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Mr. and Mrs. Iyer

Mr. and Mrs. Iyer is a 2002 Indian English-language drama film written and directed by Aparna Sen and produced by N. Venkatesan. The film features Sen's daughter Konkona Sen Sharma as Meenakshi Iyer, a Tamil Iyer Brahmin who is a Hindu. Rahul Bose portrays the character of Raja Chowdhury, a Bengali Muslim wildlife photographer. The story revolves around these two lead characters during a fateful bus journey amidst the carnages of a communal strife in India. Zakir Hussain composed the background score and music for the film and Goutam Ghose was the cinematographer.

Mr. and Mrs. Iyer premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland and was showcased at other prominent film festivals. The film opened to Indian audiences on 19 July 2002. It was met with critical acclaim upon release, and won several national and international awards, including the Golden Maile award at the Hawaii International Film Festival and the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration in India. The film had English as its predominant language with a sporadic use of Hindi, Tamil, and Bengali.

Plot
Meenakshi Iyer and her infant son, Santhanam, embark on a bus journey to return home, after visiting her parents. At the bus station, Meenakshi is introduced to Raja Chowdhury by a common friend. Raja, a wildlife photographer, is requested by Meenakshi's parents to look after their daughter and grandson during the journey. The passengers of the bus include a boisterous group of youngsters, two Sikh men, an elderly Muslim couple, a young couple high on romance, a mentally challenged boy and his mother, and some card-playing men. The bus faces a roadblock and the bus driver attempts a detour, but is stopped by traffic jam caused by sectarian violence between Hindus and Muslims in nearby areas.

Raja reveals his Muslim identity to Meenakshi. As someone who comes from a high caste and conservative Hindu Brahmin family, Meenakshi shudders at the very fact that during their travel she drank water offered by Raja, a Muslim. She is shocked and asks Raja to not touch her. Raja contemplates leaving the bus, but is forced to stay inside by the patrolling police, who declare a curfew due to the riot. After the police leaves to scout other areas, a rioting Hindu mob arrives and forcibly enters the bus. They begin interrogating passengers about their religious identities and when in doubt, they even resort to check if the person is circumcised.

In order to protect himself from them, one of the passengers, who is Jewish and hence circumcised, points to the old Muslim couple to divert the mob's attention. The mob's leader drags the old couple out of the bus. One of the teenagers resists this, but she is assaulted by the mob. As Raja attempts to rise in revolt, Meenakshi plants Santhanam on his lap, ordering him to hold the baby with an intent to shield Raja's Muslim identity. The mob asks about their identities, and Meenaksi tells the leader that she is Mrs. Iyer and Raja is her husband. After this chilling encounter, the passengers spend the night in the bus.

In the morning, the passengers trek to a nearby village to seek accommodation. Raja and Meenakshi, identifying themselves as Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, fail to find any accommodation. However, the police officer, who was patrolling the earlier evening, bails them out by providing shelter at an abandoned forest bungalow. They are provided with the single usable bedroom available in the bungalow. Meenakshi refuses to share the room with Raja, and curses herself for coming along with a stranger. Raja confronts her on her outdated prejudices about caste and religion. After a brief quarrel, Raja allows her the comfort of the bedroom and prefers to sleep outside. The next morning when Meenakshi does not find Raja, she gets worried and angry as to why he left Santhanam and her in such a place. Soon, she feels relieved to find Raja sleeping outside. After they reach a restaurant in the nearby village, they meet the teenagers from the bus. The girls are excited and curious to know about Meenaakshi and Raja's love story. To keep their farce alive, both of them cook up an impromptu story right from how they met till where they went for their honeymoon. During their stay at the bungalow, they discover each other's beliefs and understanding of religion. That night, as they witness a horrific murder by one of the mobs, a shocked Meenakshi is comforted by Raja.

The next day, they reach a railway station with the army's help. There, they board the train towards their destination. At their destination station, Kolkata, Meenakshi's husband, Mr. Iyer arrives to receive her and Santhanam. Meenakshi introduces Raja to her husband as Jehangir Chowdhury, a Muslim man who helped her (a Hindu woman) during the curfew. Raja hands over a camera roll to Meenakshi, containing the photos of their journey; they bid an emotional farewell to each other.

Cast

 * Konkona Sen Sharma as Meenakshi S. Iyer – A traditional Tamil Iyer Brahmin traveling with her  son, Santhanam, in the bus on her way to meet her husband. She meets a fellow-traveler, Raja Chowdhury, and gets drawn to him due to the surrounding circumstances.
 * Rahul Bose as Jehangir "Raja" Chowdhury – A liberal Muslim by faith, he is a wildlife photographer by profession. With the imminent danger from the rioters, Meenakshi contrives a protective identity for him as her husband.
 * Bhisham Sahni as Iqbal Ahmed Khan – An elderly conservative Muslim traveling along with his wife, Najma. He ends up as one of the victims of the sectarian violence.
 * Surekha Sikri as Najma Ahmed Khan – The dutiful and loving wife of Iqbal, Najma perishes in the riots when she comes in defence of her husband.
 * Anjan Dutt as Cohen – He is responsible for diverting the attention of the Hindu mob, in self-defence, towards the old Muslim couple. Thereafter, he is petrified thinking that he may also have been killed by the mob who could wrongly identify him as a Muslim, since he is circumcised.
 * Bharat Kaul as Rajesh Arora – The police officer responsible for controlling and maintaining the law and order in the riot-stricken area. He gets acquainted with the bus passengers and helps the Iyer 'couple' find a place to stay during the curfew.
 * Niharika Seth, Riddhi Basu, Richa Vyas, Eden Das, Jishnu Sengupta as Khushbu, Mala, Sonali, Amrita, Akash – An enthusiastic young group of friends riding the bus.

Development
Aparna Sen, a noted actress and director of Bengali cinema, made her debut as a director with the English film 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981). Mr. and Mrs. Iyer was her second film in English. She hoped to write a simple romantic story, but it shaped out to be a relationship drama in the backdrop of sectarian violence. Sen came up with the background of the story in the aftermath of 9/11 and the 2002 Gujarat riots. In an interview, Sen stated that the omnipresent, circumstantial violence in the film was only to serve as a strain in the script which aimed to show how the relationship evolves between two people who are forced to be together under trying times. She stated that the time frame of the film was set after the attacks on the Parliament of India on 13 December 2001.

In an interview at the screening at the Locarno Film Festival, Sen revealed that Konkona was involved in the pre-production research, and she suggested the title. About the cinematographer Gautam Ghose, Aparna Sen said that they had a good rapport and that Ghose, himself an acclaimed director, was one of the best cinematographers she knew. Ghose, in reply, said that he hoped to give his best for the film and thus contribute to their friendship.

Casting
Rahul Bose's work in English, August (1994) and Split Wide Open (1999) made Aparna Sen feel that he was a good, controlled and intelligent actor. After a costume and a makeup test, he was chosen for the character of Raja Chawdhury. Sen admitted that Bose's work was up to the mark, and working with him was a wonderful experience. She told in an interview that Konkona Sen Sharma's abilities as a sensitive actress fetched her the role of Meenakshi Iyer. Konkona said that she chose this film as she was interested in Indian films made in English, and was reluctant to do regular commercial films. Sen had penned the elderly Muslim woman's character bearing Surekha Sikri in mind. Eventually Sikri and the author and playwright Bhisham Sahni were cast to play the roles of the Muslim couple in the film. Santhanam, the infant son of Meenakshi Iyer in the film is Sen's grand niece.

Aparna Sen chose English as the film's narrative since the characters are linguistically diverse. She had to make sure that the characters spoke in English with their regional accent. Konkona admitted in an interview that playing the role of a Tamil Brahmin did not come easy. The director forced her to visit Chennai (where the major language is Tamil) for two weeks to research her character. She also said that she had learned many characteristics, nuances and mannerisms native to Tamilian housewives. She took a close look at Iyer lifestyles and customs in and around Mylapore, a cultural hub in Chennai. She attempted listening to recorded conversations in Iyer households to get a suitable Tamil accent.

Filming
The production commenced in December 2001. Sen chose to keep the geographical setting unstated because she felt that it was a journey that could take place anywhere. The film was shot in the Himalayan foothills of northern West Bengal. The producers provided a state-of-the-art camera from Chennai's Prasad Studios to ensure that the shooting crew was technically better equipped. Rupali Mehta, from Triplecom Productions, the co-producer oversaw the crew of over 100 complete the production schedule in 50 days. The production team resorted to certain cost-cutting measures to ensure they committed fewer mistakes. For example, they had organised a workshop for the actors to avoid mistakes while filming.

While filming in Jalpaiguri, Sen got embroiled in a controversy for damages caused to the forest bungalow, a heritage property, where a portion of filming was done. She admitted that, to give the bungalow a haunted look, they "... sprayed slush on the walls and plastered cobwebs all over the place." However, she claimed that the place was cleaned up after the completion of their shoot.

Release and reception
Following objections from the local police, two scenes were removed by producers from the version of the film screened in the city of Mumbai. One scene showed a Hindu man saying—using profanity—that Muslims should be sent back to Pakistan; the other featured a policeman using obscenities with a communal undertone. The police felt both scenes were too "provocative" for a "communally sensitive" city. However, for the rest of India, the film was screened in its entirety.

Thanks to its low budget and the spread of multiplexes in India, it brought in some revenue. Furthermore, the contemporary trend in the Indian television channels is to showcase films within months of their release. This trend helped modest box-office successes such as Mr. and Mrs. Iyer to get additional thrust to their financial returns. Indeed, Mr. and Mrs. Iyer was one of the first films that led to reworking of the business models for small films in India. In addition, Triplecom Productions sold the dubbed version in Italy for $20,000. A trade analysis by Rediff.com suggested that small-budget films such as Mr. and Mrs. Iyer did not compromise on marketing budgets, instead they put efforts in marketing themselves more innovatively.

Special screenings and awards
In 2002, Mr. and Mrs. Iyer was chosen as India's official entry at the Locarno International Film Festival. It ran for 3 minutes longer than its runtime of 120 minutes at Locarno. Though it missed out on the Golden Leopard Award at Locarno, it won the Netpac Jury Prize along with two other films. The film won the Golden Maile award at the 22nd Hawaii International Film Festival, the Audience Award for the Best Feature Film at the Philadelphia Film Festival, and the best screenplay award at the 2003 Cinemanila International Film Festival.

In 2003, the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles chose to open with Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, while New Zealand's first Asian film festival in 2004 chose to close its 10-day fest with it. The India International Women's Film Festival had a special retrospective to Aparna Sen for Mr. and Mrs. Iyer. The film was also showcased at the Pusan International Film Festival, Regus London Film Festival, Mill Valley Film Festival, International Film Festival of India, Braunschweig International Film Festival, and High Falls Film Festival. At the International Film Festival of Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, it won the Gold prize, awarded to the best film screened that year. Rahul Bose said that when the film was showcased at the Geneva festival, it was seen and liked by Kofi Annan, the United Nations Secretary-General.

Back home in India, Mr. and Mrs. Iyer won the Golden Lotus Award for best direction, the Silver Lotus Awards for best actress, the best screenplay, and the Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration at the 2003 National Film Awards ceremony.

Govind Nihalani, an Indian film director wondered if Mr. and Mrs. Iyer could have been sent to the Oscars instead of the regular song-and-dance entries. Eventually, Film Federation of India, the apex organisation that sends the nation's official entries to the Oscars, did not find any film worth sending for the 76th Academy Awards.

Reviews
Lawrence van Gelder commented in his review in The New York Times that "The well-acted romance, as the two principal characters are thrown together by unanticipated events, is hard to resist, even though the answer to the crucial question it raises is all too conveniently deferred time and again." However, he added that Mr. and Mrs. Iyer "... is not a subtle film ..." The Chicago Reader also said, "Sen is anything but subtle in populating the bus with a cross section of class and ethnic types ... but the friendship that blossoms between the leads is tenderly depicted and hints at a solution to sectarian strife" TIME magazine praised Aparna sen for her "... attention to detail ..." that "... skillfully captures the characters' idiosyncrasies." The Village Voice said, "The actors appear game, yet director Aparna Sen, who conceived the film in the wake of September 11, resorts often to hokey pseudo-lyricism and prefers sound-bite ballyhoo to sociological depth." Metacritic, a website with a medley of reviews by American critics, gives the film a score of 50/100, meaning mixed or average reviews.

In his review, Derek Elley of Variety remarked that the film had "... the awkward, issue-driven dialogue and wavering direction, showing influences from both the arty and commercial. [The] two leads just about scrape through." Although The Hindu review praised the director for "... handling (these) scenes in an understated, muted fashion ..." giving "... them the power to disturb and haunt you." it questioned certain aspects of the film, stating, "Though the flutters of the heart have been treated with finesse—sometimes a little too prudishly, pandering, perhaps, to middle class morality—we are never entirely convinced that love could blossom between Meenakshi Iyer and Raja Chowdhary." Indeed, Sen was criticised for contriving cinematic situation not quite fitting to the real world, "Can a married woman with a baby in arms fall in love with a total stranger that she meets on a very short bus journey, however extraordinary the situation may have been? Having decided to drive them to each other's arms, Sen thinks up situations, which are terribly contrived ... Sen's story and script are found wanting elsewhere too. The police officer, who plays the good Samaritan, appears so unreal in the world of rancour that Sen creates ... [She], probably in her over enthusiasm, lets her own emotions derail her."

Konkona Sen Sharma, who had not been widely seen outside Bengal before the release of the film, received particular praise for her performance, "... the movie clearly belongs to Konkona Sen Sharma ... who as Meenakshi [Iyer] gets so beautifully into the psyche of a Tamil Brahmin ... she emotes just splendidly: when her eyes well up at the thought of parting with Raja [Chowdhary], when she gently rests her head on his shoulders in the train, and when her expressions suggest the faintest hint of love, we know that here is a great actress." A Rediff.com review said, "... Konkana, a youngster, bowls you over with her silently sledge-hammering portrayal of Meenakshi Iyer, a conservative Tamilian Brahmin housewife ... [Her] eyes tell a thousand untold stories." An Australian critic said that the film, with "wonderfully nuanced performances by Sensharma and Rahul Bose, whose love affair is as innocent as the lyrical, lingering soundtrack. Mr and Mrs Iyer is a gentle film, whose simple and haunting love story will appeal to the romantic traveller."

The "... attractive lensing by Gautam Ghose (a director in his own right) and atmospheric scoring by Ustad Zakir Hussain ..." were well received. "Looking through the eyes of Gautam Ghose's illuminating lens, Aparna Sen builds a miniature, but epic, world of tremendous inner strength. In her first seriously politically committed film, Sen takes on the issue of communal conflict with the surging humanism of Gabriel García Márquez, painting words on celluloid ... If [Zakir] Hussain creates sounds within the seesaw of silences and screams, cinematographer Gautam Ghose creates a lucid contrast between the silently majestic Himalayan hinterland and the fundamentalists."

DVD
The DVD, which released on 2 June 2004, has subtitle options in English, Hindi, Punjabi, Tamil and Urdu. It is available in 16:9 Anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, progressive 24 FPS, widescreen and NTSC format.

Soundtrack
Ustad Zakir Hussain composed music for the film. For the first time in mainstream cinema, he sang for one part of a song. He said this in an interview and added that it was only after the track was recorded, the producers decided to go for Hussain's voice. Rahul Bose, who introduced Hussain to Aparna and Konkona, was instrumental in influencing Hussain to compose the background score for the film.

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Where's the cowbell?
Please, somebody, somewhere, find me some cowbell.

 * How about Image:cowbell2.gif? Does that work? -- LV (Dark Mark)  19:46, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Had it a while back. It's not "fair use" when used to decorate a user page. :-( Friday (talk) 19:50, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I was actually thinking something was up with the copyright. But instead, you can have this crappy, one-minute Paint job cowbell. Apologies for it not really looking like a cowbell. -- LV (Dark Mark)  21:23, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I would like to register a complaint about the quality of this so-called "cowbell". I took the liberty of whacking it with a drumstick when I got it home, and not only was the tone very poor indeed (more of a dull thud than a proper cowbell sound), it now appears that my laptop display is permanently damaged.  Friday (talk) 22:00, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

 * OperatorError Not the cowbell's fault. Caveat emptor (except you really didn't buy anything, but I don't know Latin well enough to say "Let the receiver beware".) If you really want, why don't you go ahead and send me your name, telephone number, Social Security Number, and a couple of bank account numbers and I'll go ahead and wire you some cash for a new laptop. ;-) See you around, my friend. -- LV (Dark Mark)  22:26, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

There was finally one loaded. Cheers. -- LV (Dark Mark)  19:10, 19 January 2006 (UTC) Mr Cow shows off his bling.
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A cowbell from the Commons. --Elkman - (talk) 22:25, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

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Talk:Machiavelli (card game)

Board game or card game
If its a "german style board game", how come the title says its a card game? BL Lacertae 04:45, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Good point. It's generally listed as one of the german-style games, but indeed does not have a game board. I'll change the link to have it point to german-style game :-) Wouter Lievens 09:37, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

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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 Delete --Allen3 talk 18:48, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Webermath
Neologism, Original research. cohesion | talk 04:45, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

This is outstanding!!!

Although the math doesn't work, I find myself opening up new channels of thought and coming up with new ideas for my students.

John Turner
 * Delete, appears to be a neologism. As an aside. "John Turner" above shares the same IP as the person who created the artice, and the IP's two contributions are creating the article and the comment above. Maybe the article is some form of vanity? Saberwyn 05:27, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nonsense. Gazpacho 05:42, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as original research. The article states "Webermath is that branch of mathematics designed to defy current mathematical laws. Webermath was created by Keith Weber in August/September 2005. Webermath has several branches. These are Pronunciation math and i Math." Capitalistroadster 05:43, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, neologism, hoax, nonsense, vanity, non-notable. — J I P | Talk 11:46, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, senseless nonsense. Neologism. Palladian 08:44, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

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Hachiōji the next designated city of Japan?
I was wondering in the future if Hachiōji City can become the first designated city within Tokyo-to (alone or merged with Machida City). And if so here is a possibility that might occur for example: Tokyo City shall become Japan's first-ever prefecture-level city because its 23 special wards are in the same level as other municipalities and "Tokyo-to" converts back to "Tokyo-fu". jlog3000 (talk) 18:14, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * WP:Crystal Ball - Wait until it happens before documenting this WhisperToMe (talk) 02:33, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
 * So far it hasn't happened. Is it like illegal for a city within Tokyo Metropolis to have any special status? jlog3000 (talk) 12:17, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

About Industries and Economy
I will remove some less notable or unsourced events from the list and put them here. Feelfree to discuss. I have rough criteria in mind, but typing them would be too long. The years are missing from the copied elements.

Hachioji is many companies factories and development center located here, chemical product company of Three Bond, semiconductor equipment, precision equipment product company of Tokyo Precision, disital audio production company of JVC Kenwood, electrical equipment product company of Chuo Electric, sewing machine product company of Janome are headquarter base with factory located in Hachioji.

Also, photomask product company of Hoya, endoscope product company of Olympus, copy machine and disital camera product company of Konica Minolta, cosmetic production company of Oshima Tsubaki, fish processing company of Nissui, pharmaceutical company of Sato, confectionery company of Sakuma are factory located in Hachioji, with Casio, Toyota Motor, and many companies develop center located in Hachioji. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.23.5.48 (talk) 13:54, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Shopping mall and Department store
I will remove some less notable or unsourced events from the list and put them here. Feelfree to discuss. I have rough criteria in mind, but typing them would be too long. The years are missing from the copied elements.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.23.5.48 (talk) 13:54, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Mitsui Outlet Park Tama South Osawa
 * Forest Mall South Osawa
 * Green Walk Taka in South Osawa
 * Hachioji Station Tokyu Plaza
 * Hachioji Sogo Department Store (will close on January 2012)

Festival in Hachioji
I will remove some less notable or unsourced events from the list and put them here. Feelfree to discuss. I have rough criteria in mind, but typing them would be too long. Circeus 13:55, July 16, 2011 (UTC) The years are missing from the copied elements.

This festival visit 683,000 spectators in 2010, but this event cancel in 2011, because of 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.23.5.48 (talk) 13:54, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Hachioji Festival - This Festival began in 1961, which held in every August, today, largest event in Hachioji, with a number of traditional floats, dancers participated in this festival.

Origin of its Name?
What's the origin of the name "Hachioji"? It seems to mean "eight princes", which is a mystery, but any (well-supported) suggestion would be welcome! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.163.238.230 (talk) 01:55, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

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POV?
What particular part of this seems biased? It all seems fair enough to me, though severely lacking in current jazz artists and venues in Melbourne at least (don't know too much about the Sydney jazz scene).

POV?
I'm not sure what the criticism is here? Can anyone enlighten me?

FYI, my contribution is far from complete, and I freely acknowledge that it needs much more work on recent performers, current venues, etc. Obviously this is a work in progress, not a completed article.

I am open to any and all criticisms/suggestions/corrections, but unless someone can identify the POV problem with this article within the next couple of weeks, I'm going to remove the POV notice.

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Vince Jones
There was no Vince Jones article. I've just created it and will expand it over the next couple of days. Brettr 14:08, 31 May 2007 (UTC) DOIN YA MUM!

JAZZ IN THE SEVENTIES
I am writing a book about the jazz scene in Sydney in the 70s, have done a lot of research, and will in the next few weeks add a section to this article that covers that very active period in Australian jazz.

Boothman123 01:17, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

POST WORLD WAR II JAZZ
Added more to this section, mainly re the AJQ, El Rocco, Three Out Trio and Mocambo. Also added information re SIMA in the 80s and later section.

Boothman123 12:47, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

REFERENCE NOTICES
I have deleted the notices regarding a need for references. Since they were posted some footnote references have been added and it should also be noted that details that I have personally added to this article are in the large part taken from the reference books that are listed. Much of the information for those entries was also gained by me from the NSW Branch of the Australian Jazz Archives. Boothman123 (talk) 12:17, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

recordings

 * Curl the Mo',Uncle Joe (National Film & Sound Archive, Australia) 1946 by Jack Lumsdaine
 * Home to Ballaarat (National Film & Sound Archive, Australia) 1927 by Reginald Stoneham
 * Jane O'Hara (National Film & Sound Archive, Australia) 1925 by Vince Courtney

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Kenneth L. Curtis

Kenneth L. Curtis (born August 3, 1965) is a former college student from Connecticut who, on October 30, 1987, shot and killed his estranged girlfriend, then shot himself in the head, although he survived. He was charged criminally for the killing, but originally was found mentally incompetent to stand trial, and the criminal charge was dismissed. Years later, he enrolled in college, and pursued studies as a pre-med student. He again was charged with the killing, found competent, and subsequently pleaded guilty to manslaughter.

The case (Connecticut vs. Kenneth Curtis) changed the views in the justice system of mental competence to stand trial. Prior to this case, those given such an assessment were viewed as not restorable, and charges would be dismissed in favor of periodic reviews used only in determining the need for a civil commitment.

Legal case
On October 30, 1987, Curtis shot his estranged girlfriend Donna Kalson in a bar parking lot in Stratford, Connecticut, killing her. He then shot himself in a murder-suicide attempt. He also injured one of Kalson's friends, who was with her. After a lengthy hospitalization in which he was on advanced life support, he survived his own gunshot, leaving him severely disabled. He was partially brain damaged and paralyzed.

After being released from the hospital, Curtis was charged with Kalson's murder and the attempted murder of her friend. Following his recovery, more than a year after the incident, he was given a mental competence evaluation to determine if he could stand trial for his crimes. During the evaluation, it was found that his ability to read or understand were impaired, and he had no memory of the incident. As a result, he was ruled mentally incompetent to stand trial, but not confined to a mental institution. He was allowed to return home. Kalson's family was initially unaware of this.

This did not sit well with Donna Kalson's parents when they learned, following a tip, that Curtis was attending a local college. The Kalsons arranged for their own investigation of Curtis. Reporters for News Channel 8 observed Curtis taking classes at a local college with an apparent goal of a career in psychiatry. His grades were mostly As and Bs; his grade point average after receiving 48 credits was 3.3,; information that was obtained from a search warrant on Curtis's grades at three colleges executed by Stratford police. His actions on campus, including a conversation the reporters had directly with Curtis, were filmed by reporters. While Curtis's defense team called many doctors to testify on his behalf, the video produced by the network was viewed as overwhelming evidence in favor of declaring him mentally competent.

Curtis's defense team attempted to fight the actions taken against him, claiming that he was already declared incompetent and could not be tried due to a Connecticut law that required such closure of all cases of this type after 18 months. They took their battles all the way to the Connecticut Supreme Court. Double jeopardy laws and other laws were not considered to be applicable, and Curtis was ordered to stand trial.

Curtis pleaded guilty in 1999 to manslaughter and received a 20-year prison sentence, the maximum allowed for charges of manslaughter.

Curtis was paroled in 2011.

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Link to gens
The link to gens in the final paragraph was deleted with the edit summary "'gens' link goes to inappropriate Roman bits." Actually, it is the right link; it's just that the Catholic Encyclopedia article from which this article was derived rather pretentiously (and, no doubt, inaccurately) referred to the hierarchy of a Native American tribe using a Roman term. Ideally, of course, that whole paragraph will be rewritten by someone familiar enough with the subject to get it right. Until then, I've left the link in on the grounds that otherwise no one will know what it means. Chick Bowen 04:49, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

 * the use of the term "gens" is somewhat ambiguous, but it seems the researchers at the turn of the century used the term to refer to "a group of people who are related through their male ancestors" which is one of the accepted definitions of the word and is a more specific and therefore probably technically more accurate than the word clan. The word "clan" seems to be preferred in speech today however. Ogahpah (talk) 16:03, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

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does anyone have information about Saracin in Pine Bluff Arkansas   ? jrbonarmd@aol.com quapaws are unicorns — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.34.198.132 (talk) 22:52, 8 December 2014 (UTC)

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"Based on the associated funerary objects, and skeletal and dental morphology, these human remains have been identified as Native American or prehistoric red headed nephilim. Based on ceramic styles and construction, this site has been identified as a manifestation of the Menard Complex during the protohistoric period (1500–1700 CE). French historical documents from 1700 indicate that only the Quapaw tribe had villages in the area of the Kinkead-Mainard site. In 1818, the Quapaw ceded the central Arkansas River valley, including the Kinkead-Mainard site, to the United States. Based on historical information and continuity of occupation, these human remains have been affiliated with the Quapaw Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma." - - Some of this information may be useful, but considering that the source notes that the fore-mentioned archaeological site might have been constructed by red-headed biblical giants, I find the source to be very dubious. Inclusion of this quote, which bases it’s information on numerous unnamed sources, in the article of a Native American tribe is in my opinion, impertinent. Hk5183 (talk) 21:44, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
 * You're right. This stuff does not belong in this article. It's not even a good summation of the archaeological data. Yuchitown (talk) 23:21, 16 June 2018 (UTC)Yuchitown

 * The Pinnacle Mountain Community Post wrote in 1991, "Concerning the first Natural Steps inhabitants, the University of Arkansas Museum, in 1932, excavated several Indian burials near the site. In the report, entitled "The Kinkead-Mainard Site, 3PU2: A Late Prehistoric Quapaw Phase Site Near Little Rock, Arkansas", Michael P. Hoffman writes, 'The site represents the only scientific excavation conducted by the University of Arkansas between the mouth of the Arkansas River and Oklahoma in which detailed information of the Mississippian period is known... An hypothesis which developed quite early in my contact with Kinkead-Mainard site materials was that the site was one of the Quapaw phase...'"

 * The Arkansas Gazette wrote on April 17, 1979 that, "There was an archeological dig (in 1932) from the University of Arkansas working near the Natural Steps (Natural Steps, Arkansas). They found bodies of three Indians who had been buried there. They were buried sitting up." Pottery and other artifacts were found during the dig in the 1930s.

 * On August 26, 1999, the National Park Service wrote: "In 1932, human remains representing a minimum of 19 individuals were recovered from the Kinkead-Mainard site (3PU2), Pulaski County, Arkansas during excavations conducted by the University Museum. No known individuals were identified. The 117 associated funerary objects include ceramic vessels, ceramic sherds, a clay ball, lithic debris, copper beads, a copper band, a copper nugget, pigment, animal bones, a tortoise carapace, an antler pendant, antler projectile points, bone awls, shell beads, a mussel shell, and leather fragments."

 * "Based on the associated funerary objects, and skeletal and dental morphology, these human remains have been identified as Native American or prehistoric red headed nephilim. Based on ceramic styles and construction, this site has been identified as a manifestation of the Menard Complex during the protohistoric period (1500–1700 CE). French historical documents from 1700 indicate that only the Quapaw tribe had villages in the area of the Kinkead-Mainard site. In 1818, the Quapaw ceded the central Arkansas River valley, including the Kinkead-Mainard site, to the United States. Based on historical information and continuity of occupation, these human remains have been affiliated with the Quapaw Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma."

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GE Dash 8-40BW

The Dash 8-40BW, or B40-8W, is a four-axle diesel locomotive built by GE Transportation for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (ATSF) in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. It is part of the GE Dash 8 Series of freight locomotives.

The locomotive model designation is interpreted as follows: B (B type truck arrangement, 2 axles per truck) 40 (4000 horsepower) -8 (the generation when it was designed, in this case meaning the late 1980s) W (Widecab).

ATSF was the only railroad to order the B40-8W, and a B unit (cabless booster unit) was almost made with it, but because the price would have been the same for B40-8Ws with cabs or without, they decided to order units with cabs only.

All of ATSF's B40-8Ws were passed on to BNSF Railway, with some later sold to other railroads.

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While originally built for high-speed intermodal service, by the mid-2000s the B40-8Ws had been bumped to local service. In mid-2010, BNSF put 15 B40-8Ws up for sale. These units were on long-term lease and were returned to their lessor. Four units have been sold to the Providence and Worcester Railroad in Massachusetts. The PW sold one of their B40-8Ws to the Arkansas-Oklahoma Railroad. The rest of BNSF's B40-8W fleet is, as of 2019, undergoing rebuild and refreshment at GE as preparation for their new role as local freight units.

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On June 14, 2023, BNSF donated unit #537 to the Railroading Heritage of Midwest America in Silvis, Illinois. It is the first of the type to be preserved. Plans call for the locomotive to be eventually repainted back to its ATSF Warbonnet colors.

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Talk:Bussa language

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the article needs to tell whether or not the people themselves are also called bussa.

Gringo300 04:50, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * You could try and read some of the references given in the article, for example this recent sociolinguistic study. That way maybe you can improve the article yourself. — mark ✎ 08:30, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was Delete --Gareth Hughes 15:49, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Eusoe and The Principality of Gwynedd Newydd
This place does not even exist, and does not appear in any published work. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SFGiants (talk • contribs) 04:50, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Indeed it does not. Neither does its spinoff article, The Principality of Gwynedd Newydd, which I'm combining here.  No relevant google hits.  Delete both.  (This afd nomination was orphaned, listing now, etc etc) —Cryptic (talk) 12:27, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete both as per nom.    Dl yo ns 493   Ta lk   14:10, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. They both confess to being figments of an (overactive and underoccupied) imagination. Wiki is not a braindump. -Splash talk 21:09, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

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Wondrous Oblivion

Wondrous Oblivion is a 2003 British film directed and written by Paul Morrison and produced by Jonny Persey.

Set in suburban south London in 1960, several themes run through the film, though the main storyline concerns the friendship between a young boy, David Wiseman (Sam Smith) who is the son of European Jewish immigrants, and his new next-door neighbours, father Dennis (Delroy Lindo) and young daughter Judy (Leonie Elliott), who are Jamaican immigrants. The cement which binds their friendship is a deep love of cricket - but the ride is not always smooth. David finds himself falling for the indifferent Judy, but tensions between other families in the street, and a romantic relationship between Ruth Wiseman (Emily Woof) and Dennis, threaten to break apart the neighbourhood.

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Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/BigDaddy777/Proposed decision

Time for proposed decisions
I'm trying not to rush the arbs but I just don't see BD patiently waiting for us to finish this. --Woohookitty 04:51, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Common mistakes?
I'm unclear on what part of removing critical comments from talk and user talk pages constitutes a "common mistake". NatusRoma 01:44, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Because it's against the guidelines of Wikipedia. Not the policies, but the generally accepted guidelines. It doesn't exactly foster collaboration when someone is constantly removing critical comments from their talk page. People do not "own" their talk page and that's a very common mistake. People think they have some sort of possession over it when in fact, they don't. --Woohookitty 02:13, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

Just so you know
I left this on Fred's page as well. BD is using an IP addy of 68.42.141.76 to get around his banishment. It needs to be added to the sanctions. He's the only one using it from what I can see here. --Woohookitty 04:59, 22 October 2005 (UTC)

To the Arbcom members
Thank you for continuing this Arbcom case to its natural conclusion rather than simply letting RedWolf's indefinite ban conclude the matter, as I feel the dispute resolution process and the extensive work that went into it was respected. --kizzle 20:34, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I'll 2nd that. I know that at times, Wikipedia is criticized for not taking care of bad actors like BD777, but in this case, I think the matter was handled just right and I want to thank the arbcom members as well. --Woohookitty(cat scratches) 22:19, 7 November 2005 (UTC)

 * It will always amaze me that he somehow caused all of this destruction in just over a month. 400 pieces of evidence in just a month. Most barely do that many edits a month! Just glad he's gone. --Woohookitty(cat scratches) 23:10, 7 November 2005 (UTC)


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User:Tartaruga

 * "Doing the Wiki thing since 21 October 2004."

Introduction
I'm a Development Manager for a hosting and solutions company (integricity.com) based in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia. My work consists of developing and designing web-based applications.

Tartaruga is my Capoeira nickname given to me by Professor Gringo (Bantus Capoeira) when I was studying in Perth.

Personal
My passion has always been for technology and design. I consider myself an expert in the use of PHP, MySQL, Actionscript and applying Web Standards such as XHTML and CSS to my work. I'm also an avid student of Capoeira and train with the Bantus Capoeira Group in Malaysia. Along with 2 other friends, I helped co-found the school here in Malaysia with the permission of our Mestre Pintor, the founder of our group in Brazil.

I'm happily married since 2 July 2005. My wife gave birth to a healthy baby boy on 15 March 2007. I hold a Bachelors of Science degree majoring in I.T. from the Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia. I've lived in Perth, Western Australia for over 6 years and have permanent resident status there. I have 2 younger sisters. I live in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.

I also enjoy inline skating, reading, playing computer games and photography in my spare time.

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This is my first shot at posting an article. At the risk of asking a dumb question, is there a way to automatically search and emplace links for all terms found in the article? Many other articles seem to have a ton of links, so I'm surprised/impressed if people are doing that all manually. (ebliever)
 * Yes just put around important terms. It is mostly done manually. Rmhermen 00:42, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

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Interests
Kjaergaard, what are your interests? Coagulation, tissue remodeling, cancer? -- Boris 05:12, 30 December 2005 (UTC)

 * It should appear from the user page now...!!! Kjaergaard 01:58, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Cool. Would you like to join our little Molecular and cellular biology project's team and help us with those articles that are related to your interests? -- Boris 12:26, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

I'm now officially on the list... Kjaergaard 06:52, 3 January 2006 (UTC)

Protein-protein docking
Kjaergaard, check this out. This user - User:Zargulon - has added Protein-protein docking to the protein methods, i'm not sure whether there is such a method (i just don't know, i haven't read much structure stuff) but i know for sure this article is about the science field, not the method (even if there is one), two totally different things. What do you say? -- Boris 18:18, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

 * It is primarily a method of computational structural biology, but the theory behind it is probably so extensive, that it has developed into a field in its own right, as could be argued for e.g. x-ray crystallography and protein NMR. I think it should stay in the list, however at some point we might want to branch out the list into different sublists: Computational protein methods, Structural protein methods etc. Kjaergaard 04:27, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for the replay. Well, you know better - that's your own backyard and that's why i asked you. I like the field though. Everything in the cell is pro-pro-interactions - i actually see the cell as one giant protein complex build of different subcomplexes that constantly are broken down and rebuild in a regulated way. -- Boris 16:16, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

Bikini Lines
Thanks for editing the bikini line section. WikiPedia sure needs more people with expert knowledge in many fields. Perhaps you would also care to expand the short stub that it is now? --Lassefolkersen 20:59, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Great Belt Link
Great photo you added to Great Belt Fixed Link! Do you by any chance have a similar one of the Oresund Bridge? Zarniwoot 23:44, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
 * No, unfortunately not. The flight wasn't that long... :-) Kjaergaard 00:33, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Would you care to contribute at Protein-protein_interaction_prediction ?

Protein-protein interaction prediction
Hi. Are you aware of this new page: Protein-protein interaction prediction? It was off to an unlucky start, being listed on Articles for Deletion.

Featured Picture Candidate
Congrats! Thanks for your contribution! --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 10:02, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Cleaning up your user page
Hey, just wanted to let you know, you can make your user page much neater by moving all that stuff at the bottom to a sub-page, like User:Kjaergaard/temp. --SheeEttin 21:44, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

This month's WP:MCB Article Improvement Drive article
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This month's WP:MCB Article Improvement Drive article
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One more vote for the coordinator of the Molecular and Cellular Biology Wikiproject
Since two of the three editors nominated for Coordinator of the MCB Wikiproject declined their nominations, one more vote has been posted: should the remaining nominee, ClockworkSoul, be named as the coordinator, or should nominations be reopened? Every opinion counts, so please vote! – ClockworkSoul 17:51, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

This month's winner is proteasome!
– ClockworkSoul 22:13, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Could you please write an article about Anfinsen's Dogma?
I saw you made a nice contribution to Levinthal paradox, and since subjects are connected - you might be interested... I added Anfinsen's Dogma to requested article page - so someone might start it eventually. But what I really feel is that subj is important and it is a shame;) for English wiki not to have an article on it. Here is outside link.  TestPilot  20:14, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Thank you!!! I think "D" in dogma should not be capitalized(just like "P" in paradox) so I moved an article. Thank you one more time:)  TestPilot  00:10, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

RDC
Hi! I see you have contributed significantly to NMR related pages on wikipedia. It would be very helpful if you could glance through Residual dipolar coupling page that I am currently working on. Thanks! Sangak 11:33, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

This month's winner is RNA interference!
– ClockworkSoul 14:35, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

This month's MCB Collaboration of the Month article is Peripheral membrane protein!
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National academy of sciences
I think it is a good idea to start and expand the biographies of the national academy of sciences, so I did the next in line. Will you please read it and correct any mistakes. By the way I think you won our WikiWager big time (the-most-articles-in-2006-wager) - congratulations! --LasseFolkersen 08:38, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

FAC
Hi Kjaergaard! Just in case you have time and interest in the topic (it's a bit far from nmr!):

I would like to have your comments on my work for further improvement. Any suggestion will be very much appreciated. Thanks.Sangak 18:38, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

Serpins
Hi Kjaergaard - its been great working with you on the serpins page and I'm really pleased with the way in which it is beginning to shape up. I'm still getting to grips with how wiki language functions (and thus my edits have sometimes had unfortunate and unexpected side effects). I will indeed join the MCB team. Jcwhizz 22:01, 10 March 2007 (UTC)

Patrick O. Brown
I nominated this page for speedy deletion as it lacked an assertion of notability. You can insert the template at the top of the page if you want to prevent it from being deleted, or discuss it in deletion review if you disagree with this decision. I am notifying you as you seem to be the primary source of the page's material, but I see you haven't really modified it for a while, so forgive me if I'm needlessly taking your time. :) Faithfully, Deltopia 15:13, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Ok... I really didn't understand what the National Academy thing meant, but I have tried to atone for my sins. It is no longer a candidate for speedy deletion.  Thanks for the info :) Faithfully, Deltopia 23:37, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Unreferenced BLPs
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Operation Moshtarak
According to icasualties 5 US soldiers were killed in the correct place of the operation, just because a US Serviceman is killed in Helmand or killed in Stan does not mean they were killed in the OP. We have USMC sitting in Helmand that are not participating in the Op. Look at the source i provided and you will see 3 of the 8 you said were not killed in Marjah but near or in Helmand. Also please look at the units that are involved, cross checking them will back what i am saying even more. The 3 other Marines that were killed do not belong to the units participating in the Op.(USMCMIDN (talk) 00:33, 22 February 2010 (UTC))

commons:File:Pacific halibut.JPG
Reclassification here. correct or not ? - Goudron92 (talk) 23:46, 18 February 2012 (UTC)

Article upgrade assistance request (Pre-translation stage)
Seasons Greetings,

This is in reference to a relatively new umbrella article on en-wikipedia named Ceremonial pole. Ceremonial pole is a human tradition since ancient times; either existed in past at some point of time, or still exists in some cultures across global continents from north to south & from east to west. Ceremonial poles are used to symbolize a variety of concepts in several different world cultures.

Through article Ceremonial pole we intend to take encyclopedic note of cultural aspects and festive celebrations around Ceremonial pole as an umbrella article and want to have historical, mythological, anthropological aspects, reverence or worships wherever concerned as a small part.

While Ceremonial poles have a long past and strong presence but usually less discussed subject. Even before we seek translation of this article in global languages, we need to have more encyclopedic information/input about Ceremonial poles from all global cultures and languages. And we seek your assistance in the same.

Since other contributors to the article are insisting for reliable sources and Standard native english; If your contributions get deleted (for some reason like linguistics or may be your information is reliable but unfortunately dosent match expectations of other editors) , please do list the same on Talk:Ceremonial pole page so that other wikipedians may help improve by interlanguage collaborations, and/or some other language wikipedias may be interested in giving more importance to reliablity of information over other factors on their respective wikipedia.

This particular request is being made to you since your user name is listed in Translators available list.

Thanking you with warm regards Mahitgar (talk) 05:30, 24 October 2015 (UTC)

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Has anyone contacted the author about using content from his site in wikipedia? I am interested mainly for a topic list that would be used in the Missing encyclopedic articles project. Reflex Reaction 04:54, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * He says somnething about the pictures being all PD, and the FAQ suggests, that wikimedia might buy the whole text if they raised enough money --84.160.220.220 18:12, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

Reference
Are we allowed to reference this on Wikipedia?

Some bot and then a admin deleted some obscure article I made after I referenced this site amongst other references and books Francium12 (talk) 02:34, 27 April 2008 (UTC)

Trivia and BTTF
The ficticional book "A match made in space" written by George McFly was published by Probert publishing:

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Johnathan Lee Iverson

Johnathan Lee Iverson (born January 30, 1976) is an American ringmaster. He is best known for being the first African-American ringmaster of a major U.S. circus, the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.

Early life and education
Iverson grew up in the Central Park West neighborhood of New York City. He attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. Later, he graduated from the Hartt School of the University of Hartford, where he received training to become an opera singer.

Iverson began his career with the Boys Choir of Harlem.

Ringmaster
In 1998, at the age of 22, Iverson joined Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. He was the first African American ringmaster, as well as the youngest ringmaster at the company. Ebony magazine said of him, "The instant he appears out of the darkness and into the spotlight…the audience is rapt." The San Francisco Examiner stated, "Now imagine mesmerizing the crowd with a powerful voice and the bearing of a superstar." The Times-Picayune described him as, "Tall and self assured…he works a crowd like a three ring evangelist." And a syndicated columnist, Liz Smith expressed her admiration saying, "I…liked six foot [five] youngest ringmaster ever, Johnathan Lee Iverson, who is commanding enough to be noticed in the melee, and he can sing."

In 1999, Iverson was recognized as one of Barbara Walters’ 10 Most Fascinating People. His historical tenure with the Greatest Show On Earth was featured in Black First: 4, 000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Historical Events by Jessie Carney Smith, African-American First by Joan Potter, ''Live Life! Be Young, Black, and Successful by Quincy Benton, and Beat of a Different Drum: The Untold Stories of African-Americans Forging Their Own Paths in Work and Life'' by Dax-Devlon Ross.

Iverson joined the 129th edition of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Presents The Living Carousel in 1998 and continued to perform until Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey closed in 2017. After the circus' closure, he worked as a ringmaster at Circus Vargas and also assumed the role of chairman of the board for Omnium: A Bold New Circus. He was also a founding member of the American Circus Alliance. And in 2021, he worked as a ringmaster for Omnium Circus' world debut.

Theater
In 2022, Iverson starred in a production of Trav’lin: A 1930s Harlem Musical Romance in Winter Park, Florida.

Personal life
While working with Barnum & Bailey Circus, Iverson married a fellow performer, Priscilla, and the couple had two children, Matthew and Lila, who also performed at Ringling.

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Thai Ridgeback

The Thai Ridgeback (ไทยหลังอาน, ) is a dog from Thailand. The Thai Ridgeback is one of only three breeds that has a ridge of hair that runs along its back in the opposite direction to the rest of the coat. The other two are the Rhodesian Ridgeback and the Phu Quoc Ridgeback.

Appearance
The Thai Ridgeback is a muscular, medium-sized pariah-type dog with a wedge-shaped head, triangular-shaped prick ears, and a very short, smooth coat. It has a pronounced ridge on its back formed by hair growing in the opposite direction that extends from behind the withers to the hips. Puppies are occasionally born ridgeless. Thai Ridgebacks have a muscular and streamlined body, making them extremely agile. The tail is carried upward called a sickle or sword tail. Its forehead wrinkles with enormous expression. Like many eastern breeds, the Thai Ridgeback has retained a  'scissor jaw' where upper and lower teeth interlock when the jaw bones clamp down. The tongue can be black or have black marks. Eyes are almond-shaped and brown but may be amber in blue dogs. The ears are set low and point slightly outward. The ears stand up progressively during the puppy growth period; they are not cropped. The back is straight and level. The coat is short, hard, and straight. Due to the length and density of the coat shedding is minimal, occurring once or twice yearly. Because this breed does not have an undercoat the hair does not usually bother people allergic to other breeds of dogs. Coat must be solid colors of blue, black, red or fawn with a black mask being acceptable on reds. However, brindle and white are also found but are not acceptable colors. For international show and competition, shoulder height should be 22–24 inches (56–61 cm) in males and 20–22 inches (51–56 cm) in females. The weight averages 35–55 lbs (16–25 kg) in females and 51–74 lbs (23–34 kg) in males.

Eight distinctive ridge patterns have been identified: needle, feather, arrow, lute, violin, bowling pin, leaf, and saddleback. All patterns are acceptable, but must be clearly defined and symmetrical. The broader the ridge, the more highly it is prized.

Health
Thai ridgebacks are a hearty, overall healthy breed with few inherent health issues. The breed has reproduced in Thailand almost exclusively by natural selection until the very recent past. The domesticated population is small. Inbreeding depression has not been observed in the breed. Thai Ridgeback Dogs are prone to dermoid sinus. Modern lines of Thai Ridgeback, resulting from interpopulation crosses, may also be prone to hip dysplasia and other genetic disorders.

Temperament
Thai Ridgebacks are an intelligent breed. The energy level is typically medium to high, with most of the day spent lounging and activity periods occurring in sporadic bursts. Well bred and properly socialized Thai Ridgebacks make loyal, loving family pets. They are naturally protective of their home and family and can be aggressive or shy when not properly socialized. They are best kept by consistent owners who have a thorough understanding of dog behavior. Because of prior geographic isolation and lack of human contact, the Thai Ridgeback remains independent minded and much of the original natural instinct and drives remain intact, particularly prey drive. Due to its nature, the Thai Ridgeback is not recommended for the novice dog handler. They have an excellent jumping ability and may seek to roam if not properly contained.

Ridge
The ridgeback is under a control of two groups of epistatic genes. The first determines the existence of the ridge. The other determines the size of the ridge, from none to very large (down to the side) the latter, the more the genes in the dog, the broader is the ridge. The ridge will appear only if there is at least one dominant allele in both groups.

Color
Coat color is also under a control of two groups of epistatic genes. The first determines the color of the coat if it should be black, brown, red or blue. The series of dominance is black to brindle to red to white. The intensity of the coat color is under control of a set of modifying genes. The other group controls the dilution of the colors. Black can be dilute to gray/silver/blue, and red will turn fawn. The normal color is dominance over the diluted.

History
The other existing breeds of ridgeback dog are the Rhodesian Ridgeback from Africa and the Phu Quoc Ridgeback from Vietnam, which is somewhat smaller than the Thai Ridgeback.

The Rhodesian Ridgeback is partly descended from the southern African indigenous Hottentot Khoi dog, a known ridge-bearing dog. The gene that causes the ridge has been inherited from a common ancestor: "The geographical origin of the ridge present in Ridgeback dogs is still a mystery, thus solid proof has now been provided that the ridge mutation in Ridgeback dogs is identical by descent and the likelihood of parallel mutations occurring in Asia and Africa (Epstein, 1937) can therefore be rejected."

Grooming
The Thai Ridgeback has a short coat that is easily cared for with a weekly brushing. Use a rubber curry brush to keep it gleaming. It sheds year-round, but not heavily. Give it a bath when it is dirty, maybe once or twice a year. Introduce your puppy to grooming from an early age so that it learns to accept it with little fuss.

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Talk:Fishmonger

Fishmonger=Pimp?
See Talk:Hamlet

Fish is euphemistic for vagina? What kind of vaginas do you have to deal with!? Changed to pejorative... --Ruben —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.232.50.238 (talk • contribs) 21:59, 17 March 2006

Categories
Fishmonger works with seafood and fish. I think that related links to these should be added. After further investigation, I looked at automobiles and mechanics weren't listed as a related category. Following that logic it makes sense to leave the previous categories unlinked. Jsderwin 05:55, 27 February 2007 (UTC)

Merger of Fishwife
I propose to merge Fishwife into this article, as they overlap. It has some refs which would improve this one. - Fayenatic (talk) 14:25, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

 * Oppose Fishwife is a separate topic as they are most noted for their strident ways, which not the case with fishmongers. If you want references here, I shall provide some. Colonel Warden (talk) 22:58, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

 * Yes, please provide them, either there or here. If merged, Fishwife (or Reputation of fishwives?) should be a separate section. As Fishwife stands, it's very short, and the point of mentioning the legal case is unclear. - Fayenatic (talk) 07:51, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

 * I can only speak of antidotial reference, in my family "fishwife" was a swear word. Fishwife was an old hag who screamed at men, some old crazy woman. You could call someone "fishmonger" and not get any reaction except puzzlement. Midwest, St Louis, USA - Italian decent —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.191.102.121 (talk • contribs) 01:42, 24 August 2009

 * Agree. Consolidation with fishwife is appropriate.Dcklx (talk) 08:52, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
 * Oppose Two separate articles is more appropriate. --Epipelagic (talk) 19:15, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

Why is it 'fishwife' for 'female practitioners'? a) fishmonger is a gender-neutral term, so it's just as appropriate for women as men, b) yes, fishwife does have hugely negative connotations - it's unfortunately now tainted with misogyny, and misogyny stinks worse than a red herring... Let's just have fishmonger - a section on fishwives if you like, or a whole page - don't care, but let's drop the differentiation between male and female fishmongers. After all, no fishmonger's genitalia will be involved, so they're irrelevant. Katiehawks (talk) 18:31, 9 September 2020 (UTC)

Lead image
We have some disputation about the lead image. Myself, I don't much like either of the photographs which have been tried and prefer the painting by Joachim Beuckelaer which was in the gallery. I have cropped this and tried this in the lead. It seems more colourful and detailed than the photos, showing the fishmonger in good detail with his fish and knife. Warden (talk) 08:26, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Well if you think so, but that leaves the article with historic images only, and not one contemporary fishmonger. Although fishmongers are less important than they were, it seems appropriate to me that lead image is contemporary. --Epipelagic (talk) 08:48, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
 * There are numerous images available and so we are spoilt for choice. I have some pictures of my local fishmonger, who is quite traditional and may try one of those.  But, for another modern image, let's try Pike Place Market which I have visited and which is quite a notable location for such. Warden (talk) 09:06, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
 * Okay --Epipelagic (talk) 09:13, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
 * I think that's a nice picture for the lead image. --Jsderwin (talk) 05:52, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

Lead image (continued)
This time I don't agree with your change Warden. I accept two compelling points in favour of the change are that the fishmonger is British and that you took the photo yourself. However that persuasive beginning is overshadowed by what actually appears in the picture; the fishmonger appears to be selling eggs, and not fish. --Epipelagic (talk) 19:15, 18 May 2013 (UTC)

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WordPress.com

WordPress.com is a web building platform for self-publishing that is popular for blogging and other works. It is owned and operated by Automattic, Inc. It is run on a modified version of the WordPress software. This website provides free blog hosting for registered users and is financially supported via paid upgrades, "VIP" services and advertising.

While Automattic is among the many companies contributing to the WordPress project, neither it nor WordPress.com are affiliated with the WordPress software/project or the WordPress Foundation.

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The website opened to beta testers on August 8, 2005 and opened to the public on November 21, 2005. It was initially launched as an invitation-only service, although at one stage, accounts were also available to users of the Flock web browser. As of February 2017, over 77 million new posts and 42.7 million new comments are published monthly on the service.

In September 2010, it was announced that Windows Live Spaces, Microsoft's blogging service, would be closing and that Microsoft would partner with WordPress.com for blogging services.

In February 2024, Automattic announced that it would begin selling user data from Tumblr and WordPress.com to Midjourney and OpenAI.

Features
Registration is not required to read or comment on blogs hosted on the site, except if chosen by the blog owner. Registration is required to own or post in a weblog. All the basic and original features of the site are free-to-use. However, some features are not available in the free plan: install PHP plugins, customize theme CSS, write JavaScript, domain mapping, domain registration, removal of ads, website redirection, video upload, storage upgrades.

If the free plan is in use, readers see ads on WordPress.com pages, though WordPress.com claims that it is rare. On its support pages, WordPress.com says it "sometimes display[s] advertisements on your blog to help pay the bills". In order to remove the ads, users need to purchase a Plan that starts at $4 a month (if billed annually).

Politics
In August 2007, Adnan Oktar, a Turkish creationist, was able to get a Turkish court to block Internet access to WordPress.com for all of Turkey. His lawyers argued that blogs on WordPress.com contained libelous material on Oktar and his colleagues which WordPress.com staff was unwilling to remove.

In May 2009, WordPress.com was blocked by China's Golden Shield Project.

WordPress placed a rainbow banner atop the WordPress Reader in June 2015, in celebration of the US Supreme Court ruling that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right. This was also done in advance of the Australian Marriage Law Postal Survey of 2017.

In August 2018, WordPress.com began removing several pages that suggested the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was a hoax.

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User:Bobboy

I forgot the password for this, and instead of finding it out, I made a new account. Direct all communication to User:DiamondVertex; this account is now not used.

202.0.40.14 04:57, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

Oops, forgot to log in. No sockpuppetry going on here!

DiamondVertex 04:58, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

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Michelle M. Marciniak

Michelle M. Marciniak (born October 29, 1973) is a former All-American collegiate and professional basketball player who played point guard in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). As a floor general, Marciniak competed for two national championships during her three-year career at the University of Tennessee. She led the Tennessee Lady Vols to their 4th National Championship and was named MVP in the 1996 Final Four held in Charlotte, North Carolina.

She later was the recruiting coordinator/assistant coach of the women's basketball team at the University of South Carolina from 2003 to 2008. Marciniak was responsible for two back to back top recruiting classes, rated #18 in 2007 and #7 in 2008, the highest ranked class ever recruited at South Carolina.

Marciniak is currently the co-founder and co-chief executive officer of Sheex in Marlton, New Jersey, a performance fabric bedding company.

Early years and education
Marciniak was born in Silver Spring, Maryland in 1973.

Allentown Central Catholic High School
Marciniak played high school basketball at Allentown Central Catholic High School in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where she competed in the highly respected East Penn Conference.

In 1991, as an Allentown Central Catholic High School senior, she was named National Player of the Year by Parade magazine, Naismith National Player of the Year, and Gatorade National High School Player of the Year. In February 1991, Sports Illustrated profiled Marciniak in an article titled "She's the Ponytailed Princess of the Hoop", which covered her performance as a high school junior at Allentown Central Catholic High School. She scored 3,025 points for Allentown Central Catholic High School, and the school later retired her number 23 jersey number 23 in recognition of her extraordinary high school basketball achievements.

Collegiate career
After a year at the University of Notre Dame, Marciniak transferred to the University of Tennessee, where she quickly became a leader of the dominant University of Tennessee Lady Vols women's basketball team under head coach Pat Summitt. Summitt had recruited her at Allentown Central Catholic High School, where she went into labor as she was sitting in the Marciniaks' home on a recruiting trip. Summitt quickly wrapped up the visit and flew back to Knoxville, where she gave give birth to her son, Tyler. "Spinderella", as Marciniak was affectionately known because of her free wheeling, spinning, and slashing style, became a crowd favorite at Tennessee. She scored over 1,000 points and remains ranked among Tennessee's top ten all-time in assists and three-point scoring, despite only playing three seasons.

With Marciniak at point guard, the Lady Vols won consecutive Southeastern Conference championships in 1995 and 1996. In the NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship, Tennessee came in second to the Connecticut Huskies. In the 1997-1998 season, Tennessee wasn't expected to be as strong, but the team lost just four games during the regular season and returned to the Final Four, where they faced a rematch with Connecticut. In the game, Marciniak led the team to an 88-83 overtime victory, then avenged an earlier loss to Georgia to claim Tennessee's fourth national championship. During the season, Marciniak became the focused leader and played a methodical style of basketball that Pat Summitt demanded from her point guards. Marciniak was chosen the NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player for her inspired play. She graduated in 1996 with a degree in psychology.

USA Basketball
Marciniak was named to the USA U18 team, then called the Junior World Championship Qualifying Team, in 1992. The team competed in Guanajuato, Mexico, in August 1992. The team won their first four games, then lost 80–70 to Brazil, finishing with the silver medal for the event, but qualifying for the 1993 world games. Marciniak averaged 6.8 points per game during the event.

Marciniak continued with the team to the 1993 U19 World Championship (then called the Junior World Championship). The team won five games and lost two, but that left them in seventh place. Marciniak averaged 3.3 points per game.

Marciniak represented the US at the 1995 World University Games held in Fukuoka, Japan in August and September 1995. The team had a record of 5–1, securing the silver medal. The USA team won early and reached a record of 5–0 when the USA beat Yugoslavia. In the semi-final game, the USA faced Russia. The team was behind much of the first half but managed to tie the game at the half. The USA broke the game open in the second half and won 101–74. The gold medal match was against unbeaten Italy. The Italian team started strong, scoring 12 of the first 14 points of the contest. Sylvia Crawley scored eight consecutive points to end the first half, but that left the USA nine points behind. The USA took a small lead in the second half, but the team from Italy responded with a ten-point run, and won the game and the gold medal by a score of 73–65. Marciniak averaged 2.9 points per game.

Marciniak was invited to be a member of the Jones Cup team representing the US in 1996. She helped the team to a 9–0 record, and the gold medal in the event. Marciniak averaged 7.4 points per games, had 24 assists, second highest on the team, and recorded 21 steals, highest on the team.

Marciniak participated on the USA team as part of the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The team went 4–3 and earned a bronze medal.

WNBA
Marciniak began her professional career in the women's American Basketball League, playing all $2 1/2$ seasons of that league's existence. She played for the ABL's Portland Power, Philadelphia Rage, and Nashville Noise. After her first season as a professional, Marciniak was a first team All Star in a league loaded with talent. Marciniak was signed by the WNBA's expansion Portland Fire in 2000 where she was an integral part of Portland's success. She then signed with the Seattle Storm eight days later. Michelle found her home in Seattle the next three seasons while playing for the Storm. She was a fan favorite, and received the WNBA Community Service Award due to the countless hours she put in to bring fans into KeyArena.

More significant was her extremely hard-nosed play on the court, as a nationally televised tussle with Los Angeles Sparks player Latasha Byears earned Marciniak a reputation as the Storm player that opponents least wished to foul. Byears intentionally threw a ball at Marciniak's face, and Marciniak, in response, charged the much larger and stronger Byears.

Marciniak retired at 29 years old, after the Storm's 2002 season, to become an assistant coach for the University of South Carolina Gamecocks in the powerhouse SEC Conference, where she had played as a collegian. Marciniak served as an assistant on the staff of head coach Susan Walvius from 2003 to 2008. She is also an occasional color analyst for WNBA and National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball games on ESPN Radio and other media outlets.

SHEEX
In 2007, Marciniak and Walvius founded SHEEX, Inc., a company that is said to offer "the world's first athletic-performance sheets". Constructed from materials commonly found in modern athletic wear, SHEEX provide similar moisture-wicking, temperature-control, breathability and stretch not found in traditional cotton sheeting.

College

 * style="text-align:left;" | 1991–92
 * style="text-align:left;" | Notre Dame
 * 31||-||-||39.8||20.0||77.3||3.4||2.7||2.0||0.3||-||12.3
 * style="text-align:left;" | 1992–93
 * style="text-align:left;" | Tennessee
 * style="text-align:center;" colspan="12" |Sat out due to NCAA Transfer rules
 * style="text-align:left;" | 1993–94
 * style="text-align:left;" | Tennessee
 * 32||-||-||40.5||32.8||68.8||1.8||2.9||1.5||0.2||-||6.2
 * style="text-align:left;" | 1994–95
 * style="text-align:left;" | Tennessee
 * 36||-||-||44.4||30.4||72.9||2.7||5.7||2.3||0.1||-||10.8
 * style="text-align:left;" | 1995–96
 * style="text-align:left;" | Tennessee
 * 36||-||-||43.9||20.3||79.5||3.0||4.3||3.0||0.3||-||11.6
 * style="text-align:center;" colspan=2 | Career
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 * style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.
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 * - class="sortbottom"
 * style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.
 * style="text-align:center;" colspan="14"|Statistics retrieved from Sports-Reference.

Regular season

 * align="left" | 2000
 * align="left" | Portland
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 * align="left" | Seattle
 * 27||5||14.5||36.7||30.3||54.1||1.4||1.7||1.1||0.1||1.1||4.9
 * align="left" | 2002
 * align="left" | Seattle
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 * align="left" | Career
 * align="left" | 3 years, 2 team
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 * 82||6||14.7||36.8||31.6||60.3||1.5||1.9||1.0||0.1||1.5||4.6

Playoffs

 * align="left" | 2002
 * align="left" | Seattle
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 * align="left" | 1 year, 1 team
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Montelimar Beach

Montelimar is a beach located on the Pacific coast of Nicaragua in the department of Managua. Montelimar consists of 3 km of white sand beach. The main tourist attraction is the Barcelo Hotel and Resort. The current location of the Barcelo hotel and resort is the old Somoza Estate, the actual home has been transformed into a Casino that overlooks the Pacific Ocean.

The land was originally owned by German immigrants and was confiscated by the Somoza dynasty after they declared war on Germany during World War II, even though no fighting took place between the two countries.

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Mary Louise Milliken Childs

Mary Louise Milliken Childs (1873–1936) was an American philanthropist in the 20th century. She built over twenty hospitals and two churches in the United States. Her projects included the West Jersey Cooper Hospital in New Jersey and the Milliken Memorial Community House in Elkton, Kentucky.

Philanthropy
Childs provided $75,000 for construction of the Elkton Community House in Elkton, Kentucky, which opened in 1928. It was called the Milliken Memorial Community House in tribute to her.

Personal life and legacy
Mary Louise Milliken cared for her father for many years, and married late in life, to philanthropist and businessman Samuel Canning Childs. Her husband died in 1932, and she died in 1936. As of 2019, the Milliken House in Elkton continues to host community events and organizations.

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David Thomas Roberts

David Thomas Roberts (born January 16, 1955) is an American composer and musician, known primarily as a modern ragtime composer. Roberts is also a painter in a primitivist style.

Born in Moss Point, Mississippi, United States, his first recording, "Music For a Pretty Baby", appeared in 1978. Pieces such as "The Early Life of Larry Hoffer", "Roberto Clemente", "Pinelands Memoir", "Through the Bottomlands", and the suite, "New Orleans Streets" have caused Roberts to be considered one of the leading contemporary ragtime-based composers. The New Orleans historian Al Rose called him "the most important composer of this half of the century in America."

Roberts coined the term "Terra Verde" (meaning "green earth") as a label for compositions which can not be considered as conventional ragtime, mostly by contemporary ragtime writers such as himself, Frank French, Scott Kirby, Hal Isbitz and others.

Roberts also works as a writer and visual artist. His mixed-media art appears in the magazine of visionary art, Raw Vision, and his poetry has been anthologized in Another South, a collection of experimental writing published in 2003 by the University of Alabama Press.

From Discovery (2005)
(All original compositions, except where noted.)
 * 1) Discovery (2004)
 * 2) Charbonneau (2000) (Kirby)
 * 3) Mariana's Waltz (2003)
 * 4) Ice Floes in Eden (1986) (Budd)
 * 5) Memories of a Missouri Confederate (1989)
 * 6) Fantasy in D (2000–01)
 * 7) Chorale-Prelude (1989)
 * 8) Chorale No. 2 (1990)
 * 9) Frederic and the Coast (1979)
 * 10) Cynthia (2003–04)
 * 11) Babe of the Mountains (1997–98)
 * 12) Nancy's Library (2004–05)

From American Landscapes (1998)
(All original compositions, except the track "Dixon.")
 * 1) Pinelands Memoir (1978)
 * 2) The Girl Who Moved Away (1981–82)
 * 3) Back to Marion County (1981)
 * 4) Through the Bottomlands (1980)
 * 5) Muscatine (1979)
 * 6) Kreole (1978)
 * 7) Dixon (1983)
 * 8) The Girl On the Other Side (1979)
 * 9) Franklin Avenue (1981–85)
 * 10) Fontainebleau Drive (1981–85)
 * 11) Napoleon Avenue (1981–85)
 * 12) Madison Heights Girl (1979)
 * 13) Anna (1978)
 * 14) Roberto Clemente (1979)
 * 15) For Kansas City (1980)

From Early Tangoes to New Ragtime (1994)
(Mostly compositions by others. Roberts' compositions include For Molly Kaufman, Memories of a Missouri Confederate, and The Queen of North Missouri.)
 * 1) Odeon
 * 2) Matuto
 * 3) Rapid Transit
 * 4) Bee Hive Rag
 * 5) The Naked Dance
 * 6) For Molly Kaufmann
 * 7) The Show-me Rag
 * 8) The Nonpareil
 * 9) Mississippi River Boulevard
 * 10) Show Fly
 * 11) Memories of a Missouri Confederate
 * 12) Belle of Louisville
 * 13) Morelia
 * 14) Esta' Chumbado
 * 15) Escovado
 * 16) The Big Man
 * 17) Mississippi Soul
 * 18) The Queen of North Missouri
 * 19) Ravenna

From Scott Joplin the Complete Piano Music, Vol. 1
(All compositions by Scott Joplin.)
 * 1) Original Rags
 * 2) Leola
 * 3) Pleasant Moments
 * 4) Peacherine Rag
 * 5) Sunflower Slow Drag
 * 6) Maple Leaf Rag
 * 7) Weeping Willow
 * 8) Bink's Waltz
 * 9) Elite Syncopations
 * 10) The Favorite
 * 11) Swipesy
 * 12) Antoinette
 * 13) The Nonpareil
 * 14) Gladiolus Rag
 * 15) The Easy Winners

From 15 Ragtime Compositions
(All original compositions by Roberts.)
 * 1) Waterloo Girls
 * 2) Camille
 * 3) Kreole
 * 4) Frederic and the Coast
 * 5) Madison Heights Girl
 * 6) Poplarville
 * 7) Through the Bottomlands
 * 8) Pinelands Memoir
 * 9) For Kansas City
 * 10) The Girl Who Moved Away
 * 11) Mississippi Brown Eyes
 * 12) The Early Life of Larry Hoffer
 * 13) The South Mississippi Glide
 * 14) Roberto Clemente
 * 15) Maria Antonieta Pons

From New Orleans Streets
(All original compositions by Roberts.)
 * 1) Introduction
 * 2) Decatur Street
 * 3) Burgundy Street
 * 4) Franklin Avenue
 * 5) Jackson Avenue
 * 6) Waltz
 * 7) Napoleon Avenue
 * 8) Magazine Street
 * 9) Toulouse Street
 * 10) Annunciation Street
 * 11) Broad Avenue
 * 12) Interlude
 * 13) Fontainbleau Drive
 * 14) Revenge
 * 15) Farewell

From New Orleans Ragtime Piano
(Roberts plays compositions by others.)
 * 1) Pretty Baby
 * 2) Kansas City Stomps
 * 3) Mamanita
 * 4) Fat Frances
 * 5) Honky Tonk Music
 * 6) Stratford Hunch
 * 7) The Pearls
 * 8) Tom Cat Blues
 * 9) Mr. Jelly Lord
 * 10) New Orleans Joys
 * 11) The Naked Dance
 * 12) Sponge

From Folk Ragtime: 1899-1914
(Roberts plays compositions by others.)
 * 1) Blue Blazes
 * 2) Tennessee Tantalizer (a Southern Tickler)
 * 3) A Tennessee Jubilee
 * 4) Tickled to Death
 * 5) Poison Rag
 * 6) Scizzor Bill
 * 7) The Dockstader Rag
 * 8) Camp Meeting Melodies
 * 9) Blind Boone's Southern Rag Medley No.2 (strains From Flat Branch)
 * 10) Felix Rag (a Phenomenal Double Ragtime Two Step)
 * 11) The Pirate Rag
 * 12) Medic Rag
 * 13) Just Ask Me
 * 14) Why We Smile
 * 15) Cotton Bolls
 * 16) Possum and 'Taters (A Ragtime Feast)
 * 17) The Black Cat Rag
 * 18) X.L. Rag
 * 19) A Barn Dance Shuffle
 * 20) Whittling Remus
 * 21) Lover's Lane Glide

Other David Thomas Roberts compositions / recordings

 * To Nita and Raul Casso in Laredo appear on the CD Terra Verde.
 * For Robin Holtz Williams appears on the album Frontiers.

title: David Thomas Roberts