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Talk:Critical Buddhism

FYI...
--222.64.216.226 (talk) 11:43, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=critical+buddhism&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_sdt=1.&as_sdtp=on&as_sdts=5&hl=en

Topical buddhism -- why not...???
Amitābha pure land has got 9 levels of boddhisattivas and perhaps the lowerst 3 may called topical...^__^...??? --222.64.216.226 (talk) 11:51, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

Oooops, not 9 levels of boddhisattivas, but 9 grades of human beings who are willing to go to Amitābha's pure land, according to Contemplation Sutra--222.67.215.92 (talk) 01:57, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

Is the specifications of the nine grades equivalent to Nyingma's Nine Yana...???...and I wish to get the Google scholar's relevant info though.--222.67.215.92 (talk) 01:54, 5 December 2009 (UTC)

FYI... --222.67.207.78 (talk) 01:45, 5 December 2009 (UTC) --222.67.215.92 (talk) 01:56, 5 December 2009 (UTC) --222.67.215.92 (talk) 02:05, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22Contemplation+Sutra%22+%22nine+grades%22&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0
 * http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=Contemplation+Sutra+nine+yana+Nyingma&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0
 * http://scholar.google.cn/scholar?q=%E8%A7%82%E6%97%A0%E9%87%8F%E5%AF%BF%E4%BD%9B%E7%BB%8F+%E5%AE%81%E7%8E%9B%E4%B9%9D%E4%B9%98&hl=zh-CN&btnG=%E6%90%9C%E7%B4%A2&lr=
 * http://libserver2.nhu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/getfile?URN=etd-1218106-085956&filename=etd-1218106-085956.pdf

In response to the term of topical buddhism --222.64.216.226 (talk) 12:27, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=Fifty-two+stages+of+bodhisattva+practice&btnG=Search&lr=lang_en&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0

Analogue to this topic info...
--58.38.46.45 (talk) 07:06, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22critical+catholicism%22&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0

--222.67.214.133 (talk) 04:56, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22critical+christianity%22&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0

--222.67.214.133 (talk) 05:03, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=allintitle%3A+critical+islam&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0

--222.64.209.88 (talk) 05:54, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&source=hp&q=Critical%20Taoism&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=ws

The Chinese translation of the term is based on the following....
--222.64.209.88 (talk) 06:00, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
 * http://www.google.cn/search?hl=zh-CN&newwindow=1&q=critical+buddhism+%E4%BD%9B%E6%95%99+edu.cn&btnG=Google+%E6%90%9C%E7%B4%A2&aq=f&oq=

The term of Folk Buddhism....
FYI... --222.64.209.88 (talk) 06:47, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=folk+buddhism&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_sdt=1.&as_sdtp=on&as_sdts=5&hl=en

--124.78.209.178 (talk) 10:32, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=allintitle%3A+Folk+Buddhist+Religion&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0

and others

--58.38.46.45 (talk) 07:08, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=folk+catholicism&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_sdt=1.&as_sdtp=on&as_sdts=5&hl=en

--222.64.209.88 (talk) 06:50, 5 December 2009 (UTC) --222.64.209.88 (talk) 06:51, 5 December 2009 (UTC) --222.64.209.88 (talk) 06:52, 5 December 2009 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=%22folk+christianity%22&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0
 * http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=folk+islam&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_sdt=1.&as_sdtp=on&as_sdts=5&hl=en
 * http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=allintitle%3A+folk+taoism&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0

--124.78.209.178 (talk) 10:32, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=allintitle%3A+folk+christian+religion&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0

--124.78.209.178 (talk) 10:34, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=allintitle%3A+folk+catholic+religion&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0

--124.78.209.178 (talk) 10:37, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=allintitle%3A+folk+orthodox+religion&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0

--124.78.209.178 (talk) 10:39, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
 * http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=allintitle%3A+folk+orthodoxy&btnG=Search&as_sdt=2000&as_ylo=&as_vis=0

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Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch

Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch (11 February 1651 – 6 February 1732) was a wealthy Scottish peeress. After her father died when she was a few months old, and her sisters by the time she was 10, she inherited the family's titles. She was married to James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth, and the couple had six children, only two of whom survived past infancy.

Her husband was executed after losing the Monmouth Rebellion, and she went on to marry again.

Early life
Scott was born on 11 February 1651, in Dundee. Her father was Francis Scott, 2nd Earl of Buccleuch, her mother Margaret Leslie, daughter of John Leslie, 6th Earl of Rothes. Scott had two elder sisters, Mary and Margaret, but no brothers. Scott's father died the same year she was born, and her sisters died, Margaret in 1652 and Mary in 1661, leaving Scott to inherit the titles and estates.

There had been some complications, as Mary had been married, and it was therefore arguable that her husband would inherit the Scott honours; however, Mary's marriage was found to have been unlawful, due to her age, so the estates, with the titles of "Countess of Buccleuch", "Baroness Scott of Buccleuch", and "Baroness Scott of Whitchester and Eskdaill" passed to Anne.

Titles
Upon her marriage in 1663, her husband took her surname, and the titles of Duke of Monmouth, Lord Scott of Whitchester and Eskdaill, Earl of Dalkeith, and Duke of Buccleuch were created, with remainder to the heirs male of his body by Anne, failing whom to the heirs whomsoever of her body who shall succeed to the estates and Earldom of Buccleuch. On 16 January 1666, "the Duke and Duchess resigned their honours and estates into the hands of the Crown and obtained a novodamus vesting the titles of Duke of Buccleuch, Earl of Dalkeith and Earl of Buccleuch in the Duke of Monmouth, and the title of Duchess of Buccleuch, Countess of Dalkeith and Countess of Buccleuch, etc., in the Duchess conjunctly, severally and independently of each other in the event of death, forfeiture, etc., with remainder to the heirs male of their bodies, whom failing to the heirs male of the Duchess."

Following the Duke of Monmouth's death in 1685, the Duchess, whose titles were not affected by her husband's attainder because of the novodamus of 1666, resigned them into the hands of the Crown for a second time and obtained a new grant by a charter under the Great Seal, on 17 November 1687, of the title of Duchess of Buccleuch and her other honours to herself for life, and after her death to James, Earl of Dalkeith, and his heirs-male. The 1687 charter was ratified by Act of Parliament on 15 June 1693. The Duke of Monmouth's heirs were rehabilitated by a further Act of Parliament on 4 July 1690.

Family
On 20 April 1663, the twelve-year-old Anne married the fourteen-year-old James Crofts, 1st Duke of Monmouth, the oldest illegitimate son of Charles II (eldest surviving son of Charles I), by his mistress, Lucy Walter. James had been born in Rotterdam during the Second English Civil War, where his father was with his sister, Mary and his brother-in-law William II, Prince of Orange. The couple had six children:

 * Charles Scott, Earl of Doncaster (1672–1674), who died in infancy.
 * James Scott, Earl of Dalkeith (1674–1705), who married Lady Henrietta Hyde, daughter of Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester.
 * Lady Anne Scott (1675–1685), who died in childhood.
 * Henry Scott, 1st Earl of Deloraine (1676–1730), who married Anne Duncombe, the daughter of William Duncombe. After her death in 1720, he married Mary, the granddaughter of Col. Philip Howard.
 * Lord Francis Scott (1678–1679), who died young.
 * Lady Charlotte Scott (1683–1683), who died in infancy.

Her husband, the Duke of Monmouth and Buccleuch, was attained and executed for high treason on 15 July 1685 following the failure of Monmouth's Rebellion, in which he had attempted to seize the English throne and overthrow James II (the younger brother of his father, who became King of England, Scotland, and Ireland in February 1685 following the death of Charles II).

On 6 May 1688, Anne married Charles Cornwallis, 3rd Baron Cornwallis, with whom she later had three children:

 * Lady Anne Scott (d. 1690), who died young.
 * Lord George Scott (1692–1693), who died young.
 * Lady Isabella Scott (d. 1747/8).

Anne died in 1732, aged 80; her titles passed to her grandson Francis, the son of James, Earl of Dalkeith.

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Graphium (butterfly)

Graphium is a genus of mostly tropical swallowtail butterflies commonly known as swordtails, kite swallowtails, or ladies. Native to Eurasia, Africa, and Oceania, the genus is represented by over 100 species. Their colouration is as variable as the habitats they frequent; from rainforest to savannah. Some possess tails which may be long and swordlike, while others lack any hindwing extensions. Graphium species are often sighted at mud puddles.

The more colourful species are popular with collectors and are commonly seen mounted in frames for sale. Well-known species include the tailed jay (Graphium agamemnon), common bluebottle (G. sarpedon), and the purple-spotted swallowtail (G. weiskei). One species, G. idaeoides, is notable for being a perfect mimic of the danainid Idea leuconoe.

Larvae feed variously on Annonaceae (most commonly), Magnoliaceae (commonly), Lauraceae (commonly), Rutaceae, Dioscoreaceae, Bombacaceae, Piperaceae, Anacardiaceae, Apocynaceae, Malpighiaceae, Hernandiaceae, Guttiferae, Monimiaceae, Pandanaceae, Winteraceae, and Euphorbiaceae.

Note that there is a genus of fungi also called Graphium.

Species
Listed alphabetically:

subgenus: Idaides
 * species group: codrus
 * Graphium anthedon (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1864) – Wallacea bluebottle
 * Graphium cloanthus (Westwood, 1841) – glassy bluebottle
 * Graphium codrus (Cramer, [1777]) – eastern olive triangle
 * Graphium empedocles (Fabricius, 1787), originally Papilio empedocles Fabricius, 1787; Mantissa Insectorum 2: 10, no. 94 = homonym of Papilio empedocles Cramer, 1779; replaced by empedovana Corbet, 1941.
 * Graphium empedovana (Corbet, 1941)
 * Graphium gelon (Boisduval, 1859)
 * Graphium macleayanus (Leach, 1814) – Macleay's swallowtail
 * Graphium mendana (Godman & Salvin, 1888)
 * Graphium monticolus (Fruhstorfer, 1896) – Sulawesi blue triangle
 * ?Graphium protensor (Gistel,1857) Papilio protensor Gistel, J.,1857 Achthundert und zwanzig neue oder unbeschriebene wirbellose Theire charakterisirt von Doctor Johannes Gistel Vacuna 2(2):513-606. synonym of Graphium sarpedon
 * Graphium sarpedon (Linnaeus, 1758) – common bluebottle or blue triangle
 * Graphium stresemanni (Rothschild, 1916)
 * Graphium weiskei (Ribbe, 1900) – purple spotted swallowtail

 * species group: eurypylus
 * Graphium agamemnon (Linnaeus, 1758 ) – tailed jay or green-spotted triangle
 * Graphium arycles (Boisduval, 1836) – spotted jay
 * Graphium bathycles (Zinken, 1831)
 * Graphium chironides (Honrath, 1884) – veined jay
 * Graphium doson (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1864) – common jay
 * Graphium eurypylus (Linnaeus, 1758) – great jay or pale green triangle
 * Graphium evemon (Boisduval, 1836) – lesser jay
 * Graphium leechi (Rothschild, 1895)
 * Graphium macfarlanei (Butler, 1877) – green triangle butterfly or green triangle
 * Graphium meeki (Rothschild & Jordan, 1901) – Meek's graphium
 * Graphium meyeri (Hopffer, 1874)
 * Graphium procles (Grose-Smith, 1887)

 * species group: wallacei
 * Graphium browni (Godman & Salvin, 1879)
 * Graphium hicetaon (Mathew, 1886)
 * Graphium sandawanum Yamamoto, 1977 – Apo swallowtail
 * Graphium wallacei (Hewitson, 1858)

subgenus: Arisbe Hübner, [1819]
 * species group: antheus
 * Graphium antheus (Cramer, [1779]) – large striped swordtail
 * Graphium evombar (Boisduval, 1836)

 * species group: policenes
 * Graphium biokoensis Gauthier, 1984 – Gauthier's striped swordtail
 * Graphium colonna (Ward, 1873) – black swordtail or mamba swordtail
 * Graphium gudenusi (Rebel, 1911)
 * Graphium illyris (Hewitson, 1872) - cream-banded swordtail
 * Graphium junodi (Trimen, 1893) – Junod's swordtail
 * Graphium kirbyi (Hewitson, 1872) – Kirby's swordtail
 * Graphium liponesco (Suffert, 1904)
 * Graphium policenes (Cramer, [1775]) – small striped swordtail or common swordtail
 * Graphium policenoides (Holland, 1892)
 * Graphium polistratus (Grose-Smith, 1889) – dancing swordtail
 * Graphium porthaon (Hewitson, 1865) – coastal swordtail, cream-striped swordtail, or dark swordtail

 * species group: angolanus
 * Graphium angolanus (Goeze, 1779) – Angola white lady (swordtail)
 * Graphium endochus (Boisduval, 1836)
 * Graphium morania (Angas, 1849) – white lady (swallowtail) or small white-lady swordtail
 * Graphium ridleyanus (White, 1843) - acraea swordtail
 * Graphium schaffgotschi (Niepelt, 1927) – Schaffgotsch's swordtail
 * Graphium taboranus (Oberthür, 1886)

 * species group: leonidas
 * Graphium cyrnus (Boisduval, 1836)
 * Graphium leonidas (Fabricius, 1793) – veined swordtail, veined swallowtail, or common graphium
 * Graphium levassori Oberthür, 1890

 * species group: tynderaeus
 * Graphium tynderaeus (Fabricius, 1793) – electric green swordtail or green-spotted swallowtail
 * Graphium latreillianus (Godart, 1819) – coppery swordtail

 * species group: philonoe
 * Graphium philonoe (Ward, 1873) – eastern white-lady swordtail, eastern graphium, white-dappled swallowtail

 * species group: adamastor
 * Graphium abri Smith & Vane-Wright, 2001
 * Graphium adamastor (Boisduval, 1836) – Boisduval's white-lady
 * Graphium agamedes (Westwood, 1842) – Westwood's white-lady or glassy graphium
 * Graphium almansor (Honrath, 1884) – Almansor white-lady swordtail or Honrath's white-lady
 * Graphium auriger (Butler, 1876)
 * Graphium aurivilliusi (Seeldrayers, 1896)
 * Graphium fulleri (Grose-Smith, 1883)
 * Graphium hachei (Dewitz, 1881)
 * Graphium kigoma Carcasson, 1964
 * Graphium olbrechtsi Berger, 1950
 * Graphium poggianus (Honrath, 1884)
 * Graphium rileyi Berger, 1950 - Riley's graphium
 * Graphium schubotzi (Schultze, 1913)
 * Graphium simoni (Aurivillius, 1899)
 * Graphium ucalegon (Hewitson, 1865) – creamy graphium
 * Graphium ucalegonides (Staudinger, 1884)

subgenus: Pathysa
 * species group: antiphates
 * Graphium agetes (Westwood, 1841) – fourbar swordtail
 * Graphium androcles (Boisduval, 1836) – lion swordtail, giant swordtail
 * Graphium antiphates (Cramer, [1775]) – fivebar swordtail
 * Graphium aristeus (Stoll, [1780]) – chain swordtail
 * Graphium decolor (Staudinger, 1888)
 * Graphium dorcus (de Haan, 1840) – Tabitha's swordtail
 * Graphium epaminondas (Oberthür, 1879)
 * Graphium euphrates (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1862) – Euphrates swordtail
 * Graphium euphratoides (Eimer, 1889)
 * Graphium nomius (Esper, 1799) – spot swordtail
 * Graphium rhesus (Boisduval, 1836) – monkey swordtail
 * Graphium stratiotes (Grose-Smith, 1887)

subgenus: Paranticopsis Wood-Mason & de Nicéville, 1887
 * Graphium delessertii (Guérin-Méneville, 1839) – Malayan zebra
 * Graphium deucalion (Boisduval, 1836) – yellow zebra
 * Graphium encelades (Boisduval, 1836)
 * Graphium idaeoides (Hewitson, 1853)
 * Graphium macareus (Godart, 1819) – lesser zebra
 * Graphium megaera (Staudinger, 1888)
 * Graphium megarus (Westwood, 1844) – spotted zebra
 * Graphium ramaceus (Westwood, 1872)
 * Graphium phidias (Oberthür, 1906)
 * Graphium stratocles (C. Felder & R. Felder, 1861)
 * Graphium thule (Wallace, 1865)
 * Graphium xenocles (Doubleday, 1842) – great zebra

subgenus: Pazala Moore, 1888
 * Graphium alebion (Gray, [1853])
 * Graphium eurous (Leech, [1893]) – sixbar swordtail
 * Graphium glycerion (Gray, 1831) – spectacle swordtail
 * Graphium incerta Bang-Haas, 1927
 * Graphium mandarinus (Oberthür, 1879) – spectacle swordtail
 * Graphium mullah (Alphéraky 1897) ::* Graphium tamerlana (Oberthür, 1876)
 * Graphium timur (Ney, 1911) synonymised with Graphium mullah by Cotton and Racheli, T., 2007
 * Graphium wenlingae Hu, Condamine, Monastyrskii & Cotton, 2019

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Talk:John Claudius Loudon

Another John Loudon
John Loudon was prime minister of the Netherlands in 1861-1862. A disambiguation page is needed.--Daanschr 06:50, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * John Loudon was a minister (for foreign affairs), and only for a short time. Wether he is notable enough to remain in Wikipedia remains to be seen. In the mean time I have added an ambiguation link. 77.167.212.162 (talk) 22:12, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
 * The first comment was made in 2005 and soon afterwards the John Loudon entry became a disambig page, and this article was moved to John Claudius Loudon. In the mean time tow other John Loudon-articles have been created, so that ambiguation link doesn't really seems necessary. -- Mdd (talk) 23:33, 14 March 2013 (UTC)

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Talk:Asian fetish/Archive 1

Usually it is people who take personal shots at other editors becuase they have nothing to say with any substance on the actual article content.

Fetish vs. philia
Do the points brought up here have any merit?--Daveswagon 20:58, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

Removed statements
This article is totally lame and obviously written by a geek who can't get a date except for an Asian woman (ANY ASIAN WOMAN WILL DO) who thinks he walks on water because he doesn't treat her like a second class citizen.

"Some areas claim not to think of WM/AF as an interracial relationship. However, would it be the same if the male was Black or Latino?"

"And if the reverse, Asian Male/White Female was common, would it have be considered an interracial couple?"

They need to be revised. As stated, they're conjectural and could be offensive. --Mitsukai 07:52, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Could be offensive? The whole article is offensive. (Perhaps its intention)

POV
This article is totally POV, and inflammatory. Does Wikipedia have a page for n***** or k***? This term is mostly internet chatroom fodder and is not in currency in the real media or the real world.

Some recommendations: 1. Delete it and be gone with it 2. Merge it into a larger article about IR couples or Asian American slang, racial stereotypes or whatever 3. Clean it up and put more criticism. But the existence of the article and the title is already a kind of POV. I can imagine, for instance, the Klu Klux Klan would love creating articles with all sort of 'funny' titles that are derogatory and essentially not encyclopedic.

 * Actually Wikipedia does have an article on nigger (word). You're welcome to propose a rewrite here. Furthermore you're encouraged to get an ID instead of using anonymous edits.  Samw 00:18, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

 * To clarify, this article is not really POV, it is about "a particular POV" that an article is written about. Also, I do believe that an article about the word "kike" should be made, just as there is one about the word "nigger"--these are etymological subjects.  Now, if anyone here wants to play the race card by crying "POV", then try to take me on... but before you do you must know that I am an American, and unlike the Anglo-Saxon eurotrash I've dealt with before, I'm prepared to play hardball. Sweetfreek 02:01, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Ok, so we can make a page called "rice dick" and "asian dick" and other negative stereotypes about Asian males and no one will object????? LOL!! I'm sure you'd be the first to jump in to vandalize. What shameless hypocrisy. Otherwise this article is simply the work of some KKK type bigots, probably bitter Asian males, opposed to "race mixin" who promote their bigot world view by spoiling an encyclopedia. Oh, and drop the attitude, little boy, this is a place for adults not insecure adolescents.

 * By your statement, you're hardly acting any better.

 * I'm sorry, but it is very much in currency, both in the media and real world. Maxim magazine, Slate,  and various other real-world news outlets have done articles on "Tokyo Joe" or "Peking Tom" syndrome (I'll have to find the exact articles so I can post them online).  It's not just some BS that one sees in a chatroom.  And even if it was inflammatory and offensive, just as the racial slurs are, the purpose of an encyclopedia is to list this sort of information, whether right or wrong.  Encyclopedias, even online ones like Wiki, exist to chronicle the world and all its colors (no pun intended), right or wrong. --Mitsukai 04:32, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

 * That's currency? You read an article somewhere at sometime which you can't find?

 * Yes, it is. Simply because if it was notable enough for me to remember it, then I should think so.  Of course, you're welcome to give an opposing view in the article.  Furthermore, as was mentioned earlier, you're also encouraged to sign up for a user name so that you don't give the appearance of trolling, which, if I may suggest, you may be doing now. --Mitsukai 12:22, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Yawn. Wikipedia explicitly allows editing by anyone. If you don't like the policy, campaign against it. But labeling someone as a troll simply because it goes against your political view is a little silly. A pointless argument distracting us from the main point, which is that this article is heavily POV. Even the title implies a psychological condition for something that was once labeled miscegnatin or however you spell that. Very unecyclopedic. I suggest you and other try to make a compromise and revise the article instead of just "playing hardball" like someone childishly put it.

 * banana and egg warrant having their own pages on the grounds that they are reasonably "stand alone" topics--most others fall into subgroupings or whatnot, and therefore should be put under list of ethnic slurs. Sweetfreek 04:12, 12 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Why? You assert it warrants its own page without giving any reason. With all the deleting that goes on at Wikipedia of more academic, and I dare say, legitimate topics, why exactly does something like this get server space?

 * Yeah, I get pissed about those kind of deletions, too. Sweetfreek 05:36, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

This article is very conjectural. Needs more backing from Ethnic studies or sociological papers I'd say.

 * He's right. This does need some papers behind it.

 * Do such papers exist? I can just see a sociology professor trying to shore up funding for something like this: "I need a research grant to find out why white guys think Asian chicks are so hot." Denied!--Daveswagon 20:51, 19 July 2005 (UTC)

 * N*****, k***, what are you talking about? We're mature, there's no need for censorship. And as for the NPOV, it's ridicolous. As stated in the article, there have been numerous pop culture references to this. I've seen shows on the History Channel that only talk about female oriental fetishes displayed by US soldiers in wartime (Korea, WWII Japan, Vietnam, etc). Not only that, but the article states that when there is inter racial marriage concerning white males, they prefer oriental females. Just like how inter racial marriages concerning white females are usually with black males. That's the way life is, it's not the act of some racists, or people on chat rooms, it's nature. I will be removing the NPOV template now, seeing as how it was added on July 26, and the article has since been improved. Gold Stur 18:40, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

 * It's not racism? Before you talk about the absence of racism, you'd probably want to stop calling people Orientals.  While you're at it, stop calling people Negroes too. ;) (Eline)

 * How is using the word "oriental" racist? It's not saying that my race is better. You don't even know my race, so don't act like you do. And the reason why I use oriental is because it is more specific than Asian. Asia is a big place. You have Indians, Pakistinians, Pacific Islanders, Eurasians, Russians, Middle Easterners, etc., so when one says Asian, they are being very general. Oriental however, means the Asian that you and many others think of. One could accuse YOU of racism for trying to lump everyone together. And I don't use the term negro. Fuck you. Gold Stur 01:17, 26 August 2005 (UTC)

 * the fact that you don't understand why oriental is not preferred speaks volumes. Most people use East Asian or East/Southeast asian.Kennethtennyson 15:32, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

People need to understand. There are some folks who like to use the name Oriental when referring to themselves. Most of them are not Asian-Americans however. I would say, why not call people simply what they prefer to be called. Most Asian-Americans accept the term Asian or Asian-American. Many folks in the Far East may prefer Oriental. Others there may prefer something more specific.

Just call them what they prefer. What's the big deal?

29 September 15.14.2005 TheDogon

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When I revised the article, there were pornographic images on it. The pictures were linked to your name. When I looked your name up, there were other edits associated with it that had pornography attached. However, I don't seem to see them anymore. I wonder if the administrators removed them permanently. I wonder if your name might have been used by someone else previously. Sorry for the confusion if there was any. Kennethtennyson 3 July 2005 22:31 (UTC)

 * Oh, I see. Yeah, I had nothing to do with it, whatever it was. I can't see it in history, so maybe admins erased it. Perhaps someone spoofed my name or something similar. Vandals, trolls and the like are not unheard of around here. Willowx 7 July 2005 10:24 (UTC)

Such papers do exist that have sociological and historical ties to all these stereotypes of asian women and white men, and other interracial couples. All of this came from somewhere. And a lot of these ideas were pushed onto society to oppress and shame ethnic women and in this case/topic it is asian women.

here is a link...to an educated writer...http://www.webcom.com/intvoice/emily5.html

Perhaps inaccurate
I'm not sure if the last paragraph is that accurate. I edited a bit. There actually is a thriving pornographic industry in europe, america, and south america; however, but there is not as much of a focus. Further, there actually is a thriving porno industry in africa and south asia and somewhat in the mideast but people in the US are not aware of it due to the lack of interest in the general population here in the west. The asian fetish that exists here promotes a myopic focus on asian porno that overemphasizes asian porno.Steelhead

 * Which came first, chicken or egg? Maybe a little of both. But I think it is ridiculous to deny that Japan, especially has a HUGE porn industry, including some disturbing aspects like rape and very young girls. Absolutely enormous. Also a thriving prostitution racket. It uses sexy images of girls to sell even weekly news magazines. Saudi Arabia doesn't do this. This is why you never see Arab porn floating around, and no "fan boys" types ogling lewd Arab comics. Someone who knows Japan only through these cartoons would have a seriously warped view of a rather conservative nation. So how much does the perceived low status of women by their own culture's influence the image that is exported to the world? Africa and South America are perhaps too underdeveloped to export very much, such as magazines, videos and internet sites, although the "Sexy" aspects of Latin culture (dancing, romance) do encourage the 'Latina' stereotypes. Maybe we could do a Google test to see the search hits for various countries?? Here goes:

 * 3,490,000 for american porn
 * 2,850,000 for asian porn
 * 1,170,000 for european porn
 * 990,000 for latin porn
 * 804,000 for arab porn
 * 779,000 for african porn

 * Yeah, I know it's crude. It may simply reflect the volume of internet activity, ie. the US and Japan and Europe have the most. Arab, Africa have far less. If my theory is correct about promotion of sexualized images, we could also expect that Americans might be the most sexualized. This may be the case. In some parts of the world, it is assumed that American women are "easy", all have big silicone breasts etc. Also I think Africa, being the most poor, seems the obvious cause here. My point is that some Asian nations promote 'exotic' images, sometimes wittingly (Singapore girl) and sometimes unwittingly (domestic Manga markets in Japan -- not really intended for export originally). So isn't there some hypocrisy in the notion that Asians themselves have no culpability in their image to the outside world? Just like America often exports a very violent image of itself through Hollywood. An outsider might think the whole country is the Wild West. My point is this: Respect for women begins at home. It's hypocrisy to treat women as decorations ("office flowers") or sex toys (think "chikan"), and then expect foreigners to on the contrary have great respect for them, a respect which is perhaps lacking at home. Willowx 08:55, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Googling all of the internet for ENGLISH references to porn in different countries only shows you what ENGLISH speaking and writing people write on the internet related to porn. Thus, it doesn't substantiate that asian porn promoted by asian countries plays a part in the asian fetish.  All it shows you is that ENGLISH speaking people (ie. European and American people) have an overwhelming interest in Asian porn as opposed to latin porn or arab porn.  Thus, english speaking people (majority white) have an overwhelming interest in Asian porn as compared to other porn and thus the asian fetish idea.  Steelhead 14:59, 17 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Still, it shows that at least in English (ie., most of the internet) disparities exist. Since the Chinese and Japanese and Korean web is also large and growing, I suspect my calculations underestimate the presence of asian pornography. Maybe someone has access to real statistics on this (instead of just griping about my admittedly rough Google technique)? Also you missed my point. The overwhelming porn presence in English web is Americans and European, but that is not considered "fetish". Why? Seems like a tautology on your part. Willowx 13:54, 26 July 2005 (UTC)

Update: I found some actual stats on porn site registrations by country:  The full top ten is:

1. Germany: 10,030,200 2. United Kingdom: 8,506,800 3. Australia: 5,655,800 4. Niue: 2,947,800 5. Japan: 2,700,800 6. Netherlands: 1,883,800 7. Russia: 1,080,600 8. Poland: 1,049,600 9. Spain: 852,800 10. Tonga: 848,800

The total Web pages by region is:

* Europe: 28,430,600 * Pacific: 12,352,600 * Asia: 3,193,000 * Latin America: 1,048,600 * Africa: 389,400 * Canada: 283,600 * Caribbean:255,000 * Middle East: 77,800 * Total: 46,030,600

Japan is number five, leading to the possibility of Japanese models / porn being more prevalent than say, Saudi women.

Who changed the article? What they wrote was true. They speak the facts and someone just had to delete half the article! I changed it back to the way it was. They left no explanation of why it was changed. (Kyla 03:27, 5 September 2005 (UTC))

 * you don't understand. what steelhead was trying to state was that you can't make any conclusions about the asian fetish phenomenon being a result of the Asian cultures promoting porn from your google search. That google search is in English. Google itself searches mainly sites written in English. As far as I can tell, the majority of English websites even if they are based in foreign countries are run by English speaking people, ie. white people.  Thus a search for porn in English in an asian country like japan just tells you that 9/10 times a website run by English speaking people was running that website using Japan as a base.  It tells you nothing about who was running it.  The majority of Japanese run and manage sites written in Japanese.  The same can be said about Latin america. Also, using raw numbers to calculate is totally wrong.  If you notice, America and Europe have the highest distribution of internet access in the world folloowed by Asia.  If you did a search for the word "cookbook" or some other random word you would probably come up with the same rankings - ie. europe and american and then asia (ie japan and korea and china).  Finally, what you probably need to do is compare internet use as a percentage of world use in a certain region with pornography as a percentage of all pornography in all languages to get the true answer.  What that will probably end up showing you is that especially the Caribbean and Canada along with Africa have the highest percentage of pornography in relation to internet use.  How many people do you think use the internet in the Caribbean?  In terms of country, it would show you that Poland is the number one porn distributer in the world compared to the internet users that it has next to probably Australia and the Netherlands. Even then you can't draw any conclusions because it is confounded by the fact that many US based internet porn sites run it from foreign countries because the law in some foreign countries is lax about these things. For instance, most internet gambling sites are run from the Caribbean. Does it mean that the latinos in the caribbean are gambling addicts? All it means is that the laws there make it easier to run internet porn sites.Kennethtennyson

Still some POV problems.
I was looking over the section on "Effects on Media" and found it ridiculously POV; I'm surprised there wasn't a tag on the article. My edits last night, which took me a while to complete, were reverted by an anon earlier today. I'd like some registered users here to comment on my edits to that section so that we can make it better. See WP:NPOV for what our goal should be in this and any other article. --Idont Havaname 20:31, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Yeah, the Media section is ridiculously POV (and the rest of the article doesn't look so hot as well). While I agree that the topic is encyclopedic, the article needs an overhaul. --24.128.167.223 22:06, 17 September 2005 (UTC) --Wasabe3543 22:12, 17 September 2005 (UTC) (forgot to sign in)

Humour
Quote from social concequences

" A suicide note found at the scene also indicated that he had a racial infatuation with Wang."

Wang being a slang word for penis. Strangly fitting in an article where penis size was earlier mentioned

Some points worth bringing up regarding POV/NPOV
There are several things I think I should say about this article and how we should handle editing it.

--Idont Havaname 23:33, 17 September 2005 (UTC) Does it also upset you to see Asian women with Black men, or Asian men dating White women?
 * 1) It is not, in any way, shape, or form, being written from a neutral point of view.  This is obvious from the presence of weasel words such as "often" and "many" (without references), and by the presence of statements such as, "white men who date Asian women are also sometimes stereotyped as being sexually/emotionally inadequate", "The Asian fetish is essentially rooted in white supremacist imperialism", "the three cases given above cannot provide a full picture of the depth of harm which an Asian fetish can do to both Asian-American identity and to interracial relationships", "This pairing has become so ubiquitous that it even appears in children's books" (and that's shocking?), and the whole last paragraph of "Effects on Media".  In so doing, it's trying to paint all Asian/white relationships as invalid and wrong, all of the women as having "sold out", and all of the guys as Michael Lohman types.  I could go write an article in which I whine in a "Quit Stealing All Our Women Point of View" about how some of my white female friends are dating only black guys, but that wouldn't be NPOV either.
 * 2) It doesn't have enough discussion of white women who like Asian men.
 * 3) It doesn't consider the fact that some white guys who like Asian women like other women too, and that there are reasons for liking Asian women other than, "Oh, I like her because she's Asian."  Some people don't consider race a factor at all in relationships and think nothing of it in their dating practices.  (It is also worth pointing out that, at least in the US, "white" and "black" people can only trace parts (if any) of their ancestry to particular nationalities, so in a sense, nearly any relationship they are in is to some extent interracial.  Maybe that's why they've stopped making a big deal about which race of women they date!)
 * 4) Most importantly, you do not have to be Asian, or white, or black, or any other race, to edit this article!  There is no rule in Wikipedia policy saying that there are race/ethnicity/nationality requirements for editing certain types of articles.  If you don't like that, go start your own encyclopedia.
 * So, wait....you're upset that your 'White' female friends are dating Black men? Interesting.

-Joel Lindley 05:44, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
 * No, I'm not. I used to be - seeing them did play a part in my becoming less strict (from a racial standpoint) in who I was taking interest in, but I'm really not opposed to it anymore.  I know a white woman who was married to a guy from China, and I never thought anything one way or the other on that.  I've noticed somewhat of a "trophy" attitude in some (certainly not all) of the black man / white woman pairings (there are rap songs about it, for instance; one that I can think of, by Will Smith?, has a line about "my honey with the light eyes" - I think it's called "Summertime"), so that sort of runs in parallel with this bizarrely titled "Asian fetish" in a sense, as *some* (certainly not all, as Asian fetish seems to be saying) of these relationships are between people who are both taking race into account too much (i.e. looking for somebody because they are of a certain race).  I've seen articles in US newspapers that some white parents are telling their children to marry blacks just so that their children can benefit from affirmative action programs (I'd love to find the source for that and list it somewhere).  It's a rather interesting phenomenon that I think deserves its own article (coming up with the right title for it could be a problem), and then have that article and this one linked from interracial couple.  (Send me a message on my talk page if you're interested in working on an article on that.)  I don't see anything wrong with interracial relationships, however.  Sorry if what I said in my previous post seemed unclear. --Idont Havaname 19:51, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, Black people can have light eyes as well. Not just White people. FYI, I don't think Will Smith was referring to a White women, since the video 'Summertime' showcased majority African-Americans, and Will Smith has been paired with mainly Black women in the past. Too, as for Whites telling their kids to marry Blacks just for Affirmative Action is a form of racism, as is saying African-Americans have to look a certain way due to their racial background.
 * Sorry, I'd never seen the video; I'd just heard the song on the radio a few years ago. Unless you've seen the video that line can be somewhat ambiguous. --Idont Havaname 00:10, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

So, you were upset that Asian women were dating Black men as well? Interesting.

--Joel Lindley 22:15, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
 * No, I'm not. Just because I don't say that I'm not upset doesn't mean I am upset.  I'm not upset with black/Asian couples any more than any other interracial couples; I don't have double standards.  Now let's please all get the discussion back toward improving this article. --Idont Havaname 00:10, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Alright, alright. No need to get snippy.LOL. I'm just glad you got over your jealousy. And, yes, I agree with you; let's get back to improving the article. :)

-67.169.114.208 12:11, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

So, what about the article is it that you feel is unmitigated or not justified by any sort of evidence? What about the article is "insulting"? Are you denying that Asian fetishes do occur and that there are people who are solely attracted to Asians (often Asian females) solely because of race? I have met many people that have said, "Oh yeah, I love Asian women because they are sexy and kinky!" How is that not a racially generalized comment? That is like saying, "Oh yeah, I like African women because they have bones in their noses!" Are all Asian women kinky? Do most African women live in tribes with bones in their noses?

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Amadeo Roldán

Amadeo Roldán y Gardes (Paris, 12 June 1900 – Havana, 7 March 1939) was a Cuban composer and violinist. Roldán was born in Paris to a Cuban mulatta and a Spanish father. It was his mother, the pianist Albertina Gardes, who initiated her children to music (his sister María Teresa was a mezzo-soprano and his brother Alberto a cellist).

Roldán came to Cuba in 1919 after studying music theory and violin at the Madrid Conservatory, graduating in 1916. He became the concertmaster (leader of the first-violin section) of the new Orquesta Sinfónica de la Habana in 1922. In the mid-1920s he was appointed concertmaster of the Orquesta Filarmónica of Havana (he would assume the position of conductor in 1932) and founded the Havana String Quartet.

During this period, Roldán, one of the leaders of the Afrocubanismo movement, wrote the first symphonic pieces to incorporate Afro-Cuban percussion instruments. Roldán's best-known composition is the 1928 ballet La Rebambaramba, described by a critic of the era as "a multicolored musicorama ... depicting an Afro-Cuban fiesta in a gorgeous display of Caribbean melorhythms, with the participation of a multifarious fauna of native percussion effects, including a polydental glissando on the jawbone of an ass."

Roldán's compositions included Overture on Cuban Themes (1925), three little poems: (Oriente, Pregón, Fiesta negra: 1926), and two ballets: La Rebambaramba (a ballet colonial in two parts: 1928) and El milagro de Anaquille (1929). There followed a series of Rítmicas (1930), Poema negra (1930) and Tres toques (march, rites, dance) (1931). The fifth and sixth of his Rítmicas, composed around the same time as Edgard Varèse's Ionisation, were among the first works in the Western classical music tradition scored for percussion ensemble alone. In Motivos de son (1934) he wrote eight pieces for voice and instruments based on the poet Nicolas Guillen's set of poems with the same title. His last composition was two Piezas infantiles for piano (1937). His work was regularly featured in concerts sponsored by the Pan-American Association of Composers, founded by Henry Cowell, including the inaugural, March 1929 performance in New York.

Roldán died at the peak of his creative powers at 38, of a disfiguring facial cancer (he had been an inveterate smoker). His career followed a similar path to Alejandro García Caturla, and the two men are considered to be pioneers of modern Cuban symphonic art.

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Talk:Walter Wolfgang

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This guy is just a crazy old fool, why is he notable? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.141.29.51 (talk) 20:19, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Although WW has been quoted as heckling "nonsense", apparently he shouted "That's a lie and you know it." My source is the Daily Telegraph, perhaps a surprising one for Labour Party reporting. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/09/29/nlab29.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/09/29/ixportaltop.html Ringbark 06:53, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Most other sources are still quoting him as just saying "nonsense". Unless/until there is anything firmer, I think both versions should be given. Vilcxjo 14:44, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

As Vice-President of CND, etc, WW probably merited a WP entry even before this incident. Can anyone supply information about his activism prior to 28/9/05, also basic biographical stuff like date & place of birth? Vilcxjo 17:00, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm happy to oblige. David | Talk 20:32, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Non-notable?
Are we sure this guy is notable? do we really want to list all past presidents of CND?. I wonder if this is just Recentism, i.e., it made the newspapers so people dutifully compieled non-notable facts into an wikipedia article. MPS 21:17, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I see absolutely no reason not to. CND is a notable organisation - David Gerard 22:00, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

I Think Wolfgang is notable for two reasons

[A] His aresst under the terrosim act was a misuse of the bill, one of many. This will be significant in the future and it is important such misuses are documented.

[B]If his campain to get on the national executive of the labour party is successful it will be very significant due to his far left-wing views.

 * If there had been any doubt about it, I think Dbiv's edits (good material, thanks for that) probably put the question to rest. Vilcxjo 22:12, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Picture
That picture has a Reuters copyright on it and has to go. Anyone find a potential replacement? David | Talk 21:18, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

There's a nice picture of WW on this page at The Labour CND Website. They're socialists, after all - ask and ye shall receive. Griffin147 P.S. - I've never had an article I've started attract so much attention (or rehashing!)- great stuff, and thank you Times Online!

 * That was good wasn't it? I've also nominated this article for Do You Know? so it might appear on the Main page soon. David | Talk 00:23, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

What's OAP?
The Times headline refers to "OAP". Would someone be so good as to add an explanation of this term to the article, for the benefit of us Colonials? JamesMLane 10:01, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Old Age Pensioner - literally someone in receipt of the state retirement pension, hence a male over 65 or a female over 60 (the age for females will eventually rise to 65 too). - Londoneye 10:31, 23 October 2005 (UTC)

Nonsense!
I just added an extra line about the fact that he could've been charged under the Protection from Harassment Act if he had repeated "nonsense" twice. I hope everyone agrees that its relevant Bmathew 04:26, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

I really think such a possibility is incredibly remote, and that you are making a political point. No prosecutor would agree to do this and no judge or jury would agree that such conduct amounted to harassment under this legislation. 80.47.240.58 23:51, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

 * I wasn't really making a political point, just quoting the Guardian article which is linked. Had Mr Wolfgang said "nonsense" twice during the foreign secretary's speech, the police could have charged him under the Protection from Harassment Act 1997. Bmathew 07:30, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

I should have thought the brief resume of Walter's life shows he is notable. He has dedicated his life to working for peace and trying to make this a better world since before Blair & co. were even born. The gentlest of men, this violent physical assault in return for a peaceful protest is nothing short of disgraceful. If politician's cannot take heckling, I suggest they get out of politics. Heckling is an old tradition in politics in this country. Trying to silence someone who disagrees before he can say very much smacks of the fascism Walter Wolfgang's family were forced to flee. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Rudieva (talk • contribs) 15:00, 13 September 2006.

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Robert Whittaker (ecologist)

Robert Harding Whittaker (December 27, 1920 – October 20, 1980) was an American plant ecologist, active from the 1950s to the 1970s. He was the first to propose the five kingdom taxonomic classification of the world's biota into the Animalia, Plantae, Fungi, Protista, and Monera in 1969. He also proposed the Whittaker Biome Classification, which categorized biome types upon two abiotic factors: temperature and precipitation. He proposed the concepts of Alpha diversity, Beta diversity, and Gamma diversity.

Whittaker was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1974, received the Ecological Society of America's Eminent Ecologist Award in 1981, and was otherwise widely recognized and honored. He collaborated with many other ecologists including George Woodwell (Dartmouth), W. A. Niering, F. H. Bormann (Yale), and G. E. Likens (Cornell), and was particularly active in cultivating international collaborations.

Early life
Born in Wichita, Kansas, he obtained a B.A. at Washburn Municipal College (now Washburn University) in Topeka, Kansas, and, following military service, his Ph.D. in Biology at the University of Illinois in 1948.

Career
Whittaker held teaching and research positions at Washington State College in Pullman, Washington from 1948 to 1951, and then moved Hanford Laboratories Aquatic Biology Unit near Richland, Washington. In 1954, he was hired as an instructor in the Department of Biology of Brooklyn College, the City University of New York. In the 1960s, he worked at the University of California, Irvine and Cornell University.

Family
Whittaker married biochemist Clara Buehl (then a coworker at Hanford Laboratories) in 1952. They had three children. Clara was diagnosed with cancer in 1972, and she later died on December 31, 1976.

Whittaker married graduate student Linda Olsvig in 1979. He too was diagnosed with lung cancer and died on October 20, 1980.

Works

 * Robert H. Whittaker Communities and Ecosystems, Macmillan, 1975. ISBN 0-02-427390-2
 * Robert H. Whittaker(Ed), Classification of Plant Communities, 1978 (Handbook of Vegetation Science), Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 90-6193-566-0

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Waste of MFZB

Waste of MFZB is the fifth studio album released by American punk rock band Zebrahead exclusively in Japan, it is also their final album with band member Justin Mauriello, who left the group shortly afterwards.

As the title suggests, the album is made up of songs that never made the final cut of the band's previous release MFZB, except for the cover of the song "Wannabe" by Spice Girls, which was recorded during production for the band's third studio album Playmate of the Year.

Track listing

 * Notes
 * The song "Lightning Rod" features on the single for "Rescue Me" from the band's previous release MFZB, but under the title "Outcast."

Singles
"Are You for Real?" - the only single released from the album. The majority of radio airplay received from the song was in Japan, a music video accompanied its release.

Personnel

 * Zebrahead
 * Ali Tabatabaee - lead vocals
 * Justin Mauriello - lead vocals, rhythm guitar
 * Greg Bergdorf - lead guitar
 * Ben Osmundson - bass guitar
 * Ed Udhus - drums
 * Art
 * Jam Suzuki
 * Takaaki Numano (MINDWRAP) (front cover)
 * Jeff "Dirt" Conley (art concept)

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Don Edwards

William Donlon Edwards (January 6, 1915 – October 1, 2015) was an American politician of the Democratic Party and a member of the United States House of Representatives from California for 32 years in the late 20th century.

Early life
Edwards was born in San Jose, California to Republican parents. His father and grandfather owned a land title business. After graduating from San Jose High School, Edwards earned a B.A. from Stanford University in 1936, where he was member of the Stanford golf team. Edwards then attended Stanford Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1940.

Edwards was a special agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 1940 to 1941, when he joined the United States Navy as a naval intelligence and gunnery officer during World War II. In 1950, he was elected president of the California Young Republicans, resigning after joining the United World Federalists. Perceiving the Republican Party as becoming too conservative, he became a Democrat prior to his first congressional election victory in 1962. He was the president of Valley Title Company of Santa Clara County from 1951 to 1975, and a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1964 and 1968.

United States representative (1963–95)
Edwards was elected as a member of the Democratic Party to the 88th from the 10th Congressional District (later redistricted to the 16th Congressional District) and to the fifteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1995). In his first year in the House, Edwards voted to abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee. Edwards was involved in the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Edwards was a member of the House Judiciary Committee during the investigation of the Watergate scandal. Edwards opposed the U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam War, the invasion of Panama, and the Persian Gulf War.

Edwards was one of eight members of the Judiciary Committee to vote for all five articles of impeachment drafted against President Richard Nixon during the Watergate scandal. The others were Jack Brooks, Robert Kastenmeier, John Conyers, Barbara Jordan, Charles Rangel, Elizabeth Holtzman and Edward Mezvinsky. Three of the five articles were adopted prior to Nixon's resignation on August 9, 1974.

Edwards was one of the House impeachment managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1988 to conduct the impeachment trial of Alcee Hastings, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. However, he was replaced as an impeachment manager before the trial started. However, in 1989, he was appointed and served as a House impeachment manager in the impeachment trial of Walter Nixon, judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. Edwards was the chairman of the House Subcommittee on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights for 23 years. Edwards was not a candidate for reelection to the 104th Congress.

Personal life and death
Don Edwards was married three times; he was married to Edith Wilkie Edwards from 1981 until her death in 2011. He turned 100 in January 2015. He died later that year on October 1, 2015.

Legacy
Edwards received the Congressional Distinguished Service Award in 2003. The Don Edwards San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge in the south end of San Francisco Bay is named in his honor.

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Omega Watches copyvio
Going through the history of the article, I've found that this edit of yours,, added copyright protected content to Wikipedia. I've deleted the content and am just issuing you a warning about it this time. FeloniousMonk 06:57, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

"Issuing me a warning about it this time"? Are we back in grade school? Please. It needed a stub until a more comprehensive work was done. And it was taken from the marketing materials on Omega's website. Yes, the same company represented in the article. I'm sure they're terribly concerned that I used their own promotional material or, rather, perhaps glad I got the facts straight. By the way, no one invented the knowledge and information in these articles, and a one-minute google search will find most of the content in these articles are lifted in some form or another from another source. And the authority-figure thing... come on. User:llh[llh] 11:50PM, November 8, 2005 (EST)

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Talk:Bloodstain pattern analysis

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This article, particularly the intro, reads more like a sales pamphlet about the topic than a serious encyclopedia article. It's pretty poor but I'm not the person to fix it. Anyway, just in case anyone who knows about the subject sees this, can someone explain to me how the whole point/area of convergance analysis is accurate if you take into account that any blood which is flying in an area with gravity will follow a parabolic arc? It seems to me that using straight line analysis (i believe investigators simply use string) will always overstate the actual height of impact which, incidentally, will often be advantageous to the prosecution's story if there's a factual dispute (eg was it a fall or a beating). Just wondering Psychobabble 23:56, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

==Psychobabble doesn't seem to understand the topic, and his comments are not reflective of the article itself, which is fairly high-quality and explains the topic in great detail. The tone needs work, however, and I have included a note to that effect. If Psychobabble wants to understand how investigators deal with the problem of parabolic trajectories, he should look up ballistics, as it deals with the same field and the same issues. Don't insult what is an otherwise a good article by trying to raise doubts where there are none.
 * I think the tone issue you identified was what I was getting at, 'tone' was my only criticism of the article. I wasn't criticising the content of the article in the other part of my statement, I was seeking an understanding because that was an issue raised in a crim law documentary I saw. You're right, I don't understand the topic which is why I asked the question and it was a question I saw raised elsewhere in the context of an investigation where trajectories were measured using straight line string. Feel free to enlighten me as to how this issue is dealt with in real life :) This article didn't clear it up for me which is why I asked originally. Psychobabble 04:06, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Psychobabble, you are correct about bloodstain analysts using straight lines to approximate the path of the bloodstain trajectories. This is called the tangential method.  An analyst tries to use fast upward moving stains whose flight path has had little or no effect due to gravity.  The resulting area of convergence will always have a height greater than or equal to the event.  There are computer programs like HemoSpat that do the calculations through digital imagery and on-scene measurements so the analsyt doesn't have to use real strings.  As for the tone of the article, I tried to cover what I could at the time and I'm sorry for not getting back to tidy things up.  I will look at making it more encyclopedia-like. Kevin Maloney 14:12, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Thankyou. Psychobabble 21:49, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

MVIS and HVIS? Whats inbetween the two? It goes from 7.5 meters a sec, to 30+ meters a sec. Whats going on between the 50 feet that are left out?

 * There are different ways of categorizing bloodstains. The method presented here is what is currently accepted by the IABPA.  These definitions were created years ago and were based on studies done by some of the pioneers in bloodstain analysis.  The MVIS categroy is meant to cover most blunt force attacks and show the restriction of how fast you, as the assaulter, can punch, kick, swing a hammer etc.  The HVIS category is more of a mechanical based attack such as chainsaws, machinery, handguns, etc.  However that being said, categorizing impact stains as LVIS, MVIS, and HVIS is only a guide.  There are always exceptions like sneezing blood which can produce HVIS-like staining.  Hope this helps. Kevin Maloney 14:27, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

I have a minor objection to the following statement: "Contrary to some points of view, bloodstain pattern analysis is not junk-science and requires education and training." Although I agree that BPA is not junk science, the statement is clearly not NPOV. If BPA has critics, (however few) their POV should not be marginalized by stating factually that they are incorrect. It is not appropriate to state factually that critics of BPA are incorrect. A similar statement on a more controversial topic would not be permitted. I believe that this statement should be removed, allowing the reader to make his or her own decision about whether or not it is junk science. If it is necessary to address criticisms levelled at BPA this should be done in a "criticism" or "critiques" section as is done on the rest of Wikipedia, rather than marginalizing a minority perspective by stating that the critics are incorrect.

I'm not sure how long the above statement has been here but the term "Junk Science" has been used in court to describe BPA. Judges have stated in their decisions that BPA is "not junk science" and required training. FYI. Kevin Maloney (talk) 02:18, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

controversy
First of all, well done! Whoever put this article did a great job! Good pictures, organization, writing. Very impressed.

I do think we should add some information on the controversies surrounding BPA, basically that you don't really know what "experts" are "experts". I know I've seen several cases lately where both sides have well known and respected analysts. How do you know who's right? I just came from researching the David Camm trial where the reliability of blood spatter really came under fire. For one thing, the DA just made up credentials for a crime scene photographer and had him testify to being a blood spatter analyst and the jury had no idea he didn't know what he was doing. Second, the sources you cited here testified on both sides of the case. Bevel testified for the prosecution that it was from a gunshot. Paul Kish, Barton Epstein, Paulette Sutton and Stuart H. James testified for the defense. Rod Englert, who is also a big name testified for the prosecution. It's one thing to say that BPA is a respected, reliable science, but I fear that people reading the article will not understand that there is variation within the field and it's not always easy for the jury to tell who applied the science correctly and who didn't, making it less reliable as a source of evidence.Bali88 (talk) 22:57, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

Also, I think it would be helpful to add the history of bloodstain pattern analysis as well as examples of how it is used in court. :-) Bali88 (talk) 01:06, 9 February 2014 (UTC)

NPOV
"There are many examples where some expert has gone off the deep-end with wild statements of “fact” that any reasonable person would find hard to believe."
 * pretty self explanatory I think. EMT1871 04:17, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

 * if such an example can be cited, it seems perfectly fine to me —Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.5.225.172 (talk) 01:11, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

NAS report
The National Academy of Sciences recently prepared a report to congress regarding the strength and weaknesses of several forensic sciences, including blood stain analysis. This report, along with the responses of SWGSTAIN and other organizations should be included. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 159.233.97.211 (talk) 17:38, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Cleanup
I'm going to try and do a bit of a cleanup of this article. Large sections of text are likely to be removed.

The whole "Blood" section reads like the summary for a BPA introductory course, rather than an encyclopedia entry on it. Not to mention that the only reference used in it is for a bit of text that has basically been copy-pasted from the reference: ''Upon exiting the body, bloodstains transit from bright red to dark brown, which is attributed to oxidation of oxy-hemoglobin (HbO2) to methemoglobin (met-Hb) and hemichrome (HC). The fractions of HbO2, met-Hb and HC in a bloodstain can be used for age determination of bloodstains''. I wonder what else in here might have been quoted verbatim from somewhere else. See MOS:QUOTE.

Then we see no references whatsoever on the following sections until the end of the "Area of origin" section, and no references are given again in the Photography section. Most of these sections also read like we're trying to teach people how to do BPA rather than writing an encyclopedia entry. Most of the information in the Photography section, especially, have no reason for being in this article. VdSV9• ♫ 22:17, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Factually incorrect information in this article.
I recently got done completing a Capstone paper on the reliability of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis. In that paper, I used both the ProPublica article and the NAS report that this page cited. This article states that Propublica article says that Bloodstain Pattern Analysis is never reliable in court. However, multiple studies, as well as the NAS report, say that some Bloodstain Pattern Analysis techniques are trustworthy. I was wondering if it would be okay for me to rewrite a sentence or two in the criticism section to reflect this. Scorpions13256 (talk) 08:57, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Go for it, provided that you're accurately representing the scientific consensus across the sources. signed,Rosguill talk 17:24, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
 * Done. Let me know if my edit was problematic though. Scorpions13256 (talk) 22:47, 8 September 2020 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Seminars in Forensic Science
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Poor main picture?
The "Examples of Blood-Spatter and Droplet patterns" picture does a bad job explaining everything. For instance what does the angle in "This is 90 degrees with no direction" mean? "Spine" and "Satellite" appear to be labelled the wrong way round. Someone please provide a much better picture from an authoritative source. 2A02:C7C:5690:A000:1629:F7D4:2391:3E93 (talk) 16:09, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

Wiki Education assignment: Seminars in Forensic Science
— Assignment last updated by Ejeann (talk) 22:20, 15 April 2024 (UTC)

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Shamsi Vuai Nahodha

Shamsi Vuai Nahodha (born 20 November 1962) is a Tanzanian CCM politician and a nominated Member of Parliament since 2010 to 2015. He is a former Minister of Defence and National Service.

Background
He was also the Chief Minister of Zanzibar from 15 November 2000 to 9 November 2010, when that position was abolished. On November 9, 2005, he was reappointed Chief Minister by President Amani Abeid Karume. He is a member of the ruling party, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM).

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Cuban born in France
His parents were on vacation. Hyacinth 06:59, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

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Quantex Microsystems

Quantex Microsystems was a direct-PC manufacturer based in Somerset, New Jersey, founded in 1984. Although it never matched the sales volumes of the largest PC retailers, their products met wide acceptance by customers. It filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on August 17, 2000, when its key supplier, Fountain Technologies, who also supplied computers for the Pionex, Inteva, and CyberMax brands, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Quantex computers were built to a high standard, and regularly won awards in many computer publications. Even up to the point that they filed for Chapter 11, the awards were still being dealt out. The attraction for many was that Quantex combined high build quality, great technical support (before the financial trouble), brand-name components and above all lower cost than most rivals.

Quantex's European operations were taken care of in Stevenage, UK. The UK operation continued for several months after the US company declared bankruptcy, and were easily contactable during that period. The inevitable happened, though, and Quantex UK slipped away. In 2001, a company called Quantex Computers UK Ltd. started to advertise in UK computer magazines, based at the same location as the UK office of the original Quantex Microsystems but denying any links to the old company. They disappeared after only a few months, and their website was maintained for a year or so after that by a third party.

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Mohamed Gharib Bilal

Mohamed Gharib Bilal (born 6 February 1945) is a Tanzanian politician who was Chief Minister of Zanzibar from 1995 to 2000. He was Vice President of Tanzania from 2010 to 2015. He is a nuclear scientist by profession and also served as Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education from 1990 to 1995.

Early life and career
Dr Bilal completed his primary education at Makunduchi, Zanzibar in modern-day Kusini District of Unguja South Region in 1958 and attended his secondary education at Beit-el-Ras in 1962 and later joined Lumumba Secondary School in Zanzibar. Before completing Form Five, Dr Bilal received a scholarship to study physics at Howard University in Washington, graduating in physics and mathematics in 1967. He earned an MA in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1969, and a PhD in physics in 1976. Later the same year he joined the University of Dar es Salaam as a lecturer in physics. In 1983 he was elected head of the Department of Nuclear Physics.

In 1983 he participated to establish a national organization of radiation and contribute professional the preparation of draft of legislation which led to the law of use and control of the nuclear radiation in Tanzania.

In 1988 he was appointed head of the Faculty of Science at the University of Dar es Salaam and continue in office until 1990 when he was appointed Permanent Secretary in the new Ministry of Science Technology and Higher Education in 1990–1995.

As secretary-general he was involved in starting the process of sharing the costs of higher education and the introduction of credit. Also, the ministry introduced the Open University, along with establishing control over higher education institutions (accreditation council).

In 1988 Dr Bilal was a project initiator in Zanzibar's science camp aimed at motivating young people studying science and to help all secondary schools in Zanzibar (Unguja and Pemba) Getting equipment to facilitate testing of students to understand science more practical.

The project eventually was adopted by the Ministry of Education in Zanzibar. The project encouraged many young people to study science and give them the challenge of learning many different topics about Zanzibar environment.

As a teacher of the University Dr Bilal was able to participate in a board far away, such as the Commission of Science and Technology (COSTECH), Commission of radiation (NRC), chairman of the science panel of the Inter University Council of East Africa and also participated pioneering studies on environmental science (1990).

Mohammed Gharib Bilal got an opportunity to attend seminars and short courses in various professions, for example, seminars of [atomic agency] ([IAEA]) in 1980 Kwabena, Ghana. 1984/85. Fellowship University of Singapore. Also attended sessions each year with the organization of Atomic. Currently he sits on the board of the International Science Programme.

Political career
In 1995 Dr. Mohammed Gharib Bilal was appointed Chief Minister of the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar until 2000.

Dr Bilali has been serving in various positions at Chama Cha Mapinduzi such as a main board member of National Executive Committee since 1995 and has been Lord of Regional and Urban West Coast Region. From November 2010 to November 2015, he was the Vice President of Tanzania, assisting President Jakaya Kikwete.

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The bookcover of The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Proven Forgery by Vladimir Burtsev Paris, 1938


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Talk:Julieta Venegas

A good foundation
Here are some suggested further tasks for enterprising users:
 * Adding more biographical information, possibly from the biography at www.julietavenegas.net
 * Adding a photo (one without copyright restrictions) other than album cover art
 * Adding chart information to the songs and albums

wikinick 07:10, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Birthplace
To: 201.143.0.69  &  201.143.3.6

I checked the official website and it confirms that she's born in Tijuana, Baja California, so I am going to revert your edits changing it to elsewhere. If you can produce evidence supporting the claim that she was born in Mexico City or Distrito Federal, by all means do so. wikinick 10:56, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

Nick, there already is a Spanish version of this article

 * Okay, I didn't notice. Above comment updated. wikinick 10:54, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I've interviewed Julieta several times and she's told me she was born in Long Beach, California, raised in Tijuana. Her sister also confirmed this. You can check out the articles I've published in the San Diego Union-Tribune www.signonsandiego.com.

Factual Accuracy
To the person behind IP addresses starting with 201.143:

Please refrain from randomly changing facts such as birthplaces, birthdates, and whether someone won a grammy or not unless you have serious evidence to prove your side of the debate. I contend, as per this published news article, that Venegas did win a Latin Grammy for Best Vocal Rock Album, that she was born in Tijuana, Baja California, and that (given her age as stated relative to the article's publication date, and presuming that she was in fact born on November 24) she was born in the year of 1970. See here for an additional confirmation of that birthdate. Anyway, as such, I am reverting your changes until you can provide reasonable evidence to support your edits.
 * wikinick 11:09, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

Anti-vandalism action taken
I have made a post to Wikipedia:Requests for Investigation concerning the vandalism conducted by the person behind IP addresses starting with 201.143 (and 201.130). Hopefully we can achieve some resolution of this issue and allow this article to accumulate useful, factual edits without needing reverts every month. Please see my above comments for reasons as to my taking this action. wikinick 22:25, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I received a reply to my post from Petros471 which is visible at my user page. I am going to take his/her advice and cite my sources of information in the article, as well as continuing to monitor the page for further vandalism, especially by the 201.143.x person.  wikinick 07:55, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
 * If you check, you will find she was born in Long Beach. Personal interviews available with her online at many sources corroborate this. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.227.248.168 (talk) 10:08, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Deletion 2010-04-01
There has been discussion on this talkpage about where the subject was born; ergo, this is contested. Walking into an article and just deleting material or categories without leaving a note on the talk is not in good form. Request citations first and after a reasonable period of time, usually about three to six months, then delete but state prior on talkpage that unsourced cited material is being deleted. --Morenooso (talk) 20:23, 1 April 2010 (UTC)

 * The most recent deletions were unrelated to her place of birth. I removed the categories 'Mexicans of French descent' and 'People from Chula Vista, California'.  Had these been the body of the article they would have been marked as 'needs citation' or deleted without discussion.  If we're not allowed delete categories, how can they be marked as under dispute? Fuddle (talk) 12:47, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The discussion is here on the talkpage which is all that is necessary for making that a contested deletion. I don't dispute the French descent one and will delete that one upon posting here. The difference is that whenever I make a deletion, I always post on the article talkpage. Conversely, if I contest a deletion, I post on the article's talkpage. The Delete 1 warning template says, When removing text, please specify a reason in the edit summary and discuss edits that are likely to be controversial on the article's talk page (my bolding for emphasis. Making deletions without consulting the talkpage and seeking consensus is akin to walking onto a field guarded by landmines. --Morenooso (talk) 17:43, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The discussions are in two three sections above this one dealing with her birthplace and factual accuracy and anti-vandalism. Immediately after the deletion, I posted my rationale on this talkpage contesting the deletion. And in the case of yesterday's deletion of a citation, it was a nonstandard one that could could not be verified. Additionally, the refimprove tag was added which allows more stringent need for adding citations. Conversely, unsourced deletions can be reversed as per that tag. --Morenooso (talk) 17:52, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Please see this talkpage discussion about the difficulty in verifying sources and/or deletions in non-English articles by an admin. --Morenooso (talk) 17:58, 13 April 2010 (UTC)

Basic English usage problems

 * This article is poorly written with serious mistakes in English usage, punctuation, and style. I tried to fix some of the worst parts but I think that it would have to be completely rewritten to look halfway presentable.  I am sure that Julieta herself could have done a much better job.
 * She could've indeed - it looks like she grew up bilingual. Search for her covers of "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" and "Blackbird", she has a native accent in English.

 * One only has a "legacy" when one has died. The translation between English and Spanish here seems to be faulty.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.80.28.31 (talk) 23:53, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Personal Life
Is there no one knowledgeable and interested enough out there to write just a couple lines of personal life info? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Melgomac (talk • contribs) 00:43, 3 November 2011 (UTC)

Album not mentioned
I don't see this 2007 album mentioned anyplace in this article: Realmente lo Mejor. Seems like it should be included in the discography. TimidGuy (talk) 11:54, 28 January 2013 (UTC)

Pending Translation
On duolingo the spanish version of this wiki page is currently being translated to english. The spanish page contains much more information. Maybe anyone could check if some of the info from the spanish version can be incorporated in the english version.

The translation is created here: https://www.duolingo.com/translation/165a74713d120ffe35ac09efb74eda77 217.231.196.173 (talk) 18:53, 18 November 2015 (UTC)

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Mountain House

Mountain House may refer to:

Cities and towns

 * Mountain House, California, a city in San Joaquin County, California
 * Mountain House, Alameda County, California
 * Brush Creek, California, a community in Butte County, formerly known as Mountain House

Australia

 * Mountain House, Wingen, a heritage-listed house in New South Wales

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 * The Mountain House, Woodside, California, restaurant
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Omar Ali Juma

Omar Ali Juma (26 June 1941 in Chake-Chake, Pemba, Zanzibar – 4 July 2001 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) was Chief Minister of Zanzibar from 25 January 1988 to October 1995. From 1995 to 2001, he served as Vice President of Tanzania.

Life and career
Attended primary school education between 1949 and 1957 at Chake-Chake Boys' School. From 1957 to 1960 he was at Euan Smith Secondary School (now Haile Selassie Secondary School) where he attained an Ordinary Level School Certificate. In 1960 he joined the Moscow State University and was awarded with an Advanced Level Certificate in 1962 and seven years later, at the same college, he attained a bachelor's degree in Veterinary Medicine and Surgery. For a year from 1969 he was at Cairo University for a post graduate certificate in Animal Production and Health. In 1976 he attended a one-year course for a Postgraduate Diploma in Tropical Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. In 1982 he joined the University of Florida in the United States for a short course in Veterinary Science and two years later he attended University of Reading for a Livestock Economics course from which he joined the Kivukoni Ideological College in Tanzania.

Appointments

 * 1967-1969 Assistant Veterinary Officer, Zanzibar
 * 1969-1970 Veterinary Officer in charge of Pemba
 * 1970-1971 Senior Veterinary Officer
 * 1971-1972 Livestock Officer
 * 1972-1978 Chief Veterinary Officer
 * 1978-1984 Director, Livestock Department
 * 1984-1988 Principal Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock Development
 * 1988-1995 Chief Minister, Zanzibar Revolutionary Government
 * 1995-2001 Elected Vice President of the United Republic of Tanzania

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Yale University Art Gallery

The Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG) is the oldest university art museum in the Western Hemisphere. It houses a major encyclopedic collection of art in several interconnected buildings on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Although it embraces all cultures and periods, the gallery emphasizes early Italian Renaissance painting, African sculpture, and modern art.

19th century
The gallery was founded in 1832 when patriot artist John Trumbull donated over 100 paintings of the American Revolution to Yale College and designed the original picture gallery. This building on the university's Old Campus was razed in 1901.

Street Hall, designed by Peter Bonnett Wight, was opened as the Yale School of the Fine Arts in 1866, and included exhibition galleries on the second floor. The exterior was in a neo-Gothic style, with an appearance influenced by 13th-century Venetian palaces. These spaces are the oldest ones still in use as part of the Yale University Art Gallery.

20th century
A new building, designed by Yale University architect Egerton Swartwout, was completed in 1928. This building features a deliberately eclectic mix of Romanesque, Gothic and Classical features, with cornices, a pitched slate roof, and large windows set within stone arches, and was connected to Street Hall by an enclosed bridge over High Street. It was ultimately known as the "Old Yale Art Gallery" to contrast it with the modernist expansion added a couple of decades later.

The gallery's modernist main building, built from 1947 to 1953, was among the first designed by Louis Kahn, who taught architecture at Yale. ("Kahn played a major role in Yale's own artistic development. And Yale in turn would give Kahn the commission that transformed his career as an architect.") Although the Art Gallery with steel structure and reinforced concrete may seem simple to the eye, it was designed in a rigorous process. Kahn and Anne Tyng, the first woman licensed as an architect in the state of Pennsylvania and an employee of Kahn's independent practice, "devised a slab that was to be poured into metal forms in the shape of three-sided pyramids. When the forms were removed, they left a thick mass of concrete imprinted with tetrahedral openings." The triangular ceiling of the gallery was designed by Tyng, who was fascinated by geometry and octet-truss construction.

Kahn's addition "was...a box...of glass, steel, concrete, and tiny beige bricks", and had none of the features of the earlier galleries. One critic said that Kahn's building "could have scarcely have been distinguished from a Woolco discount store in a shopping center", and that the interior looked like an "underground parking garage".

In 1998, the gallery began a major renovation and expansion. A renovation of the 1953 building was completed in December 2006 by Polshek Partnership Architects, who returned many spaces to Kahn's original vision.

21st century
The project was completed on December 12, 2012, at a cost of $135 million, under then-director Jock Reynolds. The expanded space totals 69,975 sqft.

In December 2011, the museum announced an $11 million gift from alumnus Stephen Susman, to create additional art exhibition galleries in a newly created fourth floor atop the Old Yale Art Gallery building. The expansion was completed in 2012, and included space for a rooftop sculpture garden.

Trumbull Gallery built in 1832
"On the second floor (of the gallery) was a very valuable collection of paintings by John Trumbull, mainly of historical events. Among them were his well-known paintings of the Battle of Bunker Hill, Death of Montgomery before Quebec, Surrender of Lord Cornwallis, Declaration of Independence, etc. Trumbull gave the paintings to Yale in consideration of an annuity of $1,000 and subject to the condition that he and his wife should be forever buried beneath the pictures."

Collection
The encyclopedic collections of the gallery number more than 200,000 objects ranging in date from ancient times to the present day. The permanent collection includes:
 * African Art: more than 1,000 objects in wood, metal, ivory, and ceramic
 * American Decorative Arts: approximately 18,000 objects in silver, glass, wood, porcelain, and textile with an emphasis on the colonial and early federal periods
 * American Paintings and Sculpture: more than 2,500 paintings, 500 sculptures, and 300 miniatures from before the mid-twentieth century including paintings by Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Church, Frederic Remington, Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, George Bellows, John Singer Sargent, Edwin Austin Abbey, Arthur Dove, Elizabeth Goodridge, and Edward Hopper, and sculptures by Hezekiah Augur, Hiram Powers, Horatio Greenough, William Henry Rinehart, Chauncey Ives, Alexander Archipenko, and Alexander Calder
 * Ancient Art: more than 13,000 objects from the Near East, Egypt, Greece, Etruria, and Rome dating from the Neolithic to the early Byzantine
 * Art of the Ancient Americas: Mayan and Olmec figurines, vessels and sculptures
 * Asian Art
 * Coins and Medals
 * Early European Art
 * Modern and Contemporary Art: including paintings and sculpture by Josef Albers, Edgar Degas, Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Metzinger, Joan Miró, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, and Roy Lichtenstein
 * Prints, Drawings, and Photographs

In 2005, the museum announced that it had acquired 1,465 gelatin silver prints by the influential American landscape photographer Robert Adams. In 2009, the museum mounted an exhibition of its extensive collection of Picasso paintings and drawings, in collaboration with the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. For the first time, portions of the Yale University Library's Gertrude Stein writing archives were displayed next to relevant drawings from Picasso.

In April 2022, the museum surrendered 13 South Asian artifacts, valued at more than $1 million, as part of art looting investigation.

Programs
As an affiliate of Yale University, the gallery offers education programs for university students, New Haven schools, and the general public. Two such programs are: the Gallery Guide program, founded in 1998, which trains undergraduate students to lead tours at the museum; and the Wurtele Gallery Teachers, established in 2006, which include Yale graduate students from all school and backgrounds, who give curricula-informed tours to K-12 audiences.

The museum is a member of the North American Reciprocal Museums program, but charges no admission.

Management
From 1946 to 1948, George Heard Hamilton was associate director at Yale University Art Gallery.

In July 2018, Stephanie Wiles became the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery.

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Deely bobber

A deely bobber (also deeley bobber or deeley bopper) is a novelty item of headgear comprising a headband to which are affixed two springy protrusions resembling the antennae of insects. These "antennae" may be topped with simple plastic shapes or more elaborate and fanciful decorations, such as mini pom poms or light-emitting diodes. The name "deely bobber" is a genericized trademark; other names include deely-boppers, bonce boppers, head boppers, or space boppers. The product was introduced in 1981 and quickly became a fad of the 1980s. In June 1982, a headline of The New York Times called them Martian antennae.

Origin
Stephen Askin invented the original deely bobber in 1981, inspired by the "Killer Bees" costumes on Saturday Night Live. Askin was a former stockbroker and serial entrepreneur who had sold dartboards depicting Ayatollah Khomeini during the Iran hostage crisis of 1980. Askin made prototype Deely Bobbers in his kitchen and test-marketed them at the Los Angeles Street Fair of summer 1981, selling 800 at $5 each. He sold the invention to the Ace Novelty Co. of Bellevue, Washington, which launched it in January 1982 at the California Gift Fair. The name "Deely Bobber" was suggested by the wife of John Minkove, an Ace marketer; it had been her schoolfriend's placeholder name for "thingamajig". The name "deely bopper" had previously been used for a brand of toy block sold between 1969 and 1973.

Deely bobbers began retailing in April 1982 at US$3. They quickly became a fad in the United States, before reaching the United Kingdom in July. At the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee, 10,000 a day were sold; total sales by August were estimated at 2 million, with Askin getting 5% of the wholesale price. Imitations costing $1–2 undercut the original, though Askin applied for a patent. The original decorations for the antennae were polystyrene shapes covered in sparkles: spheres, stars, hearts. Flashing lights were added to cash in on the hit movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, with seasonal themes for later holidays.

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Orchilla

Orchilla may refer to:

 * La Orchila, an island
 * "Orchella weeds," a lichen that is a source of a purple-blue dye extracted from orcein
 * Punta Orchilla Lighthouse on El Hierro, in the Canary Islands

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Ramadani Baki

Ramadani Baki (born 1943) was Chief Minister of Zanzibar from 21 February 1983 to 6 February 1984.

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Workers' and Peasants' Party (Liechtenstein)

The Workers' and Peasants' Party (Partei der Unselbständig Erwerbenden und Kleinbauern, abbreviated UEK), also known as the Workers' and Peasants' Electoral List (Wahlliste der unselbständig Erwerbenden und Kleinbauern), was a political party in Liechtenstein. The party emerged from the national trade union movement, as no workers had been elected in the 1949 elections. The party was founded as a delegates' assembly in 1953. It contested the February 1953 elections, it received 198 votes (6.9%) and but failed to win a seat due to the 18% electoral threshold. The party did not contest the June 1953 elections, and has not contested any since.


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Sul ponte? --Wetman 07:18, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

I don't know what that means --seanbrasher

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