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Recognition of same-sex unions in China

China does not recognize same-sex marriage or civil unions. Since 1 October 2017, couples have been able to enter into guardianship agreements, offering partners some limited legal benefits, including decisions about medical and personal care, death and funeral, property management, and maintenance of rights and interests. Attempts to legalise same-sex marriage in 2020 were unsuccessful, but public opinion polls show that support for same-sex marriage is rising in China.

In Hong Kong, the same-sex partners of local residents are able to obtain a dependent visa. Same-sex spouses of government employees also receive the same spousal benefits, which includes medical care and joint tax assessment, as heterosexual spouses. Hong Kong courts have also ruled in favor of equal treatment for same-sex couples with regard to parental recognition after the breakdown of the relationship and inheritance rights.

Beijing
Beijing provides dependent residency status to the same-sex foreign partners of legal foreign residents. It is not clear whether this extends to the foreign partner of a local Chinese resident. Beginning on 1 July 2013, foreign same-sex partners (including married couples) of residents became eligible for residency status in Beijing under a "dependent resident status". This law only applies to the municipality of Beijing. The key beneficiaries were expected to be white-collar foreign expats whose partners and spouses were able to accompany them and gain residency status in Beijing as a result of the law.

Hong Kong
In 2014, Hong Kong immigration officer Angus Leung Chun-kwong married his same-sex partner, Scott Adams, in New Zealand. Following the wedding, Leung attempted to update his marital status with the Civil Service Bureau, whose policy states that officers' partners can receive spousal benefits, which includes medical care and joint tax assessment. The Bureau rejected Leung's attempts to extend these benefits to Adams, prompting a legal challenge, Leung Chun Kwong v Secretary for the Civil Service, in court. On 6 June 2019, after conflicting decisions from lower courts, the Court of Final Appeal ruled that the Civil Service Bureau and the Inland Revenue Department had unlawfully discriminated against the couple, and ruled that the same-sex spouse of a government employee should receive the same spousal benefits as an opposite-sex spouse. In 2020, the Inland Revenue Department issued regulations as a result of the court decision stating that "any married person – regardless if he or she is in a heterosexual marriage or same-sex marriage – is now entitled to elect joint assessment or personal assessment jointly with the person's spouse, as well as to claim allowances or deductions in respect of his or her spouse. In addition, he or she is also eligible to sponsor his or her spouse for a dependant visa/entry permit for entry into Hong Kong."

A Hong Kong court ruled in September 2017 that a lesbian expatriate worker could live in the territory with her partner as a dependant and ordered the government to issue her a spousal visa. The ruling was labelled "a big win" by Raymond Chan Chi-chuen, Hong Kong's first openly gay lawmaker. The Hong Kong Government appealed the ruling in November 2017, and it was upheld in July 2018 by the Court of Final Appeal in QT v Director of Immigration. The ruling became effective on 19 September 2018. In September 2020, the Hong Kong High Court ruled that same-sex couples should receive equal treatment under inheritance law. The case challenged the city's inheritance and intestacy laws which forbade a gay person from inheriting the estate of their partner without a will. Judge Anderson Chow Ka-ming ruled in Ng Hon Lam Edgar v Secretary for Justice that the policy was "unlawful discrimination". In May 2021, the Court of First Instance ruled in favor of equal parental rights for lesbian couples in S v KG. The court ruled that following the breakdown of the relationship the non-biological mother should be granted joint custody, shared care and guardianship rights of her children, despite not being legally recognized as the children's mother.

Guardianship system
In March 2017, the National People's Congress amended Chinese law so that "all adults of full capacity are given the liberty of appointing their own guardians by mutual agreement." Previously, only those over the age of 60 or with reduced mental capacity could nominate a legal guardian. Specifically, article 33 of the amended law, which went into effect on 1 October 2017, states:
 * An adult with full capacity for civil conduct may, in prior consultation with his/her close relatives, or other individuals or organisations who are willing to act as his/her guardian, determine his/her guardian in writing. The agreed guardian shall perform the guardianship duties when such adult loses or partially loses his/her capacity for civil conduct.

The system, called "legal guardianship" or "guardianship agreement" (意定监护, pinyin:, ), permits same-sex partners to make important decisions about medical and personal care, death and funeral, property management, and maintenance of rights and interests. In case one partner loses the ability to make crucial decisions (i.e. mental or physical illness or accident), his or her guardian may decide for them in their best interest. Their legal relationship can also include wealth and inheritance, or pension, depending on which additional legal documents the couple decides to sign, such as a will. Some notary offices require couples to have lived together for several years or that both partners are out to their families as requirements to sign such an agreement.

Chinese LGBT activists have welcomed the move, calling it an "important, positive first step". Peng Yazi, director of LGBT Rights Advocacy China, said after having signed guardianship papers with his partner that "if anything happens to one of us, we know our basic rights are protected". As of August 2019, guardianship agreements have been signed in Jiangsu (the first one was registered in Nanjing in late 2017), Hunan, Sichuan, Guangdong, Shanghai, Hubei and Beijing, among others. The practice is more common among older same-sex couples or couples who have been in a relationship for several years. According to a 2019 online opinion poll on Sina Weibo, which garnered over 5 million responses, 85% of respondents were in favour of the guardianship system, while 5% were opposed; the rest being undecided.

Background
There are documented cases of same-sex unions in Ancient China. During the Song era, there are tales of two men, Pan Zhang and Wang Zhongxian, who fell in love and lived together in a relationship described as "affectionate as husband and wife, sharing the same coverlet and pillow with unbounded intimacy for one another". In modern times, the earliest known advocate for same-sex unions was the 19th to 20th century utopian reformer, Kang Youwei, who advocated temporary marriage contracts lasting up for a year. These contracts would have been open to both same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples. However, he did not believe that China was ready for such a historic step, and deferred this policy until the future Great Unity.

Chinese Buddhism considers marriage to be a secular issue or a social contract, and therefore not a religious matter. There is no religious marriage service and marriage customs are often adopted from local cultural traditions. Writing for the Journal of Religious Studies in 2022, Andi Fian, an alumnus from the Gadjah Mada University, argued that prohibitions against same-sex marriage in Confucianism may have influenced Chinese Buddhism.

On 13 January 2010, the China Daily published a front-page splash photo of a Chinese couple, Zeng Anquan, a divorced architect aged 45, and Pan Wenjie, a demobilized People's Liberation Army soldier aged 27, being married in a gay bar in Chengdu. The marriage is understood as having no legal basis in the country, and the families of both men reacted negatively to the news of their marriage. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. state of Utah established an online civil marriage service for couples wishing to marry. The marriage is officiated by Zoom and for an additional fee the couple can obtain an apostille validation stamp for the marriage license provided by Utah state authorities. By October 2022, around 200 same-sex couples in China had married via this online service, though the marriages have no legal status in China. The move has also become particularly popular in Israel where same-sex marriages performed abroad are legally recognised.

According to certain estimates from 2010, about 80% to 90% of Chinese gay men were married to women, who are known in Chinese as tongqi (, pinyin: ). These marriages, often called "sham marriages", are attributed to the fact that there is significant social pressure from family to marry and to found a family with a partner of the opposite sex. In most of these cases, the women are unaware of their husband's sexual orientation. In 2012, a professor at Sichuan University committed suicide after her husband came out as gay. In some cases, lesbians and gay men deliberately choose to marry each other. Research has shown that the social well-being of gay men and lesbians is significantly deteriorated by these "sham marriages", resulting in estrangement from family and suicide.

Court cases
On 5 January 2016, a court in Changsha, Hunan, agreed to hear a lawsuit filed in December 2015 against the Bureau of Civil Affairs of Furong District. The lawsuit was filed by 26-year-old Sun Wenlin, who in June 2015 had been refused permission by the bureau to marry his 36-year-old partner, Hu Mingliang. On 13 April 2016, with hundreds of same-sex marriage supporters outside, the Changsha court ruled against Sun, who said he would appeal. On May 17, 2016, Sun and Hu were married in a private ceremony in Changsha, expressing their intention to organize another 99 same-sex weddings across the country in order to normalize same-sex marriage in China.

On 12 April 2021, the Shenyang Intermediate People's Court in Shenyang, Liaoning ruled that same-sex couples were not entitled to the same property rights as married spouses. In this case, a woman sued her former partner of 50 years for having sold the house the couple had lived in together. While the house was registered only in the partner's name, the woman claimed they had bought it together, and had each verbally agreed to a 50% stake in the property. The partner also countersued, alleging that the woman had stolen ¥294,000 from her bank account. The court dismissed both petitions. Ouyang Jintong, a lawyer at Beijing Yingke Law Firm, said the court should have considered the length of the couple's relationship and cohabitation while arriving at its verdict, stating, "The couple lived together, shared wealth, comforted each other, and relied on each other in their twilight years, but their union could not be recognized as marriage because they were of the same sex, even though their lives were consistent with the essence of marriage."

Legal proposals
The Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China (, pinyin:, ) defined marriage as between a man and a woman, but this law was repealed in 2021.

Li Yinhe, a sexology scholar well known in the Chinese LGBT community, proposed the Chinese Same-Sex Marriage Bill (, pinyin: ) as an amendment to the marriage law at the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference in 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2008. All four proposals failed because she was unable to find enough cosponsors for a placement on the agenda. Li pledged to "continue proposing the bill until it is passed". In 2008, supporters of LGBT rights launched a campaign to collect signatures calling for the recognition of same-sex marriage. In 2012, Li launched a new campaign to raise support for same-sex marriage legislation.

There were unsuccessful attempts to include provisions legalising same-sex marriage in the new Civil Code in 2020. In August 2019, a parliament spokesman said that "limiting marriage to a relationship between a man and a woman will remain China's legal position". In December 2019, LGBT activists announced they had gathered over 200,000 signatures in support of same-sex marriage. Later that month, Yue Zhongming, spokesman for the Commission for Legislative Affairs of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, said that the National People's Congress would review the possibility of opening marriage to same-sex couples in March 2020 and opened the topic to public comments. Several government-related Sina Weibo accounts launched online opinion polls to gauge public support for same-sex marriage, with results as of 22 December 2019 being a ratio of 6 to 4 in favor. Results of an online Phoenix Network survey, which had garnered close to 10 million votes, showed a 67% majority in favor of same-sex marriage. In May 2020, an official from the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress claimed that the signatures and comments in support of same-sex marriage the committee had received were "copied and pasted" and said that the ban on same-sex marriage would not be repealed. Article 1046 of the code states: "A man and a woman shall enter into marriage freely and voluntarily. Neither party may compel the other party to enter into marriage against his will, and no organization or individual may interfere with the freedom of marriage."

Government attitude
The attitude of the Government of China towards homosexuality is believed to be "three nos": "No approval; no disapproval; no promotion". Despite the Chinese Society of Psychiatry having removed homosexuality from its list of mental illnesses in 2001, such change is yet to be reflected by the regulations of the National Health and Family Planning Commission. A government spokesperson, when asked about Li Yinhe's same-sex marriage proposal, said that same-sex marriage was still too "ahead of time" for China. He argued that same-sex marriage was not recognized even in many Western countries, which are considered much more liberal on social issues than China. This statement is understood as an implication that the government may consider recognition of same-sex marriage in the long run, but not in the near future. In addition, the Chinese Government requires parents adopting children from China to be in heterosexual marriages.

The Chinese Government did invite the Prime Minister of Iceland, Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, and her wife Jónína Leósdóttir on an official state visit in April 2013. Jónína was largely absent from official media coverage of the visit but she was fully recognized as the wife of the Prime Minister and was received as such at official functions, official residences and a reception at Beijing Foreign Studies University.

After the Taiwanese Constitutional Court ruled in May 2017 that banning same-sex marriage is unconstitutional under the Constitution of the Republic of China, attitudes were largely positive on the social media platform Sina Weibo. Li Yinhe claimed that a majority of Chinese people under the age of 35 supported same-sex marriage. Pointing out that the average age of members of the National People's Congress was 49, she concluded that same-sex marriage was "only 14 years away". Days after the same-sex marriage law came into effect in Taiwan in May 2019, the People's Daily posted a celebratory tweet, "local lawmakers in Taiwan, China, have legalized same-sex marriage in a first for Asia." The tweet, which included a rainbow-colored GIF that read "love is love" angered the Foreign Minister of Taiwan, Joseph Wu, who retaliated, "WRONG! The bill was passed by our national parliament & will be signed by the president soon. Democratic #Taiwan is a country in itself & has nothing to do with authoritarian #China. @PDChina is a commie brainwasher & it sucks. JW." Nonetheless, Chinese authorities signaled that it would not follow Taiwan's lead on same-sex marriage. An Fengshan, spokesman for China's Taiwan Affairs Office, said that the government "noted reports on the island" about same-sex marriage and that "the mainland has a marriage system of one man, one woman". At the time, some Chinese LGBT activists estimated that China was "at least a decade away" from legalising same-sex marriages, with priorities first on introducing anti-discrimination laws, allowing LGBT groups to raise awareness without fear and censorship, and banning conversion therapy.

Public opinion

A poll conducted in 2009 showed that over 30% of the Beijing population supported same-sex marriage, while the rest were unsure or opposed. A 2014 survey found that 74% of Hong Kong residents supported granting same-sex couples either all or some of the benefits associated with marriage.

A 2015 Ipsos opinion poll found that 29% of Chinese people supported same-sex marriage, and another 29% supported civil unions or partnerships which would offer some of the rights of marriage. 21% were against any legal recognition for same-sex couples. The poll reflects the online population which tends to be more urban. Support is higher among young people, with a September–October 2016 survey by the Varkey Foundation showing that 54% of 18–21-year-olds supported same-sex marriage in China.

A 2017 poll conducted by the University of Hong Kong found that 50.4% of Hong Kong residents supported same-sex marriage. An August 2022 poll conducted by the Hong Kong Public Opinion Research Institute found that 86% Hongkongers aged 18 to 40 thought that LGBT people "should be treated fairly and should not be discriminated against". In addition, 75% of young Hongkongers supported same-sex marriage.

An online opinion poll from Phoenix Network in December 2019, which garnered close to 10 million votes, showed a 67% majority in favor of same-sex marriage in China. A May 2021 Ipsos poll showed that 43% of Chinese people supported same-sex marriage, 20% supported civil partnerships but not marriage, while 19% were opposed to all legal recognition for same-sex couples, and 18% were undecided.

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User talk:Takeel

Spirit of Truth
You obviously know Wikipedia regulations well. I understand that information listed must be factual. That's fine. Let's assume for a second that you believe my claims. How can we go about making the information "reliable?" I'm trying to work w/ you here.

We're not pulling some hoax, and people should know that they can receive new, legit information when using us as a source.

Would a radio interview be sufficient? --Orangeade 19:40, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

 * I'll take your suggestion, and we can just see what others have to say. Understand that we can provide essentially anything you would require for proof.  The "new" phenomenon of the SoT is just beginning, so there is no concrete proof - outside of us - at this point.  Plus, I'm not familiar w/ Wikipedia's standards, so this is all new to me.  I don't fault you for being skeptical; I fully understand the desire for reliable information.  So, let's give it a few days and we'll review other's opinions.  --Orangeade 21:27, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Scott Kauffman
You tagged the above article as being a candidate for speedy deletion through the A7 criterion. Note that the criterion only allows deletion if the article fails to make an assertion of importance or significance. Since the article states that the subject was a vice-president of CompuServe, participated in the development of one of the first public offerings of the Internet industry, was president and CEO of AdKnowledge and that he now heads the San Francisco-based digital-magazine service provider Zinio I removed the tag. Hope that clarifies. Steve block Talk 00:41, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
 * I wasn't able to Google to verify the Compuserve claim, which I presume is the main "claim to fame"; the article is unreferenced. --Takeel 00:45, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
 * No, they are all assertions of significance. You may dispute them, but they assert significance and so the article does not meet the criterion you attempted to speedy it under, which states that no assertion of importance or significance is made.  The article may well have been unreferenced, but that doesn't make it qualify as a speedy deletion. If you feel an article is not merited on a subject, but it does not meet a speedy criterion, I would suggest proposed deletion instead.  Hope that helps you. Steve block Talk 00:57, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Your recent request for Checkuser
You recently compiled and listed a case at requests for checkuser. A checkuser or clerk has requested you supply one or more diffs to justify the use of the checkuser procedure in the case, in accordance with the procedures listed in the table at the top of the requests for checkuser page. For an outcome to be achieved, we require that you provide these diffs as soon as possible. This has been implemented to reduce difficulties for checkusers, and is essential for your case to be processed. A link to your recently-created case which has this information missing is here. Thanks for your co-operation. Daniel.Bryant [ T · C ] 22:04, 10 November 2006 (UTC), checkuser clerk.

Goldcorp
You tagged Goldcorp for speedy deletion. That company is part of a stock market index, S&P/TSX 60, which means that the company passes WP:CORP. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 15:41, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi, there. I tagged the article with db-advert because it read hopelessly like an advertisement, but I notice that you fixed it somewhat.  I was aware that the company's stock was part of an index. --Takeel 15:56, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Discussion on Appalachia, Virginia article.
Hello, You should not have removed the link: www.appalachiava.net, from the article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appalachia,_Virginia, because that is the town's official website. If you believe that is false information, you can contact the town's manager. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.171.5.72 (talk • contribs).
 * Good day. I don't mean to sound terse here, but the burden of proof does not lie upon me.  If you'll have a look at the article's talk page, you'll see that the link has already been discussed. --Takeel 03:49, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Middlesell Links
Takeel, I am the one who has added the links for Middlesell to the UMW, JMU, and VT wikipedia pages. I do not consider the links to these pages to be spam. This is especially true in the case of the UMW website, URL middlesell. This website has grown into a student-run, student-used website. We have an average of 2,000 UMW students a day (this is about 50% of the Fredericksburg Campus population of 2,000). The site originated here, in Fredericksburg, and is not a "spam site" and is run by a few college kids here. Furthermore, we maintain a very close relationship with the University's IT & University Relations staff, and have received their (albeit unnecessary) blessing.

We like the concept of our site because it localizes the internet to specific college campuses, and so we are in the process of launching it at other schools. There are nearly zero users at both the Tech and JMU sites. If you feel that it is not appropriate for the links to these sites to exist on those pages, I respect that. However, in the case of the University of Mary Washington page, I politely insist that it be left alone--especially if links to the radio station (it does not broadcast and is not on campus domain) as well as to UMW Underground (ditto) are allowed to remain.

Please contact me if you have any problem with this, I am perfectly willing to discuss it.

Thank you, Bobby UMW Student (Class of 2009) Middlesell dot com —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Analyzethis (talk • contribs).

 * Hi, Bobby. The reason I removed your link is because I agree with the community stance that Wikipedia is not for advertising websites.  It looks like others agree with me because I'm not the only person who removed links to middlesell.com.  If you'd like to pursue this further, you might check here or here for good first steps.  Thank you.   --Takeel 03:04, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

 * I'd say it's linkspam. The website appears to be nothing more than a blog.  Metros232 04:16, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Agreed. Spam.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 07:22, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

Takeel, you have no idea what you're talking about. If our site is not "allowed" to be linked on the University of Mary Washington page, why are the other two (UMW Underground and WMWC Radio)? Also, whoever referred to the site as "nothing more than a blog" is thoroughly incorrect. You do not attend the University of Mary Washington, and you do not use this web site. It is a resource that one half of our school utilizes on a daily basis. This is not link spam. Please do not discriminate against our site just because we don't have "UMW" in our domain name. End of story. Analyzethis 18:29, 18 November 2006 (UTC)Bobby

I am moving this section to the article talk page so more discussion can be had. Metros232 02:49, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

 * I replied at Talk:University of Mary Washington. --Takeel 04:06, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

Please cease harassment
Assume good faith Analyzethis 17:53, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Hi, there. I think I'm confused.  What harassing action have I taken? --Takeel 21:24, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

TurboPlay Magazine
Hi Takeel, you had asked me a question a long time ago and I replied (on my own "user talk" page). However, since I'm clueless about many things in Wikipedia, I don't know if you ever saw my reply. Was I supposed to copy your question and post it, along with my reply, here on your "user talk" page? Sorry for the newbie question :). Is there a FAQ or tutorial that explains the standard practices? Thanks in advance. Esteban666 08:46, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi, Esteban. As far as a FAQ/tutorial goes, you might check this out for a great start.  I apologize for not replying back to you sooner.  --Takeel 22:21, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi :). I should have clarified: I am looking for a FAQ on "User Talk", specifically. :) Esteban666 09:51, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

 * You might find what you'd like to know over at Talk page guidelines. --Takeel 18:32, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Awesome! This is precisely what I was looking for. Thanks :) Esteban666 04:19, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Tom Green Live
Why delete the show list? I have been an early contributor. Are you not s fan of Tom Green, his "goofballism" and the channel? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Socby19 (talk • contribs).

 * Hi, Socby19. That list is rather long, so it might work better in its own article.  Removing the list is also an option to consider. --Takeel 02:54, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Did that yesterday SocBy19

"Yahoo News" is just a short-term news digest, not a real news agency, and all the links I removed had expired--no one should be linking to Yahoo News
Several of my edit summaries explained the problem (like this) if you had looked at my contribution history. 71.231.107.188 20:34, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

Response
Hey, in response to your message, I understand your concern, but I don't see it as an issue. The action that users take offense to is not the act of removing messages but of ignoring and deleting them. I always either reply to my messages or, if its something I can easily fix, take action. So if I was being an asshole- and I do know that there are people like this on Wikipedia -and disregarding messages, then I'd be a "vandal" (although I personally would not see him as one, I'd just see him as a stubborn ass). However, my only reason for deleting messages is to keep myself organized. It's kind of like a worked having an inbox and outbox at his desk. The talk page is my inbox, where things that need to be done are kept. The history page is the outbox, a record of what I have done. That's the way I see it, maybe you are different about it, but regardless, if I was blocked, someone would be overstepping their boundaries. VitaleBaby 18:05, 12 January 2007 (UTC)

On Cleaning up Paxus Calta
Hello Takeel:

Like you, i was a bit surprised to see Majorly's decision to end the discussion on deleting the Paxus calta entry. Unlike you, i am quite new to the Wikipedia culture and norms. There were several problems with this article, as you pointed out, and they were almost exclusively my fault. i used this article as a way to learn about wikipedia, getting told by administrators that i needed to reduce the number of external links, having gone thru an earlier AfD challenge, and so on.

It did end up (before your AfD call) having a vanity page feel to it. After your AdF challenge i made a number of edits to try to rectify these concerns (pulling the quotes section, removing the hardest to verify elements, removing a second picture, the section on my complicated name, etc). My point here is that while you may not have gotten exactly what you wanted, for the article is still in place, it is a better, more encyclopedic piece as a function of your challange - and i thank you for that.

And, if you are not feed up with the whole affair, i would welcome other recommendations you have for clean up the article as it stands now. Paxuscalta 12:49, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Thanks
Dearest Takeel:

i appreciate your note and i am glad that the anti-vanity edits seemed sufficient to you. i also appreciate your attitude around AfD process. If only consensus could rule in the world at large. Be Well. Paxuscalta 16:46, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

University of Virginia's College at Wise edits
Takeel,

I updated the page for The University of Virginia's College at Wise yesterday by adding our current official logo, and official, referenced facts from the College's fact page. I also made redirects for common search terms for the College (including UVa-Wise and Clinch Valley College). Since then, you have deleted my edits, including the updated logo, deleted the redirects, and reverted the page to its former state.

I'm sure that you can check these facts and the legitimacy of the edits and the logo (which was taken from the official website) by e-mailing or calling the College's Office of College Relations.

I believe the edits made yesterday are the true facts that UVa-Wise would appreciate having on their Wikipedia page. I'm new to editing Wikipedia, so if you can offer advice for how to proceed with the edits I tried to implement yesterday, that would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Rhagy, Wed., Feb. 14, 2007, 10:00 a.m.

Wise County, Virginia
I have given the "Nature & Outdoor Rec" section a great big edit. Here's hoping that this will please all involved. I will continue to keep the article & talk page watchlisted, and am willing to help in discussions about possbile additions to that section. -- Pastordavid 16:35, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Mpritchard80 has not edited since I made the change, and looking at his/her edit history there is no telling whether he/she will be back in a week or six months. Oh well.  Thanks for using the process of consensus rather than edit warring -- it makes a better encyclopedia, and makes editing fun instead of work when we can work together.  I'll keep the page watchlisted.  -- Pastordavid 19:08, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Likewise, thank you. --Takeel 04:24, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Town of Appalachia.
Greetings: Takeel, I don't think it's right for you to be removing the Town of Appalachia's official website link from the Appalachia, Virginia article. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.171.13.93 (talk • contribs).
 * Good day. The website at that URL did not have any content when it was removed.  It's probably not a good idea for Wikipedia to link to empty websites.  --Takeel 01:32, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

Big Stone Gap, VA Article.
Takeel, You shouldn't have deleted the section that says Film Logger C.C. Swiney grew up in the town. The burden of proof lies upon you. You have no knowledge of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.171.13.93 (talk • contribs).
 * Good day. Actually, I looked up this individual and noted that he/she was indeed a tape logger for a television production.  However, this position is not particularly influential in a production. --Takeel 01:34, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

"Appalachia, Virginia" Article.
Hello Takeel, I noticed you removed the Willie Horton trivia off of the Appalachia, Virginia article, saying he's not from Appalachia. You are very wrong! Arno is Appalachia, it's one Appalachia's complemented communtyYou shouldn't be removing information from articles that you haven't confirmed, is true. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.66.222.248 (talk) 02:08, 7 March 2008 (UTC)

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Category:Silla

People, events, and things associated with the Korean kingdom of Silla, 57 BCE - 935 CE.

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Qwara dialect

Qwara, or Qwareña (called "Falasha" (Hwarasa) in some older sources), was one of two Agaw dialects, spoken by a subgroup of the Beta Israel (Jews of Ethiopia) of Qwara Province. It is a dialect of Qimant. It is nearly extinct. Several early Falashan manuscripts, using the Ge'ez script, exist; in more recent times, the language has been recorded by several linguists and travellers, starting with Flad in 1866.

Qwareña was on the decline in the early 20th century because it was being replaced by Amharic. During Operation Solomon, most of its remaining speakers were airlifted to Israel, where it continues to lose ground to Modern Hebrew.

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Lake Asal

Lake Asal can refer to
 * Lake Asal (Djibouti), the lowest point in Africa
 * Lake Karum in Ethiopia, also known as Lake Assal

title: Lake Asal


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User talk:Wikilo12

Welcome!
Hello, Wikilo12, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions; I hope you like it here and decide to stay. We're glad to have you in our community! Here are a few good links for newcomers:

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Image Tagging Image:Tehran-night1.JPG
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Salam.
Salam agha!

My name is Aytakin and I have seen the great contributions you have made to articles about of Iran and that is why I am contacting you today. I am wroking on a website (http://www.iranclub.ca] about Iran which will have everything from editorials and deep information on history to current soccer scores and live TV and our own 24/7 radio! I am also working on a wiki for information on everything relating to Iran. I am very much in need of some extra people to help me on this project. If you are intrested please reply, Thank you. --( Aytakin ) | Talk 17:20, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

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Good job
on removing some of the pictures in the Iran article. Much needed work. Regards, -- Jeff3000 03:59, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

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Birth rates in Europe
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 * It is odd that this "fact" is mentioned in a subsection of Europe but in neither of the two more detailed articles on demographics in Europe and the European Union. --Mathsci 09:13, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

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Survey vote request
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Arguements
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Goda Mountains

The Goda Mountains lie northwest of the Gulf of Tadjoura, Tadjoura Region in Djibouti. They rise to 1750 m above sea level and are the nation's largest heavily vegetated area and is the second highest point in Djibouti. The name Goda in Afar means "twisted" or "devoured" and refers to a ridge. A part of the mountains is protected within the Day Forest National Park, Djibouti's only national park. The ecology of this landform is considered an isolated outlier of the Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands ecoregion, an important island of forest in a sea of semi-desert.

Ecology
The Goda Mountains and the nearby Mabla Mountains are the last remaining refuge for the Djibouti spurfowl. It is also one of the few remaining habitats of the East African juniper, which was once the dominant tree species of the forest. The population of juniper trees in the area has sharply declined, with approximately 50% of the trees dying even in the healthiest regions. Instead, boxwood has become more common. Subsequently, the antelope population is seeing a rapid decline, desert warthogs have all but disappeared, and leopards have not been sighted since the 1980s. Climate change is one of the main factors contributing to this loss of species. The Goda Mountains continue to see longer periods of heat and drought in the region, compounded by grazing (especially of seedlings) and trampling by cattle. Hunting and the cutting of trees also play a subordinate role.

The inhabitants of the nine surrounding villages consists of five different clans of the Afar. Once a nomadic population, they now mostly lead sedentary lifestyles. Their pastoral livelihoods are highly dependent on the regularity of rainfall. In 2003, wells with pumps were introduced to the village to ensure a consistent, though limited water supply. The cutting of live trees for firewood is traditionally prohibited; thus only dead wood may be used. Drought is largely held responsible for the forest degradation, with only 4% attributing this to cattle grazing. With the initiative of the local organization Djibouti Nature, residents have built stone walls and fences out of dead wood to help protect areas of the forest from cattle. This initiative has had a visible, positive impact on the condition of the forest. According to the same survey, nearly a quarter of the residents believe that nothing can be done about the damage to the forest, 15% are unsure, 23% believe the wooden fences would further the preservation of the forest, 8% suggest the planting of trees, and 29% believe in a combination of both tree planting and fencing. The establishment of a tree nursery in the village Day is just one of the efforts the organization has made to help combat the further depletion of the forest.

Climate
The climate of Goda Mountains is a subtropical highland climate (Köppen climate classification: Cwb), with the influence of mountain climate, with hot and dry summers and cold winters. This is attributed to the fact that Goda Mountains is located on a plain surrounded by mountains and to its distance to the sea and its effects. In the presence of fog, condensation is sometimes considerable. Ground moisture allows plants and trees to survive despite irregular rainfall. Elevation is the major factor affecting temperature levels, with the higher elevated areas being on average 11°C (20°F) cooler than the lower areas. Overnight temperatures can drop as low as 50–54 °F (10–12.2 °C), especially during the December to March winter months.

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Mel Judah

Mel Judah (born 8 October 1947 in Kolkata, India) is an Australian professional poker player, also known as "The Silver Fox" (a nickname he shares with fellow poker player Peter Costa). He learned poker at the age of 14 by watching his father play 5-card draw.

He has had several noticeable finishes in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and the World Poker Tour (WPT). He won his first World Series of Poker bracelet in the 1989 in the $1,500 Seven Card Stud event. Judah won his second bracelet at the 1997 $5,000 Seven Card Stud event, defeating Vasilis Lazarou who has also won two WSOP bracelets in seven card stud tournaments.

He was also at the final table of the 1997 World Series of Poker main event, won by Stu Ungar, eventually coming in third place, and earning $371,000.

Judah also claimed the 2003 Legends of Poker title on the World Poker Tour, winning $579,375. He defeated a strong final table that included professional poker players Phil Laak, Farzad Bonyadi, Chip Jett, T. J. Cloutier, and Paul Phillips, whom he defeated in heads-up play to win the tournament.

He qualified for the final table of the 2006 Poker Million, finishing in fourth place. In January 2009, Judah won the $1,100 Omaha Hi-Lo tournament at the Aussie Millions in Melbourne Australia. In recollection of the respect Judah had generated within the game, he was asked to direct the new European Poker Masters tour in September 2006, Europe's first ever independent poker tour that was produced by the team behind The Poker Channel. Judah worked as a hairdresser for several years, which he believes has allowed him to understand players' psychology better. He now lives in Sydney, Australia.

As of 2009, his total live tournament winnings exceed $3,100,000. His 36 cashes at the WSOP account for $1,299,630 of those winnings.

Judah was an inaugural inductee into the Australian Poker Hall of Fame in 2009.

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User talk:No ah

Wikipedia has a strict naming policy. If an article, or section of an article, was originally created in English English then it should remain in that form. Please do not go around changing "s" into "z" etc.     17:29, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Jayendran

 This page is an archive of the proposed deletion of the article below. Further comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. humblefool®Deletion Reform 03:21, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

Jayendran
vanity, not notable, rubbish 66.216.68.28 17:27, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Agree. --Salleman 17:37, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete google nn, vanity -Harmil 18:35, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - NN JoJan 18:59, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; nn, vanity. Jaxl 19:12, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete vanity. — Stevey7788 (talk) 21:23, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn student vanity. --Etacar11 00:46, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable student vanity. JamesBurns 08:03, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Paul Campos

Paul F. Campos is a law professor, author and blogger on the faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder in Boulder. Campos received his A.B. (1982) and M.A. in English (1983) from the University of Michigan and in 1989 his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. Campos worked at the law firm Latham & Watkins in Chicago from 1989-1990 and became an associate professor at the University of Colorado in 1990, where he teaches classes on property, punishment theory, jurisprudence and legal interpretation.

The Obesity Myth
Campos authored the 2004 book The Obesity Myth (later published as The Diet Myth) which reviews medical research on the association between higher body mass and health. Campos's contentions that obesity is healthy were praised by some sociologists and critical theorists, and overwhelmingly criticized by medical, epidemiological and statistical researchers with professional training in empirical research.

Soowon Kim and Barry M. Popkin praised Campos for "bringing attention to some of the complexities in overweight/obesity and health relationships and covert financial interests involved in obesity research" but criticized him for "selective use of research", "fallacious interpretation of literature" and "misunderstanding of basic epidemiological principles" and thereby "harm[ing] the most vulnerable subgroups in the population." Neville Rigby criticized Campos's lack of relevant academic qualifications and poor grasp of scientific research, noting that: "It is unusual to find academics concerned chiefly with legal, social, political, and educational issues seeking to challenge the whole arena of the epidemiology, clinical, and public health aspects of the obesity problem. To start from scratch to deal with all their spurious statements in this response is hardly appropriate. The suggestion that there is growing ‘concern’ about the validity of the serious health issues associated with obesity is really quite bizarre, as there has been the most remarkable and growing consensus among an extensive range of governments, academics, health economists, and policy makers relating to the impact of excess weight gain." June Stevens, Jill E. McClain and Kimberly P. Truesdale countered specific claims about the state of scientific research made by Campos. Campos's obesity work was praised by sociologist Susie Orbach for discussing unhealthy body image issues related to an emphasis on extreme thinness.

Other obesity skeptics have cited Campos's work as support for their own views. For example, in his 2010 book The End of the Obesity Epidemic, Michael Gard, an Honorary Associate Professor at the School of Human Movement studies of University of Queensland, identified Campos as one of three scholars (along with University of Chicago political scientist J. Eric Oliver and Arizona State University exercise physiologist Glenn Gaesser) who have led the way in constructing a counter-narrative to the claims of those who argue higher body weight represents a major public health crisis:  "Together, these [three authors] have helped popularize obesity skepticism as a legitimate intellectual position ... Most crucial of all, they have each contributed to building the case against seeing obesity per se as a disease, demonstrating that the health risks of fatness are, at the very least, highly debatable  ... More recently, Campos has been a tireless, acerbic, and superbly articulate warrior in his extensive print and electronic media work."

Two years later, in 2012, Gard criticized Campos for overstating the empirical case for obesity skepticism, and for relying too much on criticisms of the motives of certain obesity researchers. In 2012, Gard wrote: "Paul Campos ... constantly use[s] words like 'myth', 'truth', 'lies' and 'liars' when writing about mainstream obesity science ... Obesity scientists are not 'liars', involved in a 'con' and they are not, by and large, hysterical.  How easy it is to dismiss those with whom we disagree by calling them bad and mad." In 2012, Gard also concluded that Campos and other obesity skeptics have "had little if any impact on mainstream scientific and popular 'obesity crisis' discourse."

Blogs and other works
Campos's writing appears on the blog Lawyers, Guns and Money. In August 2011, Campos began a second blog, Inside the Law School Scam. Initially posting anonymously, he criticized other law school professors for not knowing enough doctrinal law or having much practical experience in legal practice. Knowing that his identity was soon to be outed, he claimed responsibility for the blog on August 20.

The blog has attracted criticism from legal scholars, including Brian Leiter of the University of Chicago Law School. According to Leiter, Campos's blog contained misleading, inaccurate, and inflammatory statements. Leiter also criticized Campos more broadly for allegedly shirking his job responsibilities through poor scholarship and poor teaching.

Campos's blog attracted support from Deborah Jones Merritt of The Ohio State University law school, who joined him as a co-blogger on "Inside the Law School Scam", as well as from Walter Olson at the libertarian Cato Institute. Merritt accused law professors of being "greedy", counseled students on whether to apply to or stay in law school, satirized the federal loan system, and suggested that law school administrators should be held accountable for unethical conduct. Olson has criticized law schools for being sources of influential liberal ideas and training grounds for future liberal political leaders.

In 2012, Campos self-published a book on law school, Don't Go to Law School (Unless).

In the spring of 2013, Campos, Tamanaha, and Merritt signed a letter to ABA Task Force on the future of legal education about the cost of legal education and the employment outcomes for new law graduates. The letter was also signed by several dozen other law professors.

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Richard Harry Graves

Richard Harry Graves (17 July 1897 – 3 February 1971) was an Irish-born Australian poet and novelist.

He was born in Waterford, the home city of his father, Christen Gerald Graves. His father emigrated to Australia in 1909 and Richard followed him in 1911. He served in the First World War with the 25th Infantry Battalion of the Australian Imperial Force and was wounded at Gallipoli.

In the Second World War, Graves founded and led the Australian Jungle Rescue Detachment of 60 soldiers, which was attached to the Far East American Airforce. These men conducted over 300 rescues, all of which were completed successfully and without losses. After the war he ran a bushcraft school for over twenty years.

Aside from poetry and adventure novels for children, he wrote ten classic books on camping and bushcraft, now published in a single volume. He was a cousin of the English writer Robert Graves.

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Airways Airsports

Airways Airsports is an airpark at Darley Moor Airfield, Derbyshire, offering hang gliding, paragliding, paramotoring, and microlight training and flying. It is a British Hang Gliding and Paragliding Association and British Microlight Aircraft Association (BMAA) recognised school. Instructors include a three-times world champion, world record holders, British cross country champion, British distance record holder, Royal Aeroclub gold medal winner, and members of the British hang gliding and paragliding team.

Airways also teach paragliding, hang gliding, paramotoring, and microlight flying at BHPA and BMAA schools in the Alps.

Hang gliding
Hang gliding teaching is primarily through tandem aerotow flights with take off and landing, both on wheels. The student and instructor clip into a tandem glider side by side and attach themselves and the glider to a tow line pulled by a high-powered 'tug' microlight. The tandem hang glider is then towed to around 3000' with the instructor and student keeping in line behind the microlight. At the top of the tow the line is released and the student is taken through a number of exercises before landing the glider under instruction. After the student has completed a number of exercises and demonstrated an ability to keep the glider in line behind the microlight on tow, and land safely, then the student progresses on to a solo, wheeled hang glider. Once a student has completed a number of solo flights and demonstrated safe tows and landings solo then they are awarded their Club Pilot Certificate (aerotow) and can progress to flying in a club rather than a school environment. Airways have developed a wheeled solo glider for the initial solo flights.

Paragliding
Airways train pilots using a static winch for paragliding training. Compared to training on the hill, this is a faster and less physically demanding way to try out paragliding, as Darley Moor airfield is big enough for the winch to be moved around if the wind changes.

The course or taster starts with a full demonstration/walkthrough of the equipment, the winch commands/release, etc. and how to use the radio. Students are then trained to ground-handle the wing, then the flying starts with some short low level flights before progressing to basic manoeuvres and on to high flying circuits.

Hill conversion
By using a combination of aerotow and winch for training, pilots gain the skills necessary for flying in a club environment with winch or aerotow launching. With a hill conversion course, pilots can be trained to fly from hills. Airways primarily use the Derbyshire Soaring Club sites. There are hills to suit all wind directions for both hang gliding and paragliding.

Paramotoring and powered hang gliding
Paramotoring training starts with standard paragliding training on the winch before the introduction of the engine and training with power. Similarly, training for powered hang gliding involves learning to fly a hang glider first before conversion to power.

Single seat microlight flying
Either flying with a paragliding wing in a wheeled, powered buggy or in a single seat wheeled powered hang glider.

Microlighting
The school aircraft available for training are as follows;
 * Fixed wing:
 * Ikarus C42 (3-Axis)
 * Snowbird (3-Axis modified to be fully flown with hand controls)
 * Flex wing:
 * Quantum 912
 * GT450 (Flex-wing)

Darley Moor Airfield facilities
The airfield has ample parking with full wheelchair and vehicle access. In the clubhouse there are male, female and disabled, showers, light refreshments, a shop, and in 2011 a brand new hangar has been built.

The school offers the widest range of disabled free flight facilities of any school in the UK, using specially modified equipment to fly hang gliders, paragliders, and microlight aircraft. The school has close links with the Aerobility (formerly the British Disabled Flying Association) and Flyability – charities offering support, advice and scholarships to disabled people wishing to experience or learn to fly.

Media coverage
Airways Airsports has been chosen by the press to fly or teach presenters and journalists

(2003) Blue Peter presenter Matt Baker taught to fly and makes successful tandem world record breaking flight with Airways instructor Judy Leden.

(2006) An extract from BBC's Great British Summer. Airways instructor Judy Leden flying Tandem with Cloud Appreciation Society founder Gavin Pretor-Pinney, showing him what its like to fly through the clouds on a hang glider.

(2010) Geologist Iain Stewart flown over a waterfall in a paramotor buggy by Airways CFI Chris Dawes.

(2010) Country Tracks presenter Ellie Harrison flew above Derbyshire with Airways instructor Andy Snell.

(2010) Blue Peter presenter Joel Defries learnt to fly with Airways instructor Judy Leden with the aim of flying with Lucy the peregrine falcon.

(2010) BBC Breakfast sports presenter Mike Bushell and BBC Disability Sport reporter Tony Garrett flew tandem with Airways instructor Judy Leden to experience hang gliding and to demonstrate the benefits of aerotowing for disabled students.

(2011) The Gadget Show presenter, Jon Bentley, flew with Judy Leden, competing with a peregrine falcon to track a lure

(2011) Judy Leden takes BBC Breakfast Weather reporter Carol Kirkwood flying in a hang glider to see a cloud close up and weight it, for BBC's The Great British Weather Show.

(2011) Gethin Jones gets taken up flying in a microlight by Airways CFI Chris Dawes in a microlight for ITV's "The Adventurer's Guide to Britain", to get a unique birds eye view of the Peak District.

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Wikipedia:Peer review/San Gabriel Valley/archive1

San Gabriel Valley
If you go into this article's history, you can clearly see that someone, using an IP beginning with 172.xx, has spent an incredible amount of time and energy preparing this for Wikipedia (see the talk page). However, I am not going to nominate it yet for a featured article, as I feel that something does need to be improved. Does anybody here have any comments on this article? — Stevey7788 (talk) 17:30, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I agree Stevey. It's good but it lacks the sense of being "complete". I think firstly there is a disproportionate about of space dedicated to the ethnic composition of the population, firstly in the "People" section, then also in the "Asian American" section. I think these should be condensed into one section, and abbreviated.   By comparison, the other topics are covered very briefly, and could be expanded a little.  I also think the two lists that follow on from the lead paragraph would be better at the end of the article, although I also think that where possible lists should be converted into prose, especially for FA consideration.  There are several cities/countries/regions already listed as Featured Articles - maybe the easiest way to determine a suitable format would be to look through them, especially articles such as Gangtok, which are fairly recently promoted.  They're all different, but have certain characteristics in common, so adapting those ideas into this article can only improve it.  The other big issue is that it lacks references.  If it gets nominated for FA without references, it'll get jumped all over, I'm afraid.  Rossrs 15:19, 22 July 2005 (UTC)


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Solarbabies

Solarbabies (also known as Solarwarriors and Solarfighters) is a 1986 American science fiction film, made by Brooksfilms and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was the second and final film directed by Alan Johnson, who is better known for his work as a choreographer.

Plot
In a bleak post-apocalyptic future, most of Earth's water has been placed under containment by the Eco Protectorate, a paramilitary organization, who governs the planet's new order. Orphan children, mostly teenagers, live in orphanages created by the Protectorate, designed to indoctrinate new recruits into their service. The orphans play a rough sport which is a hybrid of lacrosse and roller-hockey. Playing is the only thing that unites them other than the futile attempts of the Protectorate to control them. These orphans are Jason, the group's leader, Terra, Tug, Rabbit, Metron, and a young deaf boy named Daniel.

While hiding in a cave, Daniel finds a mysterious orb with special powers. The orb is an alien intelligence called Bodhi, who miraculously restores Daniel's hearing and has other powers, such as creating rain indoors. Another orphan, Darstar, takes the orb, hoping that he will be able to use it. He leaves the orphanage on roller skates and Daniel soon follows. The rest of the group chase after Daniel. The E-police learn of Bodhi while chasing the teens and catch Darstar with the sphere. The teens are eventually rescued by a band of older outlaws called the Eco Warriors. They have retired from fighting and are led by Terra's long-lost father, Greentree.

The teens leave the Eco Warriors and using their roller skating skills, break into the Protectorate's high security Water Storage Building. The teens discover the E-Police are trying to destroy Bodhi and they manage to recover the alien, but as soon as they do the sphere dematerializes and destroys the facility, releasing the water back to where it belongs as they rush out. As they all gather on a nearby hillside, Bodhi sparks the first thunderstorm the teens have ever seen and returns to space, but not without leaving a bit of himself behind in each of them.

Ultimately, in the closing credits, the orphans are seen swimming together in the newly-restored ocean, Darstar being fully accepted into the group and Jason and Terra sharing a kiss.

Production
Executive producer Mel Brooks explained how Solarbabies was made in an episode of the podcast How Did This Get Made? Co-writer Douglas Anthony Metrov was also interviewed for a How Did This Get Made? article for /Film.

Metrov was inspired by the "guerrilla filmmaking" methods of his friend Abel Ferrara to create a low-budget film of his own. He subsequently wrote a 32-page treatment for a science fiction film about a group of children he dubbed the "Little Rascals of the future." The treatment caught the attention of veteran screenwriter Walon Green, and Mark Johnson, an employee for Mel Brooks. To pitch the film to potential investors, Metrov filmed a 12-minute slideshow with random kids playing the parts.

Metrov's presentation caught the attention of Brooks, who agreed to make it in Spain due to the lack of unions and cheaper production costs. Brooks also gave Metrov the director's chair. The production was greenlit with a $5 million budget, but Brooks was persuaded by his colleagues to increase the budget under the belief that it had greater potential. An additional $20 million was eventually required to complete the film. Because Metrov had no experience directing a big-budget film, Alan Johnson was hired as a replacement.

The beginning of the shoot encountered delays because of unexpected heavy rains. Later, director Alan Johnson and the cast had so many disagreements that Brooks flew to the set and ordered the cast to get back to work or be fired. Brooks recounted how a number of sequences Johnson shot didn't make sense, or had poor coloration, and more money was needed for additional filming. Finally, more money was needed at the end for special effects.

When production began, Brooks had invested approximately $1.5 million of his own money. As production delays mounted, he invested more, eventually taking out a second mortgage on his home. Brooks was forced to raise an additional $15 million through banks.

Brooks was worried the movie could not be saved, so he cut together a 10-minute trailer for the movie in a sci-fi style similar to Star Wars in order to sell to distributors. When Brooks approached Paramount, Michael Eisner showed interest, but Jeffrey Katzenberg said no. Eventually, Alan Ladd Jr. at MGM agreed to distribute the movie, and connected Brooks with international distributor UIP. The distributor purchased the movie from Brooks for $14 million.

After paying back investors and loans, Brooks estimates he had lost about $9 million of his own money at the time. However, Brooks claimed that over the years since its release, the movie finally did break even, most likely through home video and DVD. Brooks called it a "miracle."

Release
Solarbabies was released in the United States on November 26, 1986. In the Philippines, the film was released with the same name by Movierama International on June 23, 1989.

Critical response
Reviews for Solarbabies were very poor, with film historian Leonard Maltin describing it thus: "An appalling stinker; the 1980's teen jargon doesn't exactly capture the futuristic mood of this junk." The film was given a BOMB rating in his annual publication.

Joe Kane, the "Phantom of the Movies", called the picture "A pathetic Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome rip-off, working from a script which must have been scrawled in Crayola, with every futuristic cliché you could possibly imagine. Lacking in originality, but rich in brain-dead dialogue; when Jami Gertz snarls, 'Get out, you creature of filth!', consider that a subliminal message."

Mike Clark, reviewing the film for USA Today, had this message for the filmmakers: "Better pray for a pox on Spock, guys, and fast" (the film was released on the same day as Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home), and added "...we see in a couple of scenes that movies still exist. I'd have thought both civilization and the movies would have been wiped out by '41 [the year in the future the movie is set], thanks to atrocities like Solarbabies."

Gene Siskel, on his syndicated film review show Siskel & Ebert, called the film "trash."

Home media
It was released on DVD on March 6, 2007. The movie was later given a Blu-ray release, first in Germany on September 25, 2014 by Koch Media and in the US on May 10, 2016 by Kino Lorber.

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Oxford (cloth)

Oxford cloth is a type of woven dress shirt fabric, employed to make dress shirts sometimes called Oxford shirts worn on casual to formal occasions.

Structure
Oxford cloth has a basket-weave structure and a lustrous aspect making it a popular fabric for dress shirts.

Varieties
Plain Oxford and Pinpoint Oxford are commonly used for casual shirt designs such as a button-down collar. Pinpoint Oxford is made from finer yarn and has a tighter weave than plain Oxford. It shows a "pin" or "dot" effect in the texture. Royal Oxford is considered a more formal option. It is suited to business or sporty dress codes.

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