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Talk:School district drug policies

Copyvio?
This smells like a copyvio but I can't find a reference. Can someone prove it? Where did this come from? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dave6 (talk • contribs) 18:10, 20 December 2004 (UTC)

 * No, there is no copyright infringement here. This incident did happen (check Archives on mailtribune.com), and the basic information regarding school district Drug Policies is accurate. Why do you think it is a copyright violation? Just because it is written better than most articles on wikipedia does not mean that it should be ostracized. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.194.31.18 (talk • contribs) 16:18, 20 April 2005 (UTC)

It's actually considerably worse-written than the good articles here. For example, there is no indication of geographic location. The beginning of the article seems to promise a general coverage of the topic, not even indicating a restriction to the US, but by the end of the article it seems to be covering the petty grievance of a handful of students on the forensics team of a single Oregon school who got in trouble on a poorly supervised meet. Second, the reader unfamiliar with the issue has no idea what the other side of the controversy is-- why would a school have a drug and alcohol policy? How have they changed over the last century? Do they accomplish their goals? What have been the results of court challenges? The final dropped ball in the article is the lack of conclusion: the committee met for five months, and then...? This is a half-assed, self-absorbed rant that would have been rejected by most high school newspapers. Should we delete it? Dalembert 02:15, 10 January 2006 (UTC) PS: look up "ostracized" and refrain from big words in public until you know what they mean.

Sometimes, people can be so mean! Here is the definition of "Ostracized": excluded from a group. I am pretty sure that whomever wrote the statement above was using this relatively small word correctly. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bradybd (talk • contribs) 23:36, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

Mean, but correct. You may be "pretty sure" ostracized was used correctly in the above paragraph, but you are wrong. The expression of suspicion of a copyright infringement does not suggest "exclusion from a group." The article is a pathetic adolescent whine, roughly equivalent to: "Teenagers have a consitutional right to use illegal drugs!! So there!!" Dalembert 11:15, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

NPOV?
This seems like the poster child article on how to write something with a POV. It seems to be written from the POV of someone who wants to be free of searches, and doesn't even touch on the issues in support of the testing policy. Teekno 20:03, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * When I began looking at this article (Dec. 2007) there was material that addressed your concern. I worked on the balance generally. --Lquilter (talk) 01:49, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

re:high school newspaper
My high school newspaper Hawkeye would not even publish an article on the flu epidemic in our school that forced it to close because it was "controversial" of course this article would not be put in a school newspaper! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.85.39.63 (talk • contribs) 04:23, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

cleanup; deletion; merge
Merger proposal on the front suggests merging to a particular school. While content specific to that school should be (and already has been) moved to that article, school district drug policies is a completely valid article, subject of a number of legal cases in the US, at least. The article does need significant clean up work as the tags indicate but the topic is notable and valid. --Lquilter (talk) 01:26, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I did a fair amount of cleaning up of the majority of the article. I moved the problem tags (NPOV & mergeto) to the Ashland section which is now the main problem in those sections. References should still be added throughout the article, and I tagged a couple of places, as well as adding in a couple of starter refs. I'll look in on the page and work on it as I can but I believe it's now in a better place. --Lquilter (talk) 01:48, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I also cleaned up the Ashland section but did not remove it entirely. I'd like to see people discuss on this page the merits of a "case study", how such material might benefit the article, how it fits (or could be made to fit) with Manual of Style, and so on. Moreover, if there is any justification to maintaining a section highlighting this particular school alone, then I believe it would need to be supported by references beyond the local, i.e., references other than just those in the Daily Tidings and the Mail Tribune. --Lquilter (talk) 02:04, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

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Talk:Dixie Dregs

Live Albums
King Biscuit Flower Hour. All music says: " Recorded on June 17, 1979, in Philadelphia, King Biscuit Flower Hour catches the Dixie Dregs at the peak of their career, having released their best studio album What If the previous year. " ProgArchives then states the release date is '97. One of the comments regards the concert as being taped in the seventies and held, to be released in the nineties. This should be stated in the page, that dates the record as sept '97 without further info. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.50.101.105 (talk) 16:06, 5 May 2018 (UTC)

Yarnold or Yarnal
The page uses both and my quick search of the web leaned me to Yarnal due to recent articles on their tour that do not appear to derive from the Wiki. Specifically, https://theislandnow.com/news-98/dixie-dregs-reunite-40-years-national-tour/ and http://www.riotheatre.com/events-2/2018/4/17/dixie-dregs both use Yarnal. Anyone got something solid enough to pick the correct spelling? --JoelSherrill (talk) 20:09, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Untitled
this article is in serious need of wikification, formatting and perhaps additional external linkage --The Anti-Joey 18:10, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

I corrected the several places where it referred to the early band as "Dixie Grit". That's just plain wrong. It's "The Dixie Grits". This is not only backed up by years of interviews & such, it fits. In the land of Dixie, a favorite food is "grits" - particularly at breakfast. It's actually really really good stuff, and every time I turn somebody new on to grits, they invariably come to love them. But I digress. It's GRITS, not grit. Thanks! --Thistle172 06:34, Apr 28, 2006 (UTC)

I love this band and the music they created. It's the only music I'm not embarrassed to listen to. Such a broad, neutral,  musical landscape. Maybe it's the fact they don't take themselves too seriously. It's the only music I can stand to listen to. I guess that means I'm a fan. --Anonymous

so what is it, grit or grits? the official steve morse website says grit, which i originally used in early versions of this article. perhaps thistle172 can provide verification for his claim so that it doesn't get changed for a FOURTH TIME. (btw, i was raised in dixie and i DESPISE grits.) The Anti-Joey 20:43, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

Grit/Grits
I have appended the first paragraph of the History section to reflect the proper name of Morse's first band, Dixie Grit. Please notice singularity. I have also included reference. DO NOT CHANGE without talking me first and providing opposing sources of info. There is plenty of evidence that this is correct, notwithstanding Morse's official website. The Anti-Joey (talk) 23:13, 7 January 2008 (UTC)

No question about it: It's "Grit" and not "Grits". The referrence is not to food, but to dirt... grit. Like "Dregs" is also a referrence to grit, or grime, or what's left at the bottom. Grit, like dirt! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.80.112.230 (talk) 07:39, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

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Rajesh Kumar Manjhi

Rajesh Kumar Manjhi (born 12 April 1968) was a member of the 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Gaya constituency of Bihar and is a member of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) political party.

Suspension
Manjhi was suspended from 30 sittings of the Lok Sabha in 2007 for taking a female friend on an official tour and presenting her as his wife.

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The Province of Jurisprudence Determined

 The Province of Jurisprudence Determined  is a book written by John Austin, first published in 1832, in which he sets out his theory of law generally known as the 'command theory'. Austin believed that the science of general jurisprudence consisted in the clarification and arrangement of fundamental legal notions.

His object in this book is to identify the distinguishing characteristics of positive law to free it from the precepts of religion and morality. The book consists of six lectures designed to be delivered in a law school setting. Although his theory did not receive significant attention in the 19th century, it has since become central to the jurisprudential canon, and has been criticised, adapted and enlarged upon by subsequent jurists such as H. L. A. Hart and Ronald Dworkin.

Austin was a student of Jeremy Bentham, and as such subscribed to Utilitarianism. He adopted this perspective in his understanding of law, and argued that all laws should work toward promoting the greatest good for the greatest number of people.

According to Austin, a law is 'a rule laid down for the guidance of an intelligent being by an intelligent being having power over him.' This was what Austin defined as positive law. Austin believed that positive law was the appropriate focus of study for jurisprudence. He states that:

"'Every positive law, or every law simply and strictly so called, is set, directly or circuitously, by a sovereign person or body, to a member or members of the independent political society wherein that person or body is supreme.'"

According to Austin, the sovereign could not be legally limited, 'supreme power limited by positive law is a flat contradiction in terms' he states. However, he did concede that a sovereign may be limited in a non-legal sense by 'popular opinion'.

He defined divine law as 'law set by God to his human creatures'. Although he contends that God's (law) is above and beyond human law, he also states that:

"'To say that human laws which conflict with the Divine law are not binding, that is to say, are not law, is to talk stark nonsense.' He emphasises that a law set by a sovereign to a subject is not negated by any apparent conflicting divine or moral law.'"


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Category:Chinese-language mass media in Canada

List of Chinese language media outlets in Canada.


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Edward Treacher Collins

Edward Treacher Collins (28 May 1862 – 13 December 1932) was a British surgeon and ophthalmologist. He is best known for describing the Treacher Collins syndrome.

Biography
He was the son of Dr. William Job Collins and Miss Treacher. Treacher Collins used his mother's maiden name and his father's surname without a hyphen, according to the custom of the time.

He entered University College London. In 1879 he began studies at Middlesex Hospital; he received his medical degree in 1883. Influenced by his older brother Sir William Collins, he decided to specialize in ophthalmology. For his internship, he went to the Moorfields Eye Hospital, where he remained as a faculty member for the next 48 years. His work culminated in the publication Researches into the Anatomy and Pathology of the Eye (1896), which earned him worldwide recognition.

He died on 13 December 1932 and is buried in a family grave on the west side of Highgate Cemetery.

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Nansen (lunar crater)

Nansen is an old lunar impact crater along the northern limb of the Moon, on the eastern side of the north pole. This feature is viewed from the edge from the Earth, and it must be observed from orbit to see much detail. When brought into view during a favorable libration, this formation can be located by finding the crater Baillaud, then following the surface up towards the limb.

This formation has been heavily worn and eroded by minor impacts, leaving an irregular outer wall that is marked by multiple small craters and indentations. A small crater lies across the northern rim of Nansen, and a similar formation is located along the inner southern wall. A merged chain of tiny craters lies across the eastern rim.

The interior floor of Nansen is more hummocky and irregular in the northern half, while the southern part of the floor is relatively level. There is a small, bowl-shaped crater in the southeastern part of the floor, and many tiny craterlets lie across the interior and along the inner walls.

Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Nansen.

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Sadia

Sadia S.A. is a major Brazilian food producer that has been a subsidiary of BRF S.A. since 2009. It is among the world's leading producers of frozen foods, and is Brazil's main exporter of meat-based products.

In Portuguese the word sadia means "healthy", but the name is also an abbreviation of "Sociedade Anônima Indústria e Comércio Concórdia", with the bold letters being the letters that compose the abbreviation.

Sadia was founded in Concórdia, Santa Catarina, Brazil, and has its headquarters there.

As of 2008, Sadia had about 20 industrial plants that together produced over 2.3 million tons of food including chicken, turkey, pork and beef, pasta, margarine, desserts, and other products. The company supplies over 70 thousand direct points of sale in Brazil and exports to over 100 countries.

Sadia's former chairman Luís Fernando Furlan was appointed Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade by president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in 2003.

In 2008, the company accrued enormous losses on the derivative market.

In 2009, the company announced a merger with its major competitor Perdigão, forming BRF - Brasil Foods (technically a takeover of Sadia by Perdigão, which already changed its corporate name to BRF - Brasil Foods S.A.).

In March 2017, BRF was revealed to have sold processed rotten meat, resulting in food scares and worldwide recalls.

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Closers (video game)

Closers (Korean: 클로저스) is a free-to-play 3D MMORPG developed by Naddic Games and published by Nexon in South Korea with Naddic Games self-published the game worldwide.

In August 2017, En Masse Entertainment announced that is launching the game in North America and Europe. Closed alpha tests began in September, with closed beta launched in November.

Due to En Masse Entertainment ceasing operations, the publishing rights of the game in North America and Europe was transferred to the developer, and on November 5, 2020, the server was relaunched as the global server for Closers.

Plot
Closers is set in the Year is 2020, The Place, Seoul. After the invading dimensional monsters were beaten back, Seoul was rebuilt. Mysterious dimensional gates opened all over the planet and unleashed a worldwide invasion of dimensional monsters and aliens. No monsters and tactics had any effect on the waves of dimensional monsters pouring out of the dimensional gates. City after city was mercilessly destroyed. But the opening of the dimensional gates did not only cause damage and destruction. The psychokinetic power that it awoke also enabled a tiny minority of humans to gain extraordinary psychic powers. With these psychic warriors, governments around the world were able to turn the tide of the war with these monsters. After unspeakable losses, the people of earth at least succeeded in closing the gates. Since they had closed the gates, these psychics began to be called "CLOSERS," and the invasion of the dimensional monsters was named the First Dimensional War. With the dimensional monsters vanquished, peace returned to the world, and the cities were rebuilt. Through dedicated research into the dimensional gates and psychokinetic power, humans learned that the gates open when there is a singularity in this mysterious power. However, their understanding of the gates was still incomplete. The CLOSERS who survived the First Dimensional War became part of an organization called UNION. Together, they researched the psychokinetic power in all over the world, working to prevent another dimensional war. And that's when the dimensional gates all over the world started shaking again - as ever stronger outbreed creatures renewed the attack on earth."

Black Lambs

 * Seha Lee - A lonely striker-class Closer who plays games. His mother was a legendary Alpha Queen Closer.
 * Seulbi Lee - A caster-class Closer and leader of Black Lambs who lost her parents by dimensional monsters.
 * Seo Yuri - A genki ranger-class Closer and a kendo champion.
 * J - A fighter-class Closer.
 * Misteltein - A fun-loving lancer-class Closer.

Wolf Dogs

 * Nata - A hunter-class Closer.
 * Levia - A timid witch-class Closer.
 * Harpy - A rogue-class Closer and a former thief.
 * Tina - A serene robotic arms-class Closer.
 * Violet - A lavish, tsundere valkyrie-class Closer after her father passed.

Wildhüter

 * Wolfgang Schneider - A librarian-class Closer.
 * Luna Aegis - An aegis-class Closer.
 * Soma - An ungainly, joyous astra-class Closer.
 * Bai Winchester - A stoic mystic-class Closer who wields an icy sword after losing her twin sister due to an accident.
 * Seth - A dangerous beast-class Closer who wields two claws.

UNION

 * Euni Song - Commander of the Special Police Battalion.
 * Chae Min-woo - Euni's right-hand man.
 * Lan Sunwoo - A calm, but craziest UNION biker who transports Closers.
 * Yujeong Kim - UNION agent management for the Black Lamb team.
 * Bitna Lee - UNION technologist.
 * David Lee - Director of UNION.

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Claude-Pierre Goujet

Claude-Pierre Goujet (19 October 1697 – 1 February 1767), French abbé and littérateur, was born in Paris.

He studied at the College of the Jesuits, and at the Collège Mazarin, but he nevertheless became a strong Jansenist. In 1705 he assumed the ecclesiastical habit, in 1719 entered the order of Oratorians, and soon afterwards was named canon of St Jacques l'Hôpital. On account of his extreme Jansenist opinions he suffered considerable persecution from the Jesuits, and several of his works were suppressed at their instigation. In his latter years his health began to fail, and he lost his eyesight. Poverty compelled him to sell his library, a sacrifice which hastened his death, which took place at Paris on 1 February 1767.

He is the author of Supplement au dictionnaire de Morri (1735), and a Nouveau Supplement to a subsequent edition of the work; he collaborated in Bibliothèque française, ou histoire littéraire de la France (18 vols, Paris, 1740–1759); and in the Vies des saints (7 vols, 1730); he also wrote Mémoires historiques et littéraires sur le collège royal de France (1758); Histoire des Inquisitions (Paris, 1752); and supervised an edition of César-Pierre Richelet's Dictionnaire, of which he has also given an abridgment. He helped Jean Claude Fabre to complete Fleury's Histoire ecclésiastique.

See ''Mémoires hist. et litt. de l'abbé Goujet'' (1767).

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Demon Hunter (album)

Demon Hunter is the debut studio album by American Christian metal band Demon Hunter. It was released on Solid State Records on October 22, 2002.

Recording
The album was recorded in Drop C tuning. All of Demon Hunter's subsequent releases would be dropped even lower to Drop B. Industrial vocal elements are also featured in various songs.

Touring and promotion
Demon Hunter joined Extol on tour in the summer of 2003.

Demon Hunter's material first appeared on This Is Solid State Vol. 3 in February 2002, which included a demo recording of the band's song "Through the Black". "Through the Black" was later re-recorded for Demon Hunter's self-titled album. The band's first single, "Infected," had a music video which debuted on MTV2's Extreme Rock and found considerable airplay on Fuse TV's Uranium. The intense video revolves around two subjects; one, vocalist Ryan Clark, is shown using an extravagant dagger to carve the word "HELP" into a tree in the pouring rain. The second subject is a white collared man at a desk who, for ambiguous reasons, is overcome with extreme panic. The man finally falls to the floor after typing "help" repeatedly on his keyboard, with the word being shown on a monitor. Given Demon Hunter's overt Christianity, the video could be seen as people reaching out for a savior in a time of desperation. "Infected" would be featured on the compilation album MTV2 Headbangers Ball in 2003. Demon Hunter was later included on Death, a Destination1, the band's second compilation album, in 2011.

Album art and booklet
The band members are not credited in the album's liner notes. Clark explained this by citing the fact that Demon Hunter's members have been in previous groups and that they wanted the band to initially rely solely on its music. The Demon Hunter booklet has four chapters: "Letters from the Seventh War", "The Red Wasp/The Everlasting Death", "Love and Grace for Fallen Souls", and "The Awakening". The first three chapters comprise three tracks each, with the last one consisting only of the last track on the album. When asked about this, Clark responded:
 * "It was more an artwork based concept as opposed to a concept pertaining to the music. We wanted to give it an old world feel, with the book and everything. Just a way to make the artwork really come alive."

Reception
Demon Hunter received overall positive reviews. Allmusic's Alex Henderson described it as "an album in which moments of intense brutality are followed by hauntingly melodic passages." He commended the band for its "complementary" use of intensity and melody and noted the album as "imperfect" yet "interesting." Such comments have been echoed in other small-form media reviews. Demon Hunter has stylistically been compared to Slipknot, particularly in the vocals department, as well as more intense nu metal groups.

Track listing

 * Live recording appears on both 45 Days (2008) and Live in Nashville (2009)
 * Re-recorded for Songs of Death and Resurrection (2021)

Personnel
Band members
 * Ryan Clark – lead vocals, guitars
 * Don Clark – bass guitar
 * Jesse Sprinkle – drums, percussion

Production
 * Brandon Ebel – executive producer
 * Aaron Sprinkle – producer, additional guitars
 * Demon Hunter – producer
 * J.R. McNeely – mixing at The Greenhouse (Vancouver)
 * Latif Tayour – mixing assistant
 * Asterik Studio – art direction, design (Seattle)
 * Kris McCaddon – photography
 * Phil Peterson – strings
 * Tim Harmon – drum engineering at Spectre South (Tacoma)
 * Aaron Mlasko – drum technician
 * Troy Glessner – mastering at Spectre North
 * Tyson Paoletti – A&R
 * Josh Tillman – additional drums

Appearances

 * "Infected" was featured on the Killing Floor 2 soundtrack in 2015.

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Pascal (crater)

Pascal is a lunar impact crater that lies near the northern limb of the Moon, on the western side of the pole. It is located to the north of the eroded crater Desargues, and just east of Brianchon. Pascal can be located by finding the crater Carpenter and then following the surface to the northwest towards the limb. However the visibility of this formation can be affected by libration.

This crater has undergone a degree of impact erosion that has left its features softened and rounded. The rim can still be followed around the perimeter, but it is no longer sharp-edged and the interior terraces have been all but worn away. Several craters lie across the outer rim, including the sharp-edged Pascal F intruding into the northwest rim; a more worn Pascal A intruding into the southwest; and the small, bowl-shaped Pascal G along the southeast rim.

Within the wide inner walls is a nearly level interior floor that has been resurfaced by lava. At the midpoint is a low ridge, forming a minor central peak. There are tiny craters at the north end of the floor, and at the northeast end of the central ridge. There is also a small chain of craterlets lying across the northeast inner wall.

Just to the north of Pascal is Poncelet C, a satellite crater of the lava-flooded Poncelet to the east. The rim of this crater is bisected by several grooves in the surface, one of which crosses the southeast rim and cuts across tangentially to the northeastern rim of Pascal.

Satellite craters
By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Pascal.

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Wurm (disambiguation)

Wurm is a river in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany.

Wurm or Würm may also refer to:

Arts, media and entertainment

 * Wurm (album), an album by Wolfgang
 * Würm (band), an American sludge metal band
 * Wurm (dragon) or European dragon, a legendary creature in folklore and mythology
 * Wurm: Journey to the Center of the Earth, a 1991 video game for the NES
 * Wurm Online, a fantasy MMORPG
 * Wurm, a novel by Matthew J. Costello
 * Wurm, a fictional character in the opera Luisa Miller by Giuseppe Verdi
 * "Würm", the final movement of the song "Starship Trooper" by Yes
 * WURM, former name of WRTO-FM, a radio station in Florida, US

Places

 * 1785 Wurm, a main-belt asteroid
 * Würm, a river in Bavaria, Germany
 * Würm glaciation, a glacial period named for the river
 * Würm (Nagold), a small river in Baden-Württemberg, Germany

Other uses

 * Wurm-thional, a trade name for phenothiazine
 * Wurm (surname), people with the surname

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Namib Mills

Namib Mills Ltd, established in 1982, is the largest grain processing company in Namibia. It produces flour, pasta, animal feeds and other products from raw materials including maize, much of which is imported, and local varieties of pearl millet (mahangu).

Its main milling facility is located in the capital, Windhoek and it has two others in Otavi and Katima Mulilo. Namib Mills also operates collection centers on the country. It uses the brand name Meme Mahangu to market some products. Meme Mahangu lines include Meme Mahangu (pure), Meme Mahangu (oshikundu), Meme Mahangu (mixed) and Meme Mahangu (rice).

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Toyota (disambiguation)

Toyota (Toyota Motor Corporation, or TMC) is a multinational corporation headquartered in the city of the same name in Japan.

Toyota may also refer to:

Businesses

 * Toyota Group
 * Toyota Australia, a subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation
 * Toyota Boshoku, a Japanese automotive component manufacturer
 * Toyota Central R&D Labs, the arch institute of the Toyota Group. I; it cooperates with Toyota Group and Toyota Technological Institute
 * Toyota Financial Services Corporation (TFSC), a wholly owned subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) responsible for the financial services subsidiaries globally
 * Toyota Industries, a Japanese machine maker
 * Toyota Tsusho, a sōgō shōsha (trading company)
 * Toyota Racing Development, the in-house tuning shop for all Toyota, Lexus and formerly Scion cars

Institutions

 * Toyota Technological Institute, a university in Nagoya, Japan
 * Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, United States, for research and education in computer science

People with the surname

 * Lauren Toyota, Canadian television personality
 * Maho Toyota (born 1967), Japanese actress
 * Manami Toyota, Japanese professional wrestler
 * Moe Toyota, Japanese voice actress

Places

 * Toyota, Aichi, a city in Aichi, Japan
 * Toyota, Yamaguchi, a town in Toyoura District, Yamaguchi, Japan
 * Toyota District, Hiroshima, a district in Hiroshima, Japan
 * Toyota Prefectural Natural Park Yamaguchi, Japan

Events

 * Toyota All-Star Showdown, an auto race in the United States
 * Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, an auto race in the United States
 * Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race, an auto race in the United States
 * ToyotaCare 250, a NASCAR Xfinity Series race that takes place at Richmond Raceway in Richmond, Virginia
 * 2019 ToyotaCare 250, a NASCAR Xfinity Seriesrace held on April 12, 2019, at Richmond Raceway in Richmond, Virginia
 * Toyota/Save Mart 350, an auto race in the United States

Teams

 * Toyota Industries S.C., a Japanese football club, owned by Toyota Industries
 * Toyota Industries Shuttles, a Japanese rugby union club, owned by Toyota Industries
 * Toyota Super Corollas, a defunct basketball team in the Philippines
 * Toyota Verblitz, a Japanese rugby union club, owned by Toyota Motor

Sports arenas

 * Toyota Arena (disambiguation)
 * Generali Arena or Toyota Arena, a sports stadium in Prague, Czech Republic
 * Toyota Center (disambiguation)
 * Toyota Center, a sports arena in Houston, Texas
 * Toyota Sports Center, a sports stadium in El Segundo, California
 * Toyota Park (disambiguation)
 * Toyota Park, a sports stadium in Bridgeview, Illinois
 * Toyota Stadium (disambiguation)
 * Toyota Stadium (Cronulla), a sports stadium in Cronulla, New South Wales, Australia
 * Toyota Stadium, a sports stadium in Toyota, Japan

Other uses

 * The Toyota Way, a set of principles and behaviors that underlie the Toyota Motor Corporation's managerial approach and production system
 * Toyota Production System, an integrated socio-technical system developed by Toyota

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Talk:Toyota (disambiguation)

This should not be a redirect. If there is to be more than a redirect at Toyota we need to preserve a talk page here. Please see discussion at Talk:Toyota Motor Corporation about moving these pages. --SFoskett 18:51, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

It's a work in progress. Christopher Mahan 20:37, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

What to put here
Since there are many entities with the word, "Toyota", in their name but only one (the Toyota marque) that uses the name solely, I propose turning this page into a home page for the Toyota marque of vehicles, similarly to how Scion and Lexus refer only to vehicles sold under those Toyota Motor Corporation marques. I would like to preserve a top link to TMC and Toyota Group. Thoughts? --SFoskett 21:16, Dec 30, 2004 (UTC)

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Cover of Demon Hunter's sophomore album, Summer of Darkness.

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Frank McGee (ice hockey)

Francis Clarence McGee (November 4, 1882 – September 16, 1916) was a Canadian ice hockey player for the Ottawa Hockey Club (also known as the Silver Seven) between 1903 and 1906. He played as a centre and as a rover. He was also a civil servant for the government of Canada and later became a lieutenant in the Canadian Army.

McGee was known as "One-Eyed" Frank McGee because he was blind in one eye due to a hockey injury. After missing two years of play because of the injury, he joined the senior Ottawa team in 1903. A well-known player of his era for his prolific scoring, McGee once scored 14 goals in a Stanley Cup game and scored five goals or more in a game on eight other occasions. Despite a brief senior career—only 45 games over four seasons—he helped Ottawa win and retain the Stanley Cup title from 1903 to 1906.

After his hockey career ended, McGee worked for the Department of Indian Affairs in the Canadian federal government. During the First World War, he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force and died in battle in France in 1916. When the Hockey Hall of Fame was founded in 1945, McGee was in the first class of inductees.

Personal life
McGee was born on November 4, 1882, in Ottawa, Ontario. He was one of nine children born to John Joseph McGee and Elizabeth Helen (Crotty) McGee. He came from a prominent Canadian family. His father was clerk of the Privy Council, Canada's most senior civil servant. His uncle, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, attended two of the conferences that led to Canadian Confederation and was regarded as one of the Fathers of Confederation; he was assassinated in 1868. McGee's brother Jim was a noted athlete in rugby football and ice hockey, playing the latter with McGee in the 1903–04 season before dying in a horse-riding accident in May 1904. His brother Charles served in the Boer War and, like McGee, died in the First World War. His brother Walter also served in the First World War and was awarded the Military Cross.

After finishing his schooling in Ottawa, McGee joined the Canadian government's Department of Indian Affairs. He later assumed a role in the Department of the Interior. In 1904, his promotion within the department led him to briefly retire from ice hockey. Historian Paul Kitchen has suggested that McGee's rise in the civil service was aided in part by the connections of his father as a clerk of the Privy Council, and of William Foran, a hockey executive who also worked at the Board of Civil Service Examiners, the body that reviewed government promotions. McGee had a passion for sports; he participated in ice hockey, rugby football, lacrosse, and rowing. He played half-back for the Ottawa City rugby football team, winning the Canadian championship in 1898. He later played quarterback for the team before giving up football in 1900.

Hockey career
McGee first earned recognition for his hockey ability during the 1899–1900 season. During this time he played for two teams: the Ottawa Aberdeens, who won the Quebec intermediate championship; and the Ottawa Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) team, who won the Canadian Railway Hockey Union championship. On March 21, 1900, McGee was struck in his left eye by a "lifted puck" during an amateur game for a local CPR team. As a result, he lost vision in his left eye and did not play in the following two seasons, instead working as a referee. In 1903, McGee decided to return to the sport, despite risking injury to his one good eye. Highly sought after, he joined the Ottawa Hockey Club (also known as the Silver Seven) of the senior Canadian Amateur Hockey League (CAHL). He was the youngest member of the team and at a height of 5ft 6in, was small for hockey players of the era. He excelled on the ice and was known to be strong and muscular, which was considered to be an ideal body type for the sport. In his first game with Ottawa, he scored two goals. He finished the 1903 season with 14 goals in six games, second in the league behind Russell Bowie. As Ottawa finished first in the league they were awarded the Stanley Cup and played in challenge games that year. McGee played in all four challenge games and scored seven more goals, tying Jack Marshall for lead goal-scorer during the challenge games, and Ottawa retained the Cup.

Ottawa resigned from the CAHL after four games during the 1904 season due to a dispute over a delayed game; in those four games McGee recorded 12 goals, placing him first on the team in scoring and fifth overall in the league. During a Stanley Cup challenge against the Toronto Marlboros on February 25, 1904, he scored five goals in one game, setting a new record for most goals in a Cup game. He again scored five goals in a game on March 9 against the Brandon Hockey Club. Ottawa played in several Cup challenge series over the season, winning them all. That season, McGee had 21 goals in eight challenge games. In the off-season, McGee's brother Jim died in a horse-riding accident. Aware of the dangers of playing hockey, McGee's family wanted him to stop in light of Jim's death, but he decided to keep playing. Despite offers to reconcile by the CAHL, Ottawa joined the Federal Amateur Hockey League (FAHL) for the 1904–05 season. After a brief retirement from the sport owing to his work in the government, McGee returned, playing in six of the eight FAHL games and tying Marshall for best goalscorer in the league, with 17 goals. During the season, Ottawa also played in five Cup challenge games against the Dawson City Nuggets and the Rat Portage Thistles. The Nuggets, who had travelled 6500 km across Canada from the Yukon, were not considered a strong challenge for Ottawa. The Nuggets lost the first of the two-game series 9–2, and McGee only scored one goal in that game. After the game, the Nuggets' manager reportedly dismissed McGee's talents, saying that he "doesn't seem to be any great scorer". In the next game, on January 16, 1905, McGee scored a record 14 goals in Ottawa's 23–2 win. This included eight consecutive goals scored in less than nine minutes. The fourteen goals he scored remain the most ever scored by a single player in a Stanley Cup game. The game was also the most lopsided in Stanley Cup history as Ottawa's 23 goals also set a record. Later, it was disclosed that McGee was playing with a fractured wrist, and he missed the first game of the series against the Thistles.

To resolve the disputes among top-level hockey teams in Canada, a new unified league was created in December 1905, the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association (ECAHA), which Ottawa joined. McGee initially retired from hockey before the start of the 1906 season, but returned to the team midway through the campaign. Appearing in seven of the ten league games, McGee finished third in the ECAHA in scoring, with 28 goals. Ottawa finished tied for first in the league with the Montreal Wanderers, setting up a two-game, total-goal series for the championship and the Stanley Cup. Montreal won 12–10, ending the Silver Seven's three-year reign. Including two other Cup challenge series played during the season, McGee had 17 goals in six challenge games. After Ottawa lost the Stanley Cup to the Wanderers, McGee retired from hockey at 23 years old. Kitchen suggests that McGee's retirement was due to both family pressure and an upcoming promotion he was to receive at the Department of the Interior, which would require his full attention.

Legacy
McGee was slightly shorter than the average Canadian man, but he was noted for being strong relative to his size and having a physical, at times rough, style of play. Frank Patrick, a contemporary of McGee, described him as: "Even better than they say he was. He had everything – speed, stickhandling, scoring ability and was a punishing checker. He was strongly built but beautifully proportioned and he had an almost animal rhythm."

McGee is best known for being a prolific goal-scorer. During his career, he scored 135 goals in 45 games (including both league and challenge). Only one other player, Russell Bowie, rivals his average of three goals per game. With 14 goals against Dawson City, McGee holds the record for the most goals ever scored in a single Cup challenge game. McGee scored five or more goals in eight other senior games, and his highest single-game total in regular-season play was eight on March 3, 1906, against the Montreal Hockey Club.

McGee was one of the original nine players inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame at its founding in 1945. In 1966, he was inducted into the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame.

First World War
Before the First World War, McGee and his brother Charles were members of the Non-Permanent Active Militia of Canada. When Canada entered the war in August 1914, both were mobilized for active duty. It is not definitively known how he was allowed to join the army given his limited vision. The medical officer who examined him wrote that McGee could "see the required distance with either eye". According to biographer William Houston, McGee's nephew said that McGee tricked the doctor. Houston wrote, "When he was asked to cover one eye and read the chart, he covered his blind eye, and when required to cover the other eye, he switched hands instead of eyes."

McGee was initially assigned to the 43rd Regiment, Duke of Cornwall's Own Rifles, though on November 11, 1914, he was transferred to the 21st Infantry Battalion and appointed a Temporary Lieutenant. The Battalion left for England in May 1915, and after spending the summer there, it was transferred to the Western Front in France on September 14, 1915. On December 17, 1915, he incurred a knee injury near Dickebusch when the armoured car he was driving was blown into a ditch by a shell explosion. He was sent back to England on December 28 and spent several months recuperating. On July 7, 1916, he was medically cleared for active duty and he returned to service on August 29. He was given the option to transfer to a clerical post in Le Havre, but chose to return to his battalion, rejoining them on September 5. With his battalion, he took part in the Battle of the Somme.

McGee was killed in action on September 16, 1916, near Courcelette, France. An artillery shell landed on or beside him and he was killed instantly; his body was never recovered. He was later mentioned in dispatches for actions he performed in the late morning on the day of his death. His brother Charles had died in action in May 1915 at the Battle of Festubert. Both of their names are inscribed on the Canadian National Vimy Memorial, along with all other Canadian soldiers killed in France with no known grave.

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Kjetil Aamodt

Kjetil André Aamodt (born 2 September 1971) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from Norway, a champion in the Olympics, World Championships, and World Cup. He is one of the most successful alpine ski racers from Norway.

Biography
Born in Oslo to Finn Aamodt (former head coach of Norway's alpine skiing team), Aamodt is the only alpine skier to win 8 Olympic medals, and has won 5 World Championship gold medals as well as 21 individual World Cup events. Described as an all-round alpine skier, Aamodt participated in all alpine skiing disciplines in the World Cup and World Championships, and is one of only five male alpine skiers to have won a World Cup race in all five disciplines.

Aamodt's combined career total of twenty World Championship and Olympic medals is an all-time best. He is the second-youngest male alpine skier to win an Olympic gold medal (age 20 in 1992; Toni Sailer was two months younger in 1956). Until 2014, he was also the oldest alpine skier to win an Olympic gold medal. For almost six years, Aamodt led the all-time Marathon World Cup ranking, with a total of 13,252 points earned from 1989 to 2006 – until 14 March 2012, when Austrian Benjamin Raich overtook him with a fifth place in the downhill at the 2012 World Cup final in Schladming to total 13,281 points, earned from 1998. Another all-time best is his 231 World Cup top-ten results, 9 ahead of Benjamin Raich.

By winning the super-G race at the 2006 Olympics, Aamodt became the first male alpine skier to win four gold medals in the Olympics. (Toni Sailer and Jean-Claude Killy both swept the three alpine events at a single Olympics, and Alberto Tomba won three gold medals over two Olympics.)

Aamodt had 19 Olympic and World Championship medals stolen from him. The medals were taken in August 2003 by burglars who broke into a safe in his father's home. The five-time world champion and winner of four Olympic gold medals later revealed they were recovered by an anonymous helper over the internet.

Aamodt announced the conclusion of his career on live television on 6 January 2007, with hundreds of fellow athletes in attendance, at the Norwegian Sports Gala (Idrettsgallaen) where he had been selected as awardee of the year for 2006.

Aamodt now runs a ski race camp in Gaustablikk, Norway, and does public speaking.

Legacy
In February 2015 Aamodt (and Lasse Kjus) were selected as recipients of the Legends of Honor by the Vail Valley Foundation, and inducted into the International Ski Racing Hall of Fame.

Season titles
1 overall, 1 super-G, 1 giant slalom, 1 slalom ^ official season title in the combined discipline was not awarded until the 2007 season

Race victories

 * 21 wins (1 downhill, 5 super-G, 6 giant slalom, 1 slalom, 8 combined)
 * 64 podiums, 231 top tens (first skier of all time in this ranking).

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Richard L. Dugger

Richard L. Dugger was secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections from 1987 to 1991, when Harry K. Singletary, Jr. took over.

Dugger was warden of Florida State Prison from 1982 to 1987, when he was appointed Secretary of the Department of Corrections by then Florida governor Bob Martinez. During his tenure, the department started a large campaign to combat prison overcrowding.

In 1999, Dugger was appointed deputy director of institutions for the Florida Department of Corrections, replacing Stan Czerniak. A year later, he was appointed director of institutions for the Florida Department of Corrections.

Dugger was born in Jacksonville, Florida, on January 25, 1943, and resided in Raiford, Florida, until graduation from Bradford County High School in 1961. In his words, he became a "college drop-out" in 1964 and began his career with the Florida Department of Corrections as a correctional officer at Florida State Prison, East Unit. In 1966, he enlisted in the U.S. Army, 20th Special Forces, to begin a military career lasting 20 years.

Dugger retired after a 30-year career in 1995. He returned to work for the Department of Corrections serving in various positions from 1999 to 2005 and again from 2006 to 2007.

Dugger was equally proud of his military career. He had many stories about parachuting into various countries around the world. He was most proud of completing the Army Combat Diver Program in his 40s. He retired from the Army at the rank of sergeant major. He died at the age of 72 in Tallahassee, Florida, on August 20, 2015.

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William Astor, 3rd Viscount Astor

William Waldorf Astor II, 3rd Viscount Astor (13 August 1907 – 7 March 1966) was an English businessman and Conservative Party politician. He was also a member of the Astor family.

Background and education
William was the eldest son of Waldorf Astor and Nancy Witcher Langhorne (by marriage, Viscountess Astor). He was educated at Eton and at New College, Oxford.

Political career
In 1932, Astor was appointed secretary to Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton, at a League of Nations Committee of Enquiry in what was then known as Manchuria. First elected to the House of Commons in 1935, he served as a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Fulham East until 1945. Between 1936 and 1937 he was Parliamentary Private Secretary to the First Lord of the Admiralty, Samuel Hoare, who was then made Home Secretary in the new cabinet of Neville Chamberlain in 1937.

In World War II, he served as a naval intelligence officer, acquiring no distinction, but gaining many influential contacts. He returned as the Conservative MP for Wycombe in the 1951 general election, serving for ten months. On his father's death in 1952, he inherited his peerages, becoming the 3rd Viscount Astor and Baron Astor, with a seat in the House of Lords. This forced a by-election in Wycombe, which was won by the Conservative candidate John Hall.

Astor then took over the family's Cliveden estate in Buckinghamshire, where he and his family continued to live until 1966. Active in thoroughbred horse racing, he inherited Cliveden Stud, a horse farm and breeding operation in the village of Taplow near Maidenhead.

During the 1963 Profumo affair, Astor was accused of having an affair with Mandy Rice-Davies. In response to being told during one of the trials arising out of the scandal that Astor had denied having an affair with her, Rice-Davies famously replied, "Well he would, wouldn't he?"

Personal life and death
Astor married three times:

William married Sarah Norton (20 January 1920 – 4 February 2013; daughter of Richard, 6th Baron Grantley) on 14 June 1945 and they were divorced in 1953. They had one son together:
 * William Astor, 4th Viscount Astor (William Waldorf Astor III; born 27 December 1951); he married Annabel Jones on 14 January 1976.

William married Phillipa Victoria Hunloke (10 December 1930 – 20 July 2005, whose maternal grandfather was Victor Cavendish, 9th Duke of Devonshire) on 26 April 1955 and they were divorced on 3 June 1960. They had one daughter together:
 * Emily Mary Astor (born 9 June 1956)

William Astor married, finally Bronwen Alun-Pugh on 14 October 1960. They had two daughters:
 * Janet Elizabeth Astor (born 1 December 1961); she married the Earl of March and Kinrara, later the 11th Duke of Richmond, on 30 November 1991.
 * Pauline Marian Astor (born 26 March 1964)

Astor died in Nassau, Bahamas, aged 58 from a heart attack and was buried in the Octagon Temple at Cliveden. His son succeeded him in the viscountcy.

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Talk:Interdental consonant

Difference with Dental consonant
Can someone who knows contrast this with dental consonant? I don't understand the difference. --Doradus 18:25, Dec 20, 2004 (UTC)

 * The reason for your confusion is that the first sentence of the article seems to be wrong, and the second sentence is hard to read. L&M in SOWL, p.20, write, “The tongue more commonly contacts the back of the teeth, but the tip may also project between the teeth so that the blade makes contact with the underside of the upper teeth. The special term for this articulation is interdental.” Perhaps the first paragraph should read something like, “Interdental consonants are produced by slightly projecting the tip of the tongue between the teeth, so that the top surface touches the underside of the upper teeth. (Dental consonants are articulated with the tongue touching the back of the upper incisors.)” Cite SOWL, p.20. I would make this change myself, but I know almost nothing about the subject, and maybe I am dead wrong here. — Solo Owl (talk) 02:47, 13 January 2011 (UTC)

Tongue visible in Americans pronouncing ‹th›
I've seen some Americans realise a ‹th› in such a way that the tip of their tongue became visible. I don't think I've ever noticed the same in British people. Is this because those American speakers pronounce an "interdental fricative"? Is that the definition? Thank you.

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Oshikundu

Oshikundu or Ontaku is a traditional Namibian drink made from fermented millet (mahangu) flour, brans and malted sorghum flour mixed with lukewarm water. It is made from cereal. Ontaku has short life span and it has to be consumed within the same day, preferably within 6 hours once its ready. Ontaku is more common among Aawambo people and in some part of Kavango Region. The knowledge of creating Ontaku has been passed orally from one generation to the other orally, hence existing through generations of Aawambo. It is widely sold in open markets and mostly associated with rural areas and northern Namibia. Oshikundu can be served with porrige also when there is nothing to eat with porrige with it aid in term of in need of beef or soup.

The combination is left to ferment for several hours at room temperature. Once Oshikundu is ready to drink it becomes brown with a thick texture. It is nutritious and has a short shelf life, it is usually a home-brewed drink and it is enjoyed every day.

A study carried out in 2001 by the Department of Food Science at the University of Namibia revealed that it was possible to produce a dry mix containing malted pearl millet and sorghum, that would be nutritionally enhanced with bambara nut. This mix could then be sold for making oshikundu.

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Summer of Darkness

Summer of Darkness is the second studio album by American Christian metal band Demon Hunter, released through Solid State on May 4, 2004. In the first week, the album sold 4,247 copies.

Vocalist Ryan Clark described Summer of Darkness in a 2003 interview as being heavier than Demon Hunter's self-titled debut album. The band's first album, released in October 2002, was recorded in drop C tuning while Summer of Darkness was dropped down to drop B tuning. He also cited that the group had more time to record than with their previous release. Guest vocalists, who were friends of the band, appear on four songs on the album and include Mike Williams, Howard Jones, Brock Lindow, and Trevor McNevan. Summer of Darkness is Demon Hunter's only album with Kris McCaddon on lead guitar, as well as the band's first album with bass guitarist Jon Dunn and the last to have Jesse Sprinkle on drums.

The album's lead single, "Not Ready to Die", received a music video and significant airplay on MTV2's Headbangers Ball and Fuse TV. In June 2004, Demon Hunter began touring the United States in promotion of Summer of Darkness. This included all major cities and extended to the East Coast where they had not previously performed. The album was later included on Demon Hunter's Double Take1 (2007) and Death, a Destination2 (2011) compilations.

Track listing

 * Live recording appears on both 45 Days (2008) and Live in Nashville (2009)
 * Re-recorded for Songs of Death and Resurrection (2021)

Personnel
Demon Hunter
 * Ryan Clark – vocals
 * Don Clark – rhythm guitar
 * Jon Dunn – bass guitar
 * Kris McCaddon – lead guitar
 * Jesse Sprinkle – drums

Additional musicians
 * Mike Williams (The Agony Scene) – guest vocals ("Beheaded")
 * Howard Jones (Blood Has Been Shed, Killswitch Engage) – guest vocals ("Our Faces Fall Apart")
 * Brock Lindow (36 Crazyfists) – guest vocals ("Beauty Through the Eyes of a Predator")
 * Trevor McNevan (Thousand Foot Krutch) – guest vocals ("Coffin Builder")

Production
 * Brandon Ebel – executive producer
 * Aaron Sprinkle – producer
 * Zach Hodges – assistant producer
 * J.R. McNeely – mixing
 * Demon Hunter, Asterik Studio – art direction, design
 * Jeff Gros – band photography
 * Kris McCaddon – cover photography
 * Aaron Mlasko – drum technician
 * Tyson Paoletti – A&R
 * Troy Glessner – mastering

Appearances

 * "My Heartstrings Come Undone" was featured on the soundtrack to the movie Resident Evil: Apocalypse in 2004.

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Toyota Group

The Toyota Group (トヨタグループ) is a group of companies that have supplier, vendor and investment relationships with Toyota Industries and Toyota Motor vehicle manufacturing facilities. It is similar to a keiretsu in that no particular entity has outright control over the entire group, although unlike most keiretsu it does not contain a major bank.

Major group companies
There are 18 major companies that make up the Toyota Group:

Affiliates or partially owned subsidiaries

 * Kyoho kai group – Auto parts company – 211 companies.
 * Kyouei kai group – Logistic/facility company – 123 companies.
 * KDDI (Toyota owns 11.09% of the company)
 * Nagoya Broadcasting Network (Toyota owns 34.6% and is the largest single shareholder in the company; 36.9% of the stock are directly and indirectly (through TV Asahi Holdings Corporation) owned by the Asahi Shimbun Company, making it the largest corporate group shareholder)
 * Subaru Corporation, manufacturer of Subaru automobiles. (Toyota owns 20% and is the largest single shareholder in the company)
 * Mazda Motor Corporation (Toyota owns 5.05% of the company)
 * Suzuki Motor Corporation (Toyota owns 4.9% of the company)
 * Isuzu Motors Ltd. (Toyota owns 4.6% of the company)
 * Misawa Homes Holdings, Inc. (Toyota owns 13.4% of the company)
 * Primearth EV Energy Co (PEVE) – a joint venture between Toyota and Panasonic (1996 to present)
 * Toyota Canada Inc. (TCI) – a joint venture between Toyota (51%) and Mitsui & Co. Ltd. (49%) (1964 to present)
 * Yamaha Motor Company (Toyota owns 2.8% of the company)
 * Panasonic (Toyota owns 2.8% of the company)
 * Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (Toyota owns 2.09% of the company)
 * MS&AD Insurance Group (Toyota owns 8.88% and is the largest single shareholder in the company)
 * Fuji Pharma Co., Ltd.

Former group companies

 * New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) – a joint venture between Toyota and General Motors (1984 to 2010)
 * United Australian Automobile Industries (UAAI) – a joint venture between Toyota Australia and GM-Holden (1989 to 1996)
 * Tesla, Inc. (Toyota owned 1.43% of Tesla, Inc.) (2010 to 2016)

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2000 United States presidential election in New York

The 2000 United States presidential election in New York took place on November 7, 2000, as part of the 2000 United States presidential election. Voters chose 33 representatives, or electors to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.

New York was won by Incumbent Democratic Vice President Al Gore in a landslide victory; Gore received 60.22% of the vote to Republican George W. Bush's 35.22%, a Democratic victory margin of 25.00%. This marked the first time since 1964 that a Democratic presidential candidate won more than 60% of the vote in New York State, and only the second time in history, solidifying New York's status as a solid blue state in the 21st century. New York weighed in as about 25% more Democratic than the national average in the 2000 election.

The key to Gore's victory was wide margins of victory in greater New York City and Long Island. He did win some counties in upstate New York, but won with small margins, except for Albany County, which voted almost exactly the same as the statewide results. Since third-party candidates received over 4% of the vote, Bush did very poorly, although he won a majority of the counties in upstate New York, including his largest victory in small and rural Hamilton County.

Democratic primary
The Democrats held their primary on March 7. There were 294 delegates at stake, with 243 pledged and 51 unpledged. Vice President Al Gore won 158 pledged and the support of 44 unpledged while U.S. Senator Bill Bradley won 85 pledged and the support of 1 unpledged.

Republican primary
The Republican primary was held on March 7. There were 101 delegates at stake, with 93 district delegates being decided in the primary and 8 statewide delegates being decided at the state committee meeting in May. Texas Governor George W. Bush won 67 district delegates while U.S. Senator John McCain won 26 district delegates. The 8 statewide delegates were unbound.

Results
(a) John Hagelin was then nominee of the Natural Law Party nationally.

By congressional district
Gore won 27 of 31 congressional districts, including 8 that were won by a Republican: the 1st, 3rd, 13th, 19th, 20th, 24th, 25th, and 30th congressional districts, respectively.

Counties that flipped from Democratic to Republican

 * Cattaraugus (Largest city: Olean)
 * Chautauqua (Largest city: Jamestown)
 * Chemung (Largest city: Elmira)
 * Chenango (Largest city: Norwich)
 * Cortland (Largest city: Cortland)
 * Delaware (Largest city: Sidney)
 * Dutchess (Largest city: Poughkeepsie)
 * Essex (Largest CDP: Ticonderoga)
 * Fulton (Largest city: Gloversville)
 * Herkimer (Largest city: German Flatts)
 * Jefferson (Largest city: Le Ray)
 * Lewis (Largest city: Lowville)
 * Madison (Largest city: Oneida)
 * Oneida (Largest city: Utica)
 * Ontario (Largest city: Geneva)
 * Orange (Largest city: Palm Tree)
 * Oswego (Largest city: Oswego)
 * Otsego (Largest city: Oneonta)
 * Saratoga (Largest city: Saratoga Springs)
 * Schoharie (Largest city: Cobleskill)
 * Schuyler (Largest city: Watkins Glen)
 * Warren (Largest city: Glens Falls)
 * Washington (Largest city: Hudson Falls)
 * Yates (Largest city: Penn Yan)

Analysis
, this is the last election in which the Democratic candidate won Montgomery County. This is the second consecutive election that a Democrat won every borough of New York City, which has occurred once since, in 2012.

Bush became the first Republican to win the White House without carrying Onondaga, Cayuga, St. Lawrence, Broome, Monroe, or Nassau Counties since these counties' founding in 1794, 1799, 1802, 1806, 1821, and 1899, respectively, the first to do so without carrying Clinton, Franklin, Rensselear, or Richmond Counties or any borough of New York City since Herbert Hoover in 1928, the first to do so without carrying Rockland, Seneca or Westchester Counties since Benjamin Harrison in 1888, the first to do so without carrying Sullivan County since James A. Garfield in 1880, and the first to do so without carrying Columbia, Suffolk, or Ulster Counties since Rutherford Hayes in 1876.

Geographic breakdown
Gore won an overwhelming landslide in fiercely Democratic New York City, taking 1,703,364 votes to George W. Bush's 398,726, a 77.90% - 18.23% victory. Gore carried all five boroughs of New York City. Excluding New York City's votes, Gore still would have carried New York State, but by a smaller margin, receiving 2,404,543 votes to Bush's 2,004,648, giving Gore a 54.53% - 45.47% win.

Electors
Technically the voters of New York cast their ballots for electors: representatives to the Electoral College. New York is allocated 33 electors because it has 31 congressional districts and 2 senators. All candidates who appear on the ballot or qualify to receive write-in votes must submit a list of 33 electors, who pledge to vote for their candidate and his or her running mate. Whoever wins the majority of votes in the state is awarded all 33 electoral votes. Their chosen electors then vote for president and vice president. Although electors are pledged to their candidate and running mate, they are not obligated to vote for them. An elector who votes for someone other than his or her candidate is known as a faithless elector.

The electors of each state and the District of Columbia met on December 18, 2000 to cast their votes for president and vice president. The Electoral College itself never meets as one body. Instead the electors from each state and the District of Columbia met in their respective capitols.

The following were the members of the Electoral College from the state. All were pledged to and voted for Gore and Lieberman:
 * 1) Susan I. Abramowitz
 * 2) Leslie Alpert
 * 3) Martin S. Begun
 * 4) David L. Cohen
 * 5) Carolee A. Conklin
 * 6) Martin Connor
 * 7) Lorraine Cortez Vasquez
 * 8) Inez E. Dickens
 * 9) Cynthia Emmer
 * 10) Herman D. Farrell Jr.
 * 11) Emily Giske
 * 12) Patrick G. Halpin
 * 13) Raymond B. Harding
 * 14) Judith Hope
 * 15) Denis M. Hughes
 * 16) Virginia Kee
 * 17) Bertha Lewis
 * 18) Alberta Madonna
 * 19) Thomas J. Manton
 * 20) Deborah Marciano
 * 21) Helen Marshall
 * 22) Carl McCall
 * 23) Elizabeth F. Momrow
 * 24) Clarence Norman Jr.
 * 25) Daniel F. Donohue
 * 26) Shirley O'Connell
 * 27) G. Steven Pigeon
 * 28) Roberto Ramirez
 * 29) Michael Schell
 * 30) Sheldon Silver
 * 31) Andrew Spano
 * 32) Eliot Spitzer
 * 33) Randi Weingarten


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Danielle Darrieux

Danielle Yvonne Marie Antoinette Darrieux (1 May 1917 – 17 October 2017) was a French actress of stage, television and film, as well as a singer and dancer.

Beginning in 1931, she appeared in more than 110 films. She was one of France's great movie stars and her eight-decade career was among the longest in film history.

Life and career
Darrieux was born in Bordeaux, France, during World War I, the daughter of Marie-Louise (Witkowski) and Jean Darrieux, a medical doctor who was serving in the French Army. Her mother was born in Algeria. Her father died when she was seven years old.

Raised in Paris, she studied the cello at the Conservatoire de Musique. At 14, she won a part in the musical film Le Bal (1931). Her beauty combined with her singing and dancing ability led to numerous other offers; the film Mayerling (1936) brought her to prominence.

In 1935, Darrieux married director/screenwriter Henri Decoin, who encouraged her to try Hollywood. She signed a seven-year contract with Universal Studios to star in The Rage of Paris (1938) opposite Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Afterwards, she elected to return to Paris. Under the German occupation of France during World War II, Darrieux continued to perform, a decision that was severely criticized by her compatriots. However, it is reported that her brother had been threatened with deportation by Alfred Greven, the German manager of Continental, the only film production company permitted in occupied France. She received a divorce and then fell in love with Porfirio Rubirosa, a Dominican Republic diplomat and notorious womanizer. They married in 1942 in Vichy in a ceremony attended by other diplomats that resided in the city at the time. His anti-Nazi opinions resulted in his forced residence in Germany. In exchange for Rubirosa's freedom, Darrieux agreed to make a promotional trip in Berlin. The couple lived in Switzerland until the end of the war, and divorced in 1947. She married scriptwriter Georges Mitsikidès in 1948, and they lived together until his death in 1991. Darrieux appeared in the MGM musical Rich, Young and Pretty (1951). Joseph L. Mankiewicz lured her back to Hollywood to star in 5 Fingers (1952) with James Mason. Upon returning to France, she appeared in Max Ophüls' The Earrings of Madame de... (1953) with Charles Boyer, and The Red and the Black (1954) with Gérard Philippe. She starred in Lady Chatterley's Lover (1955), whose theme of uninhibited sexuality led to its being proscribed by Catholic censors in the United States. She played a supporting role in her last American film, United Artists' epic Alexander the Great (1956) starring Richard Burton and Claire Bloom.

At the request of director Lewis Gilbert, Darrieux worked in England to shoot The Greengage Summer (1961) with Kenneth More. In 1963, she starred in the romantic comedy La Robe Mauve de Valentine at the Chatelet Theatre in Paris. The play was adapted from the novel by Françoise Sagan.

In Jacques Demy's film musical The Young Girls of Rochefort (1966) her role was the only one in which a principal actor in any of Demy's film-musicals sang his or her own musical parts. (All other actors had a separate person dub their singing parts.) During the 1960s, she also was a concert singer.

In 1970, Darrieux replaced Katharine Hepburn in the Broadway musical Coco, based on the life of Coco Chanel, but the play, essentially a showcase for Hepburn, soon folded without her. In 1971 and 1972 she also appeared in the short-lived productions of Ambassador. She worked again with Demy for his film Une chambre en ville (1982), an opera-like musical melodrama reminiscent of the director's earlier work The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Les Parapluies de Cherbourg, 1964). Once again, Darrieux provided her own vocals for her songs.

Honors
For her long service to the motion picture industry, in 1985 she was given an Honorary César Award. She continued to work, her career spanning eight decades, most recently providing the voice of the protagonist's grandmother in the animated feature Persepolis (2007), which deals with the impact of the Islamic revolution on a girl's life as she grows to adulthood in Iran.

Death
Danielle Darrieux died on 17 October 2017, due to complications from a fall, five months after turning 100 that May.

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Claude Fleury

Claude Fleury (6 December 1640, Paris – 14 July 1723, Paris), was a French priest, jurist, and ecclesiastical historian.

Destined for the bar, he was educated at the elite, Jesuit College de Clermont (now that of Louis-le-Grand) in Paris. In 1658 he was accepted as an attorney to the parlement of Paris, and for nine years practiced law. There he caught the attention of preacher at the royal court, Bishop Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet, who persuaded him to study theology and receive holy orders. Under Bossuet's patronage, he attracted the attention of the king, Louis XIV, who appointed him the tutor of the princes of Conti in 1672 and soon thereafter of the count of Vermandois, one of the king's bastards. For his service Fleury was awarded the Cistercian abbey of Loc-Dieu, in the diocese of Rodez.

Fleury's aristocratic teaching duties expanded in 1689 when he was appointed sub-preceptor of the dukes of Burgundy, of Anjou, and of Berry. He thus curried favor with Fénelon, their chief tutor. In 1696 he was elected to fill the place of La Bruyère in the Académie française; and on the completion of the education of the young princes the king reassigned to him the priory of Argenteuil, in the diocese of Paris (1706), a more lucrative benefice than Loc-Dieu.

About this time he began his great work, the first of the kind in France, and one for which he had been collecting materials for thirty years—the Histoire ecclésiastique. Fleury's evident intention was to write a history of the church for all classes of society; but at the time in which his great work appeared it was less religion than theology that absorbed the attention of the clergy and the educated public; and his work accordingly appealed to the student rather than to the popular reader, dwelling as it does very particularly on questions of doctrine, of discipline, of supremacy, and of rivalry between the priesthood and the imperial power.

Nevertheless, it had a great success. The first edition, printed at Paris in 20 volumes (4to), 1691, was followed by many others, among which may be mentioned that of Brussels, in 32 vols (8vo), 1692, and that of Nîmes, in 25 vols (8vo), 1778 to 1780. The work of Fleury only comes down to the year 1414. It was continued by Jean Claude Fabre and Goujet down to 1595, in 16 vols. (4to). In consulting the work of Fleury and its supplement, the general table of contents, published by Rondet, Paris, 1758, 1 vol. (4to) will be found very useful. Translations have been made of the entire work into Latin, German and Italian. The Latin translation, published at Augsburg, 1758–1759, 85 vols. (8vo), carries the work down to 1684.

Fleury was appointed confessor to the young King Louis XV in 1716, because, as the duke of Orleans said, he was neither Jansenist nor Molinist, nor Ultramontanist, but Catholic. His great learning was equaled by the modest simplicity of his life and the uprightness of his conduct.

Fleury left many works besides his Histoire ecclésiastique. The following deserve special mention: A number of the smaller works were published in one volume at Paris in 1807. The Roman Congregation of the Index condemned his Catéchisme historique (1679) and the Institution du droit ecclésiastique (1687).
 * Histoire du droit français (1674, 12mo)
 * Mœurs des Israelites (1681, 12mo)
 * Mœurs des Chrétiens (1682, 12mo)
 * Catechisme Historique, contenant en abregé l'histoire sainte et la doctrine Cretienne (1683, 2vo)
 * Traité du choix et de la méthode des études (1686, 2 vols 12mo)
 * Les Devoirs des maîtres et des domestiques (1688, 12mo)

See C Ernst Simonetti, Der Character eines Geschichtsschreibers in dem Leben und aus den Schriften des Abbé C. Fleury (Göttingen 1746, 4to); CFP Jaeger, Notice sur C. Fleury, considéré comme historien de l'eglise (Strassburg, 1847, 8vo); Reichlin-Meldegg, Geschichte des Christentums, I.

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Stara Gradiška concentration camp

Stara Gradiška was a concentration and extermination camp in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during World War II. The camp was specially constructed for women and children of Serb, Jewish and Romani ethnicity. Victims also included communist and anti-fascist Croats and Bosniaks. It was established by the Ustaše regime in 1941 at the Stara Gradiška prison near the eponymous village as the fifth subcamp of the Jasenovac concentration camp.

According to the list of victims by name of KCL Jasenovac, the Jasenovac memorial site, which includes research, the names and data for 12,790 victims of the camp have been established.

Systematic killing of inmates
The camp was guarded by the Croatian Ustaše, including some female troops. Inmates were killed using different means, including firearms, mallets and knives. At the "K" or "Kula" unit, Serbian and Jewish women, with weak or little children, were starved and/or tortured at the "Gagro Hotel", a cellar which Ustaša Nikola Gagro used as a place of torture. Other inmates in the Kula unit were poisoned with gas.

Gas experiments were conducted initially at veterinary stables near the "Economy" unit, where horses and then humans were poisoned using sulphur dioxide and later Zyklon B. Gassing was also tested on children in the yard, where the camp commandant, Ustaša sergeant Ante Vrban, viewed its effects. Most gassing deaths occurred in the attics of "the infamous tower", where several thousand children from the Kozara region were killed in May, and 2000 more in June 1942. Subsequently, smaller groups of 400-600 children, and a few men and women, were gassed. At his trial, Vrban confirmed that Zyklon gas was used.

Witness Cijordana Friedlender (aka Jordana Fritlander), who was a guard at the camp, testified:"At that time fresh women and children came daily to the Camp at Stara Gradiška. About fourteen days later, Vrban [the Commandant of the Camp] ordered all children to be separated from their mothers and put into one room. Ten of us were told to carry them there in blankets. The children crawled about the room, and one child put an arm and leg through the doorway, so that the door could not be closed. Vrban shouted: 'Push it!' When I did not do that, he banged the door and crushed the child's leg. Then he took the child by its whole-leg, and banged it on the wall until it was dead. After that we continued carrying the children in. When the room was full, Vrban brought poison gas and killed them all."

According to witness Milka Zabičić, the gassing stopped due to a scheduled visit by a Red Cross delegation in 1943, which did not arrive until June 1944. Gas-vans were constructed to kill Serb and Jewish women and children who came to Stara Gradiška from the Đakovo camp in June–July 1942. A witness, Dragutin Roller, who was a camp inmate, stated that guard Dinko Šakić "directed his guards to pack women and children into the vans, fitted a rubber hose from the exhaust to the interior and drove around and around the camp until the passengers were dead" and that "they killed at least half the group like this as soon as they arrived".

Cruelty
Stara Gradiška became notorious for crimes committed against women and children. Examples included the torture that took place in cellar 3, the "Gagro Hotel", where inmates were starved, tortured and then strangled to death using piano wire. At Šakić's trial, witness Ivo Senjanović recalled how people were locked there without food or water: "The people were gradually dying. It was horrible to hear them cry for help." As for the conditions, witness Cadik Danon said:"At once we spread our blankets and lay down to recover our strength. Around noon they drove us out into the yard and distributed the portion of cattle turnip with water without salt or grease; everything was the same as in Jasenovac. Immediately after lunch, they thrust us into the dungeon and locked us in."

The most infamous staff included Nikola Gagro, Ante Vrban, Maja Buzdon, Jozo Stojčić and, notably, the commander, a Franciscan friar/military chaplain, Miroslav Filipović-Majstorović, who killed scores of women and children with his bare hands. The treatment of inmates was so horrific that on the night of 29 August 1942, bets were made among the prison guards as to who could liquidate the largest number of inmates. Petar Brzica, one of the guards reportedly cut the throats of 1,360 prisoners with a butcher knife. A gold watch, a silver service, a roasted suckling pig, and wine were among his rewards. The guards included females (who were sisters or wives of the male guards) who were known for their cruelty. The worst was Nada Luburić, sister of the first commandant of Jasenovac, Maks Luburić, and wife of Dinko Šakić.

Andrija Artuković who was Minister of Interior of the NDH ordered sodium hydroxide to be added to the food of the children in order to exterminate them in a timely fashion. The murder of children was deemed a priority by the NDH as they saw Serbian children as 'seeds of the beast'.

Clearing the camp
In early April 1945, when the Partisans were fighting nearby Stara Gradiška, the Ustaše began clearing the camp, killing some of the inmates and transporting others to Lepoglava and from there to Jasenovac, where they were to be exterminated. Several survivors, like Šimo (or Šime) Klaić, who stressed at Šakić's trial that Lepoglava "was horrible, as if all the evil from Stara Gradiška and Jasenovac had concentrated there", fled from the train cart in which they were to be transported to Jasenovac. Klaić later learned, as he testified in the court, that the other two carts in the transport were torched in Jasenovac. The camp was liberated in April 1945 by the Partisans.

List of notable prisoners

 * Vlado Singer, Croatian politician and member of the Ustaše movement.
 * Magda Bošković, Croatian communist, Partisan and member of the women's rights movement.
 * Nada Dimić, Croatian Communist and Partisan activist of ethnic Serb descent.
 * Viktor Budicki, doctor and surviving son of Croatian motorsport pioneer Ferdinand Budicki, died in a 1944 camp typhoid epidemic and was given honourable marked burial for his medical services.

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Dragon Breed

Dragon Breed (ドラゴンブリード) is a horizontally scrolling shooter video game produced by Irem and released in arcades in 1989. It runs on M72 and M81 hardware. Activision released home computer conversions in 1990.

Gameplay
The player controls King Kayus, who rides a large dragon named Bahamoot. Bahamoot is immune to enemy attacks, capable of blocking most projectiles and damaging enemies on contact; Kayus, however, is not, but is armed with a forward-firing crossbow.

Bahamoot's body is flexible and responds to Kayus' movement, enabling Kayus to use Bahamoot as a mobile shield or as a whip-like weapon. The player can also circle the tail around a group of enemies to kill them. The tail of the yellow or blue dragon can be coiled around the player to offer almost complete invulnerability for a limited time.

Bahamoot can also spit fireballs. By holding the fire button down, the dragon will build up fire in its mouth; the longer the button is held down, the more powerful the fireball will be. There are four levels of fireball power; at its strongest, the fireball resembles a dragon's head. The game also contains some platforming elements - the human is able to dismount on horizontal platforms.

Power-ups comes in the form of orbs acquired by shooting small green dragons that appear intermittently throughout stages, or they can be collected from the ground on foot. There are four different types of orbs, each of will change Bahamoot to a different color and grant him a new attack power. The red orb enables the dragon to breathe a flame. Gold enables Bahamoot's body to fire crescents in all directions. Silver enables the dragon to produce up to four miniature dragons, which home in on enemies. Blue enables Bahamoot to fire downward bolts of electricity from its underside. The player can further enhance Bahamoot's powers by picking up the same type of orb up to three times.

Plot
The following is transcribed from the game's promotional brochure: "Kayus became the King of the Agamen Empire when he was just 15 years old. Those who dissatisfied with his enthronement conspired to break the seal confining the King of Darkness, Zambaquous, to seize the kingdom with the black power. Thus, wind was filled with miasma and the ground rotted, gradually turning into darkness. Young King Kayus, stop the recovery of darkness together with the dragon of light, Bahamoot."

Reception
In Japan, Game Machine listed Dragon Breed on their August 15, 1989 issue as being the fourth most-successful table arcade unit of the month.

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Power Princess

Zarda, commonly known as Power Princess, is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Multiple versions of the character have appeared, each from alternate realities in Marvel's multiverse.

Publication history
The original version of the character was created by J. M. DeMatteis and Don Perlin, and first appeared in Defenders #112 (October 1982) as a member of the Squadron Supreme, an analog of the Justice League. More recently, the character joined the reality-hopping Exiles.

Another version of the character appeared in Marvel's MAX imprint title Supreme Power.

Squadron Supreme
Princess Zarda of Earth-712 lived on Utopia Isle, a small island in the southern sea, untouched by outside civilization. The Utopians believe themselves to be the result of genetic experimentation conducted upon humanity by the alien Kree; they are, indeed, the equivalent on the Squadron's Earth of the Inhumans. While most humans were making flint spearheads, the Utopians developed an advanced culture based on peace, fellowship and experience or learning. On their little island community, people knew no poverty, injustice, war, crime, or sexual discrimination. After the outside world made the first atom bomb, the Utopians believed their way of life was in jeopardy. Building a starship, they left Earth to find a new home. Princess Zarda chose to remain behind as their sole emissary to the Earth, a role she had assumed some years earlier as Power Princess. During this time, she was a member of the World War II team known as the Golden Agency, along with fellow members American Eagle and Professor Imam, the Sorcerer Supreme of the Squadron's Earth.

Living in Capitol City, she became the common-law wife of Howard Shelton, a sailor whom she met during "the war". Howard was the sole survivor of a sinking ship and the first outsider Zarda met. Howard aged normally while Zarda appears to be the same age as she was when they met, 50–60 years earlier.

As a member of the Squadron Supreme, Zarda became brainwashed by the Overmind. She battled the Defenders, but was cured. She then battled the Overmind and Null, the Living Darkness alongside the Defenders.

To prevent such a thing from happening again, she resolved with the Squadron to assume control of the government of the United States of her world. With the Squadron, she battled the Institute of Evil. For a time, the Hyperion of Earth-616 masqueraded as his Squadron Supreme counterpart and developed an attraction to Zarda. Disgusted that she was already committed to the elderly Shelton, the villainous Hyperion suffocated Shelton and began romancing Zarda. Upon the return of the Earth-712 Hyperion, the truth was revealed and the impostor was destroyed. Although initially confused about her feelings for her teammate, Zarda and Hyperion eventually began a romantic relationship. Zarda then assumed leadership of the Squadron. Zarda participated in the final battle between Nighthawk, who had turned against the Squadron, and his Redeemers. She then disbanded the Squadron.

Defending the Earth-712 against an attack by the Nth Man, Power Princess and the Squadron Supreme were stranded on Earth-616. They encountered Quasar, and relocated to Project Pegasus. Power Princess was among the Earth heroes trying to save New York City from Eon's dying body. Some time later, with the help of the Avengers, the Squadron Supreme were returned to Earth-712. On arrival, they find a dictatorial regime has taken over the world in their absence, and they have become fugitives.

Proteus, enemy of the interdimensional Exiles, showed up in the Squadron's reality and tricked them into battling the Exiles, taking advantage of the distraction to move on to another reality. With the Exiles' assistance, the Squadron expose the corrupt government. Power Princess then invites herself into the Exiles, and under her guidance the team eventually defeats Proteus. Power Princess remains with the Exiles for a time to continue fixing damaged realities, but eventually leaves to return to the Squadron Supreme.

Eventually, Earth-712 is destroyed by an Incursion, two realities colliding into one another. Zarda is the last survivor of her universe, escaping via an interdimensional portal. However, in transit she is attacked by an alternate version of herself called Warrior Woman, who drains Zarda of her energy and powers and leaves her for dead. Zarda survives, landing on Earth-616, and dedicates herself to stopping her evil duplicate.

Supreme Power
This Zarda debuted in Supreme Power #2. Apparently a Greek goddess who slept in a mausoleum for millennia, at one point she wakes up and finds the injured Hyperion, healing him. She alludes to having similar origins to Hyperion (both are aliens) and a mission to colonize and conquer the planet, but she is quite erratic, confusing her memories with allegory.

After separating, Zarda goes on a rampage, disregarding human life and private property. She attempted to remove Doctor Spectrum's power prism but the crystal's intellect contacted her. It informed her that she was "broken" in some way (apparently referring to her seeming insanity) and that it could not fix her despite her request to do so. She then was attacked by Amphibian in retaliation for harming Spectrum. It is indicated that both Doc Spectrum and Zarda have energy halos around them that bear an obvious resemblance to alien beings (Spectrum only exhibits this when the prism crystal takes control of him, revealing its origin and intelligence). Doc Spectrum subsequently has no memory of the exchange, revealing further that his prism has the ability to control him when it wants to. Later, Zarda kills a woman and steals her identification in hopes of starting anew, while working in a women's clothing store.

After that she made herself known to the federal government of the United States, as Claire Debussy (it is implied that Zarda murdered the real Claire Debussy and assumed her identity, as a scorch mark in the shape of a young human female is seen on a wall overlooking a pile of ash in her apartment.) But running her background down is hard. She said that her codename is Zarda, but at her power level the government did not push it. Later a liaison officer asks her to fill in some identification and non-disclosure forms, but Zarda lies to the officer, saying she can not remember details due to an "accident". After General Richard Alexander asks why she calls herself Zarda, thinking it to be an old nickname, he informs her that focus groups came up with Power Princess. After he asked her what she thought about the name, she said Princess of Power would be better, but the General said that it was already copyrighted (referring to She-Ra: Princess of Power, a cartoon related to He-Man and the Masters of the Universe).

An African general named John M'Butu, a fast-rising tribal leader gifted with a powerful psychic suggestion ability and calling himself the Voice, is leading a genocidal campaign in the Salawe region of Uganda. The US government identifies him as a superhuman after he survives an assassination attempt. The team is sent to the region to assassinate him, but early in the fight, Hyperion, Doctor Spectrum and Amphibian are affected by M'Butu's power to control anyone who hears his voice. M'Butu commands the trio to hunt down their comrades. Zarda immediately notices that there is another voice in Hyperion's head and not the One True Voice. Zarda manages to free Doctor Spectrum by calling to the voice within the Power Prism, which takes control of Spectrum, and frees Hyperion.

Later the Squadron are then ordered to take down insurgents in Ilam Province in Iran, an operation called "Long Walk". Zarda goes on a killing rampage. After Stanley Stewart sees her killing three unarmed soldiers, calling them harmless, Zarda says "Harmless, yes, for that minute. Now they are harmless tomorrow". After seeing Inertia help a little girl find and kill four men of her tribe who stoned her mother and older sisters to death after they were raped by insurgents, Zarda said Inertia is now like her.

Hyperion gives a press conference in Los Angeles of the "Long Walk" mission, during which he is confronted by Redstone. During their fight, Zarda intervenes, beating Redstone badly, but stops short of killing him when Hyperion has her fly Redstone's nuclear warhead into the stratosphere to prevent it from detonating in Los Angeles. She even survives the direct nuclear blast, something Hyperion obviously would not survive so easily.

The Squadron Supreme invade the Ultimate universe after their world is devastated by a threat that originated there. At the resolution of this conflict, Zarda decides to remain in the Ultimate universe to keep an eye on things.

Later she fights and easily beats the Ultimate Universe's equivalent of the Wrecking Crew as well as the Hulk. After the short battle with the Hulk, she and the Hulk have sex. She also contemplates how the local heroes keep her from simply killing those who annoy her. She recalls how she often goes naked in her homeworld, not seeing a need to cover up her own beauty. Zarda remains with the Ultimates during the Ultimatum event, assisting Reed Richards with retrieving Nick Fury from her own universe. When Loki returns to get revenge on the Ultimates, Zarda is hypnotized along with the other female members of the Ultimates into attacking her teammates by Amora the Enchantress. When Amora is killed, Zarda is freed, and returns to her own universe.

Zarda, along with the rest of her universe's squadron, is killed by the forces of the Cabal during an Incursion.

During the Secret Wars storyline, Zarda is shown to live in the Supremia Province in Battleworld. She is later killed during a battle with Squadron Sinister of Utopolis during an invasion on the Supremia Province when Doctor Spectrum incinerates to ashes with energy.

Squadron Supreme of America
A variation of the Zarda Shelton version of Power Princess appears as a member of the Squadron Supreme of America. This version is a simulacrum created by Mephisto and programmed by the Power Elite. Power Princess was programmed to be a lustful power woman from Utopia Isle who wore a special necklace to dampen her powers when in her secret identity as a professional boxer.

In the team's first mission, Power Princess and the Squadron Supreme of America fought Namor and the Defenders of the Deep, when they targeted a Roxxon oil platform off the coast of Alaska.

Then, the Squadron Supreme visited another oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The Squadron Supreme then made short work of Namor and the Defenders of the Deep.

During the War of the Realms storyline, Zarda was in the middle of a boxing class when she and the other members of the Squadron Supreme of America were summoned to Washington D.C., where Phil Coulson brought them up to speed with Malekith the Accursed's invasion. Power Princess and the Squadron Supreme of America fight an army of Rock Trolls and Frost Giants. After the Squadron Supreme caused the Frost Giants to retreat, Phil Coulson sends them to Ohio, which has become a battleground.

Power Princess was with the Squadron Supreme when they attempted to apprehend Black Panther, when he infiltrated the Pentagon to confront Phil Coulson.

Squadron Supreme
Zarda possesses superhuman strength, agility, speed, reflexes, and has the ability to fly. Her aging process is extremely slowed, although she stated that she does not age at all in the Exiles series. She is able to drain the life force of others.

Zarda carries a transparent shield of Utopian design that can block tank shells and be used to redirect energy, and which she can throw so that its edges are able to slice through metal.

Power Princess has extensive experience in hand-to-hand combat (according to her, she has over five centuries of combat experience) and is skilled in discus throwing. She has undergone advanced graduate level studies in both Utopia Isle and Cosmopolis.

Supreme Power
In addition to similar physical abilities she shares with Hyperion, such as supersonic flight, super-strength, greatly enhanced reflexes, superhuman senses and nigh-invulnerability, this Zarda has the ability to drain the life-force of others to rejuvenate herself. She uses a similar life force transfer to heal Hyperion when he receives life-threatening injuries. While it is possible to hurt her, she apparently even survived a direct nuclear explosion through a combination of her nigh-invulnerability and her life-force transference capabilities. Like Hyperion, she is able to survive the vacuum of space unaided for a considerable amount of time, enabling at least interplanetary travel via her flight capabilities.

Accolades

 * In 2017, CBR.com ranked Power Princes 8th in their "15 Fiercest Warrior Women In Comics" list.
 * In 2019, CBR.com ranked Power Princess 3rd in their "10 Most Powerful Members Of The Squadron Supreme" list.
 * In 2020, CBR.com ranked Power Princess 5th in their "Marvel: 5 Strongest (& 5 Weakest) Members Of Squadron Supreme" list.
 * In 2021, Screen Rant ranked Power Princess in their "10 Most Powerful Members Of The Squadron Supreme" list.

Squadron Sinister
A version of Zarda called Warrior Woman appears in the 2015 Squadron Sinister miniseries, and later joins the Earth-616 iteration of the Squadron Supreme posing as the Earth-712 version of the character.

Television

 * Power Princess appears in The Super Hero Squad Show episode "Whom Continuity Would Destroy!", voiced by Susan Eisenberg. This version possesses telekinesis and has a variety of invisible items such as an "invisible steamroller" and "invisible gyrocopter" in addition to her invisible shield.
 * Zarda appears in Avengers Assemble, voiced by April Stewart. She first appears in flashbacks in the episode "Hyperion", and later appears in person in "Dark Avengers", along with the rest of the Squadron Supreme. In "Secret Avengers", Zarda fights Crimson Dynamo for the keys to a specific power source, only to be repelled by the eponymous team. In "Midgard Crisis", Zarda amplifies zoo animals to get close to the Avengers, claiming that she wants to switch sides. When Thor finds Zarda on her island, she puts him through her rigorous training process to secretly generate tidal waves to flood Manhattan. When the Hulk arrives, he tries to help Thor, only for Zarda to amplify him into a monstrous form. Thor manages to help Hulk regain control and regress back to normal before the other Avengers arrive and Zarda escapes. In the episode "Avengers' Last Stand", Zarda joins the Squadron Supreme in enacting Nighthawk's plot against the Avengers. In the episode "Avengers Underground", Zarda engages Iron Man, Thor, and Falcon, but ends up trapped alongside fellow Squadron Supreme member Nuke before all of the Squadron are remanded to the Vault. In "Prison Break", Zarda joins forces with Typhoid Mary and Crimson Widow to escape the prison, but they are defeated by Captain Marvel and the Wasp.

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Michael W. Moore

Michael W. Moore (born 30 August 1948, Houston, Texas) is the former Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections. Moore was appointed to the position by Governor Jeb Bush on January 5, 1999.

Moore earned a Bachelor's Degree in Criminology and Corrections from Sam Houston State University in 1976. He worked for more than two decades in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice where he rose from a correctional officer in 1967 to regional director in 1985. During his Texas tenure, Moore also served as a personnel and training lieutenant, industrial supervisor, lieutenant, captain, and major of correctional officers, as well as warden of a maximum-security prison. He served as regional director for ten years from 1985 before he joined the South Carolina system.

Moore was director of the South Carolina Department of Corrections from 1995 to 1999. He imposed policies including a strict grooming policy that lead to a prison uprising and an unsuccessful lawsuit against him. On 5 January 1999 he was appointed Secretary of the Florida Department of Corrections by Florida governor Jeb Bush. In 2003, James V. Crosby Jr. took over.

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Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Socialist feminism

i disagree that this page is redundant, if anything it needs to be expanded on and not deleted i specifically looked up socialist feminism and would not have been able to access the information that i needed had it not been there to differentiate itself from communist feminism it is ridiculous to include two different subjects together because they are similar