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Talk:Rebekah Brooks

Usual tabloid hypocrisy #263: paedophilia
A few years ago Wade's paper carried a nude (with breasts in full show) picture of a girl who was 16 on the day of publishing. The text basically commented on how she was celebrating the fact that she could now do such photo shoots as she was now "legal". It took another non-newspaper publication to point out that if she was 16 on the day of publishing, she was 15 at the time of the photo shoot. Therefore under UK law the newspaper and the photographer had engaged in the production and circulation of child pornography. That story never hit the front page......or any page. I'll try and find some references to this story so it can be added to the appropriate Wiki pages.

 * I think you have this a little wrong. The episode in question referred to The Sport, which is owned by David Sullivan.  The paper featured many pictures of partially undressed ladies every day, a feature extended to The Star when that was under Sullivan's control.  For several days they ran a daily "clothed" picture of a young lass particularly notable in the pneumatic chest department even in such distinguished company.  The running tag was "she's fifteen, but as soon as she is sixteen, and therefore of legal age, we will have a topless picture".  The pic was published supposedly on her sixteenth birthday, with the implication as you say, either it was not really her sixteenth birthday or else she was underage (it could have been both).  I forget her name of the top of my head, but she did appear quite regularly for a while in top-shelf mags.  Nowadays, of course, glamour models have to be eighteen, in print, on video and on the internet.

 * An interesting adjunct to the article is in Footnote [4]. The model Rebekah (Rebekah Parmar) was voted Page 3 Girl for all time (ahead of the likes of Samantha Fox, Linda Lusardi, Jilly Johnson, etc, Jo Guest even) at the height of her career as a hardcore porn model, one has to wonder whether this astonishing result was due to dubious votes on her behalf.
 * Guy 23:54, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

Daily or weekday?
I changed the reference to the publication frequency of The Sun newspaper. "Weekday" may be less likely to create confusion, though The Sun publishes on Saturdays, but "daily" is common usage. As seven day newspaper publishing is still rare, it can be assumed readers will not be misled. A.P. Cross (talk) 08:39, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

Question
How does one go from a British High School straight to a magazine in Paris? Would that not need very good knowledge in French? It should be explained that she had that. Does that not look like being 'slotted' in? It was in 1988, before the Cold War was over. 144.136.176.129 (talk) 03:22, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
 * How could the Cold War have been relevant? France and the UK were on the same side. Jim Michael (talk) 00:22, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

Edit request from 90.152.41.34, 5 July 2011
Change misspelling of email in phone hacking section.

90.152.41.34 (talk) 14:56, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

 * Yes check.svg Done Looks like it was fixed by Comrade jo with . Favonian (talk) 15:02, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Edit request 5 July 2011
Add to the Phone hacking enquiry section.
 * ✅ Daicaregos (talk) 21:40, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

Add External links
 * Profile: News International chief Rebekah Brook, Edward Stourton, BBC News, 19 April 2011
 * Profile: News International chief Rebekah Brook, Edward Stourton, BBC News, 19 April 2011

75.60.16.184 (talk) 19:22, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Yellow check.svg Partly done: Added the Guardian link into the article. Jnorton7558 (talk) 05:21, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Please allow editing
Hello! Please permit editing of this article, as there are numerous objective points that need to be made about Rebekah Brook's nature as a(BLP violation removed). Kind regards 188.29.149.14 (talk) 20:56, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

 * Take out a logon and you will be able to edit the article. However you must bear in mind that "Wikipedia is not a soapbox", and articles must be written from a "neutral point of view". Continuing the theme of policy, I am also aware talk pages are also not discussion forums but for the avoidance of doubt, I also think Ms Brooks is a nasty piece of work. 87.115.51.134 (talk) 22:53, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Note: Please read WP:BLP and WP:NPOV before making comments like that again, and definitely do not add any comments of that nature to articles. Reaper Eternal (talk) 02:39, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I concur. After all, Rebekah Brooks extends the same gestures of tact and courtesy to the subjects of her own newspapers, dead or alive. ;-)  188.29.163.230 (talk) 22:04, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

UnAmericanise
Could someone change the word cellphone to mobile phone? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.122.214.131 (talk) 11:42, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done Favonian (talk) 11:53, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Hacking the hacker
The Inquirer has NOTW phone hacking protests turn to Wikipedia Rebekah Brooks' Wikipedia page updated in response to her denials, by Madeline Bennett, Wed Jul 06 2011, 13:47 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.60.16.184 (talk) 13:47, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Hilarious! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.54.86.247 (talk) 04:15, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

Revdelete
Some of the sillier edits to this article in the last day or so should probably be WP:REVDELETED.-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦  (talk to me) 16:06, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Please either delete them yourself or note them here. Daicaregos (talk) 16:18, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I'm not an admin so cannot. No wish to point them out, but they are clearly flagged as BLP violations.-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦  (talk to me) 16:57, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Yes check.svg Done I have revdel'ed the text of six of the "contributions". Favonian (talk) 20:59, 6 July 2011 (UTC)

Brooks as surname
The surname used throughout this article should be Brooks, in accordance with WP:NAMES and the rather odd note about usage at the end of the lead can then be deleted. Exok (talk) 17:29, 8 July 2011 (UTC)

Sorbonne
The Telegraph says "After taking her A-levels she travelled to Paris, where she found a temporary job on the architecture and art journal L’architecture d’Aujourd’hui. Her Who’s Who entry claims that while in the French capital she attended the Sorbonne. Rather than a full degree, she appears to have enrolled on a six month culture, literature and language course for foreign students." 75.59.205.208 (talk) 19:25, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
 * That's unsubstantiated speculation by the Telegraph, and the Who's Who entry, which is the main source for the claim that she studied at the Sorbonne, is by her own hand and cannot be considered a valid source (WP doesn't accept unsupported statements where people are talking of themselves). There is really no place for any extended studies at the Sorbonne in her career at the time. Certainly there are summer and part-time courses that are technically run by the Sorbonne (only one of many Paris universities) but when someone says "I studied at the Sorbonne" they normally mean they took a degree there or studied a subject for several terms. The only way this can be mentioned in the article is by putting the emphasis on that she claims to have studied there but pointing out that she's been unwilling to expand on the topic and that there's no real time to fit it in (as pointed out by the guy quoted in that section at present).Strausszek (talk) 17:34, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Chairman?
"Brooks has been chairman of the organisation Women in Journalism" - Could somebody please change "chairman" to "chair" here? Since a woman chairing a Women's organisation makes her a either chair, chair person or chair woman - but not a man. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Clara fall (talk • contribs) 08:56, 13 July 2011 (UTC)

 * It might be better to recast the phrase to avoid the perhaps anachronistic "chairman", and the clumsy modern alternatives (the worst being the inanimate object "chair"); perhaps such: "Brooks chairs the organisation Women in Journalism", or if she is not now in the position: "Brooks chaired the organisation Women in Journalism" - either is crisper and more accurate too, avoiding the vague "has been". Acabashi (talk) 10:06, 13 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I like your suggestions, but I'm not sure which one is more appropriate, so for now I have changed "chairperson" to "chair", clumsy as it is.  -- Ed (Edgar181) 17:25, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
 * I see what you are saying and it's certainly fine for now - but she is either the chair now or she isn't the chair now - do we know her present position? - the present statement doesn't make it clear, and should do - I shall try to find out and cite it. Many thanks Ed. Acabashi (talk)

Resignation
Mrs Brooks resigned as the Chief Executive of News International this morning; (source: http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/07/james-murdoch-resignation)

''As chief executive of the company, I feel a deep sense of responsibility for the people we have hurt and I want to reiterate how sorry I am for what we now know to have taken place. I have believed that the right and responsible action has been to lead us through the heat of the crisis. However my desire to remain on the bridge has made me a focal point of the debate. This is now detracting attention from all our honest endeavours to fix the problems of the past. Therefore I have given Rupert and James Murdoch my resignation. While it has been a subject of discussion, this time my resignation has been accepted. Rupert's wisdom, kindness and incisive advice has guided me throughout my career and James is an inspirational leader who has shown me great loyalty and friendship.

I would like to thank them both for their support.

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Bornsloppy (talk • contribs) 09:24, 15 July 2011 (UTC)

Has she just been arrested? 43 year old woman? Sounds like it!
AP have just announced a 43 year old woman has been arrested... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.195.106.185 (talk) 12:20, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

 * Believed to be Brooks according to The Guardian website's flash feature. Philip Cross (talk) 12:25, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Sky say it's Brooks as well, maybe someone should add this to the page... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.147.5.237 (talk) 12:28, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

BBC has just confirmed at 13.29 that she was arrested "by appointment at 12.00PM at a police station". — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.195.106.185 (talk) 12:31, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

 * Added a citation from the Mail website, the best option for the moment. Philip Cross (talk) 12:34, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

 * The Daily Mail has BLP citation issues, see Talk:Philip_Mould.-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦  (talk to me) 12:53, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

 * The citation from the Mail was indeed "the best option for the moment", as it was the main one at the time. "For the moment" acknowledged this, I was merely trying to prevent the notice of Brooks' arrest being the cause of an edit war. Ianmacm, the comments you refer to are now only found in the edit history and apply to only one case, rather than the value of the publication for our purposes. Philip Cross (talk) 13:25, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

 * Other sources have confirmed this, but Jimbo asked for caution in using the Mail as the only source of BLP information after the Philip Mould incident.-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦  (talk to me) 13:41, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

 * Thanks, missed this at the time. Philip Cross (talk) 14:06, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Rebekah Brooks may have broke these laws
The former NotW editor and head of News International was arrested on suspicion of conspiring to intercept communications and on suspicion of corruption allegations on 17th July 2011. Her arrest was by appointment at a London police station. ["Rebekah Brooks arrested by hacking police", BBC News, 17 Juily 2011] Her suspected activities were contrary to Section1 (1) Criminal Law Act 1977 and on suspicion of corruption allegations contrary to Section 1 of the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906. [] 86.29.71.56 (talk) 17:19, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

 * :-/86.29.71.56 (talk) 17:19, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Alumna status
The entry for the London College of Communication (former London College of Printing and now part of the University of the Arts) has her listed as an alumna of that institution but there is no supporting evidence that I can see. Anyone any further info on this? (Cj1340 (talk) 13:12, 17 July 2011 (UTC))
 * -- did you make the slightest effort to look? Did looking yourself even occur to you? Nomoskedasticity (talk) 21:30, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Blimey! I read the Grauniad every day, fancy missing that! (Cj1340 (talk) 21:45, 17 July 2011 (UTC))

Sorbonne
Can someone remove the smears in the Sorbonne discussion section above?

 * These are not smears, see which says: "Rebekah Brooks' startlingly brief and opaque Who's Who entry mentions time at the Sorbonne, the prestigious Parisian university, but not whether she took a degree."-- ♦Ian Ma c  M♦  (talk to me) 14:54, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Edit request from Johnstg, 17 July 2011

Warrington is in the county of Cheshire, not Lancashire.

There are two references to Warrington, Lancashire in this item which need to be corrected to Warrington, Cheshire

Cross reference/Confirmation is the Wikipedia page for Warrington.

Johnstg (talk) 18:03, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

 * ❌ It was in Lancashire when she was born. Wikipedia states historical fact. It is not a fact that she was born in Warrington, Cheshire, because Warrington was not in Cheshire in 1968. Harry the Dog WOOF  18:09, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
 * Warrington was in Lancashire prior to 1 April 1974, hence she was born in what was then Lancashire. Jim Michael (talk) 21:24, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Marking request as answered Jnorton7558 (talk) 23:43, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Sorry if this is wrong (edit: in the wrong place, I mean, for the discussion!), but Warrington town centre & general hospital (place of birth?) was in Lancs. then Cheshire, BUT the county boundary was the Mersey, then the Ship Canal. Daresbury has always been in Cheshire as it is south of them both.

Wikilynch
I'm certainly no fan of Rebekah Brooks, but someone should go back to their senses and read again this article. It's not the biography of a person, is just an accumulation of everything that is nasty about her, written in a way that intends to make it look even uglier. I'm not sure this is what wikipedia is (was) about. Wikipedia was supposed to be an Enclyclopedia, not an collection of angry op-eds... Let alone a Murdoch-like tabloid... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.54.66.215 (talk) 21:18, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Yep!86.29.71.56 (talk) 17:29, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

 * Good luck! It will be very hard for quite some time to achieve any kind of balanced statements about her career here, seeing that she herself has been very unwilling to discuss her background and the route of her speedy rise to top positions, and former bosses and associates haven't been wiling to talk a lot about that either I reckon, and any effort by people here to formulate some evenhanded statements and describing her career could very easily be challenged on the grounds of WP:NOR, NPOV and WP:SYNTH by others who don't want those particular descriptions.

 * Someone put it that she is "as much a carnival barker as a journalist". Personally speaking, I think there's a lot of truth to that, but this is also typical of a shift in the way newspapers operate, in their standards and the kind of people they now recruit. She's obviously not a great reporter or a lion of an analyst, but she knows how to project herself in the media and how to dig up nuggets of celeb news that her newspapers could sell.Strausszek (talk) 22:03, 19 July 2011 (UTC)

Re: "It will be very hard for quite some time to achieve any kind of balanced statements...any effort by people here to formulate some evenhanded statements....".

What do you mean precisely by "balanced" and "evenhanded"? Is a "balanced statement" a statement that shows the subjected in as good a light as it shows him in a bad light? Is the Wikipedia article about Hitler "balanced" in this sense? Should it be? I think what we really want is objectivity and verifiable truth. If the subject happens to be overtly and ostentatiously--and publicly--"a nasty piece of work" as someone put it above, then ojective reporting may naturally lead readers to conclude this, and it isn't the fault of the article--although obviously the article should not editorialize. TheScotch (talk) 07:54, 30 July 2011 (UTC)

BLP Concern
I removed Brooks mother's maiden name with reference to the WP:BLP policy, the removal has been reverted with the comment that mother's maiden name is standard biographical information. I disagree, this information has no relevance to the subject and concerns the privacy of personal information from primary sources. Suggest that my removal be re-instated, thanks. MilborneOne (talk) 13:37, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

 * Agreed, sites like http://www.findmypast.co.uk/ are unsuitable WP:BLPPRIMARY and WP:V. Her mother's maiden name is largely irrelevant (we are not doing genealogical research) and the statement that she was born in Warrington still needs a cite.-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦  (talk to me) 14:55, 21 July 2011 (UTC)

www.ancestry.com shows scans of the family registration index entries so is a primary source and confirms her birth in Warrington, Lancashire. The mother's name as Deborah gives a clue as to why the odd spelling Rebekah has been used (which might otherwise suggest a Jewish background). As there are several Rebekah Wades in Britain, it is useful that people can distinguish the current subject from others. More importantly, where is the real evidence she lived in Daresbury - an unusual place for a working class tugboat worker to live? Sebmelmoth (talk) 11:55, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

 * There are plenty of sources saying that she grew up in Daresbury, eg here. Wikipedia BLP articles are not Who Do You Think You Are? and should keep the family background brief and relevant. Use of public records is definitely not allowed, and could cause lawsuits against the Wikimedia Foundation if people are pointed at documents that could be used for fraud, invasion of privacy etc.-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦  (talk to me) 12:03, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

Early life, first line
Please edit. Warrington is not in Lancashire. It is in Cheshire — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.216.8.100 (talk) 01:05, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

 * ❌ See above Harry the Dog  WOOF  05:13, 22 July 2011 (UTC)

No News International Resignation Filed?
Its been reported in the Telegraph and Guardian that Brooks is still on the payroll of News International. Please could someone update the article with details from the current appointments report included in the blog post below? As far as Companies House are concerned, no resignation as been filed and she remains a current director of News International... Official: Rebekah Brooks has NOT resigned from News International / https://nodpi.org/2011/08/07/official-rebekah-brooks-has-not-resigned-from-news-international/ Fishonabicycle (talk) 15:07, 7 August 2011 (UTC)

Kid apparently on the way
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5idgM3Q4mL-_bvEthYuDjt9-BHEkw?docId=CNG.4a103f4c12c31f010418ccb1595560e0.9b1

So at what point do we mention the baby?©Geni 04:10, 24 November 2011 (UTC)

Significance or relevance of content
From the first paragraph: "In 2008 she was loaned a police horse by Scotland Yard for her Oxfordshire farm." -What is the significance of this sentence? or how is it relevant? Jdevola (talk) 04:31, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

The horse loan isn't relevant. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dingowasher (talk • contribs) 10:55, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Titles
Ed,

I work for a Middle Eastern university and there is usually total bafflement over gender titles.

In translation "CHAIR" is readily understood and acceptable but after this gets untranslatable. The correct and long established titles for Mrs Rebekah Brooks are "EXECUTRIX" and "EDITORESS". Would you please amend the article so that it can be readily understood in translation.AT Kunene (talk) 06:56, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
 * ❌ To say that English-speaking countries take a different attitude towards gender roles than those shown in the Middle East would be a bit of an understatement! As a native English speaker, I've never encountered "EXECUTRIX" or "EDITORESS" as words before in my life. The suffix -trix in particular is utterly archaic. Executive and Editor are now considered gender-neutral in our culture. The English Wikipedia is written for English speakers, not for it's ease of translation into other languages. Rubiscous (talk) 11:33, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Trial
Is it a bit early to create an article on R v Brooks and Brooks? PatGallacher (talk) 16:52, 15 May 2012 (UTC)

Reference in introduction to husband's background.
I added an extremely short reference to Charlie Brooks purely so that those like myself, not particularly interested in him have a little more background.

I felt the introduction was the best palace as it has the link to him though this is less clear cut. This BLP is very contentious but having been given a proper explanation, I hope you agree these 6 words enhance the article rather than adding to the controversy. Regards JRPG (talk) 20:57, 16 May 2012 (UTC)

 * This is wandering off into a side issue, and could also be construed as an association fallacy. It is not hugely important that Charlie Brooks and David Cameron were at Eton together, and it is not really relevant for the WP:LEAD of this article. It fits in better in the BLP of Charles Patrick Evelyn Brooks.-- ♦Ian Ma c M♦  (talk to me) 07:17, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

Warrington
Warrington was still in Lancashire when Rebekah Wade was born.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 01:55, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

intro section
I find it a bit disturbing that in the introduction it is necessary to read through several paragraphs about the allegations and court appearances before finally getting to a one-liner to say that she was acquitted. I think that out of respect for a person acquitted by the court on all charges, the acquittal ought to be mentioned far earlier in the description, and that this consideration should outweigh any desire to present things in chronological order.

Also, details about the magistrates' court appearance are in any case too low-level detail for an intro section. Any trial at Crown Court will be preceded by an initial hearing in front of a magistrate in any case, so the exact date and place of that initial hearing are really pretty minor details that can be dealt with lower down. It looks like the intro section has just grown organically as the story progressed, but I think that now is the time to restructure and shorten it, omitting minor details, and (as stated above) giving a respectful prominence to the fact of her acquittal. --Money money tickle parsnip (talk) 12:05, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

 * I have have a tidy up of the lead per due weight, all the information is still in the article body. MilborneOne (talk) 16:28, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

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"Discredited"
The opening sentence describes her as "discredited," but no explanation as to how or why she is discredited is ever given. The only criminal charges mentioned were those for which she was found not guilty, and any infidelity she may have been guilty of might imply she's immoral, but certainly shouldn't affect her professional reputation. 64.246.156.201 (talk) 07:33, 26 February 2023 (UTC)

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Yuridia

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On September 30, 2009, she released her fourth studio album, Nada es Color de Rosa. This album has sold 120,000 copies.

In 2016, through a statement, announced her entry to Televisa, after belonging to TV Azteca for 9 years, having participated in the singing reality La Academia.

On April 27, 2022, it was announced they Yuridia would return to TV Azteca, but this time as a coach of La Voz... México alongside Ha*Ash, David Bisbal and Joss Favela. A contestant on her team, Fátima Elizondo won the competition on August 29, 2022, making Yuridia the winning coach.

Personal life
Yuridia was born in Hermosillo, Sonora, but grew up in Mesa, Arizona. She considers Mesa to be her hometown. She is the oldest of five. She had two brothers and two sisters, but her younger brother Danny suffered from muscular dystrophy. He died in Mesa at age 15 in December 2005. The death of her brother had a major impact on her life. She left Mesa High School during her senior year to be on La Academia.

Yuridia was romantically involved with Edgar Guerrero, whom she met on La Academia. The two have a son, Phoenix (named after actor Joaquin Phoenix), who also aspires becoming a singer. He released his first single in 2022 at the age of 13.

In December 2019, Yuridia confirmed she had married her longtime boyfriend and still-manager, Argentinian Matías Aranda, whom she had been dating for approximately seven years. The wedding was very private and took place in Tepoztlán, Morelos. On July 13, 2023, she gave birth to her second child but first with Aranda, whom they named Benicio.

Awards

 * 23 Gold albums in Mexico, 3 Gold albums in the United States
 * 4 Gold albums in Central America for her first two albums
 * 3 Gold albums in Mexico for legal downloads of her singles "Ángel" and "Como Yo Nadie Te Ha Amado" on Master Ringtone
 * 18 Platinum albums in Mexico, 2 Platinum albums in the United States
 * 2 Diamond albums, making her the only female artist in 15 years to do so in Mexico
 * Premio Oye! 2006 Top 100 en Ventas
 * Premio Billboard 2007 Album Pop Nueva Generación Con La Voz De Un Ángel
 * Premio Oye! 2008 Solista Femenina del Año
 * On the last generation's debut concert, she received 22 Gold albums and 1 Diamond for high sales of all three of her albums
 * Three-time winner of 2024's Premio Lo Nuestro 2024 as Female Regional Mexican Artist of the Year, Banda Song of the Year and Mariachi/Ranchera Song of the Year

Discography

 * La Voz de un Ángel (2005)
 * Habla El Corazón (2006)
 * Entre Mariposas (2007)
 * Nada es Color de Rosa (2009)
 * Para Mí (2011)
 * 6 (2015)
 * Primera Fila: En Vivo (2017)
 * Pa' Luego Es Tarde (2022)

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Saint-Florent, Haute-Corse

Saint-Florent (San Fiorenzo, ; San Fiurenzu, ) is a commune in Haute-Corse department on the island of Corsica, France. Originally a fishing port located in the gulf of the same name, pleasure boats have now largely taken the place of fishing vessels.

Today, it is a popular summer vacation spot for many tourists because of its proximity to the Patrimonio vineyards and the Saleccia beach.

History
Saint-Florent was created by the Genoese in the 16th century as a base to carry out repressive operations against the Corsican patriots in the surrounding villages. France later used it to disembark hordes of mercenaries and colonists during August 1764 in order to subject the independent Corsican people. After the defeat at Ponte Novu Bridge, the army of Pasquale Paoli, sometimes called "the Father of Corsica", with the aid of the fleet of Horatio Nelson, reconquered Saint-Florent in 1794 during Corsiacas brief Anglo-Corsican rule.

Climate
Saint-Florent has a typically Mediterranean climate - mild winters with temperatures rarely dropping below zero give way to long, warm, dry summers with temperatures peaking at around 35 °C in July and August.

Sights
The monuments of Saint-Florent are the Genoese citadel constructed in 1440 at the same time as the city, and the Romanesque Saint-Florent Cathedral, or the cathedral of the Nebbio, now the church of Santa Maria Assunta.

Near the village are the Genoese towers Torra di Mortella and Torra di Fornali.

Notable people

 * Louis Bizarelli, former politician, was born at Saint-Florent in 1836.
 * Lizzy Mercier Descloux, musician and singer, spent her last years in Saint-Florent. She died there in 2004.
 * Marie Ferranti, author, lives and works in Saint-Florent.
 * Antoine Gentili, general and exile companion of Pasquale Paoli.

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Molecular Biology (journal)

Molecular Biology is a scientific journal which covers a wide scope of problems related to molecular, cell, and computational biology including genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics, molecular virology and immunology, molecular development biology, and molecular evolution. Molecular Biology publishes reviews, mini-reviews, experimental, and theoretical works, short communications and hypotheses. In addition, the journal publishes book reviews and meeting reports. The journal also publishes special issues devoted to most rapidly developing branches of physical-chemical biology and to the most outstanding scientists on the occasion of their anniversary birthdays. The journal is published in English and Russian versions by Nauka.

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Colin Bond

Colin John Bond (born 24 February 1942) is an Australian former racing driver. Bond reached the highest levels in Australian motorsport in 1969 when he was recruited by Harry Firth to the newly formed Holden Dealer Team. He quickly found success, winning the 1969 Hardie-Ferodo 500 mile race (now the Bathurst 1000) at Bathurst, New South Wales in a Holden Monaro.

Bond was a particularly versatile driver, also finding success in the Australian Rally Championship, winning the title in 1971, 1972 and 1974 driving a Holden Torana. Bond also won the 1975 Australian Touring Car Championship in a Holden Torana and was inducted into the V8 Supercars Hall of Fame in 2002.

Early career
Bond initially made a reputation as a hillclimber with three NSW Hillclimb titles in 1965-67 driving a Lynx-Peugeot S/C. Also known as a rally driver he was relatively unknown in circuit racing circles apart from a few forays racing various Isuzu Belletts, when he was chosen to partner Tony Roberts in one of three Holden Dealer Team entered Holden Monaros for the 1969 Hardie-Ferodo 500 at Bathurst. On a day when the Fords crumbled with unsuitable tyres for the race, the HDT stood strong, putting all three Monaros (including one driven by Des West and Peter Brock which finished third) into the top six positions with Bond and Roberts winning.

Torana GTR XU-1

The nimble 6-cylinder Torana GTR XU-1 debuted in late 1970 and in 1971 Bond began racking up an impressive list of race and rally titles in his Torana. He secured the Manufacturer's Championship for Holden by winning 3 out of 5 rounds, including the Sandown 250 enduro in his XU-1. He also won the Australian Rally Championship and the Southern Cross Rally, along with the South Pacific Touring Series that year.

Late in 1971 Bond had a couple of drives with Frank Matich's F5000 team. One was in the Australian Grand Prix at Warwick Farm and driving in a wet practice session Bond put in lap times seconds faster than his more experienced F5000 rivals. After his open-wheeler stint he opted to stay with the Holden Dealer Team.

The following year Bond won the Australian Rally Championship for the second year in a row. Bond also won the Catalina Park rallycross series, while on the bitumen he won the Toby Lee Series and Sun-7 Gold Medal. In 1973 he again won the Sun-7 series at Amaroo Park.

In 1974, as well as winning his third national Rally Championship, Bond won his third consecutive Sun-7 Chesterfield Series against a strong challenge by Bob Morris.

Torana L34
In late 1974, driving the new Holden Torana SL/R 5000, he contributed to Holden's victory in the Australian Manufacturers' Championship, again winning three out of five rounds.

Peter Brock left the Holden Dealer Team at the end of 1974 so for the 1975 season Colin Bond was the team's No.1 driver. That year he won his only Australian Touring Car Championship in the new L34 version of the SL/R 5000 Torana, and also won his second South Pacific Touring Car Series. At Bathurst Bond claimed pole position from the Ford XB Falcon GT Hardtop of Allan Moffat and led for much of the early part of the race until a broken axle at half distance put him too far back to challenge the similar Torana Peter Brock and Brian Sampson.

Bond was involved in a dramatic finish in 1976 at the Bathurst 1000. Late in the race when it seemed Bond, in the Holden Dealer Team Torana L34, had the race sewn up he was forced to pull into the pits with fanbelt trouble allowing the Bob Morris Torana to take the lead. In the final laps Morris's co-driver, British touring car ace John Fitzpatrick, nursed home an ailing car trailing smoke ahead of Bond's Torana which finished about 40 seconds behind.

In 1987, motoring writer Bill Tuckey in his book The Rise and Fall of Peter Brock claimed that there had been a lap scoring error in the 1976 race and that Colin Bond's Torana was the first car to complete the distance. Tuckey claimed Holden declined to challenge the result because a privately entered Holden team had won in such a memorable, emotional finish, and because Bob Morris' major sponsor was Ron Hodgson Motors, one of Sydney's leading Holden dealerships at the time. It remains however a contested footnote, Bob Morris denies that this was the case, claiming most team lap scorers agreed that the results were correct. Despite this, Bond's co-driver John Harvey believes that he and Bond did indeed win the race (Bond himself has kept a dignified silence), despite the official result still showing Morris and Fitzpatrick as race winners.

1-2 Formation Finish at Bathurst
After 7 years with the Holden Dealer Team, Bond shocked the establishment in 1977 when he left the HDT and joined Allan Moffat's Ford Dealers Team. Bond came close to becoming the first driver to achieve victories for both Holden and Ford Motor Company at the Bathurst 1000 (a feat which wouldn't be achieved until Steven Richards in 1999). He was driving the second of Moffat's Ford XC Falcon GS500 Hardtop's, with Moffat driving the lead car which was experiencing mechanical problems in the closing laps of the race (Moffat's Falcon had run out of brakes after they were given a caning by his co-driver, ex-Formula One driver and multiple 24 Hours of Le Mans winner Jacky Ickx). Although Bond had the opportunity to pass Moffat and take victory, he controversially chose to observe Moffat's team orders and allowed him to pass the line first in the now famous 1-2 formation finish.

Bond has stated in interviews since then that he regretted not taking victory from Moffat. Moffat himself later revealed that during the race he had offered Bond a drive in his Falcon which would have seen Bond not only win the race but finish second as well. Bond confirmed that he turned down Moffat's offer, preferring instead to stick to his own car which was co-driven by open wheel driver Alan Hamilton (Bond was to have driven with Gregg Hansford, but the Queenslander had to withdraw through injury suffered in a Motorcycle racing accident). Moffat also claimed that had the third placed Peter Janson / Larry Perkins Holden LX Torana SS A9X Hatchback or the similar Torana of fourth placed Peter and Phil Brock been on the same lap (both Torana's were one lap down) and closing in on the pair that Bond would have been free to pass him for the win if it meant that the Moffat Ford Dealers team won the race.

From 1977 to 1980 Bond ran the Ford works rally team, with Greg Carr and Bond driving the very competitive BDA Escort. The highlight for the Ford team was Greg Carr winning the 1978 Australian Rally Championship.

The 1980s
During the 1980s Bond was less prominent than he had been the previous decade, due mainly as others recognised his engineering ability and he was hired to front smaller operations like Steve Masterton's Capri team, Alfa Romeo's three-year factory effort and in the 1990s Toyota's short-lived foray into Supertouring. But he did register two more Bathurst 1000 placings, finishing 3rd in 1983 with Allan Grice in a Roadways Racing Holden VH Commodore SS, and 1988; the latter occasion with Formula One World Champion Alan Jones as co-driver in a Ford Sierra RS500. And in 1985 Bond and former motorcycle racer Gregg Hansford won their class and finished 7th outright at Bathurst in an Alfa Romeo GTV. He was also third in the 1981 and 1988 Australian Touring Car Championships, 1981 in a Ford Capri Mk.II for the Masterton Homes team and 1988 in a Ford Sierra RS500 in what was his first ATCC in an outright car since 1978.

Bond drove a great variety of machinery during this period including the Ford Capri, Chevrolet Camaro Z28, Triumph TR8, Alfa Romeo GTV, Alfa Romeo 75, Ford Sierra RS500, Toyota Corolla, and Porsche (including a Porsche 944 Turbo for Allan Hamilton's Porsche Cars Australia team in the 1982 and 1983 Australian GT Championships).

Bond also teamed with then open wheel racer Andrew Miedecke to drive a John Fitzpatrick Racing Porsche 962 in the 1984 Sandown 1000. The race, which was the final round of the 1984 World Endurance Championship, was the first ever FIA world championship motor race held in Australia. Driving an unfamiliar car with 650 bhp (approximately 200 bhp more than either had driven previously), Bond and Miedecke acquitted themselves well against the likes of Sports car racing stars Stefan Bellof, Jacky Ickx, Jochen Mass, Derek Bell, and Aussie internationals Alan Jones and Vern Schuppan. Bond qualified the car in 11th place, 4.4 seconds slower than pole winner Bellof in his Rothmans Porsche 956B. Bondy and "Mad Andy" then drove a steady race, staying out of trouble, to record a 6th-place finish at Melbourne's Sandown Park. Bond would claim that racing the 962 was "A lot of fun".

Wins in the Caltex Sierra
Colin Bond made an impact on the Touring Car Championship in 1990, winning two consecutive rounds of the championship at Lakeside and Mallala driving a Caltex sponsored Ford Sierra. Both these wins involved memorable drives where Bond came from behind to pass the leading cars one by one until taking the lead and holding off his rivals to win.

In 1994 Bond was lured back for one last tilt at the Bathurst 1000 by Fred Gibson, manager of the Winfield Racing Team. Driving a Holden VP Commodore with Swede Anders Olofsson, Bond briefly led the race early on when many cars were pitting to change tyres. He finished in 6th place on the same lap as the winning car.

Bond retired as a driver in 1994, but continued to contribute to the sport as a driving standards observer for V8 Supercar until he was replaced by Tomas Mezera after the 2006 season.

In the 1994 Queen's Birthday Honours Bond was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to motor sport.

Complete Australian Touring Car Championship results
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Complete World Endurance Championship results
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Complete World Touring Car Championship results
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Complete Asia-Pacific Touring Car Championship results
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Kevin Weekes

Kevin Weekes (born April 4, 1975) is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender who played 348 games in the National Hockey League (NHL). He is now a studio analyst for NHL Network, appearing on shows like On the Fly and NHL Tonight, while also calling weekly showcase games. He also calls games on ESPN/ABC, and makes regular studio appearances during games and on ESPN's weekly hockey show, The Point.

Playing career
As a youth, Weekes played in the 1989 Quebec International Pee-Wee Hockey Tournament with the Toronto Red Wings minor ice hockey team.

Weekes' career began with the Owen Sound Platers of the Ontario Hockey League. He also had a brief stint with the Ottawa 67's.

He was chosen 41st overall by the Florida Panthers in the 1993 NHL Entry Draft. In 1996, while playing for the Panthers' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Carolina Monarchs, Weekes was loaned to the Rochester Americans to participate in the 1996 Spengler Cup competition and was named MVP of the tournament. He made his NHL debut with the Panthers on October 16, 1997, going 0–5–1 in 11 appearances for the Panthers. The following summer he was traded to the Vancouver Canucks in a trade for Pavel Bure and compiled a 6–15–5 record in 31 appearances over a season and a half before being traded to the New York Islanders halfway through the 1999–2000 season. At the conclusion of that season he was traded to the Tampa Bay Lightning, where he played until late in the 2001–02 season.

The Carolina Hurricanes acquired Weekes on March 5, 2002 for Chris Dingman and Shane Willis. Weekes essentially served as a backup to Arturs Irbe during the remainder of the regular season, only playing in two of the final seventeen games for the Hurricanes. During the playoffs, Weekes played an important part in the Hurricanes run to the 2002 Stanley Cup Finals. Weekes played in eight games during the 2002 playoffs, including relieving Irbe in a first round, game four loss against the New Jersey Devils, and starting in goal during the critical games five and six of that series., which the Hurricanes won four games to two. Weekes also started games one, two and three of the second round against the Montreal Canadiens before being replaced by Irbe. During the playoffs, Weekes recorded back to back shutouts, with a 32 save shutout in game six of the first round against the New Jersey Devils and a 25 save shutout in game one of the second round against the Montreal Canadiens.

Weekes was the primary goaltender for the Hurricanes during the 2002–03 season playing in 51 games and compiling a 14–24–9 record and was the primary goaltender for the Hurricanes in 2003-04 playing in 66 games compiling a 23–30–11 record.

Weekes signed with the New York Rangers as a free agent prior to the 2004–05 NHL lock-out, winning his first start with the Rangers on October 5, 2005, in a game against the Philadelphia Flyers. His time with the Rangers looked to be promising until an injury kept him out and he lost his number one spot to Henrik Lundqvist. Lundqvist came in to play in place of Weekes and played exceptionally well. Weekes remained in good spirits upon his healthy return to the team even though he had been bumped to the number two spot and back up to the rookie Lundqvist. He became an unrestricted free agent following a less-than-stellar 2006–07 season.

On July 5, 2007, he signed with the New Jersey Devils to serve as a backup to All-Star Martin Brodeur. In the 2008–09 season, Brodeur suffered an injury which sidelined him for almost the entire season. This left Weekes and Scott Clemmensen battling for the number one spot. Brodeur returned, Weekes remained as the backup and Clemmensen was sent back down to the AHL. Weekes was injured in a game on 3 April 2009. Clemmensen took over as the backup to Brodeur. The Devils made the playoffs but lost to the Carolina Hurricanes in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference quarter finals.

Weekes announced his retirement from playing on September 27, 2009.

Broadcasting career
Weekes made history in 2009, when he became the first black analyst in ice hockey. Weekes provides colour commentary for NHL games on the NHL Network and Hockey Night in Canada. In The Hockey News 2011 edition of the 100 Most Powerful people in ice hockey, Weekes was considered one of the Top 40 under the age of 40.

In 2021, Weekes made his debut as an analyst for the NHL on ESPN. He appeared during ESPN coverage of the 2021 NHL Expansion Draft and the 2021 NHL Draft.

During the 2022 NHL trade deadline, Weekes became a social media darling when he started reporting on trades on video from odd places. Although he started off posting simple selfie videos from normal locations, he quickly started adding more substance, such as reporting from a barber's chair, or with the New York City skyline in the background. Many fans started create memes, manipulating the background so that it would seem that Weekes would report on different crazy locations, such as space and various world landmarks, and even some fictional locale. As the deadline went on, Weekes continued to lean into the bit, even reporting a trade with a small trash bin on his head, obscuring his head. Since the viral deadline, Weekes has continued making such videos.

Personal life
Weekes was born in Toronto, Ontario and went to Dr. Norman Bethune Collegiate Institute. His parents had emigrated from Barbados to Canada.

The reason that Weekes sometimes wore jersey number 80 was he wanted to wear 00. However, the NHL does not allow a player to wear single or double zero jerseys. Weekes chose the number that most closely resembled 00. Upon signing with the New Jersey Devils, as a result of former general manager Lou Lamoriello's policy of wearing jerseys 1–40 with exception of marquee players, Weekes was given jersey number 1. Weekes wore 00 in junior hockey when he played for the Ottawa 67's.He also wore 00 as a member of the Carolina Monarchs in the AHL. He was also featured as a columnist periodically with the Greensboro News and Record during his time with the Monarchs. Weekes appeared on both the soap operas All My Children and One Life to Live making cameo appearances. Weekes and Willie O'Ree appeared in the Everybody Hates Chris episode "Everybody Hates Gretzky" in 2008.

In February 2023, Weekes became an American citizen.

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Talk:Zathura

Just saw the trailer
Am I the only one that is sick of hearing that Requiem for a Dream song that was in LOTR? -_- --Xtanstic 10:06, October 8, 2005 (EST)

 * Yes. I mean, I mean, no.  I think it's cool, but I DEFINITELY know what you mean.  There's this other song with a guitar (idk the name) that goes DEH---DEH DEH DEH---DEH DEH DEH-(high-pitched) Doo Doo doo-doo doo  I kinda like the Zathura one though (what's it called?), but I know where you're coming from.  --daunrealist 02:59, 1 November 2005 (UTC)

This is the page for the book, first of all. Second, this is not the place to critique the work - the discussion page is for discussing how to improve the article. Thanks. Chrisbrl88 (talk) 08:37, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

Rip-off
This totally looks like a rip-off of jumanji. I just looked at the jumanji page and it actually mentions this movie as being similar.
 * whoops, maybe I should have read this page more carefully, Jumanji and Zathura are written by the same guy. I guess that means he didn't rip anyone off, just that he didn't have any more creative ideas. Oh well.

Thats what I thought when I first saw the trailer for the Movie as well. Does anyone know when this was written, out of curiosity? Priester 01:09, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

 * Just watched the DVD and special features. When the writer/artist first created Jumanji back in 1982, he ended it with Walter and Danny finding the board game and "never finishing it" and that was it. People requested he do a sequel to Jumanji with more jungle fun, but he didn't want to do the same thing twice, so he challenged himself with finding a new way to tell Walter and Danny's story without jungles. Of course, I didn't know this when I first saw the trailer in theaters and I too thought it was a cheap rip-off. Turns out it's not.. it's actually a better film (haven't read the books). - Kevingarcia 06:41, 11 March 2006 (UTC)

 * It seems that both games are from the same manufacturer, heh. What a relief. It was suspicious for me too 81.44.110.186 19:25, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I believe that what the author did for Zathura was have two boys find the Jumanji game. They didn't want to play it, so they turned it over and found the Zathura game on the other side of the board.  Don't quote me on that though. MelicansMatkin 03:36, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Some book facts mixed up with the movie?
In Zathura (film) it says that the "Purple Planet" of Zathura in the book was replaced by a black hole in the movie. This page describing the book uses the same "black hole" reference. Its the movie page incorrect? Or did someone who only saw the movie add that, thinking it was unchanged from the move. (My high school english teachers used to warn me against not reading the book and just watching the movie adaptations. I think this was why.) Since I've neither seen the book nor the movie, I can't say for sure. Andrew.langmead 23:32, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

The trivia section was removed from the film link I mentioned above, but was available until about here [], my question still stands though. Was the destination of the book the "Purple Planet" or a "Black Hole"? The movie page implies that the black hole was a construct only from the movie and not from this book. Andrew.langmead 16:59, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

The movie was also great. I can't believe the older boy didn't want to play. Still, once the younger boy started playing, they both had to play until it was all done. Extremely good movie. I actually watched it first when I was probably like, um, probably about 8. Here. I'll get you in. Basically the younger kid was bored, and when the older kid scared him down to the basement, the younger boy found a board game. He set it up, and then, once he moved, he read the card wrong ("A card came out,"), and his big brother read it correctly ("Meteor shower"), thus setting off a meteor shower. They have all these adventures, until a black hole finishes the game, taking them back to Earth. Ian.bjorn (talk) 21:00, 2 October 2010 (UTC)

Fritz
Fritz the dog? Who is Fritz? I noted no dog in the movie or in Jumanji. Lots42 (talk) 11:05, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
 * In the books. The author srew his dog as into each book. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Melune (talk • contribs) 19:36, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

Stub
This article needs serious and comprehensive improvement. Has anyone actually read the book that can do a writeup? Chrisbrl88 (talk) 08:56, 20 April 2010 (UTC)

A novel?
Can this really be classed as a novel? It has several novel categories as well as being listed with the Novels project. Same with Jumanji. Robina Fox (talk) 23:49, 5 March 2018 (UTC)

Is it not important to mention that the whole story takes place on Saturn's belt?
I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere, even the movie poster shows a red planet dissimilar to the yellowish hue of Saturn. It's bizarre. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.97.92.125 (talk) 19:28, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

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Talk:Geologist

yeuwehfiuw
After the 'Beer' section was wiped out today by an unregistered user, I'd like to get some thoughts on the validity of the section. Keep it, different page, or dump it all together?--Qfl247 (talk) 01:29, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

 * I suggest leaving it out. I've been a professional geologist for a long time and am a bit tired of the cliché of geologists and beer. Sure there's a "close relationship", but I'd rather not enshrine it in Wikipedia. I already have plenty of geology students who feel an obligation to drink lots of beer! Wilson44691 (talk) 01:39, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

 * I don't have any real problem with having something about geologists & beer, but this new section is distinctly unencyclopedic. Clean up & make NPOV, if we keep it. Cheers, Pete Tillman (talk) 05:08, 13 January 2010 (UTC), another geologist (who likes beer)

 * I agree with Wiطlson44691, it is have "close relationship", especially when we are going to the field, but it is unencyclopedic. Cheers (some cups of beer).--Tranletuhan (talk) 03:50, 28 January 2010 (UTC)

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Another editor removed this image, commenting that it wouldn't load. It comes up for me, so I'm putting it here to see if it loads for others. TIA, Pete Tillman (talk) 19:42, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

 * I couldn't see it, but after adding 250px to the image text I find that I can. I wonder if that works for others. Mikenorton (talk) 20:14, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

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Asano-gumi

The Asano-clan (浅野氏) is a yakuza group based in Okayama, Japan. The Asano-gumi is a designated yakuza group with an estimated 60 active members.

History
The Asano-gumi was formed in 1945 as a bakuto organization named the Oyama-ikka (大山一家) by Kunio Oyama. The group restarted as the Asano-gumi with the head of Shin'ichi Asano in April 1952 following Oyama's retirement. Yoshiaki Kushida succeeded as president in September 1983.

Condition
The Asano-gumi has been based in Kasaoka, Okayama ever since its formation.

The Asano-gumi caused conflicts with the Yamaguchi-gumi and the Kyodo-kai in the late 20th century. In one notable case, Asano member(s) shot and murdered two Yamaguchi members in Kurashiki in 1987, as a retaliation for an earlier attack by Yamaguchi member(s) involving carving knives against two Asano members.

Since 1996, the Asano-gumi has been a member of an anti-Yamaguchi federation named the Gosha-kai, along with three other Chugoku-based organizations, the Kyosei-kai, the Kyodo-kai, the Goda-ikka, and the Shikoku-based Shinwa-kai.

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Helvete

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Mi Fu

Mi Fu (, also given as Mi Fei, 1051–1107 CE) was a Chinese painter, poet and calligrapher who was born in Taiyuan during the Song dynasty. He became known for his style of painting misty landscapes. This style would be deemed the "Mi Fu" style and involved the use of large wet dots of ink applied with a flat brush. His poetry was influenced by Li Bai and his calligraphy by Wang Xizhi.

Mi Fu is regarded as one of the four greatest calligraphers of the Song dynasty, alongside Su Shi, Hung Tingjian and Cai Xian. His style is derived from calligraphers in earlier dynasties, although he developed unique traits of his own. His son, Mi Youren, also became a well known painter. He followed his father's artistic style, adopting his use of large dots of wet ink, a technique later nicknamed "Mi Dots".

As a personality, Mi Fu was noted as an eccentric; including a mania of cleanliness. At times, he was deemed "Madman Mi" due to his obsession with collecting stones. He was also known to be a heavy drinker. His son, Mi Youren, also became a well known painter following in his father's artistic style.

Biography

According to Yao Weiyuan, Mi Fu was a fifth-generation descendant of Mi Xin, a Later Zhou and early Song dynasty general from the Kumo Xi tribe that descended from the Xianbei. However, according to other scholars, his family probably was of distant Muslim Sogdian heritage. His surname "Mi" is of Sogdian origin, and he was born after a long period in which the Sogdians intensively migrated deep into China and established flourishing communities there, and he referred to himself as "descendant of huozheng," "fire priest" (according to Jiang Boqin), having a seal with this inscribed on it. However, other Chinese scholars reject Jiang's interpretation, saying that huozheng referred to "Fire virtue" and was related to the Zhao family, and that he had other seals claiming different things.

Mi Fu showed early signs of interest in arts and letters, as well as unusual memory skills. His mother worked as a midwife and later as a wet-nurse, looking after the Emperor Shenzong.

Due to his familial connections to the imperial family, Mi Fu was allowed the privilege of living in the royal palaces. Here, he began his career as Reviser of Books, Professor of Painting and Calligraphy in the capital, Secretary to the Board of Rites, and Military Governor of Huaiyang. He openly criticized conventional regulations of the time, causing him to move between jobs frequently.

Mi Fu collected old writings and paintings as his family wealth gradually diminished. Over time, the value of his collection grew. He also inherited some of the calligraphy in his collection. His collection was arranged in two parts, one of which was kept secret (or shown only to a select few) and another which would be shown to visitors.

In his later years, Mi Fu became very fond of Holin Temple (located on Yellow Crane Mountain (黃鶴樓)). He later asked to be buried at its gate. Today the temple is gone, but his grave remains.

Historical background
After the rise of landscape painting, creative activities followed which were of a more general kind and included profane, religious figure, bird, flower and bamboo paintings besides landscapes. It was all carried out by men of high intellectual standards. To most of these men, painting was not a professional occupation but only one of the means by which they expressed their intellectual reactions to life and nature in visible symbols. Poetry and illustrative writing were in a sense even more important to them than painting and they made their living as more or less prominent government officials if they did not depend on family wealth. Even if some of them were skilled at ink painting and calligraphy, they avoided the fame and position of professional artists and became known as "gentleman-painters." Artistic occupations such as calligraphy and painting were seen as leisure activities from official duties or practical occupations. Nevertheless, the foundation of their technical mastery was in writing and calligraphy, which allowed them to transmit their thoughts with the same easiness in symbols of nature as in conventional characters. Their art became therefore a very intimate kind of expression, or idea-writing as it was called in later times. The beauty of this art was indeed closely connected to the visible ease with which it was produced, but which after all could not be achieved without intense training and deep thought.

Mi Fu was one of the highly gifted gentleman-painters. His talent for artistic observation, his sense of humor, and his literary ability helped him establish a prominent place for himself among Chinese art historians. His contributions to the field remain in high regard due to their basis in direct, first-hand observation as opposed to relying on what he had heard or learned from his forerunners. Mi Fu would often express his own views even when they differed from prevailing beliefs or official opinions. Art historians still maintain interest in his notes on painting and calligraphy–these writings are believed to be spontaneous expressions of his own observations and independent ideas which aid in the characterization of Mi Fu and the other artists he would write about.

Art

Mi Fu is considered one of the most important representatives of the Southern School (南宗畫) of landscape painting. Presently, many works are attributed to Mi Fu and most of them represent a type or pictorial style which also existed in later centuries. The accuracy of their attribution remains in question due to difficulties in verification. Mi Fu is now remembered as a skilled calligrapher and an influential art critic and writer rather than a skilled landscape painter.

For Mi Fu writing or calligraphy was intimately connected with the composing of poetry or sketching. It required an alertness of mind and spirit, which he thought was best achieved through the enjoyment of wine. Through this he reached a state of excitement rather than drunkenness. A friend of Mi Fu, Su Shih (蘇軾) admired him and wrote that his brush was like a sharp sword handled skillfully in fight or a bow which could shoot the arrow a thousand li, piercing anything that might be in its way. "It was the highest perfection of the art of calligraphy", he wrote.

Other critics claimed that only Mi Fu could imitate the style of the great calligraphers of the Six Dynasties. Mi Fu's son testified that his father always kept some calligraphic masterpiece of the Tang or the Qin period in his desk as a model. At night he would place it in a box at the side of his pillow.

According to some writings, Mi Fu did most of his paintings during the last seven years of his life, and he himself wrote that "he chose as his models the most ancient masters and painted guided by his own genius and not by any teacher and thus represented the loyal men of antiquity."

Paintings currently attributed to Mi Fu represent ranges of wooded hills or cone-shaped mountain peaks rising out of layers of mist. Bodies of water and clusters of dark trees may appear in the foreground of his compositions. One of the best known examples of the "Mi Fu style" is a small picture in the Palace Museum known as Spring Mountains and Pine-Trees. It is in the size of a large album-leaf and there is a poem at the top that was said to be added by Emperor Gaozong of Song.

Some paintings attributed to Mi Fu are likely imitations. They may be from Southern Song period, or possibly from the Yuan period, when some of the leading painters freely utilized the manner of Mi Fu for expressing their own ideas. It is likely that many are from the later part of Ming period when a cult of Mi Fu was started, its followers viewing him as the most important representative of the Southern School. Mi Fu himself had seen many imitations and he saw how wealthy amateurs spent their money on great names rather than on original works of art. He wrote that they "place their pictures in brocade bags and provide them with jade rollers as if they were very wonderful treasures, but when they open them one cannot but break out into laughter."

Mi Fu's own manner of painting has been characterized by writers who knew it through their own observation or through hearsay. It is said that he always painted on paper which had not been prepared with gum or alum (alauns) instead of silk, and he never painted on the wall. In addition to using a brush when painting with ink, Mi Fu also utilized paper sticks or sugar cane from which the juice had been extracted or a calyx (kauss) of a lotus.

Mi Fu was principally a landscape painter, though he also created portraits and figure paintings. It is likely that he spent more time studying samples of ancient calligraphy and paintings than he spent producing work of his own. His book, Huashi ("History of Painting"), contains practical hints as to the proper way of collecting, preserving, cleaning and mounting pictures.

General references

 * Barnhart, R. M. et al. (1997). Three Thousand years of Chinese Painting. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-07013-6. p. 373.
 * Rhonda and Jeffrey Cooper (1997). Masterpieces of Chinese Art. Todtri Productions. ISBN 1-57717-060-1. p. 76.
 * Xiao, Yanyi, "Mi Fu". Encyclopedia of China (Arts Edition), 1st ed.

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i actually live in village park. I know that Village is actually part of Waipahu. & so is Royal Kunia.

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Was New Orleans lawyer, Pereguine 'Perry' Snowden Warfield of Georgetown, D.C., an 1830's Georgetown College graduate, and of it's law school? His father was a Georgetown, D.C., physician. James A. Miller, Jr., 4978 N. Hampton Dr., Southport, N.C. 28461. I'm attempting the learn the name of his daughter, Mrs. Lee, of 1904 Summit, Miss.; and daughter Mrs. Hosmer, of 1904 St. Joseph, La. Where was Perry buried? Supposedly he died middle aged; his wife Mrs. Martha Bell Nixon Warfield, died Biloxi, Miss., 1904. My aunt has Perry's 1830's Georgetown College poetry practice book, and flute.

wasn't Mutombo also a diplomatic???

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Heading Needed under US Senators and US Members of the House
Can someone please separate out the Current members of each body from the past members?

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It might be advantageous to modify the format of the article from its current text form into a table form. This would allow for greater ease of navigating the article and would also make it consistent with other similar articles of university alumni that have attained featured list status. Examples of featured alumni articles include: Dartmouth College, Washington & Jefferson College, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Central Florida, and Brigham Young University. Considering all other factors, this article could then be nominated for featured article status, assuming the list of alumni is comprehensive and thoroughly cited; perhaps some expansion of the lead would be necessary.  Ergo Sum  14:22, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Excellent idea, the list format is definitely unwieldy. It would also help identify those without proper sourcing here.-- Patrick, o Ѻ ∞ 19:02, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
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Article Format Conversion
I converted the Heads of state or government, United States Governors, and U.S. Presidential appointees and White House staff sections to the sortable table format (mentioned in the talk page section above). As this will be a large and long process to convert the entire article, I will undertake it incrementally. I added images accordingly. N.B. that the images I removed were to allow for proper formatting. They should be added back to their appropriate sections, rather than listed randomly as they previously were. I added citations as well. All persons listed should have at least one corresponding citation. Most entries are lacking a citation. I added numerous internal links. I also standardized the convention for school attended/degree received. Lastly, I updated many of the notability descriptions, as many individuals have newer accomplishments that were not listed. This entailed re-categorizing some individuals. I will continue to work on conversion, though since the sections are longer, it may take more time.  Ergo Sum  02:12, 29 August 2015 (UTC)

 * Thus far, I've converted all sections up through U.S. Senators (excluding the Legend section). I will continue working my way through the remaining sections. In case anyone was wondering, I've been using this rule to standardize the schools and earned degrees listed by each individual's name and class year. Once all the sections have been updated, I will replace the existing Legend section with the aforementioned one.  Ergo Sum  21:40, 18 September 2015 (UTC)

Comment: This citation (added to replace prior for Talal bin Muhammad which had instead referenced incorrectly Al-Waleed bin Talal) may be of use for other prominent alumni of the School of Foreign Service – note: where I included "Foreign Leaders and Diplomats" as secondary part of the title is obtained from the pertinent subsection of the website page, i.e. substitute secondary detail on title with appropriate subsection where needed if using for other alumni :"" – 99.170.117.163 (talk) 05:18, 26 October 2015 (UTC)

Getting this article to GA then FA
Agreed! Never worked on a list before this. But I was impressed by the meticulous citations. I hope you don't mind me jumping-in to improve it. —አቤል ዳዊት?(Janweh64) (talk) 03:49, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Not at all. I spent quite a bit of time trying to get the list cleaned up and promoted to FL some time back but no one responded. I'd be glad to help you promote it to GA and eventually FL.  Ergo Sum  04:00, 6 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Awesome! Now for my first complaint. This article relies too much on primary sources like the website of the person's place of work. See for example this edit —አቤል ዳዊት?(Janweh64) (talk) 04:20, 6 September 2017 (UTC)

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Pascal Themanlys

Pascal Themanlys (27 September 1909 – 25 June 2000) was a French (later Israeli) poet, Zionist, and Kabbalist. His books on Jewish mysticism have been published in French, English and Hebrew.

Pascal was born in Paris; his French parents Louis and Claire Themanlys were important disciples of Max Theon, and in charge of the "Cosmic Movement" in France. Pascal himself only met Theon once in 1920 (when he was eleven, Théon was well into his seventies), although he claimed later he was initiated by his father Louis. This supplemented his own studies of traditional Lurianic Kabbalah.

At fifteen, he published his first collection of poems, work of poems, a booklet called the Emerald Monocle, in 1924. He met a number of important authors and artists such as Rabindranath Tagore and Paul Valéry. In 1934 his book Les merveilles du Becht (Wonders of Becht) was published, the first book in French about the Baal Shem Tov.

During the Second World War he was a member of the French resistance. In 1947, he married his wife, Raymonde; they would later have three children.

In 1949 he emigrated to Israel where he became the head the French section of the Department of Information of the Jewish Agency. He was also the founder of the Amitiés Israël-France (Israel-France Friendship) society.

After his retirement from the civil service he founded the Argaman Center, and taught and studied Kabbalah. He seems to have had a very poor opinion of liberal Judaism.

External links and references

 * Pascal Themanlys - biography on Cosmique Review
 * Oscar Laurens Schrover 2002 Pathotism is empathy - includes biographical comments
 * Pascal Themanlys miscellaneous notes, on Kheper

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Talk:Congo (novel)

I am no Wiki editing person, but it seems a travesty that this document does not mention the excellent Interactive Fiction adaptation of the book - Trillium/Telarium's "Amazon". - 6Jun10

In my opinion, this was a bad novel. KSchutte 02:11, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Alert the internet -- someone thinks a Michael Crichton novel is bad. Sorry, bud, but it's quite common for people to dislike Crichton's books, especially as he is a popular novelist. GreatGatsby 04:57, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
 * The Great Gatsby also sucked.--207.67.97.70 18:45, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Michael Crichton cares. 94.1.182.14 (talk) 16:10, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

S. Martins quote within the novel
...said bluntly that “this country will go to war over Zaire before we go to war over any Arab oil state.”

Ah, the good ol' days, eh?

-G —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.67.114.45 (talk) 02:15, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Inaccuracy in current entry?
it says that diamonds were later sold to Intel, a real company, when i believe, the company was fictional and named Intec. I'm a noob editor, so i wasn't sure if this merited editing or not, as it was likely meant to imply "Intel" to begin with, so /shrug —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.210.70.70 (talk) 02:33, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

In the epilogue of the book it actually says "Intel" bought the diamonds,although Intec were the company that the team were working for to start with. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.154.134.95 (talk) 18:58, 9 February 2009 (UTC)

The plot is jumbled in the current entry. It indicates the expedition loses contact with Houston, then the gray gorillas attack. However, in the novel the gray gorillas attack, the expedition forms the idea to translate their language, then communication with Houston is lost. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.194.122.45 (talk) 07:14, 16 April 2010 (UTC)

Needs mentioning
Koko (gorilla), the probable inspiration for Amy.

Simpsons Safari, where chimps mine for diamonds, might have been influenced by this book. --68.161.148.47 (talk) 05:11, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Solomon
Quote: "Congo is a Lost World novel in the tradition founded by Henry Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines and featuring the mines of that work's title.[citation needed]"

I can not remember whether King Solomon's mines were explicitly named in Congo, the connection is obvious however. If anybody remembers whether Solomon was explicitely named in Congo, feel free to remove the citation needed, otherwise one could presumably easily edit the paragraph like so:

 * "Congo is a novel of the Lost World genre with similarities to H. R. Haggard's King Solomon's Mines. Both feature lost cities in Africa which are the source of highly-desired gems."

Indeed Congo is pretty much what you get if you cross King Solomon's Mines with Mountains of Madness - doesn't even require much shaking nor stirring.

-- Nils Jeppe (talk) 12:04, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Mukenko Fictitious?
Googling around I could not find any reference to the volcano/mountain Mukenko featured in the novel. I don't a great deal about geography but it would be useful if someone could verify this, mention Mukenko in the novel and then state whether it was an invention or whether it was real. I see this as especially important seeing as how Crichton generally presents most of his novels as 'false documents' - i.e. fiction as fact. This is especially true of the Congo. -- 94.1.182.14 (talk) 16:13, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Likely he meant Mount Mikeno. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.99.238.3 (talk) 07:02, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Error in book
The book states that the C-130 [Hercules] transport aircraft was the "Largest Airplane in the world". This is rubbish. It is a medium sized aircraft only. Michael may well have got confused by the C-5 Galaxy, which certainly is very large, but even so it is a basic mistake and someone should have spotted this prior to its publication. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.2.57.146 (talk) 16:39, 17 November 2010 (UTC)

On a similar note, it is considered bad practice to name a species after oneself, as the scientist in this novel intended. I'm not sure that editors would even allow it. Also, Gorilla elliotensis means "Gorilla from Elliot." It should have been, Gorilla ellioti. Not that this is particularly important, or anything. Tennesseellum (talk) 01:37, 17 October 2011 (UTC)

I added this into the category for 1980s science fiction novels. Transcendentalist01 (talk) 19:50, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

The final sentence reads " From there the balloon slid across the Zaire border, moving SOUTHEAST towards Kenya" Kenya is due East or Northeast of the Virunga region, and not to the south. Cannot understand how this error was missed!!

 * Well, as Kenya is longer than the Virunga region and extends both farther north and south, I don't think it is an error. Look at a map and draw a line from Virunga National Park to Mombassa. It may not be exactly south-east, but it is closer to SE than east. So north-east, east or south-east would all be valid directions, I would think, especially as it doesn't seem like Crichton was giving an exact heading here. Sheriffjt (talk) 00:43, 20 August 2014 (UTC)

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Kobe Luminarie

Kobe Luminarie (神戸ルミナリエ) is a light festival held in Kobe, Japan, every December since 1995 to commemorate the Great Hanshin earthquake of that year. The lights were donated by the Italian Government and the installation itself is produced by Valerio Festi and Hirokazu Imaoka. Over 200,000 individually hand painted lights are lit each year with electricity generated from biomass in order to stay environmentally friendly.

Lights are kept up for about two weeks and turned on for a few hours each evening. Major streets in the vicinity are closed to auto traffic during these hours to allow pedestrians to fill the streets and enjoy the lights. It is viewed by about three to five million people each year.

Symbolization
When the Great Hanshin earthquake struck Kobe on January 17, 1995, it left more than 6,000 dead and caused $100 billion in damages. Since many had to live in darkness due to supply cuts in electricity, gas, and water, the idea of putting up lights acted as a symbol of hope, recovery, and renovation. Though it was only supposed to take place once, strong popularity and demand from citizens encouraged the continuation of luminarie to become an annual event.

Silent prayers to victims of the earthquake takes place in the opening ceremony, and a memorial naming those who were killed is posted during the night.

However, in 2020, due to the effects of the Coronavirus disease 2019, even if the scale was reduced, it was expected to cause congestion, and it was extremely difficult to implement infection control measures. Also, because the Italian craftsman has no prospect of entering Japan, the Kobe Luminarie event was canceled. The event was resumed in January 2024, in a change to its usual December schedule. Rather than its previous centralised displays, the 2024 festival's displays were dispersed over multiple sites in Kobe, with the large "Galleria" and "Frontone" displays forming a paid-entry area in Merikan Park.

Tohoku Initiative
In the 2011 Luminarie, the same year as the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, a special exhibition was held to raise money for its victims. In the 2012 luminarie, drawings by children from that region were used to make lanterns displayed at the event.

Tourist attraction
The Hanshin earthquake left Kobe at a slump with tourist attractions. One of the factors that brought tourism back to Kobe was the sincerity of the Luminarie event in honoring the victims of the earthquake.

The event attracts around 4 million people to Kobe every year and raises $1.3 million in donations and $6.1 million in sponsorship and merchandise sales.

The table below indicates the number of people attending the Luminarie event each year since 2004.

The luminarie also has numerous sponsors. The following are just a few of the tens of dozens of sponsors for 2012;

 * JR West
 * Hankyu Corporation
 * Nestle Group Japan
 * Hanshin Electric Railway Co
 * TOA (shares)
 * Kadokawa Magazine Ltd.
 * Sysmex Ltd

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