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Talk:The Gods Must Be Crazy

Offensive
I'm not a bushmen yet this move seems offensive (I guess so??), I saw somewhat allot of it and they make the Kalahari peoples look stupid. --King of the Dancehall 14:53, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Then you, unfortunately, missed the entire point of the movie. The movie is illustrating the absurdity of what we think of as civilization by looking at civilization from the point of view of a more innocent person. Val42 03:38, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree. This film portrays the "simple" Bushmen as the smart ones, and the "advanced" citizens of modern society as being out of touch with reality. --Ericdn (talk) 10:36, 20 March 2009 (UTC)

Actually you got a point--King of the Dancehall 17:38, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
 * True. The movie does a good job at showing just how crazy our so-called civilization actually is (greed, violence, taking children as hostages, squabbling over imaginary lines on a map, ...). Most of the time N!xau seems to be the only person who acts based on common sense. --Lennier1 (talk) 14:11, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Wait, how could you not be a bushman yet? That's like saying I'm not a tribeman yet
 * I assume he means yet in the sense of however, not already. "I'm not a Bushman; however, this movie seems offensive." --Metropolitan90 06:33, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Yeah, thanks for the funny ??s and imagine a comma, troll. BabuBhatt 06:05, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

 * This is an inoffensive film. The overseas critics who panned the film for being racist and/or offensive are in fact the ignorant and intolerant ones. The film is a work of fiction, and doesn't pretend to be a documentary. Of course the Bushmen knew of "civilised" people, but the premise of the film is that they do not.  What is wrong with that? Very many films are based on one or more suspensions of fact or even logic. The film makes everyone look stupid- except for the Bushmen.  We are surely civilised enough to laugh with- and sometimes at- others, without taking offense.  The critics are, I suspect, mostly influenced by the fact that this film was made by a South African.JohnC (talk) 09:11, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
 * ""The film is a work of fiction, and doesn't pretend to be a documentary."" It has a very clear documentary feel to it in the beginning, complete with narrator explaining what bushmen are like -- neglecting to mention the bad sides of living in such a society, or the unfortunate little fact that in reality they all live in reservations, living a life that's completely different from what is portrayed in the film. The film then goes on to play the "Stupid, naïve Negro" stereotype for all it's worth. It does couple this with the satirical view of modern society, but I still perfectly well understand the accusations of racism. If I was a bushman, I'd probably feel rather offended if my ancestors were portrayed as a bunch of hippies on an eternal camping trip. --Safe-Keeper (talk) 09:36, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
 * You do realize that those portraying Bushmen are actual Bushmen, right? — Æµ§œš¹  [aɪm ˈfɹ̠ˤʷɛ̃ɾ̃ˡi]  17:10, 18 April 2010 (UTC)

Several years late to the topic, but it's funny seeing these white Wikiers talk about "a more innocent people" like some sort of paternalistic colonist. Yeah it is offensive, and your response is also offensive.

Topics to discuss in article if they can be properly verified & sourced

 * 1) The Gods Must Be Crazy is the most financially successful African film of all time.
 * 2) The original film and the first sequel were actually South African productions, but were released as Botswanan productions in order to avoid the international boycott of South Africa. (How did the filmmakers get away with that?)
 * 3) The original film and the first sequel are the only films listed in the Internet Movie Database as productions from Botswana. This is easily verifiable but requires the previous topic to put it in context.
 * 4) The original film did not go on general release in the USA until 4 years after its original release. I wonder why that was. Similarly, I wonder why they would have delayed 4 years after producing The Gods Must Be Crazy II to release it; I'd think they would have released it in other countries a short time after the original had been played out in that country. --Metropolitan90 06:33, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

 * 1) Actually the original film was "Animals are beautiful people" and the bushman already appears there. I believe that actually the "The Gods must be crazy" serie came from the idea of making a follow up to the first film and play with the idea of the lasting effect of a film crew onto a group of people completely unaware of the rest of the world. The films are beautifully made and the personnages are all loveable.
 * 2) I don't think you can call 'Animals are Beautiful People' original version of 'Gods must be Crazy'. These are as separate films as Inception and Memento are different films - made by the same filmmaker, share ideas - but are two separate films.

 * 1) There was no legal boycott of South African-made films. It was however convenient to disguise the South African origin. The release in America was nonetheless delayed by politics. Ironic that critics of South Africa spoke of tolerance, yet intolerantly advocated the banning of films like this, which actually teach tolerance and understandingJohnC (talk) 09:22, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2) It is important to note that the film is set in Botswana (Kalahari is mostly in Botswana), where Apartheid never happened - so bushmen in the film are not living in a homeland (reserves). It might be a good idea to put a map with the location of where the film is set to give international readers a better idea. The filmmaker was a South African, but otherwise the film content itself has very little to do with South Africa.

 * Way after the fact. Has anyone considered that the film was made, as mentioned earlier, from the premise depicted in the film itself of a people group that were living within the parameters of the fiction? No hidden "evil/boogie" man trying to say some offensive government/societal system does not exist. A story for the sake of the story. In fact, unless one suspends reality, the film comes off as incredibly stupid or "campy".

 * Delay of release in the US could very well be nothing more than the reluctance of the film industry to sink money into a property they were unsure would bring a beneficial return of investment. Looking for evil finds it whether it's truly there or not. Just my thoughts. THX1136 (talk) 21:23, 17 November 2020 (UTC)

Ungwatsi...
From what I've heard on Talk:Click consonant, the so-named dialect doesn't exist. What language were the Bushmen really speaking??

And BTW, from IMDb, the only films to ever use that language (if it ever existed) have been the entire Gods series. Are there any linguistic experts on Wikipedia who know what language it was? --Slgrandson 19:09, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

The bushmen in A Far Off Place seem to be speaking the same or similar language. --72.211.129.101 21:12, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

They are speaking Juǀʼhoan, one of the San dialects.JohnC (talk) 09:22, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

To those who criticised N!xau minimal wages ($300): His people had no real need for money. More importantly, it is said that he had no understanding of its value, and let his pay blow away.... He had however grown to realise the value of money by the time of the second film, and asked for $800,000, in advance!JohnC (talk) 09:22, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

 * If you think that the Juǀʼhoansi had "no need for money" then you are sadly ignorant of the real state of affairs for the San people since the 1960s. Check out N!ai, the story of a !Kung Woman (the movie itself, not the article on the movie) or some of the relevent works by Richard Lee.  Anyway, talk page comments should be limited to discussion of how to edit Wikipedia articles and not the topic themselves.  — Æµ§œš¹  [aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi]  19:37, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps one should have stated that N!xau did not realise that money had value in the western world. It is an unnecessary statement though and has very little to do with the movie. Once N!xau realised the value of money, he asked for more and received it. The statement about his wages hints on intended discrimination while it was not the case. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pieterloftus (talk • contribs) 09:09, 17 April 2012 (UTC)

In hopes of improvement...
Beginning tomorrow (the morning of my Barbados trip), this will undergo a peer review stage (see above). I've sown the seeds of improving it to featured status, so please help me out in my task. --Slgrandson 19:09, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

 * To assit you in improvement relative to the theme of the movie, please check out http://andaman.org/BOOK/text.htm for extensive, scholarly treatment of what it means to be primitive. To me, the most important sequence in the movie is the bushman's encounter with the cobra where the narrator explains that primitive people lack the concept of "good and evil", having instead a concept of "useful or not presently useful". Again, to me, this is a profound philosophical statement that supasses Eve's encounter with the "fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil" in that it gives a viable alternative. Eve's problem IMO was not that she disobeyed, but that she perceived the fruit as "good", thus introducing its opposite, "evil" The Bushman troop likewise perceived the Coca-Cola bottle as "good" but soon rejected it as "evil"--not something "not presently useful" but of no further use at all. People of the Deer (published in 1952, revised in 1975) by Canadian author Farley Mowat explores the same theme, of a primitive people's introduction to "good" in the form of "goods", commercial goods, but in this case with with an evil outcome. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_of_the_Deer

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Sigmund Freud
I do believe that this film made an interesting connection between the psychotherapist Sigmund Freud and the theme of love. Andrew Steyn, a microbiologist, lives near the Kalahari (an extremely hot part of South Africa); he spends most of his time in away from the rest of the world in isolation and studying animal waste. All the sudden he is asked to make a trip with his car (otherwise known as the anti -Christ), to pick up a schoolteacher. The trip there is interesting. His breaks are blown, the door is broken, and he has to stop to open gates while the rest of the car keeps going because if he stops it he can't start it up again. You can imagine that the woman (Kate) doesn't like this on the trip back. He proves to be very clumsy around woman. He calls it an “Interesting Phenomenon”, and also refers to it as a Freudian syndrome. As we all know Sigmund Freud was a well known psychiatrist who believed that neurotic behavior links to unusual problems from your past. Since he is isolated from the rest of the world studying animals all day that could be part of the problem, he hasn't been around a woman that long in his life. He ends up falling in love with her at the end of the movie after he falls and breaks one of her tables. I think the theme of love in this movie is very much alive and was one of the main points the director is trying to make. I wrote this because I just watched the movie and I have to write up an essay on it for my class. Although mine is on the clash of cultures, I noticed that there is nothing up here on the theme of love in the movie even though it was one of the main points (as it is in about 95% of films). So I decided to put it up here. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Annette dea (talk • contribs) 00:30, 6 March 2007 (UTC).

Cargo Cults
Why does it say "citation needed" after the reference to New Guinean cargo cults? What's to cite here? I think the similarities between this movie and the cargo cults are fairly obvious to anyone who's familiar with both. Keep in mind, of course, that the article doesn't say that the movie story is BASED on the cargo cults, merely that it is SIMILAR to them. That's incontrovertibly true, so it doesn't need to be cited, nor COULD it be, save for a link to the Cargo Cult article--already provided. Chalkieperfect 19:29, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
 * However, "fairly obvious" means that you are synthesizing information. — Val42 02:45, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

No longer accurate?
Re this statement: "It should also be noted that the films' depictions of the Bushmen, even if they were accurate in the 1980s (also a source of debate), are clearly no longer accurate." If it's accurate for the 1980s, it's accurate for the 1980s. The phrase "no longer accurate" doesn't make sense.--Mkweingart (talk) 23:45, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

There are a couple places within the first 15 minutes of the movie where there are what looks like metal cans or buckets in the background. I am not courageous enough to state this on the main page as I am not certain due to the poor quality of the video I saw. --Tim Legg, January 20, 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.54.34.34 (talk) 01:28, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

pronunciation
I highly doubt Xi was pronounced [gi] - unless gi was the Afrikaans spelling of his name? kwami (talk) 13:35, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

 * The X in linguistic phonology is a dubios letter. It is used to represent a sound that can't be quite (precisely) represented in the standard phonological ways.  I.e. it doesn't stand for the "X" sound as in the English word "exit" but in linguistics acts more like the x,y,z variables in Algebra.  It means a non-directly translated sound.  I don't see an argument here, but rather a misconception of why there are two spellings of the same name. The Xi is the linguistic way, and the 'gi' would be the English (language, I mean) way of trying to identify a near sound to the correct equivilent of its actual usage.  Hope that clarifies things, for you.  165.138.95.59 (talk) 16:26, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Perhaps Kwami is more doubtful because of the information at Juǀʼhoan language regarding the language's orthography. — Æµ§œš¹  [aɪm ˈfɹ̠ˤʷɛ̃ɾ̃ˡi] 17:59, 12 November 2010 (UTC)

In reference to this; I did not consider the Nambi dialect of the Juhoan language in this discourse yesterday. Written Nambi (or Juhoan) has a relatively unique writing system in which letters and symbols from the English typeset (well not English, per se, but the typest used on Keyboards in English speaking countries) were taken to represent the oral sounds of the Juhoan language (but they do not necessarily match the sounds that these symbols would represent in other languages.) For example, the (double backslash represents a clicking of the toungue behind the palate // and the X would be a gutteral "g" sound.)  This is one of the two languages that modern day (South African) "bushmen" children learn in school; the other being English. So this may be a matter of language spelling, rather than phonology. So yes, it is possible the original authors of this article were using the Juhoan (or Nambi) spelling of "gi" which would be Xi... It just hadn't occured to me at the time of responding to this. I think we have found the most rational answer. Special:Contributions/165.138.95.59|165.138.95.59]] (talk) 15:33, 13 November 2010 (UTC)

Burani?
Isn't that simply the non-fictional African country of Burundi? Florian Blaschke (talk) 21:12, 20 March 2010 (UTC)

 * No. The flags displayed in the cabinet room where the assassination attempt took place are actually the national flag of Zaïre and the presidential flag of Zaïre. I lived there in the early 1980s, and recognised them immediately. Ptilinopus (talk) 10:34, 25 March 2024 (UTC)

Reception/Rotten Tomatoes
In the reception section, the article claims that the film holds a 95% certified fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Whereas, the page on Rotten Tomatoes lacks any critique or ratings. Is there something I am missing here? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.235.159.23 (talk) 15:47, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Probably not, but I've never visited Rotten Tomatoes. — Æµ§œš¹  [aɪm ˈfɹ̠ˤʷɛ̃ɾ̃ˡi] 17:04, 6 October 2010 (UTC)

Children?
Would this film be suitable for Category:Children's films? I've seen this film, and to me it seems to quite family-friendly. I mean, even children would laugh at some of the scenes in this film, and there is hardly anything that will offend children. PRProgRock (talk) 15:14, 6 June 2012 (UTC)
 * No, I don't think so. Category:Children's films is "devoted to films, both animated and live-action, created exclusively for young audiences". Clearly the film was not created "exclusively" for young audiences, and while I wouldn't want to restrict children from seeing the film, the scenes involving the guerrillas shooting up the Burani cabinet meeting and killing some of the ministers would definitely take the film out of the category of "children's film". --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:12, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree. I know many people saw this film in childhood, but it has violence, nudity and shooting. So while some parents may have viewed it as a charming reflection on society and humanity, sending a positive message to children, it was not created to be a kids flick. CarlSerafino (talk) 09:51, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

Missing Information and Expansion
This article has sections that are too short and is missing important information on the film's production which needs to be added to the article. The article's reception section is way too short and needs reviews from notable critics added to it, information on the film's DVD releases also needs to be added to the article as well. All of these additions need to occur for this article to meet wikipiedia's standards of a well developed article.--Paleface Jack (talk) 18:06, 28 October 2015 (UTC)

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Stephan Elliott

Stephan Elliott (born 27 August 1964) is an Australian film director and screenwriter. His best-known film internationally is The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994).

Career
Elliott began his career as an assistant director working in the boom of the Australian film industry of the 1980s.

His first two feature films, Frauds (starring musician Phil Collins) and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, along with his lesser known, shorter films Fast and The Agreement were produced by Rebel Penfold-Russell's Australian production company Latent Image Productions.

Frauds, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and Welcome to Woop Woop were all officially selected to screen at the Cannes Film Festival, with "Priscilla" winning the Prix du public as well as an Academy Award for Best Costume Design, among numerous other accolades. For a time during 1982/83, Stephan and Troy Tempest presented The Blues Brothers, every Friday night for over a year, at the heritage listed Cremorne Orpheum theatre. Dressed as Jake and Elwood, Stephan and Troy appeared on TV several times, along with their Bluesmobile.

In 2004, Elliott was involved in a skiing accident which saw him hospitalised for several months. He credits the accident with rediscovering his sense of humour.

In 2007, Elliott worked with Fred Nassiri to create one of the most expensive music videos of all time. Shot in over 15 countries, with seven directors, the song "Love Sees No Colour" aspires to spread a message of peace and love.

His film Easy Virtue, was co-written with Sheridan Jobbins, and is based on the Noël Coward play of the same name. It stars Colin Firth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jessica Biel and Ben Barnes. It was produced by Barnaby Thompson for Ealing Studios in the UK, and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on 8 September 2008. It has also screened in the Rio Film Festival, Rome Film Festival and London Film Festival.

His next film, A Few Best Men starring Xavier Samuel and Olivia Newton-John was released in 2012.

Other writing credits include the script for the stage play of Priscilla, which premiered in 2007 at Sydney's Lyric Theatre in Star City to excellent reviews. Later in the year, it moved The Regent Theatre in Melbourne and in May 2008 to Auckland's The Civic theatre in New Zealand, and then in London's West End.

Personal life
Elliott came out as gay during his presentation at the inaugural AACTA Awards in Sydney on 31 January 2012. He has been in a relationship with his partner, Wil Bevolley, since the late 1980s. They had a civil partnership ceremony in London in 2008.

Filmography

 * Frauds (1993)
 * The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)
 * Welcome to Woop Woop (1997)
 * Eye of the Beholder (1999)
 * Easy Virtue (2008)
 * A Few Best Men (2011)
 * Rio, I Love You (2014)
 * Swinging Safari (2017)

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sad news
Fred Magdoff announced his father's death in an email message today. --Viajero | Talk 20:18, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Just got the e-mail announcement. See that his death has been recorded here. Hope future edits will be fair and accurate.--Cberlet 21:04, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

Inappropriate deletion of critical material
So much of this page is devoted to attacking Magdoff that the deletion of a highly relevant portion of text is an absurd POV attempt to silence counter criticism.--Cberlet 23:05, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Its not relevant, Schrecker does not mention Magdoff other than "he did not want to re-open old wounds" when asked about Bentley. Her remarks about Venona are relevant, that’s why I left them in that article, but she says nothing about Magdoff. DTC 23:09, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Listen, revert it back if you want, but I am not going to let this slide. Schrecker's remark are not relevant to the discussion on Magdoff. If the best you can do is Navasky at offering a sourced defense, then thats it. Dont try to reach for something that is not there. And dont write an article and source yourself......just kidding :)DTC 23:20, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Fine, either it all goes or it all stays. Your claims are absurd on their face. Not funny, especially since your editing ally just got banned for a year for personal attacks on me. Not laughing.--Cberlet 23:37, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I also note that Magdoff just died, and that a renewed unfair POV attack on him is really questionable timing.--Cberlet 23:39, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
 * Either it all goes or it all stays; what kind of garbage is that? This version, minus Schrecker's irrelevant commentary, has been the agreed upon version for over 3 months now. I ask you to justify the inclusion of Schrecker's comments on the article, and you remove all relevant information. First, you have failed to demonstrate how Schrecker's comments from "The Many Crimes" is relevant to an article on Harry Magdoff, she has made absolutely no claims that the VENONA papers have wrongfully implicated him. Secondly, she only mentionshim once in her entire book, and it was completely in passing.
 * Justify it or it goes, thats all I am asking for. Not a long winded attack on my motivations, no strawmen, no "poor Harry just died". The facts, verifiable. DTC 01:03, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

 * And furthermore, Nobs was not my "editing ally". It is a shame that he got booted for a year, because he was really doing some great work on espionage related articles, but I suppose I will pick up where Nobs left off ........... starting here, with the late, not so great, KGB Stalinist stooge : Harry Magdoff . DTC 01:25, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

 * The phrase "late, not so great, KGB Stalinist stooge : Harry Magdoff" makes it clear that you are not able to edit this page in an NPOV way. No such consensus for censoring Schrecker existed. There was an ongoing edit battle that ended in a failed mediation and finally an arbitration, which just ended. The Schrecker quote was there during the mediation and arbitration. Please do not rewrite history to conform to your POV edits. Removing all the material and placing it on the proper page to avoid duplication is basic editing. Editing out one side of a controversy to support your POV is censorship.--Cberlet 02:00, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

 * I beleive you have read the arbitration wrong, it was about conduct, namely of Nobs, it was never about conduct. I never siad there was a "consensus for censoring Schrecker", I am making that arguement, right here, right now, so dont put words in my mouth. DTC 02:16, 4 January 2006 (UTC)

Back to the Lecture at Hand......
I would like to hear an explanation about why there is no summary for the espionage charges in this article, only a header. Your impression that it is a punitive tit for tat against my removal of Schrecker's comments, but 1, that’s now how Wikipedia works, and 2, I have already explained, and you appear to have conceded that Schrecker's comments are irrelevant. DTC 22:31, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Not true. I think Schrecker is on point. It is not fair to claim that Navasky is not a scholar. He is not an acemdemic, but he is a scholar. Seek compromise. Assume good faith. See my comments on the other page.--Cberlet 17:04, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

 * The deletion of Schrecker from both pages is unfair, and thus the recent edit is just punative and unfair. It is not fair to delete a scholar and then say there are only journalists who are skeptical. Furthermore, Navasky is a scholar. Not all scholars are academics, and important distinction.--Cberlet 20:30, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

Inaccurate description of Henry Wallace's presidential campaign......
The article states that Henry Wallace ran for president as a "socialist candidate". This is not accurate. While Henry Wallace did have support from many people who were socialists, his campaign was not explicitly socialist, and according to John Culver's biography of Wallace, attempts to commit the Progressive Party to a specifically socialist program were defeated at the Progressive Party national convention. Also, Henry Wallace, in the campaign, often noted that he was the ONLY candidate in the race who had been a successful businessman prior to entering politics. In addition, the Socialist Party had its own candidate in 1948, Norman Thomas. It would be more accurate to describe the Progressive Party as a left-liberal party, representing the more leftist strain of the old New Deal coalition, and with a foreign policy that was opposed to the escalation of the Cold War--Ken Burch 09:52 am, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

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Is a statistician an administrator
A couple problems with the heading - "He held several administrative positions in government during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt" Although true it has some inaccuracies 1st he started as a statistician and 2nd he was in government during the Truman administration. This sentence should be improved but I'm not quite sure how to go about it without unnecessarily making it longer. Perhaps- "He was a government employee during the 30s and 40s" "He held several positions in government during the 30s and 40s" or "He held several positions in government during the presidencies of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman." or "He held positions in government during the Great Depression and World War II" And after reading the article I'm left with a question - Was he a card carrying member of the Communist Party? Being a suspected party member would have made continuing federal employment during the late 1940s and 1950s nearly impossible. Nitpyck (talk) 02:10, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

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Aircruising Australia

Aircruising Australia Limited (asx: AIG) is an airline based in Sydney, Australia. It operates air cruises/sightseeing trips as well as charter flights around Australia and New Zealand. Its main base is Sydney Airport.

The Company was renamed Bill Peach Group in 2014.

History
The airline was established by Neville Salisbury and started operations in 1983 and was formerly known as Charter Cruise Air until 1994.

Fleet
The airline no longer operates aircraft directly, chartering them instead from companies including Skytrans Airlines, but in the past years operated Fokker F27 Friendship.

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Talk:Drum rudiment

Where the biological meaning of "rudiment"?--Ctac 12:57, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I suggest moving this article to "Rudiment (drums)" or some such. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 00:50, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Hybrids?
Is there really a point to having the humongous list of hybrid rudiments? I've been a percussionist for over 5 years, and have never even heard of the vast majority of these. Evan Seeds (talk) 23:47, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

TOTAL OVERHAUL
This page needs an overhaul, a total re-creation. In the next few days, I plan to add several new sections.

First, the title of the article and redirecting/link repair, so that someone can type in "rudimental drumming," "drum rudiments," "rudiment (drum)," etc. and still arrive at this page.

Second, MUSICAL EXAMPLES, MUSICAL NOTATION, PLEASE. SHOW us what they look like in notation so we know how to play them. This includes both lists of rudiments with musical examples and also transcriptions of famous rudimental drum solos. I have not had much experience scanning this kind of material and could use some help adding it. I plan to add at least the PAS and NARD rudiments in notation and the "Three Camps," "Downfall of Paris," and "Connecticut Halftime," but the number of appropriate musical examples to add is endless.

Third, a clearer definition of how rudiments are are used in different kinds of practice and performance and some HISTORY of how there came to be lists of rudiments in the first place. This is esoteric information which before now has only been published in academic journals and is not available to many people. The history needs to be filled in, because it's the biggest hole in people's knowledge of the rudiments. There are a whole lot of people walking around who can play them and have no clue where they came from.

Fourth, a BIBLIOGRAPHY of books, articles, web sites, and recordings where people can go to find this information. This will include more traditional drum method books and also new videos from people who play rudimental ideas on the drum set.

Ross Kimberlin 20:10, 11 March 2006 (UTC)Ross Kimberlin, 10 March 2006

"See Also" section
I also want to make sure that every percussion page is linked to every other percussion page. I have noticed this is lacking especially in the different percussion pages compared to many other related groups of articles on Wikipedia. The articles on drum set, snare drumming, drum rolls, rudiments, drum corps, and everything else should all be linked to one another via the blue-lettered "See Also" section at the bottom.

Brad Halls changes - March 26, 2006
Hello group. Agree with most of the comments above. Made the following changes:

 * Took another shot at the initial definition of "rudiment".
 * Broke the list of 40 up into the historic 13-13-14.
 * Created a new "Hybrid Rudiments" page and moved the list of hybrids there.
 * Added a "Books" section
 * Added "Notable Contributors" section
 * Added links to the PAS rudiments page, and rudimentaldrumming.com

Note that the "Books" and "Notable Contributors" sections are just a beginning; I don't pretent to have a complete list on either subject.

Other information that should be added, IMHO:

 * History
 * Musical images for each rudiment
 * Multimedia - Sound/Video files of each rudiment

Brad Halls 07:12, 26 March 2006 (UTC)Brad Halls

You did not add a hybrid rudiments page

Added Images 3/30/2006
I got permission from P.A.S. to use the rudimental images from their website and posted all 40 of them here. Next on the list:

 * Add some examples that show how rudiments can be combined to make percussion music
 * Add sounds (midi)?
 * Add a section about the "grid"
 * Add a section about "check patterns"

Brad Halls 03:01, 31 March 2006 (UTC) Brad Halls

Thanks, Brad.
The page is already 100% better. Having the notes on there makes all the difference in the world. It finally looks respectable and will give people one more easy place to find the rudiments online. I've been dragging behind on finishing a brief history of them, but I'll wrap it up soon. I believe it should go right before the list of books/sources, and I think I'll also make a link to the history as a separate article.

Thanks again, it never occurred to me to contact PAS for permission to use their images and I would have had technical problems doing so anyway. I couldn't have done it without everybody else here pitching in. Thank God with a bazillion people looking at this site nobody has to do it alone.

Ross K.

Adding written drum notes, video & midi of rudiments
Hi Ross, You can check out this site with the list all 40 rudiments. They have a vid presentation of how the rudiments are played, with read & written notes & midi file.

You may have to ask their permission I suppose.

http://www.music.vt.edu/musicdictionary/appendix/drumrudiments/Drumrudiments.html

God bless!

complete rewrite
There's a discussion open about moving a full rewrite of this article, combining all smaller rudiments, into mainspace going on now at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Percussion -- Evan ¤  Seeds  04:31, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

"Rudimental"
Well, i almost lied to you, and told you "rudimental" isn't a word. The 45+ year-old Second International has it, but just says "rudimentary" in defining it. We've got
 * 25 from en.wikipedia.org for Rudimental -drum -percussion.

but
 * 47 from en.wikipedia.org for Rudimental drum OR percussion.

You've got a flamboyantly technical word here, and you have to explain it before using it. Everyone knows what rudiments are, but that does not appear to inform one about "rudimental", especially in light of the language i just removed to talk from a bio of Lenny Hart:
 * ... was a national and world rudimental drummer,

Which seems to say he was world-famous for his beginner-level drumming. I can be an annoying prig about language, but for once there's nothing going on here except that i am truly left clueless, and this is not an encyclopedia (nor even an article) just for musicians. --Jerzy•t 06:58, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

Article doesn't define the topic
There's obviously a lot of great information here, but the article begins with "A rudiment is one of a set of basic patterns used in rudimental drumming" and never defines "rudimental drumming". Can somebody define "rudimental drumming", hopefully in a non-circular way? :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.16.40.113 (talk) 23:56, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Still a problem five years on: what actually is a "rudiment"? — This, that and the other (talk) 05:36, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

Bass drum rudiments?
Why does the page say "there have been efforts to standardize bass drum rudiments" ? Most of what I've seen these rudiments used for are for the Snare drum. Should this be changed back to snare drum? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.198.113.130 (talk) 01:23, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Some notation graphics wrong
For example, the Ratamacue cannot be composed of sixteenth note triplets, they are eighth triplets. The drag at the beginning is the fastest part, not the triplet. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Umarekawaru (talk • contribs) 23:50, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Little tidbit in wrong place
I found this under the See Also section:

it should be noted that egg beaters are commonly written as fivetuplets however, the subdivision of egg beaters is an 8th note followed by a 16th note and is actually 3 sectuplet notes followed by 2 32nd notes. -Brad Herwy

I don't know where it should go or if it should be thrown out, but it certainly didn't belong there. 131.191.115.197 (talk) 07:02, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Notation Missing
There is notation for every listed rudiment except the single stroke roll. Is there some reason for the omission?

Also, it would be nice to indicate on the chart which were the 13 original rudiments designated by National Association of Rudimental Drummers; and which were the 26 Standard American Drum Rudiments -- probably could be done with asterisks and a couple of footnotes.

I have added some words and references to the first paragraph concerning the definition of "rudimental drumming", which apparently people have been seeking for this article for several years. Feel free to tweak it as needed; at least there is now something there, where before there was nothing.74.95.43.249 (talk) 00:37, 23 April 2014 (UTC)

The definitions of "rolls" are wrong.
A roll does not require any accented stroke. If I play a 7-stroke roll sans accent, have I not played a roll? "llrrllR" is a roll, but llrrllr" is not?

That's silly, and very disappointing error to find on Wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.166.208.225 (talk) 01:55, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

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In the past few months I've gone on a binge for this article adding roughly 48 of the 58 currently cited references (as of Sept. 2019) to lend some verifiable credibility what I gather from this talk page to have been a pretty haphazardly put together article by a number of different editors. No offense to any previous contributor, but there is a reason that the article was tagged with "citation needed" in many places when I found it. I also added many sections to the history including 8 different countries, because as we all should know, rudiments have a varied and non-homogenous past. If you'd like to discuss anything about this page with me please feel free. I'm just trying to make it accurate, well-cited, and comprehensive for what is actually a gigantic topic spanning 8 centuries and most of the Occidental Euro-centric world. Thanks fellow rudimenters! Ryukin (talk) 19:06, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Hi -- wow, thanks for doing so much work on this article!  It's clear you have a lot of passion and knowledge around drumming and its history.  I've come to this article because I'm a beginner drummer myself and learning rudiments.  I just took a look at the article with fresh eyes, and did some copy editing.  But I also think there's a lot more to be done to tighten it up.  These are my main thoughts:
 * I think the history section is impressive and exhaustive, but there may be details in there that can be removed in the name of making it easier to learn from the article. In other words, I think there's a balance between being complete and being concise.
 * I looked through some of your citations, which link to websites that Wikipedia policy would probably not consider reliable sources, such as blogs about drumming (like this source), or also to pages that seem not to contain the information that is cited from them (like this source).
 * The citations themselves could use some formatting, so that they're more than just a link to a website. It's better to contain the author's name, date, etc.
 * In the "American" section, I think the section contains a lot of information that might belong better in a "Present day" section. Something to consider.
 * So hearing all this, are you interested in working together to tighten up the article? One way to do it is that I could make a series of larger edits myself and you could see if they feel right to you.  Let me know! -- Cloud atlas (talk) 23:01, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

Sure, I'd be willing to collaborate. In the scheme of Wikipedia I don't think this article is actually very long. There may be a way to word things such they they are more concise or focused, but I think leaving as much content as possible would be beneficial. I am not a master of citation code. I, quite honestly, just let other more accomplished editors use automated citation link fixing bots and code on the article I edit or create. A major shortcoming to be sure. I'm not sure who made that citation about basle drumming but yeah its obviously garbage. Robin Engelmann on the other hand is/was a member of the percussive arts society hall of fame, a well-respected proffesional percussionist, and a teacher at the Eastman School of Music. His articles, though in blog form, are extremely well researched and written from the most knowledgable of positions. He probably deserves a wikipedia article if he doesn't already have one. I'm not sure if that makes it ok to cite exactly, but he isn't a random blogger, in case that matters. But again, yes I'm open to trying to organize, tighten or otherwise improve. Ryukin (talk) 23:13, 21 September 2019 (UTC)

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Kerching!

Kerching! was a British television children's comedy drama series which aired on the CBBC Channel from 6 January 2003 to 24 February 2006. The show follows the life of teenage dot-com entrepreneur Taj Lewis, along with his two friends, Seymour Franklin and Danny Spooner.

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Silicon Beach Software

Silicon Beach Software, Inc., was an early American developer of software products for the Macintosh personal computer. It was founded in San Diego, California, in 1984 by Charlie Jackson and his wife Hallie. Jackson later co-founded FutureWave Software with Jonathan Gay. FutureWave produced the first version of what is now Adobe Flash. Although Silicon Beach Software began as a publisher of game software, it also published what was called "productivity software" at the time.

History
Silicon Beach's best known "productivity software" product was SuperPaint, a graphics program which combined features of Apple's MacDraw and MacPaint with several innovations of its own. SuperPaint2 and Digital Darkroom were the first programs on the Macintosh to offer a plug-in architecture, allowing outside software developers to extend both programs' capabilities. Silicon Beach coined the term "plug-in".

Silicon Beach was a pioneer in graphic tools for desktop publishing. Not only was SuperPaint a tool that had advanced graphic editing capabilities for its day, but Digital Darkroom was also a pioneering photo editor. It was grayscale only, not color (like the early Macintosh computers), but had a number of interface innovations, including the Magic Wand tool, which also appeared later in Photoshop. It also had a proprietary option for printing grayscale content on dot matrix printers. Digital Darkroom was used professionally to clean up scanned images for clip art libraries.

Another Silicon Beach product was SuperCard which, like SuperPaint, superseded the capabilities of an Apple-branded product (in this case, HyperCard). SuperCard used a superset of the HyperTalk programming language and addressed common complaints about HyperCard by adding native support for color, multiple windows, support for vector images, menus and other features.

Silicon Beach Software produced video games for the Macintosh. The most well known is Dark Castle released in 1986. It was ported to several other operating systems by other companies. Sequel Beyond Dark Castle was Silicon Beach's last game, because productivity software was much more lucrative. Their 1985 release, Airborne!, was the first Macintosh game to feature digitized sound.

Silicon Beach Software is credited with coining the term Silicon Beach to refer to San Diego in the same way that Silicon Valley refers to the Santa Clara Valley and San Jose area.

Silicon Beach was acquired by Aldus Corporation in 1990 and Aldus, in turn, by Adobe Systems in 1994.

Other products

 * Airborne! (1985) combat game. A demo before the game was released was called Banzai!.
 * Enchanted Scepters (1984) Point-and-click adventure game made with the engine that later became World Builder.
 * World Builder (1986) graphical adventure game authoring package.
 * Apache Strike (1987) 3D helicopter game.
 * Beyond Dark Castle (1987) Sequel to Dark Castle.
 * Super 3D (1988) 3D modeling application.
 * Silicon Press (1986) card and label printing software
 * Personal Press (1988) easy to use desktop publishing software, later renamed Adobe Home Publisher

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TV Marjan

TV Marjan is now defunct Croatian commercial TV station from Split, which had the distinction of being the first private television station in former Yugoslavia.

The station, named after Marjan hill overlooking city of Split, began its existence in 1984 thanks to Gordan Franić-Futa, local television enthusiast. Equipped with satellite antenna he began to re-broadcast foreign television programmes, most notably Super Channel and MTV. The programme was occasionally interrupted with public service announcements in order to win favour of local authorities. The authorities in Zagreb were, however, less friendly and the station was often shut down by government inspectors. TV Marjan, however, began to make original programmes and air it during holidays.

The station finally started on air continuously February 20, 1990. As such, it took part in campaign for first Croatian parliamentary elections and was the first Croatian broadcast media that aired interview with future President Franjo Tuđman.

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List of prisons in New Zealand

There are eighteen adult prisons in New Zealand. Three prisons house female offenders, one each in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. The remaining fifteen house male offenders; ten in the North Island and five in the South Island. The facilities are managed by the Department of Corrections. In addition, there are five youth correctional facilities, termed youth justice residences. These youth residences are managed by Oranga Tamariki (the Ministry for Children).

There are five security levels in New Zealand adult prisons: Minimum, Low, Low-Medium, High and Maximum.

In 2018 North & South magazine published a long-form article by Paul Little titled "The Case for Closing Prisons" which included data on New Zealand prison inmate populations.

Northland Region Corrections Facility (Ngawha)
Northland Region Corrections Facility is located 5 km northeast of the town of Kaikohe and is colloquially known as Ngawha – after the local area. Maori in Northland tried to persuade the Corrections Department not to upset a local taniwha by building the prison on thermal land. They were unsuccessful and the facility opened in 2005. Following completion, the foundations proved to be unstable.

The prison accommodates up to 548 prisoners with security classifications ranging from minimum to high-medium and employs 180 staff.

Auckland Prison (Paremoremo)
Auckland Prison opened in 1968 and is at Paremoremo, on the northern fringe of Auckland, and thus also known as Paremoremo Prison. It contains New Zealand's only specialist maximum-security prison unit and houses some of the most violent criminals in the country.

It has beds for 680 prisoners, and in 2010, about 90 prisoners were classified as maximum security. It has a 60-bed treatment unit for child-sex offenders called Te Piriti and a Special Needs Unit. In November 2011, a Drug Treatment Unit (DTU) was established with clinical staff coming from Odyssey House. The DTU houses up to 48 prisoners and provides an intensive 12-week programme targeted at prisoners serving sentences of between four and twelve months.

Mount Eden Corrections Facility
History

There has been a prison on the Mount Eden site in Auckland since 1856. The first building was made of timber and was known as the Stockade. A new stone building opened in 1865 although the stone wall that surrounds the prison was not finished until the mid-1870s – using prison labour.

The old Mount Eden Prison used to hold about 420 prisoners and was squalid, substandard and unsafe. In 2004 the Department acknowledged the prison "falls well-short of the basic requirements for a modern corrections facility"; a New Zealand Herald editorial described it as an "antiquated pile beyond redemption as a suitable place to incarcerate humans". The 120-year-old prison was closed in 2011. Although it no longer houses inmates, the building has a 'category one' classification from Heritage New Zealand due to its historical significance and architectural quality. The building was to be restored and converted for staff and administration use for the new prison completed on the same site.

Current

The $40 million Auckland Central Remand Prison (ACRP), housing about 250 remand inmates, opened in July 2000, next to the old prison. It became the main reception prison for newly remanded male prisoners in the Auckland region. ACRP was the first prison in New Zealand to be administered by a private company. It was run by an Australian company, GEO Group. Five years later (2005), ACRP was returned to state operation by a Labour government.

A major project to redevelop the site and create another facility began in 2008. New accommodation blocks and support facilities were constructed at a cost of $216 million. The prison was renamed the Mt Eden Corrections Facility (MECF) and now holds 966 prisoners. It opened on 30 March 2011.

In May 2010, the National Government decided that the prison would be privatised once again and British conglomerate, Serco, was awarded the contract. Five years later (July 2015) videos appeared online showing gang members fighting inside MECF. Allegations were made that there was an organised 'fight club' and that prisoners were filming the fights on cell phones and posting them on social media. Following an investigation, the Corrections Department stepped in to take over day-to-day management of the prison and then in December, the Government announced that Serco's contract would not be renewed in March 2017.

In 2019 North & South magazine published the story of Pasimaca Osment, who in 1991 became one of the first female prison officers in New Zealand to work in a maximum-security jail. The piece describes her experiences at Mt Eden Corrections Facility, Spring Hill Corrections Facility and Paremoremo.

Auckland Region Women's Corrections Facility
The Auckland Region Women's Corrections Facility (ARWCF) is in the Wiri suburb of south Auckland. The site is 47 ha in size, of which only 13 ha are currently covered by the prison, leaving considerable room for expansion. With so much space available, in 2011 it became the proposed site for a new $900 million 960-bed men's prison which was to be built by 2015 and operated by British conglomerate Serco. This would make the suburb of Wiri the country's biggest prison precinct.

The original plan was for only 150 beds, but a 20 per cent hike in the number of women being sent to prison led to a significant expansion. Despite the increase, women still make up only 6% of the prison population. ARWCF now houses up to 456 prisoners and as a result of the increase, the cost blew out from an estimated $58 million to $158 million.

ARWCF is the first purpose-built women's prison in New Zealand. Until it was built, female prisoners have mostly had to serve their sentences at women's prisons in Wellington and Christchurch.

The prison also provides the Kowhiritanga ('Making Choices') Programme. This rehabilitation programme is designed to address the particular needs of female prisoners – many of whom have suffered sexual abuse. Auckland University sociologist Tracey McIntosh says virtually all Maori women in prisons have been physically or sexually abused – and were excluded from school by the age of 13. The Making Choices programme uses cognitive-behavioural therapy, dialectical behaviour therapy, group psychotherapy, recreational psychology and a narrative approach to therapy.

In 2010 it was reported that eight prisoners at the facility were training dogs as part of the Puppies in Prison programme. The puppies were being trained by low security prisoners to help people in the community living with disabilities. The puppies help prepare the prisoners for life outside prison as well as learning around 90 tasks to help their future owners. They live with the women in self care units at the prison and even attend rehabilitation and education programmes with them. The puppies spend a year with the prisoners, before returning to the community for advanced training.

Auckland South Corrections Facility
In 2010 Corrections Minister, Judith Collins said an additional 2270 prison beds would be needed by 2019 to cope with forecast growth in prisoner numbers and to replace ageing existing prisons. In response, the Government announced that the Department of Corrections proposed the establishment of a new men's prison with 1060 beds on undeveloped land adjacent to the Auckland Region Women's Corrections Facility at 20 Hautu Drive, Wiri, Manukau City.

Environment Minister Nick Smith established a board of inquiry to fast-track the building of the new prison allowing it to bypass the usual resource consents process which is subject to appeals in the Environment Court. After a three-week hearing in May 2011, the inquiry gave Corrections the go ahead to build the prison. A few months later, justice sector forecasts showed a drop in the projected prison population – for the first time ever. Prime Minister John Key then commented that the new prison at Wiri may no longer be needed but also said it might still be built so that 'older prisons may be retired'.

The contract to build and manage a new 960-bed prison was eventually award to Serco in 2012. It provided stiff financial penalties if its rehabilitation programmes fail to reduce reoffending by 10% more than the Corrections Department programmes. The Auckland South Corrections Facility was opened on 8 May 2015. The contract to operate the prison ends in 2040.

In March 2022, Te Ao Māori News reported that Wiri prisoners were experiencing unliveable conditions including denial of prison visits, unjustified lockdowns, lack of access to medical care, and insufficient safeguards against COVID-19. Te Ao reported that these conditions had led to two suicides within the space of five months. In response, Serco disputed several incidents in Te Ao's report and defended the quality of its care and services provided to prisoners. That same month, Radio New Zealand reported that Serco was using interns to write psychological reports on Wiri prisoners for the Parole Board.

On 21 December 2023, Serco confirmed that a Wiri inmate had attacked two other prisoners, killing one and hospitalising another. Serco reported the incident to the Police and promised to assist the Police investigation. Serco and the Coroner for Investigation also announced that they would carry out a review. The prison was also placed on lockdown with communications and visits being restricted. The following day, Police charged a 47 year old man with murder and wounding. Serco confirmed that they would carry a review and that they were providing staff and prisoners with support.

Spring Hill Corrections Facility
Spring Hill Corrections Facility is in the countryside between Meremere and Te Kauwhata, in the Waikato. It opened in 2007 and was the last of four new facilities built as part of the Regional Prisons Development Project. It accommodates up to 1,018 male prisoners with low to high-medium security classifications. In the course of construction, the cost of the prison escalated to $380.3 million (at $600,000 a bed), $97.7 million over its original estimate.

The Department made the unusual step of spending $7.5 million buying and shipping earthmoving equipment from overseas to complete the prison. It says it was caught short by the national building boom and was unable to find the equipment in New Zealand. The Department bought eleven 40-tonne all-terrain dump trucks from Scotland, five compactors from America and France and two excavators from South Korea. When Otago's new Milton prison also cost $43.1 million more than the Department had forecast, Corrections Minister Damien O'Connor subsequently asked Treasury and the State Services Commission (SSC) to carry out an independent review of prison cost blowouts.

Springhill has New Zealand's only Pacific Focus Unit, which provides an environment where prisoners of Pacific ethnicity with a high risk of re-offending are encouraged to address their offending behaviours. Spring Hill also has a combined drug treatment and special treatment unit called Puna Tatari. The special treatment unit provides treatment for serious offenders with a high risk of re-offending who have been convicted of at least one violent offence.

Spring Hill was also the scene of the manslaughter of prison officer Jason Palmer. This was the first death of a New Zealand prison officer on active duty.

Waikeria Prison
Waikeria Prison is located 16 kilometres south of Te Awamutu, at Waikeria in the Waikato region. It was built in 1911 and held 1031 prisoners and employed 480 staff. It used to be New Zealand's largest prison. However, in 2012, Prime Minister John Key announced that some older prisons would close including units at Waikeria.

The prison includes several specialist units. It has one of the five Māori Focus Units in New Zealand prisons. The Māori Focus Units aim to bring about positive changes in offenders' thinking and behaviour through the practice of Māori values and disciplines, and specialist Māori programmes. Waikeria also has a Drug Treatment Unit for prisoners with drug or alcohol problems and a Special Treatment Unit (Karaka Special Treatment Unit) which is a 40-bed treatment unit for men who have repeatedly committed serious crimes and are considered to have a high risk of re-offending.

Because Waikeria Prison is a large site, the level of physical security varies between different units. The minimum security areas of the prison have fewer physical security feature because minimum security prisoners have been assessed as a minimal risk to the public. Higher security units are surrounded by a highly secure perimeter fence equipped with lighting, surveillance and detection equipment.

Between 29 December 2020 and 3 January 2021, twenty-one prisoners, protesting poor living conditions, staged an uprising at Waikeria and lit fires which ultimately destroyed the prison's top facility. The riots came to an end following negotiations involving Māori Party co-leader Rawiri Waititi.

In May 2024, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and Police and Corrections Minister Mark Mitchell announced that the Government would allocate NZ$1.9 billion from the 2024 New Zealand budget to adding 810 beds to Waikeria Prison. In late May 2024, the activist group People Against Prisons Aotearoa protested against the expansion of Waikeria Prison, with the group's spokesperson Emmy Rākete describing "the construction of an American-style mega-prison" as "an admission of failure from the outset." In response, Corrections Minister Mitchell said they were investing in Waikeria Prison to deliver more prison capacity and mental health support for inmates.

Tongariro/Rangipo Prison
Tongariro/Rangipo Prison began as a prison camp called Rangipo in Tūrangi in 1922. When it started the few inmates were housed in tents, the cookhouse was the only building with corrugated iron roof and walls. To access the site with materials and officers they had to be transported across Lake Taupō to Wihi, near Tokaanu. Then travel by bullock wagon to Rangipo. The Hautu prison site was established in 1926, and the 2 prison camps became combined to be called Tongariro Prison 1958 / 59, a separate entity in 1977. The prison is on a large site of more than 8,000 hectares off the Desert Road near Turangi. Around 4200 hectares of this land is forested and 2400 hectares is farmed. The remaining 1840 hectares are roads, river reserves, wetlands and native forest. The prison holds about 600 prisoners classified as minimum to low-medium security and 251 staff. Given its size, the Department says it is not possible to surround the Tongariro/Rangipo Prison site with razor wire fencing but units within the prison grounds are said to be appropriately fenced. In 1998, 204 cannabis plants, with an estimated street value of almost $1 million, were found growing at the prison – although the Department denies the crop was grown by prisoners. In July 2011, a former Rangipo Prison guard Manu Stanley Jensen, was sentenced to 16 months in jail after accepting a bribe to supply cannabis to a prisoner.

Tongariro/Rangipo has one of the five Māori Focus Units in New Zealand prisons. The Māori Focus Units aim to bring about positive changes in offenders' thinking and behaviour through the practice of Māori values and disciplines, and specialist Māori programmes. The prison also has a strong relationship with local iwi and a special relationship with the surrounding hapu – Ngāti Turamakina, Ngāti Tūrangitukua, Ngāti Rongomai and Ngāti Hine. Representatives of the hapu meet bi-monthly with the Prison Manager. In 2000, a 25-year-old prisoner Aupai Bruce Tohu drowned after the waka he was on capsized in choppy weather while taking part in a Maori cultural training course. Two years earlier, Rangipo prisoner Matthew Neave, aged 30, also drowned after parachuting into Lake Taupō.

In 2001, the health and safety coordinator for the Corrections Association, Brian Davies, issued a report claiming that the use of buckets as toilets was unhygienic and disgusting both for prisoners and guards. The report said this and other issues were among urgent problems that need fixing in rundown prisons – and cited Rangipo prison as one of the worst prisons. When Corrections Minister Anne Tolley announced prison closures in 2012, some units at Rangipo were included in this announcement.

Hawke's Bay Regional Prison
Hawke's Bay Regional Prison, originally called Mangaroa, is located near Hastings. It opened in October 1989, replacing the old Napier Prison, which closed in 1993. Mangaroa holds about 640 prisoners and has 325 staff. Hawke's Bay Regional Prison has one of the five Māori Focus Units in New Zealand prisons. The Māori Focus Units aim to bring about positive changes in offenders' thinking and behaviour through the practice of Māori values and disciplines, and specialist Māori programmes. It has a Drug Treatment Unit for prisoners with drug or alcohol problems.

The prison also had one of New Zealand's three Youth Units which accommodates prisoners under the age of 18 and prisoners aged 18–19 who are deemed to be vulnerable in the mainstream prison environment. The Department says youth prisoners are offered a range of psychological, educational and vocational training and claims it meets its obligations under the Education Act 1989 – which requires all under-16-year-olds to be in full-time education. However, Judith Baragwanath, a Parole Board member and former teacher says 92% of teenage offenders in the Youth Units have a learning disability and tutors employed by the Department of Corrections to teach in the Youth Units are not subject to any accredited professional teaching standards. She also says the Youth Units have never been subject to scrutiny by the Education Review Office.

The Youth Unit was closed in 2011 after a disturbance by two 17-year-olds in which one of them threw boiling water over an officer, and stabbing the Officer. The inmates caused considerable damage and 11 months later, the unit was still not back in use and no decision had been made on when it would reopen.

Whanganui Prison
Whanganui Prison, in Kaitoke, holds about 538 prisoners and employs 252 staff. The oldest part of the prison, the main Kaitoke Prison complex, was built in 1978, and Te Ohorere, a Self Care Unit, and Te Whakataa minimum security units opened in 2005. Self-care units allow prisoners to get accustomed to living in a house or flat environment within the prison fences; they are designed to help reincorporate prisoners back into society upon release.

Whanganui Prison has one of the five Māori Focus Units in New Zealand prisons. The Māori Focus Units aim to bring about positive changes in offenders' thinking and behaviour through the practice of Māori values and disciplines, and specialist Māori programmes.

Whanganui Prison also has a stand-alone 12-cell at-risk facility to deal with suicidal inmates. Only two prisons in New Zealand have units specifically designed for this purpose. The other is at Waikeria and houses up to 30 prisoners in 26 cells.

Manawatu Prison
Manawatu Prison holds about 290 prisoners and employs 136 staff. It is located at Linton, south of Palmerston North. The prison began as the Manawatu Youth Institution in 1979 for young male prisoners motivated to make use of the institution's educational, social development, trade training and community-based programmes. It became Manawatu Prison in 1985.

Manawatu prison has a voluntary faith based unit known as the Alpha Unit. The Unit is based on the spiritual values of the Christian faiths and it provides a supportive environment committed to the Principles, Values and Attitudes programme. The programme is run by the prison chaplain and prisoners volunteer to reside in it.

Rimutaka Prison
Rimutaka Prison is located in the suburb of Trentham, Upper Hutt. It is New Zealand's largest prison, holding up to 1078 prisoners and employing about 570 staff. The prison opened in 1967 and was originally named Wi Tako Prison until the name was changed to Rimutaka Prison circa 1990. It is on a large site at the end of Freyberg Road and the number of cells and prison units has grown substantially in recent years to accommodate rising prisoner numbers. In 2010, Rimutaka became the first prison in New Zealand to open a container-cell unit. The cells are constructed from refurbished shipping containers and the unit houses up to 60 prisoners in a mix of single and double-bunked cells.

Rimutaka Prison includes several specialist rehabilitation units. It has one of the five Māori Focus Units in New Zealand prisons, a Drug Treatment Unit for prisoners with drug or alcohol problems. A Faith-Based Unit providing a programme for prisoners centred around the Christian faith was closed in 2012 after evaluation found it had no impact on reducing reoffending.

Rimutaka also has a 30-bed special treatment unit for violent prisoners called Te Whare Manaakitanga. Prisoners in this unit are taught skills to enable them to live without using violence; this includes conflict resolution, the use of timeout, impulse control and how to challenge their own distorted thinking. The prisoners also learn to change their attitudes towards women. Offenders have to be classified as having a high risk of re-offending in order to attend this programme.

Rimutaka prison opened the country's first dementia unit in December 2012. The Corrections Department said a "high dependency unit" will be created for some of the 120 inmates aged over 65 who struggle with daily tasks, such as showering themselves. Wellington lawyer Mary More, who represents a 75-year-old prisoner believes the unit is long overdue and said: "The Department of Corrections needs to recognise that the courts are sending more and more people to prison for longer ... and we are going to have an aging prison population."

Arohata Women's Prison
Arohata Prison, one of New Zealand's three women's prisons, is located near Tawa, a suburb in the north of Wellington. The Māori-language name Arohata means "bridge"; it reflects the belief that the prison provides a bridge between past offending and a future in the wider community. The prison, built in 1944, originally operated as a women's borstal. It became a youth prison in 1981 and a women's prison in 1987. It held about 150 prisoners and employed 73 staff.

The prison includes a Drug Treatment Unit, established in 1999, for prisoners with drug or alcohol problems and is the only women's prison that operates a DTU. Women from Christchurch or Auckland women's prisons who have addictions have to move to Arohata prison to take part in the programme.

Arohata also runs the Kowhiritanga ('Making Choices') Rehabilitation Programme specifically for female prisoners, many of whom have been exposed to sexual and psychological abuse during childhood and in their adult relationships. Most of the programme is based on cognitive-behavioural therapy, dialectical behaviour therapy, group psychotherapy, recreational psychology and a narrative approach to therapy. A Toastmasters group and other volunteers have helped implement a variety of programs such as yoga, quilting, Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, the Catholic-based grief "Seasons for Growth" programme, public-speaking skills, and a kitten-fostering programme.

Christchurch Prison
Christchurch Prison, also known as Paparua Prison, is located near Paparua to the west of Christchurch. It was built in 1915 and accommodates about 930 prisoners. The prison includes a Drug Treatment Unit for prisoners with drug and alcohol problems as well as a Youth Unit for prisoners under 18 years old.

In September 2010 and 2011, Christchurch was hit by two major earthquakes. The prison suffered no major damage from the first quake but about half of the 800 inmates were moved as a precaution after it affected the prison's plumbing systems. Some were taken by bus to Otago Correctional Facility and others were flown to prisons in the North Island. Those inmates left behind were required to put together ration packs and prepare meals for rescuers.

After the second quake in February 2011, a decision was made to move prisoners from Christchurch's Rolleston prison to Christchurch Men's prison, emptying 320 beds to create accommodation for the influx of rescuers into the city.

In October 2023, staffing pressures led Christchurch Men's Prison to relocate 22 inmates to be transferred to the Otago Corrections Facility. While Corrections confirmed that the prison had 944 beds, staffing shortages meant that it only had an "operational capacity" for 786 beds.

Christchurch Women's Prison
Christchurch Women's Prison is one of three women's prisons in New Zealand and the only one in the South Island. It is near Paparua, to the west of Christchurch. It holds 138 prisoners and employs 70 staff. The prison opened in 1974, and prisoners and staff transferred there from Dunedin Prison and Christchurch Prison's Women's Division. A facilities upgrade in 2011 provided for four mothers and their babies to live together.

The prison provides the Kowhiritanga ('Making Choices') rehabilitation programme designed to address the particular needs of female offenders – many of whom have suffered sexual abuse.

Rolleston Prison
Rolleston prison is located at Runners Rd in Rolleston, south-west of Christchurch. It was originally established in 1958 as an army detention centre. It was first used as a prison in 1986 when the new Corrective Training Centre was built called the Tawa unit.

The prison was extensively renovated in 1987 to increase capacity and in 1989 the 60 bed Kia Marama unit opened – one of only two such units in the country. The unit delivers group-based treatment within a therapeutic environment to child sex offenders. The programme helps prisoners look at their patterns of behaviour and identify high-risk situations. Evaluations have shown that the programme is very effective in reducing re-offending. In 1992 the 60 bed Kowhai unit opened and an additional two units have been completed since then. Rolleston now holds about 320 male prisoners and employs 93 staff.

Because Rolleston Prison contains prisoners assessed as being of minimal risk to the public, the level of physical security is lower than would be found at many other prisons. It originally did not have a perimeter fence. Instead, individual units had their own secure fencing and the prison has electronic security devices around the perimeter. In 2019 a perimeter fence was installed. Older units at Rolleston are set to close as part of the Department's decision to close down older prisons and build a new 960 bed prison for males at Wiri, Auckland.

Otago Corrections Facility
Otago Corrections Facility (OCF) is located near Milton. It opened in 2007 and was one of four new prisons that opened between 2005 and 2007. OCF was established as a more humane alternative to the Victorian era Dunedin Prison. Intended to house 335 prisoners, Otago Corrections was designed as a campus with wide open spaces, adequate heating, single bunking and its own prison farm. Initially a low to high-medium facility, OCF was later upgraded to house high-security prisoners. When double bunking was introduced at OCF in 2010, inmate numbers rose to 480.

The prison provides three rehabilitation programmes. The Medium Intensity Rehabilitation Programme is designed for prisoners in the middle risk range – those not considered high risk but still enough of a risk to warrant rehabilitation. The Short Rehabilitation Programme is a brief rehabilitation programme aimed at a smaller number of prisoners who require rehabilitation but do not have enough time in their sentence to complete a longer programme. OCF also has a Drug Treatment Unit for prisoners with drug and alcohol problems. As of 31 July 2023, OCF had the capacity to train 36 men in carpentry, engineering and hospitality. It also had the capacity to employ a total of 136 men for farming and grounds maintenance. Notable rehabilitation projects have included building cabins for Clutha District Council camping grounds and building seed libraries for the Seed Library Community Project in South Otago.

In late February 2023, the Otago Daily Times (ODT) reported that OCF had increased its capacity to 556 beds, including 87 new high-security beds over the past six months. At the time, the Milburn facility housed about 434 inmates. The prison reported 16 assaults on staff in 2022 and a substantial shortfall of 70 staff across various roles. The ODT also reported that OCF had increased its capacity due to the transfer of high-security prisoners from Christchurch Men's Prison following the closure of its high-security units. Corrections Association of New Zealand (CANZ) vice-president Paul Dennehy expressed concern about OCF staff having to manage increasingly violent prisoners, understaffing, and deteriorating facilities.

In 28 July 2023, CANZ secretary Mark Duncan expressed concern that low-security prisoners were being transferred from OCF to Rolleston Prison to accommodate high-security prisoners being transferred from Christchurch Men's Prison. Duncan said that this would have an adverse impact on prisoners' behaviour and staff safety. On 31 July, the ODT reported that Otago Corrections had become the only prison in the South Island equipped to hold high-security prisoners. The newspaper also expressed concern that short staffing would undermine its rehabilitation programmes.

Invercargill Prison
Invercargill Prison, in Invercargill, holds about 165 prisoners. Built in 1910, the prison operated as a borstal until 1981. In 2012 a rehabilitation programme was introduced at Invercargill Prison.

In May 2021, Invercargill Prison and Invercargill City Libraries launched a programme to boost literacy among prisoners. In December 2021, the Department of Corrections considered converting the prison to a remand facility. This proposal was opposed by prison staff.

In April 2022, the prison's remand unit was closed after a critical Office of the Inspectorate report which found that prisoners in the unit had little access to water, lack of privacy in toilets, and damp mattresses. In September 2023, the Department of Corrections' acting regional commissioner Glenn Morrison confirmed there were no plans to restructure Invercargill Prison and that the facility would continue to host remand and low-to-medium security category sentenced offenders.

In December 2023, The Southland Times reported that six deaths had occurred at Invercargill Prison over the past decade. These included two suicides, three suspected suicides, and one death by natural causes.

Youth justice residences
There are five youth correctional facilities, termed youth justice residences, located in Auckland, Rotorua, Palmerston North and Christchurch. While these facilities have traditionally hosted teenagers aged 16 years and below, a law change in July 2019 has led to the admission of 17 and 18 year olds. All youth justice residences are operated by Oranga Tamariki (the Ministry for Children).

Addington Prison
Located in the Christchurch suburb of Addington, the prison was built in 1874 under the guidance of Benjamin W. Mountfort, who also designed the Christchurch Cathedral, the Canterbury Museum and the Canterbury Provincial Council Chambers. Addington Prison was closed in 1999 and has been converted into a budget backpackers called Jailhouse Accommodation. The Mountfort cell block and remaining perimeter walls are a Heritage New Zealand Historic Place Category 2.

Dunedin Prison
Dunedin Prison was built (completed) in 1896 and operated until 2007 when all prison services in the region were shifted to the new Otago Corrections Facility near Milton.

Napier Prison
Napier Prison opened in 1862 on Bluff Hill in Napier. It closed in 1993, with prisoners transferring to Hawke's Bay Regional Prison.

New Plymouth Prison
New Plymouth Prison used to hold up to 112 minimum to high-medium security prisoners and employed 65 staff. The prison also accommodated offenders on remand. The prison was originally an army hospital in the 1860s during the Taranaki land wars. The site was converted to a prison later that decade. From 1917 to 1952 it held mainly prisoners convicted of homosexual offences. In 2012, Corrections Minister, Anne Tolley announced it would be closed "because old prisons didn't suit modern rehabilitation training and education methods." It closed in 2013.

Ohura Prison
Ohura Prison opened in 1972. It closed in 2005, because it was understaffed. Ohura was also vulnerable to road closures and flooding. The prison had been built on the site of a miners' hostel. Ohura was a minimum-security prison consisting of a simple two-building complex with no external wire fence. The prison held up to 97 male prisoners. The main cell block had a rebuild in 1997 to increase cell sizes. The prison has since been turned into bed and breakfast accommodation.

Waikune Prison
Waikune Prison opened in 1921 and closed in 1986. Near the small town of National Park, it held around 100 minimum-security prisoners. Inmates worked in nearby forestry areas, did track maintenance for the Department of Conservation, cleared ski-field roads and did the laundry for Tongariro’s famous Grand Chateau Hotel. In the mid-1980s the prison required a large amount of capital investment to upgrade its buildings and infrastructure. The government of the time, after a select committee hearing, decided to close the facility. Inmates were moved to other sites around the country and the prison officially closed in 1986. The structure and roof of one of the two prison buildings has given way. While there are a few buildings on the site that have potential, overall the buildings are derelict.

Wellington Prison
Wellington Prison, also known as Mount Crawford, held about 120 prisoners and employed 35 custodial staff. It was built in 1927 at Point Halswell, next to the suburb of Miramar, in Wellington and replaced the original Terrace Gaol in central Wellington. The prison only accommodated prisoners who were on voluntary segregation – prisoners who have asked to be separated from the mainstream prison population.

The Wellington prison was temporarily closed in June 2008 during a "seasonal prison population trough", however it reopened in July 2009 when the national prison population increased once again. In 2012, Corrections Minister, Anne Tolley announced it would be closed permanently "because the old prisons didn't suit modern rehabilitation training and education methods."

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Aleksandrów may refer to the following places in Poland:

Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship (north-central Poland)

 * Aleksandrów County
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Łódź Voivodeship (central Poland)

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Lublin Voivodeship (east Poland)

 * Aleksandrów, Biłgoraj County
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Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship (south-central Poland)

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Masovian Voivodeship (east-central Poland)

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Greater Poland Voivodeship (west-central Poland)

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Silesian Voivodeship (south Poland)

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Opole Voivodeship (south-west Poland)

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