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Please do not create misleading Wikipedia articles just to insult people, or add irrelevant references to existing Wikipedia articles. If you want to experiment with editing Wikipedia articles, please try the sandbox. Thanks. FreplySpang (talk) 00:55, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Stop recreating the Lucie Beaulieu article. Creating articles to insult people is a form of vandalism, which can get you blocked from editing Wikipedia. FreplySpang (talk) 00:57, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

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Doug Weathers

William Douglas Weathers (born September 22, 1931) is a television journalist in Savannah, Georgia, USA, and the former WTOC-TV news presenter and news director. He presented his last broadcast on May 23, 2001.

Weathers was born in Marianna, Florida.

Military career
According to a biography provided by WTOC-TV, Weathers served in the United States Army during the Korean War, after which he re-enlisted and was ordered to Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah in 1954.

Broadcasting career
He began working for WTOC-TV in the station's launch in 1954 as a film editor. He worked his way up to running the projector, operating the studio cameras and helping with the production of the news broadcast. In 1962, he was promoted to news director and presenter.

He left WTOC-TV to present the news at WJCL-TV in 1973 when WJCL-TV gained the ability to broadcast in color.

WJCL was, at the time, last in the 6 o'clock news ratings. With Weathers on the news desk, it leapt to number 1 and stayed at, or near, the top until WTOC hired Weathers back in 1979.

He was head of news and public affairs and presenter of WTOC The News at Six until his retirement in 2001.

Broadcast style
Weathers' style changed little over the years. He never abandoned his down-home approach to the news often featuring "hokey" stories about farmers and their giant vegetables or anglers with really big fish. Viewers claimed it was part of his appeal. His popularity never flagged and WTOC's newscasts remained firmly atop the local ratings.

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Talk:Mefistofele

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I oppose merging the article on Mefistofle and Boito. Other operas have independent articles (c.f. La Boheme, Maria Stuarda). I've deleted the merge suggestion. --FourthAve 00:46, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks; you're right. Let's keep the two types of articles separate. Antandrus  (talk) 01:41, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Sydney Opera Company 1974
In 1974 the Sydney Opera Company gave Australia's premiere performance of Mefistofele with Vadim Laptev as Mefistofele. The performance was recorded on LP by Festival Records. I suspect there would only be approximately 100 of these recordings.

I was in the chorus of 90 members during dress rehearsal in the Sydney Opera House when, dressed in costume, I heard a sound in the corridor behind a stage door. I opened the door to find Leonard Bernstein on the other side, listening to our performance. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.129.97.82 (talk) 02:56, 3 May 2017 (UTC)

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Talk:Chigs

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Oh come on! Somebody's a little preoccupied with this show. Could someone PLEEEEZE rewrite this so it's not referring to real life?
 * In an article about an element within a TV show, it would be redundant to keep pointing out "by the way folks, it's made up", so the tone of the article seems appropriate. And I've seen some episodes of the show probably more than 100 times and *never* got preoccupied :P GhostGirl 09:48, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

The Chig Ambassador detonated a hidden bomb so describing him/her/it as 'unarmed' seems a little overgenerous. . . it was armed with a bomb. Bad chig! GhostGirl 10:06, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
 * A random question, the "point of debate" remark suggests that it's not certain if he had a bomb or if the explosion was an accident (since they did end up mixing methane and oxygen together in an enclosed space). IS this a point of debate?  If so, we need to rephrase the statement to something like "The Ambassador may have detonated a hidden bomb".--Raguleader 07:33, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Is there a source for their origins being evolved on a distant world from a meteorite with terrestrial bacteria ejected from Earth 65 million years ago. Now, the series was on a decade ago so it's been a while, but I don't recall hearing that, I think I would have really remembered something like that. The highly implausible physics (and biology) behind that make me cringe. Is this canonical in this series? (I'd hate for really, really poor astronomy, physics and biology on that scale to be canonical, figures it would taint the good memories I had of the show though.) --Wingsandsword 09:56, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

 * IIRC, in the last episode, the Ambassador says that Humans and Chigs have the same origin, though I don't recall the specifics (or even if it was a specific relation between the two, or just that we had similar origins from the same type of development on our respective planets.--Raguleader 07:33, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

This is from a science-fiction television program.
It should not be written as though it were (a) real, or (b) happening in the present. The article looks ludicrous.

 * I edited it a little bit. Specifically I removed words like "us" and replaced it with "humans." Hope that helps. 134.114.59.41 10:05, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Rewrite
I'm considering rewriting this article, it's in a bad state... and it would likely be more beneficial to just outright rewrite. Matthew 22:56, 31 May 2007 (UTC)

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In this article I saw many of really well photos. But I don't see this photos now. I only see the creepy images created by controversial wikipedian Matthew. What's up?LexingtonDark 03:50, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

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Is this supposed to be a joke?
This is an encyclopedia article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.83.187.202 (talk) 18:16, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

Incorrect statements
The article states that water and oxygen are poison to Chigs. This is incorrect: in episode 23 puddles of water can be seen on the Chig Homeworld and the fact that the Chigs are organic lifeforms descended from Earth bacteria makes it virtually impossible for them not to require water to stay alive. The dead of the Chig in the second episode by means of inserting water into its helmet was a suicide mechanism, just like all the dissolving Chigs in later episodes died because of a suicide mechanism in their suits, not because of exposure to oxygen. Prove is provided in episode 23 when a Chig dissolves on its own homeworld when its helmet is pulled off and in episode 24 when a Chig bursts through glass into a room with an oxygen-nitrogen atmosphere, doesn't dissolve, and survives long enough to attack a human inside the room. I also think the suicide mechanism in the suits should be mentioned as this is what makes the Chigs so mysterious (humans never get to see what Chigs look like underneath their armor). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.93.101.238 (talk) 22:50, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Merging With Space: Above and Beyond article
I propose that the relevant information in this article be merged with the series' main article. I will proceed with the merger if no objections are made within 30 days. Ja0n8 (talk) 16:35, 18 July 2018 (UTC)

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Myrka Dellanos

Myrka Bárbara Dellanos (born May 27, 1965) is a Cuban-American television and radio host, journalist, and author.

Education and career
Born in Havana, Cuba, on May 27, 1965, Dellanos graduated from the University of Miami with a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1986. Myrka got her first break in 1992 when she co-hosted the popular Univision news program Primer Impacto (First Impact). Dellanos would continue to serve as co-host of Primer Impacto until 2004 when she was chosen as the "Star of the Year" by readers of the magazine People en Español. Dellanos also served as the host of the celebrations of Hispanic Heritage Month at the White House in Washington, DC., and she was appointed by U.S. President George W. Bush as a member of the Freedom Corps, a group consisting of 25 people who work together to promote charitable giving. Later, Dellanos turned towards social service and other humanitarian causes, such as providing help for orphaned children and for victims of domestic abuse.

She was named in 2013 spokesperson for "I Am Second", a movement meant to provide spiritual inspiration and hope to individuals dealing with various life issues, such as abortion, divorce, and child abuse. Myrka has won the Hispanic Leadership Award by the Hispanic Heritage Council: she was named in 2003 as "Person of the Year" by the Organization of Ibero-American Journalists; Myrka was named in 2001 as the Hispanic of the Year by Direct Marketing Association of America: she was also chosen as a Goodwill Ambassador for the International Rescue Committee, which is part of the United Nations and helps rescuing refugees; Dellanos, after an 8-year absence from broadcast journalism, returned in 2013 to television as host and contributor for American-based Hispanic network Estrella TV and its news-magazine En la Mira with Enrique Gratas. Dellanos has authored several books, including Succeed and Be Happy: Things I Learned Thanks to God, My Mom, and Life. March 2022 began cohosting "La Mesa Caliente" on Telemundo, a round table show similar to "The View".

In 2023, she was a guest judge of the 71st edition of Miss Universe, held at the New Orleans Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States.

Personal life
In 1991, Dellanos married Dr. Alejandro Loynáz: on 30 December 1993, she gave birth to the couple's only daughter, Alexa. When their daughter was 4 years old, Dellanos and Loynáz divorced in 1998. Dellanos married David Matthews in 2000, but they were divorced in 2002; Dellanos started an highly publicized relationship in 2003 with the Puerto Rican-born Mexican singer Luis Miguel,whom she was previously engaged to before ending their story in June 2005.

Dellanos on 8 April 2008 married a Cuban-born pharmaceutical representative, Ulyses Daniel Alonso, at a private ceremony in Coral Gables, Florida: this couple later appeared on the 2 July 2008 cover of the magazine People en Español. On 25 August 2008, Alonso was arrested and charged with domestic battery. The following day a police report was released that detailed the events leading to his arrest. On 29 August 2008, the CGPD - Coral Gables Police Department - released audio of the 9-1-1 call made by Dellanos. On 18 March 2009, she and Alonso filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences.

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The Body in the Library

The Body in the Library is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company in February 1942 and in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in May of the same year. The US edition retailed at $2.00 and the UK edition at seven shillings and sixpence. The novel features her fictional amateur detective Miss Marple.

The novel concerns the murders of two teenaged girls of outwardly similar appearance. One was an 18-year-old dancer, and the other was a 16-year-old Girl Guide with aspirations to an acting career. Jane Marple eventually uncovers the murderer. The story begins at St Mary Mead, the setting of the first Marple novel. The novel's main setting is a seaside resort hotel.

Contemporary reviewers liked the shrewd feminine viewpoint, though missing Poirot. Robert Barnard praised the novel for its relative realism, comparing it with the lack of realism in a novel by P.D. James, titled An Unsuitable Job for a Woman.

Plot summary
The maid at Gossington Hall wakes Mrs Bantry; "There is a body in the library!" she cries. Dolly Bantry then wakes her husband, Colonel Arthur Bantry, and tells him to go downstairs. He finds the dead body of a young woman on the hearth rug in the library. She had been painted with heavy makeup, has platinum-blonde hair, and a silver-spangled dress. The colonel then contacts the police, and Mrs. Bantry calls her friend Miss Marple. The police investigators include Colonel Melchett and Inspector Slack.

Trying to identify this dead young woman, Melchett heads to the nearby cottage of Basil Blake, but Blake's girlfriend Dinah Lee, a platinum blonde, is very much alive and arrives at the house while Melchett is interviewing Blake. Dr Haydock's autopsy reveals that the young woman, healthy but not fully mature, died between 10 pm and 12 midnight on the previous evening, had been drugged and then strangled, and was "virgo intacta". Miss Marple notices that the appearance of this girl is not right, from her bitten fingernails to her old dress. She shares these observations with Dolly.

Hotel guest Conway Jefferson reports Ruby Keene, an 18-year-old dancer at the Majestic Hotel in Danemouth, as missing. Josie Turner, an employee at the hotel, identifies the body at Gossington Hall as that of her cousin Ruby. Guests saw Ruby as late as 11 pm dancing with George Bartlett, but Ruby did not appear for her dance demonstration at midnight. Jefferson tells police he has revised his will to favour Ruby, until the legal adoption is completed.

Dolly and Miss Marple move to the Majestic to investigate further. Conway calls Sir Henry Clithering, a former senior police officer, to join the investigation; Sir Henry sees Miss Marple at the hotel and in turn invites her to investigate.

Conway made large financial settlements for his children at the time each married. Then his wife, son and daughter were killed in an aeroplane crash eight years earlier. The three grieving survivors, son-in-law Mark, daughter-in-law Adelaide, and Conway, make up a household. They were playing bridge that evening with Josie. Police initially rule out the son-in-law and daughter-in-law, thinking each one is financially secure. But both are short of money, as Slack’s investigation and Adelaide's conversation with Dolly reveal.

Bartlett's burned-out car is found with a charred corpse inside. From one shoe and one button, the corpse is identified as that of 16-year-old Girl Guide Pamela Reeves, reported missing by her parents the previous night.

The police ask Miss Marple to interview the other girls at a Guides event, and ask Sir Henry to question Conway's valet, Edwards. Miss Marple learns from Pamela's friend Florence that Pamela had been approached by a film producer and offered a screen test that evening, which was why she did not go directly home. Edwards reports that he saw a snapshot of Basil Blake fall out of Ruby's handbag while she was with Conway, which points to Blake. Slack had already found the hearth rug from the Blake home dumped.

Miss Marple believes that she knows who the murderer is, and seeks proof of her deduction. She visits Dinah Lee; Basil returns home, and he reveals how he found the corpse on the hearth rug around midnight when he came home rather drunk after a party. He moved the corpse to the Bantry home, not liking Bantry much. He did not kill the girl. However, the police arrest him.

Back at the hotel, Miss Marple asks the Bantrys to find a marriage record at Somerset House. She asks Sir Henry to approach Jefferson, who agrees to tell Mark and Adelaide that he will change his will the next day, leaving his money to a hostel in London. Sir Henry alerts the police, and shows the marriage record for Mark and Josie. At 3 am, an intruder, Josie Turner, enters Conway's bedroom, and is caught in the act by the police before she can harm Jefferson with a syringe filled with digitalin.

Miss Marple explains her thinking to Conway and the police. The body in the library was Pamela Reeves, made up to look more or less like Ruby, with her bitten fingernails giving away her youth. Ruby was the one burned in the car. Thus the alibis at the hotel were useless. Miss Marple did not believe the identification by Josie ("people are far too trusting for this wicked world") and sensed a plan gone awry.

She suspected that Mark and Josie were married. Besides wanting Conway dead, upon learning that Conway planned to adopt Ruby, they made the double murder plan. Mark lured Pamela to the hotel for the fictitious screen test. Josie dressed her, dyed her hair, and made her up to resemble Ruby, then drugged her. During the bridge game, Mark took a break, taking the drugged Pamela to Blake's hearth rug, where he strangled her with her belt. Just before midnight, when Ruby went up to change for the exhibition dance, Josie followed her and killed her by injection or a blow. After the midnight dance, she took Ruby, dressed in Pamela's clothes, in Bartlett's car to the quarry where she set fire to the car. During the police interrogation, Mark breaks down and confesses all the details.

Adelaide says she has agreed to marry her long-time suitor, Hugo, which pleases Jefferson. His new will settles cash on Adelaide and leaves the rest to her son Peter.

Characters

 * Miss Marple: resident of the village of Saint Mary Mead who has much experience in solving murders.
 * Colonel Melchett: Chief Constable of Radfordshire, where the first body is found.
 * Dolly Bantry: a friend of her village neighbour Miss Marple.
 * Colonel Arthur Bantry: retired soldier, husband of Dolly, and owner of extensive property.
 * Inspector Slack: investigates both murders and makes an arrest. Despite his last name, he is thorough in his work.
 * Dr Haydock: doctor who performs the post-mortem on the first body, found in the Bantrys' library.
 * Conway Jefferson: wealthy man staying at the Majestic Hotel with his son-in-law, daughter-in-law and step-grandson. He lost his legs in an aeroplane crash, the same crash in which he lost his wife Margaret, son Frank, and daughter Rosamund some years earlier. He is an old friend of the Bantrys.
 * Mark Gaskell: Rosamund Jefferson's widower. He is a smooth-talking and handsome man, a gambler by personality. He lives with his father-in-law in the shared grief after the plane crash, but his father-in-law never really liked his daughter's choice of husband.
 * Adelaide Jefferson: Frank Jefferson's widow. She has a son, Peter Carmody, who is aged 9. Peter was born after the death of her first husband, Mike Carmody. She is a good mother and a reliable woman.
 * Edwards: valet to Conway Jefferson. He agrees to speak with Clithering, who will share only the needed information with police.
 * Ruby Keene: a dancer using that stage name, born Rosy Legge. Conway Jefferson likes her, going so far as to say that he will adopt her and make her his heir once he alters his will. She was raised poor, and her outward appearance was like his daughter Rosamund. She was unlike Rosamund in personality, for Ruby was a gold-digger.
 * Josie Turner: Ruby's cousin, a professional dancer, who asked Ruby to come to the hotel to take her place on the dance floor while her ankle heals after an injury. She is shrewd, practical, and wants money.
 * Raymond Starr: born Thomas Ramon Starr. He works as the tennis professional and dancer at the Majestic Hotel. He hopes to woo Adelaide, once she is ready to consider remarriage; in this he loses out, and is gracious about the loss.
 * Sir Henry Clithering: retired head of Scotland Yard and friend to Miss Marple. He is called to help in the investigation by his friend Conway Jefferson.
 * Superintendent Harper: from the police in Glenshire, where the hotel is located. He joins the investigation.
 * Basil Blake: young man who recently moved into a cottage just outside St Mary Mead, and enjoys scorning the older generation. He works for a film studio about 30 miles away, and appears at the house mainly at weekends. Miss Marple knows of his earlier life as an ARP warden who saved lives in a burning building, getting injured in the process. This is the only allusion to the Second World War.
 * Dinah Lee: woman with platinum blonde hair who appears at Blake's home. They are married but tell no-one in the village.
 * George Bartlett: Ruby's last dance partner. He has a car parked at the hotel which is stolen and reported missing the morning after Ruby’s murder. He is a shy man.
 * Pamela Reeves: local girl, aged 16, a Girl Guide. She attended a Guides event on the night Ruby was murdered; her parents reported her missing to the police at 9 pm, hours after she was due home. The next day, she is named as the corpse found in Bartlett's stolen and burned car.
 * Florence Small: Pamela Reeves's friend, in whom she confided the story of the screen test at the hotel. Florence revealed her nervousness to Miss Marple, who chose her as the girl to ask what really happened that evening.
 * Hugo McClean: long-time friend of Adelaide who wants to marry her. In the end, he does.

Title
In her 'Author's Foreword', Christie describes "the body in the library" as a cliché of detective fiction. She states that when writing her own variation on this theme, she decided that the library should be a completely conventional one while the body would be a highly improbable and sensational one.

Another example of this cliché was included in the first episode of the second series ("And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea") of the television series Inspector Lewis, in which the body of a handyman is found in the Bodleian Library. DS James Hathaway comments to DI Robbie Lewis, "You realise what we've got, don't you, sir. ... The body in the library."

Yet more recently, in Philip Pullman's novel La Belle Sauvage, published in 2017, the protagonist borrows a book titled The Body in the Library.

This novel can be considered a conscious reworking of the genre.

Literary significance and reception
Maurice Willson Disher of The Times Literary Supplement was impressed in his review of 16 May 1942 with the female view of life injected into the solution of the crimes. "Some devoted souls may sigh for Hercule Poirot, but there are bound to be others who will be glad to find his place taken in the 'new Agatha Christie' by Miss Marple. What this relief signifies is that professional detectives are no match for elderly spinsters (not all so elderly), with some training in looking under the antimacassar, who are now very much in fashion. Even while making full allowance for this we find it hard not to be impressed by old-maid logic. When Miss Marple says, 'The dress was all wrong,' she is plainly observing facts hidden from the masculine eye – facts which are of a very lively interest. The Body in the Library should turn Hendon College co-educational."

Maurice Richardson was not as impressed with Christie's efforts in his 17 May 1942 review in The Observer when he concluded: "Ingenious, of course, but interest is rather diffuse and the red herrings have lost their phosphorescence."

An unnamed reviewer in the Toronto Daily Star (21 March 1942) wrote that "It doesn't take long to read this one, but the two killings in it are made so mysterious that you will not want to lay the book down until the killer is caught." The reviewer concludes, "Police do a lot of probing, but it is the shrewd reasoning – intuition perhaps – of Jane Marple that finds the missing link and discloses a diabolical plot."

Robert Barnard, writing in 1990, had a positive view of this novel. He calls the plot situation classic rather than clichéd. It was a "bravura performance on a classic situation". The shift of locations of action, from Miss Marple's village to a seaside resort hotel, were good for the story, "St Mary Mead regulars figure in the case, pleasantly diversified by fashionable seaside hotel guests and the film crowd." The question he raised involves the likelihood of the crimes and the manner of solving them, which he found better than a mystery written over 30 years later by another author, saying that "If you think what happens to the body after death is unlikely, try the more 'realistic' P.D. James' An Unsuitable Job for a Woman, published 30 years later."

Allusions
In Chapter 8, the author gives herself a mention from the mouth of the young boy, Peter Carmody. Explaining that he enjoys reading detective stories, Peter says that he has the autographs of Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, John Dickson Carr and H. C. Bailey.

In Chapter 9, Colonel Melchett states that "there's still one thing to be done. Cherchez l'homme." It is referred to as a joke in the book, and is possibly a reference to Hercule Poirot, Christie's other famous sleuth. However, it is more likely a reference to the popular phrase cherchez la femme, meaning that there is frequently a woman behind a man's behaviour and motives in detective stories; since in this novel the victim was a girl, who was presumed to have a male lover, the phrase was changed jokingly by the detective.

While explaining how she concluded who the murderers were and how the widowed Mr Jefferson became so quickly enamoured of a girl while knowing so little of her, Miss Marple mentions the old story The King and the Beggar-maid as a model for instant emotional reaction. All the other characters in the novel she finds to have acted like someone she knew from life in her village.

In Christie's Cards on the Table, published six years earlier, Anne Meredith knows Ariadne Oliver as the writer of a book called The Body in the Library.

BBC adaptation
The 1984 television film The Body in the Library was part of the BBC series of Miss Marple, with Joan Hickson making the first of her appearances in the role of Jane Marple. The adaptation was transmitted in three parts between 26–28 December 1984, and only had a few changes made to it from the novel:
 * The character of Superintendent Harper was omitted.
 * The discovery of George Bartlett's destroyed car was turned into an entire sub-plot: it is found by Malcolm, a boy with learning difficulties from St Mary Mead (who was not in the original novel) who struggles to communicate his discovery — the first part ends with Malcolm confirming that there is a corpse in the car; the car itself is changed from a Minoan 14 to a Vauxhall Coaster.
 * Basil Blake becomes suspected by the police much earlier in the adaptation when they find out he lied about his whereabouts; there is an additional scene where he is lured to the police station to give a statement so that the police can analyse his car; he also tells his wife the truth about the body being in his house before Miss Marple visits him
 * The amount of money left to Ruby was changed from £50,000 to £100,000.

ITV adaptation
A second adaptation of the novel was made in 2004 by ITV, as part of its ongoing Agatha Christie's Marple series. This adaptation starred Geraldine McEwan as Miss Marple, James Fox as Colonel Bantry, Joanna Lumley as Dolly Bantry, Ian Richardson as Conway Jefferson, and Jamie Theakston as Mark Gaskell. While this adaptation was largely faithful to the original novel, there were several changes:
 * Josie's accomplice and lover is Jefferson’s daughter-in-law Adelaide, not his son-in-law Mark Gaskell as in the novel.
 * The date is changed to after the Second World War, with two related changes:
 * Conway's wife and children were killed by a V-2 strike, not in a plane crash (this is shown in a prologue scene).
 * Mark, Frank, and Peter's father Mike were all RAF pilots in the war.
 * The characters of Clithering, Edwards, and McLean are omitted.
 * Conway sees the snapshot of Blake that falls out of Ruby's handbag, as in the previous adaptation.
 * The drugging of the first victim is revealed later.
 * Miss Marple's explanation of the crime comes before the trap to catch the killers, rather than after.

French adaptation
A third adaptation appeared as the ninth episode of French television series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie. The episode first aired in 2011.

Korean adaptation
A fourth adaptation aired as part of the 2018 Korean television series, Ms. Ma, Nemesis.

Radio
A radio adaptation was produced for BBC Radio 4 in 1999. The production was dramatised by Michael Bakewell and directed by Enyd Williams.

The cast list featured June Whitfield as Miss Marple, Richard Todd as Colonel Melchett, Pauline Jameson as Dolly Bantry, Jack Watling as Colonel Bantry, Graham Crowden as Sir Henry Clithering, and Ben Crowe as George Bartlett.

Publication history

 * 1941, Dodd Mead and Company (New York), February 1942, Hardback, 245 pp
 * 1941, Collins Crime Club (London), May 1942, Hardback, 160 pp
 * 1946, Pocket Books (New York), Paperback, (Pocket number 341), 152 pp
 * 1953, Penguin Books, Paperback, (Penguin number 924), 190 pp
 * 1959, Pan Books, Paperback, 157 pp (Great Pan G221)
 * 1962, Fontana Books (Imprint of HarperCollins), Paperback, 191 pp
 * 1972, Ulverscroft Large-print Edition, Hardcover, 305 pp; ISBN 0-85456-102-1
 * 2005, Marple Facsimile edition (Facsimile of 1942 UK first edition), 7 November 2005, Hardcover; ISBN 0-00-720844-8

The novel was first serialised in the US in The Saturday Evening Post in seven parts from 10 May (Volume 213, Number 45) to 21 June 1941 (Volume 213, Number 51) with illustrations by Hy Rubin.

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Andy Townsend

Andrew David Townsend (born 23 July 1963) is a former professional footballer and sports co-commentator for Premier League Productions and CBS Sports.

As a player he was a midfielder who notably played in the Premier League for Chelsea, Aston Villa and Middlesbrough. He also played in the Football League for Southampton, Norwich City and West Bromwich Albion. Prior to his professional career he had spent four years in Non-League with Welling United. Despite being born in England, Townsend played in World Cups for the Republic of Ireland national team, making 70 appearances and scoring seven goals.

Following retirement, Townsend moved into sports commentary and was ITV Sport's co-commentator for all of their major coverage of games until 2015. He has also commentated for BT Sport, Talksport and BBC Radio 5 Live.

Early life
Townsend was born in Maidstone, Kent, but grew up in Bexley, where he attended Upton Primary School in Bexleyheath, followed by Bexleyheath School. He is the son of former Charlton Athletic and Crystal Palace footballer Don Townsend.

Club career
He began his playing career in August 1980 with Welling United in the Athenian League, while working as a computer operator for Greenwich Borough Council in south-east London. After making 105 appearances for Welling, he was signed by Weymouth in March 1984 for £13,500.

In January 1985, he was signed by Lawrie McMenemy at Southampton for £35,000 and made his professional debut at home to Aston Villa on 20 April 1985 as Southampton qualified for Europe, only to be banned in the aftermath of the Heysel Stadium disaster.

Over the next season, he was in and out of the team (then managed by Chris Nicholl) but broke his leg in a pre-season friendly against his old club Weymouth in August 1986. He fought his way back to fitness and rejoined the side the following January.

In the 1987–88 he was a virtual ever-present, playing alongside Jimmy Case and Glenn Cockerill in the Southampton midfield. He was a hard-tackling, hard-working midfielder with an eye for goal. It was a shock, therefore, when Nicholl sold him to First Division rivals Norwich City in August 1988, for a fee of £300,000.

He made his debut as a substitute against Middlesbrough on 3 September 1988, before replacing the suspended Trevor Putney for his first full appearance in a 3–1 win over Spurs on 22 October. He retained his place in the Norwich midfield and ended the season with 36 league appearances (5 as substitute) with five goals. He also made six FA Cup appearances with two goals against Port Vale in the Third Round on 7 January 1989. Under manager Dave Stringer, he was a member of the Canaries' 1988–89 side that finished fourth in the top flight and reached the semi-finals of the FA Cup. At the season's end, Townsend was shortlisted for the PFA Players' Player of the Year award, which was won by Mark Hughes.

Norwich made a handsome profit when they let Townsend join Chelsea for £1,200,000 in July 1990.

After making a total of 138 appearances for Chelsea, scoring 12 goals but winning no trophies (they never finished higher than 11th in the league while he was there), he transferred to Aston Villa in July 1993 for £2.1million.

He finally won some silverware when Villa won the 1994 League Cup, beating Manchester United 3–1. He captained Villa when they reclaimed the trophy in 1996 with a 3–0 victory over Leeds United.

In August 1997, just after the start of the 1997–98 season, he transferred to Bryan Robson's Middlesbrough for £500,000 having made 134 league appearances for the Villans, scoring eight league goals.

He made 37 appearances in his first season on Teesside, scoring twice as Boro' won promotion to the Premier League. In the 1998–99 season, he formed a useful partnership with Paul Gascoigne as Middlesbrough finished comfortably in mid-table in their first season back in the Premier League.

In the following season, he found it harder to get into the first team and on 17 September 1999 he moved down a division to West Bromwich Albion for £50,000. Townsend's high wage demands prevented a move back to Norwich or a loan spell with non-league Boston United.

In his one season at West Bromwich Albion he only made 17 league appearances before a recurrent knee injury forced his retirement in July 2000, after a season in which Albion narrowly avoided relegation to Division Two.

""I was very flattered by Albion's offer. I thought long and hard about it but I just felt that if I am going to go down the road of management I am going to have to do things my own way.""

- Townsend rejects Albion manager Gary Megson's offer of a coaching role at the club.

On 21 April 2016, Townsend joined Bolton Wanderers as a consultant.

International career
His contribution to Norwich's successful season saw Townsend selected for the Republic of Ireland, making his debut against France in February 1989. He qualified for Ireland due to his Irish family heritage.'

He played in the next year's World Cup, in Italy, where he played in all five of Ireland's matches. They reached the quarter-finals, the country's strongest ever campaign. The Irish drew their three group matches – against England, Egypt and the Netherlands. Scoring a penalty in the shoot-out with Romania, his country were eventually sunk by a Salvatore Schillaci goal for the hosts. They had conceded just three goals in those five games. They had scored just two goals in those five games.

He was captain of the Ireland squad for the 1994 World Cup. All four teams of Group E finished on four points, they got their revenge on the Italians, but were defeated by Mexico and drew with Norway. Ireland lost 2–0 to the Dutch at the Citrus Bowl in the knock-out stage.

On 22 March 2015, Townsend was inducted into the FAI Hall of Fame.

ITV Sport
Townsend's most prominent role was as part of ITV Sport's live Champions League, FA Cup and England internationals coverage. He took over from Ron Atkinson as the channel's lead co-commentator, forming a long-running partnership with main commentator Clive Tyldesley, as well as appearing as a studio pundit. He co-hosted Talksport's Weekend Sports Breakfast on Sundays with Mike Parry, and hosted the station's drive-time show on Fridays. He also hosted the mid morning discussion on talkSPORT from 10am to 1pm from Monday to Friday, having replaced Jon Gaunt, who was sacked for calling a guest a Nazi. He left the station because he no longer wanted to commute from his Midlands home to the London studio. He also hosts ITV1's regional programme Soccer Night, alongside Peter Beagrie. Townsend was part of ITV's coverage of the Premier League after they won the rights from the BBC to show top flight football on Saturday evening. In January 2015 ITV confirmed that Townsend, along with presenter Adrian Chiles, would not be retained by the broadcaster after the expiry of his contract in the summer of 2015, with the channel having lost Champions League broadcasting rights.

BT Sport
After leaving ITV in 2015 he joined BT Sport as a co-commentator for their coverage of the Premier League, FA Cup, UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. He made his co-commentating debut on 15 February 2015, co-commentating on Arsenal vs Middlesbrough in the FA Cup fifth round alongside Ian Darke.

Other work
He has also presented BBC Radio 5 Live and written columns for the Daily Mail. He has also been the commentator on several EA football games with Clive Tyldesley including 2006 FIFA World Cup, UEFA Champions League 2006-2007, UEFA Euro 2008, 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa, UEFA Euro 2012, 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil and most recently FIFA 12 to this game FIFA 17.

Personal life
He is the son of former Charlton Athletic and Crystal Palace defender Don Townsend.

Business interests
Townsend was a consultant for Harlequin Property, where he helps set up football schools at their Caribbean resorts. The company's proposed investment into Port Vale had set in motion plans for him to become a football advisor at the club, though nothing was to come of these talks.

Charitable activities
He is patron of the George Coller Memorial Fund. He ran in the Great North Run in 2007, finishing in a time of 2 hours and 20 minutes.

Honours
Aston Villa
 * Football League Cup: 1993–94, 1995–96

Middlesbrough
 * Football League First Division runner-up: 1997–98
 * Football League Cup runner-up: 1997–98

Individual
 * Norwich City Hall of Fame
 * PFA Team of the Year: 1988–89 First Division, 1990–91 First Division, 1991–92 First Division
 * Chelsea Player of the Year: 1991
 * FAI Hall of Fame: Inducted 2015
 * FAI Senior International Player of the Year: 1995

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Editing of anime in distribution

The content of Japanese animation (anime) is frequently edited by distributors, both for its release in Japan or during subsequent localizations. This happens for a variety for reasons, including translation, censorship, and remastering.

Japan
Under article 175 of the Penal Code of Japan, material containing indecent images are prohibited. However the laws date back to 1907 and were unchanged during the process of updating the Japanese constitution in 1947. Over time and due to changing tastes the acceptable standards have become blurred. The display of pubic hair was prohibited until 1991 leading to series such as Lolita Anime and Cream Lemon using the sexualization of children as a loophole. The use of tentacles in series such as Urotsukidōji enabled the creators to avoid a ban on the display of genitals. In other cases, the content is self censored through the use of blurring and black dots. When the censorship is removed for overseas release, the basic animation underneath is revealed, leading to concerns over the sexualization of children in those markets.

Cowboy Bebop and Gantz are examples of titles that received edited broadcasts and were later released as unedited home releases. Episodes of shows such as Mr. Osomatsu have been edited for repeats and home releases.

United States
Due to the lack of a formal and consistent age rating system in the United States of America, age ratings for anime have created several problems. Blockbuster Video marked all anime titles as unsuitable for kids, leading them to appear as R-18 on their computer system. Publishers began using their own age rating suggestions on their releases, however due to differences between publisher assessments and the use of TV age ratings by some this resulted in an inconsistent system.

When Cartoon Network began to broadcast anime there were no internal standards in place for the use of overseas material. This required them to develop a set of standards and guidelines for the handling of the content. The display of alcohol consumption, tobacco smoking, violence (including depictions of death, spoken references to death and dying, scenes of characters being threatened or in life-threatening situations, and depictions of suicide), gambling, blood, offensive language, offensive hand gestures, sexual content (including nudity, intercourse, innuendo, and depictions of homosexual and transsexual characters), and the mistreatment of women and minors were all deemed unacceptable as well as other situations unsuitable to a younger audience. Material for Cartoon Network was edited for TV-Y7, whereas Adult Swim content was edited for TV-14 standards. However some content that aired on Adult Swim was originally scheduled to air on Toonami and was edited accordingly. Autodesk Inferno was used to digitally edit scenes to remove blood or cover up nudity on content edited by Cartoon Network. In some cases content was edited before it was given to Cartoon Network. The editing practices evolved over time due to complaints from parents.

4Kids Entertainment made changes to the anime they licensed to make them "more Western" in order to be more accessible to children. Another reason was so that they could easily merchandise them. However, they also released uncut versions of some of those shows.

United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom the Video Recordings Act 1984 and subsequently the Video Recordings Act 2010 make it a legal requirement for all home video media to be certified by the British Board of Film Classification. Sale or hire of unrated media is prohibited however imported media is allowed for personal use providing the content does not breach UK law. The BBFC is responsible for assigning age ratings to video content and if necessary requesting cuts and refusing certification if content fails guidelines. Examples of content deemed unacceptable include graphic violence and scenes of a sexual nature such as underage sex and sexual violence.

A number of releases were substantially cut in order to pass certification including the Urotsukidōji series and Adventure Duo. The Infernal Road entry in the Urotsukidōji series was delayed by the BBFC for three years and included two outright rejections until the final episode was released by itself, with the scripts for the other entries included as DVD extras. La Blue Girl was also refused a classification for its pornographic exploits of underage women. La Blue Girl Returns was passed as 18 after heavy mandatory cuts of 35 minutes across 4 episodes. During the early 90s anime in the UK was subject to a negative press campaign by several newspapers as a reaction to the violence and sexualized content in many of the available titles. Publishers took advantage of this through the selected licensing of risqué anime in order to appeal to their chosen market. In 1995, 25% of anime released in the UK at that point was rated 18 and 36% was rated 15. As of 2006 the average work was passed uncut at a 12 rating. In some cases a heavier BBFC rating was actually desired by the publishers with excessive swearing deliberately inserted in order to gain a higher age rating, a process known as fifteening. An example given by the BBFC was Patlabor receiving a 15 rating due to the language used, whereas it would have otherwise passed as a PG.

Australia and New Zealand
In 2020, the streaming of Interspecies Reviewers on AnimeLab in Australia and New Zealand was delayed due to "adjusting [its] sourcing of materials" after parent company Funimation ceased streaming the series.

Localization
Localization is an essential process in releasing anime outside of Japan. It can cover a range of different processes depending on the individual title and the desired result. At its most basic level, the localization process is responsible for deciding on romanized character and term names, as well as episode titles. In other cases it may require special attention to areas such as humor where a judgement call must be made to try and retain the feeling of the source material. At its most intense it may involve editing of the content itself in order to fit a target market.

Music
In some cases, the original Japanese music may be replaced with alternate regional music. This can be either a technical consideration caused by footage getting cut since it is synchronized with the audio on the episode master, or it can be an artistic consideration.

Changes to episode count and order
The Pokémon episode "Dennō Senshi Porygon" was removed from all repeats and home releases of the series due to an issue during its original broadcast. It was never released in any form outside of Japan. For the North American Blu-ray release of Mobile Suit Gundam series producer Yoshiyuki Tomino removed episode 15 of the series due to its poor quality animation.

Repackaged shows
The Robotech series was created as a mix of three originally separate and unrelated series The Super Dimensional Fortress Macross, Super Dimension Cavalry Southern Cross and Mospeada. Characters were renamed and the story was adapted to create links between each of the source series. Battle of the Planets was adapted from Science Ninja Team Gatchaman with 85 of the original 106 episodes being adapted by Sandy Frank for US broadcast in 1979. Along with westernized character names, other changes included the removal of violent scenes and entirely new animation inserted in places. A new character was also created. The series was then released as G-Force: Guardians of Space by Turner Broadcasting, with fewer changes to the original Japanese version.

Nudity and sexuality
As nudity is far more stigmatized in the U.S. than it is in Japan, such content is often edited out of locally distributed anime. Although U.S. law regarding child pornography does not prohibit cartoon pornography, suggested underage nudity is also commonly censored. In the original U.S. release of Sailor Moon, all of the female leads' transformation sequences were airbrushed to remove the lines tracing their breasts and pubic areas (except for Moon and Chibi Moon; their sequences had little or no lines), even though the characters were shown in silhouette form only. This kind of editing is not limited to cartoons aimed at older audiences, either. For example, the anime series Blue Gender contained scenes of sex (next to blood and intense violence), which was edited out when shown in the U.S. on Adult Swim (the series was originally planned to air on Toonami but was considered too graphic). Another example, ADV Films edited out nudity of high-school-aged characters from the American DVD release of the anime Sakura Diaries. However, the edits to the animation were not done by ADV Films but were shown on TV in Japan. The video was already edited for exposed female private parts, and were covered by inserted lingerie. Dialogue was also altered to shield suggestions of adolescent age. In 2001, the now-defunct Sterling Entertainment Group removed all shots featuring the mermaids' bare bosoms on Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid concerning the film was marketed towards children, which went out-of-print after its closure in 2006. Meanwhile, in February 2008, the government of Canada banned imports of such hentai series Cool Devices and Words Worth, as it cited those series as "obscene" under federal guidelines.

Creators' attitudes
Hayao Miyazaki's anime film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind was heavily edited by Manson International in the mid-1980s and released as Warriors of the Wind. About one-quarter of the film was cut and its storyline simplified somewhat, affecting the nuances of the original's ecological and pacifist themes. Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli executives were largely disappointed by these edits, with Miyazaki suggesting that those who have viewed the edited version should "dismiss it from their minds." As a result of this experience, the studio instituted a "no-cuts" policy of forbidding a foreign company to edit any of its films prior to release in a new market. During the late 1990s and 2000s, Studio Ghibli has allowed its catalog to be dubbed into English by Walt Disney Pictures, on the condition that no frames were to be removed or airbrushed, and that the English dialogue would not be significantly changed from faithful translations of the Japanese versions. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind was re-released in its unedited form by Disney in 2005.

The "no-cuts" policy was highlighted when Miramax co-chairman Harvey Weinstein suggested editing Princess Mononoke to make it more marketable and avoid a PG-13 rating. In response, an unnamed Studio Ghibli producer allegedly sent him an authentic katana alongside a letter reading "No cuts." Although Studio Ghibli has not allowed Disney to cut the films themselves, some minor changes to translated dialogue have been permitted, including the removal of references to testicles in the English dub of Pom Poko, replacing them with the innocuous euphemism "raccoon pouch".

Books

 * Clements, Jonathan and Helen McCarthy (2006). The Anime Encyclopedia: A Guide to Japanese Animation since 1917. Stone Bridge Press. ISBN 0-7425-3787-0.

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Comments
See my comment in the discuss section of Mefistofele. I oppose merging the article with this one. Other operas have independent pages. Why not Mefistofele.--FourthAve 00:49, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Absolutely agree. Never even realized there was a merge notice here until your edit popped up on my watch list.  Articles on operas should never be merged with articles on composers. Antandrus  (talk) 01:39, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Link to Mefistofele's mp3-recording seems not to work.90.190.225.121 (talk) 18:16, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Name and pronunciation
I have often seen the name spelled Boïto, and I take the diaresis to mean that the "i" is pronounced as a separate vowel rather than as part of a diphthong, without being accented: therefore the pronunciation would be something like BO-it-oh. Unfortunately, I've never been able to find anything authoritative on this; but I'll suggest it here for further research. Skookumpete (talk) 23:45, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

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Steve Madge

Steve Madge (15 January 1948 – July 2020) was a birder, author, and bird tour leader, based in Cornwall, England.

He was a member of the British Birds Rarities Committee and president of the Cornwall Birdwatching and Preservation Society.

He wrote three volumes in the Helm Identification Guides series - on Wildfowl, Crows and Jays and Pheasants, Partridges & Grouse, and co-authored The Handbook of Bird Identification with Mark Beaman.

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Ms .45

Ms .45 (also known as Angel of Vengeance or Ms. 45) is a 1981 American exploitation thriller film directed by Abel Ferrara and starring Zoë Tamerlis.

Inspired by films such as Thriller – A Cruel Picture (1973), Death Wish (1974), and Taxi Driver (1976), the film is a rape and revenge story about Thana, a mute woman who becomes a spree killer after she is raped twice in one day when going home from work. It was critically detested on its theatrical release, but is now generally highly regarded among fans of underground and independent film.

It was acquired by Alamo Drafthouse Films in October 2013 and remastered in HD from the original negatives. The distributor released the film on Blu-ray, DVD, and digital copy in March 2014.

Plot
While walking home from work, Thana, a mute seamstress in New York City's Garment District, is raped at gunpoint in an alley by a masked attacker. Returning to her apartment, she is raped a second time by a burglar. Thana strikes this second assailant with a small glass apple, then bludgeons him to death with an iron, before carrying his body to the bathtub. The next day at work, Thana goes into shock after watching her boss Albert rip a shirt off a mannequin, which worries her co-workers. She later dismembers the burglar's corpse and scatters the parts across various locations in the city.

After being sent home, Thana dismembers the burglar's body, keeping his .45 caliber pistol. She places the pieces of the body into plastic garbage bags and stores them in her refrigerator. After cleaning her bathtub, she decides to take a shower, but as she strips, she hallucinates the first attacker in the mirror grabbing her breast, horrifying her. She also notices that organs and body fluids from the burglar are overflowing in the drain. Mrs. Nasone, Thana's nosy neighbor and landlady, begins to notice her odd behavior.

The next day, while disposing of one of the bagged body parts, Thana is noticed by a leering young man on the street. Thinking that she accidentally dropped the bag, he retrieves it, frightening her. He chases her through the alleys of the city and, fearing another sexual assault, she fatally shoots him when she is cornered by him. Following the incident, Mrs. Nasone spots Thana rushing up the stairs and throwing up. She insists on calling a doctor for Thana. Meanwhile, Mrs. Nasone's dog, Phil, starts to become attracted to her refrigerator. Thana escorts her out of her apartment while still in shock.

As the limbs start to attract the attention of the media, Albert brings Thana into his office and invites her to a Halloween party that he is throwing for work, telling her that there will be "many boys there [her] age" while stroking her neck. She responds to him in writing, saying, "I'll try." As her quest of vengeance increases, Thana starts regularly targeting and killing several men, including an arrogant fashion photographer, a pimp who assaults a prostitute, several members of a gang seeking to sexually assault her, a Saudi Arabian businessman and his limousine driver, and even drives a recently dumped salesman to suicide after her gun jams.

Albert notices Thana ditching work after going to dinner with her co-workers, resulting in her co-workers having to finish her work. She promises to go to the party with him in exchange for staying out of trouble for her absence. Thana notices that Phil is attracted to the smell of the burglar's dismembered limbs. She takes Phil for a walk, then ties him to a post in the park. She leaves a note saying that Phil ran away but will probably find his way back home soon.

With Albert, Thana attends the costume party dressed as a nun. Meanwhile, Mrs. Nasone enters Thana's apartment and finds the burglar's dismembered head. She assumes that Thana killed her dog and tells police that she is at a party with her co-workers. At the party, Albert takes Thana upstairs in private and attempts to seduce her. In response, she shoots him. The party stops and her co-workers run upstairs to Thana, but quickly realize that she is the murderer when she steps out of the room with her pistol. Thana begins a shooting spree, targeting many of the men present. Her co-worker Laurie picks up a nearby knife and stabs Thana in the back. Thana turns around and points the gun at Laurie, but hesitates; she screams in pain, "Sister!" then falls to the ground and dies.

Following the party massacre, a tearful Mrs. Nasone attends a memorial for her husband and her dog Phil. Unbeknownst to her, a still-alive Phil makes its way back, scratching at her apartment door.

Production
Principal photography for the film took place over the course of four weeks in February and March 1980.

Many years later Zoë Tamerlis described how minimal the script was, which is uncharacteristic of Ferrara's later films.

Reception
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Ms .45 holds an approval rating of 85% based on 34 reviews, with an average rating of 7.4/10. On Metacritic, the film has a score of 62 out of 100 based on 6 critics, indicating "Generally favorable reviews".

Home media
In 1983, the film was released on VHS by U.S.A. Home Video in its uncut form. Ms .45 was released on DVD in the United States on April 25, 2000, by Image Entertainment, but was re-edited for DVD release. The re-edit removes less than a minute, total. The cuts include changes to the first rape, featuring Ferrara's cameo, which is split by an insert shot from a later scene. The second rape is more drastically cut, omitting the line, "This oughta make you talk, huh?" The climactic Halloween party shootout was also re-cut to remove an onscreen murder, which now occurs offscreen.

The uncut DVD, Blu-ray, and digital copy was released in the US by Drafthouse Films.

In popular culture
In the sixth episode of the HBO teen drama Euphoria first season, the character Kat Hernandez, portrayed by Barbie Ferreira, dresses up as Thana for Halloween.

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Under the Red Sea Sun

Under the Red Sea Sun (New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1946) is a book by Edward Ellsberg describing salvage operations of the many ships scuttled by the Italians to block the port of Massawa on the Red Sea coast of Eritrea during World War II. Massawa's excellent harbor was vital first to the Italian then to the British war effort.

Ellsberg, a skilled writer, described how a small group of workers under his direction accomplished an almost Herculean task with virtually no resources. Much of the story is an entertaining account of the bureaucratic politics of working in a remote backwater far from support and assistance.

Ellsberg paints a realistic picture of confusion and incompetence in the early days of the war. He was particularly caustic about the American civilian contractor building facilities at Ghinda and Asmara, where it was much cooler than at Massawa but was too far away for the facilities to ever be used by harbor personnel. The company, Johnson, Drake & Piper, Inc., itself claimed credit for clearing the port in the privately printed book, "Middle East War Projects of Johnson, Drake & Piper, Inc., for the Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, 1942–1943" (New York: Johnson, Drake & Piper, Inc., 1943). That book contains beautiful photographs and drawings showing projects around the Middle East.

Quotation
Ellsberg, who had vast technical knowledge and experience, described experts as "...people who know so much about how things have been done in the past that they are usually blind to how they can be done in the future."

Reviews

 * Atlantic 178:172. December 1946.
 * Booklist 43:84. November 15, 1946.
 * Christian Science Monitor, November 15, 1946. p. 16.
 * New York Times November 3, 1946. p. 5.
 * New Yorker 22:65. December 28, 1946.
 * San Francisco Chronicle, November 12, 1946. p. 16.
 * Saturday Review 29:14. November 16, 1946.

The book as inspiration
The story of Ellsberg's heroic effort inspired Eurobank's Polish division (Eurobank Poland) to create a corporate project management training program called Massawa Training, which in 2007 won the PMI Award in its category.

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Speedy deletion notice
According to the speedy deletion notice that was originally placed here, it may be removed once the article has been fixed and no longer qualifies for a speedy. I believe I have done so by making this into a proper stub for the movie Ms. 45. 23skidoo 00:51, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Skidoo, I agree. I am removing the notice. rowley (talk) 21:16, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

category cult film
The movie is popular ; also among feminists. However it isn´t a cult film. You tell me why it is one. --ThomasK 14:18, August 30, 2005 (UTC)
 * Maybe you should explain why it is not. I don't see how a film can't be both a popular feminist film and a cult film. Also, the movie is featured in the book Cult Movies 2 by Danny Peary and that should be enough justification. See also, plus which is an article on Ms. 45 written by a journalist who covers cult cinema. There's also  which refers to the film as a cult classic. An article on Abel Ferrara here  discusses his "cult classic" I could go on. Here's an article that refers to it as a "certified cult film"  And I can cite similar examples for Avalon, too, incidentally. 23skidoo 14:24, 30 August 2005 (UTC)

Well, I mixed this one with Ms-40, similar but a short film. I did saw Ms. 45, good movie indeed. Sorry for the inconvenience. However Avalon is indeed not a cult film, if so then there must be many of movies like this be a cult film. --ThomasK 14:46, August 30, 2005 (UTC)

Too short for 2 images
There are now 2 images on this page, despite the article being only one paragraph long. This article needs to be lengthened to justify 2 images. 23skidoo 18:03, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
 * The article has been lengthened with a full plot synopsis and history sections. I notice that the second image has been removed, also. rowley (talk) 21:31, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Wrong title
Why do I bother, but hey: the title of the film is "Ms .45", not "Ms. 45".

189.130.201.31 (talk) 03:56, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

 * You are correct. It should be titled Ms .45 (witness the film's opening credit typography), but the correction is being blocked by Wikipedia bureaucracy. rowley (talk) 21:29, 27 June 2018 (UTC)

Reception
The film currently holds an 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with critics praising the film as a timeless piece of exploitation film making that over 30 years later has lost none of its impact upon the audience. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Carps44 (talk • contribs) 07:42, 20 June 2017 (UTC)

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Ms. 45 → Ms .45 – The title of the movie is intended to be a reference to the weapon (caliber .45) the main character is using in the film. IMDb also lists the movie under the suggested new name. 37.4.251.27 (talk) 20:57, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Out of ten reliable sources with a topic about the movie, only two used Ms .45; even the film company that owns the movie has it as Ms. 45. Thinker78 (talk) 04:22, 3 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Oppose but there's no reason not to create redirects from the alternate spellings. This confusion about the films name seems to be notable itself, and should probably be included in the article. This source should prove helpful. -- Netoholic @ 09:26, 3 March 2018 (UTC)

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Blueshift (disambiguation)

In astronomy, a blueshift is a decrease in electromagnetic wavelength caused by the motion of a celestial object toward an observer.

Blueshift or blue shift may also refer to:
 * Blue Shift (album), an ARIA Award-winning, 1990 album by Clarion Fracture Zone
 * "Blue Shift", a song by Hawkwind from their 1993 album Electric Tepee
 * "Blue Shift", a song by Lemaitre from their 2010 album "The Friendly Sound EP"
 * Blueshift, an unreleased album by Splashdown
 * "Blue Shift" (short story), a science fiction short story by Stephen Baxter
 * Blueshifting, an information technology term defined in Redshift (theory)
 * Blue shift (molecule) (a.k.a. "hypsochromic shift"), a change in spectral band position in a spectrum of a molecule to a shorter wavelength
 * Blue shift in American politics is an observed phenomenon under which mail-in votes trend towards the Democratic Party.

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Wilcox Group and Wilcox group
Clean Up If we delete the spam, it could become usefull. MicroFeet 00:52, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

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Mike Knox

Michael Shawn Hettinga (born July 17, 1978) is an American professional wrestler best known under the ring name Mike Knox. He currently performs for the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA). Hettinga is best known for his work in World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), and also performed in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling (TNA) under the ring name Knux.

Independent circuit (2000–2005)
Hettinga worked for Ultimate Pro Wrestling (UPW) in 2000. He tagged with Samoa Joe at UPW Proving Ground on December 12, 2000, in the Galaxy Theatre of Santa Ana, California and defeated the debuting Al Katrazz with Basil. He also wrestled at UPW live against the boss Samoa Joe for the Heavyweight Championship, but was unable to win the title.

After being trained by Steve "Navajo Warrior" Islas, Knox started wrestling for Islas' organization Impact Zone Wrestling in 2002. He was booked to win the Heavyweight Championship on two occasions and the Tag Team Championship with friend and rival Derek Neikirk on one occasion.

ECW (2006–2008)
Knox was signed to a World Wrestling Entertainment developmental deal in February 2005, and made a handful of appearances on WWE shows, including one appearance as a masked "jihadist" for Muhammad Hassan, in the infamous segment that led to Hassan's ousting from WWE. He mainly wrestled for their Atlanta, Georgia-based developmental territory, Deep South Wrestling.

Knox debuted on the June 20, 2006 episode of ECW as a heel by interfering in Kelly Kelly's striptease segment, coming from the backstage area and covering her with a towel before escorting her off stage, though he was unnamed on-screen at the time. It was later revealed that Kelly was Knox's on-screen girlfriend, and he informed her that he did not appreciate her stripping in front of anyone but him. For his in-ring debut, a win over Danny Doring, Kelly accompanied him to the ringside acting as a valet. Knox was pushed strongly, interfering in matches, and squashing his opponents. He later formed a short-lived tag team with Test before starting a feud with CM Punk, after growing jealous of Kelly Kelly's admiration towards Punk. Punk won every match in the feud, including a qualifying match for December to Dismember's Extreme Elimination Chamber match for the ECW World Championship.

Knox made his pay-per-view debut at Survivor Series where he teamed up with Team Rated-RKO to take on Team DX, but was the first man eliminated after taking a superkick from Shawn Michaels, a match Team Rated-RKO would lose. Upon his elimination, he was subsequently mocked by DX, as he was virtually unknown compared to the other participants. His next pay-per-view appearance saw him abandon Kelly Kelly during a mixed tag team match against Kevin Thorn and Ariel at December to Dismember, resulting in his team's loss. He then attacked her on the next ECW episode, breaking the duo up for good.

After being taken off television, Knox returned on February 13, 2007, episode of ECW, where he lost easily to CM Punk. Knox was again taken off television for several months in order to return to Deep South Wrestling. On March 1, Knox and Derek Neikirk, the reformed Team Elite, were booked to win the Tag Team Championship after defeating the Major Brothers. After DSW closed, however, Knox was sent to WWE's Florida-based territory Florida Championship Wrestling.

Knox returned on the September 11 episode of ECW, defeating Balls Mahoney. The next week, he lost in a rematch to Mahoney. He then easily defeated Nunzio the week after. The next week Knox wrestled against ECW Champion CM Punk, again losing to Punk after a Go To Sleep from Punk. After months without any notable storylines, he began a feud with Tommy Dreamer whom he defeated in a series of matches, including an Extreme Rules match on the 100th episode of ECW. He then began a feud with Finlay. After weeks of confrontations between the two, they finally had a match on the August 26 edition of ECW, where they had an ECW Championship scramble qualifying match, which was won by Finlay.

Brand switches (2008–2010)
On the October 27 and November 3, 2008, episodes of Raw, two vignettes were aired to promote his arrival on the Raw brand. His look drastically changed as well from his previous clean-cut look to long unkempt hair and a long beard. He debuted the following week, on November 10, defeating D-Lo Brown. He attacked Rey Mysterio two times over a period of three weeks. After losing to Mysterio, Knox attacked Mysterio once again. Interviewer Todd Grisham asked Knox why he attacked Mysterio and Knox answered saying he did not know why. In a house show at Cape Girardeau, Missouri, Knox won a battle royal to become an entrant at the World Heavyweight Championship Elimination Chamber match at No Way Out. At No Way Out, he was eliminated by Chris Jericho and was the second competitor eliminated overall.

On April 15, Knox was drafted to the SmackDown brand as part of the 2009 Supplemental Draft. He made his debut for the brand on the May 8, 2009 episode of SmackDown, defeating R-Truth in a singles match. This was his last win on television for WWE; from late May 2009 until his release in April 2010, Knox lost all the 30 televised matches he wrestled on either SmackDown or WWE Superstars, whether it be in singles, tag, or multi-man matches. On the August 14 episode of SmackDown, Knox debuted new elements to his character that included knowledge of biology and the human anatomy, using this knowledge to methodically inflict pain upon his opponents. Knox's final match was a loss to JTG on the April 23, 2010 edition of SmackDown, on the same day WWE announced that Knox had been released from his contract.

Return to independent circuit (2010–2015)
Mike Knox competed against Corporal Robinson and Raven at JCW Bloodymania IV. Corporal Robinson won the match. In July 2012, he wrestled three times at American Pro Wrestling Alliance, winning the APWA Hardcore Cup. On October 6, 2012, Knox wrestled in the main event of House of Hardcore's first show as Mike Knoxx, losing to Carlito in a three-way match for the FWE Heavyweight Championship, which also included Tommy Dreamer. He won the American Pro Wrestling Alliance World Tag Team Championship in 2012 with D.O.C., but they were later stripped of the titles, as they were made inactive, on March 1, 2013. He appeared for Pro Wrestling Syndicate with D.O.C, and D'Lo Brown on May 18, 2013. On June 18, 2013, he won the River City Wrestling Tag Team Championships. D.O.C. and Knux lost the RCW Tag Team Championships on September 7, 2013, to Hernandez and Michael Faith. on November 16, 2014, Knox competed for Alpha Omega Wrestling (AOW) where Knox lost to Jerome Robinson by disqualification. on March 20, 2015, Knox faced AOW heavyweight champion Blake Grayson for the title but lost the match.

Aces and Eights (2012–2013)
In May 2012, Knox competed in a dark match for Total Nonstop Action Wrestling against the Television Champion Devon. Successively Knux began working as a masked member of the Aces & Eights stable. At Bound for Glory, D.O.C. and Knux (still masked) defeated Bully Ray and Sting to gain full access to the Impact Zone.

Knox made his official television debut on the January 3, 2013, episode of Impact Wrestling, being revealed as a member of the villainous Aces & Eights stable after being unmasked by Kurt Angle. Knox gained his revenge on Angle the following week, hitting him in the neck with a ball-peen hammer. After Angle was stretchered away, Knox lost his debut match to Sting and was afterwards, attacked with his own hammer. On March 10 at Lockdown, Aces & Eights, consisting of Knox, now billed as Knux, Devon, D.O.C., Garett Bischoff, and Mr. Anderson were defeated by Team TNA, consisting of Eric Young, James Storm, Magnus, Samoa Joe, and Sting in a Lethal Lockdown match, with Young pinning Knux for the win. On March 18, 2013, Knux was part of the World Cup of Wrestling, teaming with D.O.C., in a winning effort against Petey Williams and Funaki. On March 19, 2013, Knux took part in a six-man tag team match at a Hardcore Justice 2, teaming with D.O.C. and Wes Brisco, in a losing effort, being defeated by James Storm, Hardcore Holly, and Magnus. On the November 21 edition of Turning Point, Knux, Garett Bischoff, Bully Ray, and Taz (remaining members of Aces & Eights) were forced to disband the Aces & Eights after Bully Ray lost a match against Mr. Anderson with their memberships on the line against the TNA career of Mr. Anderson.

The Menagerie (2014–2015)
In March 2014, Knux started a new storyline where he returns to his flood-ravaged hometown with his father's carnival having been ruined and the relationship with his father soured because Knux has no intention to follow his father's footsteps and to own the family operated carnival, as well as salvaging it. The following month, Knux debuted his new stable called The Menagerie, composed of himself, Rebel, Crazzy Steve and The Freak. On the May 8 episode of Impact Wrestling, he would defeat Kazarian in his return match. On the September 24 edition of Impact Wrestling, Knux took part in the Gold Rush tournament for a potential title opportunity facing Austin Aries in a losing effort. on the November 12 edition of Impact Wrestling, Knux, Crazzy Steve and Rebel defeated Angelina Love, Velvet Sky, and Jessie Godderz in an inter-gender elimination match. on December 5 at Victory Road, The Menagerie (Knux and The Freak) faced James Storm and Kazarian in a losing effort in a Tag team match to qualify for the Gauntlet Battle Royal match later that night. on February 16, 2015, at TNA Classic, Knux competed in a 16-man tournament where the winner will be crowned the winner of the TNA Classic. Knux defeated Kenny King but lost to Rockstar Spud in the following round. On March 6 at Joker's Wild III, Knux and Tyrus faced Ethan Carter III and Crazzy Steve in a losing effort. On March 6 (Taped February 14) at Knockouts Knockdown 3, The Menagerie (Knux, Crazzy Steve, Rebel) defeated The BroMans (Jessie Godderz, Robbie E) and Angelina Love in a Six-person intergender tag team match. On May 19, 2015, Knux officially left TNA.

Inoki Genome Federation (2015)
On April 11, 2015, Hettinga, working under the ring name Knux, made his debut for Japanese promotion Inoki Genome Federation, losing to Wang Bin. He picked up his first win in the promotion on May 5 over Daichi Hashimoto. On June 27, Knux formed an "anti-IGF" stable with Hideki Suzuki, Erik Hammer and Kevin Kross.

Continental Wrestling Entertainment
Around 2016, he wrestled for The Great Khali's promotion, Continental Wrestling Entertainment (CWE) in a series of 'The Great Khali returns'.

Various feuds (2021–2023)
On November 9, 2021, in the second part of NWA Power: By Any Means Necessary, Mike Knox made his in-company debut by attacking NWA World's Heavyweight Champion Trevor Murdoch in steel cage during event. On November 16, 2021, in NWA Power, it was announced that Knox would face Murdoch for the NWA World's Heavyweight Championship at Hard Times 2. On December 4, 2021, in the Hard Times 2, Knox was defeated by Trevor Murdoch and failed to win the title.

During night one of the Crockett Cup, Knox teamed with VSK under the name "The Cardonas" to compete in the namesake tournament, defeating Da Pope and Mims in the first round and The Fixers (Jay Bradley and Wrecking Ball Legursky) in the quarterfinals but lost to The Briscoe Brothers (Jay Briscoe and Mark Briscoe) in the semifinal on night two. On the June 14 episode of NWA Powerrr, Knox and VSK confronted Bully Ray. Knox initially acted in kind to Ray, due to their past as members of Aces & Eights in Impact Wrestling. However, after accusing Ray of "leaving him high and dry" in Impact, Knox and VSK would attack him before putting him through a table. On August 27 at NWA 74th Anniversary Show, Knox was defeated by Ray in a Tables match.

Alliance with Trevor Murdoch (2023–present)
On the March 21 episode of NWA Powerrr, Knox saved Trevor Murdoch from Daisy Kill and Talos. On April 7 at NWA 312 Pre-Show, Knox and Murdoch defeated Daisy Kill and Talos. On the April 25 episode of NWA Powerrr, Knox and Murdoch defeated The Fixers (Jay Bradley & Wrecking Ball Legursky) in a Crockett Cup 2023 qualifying match. Knox and Murdoch defeated Magnum Muscle (Dak Draper and Mims) in the second round, The Mortons (Ricky Morton and Kerry Morton) in the quarterfinal, The Midnight Riders (Tyrus and Chris Adonis) in the semifinal and Blunt Force Trauma (Carnage and Damage) in the tournament final, winning the Crockett Cup.

Championships and accomplishments

 * Alpha Omega Wrestling
 * Valley Rumble (2016)
 * American Pro Wrestling Alliance
 * APWA Hardcore Cup Championship (1 time)
 * APWA World Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with D.O.C.
 * Deep South Wrestling
 * DSW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Derek Neikirk
 * Impact Zone Wrestling
 * IZW Heavyweight Championship (2 times)
 * IZW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Derek Neikirk
 * National Wrestling Alliance
 * Crockett Cup (2023) – with Trevor Murdoch
 * Pro Wrestling Illustrated
 * PWI Feud of the Year (2012) Aces & Eights vs. TNA
 * PWI ranked him #87 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2009
 * River City Wrestling
 * RCW Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with D.O.C
 * 	Western States Wrestling
 * WSW Heavyweight Championship (1 time)
 * Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards
 * Worst Gimmick (2012, 2013) Aces & Eights

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No show socks
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Strong Speedy Delete Vandalism MicroFeet 00:54, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

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