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Shahadat Hossain

Shahadat Hossain (born: 7 August 1986) is a Bangladeshi cricketer. He made his Test debut in 2005 during Bangladesh's first tour of England. When he came onto the international scene he was cited by then coach Dav Whatmore as the fastest bowler in the team. The following year, Hossain made his One Day International (ODI) debut against Kenya. At times Hossain has struggled with conceding too many runs, and for that reason was dropped in 2009. In November 2010, Hossain was a member of the squad that won Bangladesh's first gold in any event at the Asian Games. A broken toe prevented Hossain from playing for Bangladesh in July 2011, but after more than a year since his last Test he returned to the squad in October that year. In November 2019, he was given a five-year ban from cricket, after assaulting a teammate. He made history being the first Bangladeshi to take a hat-trick in the ODI format.

Early and domestic career
Born in Narayanganj, Hossain began playing cricket during his teenage years in his home town, and his father, a banker, agreed to send him to a training camp. Whilst at the training camp he was spotted by a scout and was referred to the Bangladesh Institute of Sports to improve.

Hossain soon found himself called up for the Bangladesh U-19 cricket team for the 2003–04 Asian U-19 Tournament in Pakistan, but he didn't find much success, taking only 2 wickets in 3 appearances, as Bangladesh lost all their group stage matches and failed to progress to the final. His run in the team continued, however, as he was picked for the 2004 U-19 Cricket World Cup as Bangladesh played hosts. In the group stage he played in all 3 matches, taking 5 wickets, as the team progressed to the Plate competition of the Cup. For the Plate final, he took a wicket as Bangladesh defeated Australia to finish ninth out of sixteen. He finished with six wickets at an average of 28.50, and was named by Cricinfo writer Rabeed Imam as the fastest bowler and one of the most promising players in the tournament.

He was the leading wicket-taker for Dhaka Division in the 2018–19 National Cricket League, with seventeen dismissals in five matches.

International career
In his debut Test against England at Lord's in 2005 Hossain conceded 101 runs in 12 overs without taking a wicket, an economy rate of 8.41.

On the tour to Zimbabwe in July 2006, Hossain became the first Bangladeshi to take a hat-trick in One Day Internationals.

South Africa toured Bangladesh in February 2008 for two Tests and three ODIs. Though they were expected to win with ease, South Africa were made to work hard for victory in the opening Test. Cricinfo recorded that Hossain "bowled at a lively pace and with tremendous control" to help Bangladesh gain a first-innings lead. He claimed career-best figures of 6/27, and despite a further three in the second innings South Africa won by five wickets. Bangladesh lost the second match by an innings and 205 runs with Hossain taking 3/107. In January 2009 Shahadat was dropped from the national side. Chief selector Rafiqul Alam stated that Shahadat was too expensive, having conceded runs at 6.63 an over in 18 ODIs in 2008, and believed he would benefit from returning to domestic cricket.

When July–August 2009, Bangladesh toured the West Indies, Hossain was included in the 15-man squad. By winning the first Test, Bangladesh secured their first win against the West Indies, their first overseas Test victory, and only their second Test win. The West Indies side was very inexperienced due to the fallout of a dispute between the West Indies Cricket Board and the West Indies Players' Association over pay. The first XI had made themselves unavailable for selection and a new squad had to be chosen. Seven West Indies players made their Test debut in the match and the side was captained by Floyd Reifer who had played the last of his four Tests ten years earlier. Hossain was fined 5% of his match fee for excessive appealing, one of three Bangladesh players reprimanded after the match for the same reason. Bangladesh went on to win the second Test, and in the process secured their first overseas series win. Having played in both Tests, Hossain took three wickets at an average of 42.66.

The next time Shahadat played was when Bangladesh hosting India for two Tests in January 2010. In the lead up to the first match Indian batsman Virender Sehwag called the Bangladesh bowling attack ordinary, provoking anger amongst the team. India were dismissed for 234 in the first innings, with Shahdat taking 5/71. It was the third time he had taken a five-wicket haul in a Test innings. Captain Shakib Al Hasan remarked that "[Shahadat] didn't bowl all that well; he can bowl much better than this. But it's good for his confidence that he got wickets, as he is on a comeback." Bangladesh were unable to build on their early success and went on to lose the series 2–0. Shahadat was his team's second-highest wicket-taker across the two Tests, but after taking a five-wicket haul in the first innings of the series he managed just two more. Between October 2008 and March 2010, Shahadat endured a lean spell in which he took 18 Test wickets at an average of 67.50. His bowling average in this period was amongst the worst for the 20 innings before a bowler took a five-wicket haul in Tests.

Bangladesh toured England in May 2010 for two Tests and three ODIs. Hossain played in the first Test at Lord's and was one of three Bangladesh players still in the team five years after the team's first tour of England. Contrasting with his debut effort, Shahadat took five wickets for 98 runs and in the process became the first Bangladeshi cricket to be added to the Lord's honours board. England won the series 2–0 and Hossain took a single wicket in the second Test. He finished as his team's second highest wicket-taker with six wickets in the series. Hossain was part of the 13-man Bangladesh squad that played in the 2010 Asian Games in late November. They played Afghanistan in the final and won by five wickets, securing the country's first gold medal at the Asian Games.

Dhaka Division won the One-Day National Cricket League in November 2010, with all the matches held in the space of three weeks. Hossain took ten wickets from six matches in the tournament, producing his best figures of 4/39 in the final against Barisal Division to help his team to victory. Hossain was not included in Bangladesh's 15-man squad for the 2011 World Cup, having lost his place in the ODI side to younger fast bowlers Shafiul Islam and Rubel Hossain. A broken toe, sustained during a game of beach football, prevented him from taking part in Bangladesh's tour of Zimbabwe in July and August 2011, a series which marked Zimbabwe's return to Test cricket and Bangladesh's first Test match since the tour of England over 14 months earlier. National captain Shakib Al Hasan lamented Hossain's absence, saying "I think [Shahadat Hossain] Rajib is a huge loss. He's been our best Test bowler for quite a while." He returned to action in the Bangladesh Cricket Board Cup in September, taking six wickets in four games for Bangladesh A against a team of academy players and the full national side. Hossain was recalled to the Test squad in October to face the West Indies in a two-match series. He also played in both of Bangladesh's Tests against Pakistan in December. During the second Test against Pakistan, Hossain bowled several no-balls. In the first four Tests of his comeback Hossain took just two wickets whilst conceding 394 runs.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board founded the six-team Bangladesh Premier League in 2012, a twenty20 tournament to be held in February that year. An auction was held for teams to buy players, and Hossain was bought by the Khulna Royal Bengals for $30,000. When Bangladesh hosted the 2012 Asia Cup Hossain was included in the squad and played his first ODI since February 2010. He conceded the more runs than any other bowler in the tournament and his four wickets cost on average 62.00 runs each; when the BCB announced its central contracts in April Hossain's was not renewed.

In October 2018, he was named in the squad for the Dhaka Dynamites team, following the draft for the 2018–19 Bangladesh Premier League.

Bowling style
Noted for his height and aggression, Hossain was cited as the fastest bowler in the Bangladesh team by former coach Dav Whatmore in 2005. By 2010 his bowling rarely exceeded 80 mph. His run-up is smooth, his deliveries come in at an angle and bowls with pace. He has become renowned for hurting batsmen with his bouncer, having hit international players such as Mathew Sinclair and Ricky Ponting over the course of his career. His bowling has come in for criticism from fellow bowler Mashrafe Mortaza for conceding too many runs. He has said his idols include Wasim Akram, Shoaib Akhtar, Steve Harmison and Brett Lee (all fellow fast bowlers).

Arrest and other controversies
On Sunday 13 September 2015 Hossain and his wife were accused of "torture and abuse" of an 11-year-old maid. The chief executive of the BCB, Nizamuddin Chowdhury, says Hossain has been suspended "from all kind of cricketing activities under BCB's jurisdiction until a final decision is reached regarding the 'torture accusations' brought against him. On 5 October 2015 he surrendered before a court in Dhaka, was sent to prison, and charged with child repression and employing a minor. In December 2015 he was granted bail until 31 March 2016.

On 29 December 2015, Hossain and his wife were formally charged with torture and it was announced that the case will be heard on 12 January.

In November 2016, he was acquitted on the torture charge in the Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal after a judge found that the prosecution had not proven the case against Shahadat.

In November 2019, he was sent off from a match in the 2019–20 National Cricket League, due to a level 4 offense. He assaulted his own team-mate Mohammad Arafat when Arafat refused to shine the ball on one side as per his instructions. He was given a five-year ban, with two years suspended for the incident. Despite the ban, on 5 June 2021, Hossain played for Old DOHS Sports Club in the 2021 Dhaka Premier Division Twenty20 Cricket League.

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Rostislav Dimitrov

Rostislav Dimitrov (Ростислав Димитров) (born 26 December 1974 in Rousse) is a former triple jumper from Bulgaria, best known for his silver medal at the 1999 World Championships. He originally won the silver medal at the World Indoor Championships the same year, but was disqualified for ephedrin use. His personal best was 17.49 metres.

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Talk:Arrendale State Prison

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mailing inmates at this prison:

Inmate name, gdc number Arrendale State Prison dorm (ex. G2) PO box 709 Alto, Ga 30510-709

use this url to find the inmate and her number: http://www.dcor.state.ga.us/GDC/OffenderQuery/jsp/OffQryForm.jsp  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Robertev35 (talk • contribs) 03:54, 22 June 2008 (UTC)

Arrendale State Prison

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i am trying to find out if someone is there at your facility, re; casey m birchfield, if so how do i go about sending her mail? thanks for your help with this matter, sincerly. Heath Grey

Wikiproject Prisons
If anyone is interested, I have proposed a new Wikiproject concerning prisons here.--Cdogsimmons (talk) 16:56, 18 June 2008 (UTC)

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Danio kyathit

Danio kyathit, also called ocelot danio, is a small, schooling species of fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is endemic to the upper reaches of Irrawaddy River near Myitkyina in northern Myanmar. Described in 1998, it is closely related to the better-known zebrafish or zebra danio, D. rerio.

Description
A smallish cyprinoid with a maximum length of 6 cm, the females are thicker and less streamlined in the body than males. Danio kyathit had once two recognised colour morphs, a striped form known as the orange-finned danio but has now been described as Danio quagga, a spotted form known by the common name ocelot danio, which may be confused with the leopard danio.

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1939 Pacific hurricane season

The 1939 Pacific hurricane season ran through the summer and fall of 1939. Before the satellite age started in the 1960s, data on east Pacific hurricanes was extremely unreliable. Most east Pacific storms were of no threat to land. However, 1939 saw a large number of storms threaten California.

Hurricane One
On June 12, a hurricane was detected. The lowest pressure reported by a ship was 985 mbar. The hurricane was last seen June 13.

Possible Tropical Cyclone Two
A possible tropical cyclone was located off the coast of Mexico on June 27. A ship reported a gale and a pressure of 1006 mbar. The system was last seen on June 28.

Tropical Cyclone Three
On July 19, a tropical cyclone was detected. A ship reported a pressure of 1000.7 mbar.

Tropical Cyclone Four
On July 29, a tropical cyclone was located midway between Manzanillo and Acapulco. It moved up the coast, and a ship reported a pressure of 1000 mbar on July 29 as the cyclone made landfall in the vicinity of Manzanillo.

Tropical Cyclone Five
A small tropical cyclone was detected on August 31. A ship reported gales and a pressure of 1003.3 mbar.

Hurricane Six
A storm developed southwest of Cabo San Lucas on September 4 and paralleled the western coast of the Baja California Peninsula for two days, eventually curving northeast into the northern Baja California on September 6. From September 4 to 7, moisture from the storm and its remnants brought heavy rain to Southern California. The storm delivered over a year's worth of rainfall to Blythe, while Imperial received more than two years' worth. The flooding caused major damage in Mecca, California, and 3 ft of water swamped Thermal. Unusually heavy rains spread across the Colorado River Valley to western Arizona ahead of an approaching shortwave trough, with a maximum of 6.85 in falling in Truxton, Arizona. Across the state, seven stations set 24-hour rainfall records between September 4–6, while the storm's rains would contribute to the rainiest September at 38 stations.

Hurricane Seven
A tropical cyclone was first detected south of Acapulco on September 5. It intensified into a hurricane and moved northwestward. A ship sailing through the eye reported a pressure reading of 948 mbar. The tropical cyclone made landfall somewhere along the Baja California Peninsula. It dissipated inland over the northern part of the peninsula on September 12. Remnants of this tropical storm, in association with a trough, caused rain of up to 4 in in southern California on September 11 and 12.

Tropical Cyclone Eight
On September 5, a tropical cyclone formed off the coast of Costa Rica. It also headed northwest and dissipated over the southern part of Baja California on September 15. The lowest reported pressure was 1004 mbar. From September 19 to 21, remnants of this tropical cyclone caused rain measuring up to 3 in in Southern California.

Hurricane Nine
On September 14, a tropical cyclone formed off the coast of Central America. This tropical storm tracked northwestward and intensified into a hurricane. The sea-level pressure dropped to 975 mbar or lower. The hurricane recurved gradually to the northeast and weakened over cool seas. On September 25, this tropical storm made landfall near Long Beach, California, and dissipated inland.

The tropical storm caught Southern Californians unprepared. It brought heavy rain and flooding to the area, which killed 45 people. At sea, 48 were killed. The storm caused heavy property damage amounting to $2 million (1939 USD) in total, mostly to crops and coastal infrastructure.

Hurricane Ten
On October 23, a tropical cyclone formed south of Cabo Corrientes, Jalisco. It intensified and headed roughly due north. A steamer, the Nevadan, caught in the eye of this extremely intense hurricane, recording a corrected central pressure of 930 mbar (hPa; 27.46 inHg). Even with modern tropical cyclone observation techniques available, this reading still qualifies this cyclone as one of the most intense on record and would likely have made it a Category 4 or 5 hurricane. The steep pressure gradient between the Nevadan and the external hurricane conditions off of Manzanillo, Colima caused several tarpaulins to burst. Other shipping was disrupted off the Mexican coast by the intense tropical cyclone.

The hurricane made landfall near Cabo Corrientes on October 25 and dissipated shortly thereafter. Onshore, the storm caused an extensive swath of damage. Homes were destroyed in the towns of Santiago Ixcuintla and Rosamorada in the Mexican state of Nayarit, displacing hundreds of people. In Puerto Vallarta, a strong storm surge flooded a section of the town, destroying several homes. Tobacco, corn, and rice crops in the region suffered considerable damage. The strong winds downed power lines, resulting in the delayed dissemination of damage reports. Although no exact casualty total was documented, reports indicated that the tropical cyclone caused a "few casualties". After the storm, US$6,000 was donated to help aid the displaced in the states of Nayarit and Jalisco, while doctors and nurses were sent to those areas.

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Nick (DNA)

A nick is a discontinuity in a double stranded DNA molecule where there is no phosphodiester bond between adjacent nucleotides of one strand typically through damage or enzyme action. Nicks allow DNA strands to untwist during replication, and are also thought to play a role in the DNA mismatch repair mechanisms that fix errors on both the leading and lagging daughter strands.

Formation of nicks
The diagram shows the effects of nicks on intersecting DNA in a twisted plasmid. Nicking can be used to dissipate the energy held up by intersecting states. The nicks allow the DNA to take on a circular shape.

Nicked DNA can be the result of DNA damage or purposeful, regulated biomolecular reactions carried out in the cell. During processing, DNA can be nicked by physical shearing, over-drying or enzymes. Excessive rough handling in pipetting or vortexing creates physical stress that can lead to breaks and nicks in DNA. Overdrying of DNA can also break the phosphodiester bond in DNA and result in nicks. Nicking endonuclease enzymes can assist with this process. A single-stranded break (nick) in DNA can be formed by the hydrolysis and subsequent removal of a phosphate group within the helical backbone. This leads to a different DNA conformation, where a hydrogen bond forms in place of the missing piece of the DNA backbone in order to preserve the structure.

Repair of nicks
Ligases are versatile and ubiquitous enzymes that join the 3’ hydroxyl and 5’ phosphate ends to form a phosphodiester bond, making them essential in nicked DNA repair, and ultimately genome fidelity. This biological role has also been extremely valuable in sealing the sticky ends of plasmids in molecular cloning. Their importance is attested by the fact most organisms have multiple ligases dedicated to specific pathways of repairing DNA. In eubacteria these ligases are powered by NAD+ rather than ATP. Each nick site requires 1 ATP or 1 NAD+ to power the ligase repair.

In order to join these fragments, the ligase progresses through three steps: One particular example of a ligase catalyzing nick closure is the E. coli NAD+ dependent DNA ligase, LigA. LigA is a relevant example as it is structurally similar to a clade of enzymes found across all types of bacteria.
 * 1) Addition of an adenosine monophosphate (AMP) group to the enzyme, referred to as adenylylation,
 * 2) Adenosine monophosphate transfer to the DNA and
 * 3) Nick sealing, or phosphodiester bond formation.

Ligases have a metal binding site which is capable of recognizing nicks in DNA. The ligase forms a DNA-adenylate complex, assisting recognition. With human DNA ligase, this forms a crystallized complex. The complex, which has a DNA–adenylate intermediate, allows DNA ligase I to institute a conformational change in the DNA for the isolation and subsequent repair of the DNA nick.

Role in mismatch repair
Single-stranded nicks act as recognizable markers to help the repair machinery distinguish the newly synthesized strand (daughter strand) from the template strand (parental strand). DNA mismatch repair (MMR) is an important DNA repair system that helps maintain genome plasticity by correcting mismatches, or non Watson-Crick base pairs in the a DNA duplex. Some sources of mismatched base pairs include replication errors and deamination of 5-methylcytosine DNA to form thymine. MMR in most bacteria and eukaryotes is directed to the erroneous strand of the mismatched duplex through recognition of strand discontinuities, while MMR in E. coli and closely related bacteria is directed to the strand on the basis of the absence of methylation. Nicking endonucleases introduce the strand discontinuities, or DNA nicks, for both respective systems. Mut L homologues from eukaryotes and most bacteria incise the discontinuous strand to introduce the entry or termination point for the excision reaction. Similarly, in E. coli, Mut H nicks the unmethylated strand of the duplex to introduce the entry point of excision. For eukaryotes specifically, the mechanism of DNA replication elongation between the leading and lagging strand differs. On the lagging strand, nicks exist between Okazaki fragments and are easily recognizable by the DNA mismatch repair machinery prior to ligation. Due to the continuous replication that occurs on the leading strand, the mechanism there is slightly more complex. During replication, ribonucleotides are added by replication enzymes and these ribonucleotides are nicked by an enzyme called RNase H2. Together, the presence of a nick and a ribonucleotide make the leading strand easily recognizable to the DNA mismatch repair machinery.

Nick translation is a biological process in which a single-stranded DNA nick serves as the marker for DNA polymerase to excise and replace possibly damaged nucleotides. At the end of the segment that DNA polymerase acts on, DNA ligase must repair the final segment of DNA backbone in order to complete the repair process. In a lab setting, this can be used to introduce fluorescent or other tagged nucleotides by purposefully inducing site-specific, single-stranded nicks in DNA in vitro and then adding the nicked DNA to an environment rich in DNA polymerase and tagged nucleotide. The DNA polymerase then replaces the DNA nucleotides with the tagged ones, starting at the site of the single-stranded nick.

Role in replication and transcription
Nicked DNA plays an important role in many biological functions. For instance, single-stranded nicks in DNA may serve as purposeful biological markers for the enzyme topoisomerase that unwinds packed DNA and is critical to DNA replication and transcription. In these instances, nicked DNA is not the result of unwanted cell damage.

Topoisomerase-1 preferentially acts at nicks in DNA to cleave adjacent to the nick and then winds or unwinds the complex topologies associated with packed DNA. Here, the nick in the DNA serves as a marker for single strand breakage and subsequent unwinding. It is possible that this is not a highly conserved process. Topoisomerase may cause short deletions when it cleaves bonds, because both full-length DNA products and short deletion strands are seen as products of topoisomerase cleavage while inactive mutants only produced full-length DNA strands.

Nicks in DNA also give rise to different structural properties, can be involved in repairing damages caused by ultraviolet radiation, and are used in the primary steps that allow for genetic recombination.

Nick idling is a biological process in which DNA polymerase may slow or stop its activity of adding bases to a new daughter strand during DNA replication at a nick site. This is particularly relevant to Okazaki fragments in lagging strand in double stranded DNA replication because the direction of replication is opposite to the direction of DNA polymerase, therefore nick idling plays a role in stalling the complex as it replicates in the reverse direction in small fragments (Okazaki fragments) and has to stop and reposition itself in between each and every fragment length of DNA.

DNA structure changes when a single-stranded nick is introduced. Stability is decreased as a break in the phosphodiester backbone allows DNA to unwind, as the built up stress from twisting and packing is not being resisted as strongly anymore. Nicked DNA is more susceptible to degradation due to this reduced stability.

In bacteria
The nic site or nick region is found within the origin of transfer (oriT) site and is a key in starting bacterial conjugation. A single strand of DNA, called the T-strand, is cut at nic by an enzyme called relaxase. This single strand is eventually transferred to the recipient cell during the process of bacterial conjugation. Before this cleavage can occur, however, it is necessary for a group of proteins to attach to the oriT site. This group of proteins is called the relaxosome. It is thought that portions of the oriT site are bent in a way that creates interaction between the relaxosome proteins and the nic site.

Cleaving the T-strand involves relaxase cutting a phosphodiester bond at the nic site. The cleaved strand is left with a hydroxyl group at the 3' end, which may allow for the strand to form a circular plasmid after moving into the recipient cell.

Role in meiosis
DNA nicks promote crossover formation during meiosis, and such nicks are protected from ligation by Exonuclease 1 (Exo1).

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The railway station has been recently renovated. Here is a picture.

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 * If possible, I shall tak a picture myself and upload one. --Bhadani 08:51, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * My goodness. In 8 months I could not complete my promise. --Bhadani 17:01, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Quonsar

 * 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. Sjakkalle (Check!)  07:55, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

Quonsar
Flying Spaghetti Monsterism this is not. Instead, this is rambling babble without encyclopedic merit. I don't feel it's quite a speedy, though. Delete — Lomn | Talk / RfC 19:34, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Dear Admin, Please allow this article to remain while more information on this subject is prepared for this entry. Please note that a google search on the subject of this article, "quonsar", yields over 30,000 hits which may serve as proof of the relevance and value of this topic. Thank you very much. More information to be provided soon. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.210.197.2 (talk • contribs)
 * Of which 155 are unique. — Lomn | Talk / RfC 20:13, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * For context, "Flying Spaghetti Monster" has 500,000 total / 674 unique, and that's a far more restrictive search string (more words = more potential for misspelling or rephrasing) — Lomn | Talk / RfC 20:32, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete non-notable blogging deity. Holding this up to the FSM ruler, it is not in the same league, as Lomn pointed out... though I must admit I'm somewhat partial to FSM since I was touched by his noodly appendage.--Isotope23 20:46, 12 October 2005 (UTC).
 * So now he's just a blogger? That makes me almost want to go strong delete--Isotope23 00:59, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Dear Admin, If you expect every Wiki entry to be as recognizable as FSM, then you'll have a lot of deleting to do as people add articles about subjects which interest them but are not as widely known as the FSM meme and therefore cannot measure up to such an arbitrary comparison. The article in question has been modified to provide more information. Please do not assert your deletion powers today upon this article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.210.197.2 (talk • contribs)
 * I don't see how anyone this article can interest anyone but its subject. --Last Malthusian 22:39, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Though it won't be deleted via AfD today. If you'd like to modify the article to add more information, you'lll have some time to do that. Jessamyn 22:44, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Not to be snide, but as you can see, we already have a lot of deleting to do because of non-notable articles. Anyway, I've offered FSM as a comparable benchmark, not as a hard and fast rule, and the community consensus will dictate whether or not the article is kept.  I will note, however, that "Quonsar is suspected to have an astronomical IQ" is not likely to improve the article's quality.  — Lomn | Talk / RfC 21:48, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * LOQZILLA SMASH QUONSAR-DELETING WIKIPEDIA EDITORS. QUONSAR-DELETING WIKIPEDIA EDITORS DELICIONS LIKE BAD CANDY. LOQZILLA NEVER VISIT WIKIPEDIA EVER AGAIN, EVEN AFTER VISITING IT AN DONATING TO IT SINCE THE BEGINNING* (preceding unsigned comment by 17:22, October 12, 2005)

 * Delete, vanity. --Last Malthusian 22:40, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non-notable blogging non-deity. Would reconsider if notability could be established, or information could be independently verified. Having your own small cult is not in and of itself notable. Jessamyn 22:42, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as blog vanity. - A Man In  Black  (conspire | past ops) 22:47, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete per others above. — mendel ☎ 01:40, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable. - EurekaLott 01:53, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, per embarrassed quonsar. 03:00, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Abstain. --Wedge 02:51, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * if jessamyn gets hers, quonsar should get his. (preceding unsigned comment by 02:10, October 13, 2005)
 * Note that Jessamyn Charity West only barely snuck by its own VfD, even with an assertion of notability in an industry publication and mentions in Wired magazine, DNC press credentials and publication history. — mendel ☎ 19:39, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * What's the point of deleting this, it's not like there is anyone else or any thing that has the same name. Why do you waste time on deleting this when there are so many stubs that need to be fleshed out. (preceding unsigned comment by  13:26, October 13, 2005)
 * Keep and flag for cleanup. I don't think anybody would claim that the article should remain in its current, rather silly form, but quonsar is a notable personality on several of the web's more notable sites. Jacobw 12:55, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as per above. 207.216.186.96 19:50, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in an undeletion request). No further edits should be made to this page.

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Grażyna Miller

Grażyna Miller (29 January 1957 – 17 August 2009) was a Polish poet and translator who lived in Italy.

Miller lived in Italy where she wrote poems and translated publications from Polish into Italian. She was also a literary critic whose work was published by the most prestigious Italian press media. Her most notable accomplishment was the translation of "Roman Triptych" (Trittico romano (Meditazioni) by Pope John Paul II). This book was published by the Libreria Editrice Vaticana and, on 6 March 2003, presented by the then Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger.

Biography
Grażyna Miller, born in Jedwabne, Poland, started to write poetry in her early childhood, exactly at the age of seven. During her high school years she incessantly wrote poetry while continuing her studies. Her passions were literature and pedagogy, and soon after finishing her studies she started to teach Polish literature.

In 1983, she moved to Italy. From the beginning of her stay she started to study the Italian language at the University for Foreigners of Siena in Tuscany. During her stay in Sicily (1990–1999) she distinguished herself for her admirable cooperation with the Polish-Sicilian Association by promoting her native culture, the arts and literature. She currently resides in Rome where she has become a journalist and she writes for few of the best literature inspired newspapers and cultural magazines, such as the "Corriere Romano" (The Roman Courier), "La Scena Illustrata" (The Illustrated Scene) and "Il Giornale dei Poeti" (The Poets' Journal). She is studying and translating a variety of contemporary authors, but first of all she is translating Carol Woityla's poetry.

In January 2003, she translated to Italian the "Trittico Romano.Meditazioni" (The Roman Triptych: Meditations) written in Polish by Pope John Paul II and published by the Vatican, with the presentation of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger. The official inauguration took place the March 6, 2003 in the Sala Stampa of the Vatican in the presence of the author, Pope John Paul II. In 1998 she published her first collection of poems "Curriculum" which was presented in the International Book Showcase in Turin. The artist's second collections of works, "Sull'onda del respiro" (On breath's weave), was published in 2000 and presented for the first time in the honorary suite of the St.Mary of Angels Basilica, nearby Piazza Republica in Rome. The latest published collection of poems "Alibi di una farfalla" (A butterfly's alibi) was admitted to the Vatican Book Archives. This last book was presented and inaugurated in the Sicilian city of the most prominent regional authorities and the Mayor of Piazza Armerina in Sicily. In 2003 the book was also presented at the Book Showcase of Frankfurt, in Germany.

Also in Italy, Grażyna Miller received many national as well as international recognitions. Grażyna Miller received an award from the Minister of Italian Culture in 2002.

She won the international "Luigi Vanvitelli 2001" award for "her poetic creativity that and to serve as an inspiration culturally and humanists to the current generation of artists. Other awards received were: First National Award for religious poetry, first "Forum Interart" award for artists, poets and narrators and the "Fiore di Roccia" award for romantic poetry. In 2004 Grażyna Miller received the National literature and Journalism award, during which she was cited for her excellent Italian version of the Roman Triptych.

In Spain, the book received the international "Cartagena 2003" award. The book was also recognized at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, in Poland where Grażyna Miller received the "Zloty Medal" (Golded Medal) for her crativity and her Polish-Italian involvement. At the same time she was given the international "Najlepsi Roku 2001" (Best of the Year 2001) award in her native country.

Not only Polish and Italian media such as "Zycie Warszawy", "Dziennik Polski", "L'osservatore Romano", and "Il Messaggero" are interested in Grażyna Miller, but Spanish and American newspapers write about her work as well. The Italian-American bilingual newspaper "Bel Paese" published in USA dedicated a permanent column on one of its pages to her poetry.

For some time, Grażyna Miller also read her poems live on the Italian television: RAI, local network "Antenna Sicilia" and the religious TV network Telepace transmitted live the presentation of her latest book "Alibi di una farfalla", where right after her collection of unedited works she added her translations of some of K.Wojtyla's poems. She released many interviews for both the Italian and the Polish Vatican radio stations, where her poems were read and broadcast.

Grażyna Miller was also interviewed by the national Italian radio and TV station (RAI) which dedicated considerable attention to her work.

She participated in the "International Poetry Contest – A poem for peace", organized by the Anna Kuliscioff Study Center of Turin, Italy with the participation of the Italian President, many Embassys and many international organizations where the author proved her commitment to her humanitarian mission as a poet.

Works

 * "Curriculum" (1988)
 * "Sull'onda del respiro" ("On the Wave of Breath") (2000)
 * "Alibi di una farfalla" ("Alibi of a Butterfly") (2002)

Awards and accomplishments

 * in Italy:
 * Award from the Ministry of Italian Culture 2002 – Rome
 * National Award of Press and Literature in Alghero – Donna (2004) – Sardegna Alghero
 * National Award of Religious Poetry (2001) – Benevento
 * International Award of Luigi Vanvitelli (2001) – Caserta
 * International Award Città di Marineo (2002) – Sycily Marineo

 * in Poland:
 * International Award of "The Best of the Year 2001" and a Gold Medal from the Jagellon University in Kraków

 * in Spain:
 * International Award of "Cartago" (2003) – Cartagena

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Upper Kiamichi River Wilderness

The Upper Kiamichi River Wilderness is located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Created by an act of Congress in 1988, the wilderness covers an area of 9,754 acres (39.47 km2). Contained within Ouachita National Forest, the wilderness is managed by the U.S. Forest Service.

The wilderness has both Pine Mountain and Rich Mountain which are two long mountain ridges that rise to over 2,600 feet (792 m) above sea level. Several streams and waterfalls flow off the ridges creating the headwaters of the Kiamichi River. Beech trees, usually found much farther north, along with pine and dense stands of oak dominate the forest. Black bears can be found in the wilderness, along with White-tailed deer, bobcat, skunk and Pheasant.

About 7 miles (11.3 km) of the Ouachita National Recreation Trail pass through the wilderness allowing hikers access to the highest mountain ridges in eastern Oklahoma.

U.S. Wilderness Areas do not allow motorized or mechanized vehicles, including bicycles. Although camping and fishing are usually allowed with a proper permit, no roads or buildings are constructed and there is also no logging or mining, in compliance with the 1964 Wilderness Act. Wilderness areas within National Forests and Bureau of Land Management areas also allow hunting in season.

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Eta Aurigae

Eta Aurigae (η Aurigae, abbreviated Eta Aur, η Aur), officially named Haedus, is a star in the northern constellation of Auriga. With an apparent visual magnitude of 3.18, it is visible to the naked eye. Based upon parallax measurements made during the Hipparcos mission, this star is approximately 243 ly distant from the Sun.

Nomenclature

η Aurigae (Latinised to Eta Aurigae) is the star's Bayer designation.

Along with Zeta Aurigae it represents one of the kids of the she-goat Capella, from which it derived its Latin traditional name Haedus II or Hoedus II, from the Latin haedus "kid" (Zeta Aurigae was Haedus I). It also had the less common traditional name Mahasim, from the Arabic المِعْصَم al-miʽşam "the wrist" (of the charioteer), which it shared with Theta Aurigae. In 2016, the IAU organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN approved the names Haedus for Eta Aurigae and Saclateni for Zeta Aurigae A on 30 June 2017 and they are both now so included in the List of IAU-approved Star Names.

In Chinese, 柱 (Zhù), meaning Pillars, refers to an asterism consisting of Eta Aurigae, Epsilon Aurigae, Zeta Aurigae, Upsilon Aurigae, Nu Aurigae, Tau Aurigae, Chi Aurigae and 26 Aurigae. Consequently, the Chinese name for Eta Aurigae itself is 柱三 (Zhǔ sān, the Third Star of Pillars).

Properties
Since 1943, the spectrum of Eta Aurigae has served as one of the stable anchor points by which other stars are classified.

Eta Aurigae is a larger star than the Sun, with more than five times the Sun's mass and over three times its radius. The spectrum of this star matches a stellar classification of B3 V, which is a B-type main-sequence star that is generating its energy through the nuclear fusion of hydrogen at its core. It is radiating 955 times the Sun's luminosity from its outer atmosphere at an effective temperature of $17,201 K$. Based upon its projected rotational velocity of 95, it is spinning with a rotation period of only 1.8 days. Eta Aurigae is around 39 million years old.

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Redfin danio

The redfin danio resembles a zebra danio with blood-red fins. It may be a colour morph of the orange-finned zebra danio, Danio quagga or Danio kyathit.

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Talk:Active fault

Article renaming (historical)
This article was moved/renamed from "Active faults" to "Active fault". The vote on it lasted only for 2 hours 16 minutes. Then an administrator moved the page, probably because the vote result would have been self-evident. If you have something against the new title, you can propose moving the page again in Requested moves. But you must have really good reasons because Wikipedia article names are usually in singular form. Below is the original vote:

Prefer singular nouns. I propose the move on the ground of this Wikipedia naming convention. -Hapsiainen 19:36, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Support, certainly. -Hapsiainen 19:36, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Surely we can simply move this information on the definition of what is an active geologic fault to the article which discusses what a geologic fault is? Or do we also need an article on wikipedia which is inactive fault?Rolinator 09:38, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Requested move
Active fault → Geologic fault — As said on the talk, the info on this page is merely a little addendum to that found on Geologic fault and the existence of Actie fault would be redundant if the page was moved/merged there. Rolinator 09:37, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Survey
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 * Oppose. This is really a merge request that the requestor can do on their own.  Just move any data that is not in the target article and replace Active fault with a redirect.  Or am I missing something?  Vegaswikian 07:29, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Discussion

 * No consensus to move. — Mets501 (talk) 16:55, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

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Dream Team (professional wrestling)

The Dream Team was a World Wrestling Federation tag team from 1985 to March 29, 1987 consisting of Brutus Beefcake and Greg Valentine managed by "Luscious" Johnny Valiant. The New Dream Team, also managed by Johnny Valiant, saw Dino Bravo replace Brutus Beefcake and competed from March 1987 until the winter of 1988.

History
Prior to creation of the Dream Team, Greg Valentine, managed by Captain Lou Albano, had won the WWF Intercontinental Championship from Tito Santana and was in the middle of a brutal feud with Santana. In the midst of that feud Jimmy Hart took over Albano's managing duties while Valentine was still the champion. Brutus Beefcake had entered the WWF in 1984 under the management of Johnny Valiant.

The Dream Team
Managers Johnny Valiant and Jimmy Hart first put Greg Valentine and Brutus Beefcake together in May 1985. Early on Beefcake teamed with Valentine to fight off Tito Santana and the Junkyard Dog, both high ranked contenders for Valentine's Intercontinental title. In Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens on April 21, 1985 the Dream Team lost to Santana and Ricky Steamboat in approximately 15 minutes. The match appears on the WWF's Coliseum Home Video release "Best of the WWF Vol. 4". On July 6, 1985 Santana regained the Intercontinental Title in a steel cage match and shortly afterwards the Dream Team set their sights on the reigning WWF World Tag Team champions, The U.S. Express (Barry Windham and Mike Rotunda).

Not long after Johnny Valiant became the sole manager of the Dream Team as the two started to team more and more regularly. Their initial shots at the tag team champions were unsuccessful but on August 24 at The Spectrum in Philadelphia the Dream Team won the tag team titles from the U.S. Express when Beefcake rubbed Luscious Johnny's lit cigar in Windham's eye (only a storyline).

Immediately after their title win, the Dream Team were challenged by The British Bulldogs (Davey Boy Smith and the Dynamite Kid), often escaping with their titles due to underhanded means. Besides defending against the Bulldogs the Dream Team also put the gold on the line against such teams as The Killer Bees as well as the former champions the US Express (both versions). The Bulldogs remained a constant threat to the Dream Team as 1985 turned to 1986, finally the Dream Team agreed to give the Bulldogs one final tag team title shot at WrestleMania 2. On April 7, 1986 the two teams met in the Chicago section of WrestleMania broadcast from the Rosemont Horizon, with the addition of "Prince of Darkness" Ozzy Osbourne in the Bulldogs’ corner the Dream Team finally ran out of tricks and lost the gold.

Finding themselves in the challengers position the Dream Team now chased the Bulldogs in the months following WrestleMania 2 climaxing in a series of steel cage matches during the summer of 1986. A running gag on the WWF's weekly television was Gorilla Monsoon's constant suggestion that the Dream Team never mentally got over the loss at WrestleMania 2, likely in acknowledgement of what many consider the best match on the card that night. Gorilla would always make a point to mention it happened in Chicago's Rosemont Horizon, the location Gorilla himself was stationed at for the event. As the summer passed the Dream Team found themselves facing the Killer Bees and the 2nd version of the US Express instead of challenging for the gold. As 1986 turned to 1987 the Dream Team found themselves feuding with The Fabulous Rougeaus (Jaques and Raymond). The team was also joined by Johnny Valiant's newest addition Dino Bravo in six-man tag matches. Lack of championship success, not to mention Beefcake feeling muscled out by Bravo, began tension within the team.

At WrestleMania III the Dream Team and the Rougeaus clashed once again with the Dream Team winning due to Dino Bravo's interference. After the match Dino Bravo and Greg Valentine argued with Brutus Beefcake, kicking him off the team.

The New Dream Team
After dumping Beefcake, Valentine and Bravo began wrestling as "The New Dream Team", starting out strong by defeating The Islanders in a series of house show matches after which they continued the long running feud with the Rougeau brothers splitting matches between them over the summer, often in six man matches with Beefcake joining the Rougeaus to take on Valentine, Bravo and Valiant. The Dream Team also had a couple of shots at the world tag team champions The Hart Foundation (Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart), but did not manage to repeat the success of the original Dream Team.

The New Dream Team's last major appearance as a team was at the inaugural Survivor Series where they took part in a ten team, tag team elimination match. Valentine was pinned by Paul Roma of the Young Stallions, eliminating the team from the match.

After Survivor Series the New Dream Team broke up quietly, they simply stopped teaming up and went their separate ways. One of the main reasons for this split was because Valentine and Bravo legitimately did not get along outside the ring. Johnny Valiant left the WWF, Greg Valentine began working as a singles wrestler reuniting with Jimmy Hart, and Dino Bravo came under the guidance of Frenchy Martin. Valentine and Bravo would later be teammates in Randy Savage's King's Court team at the Survivor Series (1989), by which time Bravo had joined Valentine under Hart's management. That same night, Beefcake would appear in a different Dream Team, captained by Dusty Rhodes. Valentine and Bravo would also later team up again up against The Rockers on a WWF VHS tape called WWF Supertape, Volume 2 in 1990.

Bravo left the WWF in 1992 after he retired from the sport. Beefcake was released by the company in 1993 and went to WCW. Valentine left the company in 1992 and went to WCW. He returned to WWF in 1993 and left in 1994 and went back to WCW.

Reunion (2003–2013)
Valentine and Beefcake reunited for the first time in 16 years on November 1, 2003 defeating The Powers Of Pain at The Road Warrior Hawk Memorial Show. Then they lost to Hacksaw Jim Duggan and Tito Santana at the debut of Power Wrestling Alliance on November 11, 2005 in Dix Hills, New York. On November 9, 2007 they won the BCW Tag Team Championship for Brew City Wrestling defeating Brandon Tatum and Dinn T. Moore. The titles were dropped as they lost to Hardcore Craig and Steve Stone on January 12, 2008. They continued wrestling in the independent circuit. On July 20, 2013 they won the AWF Tag Team Titles and later that year split up.

Aftermath
Bravo was murdered on March 10, 1993 at his home in Laval, Quebec at 44. Valiant died after being hit by a car on April 4, 2018.

After 2013, Beefcake retired from wrestling in 2015 and Valentine retired form wrestling in 2019.

Valentine was inducted in the WWE Hall of Fame in 2004 and Beefcake was inducted in 2019.

Championships and accomplishments

 * Alabama Wrestling Federation
 * AWF Tag Team Championship (1 Time)
 * Brew City Wrestling
 * BCW Tag Team Championship (1 time)
 * 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated'
 * Ranked # 94 of the 100 best Tag teams during the "PWI" years in 2003.
 * World Wrestling Federation
 * WWF Intercontinental Heavyweight Championship (1 time) - Valentine
 * WWF World Tag Team Championship (1 time)

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John Joseph Paul

John Joseph Paul (August 17, 1918 – March 5, 2006) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as an auxiliary bishop and bishop of the Diocese of La Crosse in Wisconsin from 1977 to 1994

Early years
John Paul was born on August 17, 1918, in La Crosse, Wisconsin. He graduated from Aquinas High School in La Crosse in 1935 and from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa in 1939.

Ordination and ministry
Paul was ordained to the priesthood on January 24, 1943 by Auxiliary Bishop William Griffin at St. Rose of Viterbo Convent in La Crosse, the motherhouse of the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration. While stationed in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, Paul help established Regis High School.

In 1955, Paul became rector of Holy Cross Seminary in La Crosse. On October 7, 1956, Pope Pius XII made Paul a monsignor. In 1956, Paul received a master's degree in education from Marquette University. In 1966, Paul became rector of the Cathedral of St. Joseph the Workman in La Crosse.

Auxiliary Bishop and Bishop of La Crosse
Paul was appointed auxiliary bishop for the Diocese of La Crosse on May 17, 1977 by Pope Paul VI. Paul was consecrated on August 4, 1977.

On October 14, 1983, Paul was appointed bishop of the Diocese of La Crosse by Pope John Paul II, succeeding Bishop Frederick Freking. On December 5, 1983, he was installed as bishop. In 1986, Paul convened the fourth diocesan synod following the revised Canon Law of 1983; in 1987, the decrees of the fourth diocesan synod were published as: The Bishop With His People. In 1992, Paul founded the Aquinas Middle School in La Crosse.

On December 10, 1994, Paul submitted his resignation as bishop of La Crosse to John Paul II; he was succeeded by Bishop Raymond Burke. John Paul died at Franciscan Skemp Medical Center in La Crosse on Marcy 5, 2006, at age 87.

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Talk:Metallica/Archive 1

Untitled
That last edit by 24.210.223.22 was me. Edited so long I got logged out :-) -- Wapcaplet 02:22 17 Jul 2003 (UTC)

The edit previous to my latest mentioned uncertainty about where to include his/her new content. The Clear Channel thing seems to me to be one example of interesting tidbits/factoids about Metallica that might best be grouped under a "Miscellaneous Information" section. In other words, nothing significant ultimately came of Clear Channel's decision and it had no meaningful impact on the band's larger story (other than the fact that a few Metallica tunes may not have been played for a few days).I've created the section and moved the Clear Channel thing there. Does the new organization work? Pillsbur 02:23, May 4, 2004 (UTC)

'Tallica's new Bass Player
''Does anyone have a clue who might become Metallica's new bass player??? - WojPob

They should get Geddy Lee from Rush. Now that would rock. Oh, please.

Metallica's new bass player is Robert Trujillo.

Napster & Metallica
I think the section on the Napster controversy could be cleaned up and expanded considerably. It doesn't read very well right now. It needs more about their stated reasons for attacking Napster, and the cause (which was a demo of "I Disappear" appearing on Napster before they had even finished producing it). Some more detail on the backlash would be good too. Wogan 9 Jan '04

"Metallica and Napster agreed to an out-of-court settlement" - any more info on this, please? At least an external link. Thanks. Helix84 00:32, 3 Nov 2004 (UTC)

I, Jimbo Wales, confess to listening to almost no other music than Metallica. I think it is really interesting to see the shift in Metallica's image since the whole Napster VsMetallica controversy erupted. Metallica was always known as a band of the people -- a band that grew in popularity by touring a lot and connecting directly with the fans, with very little record company or MTV corporate support of any kind.

Now, they are viewed as some kind of corporate shills.

WojPob's theory is: something went wrong after they collectively cut their hair (which started to look a bit Mullet-like). Then they released /Load, which in the view of a lot of fans was a "weird" album. Then, less than a year later came /Reload, which was released much too quickly and obviously needed some more studio work. They still have the talent - maybe they're just too old now???

Have they made it to the second stage of rock and roll band age:

 * Youthful energy - usually the best music produced here
 * Protecting and slowly increasing ones audience - rehash / semi-lame new music created
 * Slowing the shrink rate of the audience - obviously lame music created / multiple repackaging of greatist hits
 * Having a very small audience - new, still lame music created once every 5 years
 * Geezer rock former superstar status - no audience - only media fluff pieces - make the rounds at guest appearance shows - no new material - please, be charitable, become a recluse on a remote South Pacific island.

"Selling Out" accusations predated Black album.
Metallica was accused of "Selling Out" by some fans when they signed to Elektra records and left Metal Blade. The main article should either be updated to reflect this, or the part about "first" being accused of selling out should be removed.

 * I think there were already accused with their second album and "Fade to Black"... Xorx77 13:09, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * The fact is that Metallica grew in directions some fans didnt like. Why is it that every time a band moves away from the original fan base they've "sold out"?  Maybe they just changed and the fans stagnated.

 * Imagine you're a fan who grows up on Metallica and sees the band as the hardest and heaviest band in the world that's not at all like Nirvana or Green Day who are much more commercially acceptable. (Think about it - Metallica had insane popularity BEFORE releasing Kill 'Em All...) And all of a sudden the band you kept sacred in your back pocket and idolized, is on TV, on radio and all the dorks in school you hate start wearing the same T-shirts as you and try to treat you as friend but you know they just don't get it the same way you do because you're in the hardcore of the movement... It's like, Metallica pioneered Thrash Metal among with Megadeth, Testament, Slayer and Anthrax. It's a fact. They're whole existence was based on going against whatever was popular at the time musically AND visually. Face it: now they're basically "blending" in. There was a story once about someone who liked a particular type of food a lot and on his birthday his mother wanted to be nice and made it special and added whatever type of spicing and all that to make it extra. After eating the dinner, the guy just said "It was nice, except for that spicing." ... Moral of the story is, some people like things the way they are, unchanged. Mind you, I'm not saying no bands should innovate. All the aforementioned bands progressed in their sound and music during the years. But they're all the same bands who started decades ago, and their fans know that. I'm not saying that Metallica did wrong by going "alternative" or "popular", but in that case, the fan reaction is understandable. // Gargaj 12:20, 2005 July 15 (UTC)

 * The sell-out accusations actually predates the "Kill 'em all" album, some of their fans who knew them from the demo scene thought the sound was to polished. Metallica also said that they would never make a music video so apparently they were sensitive to those kind of accusations (something that makes them similiar to some punk bands I guess). --Sus scrofa 11:51, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Album labels
I changed the label from Vertigo to Elektra for many of the records. It looks like Vertigo is the UK label, however being an Amesrican band it seem though this should list the American labels. Dze27 05:52, Aug 16, 2004 (UTC)

"Politics"
User:63.189.168.253 deleted this entire section for NPOV reasons. It had been earlier marked for cleanup, and I agree that it doesn't belong without some heavy editing (parts of it resemble original research), but there's some good stuff in here, and I'd hate to see it lost forever in the edit history. Can somebody go through here with a hacksaw and chop it into shape?

 * The original "Politics" section (to which I wrote the extremely long thing posted below) was far too simplistic and I thought that if someone really wanted a Metallica Politics section they needed to see how complicated such a concept really is. When it was removed a while ago I didn't mind because I don't think such a thing really works as a separate section in the main Metallica article anyway.  It's just too messy of a subject.  However, parts of the content could be ported to other sub-articles on Metallica though (specific albums, for instance).
 * Pillsbur 18:47, Jan 17, 2005 (UTC)

 * Throughout the 1980s and early 90s much of the critical discussion and interest in Metallica revolved around the band's combination of structurally complex music with lyrics that appeared to be more "intelligent" than most other metal groups. Largely absent from the band's music were lyrics about Satan or sex. Indeed, Metallica's overall aesthetic during the late 80s was labeled by one journalist as "thinking man's metal" and much of the band's output from those years (in particular the ...And Justice For All album) was therefore read as "political."  Such a reading was also possible because the specific topics of critique present in Metallica's lyrics meshed with the generally leftist slant found in other rock lyrics also thought to represent "political" statements.  Lyrics such as those in "Disposable Heroes," which rail against the plight of ordinary soldiers ordered "back to the front" in the service of more powerful and influential members of society, or "...And Justice For All," which decries the tight connection between wealth, justice, and power, are part of a history of so-called "political" music that reaches back many decades in popular music.  While the band's source for the song "One" was Dalton Trumbo's anti-war novel Johnny Got His Gun (1939), both the song and video resist ultimately making a judgement for or against war.  Like "Disposable Heroes," Metallica focuses intently on an individual experience of war in "One," but without the thinly veiled condemnation of large-scale manipulation detectable in "Disposable Heroes." In general, because the lyrical content seemed to touch on left-leaning concerns could the music be considered political; had the content seemed to come from the right it would have been understood (and perhaps derided) as propaganda.

 * Indeed, questions of propaganda arise in the lyrics to "Don't Tread On Me" highlight just how slippery and unnuanced the label "political" is. "Don't Tread On Me" appears on The Black Album, and on the surface it seems to repudiate any sense of Metallica having been disposed toward left-leaning politics.  "Don't Tread On Me" represents a clear statement of American national pride.  The lyrics draw on phrases and imagery first mentioned in the early days of the American Revolutionary War through an anonymous 1775 essay (now identified as having been written by Benjamin Franklin) musing on the symbolism of the rattlesnake that adorned a militia flag seen in Philadelphia.  Phrases from the essay, such as "never begins an attack," "once engaged, never surrenders," and "emblem of vigilance" are lifted directly into the lyrics of "Don't Tread On Me."  Patrick Henry's famous "Liberty or death" also makes an appearance in the song (it's the song's first lyric in fact). Indeed, the phrase "Don't Tread on Me," along with the famous coiled rattlesnake, was an important symbol of American resolve during the Revolutionary War, and is particularly identified with the Culpeper Flag used by Virginia militiamen.  These militaristic images, coupled with the song's quotation of the "America" theme from Bernstein's West Side Story, give "Don't Tread On Me" an unabashedly nationalist sensibility.  Moreover, the general foregrounding of militaristic prowess and national pride in the song swims against the normal criteria of political popular music so that, like celebrations of white racial pride, it was quickly understood as stemming from a generally right-wing sentiment.  Finally, the release of The Black Album soon after the Persian Gulf War (a war many Americans felt had at last removed the Vietnam War's specter of military failure) led many rock critics to hear the rightist imagery in "Don't Tread On Me" as mindless and jingoistic propaganda following a war in which the American homeland and its citizens were never threatened.

 * Importantly, the members of Metallica worked very hard to dissuade commentators from assuming the band's pointed critiques of various aspects of American society amounted to an activist's desire to become directly engaged in political action. In other words, according to Hetfield and Ulrich the songs most easily read in terms of left-leaning political statements were never intended to also represent ringing endorsements for social change.  This is an important distinction in comparison to the aesthetics of other popular music groups at the time, such as U2, R.E.M., or Public Enemy for whom some sort of conspicuous praxis was an important part of the critique.  Thus, while "Ride the Lightning" may have explored the thoughts and emotions of one sentenced to die by electrocution, the song was not meant to participate in the broader debates regarding Capital punishment.  Instead, as discussed in the ...And Justice For All article, Ulrich and Hetfield framed their lyrical critiques as the products of merely being "interested" in a certain topic, without appearing to tell others how to act.  Still, an ideology of "interest" is something of a political statement by itself, and the desire not to be pigeonholed points dramatically to the band's overarching concern with a kind of Libertarian personal independence and self-reliance.  "Eye of the Beholder" (from ...And Justice For All) would seem to be one of the band's most direct takes on this subject, with its blunt statements on personal freedom that pepper each verse.  At the same time, the freedom that lies at the heart of the lyrical message is constantly under threat from entrenched cultural interests (the inspiration for the lyrics seems to have been Hetfield's reaction to the indecency trial of Jello Biafra in 1986).  However, for all the emphasis on personal freedom, Hetfield resisted making "Eye of the Beholder" into an anthem of greater empowerment: the song's chorus music (perhaps the archetypal place for such statements in popular music) simply oscillates between two pitches with no goal-oriented direction with which to solidify a definitive message about freedom. This leads many to believe that Hetfield is a [Libertarian]

 * Any discussion of music and politics in Metallica must also take into account the way "political" lyrics largely disappeared from Hetfield's lyrics after ...And Justice For All. Moreover, the general shift in Hetfield's lyrical subjects away from the politics of society and toward a psychology of himself was accompanied by the gradual reshaping of the band's public image and the ascendancy of the individual band members' personalities into that image.  Of course, the individual personalities had always been present, but during the 80s critics and journalists had little interest in recognizing the differences.  As such, any political leanings in Hetfield's lyrics from those years were ballooned into representing the views of all four members.  Especially after The Black Album and throughout the rest of the 1990s Hetfield and Ulrich developed radically different social networks outside of Metallica, as Hetfield began asserting a down-to-earth working class identity (marked by hotrods, Harley-Davidsons, and tattoos) while Ulrich moved more in more within the "glitterati" of Hollywood and New York (Ulrich began to be known as a serious modern art collector in these years).  These divisions, combined with Hammett's interest in Eastern philosophies and vegetarianism, make it difficult to discuss the politics of "Metallica," because the individual members have so developed public images outside of the band.  Indeed, for the first two decades of its existence, any discussion of the Metallica's "politics" is really a discussion of the song lyrics, and because of that political readings of the lyrics are in some way traceable back to Hetfield alone.  While Ulrich certainly spoke to critics and journalists about the meaning of certain lyrics, there is still the issue of Ulrich interpreting Hetfield's lyrics.  The missing views of Hammett, Newsted, and even Cliff Burton are also important.  It's certainly reasonable to collapse all of those views into a monolithic understanding of "Metallica's" politics, but it's also dangerous to assume that Hetfield's lyrics represent some sort of agreed-upon and unified front put forth by the members of the band.

-leigh (φθόγγος) 22:58, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)

Sample quality
I've downloaded the .ogg samples, and found the quality rather mixed (played with VLC on an Apple TiBook to headphones). "One" is nearly unrecognizable. "Nothing else matters" is kinda ok. "Seek and destroy" is bad, with the beats totally blanking the rest. "Enter Sandman" is recognizable, but very distorted, and so is "Fade to black". They all seem to have been recorded with with much to much gain, maybe in an attempt to make them sound "loud". Any help? --Stephan Schulz 17:42, 26 May 2005 (UTC)
 * Something's wrong on your setup - I listened to the "One" sample and I have no problem recognizing every single note played... // Gargaj 20:22, 2005 May 26 (UTC)
 * The quality is pretty noisey but listenable. Remember these are supposed to be samples. --Arm

P.S.: Actually I obviously applied fade in/out. Cigsandalcohol 06:43, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
 * I reckon I am the author of most of the samples. Yes, the quality was in fact lowered as these are supposed to be samples and I wanted them to be as legal as possible. So, I went to the Metallica official website and checked out the quality they used on their samples and tried to use a similar one and the same length. The quality is in fact slightly higher than their samples. Although I obviously can't have a NPOV on this matter, I must say the quality is pretty good for an overall appreciation/recognition of the sound. I applied no other effect whatsoever other than lowering the quality.

Grammys
They won seven Grammys, not six: --nagytibi 08:59, 2005 May 27 (UTC)
 * 1990: Best Metal Performance - "One"
 * 1991: Best Metal Performance - "Stone Cold Crazy"
 * 1992: Best Metal Performance With Vocal - Metallica
 * 1999: Best Metal Performance - "Better than You"
 * 2000: Best Hard Rock Performance - "Whiskey In The Jar"
 * 2001: Best Rock Instrumental Performance - "The Call Of Ktulu"
 * 2004: Best Metal Performance - "St. Anger"

Unnamed Feeling ep
Before the Some Kind of Monster ep came out, there was an ep for Unnamed Feeling. It contains the same live tracks as SKOM. Not too sure how widely it was released, but I saw it in music stores. --Baseballfan 00:00, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

Load and ReLoad overenthusiasm
I toned down or removed some of the over-the-top apologia in the section about Load and ReLoad. It's an exaggeration to say they "spawned a plethora of radio hits"; I toned this down; and I especially object to the claim that for every fan of the early days who hated the new stuff, Metallica picked up a new fan. The latter statement is very Pollyannaish, and of course is unverifiable spin, but most importantly it's completely belied by the poor sales of these two albums compared to the big three and even Lightning. Tempshill 00:18, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Album sales
Can we come to some sort of agreement re. worldwide album sales? The last three edits or so have been about this, with sales figures of 80, 95 and 300 million copies sold worldwide. Where can we get accurate info on this? AEriksson 12:44, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

I beleive the Metallica Documentary "Some Kind of Monster" released in 2004 stated that they have worldwide sales of 100 million. 300 millions seems like grossly overstated figure considering total US sales according the the RIAA's website stands at 57 million.

Vandalism
ummm as I am not a fan of metallica, I feel I should not change anything on the page, however, someone should check what's under the FanBase headline.

Links to foreign language fan sites
Right now there's a few external links to foreign language Metallica fan sites, should these be deleted or something? --Sus scrofa 11:51, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

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