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Mu2 Cancri

Mu2 Cancri is a solitary, yellow-hued star in the zodiac constellation of Cancer. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.30. Based upon an annual parallax shift of $−36.0$ as seen from Earth, this star is located 77 light-years from the Sun. It is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −36 km/s and will make its closest approach in about 611,100 years when it passes at a distance of 5.1582 pc.

At the estimated age of 5.6 billion years, Mu2 Cancri is an evolving G-type subgiant star with a stellar classification of G2 IV. It has 1.2 times the mass of the Sun and 1.8 times the Sun's radius. Mu2 Cancri has relatively high metallicity—what astronomers term the abundance of elements other than hydrogen and helium—having a 29% higher abundance compared to the Sun. It is radiating 3.78 times the Sun's luminosity at an effective temperature of $1.192$. The star is spinning at a leisurely projected rotational velocity of 3.7 km/s.

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Nu Cancri

Nu Cancri, Latinised from ν Cancri, is a binary star in the zodiac constellation of Cancer. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.46. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 8.31 mas as seen from the Earth, the star is located roughly 390 light-years from the Sun.

This is a single-lined spectroscopic binary system with an orbital period of 3.8 years and an eccentricity of 0.35. The primary, component A, is a white-hued A-type giant star with a stellar classification of A0 III. It is a magnetic Ap star with a field strength of $−15.6$, showing abundance peculiarities in strontium, chromium and mercury. The star has 2.8 times the mass of the Sun and is radiating 93 times the Sun's luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of $2.82$.

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Talk:Belgian nationalism

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The level of Belgian nationalism amongst Flemish people is the lowest it has ever been. As much independence from Belgium and the Walloon region can be considered a common philosophy over the entire line of the Flemish government, from left over center to right-wing.

Two major separatist parties received about 35% of the votes (yes, two parties having the main goal of separating Belgium), and after the B-H-V fiasco where the Walloons neglected to rectify one of the basic principles of the Belgian state, it is highly doubtful that people will become more nationalist. In fact, even center and left-wing parties want to see proverbial Walloon blood in regard to B-H-V.

The modifications of 81.244.145.136 (anonymous coward), which was described as "tendentious article, this is far more concurrent with the facts. Unnecessary degrading adverbs removed", are counter-indicative of reality, even more so now than the original version of the article. This change made the article say practically the opposite of what was said in the original version.

There is no measurable level of Belgian nationalism in the Flemish majority. Anybody who follows national politics a bit would know that.

Even though I am Flemish (and separatist), I consider my message here a best-effort attempt to give an objective and generalised view for the Flemish population.

Admittingly, this is a highly sensitive article.

This is completely incorrect. Opinion polls show that 1 on 4 Belgians wants more power for the central state and even a unitary country as it was before. The problem is that this important national minority has no acces to the media. That explains why the B.U.B. has sued the Belgian public televisions (Dutch and French speaking) before court. A decision is expected in late spring 2006.

Update
"The effect of state reforms discussions to take place in 2005 is not predictable."

Can anybody update this? J-C V 13:13, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Advocates?
"Parti socialiste" (french speaking) is not at all a party advocating for a big federal government. It is the opposite : they want more powers to the so-called Walloon Region (there is no such thing as walloon identity), where they have the majority. They do not like federal government because they are in minority (French speaking people are less than 40% in Belgium). If they want a big government for the federal level, it is because they want big government everywhere : they are socialists. David Descamps 12:34, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Does Belgian Nationalism really exist?
Belgians were always a splited folk, from the foundation of the Belgian state until WW I Belgium was dominated by Walloons, now the Dutch speaking part of Belgium is economically stronger and many Flandrians who vote for the separatist party Vlaams Belang, whose members call themself Flandrian Nationalists, which suggests the existence of a Flandrian Nation.--95.114.71.13 (talk) 15:21, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * In fact Belgium has never been dominated by the Wallons but by French speaking people who belonged to the nobility and to the upper-class. These people were used to speak French irrespective of their location. They were Flemish, Walloon or inhabitants of Brussels. This explains why French has been the main language in the administration in Belgium for almost a century. Flemish acknowledgment as national language is in fact linked to the extension of voting right to more (and less wealthy) people followed by the introduction of the universal suffrage after WWI. The "Belgian state dominated by the Walloons" is a Flemish myth with no real historical background. --Lebob (talk) 11:29, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
 * No there was a Walloonian Dominance in Belgium it isnt myth.--95.114.63.211 (talk) 08:12, 18 September 2015 (UTC)
 * Having family in Belgium I can tell you Belgian nationalism exists, most of it is from the French speaking part, but there are also Flemish people who wish to stay in Belgium, otherwise Flanders would be independent. My Flemish grandpa, being part of the navy, was always nationalistic about Belgium (especially its food), whereas my grandma was more in favor of Flemish independence. I think the nationalist sentiment of Belgium is indeed small compared to other countries, but often underestimated (also there is foot ball). --Dapperedavid (talk) 00:38, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

"Overwelmingly Strongly"
First of all this seems a bit doubly. Second I'm not too sure if this is the right representation of the Flemish sentiment. I think simply saying "majority" would suffice, as how it is now suggests that there are barely any Flemish who favor Belgian nationalism, which isn't entirely fair to say. --Dapperedavid (talk) 00:29, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

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Xi Cancri

Xi Cancri (ξ Cancri, abbreviated Xi Cnc, ξ Cnc) is a spectroscopic binary star system in the zodiac constellation of Cancer. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.15. Based upon parallax measurements obtained during the Hipparcos mission, it is roughly 370 light-years distant from the Sun.

The two components are designated Xi Cancri A (formally named Nahn ) and B.

Nomenclature
ξ Cancri (Latinised to Xi Cancri) is the system's Bayer designation. The designations of the two components as Xi Cancri A and B derive from the convention used by the Washington Multiplicity Catalog (WMC) for multiple star systems, and adopted by the International Astronomical Union (IAU).

Xi Cancri together with Lambda Leonis (Alterf) were the Persian Nahn, "the Nose", and the Coptic Piautos, "the Eye", both lunar asterisms. Nahn was also the name given to Xi Cancri in a 1971 NASA technical memorandum. In 2016, the IAU organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN decided to attribute proper names to individual stars rather than entire multiple systems. It approved the name Nahn for the component Xi Cancri A on 1 June 2018 and it is now so included in the List of IAU-approved Star Names.

Properties
At its present distance, the visual magnitude is diminished by an extinction factor of 0.135 due to interstellar dust.

Xi Cancri is a single-lined spectroscopic binary star system with an orbital period of 4.66 years, an eccentricity of 0.06, and a semimajor axis of 0.01 arcsecond. The primary, Xi Cancri A, is a yellow G-type giant with an apparent magnitude of +5.70. Its companion, Xi Cancri B, is of magnitude 6.20.

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Joe E. Hollingsworth

Joseph E. Hollingsworth (August 25, 1908 – November 12, 1975) was an American politician was appointed in 1961 to replace Charles Navarro as Los Angeles City Council member for the racially mixed 10th district. He served for two years until he was ousted by retired policeman and future mayor Tom Bradley. He was the last Caucasian council member from that district.

Biography
Hollingsworth, born on August 25, 1908, was the son of Anna Hollingsworth Bostic, who immigrated from Germany. A native of Los Angeles, he lived with his family at 5483 Village Green and was "active in youth work"; in 1961 he was a construction supervisor for the Baldwin Hills Company, developer of Baldwin Hills Estates. His wife was Alice and his children were Joe Jr. and Alison. In 1969 he was named a vice president of Los Angeles Federal Savings. He was a veteran of World War II and co-founded Baldwin Hills Post 706 of the American Legion. He co-founded the Southern California Pop Warner Football Federation.

Hollingsworth died November 12, 1975; funeral services were held in Inglewood on November 15.

Political career
In June 1961 Hollingsworth and 10 other people applied for the 10th District councilmanic position left vacant by the election of the incumbent, Charles Navarro, as city controller. Eventually there were more than 30 candidates. Although Mayor Sam Yorty had favored appointment of a Negro in the district, a council committee unanimously recommended 52-year-old Hollingsworth, a Caucasian, and the City Council followed suit on August 25, 1961, by a vote of 8 to 6, "after a stormy 2-1/2-hour council session."

One of his first acts was to appoint Cage S. Johnson, 49, a "restaurant service supervisor and part-time television actor," as the "first Negro to serve as field secretary to a City Council member," but nevertheless a recall drive was organized at a community meeting, with H. H. Brookins named as chair. Brookins said that 16 applicants for city councilman were Negroes and that the council, by appointing Hollingsworth, "had dealt the Negro community a fast shuffle." The recall petitions were rejected by a court "because they failed to list the voter registration number and the date of registration of the persons who circulated them."

At the next election, in April 1963, there were only two candidates, Hollingsworth and Tom Bradley, and also two elections — one for the unexpired term left by Controller Navarro, ending June 30, and one for a full four-year term starting July 1. Bradley won by 17,760 votes to 10,540 in the first election and by 17,552 votes to 10,400 in the second. Hollingsworth's last day in office was April 12, 1963. He was the last Caucasian council member from the 10th District.

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Great Timor

Great Timor (Grande Timor, Timor Raya) refers to the irredentist concept of a united and independent island of Timor, which is currently divided between the independent state of East Timor and the Indonesian territory of West Timor. The concept of unifying (or re-unifying) the island has been raised since the mid-20th century.

History
Historically, the idea of uniting Timor Island had been expressed by several Timorese groups. The earliest reference point is the pre-colonial Empire of Wehali, whose center was in today's West Timor, but the ruling group was the Tetun speaking Belunese associated with the inhabitants of the Eastern Timor.

During the Japanese Occupation of the Island (1942–45), there were some Japanese and Timorese efforts to unite West and East Timor through match-making between the traditional authorities of Dutch and Portuguese Timor. Especially, Tōru Maeda (a Japanese intelligence agent, later poet, who served in Viqueque and Atambua) was instrumental in a matchmaking between the family of Don. Joaquim da Costa of Ossu and the Nai-Buti clan in Atambua.

During 1974–75, APODETI, an East Timorese party expressed its will to integrate East Timor and West Timor through an integration into the Republic of Indonesia. This idea was reflected in the original Portuguese version of so-called Balibo Declaration in which the signatories lamented the separation with the "Indonesian people of Timor" through demarcation of the colonial borders.

East Timor was invaded and occupied by Indonesia in 1975, which annexed the territory as its "27th Province" in 1976, but in a referendum held in 1999, the people of East Timor voted to end Indonesian occupation and become an independent state. This caused widespread anger among many Indonesian nationalists, particularly in the military.

In 2001 and 2002, before East Timor's independence, there were claims by the Indonesian military and some commentators, that this would inspire the secession of West Timor from Indonesia.

FRETILIN's independence movement never laid claim to West Timor at any time, before the Indonesian invasion or thereafter. After the Recovery of Independence in 2001, the government of East Timor fully recognises Indonesia's existing boundaries as inherited from the Netherlands East Indies.

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Hiroshi Kamayatsu

Hiroshi "Monsieur" Kamayatsu (かまやつひろし) was a Japanese singer and guitarist born in Tokyo.

Profile
"Monsieur" was a founding member of bands The Spiders, Vodka Collins, and also a solo act.

In 2001 he had a reunion with some former members of The Spiders, as the band Sans Filtre. Among his recent work was his performance of the song "RTB", the ending song to the anime Sentou Yousei Yukikaze. He performed for over five decades.

Death
Kamayatsu died from pancreatic cancer on 1 March 2017, aged 78.

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William A. Magee

William Addison Magee (May 4, 1873 – March 25, 1938) was born in Pittsburgh's Hill District neighborhood near the site of the former Mellon Arena. Before becoming mayor, he gained his reputation by serving as Assistant District Attorney for Allegheny County of which Pittsburgh is the county seat. He twice served as Mayor of Pittsburgh, from 1909 to 1914, and again from 1922 to 1926. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1901 to 1904.

Pittsburgh politics
Magee oversaw several developments in the city, the most notable of which were the opening of the first National League concrete baseball park Forbes Field in the city's Oakland neighborhood. To top that achievement the Pittsburgh Pirates won their first World Series in their first season in the park.

On policy the Magee administration instituted a motorized police force for the first time in the city. He also oversaw the local institution of the national prohibition laws during his second term in office. He was the first man to serve the new expanded four-year term for the Mayor's office.

He died at Western Pennsylvania Hospital in Pittsburgh on March 25, 1938.

Legacy and popular culture
Magee and the Magee political family, including Magee's uncle, Christopher Lyman Magee, are the namesake of both Magee-Women's Hospital and Magee Street in the city.

Magee was featured in the 1924 film Fording the Lincoln Highway.

Magee also wrote an informative article about what he considered to be the inefficiencies of city government. Magee wrote that city governments should be more centralized and focused to be effective.

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Gosford High School

Gosford High School (abbreviated as GHS) is a government-funded co-educational academically selective secondary day school, located in Gosford, in the Central Coast region of New South Wales, Australia.

Established in 1928, the school enrolled approximately 1,063 students in 2023, from Year 7 to Year 12, of whom one percent identified as Indigenous Australians and fifty-seven percent were from a language background other than English. The school is operated by the NSW Department of Education; the principal is Michael Smith.

History
Gosford High School, operated by the New South Wales Department of Education, was established in 1928, the first secondary school in the Central Coast region, and became a selective high school in 1989. The original building was completed in 1929, and consisted of seven classrooms, one science laboratory and an assembly room. Students at the school primarily come from the Central Coast region, though students from the Sydney and Lake Macquarie regions comprise a significant portion of the population. , Gosford High was the only fully selective school on the Central Coast, making admission very competitive.

Motto
The school's Latin motto is spectemur agendo, which is conventionally translated into English as "Judge me by what I do." Other translations include Let us be judged by our acts and By our deeds may we be known (this translation is preferred by Camberwell Grammar School in Melbourne, which shares the same motto).

Staff
The principal of Gosford High School from 2006 to 2016 was Lynne Searle. She was replaced in 2017 by Tony Rudd, the former principal of Manly Selective Campus. Tony Rudd retired at the beginning of the 2019 academic year with previous deputy Adrienne Scalese taking over the position temporarily. The position of principal is taken by former principal of Narara Valley High School Michael Smith as of the start of term 2 of the 2019 academic year.

Notable among the former staff are Dr Mark Butler (now retired), recipient of the Prime Minister's Prize for Excellence in Science Teaching in Secondary Schools in 2004, who has been elected to the National Curriculum Board, and Rebecca Donoghue, Head of Visual Arts, who received the Minister's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2013 (now retired, replaced by Wendy Mortimer) and Michael Chamberlain, who was falsely convicted with wife Lindy in the death of their daughter Azaria, later exonerated.

Current staff include Brian Jackson, a former rugby league football player.

Music
Apart from the mandatory Music course in Year 8, the school has several music groups and programmes, including a Concert Band that has toured overseas in Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore. A school musical is held every two years. The school also hosts an annual Kerle Comp, in which students form bands to perform the music of Bobby King.

Sport
The school holds annual swimming, athletics and cross country carnivals, with achieving students competing in higher level competitions. Within the school there are four sporting houses: Kingsbury (red and white), Rowe (black and white), Wheeler (green and yellow) and OSU (brown and yellow), named after prominent members of the local community and the Old Students Union.

Gosford and Orange High School have an annual school exchange program which has taken place since 1968. Each year sporting teams are selected from both Orange and Gosford High Schools to compete against each other for the Malynley Shield, the name Malynley being an acronym of Dews' family members who donated the shield.

Agriculture
Gosford High School shares a three-hectare agricultural farm with neighbouring Henry Kendall High School.

Notable alumni

 * John BrewPublic servant and engineer
 * Pat Conroy – Minister in the Albanese government
 * David Fairleighrugby league player and coach
 * Adrian GoldsmithWorld War II (1921–1961) flying ace
 * Jack Grahame (1933–2003) lawyer
 * Chris Holsteinpolitician
 * Daria Nina LoveVeterinary microbiologist
 * Donald McGillivray (1935–2012) botanical taxonomist
 * Alan Ramsey – journalist
 * June RossGeologist, paleontologist, biologist, and one of the first Australian women to obtain a PhD
 * Arthur TangeSecretary of DFAT and Department of Defence
 * Felicity Wardcomedian

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The result of the debate was Delete --Allen3 talk 14:43, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Yiddish Typewriter
This page could never be an article in an encyclopedia, not even this one. 134.250.72.165 07:07, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. A web service. JFW | T@lk  08:19, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as yet another website. - Andre Engels 13:36, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy delete - this article has been up before, possibly with the "t" in lower case. It's just advertising. --MacRusgail 12:00, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. As above --Carnildo 22:22, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, I've just added it as an external link at Yiddish language, which is the appropriate place for it. --Angr/undefined 07:03, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - per Angr above. -- Cactus.man  ✍  09:15, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment as stated above, this has been on BEFORE! Trouble is, it's not even a particularly good service, since there's hardly any words it can type in for you.--MacRusgail 12:02, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

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Omicron1 Cancri

Omicron1 Cancri, Latinised from ο1 Cancri, is a solitary, white-hued star in the zodiac constellation of Cancer. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.20. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 21.87 mas as seen from Earth, this star is located around 149 light-years from the Sun. It most likely forms a co-moving pair with Omicron2 Cancri.

With a stellar classification of A5 III, this appears to be an evolved, A-type giant star. At the age of about 600 million years, it has double the mass of the Sun and 1.86 times the Sun's radius. Omicron1 Cancri is radiating 13.4 times the solar luminosity from its photosphere at an effective temperature of about $−4.6$.

Omicron1 Cancri has an infrared excess, indicating it surrounded by a circumstellar debris disk. The signature matches a two-component disk with the spatially separated belts having temperatures of 146 K and 81 K.

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Joseph G. Armstrong

Joseph G. Armstrong (1867–1931) was born in Allegheny City, what is today the Northside neighborhood of the U.S. city of Pittsburgh. He became a glassmaker and eventually participated in the glass union and labor movement. From his labor connections he was elected to City Council and then ran successfully for County Coroner in 1904. He was coroner during the Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909. He died of pneumonia in Pittsburgh on November 19, 1931, and is interred in South Side Cemetery, Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh politics
After being seated mayor in 1914, Armstrong went on an unprecedented building spree in the city, earning him the affectionate nickname "Joe the builder" among voters. His classical structures still grace the city today, including the massive 10 story City-County Building taking up an entire city block. His rule as mayor was also responsible for massive construction projects that are not so easily visible such as the Armstrong Tunnel which for the first time allowed easy access from the Grant & Liberty section of downtown to the Southside neighborhood under the steep hill that Duquesne University sits on in the Bluff neighborhood.

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this should not be protected last time I went for adminship I stopped it. I think I have the right to let it run for the set ammount of time. -- —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adam1213 (talk • contribs) 07:14, October 14, 2005 (UTC) diff

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Bouctouche Aerodrome

Bouctouche Aerodrome is a privately owned airfield located 1.7 NM northeast of Bouctouche, New Brunswick, Canada.

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Doaktown Airport

Doaktown Airport is a privately owned airfield located 2.3 NM northeast of Doaktown, New Brunswick, Canada.

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Downs Gulch Aerodrome

Downs Gulch Aerodrome is a privately owned aerodrome located 7.5 NM north of Downs Gulch, New Brunswick, Canada. This aerodrome is near an area of the Restigouche River valley known for its good salmon fishing; consequently, many private and charter aircraft use this strip as a means of accessing nearby lodges in areas such as Larrys Gulch. There is no available parking for aircraft, only a wider turn-around area mid-runway, so all aircraft must depart after dropping off their passengers.

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The 1998 Kingston upon Thames Council election was held on 7 May 1998. The whole council was up for election and the Liberal Democrats lost overall control of the council to a Conservative led minority administration.


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Paul of Taganrog

Paul of Taganrog (Павел Таганрогский; born Pavel Pavlovich Stozhkov; Павел Павлович Стожков; 21 November 1792 – 23 March 1879) dramatically influenced the belief in God and spiritual outlook of inhabitants of Taganrog, Don Land, South of Russia and Ukraine. A plain layman, who lived in Taganrog in the 19th century, he conciliated love and worship of Russian Orthodox Christians, who flowed to him for a piece of advice and spiritual support.

Pavel Pavlovich Stozhkov was born on November 21 (November 8 OS), 1792 in Krolevetsky Uyezd, Novgorod-Seversky Viceroyalty of the Russian Empire (now Ukraine) in a rich noble family. His parents – collegiate registrar Pavel and Paraskeva – were devoutly religious people, they infused in the heart of their son belief in God and piety. Since his youth Stozhkov had felt a flaming love for holy places and pilgrimage. He related about himself: “All my desire was to pray to God, my intention was to go on pilgrimage to rescue my soul, because surrounding life was full of secular vanity and impeded my holy wish”. His father would never let him become a clergyman; he wanted to provide his son with a higher education. Instead of this, the 16-year-old young man followed the voice of his heart, secretly left the home of his parents and went on pilgrimages to monasteries for a year and finally received a severe punishment from his father.

When Stozhkov was 25 years old, his father decided to divide the property between him and his elder brother Ivan. With a comfortable inheritance, the young ascetic dispensed it in Christ's name, the father gave his blessing and young Stozhkov left home forever. He wandered a lot to holy places, including to Kiev Pechersk Lavra and Pochaiv Lavra Lavras that he visited several times; he liked to go to the north of Russia, visited Solovetskiy, Verkolskiy, Kojeozerskiy cloisters and many others.

After 10 years of pilgrimage, Stozhkov settled in Taganrog in the years 1825–1830. Taganrog became Stozhkov’s second home city, where he lived a simple life with no regard for his noble birth. Stozhkov spent the first years of his life in Taganrog renting different flats. Later, he moved into a house on Depaldo Street (now "Pereulok Turgenevskiy"), not far from the Saint Nicholas Church. Thanks to the dean of Taganrog county, archpriest Alexander Klyunkov, this house still exists and is known among people as the “keliya of starets Pavel”.

Stozhkov devoted all of his life to serving God. Although Stozhkov was not in orders, essentially he led an ascetic monastic life in a bustling town; he kept constantly a severe fast and gave himself to incessant prayers. He ate a little. In his old age he drank only one cup of kvass with a soaked rusk a day. He slept also a little, commonly on the bare bench without a pillow. He put on plain peasant clothes and spoke simple Low-Russian language. He told nobody about his noble birth. During all his life he went to pray to the church every day, at night he made all-night prayerful vigils. Insensibly he accustomed his novices to this way of life. While there was the strength Blessed Paul often traveled to holy places, including journeys of 3000 versts on foot to Solovki more than once. But by old age he could go no longer, he dispatched to monasteries his novices and believers, who came to him.

Stozhkov was a preceptor full of love. All of his life, he received everyone in his keliya, liked to present people with gifts, to treat them, gave counsels on how to live and to rescue their own souls. For the righteous life God endowed Paul with gifts of astuteness and prevision, with gifts to work miracles and to heal people. Stozhkov became very famous during his lifetime. In the five final years of his life, Stozhkov ate and slept little and never went out of his house. Stozhkov died on 23rd (10th) of March 1879 at the time of the Great Fast (Lent) at the age of 78.

On 20 June 1999 the Russian Orthodox Church canonized Stozhkov. Many people saw and remember a unique aureole in the sky over the Saint Nicholas Church in Taganrog on the day of his canonization. Today many people come from all corners of Russia to the shrine with his holy relics, which are kept at the Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker Church (1778) in Taganrog. The chapel at the old cemetery is never empty; the lamps in front of holy icons in his keliya never die down.

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Rashad Evans

Rashad Evans (born September 25, 1979) is an American mixed martial artist who currently competes in the Light Heavyweight division of Eagle Fighting Championship. Evans started his professional career in 2003, he was the Heavyweight winner of The Ultimate Fighter 2 and is also a former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, and a 2019 inductee of the UFC Hall of Fame.

In present day, he serves on the UFC broadcasting team as a desk analyst while also advocating for the health benefits of functional mushrooms through his company Umbo, co-founded alongside former NFL quarterback, Jake Plummer.

Wrestling career
Wrestling out of Niagara-Wheatfield High School in Sanborn, New York, Evans twice made it to the state finals tournament of New York by winning his weight class for his region, in which he received All-State honors both times. In 1997 he placed 4th in the state at 145 pounds. In 1998 he placed 4th in the state at 171 pounds. In 1999 he entered the National Junior College Athletic Association National Championships for the 165 pound weight class in which he finished in 4th place. Competing once again at this tournament in 2000, he was the champion of the 165 pound weight class.

Moving on to the NCAA Division I wrestling, Evans competed for Michigan State, in the Big Ten conference. In 2002 he finished in 4th place in the conference championships, losing a decision to fellow future UFC competitor Jacob Volkmann in the third place match. In addition to Volkmann, this 174 pound weight class also saw more future UFC competitors with Gerald Harris and Josh Koscheck competing in it this year. In 2003, Evans again competed in the 174 pound weight class, capturing 3rd place in the Big Ten Championships. Entering the NCAA Division 1 championships on top of this 3rd-place finish, Evans won his opening match before losing a close 3–0 decision to the eventual national champion, Robbie Waller. Staying alive through the consolation bracket Evans pinned his next opponent before being matched up with legend Greg Jones, a 3x National Champion who would finish his college career with a record of 126–4. Evans won the match via 3–2 decision, becoming one of only 4 people to defeat Jones in his college career. Evans lost his next match to Purdue's Ryan Lange, in which a win would have qualified him for All-American status, in a close 3–2 decision, ending his college career. He finished his career at Michigan State with a record of 48 wins and 34 losses.

Early career
In 2004, under the tutelage of future UFC Hall of Famer Dan Severn, Evans competed in five professional mixed martial arts fights, winning all five. This led to his selection as one of the nine heavyweights to compete on The Ultimate Fighter 2, a reality TV series on Spike. The season began airing on August 22, 2005, culminating in a live finale between the final two fighters of each weight division, held in Las Vegas, Nevada, on November 5, 2005. Rashad Evans is also a black belt in Gaidojutsu and Brazilian jiu-jitsu, and studied karate as a child.

The Ultimate Fighter
At 5 ft and 225 lb, Evans was the shortest and the second-lightest of the nine heavyweight competitors. He was considered the underdog in each of his fights, but made it to the finals by defeating Tom Murphy, Mike Whitehead, and Keith Jardine all by decision. During his tenure on the show, Evans was criticized by opposing coach Matt Hughes for his showboating during fights, but the two eventually settled their differences, and Hughes even cornered Evans for his semifinal bout. In the finale, Evans defeated 6 ft Brad Imes by split decision, thus winning a three-year, six-figure contract with the UFC and a brand new car. After The Ultimate Fighter, Evans joined Greg Jackson's Submission Fighting camp along with fellow competitor Keith Jardine, who would eventually become his training partner and good friend.

Undefeated streak
Evans dropped down to light heavyweight after the show, deciding he would have a better chance of success in a lower weight class. His first fight under the contract took place on April 6, 2006, against Sam Hoger, who had been a semi-finalist on The Ultimate Fighter 1. Evans defeated Hoger via split decision despite nearly falling victim to a kimura submission at the end of the second round.

Evans followed with a victory by majority decision over The Ultimate Fighter 1 finalist Stephan Bonnar on June 28, 2006. Evans maintained control throughout the fight with repeated take downs, including a number of slams in the center of the cage and went on to secure the victory.

Three months later, Evans faced Jason Lambert at UFC 63. Lambert, riding an eight-fight win streak, was seen as Evans's first real test at 205 pounds. Evans controlled the fight from early on, and knocked Lambert out with punches from the mount in the second round. It was his first stoppage victory in over two years.

Evans next headlined UFC Fight Night: Evans vs Salmon against UFC newcomer Sean Salmon, a highly decorated collegiate wrestler who held a 9–1 professional record. Though Salmon had won the first round by scoring two takedowns, Evans came back with a head kick knockout early in the second round. Salmon remained motionless for several minutes after the fight and was eventually carried out on a stretcher to a local hospital. The kick came to the surprise of many fans who had previously considered Evans a one-dimensional wrestler.

At UFC 73, Evans squared off against former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Tito Ortiz. The two competitors fought to a draw as all three judges scored the bout 28–28. Ortiz had won two out of three rounds on all scorecards, but was docked a point for holding the cage fence to defend against a takedown by Evans. Immediately after the fight, Ortiz asked for a rematch. At a press conference following UFC 73, UFC President Dana White promised a rematch which, for various reasons relating to scheduling, did not occur until 4 years later at UFC 133.

Unable to get a rematch with Ortiz, Evans made his debut as a headliner on a pay-per-view event at UFC 78 instead, against fellow undefeated fighter and The Ultimate Fighter 3 winner Michael Bisping. After three close rounds, Evans came out on top on two of the judges' scorecards, winning by split decision. This fight marked Bisping's first loss and his final bout in the light heavyweight division. After his win over Bisping, Evans drastically changed his fighting style, which he kept secret until his fight against UFC Legend Chuck Liddell.

Evans vs. Liddell
Entering the fight as a very heavy underdog, Evans shocked the world by knocking out former light heavyweight champion Chuck Liddell in brutal fashion at UFC 88. Liddell threw an uppercut that Evans countered with an overhand right, landing flush. Liddell remained unconscious for several minutes before finally walking out of the cage under his own power. The knockout was awarded knockout of the year by Sherdog for 2008. Evans had previously been scheduled to face Liddell at UFC 85 as a replacement for the injured Mauricio Rua. When Liddell pulled out of the event due to an injured hamstring, Evans was matched with James Irvin. When Irvin pulled out after breaking his foot, the fight was removed from the card altogether. After the fight, UFC President Dana White confirmed in the post-event press conference that Evans's next fight would be a title shot against newly crowned light heavyweight champion Forrest Griffin at UFC 92.

Winning the Light Heavyweight Championship
On December 27, 2008, at UFC 92, Evans faced champion Forrest Griffin for the UFC Light Heavyweight belt. Griffin controlled most of the first two rounds with effective striking and low kicks. In the third round, however, Evans caught a low kick and countered with a straight right hand that dropped Griffin. Evans followed Griffin to the ground and eventually managed to finish the stunned champion with punches inside Griffin's guard. With the victory, Evans became the new UFC Light Heavyweight Champion. It capped off a year in which Evans won Fighter of the Year honors from Sherdog.com.

Losing the title
Evans's first defense of the UFC Light Heavyweight title against challenger Lyoto Machida ended in a knockout. During a flurry of punches from Machida, Evans started trash talking Machida telling him 'his hands were made of pillows'. Machida continued his onslaught, knocking the champion out. A photograph of Evans's face during the knockout became an infamous meme called "Shad face" among MMA fans. This was the first loss of his career and the 15th straight win of Lyoto Machida's career. Then, Evans went on to coach against Rampage Jackson in The Ultimate Fighter: Heavyweights. Evans was scheduled to fight Jackson on December 12, 2009, at UFC 107, but this was canceled due to Jackson being cast for the A-Team movie. On September 22, 2009, Jackson wrote in a blog on his website that he is "done fighting" because of events that occurred between Jackson and Dana White, the president of the UFC. Thiago Silva was named as Evans' next opponent at UFC 108.

Back into title contention
Evans fought Thiago Silva in the main event of UFC 108 on January 2, 2010. Dana White was quoted as saying that if Evans could defeat Thiago Silva at UFC 108, then he would go on to face Quinton "Rampage" Jackson. During the Spike TV broadcast of the UFC 108 preliminary card, Evans confirmed that he received his Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt under Rolles Gracie that morning. Evans would go on to defeat Thiago Silva – another BJJ black belt – by unanimous decision. Deviating from his usual standing and striking, Evans displayed his grappling skills with numerous takedowns that frustrated Silva throughout the match, but Evans failed to damage Silva substantially while on the ground. In the third round, after severely mocking his opponent's fighting style with various taunts, Silva connected with a right hook to Evans's jaw, rocking him. Silva hesitated in finishing Evans off in order to return the taunting, however, and Evans was able to recover leading to a UD win. Evans was expected to finally face rival Quinton Jackson at UFC 113, but the bout took place on May 29, 2010, at UFC 114.

Evans caught Jackson with a right hand early in the first round and throughout the rest of the fight tried to take Jackson down, succeeding three times out of nine. In the third round Evans was hurt by Jackson but recovered and ended the final round with another takedown and strikes on the ground. The judges scored the bout 30–27, 30–27, 29–28 giving Evans the unanimous decision. Afterwards UFC President Dana White then officially confirmed that Evans would square off against Maurício Rua for the UFC Light Heavyweight title, but not until mid-Spring or early-Summer of 2011 as Rua recovered from knee surgery. The fight was then booked for the main event of UFC 128 when the UFC returned to Newark, New Jersey.

Following Evans's training partner Jon Jones's victory over Ryan Bader at UFC 126, it was announced that Evans injured his knee during training. Jones was then told in his post-fight interview that the UFC wanted him to replace Evans in his fight against Mauricio Rua for the UFC Light Heavyweight Championship. Jones accepted and the fight was set for UFC 128. It was then expected that if Jones won, he would face Evans in his first title defense.

During a UFC 128 post-fight interview with Ariel Helwani, Evans stated that he was done training at Jackson's Martial Arts in preparation for his fight with Jon Jones. He then commenced training at Imperial Athletics in Boca Raton, Florida, at a new camp co-founded by Evans and several Brazilian fighters who had concomitantly left American Top Team due to a dispute over management services; these were later joined by some African-American fighters, and as a result the camp's members became known colloquially as the "Blackzilians", especially on Twitter. Evans gave further insight to MMAWeekly about his leaving Jackson's Submission Fighting, "When you get to a certain point, you really need a lot of time (with the coaches)… make sure you get the one-on-one, and you just need different things," he explained. "After being at Jackson's for a while, with so many people at the gym, it just got harder and harder for me to get that time."

Evans/Jones was expected to take place on August 6, 2011, at UFC 133, but Jones was sidelined with a hand injury. Evans was expected to face rising prospect Phil Davis at the event instead. A title fight between José Aldo and Chad Mendes was delayed, so the UFC promoted Evans vs. Davis to serve as the main event. However, with less than four weeks until the event, Davis pulled out of the bout citing a knee injury. A rematch with Tito Ortiz was scheduled to headline the event. Evans defeated Ortiz at UFC 133 via TKO in the second round. The victory secured Evans a title shot against Jones.

Evans and Jones were rumoured to finally clash on December 10, 2011, at UFC 140. However, a lingering thumb injury cost Evans another title opportunity, and he was replaced by Lyoto Machida to fight Jon Jones for the belt at UFC 140. Jones retained the Light Heavyweight belt, defeating the challenger Machida, which left open the possibility of a future fight between Evans and Jones for the title.

Evans faced Phil Davis on January 28, 2012, at UFC on Fox 2. He won the fight via unanimous decision. Evans out-wrestled the former division one national wrestling champion landing numerous takedowns throughout the fight.

In his second title shot, Evans faced UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones on April 21, 2012, at UFC 145. Evans lost to Jones via unanimous decision.

In his first post-title shot fight, Evans faced Antônio Rogério Nogueira in the co-main event at UFC 156 on February 2, 2013. Nogueira won the fight via unanimous decision.

Evans faced Dan Henderson on June 15, 2013, in the main event at UFC 161. He won the fight by split decision.

Evans faced Chael Sonnen at UFC 167 in a Light Heavyweight bout on November 16, 2013, in the co-main event of the evening. He won the fight via TKO in the first round.

Injuries and Rehabilitation
Evans was expected to face Daniel Cormier at UFC 170 on February 22, 2014. However, a leg injury knocked him off the card just 10 days before the event. Originally expected to be out for a month, Evans was instead sidelined indefinitely.

Evans was linked to a potential bout with Alexander Gustafsson on January 24, 2015, at UFC on Fox 14. However, Evans announced was not ready to accept a fight during that time frame as he was still rehabilitating a lingering knee injury.

Evans was expected to face Glover Teixeira on February 22, 2015, at UFC Fight Night 61. However, on January 7, Teixeira pulled out of the bout citing a slow to heal knee injury that he had sustained in his last fight. In turn, Evans was removed from the event entirely. A heavyweight bout between Antônio Silva and Frank Mir, previously scheduled for UFC 184, took place a week earlier and headlined the event.

Evans announced in mid-February 2015 that he expected to be sidelined an additional six to sevens months after undergoing another knee surgery and hoped to return by the end of 2015.

Evans faced Ryan Bader on October 3, 2015, at UFC 192. He lost the fight via unanimous decision.

A long discussed bout against Maurício Rua was rescheduled and was expected to take place on April 16, 2016, at UFC on Fox 19. However, Rua was pulled from the fight on March 9 in favor of a matchup with Corey Anderson a couple of weeks later at UFC 198 and was replaced by former title challenger Glover Teixeira. Evans lost the fight via knockout in the first round.

Drop to Middleweight, retirement and return to fighting
Evans was expected to face Tim Kennedy in a middleweight bout on November 12, 2016, at UFC 205. However, on November 8, Evans was pulled from the fight after an undisclosed irregularity was found during his pre-fight medical exam. Subsequently, Kennedy was removed from the card as well. The bout was quickly rescheduled and was expected to take place a month later at UFC 206. Once again, Evans was unable to obtain medical clearance to compete on the card and was pulled from the bout on November 21. An irregularity in his pre-fight tests was responsible for both removals and he is expected to undergo an additional screening with an neurologist to prove he is healthy enough to fight, before possibly returning to the cage in January or February, according to his manager. The Ultimate Fighter: Team Jones vs. Team Sonnen middleweight winner Kelvin Gastelum was his eventual replacement on the card.

Evans faced Dan Kelly on March 4, 2017, at UFC 209. He lost the back-and-forth fight via split decision.

Evans faced Sam Alvey on August 5, 2017, at UFC Fight Night 114. He lost the fight by split decision.

Evans faced Anthony Smith in a light heavyweight bout on June 9, 2018, at UFC 225. He lost the fight via knockout in the first round.

On June 25, 2018, Evans announced his retirement from MMA.

On May 18, 2019, Evans was announced to be inducted into UFC Hall of Fame on July 5, 2019.

On December 19, 2021, Evans is scheduled to compete in his first professional grappling match against Ryan Aitken under the Combat Jiu-Jitsu ruleset at the Featherweight edition of the CJJ World Championships.

Return from retirement
On September 20, 2019, news surfaced that by his request, Evans was released from the UFC in order to pursue a return from retirement in another organization. In December 2021, Evans revealed he would be fighting for the first time since 2018 for Khabib Nurmagomedov's Eagle Fighting Championship promotion. His comeback fight took place at Eagle FC 44 on January 28, 2022, against Gabriel Checco. Evans defeated Checco by unanimous decision.

Personal life
Evans and his ex-wife have one son and a daughter. He also has a daughter from a previous relationship and a son who was born in 2015. On New Year's Eve 2020, Evans's wife, Celiana, gave birth to their son.

Evans's brother Lance made a brief appearance on The Ultimate Fighter: Team Nogueira vs Team Mir, but was eliminated by Vinicius Magalhaes due to a rib injury and did not join the cast.

In other media
Evans has appeared in a Microsoft commercial, where he says the lines, "You got a problem with that!" and "I'm a PC!", while sparring with an unidentified opponent. Evans was a frequent commentator on the ESPN show MMA Live. Evans also made an appearance on Spike TV's show Deadliest Warrior. In the episode, Evans easily pierces a pig carcass with the xyston similar to one used by Alexander the Great, and crushed a gel torso's throat with an elbow.

Mixed martial arts

 * Gladiator Challenge
 * GC Light Heavyweight Tournament Winner
 * Ultimate Fighting Championship
 * UFC Light Heavyweight Championship (One time)
 * UFC Hall of Fame (modern-era wing, class of 2019)
 * The Ultimate Fighter 2 Heavyweight Tournament Winner
 * Fight of the Night (Two times)
 * Knockout of the Night (Two times)
 * 2008 Knockout of the Year vs. Chuck Liddell
 * Tied (Chuck Liddell) for fifth most wins in UFC Light Heavyweight division history (13)
 * Tied (Ryan Bader & Jan Błachowicz) for fifth most bouts in UFC Light Heavyweight division history (20)
 * Second most takedowns landed in UFC Light Heavyweight division history (50)
 * 2008 Fighter of the Year
 * Sherdog
 * 2008 Fighter of the Year
 * 2008 Knockout of the Year against Chuck Liddell
 * Mixed Martial Arts Hall of Fame
 * FIGHT! Magazine
 * 2008 Knockout of the Year against Chuck Liddell

Amateur wrestling

 * Niagara Wheatfield High School
 * 4th place New York State High School Wrestling Championships 145 lbs 1997, 171 lbs 1998
 * National Junior College Athletic Association
 * Junior College National Champion 165 lb – out of Niagara County Community College (2000)

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Michael Brown (rock musician)

Michael Brown (born Michael David Lookofsky, April 25, 1949 – March 19, 2015) was an American keyboardist and songwriter, most notable for his work with the Left Banke. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of violinist and arranger Harry Lookofsky.

The Left Banke
Brown was the principal songwriter for the 1960s baroque-pop group the Left Banke, writing their two biggest hits, "Walk Away Renee" and "Pretty Ballerina". He also was a harpsichordist and clavinet player for the band. "Walk Away Renee" was also a top 20 hit for the Four Tops, having reached No. 15 on the soul singles chart, and No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100.

Internal band tensions saw Brown leave the Left Banke in late 1967, prior to the completion of their second record. Brown, along with Bert Sommer, co-wrote the minor mid-1968 hit "And Suddenly", initially for Brown's version of the new Left Banke, with Sommer also slated as lead singer. The song went on to be recorded by The Cherry People, peaking at #45 single on the Billboard Hot 100. The flip side of the Left Banke version of the single was "Ivy, Ivy" written by Tom Feher. He briefly returned to the Left Banke, producing the single "Myrah" in 1969 and Left Banke vocalist Steve Martin Caro's solo single "Two By Two".

Later career
In 1969, Brown became involved in the band Montage (again collaborating with Sommer and Feher in songwriting), as well as producing the band's self-titled album.

In 1971 Brown and vocalist Ian Lloyd formed Stories. They were introduced by their fathers, Peter Buonconsiglio and Harry Lookofsky, who had worked together as session violinists. A self-titled album and single – "I'm Coming Home" (No. 42, 1972) – followed.

The band recorded a second album About Us in (1973). Brown left the band prior to the recording of Hot Chocolate's "Brother Louie", which became a No. 1 hit for Stories in the US and Canada.

Subsequently, he became involved with The Beckies. Brown briefly reunited with the Left Banke at a New York performance in June 2013.

Personal life and death
Michael David Lookofsky was born in New York City in 1949 to Harry Lookofsky (1913–1998), a jazz violinist from St. Louis, Missouri, who was a member of the NBC Symphony Orchestra from c. 1938 to 1954.

On March 19, 2015, Brown died at age 65 of heart failure in Englewood, New Jersey. He is survived by his wife Yvonne and sons Skylar and Adrian. He was the first of the original four members of the Left Banke to pass away: George Cameron died in 2018, and Steve Martin Caro and Tom Finn both died in 2020.

Selected discography

 * The Left Banke: "Walk Away Renée" (1966)
 * The Left Banke: "Pretty Ballerina" (1966)
 * Stories: "Brother Louie" (1973)

(See full discographies at The Left Banke and Stories)

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CH3

CH3 may refer to:
 * Channel 3 (band)
 * Channel 3 (Thai television network)
 * Methenium (methyl cation)
 * Methyl group (in chemistry)
 * Methyl radical (in chemistry)
 * Church Hymnal, third edition (Hymnbooks of the Church of Scotland)

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Qian Xuan

Qian Xuan (1235–1305), courtesy name Shun Ju (舜举), pseudonyms Yu Tan (玉潭, "Jade Pool"), Xi Lanweng (习嬾翁), and Zha Chuanweng (霅川翁), was a Chinese painter from Huzhou (湖州), the present day Wuxing District in Zhejiang. He lived during the late Song dynasty and early Yuan dynasty.

Biography
Qian Xuan started as an aspiring scholar-official during the rule of the Southern Song (960–1279). However, he had difficulty climbing the ranks of officialdom. When the Mongol-founded Yuan Dynasty took over the southern regions of China in 1276, he effectively gave up on the idea of a career in civil administration. In 1286, his friend Zhao Mengfu found and accepted a position there, and so for a time it seemed he could as well. However, he refused on patriotic grounds, while he cited old age to avoid difficulties. He nevertheless was considered a Song loyalist.

His life after 1276 was devoted to painting, and he became noted as a "fur and feathers" painter. He was also adept at bird-and-flower painting, character painting, and landscape painting (shan shui). He is known for landscapes that hinted at a longing for a return of native Chinese rule, such as in the work Home Again. He mixed Song realism with an archaic Tang style.

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Walk Away Renée

"Walk Away Renée" is a song written by Michael Brown, Bob Calilli, and Tony Sansone for the band the Left Banke, released as a single in July 1966. Steve Martin Caro is featured on lead vocals. It spent 13 weeks on the US charts, with a top spot of No. 5. The song has been widely considered a quintessence of the baroque pop genre. As musician Marshall Crenshaw explained, "There's something about 'Walk Away Renee' that's one of the most powerful songs I've ever heard, just in terms of provoking an emotional reaction."

In 2005, Rolling Stone placed it at No. 220 in the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The track returned to nationwide charts with cover versions by The Four Tops (1967), Southside Johnny and the Jukes (1986) and Rick Price (1993).

Background
Michael Brown has stated that the song is one of a number he wrote about Renée Fladen (later Fladen-Kamm), the then-girlfriend of the Left Banke's bassist Tom Finn and object of Brown's affection. She was associated with the band for a few weeks, and was described as a free-spirited and tall blonde. Brown wrote it one month after he met her. "Walk Away Renée" was one of a series of love songs the infatuated Brown wrote for his muse. Other works about her include the band's second hit "Pretty Ballerina" and "She May Call You Up Tonight". After decades of obscurity, she was identified in 2001 as a noted singer, vocal teacher, and artist on the West Coast.

According to band member Tom Finn:

"A bunch of teens got an apartment together around Tin Pan Alley, in the Broadway area, and Renee lived there part time when she wasn't living with her mother. Most of the kids were like half runaways in those days, and there was a "crash pad" there, as we used to call it. I guess I brought her to the studio one day where Michael met her and fell in love with her."

Brown says of his unrequited love for Renée: "I was just sort of mythologically in love, if you know what I mean, without having evidence in fact or in deed... But I was as close as anybody could be to the real thing."

Renée was looking on during the recording of the song, and her presence nearly prevented its completion. In an interview, Brown stated: "My hands were shaking when I tried to play, because she was right there in the control room... There was no way I could do it with her around, so I came back and did it later."

However, co-writer Tony Sansone has given a different version of the origin of the song and contends that he is the primary writer. Sansone has stated in interviews that he wrote the lyrics, and he randomly chose the name Renée because the Beatles used the name "Michelle" in their hit song of the same name; he likewise chose a French name, Renée.

Composition
The song features an alto flute solo played during the instrumental bridge of the middle portion of the song. Brown was inspired to add it by the Mamas & the Papas song "California Dreamin'" which had been recorded in November 1965, but was not an immediate hit until early 1966. The arrangement for "Walk Away Renée " also includes a lush string orchestration, a jangling harpsichord part, and a descending chromatic bass melody. Its production was credited to World United Productions, Inc., but the session was produced by brothers Bill and Steve Jerome, along with Brown's father, jazz and classical violinist Harry Lookofsky, who also led the string players. The session took place in March 1966.

Personnel
Musicians
 * Al Rogers – drums
 * John Abbott – bass
 * George (Fluffer) Hirsh – guitar
 * Mike Brown – harpsichord
 * Friends – strings
 * Jackie Kelso [uncredited] – flute
 * John Abbott – arranger
 * Steve Martin Caro – lead vocal
 * George Cameron & Tom Finn – backing vocals

Technical
 * Steve Jerome – engineer
 * Harry Lookofsky – producer, strings
 * Steve Jerome – producer
 * Bill Jerome – producer

Weekly charts
Year-end charts

Four Tops cover
The Four Tops' recording was featured on their 1967 album Reach Out and is the second most successful cover version, having reached #15 on the soul singles chart, #14 on the Billboard Hot 100, and charting higher than The Left Banke in Canada at #2 on the RPM Magazine charts. Overseas, it peaked at #3 on the UK Singles Chart and #5 in the Irish Singles Chart in January 1968, The Andantes provided backing vocals on this Motown release in unison with the other Tops. Record World called it a "pretty version" of the song. Billboard called it "an exciting rock ballad" and said that the "driving vocal workout and exciting production will hit hard and fast."

Personnel

 * Lead vocals by Levi Stubbs
 * Background vocals by Obie Benson, Duke Fakir, Lawrence Payton, and The Andantes
 * Instrumentation by The Funk Brothers

Rick Price version
In May 1993, "Walk Away Renée" was released by Australian singer-songwriter Rick Price as the fifth single from his debut studio album  Heaven Knows. The song peaked at #21 in Australia.

title: Walk Away Renée


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User talk:R. fiend/Archive5

Not an admin!?!?
I heard a rumor that you're not an admin, and I said to myself, "Impossible, this is R. fiend we're talking about!" And now I come to find that it's true - this must be remedied. Would you object to my nominating you? -- BD2412 talk 20:32, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
 * No problem - I'm always around, so I'll check you again in a week. I can imagine that you'd want to be on top of things, since an RfA is the kind of place where bruised feelings might arise from certain situations where, although you were empirically correct, a thin-skinned editor might have taken offense. Cheers! -- BD2412 talk 18:22, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
 * The die is cast! -- BD2412 talk 19:07, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

"Promotion" as a criterion for deletion
I was interested by your argument that having articles on "less notable" people verges on "promotion". I find it an interesting but misguided idea. I agree that there is a danger that interests will seek to promote themselves through Wikipedia and that that is on the whole a bad thing.

Before I say anything else (and I hope you don't mind my even having anything to say but I like to talk to deletionists rather than just stick to abusing them ;-) -- there are clearly different philosophies involved, on each side arrived at as the product of reason, so there is room for the two sides to try to understand each other and work to accommodate each other) I should say that my idea of an encyclopaedia that is ambitious enough to encompass "the sum of human knowledge" is one that ultimately can encompass knowledge about anything and anyone in principle, given the caveat that the information must be verifiable and presented neutrally. I think these principles are our main protection against your fear about promotion.

I do not believe concerns about the "quality" of the subjects of articles is tenable or desirable. I agree with Jimbo that an article on each episode of the Simpsons would be a fine thing, not something to be despised. I don't watch the Simpsons or care about it in any way. I worry that any "bar" that is based on "notability" is doomed to be arbitrary (how do you decide if something is of sufficient "importance" to be included in your encyclopaedia? Any choice is unlikely to have a solid basis) and subjective (what is notable to you is almost bound to differ from what is notable for me). It goes without saying that items notable to an American differ from items notable to a Malian but each is a part of human knowledge.

But I do believe that concerns about the "quality" of the articles are valid. I think these have two forms, each needing consideration. The first is that we should want the reader to find what they expect under each title. I don't think we should exclude an article on a candidate for a councillorship, but the reader would not expect a campaign ad. Wikipedia ought not to become a repository for people's personal odds and ends, and content should not simply be whatever someone feels like putting. The wiki exists to prevent that's eventuating, of course. I think we would be better off, and have a better encyclopaedia, if we agreed that there could be an article about anyone (yes, even your mum) so long as it said only what was agreed to be notable about them. Make "notability" a criterion of quality of content and not quality of headings, and I think we would all be pulling in the same direction. If all there is to say of interest about some guy is that he was a candidate in an election, then the article about him should consist of a well-written sentence that says so. It is readily verifiable and true. It goes without saying that it can and should be neutrally presented.

What objection is there to that? I truly want to know. Is the encyclopaedia harmed by broad coverage? I can't see how. It is surely only harmed by poor material, inaccuracy and error.

The other concern that is valid in my view is that allowing broad coverage of this kind leaves enormous holes and that the coverage will be uneven. If you say, yes, we will have short articles on all schools, the problem becomes that we do not have articles on all schools. Someone needs to round up all the schools and ensure that all have articles.

There are a lot of schools! That's a big job. But I do think we can think big. This is not a project that's nearly finished. It's mammoth, a spectacular folly. Wikipedia should not necessarily end at a million articles or even two. Who says it must?

But I accept that that is a problem and that those who want the broad coverage need to commit themselves to it. I accept on my own part that even my little project to write the suburbs of Brisbane up is not done, and writing up the schools of Queensland would be enormous and arduous for me. Still, it's what I ought to undertake if I mean what I say. I sort of need you guys to stop trying to delete them first though ;-)

You can see where I'm going with this, can't you? There is less problem with "promotion" if the article on Joe Smith is accompanied by articles on all the candidates, each with roughly the same content.

This is a corollary of the second concern. It's problematic that Joe Smith might have a full biography and Joe Jones might not, when both are standing in an election. But agreeing standards for presentation of candidates in elections, or schools, or towns with no inhabitants, or episodes of the Simpsons is something that we do, and something that can be far more objective than deciding what is or isn't important enough for our encyclopaedia, something you and I are unlikely never to agree on.

That's the rub. There will always be a clash between those philosophies, and who wins and who loses will be personal and subjective: basically, whoever has the numbers at any particular time. So School X is deleted and School Y is kept; councillor A is scratched but councillor B survives, and just because for the latter we gathered support and for the former we did not. AfD (or whatever we call it) does not attract most editors and like all votes on WP, its "consensuses" are hardly the will of the entire editorship (although over time they tend to represent it). Most editors care a lot more about their subject area, and what content it has, than about whether Homer Simpson's trip to the doctor is covered.

I'm urging you to consider whether verification and neutrality are not sufficient protection against "promotion" -- not an outcome of granularity in any case so much as it is of enterprise (one of the first things I did when I became a non-anon was to battle to keep an article about a computer operating system from becoming a piece of promotional material -- and I recently had a look at McDonald's, which could well have been written by the company itself -- as WP becomes more well known, it has to be considered a concern that companies with sufficient resources will hire people to sign up as editors and astroturf the place -- virtually any article in WP can be controlled by a bloc of a dozen editors, most with fewer; I truly think we have more from the "notable" that we cannot fight than we do from the "not notable" whom we easily outnumber) -- and whether we couldn't rather spend our energies -- in your case considerable -- more wisely in encouraging high standards, making the edifice impressive to look at rather than worrying about how big it is.

Sorry for taking up so much of your time if you've read down to here. I have blatheritis at the moment. It'll pass ;-) Grace Note 02:29, 17 September 2005 (UTC)

You're a sysop
I'm pleased to let you know that, consensus being reached, you are now an administrator. Congratulations!. You should read the relevant policies and other pages linked to from the administrators' reading list before carrying out tasks like deletion, protection, banning users, and editing protected pages such as the Main Page. Most of what you do is easily reversible by other sysops, apart from page history merges and image deletion, so please be especially careful with those. You might find the new administrators' how-to guide helpful. Cheers! =Nichalp  «Talk»=  19:07, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Congratulations, sir, you now own a fine mop. Cheers! -- BD2412 talk 22:43, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Congratulations are indeed in order! Well done! Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd  00:56, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Well done, Sir! -- Hoary 23:28, 22 September 2005 (UTC)

Popups tool
Lupin|talk|popups 23:55, 20 September 2005 (UTC)

RFA
You're welcome, and heh. Be bold and make the template if you want, ;) Oh, and please check WP:NVP -- Phroziac (talk) 17:49, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Not yet.
Congratulations again on your well-earned promotion. As for me, I'm afraid my answer will indeed remain "not yet". At the moment, I happily have my hands full with Wikiprojects, none of which require admin powers. My plan has not changed - I will wait until December, when my current internship comes to an end and I find out which city or state I'll be living and working in next. In the interim, if I see a vandal who needs blocking or a nonsense article crying out for speedy deletion, I'll be knocking at your door. Cheers! -- BD2412 talk 18:01, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Congratulations
On your recent promotion to administrator here at Wikipedia, the most important online information resource. I have a slight idea of how many demands are about to be placed on your time here at WP and I for one am fully appreciative of your interest in doing so. The picture you mentioned was sent to me by a friend on here and I put it up on my user page. About your vegetarianism you mentioned on my talk page, without making too much of a point I could suggest that my user name is a parody of meat consumption in general, and that a hamster sandwich is every bit as ridiculous as turkey-on-a-bun. But its really just an absurdist play on words. Any hidden meanings are strictly ancillary. Good luck, brave editor! Hamster Sandwich 21:09, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Congrats from me too. Yes, we've argued about things before now - but in most cases such arguments simply show the passion we have towards this project (rarely a bad thing). You'll be a fine admin - and we'll probably spar again in future! :) Grutness...  wha?  01:01, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

de nada
The biggest obstacle was that I so rarely look at RFA. As soon as I saw you there, I did the right and obvious thing. I was just worried that I might have been too forceful in my comments and waved a red flag before those who vote "OMG Keep you deletionist trolls." Then I noticed that they were charging anyway, so I figured, "Might as well." Geogre 16:28, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

edit summaries on minor edits
I don't mind if someone doesn't use edit summaries on minor edits. At least when looking through your history though I noted several times when you did a major edit that you didn't use an edit summary - that's what I was referring to in your RfA. Hope that explains it... Take care! Ryan Norton T 22:13, 23 September 2005 (UTC)

List of songs by name.
Hey, don't worry about it. Among my first dozen or two edits were a couple to total Honorverse fancruft entries, and I even started an article that in the last half-hour I called shipcruft. I've no doubt you'll be a fine admin. The Literate Engineer 05:13, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

Closing AFD discussions
A reminder: Whenever you delete an article as a result of an AFD discussion, be sure to to paste a link to the discussion in the "Reason for deletion" box. In other words, instead of entering "per AFD", write something like:

 *  Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Article to be deleted

This enables others to have easy access to the AFD discussion when they view the deletion log or when admins view the deleted edits, like this example. Thanks. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 17:53, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Critical response on user page
Genius! I've done the same with criticism on my user page!!! Ryan Norton T 21:31, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Rosalind Franklin
Hello. On 9 August 2004 you added this Watson has stated that Franklin should have discovered the structure of DNA as much as two years before he and Crick did to the Rosalind Franklin page. We're looking for citations for the page for a reference list. Do you remember where you got this information from? I can find no support for it online with a simple google search. We might have to remove it from the article. Thanks for any help.Alun 09:17, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

Afd closings
Hi there. You closed Articles for deletion/Mobile companies recently, but don't seem to have deleted the article.

Also, I've noticed that you haven't been substing vfd top and vfd bottom in your closings. General practice is to subst these, not so much to reduce their impact on server performance (which is probably minimal; most people don't spend too much time paging through the old vfd logs), but because they contain comments saying what to do if an article of the same name is afd'd again - namely, not to erase the old discussion. It's especially problematic because the templates, until, recently, contained backlinks to Template:vfd top and Template:vfd bottom, which makes it impossible to find unsubsted instances through What Links Here (unlike, say, if you had been using the shortcuts from vt/vb or at/ab). —Cryptic (talk) 21:40, 26 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Thanks for pointing out that I forgot to actually carry out that deletion. I've just remedied it. As for the "subst" and stuff, well, I've never fully understood what the "subst" means, but I'm happy to use it if that's what one's supposed to do (well, not "happy", I've discovered that AfD closings take long enough without adding more typing to the process, but I'm "willing", anyway). Now, it was difficult to tell from your message, but are the shortcuts you mentioned acceptable? That would be even better (less typing instead of more), and I'd be genuinely happy to use those. -R. fiend 16:06, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

 * Subst: causes the template tag to be converted into the template's contents when the page is saved, instead of staying "{{vfd top}}" and being converted each time the page is viewed. For a practical example, see this diff.  Using the shortcuts is better than vfd top/afd top, in that a bot could conceivably be written to fix them, but there isn't a bot that's currently doing this so far as I'm aware.  (Sorry about the extremely delayed response; I've been tied up in real life.) —Cryptic (talk) 07:03, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

Hammond, Winifred Scott
I assume your entry * [ [Winfield Scott Hammond|Hammond, Winifred Scott]] was just a transcription error on List of people by name: Ham. --Jerzy•t 21:54, 26 September 2005 (UTC) _ _ Yup, i see the simple possibility is solidly confirmed. _ _ BTW, IMO yr right in the approach to surname Dabs that you took w/ Hammond, but i find there are contrary arguments (primarily that it would take a policy before you could know that you didn't need to check both places). So i have on my back burner an experiment w/ a template scheme for generating, in the two places, both pipings from a single template. We'll see. _ _ And tnx for making the effort, by any approach, to get a more complete list whether in either or both places. I lk fwd to enhanced Cat facilities that may make LoPbN no longer worth maintaining, but for now i find it valuable. --Jerzy•t 17:13, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

User:Lidix
User:Lidix appears to be a vanity band article not-so-cleverly disguised as a user page. -- BD2412 talk 19:50, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Addendum: user's only edits are creating the user page and adding these three orphan images: Image:Lidix Forsh.jpg, Image:Puke-green(maydaforsh).jpg, Image:Lidix statefair bio3.jpg. -- BD2412 talk 19:55, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * I shall MfD the user page, then - the images can go straight to IfD, as they're orphans and there's nothing to suggest that they'll ever be of use for an article (I suspect that the user had an additional pic deleted along with the original article). As for the cowbell, I was sadly informed that having it on my talk page is outside the fair use license under which it appears on Wikipedia. At least Wikilove is under the GFDL! -- BD2412 talk 20:44, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Hey, this was your idea, you ought to cast a vote! ;-) -- BD2412 talk 17:24, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Oops - now I see that you did! -- BD2412 talk 17:25, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

Speedy deletion of JibJab's "This Land" Lyrics
Since JibJab's "This Land" Lyrics was previously deleted and has been recreated, does it not qualify as a speedy delete? Jdavidb 21:14, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. Hopefully it will not come back again; there was a stray link remaining from JibJab before which I removed earlier today. Jdavidb 21:23, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

BTW; I don't think it was especially stretching the rules. I was actually in the process of adding a speedy delete tag when the article got tagged as a copyvio. To me that was always just an extra reason for deletion. Jdavidb 21:32, 28 September 2005 (UTC)

Pradeep Aranpally
You just speedily deleted this article. It does assert significance of the subject. I don't believe hoax is a reason for speedying, so if it is a hoax you might go to AFD. In the meantime please undelete. --MarSch 15:47, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

 * If it is a hoax someone will AFD it. I know that it takes much time to do this and I sympathize with your reasoning, but I think you've stretched speedy criteria too much. So please undelete and let me stub it.

 * PS you might want to take a closer look at User:Korath/autovfd.js --MarSch 16:10, 29 September 2005 (UTC)

White Horse Circle
An AfD resulting in "delete" does not preclude anything ever occupying that space, and valid redirects are not deletable under the speedy deletion policy. The redirect placed at White Horse Circle is not recreation of previous content, so it is also not deletable under the speedy deletion policy. Please keep this in mind in the future. Thanks. Un focused  19:29, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Violating policy with the comment "same shit as before" is n't an act of bad faith from an administrator. I suggest you revert your change.   Un  focused  19:54, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Please stop speedy deleting a useful redirect; I will continue to revert it as the vandalism that it is. --SPUI (talk) 20:05, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

It was edited out. You restored it. I fail to see how your interpretation of the way things work can ever vanquish vanity from wikipedia if it can just be created elsewhere, immune from AfD. -R. fiend 19:56, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * We're not talking about vanity here. We're talking about a traffic circle and a local landmark, which makes perfect sense in an article on the township. --SPUI (talk) 20:07, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

 * There is a paragraph on White Horse Circle in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey (which you may argue the value of, but frankly, is any human addition of information to a Rambot-created page a bad thing?), so I can see no reason not to have a redirect except to try to prove a point to SPUI. Please do not delete it again. And please refrain from swearing in your deletion summaries. --Stormie 21:13, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Blocking SPUI
You've no business blocking SPUI over an edit war that you're participating in. You should take the issue up on Wikipedia's Admin Noticeboard for someone to address it there, or ask another, third party administrator to perform the block for you.

Regardless of our disagreements, I'd rather you not be censured for improper use of admin powers. Un focused  21:02, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Doctor shopping

Tramadol in Commonly abused section
The Commonly abused prescription drugs has a lot of information about Tramadol largely unrelated to its roll in doctor shopping.

It says: Tramadol is also another milder pain medication that has a lower propensity for abuse, but can become addictive. Tramadol is similar to narcotic pain medications by working on certain nerves in the brain that control how you experience pain. Tramadol is a novel analgesic having both opiate agonist activity and monoamine reuptake inhibition that contribute to its analgesic efficacy. Opiate activity is due to both the parent compound and the more active O-desmethylated metabolite. Tramadol acts on the monoamine reuptake systems by inhibiting the reuptake into nerve terminals of both norepinephrine and serotonin. Rarely, abnormal drug-seeking behavior (addiction) is possible with this medication. Tramadol is currently not controlled under the CSA., and thus is a non-scheduled drug. However the DEA does require that manufacturers clearly label the bottles to warn doctors about its recent higher numbers of abuse, as a precaution. This drug is often mistakenly classified as an opioid Schedule II or IV controlled substance by both doctors and pharmacists alike. Perhaps this mistaken identity is attributed to Tramadol’s opiate like effects in the brain. However, it is Chemically not an opioid and is not a scheduled drug.

Which is not only far more information than is given about the other drugs, but is far more information than is needed in this article (it is provided in the Tramadol article itself). The Tramadol portion should be cut to exclude the information not relative to its abuse and role in doctor shopping and the Tramadol name linked to it's article, as with the other mentioned drugs.--Theava (talk) 23:41, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Well I went ahead and rewrote it, I think it provides a lot better information with far less unneeded information about tramadol, but keeping the information that explains reasons a drug like such can be less abusable. --Theava (talk) 23:41, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

Request for expansion
I have requested that this be expanded as it is currently no more than a dictionary definition. It should be expanded to discuss abuse of prescription medication, duty of care of the physician and rising pharmaceutical costs. Capitalistroadster 07:26, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

One word: Oxycontin... --66.82.9.55 06:09, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

Citation needed
"...witness the fact that the most commonly represented demographic group in Narcotics Anonymous is doctors (principally anesthesiologists) and pharmacists."

Is that true??

--87.194.58.113 11:34, 27 October 2006 (UTC)Ean

Added section
Added a section pointing out that not all "doctor shoppers" are addicts trying to get drugs for abuse. Under-prescription of painkillers due to paranoia among doctors of being prosecuted for prescribing them is now a serious problem, especially for younger people. I had laser surgery on my feet with no anaesthetic apart from paracetamol, because they couldn't use a local as it would interfere with the treatment and they said that "hospital policy" meant they couldn't give stronger drugs to someone my age. Similarly my flatmate broke his arm badly in a workplace accident and all they would give him was ibuprofen. People with chronic pain conditions also suffer needlessly because they can't get sufficient drugs to treat their pain; look at the case of Richard Paey who is now in prison for 20 years in Florida for possession of his own Percocet pills after he moved states and could no longer get prescribed the dose which he had been stabilized on previously. Not all doctor shoppers are drug abusers! Meodipt 03:55, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

I agree, it's an important issue. I actually lost my job because I couldn't get the medication I needed in time due to a chronic, but manageable, health issue. I could have gone "shopping", but then I would have risked being labeled a drug seeker -- not something you want happen when you have a real medical issue. 122.57.136.187 (talk) 12:20, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Added a Worldview label to the "Commonly abused prescription drugs" section
Some countries do not require prescriptions for drugs that might be scheduled in the US; so this section is not entirely accurate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Joseph11h (talk • contribs) 07:24, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

Whole entry seems very biased against the patient
Patients may also "physician shop" because of inadequate or inappropriate care--due either to the inability of the first physician to diagnose the problem or possibly a doctor's belief that prescribing, say, antibiotics or physical therapy are not called for. Or perhaps the patient has cancer and wants to try a chemotherapy that the first doctor doesn't normally prescribe. Doctor number one resists discussing alternatives. The patient then goes to another doctor who is more willing to work with the patient. Or a patient sees a specialist who is rude or seemingly not up to date. The patient goes to two more doctors looking for one s/he can work with. To characterize all physician shopping as related to drug abuse seems extremely biased, as well as taking a narrow view. Eperotao (talk) 20:17, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

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User talk:Fair china

Fair China, you are making a point but your English is not good enough. You need someone to help you write English properly. No one will take you seriously unless your English is understandable. Bathrobe 07:26, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Balut (food)

Fight Quest
Just wanted to note that although I do not have a link, the new Discovery Channel show Fight Quest just recently (within a week of 1/14/2008) featured consumption of balut as well!

FNH 200 Group 5 Outline

 * 1) History
 * 2) *Origin
 * 3) *Traditions
 * 4) Chemistry of Cooking
 * 5) *Do a video of preparing, explaining characteristics, and eating/tasting
 * 6) *Discuss chemical changes that appear with the processing (fermenting) methods
 * 7) *Discuss chemical changes that appear with the different cooking methods
 * 8) Nutrition
 * 9) *Vitamins/ Minerals?
 * 10) *Do processing methods increase nutrition at all?
 * 11) Consumption and Uses
 * 12) *Where is it consumed (Which country, city, town..etc)
 * 13) *How is it consumed (Raw, Cooked, Alone or with some other ingredients)
 * 14) *Is it used for other methods, such as possible cures
 * 15) Storage and Cultivation
 * 16) *What are the ideal storage temperatures
 * 17) *How long can it be stored for
 * 18) *What happens after this allotted storage time (does it have to be discarded, can it be used for something else)
 * 19) Varieties and Controversies
 * 20) *different religion and cultures have different beliefs including the muslim religion believing in Halal and Haram food products.
 * 21) *animal activists believe this is animal cruelty?
 * 22) National Varieties

Bibliography

Enhancing the Value of Eggs: How to Make Balut and Century Eggs. (2001, July 1). Retrieved from http://www.agnet.org/library.php?func=view Is eating egg haram / makruh - Multaqa Ahl al-Hadeeth. (2011, August 28). Retrieved February 13, 2016, from http://www.ahlalhdeeth.com/vbe/showthread.php?t=13636 Magat, M.. (2002). Balut: "Fertilized Duck Eggs and Their Role in Filipino Culture". Western Folklore, 61(1), 63–96. http://doi.org/10.2307/1500289 Matejowsky, T. (2013). The Incredible, Edible Balut. Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of MultidisciplinaryResearch, 16(3), 387-404. Tang, Q., Li-Chan, E. C. Y., Byrne, S. K., & Cheng, K. M. (n.d.). Effect of storage temperature on sensory and microbiological quality of duck balut eggs, 4. Ruling on eating balut (egg containing a dead chick) - islamqa.info. (n.d.). Retrieved February 13, 2016, from https://islamqa.info/en/148001 U.S. Food and Drug Administration. (n.d.). Retrieved February 13, 2016, from http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/RetailFoodProtection/FoodCode/ucm189170.htm — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jssiu (talk • contribs) 05:56, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

New article
Have a look Balut, the fertilized duck embryo --Stone (talk) 20:45, 23 March 2016 (UTC)

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Balot
What kind of egg 58.69.114.198 (talk) 13:32, 11 September 2022 (UTC)

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Paul Varley

Paul Varley (24 May 1949 – 2 July 2008) was an English musician best known as the drummer in the band Arrows. Born in Preston, he played on several top 30 hit records, including "Touch Too Much," "My Last Night With You" and "I Love Rock 'N' Roll". Arrows hosted their own TV series, Arrows, on Granada ITV Television in the UK, from 1976 to 1977.

Varley also played with the bands Little Free Rock (earlier called Purple Haze), Ginger Johnson's African Drums, the Terry Reid band, Darling, and the Hitchermen.

Varley had one daughter, Ilona, born in 1977, from his relationship with June Child-Bolan, the former wife of Marc Bolan. In the new millennium Varley moved to London after living in Los Angeles for many years.

Varley died on 2 July 2008 at the age of 59.

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