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Still existing
non-notable Brit band. Issue is a bit muddled by their name being a common phrase, but Google turns up less than ten hits for "still existing"+"patrick sanders" (their lead singer), and barely twice that for "still existing"+"kevin sanders", most of which are his page on Soundclick. DS 16:23, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

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Milton Keynes Kings

Milton Keynes Kings were an Ice Hockey team based in Milton Keynes.

History
The MK Kings originally played in various divisions of the British Hockey League (BHL) from 1990 until 1996. In 1998, two seasons after the closure of the BHL, they joined the English Premier Ice Hockey League (EPIHL) for a season before moving into the higher level British National League for four consecutive seasons between 1999 and 2003.

Following a dispute with the owners of the Planet Ice Arena in Milton Keynes in 2002; combined with the dissolution of the second incarnation of the Solihull Barons, the team relocated to the Blue Ice Plaza in Solihull, where they rebranded themselves the Solihull MK Kings for the 2002-03 BNL season; effectively merging the Milton Keynes and Solihull franchises in that league.

Around the same time that the move to Solihull occurred, the owners of Planet Ice Arena formed the Milton Keynes Lightning; whom joined the EPIHL shortly after their formation. Following the culmination of the Kings' first season in Solihull in May 2003; the team resigned from the BNL and was dissolved.

Following their dissolution; they were first replaced in Solihull by the newly formed Solihull Kings, who joined the EPIHL for two seasons between 2003 and 2005 before dissolving; and later replaced by a reformed Solihull Barons who again joined the EPIHL for two seasons between 2005 and 2007; before settling into the lower English National Ice Hockey League from 2007 onwards.

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Buried Inside

Buried Inside was a Canadian band from Ottawa, Ontario.

History
Buried Inside was formed in 1997, influenced by early metalcore and hardcore punk bands Acme, One Eyed God Prophecy, Drift, and Union of Uranus. Tweedy and Martin had previously played together in the mathcore band Kenobi.

Their sound included distorted vocals, creatively timed drumming, heavy use of octave double stops (which created a melodic effect), and occasional sampling of gloomy film dialogue or instruments such as the cello. After releasing two independent albums, in 2005 they signed to Relapse Records and put out their "concept" album, Chronoclast. That year the band toured North America with Eye-HateGod and Byzantine.

In 2009 they released their fourth album, Spoils of Failure. They played their final show on November 13, 2010.

Final line-up

 * Andrew Tweedy – guitar, vocals
 * Nick Shaw – vocals
 * Mike Godbout – drums
 * Steve Martin – bass, vocals

Past members

 * Matias Palacios-Hardy – guitar (1997–2005, 2009–2010)
 * Emmanuel Sayer – guitar (2005–2009)

Discography

 * In and of the Self (1999, Matlock Records)
 * Suspect Symmetry (2001, Cyclop Media)
 * Chronoclast (2005, Relapse Records, Init records)
 * Spoils of Failure (2009, Relapse Records)

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Rimas Kurtinaitis

Rimas Kurtinaitis (born 15 May 1960) is a Lithuanian professional basketball coach who currently serves as the head coach of Sabah BC, and a retired professional basketball player, who was a member of the senior Soviet and Lithuanian national basketball teams during his playing career. He won a gold medal at 1988 Olympics in South Korea. He recently worked as the head coach for Khimki. At a height of 1.96 m (6'5") tall, during his playing career, he played at the shooting guard position. He is the only non-NBA player to ever participate at the NBA All-Star Weekend's Three-Point Contest, doing so in 1989, where he scored 9 points.

Club playing career
Kurtinaitis' former club teams as a player, include Žalgiris Kaunas, CSKA Moscow, and Real Madrid. He was the only European player to participate in the NBA All-Star Weekend's Three-Point Contest, without ever having played in the NBA by participating in the event in 1989. Kurtinaitis was also the first European player to play as an import, in Australia's National Basketball League (NBL), while playing for the Townsville Suns, in 1993.

Coaching career
In 1997, Kurtinaitis was named to the Lithuanian Ministry of Sport. In the years 2002–2006, he took the position of head coach of the Azerbaijan national basketball team. Also from 2002 to 2006, he was a player for four seasons (till the age of 46!), with Gala Baku, working as a player-coach.

He became Sakalai's head coach during the mid-2000s. In December 2007, he became the head coach of the Polish League men's basketball team, Śląsk Wrocław. In 2008, he became head coach of Lietuvos Rytas, with whom, he won the EuroCup 2008–09 season's title. After winning the championship at the Final-Eight tournament, in Turin (Torino), Italy, in a game against Khimki Moscow Region (final score 80–74).

In 2012, Kurtinaitis won the EuroCup again, this time with Khimki. As of 2015, he is the only coach to win the EuroCup three times. On 21 June 2012 Kurtinaitis was named the best EuroCup coach of all time. On 15 March 2016 Khimki parted ways with Kurtinaitis.

On 2 August 2016 Kurtinaitis become the head coach of Pallacanestro Cantù, of the Italian LBA. However, on 30 November 2016 he was fired from the team.

Kurtinaitis agreed to return to Lietuvos rytas on 10 February 2017, following the resignation of Tomas Pačėsas, from the club's head coaching position. This tenure with Rytas was not as successful – Rytas only finished in 3rd place in the LKL in the 2016–2017 season, a fiasco for the team. In the 2017–2018 season, the team played much better, reaching the Eurocup Top16 phase, as well as reaching the KMT and LKL finals, but lost each to Žalgiris Kaunas. In what stirred a lot of controversy, it was announced during the semifinals of the LKL that Kurtinaitis would be replaced by Dainius Adomaitis in the following season, and in June Kurtinaitis left the team.

On 21 January 2019 Kurtinaitis returned to Khimki in a surprising decision. Two years later, on 15 January 2021, he was dismissed from this position because of unsatisfactory results.

On 26 January 2024 Kurtinaitis became the head coach of Sabah BC of Azerbaijan Basketball League.

Awards and achievements
As player:

Pro clubs

 * 5× USSR Premier League Champion: 1982, 1983, 1985, 1986 1987
 * USSR Cup Winner: (1982)
 * FIBA Saporta Cup Finals Top Scorer: (1985)
 * FIBA Intercontinental Cup Champion: 1986
 * NBA All-Star Weekend Three-Point Contest Participant: 1989
 * German League Top Scorer: (1990)
 * German All-Star Game Three-point Champion: 1991
 * Spanish ACB League Champion: 1994
 * 2× Lithuanian All-Star Game: 1996, 1998
 * Lithuanian All-Star Game MVP: 1996
 * Lithuanian League Champion: 1996
 * Lithuanian League Finals MVP: 1996

Soviet senior national team

 * 1985 EuroBasket:
 * 1986 FIBA World Championship:
 * 1988 Summer Olympic Games:
 * 1989 EuroBasket:

Lithuanian senior national team

 * 1992 Summer Olympic Games:
 * 1995 EuroBasket:
 * 1996 Summer Olympic Games:

As head coach

 * 3× EuroCup Champion: 2009, 2012, 2015
 * 2× Lithuanian LKL League Champion: 2009, 2010
 * Baltic BBL League Champion: 2009
 * 2× Lithuanian Federation Cup Winner: 2009, 2010
 * VTB United League Champion: 2011
 * Named Best EuroCup Coach of All Time: 2012
 * VTB United League Coach of the Year: 2014
 * VTB United League Hall of Fame: 2019

EuroLeague

 * align="left"|Lietuvos rytas
 * align="left"|2009–10
 * 10 || 4 || 6 || .400 || align="center"|Eliminated in group stage
 * align="left"|Khimki
 * align="left"|2012–13
 * 24 || 13 || 11 || .540 || align="center"|Eliminated in TOP 16 stage
 * align="left"|Khimki
 * align="left"|2015–16
 * 20 || 10 || 10 || .500 || align="center"|Fired
 * align="left"|Khimki
 * align="left"|2018–19
 * 11 || 2 || 9 || .180 || align="center"|Eliminated in regular season
 * align="left"|Khimki
 * align="left"|2019–20
 * 28 || 13 || 15 || .460 || align="center"|Season stopped due to the COVID-19 pandemic
 * align="left"|Khimki
 * align="left"|2020–21
 * 20 || 2 || 18 || .100 || align="center"|Fired
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 * align="left"|Khimki
 * align="left"|2020–21
 * 20 || 2 || 18 || .100 || align="center"|Fired
 * -class="sortbottom"
 * align="center" colspan=2|Career||113||44||69||.380||
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Paraguayan Football Association

The Paraguayan Football Association (Asociación Paraguaya de Futbol ; APF) (Guarani: Paraguái Mangapy Atyguasu), is the omnibus governing body of football in Paraguay. It organizes the Paraguayan football league, including futsal and beach soccer, as well as and the Paraguay national football team. It is based in the city of Luque, near the capital city, Asunción. Football is the most popular sport in Paraguay.

History
In the late 1890s William Paats brought soccer to Paraguay, when it was then played at an Asunción teacher's college. Escuela Normal de Maestros.

In 1906, five existing Paraguayan football teams (Olimpia, Guaraní, Libertad, General Díaz, and Nacional) created the governing body of football in Paraguay, the Paraguayan Football League. In 1998 it adopted its current name. On June 18, 1906, the representatives of the five existing football teams in Paraguay at that time (Olimpia, Guaraní, Libertad, General Díaz, and Nacional) met to establish the Paraguayan Football League, named Liga Paraguaya de Football Association. The first match was played on a Sunday, July 8, 1906. Adolfo Riquelme, who was a well known Paraguayan journalist, was the organization's first president.

In 1921, during the presidency of Enrique Pinho, the Paraguayan Football League joined the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL). In 1925 it became a member of FIFA.

In 1941 it changed its name to Liga Paraguaya de Football and in 1957 the name was Hispanicized as Liga Paraguaya de Fútbol.

On December 3, 1998, its name was changed to its current denomination, Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol, which coincidentally is one of the names that had been adopted by a dissident football association that brought together some teams, which would later join the League, and which organized championships between 1911 and 1917.

In 2016, APF appointed Robert Harrison, the former head of Club Nacional, as president. Harrison succeeded Alejandro Domínguez, who resigned to run for president of CONMEBOL, after Juan Ángel Napout stepped down from that role in December 2015.

In 2019, APF hired Argentinian Eduardo Berizzo as manager of Paraguay's national men's team.

Paraguay have not previously hosted the FIFA World Cup. In August 2022, APF joined up with the football associations of Argentina, Uruguay and Chile to jointly bid to host the World Cup in 2030.

Institutional Succession
From its foundation in 1906 until it adopted its final name in 1998, the APF followed the following institutional trajectory::

Honours

 * Copa América champions — 1953, 1979
 * Olympic Games silver medal (Athens 2004)
 * FIFA World Cup 8 participations — 1930, 1950, 1958, 1986, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2010

The Paraguay national team appeared in the World Cup finals eight times, reaching the quarter-finals in the world FIFA event in South Africa (2010), losing to the eventual tournament victor, a Spanish team.

The Club Olimpia has been indomitable: 38 Paraguayan championship titles; 3 in the Copa Libertadores — the continental South American soccer tournament (1979, 1990, 2002); and Intercontinental cup.

Leadership and staff
=== Presidents ===

Asociación Paraguaya de Fútbol
===Association staff (2022) ===

Paraguayan football league system
The football in Paraguay has four levels in men's tournaments (five in the interior of the country) and one division in women's tournaments. The Paraguayan Football Association with an affiliated association called the Interior Football Union (UFI) -which consists of 17 federations, one for each department of the country, excluding the city of Asunción-, organizes the different championships.

The most popular football teams in Paraguay are Olimpia, Cerro Porteño, Guaraní, Libertad and Nacional. All of them are from Asunción. The Supercopa Paraguay is a national cup played since 2021. It is single match, on a neutral field that faces the champion of Primera División and the champion of Copa Paraguay, a competition created in 2018 with teams of all categories, including the federations that belong to UFI. There is also a category for the reserve of the football teams called Categoría Reserva and then the formative divisions from 14 to 19 years. The women's division also has a U-18 category.

Since 2024 there are four women's tournaments: the one division league -called Campeonato Anual FEM-, Copa EFE, Copa Paraguay FEM and Supercopa FEM.

Regarding futsal, it is organized in four categories: a premium league, the Honor Category, Primera and Intermedia. There is also a category for women.

The APF also organizes two beach soccer championships, the Tournament of Stars and the Women's Beach Soccer Tournament.

Controversy
The freedom of players to be contractually released and transfer between clubs and negotiate contracts (commonly called a "buyout clause") has been controversial, and subject to both scholarly inquiry and legal proceedings.

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Goose Island, New York

Goose Island is a hamlet in Argyle, Washington County, New York, United States. It is located along County Route 47 near the Argyle - Hebron Town lines and consists of a small number of farms and homes clustered near the intersection of County Route 47 and Goose Island Road. North of the intersection on Goose Island Road is the Goose Island Potato Farm, where the McKernon families host U-Pick events on several weekends each year.

The U.S. National Weather Service confirmed an EF-1 tornado touched down near the hamlet of Goose Island on Monday, 10 August 2020. Damage to the roofs and sidings of nearby homes was minimal and no injuries were reported, although many trees were snapped or uprooted. At least five tornadoes have been confirmed in Washington County since 1950, according to TornadoHistoryProject.com, although this is the first tornado to be confirmed within the town during that time.

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Brother Ray

Brother Ray can refer to either one of the following:

 * Bubba Ray Dudley, American professional wrestling|professional wrestler
 * Ray Charles, American R&B and soul musician

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Armenak Petrosyan

Armenak Petrosyan (Արմենակ Պետրոսյան, born on 13 November 1973 in Yerevan, Soviet Union) is a retired Armenian football goalkeeper. He is a former goalkeeper and captain of the Iranian Premier League side Sepahan Esfahan. He was also a former goalkeeper of the Armenia national team.

Club career
Armenak was the goalkeeper of Ararat Yerevan as a youngster, but soon moved to Iran, where he spent most of his career at Sepahan Esfahan. He also played for another Esfahani club, Zob Ahan for two seasons. In 2007, he joined Azadegan League club, Shahrdari Bandar Abbas.

International career
Armenak has made 7 appearances for Armenia since his debut in 1994 against the United States. The match against the USA was Armenia's second match after its independence, therefore Armenak is one of the first goalkeepers to play for Armenia as an independent country.

Achievements

 * Armenian Premier League with Ararat Yerevan: 1993
 * Armenian Cup with Ararat Yerevan: 1993, 1994, 1995
 * Iran Championship with Sepahan: 2003
 * Iranian Cup with Sepahan: 2006

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Flag of Bonaire

The flag of Bonaire, adopted in 11 December 1981, represents the Dutch island in the Caribbean Netherlands. Bonaire commemorates Flag Day on September 6 annually, the traditional date Europeans first arrived on the island. The professional vexillologist Whitney Smith was involved in developing Bonaire's flag.

The flag has a large dark blue band in the lower right corner and a smaller yellow band in the upper left corner. The dark blue and yellow bands represent the sea and sun respectively while the dividing white strip represents the sky. The yellow band was formerly red as a reference to the Dutch flag, but was changed at some point to avoid having two separated sections of red (from the star). The coloured bands are separated by a white strip, inside of which is a black compass and a red six-pointed star.

The black compass represents the population of Bonaire as a seafaring people, while the arrows adjuting it symbolises equality in the four cardinal directions of the compass. The red six-pointed star represents the original six villages of Bonaire: Antriol, Nikiboko, Nort Saliña, Playa, Rincon and Tera Korá.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Dawgie Outlaw

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Italian sauce

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Italian sauce
Non-notable and confusing entry for a single recipe in a single book from the early 1900's. The article even mentions that it is unknown in Italy, and I have never heard of this version of "Italian Sauce" otherwise. Additionally, this page gets no links. Perhaps this page would be better served by forwarding to Italian cuisine. AKeen 16:06, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
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 * Delete as already transwikied to the cookbook. Tonywalton | Talk 23:51, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
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James Middlebrook

James Middlebrook (born 13 May 1977) is a former English first-class cricketer, who last played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club on a short-term contract. He played as an all-rounder, batting right-handed and bowling off spin. Since retiring from professional cricket Middlebrook has become an umpire, standing in first-class matches from the 2017 season onwards.

Career
Middlebrook was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, and made his first-class debut in the 1998 English cricket season with Yorkshire, but was released by them in 2001. From 2002 to 2008 he plied his trade with Essex, taking 32 first-class wickets and 20 one day wickets. Middlebrook joined Northamptonshire at the start of the 2010 season, where he regularly opened the batting. In January 2010, Middlebrook along with new team-mate David Sales, was picked to represent the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Durham in Abu Dhabi. Despite being Northants leading runscorer in the 2014 season, Middlebrook was released following the club's relegation to Division Two of the County Championship. He was signed by Yorkshire on a short-term contract as cover for Adil Rashid whilst the leg-spinner was part of England's tour party in the West Indies.

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Bakari Koné

Bakari Koné (born 17 September 1981) is an Ivorian former professional footballer who played as a winger.

Early career
Koné was born in Abidjan. Like many other Ivorian stars, he began his career at the famed youth academy at ASEC Mimosas, run by Frenchman Jean-Marc Guillou in his home country. Guillou recalls: "One day, when I was passing through his district, some kids stopped me. They kept saying, 'We've got Pelé living here, you've got to take a look at him'. Then, Koné came along. He was slightly built but I never doubted for one moment that he was a real find. I took him into the academy after a trial of just ten minutes, but I did tell him that the Pelé nickname would have to go. That's when he became Baky, and I think it's better that way."

Koné stayed at the academy for five years, before joining the first team and turning professional in 1999. During his time with the ASEC's first team, he won the Ivorian League three times, and also the African Supercup before moving on.

In 2002, he joined Qatari club Al-Ittihad, staying in the Persian Gulf region for just six months, before moving to France, where he joined the then Ligue 2 outfit FC Lorient, following a successful trial. It was here that Koné rose to fame. In his first season at the club, he scored 10 respectable goals, but then bagged an impressive 24 in 35 appearances in the 2004–05 season, earning him the Player of the Year and Top Scorer titles in the Ligue 2. At the end of the season, Lorient narrowly missed out on promotion to Ligue 1, and with speculation mounting linking the Ivorian to top flight sides such as OSC Lille, RC Strasbourg and AJ Auxerre, Koné received a standing ovation in his final appearance for his club. In the summer, Koné finally made his move, relocating to the French Riviera at top flight side OGC Nice, where he signed a four-year contract.

Nice
Koné made his debut with Nice against Troyes on 30 July 2005. In his first season at the club, he made 32 appearances, scoring seven times, and eight goals in 33 appearances in his second. In his second season at the club, English side Arsenal's manager Arsène Wenger labelled him a 'phenomenon' and one of the hottest prospects in French football, leading to speculation that the forward would be playing in the English Premiership.

Koné made an impressive start to the 2007–08 season for Nice. After signing a contract extension to 2009 with the Côte d'Azur side, he went on to score four times in his first eight appearances for the club. He won the Ligue 1 player of the month award for both September and October 2007, and finished the 2007–08 Ligue 1 season as top scorer for his club, after netting 14 goals in 30 appearances for the Côte d'Azur outfit.

In June 2008, Koné began talks with French club Olympique de Marseille, with a view to move to the club. The proposed transfer was held up however, with a disagreement over the fee, a situation which caused Koné to miss pre-season training at OGC Nice, apparently as a protest. The striker spoke out to state that he had been carrying an injury.

The saga went further, with Nice's president, Maurice Cohen, stating that their south-coast rivals had till 15 July to sign the striker, otherwise the club would speak to other interested parties. One reportedly interested club was capital club Paris Saint-Germain.

The striker was quoted as saying: "I know that this is going to get sorted out but I can't tell you when. If we talk about (the) 15 July (deadline)...I'm not worried about that."

Marseille's president, Pape Diouf, echoed Koné's comments, stating: "Ultimatums not only fail to impress me, but they also never provide a solution. Now, concerning Baki, it doesn't just depend on us but on the wishes of the two clubs and, in particular, the two presidents. Personally I think that good sense can do a lot in this case. I remain calm."

On 17 July, Koné spoke to the media once again, regarding his drawn-out transfer saga. He stated: "It's heading down a good road, I hope that it is all going to be done quickly. The important thing is that the two clubs reach an understanding."

Marseille
In July 2008, Olympique de Marseille announced the signing of Koné.

In March 2009, Koné was named Ivorian Player of the Year, ahead of FC Barcelona midfielder Yaya Touré.

Lekhwiya
On 26 May 2010, Koné signed for Qatar League side Lekhwiya along with his Ivorian teammate Aruna Dindane.

In the 2010–11 Qatar Stars League season, Koné led Lekhwiya to their first ever league championship. He was also named the best player of the season by QFA.

Qatar SC
On 18 May 2012, Koné signed a one-year contract with Qatar SC.

Ajman
Koné signed for Ajman Club of UAE at the start of the 2013–14 season, signing a two-year contract worth $2 million net per season.

International career
Koné made his international debut for the Ivory Coast national team against Sudan on 5 September 2004.

He was part of the Ivorian team for the 2006 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt. He scored a vital equaliser against Cameroon in the quarter-final. His team won the penalty shootout 12–11. However, in the final, he was one of two Ivorian players to have his penalty saved as the Ivorians lost to hosts Egypt.

The forward was selected as part of the Ivorian side for the 2006 World Cup in Germany. He was given the number 14 shirt, and played his first match for Ivory Coast against the Netherlands on 16 June 2006. He scored his first World Cup goal in that match, where the Ivory Coast lost 2–1.

Koné was also selected as part of the Ivorian squad for the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations in Ghana. He made four substitute appearances for the Elephants, and scored once against West African rivals Guinea in the quarter final stage, where the Ivorians ran out 5–1 winners.

He was also selected in the preliminary Ivory Coast squad for the 2010 FIFA World Cup, but was eventually dropped along with Gilles Yapi Yapo and Emerse Faé, who played with him in the 2006 World Cup.

Personal life
Koné holds both Ivorian and French nationalities. He is the older brother of fellow Ivorian international Arouna Koné, who is a striker.

International goals

 * Scores and results list Ivory Coast's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Koné goal.

Honours
ASEC Mimosas
 * Côte d'Ivoire Premier Division: 2000, 2001, 2002
 * CAF Super Cup: 1999

Nice
 * Coupe de la Ligue runner-up: 2005–06

Marseille
 * Ligue 1: 2009–10
 * Coupe de la Ligue: 2009–10

Lekhwiya
 * Qatar Stars League: 2010–11

Ivory Coast
 * Africa Cup of Nations runner-up: 2006

Individual
 * Ligue 2 Player of the Year: 2004–05
 * Ligue 2 Team of the Year: 2004–05
 * Ligue 2 Top Scorer: 2004–05
 * Ligue 1 Player of the Month: September 2007, October 2007
 * Ivorian Player of the Year: 2008
 * Qatar Stars League Player of the Season: 2010–11

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Lorraine Bethel

Lorraine Bethel is an African-American lesbian feminist poet and author.

Professional experience
She is a graduate of Yale University. Bethel has taught and lectured on black women's literature and black female culture at various institutions. She currently works as a freelance journalist in New York City.

Involvement with the Combahee River Collective
She participated in the Combahee River Collective, an organization that was part of the Women's Liberation Movement in the 1960s and 1970s. The Combahee River Collective was a black feminist group founded in Boston in 1974. It fought against racial, sexual, heterosexual, racial stereotypes and class oppression.

Feminist writing
In an issue of off our backs, a feminist news journal, a participant recounts her experience in the 3rd World Lesbian Writers Conference on February 24, 1979 at New York City's Women's Center, in which Lorraine Bethel and Barbara Smith moderated one of the five workshops available. In their workshop, called "Third World Feminist Criticism", Bethel and Smith discussed various topics such as the definition of "criticism", criticism as a "creative" art, white feminism versus black feminism, intersectional feminism, and the unification of black lesbians.

Later that year, in November 1979, Lorraine Bethel and Barbara Smith guest-edited "The Black Women's Issue" of Conditions: Five, a literary magazine primarily for black lesbian women. In the introduction, it is stated that the issue "disproves the 'non-existence' of Black feminist and Black lesbian writers and challenges forever our invisibility, particularly in the feminist press." Bethel wrote the poem, "What Chou Mean We, White Girl? Or, The Cullud Lesbian Feminist Declaration of Independence", which was published in this issue.

Bethel's essay, ""The Infinity of Conscious Pain": Zora Neale Hurston and the Black Female Literary Tradition" appeared in the seminal book, "All of the Women Are White, All of the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women's Studies." Identifying in this essay as a Black feminist critic, she wrote, "...I believe there is a separate and identifiable tradition of Black women writers, simultaneously existing within and independent of the America, Afro-American, and American female literary traditions."

List of publications

 * Bethel, Lorraine & Barbara Smith (eds.) Conditions (magazine): Five 2, no. 2: The Black Women's Issue (Autumn 1979)
 * "What Chou Mean 'We', White Girl? Or, the Cullud Lesbian Feminist Declaration of Independence (Dedicated to the Proposition that All Women Are Not Equal, i.e., Identical/ly Oppressed)", poem published in Bethel & Smith (eds, 1979), pp. 86–92.
 * "'This infinity of conscious pain': Zora Neale Hurston and the Black Female Literary Tradition". In Hull, Gloria T., Smith, Barbara and Scott, Patricia Bell (eds.), But Some of Us Are Brave: All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men: Black Women's Studies. Feminist Press, 1986. ISBN 0-912670-95-9

Additional reading

 * ISIS. "Herstory in the Making." Off Our Backs Apr 30 1979: 20. ProQuest. Web. 22 May 2016
 * McDowell, Deborah E. Black American Literature Forum 16.2 (1982): 77–79. Web.
 * Philyaw, Deesha. "Conditions: Five." Bitch Media, 5 May 2009. Web. 21 May 2016.

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Claire Voyant (band)

Claire Voyant was a darkwave and dream pop band from Sacramento, California. Founded by childhood friends Chris Ross and Ben Fargen, the act was an instrumental duo until recruiting vocalist Victoria Lloyd. Their 1995 debut has been followed by three more studio albums; Time and the Maiden in 1998, Love Is Blind in 2002 and Lustre in 2009.

History
Prior to the formation of Claire Voyant, founding members, Ross, Fargen, and Lloyd were part of an alternate project, Murmur. Upon realization that Ross had the ability to produce what the other members of Murmur's quartet could provide, the trio decided to start their own project (Claire Voyant). With difficulties deciphering what to name the project, member Lloyd came across the name "Claire Voyant", in a 1940s comic-strip.

They released their debut in 1995 independently, under self-label Nocturne. Eventually gaining the attention of German label, Hyperium Records. Hyperium included Claire Voyant's song "Her" on their Heavenly Voices IV compilation album, which garnered the project notability within the European market. Hyperium went on to distribute their next album Time and the Maiden. Their third album, Love Is Blind, was released in 2002 on Philadelphia indie label Metropolis. The Philadelphian label also re-releasing the previously mentioned Time and the Maiden with bonus tracks for their US market. The reissued album peaked at #29 on the CMJ RPM Charts in the U.S.

The project was disbanded on September 22, 2009 - only shortly after the release of its fourth studio album Lustre.

Studio albums

 * Claire Voyant 1995
 * Time and the Maiden 1998 (Re-released in 2000 with three bonus tracks)
 * Love Is Blind 2002
 * Lustre 2009

Other

 * Time Again'' A Collection of Remixes, 2000

Members

 * Victoria Lloyd – vocals
 * Chris Ross – keyboards and programming
 * Ben Fargen – guitars
 * Garin Casaleggio – drums and percussion

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Hauswurz

Hauswurz is a village in Hesse, Germany. Part of the Neuhof municipality, it is 17 km southwest of Fulda and ca. 70 km northeast of Frankfurt.

Location
Hauswurz is located on the upper course of the stream Kemmete (which flows east from the nearby Vogelsberg Mountains) between Weidenau (in the Freiensteinau municipality, to the west) and Rommerz (in Neuhof, to the east). To the north is Brandlos, the southernmost village of the neighboring municipality Hosenfeld. Landesstraßen 3141 and 3181 intersect in Hauswurz.

History
Hauswurz is first mentioned between 1090 and 1150, in the Codex Eberhardi, a manuscript from the Fulda monastery; its name is given as Huswartes, and it belongs to the monastery of Petersberg. Local officials date the town's origin to 1165. In 1972, during municipal reorganization in Hesse, it was placed in the municipality of Neuhof. An early 20th-century plan to connect Hauswurz to Fulda via narrow-gauge railway was aborted. While neighboring cities and villages were hit by bombs from Allied planes during World War II, Hauswurz was one of only two villages in the area where military engagement with American troops led to extensive destruction. A memorial by the church commemorates the destruction of Hauswurz on 31 March 1945.

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Benjamin F. Prescott

Benjamin Franklin Prescott (February 26, 1833 – February 21, 1895) was an American lawyer, newspaper editor, and politician from Epping, New Hampshire, who served as the 36th governor of New Hampshire.

Early life and education
Benjamin F. Prescott was born in Epping, New Hampshire, on February 26, 1833. He attended Pembroke Academy and Phillips Exeter Academy before graduating from Dartmouth College in 1856.

Career
Prescott studied law and was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar Association. He then established a private legal practice in Concord, New Hampshire and became active in the Republican Party. He served as secretary of the Republican State Committee from 1859 to 1874. He was also secretary of New Hampshire's Electoral College members every four years from 1860 to 1880.

In 1859, Prescott became editor of the Independent Democrat, a Republican newspaper that opposed slavery and endorsed the Abraham Lincoln administration.

Prescott was a New England special agent for the United States Department of the Treasury from 1865 to 1869, responsible to audit and report on the activities of customs collectors at border crossing and ports. He was New Hampshire Secretary of State from 1872 to 1873 and 1875 to 1876.

In 1877, Prescott was elected to a one-year term as governor. He was reelected in 1878, and served from June 7, 1877, to June 5, 1879. During his term, the state constitution as revised and construction began on a new state prison in Concord.

Prescott remained active in politics after leaving office, serving as chairman of the 1880 state Republican convention and a Delegate to the 1880 Republican National Convention. From 1887 to 1893, Prescott served on the state New Hampshire Board of Railroad Commissioners.

In addition to his political activities, Prescott was an author and was involved with several historical organizations. He was vice president of the New Hampshire Historical Society, President of the Bennington Battle Monument Commission, and a Fellow of Great Britain's Royal Historical Society. He was also a trustee of the New Hampshire College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts and Dartmouth College.

Personal life
Prescott died in Epping on February 21, 1895. He was buried at Blossom Hill Cemetery in Concord. The Benjamin Franklin Prescott House is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Sheffield Scimitars (1986)

Sheffield Scimitars were a semi-professional English ice hockey team, formed originally in 1986 as an Under 21 side. They initially played at the small 500 capacity Sheffield Ice Sports Centre, more commonly known as Queens Road, and became a senior side in the 1990s, playing in the ENIHL. The team moved to the iceSheffield complex upon it opening in 2002, where they became successful in the ENIHL and made the step-up to the EPL in 2005–06. Their mascot was a male hockey player with a large smiling head named "Scimi", shirt number 00. In July 2010, the team ceased operations, and was replaced by the Sheffield Steeldogs, who took over the Scimitars' spot in the EPL.

2002–2003

 * ENHL Northern League Champions
 * ENHL Northern Cup Winners

2003–2004

 * ENHL National Champions
 * ENHL National Cup Winners
 * ENHL Northern League Play-off Champions
 * ENHL Northern Cup Winners

2004–2005

 * ENHL National Champions
 * ENHL National Cup Winners
 * ENHL Northern League Play-off Champions
 * ENHL Northern League Champions
 * ENHL Northern Cup Winners

2005–2006

 * Yorkshire Cup Winners

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Galvão Bueno

Carlos Eduardo dos Santos Galvão Bueno, known as Galvão Bueno (Portuguese pronunciation: [ɡawˈvɐ̃w̃ buˈenu]; born 21 July 1950), is a Brazilian television personality and commentator, where he hosted Brazil national football team matches, key Brazilian football championship matches, top sporting events and Formula One races.

Personal life
Born on July 21, 1950, in the city of Rio de Janeiro to the actress Mildred dos Santos and journalist Aldo Viana Galvão Bueno, Galvão moved to São Paulo with his family when he was six years old. There, as a teenager, he began practicing equestrianism, volleyball, football, handball, swimming and karting. At age 15, he moved to Brasília where he met Lúcia, who would become his first wife. He studied business administration and economy but dropped out to start physical education. In 1974, he was working in the plastic industry, but maintained his passion for sports.

In 2000, he married Desirée Soares with whom he lives in Londrina, Paraná. He is the father of racing driver Carlos Cacá Bueno.

Career
Bueno won a contest to become a radio sports commentator and began his career in 1974 commentating football matches and Formula 1 racing for Radio Gazeta. After three years, he moved to work on TV for Rede Record. Soon after, he moved to work for TV Bandeirantes and TV Guanabara hosting the nationwide Formula 1 racing coverage in Brazil. In 1983, he also started announcing football matches for TV Bandeirantes and his remarkable style was quickly praised by Brazilians. In the same year, he covered for Globo Esporte the death of former Brazilian player Mané Garrincha at the Maracanã Stadium. Galvão moved to Rede Globo where he continued hosting Formula 1 and football, but in 1992 he left to become the head of the sports department at OM (now CNT). One year later, he moved back to Globo, where he heads the sports department and hosts Formula One races, Brazil national football team matches, key Brazilian football championship matches and top sporting events.

Because of his long and successful career, Brazilians associate him with the many major sporting events he hosted while being the on-air announcer on TV, such as his friend Ayrton Senna's three world championships, his fatal crash during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix and the 1994 and 2002 FIFA World Cup wins by Brazil. He has hosted the last five FIFA World Cups for Rede Globo.

Style
Bueno's style is flashy, pointed with superlative adjectives, and a passionate approach. His ardent and unilateral approach when hosting international events with the presence of a Brazilian team or Brazilian athletes has generated both sympathy and controversy. Critics highlight the large number of on-air mistakes committed by the host, added to a high degree of rudeness while off-camera. Some of his bloopers both on and off-camera have become internet phenomena in websites such as YouTube.

In football events, he used to be usually supported by the former referees José Roberto Wright and Arnaldo Cézar Coelho, who retired from television, and is now usually supported by former footballers Walter Casagrande and Caio Ribeiro.

Cala a boca Galvão (Internet meme)
Cala a boca Galvão ("Shut up Galvão", in Portuguese) was an Internet meme spread by Brazilians via Twitter on 11 June 2010 called by The New York Times "one of history's most successful cyberpranks." The phenomenon started during the opening ceremony of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Bueno, the host and commentator for Rede Globo's national broadcast of the World Cup, was met with criticism from Brazilian viewers and "Cala a boca Galvão" started to spread on Brazilian Twitter pages. After the expression became the most popular Twitter topic in Brazil, Brazilians increased the number of posts containing those words both as a joke and a protest against Bueno.

International reaction from non-Brazilians was generally confusing, with first hoaxes claiming it was a movement to save a Brazilian bird mostly because of the similarity between the words Galvão and "Gavião", Portuguese for hawk. A fake Twitter account named galvaoinstitute was set up as a joke for non-Portuguese speakers to repeat the sentence "CALA BOCA GALVÃO", claiming US$0.10 would be donated to save the bird each time those words were replied. Later, a YouTube video was uploaded in order to support the hoax.

A second wave of jokes started when Brazilian users claimed "Cala Boca Galvão" was a new single by Lady Gaga aimed at saving those birds. Some Brazilian websites added lyrics of the fake song, which repeats "Cala a boca Galvão" in a way similar to the chorus of Gaga's song "Alejandro" mixed with lines about saving birds. Brazilian writer Paulo Coelho played another joke by claiming that "CALA BOCA GALVÃO" was a homeopathic medicine also known as "SILENTIUM GALVANUS", making a reference for the commentator to stay quiet.

On 13 June 2010, the hoax gained magnificent proportions when Brazilian Twitter users started tweeting messages containing the expression "CALA BOCA GALVÃO" along with the name of several Brazilian personalities such as Gisele Bündchen, Diogo Nogueira, Ana Maria Braga and Fernanda Souza. The expression "Pobres Australianos" ("Poor Australians" in Portuguese, as a reference to the 4-0 defeat to Germany in the World Cup) was also added to the hoax when Brazilians claimed it was another single by Lady Gaga aimed at saving the fictional Galvão bird.

At 01:20 UTC on 14 June 2010, the top 7 Global Trending topics on Twitter referred to the Cala a boca Galvão meme, topping expressions related to the World Cup and NBA Finals which were happening at that time. Brazilian Twitter users soon began spreading another tweet which reads "CALA BOCA GALVÃO is the biggest inside joke in history. A whole country [Brazil] is laughing and the rest of the world doesn't understand anything." This last tweet, re-tweeted by Brazilians, helped to keep the meme active and on the top of the Trending Topics.

The global proportion of this hoax resulted in articles written all over the world, in several different languages, explaining the joke played by Brazilians from blogs to El País and The New York Times. Wikipedia itself was also included in the hoax when pages Galvao bird and Cala-boca-galvao were created to support the fictional bird Galvão. The two articles were promptly deleted. The increased number of Internet users interested in the expression also resulted in an increased popularity of Flash-based minigames aimed at "shutting up" the character representing Galvão Bueno. Even Jimmy Wales, co-founder and promoter of Wikipedia, quoted the internet meme during his summit at info@trends, in São Paulo.

During Brazil's first match in the World Cup, against North Korea, a banner displaying "CALA BOCA GALVÃO!" could be seen in the first minutes of the game, and was caught by the official broadcasting before quickly being removed from view.

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Raccoon eyes

Raccoon eyes (also known in the United Kingdom and Ireland as panda eyes) or periorbital ecchymosis is a sign of basal skull fracture or subgaleal hematoma, a craniotomy that ruptured the meninges, or (rarely) certain cancers. Bilateral hemorrhage occurs when damage at the time of a facial fracture tears the meninges and causes the venous sinuses to bleed into the arachnoid villi and the cranial sinuses. In lay terms, blood from skull fracture seeps into the soft tissue around the eyes. Raccoon eyes may be accompanied by Battle's sign, an ecchymosis behind the ear. These signs may be the only sign of a skull fracture, as it may not show on an X-ray. They normally appear between 48 and 72 hours (2-3 days) after the injury. It is recommended that the patient not blow their nose, cough vigorously, or strain, to prevent further tearing of the meninges.

Raccoon eyes may be bilateral or unilateral. If unilateral, it is highly suggestive of basilar skull fracture, with a positive predictive value of 85%. They are most often associated with fractures of the anterior cranial fossa.

Raccoon eyes may also be a sign of disseminated neuroblastoma, amyloidosis, Kaposi’s sarcoma or multiple myeloma. It also can be temporary result of rhinoplasty.

Depending on cause, raccoon eyes always require urgent consultation and management, whether surgical (facial fracture or post-craniotomy) or medical (neuroblastoma or amyloidosis).

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Maureen Duffy

Maureen Patricia Duffy (born 21 October 1933) is an English poet, playwright, novelist and non-fiction author. Long an activist covering such issues as gay rights and animal rights, she campaigns especially on behalf of authors. She has received the Benson Medal for her lifelong writings.

Early life and education
Maureen Patricia Duffy was born on 21 October 1933 in Worthing, Sussex. Her family came from Stratford, East London. Her Irish father, an important strand in her identity, left when she was two months old. To add to an already difficult childhood, Maureen's mother died when Maureen was 15. She then moved to Stratford in East London, where she had family living.

Duffy draws on her tough childhood in That's How It Was, her most autobiographical novel. Her working-class roots, experience of "class and cultural division" and close relations with her mother are key influences on her work. She developed an early passion for "stories of Ancient Greece and Rome, folk tales of Ireland and Wales, tales of knightly chivalry and poetry..."

Her mother, Duffy recalls, "early on instilled in me that the one thing they can't take away from you is education." she completed her schooling and supported herself before university by teaching at junior schools. She gained a degree in English at King's College London in 1956, then taught in Naples till 1958 and in secondary schools in the London area till 1961.

Career
Duffy's earliest ambition was to be a poet. She won her first such prize at the age of 17 with a poem printed in Adam magazine, soon followed by publication in The Listener and elsewhere. She later edited a poetry magazine called the sixties (1960–1961).

While at King's she completed her first full-length play, Pearson, and submitted it for a competition judged by Kenneth Tynan, drama critic at the Observer. This brought an invitation to join the Royal Court Writers Group in 1958, when its members included Edward Bond, Ann Jellicoe, John Arden, William Gaskill and Arnold Wesker.

Duffy started writing full-time after being commissioned by Granada Television to write a screenplay Josie – broadcast on ITV in 1961 as part of the Younger Generation series – about a teenage girl, hoping to break out of factory work by pursuing a talent for fashion design. The advance of £450 enabled Duffy to buy a houseboat to live in. Pearson won the Corporation of London Festival Playwright's Prize in 1962 and was performed under the title The Lay Off at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. It drew on Duffy's experience of vacation jobs in factories. Pearson/The Lay Off is a modern reworking of Piers Plowman, and an early example of Duffy's inclusion of black characters in prominent roles and her opposition to racism. The set for Room for Us All recreates a small block of flats, with residents interacting, and the audience looking in as each is lit up. Two and Two Makes Five is about a teacher disillusioned by constraints on school culture deciding to quit the profession.

The play The Silk Room, about a male pop group, was produced at the Palace Theatre Watford in 1966. An episode of TV drama Sanctuary was commissioned by Associated Rediffusion and broadcast on ITV in 1967.

Becoming a novelist
Duffy's first novel, That's How It Was (1962) was written at a publisher's suggestion and won great acclaim. While many reviewers dwelt on its vivid depiction of a working-class childhood, Duffy also emphasised that her goal was to show the influences that could form a writer and those that could encourage a preference for same-sex love.

Duffy's first openly gay novel was The Microcosm (1966), set in and around the famous lesbian Gateways Club in London (renamed the House of Shades). It was the first to depict a wide range of contrasting gay women of different ages, classes and ethnicities – and historical periods – to make a point that "there are dozens of ways of being queer." Widely reviewed, it sold well and inspired lesbian readers, including U. A. Fanthorpe and Mary McIntosh.

Duffy's other early novels deal with the life of creative artists. The Single Eye (1964) has a talented photographer gradually finding that his wife has become his rival, a restriction that holds back his life and his art, so that for the sake of his creativity and identity he must leave her. The Paradox Players (1967), about a writer, draws on Duffy's experience of living on a houseboat. It shows the attractions of the freer life in an alternative community, together with its shortcomings (including rats in the food cupboard). The paradox lies in the difficulty of sustaining this as a permanent lifestyle, as the pressures of the outside world break through.

Plays
In 1968, Duffy was one of five women novelists commissioned by Joan Plowright to write a play for the National Theatre with an all-female cast. Duffy's Rites was selected for a second run at the Old Vic, then the home of the National Theatre, and has often been performed since. Set in ladies' public toilets, it climaxes with an attack by a group of women on a "male", discovered too late to be a woman in a suit. It is described by Duffy as "black farce... pitched between fantasy and naturalism".  Rites was shown with Old Tyme and Solo at the ADC Theatre in Cambridge in 1970. A sequel, Washouse, was set in a launderette run by a trans woman. All these plays had contemporary settings, but drew thematically on Greek or Roman myths (the Bacchae, children of Uranus, Narcissus, Venus and Diana).

In 1971, Duffy was commissioned to write the second episode of the ITV series Upstairs Downstairs. Her play about the last hour of Virginia Woolf's life, A Nightingale in Bloomsbury Square, was performed in 1973 at the Hampstead Theatre Club, and also featured Vita Sackville-West and Freud as imagined by Virginia.

Duffy's BBC radio plays include The Passionate Shepherdess on Aphra Behn (1977) and Only Goodnight (1981) on Edith Somerville and Violet Martin (Martin Ross). Family Trees (1984) deals with family history research. Afterword, a witty two-hander about a writer under pressure from a benefits officer (a response to Vaclav Havel's play Conversation) was performed by Manchester University Drama Society in 1983. Megrim, set in a mythical matriarchy in the Welsh mountains, was performed at King Alfred's School of Speech and Drama, Winchester, in 1984. The Masque of Henry Purcell was staged at Southwark Playhouse in London in 1995, while Sappho Singing was performed there in 2010 and in Brighton in 2011.

Rites and A Nightingale in Bloomsbury Square have been published. Typescripts of other plays are accessible in King's College London [KCL] Archive. A survey and analysis of Duffy's drama is available in Lucy Kay, (2005).

Duffy's play Hilda and Virginia was shown at the Jermyn Street Theatre on 27 February – 3 March 2018. The twinned monologues performed by Sarah Crowden focused on the last evening of Virginia Woolf's life and several episodes in the life of Abbess Hilda of Whitby as recorded by Bede, where Hilda tells of the poet Caedmon and the shift in the church from Irish to Roman Catholicism.

Poetry
Duffy's first of nine poetry volumes appeared in 1968. They included Environmental Studies (2013), which was long-listed for the Green Carnation Prize, and most recently Pictures from an Exhibition (2016). Her Collected Poems, 1949–84 appeared in 1985.

Her poetry ranges widely, in form from villanelle to free verse, and in content from erotic and lyrical love poetry to a humanist mass; family memories to political comment. Her work often references earlier poets from a contemporary angle, as in "Piers Plowless". Alison Hennegan credits Duffy with "the first modern lesbian love poems, unabashed and unapologetic. These showed what was possible." Their major concern is "sympathy for the human (or animal) condition, devoid of sentimentality or condescension".

Fiction
Wounds (1969) creates a mosaic of London life by interweaving the voices of a range of characters, including a black mother, a local politician and a gay theatre director, whose lives contrast with the uplifting experience of two passionate lovers, whose encounters recur through the book. Love Child (1971) has a narrator whose gender is unstated, Kit, a child whose jealousy of its mother's relationship with her lover Ajax (also of unknown gender) has tragic consequences – an Oedipal theme. Kit has also been identified with Cupid and the mother with Venus.

Duffy's trilogy about London continues with Capital (1975). The lives of a professor, Emery, and a self-educated, homeless eccentric Meepers, twine around "Queen's" (a fictionalised version of King's College), interspersed with narratives of Londoners of various periods, including 14th-century prostitutes and Stone Age hunters. Many critics saw this as her most impressive novel to date. Lorna Sage noted her writing "becoming altogether more carnivalesque – more deadpan and more comic." The third of the trilogy, Londoners: an Elegy (1983), brings dry humour to the challenges of the contemporary writing world, through a narrator of unspecified gender writing on Francois Villon. Londoners is also inspired by Dante's Inferno and draws parallels with Villon's medieval Paris; it is also notable for depicting gay pubs and characters.

Change (1987), set in World War II, includes a group of apes as one set of narrative voices in a mosaic of stories of a wide range of ordinary people. Many of Duffy's later novels use contrasting and complementary narratives of past and present, a technique she first applied in The Microcosm. Restitution (1998) (long-listed for the Booker Prize), eventually brings past and present together, as a young London woman gradually finds her identity unexpectedly altered by events in Nazi Germany half a century before.

Some of Duffy's novels deploy the storytelling techniques of thrillers, including I want to go to Moscow (1973), Housespy (1978), Occam's Razor (1991), Alchemy (2004), The Orpheus Trail (2009) and In Times Like These (2013). Political passion often animates her work. The Microcosm makes the case for acceptance of lesbians; Gor Saga challenges assumptions about the gulf between humans and other species; In Times Like These warns of dangers in possible Scottish independence and in withdrawal of England and Wales from the European Union. Scarborough Fear (written under a pseudonym in 1982) is a horror story with a modern setting and Gothic elements, engaging its young narrator in a psychological battle for survival.

Non-fiction
Duffy's literary biography of Aphra Behn (1977) led to rediscovery of the 17th-century playwright, the first woman to earn a living by writing, and established fresh facts about her life. Duffy has also edited Behn's plays and her novel Love Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, and written introductions to other works of hers.

Duffy's other non-fiction includes The Erotic World of Faery (1972), a Freudian study of eroticism in faery fantasy literature; Inherit the Earth, (1979) a social history of her family and their roots in Thaxstead, Essex; a biography of the composer Henry Purcell (1995); and a historical survey of how myths of English identity came to develop: England: The Making of the Myth (2001).

Writing style
Duffy's work is often framed by Freudian ideas and Greek mythology. Her writing is distinctive for using contrasting voices or streams of consciousness, often including the perspectives of outsiders. Her novels have been linked to a European literary tradition of exploring reality through the use of language and questioning, rather than traditional linear narrative. James Joyce in particular and Modernism in general are influences, as is Joyce Cary. "Duffy has inspired many other writers and proved that the English novel need not be realistic and domestic, but can be fantastical, experimental and political." Her writing in all forms is noted for an "eye for detail and ear for language". and "powerful intense imagery".

Her early plays often depict working-class life with humour and evocative language. She joined the Royal Court writers' group at a time when the social realist school of such playwrights as John Osborne and Arnold Wesker was transforming British drama. Some of her plays have been described as "anarchic... dealing with taboo subjects... 'total theater' reminiscent of the ideas of Antonin Artaud and Jean Genet, employing Brechtian techniques." Jean-Paul Sartre has also had an influence.

Duffy's affinity to London, present and past, and its cosmopolitan inhabitants often features in her writing, which celebrates diversity, regardless of class, nationality, ethnicity, gender, sexuality or species. She advocates "an ethic of compassion" towards human and animal rights.

Activism
A lifelong socialist, Duffy was involved in early CND marches. As a humanist she has regularly taken a lead in pressing her beliefs.

Gay rights
Maureen Duffy was the first gay woman in British public life today to be open about her sexuality. She "came out publicly in her work in the early 1960s" and made public comments before male homosexual acts were decriminalised in 1967. In 1977 she published The Ballad of the Blasphemy Trial, a broadside against the trial of the Gay News newspaper for "blasphemous libel".

As first chair of the Gay Humanist Group from 1980 (renamed GALHA, the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association, in 1987) she spoke out on many issues such as human rights for those with HIV and AIDs. At the 1988 TUC conference as President of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain, she succeeded with a motion deploring the passing of Section 28 "as an infringement of the basic right to free speech and expression". Duffy has patronized the British Humanist Association since GALHA became part of it in 2012.

Duffy is often invited by LGBT groups to read her work. In 1991, she appeared in Saturday Night Out on BBC 2, saying that progress in gay rights since her earliest TV appearances had been more limited than she had hoped. In 1995 she was placed by Gay Times as one of the 200 most influential lesbian and gay people in Britain. She was included on the Independent on Sunday' Pink List in 2005. In 2014, she gained an Icon Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement from Attitude magazine.

Animal rights
A vegetarian and a campaigner for animal rights since 1967, who signed a letter to The Times in 1970, along with Elizabeth Taylor and others, promising never to wear fur, Duffy's thinking appears in her book Men & Beasts: an Animal Rights Handbook (1984). Duffy is an anti-vivisectionist.

Animal rights become central in two of her novels: I Want to Go to Moscow (1973, in the US: All Heaven in a Rage) and Gor Saga, the 1981 story of Gor, born half-gorilla, half-human, televised in 1988 in a three-part miniseries called First Born starring Charles Dance. Maureen Duffy became Vice President of Beauty Without Cruelty in 1975.

Authors' rights
Duffy, with author and activist Brigid Brophy, Michael Levey and two others founded the Writers' Action Group in 1972, which gained over 700 author members. Their campaign for Public Lending Right (annual payments to authors based on public-library loans of their books) succeeded legally in 1979 after support for it at the 1978 TUC conference. She joined a delegation to meet Prime Minister James Callaghan in 1977. She remains an authority on copyright, intellectual property law and secondary author rights.

"For almost as long as she has been writing for a living, Maureen Duffy has worked to protect the rights of writers, which have been jeopardised by successive changes in technology and in the book market." While continuing to defend Public Lending Right, Duffy has also contributed to a campaign for authors to be paid when their work is photocopied, and helped to found the Authors' Licensing and Collecting Society, which she chaired for 15 years and remains as its president. She held senior positions for many years in the Writers Guild of Great Britain, the British Copyright Council, the European Writers' Congress (European Writers Council since 2008) and the Royal Society of Literature. She represents the International Authors Forum at the World Intellectual Property Organization (a specialized United Nations agency).

Positions

 * President of Honour of the British Copyright Council
 * President of ALCS
 * Vice President of Royal Society of Literature
 * Fellow of King's College, London

Awards and honours

 * 1985 – Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
 * 2002 – CISAC gold medal, International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers
 * 2004 – Benson Medal, Royal Society of Literature
 * 2009 – Medal of Honour – Portuguese Society of Authors
 * 2011 – Honorary Doctor of Literature – Loughborough University
 * 2013 – Honorary Doctor of Literature – University of Kent
 * 2015 – Fellow of the English Association

Fiction

 * That's How It Was (1962)
 * The Single Eye (1964)
 * The Microcosm (1966)
 * The Paradox Players (1967)
 * Wounds (1969)
 * Love Child (1971)
 * I Want to Go to Moscow: a Lay (in the US as All Heaven in a Rage, 1973)
 * Capital: a Fiction (1975)
 * Housespy (1978)
 * Gor Saga (1981)
 * Scarborough Fear, as D. M. Cayer (1982)
 * Londoners: an Elegy (1983)
 * Change (1987)
 * Illuminations: a Fable (1991)
 * Occam's Razor (1993)
 * Restitution (1998)
 * The Orpheus Trail (2009)
 * Alchemy (2010)
 * In Times Like These: a Fable (2013)
 * Sadie and the Seadogs, a children’s book, illustrated by Anita Joice (2021)

Non-fiction

 * The Erotic World of Faery (1972)
 * The Passionate Shepherdess: Aphra Behn 1640–87 (1977)
 * Inherit the Earth: a Social History (1980)
 * Men and Beasts: an Animal Rights Handbook (1984)
 * A Thousand Capricious Chances: a History of the Methuen List 1889–1989 (1989)
 * Henry Purcell 1659–95 (1994)
 * England: the Making of the Myth from Stonehenge to Albert Square (2001)

Poetry

 * Lyrics for the Dog Hour (1968)
 * The Venus Touch (1971)
 * Actaeon (1973)
 * Evesong (1975)
 * Memorials of the Quick and the Dead (1979)
 * Collected Poems 1949–84 (1985)
 * Family Values (2008)
 * Environmental Studies (2013)
 * Paper Wings (2014) – set to paper by artist Liz Mathews
 * Pictures from an Exhibition (2016)
 * Past Present: Piers Plowless and Sir Orfeo (2017)
 * Wanderer (2020)

Drama
Plays

 * Great Charles (1953)
 * Pearson (1956, performed as The Lay Off in 1962)
 * Johnny Why (1956)
 * Room for Us All (1957)
 * Return of the Hero (c. 1958)
 * Corp and Slogger (1950s)
 * Josie (1961)
 * Two and Two Makes Five (c. 1962)
 * Treason Never Prospers (1963)
 * Villon (1963)
 * The Burrow (1964)
 * The Silk Room (1966)
 * Rites (1968)
 * Solo (1970)
 * Old Tyme (1970)
 * Megrim (1972)
 * A Nightingale in Bloomsbury Square (1973)
 * Washouse (mid-1970s?)
 * The Passionate Shepherdess (1977)
 * Only Goodnight (1981)
 * Sarah Loves Caroline (1982)
 * Afterword (1983)
 * Family Trees (1984)
 * Voices (1985)
 * Unfinished Business (1986)
 * The Masque of Henry Purcell (1995)
 * Sappho Singing (2010)
 * What You Will (2012)
 * "The Choice" (2017)

Plays published
 * "Rites" in New Short Plays 2 (Methuen, 1969), and published on its own by Hansom Books 1969, and in Plays by Women, edited by Michelene Wandor (Methuen, 1983)
 * "A Nightingale in Bloomsbury Square", in Factions, edited by Giles Gordon and Alex Hamilton (Michael Joseph. 1974)
 * "The Choice" and "A Nightingale in Bloomsbury Square" in Hilda and Virginia (Oberon Modern Plays 2018)

Art exhibitions

 * 1969 Prop Art (with Brigid Brophy). London.
 * 2014 Paper Wings – a collaboration with Liz Mathews. London

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Talk:Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant

Requested move
Uncle, aunt and cousin are all located at Prince/ss (name) of Belgium, as are her contemporaries (Princes Nikolai and Felix of Denmark, Princesses Catherina-Amalia and Alexia of the Netherlands, etc.) - Morhange 16:13, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

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Discussion

 * Support It is in the naming conventions for Princes and Princesses to be listed as Prince(ss) Name of Country. All entries should conform to NC. Prsgoddess187 11:49, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Support Support this move. Gryffindor  22:12, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

Discision
Page moved. Ryan Norton T 06:11, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

==Parliment Chooses?== Does Parliment actually choose who'll succeed to the throne (in past, having stayed with the established line of succession). What I mean is in Belgium it's not the Monarch is dead, long live the Monarch (succession isn't automatic). Mightberight/wrong 20:07, 28 October 2005.

Duchess of Brabant
The 2001 amendment to the Belgian constitution says "The title of Duke of Brabant or of Duchess of Brabant will be worn, in future, by the Prince or the Princess, elder son or daughter of the King, and, if lacking, by the Prince or the Princess, elder son or daughter of the elder son or daughter of the King". Does this amendment mean that Princess Mathilde, Duchess of Brabant will be the last Duchess of Brabant by marriage just like Sophie of Württemberg was in the Netherlands with the title Princess of Orange? Is this going to become a trend in equal succession monarchies?--The Emperor's New Spy (talk) 06:08, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

Well, no, because:

i.Sophie of Württemburg was not the last 'Princess of Orange by marriage'-the present Queen Maxima of the Netherlands was before her husband's accession to the throne.

ii.If Elisabeth succeeds to the throne, and either before or after her accession marries and has as her firstborn child a boy, that child would become Duke of Brabant according to the 2001 amendment to the 1840 Law creating the titles for the Belgian Royal Family. Similarly, if Elisabeth dies before her father without having any children, her brother Prince Gabriel will automatically become Duke of Brabant according to the same law.JWULTRABLIZZARD (talk) 22:33, 5 July 2013 (UTC)

 * Sophie of Württemburg was the last wife of the prince of Orange to be titled "The Princess of Orange". Queen Maxima before this year was "Princess Máxima of the Netherlands, Princess of Orange-Nassau, Mevrouw van Amsberg" which made her no different than her sister-in-laws. Almost every female member of the Dutch royal family are Princesses of Orange-Nassau but none since Sophie of Württemburg have been Princess of Orange by marriage; the title is now reserved for the female heirs of the reigning monarch. This change was due to gender neutral laws or equal succession of the Dutch monarchy. I think they thought calling both the female heir apparent and the wife of a male heir apparent by the same title would be disrespectful. In Belgium Princess Mathilde was the last wife of a Duke of Brabant to marry before the succession law change. So I am wondering if Elizabeth were to succeed to the throne would the wife of her son Prince Jack, Duke of Brabant be Princess Jack of Belgium instead of Duchess of Brabant. --The Emperor's New Spy (talk) 06:58, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

 * I think that someone has jumped the gun here. The Belgian television I am listening to has just explained that the title of duchess of Brabant will be bestowed by a royal decree which has to be validated by the government. And that the date when this happens is not known. So I think the move should be reverted. Hektor (talk) 10:31, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

 * Wrong. The title is automatically awarded. The Royal decree of 16 december 1840, as amended in 2001, says : "Le titre de Duc de Brabant ou de Duchesse de Brabant sera toujours porté, à l'avenir, par le Prince ou la Princesse, fils aîné ou fille aînée du Roi, et, à défaut, par le Prince ou la Princesse, fils aîné ou fille aînée du fils aîné ou de la fille aînée du Roi". That is "The title of Duke of Brabant or Duchess of Brabant will always be worn, in the future, by the Prince or the Princess, elder son or daughter of the King, or, if lacking, by the Prince or the Princess, elder son or daughter of the elder son or daughter of the King". This royal decree is sufficient from the second that the Sovereign has sworn his constitutional oath. (link) Mimich (talk) 11:44, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Indeed. Although originally the titles were held by individual royal appointment, in 2001 this was changed and settled in anticipation of the upcoming birth of Philippe's eldest child (Elisabeth was to be born on October 25, 2001). The Royal decree of 16 October 2001 automatically provides the titel of Duke/Duchess of Brabant for the eldest child of the monarch or if (s)he is predeceased, for his/her eldest child. The Royal decree at the same time abolished the title count of Hainaut, which up to that time usually had been held by the Duke of Brabant's eldest son. -- fdewaele, 22 July 2013, 13:10 (CET)

Further move discussion
The title is automatically awarded. The Royal decree of 16 december 1840, as amended in 2001, says : "Le titre de Duc de Brabant ou de Duchesse de Brabant sera toujours porté, à l'avenir, par le Prince ou la Princesse, fils aîné ou fille aînée du Roi, et, à défaut, par le Prince ou la Princesse, fils aîné ou fille aînée du fils aîné ou de la fille aînée du Roi". That is "The title of Duke of Brabant or Duchess of Brabant will always be worn, in the future, by the Prince or the Princess, elder son or daughter of the King, or, if lacking, by the Prince or the Princess, elder son or daughter of the elder son or daughter of the King". This royal decree is sufficient from the second that the Sovereign has sworn his constitutional oath. (link) -- Mimich (talk) 11:44, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Support move. Although originally the titles were held by individual royal appointment, in 2001 this was changed and settled in anticipation of the upcoming birth of Philippe's eldest child (Elisabeth was to be born on October 25, 2001). The Royal decree of 16 October 2001 (published in the Moniteur Belge of 17 October 2001) automatically provides the title of Duke/Duchess of Brabant for the eldest child of the monarch or if (s)he is predeceased, for his/her eldest child. (The Royal decree at the same time abolished the title count of Hainaut, which up to that time usually had been held by the Duke of Brabant's eldest son). For this reason I see no argument why Elisabeth shouldn't be given the same style as was her father's before he became King. -- fdewaele, 22 July 2013, 14:04 (CET)

That's a bad idea. Page history would be lost and it would seem that I was the one who created the article, which would not be fair. You should request a move and, of course, provide sources that refer to her as Duchess of Brabant - preferably official ones. Surtsicna (talk) 12:18, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree with Surtsicna. You should request a move. Keivan.f  Talk 13:39, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Move to the page "Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant" is impossible for the page yet exists. -- Mimich (talk) 17:09, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Ok I have seen the requested move section -- Mimich (talk) 17:43, 22 July 2013 (UTC)

Styles and Titles
A page move has been discussed (and implemented) with regard to Princess Elisabeth's new title as Duchess of Brabant, but I don't see any references for the sequence of changes in the Titles section:
 * 11 October 2001 – 21 July 2013: Her Royal Highness Princess Elisabeth of Belgium
 * 21 July 2013 – 23 July 2013: Her Royal Highness Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Brabant
 * 23 July - present: Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Brabant

Why was there a period wherein her title was "Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant" that then two days later became "The Duchess of Brabant"? The latter form is the title that now appears in the Belgian Royal Family template box as well. If she went through these two stages, can we get an explanation in the "Duchess of Brabant" section explaining the process and a reference? Or should we remove one of these two titles? Metheglyn (talk) 04:20, 24 July 2013 (UTC) if in THE VERY UNLIKELY EVENT the duchy of brabant become a country as a monarchy and someone so ahead with the idea of a 14 year old girl who is also heir to belguim to be there first monarch then yes  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:40:C001:8713:8876:8F3B:AC90:E57B (talk) 23:04, 15 August 2015 (UTC)
 * This is wrong, it should be

 * 23 July - present: Her Royal Highness Crown Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Brabant, Princess of Belgium.

Talk page not moved
The page Princess Elisabeth of Belgium now redirects to the new Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant page, but this talk page was not migrated with it. There is now a separate talk page for Talk:Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant. Is there way to merge these two pages? Metheglyn (talk) 07:19, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Now the problem is solved. Talk:Princess Elisabeth of Belgium redirects to Talk:Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant. Keivan.f  Talk 08:16, 25 July 2013 (UTC)

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Open access citation advantage

Open access citation advantage (OACA), sometimes known as FUTON bias (for "full text on the net"), is a type of bias whereby scholars tend to cite academic journals with open access (OA)—that is, journals that make their full text available on the Internet without charge (not behind a paywall)—in preference to toll-access publications. The concept was introduced, under the FUTON bias name, by UK medical researcher Reinhard Wentz in a letter to The Lancet in 2002.

Scholars in some fields can more easily discover and access articles whose full text is available online, which increases authors' likelihood of reading and citing these articles, an issue that was first raised and has been mainly studied in connection with medical research. In the context of evidence-based medicine, articles in expensive journals that do not provide open access may be "priced out of evidence", giving a greater weight to open access publications. Open access citation advantage may increase the impact factor of open access journals relative to journals without open access.

One study concluded that authors in medical fields "concentrate on research published in journals that are available as full text on the internet, and ignore relevant studies that are not available in full text, thus introducing an element of bias into their search result". Authors of another study conclude that "the OA advantage is a quality advantage, rather than a quality bias", that authors make a "self-selection toward using and citing the more citable articles—once OA self-archiving has made them accessible", and that open access "itself will not make an unusable (hence uncitable) paper more used and cited".

A similar phenomenon, termed the "no abstract available bias" or NAA bias, is a scholar's tendency to cite journal articles that have an abstract available online more readily than articles that do not—this affects articles' citation count similarly to open access citation advantage.

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Talk:Prince Gabriel of Belgium

Requested move
Uncle, aunt and cousin are all located at Prince/ss (name) of Belgium, as are his contemporaries (Princes Nikolai and Felix of Denmark, Princesses Catherina-Amalia and Alexia of the Netherlands, etc.) - Morhange 16:14, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

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Discussion

 * Support Support this move. Gryffindor  22:11, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Support New page title would conform with naming conventions. Prsgoddess187 12:06, 11 October 2005 (UTC)

Discision
Page moved per request. Ryan Norton T 06:09, 15 October 2005 (UTC)

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Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute

The Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) is a unit of the Smithsonian Institution located on a 3200 acre campus located just outside the town of Front Royal, Virginia. An extension of the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., the SCBI has played a leading role in the fields of veterinary medicine, reproductive physiology and conservation biology since its founding in 1974.

Previously named the Conservation and Research Center, the CRC became known as the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in 2010 as a symbol of its growing independence from the captive animals associated with the traditional images of zoos.

History
The land on which the SCBI lies has a history dating back to 1909, when the United States Army leased some 42 area farms. In the years predating World War I, the land served as a series of U.S. Army Remount Service depots, supplying horses and mules to the military. The federal government ultimately purchased the land in 1911 and began construction on the Ayleshire Quartermaster Remount Depot. Completed in 1916, the Depot consisted of eleven barn and stable facilities, hundreds of miles of split-rail fencing, many miles of access roads, and a rail yard facility for the import and export of animals. The Ayleshire Quartermaster Remount Depot remained in operation throughout both world wars, and was eventually expanded to include a canine training facility and detention barracks for 600 German and Italian prisoners of war.

In 1948 Congress passed legislation transferring ownership of the land to the Department of Agriculture, which redeveloped the property into a beef cattle research station. In conjunction with the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech), the USDA experimented with various environmental and husbandry conditions, designed to quantitatively and qualitatively improve the meat production of various cattle breeds. The Department of State leased part of the compound from USDA for use as an emergency relocation and communications site, with support infrastructure for the Secretary of State and 700 other departmental employees. The USDA closed the station in 1973, leaving the site temporarily vacant.

The Conservation and Research Center was founded in 1974 when the director of the National Zoo, Theodore Reed, recognized the need for a captive breeding facility and initiated negotiations to obtain the land. The title was transferred to the Smithsonian in 1975, and work was begun immediately on developing the site into a zoological research facility.

Today the SCBI is host to range of zoological and ecological research. It hosts a 25 ha forest dynamics plot that is part of the Center for Tropical Forest Science/Smithsonian Institution Global Earth Observatory, and has hosted the Mid-Atlantic core site in the National Ecological Observatory Network since 2013.

Programs
Amongst the SCBI's most well known research programs are those based on the captive breeding, and reintroduction, of such endangered species as the black-footed ferret (Mustela nigripes), the clouded leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), and the Matschie's tree-kangaroo (Dendrolagus matechiei).

However, despite its accomplishments, the SCBI has not been exempt from controversy. In 2001, the former Smithsonian Secretary, Lawrence M. Small, backed by former Zoo Director Lucy Spelman, proposed the closure of the facility as a cost-saving measure. Opposition from the public and the scientific and conservation communities forced Secretary Small to back down from this decision. Afterwards, the leadership of Lawrence M. Small was shown to be fraught with corruption and waste, and he resigned as Secretary in 2007.

Since the departure of Small, the SCBI has formed many long term partnerships (e.g. with Center for Tropical Forest Science, George Mason University (Smithsonian-Mason Global Conservation Studies Program), and National Ecological Observatory Network) to help ensure its long-term viability.

Specimens
Currently, the SCBI's collection of animals stands at over 400 specimens, including 17 mammalian and 15 avian species.

Ordinarily closed to the public, the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute hosts an annual open-house event each fall. The "Autumn Conservation Festival" is sponsored by Friends of the National Zoo (FONZ) and provides an opportunity for members of the public to tour the grounds and veterinary facilities, interact with the staff and learn more about the research conducted at the SCBI. The "Autumn Conservation Festival" is held on the first weekend in October. FONZ also hosts a summer sleepaway camp on the site for children ages ten to fifteen.

Some of the species kept here include American bison, hooded cranes, red-crowned cranes, white-naped crane, maned wolves, cheetahs, a mariana crow, black-footed ferrets, persian onagers, Hartmann's mountain zebras and scimitar-horned oryxs.


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Wandering set

In dynamical systems and ergodic theory, the concept of a wandering set formalizes a certain idea of movement and mixing. When a dynamical system has a wandering set of non-zero measure, then the system is a dissipative system. This is the opposite of a conservative system, to which the Poincaré recurrence theorem applies. Intuitively, the connection between wandering sets and dissipation is easily understood: if a portion of the phase space "wanders away" during normal time-evolution of the system, and is never visited again, then the system is dissipative. The language of wandering sets can be used to give a precise, mathematical definition to the concept of a dissipative system. The notion of wandering sets in phase space was introduced by Birkhoff in 1927.

Wandering points
A common, discrete-time definition of wandering sets starts with a map $$f:X\to X$$ of a topological space X. A point $$x\in X$$ is said to be a wandering point if there is a neighbourhood U of x and a positive integer N such that for all $$n>N$$, the iterated map is non-intersecting:

 * $$f^n(U) \cap U = \varnothing.$$

A handier definition requires only that the intersection have measure zero. To be precise, the definition requires that X be a measure space, i.e. part of a triple $$(X,\Sigma,\mu)$$ of Borel sets $$\Sigma$$ and a measure $$\mu$$ such that

 * $$\mu\left(f^n(U) \cap U \right) = 0,$$

for all $$n>N$$. Similarly, a continuous-time system will have a map $$\varphi_t:X\to X$$ defining the time evolution or flow of the system, with the time-evolution operator $$\varphi$$ being a one-parameter continuous abelian group action on X:

 * $$\varphi_{t+s} = \varphi_t \circ \varphi_s.$$

In such a case, a wandering point $$x\in X$$ will have a neighbourhood U of x and a time T such that for all times $$t>T$$, the time-evolved map is of measure zero:

 * $$\mu\left(\varphi_t(U) \cap U \right) = 0.$$

These simpler definitions may be fully generalized to the group action of a topological group. Let $$\Omega=(X,\Sigma,\mu)$$ be a measure space, that is, a set with a measure defined on its Borel subsets. Let $$\Gamma$$ be a group acting on that set. Given a point $$x \in \Omega$$, the set

 * $$\{\gamma \cdot x : \gamma \in \Gamma\}$$

is called the trajectory or orbit of the point x.

An element $$x \in \Omega$$ is called a wandering point if there exists a neighborhood U of x and a neighborhood V of the identity in $$\Gamma$$ such that
 * $$\mu\left(\gamma \cdot U \cap U\right)=0$$

for all $$\gamma \in \Gamma-V$$.

Non-wandering points
A non-wandering point is the opposite. In the discrete case, $$x\in X$$ is non-wandering if, for every open set U containing x and every N > 0, there is some n > N such that

 * $$\mu\left(f^n(U)\cap U \right) > 0. $$

Similar definitions follow for the continuous-time and discrete and continuous group actions.

Wandering sets and dissipative systems
A wandering set is a collection of wandering points. More precisely, a subset W of $$\Omega$$ is a wandering set under the action of a discrete group $$\Gamma$$ if W is measurable and if, for any $$\gamma \in \Gamma - \{e\}$$ the intersection

 * $$\gamma W \cap W$$

is a set of measure zero.

The concept of a wandering set is in a sense dual to the ideas expressed in the Poincaré recurrence theorem. If there exists a wandering set of positive measure, then the action of $$\Gamma$$ is said to be , and the dynamical system $$(\Omega, \Gamma)$$ is said to be a dissipative system. If there is no such wandering set, the action is said to be , and the system is a conservative system. For example, any system for which the Poincaré recurrence theorem holds cannot have, by definition, a wandering set of positive measure; and is thus an example of a conservative system.

Define the trajectory of a wandering set W as

 * $$W^* = \bigcup_{\gamma \in \Gamma} \;\; \gamma W.$$

The action of $$\Gamma$$ is said to be  if there exists a wandering set W of positive measure, such that the orbit $$W^*$$ is almost-everywhere equal to $$\Omega$$, that is, if

 * $$\Omega - W^*$$

is a set of measure zero.

The Hopf decomposition states that every measure space with a non-singular transformation can be decomposed into an invariant conservative set and an invariant wandering set.

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Dolores Erickson

Dolores Erickson (born September 1935) is an American model and artist. She came to prominence by appearing as a model on a number of album covers, most notably Whipped Cream & Other Delights (1965) by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass.

Early life and modeling
Erickson, the oldest of eight children, was raised first in Port Angeles, Washington, before moving with her family to Seattle, Washington, where she graduated from Cleveland High School in 1954. She started her modeling career at 14 or 15 after winning a contest to model for the Seattle department store Frederick & Nelson. In 1954, she won the Miss Maritime beauty pageant and in 1955 won Miss Greenwood and competed to be Seafair Queen. She was also Miss Longshoreman.

With two fellow Seafair Princesses, future actresses Dorothy Provine and Dyan Cannon, Erickson visited San Francisco, where she found work for Macy's department store, earning $600 weekly at age 19. She left the University of Washington to pursue a modeling career, signing with the Ford Modeling Agency in New York City. Erickson did photo shoots for fashion layouts and for cosmetics companies such as Max Factor, and appeared on 13 or 18 album covers for artists such as the Kingston Trio (Sold Out), Cy Coleman (Piano Witchcraft), Nat King Cole (Wild Is Love), and The Sandpipers (Guantanamera).

The modeling led in early 1960 to Paramount Pictures signing her as a contract player. The studio later traded her to Warner Bros. She was scheduled to appear in the film The Pleasure of His Company and did have roles in Love in a Goldfish Bowl and Jerry Lewis' The Ladies Man. She also appeared in episodes of the TV detective shows Surfside 6 and 77 Sunset Strip and the comedy-drama Father Knows Best.

Whipped Cream & Other Delights
Art director Peter Whorf, at the time engaged to Erickson's best friend, used Erickson on many Capitol Records shoots. During this time, she became acquainted with trumpeter and A&M Records co-founder Herb Alpert, and watched part of the recording of The Lonely Bull album in Alpert's garage in 1962.

The photo shoot for the cover of the 1965 Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass album Whipped Cream & Other Delights — which remained in the Billboard top 10 for 61 weeks, and whose sexy cover became a cultural touchstone — began in mid-morning, went on through the afternoon, and paid Erickson approximately $1,500 plus expenses. The shoot took place in Whorf's studio, a converted garage. Erickson, 29 years old and three months pregnant, sat on a stool with a white Christmas blanket covering her from the waist down, and wore a bikini with the straps down. She then was covered with shaving cream, which (unlike whipped cream) would not melt under the hot photographic lights, with a dollop of whipped cream on her head. As the shoot progressed, the shaving cream began to slide down her breasts slightly. Months later, Whorf sent her two outtakes. When she saw the more risqué pictures, she took them over to a girlfriend's house and hid them behind the friend's refrigerator, not wanting her conservative husband to find them. Initially, Alpert felt the cover image "was maybe pushing it a little too far ... I thought the censors would be down on it. But in 2006 it looks pretty darn tame."

Later years
In the 1970s, Erickson returned to college, studying art in Portland, Oregon. She began painting, and owned the art gallery The Wild Deer, in Kelso, Washington, for a decade. As of the mid-2000s, she continued to paint what one newspaper called "Impressionist-style works in her duplex on Columbia Heights."

Personal life
In the early 1960s Erickson was living in San Francisco as a top model for Macy's. She was discovered by Paramount Studios and signed a contract which moved her to Los Angeles. Later she was traded on contract to Warner Brothers. During this time art director for Capitol Records Peter Whorf, showcased Dolores on 19 record album covers. Dolores relocated to Mexico after this, spending a year modeling on contract for Lonka Becker. Dolores then moved to New York signing a contract with Ford modeling agency. Here she met and married businessman Bert Neirick. with whom she had a son, Brett. The couple divorced, and in the 1970s she married attorney Bob Huffhines Jr. Bob and Dolores Erickson Huffhines were together for 42 years. They resided in Longview, Washington.

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