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User talk:AMbroodEY/Archive 2

Well i'm quite busy atm hence may not be able to your message in time. Mail me using Email this user link for any thing that needs urgent attention.

 * Archive 1, from 24th August 2005 to 9th March 2006 (43 messages)

Mahitgar 17:47, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Greetings
Holi greetings. --Bhadani 06:04, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

Siddiqui
I feel for you, I really do, but I have no words of wisdom. The tools we have at our disposal for fighting POV-pushers are the RfC and the Arbcom, and the abuse has to go on for a long time and be really blatant before something happens. Sometimes, if others care, you can tag-team revert until the POV-pusher goes away -- but that requires other people and lot of time and energy, and it's not a NICE thing to do. I'm seeing a bunch of people whom I regard as ill-intentioned doing it to someone who does not deserve the treatment and boy, it looks ugly from the other side.

I'd help you but I'm swamped. I've taken on too much.

WP needs new tools to deal with problems like this ... Zora 08:15, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I am studying the matter, and shall shortly come back with my views. Thanks for bringing the issue to my notice. --Bhadani 08:31, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I have left comments. Thanks for raising the issue. Siddiqui, however has taken to responding on whole different page, here.--Nemonoman 17:04, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, thanks for taking the time to do this. I would also look at some other RFC's and RFAr to see if they are being done in the correct way. You may also look here where I searched some diff's. --doN't belieVe in CensOrshIp 19:47, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

 * cheers for sorting out the RfC. I'm really strufgling to keep my head in there3 though. he truly fucjing winds me up! Veej 00:03, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

Hawkraj
Do you know who this Jackass is?Gorkhali 15:34, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Talking of that species -- take my advise, don't feed the matter. I concur with you, and I now have grave doubts about the veracity of the maratha clans page, but we have nobody of lucid intellect to reason with. His interests are confined to that page, which is anyway dubious, so let us humour him on that and limit him there. Nobody invited him to create an account, but he has, and I prefer not to have the nitwit abusing me at every turn -- I already have my full share of such pains. Do not interpret any message of mine as being endorsement of him or his comments -- how likely is that, I ask you? Please help limit the damage. ImpuMozhi 03:53, 8 April 2006 (UTC)

RfC
I agree it is not personal. This temporary misunderstanding is due to India and Pakistan version of events and history that has been taught and ingrained in their respective citizens due to 59 years of conflict. I was not aware of the deep resentment that has was created due to my edits. South Asia/Indian subcontinent issue can be resolved. Don't worry be happy. RfC is acually proving to be a good thing since it has given oppurtunity to everybody to discuss the issues. I think informing both parties in a RfC should be part of Wikipedia process. When somebody files a RfC against another user then it should be Wikipedia that should inform the accused person and give him/her the instructions how to proceed and where and how to present his/her pint of view. You did the right thing by inviting all the people that had conflict with me and now they have presented their point of view and listened to mine and hopefully all the bottled up resentments will calm down. Siddiqui 14:44, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Rajput
Dude,

Yes I am related, a lot of Indians don't realise that Rajputs is not a race but a caste. I am related to the Scindias as well as the other Peshwas, since they gave their daughters to my family and we gave our daughters to them, now everyone is a cousin.

I feel really frustrated about the Rajput article and am thinking of giving up on it all together. Shivraj may have not known how to write an encyclopedic article but he knew his history. And all this crap about the necessity of mentioning that there are Muslim Rajputs is quite ridiculous since every muslim on the subcontinent was once a Hindu.

Gorkhali 16:28, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Siddiqui
I think what you said about "acting as if other people didn't exist" is the key. I'm not sure that other people are real to S. I just had a look at his contributions and they're staggering. He seems to spend his whole life writing articles about Pakistan: places, people, etc. It's as if he had a gazeteer of Pakistan in front of him and he's trying to make an article about every proper noun in it. Obsession, tuning other people out ... read the article on Asperger's syndrome. I'm familiar with the subject because I might be a borderline "Aspie" myself. It's common among computer nerd types. So I say this from a certain position of sympathy for the bloke, not as a "he's just nuts" dismissal.

I realize, from looking at the list, that I have had an interaction with him -- over the articles Jamshid and Jamshed Town. He was exactly the same there as you describe him for the Indian history articles -- determined and uncommunicative. But we eventually worked something out, once we got his attention.

I'm coming round now to agreeing that perhaps a ban from some articles might be the best way to deal with the problem. Articles re the Ahmediyya, for sure. Some of the articles re Indian history IF you can demonstrate that there's someone else who's taking the Muslim perspective and will make sure that the articles don't turn into pure Muslim-bashing. Then just let the guy proceed with what he does best, making articles about every mountain peak in the Hindu Kush! Zora 18:23, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

 * AMbroodEY, I don't underestimate the sheer emotion roused by communal issues in South Asia. Ever since I read Vikram Seth's An Unsuitable Boy and got pulled into the world of filmi, I've been watching and reading depictions of communal violence and the Partition. My personal take on the issue is "A pox on both your houses". I have equal disdain for RSS thugs and jihadi killers. That said, I'm not sure that you're as free of POV as you think you are. Of course women and children were abducted and enslaved. But it is also true that many conversions to Islam were made by Sufi pirs, and that many low-caste Hindus converted to a religion that didn't stigmatize them (as much -- still distinctions between the ashraf and the common people). I think you have to distinguish between the violent advent of Islam and the subsequent centuries, during which people settled down to a live-and-let-live arrangement. I don't approve of idealizing the Muslim raiders -- they were much more motivated by loot than religious zeal, IMHO -- but they aren't the whole story. On the one hand, Mahmud of Ghazni ... on the other, Kabir. Or perhaps to pick a modern example, one that I find moving -- the scene in Lagaan where the villagers gather in front of the Hindu temple and pray for victory. The hero is played by a Muslim (Aamir) and the music was written by a Muslim (A.R. Rahman). If you just listen to the lyrics, and don't pay any attention to the picturisation, the song could just as well be a Sufi song.

 * When you get angry at Muslims, think of that song. (Goes for me too -- after all, I'm a kill-on-sight American to some jihadis.) Zora 08:02, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Sorry for eavesdropping. Just wanted to add that the lyrics were written by Javed Akhtar. deeptrivia (talk) 17:32, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Reorganization of RfC
I think it would have been preferable to inform me also of your reorganization of that page. My answers to the allegations have been moved. May be it was not organized according to Wikipedia standard from the begining but we could kept the same existing format until this RfC would have reached a conclusion. Then you could have changed to Wikipedia standard. Siddiqui 23:40, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

Siddiqui
Actually, I have not read the RfC. I went to it, commented on how disorganized it was on the talk page, and refused to try and figure it out. Much of the comments were not signed and randomly inserted. Though I have a feeling on what the issue is, having personally dealt with him in the past. Pepsidrinka 02:59, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

Fundy Watch
I removed the POV part of the introductory paragraph, so that more users will join. Also best of luck in your GSCE!  G i zza Chat  © 06:53, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Hinduism in Pakistan vandalism
I reverted vandalism in Hinduism in Pakistan page to previous version. I did not make any changes. Siddiqui 16:49, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

Crappy stuff
I'm already watching most of the Maratha-related articles, Amey. Actually I am not reverting those additions at sight because you are largely doing it!! I am worried in particular about Maratha clan system, because if the info is actually provided by that person, it may be pure fabrication. But he is essentially harmless and will probably go away soon. Engaging with him may actually prolong his stay. Take care, ImpuMozhi 13:50, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

Siddqui
I got totally confused with the Rfc/frc whatever. Let me know what to do exactly. Good to see Impumozhi back in action. Gorkhali 14:28, 26 March 2006 (UTC)

DaGizza's RfA

Hi, thank you for supporting me in my RfA which passed with a tally of (93/1/2). If you need any help or wish discuss something with me, you are always welcome to talk to me. GizzaChat  © 12:09, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

IRC for India: #wikipedia-in
Please join this channel for India-related discussions. In case you need help to access IRC, please visit my IndianIRC page. -- Andy123  (talk) 22:15, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

RfC
Hi! What was the outcome of the RfC? Has something been done to prevent the vandalism-like actions?--Dwaipayanc 09:30, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Wanna chat with u........
Hi there, I find you vry intrestin... I just found da web site n so u I dont know if we can ever meet but try to keep in touch I find we have da same tastes! Good Bye, SEe you later........

Welcome to WikiProject Novels
Hi thank you for joining the WikiProject. There is still plenty of scope for influencing things and making your contribution count. We are about establishing standards for Novel based articles and writing articles that meet our own and others high standards, and to improve Wikipedia's diet of articles on Fiction books, otherwise called Novels. Would you also place our userbox on you userpage. If you have any questions, do ask. Please be very welcome. :: Kevinalewis  :  (Talk Page) / (Desk)  15:49, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Viv Richards
I thought it was a convention to use the most conventional name, thus Steve Waugh not Stephen Waugh, or Richard Ponting? Regards, Blnguyen | Have your say!!! 04:54, 7 April 2006 (UTC)

Freddie Mercury
DeBroodey, you said you had Freddie's definitive biography. Is he labeled there as Persian or Indian Parsi? Because all the Officail internet biographies call him Persian (as in Iranian), with the exception of a few that have decided to stick to the truth. I would like to know. The more I read that he is Persian in these official sources, the more I begin to believe it for some reason. -User: Afghan Historian

 * by odd coincidence, i've been doing a lot of research on freddy mercury in the last few days. i've been under the impression that he was indian. from what i've read, his parents were parsis, which from what i've heard are mainly indians. from what i hear, parsis are a type of zoroastrians. Gringo300 00:42, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Multiple Personalities
I assure you those are not mine. I'be perhaps only begun to see how signing comments without sigining in is a bad idea. I do have people at my college who like to piss me off by using my identity on wikipedia just now. I will sign in from now on. Thank you. But once again, I'm no flake or schitzo. These reverts are not mine! I hope you will understand. - Afghan Historian 15:53, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

Re:Re:Half Moon Investigations
Thanks for clearing that up. I was confused. :P --Thrashmeister 01:43, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Hinduism-related Collaboration of the week
I'm trying to setup Hinduism-related Collaboration of the week. Any help would be appreciated. I'm using Notice board for India-related topics/INCOTW as a template for creating the collaboration. --Dangerous-Boy 00:03, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

judeo-marathi
i'll have to admit that i'm not exactly an expert on indian (as in india) languages in general. i'll have to look through piles of notes to find the references for the judeo-marathi article, but i'll try to find them, but it might take a while.

i've done more research on the sanskrit language than the marathi language, but i can't honestly claim to be an expert on sanskrit, either.

i've done a lot more research on indian languages, in the sense of the indigenous languages of the western hemisphere, than on indian languages, in the sense of languages of india, but yet again, i can't claim to be an expert on those either. Gringo300 00:37, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

Naming and transliteration to Naming conventions (Vedic)
Trying to a get a concensus on this. Your input is appreciated. I'm trying to move the naming and transliteration formating to Naming conventions (Vedic).--Dangerous-Boy 08:17, 27 April 2006 (UTC)

Good work,
I'm not sure if you're talk page is up to date, but if you're still 16 and making some of the edits and dealing with some of the arguements the way you have on various articles- you've been doing a great job ;P 82.12.223.218 22:37, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Hinduism-related topics notice board
it's up and running. check it out.--Dangerous-Boy 18:55, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

HELP
HELP on the Status of religious freedom in India article...it needs major work.WoodElf 15:49, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

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Hey
Come back to wiki, times have gotten better for Hindu users. Bakaman Bakatalk 01:12, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:AMbroodEY/Fundy Watch
Here you go, this is why it was deleted. It ignited a series of edit-wars and arguments between the pro-Hindus and the anti-caste/Muslim/Christian Indians in Wikipedia. It hasn't been pretty. User:Blnguyen has acted as a mediator and has done superbly. Good luck on your exams, I should be studying at the moment! If you need any more info, ask me again or email me. GizzaChat  © 07:35, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

 * I tried. Sorry bhai.Bakaman Bakatalk 23:59, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Marathi
Thanks!!Unfortunately our most time is spent combating with these Kannadi vandalists!!But I am taking it lightly as Belgaon article is locked.Currently I am working on Marathi article.

Btw u embarrassed me by giving word to word translation of my talks with Arya!I hope our dear admin wont bash me for that ;).Seriously those so called Kannadi editors cum vandalisers are going on my nerves.They wisely choose their sources which will help them to market Kannada and Karnataka.If u have any knowledge of Rashtrakuta plz do check if that article is fine.mahawiki 14:43, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for ur reply.I actually liked Sawai Raja's posts as it is a experience we all Maharashtrians undergo.U may call it nihilism,perhaps we are a bit jingoist here but blame it to present socio-political-economical conditions.We are not like this by birth,our fellow Indians have made us this way. Thanks for ur concern about anti-Bramhinism stuff,but believe its hardly in the minds of common Marathas.I have talked about it with my Maratha friends openly and they surely are not that red with anger as this Sambhaji Brigade comrades.Morever,it hardly matters if anyone taunts Bramhins as I dont consider myself as a Bramhin,I consider myself a Maharashtrian first.

Compromises are the biggest mistakes,we have done,according to my opinion.Had we reacted sharply like this Kannadis or Northis,we wouldnt have taken for a ride in the name of National integration.If India and our 'Indian brothers' ahve no love or respect for us,I dont think I should 'compromise' and let my language die.Frankly speaking 'Indian first' is an illusion in Indian.No one here is Indian first.And going thru many bitter and inflammatory experiences in my life(im just 21 and so much oppression!)I dont think I shall be Indian first.Sadly I cant relate and feel secure by considering myself one.But,I hope in spite of that,we shall bond to improve Marathi/Maharashtra related articles. mahawiki 18:52, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Yeah!But our unrest is not on this issue.As I mentioned earlier it has complex socio-political-economical reasons!Consider this-When I leave go on the streets of Mumbai,capital of my state Maharashtra,I cant speak in my mother-tongue and official language of my state,Marathi.We are dominated in ALL ways by these outsiders.We are reduced to mere 25% in our state-capital.I hate these outsiders from the depth of my heart.mahawiki 19:15, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

U said it!Maharashtrians should get economic power.I guess ur not that ignorant about conditions here. About my hatred,see this moron User:Sarvagnya unneccessarily badmouthing me everywhere to impress admin and issuing nonsense warnings for no reasons.BTW isnt calling names permitted on talk pages!

Hey,I have one more querry.Suppose I photograph a copyrighted image,is that thing allowed on wikipedia?Note that the images I have uploaded until now arent copyrighted.I mean,if such tricks are valid,I can upload many images!mahawiki 19:38, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

Hi there
Hi AMbroodey, good to know that you are half-Marathi. Well, I am not badmouthing Kannadi people just like that, it's because they instigated me. See the talk page of Belgaon and you will know.

As far as Sawai Raja's commment is concerned, I agree with everything he said except the one comment about Marathi Brahmins. I don't like casteist uotfits like Sambhaji Brigade although I am a Maratha. Marathi Brahmins have been extremely good to me in personal life as well. We often dine together. In fact, anyone who is Marathi, I consider them my brothers. So caste & religion doesn't come in between. We Maharashtrians are an ethno-linguistic group. So there must be no internal conflict.

As far as anti-Marathi prejudice is concerned, you are not aware of it as you stay in UK. But here in India, it is one of the worst prejudices faced by any community in this region. I think even Muslims and North-Easterners are not prejudiced this much. Sikhs, Bengalis and South Indians are stereotyped but never discriminated against. Maharshtrians are not just stereotyped, they are "looked down" upon. Just check out any Mumbai English language newspaper, you will find anti-Marathi bias alarmingly regular. As it is, many non-Marathi owned colleges in Mumbai, were set-up after Maharashtra Government gave them land on discounted & subsidized prices. But these colleges rarely admit Maharashtrian students as they have quotas for their own people. And this is a fact. The state of Maharashtrians in Mumbai and Belgaon is very bad. As mahawiki said, in Mumbai, we have to speak in Hindi. Only the other day, there was a dispute between two people and I saw one of them seaking Marathi and the other guy was repeatedly telling him to speak in Hindi, kyun ke yeh Mumbai hai, yeha Marathi nahi chalta ! Another day, I was travelling in a Taxi and the cab-driver, a Bihari, not aware that I am a Maharashtrian, was ranting against Maharashtrians, for seemingly no reason ata all. I gave him a good one on what Mumbai is and whose is it. So, it is not a hear&say, but we have experienced it. I can give you umpteen examples of anti-Marathi bias, but then the comment would become ten times bigger than even Sawai Raja's comment.

Anyway, thanks for your concern. Bye and take care.

--Arya Rajya Maharashtra 05:49, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

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A new project has been created, to exclusively deal with Maharashtra and Marathi-related articles. You are invited to join the WikiProject Maharashtra. The project aims to develop Marathi and Maharashtra-related articles to Featured Article-status. You can join the WikiProject by adding your username here. However, don't forget to visit the project page. This is of course, a sister project of Portal:Maharashtra. Come, join us in developing Wikipedia. Thanks,

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Hi
We have not corresponded before, but I appreciate your words in my Arbcomm. I have noticed your edits on wikipedia articles before and was impressed by many of them. I was wondering if you would resume your contributions or whether you wish to continue your wikibreak. Oh, and by the way, I'm not actually Bene Israel (though your statements concerning them were correct). I am, in fact, a Baghdadi Jew by matrilineage, though my dad comes from a fairly long line of Maharashtrian Mumbaikars. My mom's family was originally from the middle east (Baghdad, hence Baghdadi) who emigrated to India about a century and a half ago (not unlike the famous David Sassoon), fleeing anti-semitism in the middle east.Thus, my mom was born in Mumbai only, making me essentially a full Maharashtrian/Indian + a Jew. Needless to say, I am not a happy person (jes' kiddin' :) ) .Hkelkar

 * Well done on your comments. I especially liked your blog entry. Something has to be done about this. Hindutva is mentioned with a negative undertone all over Wikipedia. If you go to a page and say you are a Hindutvavadi you lose your credibility. This is NOT how things should be. To be Hindutva is not to be Hindu fundamentalist. Hindutva is simply based on pride in the Hindu Dharma, now is that a crime?  Noble eagle  [TALK] [C] 04:09, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Hey don't think about leaving Wiki. Wikipedia is one of the most comprehensive sources of information on the internet and is used by so many people. It is up to people like you to make sure it is evenly presented and not Anti-Hindu, otherwise forget TerryJ-Ho, the world will hate Hindutva.  Noble eagle  [TALK] [C] 06:17, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Are u back?
It's time to get back to editting! It's like a propaganda war around here now a days.--D-Boy 18:17, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, you should stop by and say what's up more often. It's like a propaganda war on wikipedia now a days.--D-Boy 18:28, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Kherlanji Massacre

 * Please put the article in your watchlist, also take a look at the contribs of whose been trying to add it to Indian Buddhist revival using extremely offensive language  Hkelkar 18:35, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Manual of Style (Indic-related articles)
I'd really like to redo this. Just haven't found the motivation or the energy. The whole debated has given me a spark though.--D-Boy 20:31, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

Village_pump_%28policy%29
We're voting now on the scripts.--D-Boy 01:20, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

O_O!
Category talk:Pakistani Wikipedians--D-Boy 06:48, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you, I am glad that you appreciate my work. Cheers my friend.__ Seadog ♪ 23:18, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Move of Partition of India
Hi! Yes I realized that something went very wrong! So I asked an admin to perform the move. He performed the move and dropped me a note. So it is solved. Thanks. Regards.--Dwaipayan (talk) 04:06, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Good Luck
Hi How were your A levels MerryJ-Ho 10:44, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Don't worry, you will pass in flying colours.Not many people write encyclopedia before their A levels...Cheers.Basingstoke should better have been Boringstoke, though..I find life better in our own Isleworth..MerryJ-Ho 17:54, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

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Charles Coventry (British Army officer)

Colonel Charles John Coventry (26 February 1867 – 2 June 1929) was a British Army officer and an amateur cricketer who played in two retrospectively-recognised  Test matches for England in 1889. Those were his only first-class appearances and he was never a member of any first-class county team.

Biography

Charles Coventry was born in Marylebone, Middlesex, the second son of George Coventry, 9th Earl of Coventry. He was educated at Eton College.

He joined the Worcestershire Militia, and subsequently served with the Bechuanaland Police and British South Africa Company. While with the latter, he was wounded during the Jameson Raid.

In 1922, he took command of the re-formed Worcestershire and Oxfordshire Yeomanry Brigade, now serving as 100 Field Brigade, Royal Artillery. He retired from the Yeomanry in 1925.

He died at his home in Earl's Croome, Worcestershire on 2 June 1929.

Cricket
Coventry played his cricket for Worcestershire when it was still a minor county, that is, a county without first-class status. He was described as "a fair bat with a free style who can hit hard".

When the English tour to South Africa in 1888–89 was being put together, because the South Africans were considered weak, weaker players were selected for the English team. Coventry was one of those players selected. England still won the two games against representative South African sides easily, though Coventry did not feature prominently in either game: he batted at number 10 and did not bowl. On the whole tour he scored 174 runs at an average of 10.23 with a highest score of 33 not out, and took three wickets. He played no first-class cricket in his career other than in those two Tests.

Family
Coventry married, in St Peter's Church, Eaton Square, on 16 January 1900, Lily Whitehouse, younger daughter of Mr. FitzHugh Whitehouse, of Newport, USA. His younger son Francis briefly succeeded as 12th Earl of Coventry.

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Category:Dizzy (series)

This category contains all articles to do with the video game character, Dizzy designed by the Oliver twins.

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Cotah Ramaswami

Cotah Ramaswami – sometimes written as Cota or Cotar – (born 16 June 1896, presumed to have died in January 1990) was a double sports international who represented India in cricket and tennis.

Family and early life
Ramaswami came from one of the leading sports families in India. He was the youngest son of Buchi Babu Naidu, often considered the father of South Indian cricket. His two brothers, son and four nephews all played first class cricket.

When the only brother of his mother died young, Ramaswami was given in adoption to his maternal grandfather, which led to his family name being different from that of his brothers.

He studied in Wesley High School, Wesley College and the Presidency. On one occasion while at Wesley, he put on more than 200 runs for the last wicket to win a match after his team was 50 for nine, himself scoring 188*. He went on to Cambridge University in 1919 where he studied until 1923.

Tennis
In the summer of 1920, he won the singles title at the Leamington Open Tournament, that included all students in the university, he defeated Sir John Cecil F. Masterman in the final, and was awarded the Doherty Cup for his endeavours, the same year he was a quarter finalist at the Midland Counties Championships at Edgbaston. He won a 'half blue' that year, representing Cambridge in the doubles, and earned a blue in 1921. On a tour of Holland, he won the singles and the doubles partnering S. M. Hadi – another future first class cricketer.

During the summer of 1921 he won the Hornsey Grass Courts tournament against the Malayan player David Henry Kleinman, he was also a losing finalist at the Warwickshire Championships, and the Sussex Championships. In 1922, Ramaswami represented India in the Davis Cup with Dr. A. H. Fyzee and A. A. Fayzee. India defeated Romania in the first round at Bristol but lost to Spain in Beckenham. Ramaswami played only in the doubles partnering Dr. Fayzee and won both his matches. The Spanish pair of Comte de Gomar and Flaquer, whom they beat in five sets, went on to play the doubles finals at Wimbledon in 1923.

In 1922, Ramaswami took part in Wimbledon Championships, reaching the second round, the same year he won the Reigate LTC Tournament at Reigate against Charles G. Howard. In 1923 he won the singles title at the South of England Championships defeating Gordon Lowe in the final in three sets, the same year he was a losing finalist North London Hard Courts Championships (autumn meeting) at Hendon on clay. In February 1925 he won the Southern India Championships held at Madras against George H. Perkins.

Work career
Ramaswami returned to Madras in January 1924 and joined the Agricultural Department as an Officer. He served in different parts of the Madras Presidency in the next 24 years.

As a professor of agronomy at University of Madras, he taught M. S. Swaminathan both agriculture and cricket.

Cricket
Ramaswami was an attacking left-handed batsman. He played first-class cricket in India from 1915 to 1942. He represented the Indians in the annual Madras Presidency Matches from 1915 to 1940, and played for Madras in the Ranji Trophy from 1934 to 1941.

Ramaswami's two appearances in Test matches came in England in 1936 when he was already 40. He wrote later in his autobiography that he was picked for non-cricketing reasons. Though well past his prime at the time, he scored 40 and 60 on debut and ended his career with an average of 56. Ramaswami played for Hindus against Arthur Gilligan's MCC team in 1926-27 and scored 83 against Jack Ryder's Australian Services XI in 1935–36. He made his highest score of 127 not out against Lancashire in 1936.

After the end of his career, he served as a selector, and manager to the Indian team to West Indies in 1952–53. His Ramblings of a Games Addict (1967) is one of the first autobiographies in Indian cricket. He is one of the four Indian cricketing double internationals, the others being S. M. Hadi, M. J. Gopalan, and Yuzvendra Chahal.

Ramaswami married Lakshmi Chaya Devi in 1928. He had two sons, Ram Swarup and Lakshman Swarup, and a daughter, Shantha Devi. Ram Swarup represented Madras and Andhra in first-class cricket.

Disappearance
Ramaswami left his home in Adyar on the morning of 15 October 1985 and never returned. There were occasional rumours about him being sighted. Wisden listed him as "presumed dead" from 1988 to 1991. When doubts were raised about his fate, this was removed in 1992 but brought back in 1996. In the more recent editions, he is listed as having died in January 1990, as he is also now by ESPNcricinfo and CricketArchive.

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Adding Category:Canadian people of (country) descent
In order to add this category, a source needs to be added to the article. Just going around and adding them when there is no definitive proof is not productive, and as such will need to be reverted unless a source can be found. Kaiser matias (talk) 04:34, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

February 2010
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Please refrain from adding ethnicity categories that are unsupported in the main body - and unsourced. When editing the articles of living persons, your contributions must be in accordance with the relevant policies pertaining to WP:BLPs. Any additions to an article - be it to the main body or category - must be attributed to reliable and verifiable sources. Your editing privileges are liable to be revoked (temporarily or indefinitely) should you disregard these warnings. SoLando (Talk) 08:09, 17 February 2010 (UTC)

This is the last warning you will receive for your disruptive edits. The next time you disrupt Wikipedia, you will be blocked from editing. SoLando (Talk) 10:04, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

 * Ive edited a few articles which youve added ethincity categories which were unverified. As stated above, please make sure that when you add these categories that this information can be verified. Ottawa4ever (talk) 15:51, 21 April 2010 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of Janice Melnychuk
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Speedy deletion nomination of List of number on

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List of number on
Please stop creating pages called "List of number on". You probably mean something like List of number one hits ..., but you haven't indicated what chart these songs were number one hits on. And "on" is a misspelling of the number "one". --Metropolitan90 (talk) 07:12, 13 March 2011 (UTC)

Speedy deletion nomination of List of number on

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Proposed deletion of List of number-one singles of 2010 (Vitland)

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Bedford Dormobile

The Dormobile is a 1950s-era onwards campervan (motorcaravan, motorhome) conversion manufactured by the coachbuilder Martin Walter of Folkestone in Kent.

Initially based on the Bedford CA van, the name is associated more with those and subsequent Bedford CF conversions than with other vehicles converted.

History
The first Bedford CA based Dormobile motorhome, complete with a gas stove, a sink and cupboards and seats which converted into beds, appeared in 1957. The elevating roof, hinged on one side and featuring a red and white striped canopy, was quickly evolved in order to make it possible to stand within the vehicle. The campervan idea originated as a compromise negotiated with the UK tax office. Earlier in the 1950s, the manufacturers specialised in converting the Bedford CA van into a mini-bus, featuring extra side windows and seats. The UK tax authorities asserted that the converted vehicle was effectively a form of estate car, and therefore its retail price should bear passenger car purchase tax, a burden from which buyers of vans were spared. However, the manufacturers negotiated an agreement whereby Dormobile converted vans could be sold without purchase tax, provided they incorporated "built-in life support equipment" such as a cooking device, and facilities for the washing and storage of clothes. These stipulations triggered a move away from minibus conversions to motorhome conversions, which carved out a substantial new life-style market as the ensuing decade saw a substantial increase in disposable incomes in the UK.

The novelist Anthony Burgess and his wife, Liana, owned one and used it as a home and means of travelling throughout Western Europe in the late 1960s. Burgess described the Bedford Dormobile as "a miracle of British design, although much let down by slipshod British execution – screws missing, bad wood-planing ..."

Dormobile

Other vans were converted under the Dormobile name such as Morris Commercial Cars, VW, BMC, Land-Rover, Ford, Leyland, Commer. Some of these early vans used for Dormobile conversions were identified by the distinctive side stripe panel, usually painted in a stand out colour. They included Bedford, The Ford Thames, Commer and Morris & Austin J4.

The company subsequently converted a number of different van-based vehicles to other uses, including minibuses and ambulances, before collapsing in the mid-1990s. In 1997, Dormobile Ltd. was revived and is now based in Lyndhurst, Hampshire. The company carries out modern camper conversions as well as supplying spare parts and full restorations of the classic models.

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Peel Park, East Kilbride

Peel Park is an area of East Kilbride in South Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is a business park, and home to the following companies:

Resident companies

 * British Energy
 * LBJ
 * Memex Technology Limited
 * Micron Technology
 * Intoto Group (formerly Mowlem Energy Services)
 * Wipro
 * IBM
 * SEPA
 * Sulzer
 * Travis Perkins
 * John Macdonald Group
 * Alex McDougall (Mowers) Ltd.
 * Soben Contract & Commercial Ltd

Road links
Peel Park is the location where the Glasgow Southern Orbital (GSO) dual-carriageway which connects East Kilbride to the M77 motorway enters the town. Access from East Kilbride comes from the Queensway (A726) or from Eaglehsam Road (B764).

Redwood Avenue, Drive, Crescent, Road and Place are named after the Giant Redwood (Sequoia) trees in the area.

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Coach and Horses, Soho

The Coach and Horses at 29 Greek Street on the corner with Romilly Street in Soho, London, is a grade II listed public house.

In the 20th century the pub became notable for its association with the columnist Jeffrey Bernard, the staff of Private Eye magazine, other journalists and as a haunt for Soho personalities. Through their writings its former landlord, Norman Balon, became known as "London's rudest landlord".

Early history
There has been a pub on the site since the 18th century. The current building dates from the early 19th century and is Grade II listed with Historic England.

20th century
In the 20th century, the landlord for over 60 years was Norman Balon, who developed a persona as "London's rudest landlord". He began to work at the pub in 1943, when he left an engineering course to serve at the bar, after his father became the landlord there.

The pub became a favourite drinking spot for the journalists of the satirical magazine Private Eye and the location of their fortnightly lunches, at which it was hoped a plentiful supply of cheap wine would prompt an indiscretion from one of the guests, such as member of parliament John Hemming's admission that he had got his mistress pregnant. It also featured regularly in The Spectator's "Low Life" column by Jeffrey Bernard, who was a regular at the pub until his death in 1997.

In 1989, the interior of the pub was recreated on stage for the biographical play about Bernard, Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell. The play was successful, and Balon's memoirs followed in 1991, titled You're Barred, You Bastards: The Memoirs of a Soho Publican.

Clive Jennings says of regular clientele such as Bernard that "the lethal triangle of The French, The Coach & Horses and The Colony were the staging points of the Dean Street shuffle, with occasional forays into other joints such as The Gargoyle or the Mandrake ... The Groucho or Blacks".

21st century
Norman Balon was succeeded as leaseholder in May 2006 by Alastair Choat, Greg Stewart, and Melanie Krudy. Fuller, Smith & Turner, then still a combined London brewery and pub group, bought the pub in a well-publicised acquisition, though continued to lease it to the existing tenants. In 2019, Fullers ended the lease and transferred the pub into its managed estate. As of January 2024, there are two other pubs in the Soho district of London also using the name "Coach and Horses".

Notable patrons

 * Francis Bacon
 * The Beatles
 * Jeffrey Bernard
 * Tom Baker
 * John Hurt
 * Danny Kirwan
 * Eddie Linden
 * George Melly
 * Keith Waterhouse
 * Peter Cook
 * Richard Ingrams
 * Willie Rushton

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Ryan O'Reily

Ryan O'Reily is a main character in the television series Oz. He was portrayed by Dean Winters from 1997 to 2003.

Character overview
"Prisoner #97P904: Ryan O'Reily. Convicted July 12, 1997 - Two counts of vehicular manslaughter, five counts of reckless endangerment, possession of a controlled substance, criminal possession of a weapon, parole violation. Sentence: Life imprisonment, up for parole in 12 years."

O'Reily is an Irish-American sociopathic hoodlum originally sentenced to 12 years to life for killing two people while driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, then 40 to life after confessing to a murder he had his brother, Cyril, commit. Before he was arrested for his original crime he was running a street gang of Irish-American hoodlums called the Bridge Street Gang, with Cyril as his lieutenant/bodyguard. When his brother is permanently brain-damaged in a fight with a rival at a funeral, Ryan, blaming himself, goes on a drug-and-alcohol-fueled rampage throughout the city.

O'Reily is intelligent and ruthless and survives in Oz by manipulating everyone around him, and working with the most dangerous inmates using a variety of inmate gangs to get whatever he wants; series creator Tom Fontana has likened him to Iago, the villain of Shakespeare's Othello.

Season 1
He was the cause of nearly every death in the first season of Oz:
 * In the pilot episode, he bribes the guards in solitary confinement to allow Johnny Post in to burn Dino Ortolani. He then betrayed Post to the Italian gang.
 * He sets up Jefferson Keane to be killed. This backfires, but Keane goes to death row for killing one of his attackers.
 * He proposes the idea to Simon Adebisi to team up to feed mafia boss Nino Schibetta ground glass over the course of a few weeks, causing Schibetta to experience internal hemorrhaging.

With all his major competition eliminated, O'Reily becomes a major player in Oz's drug scene. He also plays a major role in introducing Tobias Beecher to heroin, leading Beecher to become addicted and later go insane on PCP and blind Vernon Schillinger, the leader of Oz's Aryan Brotherhood, in one eye.

Throughout the season O'Reily allies himself with the Italians and Homeboys, but behind their backs, he often calls the Italians "dagos" and "wops", the Homeboys "niggers", and the Latinos "spics".

Season 2
In the second season, O'Reily is enjoying his new status in the Oz drug scene when he is diagnosed with breast cancer. He is helped through his treatment and chemotherapy by Dr. Gloria Nathan, Oz's chief physician. O'Reily falls in love with her and is so overcome with jealousy of her husband that he tells his mentally handicapped brother, Cyril, who is on the outside to kill Dr. Nathan's husband.

Cyril is arrested and sent to Oz, but is put in a different unit from his brother. There, Cyril is raped by Vernon Schillinger and his Aryan Brotherhood gang. This enrages O'Reily, but he can't do anything about it. In order to protect Cyril, he asks the manager of his unit, Tim McManus, to transfer Cyril into Em City with him. McManus agrees in return for O'Reily's admission of guilt in Preston Nathan's death, which O'Reily refuses.

Later, when a guard is blinded by Miguel Alvarez and needs a blood transfusion, it turns out that O'Reily is the only prisoner in Oz to match his blood type. He uses this as leverage to secure a place for his brother in Em City with him. O'Reily then admits his guilt in Preston Nathan's murder so that he can remain in Oz to protect Cyril. McManus then informs him he will be brought up on charges for ordering the murder of Preston Nathan.

Season 3
Still eager for revenge on Schillinger, Ryan manipulates Jaz Hoyt into attacking Schillinger, but Schillinger escapes unharmed. Furious, O'Reily joins forces with Tobias Beecher and Chris Keller, two other inmates who are looking to get even with Schillinger. When Schillinger's son Andrew comes to Em City, O'Reily tortures him when he stops selling him drugs, forcing Andrew to buy them through non-white inmates. Because Andrew has been trained as a member of the Aryan Brotherhood, he can't bring himself to buy drugs from those inmates. After Andrew (having befriended and received counseling from Beecher and becoming clean from drugs) publicly embarrasses his father, Vern Schillinger, by ignoring his attempts to reconcile with him and renounces his racist beliefs, his humiliated father gives his son enough heroin to overdose when Andrew is sent to the hole as a kind of test – which he "fails" by dying.

Meanwhile, the prison administrators hire a new CO supervisor, Sean Murphy. Murphy and O'Reily bond over the Spanish Armada myth of the Black Irish and develop a kind of friendship. When Murphy organizes a boxing tournament, O'Reily enters Cyril. To ensure Cyril's victory, he spikes his opponents' water bottles with chloral hydrate. Cyril beats James Robson in the first round. As a result, Ryan wins money in the bets and the Aryans leave Cyril alone for good. From there, Ryan then spikes Miguel Alvarez's water and tells Alvarez's opponent, gay inmate Jason Cramer, that the Latinos will rape his lover if he loses the fight. Alvarez loses, the Latinos look worse, and Carmen Guerra grows suspicious of O'Reily's winning streak. In round two, Cyril must fight Italian inmate Chucky Pancamo. O'Reily arranges the death of William Cudney, who threatened to expose him for cheating, and spikes Pancamo's water with heroin. Cyril easily beats Pancamo.

Murphy discovers O'Reily cheating thanks to a tip from Nikolai Stanislofsky, and tells O'Reily to stop to prevent a riot. In order to allow Cyril to keep his edge and win the final fight against Muslim inmate Hamid Khan, O'Reily invites their abusive father to visit him and Cyril. Ryan then encourages Cyril to think about their father's abuse during the fight. Pushed into a rage, Cyril beats Khan into a coma, making him brain dead. The resulting racial tension forces Oz into a lockdown.

Season 4 Part I
O'Reily and Cyril participate in an interaction session with Gloria Nathan and her deceased husband's parents. Nathan wants him there to condemn him for killing her husband, but O'Reily turns the tables on them when he says that she and McManus had an affair. She is later raped by Irish hoodlum Patrick Keenan, and she suspects O'Reily of setting her up. Although he didn't, he tells her that he did so she can feel whole again. O'Reily then kills Keenan. Nathan takes a leave of absence shortly after.

O'Reily also has a dispute over possession of a contraband cell phone with Nikolai Stanislofsky, eventually resulting in Stanislofsky's demise at the hands of Officer Claire Howell, a CO whom he begins to have occasional sex with, though he quickly tries to put an end to it.

In Em City, white and Latino inmates and guards are constantly being traded for black guards and inmates who support Adebisi, so O'Reily and Keller unite to turn the tables. They murder inmates Nate Shemin and Mondo Browne, and frame Supreme Allah. As a result, Unit Manager Martin Querns is fired and McManus is rehired.

Season 4 Part II
A television crew comes to Oz to film the prisoners' daily lives. They are headed by Jack Eldridge, a reporter who once reported on Irish gang activity, including the O'Reilys' in particular. This report exposed them as criminals to their mother, who was emotionally devastated upon finding out. In his interview with Eldridge, O'Reily gets some revenge on Eldridge by refusing to give any information about Adebisi's death. Meanwhile, Dr. Nathan returns to Oz and admits to prison psychiatrist Sister Peter Marie that she did indeed have feelings for O'Reily, which Sister Pete encourages her to put out of her mind.

Supreme Allah is released from solitary and tells O'Reily that he knows who framed him, so O'Reily and Keller go to Burr Redding and ask that he be eliminated. Redding then has Tug Daniels visit and stab Supreme Allah, who was in Oz for murdering Daniels' brother.

A woman named Suzanne Fitzgerald (played by Betty Buckley) comes to visit, claiming to be his birth mother. O'Reily does not believe her at first, but accepts it after his father tells him about her. His mother turns out to be a 1960s radical on the run who is looking to settle down.

Asian inmate Jia Kenmin tells Cyril that he will teach him karate, resulting in a fight that puts Jia into a coma. The staff, remembering Hamid Khan, threaten to send Cyril to a mental institution. Meanwhile, Provisional IRA member Padraig Connolly arrives and plans with O'Reily to blow up Em City. At the last minute, O'Reily decides that it is wrong and that many people including his brother and Dr. Nathan may be harmed, but Connolly attempts to set off the bomb early. The bomb, however, fails to detonate, and O'Reily goes unpunished since he had tried to rid Em City of the bomb.

Season 5
O'Reily's mother turns herself in and Governor James Devlin reduces her charge to a two-year community service sentence at Oz. Inmate Li Chen arrives shortly afterward, and Jia Kenmin plots with him to put the O'Reily brothers on death row. He pays inmate Glen Shupe to lie to Cyril about Chen planning to rape Fitzgerald. Cyril and Ryan attack the two, and Cyril stabs and kills Chen while defending his brother, and stands trial for murder. The O'Reily family decides that Cyril is too mentally scarred to live, so they do not oppose his trial.

O'Reily, in the meantime, shares a cell with Father Daniel Meehan, an Irish-American priest imprisoned for his part in a violent protest, who helped prison psychiatrist Sister Peter Marie Raimondo fight for Cyril's life. After finding out that Shupe was paid to lie, O'Reily plots revenge. Picking up on the grudge between Kenmin and Enrique Morales, O'Reily makes a deal with the Latinos. The Latinos agree to horribly injure Shupe, making sure it won't be traced back to O'Reily; in return, O'Reily agrees to murder Jia. The Latinos cut off Shupe's arm, and O'Reily provokes Kenmin into a fight where he ends up helping the guards restrain Kenmin. He convinces officer Robinson that Kenmin talked badly of the guards and, as a result, they kill him in the solitary confinement ward.

Motivated by O'Reily's previous bad blood with the Aryans, O'Reily and Poet announce in the cafeteria that Aryan James Robson had the gums of a black man surgically implanted, with O'Reily citing aloud that he "went to the dentist, and got himself a nice pair of dirty ghetto gums", and the whole cafeteria erupts in laughter. Robson is kicked out of the Brotherhood for his "black blood", leaving him defenseless from the other prisoners.

With Meehan's guidance, O'Reily opens up about his childhood traumas and, after a while, finally joins the effort to save Cyril. His brother is nevertheless sentenced to death. O'Reily vows to be there in the appeal process.

Season 6
O'Reily forces Shupe to tell the truth to Cyril's attorney Arnold Zelman, who is unable to get him to testify. Shortly afterward, Meehan dies from a brain embolism. O'Reily washes his body in the morgue, reading a piece from the bible out of respect for Meehan. Peter Schibetta, the son of Nino Schibetta (the former leader of the Italian gang, who was killed by O'Reily in the first season), is rumored to have killed him by giving him "the evil eye" in return for O'Reily having killed his father, since Schibetta had previously vowed to curse everyone O'Reily loves. O'Reily goes to Chucky Pancamo and tells him that Schibetta plans to use the evil eye on the superstitious Pancamo as revenge for his failure to protect him from his brutal rape from Adebisi. Enraged, Pancamo and the Italians have Schibetta killed, notably removing his eye. It's throughout this season that Zelman unsuccessfully appeals Cyril's case.

Jahfree Neema, a former Black Panther, is sent to Oz and turns out to be connected romantically to Suzanne. He initially hates O'Reily, who tries to get Redding to murder him. Neema, however, tells O'Reily that he wants to save Cyril, and he organizes every inmate from every gang to protest the execution, resulting in a last second stay of execution and as a result, Ryan gains respect for him. O'Reily also believes God saved Cyril because of his sincere prayers on what was meant to be the night of Cyril's execution.

Meanwhile, their father, Seamus, arrives in Oz and tries to kill Neema, but ends up in the hospital instead. Eventually, Cyril is executed despite Ryan's efforts, it's during the execution that Ryan is seen walking the maze in the gym unsupervised and visibly upset. Dr. Nathan enters the gym and she and O'Reily kiss passionately, culminating the five-season narrative arc initiated by O'Reily's unrequited love. The screen then fades to black, leaving the two.

Seamus O'Reily, while in the hospital, has come to regret how he treated his sons (with the help of a stern speech given to him by Suzanne) and asks Ryan if he can see Cyril, Ryan tells him it's too late as Cyril has already been executed, the father and son then reconnect through their grief.

Ryan O'Reily is last seen wheeling Seamus onto a bus during an attack involving a mysterious contaminate orchestrated by Keller.

ZO (spin off)
20 years ago after the evacuation of Oz, the police officer who testified at O'Reily's trial is charged with shooting a minor and turns out to have a long history of corruption, so all his cases were thrown out and Ryan was subsequently released, meaning there will be no retrial. He later tracks Beecher's number and address. Ryan starts threatening him telling him that he is after him and wants to hurt his family.

Reception
Sean O'Sullivan and David Wilson describe the character as "the arch schemer," while USA Today labels him as "Oz's resident troublemaker".

O'Sullivan and Wilson also write that "O'Reily is one of the most appealing characters in the show, and someone whom it is possible to follow because of his continuing story arc...O'Reily's Machiavellian scheming is one of the main entertainment features of the show."

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The Rapture (album)

The Rapture is the eleventh and final studio album by English rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees, released in January 1995. The songs with cello arrangements, including the title track as well as "Fall from Grace" and "Not Forgotten", were produced by the band on their own in 1993. John Cale later produced the remaining songs in mid-1994.

A double translucent turquoise vinyl of The Rapture was released in October 2023.

Recording
After composing songs in Siouxsie and Budgie's house near Toulouse, France, in March and April 1993, the band went to Léon near Biarritz. They produced the first part of the album at Studio du Manoir in May. "The Double Life" was the last song that they recorded during that first session block. When Siouxsie heard the news that Mick Ronson had passed away, she asked Jon Klein to add a guitar solo on "The Double Life" at the last minute, in memory of Ronson, whereas the band usually didn't want solos.

At the beginning of 1994, they recorded the final songs in London, this time with producer and former Velvet Underground member John Cale, who had previously produced albums that the band liked such as Patti Smith's Horses and the first Modern Lovers album. Cale also mixed one track, "Fall from Grace", from the previous recording session.

Release
In the UK, Polydor only released the album on both CD and cassette, whereas in the US, Geffen also released it on vinyl LP.

The album was remastered for CD in 2014 with three bonus tracks, including a previously unreleased song called "FGM", and "New Skin", a song recorded for the Showgirls soundtrack of the Paul Verhoeven film of the same name. "New Skin" has a different mix and is longer than on the original Showgirls album. From then and on all further reissues, "Stargazer" has a different mix: the Mark Saunders mix was included instead of the original mix initially made by the band.

A double vinyl reissue of the album, half-speed mastered from the original ¼” tapes by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, was released in December 2018.

In October 2023, The Rapture was reissued on double translucent turquoise vinyl.

Critical reception
Melody Maker wrote: "The Rapture is a fascinating, transcontinental journey through danger and exotica". Describing the arrangements, they added, "it's a vivid cornucopia of lush instrumentation, mandolins vying with cellos and bells, sweeping strings describing starlit oceans and sirens calling from jagged rocks, and attics that hide secret worlds". Steve Malins of Vox also liked the album. He said, "The title-track is a sublime melodrama recalling the experimentation of Peepshow and 1982's Kiss in the Dreamhouse", before concluding with this sentence, "The Rapture represents an intelligent twist on familiar Banshees obsessions". Liz Buckley of Sun Zoom Spark also praised it, writing, "How is a band that first formed almost two decades ago able to remain both vital and celebrated? Answer: Metamorphosis". Buckley also declared that "the album is able to excite the hairs on the back of your neck". Select gave it a rating of four out of five, hailing the band as "purveyors of scary pop par excellence". Matt Hall noted the ability of the group for "trotting out jolly tunes about mental breakdown, love bordering on obsession and severely dislocated relationships." The reviewer characterised The Rapture as a "fine little Russian doll of a record", and said, "Under the keyboard lines, swelling strings and OTT percussion, at the centre of every song is a nugget of disquiet that keeps you listening again and again." Writing in the 2004 edition of The Rolling Stone Album Guide, Mark Coleman and Mac Randall described The Rapture as "a lackluster affair". AllMusic retrospectively rated the album four out of five stars, saying: "The surprise is that it's a career highpoint" as "Siouxsie, Severin and Budgie rediscovered their chemistry". Reviewer Alex Ogg noted that "Despite nods to the band's past in the savage "Not Forgotten," the real gems are the sunny-side-up "O, Baby" (when did Siouxsie ever sound so genuinely happy?) and an 11-minute title-track that is as dazzling as anything they have ever performed." Ogg concluded: it is "a classic case of leaving the scene on a high note".

Andrew Weatherall included the track "The Double Life" in a two-hour mix he did and presented for BBC Radio 6 in April 2011.

Track listing
All tracks produced by Siouxsie and the Banshees except tracks 1-2 and 7-8-9 produced by John Cale. Track 4 produced by Siouxsie and the Banshees and mixed by John Cale.

All music composed by Siouxsie and the Banshees, except bonus tracks "FGM" by Siouxsie/Jon Klein and "New Skin" by Siouxsie.

Personnel

 * Siouxsie and the Banshees
 * Siouxsie Sioux - vocals
 * Steven Severin - electric bass and uncredited backing vocals on "The Lonely One"

 * Budgie - drums and percussion
 * Martin McCarrick - cello, keyboards and accordion
 * Jon Klein – guitars
 * Additional personnel
 * Renaud Pion - woodwind
 * John Cale - producer and mixer
 * Martin Brass - engineer
 * Charlie Gray - engineer
 * Knox Chandler - guitar on "New Skin"
 * Gary Barnacle, Peter Thoms, Luke Tunney and John Thirkell [uncredited] - brass section on "New Skin"

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Talk:Pillar procedure

Has anyone taken this procedure for snoring?

Here's a news story on it: http://cbs5.com/health/local_story_217194802.html

I took out the redirect, because the sleep apnea page does not even mention Pillar Procedure.

The only other article I can find is this one: http://www.stopsnoringseattle.com/ —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.250.255.175 (talk) 20:29, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

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Surduc Pass

The Surduc Pass (in Romanian: Defileul Jiului or Pasul Surduc, in Hungarian Szurdok-szoros) is a mountain pass in the Gorj and Hunedoara counties of Southwestern Romania, connecting the Petroșani Depression with Oltenia.

In Surduc Pass, the Jiu River divides two mountain ranges that belong to the Southern Carpathians: the Vâlcan Mountains to the west and the Parâng Mountains to the east.

In 1947, a road (national road DN66, part of the E-road E79) and a railway line were opened that connect Transylvania with Wallachia (the two other passes in the region are in the Timiș-Cerna Gap and the Turnu Roșu Pass). In August 2005, a national park with an area of 110 km2 was created in this pass.

The Romanian name of the pass derives from the Hungarian word "szurdok", which means "defile" or "canyon".

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Oaktree (foundation)

Oaktree is an Australian-based, non-government organisation that specialises in international youth development. Their purpose is to lead, demand and create a more just world. Founded in 2003, the organisation is run by young people aged 16 to 26, and overseen by an advisory board.

Oaktree collaborates with like-minded youth partners in countries like Timor-Leste and Cambodia. Together, they grow the capability and influence of young people across their region.

In Australia, Oaktree focuses on upskilling young people and advocating for the value of youth voices. Their community-driven campaigns connect young Australian voices to decision-makers to influence policy change on issues of justice, like Australian aid.

History
Oaktree was founded in Melbourne by Hugh Evans and Nicolas Mackay in 2003. After winning a World Vision contest to visit development programs in the Philippines, aged 13 years, Evans went on exchange to Woodstock School in the Himalayas in India two years later. A further trip to the rural valley communities of the KwaZulu-Natal Province in South Africa, where he volunteered with World Vision, saw him return to Melbourne in 2003 and join with Mackay and other young people to establish Oaktree, with the purpose of combating some of the inequalities that Evans had witnessed. In October 2013, Oaktree launched a new brand and website to mark its 10th birthday.

Oaktree has invested over A$2.5 million into aid development projects between 2003 and 2012.

Mission
The mission statement of Oaktree as of 2018 is "Oaktree is young people leading, demanding and creating a more just world." Oaktree aspires to achieve its mission in three ways: [ self-published source?]

 * 1) Funding education and leadership projects overseas which build capacity and empower young leaders in the Asia Pacific region.
 * 2) Building the capacity and influence of young people in Australia.
 * 3) Influencing policy change towards a more just world.

As of October 2013, Oaktree has an office in every Australian state and in the Australian Capital Territory. With 125,000 supporters and 350 volunteer staff as at 31 December 2011, Oaktree generated A$1.76 million in revenue.

International development projects
Oaktree supports the following international aid and development:
 * 1) Cambodia: Beacon's School Initiative by redeveloping school environments to better suit the climate and culture
 * 2) East Timor: Youth Livelihoods that provides income generation opportunities for youth groups in the Aileu districts
 * 3) East Timor: Youth Empowerment Peace Building Project that builds capacity for young people to prevent, manage and resolve violent situations peacefully and without violence
 * 4) South Africa: HIV/Aids Peer Mentorship Scheme that aims to reduce the incidence of HIV infection among high school aged students in the province of KwaZulu Natal
 * 5) Papua New Guinea: Men and Women's Vocational Training Project that works to address issues of gender inequality, youth unemployment, low literacy rates and lack of vocational training in Port Moresby
 * 6) Papua New Guinea: Yangis Community School Teacher Training to give people in the remote location of Yangis a higher education so that a school will be re-opened in their community

In 2022, the foundation launched the Youth Solidarity Fund to support the growth of grassroots youth organisations in the Asia-Pacific region.

National programs
Oaktree runs educational programs that aim to transform Australians into dedicated and effective agents of change in acting on extreme poverty.

Live Below the Line, run in partnership between Oaktree and the Global Poverty Project, is a five-day extreme poverty awareness and fundraising campaign. The campaign encourages members of the general public in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, and the United Kingdom to participate in order to develop a better understanding of the daily challenges faced by the 1.4 billion people experiencing extreme poverty. For each of the five days of the campaign the participants are encouraged to limit their food expenditure to the equivalent of the extreme poverty line, set at US$1.25. The participants use their daily experiences to bring extreme poverty to the awareness of others. During 2011, this program generated A$1.4 million from 6,518 participants.

Other smaller programs include Generate and Schools 4 Schools focused on advocacy and peer-to-peer education respectively.

In 2009, Oaktree claimed that, together with World Vision and other advocacy groups, their advocacy via the End Child Slavery campaign contributed to an announcement by Cadbury Australia that it will change its milk chocolate range to fair trade sources.

In 2020, Oaktree joined the 'End COVID For All' campaign, a collective group of organisations who support the assistance of vulnerable nations in the light of COVID-19.

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