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Drake & Josh

Drake & Josh is an American teen sitcom created by Dan Schneider for Nickelodeon. The series follows teenage stepbrothers Drake Parker (Drake Bell) and Josh Nichols (Josh Peck) as they live together despite opposite personalities. Nancy Sullivan and Jonathan Goldstein star as Drake's mother and Josh's father, respectively, and Miranda Cosgrove plays Drake's devious younger sister. Bell performs the series' theme song, "I Found a Way", written by Bell and Backhouse Mike.

Bell and Peck previously appeared in The Amanda Show, a Nickelodeon variety series created by Schneider that ran on Nickelodeon from 1999 to 2002. A sketch featuring Bell and Peck arguing over a piece of shrimp prompted network executives to cast the two actors in their own spin-off, Drake & Josh. The series premiered on January 11, 2004, on Nickelodeon to critical acclaim.

During production of the fourth season, Bell was injured during a car accident, and filming stalled for four months during his recovery. A television film, Drake & Josh Go Hollywood, premiered in early 2006. A television special, Really Big Shrimp, served as the series finale, and the series' final new broadcast episode aired on September 16, 2007, marking 56 episodes in 4 seasons for the show. After the finale, the network aired the one-time special Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh in 2008.

Drake & Josh was a ratings success, garnering 3.2 million viewers for its premiere, and it consistently ranked as one of the most watched series in its demographic during its run. It won 2 Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, 2 UK Kids' Choice Awards, and 3 Australian Kids' Choice Awards and was nominated for 7 other awards, including at the Young Artist Awards and the Casting Society of America. Other media include books, DVD and VHS releases, promotional singles, and video games based on the series.

Plot
The series revolves around two teenage stepbrothers, Drake Parker and Josh Nichols, who live in San Diego, California, with Drake's younger biological sister Megan and biological mother Audrey, and Josh's biological father Walter. Drake is cool and charismatic, having his own band and being popular with girls, yet can be narcissistic and absent-minded, while Josh is intellectual, clumsy, and awkward; yet very loving and caring. Josh starts working at a local movie theater in the second season, which becomes a key set location for the rest of the series. Despite their opposite personalities, Drake and Josh have shown multiple times throughout the series that they care deeply about each other and have each others' backs. The two boys are often involved in comedic escapades and challenges while handling various teenage problems.

Main

 * Drake Bell as Drake Parker: Megan's biological brother, Josh's stepbrother, Audrey's biological son, Walter's stepson
 * Josh Peck as Josh Nichols: Drake's and Megan's stepbrother, Audrey's stepson, Walter's biological son
 * Nancy Sullivan as Audrey Parker-Nichols: Josh's stepmother, Drake's and Megan's biological mother
 * Jonathan Goldstein as Walter Nichols: Josh's biological father, Drake's and Megan's stepfather
 * Miranda Cosgrove as Megan Parker: Drake's biological sister, Josh's stepsister, Audrey's biological daughter, Walter's stepdaughter

Recurring

 * Yvette Nicole Brown as Helen Dubois, manager of the Premiere movie theater (portrayed by Frances Callier in season 2, episode 7 "Little Diva")
 * Jerry Trainor as "Crazy" Steve, employee at the Premiere
 * Allison Scagliotti as Mindy Crenshaw, Josh's girlfriend and ex-science fair rival
 * Alec Medlock as Craig Ramirez, Josh's friend
 * Scott Halberstadt as Eric Blonowitz, Josh's other friend
 * Jake Farrow as Gavin Mitchell, another employee at the Premiere
 * Julia Duffy as Mrs. Hayfer, Drake and Josh's teacher at Bellview High School
 * Roark Critchlow as Dr. Jeff Glazer, a doctor who lives across the street from Drake and Josh, who usually charges them a lot despite not doing much
 * Cathy Shim as Leah, an employee at the Premiere who appears in Season 4
 * Johnny Lewis as Scottie, Molly Orr as Rina, and Jeremy Ray Valdez as Paul, the band members of Drake's band who appear in Season 1

Production
Drake Bell and Josh Peck had previously acted together on The Amanda Show, created by Dan Schneider. Bell and Peck's differing personalities inspired Schneider to create a new show starring them as characters with traits similar to their own. An unaired pilot episode featured Stephen Furst as Walter Nichols, although he was busy with another project when Drake & Josh was picked up as a series, and Jonathan Goldstein was cast in the role instead. A house in Los Angeles' Encino neighborhood was used for exterior shots of the family's home,  while interior scenes were shot on a sound stage at the Nickelodeon on Sunset studios in Hollywood. Tribune Studios in Hollywood was also used as a filming location.

Production was suspended in late December 2005, after Bell's injury in a car crash, prior to which he had filmed three episodes of the fourth season. Bell's accident was the result of a driver falling asleep at the wheel and colliding head-on with Bell's 1966 Mustang, which had no seat belts or airbags, resulting in extensive facial injuries. Filming resumed in March 2006 with the episode "My Dinner with Bobo". The following month, Nickelodeon greenlit an additional seven episodes for the fourth season, and Bell and Peck signed on to direct several episodes. With the extended season, filming continued through July 2006. According to Schneider, the show ended due to a collective decision from the creative forces behind the show.

The profession of the family's mother is never revealed on the show, although Schneider had written dialogue into the series finale that would have revealed her profession at a catering business. The scene was filmed, but Schneider ultimately chose to remove it during editing. Schneider said, "On the one hand, I thought it was funny to finally reveal it, so casually, in the very last episode – there was something ironic about that. But then I decided that, because fans always seemed to have fun trying to figure it out (what 'Mom's' name and job were), it would be better to 'keep the bit going' for eternity, by never revealing it in any episode."

Broadcast
Drake & Josh aired on Nickelodeon and premiered in the United States on January 11, 2004. The final episode aired on September 16, 2007. After the series ended, reruns aired occasionally on TeenNick until 2022.

Home media
Below is a list of official DVD and VHS releases of Drake & Josh.

Reception
The series premiere was watched by 3.2 million viewers, Nickelodeon's highest-rated series premiere in nearly 10 years. As of 2006, Drake & Josh ranked consistently among the 10 most-watched cable shows of the week, and was the top-rated live-action series among children aged 2 to 11 years old. It averaged three million viewers at the time. It proved to be popular with younger viewers. According to Schneider, Drake & Josh had its highest ratings in its final season.

Films
The series received two television films. Drake & Josh Go Hollywood premiered on January 6, 2006. In the film, Drake and Josh are left at home in San Diego after their parents go on a ten-day cruise. The boys are told to take Megan to the airport so she can visit her friend in Denver, but they accidentally send her on a flight to Los Angeles. Drake and Josh go to Hollywood to get Megan back, but end up stopping a multibillion-dollar heist and booking a guest-spot for Drake on TRL. According to TV Guide, it was the highest-rated program on all of cable during its opening week.

Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh premiered on December 5, 2008. Michael Grossman directed the film, and Schneider returned as executive producer. In the film, Drake and Josh try to give a foster family "the best Christmas ever". The premiere of Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh broke the record of most viewers for the premiere of a Nickelodeon film with 9.10 million viewers, a title previously held by iGo to Japan.

Video games
Two video games based on Drake & Josh have been released on the Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS. Both of them were published by THQ and released in 2007.

Books
A book series based on Drake & Josh has been published by children's publisher Scholastic since 2006. The books are written by author Laurie McElroy.

A Cine-Manga version titled, "Match Made in Heaven", was released by TokyoPop in 2006. The book was based on the first two episodes of the first season.

Online videos
Beginning in December 2016, Bell and other cast members released a series of short online videos titled Where's Walter? Bell, Sullivan, and Yvette Nicole Brown reprised their roles for the videos, which involve a search for Walter after he goes missing.

Cancelled revival
In March 2019, Bell announced that he and Peck were working on a Drake & Josh revival that would feature both of them reprising their roles. The proposed project would have featured similar characters and scenarios in a more adult, comedic way. At the time, Bell and Peck were in discussions with several networks about the project.

In October 2021, it was reported that the revival had been cancelled, as a result of production delays and Bell's guilty plea to charges of attempted child endangerment.

In March 2022, Bell and his wife Janet stated that the reboot show they had pitched would be called Josh & Drake. Ultimately, the idea was shelved due to creative differences. The show's script was said to have been written by Peck. Janet stated, "Josh wrote Drake as a failed musician and Josh wrote himself as a real estate agent. OK, that's fine, but Drake is a musician in real life, so it wouldn't make sense." Bell added, "I just asked him to change a couple things and he couldn't and my wife wouldn't let me do it."

In March 2023, Cosgrove told E! News "nothing's off the table" in regards to a possible revival.

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Reinhard Bendix

Reinhard Bendix (February 25, 1916 – February 28, 1991) was a German-American sociologist.

Life and career
Born in Berlin, Germany, in 1916, he briefly belonged to Neu Beginnen and Hashomer Hatzair, groups that resisted the Nazis. In 1938 he emigrated to the United States. He received his B.A. (1941), M.A. (1943), and PhD (1947) from the University of Chicago, and subsequently taught there from 1943 to 1946. He then taught for a year in the Sociology Department of the University of Colorado before moving to the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1947 where he remained for the rest of his career.

In 1969 Bendix was elected President of the American Sociological Association. From 1968 to 1970 he served as Director of the University of California Education Abroad Program in Göttingen, Germany. In 1972 he joined the Department of Political Science at Berkeley.

He held guest professorships at numerous universities, including at Columbia University, St. Catherine's and Nuffield Colleges at the University of Oxford, the Free University of Berlin, the University of Constance, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the University of Heidelberg.

Bendix built bridges between American and European sociology, and regarded himself as a mediator. Bendix introduced to American sociologists a new perspective, the comparative-historical studies, moving beyond their local boundaries. He argued that the constellations of legitimating ideas were not mere reflections of life conditions, or social structure, but independent and real forces. In his terms Americans may better understand their own history through its relation to the histories of European nations. The methodological problems raised by such comparisons could have inspired him to propose a philosophy of history, but that was not his goal.

Bendix, who was deeply devoted to teaching, died in Berkeley, California, in 1991 of a heart attack shortly after conducting a graduate seminar together with a young colleague.

Awards
In the course of his lifetime, Bendix received many honors, including fellowships from the Fulbright Program and the Guggenheim, a grant from the Carnegie Corporation, as well as being named a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study, and was accepted into both the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin.

He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1969. Bendix was a member of the American Philosophical Society and received honorary doctorates from the University of Leeds, Mannheim, and Göttingen.

Work and Authority in Industry (1956) won the American Sociological Association's McIver prize in 1958.

Academic research
Bendix's major works are:
 * Work and Authority in Industry (1956)
 * Social Mobility in Industrial Society (1959), coauthored with Seymour Martin Lipset
 * Class, Status and Power (1958, 1966), also with Lipset, is an anthology.
 * Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait (1960)
 * Nation-Building and Citizenship (1964, 1976)
 * Kings or People: Power and the Mandate to Rule (1976)

Nation-Building and Citizenship
Neil Smelser holds that Bendix's book Nation-Building and Citizenship: Studies of Our Changing Social Order (1964) "stressed Weber's historical-comparative work on politics" and "stands as a unique contribution to the sociology of modernisation, but it both extended and criticised that tradition, which held sway in the 1950s and 1960s." He notes that Bendix drew attention to the international phenomena of leadership and followership and this "internationalized" the study of social and political development before the appearance of dependency theory and world-systems theory in sociology.

The book popularized the study of European state building.

Kings or People
Bendix's Kings or People: Power and the Mandate to Rule (1976) is a comparative-historical work of great sweep. It traces the histories of many societies that experienced a transition from absolutist to democratic rule.

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Talk:NPD

NPD is the French acronym for NDP (New Democratic Party). But this acronym is never used in English.

But for every English acronym, there's a different French acronym (or Spanish acronym, etc). For instance the French acronym for NHL is LNH, the French acronym for KFC is PFK (Poulet frit Kentucky) (in Quebec anyway). It makes no sense to list these, because they're not used in English.

There are some foreign-language acronyms that are used in English, for instance FIFA or FARC. But foreign-language acronyms that are used only in that foreign language and not in English are not suitable for inclusion here... there would be thousands and thousands of them, one for each foreign language for each acronym.

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NPD is not an acronym for the former GDR party "National Democratic Party of Germany", the acronym is NDPD.

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American Sociological Association

The American Sociological Association (ASA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the discipline and profession of sociology. Founded in December 1905 as the American Sociological Society at Johns Hopkins University by a group of fifty people, the first president of the association would be Lester Frank Ward. Today, most of its members work in academia, while around 20 percent of them work in government, business, or non-profit organizations. ASA publishes ten academic journals and magazines, along with four section journals, including the American Sociological Review and Contexts.

The ASA had 9,893 members in 2023, as an association of sociologists even larger than the International Sociological Association. It is composed of researchers, students, college/university faculty, high school faculty, and various practitioners The "American Sociological Association Annual Meeting" is an annual academic conference held by the association consisting of over 4,000 participants.

Founding
In the summer of 1905, George Washington University professor C. W. A. Veditz began a discussion among sociologists throughout the United States, writing to several dozen people to gauge the need for or interest in forming an sociological organization. Sociologists debated whether there was a need for a separate organization from the American Economic Association, American Political Science Association and the American Historical Association, which most sociologists at the time were members of. Ultimately, a consensus was reached that the time had come for a society of sociologists in the U.S.

In early December, the professor and eight others wrote to about 300 people inviting them to a special session during the American Economic Association (AEA) and American Political Science Association meetings later that month to discuss the potential formation of a sociological society.

On December 27, approximately 50 people, including one woman, gathered in McCoy Hall at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, and, by its end, the group would motion to form a new society of sociologists. Though there would be debate as to integrating this new society with an existing organization, such as the AEA, the group would ultimately decide that the new society ought to be an independent entity.

The committee
At the end of the day of the initial meeting, those gathered at the meeting formed a five-person committee to develop a plan for the new society and how it should be governed. The committee members would re-convene the next afternoon to review the proposed structure of the society. Council members would include Edward A. Ross, W.F. Wilcox, Albion Small, Samuel Lindsay, D. C. Wells, and William Davenport.

The following men would be elected officers of the new society:

 * Lester Frank Ward, president
 * William Graham Sumner, first vice president
 * Franklin Giddings, second vice president
 * C.W.A. Veditz (the professor), secretary and treasurer

When the committee left Baltimore, the birth of the American Sociological Society was complete, a Constitution had been adopted, officers were elected, and plans were made for the second annual meeting of the new society.

1905–1980
In 1981, in celebration the association's 75th anniversary, Lawrence J. Rhoades prepared a 90-page publication entitled A History of the American Sociological Association, 1905-1980, commonly referred to as the "1981 Rhoades History." The publication provides a brief overview of the founding and early years of the association, as well as highlights of key activities and events in the decades since.

In 1953, during the annual meeting in Berkeley, California, each of the (living) past presidents of the society would compose a voice recording to address the coming generation of sociologists.

1981–Present
ASA membership peaked at almost 15,000 in 2007 before declining to its current level below 10,000. The trend led to the formation of a Task Force on Membership in 2016, with recommendations released in 2019, addressing issues of community, cost, and value.

100-Year Anniversary
In 2005, in celebration of the association's 100th anniversary, ASA published a 201-page book entitled A History of the American Sociological Association, 1981-2004. The publication picks up where the 1981 Rhoades history concludes, continuing the story and capturing the association's history from 1981 through 2004. It was the culmination of over two years of detailed research by Katherine J. Rosich.

The "ASA Wikipedia" Initiative
In the fall of 2011, the ASA launched its "Sociology in Wikipedia" initiative. Erik Olin Wright, President of the ASA, called for improvement in sociological entries in Wikipedia. He asked that professors and students to get more involved by having Wikipedia-writing assignments in class. The basic goal set forth by the initiative would be to make it easier for sociologists to contribute to Wikipedia, and for sociologists to become better involved in the writing and editing processes to ensure that social science articles are up-to-date, complete, accurate, and written appropriately.

In conjunction with the Wikimedia Foundation and a research group at Carnegie Mellon University, the ASA developed its Wikipedia Portal in an attempt to achieve the initiative's goal through providing tutorials on how to contribute; video discussions of norms and procedures; and lists of articles and subject areas that need improvement. The Portal would also provide instructions for professors on how to use Wikipedia writing assignments for academic courses.

Code of Ethics
The ASA is governed by a code of ethics, which has been revised since 1970, with the first ASA code of ethics being written in 1970. ASA members are bound by the code of ethics. The association also has codes for meeting behavior, disclosure, award revocation, and removal from leadership positions.

ASA Style Guide
ASA style is a widely accepted format for writing university research papers that specifies the arrangement and punctuation of footnotes and bibliographies. Standards for ASA style are specified in the ASA Style Guide, which is designed to aid authors in preparing manuscripts for ASA journals and publications.

ASA Academic Journals and Magazines
The association publishes the following academic journals and magazines: • American Sociological Review

• The American Sociologist (1965—1982)

• City and Community

• Contemporary Sociology

• Contexts

• Journal of Health and Social Behavior

• Journal of World-Systems Research

• Social Psychology Quarterly

• Society and Mental Health

• Sociological Methodology

• Sociological Theory

• Sociology of Education

• Socius

• Teaching Sociology

• Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

The ASA also publishes Footnotes, a newsletter aimed at the association's members. Footnotes was established in 1979 and is published five times per year.

Presidents
The following persons have been presidents of the American Sociological Association:

• # Lester F. Ward 1906–1907

• # William G. Sumner 1908–1909

• # Franklin H. Giddings 1910–1911

• # Albion Woodbury Small 1912–1913

• # Edward A. Ross 1914–1915

• # George E. Vincent 1916

• # George E. Howard 1917

• # Charles Cooley 1918

• # Frank W. Blackmar 1919

• # James Q. Dealey 1920

• # Edward C. Hayes 1921

• # James P. Lichtenberger 1922

• # Ulysses G. Weatherly 1923

• # Charles A. Ellwood 1924

• # Robert E. Park 1925

• # John L. Gillin 1926

• # W. I. Thomas 1927

• # John M. Gillette 1928

• # William F. Ogburn 1929

• # Howard W. Odum 1930

• # Emory S. Bogardus 1931

• # Luther L. Bernard 1932

• # Edward B. Reuter 1933

• # Ernest W. Burgess 1934

• # F. Stuart Chapin 1935

• # Henry P. Fairchild 1936

• # Ellsworth Faris 1937

• # Frank H. Hankins 1938

• # Edwin Sutherland 1939

• # Robert M. MacIver 1940

• # Stuart A. Queen 1941

• # Dwight Sanderson 1942

• # George A. Lundberg 1943

• # Rupert B. Vance 1944

• # Kimball Young 1945

• # Carl C. Taylor 1946

• # Louis Wirth 1947

• # E. Franklin Frazier 1948

• # Talcott Parsons 1949

• # Leonard S. Cottrell Jr. 1950

• # Robert C. Angell 1951

• # Dorothy Swaine Thomas 1952

• # Samuel A. Stouffer 1953

• # Florian Znaniecki 1954

• # Donald Young 1955

• # Herbert Blumer 1956

• # Robert K. Merton 1957

• # Robin M. Williams Jr. 1958

• # Kingsley Davis 1959

• # Howard P. Becker 1960 (died in office)

• # Robert E. L. Faris 1961

• # Paul Lazarsfeld 1962

• # Everett C. Hughes 1963

• # George C. Homans 1964

• # Pitirim A. Sorokin 1965

• # Wilbert E. Moore 1966

• # Charles P. Loomis 1967

• # Philip M. Hauser 1968

• # Arnold Marshall Rose 1969 (died in office)

• # Ralph Turner 1969

• # Reinhard Bendix 1970

• # William H. Sewell 1971

• # William J. Goode 1972

• # Mirra Komarovsky 1973

• # Peter M. Blau 1974

• # Lewis A. Coser 1975

• # Alfred McClung Lee 1976

• # John Milton Yinger 1977

• # Amos H. Hawley 1978

• # Hubert M. Blalock Jr. 1979

• # Peter H. Rossi 1980

• # William Foote Whyte 1981

• # Erving Goffman 1982

• # Alice S. Rossi 1983

• # James F. Short Jr. 1984

• # Kai T. Erikson 1985

• # Matilda White Riley 1986

• # Melvin L. Kohn 1987

• # Herbert J. Gans 1988

• # Joan Huber 1989

• # William Julius Wilson 1990

• # Stanley Lieberson 1991

• # James S. Coleman 1992

• # Seymour Martin Lipset 1993

• # William A. Gamson 1994

• # Amitai Etzioni 1995

• # Maureen T. Hallinan 1996

• # Neil Smelser 1997

• # Jill Quadagno 1998

• # Alejandro Portes 1999

• # Joe R. Feagin 2000

• # Douglas S. Massey 2001

• # Barbara F. Reskin 2002

• # William T. Bielby 2003

• # Michael Burawoy 2004

• # Troy Duster 2005

• # Cynthia Fuchs Epstein 2006

• # Frances Fox Piven 2007

• # Arne L. Kalleberg 2008

• # Patricia Hill Collins 2009

• # Evelyn Nakano Glenn 2010

• # Randall Collins 2011

• # Erik Olin Wright 2012

• # Cecilia L. Ridgeway 2013

• # Annette Lareau 2014

• # Paula England 2015

• # Ruth Milkman 2016

• # Michèle Lamont 2017

• # Eduardo Bonilla-Silva 2018

• # Mary Romero 2019

• # Christine Williams 2020

• # Aldon Morris 2021

• # Cecilia Menjívar 2022

• # Prudence Carter 2023

Meetings
The Annual Meeting of the ASA is held each August to provide opportunity for sociologists to share research, develop professional networks, give awards, and hold committee meetings. The 2023 meeting had 4,802 attendees and featured 3000 research papers.

Awards
Every year, in August, the ASA presents awards to individuals and groups deserving of recognition. The awards presented are:

 * Distinguished Scholarly Book Major ASA Award
 * Dissertation Major ASA Award
 * Excellence in the Reporting of Social Issues Major ASA Award
 * Jessie Bernard Major ASA Award
 * Cox-Johnson-Frazier Major ASA Award
 * Award for the Public Understanding of Sociology Major ASA Award
 * Distinguished Career Major ASA Award for the Practice of Sociology
 * Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Major ASA Award
 * W.E.B. Du Bois Career of Distinguished Scholarship Award

Additionally, the Sections of the ASA administer separate multiple awards, which are presented each August during the annual meeting.

Controversies
In 1993, then-doctoral student Rik Scarce was jailed for more than five months as a result of following the ASA's code of ethics. Scarce's Ph.D. research was on the radical environmental movement. Based on an FBI investigation of an Animal Liberation Front break-in, federal prosecutors argued in court that Scarce may have engaged in conversations with individuals believed to be involved with the incident. Prosecutors demanded that Scarce testify to a federal grand jury about those conversations, but Scarce refused to answer three dozen questions, citing the ASA Code of Ethics and the First Amendment as his reasoning for remaining unresponsive. Scarce's refusal to answer resulted in a contempt of court citation and 159 days spent in jail. He was never suspected of wrongdoing and—in keeping with contempt of court practice—he was never read his Miranda rights, arrested, or tried.

In early 2010, ASA publicly expressed outrage over a controversy involving Frances Fox Piven and Glenn Beck, asking Fox News to stop Beck's comments. An article written by Piven concerning mobilization of unemployed individuals had spurred the commentary by Beck. ASA suggests in their public statements that the line should be drawn at name calling and that political commentators should instead rely on gathering evidence related to the topics and then drawing the proper conclusions.

In January 2012, a United States district court ordered Boston College to turn over material from the "Belfast Project", an oral history project pertaining to the violence in Northern Ireland. Boston College filed an appeal in February 2012, challenging the district court's decision. ASA became involved in the case to help protect human participants from the subpoena of confidential project research data. The statement by the ASA council cited the potential damage this ruling would have on social science research by stifling the ability to study controversial topics. ASA is looking for an affirmation by the court for confidentiality in research.

Critique
Within the Environmental sociology section of the ASA, in 2016 an ad hoc Committee on Racial Equity investigated racial and ethnic diversity within the section in response to critique that the section was overwhelmingly white. Their assessment of the professional climate for scholars of colour concluded that the section was a 'white space' characterized by the overwhelming presence of whites and dominated by white leadership. They concluded that this situation acts as a barrier to inclusion of people of colour in the field, and that the field of environmental justice was likewise marginalised.

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Talk:Terry Bradshaw

Where Bradshaw was born
The article says Shreveport. Well, local legend of Sparta, Tennessee says he was born and raised here, and moved to Louisiana sometime in his early teens. We have a house that is known as the "Bradshaw House" where he supposedly lived, he is recalled by many locals (or so they say), and he has many claimed relatives among our populace.

Can anybody clear this mystery up? Any solid link to a Bradshaw Shreveport birth?

 * His bio in the NFL Hall of Fame website confirms a Shreveport birth: . That's not proof positive, but I'd have to say that it outranks local legend. JamesMLane 05:17, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Three marriages -- the first was well known to figure skater JoJo Starbuck. not sure if that merits mention or not. 00:33, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

re: Terry's Life
While Terry was a freshman at Louisian Tech, he was an unbridled powerful quarterback. He was big, but at first really had no receiver that could catch him, except a small kid from Airline...Tommy Spinks. The coaches had to get Tommy bigger because he was..at first the only one who could catch Bradshaw's shot. Then other players were added who were also greats...Mike Barber...Roger Carr.

The center, Paul Clark and I were friends, studying organic chemistry into the wee hours of the night. Terry dated Paul's sister, a beautiful girl and it was an obviously good match for the time. I asked Paul if it was true, what people said about Terry not being so bright. He was candid and said he thought so, but he also beleived that Terry was a genius on a football field. Bradshaw's abilities far exceeded his physical size and strength. He was a master at finding an open receiver...and hitting him. Spinks was too small to play pro, but he was supberb at Tech...sort of a Fred Belitnikov(sp?). From nowhere Spinks would appear, leaping high to make the important catch. Of course Carr became famous in his own right.

As an aside, I knew Spinks when he was a small boy outside his father's church (his father was a Methodist minister). Spinks could do the most incredible acrobatics from a standing position, flipping over without touching the ground...incredible balance.

As I have watched Terry's life from the sidelines, I have known it to be bitter sweet...from his marriage to Jo-Jo and so on. I beleive he was truly one of the greatest...if not the greatest quarterback the game has ever known, and he has shown that much of his greatness...is his inner self. His troubles with depression are not suprising. His abilities to handle such a difficult situation is admirable but expectable. He has always had to come from behind...so to speak. He did it at Tech, he did it in Pittsburg, and now he had done it in his inner self.

Congratulations, Terry. And hopes for happiness, as you have given thousands.

Marion rundell@flex.net

Picture
I don't know if you guys are set for pictures of Mr. Bradshaw, but here's one you may be interested in. I haven't uploaded because I don't know it's copyright status. But here it is so you can decide if the article needs it or not. --D-Day 20:13, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Thanks for the offer but what I am really looking for are pictures of his playing days, and one image of the Fox studio. Thanks --Jaranda wat's sup 18:46, 29 December 2005 (UTC)

Number One overall NFL Draft Picks
O. J. Simpson needs to be added for the year preceding Bradshaw and following Ron Yary —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 198.86.240.56 (talk) 19:41, 31 January 2007 (UTC).

What did good athlete Bradshaw do to avoid the real draft -- the one that sent hundreds of thousands into the military? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.49.27.38 (talk) 04:56, 16 October 2020 (UTC)

Needs inline citations
I recommend using footnotes before promoting it to GA. — Deckill e r 23:26, 4 April 2006 (UTC)

NASCAR
I added a short paragraph about his entering NASCAR as an owner in FitzBradshaw Racing. The article had no mention of his racing involvment. He sure does a lot! This should probably be expanded with a few more sentences.--edgester 19:36, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

GA Re-Review and In-line citations
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Blatant vandalism
Good evening,

I am neither a Bradshaw biographer nor a registered Wikipedia contributer, though it is all too clear that someone has maliciously vandalized Mr. Bradshaw's entry. The section regarding his collegiate career was apparently modified by a somewhat immature individual who is less than a fan of the subject. I would gladly revise the segment personally, though I am far from being sufficiently informed on the matter.

Admittedly, I am a life-long Steelers fan, and thus a Bradshaw partisan, but regardless of anyone's team/city allegiance, I appreciate referencing Wikipedia as a legitimate source of information. If someone with greater familiarity with either Mr. Bradshaw's career, or even with Wikipedia's policies, has a spare moment, I would greatly appreciate their efforts to correct this.

Many thanks in advance.

-DJ —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.67.240.196 (talk) 05:51, 4 February 2007 (UTC).

Nevermind
Wow...uh, apologies for the unnecessary posting. Between my finding the 'Discussion' page, finishing my comment, and looking back to the original article again, someone had already seen to restoring the legitimate text. The Wiki community really is on top of things.

Thanks again to whomever noticed the glaring abuse as well, and for taking the initiative to remedy it.

-DJ —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.67.240.196 (talk) 05:58, 4 February 2007 (UTC).

High School & College information
When you get old & things are not kept in front of you as they were when you lived in the area, things tend to get fuzzy. I just happened upon this article & read it with interest but I respectfully disagree with the article where it stated that Bradshaw lost to the Sulphur Golden Tors. I was a sophomore at Sulphur High School and was at that game. Our sophomore quarterback (Lester Saucier) outperformed Bradshaw during that game but, if memory serves me correctly, came away as the loser. I seem to remember that the score is accurate but am not certain of that either. Could someone verify this information for me? I will try to do some research by searching through some of my high school memorabilia. 72.155.227.114 21:48, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

PE Major
Shouldn't we say that he majored in Physical Education? --HPJoker 16:46, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

God paragraph
Do we need a 2 paragraphs about his belief in God?

"As he acknowledged in his first autobiography, Man of Steel, by 1974 Bradshaw felt like he was bottoming out. His first marriage to Melissa Babich had failed, his shoulder had been injured, and he was often sullen and depressed. The turnaround came when, according to his memoir, Bradshaw, already a born-again Christian, had a revelation: "I had separated myself from God. I lived only for Terry Bradshaw, not for God. I tried to be one of the boys and went to every honky-tonk I could find and chased women and behaved in a way that was totally alien to anything I had ever known before … my whole life was out of control … I was trying to be someone else and was doing a rotten job of it."

What happened to Bradshaw amounted to a second "conversion" experience. "I just put my head in my hands and began to cry and tremble all over and finally I blurted out, 'Here I am, God. I've tried to handle it all by myself and I just can't get the job done. So I'm placing my life in Your hands. I need some peace of mind and I know You can give it to me.'" The quarterback recalls feeling suddenly "stronger mentally and physically.… Being a starting quarterback didn't matter.… What mattered was that I was myself again and I was determined to stay that way." "

Just sounds like whoever posted this had ulterior motives to throw that in.71.169.75.73 (talk) 23:59, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

 * I'm not a believer either, but I have experienced great depression in my life, and it literally rips at your soul.   Terry likely hung on to what he could grasp, at a time when he needed any sort of lifebuoy.   He's alive today because of it.   You can't fault that. --71.245.164.83 (talk) 03:40, 26 December 2010 (UTC)

He had a talkshow
Terry Bradshaw briefly had a daytime talk show on FOX in the late '90s. I can't remember what it was called. But it is notable. Jennifer Love Hewitt was a guest on the show and I fell in love with her right then and there. So can anyone help out with this? Belasted (talk) 22:09, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

Bradshaw's NFL career
Seems to be absent except for a short paragraph near the top. There's more about his personal life and what he did after football then his career itself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.183.244.217 (talk) 21:06, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

Problem solved. The NFL career section was vandalized and whoever fixed it didn't revert it back but just erased the whole section. You know who you are, irresponsible wikipedian!--67.171.97.175 (talk) 23:27, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

short-term memory loss
The following line currently appears at the end of the lead/introduction: "Bradshaw is now suffering from short-term memory loss, which he attributes to his experiences as a pro football player.[1][2]" This may indeed be important enough to be included upfront as it is, but there is no further mention of it in the article's body text so i think that it should be added and expanded upon somewhere appropriate. I don't have time right now to do it but I hope someone else does. Thanks. El duderino (talk) 23:29, 23 January 2012 (UTC)

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Protected page edit request
Will someopne please fix this disruptive IP who has blanked a paragraph. I'd do it myself but I can't. Looks like obvious sock of User:Mumbos Jumbos. See here. 92.40.202.200 (talk) 18:52, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

✅. --Truehans (talk) 18:54, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

Farmer families, dressed in traditional clothing, guiding cattle down from the Swiss Alps.
Done 2A01:9700:1396:1B00:80E1:56EE:719A:598B (talk) 15:53, 14 May 2024 (UTC)

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List of Boston Bruins players

This is a complete list of ice hockey players who have played for the Boston Bruins in the National Hockey League (NHL). It includes players that have played at least one game, either in the NHL regular season or in the NHL playoffs.

Key

 * Appeared in a Bruins game during the 2023–24 season.
 * Stanley Cup Champion or Hockey Hall of Famer.

''The "Seasons" column lists the first year of the season of the player's first game and the last year of the season of the player's last game. For example, a player who played one game in the 2000–01 season would be listed as playing with the team from 2000–2001, regardless of what calendar year the game occurred within.''

Statistics complete as of the 2023–24 NHL season.

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Kalapana (band)

Kalapana is an American pop-rock band from Honolulu, Hawaii. They are known for their songs “Naturally” and “The Hurt”.

Early history (1973 – 1986)
In 1973, childhood friends DJ Pratt and Malani Bilyeu auditioned at the Rainbow Villa for Cecilio & Kapono. Bilyeu was a solo performer at the Oar House in Hawaii Kai while Pratt was downstairs at Chuck’s in Sunlight with Kirk Thompson. They got together in Pratt’s grandfather’s garage with Mackey Feary, another solo act at the Oar House. They wrote songs, rehearsed, and at one point discussed the meaning of Kalapana. The literal translation of the word “Kalapana” is “sprouting money”. Thompson said the meaning was “beat of the music”, but he preferred the name “Dove” for the band. Pratt thought it meant “black sand”. Regardless, they named themselves Kalapana, playing their first gig at Chuck’s in Hawaii Kai.

Kalapana became a regular band at a Honolulu club called The Toppe Ada Shoppe. They opened concerts for Earth, Wind & Fire, Batdorf & Rodney, The Moody Blues, Sly & The Family Stone, and Cecilio & Kapono.

In 1975, the band released their debut self-titled album Kalapana, featuring Jackie Kelso on sax and flute, Bill Perry on bass, and Larry Brown on drums. The album was a big success in Hawaii and Japan.

Their second album Kalapana II was released in late 1976. The band performed a three-concert event at the Waikiki Shell during the span of June 25–27, 1976, where 25,000 people attended.

Kalapana won several Nani Awards, the predecessor to the Na Hoku Hanohano Awards. They were nominated for four categories and received Best Performance by a Duo or Group, and Best Male Vocalist (for Feary), who by year's end had split from the group for a solo career.

With Pratt, Bilyeu, and Thompson remaining, the group added bassist and vocalist Randy Aloya (replacing the departed Feary), sax and woodwinds player Michael Paulo, and drummer Alvin Fejarang. The band’s third album Kalapana III was released in late 1977. Earlier that year, Kalapana helped select the entrants for the "Home Grown" album project.

Kalapana’s fourth album Many Classic Moments, primarily a soundtrack to the Gary Capo-helmed surf film of the same name, was released in 1978. The domestic version of the album contained eight Kalapana tracks while the Japanese version was a two-record set with 22 tracks total, featuring additional orchestral music composed by David Wheatley.

With Kalapana’s popularity in Japan going strong, the band toured there regularly, adding keyboardist and guitarist Kimo Cornwell (formerly of Beowolf and later with Hiroshima). The 1978 live album In Concert was released only in Japan. After the album’s release, Kirk Thompson left the band to pursue a solo career as a producer. His first project as writer, arranger, and producer, the self-titled (and only) album by new Hawaii band Lemuria, was released in 1979.

Kalapana continued as a six-piece with the 1979 album Northbound. Randy Aloya left the group soon after the album’s release, with Malani Bilyeu and Michael Paulo also exiting after the album’s tour had ended.

In 1980, DJ Pratt and Alvin Fejarang continued as Kalapana and released Hold On and the live album Japan Jam Live, both Japan-only releases. The band would then go on hiatus.

On December 26, 1982, Bilyeu, Feary, Thompson, Fejarang, Paulo, and Aloya played a one-night "Kalapana Live Reunion" concert at the Waikiki Shell with Hawaii guitarist John Rapoza standing in for Pratt. Kalapana then went dormant for several years while the various members pursued separate projects.

Hurricane and Pony Canyon (1986 - 1999)
In 1986, Kalapana reunited as a quintet—Bilyeu, Feary, and Pratt plus Gaylord Holomalia (keyboards) and Kenji Sano (electric bass) – and recorded a successful comeback album, Hurricane. Kalapana presented the album at a release party at Rascals discothèque in Waikiki. The invitations were sent out with singles from the album; roses and T-shirts were given away at the venue.

For the "Hurricane" concert, the band wore suits. For the song "Living Without You", the band was brought out wearing white zoot suit dinner jackets with red velvet bow ties. Kenji, Mackey, Malani, and DJ performed choreography during the concert while Gaylord anchored the group on keyboards.

Kalapana released Lava Rock in 1987, and performed with Hiroshima and Anri, musicians from Japan. Kalapana played at the grand opening of the Hard Rock Cafe in Honolulu. They performed in the Philippines for crowds of 10,000 people at two sold-out concerts, toured Japan, the west coast of the contiguous US, Tahiti, Samoa, Guam, Saipan, and outer islands; their first feature-length video of the Lava Rock Concert was taped at the Waikiki Shell. Kalapana toured Japan with Michael Paulo, who was then with Al Jarreau's band, and Tris Imboden, the drummer for Chicago. Following, Kalapana signed a five-album deal with Pony Canyon Records.

In 1997, Kalapana released the Hawaii version of Captain Santa Island Music with liner notes by international radio DJ Kamasami Kong. More recently, Kalapana released, in Japan, another CD titled The Very Best of Kalapana, a compilation of twenty songs.

After battling drugs, drug treatment programs, and relapses, Mackey Feary was sentenced to prison. On February 20, 1999, Feary hanged himself in his jail cell. Feary's problems and eventual suicide called attention to the patterns of drug addiction and mental health and treatment needs.

Post-Feary era (1999 and onward)
During the summer of 1999, Kalapana released "Love Under the Sun", the title song for FM Nagoya's compilation CD, which was used for FM Nagoya's Summer Campaign. Also, they recorded the theme song for the Asahi Super Cup, a series of sailboat races held off the coast of Oahu. Both recordings were done at TK Disc Studios, which are Japanese recording artist/producer Tetsuya Komuro's recording studios in Hawaii.

In November 2002, the group released the studio album the Blue Album. Two songs off of the said album feature Maurice Bega on vocals. Guest artists included the group Chant singing background vocals on "Ten Years After" (written by Komuro), Tris Imboden from the band Chicago on "Another Lonely Night", Michael Paulo on saxophone, and Pauline Wilson and Garin Poliahu on drums. James Studer appears throughout the CD with arrangements and keyboards.

Kalapana continues to tour and record in Japan and the West Coast. The releases, to date, on Pony Canyon are: "Back In Your Heart Again", "Kalapana Sings Southern All-Stars", and "Walk Upon the Water". The fourth LP, "Full Moon Tonight", was released at the time of the royal wedding in Japan in June 1995, and included a new version of "Hawaiian Wedding Song" done R & B style. Their latest album on Pony Canyon Records, "Captain Santa Island Music", consists of songs written for a clothing line in Japan. Each album contains new arrangements of Kalapana classics and newly written songs.

Kalapana received the Hawaii Academy of Recording Arts Lifetime Achievement Award in 2011. The recipients were Bilyeu, Feary (posthumously), Pratt, Thompson, Fejarang, Paulo, Aloya, Holomalia, and Sano.

On Sunday, November 20, 2016, Kalapana, performed in Honolulu with the Honolulu Youth Symphony with a line-up of Bilyeu, Pratt, Holomalia, Aloya (bass guitar), John Valentine (guitar), Garin Poliahu drums, and Todd Yukumoto (sax).

On December 27, 2018, Malani Bilyeu died of a heart attack on Kaua‘i. He was 69. From the beginning, Bilyeu was one of Kalapana’s resident songwriters. His contributions included "Naturally," "You Make It Hard," "Dorothy Louise," "(For You) I’d Chase a Rainbow," "Girl," and "Many Classic Moments."

On September 7, 2021, DJ Pratt was found unresponsive in his home. He was 67. Pratt received two Na Hoku Hanohano Awards for his work as a member of Kalapana. He earned three more for his work as a recording studio engineer.

Legal action against Abattoir Records
The early recordings of Kalapana were originally released on Abattoir Records, a label based in Los Angeles and owned by Ed Guy. However, Guy never paid any royalties, and the band received nothing from Guy for approximately forty years. In June 2017, the original members of the band (with Feary's son and heir Sebastian) sued Guy in federal court in Los Angeles for rescission of the mid-1970s agreements. The case was settled quickly, and Guy transferred all of his rights back to the band, including all music publishing rights.

As a result, on November 30, 2018, under Manifesto Records, the seven-album, eight-CD box set The Original Album Collection and the single-CD “best of” package Black Sand: The Best of Kalapana were released.

Discography

 * Kalapana (1975)
 * Kalapana II (1976)
 * Kalapana III (1977)

 * Many Classic Moments (single LP version; 1978)
 * Many Classic Moments (two-LP version; 1978, Japan only)

 * In Concert (1979, Japan only)
 * Northbound (1979, Japan only)
 * Hold On (1980, Japan only)
 * Japan Jam Live (1980, Japan only)
 * Alive (1981)
 * Reunion (Live Concert) (1983)
 * Hurricane (1986)
 * Lava Rock (1987)
 * Back In Your Heart Again (1990)
 * Kalapana Sings Southern All Stars (1991, Japan only)
 * Walk Upon the Water (1992)
 * Full Moon Tonight (1995)
 * Captain Santa Island Music (1996)
 * Best of Kalapana Vol. 1 (1997)
 * Blue Album (2002)
 * Best of Kalapana Vol. 2 (2004)
 * Many Classic Moments: Kalapana Plays Their Best (2008)
 * The Original Album Collection (box set; 2018)
 * Black Sand: The Best of Kalapana (2018)

Singles

 * Night bird
 * The Hurt
 * The Real Thing (1996, Original By The Late Bobby Caldwell)
 * What Do I Do

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Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home

Free Willy 2: The Adventure Home (also known as Free Willy 2) is a 1995 American family adventure drama film directed by Dwight Little from a screenplay by Karen Janszen, Corey Blechman and John Mattson. It is the sequel to the 1993 film Free Willy and second installment in the Free Willy film series distributed by Warner Bros. under their Warner Bros. Family Entertainment label. Jason James Richter, Jayne Atkinson, August Schellenberg, Michael Madsen and Mykelti Williamson reprise their roles from the first film. New cast members include Jon Tenney and Elizabeth Peña. Unlike the previous film where Keiko played Willy, a robotic double created by Edge Innovations was used to play the eponymous whale while the Free Willy Keiko Foundation devised a plan to bring Keiko to the Oregon Coast Aquarium where he would be rehabilitated from poor health. However, Keiko did make an uncredited appearance, reprising his role as Willy through an archival clip shown in the movie.

Set two years after Jesse freed his orca friend Willy whose now reunited with his family which includes sister Luna, brother Littlespot and mother Catspaw, the plot follows Jesse in a race against time after an oil spill separated Willy and his siblings from their mother and it's up to him to get them back home before the oil traps them in the cove for good.

Filming commenced in Astoria, Oregon and the San Juan Islands between April and August 1994 with additional filming taking place in California. The film opened on July 19, 1995 to mixed reviews from critics. Despite underperforming at the box office, a third film Free Willy 3: The Rescue was subsequently released in 1997.

Plot
It is been two years that Jesse freed Willy and got him back home. Jesse is now fourteen years old and lives happily with the Greenwoods. The Greenwoods are planning a trip to the San Juan Islands to visit Randolph, who now works for the Orcas Institute, while camping at Camp Nor'Wester. Before they leave, Dwight arrives with news that Jesse's mother was found dead in New York City and left behind another son. This devastates Jesse after many attempts at finding her, but comes to terms after talking his feelings out with Glen. Jesse's half-brother Elvis is morose, overly talkative and mischievous. He is also prone to telling lies and easily gets on Jesse's nerves. To make matters even worse for Jesse, Elvis is invited along on their trip, so that they can get to know each other. At the environmental institute, Jesse reunites with Randolph, becomes smitten with his goddaughter, Nadine, and is introduced to Willy's family during a day of whale watching. He tracks and reunites with Willy that night.

As the Greenwoods continue to enjoy their camping trip, Liberian oil tanker the Dakar runs aground on Lawson Reef and spills oil due to an engine malfunction, trapping Willy and his siblings Luna and Littlespot at the campsite. Luna gets oil in her lungs and beaches herself. Jesse and the adults get her back in the water but need further assistance. Benbrook Oil CEO John Milner announces a plan to move the whales into captivity until further notice. Jesse challenges this, making him promise to do whatever he can to get them safely back to their mother Catspaw or else he'll be blamed for Luna's death. Luna's condition worsens the day after Kate Haley treats her. Jesse and Randolph use an old Indian remedy that helps her recover.

At a donut shop, Elvis, who ran away yesterday after Jesse, Glen and Annie denied his help which in-turn caused Annie to accidentally break her promise in allowing him to contribute more, overhears John and Wilcox's real plan to sell the whales. With the oil spill reaching dangerous proximity to the cove, Benbrook Oil and the whalers boom it off despite Jesse, Randolph, and Nadine's objections and begin extracting the whales. Elvis rushes back to camp to warn Jesse and Nadine. They confront John, and he and his assistant are knocked into the water for breaking his promise. Willy rescues Littlespot from the extraction. Jesse hijacks the Little Dipper to lead the whales to safety. On Jesse's signal, Willy breaks the boom and leads his siblings away. The Dakar explodes due to fuel vapors igniting after engineers try to start the generator, resulting in the crude oil catching fire.

Randolph picks up Glen and Annie, who returned from their unsuccessful search for Elvis until they spotted him on the Little Dipper, and the three follow the kids' path as Randolph sends a distress call. The whales swim under the flaming oil to safety, but the kids fall into danger when they head into another cove. The fogginess from the smoke causes Jesse to hit a rock, and the Little Dipper begins to sink while the flames seal off the cove. A search and rescue helicopter locates them, pulling Elvis and Nadine to safety. However, Jesse slips out of the harness, only inches away from the helicopter, and due to smoke choking the engine, it is forced to leave him behind. Jesse nearly drowns, but Willy returns for his friend and carries him safely under the fire in time for the adults to retrieve Jesse. Though Jesse is curious as to why Willy hasn't left, Randolph reveals the signal must be performed. Jesse does it and he, Glen, and Annie say goodbye to Willy.

Shortly after the Coastal Marine Patrol deliver Elvis and Nadine, Elvis gives Jesse a picture of him and their mother that was taped back together and also tells Jesse that she talked about him and felt bad about everything. Glen approves Annie's proposal of adopting Elvis. When asked by Elvis about his knowledge of the whales' whereabouts, Jesse replies that he knows.

Sometime later, Willy, Luna and Littlespot reunite with Catspaw and their pod.

Cast

 * Jason James Richter as Jesse
 * Francis Capra as Elvis
 * Mary Kate Schellhardt as Nadine
 * August Schellenberg as Randolph Johnson
 * Michael Madsen as Glen Greenwood
 * Jayne Atkinson as Annie Greenwood
 * Mykelti Williamson as Dwight Mercer
 * Elizabeth Peña as Dr. Kate Haley
 * Jon Tenney as John Milner
 * Paul Tuerpe as Milner's assistant
 * M. Emmet Walsh as Wilcox
 * John Considine as Commander Blake
 * Steve Kahan as Captain Nilson
 * Neal Matarazzo as Helmsman Kelly
 * Al Sapienza as Engineer
 * Basil Wallace as Reporter
 * Marguerite Moreau as Julie
 * Scott Stuber as Policeman
 * Joan Lunden as herself

Production
In November 1993, producer Lauren Shuler Donner and her husband and co-executive producer Richard Donner were pursuing active development of a sequel to Free Willy following the breakout success of the first film, but unlike the first film the whale was fully animatronic. Jason James Richter returned to reprise his role as Jesse after renegotiating the original sequel option from the first film from $150,000 to $1.5 million with an option for a third sequel.

Reception
Free Willy 2 grossed $30 million in the United States and Canada and $68 million worldwide on a $31 million budget.

The film received mixed reviews from critics, though many were impressed with the film's subtle approach to pollution and other environmental issues, while focusing on family values. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A-" on an A+ to F scale.

Accolades
Free Willy 2 was nominated for Worst Sequel and The Sequel Nobody Was Clamoring For at the 1995 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards, but lost to Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls and Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers, respectively. Willy won Favorite Animal Star at the 1996 Kids' Choice Awards.

Soundtrack
Released through MJJ Music in association with 550 Music and Epic Soundtrax in 1995, the soundtrack contained most of the songs from the film plus two additional tracks from Brownstone, whose song "Sometimes Dancin'" first appeared on their debut album From the Bottom Up, and 3T. The only song not included is "My Spirit Calls Out" that Randolph performed when he treated Luna.

Basil Poledouris returned to compose new music and also incorporated several scoring elements from the previous film.

Michael Jackson continued his affiliation with the Free Willy franchise when "Childhood" from his greatest hits/ninth album HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I served as the main theme around Elvis while the instrumental version is played when he looks at a photo of the Greenwoods with Jesse while spending the night alone.

An instrumental version of Nathan Cavaleri's song "Lou's Blues" was used to dub Jesse's offscreen guitar playing.

Additionally, two renditions of Bob Dylan's "Forever Young" are also featured in the film. One from Michael Jackson's sister Rebbie can be heard inside the donut shop Elvis and Wilcox attended while the end credits used the previously recorded version by The Pretenders that originally appeared in the film With Honors and the band's album Last of the Independents.

Title
On early UK home video promotions, the film was titled simply "Willy 2: The Adventure Home", presumably because the film's premise, unlike its predecessor's, does not involve Willy being freed.

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Human sexual response cycle

The human sexual response cycle is a four-stage model of physiological responses to sexual stimulation, which, in order of their occurrence, are the excitement, plateau, orgasmic, and resolution phases. This physiological response model was first formulated by William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson, in their 1966 book Human Sexual Response. Since that time, other models regarding human sexual response have been formulated by several scholars who have criticized certain inaccuracies in the human sexual response cycle model.

Excitement phase
The excitement phase (also known as the arousal phase or initial excitement phase) is the first stage of the human sexual response cycle, which occurs as a result of physical or mental erotic stimuli, such as kissing, making out, fantasizing or viewing erotic images, that leads to sexual arousal. During this stage, the body prepares for sexual intercourse, initially leading to the plateau phase. There is wide socio-cultural variation regarding preferences for the length of foreplay and the stimulation methods used. Physical and emotional interaction and stimulation of the erogenous zones during foreplay usually establishes at least some initial arousal.

Excitement in both sexes
Among both sexes, the excitement phase results in an increase in heart rate, breathing rate, and a rise in blood pressure. A survey in 2006 found that sexual arousal in about 82% of young females and 52% of young males arises or is enhanced by direct stimulation of nipples, with only 7–8% reporting that it decreased their arousal. Vasocongestion of the skin, commonly referred to as the sex flush, will occur in approximately 50-75% of females and 25% of males. The sex flush tends to occur more often under warmer conditions and may not appear at all under cooler temperatures.

During the female sex flush, pinkish spots develop under the breasts, then spread to the breasts, torso, face, hands, soles of the feet, and possibly over the entire body. Vasocongestion is also responsible for the darkening of the clitoris and the walls of the vagina during sexual arousal. During the male sex flush, the coloration of the skin develops less consistently than in the female, but typically starts with the epigastrium (upper abdomen), spreads across the chest, then continues to the neck, face, forehead, back, and sometimes, shoulders and forearms. The sex flush typically disappears soon after orgasm occurs, but this may take up to two hours or so and, sometimes, intense sweating will occur simultaneously. The flush usually diminishes in reverse of the order in which it appeared.

An increase in muscle tone (myotonia) of certain muscle groups, occurring voluntarily and involuntarily, begins during this phase among both sexes. Also, the external anal sphincter may contract randomly upon contact (or later during orgasm without contact).

Excitement in males
In males, the beginning of the excitement phase is observed when the penis becomes partially or fully erect, often after only a few seconds of erotic stimulation. The erection may be partially lost and regained repeatedly during an extended excitement phase. Both testicles become drawn upward toward the perineum, notably in circumcised males where less skin is available to accommodate the erection. Also, the scrotum can tense and thicken during the erection process.

Excitement in females
In females, the excitement phase can last from several minutes to several hours. The onset of vasocongestion results in swelling of the woman's clitoris, labia minora and vagina. The muscle that surrounds the vaginal opening grows tighter and the uterus elevates and grows in size. The vaginal walls begin to produce a lubricating organic liquid. Meanwhile, the breasts increase slightly in size and nipples become hardened and erect.

Plateau phase
The plateau phase is the period of sexual excitement prior to orgasm. The phase is characterised by an increased circulation and heart rate in both sexes, increased sexual pleasure with increased stimulation and further increased muscle tension. Also, respiration continues at an elevated level. Prolonged time in the plateau phase without progression to the orgasmic phase may result in sexual frustration.

Plateau in males
During this phase, the male urethral sphincter contracts (preventing urine from mixing with semen, and retrograde ejaculation) and muscles at the base of the penis begin a steady rhythmic contraction. Males may start to secrete seminal fluid or pre-ejaculatory fluid and the testicles rise closer to the body.

Plateau in females
The plateau stage in females is basically a continuation of the same changes evident in the excitement stage. The clitoris becomes extremely sensitive and withdraws slightly, and the Bartholin glands produce further lubrication. The tissues of the outer third of the vagina swell, and the pubococcygeus muscle tightens, reducing the diameter of the opening of the vagina. Masters and Johnson refer to the changes that take place during the plateau stage as the orgasmic platform.

Orgasm phase
Orgasm is experienced by both males and females, ending the plateau phase of the sexual response cycle. Orgasm is accompanied by quick cycles of muscle contraction in the lower pelvic muscles, which surround both the anus and the primary sexual organs. Orgasms are often associated with other involuntary actions, including vocalizations and muscular spasms in other areas of the body and a generally euphoric sensation. Heart rate is increased even further. Tantric sex practices may seek to diminish the goal of achieving orgasm, which is frequently a common goal of sexual intercourse.

Orgasm in males
In males, orgasm is usually associated with ejaculation. Each ejaculation is accompanied with continuous pulses of sexual pleasure, especially in the penis and surrounding area. Other sensations may be felt strongly among the lower spine or lower back. The first and second convulsions are usually the most intense in sensation and produce the greatest quantity of semen. Thereafter, each contraction is associated with a diminishing volume of semen and a milder sensation of pleasure.

Orgasm in females
Women also experience uterine and vaginal contractions. Orgasms in females can vary widely from individual to individual. They are commonly associated with an increase in vaginal lubrication, a tightening of the vaginal walls and overall pleasure. For some women, there is also a possibility of female ejaculation.

Resolution phase
The resolution phase occurs after orgasm and allows the muscles to relax, blood pressure to drop and the body to slow down from its excited state. The refractory period, which is part of the resolution phase, is the time frame in which usually a man is unable to orgasm again, though women can also experience a refractory period.

Resolution in males
Masters and Johnson described the two-stage detumescence of the penis: In the first stage, the penis decreases from its erect state to about 50 percent larger than its flaccid state. This occurs during the refractory period. In the second stage (and after the refractory period is finished), the penis decreases in size and returns to being flaccid. It is generally impossible for men to achieve orgasm during the refractory period. Masters and Johnson argue that this period must end before men can become aroused again.

Although, due to the refractory period, it is rare for men to achieve multiple orgasms, some men have reported having multiple, consecutive orgasms, particularly without ejaculation. Multiple orgasms are more commonly reported in very young men than in older men. In younger men, the refractory period may only last a few minutes, but last more than an hour in older men.

Resolution in females
According to Masters and Johnson, women have the ability to orgasm again very quickly, as long as they have effective stimulation. As a result, they are able to have multiple orgasms in a relatively short period of time. Though generally reported that women do not experience a refractory period and thus can experience an additional orgasm, or multiple orgasms, soon after the first, some sources state that men and women experience a refractory period because women may also experience a period after orgasm in which further sexual stimulation does not produce excitement. For some women, the clitoris is very sensitive after climax, making additional stimulation initially painful. After the initial orgasm, subsequent orgasms for women may also be stronger or more pleasurable as the stimulation accumulates.

Similarities and differences between sexes
Masters and Johnson argue that, despite some minor differences, sexual responses in both men and women are fundamentally similar. However, researchers have argued that there are many differences between men and women in terms of their response. First, Masters and Johnson put forth one model for men, but three different models for women. They stated that men's sexual response only differs in terms of duration; showing different models would, thus, be repetitive. Women, on the other hand, they state can have responses that differ in both intensity and duration. These variations can pose problems because psychologists have argued that not everyone fits this model; for example, most women do not orgasm during penetrative sexual intercourse. Masters and Johnson also equate a man's erection with a woman's vaginal lubrication during the excitement phase; Roy Levin states that this observation is false. A woman's clitoris is the anatomical parallel to a man's penis. As a result, clitoral swelling would be the equivalent of a man's erection.

Another aspect is the lack of concordance between subjective sexual arousal and genital arousal. Research by Meredith L. Chivers and J. Michael Bailey indicates that men tend to show category-specific arousal; that is, they are sexually aroused by their preferred gender. However, women show category non-specificity: Their genitals show arousal to both preferred and non-preferred genders. Even though women reported being subjectively aroused to, for example, a man and woman engaging in sexual activity, their genitals also show sexual arousal to two men engaging in sexual activity, two women doing so, and even non-human animals having sex.

Overall, Masters and Johnson's model appears to be a better example of men's sexual response than women's.

Criticisms
There has been much research conducted based on Masters and Johnson's model. However, inaccuracies have been found in the descriptions of the stages of sexual response. For example, Roy Levin identified a few areas of the model that had not been touched upon. First, Masters and Johnson state that only the vagina is lubricated during the arousal stage; Levin argues that the labia produce their own lubricant. Levin also presents research which shows that the first signs of physiological arousal in women is increased blood flow to the vagina, not lubrication. He also dispels information about men and their sexual response; Masters and Johnson report that pleasure was positively associated with the volume of ejaculate released, but Rosenberg, Hazzard, Tallman and Ohl gave a group of men a questionnaire and found that significantly more men reported that physical pleasure was associated with the strength of the ejaculation compared to the volume. Moreover, some researchers have found that some men can have multiple orgasms, despite what Masters and Johnson had reported.

Some researchers have also criticized how Masters and Johnson define sexual response solely in terms of physiology; for example, Everaerd, and Laan have found that sexual arousal can be defined as an emotional state in both men and women. Other researchers have stated that there is a lack of concordance between women's subjective sexual arousal and their genital arousal. Rosemary Basson argues that this model poorly explains women's sexual response, especially for those who are in long-term relationships.

Other models
Shortly after Masters and Johnson published their book, several scholars criticized their model of the human sexual response cycle. For example, Helen Singer Kaplan argued that Masters and Johnson only evaluated sexual response from a physiological perspective, and that psychological, emotional, and cognitive factors need to be taken into consideration. As a result, she proposed her model of the sexual response cycle which includes three phases: desire, excitement, and orgasm. She argues that these three phases are interconnected, yet they have different neurophysiological mechanisms. Similarly, Paul Robinson argued that the excitement and plateau phases are the same; he criticizes Masters and Johnson's work for not clearly distinguishing when the excitement phase ends, and when the plateau phase begins.

Another model that has been put forth is the incentive-motivation model. The model explains that the desire for sex comes from an interaction between a sensitive sexual response system and stimuli that are present in the environment. Researchers argue that this model supports the idea that sexual desire is not spontaneous. Furthermore, this model implies that the case is not that one has sex because one feels sexual desire; rather, the case is that one feels sexual desire because one has sex.

Rosemary Basson proposed an alternative model of sexual response. She argues that the linear model is good at explaining men's sexual response but it poorly explains women's sexual responses; thus, she puts forth a circular model. She states that closeness or attachment to a partner increases the effectiveness of sexual stimulation. This leads to enhanced sexual arousal, which may ultimately result in orgasm. Consequently, this positive sexual arousal continues the sexual desire that women feel, and this desire increases intimacy with the partner. Other researchers have attempted to evaluate women's sexual functioning in terms of this new model but have found contradictory results. In one study conducted by Giles and McCabe, they found that the linear model of sexual response was a good predictor of women's sexual functioning (and dysfunction), while the circular model was a poor predictor. Once they modified the pathways of the model, the circular model then became a good predictor of sexual functioning. In another study looking at Malaysian women, researchers found that the circular model was actually a good predictor of women's sexual desire and arousal. More research needs to be done in this area to show whether the circular model more accurately describes women's sexual response.

Sexual dysfunctions
The human sexual response cycle set the foundation for studying and categorizing sexual dysfunctions in men and women. There are four main categories of sexual dysfunctions: desire disorders, arousal disorders, orgasm disorders, and sexual pain disorders. They are still categorized as such in the DSM-IV-TR. Recent research, however, suggests that the current model of sexual response needs to be revised to better treat these dysfunctions. One reason is that there is considerable overlap between sexual dysfunctions in women. One study found that in patients with hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD), 41% of women had at least one other sexual dysfunction and 18% had diagnoses in all three categories (that is, in desire, arousal, and orgasm disorders).

Another issue is that, among women, there is a discrepancy between desire and arousal. After Cynthia Graham critically evaluated female sexual arousal disorder (FSAD), she found that women reported that, contrary to Masters and Johnson's model, sexual arousal sometimes preceded sexual desire; at other times, desire presented before arousal. Because of the high comorbidity rates between HSDD and FSAD, she would like to merge them to make the category "Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder." Hartmann and colleagues summarize their views of the current model of the sexual response cycle and conclude that "by simply expanding and continuing DSM-IV criteria and the traditional response cycle classification systems, it is impossible to come to diagnostic categories and subtypes that adequately reflect real-life female sexual problems".

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Bathurst

Bathurst may refer to:

People

 * Bathurst (surname)
 * Bathurst Bellers Mann (1858–1948), Irish-born rugby union player in Wales
 * Bathurst Peachy (1893–1953), American college head baseball coach

Australia

 * Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia, a city
 * Bathurst Region, the local government area for the Bathurst urban area and rural surrounds
 * Roman Catholic Diocese of Bathurst in Australia
 * Anglican Diocese of Bathurst
 * Electoral district of Bathurst, a state legislative assembly district
 * Electoral district of Bathurst (County), a former electoral district
 * Bathurst County
 * Lake Bathurst (New South Wales)
 * Bathurst Bay, Queensland
 * Bathurst Harbour, Tasmania
 * Bathurst Island (Northern Territory)
 * Bathurst Lighthouse, Rottnest Island

Canada

 * Bathurst District, a historic district in Upper Canada, also a county within the district

New Brunswick

 * Bathurst, New Brunswick
 * Bathurst Parish, New Brunswick
 * Bathurst (electoral district)
 * Acadie—Bathurst
 * Roman Catholic Diocese of Bathurst in Canada

Northwest Territories

 * Cape Bathurst, a peninsula

Nunavut

 * Bathurst Inlet, a body of water
 * Bathurst Island (Nunavut)

Ontario

 * Bathurst, Ontario, a former township

Elsewhere

 * Banjul, The Gambia, a city known as Bathurst until 1973
 * Bathurst, Sierra Leone, a village
 * Bathurst, Eastern Cape, South Africa
 * A market garden in the hamlet of Heathrow, U.K.; see Heathrow timeline

Schools

 * Bathurst High School (New South Wales), Australia
 * Bathurst High School (New Brunswick), Canada
 * Stuart Bathurst Catholic High School, a co-educational Roman Catholic secondary school and sixth form, in Wednesbury in the West Midlands of England

Ships

 * Bathurst-class corvette, a class of sixty ships used during and after World War II
 * HMS Bathurst (1821); see Phillip Parker King
 * HMAS Bathurst (J158), a Royal Australian Navy corvette, serving from 1940 until 1946
 * HMAS Bathurst (ACPB 85), a Royal Australian Navy patrol boat commissioned in 2006

Sports

 * Bathurst Panthers, an Australian rugby league football team based in Bathurst, New South Wales
 * Bathurst '75 FC, an Australian amateur football club based in Bathurst, New South Wales
 * Bathurst 1000, an annual motor race for touring cars run in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia
 * Bathurst 24 Hour, a former endurance race for GT and production cars
 * Bathurst 250, a former annual motor race in Bathurst, New South Wales

Australia

 * Bathurst Airport (New South Wales)
 * Bathurst railway station, New South Wales
 * Bathurst Street, Hobart
 * Bathurst Street, Sydney

Canada

 * Bathurst Airport (New Brunswick)
 * Bathurst station (New Brunswick), a railway station
 * Bathurst Street (Toronto), Ontario
 * Bathurst station (Toronto), a subway station

Other uses

 * Earl Bathurst, a title in the Peerage of Great Britain
 * Bathurst baronets, an extinct or dormant title in the Baronetage of England
 * Bathurst Power and Paper Company, a Canadian former combined logging, lumber mill and wood-pulp paper company based in Bathurst, New Brunswick
 * Bathurst Resources, a coal mining company in New Zealand

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This is quite a refreshing perspective on the Wikipedia way of things!

I applaud your informality. It seems to me that many (and I mean MANY) Wikipedia articles are oh-so-thinly-veiled POV rants. . . and when they aren't (in my estimation, at least), someone will have the gall to make a comment to the effect that "this part needs some work — too much POV" or something similarly ridiculous. But your badinage about the weather, aside from being charming and entertaining, is informative, and trying to inform myself a bit better is my main reason for browsing Wikipedia, although seeking out semiliterate and clumsily-camouflaged partisan soapboxing ranks as a close second.

Keep up the very good work, and thanks for your efforts!

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Stubs
Thanks. I've added it. By the way, I have no objection to people editing my pages themselves as long as they don't mind me reverting them if I don't like it what they did there. :) Angela. 20:57, May 2, 2004 (UTC)

Great pictures!
At Weather lore -- fantastic. But can you upload bigger versions and thumbnail them? I want to see several of them in much greater detail, and I was disappointed to find they weren't thumbnailed. :-) I hate to make work for you, but I think two or three of them would rate as Featured pictures if larger.  Nice job on that article -- keep it up! Jwrosenzweig 22:45, 4 May 2004 (UTC)
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 * I promise to nominate at least the first two (mackerel and northwind) for featured, if not all four, once larger versions are uploaded. :-) Thanks so much! Jwrosenzweig 19:51, 10 May 2004 (UTC)

Crash test dummy
Glad I could provide useful feedback. Let me know about the next great article you write :) Fredrik 21:22, 5 May 2004 (UTC)

Thank you! Aside from the occasional run-on, I thought the article you (mostly) wrote was quite necessary and well done - It probably wouldnt have caught my attn otherwise. Newbies are a part of the action, Im afriad - theres a new crop of them everyday, and I hear its because of a little thing called human reproduction. :) -Stevertigo 03:33, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

After trying to find out why said newbie left an NPOV tag, I went through the article again, and noted you'd added a para on American hegemony. You may not have been aware of the fact that they added the NPOV notice before I added the paragraph about US hegemony. At the top of each article is a page history link, which shows us the change history in linear chronological order.

I agree wholeheartedly with your sentiment, (especially after the last 72 hours) Facts do not change in short timeframes - that opinions sway or surge in times of challenge is of no concern to me - what I wrote is either factual and explanatory or not - I will take a look at your changes, to see if I agree with them, and if not, I will explain my objections.

''I like it when I can say "If the shoe fits..." rather than "Here. Eat this fucking shoe." Less chance of a 2x4 in the side of the head.'' It is a natural trait of intelligent people to understand how not to piss off the less intelligent. That said, I'm watching the honorable Joe Leiberman working hard on Donald Rumsfeld's penis with his mouth right now, and it's not a pretty sight. -Stevertigo 17:12, 7 May 2004 (UTC)

Mumbai
And if boldly editing applies equally to photos as it does to text, I will have no hesitation about taking it on. It does apply equally; go for it. --Tagishsimon

Totalitarian_democracy
Please see my comment on Talk:Totalitarian_democracy (Freedom to fail, etc.) -- Jmabel 04:28, 8 May 2004 (UTC)

Redirects
There are two ways to do it. One is to move a page, which automatically creates a redirect from the old title to the new one. This is best as it keeps the page history. The second way is just to type #redirect new title on the page you want to be the redirect. I've merged the page histories of Mumbai (Images) and Images of Mumbai to keep it in one place, and left the page at Images of Mumbai as that one had links to it, whereas Mumbai (Images) was linked only from talk pages. History merges are something that only sysops can do, but any user is allowed to create a redirect. There are instructions at redirect. Angela. 23:19, May 10, 2004 (UTC)

Copyright on photos
Your photos have both the GFDL tag and a "noncommercial use" tag. Let me first ask: Do you intend to dual-license these images, or is the inclusion of the GFDL tag an oversight and you meant to license them for noncommercial use only (the GFDL allows commercial use)?

We do not allow "noncommercial use only" images and all such images will in fact be removed by the end of June. Furthermore, we ask all contributors to upload their own work either as GFDL or public domain -- the exceptions we make are on works from outside sources, where we allow very limited fair use, and some licenses besides the GFDL.

The reasons for this are manifold, not the least of which is that some of our own intended uses in fact qualifies as commercial (such as the sale of printed copies), but there are also third parties (Mirrors and forks) who use our content whom we do not want to impair by restricting commercial use (such as adding a banner on a website).

If your intent was to dual license, that is, to allow users to choose which license to accept - either the GFDL or your simple "noncommercial use" license - then that should be clarified on the image pages. Alternatively, please remove the "noncommercial use" claim.--Eloquence* 07:06, May 15, 2004 (UTC)

I moved your msg to my talk page to reply - Diderot 19:28, 21 May 2004 (UTC)

"Never been a legitimate user"? My goodness. I'll let that one slide, because I'm kind and gentle. But the next one's gonna cost you double. :-) -- Wikisux 04:22, May 29, 2004 (UTC)

 * Replied on User_talk:Wikisux... -- Wikisux 03:07, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

Clinical Depression
Hello. What troubles me about the original wording is that men, rather famously, are less likely to seek help for anything they might regard as to do with their emotions. I've had a look at the website for the CMHA. I can't find those figures here. Which is not at all to claim that they haven't used those figures previously. However, it raises another question: were they using figures garnered only from Canadian patients anyway?

I am willing to concede to a revert, but I would like someone to show me some refs first. A complicating factor for me would be that men are also far more successful at ending their lives at any given suicide attempt than women.

Here's an opening reference I've found that quickly communicates my thoughts: --bodnotbod 01:55, Jun 1, 2004 (UTC)

 * I've severely curtailed alt.med and comp.med additions to Clinical depression and explained why on Talk:Clinical depression. I would appreciate your input.  --bodnotbod 14:25, Jun 3, 2004 (UTC)

Adminship
With your permission, I would like to nominate you for adminship. Any objections?

UninvitedCompany 16:39, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

As you wish. Please let me know if you would like a nomination at some future time. Best regards, UninvitedCompany 18:15, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Image:Flagofmars.png
How is that the flag of Mars? Do you have another for the Moon? (TANSTAAFL) - Tεx  τ  urε  21:15, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)

 * Do you mean the four tilde (~) signature that adds the time to your signature? ( ~ ) - Tεx  τ  urε  21:56, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)