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Sally Jones (journalist)

Sally Jones is a British journalist, television news and sports presenter. She is three-times a world champion at real tennis; once in the singles and twice in the doubles.

Education
Sally Jones was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, and educated at King Edward VI High School for Girls, Birmingham and St Hugh's College, Oxford where she read English and won five blues and half blues for different sports including tennis, squash, netball, cricket and modern pentathlon. In 1976, she was Oxford University rock n'roll champion (Oxford Rock Soc) and began tap-dancing with the Oxcentrics jazz band as well as gaining notoriety via a student prank, successfully dressing up as a man to stand for membership of the all-male Gridiron Club.

Sport
She was Warwickshire county and British schoolgirls tennis champion (Lawn Tennis Association) and a finalist in the British Under 21 doubles championship (LTA). She played county tennis, squash (Warwickshire, Devon and South Wales squash associations), and netball (Birmingham Schools and Midlands First teams), captaining the Warwickshire senior tennis team for ten years, leading them to the County Championship in July 1997. She won the Sunday Telegraph Travel Writing Prize for an account of a tennis tour of Ireland and two Catherine Pakenham awards for women journalists.

Broadcasting and writing career
During her career, she has been a BBC news trainee, a TV reporter at Westward TV, and a TV presenter/reporter for HTV (Wales) where she also made several documentaries, and Central TV in Birmingham where she co-presented Central News and reported on the politics show Central Lobby. She has also reported for ITN and Channel 4 News and has written columns for the Daily Telegraph, Daily Mirror and Today newspapers. In 1986, she became the BBC's first woman sports presenter on BBC Breakfast News and presented for BBC Sport during the Seoul summer Olympic Games in 1988 and for BBC World during the 1992 Summer Olympics.

She has presented other TV and radio programmes, including several series of On the Line, the daytime show The Garden Party, real tennis documentaries for Channel 4, coverage of women's British Open golf, international tennis, women's rugby and NBA basketball (BBC TV), Transworld Sport (Channel 4) and international gymnastics (ITV). She regularly presented Woman's Hour from Birmingham (BBC Radio 4) and was a member of the BBC Radio 5 Live Wimbledon tennis commentary team during the 1990s. In 2010, she set up Sally Jones Features Ltd, a media consultancy.

Real tennis
In 1986, she took up real tennis and won the world championship at Bordeaux in 1993 (Ladies Real Tennis Association), as well as two British Open and two US Open championships. She won the world doubles championships with Alex Garside in 1989 and 1991 and was British Open doubles finalist with Jo Iddles in 2008.

Personal life
She married civil engineer John Grant in 1989 and has two children, management consultant Roland Grant and Daily Telegraph columnist Madeline Grant. She has written four books on West-country legends and several on sport, including the Ladybird Book of Riding. In 2006, she co-wrote and edited a prize-winning local history book on Georgian Warwickshire. She works for several charities including Birmingham Children's Hospital and Twycross Zoo She is a board member of Modern Pentathlon GB and a trustee of the Oxford and Cambridge Rowing Foundation.

A quiz enthusiast, she won Sale of the Century aged 18 and has since appeared on celebrity editions of Fifteen to One and The Krypton Factor. She has appeared five times on Mastermind and reached the semi-finals in 2008.

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Talk:World Open (snooker)

Requested move
No sponsor for the Grand Prix this year, so the page should be moved to reflect this.

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Discussion

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Discision
Moved per request. Ryan Norton T 06:16, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

494?
The 494 points without reply counts only the four centuries plus the 21 points in the next frame, why? Higgins also won the frame before.

Photo and Prizes
I think if there were a photo of the trophy and some more information about the prizes won, it would add to the article, eg. highest break prize, runner up prize money, etc. J.P.Lon 08:24, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

Requested move 11 March 2016

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The result of the move request was: No consensus for the proposed move, though it deserves further consideration. Dicklyon (talk) 15:40, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

World Open (snooker) → World Grand Prix (snooker) – This article has recently been the result of a cut and paste move by which was subsequently reverted by. The IP editor contends that the World Grand Prix which was resumed in 2015 is a continuation of the World Open event last played in 2014. The IP's contention is that it is the same tournament because they are using the same trophy. The IP's contention isn't as far fetched as it initially appears: the Grand Prix/World Open has a convoluted history when it comes to branding: the name has frequently changed due to sponsor changes, but it was always broadcasted by the BBC at the start of the season. It last played on the BBC in 2010 as the World Open. The World Open was resumed the following season in China where it was played for three years from 2012 to 2014 and broadcast on ITV4 in the UK. Last season, the World Grand Prix took its spot on the calendar and moved back to the UK, and it continued to be broadcast on ITV4. The question is, given the change of name, location and format is it still the same tournament? The IP contends it is because it uses the historic Grand Prix trophy. Here is a picture of Neil Robertson with the trophy in 2009 when it was still known as the Grand Prix:. Here is another picture of Neil Robertson with the same trophy when he defended his title in 2010, after it was rebranded the World Open:. Here is a picture of Judd Trump with the same trophy after winning the 2015 World Grand Prix:. If you zoom in on that image you can actually make out some of the other names, one of the most telling ones being "World Open" directly above the name "Neil Robertson". Just for the record all trophies in snooker have a unique design, with no two tournaments having a trophy utilising the same design. World Snooker have to all intents and purposes have "rebooted" the tournament but most importantly they still consider it in the same lineage, otherwise why use the same trophy with all the previous winners on it? To this end I propose renaming the "World Open" article to its current name and extending the table to include the World Grand Prix results. Betty Logan (talk) 13:10, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Seems logical to me (and simpler). Many timelines in the biographies have assumed that the World Grand Prix is a continuation of the World Open. Even players who aren't playing are involved, eg Matthew Stevens has DNQ for the current event, on the same line as his World Open etc performances. So deciding that it's a new event involves much more than just reverting a few edits. Nigej (talk) 15:24, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
 * However, by the same reasoning the Haikou World Open is a different tournament, as it used a different trophy. (2012, 2013 & 2014) Armbrust The Homunculus 06:31, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
 * Also the Haikou World Open winners are not listed on the trophy. Armbrust The Homunculus 06:36, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
 * She's not saying that the trophy is the only factor that determines whether it's a continuation or a new event. It's just that using the same trophy tends to indicate that World Snooker regard it as a continuation. Many tournaments have changed trophies, especially when there is a change of sponsor (eg Regal Welsh Open http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/snooker/4174705.stm which now uses a trophy with a piece of Welsh slate) and this may well have been the case here from 2012 to 2014. However, it would be unusual to use the same trophy for different events. Indeed I can't think of a snooker example.Nigej (talk) 07:49, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
 * I did notice it was a different trophy to the 2012-2014 World Open but as Nigej points out sometimes a change in sponsor can result in a change of trophy. Benson & Hedges, for example, even allowed Hendry to keep the Masters trophy after his fifth win and commissioned a new one, so a new trophy isn't conclusive evidence it is a new tournament. There is certainly a question mark over whether the 2012-2014 event is part of the Grand Prix lineage but IMO it wouldn't be logical to give a completely new event in the 2011/2012 season the exact same name as an event in the 2010/2011 season if we were not meant to regard it as a continuation. I think that is a separate debate though because the article is predominantly about a tournament that ran from 1982 and the World Grand Prix trophy clearly indicates that World Snooker itself is grouping the winners along with the historical Grand Prix winners, up to at least 2010, and our coverage of the event is currently at odds with that. Betty Logan (talk) 13:00, 12 March 2016 (UTC)

 * Oppose due to the lack of sources, which explicitly states they are the same, instead of the original research about the trophy. Indeed sources (like BBC, Matchroom Sport, Herald Scotland or Sporting Life) say the 2015 World Grand Prix was the inaugural edition of the tournament. Armbrust The Homunculus 21:38, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * It's no more original research to look at the names on the trophy than it is to look at a page on the website. The "winners roll of honour" engraved on the trophy is a primary source for the winners of that event. It is absurd to suggest that World Snooker can't afford a new trophy for a new tournament. If they are separate tournaments there is no point to using the same tournament and grouping the winners together. Betty Logan (talk) 22:41, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
 * See Champion of Champions (snooker) where we have the 1978/1980 events with those from 2013. The 2013 event was also talked about as the first one but that hasn't stopped us adding the earlier ones. Nigej (talk) 07:56, 15 April 2016 (UTC)

 * Strongly Support I can see that we're lacking some really concrete proof for the move, but the practicality is that we must do it for now. We have a dog's-dinner at the moment where World Grand Prix (snooker) just links to World Open (snooker) which is now missing the last two seasons. Player's "Performance and rankings timeline" generally regard the two as the same. see: Judd Trump for example. although others eg Shaun Murphy (snooker player) have them as separate. What it quite clear is that we can't leave it as it is, it's just an embarrassment. Makes us look like terrible and just reverting edits on World Open (snooker) is clearly no solution at all. I suggest we go for it and try to tidy up the mess. Nigej (talk) 07:50, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Oppose, and make World Grand Prix (snooker) be a new article that covers the new tournament. Saying they're that the WGP is a continuation of the WO appears to be pure WP:OR, there is no source that says that, and indeed many sources, including the BBC one linked above and the archived version of a reference used in the 2015 Grand Prix article say that it was a new and inaugural event in 2015. — Amakuru (talk) 10:29, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
 * Oppose. Absolutely different tournaments in different countries. 95.135.111.186 (talk) 23:27, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
 * An absolutely different tournament that takes the same slot on the calendar, has the same broadcaster and uses the same trophy which has all the old Grand Prix winners engraved on it? It's not as though tournaments haven't changed countries before; indeed the World Open actually was in the UK before it moved to China. Out of interest can you name any professional tournament—not just in snooker—that has winners from another tournament engraved on the trophy? Betty Logan (talk) 10:01, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

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 * So what happen's now? Nigej (talk) 16:33, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Per WP:NOCONSENSUS the status quo is retained. If more information comes to light we can review the situation then. Betty Logan (talk) 16:46, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Or keep discussing here and see if you converge, even using existing information. If it looks like a consensus can be achieved, make a new RM (or just do it).  Dicklyon (talk) 17:39, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
 * The next step, having seen no consensus that they're the same event, should be to change the redirect World Grand Prix (snooker) into a full article on the new tournament. Currently there is a gap in coverage because this article doesn't mention winners post 2014 and there's nowhere else where Grand Prix winners are covered. — Amakuru (talk) 17:43, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
 * and what about eg Mark_Selby, Ding_Junhui, Marco_Fu, Mark_Allen_(snooker_player) (and perhaps a 100 others for all I know) which all have the World Grand Prix as a continuation of the World Open? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nigej (talk • contribs)

 * No consensus that they are the same event is the same as no consensus that they are not the same event. There is no gap in the coverage, or least there wasn't until this debate arose and Armbrust removed the 2015 and 2016 entries. As it stands now (with the article restored to the pre-dispute state) there is no "gap" in the coverage. With the redirect in place at World Grand Prix (snooker) that ensures all the links in the performance tables and templates take the reader to the main tournament article. If you—or any editor—wants to interpret "no consensus" as a mandate to create a new article (what effectively amounts to an article split) then are you willing to fix all the performance tables so the links link to the correct article? That won't require just renaming links, but splitting rows in tables which is going to be a massive job. Betty Logan (talk) 19:23, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

 * Presumably, in an organised situation, "no consensus" would imply leaving the current status quo. However, here we have a large number of articles with, currently, an unknown number in one camp and an unknown number in the other. Does "no consensus" therefore imply that we leave the current randomness alone? Or perhaps, as you imply, "no consensus" means that either is acceptable and we can move from one random state to another. This latter approach might well lead to edit warring (as we have seen). All very philosophical. Nigej (talk) 20:31, 1 May 2016 (UTC)

 * I have check the "Performance and rankings timeline" of the new top 50 in the World Rankings. 47 have the World Grand Prix as a continuation of the World Open, 1 has them as separate (Shaun Murphy) and 2 don't have such a section (Mike Dunn, Rory McLeod). On the basis of this survey, it is clear that the current "status quo" is that the World Grand Prix is a continuation of the World Open, and I suggest we proceed on that basis for now. I have changed Murphy's timeline to conform to the others. Nigej (talk) 10:38, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
 * please could you find a source for us that says they're the same tournament? You seem very convinced that they are, so there must be a source that says so... Thanks — Amakuru (talk) 11:16, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
 * You've completely misunderstood my position. I don't really care whether they are regarded as separate or the same. What I care about is that we have a consistent approach across the wp:snooker project. Given the amount of effort required and in the absence of proof either way, it seems to me that it is much simpler to move to one position than the other and that is the main reason why I'm recommending it. If you were to make changes to all the 100 odd pages necessary to move to the other position in a consistent manner, I would have no complaints. What I object to is someone who lazily reverts one edit without following through all the consequences of that action. Nigej (talk) 11:54, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Ah, I see. Fair enough then. Thanks for clarifying. Let's see where the conversation leads us then. And maybe more evidence will come to light through sources as time goes by. — Amakuru (talk) 12:14, 2 May 2016 (UTC)

RfC: Proposal to split World Grand Prix results to World Grand Prix (snooker)?

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This article up until March used to include the World Grand Prix results (the 2015 and 2016 entries in the table) until this was contested by Armbrust. Armbrust contested the view that the World Grand Prix was not a rebranded continuation of the World Open, but a new tournament and removed the WGP results. He provided sources that referred to it as the "inaugural" tournament. This was contested by several editors who pointed out that World Grand Prix held the same spot on the calendar, had the same broadcaster and also used the historic Grand prix/World Open trophy which had the previous winners engraved on the trophy alongside those of the World Grand Prix. An IP editor initiated a cut and paste move which was subsequently reverted. This led to me proposing a rename at for the article (to move the article to the World Grand Prix page) but the proposed move resulted in a "no consensus".

The question remains over what to do with the World Grand prix results. An IP is persisting in removing the results, effectively splitting the World Grand Prix content to its own article. The problem with this is that it has implications for performance table in the player articles. Case in point: if you look at Judd_Trump, you will see there is an entry for the World Grand Prix twelve tournaments down the list. This entry combines the World Open and World Grand Prix results as this article did: the problem though is that if a completely new article is created to house the World Grand Prix results the World Open/World Grand Prix entries in the performance tables need to be also split into separate entries too, otherwise the performance tables link to the wrong tournament. Up to 250 articles are affected in all.

So there are two options: Betty Logan (talk) 13:42, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * No split - We retain the status quo in accoridance with the "no consensus" result from the move discussion and house the World Grand Prix results at the World Open article, and thus retaining the internal link integrity.
 * Split - We split out the World Grand Prix results to its own article, but this will necessitate the fixing of the entries in the performance tables at the player articles that are effected by the split.

Survey

 * No split It is patently obvious we cannot split the article and then not bother to fix the affected player articles. Given that the move discussion above resulted in a "no consensus" then I think retaining the status quo is the action most consistent with WP:NOCONSENSUS. If a split is chosen, however, then I think it should be mandatory for those undertaking the split to ensure that the accompanying performance tables are not left in a broken and inconsistent state. Betty Logan (talk) 13:42, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Split. Multiple sources shown in the article about World Grand Prix (snooker) say the inaugural edition was played in 2015. There are no any sources that says World Open (snooker) and World Grand Prix (snooker) are the same tournament. 95.135.111.186 (talk) 13:56, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Well, the trophy is a written record of the winners of the event, so I would say that's quite a compelling source. But even if we do decide to split the results out what do you propose should be done about the World Open/World Grand Prix entries in the performance tables? Are you willing to go through these 200 articles fixing them or are you suggesting we leave them in a broken state? After all, there is not much point creating a new article if all the performance tables link to the World Open article, is there? Betty Logan (talk) 13:58, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Analyze of the trophies' records is original researh and not shown in the reliable sources. The "same spot on the calendar" and "the same broadcaster" are not relevant things here. Split entries in the performance tables, of course. 95.135.111.186 (talk) 14:12, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Analysis of the trophy is not "original research". It is a record of the event. Recording names on a trophy is no different to recording names in book. But will you please stop evading the point about the damage your edits have caused to the performance tables. If the consensus is to go ahead with the split are you prepared to do the follow-up work and fix the performance tables on the player articles, or are you going to persist in leaving them in a broken state? Betty Logan (talk) 14:18, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * If no split, then article 2016 World Grand Prix will be linked to World Open (snooker) as main article. Really nonsense. 95.135.111.186 (talk) 15:04, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Please stop misrepresenting the problem to RFC respondents. If you look at the Judd Trump example I give in the RFC outline then anyone can plainly see the World Grand Prix link spans all the seasons from 2005/2006 up to 2015/2016. This link in turn links to THIS article. If you split the WGP results from this article then the World Grand Prix entry in the performance table needs to be replaced by two entries on two different rows, linking to the respective articles. Nigej explains the issue in clear and simple terms in the move discussion above. Someone who fails to recognize this very basic problem cannot be taken seriously in this discussion, because they are either unwilling or unable to acknowledge the fall-out from splitting the article. Betty Logan (talk) 15:35, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Analysis of the trophy is absolutely original research, because the trophy is a primary source, and reading names off the trophy counts as "interpreting" the primary source. WP:PRIMARYSOURCE says that Any interpretation of primary source material requires a reliable secondary source for that interpretation. If a book or newspaper article tells us that the trophy is the same and they're the same event, then we can go with that, but we can't make that determination ourselves. — Amakuru (talk) 15:19, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Also, although the trophy in 2010 and earlier may be the same one as is used now, the tournament apparently used a different trophy between 2011 and 2014 when it was the Haikou World Open. Here is Shaun Muprhy lifting the 2014 World Open:, while this is him lifting this year's World Grand Prix:  — Amakuru (talk) 15:28, 3 May 2016 (UTC)

 * No split 100% agree with Betty Logan above. Seems to be the most pragmatic approach at the moment. Nigej (talk) 14:50, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * Split - there was no consensus in the move discussion that the World Open should be considered as the same as the World Grand Prix, and furthermore, no reliable source was found to tell us they are the same tournament, other than a rather WP:ORIGINALRESEARCH observation that the trophy used is the same one. If they were the same tournament, sources would say they were the same, but nobody has producwed a single such source, and in fact the official website in 2015, and all the other sources presented by above, tell us that the event began and was inaugurated in 2015. The fact that there may be work involved in correcting some existing articles and performance tables that imply they are the same tournament shouldn't be a hindrance to splitting the articles if that's the correct thing to do, and I'm happy to do the legwork on that if the decision is to split. Thanks  — Amakuru (talk) 14:56, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
 * No split I think the same page can be used because the World Grand Prix clearly has taken a lot from the Grand Prix which ran from 2004-2009. They have almost the same name and the same trophy. Off course if there s no split the name of the page should be World Grand Prix. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Woutspaas (talk • contribs)
 * New Info!!! Note, a calendar for the next season was published, and World Open will be played in China in July 2016, and World Grand Prix will be played in UK in Feb 2017. So, split immediately please. 95.135.111.186 (talk) 18:50, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
 * This seems to be the coup-de-gras. Looks like we'll need to split. Nigej (talk) 07:00, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

 * Comment It settles the above question of whether the article should be split but it still leaves us with the massive problem of undertaking the split. There is still not much advantage to having a second article when all the player articles continue to link to this article through the WGP link, so will the editors who perform the split please ensure that the World Open and World Grand Prix entries at the player articles (as in the case of the Judd Trump example I highlight above) links at these articles are also corrected. offered to help out above, but since  was the editor to carry out the split it is really his responsibility to ensure that the articles are fixed. Betty Logan (talk) 19:46, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

 * The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

Post-RfC notes
Please ensure that both articles address the confusing shared-trophy situation. — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  03:20, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

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Jeffrey Black

Jeffrey Black (born 6 September 1962) is an Australian baritone who has had an active international performance career since the early 1980s. A frequent performer with Opera Australia and the Glyndebourne Festival Opera, he has performed leading role with the Metropolitan Opera, Opéra Bastille, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Bavarian State Opera, and the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, among other opera houses. He is particularly known for his portrayals of Guglielmo in Mozart's Così fan tutte, Count Almaviva in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, and Figaro in Rossini's The Barber of Seville.

Early life and education
Born in Brisbane, Black was educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School. In his youth he was a boy soprano in the choir at the Cathedral of St Stephen, Brisbane, for several years. He studied singing at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music where graduated with a Bachelor of Music degree in 1983. At the Conservatorium he participated in opera workshops led by tenor Donald Smith whose influence oriented his career towards opera.

In 1983 Black won the Marianne Mathy Scholarship in the Australian Singing Competition which enabled him to pursue further vocal training at the National Opera Studio in London in 1984. In 1985 he was awarded the Armstrong-Martin Scholarship. He later pursued further vocal training with Audrey Langford and Jane Chapman in London.

Performance career
Black began his professional career in the early 1980s as a concert baritone. He made his debut as a principal singer with the Opera Australia (OA) in 1984 as a featured soloist in a concert of works by Jean-Philippe Rameau at the Sydney Opera House. His first role in an opera with the OA was in 1985 as Mercutio in Charles Gounod's Roméo et Juliette. He notably performed the role of Nevers in Les Huguenots with OA in 1990 for the farewell performance of Joan Sutherland as Marguerite de Valois. He also performed and recorded the roles of Nerone and Ottone, both transposed down an octave from the original score, in Claudio Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea with the AO in 1988.

Black performed regularly at the Sydney Opera House with the OA for twenty years. His roles with that company included Papageno in Mozart's The Magic Flute (1986), Schaunard in Giacomo Puccini's La bohème (1986), Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus (1986), Dandini in Rossini's La Cenerentola (1987), Figaro in The Barber of Seville (1989), Guglielmo in Così fan tutte (1990), Enrico in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor (1996 and 2003), the title role of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin (1997), Wolfram in Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser (1998) Rodrigo in Verdi's Don Carlo (1999), the Count in Richard Strauss's Capriccio (2000), Belcore in L'elisir d'amore (2001), Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro (2002), and Danilo in The Merry Widow (2004). In 1991 he had a critical triumph with the OA in the title role of Mozart's Don Giovanni; later reprising the role with the company in 2003.

In 1986 Black made his first appearance in the United Kingdom with the Glyndebourne Festival Opera (GFO). He returned to the GFO numerous times, portraying such roles as Demetrius in Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1989), the Count in Richard Strauss's Capriccio (1990), and Count Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro (1991). In 1987 he made his debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Harlequin in Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos, and appeared at the Opera Queensland in Brisbane as Dandini in Rossini's La Cenerentola. He returned to Covent Garden as Sid in Britten's Albert Herring (1989), Figaro in Rossini's The Barber of Seville (1990), and Dandini in Rossini's La Cenerentola (1991).

Black made his first appearance in the United States as Guglielmo in Così fan tutte with the Los Angeles Opera in 1988; a role which he repeated at the Lyric Opera of Chicago (1993), the Salzburg Festival (1993), and the Aix-en-Provence Festival. In 1991 he made his debut at the Opéra Bastille in Paris as Lescaut in Puccini's Manon Lescaut. In 1992 he portrayed the Pirate King in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance with the Victoria State Opera. He performed the role of Fieramosca in Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini at the Grand Théâtre de Genève in 1992, and returned there in 1995 as Riccardo in Bellini's I puritani.

In 1995 Black made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City as Figaro in The Barber of Seville; a role which he has also performed with the San Francisco Opera (1992), the San Diego Opera (1993), and the Bavarian State Opera (1995). In 1994 he returned to the San Diego Opera in the title role of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin, appeared in Los Angeles as Marcello in La bohème', and performed the role of Demetrius in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Israeli Opera.

In 2000 Black made his debut with the Michigan Opera Theatre as Captain Balstrode in Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes. In 2004 he portrayed Escamillo in Opera Queensland's production of Georges Bizet's Carmen with Yvonne Fontane in the tile role. In 2005 he performed the role of Danilo in a staging celebrating the 100th anniversary of The Merry Widow with the Welsh National Opera.

In 2009 Black sang the title role in a concert version of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra with the Chelsea Opera Group at Queen Elizabeth Hall. That same year he performed the role of Frank in Die Fledermaus with the London Lyric Opera. In 2010 he portrayed Gianciotto in Riccardo Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini with Opera Holland Park.

Black has also performed in operas with the Dutch National Opera, Vlaamse Opera, Opéra de Monte-Carlo, Washington National Opera, Teatro Colón, and Opera North. His stage repertoire also included the role of Ford in Falstaff.

Personal life
Black's son has diabetes, and he has been active in fundraising in support of this cause.

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History of Limerick
Self-nom This article is on the history of the city of Limerick in western Ireland. This article has been Peer Reviewed and received very favourable responses. I believe that this is the most comprehensive article on this subject on the internet. Seabhcán 14:00, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

 * How about more images? The article as it stands is a little image-bare. --Oldak Quill 08:39, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, that would be nice. Have you any suggestions? I don't want to just add irrelevant images for the sake of it, but if there were specific images on the subject, that would be great. Seabhcán 10:28, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

 * You know, a lot of those sections sort of suggest pictures. The Williamite battle has illustration out there (and it's all public domain).  A map of Ireland with the city's location marked in the lead would help.  Graphic propaganda or a graphical representation of atrocities in the pogrom, if contemporary, would also be PD.  A portrait of one of the leaders (William III comes to mind, or James II) would be helpful early, and/or of the proponents of the Act of Union, later.  No vote on the article. Geogre 14:20, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Good idea. I've added an image of De Valera and one of Patric Sarsfield. I'd like another for the 'Celtic Tiger' section; idealy one of "modern Limerick". I'll search around for one. Thanks Seabhcán 14:54, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Conditional support: If we can get from WW2 to the Tiger with the same detail as before, yes.  I've now done a little bit of copyediting.  The photos are better.  However, as the history gets nearer to the present, it gets more detailed, which is well and good, but, given the detail of the 20th c. sections, it's odd that we jump from a general Limerick in War to Celtic Tiger.  A section, or at least material split into the pre-Tiger and Tiger sections, explaining the ruinous state that the area was in would be a good thing.  Without it, I can't support.  With it, I do.  Geogre 11:19, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Thats a tough request. I spent a lot of time researching this article but I couldn't find any details on events in Limerick during the 50s and sixties. Only two things spring to mind: In 1956 about 500 Hungarian refugees arrived to Meelick (about 20km from Limerick) and were houses in the Knockalisheen Army Camp (built during the emergency). They left again a few years later. And in 1965 Che Guevara spent a night in Hanratty's Hotel on Glentworth Street (see Irish diaspora). And thats it. I haven't found anything else. Seabhcán 11:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't mean to posit anything insurmountable. I was simply looking for the kinds of things one can find, sometimes, in the triumphalist literature on the Tiger.  E.g. "Although in the 1960s, Limerick had a very high unemployment, now things are great!" can give high unemployment....  That kind of thing.  Even Frank McCord, whom I know the folks aren't fond of, probably is accurate to the post-war period, which was hard throughout the region.  (England suffered pretty severely with rationing and high unemployment for a long time.  Scotland is arguably still suffering from the reorganization of industry that came after the post-war reorganization.  Ireland, as an independent country, had to translate its skilled workers into information economy workers.)  Anything at all that will give us a picture of the hardships that have been overcome.  Didn't the west of Ireland lag behind the east in the new prosperity?  At any rate, I really do want to support, but I think the gap is too conspicuous at present. Geogre 14:15, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Yes, but all that stuff was national and is dealt with in the articles on Irish history and economics. The first paragraph in the Celtic tiger section gives an overview of the gradual improvements in Limerick in the 70's, 80s and 90s. Problem is that there were no improvements during the 50s and 60s. Also, there was no industry to speak of in Limerick before the war, and so nothing to reorganise after it (Ireland was excluded from the Marshal plan because the country was neutral during the war). Ireland's industry under British rule had been built in Belfast, which was retained by the UK. The information economy didn't exist in the post war period. I would love to add something on this, but it has to be something informative and relevant to the city. Seabhcán 14:47, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I've writen a section on the post war period. Its really just a series of anecdotes, rather than a proper history, but maybe it will fill the gap. Seabhcán 10:53, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Support: the fact is Geogre, that nothing happened in limerick during the 25 years after the Emergency. Maybe a sentence could be added to the start of the Celtic Tiger section, something like "The quarter century immediately after the Emergency was, In Limerick as in many other parts of the Republic of Ireland, a period of economic and social stagnation." Although, maybe a brief mention of the Tiede Herrema kidnap is in order? Filiocht | The kettle's on 10:26, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Tiede Herrema kidnap? Whats this? Seabhcán 10:53, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * This]. As I recall through the mists of memory, he was living just off the Monaleen Road and was kidnapped on that road. The Limerick Leader archive would likely help. Filiocht | The kettle's on 11:38, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, heck, if nothing happened in Limerick for 25 years, I won't object. Such placid places are rare in the sublunary world, indeed.  Actually, with the efforts that have been made, my conditions were met, so I switch to full support.  (It was just this logic hole sitting there and no perverseness on my part, and I'll stop alliterating now.)  Geogre 13:37, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Support. The article seems very comprehensive and reads well, especially to someone who otherwise has very little knowledge of the subject!--Lordkinbote 07:42, 13 October 2005 (UTC)


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F.E.A.R. (song)

"F.E.A.R." is the first single from Ian Brown's third solo album, Music of the Spheres. Released on 17 September 2001, it placed No. 13 on the UK Singles Chart and was both a commercial and critical success. In late 2002, it won a Muso Award for best single, as voted by his peers in the British music industry. In October 2011, NME placed it at number 67 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".

Influences
The song incorporates a lyric scheme where each verse forms the acrostic "F.E.A.R." (for example, "For each a road" and "Fallen empires are ruling"). In an interview with Clash magazine, Brown said that a main influence for "F.E.A.R." was The Autobiography of Malcolm X, which preached the study of etymology, so that one could have "control over people through the use of language." He then created hundreds of acrostics for the word "fear".

Brown revisited the concept in the title of the Solarized track, "Time Is My Everything", which is often abbreviated by with the acronym "T.I.M.E." on concert setlists.

Remixed and instrumental versions of "F.E.A.R." also appeared in the remix album, Remixes of the Spheres. A 30-second clip of the instrumental version appears at the end of the LP version of Music of the Spheres; this is a tribute to Marvin Gaye's What's Going On which also featured a clip of the lead track at the end of the album.

CD single

 * 1) "F.E.A.R." (album version)
 * 2) "F.E.A.R." (with Dann)
 * 3) "Hear No See No Speak No"
 * 4) "F.E.A.R." (CD-ROM video)

7" single

 * 1) "F.E.A.R."
 * 2) "F.E.A.R." (instrumental)

12" single

 * 1) "F.E.A.R." (UNKLE remix)

Music video
The music video for "F.E.A.R." marked Brown's directorial debut. It featured footage of the singer slowly riding a bicycle through the busy streets of Soho and Chinatown in London, which was then reversed to give the impression of being ridden backwards. The route followed was from Berwick Street to Gerrard Street.

In Popular Culture
A remixed version of the song was used as the menu music in the F1 2010 video game.

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Cultipacker

A cultipacker is a piece of agricultural equipment that crushes dirt clods, removes air pockets, and presses down small stones, forming a smooth, firm seedbed. Where seed has been broadcast, the roller gently firms the soil around the seeds, ensuring shallow seed placement and good seed-to-soil contact.

The term cultipacker is almost exclusively applied to ridged rollers, while the terms field roller or land roller may refer to either a smooth or a ridged roller. Some farmers treat the terms as mutually exclusive, but many others treat the ridged tools as a class of field rollers. For example, C.H. Wendel's Encyclopedia of American Farm Implements and Antiques covers the whole category as land rollers. The term cultipacker appeared in English around 1914 and probably originated as a brand name of the C.G. Dunham Company of Berea, Ohio, which advertised "Culti-Packer" models starting around that time. That company did not have the ridged-roller subcategory to itself by any stretch, as Wendel's book demonstrates, but for whatever reason, its name for its version stuck well in many minds. By the 1920s and ever since, it has been widely used in a genericized sense, at least in some regions of the U.S. if not nationwide. In Britain, an equivalent tool is usually called a Cambridge roller or Cambridge roll; D.J. Smith's Discovering Horse-drawn Farm Machinery says, "The Cambridge roll, named after its makers, was a ring roller made up of numerous equally spaced rings or ridges."

Despite the suggestion of soil compaction in the "packer" part of the name, cultipackers and other land rollers exert high pressure only on the high spots (such as clods); the baseline pressure at the rest of the footprint is not especially high, which is to say, not higher than a person's footprint pressure. A person intentionally stomping hard on a particular spot can pack the dirt tighter than a cultipacker packs it. This is appropriate because seedbeds need only be firm, not excessively compacted. Procedure is used before and after seeding by using ridged rollers to crush dirt clods, remove air pockets, and press down small stones, forming a smooth, firm seedbed

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Too Beautiful for You

Too Beautiful for You (Trop belle pour toi) is a 1989 French romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Bertrand Blier. It tells the story of Bernard (Gérard Depardieu), a well-established BMW car dealer in the South of France, who is cheating on his beautiful wife (Carole Bouquet) with his ordinary-looking secretary (Josiane Balasko).

Synopsis
Bernard Barthélémy, owner of a BMW car dealership, is married to an exceptionally beautiful woman, Florence, but he falls in love with a plain-looking but warm-hearted woman, Colette, who has been hired as a temp secretary at his dealership. This relationship will change his life. The film features surreal, fantasy sequences and a non-linear timeline.

Reception
The film had 2,031,131 admissions in France.

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Talk:Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview

Curriculum and Elective Subjects
I briefly added the subjects that the school offers but then I soon realises that having an extensive list of subjects is against Wikipedias rules as stated in the WikiProjects Schools/Article advice that states "Provide a brief description of the school's curriculum. Does it follow a national or state curriculum or does it set its own subjects? Focus specifically on aspects of the curriculum which are unique to the school. Is it the only school in the locality which teaches Mandarin, Latin or Greek? Does it have a culinary academy? Do not make long lists of every subject taught - people can get that from the school's brochure or website"

However, I have kept the list of the subjects on my computer so I will probably just add the subjects that are unique to the school when I have time to further edit this Wikipedia article.

Regards Septagonol — Preceding unsigned comment added by Septaganol (talk • contribs) 08:00, 24 March 2021 (UTC)

Housemaster's Names
I wonder whether it is necessary to state the names of the housemasters - the names are irrelevant. Jpeob 09:31, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I disagree, I think it is important to document these things, to expand the article fully —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 202.146.15.20 (talk • contribs) 04:24, 19 June 2006.

Preferred Futures
added them.Jpeob 01:18, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Amnesty International
In regards to the citation needed for Amnesty international, the reason for closure was withdrawal of MIC (Master in Charge) due to personal beliefs. This meant that the club was unable to continue until a new MIC was found. The board of directors ruled in favour of restoring AI indefinitely into the future. Some students are currently engaged in finding a new staff member to act as amnesty international MIC. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.172.208.68 (talk) 11:38, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

we and you should?
This article has been written using language in the second person which makes reading the article feels like an advert and as if it is being promoted by wikipedia. the article whould be written in the third person to remobe these ambiguaties and to bring the page in to a more professional article.84.66.55.218 20:37, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

transport
i have edited the transport section by adding bus routes and ferry stops. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.240.53.142 (talk) 09:01, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

 * I disagree. The only place where it says "we" in the article is in the "Preferred futures" section. Even so, every time "we" is used here, it is used within a quotation where someone is talking using that terminology. Further, there is no use of "you should" at all across the article. This article, while comprehensive, is plainly not an advert. Cheers, Jpeob 03:20, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

you do realise that saying "we" is not actually using second person, it is first person pural. By reading the article is can be clearly seen that its all in third person which can be seen by the use of pronouns such as; it he she and they. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.170.84.196 (talk) 07:31, 20 May 2009 (UTC)

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1908 in art

Events from the year 1908 in art.

Events

 * January 20 – Hugh Lane opens the Dublin City Gallery, the world's first to display only modern art.
 * February – The Ashcan School ("the Eight") give their first and only exhibition, opening at the Macbeth Gallery in New York.
 * March 20–May 2 – Salon des Indépendants in Paris gives rise to the term "Cubism" (cubisme).
 * May – Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky produces a color photographic portrait of Leo Tolstoy.
 * July – Allied Artists' Association holds its first exhibition, at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
 * July 29 – The Whitworth Art Gallery building in Manchester (England) is formally opened.
 * Autumn – Edvard Munch suffers a nervous breakdown and enters a clinic in Copenhagen.
 * November – Georges Braque exhibits at Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler's Paris gallery; critic Louis Vauxcelles describes him as "reducing everything... to geometric schemas, to cubes."
 * Paul Ranson founds the Académie Ranson in Paris.
 * The British Medical Association Building, London, designed by Charles Holden with eighteen controversial nude sculptures by Jacob Epstein, is completed.
 * Wassily Kandinsky settles in the Bavarian town of Murnau am Staffelsee and begins a series of paintings inspired by the local landscape.
 * The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna rejects (for the second time) Adolf Hitler's application to study painting.
 * Australian painter Arthur Streeton marries violinist Nora Clench.

Works

 * George Bellows – Steaming Streets
 * László Beszédes – Joseph (slave) (sculpture)
 * Pierre Bonnard – Woman in a Blue Hat
 * Constantin Brâncuși
 * The Kiss (sculpture)
 * The Wisdom of the Earth (wood sculpture)
 * Georges Braque – Le Viaduc de L'Estaque
 * Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
 * Fantasy (triptych)
 * Prelude and Fugue (diptych )
 * Sonatas
 * Sonata of the Pyramids
 * Sonata of the Sea
 * Sonata of the Serpent
 * Sonata of the Summer
 * Sonata of the Stars
 * Henri-Edmond Cross – Cypresses at Cagnes
 * Cyrus Edwin Dallin – Appeal to the Great Spirit (bronze)
 * Roger de La Fresnaye - Allée des Acacias in the Bois de Boulogne
 * André Derain – Landscape in Provence
 * Herbert James Draper – The Water Nymph
 * John Duncan – Helene Schlapp – Iona
 * Thomas Eakins – William Rush and His Model (two versions)
 * Daniel Chester French – Statue of George Frisbie Hoar
 * Florence Fuller – Portrait of Deborah Vernon Hackett (approximate date)
 * J. W. Godward
 * A Classical Lady
 * A Grecian Girl
 * Ismenia
 * Erich Heckel – Weisses Haus in Dangast
 * Lewis Hine – Girl Worker in a Carolina Cotton Mill (photograph)
 * Ernst Ludwig Kirchner – Street, Dresden
 * Gustav Klimt –
 * The Kiss
 * Schloss by the Water
 * Laura Knight – The Beach
 * Carl Larsson – Gustav Vasas intåg i Stockholm 1523 (Nationalmuseum)
 * Henri Matisse
 * Bathers with a Turtle
 * The Dessert: Harmony in Red ("The Red Room")
 * Game of Bowls
 * Portrait of Greta Moll
 * Amedeo Modigliani – The Jewess
 * Piet Mondrian – Avond
 * Claude Monet – paintings of Venice
 * The Doge's Palace Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore
 * Le Grand Canal
 * Le Grand Canal et Santa Maria della Salute
 * Palace From Molo, Venice
 * San Giorgio Maggiore at Dusk
 * Mikhail Nesterov – Portrait of B. M. Nesterov
 * William Ordway Partridge – Statue of Alexander Hamilton (sculpture, New York City)
 * Pierre-Auguste Renoir – Portrait of Ambroise Vollard
 * Otto Schumann – Lewis and Clark Memorial Column (Portland, Oregon)
 * Carl Seffner – Statue of Johann Sebastian Bach (outside St. Thomas Church, Leipzig)
 * Walter Sickert – The Camden Town Murder (group of paintings)
 * Marianne Stokes – Madonna and Child
 * Pedro Subercaseaux
 * Cabildo abierto del 22 de mayo de 1810
 * Mariano Moreno en su mesa de trabajo
 * Sydney Curnow Vosper – Salem
 * J. W. Waterhouse – Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May

January to June

 * January 18 – Humberto Rosa, painter (d. 1982)
 * February 12 – Jean Effel, French painter, caricaturist, illustrator and journalist (d. 1948)
 * February 26 – Tex Avery, American animator, cartoonist, and director (d. 1980).
 * February 28 – William Coldstream, English realist painter (d. 1987).
 * February 29 – Balthus, French modern artist (d. 2001)
 * March 13
 * Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970)
 * Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Portuguese-French abstract painter (d. 1992)
 * March 19 – George Rodger, English photographer (d. 1995)
 * March 23 – Cecil Collins, English painter and printmaker (d. 1989)
 * May 9 – Mary Scheier, American sculptor and academic (d. 2007)
 * May 16 – Anne Bonnet, Belgian painter (d. 1960)
 * June 24 – Helen Lundeberg, painter (d. 1999)

July to December

 * July 6 – Sam Vanni, Finnish painter (d. 1992)
 * July 8 – Kaii Higashiyama, Japanese painter and writer (d. 1999)
 * July 9 – Minor White, American photographer (d. 1976).
 * July 22 – Claire Falkenstein, American sculptor and painter (d. 1997).
 * August 22 – Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer (d. 2004).
 * August 28
 * Edith Tudor Hart, born Edith Suschitzky, Austrian-born photojournalist and communist agent in Britain (d. 1973).
 * Roger Tory Peterson, American naturalist, ornithologist, artist and educator (d. 1996).
 * August 30 – Leonor Fini, Argentine-born surrealist painter (d. 1996).
 * September 6 – Korczak Ziolkowski, Polish American sculptor (d. 1982).
 * September 14 – Peter Watson, English arts benefactor (k. 1956)
 * October 1 – Nicholas Marsicano, American painter (d. 1991).
 * October 21 – Jorge Oteiza, Spanish sculptor, painter, designer and writer (d. 2003).
 * October 27 – Lee Krasner, American abstract expressionist painter (d. 1984).
 * November 4 – EQ Nicholson, born Elsie Q. Myers, English textile designer and painter (d. 1992).
 * November 19 – Gisèle Freund, born Gisela Freund, German-born photographer (d. 2000).
 * December 3 – Victor Pasmore, English artist and architect (d. 1998).
 * December 23 – Yousuf Karsh, Armenian-Canadian photographer (d. 2002).

Full date unknown

 * Madiha Omar, Iraqi artist (d. 2005)
 * Myron Stout, American abstract painter (d. 1987)
 * Umaña, Colombian artist (d. 1994).

Deaths

 * January 9 – Wilhelm Busch, German humorist, poet, illustrator and painter (born 1832)
 * January 13 – Hashimoto Gahō, Japanese painter of the Kanō school (b. 1835)
 * January 19 – Roberto Bompiani, Italian painter and sculptor (b. 1821)
 * January 28 – Sidney Paget, British illustrator (b. 1860)
 * April 13 – Aasta Hansteen, Norwegian painter, writer, and early feminist (b. 1824)
 * June 1 – Allen Butler Talcott, American painter (b. 1867)
 * July 17 - Joseph Henderson, Scottish landscape painter (b. 1832)
 * August 30 – Giovanni Fattori, Italian painter and printmaker (b. 1825)
 * November 3 – Harro Magnussen, German sculptor (born 1861)
 * November 4 – Richard Gerstl, Austrian painter and draughtsman (b. 1883)
 * November 24 – Charles Henry Turner, American watercolourist and oil painter (b. 1848)
 * December 5 – Ernest Hébert, French painter (b. 1817)
 * December 27 – František Bohumír Zvěřina, Czech painter (b. 1835)
 * date unknown
 * Leopoldo Costoli, Italian sculptor (b. 1850)
 * George Earl, British painter of sporting animals (b. 1824)

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Talk:Someday (I Will Understand)

Video director?
The video section claims that it was directed by Guy Sigsworth, and then says it was directed by Michael Haussman. Which is correct? Gusworld 02:40, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Further Googling suggests Sigsworth isn't responsible, so I've fixed the section. Gusworld 23:55, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

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I was on the Singles Collection and looked at the box set picture. The single covers for "Someday (I Will Understand)" and "I'm Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman" are different. Shouldn't we fix this? --Ahoskinson 95 (talk) 18:04, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Prophecy? Not. The whole problem with quoting Britney in this way is that it gives her pregnancy a mystical quality not grounded in reality. Britney made it very clear that she was trying to get pregnant and in interviews repeatedly talked about her desire to be a young mom. The photogs snapped her at fertility clinics and drinking fertility drinks, and of course her active sex life was chronicled thanks to her own commentary. This song is no more prophecy than is a shopping list. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.137.150.35 (talk) 22:59, 22 August 2012 (UTC)

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Songwriting credits
What's the source for the inclusion of Guy Sigsworth and Jason Lamberman as writers? The official credits only list Britney Spears, and I've found no source for Guy Sigsworth and Jason Lamberman; an editor added Guy Sigsworth and Jason Lamberman as writers on Sep. 16th but provided no source at all, and I haven't found anything online about anyone named Jason Lamberman. Israell (talk) 14:42, 28 September 2019 (UTC)

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Skip & Flip

Skip & Flip was a U.S. pop duo, consisting of Skip (Clyde Battin) and Flip (Gary S. Paxton). They met while attending the University of Arizona in the late 1950s.

Career
Once known as The Rockabillies, they recorded on Rev Records as The Pledges and then as Gary & Clyde. Time Records picked up their Rev Records master "Why Not Confess"/"Johnny Risk" and then moved them to its Brent Records label, under the name Skip and Flip. Their recording of Paxton's song "It Was I" entered the U.S. Top 20 in 1959, peaking at No. 11, and the follow-up, "Fancy Nancy", charted at No. 71. Their next release, a revival of Marvin & Johnny's R&B hit single, "Cherry Pie", also made No. 11 but proved to be the last chart entry they recorded together.

Paxton went on to record for several labels using several names, including The Hollywood Argyles, with which he topped the charts in 1960 with the novelty song "Alley-Oop". He also had hits as a producer and label owner. One of his records was "Monster Mash", which was written by Bobby "Boris" Pickett.

Paxton started the Bakersfield International label in the mid-1960s, attempting to cash in on the Bakersfield sound, recording out of a converted Flxible Flyer bus in which he built a mobile eight-track recording studio, working with a number of musicians. These included several who later went on to play in The Byrds and other country rock acts of the era, including the Gosdin Brothers, Dennis Payne and The Reasons (a group also known as Nashville West, which featured Gene Parsons, Clarence White, Gib Guilbeau and Wayne Moore). Many of these sessions ended up on low-budget releases and exploitative cover albums, such as Guitar Country by Bakersfield's Big Guitars on Jasico Records. It would appear that Paxton sold these sessions to other labels to finance projects closer to his heart. Paxton moved to Nashville in the early 1970s, had a lengthy friendship with Tammy Faye Bakker, recorded several country albums under his own name and also became well known in the gospel music world. He died in Branson, Missouri, in July 2016.

Battin recorded under his own name on Indigo Records, Invicta Records, Aurora Records, Record Records, Egan Records, Cenco Records, California Records, May Records, Groove Records, Audicon Records and Signpost Records. He also recorded under pseudonyms on many other record labels. He played in such groups as Evergreen Blueshoes, The Byrds, New Riders of the Purple Sage and the Flying Burrito Brothers, as well as doing session work with a wide variety of musicians. Battin died in Oregon in July 2003.

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Ivan Shapovalov

Ivan Nikolayevich Shapovalov (Cyrillic: Иван Николаевич Шаповалов, born 28 May 1966) is a musical producer based in Moscow, Russia. He is best known for being the founder and former executive producer/manager for t.A.T.u.

Pre-2004: Early work and t.A.T.u.
Before becoming a music producer, Shapovalov worked as a child psychologist, as well as an advertising executive. In 1999, he began to venture into making music videos. That year, Shapovalov, along with Voitinskyi, Sergio Galoyan, Renski and then-lover Elena Kiper, created t.A.T.u., where most of Shapovalov's success would come from. He directed the music video of t.A.T.u's 2002 single "Ya Soshla S Uma" ("All the Things She Said"). Ivan led the girls to stardom as their producer, with a controversial image, and producer of the production company Neformat, which he and Renski formed.

In May 2003, while t.A.T.u. was filming the trailer for their entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, Shapovalov was arrested for disturbing the peace after organizing 200 girls for filming in front of the Kremlin. Also in 2003, Shapovalov formed the project Podnebesnaya to develop his producing skills. He ended up working with many artists, and becoming the producer of 7B and n.A.T.o.

However, in 2004, t.A.T.u. decided to break off from Shapovalov (and Neformat) and continue alone. t.A.T.u. was soon re-signed to Universal Music, appointing Boris Renski as their head producer.

2004-2005: n.A.T.o.
In 2004, Shapovalov started a new musical project with sixteen-year old singer Natalia Shevliakova, whom he discovered online. Under the name n.A.T.o., Shevliakova portrayed a shaheed (Islamic suicide bomber) who sang Persian-language songs about love and loss in a musical style similar to that of t.A.T.u. The music video for her debut single, "Chor Javon", depicted Shevliakova appearing on global news channels and blowing herself up; following controversy, it was removed from her website. Shapovalov maintained that Shevliakova's image was not inherently violent, stating that "associations are born in the minds of the viewers, listeners and readers" and argued that "n.A.T.o. is merely a female singer with a headscarf and a veil". Her debut concert, to be held on the third anniversary of the September 11 attacks, drew condemnation from Russian government officials and was cancelled following the Beslan school siege. Shapovalov pursued legal action against the venue that cancelled the event, claiming that he had not been appropriately notified of the cancellation. He also suggested that the venue was hypocritical, as they hosted corporate events but not what he called "a theatrical show". n.A.T.o. eventually made her live debut at Tinkov Brewery, a Moscow nightclub, in January 2005. n.A.T.o. was considered an unsuccessful project, as audiences regarded the performance as underwhelming and the promotion did not generate strong sales for her debut album.

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Lucknow division

Lucknow division is one of the 18 administrative geographical units (i.e. division) of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. Lucknow city is the administrative headquarters of the division. The division consists of 6 districts:-
 * Lucknow
 * Hardoi
 * Lakhimpur Kheri
 * Raebareli
 * Sitapur
 * Unnao

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Markus Rühl

Markus Rühl (born 22 February 1972, in Darmstadt, West Germany) is a retired IFBB professional bodybuilder. Rühl began training at the age of 19 following a doctor's recommendation after sustaining a knee injury while playing football. At 120 kg, Rühl began training hard six days a week until deciding to compete on a professional level five years later. During this period he worked as a used-car salesman. Rühl signed a sponsorship deal with Ultimate Nutrition in late 2008. In 2018 he started his own supplement company, Rühl's Bestes.

Legacy
Although Rühl only won two shows in his career, he is considered one of the biggest "mass monster" bodybuilders who ever lived.

Stats (active peak numbers)

 * Height: 1.78m
 * Arm size: 65 cm (contest)
 * Leg size: 85-88 cm (contest)
 * Waist size: 97 cm
 * Chest size: 150 cm

Competitive record

 * The Bachgau Cup
 * 2010 IFBB Europa Super Show - 7th
 * 2009 Mr. Olympia - 15th
 * 2009 New York Pro - 3rd
 * 2006 IFBB Austria Pro Grand Prix - 3rd
 * 2006 Mr. Olympia - 8th
 * 2005 Mr. Olympia - 15th
 * 2004 Mr. Olympia - 5th
 * 2003 Arnold Classic - 3rd
 * 2002 Mr. Olympia - 8th
 * 2002 Night of Champions - 1st
 * 2002 Toronto Pro Classic - 2nd
 * 2001 Mr. Olympia - 14th
 * 2000 Mr. Olympia - 7th
 * 2000 Joe Weider's World Pro Cup - 5th
 * 2000 Grand Prix England - 5th
 * 2000 Night of Champions - 2nd
 * 2000 Toronto Pro - 1st
 * 1999 Grand Prix England - 7th
 * 1999 Joe Weider's Pro World - 7th
 * 1999 Night of Champions - 4th
 * 1999 Mr. Olympia - Disqualified

Training movies

 * XXXL-Big beyond belief - 2000
 * Made in Germany - 2004
 * Big and loving it - 2007
 * Ruhling 4 Ever - 2010

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Ezekiel A. Straw

Ezekiel Albert Straw (December 30, 1819 – October 23, 1882) was an American engineer, businessman, and politician from Manchester, New Hampshire. He was born in Salisbury, but moved with his family to Lowell, Massachusetts, where his father, James B. Straw, was employed at the Appleton Manufacturing Company. Ezekiel A. Straw, eldest of 7 children. A member of the first class of Lowell High School in 1831 before enrolling at Phillips Andover Academy in Andover, where he showed an aptitude for mathematics.

Upon leaving Phillips Andover, Straw was hired in the spring of 1838 as an assistant civil engineer at the Nashua & Lowell Railway, then under construction. On July 4, 1838, he arrived in Manchester, New Hampshire, sent to substitute for a civil engineer at the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company who had become ill. The position soon became permanent. One of his first duties was laying out lots and streets for the new industrial city as envisioned by Amoskeag's cultured treasurer (president), William Amory. He also assisted with the construction of the dam and canal. In 1842, he founded the community's first Unitarian Society. Straw was sent by the mills to England and Scotland in November 1844 to gather information and machinery for manufacturing and printing muslin delaines, which the Manchester Print Works introduced to the United States. In July 1851, he was appointed agent (manager) of Amoskeag.

Straw was a Republican state representative from 1859 to 1864 and a state senator from 1864 to 1866. In his second year in the state senate, he served as its president. In 1869, he was appointed to the staff of Governor Onslow Stearns. From 1872 to 1874, he served two terms as Republican governor of New Hampshire. Straw was treasurer and principal owner of the Namaske Mill from its organization at Manchester in 1856 until it was purchased by Amoskeag in 1875, and director of the Langdon Mills after Amoskeag acquired it in 1874. He was a principal figure in creation of the Manchester waterworks, gas light company and public library. In addition, he served as president of the Blodget Edge Tool Manufacturing Company, New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association (now the National Textile Association) and New Hampshire Fire Insurance Company.

On April 6, 1842, he married Charlotte Smith Webster, who bore him 4 children before dying on March 15, 1852. Their son, Herman F. Straw, would become agent of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company from 1885 until 1919. Ezekiel A. Straw was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree from Dartmouth College in 1860. He died in 1882 at Manchester and is buried in Valley Cemetery.

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Rod, Jane and Freddy

Rod, Jane and Freddy were a singing trio who appeared in children's programming on the British TV channel ITV in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. They starred both in the long-running series Rainbow and their own 15-minute show. The trio have also made guest appearances in other children's TV shows, including The Sooty Show.

The original trio consisted of Rod Burton, Jane Tucker and Matthew Corbett, when they were known as "Rod, Matt and Jane". Matthew left the trio in 1976 to continue hosting The Sooty Show after his father retired. Matthew was replaced by actor Roger Walker, whereupon the trio became known as "Rod, Jane and Roger". When Walker left in 1980 to continue his career in acting he was replaced by Freddy Marks, leading to the best-remembered incarnation of the trio.

During their three decades working on children's television they managed to write over 2,500 songs on various themes using many different music styles. Most were comedic but others had deeper meanings. Overall they have written and produced 10 albums and 24 videos, and have conceived and performed jingles for commercial radio, theme and title music for TV, and songs for pantomimes.

Rod, Jane and Freddy
Due to their popularity on Rainbow, Rod, Jane and Freddy were approached by ITV in 1980 to make their own show, Rod, Jane and Freddy, which aired its first episode on 15 January 1981. Rod, Jane and Freddy appeared in both their own show and Rainbow until 1989, when they left their position as musicians on Rainbow to focus solely on their own series.

Their show often followed a certain format:

 * Opening with a big song, giving an idea of the particular show's topic (music and song, pets, moving house, etc.)
 * Rod, Jane and Freddy would usually have solo songs
 * There was often a sketch, but these were generally rarer than songs
 * They would close with a final song
 * As the credits rolled, the first or last song would be sung again.

Episode list
The following is a list of episodes. Fremantle archive episode list use master tape titles where available, if unavailable they use the episode titles as they appeared in TV guides.

Many episodes from 1981 to 1982 no longer exist due to the then British TV policy of wiping.

Touring
Rod, Jane and Freddy toured the UK until 1996; their stage show followed the same format and the 15-minute ITV show, filled with songs, dancing, mime and comedy. In 1996 they won a Gold Badge Award from The British Academy of Composers and Songwriters.

Videos
The trio released a number of videos in the late 80s and early 90s. These include:

Present-day
Following the end of the Rod, Jane and Freddy Show, the trio no longer regularly appeared on television, instead appearing in British children's theatre and pantomime. The trio also appeared in Peter Kay's video for his 2007 Comic Relief release of I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles).

In June 2008 Rod, Jane and Freddy appeared on the show 50 Ways to Leave Your TV Lover on Sky and talked about newspaper claims that they were involved in a love triangle. They explained that Rod and Jane had been married then divorced. Jane partnered with Freddy some time after he had joined the trio, a relationship that led to their eventual marriage in May 2016.

Jane Tucker appeared on The Justin Lee Collins Show on ITV2 on 19 March 2009. She was in the part of the show called 'A Blast From The Past' and also appeared at the end of the show dancing with Justin.

Freddy Marks died on 27 May 2021.

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Nils-Aslak Valkeapää

Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, known as Áilu in the Northern Sámi language and with the stage name of Áillohaš (23 March 1943 – 26 November 2001), was a Finnish-born Norwegian Sámi writer, musician and artist. He was one of the most internationally recognised contributors of Sámi culture. He was mostly known for his joiks and poems. He was the official provincial artist of Lapland from 1978 to 1983. He was given the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1991 for his work called Beaivi, áhčážan (engl. The Sun, My Father.)

Early life
Valkeapää was born on March 24, 1943, in Enontekiö in Finnish Sápmi to a family of nomadic Sámi reindeer herders. His father, Johannes J. Valkeapää, was Finnish Sámi from the Kaaresuvanto area, while his mother, Ellen Susanna Aslaksdatter Bals, was Norwegian Sámi from Uløya in Troms. Valkeapää lived in Finnish Sápmi until his father's death, when his family moved to Skibotn in Norwegian Sápmi.

Valkeapää's mother tongue was Northern Sámi. However, like many Sámi children in the 1950s, he did not have access to formal education in his native language and did not learn how to write in Northern Sámi until adulthood. Along with his early education in boarding schools, Valkeapää spent six years studying at the Kemijärvi Teachers' Training College, though he never worked as a teacher.

Music
Valkeapää first came into the public eye as a performer of traditional Sámi joik and was central to the revitalisation of the genre. His debut record, Joikuja, was released in 1968. In 1973, folk and jazz musicians Seppo Paakkunainen, Ilpo Saastamoinen and Esko Rosnell invited Valkeapää on a musicians' retreat. During the retreat, Valkeapää was inspired by Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 and its African-American spiritual influences to develop fusion joik. In collaboration with Paakkunainen, he developed Juoigansinfonija, a jazz-joik symphony. In 1978, Valkeapää released his jazz-joik record Sámiid eatnan duoddariid. Valkeapää's music was somewhat controversial in Finland, both for his unorthodoxic inclusion of jazz elements and because Laestadian Sámi often viewed joik as immoral. Valkeapää continued to perform jazz-joik and resisted efforts to "preserve" the traditional form, stating in his book Terveisiä Lapista: "When I hear talk of conserving the culture, I see an investigator of folklore in my mind’s eye, and interpret their activities quite literally: cataloguing a dead culture."

Valkeapää released thirteen records from 1968 to 1994. His song Goase Dušše (The Bird Symphony), composed of nature sounds from the Sápmi region, received the jury’s special prize at the Prix Italia radio competition in 1993. Valkeapää also composed the music for and acted in the Oscar-nominated 1987 film Ofelaš. A recording of Valkeapää performing the theme for the film Ofelaš was sampled by British musician Mike Oldfield in "Prayer for the Earth," a track on his 1994 album The Songs of Distant Earth.

Valkeapää received further international recognition as a musician when he performed at the opening ceremony of the 1994 Winter Olympic Games in Lillehammer, Norway.

Writing
Valkeapää's first book, Terveisiä Lapista (Greetings from Lapland), was published in 1971 and acted as a political treatise on the issues impacting Sámi people, including condemnations of boarding schools designed for assimilation and land acquisition policies. The book was written in Finnish, and was the second-ever book by a Sámi author to be translated into English.

Valkeapää's debut book of poetry, Giđa ijat čuovgadat (Spring Nights So Bright), was published in 1974. From 1974 to 2001, he published nine books of poetry, all written in Northern Sámi. Only two of his books were ever translated into Finnish - his debut and his 1988 collection Beaivi, Áhcázan (The Sun, My Father). Beaivi, Áhcázan was awarded the Nordic Council Literature Prize in 1991.

Along with his poetry and nonfiction, Valkeapää also wrote a Noh play that was performed in Japan in 1995. The play was first performed in Sámi at the Beaivváš Sámi Našunálateáhter as Ridn’oaivi ja Nieguid Oaidni (The Frost-haired and the Dream-seer) in 2007.

In 1984, Valkeapää was one of the founders of the publishing house DAT. He established DAT to publish his books and music and to support and publish other Sámi artists and writers.

Art
Valkeapää was both an artist and a photographer. Many of his paintings were based on Sámi mythological beings, while his pencil drawings often featured birds, people and reindeer. He included his art in several of his poetry books, including his award-winning book Beaivi, Áhcázan, and he designed the covers for not only his own music records and books but also for books by other Sámi writers like Rauni Magga Lukkari. His artwork was also presented at the North Norway Festival in 1991.

Valkeapää donated thirty of his art pieces to Kautokeino Municipality, where the collection is on permanent display at Guovdageainnu Gilišillju (the Kautokeino Museum).

Activism
Valkeapää was a prominent figure in the movement for Sámi rights, which he connected to the broader international Indigenous rights movement. He expressed feelings of solidarity with North American Indigenous communities and particularly Inuit and other Arctic Indigenous people. In 1975, he attended the founding meeting of the World Council of Indigenous Peoples (WCIP) in Port Alberni, Canada as a Sámi representative of Finland. That same year, he referred to Sámi people as Indigenous people for the first time during an interview on Sámi radio.

Valkeapää became the cultural coordinator of the WCIP in 1978. In this role, he organised Davvi Šuvva, the world's first Sámi cultural festival, in Karesuvanto in 1979.

Later life and death
Valkeapää received honorary doctorates from the University of Oulu and the University of Lapland in recognition of his work and cultural impact.

In February 1996, Valkeapää was severely injured in a car accident. Because of health issues related to his injuries, he moved to Skibotn and settled permanently. He built his house in the traditional lásságámmi style on land he received as a gift from the Storfjord Municipality for his 50th birthday. He became a Norwegian citizen in 2001.

In 2001, Valkeapää visited Japan to perform in a poetry event with other Finnish and Japanese writers. He died during his return home, at the house of his Japanese friend Junichiro Okura in Espoo. Valkeapää was buried at the Birtavárre cemetery in Troms.

Legacy
Valkeapää is recognised and remembered as a vital figure in the revitalization of joik and the Sámi rights movement. In 2022, his joik Sámiid eatnan duoddariid was elected the national joik of the Sámi people at the 22nd Sámi Conference in Gällivare.

In 2004, the Lásságámmi Foundation was established by the Sámi Parliament of Norway, Storfjord municipality, Troms county, and the University of Tromsø to preserve Valkeapää's legacy and utilise his residence in Skibotn as a space for researchers and artists. The foundation is named after Valkeapää's house.

Posthumous publication of Valkeapää's work includes two poems included on his godson Niko Valkeapää's eponymous début album. Speaking on his godfather's influence, Niko stated that "I can’t deny that Nils-Aslak was a role model for me – he was a figure that I would look up to. He has been a source of inspiration and I have included two of his poems on my album to pay homage to him."

Personal life
Valkeapää was bisexual, but hid his sexuality throughout his life.

Discography

 * Joikuja (1968)
 * Juoigamat (1973)
 * Vuoi Biret-Maaret, vuoi! (1974)
 *  De čábba niegut runiidit (1976)
 * Duvva, Áilen Niga Elle ja Aillohaš (1976)
 * Sámi eatnan duoddariid (1978)
 * Sápmi, vuoi Sápmi! (1982)
 *  Davás ja geassái (1982)
 *  Beaivi, áhčážan (1988)
 *  Eanan, eallima eadni (1990)
 *  Sámi luondu, gollerisku (1992)
 *  Goase dušše (1994)
 *  Dálveleaikkat / Wintergames (1994)

Written works
Books

 * Terveisiä Lapista (1971)

Poetry

 * Giđa ijat čuovgadat (1974)
 * Lávlo vizar biellocizáš (1976)
 * Ádjaga silbasuonat (1981)
 * Ruoktu Váimmus (1985)
 * Beaivi, áhčážan (1988)
 * Nu guhkkin dat mii lahka = Så fjernt det nære (1994)
 * Jus gazzebiehtár bohkosivččii (1996)
 * Girddán, seivvodan (1999)
 * Eanni, eannážan (2001)

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User:Obake1

Heya, I'm new ^_^ (In the English version anyway...)

I'd probably be more active in the Hebrew Wikipedia cause there's more stuff to do there, there are only about 26,000 articles... So it's fun, you can write about whatever you want to - usually nobody wrote about it before you =P And there are only these few active people, so I know all of them already =D

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