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Alan Moore
Alan Moore was already nominated to FA and almost made it. It just needs very minor pruning. Moore is one of the, if not the most, influential comic writers in the business. Many of his works have been made into feature films recently, with more on the way. We also need to highlight the more alternative side of comics. Marc Mywords 07:18, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 1) KHM03 08:49, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Fritz S. 10:25, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 3) Hiding talk 12:06, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 4)  ←Hob 06:35, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 5) Dan 00:24, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 6) Brown Shoes22 04:19, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 7) Dyslexic agnostic 06:24, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 8) DoctorWorm7 08:19, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 9) Groovemaster D. 17:21, 23 January 2006 (UTC) Agreed. Moore is one of the best writers, having pushed a lot of boundaries. Due to the movies, he'll receive attention and his article therefore should cover the original material well.


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The Far Country (novel)

The Far Country is a novel by Nevil Shute, first published in 1952.

In this novel, Shute has some harsh things to say about the new (British) National Health Service, as well as the socialist Labour government, themes he would later develop more fully in In the Wet. He describes the lot of the 'New Australians'; refugees who are required to work for two years where they are placed, in return for free passage to Australia.

Plot summary
The story takes place partly in London and partly in Australia. It is set in 1950. Jennifer Morton, a young girl from Leicester but living in London, witnesses the death of her grandmother, the widow of a retired Indian civil servant. Her pension has ceased and she has literally starved to death, despite once being prosperous. Before she dies, she leaves Jennifer a small sum of money sent by a niece in Australia, and asks that Jennifer use the money to visit Jane and Jack Dorman who own a prosperous sheep station in Merrijig Victoria. She does so.

Jennifer finds herself falling in love with the new, relatively unspoiled country, though she continues to worry about her parents. She also meets Carl Zlinter, a 'New Australian'; a Czech refugee who is working at the nearby lumber camp of a timber company as a condition of his free passage to Australia. A medical doctor qualified to practise in Czechoslovakia, he is not qualified to practise in Australia and only looks after First Aid at the lumber camp but when an accident badly injures two of the workers and no doctor, nurse or medical facilities are available, he is faced with the choice of either watching the workers die or operating on them; he chooses to operate, and Jennifer assists him. The two operations are successful, but one man later gets drunk and dies. Zlinter is initially in potentially serious trouble over the unlicensed operations and death, but he is cleared of responsibility.

Jennifer helps Zlinter to trace the history of a man of the same name who lived and died in the district many years before, during a gold rush, and they find the site of his house.

Back in England, Jennifer's mother dies and she is forced to return, but she is now restless and dissatisfied. Zlinter turns up in Leicester; he has found gold dust that the earlier Zlinter earned as a bullock driver and hid beneath a stone. He has used the money from illegally selling the gold to travel to England to ask Jennifer to marry him, and to re-qualify as a medical practitioner.

Inspiration
The character of Carl Zlinter may have been inspired by Dr Marcus Clarke, whom Nevil Shute accompanied in 1948 on his rounds as a country doctor in Cairns, Australia.

The character of Billy Slim was based on Fred Fry, a notable fly fisherman, who constructed several huts along the Howqua River and eked out a quiet existence in the river valley.

Title
The title comes from the 40th poem (in Roman numerals XL) in A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad.

Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?

That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again.

1987 adaptation
The novel was adapted for television again in the 1980s. The miniseries screened on the Seven Network in 1987 starring Michael York, Sigrid Thornton, and Maureen Edwards as Mrs Morton. Shooting took place in September and October 1985, and took place entirely in Victoria even though some scenes were set in Britain and Europe.

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Hopton, Derbyshire

Hopton is a small village adjacent to the village of Carsington and two miles (3.2 km) from the market town of Wirksworth in the Peak District.

Evidence of humans visiting, possibly 200,000 years ago during a warm period known as the Aveley Interglacial, is given by the discovery of a Middle Paleolithic Acheulean hand axe nearby.

Hopton is first mentioned in the Domesday book in 1086 as a berewick (supporting farm) of the town and manor of Wirksworth and its two main industries from ancient times have been farming and lead mining.

Hopton lies just off the main B5035 road from Ashbourne to Wirksworth at the northern end of Carsington Water.

The village had a long association with the Gell family, who have had assets in the Hopton since 1327, and had extensive lead mining interests in the Wirksworth area and lived at Hopton Hall. Notable members include Sir John Gell who was a Parliamentarian in the English Civil War and Sir William Gell who was an archaeologist.

The famous Hopton Incline of the Cromford and High Peak Railway, now part of the High Peak Trail and Pennine Bridleway, is about 2/3 mile north of the village.

Modern Hopton is a rather straggling village with a number of houses some of which are popular for self-catering activities for tourists visiting the Peak District, Wirksworth and Carsington Water.

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Talk:Behavior modification facility

Multiple issues
There are multiple issues with this article. Starting with the neutrality issue raised by author Steven Fruitsmaak above. Steven observes that:

 * "This is made abundantly clear by the article's opening line "A behavior modification facility (or youth residential program)". Whoever wrote this is trying to equate behavior modification facilities and youth residential programs"

There is no such thing as a behavior modification facility per se. It is like calling an auto repair shop, mechanic's garage, or auto dealership an "auto repair facility'. Any business that repairs cars is by definition an auto repair facility. Likewise any office that deals in dentistry, be it general practice dentistry, Orthodontia, or Oral Surgery, is a dental medicine facility. Any establishment that engages in behavior modification is a behavior modification facility. It is a generic term and is definitely not limited to "youth residential programs". Behavior modification techniques are used to treat a variety of problems in both adults and children.

Secondly, the article has few to no reliable sources that pertain to these so called facilities. The supporting citations are to sources on the practice of behavior modification. These references belong in the behavior modification article, not here. To justify this articles notability it needs to have sources that explain or at least refer specifically to the articles subject (these so called facilities).

Thirdly, this article makes extensive use of wikipedia as a source, a practice that violates wiki policy. For example this paragraph should not be included in the article. It is synthesis.
 * "Often the practice of behavior modification in facilities comes into question (see recent interest in Judge Rotenberg Educational Center, Aspen Education Group and the World Wide Association of Specialty Programs and Schools). Often these types of restrictive issues are discussed as part of ethical and legal standards (see Professional practice of behavior analysis)."

The whole controversy section is a rehash of the same argument repeated here and here. This article seems to exist in order to support the controversy. The reason this article's controversy section exists is to criticize youth programs. Wikipedia is not a forum; the articles must be encyclopedic. An article strictly encyclopedic would merely include citable sources of opposing points of view that are pertinent to the subject (facilities for all age groups), not focus on a narrow definition of the subject (youth programs).

Finally, the article comes very close to meeting the standards of the deletion policy.

I will attempt to correct these and some of the POV issues after a reasonable amount of time has passed allowing the original authors to address them.

I ♥ ♪♫ (talk) 05:33, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

The wedding of the two titles is a historical accident created by the merging of two pages. It seems like the more this page tries to clean up the worse it becomes. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.21.3.7 (talk) 13:15, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

The Surgeon General report 1999 on mental health refers to these facilities as youth residental programs and argues thy are based on behavior modification- certainly the Teaching family Homes are- they even acknowledge this in their reference list as does the Judge Rottenberg Center. Judge Rottenberg sees children and adults though. They had an article in the last issue of the journal of Behavior Analysis of Offender and Victim: Treatment and Prevention at www.baojournal.com -something titled like 7 case studies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.21.3.7 (talk) 13:20, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

The behavior modification research listed is research that was all done in residental facilities. Indeed, the journal Behavioral Intervenion was previously titled Behavioral residental treatment or somethign to that effect. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.21.3.7 (talk) 13:23, 12 May 2010 (UTC)

I think that the largest problem is the orginal writers of the page wanted to look at "behavior modification facilties" that were boarding schools and were getting bad press in the 1990s because they were abusive. This was flawed logical because many good youth residental programs do exist and are funded for kids with no place to go. These types of programs are licensed by states (were the more controversal programs were often outside the U.S.) and thus were always required to have certain staffing patterns and restrictions on the use of things like restraint and seclusion. Devereux for example in Pa and Boytown in Kansas run a number of reputable residental programs- some of which are built on the idea of behavior modification. It seems to me that this page has a serious problem even behavior modification facilities that are theorectically the same with good supportive evidence look drastically different. For example, the Teaching Family Homes are a residental program for children and adults. These programs are based on behavior analysis and use behavior modification principles. They have great research supporting them as effective. The focus on the use of positive reinforcement in the form of a token system and "self governence" for participants where they make the rules. The worse punishment used is loss of points on the token system. Contrast with Judge Rottenberg Center that also works from a behavior analysis perspective and uses behavior modification principles. Judge Rottenberg is mostly a positive program but does not engage in the self governence practices and uses aversive stimulation in the form of water spray and electric shock. Both programs have research supporting them. Both are the same underlying theory. Both look radically different. Not just that some youth residental programs have different theorectical models. Indeed, the re-ed residental program (mentioned as effective in the above mentioned Surgeon General Report), which is often used in youth residental facilities and has a different underlying model uses a token system and daily goals, which makes it more like Teaching Family homes then Teaching Family looks like the Rottenberg Center. I think that this is the problem driving the page. Some what this page about individual treatment centers. Some want this page about the science of the techniques. Some want this page to focus on the ethical issues. In the end, we will find that each of these programs is quite unique. Some are really strong and some are really bad. I doubt any general statments about youth residental facilities can be made. It would be like trying to say "outpatient psychotherapy clinics- do they work." Three factors that probably add or subtract: (1) evidence based use of behavior modification procedures; (2) caringness and training level of staff, and (3) staffing patterns.

The best we may be able to do is to get a list from the government of highly rated and lowly rated residental programs and post to that list. What do others think?---Joe —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.92.124.65 (talk) 04:33, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

With over 650 in the U.S., of course some are good and some are horrible. This is the equivelent of writing about restruants. It seems that some poeple want to insist that it is better to eat at home and others want to insist that it is better to eat in restruant. It depends on how good the home cooking is and how good the restraunt cooking is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.142.154.235 (talk) 20:25, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

 * Thank you all for your comments. I will work on this article after more time has past. The following link is to a discussion of the activism engaged in by contributors to this article as well as many others on similar topics. Administrators%27_noticeboard/IncidentArchive208 I ♥ ♪♫ (talk) 16:50, 17 May 2010 (UTC)

I looked at this article a year or so ago. It seems to be worse now then back then. I think some-one should look over the 1999 U.S. Surgeon General report on what works in Mental Health and summarize some of that material (it is probably on line. I agree that with 650 service problems will vary greatly Jcautilli (talk) 19:23, 12 June 2010 (UTC)

I did a lot of work on this and hope that I have created more facts for the major points. Please feel free to look over what I have written. I think that the testimonal data should be removed but that is for all of the group to decide.Jcautilli (talk) 19:23, 12 June 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.92.4.43 (talk)

Consensus
Clearly, the consensus can be summed up by the statement: "I doubt any general statments about youth residental facilities can be made."

This article is basically an essay on the merits of institutions which engage in the use of behavior therapies. Behavior modification is one approach to behavior therapy based on the empirical nature of applied behavior analysis. The issue being raised in the article is whether operant conditioning in the sense of consequences is beneficial or harmful to the subject. The article demonstrates a misunderstanding of the principles of reinforcement, punishment, and extinction. The controversy is not about abusing the subjects as the two controversy sections would lead one to believe. Discussions of admission criteria and patient rights are not part of behavior modification, those are separate issues which could apply to any institution. The discussion is mute in as much as operant conditioning is a well defined treatment; this article only serves the purpose of facilitating POV content. The history of this article demonstrates that it originated as a criticism of these treatments. Over time it has developed into a collection of random facts mixed with POV. This article should merged into a criticism section in the behavior therapy article. I will create a redirect and do that in the near future. -- Cdw ♥'s ♪ ♫ ( talk  ) 04:59, 15 March 2012 (UTC)

Redundancy
This article has a section for "History and controversy" and another for "controversy". Shouldn't all of the controversy material be moved to one section? 65.60.220.248 (talk) 17:37, 30 December 2015 (UTC)

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The section "Some model programs" needs a lot of work. 2601:88:8001:C240:AA1B:9D2B:F2DA:1F73 (talk) 00:59, 28 March 2020 (UTC)

 * I propose we remove the section entirely. To be frank this article needs a major article. I already removed a part with no cited sources on my own. Colonizor48 (talk) 01:06, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

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Nicobar district

Nicobar district is one of three districts in the Indian union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The district's administrative territory encompasses all of the Nicobar Islands, which are located in the Indian Ocean, between the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. The headquarters of the district is the village of Malacca, located on the island of Car Nicobar.

The district administration is headed by a Deputy Commissioner, who in turn reports to the Lt. Governor of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

It is the fifth least populous district in the country (out of 640).

Etymology
Falling on the sea route between South India / Sri Lanka and South East Asia, the sailors referred to it as the “land of the naked” i.e. Nakkavar which is perhaps the direct precursor of the current name “Nicobar’. The medieval Arabic name ‘Lankhabatus’ is a mere mistranscription and misapprehension of “Nankakar or Nakkavar”.

History
The district was created on August 1, 1974, when it was separated from Andaman district.

Geography
Nicobar district occupies an area of 1648 km2, comparatively equivalent to Mauritius.

Demographics
According to the 2011 census Nicobar district has a population of 36,842, roughly equal to the nation of Liechtenstein. This gives it a ranking of 636th in India (out of a total of 640). The district has a population density of 20 PD/sqkm. Its population growth rate over the decade 2001-2011 was -12.48%. Nicobars	has a sex ratio of 	778	females for every 1000 males, and a literacy rate of 77.5%.

The district is designated as an Integrated Tribal District and is home to significant numbers of indigenous peoples (namely, the Nicobarese and the Shompen, classified as Scheduled Tribes according to the Constitution of India), who form the majority of the district's population. Because of its status as a tribal area, travel to the district is restricted to Indian nationals, and special permit restrictions apply.

The district was severely affected by the tsunami that was caused by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, which led to many deaths and damaged infrastructure.

Language
District Nicobarese, of the Austroasiatic language family is the most spoken language in Nicobar Islands. As of the 2011 census, Nicobarese is spoken as the first language by 65.98 percent of the district's population followed by Hindi (9.83%), Tamil (6.10%), Telugu (4.05%), Bengali (3.90%), Kurukh (3.31%), Malayalam (1.79%) and others.

Religion
Christianity is followed by the majority of the people in Nicobar district. Hinduism is followed by a considerable population.

Administrative divisions
As of 2016, The Nicobar district is divided into 3 sub-divisions and 8 taluks (tehsils).

 * Car Nicobar Subdivision (HQ: Malacca, Car Nicobar)
 * Car Nicobar taluk (HQ: Malacca in Car Nicobar)

 * Nancowry Subdivision (HQ: Malacca, Nancowry)
 * Nancowry taluk (HQ: Malacca in Nancowry)
 * Kamorta taluk (HQ: Kalatapu)
 * Teressa-Chowra taluk (HQ: Teressa)
 * Katchal taluk (HQ: Mildera)

 * Great Nicobar Subdivision (HQ: Campbell Bay)
 * Little Nicobar taluk (HQ: Pulloullo)
 * North Great Nicobar taluk (HQ: Afra Bay)
 * South Great Nicobar taluk (HQ: Campbell Bay)

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Talk:SMERSH

POV
''they would be arrested, and tortured by Smersh, forced to sign fake confessions, put on a show trial, and either sent to the camps or shot. Smersh would also often be sent out to find and kill defectors, double agents, etc.''

sounds POV. please justify, i am currently removing the lines --Nuttysocrates 07:21, 30 September 2005 (UTC) NuttySocrates

 * assassinations of nationalists Ukrainian nationalists, from UPA or UON 24.184.154.106 (talk) 13:56, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

''SMERSH agents infiltrated German-held territories, blowing up German rest facilities and assassinating commanders, knowing that the civilian population would suffer German reprisals. The civilian population would then become motivated to support and joined partisan groups, often run by SMERSH.''

Are there any evidence of this statement? It sounds very stupid - if population after SMERSH' raid 'suffers German reprisals' (which effectively meant mass executions or sending for forced labour to Germany) how could they join partisan groups after that? Please indicate credible sources showing that SMERSH clandestine operations in fact were meant to ignite German reprisals. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.99.73.7 (talk) 17:36, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

 * Since when ? Russian authorities cared about their own people military losses or otherwise ? 24.184.154.106 (talk) 13:54, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
 * 4th Directorate of the NKGB USSR under Pavel Sudoplatov was responsible for terror and diversion Behind Enemy Lines not GUKR SMERSH. 24.184.154.106 (talk) 14:06, 18 April 2024 (UTC)

I say Pavel Sudoplatov's NKGB 4th Directorate was responseble for that - sabotage behind enemy lines --MX 15:28, 17 February 2014 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by MX360 (talk • contribs)

scientology connection
It looks like L_Ron_Hubbard may have issued a memo ordering his Sea_org "to invade the territory of Smersh".

http://www.clambake.org/archive/so/19690326-in.gif

http://clambake.org/archive/so/index.html

Does this warrant a mention?

 * I believe that there should be a "Popular Culture" section in the article which covers L. Ron Hubbard's insane lunacy in regards SMERSH. There are very few people who actually know of Hubbard's beliefs in that respect which is something of a shame because it is one of the more amusing, classic ways in which a real entity can morph in to fantasy entertainment and then in to conspiracy culture.

 * Hubbard's April 3rd, 1969 lunatic screed as he was being investigated for espionage and financial crimes in Briton included 'The US health societies, groups, foundations and agencies are all members of SMERSH which is an English takeover of the work of Clifford Beers to bring protection to mental patients. In 1948 a group in England calling itself the "World Federation of Mental Health" incorporated in Delaware, USA and began the Fascist psychiatric trend behind the face of "humane mental health".'

 * That is classic morphizing of real to entertainment to conspiracy and I think it should be covered in a new segment on the Wiki entry under Popular Culture. Damotclese (talk) 18:02, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

 * I'll add that Ian Fleming died in 1964 and his novels were published from 1953 to 1966. Along came Hubbard who obviously read some of the novels and immediately labeled himself an expert in spies and espionage (as he always labeled himself an expert in everything else he ever read about) and he seized upon SMERSH as the powerful force that was working to stop him from committing domestic terrorism, treason, and financial crimes in Europe. Damotclese (talk) 18:07, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

RRRecords
SMERSH were also a fairly influential experimental band in the mid to late 80s. I would think that it deserves at least a mention. What say you fine folks? ;-)

 * That should also be added to a "Popular Culture" section. I suppose if nobody else creates one, I will. Damotclese (talk) 18:08, 6 April 2012 (UTC)

ascii art
lovely ascii art. this certainly is the encyclopedia built by slashdot. thank god none of you write real encyclopedias. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.137.223.153 (talk) 02:27, 17 December 2006 (UTC).

Armtog or Amtorg
The section "Activity overseas" mentions the commercial front organization "Armtorg". I am pretty sure that this is a mistake and that "Amtorg" is meant, and am changing it accordingly. Hi There 17:55, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

Louis Adamic
In the History section, the death of Louis Adamic is ascribed to the GRU but the WP Louis Adamic article claims his death as a suicide. This will need to be corrected or sourced, and if corrected, the entire structure of the paragraph needs to be reworked. Hi There 17:55, 16 July 2007 (UTC) $$Insert formula here$$

Badly needs overhaul
Lots of bold and unsupported claims with distinctly non-neutral favour.

 * Right. The article is completely unsourced.Biophys 03:02, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

 * Yeah, I really doubt if the SMERSH "captured thousands of Allied soldiers" and forced them to disappear. Seems like propaganda to me, but then again, I am not too familiar with the SMERSH. I suppose that a few Allied soldiers may have been captured, but thousands? Doubtful. - XX55XX 02:04, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Author's Note
In From Russia With Love, Ian Fleming said in an author's note that SMERSH still existed in 1956 and employed about 40,000 agents. Was he mistaken? Emperor001 13:21, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

 * He also said General Grubozaboyschikov was real and this entry says he wasn't.--Jack Upland (talk) 10:19, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Timeline? (Katyn discrepancy)
Among the several puzzling (ludicrous?) statements included in this topic, there is a glaring contraddiction in the timeline. At first it's claimed that this alleged Smersh have been formed in 1943, and then it's indicated as responsable of the Katyn Massacre (1940!!!). An awfully bad topic, faulty in both form and substance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.220.148.63 (talk) 08:26, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I noticed that too. I have changed the heading of this section to make it less cryptic. Man with two legs (talk) 12:24, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Parrish suggests that SMERSH could have been formed in late '42 or even earlier, but the date of 'official' creation was April 14th, '43 Borohachi (talk) 23:57, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

Phonetics

 * The name is phonetically similar to the Russian words "смерч" (smerch) for tornado and "смерть" (smert) for death.

So what?--Jack Upland (talk) 05:04, 9 July 2010 (UTC)

Organisation Chart
"Radio games"???--Jack Upland (talk) 00:48, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

 * "Radio games". 50.27.189.83 (talk) 00:32, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

Thanks, Vasiliyfinn!
Since you don't yet have a User talk page, I have to thank you here for the yeoman work you did to pull the history section of this article into intelligible shape. Молодец! Languagehat (talk) 20:41, 17 May 2011 (UTC)

Reorganisation of the State Police agency (World War II)
NKVD did no't - ran the secret police responsible for political repression anynore. for the simple reason, the body responsible for it the NKVD's 3rd Directorate (Secret Political – СПУ/SPU), has been moved to the re-created NKGB with the same name and responsibility's. Two People's Commissariat's responsible same task??

After 1943 changes, the NKVD was responsible more for the administrative and economic affairs, protection of military educational institutions and critical industrial enterprises, prisons, prisoners of war camps, state, police and fire stations, finances and forest industry. Forced labor camps known as (GUlag's). To meet these requirements NKVD troops were used: internal troops, border troops, railway troops, escort troops, troops for protection rear of the Red Army ect. And of course the Counterintelligence Directorate (UKR Smersh) to work witch it NKVD troops.

THIS IS A SIMPLE TO CHECK, IF YOU COMPARE THE NKVD ORGANIZATION AT BEGINNING OF THE 1943 WITH THE END OF 1943, AND LOOK AT NKGB ORGANIZATION. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MX360 (talk • contribs) 23:45, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

SMERSH tasks
Let's say 200 Soviet soldiers attack a German position. The attack fails and the Soviets retreat to their lines before the attack. Does the SMERSH (or its barrier troops) now have to open fire on their retreating troops. In the film "Enemy at the gates", the barrier troops do open fire on them and I was curious if this could actually happen. If possible, please add a source. Thank you Generalissimo Suvorov (talk) 11:05, 28 December 2015 (UTC)Suvorov
 * If you read the article Barrier troops, it says that they were to shoot those who retreat without command. - üser:Altenmann >t 16:35, 28 December 2015 (UTC)

Order No. 227
Check the link above Ataman (talk) 16:00, 16 June 2018 (UTC)

Opening Line
Intro has "SMERSH" designated as an acronym. This is semantically false, so I've changed this to "Russian portmanteau." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.209.209.131 (talk) 21:24, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

Error in page
I don't know how to correct this, but this article links to SNK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNK which is a Japanese video games company. I think instead the link should be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_People%27s_Commissars for the "Sovnarkom, also as generic SNK". This is the correct article for this context. 81.103.95.22 (talk) 21:47, 4 November 2021 (UTC)

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SMERSH in 2022
BBC has reported on the group under the name SMERSH (with clear reference to the current organisation) to be active in Russia as of 2022. However, the edits for some reasons were removed.Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20230213192148/https://twitter.com/BBCSteveR/status/1623939831091920897 Would it not make sense to have it here? Krispe13 (talk) 12:14, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

 * Some soldiers wearing the logo does not mean it exists again. Nor is it notable. Mellk (talk) 12:24, 21 March 2023 (UTC)

Censorship of SMERSH in 2023
Somebody has been deleting sections concerning Putin's reactivation of SMERSH, as confirmed by photos printed in Pravda. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.145.87.109 (talk) 22:19, 15 February 2024 (UTC)

please accept my apologies I deleted by mistake the big pershion of the article. Can anyone fix it. Please Ataman (talk) 18:01, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

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Talk:Gojūon

romanization
Wouldn't this be better with romanizations rather than (phonetic!) IPA? --Ptcamn 07:22, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Good idea, but what about having both IPA and romanization? I think they're both valid. I copied the table from the Japanese wikipedia, and it didn't have any romanization, just IPA, originally. --DannyWilde 07:31, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Collation and wo (ウォ)
How do you treat modern additions (for example ウォ, wo) in collation? -EnSamulili 21:18, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
 * Small kana are treated indifferently from large kana. ウォ would be sorted as うお. --Ptcamn 22:29, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

That isn't IPA. It's APA, which is IMO a lot less clear. It also presents an American bias to the information, and could disadvantage other English speakers. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.183.105.112 (talk) 21:10, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

Back in 2005 it was IPA. Now it is actually Romaji, the alphabet used to Japanese with roman characters. It was never APA, which has nothing to do with Japanese. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.105.202.102 (talk) 13:55, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

ordering of しゃ, しや, じゃ, じや
How are しゃ (sha), しや (shiya), じゃ (ja), and じや (jiya) supposed to be ordered? Is it しゃ (sha), しや (shiya), じゃ (ja), じや (jiya) or しゃ (sha), じゃ (ja), しや (shiya), じや (jiya)? --Unnecessary stuff (talk) 03:33, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

 * The entry order in Japanese dictionaries is しや,　じや (actually, there's no entry as there's no word starts with じや), しゃ, and じゃ. Oda Mari (talk) 05:18, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

 * Sure there are: 時夜, 地焼, 寺役, 地役人, じやくや, じやじや etc... Bendono (talk) 06:46, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

 * Funny, computer sorting is し, しゃ, しや, じ, じゃ, じや, while my dictionary sorting is し, じ, しゃ, しや, じゃ, じや.
 * {| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center;"

! sort !し !しゃ !しや !じ !じゃ !じや
 * }
 * ―― Phoenix7777 (talk) 21:02, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
 * ―― Phoenix7777 (talk) 21:02, 21 November 2009 (UTC)

 * Dictionary sorting seems nonscientific. As code assignment of Unicode and SJIS is developed under consideration of sorting, I think computer sorting should be used. ―― Phoenix7777 (talk) 03:43, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

 * Sorry. The order depends on dictionaries/publishers. My favorite 学研国語大辞典's order after 自問 is 視野/shiya, 者/sha, 車/sha and other kanji read as sha, then 時夜/jiya, 蛇/jya...じゃあ/jyā, ジャー/jyā, 邪悪/jyāku...But 広辞苑's order after シモン・ド・モンフォール is 写/sha, 社/sha...子夜/shiya, 視野/shiya, 邪/jya, 蛇/jya...時夜/jiya, しゃあ/shā, シャー/shā. There doesn't seem to be the right order. Oda Mari (talk) 10:05, 22 November 2009 (UTC)

yi/ye/wu
Japanese and Korean wikipedias seem to have filled in all the blanks for their tables - my Japanese isn't good enough to understand what is written in ja:ヤ行イ, ja:ヤ行エ and ja:わ行う. Wonder if it is appropriate for inclusion in English. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.148.148.216 (talk) 22:48, 20 May 2012 (UTC)

Yi and Ye are already available on the English Wikipedia under the Katakana article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.105.202.102 (talk) 13:52, 23 July 2012 (UTC)

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David Daiches

David Daiches (2 September 1912 – 15 July 2005) was a Scottish literary historian and literary critic, scholar and writer. He wrote extensively on English literature, Scottish literature and Scottish culture.

Early life
He was born in Sunderland, into a Jewish family with a Lithuanian background—the subject of his 1956 memoir, Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood. He moved to Edinburgh while still a young child, about the end of the First World War, where his father, Rev Dr Salis Daiches was rabbi to Edinburgh's Jewish community, and founder of the city's branch of B'nai Brith.

He studied at George Watson's College and won a scholarship to the University of Edinburgh where he won the Elliot prize. He went to Oxford where he became the Elton exhibitioner, and was elected Fellow of Balliol College in 1936.

Daiches is the father of Jenni Calder, also a Scottish literary historian. His brother was the prominent Edinburgh QC Lionel Henry Daiches. Although Lionel retained the older, traditional pronunciation of their surname as 'dyke-iz' /ˈdaɪ χ (or k) ɪz/, David returned from the US with the Americanized 'day-ches', /ˈdeɪ tʃɪz/. He also had a sister, Sylvia Daiches.

Career
During the Second World War, he worked for the British Embassy in Washington, DC, producing pamphlets for the British Information Services and drafting (and delivering) speeches on British institutions and foreign policy.

Daiches' first published work was The Place of Meaning in Poetry, published in 1935. He was a prolific writer, producing works on English literature, Scottish literature, literary history and criticism as well as the broader role of literature in society and culture. His The Novel and the Modern World (1939) was well received, and his expertise on the modern period led to his co-editing The Norton Anthology of English Literature (1962). He also wrote the two-volume A Critical History of English Literature and edited the Penguin Companion to Literature – Britain and the Commonwealth (1971). He wrote biographical and critical works on Virginia Woolf, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Burns, D. H. Lawrence, John Milton, and Sir Walter Scott. He also wrote two autobiographical volumes, books on Scotch whisky, the King James Bible, and the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, a biography of Bonnie Prince Charlie, and a volume of poetry.

Starting at the University of Edinburgh, he had a long and influential career teaching in the UK, the US and Canada. He taught or held visiting posts at Balliol College, the University of Chicago, Cornell University, Jesus College, Cambridge, Indiana University, the University of Minnesota, McMaster University in Canada, Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and the University of California; besides setting up the English Department at the newly founded University of Sussex. From 1979 to 1984 he was President of the Association for Scottish Literary Studies and from 1980 to 1986 he was Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Edinburgh University. Daiches chaired the panel of judges for the Booker Prize in 1980 and was president of the Saltire Society from 1982 to 1986. He was appointed CBE in the 1991 Birthday Honours.

List of published works

 * The Place of Meaning in Poetry (1935)
 * New Literary Values; Studies in Modern Literature (1936)
 * Literature and Society (1938)
 * Poetry and the Modern World: A Study of Poetry in England Between 1900 and 1939 (1940)
 * Virginia Woolf (1942)
 * Robert Louis Stevenson (1947)
 * A Study of Literature (For Readers and Critics) (1948)
 * Robert Burns (1950)
 * Stevenson and the Art of Fiction (1951)
 * A Century of the Essay: British and American (1951)
 * Willa Cather – A Critical Introduction (1951)
 * Two Worlds : An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood (1956) (memoirs)
 * Literary Essays (1956)
 * Critical Approaches to Literature (1956)
 * The Present Age in British Literature (After 1920) (1958)
 * Two Studies: The Poetry of Dylan Thomas, Walt Whitman: Impressionist Prophet (1958)
 * Robert Louis Stevenson – a Laurel Reader (1959) editor
 * A Critical History of English Literature (1960) two volumes
 * The Novel and the Modern World (1960)
 * White Man in the Tropics: Two Moral Tales (1962)
 * D. H. Lawrence (1963)
 * George Eliot: Middlemarch (1963)
 * English Literature (1964)
 * Milton (1964)
 * The Idea of a New University. An Experiment in Sussex (1964) editor
 * The Paradox of Scottish Culture: The Eighteenth Century Experience (1964)
 * More Literary Essays (1968)
 * The King James Version of the English Bible (1968)
 * Scotch Whisky: Its Past and Present (1969)
 * Some Late Victorian Attitudes (1969) Ewing Lectures
 * A Third World (1971) (memoirs)
 * Penguin Companion to Literature – Britain and the Commonwealth (1971) editor
 * Sir Walter Scott and His World (1971)
 * Robert Burns and His World (1972)
 * Literature and Western Civilization (1972–76) editor with Anthony Thorlby, six volumes
 * Robert Louis Stevenson and His World (1973)
 * Bonnie Prince Charlie: The Life and Times of Charles Edward Stuart (1973)
 * Moses: Man in the Wilderness (1975) Moses: The Man and the Vision in the US
 * Was: A Pastime from Time Past (1975)
 * James Boswell and His World (1976)
 * Shakespeare: Julius Caesar (1976)
 * Glasgow (1977)
 * Scotland and the Union (1977)
 * Edinburgh (1978)
 * The Butterfly and the Cross (1978)
 * The Selected Poems of Robert Burns (1979)
 * Andrew Fletcher of Saltoun. Selected Political Writings and Speeches (1979) editor
 * Literary Landscapes of the British Isles. A Narrative Atlas (1979) with John Flower
 * A Companion to Scottish Culture (1981)
 * The Avenel Companion to English and American Literature (1981) editor
 * Literature and Gentility in Scotland (1982)
 * God and the Poets (1984) Gifford Lectures (1983)
 * A Hotbed of Genius: The Scottish Enlightenment, 1730–1790 (1986) editor with Jean Jones and Peter Jones
 * Let's Collect Scotch Whisky (Jarrold Collectors Series) (1988)
 * A Wee Dram: Drinking Scenes from Scottish Literature (1990)
 * A Weekly Scotsman and Other Poems (1994)

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Featured Pic nomination
Hi Felix Dance, and thanks for making a contribution to WP:FPC

I've removed your new pic because you put it in the wrong place and it wouldn't have been voted on, although I can see you were following the instructions nearly exactly! What you need to do is to create a new page to hold your new nomination: and to do that you should create a red link somewhere to the new page, click on it and edit. Don't just add a new heading to an existing sub-page.

For your nomination, you can click here if you want to create the page: Featured picture candidates/Melbourne Royal Botanical Gardens. Once you've done that, you paste the template stuff like you did before into the edit box, and you should have no trouble following the rest of the instructions.

One minor note: the image you nominated has just been tagged as a possible copyright violation, because the person who uploaded it didn't say where he/she got it from. The person who has tagged it has left a message asking them to explain, so they will probably do so and it'll likely be OK once they have, but if I were you I'd wait until the copyvio warning message has been removed from the page before re-nominating it. Images with copyvio notices on them don't tend to get votes.

I hope the above is useful! Any questions, give me a shout on my talk page. Thanks again for contributing :-)

 * ~ Veledan • Talk + new 22:03, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Welcome
Hey, WP:WELCOME to Wikipedia! I noticed you created Melbourne tram route 55 from scratch - nice job!

If you haven't already, you mght like to check out the Australian Wikipedians' notice board. Also check out WikiProject Melbourne - it looks like you've been working on it without even knowing it existed! ;)

Also, you might want to add Category:Wikipedians in Victoria to your userpage. And hey, there's even going to be a meetup on Tuesday (the 29th); I'm sure you'd be totally more than welcome to come.

Anyway, just wanted to say "nice editing". If you want to ask me a question or leave any comments you can do so on my Talk page. cheers! pfctdayelise 02:45, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

 * Wikipedia, obsessive? Say it ain't so! ;)

 * I was just having a look at a few of your edits. Some lovely images you've uploaded! :) I noticed you also created Melbourne University Classics and Archaeology Students' Society and Melbourne University Mountaineering Club. I think now would be a good time to have a closer read of some of Wikipedia's policies. For example Manual of style and Guide to writing better articles. They will both give you advice about how pages are commonly formatted (for example, the first sentence typically has the subject in bold; also, it's best if articles are put into categories and/or marked with stub notices). I'm not going to give you any advice on images because it seems like you've got it all sussed! :)

 * I strongly suggest you read through some of the articles in Category:Wikipedia notability criteria. I don't want you to get an unpleasant shock when you find someone has placed an article you started on Articles for Deletion (AfD) because it's "unencyclopaedic" or "non-notable". Whether you agree with the criterion or not, the fact is articles are regularly deleted for not demonstrating their importance, ie. their worthiness to have their own article. If MUMC has really been around since 1945 (!) there is a good chance it would survive an AfD, but I have to say that I don't think MUCASS would.

 * OK here are a couple of final useful links:
 * Simplified ruleset
 * When dealing with others, always keep your Civility and Assume good faith.
 * Category:Wikipedia how-to has some interesting reads...

 * Happy editing! pfctdayelise 12:28, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

Sassanids
Hi and welcome. I saw your article Roman relations with the Parthians and Sassanians, its great but a bit incomplete. The thing is I featured your article in Sassanid dynasty main article as a see also internal link, could you expand it regarding to Roman and Byzantine relations with Sassanids ? Amir85 1:11, 4 December 2005 (UTC)

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Tassie project/Frankland Range
Please note it is asleep most of the time (the project) - but have a look at another tassie art to see what you need to put at the back/on the talk/discussion page to make it a worth member of the Tas and OZ project - also when you start a new art: -
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:New_articles_(Australia) is worth making an entry

If you have mutiple piccies- and not already in - well worth checking
 * http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

cheers (i am on wikibreak otherwise id leave a lot more here) SatuSuro 06:07, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

if you look on the mountains geography category trees on the main pages of the projects you will see one is enough - usually the child is enough - ie mountains. The general standard of tassie mountains and range articles are very poor by general wp standards - most central highlands arts do not have WP:RS and read like climbers mental notes rather than encyc arts ( I was in tassie a few days ago and now have the relevant texts so dont worry) - south west tas arts are short of everything. chapman ref is inadequate as it stands ill get it up to what it should be - vip - when you do all those red links are you really gonna do the arts? better leave em as a list rather than links. i am trying very hard not to break my wikibreak, its getting v hard when i see a mess elsewhere ... SatuSuro 10:22, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Melbourne meetup
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Meetup invitation: Melbourne 26
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Salair Ridge

Salair Ridge (pronounced sah-lah-EER; Салаирский кряж. Salairsky Kryazh ) is an eroded plateau-type highland of low elevation in the Southwestern Siberia, Russia, particularly in Altai Krai, Kemerovo and Novosibirsk Oblast. It is a natural continuation of Altai Mountains and separates the Kuznetsk Depression from the Ob River Plain to the southwest. Its main ridge is nearly parallel to that of Kuznetsk Alatau. The ridge is some 300 kilometres in length and 15-40 kilometres wide.

The mountains are rich in complex ores. The highest peak is Kivda (Кивда), at 621 meters.

Major rivers include the Berd', Suenga River, and Chumysh River.

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Summary
Cover of Ni Putes Ni Soumises

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Untitled
Is this what you want?...or something Slavic? --Dpr 07:31, 30 September 2005 (UTC)

Title
Do we need this strange character in the title? It renders strangely in my browser and in Croatian we rarely write it in full uppercase. You won't encounter LJerka or LJiljan, but Ljerka and Ljiljan. Admiral Norton (talk) 17:49, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
 * MSIE 7 and Google Chrome fail completely, Firefox 3 renders it fine in the URL bar but not in the page title. Writing "LJ" in full uppercase is also ortographically incorrect (at least in Croatian), except when writing in all caps. It would maybe be worthwhile if it would provide for correct sorting in categories, but currently it doesn't. GregorB (talk) 15:19, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I moved it. Admiral Norton (talk) 15:52, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

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Zachery Ty Bryan

Zachery Tyler Bryan (born October 9, 1981) is an American actor and film producer. He is best known for his role as Brad Taylor on the ABC sitcom Home Improvement. He also appeared in the films True Heart and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.

Early life
Bryan was born in Aurora, Colorado, to Jenny and Dwight Bryan.

Career
Before he starred in Home Improvement, he appeared in local print and television advertising in Denver. He then appeared at a showcase in New York City, directed by Peter Seidman, where he was seen by a professional talent representative. This, and his interest in acting soon brought him to California, where he was cast in the role of Brad, the oldest Taylor child, in the show Home Improvement. His character was known for experimenting with different hair styles as well as being the child most often in trouble. He is one month younger than Jonathan Taylor Thomas, who played his younger brother Randy on the show.

In the middle of Home Improvement Bryan made an appearance as Steve on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air in 1995. After Home Improvement ended, Bryan made brief appearances in many other television shows including (2002) Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Peter Nicols, (2005) Veronica Mars as Caz Truman, and (2006) Shark as Scott Natterson, as well as a guest appearance on an episode of Reading Rainbow. Additionally, he made a cameo appearance on MTV's I Bet You Will in which he portrayed himself and competed in a challenge where he wrestled female convicted felons. In 2001, he portrayed an ice hockey player in an episode of Touched by an Angel. He also appeared on Smallville in 2003 where he played Eric Marsh, a high school baseball player using steroids made from meteor rock. He was the second Home Improvement alum to make a guest appearance on the show after Jonathan Taylor Thomas. In 2005, Bryan appeared as Bryan Nolan in ESPN's TV movie Code Breakers. Bryan also guest starred in Cold Case (as the young murderer in the flashback scenes) and in 2008 as a young man hiring a hitman to kill his stepmother on the show Burn Notice.

Bryan's film roles include the school bully in the 1996 Sinbad comedy First Kid. He starred in the 1995 movie Magic Island as Jack Carlisle, and the 1998 TV movie The Principal Takes A Holiday. He also starred as Eric in 1999's The Rage: Carrie 2. Later, he played defender Harry Keough alongside Gerard Butler in the 2005 movie The Game of Their Lives otherwise known as The Miracle Match about the 1950 US upset at the World Cup. In 2006, he played as a villain named Clay in The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, then in the 2009 TV mini-series Meteor, which aired on NBC. He also played Thor in the made-for-TV Syfy channel film Thor: Hammer of the Gods. The film originally aired on November 29, 2009.

In 2022, he was cast in a small role in The Guardians of Justice.

Personal life
Bryan's cousin is former NFL quarterback Brady Quinn.

In 2007, he married Carly Matros, whom he met while attending La Cañada High School. They have twin girls born in 2014, a third daughter born in 2016, and a son born in 2019. Bryan and Matros divorced in September 2020 after 13 years of marriage.

On November 17, 2021, Bryan announced his engagement to model Johnnie Faye. Bryan and Faye had a daughter in 2021. In early November 2022, Bryan and Faye announced they were expecting twins. They will be Bryan’s sixth and seventh children, and his second set of twins.

Legal issues
In October 2020, Bryan was held on several charges including felony strangulation, misdemeanor charges of fourth-degree assault and interfering with making a police report, after an apparent argument with his girlfriend in their apartment in Lane County, Oregon. In February 2021, Bryan pled guilty to two of the charges, while six others were dismissed. He was sentenced to three years of bench probation and ordered to partake in a batterer intervention program and to have no contact with the victim.

In June 2023, The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Bryan was accused of running a fraudulent agriculture-technology startup scheme. Four sources told the publication that the scheme involved them giving Bryan individual payment amounts ranging from $5,000 to $25,000 in exchange for fake contracts which actually had no value. The amount of money Bryan earned from the scheme is said to have totaled close to $50,000.

On July 28, 2023, Bryan was arrested for domestic assault again in Eugene, Oregon.

Also in 2023, the Superior Court of Los Angeles ordered Bryan and his production company, Lost Lane, to pay $108,940.57 to an investor, after being judged guilty of scamming money for a film featuring Thomas Jane, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and Alex Pettyfer.

On the morning of February 17, 2024, Bryan was arrested for alleged DUI after a traffic collision in La Quinta, California. Bryan was charged with both a misdemeanor "contempt of court" and a felony for operating a vehicle while under the influence of drugs or alcohol. This would be his fourth DUI charge. On March 27, 2024, it was revealed that Bryan had also received an additional felony charge related to driving under the influence after having three or more DUI convictions in the last 10 years.

Wins

 * 1994 – Young Artist Awards for Outstanding Youth Ensemble in a Television Series (Home Improvement) **Shared with Taran Noah Smith and Jonathan Taylor Thomas**
 * 1999 – Young Artist Awards for Best Performance in a TV Drama or Comedy Series – Leading Young Actor (Home Improvement)
 * 1999 – YoungStar Awards for Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Comedy TV Series (Home Improvement)

Nominations

 * 1993 – Young Artist Awards for Best Young Actor Starring in a Television Series (Home Improvement)
 * 1998 – YoungStar Awards for Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Miniseries/Made-for-TV Movie (Principal Takes a Holiday)

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Thomas Ruff

Thomas Ruff (born 10 February 1958) is a German photographer who lives and works in Düsseldorf, Germany. He has been described as "a master of edited and reimagined images".

Ruff shares a studio on Düsseldorf's Hansaallee, with fellow German photographers Laurenz Berges, Andreas Gursky and Axel Hütte. The studio, a former municipal electricity station, includes a basement gallery.

Early life and education
One of six children, Thomas Ruff was born in 1958 in Zell am Harmersbach in the Black Forest, Germany. In his youth, he was fascinated with Aldous Huxley's theories which inspired his photographs. In the summer of 1974, Ruff acquired his first camera. After attending an evening class in basic photography techniques, he started experimenting, taking shots similar to those he had seen in many amateur photography magazines.

During his studies in Düsseldorf and inspired by the lectures of Benjamin HD Buchloh, Ruff developed his method of conceptual serial photography. Ruff began photographing landscapes, but while still a student, he transitioned to the interiors of German living quarters, with typical features of the 1950s to 1970s. This was followed by similar views of buildings and portraits of friends and acquaintances from the Düsseldorf art and music scene, initially in small formats.

Ruff studied photography from 1977 to 1985 with Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf Art Academy), where fellow students included the photographers Andreas Gursky, Candida Höfer, Thomas Struth, Angelika Wengler, and Petra Wunderlich. In 1982, he spent six months at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. In 1993, he was a scholar at Villa Massimo in Rome.

Work
Ruff commented on his influences: "My teacher Bernd Becher, showed us photographs by Stephen Shore, Joel Meyerowitz, and the new American colour photographers." He is often compared with other members of a prominent generation of European photographers that, includes Thomas Struth, Andreas Gursky, and Rineke Dijkstra. From 2000 to 2005, Ruff taught Photography at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf.

Portraits
In his studio between 1981 and 1985, Ruff photographed 60 half-length portraits in the same manner: Passport-like images, with the upper edge of the photographs situated just above the hair, even lighting, the subject between 25 and 35 years old, taken with a 9 × 12 cm negative and, because of the use of a flash, without any motion blur. The early portraits were black-and-white and small, but Ruff soon switched to color, using solid backgrounds in different colors; from a stack of colored card stock the sitter could choose one color, which then served as the background. The resulting Portraits depict the individual persons – often Ruff's fellow students – framed as in a passport photo, typically shown with emotionless expressions, sometimes face-on, sometimes in profile, and in front of a plain background. Ruff began to experiment with large-format printing in 1986, ultimately producing photographs up to seven by five feet in size (210 × 165 cm). By 1987 Ruff had distilled the project in several ways, settling on an almost exclusive use of the full frontal view and enlarging the finished work to monumental proportions. Art critic Charles Hagen, writing for The New York Times, commented: "Blown up to wall-size proportions, the photographs looked like gigantic banners of Eastern European dictators."

Because he found the effect of the colors too dominant in these, Ruff chose a light and neutral background for the portraits he made between 1986 and 1991. In a discussion with Philip Pocock, Ruff mentions a connection between his portraits and the police observation methods in Germany in the 1970s during the German Autumn. Indeed, while experimenting with composite faces in 1992, Ruff came across the Minolta Montage Unit, a picture generating machine, used by the German police in the 1970s to generate composite portraits. Through a combination of mirrors, four portraits, fed into the machine, produce one composite picture. Ruff started out reconstructing faces but soon found it more interesting to construct artificial faces, which often combine features of men and women, that do not, but could conceivably, exist in reality; this resulted in his Anderes Porträt series (1994–1995).

Ruff intended that large groups of the approximately eight-by-ten-inch color portraits would be hung together, so to add variety he photographed each person against a colored backdrop.

Häuser
The series Häuser was created between 1987 and 1991. Ruff's building portraits are likewise serial, and have been edited digitally to remove obstructing details – a typifying method, which gives the images an exemplary character. Of these Ruff notes, "This type of building represents more or less the ideology and economy in the West German republic in the past thirty years." Architects Herzog & de Meuron soon became aware of this form of architecture photography and invited Ruff to participate in their entry for the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 1991 with a photograph of their building for Ricola.

In 1999, Ruff made a series of digitally altered photographs of modernist architecture by Mies van der Rohe. The series l.m.v.d.r. – the initials of the architect – began as a commission offered to Ruff in 1999–2000 in connection with the renovation of Haus Lange and Haus Esters in Krefeld, Germany. Having worked with architectural subject matter since the mid-1980s, Ruff was enlisted to photograph the Krefeld buildings as well as the Barcelona Pavilion and the Villa Tugendhat in Brno.

Sterne, Nacht and Zeitungsfotos
These first series were followed in 1989 by images of the night sky, Sterne, which were not based on photographs by Ruff, but rather on archived images ('Catalogue of the Southern Sky', including 600 negatives) he had acquired of the European Southern Observatory in the Andes in Chile. These photographs of the stars, taken with a specially designed telescopic lens, are described and catalogued with the precise time of day and exact geographic position. Ruff selected specific details from these photographs, which he enlarged to a uniform grand scale. From 1992 to 1995, during the first Gulf War, Ruff produced his Nacht series (1992–1996), night images of exteriors and buildings using the same night vision infrared technology developed for use, both military and in broadcast television, during the Gulf War. From 1994 to 1996, these were followed by Stereoscopy images, and another series in the 1990s, Zeitungsfotos, consisted of newspaper clippings enlarged without their original subtitles.

Nudes
In 2003, Ruff published a photographic collection of "Nudes" with a text by the French author Michel Houellebecq. Ruff's images here are based on Internet pornography, which was digitally processed and obscured without any camera or traditional photographic device. In 2009, Aperture Foundation published JPEGs, a large-scale book dedicated exclusively to his monumental series of pixilated enlargements of internet-culled images in the compressed JPEG format.

His Substrat series (2002–2003), based on images from Japanese manga and anime cartoons, continued this exploration of digitally altered Web-based pictures. However, he alters and manipulates the source material such that the work becomes an abstraction of forms and colors with no visual memory of the original source material. On 7 February 2011, one of his Nudes pictures appeared on the cover of New York Magazine.

Zycles, Cassini, and ma.r.s.
The artist's series Zycles and Cassini draw from scientific sources. Zycles are based on 3D renderings of mathematical curves that were inspired by Ruff's encounter with copperplate engravings found in 19th-century books on electromagnetism. Ruff translated these images via a 3D computer-modeling program, but instead of his usual flattening, he gave volume to 2D. The results are large inkjet prints on canvas of colored lines and swirls. The Cassini works are based on photographic captures of Saturn taken by NASA. Ruff has transformed the raw black and white prints with interjections of saturated color. In the ma.r.s. series, also sourced from the NASA website, Ruff has transformed the raw black and white fragmentary representations of the planet Mars with interjections of saturated color. He also digitally changed the perspective. In addition to the large C-prints, he has experimented for the first time with 3D image-making.

Photograms
With Photograms, Ruff engages with the photogram, the cameraless technique advanced by Man Ray, László Moholy-Nagy, and others in the early twentieth century. The photograms series depict abstract shapes, lines, and spirals in seemingly random formations with varying degrees of transparency and illumination. The objects and the light in Ruff's Photograms derive from a virtual darkroom built by a custom-made software program.

press++
Exhibited for the first time at Sprüth Magers's Berlin gallery in 2017, the press++ series is based on images that have been published in American newspapers and magazines from the 1920s to 1970s and that Ruff found on eBay. To produce these works, Ruff scans the front and back of each photograph and combines them digitally, considering the original image and crops, touch-ups, date stamps, scribbles, and smudges.

After a number of collaborations with Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, the firm designed a studio building for Ruff and Gursky in Düsseldorf.

d.o.pe
First exhibited at David Zwirner's 533 West 19th Street location in New York, the d.o.pe series takes its title from Aldous Huxley's autobiographical work The Doors of Perception, which explores the author's experience using mescaline. For this series, Ruff prints fractal patterns created with a specialized software program onto industrial carpets, extending the artist's interest in the limits of human perception and the creation of digital imagery that is at once natural and artificial. The works reference artists such as Hieronymus Bosch and Matthias Grünewald and Ruff's own formative adolescent experiences in the Black Forest.

Art market
The highest price reached by one of his photographs was when  Jpeg pt01 sold for £197,000 ($239,990) at Christie's London, on 8 March 2017.

Publications

 * 1979 to the Present. Distributed Art Publishers, 2003. Edited by Matthias Winzen. ISBN 978-1-891024-72-6. With essays by Ute Eskildsen, Valeria Liebermann and Per Boym. A retrospective.
 * Machines. Hatje Cantz, 2004. ISBN 978-3-7757-1423-5. With essays by Caroline Flosdorff and Michael Stüber.
 * M.D.P.N. Milan: Charta, 2006. Edited by Fabrizio Tramontano. ISBN 978-88-8158-558-8. With essays in English and Italian by Giovanni Leoni, Giancarlo Cosenza and Luigi Cosenza and an introduction by Giancarlo Cosenza.
 * Thomas Ruff. Skira, 2009. ISBN 978-88-6130-297-6. A retrospective.
 * JPEGs. New York: Aperture, 2009. ISBN 978-1-59711-093-8. With an essay by Bennet Simpson.
 * Surfaces, Depths. Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2009. Edited by Gerald Matt. ISBN 978-3-941185-50-0. With texts by Catherine Hug, Douglas Fogle, Kurt W. Forster, and Gerald Matt, and an interview by Matt with Ruff.
 * Schwarzwald Landschaft. Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2010. ISBN 978-3-941185-51-7. Text by Jochen Ludwig and Christiane Grathwohl-Scheffel.
 * Stellar Landscapes. Heidelberg, Germany: Kehrer, 2012. ISBN 978-3-86828-261-0.
 * Works 1979–2011. Munich: Schirmer/Mosel, 2012. ISBN 978-3-8296-0585-4. With texts by Okwui Enwezor, Thomas Weski, and Valeria Liebermann. Exhibition catalogue.
 * Sterne. London: Morel Books, 2013. ISBN 978-1-907071-27-0. Edition of 1000 copies.
 * Series. La Fábrica, 2014. ISBN 978-84-15691-45-7. Text by José Manuel Costa and an interview by Valeria Liebermann with Ruff.
 * Photograms and Negatives. New York: Rizzoli International, 2015. ISBN 978-0-8478-4568-2. Exhibition catalogue.
 * Editions 1988–2014. Hatje Cantz, 2015. Edited by Jörg Schellmann. ISBN 978-3-7757-3859-0. With an introduction by Thomas Weski.

Film about Ruff

 * – 50-minute documentary by Ralph Goertz. In German with English subtitles.

Collections
Ruff's work is held in the following permanent public collection:
 * Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City: 5 prints (as of December 2020)
 * Tate, UK: 5 prints (as of December 2020)

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Mirabi (music)

Mirabi is a musical art form that was developed in South Africa in the middle 1950s.

History
It is often characterized as music indigenous of the South African region mixed with American big band jazz. Mirabi music is often thought to have been created as a social protest against South Africa's Apartheid. Mirabi was just one part of black South African culture that created conflict between Apartheid officials and the black community. A good example of this sentiment can be seen in a song called "Sip n' Fly". Written by musician Ntemi Piliso, considered one of several founders of Mirabi, the song is a humorous song that talks about how to sneak alcohol past the Apartheid police.

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Pomeroon River

The Pomeroon River (also Río Pomerón or Pomaron ) is located in Guyana, South America, situated between the Orinoco and the Essequibo rivers. The area has long been inhabited by Lokono people. The Pomeroon River is also one of the deepest rivers in Guyana.

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History
According to the London Encyclopaedia of 1829, this river was once regarded as the western boundary between the Demerara and Essequibo Colony and Spanish Guiana.

Use
Coconuts are a major agricultural product in the Pomeroon area, grown for their water and copra.

Tapakuma is a tributary of the Pomeroon River that was developed into a water conservancy which greatly improved cultivation of rice.

Settlement
Shell mounds associated with early human burials dated to the pre-ceramic Alaka phase have been unearthed in the area.

In 1581, the Dutch founded a colony on the banks of the river. The settlement was destroyed by Arawak People in alliance with Spaniards in 1596. In 1658, lured by the Dutch advertisement to colonize the Essequibo, a Jewish colony settled within the Dutch lands on the Pomeroon. Their plantations were destroyed when the British of Barbados invaded in 1665 and most moved on to Suriname.

An Anglican mission was established in 1840 by W. H. Brett. In Brett's travelogue, the eastern bank of the mouth of the Pomeroon was called Cape Nassau, and the river's source was in the Imataka Mountains. The largest tributary was the Arapaiaco River, located 43 miles from the sea. Bouruma was another name for the river. He observed various Amerindian tribes settled along the river, including Warao and Arawak, as well as former plantation slaves.

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TriBBS

TriBBS is a computer bulletin board system (BBS) designed for MS-DOS-based computers.

History
TriBBS was written by Mark Goodwin and marketed through his company, TriSoft. TriBBS was written in C++ and assembly language. TriBBS development was guided primarily by the requests and suggestions of the SysOps who used the program. As a result, the TriBBS Application Program Interface was added by Goodwin to aid other software developers in making third party software operate seamlessly with TriBBS.

In 1997, TriBBS was sold to Gary Price of Freejack's Software, who had previously developed a collection of add-ons and tools for use with TriBBS. Apart from a handful of small feature additions, the most significant contribution Price made was making TriBBS Y2K-compliant.

In 2000, TriBBS was sold again, this time to Frank Prue of PTC Software. Shortly after the acquisition, PTC Software announced via the alt.bbs.tribbs newsgroup that they intended to release a 32-bit version of TriBBS. It has never been released.

Current status
The latest version of TriBBS v11.6 was released 23 March 2002.

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Damel

Damel was the title of the ruler (or king) of the Wolof kingdom of Cayor in what is now northwest Senegal, West Africa.

The most well-known damel is probably Lat Dior Diop (1842–1886) who was killed by the French after decades of resisting their encroachment on Wolof territory. Lat Dior is a Senegalese national hero.

The 30th and last Damel of Cayor, Samba Laobé Fall, was killed by the leader of a French delegation, Captain Spitzer, at Tivaouane, Senegal.

Role
Among the social classes of Cayor, the Damel stood on the top of the hierarchy. The Damel were traditionally seen as great magicians and it was through female relatives that royal blood was transmitted. Every descendant of a Damel in the materal line became a garmi or noble.

History
The Damel began as the Great Lamane of Cayor, traditionally elected by the other Lamanes from the Fall family of Palene Ded, who claimed descend from Ousmane Boune Afal, a companion of Mohammed, by means of Wagadou. Lat Jor was the only Damel elected who was not part of the Fall paternal line.

The term "Damel" may derive from "breaker", coming from the Wolof verb "damma" meaning "to break," referring to the breaking of their vassalage to the Jolof Empire at the 1549 battle of Danki. Alvise Cadamosto, however, recorded the use of the title "Damel" for the ruler of Cayor much earlier, in the 1450s.

List of damel
The following are the damel of Cayor, in order

 * 1549,                          Dece Fu Njogu
 * 1549–1593,               Amary Ngone Sobel Fall
 * 1593–1600                Massamba Tako
 * 1697–1719,               Lat Sukabe
 * 1719–1748,               Isa-Tende
 * 1748–1749,               Maissa Bigué Ngoné Fall (1st term)
 * 1749–1757,               Ma-Bathio Samb
 * 1757–1758,               Birima Kodu
 * 1758–1759,               Maissa Bigué Ngoné Fall (2nd term)

 * 1759–1760,               Birima Yamb
 * 1760–1763,               Isa Bige Nagone
 * 1763–1766,               Jor Yasin Isa
 * 1766–1777,               Kodu Kumba
 * 1777–1790,               Birima Fatim-Penda
 * 1790–1809,               Amari Ngone Ndèla Kumba Fal
 * 1809–1832,               Biram Fatma Cub Fal
 * 1832–1855,               Maysa Tènde Jor Samba Fal
 * 1855–1860,               Birima Ngone Latir Fal             (d. 1860)
 * 1860–1861,               Ma-Kodu Kumba Yande Fal
 * 1861 May – 1861 Dec 8,    Ma-Jojo Jegeñ Kodu Fal (1st term)
 * 1862 – 1864 Jan,           Lat Jor Ngone Latir Jop (1st term) (b. c.1842, d. 1886)
 * 1864 Jan – 1868,           Ma-Jojo Jegeñ Kodu Fal (2nd term)
 * 1871 Feb 12 – 1882,        Lat Jor Ngone Latir Jop (2nd term) (s.a.)
 * 1883 Jan – 1883 Aug 28,    Amari Ngone Fal
 * 1883 Aug 28 – 1886 Oct 6,  Samba Laobe Fal

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Kostas Roukounas

Konstantinos (Kostas) Roukounas (Κώστας Ρούκουνας) (Principality of Samos, 1903 – Athens, 11 March 1984) was a Greek singer. His repertoire included both "traditional" (δημοτικά) and "popular" songs (λαϊκά). Most notable is his contribution to the genre of rebetiko (ρεμπέτικο). Roukounas is generally known as a singer, however he was also a songwriter.

Life
Roukounas came from a poor family and thus had to start working from the age of eight, initially at a cigarette manufacturing business and later as a carpenter. He began his artistic career in the mid-1920s as a singer at a taverna. Young Roukounas soon became famous among his fellow islanders of Samos for his fine voice, specialising in Smyrneika (songs originating from the nearby coast of Asia Minor). Shortly thereafter he moved to Athens (in 1927 or 1928). There he sang professionally on various festive occasions until he was discovered by Panagiotis Toundas, a leading composer and recording industry executive. Tountas got Roukounas to make his first recordings on 78 rpm records. With his versatile voice he excelled in virtually all subgenres of traditional and rembetic music. Deserving particular mention are his renditions of the most demanding technically and semi-improvisational manedes. Roukounas collaborated with many composers throughout his long career, particularly Panagiotis Tountas, Spyros Peristeris, Kostas Skarvelis, and Grigoris Asikis.

He married the singer Anna Pagana who died of a heart attack in 1943. Roukounas married his second wife, lyricist Alexandra Kyriazi, in 1948. They lived together in a suburb of Athens until his death in 1984.

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Agartala Municipal Corporation

The Agartala Municipal Corporation or AMC is the municipal body which governs and maintains the city of Agartala, the capital of the Indian state of Tripura and is the Third-largest develop city after Imphal and Guwahati metropolitan in North-east India. Formed in the year 1871 the oldest municipal body in Northeast India, AMC had a vital role in developing & modernizing the state and managing in its various activities. This civic administrative body administers an area of 76.5 km2. AMC is headed by Dipak Majumder the present Mayor of Agartala.

Objective
The Municipal Corporation consists of councillors elected by the residents of the city. The city is divided into municipal wards and each ward elects a councillor to the Council.

The current majority of AMC belongs to the BJP.

The municipal area was 16.012 km2 with a population of 1,89,329 at the 2001 census. The Urban Development Department Notification No.F.2(2)–UDD /2003 dated 2 July 2004 the Agartala Municipal Council has further been extended taking 16 No. of Grams of Dukli R.D.Block, 7 No. of Grams of Mohanpur R.D. Block and 2 No. of Grams of Jirania R.D. Block with an area of 42.83 square kilometers and a population of 178,495. The present municipal building is located near the City center of Agartala location namely Paradise Chowhamani.

An estimated value of the population of Agartala in each decades as shown here from 1961 along with its size in area.

Election
Date: 25 November 2021

Result: 28 November 2021

Total Seats : 51

Winning Party : BJP with 51 seats.

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