L Hamm

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Roma population

Please feel free to correct the numbers and add references to the article. Roma people doesn't get much pf attention and when, it is often biased. Pavel Vozenilek 01:00, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Thank you, done, including changes User:Gutza made to it. Most of the resources I have access to do not touch, particularly the history, or if they do it is only in a marginal way. I would like to help with cleaning up other sections of the article if that is possible.L Hamm 02:21, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

The Domari Research Center gives a population of 2,158,400 for the Middle East [5] but this excludes countries where no survey exists to extimate population (i.e. Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Israel, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, UAE and Yemen).L Hamm 15:38, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

The following comes from the V World IRU (International Romani Union) Congress in July 2000. "There are hundreds of Romani familiyi in Australia, the survey conducted in 1995, counted some 16,500 individuals. It is estimated that this figure in 2000, could be as high as 22,000. Roma in Australia do not generally appear in statistics in Australia as we are "hidden". This is because of many reasons, but mainly: 1. We are not on electoral rolls, as we do not take part in Census Statistics which makes us difficult to identify and locate. 2. Others of us describe our ethnicity either as Australian or as the country from which we emigrated. It is rare for Rom in Australia to acknowledge their heritage to an outsider, unless it is for the specific purpose of making money or some other goal."[6] L Hamm 19:36, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

Roma population in Bosnia-Herzegovina, until the internal census is finished, is estimated to have a Roma population of 40,000 to 120,000[1]. In Transcarpathian Ukraine the Roma population is between 12,000 and 30,000 [2]. In Greece, reliable estimates are between 300,000 and 500,000 Roma [3], this is higher than that quoted by both the Domari Research Center or the Greek government [4]. L Hamm 22:30, 24 August 2005 (UTC)

And on the Czech Republic in a document published by the ERRC (European Roma Rights Commission)[www.errc.org/db/00/23/m00000023.rtf]:

The most recent officially recorded figures for the number of Roma in the Czech Republic are those from the 1991 Czechoslovak census, which recorded 33,489 people of Romani nationality out of a total population of 10,302,215. This figure, much lower than previous ones, grossly underestimates the number of Roma in the Czech Republic.1 The previous census, from 1980, gave 88,587 Roma, while annual records kept regionally by the National Committees (národní výbory) gave 107,274 individuals in 1980, rising to 145,711 by 1989. These records, however, also vastly underestimated the real number of Roma: in accordance with the policy of assimilation, they only recorded those “citizens of Gypsy origin” who needed special “social and re-educative care” and therefore excluded Roma who chose not to declare themselves officially and who had not been marked out by public officials. The 1997 Council for Nationalities Report accepts “unofficial, qualified estimates” of 200,000 Roma;2 other unofficial estimates give a Romani population of between 250,000 and 300,000, and up to 3% of the total population of the country.

L Hamm 01:57, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

It's pretty obvious that we won't reach a compromise with the anonymous users unless we include the Roma numbers, as estimated by the Roma. I suggest we create a table in the "Population" section, with three data columns: Census Data (certainly under-estimated), Neutral Estimates (like the UN data, but maybe corroborated with other sources as to ensure the data is neutral) and Romani Union Estimates (IMO, over-estimated). Then we can add as many rows as needed, with at least World Population and Europe Population in the first version. I think that would be the most neutral way to present the data: anyone can read and interpret it the way they please. --Gutza 06:15, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Good idea, thanks for your patience on this.L Hamm 13:56, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Seduction Theory

This would be an article either within or linked together with: Sigmund Freud, child abuse, history of psychology, etc. Exploring what seduction theory is via Freud's Aetiology of Hysteria, the evidence for it; followed by a section on the Victorian response and Freud's own correspondences in regards to it; and a final section on its eventual dismissal. Sources are available and this should be able to contribute greatly to Victorian culture and psychological history.L Hamm 20:55, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

Here is a quote I found here [5] regarding the change in seduction theory:
"Freud never claimed that seduction does not exist. He entitled a chapter in Wolf Man (1918) "The seduction and its immediate consequences." Elsewhere (in a 1924 footnote to the 1896 paper and in his papers on female sexuality of 1931), Freud reaffirmed the reality of seduction. This sketchy account shows that Freud's error was to posit childhood seduction, i.e., childhood sexual trauma, as a universal cause of disorder, and he duly corrected this impression. It is thus amazing that analysts still maintain, erroneously, that the seduction theory is dead, that Freud's bad theory was replaced by a better theory, i.e., the sexual drive theory and the oedipus complex."

NAAR Article Started

The North Atlantic Autonomous Region (Región Autonomo Atlantico Norte or RAAN[6]) is an autonomous administrative region within the state of [Nicaragua]. The autonomous region was formed along with the South Atlantic Autonomous Region by the legislative act Statute of Autonomy for the Regions of Nicaragua's Atlantic Coast on 30 October, 1987 [7] from what had been the Zelaya department.

Geographically, the region is bounded on the north by the national border with Honduras, the Rio Wangly, on the south by the Rio Grande of Matagalpa, on the east by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the summits of the Isabelia mountains. The region is approximately 58,000 km².

The population of the North Atlantic Autonomous Region was 231,000 according to the World Wildlife Fund[8].

integral theory

Hey L. Sorry I havent responded to your query regarding integray theoiry yet; I will. It's a toughie. In a nutshell, criteria for the validation of mystical experiences is what integral theories seek. --goethean ॐ 14:37, 25 August 2005 (UTC)

Paul Shepard

Paul Howe Shepard III" (b. June 12, 1925 Kansas City, MO, USA; d. July 16, 1996 Salt Lake City, UT, USA) was a writer noted for his involvement in the environmental movement.

Biography

Paul Shepard was born to Clara Louise Grigsby Shepard and Paul Howe Shepard II. His father worked at the Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station, a horticultural research station, where he focused on the cultivation of plum and grape varieties.

He applied for an was accepted into the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP)

Battle of Caer Caradoc

Hi

Yes, I suspect that since the only account of the battle is from the Roman side that the scale of the Roman victory was exaggerated. I don't have a copy of Webster to hand at the moment - is there a quote which could be put into the article?

I did once read a paper dealing with likely sites for the battle, but I can't remember where it was published. Rhion 09:20, 30 January 2006 (UTC)

This blockquote from Graham Webster sums up some of the problems. The previous page also asks about the likely place of the battle and the problems associated with locating the site (matching with Tacitus description, subsequent change of the landscape (notably deforestation)).

This account by Tacitus of such a crucial battle is very unsatisfactory. It starts well enough, with a brief but realistic appraisal of the position chosen by Caratacus, but once the initial advantage had been gained by the legionaries, there is little to follow. The impression is given that the battle had been decided on the lower slopes and that the rest was merely a cleaning-up operation. Yet there is no mention of heavy British losses and the only notable gain was the capture of the family of the British leader. The Britons had been overcome by the sheer speed and weight of the attack. Tacitus must have read the despatches of Scapula in the archives in Rome, but they contained little he felt able to use. A possible conclusion to be drawn from this is that the British resistance was by a token force, and that Caratacus had planned to hold the Romans at the most difficult part of the slope and inflict heavy casualties there.

Webster, Graham. Rome Against Caratacus : The Roman Campaigns in Britain AD 48-58. London, UK: Routledge, 1993. p 31.

L Hamm 20:40, 31 January 2006 (UTC)

integral theory renaming

Hi Luke. Please vote on renaming Integral_theory#Requested_move Integral theory. Crap Thanks. — goethean ॐ 19:07, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

Julian the Apostate

Maybe you are interested in the move request under discussion at Talk:Julian the Apostate.--Ahrarara 14:26, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

Your Comments to Me on Nicolaitanes

You may be interested in my response.

Robert Merlin Evenson/Church of Ouzo

Can you help me?

Catholic user Cuchullain continues to censure the article Religion in the United States. --Esimal (talk) 19:56, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

He censures also advices in his talk. --Esimal (talk) 19:58, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

dear L Hamm

Dear L Hamm,

I'm reaching out to researchers and writers interested in the emerging, or re-emerging, movements inspired by ancient culture in the areas of religion/theology/mythology/culture...I spare-headed an artistic collaboration between a music professor, rock-vocalist and poet to create a modern multi-media experience of the cathardic journey inspired by ancient pagan poetic traditions; A romance to nature seen as a beautiful, divine and omnipotent woman.

It has singularly been my goal to respect tradition while allowing a free and spontaneous interpretation...I believe the utility of a quasi-rebirth of some aspects of the ancient religious tendancies would be achieved in an increase of tolerance, sympathy, and freedom of expression in our modern discoures on religion...so much needed. Until we have a cultural revolution tantamount to the politcal revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries [aiding the rebirth of a government of, by and for the people] in the area of religion, I will not rest. Until the rebirth of religions which are of, by and for the people, as fluid as art, as deep as mythology and theology and as powerful as culture, I do not believe we will be truly free no matter what economic or political conditions surround us. Democracy without a democratic cultural is as frustrating as it is ineffectual.

If you have a moment could you peruse the poetry project site. http://www.misbeliever.net As you are a worker in these areas, having ebhanced the Wikipedia, the world's greatest encyclopedia, I would be very honored with any remarks or critisms you could offer either me or my collaborators.

thanks much,

sincerely

Pdiffenderfer (talk) 00:53, 1 July 2011 (UTC)

paul m. diffenderfer

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