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Baghban (2003 film)

Baghban is a 2003 Indian Hindi-language drama film directed by Ravi Chopra, co-written and produced by B. R. Chopra. It tells the story of an elderly couple, Raj (Amitabh Bachchan) and Pooja (Hema Malini), who have been married for 40 years. After Raj retires, they reunite with their four sons (Aman Verma, Samir Soni, Saahil Chadha, and Nasir Khan) to discuss who will support them. None of the sons want to take care of both parents, causing Raj and Pooja to live separately.

Baghban was conceived by producer and co-writer B. R. Chopra during his 1960s trip across Europe, when he visited a retirement home and was inspired by the householders' story. It was inspired by a Marathi movie "Tu Tithe Mi" by Smita Talwalkar. In one of the interview it was told that, special screening was set for Mr. Bachchan for the Marathi movie Tu Tithe Mi, later the movie was remade in Hindi as Baghban. Although the screenplay was finished in 1973, Chopra did not begin production for decades because he was busy with other projects. After he revived it, principal photography began in July 2002 in Film City with cinematographer Barun Mukherjee. During post-production, it was edited by Shailendra Doke, Godfrey Gonsalves, and Shashi Mane. Baghban soundtrack was composed by Aadesh Shrivastava and Uttam Singh, with lyrics by Sameer.

The film premiered at the Leeds International Film Festival on 2 October 2003, and was released worldwide the following day. With a production cost of inr 100000000, the film was a commercial success; earning inr 431100000 at the box office, Baghban was the year's fifth-highest-grossing Indian film. It received mixed reviews from critics; Bachchan and Malini's performances were praised, but the film's storyline and the chemistry between the lead actors were criticised. They received the Screen Award for Jodi No. 1, however, and Bachchan and Malini were nominated for Best Actor and Best Actress at the 49th Filmfare Awards. Over the years via airing on television channels, it has gained cult status.

Plot
Raj and his wife, Pooja, have been married for 40 years and have four sons: Ajay, Sanjay, Rohit, and Karan. They also have an adopted son, Alok, who falls in love with Arpita. Raj provides the orphaned Alok with money and education, raising him as his own son. Now successful, Alok venerates Raj because of his help. Raj retires and cannot support himself; he and Pooja decide to leave their home. They want to live with their children, who are unwilling. The children decide to split their parents up; each lives with one of the boys for the next six months. They think that their parents will refuse the offer and remain in their home. However, Raj and Pooja reluctantly accept the offer.

They endure separation and poor treatment by their children. Raj stays first with Sanjay, and then with Rohit; Pooja stays first with Ajay, and then with Karan. While he is living with Sanjay, the only affection Raj receives is from his grandson Rahul. Saddened by the way he has been treated by his children, Raj writes about how he fulfilled his children's dreams and his treatment in return; he also writes about his love for his wife, and the pain their separation has caused. Raj's writing eventually becomes a novel. Pooja is abused by Ajay, her daughter-in-law Kiran, and her granddaughter Payal. Payal, however, repents when Pooja saves her from being raped by her boyfriend and showers Pooja with love.

Changing trains after six months, Pooja and Raj spend time together in Vijaynagar. They encounter Alok, who brings them to his home and cares for them far better than how their sons had treated them in their homes. Raj learns that his writings have been published as Baghban, named after Hemant (a café owner whom he befriended during his stay with Sanjay). He also befriended two teenagers named Kapil and Nilli who had visited the café often. The novel is successful, giving Raj the money he needs to support himself and Pooja. Knowing that their parents are earning more than them due to the launch success of the novel, the four sons plan to go to their book ceremony event for forgiveness. Everyone goes except Rahul and Payal because of the pain their grandparents went through and that the four sons are only going there just for their money not forgiveness. Their sons ask their parents to forgive them, attending a book ceremony with their wives. Raj and Pooja refuse to forgive the four sons, however, and disown them for the pain they have caused. Raj and Pooja are then approached by both Rahul and Payal and hug them happily with Alok and Arpita smiling.

Cast
The cast is listed below:

 * Amitabh Bachchan as Raj Malhotra
 * Hema Malini as Pooja Malhotra, Raj's wife
 * Salman Khan as Alok Malhotra in a special appearance, Raj and Pooja's Adopted Son
 * Mahima Chaudhry as Arpita Malhotra in a special appearance, Alok's wife
 * Aman Verma as Ajay Malhotra; Raj and Pooja's eldest son
 * Samir Soni as Sanjay Malhotra; Raj and Pooja's second son
 * Saahil Chadha as Rohit Malhotra; Raj and Pooja's third son
 * Nasir Khan as Karan Malhotra; Raj and Pooja's forth son
 * Suman Ranganathan as Kiran Malhotra, Ajay's wife
 * Divya Dutta as Reena Malhotra, Sanjay's wife
 * Arzoo Govitrikar as Priya Malhotra, Rohit's wife
 * Rimi Sen as Payal Malhotra, Ajay and Kiran's Daughter; Raj and Pooja's granddaughter
 * Yash Pathak as Rahul Malhotra, Sanjay and Veena's Son; Raj and Pooja's grandson
 * Paresh Rawal as Hemant Patel; Shanti's husband and Raj's friend
 * Lillete Dubey as Shanti Patel; Hemant's wife and Raj's friend
 * Mohan Joshi as Khuber Desai; Hotel owner
 * Sharat Saxena as Ram Avtaar; Raj's elder brother
 * Anang Desai as Mr. Verma; Kapil's father and Raj's book publisher
 * Avtar Gill as Rawat; ICICI Bank Manager
 * Asrani as Bedi; Employee of ICICI Bank; Rawat and Raj's friend
 * Gajendra Chauhan as Car Salesman
 * Nakul Vaid as Kapil Verma; Mr. Verma's son and Nilli's boyfriend
 * Sanjeeda Sheikh as Nilli; Kapil's girlfriend

Production
The idea for Baghban came to director and producer B. R. Chopra in Copenhagen during a tour across Europe in the 1960s, when he stayed at a hotel next to a retirement home. In a Screen interview, Chopra said that when he sat on the hotel balcony, he saw elderly people sitting at the bungalows. After several days, he joined a couple there and struck up a conversation about their personal lives. The couple talked about feeling abandoned by their children and grandchildren, inspiring Chopra to make a film. During a 1973 holiday in Lonavla, he began writing the screenplay one afternoon and continued for fourteen hours; he finished it the next morning.

Chopra met his son, Ravi Chopra, back in Mumbai. Ravi was filming the action drama Zameer, a 1975 release starring Amitabh Bachchan and Saira Banu. During the filming, Banu told Ravi that she was tired and wanted to continue filming at Pali Hill. B. R. Chopra told his close friend, Dilip Kumar, that he wanted to make a film with him. Several years later, at a ceremony honouring Chopra's films, he asked Kumar about the project; the actor suggested casting Rakhee Gulzar as his wife, but Chopra did not do so. Banu became ill and went to London with her husband, Kumar. B. R. and Ravi Chopra were busy with Doordarshan's epic series Mahabharat (1988–1990), and Baghban was shelved. According to Ravi Chopra (who liked the story and wanted to direct it), he tried several times to revive the production but his other projects "kept coming to the fore".

After years in development hell, the project was revived. Achala Nagar was chosen to help B. R. Chopra write the screenplay, dialogue, and story; Satish Bhatnagar, Ram Govind, and Shafiq Ansari co-wrote them, and Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar polished the dialogue. The role of Raj Malhotra, for which Ravi Chopra had wanted Kumar, was given to Bachchan because the former actor was too old to play a 60-year-old man. Hema Malini was cast as Pooja, who is five years younger than Raj. The Chopras originally wanted a much-younger actress to star with Bachchan, but they changed their minds to avoid difficulty with the make-up a younger actress would require. Although Malini was initially reluctant to play a film role unless she liked it, she did not want to disappoint her fans. When she heard the story, she said she had waited a long time for a film suited for her age. Baghban reunited Bachchan and Malini onscreen after 20 years, having last appeared together in Nastik (1983). Neeta Lulla and B. R. Chopra's daughter-in-law, Renu, were her costume designers.

Baghban principal photography began in Film City on 18 July 2002. Ravi Chopra told journalist Roshmila Bhattacharya that he was nervous during that period, and called it "an exam" for him. The film was produced on an estimated budget of inr 70000000; Barun Mukherjee was the cinematographer. Ashok Bhushan and Keshto Mondal designed the sets, and Vaibhavi Merchant choreographed the songs. In January 2003, it was reported that Salman Khan and Mahima Chaudhry would appear in the film. Portions of Baghban were also filmed in London, and it was edited by Shailendra Doke, Godfrey Gonsalves, and Shashi Mane.

Soundtrack
Aadesh Shrivastava composed the soundtrack for Baghban, with lyrics by Sameer (except for "Holi Khele Raghuveera", by Harivansh Rai Bachchan). Shrivastava asked Amitabh Bachchan (with whom he had a rapport) to sing the song because he wanted the actor "to convey much more [...] right emotions", although Bachchan was initially unwilling. Udit Narayan, Alka Yagnik, Shrivastava, Hema Sardesai, Sudesh Bhosale, Richa Sharma, Jonita Gandhi, Sukhwinder Singh, Aastha Gill also performed the vocals. Uttam Singh had composed two songs for the film before he was replaced by Shrivastava. Shrivastava said that he was recording a song with Sufi singer Abida Parveen but did not want to finish it, believing that it would not "work". T-Series released the album on 23 August 2003.

The soundtrack had a positive response from music critics and, according to Shrivastava, gave him a chance to demonstrate his versatility. A Hindu reviewer called Bachchan the album's highlight and praised all the songs; "Holi Khele Raghuveera" resembled "Rang Barse Bhige Chunar Wali" from the 1981 romantic drama, Silsila. Aniket Joshi wrote for Planet Bollywood, "Aadesh Shrivastava has done well with this album and it looks like he will score big time. In the future though, it would help if he chooses to experiment more and remain less ordinary." In a mixed review for Mid-Day, Narendra Kusnur called the album "a good break" for Shrivastava but felt that the instrumental version of "Main Yahan Tu Wahan" was "far too lengthy". Joginder Tuteja of Bollywood Hungama gave the album three-and-a-half out of five stars, saying that it had no songs "that can be singled out to be 'not good.

According to the Box Office India website, Baghban soundtrack album was the year's ninth-bestselling with 1.4 million units sold. Shrivastava told journalist Salma Khatib of Screen that "Holi Khele Raghuveera" was popular in Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh.

Release
Baghban had pre-release publicity because of its pairing of Amitabh Bachchan and Malini for the first time since the action film Andha Kanoon (1983). B. R. and Ravi Chopra had great expectations for the film, which they targeted to family audiences. It premiered at the Leeds International Film Festival on 2 October 2003, and was released worldwide the following day. Opening during Vijayadashami, the film had competition from Yusuf Khan's action thriller Khel: No Ordinary Game and Chandan Arora's comedy-drama Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon. Baghban ran in theatres for 25 weeks, becoming a silver jubilee film. It was released on DVD on 17 November of that year in NTSC widescreen format. The film's television rights were sold to Sony Entertainment Television for inr 80000000, and it premiered worldwide on television on 21 February 2004. It has been available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video since 30 November 2016.

According to journalists, the positive word-of-mouth for Baghban played an important role in the film's commercial success. It was released on 275 screens across India and grossed inr 9000000 on its first day, earning inr 29200000 by the end of its first weekend and inr 53900000 after running for a week. Baghban earned a total of inr 310300000 in India, and was 2003's fifth-highest-grossing Indian film. Abroad, the film earned inr 41600000 in its first week. After its overseas theatrical run, it grossed inr 120800000 (the year's third-highest-grossing Indian film overseas); in its year-end box-office report, The Hindu said that most of its revenue was from Asian countries. Summing up the film's gross in India and overseas, Box Office India estimated that Baghban earned inr 431100000 (the fifth-highest-grossing Indian film of 2003).

Adjusted for inflation, the film has grossed ₹154.6 crores ($18.8 million) as of 2023.

It was remade in Kannada as Ee Bandhana, a 2007 film directed by Vijayalakshmi Singh which received critical acclaim.

Critical reception
Baghban had mixed reviews from critics, who praised its performances (primarily those of Bachchan and Malini) but panned the chemistry between the actors and the film's story. For Bollywood Hungama, Taran Adarsh gave it two stars and said that Bachchan delivered a "powerful" and "memorable" performance; Adarsh said that Malini was "elegant and conveys the pathos convincingly". Seema Pant of Rediff.com praised the film: "Baghban has a high emotional quotient. Director Ravi Chopra retains his audience's interest in the lives of Raj and Puja Malhotra. Despite some unconvincing moments in the plot, Baghban keeps the viewers involved all the way to the climax." Director and critic Khalid Mohamed gave the film three stars, saying that it "is unthinkable without the imperishable grace and beauty projected" from Malini. However, he compared its direction to Indian television shampoo advertisements and called its cinematography and production design as "old worldly as bell bottoms".

Ziya Us Salam said, "[Ravi] Chopra, on his part, brings a rare sight to the Indian screen. Here the aged couple is, yes, aged. Yet the romance is still very much a part of their life. The ardour for physical fulfilment may have gone but the need for proximity is there." Mid-Day Narendra Kusnur called Bachchan's performance one of his best since the 1990s, and—according to Manjula Negi of the Hindustan Times—he "carries forward the plot" along with Malini. Ram Kamal Mukherjee of Stardust wrote that Baghban remains one of the decade's finest Bollywood films; Mukherjee said that Salman Khan delivered a "seasoned" performance, but Chaudhry was a "total waste". Filmfare critic Gautam Buragohain was ambivalent about the film, enjoying the performances but finding the story "stale"; he believed the plot was based on a similar film (the 1983 drama Avtaar), and dismissed Baghban as "predictable". Omar Ahmed of Empire praised Baghban for its exploration of family values and Indian culture.

Parag Chandrabala Maniar, who reviewed the film for B4U, agreed with Buragohain about the film's similarity to Avtaar but gave Baghban a more-positive reception. Calling the first part of Baghban was "predictable" and "hackneyed", he said that Bachchan was "excellent" as Raj. The character was "conveying love, anger and pain through his intelligent eyes. Bachchan makes the film worth a watch!" According to Rajen Garabadu of NDTV, "Baghban dwells on the new generation, their false aspirations and confused priorities [...] The film is replete with its fair share of drama (sometimes a little exaggerated), song and dance sequences and a couple of blows delivered here and there. Ravi Chopra has not experimented too much. He has wisely invested in human love, affection and familial bonding to reap the rewards for him." In The Afternoon Despatch & Courier, Deepa Gahlot called the film's plot "terribly worn out" and "very 60s", but the chemistry of Bachchan and Malini (and their performances) satisfied the audience and concealed the film's flaws.

In The Times of India, Parul Gupta described Khan's brief appearance as Raj's and Pooja's adopted son as "a picture of the obedient offspring" and called the film "larger-than-life". Sify's Kunal Shah said that although he was sure that Chopra had addressed the themes in his previous work, the director "has been successful in coming up with good performances from the lead cast". Namrata Joshi of Outlook criticised the film's length and number of "family functions". She praised the performances (especially Bachchan's), and said the film "seems to have been tailormade" for his fans. Joshi said that Bachchan overshadowed Malini with his "perfect efficiency and elan", but he praised Malini's "fetching and elegant" look. K. N. Vijiyan of the New Straits Times called the film "the perfect comeback vehicle" for Malini, and Derek Elley of Variety said: "It takes stars of Bachchan and Hema Malini's stature to make the confection work, and luckily they're both up to the job, creating a palpable sense of the couple’s mutual affection ..."

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Seamus Robinson (fencer)

Seamus Robinson (born 1 April 1975 in Melbourne, Australia) was the first Australian fencer to win a Fencing World Championship title in the men's épée cadets (under 17) title in 1991, Foggia, Italy. He also placed second on the junior men's épée world cup in 1995.

Other results include:
 * 1997, 1998 Italian open 1st Bari & Ravenna
 * 1998 Commonwealth fencing Championships Kuala Lumpur -1st
 * 2003 World Cup : Cuba - 6th
 * 2003 World Cup : Tehran - 7th
 * 2003 World Championships:Cuba -12th
 * 2004 World Cup: Innsbruck - 11th
 * 2007 World Cup Sydney - 2nd
 * 2008 World Cup Puerto Rico - 6th
 * 2011 World Championships Catania- 26th

Robinson competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, losing in the second round to eventual bronze medal winner Pavel Kolobkov.

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The Devil's Nose

The Devil's Nose is a steep but small mountain ridge that spans from southwest to northeast between the Little Cacapon and Potomac rivers in northeastern Hampshire County, West Virginia.

From its southern end near Neals Run on Johnsons Hollow, The Nose rises from the landscape curving along a bend in the Little Cacapon River. From Johnsons Hollow, The Nose continues northeast flanked to its west by a plain at the Little Cacapon's mouth into the Potomac, and to its east by The Nose Hollow and Neals Run-Paw Paw Road (West Virginia Secondary Route 2/6). The Devil's Nose reaches the Potomac River shortly before the Morgan County line. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad separates The Nose from the Potoma River's edge. On the Morgan County line is the "Niagara Falls" of The Nose Hollow's stream shortly before it reaches the Potomac.

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Spiruses
Not notable--MONGO 05:28, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, neologism, not widely used, would merely be a wiktionary candidate if it was. Average Earthman 08:38, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per Average Earthman. -- Kjkolb 03:17, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as neologism not in wide use. MCB 06:29, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Probably not even a neologism, but a vanity / hoax 'contributed' by the referenced "Computer tech Andre of San Diego [sic]". Eaglizard 10:08, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

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Snow Island

Snow Island is the name of several islands:

 * Snow Island (Ontario), in Lake Erie
 * Snow Island (South Shetland Islands), in the South Shetland Islands
 * Chionis Island, in the Palmer Archipelago of Antarctica. Choinis Island was formerly known as Snow Island, but the name was changed to avoid confusion with the nearby Snow Island in the South Shetland Islands

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Sextus Appuleius

Sextus Appuleius is the name of four figures during the 1st century BC and 1st century AD. The first Sextus Appuleius was married to Octavia Major, the elder half-sister of Augustus. The three subsequent figures named Sextus Appuleius are respectively the son, grandson and great-grandson of Sextus Appuleius (I) and Octavia Major.

Sextus Appuleius I (husband of Octavia Major)
Date of his birth and death are unknown.

He married Octavia Major, the elder half-sister of Augustus, by whom he had at least one son, also named Sextus Appuleius (II). It is postulated that he had a second son, Marcus Appuleius, the consul of 20 BC.

It is possible that this Sextus Appuleius was Flamen Iulialis.

Sextus Appuleius II (consul 29 BC)
Sextus Appuleius II was son of the above and Octavia Major, the elder half-sister of Augustus. The year of his birth is uncertain, but, based the date of his consulship, was probably very close to 60 BC.

This Sextus Appuleius achieved a number of notable offices during the regime of his half-uncle. He was ordinary consul with Augustus in 29 BC. He then served as proconsul of Hispania in 28 BC, then as proconsul of Asia 23-22 BC. As a result of some unspecified event during this proconsulship he was granted a Roman Triumph in January 26 BC.

He seems also to have served as governor of Illyricum in 8 BC, succeeding Tiberius in that post. He was a member of the college of augurs.

It is likely that this Sextus Appuleius, and not his father, was Flamen Iulialis. It is also just possible that the son succeeded the father to the post (as did the father and son Lentulus Maluginensis to the post of Flamen Dialis).

It has been proposed that the middle-aged flamen on the Ara Pacis is this Sextus Appuleius in his role as Flamen Iulialis.

According to an inscription in the province of Asia, he had married a woman named Quinctilia, who was a sister to the Roman politician and general Publius Quinctilius Varus. By her, he had a son, also named Sextus Appuleius, and a daughter, Appuleia Varilla.

The date of his death is unknown.

Sextus Appuleius III (consul AD 14)
Sextus Appuleius III was the son of the previous and Quinctilia. This Sextus Appuleius was also a half-great-nephew of Augustus via his father.

His career is largely unknown, except that he became ordinary consul in the year 14. It was during his consulship that Augustus died and was succeeded by Tiberius. As a magistrate, Appuleius was the first to swear allegiance to Tiberius.

He was married to Fabia Numantina, a daughter of either Africanus Fabius Maximus, or Paullus Fabius Maximus and Marcia, a maternal cousin of Augustus (daughter of Atia, his aunt, and his step-brother Philippus). Appuleius and Fabia had one son, also named Sextus Appuleius (IV).

It is assumed Appuleius died not long after 14 because he is not mentioned subsequent to his consulship. His death is not recorded by Tacitus in the surviving part of The Annals, suggesting that it occurred during the period covered in the missing portion of book 5 (i.e. AD 30–31) or after book 6 (i.e. after AD 37). He was survived by his wife Fabia Numantina.

Sextus Appuleius IV (great-grandson of Octavia Major)
The son of the previous and Fabia Numantina.

He was born sometime in the early 1st century, but died young; his tombstone at Luna, set up by his mother, refers to him as "the last of his family" (the Appuleii).

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Jim Lindsey
I removed nn-bio tag; if he really is "one of Arkansas's most famous residents", I think that's notable. --Trovatore 05:30, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Abstain as nominator --Trovatore 05:30, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * A quick websearch confirms one James E Lindsey is a trustee of the University of Arkansas . Average Earthman 08:37, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per Average Earthman. -21:20, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
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 * Keep per Average Earthman, and yay!, cases like this are why AfD is a wonderful process. Xoloz 16:55, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
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Appuleia Varilla

Appuleia Varilla (flourished 1st century AD) was a Roman noblewoman and the daughter of Quinctilla Varilla and Sextus Appuleius. She was a grand-niece of the emperor Augustus as her father was the son of Octavia Major.

Early life
Tacitus described her as the grand-niece of Augustus. For a long time it was uncertain how exactly she was related to Augustus, with many assuming she was a daughter of Claudia Marcella Major but historian Ronald Syme reports that an inscription from Asia confirms she was the daughter of that consul of 29 BC Sextus Appuleius and a sister of Publius Quinctilius Varus. She had a brother also named Sextus Appuleius.

Later life
In 17, she was charged by Tiberius with adultery and insulting the Roman empress (his mother Livia) and his step-father Augustus. In the trial she was acquitted of treason, but her adultery was punished. She was exiled from Rome and ordered not to come within 200 miles of the city. This punishment by relatives was traditional in this circumstance. Manlius, her lover, was banned from Italy and Africa Province.

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Sam Sullivan

Sam Sullivan (born November 13, 1959 ) is a Canadian politician who served as the MLA for Vancouver-False Creek. Previously, he served as the Minister of Communities, Sport, and Cultural Development with responsibility for Translink in the short-lived BC Liberal government after the 2017 election, as well as the 38th mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and has been invested as a member of the Order of Canada. He is currently President of the Global Civic Policy Society and an adjunct professor at the UBC School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture.

Early life
Sam Sullivan was born on November 13, 1959, to East Vancouver residents Lloyd and Ida Sullivan. His father ran Sully's Autoparts on East Hastings Street. He has three brothers, Donald, Patrick, Terry, and a sister, Carol. Sullivan attended Chief Maquinna Elementary and Vancouver Technical Secondary School in East Vancouver.

Quadriplegia
Sullivan became paralyzed after breaking his neck in a skiing accident at age 19. He had a fracture dislocation of his fourth and fifth cervical vertebrae, leaving him almost completely paralyzed.

After a seven-year struggle with depression, he successfully completed a Bachelor of Business Administration degree at Simon Fraser University. Sullivan later founded six non-profit organizations dedicated to improving the quality of life for disabled people in North America.

Disability advocacy
In 2005, Sullivan was inducted into the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian award for community achievement. This was in recognition of his work to improve the lives of those with significant disabilities. The Sam Sullivan Disability Foundation has raised over $20 million and served over 10,000 people with disabilities since its inception. Organizations he created include the following:

 * Tetra Society: this organization recruits technically skilled volunteers who create custom-made assistive devices that are not available on the market. There are currently 45 chapters throughout Canada and the US, which have created more than 5,000 devices.
 * Adaptive Sailing Association: beginning at Vancouver's Jericho Sailing Center there are now 20 programs throughout Canada and the US. Sullivan initiated the development of the Martin 16 sailboat, designed specifically for people with disabilities, including high-level quadriplegics who use sip-and-puff technology. 150 of these sailboats are in use throughout the world. Sullivan also initiated the Mobility Cup National Regatta for people with disabilities.
 * British Columbia Mobility Opportunities Society Wilderness Access Program: Sullivan worked with Tetra Volunteer Paul Cermak to invent the TrailRider, a one-wheeled vehicle that enables people with disabilities to access the wilderness. 100 of these are currently in use around the world. They have been used by people with significant disabilities to climb Mount Kilimanjaro and to the base camp of Mount Everest. BCMOS also operates an Adaptive Paddleboarding and Kayaking program at the Olympic Village.
 * Vancouver Adapted Music Society: This organization operates a music studio in the GF Strong Rehabilitation Centre and supports the musical aspirations of people with disabilities, including recordings and performances. Sam Sullivan and Dave Symington formed the band Spinal Chord and recorded an album of original music in 1993 called Why Be Normal? Sullivan was the band's vocalist and played keyboards using custom-designed computer software.
 * ConnecTra Society: ConnecTra links people with physical disabilities to activities and programs that will, over time, allow them to grow, gain confidence and become increasingly active and involved in the community. It has helped over 200 people with disabilities since the inception of the ConnecTra Project in 2012. This project helps people with disabilities get signed up at their local WorkBC. Many participants have gone on to find part-time and full-time jobs.

In recognition of these achievements, Sullivan was inducted into the Terry Fox Hall of Fame in 2000 and won the Christopher Reeve Award in 2008.

City Councillor
Sullivan was first elected to Vancouver City Council in 1993 as a member of the Non-Partisan Association (NPA), and served for 15 years total.

In Vancouver's 2002 general local elections, Sullivan was the only incumbent member of city council from the NPA to win re-election after the NPA-dominated council was defeated by the COPE party, leaving only five out of 27 seats on the council, school board and parks board.

In 2004, he led the Knowards campaign opposing the COPE-initiated campaign to replace the city's at-large system of choosing councillors with a ward voting system. The proposal was defeated 54% to 46% in a referendum.

2005 mayoral race
Following the 2002 electoral losses, the Non-Partisan Association rebuilt its slate for the 2005 election. Sullivan beat former BC Liberal Party deputy-Premier Christy Clark for the NPA mayoral nomination. He then led the party to electoral majorities on the City Council, School Board and Park Board with 17 out of 27 seats.

On May 2, 2006, Sullivan provided a statement to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police about his past decisions to provide money to illegal drug users. Because of increased public awareness surrounding these incidents during the mayoralty race, the Vancouver Chief of Police requested that the RCMP investigate these incidents.

Sullivan's statement gave a brief account of his decision to provide financial support to a 20-year-old woman working as a prostitute in his neighbourhood in the late 1990s, by providing $40 a day for three weeks for heroin. Sullivan also gave money to a severely addicted crack cocaine user so he did not have to steal, and let him smoke in his van.

Jim / James Green controversy
In the election, Sullivan ran against several candidates, the most prominent of which was Vision Vancouver councillor Jim Green. Sullivan defeated Green by a narrow margin of 3,747 votes of 130,000 ballots cast. A second, independent candidate named James Green also ran in this election, gaining over 4,000 votes. The close margin of Sullivan's victory and the similarity of independent candidate James Green's name to that of Sullivan's main opponent Jim Green led to a major controversy. Speculation that James Green was a "spoiler" candidate was inflamed when it became known that Sullivan had helped Green in a dispute about office space. No allegations were ever proven that Sullivan was supporting the independent candidate James Green, and both men denied any wrongdoing.

Citizen Sam documentary
Sullivan was the subject of a National Film Board of Canada documentary, Citizen Sam. It premiered in November 2006, and was nominated for a Gemini Award.

Olympic and Paralympic Games
Sullivan took part in the Closing Ceremony of the 2006 Winter Olympics, in the ceremony where the Olympic Flag was passed from Turin to Vancouver. The ceremony involves an official of the current host city waving the flag eight times, then handing it off to an official of the next host city, who waves it eight times. When it was his turn, the flag was put into a special bracket built into Sullivan's wheelchair. He then swung his wheelchair back and forth eight times to wave the flag. After the event, Sullivan received letters from people across the world who were inspired by the act, and received many invitations to be a keynote speaker at conventions. "I especially was moved to get letters from people who wrote very eloquent letters, saying they had considered suicide, and changed their mind when they saw me perform my duties...To see I had such an impact on people's lives was truly a humbling experience," Sullivan said in response to the reaction.

EcoDensity initiative
Shortly after the World Urban Forum held in Vancouver in June 2006, Sullivan launched the EcoDensity initiative. It was defined at its launch 'to make Vancouver more sustainable, affordable, and liveable'. This included plans to densify Vancouver, including more towers and allowing secondary houses on existing single-family properties. Sullivan claimed higher densities and smaller ecological footprints were necessary to sustain a growing population.

In a move that was roundly criticized by both community members and the local media, Sullivan's staff registered the term "EcoDensity" with the patent office, under his name. In September 2007 the City of Vancouver announced that the ownership of the trademark had been transferred to the city.

In 2009 the Canadian Institute of Planners awarded the EcoDensity its Planning Excellence award for City Planning.

Project Civil City
Sullivan conducted an informal survey on his website asking visitors how they felt about civil disorder in the City of Vancouver. On November 26, 2006, he released the results of his survey and created a new program called Project Civil City, which is known as the mayor's effort to enhance public order in Vancouver's public areas. The conclusion of Project Civil City was that police were not the answer to the city's social problems. The police chief of that time was opposed to the project, saying "I'm not in favor of this kind of position" and "I can do this job". Throughout his term, Sullivan was criticized by the opposition for his reluctance to hire more police. An important initiative of Project Civil City was the creation of the Street to Home Foundation, whose goal was to encourage philanthropists in the city to contribute toward the solution to homelessness.

An initiative Sullivan championed was CAST(chronic addiction substitution treatment). This would prescribe drugs to people with addictions. He formed a group called Inner Change which raised several million dollars to support the SALOME drug trials. An important goal was to reduce overdose deaths. This was opposed by the opposition.

Statistics from the Vancouver Police Board indicate that in 2005, the year before he became mayor, 51,429 property crimes were reported in the city. In 2008, his final year as Mayor there were 40,514 property crimes.

However, in its first two years, homelessness went up 54 to 78 percent, drug offenses doubled, and street disorder went up 84 percent. The project was cancelled in 2010.

Civic strike
A civic strike of Vancouver's inside, outside, and library workers that began on July 26, 2007, was dubbed "Sam's Strike" by the strikers. The strike lasted 88 days and was the second longest in Vancouver's history; the longest was 90 days under Mayor Mike Harcourt in 1981. The unions blamed Sullivan's intransigence at the bargaining table for prolonging the strike. The union cited the city never tabling a written counteroffer as evidence of the city not negotiating. A mediator was called in who recommended 17.5% (21% compounded), which was the amount accepted by the rest of the municipalities in the region. When two of the civic unions rejected the recommendation, public support collapsed, and within the week a new vote by the three civic unions accepted the deal. On October 19, 2007 CUPE Local 391 voted 71 percent in favour of the city's offer and ended the strike.

NPA donation allegations
Critics accused of Sullivan of misusing political donations when $5000 raised for the Knowards campaign through the Nanitch Policy Society was used to buy tickets for campaign volunteers at a 2004 NPA dinner. Calls for an inquiry by Vancouver city council opposition members were subsequently dismissed by the Provincial government. In December 2009, The Tyee published a letter from Sullivan in which he explained the background behind the Nanitch Policy Society, and in particular the donation made to the NPA.

Ouster from NPA
In 2008, although the NPA board had greenlighted Sullivan to run for mayor and he had the endorsement of all NPA City Councillors, NPA councillor Peter Ladner announced that he wanted to challenge Sullivan for mayor. On June 8, 2008, it was announced that Ladner had defeated Sullivan to win the NPA's mayoral nomination. Ladner beat Sullivan in a tight, 1,066-to-986 vote after convincing enough NPA members that Sullivan would be defeated in the municipal election without a change in leadership. Ladner proceeded to lose against his mayoral opponent with NPA reduced to 4 out of 27 seats on the council, School Board and Park Board.

Global Civic Policy Society
In November 2009, Sullivan formed the Global Civic Policy Society with a $500,000 startup grant from the Annenberg Foundation of California. The society hosts a speaker series called Public Salons that "provide a public platform for the thinkers and doers of Vancouver". The presentations are featured on a 1/2 hour weekly television program on Shaw TV called Sam Sullivan's Public Salons. Through its Greeting Fluency Initiative, the society hosts salons that encourage citizens to "learn a few words of greetings in the languages of their neighbours". It has developed a smartphone app called Greeting Fluency Aid, available free to the public, containing greeting phrases from eighteen languages. It includes over 30 endangered first nations languages of British Columbia. The society hosts the Vancouver Urban Forum with a specific goal of increasing urban densities. Its Early Documents Transcription Program is putting the oldest Vancouver City Council Minutes online for free access to the public. It contributes to short BC education and policy videos under the Kumtuks banner which had 800,000 views by the end of 2017.

Centre for Fourth Wave Reform
In February 2011, Sullivan founded the Centre for Fourth Wave Reform to explore ideas for change in municipal governance.

Chinook Wawa Revival
Sullivan is trying to promote the revival of Chinook Jargon, the aboriginal trade language once widely used in British Columbia. On June 27, 2015, together with retired University of British Columbia Anthropology professor Jay Powell, he hosted Chinook Wawa Day at the Creekside Community Centre in Vancouver; from September 26–27, they hosted Chinook Wawa Weekend. The workshops featured educational material to support citizens interested in the nearly extinct language. Sullivan has published and translated several videos of aboriginal elders speaking Chinook Wawa.

Transcribimus
In June 2012, Sullivan began hiring individuals and later recruiting volunteers to transcribe handwritten Vancouver City Council Minutes from 1886 to 1891. His goal was to make the achievements of David Oppenheimer, Vancouver's second Mayor, accessible online free of charge to the public. In December 2015 he announced the completion of the first four years of Minutes and the creation of Transcribimus to recruit more volunteers to transcribe additional handwritten documents of Vancouver. Transcribimus is a network of over 20 volunteers that has transcribed 2,500 pages of handwritten documents.

Kumtuks Educational Series
In January 2016, Sullivan began publishing Kumtuks, a Chinook Jargon word meaning "knowledge". The series includes a video channel and articles about British Columbia's history, public policy, and general knowledge.

Provincial politics
In November 2012, Sullivan announced he would seek the BC Liberal Party nomination in Vancouver-False Creek after the current incumbent Mary McNeil said she would not be seeking a second term in the 2013 British Columbia general election. Sullivan's main competition for the nomination was Lorne Mayencourt. Sullivan defeated Mayencourt by a vote of 273 to 202, with commercial litigation lawyer Brian Fixter coming in third. Sullivan went on to win the election, receiving 11,328 votes, with the NDP candidate Matt Toner receiving 7,981 votes.

2017 provincial election
Sullivan was re-elected in the 2017 election as MLA for Vancouver False Creek, but only after a recount. On June 11, he was appointed Minister of Communities, Sport and Cultural Development with responsibility for Translink. His first move was to scrap the requirement for a referendum on Transit funding.

His tenure in cabinet was short lived as the Liberal minority government of Christy Clark was defeated in a confidence motion on June 29, 2017. As a result, the BC New Democratic Party led by John Horgan formed a government weeks later, with the support of the Green Party of British Columbia, and Sullivan and the Liberals moved to the Opposition benches where he served as the Official Opposition Critic for Housing. Clark announced her resignation as Liberal leader weeks later.

Liberal leadership
Sullivan announced on September 21, 2017, that he was seeking the leadership of the BC Liberal Party. "Sam Sullivan entered to raise issues, not win, and finished sixth, which is probably where he expected to be. " He was eliminated on the first ballot. Sullivan was defeated in the 2020 provincial election.

2018 BC Liberal leadership

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Wankerhof

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The result of the debate was DELETE. -Doc (?) 16:54, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Wankerhof
Neologism in an online battle cry generator. Non notable, probably advertising. Zeimusu | Talk page 05:33, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Neologism. Cnwb 06:08, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Crycruft. TheMadBaron 07:05, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete However, it has already succeeded in its sole purpose, to make us all look at it. --Wetman 09:14, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Please delete this article all the way to Wankerhof. Aecis 17:27, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
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Clarence Island

Clarence Island may refer to:

 * Clarence Island (South Shetland Islands), Antarctica
 * Clarence Island, Chile
 * Clarence Islands, Nunavut, Canada

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Angelo Cataldi

Angelo Anthony Cataldi Jr. (born March 13, 1951) is an American retired sports radio personality for 94.1 WIP in Philadelphia. Cataldi began his career as a sports journalist for The Philadelphia Inquirer. From 1989 until 2023 he hosted The WIP Morning Show. During Cataldi's tenure the show became one of the most popular shows in Philadelphia radio history. Philadelphia Magazine describes Cataldi as having "done more than anyone to shape how we talk about — and even think about — sports" in Philadelphia.

Early life
Cataldi was born in Providence, Rhode Island on March 13, 1951. He grew up a fan of the New York Yankees. Cataldi graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 1972 with a bachelor's degree in journalism and Columbia University in 1977 with a master's degree in journalism.

Career
Cataldi began his career in 1975 as the news editor for the Narragansett Times. He joined his hometown paper the Providence Journal as their general assignments reporter in 1977. Cataldi is one of only two journalists to have covered the longest professional baseball game, between the Pawtucket Red Sox and the Rochester Red Wings in 1981.

The Philadelphia Inquirer
Cataldi moved to Philadelphia in 1983 after receiving an offer to be a sports journalist for The Philadelphia Inquirer. During his time at The Inquirer, Cataldi was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the 1986 Eagles and their new head coach Buddy Ryan. Cataldi's coverage of the 1986 season revealed that Ryan failed to fulfill many of the promises he had made prior to the season - such as guaranteeing the Eagles would go undefeated against other teams in the NFC East. Following the article being published, Ryan seldom called on Cataldi to answer his questions during press conferences.

At The Inquirer he wrote investigation pieces on fixed horse races and corruption in the sports memorabilia industry. Cataldi wrote a story about how doctor's medical evaluations are undermined by working for sports team, but the story's lede was heavily changed without his permission. This decision by The Inquirer contributed to his decision to move to sports radio.

WIP Morning Show
Cataldi had a job offer to be a writer for The Los Angeles Times, but he opted to join WIP because the pay was better. Cataldi's first work on radio came in 1988 as a part-time weekday host during the station's 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM hours. At first, Cataldi provided just sports analysis, but his producer told him "stop pontificating and start entertaining. This is not journalism." In 1988, Cataldi joined WIP's morning show with Tom Brookshier. The show was initially titled Brookie and the Rookie before later being renamed Brookshire and Cataldi. Cataldi became the host of the WIP Morning Show in 1993 along with Al Morganti. The show was an instant hit and dominated particularly in ratings among men aged 25 to 54. Rhea Hughes joined as another co-host in 1997 and Keith Jones joined as a co-host in 2002. Beginning in 2003, the WIP Morning Show began broadcasting from the Borgata in Atlantic City every Friday. For 25 years, the WIP Morning Show was broadcast the day before Thanksgiving from the Philadelphia International Airport.

During his tenure as WIP's morning host, Cataldi has been known for both his vocal praise and criticism of Philadelphia's sports teams, coaches, players and fans. In April 1999, Cataldi, along with then-Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell, organized a group of Eagles fans - known as the Dirty 30 - to travel to the NFL Draft in New York City where the Eagles had the second pick. The "Dirty 30" were told to cheer if the Eagles drafted running back Ricky Williams, but instead the team drafted quarterback Donovan McNabb, who was greeted with a chorus of boos when he appeared on stage. Cataldi has stated that the boos were not directed at McNabb, but at the Eagle's organization, who passed on drafting Williams. Cataldi has also had feuds with a number of coaches in Philadelphia particularly Andy Reid and Gabe Kapler, as well as former Eagles owner Norman Braman and former Eagles President Joe Banner. Cataldi once challenged former Philadelphia Phillies manager Charlie Manuel to a fist fight.

Cataldi is known for interjecting a large entertainment component into the WIP Morning Show including pop culture mentions and comedy bits. In 1993, the WIP Morning Show founded the Wing Bowl, an annual eating contest, held on the Friday before the Super Bowl, because the Eagles were historically almost never in the game. The Wing Bowl turned into a spectacle attracting more than 20,000 people and from 2000 to 2018 was held at the Wells Fargo Center. The Wing Bowl was ended following the Eagle's victory in Super Bowl LII, which was the franchise's first Super Bowl victory.

Despite generally being seen as a critic of Philadelphia athletes, Cataldi has held events in support of players. In 1992, Cataldi organized an event known as "Honk for Herschel" encouraging Eagles fans to gather at Veterans Stadium and honk their car in support of signing free agent running back Herschel Walker. In 1993, Cataldi organized a 2,000 person event known as "Rally for Reggie" to encourage Reggie White to re-sign with the Eagles. In July 2008, Cataldi launched a campaign to get Phillies' outfielder Pat Burrell into the 2008 MLB All-Star Game. Despite organizing an event where pre-selected fans spent more than 50 hours voting for Pat Burrell at Citizens Bank Park, Burrell was not named to the team.

During his tenure on the air, Cataldi has frequently received calls from Philadelphia politicians including former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell, the late U.S. Senator Arlen Specter, former U.S. Congressman Patrick Murphy and former City Councilman Al Taubenberger. When then-Senator Barack Obama was running for president in 2008, he called into Cataldi's show twice to try and win over Pennsylvania voters in the presidential primary.

The WIP Morning Show is also known for having a number of continuous, passionate callers including Kenny from the Dirty 30, Butch from Manayunk and Eagles Shirley.

Cataldi has been praised for his strong stance against athletes accused of domestic violence including Brett Myers and Odubel Herrera. He suggested that fans protest outside of Citizens Bank Park to call on the Phillies to release Herrera, who was arrested on charges of domestic violence.

Cataldi co-authored The Great Philadelphia Sports Debate with fellow WIP host Glen Macnow in 2004. The Broadcast Pioneers of Philadelphia inducted Cataldi into their Hall of Fame in 2012. That same year, Cataldi was a finalist for the National Association of Broadcasters' Major Market Personality award.

On October 6, 2021, at 8:00 AM, Angelo Cataldi announced that he would retire from WIP radio following the conclusion of the 2022 Philadelphia Eagles season. In his final year on the air, the Phillies made the World Series and the Eagles made Super Bowl LVII. Catladi's final show occurred on February 17, 2023 and featured special guests including former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell and video messages from legendary Philadelphia sports figures including Eagles general manager Howie Roseman, former Eagle's coaches Doug Pederson and Andy Reid, former Phillie's manager Charlie Manuel and former Villanova men's basketball coach Jay Wright.

At 10:00 AM, Cataldi signed off one final time saying "I mocked every athlete who said this when they retire, and I’m going to close by saying it myself — it’s time for me to go, Philadelphia. I need to spend more time with my family. Thank you all for an amazing run. Goodbye."

The Great Sports Debate
Cataldi served as a personality for The Great Sports Debate, a sports debate show on PRISM. Cataldi was part of a panel featuring Jayson Stark, Al Morganti, Glen Macnow and later Mike Missanelli. The show ran from 1990 to 1997 and is credited for being one of the first sports debate shows on television. One of Cataldi's most notable moments on the show was his live reaction to the not guilty verdict in the murder trial of O. J. Simpson. Cataldi, who believed Simpson was guilty, responded in outrage referring to the verdict as an "outrage" and "a disgrace." Another memorable moment came when Phillies' pitcher Curt Schilling appeared on the show to confront Cataldi, who was a vocal critic of Schilling.

Personal life
Cataldi currently resides in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia and also owns a home in Sea Isle City, New Jersey. He previously lived in Medford, New Jersey.

In August 1999, Cataldi was arrested and fined $82 for not having a beach tag at the beach in Avalon, New Jersey. Cataldi then proceeded to work with state legislator Neil M. Cohen to challenge the legality of beach tags.

During the 2004 U.S. presidential election, Cataldi ripped President George W. Bush as a "bully" for his stance favoring restriction of freedom of speech on radio and television, and Senator John Kerry as a "phony" for questionable financial dealings, and wrote Ed Rendell's name in for president.

Cataldi is a collector of 1950s memorabilia.

Cataldi wrote a memoir about his career on radio Loud. He co-hosts a podcast discussing television called The TV Show with longtime WIP co-host Rhea Hughes and comedian Jay Black.

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Fred Bass

Fred Bass is a former city councillor, environmentalist and a preventive medicine physician in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. As an epidemiologist and physician, he focused on reducing tobacco smoking. He served on Vancouver City Council from 1999 to 2005.

Background
Bass was born in New York City, attended Antioch College, Case-Western Reserve Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, and Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He served as a preventive medicine officer in the US Army's 7th Infantry Division in Korea and Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. After his military service, he was a tuberculosis control officer for the New Jersey Department of Health and unit medical health officer. He earned a master's degree in epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health and a Doctor of Science at Johns Hopkins, writing a thesis on medical care use attributable to cigarette smoking. He taught at the University of Pennsylvania.

Anti-tobacco work
In 1975, Bass began working with the Vancouver health department as a preventive medicine and epidemiology specialist. Soon after, he founded the Tobacco and Illness Committee of the BC Medical Association, and chaired the committee for two decades. With the Vancouver health department, he became Canada's first director of health promotion. In 1989, Bass founded the B.C. Doctors' Stop-Smoking Program, which educated doctors about ways to help addicted patients quit. This program evolved into the Society for Clinical Preventive Care in 1997. Lee Bacchus of the Vancouver Sun called him "perhaps the most passionate and dauntless anti-smoking advocate in the province."

Known for having a quirky side, his initiatives included hiring a plane to fly an anti-tobacco banner at a fireworks event that was sponsored by Benson & Hedges, and organizing a race with live turkeys in Robson Square to publicize a cold-turkey campaign. In the late 1980s to mid 1990s, after years of pressure from the BC Medical Association, the provincial government introduced a series of laws against tobacco advertising and sales of tobacco products to minors, and banned indoor smoking in all public places. In 2001 he was given a Canadian Medical Association Honorary Membership for his work in tobacco control.

Bass himself had started smoking at age 16, and was a pack-a-day smoker when he quit at age 28. "Because I smoked," he said in 1998, "I know the many positive aspects of smoking and I can understand what's going on inside the head of the smoker.

Early involvement with Vancouver politics
In 1989–90, Bass served on Vancouver's Clouds of Change Task Force which addressed the issues of global climate change. Bass, concerned about global warming, entered electoral politics in 1996 as a candidate for Vancouver's civic Green Party under the leadership of Stuart Parker but was defeated by a wide margin. With the support of the Greens' executive and provincial leadership, he sought and won the nomination of the Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE), the party with which the Greens had just inked a coalition agreement.

Elected city councillor
Bass was first elected to city council in 1999 as a member of COPE, and topped the polls when re-elected in 2002 with 70,525 votes. His political priorities were action on the environment and transit. Bass was outspoken in his opposition to the expansion of gambling and to excessive expenditures for rapid transit by a faction of his party under the leadership of Mayor Larry Campbell.

In order to encourage cycling and walking, Bass introduced a controversial motion in 2005 to explore devoting two lanes of the six-lane Burrard Bridge for cycling (cyclists had been sharing the sidewalk with pedestrians). His first step was a minimal-cost trial of using one lane in each direction for bicycles, reserving the existing sidewalk for pedestrians. A plan to widen the bridge sidewalks was slated to cost $13 million if Bass's $2 million trial failed. Some cyclists applauded the move, though other users of the current bridge sidewalks questioned whether any changes were necessary. Concerns about motorist rage did not deter Bass, who stated "Motorists called for my head long ago and my head is still on my neck." Heritage advocates strongly supported the bicycle trial, since the sidewalk-widening would impair the heritage value of this landmark, art-deco bridge.

In 2005, three COPE councillors and the mayor split from the party to form Vision Vancouver. Bass and councillors Tim Louis, David Cadman, Anne Roberts and Ellen Woodsworth remained in COPE. Bass was not re-elected in the 2005 election, finishing 12th overall with 48,248 votes. In late 2006 he announced his aspiration to run for mayor in the next Vancouver civic election because of his concerns for respect, global warming, homelessness and lack of affordable housing. In August 2007, he announced that he no longer intended to participate in the mayoral race.

Environmental activism
Bass described his anti-smoking work as "practice" for campaigning against global warming. In May 2012, Bass was one of several protesters arrested in White Rock, BC for blocking a train that was carrying American coal destined for shipment to Asia. In 2019, Bass began to facilitate public workshops on "eco-resilience", which he describes as the capacity for individuals, households, communities, and ecosystems to respond to the stresses of environmental collapse.

Personal life
Bass's family comes from an Orthodox Jewish tradition. While he was studying for his undergraduate degree, he became involved in a work-study project in Alaska that was led by Quakers. He remained connected with Quaker communities thereafter, and in later life became a Quaker. He also practices Soto Zen Buddhism. Bass has four adult children, two with his long-term partner Roma Dehr, and two from a previous marriage.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dysonberg Confusion Principle

 * 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 No Consensus, feel free to merge as suggested. R e  dwolf24  (talk) 00:09, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Dysonberg Confusion Principle
Non notable I think (but I might just make one of those hats). Perhaps a candidate for BJAODN. See also Cosmic ray deflection society CambridgeBayWeather 05:37, 7 October 2005 (UTC) See below. CambridgeBayWeather 17:14, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete nonsense --Trovatore 06:08, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, dribbling nonsense. Average Earthman 08:34, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Why isn't "hoax" a speedy delete category? --Wetman 09:17, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Mainly because it can be hard to define when a hoax is "obvious" enough for a csd. Also, in many cases an obvious hoax can be csd'd as nonsense... Usrnme h8er 09:59, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete, hoax. Merge, per Qirex, I'm happy to conceed that point. Usrnme h8er 09:59, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge with Cosmic ray deflection society (see other discussions on that page there, as well as at Valloween). Also to those voting delete on the grounds of hoax, I suggest you read the articles and their links before voting in future. --Qirex 11:46, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I forgot to cross post this from Articles for deletion/Cosmic ray deflection society yesterday: The group themselves may be spouting nonsense but that is not a reason to delete. I think these people, Heaven's Gate (cult) and Order of the Solar Temple, are also spouting nonsense (and a lot more dangerous) but I would not want to see them deleted. The reason here to delete is non-notability. CambridgeBayWeather 08:00, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I was unsure as to their notability which is why I didn't tag it as a speedy. If others feel that the group as such has some sort of notability then it should be kept. CambridgeBayWeather 15:46, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Merge with Cosmic ray deflection society. Having read through everything again, and the fact that also aswell took the time to work on the article (and ask for help). I have checked the links and think that I was hasty (not the first time) and wish to change my vote. CambridgeBayWeather 06:53, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Merge with Cosmic ray deflection society. As long as NPOV is maintained.--Mpeisenbr 04:18, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Cosmic ray deflection society

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The result of the debate was No Consensus. R e  dwolf24  (talk) 00:11, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Cosmic ray deflection society
Non notable I think (but I might just make one of those hats). Perhaps a candidate for BJAODN. See also Dysonberg Confusion Principle CambridgeBayWeather 05:37, 7 October 2005 (UTC) See below. CambridgeBayWeather 06:53, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete nonsense (maybe not quite patent). --Trovatore 06:09, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * It does look much better now. Weak keep. --Trovatore 01:53, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The patent must at least be pending for this nonsense. Give it the elbow. Grutness...  wha?  07:44, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The group themselves may be spouting nonsense but that is not a reason to delete. I think these people, Heaven's Gate (cult) and Order of the Solar Temple, are also spouting nonsense (and a lot more dangerous) but I would not want to see them deleted. The reason here to delete is non-notability. CambridgeBayWeather 08:00, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete, inconsequential nonsense. Can't they even get a decent website? Average Earthman 08:33, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete --Wetman 09:17, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Tentative, precarious keep, as per CambridgeBayWeather's second contribution to discussion. As for notability, looking through google, I think for now it's notable enough. However, it needs to be wikified, cleaned up, and made neutral or at least given a npov tag. --Qirex 11:29, 7 October 2005 (UTC) ps. god bless evangelical zealots who encourage this kind of anti-science
 * I was unsure as to their notability which is why I didn't tag it as a speedy. If others feel that the group as such has some sort of notability then it should be kept. CambridgeBayWeather 15:46, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete, there are not many unique Google results if quotes are used. I don't think anyone will be looking for it in ten years, either. -- Kjkolb 03:22, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I wrote the three articles in contention here. I am also aswell, a chef/webservices specialist in New Orleans. Sorry that I registered after I wrote these entries. Reach me at a.asell(at)gs.net.

We have about 250 members world wide, including many artcart artists, environmentalists and art critics. We are a humorous environmental group. We were a major player in the web goes black, back in 1996 and were one of the first groups to call attention to the whole in the ozone in the 2 year period back in 73, when no one seemed to care. We were the ones with the holes in our heads then. I have looked at all the pages of those of you that want to delete the cosmic rays from this site and am surprised that none of you see the tongue in cheek humor/putdown of the psuedo-sciences. While at the same time producing some rather interesting recycled art. Here's a list of awards, articles, links and more. I am correcting the original page to fix the links... One last question, why does my name come up empty? Do I need a page on myself (the ultimate vanity) where everyone else can come in and edit?

Accoladeswe have received... Web Awards, Geek Site of the Day, Morts top 99% of the web, Freedom Finger Award as well as several site of the days, now defunct. We have appeared in... Two movies, Wild Wheels by Harrod Blank and Life & Death at Barrister's Newspapers and magazines... AP wire article picked up by 130 newspapers Omni Magazine Article in Raw Vision Bands Plan Nine and Eugene Chadbourne have dedicated songs to the society. Plus... 645 links in parenthesis on Google Organizations that link to our organization...

[http://dir.yahoo.com/Entertainment/Humor/Science/ Science Humor in the Yahoo! Directory]

Anti-Censorship Page

Aluminum Foil Deflector Beanie

The Church of the SubGenius

The Environment Directory - Science:Atmospheric Science:Ozone

University of Utah, the High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) is an experiment to study the highest energy cosmic rays to determine the energy, direction, and chemical composition of the incident particle.

Factbites

Super-Kamiokande is a joint Japan-US collaboration to construct the world's largest underground neutrino observatory.

Scientific Computing at Evergreen State College

Business Council on the Environment

Merge Valloween and Dysonburg Confusion Principle which are also under penalty of death. also aswell 07:05, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. I'd like first to thank Alsoaswell for taking the time to find out what Wikipedia is, what it's all about, and what it is not. Your long additions to the always-burgeoning AfD page are.. wait, I'm being sarcastic. Sorry. *ahem* Your group is NN - very funny ideas, but unless referenced to prove relevance to anyone outside their circle, I say again: delete. Wikipedia isn't about funny ideas. It's an encyclopedia. Eaglizard 10:45, 8 October 2005 (UTC) Abstain. Eaglizard 05:16, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Reply to Eaglizard: I don't find that attitude to be appropriate at all; we were all new at some point, and honestly, it's not the end of the world that someone made an honest mistake. Get a life. -- (the following paragraph also written by me) Qirex 11:00, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Reply to Alsoaswell:Wikipedia is not meant to be cryptic or sarcastic, it's just an encyclopaedia, and so, in my opinion, these articles should not present this information as if this is a serious weirdo-collective. There are plenty of articles around about internet jokes etc, but they are explicit and clear in the explanation of the joke. I stand by my original vote to keep (and the other related articles should merge), and I strongly suggest that the author, also aswell, should change the style of writing and the content to explain what this organisation is about etc. But, so as not to mess with Wikipedia policy, this should be done after this nomination has been decided upon. With regard to the page on yourself, yes, create it, just click on your name in the upper right corner of the page (next to "My talk, Preferences..."). The structure of Wikipedia is such that these pages are created in a different directory and indexed differently to the articles etc (and attacking Wikipedia directly is not going to help you plead your case, honestly). Please read the help pages for more info. -- (the preceding two paragraphs both written by me) Qirex 11:00, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Reply to Quirex I followed the directions at the helpless newbie page and dropped by The Welcoming Committee and picked a member who I think will help me bring the cosmic ray page into compliance along the lines of Sub Genius. I live in New Orleans and have a lot of other things going on in my life right now so I don't have a lot of time to devote to this, but I am starting to see that I need a serious re-edit of the article. If anyone here cares to help out, please feel free to join in. I feel that I have shown enough links to show that the organization is real and respected in humor, physics, outsider artists, free speech and just plain wierdo circles. I am just asking for a little time to get my first attempt right. Thanks for any of you that have bothered to check my references.

also aswell 16:26, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I have done an edit and realize there are still too many quotes from the original manuscripts, but I feel this is a good start on satisfying some of the problems that have been pointed out. Again, I ask for a bit more time to work this out as I have other business/flood/hurricane related problems that really need addressing. also aswell 19:15, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Reply to Qirex: 1) You're right. 2) You correctly chastise my lousy attitude (I was annoyed after having been working off this AfD list for about 5 hours, and I mistakenly got the (researched) impression that this was an attempt to slide a popular joke / hoax site into the 'pedia under the guise of a straight face), but then you tell me to 'get a life'? Eaglizard 05:00, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

 * To Alsoaswell: I apologize. My sarcasm was completely misplaced in this forum, and not very clever, either. I prefer it when I act like this; I don't know wtf was up with me here. Again, sorry. I've changed my vote to 'abstain'. Thanks for contributing! Eaglizard 05:16, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep: Along with Qirex, I believe the group is sufficiently notable. The article has been improved to make it clear that the group is satirical, and now satisfies basic Wikipedia standards. also aswell did most of the work himself, after receiving some coaching tips from me on his talk page, so I am confident that he is willing to learn and conform to Wikipedia policies. Mamawrites 10:08, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep Having read through everything again, and the fact that also aswell took the time to work on the article (and ask for help). I have checked the links and think that I was hasty (not the first time) and wish to change my vote. CambridgeBayWeather 06:53, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep: I did my homework and learned a lot about how Wikipedia in the process. So I decided I knew enough to vote. also aswell 07:30, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Cyclone Ingrid

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More impact. Jdorje 03:07, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Plus a storm-track-picture-thing. The info's on Unisys. -- Sarsaparilla39 09:20, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

This article needs an expanded intro. --Core des at talk. ^_^ 23:10, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Ingrid is a Category 5 on Australian Scales, not a Category 4.
http://www.bom.gov.au/announcements/sevwx/tc_ingrid/images/Ingrid_best_track.png

It's a Category 5 before its first landfall, and I can't figure out how to change this in the article.

Thanks.

Metamorphazone 05:25, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

 * That was fixed. It was just a problem with the Infobox. Hurricanehink ( talk ) 05:27, 11 November 2007 (UTC)

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Per WP:COMMONNAME, I think it should be moved back to Cyclone Ingrid, as that is how it's mostly commonly known. For comments, please go to the discussion here on the WPTC talk page. --♫ Hurricanehink ( talk ) 01:47, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

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Why do Ingrid tropical cyclone develo in late summer 41.114.26.120 (talk) 19:17, 13 February 2022 (UTC)

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Vesle

The Vesle is the river on which the city of Reims stands. It is a fourth order river of France and a left-bank tributary of the Aisne. It is 139.4 km long, and rises in the département of Marne through which it flows for most of its course.

Geography
The Vesle flows through the following départements and towns: It rises at an elevation of about 187 m, on the dip slope of the Upper Cretaceous chalk, near the village of Somme-Vesle, east of Châlons-en-Champagne. Though still passing through the chalk country, it soon begins to flow on its own Holocene deposits. It passes through Reims (latitude 49° 15’ 57’’ N, longitude 4° 1’ 46’’ E). On leaving the city's western outskirts, it enters the much more wooded landscape of the Eocene geology. The info box photograph shows the Vesle as it passes through fen carr, a little downstream from Reims. Halfway From Reims to Soissons, at Fismes (Latitude 49° 18' 28" N Longitude 03° 40' 53" E) the river receives the river Ardre from its left bank. At Condé-sur-Aisne, having descended to an elevation of about 45 m, the Vesle joins the Aisne.
 * Marne: Courtisols, Reims, Fismes
 * Aisne: Braine

Communications
From Sept Saulx, some 20 km. above Reims, and into the city, the river is paralleled by the Aisne to Marne Canal. Below Reims, its valley accommodates the road, now the N31/E46, between the two former Gaulish tribal centres of Reims and Soissons.

Tributaries

 * The Noblette joins from the right bank near Vadenay;
 * the Cheneu joins from the right bank at Mourmelon-le-Petit;
 * the Fosse joins from the left bank at Muizon.
 * The Ardre is its principal tributary. It joins from the left bank, at Fismes.

Flow rates of the Vesle at Braine
The Vesle is a river of medium flow, like most which come from the chalkland of the Champagne-Ardenne région. Its flow was recorded over a period of 34 years (1967-2000), at Braine, in the department of Aisne. That is to say a little short of its confluence with the Aisne. The catchment area down to this point is 1,440 km2, very nearly the whole basin.

The yearly mean flow or discharge of the river at Braine is 7.72 m3/s.

Seasonal fluctuations in the flow are very small. The high waters of the winter/spring period take the monthly mean to a level of between 9.2 m3/s and 12.6 m3/s, from January to May inclusive (with a maximum in March) and the low waters of late Summer/ early Autumn, August to October inclusive, with a minimum of 3.66 m3/s in September. The difference is nonetheless noticeable.

History
The N31 road has seen the passage of many kings, emperors and armies over the centuries. The French kings were crowned at Reims and usually returned to Paris this way. The river's upper reaches pass over the chalk plain of Champaigne Once rather disparagingly called Champaigne Pouilleuse, because of its poverty. This region has long been used for military training, its geology and use being similar to those of Salisbury Plain. The training ground nearest to it is at the Camp de Mourmelon. During the Great War of 1914–18, the river's valley was just behind the French-held front but at times, particularly in the spring and summer of 1918, it was heavily fought over. See Second Battle of the Marne.

Ecology
Two important natural zones of ecological, zoological and botanical interest, (ZNIEFF) have been decreed on the length of the Vesle. The first is upstream from Reims and designated as 'The great fens of the Vesle Valley from Prunay to Courmelois' (Les grands Marais du Val de Vesle de Prunay à Courmelois). It extends to 400 hectares. The second, which is much more extensive carries the name Vallée de la Vesle de Livry-Louvercy à Courlandon and covers 2,682 ha. extending both above and below Reims. It includes some land in the city itself and covers about 46 km. of the river's length.

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Acacia anastema

Acacia anastema, commonly known as sandridge gidgee or just gidgee, is a tree in the family Fabaceae. Endemic to Western Australia, it occurs within a fairly small area of semi-arid land east of Carnarvon.

Sandridge Gidgee grows as an upright tree to seven metres high. Like most Acacia species, it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. These may be up to twenty centimetres long and five centimetres wide. The flowers are yellow, and held in cylindrical clusters between two and four centimetres long. The pods are slightly curved, up to 14 centimetres long and two to three centimetres wide.

Sandridge gidgee has limited utility. Its long straight limbs are resistant to termites, and so are locally used for fence posts. The tree provides no forage to animals as its canopy is typically out of reach of stock.

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Cornelius Scipio Salvito

Cornelius Scipio ‘Salvito’ (the agnomen Salvito was conferred on him due to his resemblance to a mime artist of the same name) was a minor member of the gens Cornelia who lived in the late Roman Republic. He was perhaps a descendant of Scipio Africanus, the Roman general who defeated Hannibal, through his second son Lucius Cornelius Scipio.

Salvito was, according to Plutarch and Suetonius, "a contemptible nobody", who was taken by Julius Caesar in 46 BC on his North African campaign against the remnants of Pompey's forces, led by Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Scipio Nasica. Because of a long-standing belief that only a Scipio could be victorious in Africa, and because he was facing a Scipio, Caesar placed Salvito at the front of his army, either as a good luck charm to calm his nervous troops, or to demonstrate his contempt to Scipio Nasica. Caesar forced him to attack the enemy frequently and to bring on the battle.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/.ROX

 * 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. -Doc (?) 16:56, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

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I had marked this for speedy as an advertisement; an anon removed the tag. Actually there doesn't seem to be any such speedy criterion (why not?) so I brought it here. --Trovatore 05:39, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete advertisement --Trovatore 05:39, 7 October 2005 (UTC) (nominator)
 * Delete. non-encyclopedic. Cnwb 06:02, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Non-encyclopedic. -- Mewcenary 14:10, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per above. feydey 11:25, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
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Tekoa

Tekoa or variants may refer to:

 * Tekoa, a biblical site near Teqoa/Tuqu', Palestine
 * Tekoa (Israeli settlement), in Gush Etzion, Palestine
 * Tekoa, Washington, United States
 * Tekoa Mountain (Washington), U.S.
 * Tekoa Mountain (Massachusetts), U.S.
 * Woman of Tekoa, unnamed figure in the Hebrew Bible
 * Yosef Tekoah (1925–1991), Israeli diplomat

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David Cadman

David Cadman is a former Canadian politician, who served on Vancouver City Council from 2002 to 2011. A social and environmental activist, Cadman served as a member of the Coalition of Progressive Electors.

Cadman was born in Montreal, Quebec and grew up in Toronto, Ontario. Cadman studied at the University of the South in Tennessee and Geneva in International Development. He later attended the Sorbonne and is fluent in French. Cadman spent several years after university in Tanzania and Kenya developing literacy programs. He returned to Canada in 1976 and settled in British Columbia.

Cadman worked for the Social Planning and Research Council of B.C. and the Greater Vancouver Regional District as a communications director. He later served as president of the Society Promoting Environmental Conservation.

Politics
Cadman ran for Mayor of Vancouver in 1999, endorsed by both the Coalition of Progressive Electors and the Vancouver Green Party, but was defeated by incumbent mayor Philip Owen. In 2002, Cadman was elected council as part of the COPE sweep of that year's municipal elections. Cadman was one of the left-wing "COPE Classic" councillors, and remained with COPE when his centrist colleagues formed Vision Vancouver. He was the only COPE councillor re-elected in 2005, finishing sixth in council balloting.

In 2004, Cadman opposed construction of the Canada Line, arguing that people would not use it. He said, "There is no rational reason why we should risk the entire public-transit system – 80 percent of which is buses – on an expenditure where there is dubious assurance that the ridership will arrive."

Since March 2007, Cadman is the President of the international organization 'ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability' an international organization of nearly 1000 local governments who have made a commitment to sustainability. In this function he heads the ICLEI Executive Committee, representing the organization to other international bodies.

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Category:United States senators from North Dakota

People who have represented North Dakota in the United States Senate.


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Template talk:Canadian currency and coinage

"Slang" vs Official
I disagree with the recent change to call the coins by their "official" names instead of their common everyday names. Especially for the coins < $1, their names are not at all slangy in the usual sense of the word. Penny, Nickel, etc are the usual Canadian English names for these coins. Formal gov't publications may refer to them as "1 cent coin", "5 cent coin", etc, but to the best of my knowledge there is nothing officially mandating those terms as official names for the coins; I think of these terms as formal government descriptions of the coins. Even if the mint of some other official source said that "1 cent coin" was the official name, and not penny, I would still prefer to use the normal Canadian English names here. These are also the names used for the articles for the coins. --thirty-seven 05:42, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

I'm satisfied with the most rencent change, dropping the word "coin" from the name of each of the coins. As it currently is, listing the monetary value of each coin with its common name in brackets, looks fine to me. --thirty-seven 18:38, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Links to community currencies...
I am looking at the link to community currencies that are recognized as currency here in Canada and I disagree with the list as it is. I did not wish to be rude and just edit it myself yet I hope that the list of currencies are revised so that they may be more appropriate to the subject. In specific, the reference of Petro points as a community currency. Petro points are no different than any other promotional giveaway and if Petro Canada's Petro Points program is accepted by the Wikipedia community as a community currency, then why isn't Zeller's and The Bay's HBC Reward Points, The Air Miles Program, and Save on More Points and every other loyalty program listed in here as well? This is a rhetorical question and the reason why we all know is because the list would get too monotonous. The only one that might qualify is Canadian Tire Money, as they treat the money like cash and you can pay for your entire purchase in Canadian Tire Currency. If Loyalty programs are going to be mentioned here they should be mentioned in their own table labeled "major loyalty programs in Canada". Also, Why is their no mention or links to any articles about Salt Spring Island Dollars. Tis is likely Canadas most successful private currency. Nearly every business in Salt Spring Island accepts them as cash, and these businesses will ask their customers if they would like their change returned in "Saltspring Island Dollars" if they have any to spare. I ask the wiki community to consider this

I added Saltspring Dollars nep (talk) 02:22, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Sub-section for Canadian Tokens?
I don't know if anyone is actively monitoring this template, given how long this has been stable and unchanged, but I am considering adding some articles that cover aspects of pre-Confederation coinage, the first being Blacksmith token. I propose a separate section within the template covering officially-sanctioned pre-Confederation tokens and those that were issued privately. Thoughts/comments welcome! Captmondo (talk)


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Sharpies
Hey, I was just touching up your article on the Australian Sharpie - looks pretty good, by the way, although you have to be careful with stubs; I would have thought it to be the right choice too, but apparently "boat-stub" is for individual boats and ships, whereas the Sharpie is a type of boat.

That said, can you explain what is meant by a "mail sail"? I don't think you mean "mail" as in armor plating, do you? DS 14:06, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I assume Jinki means "mainsail." Fixed. -- Dave C.talk 18:16, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

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Don and Dewey

Don and Dewey were an American rock, blues, and R&B duo, comprising Don "Sugarcane" Harris (Don Francis Bowman Harris; June 18, 1938 – December 1, 1999) and Dewey Terry (Dewey Steven Terry; July 17, 1937 – May 11, 2003).

History
Both Harris and Terry were born in Los Angeles and grew up in Pasadena, California. As children, Terry learned piano and sang in a choir, while Harris learned classical violin. They met in 1949 when Terry heard Harris practicing guitar, and at high school formed a doo-wop vocal group, the Squires, with their friends. The group performed together and made several recordings in the mid-1950s for small local record labels, including Dig This Record.

The group split up in 1956, but Harris and Terry continued to perform together, and made their first recordings as a duo for the Shade label. By this time, Harris played electric violin, and Terry played piano and bass. They were signed by Art Rupe's Specialty Records label and for the next two years produced rock and roll. Both Don and Dewey played guitar, with Dewey often doubling on keyboards. When not playing guitar or bass, Don occasionally played the electric violin, a skill for which he subsequently became well known under the name of "Sugarcane" Harris. Drummer Earl Palmer played frequently on their sessions.

Although Don and Dewey did not have any hits of their own, several of the songs that they wrote and/or recorded would appear on the charts later, performed by other artists. "I'm Leaving It Up to You" became a #1 hit for Dale & Grace in 1963. "Farmer John" was a hit by The Premiers, reaching #19 in 1964, a year after The Searchers released their own version. "Koko Joe" (written by the then-Specialty Records producer Sonny Bono), "Justine" and "Big Boy Pete" were staples for The Righteous Brothers for many years. "Big Boy Pete" became a minor hit in 1960 for The Olympics, reaching #50 and a #4 hit for The Kingsmen when recorded with new lyrics as "The Jolly Green Giant" in 1965.

In 1959 Don and Dewey and producer Sonny Bono left Specialty Records for Rush Records, where they recorded a few songs but split up shortly afterward.

In 1964 Art Rupe recorded both Don and Dewey and Little Richard (another Specialty Records act) but there would be no further hits for either act, following their collaborative "Bama Lama, Bama Loo "/"Annie's Back"; by 1965 they went their separate ways. Their working relationship also yielded a successful (mostly overseas) comeback album for Richard and a tour of Europe. The BBC captured the act in Paris on June 6, 1964. Don and Dewey began to perform together again occasionally in the mid-1970s, and continued to do so until Harris's death.

Separate careers
In the late 1960s, Harris featured on recordings with Johnny Otis of The Johnny Otis Show, and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. In 1970, as Sugarcane Harris, he re-emerged to a wider rock audience, playing violin on the Hot Rats solo album by Frank Zappa, with Captain Beefheart (vocals) on "Willie The Pimp" and on the lengthy instrumental jam, "The Gumbo Variations". and in later years, went on to play on several more solo, Zappa, and The Mothers of Invention albums. Terry continued to perform and record with blues musicians until his death in 2003.

The Pure Food and Drug Act
In 1969, Sugarcane Harris, with the help of Los Angeles drummer Paul Lagos, assembled a band with stellar bassist Larry Taylor and guitarist Randy Resnick. Initially, the band was called "The Sugarcane Harris Band". In 1972, after a few years of concerts in and around Los Angeles, the band recorded the live album, "Fresh Cuts", in Seattle at the Fresh Air Tavern for Epic Records with his band, Pure Food & Drug Act. The original lineup of the band featured Sugarcane, Larry Taylor, Paul Lagos and Randy Resnick. Victor Conte was brought in on bass when Larry Taylor quit. Harvey Mandel, longtime Mayall guitarist and friend of Taylor, joined just before the album was recorded. The band toured the United States and Canada.

Sugarcane continued to record and perform live over the years sometimes with Dewey Terry and with Randy Resnick in the late 1970s.

Harris died in 1999.

Tribute
"Don and Dewey" is also an instrumental by the band It's a Beautiful Day. It features on track 1 of their 1970 album Marrying Maiden. The band featured a violin, which might have been the inspiration to write this piece. This tune by IABD pays homage to Don & Dewey as the main riff borrows directly from the tune Stretchin' Out, the B side on the single credited to 'Don & Dewy', Soul Motion (Rush R-1002). Deep Purple also used this riff in their instrumental Wring That Neck (Hard Road in the U.S.).

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Category:United States senators from Ohio

People who have represented Ohio in the United States Senate.