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Michael Valiante

Michael Valiante (born November 11, 1979, in New Westminster, British Columbia) is a Canadian racing driver.

Formula racing
Valiante began racing in karting where his success earned him a full-season scholarship in the Skip Barber 2.0 Series. In his first season, Valiante was both series champion and rookie of the year. Following this success he moved on the Barber Dodge Pro Series and then to the Toyota Atlantic Championship.

Driving for the Lynx Racing team in 2001, Valiante was able to finish eighth in the series championship despite competing in only five events. His performance impressed Lynx enough to sign him for two more seasons. 2002 was Valiante's best year in the series. He won three races and led the points going into the final round in Denver, only to struggle in the race and lose the championship to Jon Fogarty. Valiante led the series early in 2003. However, his championship hopes were dashed when he missed the fourth round at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca due to an illness. He went on to finish third in the championship and again scored three victories.

Valiante was set to make his debut in Champ Car at California Speedway in 2003, but the race was cancelled due to wildfires in the area. It was not until a year later that he made his first Champ Car start in Mexico City. His second start came at Portland in 2005 as a one-off drive for Dale Coyne Racing. He was not able to secure a full-time ride in the series due to his lack of financial backing.

Sports car racing
In 2006, Valiante competed full-time with Finlay motorsports in the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series, where he and co-driver Rob Finlay finished ninth in the final standings. In 2008 he switched to SunTrust Racing to partner Max Angelelli in a DP class Dallara Pontiac, winning at Sonoma.

The Canadian joined Michael Shank Racing for the 2009 Rolex Sports Car Series. Driving a Riley Ford with John Pew as co-driver, he collected two podiums and resulted seventh in the DP drivers standings. In 2010 he partnered Brian Frisselle at the Shank team. With a best result of third, he finished ninth in the standings.

In 2012 he alternated between the Rolex Sports Car Series and American Le Mans Series. He started five Rolex races, winning at Mid-Ohio with teammate Richard Westbrook. In ALMS he competed in five rounds with JDX Racing in the GTC class, collecting three third-place finishes.

The driver returned to Michael Shank Racing for the 2013 Rolex Sports Car Series, having John Pew has teammate during most races. He collected two second-place finishes and resulted 15th in the DP standings.

In 2014, Valiante moved to Spirit of Daytona to race at the merged United SportsCar Championship. in the Spirit of Daytona Corvette Daytona Prototype with Richard Westbrook and Mike Rockenfeller.

Stock car racing
In 2007, Valiante made a NASCAR Busch Series start driving the No. 42 Dodge from Chip Ganassi Racing at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. Valiante started 21st and finished 34th.

Complete American open-wheel racing results
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NASCAR
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Statesman Journal

The Statesman Journal is the major daily newspaper published in Salem, Oregon, United States. Founded in 1851 as the Oregon Statesman, it later merged with the Capital Journal to form the current newspaper, the second-oldest in Oregon. The Statesman Journal is distributed in Salem, Keizer, and portions of the mid-Willamette Valley. The average weekday circulation was 27,859, with Sunday's readership listed at 36,323, in 2012.. It is owned, along with the neighboring Stayton Mail and Silverton Appeal Tribune, by the national Gannett Company.

Oregon Statesman
The Oregon Statesman was founded by Samuel Thurston, the first delegate from the Oregon Territory to the US Congress. His editor and co-founder was Asahel Bush; the paper was a Democratic Party response to the Whig-controlled Portland-based paper, The Oregonian. The first issue was dated March 28, 1851, printed on a hand press in Oregon City, the provincial capital from 1848 to 1851.

Thurston died on April 9 of that year while returning from the nation's capital to the Territory, and Bush then assumed ownership of the paper. The territorial capital was relocated to Salem later that year, so by 1853 the printing operation was transferred to Salem. When the territorial capital was relocated to Corvallis in 1855, the printing process also moved there, but that decision was quickly reversed and the capital reverted to Salem. The printing operation also relocated to Salem in the late fall of 1855.

The paper was used as a mouthpiece of the Democratic Party and of the Salem Clique that ran the party in Salem. Bush vividly criticized rival editors and political figures. Bush and Oregonian editor Thomas J. Dryer are recognized as fomenting a virulent editorial rivalry.

As warclouds gathered over the young nation, the Democratic Party generally favored the South and Secession. Bush, however, sided with the Union cause, and this rift considerably weakened the paper's relevance in territorial politics. As a result, Bush left the paper in 1863 and entered the banking field. The paper was renamed Salem Statesman, and lost much of its partisan slant. It ceased publication in 1866, but resumed in 1869 under the guidance of editor Samuel Asahel Clarke and titled The Statesman and Unionist. The 'Unionist' was soon dropped from the title, and Clarke sold the paper in 1872. For 18 months in 1883–84, 50% of the newspaper was owned by William H. Byars, the former publisher of the Roseburg Plaindealer (1873–83) who was nominated as State Printer in late 1882 and elected in 1883. In 1884 R. J. Hendricks became the paper's manager and editor, positions he held for 44 years. Ownership passed to Jasper Wilkins and Alonzo Gesner, with Gesner selling out his part within a year. In 1929 the paper was sold to Charles A. Sprague (two-thirds interest) and Sheldon Sackett (one-third interest). Sprague had previously published newspapers in Ritzville, Washington and in Corvallis.

Sprague ran for Oregon Governor in 1938, and held that post for one term, leaving the paper in the hands of editor Ralph Curtis and business manager Wendell Wilmarth. When he lost his re-election bid and returned to the paper's helm in 1953, he worked to make it more directly competitive with the city's afternoon newspaper, the Capital-Journal. By 1953 the two papers agreed to share business and production plants while maintaining editorial independence. Sprague died in 1969, leaving his son Wallace to manage the paper from his New York City home.

Capital Journal
Will H. Parry established the Capital Journal in 1888, with its first issue dated March 1. It was launched as a for-profit venture and an outlet for the Republican Party. By the end of the year, Parry sold the Journal to William H. Byars (who also was elected that year as Salem's City Surveyor), one of many ownership changes in subsequent years. (In 1890, Byars was appointed by Pres. Benjamin Harrison as U.S. Surveyor General for Oregon.)

Around 1918, George Putnam purchased the Capital Journal and served as editor for 30 years before selling to Bernard Mainwaring in 1953. Meanwhile, Charles A. Sprague, who went on to become governor of Oregon, bought the Statesman in 1929. By the 1950s the two editors had agreed that their respective papers should cooperate closely. The Journal moved into the Statesman's new facility and the two papers began sharing printing facilities while keeping independent writers and editors.

1973 sale and merger
In 1973, both papers were sold to national publisher Gannett, the company that publishes USA Today. In 1980, they were combined to form the Statesman Journal. Dating to the Statesman's inception, it is the second-oldest Oregon newspaper. The paper won ten first-place awards in the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association's annual Better Newspaper Contest in 2001, the most in its division. In the 2006 contest, the paper took first place in its division for overall excellence, best editorial page, and best editorial.

Details
The newspaper primarily covers news in the Salem-Keizer metropolitan area in the middle section of the Willamette Valley. Coverage includes state politics, Salem area news, area sports, business news, and lifestyle news. Circulation is focused on Marion and Polk counties with a market size of 410,000 residents, with some additional circulation in neighboring Linn, Lincoln, Yamhill, and Benton counties. In 2008 The Statesman Journal had circulation of 46,826 from Monday through Saturday, and 53,367 Sunday. By 2018, the average daily circulation had declined to 27,859 Monday-Tuesday, Thursday and 33,815 Wednesday, with a Sunday readership of 36,323. The newspaper also publishes The Stayton Mail of Stayton and the Appeal Tribune of Silverton.

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San Mateo, Anzoátegui

San Mateo is a town in the eastern Venezuelan Anzoátegui State. This town is the shire town of the Libertad Municipality and, according to the 2001 Venezuelan census, the municipality has a population of 12,905.

Demographics
The Libertad Municipality, according to the 2001 Venezuelan census, has a population of 12,905 (up from 12,617 in 1990). This amounts to 1.1% of Anzoátegui's population.

Government
San Mateo is the shire town of the Libertad Municipality in Anzoátegui. The mayor of the Libertad Municipality is Edgar Celestino Maestre M., elected in 2004 with 57% of the vote. He replaced Juan Carlos Guillent shortly after the last municipal elections in October 2004.

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Shams el-Ghinnieh

Shams el-Ghinnieh (شمس الغنية), released in 1991, is the second album from Najwa Karam.

Track listing

 * 1) "Shams el-Ghinnieh" (Sun of the Song)
 * 2) "Hab el-Hawa"  (The wind blows)
 * 3) "Wasse' Ya Dar" (Make the place bigger)
 * 4) "Ya Rakib Al Abbayah" (You who is on the Abbayah)
 * 5) "Habibi Ghab" (My Love is gone)
 * 6) "Bala Bala" (Yes, Yes)
 * 7) "Khelis el-Sahar" (The night has ended)

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Ulrich Willerding

Ulrich Willerding (8 July 1932 – 20 December 2021 ) was a professor of botany at the Göttingen University, Germany. He was also an instructor at a local high school. Willerding was one of the leading European palaeo-ethnobotanists. He had specialized in Medieval Europe but also done work on other times. One of his special interests was weeds. He had worked on bibliographies of European paleoethnobotany. Although a biologist by training, he had worked extensively with archaeologists.

Selected publications

 * "Göttingen: II. Die Pflanzenreste aus der bandkeramischen Siedlung," NAFN II, 1965.
 * "Mittelalterliche Pflanzenreste von der Büraburg," in Burg – „Oppidum“ – Bischofssitz in karolingischer Zeit ed. by Norbert Wand, 1974.
 * Die Paläoethnobotanik und ihre Stellung im System der Wissenschaften (Berichte der Deutschen Botanischen Gesellschaft), 1978.
 * (Co-editor) Beiträge zur Paläo- Ethnobotanik von Europa. Contributions to the Palaeo- Ethnobotany of Europe, 1978.
 * Zur Geschichte der Unkräuter Mitteleuropas, 1986.
 * "Landnutzung und Ernährung,“ in: Göttingen: Geschichte einer Universitätsstadt Band 1: Von den Anfängen bis zum Ende des Dreißigjährigen Krieges / Dietrich Denecke,Helga-Maria Kühn (Hrsg.), 1987.
 * Frühmittelalterliche Gärten (Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Nordwestdeutschland), 1996.
 * "Zur Verwendung von Pflanzen im Hausbau des Mittelalters und während der Neuzeit,“ in: Terra & Praehistoria. Festschrift für K.-D. Jäger, 1996.
 * Umweltrekonstruktion (Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Nordwestdeutschland), 1996.
 * "Die Landwirtschaft bei den Germanen und in den römischen Provinzen bis zur Völkerwanderungszeit: Haustierhaltung” and "Die Landwirtschaft im frühen Mittelalter (6.-10.Jh.): Garten, Obst und Weinbau” – Archäologische Fachliteratur (Beiträge zur Ur- und Frühgeschichte Mitteleuropas ; 14), 2003.
 * Die Pflanzenfunde von Starigard/Oldenburg, 2004.

 * Frühe Nutzung pflanzlicher Ressourcen, ed. by Renate Rolle and Frank M. Andraschko (1999) is a festschrift dedicated to Willerding.

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Talk:CD (disambiguation)

Comments
what about "Campus Distributor" the networking term — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.206.254.142 (talk • contribs) 06:39, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Usefulness to average reader
We should distinguish between:
 * common abbreviations
 * anything else that could possibly be referred to as "CD"

Some of this disambig pages become practically useless, because editors throw in everything that could possible fit. The aim, though, is to help the reader when they only know the abbreviation, and not the article name. --Uncle Ed 17:10, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Cd
Cd should redirect to the disambiguation page. It is so arbitrary to direct it to cadmium. I would have figured compact disc or certificate of deposit. Take any reasonably large corpus of common speach or news articles (the two corpora most commonly studied by linguists) and I guarantee that either of those two meanings will be way more frequently used than cadmium. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.231.55.88 (talk • contribs) 08:20, 17 September 2009 (UTC)

cd (and md) - technical direction on paper
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:MD#md_vs._cd_-_technical_directions_on_paper Probably "cross direction". --Helium4 (talk) 19:48, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

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Talk:Bernard Ramm

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The initial form of this article was deficient in that it provided no information on Ramm's birth and death dates, nothing about his career, education, no mention of what apologetic school of thought he belonged to, and the bibliography was most unsatisfactory in that it only furnished book titles without any publication data.

While the person who created this page is sincere, simply saying was a theologian, and that he wrote a book highly received and then have a quote from it about the Bible's dependability is not good enough for an encyclopedia. It was of such a quality as to be in danger of deletion. One other word of preparatory advice is, go to the on-line catalogue of the Library of Congress first and check your bibliographical details. Doing this ensures accurate lists of a person's work, can alert you to scholarly studies done on the person, and any biographies written. It also obviates the need for later editorial work being done to clean up an article.

Much more needs to be said about Ramm's theological work, especially to what extent his work in later years reflected more Barthian leanings.

Ramm deserves to be in Wiki as he played a part in the post-war neo-evangelical tradition.

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User:Spinosaurus~enwiki

Spinosaurus is one of the few Wikipedia users who actually knows what he's doing. If Wikipedia were run by him, there would be no problems.

And no, I'm not being sarcastic.

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An NFL Films shot of the right foot of Tom Dempsey There is significant commentary on the article about the shape of Tom Dempsey's foot; the reader's understanding of his situation would be severely impaired without this image.

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Calico Cooper

Calico Cooper (born May 19, 1981) is an American singer, dancer, stage performer, actress, comedian, and choreographer. She is the daughter of the shock rock singer Alice Cooper and his wife, the dancer Sheryl Cooper. She began performing with her father occasionally since 1997 and was hired by him at age 18 for his Brutally Live tour. For the next decade, she toured with, and directed portions of, Alice Cooper's live shows, specializing in violent black comedy routines. In 2011 she left touring to concentrate on her acting career. Since 2012 she has been a vocalist and stage performer for the heavy metal band Beasto Blanco. Her film credits include minor roles in The Curse of El Charro (2005), Rolling (2007), a deleted scene in Halloween (2007), Dakota Skye (2008), Suck (2009), and an uncredited scene in Hall Pass (2011), and co-starring roles in Thirty Proof Coil (2010), 13/13/13 (2013), Welcome to Hell (2018), and the short film Fire Fucking Fire (2024). Her television credits include the character Lila Black in Bloomers (2011–2018) and guest starring as Jane Miller in a 2016 episode of Hawaii Five-0.

Early life
Calico Cooper was born on May 19, 1981, to Alice and Sheryl Cooper, who resided at Benedict Canyon, Los Angeles. A year after her birth, the Coopers moved to Paradise Valley, Arizona. They also lived for some time in Chicago before relocating once again to Paradise Valley in 1985. In the early 1980s, Alice's continued substance abuse was putting a severe strain on his relationship with Sheryl, a strain which was exacerbated by the birth of Calico. Sheryl initiated divorce proceedings in November 1983. Alice finally committed to sobriety that year, and Sheryl reconciled with him months later in 1984. Sheryl, a professional dancer, enrolled Calico in dance at age 3. The Coopers felt it was important for their children to attend public school, and Calico's schooling included Hopi Elementary and Arcadia High School. While attending Arcadia High, she belonged to a dance company and professionally performed and competed at the national level in classical ballet, jazz, acrobatics, and tap. She also started instructing dance. In her teens, Cooper attracted tabloid attention with her awkward attempts at glamorous fashion. She remembers being mocked by the British press at the age of 14.

With Alice Cooper
At the age of 16, Calico started performing roles in her father's touring stage shows. Her first role was occasional, specifically as one of the evil clowns who opened Alice's shows at the time. After graduating high school, she moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. However, she then found work performing in her father's stage shows. At age 18, she was hired by Alice to perform multiple roles in and provide choreography and design costumes for his Brutal Planet tour. The most known character she portrayed in the tour was the dominatrix "bullwhip girl", for which she was instructed by Sheryl, who had previously portrayed the character. She also inherited the sadistic nurse character who often presided over Alice's beheading. With the latter character, Calico at first continued Sheryl's role—an "ingenue" or "1940s actress" that the audience would want to protect—but after a few years transformed the nurse into a character, "Nurse Rozetta", that the audience would hate and whose defeat would make Alice almost a hero. Cooper said "I really caught my confidence. All of a sudden, instead of the nurse just being sexy or provocative, I was like, "What if I made you hate her more than you hate Alice? I bet I could do that.'" A routine she performed in 2000, dressed as the nurse, involved Alice grabbing her by the neck and slamming her into the hatch of an overturned vehicle. During one show that year, at the Aerial Theater in Houston, Texas, Calico received a minor ankle laceration.

Her tour with Brutal Planet at first intimidated her as she, like her mother before, was the only woman not only among the band but among the merchandise staff, catering, and drivers, and she was cautious of overstepping. However, as she began making suggestions, her ideas were received enthusiastically by both those working the show and audiences. After this success, she stayed a regular in Alice's shows until 2011. When Chuck Garric joined Alice Cooper's live band as a bassist in 2002, he and Calico immediately bonded creatively and enthusiastically shared and discussed performance ideas with each other. Garric and other members of the band would occasionally play at bar shows when not on tour and sometimes would invite Calico to sing, presaging her joining his band Beasto Blanco in 2012. During Alice's 2001–2003 Brutally Live and Dragontown tours, Calico portrayed Britney Spears in a satirical macabre comedic bit which ended in her fighting Alice, being dragged off stage by him, and Alice re-appearing with a mock-up of Calico-as-Spears' severed head impaled on a pole. During the bit, Alice would wear a shirt reading "Britney Wants Me" on the front and "Dead" on the back. On the Dirty Diamonds tour in 2005, Calico replaced the Britney character with a mock Paris Hilton who has her throat ripped out by a chihuahua, sending fake blood spurting into the audience. Another routine as Hilton involved her attempting to stab Alice only for him to deflect the blow, grab her by the hair, and drag her offstage. The Hilton character would come on during Alice's performance of "I Wish I Were Born in Beverley Hills". Calico in 2010 said that she felt that Spears and Hilton, whom she knows personally, understood the humor, and that one concert where she performed the Hilton bit, Hilton was in the audience. Other characters she portrayed on that tour included a vampire, a henchman, and the nurse character, the last of whom would hold up an imitation of Alice's severed head after his character was guillotined. She said in 2010 that sometimes there was backlash as to the propriety of what Alice would act out with his daughter. Her response was that she was now 27, she was not getting hurt, and not playing a love interest. "People misunderstand, but there's always been blood, guts, incest. When Shakespeare did it, it was like, 'he's a genius!' but when Alice Cooper does it, it's like, 'That's gross!'" Alice in 2009 stated that, while on tour, Calico would not be able to fully clean off her bruising makeup between concerts, and when she and Alice would go to the mall together they would get concerned looks from strangers.

Cooper credits her stage shows with her father with establishing her in niche in stingingly provocative comedy. Her character would fall stairs and take pies to the face. She said in 2011 that since childhood she always tried to make people laugh, and "For all the years that I toured with my dad, the harder I could fall on my face, or the bigger reaction I could get, it didn't matter what language you spoke it was funny." The members of the show also liked to pull pranks, such as duct taping the guitarist of the opening act and throwing him out of the venue, hiding Calico's skirt so she had to come on stage in her underwear, or one time, the final show of Alice Cooper touring with Scorpions, when Alice and her conspired to have the male members of his band dress in lingerie and replace the dancing girls on the Scorpions' set.

In 2011, she stepped down from regularly touring with Alice to pursue her acting career. She has made concert appearances since. In the 2014 concert of Alice and Sheryl Cooper's annual charity concert Alice Cooper's Christmas Pudding, Calico and Sheryl both portrayed a ghoulish nurse character, at one point each of them gnawing on opposite ends of a baby doll. In 2017, Calico performed as the nurse character, getting roughed up during "Only Women Bleed" but coming back to torment Alice while he was straitjacketed singing "The Ballad of Dwight Fry".

Acting and comedy career
In the mid-2000s, when not on tour with Alice Cooper, Calico acted in several independent films, mostly horror, including The Curse of El Charro, JunkfoodHorrorfest (2007), where she portrayed a "junkie serial killer", and Rolling (2007), where she portrayed a character using MDMA at a rave. A role in a deleted scene in the 2007 Halloween remake earned her Screen Actors Guild card. She played a lead role in The Visitor, which was in pre-production in 2008. Cooper portrayed Heather in Dakota Skye (2008), a barmaid in the horror film Suck (2009), and co-starred as the "Woman" character in Thirty Proof Coil (2010). Her first starring role in a film was in the 2010 horror film Thirty Proof Coil. She claims that she landed many horror movie roles due to her shows with Alice. When she left the Alice Cooper tours in 2011, at the advice of local actors she enrolled in master classes taught by Ivana Chubbuck. After taking the course, at Chubbuck's recommendation, she auditioned, successfully, for the improv comedy groups The Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. She also studied with the Stella Adler Studio of Acting, Margie Haber, and Gordon Hunt. In 2011, she landed a starring role in the TV series Bloomers (2011–2018) as the recurring character Lila Black and made an uncredited cameo in Hall Pass (2011). She portrayed Marcy in 13/13/13 (2013) and co-starred in Welcome to Hell (2018), which incorporated the short Family Time originally from 2013,  portraying Susan, a murderous pedophile mother. She portrayed herself in The Curse of Denton Rose in 2020. Additional television roles include the murderer Jane Miller in a 2015 episode of Hawaii Five-0, and the character Tabitha in the 2016 episode "Danger & Thunder" in the children's comedy series Henry Danger. In 2016 she made an appearance on The Mindy Project. Cooper's directing and production work includes directing commercials and music videos and producing the crime-comedy film Love of Mass Destruction, which she co-starred in, the short film The Taxi Man, and the single-episode TV series The Normal Ones, a show she also wrote and co-starred in. In the 2024 short film Fire Fucking Fire, which debuted at Tribeca Festival in June, Cooper co-starred as the rock star love interest Meg opposite Ally (Rachel Paulson).

With Beasto Blanco
In 2012, bassist Chuck Garric formed a band with Chris “Brother” Latham, Beasto Blanco, and Garric invited Cooper to perform backing vocals on some songs on their first album, Live Fast Die Loud (2013). She was reluctant at first as she had promised herself never to be in a band because she did not think she was a good singer. Garric told her "you’re a really good actress so just act like you're a singer", and after going into the studio she discovered that she could sing to her satisfaction. Originally the plan had been for her to be a back-up singer, but during the recording process Garric increasingly featured her singing. When Beasto Blanco decided to go on a bar tour of Europe, Cooper decided to properly join the group. While she had previously told herself she would never be in a band, she realized "I want to be in this band. This is it." During their European tour, they developed a signature sound and visual style, melding heavy metal with a gruesome stage show, Cooper dressing in fishnet, chains, and leather, and often brandishing some form of weapon, including a Louisville slugger with nails through it and a CO2 gun. Calico said that when she focused her career on film and television work, she missed performing live, and joining Beasto Blanco allowed her spontaneity and opportunities to push boundaries. She considers her body an instrument: "I couldn't take up an instrument if I wanted to during Beasto because I'm so busy with my body." According to Cooper, on every tour she creates new costume pieces and does make-up for her character. The character, "Machine Girl", keeps evolving, as Cooper says she is "never done testing her boundaries." According to Cooper, "some tours she’s meaner, some sexier, some downright ridiculous." Inspiration for "Machine Girl" includes the art of H. R. Giger and Frank Frazetta, with "maybe a little Magic: The Gathering sprinkled in". She recounts that one time a kid came up to her after a show and said she looked like Sindel from Mortal Kombat. "I told him he had a good eye, but if he told anyone my secret, I'd finish him. He got the joke, Thank God." In 2017, Cooper said her costumes are provided by Hazmat Design, and Cooper will look at "Vikings and baroque era gowns and ninja folklore" when collaborating with Hazmat to create the pieces. A reviewer of a concert by the band in 2022 compared the aesthetic of the group to Mad Max: Fury Road with the stagecraft of Alice Cooper.

Over the course of subsequent releases, Cooper's vocals contribution progressively increased. She shared lead vocals on a cover of her father's single "Feed My Frankenstein" on the band's second, self-titled recording, and Garric splits vocal duty evenly with Cooper on their latest recording, We Are (2019). In a 2020 interview, when asked how it is for her to be the only female in a rock band, she said everyone is treated the same, and she often forgets that she is the only girl. "Except for one time, we were playing a club and in a creepy quiet moment some guy yelled 'SHOW YOUR TITS!' My band just stood scary still for a moment. And started to take off their instruments. I just thought 'Oh no.... This is gonna turn into a brawl.' They were ready to throw down. But before they could the whole crowd turned on the guy and dragged him outside. I hope he healed well." She said in a 2018 interview that when she first started developing her character (which in boots stands about 7 feet tall), she assumed that men would respond well to her, but she also then had women coming up to her afterwards to say how her performances are empowering for them. In 2023 the band signed with COP International.

Influences
Cooper grew up hearing a variety of music. She states that her parents played a lot of classic artists such as Laura Nyro and Burt Bacharach, contemporary acts such as Zodiac Mindwarp and Guns ‘N Roses, as well as Elvis Presley and The Beatles. She said her mother is also very into classical and soundtracks. She also has mentioned enjoying her father's music and emo punk such as Alkaline Trio, Descendants, and The Marked Men. In 2020, she mentioned listening to genres outside of rock – classical, electronic, heavy blues – to incorporate into her music with Beasto Blanco. A review of Live Fast Die Loud, the first album of Beasto Blanco, compared the musical style of the group to Alice Cooper and White Zombie. Cooper describes her brand of comedy as physical slapstick. She states that growing up she watched Monty Python and Peter Sellers and she wanted to grow up to be the female Jim Carrey. She cites her top fashion influences as Alexander McQueen, Naeem Khan, and Zuhair Murad.

Additional activities and personal life
In 2004, Cooper stated that dating was difficult for her because of the fame of her father. Cooper married the actor Jed Williams in 2015, in Maui, Hawaii. She volunteers at The Rock, one of the teen centers of Alice Cooper's Solid Rock, a non-profit founded by Alice and Sheryl Cooper and Chuck Savale. She helped set up a black box theatre for the center. She also has done modeling work.

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Arçelik

Arçelik A.Ş. is a Turkish multinational household appliances manufacturer which owns Beko, Grundig and Indesit.

The company engages in the production, marketing and after-sale services of durable goods and their components. Its products include white goods (such as refrigerators, freezers, washing machines, dishwashers) and small home appliances (such as vacuum cleaners, coffee makers and blenders).

Arçelik A.Ş. is active in more than 100 countries including China and the United States through its 13 international subsidiaries and over 4,500 branches in Turkey. The company operates 15 production plants in Turkey, Romania, Russia, China, South Africa and Thailand including refrigerator, washing machine, dishwasher, cooking appliances and components plants. It offers products under its own Eleven brand names, including Arçelik, Beko, Grundig, Dawlance, Altus, Blomberg, Arctic, Defy, Leisure, Arstil, Elektra Bregenz and Flavel.

The company is controlled by Koç Holding, Turkey's largest industrial and services group with USD 24.9 billion in consolidated revenues in the first half of 2023, and is the market leader in Turkey's appliance sector with its Arçelik and Beko brands. Following the merger of European activities with Whirlpool Corporation, Beko Europe became the largest household appliances company in Europe ahead of BSH Hausgeräte and Electrolux based on production volumes.

It has been reported that as of April 2024, the company will continue its activities in the global market under the name Beko Corporate.

History
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Arçelik A.Ş. was founded in 1955 by Lütfü Doruk in partnership with Vehbi Koç operating in the Turkish home appliances industry. Arçelik produced its first washing machine in 1959 and its first refrigerator in 1960 at its manufacturing plant in Çayırova, Istanbul.

In 1986, Arçelik A.Ş. went public on Borsa Istanbul.

In 1999, Arçelik and LG Electronics founded the joint-venture Arçelik-LG Klima Sanayi ve Ticaret A.Ş. for manufacturing air conditioning units for the Turkish and global markets.

In 2006, Koç Holding decided to merge their subsidiaries in the home appliances industry under the roof of Arçelik A.Ş. These companies included the Atılım ve Gelişim Pazarlama A.Ş. which marketed Arçelik branded products, Beko Elektronik A.Ş. which marketed Beko branded products and Türk Elektrik Endüstrisi A.Ş. which produced engines and compressors for Arçelik and Beko branded products. The new organization model enabled the company to manage production and sales/marketing activities centrally and to increase productivity.

Arçelik A.Ş. made a series of acquisitions to grow its global presence: Blomberg (2002), Elektra Bregenz (2002), Leisure (2002), Flavel (2002), Arctic (2002), Grundig (2007), Defy (2011), Dawlance (2017), Singer (2019). It also partnered with other multinationals to form alliances: Tata Group in India, Hitachi in several Asia-Pacific markets and Whirlpool Corporation in several European markets.

Global presence
In a move to become one of the leading home appliance manufacturers, Arçelik has created a significant global presence through organic and inorganic growth. While there are some minor local brands in the portfolio, Arçelik can be recognized in most markets with its Beko brand.

EMEA Region

In 2002, Arçelik made a series of acquisitions to grow its presence in the EMEA region: German and Austrian operations of Groupè Brandt which owned Blomberg and Elektra Bregenz brands, UK-based Leisure and Flavel brands and Romanian appliance maker Arctic S.A.

In 2004, Arçelik acquired German TV and home appliance maker Grundig in a partnership with Alba plc. In 2007, Arçelik became the sole-owner of the Grundig Multimedia B.V. and its eponymous brand.

To increase brand recognition, Beko became the sponsor of Watford F.C. during the 2007-2008 and the 2008–2009 seasons. Beko also has been among the sponsors of FC Barcelona since 2014.

In 2011, Arçelik acquired South Africa’s largest appliance maker Defy from Franke for $327M.

In 2022, Whirlpool Corporation has made a strategic review on its EMEA operations due to lower EBIT margins. This resulted in a series of transactions between Arçelik and Whirlpool.

 * 1) Arçelik acquired Whirlpool’s operations in Middle East and Africa for €20M.
 * 2) Arçelik acquired Whirlpool’s Turkish manufacturing plants for €78.3M. These plants have an annual production capacity of 1.3 million freezers and 1.4 million washing machines.
 * 3) Arçelik acquired Whirlpool’s operations in Russia and several other Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries on the wake of Russian invasion of Ukraine. Arçelik is expected to make a series of deferred payments over a 10-year period capped at €220M, based on the net asset value of the business.
 * 4) Arçelik and Whirlpool decided to merge their European operations under one entity which will be held 75% by Arçelik and 25% by Whirlpool. This new entity will have 11 plants across Italy, UK, Poland, Romania and Slovakia.

APAC Region

In 2015, Arçelik’s first plant in the region started production in Thailand. The plant has a production capacity of 300.000 units per year and is configured to the needs of the Southeast Asian market.

In 2017, Arçelik acquired Pakistan’s Dawlance for $243M.

In 2017, Arçelik and Tata Group has announced a new partnership. Arçelik and Voltas will form a joint-venture in India named Voltbek Home Appliances Ltd. This entity will provide manufacturing, sales, and after-sales services for VoltasBeko branded home appliances (refrigerators, washing machines microwaves, etc.) in India. The partners set an ambitious target to reach $1B revenue and exceed 10% market share in the Indian market over ten years.

In 2019, Arçelik acquired a 57% stake in Singer Bangladesh for $75M.

In 2021, Arçelik and Hitachi Global Life Solutions has announced a new partnership. Hitachi GLS will transfer 11 subsidiaries outside Japan (two manufacturing and nine sales companies) into Arçelik Hitachi Home Appliances B.V. and sell a 60% stake in this entity to Arçelik for $343M. This entity will provide manufacturing, sales, and after-sales services for Hitachi branded home appliances (refrigerators, washing machines and vacuum cleaners, etc.) outside Japan.

Brands
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 * Turkey: Altus, Arçelik, Beko, Grundig
 * EMEA Region: Altus, Arctic, Ariston, Bauknecht, Beko, Blomberg, Defy, Elektra Bregenz, Flavel, Hotpoint*, Grundig, Indesit, Ignis, Leisure, Polar, Privileg, Whirlpool*
 * APAC Region: Beko, Hitachi*, Dawlance, Singer*, Voltas Beko

Technology and innovations
Arçelik has 17 R&D centers globally. Some of its innovative products include the first automated Turkish coffee maker Telve, the first washing machine in the industry made from recycled materials and tumble dryer with pet hair removal.

As of 2022, Arçelik is #67 on WIPO’s ranking for “Companies That Filed the Most International Patent Applications” and is the only entrant to the list from Türkiye.

Sustainability
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Arçelik A.Ş. was chosen among the first 15 companies to be accepted into the Borsa Istanbul Sustainability Index in 2014. It has been accepted to the FTSE4Good Emerging Market Index in 2016.

 * CDP: Arçelik has been recognized for leadership in corporate transparency and performance on Water Security with an A score and on Climate Change with an A− score by the global environmental non-profit CDP.
 * Dow Jones Sustainability Index: Arçelik has achieved 87/100 in the S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) as of 21 October 2022.  For the fourth consecutive year, Arçelik achieved the highest score out of 46 companies assessed in the DHP Household Durables Industry based on the results of December 16, 2022.
 * EcoVadis: Arçelik has obtained a score of 70/100 and has been awarded a Gold EcoVadis Medal in 2022 for this achievement. This places Arçelik in the top 2% of companies rated by EcoVadis in the manufacture of domestic appliances industry.

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Wikipedia talk:Flux Rating

Interesting idea, but it's really something you should discuss with the developers (i.e. on Bugzilla). Also, I should point out that an article with a high number of recent edits may have excellent quality precisely for that reason (as opposed to, say, an article not updated for half a year), especially for articles on recent events. Also, on a more sinister note, vandals may want to seek out pages with low flux rate to vandalize, since it's less likely that they will be noticed. Radiant_ >|< 06:44, August 24, 2005 (UTC)

Ok. I get that, so I wil be moving this to Bugzilla on your advice.

First, however the high number of recent edits will indicate a page in active change, exactly the point of a flux rating. The point is to establish relative stability/ instability as a marker. I understand that there can be many reasons for many recent and significant changes, both good and bad, but having an additional marker to help alert for high flux, or to indicate low flux is important. Remember, it's about significant changes, not minor changes. Refinement of a page or major addition will be a series of minor changes. Major changes can be a red flag. Frequent major changes will give a high flux rating, and will indicate significant page instability. Frequent minor changes will indicate page refinement,and will not necessarily affect the flux rating.

Potentially, another marker for change in flux will show when the rate of flux suddenly increases, and may indicate when there is a significant change in the way a page is being edited, and can be a marker for many things.

Furthermore, if vandals seek out pages with a low flux rating and vandalise the page. the flux rating will pop up and may alert us to what is happening. A "change in" flux rating will certainly pick it up.

The bottom line is that a flux rating will change when vandalism occurs, and indicators of flux rating will alert administrators of a page bing vandalised because they will register an unusually high flux on a page that had previously beenstable, and should only be undergoing regular minor changes.

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DAAS Kapital

DAAS Kapital is an Australian television comedy series written by and starring comedy trio the Doug Anthony All Stars (Paul McDermott, Tim Ferguson and Richard Fidler) with supporting cast members Paul Livingston, Michael Petroni, Bob Downe and Khym Lam. The title is a reference to the trio's acronym "DAAS" and Karl Marx's economic treatise Das Kapital.

The series premiered on 15 July 1991, in Australia on the ABC network, and the season finale aired 7 July 1992. DAAS Kapital aired in 18 countries including Japan, Britain, USA and Germany and was released on DVD 20 March 2013 with commentary by the All Stars  and a new, original song. On 13 April 2013, the All Stars reunited for a one-off show celebrating the launch of the DVD set.

Format
DAAS Kapital was a sitcom that incorporated sketch show and variety show TV formats. For example, in each scripted episode, there would be cutaways to television shows and commercials—typically Shitsu Tonka News, Troy The Invincible and Wayne Kerr—along with guest appearances by Paul Livingston, Bob, Bob Downe and stop-motion animation sequences, along with original songs performed by the Doug Anthony All Stars. Ferguson described the show as "a cross between Land of Giants, Marine Boy and Jacques Cousteau on speed." Each episode's plot usually consisted of a very simple idea, such as a bug infestation on board or a Cinderella-style story mixed with all the above segments strung together with very quick jokes, narrative humour and stories told by the All Stars.

"Dear Jocasta, Today is Bastille Day. Now, Mother, before you go on about it, I know that you think the French are absolutely awful people after they bought Greenpeace and turned it into a dolphin canning factory. Richard has convinced me that testing cosmetics on animals is wrong. Therefore please send me only those facial creams tested on the naked skin of refugee babies. Paul's constantly staggering about the place and throwing up everywhere. He says it's the rough seas. I'm not sure. I'm reading War and Peace but I don't know what its about. I was pleased to hear that cousin Valmay's new ears work. Pity falling pianos don't make any noise."

Characters and casting
In addition to Tim, Paul and Richard, numerous other recurring characters appeared throughout the series. These included:
 * Flacco (Paul Livingston): a strange alien being with a high-pitched voice. He spends most of his time talking to his pet (animated) cockroach, Ross. Livingston also portrays several other characters throughout the series, such as the Marquis de Sade and the Pope, although the other characters have Flacco's mannerisms.
 * Psycho Bob (Michael Petroni): an American serial killer and psychotic who has somehow stowed away on board. He usually has a ranting monologue to camera ending with his catchphrase: "I'm Bob, and I'll be back." Tim is the only member of the crew to have seen or encountered him, implying that he is a figment of Tim's subconscious.
 * Thulgore (animated): a giant monster (said to be a crab louse, but with anthropomorphic face and limbs) who lives in the engine room.
 * The Shitsu Tonka newsreader (Khym Lam): the boys' only contact with the outside world is broadcasts from Shitsu Tonka's television network, including regular bulletins from a female Asian newsreader.
 * Bob Downe (Mark Trevorrow): a cheesy cabaret singer who is a TV personality on Shitsu Tonka.
 * Wayne Kerr (Tim Ferguson): along with his sidekick pals, Spinner (Richard Fidler) and Paddlefoot (Paul McDermott), are characters in the most violent program on Shitsu Tonka ("with a G-5 violence rating!").
 * Troy the Invincible (Paul McDermott): appears on Shitsu Tonka. Performs acts of violence on himself to demonstrate the invincibility of his working-class principles.
 * Uncle Biff Happy (Richard Fidler): a used car salesman whose ads appear on Shitsu Tonka.

Scenario
By the year 1998, the Shitsu Tonka Unitocracy has taken over the world. "Competition between nations has been made redundant by the universal 'Common Cents' currency and rezoning and decentralisation of much of the world's population. By homogenising the various races of the world, the petty nationalism that has plagued civilisation since the Dawn of Man has been diffused ... all [minorities] are allowed to flourish in the macrosociety we have imposed."

The show itself takes place in the year 2006 as the All Stars (Tim Ferguson, Paul McDermott and Richard Fidler) are placed in a submarine with all the world's artwork and treasures and their "assignment is to catalogue history." Some time later they become lost, their whereabouts unknown and their existence is denied by the Shitsu Tonka Corp.

In the final episode of season 1, it becomes apparent that Shitsu Tonka deliberately sabotaged the ship, placing Richard on board as a robot implanted with a bomb. He was to self-destruct and completely destroy history. Instead, the blast propelled the submarine into space, providing an opportunity for more sci-fi based storylines and parodies in the show's second season. In the final episode of this season, the ship returns to the ocean.

Season 1 (1991)
All episodes are named after the seven deadly sins.

The episodes listed in the Season 1 scriptbook are in this order: Avarice, Sloth, Gluttony, Pride, Envy, Lust, Anger. Episodes in broadcast order below.

* "Gluttony" opens with the All Stars performing a cover of The Velvet Underground's "Sunday Morning." On the 2013 DAAS Kapital DVD, the song is omitted due to "contractual reasons... and because we never paid to use it in the first place," according to Paul McDermott. In its place is the song "Saturday (mourning)," also known as Saturday's The Day For Leaving," written and recorded exclusively for the DVD release. During the song, the DVD displays text to this effect, before mentioning the All Stars' performance of Sunday Morning "is still on YouTube".

Season 2 (1992)
All episodes are named after the seven heavenly virtues.

Scriptbook
In 1992, the scripts for the first season of DAAS Kapital were collected into a book which also contained on-set photographs of the production and illustrations by the All Stars.

DVD
On 1 November 2012, Tim Ferguson announced via Twitter that a DAAS Kapital DVD was underway and would be released in 2013. Ferguson then tweeted that the set would include audio commentary followed by a picture of the recording session, one of the DAAS Kapital crew as they are today and revealing that a new, original song was being recorded for the DVD set.

The DVD was confirmed for release on 20 March 2013, with the group reforming for the official launch of the DVD set on 13 April. After lengthy discussion on the DVD set itself, the show and guests Flacco, Khym Lam and producer/co-director Ted Robinson, DAAS performed three songs: "My Girl" (the first song they performed together as a group), "Warsong" from DAAS Kapital and the last song the group recorded, the DVD exclusive "Saturday's The Day For Leaving."

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Talk:Invision Community

Bias
This page seems biased - it does not define facts. It talks about the 'AdminCP' as if it assumes the reader knows what that means - I almost never use WikiPedia for anything other then looking up information, so I don't know the exact problem or how to go about fixing it, but I do know biased articles are against policy here.
 * That has nothing to do with bias; the article is too technical. Paul Cyr 20:31, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I cleared up the part about AdminCP. -- Kevin 68.61.255.12
 * Paul, it's a message board article. Of course it will appear technical. 68.168.82.226

I think this article is totally bias, "that it would maintain." Says by who you know what the developers are thinking.

In History Section "software developers originally maintained that it would remain a free package" --Ramu50 (talk) 03:17, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

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 * Shortly thereafter, on November 12, 2004, a version of the software was released (with restrictions on code and limits on usage) again as a trial, only for the purpose of letting people preview the software.

Can anyone substantiate this claim? « alerante ✆ ✉ » 21:13, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Updated the information
I added the fact that the only way to use IPB now is to sign up for a demo account on IPS's website, and removed the part about technical evaluation, etc. I think the article is not all that technical, so does it need a cleanup, but I decided to leave the messages there in case it's inappropriate to remove them.

Removed vBulletin Link
Link to Transverse Styles was added by 65.33.171.38 to this article. This isn't about vBulletin. Checking the vBulletin page notes that this IP address put in the same links on that page and they were removed. It may bear watching. Ipstenu 18:57, 9 November 2005 (UTC)

Links?
This isn't a link repositry. Should we have so many? I moved the French ones to the French wiki page as best I could (my French sucks) becuase it seemed more appropriate. - Ipstenu 16:26, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
 * You're right. I'll link to the official resource list. --Phatmonkey 19:36, 22 December 2005 (UTC)

Please stop removing links Phatmonkey The official resource list has not been updated in some while and contain old links. And some links are not on the resource list but still are relevant to IPB.

I really don't think we should have a huge list of resource sites here though - surely it should only be limited to sites about the product itself? I'm sure there's a guideline on this somewhere... --PhatmonkeyTalk 21:36, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm not sure. Just saying there are some good resource sites out there, that are not on the resource list that support the product IPB.

Maybe we should make a comprehensive list of IPB resource sites somewhere. IPB wiki time? --PhatmonkeyTalk 21:42, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

You mean an article for "ipb resources"?

An external list of some sort I guess. Maybe an unofficial IPB wiki for tutorials, mods and all that. The offical IPBeyond or whatever isn't very good. --PhatmonkeyTalk 22:02, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm not to good with wiki management, but if I can help out I will. Maybe instead of the current resource list this link would be better http://www.ipsbeyond.com/forums/index.php?autocom=links&CODE=02&cat=1 ? Has a lot more active resource sites there.

 * I feel Transverse Styles should be removed from the external links since it is a commercial skin website. I also question the reliability of InvisionFuse as a resource site which has relatively few downloads all of which require registration. I also wonder if Invisionize should be included in the external links section since it is most likely the largest modiciation resource. However, registration is also required on this site. Any thoughts? -- Scohoust 12:59, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I think it's very silly having a large list of resource sites here. I've added a polite comment above the links asking people to discuss any resource site additions here. A better solution needs to be found, a IPB wiki for information (including a list of resource sites) might be interesting! --PhatmonkeyTalk 19:31, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

 * It would be helpful if IPS kept their resource list up to date. However, with the appearance of IPSBeyond, I doubt they'll be too willing to support other resource sites. -- Scot t  20:30, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

 * In response to Scohoust 12:59, 18 March 2006 (UTC) - I've readded InvisionFuse becuase I believe it's a relevant externel link for IPB, I may be new to wiki but we all have our opinions, and if I don't agree with a part of wiki I just don't remove it I add my opinion, in regards to IPB, IPB is not some private club where only the big resource sites are accepted. (This attitude is unhealthy for IPB, if there were only a few IPB resource sites, competition would be minimal and in the end the users of IPB would suffer.) It's a community forum, and you just can't delete links or infomation on IPB because you think it's to small or views of the minoirty. Instead of moving and adding and deleting infomation, I suggest you contact the administration of this service to sought it out.

I added InvisionFuse is the first place becuase I belive it fits the position of externel link as it's related primary to Invision Power Board of which this article is about. An example of this private club mentality is here as well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_mediation/phpBB_entry_dispute "reverting any inclusion of any links to well known, well established and usfull "unofficial" resources"

 * I was involved in the dispute on phpBB; we came to an agreement that official and unofficial links should be separated, and that particularly contentious links should be discussed and a consensus arrived at. We need to be careful that the "External links" section doesn't turn into just another directory of links. æle ✆ 21:07, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm all for discussion, which is what I started with InvisionFuse. I was (and remain) interested in whether people considered this to be a link which is useful to an IPB user. While I agree it relates directly to IPB, there are a lot of other sites which do so also. How do we define which should be listed here and which shouldn't? Looking at the VBulletin page, they have done exactly as æle suggested, with the focus being mainly official links. The InvisionCube link seems to have made its way in as well - a site as far as I can see "exists to sell products or services." WP:EL Comments? -- Scot t  21:28, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Any unofficial commercial add-on, etc. sites should go. æle ✆ 22:54, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I've rearranged the the links using VBulletin page as a template. That might clear it up a bit. And removed InvisionCube, was not aware of commerical addon restrictions. Is there some guidelines on external links that we can use? --Crangic 22:51, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

 * That looks better, good job. The external Links guidelines suggest that links to sites which sell products or services should be avoided. -- Scot t  23:15, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

Updated demo timeframe
I registered for a demo recently and found out that the timeframe is now reduced to 24 hours,so I updated the information. If anyone can give a specific date of when the change took place, please edit again. 202.156.6.54 04:14, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

Secruity Issues
I think something needs to be mentioned about how many people are still using the 1.3 Final forums when many many serious secruity issues have been found with it.

--85.210.56.145 17:14, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

And many people use Win95 with the same ish ;) Okay, something should be mentioned. -- Ipstenu 18:21, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

InvisionFuse / Links 2.0
Bringing this over from my talk page since there's more to the world that just me. User:143.238.106.149 has asked me why I keep removing the link, to which I pointed back here. There was no clear decision that I could see about the site, and a couple people were wary since it requires payment for certain aspects of the site. It was re-added and I removed it, since the page asks us to talk first and the only talk was an older talk. Does anyone have an opinion? Frankly I can't tell you the 'worth' of the site since you have to sign up first and I've got no reason to do so. -- Ipstenu ( talk | contribs ) 11:19, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
 * As I mentioned above, I doubt whether the very few available downloads count it as a resource site. The fact that the site now offers many commercial services and products suggests it shouldn't be included as per WP:EL. This was the basis used above to remove Transverse Styles, so I think the same should apply here.
 * While we're here, D-Scripting seems to have crept onto the list without being discussed. I can't really find anything on that site which relates to IPB (except the forum). Any opinions on that one? -- Scot t  15:38, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * D-scripting used to have a shit-load of IPB stuff. Looks like it's been redone. I think they both should go, but since the anon-user was all but accusing me of having a vendetta against InvisionFuse, I thought it better to put the matter here and let common-law have it's say :) -- Ipstenu ( talk | contribs ) 16:05, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Removed D-scripting and I'll keep an eye out for any further Invision Fuse additions. -- Scot t  16:50, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't see why Invision Fuse can't be allowed I do believe it follows the link guidelines. The site primary exist as a free open site much like Wiki. And I don't see any guidelines that disallows it, as well as DScripting inclusion. I've seen a lot of beating around the bush here, no one has actually stated a rule in which the inclusion of Invision Fuse is breaking the guidelines, yes reverting multiple links including other resource sites. I suggest you list any guidelines that you think the inclusion of Invision Fuse does not meet. So we can discuss this and solve any problems you have. At the moment, I've only been made aware of one problem, that I belive there is confusion over. Sites that primarily exist to sell products or services: I suggest you visit the site in question, you'll see that only a small part of the site I'd say less than 5% exist only to support the site costs, much like Wiki donation drive held here, I instead choose to sell a few mods to cover hosting costs, I'm sure anyone can agree with my descision if they have a large hosting bill ;) On another note, what happen here? ipbhelpers was added without a discussion on the talk page, is that allowed? --60.228.128.197 06:01, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to disagree that only 5% of Invision Fuse exists to sell products. Of the links at the top, 3 of them (Support, Products and Services) all relate to paying customers. The downloads section, which does relate to IPB, contains only 6 downloads, hardly anywhere near those of Invisionize or IPSBeyond which are both linked to in this article. The other area of Invision Fuse which relates to IPB is the forum, however it too is much smaller than those of resource sites included in the article. Wikipedia is not a repository of links, and I feel that including a site such as Invision Fuse doesn't add anything to the article. Perhaps I'm in a minority, and hopefully other editors will express their opinion on this matter. -- Scot t  09:07, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I see you removed IPBHelpers, and that's fine. It too is a site that you have to pay for full access, which hits the squidgy line between pay-for and free. Free means no one has to pay. A donation drive (and no, I didn't donate here) is different since you still get full access to the site if you don't pay. Why don't we just draw the line 'if they ask for money, then no.' My caveat there is the IPB officiall links. IPSBeyond would be an exception, since if you've bought IPB, you have automagic access to the site, and since IPB is not a free product  ... Right. Moochers can suffer ;) -- Ipstenu ( talk | contribs ) 13:35, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Still think the guidelines here are to restrictive, but only the Official Homepage is now displayed. In response to Scot, I don't know how many pages the site Invision Fuse has, but I'm sure the number of paid content, is defaintly much lower than what free content is offered. The % in the navigation is hardly an accurate measurement. But I can agree to monitor the article to ensure no other links are added. --138.130.100.235 04:36, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

That is certainly one way to solve the problem, but I do feel that there are other sites which could be included in this article, but Invision Fuse isn't one of them. IPSBeyond should at very least be included, Invisionize probably should too. These are just my 2 cents, leaving it as it is certainly removes the problem. -- Scot t  10:14, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Someone else restored the links. I deleted IBP wiki, since it's pay to use (and yes, so is IPB, but this article is ABOUT IPB so that makes sense). I also added the following comment to the Other Links section ''Please do not add any new sites without the consensus of the talk page. Note: ALL sites which require donations and/or payment for full access will be removed. '' - I think that should cover most concerns. Yes? Please note the use of 'require'. If you can go to a site and download all the hacks etc without payment, then it's fine. -- Ipstenu ( talk | contribs ) 14:33, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

IpbWiki
You said you deleted the link to IpbWiki? Because I see it again...I personally agree. This article is about IPB. IpbWiki is one of many modifications for IPB. It shouldn't get any special attention just because it links IPB to wiki software. Invisionize, which is free, should be there, but anything that is paid doesn't belong there. Compguy11 10:03, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
 * IPBWiki points to the Wikipedia article on the related topic. That's why it's under 'See Also' and not external links.  IkonBoard is also listed, even though it's not really related to IPB, but it's sort of a cousin. The line got squidgy.  Frankly, IPBWiki is the only one of it's kind that I'm aware of, offering a good bridge between Wiki and IPB.  I'm honestly not sure if it should stay or go (and in fact, I'd missed that it came back).  In this case, since it's really closely integrated with IPB, even though it's pay, I'm ... leaning to leaving it be. -- Ipstenu ( talk | contribs ) 15:11, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I see where you are coming with that..it is a close call. Compguy11 06:59, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Sorry but I dont think the link should be there. What has IPB got in connection with a Wiki? Nothing. So what if a bridge is available, the article is about Invision Power Board default install without modifications / skins / other modules connecting the software to another software application. Having the link there is singling out this, from all other bridges out there. Hence why the link for IZE / IPSBeyond is there. Those sites deal not with one mod or bridge - but with many enchancments to IPB aswel as providing support. Its not singling out any such mod or bridge. The site "generalises" it. Wiki needs to be removed, its not fair on other bridges and besides that, its not really related to the articles theme. Just my opinion though, dont shoot me for it! 194.46.176.4 23:56, 26 August 2006 (UTC)

I did a similar edit to the article Invision Power Services. I will do the same to this article and remove the ipbwiki link. Again, it may be relevant because this is a wiki and it bridges between a wiki and the forum software, but like said above, it is about the default installation. There are hundreds of free or paid products for IPB, and most of them are on Invisionize. Giving one more credit than the other is stupid. We either list all the products associated to IPB or none of them. I'll assume people agree, if not..speak now! Compguy11 07:40, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

I agree with your removal from the Invision Power Services page, it should not be on that page, but for this page the link is relevant, especially since it connects to another software product on which Wikipedia is based. Link restored. Francinne 08:23, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Compared to other IP-based products, however, this one is significantly different. This isn't a mod, at least not how most mods work (tweaking IPB), since it bridges between IPB and Wiki. Which is something a little different. Semantics, I know. We should vote on it, though, before we delve into a revert war. -- Ipstenu ( talk | contribs ) 16:35, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

Honestly, I'm not going to keep reverting or editing for this. It's really not that big of a deal to me. My viewpoint is that there are lots of mods..this is one of them...and we should either list them all or none...but I also see the point of view that it is related to wikipedia...whatever you guys think is best...i just dont want random people coming in and messing with the link without discussing it on the talk page. Compguy11 19:01, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

It links back and forth to the related Wikipedia article, just as it links back and forth from that page to the related Mediawiki Wikipedia article. Francinne 15:18, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

You know, I never noticed that before...that's a good point. Anyway, I think the discussion on this is pretty much done unless somebody else has something to say. Compguy11 07:28, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

I put in a comment to leave it on the page per this discussion. Hopefully people will read :) -- Ipstenu ( talk | contribs ) 15:09, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

I've generalized the comment so that the comment explains what the See Also section is about, this way people who don't visit Wikipedia on a frequent basis will know that the See Also section is for links to other Wikipedia articles and not for external links. Francinne 16:19, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Much nicer than my version :) -- Ipstenu ( talk | contribs ) 20:09, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Paid Modification Sites
The Whole of IPB is paid, why allow that if your so strict on not allowing paid modification sites. All the official links are no use to anyone that doesnt want to pay. Can anyone say hypocrite

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.7.190.131 (talk • contribs)

 * If the site brings something that is value added content (and which can be interesting) to the reader of the Invision Power Board article, then why not? Whether the site is interesting enough to be added to the article is a subjective matter of course and will have to be decided on a site per site basis.
 * But if the site provides a content that's just an incarnation of Invisionize I'd rather not see it listed. And yes IpsBeyond is also an incarnation of Invisionize, but it IS the official resource site. Francinne 06:37, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

PF = Pre Final
At least as far as I can remember. It was IPB's version of Release Candidate. Not sure how best to put this into the article, or if it's even relevent at all. -- Scot t  16:54, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
 * I made it a foot note. -- Ipstenu ( talk | contribs ) 17:40, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Screenshot
That screenshot is not of a default installation of IPB; in fact, Invision Power Services edited the default template to add the IPS Job Openings announcement at the top. This needs to be edited, or replaced by a screenshot of an actual default installation.--68.108.222.137 20:35, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

I've taken a screenshot, of a default install, but I don't know if this "looks better". Decide for yourself and link to it if you like it. Francinne 08:28, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

 * I think that's fine. Go ahead and replace :) -- Ipstenu ( talk | contribs ) 13:41, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

 * Perfect.--68.108.222.137 00:54, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

InvisionFree
Someone wanted to add the following link: I can't access it from work (blocked site, woo). It looks free and I think it's okay to add, though since we asked people not to add links without a consensus, I reverted it and brought it up here. Oh, and the anon-user put it under official links. Which it aint. -- Ipstenu ( talk | contribs ) 14:16, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
 * http://www. invisionfree.com/ InvisonFree - Free IPB boards (using version 1.3)
 * InvisionFree is already listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Free_Invision_Power_Board_Hosts (which is linked to from under the see also section)

—Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.82.234.7 (talk • contribs)
 * Good point! -- Ipstenu ( talk | contribs ) 16:43, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Updates to External Links
Minor changes to the external links. Just updated the wording to be more precise. Nothing new, just changed wording a bit. Hopefuly nobody will get offended by such minor changes. Nice article btw. 194.46.176.4

2.2
I have added infomation in the "releases" area regarding the 2.2 private beta. It was listed in depth, but totally ignored on the list at the top. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.116.163.178 (talk)
 * Except that it hasn't been 'released' yet :) Released means that it's out and available and supported. 2.2 is in beta, so it's not there yet. -- Ipstenu ( talk | contribs ) 13:31, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

Not 'free' so let's delete the page
Some words before you read, Wikipedia is free, as no longer is IPB. So why do Wikipedia should offer support to a commercial enterprise? This whole entry should be deleted. My two cents. Gabricis —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.114.228.2 (talk • contribs)

Microsoft isn't free. Free is not a requirement to be included on Wikipedia. Accurate information about IPB, stating that it's proprietary software, is included on this page. No 'support' is given for or against IPB. This article simply explains what IPB is and how to get it. Also, please sign your posts with ~ :) -- Ipstenu ( talk | contribs ) 13:44, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

See also - added link to Category Free Invision Power Board hosting
I've readded the link to Category:Free Invision Power Board hosts as it can be usefull to people visiting this article. Francinne 10:40, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

External Link Request - The Admin Zone
I would like to request inclusion of The Admin Zone, a resource site for forum owners and administrators with articles, interviews, tutorials, and discussions covering all aspects of online forums. In regards to IPB, we have thousands of members who manage IPB forums, 8 original interviews with key IPB personnel including Matt Mecham, countless discussions directly and indirectly relating to IPB, and a moderator for our IPB forum who is also an IPB developer (Brandon Farber). The Admin Zone has an Alexa Rating of 6,942, 31,567 threads, 233,976 posts, 15,729 members, and 3,121 "active" members.TAZ Sandman 19:50, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I don't think it matches to ipb closely enough to have it included on this page, it's a general admin site of which only a small section relates to ipb... And it's already on the Invision Power Services page (too be honest I don't know if the interviews with the people from Ips are enough for that either, but anyway...). Just my 2 cents. Francinne 22:11, 25 January 2007 (UTC)

 * I also agree with this. Although the site has some information relating to IPB, it just doesn't contribute anything to the article.  Wikipedia also doesn't add links to places based on how many posts they have.  You also used the pronoun "our", which implies you are from The Admin Zone.  It is not exactly NPOV for somebody related to this site request for its inclusion. (and you also added the link without our consensus, which the comment clearly says not to do) Compguy11 06:06, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 * I agree with Francinne and Compguy11, it's just not IPB specific. -- Ipstenu ( talk | contribs ) 15:34, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Expanding article
I see there's an expand article box at top of the article, should we resplit version 2.0 and 2.1, since there was a fair bit of information before the merge? I think for the rest most of the things which need to be mentioned in this article are mentioned already really... Francinne 12:32, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

A furor of fan pissiness
I've tried to edit that weird addition into something that sounds a little less fanboy 'they are teh eviiiiil!', and removed the unverified claim that IPB code lifted from phpMyAdmin code - Folks, Forums are not reliable sources. They're a great example that people were upset, and can remain as a ref for that, but everything else needs a good, reliable, article. Find a good source for the phpMyAdmin stuff and then add it back in. -- Ipstenu ( talk | contribs ) 20:29, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Add link request
I would like to add a couple of lines to this article about the duplicate content issues with this software and also add a link to a website that attempts to deal with this (www.seoipb.com) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.188.162.49 (talk)

Please don't forget to sign your comments. I went to the site you noted here, and all I found was a website that says IPB doesn't have good SEO. Regardless if that is true or not, every software has issues, but it doesn't mean we can link to every person who attempts to fix it. Simply put, it is more like advertising than actually adding information people want to know. Compguy11 04:09, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

What do you mean?! It is a multipage site that has many sections describing techniques to optimise the software for search engines and it a consolidation of information that people often ask about the software. Did you actually click on any of the links? How can you describe it as advertising, there aren't even any adverts on the site that I can see... nothing, not even a paypal donate button.172.188.162.49

It's advertising, becuase it's a site for a 'how to mod IPB' site, rather than a 'how to get help, use, or otherwise support' one. Which is a fine line, I know :P In addition, a search on 'IPB SEO', 'Invsision SEO' or 'Invision Board search engine' doesn't show your site at all. I'm inclined to call it not notable. -- Ipstenu ( talk | contribs ) 19:57, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

 * I agree with Ipstenu's standpoint. Francinne 14:10, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

Add link for skin resources
I would like to add a link to an IPB skin resource [IPBSkinworks.com] as many users are unable to find reputable and high quality skins for this forum software.
 * This is not needed, as Invision Power Services has their own "IPS Resources" for skins, mods, etc. In my opinion, this looks to be nothing more than a ploy for free advertising. Uniquely Fabricated (talk) 02:15, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Invision Power Board 1.3.1
The Version 1.3 section says "The last free full version is Invision Power Board 1.3.1, which is not as widespread as 1.3 because of the short available time before 2.0 replaced it." I'm fairly certain that IPB 1.3.1 had the same license as the earliest 2.0 release, which stated that you were welcome to use the software for free for trial purposes only. this topic seems to agree with my memory, so either 2.0 is free and also the last free full version of IPB or 1.3.1 isn't. I don't really know if free for evaluation purposes would mean the same as free for all purpose use in the context of this article, which is why I want to discuss this before editing.--Comrade Kesha (talk) 03:06, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
 * Version 1.3.1 was seen as an update to 1.3, fixing some features and security issues. It "borrowed" from 2.0's license, however, as it was a 1.x release, was released for free. 2.0 was released free for about a week after it was released, and then was removed and replaced by a demo version, which the article states. This leads me to believe that 2.0, was free during that single week, and then went to paid. 207.7.162.118 (talk) 02:09, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 1.3.1 was only free if you got it as an update for 1.3. Because they changed the license with 1.3.1 and made it a trial version, instead of free. You can see that by looking in the footer of the board. --88.79.241.166 (talk) 12:19, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I updated the page with clarification on the nature of 1.3.1 being "free." I don't think the source is great, but I'm not sure if a more reliable source on this information exists anymore, so if anyone can find a better source, that'd be great. However, it's still a better citation that the previous information, which had no source at all. Comrade Kesha 21:09, 26 June 2012 (UTC)

Remote killswitch?
Not sure how accurate this is, but I knew someone online who ran an Invision board. One day he went to log in and found himself locked out. When he'd gotten to the bottom of it, it turned out that someone had asked how to get a game that was no longer in print, and the admin suggested he search eMule, and the Invision people took offense. Now, I'm sure suggesting pirating an out-of-print game is in the darker realms of a gray area, but that they were able to get in and lock him out is pretty hard to believe, him being a paying customer and all. If they have a back door, certainly others can use it as well? I didn't know how to verify this, so I didn't post it in the article, but maybe somebody who cares can look into it. This was also a couple of years ago, so maybe they stopped doing that. 155.130.107.20 (talk) 08:52, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
 * As a PHP developer that has written applications for Invision Power Board for the past five years, I'm pretty confident that no such kill switch exists. There is something called "ipscheck" which allows the staff of Invision Power Services to check to see if the board is licensed, but even that is now outdated since IPS changed the way they primarily validate licensed boards.  If such kill switch exists, I can't find one in the code and have never heard of anything similar happening to anyone else.  Although I'm sure your story is true, there is no way of knowing what happened and the incident is way too isolated to post on the WP page.  Plus, we would be accusing IPS of essentially hacking people's forums.  Maybe the host or ISP did something.  Regardless, I cannot verify this.  Anybody else have any thoughts? Compguy11 (talk) 01:48, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

 * I am a developer with IPS (Invision Power Services, Inc - the makers of IP.Board) and I can confirm we have no remote kill switch in the software. Whether downloaded directly from us, or pirated, we have no "automated" way to shut off a forum (or lock out access, or modify it in any way).  We follow normal proper DMCA procedures when a forum has violated our terms of service (and in a case like the one described above, we would not do anything - they have not violated our terms of service). (Brandon Farber)
 * Honestly i wouldn't be surprised. As for example UBB is know to have a kill switch, or at least a backdoor for the developers. --88.79.241.166 (talk) 12:19, 22 November 2011 (UTC)
 * If such a kill-switch were in place, it would be marginally trivial to find within the software code. The code is Visible Source, so anyone who has purchased the software can go easily through it and verify that the only callbacks made to IPS Servers are for hosted features (Spam Service, Chat, etc.) and to verify the license key is accurate and active / inactive. Rashbrook (talk) 19:16, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

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I would suggest removing the extensive list of version details in the article (which I don't want to do unilaterally) or put the versioning in a list or box ; then concentrating on the Lead and "the what" of the subject matter. Flibbertigibbets (talk) 03:26, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

 * Changed the Lead to be more concise and hopefully more understandable. The versioning, if retained, might be best suited for a table.    Flibbertigibbets (talk) 19:01, 29 November 2022 (UTC)

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User:Presurageorge

Hello. I am 24 years old and I am currently living in Romania. You may contact me by email at: george@presura.name or visit my home page at: http://presura.name. More information will follow soon.

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Category:Indigenous languages of the North American eastern woodlands

 * ' of the ' and  cultures of North America.

 * Spoken at the time of the indigenous peoples first contact with Europeans, in areas of the present day Eastern United States and southeastern Canada.


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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/6jkmaple

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

The result of the debate was delete. Woohookitty 09:52, 31 August 2005 (UTC)

6jkmaple
Non-notable blog, 5 days old, doesn't even have its own website. Zoe 06:46, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Blog and forum vanity. If Maple Story gets notable, by all means, write an article, but please get priorities straight and write about the subject and not the sites attached to it. - Mgm|(talk) 08:10, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Aparently the game is notable already. Drop of the links on Talk:Maple Story and let the editors working there decide whether they're worth it to include. - Mgm|(talk) 08:12, August 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete what Mgm said - basically the last thing wp needs are links to every blog, let along PAGES about them, LOL -- Ryan Norton T 10:41, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete linkcruft. --DrTorstenHenning 11:45, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Do not delete singaporeboy. this site is also informative about Maple Story. It can become a hit among Maple players and bring more people to Wikipedia! Also, why must blogs have websites? This is such a pathetic statement. Blogs and forums are not vain, for MacGyverMagic's information.
 * Blogs may not be vain, but articles about them are. Especially blogs that are less than a week old.  Zoe 19:28, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * (Referring to Zoe's statement) singaporeboy. First of all, vain means unsuccessful or useless; of no value. The value of a blog is not up to us to decide, unfortunately. Wikipedia has to accomodate the presence of a blogosphere. Perhaps Wikipedia could start up a Blog directory by the name of Wikiblogs?
 * Delete - not notable - Tεx  τ  urε  16:26, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nn. --tranquileye 19:26:27, 2005-08-29 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-notable linkcruft. *drew 07:26, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
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Jaroslav

Jaroslav (also written as Yaroslav or Jarosław in other Slavic languages) is a Czech and Slovak first name, pagan in origin. Its feminine form is Jaroslava.

There are several possible origins of the name Jaroslav. It is very likely that originally the two elements of the name referred to Jarilo - male Proto-Slavic deity of the sun, spring, and fertility, and slav meaning glory, i.e. "glory of the sun". However, with the adoption of Christianity in the Slavic countries the name began to be commonly understood not as a reference to a pagan deity, but rather to the "fervent worship of God"1 of the Bible.

 * People named Jaroslav:
 * Jaroslav Drobný, Czech tennis player
 * Jaroslav Drobný, Czech footballer
 * Jaroslav Filip, Slovak musician.
 * Jaroslav Foglar, Czech novelist
 * Jaroslav Halák, Slovak ice hockey player
 * Jaroslav Hašek, Czech author, writer of The Good Soldier Švejk
 * Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist and inventor, recipient of the Nobel prize
 * Jaroslav Jakubovič, Czech jazz saxophonist
 * Jaroslav Janiš, Czech race car driver
 * Jaroslav Janus, Slovak ice hockey player
 * Jaroslav Levinský, Czech tennis player
 * Jaroslav Mostecký (1963–2020), Czech fantasy writer
 * Jaroslav Naď, Slovak politician
 * Jaroslav Nešetřil, Czech mathematician
 * Jaroslav Pelikan, American Christian scholar
 * Jaroslav Pospíšil, Czech tennis player
 * Jaroslav Seifert, Czech poet, recipient of the Nobel prize
 * Jaroslav Špaček, Czech ice hockey player
 * Jaroslav Šrámek, Czechoslovak fighter pilot and military commander
 * Jaroslav Veis (born 1946), Czech journalist and writer

 * Places
 * Jaroslav (Pardubice District), a municipality and village in the Czech Republic

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