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OpenBSD
I feel that the OpenBSD article has matured a fair bit recently, but that it could use filling out and review from eyes beyond just NicM,  SimonMorgan and myself in order to truly become worthy of being featured. There are still sections and information yet to add to the article, but I am reasonably satisfied with it as is. --Janizary 03:43, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * A few things: does the dev section really need to be that high up? How is OpenBSD in terms of GUIs? casually reading through it, it sounds like a scary hardcore command line unix.  True or myth? Screenshots might help here, I dunno. Plus: there are quite a few red links. This isn't really a bad thing for the article per se, but does make it suboptimal. And... that's it really; some of the "flavor", if you know what I mean, is missing, but it's pretty good as is. --Maru (talk) 04:14, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Do you mean normal GUIs, like KDE and whatnot, or GUI configuration tools? I feel the former are already mentioned quite enough in the Desktop section. GUIs have no more - perhaps less since desktop uses probably make up the minority for OpenBSD - to do with OpenBSD than they do with FreeBSD, Linux, etc. If the latter, a few words might be appropriate, but it may be tricky to put in a neutral way. Some actual OpenBSD (not X) screenshots (booting? what else?) could be a nice idea. NicM 07:53, 4 October 2005 (UTC).

 * This is a good article, but it seems to emphasize the developer and hacking aspect of the operating system a little too heavily. Large sections are devoted to this, including a list of developers (if this is really necessary, it should be moved down to the bottom of the article). There seems to be too little coverage of GUIs under OpenBSD. Now, the project web page hardly mentions GUIs at all, but presumably they can be made to run equally well under BSD as under Linux. Andrew pmk | Talk 18:34, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

 * The reason for this is that OpenBSD doesn't have GUIs, that is X that deals in GUIs.  It is mentioned only in the Desktop section of Uses because it is only a very small part of what OpenBSD is able to do and those GUIs are dependant on X and not OpenBSD at all.  Janizary 18:39, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Even the Linux article only has a paragraph about GUIs, why should we do more? We do already link to the KDE and GNOME articles. OpenBSD is not focused on and it's strengths don't lend it to GUIs, even though they do run fine (but don't forget most are ports, not part of the project). NicM 20:13, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

WHEW! Well, I'll see you guys later :) Ryan Norton T 01:31, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Hi there! I don't usually review content but considering I know the subject matter quite well... here we go!
 * 1) First off, you're going to need a lead at least two paragraphs long for an article this size - see WP:LEAD
 * 2) General issues with whole article:
 * 3) Where are the references?
 * 4) Too developer-oriented and too many unexplained buzzwords (CVS, etc.) - you're going to need to explain these in layman terms. Yes, I'm a developer and know these things so this article reads well for me of course - but please keep in mind not everyone is a developer :).
 * 5) "History" might benefit from a section intro here. In addition
 * 6) "Schism" - this has some serious POV issues.
 * 7) For one, the treatment of Theo's departure from the team is very one-sided - WHY did the developers lock him out? Did he submit faulty commits? It doesn't say immediately and insinuates plenty of conspiracy theories here before getting to the supposed reason.
 * 8) In addition, this reads more like a novel then an encyclopedia IMHO... try rewriting it just a bit (the writing itself is pretty good).
 * 9) " he found that NetBSD developers had been encouraged not to talk with him about the issue"- WOwOW! If you are going to say that you BETTER have a reference for such a claim!
 * 10) Also, when was OpenBSD 1.0 released (was there a 1.0?) - it should probably say here.
 * 11) In addition, consider splitting off a bit either into a seperate section or doing something, as this is bigger then the other sections
 * 12) "he only reason officially given is "because of philosophical and developer personality differences"" - mind explaining this? Again, really fluffs it up in a very POV way. Also, "only" itself seems POV here, as if they needed a seperate reason, no?
 * 13) Paragraphs could be combined here to form two longish ones rather then the current way
 * 14) "Focus"
 * 15) "Theo de Raadt was contacted by a local security software developer interested" - who was that developer?
 * 16) " exploit possible security flaws" - in what? I'm assuming in OpenBSD, but you might want to enlighten the reader :)
 * 17) "synergy" - neat word, but "relationship" is probably more appropriate here, LOL
 * 18) "OpenBSD would often go out of the way to do what was right, proper or secure, even at the cost of ease, speed or functionality." - yeah ->I<- know that, but you might want to give some examples for the poor readers, eh?
 * 19) Missing dates in general - i.e. "After years of cooperation, the two parties decided that their goals together had been met and parted ways." Its rather unclear when the relationship started (1994?) so the reader is probably lost time-wise by now....
 * 20) "As bugs within OpenBSD became less easily found and exploitable" - reword a bit, writing-wise a bit sub-par to the rest
 * 21) "Here and now"
 * 22) "Despite being the largest reason" - largest here is quite clumsy, try "most prominant" or something similar
 * 23) In general, this section doesn't really belong in "History", or at least is misplaced a bit, as it details more the general goals of the project rather then something that happened in time which generally goes in a section like this
 * 24) "Releases" - combine the first two paragraphs here...
 * 25) "Nomenclature" - ambigous section title, consider using something more specific
 * 26) Delistify this, first off
 * 27) Don't wikilink -beta as its kind of odd, consider explaining a bit more a linking a seperate word "beta"
 * 28) Quote the things prepended with -
 * 29) Ending paragraph is too developer heavy and needs rewording
 * 30) "Latest" - avoid this, as it makes the article time-based. Instead just list the versions and when they came out, along with their notable features
 * 31) "Image and marketing" - "interesting" and "imaginative" are definately POV in this context. Do something like "widely considered to be" if you can get away with it
 * 32) "Themes" - make the paragraphs here longer. Also, that list is really annoying - if it were me I'd put it into a table so that each entry only took up one line, but you can also either turn it entirely into prose or get rid of the "-" parts and collude those
 * 33) "Mascot" - Something's not right with the list here. I can't put my finger on the exact problem, but I think there's a bit of context missing here...
 * 34) "Slogans" - delistify both the lists here...
 * 35) "Developers" - a normal reader is going to fall asleep on this section. WHY is this important? Needs more context... in addition consider using a more neutral word such as "recognized" instead of "notable" as it veers a POV-y. In addition, I'd make this a table instead of a list, but I suppose its not too bad as is, just a little long.
 * 36) "Hackathons"
 * 37) Needs to be wikified more
 * 38) Paragraphs way too short... combine them or something
 * 39) "A brief summary" - well, if you're going to list them I suppose that would be "listing", eh? A table might be better for this too.
 * 40) "Security" - especially nasty offender of short paragraphs and one-sentence paragraphs
 * 41) "API and build changes" - thoughts here too detached and needs better flow in general
 * 42) "Strong crypto" - strong is POV here, also use the full word "cryptology".
 * 43) "frustrate password-cracking attempts." - Consider something like "make ... more difficult" etc..
 * 44) "Memory protection" - consider doing something here like killing the subsections here as they are extremely short
 * 45) "Stack-smashing" - kill the list here...
 * 46) " Ports and packages" - short paragraphs.... well and I'll save you guys the trouble and not mention that again :)
 * 47) "Licencing" - a lot of this stuff seems like it would go better in the history section.... anyway
 * 48) "Highlights" - kill the list here... - "unacceptable licences" is POV in the current context
 * 49) "XFree86" ewww... don't italicize quotes - if you want to highlight it blockquote it instead :)
 * 50) " He later added, "it seems like every 8 years or so we have to go through some period where someone tries to take free software and makes it less free because they don't feel they are getting enough credit."" this just reinforces a POV - get rid of it
 * 51) "Uses" probably needs to be renamed
 * 52) "Derivatives" - HMMM. I'd kill the list here and do a bit of rewriting to make it one or two nice long paragraphs
 * 53) "Desktop"
 * 54) "From it's beginnings OpenBSD has been distributed with an X Windows system" say "derivative" or something afterwards or reword a bit.
 * 55) The second paragraph here is a pretty egregious POV offender :)
 * 56) Third paragraph has obvious grammer issues
 * 57) "Forks of BSD" - merge this into "See also"
 * 58) "See also" - seems kind of bare for the subject. Also, axe ones like hackathon as they are already wikilinked in the article.
 * 59) "Books" - consider renaming this "Further reading" as a lot of articles have. Also, the place where to buy it reeks of advertising - I'd cut that out. In addition, consider using a reference style here that doesn't take up five lines a reference :).
 * 60) "External links" "OpenSSH page" etc. - if the project has a wikilink here don't do an external link in addition to it :). "Free For All by Pete Wayner" needs a better description

 * You are asking for things which, if you did know this material well, you would know are impossible. The Schism section is one sided because only one side has ever talked about it, period.  All the items which are linked within the article are the sources of this information - including Free For All by Pete Wayner.  Read it.  Most of your whining is solved through reading, be it the OpenBSD site or the other parts of the article.  "In October 1995, OpenBSD 2.0 was first released as a fork from NetBSD 1.0." Should point you to the fact that there was no OpenBSD 1.0, that it was a fork of NetBSD 1.0.  Within Focus, you ask once more for things which are not disclosed - the company is never mentioned because Theo has never named it, likely because they wish to remain unnamed.  The exploitation mentioned is in software, any code that the tools could find problems in, I thought that obvious by the way it had been worded - I will see if I can dumb it down a little for the more mundane.  With the path of least resistance, those examples are later given, within the Licence section and Security section.  If all you have to complain about is consistantly saying it's too developer oriented then there is nothing wrong with it - I have attempted to ensure the article is readable to mundane users but I will not remove good information from the article.   You refer several times to not explaining words enough and using buzzwords, those words a linked so someone that doesn't understand can read up on what they don't know - that is one of the benifits of an online encyclopedia like this.  You complain about point of view in the sections like Licencing - but this is stuff that the OpenBSD developers decided was unacceptable - that isn't stuff that is point of view, it is fact about their stance on licences, it is the backing proving the point.  Infact, I cannot see any of these point of view violations you're talking about.  So I'll have to ignore them, cause you're the only person to see them.  I can't even see how quoting Theo de Raadt on the issue is a mark of point of view, it's stating exactly what happened and why.   Regarding the Lastest release section, that doesn't seem like a problem to have dated information when the releases happen regularly and the information listed can be updated by anyone.  I'll see what I can do about dumbing things down a little, but if you want something in Simple English, that's what the Simple English Wikipedia is for.  Janizary 02:15, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm sorry you feel I was "whining". I will cease commenting further then :). Take care :). Ryan Norton T 04:42, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Don't get me wrong, I do like that you were good enough to read the article and comment, just some of the stuff you mentioned has irked me - things which are covered in the article but you didn't see in it. Janizary 05:01, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Theo's departure is hardly undocumented; if one looks through the NetBSD mailing list archives from around that time, the threads that lead up to Theo's departure are there for anyone to read. I know that Theo used to include some of the pertinent messages on his personal website - but they were cherry-picked, and hardly NPOV. --moof 08:05, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

 * This is a big comment and some of it is fair. I might take a run through and see if I can define some buzzwords later on, a few simple definition might not hurt, even if they are covered in more detail on linked pages. Schism would certainly benefit from references, but Janizary is right that it is one-sided because only one side has ever been told (this is sort of explained in the section). I'll take a look at your comments on Focus section sometime, they are minor but not without merit, although I really want to avoid getting bogged down in tedious examples that people who are interested could look up themselves. Your comments on Here and Now and Releases are nitpicks minor (sorry, it's early :-) NicM 09:10, 12 October 2005 (UTC)) and I disagree anyway. I don't agree with Nomenclature comments except the last paragraph, I'll take a look. Image and Marketing - good point about POV, I'll fix it sometime. I don't really understand a lot of your comments about the lists, this article is trying to be a reference as well as an informative one, and lists are easier for uninterested people to skip than dense paragraphs. I think short paragraphs are a good thing in this kind of article so long as they don't cover the same part of a subject. Strong crypto(graphy) is a recognised phrase, not POV. Security, the centre two paragraphs could combine. I'll take another look at API and Build changes sometime. "Books" is better than "Further reading". They are books. I'll have a closer look at your other comments a bit later. NicM 08:25, 12 October 2005 (UTC).

 * Oh, some (many) of these comments are useful, even if I don't agree with them all, so thanks ;-). NicM 09:10, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * *sigh* the point of peer review here is to get an article to featured standard and resolve standard objections raised at FAC, and what's raised here are suggestions that are not set in stone, but realize that I wouldn't have spent several hours pointing these out and it should be somewhat clear what is a light suggestion and what needs to be fixed (for example, if I say "kill the list" I mean someone is going to ask you to do the same at the FAC). I've done quite a few (something like 20 or something) peer reviews here already, so I'd like to think I have a decent idea of how it works :). Anyway, well, as for nitpicking, that's part of the whole point :). In general with lists you should only use them when you have to with featured articles - and people will object for that sort of thing. Same with short paragraphs - take a look at mercantilism for an example of a good modern featured article with nice long paragraphs - this is what people are going to expect at FAC time. As for the history POV thing, well, nothing is really one-sided (this seems like an example of the POV of the writer) - you give the reason there right at the end "because of philosophical and developer personality differences"" - if that's the official reason, then that's what you go with - rewrite it to be balanced, which may be slightly difficult (you've got more to work with then you realize), but is definately neccesary as you don't want POV issues in a featured article - reread the article as the devil's advocate if need be :). Ryan Norton T 12:59, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Also, to the both of you - please don't get so defensive about it. It's highly unusual around here mostly because as I mentioned these are suggestions from me/someone on how to improve the article, and the person may or may not be right. Ryan Norton T 13:02, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Well, if defensive is the term best used to describe us, we are that way because of how much we've done to the article in question. A great deal of historical and technical data has been taken from common sources and when people call what we view as plain fact a bias impression it will likely raise ire.  Regardless, we do take even the critizisms with which we completely disagree into account and try to redevelop the article with the comments in mind, despite Maru and Andrew's comments making no sense to me, I have worked to try and expand the Desktop section and add Screenshots.  Janizary 16:14, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I wasn't being defensive. I was just pointing out (quickly :-) the bits I disagreed with and the bits I would take a look at, after a relatively quick reading of your (extensive!) list. Anyway, I'm going to work through your list properly now and see if I can fix some of them. NicM 18:31, 12 October 2005 (UTC).

Defensive? How about ungrateful. Ryan Norton takes a lot of time to meticulously criticize your article at your explicit request and the first thing you say after is that he is whining. How dumb is that. It seems like Ryan Norton has a big heart and is not bothered too much, but I think you can do better than your half-hearted attempt at back-pedaling and do a real apology.--MarSch 16:22, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

few see also's
I enjoyed reading the entire article and the only thing that I could find was that there are so few see also links. --MarSch 15:44, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Earth Maiden Arjuna

Cleanup work
Hoo boy, does this article need some cleanup. -It's not NPOV -the overview needs to have those bad image files fixed, the quotes are unencyclopedic and should be removed, the whole thing sounds too promotional, and goes into too much detail of the first episode -Praise for the soundtrack needs to be cut out, not NPOV -character bios seem alright, but could be trimmed a bit

Also, the pages for the Arjuna soundtracks are very sparse with no real info. They should probably be deleted, and merged into this page.

I can probably do this cleanup myself, but any help or suggestions would be nice. --Marcg106 03:43, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

My edits
I have done a major revision to this article. That is, I kinda rewrote the whole thing from scratch (well, there's a few lines left from the old version). I removed the images of the characters, as they'd been readded still without rationale for fair use (though mostly cause they really didn't fit). I liked the first one though, so I wrote a rationale for it myself. The page is definately shorter now, but it also reads like an article, rather than a review. I have also added some commentary on the themes of the show, taken from the creator/director in an interview he did. Overall, I feel I've cited everything more than adequately, and as it covers every major facet of the series, I'm self-promoting it to a B-class article. There's still some missing I'm sure, minor characters, etc. But it's acceptable now anyway. If there's anything else anyone wants, let me know here and I'll see what I can do. -Goldom (t) (Review) 09:42, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Still to do

 * Better explanation of the ending and last 3 episodes - ..uh, right now I can't even think how to summarize it on this bullet point, so I'll get back to that later.
 * Clean up the soundtrack pages which right now have no content.

Earth Maiden Arjuna
In the Anime Legends complete collection it is called Earth Maiden Arjuna. Should the article be renamed to reflect this and have Earth Girl Arjuna redirect to here? Argel1200 20:54, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
 * I went ahead and moved the article to Earth Maiden Arjuna. That's the name used in all the subtitles, such as the ones showing the English translation of Japanese text on-screen and the name Bandai used before renaming it to just "Arjuna" . I also changed every reference in the article I could find (except the language references at the bottom). Argel1200 20:30, 1 July 2007 (UTC)

Updated DVD Cover
I updated the article to use the Anime Legends DVD box cover art. Argel1200 06:59, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Controversy?
Was there actually an abortion shown in episode 9? I thought the baby was crying out because the mother (Juna's sister) was smoking a cigarette? Argel1200 07:07, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Having watched it again, it's clear abortion is a topic. Argel1200 (talk) 22:12, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Pictures
Would you like me to get pictures of the rest of the characters? Chris Hawkins, Cindy, Tokio,etc..71.142.214.138 (talk) 05:20, 14 February 2008 (UTC)Cardinal Raven

 * No thank you, the article has enough non-free images. AnmaFinotera (talk) 06:31, 15 February 2008 (UTC)

Then would you rather me grab a better picture of the two pictures you have. Since they look very fuzzy and not so clean.You now the same images just better quality?71.142.214.138 (talk) 03:56, 16 February 2008 (UTC)Cardinal Raven

 * Better quality images would certainly be nice...those are rather bad aren't they. A better group image would be even better though. Something with Juna, Chris, and Cindy at the least, if possible. AnmaFinotera (talk) 04:02, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

All right. But you'll never see that group happening. I watched that anime and they are alway solo. I can do Cindy and Arjuna or Tokio and Arjuna. One or the other. But there is no real way to get all three together unless I would want to replace it with the other crappy pictures with other crappy pictures. But we want the best quality don't we?71.142.214.138 (talk) 05:54, 16 February 2008 (UTC)Cardinal Raven

 * Ah...been awhile since I've watched it, so couldn't remember who all was on frame together. Just replacing the current one with a better quality, non-fuzzy one is fine then :) AnmaFinotera (talk) 06:09, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

 * can you not just have a row of Pictures cropped and stuck together to have a "group" photo 124.177.68.130 (talk) 11:19, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Additional review
User:Ubanteux has suggested this review of the show to be added in the external links. I have removed this review for three reasons: Could someone who's more familiar with the show read and evaluate the article, and comment on whether it should be added? --Twinzor Say hi! - Do I suck or rock? 23:26, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
 * There are already 3 reviews of the show
 * The website the review is on is not notable
 * Possible WP:COI violation (Review written by Ursula Banteux)
 * Further browsing of the site gives the impression it could be thought of as a blog when it comes to WP guidelines, as it seems anyone can submit an article, and thus should not be included. Correct me if I'm wrong on this one! --Twinzor Say hi! - Do I suck or rock? 23:39, 6 October 2008 (UTC)

Fukuoka Masanobu
I always thought the old man in episode 4 was a very obvious reference to this pioneer of natural farming, especially considering the old age of that character was similar to the age of Fukuoka himself at the time of this anime's production. Might be worthy of notice if proper sources can be found. 89.172.52.179 (talk) 17:26, 30 April 2010 (UTC)

Themes section
Under the themes section appeared the line "The show contains some very scientific and current elements which include the pole shift hypothesis, the Van Allen Belt, Fermat's Last Theorem, etc." None of these fit the description of "very scientific and current", and thus the line has been removed. 165.122.10.129 (talk) 07:55, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

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The result of the debate was No consensus. Rx StrangeLove 05:18, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Chum Bucket
Contextless jibberjabber without geographical information that is also apparently advertising non-notable eateries.Need I say anything other than Delete? Eddie.willers 03:44, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. Although utterly unclear from the article, it actually describes fictional restaurants from the cartoon SpongeBob SquarePants. Quale 04:09, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - I cleaned up the article so it would look less like an ad for a non-notable eatery.   — Kjammer  ⌂  06:18, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge/Redirect to Sheldon J. Plankton where the restaurant is already partly covered. The two are so closely interlinked that there's no point in having separate articles. — RJH 20:09, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge to Sheldon J. Plankton.Gateman1997 22:15, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep -radiojon 19:43, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Donation

Donating to Wikimedia
GaylordBumBum 20:59, 4 March 2007 (UTC)Do we have to have the reference to Wikimedia donating at the top?
 * Perhaps not at the top, but maybe at the bottom, or at least a link to this. I am googling right now to find that dam* wikipedia donation page.... was hoping to find it here too, but didnt so far... 80.108.103.172 (talk) 14:39, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
 * It seems reasonable to leave it where it is now (since April 22 2009), at the top of the article... does not "To donate to the Wikimedia Foundation..." appear as the second line of the article in your browser? Thanks in advance for the new server!  --CliffC (talk) 15:58, 5 July 2009 (UTC)

Overheads
SiobhanHansa wants a source for the claim that "donating to smaller charities, often tends to reduce expenditure on overheads". Is this really contentious? It seems obvious and well known that large organisations often have higher overheads than small ones, which often run entirely or mostly on volunteer labour, have no need for multiple levels of management, and pay little or no rent. Zsero 01:32, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

 * The size of an organization does not dictate the percentage that is spent on "overhead", a term that itself is not uniformly defined across organizations, and is dificult to measure. Your argument here that it is obvious and well known that larger organizations have higher overheads than smaller ones does not support the assertion that by donating to smaller organizations you cut overhead (you merely make a smaller organization somewhat larger, which would, according to the assertion, increase its overhead).  Also the piece you have replaced (still without a citation) "Donating directly to a charity (rather than through solicitation)" is not obvious.  Donating directly to a charity does not reduce business process overhead.  It may reduce some fundraising expenses, but it may not.  The fact that an individual donation did not rely on or use a particular fundraising process does not necessarily mean expenses were not incurred by the organization.  Organizations tend to have their fundraising plans set in advance of any particular gift and will incur costs regardless of how the actual money comes in.  Only donations that by-pass a process where costs are directly related to money received will actually result in lower expenses for the organization.
 * But more than the lack of a citation I think the thrust of the assertion is inappropriate. It seems to simply highlight overhead as an unacceptable expense rather than balancing the need for good controls to ensure organizations are run properly with the benefits of nimble and lean organizations (none of which is guaranteed by the size of the organization).   It might be better here to discuss, for instance, the difficulty in measuring the impact of a donation, rather than putting in a normative and controversial statement. -- SiobhanHansa 04:18, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

There needs to be a clear separation of the spirit of donation (of giving freely) and the legalities of donation (which are excruciatingly intricate and vary from country to country. That's actually what brought me to this page because I was hoping for some US leads/references for correctly identifying the legal donor and preparing properly addressed correspondence when there is a corporate/foundation/organization donor involved (I edited the page - adding two words - to acknowledge that an institution may be a donor) H 1/4/2008```` —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.5.51.64 (talk) 19:06, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

including, but not limited to
"Including, but not limited to" is lawyer-speak and is unnecessary since "including" implies additional items already. --Unimath (talk) 12:58, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

Red links are associated with the following...

 * http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=earmarked+fund&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_sdt=1.&as_sdtp=on&as_sdts=5&hl=en

--222.67.207.200 (talk) 03:15, 15 January 2010 (UTC)
 * Talk:Red Cross (disambiguation)

 * Why not write the article instead of just letting the red link hang there? --CliffC (talk) 03:47, 15 January 2010 (UTC)

Edit request from 62.143.225.227, 2 June 2011
Please include a link to http://www.poverty-action.org/provenimpact/fund -- this is the only scientific evaluation of donations' effectiveness around. Thank you!

New donation web site https://www.mydonations.online/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by Уровнитель (talk • contribs) 21:30, 18 September 2022 (UTC)

62.143.225.227 (talk) 09:28, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

 * Wikipedia is not a directory or forum or place where people can advertise about things. It is an encyclopedia. GaneshBhakt (talk) 10:37, 2 June 2011 (UTC)

Can a donation be made for a consideration?
I just want to clarify whether a payment made by an institution to an organisation of charitable nature on the condition that the charitable organisation would make a cultural performance at the function of the institution. What is generally thought a donation can not be for a consideration, if a consideration exists for making a donation then such transaction can not be termed as donation.117.194.195.49 (talk) 18:56, 21 April 2012 (UTC)'''

Lack of donating statistics outside the U.S.
As of May 3, 2013, there is no such data. Please add in. Thanks, New worl (talk) 07:27, 3 May 2013 (UTC)

There is data, for example Giving Trends in the UK http://www.acf.org.uk/policy-practice/research-publications/foundation-giving-trends-2017 Morchickit (talk) 08:38, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Summaries
Just a quick note about edits summaries. They are useful in many ways Thanks. Caballero/Historiador (talk) 18:22, 16 December 2015 (UTC)

Discussion of this article at...
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Law. --David Tornheim (talk) 14:41, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

The data about US household giving is 10 years olf
The data about US giving trends in households is a decade old, and pre the 2008 financial crisis. I could not find newer data. Does anyone know a newer dataset? Morchickit (talk) 08:40, 11 December 2017 (UTC)

Donation
How much donations are you getting? Leekielou (talk) 18:57, 20 December 2022 (UTC)

Clothing donations heading
Dear reviewers, I kindly request your consideration in adding a new heading to the main article titled "Clothing Donations." This section will cover the topic of donating clothing, a common practice aimed at giving back to communities and helping those in need. The proposed text for this section will provide valuable information and insights into the different methods of clothing donation, including the pros and cons of textile banks and home collection services. Suggest taxt is here:

"Clothing donation is a common practice worldwide, as it enables individuals to give back to their communities while also helping those in need. Two common options for donating clothing are textile banks and home collection services. Textile banks are collection points where people can deposit their used clothes, and these banks are usually located in public places such as car parks, shopping centers, and recycling centers. On the other hand, home collection services involve charities or non-profit organizations that provide door-to-door collection services, where they pick up the donated clothes from the donor's doorstep."

Suggest references: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11

Thank you for your time and attention to this matter. Please let me know if there are any concerns or questions regarding this proposal. ZMB2224 (talk) 11:13, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

On every topic you should add a “donate to Wikipedia and we’ll give you more information of this topic, bla bla bla”
You should do this to make people rethink about how hard the members of wikipedia have to work to earn their salary 2607:FEA8:4E64:5F00:40E9:641F:1845:EE87 (talk) 20:01, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

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Talk:Foot cavalry

Blurb for DYK
Did You Know

...foot calvary was an term of contradictory words combined to describe the rapid movement of infantry troops of General Stonewall Jackson during the American Civil War?

Calvary?
Hlj moved this from foot calvary to foot cavalry, as cavalry is dudes on horses but calvary is a hill near Jerusalem. Unless this is some weird archaic spelling, I guess the DYK entry should also be fixed. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 11:38, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

Rockfish Gap and Blue Ridge Tunnel
Why are these in the See also? I'm sure that it was because Jackson used them, but neither article mentions it. --Habap 15:56, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

added some sources
I added some sources, but this article needs to be polished, I do not have the ability to do so. but I do know that the information in here is accurate. -Robert Short,Sr. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.248.244.2 (talk) 05:56, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

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The Time Machine (1960 film)

The Time Machine (also marketed as H. G. Wells' The Time Machine) is a 1960 American period post-apocalyptic science fiction film based on the 1895 novella of the same name by H. G. Wells. It was produced and directed by George Pal, and stars Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, and Alan Young. The story is set in Victorian England and follows an inventor who constructs a machine that enables him to travel into the distant future. Once there, he discovers that mankind's descendants have divided into two species, the passive, childlike, and vegetarian Eloi and the underground-dwelling Morlocks, who feed on the Eloi.

The film was originally released on August 17, 1960, and was distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It received the Academy Award for Best Special Effects for its time-lapse photographic effects, which show the world changing rapidly as the time traveler journeys into the future.

Plot
On January 5, 1900, four friends arrive for a dinner at the London home of their inventor friend George. He is absent, then suddenly appears, bedraggled and exhausted. He recounts what happened to him.

At the group's earlier dinner on New Year's Eve, George stated that time is the fourth dimension. He shows David Filby, Dr. Philip Hillyer, Anthony Bridewell, and Walter Kemp a scale model time machine. When a tiny lever on it is pressed, the device quickly disappears. George says it went forward in time, but his friends are skeptical. The group leaves George's house, Filby reluctantly, as he senses George is not himself. George then retires to his private laboratory that holds a full-size time machine.

George travels forward in time, first in small increments, and then to 1917. He meets Filby's son, James, who says Filby died in a war. George returns to the time machine and stops in 1940 during the Blitz, finding himself in the midst of "a new war". A disillusioned George then travels to 1966. People are rushing to fallout shelters as air raid sirens are blaring. An elderly James Filby urges George to take cover. George barely makes it back to his time machine as an "atomic satellite" detonates, causing a local volcanic eruption. The approaching lava rises, cools, and hardens, trapping George as he travels far into the future. Eventually the lava wears away, revealing a lush, unspoiled landscape.

George stops on October 12, 802,701, near the base of a sphinx. He encounters young men and women wearing simple clothing gathered by a stream. One woman, carried off by the current, screams for help. When her indifferent companions do nothing, George rescues her. She is named Weena and her people are the Eloi; they do not operate machines, work, or read, and know little of their history. Their food is always provided for them. One young man shows George a library, but the books crumble to dust when touched. Outraged, he decides to leave, but his machine has been dragged inside the closed sphinx. Weena, who stays with him, says that Morlocks are responsible, noting they only come out at night. A hideous-looking Morlock jumps out and tries to drag Weena away, but is warded off by George's lit torch.

The next day, Weena shows George domed structures dotting the landscape, air shafts that lead down to the Morlocks' caverns. Weena also shows George an ancient museum where "talking rings" tell of long-ago war between East and West that lasted 326 years and contaminated the atmosphere. Another ring describes humanity's struggle for survival; many people lived underground, while some eventually returned to the surface. George realizes this was the beginning of the speciation that resulted in the Morlocks and Eloi. He starts to climb down a shaft, but stops when sirens emerge and blare from the sphinx. The Eloi go into a trance-like state and head for the opened doors at the sphinx's base. The sirens stop and the doors close, trapping Weena and others inside, while those outside merely walk away.

George enters the caverns through the air shafts. He discovers that the Morlocks raise the Eloi as food. He finds Weena and fights off the creatures, finally inspiring the Eloi to defend themselves. George sets fires and urges the Eloi to climb to the surface. He directs them to drop tree branches down the shafts. The resulting fires cause the caverns to burn, then collapse.

The next morning, the sphinx's doors are open. George sees his time machine inside. When he enters the sphinx, the doors close and George is attacked by Morlocks. He escapes in his machine and returns to 1900.

After George recounts his story, his friends remain skeptical. He produces a flower Weena gave him, and Filby, an amateur botanist, says it is an unknown species. George bids his guests good evening. Filby returns shortly thereafter to find George and his time machine gone. His housekeeper, Mrs. Watchett, notes that nothing is missing except three books that she is unable to identify. When Mrs. Watchett wonders if George will ever return, Filby remarks that "he has all the time in the world".

Cast

 * Rod Taylor as H. George Wells
 * Alan Young as David Filby/James Filby
 * Yvette Mimieux as Weena
 * Sebastian Cabot as Dr. Philip Hillyer
 * Tom Helmore as Anthony Bridewell
 * Whit Bissell as Walter Kemp
 * Doris Lloyd as Mrs. Watchett
 * Paul Frees as voice of the Rings (uncredited)

Pre-production
George Pal was already known for his pioneering work with stop-motion animation, having been nominated almost yearly for an Oscar during the 1940s. In 1958, Pal was approached by Shiro Kido to co-produce a Japanese adaptation of the novel with Shochiku Productions. After Kido left the project and Pal was unable to sell Hollywood on the concept of the film, he found MGM's British studio (where he had filmed Tom Thumb) open to his proposal.

The name of the film's main character (alluded to in dialogue only as "George") connects him both with George Pal and with the story's original science fiction writer H. G. (George) Wells. The name "H. George Wells" can be seen on a brass plaque on the time machine. The film was created on a tight budget and given a filming schedule of just 29 days.

Casting
Taylor was already Pal's first choice to play the time traveller, after having lunch together numerous times where they discussed the project. Taylor admitted being fascinated with Pal's rough drawings detailing various scenes. In a 1986 interview, he commented how he had been asked more questions about his role in this film than any other across his career. Pal originally considered casting a middle-aged British actor like David Niven or James Mason as George. He later changed his mind and selected the younger Australian actor Rod Taylor to give the character a more athletic, idealistic dimension. It was Taylor's first lead role in a feature film.

Mimieux was cast in the role of Weena despite having no previous acting experience. During a screen test, director George Pal observed an innocent persona she portrayed, yet despite being his first choice, she was turned down by MGM. Following Pal's insistence and despite Taylor's preferred choice being Shirley Knight, Mimieux was asked back for another screen test where she was offered the part. Taylor observed her inability to act, describing how he thought she was like "kind of a strange hippie child" and was concerned that her lack of experience meant she would be difficult to act alongside. Mimieux lied about her age to Pal, stating she was 18 despite being only 17 when filming began. Having initially struggled on set, Mimieux gradually improved as her confidence in acting grew, to the extent that Pal requested that some of her earlier scenes be reshot to take advantage of her improved acting ability.

Design
The time machine prop was designed by MGM art director Bill Ferrari and built by Wah Chang. Recognized today as an iconic film property, Ferrari's machine suggested a sled made up of a large clockwork rotating disk. The disk rotated at various speeds to indicate movement through time, evoking both a spinning clock and a solar disk. In a meta-concept touch, a brass plate on the time machine's instrument display panel identifies its inventor as "H. George Wells", though the Time Traveler is identified only as "George" in dialogue. In Wells' original story, the protagonist is referred to only as the "Time Traveler".

As a means to cut costs, the dome habitat of the Eloi was constructed without a ceiling so that natural light could be used instead of costly artificial lighting.

The look of the Morlocks was designed by Wah Chang.

Filming
With a budget of under $1 million, the film could not be shot on location in London. Live-action scenes were filmed from May 25 to June 30, 1959, in Culver City, California, with the backgrounds often filled in with matte paintings and models. Some of the costumes and set were re-used from Forbidden Planet (1956), such as the Civil Defence air raid officer uniform, which was the C-57-D crew uniform, and the large acrylic sphere in the talking rings room, a prop from the C-57-D's control bridge.

In scenes where lava is shown to overrun the streets of London onto a miniature replica set, oatmeal was used as a substitute. The oatmeal had been prepared several days prior and left over a weekend, where it fermented in high temperatures, creating a "foul stench" in the air when it was released.

Home media
Released multiple times on Beta and VHS video cassette, Capacitance Electronic Disc (CED), and both letterboxed and open matte LaserDisc, the film was released on DVD in October 2000 and on Blu-ray Disc in July 2014 from Warner Home Video.

Soundtrack
An original film score CD was released in 1987 produced by Arnold Leibovit, the original soundtrack recording was composed and conducted by Russell Garcia himself. Released by GNP Crescendo. The track listing is as follows:

Critical reception
The Time Machine received generally mixed reviews upon release. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times wrote a mixed review, praising the "familiar polish and burnish" of the production values but finding that "the drama, for all its invention, is creaky and a bit passé. (Apparently there has still been no contact with other planets in 800,000 A.D.) And the mood, while delicately wistful, is not so flippant or droll as it might be in a fiction as fanciful and flighty as this one naturally is". A generally positive review in Variety praised the special effects as "fascinating" and wrote that "Rod Taylor definitely establishes himself as one of the premium young talents on today's screen", but faulted the pacing of the film, finding that "things slow down to a walk" once the protagonist arrives in the far distant future. Harrison's Reports called the film "an excellent science-fiction melodrama ... jammed full of suspense, action and out-of-this-world special effects", although the review lamented a lack of comic relief. Whitney Balliett of The New Yorker wrote in a negative review that the film "converts this good simple-minded material into bad simple-minded material", by including such Hollywood touches as a love interest. He was also unimpressed by the production values, writing that the model sets "don't touch the lowest-price Lionel train". Richard L. Coe of The Washington Post wrote that with the exception of the "gooey" love interest, "the tale is an engrossing one, boasting adroit camera tricks by Paul C. Vogel and an exceptionally easy, likable performance of the Time Traveler by Taylor. The youngsters will like this, and their elders will be kept wide awake". The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote that the film was "at its best in the scenes where George explores his new surroundings at each time stop", but found the acting "inadequate: Rod Taylor lacks both intellect and period sense, belonging more to an American science fiction world, and Weena is just a doll. Nevertheless, Pal's visual flair and genuine feeling for his fantasy world help to maintain an entertaining surface for most of the time". On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a score of 76% based on 38 reviews, with an average rating of 7.0/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Its campy flourishes tend to subdue its dramatic stakes, but The Time Machine brings H.G. Wells' story to life with plenty of sci-fi charm and a colorful sense of visual design." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 67 out of 100 based on nine critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Box office
According to MGM records, the film earned $1,610,000 in the United States and Canada and $1 million elsewhere, turning a profit of $245,000.

The film had admissions of 363,915 in France. Kine Weekly called it a "money maker" at the British box office in 1960.

Awards and honors
Gene Warren and Tim Baar won the 1961 Academy Award for Best Effects, Special Effects.

The film was nominated for the 1961 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.

Comic book adaptation

 * Dell Four Color #1085 (March 1960)

1993 documentary
In 1993, a combination sequel-documentary short, Time Machine: The Journey Back, directed by Clyde Lucas, was produced. In its third section, Michael J. Fox talks about his experience with the DeLorean sports car time machine from Back to the Future. In the short's final section, written by screenwriter David Duncan, Rod Taylor, Alan Young, and Whit Bissell reprise their roles from the original 1960 film.

In pop culture

 * Time After Time, a 1979 science-fiction film in which H. G. Wells (played by Malcolm McDowell) travels to modern-day San Francisco in his time machine in pursuit of Jack the Ripper.
 * The Time Machine, a 2002 remake directed by Simon Wells and an uncredited Gore Verbinski, and starring Guy Pearce in the Taylor role.
 * The Quantum Leap episode "Future Boy", which takes place on October 6, 1957, features a character who builds a time machine very similar to that used in Pal's film.
 * In "The Nerdvana Annihilation", a 1st season episode of The Big Bang Theory, the characters purchase a scaled-down replica of the film's time machine at an online auction site, only to discover that it is full-size; Morlocks later haunt Sheldon's dreams of time-traveling to the far future.
 * "Journey to the Bottom of the Crash Pit", a 5th season episode of Regular Show, in which Mordecai, Rigby, Muscle Man, and Hi-Five Ghost have to venture into the bottom of the crash pit to find their video camera before their boss Benson notices it is gone; the Carlocks they meet are based on the Morlocks from the H. G. Wells novel and their appearance is based on the Morlocks in Pal's film.
 * In Gremlins, at the inventors' convention, the time machine can be seen in the background with a man sitting in it and the disk spinning. In the next shot, it has disappeared, leaving a cloud of smoke.

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Gaplus Gaplus, far more commonly known as Galaga 3, is a 1984 arcade game by Namco. It was only known as Gaplus in Japan. A modifictaion kit was distributed later that changed the title screen to Galaga 3 Finding this game for home video game consoles is very difficult. It only appears on some multi-game cartridges, which were released long after its arcade release. The reason it didn't have a home conversion for so long is due to the Video Game Crash of 1983.

Gameplay
Galaga 3 is a sequel to Galaga and has similar gameplay. However, it has a much steeper leraning curve and much deeper gameplay in later levels. The player controls a spaceship, that can now move vertically, and shoots at swarms of incoming insect-like aliens which fly in formation above it and swoop down to bomb it in a kamikaze-like dive. In this sequel, the level starts over if the player is killed before all the enemies have come in. When all enemies are destroyed, the player moves on to the next level.

The game differs from its predecessor in several ways:

 * By shooting at a shooting star that occasionally appears, the player can get a ship with new graphics, that can have three shots on screen instead of two. After this, the shooting the star will make a special flag flag appear from the Namco game Rally-X that awards a bonus ship when collected.

 * There are two special types of stages besides the normal levels called parsecs. There are levels where the starfield reverses and enemies come in waves then leave. After this, a small force comes in like a normal stage. The challenging stages are very different from the original. Enemies are juggled by shots, each hit slowly spelling out Bonus, Gaplus, Double or Triple for a bonus and additional hits scoring 200 points each.. It is most effective to use the red and blue powerups to repeatedly hit them.

 * The 'boss' galaga on diffent stages drops several types of powerups when destroyed. The red powerup captures enemies with a tractor beam where each one provides another shot. The blue powerup gives wider and faster shots. The green powerup captures enemies in a tractor beam and can then be shot for bonus points. The purple powerup changes the screen to a vertical orientation. It may also carry a third of a ship that will be kept track of at the lower-right of the screen between games. A bonus ship is awarded when all three are collected.

Gaplus can be played by a single player or by two players alternating turns. The starting number of lives is set to three by default, and an extra life is awarded at different scores, but these settings can be changed via DIP switches on the game's motherboard.

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Fair use rationale for Image:Witching Hour.jpg
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Page move, "(album)" suffix unneeded
There is a page for the general term, witching hour and the capitalized title of this album is unambiguous, so I'm going to move the page to Witching Hour, removing the trailing "(album)", and simplifying life. A no-brainer, I think, but at least I gave warning. --DJ Phazer talk 06:55, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Genre
Uhh, electroclash? WTF New Wave? 24.9.11.72 (talk) 06:17, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

One of the best albums ever
In my opinion, Witching Hour is one of the best albums ever (and my #1 favorite). Because the wiki page of this album looked quite average, I decided to improve it a lot. If you know more useful info about this album, add it. Deepblue1 (talk) 22:39, 2 June 2013 (UTC)

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Talk:USS Schmitt

Does anyone have any common sense here? This article includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_American_Naval_Fighting_Ships From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

"The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS for short) is the primary reference work for the basic facts about every ship ever used by the United States Navy. (Although called a "dictionary," it is more accurately described as a specialized encyclopedia.)

It was published by the Navy (thus its content is in the public domain) in nine volumes, between 1959 and 1991. The volumes were completed in alphabetical order, so the service histories of ships still in service at the time of writing end at dates dependent on their names, and subsequent information must come from elsewhere."

Come on y'all!!!!!!!!!1 Just because a Wiki editor found the Schmitt info on http://www.multied.com//Navy/DE/schmitt.html does not mean it's copyrighted!!!!!!!!!!!! My god, where is the common sense here?!!

http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/s7/schmitt.htm LOOK here---it's not copyrighted, it's public domain material from the US Government, under Wiki TOS, as previously cited, it's public domain and can be cut and pasted on Wiki. MY god y'all!!!!!!!!

No sir, ":You can add that material, but the rest is copyrighted. ≈ jossi ≈ 03:51, 3 October 2005 (UTC)" THE REST IS NOT COPYRIGHTED. YOU SIR OR MA'AM, ARE INCORRECT. Just look at another Wiki article, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Buckley_(DE-51)

It's public domain. It is public domain. It is public domain. It is public domain. It is public domain. It is public domain. It is public domain. My god. Where is the common sense?

Schmitt

Aloysius H. Schmitt was born on 4 December 1909 in St. Lucas, Iowa, and was appointed Acting Chaplain with rank of Lieutenant (jg.) in the United States Navy on 28 June 1939. He was serving on board the battleship, Oklahoma, (BB-37), when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. When his ship capsized, he became entrapped, along with other members of the crew, in a compartment where only a small porthole provided outlet for escape. He assisted a number of men through the porthole, and then gave up his own chance to escape so that more men might be rescued. He received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal posthumously for his courage and self-sacrifice.

(DE-676: dp. 1,400; 1.306'; b. 37'; dr. 13'6"; s. 23.6k.; cpl. 213; a. 3 3", 4 40mm., 4 1.1", 10 20mm., 2 dct, 8 dcp., l dcp. (hh.); cl. Buckley)

Schmitt was laid down on 22 February 1943 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, Mass.; launched on 29 May 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Elizabeth Buchheit; and commissioned on 24 July 1943, Lt. Comdr. T. D. Cunningham in command.

After shakedown in Bermuda and repairs at New York, Schmitt departed from New York on 19 October 1943 escorting a convoy to Curasao in the West Indies, and then made her first transatlantic crossing with a convoy from Curagao to Londonderry, Northern Ireland. She served on the Londonderry-New York convoy route until 30 September 1944, crossing the ocean 16 times without incident. Between voyages, the escort underwent antisubmarine training at Londonderry or at Casco Bay, Maine, and received repairs made necessary by the rough North Atlantic weather.

On 21 October, Schmitt began a convoy voyage from Norfolk to Bizerte and other Mediterranean ports, returning to New York on 10 December. Between 16 December 1944 and 19 January 1945, she served as training ship for submarines at New London, Conn., and then on 20 January arrived at the United States Naval Frontier Base, Tompkinsville, Staten Is., N.Y., for conversion to a high speed transport. Her designation was changed to APD-76 on 24 January 1945.

Schmitt completed conversion on 3 April 1945, and once again underwent shakedown, this time out of Norfolk. She departed Hampton Roads on 19 April and arrived at Pearl Harbor on 16 May. She embarked underwater demolition teams (UDT) there and carried out six days of exercises with them at Maui before sailing for the Southwest Pacific on 4 June. The fast transport arrived off Balikpapan, Borneo, on 23 June and screened the bombardment group of cruisers and destroyers during shore bombardment missions between 23 and 28 June. Her UDT personnel carried out night reconnaissance operations on 25 and 28 June, with the ship resuming escort duties during the day. On 1 July Schmitt's boat led the first 17 waves of landing craft to the beach. The ship left Balikpapan on 3 July, disembarking her UDT personnel at Oceanside, Calif., on 2 August; and, while the ship was under repair at San Pedro from 4 to 18 August, the war in the Pacific came to an end.

Schmitt reembarked UDT personnel and departed from San Pedro on 19 August. She arrived at Sasebo, Japan, on 20 September and carried out four days of beach reconnaissance there followed by two more days on nearby islands. She got underway from Japan on 27 September and returned on 19 October to San Diego. Between 17 November and 30 November, she made one round-trip voyage to Pearl Harbor, bringing troops home to the United States, and then proceeded to join the Atlantic Fleet at Norfolk on 16 December.

For the next three and a half years, Schmitt conducted peacetime training and upkeep along the Atlantic Coast, highlighted by refresher training and shore bombardment practice in the Caribbean and amphibious landing exercises in Newfoundland and Labrador. She varied her normal routine between 12 June and 7 July 1948 when she escorted four Naval Academy sailing yawls in the Newport to Bermuda race. On 16 April 1949, the fast transport arrived at Charleston, S.C., for inactivation, and was decommissioned and placed in reserve there on 28 June 1949. Schmitt was struck from the Navy list on 1 May 1967 and transferred in February to Taiwan as Lung Shan (PF-44).

Schmitt received one battle star for her World War II service.

http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/s7/schmitt.htm

The article about the USS Schmitt includes text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.

 * You can add that material, but the rest is copyrighted. ≈ jossi ≈ 03:51, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

lol, What I am trying to point out, is that the page referenced by the Wikipedia editor http://www.multied.com//Navy/DE/schmitt.html is from the public domain.

I realise that I just cut and pasted from the http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/s7/schmitt.htm, but I would add that information is public domain; therefore, the www.multied site cannot be copyrighted, because the USS Schmitt information is public domain.

However, since I am new to Wikipedia, I will glady re-write, from the public domain info, a new history that one cannot argue is in any way shape or form copyrighted. I realise Wikipedia has to protect themselves and I'm fine with that.

Thank you.

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Contact sign

A contact sign language, or contact sign, is a variety or style of language that arises from contact between deaf individuals using a sign language and hearing individuals using an oral language (or the written or manually coded form of the oral language). Contact languages also arise between different sign languages, although the term pidgin rather than contact sign is used to describe such phenomena.

Contact sign has been characterized as "a sign language that has elements of both [a] natural sign language and the surrounding [oral] language".

Language contact
Language contact is extremely common in most Deaf communities, which are almost always located within a dominant oral language ('hearing') culture. Deaf people are exposed to the oral language that surrounds them, if only in visual forms like lip reading or writing, from early childhood. Within everyday life it is not uncommon for Deaf people to be in contact with oral languages. Hearing parents and teachers of deaf children, if they sign at all, are usually second language learners, and their signing style will exhibit features of interference from the oral language. A mixing of languages and modes may also occur when interpreting between a spoken and a sign language.

While deaf sign languages are distinct from spoken languages, with a different vocabulary and grammar, a boundary between the two is often hard to draw. A language 'continuum' is often described between signing with a strong sign-language grammar to signing with a strong spoken-language grammar, the middle-regions of which are often described as contact sign (or Pidgin Sign). In a conversation between a native signer and a second-language learner, both conversation partners may be signing at different ends of the spectrum. A blend that is often seen is vocabulary from the sign language signed in the word order of the oral language, with a simplified or reduced grammar typical of contact languages. We can recognize that the speaking habits of an English speaker learning French for the first time will differ from those of a native French speaker. The same thing happens when a hearing individual is learning a sign language.

However, even a dialogue between two native deaf signers often shows some evidence of language contact. Deaf people in the United States may use a more English-like signing style in a more formal setting, or if unfamiliar with the interlocutor.

Huenerfauth claims that Pidgin Signed English, as well as contact languages, can create accessibility benefits for users of sign language who have lower levels of written literacy. While Cecil Lucas explains how contact also occurs when deaf signers modify their language for the sake of hearing people who are in the process of learning to use a sign language.

Linguistic features of language contact
Sign language researchers Ceil Lucas and Clayton Valli have noted several differences between the language contact arising between two sign languages and the contact phenomena that arise between a signed and an oral language.

When two sign languages meet, the expected contact phenomena occurs: lexical borrowing, foreign "accent", interference, code switching, pidgins, creoles and mixed systems. However, between a sign language and an oral language, lexical borrowing and code switching also occur, but the interface between the oral and signed modes produces unique phenomena: fingerspelling (see below), fingerspelling/sign combination, initialisation, CODA talk (see below), TTY conversation, mouthing, and contact signing.

Long-term contact with oral languages has generated a large influence on the vocabulary and grammar of sign languages. Loan translations are common, such as the American Sign Language signs BOY and FRIEND, forming a compound meaning "boyfriend" or the Auslan partial-calque DON'T MIND, which involves the sign for the noun MIND combined with an upturned palm, which is a typical Auslan negation. When a loan translation becomes fully acceptable and considered as 'native' (rather than Contact Signing) is a matter over which native signers will differ in opinion.

The process appears to be very common in those sign languages that have been best documented, such as American Sign Language, British Sign Language and Auslan. In all of the cases, signers are increasingly bilingual in both a sign and a "spoken" language (or visual forms of it) as the deaf signing community's literacy levels increase. In such bilingual communities, loan translations are common enough that deeper grammatical structures may also be borrowed from the oral language, which is known as metatypy. Malcolm Ross writes:

"Usually, the language undergoing metatypy (the modified language) is emblematic of its speakers' identity, whilst the language which provides the metatypic model is an inter-community language. Speakers of the modified language form a sufficiently tightknit community to be well aware of their separate identity and of their language as a marker of that identity, but some bilingual speakers, at least, use the inter-community language so extensively that they are more at home in it than in the emblematic language of the community."

Some populations with a high proportion of deaf people have developed sign languages that are used by both hearing and deaf people in the community, such as Martha's Vineyard Sign Language, Yucatec Maya Sign Language, Adamorobe Sign Language and Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language. It is unclear what kind of language contact phenomena, if any, occur in such environments.

Fingerspelling
One of the most striking contact sign phenomena is fingerspelling in which a writing system is represented with manual signs. In the sign languages with such a system, the manual alphabet is structurally quite different from the more 'native' grammatical forms, which are often spatial, visually motivated, and multilayered. Manual alphabets facilitate the input of new terms such as technical vocabulary from the dominant oral language of the region and allow a transliteration of phrases, names, and places. They may also be used for function words such as 'at', 'so' or 'but'.

Pidgin Sign English
The phrase Pidgin Sign English (PSE, sometimes also 'Pidgin Signed English') is often used to describe the different contact languages that arise between the English language and any of British Sign Language, New Zealand Sign Language, Auslan or American Sign Language. However, that term is falling out of favour. Pidgin Signed English generally refers to a combination of American Sign Language and the English language. Individuals who are hard of hearing, or become deaf later on in life, after using Spoken English, may often use a mixture of ASL and English, which is known as PSE. With PSE, it is common to sign most English words of a sentence, using English grammar and syntax, using ASL signs.

When communicating with hearing English speakers, ASL-speakers often use PSE. Various types of PSE exist, ranging from highly English-influenced PSE (practically relexified English) to PSE which is quite close to ASL lexically and grammatically, but may alter some subtle features of ASL grammar. Fingerspelling may be used more often in PSE than it is normally used in ASL.

Reverse phenomenon by children of deaf adults
Contact phenomena have been observed in the reverse direction, from a sign language to an oral language. Hearing adults who grew up in deaf signing households as children of deaf adults (CODAs) sometimes communicate with one another in spoken and written English and knowingly use ASL loan translations and underlying grammatical forms.

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Israel Internet Association

Israel Internet Association (ISOC-IL; איגוד האינטרנט הישראלי) is a non-profit organization and .il country code top-level domains (ccTLD) registry managed by seven volunteer board members. It was the second organization in the world to be accepted as a chapter of the Internet Society. It is also a member of the RIPE NCC regional Internet registry.

In addition to managing .il (ccTLD) registry, the association is also responsible for managing the Israeli Internet Exchange (IIX), and hosts a DNS root server duplicate at its facilities.

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Talk:List of Comintern affiliate organizations

Has nothing happened since 1950s?
This article is in many ways a joke. Its entirely based on a document from a time in which demands for voting rights for blacks in USA was considered a communist cause. I had proposed its deletion.

Second, I what respect are these organizations affiliated to ComIntern? To my knowledge none of these organization had ComIntern membership. As for ComIntern members, there is already an article, List of members of the Comintern. --Soman 07:20, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Response: It is directly related to a new body of scholarship emerging from this source, which, hopefully, will shed light upon many decades long issues and controversies. Thank you. I appreciate very much your interest in the subject.  nobs 16:30, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Basically, to me, it appears that there are three alternatives:

 * Merge the article into List of members of the Comintern.
 * Make it a list of organizations that actually were ComIntern associated (CYI, Profintern, Krestintern, Red Sports International, etc.)
 * Move the article to "Front organizations of CPUSA" or something similar. --Soman 16:48, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Use of the term "affiliates" in the title of this article is simply wrong
A better title would be "List of Organizations which were asserted anti-Communist agitators of the mid-20th Century to be directed by communistic foriegners at that time".

1. The Comintern was a body of "affiliated" Communist political parties

"Affiliate" is used to denote membership in an international body as in "The Labour Party (UK) is an affiliate of the Socialist International". Federal law prohibits US political parties from directly affiliating with international bodies, so "affiliate" is not used to describe the relationship of US parties to their international co-thinkers. For example Democratic Socialists of America holds "observer status" in the Socialist International.

2. The organizations on this page are not Comintern political parties

The listed organizations are a very heterodox lot, running from the New York based American Labor Party to labor unions like UE, to political pressure groups of the 1930's. What these organisations have in common is that some members and leaders were also members of the CPUSA, but most were primarily non-Communist in purpose.

3. Some of these organisations were led by anti-Communists.

For example, the American Labor Party was led by the anti-Communist president of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, David Dubinsky at the peak of its existence. The CPUSA actually elected 2 candidates to the New York City Council in the 1940's while running on a separate list from the ALP.

To give another example, the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America was the third largest union in the old CIO. There is no question that Communists were active in UE, as many labor activists joined the CPUSA at somepoint. It is also true that their success benefited mainly the CIO (led by the anti-Communist John L. Lewis) and their fellow electrical workers. The UE still exists, so it is a mistake of chronology to simply assert "affiliation" out of time and leave it at that. The National Lawyers Guild is another example of this sinister sort of miscategorization on this list, but there are others.

To compound the confusion, mixed in with the more well known (and linked groups) are some listed organisations that are generally understood to have operated as "front" organisations for the CPUSA. These organisations were generally short lived attempts to provide an opportunity for "non-party" people to work for a progressive position, without also being "anti-Communist". Non-CPUSA members were prominent in even these organizations. Hopefully people will be inspired to create entries for these organisations. Some were fairly long lasting like the Civil Rights Congress and started out as broad alternatives to the more milquetoast liberal alternatives. Some were probably never more than a desk and a phone. Again the political bias of the list will not permit such distinctions.

4. Wikipedia weakness in the face of conspiracy theories

"Affiliate" is used here as a weasel word to intended to simplify the histories and collapse the chonologies of these organisations to better fit with McCarthyist conspiracy theories concerning progressive and leftist organizations in the US. So, its interesting to see all these organizations listed together, but the title should be changed to something more reflective of the inherent right-wing bias in such a list.

DJ Silverfish 02:53, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

Merger proposal
This page is presently a list of alleged front groups of the CPUSA as of 1948, which is not of much interest in its own right. The name is a misnomer for the reasons above (few or none of these groups were "affiliates of the comintern"). Since the vote for deletion did not go through I am proposing, as an alternative, that this page be merged into Communist front.


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Category:Monuments and memorials to presidents of the United States

Buildings and monuments honoring American presidents.


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Talk:Sartor Resartus

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I tried to access the etext version of this book using the link in the bottom of the page that is offered by www.gutenburg.org and I got this message: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /etext/1051 on this server. Apache/1.3.33 Server at www.gutenberg.org Port 80 Should this be expected? How can I access this link. Thanks. 68.165.19.176 03:51, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

That's not expected. Sounds like a temporary glitch at gutenburg.org. It's working for me, now. Jack 05:00, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

Plagiarism
The entire "Characters and locales" section has been plagiarized verbatim from The Nuttall Encyclopædia. --75.58.54.17 18:07, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
 * So what? The Nuttall is in the public domain. Paul B (talk) 17:06, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Just because something is in the public domain doesn't mean it shouldn't be properly credited. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.210.159.178 (talk) 01:09, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes. See WP:Plagiarism.  Items are properly credited now.  Bob Burkhardt (talk) 21:20, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Redirect
I got to this article by a redirect from Blumine which also happens to be the title of a work by Gustav Mahler. It orginally formed part of the incidental music for a play and then was included in early versions of his First Symphony. Could the Blumine page be a disambiguation page instead, directing here and to the Mahler Symphony? Jubilee♫ clipman 23:35, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I changed Blumine to a disambiguation page, as there are at least three possible uses of the name (it's also an island). Jubilee♫ clipman  23:58, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I couldn't find a specific mythological source, but the phrase in German simply means "Goddess of Flowers". I added as much to the disambiguation page.--Artimaean (talk) 19:06, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Rewriting...
I feel the body of this article needs a lot of work. I'm rewriting it from a plot perspective (which I feel is the only way to express the unique nature of it in the first place). Stop me if you wish.Artimaean (talk) 20:49, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

 * The plot summary is still incomplete. There is no description of Book III, where the transcendental elements of the philosophy are discussed and where Teufelsdrockh mysteriously disappears. 2607:FEA8:A4A0:F600:D421:554E:C4F9:B1D0 (talk) 00:45, 31 March 2022 (UTC)

Publication Date Confusion
Article states the books weren't published until 1836, but I found a scanned copy in Google Books whose title page clearly says 1831 here, that was published by "Chapman and Hall, Limited." Is this a misprint or was it first published in 1831, didn't sell; was then serialized in Fraser's Magazine in 1833-34, and then re-published again in 1836 by popular demand? Pete (talk) 17:08, 2 May 2013 (UTC)

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 * Harold Bloom suggested that Sartor Resartus and James Joyce's 1939 novel Finnegans Wake are so thematically similar, Sartor Resartus seems to be influenced by Joyce's much later novel.

Yeah, that makes sense. What? Viriditas (talk) 09:46, 11 June 2015 (UTC)

Much later

 * The first British edition would appear much later, in London in 1838.

I'm not an expert, but I think "much later" is an unnecessary exaggeration. From what I can tell, it was normal at that time for a book to be published in one region and then have to wait several years to appear in another. Viriditas (talk) 20:39, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
 * Fixed. — goethean 15:58, 12 June 2015 (UTC)

Diogenes
It is somewhat incorrect to assert that the name Diogenes_(disambiguation) means "God-born"; that would be Theogenes. The Dio- element refers to the Greek deity Zeus, not to God or gods in general. RandomCritic (talk) 19:30, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
 * Sry to be so late to the party, but speaking of names, "Teufelsdreck" is the German name for the spice Asafoetida. Like many other condiments, in times of rarity, scil., the Dark Ages, it was traded as medicine, like theriac, terebinth or opodeldoc; and according to its wiki article, it was used during exorcism. Idk if any of this is found in the article sources; just thought I'd mention it in case some attentive reader should stumble across anything about it ... "something exotic, peddled" ... T 85.166.160.249 (talk) 23:27, 25 August 2019 (UTC)

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Assafoetida
Hi, 'Teufelsdreck' is the perhaps less wisely chosen popular term for the condiment known in India as Heeng (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asant). IOW, the professor isn't - at least not necessarily - branded as literal satanic excrement, it might just as well refer to the product and its curious name. T 84.208.65.62 (talk) 08:21, 29 February 2024 (UTC)

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Eyes of Laura Mars

Eyes of Laura Mars is a 1978 American neo-noir supernatural horror thriller film directed by Irvin Kershner and starring Faye Dunaway, Tommy Lee Jones, Brad Dourif, René Auberjonois, and Raul Julia. It follows a New York City fashion photographer (Dunaway) who suddenly develops the clairvoyant ability to witness disturbing serial murders from the point of view of the killer. The screenplay was adapted (in collaboration with David Zelag Goodman) from a spec script titled Eyes, written by John Carpenter; it was Carpenter's first major studio film. H. B. Gilmour later wrote a novelization.

Producer Jon Peters, who was dating Barbra Streisand at the time, bought the screenplay as a starring vehicle for her, but Streisand eventually decided not to take the role because of "the kinky nature of the story", as Peters later explained. As a result, the role went to Dunaway, who had just won an Oscar for her performance in Network (1976). Streisand nevertheless felt that "Prisoner", the torch song from the film, would be a good power ballad vehicle for her. She recorded the song for the soundtrack and it peaked at number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100. Peters commissioned photographer Helmut Newton to provide the images that stand in for Laura Mars' portfolio in the film.

Released on August 2, 1978, by Columbia Pictures, the film was a box-office success, grossing $20 million domestically. Some critics and film scholars have noted Eyes of Laura Mars as an American version of the Italian giallo with elements of the slasher film, and it has gone on to develop a small cult following.

Plot
Laura Mars is a glamorous New York City fashion photographer who specializes in photographs featuring stylized violence, which attract controversy from the press and feminists who feel her work is exploitative. The night before the release of her photography book The Eyes of Mars, Laura has a dream about an assailant entering a woman's apartment, which she observes from the first-person perspective of the intruder. The following night at the book release party, Laura is notified that her photo editor, Doris, has been found murdered, her eyes gouged with an ice pick.

Shortly thereafter, during a photoshoot in Columbus Circle, Laura has another disturbing vision of a woman being stabbed to death outside her apartment, and stumbles upon the crime scene while passing by on the street. Laura informs police she witnessed the crime, but is unable to rationalize how. She later learns that the victim, Elaine, has been romantically involved with her ex-husband Michael, a writer who had been living in San Francisco but returned to New York.

John Neville, the lieutenant in charge of the case, shows Laura unpublished police photographs of unsolved murders that very closely mirror Laura's fashion shoots. Laura's visions continue, including visions of the killer stalking her and continuing to murder those around her. While developing photographs in her darkroom, Laura has another vision of her models Lulu and Michelle being brutally murdered. After attending Lulu and Michelle's funerals, Laura finds herself growing close to Neville, and the two begin a romance. He gives her a gun for her own protection.

Meanwhile, police consider Laura's driver Tommy, an ex-convict, and Michael to be their prime suspects in the string of serial killings. While attending a birthday party for her agent Donald, Laura receives a phone call from a drunken Michael, who is threatening suicide. Donald urges her against helping him, but Laura leaves the party. While driving to meet Michael, Laura has a vision of Donald being murdered by the killer, which causes her to crash her car. Later, Neville is informed that photographs of the murdered models have been found in Tommy's apartment. Police try to arrest him but shoot him dead when he tries to escape.

At her apartment, Laura is affected by a vision of the killer murdering Michael. The killer attempts to break in through her front door, but Laura deadbolts it before the killer can enter. Upon hearing her distress, Neville (who had been on his way to meet her) breaks through her balcony window. He proceeds to tell Laura that Tommy was the killer and begins an elaborate explanation of his motivations and backstory. Knowing Tommy well, Laura recognizes this as a lie. Neville, still talking about the killer, uses "I". Laura realizes that Neville is the killer. Neville details more of his own story, slipping between multiple personalities. When the violent personality tries to kill Laura, his more sensitive personality reasserts dominance. He takes her hand, which holds the gun he gave her, and asks her to kill him. Distraught, she does so before calling the police.

Development
The film's source story was written by John Carpenter, as was the earliest version of the screenplay. Producer Jack H. Harris had worked with Carpenter on the latter's feature-film directorial debut, Dark Star, and it was Harris who optioned Carpenter's 11-page treatment, then titled simply Eyes.

Harris planned to make the film independently of the major studios with privately raised finance and Roberta Collins in the lead. But Harris's friend Jon Peters read the treatment, and upon reading it, he became enthusiastic about its potential as a vehicle for Peters's then-girlfriend Barbra Streisand. Peters got interest from Peter Guber at Columbia and they agreed to finance the project's development. Streisand pulled out of the film, but Columbia were sufficiently enthusiastic about the script to move forward with another actress, and Faye Dunaway was cast. However, as a condition of this, the studio insisted on the script being rewritten, hiring David Zelag Goodman to undertake the rewrites. "It wasn't a pleasant experience", said Carpenter. "The original script was very good, I thought. But it got shat upon."

Filming
Filming took place over 56 days from October 17, 1977, to early January 1978. The film was shot entirely in New York and New Jersey, with filming locations including New York City; Jersey City, New Jersey; and Ferncliff Cemetery in Hartsdale, New York. A sequence where the Laura Mars character photographs a group of models against a backdrop of two burning cars was filmed over four days at New York's Columbus Circle. It was reported that Peters and Dunaway had a tense relationship while making the film.

Soundtrack
Eyes of Laura Mars (Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) was released by Columbia Records (PS 35487) in 1978 ahead of the film's release. It was produced by Gary Klein with executive producers Jon Peters and Charles Koppelman.

Mark Iskowitz of The Barbra Streisand Music Guide wrote: "The side one 'Prisoner' track is actually identical to the single and Greatest Hits Volume 2 version. The side two reprise version does contain instrumentation from the film score at the beginning and during the first sections of the song, which is featured in its entirety. Track 3 opens with Barbra singing the first four lines from 'Prisoner' with a sparse, spooky film score backing."

The Eyes of Laura Mars LP is out of print; it was never released on CD.

Box office
Eyes of Laura Mars premiered in Los Angeles on August 2, 1978. The film was a box-office success, grossing $20 million in the United States.

Critical response
On its release, the film received mixed critical reviews. The film received a broadly positive review in The New York Times, in which Janet Maslin called the ending of the film "dumb", but otherwise liked it. She wrote of it: "It's the cleverness of Eyes of Laura Mars that counts, cleverness that manifests itself in superlative casting, drily controlled direction from Irvin Kershner, and spectacular settings that turn New York into the kind of eerie, lavish dreamland that could exist only in the idle noodlings of the very, very hip."

Roger Ebert was less enthusiastic, giving the film one-and-a-half stars out of four and criticizing what he called the film's clichéd "woman in trouble" plot.

In his book Historical Dictionary of Horror Films (2017), writer Peter Hutchings describes Eyes of Laura Mars as an "upmarket slasher film."

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 61% based on 38 reviews, with an average rating of 5.6/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "Eyes of Laura Mars hints at interesting possibilities, but they're frittered away by a predictable story that settles for superficial thrills."

George Lucas hired director Kershner for The Empire Strikes Back (1980) because he was impressed after seeing a rough cut of the film.

A parody of the film titled Eyes of Lurid Mess was published in Mad magazine. It was illustrated by Angelo Torres and written by Larry Siegel in regular issue #206, April 1979.

Home media
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment first released the film on DVD in 2000. Mill Creek Entertainment released a Blu-ray edition in 2019, while Kino Lorber issued a special edition Blu-ray in October 2022.

Legacy
In the years since its release, film scholars have likened Eyes of Laura Mars to the American equivalent of the Italian giallo film. It has also developed a small cult following and had retrospective revival screenings, including at the Seattle International Film Festival in 2023.

Along with 1977 Italian giallo film Sette note in nero (English Title: The Psychic or Seven Notes in Black), it was unofficially adapted into the 1984 Tamil film Nooravathu Naal, which itself was remade into the 1991 Hindi-language 100 Days.

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