his time in exile in Turkestan. Alongside this, despite the British attempting to prop up Afghanistan as a key ally, Abdur Rahman Khan often acted against the British, with atrocities horrifying even Queen Victoria. Abdur Rahman also refused to give information regarding his troops, with his own autobiography criticizing British policy, while also violating the Lyall agreement by instead of allowing the British to oversee his diplomatic affairs, held them himself with numerous countries including Iran, the Ottoman Empire, and the German Empire. Abdur Rahman also wrote in pamphlets, encouraging Jihad against the British and the Russians, claiming both wished to end Afghanistan as a state. Senior British officials found it extremely difficult to further cooperate with Abdur Rahman Khan and Afghanistan due to the Turkestan atrocities, as well as his actions against the Hazaras. The British believed they had no other alternative but to support Abdur Rahman Khan, scoring a diplomatic victory for him.

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The Rum Diary (novel)

The Rum Diary is an early novel by American writer Hunter S. Thompson. It was written in the early 1960s but was not published until 1998. The manuscript, begun in 1959, was discovered among Thompson's papers by Johnny Depp. The story involves a journalist named Paul Kemp who, in the 1950s, moves from New York to work for a major newspaper, The Daily News, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It is Thompson's second novel, preceded by the still-unpublished Prince Jellyfish.

Background
Set in the late 1950s, the novel encompasses a tangled love story involving jealousy, treachery and violent alcoholic lust among the Americans who staff the newspaper. Thompson himself travelled from New York to San Juan in 1960 to write for an ill-fated sports newspaper on the island of Puerto Rico. Thompson had unsuccessfully applied to work at the larger English-language daily called The San Juan Star which novelist William J. Kennedy edited. While in Puerto Rico, Thompson befriended many of the writers at the Star, providing the context for The Rum Diary's fictional storyline.

Although Thompson wrote his narrative at the age of 22, it deals extensively with a fear of "going over the hill" and growing old. The prominent characters are typical of Thompson's work: violent, maniacal and alcoholic, stumbling through life. The narrative uses a highly paced and rather exciting style, also typical of Thompson's oeuvre. Thompson himself stated that he wanted to write the Great American Novel. "I still can't beat that goddamn Gatsby."

Thompson finished a draft of The Rum Diary in the early sixties but continued to work on it throughout that decade, ultimately selling it to Random House after they agreed to publish his first book, Hell's Angels. However, he felt that the more time passed, the more difficult it was to write about an increasingly distant era. After missing various deadlines, he gave up on The Rum Diary until 1998, when it was finally published.

Parts of the novel were published in 1990 in Thompson's collection, Songs of the Doomed. In these excerpts, it is possible to see how the manuscript was changed before its final publication. David S. Wills wrote in High White Notes: The Rise and Fall of Gonzo Journalism that the original manuscript, as well as the 1990s excerpts, were "littered with" racial epithets and racist depictions, but that these had almost all been removed by the time it was released as a book.

When it was published in 1998, The Rum Diary was billed as "The Long Lost Novel" but it had never in fact been lost. Thompson had always felt it was too weak to sell, but now he needed money. His assistant, Lynn Nesbit, explained: “The Rum Diary came out when it did because he needed money, absolutely. He never would’ve published that twenty years before.” The book sold well but Thompson was disappointed, calling it "the sloppiest job of Book Publishing I've ever seen."

Film adaptation
The Rum Diary has been adapted into a film. Bruce Robinson wrote the screenplay and directed the film, which stars Johnny Depp as journalist Paul Kemp. Filming took place in Puerto Rico during 2009. It was released on October 28, 2011.

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User:Steinsky/todo/counties

Ceremonial counties of England ordered by quality and length:

Featured

 * Dorset

Needs final push to featured

 * Bristol
 * Buckinghamshire
 * Cornwall
 * Devon
 * Isle of Wight
 * Kent
 * City of London
 * Northamptonshire
 * Somerset
 * Warwickshire

Needs lots of work

 * Bedfordshire
 * Berkshire
 * Cheshire
 * Derbyshire
 * Essex
 * Gloucestershire
 * Greater London
 * Greater Manchester
 * Hampshire
 * Hertfordshire
 * Lancashire
 * Leicestershire
 * Lincolnshire
 * Northumberland
 * Oxfordshire
 * Rutland
 * Shropshire
 * South Yorkshire
 * Staffordshire
 * Suffolk
 * Surrey
 * Tyne and Wear
 * West Midlands
 * Wiltshire
 * Worcestershire

Barely started

 * Cambridgeshire
 * Cumbria
 * East Riding of Yorkshire
 * East Sussex
 * Herefordshire
 * Merseyside
 * Norfolk
 * North Yorkshire
 * Nottinghamshire
 * West Sussex
 * West Yorkshire

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User talk:Arbor/gender

Language section

 * Sorry, this paragraph is hopelessly messed up:
 * sex (the equipment) is not the same thing as sex (the action) - what you are using here as examples are all sex (the action) uses, which have nothing to do with gender, and while gender is indeed not used as synonymous with that use of sex, this fact is perfectly meaningless to this article.
 * In German(y), it is not a problem at all to express the difference between sex (the equiptment) and gender, people understand the concept perfectly well. (If I may speak from experience, I actually have less trouble explaining the concept in German than I have in English, or rather, less problems explaining it to German speakers as opposed to English speakers.) The fact that "Geschlecht" is the dictionary translation of both (grammatical) gender and sex (the equiptment) (plus family in the sense of lineage, plus generation, plus class or similar, as in "das menschliche Geschlecht" - the human race, or "das Göttergeschlecht" - the gods, or a family of gods) is no indication whatever for there being a problem with the concept of gender != sex. Do not get too confused over the words alone that exist in a given language, the question is whether the concept of gender != sex exists, or can be expressed and understood, not if there are words analogous to the main definition of gender and sex (the equiptment). -- AlexR 18:50, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

Two proposals - not good
Hi Arbor - you are aware that both of us are working on different proposals, are you? That is probably not the best way to do it, we should once more communicate as to what exactly we want the article to be about, what should go in it, and then make only one new version. Because in the end, we will have to settle on one article anyway. -- AlexR 09:00, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree. That's why I have solicited the opinions of other editors on the talk page about this issue. But frankly, I still am not quite sure of how even I myself want the page to be -- maybe my vision doesn't work at all. (Many of your comments point to conceptual problems with my idea, for example, and I'm sure there are other things that will come up.) So far, I'm quite happy to play around in the sandbox and try things out. But, as you say, collaboration would be preferable.
 * Yes, it would be - that would not mean, however, that those contributing can't concentrate on different areas of the article, so basically, once we agree on the basic structure, that should not be a problem at all. Nor would a version we put up preclude any further work on the article, or parts of it. -- AlexR 12:37, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Speaking of that: I would love a picture that displays male-female gender identity, preferably in an interesting way. As you can see on my page, I now have male and female connectors, male and female fruit flies, and I really would like a male and female couple (of homo sapiens) where the categorisation is socially defined or self-identified. Like a butch-femme couple (of identical sex but different (social) gender.) Such an image would be useful for both our pages. I have clicked by finger sore through the transgender lists on wikipedia, but not really found anything. Maybe you have better luck. Arbor 09:17, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Arbor, pictures illustrating that sort of thing are notoriously difficult, and even more so when you want transgender people on them - most are not fond of the thought of seeing their faces on WP, other's don't see the point of it. Cross-dressing has those Dorothy Lawrence pics that might be interesting. BTW, most butches consider themselves to be female, so a butch-femme-couple would still be a female-female couple. Articles like this are notoriously hard to illustrate. -- AlexR 12:37, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Disambuguation page?
Perhaps the Gender article needs to be a disambiguation page? Blank Verse  ∅  09:48, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

 * BlankVerse, welcome to the debate. That was my original suggestion, see the talk page for gender, where this is discussed at length. I no longer think it's a good idea. Instead, I try to make a page about gender as a classification of STUFF into male and female categories. The idea is to have the page focus on the shared meaning of all the different contexts where the word appears. I am convinced that such a page would be interesting, informative, and very useful in explaining the nuances. Arbor 10:03, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

 * You see, there is another problem - grammatical gender, even if it refers to sex/gender at all, which is not always the case, usualy has three cases, not just two - male, female, and neuter. He, she, it. And if you want to start from there, you need the really early stuff, like when did people start using gender in the grammatical sense. I suspect that were the Romans already, maybe already the Greeks. However, all non-grammatical uses of gender stick to either male/female, or male/female/other, or, as far as I am informed, to even more grammatical genders refering to more than M and F and maybe other; afaik some American Indian languages had 5 genders (of the sex/gender kind)..
 * So, you are basically trying to open a particularly convoluted can of worms there, and while the subject is certainly most interesting, that should not drown references to what people are actually most likely looking for when they look up gender; and I doubt that would be large texts on grammatical gender, or plugs. I am also somewhat worried whether any large texts on what you have in mind would not constitute original research, which is frowned upon. -- AlexR 12:37, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

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Summon the Heroes

Summon the Heroes is a one-movement orchestral composition written for the 1996 Summer Olympics by American composer John Williams for the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). It premiered on July 19, 1996, in abridged form, at the opening ceremony in Atlanta, Georgia, played by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Williams. The piece is the third of four compositions he has written for the Olympics, following 1984's Olympic Fanfare and Theme and 1988's Olympic Spirit, and preceding 2002's Call of the Champions.

Composition and performances
Summon the Heroes is scored for a full orchestra. It is in the key of C major and is marked at 80 beats per minute, lasting about six minutes. The piece is dedicated to Tim Morrison, trumpet soloist of the Boston Pops Orchestra.

Music journalist Jon Burlingame described the piece as having "antiphonal brass choirs" and added that it was "longer and more complex" than Williams' previous Olympic compositions. Christian Clemmensen of Filmtracks noted "Roman and Greek-like historical appeal" in the brass writing that the work "featured with nobility." Musicologist Margaret Dilling compared the piece to Williams's previous Olympic works, noting their common elements including an opening fanfare, theme performed by solo or soli trumpet, and a penultimate "galloping bolero-type ostinato" leading to a "grand-slam finale."

It was played in full on the album Summon the Heroes by the Boston Pops Orchestra, released April 30, 1996. The piece was played at the 1996 Summer Olympics on July 19 by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, in an abridged form lasting three-and-a-half minutes, and conducted by Williams.

Reception
In reviewing Summon the Heroes on the 2002 album American Journey (featuring an eponymous composition and the 2002 Olympic theme Call of the Champions, among other Williams' pieces), film music critic James Southall highly praised the work, saying that it "...manages to offer in six minutes the kind of development and depth that simply isn't possible in the shorter tracks that have come before." Southall added, "For my money it's Williams's best concert piece, and maybe his best piece period." Christian Clemmensen of Filmtracks also praised the work for having more world appeal than Williams' other Olympic compositions. Mark Swed of the Los Angeles Times, however, called it "junk" and "no more than an exercise in chest-thumping and whooping", preferring Michael Torke's Javelin, which was commissioned for the 1996 Cultural Olympiad.

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Venter

Venter or Venters is an Afrikaans (and rarely, Jewish) surname, and may refer to:

Venter

 * AJ Venter (b. 1973), South African rugby union footballer
 * Al J Venter (b. 1938), author
 * André Venter (b. 1970), South African rugby union footballer
 * Ben Venter (b. 1987), South African rugby union footballer
 * Bill Venter (b. 1934), South African businessman
 * Brendan Venter (b. 1969), South African rugby union footballer
 * Christoffel Venter (1892–1977), South African military commander
 * Craig Venter (b. 1946), American biologist and businessman
 * Danny Venter (b. 1987), South African association football player
 * F.A. Venter (1916–1997), Afrikaans writer
 * Floris Venter (1886–unknown), South African cyclist
 * Francois Venter (b. 1991), South African rugby union footballer
 * Hanco Venter (b. 1993), South African rugby union footballer
 * Henco Venter (b. 1992), South African rugby union footballer
 * Jacobus Johannes Venter (1814–1889), South African Boer political figure
 * Jan Venter (b. 1988), South African swimmer
 * Kyle Venter (b. 1991), American soccer player
 * Mariella Venter (b. 2000), South African swimmer
 * Orla Venter (b. 1976), Namibian long jumper
 * Rina Venter (b. 1938), South African Minister of Heath from 1989 to 1994
 * Ruan Venter (b. 1992), South African rugby union footballer
 * Shaun Venter (b. 1987), South African rugby union footballer
 * Walter Venter (b. 1984), South African rugby union footballer

Venters

 * Alex Venters (1913–1959), Scottish footballer
 * Jock Venters (1910–1978), Scottish footballer
 * Jonny Venters (b. 1985), American baseball player

Places

 * Venter, the Hungarian name for Vintere village, Holod Commune, Bihor County, Romania
 * Venter, Virginia, United States
 * Ventersdorp, North West Province, South Africa

Origin
The commonly accepted origin of the surname finds its roots in the Netherlands, however due to poor record-keeping there are doubts whether or not this is true. During the Church Reformation, the persecuted were known to board ships bound for far-off lands (South Africa being one with its recent establishment as a trading post for the Dutch East India Company (VOC) and their representative Jan van Riebeeck in 1652. During these escapes names were often changed, thus muddying the water.

One disputing theory is that Venter does not derive from the Dutch "Van Deventer", but rather from the French "Fender" as Huguenots sought refuge in the new settlement in the mid- to late 17th century.

There are still many missing links in the genealogy of the Venter family.

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Joel Gertner

Joel Gertner (born September 20, 1975) is an American professional wrestling announcer, color commentator, and manager. He is best known for his appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling from 1995 to 2001.

Early career (1992–1995)
Gertner debuted in professional wrestling in 1992 at the age of 17, making appearances at a local wrestling federation as a heel announcer under the nickname "Joey Jaguar". He would threaten the wrestlers and usually get beat up for his actions. Gertner attended Poly Prep Country Day School in Brooklyn, New York and started attending Cornell University in 1993. After his professional wrestling bookings started to interfere with his schoolwork, he dropped out of Cornell in the spring of 1996. Gertner was one year short of a bachelor's degree. Gertner also worked for the Cornell radio station.

Extreme Championship Wrestling (1995–2001)
Gertner began working for the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-based promotion Extreme Championship Wrestling as a ring announcer in the summer of 1995. Soon after, Shane Douglas influenced Gertner to become a heel and Gertner started taunting and making fun of the babyface wrestlers during their introduction and as a result, the face wrestlers usually made Gertner pay for his insults. He was then given the position of a color commentator by Taz and Bill Alfonso to counterbalance the influence of announcer Joey Styles, who they regarded as being biased against them. He also hosted a segment on ECW's weekly television program entitled Gertner Vision. During this time, Gertner became popular with the fans for his introductions, which would consist of limericks containing multiple sexual innuendos.

Gertner later became the manager and ring announcer for The Dudley Boyz, even going as far as to be called "Studley Dudley". At Barely Legal, the Dudleys faced The Eliminators for the ECW World Tag Team Championship. During the match, Gertner was hit by The Eliminators finishing move, the Total Elimination, and as a result he began wearing his now infamous neckbrace and continues to do so. The Eliminators would go on to win the match and the titles as well. Joel involved himself in a six-man tag team match at 1998 Heat Wave, between Tommy Dreamer, The Sandman and Spike Dudley taking on D-Von, Big Dick and Bubba Ray, insulting head ECW referee John Finnigan. Later in the match Joel was hung in the tree of woe and Finnigan baseball slide a steel chair into his face. Despite the 'injury', Joel led the Dudley Boyz to a record eight ECW Tag Team Title reigns until they left for the World Wrestling Federation.

Upon the Dudleys departure, Gertner then became a broadcaster on ECW on TNN alongside Joey Styles. Upon doing so, Gertner turned face and began feuding with The Network's representative Cyrus, and got unlikely support from broadcast partner (and former nemesis) Joey Styles. The feud came to a head at Anarchy Rulz in which Gertner faced Cyrus in a one on one match. Gertner won the match and ended the feud after assistance from The Sandman. Gertner remained with ECW until its closure on April 4, 2001. Gertner showed up on ECW's last pay-per-view Guilty As Charged where he began to cut a promo before being attacked by Cyrus and Da Baldies. He returned later during the main event attacking Cyrus and helping Rob Van Dam perform a Van Terminator on Jerry Lynn.

Independent circuit (2001–present)
Gertner made his Total Nonstop Action Wrestling debut on June 26, 2002 to introduce the a new tag team called the Rainbow Express (Bruce and Lenny Lane). However, he left TNA shortly after this and did not make any appearances for the company until 2010. He was also featured in World Wrestling Entertainment's first-ever ECW One Night Stand reunion pay-per-view during which, in the course of two separate interviews with SmackDown! and Raw, he was pie-faced by John "Bradshaw" Layfield and begged on his hands and knees to then-Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff for a job. Gertner also appeared at Hardcore Homecoming and faced former enemy Cyrus. After Cyrus seemingly made amends, he insulted Gertner and Gertner subsequently attacked him before being pulled off by Joey Styles.

Gertner is also the promoter for Connecticut's MXW Pro Wrestling independent organization. On August 8, 2010, Gertner returned to TNA to take part in ECW reunion show, Hardcore Justice, where he accompanied Team 3D to the ring. In 2012, Gertner began announcing for Shane Douglas' Extreme Rising promotion. Gertner also made a special appearance at a Kaiju Big Battel event. Gertner, on April 27, 2014 at the former ECW Arena in South Philadelphia, was the MC for Masked Mania, and he spoke perfect Spanish throughout the event.

In the summer of 2016, Gertner began commentating for Wildkat Sports and Entertainment in New Orleans. He also makes regular appearances at their events as a ring announcer.

Awards and accomplishments

 * New England Pro Wrestling Hall of Fame
 * Class of 2023

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List of Hindu festivals

Across the globe, Hindus celebrate a diverse number of festivals and celebrations, typically marking events from ancient India and often coinciding with seasonal changes. These celebrations take place either on a fixed annual date on the solar calendar, or on a specific day of the lunisolar calendar. There is some regional variation with the observance of the festivals, and numerous festivals are primarily celebrated by specific sects or in certain regions of the Indian subcontinent.

Dolu Utsava
Utsava is the Sanskrit word for festivals. The Sanskrit word Utsava comes from the word "ut" meaning "starts" and "sava" which means "Change" or "Decline". Dolu Means seasonal colouring. Both solar and lunisolar calendar operates on the basis of Dolu Utsava.

Observance periods (tithi)
Hindu calendar dates are usually prescribed according to a lunisolar calendar. In Vedic timekeeping, a māsa is a lunar month, a pakṣa is a lunar fortnight and a tithi is a lunar day.

Two definitions of the lunar month prevail: amānta and pūrṇimānta (lunar month ending with new moon and full moon respectively). As a result, the same day may refer to belonging to different but adjoining months. If a festival occurs during śukla paksha, the two traditions assign it to the same month; if a festival occurs during kṛṣṇa paksha the two traditions assign it to different but adjoining months.

Sublists

 * List of Hindu festivals in Punjab
 * List of festivals observed at Jagannatha Temple, Puri
 * List of Sindhi festivals

List and descriptions of major Hindu festivals
The tithi shown in the following list is as per the amānta tradition.

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Cowichan River

The Cowichan River is a Canadian Heritage River on Vancouver Island, in British Columbia, Canada. Its headwater is Cowichan Lake. The river flows east over Skutz Falls and through Marie Canyon towards its mouth at Cowichan Bay. The river's drainage basin is 795 km2 in size.

The Cowichan River is the centre of a provincial park, Cowichan River Provincial Park, on southern Vancouver Island. The park is home to hundreds of animal species, including the native and endangered Vancouver Island ermine and more than 200 species of birds.

The river is the namesake of Cowichan Herald Extraordinary at the Canadian Heraldic Authority.

In the decade leading up to 2014, water levels dropped to the point that it "required the trucking of fish up the river," and the Cowichan Valley Regional District instituted water restrictions for residents.

Water from the river is used in the pulp and paper mill operated by Catalyst Paper in Crofton.

The Cowichan River had once had salmon so plentiful that "old-timers talk about having been able to cross on the backs of fish so thick they were like steppingstones," and was world-renowned for its fly fishing. However, in 2023, due to the impacts of climate change, the river experienced a major fish die-off.

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Phi Sigma Rho

Phi Sigma Rho (ΦΣΡ; also known as Phi Rho or PSR) is a social sorority for individuals who identify as female or non-binary in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The sorority was founded in 1984 at Purdue University. It has since expanded to more than 40 colleges across the United States.

History
Phi Sigma Rho was founded on September 24, 1984, at Purdue University by Rashmi Khanna and Abby McDonald. Khanna and McDonald were unable to participate in traditional sorority rush due to the demands of the sororities and their engineering program, so they decided to start a new sorority that would take their academic program's demands into consideration.

The Alpha chapter at Purdue University was founded with ten charter members: Gail Bonney, Anita Chatterjea, Ann Cullinan, Pam Kabbes, Rashmi Khanna, Abby McDonald, Christine Mooney, Tina Kershner, Michelle Self, and Kathy Vargo.

Phi Sigma Rho accepts students pursuing degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics who identify as female or who identify as non-binary. The sorority made the decision to include non-binary students in all chapters in the summer of 2021.

Phi Sigma Rho has grown more than 40 chapters nationally. Its headquarters is located in Northville, Michigan. Its online magazine is The Key.

Symbols
The colors of Phi Sigma Rho are wine red and silver. The sorority's flower is the orchid, and its jewel is the pearl. Its mascot is Sigmand the penguin. Its motto is "together we build the future."

Notable members

 * Lila Ibrahim

Philanthropy
Phi Sigma Rho's national philanthropy is the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

The Phi Sigma Rho Foundation was established as a separate nonprofit organization in 2005. It supports the educational and philanthropic efforts of the sorority's members and offers merit-based scholarships to sorority members.

Chapters
The following tables lists Phi Sigma Rho chapters, prospective chapters, and interest groups. Active chapters are indicated in bold. Inactive chapters are indicated in italic.

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Sleeve of The Fall's debut album Live at the Witch Trials

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Little Rock restaurants

 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?) 04:58, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Little Rock restaurants
Just a very unencyclopedic list of 14 restaurant names. Should be deleted as non-notable/promotion. Alarm 17:46, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. I completely agree that this list is unencyclopedic. But judging from debates on similar VfDs, the only real question is this: Are there enough Wikipedia editors from Little Rock to block the deletion? Isaac R 18:20, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and Reword. I think lists such as this should be merged with their parent articles. In this case, Little Rock, and then modified (having a list wouldn't be suitable, but it will surely be nice to have a section about, for example, gastronomy, at Little Rock). A list of restaurants in a city with 18000+ inhabitants is silly (just imagine "List of restaurants in New Delhi"... PHEW!!!) Sarg 18:34, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Yeah, that would be almost as bad as List_of_people_on_stamps... Isaac R 21:03, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Probably even worse :) Sarg 21:10, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Well, I'm from Little Rock and I'm not sure I want to block deletion. I don't think there's much of a purpose for the article, although some of those restaurants (like Restaurant 1620) are a part of Little Rock history and do have an impact on the culture here. So, it's a difficult response for me because I agree it's not encyclopedic, but I think the information could be of some use. --Wolf530 18:38, May 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: If someone wants to write a new article about a restaurant that is part of Little Rock history and has had a verifiable impact on the culture there, I'm all for it. If there are several such restaurant articles I'd even find a "Little Rock restaurants" category reasonable. And if someone can write a good, NPOV, non-promotional section about gastronomy in Little Rock (that is not a simple listing), I'm all for that too. However, I'm rather convinced that deleting this unencyclopedic article will not decrease the chances of any of those things happening. It shouldn't be left hanging around just because we could use something fundamentally different, albeit on the same topic, that nobody has got around to writing yet. / Alarm 19:02, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. WP:NOT the Yellow Pages.—Wahoofive (talk) 20:06, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, promo. Megan1967 05:33, 27 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Perhaps I will be going out on a limb here, and maybe I'm just being sensitive b/c I live in Little Rock, but how is this a promo? 2 of the 10 entries have links to the restaurants. Useless, maybe. Promotional, not. --Wolf530 06:49, May 27, 2005 (UTC)
 * Every VfD debate has at least one accusation of bad faith. I think it's a rule or something. Isaac R 00:35, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Nothing but an unadorned list.  No references, no reason to believe any of these are notable.  Quale 15:28, 31 May 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:Peter Benchley

White Shark
The human/shark hybrid wasn't genetically engineered, it was a surgically modified olympic athlete. Secondly, the White Shark link goes to Great White Shark, the animal.

Amazon
I have removed Peter Benchley's Amazon from the booklist under fiction for a couple of reasons. First, it was a TV series, not a novel. There were books written based upon the series, but they were done by other authors. Second, a publishing date of 2004 is given, but the TV series came out in 2000. Third, except for this article, I can find no reference on (appropriately enough) Amazon or Google of any novel by Benchley entitled "Peter Benchley's Amazon" being published. 23skidoo 06:20, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Pulmonary Fibrosis
Is there any record of when he was diagnosed with this disease? They say the life span of someone diagnosed is 3 to 5 years upon diagnosis. Curious if this was the case.

 * The BBC News report (dated February 2006), in the External links section, states his son-in-law said Benchley was diagnosed 'last autumn'. Many people have chronic / long-lasting diseases for months, or even years, before their disease is diagnosed by a doctor. The time it takes for a disease to cause the sufferer's death varies considerably. Nietzsche 2 (talk) 01:01, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

Picture
can you tell me how i can get a peter benchley picture and how i get it on the page send me back in the next 55 min.

Cleanup tag
The whole article seems to be in an infobox.--Anchoress 02:51, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Removed cleanup tag cuz it's fixed. Don't know how.--Anchoress 22:22, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Too many images
This article has too many images of the Jaws cover. This number isn't covered by our fair use policy! One would be sufficient (I'd suggest the first ed.). The JPS talk to me  21:46, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Jaws - inspired by Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916
The Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916 article claims that those attacks inspired this book. If a source for this claim can be found it could be added here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Open4D (talk • contribs) 01:59, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for Image:Jaws hardback.JPG
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Typo?
Terrorize pleasure craft or Terrorize pleasure crafts?

193.224.66.230 (talk) 10:34, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Do you realise you can fix minor errors such as this yourself? WP:BOLD. The JPS talk to me  18:02, 8 December 2012 (UTC)

I wasn't sure that it's an error, since english isn't my native tongue.

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Should I add that's he's an ocean activist?
At the beginning of the article it says he's a writer and screenwriter but doesn't say that he's also an ocean activist which is what many websites including his own says about him. Should I add it? B-Movie Fan (talk) 03:52, 7 August 2018 (UTC)
 * There are several sources, so yes, you can add it.--Tajotep (talk) 12:02, 7 August 2018 (UTC)

Jaws Effect
Its written that there is no evidence that Jaws affected shark populations, but I have seen a few sources that seem to prove it. I will find them and link them, but I was also worried because the source used for that claim was from Psychology Today which does not seem completely reliable and I do not know where they are getting their information from. Nuttygosling (talk) 14:01, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

 * Christopher Neff (2014): The Jaws Effect: How movie narratives are used to influence policy responses to shark bites in Western Australia, Australian Journal of PoliticalScience, DOI: 10.1080/10361146.2014.989385
 * Francis, B. (2012). BEFORE AND AFTER “JAWS”: CHANGING REPRESENTATIONS OF SHARK ATTACKS. The Great Circle, 34(2), 44–64. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23622226 Nuttygosling (talk) 14:12, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

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