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Piercing migration

Piercing migration is the process that occurs when a body piercing moves from its initial location. This process can be painful or go unnoticed, until it has progressed. Given enough time, a ring may migrate entirely outside of the skin, although it may only migrate a small amount and come to rest.

Potential causes and effects of migration
The effects of migration can vary widely. The most common form of migration is the way that heavy small gauge earrings will migrate downwards out of the earlobe, as is common in older women who have worn earrings most of their lives. This is known as the "cheese-cutter effect", as its action is easily compared to the method of cutting cheese with a fine wire. Contemporary body and ear piercing jewelry is much more balanced in its weight to gauge ratio, although migration is still possible with heavy jewelry, even if it is of large gauge.

Play or movement of the area pierced or implanted can also lead to migration, but it's not likely. Sometimes this can occur without an open wound being created, as the fistula stretches in one direction, and tissue fills in behind it. This is not uncommon with tongue piercings, although the migration usually stops before the jewelry would exit the body.

Damage to the tissue surrounding the piercing can also cause migration. A damaged piercing, much like a fresh piercing, must heal the fistula that it passes through, and the jewelry may start migrating in the direction of the wound, further damaging the fistula as it moves. Should the fistula heal, the migration may stop, although it may be inclined to continue migrating, as the re-healed area of tissue may not be as strong as the original fistula was.

Migration may also be caused by the body rejecting the material that the jewelry is made of. Like a case of a splinter or other foreign object, the body will try to push out foreign material, especially if it irritates the surrounding tissue. Contemporary body jewelry is made from surgical grade implant materials, so with proper aftercare during the healing phase and good hygiene, this is rare.

Pressure, especially the pressure caused by improperly performed surface, navel, and eyebrow piercings often leads to migration. Proper, custom made jewelry can reduce the risk of migration associated with these piercings, although it cannot eliminate it. This type of migration is sometimes accompanied by rejection due to improper drainage due to the length of piercing, as dead tissue builds up in the healing fistula.

Rejection rate
Rejection rate is a term used by the piercing industry. It applies to the chance of a piercing being forced out by the body. This is a body's natural reaction to a foreign object being inserted into the skin. This behavior can be witnessed with other objects such as splinters, road rash, or infections. With surface piercings being closer to the surface of the skin, the tendency to reject is higher, as it is easier for the body to force the jewelry out.

Surface piercing rejection rates
Surface piercings, such as a navel piercing, Christina piercing, eyebrow piercing, or a nape piercing, tend to have a higher rejection rate than piercings that pass through a deeper area of flesh or have holes on the opposite side of each other. Thus surface piercings stand in contrast to piercings such as tongue piercings, earrings, or nose piercings.

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Talk:American Bulldog

The whole history
1)I took out any mention of Spain, it's tangential at best, totally bullshit at worst. I have heard about Bulldogs being imported into Spain, but who knows how many and where to (Mallorca, the British colony perhaps?). I'm not trying to pick fights here, but nothing I've read and nothing I've heard point to a significant introduction of English bulldog blood into the strains of any Spanish breeds, nor the English bulldogs popularity there.

2)Calling the bulldog of England pre-1835, the Olde English Bulldog is silly, it just is. The "Olde English Bulldog" is a modern breed bred of several different bulldog-types, meaning it has other breeds infused - the pug, the White English Terrier and modern English Mastiff specifically. Further, the bulldog of pre-1835 was not distingushed as the "old" bulldog or anything like that. Who have you known who ever called his early model Mustang the old Mustang. "Old" suggests something of the past, for people who owned these dogs at any time up until 1835 they're ownership was in the present. Further, adding an "e" to the word old, is cheesy and never happened for as long or as often as people like to think. Finally, distinguishing the pre-1835 bulldog as something different than the modern bulldog is tricky. But we can say this, genetically they are the same breed and the English Bulldog in its pure form - the AKC variety is a bastardized version - still exists, just that his place of residence has changed.

ABNA is listed under registries, they are neither a registry or a club and should not fall under either category. They simply sanction shows where AB owners may show their dogs.

Reads like a love letter to the breed
This doesn’t feel particularly objective as-is. 90.252.51.239 (talk) 08:43, 4 October 2022 (UTC)

 * This is most definitely an apologetic article about the breed and should be changed in factual manner. 89.249.108.117 (talk) 12:50, 1 December 2022 (UTC)

This is clearly a propaganda article
Even leaving aside the ridiculous affectionate tone of the article, the editorial intent is made especially clear by omitting that American bulldogs are pitbulls as well as the associated facts of that breed. 107.199.157.69 (talk) 18:24, 25 March 2023 (UTC)

This article is ridiculously biased
From the beginning this article just reads like its avoiding the mention of something major. For whatever reason it goes off on a massive ramble about England and the Old English Bulldog, one mention of ‘it descends from the old english bulldog’ would be fine, the constant mention of england is weird considering the American Bulldog has nothing to do with england (other than its ancestor being from there).

The ‘Temperament and characteristics’ section is ridiculous, sources 16, 17, and 18 are completely unreliable and biased.

The ‘appearance’ section has no sources for some reason despite it being the easiest to find sources for.

’American Bulldogs are now safe from extinction and their popularity has increased in their homeland, either as a working/protector dog, as a family pet, or both. All over the world, they are used variously as "hog dogs" (catching escaped hogs or hunting feral pigs), as cattle drovers, and as working or sport K-9s. American Bulldogs also successfully compete in several dog sports such as dog obedience, Schutzhund, French Ring, Mondioring, Iron Dog competition, and weight pulling. They are also exhibited in conformation shows in the UKC, ABA, ABRA, ORKC, EKC, and NKC.’ This entire section is unsourced and makes some big claims.

same with this paragraph: ‘Perhaps the most important role of the American Bulldog and the reason for its survival, and in fact why it thrived throughout the South, was because of the presence of feralpigs, introduced to the New World and without predators. The bulldogs were the settlers' only means of sufficiently dealing with the vermin.’

This breed has a widely accepted history in dog fighting yet this article includes none of this, I can only assume its some sort of lobbying attempt to hide the history of these dogs. Some of the sources even say that it used to be a fighting dog but this article just completely omits it.

How can they be guardians on ranches and farms yet also a catch dog and hog hunter? That would put the livestock at risk, yet this is mentioned several times in the article, theres no proof of them being farm and ranch guardians other than people in present day going ‘bro trust me’.

also the sources provided for this - ‘Overall, the American Bulldog is a breed that truly falls in love with his family and will do anything to keep it safe if the dog correctly senses danger up to, and including, risking its life to save them.’ - are just two separate occasions, I don’t think two cases can reliably prove something.

I’m not going to comment on this article any further than this because I know people are going to argue so I’m just going to end this by saying, this article has a lot of problems if the dog was imported to america in the 17th century as you say, please provide sources from the 17th century documenting these dogs in America. Please use this website, (https://archive.org/), to find sources from before the 1960s to use in the history section. Someone with a neutral point of view needs to work on this article, its clearly written by breed advocates. SpookMew (talk) 14:13, 5 September 2023 (UTC)

Health
I removed the following paragraph for several reasons, namely because its source is specifically discussing the English bulldog, not the American bulldog and the source article is actually alluding to two different studies in 2016, Evaluating the performance of selection scans to detect selective sweeps in domestic dogs is the one involving 25 dog breeds and A genetic assessment of the English bulldog is the source for the 68 original dogs and the English bulldog prediction. . I think its good info, I'm just not sure if or how it could be incorporated in the American bulldog article as neither study actually used American bulldogs. "Bulldogs in general are excessively inbred. A 2016 study of 25 dog breeds found that bulldogs come from some of the oldest landraces and were not produced by mixing any. The same study cited evidence that the entire landrace and later breeds descend from just 68 original dogs. This lack of genetic diversity is reflected in current breeds." Annwfwn (talk) 10:18, 20 December 2023 (UTC) Annwfwn (talk) 10:18, 20 December 2023 (UTC)

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Marc Terenzi

Marc Eric Terenzi (born June 27, 1978) is an American pop singer and reality show participant. He was a member of the boy band Natural and was married to German pop/soul singer Sarah Connor from 2005 to 2008. They have a son named Tyler and a daughter named Summer.

Early life
Terenzi was born in Natick, Massachusetts to Italian-American parents Peter and Antoinette. At the age of three, his grandmother began training him at her dance studio. At the age of seven, Terenzi learned how to play piano at his mother's church by teaching himself. He also learned to play guitar himself after his father gave him a guitar for Christmas. At the age of 12, he began to act and host a Boston-based TV show called Studio A.T.V. Terenzi moved to Florida with a friend named Damion with little funds.

Natural
After arriving in Florida, Terenzi took on various jobs including a stint as a bouncer at the House of Blues in Orlando.

Terenzi eventually befriended an actor named Ben Bledsoe. In 1999, the pair soon teamed up with Michael Johnson, Patrick King, and later Josh Horn to form the boy band Natural.

The band created a buzz in the Orlando area eventually attracting attention from boy band mogul Lou Pearlman. Signed with Transcontinental Records they released their first single "Put Your Arms Around Me" in 2001. The single peaked at No. 12 in the German charts.

With American success lacking the group continued to release in Germany. Their debut album Keep It Natural peaked at No. 2 in the German charts. By 2004, they had released two albums and nine singles.

In 2002, Terenzi met German pop singer Sarah Connor. The couple began a relationship covertly despite Pearlman's wishes. Pearlman had rules for his boy bands: "No facial hair, no girlfriends, and no drinking in public." In 2004, Connor became pregnant and the couple was soon engaged. No longer able to keep the relationship secret, Pearlman wanted to replace Terenzi in the band. However, the other members refused and Natural disbanded after their final tour in 2004.

Solo career
Terenzi originally intended to form a new band after Natural, named Jaded Rose. However he and the other members had creative differences and his solo career was put on hold until 2005. Together with Connor he participated in a one-off reality show for German TV. The series was called Sarah & Marc in Love and followed their private lives, planning their wedding, and the recording of both their albums.

Terenzi's first solo single was titled "Heat Between the Sheets", which reached the No. 40 in the German charts. His follow-up single "Love to Be Loved By You" peaked at No. 3 on the German charts. The single was a song he played at the wedding ceremony, and thus had a huge audience. It became his signature song.

Terenzi released another single, "Can't Breathe Without You" as well as an album titled Awesome, which peaked at No. 8. To support the album, he embarked on a tour of the same name during 2006.

After the tour, Terenzi released a new single, "You Complete My Soul", in October 2006. It debuted at No. 35 on the German charts. Despite this, second album has yet to be released.

In 2007, after almost two years without an album release Terenzi left a note for his fans indicating he was still pursuing a musical career, "I know it has been a long time since you have heard something new from me. Its only because I have been searching for a while to find out who I really am. Just because you have not heard anything from me recently does not mean that I have stopped working. There is still a lot to come."

2008: Terenzi
On May 7, 2008, Terenzi announced via his official MySpace that he had formed a new band, "It is true that I am forming a new band. A project that is more edgy and modern. We plan on taking the new music to a whole new level. music that both my old fans and new fans will like, that is why I will form a new band. We don't know what the name of the project should be but if you have any Ideas let us know. you never know maybe we pick a name you give us. The members that will always be a part of this new band are Myself, Benny Richter and Michael Johnson (Natural). We are bringing a whole lot more edge to our music and are busy working in the studio right now. We have really big plans for this year so get ready for a crazy journey."

On May 21, it was announced Terenzi and his wife would participate in an eight part reality show titled, Sarah and Marc in Love on ProSieben in Germany. The special began airing on July 3, 2008. The documentary follows Connor's comeback as well as the formation of Terenzi's new band, his work on Terenzi Horror Nights, and the work on his new album.

In June 2008, it was announced Terenzi's new group had been formed under the name 'Terenzi'. The group consisted of Michael Johnson, Benny Richter, Kai Stuffel, and Christian Adameit. For their first single the group covered Michael Jackson's "Billie Jean" in a much slower arrangement. "Billie Jean" was scheduled to be released on August 8, 2008. An album titled Black Rose" was set to be released August 28, 2008.

Non-musical works
In 2001, while still in Natural, Terenzi provided the singing voice for US version of The Simpsons character Nelson in the episode "New Kids on the Blecch".

While on musical break, Terenzi was a member of Team Napster in Stefan Raab's Stock Car Crash Challenge at the Arena AufSchalke.

In 2007, Terenzi announced he would be working on a project called "Terenzi Horror Nights" which took place every weekend in October at Europa-Park in Rust, Germany. The idea was to bring the American idea of Halloween to Germany. Terenzi's band performed as well. Terenzi Horror Nights was slated make a return in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012.

In January 2017, he became a contestant in the German television version of Ich bin ein Star – Holt mich hier raus! (the German version of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!) and won it.

Personal life
Terenzi's first child, Tyler Marc Terenzi, was born on February 2, 2004. Terenzi and Connor married the same month. The couple later had a vow renewal in July 2005 as part of their reality show Sarah and Marc in Love. Connor gave birth to the couple's second child, Summer Antonia Soraya, on June 23, 2006. In November 2008, the couple announced their separation to the Bild tabloid newspaper.

In July 2015, his son Brady Ocean Terenzi was born.

Terenzi is married to German presenter Verena Kerth.

Awards

 * 2005: Bravo Otto Gold for Best Male Vocalist
 * 2006: Bravo Otto Bronze for Best Male Vocalist

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Strangford

Strangford (from Old Norse Strangr fjörðr, meaning "strong sea-inlet") is a small village at the mouth of Strangford Lough, on the Lecale peninsula in County Down, Northern Ireland. It had a population of 475 at the 2001 Census.

On the other side of the lough is Portaferry on the Ards Peninsula, and there is a ferry service between the two villages. The village has a small harbour, which is overlooked by rows of 19th-century cottages and a fine Georgian terrace.

Places of interest

 * Strangford Castle, near the harbour in Strangford, is a 16th-century tower house with a drop hole at roof level to defend the door.
 * Castle Ward consists of a 16th century tower house and an 18th century mansion built in two distinct architectural styles, Classical and Gothic, overlooking Strangford Lough. The property is owned by the National Trust. Castle Ward is one-and-one-half miles from Strangford.
 * Audley's Castle is a 15th-century castle one mile northeast of Strangford, overlooking Strangford Lough.
 * Audleystown Court Tomb is a Neolithic dual court tomb almost two miles northwest of Strangford.

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Talk:Jerry Fodor

Extremely exhausted
--Francesco Franco 17:00, 27 September 2006 (UTC) i will have to finish this off-line within the next two days.--Lacatosias 17:01, 5 January 2006 (UTC)

Posted
Posted second installment. I'll keep working on it.--Lacatosias 17:06, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

Failed Good Article
The article has very long sections. I'm sure they could be broken up into sub-sections so as not to appear so drawn-out. joturner 16:11, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Good article status added. joturner 16:50, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Photo
It seems that the photo of Fodor will have to be taken down because of uncertainty of copyright status. That's unfortunate. I think it defintely enhances the quality of the article for non-academic readers. Is it possible for someone over there in the States (I'm in Italy) to try to get copyright permission for this photo or replace it with one that is in the public domain? --Lacatosias 16:22, 8 April 2006 (UTC) Resolved. --Lacatosias 15:57, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

 * Photo is still lacking, BTW. Someone should probably write to Fodor at some point and ask permission, if anyone's has the time and interest any more.--Francesco Franco aka Lacatosias 11:03, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

 * This isn't exactly the most becoming photograph, either. static shakedown  20:13, 12 October 2012 (UTC)

Pronunciation
I think it would be nice (and prudent) to provide the pronunciation of some surnames that aren't intuitively clear. These include, notably, Fodor, Haugeland, as well as many others. They pose a difficulty for nonnative speakers, and I've even noticed native speakers occasionally stumble over them or pronounce them in different ways. Ariosto 07:55, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
 * It's pronounced "Frodo."137.205.183.109 (talk) 09:55, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

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be back
I'll come back and take a look at the "professionally edited" Featured Article that will have been made of this and numerous other philosophy articles in about three months. --Francesco Franco aka Lacatosias 20:00, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Eliminativism vs. reductionism
Is there any difference? A reductionist is either a reductionist in the weak sense that they think that mental phenomena are entirely determined by physical law (in which case they agree with Fodor), or they're reductionists in the sense that they don't think beliefs, desires, etc. really exist, in which case they're eliminativists. Is there an intermediate position? Cadr 18:37, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

 * I guess type physicalism could be a reductionist position which isn't eliminativist and which Fodor doesn't agree with. Cadr 18:39, 22 April 2007 (UTC)

 * As on: Searle?137.205.183.109 (talk) 09:56, 22 February 2016 (UTC)

GA Sweeps
This article has been reviewed as part of WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. The article history has been updated to reflect this review. Lampman (talk) 18:51, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

Discussion of Gall
The discussion of Gall is inaccurate and uncited. Here is discussion of Gall, http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.ne.18.030195.002043 Also see the wiki article on him for more info. Iamwpj (talk) 23:52, 28 April 2013 (UTC)

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Jerry passed away today
So edits to this page should be made to reflect that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.151.35.4 (talk) 22:57, 29 November 2017 (UTC)

Yeah, shoutouts if you also came here from the front page. Like, I thought this was the guy who made the travel guides... but no. Whatevs. Peace out. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.211.220.174 (talk) 05:24, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

Absence of Fiona Cowey
Fiona Cowey's book, WHAT'S WITHIN (1999), was largely aimed at reviving old-school empiricism of the Lockean sort. I'm simplifying greatly, but she saw Fodor and Chomsky as the chief rationalist innatist threats to her neo-Lockean project and devoted much of the book to a sweeping assault on Fodor in particular. It inspired a lengthy retort from Fodor, sharply worded enough to excite a stir in academia at the time. https://ruccs.rutgers.edu/jerry/26-personal-sites/jerry-fodor/277-doing-without-what-s-within-fiona-cowie-s-critique-of-nativism I find it very odd that none of this is mentioned. I inserted a few words under "Criticism" in this article, but it was reverted. I'm not sure why, but perhaps it needs further development. Volunteers? Ideas? --Christofurio (talk) 19:46, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

Cowie, BTW, is a professor at the California Institute of Technology. Her critique of contemporary innatists began life as a PhD dissertation.

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Mount Suhora Observatory

The Mount Suhora Observatory (Obserwatorium astronomiczne na Suhorze) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the Astronomy department of the Pedagogical University of Cracow. It is located on Mount Suhora in the Gorce Mountains within the Gorce National Park, 50 km south of Kraków.

History
Founded on November 5, 1987, Mt. Suhora Observatory serves a dual purpose. It is meant as a place of learning for students of the University's Astronomy department from Kraków as well as the research-work facility. The observatory has one 0.6 metre Cassegrain telescope along with a photometer and a CCD camera.

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List of Barbadian flags

This is a list of flags used in Barbados.

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George Henry Andrews

George Henry Andrews (1926 – September 3, 1997) was a Liberian sports journalist and later minister of Tourism and Cultural Affairs of Liberia. He presided over a pivotal election in the 1990s.

Life
Andrews was born in Cape Palmas, Liberia in 1926. His father, Lawrence Andrews, had impregnated a native girl and felt too ashamed to admit being the father of the child. Lawrence condemned the girl as a liar and left the area. He would not see his son again for nearly 40 years. Andrews grew up in abject poverty, but as a descendant of Americo-Liberian, being fair skinned through the blood of his father, he managed to use the perceived social status to get a scholarship to high school.

Andrews excelled in school. Perhaps because he felt the need to nullify his father's complete rejection, he pushed himself and was valedictorian of every academic class he ever entered. His mother died in 1941 and he later said he was ashamed because part of him had always been embarrassed by the fact that his mother was an uneducated member of the ethnic and social underclass. In 1945 Andrews entered journalism school and graduated to become Liberia's most popular sports announcer. His play-by-play was so popular that there are still Liberians today who talk admiringly about his quips and speaking style.

By 1949, Andrews was tired of sports casting. He felt that Liberia did not present enough opportunities for an ambitious young man, so he applied to attend university in the US and was accepted to the University of Cincinnati, Ohio where he studied journalism. In the United States he excelled at school but was a bit of a playboy. By the end of his studies in 1954, he had gotten a son by a young African-American fellow student. Despite vowing to never do what his father had done, George denied being the father of the child and left the U.S. so that the mother could not force him to support the child.

Back in Liberia, Andrews started an advertising business with the money he had saved while working in America. The business soon died from lack of prospects in the small backward African country, but through it he met R.D. Urey, the father of the woman who would later become his wife. Urey was a man of small stature but great power. He was mayor of what was at the time Liberia's second city, Careysburg. He also owned huge tracts of rubber trees leased out to the Firestone Rubber Company. The young George impressed the older Urey with his desire for learning and his drive. Soon, Andrews, with Urey, was attending meetings of Liberia's one and only political party, the True Whigs.

Andrews was an excellent speaker, having been trained as a radio announcer, and impressed the big boys of the party. He was hired in 1958 as news anchor for the then fledgling government TV station. His style and the exposure of TV brought young Andrews fame. He married Esther Urey, the 4th of R.D. Ureys seven daughters in 1960. Some say the bride was already pregnant at the wedding, but Andrews always insisted that the child was born two months premature. Now married and respectable in Liberia's conservative society, George moved up the ranks at the Ministry of Information. On the election of William R. Tolbert in 1973, Andrews was appointed to the cabinet of the president as Minister of Information, Cultural Affairs, and Tourism. He now had eight children, not all of them by his wife. His infidelity brought a souring of relations between him and his wife's powerful family. But his wife loved him and protected him after Urey had decided the brash playboy should be brought down a notch.

Andrews was now a powerful man in his own right. He built a three-story mansion in a fashionable part of Monrovia, the capital city, and moved in with his wife and all eight of his children. This was the beginning of the talk that George might be presidential material. Andrews himself made no bones that he was capable of holding any position in the government.

The turning point
In 1976, at the prompting of his wife, Andrews contacted his father who was now an American citizen living in Pennsylvania. That episode made him desire to find his roots, so he made sort of a pilgrimage to his birthplace in Liberia, Cape Palmas. The experience left him changed forever.

He saw people who had not progressed in all the time he had been gone. They lived in constant and backbreaking poverty. He would later tell his wife that all his sins came back to him then, especially how he had treated the American mother of his first child. As minister of Tourism and Cultural Affairs he was able to help his hometown, and was soon diverting government projects and aid their way. He apologized to the mother of his first child, and sent for his son in the U.S. to come and live with him in Liberia. Andrews was now preoccupied with the poverty of his hometown. He wrote in a letter to his father,

 * It's like I have only just awakened and am seeing all this poverty and suffering for the first time. I cannot believe people live like this, or that others allow them to.

He felt uncomfortable with his part and place in the cabinet of a political system he now thought of as evil. But with 8 children and a wife, he was torn between following his new ideals and the reality of having to support his family. In January 1980, Andrews gave an interview to Johnathan Raffle, a young man he had recruited into the ministry's broadcasting wing. The young man, knowing of Andrews' new thinking on the situation in the country, asked him point blank what he felt about the fact that the economy of the country was controlled by Lebanese traders who had settled in Liberia after fleeing war in Lebanon. It was common knowledge in the country that the Lebanese community paid off the President to keep their favored position.

Andrews felt that he could not dodge the question. He expounded a startlingly frank diatribe against the evils of a government that oppressed its own people and kept foreign parasites protected so that they could continue to "suck the blood of the people." The interview caused a sensation in the country. For the Lebanese community and the ruling class, he was a Judas, a turncoat seeking personal fame and power. To the indigenous masses, he was an instant hero, the rare man in Africa who is willing to speak the truth in public.

The president, under pressure from the Lebanese, demanded a retraction and apology from his Information Minister. Andrews refused, and in a second interview, said that "it would be as evil to apologize for truth, as it would be to lie." President Tolbert was incensed, and fired him the next day. He was blacklisted in the tiny nation and had to leave the country to find employment. In June 1980 his entire family moved to neighboring Côte d'Ivoire where he took a job as head of the secretariat for the African Development Bank. Writing to his son at this time, Andrews said what hurt him most was that through it all, not one of the friends in the cabinet he had known since his teenage years stood up to back him or support him.

Less than 7 months later, the president was dead, tortured and assassinated in his own bedroom, and the 13 ministers of his cabinet lined up and shot by a group of military men led by Samuel K. Doe, a master sergeant in the Liberian Army. A delegation from the coup leaders who had taken control of the government went to Côte d'Ivoire to offer the former minister the position as Liberian Ambassador to the United States, but Andrews declined, not wanting to work with people he believed were as oppressive as the ones they removed.

The country slowly degenerated into civil war. Prince Johnson's warring faction, the INPFL, captured Doe at the Monrovia Freeport and executed Doe in Caldwell in Monrovia. The fighting forces signed a peace deal in 1992. With that, Andrews returned home to find that his stature as an honest speaker of truth had grown. When the country decided to hold elections, it was near unanimous that he was the only person viewed by the people as having both the intelligence and the integrity to run the elections. Most historians attribute Liberia's peaceful transition into democracy to his leadership.

Andrews died on September 3, 1997, of a heart attack right after returning excess money to the Nigerian government which had partly financed the Liberian election. His decision to return the money was not viewed favorably by many in positions of power and rumors persist today that his death was not natural. Andrews will be remembered as a man who rose above his faults to become a champion of his people. He was buried at Palm Grove Cemetery in Monrovia.

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Leos Carax

Alex Christophe Dupont (born 22 November 1960), best known as Leos Carax, is a French film director, critic and writer. Carax is noted for his poetic style and his tortured depictions of love. His first major work was Boy Meets Girl (1984), and his notable works include Les Amants du Pont-Neuf (1991), Holy Motors (2012) and Annette (2021). For the last, he won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. His professional name is an anagram of his real name, 'Alex', and 'Oscar'.

Early life
Carax was born Alex Christophe Dupont in Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, a commune in the suburbs of Paris, France. His mother is American and his father is French.

Career
Carax's film career began with a series of short films, and as a film critic, before he released Boy Meets Girl (1984), which established his reputation for a mature visual style. It also saw the first grouping of Carax with Denis Lavant and cinematographer Jean-Yves Escoffier. His next film was Mauvais Sang (literally Bad Blood but mostly known as The Night is Young) in 1986, which alienated some of his audience, but continued to explore the complexities of love in the modern world, this time through a darker, more criminal viewpoint. The work was clearly an homage to French New Wave cinema, and his use of such actresses as Juliette Binoche was a tribute to his influences, especially Jean-Luc Godard. The film was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.

Five years later, Carax returned to directing with Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, an expensive undertaking as Parisian authorities granted him only 10 days to film on Pont Neuf. His initial reaction to the problems of filming on a public bridge had been to construct a model of the bridge in the community of Lansargues, in Southern France. But on the first day of filming Lavant severely injured his thumb, which pushed the movie back by a month. Subsequent financial difficulties further pushed filming over a much longer period than intended. The movie was released to critical acclaim and opened the door for Carax to enter more experimental waters with his fourth feature, Pola X (1999), an adaptation of Herman Melville's Pierre: or, The Ambiguities.

Carax's 2012 film Holy Motors also stars Lavant. The film competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. In 2021, Carax directed Annette, a music-filled drama feature film written by Sparks and starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard. In 2017, Carax performed vocals and accordion on the Sparks track "When You're a French Director" from their album Hippopotamus.

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Talk:Jennifer Lopez (meteorologist)

No relation
How do we KNOW that she is of no relation to the REAL Jennifer Lopez? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.128.222.4 (talk • contribs).
 * We don't. I'll remove it. Ardric47 04:49, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Besides, aren't we all related to Adam and Eve, our most recent common ancestors? Including "unrelated" would first need to cite reliable sources that define "relatedness" in the first place. --Damian Yerrick (talk) 20:26, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

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text: User:Grand Cru Sock 1 on August 1

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