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Martinus Sieveking

Martinus Sieveking (March 24, 1867 – November 26, 1950) was a Dutch virtuoso pianist, composer, teacher and inventor born in Amsterdam. Also known as Martin Sieveking, he performed as a soloist around Europe] and the United States during his active career and taught in France and the U.S. after he retired from performing. He is sometimes referred to as The Flying Dutchman due to his Dutch heritage and extremely flighty nature. At the peak of his career, he was pronounced by the New York and Boston critics as one of the four greatest living pianists of that time along with Ignace Paderewski, Moriz Rosenthal and Rafael Joseffy.

Sieveking was an advocate of The Dead-Weight Principle of playing. He devised his own variation of this system and wrote several articles about the subject for publication. He was also an inventor of both musical and non-musical devices that he had patented in various countries.

Early life
Sieveking came from an old and aristocratic family, which dated its ancestry back to the fifteenth century. He grew up in a musical atmosphere, as his mother Johanna De Jong was a well-known opera singer and his father, also named Martinus, was a trained musician, choral conductor and a composer with published works in the Netherlands. He was the second in a family of four; his older sibling was named Johanna like his mother, and Martinus was followed by Charles, then Rosa.

From his early childhood he showed characteristics indicative of being a great musician. His father gave Martinus his first piano lessons at an early age and continued to do so until he was ten. In addition to playing piano Martinus also started composing at an early age and played the organ in a church by age twelve. Eventually his family sent him to the Leipzig Conservatory. At the conservatory, he studied piano for eight years under Julius Röntgen, a famous German-Dutch pianist-composer, and spent six years of musical education in composition and orchestration, under Franz Coenen in the Netherlands.

Musical career
His first international appearance was in Paris in 1888 when, at the age of twenty-one, he heard his own composition, a suite for orchestra, played by the Lamoureux Orchestra. He resided in Paris in 1889 and became one of the number of Dutch musicians that were based in the city. He visited England in 1890 upon the suggestion of his uncle, Sir Edward Henry Sieveking, who was well known in London and was one of the physicians of Queen Victoria. He had success with two tours with Edward Lloyd, the British tenor, and David Popper, the cellist. He also made two tours as the accompanist to the Italian opera singer Adelina Patti during her tour of the United Kingdom between 1891 and 1892. He became one of the artists sponsored by the Mason & Hamlin piano manufacturer in 1892.

Tour with Sandow, 1893
On June 6, 1893, he came to the United States aboard the SS Elbe. He arrived in New York City with his friend, the famous physical culturist and bodybuilder Eugen Sandow, as his accompanist for his stage performances. Sandow had met Sieveking years before during his tour of Belgium and the Netherlands. According to Sandow, Sieveking was a brilliant artist, but as a man he was a weakling. He had no powers of endurance, and it was difficult for him to remain at the piano for a long time. Upon Sandow's suggestion, Sieveking became a pupil and his guest while in America. Martinus wrote music and conducted for Sandow's vaudeville acts, when he toured New York City, Boston, and at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

Lincoln, Nebraska, 1893–95
Following his stint with Sandow in 1893, he stayed and established himself in Chicago as a private piano teacher, but the city was overrun with piano teachers. Around this time Willard Kimball, the former head of the Iowa Conservatory of Music (now Grinell College), was about to open a music conservatory at Lincoln in Nebraska in connection with the state University of Nebraska. He was in search of a first-class piano teacher and was referred to Sieveking. Coincidentally Sieveking was low in funds and generally "down on his luck." Kimball offered him $6,000 a year, with various perquisites, and the desperate young man recklessly signed a three-year contract without even stopping to investigate the position. Sieveking started teaching in the latter part of 1893 at the university's School of Music in Lincoln, Nebraska, which then became the Conservatory of Music in 1894.

The practical, bustling west proved a prison of the dreariest description to the artist. Only the women there have time to study music, he thought. Of these, he found that few had any talent, and the eccentric, temperamental pianist frankly told them so whenever he felt inclined to do so. His nerves began to break down. His activities in Lincoln began attracting the bemused attention of the local press. In the spring of 1895, Sieveking was booked for a concert tour of the principal cities of the east and left Lincoln on April 16, but not leaving the town quietly. It was reported that at the morning of his departure his dog, named Tad, got into trouble with a policeman. Sieveking laid the policeman flat on his back, and when the two officers fell upon him, he handled them in exactly the same way. Consequently, he rode to his train in a patrol wagon.

After his departure from Lincoln, he made his successful debut in Boston with the Boston Festival Orchestra. He also appeared with this orchestra conducted by Emil Mollenhauer at the "Second May Festival Concert" of the University Musical Society at the University Hall of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on May 18, 1895, where he played the Piano Concerto in G Minor by Camille Saint-Saëns.

He was scheduled to return to Lincoln on September 1 of that year to resume his duties in connection with the conservatory, but Sieveking never returned to the school and returned to Europe instead, breaking his contract.

American tour, 1895 and 1896–97
He returned to the United States for a brief concert tour in the winter of 1895, arriving in New York City on October 21, 1895, aboard the La Champagne departing from Havre, Norway. He gave a celebrated concert in Boston with the Boston Symphony Orchestra on December 7, 1895, where he played again Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2. His reception amounted to an ovation. Enthusiasm run to such a height that at the first concert, the pianist had seven recalls, and at the second, eight.

Following this success he returned in the fall of 1896 with four consecutive performances on October 21, 23, 24 and 28 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Among the other cities he performed in was Cumberland, Maryland on November 11, 1896, at the Saints Peter and Paul Church. He gave a solo piano recital at Carnegie Hall, New York City, on December 8, 1896,  followed by a performance in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Grand Opera House on December 17 with violinist Maud Powell.

On February 8, 1897, he performed in Columbus, Ohio, at the newly built Southern Fireproof Theater with local soprano Lillian Miller. He gave a solo piano recital at the Academy of Music in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on March 2, 1897, and again on November 18, 1897. He was managed for his American tour by music impresario Victor Thrane of Chicago.

Vienna, 1898
After completing his tour of the U.S. Sieveking felt unsatisfied with his latest performances and felt that he still needed to improve. He traveled to Vienna, Austria, the following year and sought the help of Theodor Leschetizky regarding his repertoire. The professor took a great interest in him and out of a class of ninety, he became one of his six favorites. The other five were Mark Hambourg, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Katharine Goodson, Artur Schnabel and Ethel Newcomb. Leschetizky preferred pianists with large hands and strong muscles at the piano, which Sieveking had. According to Leschetizky, playing the piano was similar to playing a percussion instrument.

During this time Sieveking seemed to have a hard time staying out of trouble. He was arrested at Ischl in September 1898 for refusing to take off his hat while a Catholic priest, who was carrying a cross, was passing. Sieveking stated that he was a Protestant, and, as a foreigner, had no idea that his neglecting to remove his hat would be regarded by the local Catholics as an insult to their religion. He was also mobbed by a crowd, while the priest egged his assailants on by calling him names. Consequently, Sieveking was sentenced to three days imprisonment.

Sieveking also met a younger woman in Austria named Therese (born April 13, 1881) who later became his wife. The couple were married in Dover, Kent, England, in June, 1899. A daughter was born to the couple in Vienna on October 15, 1900, named Senta Therese Sieveking.

American tour, 1900–01
After canceling an American tour scheduled for 1899 he did return to the US in the middle of October 1900 for another tour in the winter of 1900–1901. Some of his engagements included a performance at Washington, D.C., where he played the American premiere of the Piano Concerto No. 1 by Rachmaninoff on December 16, 1900. He gave a piano recital at the Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York on January 9, 1901.

Return to France
Martinus, his wife, and his daughter returned to France sometime in the following years. They had a son, Leonard, born in 1905 in St. Brio, France.

After concertizing all over Europe and America, Sieveking was still not satisfied with the success he had achieved. In pursuit of the deeper principles of true piano technique underlying his art which had not yet understand, he spent the next fifteen years of his life formulating what he called the Dead-Weight principle. The system, which was similar to Leschetizky, William Mason, and Rudolf Breithaupt's methods, calls for a very relaxed arm with the weight of the arm and hand supported by each finger on the piano key. Sieveking's method, though, calls for a strong, articulated finger, each finger developed and strengthen independently. According to Sieveking, the result is increase in volume and better control of touch at a shorter amount of time.

While perfecting his technique method, he retired from performing and taught in France. Many of his talented students won the Premier Prix in Paris. He was known to teach those with talent even if they were unable to pay. He also used this time to both compose and transcribe music for the piano; he transcribed Chopin's music for a young Olga Rudge for her recitals. Rudge was an American-born violinist who grew up in Paris whose mother was a close friend of the pianist. Sieveking, as remembered by Rudge, was a collector of timepieces with several dozen clocks at his apartment, chiming to different rhythms.

After five years of retirement, he came out in 1907 for a concert in Berlin.

Return to America
With the purpose of teaching and spreading the system he developed, he returned to America arriving in New York City on January 30, 1916, aboard the SS Rotterdam departing from Rotterdam. His plan included concertizing, composing and publishing his works in the United States. His original intention was to return to Paris after accomplishing his mission in the US.

His daughter Senta Therese eventually followed him to the United States arriving in New York on April 29, 1918. Martinus's wife Therese and then 13-year-old son Leonard followed arriving in New York City on June 23, 1918, aboard the S.S. Chicago from Bordeaux, France. Martinus is reported to have founded a piano school in New York for advanced-level pianists, but by the mid-1920s to the early 1930s, he was teaching at the New York Institute of Musical Art (which later became the Juilliard School of Music) as a piano professor.

Inventor
Sieveking was an imaginative thinker and mechanically adept. Besides teaching, he also devoted his time inventing apparatuses and mechanical appliances of various kinds with some submitted for patent. He also invented and devised his own improvements for the piano. Sieveking invented a mechanical device for the piano to produce a peculiar vibration in the sound or notes of the instrument. While in Austria, he had the apparatus patented in the country on March 6, 1898 (No. 105,519). It was also filed for patent in Canada on August 26, 1898. In the 1930s, he improved and patented a piano-action spring (Patent No. 2,046,853 filed on July 5, 1935), which he improved two years later (No. 2,138,517 files on March 18, 1937). He even had a piano built especially for him that had wider keys and a sloped down lower octave so that his arms could utilize gravity to produce a larger sound.

He had a vast mechanical and electrical knowledge. Sieveking invented a type of an internal combustion engine, patented in the U.S. on August 14, 1917 (No. 1,252,045) and in Canada on March 15, 1918. While teaching at the New York Institute of Musical Art, he spent the summer of 1926 improving the radio of the school, getting purer production sound and greater volume from a one-tube set.

Among the other assorted collection of devices he invented and patented are: an electric motor-driven traffic signal (No. 2,135,851 filed on August 16, 1937) and mechanical mobile bird figures for Flying Eagle Co., a corporation in New York - (No. 1,419,694 filed on April 13, 1921) and (No. 1,322,364 filed on January 27, 1919)

Later life
By the 1930s, Martinus and his wife Therese were still married but living apart as she was working as a governess for a wealthy family till the early 1940s. Their daughter Senta, who also had worked as a governess in New York, moved to California. By 1940, she was working at the household of actress Joan Crawford in Bel Air, Los Angeles. She married James Joseph Vincent on June 19, 1940, in Hollywood, Los Angeles.

Martinus became an American citizen on June 2, 1941, at the age of 74 in New York. Therese moved to California in the 1940s, later followed by Martinus.

Sieveking died on November 26, 1950, in Pasadena, California, at the age of 83. He was buried at the Mountain View Mortuary and Cemetery in Altadena, California. Therese later died in Los Angeles, California, on July 12, 1961, at the age of 80. There is no record of Leonard Sieveking after the 1920 census. Senta T. Vincent died on September 6, 2000, in Los Angeles at the age of 100.

Physical characteristics
While training with Eugen Sandow, Sieveking developed an impressive physique. His improvement after three months of training, with light then heavy weight dumbbells, were mentioned in one of Sandow's books as: Height, 5 ft; Weight, 175 lb, an increase of 15 lb; Neck, 18 in; Chest, 43 in, an increase of 3 in; Chest expansion, 7.5 in, an increase of 3.5 in; Biceps, 16.25 in, an increase of 2 in; Forearm, 15 in, an increase of 1.5 in; Waist, 26 in, a reduction of 3 in; Thigh, 23 in, an increase of 2 in; Calf, 16 in, an increase of 1.5 in. After Sandow, he continued his dedication to physical training while in Lincoln, Nebraska where he was known as a cyclist. He converted the house he was renting into a gymnasium, ruining its furniture and walls.

His physique was later described by Russian pianist Mark Hambourg, another student of Leschetizky, as "more of a house than a man", his hands matching his frame. Sieveking had large muscular hands with a reach of 12 notes, similar in reach to Sergei Rachmaninoff's. His hands were so large that he found it hard to play on ordinary sized keyboard, since his fingers got stuck in between the black keys. He had two pianos in his home in New York, a regular piano and a specially made French piano with wider keys. The whole keyboard was also tilted downward at the back, which he explained was a decided advantage. For his return concert in Berlin in 1907, Steinway built him a customized piano with the keys proportionally enlarged, making the entire keyboard about one foot longer than the standard keyboard. The keyboard was also slanted like his home piano.

Music
Though some of his many compositions are best described as salon music, Sieveking also wrote inventive serious works that are infused with powerful rhythm. A volume of his early compositions was published by G. Schirmer Inc. in 1897. He also transcribed some keyboard music of Johann Sebastian Bach and Chopin for violin and cello. As of 2012, his music is out-of-print, only available from libraries. Some of his more well-known compositions are:
 * Angelus, La, the composer's impression of Jean-François Millet's famous painting The Angelus.
 * Abille, La (The Bee)
 * Berceuse
 * Cornemuse
 * Dream of the Flowers
 * Etude de Concert, several
 * Gavotte, a piano transcription of Bach's Gavotte for violin
 * Introduction et Valse Lente, Op. 10
 * Minuet
 * Nocturne
 * Pastorale, a pastoral study of forest sounds
 * Praeludium, a piano transcription of a Bach prelude
 * Prélude et Marche triomphale, performed by the Lamoureux Orchestra on March 15, 1891
 * Serenata Espangola for violin and piano
 * Sketch
 * Souffrance was written when his son was very ill, expresses a father's anxiety for his stricken son.
 * Tricoteuse, La - Etude
 * Valse Capriccio
 * Valse de Concert
 * Variations et Fugue
 * Wooing, The, a song composed by Sieveking

Recordings
It is not known if any analog recordings of Sieveking's performances exist. Based on the resources of the Reproducing Piano Roll Foundation, Sieveking did not record for the reproducing piano either.

Other media

 * Martinus Sieveking, the concert pianist, has a cameo appearance in the Prologue of the fictional novel Lost Horizon by English novelist James Hilton published in 1933.

Notes and references
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Many names for same thing
Are you implying that they speak three different idioms?! Luka Jačov 10:57, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

No, I'm impliing that they speak croatian (mostly) and serbian. Actualy, I don't imply anything. Numbers do. --Ante Perkovic 10:59, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

As said different names for same thing. Mentioning this would only creat confusion among readers impliying that they speak more or less different idioms which is not true. Thats why term Serbo-Croatian is best to use especially cos we are talking about dialectology. Luka Jačov 11:02, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Replied at User talk:Luka Jačov.

And, explanations for 2 idioms are here METHODOLOGICAL GUIDELINES, cached, look fotr yelow text. (or here METHODOLOGICAL GUIDELINES). --Ante Perkovic 11:13, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

98% of population arent lingustic experts. And second thing Serbs in Croatia are pretty homogenous in lingustical sense. So the pretty much speak one idiom. Luka Jačov 11:18, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, they speak ijekavian Serbian, so says linguists. --Ante Perkovic

Declaring on census is political preference and not true linguistical fact. Luka Jačov 11:18, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * You declaring your political preference also isn't true linguistical fact, isn't it? --Ante Perkovic 11:22, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

3RR on Serbs of Croatia
You have been temporarily blocked for violation of the three-revert rule. Please feel free to return after the block expires, but also please make an effort to discuss your changes further in the future. -- Cyde Weys 16:37, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

Cool. Did You blocked the other guy who also made the same violation ?

FSJ Serbian/Croatian
Hello, I've seen that you've been modifying my article. I have no problems with that, but my curiosity is why would the national banner be "FSJ" if it is not such in Croatian as well? I try to keep the article as un-political as possible and the only apparent answer is that it was the same in Croatian, otherwise the name of the Association would not have been "FSJ". --Hurricane Angel 19:13, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Hi Ante, I don't think you understood what I said. I know very well that both Bosnian and Croatian forms are "nogomet" you don't have to patronize me like that. Before we continue this discussion, may I ask you how old you are and how long you lived in the SFRY? --Hurricane Angel 21:06, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Okay, my apologies as well for the misunderstanding. Anyways, I had a chat with both my parents, whom were non-communists from Voivodina, they say that Croatian was not supressed. We all know Tito was Croatian, so I would be amazed to see him supress his own heritage like that. My father's friend was one of the people who worked with the FSJ somehow and I got the full answer from him. When the FSJ was started/reconstituted in the 40s or 50s, they agreed to use "Fudbalski" because it was more international as opposed to "Nogometna". It had nothing to do with supression of Croatian, rather it was that the association seemed more understandable to major western powers. --Hurricane Angel 06:01, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * No, I did not agree. 1) I did not agree that Croatian was supressed, although that wasn't the topic. 2) When talking about "football", yes there is a difference in the use of words, nogomet and fudbal as we discussed previously. However, when addressing the Association, specifically the "Football Association of Yugoslavia", it was "Fudbalski" in every language, because that was the name of the association, not referring to the word football, rather you address it as a name. --Hurricane Angel 07:11, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I don't think you are listening to me, I am not the one asking questions here, I am telling you the facts. I am telling you this is not about language in its normal sense. And you're right, neither of us have that much time, so why bring up the issue of "serb propaganda"? I'm not a serb, so you're not dealing with someone who has a certain bias that you seem to think I have. So once again, the FSJ was a name, therefore "Fudbalski" is the same in Croatian or Serbian. No "fudbalski" by itself does not mean anything in croatian, but in terms of the FSJ it was the Football Association of Yugoslavia in either language. --Hurricane Angel 07:30, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I will write a short description of the name issue in the article regarding what we've just achieved. --Hurricane Angel 08:00, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Your comments on my talk page
Hi. I will answer the Stepinac on the talk page there; as for Boskovic, I didnt notice the sentence you pointed out. As for the revert warring, I see that Croatian users are quite enthusiastic about it - a clique of users such as Elephantus, EurowikiJ etc. are just blindly reverting with no attention to content - why dont you try talking to them! Of course it is a bad thing, but to avoid it, people need to be willing to compromise, and revert warring between Serbs and Croats is here for a very long time. Why, for instance, would Serbian claim on Boskovic father's ethnicity be linked to Seselj - who is only one of the people who claim it, and bases this on previous claims. Why you keep removing that his mother is Italian ("local notable" is a pathetic way to hide Italian ethnicity). Italian ethnicity was discussed on talk page 4 years ago!!. It would be fair to say what each side claims, i.e. that the ethnicity is disputed, and not to skew it by misrepresenting Serbian position. Serpen 00:44, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Request for Comments on Borovo Selo raid
Please add your statement on views at the top of the talk page in the designated area. Asterion talk to me 05:29, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Reply

 * Funny thing, so many "new" users these days just pop up on wikipedia and starts editing pages that are in edit wars last few days. What a coincidence.

 * So, how many "different" people do you think will just "pop up" and go right in to the moste recent edit war?

--Ante Perkovic 06:53, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, I am one who is quite new here. I was watching my co-worker editing and discussing these things related to nazism. Some of his views and knowledge about nazi past of former Yugoslavia and mine - about the WWII Ukraine nazi past were pretty convergent. I'll be ocassionaly here just to tease the 'serious editors' like you. If contributing - it will not be about nazism, for sure--Romaine 12:14, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Vandalism
What have I vandalized? I did some hard work and lost more than an hour on it, trying to write as objectively as possible. Revert if you must, but the administrator recommended that the title be changed. After Rockie changed the title and then left the article in a half-meningless, inconsistent form, I thought my edits were logical. --85.187.44.131 14:19, 19 May 2006 (UTC)

Edit warring
Hi. I noticed that you are worried about Serbo-Croat edit warring, as you have pointed out on my page. Some of your pals seem to be extremely abusive (Mir Harven has a history of blatant personal attacks, user page vandalisation etc.) It would be good to resolve the conflicts through cooperation, not through edit wars. Unlike some of your pals (like Mir Harven, but there are others who use everything from reverts with little or no explanation, bad faith disruption etc.) you seem to try to make a good faith effort to come to a NPOV version. There are some other Croatian editors like that (I have noticed Joy for instance). If you want to cooperate, I am willing to help; we can do one article at a time. For instance, we can first resolve the dispute on the Boskovic page, since you have suggested that the truth (i.e. NPOV version) is somewhere in between. Anyway, I think as much as you that edit wars and other bad-faith behavior is bad, but there need to be two sides willing to cooperate (instead of warring) to come to acceptable articles. Serpen 11:09, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

OK. I have restored the {fact} tag at Neonasizm article, that has been reverted a lot today.

I will do what I can to try to calm the situation, which seems a bit better already. Not all of Serbian editors communicate, but improving the atmosphere makes people behave with less emotion. Serpen 19:54, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

Ko trazi taj nade
The administration should still remember Luka Jacov, sicne he was running around and gathering votes a month ago. --VKokielov 12:53, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
 * For other things. He was trying to save an article from deletion, and pile stubs into article improvement.  First I told him he was making a bad name for the Yugoslav community, because here was stemd, voting "for" where every English-speaking user here voted "against"...He kept at it.  So we complained to the administration.  --VKokielov 12:58, 23 May 2006 (UTC)

Please help on Mathematics
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Are You expert in history and history of science ???
Hi,

I see that a clique of Croatian users keeps removing reference to not only Rudjer Boskovic Serbian origin, but to what Eintein said about him and what is sourced in another article.

Are you an expert in history of science? Do you hold a PhD in history and share your disinterested expertise in many articles about Croatian history out of lofty altruism?

What do you know about the relation of unified field theory to Rudjer Boskovic work and the way it inspired Einstein? What do you know about Klauza Klein models, about Einstein-Cartan theory, U4, Yang-Mills...?

Given that you are a Croat with famous Croatian culture, I am sure you know as much about these things as petty Serbian minds (known to have smaller brains than Croatian, according to a public statement of another reputable Croatian expert) can never dream to achieve.

Reverting articles without even checking what changes You actually make without having much clue what you are doing in the process by you and a clique of Croatian editors bent on denying Croatian crimes seams like completely unlikely explanation of what you people do.

So, please, keep checking what You are actually doing when reverting articles, and dont be tempted to refrain from editing articles where your experteese is shabby. Is ti so hard? Nelodkan 17:19, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

Answered on Nelodkan's talk page. -Ante Perkovic 19:01, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

I did not add the sentence myself. The reference exists on the linked page. Nelodkan 21:35, 24 May 2006 (UTC)

primjera je puno
vidim postirao si na mojoj stranici razlicite tvrdnje, a da nisi provjerio niti sve linkove koje sam dao iz kojih se jasno vidi da to nije izolirani incident. a postiral sam i ovaj link. sto se rijeke tice, puno si siguran da je "golman prije dolaska u Rijeku pokazao popriličnu sklonost prema liku i djelu četničkog zlikovca Arkana"? je, vjerojatno je i linc opravdan na osnovi tvojih pouzdanih informacija. i sto ti znaci recenica "Bilo bi šteta da gnjavim sad nekog tamo administratora sa ovim člankom, jel da?" - sto bi neki administrator tu mogao uraditi, sve je poduprto linkovima? kanis li mozda i mene lincovati, kako se to vec desavalo u dalmaciji trebas ipak znati da ja zlatnih zuba nemam! Mozart1783

Dakle, ti tvrdiš da već jesam nekog linčovao? Divota, sve u skladu sa kroatofobijom u najgorim danima rata. Dobro da znam s kakvim ljudima imam posla ovdje. --Ante Perkovic 05:58, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Editor EurowikiJ
Hi. There is a problem with editor EurowikiJ, who seems to do little but inflame edit wars. For instance, I have tried to work constructively on Zerjavic article. Then came the EurowikiJ, simply reverted the version, and then revert war was restarted, with two more extreme versions being altered. The same happens on other pages. What happened to page Boskovic, you dont want to help there? I think that there will always be edit wars if more moderate editors dont work together to get a good version - it is really tho only sure way to end edit wars for on articles. I tried to NPOV version on Zerjavic and removed the more extreme Serbian POV, but there are editors like EurowikiJ who just revert any edit from any Serbian contributor - his edit history is 90% reverts! It would be better if you suggested some changes and to work in moderatete way and in good faith - there is really no other way to avoid extreme users, who are easily provoked by any unbalanced article into making extreme edits. The problematic users are atracted to problematic articles, but articles can be fixed if not such users, that are unavoidable. Edits from their own "side" by more moderate editors can possibly stop people like EurowikiJ (and his mirror images at Serbian side). Anyway, I'd appreciate if you got involved more with edits (in a fair way, I am sure) or said something to the troublemakers on your side. Serpen 19:55, 25 May 2006 (UTC)

I'll see what I can do. --Ante Perkovic 12:36, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Ante, I'm sorry, but I was blocked untill a few hours ago, for reverting an article twice (there's justice on Wikipedia), and I couldn't change it. After I was unblocked, I finished the Serbia Portal, something I was interrupted in, and I forgot about the Montenegrin language thing. Sorry again. -- serbiana  -  talk  06:01, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

Operation Flash/Highway incident
Hey Ante, this is the former I.P. number, now with a user name. Please see the Operation Flash talk page. Let's see if we can get this thing ironed out and cleared up. Enden 21:40, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

I will, but next week. --Ante Perkovic 10:36, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

Bay of Kotor
I have answered you on the corresponding talk page.

Oh, and it's Prevlaka - not "Privlaka" (and it's not a geographical part of the Bay of Kotor. I shall not revert your edits without compromise - I just found it incorrect and removed it. --HolyRomanEmperor 09:27, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Glad we concur. --HolyRomanEmperor 09:50, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Attempts to delete image
I see you are trying to delete the image together with Zmaj. The merits of such attempts and motivation is not what I will go into now, but please note:

1.Image page is not a discussion page (I have moved the discussion to image talk page, a proper place).

2.Fair-use tag is a valid tag, and does not need adittional marking. Since it was you who found this image on index portal, that apparently claims copyright, than you should not place tag that status of the image is unknown. Fair use of copyrighted material is allowed even without licence.

3. Clearly, the image shows children in nazi uniforms. If you think that is not indoctrination, thats your problem. However, you can hardly argue that this is not what the picture shows, and hence, according to discussion on image deletion page that we both participated in (together with other users), it is a valuable picture that shows exactly how far the ustashi will go (who probably, according to your language and image that you want to project of Croatia, live on Mars, and not in your country). Maayaa 13:48, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

Please help on Ancient Egypt
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Ante,
This is where you have to trust me... I do not have sockpuppets, I swear on my grandfathers grave. If human honesty means anything to you, please stop accusing me, and I will even help you on figuring out which users are just plain desruptive and help you eliminate them. Thank you. -- serbiana  -  talk  23:21, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

You're in luck, I've decided to stop contributing to Wiki. enjoy! -- serbiana  -  talk  14:47, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Jasenovac
Hi, about your Jasenovac question - I did not add any category, but reverted edit to an earlier version which was edited by someone who removed the category and some other things. But I dont see what is your problem, certainly it belongs to History of Croatia as much as to History of BH and History of Republika Srpska. SrbIzLike 15:07, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Janjevci
Read Tuđman's book! Luka Jačov 07:51, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

What you want is the WP:AN. Then, if that doesn't work, I think you need to go to WP:RfC and WP:RfAr. The admin who knows about Luka is User:Linuxbeak, but you remember him as the one who was unwound by HRE's bid for administrator privileges. So...--VKokielov 16:02, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

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Morris Schwartz

Morris Schwartz (April 3, 1901 – October 22, 2004) was an American photographic inventor, photographer and businessman.

Born in Russia, Schwartz went to the United States in 1906 with his family, including his father Kalman and brother Hy. He started in the New York Times in 1922, staying with the paper until 1926, when he moved to the Jewish Daily Forward, where he was a staff photographer until 1931. In 1930, Schwartz invented a flash synchronizer for work with flashbulbs, then novel replacements for flash powder.

Schwartz invented the "Kalart Flash Synchronizer" in 1930, founding the Kalart company to market this and other products. His father Kalman ran the Kalart Photography Studio in Manhattan; his brother Hy was also a freelance press photographer, and worked with him in making the Kalart products.

Awards
In 1952, Schwartz was awarded the Joseph A. Sprague Memorial Award by the National Press Photographers Association, for "unusual service or achievement beneficial to photojournalism or for an outstanding technology advance in equipment or processes of photojournalism". His citation named "synchronizers, flash equipment, electrical circuits, lens coupled range fliers [sic] and unique camera designs."

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Muv-Luv

Muv-Luv (マブラヴ) is a Japanese visual novel developed by âge and originally released as an adult game for Windows on February 28, 2003. Consisting of two parts, Muv-Luv Extra (マブラヴ エクストラ) and Muv-Luv Unlimited, (マブラヴ アンリミテッド) the gameplay in Muv-Luv follows a linear plot line, which offers pre-determined scenarios and courses of interaction, and focuses on the differing scenarios of the female main characters. Muv-Luv was followed by a sequel, Muv-Luv Alternative, (マブラヴ オルタネイティヴ) which was released for Windows on April 24, 2006, and follows the storyline of Muv-Luv Unlimited.

The trilogy's story initially presents itself as a light-hearted romantic comedy (Extra), but changes into an alternate timeline coming-of-age story (Unlimited), and finally evolves into an alien invasion war epic (Alternative).

Plot
The visual novel Muv-Luv is divided into two parts. The first part, titled Muv-Luv Extra, features playable character Takeru Shirogane (voiced by Sōichirō Hoshi, credited as Tsuyoshi Aiba in the Windows version) who wakes up one morning to find a beautiful young woman sleeping in his bed, just as an infuriated Sumika Kagami (voiced by Hiroko Taguchi, credited as Rika Fujiwara in the Windows version), Takeru's neighbor and childhood friend, comes to wake him up that morning. The young woman, Meiya Mitsurugi (voiced by Kazumi Okushima, credited as Aki Okuda in the Windows version), is the heiress to a financially powerful family and is determined to be Takeru's bride. As the story progresses, both girls compete for Takeru's affections while Takeru has recurring dreams about a marriage promise he made to a girl long ago. At first, he believes the girl was Sumika, but eventually realizes that it was actually Meiya. At the conclusion, Takeru must choose between which of the girls he truly loves. In addition, the player may also make decisions to choose between one of the three girls in the main supporting cast: Chizuru Sakaki (voiced by Masayo Kurata), Miki Tamase (voiced by Hitomi), and Kei Ayamine (voiced by Nagashima Yuuko).

The second part, Muv-Luv Unlimited, starts with Takeru Shirogane waking up in his bed, reminiscent of the start of Muv-Luv Extra; however, Takeru quickly realizes that neither Meiya nor Sumika come to wake him that morning. Upon leaving his house, he finds his neighborhood destroyed and Sumika's house crushed under the wreckage of a large mecha. Takeru later learns that he is in an alternate world to Extra, where aliens called BETA (an acronym for "Beings of Extra Terrestrial origin which are Adversary of the human race") have invaded and mankind fights back against the alien aggressors with mecha called Tactical Surface Fighters, (戦術歩行戦闘機) usually referred to in Japanese as simply Senjutsuki (戦術機).

Muv-Luv Unlimited explains that the BETA first arrived on Earth in 1973 (in China and Canada) after arriving on the Moon in 1967 and being spotted on Mars in 1958. Subsequent battles with BETA resulted in the global population dropping to 2.4 billion with most of mainland Eurasia having been lost by the time the game starts in 2001. Most of the major characters from the Extra timeline are present in Unlimited, notably excluding the Unlimited world's Takeru, who is said to be dead, and Sumika, who does not seem to exist in the Unlimited timeline. The characters are mostly identical to their Extra counterparts, with the notable exception of Yoroi, Takeru's best friend in Extra who, for reasons unclear, is a girl in this reality.

In the sequel Muv-Luv Alternative, Takeru wakes up three years after the beginning of Unlimited to find himself back in his room. Although he first thinks that the events of Muv-Luv Unlimited were a dream, he soon feels that something is wrong, and leaves the house to find that he has been sent back in time to the beginning of the events in Unlimited. Unwilling to accept the events at the end of Unlimited, he decides to help professor Kouzuki save the Earth and mankind by bringing the mysterious Alternative IV plan — cancelled at the end of Unlimited — to fruition.

Gameplay
The gameplay in Muv-Luv requires little player interaction as most time is spent reading the text that appears on the lower portion of the screen, representing either dialogue between characters, narration, or the inner thoughts of the player character. Every so often, the player will arrive at a "decision point", and be required to choose between multiple options. Gameplay pauses and depending upon the player's choice, the plot will develop in a specific direction. There are multiple plot lines that the player can follow, one for each heroine in the story, and there are nineteen possible endings. To view all plot lines, the player must replay the game multiple times. The game can end in failure if the player makes the wrong decisions. When this occurs, the player can return to a previously saved spot to try again.

Muv-Luv is divided into two segments, or story arcs—Extra and Unlimited—which serve as different phases in the overall story. Initially, only the Extra arc is available to play, but once the player has completed the Extra scenarios for the two main heroines, Sumika Kagami and Meiya Mitsurugi, the Unlimited arc becomes accessible. The 2016 Steam release removes this lock and makes Unlimited available immediately, albeit with a warning that the player should experience Extra first.

Japanese releases
Muv-Luv was released on February 28, 2003, on Windows CD-ROM, and re-released on DVD-ROM on April 30, 2004. A fandisc, called Muv-Luv Supplement containing a number of short stories, computer wallpapers, audio clips, and a trailer for the upcoming Muv-Luv Alternative. The limited edition DVD was released on December 17, 2004, and the regular edition was released on December 24.

Muv-Luv Alternative is a sequel to Muv-Luv and taking place after the events of the Unlimited arc in the original game. The DVD version of the game was released on February 24, 2006, and the CD version was released on March 3, 2006. A Muv-Luv Alternative fandisc, Muv-Luv Altered Fable, was released on August 31, 2007, containing an alternate version of the Extra arc from Muv-Luv along with a radio drama, a Senjoki vs. BETA strategy RPG, computer wallpapers, and a Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse short story.

"All-age" versions of Muv-Luv and Muv-Luv Alternative with the adult content removed were released simultaneously on September 22, 2006. In 2011, both games were ported to the Xbox 360 by 5pb. and simultaneously released on October 27, 2011. Both titles were also released for PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita in 2012 and 2016, respectively.

Sequel
In an October 2019 livestream producer Koki Yoshimune announced he was working on a new sequel to Alternative, called Muv-Luv INTEGRATE, but was not sure at that time what form the project would ultimately take or when it might be released.

English localizations
In the early 2010s, Mangagamer attempted to negotiate an English-language release of Muv-Luv and Muv-Luv Alternative, but talks broke down, and the translator unilaterally released an unofficial fan translation patch, effectively ending Mangagamer's efforts. In 2015, âge partnered with Degica to launch a Kickstarter campaign to officially release the Muv-Luv series in English. The campaign succeeded in late 2015 after raising over US$1.25 million, against an initial goal of $250,000. The campaign also met all of its stretch goals, including ports to PlayStation Vita and Android and English localizations of photonflowers* and photonmelodies♮ side-story collections. The English localization of the first Muv-Luv visual novel was released on Steam in July 2016, and Muv-Luv Alternative was released in September 2017. PS Vita versions of both games were released in June 2018. The English version of photonflowers* was released on Steam on August 3, 2019, and the English version of photonmelodies♮ was released on July 30, 2020. The English versions of Muv-Luv Unlimited: The Day After episodes 00 through 03 were released via Steam on February 5, 2021, marking the first English release of a Muv-Luv visual novel not directly funded by the 2015 Kickstarter. In addition to the crowdfunded Android version, the iOS port was also created. Mobile versions of Extra and Unlimited were planned to be released worldwide in Spring 2022, with Alternative set to release at a later date. They were all released as part of Japan-only mobile game, Muv-Luv Dimensions, on July 11, 2023.

Manga and light novels
Muv-Luv and its sequel Muv-Luv Alternative have been adapted into three manga series by MediaWorks (later ASCII Media Works) and were serialized in the manga magazine Dengeki Daioh through 2018. In 2020, âge announced it would digitally self-publish an English translation of the Muv-Luv Alternative manga.

In addition, Shueisha has published a seven volume novel series based on Muv-Luv and Muv-Luv Alternative.

Anime
At the conclusion of an October 2019 live event, âge presented the on-screen title “Muv-Luv Alternative in Animation”, followed by a clip of new animation, seemingly indicating an anime adaptation of the original Muv-Luv Alternative visual novel. It was later announced that the new anime would be a television series. The series is animated by Yumeta Company and Graphinica, with production by Flagship Line, and is directed by Yukio Nishimoto, featuring Tatsuhiko Urahata handling the series' scripts, Takuya Tani designing the characters, and Evan Call composing the series' music. It aired from October 7 to December 23, 2021, on Fuji TV's +Ultra programming block. V.W.P performed the series' opening theme song "Rinne" (輪廻), while STEREO DIVE FOUNDATION performed the series' ending theme song "Tristar". Crunchyroll licensed the series outside of Asia. Muse Communication licensed the series in South and Southeast Asia.

At the end of the series' episode finale, a second season was announced. It aired from October 6 to December 22, 2022. JAM Project and Minami Kuribayashi performed the opening theme song "Akatsuki o Ute" (暁を撃て), while V.W.P performed the ending theme song "Saikai" (再会).

Spin-offs
Muv-Luv has prompted many spin-offs, and is itself a spin-off of âge's Kimi ga Nozomu Eien and its sequel Akane Maniax, as it features several characters, locations, and story elements from those games. Muv-Luv Alternative also adds a character from âge's first visual novel, Kimi ga Ita Kisetsu.

Muv-Luv Alternative Chronicles
Muv-Luv Unlimited The Day After continues the story of Muv-Luv Unlimited, showing what happens after the end of that story and prior to Takeru's backward time-skip that begins Muv-Luv Alternative. Currently incomplete, TDA was released episodically (as episodes "00" through "03") as part of the Muv-Luv Alternative Chronicles series of side-story discs. In 2020, âge announced that it will release episodes 00 through 03 in English, and that work has begun on episode 04, which was subsequently retitled Muv-Luv Resonative.

Muv-Luv Alternative Total Eclipse
Muv-Luv Alternative Total Eclipse is a spin-off story set parallel to Muv-Luv Alternative, following a new cast of characters while retaining the setting of the original visual novel. It focuses on the development of experimental TSF craft and the relationship between Yuuya Bridges, a Japanese-American test pilot and Yui Takamura, a leading figure in the development of a new generation TSF, which may be able to change the course of the war.

Enterbrain published Total Eclipse in its Tech Gian magazine. This was followed by a manga adaptation titled Total Eclipse published by ASCII Media Works. Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse was later adapted into the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 visual novel by âge and 5pb. in 2013. A Microsoft Windows version was released in 2014 in Japan, and was released worldwide on July 20, 2022.

On July 24, 2011, a teaser website announced that an anime television adaptation of the novels is in the works. Produced by ixtl and Satelight, it aired between July 2 and December 23, 2012. Crunchyroll has acquired the streaming rights for the series, with Sentai Filmworks licensing the anime for digital and home video release. The first 13 episodes were released on January 20, 2015, on Blu-ray and DVD.

Schwarzesmarken
Schwarzesmarken (シュヴァルツェスマーケン) is a series set in the Germany of the Alternative universe, during the early years of the BETA invasion in 1983. The protagonists are the 666th TSF squadron of East Germany, who fight both the BETA and opponents from the corrupt Stasi (Ministry of State Security).

Schwarzesmarken replaced the Total Eclipse serialization in Tech Gian magazine. The series is written by Hiroki Uchida and features character designs and illustrations by CARNELIAN. The novel was compiled into seven volumes following a 41 chapter run from 2011 to 2014. The series was followed in Tech Gian by its prequel, Bernhard im Schatten.

A visual novel adaptation by âge was released in late 2015 for Microsoft Windows in two parts: Kouketsu no Monshou and Junkyoushatachi. Between the release of the two parts a Steam release and English localization of the visual novel was considered. However, despite this version of the game being approved via Steam Greenlight, it was ultimately not released.

On September 18, 2015, a teaser website announced that an anime television adaptation of the Schwarzesmarken novels by ixtl and Liden Films was scheduled to air in January 2016. The series began airing on January 10, 2016. Crunchyroll has acquired the rights to stream the anime outside of Japan.

Other
Several other prose spin-offs were published as short stories in Tech Gian magazine. In addition, two fandiscs were also released, Muv-Luv Supplement (マブラヴ サプリメント) and Muv-Luv Altered Fable, (オルタード ALTERED FABLE) containing alternate scenarios, short stories, computer wallpapers, and audio dramas. Other spin-off material appeared as short visual novels in re-releases of earlier games, and in the Muv-Luv Alternative Chronicles series. Some of these visual novel segments for PC were assembled into the collections photonflowers* and photonmelodies♮ for the PlayStation 3 in 2014, later ported to PC via Steam.

Aside from the visual novels, several other styles of games based on Muv-Luv have been released over the years. The browser game Muv-Luv Alternative: Next Answer launched in February 2015, and remained in operation for about a year. Muv-Luv Alternative: Strike Frontier, available initially as a browser game and later for iOS and Android, launched in September 2016, and shut down in July 2018. In October 2019, âge showed a demo of Project Mikhail: A Muv-luv War Story, a TSF-focused action game, released for Steam, iOS, and Android in October 2021, and available in Japanese, English, and Chinese.

Immortals: Muv-Luv Alternative, a free-to-play mobile action RPG developed by aNCHOR, was released in Japan on March 17, 2022, for both Android and iOS. Set in an alternative universe of Muv-Luv Alternative, the player plays as the director of the Immortals Private Military Company and leads a team of TSF mercenary pilots to battle the Beta. While the game has original characters, many of the characters from the Muv Luv franchise are also available to recruit which includes those from Muv Luv Alternative, Total Eclipse, Euro Front and Schwarzesmarken. Immortals was shut down approximately four hours after it was released due to an exploit, and was re-released on July 11, 2023 under the name Muv-Luv Dimensions.

Music
The opening theme of Muv-Luv is "Muv-Luv" (マブラヴ) by Minami Kuribayashi. The closing theme for the Extra segment of Muv-Luv is "I Will" and the Unlimited segment's ending theme is "Harukanaru Furusato no Uta", (遥かなる地球の歌) both by Minami Kuribayashi. For the all ages version, the opening theme the Extra segment is "divergence" by Minami Kuribayashi. For the Unlimited segment, the opening theme is "Sion" (紫音-sion-) by Masami Okui. The all ages version featured several ending themes depending on the ending, including "I will" by Minami Kuribayashi, "Kizu wa Kaseki ni Narenai Keredo" (傷は化石にならないけれど) by Aki Misato, "Astraea" by Miyuki Hashimoto, and "Little More" (リトル・モア) by CooRie.

The opening themes for the sequel Muv-Luv Alternative are "Asu e no Hōkō" (未来への咆哮) by JAM Project for the original release and "NAME ~Kimi no Na wa~" (NAME ～君の名は～) by JAM Project for the all age release. The ending theme for both releases is "Muv-Luv (2005 ver.)" by Minami Kuribayashi. "Carry On" by Masaaki Endoh of JAM Project is used as an insert song in Alternative.

Merchandise
The Muv-Luv franchise has prompted the creation of a wide variety of tie-in merchandise, including clothing, model kits, action figures, dakimakura (hug pillows), and more. Several tie-in books provide coverage of the franchise's lore, such as Muv-Luv Alternative Integral Works.

The Kickstarter campaign that funded the official English translation of the core trilogy commissioned new merchandise as rewards for backers. Unique items included a plush BETA toy, and Muv-Luv Alternative Codex, an English translation of most of Integral Works along with other material.

Reception
In 2003, Muv-Luv was number one in national PC sales following its release. The sequel, Muv-Luv Alternative, released in 2006, was number three in sales during the first half of 2006.

Muv-Luv has received a median rating of 79 out of 100 on Erogamescape (EGS), while Muv-Luv Alternative has received a median rating of 93 out of 100, making it the third-highest rated visual novel on the website. On the Visual Novel Database (VNDB), Muv-Luv Alternative received an average rating of 9.13 (out of 10), making it the site's #1 visual novel by Bayesian ranking.

The English-language release of Muv-Luv has a Metacritic score of 76/100 based on reviews from four critics. RPGFan writer Don Kim gave the game a mixed review, writing "although Extra is nothing more than a glorified character introduction (and a terrible one at that), the game went far beyond my expectations in Unlimited, making the mediocrity of Extra almost forgivable."

Muv-Luv Alternative's English release has a Metacritic score of 83/100, based on reviews from six critics. Summarizing the series for DualShockers, Giuseppe Nelva wrote: "If you love strong storytelling, solid and realistic sci-fi, diverse and engaging characters, quite a bit of charming fanservice, and to be deeply engaged on the emotional level, you owe it to yourself to try the Muv-Luv trilogy out."

According to the manga author Hajime Isayama, his hit manga series Attack on Titan was heavily inspired by Muv-Luv Alternative.

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The result of the debate was REDIRECT to Free trade.  Rob e  rt  20:55, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Freetrade
Not notable DarbyAsh 07:28, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
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Childhood abuse
As a child on the set of "Patridge Family", Danny was badly abused, leading to his father being banned from the set.

it's 2022 where is Danny now?
it's 2022 where's Danny now? 2600:387:F:4615:0:0:0:5 (talk) 04:34, 20 January 2022 (UTC)

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Leonard Gibbs (musician)

Leonard William Gibbs Jr. (November 8, 1948 – September 15, 2021), also known as Doc Gibbs, was an American percussionist. Gibbs studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in the early 1970s. He has toured with artists such as Anita Baker, Whitney Houston, Bob James, Ricki Lee Jones, Al Jarreau, Grover Washington, Jr., Wyclef Jean, Erykah Badu, Eric Bennett, and James Poyser. He acquired the nickname "Doc" after suggesting herbal remedies to jazz saxophonist Grover Washington, Jr.

He headed the house band on the Food Network television show Emeril Live hosted by Emeril Lagasse, until it was cancelled in December 2007.

Gibbs died from prostate cancer on September 15, 2021, at the age of 72.

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Since Frak is worthy of (only?) a redirect, it seemed logical that "Felgercarb" ought to as well. Of course, Frak is a much more used term, much more familiar, and once had its own page, as it surely will again some day. Unfortunately, Felgercarb has not caught on like Frak has and thus is currently only significant enough to get this redirect. Perhaps when Battlestar Galactica (2003) uses Felgercarb (that's an IF, really), it will gain more history and varying views on its origin, significance and relevance. VigilancePrime 07:38, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

 * FULLY EXPECTING someone will revert this page back into a redirect. While I was originally against a simple redirect for Frak (not so much for Felgercarb), the mods to the BSG main pages are more than sufficient now. I, though, am not comfortable being the one making that ultimate decision, but would support Phil or Kross (more experienced on Wiki) doing such a revert. Maybe one day this can have its own (large) article on Wiki (I have found MANY articles that are essentially expanded word definitions), but not today. VigilancePrime 02:41, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

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What no five hand pitch and I was under the impression one had to "Shoot the Moon" if one thought he could recieve all points in one round and then and only then could he win with out recieving full points.

Let's say three players are down to one card each. The trump suit is diamonds. P1 has Kd, P2 has Jd, P3 has 2d. P1 takes the trick. Do the points for High, Low, and Jack go to P1 or are the points based on starting hand?

- In the version I play, high and jacks go to the trick winner, and low goes to the starting hand. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.115.118.216 (talk) 04:55, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

Pitch with jokers
This may be a regional variation, I have played it this way with more than one group in Missouri. I don't know a name for it, it was always called "Pitch". If someone has a name for this specific variation, please change the subsection title.Rt66lt 01:47, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

I found a title on a website.Rt66lt 03:21, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

Oklahoma?
Is "Oklahoma Ten Point Pitch" what some people actually call the game? Or does that heading mean that the rules described are how pitch is played in Oklahoma? In Nebraska we played the game like this, but we just called it "Pitch". Bugloaf 04:28, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm an Oklahoman, and the game is just called "Pitch." And some parts of the family actually play the Ten Point Pitch variant, and other parts (my part) play Seven Point Pitch, and that causes a lot problems when someone pulls a trey (because the trey is worth 3 points in ten-point and none in 7-point). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.115.118.216 (talk) 04:28, 29 July 2023 (UTC)

Some Corrections need to be made here
Parts of this article are incorrect or incomplete. Here are my points that need to be added or corrected, because it requires some major changes, I figured I would leave these points here up for discussion for a week or so, if no-one disagrees, I will apply the corrections to the article.

Many of these items were taken from Hoyle, the Parker Bros? (Pitch 6) Card game, and a couple Pitch video games.

Pitch is an old-english card game.

It is pitch, not high-low-jack that requires players to deal out 2 or 3 cards at a time, in doing so the dealer "pitches" the cards, and that is how the game got the name 'pitch'.

Standard pitch is a four point game, the five is meaningless, the five may have meaning in another variation called 5 point pitch.

Another feature of pitch missing from this is the smudge bid.

There are two variations of the smudge bid and what it is worth. The smudge bid means that you are going to win ever trick that is played. The smudge bid is a gutsy bid because the entire game, win or lose is on that bid. (you get your bid you win the game, you miss your bid you lose your game). The score is irrelevant with a smudge bid. One variation of this rule requires the jack is played (thus recieving all 4 trick points) in addition to taking all the tricks. Another variation of this rule only rewards the smudge bid with 5 points (losing 5 for missing the bid).

Supernerd 20:58, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

 * I'm not sure how one determines what standard pitch is but I agree that the five is meaningless (or no different than the 4 or 6) in any Pitch game I have played. Liblamb 21:02, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Pitch with the 5 (and possibly the 9) being special point cards is listed as a variant family called Pedro in . --Ironphoenix 18:19, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Guess I should have read the discussion first... I moved the five card bid to a variant (probably should rename it to "5 point pitch" from above.) I agree also that the smudge bid variant should be in there as it can usually be very entertaining. devanl 13:40, 18 April 2006 (MST)

Rule variations.
I have played around mid new york and encountered anecdotally many rule variations on pitch. One of the main problems in trying to describe this game is that many regions use the same name to describe different variations all described on this page.

I have heard of a variation which allows for a 5 bid where the 5th point is a called "smudge". It involves collecting all the tricks in addition to the 4 points standard to pitch, High, Low, Jack, and Game.

There is another variation which involves using the 5 of trump as a point, a single point, such that there are 5 points in a game. I use this to play 2 handed, to avoid the pattern of only the first 2 tricks determining 2 of the points, and playing through what is normally 4 empty tricks to find out that there is no more points for game and no jack in play.

It is possible to play pitch for money, when allowable by law. It involves no teams, so cuthroat up to 8 players. A bid cannot be matched by the dealer, and the dealer cannot be forced to bid. The player who makes the bid either wins or loses : a set value is agreed upon for each point. If the player wins, he receives that value multiplied by the amount per point. If the player fails to make his bid, he pays that value multiplied by the amount per point to each remaining player. Another slight variation involves "Double on spades" where the amount wagered is doubled if spades is chosen as the trump suit.

 * I'm also familiar with the "smudge" bid when I've played pitch.--BigCow 04:10, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

Another Variant
I've played where a single joker is added to the deck and called the "jick", it's a trump, worth one point, worth 1/2 point toward game, and is played between the 10 and the jack. It has the effect on gameplay of making the jack of trump more powerful, since it can score one more point, and the ten of trump less powerful since there is one more card that can take it. Makes a 5 bid valid, obviously, and also provides some nice variation within a hand once trump is pitched. By the way, my understanding of the name "Pitch" comes from "pitching" trump, the first card played. It's never required to state the trump suit, only to "pitch" it. Jdaniels2007 01:14, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

"Pitch" is cited as the term used for the opening lead in, so I think you're right about that being the origin of the name. --Ironphoenix 18:03, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Contway 6-point
I'm looking to get feedback on the entry I added for Contway 6-point. Indeed, we use the joker as a 1/2 point towards game as mentioned by Jdaniels. We also place it between the Off-Jack and the 10 during normal play. We also are completely off the map in the usage of the word "pitch". We have used it to denote when a player is re-dealt all 6 cards. They got "pitched". If the redeal has no trump either, after play is over, people will say they got "double pitched". Perhaps this is from pitching the discards? Might be unique to our game.

I realize that my entry only adds to the variation problem and I was a bit wary to change sections to add exceptions such as our variation that you can throw trump on the redeal when that isn't played anywhere else from what I've read. ShemJ (talk) 15:20, 30 August 2012 (UTC)

Restructuring Proposal
This page is pretty disorganized, mainly because there are so many variants listed that it's hard to find anything specific. I suggest restructuring it into the following major sections: This will have the benefit of separating explanations of how rules work from the listing of playable variants, and make specific rules or variants easier to find and understand. --Ironphoenix 18:10, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
 * Introduction (including history)
 * Basic rules
 * Optional rules
 * Variants (commonly-played collections of optional rules to be used with the basic rules)

 * I'll try to revamp the page with better organization soon. Check my sandbox in the meantime. --RhoOphuichi (talk) 06:28, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

 * Reorganized and re-wrote the whole article.
 * I kept detailed descriptions only of the most common (as determined by web search) and most unusual variants. Other variant rules were included in a single section rather than detailed again and again in the list of every variant.
 * Tried to use neutral language rather than pitch jargon.
 * Removed info about the creators of some variants - could find no verification or information of any kind about any of them.
 * Removed info about the championship in portland - could find nothing about this supposed championship online, and the section smacked of self-promotion.
 * --RhoOphuichi (talk) 18:13, 17 May 2009 (UTC)

Cleaned things up a bit. There is clearly still a problem between variants and optional rules. But I think the structure is better anyway.Shemjohnson (talk) 12:45, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Setback vs. Pitch
I've seen references to Setback vs. Pitch on the Setback page, the Pitch page, and the Pitch talk page. Either the games are exactly the same and the pages need to be merged, or they are very similar but distinctly different (as the rules laid out on each page show), in which case the opening sentence of each needs to be changed. Thoughts? I'll do the latter if no one objects.--Qfl247 (talk) 13:50, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

 * According to all sources that I have seen, Pitch, Auction Pitch and Setback are exactly the same game, but with numerous variants, none of which is particularly associated with one of these names. We had no less than three articles on this game:
 * Pitch (card game)
 * Setback (card game)
 * Auction Pitch.
 * This is of course harmful for the development of the subject; see WP:CFORK. The present article seems to be the oldest, and is definitely the most developed, so I have merged Setback (card game) into this one. Auction Pitch consisted only of material from two sources: the Encyclopedia Britannica 1911 article on the game, and the article Buckpitch (card game). The EB1911 material seems to be partially obsolete, so I have simply left a prominent template here directing readers to that article. I have merged the Buckpitch material into this article as yet another variant.
 * Now it's time to clean up the article. Hans Adler 14:50, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Thanks! Just what it needed. --Qfl247 (talk) 15:35, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Smear vs Pitch
And what about what is the key defining difference between pitch and smear, is there any? Variant called smear is played to 21 points and tends to have jick and other extra points? I don't think this amounts enough for smear to have its own page. Merge?

--Eero Ketonen88.195.7.227 (talk) 12:22, 2 December 2012 (UTC)

The name "pitch"
I read many years ago that the name "pitch" refers to leading a card by pitching it onto the table. I never read this story that it was black as pitch. Whoever wrote the lede seems to know a lot about the origin, yet there is no cite.  Randall Bart    Talk   15:50, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

 * That was just an obvious hoax. I deleted it. Hans Adler 22:55, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

 * Given that in modern England the game that goes by name all fours the trump is determined by the eldest hand by pitching the first card in the same manner as in North American pitch, could it be that the game has been called pitch before it acquired the bidding round? --87.100.210.133 (talk) 17:52, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think that's quite likely, and it's not clear on which continent this happened. See All Fours for a description of the most basic rules and the modern English game.
 * All-Fours-based games are folk games with no clear correspondence between names and rules. As soon as a new rule is introduced, the game acquires an alternative name that describes the rule. From then on it is typically known under both names when the rule is included. This makes organising the articles about the games of this family rather tricky. I have done a lot of work on this a few years ago, but it's still a bit chaotic and may in fact have become more so while I didn't look. Hans Adler 22:55, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

Adding Pitch Variant
I'd like to add a regional variant of pitch detailed below to the Nine-Five variants section. I had edited the page earlier but it was pointed out that I had initially referenced a person that is not considered notable by Wikipedia standards. I understand that point and removed the reference in the description below. It was also suggested that this version has the same or very similar rules to other variants on this page but it is different for the reasons detailed below. Unfortunately I don't have any online references to this specific ruleset, but that is sort of the point of adding it here. It is a variant that has been alive and well and played on a daily basis for decades, even if it is only a regional variant.

It is certainly a Nine-Five variant, but it doesn't match up to any of the listed Nine-Five variants.

Some of the differences from the "Nine-Five variants of Pitch" section of the page are:
 * Forced 1 bid to dealer if everyone passes

Differences from "Nine-Five" section:
 * 6 initial cards dealt rather than 9 in the Nine-Five main variant
 * Dealer is not allowed to look at the remaining deck
 * 64 points to win
 * There is a 4-card kitty

Differences from "Variant" section
 * All of the above
 * The bidder must lead trump on the first trick
 * (Hotshot sounds like shooting the moon in the Bonanza version)

"Nine_Five Regional (Northwest Connecticut)" and "Nine_Five Regional (Northeast Connecticut)" are even more different than the previous variants.

I also can't tell if the 18 points for the Nine-Five variants section are the same 18 points listed in the Bonanza variant I brought up since they are not explicitly listed on the wikipedia page.

Here are the rules of this particular variant that I would like to add.

Bonanza Pitch

Four players play in 2 sets of partners, with partners sitting across from each other. Each player is dealt 6 cards, with 4 face-down cards in the kitty. There are 18 total points that can be earned in a round: High (1 pt), Low (1 pt), Jack (1 pt), 10 (1 pt), 9 (9 pts), and 5 (5 pts). There is an auction bid that continues until all but one player has passed. Players can bid up to 18 or Shoot the Moon. If all other players pass, the dealer is forced to bid 1.

The player that wins the bid must declare trump before collecting the kitty. Players then discard all cards that are not trump. If the player that wins the bid has more than 6 cards, they must discard down to 6 cards and show the other players which trump cards are being discarded. The dealer then deals each player back up to 6 cards. The player that won the bid must lead trump on the first trick. Players must always follow suit when possible. If a player does not have a non-trump suit that was led, they may play a trump card to take the trick.

Shooting the moon means that the team that won the bid must get all 18 points. Teams cannot shoot the moon if they are "in the hole" (they have a score below zero) or if either team has a score of 46 or above. If they succeed, they win the whole game. If they fail to win all 18 points, that team loses the game.

A team has won the game when it reaches a score of 64 or above. If both teams exceed 64 points on the same hand, the team the won the bid for that hand wins the game, even if that team has a lower score.

LWileczka (talk) 20:31, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Ah! OK, forgive my misunderstanding. Thank you for explaining. Please go ahead and restore your edits; I won't revert it again. Jtrevor99 (talk) 15:29, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

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Category:Cathedrals in Croatia

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 * List of Cathedrals in Croatia by Giga-Catholic Information

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Kim Yik-yung

Kim Yik Yung (born 19 February 1935) in Chongjin, Hamgyong, is a South Korean ceramic artist.

She studied chemical engineering at Seoul National University and then went to the US, where she studied ceramics at Alfred University, New York State. After returning to Korea, she worked as a researcher in the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, South Korea.

Kim was co-winner of the 2004 "Artist of the Year" award from the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art for significant contribution to the development of Korean contemporary ceramic art. Her work has been shown in major exhibitions in Korea, Japan, the United States, and Europe.

Education

 * 1957 B. S. Degree, Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University
 * 1958 Finished 1-year course of Ceramic Engineering, Seoul National University
 * 1959 Finished 1-year course of Crafts and Arts, Hongik University
 * 1961 M. F. A. College of Ceramics at Alfred University

Experiences

 * 1958-1959  Research Assistant, AID Central Design Demonstration Center
 * 1960-1961  Teaching Assistant, College of Ceramics at Alfred University
 * 1961-1963  Assistant to the Curator, National Museum of Korea
 * 1963-1964  Full-time Instructor, Duksung Women's College
 * 1964-1965  Invitational Research instructor, Kyoto Municipal College of Arts
 * 1965-1967  Instructor, Housing and Interior Design, Yonsei University
 * 1967-1968  Research Assistant, AID Design Development Project
 * 1969-1974  Planning Manager, Design Development Section, Korea Trade Promotion     Center
 * 1975-2000 Professor, Ceramics Design, College of Design and Architecture, Kookmin University in Korea
 * 2000-       Professor emeritus, Kookmin University.

Work in Collections

 * National Gallery of Contemporary Arts, South Korea
 * Hoam Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
 * Youngeun Museum of Art, Daeyu Cultural Foundation, Korea
 * Everson Museum, Syracuse, U. S. A.
 * Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, U. S. A.
 * Royal Museum of Mariemont, Brussels, Belgium
 * British Museum, United Kingdom
 * National Museum of Scotland, United Kingdom
 * Victoria and Albert Museum, United kingdom
 * Detroit Institute of Art, U. S. A.
 * Royal Ontario Museum, Canada
 * Smithsonian Institution, U. S. A.
 * Taipei National Museum of History, Taipei
 * San Francisco Oriental Museum, U. S. A.
 * Philadelphia Museum of Arts, U. S. A.
 * Chicago Smart Museum, U. S. A.
 * Honolulu Academy of Arts, U. S. A.
 * Hawaii University Gallery, U. S. A.
 * San Antonio Museum of Art, U. S. A.

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