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Lady Miss Kier

Kierin Magenta Kirby (born August 15, 1963), known professionally as Lady Miss Kier, is an American singer, songwriter and DJ. Lady Miss Kier was the vocalist for the band Deee-Lite. She is a social, environmental, and human rights activist.

Early life
Kirby was born in Youngstown, Ohio. As a child, she lived in Pittsburgh, Virginia Beach, and Washington, D.C. At the age of 17, she moved to New York City to study fashion design at the Fashion Institute of Technology but she was disillusioned by the teachers and dropped out immediately. When she dropped out, she started to design and make her own eccentric disco-inspired clothes that she then sold to people she met at nightclubs.

Deee-Lite
In 1982, Kirby met Ukrainian-born Dmitry Brill ("Supa DJ Dmitry") and designed, made, and sold him silver platform boots and a glitter blue spacesuit, for his band, Shazork. In 1986, she began experimenting with singing and writing music with Brill to form the band Deee-Lite.

Shortly after their first show in 1986, Brill was introduced to Towa Tei, a Japanese DJ of Korean descent. Several years later, Kirby and Brill invited him to join their band. Combining Kirby's vocal and writing talents with Brill's sampling skills and Tei's techno mixing, the three formed the band Deee-Lite. She continued to make a living as a waitress and go-go dancer until the band signed a seven-album deal with Elektra Records.

Deee-Lite's sound was a mix of house music, techno and electronic dance music. Deee-Lite shot to stardom in 1990 with the release of their first album World Clique and the hit "Groove Is in the Heart". At the 1991 MTV Video Music Awards, Deee-Lite was nominated for several awards, including Video of the Year and Best New Artist. Within the group, Kirby took on the larger-than-life alter-ego "Lady Miss Kier". Kirby's initial look relied on revamped and exaggerated retro style 1960s fashion. Her signature look was a zip-up catsuit, platform shoes and flipped hair-do.

In 1992, the band released their second album, Infinity Within, a politically charged work. Their third album Dewdrops in the Garden was released in 1994. Neither of the two follow-up albums matched the commercial success of the debut album.

Deee-lite disbanded in 1995 after Brill and Kirby's relationship fractured. In 1996, a remix album was released. A greatest hits album was released in 2001.

International DJ and songwriting solo career
In 1995, after quitting the band, Lady Miss Kier moved to London where she began touring as a disc jockey and learning the technical end of production, recording, and engineering. In the late 1990s, she collaborated on the albums of Bootsy Collins, I Kamanchi and A Guy Called Gerald. In 2002, she contributed an exclusive solo track called "I'm Not Staying at Home" to the compilation Straight Up & Dirty. Since going solo, she has featured and co-written with artists such as Full Cycle, George Clinton, Walter "Junie" Morrison, A Guy Called Gerald, Apollo Heights, and several P-Funk luminaries. Outside of the studio, she showcased her live performances with new material for various music, film, and art festivals, as well as headlining several gay pride events worldwide. In 2012, she began performing a Deee-Lite tribute for various occasions, including the 2013 Paris Fashion Week for Kenzo as well as a tribute to New York City disc jockey Mark Kamins at Santos Party House.

She performed as a disc jockey at clubs and music festivals including Coachella Festival (2007), Berlin's Berghain (2010) and Sydney Mardi Gras (2012), as well as radio programs such as East Village Radio and Sirius XM.

Live performances
In 2005, motivated by the invasion of Iraq, she began internationally performing live new unreleased music, including the DFA release covering George Clinton's anti–war song "Bullet Proof". She has headlined numerous festivals and gay pride events as well as opened for James Brown's last tour at the Good Vibrations festival in Australia.

Fashion recognition
Kirby has received the following recognition in the fashion industry:

 * In 1990, she was on the cover of Vogue Italia.
 * In 1991, when designer Emilio Pucci was given a lifetime achievement award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America, she was asked to star in the tribute video.
 * She collaborated frequently with designer Thierry Mugler throughout the 1990s.
 * In 2010, Elle named her one of Music's 25 Most Influential Style Icons along with Grace Jones, Beyoncé, Debbie Harry, and MIA.
 * In 2010, Glamour named Kier as one of the Top Influential Music Style Icons with Rihanna, Lady Gaga, and Gwen Stefani.
 * In 2012, Vogue quoted her experience with John Fluevog and the rise of "The Munster" platform shoe, which was made famous as a symbol of the 1990s house/club underground DJ scene. Fluevog Shoes credits her as the reason the shoe became popular. Vice noted that "Indeed, Lady Miss Kier's taste for the massive John Fluevog platform shoes she famously wore on their first album cover helped propel the early 90s into a 70s fashion revival".
 * In 2012, Rookie declared her a style icon.
 * Shoe designer Jerome Rousseau named a shoe "Kier Iridescent Sandals" after her.
 * In 2013, Ladygunn magazine featured a full spread on Kier in its Legends issue.
 * In 2015, she was an inspiration for designer Jeremy Scott's Fall 2016 line, which debuted at New York Fashion Week.
 * In 2015, Essie Weingarten's nail polish brand released a pink polish inspired by her, called "Groove Is in the Heart".
 * In 2015, Givenchy's Milan Fashion Week show drew inspiration from her, borrowing a lyric from her World Clique album song "Power of Love", using the line "I believe in the power of love" as part of the branding of the debut of its Fall 2016 line.
 * In 2016, an article in Vogue referred to Kier as a "Club Kid Icon," detailing how world class designers know her as a "legend and a lady," and highlighting how designers such as Thierry Mugler have borrowed from her look.
 * In 2022, an advertisement for Christian Dior's "Dior Addict" included a cover of the Deee-lite song "What Is Love?". It was published to YouTube and titled "Dior Addict - The New Icon of Shine".

Movies and books
In 2018, the Netflix series Big Mouth used her song "Groove Is In The Heart" for an abortion sequence. In 1995, Lady Kier was featured in Wigstock: The Movie, which included live footage of her performing and a song on the soundtrack. In 2001 she was included in Summer Love: The Rave-umentary. In 2005, Lady Miss Kier was the featured artist on the podcast Ron-Kat-Delic Show. Her words also were shared through a number of published books, including Verbal Abuse – No 3 by Chi Chi Valenti, Creative Time: The Book: 33 Years of Public Art in New York by Anne Pasternak, Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling by Kembrew McLeod and Peter DiCola and All Music Guide to Electronica: The Definitive Guide to Electronic Music by Vladimir Bogdanov.

Panels and appearances
Lady Miss Kier has spoken at Princeton University's "Youth Music and Youth Culture", Cooper Union's multimedia presentation "Hiccup" in 1993, Apple's 1995 "Future Arts Panel" with Peter Gabriel and Electronic Frontier Foundation founder, John Perry Barlow, George Washington University's Law School Summit Future of Music Coalition in 2007 and New York University's "NYU Panel Nelson Sullivan: Vlogging in the 80s" in 2013. In 2013 she was featured in an exhibit entitled "NYC 1993", which was presented through New York City's New Museum. Beyond the installation, her voice recording was played via pay phones throughout the New York area. In 2013, Lady Miss Kier was the featured voiceover artist in The Jazz Foundation of America's animated promo for the event "A Great Night in Harlem".

Space Channel 5 and lawsuit
In April 2003, Kirby sued video game company Sega, claiming that the character of "Ulala" in its Dreamcast game Space Channel 5 was an unauthorized use of her likeness. In July 2000, a Sega affiliate contacted Kirby to determine if she was interested in promoting the game in England utilizing the Deee-lite song "Groove Is in the Heart"; Kirby rejected the offer. Kirby alleged that the video game maker used her resemblance in the game (including the name Ulala – referencing Kirby's signature phrase "Ooh la la" in her performances). During the lawsuit, Sega showed that the game and the character had been created and released in Japan between 1997 and 1999. The developers claimed they had never heard of either Kirby, Deee-lite, or their music. The case lasted until 2006, when the judge ruled in favor of Sega and Kirby lost her appeal. The judge ruled that regardless of when the "Ulala" character was created, the character did not have a close enough resemblance to Kirby to deem misappropriation of likeness. Kirby was obliged to pay Sega's legal fees of $608,000 (reduced from $763,000 on request). "Groove Is in the Heart" was later licensed for use in Sega's 2008 Nintendo Wii port of Samba de Amigo, used in a section of the game where the Ulala character appears.

Political views and activism
Lady Kier is a social, environmental, and human rights activist. She is also a vocal advocate for LGBTQ rights and is a straight ally. As such, she has been invited to be a host, performer, master of ceremonies, and disc jockey at pride parades.

She is in favor of abortion rights and is a women's rights advocate, was featured in TV informercial promoting pro-abortion rights political action "The Most Exciting Women in Music" alongside Corina, Juliet Cuming, Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), MC Lyte, Kate Pierson (The B-52's), Crystal Waters, Tina Weymouth (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club) in 1991.

In 1991, Lady Miss Kier was an award presenter at the Reebok Human Rights Awards.

She is a supporter of the environmentalist movement. The 1992 Deee-Lite album Infinity Within was the first CD released using eco-pak packaging, cutting the amount of plastic used by half. On that album, she called attention to the issue of ozone depletion with her song "I Had a Dream I Was Falling Through a Hole in the Ozone Layer". Vogue Magazine has highlighted her "interest in supporting environmental causes".

She supports the anti-war movement and in 2010, she released a version of the P-Funk track "Bullet Proof" with Ray Mang; she had performed it before in 2005, during her world tour.

She supports the get out the vote movement. Her music video for the song "Vote Baby Vote", which she wrote "to get people interested in voting so they could vote George Bush out", was featured for MTV's "Rock The Vote" campaign in 1992 and was highlighted by Rolling Stone as one of the top "ten major moments in rock the vote history".

During the 2016 United States presidential election, she supported Bernie Sanders. She hosted an art exhibit at Hole Gallery in New York City and a fundraiser called "Bernin' Up NYC" to rally Sanders supporters.

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was keep. H e rmione1980 19:23, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Band camp
A summer camp for band students. Are we going to have a separate article for every kind of camp? Soccer camp? Baseball camp? Every summer camp has some kind of theme, but they don't all need separate articles. —Wahoofive (talk) 04:00, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, delete. The Land 11:43, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * merge with summer camp. Roodog2k (Hello there!) 15:54, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep because this can't be elegantly merged into summer camp without writing more elaborate descriptions for the other types of specialty "camps." Also, I believe that band camp (which is required by many schools in order to participate in band) is significantly different from other types of "summer camp" in overall concept.  Crypticfirefly 16:19, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, because band camps are often sponsored by schools and are also often compulsory if you want to stay in the band -- nothing like how one gets into a standard summer camp, in my opinion. --Jacquelyn Marie 16:52, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment If we do get lots of articles such as soccer camp and baseball camp, a page about compulsory camps could be created and the information could be merged -- but we'd still need redirects, because "band camp" and "soccer camp," etc, would be used much more often for searching than "compulsory camps". --Jacquelyn Marie 16:54, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep If computer camp is going to stay as its own entry, then band camp should as well. Band camp outranks comptuer camp 5 to 1 for Google hits. Otherwise I could see a merge for both. Band camp has its own significance as a subtheme in the movie American Pie (American Pie V will be called American Pie: Band Camp according to IMDB  ) and this could be added to the article Jessamyn 19:15, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. One time, at band camp. Punkmorten 21:03, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep and have the article not only explain what band camp is, but also mention the American Pie "One time, at band camp" phrase. Zach (Sound Off) 23:58, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment Not to mention that band camp in real life (at least for Indiana competitive bands) is much different than what it is presented as in that movie. Kurt Weber 00:05, 8 October 2005 (UTC), 5-year trombone player/2-year instructor of his high school band and, for a time, a member of Southwind Drum & Bugle Corps
 * Keep --[[Image:Ottawa flag.png|20px]] Spinboy 23:59, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep American Pie promotes schoolyard stereotype to WP notability. Xoloz 05:48, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. One time, at band camp... (the article needs some work though.) --Apyule 05:57, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Jessamyn. Carioca 22:55, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep as per Jessamyn. ~⌈Markaci⌋ 2005-10-5 T 00:45:51 Z
 * Keep, if for no other reason, then as part of the fight against Deletionist Vandalism Kurt Weber 00:05, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

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1955 NFL season

The 1955 NFL season was the 36th regular season of the National Football League. NBC paid $100,000 to replace DuMont as the national television network for the NFL Championship Game. The season ended when the Cleveland Browns defeated the Los Angeles Rams 38–14 in the title game.

Draft
The 1955 NFL Draft was held from January 27–28, 1955 at Philadelphia's Warwick Hotel. With the first pick, the Baltimore Colts selected running back George Shaw from the University of Oregon.

Major rule changes

 * The ball is dead immediately when the ball carrier touches the ground with any part of his body except his hands or feet while in the grasp of an opponent.
 * A new exception is made in regard to scoring a safety: When a defender intercepts a pass, his intercepting momentum carries him into his own end zone, and he is stopped before returning the ball back into the field of play, then the ball will be next put in play at the spot of the interception.

Conference races
The defending champion Browns dropped their opener, at home, to the Redskins 27–17, but a six-game win streak put them back in front to win the Eastern race. The Western race was crowded a few times, as the Rams had to share the lead. In Week Eight, the Bears beat Los Angeles 24–3, to give both teams 5–3 records, The next week (November 20), the Bears took the lead with a 24–14 at Detroit while the Rams got a 17–17 tie at Baltimore. As had happened many times before in the annual battle of Chicago, the Bears were upset by the Cardinals in Week Ten (November 27), 53–14; the Rams eked out a 23–21 in Philadelphia on Les Richter's field goal with 0:07 left in the game. In Week Eleven (December 4), the Rams won 20–14 over Baltimore, and the Bears kept their hopes alive with a difficult 21–20 win over Detroit. In the latter game, the Lions' Doak Walker missed an extra point, lost a fumble late in the game on the Detroit 28, and was wide on a 35-yard field goal attempt in the final seconds. The Bears won their last game (December 11), 17–10 over Philadelphia, to finish 8–4, and hoped for the 7–3–1 Rams would lose their game in Los Angeles against Green Bay. The Rams did not lose, clinching a spot in the title game, with a 31–17 win.

NFL Championship Game
Cleveland 38, Los Angeles 14 at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, Monday, December 26, 1955

Awards

 * NEA NFL Most Valuable Player – Harlon Hill, Chicago Bears
 * UPI NFL Most Valuable Player – Otto Graham, Cleveland Browns
 * Sporting News NFL Player of the Year – Otto Graham, Cleveland Browns

Coaching changes

 * Chicago Cardinals: Joe Stydahar was replaced by Ray Richards.
 * Los Angeles Rams: Hamp Pool was replaced by Sid Gillman.
 * San Francisco 49ers: Buck Shaw was replaced by Red Strader.

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Freedom of choice

Freedom of choice describes an individual's opportunity and autonomy to perform an action selected from at least two available options, unconstrained by external parties.

In politics
In the abortion debate, for example, the term "freedom of choice" may emerge in defense of the position that a woman has a right to determine whether she will proceed with or terminate a pregnancy. Similarly, other topics such as euthanasia, vaccination, contraception, and same-sex marriage are sometimes discussed in terms of an assumed individual right of "freedom of choice". Some social issues, for example the New York "Soda Ban" have been both defended and opposed, with reference to "freedom of choice".

In economics
In microeconomics, freedom of choice is the freedom of economic agents to allocate their resources (such as goods, services, or assets) as they see fit, among the options that are available to them. It includes the freedom to engage in employment available to them.

Ratner et al., in 2008, cite the literature on libertarian paternalism which states that consumers do not always act in their own best interests. They attribute this phenomenon to factors such as emotion, cognitive limitations and biases, and incomplete information - which they state may be remedied by various proposed interventions. They discuss providing consumers with information and decision tools, organizing and restricting their market options, and tapping emotions and managing expectations. Each of these, they state, could improve consumers' ability to choose.

However, economic freedom to choose ultimately depends upon market competition, since buyers' available options are usually the result of various factors controlled by sellers, such as overall quality of a product or a service and advertisement. In the event that a monopoly exists, the consumer no longer has the freedom to choose to buy from a different producer. As Friedrich Hayek pointed out: "Our freedom of choice in a competitive society rests on the fact that, if one person refuses to satisfy our wishes, we can turn to another. But if we face a monopolist we are at his absolute mercy."

As exemplified in the above quote, libertarian thinkers are often strong advocates for increasing freedom of choice. One example of this is Milton Friedman's Free to Choose book and TV series.

There is no consensus as to whether an increase in economic freedom of choice leads to an increase in happiness. In one study, the Heritage Foundation's 2011 Index of Economic Freedom report showed a strong correlation between its Index of Economic Freedom and happiness in a country.

In history
Suzanne K. Becking sees "the freedom to choose" as a fundamental basis of colonisation and national development in North America.

Measuring freedom of choice
The axiomatic-deductive approach found in game theory has been used to address the issue of measuring the amount of freedom of choice (FoC) an individual enjoys. In a 1990 paper, Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu presented three conditions that a measurement of FoC should satisfy: They proved that the cardinality is the only measurement that satisfies these axioms, which they observed to be counter-intuitive and suggestive that one or more axioms should be reformulated. They illustrated this with the example of the option set "to travel by train" or "to travel by car", that should yield more FoC than the option set "to travel by red car" or "to travel by blue car". Some suggestions have been made to solve this problem, by reformulating the axioms, usually including concepts of preferences,  or rejecting the third axiom.
 * 1) Indifference between no-choice situations. Having only one option amounts to the same FoC, no matter what the option is.
 * 2) Strict monotonicity. Having two distinct options x and y amounts to more FoC than having only the option x.
 * 3) Independence. If a situation A has more FoC than B, by adding a new option x to both (not contained in A or B), A will still have more FoC than B.

Relationship with happiness
A 2006 study by Simona Botti and Ann L. McGill showed that, when subjects were presented with differentiated options and had the freedom to choose between them, their choice enhanced their satisfaction with positive and dissatisfaction with negative outcomes, relative to nonchoosers.

A 2010 study by Hazel Rose Markus and Barry Schwartz compiled a list of experiments about freedom of choice and argued that "too much choice can produce a paralyzing uncertainty, depression, and selfishness". Schwartz argues that people frequently experience regret due to opportunity costs for not making an optimal decision and that, in some scenarios, people's overall satisfaction are sometimes higher when a difficult decision is made by another person rather than by themselves, even when the other person's choice is worse. Schwartz had written a book and given speeches criticizing the excess of options in modern society, though acknowledging that "some choice is better than none".

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Cathedral School of Vilnius

The Cathedral School of Vilnius was a cathedral school attached to the Vilnius Cathedral. Established in the late 14th century, it is believed to be the earliest school in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. For about a hundred years it was the only Catholic school in Vilnius (possibly due to a royal privilege prohibiting establishment of other schools). The cathedral school was merged with Vilnius Academy (now Vilnius University), established by the Jesuits in 1570.

History
The exact date of its establishment is unknown, but it must be sometime between the Christianization of Lithuania in 1386 and school's first mention in written sources on 9 May 1397. It was initially a primary school, evolving into a secondary school by the first half of the 15th century. Most likely the school taught trivium and quadrivium and catered to the church needs by educating the lower clergy. Its first pupils were indigenous Christians that also knew the Lithuanian language.

In 1522, Bishop John expanded the school to three classes and introduced courses in rhetoric, dialectics, classical literature, arithmetic, music. The students studied Distichs of Cato and Ars grammatica by Aelius Donatus. In 1539, the school had twelve boys who sang in a church choir and twenty boys who served as altar boys.

During its existence, the school prepared over 100 students who later pursued academic careers at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

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George Yeo

George Yeo Yong-Boon  (born 13 September 1954) is a Singaporean former politician and brigadier-general who served as Minister for Foreign Affairs between 2004 and 2011.

Yeo served in the Singapore Army and later Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) between 1976 and 1988 and attained the rank Brigadier-General. He also served as Chief of Staff – Air Staff between 1985 and 1986, and Director of Joint Operations and Planning at the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) between 1986 and 1988.

A former member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), Yeo was the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the Bedok Reservoir–Punggol ward of Aljunied GRC between 1988 and 2011. He also served as Minister for Information and the Arts between 1990 and 1999, Minister for Health between 1994 and 1997, Minister for Trade and Industry between 1999 and 2004 and Minister for Foreign Affairs between 2004 and 2011.

Education
Yeo was educated at St. Stephen's School, St. Patrick's School—where he topped in his class for his O-Level and St. Joseph's Institution before graduating from Christ's College at the University of Cambridge in 1976, majoring in engineering, under the President's Scholarship and Singapore Armed Forces Overseas Scholarship.

He subsequently went on to complete a Master in Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School in 1985 as a Baker Scholar.

Military career
Upon returning from the United Kingdom, Yeo served as a commissioned officer in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF). He served as a signals officer in the Singapore Army, before transferring to the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF).

When Yeo returned to Singapore, he served as Chief of Staff – Air Staff between 1985 and 1986, and Director of Joint Operations and Planning at the Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) between 1986 and 1988. He also led the team which conceptualised the SAFTI Military Institute.

Yeo left the SAF in 1988 and attained the rank Brigadier-General, before entering politics.

Political career
Yeo made his political debut in the 1988 general election as part of a three-member PAP team contesting in the newly-created Aljunied GRC and won.

Following his election into Parliament, Yeo served in various ministries, including the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Trade and Industry and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Yeo represented the Eurasian community in the Cabinet at their request. Yeo was the chairman of the PAP's youth wing from 1991 to 2000, which saw a renaming to Young PAP (YPAP) in 1993. As an enticement for joining the YPAP, he said people joining the YPAP could take positions different from central party leadership.

Yeo and his Aljunied GRC team first faced a team of Singapore Democratic Party in 1988 and Worker's Party for Eunos Group Representation Constituency in 1997.

In 2006, Yeo along with his team Yeo Guat Kwang, Zainul Abidin bin Mohammed Rasheed, Cynthia Phua and Lim Hwee Hua faced Worker's Party and won with the election's narrowest margin, with 56.1% to 43.9%.

However, in the 2011 general election the WP team consists of Pritam Singh, Sylvia Lim, Muhamad Faisal Manap, Low Thia Kiang and Chen Show Mao won the election of 54.7%, resulting in his election defeat as well as the loss of his ministerial appointment.

Yeo, along with a co-anchor minister Lim Hwee Hua, were the first two cabinet ministers in post-independence Singapore, and after the 1963 election, to be defeated in the election and consequently losing their parliamentary seats to the opposition.

According to Yeo, he was offered to rejoin Cabinet by then-Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew through a by-election in Lee's Tanjong Pagar GRC. Yeo declined.

On 5 October 2011, Yeo stepped down from the PAP's Central Executive Committee (the party's governing body). However, he continues to be a member of the PAP. During his announcement, Yeo stated that he declined running for presidency later that year, cited that he was a "free spirit" and he was not "temperamentally suited for such a job", despite being popular in online and have "a flood of support" on post-election. He although stated on his Facebook page that he was "thinking hard" about the possibility of becoming a candidate on 1 June,  but however, on 15 June, Yeo confirmed that he declined standing for presidency.

Minister for Information, Communications, and the Arts
As Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts, he liberalised the use of dialects in the local film industry, which paved the way for a generation of local film directors and producers. He also oversaw the design and construction of the Esplanade Theatres on the Bay and the new National Library.

In the 1990s, Yeo pushed for widespread adoption of internet infrastructure in Singapore, stating that it was important for Singapore to retain its role as a regional hub. Its geographical advantage would matter less, and its infrastructural advantage in the exchange of information and ideas would matter more. In 1995, he defended government censorship of the Internet even as it proved technologically challenging to do so: "Censorship can no longer be 100% effective, but even if it is only 20% effective, we should not stop censoring." In what he described as an "anti-pollution measure in cyberspace", Yeo transferred censorship authority from the Telecommunication Authority of Singapore (TAS) to the Singapore Broadcasting Authority (SBA), which was to "concentrate on areas which may undermine public morals, political stability or religious harmony in Singapore". Yeo said the government would focus on monitoring internet communications that broadcast material to millions of users rather than the "narrowcasting" of private communications between individuals.

Minister for Trade and Industry
As Minister for Trade and Industry, Yeo led his team to successfully negotiate the Free Trade Agreement with the United States, Japan, Australia and other countries. Yeo proposed the idea of having Integrated Resorts (IRs) in Singapore, which would include casinos, which was intensely debated for a year. This paved the way for the 2 IRs in Singapore, Resorts World Sentosa and Marina Bay Sands at the Marina Promenade. He later shared with a group of university students during a dialogue that his late father had a problem with gambling and the decision to push for the gaming resorts was personally a very difficult one. He said that policy making often involved a choice between 'evils'.

On 10 May 2011, Yeo announced that he would be retiring from politics.

Prior to the 2011 presidential election, Yeo announced that he will make a decision on running for president within 2 weeks, and has asked his friends to pick up eligibility forms on his behalf. Yeo later declined running for the Presidency on 15 June 2011.

Prior to the 2023 presidential election, Yeo announced on Facebook that he was seriously considering a run for the presidency; he later retracted these statements.

Post-political career
Yeo has been a visiting scholar at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy since 2011.

In 2013, Yeo was appointed as a non-official member of the newly established Hong Kong Economic Development Commission.

In 2014, Yeo was named as a member of the Vatican's Council for the Economy. He was amongst the first lay Catholics appointed by the Vatican to oversee organisational and economic issues faced by the Holy See. At that time, Yeo was the only Asian appointed to the commission.

Yeo is currently a member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum, the Nicolas Berggruen Institute's 21st Century Council and the International Advisory Board of IESE Business School(IAB).

Yeo was involved in reviving the ancient Buddhist university, Nalanda University, in Bihar, India. He was chancellor of Nalanda University and member of the University Governing Board, and the governing board's International Advisory Panel. In November 2016, he resigned as the chancellor of Nalanda University accusing the Indian government of failing to maintain the university's autonomy.

In Singapore, he is also advisor to the Sun Yat Sen Nanyang Memorial Hall and Teochew Poit Ip Huay Kuan, as well as a patron of Lasalle College of the Arts.

Private sector
Yeo moved to the private sector in Hong Kong since leaving politics in 2011. Yeo joined the Kuok Group as senior advisor, and vice chairman of its subsidiary Kerry Group (HK) Pte Ltd in January 2012. In August 2012, he became chairman and executive director of Kerry Logistics Network. He was also a director of Kerry Holdings and non-executive director of Wilmar International. Yeo is also the non-executive director of AIA Group since November 2012.

On 23 August 2020, V3 Group, led by Osim founder Ron Sim, announced that George Yeo would join the group as senior advisor. Yeo is also an independent board director of Nasdaq-listed e-commerce platform Pinduoduo, the largest agriculture platform in China.

Yeo was appointed as an independent non-executive director of Creative Technology in 2021. As of April 2024, George Yeo owns 400,000 shares in Wilmar International, and was appointed as an independent non-executive director.

Awards and recognition
In 2012, Yeo was awarded the Padma Bhushan, by India, the Order of Sikatuna, with the rank of Datu (Grand Cross), by the Philippines, and the Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia, by Australia.

Personal life
A Roman Catholic, Yeo married lawyer Jennifer Leong Lai Peng in 1984. The couple have three sons and a daughter. Yeo also has a niece named Gwendoline Yeo, who was an actress and musician.

In 2004, their youngest son, who has struggled with childhood leukemia since age three, received a bone marrow transplant at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. Recognising the difficulties faced by families in such situations, Leong founded the Viva Foundation to help children with cancer to improve the survival rate and cure of children with cancer, especially childhood leukemia, in Singapore and Southeast Asia. In May 2006, a memorandum of understanding was signed between St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, National University of Singapore (NUS), National University Hospital (NUH) in Singapore, and the VIVA Foundation for Children with Cancer (VIVA).

Yeo is an avid jogger and has participated in the Singapore Marathon 10 km run. He is a student of tai chi, an internal Chinese martial art, and describes himself as "a bit of a Taoist".

Works

 * "Reflection on Singapore–Israel Relations" in Beating the Odds Together: 50 Years of Singapore-Israel Ties. Ed. Mattia Tomba. Singapore: World Scientific Book, 2019 . ISBN 978-981-121-468-4

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Sisters of Charity of Nazareth

The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth (SCN) is a Roman Catholic order of nuns. It was founded in 1812 near Bardstown, Kentucky, when three young women responded to Bishop John Baptist Mary David's call for assistance in ministering to the needs of the people of the area.

History
The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth was founded in 1812. Mother Catherine Spalding, along with Bishop John Baptist Mary David, are honored together and remembered as co-founders of the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth.

In 1812, in the newly formed diocese of Bardstown, Kentucky, Bishop Benedict Flaget was overwhelmed by the responsibility of providing religious education for the children of Catholic families who had migrated to Kentucky from Maryland after the Revolutionary War. In response to this need, Father John Baptist David, who had recently established St. Thomas Seminary, called for young women willing to devote their lives to the service of the Church. From among a group of six women that responded to the call, nineteen-year-old Catherine Spalding, originally from Maryland, was elected first superior of the Congregation. Mother Catherine guided the young Congregation for forty-five years.

The new community followed the rule of St. Vincent de Paul and their dwelling was named Nazareth. The symbol of the congregation is the pelican feeding its young from its own body. The Sisters' spiritual formation and service to their neighbors steadily expanded on the Kentucky frontier and beyond.

Ministry
Their education ministry began in 1814 when the first school, Nazareth Academy, was opened at the motherhouse near Bardstown. Spalding founded Presentation Academy in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1831. The academy began to grant degrees in 1829.

Since the beginning years of the congregation, SCNs have been involved in a variety of ministries, responding to the needs of the times. In 1832, when Catherine Spalding brought home two orphans left on the wharf in Louisville, their social work ministry began. Pastoral ministry later emerged within the congregation as a distinct form of ministry after Vatican II as they followed the call of the Church to respond to the signs of the times.

In 1833, when cholera struck, SCNs nursed victims of the disease. So began their health care ministry, which continued as the sisters served in military hospitals during the Civil War.

In 1920, the Sisters opened Nazareth College in Louisville, Kentucky's first, four-year, Catholic college for women. The Louisville and Nazareth campuses merged. and in 1969, the school was renamed Spalding College. Two years later, all instructional activity was moved to the Louisville campus. Former dorms on SCN's campus now function as affordable housing for the elderly and disabled. In 1984, Spalding College became Spalding University.

Modern times
In 2000, the sisters apologized for the slaveholding past and erected a monument in memory of those who had suffered in their bondage.

Founded as a diocesan community, they are now an international congregation, both in ministry and membership. As of 2018, 550 sisters were serving in 20 states in the U.S., in India, Nepal, Botswana, and Belize.

They are committed to six priorities in ministry: promoting peace, promoting humanization of values, opposing racism, alleviating poverty, supporting women's issues and supporting environmental issues. Through their daily lives and ministries, in collaboration with their Associates and others, they are living out these priorities to meet the changing needs of today's world in their spirit of pioneering.

Mission
Their website reads: "The Sisters of Charity of Nazareth are an international Congregation in a multicultural world. Impelled by the love of Christ, in the tradition of Vincent de Paul and the pioneer spirit of Catherine Spalding, Sisters and Associates are committed to work for justice in solidarity with oppressed peoples, especially the economically poor and women, and to care for the earth. They risk their lives and resources, both personally and corporately, as they engage in diverse ministries in carrying out this mission."

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User talk:FayssalF/Archive A

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-- utcursch | talk to me

Hi Fayssal I am really honoured :), alas I know we moroccans are really few and far between here, although I try to talk about Wikipedia around me. I guess you can find more moroccan by visting morrocan pages history.

Cheers --Khalid hassani 22:56, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Hi Fayssal, I have seen that you have been very active lately, nice to see someone involved :)

Cheers --Khalid hassani 22:09, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Gnawa
That project's not really active anymore, but gnawa looks almost ready for a Featured Article nomination. It could use a good copyedit (remember most genres, like blues should be lower-case) and needs a properly-formatted references section, but is otherwise a great article. I suggest taking it to peer review first, to get some more suggestions. Tuf-Kat 07:02, May 1, 2005 (UTC)

Help
Could you please help me ??? It is late night and i did a mistake: i tried to add a topic for deletion, without much success.

It seems the page is damaged. :(

How do i correct it ???

Thanks in advance.

--Hgfernan 03:47, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

Ibn Sirin
Why did you remove the copyvio notice on the abovementioned article? Please don't do this. Rewriting articles that are copyright violations isfine, as long as you do it on the temp page. The copyright violation must stay on the article for one week, regardless of good changes made. I've moved your edits to the temp page, per the policy. If you have any question, feel free to contact me on my talk page. Bratsche talk random 04:19, May 2, 2005 (UTC)
 * No problem whatsoever. Just wanted everything to go according to the rules. By the way, the stub that you made out of that copyvio looks great! Bratsche talk  random 04:35, May 2, 2005 (UTC)

Andalusian music
I'd rather make Andalusian music a disambig pointing to both Andalusian classical music and Music of Andalusia. It is best to avoid making parenthetical titles like Andalusian music (Morocco). That would be a good redirect, though. I'll go ahead and do this -- let me know if you have any questions. Tuf-Kat 20:47, May 2, 2005 (UTC)

Morocco-stub
I didn't delete the article; I merely marked it for speedy deletion. The article in question was not a template because it was not in the Template: namespace. If you intended to create a template, you should have put it in the Template: namespace. It looked to me like someone had misapplied the stub template with a subst. If the page hasn't already been deleted by an admin, it should be a simple matter to revert the delete tag and move it to the Template: namespace. Sorry for the confusion; I did not realize that there was not already a Morocco stub template. Kelly Martin 12:37, May 3, 2005 (UTC)

Morocco-geo-stub
Hi FayssalF - I note you've recently created a new stub category. Did you realise that stub categories should normally be cleared by WikiProject Stub sorting before creation? That way they can be vetted to check that there are a viable number of stubs (at least 60-100) and that the category does not cross the existing stub hierarchy before the stub is created.

If you can provide any information on why the stub was created, please add a note to the entry for this stubs at WikiProject Stub sorting/Criteria giving the reason for it. In addition, if there is any Wikiproject associated with the stub please add that information.

In this particular case, Morocco falls just below the threshold for a separate geo-stub category, as was discussed at the Stub sorting criteria page last month. All current Morocco geo-stubs are in Category:North Africa geography stubs, which is a small enough category in terms of numbers not to have needed further splitting yet. It is true, however, that Morocco has enough geo-stubs not to be a completely useless category, and as such, I cannot see any real reason why it shouldn't be kept. You might want to go through the North Africa category and re-template any Moroccan articles with the new stub template... Grutness|hello? 05:51, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
 * I've gone through the North Africa category and moved al the Morocco stubs I could find - there were a few lss than i remembered, but the Morocco-geo-stub category now has about 35 stubs in it. Grutness|hello? [[Image:Grutness.jpg|25px|]] 09:47, 5 May 2005 (UTC)

Problem with Ù…Ø§Ø±ÙƒÙŠØ²
This article is in arabic and we were wondering if it is worth translating, and/or maybe transfering it to arabic wiki. Could you have a quick look at it and tell us what you think on Pages needing translation into English?--Fenice 06:27, 6 May 2005 (UTC) Thanks.
 * Could you transfer it to ar.wiki? It looks like the characters are causing problems on our VfD-page, and maybe this is a case for speedy deletion.--Fenice 07:34, 6 May 2005 (UTC)

Two things
1) (Realizing this comes first:) Assalamu alaykum. I really respect your work.

2) Please consider voting at Conspiracy theory to restrict the use of the pejorative "Conspiracy Theory" in article headings. This phrase prejudges content in a way that is unacceptable, as witnessed in 9/11 domestic conspiracy theory

Yixing Porcelain
Sorry Faissal, you are definitely wrong when stating Yixing-Ware is a kind of porcelain. As that entry states correctly, "Porcelain is a type of hard semi-translucent ceramic". If you know Yixing ware you see, it is not at all translucent - it is a kind of earthenware, clay or terra cotta, as originally stated in the Yixing entry. You should move this to Yixing Clay, thanks.
 * You are absolutely right User:217.237.30.215. After verification, I found out that Yixing produced no porcelain but stonewares. I moved the article to Yixing clay. I also redirected all wikilinks in articles related to it (i.e. Chinese export porcelain and Yixing). Cheers and respect Svest 09:37, May 11, 2005 (UTC)

Re: Carnival glass article
Are you sure that the photo you added really is fair use? I think that it probably isn't. Further, I'll be a taking photographs of a variety of carnival glass items over the next month or two, and I'm willing to put some of my pictures in the public domain for this article. Very soon I don't think we'll have any shortage of good images that we know for certain are OK for use. --Unfocused 18:02, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Good idea to put your own taken pics in there. I think the pic I added got no copyright. You can check the website I got it from; no disclaimer. But anyway, we can remove it and wait for yours. Cheers Svest 18:05, May 11, 2005 (UTC)
 * Unfortunately the US law does not require anyone to post a copyright notice on anything for the author/photographer/creator to automatically have copyright protection. The law used to be that one had to apply for and register copyright to get the protection, but it was changed in the mid 1980s to be automatic for everything that one creates.  This legal "lock-down" that the US government imposed was actually part of the driving force that led to the creation of the "free information" movement within society that, enabled by licenses such as the GPL and the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL), allowed this very site to be created.  So, in part inspired by a bad law, people are creating something far better than anyone ever thought of before!  ;)  The "free software" movement existed, but people didn't realize what an important concept it was until the copyright law in the US was made automatic.  --Unfocused 20:33, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks
You wrote: ''I don't agree about Lee comments on the American education system. Everything is relative. Zach is a good example of being well educated.''

Thanks a bunch for the nice words. Zscout370 (talk) 19:13, 11 May 2005 (UTC)

Peer review
Thanks for your messages, I'll have a look, and keep up the good work :) --Khalid hassani 13:12, 14 May 2005 (UTC)

Ira Stoll
Wow, that's impressive service. I'll remember to wait with my questions until you're on RC patrol… --W(t) 02:46, 2005 May 21 (UTC)

Battle of Buxar
This kind of vandalism is precisely the reason I no longer edit under a screen name. Curiosity got the best of me, and here I am, back on Wikipedia.

These kinds of idiotic and totally useless "articles" in which the body of the article is nothing more than an echo of the title is the work of a wiki "vandal bot." These are not candidates for expansion. Of course, you can always expand the article if you wish or even redirect them, but hanging a stub notice at the end of one of these wastes of time ands doing nothing else is, well, a further waste of time. I hope this helps. - 71.102.66.104 07:53, 21 May 2005 (UTC)

Category:Airports of Palestine
I have reverted your edit on this category. Palestine is not a country and thus that note needs to be up there, for NPOV. Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 11:50, May 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Regardless, the note has 3 pieces. The first piece talks about Palestine not being a state (true). The second part says that this contains stuff from Gaza and the West Bank (a realistic goal for a future Palestine), and the 3rd part says that to israeli stuff, see that category (for navigation purposes). I make no claims about whether or not palestine should exist and I make no claims that the gaza strip/west bank are part of israeli. Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 12:44, May 21, 2005 (UTC)

Image:Casablanca-aeroport.jpg
Can you tell me what provision of fairuse you claim this under? Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 11:52, May 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * Copyright law sucks. Basically, if there is nothing there saying we can use it, it is fully copyrighted, and thus we have no rights to it. Cheers. Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 12:45, May 21, 2005 (UTC)

Arafat airport edit
Great job, thanks. We need more people to edit non-US/European airports. Burgundavia (✈ take a flight?) 11:52, May 21, 2005 (UTC)

Punkas
I've completely redone the Punkas article. I hope you have the time to check it. It may not be as much a candidate for deletion as it previously was. Tx.--McDogm 20:24, 26 May 2005 (UTC)

I changed the bold on the Punkas article. Good idea. --McDogm 02:40, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for doing the links; I just learned today the regular style.--McDogm 06:26, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Cineraria
Thanks; I didn't know that.--McDogm 04:23, 27 May 2005 (UTC)

Refactored: Thanks, I didn't know that the page was taking forever for people to load as a result of the big pictures (of Cineraria flowers). Much appreciated.--McDogm 02:43, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

Islam article
Dear Fayssal,

The Islam article keeps getting LONGER and LONGER, as people decide that this or that little bit just has to be added. Once the article gets too long, it's no longer as readable or useful.

Until fairly recently, a huge chunk of the Islam article was devoted to relations between Islam and other religions. After a discussion on the talk page, I cut out most of that section and combined it with the material already in the Islam and other religions article. Now you're expanding the Islam article again, with interesting info that is just too specific for what is supposed to be a placeholder section, just a brief summary directing people to the main article.

I'm going to revert your additions, but not because I want to silence you. If you want to argue about the wording of the summary section (keeping the number of the words much the same, but changing the words) let's do that on the talk page. I feel that that your edits are an attempt to paint Islam in a good light, and I'm not sure that this is being honest to the history.

(And yes, we have this problem with all the religion articles; adherents want all the good stuff and none of the bad stuff. People being people (alas!) there's always bad stuff. One of my online friends said something like "There's no position so sensible that it can resist total distortion by idiots".)

I don't have the time or energy to do it right now, but I'd like to move the interesting stuff you added to the Islam and other religions article, which still needs LOTS of work. I turned it into a historical survey and there's a lot of history to cover. See Mustafaa's cogent comments on the talk page. Right now there's one sentence on Spain, which is ridiculous, given that Granada is often given as an example of tolerance. If you want to move your additions and work on the Islam and other religions article, please do.

I'll add this note to the Islam talk page too. Reply there! Zora 09:42, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

 * I just wanted to say thanks for your edits to the Islam and other religions article, I will try to help you in the future.Yuber(talk) 01:44, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Name of Tétouan
Hey Fayssal, do you know of any instance of the city of Tetwan being called Tatawn as it appears is possibly the case at least at some point in history (based on the name Tetauni)? I've asked the author who wrote that, who essentially responded that it was from elsewhere (no source provided, although I found a few google hits). I'm wondering if this might be a typo somewhere that's being perpetuated... Tomer TALK 21:44, May 30, 2005 (UTC)

Wikiportals
Hi! Just thought you might like to know about the creation of an Algeria Wikiportal: Wikiportal/Algeria. There's a certain amount of overlap with Moroccan topics, after all - and I'd be happy to help set up a Moroccan equivalent... - Mustafaa 28 June 2005 20:45 (UTC)

Perhaps you could tell me...
How do I customize my Wikipedia signature? Thanks in advance!Kurita77 29 June 2005 13:51 (UTC)

Template:User FayssalF/User
Are you using the Template:User FayssalF/User, or can that be deleted? Blank Verse  ∅  5 July 2005 04:29 (UTC)

 * Since it is a user test, that one of the criteria for speedy deletion. I could mark it for deletion, but it is probably best for you to do it. Just put at the top of the page and save it.  Blank Verse   ∅  8 July 2005 00:35 (UTC)

Arabic in Irish Wikipedia
Your help would be appreciated. The Arabic at ga:Vicipéid:Baibéal/ga-0 mentions "French" instead of "Irish". Nobody at Irish language Wikipedia knows Arabic. If you could take a quick look and change it, we would be eternally grateful! ℬ astique ▼ talk 19:57, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

Greetings
A page that you joined to help with associate with other members of the Wikipedia community is on VfD. Please see Votes for deletion/Wikipedian citizens of the world, and the related page Votes for deletion/Wikipedian supporters of the sovereign nation-state. Cognition 09:32, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

Arabic help
Hey, I found you using Babel. A user named User:أسامة بن محمد بن عود بن لادن has been listed at RFC for having an inappropriate user name. The lister said that it meant Osama bin Laden. I'm just wondering if I could get independent verification of this (since I don't know) before blocking or anything. Thanks. --Dmcdevit·t 07:05, July 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks! --Dmcdevit·t 20:44, July 28, 2005 (UTC)

Plagiarism
The majority of your articles on ceramics have been stolen from Judith Miller's Illustrated Dictionary of Antiques and Collectables. This is dishonest and contravenes Wiki policy. Are you going to amend them/take them down?

Din
Hey Fayssal, I was wondering if you could take a look at this article. I have made it as NPOV and as accurate as I could (Din is just an Arabic word meaning religion), yet some POV pushers keep adding totally originally researched sections in about how Din means that "Islam is going to take over the state" and such. Could you please keep an eye on this article?Heraclius 17:07, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Atilla Ekici
I'm sorry, I don't currently have information on him other than what I read in the news coverage linked from Zotob and the BBC Other news site links. The best I've found so far is this bit from the Chicago Tribune: Farid Essebar, 18, was arrested in Morocco, while Atilla Ekici, 21, was arrested in Turkey on Thursday, Louis Riegel, the FBI's assistant director for cyber crimes, said Friday. They will be prosecuted in those countries, Riegel said.

Essebar wrote the code that attacked computers that run Microsoft Corp. operating systems and Ekici paid him for it, Riegel said. It's unclear they ever met, "but they certainly knew each other via the Internet," he said.

Wikipedia:List of Missing Africa Topics
Hey FayassalF,

I think you may have removed a number of articles incorrectly from List of missing Africa topics. For example, Wum currently refers to a British slang term and not the people of Cameroon that we need an article for. I checked over the list recently and found a number of blue links like this that nonetheless didn't link to a real Africa article.

Unfortunately I don't have time to recheck the list this weekend and put back in the ones removed by mistake. Is it possible for you to doublecheck these links? I appreciate your industry in removing the blue links, but it's important not to remove them until we actually have articles in place...

Best, --Dvyost 04:50, 28 August 2005 (UTC)Hey FayassalF,

 * Thanks for getting back to me so fast. I think you're right that, for example, changing that article link to Wum (ethnic group) might be helpful.  With some of these, though, just to figure out what the article title is referring to may require a fair amount of research; several I couldn't find via Google or my Davidson History of Africa.  I guess sooner or later one of us needs to buy the Fage book referred to here to figure out what these all mean...

 * Anyway, keep up the good work! Cheers, --Dvyost 15:07, 28 August 2005 (UTC)

Bleep... .NET stuff, etc.
So you said to come here, so I did, and you have a WikiProject page. I think I can take on the CLI and CLR articles 'cause they are just full of really silly things I'm sure I could fix easily. Do I need to do something on the project page before I dig in? Sorry for being such a newb... :) -- Foofy 01:11, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

About Deryck
For your interest and reference, Deryck C. and Deryck Chan is the same person - me, and the two different signatures link to the same page: User talk:Deryck Chan. 05:14:05, 2005-09-03 (UTC)

Muslim
About the holocaust material:

If the only few sources you can find are Jewish, then I would leave the material. Obviously if there are German or other religion sources then by all means keep the section. I'd just hate to think that it is some mean insult.

Thanks, a-n-o-n-y-m  04:14, September 12, 2005 (UTC)

In the name of Allah Most Gracious Most Merciful

“The Unbelievers are protectors, one of another: Unless you act likewise, there will be disorder and oppression on Earth and great mischief and corruption.” Surah Al-Anfāl (The Spoils of War) 8:73

Svest this is why you should disagree with Zora and accept my position. The Quranic link is necessary to explain where the word "Muslim" comes from. As the world Muslim is the word Allah named Muslims rather than like Christianity where Christians are the followers of Christ. This is also why I should remove the Holocaust reference link as even you have said there are no links to justify it. May I also mention that I mentioned the verses below because I wanted to show you that some Jews tell the truth and some mix up the words of truth, to further evil ends:

(159) "Among the people of Moses there is a party who guide others in the way of the truth and establish justice in its light.

(162) Then the wrong-doers among them substituted another word in place of the one told them. So We sent upon them a scourge from the heaven as a punishment for their wrong-doing." Quoting Surah Al A’raf (The Heights) 7: from the Quran --Courageous 17:03, 11 September 2005 (UTC)

As-salaam aluikum

No can do...
... I'm a regular editor - one who's pretty well known. User:Giano can tell you who I am :-) 203.134.166.99 23:26, 12 September 2005 (UTC)OK, this is stuffed... I'm editing a section but it's acting like I'm editing the whole page... - 203.134.166.99 02:21, 13 September 2005 (UTC) And now it's appending to the section!!!! - 203.134.166.99 02:22, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Bmicomp's RfA
Well, my RfA has not quite completed yet, but either way, I'd like to thank you for your vote and your support, regardless of the outcome. -- BMIComp (talk, HOWS MY DRIVING) 17:56, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion
I discounted an attack vote, which I did not originally notice when I deleted the article. We don't delete books because they are written by "nutjobs". So that's a 7/12. And, the nominator said it was a hoax, but clearly the book exists, because it's on amazon. But I don't think his vote should be discounted, since he also feels it's not notable. 7/12 is 63%, which I don't consider a consensus. -- Phroziac (talk) 22:48, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

Moroccan map
Salut Fayssal, merci pour le message, j'ai été rajouter mon grain de sel à la page de discussion, je pense en effet qu'il faut trouver un juste, entre le fait que les marocains considérent que le Sahara est un territoire marocain alors que le reste du monde pense que c'est un territoire encore diputé.--Khalid hassani 22:17, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the star!
A rotating star! Woo-hoo! I'm a rock star! Zora 12:44, 18 September 2005 (UTC)

Western Sahara
I think that the best way to resolve the dispute is to request a Mediation, what do you think about it? Daryou 20:28, 19 September 2005 (UTC)

Heya
I've almost completed MDAC, but need some help with: Any help you can give me (either on Peer review/MDAC or on the talk page of the article itself) would be really appreciated! - 211.30.175.100 11:24, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Architecture (well, I can probably do this), but mostly
 * Where does .Net fit into the MDAC scheme of things? I have lots of stuff on ADO, but nothing on ADO.NET!

Opposition, Criticism, or Anti-
With the exception of Islam, most major religions have "Anti-". For example, Anti-Judaism, Anti-Catholicism, Anti-Protestantism, Criticism of Islam, Criticism of Mormonism. The problem with the title "Opposition to Mormonism", etc with religions is that such a title is tooo POV. Opposition to illegal drugs, opposition to racisim, ok. How POV can you get about the pros and cons of racism? LoL. The only diehard opponents to Mormonism are other Christians. The old title assumes that all people are opposed to the religion, or that few people question reasons for its opposition, which is just not true. Anyway, I would like for you to edit the Criticism of Islam article. The article is accessible via the Islam template. As it currently stands, the article makes little attempt at being non-POV. --JuanMuslim 12:23, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

WS is not a country
Excuse me, how will we proceed, I'm not very strong in Google Groups. Can you show me the first steps? Thanks. Daryou 22:38, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

ext. links guidelines
Manual of Style (links) says that ext. links better had caption. Numbered links look ugly, and captioned ext. links cannot be confused with wikilinks anyway: they have a distinctive color and icon next to them. --194.226.235.251 08:33, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

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Sean Gauthier

Sean D. Gauthier (born March 28, 1971) is a Canadian former ice hockey goaltender.

Career
Gauthier was drafted by the Winnipeg Jets in 1991. He appeared in one game in the National Hockey League for the San Jose Sharks in the 1998–99 season, against the Chicago Blackhawks. The rest of his career, which lasted from 1991 to 2005, was spent in various minor leagues.

Personal life
Gauthier lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with his wife and three children. One of his sons, Boston College sophomore Cutter Gauthier, (born in Skellefteå, Sweden) was selected 5th overall by the Philadelphia Flyers in the 2022 NHL Entry Draft, and his NHL rights were traded to Anaheim Ducks immediately following the 2024 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, where Cutter excelled for Gold Medalist Team USA.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Behind the Scenes Productions

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was delete. – Rich Farmbrough 20:29, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Behind the Scenes Productions
Non-notable production company that has only produced a few commercials. Limited results for (Berkeley "Behind the Scenes Productions") -- Kjkolb 04:05, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per nomination. Smels like advertisement too. -- Rune Welsh ταλκ 20:48, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

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


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Talk:Amphisbaena

Massachusetts Sightings?
In a book by Eric Carle called Dragons Dragons: and Other Creatures that Never Were, he claims that the creature was sighted during the colonization of Massachusetts. Can anyone verify this information?Why?How?

Abilities?
What are these "abilities" listed here? Is this from the original myth, or some modern game? 81.233.196.49 (talk) 12:39, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * I've removed it. The whole "lunar basilisk" thing sounds especially suspect, and I wouldn't be surprised if this was from Harry Potter or something. In any case, it wasn't referenced, and the article hardly needs to have a list smack in the middle of it. 97.104.210.67 (talk) 02:02, 3 March 2010 (UTC)

Folk medicine
The folk medicine section details the uses this creature apparently had in folk medicine. Since this creature isn't real, how could it have had any use? Perhaps it was only speculated to have those uses, perhaps folk medicine practitioners lied about it, or perhaps the uses only appear in mythological or fictional works. Either way, this section needs clarification and references.  McLerristarr |  Mclay1  14:17, 2 May 2014 (UTC)

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In media section
This last section appears to have the least coherence and readability. For example, in describing John Milton's "Paradise Lost," the sentence reads: "...some of the fallen angelic host are transformed into the amphisbaena, to represent the animal by which the Fall was caused, i.e. a snake. Ignoring the borderline run-on sentence aspect, let's focus on basic subject-verb agreement. "Some of the fallen angelic host ARE"? Should it not be "some of the fallen angelic host IS transformed into the amphisbaena"? Or are there multiple fallen angelic hosts, as in "some of the fallen angelic hosts ARE transformed into the amphisbaena"? My guess is that the host is singular and should be paired with the singular verb "is," but I can't be certain as I have not read Paradise Lost.

Similarly, the last paragraph mentions an Amphisbaena "in the form of an evil creature called Grimm." Upon first reading, this appears to imply a singular creature like the Minotaur, Chimera, or Manticore, and not a race of creatures like the centaurs, satyrs, or Cyclopes. However, the very next sentence states, "Of the different Grimm, Amphisbaena appears to be the King Taijitu, a two-headed snake or serpent," implying that "Grimm" perhaps is a race of creatures and not a singular monster or beast. Which is it? I am not familiar with the animated show, so I can't edit the sentence to resolve the ambiguity myself.

I understand that many contributors to Wikipedia are likely not native speakers of English, and that even native English-speakers can mangle a sentence or two, but I am often baffled by the degree of incoherency that makes it into articles. I think sometimes it is better that a section be omitted than be included with ambiguity and unreadability. That is not to imply that this "In media" section is that far gone (most of the issues are minor and correctable), but I've definitely come across a few that are. Perhaps I am being hypercritical and nitpicky. It just bothers me to read a sentence with its meaning unclear. 66.91.36.8 (talk) 19:59, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (video game)

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is a 1992 video game based loosely on the 1992 film of the same name; it was released on the Nintendo Entertainment System, Genesis, Game Boy, DOS and Super NES platforms. It was dedicated to Tom D. Heidt, a programmer who died shortly before it was released.

Development
The game was unveiled in October 1992.

The game was released in late 1992 for all three Nintendo consoles available at the time. Mechanically, the three versions are identical, with the Game Boy version being virtually identical to the NES version aside from the monochrome graphics, lowered resolution, minor gameplay and map differences. The DOS version was released in 1992. The Genesis version was released a year later in 1993.

In June 2016, video game developer Frank Cifaldi found the NES version's source code on an old hard drive and released it to the public. He has stated the game's code was based on The Simpsons-licensed titles on the NES, also by Imagineering.

A sequel for the Game Boy version, entitled Home Alone 2: Lost In New York: Kevin's Dream, was slated for release in 1994, as made by Unexpected Development, but it was cancelled before it came out. Unexpected Development would re-work the title to be based on the Fox Kids animated series Bobby's World, complete with Super Game Boy functionality, but a planned 1995 release by Hi Tech Entertainment also did not occur. The ROM for both versions of the game was leaked online in September 2020.

Gameplay
The player controls Kevin McCallister as he makes his way alone through New York City. Locations include the Plaza Hotel, Central Park, Uncle Rob McCallister's townhouse, and the streets of New York. Kevin fights enemies using a Slide, Flying Fist and Super Flying Fist moves; for weapons, he uses a Dart gun. Using a Necklace will cause walking enemies to slip off the screen (referencing a scene where Kevin uses the pearls from a necklace to trip up his pursuers). Powerups include Pizza Slices, Whole Pie, Cookies, Bells, Candy Canes and After Shave.

Reception
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York was awarded Worst Sequel of 1992 by Electronic Gaming Monthly. They also awarded it Worst Movie-to-Game of 1996.