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Argentine Federal Police

The Argentine Federal Police (Policía Federal Argentina or PFA) is the national civil police force of the Argentine federal government. The PFA has detachments throughout the country. Until January 1, 2017, it also acted as the local law enforcement agency in the capital, Buenos Aires.

History
The history of this police force can be traced to 1580, when the founder of Buenos Aires, Captain Juan de Garay, established a local militia for defense against potential Native American raids. The Policía de Buenos Aires (Buenos Aires Police) operated for the first three hundred years up to 1880, when the Federalization of Buenos Aires resulted in the creation of the Policía de la Capital (Police of the Capital).

Incidents of social unrest in subsequent years helped prompt the Fraga Law in 1904, which provided for the inclusion of neighborhood representatives as commissioners in their respective precincts. The failed Revolution of 1905, by which the UCR sought to bring about reforms to the undemocratic electoral system, led to the appointment of a conservative congressman, retired Col. Ramón Falcón, to the post of chief of police; Falcón's repressive tenure ended with his 1909 assassination.

The current entity resulted from an initiative by the chief of police, Col. Emilio Ramírez, assisted by LTCOL Enrique Fentanes. A panel convened by the police chief presented its findings to support the establishment of the Federal Police on November 8, 1943, and on December 24, Decree 17.750 was signed by President Pedro Pablo Ramírez (the father of the chief of police). The new force did not immediately replace the Capital Police, but was instead transferred duties under the latter's purview incrementally. The first important such transfer was the February 7, 1944, assignment as the Presidential Guard of the Casa Rosada, and on March 10, the process of unifying the two forces was initiated by decree, concluding officially on January 1, 1945.

The Federal Police changed slowly in its organizational structure in subsequent decades. Initially maintaining 45 precincts, it added five in 1946, two in 1976, and a 53rd in 1999. Its subordinate role to the national executive increasingly made the force a political instrument during the country's often authoritarian regimes. General Juan Carlos Onganía, president after a 1966 coup, named a Federal Police director, Luis Margaride, who shared his distaste for modern culture, resulting in crusades against nightclubs, long hair, and miniskirts. Facing a government policy backdrop such as this, numerous avant-garde artists (and others, particularly in academia) left Argentina, many never to return. The return of exiled President Juan Perón in 1973 resulted in conflict with the PFA, when the calculating populist had Alberto Villar named as chief at the behest of adviser José López Rega. Villar was a member of López Rega's newly organized paramilitary group, the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance, and Villar's participation in spiraling violence between the group and those on the far left led to his assassination in 1974. The institution's prestige was further damaged following the March 1976 coup, when the force participated in the abduction, torture and murder of thousands of dissidents and others. It was only with the 1983 presidential elections (and the return to democratic rule) that the FP began restoring its prestige and its relations with the Argentine people, especially with the 1986 appointment of Juan Angel Pirker as police commissioner general.

The 1993 Olivos Pact between President Carlos Menem and his predecessor, UCR leader Raúl Alfonsín resulted in the 1994 reform of the Argentine Constitution, whose article 129 granted the City of Buenos Aires greater self-governance. This in principle included the transfer of control of the 25,000-strong Federal Police to the Jefe de Gobierno (elected Mayor), and the Buenos Aires City Legislature. Shortly before the historic, June 30, 1996, elections to these posts, however, a senior Peronist Senator, Antonio Cafiero, succeeded in limiting the city's autonomy by advancing National Law 24.588, which reserved control of the force, among other faculties, to the national government.

The controversial bill, signed in 1996 by President Menem, remained a sticking point between successive Presidents (most of whom have been Peronist) and Buenos Aires Mayors (none of whom have been). A 2005 agreement on principles between Mayor Aníbal Ibarra and President Néstor Kirchner was followed by the modification of the especially contentious article 7, which denied the city its own, local police force, in 2007 - though the "Cafiero Law" otherwise remains in force. Efforts since 2007 by Mayor Mauricio Macri to declare it unconstitutional have thus far failed, and though the Mayor inaugurated a Metropolitan Police, issues of revenue sharing for its financing remain pending.

The PFA, since 1974, maintains a university specializing in criminology, is associated with Interpol, and participates in special forces training programs at the Los Angeles Police Department.

In January 2017, most of the Federal Police agents serving in the city of Buenos Aires were transferred to a new local law enforcement agency, the Buenos Aires City Police. The new agency took over the local policing responsibilities in the capital city.

General organization

The PFA is subordinate to the Ministry of Security. The organization is headed by the Chief of the PFA, the Comisario General Juan Carlos Hernández, assisted by the Deputy Chief of the PFA, Comisario General Osvaldo Mato.

The PFA's headquarters, known as the Departamento Central de Policía, is located at 1650 Moreno Street, in the Montserrat section of Buenos Aires. The over 12,000 m2 (128,000 ft²) resulted from an 1868 proposal for its construction, which was ultimately approved in 1884. Designed by Juan Antonio Buschiazzo, and engineered by Francesco Tamburini, the ornate headquarters is an eclectic structure with influences from Baroque architecture, and features a number of patios, notably the central, Palm Tree Patio. Argentine Passports were issued to local residents at this location until 1996.

The organization of the PFA is as follows:

 * Jefatura'' (General Headquarters)
 * Subjefatura (Subheadquarters)
 * Superintendencias (Superintendencies)
 * Superintendencia de Administración (Superintendency of Administration)
 * Superintendencia de Bienestar (Superintendency of Welfare)
 * Superintendencia Federal de Bomberos (Federal Firefighting Superintendency)
 * Superintendencia de Investigaciones Federales (Superintendency of Federal Investigation)
 * Superintendencia de Planificación y Desarrollo (Superintendency of Planning and Development)
 * Superintendencia de Personal, Instrucción y Derechos Humanos (Superintendency of Personnel, Instruction and Human Rights)
 * Superintendencia de Policía Científica (Superintendency of Scientific Police)
 * Superintendencia Federal de Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicaciones (Federal Superintendency of Information Technologies and Communications)
 * Superintendencia de Interior y Delitos Federales Complejos (Superintendency of Interior and Federal Complex Crimes)
 * Superintendencia de Drogas Peligrosas (Superintendency of Dangerous Drugs)
 * Superintendencia de Asuntos Internos (Superintendency of Internal Affairs)
 * Superintendencia Federal de Transporte (Federal Superintendency of Transportation)
 * Direcciones Generales Autónomas (General Autonomic Directorates)
 * Dirección General Autónoma de Asuntos Jurídicos (General Autonomic Directorate of Legal Affairs)
 * Dirección General Autónoma de Asuntos Internos (General Autonomic Directorate of Internal Affairs)

Superintendencies are commanded by a superintendente, a less common word in Spanish. Both superintendente and the much more common Spanish word comisario normally translate into English as superintendent, which creates some translation problems when discussing Argentine police services.

Training for all serving agents of the service is done by the following institutions:
 * Federal Police Agentss and NCOs School "Don Enrique O'Gorman"
 * Federal Police Academy "Commissioner General Juan Angel Pirker"
 * Federal Police Staff College "Comisario General Enrique Fentanes"

Aside from its former stations in Buenos Aires, it maintains provincial stations in select capital cities and several towns of the Provinces of Argentina. The FFS also doubles as the state fire service as well.

Federal Operations Special Group (G.E.O.F)
The GEOF is a specialized police unit of the General Directorate of International Terrorism and Complex Crimes. Although the existence of special forces in Argentina begins in 1930, the unit was officially created after the 1994 AMIA bombing. In 1994 its first section was established in Tucumán and in 1997 a second division was constituted in Rosario. In the next year the Buenos Aires group was formed.

Special Group One
The unit was established under the denomination of Special Combat Teams in 1978, when Argentina hosted the Football World Cup. Ten years later, in 1988, the division changed its name to Police Operations Group and officially became the premier counter-terrorism team of the Federal Police.

Police ranks
Officer Ranks (in descending order)

Sub-Officer Ranks (in descending order)

Aircraft
The Dirección General de Aviación Federal is a unit of PFA agents, responsible for transportation policeman to anywhere in the country, besides the air support operations to the Federal Police. It has multipurpose aircraft for health functions, VIP transport, search, patrol, fire fighting, rescue and tactical operations. Its operational base is the heliport of Isla Demarchi (Heliport Dársena Sur). Its current fleet includes:
 * MBB Bo 105
 * MBB/Kawasaki BK 117
 * Eurocopter EC135
 * Eurocopter EC145
 * Cessna Citation I
 * Cessna 421

Vehicles

 * Ford Focus
 * Ford Ranger
 * Chevrolet Classic
 * Iveco Daily
 * Mercedes-Benz Sprinter
 * BDX
 * Dongfeng Mengshi

Firearms
Pistols Submachine guns Battle/Assault rifles Shotguns Machine guns Sniper rifles
 * Bersa Thunder 9
 * Glock 17
 * Beretta 92
 * FMK-3
 * Heckler & Koch MP5
 * Uzi
 * Halcón ML-63
 * FN FAL
 * Heckler & Koch HK33
 * SIG SG 552 Commando
 * IWI ACE
 * Ithaca 37
 * Remington 870
 * FN Minimi
 * FN MAG
 * IWI Negev
 * M24 SWS
 * H-S Precision HTR
 * M110 SASS

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 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 no concensus, so kept. JYolkowski // talk 16:51, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

Usb8x
Why is this notable? We agreed to delete "ticalc.org" from WP, why not this? Frenchman113 00:49, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, Wikipedia is not place to record every SW ever writtn. Pavel Vozenilek 01:37, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. It is notable in the calculator programming/hacking community, but I don't feel that it is for WP, especially since you thought ticalc.org isn't (though, I think the ticalc.org article would have been but I unfortunately wasn't around to vote on that VfD). --Andy Janata 01:38, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, notable in the calculator programming/hacking community. Kappa 03:18, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * In which case we should definitely undelete the article on ticalc.org. --Andy Janata 04:46, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Pavel Vozenilek. --Lomedae 12:24, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Pavel. Nandesuka 00:08, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per Pavel. Making shareware and putting it on a webpage is too easy. Radiant_ >|< 10:16, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and Cleanup, per Importance item number 1 in the first list. At least 500 people at ticalc.org (which also should be undeleted per this reasoning) and other calculator communities are interested in using the USB port on the TI-84+. --Andy Janata 22:05, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.

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Andy Reid (Irish footballer)

Andrew Matthew Reid (born 29 July 1982) is an Irish professional football manager and former football player who played as a midfielder. He is currently the assistant manager of Premier league club Nottingham Forest. He turned professional in August 1999 making his debut for Nottingham Forest on 29 November 2000 against Sheffield United. Reid moved from Forest to Tottenham in 2005, then to Charlton Athletic in 2006, Sunderland in 2008 and Blackpool in 2011. In July 2011 he signed a two-year deal back at Nottingham Forest. He has also represented the Republic of Ireland internationally.

Personal life
Reid was born in Crumlin, Dublin, Ireland. He went to school at Synge Street CBS, Dublin. Football was in his blood as his father Bill played for St Patrick's Athletic and his uncle Victor played for Shelbourne.

He started his footballing career with Irish youth clubs – Lourdes Celtic and Cherry Orchard. He turned down Manchester United and Arsenal to sign for Nottingham Forest.

Openly declared a socialist, Andy has a Che Guevara tattoo on his left arm, and a James Connolly tattoo on his right arm.

Nottingham Forest
Reid started his career with the Nottingham Forest youth academy, after joining from Cherry Orchard. Reid said "I chose Forest years ago because they made me feel wanted, because they had more time for me as a young kid than I felt at Arsenal or United". He turned professional in August 1999, and scored on his first team debut on 29 November 2000 against Sheffield United. In the 2001–02 season Reid failed to score a goal, although he played in 31 games.

He eventually scored a goal on 15 May 2003 against Sheffield United in the 2003 Football League Division One play-off semi-final, although Nottingham Forest lost the match 4–3. (5–4 on aggregate). He scored two goals in the 3–1 win over Coventry City on 27 August 2003. Reid then scored 13 goals in the 2003–04 season, finishing as Nottingham Forest's top scorer of the season, and named in the PFA Division One Team of the Year.

He handed in a transfer request at the start of August 2004 saying "I feel I have no other choice than to formally state my desire to leave the club". Reid left the Nottinghamshire club having scored 21 goals in 144 appearances.

Tottenham Hotspur
After protracted negotiations, lasting for the bulk of his last season at the club, Reid completed his move from Forest to Tottenham on the last day of the January 2005 transfer window. He was joined by Michael Dawson for a combined fee of £8 million. He made his debut in a 3–1 win over Portsmouth on 5 February 2005, with Martin Jol saying "Andy Reid also did well on his debut, and you worry a bit how new players will cope with the Premiership".

Despite a promising start Reid failed to recapture the form he had shown at Forest and had to wait until May before netting for his new club, coming against Aston Villa in a 5–1 win at the end of the season. Making only 20 starts in 26 appearances he scored just one goal for Tottenham leading him to be listed by one journalist as one of the worst signings of the January Transfer market.

Charlton Athletic
Reid joined Charlton Athletic for a fee of around £3 million in August 2006. He scored his first goal for Charlton against Everton on 25 November 2006. Charlton were relegated at the end of the season to the Championship. Reid scored both goals against Norwich City in a 2–0 win in September 2007, from two penalties in the space of two minutes. "The captain Andy Reid was brilliant, he was driving us on all night", Alan Pardew said about his performance that day. Reid's form had not gone unnoticed and he was eventually sold having played 40 games and scored 9 goals in all competitions during his two seasons at Charlton.

Sunderland
At the end of January 2008, on the last day of the transfer window, Reid joined Sunderland in a three-and-a-half-year deal worth £5m, making the step back up to the Premier League. Sunderland's Greg Halford went in the other direction in a six-month loan spell as part of the deal. Reid explained that he wanted Sunderland to be challenging for European places, and will not be happy fighting relegation season-after-season.

He made his début at the start of February 2008 against Wigan Athletic, coming on as a 74th-minute substitute and assisted Daryl Murphy by playing a cross field pass for him to score a 25 yd goal.

Reid scored his first goal for Sunderland at the end of March in a 2–1 win over West Ham United, his 95th minute volley earning Sunderland their first back-to-back Premier League victory since December 2001. He scored his first goal of the 2008–09 campaign with a header in a 4–0 win over West Bromwich Albion. Reid scored his first goals of the 2009/2010 campaign with a brace against Norwich City in the League Cup – where Sunderland went on to win 4–1. His impressive display won him man of the match. Reid then scored his first Premier League goal of the season in a 4–1 win over Hull City, he also provided the cross which led to a Kamil Zayatte own goal to make it 4–1 to Sunderland.

After drifting out of first team contention Reid joined Sheffield United on a month's loan at the end of October 2010, with Sheffield manager Gary Speed stating "he is of undoubted Premier League quality and therefore a good addition to the squad." He made his début for the Blades a few days later, coming on as a second-half substitute against Coventry City. Reid went on to score his first goal for the Blades on in mid November to help secure the team a 1–0 victory at Millwall. After two months at Bramall Lane Reid was hit by a three match ban following an incident at Carrow Road in a game against Norwich and so returned early to his parent club. He left Bramall Lane having played nine times and scored two goals for the South Yorkshire club.

Blackpool
On 31 January 2011, Reid joined Blackpool on a deal until the end of the season. Struggling to make an impact on the first team he made only five appearances for the Bloomfield Road team before being released at the end of May following Blackpool's relegation from the Premier League.

Return to Nottingham Forest
On 1 July 2011, Nottingham Forest announced the signing of Reid on a two-year deal, returning to the club where he started his career. He became Steve McClaren's first signing since joining the club as manager. Following his return to Forest, Reid became an integral part of the squad, providing goals and assists on a regular basis. On 5 January 2014, Billy Davies said Reid had signed a contract extension of two-and-a-half years to remain at Nottingham Forest until the summer of 2016.

Despite the club ending the 2013-14 Championship season in eleventh place and missing a number of games through injury, Reid scored ten goals in thirty-six games in all competitions. This led to him being named Forest's Player of the Year for the second time, as well as being named in the PFA Championship Team of the Year.

Having been an ever-present in Forest's starting XI in the 2014–15 Football League Championship, Reid came off with injury in the forty-third minute of their home-tie against local rivals Derby County on 14 September 2014. Reid would not play again until 17 August 2015, when he made his return from injury for Forest's under-21 side.

On 13 March 2016, Reid's manager Dougie Freedman was sacked and replaced by first team coach Paul Williams. The following day, Reid accepted a coaching role assisting Williams until the end of the 2015–16 season. Although he was yet to feature for the club that season due to injury, Reid still harboured hopes of playing again and told Forest Player HD "I'm going to be coupling this with my rehab – I had my operation four weeks ago – and I'm still trying to get back".

In July 2016, Reid announced his retirement from football due to long-term injury problems.

International career
Reid was part of the team that won the U16 Nordic Cup on 8 August 1998 and scored in the final win over England. He has also appeared for the Republic of Ireland Under-21 team where he played 15 games and scored 4 goals, and also for the Republic of Ireland senior team where he has made 27 appearances and scored 4 goals.

He débuted for the Republic of Ireland national football team in a 3–0 win over Canada. The first of his international goals was a 35 yd free kick against Bulgaria on 18 November 2003. His first international goal in a competitive game saw him score a 25 yd shot from open play against Cyprus in a World Cup qualifier on 18 August 2004.

He also scored a consolation goal in a 2–1 friendly defeat by Italy on 17 August 2005. He also opened up the scoring in the last game at Lansdowne Road before redevelopment, a game in which Ireland won 5–0 against San Marino on 15 November 2006. He provided an assist with a low through ball for Robbie Keane in a 4–0 victory against Denmark in a friendly on 22 August 2007. Reid said that ex-Republic of Ireland manager, Steve Staunton, should not have been sacked. Reid explained, "I do not believe they should have done it. I believe he should have been given more time".

Reid fell out of favour with Ireland's previous manager, Giovanni Trapattoni, since the pair had a late night dispute in 2008 at the team hotel in Wiesbaden.

After a five-year exile from international football, interim manager Noel King recalled Reid to the Irish squad for the qualifiers against Germany and Kazakhstan. Reid spoke of his gratitude for King for recalling him to the Ireland squad fearing that the opportunity would not come along again to play for his country. On 15 October 2013, Reid made his return in an Irish jersey against Kazakhstan playing 75 mins before being replaced by Aiden McGeady in a 3–1 win in Dublin.

Coaching career
On 10 January 2020, Nottingham Forest announced that Reid had returned to the club as academy technical coach for the U-23s. On 18 January 2021, Reid was appointed the head coach of Forest's Under 23s side following Chris Cohen's departure in September 2020.

International

 * Source:

International goals

 * Scores and results list Republic of Ireland's goal tally first.

Honours
Republic of Ireland U16
 * UEFA European Under-16 Championship: 1998

Individual
 * PFA Team of the Year: 2003–04 First Division, 2013–14 Championship

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Dicky Palyama

Dicky Palyama (born March 26, 1978, in Gouda) is a male badminton player from the Netherlands.

Early career
After winning four junior titles in the Netherlands between 1994 and 1996, Dicky took the European junior U19 title in 1997. His first success as a professional came in 1998, when he took the Welsh Open International title. In 2000 he took his first National Dutch Championship; he has since won a record nine individual singles Dutch Championship titles. In 2002 he won the Spanish International Badminton Tournament and in 2003 the Bitburger Open International.

2007 European Cup
As a part of the BC Amersfoort team with Lotte Bruil-Jonathans, Yao Jie, Larisa Griga, Chris Bruil and Eric Pang, Palyama reached the final of the European Cup 2007 in Amersfoort by defeating CB Rinconada in the semi-finals. Unfortunately they fell to the NL Primorje team in the finals.

Later career
In 2008 Palyama won the Russian Open Grand Prix. In 2009 he won both the Dutch & Polish Open International Challenges. In 2010 he won the Strasbourg Masters. Dicky Palyama retired as a professional badminton player in October 2013 with a special farewell demonstration match at the Yonex Dutch Open 2013 in front of a packed house at the Almere Topsport Centre against Peter Gade.

Major achievements
Men's singles

Personal life
Dicky Palyama married in 2009; he and his wife have two children. Dicky is currently a trainer/coach at the Regional Training Centre of Almere and an assistant coach of the Dutch National junior squad. Dicky Palyama was also head coach of Dutch premier division club The Flying Shuttle Barendrecht for a short period.

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Pet Shop (film)

Pet Shop is a 1994 science fantasy children's film by Moonbeam Entertainment. The film's plot involves an alien couple that comes to Earth in disguise.

Plot
Evening falls over the city of Cactus Flats, Arizona, and in it a young boy named Mike Powers rides his bike along the town's strip mall. What looks to be shooting star streams across the sky, and Mike stops to chat with Barney the pet shop owner who asks him what he wished for, to which Mike responds with a pet turtle. As Mike rides off, Barney quips that he wishes only to retire. As he is locking up for the evening, the shop’s dogs begin to bark and act up. In the sky, a pink blob of light descends over the pet shop and as it does, the backroom begins to glow. Barney opens the door to find a man and woman both dressed in cowboyish attire and very large gallon hats, making odd, raspy noises to each other in some unknown speech. The couple offers Barney a suitcase filled with stacks of hundred-dollar bills in exchange for his store. He wordlessly and happily agrees. A family of four known as the Yeagher’s (Joe and Marilyn, and their children Charlie and Dena) are moving to town as a consequence of being in the witness protection program, being relocated from Brooklyn, New York and assuming new identities as the Vincenza’s. Their caseworker, Marshall Dave, posing as an uncle informs them that they must refrain from outside contact and ensure to use their new names to avoid issues with Tony Marino, an imprisoned criminal who Joe “ratted” out. At the prison, Marino consorts with his “boys” (Babe and Curly) discussing "rats" that must be exterminated before his release, or else be exterminated themselves. Back at the Yeagher’s home, “Vickie” expresses how she misses their family dog Rocko. Meanwhile, back at the pet shop, it is revealed that the new owners of the establishment, (Mr. and Mrs. Zimm) have transformed the backroom of the shop into a spaceship-esque room filled with advanced alien devices and an array of alien creatures, who possess a higher intelligence above earth animals as they respond to the Zimm’s commands and form an orderly line. The Zimm's threaten the creatures and tell them they must transform into more earthly forms to avoid unwanted detection by the townsfolk, and then administer their special vitamins to them.

Release
Originally intended for a release in the summer of 1994, the film ended up being released on videocassette on March 28, 1995, though it did get released on video in Australia in December 1994. Full Moon released a new remastered Blu-Ray on December 11, 2018.

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Dolní Řasnice

Dolní Řasnice (Rückersdorf) is a municipality and village in Liberec District in the Liberec Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 600 inhabitants.

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Not SOAP, but pope!

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User:Davidgauntlett/my sandbox

Pocket Packet
The Pocket Packet (or PocketPacket™) is a very simple idea which encourages users of public transport to print Wikipedia articles in a particular format, for very easy consumption whilst standing or sitting on a crowded bus or train. Not really an invention, but more of a cultural phenomenon, this Wikipedia microproject, begun in February 2006, aims to have commuters asking each other "What's in your PocketPacket?". It builds upon ideas about the democratisation of knowledge developed by sociologists such as Anthony Giddens and Ulrich Beck, as well as the enthusiasm for educational pamphlets fostered by anarchists and other social movements.

Democratisation of knowledge
A logical extension of the Wikipedia project, PocketPacket™ encourages the democratisation of knowledge. Most commuters find themselves reading random adverts, tickets, and even litter in a bid to occupy their minds. PocketPacket™ encourages people to carry with them various articles about things which are of some interest to them. Users are encouraged to think very widely about anything from the arts, sciences, history or philosophy - or anything else - which may have caught their attention at some time. Wikipedia offers articles on a diverse range of subjects, which can be simply pocketed for later consumption.

How to make
A PocketPacket™ is created as follows:
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 * Select 'Printable Version' from the toolbox menu on the left
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 * Staple in corner
 * Fold in four
 * Put in coat pocket

History
The PocketPacket™ was 'invented' by David Gauntlett, but obviously relies on the work of Wikipedians around the world (and access to a computer printer).

Trademarked status
Obviously, PocketPacket™ is not really a trademark. The TM is ironic.

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Aamir Ghaffar

Aamir Ghaffar (born 18 August 1979 in Peshawar) is a Pakistani badminton player who competed professionally for England.

He is most famous for winning the Canadian Open in 2004 and the men's singles title at the English National Badminton Championship in 2004 and 2005 and reached the final in 2008.

His notable achievements are his victories over 2004 Olympic silver medalist Shon Seung Mo of Korea at the World Championships 2005 in California, World No. 5 Bao Chunlai at the All England Open 2004 and World No. 8 Dicky Palyama at All England Open 2005. He won a silver medal at the Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth games in the team events.

Aamir reached world no. 21 at his peak and currently trains students at Isleworth and Syon School for Boys. He also trained the Afghan player Abdul Jalil. In 2008, Ghaffar released his own footwork video called "Aamir Ghaffar, Its all about the recovery" in which he demonstrates how to improve the Badminton footwork and how the top players make it look so easy on the court. He is currently training boys at the Dome Silver Performance centre, Hounslow. He is currently in a comeback, having won the Oxford Senior Silver Singles Event.

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Graphite furnace atomic absorption

Graphite furnace atomic absorption spectroscopy (GFAAS), also known as electrothermal atomic absorption spectroscopy (ETAAS), is a type of spectrometry that uses a graphite-coated furnace to vaporize the sample. Briefly, the technique is based on the fact that free atoms will absorb light at frequencies or wavelengths characteristic of the element of interest (hence the name atomic absorption spectrometry). Within certain limits, the amount of light absorbed can be linearly correlated to the concentration of analyte present. Free atoms of most elements can be produced from samples by the application of high temperatures. In GFAAS, samples are deposited in a small graphite or pyrolytic carbon coated graphite tube, which can then be heated to vaporize and atomize the analyte. The atoms absorb ultraviolet or visible light and make transitions to higher electronic energy levels. Applying the Beer-Lambert law directly in AA spectroscopy is difficult due to variations in the atomization efficiency from the sample matrix, and nonuniformity of concentration and path length of analyte atoms (in graphite furnace AA). Concentration measurements are usually determined from a working curve after calibrating the instrument with standards of known concentration. The main advantages of the graphite furnace comparing to aspiration atomic absorption are the following:
 * The detection limits for the graphite furnace fall in the ppb range for most elements
 * Interference problems are minimized with the development of improved instrumentation
 * The graphite furnace can determine most elements measurable by aspiration atomic absorption in a wide variety of matrices.

System components
GFAA spectrometry instruments have the following basic features: 1. a source of light (lamp) that emits resonance line radiation; 2. an atomization chamber (graphite tube) in which the sample is vaporized; 3. a monochromator for selecting only one of the characteristic wavelengths (visible or ultraviolet) of the element of interest; 4. a detector, generally a photomultiplier tube (light detectors that are useful in low-intensity applications), that measures the amount of absorption; 5. a signal processor-computer system (strip chart recorder, digital display, meter, or printer).

Mode of operation
Most currently available GFAAs are fully controlled from a personal computer that has Windows-compatible software. The software easily optimizes run parameters, such as ramping cycles or calibration dilutions. Aqueous samples should be acidified (typically with nitric acid, HNO3) to a pH of 2.0 or less. GFAAs are more sensitive than flame atomic absorption spectrometers, and have a smaller dynamic range. This makes it necessary to dilute aqueous samples into the dynamic range of the specific analyte. GFAAS with automatic software can also pre-dilute samples before analysis. After the instrument has warmed up and been calibrated, a small aliquot (usually less than 100 microliters (μL) and typically 20 μL) is placed, either manually or through an automated sampler, into the opening in the graphite tube. The sample is vaporized in the heated graphite tube; the amount of light energy absorbed in the vapor is proportional to atomic concentrations. Analysis of each sample takes from 1 to 5 minutes, and the results for a sample is the average of triplicate analysis. Faster graphite furnace techniques have been developed utilising the injection of samples into a pre-heated graphite tube.

Standards

 * ASTM E1184-10: "Standard Practice for Determination of Elements by Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrometry."
 * ASTM D3919-08: "Standard Practice for Measuring Trace Elements in Water by Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometry."
 * ASTM D6357-11: "Test Methods for Determination of Trace Elements in Coal, Coke, & Combustion Residues from Coal Utilization Processes by Inductively Coupled Plasma Atomic Emission, Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass, & Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrometry."

title: Graphite furnace atomic absorption


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User talk:Flcelloguy/Archive01

Welcome!

Hello, and welcome to Wikipedia. Thank you for your contributions. I hope you like the place and decide to stay. Here are a few good links for newcomers: I hope you enjoy editing here and being a Wikipedian! By the way, you can sign your name on Talk and vote pages using three tildes, like this: ~~~. Four tildes (~~~~) produces your name and the current date. If you have any questions, see the help pages, add a question to the village pump or ask me on my Talk page. Again, welcome! --JYolkowski // talk 23:24, 14 May 2005 (UTC)
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uwe kils
hallo Flcelloguy - my students exercised as oceanographers, taking code from my space preparing for a German demonstration project on virtual university, the idea of Erik Moeller (user:eloquence) of the Wikiversity for online e-teaching and e-research and I offered my cooperation as teacher and my interactive  virtual microscope for a course in Meeresbiologie and Biologie der Antarktis - for that project it is important to have reproducible credentials for the teachers. We also plan to move educational content from expensive university servers to the free project (in Germany we don't even have tuition in the University) - I really don't care if I am sysop or not, I have that all behind me (it would have been nice if the yearslong punishment (without vote!) would have been over, for political reasons and fundraising for the cyber university) we try to help the NeXT generation - best greetings and keep up with the fine work UK Uwe Kils 21:59, May 27, 2005 (UTC)

 * thank you for your time and friendly words - we are used to work in groups (schooling) -

 * and in a group every member can make an additional wiki account before one can call it sock - user:viking was my family, user:vikings were friends from Scandinavia, user:oceanographer are scientists and friends working for the idea of proposing a cyber university like Wikiversity, and I am part of them - I got mad when oceanographer showed me this and asked Dante when the ban would be over http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk%3ADante_Alighieri&diff=14214269&oldid=14214194 - we did not expect the reaction and multi-campaign of Michael Snow, the lawyer - it would be nice if you could look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion/Uwe_Kils and make a vote - it would be good to have as ref point for teacher of wikiversity, that is much more important for us than adminship - UK 68.46.71.104 19:55, 28 May 2005 (UTC)Uwe Kils 20:27, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

 * thank you very much, that is very nice of you Uwe Kils 20:59, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

 * Hi Flcelloguy! I don't quite understand what you mean by "other side". An RfA is not a question of sides. It's a question of making up your mind whether you want to vote yes or no. "Yes" means that you trust the user not to misuse his admin powers, and for many voters it also means that they think the person will indeed use its admin abilities, i.e. that the new admin will also be active and not screw up badly, i.e. that he knows the rules well enough. If you feel confident to vote "yes", then by all means do so: it's your vote. If you want to dig up the whole old story, just read the links given in the current RfA, including the old RfA; they sum it up pretty well. If you want to know why other people voted the way they did, you might get more answers if you asked them directly on their talk pages. If you want a slightly fuller explanation of my "no" vote, check my talk page, where I felt I should explain it to Kils himself. Lupo 19:52, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Deleted table
I saw you deleted that table on your userpage. You may be interested in Help:Tables which shows how to code tables using wikiformat instead of HTML. Also you could put it on a subpage like User:Flcelloguy/Team to save room on your main userpage. Happy editing! Mgm|(talk) 21:09, May 28, 2005 (UTC)

Greetings
Saw your username pop up and wanted to see if I knew you or not, as a Florida bassoonist. (Guess not.) Greetings anyhow! Out of curiosity, who do you study with? Mindspillage (spill yours?) 01:40, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

My RfA
No problem about not beating me to it, although I am honoured that you considered it. Thanks also for your comments on my RfA! JYolkowski // talk 02:06, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

WP:RFA
Thanks for your understanding and Neutral vote. As for Dnm's comments, my reporting the vandalism had caught out another participant - his friend, David 5000 - and so he understandably acted against me. The extra two articles Dnm mentioned were also reported, by me, at the same time. Just to clear it up if it were to concern you. Hedley 23:17, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!
Nope, not a cellist, though I used to play viola at one point. It wasn't a strength of mine. And very happy that someone else is adding to and even more importantly bluelinking the list!...

By the way, note Naming_conventions : this is meant, mostly to create a uniform naming convention (for instance for Cello Concerto No. 1 (composername)  ... of course, I would then go and write Violoncello concerto (article) and Violoncello concerti (category). Bother.) and also to reduce possible ambiguities, unlikely here of course. Possibly move the contents to Élégie (Fauré) or something similar and then have the original redirect there? Admittedly it's somewhat unlikely more than one Élégie is someone's opus 24, but maybe not that unlikely. (More convincing that it's unlikely that two pieces worth including in an encyclopedia both do, but that's something else.)

(One of Rodrigo's two cello concertos is on later this evening, will be good to hear webcast.) Thanks again for the note! Schissel : bowl listen 00:43, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for your vote in support of my admin nomination. Paul August ☎ 16:36, Jun 1, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for your support
Thank you for voting on my RFA. Have some pie! I was pleasantly surprised by the sheer number of supporters (including several people that usually disagree with my opinion). I shall do my best with the proverbial mop. Yours, Radiant_ >|< 08:19, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for your support
Thank you for supporting my candidacy for adminship. Kelly Martin 12:41, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks, and about Cello sonata
To answer the question about Cello sonata and etc. - following the lead of User:RobertG who did the same for Piano concerto and List of compositions for piano and orchestra, I split the list of cello sonatas from the page Cello sonata in hopes that the page Cello sonata can more easily become more than a list (there are historical questions, questions of instrumental balance, ... that aren't being covered; and I was adding more to the list than anyone else of course. I didn't strictly start Cello sonata but it's true there wasn't much there when I found it, not even counting the list.)

As to the RfA - I gratefully accept (not without trepidation :) )! Schissel : bowl listen 23:48, Jun 11, 2005 (UTC)

Xiangqi
Saw your comment on my talk page. In return, I'll say thanks for nominating the xiangqi article for Featured articles. :) —Lowellian (talk) 17:38, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)

krill
hallo Flcelloguy! can you please take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates#Antarctic_krill maybe help with some editing / formatting / vote - best greetings Uwe Kils 20:37, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * I changed the three points, I just do not know what more to write about the eye, nothing is known, I just thought it would be nice to share the beauty of the structure with others, just click on the eye three times Uwe Kils 15:39, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

thank you everybody
I would like to express my thanks to everybody helping in the nomination of Antarctic krill. I think 3 1/2 supports and a long long discussion are an unexpected and great outcome for a critter so remote and unknown - you should see how little and poor Antarctic krill is represented in Encarta and Britannica - this is the best reviewed and resourced general article of krill we know of - it is impossible to fullfill all wishes at the same time - this is what we did with our all product peer review stamp to qualify this stage of the article for academic exercises, especially for our dreams of a Virtual university within Wikiversity - good luck to you all Uwe Kils 21:48, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)

RfA
Belatedly, thank you very much indeed for the nomination and statement! Schissel : bowl listen 23:39, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

And having just noticed the Barnstar *blink, blush and bow* I shall endeavor to be worthy of it. I appreciate it. Schissel : bowl listen 23:45, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)

Theo RFA
Thank you for supporting my nomination and for adding the magic number. --Theo (Talk) 07:13, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Signature
Hi Flcelloguy. Did you recently change your signature? It seems to be missing a closing tag. Happy editing, --TenOfAllTrades(talk) 22:07, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Pope John Paul II FAC
Flcelloguy, I would like to collaborate with you on working with the JPII article. Please leave me a note on my page... Thanks! --SVera1NY 01:11, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Helvarg FAC
Thank you for changing your comment to support at David Helvarg FAC. I had been quietly wracking my brain for possible extra material and came up blank every time.—Theo (Talk) 11:13, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Auto Signature
Hello! Thanks for the help with auto signing. I'm now using keys that I haven't touched since I've had my computer :-) Thanks again. Gillean666 15:26, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

RFA
Just wanted to make sure you know I wasn't picking on you at Ten's RFA.

When I posted my note, I wasn't thinking of you, I was thinking of users who hadn't voted yet; one might come along to vote, see what was said, then go to see what Boothy said. When they arrived at his talk page, of course, they wouldn't find anything, so they might ask again. By putting a note at the RFA, I wasn't commenting on your innocent actions, just trying to prevent anyone else from getting confused. (I didn't think your message to Boothy was harassing in the first place!)

My note about leaving him alone was intended to stop the discussion of his motives in the RFA; I felt it was becoming more about why those two had voted no and less about Ten's merits.

Hope this clears it all up, and that all the controversey will die down. -- Essjay ·  Talk 23:01, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

 * You're welcome! -- Essjay ·  Talk 03:04, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

Your signature
Could you shorten your signature? Also, images in signatures are on unnccessary burden on the servers. See WP: ~. r3m0t talk 08:15, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
 * Seconded Trampled talk 21:46, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Looks good. Could you make it a little shorter? ("Sing" for talk perhaps?) r3m0t talk 16:22, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

Comment
well not sure if i know what im doing bere im  new log on is moom53  i asked the question on ecco mono  trying to fogure out how to use this site.. im not sure if antique place would give me the right info since its more historical and antique road show ive already tried and still no response but im sure im one of many who ask questions

Chess
I don't mind a game; I hope it doesn't take a month though :). WHen do we start? =Nichalp   «Talk»=  17:59, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Where's the board? =Nichalp   «Talk»=  18:20, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * I'd take white. Do I have to only edit the text box to move? =Nichalp   «Talk»=  18:31, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * Ok I've played as white =Nichalp   «Talk»=

yea I moved. i'll tell u whn I'm done for today! :) =Nichalp   «Talk»=

Its yr turn. =Nichalp  «Talk»= Its 1am my side. I'll be off soon, so I'll stop here today. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  19:34, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)
 * d4
 * Nxd4
 * Nxc6
 * Qxd8+ check!
 * Bg5
 * bxc3

Chess
Yeah, absolutely, I'll give you a holler then. Although I should say that it might take awhile just to finish this tournament, and I am not 100% sure that a new one will be played right after. As for the announcing, I put it up on the Village pump and advertised it HARD on IRC :P The thing was, i didn't help! Almost nobody signed up, and we had to cut down the number of participants from 32 to 16. This shouldn't be a problem next time as there are alot of people besides you who have showed interest. Meanwhile you can still play a friendly game at Sandbox/Chess if you want (or in your user-space). gkhan 19:25, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Do questions have to be original?
Hell no, none of mine are! :-)

Glad you've signed up as a maintainer. Would you like to be in charge full-time? (I keep forgetting all about it...)

multima 00:05, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Adminship JoJan
Thanks for your support for my nomination. JoJan 17:38, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Dagmar Nearpass
Don't bother with steps 2 & 3 of the VfD on this one. I'll add it to an existing VfD for all of the other teacher articles this guy has created. --Xcali 21:49, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Compeition - Wikipedia Cleanup Taskforce
I have approved and closed Competition for the Wikipedia Cleanup Taskforce. Thank you for your service. Respectfully, Randy Johnston 23:22, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

response from London
Uwe wants to share this with you (from his talk page):

Hello Kils
Just would like to state that i have very much enjoyed being involved in a project of this nature. To see the speed of co-operation between various people was (Uwe, Lupo and Salleman and all others) fantastic. It was a complete buzz to go off researching about a scientific subject and coming to some understanding and appreciation of a creature that i would have no knowledge or interest in otherwise. I would like to say that it takes a damn good teacher to get others interested in what they teach and i for one, if only in a rudimentary and general way have found the subject of Krill and sorrounding issues of ecology and environment fascinating. I think that says a lot about your willingness to let others participate in something which you obviously have great knowledge in and could easily have been a lot less humble with. At some point i will put up some informtion on my home page so at least people know a little more about me. Am going to try to extend the article on Ice-algae so any info you may have would be good. I hope the article on Antartic Krill gets featured as i think it is now very good.

Wikiversity sounds like a good idea but will need more time to go through the proposal (not too sure what help i could be).

Once again thanks Uwe! Yakuzai 22:50, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

that feels good

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Featured_article_candidates/Antarctic_krill

did you see who gave the picture of the day? take care Uwe Kils 23:58, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

My RFA
Thank you for supporting my RFA. Guettarda 23:39, 20 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Democratic Labour Party (Trinidad and Tobago)
Hi. I was wondering if you might have a look at the article again and see if I've improved it enough to warrant a change in your vote. I have not done the inline refs - I haven't yet had time to figure out how that template works, and I'm not quite sure where to put the refs, since most of the material comes from a single source. I did add a few refs, and they helped expand my understanding of the party and the situation. I would like to eventually reference it properly - I am trained to reference everything that isn't an original thought of mine - but time and access to sources is likely to make that a slow process. If you feel that the inline refs are necessary for it to pass muster, I consider that a reasonable position. Regardless, let me know what you think of the changes I made. Thanks very much for your input. Guettarda 13:03, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your input. I really appreciate it.  You're off to a great start in Wikipedia - keep up the good work.  Guettarda 22:11, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Re: Mind Benders
I don't know what you want to do with the game, and I am not certain how it was organized in the first place... -- AllyUnion (talk) 22:19, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * One thing I think you need to do is clearly explain how the game works... That is one clarification I apparently need. -- AllyUnion (talk) 22:40, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

WP:MIND
Hi, Flcelloguy. Thanks for the message on Mind Benders. I have a question though: Are we allowed to submit more than one entry for the Pre-Round artistic competition? Thanks, Sango  123  22:37, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Who's judging the entry winner? Sango  123  03:06, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * An open vote sounds good. And the date is fine... just as long as you post a reminder on everyone's talk pages. :) Sango  123  22:34, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

Flcelloguy, I have submitted my creation on the Mind Bender page. -- Riffsyphon1024 18:15, Jun 22, 2005 (UTC)

RfA
Thank you for supporting my RfA. You were the first to support me and that was certainly influential!  Grue  06:03, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

RfA for Sn0wflake
Thank you for supporting my nomination and for keeping my vote count up to date, I really appreciate it. Cheers. --Sn0wflake 03:34, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Thanks (and a gift for you)
Thank you so very much for the adminship support and the interesting viola joke on my talk page. Per the usual "Bratsche Viola Joke Competition", you are hereby awarded a Wikicookie. Enjoy! Bratsche talk 5 pillars 16:13, Jun 24, 2005 (UTC)
 * Actually, no. 'Cellists are usually the ones making fun of the violists! I'll look around, and ask some fellows in my orchestra, though. Cheers, Bratsche talk  5 pillars 00:21, Jun 27, 2005 (UTC)

My RfA
On my last RfA you said you'd support in one month. It has been roughly a month and Jtkiefer has nominated me. If you wish to vote, the RfA is at Requests for adminship/Hedley 2. Cheers! Hedley 11:04, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Chess
I've transcluded the page so we can now add it to our watchlist. See: Sandbox/Chess/SC7. BTW good guess and safe travel. =Nichalp  «Talk»=  08:10, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the medal
Hi! Thank you for the medal. I promise to write some more Featured Articles with the power of the medallion :). Regards, =Nichalp   «Talk»=  June 29, 2005 07:15 (UTC)

vfd subpage headers
Just a reminder: The headers for VfD subpages should be level 2 (that is, three = signs on each side). Or you could use the templates, but I agree they're more work than they're worth. --W(t) 30 June 2005 23:25 (UTC)

Vandal bots
Hi! No need to try and expand those idiotic articles like "Jimmy Spagnola" where the article isn't anything more than an echo of the title. Those are done by wiki vandal bots. They come on via anonymous proxies all day and all night. People, frankly, are idiots. :) Anyway, just tag them with  next time you find one.  Best, Lucky 6.9 30 June 2005 23:28 (UTC)

Glad to be of service. Why people get off on these bots is beyond me. Just gotta keep tagging and bagging. See ya! - Lucky 6.9 1 July 2005 02:16 (UTC)

Re: Clueless newbies
Yeah, that pretty much answers my question. Thanks. NickBush24 July 2, 2005 22:52 (UTC)

To Cesar, FireStar and yourself
Saw your note about the Administrators list, went there. Just another bunch of redirects and definitions. No one to speak to. I see no way to discuss this except to engage in a flame war with them making charges and me disproving them as I have many times before and you lot deleting my replies to make me look bad. For twenty years they said my name was Chris Hunter. I kept telling them they were wrong. I am known by many names, Ashida Kim is the one I have chosen. Now they are saying my name is Radford Davis. They are wrong AGAIN! But, do they admit they were wrong for the first twenty years? Of course not. Just like you. You hide behind your silly policies and anonymity. Tell you what, give me Aesopian's address and I'll jump in his face personally and it won't be on your PUBLIC FORUM. Because no amount of proof is sufficient for a troll. It's just like being a Bush nominee. If I was Jesus Christ walking on the water they'd say, "Yeah! But, he can't swim." That is the mentality we are dealing with her Cesar. You gonna help? Or are you just part of the problem having a good time at my expense? Your HELP desk is the same, just a bunch of policies that are not being followed by your "contributors." ALL Of what Aesop says is based on gossip from Bullshido, who have made a career out of calling me a queer. No one interviewed ME for this "encyclopedia article." You just publish a bunch of lies and don't even tell me? Then call yourself fair? For every knock by Bullshido I can produce ten letters that say how much good I've done. One is attached here. I posted it before but one of your guys DELETED IT! I remain, Ashida Kim

Grand-Master Kim.

Thank you, Sir. I owe you my gratitude!

Please allow me to explain and I promise I will keep it short so as not to bore you.

When I was a child, I was raised in a very destructive home. My parents were abusive and negative. When I was eleven years old I came across your publications Secrets of the Ninja and Secrets of Invisibility. I studied them diligently and practiced daily without fail. Meditation, stealth, self control and focus. You taught me about the perceived image projected by "ego" and showed me how to find my True Self. You taught me to breathe properly so as to tap into my Chi energy. You taught me to control the mind and body like a machine. You gave me an identity; No name. You taught me everything; No art. From your teachings I grew strong and intelligent. When I had a question growing up I thought, "What would Master Kim expect of a student?" I realized that the Ninja is an intelligent dynamic person who can adapt to any situation and use it to their advantage. My life was difficult and sad, but you taught me to see the strength in this situation. I turned weakness into strength and adapted to suit my needs. Never once did I turn to any type of "vice" to control my "self" in my formative years. (no drugs, no alcohol, etc.) I turned to your teachings to guide me through these years of challenges. I grew up strong and intelligent and to this day I still practice what you have taught me. Without your teachings, your openness to share this secret knowledge, I would surely have suffered a far worse fate. My brother died by his own hand because he could not control his thoughts and they crushed him emotionally.

Today, your teachings still guide me. Still learning, still practicing, still mystified by these powerful yet simple teachings; I don't know just how to say Thank You.

No matter what I say or write, it cannot convey the depth of my Respect for you, my Gratitude to you, and the Honor of learning from your teachings. You have guided me where others abandoned me.

I remain humbly; your ghost student. You will always be to me, my hidden Master. (Thank you.)

Gratefully,

Brian Majanovic 36 years old

So! 'Nuff said. I'd rather have one letter like this, and this one came in this week, than a thousand kudos from jerks like YOU!

Thanks for welcoming
By the way, which country do you come from?

Stll ducking the issue
I am not going to play any more silly run around the maze typing in my complaint that will never be viewed or acted on by your staff. This is just more feldercarb and stalling. "Cite my sources...?" I AM the source Jack!Besides for years the trolls at Bullshido said I couldnt fight, so Matt Breyer put up one of my fights on his site. What happened? They didn't beleive it was me. For years they said that I wasn't a member of the BDFS so I finally sent them a copy of my ID Card. What did they say? "Oh that one doesn't count because it is just one you can get through the mail." EVERYONE GOT THEM IN THE MAIL! So, you see, my friend, the game is rigged! All I'm asking for is a fair shake and all I get is more BS! I ask again that we settle this by e-mail and stop making me come here to debate this publically BECAUSE THAT IS JUST A TROLL GAME!

Ashida Kim

FINE!!!! You say you know many administrators and will put one in touch with me? DO IT! 'Cause you are utterly useless.

Ashida Kim

Ashida Kim
I've looked over the material related to Ashida Kim and have come to the conclusion that there's not much we can do to help this guy. He's already had several administrators offer to converse with him. It's obvious that he wants to intimidate people into accepting his version of the article through blather and screed, which just isn't going to work on Wikipedia (it never does). I'm going to continue to watch this editor and this article, but I see no point in attempting to engage an editor who has already disregarded several attempts at engagement by other administrators. An unfortunate situation, in any case. Kelly Martin July 3, 2005 23:53 (UTC)

I left User:Ashida Kim a quick note mentioning some of our policies. Not sure whether this is going to help matters at all, but if not, it probably makes sense to start escalating matters by filing an RfC. Thanks, JYolkowski // talk 4 July 2005 01:40 (UTC)

 * The best thing seems to be to ignore Ashida Kim or make light of his comical behavior rather than treat him as an equal. Until he acts like an actual Wikipedian, he deserves a little over patronizing. Karmafist 02:34, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

What The Muffins
I noticed that you'd marked What The Muffins for speedy delete. Thought you'd want to know that the tag was removed a minute later by the author. Since I didn't know your rationale for marking it for deletion I didn't add the tag back myself. Ironically, the author has been unable to get the redirect he's trying to put in place to work anyway. Tobycat 4 July 2005 23:48 (UTC)
 * Actually, you may want to hold off fixing that redirect. I ended up researching the target web page to find that it is a non-notable website.  The article content is right off of the FAQ from their website and their fan forum has only 142 members.  I'm in the process of VfDing them now.Tobycat 4 July 2005 23:54 (UTC)
 * Wow you're fast!. I guess I'll try tagging the redirect, too, but don't know how that will work.  We'll find out though.  :-) Tobycat 4 July 2005 23:57 (UTC)

RC Patrolling
Hi there Flcelloguy. To start let me say more of a well done to you for your RC patrolling - in fact, speak of the devil, whilst using the Vandal Fighter I was just thinking what great work you've been doing the past half hour I've been on RC. To be honest I've no idea why the original IP doesn't show when deleting pages and I think it would be a Q for the help desk. Not to worry too much though, it's not something that fellow admins would look upon in the deletion log as you being the originator of the deleted articles. Keep up the good work as ever. Craigy (talk) July 6, 2005 23:27 (UTC)

Prexy resignations
Salve! I posted the text of the law regarding presidential resignations here:. Thanks for your help. PedanticallySpeaking July 8, 2005 20:31 (UTC)

Help with 216.112.42.61
Since you were helping me with the Alva, Oklahoma vandal, I was hoping you could help me with a more subtle problem. User:216.112.42.61 has been adding abusive and hostile material to Talk:Pathological skepticism. His changes to the Northern Mockingbird and other pages usually don't strike me as trollish or vandalistic, even if they seem of poor quality. But his additions to Pathological skepticism are rambling nonsense that would take several studies to support, and he will not produce a cite; and his additions to the Talk page are just plain hostile to the point of insinuating physical threats.

If there's some place better to go, point me to it; there seems to be a lot going on in the underbelly of Wikipedia that I'm completely unfamilar with and can't find a good FAQ for.--Prosfilaes 8 July 2005 23:22 (UTC)

Thanks...
though more recent edits suggest the civility there was a thin veneer? Unfortunate! Hope this finds you well. Schissel : bowl listen July 9, 2005 04:02 (UTC)

Uncle G rfa
Hi - I thought you'd like to know Uncle G has accepted his nomination on WP:RFA. -- Rick Block (talk) July 9, 2005 17:16 (UTC)

Re: Deletion
Hi Flcelloguy!

Please carry on with the great work on RC patrol!

The problem with tagging a page that an admin deletes is one that frustrated me before I was an admin. Although I have never seen any discussion of this problem, I think that most admins are aware of it and just take it in their stride. Personally I would rather you continue to tag pages: firstly, there may not be admins on RC patrol; secondly, the admins might miss a page that you see. Before I was an admin I developed a couple of approaches to try to minimise this problem: originally I would wait to tag a page, I use a tabbed browser and I would open pages that I thought were speedy candidates in a new tab and come back to them, say, ten minutes later to see it they had been deleted (and then add a tag if they hadn't). Then when I discovered CDVF I started to monitor that whilst adding the tag—if an article gets deleted it disappears from the window, so I could see if it got deleted before I hit the Save page button.

Pages like Autocatalytic enzyme are speedy candidates, however, if the article is created by a new user I usually hang back before deleting. Sometimes new users don't understand the editing process and mess things up. If the article hasn't been expanded after what I consider a reasonable period of time (15 minutes to an hour depending on how tolerant I am feeling) I will delete it. JeremyA 03:08, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure that I could do RC patrol with only one window open--I have crashed my browser through trying to do too much at once on a number of occasions whilst RC patrolling! If you aren't using it already you might like CDVF. As I said above, so long as your screen is big enough to be able to see CDVF and your browser at the same time (I can overlap the two just enough to see), you can see if an article is deleted before you add the speedy tag. A five minute block from recreation is a pretty good idea, although I would suggest just one minute as one of the common admin tasks (fixing cut/paste moves) requires deleting/undeleting a page in a short spave of time. Speedy deletion has been very backlogged recently, when I looked on sunday there were about 150 articles waiting. I deleted a lot of them, but it actually takes a long time to clear out the speedy deletion page. BTW--I played the cello too when I was at school, I was never any good at it though.    JeremyA (talk) 02:22, 13 July 2005 (UTC)

Marquees
You could consider using animated gifs for the purposes you mentioned. - Mgm|(talk) 05:07, July 11, 2005 (UTC)

Barnstar
I award you this Random acts of kindness barnstar for doing so much to help out newbies and for welcoming new users. Keep up the good work! Y0u (Y0ur talk page) (Y0ur contributions) 22:54, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
...for the quick revert. :-) (Hey, wow, rite of passage; my first accusation of sockpuppetry!) Mindspillage (spill yours?) 23:49, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

Thank you for the quick reversion on mine, too. :) —Ghakko 04:07, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

WP:MIND
Hello, Flcelloguy. The Pre-Round at Mind Benders ends tomorrow: Saturday, July 16, 2005. Just a heads-up. :) Regards, Sango  123  17:11, July 15, 2005 (UTC)

 * Hello, Flcelloguy. Unfortunately, voting between the gallery tags doesn't work. It just produces an empty square next to the image for which you cast your vote, so I've taken the liberty to implement the voting system from WP:BAP. Please expand on it as you see fit; it was created in a hurry. (And I have a suspicion that I killed Bonus Three by deleting some comments between the tags. Please reinstate them if that is the case.) Thanks,  Sango  123  02:51, July 16, 2005 (UTC)

RV
Thanks for reverting vandalism on my user page. JuntungWu 04:26, 16 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks!
Thanks so much for the warm welcome! :D I really appreciated it. I'm slowly starting to get the hang of this place, particularly with working with my expertise/obsession, anime and manga (specifically Fullmetal Alchemist and Ghost in the Shell at the moment, though I'll branch out soon enough.) Kawa 02:00, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Mind Benders
What will happen after the voting has closed? Deryck C. 02:05, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Request for adminship
Hello,. I have just submitted a request for adminship, and I would be honored if you submitted a vote. :) Thanks, Sango  123  19:10, July 19, 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thanks for voting in my RfA; I promise I'll wield my sacred mop with care. If you ever need me for anything, you know where to find me. Thanks again! -- Essjay ·  Talk 15:19, July 20, 2005 (UTC)

Re: User:Kama
Thanks for notifying me of that. Kama probably just copied and pasted the content from my user page for testing, as she modified it but kept a thing or two (e.g. the template). Regards, Sango  123  20:29, July 20, 2005 (UTC) (And I'm refraining from thanking you for voting until my RfA is over. :))

What does it mean?
What does your name "Flcelloguy" mean, and what's it composed of? (answer in my talk page if you can) Deryck C. 02:17, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Of course, I never thought cello relates to cellophane. Deryck C. 13:16, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

Bending time... for the mind...
I notify the users who happen to play the last round. But under your situation, you might want to give a rough time when the questions are going up. But traditionally, it is first come, first serve on WikiFun. --AllyUnion (talk) 05:58, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

EST
EST=GMT+? ..Deryck C. 07:51, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

(note: I've found a few ESTs on wikipedia and the one which is most commonly used is GMT-5. If that's true, the competition will be very unfair to me, because I'm at GMT+8, that means the competition starts at 3am in the morning.) Deryck C. 07:54, 24 July 2005 (UTC)

Mind Benders
It seems that I'm most likely impossible to participate in the mind benders... (at the moment I woke up this morning, all except 1 question were already answered correctly)... Now I wanna apply to you for the maintainership of the Mind Benders... Deryck C. 04:01, 25 July 2005 (UTC)

Chess
Sorry for my unexpected absence. I had no time to let you know abt my absence. I have played my move, thanks for being so patient. PS I cannot be certain if I'll be on wikipedia this week, but all the same, I'll do my best to make a move when time permits. Regards, =Nichalp   «Talk»=  17:49, July 25, 2005 (UTC)

VFD
Hi, you voted to keep Authentic Matthew because you said that the topic was legitimate. The topic is "what was the original form of matthew". This is already discussed at Q Gospel, synoptic problem, markan priority, two source hypothesis, AND Gospel of Matthew.

What actually exists at Authentic Matthew is the claim that the original version of the gospel of Matthew is the Gospel of the Hebrews, which is also claimed to be the same as Gospel of the Nazarenes, and Gospel of the Ebionites.

This claim is supported by no-one outside the article's creator, and is a thesis badly strung together from misuse of parts of the aforementioned articles. None of the article's references support it (they support the aforementioined articles). The claim that the Gospel of the Hebrews is the same as the Gospel of the Nazarenes, and Gospel of the Ebionites, is near universally regarded, by academics, and non-academics, as wrong, based on an error Jerome made because he didn't have enough access to these sources. This article is entirely the original research of the author of it, and although the title exists elsewhere, the content exists nowhere else whatsoever.

Is it possible for you to re-contemplate your vote? 08:04, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Sango's RfA
Hi, Flcelloguy. Thank you very much for supporting my RfA! I am honored by your praise and hope to wield the mop responsibly. Sango 123  01:21, July 27, 2005 (UTC)

Mind Benders
In fact we may write the questions together onto a secret page (that only we 2 knows) and later move the page onto the question page of round 3. De ryc  k C.  03:04, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Featured article candidates/Canadian Heraldic Authority
I completely overhauled the article, and I wish to see if any of your objections have been answered. Zscout370 (Sound Off) 08:37, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Mind Benders again
Thanks. I'll add some special code to the page to avoid accidental peeking at the questions. De ryc  k C.  16:51, 27 July 2005 (UTC)

Contacting others, and generally finding your way around this swamp...
I'm sure the people who designed and built this understand how to find the non-mainstream stuff, but for the rest of us!

I want to contact the contributor of 2 photos put up in the commons. Dead-end, no user page! The page is http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Entertainment, and the photos are the two of Theaker, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Theaker_von_ziarno_20050722_closeup.jpg and http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Theaker_von_ziarno_20050722.jpg put up by NeoUrfahraner. Hey, a simple e-mail message and we are (part) done, yes... Well, no. Then we discover that even though we have created a user account, it does not exist for asking for help.

At least the edits to the pics seems to have worked. And the TWO create user accounts. The second after finding, the replay that went to the anon IP page, even if I can't find it again.

--Prep 17:26, 30 July 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you for your vote of support on my recent RfA. I was quite surprised by the amount of support I received, and wish to extend my thanks to you for taking the time to support my nomination for adminship. -- Longhair | Talk 12:07, 1 August 2005 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Places in Afghanistan

 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 Keep. Acetic Acid 10:17, August 26, 2005 (UTC)

 * Since Acetic Acid isn't an admin, and the vote was not unanimous, he asked me to look over this and confirm his closure or change the result. I'm confirming the result as Keep. -- Essjay ·  Talk

Places in Afghanistan
This article is way too long and just takes up space. 98% if the links are red and most of the towns are not notable. List of cities in Afghanistan exists in its place anyway. Banana04131 00:56, 21 August 2005 (UTC) *Keep - Don't clutter up List of cities in Afghanistan, making it hard to find major places (for those of us with serious foreign place name confusion). But, the secondary list is *easily* justified compared to the endless mass of lists for North American communities. Don't split the list up into sub-lists yet though, because then you'll just spawn a bunch of unnoticed orphans lists. With just two Afghan lists, we can put "back-links" to the list from the place articles, which will encourage "filling out" the info".   --rob 09:14, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge/redirect. Pavel Vozenilek 01:38, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. That article is massive; it almost crashed my browser. From what I could see, there was no information beyond just the names. Nothing to smerge, just delete. Fernando Rizo T/C 01:40, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. This is useful information. We have lists for western countries (see UK, Canada, France, etc.) and similar lists for US states (Alabama, Pennsylvania). It's long, obviously, but that's no reson to get rid of it. It just needs sorting into sublists. (And I say just in its loosest sense.) The need for this list would ideally be obviated by categories, but since there are few articles on Afghan places that's not going to happen right now. Flowerparty  talk 01:42, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * OMG, where do I go to delete all of them? Not only is this not a valuable or notable list, neither are the ones for US states. The state pages already list counties and towns. This is lunacy. --Tysto 06:27, 2005 August 21 (UTC)
 * Keep per Flowerparty. -- Kirill Lokshin 01:45, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per Flowerparty. --Revolución (talk) 02:05, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per Flowerparty. CanadianCaesar 02:11, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment - not voting on this, but it ought to be pointed out that the vast majority of the small number of blue links in the article do not refer to articles on places in Afghanistan anyway, but other meanings of the same words. 80.255 02:20, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per Flowerparty but it needs substantial correction. 80.255 is correct about the blue links e.g. Qamishli is in Syria, a long way from Afghanistan. Dlyons493 03:06, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, needs a lot of work though - The list is a useful starting point, whoever made it must have reference material in regards to Afganistan, is it not possible to split up the list into regions? - Hahnchen 03:18, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * '''Merge & redirect" to List of cities in Afghanistan and in the process remove incorrections. ≈ jossi ≈ 03:28, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Not all places are cities. -- BD2412 talk 03:59, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, definitely a notable list. Zoe 04:52, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per Flowerparty. --Apyule 05:27, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per above. Dottore So 06:01, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, revise, and divide into shorter pages. Uppland 06:48, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, this is too large, and it has thousands of useless links. Maybe this would be useful later on, bt not now. Jolb 07:12, August 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Right, and it's absolutely impossible to break up the article into smaller, more maintainable articles. Too large is now a criterion for deletion?  CanadianCaesar 07:38, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, atlases and almanacs are the place for lists of places, not encyclopedias. And this list doesn't even separate them into types of places or give populations; it's just a list, that doesn't even link to anything. Category:Places in Afghanistan, sure. This page, no.--Prosfilaes 07:42, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * It is an index. Thus it helps people find things. An encyclopedia without an index isn't overly useful. Ambi 07:44, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * It's not an index, because an index links to things that are in the book. It's not an index, because the function of an index is to help you find things where you don't expect them, and if these articles did exist, they would exist right where you expect them. Not only that, the search box elimenates most of the need for an index, and what's left is mostly handled by Category pages...and as I said, a category page would work just fine.--Prosfilaes 08:04, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Um, have you ever read Five pillars? It reads "Wikipedia is an encyclopedia incorporating elements of... almanacs." CanadianCaesar 07:45, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * "Incorporating elements of" is different from being an almanac. In any case, this isn't even almanac-worthy; I've never seen an almanac with a list of names without information about their location, population, or even what type of place they are.--Prosfilaes 08:04, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Right now, we have a list with a crap load of places in Afganistan. But how many people would be able to list so many places in Afganistan, if we delete this, we may never have a list as comprehensive again.  It may not be almanac-worthy right now, but it serves as a handy to-do list. - Hahnchen 15:15, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per Uppland. Ambi 07:44, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete The page is practically useless, the vast, vast majourity of the links are red, therefore, without a LOT of work, thee page will stay useless! Tekana 15:36, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep per Uppland. Guettarda 16:35, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment I just went through the A's and checked the links. Most were blue only because the incorrectly pointed to non-related extant articles (as mentioned by 80.255).  Most of the rest are only one-liners in disambiguation pages that I added.  I think this content is notable and important and in keeping with WikiProject Countering systemic bias, but maybe it could be a to-do list in the community section rather than a live page. Bubamara 18:29, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment That's a good idea. I've listed it at WikiProject Countering systemic bias open tasks. I didn't think of the Systimatic Bias project when I listed it for VFD. For my vote...
 * Delete Unless some of the "cities" have pages created for them that are actually relevent. I don't want to encourage people to create a million one sentance stubs on every villiage in Afghanistan though. Even if pages were created for all of the places I doubt half of them would be notable. Both posts mine. --Banana04131 20:03, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Wonderful article. I regard the English Wikipedia as the World Wikipedia, and our goal must be to cover every place in Afghanistan. But it desperately needs dismbiguation link repair. Punkmorten 20:28, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep; An updated list with more explanatory data regarding areas is needed though. "Place" is way to diffuse - is it a city, a village, a riverbank, a mansion? | Celcius 01:39, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - Wikipedia is not paper. --Celestianpower hab 14:52, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Comment Vote count so far: merge/redirect-2 Delete-5 keep-17

 * Delete A forest of red links, and very obscure to us Westerners. --Wtshymanski 23:32, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Neither is a valid reason to delete something. It is a forest of red links because of systemic bias, and the English Wikipedia is not an exclusive club for "Westerners". List of places in Pennsylvania has quite a few red links and is probably of limited interest to Afghans. There is no reason to delete that either. Uppland 07:56, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * They may not remain red links for long. If they are expanded. I do not recollect a rule in wikipedia where a page is deleted if it has too many reds. Because it's a transitory phenomenon. Unless we allow such pages, far flung peoples may not use wikipedia or find it useful. Manik Raina 09:06, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, expand. Manik Raina 07:44, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment : I had a thought regarding the use of categories. We could use categories and do something very similar to what this page is doing. What are your thoughts ? For example, create stubs for each of the cities mentioned in the page and categorize them as "Cities in Afghanistan". Would that not be more intuitive ? We could get rid of many lists .... Manik Raina 13:04, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Using a catagory would be good, but it means that someone would have to make a lot of new stubs. It might be best to do a catagory and keep the list as well. --Apyule 00:24, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I want to keep this article, but I agree that the signal to noise ratio is far too high for it to be useful as is. So I think we should revert it to this version, which is right before it jumps to about 1500 entries.  Then we can reasonably build from there (or, more realisically, we can then talk about merging with List of cities in Afghanistan). Bubamara 07:36, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.


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Empire International Pictures

Empire International Pictures (also known as Empire Entertainment) was an American independent small-scale theatrical distribution company. Charles Band formed Empire in 1983, prompted by his dissatisfaction with distributors' handling of films made by his previous business, Charles Band International Productions. Empire produced and distributed a number of low-budget horror and fantasy feature films, including Re-Animator, Troll, Ghoulies, Trancers, and From Beyond.

Early years (1983–1984)
Sensing the emerging theatrical market for independently produced horror and science-fiction films, producer Charles Band decided to create a small production company to compete with the major Hollywood studios. The name Empire Pictures first surfaced in May 1983 at the Cannes Film Festival, where Band sought funding for Parasite II, a proposed sequel to his successful movie Parasite (1982).

Initial Empire productions included Swordkill (aka Ghost Warrior) and The Dungeonmaster, each of which received limited theatrical releases in 1984. Also that year, Empire signed an agreement with Vestron Video that granted Vestron worldwide video rights to five of Empire's films.

Box office success (1985–1986)
Empire's first hit came in early 1985, with Ghoulies. Released in several major markets, the film had grossed $3,455,018 by February; it made over $1 million in its first weekend in New York City alone. This success paved the way for the company to showcase future cult hits Trancers and Re-Animator in theaters.

Flush with cash, Band purchased Castello di Giove, a 12th-century castle located in Giove, Italy. His intention was to use the edifice as a European base of operations and a filming location. Around the same time, Band also bought Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica, which was founded by Dino De Laurentiis in 1946. The purchase price of De Laurentiis's studio was reportedly $20 million. Empire also teamed up with Vestron Video subsidiary Lightning Video to create the Force Video banner, under which six action-adventure videocassettes were released in the summer of 1985.

1986 saw Empire's biggest output of theatrical releases, including Eliminators, From Beyond, TerrorVision, and Troll. The last of these proved to be Empire's biggest success that year, grossing $5,450,815 when released in nearly a thousand theaters. The company decided to expand. Albert Band was named production head, a position he held until the company was sold off. Empire's agreement with Vestron Video continued; Vestron bought the worldwide video rights to one of Empire's future releases for $35–$40 million.

Financial collapse (1987–1989)
With a studio in Italy secured, 1987 saw Empire significantly increase its production. The company arrived at the American Film Market in February touting 36 new releases. Titles produced in this period included Dolls, Ghoulies II, Prison, and Robot Jox. Empire also switched video distributors, from Vestron to New World Video, which would release titles under the Empire Video label.

Two new divisions of Empire were launched in 1987. The first was Urban Classics, which produced films such as Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity, Galactic Gigolo, and Space Sluts in the Slammer. Urban Classics released movies both theatrically, and subsequently on home video, marking the first time that Empire had produced its own home video releases, rather than partnering with another company. The second subsidiary was Infinity Film Sales, headed by Maura Hoy. Its purpose was to distribute to the foreign market a set of low-budget films that had been offered to Wizard Video, yet another Empire division. Later that year, Australian home video veteran Walter Lehne would purchase Infinity's 14 titles in a $1 million deal that included movies from Filmtrust, Intercontinental Releasing Corporation, and others as well.

Also in 1987, Empire partnered with Cinema Home Video Productions to develop ten films. Most of the movies were planned to have a budget of $1 million each, but at least two would have $2–3 million in funding, and be shot at Empire's Italian studio. Distribution would be handled by Urban Classics domestically, and by Infinity overseas.

On September 8, 1987, Empire reduced the staff of its publicity department from three people to one. The studio planned to outsource the marketing of special projects.

Empire began to collapse in mid-1988, due to financial problems, including long-term debt obligations to Crédit Lyonnais. Once it became clear that the studio could not weather these difficulties, it was seized by the bank, and absorbed into Eduard Sarlui's Epic Productions in May 1988. As a result, the releases of the titles that were in production, such as Stuart Gordon's Robot Jox, Peter Manoogian's Arena, and David Schmoeller's Catacombs, were delayed by several years.

Band would form a new company, Full Moon Entertainment, in the autumn of 1988. Like Empire, Full Moon specializes in horror and fantasy films.

As of 2017, MGM is the owner of most of Empire's library, by way of Polygram Entertainment. These films are being released on DVD and Blu-ray by Full Moon, under license from MGM.

The rise and fall of Empire is the subject of the book Empire of the 'B's: The Mad Movie World of Charles Band by Dave Jay, Torsten Dewi, and Nathan Shumate, and the upcoming documentary Celluloid Wizards in the Video Wasteland by Daniel Griffith.

Partial filmography

 * The Alchemist (1983)
 * The Dungeonmaster (1984)
 * Ghost Warrior (1984)
 * Ghoulies (1984)
 * Trancers (1984)
 * Walking the Edge (1985)
 * White Slave (1985)
 * Savage Island (1985)
 * Zone Troopers (1985)
 * Re-Animator (1985)
 * Underworld (1985)
 * Troll (1986)
 * Eliminators (1986)
 * TerrorVision (1986)
 * Rawhead Rex (1986)
 * Breeders (1986)
 * Crawlspace (1986)
 * Necropolis (1986)
 * From Beyond (1986)
 * Vicious Lips (1986)
 * Dolls (1986)
 * Valet Girls (1986)
 * Dreamaniac (1986)
 * Robot Holocaust (1987)
 * The Princess Academy (1987)
 * Mutant Hunt (1987)
 * Psychos in Love (1987)
 * Enemy Territory (1987)
 * The Caller (1987)
 * Ghoulies II (1987)
 * Slave Girls from Beyond Infinity (1987)
 * Galactic Gigolo (1987)
 * Creepozoids (1987)
 * Cellar Dweller (1987)
 * Prison (1987)
 * Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama (1988)
 * Assault of the Killer Bimbos (1988)
 * Buy & Cell (1988)
 * Catacombs (1988)
 * Ghost Town (1988)
 * Transformations (1988)
 * Cemetery High (1988)
 * Pulse Pounders (1988)
 * Intruder (1989)
 * Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death (1989)
 * Arena (1989)
 * Deadly Weapon (1989)
 * Robot Jox (1989)
 * Spellcaster (1991)

title: Empire International Pictures