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Contemporary ballet

Contemporary ballet is a genre of dance that incorporates elements of classical ballet and modern dance. It employs classical ballet technique and in many cases classical pointe technique as well, but allows a greater range of movement of the upper body and is not constrained to the rigorously defined body lines and forms found in traditional, classical ballet. Many of its attributes come from the ideas and innovations of 20th-century modern dance, including floor work and turn-in of the legs. The style also contains many movements emphasizing the body's flexibility.

History
George Balanchine is often considered to have been the first pioneer of contemporary ballet. However, the true origin of contemporary ballet is credited to Russian art producer Serge Diaghilev. Diaghilev wanted to bring an understanding of the arts to the general public. He created a program that combined all forms of the arts (painting, music, theater, and art) to present to the public. When this program had success in Russia, Diaghilev was inspired to bring it to a European audience by creating a new spin on classical ballet. He created Diaghilev's Russian Ballet Company, debuting the first show in 1909. However, Diaghilev was not a choreographer, he entrusted the evolvement of his creation to several well-known choreographers, one of them being George Balanchine.

The style of dance Balanchine developed, which lies between classical ballet and today's contemporary ballet, is known by today's standards as neoclassical ballet. He used flexed hands (and occasionally feet), turned-in legs, off-centered positions, and non-traditional costumes, such as leotards, tunics, and "powder puff" tutus instead of "pancake" tutus, to distance his work from the classical and romantic ballet traditions. Balanchine invited modern dance performers such as Paul Taylor in to dance with his company, the New York City Ballet, and he worked with modern dance choreographer Martha Graham, which expanded his exposure to modern techniques and ideas. During this period, other choreographers such as John Butler and Glen Tetley began to consciously combine ballet and modern techniques in experimentation.

Choreographers
One dancer who trained with Balanchine and absorbed much of this neoclassical style was Mikhail Baryshnikov. Following Baryshnikov's appointment as artistic director of the American Ballet Theatre in 1980, he worked with various modern choreographers, most notably Twyla Tharp. Tharp choreographed Push Comes To Shove for ABT and Baryshnikov in 1976; in 1986 she created In The Upper Room for her own company. Both of these pieces were considered innovative for their use of distinctly modern movements melded with the use of pointe shoes and classically trained dancers—for their use of contemporary ballet.

Tharp also worked with The Joffrey Ballet, founded in 1957 by Robert Joffrey. She choreographed Deuce Coupe for them in 1973, using pop music and a blend of modern and ballet techniques. The Joffrey Ballet continued to perform numerous contemporary pieces, many choreographed by co-founder Gerald Arpino.

Other notable contemporary choreographers include Jorma Elo, William Forsythe, Mark Morris, Jiri Kylian, Alonzo King, and Trey McIntyre.

Technique
Contemporary ballet draws from both modern dance and classical ballet for its training methods and technique. For a dancer to be able to embody various styles the training regimen has become more diverse. In addition to classical technique, which often includes the signature speed and style of George Balanchine for American dancers, dancers study modern as well. In addition, many dancers do various forms of cross training. Pilates and yoga are often included to loosen muscles and align the body. Since the late 1920s, Pilates has been a popular form of cross training to help prevent injury, but increasingly, the Gyrotonic Expansion System is being utilized. With contemporary work, dancers' spines need to be more supple and they need to understand how to be grounded. This is in contrast to classical and neoclassical ballet where the dancers are required to "pull up" and the upper body is held. Dancers are required to first obtain classical ballet training in order to build on it with more modern technique in order to be more versatile. Despite formal training, dancers are often affected by ankle injuries, due to the high intensity footwork.

Costumes
The costumes and footwear differ from any other style of dance as well. In contemporary ballet, dancers can be asked to wear pointe shoes, regular ballet shoes, or even no shoes at all. The same versatile approach goes for the music, setting, and costumes. Contemporary ballet does not require certain standards to be met. While it has more guidelines that modern dance, it does not conform to the limits of classical ballet. Classical ballet requires tutus, pointe shoes and scenery. Contemporary ballet uses different types of costumes, ranging from traditional to more modern tunic type versions. The music choices may vary as well. In classical ballet, most often the choreography is done to classical music. In contemporary ballet, the music can range from the traditional classical music to popular music of today.

Present day
Today there are many contemporary ballet companies and choreographers all over the world. Notable companies include Nederlands Dans Theater, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, and Alonzo King LINES Ballet. Likewise, many traditionally "classical" companies also regularly perform contemporary works. Most classically trained dancers who may identify as professional ballet dancers are required to be very versatile and able to perform work ranging from classical to neoclassical to contemporary ballet to modern dance. They are required to have impeccable ballet technique with a mastery of pointe technique for women, but at the same time, are being asked to be just as comfortable in ballet slippers or bare feet performing the work of modern choreographers such as Paul Taylor or embracing Gaga in the work of Ohad Naharin.

It is very common for ballet companies to have an official choreographer in residence to create new work—often contemporary—on the company. For example, Dwight Rhoden serves as both Artistic Director and the primary choreographer for Complexions Contemporary Ballet. As well, many contemporary choreographers are commissioned to go to companies to create new work or a company will pay for the rights to perform already existing work and an official repetiteur will come to stage it. Twyla Tharp, as previously mentioned, is a renowned choreographer whose work is widely performed.

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List of people on the postage stamps of the Faroe Islands

List of people on the postage stamps of the Faroe Islands reflects people of importance to the history and society of Faroe Islands. The Postverk Føroya have chosen an issuing policy where stamp designs are relevant to the islands themselves. The Faroese government uses stamps to build a profile of the country's history, culture, nature and economy.

The Faroe Isles issued their first stamps on January 30, 1975. As the isles are an independent part of Denmark, Danish stamps were used on the isles previous to this date. From a philatelic point of view, there are earlier events of interest in the postal history of the Faroe Islands, but their first stamps came in 1975.


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Smeg Virus Construction Kit

The Smeg Virus Construction Kit (or SMEG) is a polymorphic engine written by virus writer Chris Pile, known as The Black Baron. SMEG is an acronym for Simulated Metamorphic Encryption Generator. Messages within the two viruses Pile created with it, SMEG.Pathogen and SMEG.Queeg, suggest that it is also an allusion to the word smeg, used as a profanity by characters in the British TV series Red Dwarf. The engine is designed to be used to add polymorphism to viruses.

In 1995, Pile was sentenced to 18 months in prison for creating the viruses, becoming the first person convicted under the Computer Misuse Act.

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Metallica Resources

Metallica Resources Inc. was a Canadian-based mineral and gold mining company.

Metallica Resources was a publicly held Canadian mineral exploration and development company with a geographic focus in the Americas. The company had an ownership interest in a gold project at Cerro de San Pedro Mexico. This project generated legal challenges and concerted opposition by local citizens and organizations across Mexico and North America. The concerns were that the open-pit cyanide leach-pit process used by the project would produce irreparable harm to the environment and historical patrimony of this region in Mexico. Over the years, Mexican courts suspended or revoked various permits for Metallica's Cerro de San Pedro project. There were fourteen cases before the Mexican courts awaiting resolution. The Cerro de San Pedro case was also reviewed by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). In addition, the company had a significant copper-gold project in Chile. Metallica's corporate goal was to build shareholder value through growth of its existing assets and pursuit of quality investment opportunities.

The company was acquired by New Gold Inc., and delisted from the Toronto Stock Exchange effective July 4, 2008.

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Thomas McGarry

Thomas William McGarry (1871-1935) was a Canadian politician. He served as a Conservative Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Renfrew South from 1905 to 1919, and as provincial treasurer from 1914 to 1919. He was born to Thomas McGarry and Mary Dowdall. He died in 1935.

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Puirt à beul

Puirt à beul (, literally "tunes from a mouth") is a traditional form of song native to Scotland (known as portaireacht in Ireland) that sets Gaelic lyrics to instrumental tune melodies. Historically, they were used to accompany dancing in the absence of instruments and to transmit instrumental tunes orally.

Term
The Scottish Gaelic term port à beul refers to "a tune from a mouth—specifically a cheerful tune—which in the plural becomes puirt à beul". In Scotland, they are usually referred to as puirt à beul but a variety of other spellings and misspellings also exists, for example port-a-beul, puirt a bheul, puirt a' bhéil, etc. These are mostly because a number of grammatical particles in Gaelic are very similar in nature, such as the definite article a, the prepositions "of" and "to" which can both be a and the preposition á "from" which can appear without the acute accent.

Modern Irish dictionaries give port (aireacht) béil, translated as "mouth music" also referred to as lilting. Older dictionaries, such as Dinneen, only give portaiḋeaċt, portaireaċt, or portonaċt. Puirt à beul are related to Irish lilting, Scottish diddling, New Brunswick chin music, and other "Celtic" forms of mouth music. However, whereas these latter forms of mouth music consist of improvised vocables, puirt à beul lyrics are fixed and almost always consist of "real" (i.e., lexical) words, although sometimes vocables are also present.

Origin
Puirt à beul have sometimes been used for dancing when no instruments were available. They have also been used to help soothe an upset child, or act as a tool for learning the tune on an instrument. Although some people believe that puirt à beul derive from a time when musical instruments, particularly bagpipes, were unavailable because they were banned, there is no evidence that musical instruments were banned by the Disarming Acts or the Act of Proscription 1746. In his book Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping 1745-1945, John Gibson reprints the entire Disarming Act of 1746, which is usually blamed for the proscription of bagpipes, and shows that bagpipes were not banned.

Characteristics
Usually, the genre involves a single performer singing lighthearted, sometimes bawdy lyrics, occasionally supplemented with meaningless vocables.

In puirt à beul, the rhythm and sound of the song often have more importance than the rhythm of the lyrics. Normally, puirt are sung in a (reel or strathspey) or  (jig) metre. Although puirt à beul are traditionally performed by a solo singer, there are many choral arrangements or puirt à beul today, and group performances are sometimes presented at mods.

Some elements of puirt à beul may have originated as memory aids or as alternatives to instrumental forms such as bagpipe music. "We also have puirt a beul or mouth music—songs in which the rhythm of the words is meant to replicate the rhythm of certain dance tunes. Some of these songs may have been composed to assist fiddlers, and occasionally pipers, in learning a tune. Others may have been composed as a means of remembering tunes when the playing of the bagpipes or fiddle were proscribed or frowned upon."

A well-known example of puirt à beul is "Brochan Lom", which is sung in the film Whisky Galore!, and occurs as background music in the film The Bridal Path. A third example, sung by Kitty MacLeod and her sister, occurs in Walt Disney’s Rob Roy, the Highland Rogue, during the wedding celebration.

Quadriga Consort has been the first ensemble to bring puirt à beul into early music revival.

Mouth music in the Americas
Mouth music was probably once common in areas of North America where Gaelic-speaking Scottish Highlanders predominated, in particular the Cape Fear area of North Carolina and Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia. Nowadays it is largely restricted to the latter, as it was a more homogeneous society with less access to other cultural areas.

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Danny Boy (rapper)

Daniel O'Connor (born December 12, 1968), better known as Danny Boy or Danny Boy O'Connor, is an American rapper, art director, and the executive director of The Outsiders House Museum. O'Connor spent his childhood in New York, before moving to Los Angeles in the 1980s. In the 1990s, O'Connor co-founded the rap group House of Pain, with fellow rapper Erik Schrody (Everlast) and DJ Leor Dimant (DJ Lethal). Based on their cultural heritage they fashioned themselves as rowdy Irish-American hooligans. O'Connor played the role of art director, designing logos, branding, hype man, and co-rapper. In 1992, with the singles "Jump Around" and "Shamrocks and Shenanigans", their self-titled debut album, also known as Fine Malt Lyrics, went platinum.

They followed it up with Same as It Ever Was (1994), which went gold, and Truth Crushed to Earth Shall Rise Again (1996), before they all went their separate ways. O'Connor took part in several music projects, and continued doing designs as freelance work. In 2006, O'Connor founded the rap group La Coka Nostra where he was joined by George Carroll (Slaine), William Braunstein (Ill Bill), Dimant, and Schrody (only for the first album). Together they have three releases: A Brand You Can Trust (2009), Masters of the Dark Arts (2012) and To Thine Own Self Be True (2016).

In 2016, O'Connor, who is a lifelong fan of S. E. Hinton's book The Outsiders and its film adaptation by Francis Ford Coppola, bought the house used in the film located in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He turned it into a museum named The Outsiders House Museum, that contains much of the book and film memorabilia. For his efforts preserving a cultural landmark, he received a key to the city.

Early life
O'Connor was born in Brooklyn, New York City, on December 12, 1968. His father was incarcerated when O'Connor was two months old. O'Connor and his mother moved to Los Angeles when he was six. When O'Connor was seventeen, his father, a homeless alcoholic, was murdered by someone who poured gasoline on him to set him on fire. During that time O'Connor was in a gang involved in petty crimes, and he was placed on probation.

1990–1992: Founding House of Pain and breakthrough
In 1990, O'Connor got together with fellow rapper Erik Schrody (Everlast) who had just released a rap album called Forever Everlasting (1990), that didn't have much success. O'Connor knew Schrody when he went to William Howard Taft High School in Woodland Hills, California (1984–1986), and various hip hop event they attended in their teens. Both of Irish descent, they decided to make a hip hop group with this identity. While hanging out at O'Connor's home, Schrody noticed a cassette with the title House of Pain, which was a demo of a Punk group O'Connor tried to put together. Schrody really liked the name and felt they should re-use as their name. Schrody brought in his former DJ Leor Diamant (DJ Lethal), who is actually of Latvian descent, and House of pain was created. While in House of Pain, O'Connor acted as the hype man, second emcee, art director and the graphic artist of the group. After they recorded a demo, for which O'Connor designed the cover, that created a bidding war among labels. The label they chose was Tommy Boy Records, who credits O'Connor's art work to have initially caught their attention.

In 1992, they released their debut album House of Pain, subtitled Fine Malt Lyrics. Their first single "Jump Around" was a major hit. In the United States, it peaked at number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100, while reaching number 5 on the Hot Rap Songs, 13 on Rhythmic Top 40, 1 on Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales, number 17 on the Billboard Dance Club Songs, and is certified platinum. O'Connor expressed regrets for not doing any writing on Jump Around, for the later royalties it could have provided him. Their second single "Shamrocks and Shenanigans (Boom Shalock Lock Boom)", it peaked at 65 on the Billboard Hot 100, 75 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, 14 on the Dance Club Songs, and 74 on Radio Songs. The album peaked at 14 on the Billboard 200, 14 on the U.S. Billboard Top Current Albums, 16 on the U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, 14 on the U.S. Billboard Top Album Sales, and is certified platinum. Rolling Stone gave three point five stars, good plus, and noted "with a groovy swagger, this collection of hard-core hip-hop tracks offers many moments of technicolor snap and crackle, and also titled House of Pain". Q magazine wrote that it is a good album three stars and said "...their music is of the dense, hard-hitting school of hip hop...the group have absorbed black rap's musical lessons and create a satisfying platform for their above average deliveries..." The Source said it was a good plus, gave it three point five stars and concluded that it is "...a very solid and at times exceptional album...imagine if Licensed to Ill wasn't an upper middle class Jewish thing but rather a working class Irish thang...the atmosphere is like that of a cross between a frat party and a bar room brawl... NME gave it a six calling it good and noting "...contains some creative and accomplished rap music..." Rob Theakston of AllMusic gave it four stars.

1993–1996: Subsequent success and group's breakup
In 1993, O'Connor with his group mates were among the rap artists who had cameo roles in Ted Demme's film Who's the Man?. For this project they provided a theme song by the same name, which was also used as a single for the soundtrack and their subsequent album. It rose to number 97 on the Billboard Hot 100, 77 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks, and 10 on the US Billboard Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales.

In 1994, they released Same as It Ever Was. The album peaked at 12 equally on the Billboard 200, the U.S. Billboard Top Current Albums, the U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, the U.S. Billboard Top Album Sales, and is certified gold. AllMusic gave it four out five stars. Matt Carlson of The Michigan Daily found the album quite good and noted "the music is laid back with some heavy driving forces underlying and strengthening it". J.D. Constantine of The Baltimore Sun did not like album and found it monotonous and unimaginative. Roger Catlin of the Hartford Courant said that while finding the continuity monotonous it's "hard and compelling" as well as a "strong outing". Andrew Love of The Ocala Star-Banner gave it four stars saying "this is a band that has definitely progressed over the course of one album". Music critic Robert Christgau, who did not like their previous and subsequent album, gave it an A− and described it as "the hardest hip hop of the year".

Also in 1994, O'Connor acted in Allan Arkush's television film Shake, Rattle and Rock!,  part of the Rebel Highway series.

In 1996, they released Truth Crushed to Earth Shall Rise Again. The album peaked at 47 on the Billboard 200, 47 on the U.S. Billboard Top Current Albums, 31 on the U.S. Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and 47 on the U.S. Billboard Top Album Sales. At the release party, Schrody decided to breakup the group. Dave Ferman of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram gave it one star and a half, calling it a "woeful mess". Steve Juon of RapReviews gave it a seven out of ten. AllMusic music gave it two point five stars out of five. Sputnikmusic wrote that "the trio’s most rounded, consistent & memorable LP is grossly under-appreciated."

Also in 1996, O'Connor was announced to be part of the cast of Soleil Moon Frye directorial debut. The film was released in 1998 as Wild Horses.

1997–2018: return from obscurity and back to prominence
After House of Pain disbanded, O'Connor said he struggled with drug abuse, a problem he developed when he became famous, and spent all the money he made from the group's success. He said he sobered up briefly in 2000 joining the twelve-step program but relapsed after a having a drink, and rejoined the program in 2005, and stayed sober ever since.

Nevertheless, O'Connor continued being involved in musical projects and did freelance work such as logo designing, streetwear, and sneakers.

In 2001, O'Connor's next group XSupermodels (XSM) only saw a promotional release for their album Artificial Intelligence. That year, he was the featured rapper in Powerman 5000's remake of the Frankie Goes to Hollywood hit song "Relax", on the Zoolander soundtrack.

In late 2004, the creation of the rap supergroup La Coka Nostra started when O'Connor was mentoring young artists. O'Connor explains that he tool notice of two up and comers George Carroll (Slaine) and John Faster (Big Left) and brought them to meet his former DJ from House of Pain, Leor Diamant. They decided to make a group with an additional rapper, who didn't stay too long, that Diamant took under his wing, as well as O'Connor becoming its hype man and art director. The group started releasing music on MySpace, and went viral. Eventually, O'Connor felt that there was a void and asked experienced rapper William Braunstein (Ill Bill) to join. The group's name came about, when O'Connor teased other members with that nickname, after they had a night out. Eventually, former House of Pain colleague Erik Schrody, showed interest to join. By 2008, the group consisted of O'Connor, Carroll, Diamant, Braunstein, and Schrody (who left some time after the first album was released).

In 2005, the documentary film Just for Kicks about the sneaker phenomena and history in hip-hop, had its world premiere. O'Connor was among the producers. It won "Best Documentary", and "Best Overall Film" at the USVI Film festival. It was part of the official selection at Tribeca Film Festival, Sheffield Documentary Festival, Amsterdam Documentary Festival, Bangkok International Film Festival, Res Fest, New York Latino Film Festival, San Francisco Black Film Festival, NYC Urban World Festival, Leipzig Documentary Festival, and US Virgin Islands Film Festivals.

In 2009, La Coka Nostra released A Brand You Can Trust was released on July 14, 2009, on Suburban Noize Records. It sold over 500,000 units. AllMusic gave four out of five stars. Andrew Kameka of HipHopDX wrote that "the album is a mostly solid effort and exactly what someone would expect from a supergroup of like-minded members known for high-energy music". Adam Kennedy of the BBC while praising some the moments of the album said "it’s a tantalising parting taste of potential capabilities, yet until they improve a customer satisfaction hit rate that barely troubles one in three tunes here". Steve Juon of RapReviews gave it a seven out of ten. Thomas Quinlan of Exclaim! said "La Coka Nostra are an interesting collection of collaborators that live up to the hype".

Also in 2009, House of Pain reunited at a private event held by UFC president Dana White in Boston on St. Patrick's Day. It was officially announced on August 10, 2010, that House of Pain had reunited and performed their first "official" show in a decade at the second annual Epicenter music festival in Fontana, California, on September 25, 2010. Though Diamant is still a member of the group, he did not join them on their 2011 reunion tour due to prior obligations with Limp Bizkit. In April–May 2011 House of Pain attended the Groovin' the Moo touring festival in Australia, and also performed at Scotland's T in the Park festival on July 9, 2011, as well as Sonisphere UK Festival on July 12 of the same year. House of Pain reunited in 2017 for a 25th Anniversary Tour. The tour included shows in DC, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, and California.

Finally that year, while touring, they had a three day layover in Tulsa, Oklahoma. O'Connor took advantage of this free time to visit the town and found the location of the house used by the main characters in the filmThe Outsiders (1983). He took a picture, posted it on MySpace, and the photo went viral. This led O'Connor to found The Delta Bravo Urban Exploration Team. With team-members in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York City, they visit documents notable pop culture landmarks from film, television, music, and true crime. One of their speciality is to show a photo of what the location looks like now to compared it to what it looked like when it was part of something that gained notoriety. Delta Bravo identified locations from movies and television shows including Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Saturday Night Fever (1977), Valley Girl (1983), The Bad News Bears (1976), All in the Family (1971 to 1979), Gilligan's Island (1964 to 1967), etc.

In 2012, separately from The Delta Bravo Urban Exploration Team, La Coka Nostra released their second album, Masters of the Dark Arts. It reached 176 on Billboard Top Current Albums, 40 on Independent Albums, and 31 on Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. Adam Fleischer of XXL magazine noted that "La Coka Nostra remain decidedly true to their core with their new album" and "that they are indeed masters of the dark arts". HipHopDX gave the album a positive review and noted that the album was a "sinister, happily violent detour from the pop-centric". Peter Marrack of Exclaim! also gave the album a positive review and noted that the album was "more or less a one-way ticket to hell". Nathan G. O'Brien of Scene Point Blank gave it four out five star and said "with Master of the Dark Arts La Coka Nostra’s pluperfect union of bombastic boom-bap, record scratching, and realism-based hardcore rhyming".

In 2016, La Coka Nostra released To Thine Own Self Be True. The album reached 38 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. Steve Juon of RapReviews gave eight point five out of ten and wrote "for a blissful 45 minutes it's an uncut dose of that nostalgia straight through the ear canals to the dopamine centers of my brain".

That same year, the film Let Me Make You a Martyr premiered, in which O'Connor plays a role.

2019–present: The Outsiders House museum and current works
O'Connor, a lifelong fan of S. E. Hinton's book The Outsiders and its film adaptation by Francis Ford Coppola, opened The Outsiders House Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on August 9, 2019. Since 2009, when discovering the house where the lead characters of the film, the Curtis Brothers, lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma. O'Connor always had the thought of buying it, which he eventually did in 2016. O'Connor said he bought it sight unseen and when he first went inside that it was falling apart. With the help of friends, the Oklahoma Film and Music Office, the City Council, local business and individuals who volunteered the restoration started. After raising funds the house went through extensive renovations to restore it and maintain its authenticity from the film. A GoFundMe was set up for additional funds, notable donors include Jack White who donated $30,000 and Billy Idol. Also to raise funds, screenings of the film were organized that actor C. Thomas Howell (one of the film's lead) attended. Also in 2016, the street signs on the corner were changed to "The Outsiders way" and "The Curtis Brothers Lane". Since its opening, the museum now contains a collection of The Outsiders memorabilia. On the quiz show Jeopardy! a question about him and the museum was showcased Rapper Danny Boy O'Connor loved the Tulsa house used in the film version of this author's The Outsiders so he restored it. For his efforts on preserving a cultural landmark O'Connor received a key to the city of Tulsa.

On November 1 of that year, the institution installed a plaque commemorating in a scene Rumble Fish (1983), another film directed by Coppola based on a Hinton novel shot in Tulsa, in the alley south of 5th Street between Main Street and Boston Avenue.

In 2021, separately from The Delta Bravo Urban Exploration Team and The Outsiders House museum, O'Connor acted in the suspense film Ida Red. That same year he was a prominent interviewee in Soleil Moon Frye's documentary Kid 90.

On June 3, 2022, O 'Connor released a photography exhibit named We saw the same sunset at Mother Road Market. It shows the photos of a thousand sunset taken from the same window on the thirteenth floor of the Mayo Hotel. O'Connor said, “This exhibit is my love letter to Tulsa, when I moved from L.A. to Tulsa five years ago, I was awestruck by Tulsa’s sunsets. I love the idea that we all share the same sunset regardless of our differences, bringing us a step closer to each other.” On June 10, the short documentary Old House New Home, where O'Connor is credited as an executive producer, premiered at the DeadCENTER Film Festival, where it won the best Okie short award. The documentary is about O'Connor's effort to preserve the house from The Outsiders. At the same festival the thriller film Out for Exile premiered. In it O'Connor plays a role.

In October 2022, O'Connor with The Outsiders House Museum published the book The Outsiders ‘Rare and Unseen’, which contains 148 photos by David Burnett who was the set's photographer. O'Connor said: “We originally got the first lot of photos and then [Burnett] said there may be more. They found the rougher photos, and for me, that’s where the rubber meets the road because they’re unpolished, their guard’s down, they’re not posing".

In 2023, O'Connor acted in two John Swab's films Little Dixie, and One Day as Lion. On April 14 of that year, as part of a 40th anniversary celebration of the release of The Outsiders, O'Connor installed a plaque commemorating the film which was installed at the Admiral Twin drive-In where a scene was shot.

On February 2024, O'Connor served as judge alongside Olivia Jordan and Zac Hanson for the talent competition the "Big Show Off". The event was created to raise funds and awareness to the homelessness issues in Tulsa. Also that month the documentary film Mad Props started its theatrical run. The film is about movie prop collectors and O'Connor is among the interviewees.

On May 2024, O'Connor with The Outsiders House Museum published the book The Outsiders on set, which contains 254 pages of photos by Nancy Moran a photographer who visited The Outsiders 's set while they were shooting. O'Connor explained that when he discovered that this additional slew of photos existed, he approached Moran, who he didn't know, and to his surprise she let him have the negatives so that he could develop them.

Currently, O'Connor serves as a member of the Arts Commission of City of Tulsa. This came about when the Mayor searched for Tulsans willing to volunteer their time to City of Tulsa Authority, Board or Commission. The initiative is meant to have a citizen committees with a range of interests and their advice to develop future policies.

Personal life
During the height of House of Pain, O'Connor had a friendship with Mickey Rourke and was romantically involved with Soleil Moon Frye (with whom he maintains a friendship). He is also friends with Robert Romanus.

Accolades
1992 - Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group - "Jump Around" - Nomination - with House of Pain

2017 - Honorary High School Diploma - Will Rogers High School

2018 - Key to the city - Tulsa, Oklahoma

with House of Pain

 * House of Pain (1992)
 * Same as It Ever Was (1994)
 * Truth Crushed to Earth Shall Rise Again (1996)

with XSupermodels

 * Artificial Intelligence (2001) promo album

with La Coka Nostra

 * A Brand You Can Trust (2009)
 * Masters of the Dark Arts (2012)
 * To Thine Own Self Be True (2016)

Actor
Who's the Man? (1993) - Steve

Shake, Rattle and Rock! (1994) Cochran's Drummer Boy

Wild Horses (1998)

Let Me Make You a Martyr (2016) - Willie

Ida Red (2021) - Bird

Out for Exile (2022)

Little Dixie (2023) - Coka

One Day as Lion (2023) - Prison Guard MacDougal

Interviewee
Kid 90 (2021)

Mad Props (2024)

Producer
Just for Kicks (2005)

Old House New Home (2022)

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European Union Special Representative

The European Union Special Representatives (EUSR) are emissaries of the European Union with specific tasks abroad. While the EU's ambassadors are responsible for affairs with a single country, Special Representatives tackle specific issues, conflict areas or regions of countries. They answer directly to the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, currently Josep Borrell.

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Peter Sørensen took over the position of EUSR in Bosnia and Herzegovina with a mandate from 1 September 2011 until 30 June 2015. His post was de-coupled from the one of High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina (which remained in the hands of Valentin Inzko), aiming at fostering the EU pre-accession strategy for Bosnia and Herzegovina. However, in November 2014, Sørensen became Head of the EU Delegation in Geneva, leaving the EUSR BiH post vacant. Lars-Gunnar Wigemark was appointed as the EUSR in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1 March 2015 until 31 October 2015. His mandate was extended until 30 June 2018 and again until 31 August 2019. Johann Sattler replaced him in 2019, with a mandate from 1 September 2019 to 31 August 2023. His mandate was extended until 31 August 2024.

Kosovo
Tomáš Szunyog was appointed as Special Representative in Kosovo on 30 July 2020. His mandate runs from 1 September 2020 until 31 August 2023. His mandate was extended until 31 August 2024.

South Caucasus and the Crisis in Georgia
Toivo Klaar was appointed Special Representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia on 13 November 2017. His mandate was extended until 29 February 2020, and again until 28 February 2021. His mandate was again extended until 28 February 2022, and then again until 31 August 2022, and then again until 31 August 2023. and then until 31 August 2024.

Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue and other Western Balkan regional issues
On 3 April 2020, Miroslav Lajčák was appointed by the EU Council as Special Representative for the Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue and other Western Balkan regional issues. His 12-month mandate includes the tasks to achieve comprehensive normalisation of the relations between Serbia and Kosovo, improve good neighbourly relations and reconciliation between partners in the Western Balkans, helping them overcome the legacy of the past, and contribute to the consistency and effectiveness of EU action in the Western Balkans. His mandate runs from 2 April 2020 until 31 August 2022. His mandate was renewed until 31 August 2024.

Central Asia
Terhi Hakala is the Special Representative for Central Asia. Her mandate is to promote good relations between the EU and central Asian countries and to strengthen stability, cooperation, democracy and respect for human rights in the region. In particular, the EU Special Representative will co-ordinate EU action in central Asia and oversee the implementation of the EU Strategy for central Asia. Her mandate runs from 1 July 2021 to 28 February 2023. Her mandate was extended to 28 February 2025.

Gulf
On 1 June 2023, Luigi Di Maio, former Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, was appointed Special Representative of the European Union for the Persian Gulf. His aims will be to further develop a stronger, comprehensive and more strategic EU partnership with the countries in the Gulf region. He will also contribute to the stability and security of the region by engaging and supporting dialogue and long-term regional solutions with individual Gulf partners and relevant regional organisations. His mandare runs until 28 February 2025.

Middle East
Sven Koopmans has been appointed Special Representative for the Middle East peace process. His mandate runs from 1 May 2021 until 28 February 2023. Between 2017 and 2021 "he was a Member of Parliament in the Netherlands, where he was spokesperson on foreign affairs and head of delegation in the NATO Parliamentary Assembly." The mandate of the Special Representative is based on the EU's policy objectives regarding the Middle East peace process, which include a two-State solution with Israel and a democratic, contiguous, viable, peaceful and sovereign Palestinian State living side by side within secure and recognised borders enjoying normal relations with their neighbours in accordance with UN Security Council Resolutions 242, 338, 1397 and 1402 and the principles of the Madrid Conference. His mandate was extended until 28 February 2025.

Horn of Africa (incl. the region of Sudan)
Annette Weber was appointed Special Representative for the Horn of Africa on 1 July 2021. Her mandate runs until 31 August 2022. Her mandate was extended until 31 August 2024.

Sahel
Emanuela Del Re was appointed as the Special Representative for the Sahel on 21 June 2021. Her mandate runs from 1 July 2021 until 31 August 2022. Her mandate was renewed until 31 August 2024.

Human Rights
A long-standing request for a representative that would be in charge of enhancing the effectiveness and visibility of EU's human rights policy, based on the Strategic Framework and Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy (officially adopted on 25 June 2012), led to the creation of the post of the Special Representative of the European Union for Human Rights. The post, which is providing a strong, independent, flexible and sufficiently broad mandate, is aiming to cover fields such as the strengthening of democracy, International justice, humanitarian law and the abolition of the death penalty.

On 26 February 2024, Olof Skoog was appointed as the European Union Special Representative for human rights, with a mandate from 1 March 2024 until 28 February 2026.

Previous SRs
The table below is based on official sources provided by the EU.

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Omakase

Omakase (お任せ) is a Japanese phrase, used when ordering food in restaurants, that means 'I'll leave it up to you' (from Japanese 'to entrust' (任せる)).

Usage
The phrase omakase, literally 'I leave it up to you', is most commonly used when dining at Japanese restaurants where the customer leaves it up to the chef to select and serve seasonal specialties. The Japanese antonym for omakase is okonomi (from 好み konomi, "preference, what one likes"), which means choosing what to order. In American English, the expression is used by patrons at sushi restaurants to leave the selection to the chef, as opposed to ordering à la carte. The chef will present a series of plates, beginning with the lightest fare and proceeding to the heaviest dishes. The phrase is not exclusive to raw fish with rice and can incorporate grilling, simmering and other cooking techniques.

Characteristics

The Michelin Guide said "few formal dining experiences are as revered or as intimidating" as omakase.

Customers ordering omakase style expect the chef to be innovative and surprising in selecting dishes, and the meal can be likened to an artistic performance. Some people may think that ordering omakase can be a gamble; however, the customer typically receives the highest-quality fish available at a lower cost than if it had been ordered à la carte. According to Jeffrey Steingarten, recounting in Vogue a 22-course "memorable feast" that required several hours:

"In the U.S., omakase usually refers to an extended sushi dinner, ideally eaten at the sushi counter, where the chef prepares one piece of fish at a time, announces its name and origin, answers your questions, and guesses what else you might enjoy and how much more you'd like to eat. You expect to be brought the most perfect seafood available at that time of year, fish that will be handled as carefully as a kidney awaiting transplantation and as respectfully as a still-living thing. You marvel at the endless training of the dedicated staff, the precision of their work, their incredible concentration for hours at a time, their lack of pretense, their quiet. And the beauty of their knives." Food writer Joanne Drilling compared the omakase experience to prix fixe but said it was "slightly different. It involves completely ceding control of the ordering process and letting the chef choose your dinner." Like Steingarten she recommends omakase dining at the sushi counter. The Michelin guide called omakase the "spiritual companion and counterpoint to kaiseki", an elaborate multi-course highly ritualized meal.

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Malygin (1912 icebreaker)

The steamship Malygin (Малыгин) was a Soviet icebreaker of 3,200 tonnes displacement. She was named after Stepan Malygin.

Design and construction
The icebreaking passenger-cargo ship was built in 1911-12 as Bruce for the Reid Newfoundland Company for their mail service between Newfoundland and Canada, replacing the previous Bruce of 1897, which had been wrecked on 24 March 1911. RMS Bruce was Yard No.181 at Napier and Miller's shipyard at Old Kilpatrick on the River Clyde, Scotland and was launched on 9 December 1911. As built, the ship measured and, and was 250.4 ft long, with a beam of 36.2 ft and a depth of 23.1 ft. She was powered by a triple expansion steam engine made by John G. Kincaid & Company and rated at 3,000 horsepower and driving a single screw propeller. The hull was specially strengthened for working in ice.

On her delivery voyage, Bruce arrived at St. John's, Newfoundland on 12 February 1912, seven days, 21 hours and five minutes from Greenock, Scotland.

Commercial service
Bruce was registered at St. John's with Official Number 129921, and sailed on 13 February 1912 on her first service voyage to Sydney, Cape Breton Island, where she proved to be an efficient icebreaker Two months later, as survivors from the sinking of Titanic were still en route to New York, newspapers there published a detailed account of the sinking, claiming that it came from radio contacts between Bruce and ships in the rescue area; the circulation-boosting report on 17 April was found to be a complete fabrication. In March 1913, during a particularly severe ice season in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, she was stuck for a week near her regular destination port of Sydney. From that year Bruce, together with the new RMS Lintrose, maintained a daily service between the terminus of the Newfoundland Railway at Port aux Basques and Sydney.

Russian Empire
At the outbreak of the First World War in July 1914, the Russian Imperial Government needed to improve access through Arkhangelsk by delaying the annual icing-up of the port. Two icebreakers were purchased from Canada, the Government's Earl Grey (renamed Kanada) and Reid's Lintrose (renamed Sadko), and successfully delayed the end of the navigation season from mid-November until the beginning of January 1915. To secure this improvement, Bruce was additionally purchased in July 1915 and renamed Solovei Budemirovich or Solovey Budimirovich (Соловей Будимирович). In addition to icebreaking, Solovey Budmirovich provided coastal supply service between Murmansk and Belomorsk.

Towards the end of the civil war in north Russia, and after intervening Western forces had departed, the commander of local White forces, General Yevgeny Miller, sent Solovey Budimirovich to Igarka, attempting to source winter food for Arkhangelsk. By 30 January 1920 the ship, with 85 crew and passengers, was trapped in ice 50 nautical miles short of Igarka, and drifting north with ice, eventually into the Kara Sea, a distance of some 1,000 miles. No rescue was organised from Arkhangelsk and, when the Bolsheviks entered Arkhangelsk on 21 February 1920, they found that General Miller had fled to the west on the only available full icebreaker,Kozma Minin. By late March the situation on Solovey Budimirovich was desperate, with coal exhausted and boilers fuelled only with wooden barrels, food very limited, and radio communications cut to weekly, to conserve batteries. At the same time, the new Russian government was seeking help from Britain in the form of the icebreaker Sviatogor which had taken by British forces during the civil war and commissioned into the Royal Navy. It was agreed that Sviatogor would be loaned to the Norwegian Government for a rescue mission, under the leadership of Arctic explorer Otto Sverdrup, which reached the trapped ship on 19 June 1920, by which time she had drifted some 1000 miles in the ice.

Malygin
Solovey Budimirovich was renamed Malygin in August 1921 and on her maiden voyage she led the newly-founded Floating Marine Research Institute Plavmornin (now called the Nikolai M. Knipovich Polar Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography) to study the Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas, rivers, islands and coastal areas.

With other ships, including the icebreaker Krasin in 1928, Malygin took part in the search for the Umberto Nobile's dirigible expedition. On this voyage, Junkers pilot Mikhail Babushkin (Михаил Бабушкин) flew several aerial searches over the Arctic in search of the airship.

In July 1931, Vladimir Wiese led an expedition on Malygin to Franz Josef Land and the northern part of the Kara Sea, with Captain D.T. Chertkhov in command. Other members included technicians (amongst them Umberto Nobile) whose mission was to locate a suitable place for a Soviet floatplane base in Franz Josef Land. During this expedition the German airship Graf Zeppelin made a memorable rendezvous with Malygin at Bukhta Tikhaya on Hooker Island, Franz Josef Land, on July 27, 1931.

On 1 January 1933 she ran aground in Grønfjorden near Barentsburg, Spitzbergen while bound from Murmansk to Barentsburg. Malygin was refloated and towed to Arkhangelsk, where repairs were completed by May 1933.

In 1937-38, she took part in drifting expedition together with icebreakers Sadko (her sister ship, the former Lintrose) and Sedov.

The Malygin sank in a storm near Cape Nizhny, Kamchatka on 27/28 October 1940 with all 98 people on board while returning from a hydrographic expedition. Owing to lack of information about the disaster, Malygin was listed in Lloyd's Register until 1960.

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Guido Nincheri

Guido Nincheri (1885 – 1 March 1973) was a Canadian painter and designer working mainly in stained glass and fresco.

Biography
Guido Nincheri was born in Prato, Italy in 1885. He studied art in Florence and immigrated to Montreal in November 1913 after a short stay in Boston. He listed the artists Titian and Raphael as his strongest influences. He worked for Henri Perdriau, decorating churches in Quebec. He produced stained glass windows and frescoes for 100+ churches in Canada and United States.

Nincheri designed the interior decoration of many Catholic churches across Canada and New England, including Saint-Viateur d'Outremont and Saint-Léon de Westmount Church (a National Historic Site of Canada).

He not only executed frescoes and stained glass, but also designed a number of churches, including St. Anthony of Padua in Ottawa and the Church of the Madonna della Difesa in Montreal, which is famous for its fresco depicting Benito Mussolini on horseback among a group of the faithful. In the United States many of his works are found in the Franco-American Catholic Churches of the Providence Diocese in Rhode Island. Three of his largest works are in the Church of Christ the King, West Warwick, Rhode Island. His secular work includes the Roger Williams Park Museum of Natural History and Planetarium in Providence, Rhode Island and the Château Dufresne in Montreal.

St. John the Evangelist Anglican Church in Prescott, Ontario is home to Nincheri's "Lost Window", depicting the nativity and signed by the artist. Listed in their records simply as St John's Church, Prescott, curators assumed the window was in the counties of Prescott-Russell near the Quebec border but could not find it. St John the Evangelist is on the St Lawrence River west of Cornwall and south of Ottawa. From the 1930s until 2013, the three-panel scene graced the chapel attached to the church. When the chapel and adjacent hall were sold, the congregation had the window refurbished and moved into the main church worship space.

In addition to the churches mentioned above, his frescoes can be seen in Holy Ghost Church in Providence, Rhode Island; St. Ann's Church Complex in Woonsocket, Rhode Island; Ste. Amélie in Baie-Comeau, Quebec; St. Theresa of the Child Jesus in Ottawa; St. Francis of Assisi in Toronto; St. Michael's and St. Anthony's in Montreal; and the Chapel of the Saints-Noms-de-Jésus-et-de-Marie Mother House in Montreal.

Nincheri executed an estimated 5000 stained glass windows in about 200 different churches in Quebec, Ontario, the Maritimes, British Columbia, and New England, as well as at St. Stanislaus Church in Amsterdam, New York.

Recognition
Pope Pius XI dubbed Nincheri "the church's greatest artist of religious themes".

Nincheri was knighted by the Italian government in 1972.

In 1992, Nincheri was honoured for his contribution during Montreal's 350th anniversary celebrations.

One of his circa 1940 stained glass windows, entitled "Our Lady of the Rosary" from Holy Rosary Cathedral (Vancouver) was featured on a Canadian Christmas 45-cent postage stamp in 1997.

For his work at the Roger Williams Park Museum, which was donated without charge, the city of Providence named Nincheri an honorary citizen.

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Thomas of Marga

Thomas of Marga, (, Taomá bár Yaˁqub) was an East Syriac bishop and author of an important monastic history in Syriac, who flourished in the 9th century CE. He was born early in the century in the region of Salakh to the north-east of Mosul. As a young man he became in 832 a monk of the monastery of Beth 'Abhe, which was situated at the confluence of the Great Zab with one of its tributaries, about 25 miles east of Mosul. A few years later he was acting as secretary to Abraham, who had been abbot of Beth 'Abhe, and was patriarch of the Church of the East from 837 to 850.

At some date during these 13 years Thomas was promoted by Abraham to be bishop of the diocese of Marga in the same district as Beth 'Abhe, and afterwards he was further advanced to be a metropolitan of Beth Garmai, a district farther to the southeast in the mountains which border the Tigris basin. It was during the period of his life at Beth 'Abhe and his bishopric that he composed The Book of Governors, which is in the main a history of his own monastery, but includes lives of Assyrian Christian holy men in other parts of Mesopotamia and the regions east of the Tigris. The work was probably planned in imitation of the famous Paradise of Palladius, the history of Egyptian monasticism which had become well known to Syriac-speaking Christians in the version of Anan-Isho (6th century).

The Book of Governors has been edited with an English translation and a copious introduction by E. W. Budge (2 vols., London, 1893; Google Books), who claims that "it occupies a unique position in Syriac literature, and it fully deserves the veneration with which it has been and is still regarded by all classes of Assyrians to whom it is known." It gives a detailed history of the great monastery cf Beth 'Abhe during its three centuries of existence down to the author's time. It is full of interesting narratives of saintly men told in a naive and candid spirit, and it throws much light on the history of Christianity in the Persian dominions. There is a later edition by P. Bedjan (Paris, 1901).

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Veronese Riddle

The Veronese Riddle (Indovinello veronese) is a riddle written in late Vulgar Latin, or early Romance, on the Verona Orational, probably in the 8th or early 9th century, by a Christian monk from Verona, in northern Italy. It is an example of a writing-riddle, a popular genre in the Middle Ages and still in circulation in recent times. Discovered by Luigi Schiaparelli in 1924, it may be the earliest extant example of Romance writing in Italy.

Text
The text, with a literal translation, runs:

Explanation
The subject of the riddle is the writer himself: the oxen are his fingers which draw a feather (the white plow) across the page (the white field), leaving a trail of ink (the black seed).

Origins of the Indovinello
The Riddle was written on codex LXXXIX (89) of the Biblioteca Capitolare di Verona. The parchment, discovered by Schiapparelli in 1924, is a Mozarabic oration by the Spanish Christian Church, probably written in Toledo. From there it was brought to Cagliari and then to Pisa before reaching the Chapter of Verona.

Text analysis and comments
Though initially hailed as the earliest document in a vernacular of Italy in the first years following Schiapparelli's discovery, today the record has been disputed by many scholars from Bruno Migliorini to Cesare Segre and Francesco Bruni, who have placed it at the latest stage of Vulgar Latin, though this very term is far from being clear-cut, and Migliorini himself considers it dilapidated. At present, the Placito Capuano (960 AD; the first in a series of four documents dated 960-963 AD issued by a Capuan court) is considered to be the oldest undisputed example of Romance writing in Italy.

The text displays some, but not all of the phonetic and grammatical changes that occurred between Latin and Standard Italian. The verbs pareba, araba, teneba, seminaba show the phonetic loss of word-final -t, as in Italian pareva, arava, teneva, seminava (from the Latin imperfect forms parebat, arabat, tenebat, seminabat). As in Latin, the neuter plural ending -a is found on both the noun and adjective in alba pratalia. This contrasts with the grammar of Standard Italian, where the plural ending -a was retained only for a relatively small number of nouns, which now trigger feminine plural agreement in -e on associated adjectives. However, this Italian development is not found in all vernacular Romance languages of Italy: some retain -a as a neuter plural ending used in both nouns and adjectives. The text uses albo versorio and negro semen where Classical Latin would have album versorium and nigrum semen. The replacement of Latin -um with -o is consistent with regular phonetic developments in Late Latin and Romance (loss of word-final -m and a change of /u/ to /o/), but could also indicate loss or weakening of the grammatical case distinction between the accusative and ablative cases (in Classical Latin, the same phrases would have the forms albo versorio and nigro semine in the ablative case). The form boves is identical to the Latin accusative masculine plural form, rather than displaying the vocalic plural ending seen in modern Standard Italian buoi. Michele A. Cortelazzo and Ivano Paccagnella say that the plural -es of boves may well be considered Ladin and therefore a genuine Romance plural rather than a Latinism.

In terms of vocabulary, the term versorio for "plough" can be found in today's Veronese dialect (and other varieties of the Venetian language), just as the verb parar is still the word for 'push on', 'drive', 'lead' (Italian, by contrast, has spingere, guidare). Albo 'white' is found in Old Italian, in competition with the Germanic bianco which eventually ousted it from its place in everyday speech in most of Italy.

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I saw your user page was in the Dutch television channels category. Are you a dutch television channel? What programs do you broadcast? And would you mind if I removed you from the category? C_mon 3u33 January 22, 2006.

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Beste allemaal Al enige tijd is er een Nederlandstalig chapter in oprichting, te vinden op http://nl.wikimedia.org. Dit wordt de Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland (VWN). Je kunt je interesse om lid te worden van deze vereniging hier aangeven.

Deze vereniging gaat eind augustus/begin september een Wikimedia Conferentie in Nederland (WCN) houden, volgend op Wikimania in Boston, gedeeltelijk erop inspelend middels een aantal discussiegroepen. Om iets dergelijks te organiseren is imput erg gewenst. Dus als je wilt meehelpen, of als je interesse hebt om bij een dergelijk evenement aanwezig te zijn, geef dat dan aan op nl.wikimedia. Ik hoop daar snel je imput tegemoet te zien! Met vriendelijke groet, effeietsanders 13:50, 25 February 2006 (UTC)

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I changed: "He claimed that he incorporated them" to "He he incorporated them". Weasel Words: either he did or he didn't. MrSativa (talk) 00:25, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

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none of this is useful cause none of it answers my question!!

The page views are really low for the New Kingdom article. The New Kingdom produced some of the greatest works of architecture in human history. I think this page needs a lot more pictures. Pictures of Abu Simbel, Hatshepsut's temple, etc, would make this article come to life. I will volunteer to add them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dailey78 (talk • contribs) 02:12, 21 September 2011 (UTC)

Timeline
Fixed a year problem in the timeline, but now it's just not showing. Not exactly sure how the thing works, so yeah~ --Kroova (talk) 02:47, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

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New Kingdom of Egypt → New Kingdom – Per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC – —Eat me, I'm an azuki (talk · contribs · email) 09:31, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
 * This is a contested technical request (permalink). Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:11, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

 * Primary topic if the conversation is about Ancient Egypt. Else, there are/were many old and new and age-between kingdoms. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 14:11, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

 * Comment. "New Kingdom" does not appear to be used for any other historical epoch; the only other entries on Wikipedia that start with the phrase are New Kingdom (band) and New Kingdom (album). A Google search for "New Kingdom -Egypt" doesn't show any other notable uses of the word. But if this article is moved to the shorter title, it would introduce inconsistency with the Egyptian Old and Middle Kingdoms. Old Kingdom (disambiguation) shows a couple of alternate meanings for that phrase. Middle Kingdom of Egypt is especially unlikely to be moved to Middle Kingdom, because that phrase has several important historical meanings. In particular, it's a common translation of the Chinese name for China. Some editors find consistency more important in naming decisions than others do, and many don't care at all, but I thought I should point this out. A. Parrot (talk) 17:54, 3 October 2015 (UTC)

 * Cautious oppose This may be the primary topic. However it is not obvious to most people what this means without further explanation, and would be inconsistent with our handling of Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom.  For similar reasons we don't move James V of Scotland to James V. PatGallacher (talk) 23:33, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose for consistency reasons. Dimadick (talk) 21:43, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Oppose world history has dozens of New Kingdoms. In ictu oculi (talk) 02:20, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Support. Why not append the country name to every article title? Then we will always have Paris, France, not to mention the Tudor dynasty of England. Judging from the Google, Egypt is clearly the dominent topic here. In any published encyclopedia, the title would be just "New Kingdom." Tasty love salad (talk) 03:16, 10 October 2015 (UTC)

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The lead section can be improved by providing a sentence summary for each of the sections. The main thing I wanted to see in the lead section was the rise of the New Kingdom, what happened during the New Kingdom, and the fall of the New Kingdom. I enjoyed the way the article is split into time sections, but it is possible to go more in depth on each section. Though I understand it is important to stay on topic, there are many points throughout the article where I want a brief explanation of a word without having to click on it to read about it in another article. For example, when Aten is mentioned in the Eighteenth Dynasty, it could be restated, "...who changed his name to Akhenaten in honor of the Aten, a representation of the Egyptian god, Ra." In the Twentieth Dynasty section, I would reword "Something in the air prevented much sunlight from reaching the ground and also arrested global tree growth for almost two full decades until 1140 BC." to say Air pollution prevented. Pollution can refer to any thing in the air that is not originally there. It would sound more professional than to say something in the air. Over all, I think there was a lot of information left out of the article. Though a gallery provides some evidence of culture, I think that culture, methods of warfare, architecture, agriculture, religion, and hierarchy would be beneficial to include when informing about the New Kingdom of Egypt.

In the first section of the article there is a mention of the Ramesside Period. I have found a great deal of information about this period and I will add a bit of more information to slightly expand on this without losing focus of the New Kingdom. Adbrow26 (talk) 00:26, 25 October 2017 (UTC)

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 * The Egyptian Empire during the reign of Thutmose III in 1435 BC..jpg

The map
The map which Pharaoh69 is attempting to add looks dubious. I am not an expert on the period, but from what I know of it it's news to me that the Egyptians conquered as far as Babylon and Nineveh. At the very least this needs better sourcing, the sources mentioned look vague. PatGallacher (talk) 13:12, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I haven't been able to check all of the sources for this map, but as I pointed out to User:Ahmed88z some time ago, it contradicts the sources I have, such as The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, p. 311: "The furthest extent of the actual borders was evidently established in the reign of Thutmose III in the 18th Dynasty, when triumphal stelae were erected at the River Euphrates in Asia and at Kurgus (between the fourth and fifth cataracts) in Nubia." I suspect the citations for the dubious map are being stretched to say things they don't unambiguously say, but even if not, the map can't be asserted as fact when other authoritative sources disagree with it. Finally, User:Pharaoh 69 only appeared recently and has done nothing except defend Ahmed88z's map, so we may have a case of clumsy sockpuppetry on our hands. A. Parrot (talk) 14:37, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

I have now opened a sockpuppet investigation. PatGallacher (talk) 15:29, 30 July 2021 (UTC)

I asked you to contact me on Instagram and discuss this issue, and you evaded that. I hope you do not mess with the current map again. It is an accurate map and supported by sources. insta @A72s_1 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ahmed88z (talk • contribs) 19:41, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

 * As pointed out to you before, the map is not accurate according to the sources you provided (especially regarding Cyprus and Assyria). For example, compare it with the Britannica map: https://cdn.britannica.com/02/106602-050-9C94E7E2/empire-rule-Egyptian-Thutmose-III.jpg
 * In terms of detail and presentation it is also inferior to the other map. Hypnôs (talk) 19:16, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

I remain suspicious of this map, it appears to be against consensus. The sourcing is unclear, it gives 3 sources, but does not say which one the map is taken from. The only one accessible online, Britannica, gives a different map. Also, please sign your contributions. PatGallacher (talk) 19:50, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

 * I do not agree with the map you are using. I agree with the map that is named "Egypt NK edit.svg" because that is the one that most closely resembles the Encyclopedia Britannica and other sources. --The Eloquent Peasant (talk) 22:05, 1 August 2021 (UTC)

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Stade de Genève

Stade de Genève (Stadium of Geneva), also called Stade de la Praille, is a stadium in Lancy, Canton of Geneva. It has a capacity of 30,084.

Overview
The stadium was completed in 2003 by Zschokke Construction S.A. after nearly three years of construction. Normally the home venue of Geneva's Servette FC, a Swiss football team, the stadium hosted international friendlies between Argentina and England on 12 November 2005, which England won 3–2 and between New Zealand and Brazil on 4 June 2006, which Brazil won 4–0. The venue played host to three group-stage matches for Group A during UEFA Euro 2008.

A memorable match Turkey-Czech Republic was played in this stadium. The stadium was also used for rugby union, with a 2006–07 Heineken Cup clash between Bourgoin and Munster being moved from Bourgoin's home ground.

In the summer of 2016 the stadium was equipped with heated hybrid turf, Mixto Hybrid Grass by Limonta Sport to cater the needs of football and rugby clubs of Servette. Installation of the new turf prevented Servette FC from playing home on the first three rounds of the 2016–17 Swiss Challenge League.

Throughout the 2019–20 season, all 30,000 seats were replaced with brand new burgundy seats as the old ones had completely faded to a pink/grey color. In addition to that, a small portion of the North stand was left without seats to provide a new standing section for about 500 fans.

The stadium hosted the semi-finals and final of the 2022–23 UEFA Youth League.

NLA Winter Classic
On 11 January 2014, the National League A played its second Winter Classic (the first one was held on 14 January 2007 at the Stade de Suisse, Wankdorf). The game featured Genève-Servette HC and Lausanne HC and was played in front of a sellout crowd of 29,400 (the capacity being reduced to 29,400 for security and visibility concerns).

UEFA Euro 2008
The stadium was one of the venues for the UEFA Euro 2008.

The following games were played at the stadium during the UEFA Euro 2008:

UEFA Women's Euro 2025
The stadium was one of the venues for the UEFA Women's Euro 2025.

The following games were played at the stadium during the UEFA Women's Euro 2025:

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--Cel e stianpower hablamé 16:37, 13 October 2005 (UTC)

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Alacarte

Alacarte (previously the Simple Menu Editor for GNOME or SMEG) is a menu editor for the GNOME desktop, written in Python. It has been part of GNOME since the 2.16 release.

The menu "Places" is not available for editing. You can edit the places menu somewhat with this: $gedit ~/.gtk-bookmarks, or use gconf-editor (e.g. /system/storage/drives/_org_freedesktop_.../mount_options).

An alternative to Alacarte is MenuLibre.

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Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Passion Pit

Now, wait a minute. I see nothing objectionable with the "Passion Pit" entry. Just because some moron tried to edit the post to make it that way, at the moment I don't see anything wrong with the entry. Tell me one sentence that is homophobic. Tell me one sentence that is objectionable. It is a valid encyclopedia entry, and it should not be deleted.

It is not a valid encyclopedia entry. It's self-promotion to win arguments. At the moment, IMDb Administrators are working to eliminate the off-topic discussions on the IMDb forum. Users on that forum have already edited the Wikipedia article to include discriminatory remarks. Various users mentioned in the Wikipedia article have previously created similar Wikipedia articles to promote themselves and slander others, and thankfully, Wikipedia removed those pages.

Wikipedia is an encyclopediac site, not an extention of the IMDb message boards. User:65.33.8.89

 * An extension of the IMDB boards would be a continued debate as such. As the article stands now, it is not a continuation of any debate, it merely describes the 'Passion Pit,' without voicing any opinion regarding any of the discussions there.
 * And please, even if you're an anon user, sign your post. It makes everything a lot easier to read. bjelleklang 19:18, 13 October 2005 (UTC)


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Battle of Pavia (271)

The Battle of Ticinum, or Battle of Pavia, was fought in 271 near Ticinum (Pavia) in Italy, and resulted in the emperor Aurelian destroying the retreating Juthungi army.

Background
In 271, the Juthungi invaded Roman Italy. They defeated Aurelian's army at the Battle of Placentia but, on their way to attack the defenseless city of Rome, they were repulsed by the imperial army at the Battle of Fano. The Juthungi then asked for peace but Aurelian rejected their demand for safe passage. Trying to force their way back to their homelands, they headed north using the Via Aemilia. Aurelian wanted a decisive victory in order to restore his damaged reputation after the loss at Placentia as well as to recover the plunder the Juthungi were carrying. Therefore, he went in pursuit of the invaders, waiting for the best moment to attack.

The battle
Aurelian attacked the Juthungi while they were entering the open plains near Ticinum (Pavia). He was able to destroy their entire force, except for a column that escaped through the Alps. However, this remnant force was later caught by Aurelian in Raetia and was eliminated.

Aftermath
For the victory, Aurelian assumed the title of honour Germanicus Maximus. His victories ended the Juthungi invasion, but the Roman citizenry were shocked by the great threat that Rome itself had faced after the loss near Placentia. However, the menace of the Germanic people and a Germanic invasion was still perceived by the Romans as likely. In response, Aurelian resolved to build a new system of walls around Rome that became known as the Aurelian Walls. Portions of this wall can still be seen in Rome today.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Multiventor Integration Architecture

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or on a Votes for Undeletion nomination).  No further edits should be made to this page.

The result of the debate was Delete --Allen3 talk 17:18, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

Multivendor Integration Architecture
Very un-encyclopedic, little information. This either needs to be deleted or have a major overhaul by someone with more knowledge on the subject. Pur e blade | ☎ 16:39, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. I think it also fits CSD A1, but I tend to have a liberal interpretation. Ëvilphoenix Burn! 03:02, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: it doest exist however. Dottore So 11:47, 14 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Just because it exists doesn't mean it needs an encyclopedia article. - Pure  blade  | ☼ 23:03, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete MIA is an NN TLA Pete.Hurd 05:44, 18 October 2005 (UTC)

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Fair use rationale for the article M83 (album)
I, jareha, believe that the use of this non-free image in the article M83 (album) is fair because: ''Note that this does not claim fair use in articles other than M83 (album). If you wish to use this image in another article, please add a new fair use rationale below.''
 * 1) No free or public domain images exist for this or any album cover.
 * 2) This image does not replace the original market role of the album.
 * 3) This should and most likely be used only on the article for the album it depicts.
 * 4) This image is widely distributed in other venues, so its use on Wikipedia does not make it significantly more accessible or visible than it already is.
 * 5) This image meets all general Wikipedia content requirements and is encyclopedic.
 * 6) The image significantly illustrates the object of the article.
 * 7) The image does not limit the copyright owners' rights to distribute the album in any way.
 * 8) The cover is being used for educational and informational purposes only, and its use is not believed to detract from the original album in any way, or deprive its copyright holders of any financial gain.
 * 9) The image is of lower resolution than the original cover. Copies made from it will be of inferior quality, and could not be used as artwork on illegal CD copies of the album.

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Peter Smith (Canadian politician)

Peter Smith (May 26, 1877 – May 21, 1934) was a Canadian politician. He served as a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for Perth South from 1919 to 1923 representing the United Farmers of Ontario.

He served as provincial treasurer from 1919 to 1923. He was treasurer during the Ontario Bond Scandal.

Smith was tried for his role in the scandal following the fall of the UFO government. On October 24, 1924, he was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud the government and sentenced to three years. He and Aemilius Jarvis (sentenced to six months on the same conviction) were jointly fined $600,000. He died in 1934.

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Category:Prefectures of Japan

The prefectures of Japan are the country's 47 sub-national jurisdictions: one "metropolis" (都; To), Tokyo; one "circuit" (道; Dō), Hokkaidō; two urban prefectures (府; Fu), Osaka and Kyoto; and 43 other prefectures (県; Ken). In Japanese, they are commonly referred to collectively as Todōfuken (都道府県).

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Swedish Touring Car Championship

Swedish Touring Car Championship (STCC) was a touring car racing series based in Sweden, but also with rounds in Norway. They began operating in 1996, heavily influenced by the British Touring Car Championship and the success of BTCC racing on Swedish television. STCC replaced the 1991–1995 Nordic Touring Car Championship. There were also a number of accompanying support classes that raced alongside STCC; Radical, the Camaro Cup, Superkart, Pro Superbike, the JTCC and the Porsche Carrera Cup Scandinavia. The final STCC season was in 2010, as the series merged with the Danish Touringcar Championship to form the Scandinavian Touring Car Championship.

In 2023, STCC planned to re-introduce itself as an all-electric category, transforming the series for a new generation of racing. Utilizing multiple manufacturers, the series was set to debut on a street circuit in Helsingborg. The championship and all planned races were then delayed to 2024 when production of the vehicles could not be completed on time. Demo laps were held at Mantorp Park in September, followed by an official test day for the top three championship drivers of NXT Gen Cup. The series is now slated to begin in 2024.

Rules
The cars are built according to the Super 2000 rules used in the FIA WTCC. A national counterpart, N2000, also exists to encourage teams to build their own cars without having to have them homologated by FIA. So far Audi, Volvo, Opel, and Mercedes have constructed their own cars.

Points System (as of 2006)

Qualifying & Race Every racing weekend consist of the following:
 * Qualifying: First, a 20-minute qualifying session open to all drivers is run. The eight fastest drivers in the 20 minute session go on to drive in the Super pole. Drivers from 9th quickest and backwards start in the qualifying order for the first race. The grid for the second race is reversed results of top eight from the results of the first race. The cars behind top eight start in the position they finished in race one.
 * Super Pole: Super pole is a one-lap shootout for the first eight grid positions of race one. The driver with the 8th fastest qualifying time is the first to run a Super Pole lap. Each of the remaining seven drivers run their Super Pole lap in order of slowest to fastest. In the end, the driver with the fastest Super Pole lap starts the race from pole, or first, position.
 * Race: There are two races in a race weekend and each race is approximately 20 minutes in length. All races start using a rolling start.

TV Coverage
STCC was first aired in 1997 on SVT, featured in the program called "Race" along with the British Touring Car Championship. BTCC was dropped by SVT at the end of the 1999 season and was replaced by CART, while STCC stayed. When BTCC, which had been the main focus of Race, was dropped, STCC was upgraded to be the series which the program had its focus on. Previously when BTCC and STCC clashed, the STCC races were shown in-between the two BTCC races. This was changed for the 2000 season, and now CART was shown in-between the two STCC races. In 2002 VEIDEC Trophy, a motorcycle class that raced on the STCC-weekends, replaced CART on the program. All Race programs were either 30 or 45 minutes in length, depending on if one or two series were featured. In 2003 STCC coverage moved from SVT to TV4. The program was now shown on TV4 Plus, a channel which not everyone had access to (at the time only SVT1, SVT2 and TV4 was available to all viewers for free). TV4 only kept STCC for a year, selling it to TV3. The races appeared again in a highlights format on TV3 during 2004, but in 2005 the coverage was extended to include several hours of live coverage from each race weekend on the TV3-owned sports channel Viasat Sport. In 2006 STCC returned to SVT and Race, again being available to all viewers, but coverage was cut down to only a 30-minute highlight program. Nowadays the competition is broadcast by another TV3-owned channel, Viasat Motor.

Car brands
The cars competing in the STCC are (as of 2010): Alfa Romeo, BMW, Chevrolet, Honda, Opel, Peugeot, Seat, Volkswagen and Volvo.

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Wolfgang Tiefensee

Wolfgang Tiefensee (born 4 January 1955) is a German politician of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). He was the Federal Minister for Transport, Building and Urban Development in the grand coalition cabinet led by Angela Merkel between 2005 and 2009. Since 2014, he has been the State Minister of Economy, Science and the Digital Society in the government of Thuringia's Minister-President Bodo Ramelow.

Career
Originally an electrical engineer, Tiefensee turned to politics in 1989, during the democratization process of the German Democratic Republic. He became a member of the SPD in 1995.

Mayor of Leipzig, 1998–2005
Tiefensee was elected mayor of Leipzig in 1998, and was re-elected with 67.1% of the vote in April 2005. Before 2005, he declined offers of a position in the federal government, stating his place was in Leipzig.

As mayor, he put great effort into Leipzig's bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games. While Leipzig unexpectedly won the campaign to tender the German bid, the middle-sized city did not get past the first round of the international competition, which was in fact won by London.

In 2002, Tiefensee was part of the 15-member commission that developed the so-called Hartz reforms, a set of recommendations to reform the German labour market as part of chancellor Gerhard Schröder’s Agenda 2010. Later that year, following the 2002 federal elections, he declined Schröder’s offer to join his government.

Role in national politics
In 2007, Tiefensee chaired talks following which EU transport ministers agreed unanimously to end talks with a private consortium contracted to develop the Galileo satellite navigation system and to spend €2.4 billion ($3.2 billion) to build it themselves instead.

Also during his tenure as Germany's transport minister, Tiefensee announced the little-known architect Francesco Stella as the winner of a competition to find an architectural design for the controversial reconstruction of the Berlin Stadtschloss in 2008.

In 2012, Tiefensee succeeded Garrelt Duin as spokesperson of the SPD parliamentary group on economic affairs. In the negotiations to form a Grand Coalition of chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU together with the Bavarian CSU) and the SPD following the 2013 federal elections, he was part of the SPD delegation in the working group on economic policy, led by Ilse Aigner and Hubertus Heil.

Career in state politics
Tiefensee resigned from his seat in parliament when he became State Minister of Economy, Science and the Digital Society in the government of Thuringia's Minister-President Bodo Ramelow in 2014. As one of the state's representatives at the Bundesrat, he serves on the Committee on Cultural Affairs and on the Committee on Economic Affairs.

In early 2018, Tiefensee was elected chairman of the SPD in Thuringia, succeeding Andreas Bausewein. He was confirmed in the November 2018 party conference.

In May 2020, Tiefensee announced that he would not stand in the next Thuringian state election but instead resign from active politics by the end of the parliamentary term.

Regulatory agencies

 * Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway (BNetzA), Alternate Member of the Advisory Board (2009-2013), Member of the Advisory Board (since 2014)

Corporate boards

 * Germany Trade and Invest (GTAI), Member of the Supervisory Board
 * Thüringer Aufbaubank (TAB), Ex-Officio Chairman of the Supervisory Board (since 2014)
 * Landesentwicklungsgesellschaft Thüringen (LEG), Ex-Officio Chairman of the Supervisory Board (since 2014)
 * Carl Zeiss Foundation, Ex-Officio Member of the Board (since 2014)
 * KfW, Ex-Officio Member of the Supervisory Board (2005-2009)

Non-profit organizations

 * Business Forum of the Social Democratic Party of Germany, Member of the Political Advisory Board (since 2018)
 * Friedrich Ebert Foundation (FES), Member of the Board of Trustees
 * Gegen Vergessen – Für Demokratie, Chairman (since 2012)
 * German Association for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (BVMW), Member of the Political Advisory Board
 * Institute for Germany Studies (IDF), Ruhr University Bochum, Member of the Board of Trustees
 * Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics, Member of the Board of Trustees
 * Sepsis-Stiftung, Member of the Board of Trustees
 * German Association for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (BVMW), Member of the Political Advisory Board (2009-2015)

Personal life
Tiefensee, whose father was the musician and conductor Siegfried Tiefensee, is also known for playing the cello, a talent that he successfully incorporated into Leipzig's Olympic bid. His brother, Eberhard Tiefensee, is a Catholic priest and was professor of theology at the University of Erfurt from 1997 to 2018.

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Honest (soundtrack)

Honest is the soundtrack of the 2000 feature film Honest, directed by ex-Eurythmics member David A. Stewart.

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William Herbert Price

William Herbert Price (May 25, 1877 – December 21, 1963) was a politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1914 to 1937 who represented the Toronto riding of Parkdale. He served as Treasurer and Attorney General in the governments of Howard Ferguson and George Stewart Henry.

Background
He was born in Owen Sound, Ontario, the son of William H. Price. He taught school for several years, then studied at Osgoode Hall and the University of Toronto. He was called to the Ontario bar in 1904 and went on to practice as a barrister and solicitor. In 1910, he married Alice Gentles. They had three sons; his middle son, Captain John Gentles Price, of the 1st Battalion Queen's Own Rifles, was killed in action on September 8, 1944, in France during World War II.

During World War I, while still serving as an MLA, he also served as a Lieutenant-Colonel for the 204th Battalion of the Canadian Infantry from 1916 until March 1917, after which he was posted to the British army.

Politics
Price was elected in the 1914 provincial election in the Toronto riding of Parkdale. In 1916 he took a leave of absence to join the army to fight in World War I.

He easily won re-election in the 1919 Ontario general election, even though he spent the previous few years in Europe and not in the legislature. He won re-election, again in the 1923 election that saw United Farmers of Ontario government fall to his party's Conservatives. He was appointed as Treasurer from 1923 to 1926. He was re-elected again in 1926, and was appointed as the Attorney General of Ontario from 1926 to 1934.

After being re-elected in the 1934 Ontario general election, he remained one of the few Conservative cabinet members to remain in the Legislature, as the Liberals won the most seats and formed a majority government. Even though he was presumed to be the leading contender to become the Conservative party's leader, Price announced in May 1936 that he would not seek re-election and would retire at the end of the legislative session. His decision came about two-weeks before the Conservatives were to pick a new leader, and turned it into a wide-open contest.

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