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Western Goals Institute

Western Goals Institute (WGI) was a far-right pressure group and think-tank in Britain, formed in 1989 from Western Goals UK, which was founded in 1985 as an offshoot of the U.S. Western Goals Foundation. It was anti-communist and opposed non-white immigration.

Early aims
The Western Goals Institute was founded (as Western Goals UK) in May 1985 as the British branch of the American organisation the Western Goals Foundation. In March 1987, Western Goals UK had filed a complaint with the Charity Commission for England and Wales against three major British charities, Oxfam, War on Want, and Christian Aid stating that they were involved in political campaigning work (which was then contrary to UK charity law) in support of left-wing organizations due to their campaigns against apartheid in South Africa. The Charities Commission partially upheld the Western Goals complaint, obliging War on Want (which at the time was led by George Galloway, later an MP) to halt political campaigning.

In October 1988 Western Goals held a well-attended fringe meeting at the Conservative Party Conference addressed by their patron, General Sir Walter Walker, former Commander-in-Chief of NATO forces in Northern Europe, Sir Patrick Wall, the MP for Beverley, the Reverend Martin Smyth, Ulster Unionist MP for Belfast South, and others on terrorism, claiming to highlight the links between the African National Congress and the Provisional Irish Republican Army. Western Goals subsequently issued a paper summarising the issues raised at this meeting. As a result of their expanding activities, membership and organisation, Western Goals UK was relaunched in 1989, becoming the Western Goals Institute, independent of the U.S. foundation. Gregory Lauder-Frost, then a leading member of the Conservative Monday Club, was invited in February to join Thomas J. Bergen, Peter Dally, Professor Antony Flew, Linda Catoe Guell, Dr. Joseph Labia, Tryggvi McDonald, Rev. Martin Smyth, MP, the Lord Sudeley, Dr. Harvey Ward and Rev. Basil Watson, OBE, as vice-presidents of the institute. The institute's stated aims were to "combat the insidious menace of liberalism and Communism within all sectors of British society" and its initial activities included denouncing what it described as "extremist" left-wing Labour Party candidates. The institute was also critical of the United Nations, its Director Andrew Smith stating "western nations (when dealing with the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait) have seen fit to submit themselves to the writ of the UN, a body largely composed of regimes hostile to western democratic values."

The institute stated its aims on the BBC in 1991:

 * "Western Goals works to establish networks and links with conservative groups dedicated to the preservation of the cultures and identities of western nations. We are conservatives who believe in traditional conservative values. A multicultural society does not work. We wish to protect the way of life we had before immigrants arrived. It was a mistake to permit these people to come here. Politicians must now accept this. Large numbers of immigrants reject European culture and wish to remain alien in religion and culture. We want European culture in European countries. We would seek to have treaties with countries to permit resettlement."

Initially, the Western Goals Institute drew some support from Conservative parliamentarians, and the London magazine City Limits stated that "Western Goals is talking the same blunt authoritarian language as many Tory back-benchers and rank and file Tories. It is a group to be reckoned with ... having a formidable list of honorary patrons and Vice-Presidents".

With an increasingly public role Western Goals attracted left-wing hostility. In September 1991, the Campaign Against Fascism demonstrated outside the home of Lord Sudeley, they said, "to expose his involvement in setting up an international network of right-wing extremists". In response, Sudeley refuted the claims and described Western Goals "as being committed to the traditional values of conservatism in England". Mike Whine, Defence Director of the Board of British Jewish Deputies, described the institute as "not fascists or anti-Semitic, but they inhabit the shadowy, nether-world of the far right-wing".

International links
The institute and its predecessor were affiliated with the World Anti-Communist League. As Western Goals delegate, Andrew Smith attended the 21st conference of the World Anti-Communist League held in Geneva 27–29 August 1988, which was addressed by one of Western Goals UK's patrons, Major-General John K. Singlaub, (the other two patrons being General Sir Walter Walker and Major Sir Patrick Wall, M.C.). Smith contributed an article on the speech in WACL's Free World Report the following January. In July 1990, WGI sent a delegation to the 22nd WACL Conference in Brussels and from 1991 WGI was the UK chapter of the senior World League.

In line with the ‘Reagan doctrine’ policies of its American patrons, Western Goals UK had established links with militant, and often violent, anti-Communist groups internationally. These include the Angolan UNITA movement (in October 1988 Western Goals facilitated the visit to London of UNITA's leader, Jonas Savimbi) and the Salvadoran Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) party, whose leader, Roberto D’Aubuisson, became one of the group's international patrons. It was also claimed that Western Goals may have been used by its U.S. partners as a conduit for funds to the Nicaraguan Contras following the 'Contragate' scandal.

The institute was reaching out to a variety of robustly conservative associations which were also opposed to communism. In August Lauder-Frost was forging links with Joachim Siegerist of Die Deutschen Konservativen e.V., in Hamburg, and London's Time Out magazine carried a report headlined "Bad Taste" in September saying that the Western Goals hierarchy, in addition to courting Jean-Marie Le Pen, and Franz Schönhuber of the German Republikaner Party, had been dining at Simpsons-in-the-Strand, London, with El Salvador's Arena Party President Major Roberto d'Aubuisson, who subsequently became one of the institute's patrons. This was followed by a letter in The Times signed by Lord Sudeley, Sir Alfred Sherman, Professor Antony Flew and Dr. Harvey Ward, on behalf of the institute, "applauding Alfredo Cristiani's statesmanship" and calling for his government's success in defeating the Cuban and Nicaraguan-backed communist FMLN terrorists. The following year, on 21 February 1990, Lauder-Frost appeared on BBC's Newsnight opposing Labour MP Alice Mahon's support for Communist insurgents in Central America.

The institute's tabloid newspaper European Dawn also reported that in September 1990 that Burkhard Schmidt, executive director of Western Goals Europe e.V., and the American European Strategy Research Institute had contacted the institute urging them to forge links with young people opposing communism in Czechoslovakia, and that the following month an eight-strong delegation from the institute visited Munich for discussions with the German Republikaner Party which at that time had six members in the European Union Parliament.

Front National
In Europe, Western Goals gave their open support to the French Front National, the far-right political party led by Jean-Marie Le Pen. On 12 October 1989, the Western Goals Institute hosted a controversial fringe meeting at the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool, at which Pierre Ceyrac, a Front National Member of the European Parliament, was the Guest Speaker. Western Goals also hosted a widely reported dinner for Jean-Marie Le Pen, whom they had invited to Britain, at the Charing Cross Hotel in the Strand, London in December 1991. There was a large demonstration against the dinner outside the hotel and some damage to property took place, including the hotel's front doors and surroundings, which were smashed. After the visit by Le Pen, the Western Goals Institute Director Andrew Smith was quoted as saying:
 * "There is scope for a radical right alternative outside the Conservative Party. The Tories have betrayed their principles since Mrs Thatcher fell. With this contact with European leaders we are laying the foundations for a new party.".

The possibility of founding a new right-wing party, on the model of Le Pen's Front National, appears to have been abandoned by Smith after the Conservative Party's win in the 1992 General Election ensured that proportional representation stayed off the political agenda for the foreseeable future. However even at the time, the gradual defection of the parliamentary advisory committee and the decision of the leadership of the Monday Club and associated MPs to stay away from the Le Pen Dinner made the prospect unlikely. The institute maintained its contacts with the FN and were invited to send delegates to their congress in Strasbourg in March 1997. The Western Goals Newsletter of January 1998 carried an article of praise, reporting on the "FN Successes in France".

Conservative Party of South Africa

WGI supported the continuance of white-dominated government in South Africa, and formed close links with the South African Conservative Party which some years previously broke away from the National Party after P.W. Botha instituted limited reforms to apartheid and which the institute saw as fighting communism in the form of the African National Congress.

WGI hosted a visit to the UK, in June 1989, of the Conservative Party of South Africa's leader Andries Treurnicht, as well as other leading members, with close links continuing for many years. At the time the party held 22 seats in the whites-only chamber of the South African Parliament making them the official opposition. A press conference was held for the delegation in a committee room of the House of Lords on 5 June. Conservative Party of South Africa MP Clive Derby-Lewis, then one of sixty members of the integrated State President's Council, was made an honorary vice-president of the WGI and the following year joined the WGI delegation to the WACL Conference in Brussels. Derby-Lewis was described as a "right-wing extremist" by The Daily Telegraph; and as someone who "even by South African standards...has acquired over the years a reputation as a rabid racist" by journalist and South Africa commentator John Carlin. He later served a life sentence for conspiracy to murder Chris Hani, a leader of the South African Communist Party and of the ANCs Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress, who was assassinated in 1993. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (2 July 1993) lists the Western Goals Institute as an "impediment" to the elimination of racial discrimination in South Africa, saying of the institute that it "claims to be devoted to protecting the Western way of life by offering self-defence training to white South Africans".

Relationship with the Conservative Party
The WGI initially worked towards its goals via members of the British Conservative Party, and in particular via the right-wing Conservative Monday Club with whom it also shared some members: Andrew Smith had been a former chairman of the club's Young Members Group, Paul Masson and Stuart Notholt, "one-time member of the editorial board of the Conservative 'Dreadnaught Group'", also Monday Clubbers, were all on Western Goals' first UK Directorate. Western Goals activists Lauder-Frost, Anthony Murphy, and Dr. Harvey Ward all held "key positions in the Monday Club Executive". Others included Sir Alfred Sherman and his son Gideon.

From the mid-1980s, Western Goals had established a parliamentary advisory committee of Conservative MPs which included Sir Patrick Wall, Nicholas Winterton, Neil Hamilton and Bill Walker, as well as Martin Smyth of the Ulster Unionist Party for Belfast South.

In 1991, Western Goals was accused in a newspaper report of engineering a "take-over" of the Conservative Monday Club, and there were reports that some veteran members believed the club had become "more extreme". Gregory Lauder-Frost, writing in his capacity as Club Political Secretary, rejected these claims in a right-of-reply letter published the following week. In September 1992, Sir Norman Fowler, in an attempt to distance the Conservative Party from the institute, said that "No one in Western Goals is known by Central Office to belong to our party". This followed the institute's invitation to Jean-Marie Le Pen, and 31-year-old Italian parliamentary deputy, Alessandra Mussolini, to address fringe meetings at the 1992 Conservative Party conference (although they both were unable to come to Britain and the meetings were subsequently cancelled). The invitation to Miss Mussolini reportedly "caused outrage", and led to calls for a ban on her entering the country.

The Jewish Chronicle reported on 25 September 1992 that Marc Gordon, director of the libertarian International Freedom Foundation, a US-based organisation wholly funded by the revisionist de Klerk government in South Africa, urged the Conservative Party to expel members of Western Goals, doubtless because of the WGI's support of the South African Conservative Party. In the same newspaper on 2 October, Julian Lewis (now a Member of Parliament, then deputy head of Conservative Central Office's Research Department), said he would strongly advise local associations that Western Goals was hostile to Conservative objectives. The Guardian subsequently accused the WGI of attempting "to infiltrate fascists into the Conservative Party", which the WGI disputed as "rubbish".

Notable activities
On 12 August 1989, a delegation from the Western Goals Institute attended an anti-communist demonstration at Mölln, near Lübeck which over 20,000 people attended. The rally was organised by Die Deutschen Konservativen e. V., led by Joachim Siegerist, now a Latvian parliamentarian.

On 25 September 1989, Lord Sudeley chaired a Western Goals dinner at Simpson's-in-the-Strand for El Salvador's president, Alfredo Cristiani, and his inner cabinet. The guest list included figures such as Sir Alfred Sherman (policy advisor to Margaret Thatcher), Lord Nicholas Hervey, Antony Flew, Zygmunt Szkopiak, Denis Walker and Harvey Ward.

The group hosted social events including an Annual Dinner at the Grosvenor Hotel at Victoria on 24 November 1989 when the guest of honour was Kenneth Griffith. On 20 November 1990, they hosted the General Franco Memorial Dinner in Whitehall, commemorating the anniversary of his death. This was also chaired by Baron Sudeley. A WGI notice in The Times stated that the late ruler of Spain was "remembered as a hero against communism".

Later years
Despite his upbeat press comments at the time of Le Pen's visit in December 1991, Western Goals director Andrew Smith was quoted in April 1993 as saying that "on reflection the Le Pen visit was the zenith and also the beginning of the end" for him. However Private Eye cited him at the same time as saying that the institute was "currently inactive, i.e: in a state of 'suspended animation', but we have other plans and projects under way."

Negative publicity, the departure from the Directorate in late 1993 of Andrew Smith (replaced by Stuart Millson) and the end of the Soviet Union, meant that the group's activities diminished. In October 1994 Lauder-Frost, writing as WGI Vice-president, called for the Union of Great Britain to be strengthened and rounded on John Major and Jeremy Hanley's comments about traditional Tories being "the enemies within" the Conservative Party. A successful Annual Dinner, chaired by Lauder-Frost, was held at the Grosvenor Hotel, Victoria, in March 1995, at which the guest-of-honour was the Democratic Unionist Party Member of Parliament, Peter Robinson, later First Minister of Northern Ireland.

On 29 March 1997 Lauder-Frost sent a letter of fraternal greeting, on behalf of the Western Goals Institute, to the annual congress of Jean-Marie Le Pen's Front National (FN) at Strasbourg which was read by Le Pen to the 2,200 delegates from the podium to much applause. The institute's January 1998 Newsletter attacked "Blair's Labour regime" which it accused of "breaking up the United Kingdom, diminishing the monarchy, endorsing Sinn Féin and destroying country traditions." In a further article in the same edition Lauder-Frost contributed an article "Christianity & the Millenium calling for "a great service" to be held in Westminster Abbey "representing this Christian Kingdom." In the September edition of the same year, economist James Gibb Stuart had the leading article arguing that "21st century Conservatism must be nationalist", with another by Lauder-Frost arguing that "the non-Anglican statues unveiled at Westminster Abbey in July show that left-wing politics are alive and well in the Church." The institute's regular contributor, Peter Gibbs, had a leading article in the Winter 1999 edition entitled "The Lies, the shame, the betrayal of Ulster" and called for "a rallying cry for the Union".

Lack of adequate finances reduced campaigning to their occasional policy papers, the regular glossy newsletter, press releases, and letters to editors. The institute's last newsletter, which they called a "Special General Election edition", in June 2001, carried a leading article by Stuart Millson entitled "New Labour: A Disgrace to Britain"; an article entitled "MacPherson Report Condemned" in which they stated: "over the last quarter of a century, the racial-industrial complex, with its nasty, parasitical, semi-criminal fringe of self-styled anti-fascists and anti-racists, has emerged as a very serious threat to our freedom"; and a long article entitled "National Identity" by Gregory Lauder-Frost in which he argued "we must act now" and added that "within 20 years Britain's capital city will have a majority non-British population."

The organisation was wound up in 2001 following the death of its long-standing Patron, General Sir Walter Walker.

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Dominique Perrault

Dominique Perrault (born 9 April 1953 in Clermont-Ferrand) is a French architect and urban planner. He became world known for the design of the French National Library, distinguished with the Silver medal for town planning in 1992 and the Mies van der Rohe Prize in 1996. In 2010 he was awarded the gold medal by the French Academy of Architecture for all his work. He was named as the 2015 Praemium Imperiale Laureate for Architecture.

He received his Diploma in Architecture at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1978. He also holds a postgraduate diplomas in Town Planning from the Ecole supérieure des Ponts et Chaussée and History from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales.

He currently heads Dominique Perrault Architecture (DPA) in Paris.

Biography
Leading figure of French architecture, Dominique Perrault is Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, a lecturer in France and abroad and a member of the Conseil scientifique de l’Atelier International du Grand Paris since 2012. After winning the competition of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in 1989, he realized, amongst other projects, the Olympic Velodrome and Olympic swimming pool in Berlin, the fourth and fifth extension of the seat of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Luxembourg, the Olympic Tennis Stadium in Madrid, the Ewha Womans University or the Fukoku Tower in Osaka. His work is exhibited in major museums around the world. A solo exhibition showing all of his work was held at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris in 2008. He was also appointed Commissioner of the French pavilion architecture section of the Venice Biennale in 2010. Dominique Perrault leads in parallel significant heritage rehabilitation projects including those of Longchamp Racecourse in Paris, Dufour Pavilion at Versailles and La Poste du Louvre in Paris. In spring 2014, Dominique Perrault inaugurated the tallest tower of Austria in Vienna, the DC Tower 1, icon of the new business district and the Grand Théâtre des Cordeliers in the historical city of Albi, south of France.

Approach
Four specific conceptual features were highlighted by the University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest in May 2013 who granted Dominique Perrault the title of "Doctor Honoris Causa". "The first feature, which is tightly connected to an imperative need of enriching the architectural language, regards the eloquent interpretation of some sources coming from artistic minimalism and conceptual art. With Dominique Perrault, the architectural design vocabulary is heading towards a reduction of syntax, not of morphology. The second concerns his open, flexible approach that accepts uncertainties and rejects dogmatism and the critique of the privileged role of style and composition in the modern architectural discourse. The third feature highlights the idea of how architecture should be understood as a part of landscape within the topography of fundamental relations. The fourth emphasizes his experience with space and materiality. Being inspired by the lesson of modernism, the curtain façades, detached from structure and enhanced by light, transparent or translucent screens of glass or metal seem to be a tribute to contemporary technologies, yet are not subservient to them. Innovation often penetrates the engineering level." According to Frederic Migayrou, "All of Dominique Perrault’s work questions the figural aspect of architecture, its ability to provide meaning, to build a dynamic image woven out of social and cultural values. […] Dominique Perrault weaves his position between rationalism that seeks to articulate laws for the composition of typological elements, and a structuralist understanding of architectural syntax, thereby increasing the possibilities of interplay between very disparate scales of symbolic values." At the crossroads of disciplines, Luis Fernandez-Galiano reminds that "it is frequent to describe Perrault’s work in terms of the great tradition of French geometric monumentality; it is inevitable to relate his bold gestures in this area with that affirmative urbanism which treats nature as voluntary geography; and it is necessary to interpret the almost innocent simplicity of his fundamental drawings in the light of the conceptual or minimal practices which extend up to the limits of ‘land art’ and ‘arte povera’.

Built projects

 * 1981-1983 : Someloir factory, Châteaudun, France)
 * 1983-1986 : Housing estate «Les Caps Horniers», Rezé-lès-Nantes, France
 * 1984-1987: ESIEE – Academy for engineers of electronics and electrical engineering, Marne-la-Vallée, France
 * 1986-1990: Multi-storey industrial building « Hôtel Industriel Jean-Baptiste Berlier », Paris, France
 * 1987-1993: Water processing plant for SAGEP, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
 * 1988-1991: Conference center Usinor-Sacilor, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
 * 1988-1991: Apartment building «Le Louis Lumière», Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France
 * 1988-1994: Meuse Department Headquarters, Bar-le-Duc, France
 * 1989-1993: Mayenne Departmental Archives, Laval, France
 * 1989-1995: French National Library, Paris, France
 * 1991 : Galerie Denise René, Paris, France
 * 1992-1999: Olympic Velodrome and Olympic swimming pool, Berlin, Germany
 * 1993-1995: Technical center of books, Bussy Saint-Georges, France
 * 1995-1997: The Great Greenhouse for the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie, Paris, France
 * 1996-2004: Innsbruck Town Hall, Austria
 * 1996-2019: Fourth and fifth extensions of the EU's Palais de la Cour de Justice, Luxembourg
 * 1997-1999: APLIX factory- Industrial manufacturing unit, Le Cellier, Nantes, France
 * 1997-2001: Lucie Aubrac Multimedia Library, Vénissieux, France
 * 1998-2007: Montigalà sport complex, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain
 * 1999-2003: Three supermarkets for MPREIS group, Wattens, Zirl, Austria
 * 1999-2004: Piazza Gramsci, Cinisello Balsamo, Milan, Italy
 * 1999-2008: ME Barcelona Hotel, Barcelona, Spain
 * 1999-2009: Hines office building, Barcelona, Spain
 * 2000-2002: Parking garage Emile Durkheim, Paris, France
 * 2001-2004: GKD-USA Factory, Cambridge, Maryland, USA
 * 2002-2005: Café Lichtblick, terrace of town hall, Innsbruck, Austria
 * 2002-2009: Olympic Tennis Stadium, Manzanares Park, Madrid, Spain
 * 2004: Design of Friedrich-Ebert-Platz, Düren, Germany
 * 2004-2006: Nô Theater, Niigata, Japan
 * 2004-2007: Factory Rehabilitation for Dominique Perrault Architecture, Paris, France
 * 2004-2008: Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea
 * 2004-2014: DC Towers 1, Donau City, Vienna, Austria
 * 2005-2009: Office building, Boulogne Billancourt, France
 * 2005-2008: Priory Park pavilion, Reigate, United Kingdom
 * 2005-2009: Metropolitan Hotel, Perpignan, France
 * 2005-2012: Housing, offices and shops, Zac Euralille 2, Lille, France
 * 2006-2009: Office building, Onix, Lille, France
 * 2006-2009: NH- Fiera Milano 4 star Hotel, Milan, Italy
 * 2006-2010: Fukoku Tower, Osaka, Japan
 * 2006-2012: Rouen Sports Palace, France
 * 2007-2010: Krisztina Palace Facades, Budapest, Hungary
 * 2007-2011: Housing and offices «La Liberté», Groningen, Netherlands
 * 2007-2014: B&B hotel, Paris, France
 * 2008-2011: Arganzuela footbridge, Madrid, Spain
 * 2009: Sammode office building, Paris, France
 * 2009-2011: Residential complex, Jeju Island, South Korea
 * 2009-2014: Albi Grand Theater, France
 * 2011 : Installation «Open Box» for the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
 * 2011-2013: BnF MK2 – Commercial development of the French National Library, site François Mitterrand, Paris, France
 * 2011-2013: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. Rehabilitation / extension of the former Library (BI), Lausanne, Switzerland

Main current projects

 * 2013-2023: Villejuif IGR Station / Grand Paris Express, France
 * 2013-2018: Construction of mixed-use buildings, Zürich, Switzerland
 * 2012-2018: Repurposing of La Poste du Louvre building, Paris, France
 * 2009-2018: Urban redevelopment of the main station area, Locarno, Switzerland
 * 2005-2018: Construction of the Convention Centre and Exhibition Hall, Leon, Spain
 * 2011-2017: Refurbishment of the Longchamp Racecourse, Paris, France
 * 2011-2016: Rehabilitation and extension of the M&E hall, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
 * 2004-2016: Piazza Garibaldi, Naples, Italy
 * 2004-2016: Vienna DC Towers, Vienna, Austria
 * 2012-2015: Esplanade Tower, Fribourg, Switzerland
 * 2011-2015: Repurposing of the Pavillon Dufour, Château de Versailles, France
 * 2007-2015: Refurbishment of the Pont de Sèvres towers, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Cancelled project

 * The New Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, Russia - the project won the competition in 2003 but was cancelled in 2007 because of disagreement on the construction process between Perrault and Russian bureaucrats.

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This page needs a reworks. Its a propaganda material without real background how TV Pink was founded and grown. And that is a story connected to Milosevic gouverment and Mira Markovics Yugoslav Left Party. There are numerous quotes of abuse of this televison during 90s and for political and psychological warfare after 2000. --109.92.1.150 (talk) 13:02, 30 August 2018 (UTC) Overall rating between RTS and TV Pink cite no reference. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nandjel (talk • contribs) 17:44, 12 June 2010 (UTC) OK, I understand that some people aren't realy fond of TV Pink, I don't see the reason for explicit negative tone in the article - it is filled with hatred. -- Obradović Goran ( t al k  17:23, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Funny that... On the other hand, I can see, with perfect clarity, the reason for the explicit negative tone in the article. Television is a horrible thing as it is, and RTV Pink pulls it to an even lower margin - at the same time proving it's actually possible to do so.
 * I am in complete agreement, Obravdovic. This channel seems worse than FOX News. Nevertheless, such opinion is for an article debating the flaws of television and entertainment telecommunications. It is not the place here, in an biased fashion, to rail against it. There are blogs for that sort of thing. I am editing this article for NPOV standards.Ecopirate 07:41, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

 * The page has been edited to remove NPOV points, and a critcisms section with citation has been added. Sadly, I do not understand Czech, so my work is as done as can be for the moment. Ecopirate 08:08, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

I am sorry but I removed some hate on 18012009. You can like or hate Pink but you cant ventilate your opinion on a encyclopedia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.62.62.154 (talk) 21:54, 18 January 2009 (UTC)

Potpuno podržavam sve ovo!Jednom recju, pink je sranje, to je bez sumje najgori kanal koji sam ikad video.

Nemogu da verujem kakvo izopacenje i sljam taj kanal prodaje narodu. Trebalo bi ga zabraniti a tog olosa koji ga drzi na trgu kamenovati. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.27.10.123 (talk) 04:44, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

TV Pink rules in Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia.
Zeljko Mitrovic, the owner of TV Pink bought the local 'City TV'- Zadar, Dalmatia TV (Split) and Net TV, and will open his new TV Pink-branche in Zagreb during this year (2008). TV Pink is growing, it's becoming better and better and more and more popular TV in Serbia/Bosnia/Croatia. Finaly Dalmatians can watch their favorite TV Pink directly from its producing studio and not from its reruns from TV Pink Bosnia. This is the latest good news for all Croatians, as well as Bosnians and Serbians. Everything best to TV Pink Croatia. Cheers.

Overoll rating between RTS and TV Pink cite no reference. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nandjel (talk • contribs) 17:42, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

The link that confirms all this is: http://www.index.hr/vijesti/clanak/net-tv-dalmacija-i-gtv-zadar-prodane-srpskom-poduzetniku-zeljku-mitrovicu/385008.aspx All the best. 24.86.127.209 (talk) 02:49, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

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St. Anne's Museum Quarter, Lübeck

St. Anne's Museum Quarter (Museumsquartier St. Annen) was previously an Augustinian nunnery, St. Anne's Priory (Sankt-Annen-Kloster). Since 1915 it has housed St. Anne's Museum, one of Lübeck's museums of art and cultural history containing Germany's largest collection of medieval sculpture and altar-pieces, including the famous altars by Hans Memling (formerly at Lübeck Cathedral), Bernt Notke, Hermen Rode, Jacob van Utrecht and Benedikt Dreyer.

These are exhibited on the building's first floor is a museum and art exhibition hall located near St. Giles Church and next to the synagogue in the south-east of the city of Lübeck, Germany.

On the building's second floor is exhibited a large collection of home decor items and interiors of different periods, showing how the area's citizens lived from medieval times up to the 1800s.

A modern addition houses special exhibits.

The museum is part of the Lübeck World Heritage site.

History of the building
St. Anne's Priory and the associated church, which was constructed rather quickly due to lack of space, were built 1502–1515 in late Brick Gothic style. The monastery was used mainly for the accommodation of unmarried women who were citizens in Lübeck. Following the suggestion of the Bishop of Lübeck the monastery and the church were dedicated to Saint Anne. A few years later the monastery was closed during the Reformation: the last of the nuns left in 1532. In 1610 a poorhouse was established here. Later, parts of the monastery were used as a prison. For this purpose another wing was built in 1778, the so-called Spinnhaus ("spin house"). The care of the poor and the custody of prisoners existed under one roof.

In 1843 parts of the monastery and the church were burnt down. During the restoration of the priory building, the church was demolished except for a few fragments that stayed as ruins.

Most of the rooms on the ground floor are preserved in their original condition: the cloister, the refectories, the Remter (the largest room of the nunnery, probably the working and day room of the nuns, and from 1733 the refectory of the poorhouse), the chapter house, and the sacristy of the nuns' church. In the south western corner of the cloister is the calefactory.

St. Anne's museum (Museum for history of art and culture)
In 1912 the senate of Lübeck decided to convert the monastery into a museum. This caused changes of the ground plan in order to adapt the floorboards and wainscots of private town-houses. The opening of the museum took place in 1915 with some delay due to World War I. From 1920 to 1933, Carl Georg Heise managed the museum. In this era the acquisition of the Behnhaus and the assembly of its collection took place. in 1934 the museums of Lübeck were nationalized. Since 2013 St. Anne's museum and St. Anne's Kunsthalle are merchandized together as St. Anne's Museum Quarter together with a modern combined exhibition.

Sacred art of the Middle Ages
Thanks to an early decree of the senate for the preservation of Memorials of the Antiquity and Art (1818) and the resulting collecting policy of Carl Julius Milde in the 19th century, the museum houses the largest collection of medieval polyptychs (altarpieces) in Germany. It possesses the Grönauer Altar, the only preserved Gothic high altar of a church in Lübeck. The other altars kept here were mostly donated by guilds or merchants to monastery churches, e.g. to the church of the castle monastery or to the Saint Catherine Church. Among them are
 * the altar of Saint Luke, by the painter Hermen Rode;
 * the altar of the Traveller to Scania, by Bernt Notke;
 * the altar of Saint Anthony, by Benedikt Dreyer;
 * the altar of the Passion, by Hans Memling, originally donated to Lübeck Cathedral by the Greverade family; and finally
 * a private altar, the triptych of the councillor Hinrich Kerckring, by Jacob van Utrecht, which found its adventurous way from the collection of Friedrich Wilhelm Brederlo in Riga to Lübeck.

Another outstanding piece is the Group of Saint George (1504), which was initially made for St. Jürgen's Chapel in the Ratzeburger Allee by the sculptor Henning von der Heide. The work of Hans Kemmer, a pupil of Cranach, embodies the changes of the Reformation and the Renaissance in Lübeck.

Besides the carved and painted objects, the museum also exhibits sculptures of the Romanesque and the Gothic periods, of which the most precious piece is the Madonna of Niendorf, made by Johannes Junge, which was found in 1926 in a barn in Niendorf in Moisling, Lübeck. Also remarkable is the Parable of the Ten Virgins, which was initially set up in the church of the castle monastery.

Council, guild, and church silverware
A special collection of representative cups, goblets, pots, utility objects and derivative pieces give praise to the high technical skills of Lübeck's gold and silversmiths and the wealth of their customers. The date of origin for these objects is generally presumed to be after the reformation, due to Lübeck's mayor Jürgen Wullenwever ordering the melting down of medieval silverware in order to finance the war against Denmark (Count's Feud).

Lübeck's home decor
The development of the middle-class home decor from the Renaissance to the Classicism can be seen in several rooms, which are partially made of Lübeck's private town-houses. In front of the background of contemporary art – amongst others by Godfrey Kneller and Thomas Quellinus, who made the bust of the councilman Thomas Fredenhagen in the baroque high altar of St. Mary's Church —, which reflects the taste of Lübeck's citizens, and the appropriate decor, made of porcelain by Fürstenberg and Meissen, one can well emphasize the depicted era. The greatest influence has a completely conserved baroque floorboard made in 1736. Annexed to this part of the exhibition is a special collection of Faience from Northern Germany in the upper floor, emphasizing the manufactures in Kellinghusen, Stockelsdorf, and Stralsund. Further, a collection of toys sheds light on past time activities of young Hanseatics. But the oldest hobby horse of the museum is within a group of children on the Altar der Gertrudenbrüderschaft der Träger (around 1509), which originates from the circle of Henning von der Heyde.

Chamber of paraments
Surely another area worth noting is the chamber of paraments, which exhibits old liturgical clothes of some of Lübeck's churches and the main part of the parament treasure of St. Mary's Church in Gdańsk.

Photo collection
Among the treasures that are not shown to the public is a collection of photographs. The collection was built up during the 1920s by Carl Georg Heise; included are approx. 450 artistic photos, among them are 212 photos by Albert Renger-Patzsch. It is the Collection Showing the History of Photography and the Collection of Ideal Photography. Both collections were not continued after Heise's resignation in 1933 and fell in oblivion for a long time. A few years ago they were brought back into circulation, because the Collection of Ideal Photography is the most comprehensive collection of photographs of the New Objectivity in German (amongst others are works are opus by Renger-Patzsch, Hugo Erfurth, Umbo, and Robert Petschow).

St. Anne's Kunsthalle
Besides the St. Anne's Museum the monastery also contains the St. Anne's Kunsthalle. The architecture of the Kunsthalle, which was built modernly in 2004 and has the ruins of the former church and the monastery that burnt down in 1843, was a gift of the Possehl Foundation. In 2003 the architecture of the Kunsthalle, which was planned by the architects Konermann Siegmund from Hamburg/Lübeck, received the quadrennial star prize of the Bund Deutscher Architekten (Federation of German Architects) of Schleswig-Holstein. The Kunsthalle exhibits modern art of the 20th century.

Emphasis on self-portraits of modernity
In September 2005, through the medium of Björn Engholm, the Kunsthalle St. Annen received the inimitable collection of Leonie von Rüxleben (1920 – 21 September 2005). This collection is the largest of its type in Germany. This collection enables the Kunsthalle to show approx. 1300 self-portraits of modernity in different exhibitions. But recently there appeared a conflict between the heirs of von Rüxleben and the museum's administration concerning the management of the inheritance.

Exhibitions

 * Exil und Moderne (Exile and Modernity): 50 classical exhibits of classical modernity from the collection of the Washington University in St. Louis, 4 September 2005 and 29 January 2006.

in German

 * St. Annen Museum
 * Restitution of Looted Art in Lübeck

In German and English

 * St. Anne's Museum Quarter
 * Exhibits of the St. Annen Museums within the portal of museums in Schleswig-Holstein
 * Exhibits of the St. Annen Museums within the portal of museums in Schleswig-Holstein

In English

 * Sacred Destinations Travel Guide for St. Annen

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Talk:Stresa Front

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The Stresa Front was designed primarily enforce the Treaty Of Versailles, although it could be said that it enforced the Locarno Treaties too, because both treaties contained information about Germany's borders and territories.

hey never heard about that
or maybe i was a youngling. ill start the French stub. Shame On You 16:49, 20 November 2006 (UTC)

Clean-Up
This article has it now stands is completely atrocious, and is in some serious need of a major clean-up. It reads like something out of the Renzo De Felice school of historiography, which claims Benito Mussolini was a reasonable statesmen forced into alliance with Nazi Germany by an unreasonable and obstinate Britain, which just failed to recognize Italy’s rightful claims to control the Mediterranean, Middle East and Horn of Africa. Besides for questionable style (this article cries out to be edited to an more professional style), it is not simply not true that the Anglo-German Naval Agreement (A.G.N.A) of June 1935 destroyed the Stresa Front, and even less so that the Italians only invaded Ethiopia because of the A.G.N.A. As matter of fact, the Italians had been planning a invasion of Ethiopia since 1932, and ever since December 1934, had actively preparing for a invasion scheduled in the second half of 1935. At the Rome summit between Pierre Laval and Mussolini in January 1935, Mussolini made it quite clear his intention to attack the Ethiopians later on that same year. It was the Italian aggression against Ethiopia and the resulting League of Nations sanctions which destroyed the Stresa Front, not the A.G.N.A. Anyhow, Mussolini’s spazio vitale (vital space) concept, in which the entire Mediterranean, Balkans, Near East and Horn of Africa were claimed as the rightful Italian sphere of influence strongly suggests that Fascist Italy was destined to come into conflict with Britain and France, and therefore some sort of anti-British and anti-French alliance with Germany was inevitable. Right now, I don’t the time to re-edit this article properly, but this just a warning to disregard its contents at present. Some good sources for this topic are the essays on Italy in The Origins Of The Second World War Reconsidered: A.J.P. Taylor And The Historians London; New York: Routledge, 1999 edited by Gordon Martel and Fascist Ideology : Territory and Expansionism in Italy and Germany, 1922-1945, London New York : Routledge, 2000 by Aristotle Kallis. --A.S. Brown 05:14, 16 May 2007 (UTC)

Map
I would be quite helpful include a map in the article... --Trehansiddharth (talk) 00:02, 10 October 2009 (UTC)

Wrong prime minister
Laval was not prime minister in April, 1935. Pierre-Etienne Flandin was in office until end of May. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.200.54.237 (talk) 10:57, 15 June 2016 (UTC)

 * per source. Widefox ; talk 11:11, 20 May 2019 (UTC)

First Sentence of Background Section Does Not Make Sense
The first sentence of the "Background" section begins, "After Adolf Hitler came into power with a horse..." This doesn't make any sense. Perhaps the author meant "force" instead of "horse," but even if that is the case, it is still a very awkward sentence. Since I don't know what the author really intended, I'm not going to edit it. However, perhaps someone who is more familiar with this topic can do so. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chezchas (talk • contribs) 06:01, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

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Talk:Capri

Relation to Positano
I was recently travelling in Positano, and while I was there I took a day trip to Capri. Both on the trip over and while in Capri it was my impression that there were a lot of poeple getting to Capri from Positano. It seemed like that was a really common thing for people visiting Positano to take a day trip to Capri. So, I thought it would be worth mentioning in the Capri article that it's a common thing for people to get there from Positano. What do others think about adding this comment to this article? solaro 17:25, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

 * If you're going to include boat service from Positano, you should also include boat service from Amalfi, Ischia, and Salerno. I don't see the point of including all of them.  Wikipedia is not a tour guide – though pointing to tour guides wouldn't be out of place. --Macrakis 21:09, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Name of Capri natives
What does one call people from Capri? Capriani?

Capresi.--Dok3 (talk) 10:41, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

Arists in the late 19th century?
There is an obvious error in this section: In the latter half of the 19th century, Capri became a popular resort for European artists, writers and other celebrities. John Singer Sargent and Frank Hyde are among the prominent artists who stayed on the island around the late 1870s

Clicking on the link to Frank Hyde takes you to the English Rugby player, born in the early 1900s. There is no Wikipedia page for the British artist of the same name. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.120.196.222 (talk) 22:36, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

 * Changed link to point to a (yet unwritten) article for the painter. Morn (talk) 09:36, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Availability / Peyrefitte
I have requested a citation for the statement that fishermen´s sons were ´´usually available´´ - I also question the relevance of including Peyrefitte´s fiction as a source for speculation about local people´s opinions. Saying that this fiction was ´´carefully researched´´ is merely POV and does not substantiate it as truth. Unless there is strong justification for the relevance of these passages, I will edit them accordingly. They seem out of place in the context of the article. --Smerus 17:36, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Done--Smerus 11:48, 25 June 2006 (UTC)

Separating entry on island and municipality?
The municipality of Capri does not comprehend the whole of the island of Capri, I suggest it to be spun off. --Cruccone 16:48, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Bad pronunciation from song?
OUAT I read something to the effect that the common (mis)pronunciation of "Capri" with the stress on the second syllable comes from a popular song, which stresses it this way to fit the rhythm. Can anybody tell me which song this is? – Smjg 00:55, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

 * "Isle of Capri," music by Wilhelm Grosz, words by Jimmy Kennedy. The song dates from 1934.  I don't know if that's where the mispronunciation originated, but if not it certainly helped it in its career.  The song begins, "'Twas on the Isle of Capri that I found her."  Kostaki mou (talk) 18:18, 17 March 2017 (UTC)

homosexual life-styles?
The wording sounds a bit off. Can someone change it?

Enraptured with artists and writers
While precedent allows the mention of notable people, Wikipedia guidelines de-emphasizes people in favor of events, places, etc., in what are essentially, geographic articles. This article gets a bit too carried away with transitory phenomena of media. Okay if they were notable, but even then, not really encourages, though tolerated more than encouraged. When they write non-notable articles, why are they here. If they, themselves, are WP:NN, what on earth are they doing here? Are we trying to peddle their books or something? That would be WP:SPAM.

A little more clearly, if an author is here for a notable work, why are his non-notable ones mentioned? What is the point even?

If someone is non notable and has written a non-notable book, what is to prevent me, a former visitor, from inserting myself and my own nn work? A footnote someplace? Maybe I can come up with one. Is Capri so needy, that it has to pretend that people or books written there are notable when they are not? Why? Student7 (talk) 20:32, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

 * Based on your deletions you seem to suffer from a bad case of red link allergy. Unfortunately, whether Wikipedia already has an article on a given subject or not tells you more about its editors, their education, and easy availability of source material (i.e., scanned books) than about the inherent notability--if there is such a thing--of a subject. If e.g. Et le feu s’èteignit sur le mer has no article yet, it has more to do with the fact that no French-speaking editor has read the book and started an article, not its non-notability. Similarly, the Kopisch book was as influential as the text says it is, but while I do speak German, I'd have to track down a physical copy or find a scan somewhere to write about it. Obviously, English-language books are covered first, but that doesn't mean the others are non-notable, just that there's a language barrier.

 * The proper way to go about this is to find some decent references (i.e., books about Capri and its literary scene from the late 19th-century on) and use them to establish which titles deserve to be mentioned in this section and which don't. There is also the History of Capri article, so material that is deemed relevant but perhaps a little too in-depth for the Capri article might be moved there.

 * That whole literary scene at the time on that island is an important reason for us to care about Capri in the first place, so deletions should not leave that section shortchanged. Therefore simply deleting all that material without even having a talk page discussion doesn't really fly. --Morn (talk) 22:47, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

 * Let me tell you a secret. I was enraptured with an artist and established an article about her. I am beginning to think that maybe I was wrong. There is no article in her native language Wikipedia. There are sufficient references that I was able to rough out a lousy biography. Not a whole lot of refs in her language either. I'm not about to Afd my own article, but sometimes notability is illusive! Granted that some languages have scanty editors to produce an encyclopedia in their own language, much less English. Unfortunately, we don't allow refs from any Wikipedia article including foreign ones.
 * I am not convinced that Capri will be as noted for its 20th century writers 500 years from now. But I suspect it will still remember Tiberius and Strabo. The Plinys never came here? Odd. I think that limiting it to what we call "notable" nowdays, is a stretch in itself. Most of those writers just won't survive the passage of time. We don't need to look for more obscure ones. They will all be eclipsed by "Capri" itself.
 * Can you name famous 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th century writers from here? Not because they're weren't any! But because they were transitory. As will most of these folks. These "notables" anyway are essentially trivia to place articles and probably shouldn't any of them be in here. Redlinks? Jeepers. Student7 (talk) 00:36, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Re your first point, it's not unusual for the English Wikipedia to have better coverage of, say, a French or German topic than their respective Wikipedias do. It's customary to add articles here first, so the other editions can translate them and use them as starting points for their own articles. WP-EN is by far the largest, therefore it should have a lower notability threshold than e.g. a Wiki with 100,000 articles. That's a completely valid approach to building an encyclopedia: Start with a high threshold and lower it over time once the standard encyclopedia topics are covered.
 * I think what makes Capri special isn't so much single writers and artists on their own, but their entirety, i.e. that whole art colony vibe that was (and remains) very unique, which of course does not mean that every single poem or novel that resulted from this must be mentioned here in the Wikipedia article. But what the Wikipedia article needs to point out that Capri owed much of its cachet to its often artistically-inclined, sometimes scandal-causing émigrés, not so much its native inhabitants. --Morn (talk) 14:07, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

 * There is nothing wrong with reporting a WP:RELY source describing Capri as a literary colony or manufacturing center, or whatever that reliable source says. What is wrong is manually selecting nn authors for inclusion. In the US, maybe 90% of the books are printed by vanity presses ("self-published"). Out of hundreds of thousands of books, perhaps a few are notable. But I do not get to chose which ones those are. They are, instead, chosen by the NY Times Book Section, or equivalent. There doubtlessly exists something similar in Europe? Student7 (talk) 19:28, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

 * Proust's In Search of Lost Time was published by a vanity press at the time because he couldn't find a publisher, yet today it's hailed as one of the best novels of the 20th century. On the other hand, there a plenty of movies or books that are highly popular at the time of their release, simply because a lot of money is pumped into advertising and bribing critics, but these works are often quickly forgotten. In the context of Capri, there are books about Capri history, so I think providing a source that establishes Fersen's or Douglas's books as notable isn't difficult. There's artistic value and e.g. South Wind was also commercially successful, if that makes it more notable.
 * Wikipedia has to strike a balance between what was popular at the time (in this case e.g. Vestal Fire and perhaps South Wind) and those works which were not as popular in the day but have received a more favorable critical re-evaluation since (Fersen's self-published books and perhaps also Akademos). In the US and UK, a lot of money has gone into gender studies since the 1990s, and since quite a few émigrés on Capri happened to be gay or lesbian, there are well-researched scientific texts we could cite here, e.g. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0415093120. No original research needed. It's really only a matter of selecting which academic books and papers work best here. --Morn (talk) 20:22, 18 February 2011 (UTC)

Wrong etymology?
The article claims that the name "Capri" is derived from the Greek "kapros," not the Latin "capreae," and even providing a citation. However, the cited site states the reverse. Am I missing something here? The313cleaner (talk) 08:17, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's weird. Of course we should cite a book here anyway, not a web site. Looking through Google Book Search, it seems to me that the matter is undecided, so I will update the introduction to reflect that. --Morn (talk) 13:51, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

"Blue grotto" wrong name?
Good morning I think the correct translation (ITA->ENG) for "Blue Grotto" name is "Azure Grotto". Indeed the Italian name is "Grotta Azzurra" where Azzurra is the color Azure in english, just a explanation.

PsyCat (talk) 11:15, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

 * Still, it's called the Blue Grotto in English and Blaue Grotte in German, so that's what Wikipedia calls it too. --Morn (talk) 13:03, 30 January 2012 (UTC)

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Photo
I started asking for a photo on the talk page, then searched around and found one that appears to be free-as-in-freedom to use based on Russian law. I hope the photo isn't a hoax, but can't guarantee it. It's in various places on the Web, which of course means little for its authenticity. Maybe a Russian WWII expert could vouch for the photo. Tempshill 17:26, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

 * The same picture is in Steven J. Zaloga & James Grandsen, Soviet Tanks and Combat Vehicles of World War Two, labelled as a designer's model. Zaloga is the source on Soviet armour, so it must be factual.

 * Ya gotta love a piece of hardware that falls into both Category:World War II Soviet tanks and Category:Soviet military aircraft 1940-1949! —Michael Z. 2005-10-11 20:56 Z

 * Thanks for the verification. Do you know what "designer's model" means?  Is this a snapshot of a 2-foot-long wooden, painted model?  Tempshill 15:45, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Something like that. Looking at it closely, I think  either the illustration was heavily retouched and airbrushed, or this is simply a design illustration made by a draftsman.  —Michael Z. 2005-10-14 16:54 Z

Bet this baby had quite a steep glideslope. —Michael Z. 2005-10-12 07:01 Z

Greatest invention of the 20th century
I now officially declare this to be the greatest invention of the 20th century.

yes it is much more usefull than penicillin don't you think? Joeyjojo 03:07, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

 * Common adverse drug reactions associated with use of the penicillins include: diarrhea, nausea, rash, urticaria, and/or superinfection (including candidiasis). Infrequent adverse effects include: fever, vomiting, erythema, dermatitis, angioedema, and/or pseudomembranous colitis. Pain and inflammation at the injection site is also common for parenterally-administered benzathine benzylpenicillin, benzylpenicillin, and to a lesser extent procaine benzylpenicillin

Yes, very useful eh? FYI: Penicillin will supposedly kill me. I don't need fungus injected into me anyway.

-G

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The Imposter (album)

The Imposter is the second full-length album by American singer-songwriter Kevin Max and was released on October 11, 2005 on Northern Records. The title and overall themes of the album draw inspiration from the writings of theologian (and friend of Max's) Brennan Manning, particularly Manning's books Ragamuffin Gospel and Abba's Child. The title track, according to Max, concerns "the fight between the flesh and the spirit."

The Imposter's musical textures are different from those found on Stereotype Be. Gone are the Middle Eastern musical influences in favor of a mixture of ballads and faster rock songs with more pronounced classic rock and blues influences. The album's lyrics are also more straightforward than those on Stereotype Be and, perhaps in keeping with a simpler feel, no spoken-word segments are on The Imposter, although there is a reading that opens "Fade to Red."

Songs from The Imposter album were used in a film of the same name. The songs used were "The Imposter," "Sanctuary," "Your Beautiful Mind," and "The Imposter's Song."

Personnel

 * Kevin Max – vocals
 * Byron Hagen – keyboards, acoustic piano, programming
 * Andrew D. Prickett – keyboards, programming, guitars
 * Erick Cole – guitars
 * Elijah Thomson – bass
 * Aaron Sterling – drums
 * Frank Lenz – drums, string arrangements
 * Holly Nelson – backing vocals

Production

 * Jeff Anderson – executive producer
 * Andrew D. Prickett – producer, engineer, mixing
 * Kevin Max – co-producer, mixing
 * Elijah Thomson – engineer
 * Chris Colbert – mixing
 * Mark Rodriguez – mastering at Vision Mastering (Stanton, California)
 * Lance Alton Troxel – art direction, design
 * Melinda DiMauro – photography

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Laurence Iannaccone

Laurence Robert Iannaccone (born May 24, 1954) is a Professor of Economics at Chapman University, Argyros School of Business and Economics, Orange County, California. Before moving to Chapman in 2009 he was a Koch Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He has established "Religion, Economics, and Culture", an interdisciplinary "Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture" (ASREC), and a new "Consortium for the Economic Study of Religion" (CESR). He is currently working on two books on the economics of religion. He is considered one of the pioneers of the field, and one of its most staunch advocates.

Iannaccone's education includes an MS in mathematics and a 1984 PhD in economics from the University of Chicago.

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Pedro Mir

Pedro Julio Mir Valentín (3 June 1913, San Pedro de Macorís – 11 July 2000, Santo Domingo) was a Dominican poet and writer, named Poet Laureate of the Dominican Republic by Congress in 1984, and a member of the generation of "Independent poets of the 1940s" in Dominican poetry.

His father, Pedro Celestino Mir Burgal, a Cuban mechanical engineer from Guantánamo, migrated from Cuba to the Dominican Republic in the early years of the Twentieth Century to be hired as Chief of Engineers of the Cristóbal Colón Sugar Refinery. Soon he married a young Puerto Rican girl, Jacoba Vicenta Valentín Mendoza from Humacao and had a son whom he named Pedro Julio.

Life and career
Pedro Julio Mir spent his youth in the sugar refinery, which was located near the city of San Pedro de Macorís. His mother, died prematurely, in 1917, which impressed upon him a profound sense of loss that he would later consider the root of his poetical vocation.

In the early years of the 1930s, Pedro Julio Mir started writing and publishing his poems in Dominican newspapers (under the full name "Pedro Julio Mir"), as well as showing them to his friends. One of those friends, without his consent, took some verses to Juan Bosch, a prominent Dominican writer of the time. Bosch noticed the natural poetic fiber of the young author, but dismissed the verses saying that the poet, though talented, should "turn his eyes to his country". When Mir was informed of Bosch's reaction, he decided then to write his first social poems, and this time, he sent them to Bosch himself. Bosch made no immediate remark; however, he had the verses published very soon in his column of the Listín Diario, the most important Dominican newspaper of the time. The verses appeared under the name Pedro Mir (for some reason Bosch chose to drop the "Julio" middle name) and what later became a prophecy: "Is this young man the social poet we’ve been long waiting for?"

The next years Mir kept writing and studying, obtaining a Doctor Degree in Law from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) State University in 1941 and starting a practice in an office of the Dominican capital, Santo Domingo. However, the pressure of the Trujillo dictatorship became unbearable, especially for anybody with social concerns. His poems were putting him up against the regime, so after receiving threats and feeling his life in danger, he fled to Cuba in 1947. The exile would last sixteen years, until the regime fell in 1963. During the exile he traveled to many countries, but spent most of the time in Cuba.

It was while living precariously in Cuba that he wrote his famous poem "Hay un país en el mundo" (There is a country in the world). Originally published in Spanish in 1949, it has been translated to dozens of languages.

In 1952, Mir published in Guatemala his Contracanto a Walt Whitman (canto a nosotros mismos) (Countersong to Walt Whitman (Song of Ourselves)), considered one of his most accomplished works. (Its title references Whitman's "Song of Myself".) Translated to many languages, the poem has been the subject of many studies in the United States and other countries.

Mir returned to the Dominican Republic in 1963, during the democratic government of President Juan Bosch. After Bosch's government was overthrown the same year, Mir, seriously ill, traveled again for a while, though he finally settled with his family in the Dominican capital in 1968, winning the Chair of Aesthetics at the UASD.

Mir also committed himself to historical research. His essay Las raíces dominicanas de la doctrina Monroe (The Dominican Roots of the Monroe Doctrine) (1974) won the Annual History Award given by the Secretary of Education of the Dominican Republic.

In 1975, his poem El huracán Neruda (The Hurricane Neruda) also won the Annual Poetry Award given by the Secretary of Education of the Dominican Republic.

His only novel Cuando amaban las tierras comuneras (When They Loved the Communal Land) was published in Mexico in 1978 and has been highly regarded in the Dominican Republic as well as internationally.

In 1984, the Dominican Congress named him "Poet Laureate of the Dominican Republic".

In 1991, Mir traveled to New York to receive an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters, honoris causa, from the Hunter College of the City University of New York.

In 1993, Mir was awarded the Dominican National Literature Award for his lifetime achievements.

Pedro Mir died peacefully on 11 July 2000 surrounded by his family, after a long pulmonary illness.

In 2017 Ediciones Cielonaranja has published his "Poesía Completa".

A metro station in Santo Domingo is named after him.

List of works
"Letras dispersas (2013)
 * Hay un país en el mundo (1949)
 * Contracanto a Walt Whitman (1952)
 * Seis momentos de esperanza (1953)
 * Poemas de buen amor y a veces de fantasía (1969)
 * Amén de mariposas (1969)
 * Tres leyendas de colores (1969)
 * El gran incendio (1969)
 * Viaje a la muchedumbre (1971)
 * Apertura a la estética (1974)
 * Las raíces dominicanas de la doctrina Monroe (1974)
 * El huracán Neruda (1975)
 * La gran hazaña de Límber y después otoño (1977)
 * Cuando amaban las tierras comuneras (1978)
 * Fundamentos de teoría y crítica del arte (1979)
 * La noción del período en la historia dominicana (1981)
 * ¡Buen viaje, Pancho Valentín! (Memorias de un marinero) (1981)
 * Historia del hambre en la República Dominicana (1987)
 * Estética del soldadito (1991)
 * El lapicida de los ojos morados (1991)
 * Primeros versos (1993)
 * Ayer menos cuarto y otras crónicas (2000)

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

The result of the debate was DELETE. — J I P | Talk 07:40, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Jupp's syndrome
Reverted the txt to original, it is complete nonsense, I know who made it! One for BJAODN methinks. Comments by the later editor I think are particullarly amusing! Jezze 17:27, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non-verified. --Vsion 18:04, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete The Land 18:05, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete... at least someone stubbed it.--Isotope23 19:32, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Probable hoax. chowells 19:45, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

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Macedonian-Greek distinction
With apologies to Miskin, I have reverted his/her edits concerning distinctions between Macedonia and Greece. Although I am not an expert on this history, the present version more clearly reflects wmy understanding. And, as far as I can tell, it also seems to more clearly reflect the understanding of the other editors of this page. I would request that we please first discuss the issue on this talk page, before making any more changes in this article relating to this issue. Paul August ☎ 17:27, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

WP:MilHist Assessment
Looks great. This has got to be one of the longest, most thorough pages I've seen which fall into the category of what are essentially glorified disambig pages. Even though this article links to the main pages of each of these wars, which provide greater detail and length, this article itself does not look sparse at all. There's even a map. I don't know enough about the subject to have any idea if you've left out entire events or sections, but what is here is excellent. LordAmeth 13:05, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Contradiction
Alexander page say he died 11th of june this one say 10th of june —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.162.84.125 (talk) 21:33, 5 September 2008 (UTC)

 * Good point. Don't look to Brittanica for clarification; it gives June 13. Brando130 (talk) 03:13, 6 September 2008 (UTC)

Map
I made a new map showing the empire of Antigonos and the other diadochi before Ipsus, with much more detail than the one that was there before, which was also mislabeled, saying that it was a map AFTER Ipsus, not before. Also added that detail to the top map, which did not specify (i think its necessary, Ipsus changed the entire face of the diadoch kingdoms). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Javierfv1212 (talk • contribs) 04:54, 9 June 2009 (UTC)

Ranks of the diadochi
There may be a problem with this classification, which the article does not explain. It is noted above that the article is still much like a disambig page. An article on the diadochi should properly explain the usage and origin of the term. It is a legitimate historical term, except for the "rank" concept. There was no organization of diadochi within which they had this or that rank! The historical circumstances were fluid. I am still canvassing the works of the experts to see where this rank of the diadochi comes from, but I am not finding anything. What I do find is the blog on the totalwar game, which defines ranks of the diadochi game role. This is I fear the source of the ranks of the diadochi. There is of course a lot of enthusiasm for the game, and a lot of that enthusiasm spills over into WP articles. In fact there seems to be an entire clade of military enthusiasts creating, if you will, a new cult of the imperial Macedonians. Well, I think we have to take our enthusiam as we find it, and be glad to get it, but there is a certain problem with historical enthusiasm, that the enthusiasts want to insert themselves into history and pick up where the diadochi left off. The diadochi shall rise again, so to speak, and many other notorious instances of which I shall not speak. This is part of the historicity problem, how to keep history historical when it wants to spill into the present and future. In a nutshell, unless "first rank", "second rank" and the like turn up as some famous historian's classification I think they have to go. The game is not an encyclopedic source. I'll keep you posted as I go over this. For authorization I cite the tag at the top and the complaint that this article is too much like a disambig.Botteville (talk) 09:48, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Individual Diadochi
The way the article is turning out, there is not really any room for presentations of individual Diadochi. There were quite a few. The previous editors started developing a set of articles on each diadochus. I think that is a good idea. Hence I want to move the paragraphs on individual diadochi to those articles. I may have to request that some articles be created. The previous editors also organized the diadochi, apparently on the basis of the game. This is a good organization, for a very limited time. It is basically the way things were at Alexander's death. It would not apply to diadochi at all times. So, what I want to do is offer a brief introduction to the groups. The diadochi in the group would then have blue links to their articles. First up is Perdiccas. He does not belong by himself; he had been made somatophylax, so he goes in that group. He was not always that of course. So, it is necessary to clarify what we mean by these groups. I started on that also. My approach is to some degree matrix.Botteville (talk) 11:23, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

suggestion
It seems to me that this article would benefit from rearrangement, putting the history first and the etymology later, since the latter is mostly  of interest to specislists. Peter Flass (talk) 19:16, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

 * I did this, and then went on to make a number of small edits which I hope have improved the article, especally for the non-specialist (which I am). Peter Flass (talk) 15:35, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

I am left wondering what relevance the Book of Daniel has to this article. That is a matter of Biblical scholarship rather than history. Unless someone wants to cite Daniel as a source, but I doubt any genuine Historian would do that. Why fight a battle that doesn't need to be won? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.7.220.246 (talk) 00:56, 25 January 2017 (UTC)

Pronounciation
Whoever wrote (and then rolled back) the phonetics of "Diadochi" needs to think about what they actually wrote. It's totally wrong. I fixed it, and it was reverted without reason. Most historians pronounce "Diadochi" in the classical pronunciation which is NOT what is displayed right now — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:647:301:8CA0:EDB8:BBAA:6663:DD8 (talk) 09:50, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

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Citizens Against Government Waste

Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization in the United States. It functions as a "government watchdog" and advocacy group for fiscally conservative causes. The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) is the lobbying arm of CAGW, organized as a section 501(c)(4) organization and therefore is permitted to engage in direct lobbying activities. According to its website, "CAGW is a private, non-partisan, non-profit organization representing more than one million members and supporters nationwide. CAGW's stated mission is to eliminate waste, mismanagement, and inefficiency in the federal government."

History
CAGW was founded in 1984 by industrialist J. Peter Grace and syndicated columnist Jack Anderson. Grace was chairman of President Ronald Reagan's Grace Commission (also known as the President's Private Sector Survey on Cost Control).

CAGW is located in Washington, D.C. Thomas A. Schatz has been president since 1992.

Publications
CAGW produces a number of publications critical of government expenditures known colloquially as "pork-barrel" projects. The CAGW-published Congressional Pig Book Summary (Pig Book) is an annual list of such projects and their sponsors. The 2008 Pig Book identified 10,610 projects in that year's congressional appropriations bills that constitute the discretionary portion of the federal budget for fiscal 2008, costing taxpayers $17.2 billion.

Related publications include Prime Cuts, a list of recommendations for eliminating waste in the federal government and Porker of the Month, a monthly press release.

Since 1989, the CCAGW has examined congressional roll-call votes to determine which members of Congress are voting in what they view as the interest of taxpayers. CAGW makes public what legislators are engaging in "pork-barrel" spending based on 'key' votes for each congressional session.

Activities
CAGW and CCAGW seek to influence public policy through public education, lobbying, and mobilization for email and letter campaigns to elected officials. CAGW claims to have helped save taxpayers $944 billion through its campaigns.

CAGW was one of the critics of a $23.5 billion Air Force plan in 2001 to lease and then buy 100 refueling tankers from Boeing. Congress squashed the plan after it was revealed that an Air Force official inflated the price in exchange for an executive job at Boeing.

CAGW was a critic of Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) and his efforts to secure a $2.3 billion federal loan for a railroad company that once employed him as a lobbyist. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) cited an "unacceptably high risk to taxpayers" in denying the loan to the Dakota, Minnesota, and Eastern Railroad (DM&E) in 2007.

CAGW named Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.) its June 2008 Porker of the Month for accepting a preferential mortgage deal from Countrywide Financial which stood to benefit from a mortgage bailout bill he was pushing through Congress.

Microsoft's antitrust case litigation
In 2001, the Los Angeles Times reported that at least two dead people had sent a form letter by CAGW opposing the antitrust case against Microsoft to Mark Shurtleff, then Attorney General of Utah. State officials found that the decedents' family members had crossed out the names on the form letters and signed for them; another letter had come from the nonexistent city of "Tuscon, Utah".

Freeware initiative
In 2003, CAGW put out a press release opposed to what it called the "Freeware Initiative" in the State of Massachusetts, which it claimed would have required "that all IT expenditures in 2004 and 2005 be made on an open-source/Linux format."

Responding to the press release, a state official denied the existence of such an initiative and said the state was simply considering ways to integrate disparate systems using open standards such as HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), XML (Extensible Markup Language) and Java.

CAGW and tobacco
The St. Petersburg Times reported that CAGW "got at least $245,000 from the tobacco industry" and subsequently lobbied on its behalf. Internal tobacco industry documents made available by the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement indicate that CAGW and its affiliates supported the tobacco industry in several instances. Specifically, in 2001 when an industry-sponsored bill entitled the "Youth Smoking Reduction Act" was introduced in Congress, CAGW provided a letter of support, despite the opposition of most public health organizations. CAGW was also contacted by Phillip Morris to include ASSIST (Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening Test), a federal tobacco control program, in their Pig Book. ASSIST was considered an imminent threat to industry activities at the time.

Asked about his group's tobacco work, CAGW president Tom Schatz said, "We have always welcomed contributions to support the issues we support. Many of them have to do with fighting higher taxes and more regulations."

Other
Throughout its history, CAGW has been accused of fronting lobbying efforts of corporations to give them the appearance of "grassroots" support.

According to the St. Petersburg Times in 2006, the Pig Book has been used to benefit corporate donors, specifically health clubs who donated to CAGW. It listed federal grants to YMCAs who compete with those health clubs as waste. CAGW's president countered that "The Ys are there because they qualify as pork. Period."

A Senate Finance Committee investigating ties between CAGW (and other non-profits) and Jack Abramoff in 2006 stated in a report that the non-profits: 'probably violated their tax-exempt status "by laundering payments and then disbursing funds at Mr. Abramoff's direction; taking payments in exchange for writing newspaper columns or press releases that put Mr. Abramoff's clients in a favorable light; introducing Mr. Abramoff's clients to government officials in exchange for payment; and agreeing to act as a front organization for congressional trips paid for by Mr. Abramoff's clients."'

In 2007, CAGW supported a bill that would limit damages resulting from malpractice lawsuits. Many consumer watchdog groups opposed the bill.

"Chinese Professor" ad
The CAGW launched an ad, now commonly referred to as "Chinese Professor" for the 2010 midterm elections, which portrays a 2030 conquest of an indebted United States by China. Local Asian American extras were used to portray the Chinese students, although the actors were not informed of the nature of the shoot. Columnist Jeff Yang said that in the campaign there was a "blurry line between Chinese and Chinese-Americans". Larry McCarthy, the producer of "Chinese Professor," defended his work by saying that "this ad is about America, it's not about China."

CARES Act
During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the group received assistance between $150,000 and $350,000 in federally backed small business loan from Truist Bank as part of the Paycheck Protection Program, saying that the funds would allow them to keep 17 jobs. Their loan was seen as notable, since they campaign against excess government spending and are small-government advocates. CAGW said it was the first time they have accepted government money. Danny Westneat of The Seattle Times quipped that "We're all socialists now, apparently", calling CAGW an anti-debt crusader.

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Nancy Faust

Nancy Faust (born March 11, 1947) is an American former stadium organist for Major League Baseball's Chicago White Sox.

Early life
Faust grew up in the Chicago area, and began playing the organ at age 4 by learning from her mother, Jacquin, also a professional musician. She was also proficient at playing the accordion. After graduating from Theodore Roosevelt High School, she received a bachelor's degree in psychology from North Park University. During high school and college, she would often fill in for her mother at various engagements.

Chicago White Sox
After college, she chose to seek work playing at sporting events for a year before beginning an intended teaching career. She was hired to succeed Bob Creed as the White Sox organist for the 1970 season by public relations director Stu Holcomb, who had seen her perform at a banquet. Her original perch at Comiskey Park was an organ booth that was established in the center field bleachers in 1960 by Bill Veeck to encourage fan interaction. Almost immediately, Faust became arguably the first sports organist to include pop and rock themes while playing during the games. Tying creative tunes from TV commercials or popular songs to various players and game situations – not to mention her musicianship – she made a name for herself, becoming a major entertainment force at both the old Comiskey Park and the new Comiskey (renamed U.S. Cellular Field in 2003, then renamed Guaranteed Rate Field in 2016).

In the 1970s, Faust – along with announcers Harry Caray and Jimmy Piersall, plus Andy the Clown – became great crowd favorites at Comiskey Park. Usually, when fans think of Caray singing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" they think of the Chicago Cubs, but many remember that it was Faust, whose arrangement got Caray so inspired he would bellow the song out loud to himself, who inaugurated this tradition. Owner Bill Veeck put a public address microphone on Caray, turning him into a cultural icon. Caray later moved from Comiskey to the Wrigley Field press box, taking the tradition with him.

Other teams
Though most commonly associated with the White Sox, Faust also played for other teams. She was the organist for the Chicago Bulls from 1975 to 1984, playing an organ set up at courtside, and for the Chicago Blackhawks from 1984 to 1989, playing Chicago Stadium's 3,663-pipe Barton pipe organ at hockey games.

Honors and recognition
Having become the team's "key player," Faust found herself appearing on ABC's Good Morning America and written up in Sports Illustrated as baseball's "MVO, or Most Valuable Organist", among other accolades. She was even awarded a RIAA gold record from Mercury Records, whose sales of the 1969 pop tune "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye" skyrocketed after Nancy's version took the sports world by storm.

Fans enjoyed being able to visit Faust during games and offer suggestions – first in her open-air position in Comiskey Park's upper deck, and later in a booth behind home plate at U.S. Cellular Field. Aside from the Sox (1970–2010), Bulls (1976–1984) and Blackhawks (1984–1989), she was organist for the Sting pro soccer team (1975–1988) and DePaul University Blue Demons basketball (1977–1981). Many other teams sent their own organists to take notes and have occasionally brought in Faust to perform at their own games. The NHL's Minnesota North Stars hired her for the 1987 to 1989 seasons for games that didn't conflict with her Blackhawks duties, and the Phoenix Coyotes hired her for three games in February 2008.

The 2009 season was Faust's 40th as the Sox organist, and her approach to playing music at a baseball game remained the standard. Faust missed only five scheduled dates in her career – the result of giving birth – and she did not miss any from 1983 through 2005, including the 2005 World Series, which the White Sox won. Starting with the 2006 season, she decided to cut back and only perform at daytime games.

Her "Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye" theme is now imitated by other teams and fans all over the world. Faust's talents have been recognized in a new exhibit at the Baseball Hall of Fame called "Women in Baseball." She was also a featured performer for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra upon clinching of the 2005 American League pennant.

In October 2009, Faust announced that the 2010 baseball season would be her final season behind the keyboard.

Ten thousand Nancy Faust bobblehead dolls were presented to fans by the White Sox before their game on September 18, 2010, at then-U.S. Cellular Field, with a ceremony held by the team in her honor. Faust was also profiled in a feature story in that day's New York Times. On Sunday, October 3, 2010, Nancy played her last game at U.S. Cellular.

Nancy played during the Kane County Cougars' "Night of 100 Promotions" in 2011, and has returned to Fifth Third Bank Ballpark to play at select Cougars games from 2012 to 2015.

Faust was inducted into the Baseball Reliquary's Shrine of the Eternals in 2018.

Since 2022, Nancy Faust has contributed organ solo pieces to the podcast edition of Countdown with Keith Olbermann. Host Keith Olbermann frequently refers to her in closing credits as "the best baseball stadium organist ever".

Faust is prominently featured in the 2023 documentary, Last Comiskey, which includes live footage of her playing the organ at Comiskey Park, as well as interviews she gave from home. Faust also contributed music for the film.

Personal life
Faust is married to Joe Jenkins and has a son, Eric. Faust missed only five White Sox games in her career, and those were due to the birth of her son.

Bill Veeck used to have what Faust called "wacky promotions" and door prizes at White Sox games. Once, a door prize was a live donkey, which the winning fan did not claim. Veeck said he was going to return it, but Faust told him she would take it. Now, she has two pet donkeys that she also trains.

Quotes
"She can play everything. Musically, she's pretty awesome. There are a lot of songs she'll throw in there that I don't think a lot of people get. Me, being a music fan, and guys like Scott, we'll laugh."

- Former Sox pitcher and rock musician Jack McDowell

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Killarney Airport

Killarney Airport is located adjacent to the town of Killarney, Ontario, Canada.

The airport was originally funded by the province and now from donations from aircraft landing at the airstrip.

A small building is located at the airport with a telephone booth at the gates. An AV gas tank and tool shed are the only other structures at the airport.

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Noiseman Sound Insect

Noiseman Sound Insect (音響生命体ノイズマン) is a short anime film directed by Koji Morimoto, with production by Studio 4°C and music by Yoko Kanno featuring a young Crystal Kay Williams singing the ending theme.

The work is in Japanese and contains music and dialogue that are intricately linked. It was released in Japan on November 22, 1997. On October 28, 2022, Studio 4°C made an announcement that the film is online on YouTube worldwide (except Japan) until November 18th, for the first time in HD.

This short was aired on Locomotion for Latin America and Iberia in its Locotomía block.

Plot
In a world of music and musical plants, a mad scientist is experimenting with the seeds of those plants to create a child, Noiseman. After giving Noiseman a potion to grow faster the scientist couldn't control him anymore and accidentally split his body into a ghost and a crystal with a machine of his. Noiseman is now in control of the whole city, brainwashing people to capture those ghosts and telling the people that the music fruit is forbidden. Tobio who also was brainwashed got hit by a music fruit and remembered the past, where everyone would enjoy the music. He tries to convince Noiseman that his doing is wrong and that he should return the captured ghosts to their crystals but without success. Now the underground people are trying their best to help the ghosts with the help of Tobio's childhood friend.

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Summary
The box cover art for computer game The Bard's Tale (1985). Painting by Eric Joyner. Package design by Michael LaBash.

Fair use in The Bard's Tale
Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:
 * 1) Interplay Entertainment has released no such images into the public domain, and a replacement image could not be created that would adequately provide the same information.
 * 2) The image is being used for no purpose other than to identify the subject of the article.
 * 3) The image resolution has been significantly decreased from the original, so copies made from it would be of inferior quality.
 * 4) The use of this image neither detracts from the game nor inhibits its salability in any way.

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Samantha Tolj

Samantha Tolj (born on 12 June 1982 in Perth, Western Australia) is an actress.

Her father is Croatian and mother is Anglo Celtic Australian. Tolj began professional acting guest starring on Stingers, MDA, and a big part in an episode of Blue Heelers. The Heelers producers were impressed enough to bring her back for two episodes playing a prostitute in the eighth and ninth seasons of the show.

Tolj later joined the main cast, playing Kelly O'Rourke, a police constable, in 2004 as one of four new cast members. This led to her nomination in the 2005 Logie Awards for Best New Talent. She remained with the show until it ended in 2006. In 2007, Tolj played a guest role in McLeod's Daughters. In 2010 Tolj joined the cast of Home and Away.

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MusicPrinter Plus

MusicPrinter Plus is a DOS-based scorewriter program, created by Temporal Acuity Products, Inc.

History
Music Printer Plus was developed by Dr. Jack Jarrett. It grew out of earlier work on a piece of software called Music Printer that ran on IBM PC and compatibles computers. It was first released in 1988 and was discontinued in 1995. Although a Windows version was planned, one was not developed. Plans for the Windows version evolved into Dr. Jarrett's current project Notion.

Capabilities
MusicPrinter Plus contained some advanced mechanisms for its day, including playback of articulations and synchronization to SMPTE and other time code.

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