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Pro-Life (politician)
I see that you're a member of WikiProject Idaho. Could you take a look at Pro-Life (politician) aka Marvin Richardson (a politician from Idaho), and comment on its talk page on the subjects notability? Thanks. I know of what I think to be more notable politicians who do not have articles and am trying to decide if Pro-Life (politician) should go or the others should get articles. Table Manners C·U·T 03:44, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

Mining in Idaho help
Hi Robbiegiles -- I notice your helpful note at User talk:Avecchione. I visited that user talk page to inform Avecchione that i had tagged Mining in Idaho for apparent copyright violation, which would lead to its being deleted in one week. The issue is particularly about Assay Office info. Especially as Avecchione does not seem to be active currently, i wonder if you could look at the Mining in Idaho article and salvage non-copyright-vio material for a continuing article. By the way, i have been contributing to List of National Historic Landmarks in Idaho, including Assay Office (Boise, Idaho) which can carry some of the info that was in the Mining in Idaho article, but there is other info in Mining in Idaho, too. Sincerely, doncram (talk) 19:28, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

 * Hi, got ur note, glad to hear you can take an interest in this. FYI, I further copied some material to the section of History of Idaho that is about mining.  Perhaps you could review that.  Unfortunately that material had no specific references, although it is so specific about mining areas that it seems factual.  Perhaps after that move, and after recent development of the Assay Office (Boise, Idaho) article, it would be no great loss to lose the Mining in Idaho article,  perhaps by resetting it to be just a redirect to the mining section of the History of Idaho.  Cheers, doncram (talk) 23:10, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Benewah County, Idaho
Please consider adding your name as a photographer to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Benewah County, Idaho and any other Idaho counties that you may take photogaraphs in. GregManninLB (talk) 01:18, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I also saw your name at participants. At set out at WikiProject_Idaho, I revised the way WikiProject Idaho may monitor Idaho articles needing photos. Best. GregManninLB (talk) 03:51, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Image:Salmon-river-1.jpg
Are you allowing commercial use of this photo? If not, it will be deleted. Thank you. --NE2 10:38, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Done. --Robbie Giles (talk) 01:36, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your contributions to to WIKI. Since you seem knowledgeable how this deal works, may I ask a question. Quite often resonding on a talk page, I neglect to enter my name or handle. Is there a way to make my name,entry, or edit automatic.Tinosa (talk) 22:08, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

John Williams Gunnison
Sir/Madam: in my efforts to improve Wiki coverage of US Western explorers, I came across John Williams Gunnison. I removed inflamatory language and POV from the article, also noting that sources are needed. As you have been involved in the work on the Utah War and Mountain Meadows massacre, perhaps you or other associated editors have material which might improve this article. Thank you. Just me! (talk) 02:49, 25 August 2008 (UTC)

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Alphabetization and collation
I am inviting you to comment, in your capacity as a librarian, at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style. -- Wavelength (talk) 20:17, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

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Palouse prairie school going to work on Palouse related pages
Robbie, I want to get in touch with Wikipedians who might lend a hand ( in any of many possible ways ) as I work with 12 kids to explore and contribute to Wikipedia. Our project starts Nov 3 and runs to the winter break 6 sessions.

I am looking at 3 learning goals for the students - I can find things in Wikipedia - I can evaluate pages I find - I can make a contribution to a page

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Are there any records of the guards and their application data. My Great Grandfather, Charles Henry Brown worked as a prison guard in at least 1904. I have been able to find very little info about him other than he was born in 1848 in Indiana, his father was from England and his mother from Maine or Vermont. He is listed in the 1900 census in Chester (Fall River) Idaho on his farm with family. His wife was Emma Isabel Bird. He had three children and two step children. He, Emma and most of the family moved to Or5bindale, Alberta, Canada in 1906 to homestead and it was there he was kicked in the head by a horse and died. Buried in Mannville, Alberta Cemetery in May 1909. If there is any info about him in the archives, I would like to get copies if at all possible. There have been family rumors for a long time that he was a prison guard and I just found the following article from the Marysville, Republican dated May 17th, 2004: "Chas. Brown, who is guard at the State Penitentiary,has been home for about three weeks for a visit with his family. While there, he sold his Chester farm.  He returned to his duties at the penitentiary this morning."

I am from North Carolia and cannot, at present, get to Idaho to secure any information, but hope to do so in the future. Looking forward to your response.

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Fraternal Order of Eagles

Fraternal Order of Eagles (F.O.E.) is a fraternal organization that was founded on February 6, 1898, in Seattle, Washington, by a group of six theater owners including John Cort (the first president), brothers John W. and Tim J. Considine, Harry (H.L.) Leavitt (who later joined the Loyal Order of Moose), Mose Goldsmith and Arthur Williams. Originally made up of those engaged in one way or another in the performing arts, the Eagles grew and claimed credit for establishing the Mother's Day holiday in the United States as well as the "impetus for Social Security" in the United States. Their lodges are known as "aeries".

History

"The Fraternal Order of Eagles, an international non-profit organization, unites fraternally in the spirit of liberty, truth, justice, and equality, to make human life more desirable by lessening its ills, and by promoting peace, prosperity, gladness and hope."

The Fraternal Order of Eagles was founded on February 6, 1898. The organization was formed by six theater owners sitting on a pile of lumber in Moran's shipyard in Seattle, Washington. They were competitors who had come together to discuss a musicians' strike. After deciding how to handle the strike, they agreed to "bury the hatchet" and form an organization dubbed "The Order of Good Things".

Early meetings were held on local theater stages, and after taking care of business, attendees rolled out a keg of beer and enjoyed social time. As numbers grew, participants selected the bald eagle as the official emblem and changed the name to "The Fraternal Order of Eagles". In April 1898, the membership formed a Grand Aerie, secured a charter and developed a constitution and by-laws, with John Cort elected the Eagles' first president.

Touring theater troupes are credited with much of the Eagles' rapid growth. Most early members were actors, stagehands and playwrights, who carried the Eagles story as they toured across the United States and Canada. The organization's appeal is also attributed to its funeral benefits (no Eagle was ever been known to be buried in a potter's field), the provision of an aerie physician, and other membership benefits. The Eagles pushed for the founding of Mother's Day, provided the impetus for Social Security, and pushed to end job discrimination based on age. The Eagles have provided support for medical centers across the United States and Canada to build and provide research on medical conditions. Every year they raise millions of dollars to combat heart disease and cancer, help children with disabilities, and uplift the aged and infirm.

Some chapters of the Order once had a bad reputation for violating alcohol laws. This was stopped under President Frank E. Hering, who began revoking the charters of non-compliant Aeries. The organization's strongest areas were the Mississippi Valley and the Rocky Mountain region. Many of its leaders, such as Frank E. Hering, were high degree Freemasons.

History of the Aerie
An aerie in nature is the lofty nest of any bird of prey, including eagles and hawks. In the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the term Aerie is the name of the building in which the members meet and hold events.

History of the Auxiliary
A "new era for the women of Eagledom" began when an amendment to the Grand Aerie Laws to establish a Grand Auxiliary passed unanimously at the 1951 Grand Aerie Convention in Rochester, New York. Eagle Auxiliaries had existed before the Grand Auxiliary was formed, the first being founded on March 24, 1927, in Pittsburg, Kansas. Three days later, a second Auxiliary was established in Frontenac, Kansas. By March 1951, 965 local Auxiliaries were in existence, totaling 130,000 members. By the end of that year, 22 state and provincial Auxiliaries were also operating.

Timeline

 * 1898 – "Order of Good Things" established. Later that year, the organization changed its name to Fraternal Order of Eagles and formed the first Aerie.
 * 1904 – F.O.E. starts advocating for Mother's Day
 * 1927 – Creation and formation of the Ladies Auxiliary
 * 1935 – Support for enactment of Social Security Law
 * 1944 – Eagles Memorial Fund established
 * 1954 – Nearly 10,000 Ten Commandments plaques distributed
 * 1955 – F.O.E. Ten Commandments monument placed in Ambridge, PA. F.O.E. Ten Commandments monument placed on the grounds of a state capital, Denver, Colorado
 * 1957 – Nationwide "Jobs After 40" program inaugurated
 * 1967 – Jimmy Durante Children's Foundation established
 * 1972 – Golden Eagle Fund established
 * 1983 – Max Baer Heart Fund offered first grants for Aerie-sponsored CPR classes $405,000 donated to Eagles' Truman Cardiovascular Lab at Research Medical Center, Kansas City Golden Eagle Fund donated $5,000 in grants to institutions conducting Alzheimer's disease research
 * 1985 – Donations to St. Jude Hospital top $1 million
 * 1988 – Eagles matched grants up to $500 to sponsor Drug Education Seminars
 * 1991 – Eagles supported Operation Desert Storm with mail and food packages
 * 1995 – $50,000 donated for the Eagle Alcove of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial in Washington, D.C. (Roosevelt was a lifetime F.O.E. member)
 * 2001 – Memorial Foundation established Attack on America Fund and raised $500,000 F.O.E. purchased property to consolidate international headquarters
 * 2002 – International headquarters opened in Grove City, Ohio
 * 2005 – Eagles rededicated Ten Commandments monument at international headquarters F.O.E. generously supported development of a new scoliosis brace named the "Eagle Brace" F.O.E. signed first year contract with Braun Racing for FOE.com-sponsored car
 * 2006 – Eagles worked with local government leaders to keep "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. F.O.E. signed second year contract with Braun Racing
 * 2007 – Eagles supported American Eagle & Literary Challenge in quest to name June 20 National Eagle Day, The Disaster Relief Fund was passed which will allow the Eagles to have "trailers" stocked with supplies to be a first response team.
 * 2008 – $25 million gift commitment to fund The Fraternal Order of Eagles Diabetes Research Center at The University of Iowa.

Structure and Organization
Local units are called "Aeries". There were 1,400 Aeries scattered across the US and Canada in 2001. The national convention is known as the "Grand Aerie" and meets annually. "Grand Aerie" is also the name of the headquarters of the organization, currently at Grove City, Ohio.

Aeries are known by their instituting number and the name of the city in which they are located. The Aerie instituting number is appointed based on the order in which an Aerie is instituted; at current date the Grand Aerie is instituting Aeries in the 4500 range. Aerie #1, located in Seattle, Washington, is sometimes referred to as "The Mother Aerie".

The Grand Aerie Fraternal Order of Eagles International Convention is held each year in a different city in either the United States or Canada. During the International Convention, delegates from all Aeries and Auxiliaries vote on the new Grand Aerie and Grand Auxiliary representatives, new by-laws and other relevant issues.

Officers
Officers of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, on a local and international level, are elected each year by popular vote of their delegates. State and regional leaders are appointed each year by the Grand Worthy and Grand Madam Presidents.

The organization is led by the two highest elected positions, the Grand Worthy President and the Grand Madam President. The Grand Worthy and Grand Madam Presidents serve a one-year term touring the two countries meeting and celebrating milestone events with all Aerie and Auxiliary members.

The Grand Aerie Officers are the operating body of the Fraternal Order of Eagles between conventions and work with the Board of Grand Trustees and the Grand Auxiliary. The Board of Grand Trustees, with the exception of the chairman of the board, is also an elected body. The chairman of the board is the immediate past Grand Worthy President.

Membership
At one point the qualifications for membership were that one must be 21 years old, possess a good character, not be a Communist and be a Caucasian. By the late 1970s the all-white provision had officially been rescinded, but, because the Order used the blackball to admit new members, it was difficult for minorities to gain membership. In 1979 the FOE tried to get a lawsuit dismissed that alleged it was violating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by not allowing African Americans to use their athletic facilities. The article stated that a local Eagle official could only cite Joe Louis as a black member of the FOE.

In 1979 the Order had 800,000 members, a figure said to have been relatively constant over a decade. In 2011, it had 850,000 members in the main organization and 250,000 members of the women's auxiliary.

As of 2019, membership is open to any person of good moral character, and believes in the existence of a supreme being, and is not a member of the Communist Party nor any organization which advocates the overthrow of the United States government. Currently, either gender can become a member of an Aerie, however, only women can become a member of an Auxiliary. In recent history, numerous Aerie chapters have absorbed their Auxiliaries to form one unified chapter that allows all genders, to which the Grand Aerie and Grand Auxiliary responded with enacting a law that any Auxiliary members who wish to leave the women's only chapter and join the Aerie, must be a non-member of the entire organization for one full year, which has discouraged countless members from doing so.

The FOE no longer uses secret passwords or "roughhouse initiation" rites. But, in 1979, it still had a ritual. The prospective member was asked to promise before God and on his honor, not to disclose the rituals of the Order to anyone outside of the FOE. The initiation took place in a lodge room furnished with an altar and a Bible and included religious phrases and prayers.

The FOE had an insurance program in its early years, but discontinued this in 1927. Instead it offered sick and death benefits for members who would pay higher fees. Therefore, the FOE now has two membership categories, beneficial and non-beneficial.

Charitable giving
"People helping people" is a statement that guides the charitable actions of the Fraternal Order of Eagles and has led the Eagles to donate more than $100 million annually. As part of the charitable philosophy, the Eagles give back 100 percent of the contributions received in the form of grants. All administrative costs are paid by the International Organization through membership dues.

In 1941 the FOE donated funds for the construction of a dormitory at Boys Town, Nebraska. Father Flanagan, the founder of Boys Town, was member of the order. A few years later the Order sponsored the creation of Eagle Hall at the Range for Boys at Sentinel Butte, North Dakota. The High Girl Ranch, near Midland, Texas has also received a dormitory.

The Memorial Foundation was founded in 1946, and regularly supports medical research projects. In the 1970s the FOE joined environmentalists in efforts to save the bald eagle from extinction. They also lent their efforts to help the golden eagle as well. In 1959 the FOE began construction on a retirement home for elderly members in Bradenton, Florida. Today this home is part of Eagle Village, where there are other facilities available to the elderly.

Government Relations
Since the time of the New Deal the FOE has promoted social legislation, particularly old age and mothers pensions, Social Security and workmen's compensation. By 1980 it was advocating for seniors to work after age 65 and to return the Social Security system back to its original purpose.

Mother's Day

Frank E. Hering, a Past Grand Worthy President of the Fraternal Order of Eagles in South Bend, Indiana, campaigned for "a national day to honor our mothers", nearly 35 years after social activist Ann Jarvis first proposed a similar U.S. holiday. The idea of advocating for Mother's Day came to Hering when he was a faculty member at the University of Notre Dame. Walking into the classroom of a fellow instructor, Hering found his colleague distributing penny postcards to students. Each student addressed his or her card and scribbled a message on it. Hering was informed the students could write anything, as long as it was addressed to the students' mothers.

Hering leveraged his connection with the Fraternal Organization of Eagles to organize its members in promoting the holiday, and in 1914, legislation in the U.S. Congress requested a presidential proclamation to designate the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day. This date was encouraged by Anna Marie Jarvis, daughter of Ann Jarvis who continued her mother's work in crusading for a U.S. memorial day for mothers. President Woodrow Wilson signed the proclamation and May 10, 1914, became the first official Mother's Day.

In 1925, the "Society of War Mothers" invited Hering to participate in a special Mother's Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. There, at the "Tomb of the Unknown Soldier", before a large audience including many congressmen and senators, Hering was introduced as "the Father of Mother's Day". That was 11 years after President Woodrow Wilson by Proclamation officially made Mother's Day the second Sunday in May.

Today the Eagles' work to acknowledge mothers on Mother's Day is recognized by the Anna Jarvis Birthplace Museum – a museum honoring the daughter of Ann Jarvis. Grand Madam President Margaret Cox (2007–2008), was named "2008 Mother of the Year" by the Anna Jarvis Birthplace Museum in partnership with the International Mother's Day Shrine in Grafton, WV. Cox was honored at the 100th anniversary of the holiday during the Mother's Day Founder's Festival, May 10 and 11, 2008.

Ten Commandments
In the 1940s, E.J. Ruegemer, a Minnesota juvenile court judge and member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, launched a nationwide campaign to post copies of the Ten Commandments in juvenile courts across the country. His stated goal was to provide a moral foundation for troubled youth.

In 1956, director Cecil B. DeMille's epic film "The Ten Commandments" opened across the country. DeMille and Ruegemer drummed up publicity for the film by working together to erect granite monuments of the Ten Commandments across the nation.

Although there is no official record of how many monuments were erected, estimates range from less than 100 to more than 2,000. The Fraternal Order of Eagles kept the project going long after the film opened, and some monuments didn't get erected until up to 10 years later. Many monuments went up in public places like parks, city halls, and courthouses. On August 30, 1961, the Fraternal Order of Eagles of Texas presented the State of Texas with a 6-foot-high monolith inscribed with the Ten Commandments, which in 2006 became the subject of a divisive and controversial legal dispute (Van Orden v. Perry) that reached the U.S. Supreme Court. The case was ruled 5–4 in favor of the defendant, the State of Texas, and the monument was allowed to remain on the grounds of the State Capitol.

Notable Eagles buildings

 * Eagles Auditorium Building, Seattle, Washington
 * Eagles Building (Dayton, Ohio)
 * Eagles Building (Lorain, Ohio)
 * Eagles Building-Strand Theater, Alliance, Ohio
 * Eagles Club, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
 * Eagles Hall (San Diego, California)
 * Eagles Home, Evansville, Indiana
 * Eagles Temple (Akron, Ohio)
 * Eagles Temple (Canton, Ohio)
 * Fraternal Order of Eagles Building, Richmond, Virginia

United States Presidents
Seven United States Presidents have held membership in the Fraternal Order of Eagles:
 * Theodore Roosevelt – Cheyenne, Wyoming, 26th President
 * Warren G. Harding – Marion, Ohio, 29th President
 * Franklin D. Roosevelt – Buffalo, New York, 32nd President
 * Harry S. Truman – Independence, Missouri, 33rd president
 * John F. Kennedy – Hyde Park, Massachusetts, 35th President
 * James Earl "Jimmy" Carter – Atlanta, Georgia, 39th President,
 * Ronald Reagan – Santa Barbara, California, 40th President,

Politicians

 * Jack Christian, Louisiana politician
 * William Allen Egan, Governor, Alaska
 * J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director
 * Joe Manchin, West Virginia US Senator
 * John J. McClure, Pennsylvania State Senator
 * Walter Mondale, vice president
 * Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States
 * Ron Estes, Kansas Congressman

Religion

 * Father Edward J. Flanagan, founder of Boys Town

Entertainers

 * Carol Burnett, comedian and actor
 * Alice Cooper, musical performer and entertainer
 * Billy Ray Cyrus, musical performer and entertainer
 * Bob Hope, comedian and actor
 * Jimmy Durante, musical performer and entertainer
 * Tony Orlando, musical performer and entertainer
 * Charlie Daniels, musical performer and entertainer
 * Lee Greenwood, musical performer and entertainer
 * Louise Mandrell, musical performer and entertainer
 * Wayne Newton, musical performer and entertainer
 * Bret Michaels, musical performer

Athletes

 * Max Baer, boxer/heavyweight champion
 * Jim Crowley, College Football Hall of Fame member, one of the Four Horsemen
 * Joe Foss, WWII "ace" pilot, first commissioner of the AFL
 * Bob Griese, Super Bowl winning quarterback
 * Sam Hornish Jr., IRL and NASCAR driver
 * Jim Houston, College Football Hall of Fame member
 * Gordie Howe, Hockey Hall of Fame member
 * Johnny Longden, jockey, Honorary Lifetime Member
 * Joe Kahut, Boxer
 * Joe Louis, boxer (claimed)
 * Roger Maris, baseball player
 * Earl Morrall, NFL Most Valuable Player 1968
 * Stan Musial, Baseball Hall of Fame member
 * Joe Nuxhall, pitcher and broadcaster
 * Arnold Palmer, golfer
 * Art Rooney, founder of the Pittsburgh Steelers
 * Red Schoendienst, Baseball Hall of Fame member
 * Warren Spahn, Baseball Hall of Fame member
 * Tony Stewart, NASCAR driver
 * Jerry Quarry, boxer
 * Wilma Rudolph, American sprinter, Olympian
 * Justin Haley, NASCAR driver
 * Tony Galento, boxer

Others

 * Jimmy Hoffa, American labor union leader

Notable Auxiliary Members

 * Virginia Graham, radio and TV personality
 * Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of former U.S. President
 * Bess Truman, wife of former U.S. President

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Alice (1988 film)

Alice is a 1988 surrealist dark fantasy film written and directed by Jan Švankmajer. Its original Czech title is Něco z Alenky, which means "Something from Alice". It is a loose adaptation of Lewis Carroll's first Alice book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), about a girl who chases a white rabbit into a bizarre fantasy land. Alice is played by Kristýna Kohoutová. The film combines live-action with stop-motion animation, and is distinguished by its dark production design.

For Švankmajer, a prolific director of short films for more than two decades, Alice became his first venture into feature-length filmmaking. The director had been disappointed by other adaptations of Carroll's book, which interpret it as a fairy tale. His aim was instead to make the story play out like an amoral dream. The film won the feature film award at the 1989 Annecy International Animated Film Festival.

Plot
Alice is sitting by a brook with her sister, throwing rocks in the water. Later, she is in her sitting room, throwing rocks in a cup of tea. A creaking noise draws her attention to a taxidermic White Rabbit in a glass case. Alice hides beneath a writing desk while the Rabbit comes alive, dressing himself and retrieving a pair of scissors from a hidden drawer, which he uses to smash the case, freeing himself.

Alice chases the Rabbit into a writing desk on top of a hill; crawling into the drawer after him, she soon finds herself in a cellar and while she was looking for the Rabbit she steps on a garden rake and the pole hit her on the head and she falls backwards into a dustbin and falls through a hole and finds herself in an elevator that takes her past allsorts of objects on shelves. The elevator stops and deposits her atop a pile of leaves. The leaves begin to stir on their own, revealing another desk in which Alice finds a tiny key. Alice uses the key to open a miniature door, through which she sees the Rabbit disappear into a painted garden; she herself is too large to fit through the door. She finds an unlabeled bottle of a dark, inky liquid. Drinking it transforms her into a small china doll in her likeness. She then finds a butter tart that causes her to grow large, again rendering her unable to fit through the door. Frustrated, Alice cries until the room floods with tears. The White Rabbit rows by, dropping a tray of tarts. Eating one returns Alice to her doll size and she is able to retrieve the key and chase the Rabbit.

Once through the door, Alice finds herself at the banks of a brook and encounters the White Rabbit, who mistakes her for his maid and commands her to fetch scissors from his house. Inside, she drinks from another ink bottle and returns to her true size, trapping her inside the now too-small house. The Rabbit and his animal companions try to force her out by launching a skull-headed lizard through the window. Alice kicks him away, causing him to burst and spill his sawdust innards. The angry animals imprison Alice inside an Alice-shaped doll shell, which they lock inside a storage room filled with specimen jars.

Alice breaks free of the doll shell and discovers a key inside a sardine can. She uses the key to escape the storage room, stepping into a hall of doors. Behind one of them, she meets a stocking-Caterpillar in a room swarming with sock-worms that bore holes in the floor. The Caterpillar tells her that eating one piece of his darning mushroom causes things to grow, while the other piece causes things to shrink. Alice follows the sound of a crying baby to a tiny dollhouse, which she enlarges by eating a piece of the mushroom. She discovers the Rabbit inside tending a piglet in baby's clothes. The Rabbit escapes while Alice chases the piglet downstairs, where a mechanical tea party is being hosted by a wind-up March Hare and a marionette Hatter. The Rabbit flees to the attic and Alice follows.

Behind a curtain of clothes, Alice reaches the painted garden. The King and Queen of Hearts march into the garden with a troop of playing cards. The Queen commands the White Rabbit to behead two fencing Jacks, among others; he does so with his scissors. The Queen invites Alice to play croquet, but Alice storms off when the mallets and balls turn into chickens and hedgehogs. In a courtroom, she is put on trial for eating the Queen's tarts. Alice tries to explain herself but the King commands her to follow a script. Annoyed, Alice starts eating the tarts and the Queen demands Alice's head. Alice asks "Which one?", and her head morphs into the heads of the other characters. The Queen demands all her heads be severed, and the Rabbit advances with his scissors.

Alice wakes in her sitting room. Around the room are the various household objects that populated her dream: playing cards, china dolls, marionettes, an inkwell, and socks in a sewing basket. The case that formerly contained the taxidermic rabbit is still broken and empty. Opening the hidden drawer in the case, she finds the White Rabbit's scissors. Examining the scissors, Alice says to herself, "He's late, as usual. I think I'll cut his head off."

Cast
In Alice's English version:
 * Kristýna Kohoutová as Alice. In addition to being a character within the film itself, Alice also serves as the narrator throughout its entirety, and all the other characters are voiced by her. After every line of dialogue, a close-up of Alice's mouth is shown saying "said (insert character's name here)". For example, the Queen of Hearts would say "now off with their heads" in Alice's voice, and Alice's mouth is shown saying "said the Queen of Hearts".
 * Camilla Power as Alice's voice

Production
Jan Švankmajer, who had been making short films since the mid-1960s, says he got the confidence to make a feature-length film after finishing the shorts Jabberwocky and Down to the Cellar. He described Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, a work which had followed him since he was a child, as "one of the most important and amazing books produced by this civilisation." He argued that other film adaptations of the story had interpreted it as a fairy tale, but that Carroll had written it like a dream, and that was what he wanted to transmit: "While a fairy tale has got an educational aspect – it works with the moral of the lifted forefinger (good overcomes evil), dream, as an expression of our unconscious, uncompromisingly pursues the realisation of our most secret wishes without considering rational and moral inhibitions, because it is driven by the principle of pleasure. My Alice is a realised dream." Despite the film's heavy usage of stop motion, and unlike most other traditional stop motion films, the film does not utilize any miniature sets to portray its special effects.

Release
The film premiered in the Czechoslovakia, where it was released on 3 August 1988. It played at the 1989 Annecy International Animated Film Festival where it received the prize for best feature film. In United States it premiered on 1 December 1990. The English dubbed version features the voice of Camilla Power.

Critical response
In The New York Times, Caryn James wrote that although Švankmajer "strips away all sweetness and light, he does not violate Lewis Carroll's story", and called Alice an "extraordinary film [which] explores the story's dark undercurrents". James described the animation as "remarkably fluid" and held forward the dynamics of the film, which contrasts visually captivating elements with superficiality: "Mr. Švankmajer never lets us forget we are watching a film in which an actress plays Alice telling a story", although, "with its extreme close-ups, its constant motion and its smooth animation, the film is so visually active that it distracts us from a heavy-handed fact – this is a world of symbols come alive." Upon the British home-media release in 2011, Philip Horne reviewed the film for The Daily Telegraph. Horne called it "an astonishing film", and wrote: "This is no cleaned up version approved by preview audiences or committees of studio executives – my youthful fellow-spectator declared quite aptly at one point, 'She's rather a violent young girl, isn't she?' – but its glorious proliferation of magical transformations works like a charm on anyone who values the imagination." The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes has Alice with a "Fresh" rating of based on  reviews.

Home media
The film with original Czech audio and English subtitles was unavailable on home video until 2011 when the British Film Institute released the film on DVD and Blu-ray.

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Lügde

Lügde is a town in the Lippe district of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, with c. 9,800 inhabitants (2013).

The first written mention of Lügde appears in 784, in the annals of the Frankish Empire, when Charlemagne visited the village during the Saxon Wars. During these wars Charlemagne celebrated his first Christmas in Saxony in Lügde, and the site then became the location of the first church to be built in Saxony. The gothic church, dedicated to Saint Kilian, was rebuilt in the 12th century and still stands today. The church is known as the Kilians-Kirche.

In 2019 Lügde made national news as the site of a series of child rapes on a campground; investigators estimate 1,000 child rapes were committed over the course of 10 years.

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Adriana Calcanhotto

Adriana Calcanhotto (born October 3, 1965) is a Brazilian singer-songwriter. Her melancholic songs are often categorized in the MPB genre. She began her professional career in 1984 and released her first studio album in 1990.

Career
Born from musician Carlos Calcanhotto (originally Calcagnotto) of Italian origin from Volpago del Montello, Veneto, and from a Brazilian dancer. Adriana's first album, called Enguiço, was released in 1990 and consisted mostly of covers of well known MPB (Brazilian pop) songs, part of the repertoire she used to perform as a singer in restaurants and bars in Porto Alegre. It included only one original composition, the title track. It spawned her first hit, a cover of Caetano Veloso's Naquela Estação, which became successful thanks to it being included in the soundtrack of the successful 1990 telenovela Rainha da Sucata.

1992 saw the release of Senhas, which included the hits "Mentiras" and "Esquadros" and was followed by a successful national tour. In 1994, Adriana, sporting a new look (short black hair as opposed to the slightly longer bright blond haircut she'd had since the beginning of her career) released A Fábrica do Poema, considered by many to be her most poetic album. She collaborated with lyricists like Waly Salomão and António Cícero (brother and constant musical partner of fellow singer Marina Lima) and included the hits "Metade" and "Inverno". This was followed by Maritmo (a combination of the words marítimo (maritime) and ritmo (rhythm)), a concept album intended as the first part of a trilogy having water as a main theme.

At the turn of the millennium, Adriana experienced the peak of her career with the release of the album Público in 2000. Her first live album/DVD, Público was recorded in a voz-e-violão (voice and guitar) style, meaning there was no band, only the singer playing her acoustic guitar, an instrument which has followed her through her entire career. The album included a cover of the staple torch song Devolva-me, made famous by the duo Leno & Lilian back in the 1960s. This album was followed by her first greatest hits compilation, Perfil (the success of this album prompted her record company to make it a series, releasing compilations of the same title by such artists as Cássia Eller, Zélia Duncan and Djavan). Another album of new material wouldn't be released until 2002, when the singer released "Cantada". In the meantime, Adriana toured Europe and Japan (as she has done many times since).

After the release of that album, Adriana took on the persona of Adriana Partimpim, an alias the singer claims to have used as a child. Adriana Partimpim released her self-titled "debut" in 2004, an album of covers featuring essentially traditional children's songs, but which also included familiar pop songs made to resemble children's songs. Examples of such songs are the covers of Paula Toller's Oito Anos (a song Toller wrote for her own son, Gabriel) and Claudinho & Buchecha's Fico Assim Sem Você, which became a hit on adult radios. A live CD/DVD combo of the show was also released the following year.

Her most recent album, Maré, was released in early 2008 and features a guest appearance by the singer's personal friend, Marisa Monte as well as a cover of Marina Lima's song Três. She toured Brazil to promote the record, as well as once again touring Europe, Japan and the United States. Adriana has chronicled her adventures on tour in the book Saga Lusa (Portuguese Saga), in which she shares her memoirs of the Portuguese leg of her most recent tour. The book was released on October 28 in Rio de Janeiro.

On October 23, 2009, Adriana performed in front of an adoring crowd at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Quebec, Canada in a free performance presented by the Embassy of Brazil.

Since 2015, Calcanhotto had joined Universidade de Coimbra as a university ambassador, acting as visiting lecturer on song composition courses and as an artist-in-residence.

Personal life
From 2021 to 2022, she dated actress Maitê Proença.

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Spinthariscope

A spinthariscope  is a device for observing individual nuclear disintegrations caused by the interaction of ionizing radiation with a phosphor (see radioluminescence) or scintillator.

Invention
The spinthariscope was invented by William Crookes in 1903. While observing the apparently uniform fluorescence on a zinc sulfide screen created by the radioactive emissions (mostly alpha radiation) of a sample of radium bromide, he spilled some of the sample, and, owing to its extreme rarity and cost, he was eager to find and recover it. Upon inspecting the zinc sulfide screen under a microscope, he noticed separate flashes of light created by individual alpha particle collisions with the screen. Crookes took his discovery a step further and invented a device specifically intended to view these scintillations. It consisted of a small screen coated with zinc sulfide affixed to the end of a tube, with a tiny amount of radium salt suspended a short distance from the screen and a lens on the other end of the tube for viewing the screen. Crookes named his device from σπινθήρ "spark".

Crookes debuted the spinthariscope at a meeting of the Royal Society, London on 15 May 1903.

Toy spinthariscopes
Spinthariscopes were quickly replaced with more accurate and quantitative devices for measuring radiation in scientific experiments, but enjoyed a modest revival in the mid 20th century as children's educational toys. In 1947, Kix cereal offered a Lone Ranger atomic bomb ring that contained a small one, in exchange for a box top and US$0.15. Spinthariscopes can still be bought today as instructional novelties, but they now use americium or thorium. Looking into a properly focused toy spinthariscope, one can see many flashes of light spread randomly across the screen. Almost all are circular, with a very bright pinpoint centre surrounded by a dimmer circle of emission.

In museums
The American History Museum of the Smithsonian has several spinthariscopes in its collections, and an article discussing them. However, none are currently on display.

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Operation Lifesaver

Operation Lifesaver is the largest rail safety education organization in the United States. It was founded by the Union Pacific Railroad in the early 1970s.

History
In 1972, the Idaho State Highway Patrol, then-Governor Cecil Andrus and the Union Pacific Railroad mounted campaign to promote "Stop, Look and Listen" safety at highway-rail grade crossings. The initial teams spoke to civic groups, school groups, school bus and truck drivers. Idaho experienced a 43% reduction in fatalities that first year.

In 2022, Operation Lifesaver celebrated 50 years of rail safety education.

Operation Lifesaver has trained instructors and authorized volunteer speakers who provide free rail safety education programs across the U.S. and abroad. They give free presentations to school groups, driver education classes, community members, professional drivers, law enforcement officers, and emergency responders. Their programs are co-sponsored by federal, state and local government agencies, highway safety organizations and America's railroad systems.

Campaigns
In 2006, Operation Lifesaver requested that Disney edit a scene of the Pixar film Cars in which the character of Lightning McQueen races a train to a grade crossing while the crossing lights are flashing. Disney/Pixar removed the scene in question from theater showings, but the DVD release of the movie still included the scene. Disney/Pixar created a series of PSAs featuring Lightning McQueen to promote safe driving habits.

On October 14, 2016, Operation Lifesaver requested via a Facebook post that Hollister Co. remove advertisements from their website showing teenagers walking on railroad tracks. Hollister removed the advertisements five days later on October 19.

In September 2017, Operation Lifesaver spearheaded the observance of Rail Safety Week across the U.S. to raise awareness of the need for caution near railroad tracks and property.

In 2018, Operation Lifesaver Canada, which had been holding rail safety week observances for years, aligned its Rail Safety Week dates to coincide with the U.S. observance.

In 2024, Operation Lifesaver, Inc. renamed its observance of Rail Safety Week to See Tracks? Think Train® Week (ST3Week for short) throughout the U.S. to better represent what the week-long observance is all about:

- Preventing railroad crossing and trespass incidents - Concentrating public attention on the need for rail safety education

Criticism
Operation Lifesaver has been criticized for its strong ties to the railroad industry and the group's skew toward the railroad industry. The industry has reduced its support of the group’s efforts by providing fewer workers to help spread the group’s safety message. The group has also been criticized for not doing enough to support pedestrian railroad safety in the United States.

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Video Ezy

Video Ezy was an Australian home video rental business that offered titles on VHS, DVD, Blu-ray and Ultra HD Blu-ray, as well as console video games, for rent. At its peak in the mid-2000s, Video Ezy had over 500 company-owned and franchised video rental shops in the country, and owned 40% of the Australian video rental market after taking over Blockbuster's Australian operations. The company also expanded internationally into New Zealand and Asia.

In the late 2000s and 2010s the company saw significant store closures, and by 2020 the brand consisted solely of automated rental kiosks operating within Australia. In March 2021 Evolve Entertainment, the company managing Video Ezy's rental kiosks, entered liquidation.

As with most video rental chains, the once dominant business's fall is largely attributed to the rise of online streaming services.

History
Video Ezy commenced trading in 1983, when Kevin Slater opened his first store in the Sydney suburb of Hurstville, renting out a small selection of VHS and Betamax format movies. In September 1984, Peter McLaughlin and Bill Coe opened the first franchised store at Miranda. Other stores to open in quick succession were in the Sydney suburbs of Bankstown, Liverpool and Chatswood. In the majority of these stores, Slater funded 50% of the capital required to open. By 1986, Video Ezy comprised 18 stores, and by August 1987, there were 34 stores located across New South Wales and Queensland. Expansion followed throughout other Australian states. By 1990, the brand had grown to 102 stores, and over 300 by 1996. In that same year the Malaysian Berjaya Group made a major investment in the company, obtaining a 60 percent stake in the business, with Video Ezy Chairman Robert Maidment owning the other 40 percent of the company. During that time Video Ezy was made a subsidiary of CarLovers, an Australian car wash business also owned by Berjaya. Berjaya Group eventually divested its stake in the company in 2002 for AUD$12.5 million, selling it to Australian private equity firm CHAMP Ventures.

In May 2000, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) charged Video Ezy with unlawfully increasing the rental price of new release movies in its corporate-owned stores in anticipation of the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax later that year. It was the first case of GST price exploitation to be investigated by the commission, and the company faced possible fines of up to AUD$10 million if found guilty. Video Ezy Chairman Robert Maidment refuted the allegations and vowed to fight the charges. The case was ultimately dropped in April 2001 after the company admitted to misleading customers, made an apology, and paid part of the ACCC's legal costs.

In 2003, Video Ezy sold almost all its corporate-owned stores in Australia, leaving only 2 stores, Narellan and Rosehill, some 10 minutes away from its new head office at Rhodes (although in 2006 it would acquire additional corporate-owned stores). The company also commenced selling and renting Ezy Exclusive-branded TV series and movies on DVD such as Dinotopia, Kingpin, Will & Grace, Taken, The Believer and other exclusive titles from Hallmark Entertainment and NBC. These titles were usually branded with Video Ezy's logo and carried slightly different artwork to DVDs sold outside the Region 4 market. Ezy Exclusives were phased out in 2006. In 2004 Video Ezy introduced a subscription scheme called DVD Unlimited; for a monthly fee, Video Ezy customers could take home up to four movies at any one time and pay no late fees. The scheme was inspired by Netflix's online DVD subscription service in the United States. The scheme was unrelated to the New Zealand venture of the same name.

In August 2005, business partners Paul Uniacke and Edward Nedelko, who between them owned 24 Video Ezy franchises in Victoria, purchased the shares held in Video Ezy Australasia by CHAMP Ventures, Perpetual Trustees and Ivany Investments to become majority shareholders in the company and replaced Robert Maidment as chairman. At that stage Video Ezy-branded outlets numbered 560 in Australia. The company established a training facility in 2006 to develop staff expertise. They had previously worked with a company called Rascals which promoted the use of Australian Workplace Agreements.

In March 2006, Paul Uniacke announced that the company had been working with digital media consultancy The Content Factory to develop a video on demand service with a planned launch the following year. The service would have used set-top boxes for delivering content and was also planned to eventually launch in Video Ezy's international markets. Video Ezy and The Content Factory also trialled a service where customers could download movies at a store to a portable storage device, which could then be watched at home via a digital media player designed by Australian tech company Mobilesoft. Although both services did not move beyond limited market testing in Australia, the New Zealand franchisor of the company would launch a short-lived streaming service named Video Ezy on Demand in 2014.

In February 2007, Blockbuster, seeking to rationalise its international operations and concentrate on its home United States market, sold its entire Australian store network to Video Ezy Australasia. At the time, Blockbuster Australia comprised 370 outlets nationwide: 29 owned by the company and 341 owned by franchisees. Video Ezy had 518 Australian outlets, all of them being owned by franchisees, pushing the combined group's market share to 40% of the country's video rental sector. Video Ezy committed to the master franchise agreement with Blockbuster for 10 years operating the brand with the possibility of renewal for a further 10 years after that. As a consequence of the deal, the company changed its name from Video Ezy Australasia Pty Ltd to Franchise Entertainment Group.

In January 2009, Franchise Entertainment Group bought failed video retail chain EzyDVD from receivers Ferrier Hodgson for an estimated $10 million. The transaction included the EzyDVD brand and online business, and its 25-store franchise network in addition to stock, plant, equipment and the remaining 11 company-owned stores. FEG CEO Paul Uniacke said to the media after the deal, "We don't have video rental stores in high-traffic areas such as the major malls because you can't rent a DVD and the next day just easily park your car and return to it. The EzyDVD stores are in all the major mall chains and this cements us well and truly in this market." Soon after, EzyDVD's head office, warehouse and distribution facility in Torrensville closed. In October 2010, Uniacke and Nedelko arranged for the transfer of the Video Ezy Australia, Blockbuster Australia and EzyDVD online businesses from FEG to their other company Elan Media Partners, leaving FEG to manage the franchise relationships with individual Video Ezy and Blockbuster outlets and the remaining EzyDVD-branded stores. By October 2013, only three EzyDVD stores remained in Launceston, Browns Plains and Elizabeth. EzyDVD was later acquired by The Kingston Group in 2017; only its website and online store have remained operating as of 2021.

In May 2011, a new loyalty card branded as Flash Rewards was introduced by Video Ezy (superseding DVD Unlimited), offering customers who sign-up and pay a fee, discounts and extended services in all participating Video Ezy stores. This allowed customers to upgrade their basic rental membership, with Paul Uniacke adding, "when someone joins Flash Rewards, they can then rent from any participating Video Ezy store and access their Flash benefits without the need to sign up with each store every time." In addition, Flash Rewards offered discounts from partner companies such as Donut King, Eagle Boys, AMF Bowling, Anytime Fitness, ACP Magazines, and 25% off cinema ticket prices at Village Cinemas, Event Cinemas/Greater Union/Birch Carroll & Coyle, Hoyts, Reading Cinemas, Wallis Cinemas, Dendy, and Palace Cinemas. However, the deals involving outside partner companies ended in early 2013.

In June 2011, a select group of Video Ezy and Blockbuster franchises incorporated Metcash's Lucky 7 convenience stores, stocking more than 500 different products including newspapers, bread, milk and various snacks. In October 2011, it was announced that Daryl McCormack, a former chief executive officer of Video Ezy and their largest franchisee, would partner his 15 stores with Franchised Food Company's Cold Rock Ice Creamery to open smaller, Express outlets within stores becoming dual franchises. The first Video Ezy and Cold Rock Express outlet opened in Kew, Melbourne.

In November 2011, Video Ezy found itself embroiled in a social media backlash when it refused to end its long-term sponsorship with Southern Cross Austereo's networked radio program Take40 Australia after its co-host, Kyle Sandilands made sexist comments about a News Limited journalist on his 2Day FM breakfast program, The Kyle & Jackie O Show. Even though the comments were made on another program with Video Ezy having the added complication of being a naming rights sponsor of Take40 Australia, complaints piled up on its Facebook page to such an extent that after a month the brand was forced to pull advertising from the show temporarily during the summer. Sandilands was removed as co-host of Take40 Australia during this period, and Video Ezy continued to sponsor the program.

International expansion
Video Ezy opened its first international location in Auckland, New Zealand in 1988, with master licensor Video Ezy International Ltd established in 1991 to expand the brand worldwide. In January 1997, partnering with Berjaya Group, Video Ezy expanded into the Asian market with its first outlet in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In May 1998, Video Ezy Chairman Robert Maidment told the Australian Financial Review that the company was "looking to make Video Ezy an international brand name", and had held discussions with potential partners in Singapore, Indonesia, Taiwan, Brazil, Mexico and the United Kingdom, with plans to also expand into Brunei and the Philippines. In March 1999 the company opened its first outlet in Bangkok, Thailand. The company aimed to open 100 stores in the country by the end of the year 2000, and 150 in Malaysia by 2003.

The first Indonesian Video Ezy outlet opened in March 2001. That same year the first Video Ezy outlet opened in Singapore within the Jelita Shopping Centre at Bukit Timah. The Singapore network consisted of a mixture of corporate-owned and franchised stores located in either outdoor shopping strips like Holland Village, residential towers such as International Plaza, or large shopping centres such as VivoCity. Unlike Australia, Video Ezy Singapore could operate in most shopping centres due to 7-day-week late night shopping hours and its population less reliant on private automobiles needing to park outside stores. In June 2005, Video Ezy opened its first outlet in the United Arab Emirates at the Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai. The company planned to open 17 more stores throughout Dubai in the following 10 years. By August 2005, Video Ezy had 156 stores in New Zealand, 128 in Thailand, 135 in Indonesia, 19 in Singapore, nine in Malaysia, one in the United Arab Emirates and one in Fiji.

In its Asian franchises, Video Ezy also offered Video CD and LaserDisc movie rentals to its customers due to the increased popularity of the formats there. However one of Video Ezy's biggest challenges in doing business in Asia was the rampant video piracy in the region. This had particularly affected Video Ezy's plans for expansion in Malaysia. In Indonesia, where consumers could buy pirated movies on Video CD for as low as USD50¢, Video Ezy tried to mitigate this by lowering their rental prices to match, with some success. Video piracy also negatively effected the business in Fiji, forcing the owner of the Fijian Video Ezy franchise to close his five remaining stores in 2012 after incurring losses of USD$170,000.

In the four years to 2011, Video Ezy Indonesia closed 51 of their stores, blaming the closures on the continuing wide availability of pirated movies on DVD and Video CD as well as the rise in popularity of Pay TV channels and internet downloads, leaving 105 outlets left in the country. In the two years to January 2013, the Indonesian franchise had shut down a further 60 of their outlets. By mid-2014 Video Ezy had 90 stores left in New Zealand. In 2015, Video Ezy International (NZ), the New Zealand franchisor entered liquidation, forcing the Australian parent company to take over. The company eventually pulled out of New Zealand in 2018, with only 6 stores still operating at the time of closure. The company sold off its three remaining Singaporean outlets to local video rental chain Movie Magic in 2015.

Rental kiosks
In December 2011, Franchise Entertainment Group switched on its first Video Ezy Express DVD and Blu-ray rental kiosk after announcing their roll-out in May that year. FEG bought one thousand DVD kiosks through US company, NCR Corporation for AUD$20 million with Uniacke adding, "we're looking to get to 3,000 within three years. I'm looking to own the market within a two-year period." FEG established Evolve Entertainment to manage the rental kiosk side of the business. Video Ezy Express kiosks could be leased from Evolve by local Video Ezy and Blockbuster franchisees and located in high foot-traffic areas such as shopping centres and supermarkets. For consumers, prices to rent are much lower, and no membership cards are required with the initial rental fee and extended fees being charged direct to the consumer's credit card.

Video Ezy Express initially competed in Australia and New Zealand with the 300 plus strong Hoyts Kiosk network. They also competed with approximately 100 RedRoom kiosks for the first month until Evolve acquired the entire seven-year-old business, taking out a significant competitor while adding capacity. In November 2017, Evolve acquired Hoyts Kiosk with all machines replaced with Express-branded kiosks. A small number of Blockbuster-branded rental kiosks also continued to operate.

Video Ezy's kiosks initially operated under a hub and spoke distribution model, with a franchisee operating a store supported by several kiosks in surrounding areas. While the kiosk would feature new release movies, consumers looking for older titles would come into the store which had a much larger video library. As stores began to close, franchisees moved on to operate only kiosks.

At a March 2021 general meeting of the company, it was decided that Evolve Entertainment would be wound up and liquidators appointed.

Marketing
In 1993, the "Get it first time, or get it free" guarantee was launched. Video Ezy re-launched their guarantee under the "Movie Guarantee" umbrella in April 2007. This included a Rental Guarantee, a Price Guarantee and an Ex-Rental Guarantee.

Video Ezy promoted rent-only releases with the "Rent It – The Only Way To Get It" campaign. Another advertising campaign used by Video Ezy was "Upsize Your Entertainment": when a consumer rents a specific title they have the opportunity to "upsize" by buying a specified similar title for only $4.95. For example, in April 2007, Video Ezy had Charlotte's Web as the rental title and Paulie as the upsize title.

Slogans used by the company throughout the years include:
 * "In the Mood" (1990s)
 * "Relax" (1998–2000)
 * "Ezy does it" (October 2003)
 * "There is More to See (2000–2003)
 * "The choice is Ezy" (1990s)
 * "Get it first time, or get it free"
 * "We have so many copies of our Rental Guarantee title, we guarantee you'll rent it now, or rent it free"
 * "Love Movies" (2009)
 * "More to Love"
 * "Rent it. Buy it." (Singapore)

Due to the franchise nature of Video Ezy stores, each store also ran their own promotions and set their own pricing.

Video Ezy were major sponsors of the Canberra Raiders between 1990 and 1992.

Competitors and downfall
In its home market of Australia, Video Ezy competed with other rental chains such as Blockbuster (before its Australian operations were sold to the company), Civic Video, Network Video, Video City, Movies 4U (also known as Top Video or Leading Edge Video) and many independently branded stores throughout the country. Video Ezy dominated the New South Wales market; however, in other Australian states like Queensland, it had a similar number of stores to its rival Civic Video, and in Tasmania, its chain of Video City outlets were more numerous and larger in floor space. In the area of video and gaming retail, Video Ezy competed primarily against retailers such as Kmart, Target, Myer, Big W, Sanity, JB Hi-Fi, EB Games and EzyDVD (before their acquisition by FEG), and online retailer Amazon. From 2003, local DVD rental-by-mail business Quickflix also emerged as a competitor.

However, the proliferation of high speed internet in the late 2000s and 2010s that saw consumers gravitate towards more convenient online entertainment in the form of legal services such as iTunes, or illegal BitTorrent movie downloads ultimately became the greatest challenge to Video Ezy's established business model. The introduction and increasing take up of legal streaming services such as Netflix and Stan also became serious threats to the business, and is commonly thought to be largely responsible for the downfall of Video Ezy and the Australian video rental industry as a whole. In November 2013, SmartCompany compared Australian Bureau of Statistics figures from financial year 1999–2000, which stated there were 1166 individual video hire businesses operating within Australia, to a 2013 IBISWorld study finding that just 255 DVD rental businesses were still operating in the country (a drop of almost 80%). The same study also found that the overall industry had declined at an annual rate of 14.8% over the five years to 2013. In addition to the previously noted online competition and threats to video rental businesses, SmartCompany also blamed recent developments from Pay TV and free-to-air television, which at the time had both radically increased their channel selections, as well as the reduced cost of DVD and Blu-ray discs, which saw the average 2013 price of a DVD settle at $16 in Australia, compared to $20 in the early-2000s, which acted as a double-edged sword for the industry, boosting the numbers of DVD sales, but also turning renters into buyers. Increasingly higher rent and wages also impacted the viability of video rental businesses to continue operating, as did continuing franchise fees. The Global Financial Crisis also had an impact on consumer spending.

These impacts on the video rental industry were reflected in Video Ezy and Blockbuster franchises closing 270 stores across Australia in the four years to August 2011. By February 2016 only seven stores were left operating in South Australia, while over 50 Western Australian Video Ezy stores were reduced to a single surviving franchise by December 2018. This also lead to Australian regional centres such as Lithgow and Berri losing their only full scale video libraries when their Video Ezy and Blockbuster franchises shut down. In the face of decreased business some franchisees tried diversifying their stores, such as selling film and pop culture collectables in addition to video rental or subletting floorspace in their stores to other small businesses. Other stores, unable to continue as Video Ezy franchises, rebranded to rival video rental affiliations such as Network Video or went independent. 2018 and 2019 saw the last few remaining Video Ezy stores close down. The last Australian Blockbuster store, in Morley, Western Australia, would close in March 2019. This left Video Ezy Express and Blockbuster rental kiosks as the only side of the business to remain operating.

In March 2013, Franchise Entertainment Group's CEO, Paul Uniacke told Sunshine Coast Daily in response to a local Maroochydore outlet closing that, "I'm not happy that Maroochydore has gone. It's not something we like to see, absolutely there is a human cost to what's happening here." He went on to add, "the worst thing that happens in a rationalisation is losing stores and losing good people. We've been up on the Coast with Blockbuster for a number of years and with Video Ezy for about 20 years." Uniacke stated that he believed Video Ezy Express rental kiosks would ultimately fill the void left by closed stores. He asserted that "you will see us back in a short space of time. We don't want to leave that territory without the brand too long, we want to stay strong." He also added that franchisees were "lined up out the door to run kiosks in there, so you will see Blockbuster, or maybe Video Ezy kiosks flowing through there", but in the same interview he admitted, "absolutely we will have less stores, but I don't want to do away with them because they form a valuable part of the business." In February 2016 Uniacke blamed high rents and wages as the main factor behind store closures, and stated that he believed the increasing popularity of online streaming did not have a major impact on the business, highlighting that at the time Video Ezy's stores and kiosks offered newer release movies that were available on disc months before they appeared on online services. He also asserted that "the business model for rental stores can be, and still is, viable under certain circumstances." Ultimately, the few rental stores that have hung on the longest have done so through diversification, downsizing, and catering for older customers unwilling or unable to go online, or film buffs looking for more obscure titles not available on streaming services or with poor internet connections.

Although Video Ezy's rental kiosks had extended the life of the brand beyond store closures, they were still ultimately affected by a declining customer base as well as the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which resulted in a lack of new, high-profile titles from being available after a number of blockbuster films had their original 2020 theatrical release dates (and subsequent DVD and Blu-ray releases) delayed into the following year.

In media
A Video Ezy's exterior and interior are featured prominently in the first ten minutes of the first episode of Wayne Anderson – Singer of Songs (2006).

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