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Italy national cricket team

The Italy national cricket team is the men's team that represents the country of Italy in international cricket. They have been an associate member of the International Cricket Council (ICC) since 1995, having previously been an affiliate member since 1984. The Italy national cricket team is administered by the Italian Cricket Federation.

Early history
The earliest mention of cricket in Italy is of a match played by Admiral Nelson's sailors in Bayside, NY in 1793 during a stop in Naples harbour. Around the end of the 19th century, several combined cricket and association football clubs formed, including the world-famous A.C. Milan, which was originally the Milan Cricket and Football Club and the first Italian football team Genoa Cricket and Football Club, which was originally the Genoa Cricket & Athletic Club. But these clubs soon forgot about cricket and concentrated on football. Cricket started to be revived after the Second World War. Cricket flourished in Rome in the 1960s at a superb field which looked across to St. Peter's dome from Villa Doria Pamphili. The Australian and British embassies, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, the Commonwealth War Graves Association, the Venerable English College and Beda College fielded teams which competed for the Rome Ashes there until, in the 1970s, the Villa became a public park.

When cricket resumed in Rome on other grounds at the end of the 1970s, four of the Villa Doria Pamphili-era players formed in 1980 the Doria Pamphili Cricket Club: the Italian-Sri Lankan Francis Alphonsus Jayarajah, the Italian-Indian Massimo da Costa, the Australian Desmond O'Grady and the Syrian Issam Kahale

In the same period, some cricket was played in the northern part of Italy with the Milan Cricket Club being formed in the 1970s and Euratom CC in the 1980s.

Modern history
The "Federazione Cricket Italiana" (Italian Cricket Federation) was formed in 1980, and they became an affiliate member of the ICC in 1984, and were promoted to associate member in 1995.

The first record match by the Italy national team was touring their first UK Tour in August 1984 and played a week of cricket against local London clubs, the first losing against Enfield CC, but ending on a high with their first win in the last match against North Middlesex.

The first international match played by the Italy national team was a draw against Denmark in 1989.

After years of matches against neighboring nations such as France and Germany, in 1996, Italy took part in the first European Championship in Denmark, finishing seventh after beating Israel in a play-off. They took part in the ICC Trophy for the first time in the 1997 tournament and performed poorly, finishing joint last out of the 22 participants. They finished fifth in the following year's European Championship in which they caused the biggest upset to date in the history of the game by beating the England XI in the promotion/relegation playoff.

In 1999, Italy took part in a quadrangular tournament in Gibraltar also featuring France and Israel. They won the tournament, beating the hosts in the final. They finished fifth in Division One of the European Championship the following year and were due to participate in the 2001 ICC Trophy, but pulled out at the last minute due to a dispute over the eligibility of four players, Italian citizens by birth but not reesident in Italy. The dispute was happily resolved by ICC a year later with the recognition of citizenship as a criteria for eligibility in national teams.

The 2002 European Championship saw Italy finish sixth in Division One, relegating them for 2004 to Division Two, which they promptly won. This qualified them for the repêchage tournament for the 2005 ICC Trophy in early 2005 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. They finished seventh in that tournament after beating Zambia in a play-off.

They took part in Division One of the European Championship in 2006, finishing fifth. In May–June 2007, they travelled to Darwin, Australia, to take part in Division Three of the World Cricket League. They finished seventh after beating Fiji in a play-off, and played in Division Four of the World Cricket League in 2008 to come third and remained in 2010 ICC World Cricket League Division Four. With a second place finish there, they were promoted to 2011 ICC World Cricket League Division Three, where they came 4th to remain in 2013 ICC World Cricket League Division Three. They had a chance of reaching the 2015 Cricket World Cup, if they finished in the top two in the 2013 ICC World Cricket League Division Three, and then in the top two of the 2013 Cricket World Cup Qualifier. An encouraging start to this tournament witnessed wins over Oman (9 wickets) and United States (8 runs), followed by defeats, narrowly to Ireland (2 wickets) and more comprehensively against Kenya (7 wickets). After finishing last in this tournament they were relegated to Division Four in 2014.

In November 2013 they competed in the 2013 ICC World Twenty20 Qualifier in the UAE, their highest level of competition to date. They finished 9th place with victories over the US, and higher-ranked opponents in UAE and Namibia.

2018–present
In April 2018, the ICC decided to grant full Twenty20 International (T20I) status to all its members. Therefore, all Twenty20 matches played between Italy and other ICC members since 1 January 2019 have the T20I status.

In September 2018, Italy qualified from Group B of the 2018–19 ICC World Twenty20 Europe Qualifier to the Regional Finals of the tournament.

Italy played their first T20I against Germany in May 2019.

From August 2019, Italy will play in the 2019–21 ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League.

In 2023, it was reported that Italy had pursued a strategy of recruiting professional cricketers from Australia and England to play in the regional final of the 2022–23 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier. The recruits have only tenuous connections with Italy but meet ICC regulations by virtue of holding Italian passports.

World Twenty20 Qualifier

 * 2012: 10th place
 * 2013: 9th place
 * 2023 (Europe Regional Final): 3rd place

ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League

 * 2019-2022: 9th
 * 2023-2026: Qualified

ICC Cricket World Cup Challenge League Play-off

 * 2024: 2nd (Qualified for 2023-26 ICC CWC Challenge League)

World Cricket League

 * 2007: 7th place (Division Three) – relegated
 * 2008: 3rd place (Division Four)
 * 2010: 2nd place (Division Four) – promoted
 * 2011: 4th place (Division Three)
 * 2013: 6th place (Division Three) – relegated
 * 2014: 4th place (Division Four)
 * 2016: 6th place (Division Four) – relegated
 * 2017: 4th place (Division Five) – relegated to regional tournaments

ICC Trophy

 * 1979: Not eligible – not an ICC member
 * 1982: Not eligible – not an ICC member
 * 1986 to 1994 inclusive: Not eligible – ICC affiliate member
 * 1997: equal 21st place
 * 2001: Withdrew (see above)
 * 2005: Did not qualify
 * 2009: Did not qualify
 * 2014: Did not qualify

European Championship

 * 1996: 7th place
 * 1998: 5th place
 * 2000: 5th place (Division One)
 * 2002: 6th place (Division One)
 * 2004: Division Two winners
 * 2006: 5th place (Division One)
 * 2008: 5th place (Division One)
 * 2010: 6th place (Division One)

European T20 Championship Division One

 * 2011: 2nd place
 * 2013: 1st place

Squad
Italy's squad for the 2023 ICC T20 World Cup Europe Regional Final in July 2023 included the following players:

 * Gareth Berg (captain)
 * Marcus Campopiano
 * Stefano di Bartolomeo
 * Crishan Kalugamage
 * Wayne Madsen
 * Ben Manenti
 * Harry Manenti
 * Gian-Piero Meade
 * Anthony Mosca
 * Justin Mosca
 * Syed Naqvi
 * Manpreet Singh (wk)
 * Jaspreet Singh
 * Sukhwinder Singh
 * Grant Stewart

Records and statistics
International Match Summary — Italy Last updated 16 June 2024

Twenty20 International

 * Highest team total: 244/4 v. Romania on 16 June 2024 at Simar Cricket Ground, Rome.
 * Highest individual score: 108*, Joe Burns v. Romania on 16 June 2024 at Simar Cricket Ground, Rome.
 * Best individual bowling figures: 5/14, Stefano di Bartolomeo v. Germany on 28 July 2023 at The Grange Club, Edinburgh.

Most T20I runs for Italy

Most T20I wickets for Italy

T20I record versus other nations

''Records complete to T20I #2696. Last updated 16 June 2024.''

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Talk:West

George Vincent (1796 – c. 1832) was an English landscape artist who produced watercolours, etchings and oil paintings. He is considered to be one of the most talented of the Norwich School of painters, a group of artists inspired by the Norfolk countryside. Vincent's work was founded on the Dutch school of landscape painting and the style of John Crome, also of the Norwich School. The son of a weaver, Vincent was apprenticed to Crome. Vincent exhibited at the Royal Academy and the British Institution. From 1811 until 1831 he showed at the Norwich Society of Artists, exhibiting over 100 pictures of Norfolk landscapes and marine works. By 1818 he had relocated to London, yet struggled financially. He was imprisoned for debt from 1824 to 1827. After 1831, Vincent disappeared and was never found. The art historian Herbert Cundall wrote in the 1920s that had Vincent "not given way to intemperate habits he would probably have ranked amongst the foremost of British landscape painters". (Full article...)

Disambiguation pages
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHOL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_%28disambiguation%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEST

WEST is a radio station in Easton, PA. The WHOL article also covers WEST. The difficulty is that there are two different disambiguation pages for WEST and West, and the WHOL article has a hatnote for only one of them.

Someone with expertise is needed to correct the confusion likely with this situation. --DThomsen8 (talk) 14:38, 17 April 2010 (UTC)

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Talk:Music notation software

I've moved the following links here:
 * SCORE
 * Finale
 * Sibelius
 * Vivaldi
 * Capella
 * Igor

If you want to add them back in per External links please discuss it hre first. brenneman (t) (c) 00:39, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

The additional text The SCORE music typesetting software package, written by Dr. Leland Smith (now Stanford University Professor Emeritus), is based on this design, and it is the reason for the consistently superior output produced by SCORE. without talk or sources was moved here. brenneman (t) (c) 00:57, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

Redirection cancelled
Someone back in 2005 decided to redirect the entire article and go to a specific example of Music notation software. Personally, I'd call the redirection an example of spam. That would be similar to redirecting Word Processor to Microsoft Word (or Open Office for the open source fans out there). So I just reverted it. --Fredrik Coulter (talk) 18:37, 5 June 2010 (UTC)

Merge/Redirect
As this article hasn't a single source, is incredibly short, and duplicates Scorewriter, I am agreeing with the proposed merge and will make this page redirect to Scorewriter. Plays88keys (talk) 07:11, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

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Joe Colombo (designer)

Cesare Colombo (30 July 1930 – 30 July 1971), known as Joe Colombo, was an Italian industrial designer.

Life and career
Cesare "Joe" Colombo was until 1949 educated at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, the academy of fine arts, in Milano as a painter and studied afterwards until 1954 Architecture at Politecnico di Milano University.

In 1951 he joined the Movimento Nucleare, founded by Sergio Dangelo and Enrico Baj. The following four years Colombo was active as a painter and sculptor of the abstract Expressionism and exhibited his works with other members in Milano, Torino, Verviers, Venice and Brussels.

In 1955 Colombo joined the Art Concret group, but gave up his painting to promote his Design Career. Before he cooperated at an exhibition for the tenth Triennale of 1954 and documented the Ceramic Designs of an international meeting in Albisola. For his presentation Colombo created for example three exterior seatings which were combined with a "shrinelike" presentation of TVs.

In 1959, Colombo had to take over the family company, which produced electric appliances, and started to experiment with new construction and production technologies. In 1962 Colombo opened his own interior design and architecture projects, mostly for lodges and skiing.

Colombo designed products for Oluce, Kartell, Bieffe, Alessi, Flexform, Stilnovo, and Boffi.

Colombo died in 1971 on his 41st birthday.

Main works

Together with his brother Gianni, Colombo developed the idea of prismatic lamps like the lamp Acrilica(1962). His first design for Kartell was the chair No.4801 (1963–1967) which consisted of three assembled plywood elements. The flowing elements of his chair were a foretaste of his later plastic designs, like the chair universale No.4860 (1965–1967), which was the first seating for adults made of ABS.

Moreover, Colombo produced innovative designs for furniture, lamps, glass, doorknobs, pipes, alarm clocks, and wristwatches. He created the professional camera Trisystem (1969), the air conditioner Candy (1970), dinnerware for Alitalia (1970; still in use), as well as an ergonomic and engined printing table.

Since the beginning of his career Colombo was most interested in living systems. His early modular container Combi-Centre of 1963 is an example for that. This preference for furniture systems led to designs like Additional Living System (1967–1968) and the chairs Tube (1969–1970) and Multi (1970), which could be assembled in various positions to get a great number of sitting positions. They reflect Colombo's main goal, variability.

His futuristic designs were integrated micro-living-worlds. His Visiona-Livingroom of the future was exhibited at the Visiona-Exhibition of 1969. This room consisted of "Barbella-like" space interiors where furniture became structure elements and vice versa. Traditional furniture was replaced by functional elements like the sitting cubes Night-Cell and Central-Living as well as the Kitchen-Box, to create a dynamic, multifunctional living space. The kitchen-box (1963), on wheels and measuring 90x75x75cm, containing a two-burner stovetop, oven, grill, refrigerator, cutting board, pull-out worktop, and storage for cookbooks, knives, and other tools, has recently been reissued, slightly enlarged (96 cm(h)x107cmx65cm), manufactured by Boffi Spa.

In 1963, Joe Colombo designed the Elda armchair for the Italian brand Comfort. This armchair was a pioneering example of a large armchair crafted from molded fiberglass. Joe Colombo took the inspiration for Elda from a visit to a shipyard.

For his own apartment Colombo designed the units Roto-living and Cabriolet-Bed (both 1969), followed by Total Furnishing Unit, which was presented at the exhibition Italy: The Domestic Landscape at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1972. It presented a complete "living-machine," comprising kitchen, wardrobe, bathroom, and sleeping accommodation, on only 28 square meters.

 * The Elda Chair (1963)
 * The Brillio Chair (1971)
 * The Topo Lamp (1970)

Exhibitions
His work has been exhibited at museums, among them the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Awards
In 1964 Colombo received the IN-Arch prize for his room conception of a hotel in Sardinia (1962–1964). In 1967 and 1968, he was awarded ADI (Associazione per il Disegno Industriale) prize. In 1970 he received the Compasso d'Oro award.

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Bonny Hicks

Bonny Susan Hicks (5 January 1968 – 19 December 1997) was a Singaporean model and writer. After garnering local fame as a model, she gained worldwide recognition for her contributions to Singaporean post-colonial literature and the anthropic philosophy conveyed in her works. Her first book, Excuse Me, Are You A Model?, is recognised as a significant milestone in the literary and cultural history of Singapore. Hicks later published a second book, Discuss Disgust, and many shorter pieces in press outlets, including a short-lived opinion column in a major Singaporean daily that was pulled due to public dissent from Singaporean traditionalists.

Hicks died at age 29 on 19 December 1997 aboard SilkAir Flight 185 when it crashed into the Musi River on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The U.S.'s National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) expressed the likelihood that the crash was an act of suicide and mass murder by the troubled Singaporean pilot. All 97 passengers and 7 crew members perished.

After Hicks' death, numerous publications including the book Heaven Can Wait: Conversations with Bonny Hicks by Tal Ben-Shahar featured her life and thought. Although she was deemed controversial by many during her lifetime because of her willingness to openly discuss human sexuality, Singaporean literary scholars during the last years of Hicks' life saw in her a pivotally important voice for interpreting their contemporary society.

Hicks' legacy is one of an important transitional social figure between traditionalist Singapore and the broad-scale societal changes that occurred in the country under the forces of globalisation as the 21st century approached. Her death resulted in the loss of a Singaporean national voice that was both growing and important yet internally conflicted while socially confrontive. Criticisms by Singaporean traditionalists during her modelling and authoring careers continually vexed Hicks' conscience and drove her to re-evaluate her life during her later years. Hicks ultimately made a sustained series of traditionalist choices during her final years of life.

Early life
Hicks was born in 1968 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to a British father, Ron Hicks, and a Cantonese-speaking Singaporean-Chinese mother, Betty Soh. Her parents separated shortly after her birth and Soh relocated to Singapore in 1969 with her infant daughter. There, Hicks' formative social environment was multi-ethnic, multi-lingual, and included Malays, Indians, and Chinese of various dialect groups. Although Hicks was biracial, she identified as Chinese during her early childhood, speaking Cantonese and watching Chinese-language television at home.

When Hicks was twelve, her mother accepted a job as a caretaker of a bungalow in Sentosa, Singapore, and they relocated to the island away from a Singaporean Housing and Development Board flat in Toa Payoh. Throughout her teens, Hicks lived with her mother on Sentosa Island, and intermittently with her porpor (grandmother) with whom she enjoyed a particularly close relationship.

Hicks never met her father. At aged sixteen, she traced his whereabouts through the British High Commission, with whom he was stationed on Singapore during Hicks' conception. Married with children from his new arrangement, and likely keeping his past muffled from his new family, Hicks' father returned word via fax to her that he wanted nothing to do with her. Despite Hicks' superficial joking whenever publicly questioned about it, her father's rejection of her remained deeply hurtful to Hicks throughout her life.

Hicks' early years were marked by "few friends" and she stated that she made no serious friends after age 15—that is, until she met Patricia Chan Li-Yin, but even then things were hard to define. After Chan retired from being a Singaporean sports hero, a decorated female swimmer, she became a magazine editor and talent agent. After Hicks' and Chan's paths crossed, Chan become a pivotally important person in Hicks' life and career. The relationship was often confused and complicated by even Hicks' own account.

Discovery and first mentor
Chan "discovered" the nineteen-year-old Bonnie Hicks shortly after Hicks completed her A levels at the Hwa Chong Junior College. Hicks and Chan enjoyed a close, multi-leveled, complicated relationship that was both professional and personal. Hicks referred to Chan as "Mum", and some surmised that there was perhaps more to the relationship. Stemming from ambiguous statements Hicks later made in her first book, (e.g., "I was in love with Pat Chan"), Singaporeans widely speculated whether the two were involved in a lesbian relationship. While the statements in Hicks' book could be interpreted as indicating only an intimate mentoring relationship with Chan, whom Hicks clearly idealized and greatly admired, she continued to be ambiguous on the subject whenever questioned. This created a sense of mystery about Hicks' persona and contributed to her ongoing buzz and publicity.

Modeling
Hicks' modelling career began with a showcase in the September 1987 cover of a now-defunct Singaporean fashion monthly, GO. In a short while, she expanded into other modelling outlets, including ones in Indonesia. She continued to expand her appearances on magazine covers, print advertisements, catwalk appearances in designer clothes, and in a music video for a top-10 hit by the Singaporean indie band The Oddfellows. Things looked bright.

A year into Hicks' modelling career, she began writing about her life experiences and ideas stemming from her modelling. By age twenty-one she had completed her first book, Excuse Me, are you a Model? She continued to model for five more years and in 1992, at the age of twenty-four, released her second book Discuss Disgust. Hicks then left modelling to take a job as a department lead and copywriter in Jakarta, Indonesia. At the time, Hicks reiterated a statement she had made in her first book: that she had never wanted to be a model in the first place. Instead, her dream since age thirteen had been to be a writer. It was then that she had begun keeping a diary of her feelings and experiences, a practice she continued throughout her life. Hicks drew from her documented memories in each of her writings.

Excuse Me, Are You a Model?
Hicks published her first work Excuse Me, Are You a Model? in Singapore in 1990. The book is her autobiographical exposé of the modelling and fashion world and contains frequent, candid discussion about her sexuality, a subject that was not traditionally broached in Singaporean society at the time. The work stirred significant controversy among Singaporeans who held traditional literary and moral standards. Traditionalists considered Hicks' work a "kiss and tell" book that disclosed "too much too soon" from an independent woman still in her early twenties. Singaporean youth, on the other hand, had a starkly different view; twelve thousand copies were sold within two weeks, prompting the book's publisher to boast Hicks' work as "the biggest book sensation in the annals of Singapore publishing"—an accurate claim.

During the years leading up to her death, Singaporean English literature scholars had begun to recognise more than just a simple generational divide in the reactions to Hicks' book, and were describing it as "an important work" in the confessional mode of the genre of post-colonial literature. Well before Hick's book was deemed "a significant milestone in Singapore's literary and cultural history," Singaporean young people had already established a localized literary movement, following Hicks' lead. Local markets soon became inundated with the autobiographies of fame-seeking youth, many not yet in their twenties.

Discuss Disgust
In 1992, two years after Hicks' controversial entry into Singapore's literary scene, she published her second and last book, Discuss Disgust. The novella, literarily more sophisticated but never as popular as her first book, portrays the world as seen through the eyes of a child whose mother is a prostitute. In it, Hicks continued to openly discuss sexuality, and in veiled terms broached the taboo of sexual abuse, both subjects that were not normally openly spoken of in Singapore during the time. Adding fuel to the controversy surrounding Hicks, a widely read local traditionalist columnist dubbed Discuss Disgust as "another one of those commercial publications which pack sleaze and sin into its hundred-oddpages" (sic). While an understanding of Discuss Disgust was much greater than was let on among even traditionalists critics, social pressures meant that few people openly accepted the novella for what it actually was: Hicks' semi-autobiographical account of her own troubled childhood years, an only partially veiled yet immediately unsuccessful cry for the public to reinterpret her early adult years through the psychological trauma of her childhood years.

"The Bonny Hicks Diary"
Hicks was also a frequent contributor to Singaporean and regional press outlets. Her frankly-written bi-monthly column in The Straits Times, "The Bonny Hicks Diary", in which she often discussed her childhood on Sentosa Island, further incited traditionalists' feelings that Hicks was an improper role model for young, impressionable girls, whom traditionalists felt were being morally corrupted by Hicks. Yielding to public traditionalist pressure, spurred initially by a letter writing campaign to the paper, the Times pulled her column within a year. The paper's esteemed editor, Richard Lim, subsequently voiced regret over what he considered a politically motivated decision by the paper. Pushing back as far as practicable, Lim began running frequent "special" columns by Hicks. Having taken a mentoring interest in Hicks' development as a writer since her first publication, Lim was uniquely authoritative when he publicly noted the deepening of Hicks' writings as she matured.

Third Book?
At the time of Discuss Disgust's release, Hicks reported to The Straits Times that she had been working on a third book, one that centred on correspondence between herself and an unnamed female housemate. Hicks wrote of her social observations of the United States during a two-month visit, using it as a springboard to make social commentary about Singapore. While the book idea further revealed Hicks' preference to write with a certain person in mind it never materialised, not even in draft form or as personal papers released posthumously.

Introspection
During Hicks' heyday, few had begun to adequately situate her life and works within the larger societal changes that had enveloped Singapore at the time under forces of rapid globalisation—changes that, by then, were simply far too advanced and powerful to altogether stop the clock upon by the traditionally successful means of shaming and ostracising. For the most part, traditionalists simply reacted from gut-level fear against Hicks, or a simplified characterisation or straw man of her, whom they perceived as a "notorious" moral threat willing to degrade Singaporean society for personal fame and financial gain. Even though the criticisms were not entirely fair—they certainly contained at least a kernel of truth—their accumulation had long been taking a toll upon Hicks' perseverance, eroding away at even her senses of identity, purpose, and wholeness, and thus her basic senses of faith, hope, and peace about the future. While she yet continued to milk opportunities for self-promotion, as Pat Chan had early on taught her to do, it was becoming clearer and clearer that Hicks had for some time been deep within a season of personal introspection, and had been laying plans for a significant life and career transition that appeared to be informed by the values of Singaporean traditionalists. Whilst she was perhaps conceding a victory to her traditionalist critics amid her life transition, her life change was caused at least as much by her own personal maturing away from the years and seemingly unrestrained values of her youth, although there was certainly an interplay of both external and internal forces that prodded her along.

Overall, Hicks's self-promotional success efforts had begun to painfully wane; so, she took pause and introspectively re-evaluated her life. Of this tumultuous period Hicks confessed, I experienced great happiness and great sorrow in my life. While the great happiness was uplifting and renewing, the sorrow ate at me slowly, like a worm in the core of an apple. I realised then that stable happiness was not mine until I could eliminate the sorrow too. The sorrow which I experienced was often due to the fact that my own happiness came at a price. That price was someone else's happiness.

New mentors, new growth
Despite Hicks' confession that she had harmed others along her path to fame, and her intention to reverse the trend, she all along had her supporters—those who comprehended her on a level deeper than the mere fandom she had so often sought to instigate toward herself, and who saw in Hicks a young lady not trying to offend but to initiate critical conversations within a culture that was often far too resistant to anything beyond the familiar. To them, Hicks' anthropical philosophy of life that featured loving, caring and sharing was not only refreshing but important, perhaps more than even Hicks herself could appreciate at the time. A growing voice appeared to emerge clearly in her writings, and it attracted many Singaporeans and others, including some scholars. Two of the scholars would become pivotally influential new mentors to Hicks during her major traditionalist life transition, the ultimate result of which, as things would turn out, would be cut short by her untimely death.

One of Hicks' new mentors was Tal Ben-Shahar, a positive psychologist and popular professor of psychology at the time at Harvard University. Hicks reached out to Ben-Shahar after being exposed to his writings, and the two corresponded about philosophical and spiritual matters for approximately one year, on up until Hicks' 1997 death. The correspondence later became basis for a 1998 book by Ben-Shahar, in which he narrated Hicks' profound growth during the year.

Hicks had also become a student of Confucian humanism, and she was particularly attracted to the thought of a second Harvard professor, Tu Wei-Ming, a New Confucian philosopher, who became a second new mentor to Hicks. Hicks attended Tu's seminars and the two corresponded over some months. With Tu's influence added to that of Ben-Shahar's, Hicks began to exhibit an increased New Confucian influence upon her thinking, and she soon turned in her occasional Straits Times columns to criticising Singaporean society from the theme. In one piece, she expressed dismay about the "lack of understanding of Confucianism as it was intended to be and the political version of the ideology to which we [as Singaporeans] are exposed today." Just before Hicks' death she had submitted what Editor Richard Lim recognised as her most mature column ever to The Straits Times. The daily posthumously published "I think and feel, therefore I am", on 28 December 1997. In it Hicks argued,

Thinking is more than just conceiving ideas and drawing inferences; thinking is also reflection and contemplation. When we take embodied thinking rather than abstract reasoning as a goal for our mind, then we understand that thinking is a transformative act. The mind will not only deduce, speculate, and comprehend, but it will also awaken, will enlighten and inspire. Si, is how I have thought, and always will think.

Tu asserts that Hicks' use of the Chinese character Si was "code language," readily understood by her Chinese-speaking English readers, to convey New Confucian thought. The piece, Hicks' last, reflects the maturing and deepening engagement in philosophy and spirituality that she had clearly been enveloped in under tutelage of her new mentors during her last year of life.

Move to Indonesia
When Hicks penned Excuse Me, are you a Model?, her intent was to write a first book to which people would react. Whether those reactions were positive or negative was not her young mind's first concern. Only public indifference, the antithesis of public reaction, would impede her achievement of fame and popularity, she believed—a message Pat Chan had surely instilled in Hicks from the start. Hicks described her own early motivations:

"I wanted to be something all young girls aspired to be, I wanted to be that model that men lusted after, I wanted to be that model that people would recognise on the streets. I wanted to be that model that clients would never stop demanding for, I wanted to be that model, that face, that would launch a thousand ships. I wanted to be a star."

Although Hicks never fully attained her stardom goals, and although she later distanced herself from her goals on the matter, Singaporeans broadly took note of the nature of her early attempts at becoming famous. Few people found themselves able to respond to Hicks with a mere shrug, a fact that fueled not only her popularity among her supporters but the controversy that so doggedly followed her among her critics. While tasting the intense and transitory flavor of fame, Hicks' limited life experience could not have led her to anticipate the intensity of the negative reactions that would accompany her attempts under the spotlight, could not have allowed her to surmise the toll that the negative words and societal shunning would take upon her psyche over time. In many ways, her move to Indonesia, which coincided with her plea for greater public understanding as released in her second book, Discuss Disgust, was an attempt to escape the intense controversy she had experienced in Singapore over her first book, Excuse Me, Are You a Model? Whether her departure was something of a victory for traditionalists, a mere admission to herself of her limited constitution to withstand societal disapprobation, an outcome of simply her own maturation, or some combination of the three, cannot be known with certainty. What is clear, however, is that her hope through her move was to find a reprieve from the societal shunning she had been experiencing from traditionalists in Singapore; to move to a place where she could deepen and further redefine herself and perhaps undertake a larger and much wiser relaunching of herself in Singapore. Due to her untimely death, it was never to be.

Heading to university
Part of Hicks' plan was to attend university. Although Hicks publicly downplayed her lack of higher education, she privately expressed regret that she had not studied past her A-levels, a fact traditionalist critics had used against her and her writings with no small frequency. During the year leading up to her 1997 death, Hicks applied to numerous universities in Britain and the United States, including Harvard. During her application processes Hicks called upon her Harvard mentors to exert influence on her behalf, which certainly helped overcome any negative effects that remained from Hicks' unremarkable academic record during her youth. At the time she applied, Hicks could present herself as an exceptional candidate to any university she wished to attend, a veritable shoo-in. Here was a young woman who had overcome a very difficult upbringing to become a nationally known model-turned-author, and whose mind, spirit, and insights had authentically impressed the two high-level academicians who had become the predominant mentors of her life transition and letter of recommendation writers. Hicks soon reported through the Singaporean press that she had received one university acceptance, refusing to say where, stating that she was awaiting other possible acceptances before ultimately deciding where to attend.

Marriage and family plans
In keeping with traditionalist Singaporean pressures placed upon her, Hicks had begun to mature her image regarding her personal relationships and sexual reputation, even though her actual deeds may not have fully deserved ill repute. She made plans to marry, settle down, and have children. Shortly before her death, Hicks became engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Richard "Randy" Dalrymple, an American architect of some regional prominence because of his unique structures in Singapore and Jakarta, some featured in Architectural Digest. It was to celebrate Christmas with Dalrymple's family that Hicks and Dalrymple boarded SilkAir Flight 185 in Jakarta en route to Singapore, probably their first such visit to the home of Dalrymple's parents as an engaged couple. The young couple never arrived, died en route, as their flight crashed into the Musi River.

Death
Less than thirty minutes into SilkAir Flight 185 with Hicks aboard, the flight began a high-speed nosedive at 35,000 feet toward the Musi River in Southern Sumatra, Indonesia. While mid-air, the plane broke into pieces before being scattered across the river's surface. Local fisherman searched the crash site for survivors with scant hope. Both Hicks and Dalrymple died with all of the rest of the passengers and crew.

Later, divers confirmed Hicks' death at the crash site after recovering some of her personal effects, including her wallet and credit cards.

Aftermath
Hicks' death at age twenty-nine shocked Singaporeans, as well as others around the globe, and prompted a swirl of activity as people sought to interpret the meaning of a life that had been suddenly cut short. Hicks' traditionalist critics as well as her allies both looked afresh, deeper, more carefully, and perhaps with a level of nuance she had prior deserved all along.

Post-modern author
Hicks is a transitional yet often still-controversial figure who lived and died a tragic death amid an important period of debate over changes between traditional and globalised Singapore. Both in life and in death, her status as a writer came to eclipse her status as a model. Today she is most recognised for her contributions to Singaporean post-colonial literature that spoke out on subjects not normally broached in her society, and the anthropic philosophy contained in her writings. Describing the consensus of Singaporean literary scholars in 1995, two years before Hicks' death, Ismail S. Talib in The Journal of Commonwealth Literature stated of Excuse me, are you a Model?: "We have come to realize in retrospect that Hicks's autobiographical account of her life as a model was a significant milestone in Singapore's literary and cultural history". This recognition preceded Hicks' death, and in light of the controversy, and even the societal shunning she faced because of her early writings, took her and many around her by surprise. It also helped fuel the life transition she underwent prior her death.

Interpreting a life cut short
As answers and unanswered questions continued to trickle out from the flight investigations, literary scholars, both in Singapore and elsewhere, began their own investigations of Hicks' writings. Some did so anew, while others did so for the first time.

Tu Weiming characterized Hicks' life and philosophy as providing a "sharp contrast to Hobbes' cynic[al] view of human existence", and stated that Hicks was "the paradigmatic example of an autonomous, free-choosing individual who decided early on to construct a lifestyle congenial to her idiosyncratic sense of self-expression". More than anything, Tu said, "She was primarily a seeker of meaningful existence, a learner".

Singaporean post-colonial author Grace Chia interpreted Hicks' life with a poem, "Mermaid Princess", that parodies the traditional Scottish folk song, "My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean." An excerpt of the poem characterises Hicks as one who:

spoke too soon too loud too much out of turn too brutally honest too empowered by your sense/x/uality too much of I, I, I, I – I think I know I understand I love I, I, I, I.

Richard Lim, the editor of The Straits Times, interpreted Hicks in a eulogy by recalling her life and contributions to the paper, and by publishing an excerpt of the famous essay "Whistling of Birds" by D. H. Lawrence. Lim began his piece with a line from the famous folk/rock song Fire and Rain by James Taylor. "Sweet dreams and flying machines, in pieces on the ground," as if sung into his readers' memories in Taylor's melancholic tone, seemed to perfectly encapsulate much of the retrospective feeling across Singapore about Hicks' life and sudden death.

"Heaven can wait, but I cannot"
On the first anniversary of her death, in December 1998, Tal Ben-Shahar published Heaven Can Wait: Conversations with Bonny Hicks, in which he wove together his and Hicks' year-long correspondence with his own philosophical musings. The book is an extended postmodern "conversation" between two seekers journeying intensely together in a quest for meaning and purpose. It takes its title from an article Hicks submitted to The Straits Times just days before her death, which ever after took on a hauntingly prophetic air. In it she wrote: "The brevity of life on earth cannot be overemphasized. I cannot take for granted that time is on my side—because it is not ... Heaven can wait, but I cannot". In an earlier Straits Times piece that memorialised her grandmother, Hicks confessed that she believed in life after death.

Non-racialism
Especially among Singaporean youth, who in the years since Hicks' death have become increasingly uncomfortable with their country's traditional backdrops of racialism, Hicks is recognized as a person who learned to cross cultural boundaries. She lived as person who found a comfortable niche in the betwixt-and-between of contesting cultural traditions and as one who was race-blind, seeing people for who they really were.

Attribution
''This article is derived from the Citizendium article "Bonny Hicks" by Stephen Ewen, which is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Attribution to the author on the face of the article is required, per the author. This requirement is fully adhered to by simply leaving up this notice.

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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 delete. Woohookitty 11:03, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

Biggie Heavyweight
Too bad it's a hoax - one of these bouts might be quite entertaining to watch. Denni ☯ 00:44, 2005 August 26 (UTC)

 * Delete Ryan Norton T 01:19, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete hoax, nothing on google. Jaxl | talk 01:25, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Biggie Hevyweight, sounds like the next size up at Wendy's.   — Kjammer  ⌂  01:36, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Hoax. Made for defacing another page. DEng 02:00, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; Spam, hoax | Celcius 04:42, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, hoax. This isn't used in any official boxing events. - Mgm|(talk) 09:06, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete; it is just an idle joke. IINAG 13:51, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
 * BJAODN. Too bad, too... Whatever happened to Eric Butterbean? Roodog2k 15:56, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Hoax *drew 21:55, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

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Valuev

Valuev or Valuyev (Валу́ев) is a Russian surname. Notable people with the surname include:

 * Grigory Valuyev (? - after 1623), Russian voyevoda
 * Nikolai Valuev (born 1973), Russian boxer and member of the State Duma
 * Pyotr Valuev (1815–1890), Russian statesman and writer

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Kevin Kilbane

Kevin Daniel Kilbane (born 1 February 1977) is a former professional English-born Irish footballer who played as a left winger or full back. Kilbane won 110 caps for the Republic of Ireland national team, fourth behind only Robbie Keane, Shay Given and John O'Shea as the most capped Irish player of all time.

Kilbane played for several English clubs, including Everton, West Bromwich Albion, Sunderland, Wigan Athletic, Huddersfield Town and Derby County (the last two on loan from Hull City) and Coventry City.

Towards the end of his career, Kilbane concentrated on forging a media career. He now works as an analyst for Virgin Media Television (Ireland), BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Match of the Day, Football Focus, Final Score, Ireland's Newstalk Radio Off The Ball football show and most recently for Canada's The Sports Network (TSN) and their coverage of FIFA World Cup 2022.

Early career
Born in Preston, Lancashire, Kilbane made his professional debut at his hometown club, Preston North End, after making his way through the youth system at Deepdale. It was not long before his performances began to attract attention from other clubs, and he was sold to West Bromwich Albion for a fee of £1 million in 1997. Kilbane was Albion's first £1 million player, breaking a club transfer record which had stood since 1979.

Sunderland
In December 1999, Peter Reid's Sunderland paid £2.5 million for the left winger, making him the third most expensive club signing at the time. His impact was immediate; coming off the bench on his debut against Southampton, Kilbane crossed for Kevin Phillips to score the match winner. However, this was to be Sunderland's last win until March 2000, a loss in form which came to be known as "The Curse of Kilbane".

In spite of his best efforts on the pitch, he soon became a target for the Black Cats fans to vent their frustrations, as the team's drop in form under Peter Reid continued and the team were relegated from the Premiership. In the summer of 2002, he gave the travelling Sunderland fans a two-fingered salute on a pre-season tour of France. His days at the Stadium of Light seemed numbered.

Everton
On the last day of the transfer window at the start of the 2003–04 season, Kilbane moved to Everton for just under £1 million, where he was reunited with David Moyes. The Goodison Park fans would appreciate his commitment and re-invigorate Kilbane as a player. In return, he displayed great versatility which resulted in him being deployed right across the midfield, at left back or even as a support striker, as well has his preferred left-wing position. On 26 August 2006, during his last game for Everton against Tottenham Hotspur, he was sent off by referee Mark Halsey for two bookable offences.

Wigan Athletic
On 31 August 2006, Kilbane signed a three-year deal with Wigan Athletic for an estimated fee of £2 million. On 15 April 2007, he scored his first goal for Wigan Athletic with a powerful header in the 3–3 draw against Tottenham Hotspur. This was his first goal at club level since October 2004. He then scored his second goal for Wigan with a looping header over Robert Green's head from Ryan Taylor's cross as Wigan went on to beat West Ham 1–0. Kilbane played most of his second season in the unfamiliar left back role, but still managed to win Wiganer.net's Player of The Season Award.

Hull City
With limited first team opportunities at Wigan due to the emergence of Maynor Figueroa and with his contract set to expire in the summer, Kilbane transferred to Hull City on 15 January 2009 for an undisclosed fee believed to be in the region of £500,000, signing a two-and-a-half-year deal with the Yorkshire club. He scored his first goal for the club against Burnley on 10 April 2010.

Huddersfield Town (loan)
On 1 January 2011, as the transfer window reopened, Kilbane joined Football League One side Huddersfield Town on loan until the end of the season, mainly as a replacement for the injured Damien Johnson. He made his debut the same day in the 2–2 draw against Carlisle United at Brunton Park. He scored his first goal for the club in the 4–2 win over Walsall at the Bescot Stadium on 15 January. After signing for Huddersfield, he helped the team to a club record 26 league games unbeaten, before their eventual 3–0 defeat in the playoff final to Peterborough.

Derby County (loan)
On 2 August 2011, Kilbane joined Derby County on a six-month loan deal from Hull. Kilbane played 10 times for Derby, scoring one goal in a 3–0 win against Doncaster Rovers on 20 August. However, Kilbane's loan was cut short on 29 November, due to a back injury.

Coventry City
On 2 July 2012, Kilbane joined Coventry City on an initial one-year deal. On his debut against Dagenham & Redbridge in the League Cup on 14 August, he scored a late winner from the penalty spot. On 16 August, Kilbane was named captain for the 2012–13 season. He made his final professional appearance as a substitute in a 2–1 defeat at Brentford on 24 October, before announcing his immediate retirement on 8 December.

International career
While still a youth player at Preston, Kilbane was called up to the England u-18 squad, but declined as he had always wished to represent Ireland. Kilbane is an Irish citizen since birth, as both his parents are Irish, and he made his international debut against Iceland on 6 September 1997. He was chosen as part of Mick McCarthy's squad for the 2002 FIFA World Cup in Japan and South Korea. The team did relatively well at the tournament, progressing to the knockout stage. They lost to Spain in a penalty shootout when Iker Casillas saved Kilbane and David Connolly's penalties.

Kilbane scored his first international goal in nearly four years with a magnificent strike against the Czech Republic on 11 October 2006. He scored his 8th international goal on 7 September 2010 against Andorra, the first competitive goal for the Republic of Ireland at the new Aviva Stadium.

Kilbane won his 100th cap against Montenegro on 14 November 2009, and on 2 March 2010, he and Shay Given became the joint most-capped players for the Republic of Ireland, both earning their 103rd caps in a 2-0 friendly defeat to Brazil. As of 4 June 2011, Kilbane played his 66th consecutive competitive international game (a run stretching back to 1999); only England's Billy Wright has achieved a longer unbroken run in competitive international football. Kilbane was only four games away from equalling Wright's record of 70 consecutive competitive international starts. However, this run ended after he was not selected for Ireland's crunch UEFA Euro 2012 qualification tie against Slovakia due to a back operation. He never played for Ireland again, and announced his retirement as a footballer in December 2012.

Media career
Kilbane obtained a degree in Professional Sports Writing and Broadcasting at Staffordshire University. Kilbane was enlisted by RTÉ Sport for their squad of pundits ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. From 2012, he has been a studio analyst for UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League coverage on TV3 and 3e in Ireland, and is also a regular on Setanta Sports. On 7 April 2013, he made his first appearance as a studio pundit on the BBC One's Match of the Day 2. On 9 May 2013, he made his first appearance on the Guardian Football Weekly Extra podcast.

In 2014, Kilbane was part of the commentary team for the BBC at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil.

Since August 2016, Kilbane has had the role of co-presenter on the Off the Ball show on Newstalk radio in Ireland. Kilbane also provides commentary for the station's Premier League coverage. In 2020, Kilbane competed in the twelfth series of Dancing on Ice, alongside partner Brianne Delcourt; the couple were eliminated in Week 5. After relocating to Canada with Delcourt, Kilbane took up a role as professional analyst on The Sports Network (TSN) during the COVID-delayed UEFA Euro 2020.

He is a patron of the Down's Syndrome Association, and in February 2015, sent a complaint to the FA over allegations that West Ham United supporters had sung a chant mocking the condition.

Personal life
Kilbane entered into a relationship with professional figure skater Brianne Delcourt, his skating partner on the twelfth series of Dancing on Ice. They got engaged in February 2020, and were married in September 2020 in Haliburton, Ontario. The couple have two daughters together, while Kilbane is stepfather to Delcourt's daughter from a previous relationship. He had been married to his first wife Laura Harrison until 2011, with whom he also has two daughters.

Honours
Preston North End
 * Football League Third Division: 1995–96

Individual
 * FAI Senior International Player of the Year: 2004

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Talk:Tennessee Temple University

De-stub
I took a look at some of the other private colleges of Tennessee articles and many of them are about the same size as this one and they aren't considered a stub. Anyone have any objections to de-stubbing this article?

Department section addition
I am a student at Tennessee temple University and will be adding a list of the departments currently in TTU. I have to go to dinner soon, and still have a video to make before that, so I will finish the addition of the new section either tonight or tomorrow. Sculleywr (talk) 22:14, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Student Government
I just added sections on the new administration and student government. If anyone feels that the student government section isn't relevant to the article, then feel free to revert that part, but you shouldn't have to revert the new administration information, as it is relevant. It's not like people really look at this article that much as it is, so, at the requests of some of the students, I thought that the student government information could be helpful in this article. If the needs (or preferences of the administrators in the wiki community) of the many outweigh the needs of those few TTU students, then feel free to cut it out. -Rlee1185

Connection to Falwell Ministries
My father called me last night, he is retired and lives in Cleveland Tennessee, about 40km North of Chattanooga, and he told me he's working for Tennessee Temple University now, renovating three dormitories that have been unused for a decade. He then went on to say that Jerry Falwell Ministries (or Liberty University) was funding the project, and had sent someone down from Virginia to either assist or take over the administration of Temple, which has enrolled some 200 new students.

I came to Wikipedia for the details, and was surprised to find no mention of these changes, nor on the University website, or at Falwell Ministries or Liberty. Does anyone know anything more than I heard from dad last night (Aug 11)? -- Caulds

 * I think one reason about the lack of info on the changes is that most students who are knowledgeable of such infomration do not have the time or inclination to edit a wikipedia article about the school, as most of them barley use it at all, much less take the time to edit articles. I know most of the teachers are wary about Wikipedia, thanks to bad press from uninformed radio, print, and tv journalists that say that wikipedia is riddled with errors. I always counter their arguments that wikipedia is almost as reliable as the Encyclopædia Britannica.

rlee1185 22:11, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

True History
Doesn't anyone think that the FULL history of Tennessee Temple should be included here? For instance, the way that at one time the rules were much more strict. As well as the fact that most independent baptists distance themselves from this school and look at it as a place that has fallen from its original stature? Isn't it true that the Lee Roberson days were much different than these days? For intance, the guys and girls can hold hands now. In those days guys and girls had to observe a "six inch rule." Also the fact that most independent baptists have separated from this school due to its alliance with Liberty and the Destruction of the Southwide Baptist Fellowship. Not to mention the fact that this school and church is known to bring in Southern Baptist speakers. These FACTS should be mentioned on this page if it is truly a neutral page. Take for instance the Hyles-Anderson page. It has historical facts both good and bad including criticisms. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.169.226.179 (talk) 00:23, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

 * The HAC page also has more than 19 SOURCES, many from the Chicago Sun-TImes and other large newspapers, something this page does not have (except for the Temple website itself). This is not a IFB blog somewhere - we have to reliable, verifiable sources. Also, most of the issues you have raised aren't relevant to an encyclopedia article. Also, remember that at the height of Temple's heyday in the early 70s, men like Jack Hyles, Bob Gray and sevreal others (including Jerry Falwell, btw) started competing schools. There's nothing wrong with that, but that was when there was supposedly nothing wrong with the school at that time, but that had a huge affect on Temple's recruitment in the following years. Also, note that the most "liberal" of these, Liberty University, has a larger enrollment (over 20,000) than all the other schools formed at that time, and since, combined. THe funny thing is, when most Americans think of funamentlist Christian schools, Liberty is at the top of the list. They may be more "liberal" than some other Christan colleges, but they are by no means "Liberal". Now, if you can find verifaible sources (such as non-religious newpapers, etc.) that cover the history, fine, you can add that. But all of what has been added recently, but you and others, is what is called Origial Research. Wikipedia is not supposed to use that, even tho many articles still have that.

 * In addition, if you or anyone else wishes to add Clarence Sexton as a notable alumni, you have to prove his notability. This is best done through a biographical article, which must conform to Wikipedia's Biographies of Living persons and Notabiliety policies. I do know who he is, but that's not sufficent. Wikipedia has standards that are to be followed. You do know what standards are, right? - BillCJ 00:51, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

 * Just a note on the Hyles-Anderson College article: I read through it last night, and noted that lot of the criticism leveled at the school are concerning individual people, not the school itself. Someone willing to take on a big fight could remove alot of that as irrelevant. Even direct criticisms concerning Dr. Hyles should be limited to those about the school itself, and covered in his bio article (if they aren't already). It would be a big job to do, and I don't have the time or health to take on something that big right now. - BillCJ 01:01, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

But should it not be noted that TTU is loosly if at all associated with the Independent Baptist Movement? Most Indenpendent Baptists want nothing to do with it because of its relationship with Liberty and the Southern Baptist Speakers it has in as well as the way our beloved Southwide Baptist Fellowship has been destroyed. And as for the "standards" comment, come on brother!

 * No, is shouldn't be noted unless you have an independent, reliable published 3rd party source that says that. Bill is right, we have standards here. If you turned in a term paper without references backing up what you said, you'd get an F. Here you just get a reversion. The point is that you can add all the criticism you want, if it is criticism made by other published sources. That's how things work here, so either be willing to work within the system, or go start a blogspot and use that to push your views.  AK Radecki Speaketh  03:05, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

I was attempting to point out Bill's play on words of the word standards. It is obvious he is a fellow IFB of somewhat and he was letting me know in our own terminology what standards are. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.169.226.179 (talk) 03:18, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

Just a note that TTU was recently added as an associate of the Southern Baptist Convention. This comes from the answer a prospective student asked the campus pastor Eddie Rhodes. I am trying to find out how to officially corroborate this, and such a comment will be added where I can find the most appropriate position. However, I need to figure that out first. Will do so when I have access to the school's computer network again. As a note, if anyone finds my edits on this article to be off topic or biased, please edit the biased parts to be more balanced. I am a student of the school, but, as a debater over the last three years, I have learned to value a balanced view over a biased view. If anyone wants to talk to me, I am sculleywr on Wikipedia. Just leave a note on my talk page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.205.140.70 (talk) 19:15, 14 August 2008 (UTC)

 * I don't believe there is a way to cite a comment such as that, as that kind of forum is not a Reliable source. If it is stated on the TTU or SBC websites, or if either of thore were to issue a press release, then that is citeable. Otherwise, it would need to come from reliable published (print or internet) third-party sources such as a local newspaper. Hope that helps. See WP:RS for further info. If you know haow to balance biased materail, even in spite of your own biases, then you'll definitly find a place here on WP. As I noted above, there are other related articles that need a lot of work to be balanced, from both pro and con biases. - BillCJ (talk) 02:08, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Mission Statement
I added the TTU Mission Statement from the University's website. I noticed that several other university articles included this. I think it gives a more in depth look at TTU's goals and objectives. --|Spero23| (talk) 01:35, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

 * You will not find universal agreement that university articles should include mission statements. The fact that other university articles contain mission statements does not mean that this is worthwhile content for the encyclopedia (see Other stuff exists). Mission statements seldom impart valuable information about an institution, and they never are neutral in their point of view. However, most mission statements are just one or two sentences, so they don't take much space in an article. The item you quoted is labeled on the website as "mission statement," but it goes on, and on, and on some more. A statement of that length is a promotional blurb, not a concise mission statement. I deleted it; to help you understand why, see Neutral point of view, WP:SOAP, and Do not include copies of primary sources. --Orlady (talk) 04:13, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

Baptist?
I tried changing the phrase loosley identified with the independent baptist faith to simply baptist faith because of it's website.. It got reverted thinking I was being a vandal. They only claim to be baptist and not Southern Baptist. Would it not be better to label it on Wikipedia as simply Baptist? Not trying to start trouble or be a vandal, just thought it would be more accurate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.169.226.218 (talk) 22:09, 30 September 2008 (UTC)

 * It appears to me that the school has historically been Independent Baptist, but is now flirting with a possible affiliation with the Southern Baptist Convention. See this webpage and this online article from July 2008. Salient quotations from the news article: "Southern Baptist leaders including the convention's new president Johnny Hunt are involved in a quiet move to bring the Tennessee Temple University into the fold of Southern Baptist schools. Last fall Highland Park Baptist Church in Chattanooga, Tenn., joined the Tennessee Baptist Convention after 60 years as an independent Baptist church. According to a recent story in the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Pastor David Bouler said Tennessee Temple, founded by Highland Park's longtime pastor Dr. Lee Roberson in 1946, "is also in the process of being approved as an SBC school."" And from the blog commentary: "Tennessee Temple was originally founded in the Fundamentalist tradition of Bob Jones University. From the article below, it appears as if Tennessee Temple is on its way to becoming affiliated with the Tennessee Baptist Convention, sort of a replacement for Belmont University which has just recently departed. ... A school is actually being forced to become more liberal in order to join the SBC fold." IMO, changing the article to remove the indication about the Independent Baptist affiliation would be removing important information. If the school does pursue affiliation with the SBC, the article should tell the story, not merely reflect the current official position. --Orlady (talk) 03:13, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

It seems that it would be more accurate to simply replace independent baptist with baptist. There is no sufficient evidence that TTU is Independent Baptist, SBC, or any other type of Baptist. It's own website claims to simply be "Baptist." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.169.226.218 (talk) 04:22, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Jerry Falwell is not an alum of TTU
On the very source linked, and as is well-known, Jerry Falwell is said to have received an honorary doctorate from TTU. He is not an alum, and never as far as I know attended TTU as a student (which is the minimum definition of alum IMO). This row of the table should be stricken. Perhaps Jerry Falwell had a relationship with TTU, and that may very well deserve a section in the page. But his row in the table of alumni is factually incorrect. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Snicoloso (talk • contribs) 18:42, 15 July 2010 (UTC)

External links modified
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User talk:Sam Spade/ - archive/August 2005 3

Personal attacks and legal threats by SlimVirgin
Sam - If you have a moment I would like to ask you to review a situation that has emerged between myself and the increasingly belligerent SlimVirgin. She is on edge dating back to a few weeks ago when I filed that RfC against two of her buddies over the David Duke quotes they were trying to insert into the LVMI article, and ever since has been very uncivil towards me. A few moments ago she more or less openly admitted that she has a personal agenda of blocking my editing contributions on the Chip Berlet article. As you probably know I added fully sourced criticisms of Berlet to the appropriate sections on that article. This angered User:Cberlet - who thinks he owns that article and thinks he has a right to exclude any criticisms of himself from it - so he called in SlimVirgin and her friends to expunge the critical material. Now she's attacking me openly, stating in response to my proposed edits "What's wrong with it Rangerdude, is in part that it's you who's suggesting it. My position is that you should not be editing this page." In the same message she also made a legal threat against me, asserting that my simple presence as an editor on the Chip Berlet article "could cause Wikipedia a legal problem" and making a threat of "taking the issue further for that reason." The post in question is located here. Any help or advise you may have is appreciated. Rangerdude 21:30, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

 * For the record, Sam, I have not made a legal threat. That wasn't what I meant by taking the issue further, and I think RD knows that. My concern is that an editor with a strong personal dislike of user:Cberlet is threatening to rewrite Chip Berlet, which I feel is inappropriate for a number of reasons. It also isn't true that Chip thinks he owns the page. Quite the opposite is true: he doesn't edit it and has recently had almost no input into the talk page discussion either. SlimVirgin (talk) 21:36, August 8, 2005 (UTC)

I disagree with him being excluded from the page in theory. I have not been reading the talk page however (sorry, the truth is I don't have the patience for endless wiki-debate, as SlimVirgin knows from talk:Human). I am here to read encyclopedia articles 1st, edit them second, and I frankly have precious little time or energy for bitter arguments. My real life is a nice place, where nobody makes legal threats or speaks rudely to me. I digress.

Summary: SlimVirgin did not mean to make a legal threat, rather she ment that action would need to be taken to prevent one. I think she is wrong, but if she wants to pursue Conflict resolution, and try to have Rangerdude excluded, that is her right. I think Rangerdude was right to be upset at the mention of legal matters on an article talk page, and right to think that there are no legal matters to be discussing (I am assuming here, not having been folowing this debate like a court reporter). If there are legal concerns, thats likely to get one or both of you in a hell of alot of trouble, as suing one another is a banning offense. Anyways, lets all calm down alot, and I'll go have a look at that talk page *suffers* ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 21:50, 8 August 2005 (UTC)

 * For the record, and RD does know this: I have not made any kind of legal threat, and have no grounds for doing so. This is hyperbole of the worst kind. Context is everything, Sam, and the context here is that RD has been repeatedly attacking several good editors for weeks now, including bringing RfCs against three of them (which all ended badly for him), accusing people variously of stalking him, harassment, personal attacks, bias, and now legal threats. It would be funny were it not such a waste of time. SlimVirgin (talk) 05:10, August 9, 2005 (UTC)

From Raja
Thanks, for your words. - வைகுண்ட ராஜா

I'm no n00b!
thanks - i'm actually not a wiki n00b:) i work for openpolitics.ca - a project you might be interested in... --Katerg 02:38, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I had a look. Seems interesting, but a bit canada-centric. How many people are involved, do you know? ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 16:42, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

Tutti Frutti
I don't know how to break the good news but Str cleaned me off his welcome. Grateful, cept I went and quoted Cornwell. So he's wiped him right out of PPXII. Its a gas and no longer personal, just the same old litmus test. Ain't got a clue how to avoid cerberus or why I even should. Str dont seem very ,well ,... sourced. I wonder really where a source starts being a POV. Str doesnt wonder much, he just won't leave it in there one little minute. Prior to this present volcano, we were back to shaking hands and all , and still are , I stopped the agent stuff, wiping it all I could. But it's crazy out there again. Worse than ever. There's two now, him and McClenon He's the same. I say to them, man , its do what you like, not my battle or POV now, just Cornwell. But Sam ... surely you have to use source to un-source or parallel a source? I figure there's a catch here somewhere, for someone else than me. Str, well , wish I had him myself, he's just fantastic. I never seen so quick such a flood of red text as today on PPXII. See you Famekeeper 01:01, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

stable versions
Hello Sam; perhaps you´d like to see this. Subramanian talk 21:19, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, very much, thank you. I'm not yet sure what I think, but I think such thoughts are an important step. Hopefully whatever changes are made increase the quality of articles, as well as the quality of interaction we have w one another. Thank you very much for your note, ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 01:07, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

JWales Final Responsibility re:Auschwitz Testimony Against Pope Pius XII etc
Sam, copy for you. For what it's worth, you have been the only reasonable person. Take care, bye and thanks.

I'm sorry Jimbo, but I see the responsibility to settle intractable disputes rests with you. I seem to run into intractable dispute on your WP, so I ask you to take responsibility. No one else can take this your place. I refer you to the articles Pope Pius XII and Hitler's Pope as the centre of this dispute and ask you to put yourself into the position of final arbiter now, OK ? I particularly think that the surviving Roman Jewess's words be taken as an issue : I wish you therefore to show or not show, that an Auschwitz survivor be called POV ( rv'd ,Pius in WWar 2). You will see that the difference between the two articles at this minute is simple : one (PPII) is the 'censored' or whatever version of the other (H's P).

Having been battling to and beyond the brink for 8 months on the one article, I say that only you can survey this with any authority to do anything about it. Let you be the judge of all the WP requisites, knowing that your judgements are real, and that ultimately you yourself will equally be judged. Auschwitz survivors are definitely in a minority and this responsibility for arbitration I lay at you because you are the organ. I will consider myself in-active until you please let me know that I am required. As various users may find this disappearance odd, I post this letter to you for them to see elsewhere. Famekeeper 09:36, 11 August 2005 (UTC)

Ayya Vaikundar
Hi Sam, I’ve expanded the article Ayya Vaikundar. Though they says the same thing in the page Ayyavazhi mythology, I think that it is important that it should be here, because these things links to the life of Vaikundar. I was not against shrinking it but, I think each facts, especially topics, should be there.Am I right? - வைகுண்ட ராஜா

 * Yes, very much so! I would like to see more about Muthukutty however, and wonder if perhaps there should be separate articles, one for him as a man, and another for him as Ayya Vaikundar? If not, I would like to see more about what become of him (as a historical man), and if he had children, and etc...

 * Cheers, ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 02:50, 13 August 2005 (UTC)

1911 Wikipedia
Hello I'm a fellow wikipedian who like yourself shares a liking of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. I noticed your defense of the 1911 encyclopedia on the talk page and thought you might be intrested in taking part in a wikimedia project that intends to put the entire 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica on the internet proofread and in wiki format. This gives you an opprotunity to share the knowledge of the 1911 version without engaging in edit wars with modernists.

Some links to this 1911wikipedia wikimedia project are: http://wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:WikiProject_1911_Encyclopedia

http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/1911wikipedia

I hope that you will be able to participate in this project. Even if you can not it would be most appreciated if you can spread word of this project to those who are intrested.

--Gary123 21:30, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Will do! ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 21:34, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

Wow this page is confusing me...

 * I was gonna comment at the bottom but all the random pictures and the double TOC which doesn't seem to even be right.... Anywho I was gonna drop off a barnstar. Redwolf24 09:02, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Woohoo! You left your note just fine btw, right at the bottom of the page. I know my page is busy, but I hope its not too confusing... Do you think it should maybe be shorter, or all the images in one spot? ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 19:38, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Get rid of the extra TOC, it confused me terribly. As for your music... 30,000! And my friends are impressed by my measily 5,500 ;) Black Sabbath is my very favorite band. As for folk metal... when I heard that I thought instantly of Jethro Tull... what's in that genre anyway? Redwolf24 22:21, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Please see this and help out where you can, thanks.
User talk:Rangerdude Bigelow 23:19, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Eustace Mullins
Hey Sam. I know you must have a lot on your plate now, but if you get a moment, have a look at the Eustace Mullins article and tell us what you think. Is this article NPOV? If not, what could be done to make it NPOV? I consider you to be one of the more objective editors around here and value your opinion. Amalekite 12:00, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I have looked into the matter. ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 23:23, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Amalekite is a neo-Nazi. See [ http://www.stormfront.org /forum/showthread.php?t=225536&highlight=wikipedia this Stormfront thread]. Homey 22:23, 19 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Yep, I kinda figured something like that given his user name. I've been an editor of amalek for a long time, and there arn't many people who would want to call themselves one. It brings up a very interesting subject, regarding NPOV. ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 13:45, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Chesterton and 1984
Dear Sam, I honestly don't think the bit about Orwell and 1984 belongs on the Chesterton page. Five of the fifteen chapters of The Napolean of Notting Hill are set in 1984, and there the similarities end. The plot, style, tone and moral of 1984 are completly different from the earlier book. Futhermore I have never come across anything in Orwell's letters or journalism to suggest he was influenced by Chesterton in any respect, whereas, for example he was quite forthcoming about the influence Yevgeny Zamyatin had on the writing of 1984.

There is a note on the coincidence in dates on The Napoleon of Notting Hill page, I should say that that is all it warrants. Iron Ghost 23:12, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Sorry, I removed your addition to the Neo-Fascism page.
The one about the Conservative organization in the US. I cannot get your version to come up, can you re-add the link you provided? Thanks!

Thanks
for the welcome notes - much appreciated! Staffelde 01:02, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

More Thanks
The welcome notes really helped. The tutorial, New user log, instructions on using my mIRC account for boot camp, etc. have really improved my experience! Suntree 08:43, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Welcome message
You might want to substitute that - the section header means that if anyone edits the section on their talk page, they are actually editing your template! Templates like {{idw}} are frequently blanked because they have section headers and are not substituted. Thanks, Alphax τ ε χ 09:13, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I've heard that a few times, but I don't entirely understand what this substiution would involve. Is there a page explaining this? ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 13:32, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Karma in Hinduism
Sam, I made more changes to Karma in Hinduism. Please take a look.

Thanks,

Raj2004

 * Wonderful contributions as always, thank you! I made a few minor edits, have a look if you like. Cheers, ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 21:07, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Sam, thanks for the edits. I hope you find the article informative. I learned a lot by reading about karma on my own. People often asked me how karma in Hinduism is different from karma in Buddhism and now I know. Now you know as well!

Raj2004 21:23, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, but I have an opinion you may not like, because I think that all vedic religions are truely one (at their heart), and also that there is only one "true" religion, which is love of God. We can call loving God many names, and have many ideas of how to try to do this, but I think this love, and the studies which come from it (and lead to it) are what truely matters. I agree that some buddhists are mistaken, but also some hindu's and christians and etc.. are also mistaken ;) As for these differences regarding Karma, I think its not so much a problem to say karma is a "law of nature", as it is to ignore God, as many buddhists sadly do. ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 21:45, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

No, Sam I agree with you. Swami Vivekananda said Buddhism was the fulfillment of Hinduism but where it went wrong, was that some followers rejected God.

Here's his speech on Buddhism: http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/~kanth/jwz/mbm/sv/address5.html

Raj2004 21:54, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

 * yes, I don't know if they are the "fullfillment", but I do think Buddha was a Hindu, and also that he must have focused on God if he had any enlightenment. My guess is that he focused on God without form, and thus many confused this with atheism. I have also had this trouble, when people discover that I don't prefer to pray to a cross or guru or other incarnation, they sometimes think this is like atheism. They are of course very wrong, because my God is always here, in my heart, and in yours, I find him everywhere; but an atheist is always trying to be apart from God, rejecting him wherever he finds him. Strangely, many atheists turn to buddhism, perhaps because buddhist philosophy is so confusing and contridictory that it often seems to allow, or even encourage nihilism. ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 21:58, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

There was always concept of God without form in Hinduism. Buddha was a rationalist and believed that since the existence of God couldn't be proven, he didn't focus on the nature of God (he didn't say anything either way, and rather focused on karma which is more apparent as shown by the inequities in the world. I think since Buddha didn't express any views on God, there is room for atheists as well as theists in Buddhism.

Raj2004 22:46, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

 * Hmmm... I prefer to believe he focused on God (and was misunderstood by his disciples), because otherwise I see no place for him to be a holy figure, and especially not a Maha Avatara of Vishnu. ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 22:56, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Yes, you are not the only one if Buddha was ambivalent about God. For example,followers of Dvaita, in particular, do not consider Buddha to be an avatar as he preached heterorthodox views (i.e., rejecting the Vedas, etc.) but instead accord Balarama the designation. Balarama, among the ten avatars, is different from other avatars as he is an incarnation of Vishnu's serpent Adi Sesha rather than of Vishnu himself.

Raj2004 23:05, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

 * I think a buddhist might say the 9th avatar was both Balarama and Buddha, and neither ;) ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ ¸,ø¤º°`°º¤ø,¸ 23:27, 21 August 2005 (UTC)


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Matt Holland

Matthew Rhys Holland (born 11 April 1974) is a former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.

Holland began his career at West Ham United, having previously been with Arsenal's academy. During his time at West Ham spent time out on loan at Farnborough Town and AFC Bournemouth, going on to join the later permanently in 1995. After making over one hundred appearances for Bournemouth and captaining the club, Holland signed for Ipswich Town in 1997. He spent six years at Ipswich, making over three hundred appearances and captaining the club to promotion to the Premier League through the First Division play-offs in 2000. In 2003, Holland signed for Charlton Athletic. He spent six years at Charlton, captaining the club and making over two hundred appearances. He retired from playing in 2009.

Having won one cap for the Republic of Ireland B team in 1999, he made his senior debut for the Republic of Ireland in October 1999. He represented the Republic of Ireland from 1999 to 2005 at international level, earning 49 caps and scoring 5 goals. He was included in their squad for the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

Since ending his football career he has worked in the media, including with the BBC, Setanta Sports, Talksport, BT Sport and RTÉ.

Early career
Initially rejected by Arsenal for being 'too small', Holland went to West Ham United where he moved up the ranks of the academy but did not play for the first team. He joined Football Conference side Farnborough Town during the 1992–93 season and made twenty-one appearances.

AFC Bournemouth
In order to gain first team football, Holland joined South Coast side AFC Bournemouth in January 1995. He won the club's Player of the Year award for the 1995–96 season. He played a total of 104 games, scoring 18 goals whilst at Dean Court and also became captain.

Ipswich Town
In the summer of 1997, Holland joined Ipswich Town for a fee of £800,000. He made his debut for Ipswich on the opening day of the 1997–98 season, starting in a 0–0 draw with Queens Park Rangers. He scored his first goal for the club on 20 September 1997, netting in a 2–3 loss to Stoke City. Holland became an integral part of the side during his first season at Portman Road, starting every league and cup game as Ipswich finished 5th in the First Division, qualifying for the First Division play-offs as a result. Ipswich lost out 0–2 on aggregate over two legs to Charlton Athletic in the play-offs semi-finals. In total Holland made 59 appearances in all competitions during his first season at the club, scoring 12 goals, including a brace in a 0–3 away win over Torquay United in a League Cup second round tie. He won the club's Player of the Year award for the 1997–98 season.

He again became Ipswich's club captain during his second season at the club and continued to feature as a key part of the team. He scored his first goal of the season on 11 August in a 1–1 draw with Exeter City in a League Cup match. He once again featured in every game of season as Ipswich finished 3rd in the league and qualified for the play-offs for a third successive season. Ipswich were knocked out of the play-offs by Bolton Wanderers over two legs, losing the first leg 0–1, Holland scored a brace in the second leg in a 4–3 victory, one of which being the winning goal, leveling the tie at 4–4 with Ipswich losing out on away goals.

Ipswich continued to challenge for promotion during the 1999–2000 season. Holland kept up his impressive record of playing every game over the course of the season. He scored 10 goals in the league as Ipswich once again finished 3rd in the First Division, narrowly missing out on an automatic promotion place on the final day of the season. This meant Ipswich had qualified for the play-offs for the fourth season in a row. Holland started both legs of the semi-finals. The first leg of the semi-finals saw Ipswich come from 0–2 down to draw 2–2 away at Bolton, with Marcus Stewart scoring a brace. Ipswich won the second leg 5–3 at Portman Road, in a match that also saw two Bolton Wanderers players red carded, with goals from Jamie Clapham, Martijn Reuser and a Jim Magilton Hat-trick. Ipswich progressed to the play-offs final following a 7–5 aggregate win over Bolton Wanderers. Holland started in and captained Ipswich in the final on 29 May 2000 against Barnsley at Wembley Stadium. Ipswich again came from behind to eventually win the final 4–2, following goals from Tony Mowbray, Richard Naylor, Marcus Stewart and Martijn Reuser, winning promotion to the Premier League following a 5-year absence from the top flight.

The following season, Holland captained the club to a 5th-placed finish in the 2000–01 Premier League season, Ipswich's highest Premier League finish. He scored his first Premier League goal on 11 November in a 2–0 home win over Charlton Athletic at Portman Road. He also scored in League Cup wins over Millwall and Manchester City as Ipswich reached the semi-finals of the 2000–01 League Cup, losing 4–2 on aggregate to Birmingham City over two legs having won the first leg 1–0. Holland again started every league game that season, making 47 appearances in all competitions and scoring 5 goals. As a result of finishing 5th in the Premier League, Ipswich qualified for the UEFA Cup for the first time since the 1982–83 season.

Holland scored his first goal of the 2001–02 season on 28 October in a 2–3 loss to his former club West Ham United. He played every match in the Premier League and UEFA Cup that season, however Ipswich suffered relegation from the Premier League after finishing 18th in the 2001–02 season. In total Holland made 46 appearances during the season, scoring 3 goals, including the winning goal in a 2–1 away win over Everton on 2 February.

Though Ipswich were relegated Holland stayed with the club during the 2002–03 season after he turned down a £4 million move to Aston Villa. He continued to play regularly, scoring his first goals of the season on 18 August, netting a brace in a 6–1 win over Leicester City at Portman Road. On 15 March he scored the winning goal in a 1–0 win over Sheffield Wednesday. He made 54 appearances over the course of the season, scoring 7 goals as Ipswich finished 7th in the league. Holland won Ipswich's Player of the Year award for the second time in the 2002–03 season. His spell at Ipswich is remembered for the consistency he showed, after playing 223 consecutive games and only missing one league match (due to international duty) in the six years he was at Portman Road. Combined with the end of his time at Bournemouth, Holland's sequence of 286 matches is among the highest in English league football.

Charlton Athletic
After Ipswich failed to win promotion in 2003, Holland moved back to the Premier League by joining Charlton Athletic on a four-year contract for an initial £750,000 fee, which later rose to £900,000. Again with this move he assumed the captain's armband and was ever-present in his first season for the club. He made his debut for Charlton against Manchester City on 17 August 2003. He scored his first goals for the club on 3 November 2003 when he netted a brace in a 2–1 win over Birmingham City. He played in every league game during his first season at Charlton, scoring 6 goals. In his first season at the club, Holland captained Charlton to 7th in the league, their highest ever Premier League finish.

Holland continued to be a key part of the Charlton side during the 2004–05 season. He scored the winning goal in 0–1 away win over West Bromwich Albion on 11 December, a month later he again scored the winner in a 0–1 away win over Everton. He scored 3 goals in 36 appearances as Charlton finished 11th in the Premier League.

He remained as a regular in the Charlton first-team during the following season, helping the club to another mid-table season in the top-flight in the 2005–06 season, although Charlton did suffer relegation from the Premier League the following season. Holland remained with the club following relegation, becoming one of the longest-serving Charlton players. He claimed more than half the entire vote for the 2007–08 Fans' Player of the Year award. He continued to play regularly during the 2008–09 season, making 38 appearances across all competitions. His final match came in a 2–2 draw with Cardiff City on 21 April 2009, and the club released him after relegation to League One at the end of the season.

In July 2009, Holland trained with Colchester United following his release from Charlton in order to keep himself fit.

International career
Although born in England, Holland qualified to play for the Republic of Ireland through his grandmother who hailed from County Monaghan. He made his international debut on 9 October 1999 in an away Euro 2000 qualifier against Macedonia, playing the last five minutes as a substitute for Mark Kennedy. He made his club manager at the time, George Burley, aware of his interest and Burley spoke to the national manager Mick McCarthy. Holland's first goal for the national team came on his fifth cap, the equaliser in a 1–1 draw with Portugal on 7 October 2000 in qualification for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Holland captained the side in three internationals, the first on his 28th cap, a 2–0 friendly defeat to Scotland.

He went with the Republic of Ireland to the 2002 World Cup scoring the equaliser against Cameroon in their opening game. He swapped shirts with Dietmar Hamann after the Germany game. Ireland were eliminated from this tournament in a Second Round penalty shoot-out against Spain, with Holland among those who missed. Following Ireland's failure to qualify for the 2006 World Cup, he announced his retirement from international football on 5 February 2006 having made 49 appearances and scoring five goals. Manager Steve Staunton had attempted to persuade Holland to continue.

Media career
He was one of several players and managers (including Danny Mills and Paul Jewell) who acted as summarisers for BBC Radio Five Live during the 2006 World Cup. Holland has also appeared on the BBC television program A Question of Sport and the radio quiz Fighting Talk. Holland as a freelance pundit has appeared on nearly every media outlet covering football in the UK. He has been a pundit on ESPN & Sky Sports, appeared on BBC results service Final Score on the odd Saturday afternoon and appeared on ITV commentating on the UEFA Cup. He is also a presenter for the Eastern England edition of the BBC regional football show Late Kick Off.

He has also appeared on many radio shows, he usually appears on talkSPORT on kick off usually on Friday nights and also appearing on Matchday Live on Saturday afternoons whenever he is not on Final Score. Holland has also appeared frequently on Absolute Radio and BBC Radio 5 Live as a co-commentator as well as Final Score, Premier Soccer Saturday or talkSPORT. In addition Holland previously appeared as an analyst for Setanta Sports' live matches.

He also co-commentates on BT Sport on the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League.

Holland began work with RTÉ when he commentated alongside George Hamilton during the Rep. of Ireland and Brazil friendly. He then appeared as a member of the panel on RTÉ's Premier Soccer Saturday for a number of weeks. He commentated the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Personal life
Holland is colour blind. He said that he had particular difficulty on his Charlton debut, when they wore red against Plymouth Argyle's green.

International

 * Scores and results list Republic of Ireland's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Holland goal.

Honours
Ipswich Town
 * Football League First Division play-offs: 2000

Individual
 * AFC Bournemouth Player of the Year: 1995–96
 * Ipswich Town Player of the Year: 1997–98, 2002–03
 * Charlton Athletic Player of the Year: 2007–08
 * Ipswich Town Hall of Fame: Inducted 2014

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Bye Bye Blues (film)

Bye Bye Blues is a 1989 Canadian film. It was written and directed by Anne Wheeler and produced by Alberta Motion Picture Development Corporation with the assistance of Allarcom Limited.

Plot
During World War II, Daisy Cooper (Rebecca Jenkins) returns home to her small Alberta town after she and her soldier husband, Teddy (Michael Ontkean), are split by the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong. While waiting for the war to end and to learn if Teddy is alive or dead, she joins a swing band as a singer to provide for her family, performing with them in many community halls. Daisy and her children initially live with her husband's parents, but later rent a house for themselves, as Daisy chafes under her in-laws' scrutiny. Daisy struggles to balance societal expectations of fealty and commitment to her children, while also struggling to financially support herself and her children by travelling and performing with the band. A trombonist in the band has a secret past and a not so secret yearning. Daisy struggles with an impossible choice as she hears that Teddy is returning home.

Her husband's sister, a somewhat similar free spirit, befriends an Australian airman in Alberta to train in the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan.

Cast
The cast also includes Luke Reilly, Leslie Yeo, Kate Reid, Wayne Robson, Robyn Stevan, and Stuart Margolin.

Awards
The film was nominated for twelve Genie Awards at the 11th Genie Awards in 1990, and won three: Best Actress (Jenkins), Best Supporting Actress (Stevan), and Best Original Song ("When I Sing" by Bill Henderson).

Soundtrack

 * 1) Main Title
 * 2) Jazz Spring
 * 3) Theme For Teddy
 * 4) Marry Me Daisy
 * 5) When I Sing
 * 6) India
 * 7) Sweet Georgia Brown
 * 8) Max's Theme (I Love You Daisy)
 * 9) Am I Blue
 * 10) Bath Blues
 * 11) Unfinished Blues
 * 12) Who's Sorry Now
 * 13) Home Movie/It's A Plane
 * 14) You Made Me Love You
 * 15) Blues For Anne
 * 16) Bye Bye Blues

 * Credits
 * Rebecca Jenkins - vocals
 * Produced by Bob Hunka, John McCullough, and George Blondheim
 * Music preparation by Laurie Bardsley
 * Original film music composed and conducted by George Blondheim
 * Mixed by Gary Dere, Paul Shubat, and Hayward Parrott
 * Musicians: George Blondheim - piano, Mike Lent - bass, Bob McLaren - drums, Gene Bertoncini - guitar, Bob Stroup - trombone, P.J. Perry - clarinet and saxophone, Gary Guthman - trumpet, Vinod Bhardwaj - bansuri, Damyanti Bhardwaj - tanpura, Hari Sahay - tabla, George Ursan - drums ("When I Sing" and "Sweet Georgia Brown"), Melvin Wilson - guitar ("When I Sing"), Gary Koliger - guitar ("Sweet Georgia Brown"), Wayne Robson - background vocal ("When I Sing"), Wayne Robson, George Blondheim, Luke Reilly, and Stuart Margolin - vocal shouts ("Sweet Georgia Brown")
 * Members of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra: James Keene, Broderick Olson, Tom Johnson, Mary Johnson, Richard Caldwell, Hugh Davies, Stephen Bryant, Evan Verchomin, Andrew Bacon, Susan Ekholm, Derek Gomez, Tanya Prochzaka, Nora Bumanis, Colin Ryan, David Hoyt, Donald Plumb, Brian Jones, Susan Flook, Neria Mayer, Mikkio Kohjitani, John Taylor, Donald Hyder

Trivia
Springwater School in Starland County, Alberta, Canada was used as a set. There are a number of buildings in Alberta's Ghost Town - Rowley, Alberta. This town's buildings were refaced and looks like a Hollywood movie set - hence its nickname Rowleywood.

Copyright status
For several years Bye Bye Blues could not be exhibited on television or theatrically (and could not be issued on DVD or made available digitally) because nobody could determine who held the copyright. On August 21, 2013, however, the Copyright Board of Canada issued a licence to Rebecca Jenkins, allowing the film to be distributed in Canada by television, Internet, and other means. The licence was issued under section 77 of the Copyright Act, which allows the Copyright Board to issue a licence in respect of orphan works where "the Board is satisfied that the applicant has made reasonable efforts to locate the owner of the copyright and that the owner cannot be located". Pursuant to the licence, the film is available online in Canada through the iTunes Store, and two theatrical screenings were held in October 2014 at the Vancouver International Film Festival.

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