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Rorschach?
What the heck is the fan favorite psychotic vigilante "Rorschach" ? JackofOz 05:57, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
 * Rorschach (comics), from the Watchmen comics series. He's the one wearing the white mask with inkblots.—jiy (talk) 06:35, 24 November 2005 (UTC)

Birth date
OK, this is a worry. The lead para says 29 December 1972, but the infobox says 28 December 1971. Which is it, and let's have a citation to prove it. JackofOz 12:02, 25 October 2006 (UTC)...............It is 1972 because he was in the year above me...--Lee F 15:04, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
 * That doesn't really count as a citation, nor does it give us a firm date. Tinkstar1985 12:21, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

 * It seems to have become well-cited in the meantime. --   Jack of Oz   [your turn]  12:13, 18 August 2011 (UTC)

What about other films?
don't you think there are some serious stuff in his filmography that worth some mention? like closer, mr.ripley, and else...--Quinlan Vos 15:38, 27 December 2006 (UTC)

Missing photo
The person who removed his photo in May is called Szczepan1990  ? I haven't learned how to properly upload photos to Wikimedia Commons yet, otherwise I'd take care of it. I don't understand why the image was removed. eveningscribe 18:53, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

 * I think you're reading the history incorrectly; Szczepan1990 has not edited this article. However, there have been several pictures removed, all because they either do not contain proper copyright information or they violate fair use.  It is also possible that the image was deleted for these reasons, as well. María ( críticame ) 19:48, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the explanation! eveningscribe 18:59, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Questionable sources
Just Jared (justjared.com) is a blog. It is self-published (apparently). This source does not meet WP:BLP and WP:V for WP:BLP. Please investigate and decide what to do. If these multiple references to that blog are being used as sources for statements in this biographical article Jude Law, the statements citing this source (multiple ones) will need either more acceptable sources in keeping with WP:BLP etc. or they will be need to be deleted. Self-published blogs are not generally acceptable as sources in these articles on living persons, even if they are public figures (celebrities). Such articles require reliable and verifiable sources as defined in WP:V. WP:V is one of Wikipedia's core editing policies, as is WP:BLP. See the links in the talk header and template tags. Thanks. No non-official unauthorized self-published fansites are permissible as sources or as external links in this article: WP:EL. Links to videos posted by people in sites like Youtube and AOL are potential copyright violations (for policies, see WP:Copyvio; Media copyright questions, etc.); they may be deleted as well. [will be away; these problems still need resolution. See cleanup tag at top of article.] --NYScholar (talk) 00:59, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

I entirely agree re excessive reliance upon a self-published blog for many citations in this article. Here are some other (hopefully better) sources of possible use:   Maybe it would now be a good idea to start replacing the blog citations with more reliable ones. Peter morrell 07:19, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

 * Hi, an editor put a hidden note in the article which asked if the use of the website JustJared.com is allowable in Wikipedia. While this celebrity gossip website is not exactly a NewYorkTimes.com - level source (sarcasm!), it may have the level of editorial oversight required of Wikipedia sources. Random, anonymous users cannot just post stuff on it. But is their a proper editorial board? I don't know. If there is proper editorial oversight, JustJared.com may be an OK source, as long as what they are claiming is factual (e.g., "Jude Law cut the ribbon at a the unveiling of a new AIDS clinic") rather than speculative and gossip-mongering ("Jude Law seen leaving health clinic; is he ill??).Nazamo (talk) 18:11, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

First name
His real name is David Jude Law, which is why he is often called Dave by photographers who obviously feel the 'Jude' part is pretentious.

http://www.biggeststars.com/j/jude-law-home.html http://www.mooviees.com/2897-Jude-Law/celebrity

I amended his details to reflect this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.163.55.54 (talk) 16:45, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

Pearl Lowe incident
I think the Pearl Lowe incident is important because it might mark a decline in fanfare.

In 2001, rumours spread that Goffey and Lowe had engaged in 'wife-swapping' with Jude Law and his now ex-wife Sadie Frost, whilst on holiday in Greece. Although Law denied this, Lowe later told News of the World in 2005:"The story's correct, even though I wish it wasn't.... We thought it would be fun, but it turned out to have some unpleasant repercussions. Danny and I had real problems in our relationship as a result." The swinging sessions are also speculated to be what caused Jude and Sadie's divorce. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.112.8.152 (talk) 14:17, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Birth name
Can anybody enlighten me as to why, whenever anybody inserts Jude Law's real name -David Jude Heyworth Law- it is immediately removed? Is there something about this whole thing that I'm not understanding?Ravenscroft32 (talk) 21:07, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Tried again. --Old Moonraker (talk) 22:08, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * Policy in MOS:BIO. --Old Moonraker (talk) 22:26, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

One of London free papers (either Metro or London Lite or the other one) is in the habit of calling him Dave, apparently seeing 'Jude' as pretentious. Perhaps his fans see the use/acknowledgement of his 'real' first name here as a similar criticism of him? Catiline63 (talk) 08:04, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Please assume good faith. That wasn't the objection the other editor had to the source, it was because the actual page of the source was a column. Since then, sources that aren't disputed have been added and there is no actual need for the disputed column source. Wildhartlivie (talk) 08:54, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * As the Webster's reference has in turn been disputed and removed, we are left only with Who's Who, from the Oxford University Press. Unfortunately, while confirming "David", it does not include "Heyworth". --Old Moonraker (talk) 10:18, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

In the official birth and marriage records on www.ancestry.co.uk (subscription only, unfortunately), he is listed as David Jude H Law and David J H Law, respectively. His mother's maiden name is Heyworth, but his full name is all over the internet. I have changed his name in the Wiki article numerous times, but there is one contributor in particular who only allows "Jude Law", period, and changes it back immediately. Don't know why. Let's see how long it lasts this time! Ravenscroft32 (talk) 17:02, 2 August 2009 (UTC)

As per Reliable sources there's nothing intrinsically wrong with a newspaper column as a source. A column concerning itself with presenting the biographies of certain personalities does not equate with an 'opinion piece' which is just that, a journalist's subjective opinion. Only the latter is frowned upon by wikipedia. Catiline63 (talk) 14:22, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Pace User:Wildhartlivie, it seems that following recent changes the Telegraph reference is needed again. If there is agreement I propose to reinstate it, using as reference the published, print edition, thus: AFAICS this would be a perfectly legitimate source. It's not an opinion piece: it's an article like any other, written by a reputable genealogist who formerly worked at the Public Record Office. --Old Moonraker (talk) 15:22, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, I don't particularly care one way or another about the source, if others think it is reliable. There is another editor who seems to strongly dispute it, however. I'm not certain why a second Who's Who source was needed today. I did remove the parenthesis from the name "David". Who's Who put that name in parenthesis because he's not known by that name, just to clarify why I removed them. Wildhartlivie (talk) 18:32, 3 August 2009 (UTC)

 * So we can consider the Telegraph article as admissible, yes?Catiline63 (talk) 11:15, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I think if you want a definitive answer, you could take it to WP:RS/N to settle any questions regarding the reliability of the column. Wildhartlivie (talk) 11:30, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
 * User:Catiline63 has taken up this suggestion: See (and comment) here. --Old Moonraker (talk) 17:04, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I think that's the best way to settle the question. Wildhartlivie (talk) 17:13, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
 * No objections, either here or at WP:RS/N: time to put this to bed. --Old Moonraker (talk) 08:14, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Hamlet
I have trimmed this sub-section heavily because, as another editor has pointed out, "the section for one play is as long as the sections for either the 1990s or the 2000s". This has meant taking out the names of the other cast members, to concentrate on Law as the WP:TOPIC of the article, and cutting the verbatim quotes from various reviewers, as WP:NPS would have us do. --Old Moonraker (talk) 14:52, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I'm the other editor who said that, and I agree wholeheartedly with the trim. The section on one performance had aquired undue weight in comparison with Law's entire career. Wildhartlivie (talk) 00:36, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * An editor removed all reviews from the Hamlet section, citing "no need for any reviews, because of a maintain a neutral, unbiased POV. (WP:NPOV, WP:NPV, WP:NEU)". Those policies do not mean to remove reviews because critical response was mixed. My concern initially was that small portions of reviews that did say something both positive and negative were being selectively quoted to use only the positive portions of the review. That is the very definition of cherrypicking and POV referencing. Then the section became overweighted with critical response in order to weight the article with only the positive portions of the reviews. The last edit trimmed the section down to representing both views and lessened the undue weight given the performances. I have been concerned that this was being done by an editor who is a fan of Law's and who almost exclusively edits this article and articles pertaining to Law's career, with one edit to the Hamlet section using the edit summary of "break a leg" - a message to Law. Such single-purpose accounts are sometimes an issue when the work in question exists to promote someone. WP:NPOV does not mean that we will only include positive critical response to an actor's work. This is an issue that most certainly is a problem with this article. Wildhartlivie (talk) 23:17, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I think Old Moonraker was right to trim the section down. I had noticed that it was going into too much detail regarding this one project, relative to the rest of Law's career.  I think it's good to refer back to reviews, and it's fair to say that not all reviews have been glowing, although most seem to be favourable to some degree.  The way it's currently worded it gives emphasis to an example of a positive review, which seems representative of the positive reviews, and summarizes the not-so-positive and refers to them as "mixed", which also seems fair to me in terms of neutrality.   The less positive reviews don't seem to focus on the same aspect of Law or his performance, so calling them "mixed" seems like a good summary.   Cherrypicking is to be avoided, and this helps to avoid it. Rossrs (talk) 13:05, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Semaphore style
A recent edit referred to a piece in The New York Times to show that not all reviews were positive. This extra example shouldn't be added to the text—the section is big enough already—but out of curiosity I looked it up: Ready, Set, Emote: A Race to His Doom if anybody else wants a look. --Old Moonraker (talk) 09:14, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Hi there. I never intended to add the NYT's review. I read it when it's published in NYT, and I'm not a big fan of Ben Brantley's signature style of "celebrity mockery". But since some ip editor keeps referring to the WP's review as the "only" negative one, I brought it up for the sake of NPOV. I don't want this article to look foolish for people who have read the NYT's review. - Gene2010 (talk) 04:56, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
 * Agree. I don't recognise Brantley's barbs as accurately reflecting the production I saw, but they're on record and, for the sake of accuracy, new edits can't ignore them. You are right to revert any that do. --Old Moonraker (talk) 10:10, 9 March 2011 (UTC)

Personal life - affair references prohibited
What is the reasoning for the undoing of any commentary mentioning Jude Laws affair? The comments made are factual and backed up by multiple reliable sources (his own admissions and apology as cited by the BBC). I would think this is an important aspect of his "Personal life" and better explains his separation from Fiancé Miller? Is there some valid reason it is edited within minutes every time a reference to this incident is mentioned? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.169.141.162 (talk) 13:37, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I don't know why anyone else removed it, but as for myself, it isn't very encyclopedic as content, and takes the form more of tabloid. I don't recall a featured or good article including content that says one celebrity apologized to another celebrity. There is no mandate for Wikipedia to explain a break-up, any more than there a mandate for Wikipedia to explain why he didn't marry the mother of his new baby. It's gossip. Wildhartlivie (talk) 15:21, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Hm, I actually came to the article specifically looking to remember what happened with that scandal/affair. If anyone has the info and can add it again, it seemed to be a fairly large news story and as noted below, death details are on wikipedia as well.  Jairuscobb (talk) 17:33, 25 August 2011 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. Understood. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.101.56.199 (talk) 00:49, 31 October 2009 (UTC)

The affair is listed under Sienna Miller's page, why not Jude Law's? It doesn't make sense... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.84.160.114 (talk) 22:34, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

Additional modification of Jude Law's career
In 2001, he was starred as "Vassili Zaitsev" in "Enemy at the Gate" directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.72.31.131 (talk) 12:42, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Yes, he did. I will add it now. It is worth mentioning. —Preceding unsigned comment added by A law student (talk • contribs) 19:43, 24 January 2010 (UTC)

Names of his children with Sadie Frost
According to CarbonZeroPlanet.org they are Rafferty Jellicoe Law (some furthur digging suggested that there is a third middle name - Frost), Iris Tallulah Elizabeth Law and Rudy Indiana Otis Law. Link 1 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.182.3.228 (talk) 14:21, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Thanks for bringing the issue to the talk page. Are you sure of this link? Trying to verify I received: "You searched for jude law No occurrences found". But, it may not be a reliable source, as defined, anyhow. --Old Moonraker (talk) 14:39, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

If it isn't too much trouble type "Rafferty Jellicoe Frost Iris Tallulah Elizabeth" into Google. The first link (CarbonZeroPlanet.org Projects: Tree Tags) should verify. Also ancestry.co.uk verify's Rafferty's name, for the most part -- he is listed as Rafferty Jellicoe F Law. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.182.3.228 (talk) 15:05, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
 * Interesting result with the tree tags: certainly a new angle I hadn't considered! Thanks for that. Not sufficient for WP:RS and WP:BLP though, and the other site is by payment only. We're not there yet. --Old Moonraker (talk) 16:46, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Jude Law ist Jude
Jude Law is jewish. Sure it can be everything from here [] or here Jude but it is obvious. --DerAkademiker (talk) 09:49, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
 * "It is obvious" still needs a source, otherwise it's WP:NOR, and not allowed. --Old Moonraker (talk) 10:22, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism
"occupation: alyssa's lover" what on earth? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.196.142.142 (talk) 04:43, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Residence
Hey there @Nikkimaria, apologies for using the dailymail as a source for that one passage - totally forgot about its unreliability consensus. That being said, I did find some more reliable sources regarding Law having resided in Highgate (examples: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). However, I don't want to assume that Law still lives there, although I feel that it could be worthwhile including the last notable place he lived in. Is there a way I could possibly write something regarding this? Would it be irrelevant? Thank you. B3251 (talk) 03:55, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

 * Hi B3251, I'm not sure what you mean by "notable" in this context - could you explain? Nikkimaria (talk) 03:56, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Sorry @Nikkimaria, I meant 'notable' per se as in The Grove, Highgate from this source by John Rentoul of The Independent (considered reliable), or if that doesn't work, just Highgate itself. I hope that helps, as I'd like to include what is at least his last publicly known residence.
 * My end goal is a possible GAN, but not quite there yet. :P B3251 (talk) 04:02, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

 * Okay, I think that'd be fine with the improved sourcing. Nikkimaria (talk) 04:10, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm just not sure how I'd write it; can I just write that he has lived there? Or should I just write it as if he still does live there B3251 (talk) 04:13, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

 * Would suggest as of. Nikkimaria (talk) 04:22, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I just made an addition using the more reliable sources. I didn't imply that he currently lives there, but it may be kinda wonky. I wasn't sure where to/how to add given the dates of the articles so I ended up not doing that, but if you'd like to give it a check and see if I'm on the right track or if there's any bits that could be improved, that would be great. Thank you :). B3251 (talk) 04:29, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

Movie Credit
He also appear in the 2004 film: Lemony Snicker’s A series of Unfortunate Events 104.136.231.178 (talk) 12:44, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

 * He doesn’t seem to have a major role in the film, as he is just credited as being the narrator. I wouldn’t add it to this article because this more focuses on roles which he is known for, but feel free to add it to his credits list if it’s not already there. B3251 (talk) 13:24, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

 * ,, there's a few pieces of odd sourcing in this article. Why is the Peace One Day homepage cited? The archive link shows it makes no mention of Law or Afghanistan. The citation to Encyclopedia Brittanica is tertiary and should probably be removed if the information can be found in other (secondary) sources, which it looks like it can. Is the Sragow source from the Knoxville News-Sentinel or the Baltimore Sun? Sallypotter.com does not appear to be a reliable source. The YoungZuluWarriors source appears dead, even in the Archive link. Is WWD a reliable source (this one may just be my ignorance on fashion)? Why is the article title "Law becomes dad for fourth time" given in italics? Etc. There are other smaller issues I haven't mentioned, and possibly some bigger issues I missed. Please address these sourcing problems so that the DYK can go ahead. If they're not fixed, it'll probably have to be delayed/pulled. Otherwise, thanks to you both for your work on this article! —Ganesha811 (talk) 22:33, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Hi @Ganesha811, I apologize for the issues. Must've been oversighted during the GAR. I'll make fixes soon. B3251 (talk) 23:57, 21 June 2024 (UTC)
 * All issues mentioned have been fixed. I'll look through the article again to see if anything else needs to be addressed. B3251 (talk) 21:27, 22 June 2024 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Yes, take a look. There's also a lot of source formatting inconsistency - for instance, I saw Washington Post, The Washington Post, and Washington Post given in various places. Not a huge deal, but worth fixing. Ref 3 (Actor's studio) is a bare ref and should be converted into an actual citation template. Etc etc. Not all GA reviewers require it (and Adri didn't in this case), but if you ever want to take the article to FA, you'll certainly want to get all that done. —Ganesha811 (talk) 21:50, 22 June 2024 (UTC)

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Victoria, Entre Ríos

Victoria is a city located in the southwestern part of the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina. It is located on the eastern shore of the Paraná River, opposite Rosario, Santa Fe, to which it has been connected since 2003 by the Rosario-Victoria Bridge (which spans almost 60 km over the flood plain of the Paraná Delta).

The site of a 1750 defeat of a native uprising and an 1810 oratory to the Virgin of Aranzazú, a Marian apparition and the city's patron saint, Cerro La Matanza was granted Village status by the Provincial Legislature, in 1826. An 1829 edict renamed the hamlet Victoria. The church (started in 1872) is dedicated to this patron. Designated a "city" in 1851, Victoria also features an abbey (Abadía Los Monjes del Niño Dios), founded by Benedictine monks who arrived in 1899. The Victoria region is at the core of the fishing industry of commercially important species like sábalo (Prochilodus lineatus) and surubí (Pseudoplatystoma spp.); it produces 95% of the annual 27,000 tonnes of sábalo captured in the province. Concerns about over-exploitation of this resource have been raised lately.

The city has a beach resort, and the river at this point is appropriate for the practice of sports such as kayak sailing and windsurf. The municipality claims jurisdiction over 3,700 km2 of islands and islets on the Paraná. Several fishing areas are reserved for sports purposes, while others are protected.

Every year Victoria hosts an extended Carnival Season; in 2005, for example, parades and dances were held on weekends from January to the beginning of March.

Victoria has seen increased touristic affluence since the opening of the connection with Rosario and the Greater Rosario area. A year later the high-class Casino was opened on the river front; and being one of the biggest such in the country it has brought much wealth for Victoria's tourism industry, attracting gamblers on a national scale.

Tourism
Victoria, also known as the city of seven hills (is located on one of the seven hills in the area) is a major tourist destination in the province. Among its facilities are: innumerable hotels of different categories which highlights the five-star hotel and the most luxurious casino in the country. It is also known for its traditional and centennial carnivals (under the slogan "the most fun carnival in the country") which has earned it the distinction of being the "Provincial Capital of Carnival Entrerriano", a title given at the beginning of the 1970s, thanks to its contribution to tourism.

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User talk:Roozbeh/Archive02

Hi there!
That was a pleasure to have your message. I used to live in Tehran for 7 years but now I'm back to my hometown, Tabriz, since last September. By the way, I occasionaly come to Tehran to visit friends and family. We sure can meet next time I vist Tehran. You'll surely be informed in advance. Meantime, that would be great if we arrange a cooperation on Iranian matters. You can contact me through

reverse(uk/dor/co/dot/yahoo/at/mohsen_pooya); :P Pouya 21:50, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Revert war on "Discrimination against non-Muslims in Iran" and "Ahmad Shamlou"
There are revert wars going on in articles Discrimination against non-Muslims in Iran and Ahmad Shamlou. Would you please take a look. --Pouya 10:08, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)
 * Oh, I really missed it all. roozbeh 20:18, Jan 10, 2005 (UTC)

Image:Haddad-adel.jpg
Thank you for uploading Image:Haddad-adel.jpg. Please leave a note on that page about where you got the image because of copyright law. If you have any questions, just leave a message on my talk page. --Ellmist 14:25, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

New List
Hi, I have set up a new list name's List of Iranian Americans.Please take a look.--Sina 21:36, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Your contributions
Roozbeh, contrary to some odd contemporaries who currently keep on vandalising your talk page, I just would like to say that your contributions are great and appreciated. It is a sad situation when one simply wants to write good articles and unfortunately ones interests lie across various international faultlines... Cheer up and ''Khaste naboshid!" Refdoc 23:29, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Copyvio
have a look please at Ahmad Shamlou and tekll me what you think. I wrote to the original author who gave me a kind of gruddging ok - I am not really happy. Refdoc 21:54, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

You may vote at this link
Requests for adminship/refdoc

Quake
2005 Zarand earthquake. --Pouya 23:42, 22 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Sal-e no mobarak
Eid-e nowruz mobarak!

Refdoc 13:55, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Free in URdu
I am not sure when you asked the question on the Urdu Wikipedia, but The "free", as in "freedom" meaning is usually "Azad" in Urdu: اذاد   —iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 22:48, Apr 18, 2005 (UTC)

Ali Shariati
Hello! I see that you changed "Hossein-e Ershad Religious Institute" to "Hosseinie-ye Ershad Religious Institute". I found three entries unrelated to Wiklipedia when I Googled the former, but none when I Googled the latter. I've reverted the edit for the moment, but if you could provide some reason for your change on the Talk page, we could discuss it. I note that you didn't even give an edit summary. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 20:08, 3 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Well, I live in Iran, and it's pronounced the way I have written it. I have never heard it pronounced like "Hossein-e". Those articles are also probably using a wrong reference. It seems that "Hosseiniye" is at least on Google, so I am changing it to that. roozbeh 12:53, May 4, 2005 (UTC)

 * You seem to be confusing pronunciation with spelling. If you can find a website which uses your spelling (I found three that use the spelling originally in the article), then your change would be acceptable, but "I live in Iran" isn't enough (see No original research). Mel Etitis  ( Μελ Ετητης ) 16:54, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Hey admin! These are two! Hossein is a name and Hosseinieh is a place! You have to know Persian to understand the difference.Thanks! --Sina 20:00, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

You've now introduced a fourth spelling, which finally gets some Google hits relevant to the Institute — thank you (but I'm surprised that you seem to think that you're backing up roozbeh, who offered two different spellings, neither of which came up on Google when I tried). Any chance of an article on the Institute, so that it's not a red link? Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 21:17, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

I've started an article, in fact (and found another spelling). I haven't found much information, though, so contributions would be welcome. Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 21:47, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
 * thanks for starting the article! I will put more info and some public domain pictures ASAP--Sina 20:23, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Khuzestan and Ahvaz
Hello. If you have time, please see the Khuzestan and Ahvaz articles and their respective discussion pages. The neutrality of these articles is being disputed by a very determined user (User:Zora), and the discussions have subsequently degenerated into pointlessness. I believe the articles are factually and historically accurate and NPOV - Zora claims that I am a Persian nationalist attempting to censor her revisionist historical views. I, in turn, accuse her of promoting blatantly pro pan-Arabist propaganda drawn from so-called 'Al-Ahwazi' political websites, all of which is very obvious to myself and a couple of other users. Your input and assistance in this matter (as well as any other admins who are able to act as a third-party) would be appreciated. SouthernComfort 21:07, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I'm so sorry I can't help much. I have been accused of both things, pro-Persian activism (about my work on articles related to Azerbaijanis) and anti-Persian activism (about my work on articles related to Persian Gulf). I prefer not to interfere, but I appreciate efforts trying to come to a common point of view. Make sure your goal is always improving the article, instead of proving a point. roozbeh 21:24, May 13, 2005 (UTC)

 * Tell me about it. Unfortunately accusations of political bias always seem to enter into the fray, even when one is presenting the established history. It's ridiculous, so I can understand that you would not want to become involved. Thanks anyway. SouthernComfort 23:44, 13 May 2005 (UTC)

User:Hamidifar and Iranian Physics News
Howdy. If you could try to get through to User:Hamidifar that there is not a conspiracy to delete his article and that a VfD nomination shouldn't be taken as a personal affront, it would be much appreciated. There's a one-sided shouting match going on at WP:VIP; I tried to respond on Hamidifar's talk page, but he's not getting it. Cheers, android↔talk 00:49, May 14, 2005 (UTC)
 * I've removed Hamidifar's rant from WP:VIP and put it on his talk page. He's put it back on VIP several times—not getting it, no, but at least the shouting-match is over, as people have tired of responding to him. See also my listing at WP:AN/I. His personal attacks against you are really disgraceful—one more feather on the scale and I'll block him.--Bishonen | talk 02:42, 17 May 2005 (UTC)

Copyright tags are unwarranted
Please remove the Copyright tags you slapped on Shush Castle and Takht-e Soleyman and Choqa Zanbil.
 * 1) Iranian websites are not legally protected under International copyright laws. Iran is not a member of WTO, nor a signatory to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.   (see list here), and correspondingly does not adhere to International Copyright laws itself. Accordingly Iran officially copies and distributes pirated copies of Microsoft Products, Hollywood Movies, and various Published material. Wikipedia (an American company) is not legally responsible for anything even if something was copied from a website from Iran. --Zereshk 18:31, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) This is especially true if the works copied are non-proprietary. Please see Title 17 of the US copyright law, which Wikipedia is bound to.--Zereshk 17:19, 18 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't agree, but even if you are right, would you please state how is the UNESCO web page that you copied the Takht-e Soleyman article from an Iranian website? roozbeh 11:07, May 19, 2005 (UTC)

 * As youve noticed, I re-wrote that particular page ( Takht-e Soleyman )excluding the copied parts. So it shouldnt matter anyway.

 * As for the other 2 pages, it doesnt matter whether or not you agree with me. Trust me, Iranian websites are not legally protected. You can uphold their copyrights, but youre not obligated to. Wikipedia is not liable for such cases. Websites like "Iranchamber.com" are however protected. But they are not exactly Iranian websites.--Zereshk 13:20, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

 * In the UK works of Iranian origin are not protected by copyright. The latest list of countries that the UK extends reciprocal copyright protection is here . It does not contain Iran. However, that said, websites hosted in Iran ARE protected by Iranian copyright law. It is not violating US, or indeed UK, copyright law to copy them. However, it IS violating Iranian copyright law. Hence it is still not good form to copy materials from Iranian web servers without permission. David Newton 20:59, 4 August 2005 (UTC)

Soroush_Vahhabi
Here you can vote for future of that page! Votes_for_deletion/Soroush_Vahhabi --Sina 22:25, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hiya
Aww, I didn't know you were at Guadec. As for not hearing from me, where? Have I missed an email? I shall check! --Telsa 08:52, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Edit summary
Hello. Please remember to always provide an edit summary. Thanks and happy edits. Alphax τεχ 14:26, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Image of Enizhad
The image of Ahmedenizhad you are uploading doesn't seem to be fair use. It was deleted once as a copyvio and you re-uploaded it (it seems). I'm trying to get it taken off the main page now, as the claim of fair use seems wrong. Hedley 01:37, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I assumed it was fair use, but your milage may vary. I never re-uploaded the image, and it was never deleted. Nobody has ever put a copyright violation claim on the page, I'm sure (see Image:Ahmadinezhad.jpg for yourself). There is nothing on its talk page either. If you think something is a copyright violation, please report it on the appropriate page. People who know about this may be able to judge better than me. roozbeh 12:13, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia is not place to wage pre-election propaganda
Wikipedia is not place to wage pre-election propaganda. Please avoid edits like in populism article. This article should list only those populists that established themselves sufficiently in international context. Thanks. Pavel Vozenilek 14:55, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I don't understand you at all. This is post-election. Ahmadinejad has won the election by his populist approach. He is making the front page of many international news stories. What are you talking about? roozbeh 14:57, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Wait until he becomes president and rules for several years. Then he may qualify into the list. Being in center of media at a moment is not sufficient reason, the article would then contain thousands of names. Pavel Vozenilek 15:07, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Military of Iran and Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps changes - lacking symbols
Hi, I've done some tinkering with the Iran military articles, and tried to create templates like they have for other countries' militaries. The problem is that I don't have any emblems for the various services to put on the templates, except in the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force. (Speaking of that, please see Talk:Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force). I Googled for symbols, but all I could find was a stamp with an arm holding a rifle for the Sepah and a truck with what looked like a fancy گ on the side for the Army. I found a couple of sites with images from the Imperial Iranian Army & Navy, but of course these are of no use except in the historical articles. Do you know of any sites with Islamic Republic military symbols? If they use calligraphy instead, are there any examples of that to work from? Thanks for any insight you can give. --Jpbrenna 4 July 2005 02:47 (UTC)

Qiyamah
Any expertise you could lend to the Qiyamah page would be much appreciated. Thanks. freestylefrappe 02:49, July 18, 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:ToothingLummox

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Isaac Penington

Isaac Penington (or Pennington) may refer to:

 * Isaac Penington (Lord Mayor) (1584–1661), Lord Mayor of London
 * Isaac Penington (Quaker) (1616–1679), early Quaker, son of Isaac Penington above
 * Isaac Pennington (1745–1817), British physician

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Talk:CDA

Untitled
cda is not just an extension. What is it? It deserves its own wiki page. Who made cda? Phillips? What is CDA? Wav? Red book specs? Blue book specs? .CDA - compact disc audio - needs its own page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by X1987x (talk • contribs) 11:13, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

Compressed Dry Air
is that abbrevation uncommon or why is it not listed? am not a native speaker, so cant judge217.6.176.171 (talk) 09:09, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
 * This is a disambiguation page – they are used to direct readers to the article they are looking for. Consequently, we only list entries for which we have an article on Wikipedia discussing the subject.  The compressed air dryer article is a possible target, but the rules are that the target article must explicitly mention the term being linked before it can go on a disambiguation page.  In the case of initialisms like this one, the initialism must also appear on the target page. SpinningSpark 09:25, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

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Robert Gustafsson

Carl Robert Olof Gustafsson (born 20 December 1964) is a Swedish comedian, actor, and member of Killinggänget. He has sometimes been called "the funniest man in Sweden".

Style of comedy
While Killinggänget is mostly known for its use of irony and pop-culture references, Gustafsson usually employs a more traditional and physical style of comedy, such as slapstick and playing characters with highly exaggerated personalities. He is well known for his range of voices and accents, and his tendency to play people who end up hurting themselves. This style is a lot more pronounced when he is working solo or with other people outside Killinggänget.

Some of the roles that Robert has portrayed include:

 * Greger: An obviously homosexual fireman dressed in a plaid kilt.
 * Various old people: Gustafsson is known for portraying old and often rather senile individuals.
 * Bertil: An accident-prone gardener who has his own TV show Lost in my own garden. This role was inspired by a 1980s Swedish gardening show where the host accidentally cut his thumb with a knife, but kept going as if nothing had happened. (The Julia Child spoof by Dan Aykroyd might have been an inspiration as well.) This role led to some of Gustafsson's more gory comedy.

In addition, Gustafsson is a skilled imitator and his many famous imitations include Ingmar Bergman, Sven Wollter, Ernst-Hugo Järegård, Tony Rickardsson, Robert Aschberg and Magnus Härenstam as well as former Prime Ministers Göran Persson and Carl Bildt.

Fame
Gustafsson is one of Sweden's most famous and beloved comedians, having appeared in many TV shows and films. He has also appeared on Norwegian television, in the show Åpen Post. Besides his iconic work with Killinggänget he has been a cornerstone of Swedish entertainment for many years. He has played in sitcoms such as Rena rama Rolf, and been a regular guest on comedy shows such as Gäster med gester and Parlamentet, a popular panel show similar to BBC's If I Ruled the World.

Selected filmography

 * 2021 - As Stig Engström in The Unlikely Murderer (Den Osannolika Mördaren)
 * 2018 - "The Truth Will Out" Television Series (Peter Wendel), 1 Season, 8 episodes, Det som göms i snö (2018)
 * 2016 - The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared
 * 2013 - The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared (Allan Karlsson)
 * 2009 - Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (Swedish dubbing, Sid)
 * 2007 - Hjälp!
 * 2006 - Jul i Tøyengata - Tvnorge's julekalender
 * 2006 - Ice Age: The Meltdown (Swedish dubbing, Sid)
 * 2005 - En decemberdröm - SVT's Julkalendern 2005
 * 2005 - Robotar (Robots) (Swedish dubbing, Fender)
 * 2004 - Four Shades of Brown (Fyra nyanser av brunt )
 * 2003 - Skenbart – en film om tåg
 * 2002 - Ice Age (Swedish dubbing, Sid)
 * 2001 - Monsters, Inc. (Swedish dubbing, Mike Wazowski)
 * 1999 - Fyra små filmer; Screwed in Tallinn (Torsk på Tallinn)
 * 1997 - Lilla Jönssonligan på styva linan
 * 1996 - Att stjäla en tjuv
 * 1995 - Alfred
 * 1994 - Lust
 * 1993 - Sune's Summer
 * 1993 - Drömkåken
 * 1991 - Underjordens hemlighet
 * 1985 - Skrotnisse och hans vänner (voice)

In 2004, his performance in Four Shades of Brown earned him a Guldbagge Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

Racism controversy
In February 2014, the satirical programme SNN News showed a sketch where Gustavsson played a "Representative of the Sámi", an indigenous people of Sweden. The sketch was widely accused of racism against Sámi people, both in Swedish media and abroad in Norway, where most of the Sámi people live. More than fifty individual viewers have filed complaints about the sketch to the Swedish Broadcasting Commission.

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SBS World News

SBS World News is the news service of the Special Broadcasting Service in Australia. Its flagship nightly bulletin is broadcast at 6.30pm on SBS with additional weeknight late bulletins from 10.30pm on SBS. SBS News is the name of the news app and website run by SBS.

History
The World News began as a half-hour bulletin, first seen in 1980, soon after the launch of the then-named Channel 0/28. George Donikian was the service's first presenter; veteran newsreader Mary Kostakidis began reading the weekend news in 1986. The network's long-running investigative documentary series Dateline started in 1984.

Closed captioning for the World News was introduced in March 1997.

In 2002, a digital-only World News Channel was launched, aimed at providing a comprehensive foreign-language news channel, mainly showing additional bulletins already seen in SBS' morning WorldWatch timeslot. No English-language bulletins were shown on the channel until its demise in 2009.

World News Australia was relaunched in its current one-hour format in January 2007 taking over the timeslot of Toyota World Sport and signing CNN correspondent Stan Grant to co-present alongside Mary Kostakidis. The merger between the two programs took place as a result of a claimed drop-off in viewers between programs, when a solid block of advertising would be shown. As a result, the relaunch saw the introduction of commercial breaks during the bulletin.

The new bulletin format has since lost viewers, with the late bulletin often out-rating the flagship 6.30 bulletin; most of this has been attributed to the perceived commercialisation of the bulletin by the SBS Board.

A dispute between longtime presenter Mary Kostakidis and the network arose in August 2007, when she walked out of the network in frustration at what she saw as increased commercialisation at the network, and a shift away from the original values of both the news service and the station in general. It was widely speculated that Kostakidis' contract stipulated she would be the network's main news presenter, and maintain editorial control over bulletins, somewhat altered by World News Australia's change in format. Kostakidis took legal action against SBS for breach of contract.

In 2009, World News Channel was replaced with SBS Two which became SBS Viceland in 2016.

In February 2014, World News Australia was relaunched with new graphics along with a name, SBS World News.

In 2017 SBS World News was upgraded with a new set and improved website. The program can now be streamed on the SBS News website as well as the SBS News app.

Theme music
From 1980 to 1991, Processional Fanfare by the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble was used as the main theme. Since 1991, the World News and World News Australia themes have been written by Australian composer Nigel Westlake.

SBS World News
SBS World News, nightly at 6.30pm is Australia's only locally-produced news bulletin that focuses on world events. It is presented by Janice Petersen from Sunday to Thursday, and Anton Enus on Fridays and Saturdays. Finance is presented by Ricardo Gonçalves on weeknights.

Fill in presenters for the bulletin include: Ricardo Gonçalves and Darren Mara (News); Robert Grasso, Mariana Rudan and Lucy Zelić (Sport); and Catalina Flórez, Virginia Langeberg or Darren Mara (Finance)

SBS World News Late
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Regular presenters for this bulletin include Ricardo Gonçalves, Darren Mara and Catalina Flórez. Occasional presenters for the bulletin include Virginia Langeberg and Lin Evlin.

Previous presenters include Anton Enus, Ben Fajzullin, Neena Mairata, Amrita Cheema, Indira Naidoo and PJ Madam.

World News Australia Online
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Radio
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The main national bulletins are broadcast on SBS Radio on the hour, 24 hours a day, SBS World News Radio airs weekdays from 6am and 6pm on SBS Radio 1. National bulletins air on SBS Radio broadcasts the foreign-language news bulletins on SBS World News Australia Radio.

Presenters

 * SBS World News

 * Anton Enus
 * Janice Petersen
 * Ricardo Gonçalves
 * Rena Sarumpaet
 * Darren Mara
 * Catalina Flórez

 * Programs

 * Jenny Brockie
 * Lucy Zelić

Former presenters
Former presenters of World News Australia include Mary Kostakidis and Stan Grant, who both departed in 2007, Amrita Cheema who resigned in June 2008 and Ben Fajzullin who resigned in 2010. In October 2010, it was announced that Neena Mairata would leave SBS due to cost-cutting measures. In 1999, Susanne Annabellem Robinson and Micahel both filled in on the World Tonight.

Lee Lin Chin had worked for almost 40 years with SBS. In 2018, she announced her resignation.

 * Les Murray
 * Lee Lin Chin
 * Andrew Orsatti
 * George Donikian
 * Indira Naidoo
 * Craig Foster
 * George Negus
 * Kathy Novak
 * Mary Kostakidis
 * Ellen Fanning
 * Sarah Abo
 * Stan Grant
 * Amrita Cheema
 * Ben Fajzullin
 * Paul Dempsey
 * Basia Bonkowski
 * Neena Mairata
 * Peta-Jane Madam
 * Yalda Hakim
 * Anjali Rao
 * Karla Grant
 * Mike Tomalaris

Website and app
The website is sbs.com.au/news. There is also an app called SBS News.

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Vitas

Vitaliy Vladasovich Grachev or Vitaliy Vladasovych Grachov, known professionally as Vitas (Витас ; stylised in all caps), is a Russian singer. Vitas is known for his falsetto and his eclectic musical style, which incorporates elements of operatic pop, techno, dance, classical, jazz, and folk.

Having achieved prominence through Russian television in the early 2000s, Vitas crossed into Asian markets in 2005. Much of his recognition outside Russia and Asia came in the 2010s, when songs such as "Opera #2" and "The 7th Element" (both from his 2001 debut album Philosophy of Miracle) and "Smile!" (from his 2002 album of the same name) achieved viral success; the unusual music videos for "Opera #2" and "The 7th Element" have been cited as the most prominent examples of this.

Vitas has performed with entertainment labels such as Universal Music Group, and has toured extensively in several countries. He designs his own stage costumes, and employs a backing band named DIVA during live performances.

Early life
Vitaliy Vladasovich Grachev was born in Daugavpils, which was then in the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic, on 19 February 1979. He soon moved with his parents to Ukraine, where he was raised in Odessa. In an interview to Ukrainian website Fakty in 2012, Grachev claimed that Vitas was his official first name on his birth certificate. At the age of 16, he officially changed his first name to the name's Ukrainian version Vitaliy.

Vitas has Russian, Lithuanian and Jewish roots. He is the son of costume designer Lilia Mihailovna Gracheva who was Russian and musician Vladas Arkadevich Grachev-Marantzman who was of Lithuanian and Jewish origin. His paternal grandfather, Arkadiy Davydovich Marantzman, who sang in an army choir, was Ashkenazi Jewish while his paternal grandmother was of Lithuanian descent. Arkadiy Marantzman served in the Soviet army during World War II. Vitas showed an interest in music from an early age; his grandfather taught him to play the accordion at the age of 5. He later said that he had composed at least 1,000 songs by the age of 12. He attended an art school in Odessa from the age of seven, and appeared in various theatrical productions as a teenager. His dean at the art school in Odessa reportedly hailed him as "a gift from God".

He took the name Vitas in his teen years as he found "Vitaliy Grachev" sounded too long. He regularly clashed with his father about his late night rehearsing habits. His father threatened to report him to the police as he was "behaving not quite adequately". At the age of 21, Vitas and his 15-year-old girlfriend and future wife Svetlana ran away from home to Moscow, crossing the border into Russia on a train without Svetlana having the right documents. They lived in bitter poverty before Vitas received public attention for his music.

1999–2005: Breakthrough in Russia, Philosophy of Miracle and Songs of My Mother
After being rejected from a musical college in his native Odesa, his family did not have the money to send him to a private institution. As a result, Vitas, already using the name as a pseudonym, started performing at night clubs. He initially started his career as a Michael Jackson tribute act, but also performed parodies and his own songs. He also made money, amongst others, by selling leftover bread from stores on the street as well as offering services as a photographer. At night clubs, he had acts involving dancing, singing, comedy and magic tricks, including spoon bending. He worked as an actor in an experimental theatre. He applied to perform with his own songs at the 1997 edition of Chervona ruta festival, but was rejected as his repertoire lacked songs in Ukrainian. In 1999, Odesan regional television station Elan shot a music video for his song "Opera #1", which they recorded in Odesa.

During one of his night club performances, where he performed "Opera #2", he was spotted by a Russian producer, who recommended Vitas going to Moscow. Vitas had seriously considering going to Moscow for a while around 1998–1999. During a play at the experimental theatre, he was spotted by producer Sergey Pudovkin, whom he gifted a cassette of his song. A week later, Vitas and his girlfriend Svetlana left Odesa.

With Pudovkin, Vitas starting working on his debut for the Russian audience. In order to make money and sustain himself and his girlfriend, he started working for youth channel TV-6. They recorded a music video for "Opera #2", in which Vitas portrayed an eccentric lonely man with fish gills who lives in a bathtub with jars of fish and plays the accordion naked. The music video premiered in December 2000 and received wide public attention. Vitas started performing the song with artificial gills, which let the Russian media compare him to Ichthyander, a character in the novel Amphibian Man.

On February 27, 2001, Vitas premiered his solo concert show "Opera #...", in an abridged form, at the "Russia" Concert Hall in Moscow. Performed as a teaser for the first leg of his "Philosophy of Miracle" tour, the show was filmed by TV-6 and later broadcast as part of the music program "Наша музыка". Although not well documented, official sources recall that the tour began on April 7, 2001, presumably in Naro-Fominsk. Other sources confirm that the tour had already started by March 2001. During that first tour, Vitas performed not only in concert halls, but also on TV shows, festivals, stadiums, casino halls and nightclubs. In March 2002, Vitas made his first tour in the United States of America.

On March 29, 2002, Vitas premiered the second leg of his "Philosophy of Miracle" concert tour with a concert at the State Kremlin Palace in Moscow. The concert was filmed by Channel One Russia and later released on DVD.

In late 2002, Vitas received an invitation from Lucio Dalla, the composer of "Caruso", to perform this song together with him at the "Sanremo in Moscow" concert in the State Kremlin Palace on November 23, 2002. Mr. Dalla then invited Vitas to come to Rome to take part in the rehearsals of Toska, a modern version of Puccini's opera.

In dedication to his mother who died in 2001, Vitas released two albums: "Mama" and "The Songs of My Mother". The latter included classic Soviet songs which were the favourite of Vitas' late mother. During the process of recording the album, Vitas befriended Soviet and Russian composer Alexandra Pakhmutova, who featured in his music video for her song "The Bird of Happiness".

On October 21, 2003, Vitas ended his first concert tour "Philosophy of Miracle" with its last gig in Kaliningrad.

On November 1, 2003, Vitas presented his second concert tour with the show "The Songs of My Mother" in the "Russia" Concert Hall in Moscow. Compared to the flamboyant nature of his previous Philosophy of Miracle tour, The Songs of My Mother was more conservative, drawing on classic Russian songs. From 2004 to 2006, Vitas' management, the "Pudovkin" Production Center continued "The Songs of My Mother" tour in Russia and the United States, Germany, Kazakhstan, Israel and the Baltic states.

In addition to his singing career, Vitas also starred in a murder mystery television series called "Сволочь ненаглядная" ("Beloved Scoundrel"), in which he played a pop singer with an unusually high voice. He also starred in a comedy called Crazy Day.

2006–2014: Asian success, Return Home and films
In June 2006, Vitas was invited by China Central Television to take part in a grand event entitled The Year of Russia in China in Beijing. Vitas performed two songs, "The Star" and "Opera #2" during the event, marking the beginning of his popularity in China.

Vitas' Return Home tour, beginning in 2006, had a conservative atmosphere similar to the Songs of My Mother tour. The concert performed in Saint Petersburg on 4 March 2007 was later released on DVD on Vitas' website, as well as officially in some countries, albeit with many songs removed. The full concert in Moscow was later released on DVD.

In October 2007, Vitas was signed with now-defunct American label Gemini Sun Records. Gemini Sun released the Audio Visual Connect Series Vitas compilation CD + DVD set featuring eight music videos with the corresponding songs also on audio CD, in addition to a bonus audio track. In 2008, Vitas also released "Light of A New Day", a 40-minute track of non-lyrical vocalization and instrumentation. The song is available as a free download on his website.

The Sleepless Night tour included concerts in China and more elaborate presentations than the more conservative Return Home program. Vitas performed his Return Home concert in Bucharest, Romania on 25 February 2009. The concert was broadcast on the Romanian TVR2 and TVRi television networks, achieving their highest ratings in twelve months. A benefit concert, with Vitas performing "The Star", was held on 12 May 2009 in Sichuan province in memory of the victims of the previous year's earthquake there; a song known as "Mommy and Son" was released in late October 2009 in remembrance of the victims. It was the very first title track of the Mommy and Son album (released 1 September 2011), which included new songs, such as "C'est La Vie" (French for "Such is life"), "Once More", "Let the Father Teach!", "Young Rook" and others.

Vitas played the role of Gude in the Chinese film Mulan, which premiered in Beijing on 16 November 2009. He recorded music for the film's soundtrack.

In early 2011, Vitas performed a series of seven Sleepless Night concerts in New York City, Toronto, Chicago, Miami, Vancouver, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Later that year, he played the role of Bolshevik Comintern official Grigori Voitinsky in the Chinese propaganda film The Founding of a Party. He also starred with Huang Shengyi in the musical A Night to Be a Star. In March 2011, Vitas' concert tour "Mommy and Son" started in several cities of Russia. His large-scale concert at the Palace of Arts "Ukraina" in Kyiv in March 2012 was broadcast in Ukraine's main TV channels and later released in DVD. In 2013 he brought the tour to Germany, performing in several cities.

In 2012, Vitas was a guest star on several Russian talk shows, including Let Them Talk, where he was interviewed for the first time on Russian television after hiding himself from the press for about a decade.

2015–present: viral videos and Bit bombit
In June 2015, Vitas' unusual music video for his 2001 song "The 7th Element", which featured him as a kind of humanoid alien performing on the 2001 edition of Little Blue Light, became popular after it was posted on Reddit. It sparked memes throughout the internet, where it received a considerable amount of parodies. It reached its peak search on Google in 2017 when the meme became popular in Brazil as Facebook pages such as South America Memes were responsible for memes using footage from his performance of the song at the Songs of My Mother tour. On 5 October, he thanked the pages for his popularity.

In 2019, Vitas released his fifteenth album Bit Bombit. He celebrated his 20th anniversary as an artist starting with a new concert tour in April 2019 in Moscow, while appearing at Evening Urgant on the day of his 40th birthday. He collaborated with Australian musician and DJ Timmy Trumpet on the song "The King" and performed with him at the Belgian rave festival Tomorrowland. In August 2020, Vitas' 20th anniversary EP OPERA20 was released in China. The album contained songs in English, Russian, and Chinese, as well as a collaboration with Chinese singer Elvis Wang. 1,000 limited edition vinyl copies were issued.

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, Vitas' touring abroad stopped and for a while, he solely performed in Russia. Since March 2022, he has withdrawn from performing publicly and focused mostly on his family.

Personal life
Vitas is a dual Ukrainian–Russian citizen, possessing two passports.

He married his longterm girlfriend Svetlana Grankovska in 2006 in Odesa in a private ceremony solely attended by family members. In 2008, their first daughter Alla was born, followed by their son Maksim in 2015. In 2021, their third child, a daughter named Alisa, was born.

During the early 2000s, Vitas was often guarded in interactions with the media and seldom gave interviews. His producer Sergey Pudovkin actively tried to block opportunities for interviewers and journalists to talk to Vitas. In 2003, Channel One Russia show Good Morning held a rare interview with Vitas on his career. Vitas became more open towards the press in the early 2010s, holding his first in-depth interview in January 2012 on the Russian talk show Let Them Talk while showing his wife and daughter publicly for the first time.

Subsequently, he appeared on the Channel One Russia show Everybody Is At Home. Later that year, he appeared on the show again to address a man's allegations that he was Vitas's biological father. After much backlash from friends and family, and the man's admission of lying, the DNA results proved that he was not Vitas's father. To show that he had no hard feelings, Vitas sang and danced with the man's mother on the show.

On 10 May 2013, Vitas was arrested after hitting a cyclist with his car near the VVC Exhibition Centre in Moscow. The cyclist was uninjured and proceeded to film the scene with police afterward, which depicted an unkempt and possibly intoxicated Vitas being held by authorities. The accident was widely covered by Russia-1 and Channel One Russia, two of many other TV channels who broadcast Vitas's driving license with his personal data, which had been presented to journalists by a police officer.

Current members

 * Aleksandr Gruzdev – guitar, saxophone, backing vocals (2001–present)
 * Maxim Musatov – keyboards, backing vocals (2019–present)
 * Aleksandr Illin – bass guitar, backing vocals (2016–present)
 * Yaroslav Andreev – drums (2012–present)

Former members

 * [unknown] – guitar, backing vocals (2014–2015)
 * Vasiliy Musatov – keyboards (2004–2019)
 * Ilya "G.IL.V" Grebenyuk – keyboards (2001–2003)
 * Aleksey Rostov – keyboards (2003)
 * Andrey Artemov – bass guitar, backing vocals (2007–2015)
 * Rashit Kyamov – bass guitar, backing vocals (2001–2007, 2015–2016)
 * Rushan Harryasov – drums (2001–2012)

title: Vitas


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Northern Evangelical Lutheran Church

Northern Evangelical Lutheran Church (NELC) is a multi-lingual Lutheran Christian church that is centred mainly in four states of North India - Jharkhand, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, and Bengal. The reach of the Church extends into Nepal and the NELC also works in Bhutan. It is one of the three Lutheran denominations in northeast India along with the Bodo Evangelical Lutheran Church and the Gossner Evangelical Lutheran Church.

The Church was founded in 1868 by Hans Peter Boerresen, a Dane, and Lars Olsen Skrefsrud, a Norwegian. NELC missionary Paul Olaf Bodding invented the Santali latin alphabet that is still used by people in the region today. Santals form the majority of church members, with Boro and Bengali people comprising most of the rest of the members. Currently, it has more than 85,000 baptized members.

The NELC took its present name in 1958 and its headquarters are situated in Dumka, a growing educational center northeast of Kolkata. The church provides theological training and education. The NELC is one of ten members of the United Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India. Mornai Tea Estate in earlier it was Goalpara district now recently formed Kokrajhar district, Assam, is owned by the church. The NELC runs several health centers and community health programs and has its main hospital in Mohulpahari, Jharkhand.

Founders
Lars Olsen Skrefsrud and Hans Peter Børresen, succeeded by Paul Olaf Bodding.

title: Northern Evangelical Lutheran Church


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Clive Jenkins

David Clive Jenkins (2 May 1926 – 22 September 1999) was a British trade union leader. "Organising the middle classes", his stated recreation in Who's Who, sums up both his sense of humour and his achievements in the British trade union movement.

Early life
Jenkins was born at 4, Maesycwrt Terrace, Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales, to David Samuel Jenkins and Miriam Harris, née Hughes. His father worked as a clerk for the Great Western Railway; the family lived in "austerity" in "a small terraced house with an outside toilet and 'no carpet, just coconut matting'"- it was only after his paternal grandfather died, leaving £40, that the family gained hot water and a bathroom, having previously shared the water used in an old zinc tub placed in front of the fire once a week. Jenkins's brother, Tom, became leader of the Transport Salaried Staffs' Association. On leaving Port Talbot County School in 1940 at the age of 14, when his father died, he started work in the laboratory at a metalworks and continued his education by taking evening classes at Swansea Technical College. Three years later, he was in charge of the lab. Two years after that, he was a night shift foreman.

Union career
Jenkins had early involvement in his trade union, the Association of Scientific Workers (AScW), and become a lay official in 1944, when he was elected as secretary of his branch. In 1946, at the age of 20, he left Port Talbot to become a full-time official at the Birmingham office of the Association of Supervisory Staff, Executives and Technicians (ASSET), where he was appointed assistant divisional secretary. He was at that time a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

In 1951, he organised his first major national dispute, a strike at Heathrow Airport that caused British European Airways to cancel more than 800 flights.

Moving almost immediately to the head office, he received rapid promotion: as national officer in 1954, deputy general secretary in 1957, and general secretary in 1961.

Then, ASSET had 23,000 members, which later increased to 50,000 by 1969, when ASSET merged with AScW, to form ASTMS (the Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs). ASSET and Jenkins were the senior partner. In the new union, he was joint general secretary (with John Dutton) of AScW, but by 1970, he was sole general secretary with a vision of what "his" union could become.

By the use of advertising (billboard posters were previously unheard of in the movement), he brought trades unionism to the middle classes. Within 15 years, ASTMS grew from an initial membership of 65,000 to a figure approaching 500,000.

Jenkins kept himself (and ASTMS) in the public eye, with frequent appearances on television chat shows and his own regular newspaper columns. His wit and turn of phrase ensured that even his opponents would certainly remember him.

However, his brash character ensured that more staid trade union leaders kept him off the General Council of the TUC. until 1974. He even became its chairman, from 1987 to 1988.

Involvement in politics
A Labour government, under Harold Wilson, was elected in 1974. Jenkins was then appointed to the National Research and Development Council (NRDC), from 1974 to 1980. He sat on the committee that produced the Bullock Report (Industrial democracy) (1975–1977) as well as on the board of the British National Oil Corporation (1979–1982).

During the 1975 referendum on Britain's membership of the EEC, Jenkins campaigned for Britain to leave the EEC.

Following the Labour Party's heavy defeat in the 1983 election, Jenkins was instrumental in getting Neil Kinnock nominated to the leadership of the party. In 1988, shortly after ASTMS merged with TASS (the Technical, Administrative and Supervisory Section) to form MSF (Manufacturing, Science and Finance), Jenkins unexpectedly announced his retirement. He wrote an autobiography, All Against The Collar (1990).

Personal life
In 1963 Jenkins married Moira McGregor Hilley; they had a son and a daughter before their divorce in 1989.

Retirement
Upon retiring, Jenkins- by then having divorced- went to Tasmania with "a beautiful girl friend" to run a hotel and restaurant, which proved "a foolish decision" as "within a year, the business and the affair collapsed" leaving him "back in London trying to pick up the threads of his life." He subsequently bought a house in the Cotswolds, but "maintained his villa in Tasmania".

title: Clive Jenkins