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Aziz Yıldırım

Aziz Yıldırım (born 2 November 1952) was the 36th chairman of the Turkish multi-sport club Fenerbahçe SK. He lost the election held on 3 June 2018 to Ali Koç which made him the 37th president of the Turkish club. He served the club as the president from 1998 to 2018. He has a degree in civil engineering.

Football

 * UEFA Champions League : 2007–08 (quarter-final)
 * UEFA Europa League : 2012–13 (semi-final)
 * Turkish Süper Lig (6) : 2000–01, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2006–07, 2010–11, 2013–14
 * Türkiye Kupası (2): 2011-2012, 2012-2013
 * Süper Kupa (3): 2007, 2009, 2014
 * Başbakanlık Kupası (1) : 1998
 * Atatürk Kupası (1) : 1998

Men's basketball

 * EuroLeague (1): 2016–17, 2015–16 (runner-up), 2017–18 (runner-up), 2014–15 (Fourth)
 * TBL (7): 2006–07, 2007–08, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17
 * Türkiye Kupası (4): 2009–10, 2010–11, 2012–13, 2015–16
 * Cumhurbaşkanlığı Kupası (4): 2006–07, 2012–13, 2015–16, 2016–17

Women's basketball

 * EuroLeague Women: 2012–13 (runner-up), 2013–14 (runner-up), 2016–17 (runner-up), 2015–16 (Third), 2011–12 (Fourth), 2014–15 (Fourth)
 * TKBL (13): 1998–99, 2001–02, 2003–04, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2015–16, 2017–18
 * Türkiye Kupası (11): 1998–99, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2005–06, 2006–07, 2007–08, 2008–09, 2014–15, 2015–16
 * Cumhurbaşkanlığı Kupası (11): 1998–99, 1999–00, 2000–01, 2003–04, 2004–05, 2006–07, 2009–10, 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15

Men's volleyball

 * CEV Challenge Cup (1) : 2013–14
 * BVA Kupası (2): 2009–10, 2013–14
 * Voleybol Ligi (4): 2007–08, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2011–12
 * Türkiye Kupası (3): 2007–08, 2011–12, 2016–17
 * Voleybol Süper Kupa (3): 2011, 2012, 2017

Women's volleyball

 * FIVB Volleyball Women's Club World Championship (1): 2010, 2012 (Third)
 * Women's CEV Champions League (1): 2011–12, 2009–10 (runner-up), 2015–16, 2010–11 (Third)
 * Women's CEV Cup (1): 2013–14, 2012–13 (runner-up), 2008–09 (Third)
 * Voleybol Ligi (5): 2008–09, 2009–10, 2010–11, 2014–15, 2016–17
 * Türkiye Kupası (3): 2009–10, 2014–15, 2016–17
 * Voleybol Süper Kupa (3): 2009, 2010, 2015

Athletics

 * Avrupa Kulüpler Şampiyonası (men's) (1): 1998, 2006 (runner-up)
 * Avrupa Kulüpler Şampiyonası (women's): 1998 (runner-up)

Boxing

 * Avrupa Kulüpler Şampiyonası: 1999 (runner-up)

Swimming

 * CIJ Meet Kupası (2): 2004, 2005

Table Tennis

 * ETTU Champions League (1) : 2014–15, 2013–14 (runner-up)
 * ETTU Kupası (2): 2011–12, 2012–13, 2007–08 (runner-up)

Personal life
Yıldırım was born in Ergani. He has 3 daughters, two of whom are from his first marriage.

2011 Turkish sports corruption scandal
On 2 July 2012, a Turkish "Special Authority Court" sentenced Yıldırım to three years and nine months for match-fixing and two years and six months for forming an illegal organisation. The sentence was later approved by the Turkish Supreme Court of Appeals. He was detained for one year in Metris Prison together with several other sportspeople involved in the scandal. However, on 6 March 2014 special authority courts were abolished in Turkey. On 23 July 2014, his earlier retrial demand was accepted, meaning that he and all the people involved will have a retrial about this case. The first trial of the retrial process was made on 24 April 2015. On 9 October 2015, the courts acquitted Aziz Yıldırım and all the people who were charged at the beginning of the investigation, pending the Supreme Court's approval. Fenerbahce declared that after the Supreme Court's approval, they would take every action to be compensated from all of the damages that has been done to the club by this investigation and previous court rulings. In June 2018 Yildirim faced fierce competition in his bid to be reelected president of Fenerbahce, a role he had held since 1998 in which he lost to Ali Koç.

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Christian courtship

Christian courtship, also known as Biblical courtship, is the traditional Christian practice of individuals in approaching "the prospect of marriage". Preceded by a proposal, courtship traditionally begins after a betrothal and concludes with the celebration of marriage (though in the present-day, courtship may precede the betrothal, which is then followed by the wedding). Christian theologian Scott Croft distinguished courtship from dating, teaching that:

Andre Marie, a brother of the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, discusses that courtship allows a couple to become acquainted with one another, and that physical intimacy is saved only for those in wedlock. Christian minister Patricia Bootsma further delineates this distinction, writing that in contrast to the modern conception of dating, in "courtship, time together in groups with family or friends is encouraged, and there is oversight by and accountability to parents or mentors". She further states that with courtship, "commitment happens before intimacy".

Christian courtship remains normative in certain Christian countries such as Guatemala, in which much of the population belongs to the Roman Catholic Church. In the United States, courtship is seen as a response to secular dating culture in which various Christian communities might find themselves, c. 1985 to present. Motivated by concern for the need of Christian values in contrast to secular dating practices, conservative Christians identified what they saw as key Biblical principles for courtship and romance, and began to disseminate them in the 1980s.

The practice of traditional Christian courtship among church members belonging to various Christian denominations experienced a revival in the 1980s. Keynote speaker and author Dr. S.M. Davis developed a unique stand on this philosophy, and his materials have been popular with the homeschool culture since the early 1990s. Proponents of courtship say that it is identified by Biblical principles, rather than particular methods or behavioural practices. These principles have been summarized in Leave Dating Behind: a Road Map to Marriage by Christina Rogers within the acronym CARE:
 * Commitment to marriage
 * Accountability
 * Rejection of the secular dating philosophy
 * Establishing physical boundaries (Song of Songs 2:7)

Characteristics of traditional Christian courtship

 * The guardianship responsibility of fathers over single daughters.
 * The responsibility of parents to prepare their children for marriage in all respects, and for youths to be prepared in terms of talents, education, vocation and finances prior to seeking a courtship relationship.
 * The mentoring role of parents or other suitable "accountability couples" in a given courtship.
 * Supervision of courtships to mitigate temptations or abuse, whether of a sexual, emotional or financial nature.
 * Emphasis of the importance of marriage as an opportunity for Christian service rather than a selfish endeavor.
 * Emphasis of the importance of singleness before marriage as a time for greater Christian service in the community, rather than a time to be employed in selfish pursuits.
 * Emphasis of the importance of counsel and evaluation by family and friends as a relationship progresses. (Song of Songs 1:4)
 * Emphasis of the importance of honesty and getting to know one another as real people in "normal life" during courtship (as contrasted with the dating habit of meeting during special events and entertainment while on one's best behavior.)
 * The maintenance of sexual purity in accordance with the evangelical counsel of chastity.

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This category is for articles relating to the transitioning of transgender/transsexual people, that is both the social and legal change of sex and sex reassignment therapy, which changes the secondary sexual characteristics of the body.

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Love Is a Four Letter Word (TV series)

Love Is a Four Letter Word is an Australian drama written by Matt Ford produced by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in 2001. It was set and filmed in Newtown, in Sydney, New South Wales, following the lives of a group of friends working in a pub, and the concerns facing urban 20somethings in Australia. One of the regular features of the drama was a performance in the pub by a contemporary Australian band. The program is currently in syndication in the United States on Vibrant TV Network.

Cast and characters

 * Peter Fenton as Angus O'Neil
 * Kate Beahan as Alicia 'Albee' Barrett
 * Paul Barry as Paul Bannister
 * Leeanna Walsman as Larissa Barrett
 * Linal Haft as Bernie O'Neil
 * Matt Doran as Phil 'Klaus' Kaperberg
 * Teresa Page as Juliette Briones
 * John Molloy as Roy Williams
 * Garry McDonald as Tom Mattingly
 * Annie Davis-McCubbin as Maya Fink
 * Rudi Baker as Quentin Richards
 * Joanne Priest as Rachel Fox
 * Paul Tassone as Eddie Bird
 * Damian Walshe-Howling as Dean Masselos
 * Joel McIlroy as Brent Duffy
 * Zoe Coyle as Melissa Duvet
 * Genevieve Mooy as Evelyn Richards
 * Jack Finsterer as Evan Green (5 episodes)
 * Ben Mendelsohn as Self (1 episode)

Featured bands

 * pre.shrunk
 * Machine Gun Fellatio
 * The Duvets (fictitious band created for the show)
 * Stella One Eleven
 * Widow Jones
 * On Inc
 * Jackie Orszaczky and the Grandmasters
 * Nokturnl
 * Hamish Cowan
 * Jodi Phillis
 * I Can't Believe It's Not Rock
 * Bernie Hayes
 * Luke Hanigan
 * The Dumb Earth
 * Endorphin
 * Tim Freedman
 * Sunk Loto
 * Christa Hughes
 * Felicity Hunter

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/BrainJam

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BrainJam
Non-notable neologism. --fvw *  22:17, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

 * delete - per nom; also a copyvio of http://www.web2point1.org/ GTBacchus 00:35, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Semantic change

Nationality
I think an example of a word changing right now is nationality. Philosophically it's a concept all it's own - but in legal documents it's much more akin to citizenship (not exactly citizenship, but much closer to that than the old concept of nationality). And in common use "What is your nationality" is akin to "What is your ethnicity?" I'll leave it to the more experienced to decide whether or not to include this, but I wanted to bring it up to discussion. 1 December 2005

Awful as portmanteau?
Beautiful, delightful and remorseful could all be said as "full of beauty, delight or remorse". I don't think that it behooves the reader to throw other linguistic terminology at them for issues that are understood to them (-ful) and not fully understood to them (how -ful is a bound morpheme that comes from the free morpheme "full", etc.)

I guess, what I'm trying to get at is why it would be necessary to overly "jargonize" an intro snipet to Semantic Change with other heavy linguistic terminology, seemingly just added for its own sake. To me, portunhol, chillaxing and frappuccino are portmanteaux, not words like "awful" that simply underwent internal orthographic changes because of morphemic shift. Save the introduction of other linguistic jargon for more authentic examples.

71.57.186.90 (talk) 19:07, 12 February 2012 (UTC)Tom in Florida

Of mice and mice, a Blank, and the alleged similarity of concepts
This version of the article, edited by User:Sinatra at 14:15, 13 October 2007, says

 * However, Blank's (1998) categorization has been gaining more and more acceptance:
 * metaphor (= change based on similarity between concepts, e.g. mouse 'rodent' > 'computer device'; Grzega (2004) paraphrases this as “similar-to” relation)

(It doesn't identify "Blank 1998".)

Over seven years later, we are told:

 * However, the categorization of has gained increasing acceptance:
 * Metaphor: Change based on similarity between concepts, e.g., mouse "rodent" → "computer device".

(This still doesn't identify "Blank 1998".)

I do not understand the similarity between the concepts of rodent and computer [input] device. (Indeed, to me they seem extraordinarily dissimilar concepts.) What am I missing? -- Hoary (talk) 05:29, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

"Narrowing" listed at Redirects for discussion
An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect Narrowing and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 September 4 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. Mover of molehills move me 23:14, 4 September 2022 (UTC)

Lacks of references
There are a number of examples here that have no reference. Rickogorman (talk) 13:40, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Carolyn Wood

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Carolyn Wood
This almost-orphaned article should be deleted because the subject is nn and there are POV issues, which probably cannot be solved by editing. The only link is Bagram torture and prisoner abuse. The subject, Capt. Wood, received two Bronze stars and was not the subject of a court-martial. Not sure why she's should be on Wikipedia. Joaquin Murietta 22:20, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. This recipient of a high U.S. military award is notable. As for the controversy, sections describing both sides of the argument and sources other than Knight Ridder newspapers should be added. She has been mentioned in major media outlets including The Guardian and News 24. Andrew pmk | Talk 22:41, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * This makes me wonder -- There are many Bronze Star awardees. The Medal of Honor is a higher award than the Bronze Star, but Wikipedia does not have a separate article for every Medal of Honor recipient. Should we?Joaquin Murietta 17:15, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Feel free to create those that you see fit JM. This is what WP is all about =:-) -- Cactus.man  ✍  09:49, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Comment. There are serious POV problems with this article. If it is kept it should be made clear that these are allegations not always from reliable sources and no charges have been laid against her. If we are to keep something on the Internet like this when there have been no charges of miscoduct laid against her, we should make sure that the article is accurate and NPOV.Capitalistroadster 00:43, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. It amounts to agitprop.  She's a minor figure ("implied that she was the author"), and it is highly unlikely that a fair and full account could ever be written.  The Geneva Convention reference is vague and likely misleading.  That's a big issue and this article isn't the place for it. -- Randy2063 21:50, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * keep Disclaimer - I started this article
 * I located a newspaper article that reported testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee documenting her role in drafting the interrogation techniques, and acknowledging their use could be a violation of the Geneva Conventions. I believe this makes her notable. --  Geo Swan 12:26, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * The article also says that Capt. Woods was not at the hearing. So now we have an article about a woman who was not charged with any crimes or offenses, not court martialed, and not called as a witness. The Washington Post reported that she told investigators that she objected to the CIA being there, but she was over ruled. . Joaquin Murietta 14:33, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
 * She might not yet be a woman charged with any crimes or offences, but this article says: "Attorneys for soldiers charged in the Abu Ghraib scandal believe that Wood was instrumental in setting policy for interrogations at the Iraqi prison - just as she did in Afghanistan.". This makes her eminently notable as an integral part of current US military interrogation policy, particularly in relation to the War on Terror. Whether she was a mere 'instrument' of implementation of the policy, as was Lynndie England, is neither here nor there. This person is notable for these reasons and an article is warranted. -- Cactus.man  ✍  14:55, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Keep - Lack of NPOV is NOT a valid criteria for listing on AfD. It should have a NPOV tag instead and a listing on WP:PNA, with discussion on the talk page. I have concerns about some of the wording and claims in the article, but I see nothing there that cannot be sorted out. This person is notable as someone instrumental in establishing US military interrogation policies in Afghanistan, and Iraq, at Bagram and Abu Ghraib . -- Cactus.man  ✍  09:46, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

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James Joyce (biography)

James Joyce by Richard Ellmann was published in 1959 (a revised edition was released in 1982). It provides an intimate and detailed account of the life of Irish modernist James Joyce, which informs an understanding of this author's complex works.

Reception
Anthony Burgess was so impressed with the biographer's work that he claimed it to be "the greatest literary biography of the century." Edna O'Brien, the Irish novelist, remarked that "H. G. Wells said that Finnegans Wake was an immense riddle, and people find it too difficult to read. I have yet to meet anyone who has read and digested the whole of it—except perhaps my friend Richard Ellmann." Ellmann quotes extensively from Finnegans Wake as epigraphs in his biography of Joyce.

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Addition
The following was added August 16, 2005 by User:196.15.166.134

Mothusi wa ga Mokoto

A playwright with the plays CARDS, TORO YA ME, AFURAKAN CENTURY AND WHERE THE SUN RISES to his name.

Born in Taung on the 07th October 1981, the young writer started his Drama classes with Mmabana Foundation at the Taung Centre where he was to distinguish himself as a writer of unequalled calibre

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Drama about South African play writers
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Chester and Connah's Quay Railway

The Chester & Connah's Quay Railway ran from Chester Northgate in Chester, Cheshire, England to Shotton, Flintshire, Wales. It was in use for its full length from 1890 to 1992.

At Dee Marsh Junction it connected with the North Wales and Liverpool Railway. It then crossed the River Dee by means of Hawarden Bridge before joining the Wrexham, Mold and Connah's Quay Railway at Shotton.

Open portion
The only section of the Chester & Connah's Quay Railway which remains in use is between Dee Marsh Junction and Shotton, forming part of the Borderlands Line.

Closed portion
The rest of the line closed to passenger trains in 1968, but remained open to freight trains until 1992. Even though steelmaking operations at the British Steel plant at Shotton ceased in March 1980, freight continued to use the double-tracked line until 20 April 1984. Goods services resumed on a single-track line on 31 August 1986 before final closure in June 1992. This was precipitated by the closure of Ravenscraig steelworks in Motherwell, Scotland, as freight trains using the line ran between Ravenscraig and Shotton rolling mill.

Cycle path
Since the line between Chester and Dee Marsh closed, the track has been lifted and the route is now a cycle path, forming part of Route 5 of the National Cycle Network.

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Phoenix Firebirds

The Phoenix Firebirds were a Minor League Baseball team that played in Phoenix, Arizona, from 1958 to 1959, and from 1966 to 1997. Before 1986, the team was known as the Phoenix Giants.

The franchise was a member of the Triple-A Pacific Coast League (PCL), and were the top minor league affiliate of the San Francisco Giants. The Firebirds were forced to leave Phoenix following the 1997 season, as the new National League expansion team, the Arizona Diamondbacks would begin play in Phoenix the following year. In a complicated series of events, the owners of the Firebirds moved their team to Tucson, Arizona, and became the Tucson Sidewinders, dropping their affiliation with the Giants in favor of the expansion Diamondbacks. The owners of the existing Tucson Toros then moved their franchise to Fresno, California, thus ending a 92-year hiatus of PCL baseball in Fresno. The transplanted Toros, renamed the Fresno Grizzlies, became the Giants' new PCL affiliate.

History
The Firebirds were known as the Phoenix Giants until the 1986 season. They were affiliated with the San Francisco Giants for their entire existence, now a rarity in the minor leagues. The Giants still have a spring training facility in the Phoenix area, but in Scottsdale where the Firebirds played from 1992 to 1997.

The Giants first came in 1958 but moved to Tacoma, Washington after the 1959 season. In 1966 the franchise returned to the Phoenix area until their move to Fresno.

The Firebirds played their home games at Phoenix Municipal Stadium until moving to Scottsdale Stadium upon its reopening in 1992. Their final regular season game in August 1997 was played at their original ball park and featured ceremonies including "passing the torch" to the Arizona Diamondbacks, the major league team which became Phoenix's main baseball team who began play the next year. The team made the 1997 PCL playoffs their final year, which extended their existence by a couple weeks. The Firebirds defeated the Colorado Springs Sky Sox 3-0 in the first round but lost the championship series 3 games to 1 to the Edmonton Trappers.

Championships
The Phoenix Giants won two PCL championships in 1959 and 1977. The franchise never won a championship title under the Firebirds name.

The franchise's final game was September 11, 1997, a 7-1 loss handing the Edmonton Trappers the 1997 PCL Championship played at Scottsdale Stadium.

Playoff history

 * 1977
 * Championship: Defeated Salt Lake City 3 games to 2
 * 1985
 * Division Series: Defeated Hawaii Islanders 3 games to 0
 * Championship: Lost to Vancouver Canadians 3 games to 0
 * 1986
 * Division Series: Lost to Las Vegas Stars 3 games to 2
 * 1996
 * Division Series: Defeated Las Vegas Stars 3 games to 0
 * Championship: Lost to Edmonton Trappers 3 games to 1
 * 1997
 * Division Series: Defeated Colorado Springs Sky Sox 3 games to 0
 * Championship: Lost to Edmonton Trappers 3 games to 1

Alumni
Several Giants alumni like Willie McCovey, Bobby Bonds, Matt Williams, Steve Stone, and Kirt Manwaring played in Phoenix. Some of the Phoenix alumni went on to San Francisco, to take part in two of the Giants' National League titles (1962 and 1989).

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E. M. Delafield

Edmée Elizabeth Monica Dashwood, née de la Pasture (9 June 1890 – 2 December 1943), commonly known as E. M. Delafield, was a prolific English author. She wrote novels, short stories, and plays, among other genres, but Delafield is best known for her largely autobiographical Diary of a Provincial Lady, which took the form of a journal of the life of an upper-middle class Englishwoman living mostly in a Devon village of the 1930s. In sequels, the Provincial Lady buys a flat in London, travels to America and attempts to find war-work during the Phoney War. Delafield's other works include an account of a visit to the Soviet Union, but this is not part of the Provincial Lady series, despite having been reprinted with the title The Provincial Lady in Russia. Delafield is considered by many to have been a master of the comedy of manners.

Life
Delafield was born in Steyning, Sussex. She was the elder daughter of Count Henry Philip Ducarel de la Pasture, of Llandogo Priory, Monmouthshire, and Elizabeth Lydia Rosabelle Bonham, daughter of Edward William Bonham, who as Mrs Henry de la Pasture was also a well-known novelist. The pen name Delafield she adopted later was a thin disguise on de la Pasture that her sister Yoé suggested. The de la Pasture family was bilingual, and young Elizabeth was educated until she was 10 by a series of French governesses (a condensed version of whom appears as Mademoiselle in the Provincial Lady series). When deemed too old for governesses, E.M.D. attended several convent schools until 1907 when she was seventeen. Count Henry died suddenly of a heart attack the next year when Edmeé was entering the marriage market. Edmeé was lively and charming, but shy, so both she and her Yoé “failed” as debutantes. Their mother, on the other hand, quickly succeeded in finding another husband—Sir Hugh Clifford GCMG, who governed the colonies of the Gold Coast (1912–19), Nigeria (1919–25), Ceylon (1925–27) and the Malay States. Sir Clifford is said to have been the inspiration for Noel Coward’s Mad Dogs and Englishmen.

In 1911, at age 21, with her newly married mother abroad, and having few options available, Delafield chose to pursue a religious life. She was accepted as a postulant by a French religious order established in Belgium. Her account of the experience, The Brides of Heaven, was written in 1931 and eventually published in her biography. "The motives which led me, as soon as I was 21, to enter a French Religious Order are worthy of little discussion, and less respect" she begins. These motives appear to have included receiving only one marriage offer as a debutante, and that only from “a boy who didn’t mean anything” (according to her mother’s standards). She recounts being told by the Superior that if a doctor advised a surgical operation "your Superiors will decide whether your life is of sufficient value to the community to justify the expense. If it is not, you will either get better without the operation or die. In either case you will be doing the will of God and nothing else matters.” E.M.D. finally left when she learned that Yoé was planning to join another enclosed order: "the thought of the utter and complete earthly separation that must necessarily take place between us was more than I could bear.”

At the outbreak of World War I, she worked as a nurse in a Voluntary Aid Detachment in Exeter, under the formidable command of Georgiana Buller (daughter of a general who held the Victoria Cross, and later a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire). Delafield's first novel Zella Sees Herself was published in 1917. (This coincided with Elizabeth’s decision to use the first name Edmeé.) At the end of the war she worked for the South-West Region of the Ministry of National Service in Bristol, and published two more novels. Delafield continued to publish one or two novels every year until nearly the end of her life in 1943.

On 17 July 1919, E.M.D. married Colonel Arthur Paul Dashwood, OBE, a younger son of Sir George Dashwood, 6th Baronet and Lady Mary Seymour (youngest daughter of Francis Seymour, 5th Marquess of Hertford). Dashwood was an engineer who had built the massive docks at Hong Kong Harbour. After two years in the Malay States, Delafield insisted on coming back to England and they lived in Croyle, an old house in Kentisbeare, Devon, on the Bradfield estate where Dashwood became the land agent. Edmeé had two children, Lionel and Rosamund. At the initial meeting of the Kentisbeare Women's Institute in 1924 Delafield was unanimously elected president, and remained so until she died. She also served as a Justice of the Peace from 1925.

Delafield was a great admirer and champion of Charlotte M. Yonge and an authority on the Brontë family about whom she wrote The Brontes, Their Lives Recorded by Their Contemporaries. In 1938 Lorna Mesney became her secretary, and kept a diary to which Delafield's biographer was given access.

Delafield's son Lionel died in late 1940, some suggest by his own hand, something from which she never recovered. Her own health suffered a progressive decline which necessitated a colostomy and visits to a neurologist. Three years later, on 2 December 1943, Delafield died after collapsing while lecturing in Oxford, She was buried under her favourite yew tree in Kentisbeare churchyard, near her son. Her mother survived her and died in October 1945. Her daughter, Rosamund Dashwood, emigrated to Canada.

Diary of a Provincial Lady
Delafield became great friends with Margaret Mackworth, 2nd Viscountess Rhondda, and was appointed a director of Time and Tide. When the editor 'wanted some light "middles"', preferably in serial form, Delafield promised to think of something to submit'. She later said: “The idea had come into my mind of writing, in the first person singular, a perfectly straightforward account of the many disconcerting facets presented by everyday life to the average woman. . . It was thus, in 1930, that her most popular and enduring work Diary of a Provincial Lady was written. This largely autobiographical novel substituted the names of "Robin" and "Vicky" for her own children, Lionel and Rosamund. However, when Arthur Watts drew the character Vicky for the published book, he did not use Delafield's children as his model. Instead he drew a six-year-old girl called Faith Nottidge from a fashionable family of Chelsea. The book has never been out of print.

The novel inspired several sequels which chronicled later portions of her life: The Provincial Lady Goes Further, The Provincial Lady in America, and The Provincial Lady in War-Time. She later worked for the Ministry of Information. The Dictionary of National Biography says "On the outbreak of the Second World War, she lectured for the Ministry of Information and spent some weeks in France." However, we can surmise from The Provincial Lady in War-Time that in fact she spent quite a bit of time vainly looking for 'proper' war work and working in an ARP canteen.

In 1961, Delafield's daughter, Rosamund Dashwood, published Provincial Daughter, a semi-autobiographical account of her own experiences with domestic life in the 1950s.

Reception
Delafield was a respected and highly prolific author of middlebrow fiction in her day, along with such writers as Angela Thirkel and Agatha Christie. Of her novels, only the Provincial Lady series achieved wide commercial success (The Diary of a Provincial Lady was Book Society Book of the month in December 1930), though her first novel Zella Sees Herself quickly went into a second impression and produced a first royalty cheque of £50. However, Delafield’s contributions to magazines, such as Time and Tide, and Punch (which published over 400 of her pieces) made her widely known and loved in the United Kingdom. She also was quite popular in the United States and made two highly successful speaking tours there in the 1930s.

Delafield’s status in Britain was such that in the early days of WW II the BBC asked her to broadcast a reassuring series called “Home is Like That,” and future Prime Minister Harold Macmillan persuaded her to bring her beloved diarist out of retirement for a series later published as The Provincial Lady in Wartime. Delafield’s status in England was reflected in the BBC’s choosing to announce her death on its Six O’Clock News. Punch commented: “Many Punch readers have realized since her death that it was the article by E.M. Delafield that instinctively they read first each week. . . and they didn’t realize till now, when those articles have ceased, what a blank their absence would leave.”

Delafield’s novels were reasonably well received, but it was her humorous magazine contributions for which she was most appreciated and is best remembered. The critic Rachel Ferguson complained that she wrote too much and her work was uneven whilst considering The Way Things Are a "completely perfect novel" and suggesting (in 1939) that "her humour and super-sensitive observation should make of her one of the best and most significant writers we possess, a comforting and timeless writer whose comments will delight a hundred years hence."

The decades have proven Ferguson correct. The Times opined that Delafield was a “genuine, if modest genius” of her craft. Delafield is now often discussed along with Jane Austen as being a master of the comedy of manners, and Cynthia Zarin credits Delafield with creating the modern humorous diary. J.B. Priestley called her the equal of the best English female humorists, including Jane Austen, and allocated five pages to her in English Humor (1976). The critic Henry Canby attributed her lack of “resounding” critical success to her unpretentiousness, saying she was “one, who, like Jane Austen, seems to write easily on her lap, while others talk and clamor about her.” Faye Hamel has pointed out how “enormous skill, subtlety, and power of selection have gone to create this seemingly mild and commonplace character (the Provincial Lady). And Maurice McCullen has argued that Delafield’s “strength as a humorist argues most strongly for a place in English literature. . .“

Books

 * Zella Sees Herself (1915) - her first work, written in Exeter. "curiously savage, self obsessed, alarming" or "quite delightful, full of brilliant touches, serious, sad and funny at the same time".
 * A Perfectly True Story - a short story contributed to The Girl Guides' Book. It is an account of Delafield's marriage into the circle of squires & baronets. Kirtington Park was built by Sir James Dashwood, and was the ancestral home of her husband.
 * The War Workers (1918) - the travails of working in a Supply Depot under the tyrannical control of Charmian Vivian, who meets her match in a newly arrived clergyman's daughter Grace Jones.
 * The Pelicans (1918) - centres round an agonising account of conversion to the Roman Catholic Church and a death in a convent.
 * Consequences (1919) - Republished in 2000 by Persephone Books.
 * Tension (1920)
 * The Heel of Achilles (1920) - the story of a lower middle-class girl marrying into the gentry, whose daughter Jane rebels against her.
 * Humbug (1921) - a novel attacking 'amateur educationalists' in which Lily Stanhope marries a shouting bore, but eventually achieves a resolution to strive to eliminate the humbug which has dogged her own upbringing from that of her child.
 * The Optimist (1922) - largely dominated by Canon Morchard, an 'utterly impossible clergyman' who starts as a horrible man but becomes quite saintly.
 * A Reversion to Type (1923) - a woman from a middle-class family, the recent widow of a dissolute member of the landed gentry, struggles with the vast class differences between herself and her in-laws, and seeks to understand why her son has a congenital inability to tell truth from fiction.
 * The Sincerest Form... (1924?) - a series of parodies of leading novelists including H. G. Wells, Arnold Bennett, Eleanor Smith, GB Stern, Evelyn Waugh & Rosamund Lehmann.
 * Messalina of the Suburbs (1924) - dedicated to Delafield's best friend 'Rose', (Dr Margaret Posthuma, aunt of Gandhi's disciple Mirabehn), it is based on a famous murder case, in which Edith Thompson was convicted and hanged in 1923 as an accomplice of her lover Bywaters who attacked and killed her husband. Although she was certainly shocked and astonished by the attack, her letters to Bywaters describe her repeated attempts to poison her husband. (Re-published 1970 Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press)
 * Mrs Harter (1924) - seen through the eyes of Sir Miles Fowler, a crippled baronet. At one level, the story of 'fast' Mrs Harter's developing romance with Captain Patch, which reaches a crisis with the arrival of her husband. However, it is really a study in how differently the same events are perceived by people who are interested in ideas/things/people.
 * The Chip and the Block (1925) - Charles Ellery has an egocentric disregard of the need and sufferings of others, but the development whereby he ceased to plague his family and marries a second wife who can control him is highly enjoyable for the reader.
 * Jill (1926) - the story of Major Jack Galbriath who, with his wife Doreen has to live on their wits, which are not particularly brilliant.
 * The Entertainment (1927) - a collection of short stories, including The Tortoise, where Charles Ellery re-appears.
 * The Way Things Are (1927) - Laura - a character notably similar to Delafield - literary, is stuck in country with her dull husband Alfred (of whom she is "very fond"), has a semi-affair with an admirer, Duke Ayland. Meanwhile, Lady Kingsely-Browne's daughter Beebee throws herself at a famous author (DHL?) thus losing "the richest commoner in England" who marries Laura's sister. Laura renounces the Duke (in a way that inspired Still Life and Brief Encounter). Described by Rachel Ferguson as Delafield's most perfect novel. Reprinted by Virago in 1988 with a new introduction by Nicola Beauman.
 * The Suburban Young Man (1928) - Peter has fallen in love with the well-born Antoinette, but his Scottish wife Hope remains in admirable control of the situation. Dedicated "To All Those Nice People who have so often asked me to Write a Story about Nice People".
 * What Is Love? (1928) (published in America as First Love) - Ellie has been abandoned at an early age by her predatory mother, and is courted by Simon but then dumped in favour of Vicky, Eton-cropped and wearer of an eye-glass.
 * Women Are Like That (1929) - a collection of short stories dedicated to her sister Yoe.
 * Crouchback (1929) - based on the life of Anne, consort of Richard III, King of England.
 * Turn Back the Leaves (1930) - dedicated to her agent A. D. Peters, it begins with a doomed love affair in 1890 and ends in 1930 with the old Catholic family it has devastated. It was highly praised by all reviewers.
 * Diary of a Provincial Lady (1930) - this became a best-seller and has never been out of print. It was chosen as the Book Society Book of the Month for December, 1930.
 * Challenge to Clarissa (1931) - Clarissa Fitzmaurice, a rich harridan, bullies the life out of her husband, his daughter Sophie, and her son by her first marriage, Lucien. But eventually Lucien and Sophie defy Clarissa and marry. She also includes a lady novelist Olivia who has shared her home for many years with her friend Elinor, and whose friendship had weathered, "as Miss Fish resentfully observed, the fuss about The Well of Loneliness." (See Boston marriage.)
 * The Provincial Lady Goes Further (1932) - continuation, beginning with astonishment at receiving a large royalty cheque (from Provincial Lady). Dedicated to Cass Canfield.
 * Thank Heaven Fasting (1932) - Monica Ingram sees no future other than marriage, but a foolish romantic encounter has muddied her reputation and wilted her confidence, and she seems condemned to live forever with her domineering mother. "The best of her 'debutante' works, a minor classic that will endure" The title is a quotation from Shakespeare (As You Like It, Act 3, Scene 5). The quotation in full is "Down on your knees and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love." (Re-published 1969 Howard Baker, also re-published by Virago).
 * Gay Life (1933) - set in the Côte d'Azur, Hilary and Angie Moon have to live on their wits and her beauty.
 * General Impressions (1933) - a collection of series of humorous articles in Time and Tide.
 * The Provincial Lady in America (1934)
 * The Bazalgettes (1936) - a spoof anonymous novel of 1870–6. Delafield asked to be allowed to review it for The Listener but was unable to do so.
 * Faster! Faster! (1936) - Claudia Winstoe, a dynamo of energy, runs London Universal Services and her home with equal tyranny. Pushing herself too hard, she dies in a collision, and the family and business get on fine without her.
 * As Others Hear Us: A Miscellany (1937) - a collection of humorous sketches which appeared in Punch and Time & Tide.
 * Nothing Is Safe (1937) - a fictional indictment of parents who forget what their whims may do to the happiness and security of their young children.
 * Ladies and Gentlemen in Victorian Fiction (1937) - published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf. Delafield was a great fan of Charlotte Mary Yonge.
 * Straw Without Bricks: I Visit Soviet Russia - (1937 - published in the U.S. as I visit the Soviets and re-published 1985 by Academy Chicago Publishers). This is her account of six months in Russia, mostly on a collective farm and in Leningrad.
 * Three Marriages (1939) - variations on a theme in three short stories.
 * The Provincial Lady in War-Time (1940) - resumed at the insistence of Harold Macmillan. The Lady gets a flat in Buckingham Street (above the offices of her agent AD Peters) and works in the Air Raid Precautions HQ under the Adelphi building. Eventually she gets a job and the diary concludes.
 * No One Now Will Know (1941) - a decidedly bleak book in which Fred and Lucian (Lucy) both love Rosalie. The title is a quotation from the Irish poem 'The Glens of Antrim': "No one now will know, which of them loved her the most".
 * Late and Soon (1943) - dedicated to Kate O'Brien. Valentine Arbell is the widowed chatelaine of a large country house in WW2. Her loose daughter Primrose is having an affair with Valentine's former admirer Rory, but Rory rekindles his passion for Valentine and they marry.
 * Love Has No Resurrection (1939)
 * The Brontes, their lives recorded by their contemporaries (1935 - Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf. Re-published 1979 Meckler Books)

Drama

 * Film script with Vera Allinson: Crime on the Hill (1933), which starred Sally Blane, Anthony Bushell, Lewis Casson and Nigel Playfair.
 * Film script with Edward Knoblock: Moonlight Sonata (1938), which starred Paderewski, Charles Farrell, Marie Tempest & Eric Portman.
 * To See Ourselves (1930) - Caroline, married to a rather dull Freddie, yearns for love and romance, but is sadly thwarted by domesticity. This play was a great success, broadcast repeatedly and was included in Gollancz's Famous Plays of 1931
 * The Glass Wall (1932) - A play about religious vocation, clearly somewhat autobiographical, and with many parts for women.
 * The Little Boy - a radio play in which Hermione Gingold's character was murdered.

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The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest

"The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. It was released as the fifth track on his eighth studio album John Wesley Harding (1967). The track was written by Dylan and produced by Bob Johnston. It was recorded in one take on October 17, 1967, at Columbia Studio A in Nashville. The song's lyrics refer to two friends, Frankie Lee and Judas Priest. Lee asks Priest for a loan of money and Priest offers it freely. Lee spends it in a brothel over 16 days, then dies of thirst in Priest's arms. It has been suggested by commentators that the song refers to Dylan's relationship with his manager Albert Grossman or to his contractual negotiations with his record company. The song received a mixed critical reception. Dylan performed the song live in concert 20 times, from 1987 to 2000.

Background and recording
Dylan's seventh studio album, Blonde on Blonde, was released in June 1966. In July 1966, Dylan had a motorcycle accident, and spent the next year-and-a-half recovering and writing songs at his home in Woodstock. From around June to October 1967, he recorded 138 songs with members of the group the Hawks (later known as the Band).

According to Dylan biographer Clinton Heylin, all the songs for John Wesley Harding, Dylan's eighth studio album, were written and recorded during a six-week period at the end of 1967. With one child born in early 1966 and another in mid-1967, Dylan had settled into family life.

"The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest" was recorded in one take during the first recording session for John Wesley Harding on October 17, 1967, in Columbia Studio A, Nashville. The producer was Bob Johnston. Dylan speaks, rather than sings, the lyrics, and plays guitar and harmonica. He is accompanied by Charlie McCoy on bass and Kenneth Buttrey on drums; both had been part of the larger cohort of musicians that played on Blonde on Blonde. Dylan told interviewer Jann Wenner that he had been seeking a sound similar to Gordon Lightfoot's album The Way I Feel, which McCoy and Buttrey had also played on. The song was released as the fifth track on John Wesley Harding on December 27, 1967. It was issued as the lead track of an EP single in Portugal in 1968, and included on the compilation box set The Original Mono Recordings in 2010.

Lyrical interpretation
The song has 11 verses and is the longest track on John Wesley Harding. According to authors Philippe Margotin and Jean Michel Guesdon, the lyrics refer to two friends, Frankie Lee and Judas Priest. Lee asks Priest for a loan of money and Priest offers it freely. Lee spends it in a brothel over 16 days, then dies of thirst in Priest's arms. English-language scholar Homer Hogan viewed Priest as an insincere friend who tempts Lee with a false vision, leading to a conclusion where Lee is "destroyed rather than transformed". After Lee's death, a "neighbour boy" who appears to be involved in Lee's demise, mumbles that "nothing is revealed". Hogan argued that Dylan invokes several myths through the song, including "the basic story of the god-possessed hero sacrificed by the priest, and the re-birth of the hero in a child", as well as Christian themes including those of a sinner seeking salvation, of a betrayal by Judas, the Temptation of Christ, and a devil in the guise of an angel.

The song ends with a moral, telling the listener:

AJ Weberman interpreted the song as a parable of Dylan's relationship with his manager Albert Grossman. Dylan biographer Robert Shelton described the song as "a comic tall tale in frontier-ballad style" and speculated that Lee may represent Dylan, and Priest may represent the music business. Critic Andy Gill regarded the early verses, where Lee considers Priest's offer of the money, as having parallels with Dylan's contractual discussions with Columbia shortly before the album's recording.

Poet Allen Ginsberg recalled that Dylan told him during conversations in 1968 that he was aiming to write shorter lines that each advanced the narrative of the song. Ginsberg felt that this was evident in some of Dylan's work from around that period, for example in "I Shall Be Released" and "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest" (which Ginsberg called a "strong laconic ballad"), where, according to Ginsberg "There was to be no wasted language, no wasted breath. All the imagery was to be functional rather than ornamental." Hogan argues that the song "requires inner liberation if we are to let ourselves respond fully" but that through Dylan's delivery in a "country and western style" and, most importantly, "the magic of myth", Dylan helps the listener achieve that state of liberation. Wilfrid Mellers commented that the song featured "an unremitting talkin' style, and the words spoken, for all their biblical references, could hardly be more confusedly bleak".

Reception and influence
Peter Johnson of the Los Angeles Times criticized the track for being "riddled with clichés", adding "As if that were not bad enough, Dylan offers three hoary lessons from the song". Johnson felt that while Dylan had previously used clichés inventively, "in this album they have nothing to feed on but themselves." While noting that the track was amongst the favorite among some of Dylan's fans, journalist Mike Marqusee dismissed the song as "a contrived allegory that teases and baffles but ultimately bores." In the Chicago Tribune, Ross Baker felt that Dylan's songwriting had declined in quality, writing "He gave us fantastical memorable portraits before ... Now we have sketchily dull pictures like ... Frankie Lee, [and] Judas Priest ... whom it's impossible to care about in the least." Margotin and Guesdon wrote that "the performance is not up to par. The guitar part lacks rigor". Gill called it the "dullest" track on John Wesley Harding: he refers to the final verse as a "bland moral".

Jim Beviglia ranked the song 20th in his 2013 book Counting Down Bob Dylan: His 100 Finest Songs, referring to it as "one of the most perplexing songs Bob Dylan has ever released" and "the most instantly enjoyable" track on John Wesley Harding. It was awarded an "A" rating by John Nogowski, who felt that Dylan's vocal and harmonica performance underpinned the track. The song was the inspiration for the name of the English heavy metal band Judas Priest.

Live performances
According to his official website, Dylan played "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest" live 20 times in concert between 1987 and 2000. Trager wrote about Dylan's initial performances of the number with Grateful Dead on their 1987 tour that "A poorer song choice probably couldn't have been made, for this intimate parable was lost in the large football stadium venues where the shows took place." Paul Williams was generally critical of the tour's quality, but felt that the performance of the song on July 19 in Eugene, Oregon was one of several "pleasing performances [at the show], though of course one wishes Dylan as vocalist and storyteller could have been even half as present on 'Frankie Lee' as he was on the original 1968 recording". Trager considered the performances on the Temples in Flames Tour with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers to be significantly improved from those with Grateful Dead. According to Williams, "getting to hear Bob Dylan sing 'Frankie Lee and Judas Priest' and 'Shelter from the Storm' as though this might be his last chance ever and he doesn't want to waste it, is certainly a memorable experience". Dylan later performed the song several times in both 1988 and 2000 on his Never Ending Tour.

Personnel
The personnel for the October 1967, recordings at Columbia Recording Studios, Nashville, are listed below.

Musicians
 * Bob Dylan –vocals, guitar, harmonica
 * Charlie McCoy –bass
 * Kenneth Buttrey –drums

Technical
 * Bob Johnston –production
 * Charlie Bragg –engineering


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Mile Ilić

Mile Ilić (Миле Илић; born 2 June 1984) is a Serbian podcaster and former professional basketball player.

Known in Serbia as Jao Mile (word play referencing Yao Ming and the Serbian expression for ouch, jao), the 2.15-metre-tall (7'1") center won two Adriatic League championships with KK FMP. Additionally, he played with the New Jersey Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA) during the 2006–07 season, having been drafted one year earlier as the 43rd overall pick.

Early life and career
Born to a Serb family in Tuzla, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia due to it being the nearest town with a maternity ward, young Mile was raised in a Lopare area settlement of Priboj (Lopare) together with two older siblings, including sister Slavica Ilić (born 1973) who would soon begin pursuing basketball with the Jedinstvo Aida youth squads and eventually grow to 193 cm in height.

After coming up through the Jedinstvo Aida youth system for years, in 1990, youngster Mile's sixteen-year-old sister Slavica Ilić made the team's full squad as replacement at center for celebrated future FIBA Hall of Famer Razija Mujanović who had just transferred abroad to play with CB Godella in Spain.

With the outbreak of the Bosnian War in spring 1992, eighteen-year-old Slavica fled the armed conflict area for Belgrade, Serbia where she resumed playing professionally, finding a spot on the ŽKK Partizan roster quickly. Several months later, during summer 1992, her younger eight-year-old brother Mile, who had just finished the first grade of elementary school, was sent by their parents to join her, while the parents and the middle brother stayed behind in their Serb majority home village that had by this time become the scene of fierce shelling by the Muslim forces from the neighbouring hillside settlement of Teočak. Their father soon joined the armed conflict, fighting as part of the Republika Srpska Army (VRS). Meanwhile in Belgrade, joining his eighteen-year-old professional basketball player sister, eight-year-old child Mile, by his own admission in interviews decades later, initially spent majority of his day riding the city's public transit while waiting for his sister to finish her daily basketball practices. In September 1992, he resumed his schooling, starting second grade at a primary school in Belgrade. However, being cared and provided for by his teenage sister only, without any parental supervision, soon proved untenable and, following a disciplinary incident at school, a decision was made for him to return to his parents in the war zone. The youngster spent the following year and a half attending school in makeshift facilities in his village, before going back to Belgrade in 1994 to rejoin his sister.

Upon returning to Belgrade, encouraged by his sister Slavica, the tall ten-year-old began practicing basketball by enrolling in KK Partizan's youth categories coached by Aleksandar Bućan. Living with his older sister in a Konjarnik neighbourhood apartment provided for by her basketball salary, in addition to attending primary school, pre-teen Mile bussed to Partizan youth team practices at the 20th October Elementary School gym facilities on the other side of Belgrade in Blok 70.

By 1996, Slavica Ilić secured a transfer abroad to France with Stade Clermontois BF and twelve-year-old Mile rejoined their parents by moving back to Bosnia where the war had ended in the meantime. Still in primary school, he continued pursuing basketball, this time within the KK Rudar Ugljevik youth categories.

Though now part of a small provincial club well off the radar for most basketball scouts, teenage Ilić kept drawing attention due to his exceptional height and, by 1999, he was scouted by KK Hemofarm's head coach Željko Lukajić who facilitated his transfer to the Vršac club where the fifteen-year-old youngster got assigned to its youth categories. Following a tryout with KK Hemofarm's youth team in late summer 1999, head coach Petar Rodić reportedly liked teenage Ilić, however, due to the club's 1999-00 youth squad already being completed, he did not get placed on the team right away and returned back to Ugljevik. Some ten days later, the team created a roster spot for him and the tall teenager joined KK Hemofarm, a club financed by the state-owned pharmaceutical company of the same name led by CEO Miodrag Babić.

Coached by Rodić, teenage Ilić played for the KK Hemofarm youth team alongside fellow youngsters Darko Miličić, Miljan Pupović, Nenad Mišanović, Vukašin Aleksić, Marko Kolarić, Nikola Tutuš, etc.

FMP
After three seasons in KK Hemofarm's youth system, seeing his opportunities of entering the club's first team limited, Ilić decided to unilaterally leave Vršac during summer 2002 and transfer to YUBA League rivals FMP. The legal basis he took advantage of for doing so was an unmet clause in his stipend-based contract at Hemofarm that stipulated the club's obligation to provide the youth player with a professional contract by the time he turns eighteen years of age.

Arriving in Železnik, to a club run by club president and owner Nebojša Čović and sporting director Ratko Radovanović, eighteen-year-old Ilić thus started his first team, full squad career.

In the 2005 NBA draft he was drafted by the New Jersey Nets as a 43rd overall pick.

New Jersey Nets
Having been drafted one year earlier in 2005, Ilić signed for the Nets on 13 September 2006 once a roster spot opened due to Zoran Planinić leaving the club. Initially, twenty-two-year-old Ilić was brought in as a foreseeable future backup for countryman Nenad Krstić with the Nets' general manager Ed Stefanski singling out Ilić's lateral movement, pick-and-roll, and defensive help as well as his overall adaptation to the speed of the NBA game as the areas the NBA rookie needs to improve in.

On 26 February 2007 the Nets assigned him to the Colorado 14ers, their NBA Development League affiliate. Ilić thus became the first player that the Nets assigned to the D-League since instituting affiliate teams (prior to the 2005–06 NBA season). Playing for the 14ers based out of Broomfield, Colorado, his Development League season ended early due to an ankle joint injury in early April 2007. The injury would end up having a major impact on his basketball career in subsequent years.

On 29 October 2007 he was traded by the Nets to New Orleans Hornets along with Bernard Robinson for David Wesley (both Ilić and Robinson were immediately waived by the Hornets).

Return to Europe
After getting waived in the NBA, Ilić returned to Europe and signed with Lokomotiv Rostov on 26 November 2007. However, he never managed to play for the Russian club due to the effects of the nagging ankle injury he had picked up in the United States and then exacerbated at the EuroBasket 2007 training camp with Serbia national team. Instead, the center went back home to Serbia in order to further rehab his ankle.

Spain
On 24 February 2008, midway through the 2007-08 season, Ilić signed with the Spanish ACB league club CB Bilbao Berri. Hampered by the recovery process from the ankle injury, he only appeared in 10 games for the club, averaging 5.6 points and 4.1 rebounds per game.

On 28 July 2008, Ilić signed with CB Sevilla for the 2008–09 season. Playing on a squad with compatriot Duško Savanović under head coach Pedro Martínez, Ilić's not-fully-healed ankle injury got exacerbated again and he started missing games again. On 27 March 2009, he parted ways with Sevilla after averaging only 2 points and 2 rebounds per game.

The 2009-10 season began with Ilić without a club as teams shied away from acquiring the tall center due to concerns over his re-occurring ankle injury.

Seasons in Serbia
After ten months away from competitive basketball, Ilić found a club in March 2010, signing for the remainder of the season with Metalac Valjevo that decided to acquire him after qualifying for the Superleague stage of their Serbian Basketball League campaign.

For the 2010–11 season he returned to FMP Železnik.

The 2011–12 season he played with Crvena zvezda. In March 2013, signed with Vojvodina Srbijagas for the 2012–13 Serbian Superleague season.

Seasons in the Middle East and stints in Georgia and Lithuania
In October 2013, Ilić signed with Mahram Tehran BC of the Iranian Super League. In January 2014, he left Tehran and signed with MIA Academy of the Georgian Super Liga for the rest of the season.

In 2015, Ilić played for Qatar Sports Club of the Qatari League. On 17 October 2015 he signed with the Lithuanian club Lietkabelis Panevėžys.

In September 2016, Ilić signed with Nuwaidrat of the Bahraini Premier League. At the end of March 2017, Ilić signed with Tadamon Zouk of the Lebanese Basketball League. In July 2017, he returned to Nuwaidrat. In September 2018, Ilić signed for a Bahraini club Al Itihad.

In summer 2019, Ilić played for Al Seeb of the Oman League. In July 2019, he signed for a Bahraini club Al-Ahli. Prior to the 2019–20 season, Ilić signed for Baniyas of the UAE National League.

National team
During late August 2003, nineteen-year-old Ilić represented Serbia-Montenegro at the 2003 Summer Universiade in Daegu, South Korea as part of the country's university basketball team. The makeshift squad consisting of ten FMP Železnik players plus Milan Bralović and Marko Marinović from Borac Čačak was put together by FMP's head coach Vlade Đurović on a short notice. Following an arduous 36-hour journey from Belgrade via London, Hong Kong, Taipei, and Seoul, the team arrived in Daegu less than 12 hours before its opening game, a hard-fought win versus Chinese Taipei. Serbia-Montenegro ended up winning gold.

2006 FIBA World Championship
In summer 2006, fresh off winning the Adriatic League title with FMP, Ilić was called up for national team duty by head coach Dragan Šakota as part of Serbia and Montenegro's selection process for the upcoming 2006 FIBA World Championship in Japan. The center ended up making the 12-man roster taken to the tournament where he played as backup to Darko Miličić.

One year later, Ilić was called up to the training camp for EuroBasket 2007 by the new head coach Moka Slavnić. Carrying an ankle injury from his time in the U.S., hesitant Ilić still showed up on the insistence of head coach Slavnić who reportedly called the player personally on multiple occasions, convincing him eventually. At the training camp, Ilić exacerbated his ankle injury and in the end did not make the 12-man roster, with Slavnić picking Miličić and Dragan Labović for center spots. Together with Aleksandar Rašić, Ilić was among the last two players cut from the squad in late August 2007, right before the start of the championship.

At the beginning of summer 2011, after completing a return season with FMP, Ilić was called up by the Serbia national team head coach Dušan Ivković for the EuroBasket 2011 training camp. Ilić made it to the last 16, this time, before getting cut by Ivković in early August 2011 together with Novica Veličković.

Post-playing career
In March 2022, Ilić started his podcast show named Jao Mile.

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Doug Herland

Douglas "Doug" John Herland (August 19, 1951 – March 26, 1991) was a 1984 Summer Olympics bronze medal Winner, coxing the Men's Pair with coxswain (2+) event. Following his successes at the Olympics, Herland began the "Freedom on the River" campaign, obtaining government funding for materials and equipment necessary for disabled people to row.

Throughout the rest of his life, Herland would continue to champion and promote adaptive rowing. Born with brittle bone disease (Osteogenesis Imperfecta), Herland stood a mere 4'8" (142 cm) and weighed 107 pounds (48.5 kg).

Coaching positions

 * Ewauna Rowing Club, Klamath Falls (1975–1978)
 * University of Michigan (1980-198?)
 * Pacific Lutheran University (1985–1988) --Took over the rowing program after the "retirement of Dave "Smed" Peterson (1974–1984).

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Pimp master prodigies
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 * Delete per nom StephenJMuir 12:38, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete as nn gameclancruft. MCB 23:15, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

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User talk:Bathhouseblues

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Summary
Crusade series launch poster

Fair use in Crusade (TV series)
Though this image is subject to copyright, its use is covered by the U.S. fair use laws because:
 * 1) It's a low resolution copy of a Film Poster / VHS or DVD Cover.
 * 2) It doesn't limit the copyright owner's rights to sell the film in any way, in fact, it may encourage sales.
 * 3) Because of the low resolution, copies could not be used to make illegal copies of the artwork/image.
 * 4) The image is itself a subject of discussion in the article or used in the infobox thereof.
 * 5) The image  is significant because it was used to promoted a notable film.

Source

 * 1) Derived from a digital capture (photo/scan) of the Film Poster/ VHS or DVD Cover (creator of this digital version is irrelevant as the copyright in all equivalent images is still held by the same party). Copyright held by the film company or the artist.  Claimed as fair use regardless.

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Mount Alveria

Mount Alveria is a mountain located in the Province of Siracusa, south-eastern Sicily, Italy.

History
This mountainside has been inhabited since prehistoric times. The Elymians lived there before the 10th century B.C. They were followed by the Sicani and then the Siculians. Many Bronze Age artifacts have been found in this locality. One of the oldest archeological sites in the area is the Necropolis of Castelluccio thought to date from the 17th-15th centuries BC. The Roman Villa of Tellaro has also been excavated on Mount Alveria.

Mount Alveria was the original site of the city of Noto. Noto was relocated to a more level site 10 kilometres away after the earthquake of 1693. The ruins of the old city of Noto, known today as Noto Antica, still remain on a ridge on the mountainside.

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Talk:Liberal Republican Party (United States)

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loss of liberals in the GOP?

Yes, this might explain why from here on out Republicans became more conservative.

GOP was already conservative. It started as a coalition

Many civil war leaders?
Like who? They ran AGAINST Grant. If anything the civil war leaders were in the regular GOP like Grant himself

Local Liberal Republican candidates in 1872
Just for clarity's sake: the Liberal Republican Party did have local candidates. I agree that there were not very many LR candidates on the ballot, to be sure.

In 1870, Liberal Republican candidates appeared on the ballot as a third option against the Republican and Democratic nominees in Missouri and New York state (see Michael J. Dubin, United States Congressional Elections 1788-1997, pp. 218-219).

In 1872, it appears that the local Democrats and Liberal Republicans worked out arrangements where they would share the responsibility of offering the anti-Republican candidates. There were a few exceptions in which the D and LR parties ran opposing candidates. Here are some examples:

--Arkansas: the At Large candidate for US House was William J. Hynes (LR), but all district candidates were (D).

--Louisiana: In the 3d Congressional District, the three candidates were Chester B. Darrall (R), J.B. Price (D and Reform), and Elbert Gantt (LR).

--Ohio: nine of the twenty non-Republican candidates for the U.S. House were Liberal Republicans running with the Democratic endorsement.

--Texas: in CD-01, the three candidates for US House were William S. Herndon (D), Robert K. Smith (R), and William Chambers (LR).

Admittedly, all of this information comes from Michael Dubin. I have found a number of errors with his information, which I have documented at www.ourcampaigns.com. However, his information is about 99+% accurate. Chronicler3 19:35, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

Also I posted an overview of the Liberal Republican Party at OC two months ago, which gives more detail on party activities: http://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=58521 Chronicler3 13:59, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

I am struck by this article's omission of John Sproat's The Best Men and Michael Perman's The Road to Redemption. Both of these titles reference Liberal Republicanism and its consequences at great length. Perhaps some discussion of the nineteenth-century concept of liberalism is also in order here. Rather than the modern liberal belief in an activist and redistributionist state, the classical liberals of the earlier period favored fiscal retrenchment, a dimunition of government services that they equated with spoilsmen, and free trade policies. Without clearly explicating these differences, some contemporary readers might come away confused at what is meant by "Liberal Republican." 72.165.161.139 21:35, 18 February 2007 (UTC)SPN

Grant won in a landslide...
Grant decisively defeated Horace Greely in the general election. However, I read somewhere that Grant's opponent Horace Greely died after the general election, and that all of his electors ended up casting their votes for Grant, which is why Grant received all 286 electoral votes. This is why his landslide victory appears misleading. I would edit it, but I don't have a good, credible citation. If someeone could find a link that would be appreciated. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Gwjones2 (talk • contribs) 04:27, 19 March 2007 (UTC).
 * yes Greeley died right after the election but his electors did NOT vote for Grant (they voted for various other people). Rjensen 04:40, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

Request for re-write
This article omits many significant points:

1) Liberal-Republican party was formed initially by many of the most ideologically committed anti-racism campaigners in the Republican Party, e.g. Sumner, Schurz etc., men who had history going back to e.g. the Free-Soil party.

2) The other planks in its platform, e.g. civil service reform and free trade, broadened its appeal but also attracted members without any commitment to the ideals of the first group above.

3) Charles Francis Adams, preferred candidate of the original group mentioned in (1) lead the voting throughout most of the balloting at the party's convention. Apparently a deal was struck between Greeley and Gratz-Brown that eventually saw Greeley win the nomination. (See, e.g. 'The Doom of Reconstruction' by Andrew L. Slap, Fordham Univ Press, 2006, ISBN 082322709X, 9780823227099). C F Adams would probably not have gained the endorsement of the Democratic party had he won the nomination, on the other hand the Liberal Republican party would have survived as a cohesive entity with a clear platform under a leader true to the aims of its core supporters.

4) This prompted the Democratic endorsement, but also alienated the party's original core. As a result, the unstable coalition fractured immediately after the election and Greeley's death.

IMO the article nonetheless underestimates the party's achievement in cracking the two-party system, however briefly. The formation of the party, the founders' hopes of taking over the Republican party proper, the nomination process and the ideological schism between the C F Adams/Schurz/Sumner (etc.) wing and the Greeley/Blair (etc.) wing needs to be expanded upon.

I would undertake these tasks myself had I more than 10 days of expertise on these matters. Dduff442 (talk) 04:10, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

"US Grant and his radical republican supporters"?
This statement is POV. Where are the citations? The GOP back then had a strong conservative element. The radicals were just a portion of the party that was kicked out by then (or had moderated). The elections of 1868 and 1870 had done this. Whoever wrote this article needs to fix it —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.117.17.200 (talk) 00:01, 3 October 2010 (UTC)


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Expressway?
"In 2004, Beijing declared an cross-strait expressway project linking Beijing to Taipei connecting the two sides of the Taiwan Straits together. However, due to the potential unrealistic technical difficulties, Taipei considers this move as a political propaganda."

Cite? SchmuckyTheCat 22:29, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

Hmm...not Taipei considering this move as propaganda...it is do-able. The main opponents are the Pan-Green Coalition.

background?
this needs a small amount of background, explaining why the links between the two countries are so. i'm aware of a dispute between the countries, but couldn't really say what it is due to, or why it still exists in 2007. Inzy 19:57, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Pending Economic Crisis
Anyone else think the free-travel part of this plan would completely DESTROY the economy in Taiwan? Massive number of manual labor AND college graduates will move into Taiwan, further worsening the unemployeement problems. Population density will explode, and living cost will increase. Has there been any indepth research on the possible effects of opening up the borders? Ssh83 (talk) 22:16, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
 * There should be some articles on this. I only recall reading articles claiming there will not be much of an effect either way. Anyway, how is the opening of these links going to cause "massive labour influx"?? Aren't they only going to open up the market to tourists, and not the labour market?--Huaiwei (talk) 17:08, 27 March 2008 (UTC)

 * Someone's confusing travel with immigration.
 * And by the way, a massive influx of cheap labour would only boost the economy. How did you think the US became so advanced so quickly? --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 00:06, 15 December 2008 (UTC)

Opening sentence
''The Three Links or Three Linkages (Chinese: 三通; Pinyin: sān tōng) was a "message of Compatriots in Taiwan" calling for the unification of mainland China and Taiwan. It was sent by the PRC National People's Congress in 1979.[1]''

What does the opening sentence mean? Thre rest of the article seems to be about links between Taiwan and China, but the first sentence talks about a message. Readin (talk) 19:31, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

Politics
Kenyan political space heading to a different direction. 105.160.47.39 (talk) 04:43, 9 July 2022 (UTC)

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Juist

Juist (Juist) is an island and municipality in the district of Aurich in Lower Saxony in Germany. The island is one of seven East Frisian Islands at the edge of the Lower Saxon Wadden Sea in the southern North Sea. It is located between Borkum Island (west), Memmert Island (southwest) and Norderney (east). The island is 17 km long and from 500 m to 1 km wide, depending on the tide levels. There are two villages on the island: the main village Juist, and Loog. The island is separated from Norderney by the Norderneyer Seegatt.

Overview and geography
The tallest buildings on Juist that can be seen from the North Sea are the water tower and an old hotel. There is a lighthouse on the island, but it is not in use. At the western end of the island is the Billreef, a large sandbank where birds such as dunlins, grey plovers and knots rest during their migration. In the western part of the island, the beach and the dunes are eroded by the sea. The edge of the dunes moves about five metres south each winter. On the western third of the island is Lake Hammersee, a freshwater lake.

Juist is accessible by plane or daily ferry. FLN Frisia Luftverkehr operates planes between Norden and Juist. Most motor vehicles are prohibited on the island, with only the fire department, the German Red Cross and doctors allowed to use them. Island tractors require a special license, while most other transport is done by bike or horse-drawn carriage. It was reported by the Reuters news agency, on 24 September 2014, that an unmanned "parcelcopter" will commence delivery of urgent drugs and supplies to the island by DHL. It will be the first time an unmanned aircraft had been authorised to deliver goods in Europe and the first time that automated drones have been used to deliver medicines anywhere in the world. The flight at an altitude of 50 m and at a speed of up to 18 m/s will be automated but monitored in Norddeich.

Economy
Tourism is the main source of income for Juist's economy. Almost all the buildings on the island feature guestrooms, with several hotels and a youth hostel also on the island. There used to be an island partnership between Juist and Hiddensee in the Baltic Sea between 1990 and 2000.

History
In the 17th and 18th centuries, Juist was cut in two parts by several storm tides (see St. Peter's Flood). Around the year 1770 people started to close the 2 km wide burst at the southern side by a dune dike. As recently as 1928 the northern side was repaired. By that time, the water in Lake Hammersee had turned from saltwater to freshwater. On September 9, 2001, Juist citizens voted for their mayor directly for the first time, with Karl-Josef Wederhake winning the election. He was re-elected in September 2006.

Notable people

 * Curt Bruns (1915–1945) was a war criminal who was executed for the murders of two American-Jewish POWs. He was one of the first Nazi war criminals to be executed in Allied-occupied Germany.
 * Martin Luserke (1880–1968) founded Stiftung Schule am Meer in 1924 and Schule am Meer in 1925 on Juist.
 * Ma Anand Sheela (1949-) lived in Juist after leaving Rajneeshpuram in Oregon.

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Clarksville, Illinois

Clarksville is an unincorporated community approximately ten kilometers northwest of the city of Marshall in east central Illinois. The village lies in on the north edge of Clark County in Dolson Township.

History
Clarksville was founded in 1851. In its heyday it hosted the usual variety of services for local farmers and other inhabitants including a blacksmith, general store, school and church. Only the latter (Clarksville Baptist Church, with a Southern Baptist affiliation) has persisted to the present day. Its century-old previous structure was recently vacated in favor of a larger new building completed in 2005. A cemetery between the two structures houses the remains of settlers and area inhabitants, some born in the 18th century.

After decades of decline as increased mobility made small local shops uncompetitive with the larger facilities in nearby towns, Clarksville is enjoying a modest resurgence in population. The damming of Mill Creek directly to the south of the village, and the establishment of an extensive county park along the lake have created demand for several modestly upscale new subdivisions along the north edge of Mill Creek Lake. Several storage facilities provide frequent visitors to the park a means of warehousing their boats near the lake, and a small restaurant/bait shop provides park visitors and locals with a social outlet. A local telephone cooperative provides telephone service to residents of the village and the surrounding area.

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Talk:Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party

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how about replacing the WORD "dramaticized" with "called attention" or something to that effect? -keremm

MS. Democratic Party "White-Only" or "White Controlled?"
There's recently been some back-and-forth edits to the article over whether to characterize the official Democratic Party of Mississippi in the 1960s as "white-only" or "white-controlled/dominated." Neither are wrong, but I think "white-only" is more accurate. When you registered to vote in Mississippi of that era (as with other Deep South states) you were not able to register as a member of a particular party. There was no place on the registration application to select party preference. Party membership was entirely controlled by the party apparatus who determined who was, and who was not, a member for the purposes of running for office, participating in party meetings and caucuses, and voting in the party's primary election. In Mississippi of that time, the Democratic Party rejected blacks and other nonwhites from membership. Party primaries were "white-only," African-Americans who attempted to vote in the Democratic primary had their ballots set aside and rejected. Blacks who tried to participate in party meetings were barred at the door. It may be that there were some blacks or other nonwhites who agreed with Democratic Party principles or voted for Democratic candidates, but since they were not allowed to participate in party activities at any level, they were not members of the party in any practical sense Brucehartford (talk) 19:17, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

Second Sentence
It says the MFDP wanted to challenge the legitimacy of the whites-only US Democratic Party. I believe this should read 'whites only Mississippi Democratic Party'. ColdIn02492 (talk) 18:56, 28 November 2011 (UTC)

 * I agree, 'whites only Mississippi Democratic Party' is more accurate than 'US Democratic Party.' Brucehartford (talk) 17:33, 29 November 2011 (UTC)

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Yol (film)

Yol (translated as The Way, The Road  or The Path ) is a 1982 Turkish film directed by Şerif Gören and Yılmaz Güney. The screenplay was written by Güney, and directed by his assistant Gören, as Güney was in prison at the time. Later, after Güney escaped from Imrali prison, he took the negatives of the film to Switzerland and later edited it in Paris.

The film is a portrait of Turkey in the aftermath of the 1980 Turkish coup d'état: its people and its authorities are shown via the stories of five prisoners given a week's home leave. The film has caused much controversy in Turkey, and was banned until 1999. However, it won numerous honours, including the Palme d'Or at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival. It also was selected as the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

Plot
In Turkey, several prisoners are granted temporary leave from prison. One of them, Seyit Ali (Tarık Akan), travels to his house and discovers that, in order to survive, his wife Zine (Şerif Sezer) had to turn to prostitution. Caught by her family, she was held captive for eight months so that Seyit Ali would end her life in an honour killing. Although seemingly determined initially, he changes his mind when he realizes that his wife is freezing while travelling in the snow. Despite his efforts to keep her alive, he ultimately fails, and his wife's death relieves Seyit Ali from family pressure.

Another prisoner, Mehmet Salih (Halil Ergün), has been arrested for his role in a heist with his brother-in-law, whom he abandoned as police shot at him. His in-laws disown him, and he is finally forced to tell his wife Emine (Meral Orhonsay) the truth. Emine and Mehmet Salih decide to run away on a train. On the train, they are caught in the washroom about to have sex. They are saved from an angry mob by the train's officers and held in a cabin. A young boy from Emine's family, who has boarded the train, shoots both Mehmet Salih and Emine.

Ömer (Necmettin Çobanoğlu) returns to his village, situated near the border between Turkey and Syria, and arranges to cross the border to escape prison. Ömer finds his village in a battle between Kurdish smugglers and Turkish soldiers. Though Ömer is clearly determined, he gives up after his brother, who took part in the battle, is shot dead. Through his brother's death, Ömer inherits the responsibility for his late brother's family and becomes the husband to his late brother's wife, as dictated by tradition, despite his attraction to a young woman in the village.

Production
Güney wrote the screenplay, in part inspired by his own captivity, which contained elaborate detail, but could not personally direct as he was in prison. Güney initially recruited Erden Kiral as his surrogate director but, displeased with Kiral's work, had it destroyed and fired him. This became the basis of Kiral's later film, Yolda.

Güney subsequently hired Serif Gören. There were rumours that several prisoners, including Güney, watched much of Gören's footage on a wall at the prison. Güney later broke out of prison to edit Yol in Switzerland.

Zülfü Livaneli made the music for the movie, but due to political atmosphere then in Turkey, he used a pseudonym Sebastian Argol in order to avoid possible sanctions from Turkish courts which were then operating under 1980 Turkish coup d'état rules.

Political controversy
The film was banned in Turkey because of its negative portrayal of Turkey at the time, which was under the control of a military dictatorship. Even more controversial was the limited use of the Kurdish language, music and culture (which were forbidden in Turkey at the time), as well as the portrayal of the hardships Kurds live through in Turkey. One scene in the movie even calls the location of Ömer's village "Kürdistan".

A new version of Yol was released in 2017, called Yol: The Full Version in which many of these controversial parts and scenes have been taken out, to make the film suitable for release in Turkey. In order to be shown at the Turkish stand at Cannes 2017 the Kürdistan insert was removed. In what critics say goes against the director Yılmaz Güney's wishes and call "censorship", the frame showing "Kürdistan" as well as a highly political scene where Ömer speaks about difficulties of being Kurdish were removed.

Another new version exists for the international market with all the politically controversial scenes included.

Rights dispute
The rights to Yol were disputed for a long time. Even during Yilmaz Güney's lifetime, there were major conflicts about the ownership of the film between Güney and Donat Keusch, the head of a Swiss-based service company called Cactus Film AG, who claimed to own the entire rights of the film. After Güney's death, the dispute escalated between Keusch and Güney's widow.

When Keusch filed for bankruptcy with his Cactus Film AG in 1999, the situation became even more complicated and resulted in numerous lawsuits in both Switzerland and France. There still are numerous sellers in the market claiming to be the sole owner of the world rights to Yol, and the film is offered in different versions through different distribution channels.

According to the bankruptcy office Zurich Aussersihl, Keusch received the rights which still remained in Cactus Film on March 4, 2010. This happened without payment. Keusch also sent this contract to the RCA-directory of the French CNC (film number 2010.2922) trying to use it as a proof that he had rights. In any case Keusch could only get from the bankruptcy office rights that cactus film had since no bankruptcy office can create non-existing rights.

Reception
Vincent Canby, writing for The New York Times, wrote that, although the film addressed significant issues, touching on these issues did not make it great art. Canby described it as "a large, decent, ponderous panorama". Time critic Richard Corliss declared Güney "a world-class moviemaker".

In 1982, director Werner Herzog said that Yol is "one of the films that has touched me so deeply — like barely anything else in the last ten years. It's just a masterpiece". In his 2015 Movie Guide, Leonard Maltin gave it three stars, describing it as "Incisive". In 2016, The Hollywood Reporter ranked it the 65th best film to win the Palme d'Or, saying the production was a better story than that on screen.

Accolades
The film won three honours at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival, tying for the top prize, the Palme d'Or, with Missing by Costa-Gavras. The film was selected as the Swiss entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 55th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.

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Isabelle Holland

Isabelle Christian Holland (June 16, 1920 – February 9, 2002) was an American author of fiction for children and adults. She wrote gothic novels, adult mysteries, romantic thrillers and many books for children and young adults.

Life and career
Holland was born in Basel, Switzerland. Her father was the American Consul in Liverpool, England, during World War II. Due to the war, she moved to the United States in 1940. She attended Tulane University and also was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. As publicity director for Lippincott, she oversaw the publicity for To Kill a Mockingbird and became a friend of author Harper Lee. She wrote over 50 books and was still working at the time of her death at age 81 in New York City.

Holland's books for children and young adults tackled a variety of difficult and/or controversial topics—death, rape, incest, teen pregnancy, sexual abuse, and homosexuality. Reoccurring themes in her books for adults and children include the ravages of alcoholism on families, and the healing and redemptive power of animals.

Her literary archives are in the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi and the Kerlan Collection of Children's Literature at the University of Minnesota.

Two of her novels have been made into movies:

 * Bump in the Night (1991)
 * The Man Without a Face (1993)

These novels deal with issues or allegations of pedophilia.

Works

 * (1953) "The Fortune Hunter" (fiction). Collier's, Jan 24, pp. 32–39.
 * (1967) Cecily (fiction)
 * (1970) Amanda's Choice (fiction)
 * (1972) The Man Without a Face (fiction)
 * (1973) Heads You Win Tails I Lose (fiction)
 * (1974) Trelawny (fiction)
 * (1975) Of Love and Death and Other Journeys (fiction)
 * (1975) Kilgaren (fiction)
 * (1975) Moncrieff (fiction)
 * (1976) Trelawny's Fell (fiction)
 * (1976) Standish Place (fiction)
 * (1977) Alan and the Animal Kingdom (fiction)
 * (1977) Darcourt (fiction)
 * (1977) Hitchhike (fiction)
 * (1978) The DeMaury Papers (fiction)
 * (1978) Dinah and the Green Fat Kingdom (fiction)
 * (1978) Grenelle (fiction)
 * (1978) Journey for Three (fiction)
 * (1978) Ask No Questions (fiction)
 * (1979) Tower Abbey (fiction)
 * (1979) The Marchington Inheritance (fiction)
 * (1980) Now Is Not Too Late (fiction)
 * (1980) Counterpoint (fiction)
 * (1981) Counterpart (fiction)
 * (1981) Summer of My First Love (fiction)
 * (1981) The Lost Madonna (fiction)
 * (1982) Abbie's God Book (fiction)
 * (1982) A Horse Named Peaceable (fiction)
 * (1983) The Empty House (fiction)
 * (1983) God, Mrs. Muskrat and Aunt Dot (fiction)
 * (1983) Perdita (fiction)
 * (1983) After the First Love (fiction)
 * (1984) Kevin's Hat (fiction)
 * (1984) A Death at St. Anselm's (mystery)
 * (1984) Green Andrew Green (fiction)
 * (1984) The Island (fiction)
 * (1985) Jenny Kiss'd Me (fiction)
 * (1986) Henry and Grudge (fiction)
 * (1987) Toby the Splendid (fiction)
 * (1987) The Christmas Cat (fiction)
 * (1987) Love and the Genetic Factor (fiction)
 * (1988) Love and Inheritance (fiction)
 * (1988) Bump in the Night (fiction)
 * (1989) The Easter Donkey (fiction)
 * (1989) A Fatal Advent (mystery)
 * (1989) The Unfrightened Dark (fiction)
 * (1990) The Journey Home (fiction)
 * (1990) Thief (fiction)
 * (1991) Search (fiction)
 * (1991) The House in the Woods (fiction)
 * (1994) Behind the Lines (fiction)
 * (1995) Family Trust (fiction)
 * (1996) The Promised Land (fiction)
 * (1999) Paperboy (fiction)

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