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My Bubba

My Bubba is a duo consisting of Icelander Guðbjörg Bubba Tómasdóttir and Swede My Larsdotter. They sing and play music in a minimalistic, vocal-oriented folk style.

Early years
Larsdotter and Tómasdóttir met by chance in Copenhagen. Bubba answered an advertisement to rent a room in Larsdotter's apartment, and they started singing together the day she moved in. Shortly thereafter, they were invited to Italy to tour, and ended up recording their first album, How it's done in Italy.

Career
Founding and current members are My Larsdotter from Sweden and Guðbjörg (Bubba) Tómasdóttir from Iceland. Bubba plays guitar and My plays a Norwegian Cittra (lap harp). They both sing.

My Bubba started out as My Bubba & Mi (and was then a trio). Their debut album, How it's done in Italy, was released in 2010.

Goes Abroader, released in 2014, was recorded in Los Angeles' Seahorse Sound Studios and House of Blues Studios. The duo worked with Noah Georgeson, who previously produced albums for Joanna Newsom and Devendra Banhart.

Tracks from the album Big Bad Good (2016) were recorded as they were being written at Figure 8 Recording, the studio of producer Shahzad Ismaily, in a collaborative attempt to "capture the unrefined intimacy of a newly written song". The album was released on the duo's own label, Cash Only.

Musical style
My Bubbas's musical style is described as minimalistic, vocal-oriented folk. Their music has a modern sensibility and almost sultry suggestiveness, and their lyrics have been described as playful, with vocals that are "simultaneously disarming and seductive, delicate and sensual".

Touring
The group has toured Europe and the US with Damien Rice and Matthew E. White, among others. In 2014 they performed at Roskilde Festival. They have also played festivals like Iceland Airwaves, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, CMJ, Pickathon, Americana Fest and the Woodford Folk Festival in 2017/18.

Discography

 * 2017: Gone/You're gonna make me lonesome when you go (Third Man Blue Series Single)
 * 2016: Big Bad Good
 * 2014: Goes Abroader
 * 2011: Wild & You (EP)
 * 2011: Bob (Single)
 * 2010: How it’s done in Italy

Former members

 * Mia Olsen

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Conlang/FAQ

Here are answers to some frequently asked questions related to conlanging.

What's a "Language"?
There are many ways that people communicate with each other, but we don't usually call all of them "language". So presumably, any definition of the word should be somewhat selective.

When linguists talk about language, they usually refer to communication that uses very specific parts of the brain (the and  areas), and that has, as a result, some very peculiar characteristics that may be due to the architecture of those areas. For example:

 * 1) Languages can be learned "natively".  As children, we learned spoken languages from our parents and friends, without any need for formal instruction.  You can't say this about arithmetic or even written language — those had to be learned consciously, either by having someone teach you, or, at least, through some conscious, rigorous study on your own.  This is also the difference between a language you actually speak and a language you took in school — the latter you had to memorize and so forth, so you probably aren't that fluent in it; the former you soaked up, so you speak it natively.
 * 2) Languages have rules.  No, we're not just talking about the rules you learned in English class, and hated.  (Trust us, we hated those too.)  Every language has intricate, complicated rules that are coded right into our brains when we learn it.  Most of the time, we don't even realize we're following them.
 * 3) Languages use words.  Yeah duh, you say.  But think about it this way — when someone says "bird", there's nothing in their mouth, on the "b", or the "ir", or the "d", that's got anything to do with a bird.  But it means bird anyway.  That's the power of words in a language, since words can abstractly represent things without actually looking or sounding like those things.  (Of course there are words that break this rule, like "splash" and "crash", but the point is, not ALL words have to be like that.)

If we follow all of the above rules, then there are just two or three basic sorts of languages in the world — spoken languages, like English or French or German (it doesn't matter if they're sometimes represented in writing); sign languages, like American Sign Language; and, to some extent, written languages. Encodings, like Morse code, Semaphore, etc., aren't language in themselves, although they can be used to directly represent language.

The status of written language is a bit complicated. Writing is often treated as just a representation of spoken language, in which case it's an encoding and not language in itself. There exist conlangs that are purely written, though, with no spoken form at all, like ; these clearly aren't encodings of something else. They might fail the test of being learnable natively — but most conlangs are never learned natively by anyone (the biggest exception being Esperanto, with perhaps a thousand native speakers), so whether most conlangs could be learned natively is already a matter for speculation.

When a spoken language has an extensive literary tradition, the spoken form of the language tends to change faster than the written form, so that after a while the language has two different registers — a formal (or "literary") register and an informal (or "vulgar") register. This effect is called. The different registers aren't usually considered separate languages as such; but since, for example, written English is often the common language shared by native speakers of English and American Sign Language, some have suggested that perhaps written English should be considered distinct from both. That would mean that if you both speak and write English, you're bilingual.

Also, when any encoding is used intensively for direct communication, rather than just as a transcription of speech, the encoding tends to develop idioms of its own that don't come from the language it supposedly represents. In Morse code, for example, the "abbreviation" for laughter is HI, because of how it sounds in Morse code (not because of how the represented letters sound in spoken language): dit-dit-dit-dit dit-dit. That doesn't make Morse code a language, but it's one small step in that direction. Written languages may develop small flourishes like that as well, like.

Other forms of communication, like traffic signs, hand gestures (that are not structured signing), dogs barking, bees dancing (even assuming that is communication, which is debated), etc. are not languages, in the linguists' sense.

Are there simple and complicated languages?
Yes — but probably not in the way most people think.

Some languages have been written down for a long time, have lots of literature and poetry to go with them, and have thick grammars too. These languages are "richer" in the sense that they may have a bigger vocabulary and a richer library of cultural links and so on. But they are not more "complicated".

Linguists have found that pretty much all languages, from those spoken by the simplest nomads to the builders of great empires, are all about similarly "complicated", in the sense that they all have the complex structures necessary to convey human thought and reason. The aboriginal languages of North America, for example, have been found to have massive verb tables that put Latin and Greek to shame. And while languages like English and Chinese don't have these verb tables, they do have complicated systems of syntax (or sentence structures) that put those North American languages to shame.

What about people who say, for example, that "Spanish is easier to learn than German"? Well — a lot of this depends on the way the language is taught in schools, the amount of sheer memorization demanded of beginners, and how similar the language is to your native language. If you're a native English speaker, for example, you may find Japanese baffling, but Korean people usually find Japanese easier to learn than English!

Simple languages do exist, in two ways. Pidgins are broken, halting "languages" that people who can't speak each other's languages end up speaking. If these pidgins are taught to children in a community, however, they tend to become full languages within a generation — what we call creoles — so a pidgin can be seen as a new language in the process of birth. On the other hand, dying languages are languages that few people speak, and therefore aren't really being taught to children — these languages tend to get simpler and then die out.

When did language begin?
It's very hard to know, since we didn't have tape recorders back then. We are reasonably sure, however, that language has been spoken for a very very long time, tens of thousands of years at least, many centuries before agriculture or civilization began anywhere in the world. This is because all people everywhere today, in every corner of the world, speak languages as complex as everyone else's.

By the way, languages did not begin in Egypt or Sumeria (as far as we know, anyway). Those were just the first cultures we know of to write down languages that they already spoke. Languages must have been spoken by all human beings many millennia before that.

What's the difference between a language and a code?
A language has a unique grammar, phonology, vocabulary, and set of "roots" from which new words can be derived. All natural languages are descended from parent languages, as well, though for conlangs this is not strictly necessary.

A code or cipher, on the other hand, is merely a way of changing one language into something else. Codes and ciphers have no set grammar, vocabulary, or anything like that, and usually exist solely for the purpose of obscuring communication.

Too many people will get a dictionary and create a single counterpart for every word in there and then proclaim, "Look! I invented a language!" This isn't altogether a new language, though. Conlangers call this sort of vocabulary-replacement a relex, and it's one jumping-off point to get into creating languages; but there's more to a real language that just its dictionary.

What's the "Sapir-Whorf hypothesis"?
If you hang around conlangers for long, you'll hear references to "Whorfianism" or the "". Those are two names for the same thing, which also goes by other names such as "principle of linguistic relativity".

Simply put, the hypothesis says that how a person thinks depends on the language they use to think about it. Modern writers usually distinguish between a "strong hypothesis", that your language forces you to think one way rather than another, and a "weak hypothesis" that your language encourages you to think one way rather than another. Nowadays the strong hypothesis isn't really taken seriously by mainstream linguists, but most linguists believe some version of a weak Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. Lots of conlangs explore some version or other of the hypothesis.

The idea is most closely associated with Benjamin Lee Whorf, 1897–1941, who studied native North American languages of the Uto-Aztecan family — which are dramatically differently structured from European languages — and suggested that speaking such profoundly different languages would give a person a different way of looking at the world. Einstein's theory of relativity was a recent development at the time, and Whorf likened this linguistic notion to Einstein's theory because physical relativity says that how you perceive the world depends on your physical reference frame, while linguistic relativity says that how you perceive the world depends on your language. Edward Sapir, 1884–1939, was an important figure in the early history of modern linguistics, and Whorf's mentor. Sapir too expressed ideas of this sort. It's pretty common, though, for an idea to get named after somebody without their having ever actually said it; Sapir and Whorf both said things like this at various times, but they weren't the first to do so, never coauthored a paper about it, didn't present it as a hypothesis, and dabbled in stronger and weaker forms without explicitly making the modern strong/weak distinction.

Many loglangs are at least partly explorations of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis; but also some philosophical languages are as well, such as, a well-known conlang attempting to support women's thinking, which was used in a series of feminist science fiction novels.

Is there a natural language with <feature>?
Some conlangers enjoy inventing weird features for their conlangs, but then discover some time later that there is actually a natural human language that has that feature. A classic case is the "Monster Raving Loony" alignment (we'll discuss alignment in the Advanced level), which was devised by members of the Conlang Mailing List who named it Monster Raving Loony because it would create inherent ambiguity in the language — making it impossible to tell which of the two arguments to a transitive verb is the subject of the sentence — and therefore seemed absurd. Only then someone noticed a language in Iran that actually has that sort of alignment.

This phenomenon is so common that conlangers have a name for it. It's called anadewism — which is an acronym for another natlang already dunnit, except worse.

So, when you're having fun with some really weird feature in your conlang, don't let it interfere with your enjoyment when you discover there's a natlang that does something like it!

Is there a conlanging community?
Short answer: There is now. A central place to look, from which to work outward to all the other parts of the modern conlanging community, is the.

Before the Internet, conlanging was mostly done privately by individuals who had no way of knowing if anyone else shared their peculiar pursuit. In a (now classic) lecture about artlanging in 1931, called , J.R.R. Tolkien described an experience as a soldier in World War I:
 * We were listening to somebody lecturing on map-reading, or camp-hygeine, or the art of sticking a fellow through without (in defiance of Kipling) bothering who God sent the bill to; rather we were trying to avoid listening, though the Guards' English, and voice, is penetrating. The man next to me said suddenly in a dreamy voice: 'Yes, I think I shall express the accusative case by a prefix!'

J.R.R. Tolkien helped make artlanging somewhat respectable: as an academic and scholar of ancient languages, he not only came out publicly as a committed designer of artistic fictional languages, but used those languages to create a hugely successful series of novels. When the internet came along, people who had never before been able to find others with the same eccentric interests began to discover each other and form on-line communities, and one of these groups was conlangers. The conlanging community formed especially around the, created in 1991, which was the origin of the term "conlang". The first was held in 2006, and the, which amongst other things now runs the conference, was formed the next year.

Are there awards for conlanging?
There is one, that the conlanging community generally respects. Since 2006, conlanger David J. Peterson has given an award he calls the to one conlang each year that he found especially worthy of note. The award is, he cheerfully admits, not sanctioned by any larger body, it's just his own arbitrary choice; however, the Smiley Awards are respected in the conlanging community because Peterson, and his opinions, are respected in the conlanging community.

The languages Peterson has selected are generally already fairly well-known and respected in the community. For each he writes an essay, explaining interesting features of the language and ending each essay with a section on "How [this language] Has Made Me Smile". The essays are of interest in themselves, for the insights they offer into the art and craft of conlanging.

Is there professional conlanging?
Until about 2009, it might have been tempting to answer "no", despite a few scattered cases. But, that was the year the movie Avatar was released, and the year HBO hired a conlanger to create languages for their planned TV series Game of Thrones. Since then the answer has to be, at least somewhat, "yes".

Before then, there were a few isolated cases of TV or movie conlangs. The earliest we know of was, back in the 1970s; children's TV producers Sid and Marty Krofft hired a professional linguist, Victoria Fromkin, to create a language for a race of primitive humanoids for TV show Land of the Lost. The first widely known conlang on-screen was, created for the 1984 movie Star Trek III: The Search of Spock by linguist Mark Okrand at the behest of the movie's director Leonard Nimoy, based on some sample phrases devised for Star Trek: The Motion Picture by James Doohan. It was still largely perceived by the general public as an aberration within Star Trek fandom.

In 2009, though, James Cameron's Avatar became one of the highest-grossing movies ever, prominently featuring conlang for which Cameron had hired a professional linguist (though not a conlanger), Paul Frommer. Then, in 2011, HBO's TV series Game of Thrones began, featuring and  conlangs. HBO had gone through the (LLC) in 2009 to advertise for a conlanger to create languages for the new series (under a tight non-disclosure agreement, of course), and LCC co-founder David J. Peterson won the contract. Peterson has since received other TV/movie conlanging contracts.

Peterson remarked in his 2015 print book  that movies and TV are a small market for conlanging skills, and suggested book authors might enrich their material by teaming up with conlangers to create linguistic backdrops for their story worlds.

What is the earliest conlang?
The earliest example we know of a constructed language, as such, is, described in the 1100s C.E. by , a German Benedictine abbess. Lingua Ignota has been studied by professor on English of the University of Rochester, whose book on the subject, Hildegard of Bingen's Unknown Language: An Edition, Translation, and Discussion, came out in 2007. (Professor Higley is the creator, under pseudonym Sally Caves, of the highly regarded artlang .) Lingua Ignota is apparently a partial relex of Latin, using Latin's grammar and drawing on its vocabulary while introducing more than a thousand new words, and written in a constructed alphabet of 23 characters.

Hildegard of Bingen has long been considered a saint in various branches of Catholicism. After a long and rather muddled procedural relationship with Rome, she was made a Doctor of the Church in 2012 by Pope Benedict XVI, resolving her status as a Saint of the Church as a whole, and making her only the fourth woman recognized as a Doctor of the Church — basically, a saint for her contribution to Catholic thought. Saint Hildegard's feast day, September 17, has gained some traction in the internet conlanging community as a conlanging holiday, when conlangers wish each other a happy Saint Hildegard's day.

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Victoria Miranda

Victoria Miranda (born 5 June 2000) is an Argentine field hockey player.

Hockey career
In 2019, Miranda was called into the senior national women's team. She competed in the team that finished fourth at the 2019 Pro League in Amstelveen.

She won a gold medal at the 2018 Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires.

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Georgette Valle

Georgette W. Valle ( Vikingstad; October 31, 1924) is an American former politician in the state of Washington. Valle served in the Washington House of Representatives as a Democrat from the 31st District, as well as the 34th District.

Biography
Valle worked on local campaigns and served as legislative chairwoman for the Highline chapter of the National Organization of Women. She later became legislative chairwoman of the Democratic Party's 1969 task force, and acted as a catalyst for bringing environmentalists in touch with the Democratic Caucus. She is an alumna of the University of Minnesota graduating with a degree in occupational therapy and has worked as an occupational therapist. She was married to Odd Valle, originally from Norway, who was a dentist.

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Sage, Wyoming

Sage is a ghost town in the far southwestern part of Lincoln County, Wyoming, United States. US Route 30 is the major road, which leads north 19 miles to Cokeville and east 25 miles to Kemmerer. Wyoming Highway 89 runs west 4 miles to the Utah border, then another 5 miles to Sage Creek Junction, Utah. The Union Pacific Railroad passes Sage in the direction of Rock Springs to the east and Pocatello, Idaho, to the west.

Sage lies at 6332 feet elevation, just west over the Sublette Mountains ridge from Fossil Butte National Monument in the Sage Creek valley.

The Overland Stage Route ran north through Sage from Fort Bridger.

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Goumois

Goumois was a municipality in the district of Franches-Montagnes in the canton of Jura in Switzerland. On 1 January 2009, the formerly independent municipalities of Goumois and Les Pommerats merged into Saignelégier.

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Talk:Stjepan Veselic

Untitled
I made sure Stjepan was linked by other fighters. I still think we should define what WPKL and NKBB stand for.Peter Rehse (talk) 23:33, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

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Talk:Adaptations of A Christmas Carol/Archive 1

Merging Carrey project
Per notability guidelines for films, it is not appropriate for A Christmas Carol (2009 film) to exist. The criteria for an article of an upcoming film is that if the film's production is notable, but the film has only been announced and does not show any sign of being fast-tracked to production. The article clearly reflects that Jim Carrey has other potential projects to pursue, so there is no evidence that this film will be made. Thus, it may otherwise be a perpetual stub, so per WP:SS, what little content exists about the film should be merged to List of A Christmas Carol adaptations. My recommendation is a subsection under the Film section. When production is immediate, with an established cast (beyond Carrey) and a production start date in place, then the content can be spun off to the film article once more. There is relevant discussion located at the link below the section heading above. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 19:54, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Support - As I stated on the other page, nothing says if or when this movie will ever get made. Jim Carrey has a slew of films on his plate right now, and it has often been cited that even he has not chosen his next film. Ripley's Believe It or Not has been sitting around for years.   BIGNOLE     (Contact me)  20:08, 23 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Support - unshot films should remain sections of other articles prior to production. Girolamo Savonarola 01:05, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Comment - I'm not opposed to the merge, since once the film begins shooting it'll be easy to retrieve all previously written material. However, shooting seems to be an arbitrary start point at which to create an article. Those guidelines appear to be very much in dispute at the moment, we should wait until there's a stable version before acting. -- MisterHand  (Talk to the Hand|Contribs) 16:20, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

 * As the guideline stands, it still applies to merging this film, on which production has yet to begin, and the proposal on the guideline's talk page will still apply to merging this film. There's no argument being pursued to support the creation of an article right when a film is announced. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 16:47, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Comment: According to Variety, Carrey will pursue Yes Man first. The article also says that he would begin A Christmas Carol in early 2008.  Since this project is far off, it's more reason to avoid a stand-alone film article at this time. —Erik (talk • contrib) - 13:34, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

Pastiche vs. Sequel
I adjusted the header of the last section for accuracy. In strict literary terms, a sequel can be written only by the original author or his/her formal designee. Other works using characters from and with plot line allusions to earlier works of note are more properly called by the term pastiche.

One of the most fertile original characters for pastiche has been Sherlock Holmes, with scores of stories and a number of novels using the characters but neither written nor authorized by Conan Doyle (Nicholas Meyer's The Seven-Per-Cent Solution being arguably the best-known and most popular). No one refers to these as "sequels" - they are always termed pastiche.

Ditto Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - a pastiche in both senses of the word identified in Wiki's article about the same.

I'm leaving the term "sequel" in as part of the header against my instincts and better judgment because of the probable unfamiliarity of many readers with the term pastiche. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sensei48 (talk • contribs) 05:31, 30 May 2008 (UTC)

Quantum Leap - tv version
Not sure if it counts...

But there was an episode where Al did a ghost thing in the spirit of Scrooge to keep a developer from demolishing a shelter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk • contribs) 19 May 2009 (UTC)

other TV shows
there is also an episode of "Bewitched"(season 4, episode 16) Here is the title and summary from TV.com: "Humbug Not to Be Spoken Here Samantha gets a mean, miserly manager named Mr. Mortimer to change his thoughts about Christmas and gets him to really think about others. " and one of the Six million dollar man: "A Bionic Christmas Carol"(season 4 episode 10) here is wikipedia 's summary : "When Steve is sent to investigate problems with an OSI project contracted out to Budge Corp., he discovers the problem is that the corporation's owner, Horton Budge, is a cheap "Scrooge." Steve then uses his bionics to emulate the Charles Dickens classic and convince Budge to change his mind. " —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 09:28, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

There was a Black Adder special that was a spoof of this where everything was actually in reverse (The Black Adder of the time period was actually a good man who got corrupted by what he saw in his visions) Anyone here remember the title? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hdofu (talk • contribs) 03:59, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

 * It's listed and described in the article as "Black Adder's Christmas Carol" under television. Sensei48 (talk) 05:11, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

 * but shouldn't be where it is...see below. Sensei48 (talk) 18:28, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Two other popular TV shows did parodies - "The Odd Couple" and "Sanford and Son". I would like to add them to the article, but am interested in others' opinions first. Thoughts, anyone? Elsquared (talk) 05:33, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

 * Well, I think they would be fine to include, but not under adaptations. I notice that there are several entries there that are out of place because they are actually pastiches. What I'll do for now is change "Pastiche sequels" to "Pastiches, Continuations, and Parodies" - that should provide a comfortable place for the TV show you mention plus some of the misplaced entries above. Sensei48 (talk) 06:22, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

 * Thank you for your advice. I’ve added brief descriptions for the television shows “The Odd Couple”, “Sanford and Son”, “WKRP in Cincinnati”, “Family Ties”, “The Six Million Dollar Man”, and “Alice”.  I’ve yet to add things like year of broadcast and a link to appropriate Wiki articles, but will try to do that as soon as possible.
 * While we’re on the subject, shouldn’t the following entries be moved to Pastiches, continuations, and other uses: “Rich Little's Christmas Carol”, “Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol”, “Brer Rabbit's Christmas Carol”, “A Flintstones Christmas Carol”, “A Sesame Street Christmas Carol”, “Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas”, and “A Christmas Carol - Scrooge's Ghostly Tale”? Elsquared (talk) 19:55, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

 * And thanks for placing these correctly in the current scheme. Since you're interested - if you look below under "Klingons," you'll see that User:TheFeds is proposing a new scheme. I'd like to respond when I have a bit more time after Christmas. I still think we should reserve the word "adaptation" for its formal and correct literary meaning and call evefrything else something else. That would imply making the moves you suggest. regards, Sensei48 (talk) 20:48, 25 December 2010 (UTC)

One episode of "Northern exposure" no. 90 titled 'Shofar, So Good' (there are Yom Kippur's ghosts, not Christmas' or kind of this) and one of "Highway to Heaven" but i don't remember season and episode... — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 19:32, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Edits/Removals 7/23/10
I've removed a significant number of additions to categories in the article for a simple reason: they are not adaptations of Charles Dickens' novella A Christmas Carol. Changing characters, holidays, seasons, names and so on make them parodies or pastiches. Accidental or exploitative similarities in plot to the original also do not fit. Some of the remaining productions on this list stretch the definition of adaptation to its limits, but at a minimum they follow Dickens plot and employ characters with the original names. Sensei48 (talk) 18:32, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

 * I'd add that some of the reverted entries might be properly re-introduced as pastiches or parodies, as the lede suggests. But "adaptations" in this context refers to a conversion of the text of the original into dramatic form, as in film credits. Sensei48 (talk) 20:24, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Doctor Who
I'm uncertain whether the Doctor Who A Christmas Carol should be listed as an adaptation. While it does incorporate elements of Dickens' tale, there is no character called Scrooge, there's also no analog for Katherine Jenkins' character, and there are no starships in the original, either. When we finally see it on Dec. 25, it might be more appropriate to move it into a pastiche category. (The special has been screened by BFI and elsewhere already, though, so if anyone who has seen it cares to chime in, feel free.) <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 14:17, 16 December 2010 (UTC)

Klingon adaptation
I notice that the Klingon version has just been moved to the "Pastiches" (etc.) section; I'm certain that's the wrong classification. This one uses the entire plot of the novel, but changes the setting—that's by definition an adaptation, not a pastiche. It's straightforwardly equivalent to any of the other adaptations set outside of Victorian England. (Check out the video tab in the original version of the cited reference for a good description of what this play entails.) By contrast, a pastiche imitates the style, but doesn't re-use the majority of the plot (in this case, it generally means using a version of the three ghosts device in a different genre), and a prequel or sequel develops the characters further (by creating new scenes or situations not described by Dickens).

There are a couple of other ones that might be misclassified, but I'll defer to anyone who's got a reference for those indicating the actual content. (For example, An American Carol is a pastiche, not a parody of A Christmas Carol—though it is a parody of Michael Moore's persona.) TheFeds 01:44, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

 * Since I was the one who moved it, I'll attempt an answer. I created the section "pastiche sequels" for reasons stated in the section above. What happened was that a flood of riffs off of the central story line began to appear in sections that were originally and exclusively devoted to adaptations of Dickens. In order to maintain the integrity of the theatrical (here including radio, TV, recordings and so on) definition of "adaptation" - the rendering into drama of a story originally written in prose fiction - I retitled the section yesterday as you see it today and added the term "other uses." It is as "other uses" and not as pastiche or parody that I moved the Klingon play to this category. While you make clear that it is neither parody nor pastiche, your quoted and cited reviews make it equally clear that it is not an adaptation of the Dickens story from fiction to drama. My edit summary with the change made that very clear - ""narrative... rejiggered to match the Klingon world view" is not Dickens, nor is this from the Belkin review:

 * "For starters, since there is neither a messiah nor a celebration of his birth on the Klingon planet of Kronos, the action is pegged to the Klingon Feast of the Long Night. Carols and trees are replaced with drinking, fighting and mating rituals. And because Klingons are more concerned with bravery than kindness, the main character's quest is for courage."

 * In no way is that an adaptation of Dickens, again in the theatrical sense that every play, film, TV show and so on remaining in the main categories are (or should be). Setting the basic plot line "outside of Victorian England"removes any effort from the category of adaptation and into - something else like "other uses." I tried to remove every such reference from the main categories - not a problem for radio or film, for the most part, but there were a dozen or so U.S. television riffs including everything from female Scrooge-type characters to zombies - none of which are Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.Sensei48 (talk) 05:01, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

 * I agree that the Klingon version is not a traditional portrayal—but I contend that it's still much more traditional than (for example) the Flintstones version listed in the "Adaptations" (which uses a meta-reference to the play to parallel the main plot taking place in its Flintstones-era setting). The real issue is that I don't see consistency in the current categorization in the article; certainly by the criteria you're defining "other uses", many more could be moved out of the first section (which should be renamed from "Adaptations" to something more specific, maybe "Traditional adaptations" or "Adaptations in Dickensian settings").

 * Maybe a full recategorization is in order. If I were to sort the versions, I could identify:
 * Readings of the original (or abridged original) novel
 * Adaptations that are true to the original Victorian setting and generally use the same scenes (the "traditional" play, e.g. most early theatre versions, George C. Scott, Alastair Sim, Jim Carrey, some of the radio plays)
 * Adaptations with new settings that use the same general plot and themes (e.g. the Nallon one-man show, Scrooged, animals, Klingons)
 * Apocrypha that extend the original story (before/during/after, e.g. the prequels and sequels dealing with Marley and the Crachits, especially the zombie sequel)
 * Musical and operatic adaptations (though the settings run the gamut)
 * Parodies that make fun of the Dickens original (e.g. Blackadder)
 * Pastiches that incorporate some elements (like the ghost motif) into an essentially unrelated story (e.g. An American Carol, probably the upcoming Doctor Who version)
 * And of course, most of these can be subdivided into different media, and into translated and English-language versions.

 * In any event, despite these categories being convenient, to use them (or indeed, to use the category scheme you've set up) could present an original research problem. We need to present them in terms of how they've been described in reliable sources, rather than just guess at which are sufficiently Victorian to be classified among the traditional set, and which use an unacceptable degree of licence—especially among theatre productions that we haven't personally seen, and which often use sparse sets and costumes that don't give a firm impression of the intended setting. As long as we're mindful of that, improvement of the article should be feasible.

 * Maybe all that represents a better long-term outcome for this article, than worrying about whether the substitutions of courage for charity, and Kronos for England are insufficiently Dickensian. TheFeds 07:31, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

 * I think that your suggested categories are excellent, at least insofar as they could handle most all of the references that are currently on the list. The WP:IPCA guidelines are a bit general and as far as I can see give little help here beyond, as you note, the WP:RS/verifiability requirement. I have been less than pleased over the last couple of years to see what has been added here, especially local theatrical productions of no general notability, TV spin-offs, and freehand spin-offs like those with zombies and Klingons.

 * I would politely disagree with your last statement, though, because it does matter how "Victorian" and "Dickensian" a production or other creative effort is. Dickens wrote the novella, and it exists in basically one original format (minor differences among early print editions) and one public performance reading script by Dickens. Any other use of the original text other than to present Ebenezer Scrooge c. 1840 in London visited by four ghosts at Christmas time with a subsequent reformation/redemption is to create an original work, not an adaptation of Dickens. I would prefer to see the list comprised only of WP:RS verifiable notable versions of the original story; everything else should be appended to articles about the medium of presentation, not an article on A Christmas Carol. The Minneapolis production that you have presented and sourced, for example, may add to one's appreciation of Klingon and Star Trek but does not add anything of value to one's understanding of Dickens.

 * Having said that, though, I fully realize that I am swimming against the current here. Wikipedia will have pop culture and trivia lists; the best we can hope to do with them is to be sure that they are properly organized and sourced, and I think your suggestion is the best way to do that. That well may involve removing most of the examples currently cited there - or removing all of them, rebuilding the categories as you suggest (with pole position given to those that are actual attempts to adapt Dickens), and adding only those items that have been or can be sourced. Parenthetically, that would require the re-introduction of my term "pastiche sequels" because, as above, Dickens never wrote one and only the original author can do so. "Sequel" has a literary definition, and it is literature we are talking about here as the source, not a Hollywood franchise.

 * In any event, I look forward to further thoughts from you on the matter. regards, Sensei48 (talk) 08:22, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

 * Regarding my last statement in the previous post, that was intended to suggest that if we change the classification scheme, it won't be necessary to spend much time trying to reach consensus on whether the Klingon play goes with the Victorian ones (because it follows the same general plot and order of scenes), or with the non-Victorian ones (because the setting is alien)—rather, it will be guaranteed a niche among the adaptations set outside of the Victorian period. That way, the list of faithful productions is maintained (and I agree, those are of particular relevance as a category), and the others are categorized in a relatively logical way.

 * As for sequels, there's a Wikipedia article "informal sequel", so maybe that's an appropriately-familiar term that's a bit more general than "pastiche sequel". Since we have a couple prequels too, we should also include those in the section title: "Informal prequels and sequels"?

 * In terms of reliable sources, we could definitely weed out the ones for which references aren't easily available—those would typically be minor productions of little importance—and maybe drop them on the talk page. (They're preserved in the archived pages, but others might appreciate having an informal list there, so that they might be prompted to find sources and add those newly-referenced entries back into the article-space list if appropriate.)

 * Also, while I said above that we shouldn't guess about the content of plays we haven't seen, we could theoretically run into the situation where we have usable references for a production, but they don't tell us how authentic the play was—and then, guessing might actually be the right thing to do. Maybe we'll deal with that issue if it arises, and forget about it if it doesn't.... (We could create a miscellaneous category for things like that, but it's just going to collect all sorts of inappropriately-referenced material in the long run.) TheFeds 07:18, 22 December 2010 (UTC)

Halloween version from the 80s?
Does anyone remember a Halloween version of "A Christmas Carol" appearing in the early 80s? I remember it was about an old miser who owned the mortgages to a bunch of people's houses, and there was some kind of challenge around Halloween that if kids could find the papers to their parents' houses, they could keep it. The old man took great delight in scaring the life out of kids. But what most struck me was the ending: he 'didn't' get redeemed, he opened this door to some room inside his house, and found that it was the entry to hell, with fire and all kinds of horribly burning demons. He got slowly pulled into it, and the viewers got treated to terrifying pictures of demons with burning or melting skin, themselves moaning or screaming in pain. I'd appreciate if anyone could tell me if they know what that was. InFairness (talk) 07:02, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

Radio Versions
In the 1970s, The CBS Radio Mystery Theater did "A Christmas Carol" with E.G. Marshall, the host of the program, also played Ebenezer Scrooge. I'm not sure of the original broadcast date or if this was only broadcast once or rebroadcast yearly during the Radio Mystery Theater's run. Jtyroler (talk) 15:44, 6 January 2013 (UTC)

Arrow
Arrow season 2 episode 9 is A Christmas Carol adaptation. I can't write an article in english, but someone should write something about that.

The episode name's "Three Ghosts". Ghost of christmas past is Shado, Ghost Ghost of christmas present is Tommy and Ghost of christmas yet to come is Slade Wilson. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 20:18, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

 * Hi - I think your edit is sufficient until someone who knows this version can add to it. I re-positioned your edit to the section called "Pastiches..." because it is not exactly an adaptation. regards, Sensei48 (talk) 21:35, 13 December 2013 (UTC)

Gerald Charles Dickens mentioned twice
The one-act play by Gerald Charles Dickens is mentioned twice, so I'll be removing one. Someone please verify the correct date. One says he began in 1993, the other in 1996. I don't know which is correct. Elsquared (talk) 06:16, 20 December 2013 (UTC)

Looney Tunes version
I seem to remember a Looney Tunes version with Yosemite Same as Scrooge and Porky Pig as Bob. Bugs Bunny pretended to be a ghost to scare Sam. Does anyone know anything further about this? <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 21:28, 13 February 2014 (UTC)

Most adapted story
Is this actually the most adapted story of all time? — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk • contribs) 13 November 2014 (UTC)

missing movie
The god-awful 2012 movie starring Vincent Fegan. — Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 17:53, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

Another Missing Movie
What about Bill Murray's "Scrooged"? 2602:301:779A:FC0:B5FF:B39:D1C0:B994 (talk) 07:14, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

 * It is listed under "Pastiches...." because it is not an adaptation of Dickens's novella.Sensei48 (talk) 10:17, 21 December 2015 (UTC)

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Talk:Kerry O'Brien (journalist)

Bias
I have removed the following text: "This association with the Australian Labor Party has often renewed speculation of left-wing bias and his fiery interviews with Liberal Party Cabinet Ministers." Can anyone find a citation of this left-wing bias speculation? Also, O'Brien's fiery interviews have not just been with Liberals. Doesn't anyone else remember him famously accusing (then PM) Keating of having a "credibility problem"? To which Keating replied "I don't have a credibility problem, you have an information problem." Anyway, until someone can find a few good quality citations, I'm removing it because accusing a journalist of politicial bias is one of the most serious things you can do. I elliot 12:24, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Not to mention the biffo with Latham. He went pretty damn hard on him. DarkSideOfTheSpoon 00:01, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Why not look at http://www.abc.net.au/corp/pubs/media/s1485711.htm where the speculation re bias is spelled out pretty clearly as cabinet ministers have actually made complaints. Of course Mr. O'Brian was not found to have been been biased in his conduct here, but this is proof of there being a view that he is so. Anyone who saw his love in with Latham on the night prior to the election will understand the reasons for the complaints.

Kerry O'Brien is often accused of political bias, and these allegations along with the evidence should be admitted into the entry, much like how Fox News' alleged political bias is documented in its entry. Journalists and news outlets are often accused of bias and these accusations are consistently referenced in other related media wikipedia entries. Excluding the allegations is a form of censorship and not content improvement. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thefunnelweb (talk • contribs) 14:38, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

= I have tried to marry the ideas expressed above, by citing some specific commentators who have accused O'Brien of bias, as well as some specifics about his appearances on The Chaser and have included O'Brien's response to his critics. I have also added details of the nature of the 7:30 Report Observoz (talk) 19:13, 1 September 2009 (UTC)

 * POV language removed. Please review Wikipedia's NPOV policy.I elliot (talk) 03:40, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

 * Elliot, I draw your attention to the POV wording that we are required to represent fairly, and as far as possible without bias, all significant views that have been published by reliable sources. Accusations of bias have been made regularly by high profile opinion writers in the mainstream, wide-circulation Australian media, as well as by high profile Australian politicians. I invite you therefore to exam the citations provided (or conduct your own search on the issue) and draft your own proposal for addressing the issue of allegations of "bias"Observoz (talk) 04:10, 4 September 2009 (UTC)

Move?
I think this page should be moved to Kerry O'Brien (journalist) or similar. Then have a disambig page pointing to the two Kerry's. ~AFA pony. 16:39, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Umm... Seems for some strange reason that Kerry O'Brien (journalist) actually goes to plain old Kerry O'Brien. That is fucked up...~AFA pony. 16:49, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Done and fixed.MrHarper (talk) 12:43, 16 August 2008 (UTC)

Standing for Senate
I have found no evidence O'Brien is standing for senate. Also the ABC's editorial policy is that candidates can only appear as candidates and not for other reasons, (which is why Dr. Karl has temporarily stopped appearing on ABC radio). Kerry is still hosting the 7:30 report, so i don't think he's standing for senate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 11:34, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Birth Date
If true, O'brien is in extraordinarily good shape for a 62 year old. I elliot 11:00, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

Irish-Australian
Says he was born in Brisbane. Does he actually have Irish citizenship or just an O' in his name? I'm going to remove it until someone comes up with a reference. Nick 01:10, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

1993 election debates
The info about his moderation of the 1993 debates needs to be better presented. Having it announced via a quote from Howard feels completely jarring. <IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 16:22, 18 February 2023 (UTC)

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Gorgonops

Gorgonops (from Γοργών 'Gorgon' and ὤψ 'eye, face', literally 'Gorgon eye' or 'Gorgon face') is an extinct genus of gorgonopsian therapsid, of which it is the type genus. Gorgonops lived during the Late Permian (Wuchiapingian), about 260–254 million years ago in what is now South Africa.

History of discovery
The holotype of the type species, Gorgonops torvus, was one of the first therapsids discovered. It was described by Richard Owen, who also coined the name "Dinosauria" on the basis of the first known dinosaur fossils. G. torvus was also used as the type for the family Gorgonopsidae, which was described by Richard Lydekker in 1890. Five years later, in 1895, Harry Govier Seeley used this genus to establish the larger clade of Gorgonopsia. In later years, a large number of further species and genera were designated, though many of these were later determined to be synonyms.

Gorgonops is known from the Tropidostoma and most of the Cistecephalus Assemblage Zones.

Description
Gorgonops was a medium-sized gorgonopsian, with a skull length of 22-35 cm, depending on the species. They ranged from 1.2-2 m long from nose to tail. Gorgonops would have been one of the key predators across southern Africa during the Late Permian. Because the canines were so large, they would have had little trouble in penetrating the tough hides of some of the herbivores of the time, particularly pareiasaurs such as Pareiasaurus. Aside from the teeth, one of the key predatory advantages that Gorgonops had over prey was its semi-erect gait, compared to the sprawling gait exhibited by most prey animals of the time. Aside from allowing for more energy efficient locomotion, this allowed Gorgonops to travel at relatively high speeds.

Skull
Relative to body size, Gorgonops had a deep skull with a triangular profile when viewed from above. Perhaps the most distinctive features were two enlarged canine teeth that were so big (12 cm long) they almost protruded beyond the lower jaw. To help protect these teeth, the lower jaws grew in such a shape so that the anterior (front) portion was thicker than the posterior (rear) portion. This form would have protected the enlarged canine teeth from accidental damage, and was similar in bone function to the flanges of bone of sabre-toothed cats in the Cenozoic.

Gorgonops torvus (Owen, 1876)
The type species. The holotype is an incomplete and flattened skull found at Mildenhalls, Fort Beaufort, South Africa. A number of other specimens have been found since, all from the Tropidostoma and/or Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone(s). This was a medium-sized therapsid, with a skull about 22 cm in length. It is distinguished from other species by a longer snout, and other details of the bones of the skull. Originally considered rather simple, it is actually (according to Sigogneau-Russell) a rather specialised member of the group.

Gorgonops whaitsi (Broom, 1912)
Larger than G. torvus, with the rear of the skull wider, and other details of proportion. Originally the type species of Scymnognathus. Despite being known from a large number of specimens from the Karoo Basin, Beaufort West (Tropidostoma/Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone), the species remains poorly known. Watson and Romer placed Gorgonops and Scymnognathus in two different families, while Sigogneau-Russell placed the two species in the same genus, and considers G. whaitsi a more primitive (less derived) form. Synonyms: Scymnognathus whaitsi (Broom, 1912)

Gorgonops longifrons (Haughton, 1915)
A large specimen known from an incomplete and flattened skull about 35 cm long. Orbit larger and snout longer than G. whaitsi, from which it may have descended. Beaufort West, Tropidostoma/Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone. Synonyms: Gorgonognathus longifrons (Haughton, 1915)

Gorgonops? eupachygnathus (Watson, 1921)
A flattened, incomplete, medium-sized skull, probably a juvenile of either G. torvus or G. whaitsi Synonyms: Leptotrachelus eupachygnathus (Watson, 1921); Leptotracheliscops eupachygnathus (Watson, 1921)

Gorgonops? dixeyi (Haughton, 1926)
A large, incomplete and flattened skull, from Chiweta Beds, Nyassaland. Placement uncertain. Probably Low Cistecephalus Assemblage Zone equivalent (= middle of the Wuchiapingian Stage). Synonyms: Chiwetasaurus dixeyi (Haughton, 1926)

Gorgonops? kaiseri (Broili & Schroeder, 1934)
A large (about 35 cm long), incomplete skull, with a high snout and narrower in the rear than other species, from the "High Tapinocephalus zone" (earlier than the other species, most probably Pristerognathus Assemblage Zone) Synonyms: Pachyrhinos kaiseri (Broili & Schroeder, 1934)

Classification
Below is a cladogram from Gebauer's 2007 phylogenetic analysis.

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Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin (born March 30, 1947 ) is an American writer, activist, and black anarchist. He is a former member of the Black Panther Party and Concerned Citizens for Justice. He was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and has lived in Memphis, Tennessee, since 2010.

Youth and early activism
When he was 12, Ervin joined the NAACP youth group and participated in the sit-in protests that helped end racial segregation in Chattanooga. He was drafted during the Vietnam War and served in the army for two years, where he became an anti-war activist. In 1967 he joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and, a short time later, the Black Panther Party.

Hijacking and incarceration
In February 1969, Ervin hijacked a plane to Cuba to evade prosecution for allegedly trying to kill a Ku Klux Klan leader. While in Cuba, and then Czechoslovakia, Ervin became disillusioned with state socialism. After the US government was unable to obtain his extradition, Ervin was turned over to U.S. authorities by Cuba and he was arrested upon being returned to the U.S. in September 1969. Ervin was charged with two counts of airline hijacking in the US District Court for the State of Georgia. A jury convicted Ervin of both counts, for which presiding Federal District Judge Albert Henderson imposed a sentence of life imprisonment, after the jury declined to recommend the death sentence sought by the prosecutor. Ervin was the first person ever to receive a life sentence for an aircraft hijacking under U.S. law. Previously, the most severe sentence imposed for the offense had been 25 years imprisonment.

Ervin first learned about anarchism while in prison in the late 1970s. He read numerous anarchist books, and his case was adopted by the Anarchist Black Cross, a political prisoner support organization. While in prison, Ervin authored several anarchist pamphlets, including Anarchism and the Black Revolution, which has been reprinted many times and is considered his best-known work.

Eventually, Ervin's legal challenges and an international campaign led to his release from prison after 15 years.

Post-prison activism
After his release, Ervin returned to Chattanooga, where he became involved with a local civil rights group called Concerned Citizens for Justice, fighting police brutality and the Klan. In 1987, Ervin helped file a class action civil rights lawsuit that resulted in the restructuring of the Chattanooga government and the election of several black city council members.

On April 26, 2008, Ervin and his wife, JoNina Abron-Ervin organized a march and rally in Nashville, Tennessee, to protest the deaths of two youths in Tennessee facilities at the Chad Youth Enhancement Center, and the deaths of a number of prisoners at the Nashville Detention Center, allegedly by guards at that facility.

On June 12, 2012, the Ervin and other black activists held a conference called "Let's Organize the Hood", and there created the Memphis Black Autonomy Federation to fight the high levels of unemployment and poverty in African American communities, rampant police brutality, including the unjustified use of deadly force, and the mass imprisonment of Black people and other peoples of color by the United States government through its War on Drugs, which Ervin and other activists claim are unjustly directed to black/POC communities.

Australian speaking tour
During July 1997, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin was invited to tour Australia by local anarchist organization "Angry People". The far-right organization Australians Against Further Immigration raised the issue with Acting Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone. Then anti-immigration politician Pauline Hanson accused him of being "a known terrorist and gun-runner".

Prime Minister John Howard was reported as horrified to learn that Mr. Lorenzo Kom'Boa Ervin had been granted a visa and was visiting Australia and Immigration officials started an urgent investigation, detaining Ervin in Brisbane and cancelling his visa. The visa was cancelled on the grounds that he was not of good character, which Ervin disputed.

Ervin had visited 20 countries on lecture tours since his release from prison in 1983. Ervin's Australian visa had been granted through an electronic lodgment system in Los Angeles. The imprisonment of Ervin was taken to the High Court of Australia, where Chief Justice Sir Gerard Brennan restored Ervin's visa and ordered his release from prison, saying that Ervin did not appear to have been accorded natural justice, as well as chiding the Government's lawyers for suggesting he had no power to hear the case.

The Federal Government agreed to pay Ervin's legal costs. Ervin stated that Mr Howard should apologize.

The detainment of Ervin stimulated international protests that included pickets of Australian embassies and consulates in South Africa, Greece, Italy, Sweden, UK, Ireland, New Zealand and the US.

Immediately after his release from four days in prison, Ervin attended NAIDOC celebrations in Musgrave Park, West End, as a guest of the Murri people (Indigenous Australians from Queensland), and gave a brief speech. Ervin continued his speaking tour, while Immigration officials prepared further questions for him to answer. While travelling on his speaking tour Ervin attempted to visit Australian Black Panther movement activist Denis Walker in Cessnock Jail, but was denied access by police and warders.

The actions of the government were generally said to have generated attention and publicity for Ervin, and to have resulted in many more people attending his speaking tour than would have otherwise.

The affair resulted in Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock cutting short an overseas trip to oversee further Immigration handling of the issue. Ervin left Australia on July 24, 1997, claiming that Immigration officials had threatened to deport him if he stayed any longer. Soon after Ruddock announced an upgrade of Australia's migrant alert systems and toughened its visa screening procedures, with more stringent checking of "high-risk" applicants.

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Liverpool Blues (Australian rules football)

The Liverpool Blues was an Australian rules football team in Liverpool, England, which competed in the British Australian Rules Football League.

History
The Blues formed in 1993 to play in the British Australian Rules Football League. The club played only one full season, folding shortly after the 1994 home and away series began. The Blues were associated with the local Sefton Rugby Club.

A new club was later formed in 2002 in the nearby town of St Helens, known as the St Helens Miners. The club was renamed as the Northwestern Miners for the 2004 season, before they also folded.

The Liverpool Eagles were formed in late 2008, bringing the sport back to the city.


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Giant clingfish

The giant clingfish (Haplocylix littoreus) is a clingfish of the family Gobiesocidae, the only species in the genus Haplocylix. It is found all down the east coast of New Zealand around the low water mark amongst seaweed, on rocky coastlines. Its length is up to 15 cm. This species was originally described as Cyclopterus littoreus in 1801 by Johann Reinhold Forster, John C. Briggs subsequently placed it in the monotypic genus Haplocylix. Its closest relative appears to be the Caribbean deepwater clingfish Gymnoscyphus ascitus.

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Baghat-e Dastgerdan

Baghat-e Dastgerdan (, also Romanized as Bāghāt-e Dastgerdān; also known as Dastgerdān) is a village in Rivand Rural District, in the Central District of Nishapur County, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 61, in 17 families.

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Inès Konan

Inès Konan Akissi (born 8 January 2002) is an Ivorian footballer who plays as a forward for Première Ligue club Fleury and the Ivory Coast women's national team.

International career
Konan capped for Ivory Coast at senior level during the 2020 CAF Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament (fourth round).

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Hudson Greater Eight

The Hudson Greater Eight is a luxury car produced by the Hudson Motor Car Company of Detroit, Michigan, during 1931 and 1932.

History
The Hudson Motor Car Company, headed by Roy D. Chapin, developed a reputation and success in the automobile marketplace by building solid cars with good performance and reliability for the money. The introduction of the Essex Six in 1924, targeting budget-minded buyers, increased the combined sales of Hudson Motors from seventh to third place in the U.S. automobile market by 1925. Production of Hudson and Essex cars continued to hold third place for 1927, fourth place in 1928, and returned to capture third in 1929 with a total of 300,962 units.

The automaker decided to move upmarket and, in 1930, launched a line of cars named Great Eight. The line included "semi-custom" bodies built by the Walter M. Murphy Company. Hudson Eights were "often luxurious, and usually smooth, effortless performers" powered by a new for 1930 straight-eight engine that was produced by the automaker through 1952. Total production in 1930 for Hudson Motors fell by almost 40% to 113,898 units.

For 1931, the automaker renamed the line to Hudson Greater Eight – implying that the new models "were even better than" the previous year because of additional engineering and styling advances. However, production declined even further, dropping Hudson from the top eight car brands sales in the U.S. market.

Hudson hired its first professional designer in early 1931, Frank S. Spring, with the title of "engineering stylist". This was a time when stylists were not prevalent in the industry, and "body engineers applied whatever untrained styling touches they could muster." The automaker first incorporated Spring's designs on the 1932 model year Hudsons.

Spring was an enthusiast of sports cars, but Hudson's president, A. E. Barit, insisted on high rooflines. Nevertheless, Spring became best known for his contributions to the 1948–54 "Step-Down" design (third-generation Hudson Commodores and first-generation Hudson Hornets). Spring remained with the company until its merger with Nash, forming American Motors Corporation (AMC) in 1954.

1931
The Greater Eight models were built on Hudson's 119 in or 126 in wheelbase lengths with many body styles. The "T-Series" chassis riding on solid front and rear axles with semi-elliptic leaf springs and four-wheel mechanical brakes. The 1931 models featured a 233.7 CID cast iron L-head inline eight-cylinder (I8) engine producing 87 bhp mated to a three-speed sliding gear manual transmission.

The Greater Eight received Hudson's first attempts incorporating softer, less rigid styling. The Greater Eight offered many stylish attributes that included a distinctive fine mesh grille-work that set it apart from other contemporary marques. It came with full instrumentation. Standard features included adjustable seats in front and rear as well as a steering column that could be lowered or raised to suit driver's preferences.

Hudson made only a few boat-tailed roadster models. The bodies were built by Murray, and even though the style never made the sales literature, a 1931 Hudson Greater Eight boat-tailed roadster was built, making it the only time this style appeared on a Hudson chassis.

Even with their larger engines and lower prices than the 1930 models, sales during the Great Depression in the United States were down from the previous year. Sales of the Greater Eight totaled 22,250 for 1931.

1932
For 1932, the Greater Eights received new, more streamlined styling, including a greater slope of the windshield. Hudson's engineering stylist, Frank S. Spring, made the fenders more graceful and gave the car's body gentler curves. The 1932 models featured a prominent Vee'd grille with vertical chrome theme. The cars were recognizable by their uniquely styled rounded-triangle shaped headlights and parking lights, which mimicked the shape of Hudson's triangle logo. The interior also repeated the triangle theme, including the driver's floor pedals.

Three wheelbase lengths were available with 14 different designs. Body choices for the 119 in versions included Standard Sedan, Coach, Rumble Coupe, Two-passenger Coupe, Town Sedan, Special Coupe, and Convertible Coupe. Only the Suburban and Special Sedan came on the 126 in wheelbase. The 132 in version offered Brougham, Touring Sedan, Club Sedan, Seven-passenger Sedan, and Seven-passenger Phaeton body designs.

The new design also received mechanical upgrades, including 30% larger brakes than those on the previous models. The I8 engine was also increased to 254 CID and produced 101 bhp. Options included a freewheeling clutch to disengage the driveline, as well as a selective-control automatic clutch.

Economic conditions were not improving and sales for 1932 totaled less than 8,000 Greater Eights, despite prices remaining the same and the addition of two "lush" new series to the product offer: the Sterling (Series U on a 126 in chassis and the Major (Series L with a 132 in wheelbase). Total production for both Hudson and Essex moved up to 57,550 during 1932, the lowest point for the U.S. automotive industry during the Great Depression.

Epilogue
For 1933, the Hudson Eights were four "standard" models riding on a 119 in wheelbase and five luxurious Major series models built on a 132 in platform. The line was renamed the Hudson Pacemaker Standard Eight.

The company was struggling because of low sales and mounting financial losses. In May 1933, Roy D. Chapin returned to Hudson after serving as the United States Secretary of Commerce during the last months of President Herbert Hoover's administration and spent his final three years of life trying to save the automaker from the effects of the Great Depression. Hudson had fared poorly during the Great Depression (1929–36) compared with other domestic automakers with its rank falling back from third to eight in terms of production.

During the 1930s, automobile production by the Big Three (General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler) increased, while all the other domestic automakers were damaged and saw their total market share drop from 25% in 1929 to 10% by 1939. with many of the premium-type brands disappearing, such as Cord, Durant, Franklin, Peerless, Pierce-Arrow, and Stutz.

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Chironomia

Chironomia is the art of using gesticulations or hand gestures to good effect in traditional rhetoric or oratory. Effective use of the hands, with or without the use of the voice, is a practice of great antiquity, which was developed and systematized by the Greeks and the Romans. Various gestures had conventionalized meanings which were commonly understood, either within certain class or professional groups, or broadly among dramatic and oratorical audiences.

Gilbert Austin was a well-known author on chironomia. The article about him contains a summary of theories in chironomia.

title: Chironomia


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Joseph N. Chambers

Joseph N. Chambers (1798–1874) was an American politician and army officer. Chambers was born in Maryland and graduated in 1818 from the United States Military Academy. He then served as a lieutenant until his resignation in 1823. He was later elected as a Member of the House of Representatives of Louisiana. Chambers died on November 12, 1874, in Clinton, Louisiana.

Military career
He was appointed from his home state of Maryland as Cadet at the United States Military Academy on January 1, 1814, and graduated June 24, 1818. He served in the Army from 1818 to 1823 as Second and First Lieutenant and resigned on November 6, 1823.

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fange

Etymology 1
From, borrowed from , from , from. .

Verb

 * 1) to catch, to capture

Etymology 2
From, borrowed from , a past participle of , , from.

Compare 🇨🇬. Late 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 are also borrowed from Low German.

Noun

 * 1) prisoner, captive

Etymology
, from, from of  origin, see there for more. Compare 🇨🇬. .

Noun

 * 1) filth, mire
 * 2)  filth, baseness, debauchery
 * 3)  fen, swamp

Etymology 1
From and.

Noun

 * 1) convict, inmate, prisoner

Etymology 2
From and.

Verb

 * 1) to catch, to capture

Etymology 1
From late from. .

Verb

 * 1) to catch, to capture
 * 2)  to receive

Etymology 2
From late, from.

Noun

 * 1) convict, inmate, prisoner

Etymology
From, from , from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to catch, to seize

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to nab, to catch

Etymology
From, from. Cognates include 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  to catch

Etymology
From, from.

Verb

 * 1) to catch

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Talk:Minerva Theatre, Sydney

The Map
Map is slightly incorrect. The Minerva is on the corner of Orwell Street and Orwell Lane (Eastside). Currently the pin is on the Northside of Orwell St and MacLeay. I don't know how to edit that! Twomatters (talk) 05:09, 3 June 2022 (UTC)

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Beginner Japanese/Existence and Copula

This lesson will teach you how to say that something exists or doesn't exist.

Reading
Read Expressing state-of-being.

Exercises

 * Using the words listed at Japanese I/Vocabulary/Nouns 1, say something in:
 * Declarative
 * Negative
 * Past
 * Negative-past

Edit the section below and write the exercise above in hiragana and kanji in this format:

(this signs your name)
Hiragana:
 * words form meaning
 * words form meaning
 * words form meaning
 * words form meaning

Kanji:
 * words form meaning
 * words form meaning
 * words form meaning
 * words form meaning

It will be checked by a fellow student or instructor.

Japanese Existence and Copula/completed exercises contains corrected exercises.

Example:

Hiragana:
 * いすだ declarative, is chair
 * いすじゃない negative, not chair
 * いすだった past, was chair
 * いすじゃなかった negative-past, wasn't chair

Kanji:
 * 椅子だ declarative, is chair
 * 椅子じゃない negative, not chair
 * 椅子だった past, was chair
 * 椅子じゃなかった negative-past, wasn't chair

Examples in polite speech:

Hiragana:
 * いすです declarative, is chair
 * いすではありません negative, not chair
 * いすでした past, was chair
 * いすではありませんでした negative-past, wasn't chair

Kanji:
 * 椅子です declarative, is chair
 * 椅子ではありません negative, not chair
 * 椅子でした past, was chair
 * 椅子ではありませんでした negative-past, wasn't chair

Area to put Exercises
Yama da. Declarative.

Yama janai. Negative.

Yama datta. Declarative, past.

Yama janakatta. Negative, past.

Exercises using polite speech： Yama desu. Declarative

Yama dewaarimasen. Negative

Yama deshita. Declarative, past.

Yama Dewaarimasendeshita. Negative, past

IsidoreStabby (talk)
ひらがな:
 * でんわです polite present declarative '(it) is a telephone'
 * でんわでわありません polite negative present declarative '(it) is not a telephone'
 * でんわでした polite past declarative '(it) was a telephone'
 * でんわでわありませんでした　polite past negative declarative 'it was not a telephone'
 * でんわだ plain present declarative '(it) is a telephone'
 * でんわじゃない plain present negative declarative '(it) is not a telephone'
 * でんわだった plain past declarative '(it) was a telephone'
 * でんわじゃなかった plain past negative declarative　'(it) was not a telephone'

漢字:
 * 電話です polite present declarative '(it) is a telephone'
 * 電話でわありません polite negative present declarative '(it) is not a telephone'
 * 電話でした polite past declarative '(it) was a telephone'
 * 電話でわありませんでした　polite past negative declarative 'it was not a telephone'
 * 電話だ plain present declarative '(it) is a telephone'
 * 電話じゃない plain present negative declarative '(it) is not a telephone'
 * 電話だった plain past declarative '(it) was a telephone'
 * 電話じゃなかった plain past negative declarative '(it) was not a telephone'

Assignment

 * Memorize the words listed at Japanese I/Vocabulary/Nouns 1 including the stroke order of the kanji, number of strokes, and the spelling of them.

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Ignazio Cassis

Ignazio Daniele Giovanni Cassis (born 13 April 1961) is a Swiss physician and politician who has been a Member of the Swiss Federal Council since 1 November 2017. A member of FDP.The Liberals, Cassis was elected to the Federal Council on 20 September 2017 following the resignation of Didier Burkhalter. He has headed the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs since he took office. On 8 December 2021, Cassis was elected President of the Swiss Confederation for 2022.

Early life and education
Cassis was born 13 April 1961 at Malcantonese Hospital in Croglio (presently Sessa) in Ticino, to Gino Cassis and Mariarosa. He has three sisters. He was born an Italian citizen and received Swiss citizenship by derivation when his parents naturalized in 1976. He held dual citizenship until his election in 2017. Cassis studied Medicine at the University of Zurich and the University of Lausanne until 1987.

Career
He subsequently specialised in internal medicine and public health; he received his master's degree in public health in 1996. Cassis was awarded a doctorate in medicine (Dr. med., MD) from the University of Lausanne in 1998. He was a cantonal doctor in Ticino from 1996 to 2008 and vice president of the Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum (FMH, literally "Swiss Medical Association") from 2008 to 2012.

National Council
Residing in the canton of Ticino, Cassis served in the National Council from 4 June 2007 to 30 October 2017 where he was affiliated with FDP.The Liberals.

Federal Council
When Federal Councillor Didier Burkhalter announced his retirement in 2017, Cassis was one of the three candidates the FDP chose to replace him, the other two being Isabelle Moret (a National Councillor from Vaud) and Pierre Maudet (a cantonal official from Geneva and former Mayor of Geneva). Cassis was considered the favourite to succeed Burkhalter.

In the election, held on 20 September 2017, the Federal Assembly elected Cassis to the Federal Council in the second round by taking 125 of 244 valid votes, becoming the 117th Federal Councillor since 1848. He was supported by the centre-right and right-wing parties in the Assembly. Cassis became the first Federal Councillor from Ticino since 1999. The Swiss press generally commented positively on Cassis's election.

Cassis took office on 1 November 2017 as head of the Department of Foreign Affairs, succeeding Didier Burkhalter. He caused some controversy shortly after his election when the media reported that he addressed and joined ProTell, a gun rights advocacy group, nine days before his election, something that might have made his relationship with the EU difficult as Foreign Minister due to discussions over joint gun policy. Cassis ended his membership in ProTell and other gun rights organisations shortly afterward.

A member of the Swiss Parliament's Israel Friendship Group, Ignazio Cassis defends positions perceived as pro-Israeli. In 2019, he ordered the suspension of Swiss aid to UNRWA, which he had criticized in several speeches.

In 2021 Cassis served as Vice President of Switzerland. On 8 December 2021, he was elected President of Switzerland for the year 2022. He assumed the office on 1 January 2022 succeeding Guy Parmelin.

In 2022, as president of the Swiss confederation, Cassis took a leading role in redefining Swiss neutrality in light of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. In a delicate balance between a failed agreement towards the EU proposed framework accord and Swiss national interests, he has taken sides with the EU with regard to international sanctions during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. On 20 October, Cassis made an official visit to Ukraine, meeting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.

Personal life
Cassis is married to Dr. Paola Cassis and lives in Montagnola.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Patrick Stull

The result was delete. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:21, 27 September 2017 (UTC)

Patrick Stull

 * – ( View AfD View log  Stats )

Artist with insufficient representations in collections. Legacypac (talk) 09:33, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Artists-related deletion discussions. – Joe (talk) 19:49, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
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 * Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. ——Chalk19 (talk) 17:30, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

 * Delete. Sources are inadequate to establish notability. Very little coverage availbale that is in depth and independent. Much of the article lacks sources. Looks like a promo piece.<IP_ADDRESS> (talk) 05:08, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete. Per nomination. He isn't notable yet; maybe some time in the future if his work to come gets adequate attention. ——Chalk19 (talk) 17:26, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
 * Delete a non-notable artist.John Pack Lambert (talk) 17:01, 27 September 2017 (UTC)


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2019 Andorran local elections

The 2019 Andorran local elections were held on 15 December, to elect all councillors in the seven parishes of Andorra.

Electoral system
Voters elected the members of the municipal councils (consells de comú in Catalan). The Electoral Law allows the municipal councils to choose their numbers of seats, which must be an even number between 10 and 16.

All city council members were elected in single multi-member districts, consisting of the whole parish, using closed lists. Half of the seats were allocated to the party with the most votes. The other half of the seats were allocated using the Hare quota (including the winning party). With this system the winning party obtained an absolute majority.

The cònsol major (mayor) and the cònsol menor (deputy mayor) will be elected indirectly by the municipal councillors after the election.

Parties and leaders
A total of 21 lists were contesting the election. In Encamp, Ordino and Escaldes-Engordany there were 4 candidacies; in Andorra la Vella and Sant Julià de Lòria, 3; in Canillo, 2; and in la Massana only one list was contesting the election. For first time since the 2007 election, two lists were contesting the election in Canillo. In Sant Julià de Lòria, the incumbent mayor was unable to form a candidacy.

Results
Final turnout was 56.54%, four percentage points lower than in the 2015 election. Abstention was over 50% in Andorra la Vella.

Candidacies supported by Democrats for Andorra won the election in five out of seven parishes, while in Sant Julià de Lòria, the candidacy formed by Third Way and Lauredian Union won. The Social Democrats won in Escaldes-Engordany.

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Club Italia (women's volleyball)

Club Italia is an Italian women's volleyball club based in Rome which currently plays in the Serie B1.

Previous names
Due to sponsorship, the club have competed under the following names:
 * Club Italia (1998–2016)
 * Club Italia Crai (2016–2022)
 * Club Italia (2022–present)

History
The team was founded in 1998 by then Italian federation sports director Julio Velasco, in order to develop the skills of younger players in a competitive league rather than in youth leagues. The team is directly controlled by the Italian Volleyball Federation, which is entitled to put the best younger scouted players in the team. After a lot of seasons in the lower leagues of Serie B1 and Serie B2, Club Italia was automatically promoted by the Italian Federation into Serie A2 (2nd tier) in 2014 and then into Serie A1 (first tier) in 2015, avoiding relegation in its first season. Over the next two seasons, Anna Danesi, Paola Egonu, Ofelia Malinov and Alessia Orro have been called up to the Italian national team while playing for Club Italia. At the conclusion of the 2016–17 season, the club was relegated to Serie A2. The club returned to the Serie A1 in the 2018–19 season.

Squad
Season 2017–2018, as of September 2017.

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Nankai 50000 series

The Nankai 50000 series (南海50000系) is a limited express electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated in Japan by the private railway operator Nankai Electric Railway. These 6-car trains were introduced in 1994 on the new Rapi:t limited express service on the Nankai Airport Line serving Kansai International Airport, which opened on 4 September 1994.

Operations
The 50000 series is used on the Airport Line Rapi:t limited express services. The trains run between Namba and Chiyoda Depot, and have also been used occasionally on special-event services to Wakayamashi and Misakikoen. Since November 2022, the type has also been used on Semboku Liner limited express services on the Semboku Rapid Railway Line.

Design
The external styling of the train was the work of Hiroyuki Wakabayashi, an architect who was also responsible for designing Uji Station on the Keihan Uji Line. The design theme was "Outdated Future", and is the reason for the train's futuristic and retro styling. The end cars feature streamlined cabs without any gangway connections. The cars sport an all-over metallic deep navy blue livery, with the side windows having an elliptical shape, giving the train an aircraft-like appearance.

Formation
As of 1 April 2013, the fleet consists of six 6-car sets with three motored ("M") cars and three non-powered trailer ("T") cars formed as shown below, with car 1 at the Wakayama end.

 * Cars 2 and 5 are each fitted with two cross-arm type pantographs.
 * Cars 5 and 6 have "Super Seat" accommodation.
 * Cars 3 and 5 have toilets.

Interior
All seats in standard and super-seat cars (Nos. 5 and 6) are reserved and no smoking. Cars 3 and 5 feature a service counter and vending machines.

Mobile Suit Gundam UC × Limited Express Rapi:t Neo Zeon Version (April - June 2014)
One trainset was repainted in an all-over red livery in a tie-up coinciding with the release of Episode 7 of the Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn series and to mark the 20th anniversary of the opening of the Nankai Airport Line. The repainted set returned to service on 26 April 2014 and ran until 30 June.

Peach × Rapi:t Happy Liner (September 2014 - August 2015)
From 7 September 2014, one 50000 series set was reliveried in a special "Peach × Rapi:t Happy Liner" livery as part of a promotional tie-up with the low-cost airline Peach Aviation. The reliveried trainset was scheduled to operate until 31 August 2015.

Star Wars: The Force Awakens livery (November 2015 - May 2016)
From 21 November 2015, a 50000 series set was reliveried in a special Star Wars: The Force Awakens black livery to mark the nationwide release of the film Star Wars: The Force Awakens in December. The reliveried trainset was scheduled to operate until 8 May 2016.

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camionista

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) lorry driver, trucker

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  truck driver person employed to drive a truck

title: camionista


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Amayenge

Amayenge is a popular Zambian music group. Started by Chris Chali in 1978 in Choma, the band was originally called Crossbones, one of many Zambian acts that had sprung up to do gigs based on rock. Later the band became known as the New Crossbones, after a change in direction, sponsorship and management. The musical style of the group is called kalindula, a distinctive Zambian popular style with traditional African roots. Chali died 30 May 2003, but the band has continued with Fraser Chilembo as their leader. Amayenge has received worldwide attention from WOMAD in London to Asia and the Americas. In the words of one author:

Amayenge have dominated Zambia’s music scene for the almost two and half decades by embracing all the 73 tribes of Zambia and making the entire nation feel a part of their unique vibe. They are without a doubt, the most versatile and successful band in the history of Zambian music.

The band has continued to perform in Zambia and other southern African countries. This team made Zambia to be known in Southern Africa in terms of Music. The team also inspired a lot of young people in Zambia, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Congo DR. Their membership has changed somewhat in recent years but news reports from the Times of Zambia, Zambian Post and Zambia Daily Mail routinely report their activities. A recent report is typical of news accounts of the band:

...the ‘Never-fading’ Amayenge Asoza did not have to wait until the whole arena was filled with fans before they started unleashing their collection gathered over a period of 20 years. With such a record, no one could resist the Amayenge, led by Alice Chali, when the crew delivered a two by two circle dance.

Kalindula is a Zambian musical style that was originally played on "banjos" (pronounced 'bahn-jos'), a 4-stringed bass (called 'mbabadoni' or 'kalindula'), [ngoma] drums, chisekele shakers and metal bells. Western guitars and percussion have replaced the homemade banjos and drum sets used previously

Current Band Members: Alice Chali (Dancer/Vocalist, Obert Chali (Vocalist/Dancer), Emmanuel Kayeji (Dancer/Vocalist), Bester Mudenda (Dancer/Vocalist), Jonathan Nthanga (Lead Guitar), Mathews Mulenga (Rhythm Guitar), Joseph Mwamba (Drums), Davy Muthali (Percussionist), Chabala Chitambo (Percussionist), Donald Njovu (Percussionist), Eddy Moto (Sound Engineer), Sam Chiluba (Bass), Fraser Chilembo - Band Manager

US Tour
In 1996, Amayenge traveled to Whidbey Island, WA, where they met up with Moye Kashimbi, who had left Zambia to marry US citizen, Vernon Huffman, who became Tour Director for Amayenge. The band was enthusiastically received by audiences across the Pacific Northwest.

Discography

 * 1979. Ukuilondola.  (meaning to introduce oneself). First single
 * 1989. Amayenge.   Amayenge.  Brentford, Middlesex, England: Mondeca Records.  LP recording
 * 1991. Phone.  Amayenge (Musical group).  Amayenge.  Ndola, Zambia: Teal Records.  1 sound cassette : analog.
 * ____. Ichupo Ne n'ganda (marriage and a home).
 * 2001. Amayenge, Part 1.  Amayenge (Musical group).  Lusaka, Zambia: Mondo Music Corp.  Compact disc.
 * 2004. Dailesit. - the last album recorded by Kris Chali before his death.
 * 2005. Mangona Kulila ('The drums play')
 * ____. Chipolopolo
 * ____. Bangwele
 * ____. Matenda

The band is also included on the following recordings:
 * 1983, 2004. Zambush, Vol. 1 - Zambian hits from the '80s.  Utrecht, the Netherlands: SWP Records.  Compact disc.
 * 1989. Zambiance.  Compact disc.
 * 2002. Sounds of Zambia, Volume 3.  Lusaka, Zambia: Mondo Music Corp.  Compact disc.

Awards
2007 - Brath Awards, Best Kalindula Band 2005 - Ngoma Awards Festival, Best Band award (6th time to receive this award) 1993 - Best Band of the year at the Zambia International Trade Fair Show

Newspaper articles
Zambia Times: Zambia Daily Mail Zambian Post: Thursday December 21, 2006 "Artistes converge at Mumana for Valentines" By Augustine Mukoka, Joseph Mwenda and Pictures Thomas Nsama Thursday February 22, 2007
 * June 29, 2001 - August 17, 2001
 * August 25, 2001 - November 23, 2001 - "Ngoma awards: Who grabs what?"
 * May 17, 2003 - December 19, 2003
 * August 20, 2004 - September 18, 2004
 * January 14, 2006 - February 17, 2006

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Voter's Guide/Australia/Issue Guide/Truth in Government

Truth in Government has been an ongoing issue ever since on August 29, John Howard announced that the 2004 election would be based on trust.

The Australian electorate tends to be very cynical about its politicians and the things they do, especially when it comes to keeping promises.

Forty-three former diplomats sent a petition to the Prime Minister about the war in Iraq. They felt that the Prime Minister was getting bad advice and making decisions which affected the issue of Truth in Government.


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arnese

Etymology
,, likely a borrowing from an , derived from +.

Noun

 * 1) armour/armor
 * 2) a part of an armour/armor
 * 3) weapon
 * 4) fortress
 * 5) way of dressing
 * 6) tool, implement
 * 7) gadget
 * 1) way of dressing
 * 2) tool, implement
 * 3) gadget
 * 1) tool, implement
 * 2) gadget

title: arnese


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Home Sweet Home (The Farm song)

"Home Sweet Home" is a song co-written and recorded by American country music band The Farm. It was released in October 2011 as the first single from their debut album The Farm. The song was written by band members Nick Hoffman, Damien Horne and Krista Marie with Danny Myrick.

Critical reception
Billy Dukes of Taste of Country gave the song four and a half stars out of five, saying that "There’s something new with each spin, including some delicious imagery late in the song."

Music video
The music video was directed by The Edde Brothers and premiered in February 2012.

Chart performance
"Home Sweet Home" debuted at number 54 on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Songs chart for the week of November 5, 2011.

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User:Omegatron/sandbox/watch1

I will never press the unwatch button on this article.

fdsaf

The Watchlist Gnome business plan:

Step 1: Steal articles.

Step 2: ???

Step 3: Profit.

test

fdas

i think i got it!

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Talk:Dean Chance

What's with all the fact tags?
Almost all of the fact-tags are asking for verification of information which is plainly stated in the baseball-reference link at the bottom of the page.DavidRF (talk) 19:39, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
 * OK. I added citations.  Citations for baseball career narratives are generally really easy to find (almost not worth citing).  Next time, it would be helpful if the editor could find these themselves instead of leaving the article littered with fact tags for a few months.  I only say this because too many fact tags leave the user the impression that the article is somehow controversial when there was nothing in this article that could not be found within five minutes of googling.  Cheers.DavidRF (talk) 20:02, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

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User:Wkbreaker

El pueblo unido jamás será vencido！ I had gotten that we the common laboring people is not permitted to talk and write in a website of a "democracy" just because we are thought "Fringe". Okay, I will be silent soon. Ah, how stupid I am! Though some pages may be disturbing and full of discrimination, the items on science are excellent! After all, I am major in PHYSICS rather then history or politics. GETTING back to the middle ages and treated as a heretic? Just stay at the monastery!

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Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory

W ELCOME TO THE A RTIFICIAL I NTELLIGENCE AND R OBOTICS L ABRATORY

Research
The development of large scale projects for group learning and future pedagogical use is one of the goals of this school. Some of the ongoing learning projects are:
 * Unmanned aerial systems
 * Automatic Control and Robotics
 * Anthropomorphic Robotics

Collaborators

 * Mundhenk 06:12, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

Things to do

 * Brainstorm a list of things to do...

Affiliated departments

 * Engineering
 * Computer Science
 * Mechanical Engineering
 * Audio Engineering
 * Electrical Engineering
 * Electronic Engineering
 * Mechatronic Engineering
 * Software Engineering
 * Systems Engineering
 * Artificial Intelligence
 * Computer Vision

 * Computation linguistics
 * Algorithms
 * Natural Language Processing
 * Computer Logic
 * Machine Learning
 * Dynamic Programming
 * Databases
 * Real Time Programming
 * Biomechanics
 * Biophysics
 * Bionomics
 * Biotechnology
 * Linguistics

 * Graphics
 * Psychology
 * Human Factors
 * Cognitive Psychology
 * Perception
 * Sensory Neuroscience
 * Psychophysics
 * Fashion
 * Information Technology
 * Physics and Astronomy
 * Visual Arts
 * Industrial Design
 * Neuroscience
 * Linguistics

Lab news

 * March 7, 2007 - Related departments added.
 * December 20, 2006 - Lab founded.

Related news

 * Februrary 22, 2007 - Autonomous modular connected robotic swarms.


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WINAPI Programming/Lesson Two

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Okay, I've cleaned up what I can as if I *have* read this I don't remember anything about it. I might have it in storage somewhere but the big weakness is the lack of reception etc., the only real source I've found is currently doing a lot of lifting. BoomboxTestarossa (talk) 14:52, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

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The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet

The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet is a narrative poem by Arthur Brooke, first published in 1562 by Richard Tottel, which was a key source for William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. It is a translation and adaptation of a French story by Pierre Boaistuau, itself derived from an Italian novella by Matteo Bandello.

The plot of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet takes place over four days while Brooke's narrative takes place over many months.

Little is known about Arthur Brooke. He was admitted as a member of Inner Temple on 18 December 1561 under the sponsorship of Thomas Sackville and Thomas Norton. He drowned in 1563 in a shipwreck while crossing to help Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion.

The poem's ending differs significantly from Shakespeare's play — in the poem, the nurse is banished and the apothecary hanged for their involvement in the deception, while Friar Lawrence leaves Verona to end his days in a hermitage.