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Albany Medical College

Albany Medical College (AMC) is a private medical school in Albany, New York. It was founded in 1839 by Alden March and James H. Armsby and is one of the oldest medical schools in the nation. The college is part of the Albany Medical Center, which includes the Albany Medical Center Hospital. Along with Albany College of Pharmacy, Albany Law School, the Dudley Observatory, and Union College, it is one of the constituent entities of Union University.

Over its 170-year history, Albany Medical College has attracted and produced many leaders in medicine and research. Among its present and past faculty, researchers, and alumni there are two Nobel Prize winners, two Lasker Award winners, two MacArthur Fellowship recipients, one Gairdner Foundation International Award winner, former Surgeon General of the United States Army, former Surgeon General of the United States Air Force, several presidents and CEOs of major academic hospitals, as well as an early president and co-founder of the American Medical Association. AMC is attributed as the site where David S. Sheridan perfected the modern-day disposable catheter, among other major discoveries and innovations. Among AMC alumni accomplishments include the discovery of the hormone leptin, the invention of computed tomography, and the discovery of oral rehydration therapy.

Academics
There are multiple courses of study at the college with tracks that end in an MD degree, as well as a Graduate Studies program with the following departments:
 * Center for Physician Assistant Studies
 * Center for Nurse Anesthesia
 * Alden March Bioethics Institute
 * Center for Cardiovascular Sciences
 * Center for Cell Biology and Cancer Research
 * Center for Immunology and Microbial Disease
 * Center for Neuropharmacology and Neuroscience

In addition to the traditional medical school application process, AMC reserves up to 50 places in its first-year class for participants in combined-degree programs. Students from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Union College and Siena College complete certain undergraduate requirements prior to matriculation at Albany Medical College, then finish their undergraduate degrees at AMC while concurrently earning their MDs. Programs range from a total of seven to eight years.

The AMC Physician Assistant Program was established in 1972, in collaboration with Hudson Valley Community College. Its graduates received from HVCC the A.A.S. in Physician Assistant Studies, and a certificate of completion from AMC. Since 2005, the program has granted a Master of Science in PA studies. The program's curriculum consists of a variety of courses in basic and medical science within four didactic terms and an additional twelve months of medical rotations.

Alden March Bioethics Institute
The Alden March Bioethics Institute (AMBI) is a multi-institutional bioethics research organization based at the Albany Medical College in New York. 26 faculty originate first-rate scholarship with the support of more than $3 million in federal and foundation grants. The Institute until recently housed The American Journal of Bioethics (AJOB) and bioethics.net. Its faculty direct a number of graduate programs including those offering the M.S. and Doctor of Professional Studies (D.P.S.) in Bioethics. The Institute is named in honor of Alden March, a 19th-century physician.

WAMC public radio
In October 1958, the college, alongside the medical center, started a public radio station, WAMC. The callsign comes from both the college and medical center. In 1980, citing financial burdens, the station was spun off to an independent entity, WAMC, Inc. WAMC is now the primary NPR station for the Albany area.

Notable alumni and faculty

 * Jacob M. Appel, bioethicist, is a graduate of AMC's Alden March Bioethics Institute.
 * Sir James W. Black, Visiting Professor, a Scottish doctor and pharmacologist who invented Propranolol, synthesized Cimetidine and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988 for these discoveries.
 * Samuel Baldwin Ward, M.D., Ph.D., Dean of AMC 1905-1914.
 * Betty Q. Banker, pediatric neuropathologist and medical researcher
 * Kenneth Blackfan, well-known pediatric hematologist and mentor of Louis K. Diamond and Sidney Farber, proclaimed "father" of modern-day chemotherapy. Diamond-Blackfan Syndrome is named after him. Children's Hospital Boston is located on Blackfan Street, which is named after Blackfan.
 * Edward Bove, well known for his contributions to the repair of congenital heart defects, most notably hypoplastic left heart syndrome.
 * Steven J. Burakoff, cancer specialist and the author of both Therapeutic Immunology (2001) and Graft-Vs.-Host Disease: Immunology, Pathophysiology, and Treatment (1990)
 * Charles S. Butler, physician and a member of the New York State Assembly
 * Levi Ruggles Church, Canadian jurist.
 * Chester Bidwell Darrall, Union Army Surgeon and Republican Congressman from Louisiana in the latter 19th Century.
 * Segun Toyin Dawodu, MD, JD, MBA, LL.M, MS, previously Associate Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, a physician, attorney, entrepreneur and medical informatician who established the first website on socio-political issues of Nigeria.
 * Thomas C. Durant, Vice President of the Union Pacific Railroad and creator of the financial structure which led to the Crédit Mobilier scandal
 * Walter Millard Fleming, MD, founder of the Ancient Arabic Order Nobles of the Mystic Shrine in 1872.
 * Jeffrey M. Friedman, MD, PhD a molecular geneticist at New York City's Rockefeller University. His discovery of the hormone leptin and its role in regulating body weight has had a major role in the area of human obesity. For these achievements, he received the prestigious Gairdner Foundation International Award.
 * Nancy E. Gary, former dean of Albany Medical College. Executive Vice President of the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and Dean of its F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine, 1992–1995.
 * Ivar Giaever, 1973 Nobel Prize in Physics Recipient, performed antibody-antigen experiments at The Albany Medical Center.
 * Gary Gottlieb, current president of Brigham and Women's Hospital and succeeding CEO of Partners HealthCare.
 * Thomas Hale, Jr, American medical missionary and author.
 * Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, noted for his pioneering surveying expeditions of the Rocky Mountains in the late 19th century.
 * Timothy Johnson (TV medical presenter), Emmy award winning television personality, author and physician who, as "Dr. Tim Johnson", is best known to TV viewers in his capacity as the longtime chief medical correspondent for ABC News.
 * Edward Khantzian, co-originator of the self-medication hypothesis of drug abuse.
 * Matthew N. Levy, physiologist and textbook author.
 * Alden March, founder of Albany Medical College, co-founder and past president of the American Medical Association.
 * Jesse Montgomery Mosher, psychiatrist, established first psychiatric ward in a medical hospital.
 * David Nalin, discoverer of oral rehydration therapy, which is accredited with saving an estimated 50 million lives from diarrhea across the world. Both The Lancet and UNICEF cited ORT as one of the most important medical advances in the 20th century.
 * William H. Oldendorf (1925 – December 14, 1992), an American neurologist, physician, researcher, medical pioneer, founding member of the American Society for Neuroimaging (ASN), and originator of the technique of computed tomography. Winner of the Lasker Award, his fundamental discovery also led to MRI, positron emission tomography (PET), single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and other imaging techniques. Originally nominated for the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with his colleagues, his name was eventually withdrawn for political reasons.
 * Henry Palmer, Union Army Surgeon.
 * Sir San Crombie Po (1870–1946), a Karen nationalist who devoted himself to improving the situation of the Karen people of Burma in the early 20th century.
 * Tabor B. Reynolds (1821–1901), an American physician who served as town supervisor, New York State Assemblyman, and Sheriff of Saratoga County.
 * James Salisbury, M.D. physician, and the inventor of the Salisbury steak.
 * John A. Sampson (August 17, 1873 – December 23, 1946), a gynecologist who advanced the study of endometriosis. The Sampson artery is named after him.
 * Richard Selzer, MD, widely published short-story writer and novelist, Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, and surgeon at Yale University School of Medicine.
 * Theobald Smith, pioneering microbiologist and the first person to prove that diseases can be transmitted through insects. He is widely considered to be America's first internationally significant medical research scientist.
 * Sally Temple, Ph.D., Professor, MacArthur Fellow and Director of the New York Stem Cell Institute.
 * Jef Valkeniers, Belgian doctor and politician.
 * Willis R. Whitney, an American chemist and founder of the research laboratory of the General Electric Company.

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Talk:Santa Clara Province

San Clara or Santa Clara
The 1917 Hammond map indicated that this province was named Santa Clara, but the 1919 Automobile Blue Book map indicates San Clara. Does anyone have a more definitive reference? Caerwine 15:06, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

Surely San is an abbreviation of Santo - but not of Santa, so San seems wrong.

But do former provinces need their own pages anyway ?

-- Beardo 00:11, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Moved page to Santa Clara Province, Cuba. Quote "A la provincia en ciertas épocas se le ha llamado Santa Clara." (In certain times, the [Las Villas] province was called Santa Clara). San Clara is, indeed, grammatically incorrect.   Qyd (talk)17:14, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Main Page: Santa Clara or Las Villas?
Why isn't the main page Las Villas, as this is the modern name for the province, is it not?? At least, that is my understanding. As I am only a passer-by, I will not make any changes, but I should think the the modern name is to be preferred. What is the official Cuban government designation? Glacierman 19:48, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
 * "Las Villas" was the name between 1940 and 1978. Nowadays it's Villa Clara. But this article is about the historic province.--Qyd 17:28, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

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Craven Week

The Craven Week is an annual rugby union tournament organised for schoolboys in the Republic of South Africa. The tournament started in July 1964, and is named after the legendary Springbok rugby union player and coach Dr Danie Craven.

The tournament has its humble beginnings in an idea by Piet Malan, then Springbok flanker, in 1949, around the time of the South African Rugby Board's 75th anniversary. He wanted schools to feature in the celebrations and approached Danie Craven in Potgietersrus on how this could be done.

Dr Craven took the idea to his board who decided on getting the 15 schools unions together for a week. The man who kept the idea alive however was one Jan Preuyt, a former student at the University of Stellenbosch and teacher at Port Rex Technical School in East London. Preuyt had played rugby for Griqualand West and was also the chairman of Border Schools.

At the time there was no such thing as a South African Schools organisation, and the South African Rugby Board were not involved, so Preuyt and Schalk van der Merwe, Principal of George Randall High school, took the initiative to organise the first Craven Week tournament on their own.

The competition began with 15 teams in 1964, growing to 28 in 1987 and 32 in 2000. The format was changed in 2001, and now allows for just 20 teams. Each of South Africa's fourteen provincial unions field at least one team, with some unions sending two squads (one from their urban base and another representing "country districts"), plus representation from Namibia and Zimbabwe in most years.

Each year since 1974 a South African schools team has been selected, and the competition has been open to players of all races since 1980 when Craven himself requested that it be done. The competition has since become a hunting ground for talent scouts trying to find the best new players for their provinces and many young upcoming stars see the tournament as an opportunity to further their careers. The format has been replicated at other age and skill levels, including a U18 Academy Week for provincial B sides, the Grant Khomo Week for U16 teams, and Iqhawe Week for U15 sides which places special emphasis on players from underprivileged or underserved areas.

Currently the tournament is known as the "Coca-Cola Craven Week" with The Coca-Cola Company as the main sponsor of the event.

Results
Despite there being no official final for the Craven Week tournaments, there is a main match every year that features the two best teams at the tournament. The results of these main matches since 1971 are:

* In 1975 and 1976 there were 2 Craven weeks due to the school holidays of the old Transvaal and the rest of SA not corresponding.

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Talk:Jean-Jacques Dessalines

Needs to be revamped
This article needs to be revamped. It is extremely biased and harsh against Dessalines.

"The whole truth and nothing but the truth"?
The wholeness of the Haitian truth is sorely lacking here. While I think it's right and relevant to includes atrocities committed by Dessalines and his lieutenants, and the use of the word "genocide" may be appropriate if a remnant of a defeated race is intentionally exterminated within a nation's borders, these tales (if they even are true—I haven't studied the documentation or followed any relevant scholarly arguments) are totally misleading and distorted if the context is blurred-out or omitted. Napoleon's double-crossing and cold-blooded slow murder of the relatively moderate L'Ouverture showed what any Black leader had to expect from the duplicitous and ruthless French after the Revolutionary period ended. The hideous tactics used by the French to re-subjugate Martinique and restore slavery there shed a harsh light on the Haitian situation; Dessaline's genocide of whites was no more cruel than actions routinely undertaken against African and Amerindian populations throughout most of the New World, up to and including even the present day. If a subject involved white people killing masses of non-white people, the use of the term "genocide" would probably be disallowed by these same Wikipedia writers/editors on the grounds of being too propagandist, emotive, incendiary, etc, etc. In the article on Andrew Jackson, a world-class race-warrior, notably against the Seminole and Cherokee nations the word "genocide" appears not even once in any form. In the article on Leopold II of Belgium, said to be responsible for EIGHT MILLION (!) Congolese deaths, the word "genocide" occurs just once in the text of the article: ''"In 2010, Louis Michel, a Belgian member of the European Parliament and former Belgian foreign minister, called Leopold II a "visionary hero." According to Michel, "To use the word 'genocide' in relation to the Congo is absolutely unacceptable and inappropriate. ... maybe colonisation was domineering and acquiring more power, but at a certain moment, it brought civilisation."'' The same could be said of Dessalines: his policies brought some civilization to Haiti after 300 years of genocide against, first, natives (honored by Dessalines in his choosing their name for their land) and then against Africans... Haitian slaves were mostly worked to death and then replaced by fresh imports from Africa. You could with some justification even call Dessalines a warrior against genocide, and a very successful one at that—and do so without in the least whitewashing his own atrocities. UPDATE: I'm leaving my own comment because I think the point about when/whether to say "genocide" is important, possibly important enough to call for guidelines. But after posting this, I read the "Rebuttal" comment below, which makes some other points more eloquently and expertly than I could, and raises questions about white (English) complicity in the "genocide" against the French.

Colored?
Also, it refers to 'black people' and 'colored people'. What is a 'colored person'? Ashmoo 03:45, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

"Colored" is an outdated phrase used to describe anyone who isn't white. It is usually considered by modern day to be a racist remark. -Alex 12.220.157.93 06:42, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

"Colored" in the Caribbean context would mean a person of mixed race. Not a racist term in that context, but a little old-fashioned. --Stewart king (talk) 23:00, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Rebuttal to biased comments
The statement "Dessalines, who had been born a slave, held a grudge against French people" is simply not true. Dessalines was a general fighting the French Empire. He fought the French soldiers (LeClerc, Rochambeau) sent to enslave Blacks in Haiti, not the French people. You cannot necessarily extrapolate that he hated "French people". At the congress declaring Haiti's Act of Indepence, Dessalines asked each of the assembled generals to pronounce a vow to forever renounce France; to die rather than to live under its domination; and to fight for independence with their last breath.

Dessalines and others responsible for the 1805 Haitian Constitution 1805 Haitian Constitution eliminated distinctions of color: All Haitians were to be "Blacks".

CLR James, the historian, reveals in his book The Black Jacobins, that three Englishmen present at the congress that proclaimed Haiti's Independence were instrumental in bringing about the massacre of the French on the island. The Englishmen were acting as agents of Great Britain; they wanted to put a permanent wedge between the Haitian people and France in order to hold on to their trade monopoly and advance their ambitions in the hemisphere. They told Dessalines that England would trade with Haiti only “when the last of the whites had fallen under the axe,” writes James.

“Those civilized cannibals wanted to drive a wedge between Haiti and France to break all possibilities of unity.... This is one of the most infamous and unjustifiable crimes in this wretched history.”

Haiti continued to be threatened with enslavement by the Europeans; so a military preparedness had to be mandated to protect the new nation. Also, labor had to be regimented because the infrastructure of the country had been devastated by a long twelve year war for Haitian independence.

I doubt if merchants from France were eager to trade with Haiti after the revolution. Also, Thomas Jefferson imposed an embargo against Haiti. France and the U.S. refused to recognize Haiti as an independent country. Thomas Jefferson according to Julius Scott, the Afro-American and Caribbean historian at the University of Michigan remarked "confine this disease to its island" in urging the British to stop trading with Haiti.

The educated class in Haiti were the "light-skinned elite"; the majority of other Blacks had no education and were recently enslaved.

If Dessalines was "reviled by generations of Haitians", why approximately one hundred years later would they name their national anthem after him? The main author's comments just don't make sense. If you have a basis for your comments, provide a source.

Damballa 21:28, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Titling
Shouldn't this be title "Jaques I of Haiti", in accordance to naming policy? After all, Napoleon Bonaparte's articles is titled "Napoleon I of France"... -Alex, 12.220.157.93 00:38, 27 January 2006 (UTC).

 * I'd say yes. Do you want to rename the article? 69.112.248.103 04:14, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

How do you rename articles? I'm kinda newish to this. -Alex, 12.220.157.93 22:44, 16 February 2006 (UTC).

 * I'd say no, because his last name is generally better-known than his first name (which is not the case for Napoleon), as evidenced by the naming of the national anthem (La Dessalinienne) and a city after him. Funnyhat 22:56, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

in respose to the message which questioned the use of the term 'colored'...the term has differetn connotations in Haiti than it did in racist lexicon of the us. The term can also mean creole or basically a racial mixed person of the lighter variant of skin. in certain courtries even today colored is a positive term being of higher social rank than 'black' or 'creole' (it all depends on what carribian island are talking about) I agree that this article is exceedingly bias against Dessalines. Also the fact that he has remained so much popularity in Haiti must be disscussed further. He is in fact the only one of the revolutionary heros of haiti to become a lwa (a god of the voudoun pantheon) there should be somthing on that. 143.229.108.78SLP

Heads will roll
The phrase "heads will roll", according to several results in a google search originated with Hitler in the 1940's. Interestingly, according to Andrew Selsky, the Associated Press' Chief of Caribbean News, the phrase was used by Dessalines in 1802:

 * ''"...One voter told me on election day that heads would roll and buildings would burn if Preval didn't win.

 * "It is a phrase that resonates in Haiti. Army Gen. Jean-Jacques Dessalines uttered those words when he led a rebellion against French troops and colonists in 1802. Many of the French were decapitated, their homes torched. "

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5611684,00.html

Just thought it was interesting and maybe there is a place for it in the article. 69.112.248.103 04:14, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Overall quality of Dessalines article
Sentences such as: "The black people and other minority groups all fought against this system that he was imposing upon them." are incomprehensible. How are blacks considered to be a minority group in Haiti? This does not make any sense.

There are not many sources given and the view of Dessalines wildly diverges from that of many Haitians and scholars. Reasons for this should be given. 15:30, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Spelling of the country Haïti vs. Haiti
Why is Haiti spelled Haïti (with accent trema on the first "i" on this page ? 00:59, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Remove last two sections
I would ask that the last two sections have been filled by an essay. I would sugest that it should be deleted, it does not read as a encyclopadia or at least, move it to the talk page.Francisco Valverde 07:20, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

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 * Whatever our opinions are, we are in the editing of an encylopaedia. There are many places in the internet were you can express your political views. Wikipedia has to try to be as unbias as possible. --Francisco Valverde 07:27, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

Who should define White systematic terror in Haiti
Publishing this article itself from a bias source is bias in itself. The article in itself is a political statement, if it is not - please provide the basis.

Why should offended Afrogenics not respond to an article that is insensitive and bias to the legacy and contributions of Jan Jak Desalin (Jean Jacques Dessalines) to humanity? Why should African people accept the vilification of their leaders? Why should the African people of Ayiti (Haiti) accept the minimization of their victories over white terror? Why should these questions not be raise in an intellectual forum/platform like Wikipedia?

If Wikipedia provide a platform to those who propagate suppositions, extrapolations, misinformation and factual errors as facts - Why should those responding to these historical errors, white supremacist views use another platform to expose their racist, naive or misinformed views?

If Desalin directed the same wholesale massacres of whites/slave owners as they committed against the kidnapped/stolen Africans of Ayiti - they would not be a race/skin color problem in Ayiti today.

If Desalin was vicious as some white historians portray him to be, the corrupt niggerized/affranchisized elites of Ayiti would not have the ability today to prevent Ayiti from celebrating its 200 year victory over slavery and white supremacist terror. White supremacy have killed and terrorized more Afrogenics in Ayiti and around the world than Desalin ever did to the Europeans.

Today American, European policy makers refuse to let the Ayitian (Haitian) people control their destiny, but at every turn Desalin gave safe passage to Americans living Au Cap Haitien or Jeremie (check the history books, see for yourself) when he had a chance to slaughter them. White supremacists and their agents/their restaveks in Haiti do not offer the same to the African masses of Ayiti.

Why does French brutal and genocidal policies against the Africans of Ayiti are not called massacres but Dessalines reactions their brutality are. Dessalines used the same tactics that the French military and French beneficiaries of slavery use against him and his people.

Where did Dessalines learn these tactics? What was Dessalines experience on the plantation under French hegemony? Should we measure brutality only in color gradation?

How many Europeans were killed, massacred or enslaved by Desalin? How many Africans were killed, enslaved by the whites of Ayiti? How many Afrogenics were kidnapped raped and killed during the slave trade?

How many Afrogenics/Africans/Ayitians must be killed by the French and other appendages of white supremacist terror for it to be a holocaust? How many Africans must be killed, enslaved, terrorized for it to be said that the whites/slaves owners of Ayiti were full of hate, they hated black people or were anti black.

Was Jan Jak Dessalin more hateful, more brutal, more savage and more uncivilized than the French, the Spaniards, the British and the Americans in Ayiti?

Who is in a better place to define terror – Rochambeau, Bonaparte, Las Casas, the children of slave owners or the descendants/children of Boukman, Makandal, Dessalines, Toussaint Louverture, Padre Jean, Charlemagne Peralte, Defile, Benoit Batraville or the millions of African who were kidnapped, tortured, terrorized, labored and died to produce wealth for western capitalist interests?

--Kwameawoyo 19:53, 8 September 2006 (UTC)Kwame Awoyo

Major rewrite
I've done a rewrite, adding a lot of information on Dessalines' life up to the end of the Revolution. The post-revolution sections still need a lot of work. The Revolution section can be fleshed out more - especially regarding the "brutal tactics" used by both Dessalines and his opponents. There should be something on how his actions were viewed by Haitians and French at the time of the Revolution, as well as how they are viewed today. I have left the NPOV tags on until these issues are resolved. Jwillbur 20:07, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Early Life: Birthplace
Dessalines was either born in Africa OR in Haiti. please rewrite. --Sensodyne 17:54, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

I think the closest historian to the period, Madiou, said he was born on Habitation Cormier. Nobody at the time called him a "bossale", which would have been expected had he actually been born in Africa. There were some African-born slaves who rose to positions of authority within slavery but they were rare. Much more common would be for a Creole slave to be promoted. --Stewart king (talk) 23:03, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Massacre on the whites of 1804
Did not Dessalines give the order of the massacre on the French whites on Haiti in 1804? If this is true, should't it be in this article? --85.226.42.9 (talk) 16:06, 5 June 2009 (UTC)

Who won the Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot?
At least twice in the article, Dessalines is said to have won the Battle of Crête-à-Pierrot, but the description of the battle (a siege of 20 days in which the French sized the objective) indicates a French victory, as does also the article for the battle itself. The French may have suffered such high casualties as to make the victory too costly, or perhaps the resistance of Dessalines' troops inspired later victories (like the Alamo in the Texan revolt against Mexico), but the battle can't have been a victory for both sides. I note here the contradiction, but do not have the knowledge to edit this or the Battle article; some editor with the requisite expertise should do so. MayerG (talk) 06:31, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

Oh My God no
Omg who wrote this page???? Dessalines did not become the leader under the 1801 constitution - that was Toussaint Louverture's constitution (Haiti was still part of France and was called Saint-Domingue then ). He made himself emperor under the 1805 constitution.

I do not have time to correct this page right now but I hope someone in a very near future will. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aucun (talk • contribs) 11:17, 28 November 2012 (UTC)

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Logic conflict
Was Dessalines, the "free black man"* who bought Jean-Jacques Dessalines (when he was Duclos), a black man or mixed-race? I assume he was considered black, and therefore this unsourced sentence (in italics) should be excised (it sounds like a fairy-tale to me, and should be sourced). It's the "Nonetheless" that bothers me.:
 * "Dessalines was embittered towards both whites and gens de couleur (the mixed-race inhabitants of Saint-Domingue). After the defeat of French royalists during the Haitian Revolution, he ordered the killing of all royalists to ensure that Saint-Domingue would be a nation.[5] Nonetheless, after declaring himself Governor-for-Life in 1804, Jean-Jacques Dessalines took his old master Dessalines into his house and gave him a job."

Does anyone know of a reliable source for this statement? Has a myth become the accepted storyline, or did Dessalines, the black slave owner, gain employment from his former slave?--Quisqualis (talk) 18:29, 13 January 2017 (UTC)

*according to an earlier paragraph (not sourced) in the article

 * Aha! The nonetheless was with respect to the brutality of the massacre of whites and royalists, not with respect to his embitterment towards whites and gens de couleur. I get it now, but it does need sourcing. I'm changing "nonetheless" to "yet."

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Biasedness
No cricitism topic, no sources mentioning his massacres and the repercussions of that massacres at all. If we cannot have a criticism topic to a genocidal leader what more could we have in Wikipedia? They tried to alleviate the blame here, when saying that the executions "were against slave owners" (Like it was justifiable anyway). He ordered the execution of virtually any white person, being men, women, or children. Only priests and artisans were spared (Because they were useful). So i don't think it's too hard to make and balanced and non biased article about a genocidal, especially when the article actually describes him in a positive light. This is absolutely disgusting. Liberal bias in Wikipedia may have some influence in allowing it until now. Genocides here are denied and downplayed!Sawyersx (talk) 19:48, 7 October 2021 (UTC)

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The graph of the population of the Dominican Republic appears to have a few discrepancies. In the caption below, and indeed in the graphic itself, the chart appears to show population changes from 1798-1897, which spans a full century, so seems a reasonable (rather than arbitrary) period to display. It covers 100 years beginning from before the Haitian revolution to show the effects the genocidal campaigns had on the Dominican population. Under the first bar, however, the date "1789" appears rather than the "1798" stated in the caption and on the left of the bar graph. Is this a transpositional typographical error? Or was census data not available for the year 1798, so the 1789 figure was used instead? So why not change the caption and graphic to "1789-1897"? Albeit, 109 years is a strangely arbitrary span of time, but it wouldn't be a significant offense in the grand scheme of things. Furthermore, a sentence in the text of the article (same "Genocide" section) mentions the population of the Dominican Republic was 175,000 in 1789, which further adds to the confusion. Is this text a mistake for using the "1789" date rather than the "1798" date? If all the dates are correct, then why does the bar graph disagree with the "175,000" population figure? The first bar in the graph clearly shows a population figure below 150,000, perhaps in the 120,000-130,000 range. Thus, though this bar is labeled "1789" which corresponds to the date mentioned in the text, the population figures do not match up. So which date is wrong? Are both dates wrong? Is one of the population figures wrong? Are both? Is the bar length wrong? Someone please edit to fix this discrepancy. Thank you.66.91.36.8 (talk) 06:16, 31 March 2023 (UTC)

 * There is no evidence supporting the claim of this massacre. This is right-wing Dominican nationalist is attempting to rewrite history and portray Haitians in a negative light. Oaurelien (talk) 09:28, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Rectification
Dessalines didn’t kill any French women. It wasn’t the truth. He ordered to kill all who think to maintain slavery on the lands of Haiti. At the same time he asked to protect the health personnel, the engineers. it was not a question of the extermination of French whites. moreover, Dessalines had many white friends and advisers. stop making him look like a jerk. we can understand the fact that he said no to slavery, no to colonial exploitation, no to racial segregation, you wanted him dead. But it's time to stop your bullshit about his memory. 107.123.33.23 (talk) 15:41, 22 August 2023 (UTC)

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Abbey House Gardens

Abbey House Gardens is a country house garden in Malmesbury, Wiltshire, England, covering 5 acre. The garden was transformed in the 1990s by the so-called Naked Gardeners: Ian and Barbara Pollard. In 2021 the property was acquired by new American owners, Whit and Kim Hanks. They plan to convert the house into a boutique hotel, while ensuring that the gardens are regularly opened to the public. During the 2022 summer season the gardens were opened from May to October on the second Saturday of each month.

Abbey House
Abbey House is a Tudor English country house built on part of the site of Malmesbury Abbey, a medieval Benedictine monastery which was dissolved in 1539. It is a Grade I listed building. The Tudor house was built on top of a substantial late 13th century undercroft which was part of the abbey buildings. The purpose of the medieval undercroft is not clear but it contains some fine Early English features. It was almost certainly built by Abbot Walter of Colerne (1260–1296) who undertook a substantial rebuilding programme at the abbey. The Tudor design of the house followed a characteristic half-H-shaped plan, with two protruding gabled bays at each end of the front elevation. To the east of the original Tudor house there is a substantial early 20th-century extension in the style of the 16th-century house. At the rear of the house, the windows of the medieval undercroft are visible on the ground floor level.

The Stumpe family
Abbey House was built in the 16th century as a home for the wealthy Stumpe family. William Stumpe, the founder of the dynasty, was one of England's most successful entrepreneurs in the time of Henry VIII. He made his fortune as a producer of woollen cloth. Following the closure of Malmesbury Abbey in 1539, Stumpe purchased the site. He gave a large part of the Abbey to the town as a parish church and reserved much of the rest of the site as the setting for a family home. Although we have no documentary evidence it seems likely that Stumpe began to build Abbey House in the 1540s and the building work was continued by his son, Sir James Stumpe, who inherited his father's huge fortune in 1552. James Stumpe and his wife, Lady Isabel, lived at Abbey House until his death in 1563. Queen Elizabeth I knew the Stumpes personally and borrowed money from them; at the time of James Stumpe's death the Queen owed him £100. In the 1590s William Stumpe's grandson, John Stumpe, lived at the house with his wife, Anne. A bitter argument developed between Anne Stumpe and Lady Mary Knyvett of Charlton Park. In 1595 Anne Stumpe complained to the Star Chamber that Mary Knyvett tried to kill her by sending a gunman to shoot her at Abbey House: the gunman missed but she was traumatised by the experience.

The manor of Malmesbury
By the early 1600s Abbey House was part of a large portfolio of property in the town known as the manor of Malmesbury. The lordship of the manor, and ownership of Abbey House, belonged in the early seventeenth century to the Danvers family. John Danvers, who was also the MP for Malmesbury, was a signatory to the death warrant of King Charles I. In the late 17th and early 18th century the manor was owned by Thomas Wharton and his son, Philip. They had reputations for wild living. Philip Wharton was one of the founders of the original Hellfire Club. Sir John Rushout bought the manor, including Abbey House, from the Whartons in 1743. Abbey House belonged to members of the Rushout family for 150 years until, in 1896, Lady Elizabeth Rushout broke up the manor and sold off Abbey House.

Residents in the 17th century included some remarkable people. By the time of the Civil War the tenants of Abbey House were members of the Royalist Ivie family. In 1644 the town was captured by a Parliamentarian army commanded by Nicholas Devereux, who requisitioned Abbey House. One of Devereux's senior officers, Marmaduke Pudsey, fell in love with Mary Ivie and, despite their political differences, they were married at Malmesbury Abbey on 30 September 1644. Mary's brother, Thomas Ivie was absent working for the East India Company in the 1640s and was governor of Madras, India. He returned to England and married Theodosia Garrett in 1649. She refused to move to Abbey House and wanted to live in London. They separated and she successfully sued him for maintenance payments. Ivie responded in 1654 by publishing a pamphlet denouncing his wife, titled Alimony Arraign'd. Thomas accused Theodosia of using witchcraft against him. The couple were reconciled in 1660 and Theodosia came to live at Abbey House during the 1660s. They argued again in about 1670 and Theodosia left Malmesbury for good. Thomas used his will to disinherit her.

After the death of Thomas Ivie in 1674, the lease on Abbey House transferred to his nephew, Thomas Stumpe. As a teenager he had been on an expedition with his uncle to the Amazon where he was captured by an indigenous cannibal tribe. The tribal queen took pity on him and spared his life. Thomas lived with Amazonian Indians for several years before escaping and returning to Wiltshire. The writer John Aubrey knew Stumpe and recounted his adventures in South America in his book The Natural History of Wiltshire. Thomas Stumpe lived at Abbey House for the last years of his life and died in 1698. He is commemorated by a fine monument in Malmesbury Abbey.

20th century
A wealthy young couple, Elliott and Eva Mackirdy, bought Abbey House in 1906. They decided to extend the property and rebuilt the eastern end of the building, employing the architect Harold Brakspear. The alterations were begun before the First World War and completed in the 1920s. In 1968, Eva Mackirdy sold Abbey House to a group of Anglican nuns who were members of the Community of St Andrew. They used the property as a retirement home for elderly sisters and their guests.

In 1994, Abbey House was bought by Ian and Barbara Pollard, who had previously owned Hazelbury Manor, another mansion near Box in Wiltshire.

The Naked Gardeners

Ian and Barbara Pollard set about transforming the 5 acre, and opened the gardens to the public in 1996. They achieved fame not only for the magnificent garden but also for their love of naturism and gardening without clothes, thus they became known as the Naked Gardeners. The garden design of Ian Pollard had two distinct parts. In the front of the house, on a flat area of two acres, he established a series of formal 'garden rooms', demarcated by box and yew hedges, with topiary, herbaceous borders and trained apples and pears. Hedges traced the outline of the abbey's Lady Chapel which extended into this part of the garden in the Middle Ages. At the back of the house Pollard created a terraced woodland garden on the steep natural hillside and a river garden, with a viewing mound, on the site of the monastic fish-ponds. Ian Pollard died in April 2019.

The Hanks connection and Abbey House Manor
In November 2021 Barbara Pollard sold Abbey House to Whit and Kim Hanks, who in March of that year had bought the nearby Old Bell Hotel. The couple had been regular visitors to the area for many years because Whit's family history research identified the town as the ancestral home of his paternal family. Before the 20th century, Hanks was a common name in the town, and a Mark Pleydell Hanks was living at Abbey House in 1841. By purchasing both the Old Bell and Abbey House, Whit and Kim Hanks had brought back into single ownership the two most prominent properties that belonged to the historic manor of Malmesbury before the break-up of the manor in 1896. In view of this association they renamed Abbey House as Abbey House Manor.

Plans for the future
The ambition of Whit and Kim Hanks over the period 2022–2024 is "to lovingly restore the house into a luxury hotel subject to receiving permissions". They also intend to restore and enhance Abbey House Manor gardens. In 2022, Freya Langford of the firm Graduate Gardeners was retained as head gardener, with a remit to manage the improvement and maintenance of the gardens. Langford had worked previously on the BBC TV programme Gardeners' World. During the 2022 summer season the gardens were opened to the public six times, from May to October on the second Saturday of each month, and the proceeds from the sale of tickets were given to Malmesbury Carnival for distribution to local charities. The intention was to explain to visitors the key features of the garden and the progress towards the goal of restoration and enhancement.

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The True Messiah

Psalm 89:20 & 27 "I have found David my servant; with my holy oil have I anointed him:" "Also I will make him my firstborn, higher than the kings of the earth."

Psalm 2:7 YHVH says "Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee."

Ezekiel 37:21-25 Thus saith YHVH the Almighty; "Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, and whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:     And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:      Neither shall they defile themselves any more with idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with their transgressions: I will save them out of their dwelling-places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their Mighty-One.      And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.      And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever."

Ezekiel 34:23-24 YHVH said, "And I will set up one shepherd over them, and he shall feed them, even my servant David: he shall feed them, and he shall be their shepherd.     And I YHVH will be their Mighty-One, and my servant David a prince among them; I YHVH have spoken it."

Jeremiah 30:9 YHVH has said, "But they shall serve YHVH, their Mighty-One, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them."

The Scriptures tells us the David was once anointed, but he will be anointed again, because in Psalms 92:10 says, "...I shall be anointed with fresh oil."

Isaiah 9:6-7 "For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, the everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.     Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of YHVH of hosts will perform this."

I Samuel 16:13 "Then Samuel took the horn of the oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethern: and the spirit of YHVH came upon David from thatr day forward."

Now as you read these scriptures, study them and search them out, and see who is the Messiah. Jesus was never anointed with oil, only David.

As a True Believer, I believe in the Creator YHVH the Almighty. I believe that He is eternal, from everlasting to everlasting. I believe that when we pray that we pray to the Almighty YHVH, not to another. I believe the words of the prophets that they are true; that is, the prophets of old. I believe in the coming Messiah and the resurrection of the dead. I believe that there is coming a time that there will be a man who will be chosen by the Amighty YHVH to put an end to all evils in the world, that will rebuild the Temple, that will bring the exiles back to Israel and will usher in the world to come. I believe that this coming Messiah is not Jesus Christ. I believe that the coming Messiah is none other than David the anointed king. He is the king that was, but now is not, but will come as King of kings. It is not Jesus Christ. He is not the anointed Messiah.

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Talk:Sheohar

About Congress Party's future in Bihar politics.
For the last 11 years congress worker’s in Bihar were desperate to severe their relation’s with the R.J.D. the congressmen in general felt honoured when it was decided that congress will go alone in 2009 Lok-Sabha election’s.

But they felt cheated the way congress opened the door’s for the person’s who were responsible for the 15 years Jungle Raj in Bihar. The entry of such person’s into the congress, who emerged on anti-Congress plank, was shocking not only for a Congressman but for the common man of Bihar.

These so called congressmen,these 18 persons who came from the anti-congress background, were made to join the party as,given congress party ticket to contest parliamentary elections in 2009 as they claimed that they would strengthen the party. Not only the congressmen of Bihar but even the common man of Bihar found it funny as everybody in the State of Bihar is aware that these elements who have joined the congress were thrown out of their erstwhile political parties, so they came to the congress like viruses, who will further weaken the party.

Most of these 18 candidates who joined to contest on the congress party ticket lost their security. How could the electorate of Bihar think of casting their votes in their favour, as these people were responsible for the negative development of Bihar. it was shocking for the electorate of Bihar that a national political party like congress could give such venomous options to the people of Bihar, the party which is seeking vote for development in rest of the country.

This is high time that congress should become responsible enough for the cause of Bihar

People of Bihar does not have any problem with family politics, but we Bihari's are no more in favour of criminalization of politics and we expect a clean candidature from a national party like congress.

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 * You live in Cymru? You ARE an Aphex fan - 211.30.227.30 (talk) 10:34, 6 May 2008 (UTC)

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Joyrex
Are you the same one on the website "We are the music Makers"? 184.78.138.57 (talk) 02:23, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

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Thirsty Ear Recordings

Thirsty Ear Recordings is an American independent record label. It was founded in the late 1970s as a marketing company for the then-unnamed alternative music field, and expanded to issue its own records in 1990.

Thirsty Ear came to prominence in the mid-1990s with a series of CD reissues of early industrial albums by artists such as Foetus, Einstürzende Neubauten, Marc Almond, Swans, and Test Dept. The label also released new albums by alternative rock bands such as Baby Ray, Madder Rose, and The Church. Foetus would remain on the label, recording original music on Thirsty Ear through 2001.

More recently, Thirsty Ear has released jazz albums as part of its Blue Series. Enlisting Matthew Shipp as the artistic director. The Blue Series has released albums by artists such as Shipp, William Parker, Charlie Hunter and Tim Berne, while also inviting electronica artists DJ Spooky, Meat Beat Manifesto, and Spring Heel Jack, hip-hoppers El-P and Antipop Consortium, and even Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo.

Roster

 * Antipop Consortium
 * Baby Ray
 * Beans
 * Tim Berne
 * Big Satan
 * blink.
 * Guillermo E. Brown
 * Roy Campbell
 * DJ Spooky
 * DJ Wally
 * Mark Eitzel
 * El-P
 * Peter Evans
 * Free Form Funky Freqs
 * The Free Zen Society
 * The Gang Font
 * Mary Halvorson and Jessica Pavone
 * Charlie Hunter and Bobby Previte as Groundtruther
 * Albert King
 * KTU
 * Mike Ladd
 * Dave Lombardo
 * Mat Maneri
 * Meat Beat Manifesto
 * Nils Petter Molvaer
 * Ben Neill
 * William Parker
 * Daniel Bernard Roumain
 * Carl Hancock Rux
 * Scanner with The Post Modern Jazz Quartet
 * Sexmob
 * Matthew Shipp
 * Sigmatropic
 * Spring Heel Jack
 * Craig Taborn
 * Visionfest
 * David S. Ware
 * Pete M. Wyer
 * Vernon Reid and DJ Logic are the Yohimbe Brothers
 * Weasel Walter
 * Eri Yamamoto

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User:Saric

Sub-pages: Roadmap

Since 2012, I've used User:Kodiologist instead of this account.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Wonderful Benefits of the Mediterranean Diet.

 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 dealt as copyvio. - Mailer Diablo 17:37, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

The Wonderful Benefits of the Mediterranean Diet.
Where to begin. Original research, very non-NPOV, and ends with a lovely bit of linkspam. DS 15:21, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Very strong delete.— Encephalon | ζ  15:32:05, 2005-08-19 (UTC)
 * Looking at the title I was expecting some very obscure band. Delete. Tonywalton [[Image:Pentacle_1.svg|15px]] | Talk 15:45, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Advertising spam, OR, PoV. --GraemeL 16:06, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong Delete - clearly advertising --Outlander 16:12, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Advertising, original research, POV and vanity all rolled into one neat package. -- WCFrancis 17:00, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete for all the reasons above, and it's a copyvio too. Jaxl | talk 17:30, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete: copyvio, and we already have Mediterranean diet. My God, my God, I am weary, weary, weary, weary  of unsolicited dietary advice.  Smerdis of Tlön 17:55, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as above. Alex.tan 18:20, August 19, 2005 (UTC)

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The Entrance, New South Wales

The Entrance is a coastal town in the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia. It is part of the Central Coast Council local government area. At the, The Entrance had a population of 4,244 people.

The town occupies a promontory bounded by water on three sides. The Entrance gains its name from the channel that runs along much of its northern border that is 'the entrance' to Tuggerah Lakes. The Entrance has been a holiday destination since the first guest house was established there in 1885.

The town has extensive tourist accommodation, with attractions including its beaches, lake and town centre. It is also used as a base for day trips to the Hunter Valley vineyards.

Settlement
It is believed Europeans first discovered The Entrance in 1796. It was found by Governor of Tasmania, Colonel David Collins, who had arrived on the First Fleet during the search for an escaped convict woman, Mary Morgan, who was said to be living with Aboriginal people to the North of the Hawkesbury River.

The area now known as The Entrance was occupied by Henry Holden in 1828. He occupied 640 acre and was bounded by the Pacific Ocean on the eastern side, Tuggerah Lake on the northern and western sides and extended all the way to the current Toowoon Bay Road. Holden named the property Towoon. In 1835 the deeds were issued to John Edye Manning and he sold the land for £200 to Thomas Cade Battley who renamed the property Terilbah. Both Battley and Manning have streets named in their honour at The Entrance.

In 1850, ownership was transferred to the Taylor Family and it was referred to as Tuggerah Beach. The land remained privately owned until about 1900 when it was divided up among the twelve children of Richard Brown Taylor and Norberta Maria Gertrude (née Watkins). The Taylors donated land to the Roman Catholic Church, The Church of England and The Entrance Public School. Many streets in the area are named after them including Taylor Street, Richard Street, Norberta Street and Victoria Street.

On 15 December 1910, Karagi Receiving Office was opened. Karagi, meaning the entrance, was the Aboriginal name for the point on the south bank of the channel at the Pacific Ocean, a name which has since been officially adopted. On 1 June 1911, Karagi Receiving Office was designated a post office. The name Karagi was changed on 15 November 1911 and the name "The Entrance" was adopted.

Growth
In 1889, the railway line was completed from Sydney to Newcastle and tourism began to develop in the area during the late 19th century following the construction of several guest houses. The first guest house in the area was built at The Entrance North by Mr and Mrs Walter Denniss in 1885 and was called Dunleith Guest House. Bayview Guest House was the first to be opened in the Entrance and was opened in 1900 by Mr and Mrs Dening (née Taylor). Pinehurst Guest House was another that was constructed in 1903 by Les Taylor and was by far the largest at that time. By 1912, members of the Taylor family were operating four guest houses at The Entrance.

In March 1920, 200 parcels of land were auctioned after it had become clear that the land in the township needed to be subdivided. Each block of land averaged a selling price of £60 to £80, although some blocks closer to the water sold for as much as £200. Immediately holiday houses began to be built rapidly. It also resulted in a total of 15 guest houses operating soon after, including Lakeside built by Rene Johnson (née Taylor) that was the most exclusive (the building has since relocated to Wyee). Although competition was fierce, the guesthouses had high occupancy rates in the booming times. Bayview Avenue, Ozone Street, and Lakeside Parade are named after guest houses that were located at The Entrance.

Despite the growth, the area was still isolated and access was restricted to a wagon on the bush track from Gosford or by a ferry from Wyong. The area was popular among fishermen and prior to 1908 the majority of boats that travelled to The Entrance used Tuggerah Jetty, the remains of which, still exists on the shore of Tuggerah Lake between the entrances to Wyong River and Ourimbah Creek. When Wyong River was dredged in 1908, the boats would take their catch into Wyong.

Prime Minister Robert Menzies, Mrs Menzies, and their daughter Miss. H. Menzies visited the town in October 1953. The Prime Minister spoke with the pupils at The Entrance Public School and spent the evening at the Floral Ball held at The Palm Grove Dance Hall. It was reported in The Gosford Times that "It was most probably the most magnificent floral display ever assembled ...in this district".

There was a proposal for the railway to have a branch line to The Entrance. The proposed route would have left the Main North line just south of Chittaway Creek and terminated at present day Taylor Park. There was also a proposal for a local government area to be named and centred on The Entrance. Prior to 2016, The Entrance was part of the former Wyong Shire.

Transport
The construction of Wyong Wharf allowed greater access to The Entrance and the demand for ferry transport boomed. Numerous operators took advantage of the demand and ferries such as Wyong, Waiwera, Loongana and Maheno were making regular journeys across Tuggerah Lake. In 1922, the bush track to Wyong was opened as a road. By the end of the 1920s the ferries were rendered obsolete by buses that could reach The Entrance quickly and cheaply.

The Entrance Bridge links The Entrance with The Entrance North over The Entrance Channel as part of Wilfred Barrett Drive. It was originally a wooden single lane bridge with bypass bays and a traffic light that allowed traffic travelling in the opposite direction to pass. It was opened in 1934. The original bridge was adequate until 1965 as it only served traffic travelling as far as The Entrance North.

By the end of 1965 the traffic flow over the old bridge at The Entrance increased to such an extent the structure was under constant repair. Work began on the current two lane, concrete structure on 17 July 1967 after a successful tender by Transbridge. The bridge was opened to traffic on 20 December 1968 and officially opened by the Premier of New South Wales Robert Askin on 18 April 1969.

The Entrance is serviced by Red Bus Services, and the town is the major terminus, with several routes terminating and beginning in Torrens Avenue. Generally, Red Bus Services run every 30 to 60 minutes from 5am to 12am. The depot for The Entrance Red Bus was on the corner of Denning Street and Blue Bay Road until the early 1980s, the site became the "St. Tropez" building.

Culture
The Entrance Cinema is located on the corner of The Entrance Road and Bayview Mall. The cinema was opened as The Prince Edward Theatre in 1934 and was immediately popular due to the fire that burnt the other cinema in The Entrance, the Wintergarden Theatre in the same year. The Prince Edward Theatre closed in 1977 but was reopened in 1981 when it was purchased and converted into a smaller cinema. A second screen was added in 1988. The cinema was subject to news coverage in 2006 when it refused to screen the film, The Da Vinci Code as it was contrary to the owner's beliefs.

There is a history walk along the main street and the ocean front boardwalk. This identifies with both text and photos important historic sites in the town.

In 1999, The Entrance waterfront was named 'The Pelican Capital of Australia' by Wyong Shire Council to coincide with the opening of a pelican feeding platform as part of the waterfront redevelopment. The daily practice attracts 20,000 visitors annually. The Entrance is also visited by anglers. The species of fish that can be found in the area include whiting, flathead, bream, and blackfish.

Notable people

 * Arthur Chipperfield – test cricketer 1930s, member of The Entrance Cricket Club
 * Max Dupain – photographer regularly holidayed at The Entrance, images taken during these stays are held by the Art Gallery of NSW and National Gallery of Victoria
 * Natalie Imbruglia – singer and actress, attended Our Lady of the Rosary School, The Entrance
 * Craig McLachlan – singer-songwriter and actor, attended The Entrance Public School

Commercial area
The town centre is located predominately along The Entrance Road, extending from Dening Street (named after the original owners of Bayview Guest House. ) to The Entrance Bridge. Lakeside Shopping Centre containing a Coles supermarket and speciality stores, is located on the corner of The Entrance Road and Dening Street. The main street of the town (The Entrance Road) has approximately 200 shops, banks and services. Most stores are independent retailers, with only a small number of chain stores in the town.

There is an increasing number of specialist food stores including bakeries, patisserie, two confectionery stores, one of the few specialist Asian supermarkets on the Central Coast, and three bottle shops. Markets are held each week. Legal, medical, the library, Australia Post and political offices are also located within the town. Medicare is co-located with Centrelink in Torrens Avenue. At the northern end of the main street the stores focus on the needs of tourists with fashion, cafes, and restaurants. The Golden Gate Cafe in the town is a "classic" Australian milk bar, having opened to serve patrons to the Prince Edward Cinema. It features booth seating, mirror displays, sweet and lolly counters.

The Entrance has two hotels, both located on The Entrance Road, these being the newer "The Lakes", opened in the 1940s, and the original "The Entrance Hotel" opened in the 1920s. Both contain original architectural features.

Mardi Gras
To celebrate the start of the summer tourist season, held traditionally on the first full weekend in December, The Entrance holds its annual Mardi Gras festival. The first Mardi Gras was held in 1950, and as such is one of the oldest town festivals in NSW. Mardi Gras is a major event of the town and district for the year. The festival is named Mardi Gras after the spirit of the carnivals and Mardi Gras of Europe. The event contains a number of events including fun runs, concerts, fireworks and displays. The highlight is the parade. This contains numerous floats from local commercial, sporting, and community organizations.

Due to a lack of funds Mardi Gras was not held in 2013. Mardi Gras returned in 2014 with some 75 groups participating and an attendance in excess of 12,500 people. In 2015 Mardi Gras was held on the last weekend in November.

Clubs, sport, and leisure facilities
The Entrance has a selection of sporting facilities. These include The Entrance Ocean Baths – a three pool salt water complex with free access all year around. Taylor Park is the main playing field in the town hosting cricket matches. The Entrance beach has one of the oldest surf clubs in the region, housed in an art deco building overlooking the beach. The Entrance Skate Park at Picnic Point allows free access to a purpose built skate board area. The Entrance Cycle & Walking track, is a concrete path starting in at Picnic Point allowing for off-road cycling alongside the lake. Fishing and boat ramp facilities are located at Picnic Point. The Entrance Memorial Park, within the town, features a band stand with views across the channel and lake.

1st Tuggerah Lakes Scout Group is the local Scout Troop. Established in 1932, they have a large, modern, group headquarters located in Baden-Powell reserve.

The Entrance District Cricket Club was founded in 1912. The has development of juniors, which commenced in the 1970s, the coaching programs and the ability of the club to have a mix of youth and experience on the playing field, have combined to see the club take out premierships throughout the grades as well as being Club Champions on a number of occasions.

Church services
Churches in the town provide services to Catholic (Our Lady of the Rosary), Anglican (All Saints), Uniting, and Presbyterian (St. Andrew's) faiths.

Education
Within The Entrance town there is a one state public primary school, The Entrance Public School. It is a K–6 school, having been established in November 1915 with an enrolment of 10 students. Previously a split site school, with the infants located on Oakland Avenue, it was amalgamated into a single site with new buildings in the early 2000s. The school covers the district from North Entrance to Shelly Beach. The school includes students who would have previously been educated at The Entrance North Public School, which was closed in 1989 due to low enrollments.

Glenvale Special School is located at The Entrance North, on the former grounds of The Entrance North Public School. It is a dual campus school, with a main campus at Narara near Gosford.

The Entrance High School was opened in 1970 and is located at Shelly Beach. It has since become the senior campus for Tuggerah Lakes Secondary College.

Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic School was located within the church grounds from 1952 until the 1990s. The school was a split site school from the 1970s when the infants school, "The Little School", was located on Shelly Beach road. The sites switched in 1987 with the primary school moving to Shelly Beach and the little school moving to the church grounds at The Entrance. The school is now located K–6 at Shelly Beach as a function of The Entrance Parish.

St. Peter's Catholic College is the parish secondary 7–12 school for Our Lady of the Rosary. It is located in Tuggerah.

Heritage listings
The Entrance has a number of heritage-listed sites, including:
 * Ocean Parade: The Entrance Ocean Pools

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Cause of death
As someone who respects stalking cat's traditions ( and knew him) PLEASE DO NOT list any "cause" of death. No cause was given to ANYONE from the public for a reason. Please respect that. This article from OCWeekly goes over that towards the end. http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/2012/11/dennis_avner_stalking_cat.php SiriusKarma (talk) 22:06, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

 * I don't think Wikipedia has respect for any traditions except its own. GreenReaper (talk) 22:32, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

 * Well Wiki is about citing sources. When it comes to this can can say with full confidence that no one outside the family besides myself and one other knows "cause" of death. So no, declaring it is "known" because people made guesses doesn't mean it's right or accurate. Come on Wiki, seriously. I agree with you Greenreaper, as I am currently in debate over a page here on wiki since the Iroquois people do not want it here. I've seen blatant disregard for religion/culture of Native people here a few times. SiriusKarma (talk) 00:31, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

 * There are dozens of news sites that use the term "suicide" to describe the cause of death. SiriusKarma you have a blatant disregard for wiki standards, you can not use your own opinions as research, even if you claim to have "seen" or "know" someone, it has to be documented and reliably sourced.  First person sourcing is not allowed on Wikipedia, even if the person the article is about were to want to state something, it has to be sourced outside of wikipedia.

 * I find it hypocritical when people want to recognize someone, a.i., establish them as well known enough to be on wikipedia, to focus on the good, but then try to hush hush "Oh no, can't let people know this about him, that's bad". That's a double standard.  If you don't want people to know he committed suicide, then delete the entire page.  You can't have it both ways.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.198.26.192 (talk) 13:52, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

 * Why did you make an edit stating that there were "numerous sources" to support your assertion, but fail to include any sources? Just Tidying Up (talk) 14:21, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

Hey unsigned user, I am Octavia Wolfe mentioned in that OCWeekly article. It is stated that this request is being done for religious reasons, as well as the public never being told anything. Again, speculation does not mean something is fact. Period. Nye County NEVER released the information to media or the public. At least they have some decency. So I have provided you with source. There is zero confirmed cause of death for Stalking Cat. It's all speculation. As I stated above... only a very few people know. As according to wiki standards you need a source stating cause to place cause here. SiriusKarma — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.231.23.85 (talk) 07:52, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

I've removed the bit about the incorrect cause of death. I'm also standing by the statement that for religious reasons any sort of speculation or posted cause is not correct for this page. Octavia Wolfe/Sirius Karma — Preceding unsigned comment added by SiriusKarma (talk • contribs) 22:42, 10 August 2016 (UTC)

Sorry, but Wikipedia's guidelines don't allow for this. Please do not remove this information again. 71.55.141.143 (talk) 05:25, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

 * Wikipedia doesn't have any policy supporting the idea that a reliably sourced opinion about the cause of death should be removed for religious reasons. The suicide conclusion should stay just as it is, sourced and attributed. Binksternet (talk) 05:59, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

I don't think it was suicide. He was a Native American rights activist. Do the math. 2600:8805:3A00:E200:4832:CBEF:A603:1C30 (talk) 01:48, 14 September 2021 (UTC)

 * Please provide a reliable source, or any source, really, for him being "a Native American rights activist". You seem to be suggesting he was killed. I am unaware of evidence for either of these claims. - CorbieVreccan  ☊ ☼ 02:17, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
 * For what little it's worth, while I don't have any on hand and I don't care to look them up at the moment, there are interviews of him claiming to be a Native American, and advocating for Native American rights. Though I am very skeptical of the implied "therefore he was murdered." The way the general public saw him, he would not have been a sufficient threat to the interests of anybody that's against Native American rights to warrant murdering. The most contribution he was really capable of (since very few people took him seriously) would be adding 1 to the number of people at a protest or whatever. People don't just turn up dead after merely being present to help add to numbers. 2601:CA:8501:7C50:4018:2D63:E53:9169 (talk) 15:01, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
 * No one has offered any evidence of his having Native American heritage, nor has any evidence been forthcoming that he had any involvement in any Native American commmunity or activism. His claims simply do not make sense. This looks to be a fantasy spread solely among non-Natives, and passed on by those who don't know how easy it is to verify or rule out these claims. Indian Country is actually a very small place. Even at a large, multi-ethnic, public protest, someone with his unusual appearance would stand out, be noticed and remembered. And most likely photographed and posted on social media, as well. If his claims were true, we'd have found evidence by now. - CorbieVreccan  ☊ ☼ 19:13, 28 March 2022 (UTC)

Major rewrite
Hello, I'm Just Tidying Up. I performed a major overhaul of this article last month; see and. I'd like to ask for help with continuing to expand and improve the Stalking Cat article.

The section about the time SC spent in Washington with Tess and Rick is probably the strongest, because it was covered in a detailed article. Some areas that could use expansion are:

 * His childhood
 * His adult life before undergoing the transformations
 * The experiences that inspired him to undergo the physical transformation
 * The time he spent in California
 * The time he spent in Nevada at the end of his life

There are multiple sources which have not been fully plumbed, particularly the audio interviews. I would like to invite others to work on expanding this article. If you have sources, I encourage you to list them here, in the "potential sources" section below. Also if you knew SC or if you know of others who knew him, please invite them to participate. Thank you. Just Tidying Up (talk) 14:38, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

 * I will also say: looking at the chronology, there are gaps. The section on Stalking Cat's early adulthood drops off in the early 80s, and the story does not pick up again until the mid-2000s. There's a gap of about 25 years (from Stalking Cat's early 20s to his late 40s) where there is no coverage in the article. I would greatly appreciate help finding and sourcing information for this gap, and for the other bullet points listed above. Thank you. Just Tidying Up (talk) 15:31, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

 * As far as childhood goes, they mention having an abusive step-father in The World's... and Me. Other than that, I wish I knew more as well, especially on matters where there seem to be some contradictions (some obits referred to Cat as transgender yet still used male pronouns; Shannon Larratt mentioned something about Cat being in Vietnam despite enlisting after the US had pulled out of Vietnam). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.46.98.220 (talk) 06:32, 7 December 2013 (UTC)

Potential sources
Please list viable sources here, particularly those that are unused or underused. Just Tidying Up (talk) 14:38, 7 November 2013 (UTC)

Gender identity
Regarding recent edits by regarding Stalking Cat's gender identity, are there any reliable sources to back up the notion that Avner was transgendered? All of the sources currently cited in the article (some of which discuss his body alterations at length) refer to him in the male gender. Only a single source indicates that his alterations were modeled after a female tiger. A single statement in one source is pretty weak alongside numerous other sources that refer to him as male without raising his gender identity. Also, for what it's worth, I met Avner a couple of times several years before he died and did not get the impression he was anything other than a cis-gendered male. --mwalimu59 (talk) 19:51, 8 March 2015 (UTC)

Sourcing
Clearly this person was a kind, gentle, and beloved member of many communities, and is greatly missed. Stalking Cat was clearly notable. But we have several problems with this article from a Wikipedia standpoint. For someone who was covered fairly extensively in popular culture, many of the sources here are blogs, or only sourced to one person's personal statements or opinions. I am going to have to cut some of the details here for this article to meet WP/encyclopedic standards - unless and until reliable sourcing can be found. Friends of this person, please don't take it personally; this is a policy issue about sourcing. I will be detailed in my edit summaries. Please see WP:RS and WP:IRS. I encourage writers interested in this person's life to seek other publishing venues if you want to explore the things we can't host here. - Co rb ie V    ☊ ☼ 18:18, 15 November 2017 (UTC)

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