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Album wikiproject mistake
Yummy Yummy is a TV serius, and not a musical album.Canadianshoper 04:01, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
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Miyauchi, Yamagata

Miyauchi (宮内町) was a town located in Higashiokitama District, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan.

As of 1965, the town had an estimated population of 17,939 and a population density of 198 persons per km2. The total area was 90.61 km2.

On April 1, 1967, Miyauchi was merged into the expanded city of Nan'yō and thus no longer exists as an independent municipality.

History
The village of Miyauchi was established on April 1, 1889, with the establishment of the municipalities system. It was raised to town status on February 1, 1955, by merging with the villages of Urushiyama, Yoshino, and Kaneyama. On April 1, 1967, the town of Miyauchi merged with the town of Akayu and the village of Wagō to form the city of Nan'yō

Local attractions
The Kumano-taisha Shrine is one of the three great Kumano Shrines in Japan, whose origins date back to the 9th century. Every July, the shrine is the focus of Miyauchi's main festival, when omikoshi (portable shrines) are paraded around the town before being returned to the main shrine.

Sosho Park (双松公園) holds a rose festival in June, and a chrysanthemum doll festival (菊人形祭り) is held in October. The festival's highlight is a series of human dolls made from locally grown chrysanthemums.

The Hygeia Park onsen, which contains a small Isabella Bird Memorial Exhibition, is also situated in the town

Highway

 * Japan National Route 113

Rail

 * Yamagata Railway Company – Flower Nagai Line
 * Miyauchi - Orihata

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The Space Bar

The Space Bar is a 1997 graphic adventure game developed by Boffo Games and published by Rocket Science Games and SegaSoft. A comic science fiction story, it follows detective Alias Node as he searches for a shapeshifting killer inside The Thirsty Tentacle, a fantastical bar on the planet Armpit VI. The player assumes the role of Alias and uses his Empathy Telepathy power to live out the memories of eight of the bar's patrons, including an immobile plant, an insect with compound eyes and a blind alien who navigates by sound. Gameplay is nonlinear and under a time limit: the player may solve puzzles and gather clues in any order, but must win before the killer escapes the bar.

The Space Bar was conceived and directed by Steve Meretzky, a former Infocom employee who had previously created titles such as The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Meretzky hoped to design a graphic adventure in the spirit of text-based interactive fiction games, and to recapture that genre's breadth and level of interactivity. The Space Bar began development at Boffo Games in May 1995 under publisher Rocket Science Games, whose co-founder Ron Cobb—designer of the Mos Eisley cantina in Star Wars—served as the game's art director and concept artist. Its 18-month production was troubled, and Rocket Science went bankrupt before the game's release. The Space Bar was ultimately launched by publisher SegaSoft in July 1997, several months after its completion.

The game was a commercial flop, and Meretzky has described its sales performance as possibly the biggest disappointment of his career. Critics highlighted The Space Bar's extensive content and number of puzzles, and regularly noted its difficulty. Some praised it as a welcome return to its genre's roots, although Computer Gaming World found the game poorly designed and needlessly abstruse. The Space Bar became the second and final title released by Boffo Games, which folded in fall 1997. Steve Meretzky later joined WorldWinner to become a developer of casual games.

Gameplay and plot
The Space Bar is a graphic adventure game that takes place from a first-person camera perspective. The player points and clicks with a mouse cursor to navigate the game world, examine and manipulate the environment, look around and converse with non-player characters. In a manner that has been compared to Myst and Zork Nemesis, player movement is restricted to jumps between panoramic static screens; the camera view can rotate 360° on each screen. A pop-up menu is used to interact with characters and the environment: the menu's options change depending on the object selected, and can include actions such as "greet" or "take". At the bottom of the game screen, the PDA interface contains an item inventory, a mini-map, a journal and other features.

The Space Bar is a work of comic science fiction and detective fiction, set on the planet Armpit VI and inside a fantastical alien bar called The Thirsty Tentacle. The story begins with the murder of a private investigator near The Thirsty Tentacle, in an act of industrial espionage. Human detective Alias Node and his partner Maksh witness the murder, committed by a shapeshifting assassin; and Maksh is kidnapped by the perpetrator, who hides inside the bar. Assuming the role of Alias, the player interrogates roughly 40 aliens within The Thirsty Tentacle to locate the killer. Gameplay is nonlinear: the player may progress through The Space Bar and search for clues in any order. However, there is a time limit, and the player receives a game over for failing to arrest the assassin before they escape. It is also possible for the player character to be killed.

The core gameplay of The Space Bar occurs through Alias Node's Empathy Telepathy power. Activated when the protagonist establishes an emotional connection with another character, it inserts the player into the target's mind to live out its memories. Eight of these vignettes are included, with estimated lengths of 5–10 hours per segment. The Space Bar's structure and puzzles change to suit each alien. For example, the blind Auditon creature must navigate by sound; objects in the game world are invisible until they make noise. Seedrot of the Vedj race is an immobile plant, and must solve puzzles from a single location, while "714-Z-367" of the Zzazzl race views the world through compound eyes. In the end, the player identifies the killer, Ni'Dopal, via an Empathy Telepathy excursion into the shapeshifter's memories.

Origins
Boffo Games began pre-production of The Space Bar in May 1995, after signing with publisher Rocket Science Games earlier that year. The game had initially been pursued by other publishers, including Microsoft and Viacom New Media; the latter had offered to implement it with the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine license. Boffo selected Rocket Science in large part to collaborate with that company's co-founder Ron Cobb, a concept artist whose previous design work had appeared in the Mos Eisley cantina in Star Wars. Other bonuses included Rocket Science's marketing power, which had attracted high-profile press coverage to its past titles, and the publisher's promise to create 3D models for the game's alien characters. According to Boffo, Rocket Science sought The Space Bar as part of an effort to recover from its early years, following a string of major commercial flops. "They'd failed miserably with the first batch of games, and they were looking for folks ... who would fix that," Boffo's Mike Dornbrook said in 1998. He noted that it was "painful on the business side" to reject Microsoft's proposal, and that the publisher was "not happy" with the decision. The companies made an informal agreement to work together in the near future.

The Space Bar was directed by Steve Meretzky, a designer previously responsible for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Planetfall and other Infocom games. His core vision for the title was "an adventure game composed of a lot of smaller adventure games", which he compared to a short story collection. This was both an experiment and an effort to invent an adventure suited to the decreasing free time he perceived among people of the era. To design The Space Bar, Meretzky collaborated with his long-time associates Patricia Pizer and Tomas Bok, and included Ron Cobb in "a few of the early design brainstorming sessions". He later noted that Cobb provided "countless ideas" on the design front. Meretzky had imagined the basis for the game in the 1980s, during Activision's purchase of Infocom. At the time, Infocom's New Zork Times newsletter was retitled The Status Line for legal reasons; however, Meretzky wanted to rename it The Space Bar and set it inside a fantastical spaceborne bar. This idea later developed into a game concept, and Meretzky began planning The Space Bar in the early 1990s. In 1996, Meretzky called the result's similarities to the contemporaneous Legend Entertainment game Callahan's Crosstime Saloon a coincidence.

One of Meretzky's concerns with The Space Bar was to create a graphic adventure game with as much breadth and interactivity as Infocom's interactive fiction, which had not featured graphics. He sought to match the "background detail" of these titles, including their abundance of non-essential content to explore. Meretzky also tried to mimic the high difficulty of these older games, which he felt would lead to greater satisfaction for players. He noted during development, "I think it comes closest to recapturing the depth we've only seen until now in text adventures". Believing that an adventure game composed only of minigames would be incohesive, he devised The Space Bar's murder mystery storyline and Empathy Telepathy mechanic to bridge the gaps between the game's shorter segments. Meretzky considered the result his furthest-ever push into nonlinear gameplay, and later compared the solution to his design for Boffo's previous game Hodj 'n' Podj. After roughly four months of developing the design, Boffo began production of The Space Bar's visuals and code in the middle of September 1995.

Production
The Space Bar was created with the BAGEL ("Boffo Adventure Game Engine and Libraries") engine, which was designed to advance technological and interface ideas that Steve Meretzky had enjoyed in Activision's Return to Zork. However, like QuickTime VR and the Z-Vision engine of Zork Nemesis, Boffo Games chose to enable 360° panoramic scrolling of each environment the player visits. As Meretzky believed that "traditional 2D sprite-based animation wasn't suitable for much of what they wanted to accomplish," according to PC Gamer US's Todd Vaughn, the team opted to pre-render the game's graphics. In 1996, Meretzky summarized BAGEL as an amalgam of the most successful elements of every adventure game released during "the last few years", which he had studied for ideas. Boffo co-developed the engine with Rocket Science Games. Continuing a trend that had started with Hodj 'n' Podj, Meretzky wrote no code for The Space Bar, although he did offer design input on the engine. BAGEL was programmed in C++ and was created to be platform-independent; The Space Bar was developed for both Microsoft Windows and Mac OS. A very high-level programming language was implemented for the creation of in-game content, such as conversations, locations and puzzles.

Ron Cobb worked as The Space Bar's concept artist and art director, the first time the latter position had existed in a Meretzky production. Previously, Meretzky had relied on his own "awful sketches" to direct the art team. One such sketch was the starting point for The Space Bar's Vedj race, which was then developed through several iterations by Cobb. The Mos Eisley Cantina sequence was among the game's points of influence, and the team sought to match that scene in quality, according to Meretzky. He noted that the game's diverse cast meant that they "weren't just creating new characters every week, but entirely new races." Boffo relied on out-of-house subcontractors for The Space Bar's graphics, including Dub Media, which had produced the 3D visuals for the developer's canceled Reverse Alien game.

Calling Cobb "something of a perfectionist", Meretzky described a moment when the final graphics for the Marmali race were first delivered; their number of toes was inconsistent, as Cobb's concept art had left this element vague. Cobb composed a rough model sheet to clarify the issue, and the graphics were revised. Meretzky later considered his collaboration with Cobb "one of the real thrills of my career". Mike Dornbrook, discussing the decision to choose Rocket Science for The Space Bar, said in 1998 that he believed "Steve was right about what Ron could contribute to the game".

The Space Bar was initially developed alongside several other titles at Boffo, including projects with Time Warner Interactive and Time. The Rocket Science and Boffo collaboration was first revealed in 1995, as one of two games made with the BAGEL engine; the other was with Time Warner. According to Dornbrook, the budgeting scheme to develop the engine was split across "at least" two games, a gamble that Boffo felt was viable because of its number of simultaneous projects. The Time Warner contract collapsed in the fall of 1995, alongside the publisher itself, and the Time contract was lost after roughly four months of production. Microsoft, planned as what Dornbrook called a "fallback", became unavailable after the start of its partnership with DreamWorks Interactive in March 1995. This had given DreamWorks exclusive rights to develop games in the interactive movie and adventure game genres; Microsoft agreed not to compete in these fields. With The Space Bar as Boffo's sole project, its engine was left underfunded. As a result, Boffo was forced to pitch new titles to other publishers to raise money, a process that continued throughout its development. Like the games with Time and Time Warner, however, none of these further projects were ultimately released.

During early 1996, a rumor about Rocket Science's impending closure spread within the game industry. Company co-founder Peter Barrett exited the publisher, which then underwent corporate restructuring in February: new hires included Bill Davis of Sierra On-Line, who became the vice president of product development. That same month, Rocket Science partnered with CyberCash in a venture to develop microtransaction-based arcade games for the Internet. According to Dornbrook, outside infusions of capital allowed Rocket Science to remain in business. The publisher signed Boffo for several more titles, and a deal was reached to increase The Space Bar's budget, which fully funded creation of its engine. The Space Bar was announced in mid-February 1996, alongside Rocket Science's games Obsidian and Rocket Jockey. According to Bill Davis, the titles represented a push toward greater interactivity in the publisher's catalog; this broke with its earlier reliance on full-motion video. The Space Bar was set for release between July and September, with an eye toward capitalizing on the holiday shopping season.

The Space Bar was the largest production of Meretzky's career at the time, with a team size and budget bigger than any of his previous games. He noted during development, "I've never worked this hard on a game before, or put so much of myself into it." Its development lasted roughly 18 months and its cost surpassed that of Hodj 'n' Podj—originally his most expensive project—more than twofold. However, Meretzky later remarked that The Space Bar still cost less than many of the era's other adventure games, and that "Boffo was a pretty lean operation". Budget limitations led to a number of excised features and cost-cutting measures, and became "extremely stressful" for the team. "[I]n terms of what we wanted to do versus what we could afford to do, it was actually my most financially tight project", Meretzky said. He gave the example that an on-screen character for the PDA interface was removed to save money. Additions to The Space Bar's script were made throughout development, including a significant portion in the beta test phase, for which the team was unable to record new voice-over. Ultimately, Boffo included the beta-era dialogue as silent text.

Switch to SegaSoft and release
As 1996 progressed, The Space Bar was pushed back to an October release in the United States, and translation efforts got underway for its international versions. Steve Meretzky said that Rocket Science Games' European partner company would be "marketing heavily in Europe." Rocket Science demonstrated The Space Bar alongside Obsidian at the mid-1996 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3); Peter Smith of Computer Games Strategy Plus wrote that the two titles "made a big splash" at the show. However, Meretzky later told Gamasutra, "With typical Boffo luck, they [Rocket Science] ran out of money halfway through the project and sold our game to SegaSoft." In August 1996, Rocket Science laid off its marketing team of 20 people in an effort to transition exclusively to game development, and signed with SegaSoft to publish The Space Bar, Rocket Jockey and Obsidian. By the 20th, Rocket Science's old marketing division had been picked up by the publisher and put to work on these titles' promotional effort. All three games were set to launch by Christmas. SegaSoft described the deal as an effort to break into the computer game industry; its first releases in this market—Puzzle Castle and Fractured Fairy Tales—launched later that year.

Estimated in PC Gamer US's September 1996 issue as three-fourths complete and on track for October, The Space Bar ultimately missed Christmas, alongside Obsidian. The latter game failed commercially upon its January 1997 release, as did Rocket Jockey in late 1996. In reaction, SegaSoft split with Rocket Science in early April 1997 and the developer entered a financial downward spiral, closing later that month. This upheaval left The Space Bar "very much in peril", wrote Kate Hedstrom of GameSpot. The game was finished months before it shipped; Mike Dornbrook said development concluded in early 1997, but issues at SegaSoft regarding marketing delayed its release for half a year. Gamasutra's Frank Cifaldi noted that SegaSoft had begun to pivot to "online ventures such as the ill-fated Heat.net", and was uninterested in heavily pushing The Space Bar.

The first advertisements for The Space Bar, circulated in early 1997, were done in a National Enquirer style that Boffo greatly disliked. According to Dornbrook, the marketing staff responsible for the campaign and The Space Bar's initial packaging was fired, but the replacement effort was hampered because the former team "wasted most of the marketing budget". He accused SegaSoft of ignoring contractual guarantees to involve Boffo in marketing decisions, and rumors arose in April that Boffo was seeking an alternative publisher for the game. SegaSoft similarly scrapped Boffo's plan to run a "hint line" for The Space Bar, according to Meretzky, who believed that this hurt its accessibility for players. Dornbrook later called SegaSoft's handling of The Space Bar "a disaster", and said that Boffo "actually had to threaten cancellation of the contract to even get the slightest bit of involvement". On July 8, 1997, SegaSoft released The Space Bar for Windows 95 and Mac OS.

Reception
The Space Bar was a commercial flop. The editors of Computer Gaming World noted that it was "one of the year's best adventures, but, unfortunately, it never seemed to find an audience (call it the curse of Rocket Science)." Steve Meretzky later summarized that it "sold like bat guano", and described its commercial performance as possibly the biggest disappointment of his career. Noting that "the mentality of gamers had definitely changed" since the 1980s, Meretzky also expressed regret over his decision to make The Space Bar extremely difficult. He characterized this move as the most major design mistake of his career by 2000. However, both Mike Dornbrook and Meretzky were pleased with the game's critical reception. In 2011, Adventure Gamers named The Space Bar the 98th-best adventure game of all time.

PC Gamer US writer Allen Rausch hailed The Space Bar as a return to form for its genre, which combined the high points of interactive fiction with the strengths of modern graphic adventures. Its puzzle design, humor and level of interactivity received plaudits, although Rausch found fault with its disk swapping and some of its voice acting. Conversely, Scorpia of Computer Gaming World wrote that The Space Bar "just misses the mark" and is recommendable mostly to players "with a high tolerance for frustration." While Rausch and Scorpia agreed on the game's high difficulty and reliance on trial and error gameplay, she considered both the result of poor puzzle design. She also criticized the time limit and lack of traditional detective gameplay, and called The Space Bar's comedy strained and inferior to that of Superhero League of Hoboken, despite "some genuinely humorous touches".

CNET Gamecenter's Barry Brenesal enjoyed the game's visuals, humor, puzzles and Empathy Telepathy sequences, but noted that The Space Bar "is not the end all of adventure games." He agreed with Rausch's and Scorpia's assessments of the puzzles: the game features "arguably ... a greater density of sheer fiendishness than anything else on the market". In Computer Games Strategy Plus, Cindy Yans similarly praised the game as "a puzzle parfait from heaven", with an unusually extensive amount of content. Despite sharing Brenesal's admiration for the visuals, she broke with him on the quality of its animation, particularly the lack of lip sync, and agreed with Rausch on the spotty voice-over. As with Brenesal, Rausch and Scorpia,  she noted the game's high level of difficulty: "Meretzky has constructed the most devious set of puzzles you're likely to encounter anywhere (with few exceptions)", Yans wrote. As a result, she echoed the latter two reviewers in recommending The Space Bar primarily to experienced adventure game players.

Steve Smith of GameSpot called The Space Bar's humor "tedious" and immature, and its art direction "uninspired and bland", despite Cobb's involvement. While Rausch found the character design "good, if a bit simplistic", Smith described the designs as "sterile and underdone". However, Smith still recommended the game, and praised its puzzle design and level of interactivity as a revival of earlier adventure game design. Next Generations reviewer disagreed, calling The Space Bars world non-interactive to a "frustrating" degree, and criticizing the design of certain puzzles. The reviewer liked its comedy and Empathy Telepathy mechanic, however, and concluded, "If you're a fan of Steve Meretzky, you might be slightly disappointed, but not by much." Summarizing the game, Michael Gowan of Macworld called The Space Bar funny and found its graphics strong. He considered it "good for a diversion" for fans of the Mos Eisley Cantina scene.

Aftermath and re-release
The Space Bar became Boffo Games' second and final release. The company attempted to survive through 1997, according to Dornbrook, but was "forced to give up" after concrete deals with publishers did not materialize. Meretzky noted that a failed project with MGM Interactive that year ultimately ended the company: the publisher requested several redesigns and platform changes, before canceling the game outright. As a result, Boffo closed in fall 1997, which Meretzky called in 2005 "one of the saddest days in my twenty-plus years in the industry." Dornbrook joined Harmonix by May 1998, while Meretzky became a consultant on Warcraft Adventures: Lord of the Clans and joined developer GameFX in the late 1990s. After the failure of the latter venture, he began a job developing casual games at WorldWinner in August 2000.

On October 28, 2022, The Space Bar was relaunched in a "Super Digital Deluxe Edition" by ZOOM Platform. The game's revival came as part of an agreement between the Jordan Freeman Group and Boffo Intergalactic Games, a company co-founded by Meretzky and billed as "the successor to Boffo Games". Boffo Intergalactic Games and Jordan Freeman Group would also release the game via Steam on March 30, 2023. The game would remain, like all of ZOOM Platform's previous Steam releases, DRM-Free.

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Akayu

Akayu may refer to:
 * Akayu, Yamagata, a town located in Higashiokitama District, Yamagata Prefecture, Japan
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Roy Orbison also contributed to the film's soundtrack, though it might not have been on the offical release. He worked on a couple of songs I believe, and one, "So Young", mentions specifically Zabriskie Point in the lyrics. I don't think it ended up being used in the movie.
 * From the allmusic review:
 * "As a way of accenting the counterculture he thought he was depicting, Antonioni chose to hire a selection of contemporary rock performers. The results of this effort were mixed indeed, with some performers having their music rejected outright after weeks of work, while others left the project after arguments with the ever-evasive director. In the finish, MGM would tack on a Roy Orbison song by way of a desperate attempt to garner a hit single..."
 * Worthy of mention in the article. --Alcuin 17:11, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

"So Young" was released as an MGM single b/w "If I Had A Woman Like You". It Bubbled Under on the Billboard charts at #122 and was subtitled as "Love Theme from 'Zabriskie Point'" (as per Whitburn, 2005). Randy's Rodeo (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 06:21, 6 November 2012 (UTC)

cleanup?
I redid the tracklist, and removed the cleanup tag. I'm assuming that on a various artists album that the artist goes before the track. Anyway, the 'tagger' wasn't specific to what needed cleanup. --Alcuin 17:08, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/ExamDiff 2

 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 discussion aborted. See Votes for deletion/ExamDiff (second nomination). --Tony Sidaway Talk 17:56, 23 August 2005 (UTC)

ExamDiff
Re-opening abbreviated VfD. Original vote at Votes for deletion/ExamDiff. Abstain. brenneman (t) (c)  04:53, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * If you search for this program on download.com, which is a major distributor of freeware programs such as this one, it shows that it has about 120k downloads. It has also been reviewed by the CNET editors on the same site. Absent a really good set of objective criteria for determining notability of software, I think that's probably enough to justify a keep. ESkog 22:31, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
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The Rings of Kether

The Rings of Kether is a single-player roleplaying gamebook written by Andrew Chapman, illustrated by Nik Spender and originally published in 1985 by Puffin Books. It forms part of Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone's Fighting Fantasy series. It is the 15th in the series in the original Puffin series (ISBN 0-14-031860-7). There are currently no announced plans to republish the book as part of the modern Scholastic Books series.

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The Rings of Kether is a science-fiction solo scenario in which a Galactic Federation agent seeks to end the drug rings found in the Kether system.

Unlike most Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, the story takes place in a science fiction setting, with the player taking on the role of a Narcotics Officer seeking to break up a drug ring located on the planet of Kether. Players are given a reasonable degree of freedom as they travel between various locations on the planet's surface and in orbit, and there are multiple paths to the final confrontation with the heads of the crime ring. The major element which distinguishes this gamebook from others in the series is the heavy use of Skill rolls, which are employed several times in quick succession during the course of the book. There are also rules for ship-to-ship combat and, unusually for a Fighting Fantasy book, different rules for unarmed and armed personal combat.

Unlike most Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, The Rings of Kether is unusual in that it has two ways to win the adventure. The player can either destroy the smugglers' base or fight and kill their leader instead, a man named Blaster Babbet, to achieve ultimate victory.

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Two pages about the same topic?
The page Zlatna Dolina (soundtrack) seems to be about the same thing as this article. Perhaps a merger and a redirect from one to the other would be good? FreeToDisagree (talk) 23:52, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

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Turtle River (North Dakota)

The Turtle River is a 74.9 mi tributary of the Red River of the North in northeastern North Dakota in the United States. It flows for almost its entire length in Grand Forks County. Via the Red River, Lake Winnipeg and the Nelson River, the Turtle River is part of the watershed of Hudson Bay.

Course
The Turtle rises as two streams, the North Branch (source 48°05'24.6"N 97°56'23.0"W), which begins as an intermittent stream in eastern Nelson County, and the South Branch (source 47°56'56.1"N 97°49'28.1"W); the two converge near the town of Larimore. The river flows generally eastward in a highly meandering course through Turtle River State Park and past the Grand Forks Air Force Base; it turns northward as it nears the Red River and flows through the town of Manvel then under Interstate 29, then 840 metres before the mouth the North Marais River splits off joining Red River just upstream of where the Forest river joins the Red River, the Turtle River then joins the Red River just upstream of Oslo, Minnesota.

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Son of Blagger

Son of Blagger, the sequel to Blagger, is a scrolling platform game created by Tony Crowther and released by Alligata for the Commodore 64 computer in 1983. A ZX Spectrum port by Elliot Gay and a BBC Micro port were released in 1984.

Legacy
A clone of Son of Blagger was released for Amiga, titled Jonas Fulstrand. The game was released on a PD-Soft disk as Son of Blagger.

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Needs a mention of total population.
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Prime Ministers of Canada
Added images, adjusted column widths. Phoenix2 04:57, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment -- I'd be a little more comfortable supporting if the state acronyms are defined somewhere in the page. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  06:29, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
 * Has been addressed. Phoenix2 04:36, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Would also like to see jguk's colour coding issue resolved. =Nichalp   «Talk»=  06:17, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
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 * The image Image:Paulmartin1.jpg is used under "fair use" and "Canadian crown copyright", but neither set of rules has been followed. There is no source information, and no fair use rationale.
 * --Carnildo 07:13, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Support - subject to the image concerns being addressed. But I agree with User:Nichalp about explaining or linking the abbreviations (although the Canadian First Ministers helps). -- ALoan (Talk) 17:33, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Comments I agree with Nichalp about expanding the acronyms for the provinces, which aren't familiar to people outside North America. Also some explanation of the red and blue colours on the left hand side of the table would be useful. A brief description in the introduction about the significance of the prime ministership of Canada would also help: I think they are heads of government and have the most senior political post in Canada (with the GG being obliged by constitutional practice to accept any advice given by the PM). Is this right? Is the Time almanack the best reference, rather than say an official website of the Canadian PM? A link to the latter would be useful regardless, jguk 19:02, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Additional link and reference have been provided. Phoenix2 04:36, August 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * as to the red a blue on the left side designating the party, is it neccessary with the seperate party column? User:Say1988
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I have a problem with the list of Prime Ministers having many of the early parties fall under the category of 'Historical Conservative Parties,' as it paints a misleading political picture imo, which attempts to make the parties of old look like a continuity with the Conservative Party. For instance why should the Liberal-Conservatives be called 'historical conservative parties,' when they could just as soon be called 'historical liberal parties.' To paint them either way is misleading. It would seem better to use a different colour entirely for parties that are neither liberal or conservative, perhaps orange, green, purple, yellow, etc. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Indiansummermh (talk • contribs) 21:17, 9 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your comment, Indiansummermh. To the best of my knowledge, there is a continuity of the historical conservative parties listed here. The Liberal-Conservative Party wasn't a coalition of Liberals and Conservatives; it was the name of the Conservative Party until they changed it to just "Conservative Party" in 1873, "Unionist Party" in 1917, "National Liberal and Conservative Party" in 1920, and finally to "Progressive Conservative Party" in 1942. The Liberal Party was a completely separate party during the entire time the Conservatives were using each of those names. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 00:00, 10 May 2013 (UTC)

List of Prime Ministers
With the table the legend shows the colour key and the 3 party groups and its colour but there's no colour with any Prime Minister row section. Tyman222 (talk • contribs) 19:09, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
 * Its the first column under "No." -- Moxy (talk) 19:11, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

I am seeing it shaded in gray. Could it perhaps be because I'm on my iPhone? Tyman222 (talk • contribs) 19:22, 30 June 2014 (UTC)
 * I believe I fixed it by editing Template:Canadian first minister list. 117Avenue (talk) 02:17, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Yes you did. Thanks. Tyman222 (talk • contribs) 04:43, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Stephan Harper
Stephen Harper did not resign or ceased to be Prime Minister on election night 2015. He's still Prime Minister until he resigns & Justin Trudeau is sworn in. At times like these, I wish IPs were barred from editing Wikipedia. GoodDay (talk) 14:15, 20 October 2015 (UTC) -- Correction he resigned as head of the party on election night. Also I am Canadian and have been following the media around the election and both the Canadian Parliament and CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.) have stated on Oct. 30, 2015 that on Nov. 4, 2015 on Harper will cease to be Prime Minister, and Justin Trudeau be signed in. Therefore, the date SHOULD be included in preparation for that date.

112.208.148.105 (talk) 08:19, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
 * We don't include the date until Harper actually resigns. GoodDay (talk) 08:48, 1 November 2015 (UTC)

Re Stephen Harper 2006-3015. Why is Afghanistan Mission listed under Harper and not earlier? The first group was sent before Harper in 2001. OP Athena was also before Harper in 2003 -2005. AcornAndMaple (talk) 14:09, 3 May 2022 (UTC)

Moved from List of Canadian ministries
We need sources for the bellow--Moxy (talk) 22:51, 4 October 2016 (UTC)

 * By convention, each Canadian ministry is formed when the chairing prime minister is appointed and dissolved when s/he leaves office. The one exception occurred during the premiership of Robert Borden whose wartime Unionist government is considered a separate ministry from the one he chaired as head of a Conservative government.  Elections do not cause dissolution of the ministry unless they result in the government's defeat – this is in contrast to other Commonwealth realms such as Australia and the United Kingdom where a "new" ministry is considered to have been formed after every election regardless of the winner.  Therefore, the twenty-eight ministries that have served Canada represent twenty-six occasions since Canadian Confederation that the premiership has changed hands and one occasion when a coalition government was formed by the sitting prime minister.

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I reverted an editor who had changed every name to their legal full name (eg. Justin Trudeau --> Justin Pierre James Trudeau) and added British nobility titles (eg. Viscount Bennett). Seems like pretty blatant WP:TMI. Madg2011 (talk) 19:27, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
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Joe Clark
For some reason Joe Clark was omitted from the list of living former PMs. After checking the news to make sure he didn't pass on when I wasn't looking, I put him back in. 70.73.90.119 (talk) 21:08, 13 March 2022 (UTC)

Laurier removing the right of status Indians to vote
The article simply states (unsourced) that Laurier removed the right of status Indians to vote. It's unsourced and doesn't feature as notable, and also does not give proper context (based on my independent research). Voting had been extended by Macdonald to those status Indians "in possession and occupation of a separate and distinct tract of land in such reserve, and whose improvements on such separate tract are not of the value of at least one hundred and fifty dollars" who lived in Ontario or eastward. But all other status Indians were excluded already (which was the large majority). How can this be properly qualified (and is it notable in light of this qualification)? See https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/indigenous-suffrage Homagetocatalonia (talk) 16:10, 21 December 2022 (UTC)

Post-1968 dates
I had to correct the dates for the prime ministers (P. Trudeau to J. Trudeau), concerning taking office & resigning. We used to have something in place to explain why the resignation dates were different & showed both dates (but somebody deleted it). Meanwhile, somebody else changed the assumption of office dates, which I just had to correct. GoodDay (talk) 03:32, 4 March 2023 (UTC)

List of prime ministers of Canada by age
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Item 1 Courtland 05:00, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
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Blacktop (disambiguation)

Blacktop or asphalt concrete is a composite material used to surface roads. The word blacktop can also be used to refer directly to a paved road.

Blacktop or Black Top may also refer to:

 * Black Top Records, a record label
 * Blacktop Peak, a mountain in California
 * Black Top, British Jazz duo of Orphy Robinson and Pat Thomas

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Alan Park

Alan John Park (November 5, 1962 – November 10, 2022) was a Canadian comedian and political satirist best known for his appearances on the Royal Canadian Air Farce where he gave humorous commentary on current events. Though originally not a caricaturist as were his Farce castmates, he developed portrayals of Canadian politicians such as Bloc Québécois leader Gilles Duceppe, Health Minister Tony Clement, Foreign Affairs minister Peter MacKay, as well as former Liberal leaders Stéphane Dion and Michael Ignatieff.

Foreign based political portrayals included Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former US defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and former U.S. president Barack Obama. Celebrity impressions included legendary folksinger Gordon Lightfoot, Boris Karloff, rock band Nickelback's front man Chad Kroeger, American stand-up comic and game show host Jeff Foxworthy, Kevin Federline, Peter O'Toole, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Fred Durst and former pop superstar Cat Stevens.

Park's increased workload on the program resulted in nominations for both comedy writing as well as best male TV performance at the 2007 Canadian Comedy Awards.

Park also appeared on MuchMusic's Video on Trial.

Park was a member of the Atheists team on CBC Test the Nation: IQ broadcast live on January 24, 2010.

Park died after a long battle with cancer on November 10, 2022, at the age of 60.

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William Parrish

William Linton Parrish (August 6, 1860 – February 20, 1949 ) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1914 to 1920 as a member of the Liberal Party.

Biography
Parrish was born in Vroomanton, Canada West (now Ontario), the son of Samuel Parrish and Jane Cash, and was educated at Uxbridge. He began work in the grain trade with his father and then, in 1879, moved to Huntsville where he operated a grist and flour mill. In 1881, Parrish moved to Manitoba and operated as a grain dealer in Brandon and then, later, in Winnipeg. In 1885, he married Annie Ellen Card. He was a member of Brandon town council for two years. Parrish also served as president of the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. In 1909, he co-founded the Parrish & Heimbecker grain company. He was also the director of Fidelity Trust Co., Equitable Trust Co., Capital Loan Co. and Inland Mortgage Co. Parrish was an honorary captain and paymaster with the 90th Winnipeg Rifles, and was a Methodist in religion.

He was first elected to the Manitoba legislature in the 1914 provincial election, defeating Conservative Harry W. Whitlaw by 910 votes in the constituency of Winnipeg South "B". The Conservatives won this election, and Parrish sat with his party in opposition.

In 1915, the Conservative administration of Rodmond Roblin was forced to resign from office amid a corruption scandal. A new election was called, which the Liberals won in a landslide. Parrish was easily re-elected in his constituency, defeating Conservative Lendrum McMeans by 3,332 votes. He served as a backbench supporter of Tobias Norris's administration for the next five years.

Winnipeg's electoral boundaries were dramatically changed before the 1920 provincial election. The city became a single ten-member constituency, with members elected by a single transferable ballot. Parrish finished 17th on the first count with 945 votes, and was eliminated on the 28th count.

William Parrish died in Winnipeg on February 20, 1949.

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Vaikom Muhammad Basheer

Vaikom Muhammad Basheer (21 January 1908 – 5 July 1994), popularly referred to as Beypore Sulthan, was an Indian writer of Malayalam literature, a humanist and an Indian independence activist. He was a novelist and short story writer noted for his path-breaking, down-to-earth style of writing that made him equally popular among literary critics as well as the common man. His notable works include Balyakalasakhi, Shabdangal, Pathummayude Aadu, Ntuppuppakkoranendarnnu, Mathilukal, Janmadinam and Anargha Nimisham and the translations of his works into other languages have earned him worldwide acclaim. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honor of the Padma Shri in 1982. He was also a recipient of the Sahitya Academy Fellowship, Kerala Sahitya Academy Fellowship, and the Kerala State Film Award for Best Story. He was a recipient of the Vallathol Award in 1993.

Biography
Basheer was born on January 21, 1908 in Thalayolaparambu (near Vaikom) Kottayam District, to Kayi Abdurahman, a timber merchant, and his wife, Kunjathumma, as their eldest child. His siblings were Abdulkhader, Pathumma, Haneefa, Anumma and Aboobakker, in order from eldest and youngest. After completing his primary education at a local Malayalam medium school, he joined an English medium school in Vaikom, five miles away, for higher education. It was during this time, he met Mahatma Gandhi, when the Indian independence movement leader came to Vaikom for the satyagraha, which later came to be known as Vaikom Satyagraham, and became his follower. He started wearing Khādī, inspired by the swadeshi ideals of Gandhi. Basheer would later write about his experiences on how he managed to climb on to the car in which Gandhi was traveling and touched his hand.

Freedom struggle involvement
He resolved to join the fight for an Indian Independence, leaving school to do so while he was in the fifth form. Basheer was known for his secular attitude, and he treated all religions with respect. Since there was no active independence movement in Kochi – being a princely state – he went to Malabar district to take part in the Salt Satyagraha in 1930. His group was arrested before they could participate in the satyagrah. Basheer was sentenced to three months imprisonment and sent to Kannur Prison. He became inspired by stories of heroism by revolutionaries like Bhagat Singh, Sukhdev Thapar and Shivaram Rajguru, who were executed while he was in the jail. His release, along with 600 of his fellow prisoners, came in March 1931 following the Gandhi-Irwin pact. Once free, he organized an anti-British movement and edited a revolutionary journal, Ujjivanam, because of which an arrest warrant was issued on him and he left Kerala.

Journey
Having left Kerala, he embarked upon a long journey that took him across the length and breadth of India and to many places in Asia and Africa for seven years, doing whatever work that seemed likely to keep him from starvation. His occupations ranged from that of a loom fitter, fortune teller, cook, newspaper seller, fruit seller, sports goods agent, accountant, watchman, shepherd, hotel manager to living as an ascetic with Hindu saints and Sufi mystics in their hermitages in Himalayas and in the Ganges basin, following their customs and practices, for more than five years. There were times when, with no water to drink, without any food to eat, he came face to face with death.

After doing menial jobs in cities such as Ajmer, Peshawar, Kashmir and Calcutta, Basheer returned to Ernakulam in the mid-1930s. While trying his hands at various jobs, like washing vessels in hotels, he met a manufacturer of sports goods from Sialkot who offered him an agency in Kerala. And Basheer returned home to find his father's business bankrupt and the family impoverished. He started working as an agent for the Sialkot sports company at Ernakulam, but lost the agency when a bicycle accident incapacitated him temporarily. On recovering, he resumed his endless hunt for jobs. He walked into the office of a newspaper Jayakesari whose editor was also its sole employee. He did not have a position to offer, but offered to pay money if Basheer wrote a story for the paper. Thus Basheer found himself writing stories for Jayakesari and it was in this paper that his first story "Ente Thankam" (My Darling) was published in the year 1937. A path-breaker in Malayalam romantic fiction, it had its heroine a dark-complexioned hunchback. His early stories were published between 1937 and 1941 in Navajeevan, a weekly published in Trivandrum in those days.

Imprisonment and after
At Kottayam (1941–42), he was arrested and put in a police station lock-up, and later shifted to another lock up in Kollam Kasba police station. The stories he heard from policemen and prisoners there appeared in later works, and he wrote a few stories while at the lock-up itself. He spent a long time in lock-up awaiting trial, and after trial was sentenced to two years and six months imprisonment. He was sent to Thiruvananthapuram central jail. While at jail, he forbade M. P. Paul from publishing Balyakalasakhi. He wrote Premalekhanam (1943) while serving his term and published it on his release. Baalyakaalasakhi was published in 1944 after further revisions, with an introduction by Paul. M. K. Sanu, critic and a friend of Basheer, would later say that M. P. Paul's introduction contributed significantly in developing his writing career. He then made a career as a writer, initially publishing the works himself and carrying them to homes to sell them. He ran two bookstalls in Ernakulam; Circle Bookhouse and later, Basheer's Bookstall. After Indian independence, he showed no further interest in active politics, though concerns over morality and political integrity are present all over his works.

Basheer got married in 1958 when he was over forty eight years old and the bride, Fathima was twenty years of age. The couple had a son, Anees and a daughter, Shahina, and the family lived in Beypore, on the southern edge of Kozhikode. During this period he also suffered from mental illness and was twice admitted to mental sanatoriums. He wrote one of his most famous works, Pathummayude Aadu (Pathumma's Goat), while undergoing treatment in a mental hospital in Thrissur. The second spell of paranoia occurred in 1962, after his marriage when he had settled down at Beypore. He recovered both times, and continued his writings.

Basheer, who earned the sobriquet, Beypore Sultan, after he wrote about his later-day life in Beypore as a Sultan, died there on July 5, 1994, survived by his wife and children. Fabi Basheer outlived him for over two decades and died on July 15, 2015, at the age of 77, succumbing to complications following a pneumonia attack.

Language
Basheer is known for his unconventional style of language. He did not differentiate between literary language and the language spoken by the commons and did not care about the grammatical correctness of his sentences. Initially, even his publishers were unappreciative of the beauty of this language; they edited out or modified conversations. Basheer was outraged to find his original writings transcribed into "standardised" Malayalam, devoid of freshness and natural flow, and he forced them to publish the original one instead of the edited one. Basheer's brother Abdul Khader was a Malayalam teacher. Once while reading one of the stories, he asked Basheer, "where are aakhyas and aakhyathas (elements of Malayalam grammar) in this...?". Basheer shouted at him saying that "I am writing in normal Malayalam, how people speak. And you don't try to find your stupid 'aakhya and aakhyaada' in this!". This points out to the writing style of Basheer, without taking care of any grammar, but only in his own village language. Though he made funny remarks regarding his lack of knowledge in Malayalam, he had a very thorough knowledge of it.

Basheer's contempt for grammatical correctness is exemplified by his statement Ninte Lodukkoos Aakhyaadam! ("Your 'silly stupid' grammar!") to his brother, who sermonises him about the importance of grammar (Pathummayude Aadu).

Themes
Basheer's fictional characters were mostly marginalised people like gamblers, thieves, pickpockets and prostitutes, and they appeared in his works, naive and pure. An astute observer of human character, he skilfully combined humour and pathos in his works. Love, hunger and poverty, life in prison are recurring themes in his works. There is enormous variety in them – of narrative style, of presentation, of philosophical content, of social comment and commitment. His association with India's independence struggle, the experiences during his long travels and the conditions that existed in Kerala, particularly in the neighbourhood of his home and among the Muslim community – all had a major impact on them. Politics and prison, homosexuality, all were grist to his mill. All of Basheer's love stories have found their way into the hearts of readers; perhaps no other writer has had such an influence on the way Malayalis view love. The major theme of all Basheer stories is love and humanity. In the story Mucheettukalikkarante Makal (The Card sharp's Daughter), when Sainaba comes out of the water after stealing his bananas, Mandan Muthappa says only one thing: "Sainaba go home and dry your hair else you may fall sick". This fine thread of humanism can be experienced in almost all his stories.

About the influence of Western literature in his works, Basheer once wrote: "I can readily say that I have not been influenced by any literature, Western or Eastern, for, when I started writing I had no idea of literature. Even now it is not much different. It is only after I had written quite a bit, that I had opportunities to contact Western literature. I read all that I could get hold of—Somerset Maugham, Steinbeck, Maupassant, Flaubert, Romain Rolland, Gorky, Chekhov, Hemingway, Pearl S. Buck, Shakespeare, Galsworthy, Shaw... In fact, I organised one or two bookstalls so that I could get more books to read. But I read these books mainly to know their craft. I myself had plenty of experience to write about! I have even now! I am unable to ascertain who has influenced me. Perhaps Romain Rolland and Steinbeck—but even they, not much."

Works
Almost all of Basheer's writing can be seen as falling under the heading of prose fiction – short stories and novels, though there is also a one-act play and volumes of essays and reminiscences. Basheer's fiction is very varied and full of contrasts. There are poignant situations as well as merrier ones – and commonly both in the same narrative. There are among his output realistic stories and tales of the supernatural. There are purely narrative pieces and others which have the quality of poems in prose. In all, a superficially simple style conceals a great subtlety of expression. His works have been translated into 18 languages.

His literary career started off with the novel Premalekhanam, a humorous love story between Keshavan Nair – a young bank employee, an upper caste Hindu (Nair) – and Saramma – an unemployed Christian woman. Hidden underneath the hilarious dialogues we can see a sharp criticism of religious conservatism, dowry and similar conventions existing in society. The film adaptation of the story was by P. A. Backer in 1985, with the lead roles played by Soman and Swapna. It was remade again by Aneesh Anwar in 2017, featuring Farhaan Faasil, Joy Mathew and Sheela.

Premalekhanam was followed by the novel Balyakalasakhi – a tragic love story between Majeed and Suhra – which is among the most important novels in Malayalam literature in spite of its relatively small size (75 pages), and is commonly agreed upon as his magnum opus work. In his foreword to Balyakalasakhi, Jeevithathil Ninnum Oru Aedu (A Page From Life), M. P. Paul brings out the beauty of this novel, and how it is different from run-of-the-mill love stories. The novel was later adapted into a film by Sasikumar, under the same name. It was again remade with the same title in 2014, by Pramod Payyannur, with Mammootty and Isha Talwar playing the lead.

The autobiographical Janmadinam ("Birthday", 1945) is about a writer struggling to feed himself on his birthday. While many of the stories present situations to which the average reader can easily relate, the darker, seamier side of human existence also finds a major place, as in the novel Shabdangal ("Voices", 1947), which faced heavy criticism for violence and vulgarity.

Ntuppuppakkoranendarnnu ("My Gran'dad 'ad an Elephant", 1951) is a fierce attack on the superstitious practices that existed among Muslims. Its protagonist is Kunjupathumma, a naive, innocent and illiterate village belle. She falls in love with an educated, progressive, city-bred man, Nisaar Ahamed. Illiteracy is fertile soil for superstitions, and the novel is about education enlightening people and making them shed age-old conventions. Velichathinentoru Velicham (a crude translation can be "What a bright brightness!") one of the most quoted Basheer phrases occurs in Ntuppuppaakkoraanaendaarnnu. People boast of the glory of days past, their "grandfather's elephants", but that is just a ploy to hide their shortcomings. The book was later translated into English by R. E. Asher.

His next novel was Pathummayude Aadu, an autobiographical work published in 1959, featuring mostly his family members. The book tells the story of everyday life in a Muslim family. Mathilukal (Walls) deals with prison life in the pre-independence days. It is a novel of sad irony set against a turbulent political backdrop. The novelist falls in love with a woman sentenced for life who is separated from him by insurmountable walls. They exchange love-promises standing on two sides of a wall, only to be separated without even being able to say good-bye. Before he "met" Naraayani, the loneliness and restrictions of prison life was killing Basheer; but when the orders for his release arrive he loudly protests, "Who needs freedom? Outside is an even bigger jail." The novel was later made into a film with same name by Adoor Gopalakrishnan with Mammootty playing Basheer.

Sthalathe Pradhana Divyan, Anavariyum Ponkurishum, Mucheettukalikkarante Makal and Ettukali Mammoonju featured the life of real life characters in his native village of Thalayolaparambu (regarded as Sthalam in these works). Perch, a Chennai based theatre, has adapted portions from Premalekhanam and Mucheettukalikkarante Makal as a drama under the title, The Moonshine and the Sky Toffee''.

Trivia
New application on Basheer named Basheer Malayalathinte Sultan is now available as an iPad application which includes eBooks of all the works of the author, animation of his prominent works like Pathumayude Aadu, Aanapuda, audio book, special dictionaries encloses words used by Basheer, sketches of characters made by renowned artistes and rare photos among others. Fabi Basheer published his memoirs, Basheerinte Ediye, which details her life with her husband.

Awards and honours
Sahitya Akademi honoured Basheer with their fellowship in 1970, the same year as he was honoured with the distinguished fellowship by the Kerala Sahitya Akademi. The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri in 1982 and five years later, the University of Calicut conferred on him the honorary degree of the Doctor of Letters on January 19, 1987. He received the Kerala State Film Award for Best Story for the Adoor Gopalakrishnan film, Mathilukal in 1989 and the inaugural Lalithambika Antharjanam Award in 1992 followed by the Prem Nazir Award the same year. He received two awards in 1993, the Muttathu Varkey Award and the Vallathol Award. The Thamrapathra'of the Government of India (1972), Abu Dhabi Malayala Samajam Literary Award (1982), Samskaradeepam Award (1987) and Jeddah Arangu Award (1994) were some of the other awards received by him. Mathrubhumi issued a festschrift on him, Ormmayile Basheer (Basheer - Reminiscences) in 2003 which featured several articles and photos and the India Post released a commemorative postage stamp, depicting his image, on January 21, 2009.

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Turtle River

Turtle River may refer to:

Canada

 * Turtle River (Manitoba), a tributary of Dauphin Lake
 * Turtle River, near Ignace, Ontario
 * Rivière à la Tortue or Turtle River, Quebec

United States

 * Turtle River (Georgia)
 * Turtle River (Bowstring River tributary), Minnesota
 * Turtle River (Mississippi River tributary), Minnesota
 * Turtle River (North Dakota)
 * Turtle River State Park
 * Turtle River (Wisconsin)

Settlements

 * Rural Municipality of Turtle River No. 469, Saskatchewan, Canada
 * Turtle River, Minnesota, US

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Brian Setencich

Brian Setencich (born March 29, 1962) served in the California Assembly for one term from 1994 to 1996 and as Speaker of that body from September 14, 1995, to January 4, 1996. Setencich, a Republican, was the first freshman legislator to serve as Speaker of the Assembly in more than a century. He was previously a city councilman in Fresno and played professional basketball in Europe.

Early years
Setencich was born in Fresno, California where he attended local public schools and played basketball for his high school team. After playing collegiately at Cal State-Bakersfield, Setencich went on to play professional basketball in Europe prior to starting his political career. For much of his adult life he has made a home in California residing primarily in Sacramento and San Francisco.

Education
Setencich is an alumnus of Fresno High School in Fresno, California and California State University Bakersfield in Bakersfield, California. He played collegiate basketball for the University of San Diego, where he earned the WCC Scholar-Athlete Award for 1982–83, and went on to play for Cal State Bakersfield's Roadrunners men's basketball team, where he placed on that university's All-Time Roster for 1984 and 1985.

Political career
Fresno City Councilman

Setencich began his political career as a Fresno City Councilmember from 1991 to 1994 representing District 1 (west-central Fresno). Though a political unknown at the time, he managed to raise over $200,000 to upset incumbent and win the election. He was the first Fresno City Councilmember to successfully run for higher office.

1994 California Assembly

Setencich was elected to the California State Assembly in 1994 as a Republican representing the 30th Assembly District, encompassing the extreme southern San Francisco Bay Area, inland Monterey Bay Area, and parts of the northern Central Coast. The district is defined by major agricultural areas such as the Pajaro Valley and the Salinas Valley. He served as a member of the California Assembly's Higher Education Committee, as well as the Water, Parks & Wildlife and Banking and Finance Committees.

Speaker of the California Assembly

In 1995, he was the [Majority] Speaker Pro Tem for the California State Assembly. Setencich was the first freshman legislator to serve as Speaker of the Assembly since Thomas J. White and held the office from 1995 to 1996. He was elected Speaker after Doris Allen was recalled.

1996 Re-election Campaign Run Setencich ran for re-election as an incumbent, but lost. In the primary election of 1996, Setencich was defeated for renomination by Republican Robert Prenter who defeated Setencich again in November when Setencich ran as a write-in candidate.

Post political career
After his political career in the state capital, Setencich relocated to San Francisco. He was Special Assistant to the Mayor for Emergency Communications (a.k.a. 911 Emergency Response Project and later to be known as the Department of Emergency Response), for the City and County of San Francisco between 1997 and 2004. This department began with the successful campaign for federal and state funding of this $170 million project. The D.E.M. was created in 2006 by legislation that combined the former Emergency Communications Department and the former Office of Emergency Services into one agency (Admin Code Sec. 2A.200). He retired in 2012.

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Talk:Paracel Islands

China, France, Vietnam and treaties
This edit caught my eye. II haven't been able to access the cited supporting source and without seeing that have no dispute with the edit, but either I am especially dense this morning or the edited paragraph is confusing. That [aragraph now reads:

I don't see how treaties with China would give the French "effective control" of an area "nominally ruled" by Vietnam. I've added a clarify inline tag;. Maybe something like "but effectively controlled by China" needs to be added and perhaps "nominally ruled" needs clarification. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 09:52, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

 * Lying to you, since when did China control the Paracels??? Hoang Sa has been the territory of Vietnam since before the Nguyen Dynasty. Where are the historical evidences along with the relics of China's exercise of sovereignty over the sea and islands??? When the French invaded and occupied Dai Nam they managed it very well and controlled it very effectively, They built research stations, lighthouses and many things on the island, the French flag was planted on the island in 1933, France annexed the whole island. the Paracel Islands into French Territory, and during the Qing Dynasty, the southernmost island was Hainan Island, the Franco-Qing treaty did not mention China's rights and claims to the Paracels, the Republic of China had take advantage of this overthrew Japan to monopolize the East Sea and created an illegal 11-dash line in the South China Sea in 1947, After the People's Republic of China came to power, they didn't realize this and they blatantly fabricated it to create the 9th line after 50 years PhamHoangThạch (talk) 02:30, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
 * In October 1956, the Republic of China Navy captured Itu Aba Island. Taking advantage of the opportunity, the People's Republic of China immediately jumped in to occupy Woody Island. until 1974 by invasive measures, they annexed the eastern Paracel Islands until war between South Vietnam and China occurred due to Chinese aggression, Before 1956, China had no de facto control over the Paracels and your claim that China controlled effectively is a lie whereas the Paracels were part of the State of Vietnam when it was a French colony and in fact Vietnam and France ruled the Paracels effectively, not nominally https://www.camau.gov.vn/wps/portal/?1dmy&page=trangchitiet&urile=wcm%3Apath%3A/camaulibrary/camauofsite/gioithieu/chuyende/biendaoquehuong/tulieuvanban/sdfgaetwet PhamHoangThạch (talk) 03:15, 12 July 2023 (UTC)

North Vietnam never highly appreciated the South Vietnamese troops, this is complete nonsense
North Vietnam never highly appreciated the South Vietnamese troops, this is complete nonsense 37.54.230.242 (talk) 13:29, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Huh? What specific part of the article does this refer to? Can you cite supporting sources, or is this your unsupported opinion? Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 14:20, 18 July 2023 (UTC)

Names in other languages in the lede
The current version of the lede gives the name most widely used in western countries (Paracel Islands) as well as native names used by participants in the sovereignty dispute (PRC, ROC, Vietnam). I see that some editors are trying to change this; please kindly discuss any changes and rationale here in order to avoid WP:EDITWAR. AristippusSer (talk) 19:58, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

Japan in 1939
Here, I have reverted what I assume to be a good faith edit by. The edit would have reworded an article from "invaded the islands in 1939 on the pretext of their being a Chinese territory" to "invaded the islands and declared them a Chinese territory" citing a source containiing the following "4 April 1939: Paracels. Japanese troops invade the Paracels. Japan claims the islands were Chinese territory and that Japan is at war with China. Japan then declares the islands as a Japanese Protectorate." I understand the meaning of that snippet from the cited source to be that (1) Japan was at war with China at the time, (2) Japan invaded the islands (3) Japan explained this invasion in some way that the source does not describe by stating that it was their official position that the islands were the territory of a country with which they were at war. The source then goes on to say that Japan declared the islands a Japanese protectorate after the invasion.

The problem I have with the wording, "invaded the islands and declared them a Chinese territory" is that it can be read that Japan (1) invaded the islands and (2 -- sometime after the invasion) declared them to be Chinese territory. That is contrary to my reading of the source, which is that Japan saw the islands as Chinese territory prior to the invasion, then invaded the islands and wrested control of them from China, then declared them to be a Japanese protectorate. I think that the previous wording that I have restored better expresses that understanding.

Discussion? Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 23:16, 21 May 2024 (UTC)

Unreliable source?
So yesterday I found a pretty striking claim:

I've checked the first citation, and as far as I'm concerned this source largely parroted the Chinese position and as such might not satisfy WP:NPOV. The segment itself was sourced from page 405, which cite its source as "China's Indisputable Sovereignty over the Xisha and Nansha Islands. DOCUMENT OF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA 3 (1980) [hereinafter DOCUMENT OF THE MINISTRY].". For now I've been unable to access this document.

I'd also love to know where The Straits Times get its info from and if they've affirmed or discarded that in later articles. Terstegeniguess (talk) 08:05, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

 * I think you do not understand the relevant Wikipedia guidelines. Reputable secondary or tertiary sources are preferred to primary sources. All the sources are reputable as far as I personally can ascertain. The Strait Times is a Newspaper of Record and hosted by a nation independent of the dispute. If you wish to do your own research on the primary sources or The Strait Times reporting on issue since 2018 this can be done. If you find inconsistency in the former or later you may wish to submit this to an academic peer reviewed process or other source for original research. If you identified by such research a Strait Times correction statement relevant to its report or an academic retraction/analysis statement of the other sources you should state this factually in the article. (Happy to declare potential COI here in that I was in Singapore at time of its 50 year celebrations, by shear coincidence had a perfect grandstand seat to view the firework display and have intermittently read the Strait Times so know they published such corrections at time of article. I have no interest in reviewing all the reputable secondary and tertiary sources that exist on the dispute) ChaseKiwi (talk) 10:04, 3 July 2024 (UTC)
 * Having had my attention brought to article I have tried to tidy up at least the academic sources that document history before 2000 odd. I added in for example the coincidence that when Japanese traders tried to exploit guano this issue became politically charged in China around 1909. Academic analysis exists why over the next few decades various countries did not always protest formally. On specific point WP:NPOV appears to be satisfied. ChaseKiwi (talk) 14:15, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

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Hey Jford011, Just thought I would point out, you only want to sign your posts on talk pages, please don't do it on articles, I saw that you signed the article you wrote on Bob Kramer. Also you don't need to put the category links up twice, just once. Well talk to you later. -- Mr . Dude †@£К ║  Çøת†яĭβü†ĬŎИ 05:16, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:EBDIT

This may not properly be a stub. Perhaps is is a cross reference, or some such. I leave that to others to decide. Joaquin 05:08, 22 August 2005

In my experience, EBDIT and EBITA are used interchangeably, and the article is a valid stup, providing explaination of an accounting term.--Gavin Collins 10:41, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

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Enrico Baj

Enrico Baj (31 October 1924 – 16 June 2003) was an Italian artist and writer on art. Many of his works show an obsession with nuclear war. He created prints, and sculptures but especially collage. He was close to the surrealist and dada movements, and was later associated with CoBrA. As an author, he has been described as a leading promoter of the avant-garde. He worked with Umberto Eco among other collaborators. He had a long interest in the pseudo-philosophy 'pataphysics.

Biography
He was born in Milan into a wealthy family, but left Italy in 1944 having upset the authorities and to avoid conscription. He studied at the Milan University law faculty and the Brera Academy of Art.

In 1951 he founded the arte nucleare movement with Sergio Dangelo, which unlike abstract art was overtly political. Baj himself was aligned with the anarchist movement. His most well-known pieces are probably the series of "Generals": absurd characters made from found objects such as belts or medals.

He made numerous works using motifs from other artists, from Leonardo da Vinci to Picasso. Sometimes he recreated entire works of other painters.

In 1972 public display of a major work, Funeral Of The Anarchist Pinelli (a reference to Carlo Carrà's painting The Funeral of the Anarchist Galli of 1911), was banned after the murder of the police officer believed to be responsible for Giuseppe Pinelli's death in custody. However, his work continued to be political. In 1989 he designed thirty marionettes for Le Bleu-blanc-rouge et le noir, an opera by Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero to a libretto by Anthony Burgess, written for the bicentenary of the French Revolution. In his last years, he created a series of paintings in protest at the election of Silvio Berlusconi. He died in 2003 in Vergiate, Italy.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Josh danahay

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The result of the debate was Speedy Delete. --Ryan Delaney talk 11:36, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

Josh danahay
junk/vanity/non-sense Rkevins82 - TALK 05:10, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, nonsense. (see text). Since when are VFD candidates blanked? I've come across several of those today. - Mgm|(talk) 08:51, August 22, 2005 (UTC)

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The Essential Iron Maiden

The Essential Iron Maiden is the fourth greatest hits compilation by the English heavy metal band Iron Maiden, released on 12 July 2005. Released exclusively in North America, it is part of Sony Music Entertainment's The Essential series. Contrary to other releases from this series, the track listing is presented in reverse-chronological order (i.e., the latest studio-recorded songs appear first).

It is the second album by the band that does not feature Eddie on its cover, the first being the first edition of Live at Donington.

Credits

 * Iron Maiden
 * Bruce Dickinson – vocals
 * Dave Murray – guitars
 * Adrian Smith – guitars (Disc 1-tracks 1–4, 10, 13; Disc 2-tracks 1–11, 13–14)
 * Steve Harris – bass, producer (Disc 1-tracks 1–9; Disc 2-track 14)
 * Nicko McBrain – drums
 * Janick Gers – guitars (Disc 1-tracks 1–12; Disc 2-track 14)
 * Blaze Bayley – vocals (Disc 1-tracks 5–8)
 * Clive Burr – drums (Disc 2-Tracks 8–12)
 * Paul Di'Anno – vocals (Disc 2-tracks 10–12)
 * Dennis Stratton – guitar (Disc 2-track 12)

 * Additional musician
 * Michael Kenney – keyboards

 * Production
 * Martin Birch – producer
 * Simon Fowler – photography
 * Lonn Friend – liner notes
 * Nigel Green – producer
 * Will Malone – producer
 * Dimo Safari – cover photo
 * Kevin Shirley – producer, engineer, mastering, mixing
 * Howie Weinberg – mastering

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Fear of the Dark (live)
This song is said to be from Rock in Rio (1993), but that live album was released in 2002. A Real Live One and Live at Donington were released in 1993. Fear of the Dark was included on all these records, but what version is featured on The Essential Iron Maiden? --213.236.196.39 (talk) 19:13, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Fourth, or Fifth, or Sixth, or Seventh, or Eighth...
"The Essential Iron Maiden is the fourth greatest hits compilation..." depends upon one's definition of a greatest hits compilation, I suppose. Yes, there was Best o' the Beast, Ed Hunter, Edward the Great, but there was also the First Ten Years, Ed's Head, and Eddie's Archive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Iron_Maiden_compilation_albums FiggazWithAttitude (talk) 17:02, 4 February 2019 (UTC)

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