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Tales of the Abyss

Tales of the Abyss is an action role-playing game developed by Namco Tales Studio as the eighth main title in their Tales series in celebration of the series' 10th anniversary. Originally released for the PlayStation 2, the game was published by Namco in Japan in December 2005, and Bandai Namco Games in North America in October 2006. Its development team included director Yoshito Higuchi, producer Makoto Yoshizumi, and character artist Kōsuke Fujishima. The game features music by series composers Motoi Sakuraba and Shinji Tamura, and includes the opening theme song "Karma" by Bump of Chicken, which is replaced with the instrumental version in the western release. Namco has given Tales of the Abyss the characteristic genre name To Know the Meaning of One's Birth RPG. A port for the Nintendo 3DS handheld was released in Japan in June 2011, followed by an Australian and European release in November 2011 and a North American release in February 2012.

Taking place in a fantasy world, the story focuses on Luke fon Fabre, a young swordsman whose pampered life turns upside down when he unwittingly becomes the target of a military-religious organization known as the Order of Lorelei, who believe him to be the key to an ancient prophecy. Together with his companions, Luke attempts to discover the truth and significance of his own birth, as well as unravel the mystery of The Score, the prophecy that has bound humanity's actions for thousands of years.

Reviews for both its original console and handheld releases were mostly positive, with critics praising the title's combat system yet remarking that the game's plot had a tendency to move slowly and adhered to many stock Japanese role-playing game conventions. The PlayStation 2 version has sold approximately 734,000 copies worldwide. A 26-episode anime adaptation by Sunrise was also produced, which first aired in Japan on MBS between October 2008 and March 2009.

Battle system
The game's "Flex Range Linear Motion Battle System" (FR-LMBS) is real-time. The game controls are very similar to other Tales games, especially Tales of Symphonia, except with increased maneuverability. The player can attack, defend, perform a skill or call up a menu with multiple functions, such as using items or commanding an ally to perform an action. This system offers multiplayer co-op battles, and the camera for this mode is improved over the one found in Tales of Symphonia, zooming out as characters move away from each other so that other players are now always on screen. A new feature, "Free Run," allows the player character to run in any direction, unlike previous Tales games.

The game features many skills and spells to unleash upon enemies. Characters can learn "AD Skills," which can be equipped and unequipped at will, to help them in battles. The game features a large number of these skills, acquired through the use of "Capacity Cores" — items that give stat bonuses when a character levels up. Once a certain statistic has a large enough bonus, the AD skill is learned automatically. A new addition to the system is the "Field of Fonons" (often abbreviated as FOF). Whenever a character uses a spell or battle technique that features an elemental alignment, a circle will appear on the ground, corresponding to that element. After being reinforced with more techniques of the same element, the circle will light up in that element's color to signify that an FOF change is available. Finally, if a character stands in the circle and performs a specific skill that corresponds with the FOF circle, the skill will be upgraded into a more powerful version. Enemies can also use and create FOF fields. As with other Tales games, characters can engage in "Over Limit" mode when their green OVL bar is full. This can be filled by completing combos and making critical hits. During Over Limit, characters can use their Mystic Artes (Hi-Ougis), powerful skills that can only be performed when certain conditions are fulfilled. Every character has one standard Mystic Arte, along with an additional hidden one unlockable only on repeat plays. Enemy boss characters have Mystic Artes as well.

Recurring features
Many recurring features in the Tales series return, such as skits, grade, cooking, and titles. Skits are short conversations that may be viewed when prompted. During a skit, anime-style faces of the characters taking part in the skit appear and interact with each other.

"Grade" is awarded after each battle, either raising or lowering the player's total number of points depending on how the battle was played. For example, defeating the enemies within a short period or time or getting a large combo will increase the grade awarded; characters being killed or having negative status effects on them will lower the grade acquired. At the end of the game, players can use earned Grade to purchase bonuses for the next playthrough.

Abyss also features a cooking system. The player collects recipes and ingredients throughout the game, and can use them to cook either after battles or between battles. Unlike Tales of Symphonia, up to four different recipes can be set to the control pad for use after battle. Different recipes require different items and have different effects. The player can increase characters' cooking stats for each recipe by having them cook the recipe frequently.

Abyss features titles which each character gains through a series of tasks or events. Titles have various effects, some of which are stat-related. In the tradition of newer Tales games, some of these titles also change costumes. Each character has unique costumes; to acquire additional costumes, the player must accomplish certain tasks. Unlike some other Tales games, every title in Tales of the Abyss carries a special effect, varying from discounts in shops to recovering small amounts of HP periodically.

Setting
Tales of the Abyss takes place on Auldrant, a planet composed of elementary particles called "Fonons". For much of Auldrant's history, only six fonons were known to exist, representing the elements of Shadow, Earth, Wind, Water, Fire and Light; but eventually a seventh fonon, controlling Sound, is discovered. Its discovery brings great chaos: using this newest Seventh Fonon allows one to read the future. One such Seventh Fonist, Yulia Jue, an important religious figure in the game, puts in place a future for the world for thousands of years to come, with the promise of unlimited prosperity at its end. This prophecy of the future's set path becomes known as the "Score" and is documented on "Fonstones" scattered throughout the world. The nations of Kimlasca-Lanvaldear and Malkuth have fought over the fragments of these tablets for generations, each uncovering them and hoping to discover the future before the other. Meanwhile, a holy order emerges dedicated to the reading of the Score and the keeping of the peace. This "Order of Lorelei" is headed by a Fon Master and maintains both religious/political and military branches. Finally, the Score and its promise of prosperity lead to a dangerous complacency within the general population of Auldrant; the slaughter of an entire people living on the island of Hod and the destruction of that landmass was countenanced because it was predicted in the Score.

Characters
The game primarily follows Luke fon Fabre, a teenage son of the Kimlasca King's sister who has suffered from amnesia ever since he was kidnapped. He encounters Tear Grants, a member of the Order of Lorelei who seeks the death of her brother, Luke's teacher Van Grants. As Luke and Tear meet and return to Kimlasca, they meet several other characters including Jade Curtiss from the Malkuth military forces, Fon Master Ion from Daath and his guardian Anise. They are also joined by Kimlasca's Guy Cecil, Luke's servant and best friend, and Princess Natalia, Luke's fiance. Acting as an anti-hero in the game is Asch the Bloody.

Along with Van, major antagonists of the game include: Mohs, a Score-devoted leader of the Order. In addition, there are the 6 God-Generals of the Order including: Legretta, Tear's former master with undying loyalty to Van; Arietta, a general who took a rivalry against the party after they killed the animals that raised her; Dist, a mad scientist with ties to Jade; Sync, a mysterious masked strategist; and Largo, the leader of the Oracle's shock troops.

Story
Luke fon Fabre is a teenager who has been held in his manor for years by his uncle, the King of Kimlasca-Lanvaldear, after being kidnapped and started suffering amnesia. As Luke's teacher and the Commandant of the Oracle Knight, Van, has to leave to search for the Fon Master Ion, a proud woman known as Tear Grants tries to kill Van. As Luke intervenes, the Seventh Fonons in the two individuals' bodies react causing a hyperresonance, a reaction that sends the two flying to a land faraway. Tear then decides to escort Luke back to the manor in Kimlasca-Lanvaldear. However, the duo finds themselves in Malkuth. The two meet Fon Master Ion as well as Colonel Jade Curtiss from the Malkuth forces who informs them of an impending war. Jade requires Luke's status as a noble to convince the King of Kimlasca to stop his forces and prevent the war.

As Luke's group heads back to Kimlasca, they are aided by Fon Master Guardian Anise and Luke's servant Guy Cecil. Luke learns that Tear is Van's younger sister, who suspects Van of scheming to threaten the world. They also encounter the members from the Oracle Knights with one of them, Asch, sharing an extreme resemblance to Luke. In Kimlasca, Luke, Jade and Ion inform the King of their worries. Luke is then made an ambassador and is sent to Akzeriuth to help the people who are being poisoned by miasma. Van tells Luke he can neutralize the miasma by using his own hyperresonance which the King has been aware of to use him as a weapon. Luke decides to follow his master's plan. However, in Akzeriuth the hyperresonance destroys the land's Sephiroth tree, making the entire town be consumed by the miasma.

Blaming Luke for his actions, Asch also reveals Luke is the result of fomicry, a replica based on the real Luke fon Fabre: Asch. As Luke's friends abandon him for what he did to Akzeriuth, Luke starts detesting his current form and makes a promise to Tear to change for the best. He then starts working with Jade to protect the people of St. Binah whose town is also collapsing like Akzeriuth. In order to prevent more of these collapses, the group takes advantage of Luke's hyperresonance skills to move the land to the subarea, the Qliphoth. In the meantime, they are opposed by Van's forces except Asch who is against his master's wishes of a new world populated by replicas in order to go against the score. After making a peace treaty between Kimlasca and Malkuth, Luke's group defeats Van who falls to the Planet's Core.

A month after Van's defeat and moving the world population to the Qliphoth, the miasma starts affecting mankind. Additionally, a large number of replicas start appearing. Luke and Asch learn from the spirit of the Seventh Fonon, Lorelei, that Van has survived and took it. Grand Maestro Mohs from the Order of Lorelei forces Ion to read the Planet Score, killing him in the process. Mohs then forms the New Order of Lorelei with the Oracle Knights who are awaiting Van's return. Jade reveals that the miasma can be neutralized through a hyperresonance that sacrifices a large amount of lives. The replicas offer themselves in exchange that the rest of their kind are given home. Luke offers himself to perform the hyperresonance and although the plan is a success, Luke is left with little time to live.

The group then heads to confront the New Order of Lorelei who wish to follow Van's will. In confronting the remaining God Generals, Asch dies while helping Luke to reach Van. The group defeats Van who had sealed Lorelei inside his right arm and kill him. As the area starts collapsing, Luke decides to stay behind to free Lorelei. Two years later, he reappears to meet Tear and the rest of his friends.

Development
The first mention of Tales of the Abyss occurred when Namco filed a trademark for the game in December 2004, and first formally announced the title in an August 2005 issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine, where the company also announced that the title would be released in celebration of the series' tenth anniversary. The first gameplay trailer was featured on a pre-order bonus DVD included with Tales of Legendia released later that month, which also revealed that the game would be developed by the same team that produced Tales of Symphonia for the GameCube and PlayStation 2, including producer Makoto Yoshidumi and character designer Kōsuke Fujishima. In April 2006, four months after the game's Japanese release, Namco Bandai Games announced that Tales of the Abyss would be headed to North America the following fall, and would later showcase the game at the 2006 Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles in June.

The game was directed by Yoshito Higuchi who also acted as director of Tales of Symphonia and previously served on the development team of Namco's fighting game franchises Tekken and Soulcalibur. Abyss's Free Run battle system was originally designed for Symphonia and implemented in the middle of development, but was removed due to possible player exploitation of the game's enemy AI making battle too easy. This problem was avoided in Abyss by designing the battle system around this feature from the beginning. The "Field of Fonons" (FOF) feature was added to supplement the Free Run system, with Higuchi stating that "we needed to have battle positioning play a more important role if we wanted players to use Free Run at all," with the concept becoming more streamlined as development when on. The North American version of Tales of the Abyss includes new Mystic Arte attacks for most of the main characters not seen in the original Japanese release, but also removed all spoken dialogue from the optional skit cutscenes, translating only the text.

Nintendo 3DS port
The 3DS port of Tales of the Abyss was first announced in September 2010 during Nintendo of Japan's "Nintendo Conference" press event, along with a tentative release date of spring 2011. The following April, Namco Bandai announced that the 3DS port for Japan had been delayed and would miss its originally intended deadline, with a commercial release eventually coming the following June. In May 2011, Namco Bandai confirmed a North American release alongside Tales of Graces F for some time later that year. A European release was confirmed a few days later for a spring 2012 time-frame, which also marked the first official release of the game in the region. Namco's European branch would later feature the game at the 2011 Gamescom event in Germany.

The port made use of the handheld's 3D and dual screen capabilities, including the ability to register combat skills on the bottom screen for quick access, which is replaced by a world map while outside battle. Artist Kousuke Fujishima, who had worked on the previous version of the game, provided a new title logo graphic and promotional character art for the release. In addition, the Japanese version includes the new Mystic Arte attacks added to the original North American PlayStation 2 version.

Audio
The music for Tales of the Abyss was mostly composed by series veterans Motoi Sakuraba and Shinji Tamura. The Japanese version features the theme song "Karma" (カルマ) by J-Rock group Bump of Chicken, with group's lead vocalist, Motoo Fujiwara, also providing compositions for certain songs in the game that later appeared on his album Song for Tales of the Abyss. "Karma" was also used as the opening theme of the anime adaption. The western version uses the instrumental version of the theme song, due to licensing rights. The incidental vocal theme performed by Tear throughout the game, "Fu Uta" (譜歌), was sung by Yukana.

A commercial soundtrack was released in Japan in March 2006 by King Records featuring 115 tracks across four discs. A number of radio drama albums featuring the Japanese voice cast were also produced by Frontier Works, including a five-volume set titled Drama CD Tales of the Abyss (ドラマCD テイルズオブ ジ アビス) released between September 2006 and February 2008,    and a two-volume set called Anthology Drama CD Tales of the Abyss (アンソロジードラマCD テイルズ オブ ジ アビス) released in July and August 2008.

PlayStation 2 version
Tales of the Abyss was well received in Japan, with Weekly Famitsu magazine awarding it a 36 out of 40 based on individual scores of 9, 9, 9, and 9, which earned it the publication's Platinum Award, and was later ranked 44th in a Famitsu reader poll of the 100 greatest games of all time in March 2006. The game would go on to sell 440,225 copies in the region by the end of 2005, becoming the 23rd most-bought software title that year, and over 556,000 copies in Japan by the end of 2006, with worldwide sales totaling approximately 734,000 copies by December 2007.

Overall, English reviews for the game became "favorable" according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. The game has been praised for its diverse cast with IGN particularly placing attention on the game's protagonist and his ensuing character development. Others likewise praised the game's dialogue and cut-scene direction, although some questioned both the overabundance of "skits" which popped up from time to time as well as the localization team's decision to omit the voice-acting that accompanied the skits in the Japanese version. Most reviewers praised the battle system, stating that it was an improvement from earlier Tales installments while at the same time noting that it often devolved into "mindless button mashing". The graphics have received mixed attention. In particular, 1UP.com felt that they were "rough around the edges" and GameSpot pointed out a drop in frame-rate on the world map, along with a generic mix of RPG locales.

3DS version
Famitsu granted the 3DS version a lower score than its predecessor based on individual reviews of 8, 8, 7, and 8, primarily due to the lack of new features compared to the original, with one editor remarking that "It's well-made and doesn't feel old, but there also hasn't been much added to it, although touch-screen skill selection on the bottom screen is nice." It would enter the Japanese sales charts as the top-selling game of its debut week with 74,173 copies sold, and would go on to sell a total of 126,808 copies in the region by the end of 2011.

The Nintendo 3DS port also received "favorable" reviews, though slightly less than the PS2 original, according to Metacritic. GameSpot called the game "entertaining" and "engrossing", but felt that it was not well-suited to the handheld's stereoscopic 3D, remarking that "for those who have already played the game on the PS2, it's harder to recommend a repeat purchase when the central new feature actively makes the game worse." While IGN praised the fact that the portable title had not lost any features from the console version, they nonetheless felt that the title "hasn’t aged well in all respects," adding that "Having fallen in love with games like Xenoblade Chronicles and Dragon Quest IX in the past few years, it's difficult to return to this complex world of menus and jargon without a bit of reluctance." Game Informer called the game a "well-executed port", but ultimately felt that the story moved too slowly and adhered to too many stock "JRPG" conventions. In 2012, the magazine would name Jade and Tear among the best characters in the Tales series. That same year, Nintendo Power would name the 3DS version the 228th greatest game released for a Nintendo console in their farewell issue.

Although exact numbers were not disclosed, a representative from Namco Bandai stated that sales of the game in Europe exceeded the company's expectations, and had to reprint the title "three or four times" to meet demand. The success of Tales of the Abyss in the region encouraged the publisher to reconsider their western markets and potentially localize more Tales games in the future.

Anime
A 26-episode animated TV adaptation of Tales of the Abyss, produced by Bandai Visual, Namco, and Sunrise Animation Studios, began airing on October 4, 2008, and ended its run on March 28, 2009. The episodes were directed by Kenji Kodama and written by Akemi Omode. The game's theme song, "Karma" by Bump of Chicken, was reused as the opening theme; most of the voice actors from the game also reprised their roles.

On July 22, 2010, Anime News Network announced that the North American anime distributor Bandai Entertainment acquired the license to the Tales of the Abyss anime. Originally set to release on July 7, 2011, it was later delayed to October 11, 2011. Following the closure of Bandai Entertainment in 2012, Sunrise announced at their panel at Otakon 2013, that Funimation has rescued the series, along with a handful of other former Bandai Entertainment titles.

Manga
Three manga adaptations of the Tales of the Abyss game have been created and released in Japan. The first, which is simply named Tales of the Abyss and is written and illustrated by Rei was serialized in Dengeki Maoh. The second, Tales of the Abyss: Asch The Bloody, written by Rin Nijō and illustrated Hana Saitō ran in the official Tales of Magazine. A third manga adaptation, Tales of the Abyss: Jade in My Memories was written by newer artist Ayumi Kano and is a side story piece focusing on character Jade Curtiss' background. The first chapter premiered in Asuka magazine's April 24, 2009 issue.

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Kitiara uth Matar

Kitiara Uth Matar is a fictional character appearing in the Dragonlance campaign setting created by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. She is the daughter of a disgraced Solamnic Knight named Gregor Uth Matar and his first wife, Rosamun. She is also the half-sister of both Raistlin and Caramon Majere.

Character development
The novel Darkness and Light details "the travels of Kitiara and Sturm before the meeting at the Inn of the Last Home at the beginning of Dragonlance Chronicles. Sturm sets off to find news of his father; Kit comes along for the adventure. Along the way, they stumble upon a flying vessel piloted by 12 gnomes who offer them a ride to Solamnia, but the group ends up on Lunitari during a war. Eventually escaping to Krynn, Sturm and Kitiara admit their attraction for each other."

The novel Dark Heart by author Tina Daniell reveals new aspects of Kitiara, whose development was shaped by her father. According to Daniell, "Kitiara has lived on the dark side of things from an early age. Her father, who was himself a mercenary, taught her about fighting. When he left, she had to fall back on her own resources and be self-sufficient. As a result, she came to value the power of being able to do and get what she wanted."

In the Ravenloft novel Knight of the Black Rose, Lord Soth wants to possess the soul of the deceased Kitiara, to make her spend eternity together with him.

In the novel Dragons of the Highlord Skies, the second release in the Lost Chronicles, Emperor Ariakis persuades Kitiara to agree to trick the Solamnic knight Derek Crownguard into questing for a recently discovered dragon orb, so that he may become enthralled by it and then compelled to serve Ariakis. However, Kitiara is led to Dargaard Keep where she will face Lord Soth instead.

Biography
Kitiara is beautiful, a skilled warrior and, above all else, she is cold and calculating. Power-hungry, she has never been truly able to call someone a friend. In many ways, she and Raistlin are much alike. Neither would hesitate to betray an ally if presented with a guarantee at supreme power.

She once fell in love with a half elf named Tanis Half-Elven, and later seduced the knight Sturm Brightblade, with whom she secretly had a child, Steel Brightblade.

During the War of the Lance, Kitiara became a Dragon Highlord, with Skie as her personal dragon. She led the Blue Dragonarmy in the invasion of Solamnia. Her forces conquered most of eastern Solamnia and were prepared to attack the High Clerist's Tower, when Kitiara was recalled to meet with the Dragon Emperor Ariakas.

Emperor Ariakas rejected Kitiara's plan for a sudden attack on the High Clerist's Tower and instead instructed her to carry out his own scheme to destroy the Knights of Solamnia by tricking one of the leading knights, Knight of the Rose Derek Crownguard, into seeking out a dragon orb. During this meeting with the Emperor, Kitiara also learned that her former companions had killed the Dragon Highlord Verminaard.

A disguised Kitiara succeeded in convincing Lord Crownguard to pursue the dragon orb. She then learned that not only had Tanis, Sturm, and her brothers killed Verminaard, but Tanis was now traveling with his former girlfriend, the elven princess Laurana. This filled Kitiara with a jealous rage, especially after she heard how incredibly beautiful Laurana was, and the now obsessed Kitiara began to relentlessly stalk the elfmaid.

Kitiara finally caught up to Laurana in the city of Tarsis. After covertly watching Laurana, Kitiara decided the elfmaid was too beautiful a rival to let live and decided to kill her. Kitiara then attacked Laurana from behind, intending to drag the elfmaid off into an alley, interrogate her about Tanis, and then murder her. Kitiara expected to easily defeat the pampered princess and was shocked when Laurana fiercely resisted her attack. It was only with the help of the sivak draconian Slith that Kitiara was finally able to subdue Laurana. Kitiara and Slith dragged Laurana off into an alley, but before they could kill the elfmaid they were interrupted by none other than Lord Crownguard, leading a group of Solamnic Knights, and Elistan, a cleric of Paladine. Kitiara fled, promising Laurana they would meet again.

Meanwhile, the Emperor Ariakas had become convinced that Kitiara was plotting against him. He had her arrested and scheduled to be executed though Kitiara managed to escape with the help of the black robe wizardess, Iolanthe. Kitiara regained her standing with the Dragon Empire by convincing the death knight Lord Soth to ally with the Dragonarmies. Ariakas then sent Kitiara on a secret mission to the city of Flotsam to search for the Green Gemstone Man. While in Flotsam, she found Tanis disguised as one of her own soldiers and assumed that he too had enlisted. This meeting rekindled their feelings for each other, and she encouraged Tanis to stay with her as her lover. But Tanis came to his senses shortly after, and fled from Kitiara in self-disgust to rejoin his companions on their flight into the Blood Sea.

In the north Kitiara was finally allowed to attack the High Clerist's Tower, the defence of which was now commanded by Sturm Brightblade and Laurana. In the course of battle, Kitiara killed Sturm, but he managed to delay her long enough to allow Laurana to successfully use a dragon orb to lure two of Kitiara's dragons into a trap. The dragon orb also caused the draconians in Kitiara's army to go berserk which lead to her army being routed. Kitiara then confronted Laurana on the tower walls. Kitiara disarmed Laurana but did not otherwise try to physically harm her. Instead Kitiara paid her respects to the fallen Sturm and taunted her rival by telling Laurana that Tanis was with her.

Kitiara then returned to Flotsam only to find that Tanis had left her. Riding Skie, she pursued the half-elf's ship into the Blood Sea but failed to capture Tanis before his ship went down in the Maelstrom.

Meanwhile, the Good Dragons had entered the war and Laurana had been appointed Commander of the Knights of Solamnia. Laurana then led her forces, known as the Whitestone Army, into battle with Kitiara's army and again Kitiara's force was defeated with Kitiara's deputy Bakaris being captured. The Whitestone Army then liberated the key city of Kalaman.

The Emperor Ariakas, then went to execute Kitiara for the defeats she had suffered. However, the death knight - Lord Soth stayed Ariakas's hand and Kitiara then managed to convince the Emperor she had a plan to capture Laurana, now known as the Golden General, and defeat the Whitestone Army, by using Laurana's love for Tanis Half-Elven to lure her into a trap.

Kitiara sent a false message to Laurana, skillfully manipulating her rival by telling the elfmaid that Tanis had been mortally wounded and wanted to see her before he died, which Kitiara would only allow in exchange for Laurana returning Bakaris to her. Just as Kitiara expected, Laurana fell for this trick. The elfmaid, who already was convinced that Tanis was with Kitiara, believed the message and felt (based on her prior encounter with Kitiara at the High Clerist's Tower where Kitiara had behaved as an honorable enemy and had not tried to harm her even after catching her in an extremely vulnerable position) that she understood Kitiara and could trust her to honor a truce, so Laurana took Bakaris to the exchange site and was promptly betrayed and captured by Kitiara's forces. With the Golden General now her prisoner, Kitiara then traveled to Kalaman and threatened to execute Laurana in three weeks time unless the Whitestone Forces surrendered and Berem the Everman was turned over to her.

Later on, in the climax of the War, Tanis met with Kitiara in Neraka and offered to willing serve the Highlord if she would release Laurana. Kitiara agreed to consider his offer, but she had already made a promise to give Laurana's soul to Lord Soth. Kitiara then had the captured Laurana put on display for the evil goddess Takhisis in the audience chamber of the Temple of Neraka.

Tanis managed to turn the tables on Kitiara though when he murdered Emperor Ariakas with help from Raistlin, and seized the Crown of Power. Tanis was about to trade the Crown of Power for his and Laurana's freedom when Laurana broke free on her own. Laurana immediately attacked Kitiara, stealing the Highlord's sword and knocking Kitiara to the ground. Tanis tried to stop Laurana which caused her to shove him off the platform, leading to Tanis dropping the crown.

The various Dragonarmy factions began fighting over the crown and Tanis and Laurana were able to escape. Kitiara soon tracked down Tanis and Laurana after their escape and Kitiara then again gave Tanis the chance to become her lover forever. He refused in favor of Laurana. Kitiara then allowed them to escape from her and Lord Soth. Lord Soth mocked her for this, but Kitiara claimed that by letting the two escape she had insured she would always live in Tanis's heart which would forever poison his relationship with Laurana.

After the War of the Lance, Kitiara led her Dragonarmies against the city of Palanthas in a campaign known as the Blue Lady's War. She was hoping to stop her half-brother Raistlin in his quest to defeat Takhisis as she believed the goddess would greatly reward her for this service. As Kitiara's troops battled the Palanthians, she fought her way into the Tower of High Sorcery in Palanthas and even managed to take Raistlin's apprentice, Dalamar by surprise and stab him. However, Kitiara failed to finish Dalamar off and he then mortally wounded her with his magic. It was then that Kitiara realized she had been betrayed by Lord Soth, who had become obsessed with her and planned to bind her soul to him for eternity.

Kitiara pleaded with Tanis Half-Elven (who had arrived in the tower shortly after her fight with Dalamar) to protect her from Lord Soth. Tanis nearly did so despite the fact that he had no way to defeat the powerful death knight. However, both Dalamar and Lord Soth reminded Tanis of all he would be throwing away, and after thinking about his wife, Laurana, and the life he hoped to have with her, Tanis stood down and allowed Lord Soth to take the dying Kitiara.

Having achieved what he wanted Soth then withdrew his forces from the battle. Without their undead allies, the remaining Dragonarmy forces were defeated by the Palanthians, though the city was devastated in the fighting.

Kitiara died, but her soul vanished before the death knight could bind it. Both Lord Soth and the dragon Skie tried to find her soul, but they both failed.

Reception
Lauren Davis of io9 commented on the "wonderful female characters" in the series, singling out what she considered two of the strongest: "Kitiara Uth Matar and the princess Laurana, are rivals for the heart of Tanis Half-Elven, but their status as romantic rivals isn't what makes them compelling characters. I'll admit that reading the books as a pre-teen, I admired Kitiara, who was sexy and manipulative (and attracted some of the most powerful male characters in the books), but also respected as a military leader and seen as a peer by a mighty dragon. Laurana, however, gets the more significant arc, after starting out as a lovelorn girl with a romantic view of the world. As she is thrust into war-torn Ansalon, however, Laurana proves herself a competent fighter and military leader in her own right, one who watches friends die, who sees herself shunned by her family, but who marches on tirelessly to protect Krynn from the forces of Takhisis. As seductive as Kitiara is, as a young girl I was inspired watching the growth of Laurana."

In the Io9 series revisiting older Dungeons & Dragons novels, Rob Bricken commented that "my least favorite moment in Spring Dawning—and maybe in the entire trilogy—is when Kitiara sends a message to Laurana, who has been kicking the draconian asses of Takhisis' forces all across Krynn [...] Laurana offers no proof that she has Tanis, and Tas and Flint explain repeatedly that they know Kitiara and she's definitely lying—but ignoring the war, the pivotal role she plays in it, the troops that need her in command, and the people she's supposed to protect, Laurana goes anyway, like she's the moon-eyed girl from Autumn Twilight. She's captured instantly, of course. Again, it's like Weis and Hickman knew they wanted Laurana at the Temple of Takhisis for the final act but were given 10 minutes to brainstorm on a narratively satisfying way they could make it happen, and this is the best they could come up with. Oh, also, Kitiara tells all the combined forces of good they have three weeks to unequivocally surrender and let the literal embodiment of evil rule over Krynn or Laurana will be killed. Admittedly, Laurana was extremely good at her job, but why would they choose eternal darkness and subjugation over a single person?"

Video games
Although deceased, Kitiara made a "surprise appearance" in Death Knights of Krynn.

Dragonlance movie
The 2002 winner of the American Library Association's Alex Award author Mel Odom reviewed the film and noted that it includes a cliffhanger in which Kitiara is shown "in the middle of evil doings".

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Darling Nikki

"Darling Nikki" is a song produced, arranged, composed, and performed by American musician Prince, originally released on his sixth studio album Purple Rain (1984). Though the song was not released as a single, it gained wide notoriety after Tipper Gore pointed out its sexual lyricsin particular an explicit reference to female masturbationand was partly responsible for the creation of the infamous Parental Advisory sticker. The song tells the story of a "sex fiend" named Nikki who seduces the singer.

In the film Purple Rain, for which the album serves as the soundtrack, the song is directed toward Apollonia Kotero's character when she decides to work with Prince's character's rival (played by Morris Day). Compared with the slick production of the other songs on the album, "Darling Nikki" was deliberately engineered to have a raw and live feel. Near the end of the song, the music stops into the sound of rain and wind. There is singing, but it is played in reverse. Played forward, the vocals are Prince singing:

Hello, how are you? Fine, fine, 'cause I know that the Lord is coming soon Coming, coming soon.

During the Purple Rain Tour performances of "Darling Nikki", the recording at the end was played forward. This can be heard in the 1985 live video Prince and the Revolution: Live.

Parental Advisory sticker
American social issues advocate Tipper Gore reportedly co-founded the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) in 1985 because she witnessed her daughter Karenna, who was 11 years old at the time, listening to "Darling Nikki". As examples of what they meant, PMRC published a list of 15 popular "filthy" songs, with "Darling Nikki" first. The PMRC would later become known for leading to the use of the well-known Parental Advisory sticker on album covers.

Personnel
Credits sourced from Duane Tudahl, Benoît Clerc, and Guitarcloud

 * Prince – lead and backing vocals, Oberheim OB-8, Oberheim OB-Xa, electric guitars, bass guitar, drums, Linn LM-1, Simmons SDS-V

Cover versions

 * In 1995, alternative rock band Whale issued "Darling Nikki" as one of the B-sides to their single "Pay For Me".
 * In 2003, alternative rock band Foo Fighters recorded a cover of the song, which they included as a B-side on their single "Have It All". Though their version of "Darling Nikki" was never officially released as a single, it found success at American modern rock radio, peaking at No. 15 on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart. This version was later released on the vinyl-only compilation album Medium Rare. They also performed this song on the MTV Video Music Awards with Cee Lo Green guesting on vocals.

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Wikilinks
A few of the wikilinks on here point to articles on people who are not the ones referenced here. I think that means that articles don't exist for the people we're talking about. Someone added disability content on the Ed Roberts page, which I attempted to disambiguate (it was my first dab). Is there anyone else who would be interested in a wikiproject for creating articles on these people? --Jacquelyn Marie 05:03, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I would be willing to help. -- Reinyday, 15:18, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Great! --Jacquelyn Marie 14:56, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

Does anyone have any more information for the page on Irving Zola? I just created a stub for him. --Jacquelyn Marie 14:56, 7 October 2005 (UTC)

New Wave...
For lurkers - some conversation at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Disability relevent to this article... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fayedizard (talk • contribs) 08:29, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Structural improvement proposal
May I suggest that the entries in the list be structured more consistently - perhaps like this: Person's name - Nationality - Explanation of why they are regarded as a disability activist. At present the nationality of many of the people is not mentioned at all. We could also consider adding "when active" information. Roger (talk) 08:50, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Nationality not evident
In many of the entries the nationality of the person is not evident, it should be explicitly stated if the entry text does not already make it obvious. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 18:20, 4 June 2014 (UTC)

 * This continues to be a problem. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 17:45, 4 November 2017 (UTC)

 * And still not being addressed. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 09:21, 14 November 2020 (UTC)

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Keep in touch
Sorry to see you go. You know where to come when you need a ((((hug)))). And you can always e-mail me. :D Bless. deeceevoice 06:42, 7 September 2005 (UTC)

Sorry to see you go
You did a lot of good work, especially with the R&B entries (which are still way too thin). I myself haven't been too active here as of late, but because of college and school-related things. Good luck. WP will be a lesser place for your absence. Volatile 23:42, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Superhero
As a contributor to the above article, would you mind looking through it and seeing if you can provide any references? The reason I ask is that at WPT:CMC we are trying to get more comics articles given Featured Article status. Thanks for any help you could provide. Steve block talk 15:15, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

James Brown
Noticed some of your album cover descriptions. James Brown is a disambigaution page, while James Brown (musician) links to the funk master. Cheers.--Commander Keane 09:55, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Michael Jackson
Freddy, I was wondering if I could get your thoughts on this matter. I was editing the Michael Jackson article today, and saw some aggressive editors reverting his nationality from African-American to American. Is there any way to revert this without getting into an edit war? A certain person there seems to be digging up rules to prevent a reversion, but Jackson really should be listed as African-Americian. OmegaWikipedia 14:30, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

 * 1) There is no such nationality as "African-American", and Wikipedia style is to give nationality in the summary, not someone's sub-national ethnicity.
 * FF, when that RfC is ready, count me in. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 15:40, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

 * But I've not said anywhere that people's race or ethnic origins can't be mentioned. One editor has, however, been insisting on removing Jackson's nationality and replacing it with his ethnicity, and I've been replacing the nationality. When I'd done this a couple of times, the editor started deleting the nationality, replacing it with "popular" (which implies that it wasn't the addition of "African-American" that concerned him, but the removal of "American").
 * Biographical articles start by giving basic details of the person (birth date, death date where relevant, nationality, profession, and reason for notability. If ethnicity, etc., are relevant, they're generally mentioned later.  Some articles get this wrong, and you've mentioned a couple of them (both, but especially Fat Joe, are also full of other mistakes that go against the MoS).  It's never a good enough argument in these cases to point to one or two exceptions (that logic would lead us to edit this article so as to get its punctuation, Wikilinks, etc. wrong).
 * OmegaWikipedia played no part in any of this, but brought it to your attention (in typical style: "a certain editor", etc.) in the hope of enlisting you in his little vendetta.   --Mel Etitis  ( Μελ Ετητης ) 20:47, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

I find it odd that you should accuse me of racism over this, even in a message on someone else's Talk page. The accusation is not only absurd in itself, but doubly absurd based on this incident. And yes, I have changed "Italian-American" to "American" on more than one occasion, as well as other non-nationalities, both for U.S. citizens and for citizens of other countries. I'm disappointed that you should have fallen for OmegaWikipedia's nasty little attempt to play the race card, so gaining support against me on an issue in which he in fact has no real interest.

As the main writer of African philosophy, and the creator of or chief contributor to many articles on black artists and philosophers, I find your careless attribution of racist motives to me deeply offensive. Perhaps you needed a longer holiday from Wikipedia. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 22:09, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Fair enough. Perhaps I'm being a little over-sensitive and need a Wiki-break myself. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 22:31, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

re: You see why I left?
Frankly, I'd gotten to the point where I just let it go. Not only does he spread misinformation, francruft, and obvious bias; but denies doing such when the evidence is clear to anyone with half a brain. Thank you for editing the article, as it looks much cleaner now - I didn't bother trying, knowing that my work would only lead to further arguments/an edit war. The kid is awfully impulsive, moving from one fight to the next with reckless abandon, so I think now that the disagreement between he and I has been "settled," I doubt he'll notice your edits.

If you do follow through on the rfc, you know whose side I won't be taking. (Please let me know if you do, as I rarely frequent the rfc pages, or much of WP for that matter.) Oh, and welcome back to the jungle, it's great to hear from you. Volatile 16:48, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

 * An additional note: If you want to take the Respect articles a step further (or backward, whichever), I'd be willing to help recombine them as long as a certain someone doesn't put up too much of a fuss. We could use this as a template, including some of the new text that you've added. Just a thought, as everyone but that certain someone seems to think the articles shouldn't have been separated. Volatile 16:56, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

 * I have absolutely no problem with you recombining the articles, but prepare for all wholy hell when OW finds out and tries to separate them again. I never saw the purpose in separating them to begin with. Volatile 17:34, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi back atcha
Hey, darlin'! :DDDD Glad you're back -- even if periodically. Missed u. I'm glad you've made some changes to your liking. Life's too short not 2 love it. Hope you don't mind me "vandalizing" your page in your absence. See ya 'round the site. Peace 2 u. deeceevoice 19:54, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Re: The Shazam! Family
Yeah, I see your point, but until then, I think they should remain inactive.

Britannica
If you have a minute, would you mind stopping by Errors_in_the_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica_that_have_been_corrected_in_Wikipedia? I've listed an error there regarding hip hop, and I'd like a second opinion because it looks nitpicky. The issue is the first paragraph of the Britannica article, which defines "hip hop" as "the backing music for rap, the musical style incorporating rhythmic and/or rhyming speech that became the movement's most lasting and influential art form". What do you think? Tuf-Kat 21:06, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Hi
Ok, Freddy, I want to remain calm (but I am sort of well...pissed off right now). And I did crtique some of your actions in another post (so considering that, I hope we can avoid drama). But can we talk about these issues calmly, and try to reach some middle ground? I think your actions were a bit premature tonight, but I dont want us to get into some nasty wikidrama. OmegaWikipedia 05:11, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Freddy, its also a bit unfair of you to pul Mel in this drama. You know he's going to side with you and screw me over. OmegaWikipedia 05:25, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Ok, this needs more talking than five minutes could handle. But for now, is there a way to retract those VFDs? Even if you think they should be merged or deleted, that is a not a policy yet. The current policy says that those articles can remain the way they are as Mariah Carey fits into the current guidelines. I feel that you made a premature action on a policy still in the works. There are many Carey articles which should not have been created which could be deleted, which were not notable, but the songs youve listed for VFD are not those. Each of those articles has notable details that would be lost if they got merged. And is it fair to get Mel involved into this? I feel like you two are combining your mutal hatred of me together, and its hard on Wikipedia when people gang up on a solo individual. Maybe we could talk this better even AIM or something later (if you dont mind). OmegaWikipedia 05:35, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Theme from Mahogany (Do You Know Where You're Going To?) (Diana Ross song)
The best thing to do is probably to put it up for AfD, with a request for merge & redirect. It shouldn't be necessary for something so minor, but experience with OmegaWikipedia will tell you that it's the only way. He won't give in, he's not open to reason, he just wants his own way. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 08:57, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Actually, to save time I've done it. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 09:03, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Sigh
Oh god. Freddy, if you really did watch the revert wars between me and Mel, like you claim you would know it was not about the grammar. Whenever I made any type of content edit, Mel would normally rollback. After awhile it got frustrating so I rolled back too. Of course, then Mel claimed "Hey, you're messing with the grammer!" And I've reminded him that was never an issue. So if you want to say something please look at the real history before you come to the wrong conclusions. OmegaWikipedia 11:54, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

 * There's no point trying to rewrite history when it's all in the History of the articles. A quick check will show that this is a complete distortion of what happened. --Mel Etitis  ( Μελ Ετητης ) 15:48, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

"Expand"
I just thought I'd mention that has to go on Talk pages, not articles. I've moved a couple that I've noticed. --Mel Etitis ( Μελ Ετητης ) 15:48, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Reply
Did I miss anything important in those sections?

About the edit war, then you read wrong, Freddy. If you want to, please go ahead and look at the history and talk pages.. it doesn't lie. Like I said yes, grammar did get edited out, but that was when Mel was rolling back everything even new content I added. I told him I didnt mind the grammar fixes, but asked him not to revert content changes, but he apparently cannot listen. So we got into a rollback war, so yes, grammar was rolled back, but like I said not intentionally, and Mel kept rolling back content changes. But what is up with this bias against pop music? I think theres a tendency on Wikipedia for people to get jealous or harbor some form of resentment for articles which take off in popularity. If the R&B/Soul section had exploded, I find it hard to believe that you would have asked it to tone down (Of course, you will say you wouldnt, but...) OmegaWikipedia 01:55, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

If the articles survive the vote, how does that make Wikipedia unencyclopedic? OmegaWikipedia 02:01, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Well of course, you Afded "Do You Know..." because of its connection to Mariah Carey LOL! I mean I dont think you did that for other Diana Ross singles did you? How is "Do You Know?" not notable? There is plenty of information that could be expanded on that single - and there is no reason why it cant remain a stub - if stubs werent allowed here, then the song stub would not exist. My Heart Will Go On is currently a stub, and no one (or it was..I havent looked at in awhile). No one is asking for it to be merged with Titanic.

And I agree with you to a point - a single should have some form of notability, and those songs you placed on AFD did. Just FYI, there are some Mariah Carey articles which I feel shouldnt have been created that dont have that notability (but the songs on AFD do). When I created the articles, I was very selective in which articles I picked. Technically Mariah could have maybe over 100 singles. But I chose to be selective and only picked the ones that were notable in some shape or form

If you're not biased or jealous, then sorry for thinking that, but your behavior in the past suggested that. Everytime, there was an issue with a Mariah song, you would rant about how no one cares about R&B/Soul, but instead focuses on Mariah Carey and the Beatles. How else do you want us to think? If you think theres a problem with the Soul/R&B music section, then you have the key - fix it. The people who created the Beatles articles thought they needed articles, so they created them. I thought Mariah Carey needed articles, so I created them. If you think the R&B/soul section needs help, then do something about it, and stop complaining about no one helping. OmegaWikipedia 02:20, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Time for a new one

 * Ok, you just did it again.

 * How can I take an encyclopedia seriously when Mariah Carey has more coverage devoted to her than :::the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr and Malcolm X combined (let alone any two solo musicians :::without the last name "Jackson" or that are not young white or partially white females)?

First, you say you're not jealous, then you say something like this which just confirms it. King and Malcolm should have more coverage, but that does not mean Mariah Carey or any other musician should have less coverage. See, I dislike this biased behavior here. If you think theres a problem with any article fix it - don't be jealous and compare it to another article. Don't be like "Mariah Carey has so much coverage, why doesn't so and so have coverage too?"

And for your information, there is a very detailed chronology on Whitney Houston, and you know about my Beyonce articles too. I do music which I like, which at the moment, is Kelly Clarkson, Mariah Carey, Beyonce, and Gwen Stefani. Not suprisingly, I edit those articles. Why are you trying to imply some racial undertones? There shold be more coverage on other artists too, but if you have a problem, dont take it out on me. OmegaWikipedia 02:30, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Do You Know
If you're going to use the Oscars as "notability", then DYK was nominated for an oscar. And it was also the first song ever (or something to that extent) to be performed live via satalitte.

About the Star Spangled Banner, I'm not even involved in that article, so dont try to shift any blame on me. I didnt know there was a Jackson 5 version of SCICTT. But if you told me, I will glady research it, and make an article on it.

 * Answer: because they don't involve one of your favorite singers. You don't notice that there is a :lack of balance in your coverage versus that of the other artists covered in the encyclopedia? Has :it not occured to you that you are, as they say, "overdoing it?"

Well, I find this to be very rude. Do you ever do non R&B/soul music articles? You rarely do, but I dont question it. You found your niche, I found mine. I dont criticize what you do. And I did not mean to say that you didnt do anything in this field, but if you do it, can you do it gracefully and not whine about it? When I came here, there were no Mariah articles. I did not whine about it and try to bring down other articles.

Well out of courtesy, can you hold off on those Glitter articles for awhile? I want to deal with this situation first, and not have like every article being deleted. Obviously, youre not jealous of Pokemon, because its not music related.

And I find this statement to be very offensive. I thoght we were trying to have a polite discussion
 * As far as "what you do", you, to be honest, need to find better ways to contribute to Wikipedia.

Like I said above, I found a niche, I like. You found your niche. It's rude of you to insituate that my contributions to pop music are useless. Maybe someone finds your articles on R&B music and animation to be useless. Just because you dont like pop music doest not give you a reason to diss it. If people do Pokemon articles, thats there thing and Im not going to bash them. If you do articles on R&B music and animation, thats your thing, and Im not going to bash it, so why are you still insulting my contributions to the pop music field? Everyone has something that they can help add in their area of intrest and expertise to Wikipedia. You shouldnt criticize others because theyre making articles in a field you dont like. OmegaWikipedia 03:21, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

What?
Now, it has to *win* an award for notability? Being nominated is not good enough? So "One Sweet Day" which did not win a Grammy, is not notable because it was only nominated. WHAT?

 * I don't have to write or edit articles on rock artists, because all the once I know about have :articles with some decent form of detail already eclipsing what I would be able to contribute.

Then why do you order people to contribute to R&B articles? Ive seen you angrily yell at someone to help with an R&B article. Boyz II Men I think...

No, I never said I "owned" the article...

 * We're talking some here. You really should move on, though, and write articles on topics that are :needed. Fill in some existing redlinks. Go to the requests for articles, see iif you can write any :of them, and do so.

Again, thank you for the suggestion. But it is a bit forward of you to suggest what I do with my edits. No one should be ordered around. I edit things when I see them, but most people here have a niche. I dont see why you dont understand that. What if I asked you to stop doing R&B/animation and to do something else?

How am I overdoing the pop music articles? Mariah Carey has been in the business for about 15 years and has released about 15 or so albums - each album she releases about 5 or 6 singles. Most of them have music videos, remixes, commercial releases, they chart, and have an intresting notable factor about them. I'm sorry that Mariah has released so many albums.

And I do think the covers need their own articles. And this is not being biased to anyone. When I read an article, I want to know what happened to that version of a song. Most people have agreed that stacking them on top of each other looks like a mess.

Well, I think you're a lost cause too..Explain to me what makes your articles justified as opposed to mine. You do R&B, I do "pop". The pop artists happen to have more singles - and you breakdown. I can't help if they release a lot of singles. In the end, we're really not that differentOmegaWikipedia 04:22, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

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Copyeditting
I've copyedited up the article and removed the tag. // Pathoschild 05:07, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

What Nationality?
I'm going to assume this is a British term, but there is no indication of where this came from. Donovan Ravenhull 15:11, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Federation Against Software Theft

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Sept 2015 - I removed a link that pointed to an expired domain. The link was as follows: http://www.computersoftware.com/newsletterstory.asp?storyId=226

It would be interesting to document some of their recent activity - they claim to have, amongst other things, pushed a scottish council into purchasing £70k worht of software licences to bring them into compliance... but I can't find anything other than their own site to reference this and there's nothing but a statement on their site.

Also, their current URL is http://www.fast.org.uk/ - I have added this to the article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 15.203.169.107 (talk) 11:42, 23 September 2015 (UTC)

20/9/08 I've updated the page considerably as FAST has changed a lot in the last couple of years. I've updated with their news and new website and tried to edit out irrelevant POV and include several links to external news sources. Please note that FAST Corporate Services are a separate legal entity- they license the name from FAST. Any discussion of them should really start in a new Wiki entry for FAST Corporate Services. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Techwikiwriter (talk • contribs) 11:56, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Maybe this article is slightly POV, but I really find it difficult to make the case for the other side, so I am leaving that task to someone else. I have tried to tone down what I say a bit.

Arguably perhaps some very specialized software needs to be paid for and protected.

Fujitsu UK, one of FAST's sponsors, has a picture of a manacled leg on its home page. Unwitting irony perhaps?

 * This article is highly POV. Look at the language being used : "FAST victims tend to be those who have not realised that there is plenty of high-quality free software available. FAST therefore picks on the ignorant and vulnerable." I don't know how anyone could think this was written from a neutral point of view. Amren (talk)  13:01, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

 * So fix it. You haven't made the lamest effort to do so.  If you think you can justify what this organization is up to, you can fill in relevant section.  Oh, and do the same for final solution while you are at it.  As you object to the use of the word 'victim' I have removed it.  If I could find anything to mitigate what these people are up to, I would have put it in.  I have now put in a short paragraph trying say the kind of thing these people might say to defend themselves, without quite resorting to using the language of emotive mis-metaphors muddled with legal threats.  The reader is invited to reflect for a few moments as to whether the claims made are borne out by the facts.

This read like a discussion page, with people posting comments on it as if it were a message board (to me.) Thus, i edited it: not with vandalism, but with an experimental NPOV repair.

Special:Contributions/anon (User talk:anon) 12:10, 10 September 2008 (UTC)

As a former employee of the limited business (ie not the Federation) I believe that the definition (as on display 10-Sep-08) is pretty accurate and appears unbiased. I agree that have been challenges in helping the market understand that the Federation is seperate to the limited businesses. I also appreciate that some people profess to have been victims, but to be clear, the Federation (the body which combats illegal activity) has never worked with the private arm of the business (Fast Corporate Services / Fast Consultancy) to "hunt" for illegal software use.

The private Non-Federation arm consists of a membership scheme to which people can join to obtain education, training and guidance to achieve software license compliance across their IT estate. This is incresingly valuable to FAST customers as many are being approached by major vendors such as Microsoft, and being requested to participate in audits which can prove to uncover considerable licence exposure and hurt the organisation. FAST corporate services helps enable companies to take control of their software estate. The consultancy arm of the buisness typically assists the membership in delivering bodies to complete some of this work on behalf of the client, quite often they are approached by corporate service members when a software vendor is at the door and they require the reconciliation to be completed ASAP.

Many mis-understandings around the nature of what FAST do are a result of an irresponsible yet consitant campaign of opinionated and misleading reporting on the part of IT Week journalists and the like.

It is also worth noting that the Limited business is no Longer owned by the Computer Software Group (previously AIM listed i think) but is now owned by the the IRIS group.

Bad Article
This article is extremely bad, once you get past the fact its unwikified cites, both the tone and style is unencyclopedic, the article reading more like a company press release. Most of the sources are bad, for example the legal aid lawyers site and several points can't spell the word Lawyer correctly, similiarly the cite about investors in software, that "As a direct result of their work the ISO SAM ISO/IEC19770-1 " the cite says they were involved not that it was a direct result of their work. This article needs a complete overhaul, better sourcing, wikify and a NPOV tone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.25.181.8 (talk) 21:02, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

Neutral point of view / Libel
I have again removed a long section about "Drink or Die".

 * Articles at Wikipedia must be written from a neutral point of view. A Wikipedia article may not say "Company X earned $Y illegally". It may say "Person Z sais that company X earned $Y illegally" provided it cites a reliable source for the statement.
 * According to the rules on libel avoidance at Wikipedia, it is Wikipedia policy to delete libelous material when it has been identified. And following the latter link, "libel ... is the communication of a statement that makes a claim, expressly stated or implied to be factual, that may give ... a business ... a negative image".

-- John of Reading (talk) 05:02, 23 June 2010 (UTC)

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User talk:Saramago~enwiki

I am a writer and a researcher. All my contributions to Wikipedia results from in deep studies and analyses. Anyway, if someone wants to put some queries regarding my works they could contact me at [Saramago.J@hotmail.com]

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Homo Erectus (film)

Homo Erectus (released on DVD in the United States as National Lampoon's The Stoned Age) is a 2007 American comedy film written and directed by Adam Rifkin, and starring Giuseppe Andrews, Gary Busey, David Carradine, Ron Jeremy, Ali Larter, Hayes MacArthur, Adam Rifkin, Talia Shire and Sasha Grey in her film acting debut. The film premiered at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival in January 2007.

Plot
Set in the Stone Age, Ishbo is the younger son of Mookoo, the leader of a tribe of cavemen. Ishbo is smarter than most of his tribesmen, but awkward and nerdy, living in the shadow of his much more physically impressive brother Thudnik. He hopes to use his superior intellect to become an inventor and raise his tribe above simple sticks and stones, but due to a combination of the flimsy materials available to him and the lack of support from his tribe they always fail. Ishbo also has had a lifelong crush on his childhood friend, Fardart. Much to his dismay, immediately after he finally expresses his love to her she is "clubbed" by Thudnik (and all that follows in the tradition of caveman stereotypes), and eventually married to him. Ishbo himself has never clubbed a woman, having his heart set on Fardart his whole life.

After Fardart is betrothed to Thudnik, Ishbo begins to believe that he will never club a woman. He at first is too attached to her to consider clubbing another woman, and is further discouraged after a particularly ill-fated attempt at clubbing. Ishbo becomes quite depressed, a feeling which is escalated by his failure to prove useful on a mammoth hunt. He falls into a large pile of mammoth dung, then is eaten by the mammoth, and eventually excreted (or extracted – the scene itself appears as a series of animated cave drawings) from the mammoth when it is finally killed by the rest of the tribesmen.

During an attempt on Mookoo's life, it is revealed that their rival tribe, the Binadraks, are planning on attacking them shortly. They train for battle but are bested by their enemies, who kill Mookoo and carry off Fardart, who disguised herself as a man to take part in the fight. Thudnik orders a retreat and they return to their home cave, which they decide to abandon in favour of finding a new home. Unable to convince the rest of the tribe to stay and fight, Ishbo decides to set out to avenge his father and rescue Fardart on his own. Thudnik declares him an enemy and swears to kill him if he sees him again.

On the way he gets lost, sees a vision of his father, and stumbles upon a tribe of Amazon cavewomen, who first plan to kill him but are then impressed by his stance against clubbing of women. His reward is freedom, but only if he agrees to impregnate all the Amazons, starting with their Queen. He is at first eager to do so, however he is unable to perform the task as his heart still belongs to Fardart. Offended that he has turned down a "gift" which many men have died trying to achieve, they chase him from their lands with spears.

Eventually he reaches the cave of the Binadrak tribe and spots Fardart. Surprisingly, she does not wish to be rescued, as her captors have supplied her with fine furs, plentiful food, and an attractive bone necklace. The tribe then rises up and chases after him, whereupon they meet the Amazon tribe and eventually his own tribe, who both join in the chase. The three groups together eventually chase him off the edge of a cliff, where he delivers a thoughtful monologue to the audience before reaching the ground, and his death.

The final scene is in a modern museum, where a group of school children are being given a guided tour. The guide reaches their caveman exhibit, featuring a life-sized "model" of Ishbo, where she explains how with fossils, they have been able to reconstruct the prehistoric cave man and discover how he looked in his life: in her words, "short and fat". However after she leaves Ishbo addresses the audience again, for the last time.

Cast

 * Adam Rifkin as Ishbo
 * David Carradine as Mookoo
 * Sasha Grey as Cavegirl
 * Tom Hodges as Bork
 * Ron Jeremy as Oog
 * Hayes MacArthur as Thudnik
 * Nick Krause as Young Thudnik
 * Ali Larter as Fardart
 * Carol Alt as Queen Fallopia
 * Giuseppe Andrews as Zig
 * Gary Busey as Krutz
 * Rebeca Linares as Amazon woman
 * Mary Grace as Amazon/Cave Woman
 * Tom Arnold as Gay Caveman
 * Talia Shire as Ishbo's mother

Production
Principal photography took place in November and December 2005.

Filming locations included the Enchanted Rock, Hamilton Pool Preserve, Pedernales Falls State Park, and the Longhorn Cavern State Park in Texas.

Accolades
In 2006, Homo Erectus was screened at the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival, held in Park City, Utah.

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Change control board

In software development, projects and programs, a change control board (CCB) is a committee that consists of Subject Matter Experts (SME, e.g. software engineers, testing experts, etc.) and Managers (e.g. Quality Assurance managers), who decide whether to implement proposed changes to a project. The main objective of a CCB is to ensure the client accepts the project. Factors affecting a CCB's decision can include the project's phase of development, budget, schedule, and quality goals.

Change control (see Scope management) is also part of Requirements engineering. CCBs are most associated with the waterfall method of software development, but can be seen as having analogues in some implementations of Agile software development.

The Change Control Board will review any proposed changes from the original baseline requirements that were agreed upon with the client. If any change is agreed upon by the committee, the change is communicated to the project team and the client, and the requirement is baselined with the change. The authority of the Change Control Board may vary from project to project (see e.g. Consensus-based decision making), but decisions reached by the Change Control Board are often accepted as final and binding.

A typical Change Control Board might consist of the development manager, the test lead, and a product manager. Less commonly, the client might directly advocate their interests as part of the Change Control Board.

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In the "see also", there's a link to "Freak wave", but no explaination there or here. Are there frequent freak waves in Tomales bay? --24.143.152.205 05:09, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The bar area where Tomales Bay merges with the Pacific Ocean is well known as a location where large waves occur, yes. Someone should eventually add that explanation to the article.  Not in the bay per se, but at the defined border region.   Georgewilliamherbert 02:44, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

 * There have been some fatal events there, in which people strolling on the beach have been washed out to sea. We should try to document a few. -Willmcw 03:43, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Strolling on the beach ?? I've been hanging around Tomales Bay since I was 3 weeks old, and I don't recall any cases of that, though there are a number of interesting boat and shark attack fatalities from the bay entrance (and other nearby ocean and bay areas).  Do you have a ref for a beach fatality at the bar?  Or was that just someone caught in a wave on the Ocean beaches in general?  That has happened, yeah.  Georgewilliamherbert 02:08, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

 * http://dbw.ca.gov/sneaker.htm
 * http://dbw.ca.gov/Pubs/TomalesBay/TomalesBay.pdf
 * http://www.nps.gov/pore/visit_beaches.htm
 * http://faculty.deanza.edu/donahuemary/stories/storyReader$963
 * http://sanfrancisco.citysearch.com/feature/39140
 * http://continuouswave.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/008132.html

The beachgoers were apparently somewhere elsewhere on the Point Reyes sea shore, but not in Tomales Bay itself. The "sneaker wave" incidents near Tomales appear to have been boating accidents, one of which killed 13. There is certainly 5ome material here which we could summarize for this article. -Willmcw 20:32, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

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Le Nordir

Le Nordir was a Canadian book publishing company, active from 1988 to 2012. Based primarily in Ottawa, Ontario, the company specialized in Franco-Ontarian literature, publishing primarily poetry, theatrical plays and non-fiction.

The company was established in 1988 by Robert Yergeau, while he was employed at the Université de Hearst. It moved to Ottawa a couple of years later, after Yergeau joined the faculty of the University of Ottawa.

It ceased publishing in 2012 after Yergeau's death.

Writers published by the company included Daniel Poliquin, Andrée Christensen, Stefan Psenak and François Paré.

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Battle of Tsuntua

The Battle of Tsuntua, fought in December 1804, was one of the largest battles of the Fulani War.

Background
In 1804, Yunfa of Gobir realized the growing threat that his former teacher, Fulani Islamic reformer Usman dan Fodio, posed to the Hausa city-states. Appealing to the other Hausa rulers for help, Yunfa assembled an army to capture and kill Usman. Meanwhile, Usman's followers spread word of a jihad against the Hausa rulers, attracting a number of Fulani nomads to their cause, and declared Yunfa an infidel. In a dispute between them, Yunfa attempted to kill Usman, but his gun malfunctioned and only wounded his arm. Usman returned to the Fulani state of Gulu, where he raised a large army to crush the Hausa.

The Battle
One of the first engagement of the war would be Tsuntua. Yunfa, possessing an army composed of Hausa warriors and Tuareg allies, defeated dan Fodio's forces, which lost more than 2,000 to 3,000 men, 200 of whom were said to have been Hafiz (people who know the Quran by heart). The Tuaregs of Kel Gress, Kel Itesen and Kel Tegama were from around Gobir. They used the valleys around the area for grazing during the winter season yearly. These Tuaregs allied with Yunfa as they did not think the Fulbe jihadists could win against Gobir and they wanted to continue using these valleys for winter grazing. The Tuaregs were instrumental in many of Gobir's victories especially in Tsuntua and Alwassa.

The Muslims were camped less than a day's journey from Alkalawa and were most likely dispersed looking for food. This provided a desirable opportunity for Yunfa's force to attack. The army attacked in Tsuntua leading to a loss for the Muslims. This battle was likely during Ramadan, so the Muslims might have been fasting. Key leaders of the jihad could not participate in this battle for various reasons. Bello was sick, Abdullah had an injured leg and Ali Jedo was not mentioned. The Muslim leader was a cousin of Bello, Sa'ad bin al-Hasan and among the dead were Imam Muhammad Sambo, Zaid bin Muhammad Sa'ad and Mahmud Gurdam.

However, the Gobir victory proved to be short-lived, as Uthman's forces seized Kebbi and Gwandu the following year, ensuring the survival and growth of their party.

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Sub Rosa, NZIC Association

Sub Rosa is the name of the New Zealand Intelligence Corps association. Its members are drawn from serving and retired members of the Corps and others that have served in intelligence positions in the New Zealand Defence Force.

The phrase is Latin and means 'under the rose', because the rose was an emblem of secrecy hung above council tables and confessionals. The origin of which traces to a famous story in which Cupid gave Harpocrates, the god of silence, a rose to bribe him not to betray the confidence of Venus. Hence the ceilings of Roman banquet-rooms were decorated with roses to remind guests that what was spoken sub vino (under the influence of wine) was also sub rosa.

The emblem of Sub Rosa is a Tudor Rose.

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Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Mairi

 * ''The following discussion is preserved as an archive of a successful request for adminship. Please do not modify it.

Mairi
Final (35/2/1) ended 05:10   8 October 2005 (UTC)

– Mairi is closing in rapidly on 3000 edits (see here) in just over a year as a Wikipedian. A very conscientious and busy worker at the Stub-sorting WikiProject, Mairi has also done a reasonable amount of vandal-reverting and other tasks that rollback would be very useful for. Edit history is in a useful cross-section of namespaces, and a glance at Mairi’s talk page gives a good indication of positive interactions with other wikipedians. Hand Mairi a mop, folks! Grutness...  wha?  05:10, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here: Thank you for the nomination. I accept. -Mairi 06:00, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Support
 * 1) As nominator, of course! - Grutness...  wha?  05:11, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Grutness is among those whom I trust, and I've seen this editor around. R  e  dwolf24  (talk) 05:19, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Support --Alynna 05:28, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Support wikifies too. Ryan Norton T 05:35, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Support --Rschen7754 05:43, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Support --Rogerd 07:10, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Support CambridgeBayWeather 07:23, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Support.   [ +t, +c, +m ] 09:47, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) Support, though you could use a bit more usertalk namespace edits. →Jo urna list  >>talk<<  16:51, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 10) Firm stub-sorting mafia support. Alai 17:16, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 11) Support. Stub-sorters are valuable people and need all the tools they can get. The Singing Badger 17:59, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 12) Support, by all means Lectonar 18:51, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 13) Support Private Butcher 21:56, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 14) Support! Good editor. --WikiFanaticTalk Contribs 17:01, 1 Oct 2005 (CDT)
 * 15) Support Trust Grutness on this, contribs look great. Rx StrangeLove 23:21, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 16) Support, I trust the nominator. Mairi does great work on stub-sorting.  Rob e  rt  01:20, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 17) Merovingian (t) (c) 05:25, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 18) Support: very good works. --MissingLinks 07:52, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 19) Fir  e  Fox  T  C 12:08, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 20) Support Stewart Adcock 14:56, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 21) Support. Mairi was the one to first  me.  She seems great. Quicksandish τκ 21:26, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 22) Support Mr Muscle Mairi loves the jobs you hate, hand her the mop. Alf melmac 22:00, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 23) Support, very active at WP:WSS. Surprised she's not in Category:User gd, though, given her name! ;-) --Angr/undefined 05:57, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 24) Support, can't think of anything sexual to write here. — J I P | Talk 09:53, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 25) Support. Mairi has promised that she will interact more, so I take that in good faith. ≈ jossi fresco ≈ 19:12, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 26) Support. In response to SPUI, some roads are notable. ;-) -- BD2412 talk 20:21, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 27) Support, but you could use more 'usertalk' edits. →Jo urna list  >>talk<<  20:23, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * You'd already supported with a similar comment up at #9... --Mairi 21:25, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) Support. El_C 23:41, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Support, speedy delete all nominations that simply say "nn $crufttype-cruft". --fuddlemark (fuddle me!) 17:12, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Cool. --JuntungWu 11:19, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 4) Hand over the mop! -- Shauri  [[Image:Heart.gif|12px]]  smile!  14:22, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Support. Not all admins have to be vandal-fighters. Mairi knows what she's good at, and we will all benefit from letting her delete redundant stubs and categories. Owen× ☎  14:29, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Support - Great contributor. Should be handed the mop.  Sunray 07:19, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Support. Carbonite | Talk 13:01, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) Support Keep up the good stub work. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 01:53, 8 October 2005 (UTC)

Oppose
 * 1) Oppose for lack of involvement with others.  PedanticallySpeaking 17:09, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) --Boothy443 | comhrá 07:15, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Neutral
 * 1) Delete nn roadcruft --SPUI (talk) 21:58, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Are you sure you're voting in the right place? — J I P | Talk 09:53, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) ' Neutral'. Same concern as with User:Quale above. +3,000 edits and only 64 on Talk? I would want to see more exchanges with other editors. If he promises more involvement with other editors, I will support. ≈ jossi ≈ 00:54, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * I'll promise to make an effort to interact more with other editors (on Talk as well as other namespaces). I also think my contributions on WP:WSS/P, WP:WSS/D and WP:SFD show some interaction with others. And it's 'she', by the way ;) --Mairi 01:48, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Note that I deliberately avoided using he/she issue in my nomination :) Grutness...  wha?
 * I was pleased with that :) --Mairi 21:25, 3 October 2005 (UTC)

Comments

Questions for the candidate

A few generic questions to provide guidance for voters:
 * 1. What sysop chores, if any, would you anticipate helping with? (Please read the page about administrators and the administrators' reading list.)
 * A. One of the main things I'd like to do is help with the continual backlong at WP:SFD. I periodically go thru Short Pages, for which the ability to delete pages would be quite useful. Rollback would be convenient for the occasional vandal-reverting. The ability to resolve copy-paste moves would also be useful, as I come across those fairly often, particularly with newer articles.
 * 2. Of your articles or contributions to Wikipedia, are there any about which you are particularly pleased, and why?
 * A. While I'm pleased with my varied contributions to WP:WSS, I don't think there's any one thing in particular there that I'm especially proud of. Except for perhaps my almost-daily checks of Recent Changes for new stub templates, to try to bring some order to the multiplication of stub categories. The article I'm most pleased with my contributions to is Minifigures, although it's still very much a work in progress. I think I've made significant contributions to Gallery of flags by design, along with numerous other editors. I'm also pleased with my translation of Jaime Nunó from the Spanish Wikipedia article.
 * 3. Have you been in any conflicts over editing in the past or do you feel other users have caused you stress? How have you dealt with it and how will you deal with it in the future?
 * A. I haven't been in any significant conflicts, or any that have caused me stress. A few editors have been unhappy when I've nominated newly-created stub templates for deletion, but I've dealt with that by calmly explaining my reasoning and what standard policy is, and pointing them towards the deletion discussion so they can voice their opinion (in the case of those who didn't know where SfD was). For future conflicts I'd try to behave similarly, listen to the views of other editors and try to achieve consensus before taking any drastic actions.
 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the discussion. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page. No further edits should be made to this page.

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dmu 141
we would like to know about rail bus (dmu 141 )that going to out service and parking. for inform tell WHAT there is 7 DMU  in IRAN and inservice.

 * Yes, for that you would have to see British Rail Class 141, which isn't quite been written yet. — Dunc|☺ 21:12, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

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Category:Cancelled highway projects

A listing of notable planned highway projects which were either completely cancelled, or which were only partially built. Also refers to related pages on the topic. (This page only lists projects which were planned and later cancelled or scaled back; proposed highways which were never given serious consideration by transportation authorities are not listed).

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