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Talk:Alan Ford (comics)

Racism
The article says: "The comic book ridicules aspects of American society, including capitalism and racism." I have all the Alan Ford classics (until #86), and I can't remember any number having anything to do with racism. The single sentence from "Don't vote for Notax" is hardly sufficient for justifying the claim in the article. By the way, the language in the "Yugoslav" translation is Croatian, not Serbo-Croatian. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.188.137.226 (talk) 16:15, 16 June 2021 (UTC)

Balkan issues
I'm from Croatia - and: it's Serbo-Croatian!

"They're not the same language, and if you think so you obviously don't now Croatian well."

With this you're obviously trying to insult people. Did you ever study Croatian language or literature?

"There are other languages which are very similar and mutualy understandable (eg. Czech and Slovakian, Swedish and Norwegian) but they are considered seperate languages (even by Wikipedia)"

Yes but those who separate them: they're not differentiated enough...if the'yre understandable in their semantics by their form, it's more like regionalism. there are only dia- or idiolects, even the "higher" languages are dialects. --134.2.213.43 21:50, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Translations
The section on translations should be changed. Even if you could call the language in the initial translations "Serbo-Croatian", you can't in todays. I don't know what the translation is like in SCG but in Croatia it's in Croatian, I can only assume that in SCG it's in Serbian. A rewording is in order.
 * Please take a look at Serbo-Croatian. --Dejan Čabrilo 06:00, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * They're not the same language, and if you think so you obviously don't now Croatian well. There are other languages which are very similar and mutualy understandable (eg. Czech and Slovakian, Swedish and Norwegian) but they are considered seperate languages (even by Wikipedia). Just because politics tried to force these two languages together doesn't mean they realy are one language. The more time passes the differences become more obvious as new generations learn their own language rather than some hibrid.
 * I'm not trying to start a lingustic debate. I'm just saying that the original translations were in "Serbo-Croatian" because that was the inforced standard then, but now Croatian follows it's own standard (a work perpetualy in progress, as all languages are) and the current translations in Croatia are in Croatian not "Serbo-Croatian". Believe me, there is a significant difference, you may not notice it and I'll admit most Croats won't notice it, but some of us do! For instance, the scene in the article has Bob Rock saying: "...Ne naliči li ovo pomalo na pračku?". In Croatian that should be "...Ne izgleda li ovo pomalo kao pračka?". You may think that's splitting hairs, but I assure you it's not, "naličiti" is not a verb in the Croatian language.
 * My point is that the article should point out that it was originaly translated into "Serbo-Croatian" but with the break up of Yugoslavia new translations are in Croatian and Serbian.
 * I'm just saying that the original translations were in "Serbo-Croatian" because that was the inforced standard then, but now Croatian follows it's own standard (a work perpetualy in progress, as all languages are) and the current translations in Croatia are in Croatian not "Serbo-Croatian".
 * There ya go :) The article talks about the initial translation by Brixy. Also, you might want to consult some linguistic resources. --Dejan Čabrilo 09:16, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Ah, whatever. I didn't come here to debate language. I do propose changing the sentence
 * Alan Ford was only translated into French and Serbo-Croatian.
 * to
 * Outside Italy Alan Ford was only published in France and the former Yugoslavia.
 * This would avoid any linguistic issues. Even if it was available in other countries it is still acurate as long as the edition wasn't published there.
 * Now to what I came here for. Serious Sam 2 (a FPS computer game comming out this fall) will have a weapon called the Klodovik bird which is a parrot with a bomb strapped to it's leg. This is obviously an Alan Ford reference (Croteam, the creators of SS2 are from Zagreb). If the game is as successfull as the original Serious Sam, it will make Alan Ford a (small) part of a wider pop culture. To most people this reference will be very obscure but I think it's worth mentioning it in this article, perhaps in a section called Alan Ford in pop culture. I'm not all that familiar with Alan Ford so I'm not going to mess with your work unless asked to.
 * Let's wait for the game to come out before we include that reference. --Dejan Čabrilo 20:49, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Well, I changed that one sentence. If you don't like it, change it back, but I think it's much better now.
 * No, I don't like it. But I didn't change it back. My question is: why the hell does it matter??? Serbocroatian was one of three official language of Yugoslavia for years, and Alan Ford was translated as such. The article doesn't talk about either Macedonian or Slovenian translation. So help me out here... --Dejan Čabrilo 08:45, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, you didn't change it but Rama has (I have no idea why).
 * The reason it matters is because that sentence says it was translated ONLY in French and "Serbo-Croatian" which isn't true. It would be acurate to say it was translated in French, "Serbo-Croatian", Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian and Slovenian. Now do you understand my objection?
 * I'm not aware of any translations into Macedonian or Slovenian. I'll try to address your concerns. --Dejan Čabrilo 20:11, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * You mentioned Macedonian and Slovenian translations so I assumed they existed, but even if they don't my point still stands. The rewrite is OK but perhaps a little confusing, maybe you should add wiki links to Serbian and Croatian.

There was an edition in Greek at one point (ca 1984?). I've only seen the first issue, have no idea how long it lasted — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.189.134.247 (talk) 21:22, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Language
Alan Ford was published in Croatia (Vjesnik, Zagreb) where the term "Serbo-Croatian" or "Croato-Serbian" went out of official use in 1972 (coincidentally, the year the first translation was published). So Croatian, not Serbo-Croatian. --Elephantus 12:31, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

 * The language was refered to as srpskohrvatski or hrvatskosrpski until 1990s. If you went to school in late 1980s, you would still learn Serbo-Croatian. As you perhaps know, aside from ultranationalists, Serbo-Croatian was still the language in 1970s. --Dejan Čabrilo 13:34, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I wouldn't know about the rest of Yugoslavia, but in Croatian schools the name "Croato-Serbian" or "Serbo-Croatian" wasn't in use after 1972. --Elephantus 14:39, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Do enlighten us, and tell us what happened in 1972? --Dejan Čabrilo 15:26, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * The fifth amendment to the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Croatia changed the definition of official language. Additionally, here is a quote I dug up, it's from a men's magazine named CKM (from Serbia, I believe): Što se tiče "Alana Forda" u Srbiji, publici je pored sjajnog teksta, neverovatno smešan bio i hrvatski jezik (emphasis mine) koji je koristio prevodilac, kao i pisanje imena u originalu (Bob Rock npr.). To je išlo toliko daleko da su čitaoci bili besni što su izdanja štampana kod nas (nakon rata) prevedena na srpski. Jednostavno, duh "Alana Forda" je bio povezan sa Brixyjevim prevodima. --Elephantus 16:27, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Right, the language spoken in Zagreb, Zagorje, Belgrade, Nis or Pirot is different, and Brixy's translation was interesting to people outside of Serbia. However, do you mind providing us with exact text of the amandment? To the best of my knoweldge, the 1974 Constitution did not institute Croatian as a language, and I it's rather silly to say that the language was not called Serbo-Croatian in 1970s. You may think whatever you want about Serbo-Croatian, but that was the name of the language. Anyway, do provide us with the full text of that amandment. Also, give us reference to Croatian being the official language in Croatia at that time. Do also compare it to the 1974 Constitution, and prove that "Croatian" was in common usage. Until you do that, it's Serbo-Croatian. --Dejan Čabrilo 17:55, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

 * OK, this is the text of the amendment: U Socijalističkoj Republici Hrvatskoj u javnoj je upotrebi hrvatski književni jezik - standardni oblik narodnog jezika Hrvata i Srba u Hrvatskoj, koji se naziva hrvatski ili srpski.. Among Croats, in everyday life, the language has always been called Croatian (not Croato-Serbian, Serbo-Croatian or anything like that). --Elephantus 22:40, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Sorry but you are lying Elephantus ! You can even see in your citation (original on Croatian) from constitution that language is called Croatian OR Serbian, more often Croatian-Serbian. You ignored that in english translation and made up that language is always called Croatian. Nothing changed in '72. I went to school in the 80's and there was no Croatian language but Croatian-Serbian. 94.253.230.26 (talk) 13:41, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

I find this funny, becuase me and my brother started our education in Croatia (80s). The school subject was called Croatian or Serbian language continuing with a sentence ...or better known as the Croato-Serbian language :)))) HolyRomanEmperor 18:41, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

The guy acused you of not knowing Croatian and compared it with Check-Slovak (completly different) and Norwegian-Swedish (similiar, although not that much) :OOOO The Serbian, Croatian and Bosnian languages have a similarity that is present in no case whatsoever elsewhere. Why? Because they are merely dialects of one language. British English and American English are more different between each other than Croatian and Serbian languages... HolyRomanEmperor 18:54, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

 * That is true HolyRomanEmperor94.253.230.26 (talk) 13:41, 31 May 2014 (UTC)

Serbo-Croatian
... for anyone's information existed from 1850 to 1993. I guess that all previous claims fall into water :). --HolyRomanEmperor 21:26, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

---> Enough of that language discussion? Please carry on to proper Alan Ford topics, like adding characters like General War, Bert, Great Caesar, other bad guys, etc. Martin 17:18, 20 October 2006 (UTC)

Copyright Infringement?
Can't believe this hasn't been mentioned yet. One of the external links is a site with scanned issues of the comic....isn't that technically copyright infringement?

 * No, it's technically their problem. --Vitriden 23:58, 9 August 2007 (UTC)

Requested move
Propose that It be moved per the Naming conventions (comics) guideline, to fall in line with all the others using (comics). Anyone have strong feelings and good reason why not? M URGH  disc.  23:16, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Move completed, thanks for the prompt admin action :) M URGH   disc.  09:54, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

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 * I was set to add a rationale for the image, but when looking closely at it, I thought the quality actually was too poor to represent the article illustration, so I opted to let the above image be orphaned out, and replace the it with a more reasonable low-quality image with rationale. I haven't yet looked into the status of the other images in this article. M urgh disc.  22:08, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
 * That sounds good. Other images I uploaded have standard fair-use rationale for comic book frames. ★ čabrilo ★ 10:34, 1 June 2007 (UTC)

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Sir Oliver is John Steed?
If Alan Ford was inspired by Peter O'Toole, what about Sir Oliver?

My answer: John Steed (Patrick Macnee) from the TV series "The Avengers".

http://www.freewebs.com/earthden/John_Steed.jpg

http://www.mevproductions.co.uk/TV/Avengers2.jpg

http://imagecache6.allposters.com/LRG/27/2771/EEKTD00Z.jpg

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Teresa Weatherspoon is no longer with the L.A. Sparks; I confirmed this by telephoning their office a few weeks ago, but their public relations person professed not to know what had happened with her. Her name is also no longer listed on www.wnba.com/players/. Yet I have not been able to find any news of her since the end of last season, nor report of any WNBA transaction ending her contract (see www.wnba.com/transactions/WNBA_2005.html, which would normally list any such occurrence). Any reliable information on her current status or whereabouts would be greatly appreciated by this long-time, ardent fan of hers. DSatz 10:59, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

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National Chung Cheng University

National Chung Cheng University (CCU; ) is a national university in Minxiong Township, Chiayi County, Taiwan. CCU is a member of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

History
National Chung Cheng University was the first public university established after Taiwan's economic boom of the 1980s. In 1986, in order to promote research and to develop higher education in the Yunlin, Chiayi and Tainan areas, the government approved a plan to establish a strongly research-oriented university in Chiayi. It was named after Chiang Kai-shek and officially founded on July 1, 1989. Lin Ching-Jiang (林清江) served as its first president.

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R113 road (Ireland)

The R113 road is a regional road in Ireland. Located in Dublin, it forms a semi-orbital route around the south of the city. As of 2007, clockwise, it starts at the N31 at Temple Hill in Blackrock and ends at a junction with the N4 at Palmerstown.

The road is one of the busiest Regional Roads in Ireland. The Liffey Valley Shopping Centre, and The Square, Tallaght, two of the busiest shopping centres in Ireland, are both located just off the route. Both the Fonthill Road (in Lucan/Clondalkin) and Belgard Road (in Tallaght) sections also have a number of large retail outlets. The Belgard Road section, running between the N7 at Newlands Cross and the N81 at Tallaght, is a standard dual carriageway and the main thoroughfare in the Tallaght area.

Route
The official description of the R113 from the Roads Act 1993 (Classification of Regional Roads) Order 2012 reads:

 * R113: Fonthill - Blackrock, County Dublin

 * Between its junction with N4 at Fonthill and its junction with N7 at Newland's Cross via Fonthill Road North, Nangor Road and Fonthill Road South all in the county of South Dublin

 * and

 * between its junction with N7 at Newland's Cross and its junction with N81 at Tallaght Bypass via Belgard Road and Belgard Road Extension all in the county of South Dublin

 * and

 * between its junction with N81 at Tallaght Bypass in the county of South Dublin and its junction with N31 at Leopardstown Road in the county of DunLaoghaire - Rathdown via Old Bawn Road, Killininney Road, Saint Colmcille's Way, Scholarstown Road, Ballyboden Way, Taylor's Lane and Grange Road in the county of South Dublin: Grange Road, Brohenfield Road, Motorway Service Roads and Murphystown in the county of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown

 * and

 * between its junction with N31 at Brewery Road and its junction with N31 at Temple Road Blackrock via Leopardstown Road, Newtownpark Avenue, Stradbrook Road and Temple Hill all in the county of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown

As of April 2018 based and based on the Ordnance Survey map of Dublin (Sixth Edition, updated Sept 2005) and the 2006 legislation defining a new route, the former R113 route was changed to:

 * Start at Temple Hill in Blackrock at its junction with the N31.
 * Top of Temple Hill fork to Stradbrook Road.
 * Turn right up into Newtownpark Avenue.
 * Up Newtownpark Avenue
 * Cross the N11 at White's Cross and proceed along Leopardstown Road to the junction at Brewery Road (N31)/Sandyford Industrial Estate.
 * Pass under the Luas green line and follow dual-carriageway (on the N31/Leopardstown Road) to J14 of the M50.
 * Cross the M50 and follow the western end of the Leopardstown Road to a new junction at Hillcrest/Kilgobbin Rd.
 * Goes sharp right at Hillcrest down the new Kilgobbin Road Extension (in the thumbnail), to a rotary junction over the M50 (J13 East).
 * Follows two parallel roads either side of the M50 (two-lane one-way roads, in effect a dual carriageway with the M50 in the median) to a dumbbell junction under the M50 (J13 West).
 * From here it goes west along Brehon Fields Road (part of the Green Route) and then follows Grange Road past Marlay Park; on to Taylor's Lane as far as Ballyboden roundabout, where it intersects the R115
 * Continues west along Ballyboden Way; Templeroan; Scholarstown Road to cross the M50 again at Junction 12 (Knocklyon).
 * Continues west along St. Collumkilles Rd; Scholarstown Link Rd to a junction with the R114 (Firhouse/Bohernabreena Roads).
 * Veers north along the Old Bawn Road and joins the N81 in Tallaght Town centre.
 * After following the N81 west for 0.5 km it branches north along the Belgard Road dual-carriageway as far as Newlands Cross.
 * It passes under the N7, and follows the Fonthill Rd north west bypassing central Clondalkin. Clondalkin/Fonthill railway station is located on R113 at this point.
 * It crosses the R134 at a double roundabout junction and follows the Fonthill Road North for 5 km before terminating at a grade separated junction (junction 2) with the N4 at Quarryvale/Liffey Valley Shopping Centre.
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Broken plural

In linguistics, a broken plural (or internal plural) is an irregular plural form of a noun or adjective found in the Semitic languages and other Afroasiatic languages such as the Berber languages. Broken plurals are formed by changing the pattern of consonants and vowels inside the singular form. They contrast with sound plurals (or external plurals), which are formed by adding a suffix, but are also formally distinct from phenomena like the Germanic umlaut, a form of vowel mutation used in plural forms in Germanic languages.

There have been a variety of theoretical approaches to understanding these processes and varied attempts to produce systems or rules that can systematize these plural forms. However, the question of the origin of the broken plurals for the languages that exhibit them is not settled, though there are certain probabilities in distributions of specific plural forms in relation to specific singular patterns. As the conversions outgo by far the extent of mutations caused by the Germanic umlaut that is evidenced to be caused by inflectional suffixes, the sheer multiplicity of shapes corresponds to multiplex attempts at historical explanation ranging from proposals of transphonologizations and multiple accentual changes to switches between the categories of collectives, abstracta and plurals or noun class switches.

Arabic
While the phenomenon is known from several Semitic languages, it is most productive in Arabic.

In Arabic, the regular way of making a plural for a masculine noun is adding the suffix -ūn[a] (for the nominative) or -īn[a] (for the accusative and genitive) at the end. For feminine nouns, the regular way is to add the suffix -āt. However, not all plurals follow these simple rules. One class of nouns in both spoken and written Arabic produce plurals by changing the pattern of vowels inside the word, sometimes also with the addition of a prefix or suffix. This system is not fully regular, and it is used mainly for masculine non-human nouns; human nouns are pluralized regularly or irregularly.

Broken plurals are known as jam‘ taksīr (جَمْعُ تَكْسِيرٍ, literally "plural of breaking") in Arabic grammar. These plurals constitute one of the most unusual aspects of the language, given the very strong and highly detailed grammar and derivation rules that govern the written language. Broken plurals can also be found in languages that have borrowed words from Arabic, for instance Persian, Pashto, Turkish, Kurdish, Azerbaijani, Sindhi, and Urdu. Sometimes in these languages the same noun has both a broken plural Arabic form and a local plural.

In Persian this kind of plural is known by its Arabic term jam'-e mokassar (جَمِع مُکَسَّر, literally "broken plural"). However the Persian Academy of Literature (Farhangestan) does not recommend the usage of such Arabic plural forms, but instead the native Persian plural suffix -hā.

Full knowledge of these plurals can come only with extended exposure to the Arabic language, though a few rules can be noted. One study computed the probability that the pattern of vowels in the singular would predict the pattern in the broken plural (or vice versa) and found values ranging from 20% to 100% for different patterns.

A statistical analysis of a list of the 3000 most frequent Arabic words shows that 978 (59%) of the 1670 most frequent nominal forms take a sound plural, while the remaining 692 (41%) take a broken plural. Another estimate of all existing nominal forms gives over 90,000 forms with a sound plural and just 9540 with a broken one. This is due to the almost boundless number of participles and derived nominals in "-ī", most of which take a sound plural.

Example
Semitic languages typically utilize triconsonantal roots, forming a "grid" into which vowels may be inserted without affecting the basic root.

Here are a few examples; note that the commonality is in the root consonants (capitalized), not the vowels.

 * KiTāB كِتَاب "book" → KuTuB كُتُب "books"
 * KāTiB كَاتِب "writer, scribe" → KuTTāB كُتَّاب “writers, scribes"
 * maKTūB مَكْتُوب "letter" → maKāTīB مَكَاتِيب "letters"
 * maKTaB مَكْتَب "desk, office" → maKāTiB مَكَاتِب "offices"
 * note: these four words all have a common root, K-T-B "to write"

In the non-semitic Persian language it is current to use:

 * KiTāB کِتَاب "book" → KiTāBhā کِتَاب‌ْهَا "books"
 * KāTiB كَاتِبْ "writer, scribe" → KāTiBhā كَاتِبْ‌هَا "writers, scribes"

Hebrew
In Hebrew, though all plurals must take either the sound masculine (-īm ) or feminine (-ōt ) plural suffixes, the historical stem alternations of the so-called segolate or consonant-cluster nouns between CVCC in the singular and CVCaC in the plural have often been compared to broken plural forms in other Semitic languages. Thus the form malkī "my king" in the singular is opposed to məlāxīm  "kings" in the plural.

In addition, there are many other cases where historical sound changes have resulted in stem allomorphy between singular and plural forms in Hebrew (or between absolute state and construct state, or between forms with pronominal suffixes and unsuffixed forms etc.), though such alternations do not operate according to general templates accommodating root consonants, and so are not usually considered to be true broken plurals by linguists.

Geʿez (Ethiopic)
Broken plurals were formerly used in some Ethiopic nouns. Examples include ˁanbässa "lion" with ˁanabəst "lions", kokäb "star" with kwakəbt "stars", ganen "demon" with aganənt "demons", and hagar "region" with ˀahgur "regions". Some of these broken plurals are still used in Amharic today, but they are generally seen as archaic.

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I don't see what's wrong with Frisian redirecting to Friesian. The last page lists everything you linked to from Frisian, plus more, and is in the proper style of a disambiguation page. It is true that the language and people are more commonly called Frisian, but isn't it better to have it all on one page, since after all, the language and people are at Frisian language and Frisians?

P.S.: Personal attacks, such as the message you left on my talk page, are seriously frowned upon on Wikipedia.

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"Friesian" is the preferred spelling for certain animals and philosophers, Frisian is the spelling for ANYTHING ELSE. By deleting everything under Frisian you started with a personal attack, you do not refer a word for a human being to the word for their lifestock. My article was not intended to be a disambiguation article at all, it is intended to be about the spelling of Frisian, which is the basic spelling, Friesian is the deviant form. So if you want to have it on one Page that one should be titled Frisian. That you consider the question "What the fuck is wrong with you?" as a personal attack, just shows that there is something wrong with you. You deleted a small article without giving any explanation why, that is showing that there is something wrong with you. By linking Frisian to Friesian, you suggested that that is the correct spelling (Linking United States of America to BLOODY STUPID YANKEES) gives an idea about how that feels, Mr. No personal attacks. Of course, I see what's wrong with you, you don't know how "Frisian" should be spelled.

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Details (magazine)

Details (stylized in all caps) was an American monthly men's magazine that was published by Condé Nast, founded in 1982 by Annie Flanders. Though primarily a magazine devoted to fashion and lifestyle, Details also featured reports on relevant social and political issues. In November 2015 Condé Nast announced that the magazine would cease publication with the issue of December 2015/January 2016.

History
In 1982, Details was launched, as a downtown culture magazine, by Annie Flanders, a former fashion editor, at a meeting of former employees of the newly defunct SoHo Weekly News, including Ronnie Cooke, Stephen Saban, Lesley Vinson, Megan Haungs and Bill Cunningham.

The Los Angeles Times detailed how the magazine changed hands a number of times in the years thereafter: "'In 1984, to save the publication from bankruptcy, Flanders sold a controlling interest for $300,000 to a British publisher. He in turn unloaded it in mid-1987 on a New York entrepreneur.'"

Alan Patricof bought the magazine in 1988. Condé Nast bought the magazine a year later for $2 million. Its later format stemmed from a relaunch in October 2000 following the transfer of the magazine from Condé Nast to sibling division Fairchild Publications. Between its last issue at Condé Nast and first at Fairchild, publication of Details was temporarily suspended. This allowed for extensive redesign and strategic repositioning of the magazine.

Music Matters CDs
From 1991 to 1999 the magazine produced sampler CDs that were sent out to current subscribers free of charge. While the CDs concentrated on then-current music, older songs were included as well. The initial CD was produced by Andrea Norlander of MTV, who oversaw concept, musical content, design, and marketing of the project. 1991: Music Matters [Summer 1991]

1991: Music Matters [Holiday 1991]

1992: Music Matters Volume 3

1992: Music Matters Volume 4

1993: Music Matters Volume 5 (There were one and two CD versions of this volume.)

1994: Music Matters Volume 6

1995: Music Matters Volume 7

1996: Music Matters Volume 8

1997: Music Matters Volume 9

1998: Music Matters Volume 10

1999: Details 2000 Tomorrow's Music Today!

Comics journalism
Cartoonist Art Spiegelman was comics editor of Details in the mid-1990s; in 1997, he began assigning comics journalism pieces to a number of his cartoonist associates. The magazine published these works of journalism in comics form throughout 1998 and 1999, helping to legitimize the form in popular perception.
 * "Burning Man" (Nov. 1997), pp. 172-175 — Peter Kuper
 * "Pray for Surf" (May 1998), pp. 150-153 — Ben Katchor on sports
 * "So Much Comedy, So Little Time," (July 1998), pp. 148-151 — Peter Bagge
 * "Clothes Encounters" (August 1998), pp. 128-133 — Charles Burns illustrating a fashion show
 * "The War Crimes Trials (September 1998), pp. 260-265 — Joe Sacco on the aftermath of the Bosnian War
 * "Ozziefest [sic] '98" (October 1998), pp. 184-187 — Kaz on Ozzy Osbourne
 * "Ready to Die" (May 1999), pp. 146-151 — Kim Deitch
 * "Smash Violence!" (September 1999), pp. 202-203 — Jay Lynch parodying censorship of the media
 * "Chasing Melissas!" (October 1999), pp. 192-197 — Kim Deitch on the link between computer viruses and pornography
 * "The Rude Blues" (April 2000), pp. 140-145 — Joe Sacco

Controversy
In December 2002, Details featured American pop star Justin Timberlake on its cover, accompanied by the text: “Can we ever forgive Justin Timberlake for all that sissy music? Hey... at least he got into Britney's pants”. This cover and headline were featured retrospectively in the 2021 documentary Framing Britney Spears, which highlighted how Timberlake benefited from the media narrative surrounding his breakup with Britney Spears, while Spears herself saw her image suffer. This same cover features another story, "Forget feminism: why your wife should take your name."

In 2004, Details published a piece titled "Gay or Asian?" that featured a photo of an East Asian man, and "tips" on how to tell the difference. Some of the text that accompanied the photo: "One cruises for chicken; the other takes it General Tso-style. Whether you're into shrimp balls or shaved balls, entering the dragon requires imperial tastes." The article generated protests over its racism and homophobia — and over how it erased the existence of gay Asian men. To protest, LGBT Asian American individuals and groups came together and held demonstrations.

Staff contributors
Frequent contributors included Augusten Burroughs, Blake Nelson, Michael Chabon, and Bill Cunningham. Contributors included Beauregard Houston-Montgomery. Former staffers included Pete Wells, Ian Daly, Kayleen Schaefer, Erica Cerulo, Andrew Essex, Yaran Noti, Jeff Gordinier, Karl Taro Greenfeld, and Alex Bhattacharji.

Its Editor-in-chief, for 15 years, since 2000 was Dan Peres, the former husband of Australian actress Sarah Wynter.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/University of Maryland Baltimore County Drainage Tunnels

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The result of the debate was no consensus to delete, so merge with University of Maryland Baltimore County. Sjakkalle (Check!)  10:17, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

University of Maryland Baltimore County Drainage Tunnels
Marked for speedy deletion but I moved it over here to VFD so I can get a second opinion on whether these drainage tunnels are actually notable, should be moved to BJAODN, or deleted completely (sorry, it's very late where I am right now). Zzyzx11 (Talk) 11:04, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; I did some grunt work on this, but frankly, it shouldn't exist. Kill it.  -Howardjp 12:26, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless verifiable content added. -- Visviva 12:31, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I would take the verifiability as read since photos are provided. If Visviva doubts their existence, I suggest he goes there. -- RHaworth 13:13, 2005 July 20 (UTC)
 * Merge into University_of_Maryland_Baltimore_County! Not really notable in their own right. -- RHaworth 13:13, 2005 July 20 (UTC)
 * Merge per RHaworth. Many US universities have a tunnel system that is infamous on campus, but, they're all insignificant to anyone outside of that particular university.  Dcarrano 13:31, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge per RHaworth. — RJH 15:28, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete (1) I don't think Wikipedia is the place to detail every facet of campus life for a University (2) It is not a building (3) Even if it were considered a building, it isn't a notable one (4) The main article University of Maryland Baltimore County is relatively small, merging this would make a disproportionate amount of space devoted to trivial matters (5) The article itself even states this is unknown to most of the student body --jiy 17:39, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/University of Maryland Baltimore County Grassy Knoll

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The result of the debate was no consensus to delete, so merge with University of Maryland Baltimore County. Since a knoll is not a building, it will need another section, I'll see what I caqn do. Sjakkalle (Check!)  10:18, 29 July 2005 (UTC)

University of Maryland Baltimore County Grassy Knoll
Marked for speedy deletion but I moved it over here to VFD so I can get a second opinion on whether this grassy knoll is actually a notable landmark, should be moved to BJAODN, or deleted completely (sorry, it's very late where I am right now). Zzyzx11 (Talk) 11:04, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; I did some grunt work on this, but frankly, it shouldn't exist. Kill it.  -Howardjp 12:25, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unless verifiable content added. No trace on Google. -- Visviva 12:29, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge into University_of_Maryland_Baltimore_County! Not notable in its own right. -- RHaworth 13:15, 2005 July 20 (UTC)
 * Comment/Question: How is a knoll a building? John Barleycorn 23:45, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge per RHaworth. Dcarrano 13:31, July 20, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge per RHaworth. — RJH 15:27, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete for similar reasons as University of Maryland Baltimore County Drainage Tunnels (1) I don't think Wikipedia is the place to detail every facet of campus life for a University (2) It is not a building (3) Even if it were considered a building, it isn't a notable one (4) The main article University of Maryland Baltimore County is relatively small, merging this would make a disproportionate amount of space devoted to trivial matters (5) The article itself even states it is hidden, leading me to believe it is unknown to most of the student body, like the drainage tunnels --jiy 17:43, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
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Haiyan, Guangdong

Haiyan is a town under the jurisdiction of Taishan, in Guangdong Province of southern China.

Haiyan contains an overseas Chinese farm (华侨农场).

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Talk:Document-term matrix

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I need some help here:

Do you think I focused to much one vectors?

We definitely need more applications. Kh251

I don't agree with the last changes. Performing eigenvalue decomposition reduce the size of the matrix, thus improves speed, but decreases accuracy. I know I might be wrong, but I'd like to understand... KH251 09:32, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Not necessarily: what you say is one valid interpretation of the reduction, but the reduction can also be interpreted as creating a "better" matrix, since the operation tends to "soften" the representation and reduce possible noise.
 * Also, it's not always true that this makes it easier on the computational side; for instance, LSA is rather heavier than just just leaving the thing alone (I have a reference for that somewhere, I am just rather busy at the moment...). Hope it helps ! Cheers ! Rama 12:14, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes but LSA is computed once, the important part is having real time answers to queries. Once the matrix is smaller, this will be faster, won't it ? KH251 12:37, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

 * LSA produces a very serious computation burden on a search engine. Right now, if you type a word at a search engine, it looks the word up in a trie and finds documents that contain that word in O(1) time (independent of the number of documents in the collection). If you had a search engine that looked up documents in the LSA latent space, it would have to perform high-dimensional nearest neighbor search. LSA is typically used with 100+ dimensions, so none of the computational geometry speed-ups for nearest neighbor search apply. Therefore, the search would be O(N), where N is the number of documents in the collection. For Google, that would be 8,000,000,000. As you can see, this is disastrous for searching the web. -- hike395 06:14, July 22, 2005 (UTC)

 * Oh ! That's how ! Thank you very much for the explanation. You made my day. KH251 09:02, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Since we seem to be several people to have a taste for the thing, would anyone fancy creating a "NLP project" on Wikipedia ? Rama 12:18, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

= Intro Improvement Request =

I encountered this term for the first time just a few minutes ago. I read the intro, but I still don't have a clear idea of what a document-term matrix is, other than it is a mathematical matrix and that it is related to a body of text. Danielx (talk) 01:42, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

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Art Robinson

Arthur Brouhard Robinson (born March 24, 1942 ) is an American biochemist, conservative activist, prominent climate change denier, and politician serving as Oregon State Senator from the 2nd District since 2021. He was the five-time Republican nominee for the United States House of Representatives for Oregon's 4th congressional district.

A former faculty member of the University of California, San Diego, Robinson now runs a privately funded laboratory known as the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine in Cave Junction, Oregon, a newsletter called Access to Energy, and publishes the Robinson Self-Teaching Home School Curriculum.

As the Republican nominee for the Fourth District in Oregon, Robinson ran and lost to Democratic incumbent Peter DeFazio in five consecutive elections: 2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018. He served as chairman of the Oregon Republican Party from August 2013 to February 2015.

Early life and education
Robinson was born in Chicago. He received a BS in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1963, and a PhD in biochemistry from the University of California, San Diego in 1968. His doctoral thesis was titled, Experiments on the synthesis and spectral characterization of cytochrome-related molecules.

Early career
Robinson was one of the few students ever to be appointed to the faculty of the University of California, San Diego immediately after getting his Ph.D., but resigned four years later.

He was a co-founder, along with Linus Pauling and Keene Dimick, of the Institute of Orthomolecular Medicine, later renamed the Linus Pauling Institute in 1973.

Linus Pauling Institute
Robinson was the president, director, and a research professor with tenure at the institute.

In June 1978, Robinson was asked to consult with the Executive Committee of the Linus Pauling Institute regarding important decisions involving the Institute. The members of the Executive Committee included Robinson, Pauling, and Executive Vice President Richard Hicks. The same day Robinson was asked to consult, he (Robinson) dismissed Hicks by terminating the fund raising services agreement employing Hicks, claiming that Hicks had failed to generate the substantial donations expected of him.

Disturbed by Robinson's swift actions against Hicks, Pauling declared that he no longer had "trust and confidence in Robinson", and asked him to resign immediately. Robinson requested thirty days to consider the resignation and ultimately refused. Pauling called a meeting of the board of trustees regarding Robinson's refusal to resign. The board granted Robinson a leave of absence, and passed all executive authority to Pauling, later electing him president and director of the institute.

Lawsuit
Robinson responded to the dismissal by charging that he, not Pauling, had done the experimental work at the institute, and that "Linus has not personally contributed significant research work on vitamin C and human health". Robinson filed a lawsuit against the Institute for $25.5 million, finally settling for $575,000.

Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine
Robinson later moved to Oregon and founded the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM) there in 1980.

Robinson is the president of the OISM, which is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located in Cave Junction, Oregon. The OISM's mission statement and purpose is, "research, development, and public education on the biochemistry of molecular clocks and the degenerative diseases of aging, elementary science education, the effects of environment on health and welfare, and disaster preparedness". The institute faculty has included Salk Institute biochemist Fred Westall, the late Nobel prize-winning biochemist Robert Bruce Merrifield, and the late Manhattan project physicist Martin Kamen.

The OISM website states that "several members of the Institute's staff are also well known for their work on the Petition Project" (the Oregon Petition), and that the petition has "more than 31,000" signatures by scientists. Robinson asserted in 2008 that the petition has over 31,000 signatories, with 9,000 of these holding a PhD degree. Most signatories with a PhD hold their degree in engineering. The 2009 report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC)—a group that "disputes the reality of man-made climate change" —lists 31,478 degreed signatories, including 9,029 with PhDs. The list has been criticized for its lack of verification, with pranksters successfully submitting the names of Charles Darwin, a member of the Spice Girls and characters from Star Wars, and getting them briefly included on the list. A recent revisiting of his report found his chart analysis to be inaccurate when updated with recent years' data.

According to Bloomberg.com, starting in about 2013 Robinson began collecting "thousands of vials of human urine" which he claims hold "the key to extending the human life span and wresting control of medicine from what he calls the 'medical-industrial-government complex'." As of early 2016, there were 14,000 urine samples stored in freezers at the OISM lab. According to Zachary Mider of Bloomberg, it is "hard to judge the credibility" of Robinson's claims. Although Robinson earned a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego in the 1960s, "he hasn't published peer-reviewed research on diagnostic medicine in decades." In reply Robinson stated, "we've completed experiments here, which we could easily publish, but we want to wait until they are perfect."

In his monthly newsletter "Access to Energy", Robinson has reported on experiments showing that ionizing radiation can be good for you, advocates for a revival of cheap nuclear power, attacks climate science as a "false religion" that will enslave mankind, and condemns public education, instead favoring home schooling. "Access to Energy" was originated by Petr Beckmann; Robinson began writing it with the September 1993 issue. OISM also publishes material relating to civil defense and disaster preparedness.

2010 congressional election
In May 2010, Robinson won the Republican primary for Oregon's 4th congressional district, taking 79% of the vote to businesswoman Jaynee Germond's 20%. He faced Democratic incumbent Peter DeFazio in the November 2010 general election. Six weeks before the election, $600,000 worth of TV advertisements started to appear in the district, portraying his opponent as "a puppet of the Democratic leadership". It was later revealed that the advertisements, reportedly a surprise to Robinson, were paid for by conservative billionaire hedge fund manager Robert Mercer. (Mercer provided "six-figure financial support" to Robinson again in 2012 and 2014.) Robinson was defeated by 145,091 votes (53.6%) to 120,307 (44.5%) but it was the "best performance" by a Republican in the district "in decades". Robinson vowed to try again in 2012.

2012 congressional election
Robinson, running unopposed, became the Republican nominee for Oregon's 4th congressional district, to again face incumbent DeFazio, who had defeated Robinson's son Matthew in a landslide in the Democratic primary. In the general election, DeFazio defeated Robinson by 212,866 votes (59.1%) to 140,549 (39%).

2014 congressional election
Robinson ran for a third time for Oregon's 4th congressional district in 2014. He was unopposed in the Republican primary and faced another rematch with DeFazio in the general election, who was unopposed in the Democratic primary. Robinson lost the election with 116,534 votes to DeFazio's 181,624.

2016 congressional election
Robinson ran for a fourth time for Oregon's 4th congressional district in 2016. He ran against Jo Rae Perkins, a former Linn County Republican party chairwoman, in the primary election and won with 67 percent of the vote. In the general election on November 8. Robinson once again faced DeFazio, who won his primary election with 93 percent of the vote. DeFazio prevailed once more, 55%-40%.

2018 congressional election
Robinson challenged DeFazio for a fifth time in Oregon's 4th congressional district. He faced four primary challengers this time, Perkins, again, plus former Eugene mayoral candidate Stefan Strek, Curry county commissioner Court Boice, and Michael Polen. Robinson won the nomination with 45.7% of the vote. DeFazio defeated Robinson 56%-41%.

2020 State senate election
Robinson filed to run once again against DeFazio but dropped out on the final day of the registration period to run for Oregon State Senate District 2, instead, to replace retiring Republican incumbent Herman Baertschiger Jr. Robinson defeated his Democratic challenger, Jerry Allen, with 64.01% to 33.52%.

Political positions
In addition to asserting that global warming is a hoax, Robinson opposes abortion and supports gun rights, cutting taxes, increasing border security and building new power plants. He argues for balancing the federal budget, defunding earmarks and ending special-interest influence in Washington. He also supports ending the Federal Reserve System. Robinson is against bailouts to Wall Street banks. He also supports a strong national defense, but with a more restrained foreign policy. Robinson is a signatory to A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism, a petition circulated by the Discovery Institute to promote the pseudoscientific intelligent design theory.

Oregon State University controversy
In 2011, Robinson alleged that Oregon State University (OSU) was part of a conspiracy to retaliate against him for his political activism by expelling his three children, all of whom were graduate students there. When asked what proof he has of the university discriminating against his children, Robinson stated, "I don't have definitive proof, [...] That is what I believe. Basically, I know what happened. I cannot tell you the motives of the people doing it." In a statement, OSU would not comment on matters concerning the students without their consent, but declared all the other claims, including those about the faculty, to be unfounded.

2023 Unexcused absences
While participating in a Republican-led walkout in May 2023 Robinson reached the 10 unexcused absence threshold set by measure 113, disqualifying him from running for reelection after his current term ends. In October the Oregon Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to the measure. On February 1, 2024, the Court unanimously ruled against the Republican Senators, confirming Robinson's disqualification after his current term ends in January 2025.

Personal life
Robinson is a non-denominational Christian and lives in Cave Junction, Oregon. He was married to Laurelee Robinson until her death in 1988. His six children were all home schooled. As a hobby, Robinson buys unwanted pipe organs from churches and reassembles them on his property. Among the instruments in his collection is the organ formerly owned by famed Christian Gospel singer George Beverly Shea.

title: Art Robinson