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An anon is moving a reorganizing this category, moving a lot of items to Category:The Adventures of Tintin. While I don't have a problem with this, I don't see why it is better than the way things were. Could the anon, or someone, please explain this? Which Tintin books are not "The Adventures of Tintin"? JesseW 22:58, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

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Taghaza

Taghaza (تاغزة) (also Teghaza) is an abandoned salt-mining centre located in a salt pan in the desert region of northern Mali. It was an important source of rock salt for West Africa up to the end of the 16th century when it was abandoned and replaced by the salt-pan at Taoudenni which lies 150 km to the southeast. Salt from the Taghaza mines formed an important part of the long distance trans-Saharan trade. The salt pan is located 857 km south of Sijilmasa (in Morocco), 787 km north-northwest of Timbuktu (in Mali) and 731 km north-northeast of Oualata (in Mauritania).

Early Arabic sources
The Taghaza mines are first mentioned by name (as Taghara) in around 1275 by the geographer al Qazwini who spent most of his life in Iraq but obtained information from a traveller who had visited the Sudan. He wrote that the town was situated south of the Maghreb near the ocean and that the ramparts, walls and roofs of the buildings were made of salt which was mined by slaves of the Masufa, a Berber tribe, and exported to the Sudan by a caravan that came once a year. A similar description had been given earlier by Al-Bakri in 1068 for the salt mines at a place that he called Tantatal, situated twenty days from Sijilmasa. It is possible these were the same mines.

In 1352 the Moroccan traveller Ibn Battuta arrived in Taghaza after a 25-day journey from Sijilmasa on his way across the Sahara to Oualata to visit the Mali Empire. According to Ibn Battuta, there were no trees, only sand and the salt mines. Nobody lived in the village other than the Musafa slaves who dug for the salt and lived on dates imported from Sijilmasa and the Dar'a valley, camel meat and millet imported from the Sudan. The buildings were constructed from slabs of salt and roofed with camel skins. The salt was dug from the ground and cut into thick slabs, two of which were loaded onto each camel. The salt was taken south across the desert to Oualata and sold. The value of the salt was chiefly determined by the transport costs. Ibn Battuta mentions that the value increased fourfold when transported between Oualata and the Malian capital. In spite of the meanness of the village, it was awash in Malian gold. Ibn Battuta did not enjoy his visit; he found the water brackish and the village full of flies. He goes on to say, "For all its squalor, qintars of qintars of gold dust are traded in Taghaza."

The salt mines became known in Europe not long after Ibn Battuta's visit as Taghaza was shown on the Catalan Atlas of 1375 on the trans-Saharan trade route linking Sijilmasa and Timbuktu.

Alvise Cadamosto learned in 1455 that Taghaza salt was taken to Timbuktu and then on to Mali. It was then carried "a great distance" to be bartered for gold.

In around 1510 Leo Africanus spent 3 days in Taghaza. In his Descrittione dell’Africa he mentions that the location of the mines, 20 days journey from a source of food, meant that there was a risk of starvation. At the time of Leo's visit, Oualata was no longer an important terminus for the trans-Saharan trade and salt was instead taken south to Timbuktu. Like Ibn Battuta before him, Leo complained about the brackish well water.

Sixteenth century
At some point Taghaza came under the control of the Songhai Empire which had its capital at the city of Gao on the Niger River 970 km across the Sahara. Al-Sadi in his Tarikh al-Sudan chronicles the efforts of the Moroccan rulers of the Saadi dynasty to wrestle control of the mines from the Songhai during the 16th century. In around 1540 the Saadian Sultan Ahmad al-Araj asked the Songhai leader Askia Ishaq I to cede the Taghaza mines. The Askia responded by sending men to raid a town in the Draa valley as a warning and demonstration of Songhai power.

In 1556-7 Sultan Muhammed al-Shaykh briefly occupied Taghaza and killed the Askia's representative. However the Tuareg shifted the production to another mine called Taghaza al-ghizlan (Taghaza of the gazelles). On his succession in 1578 Ahmad al-Mansur asked for the tax revenues from Taghaza but Askiya Dawud responded instead with a generous gift of 47 kg of gold. In 1586 a small Saadian force of 200 musketeers again occupied Taghaza and the Tuareg moved to yet another site – probably Taoudeni. Finally, a new demand by Ahmad al-Mansur in 1589–90 was met with defiance by Askiya Ishak II. This provided the pretext for Ahmad al-Mansur to send an army of 4,000 mercenaries across the Sahara led by the Spaniard Judar Pasha. The defeat of the Songhai in 1591 at the Battle of Tondibi led to the collapse of their empire. After the conquest Taghaza was abandoned and Taoudenni, situated 150 km to the southeast and thus nearer to Timbuktu, took its place as the region's key salt producer.

In 1828 the French explorer René Caillié stopped at Taghaza on his journey across the Sahara from Timbuktu. He was travelling with a large caravan that included 1,400 camels transporting slaves, gold, ivory, gum and ostrich feathers. At that date the ruins of houses constructed of salt bricks were still clearly visible.

Ruins
At Taghaza there are ruins of two different settlements, one on either side of the ancient salt lake (or sabkha). They are separated by a distance of 3 km. The larger more westerly settlement extended over an area of approximately 400 m by 200 m. All the houses, except the mosque, were aligned in a northwest to southeast direction, perpendicular to the prevailing wind. The houses in the more easterly settlement were aligned in the same manner and occupied an area of 200 m by 180 m. The reason for the dual settlements is not known but could be connected with Taghaza's service both as a salt mine and as a stopping point on an important trans-Saharan trade route.

Climate
Taghaza has a hyper-arid hot desert climate (Köppen BWh). It is one of the driest places on earth and one of the hottest during summer, only being behind Chenachène. The average high temperature in July is 48.2 °C, which is 0.8°C higher than Furnace Creek, Death Valley, California, 0.3°C higher than Taoudenni and only 0.1°C cooler than Chenachène.

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Juntos Podemos Más

Juntos Podemos Más por Chile (Spanish literal: Together we can do more for Chile, Podemos is an acronym of Poder Democrático Social, Spanish for Social Democratic Power) was a political coalition created in 2003, consisting of the Communist Party of Chile, the Humanist Party, the Christian Left Party of Chile, and several other smaller left-wing organizations.

The Coalition presented at first five candidates (including the sociologist Tomás Moulián for the Communist Party) for the 2005 presidential election, but then finally agreed on the Humanist Party candidate, Tomás Hirsch. He obtained 5.4% of the vote (375,048 votes). The Coalition divided itself during the runoff vote, some conditionally voting for left-of-center candidate Michelle Bachelet and others proposing blank votes.

In the 2005 parliamentary election, the pact obtained 7.38% of the vote in the lower chamber election, and 5.98% in the Senate election, but did not win seats in either chamber. Members of the coalition blame this upon the binomial system, which privileges the two largest coalitions: Concertación and the Alliance for Chile.

For the 2009 parliamentary election, the coalition joined the Concertación list and won three seats in the lower chamber, all from the Communist Party. At the concurrent presidential election, Juntos Podemos supported the candidacy of former Socialist Party member Jorge Arrate as President, who won 6.2% of the vote. The Humanist Party left the coalition and supported independent candidate Marco Enríquez-Ominami.

Composition
The coalition was made up of more than 50 parties and organisations, including the Communist Party (PCCh), the Humanist Party (PH) (until 2009), Izquierda Cristiana (Christian Left), MIR, the MPMR (Movimiento Patriótico Manuel Rodríguez), the Bloque por el Socialismo (BS) — which itself gathers three parties: Izquierda Socialista (Socialist Left), the Movimiento Por el Socialismo (MPS) and the Partido Alternativa Socialista (PAS) — Identidad Rodriguista (IR), Movimiento Fuerza Ciudadana (FC), Cambio Democrático, Partido Radical de Chile (PRCh), Revolución Democratizadora (RD), Generación 80 (G-80), Partido de los Trabajadores (PT) and the Juventudes Comunistas de Chile.

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Daytona Beach Breakers

The Daytona Beach Breakers were a Single 'A' professional ice hockey team based in Daytona Beach, Florida. The team began play as the Sun Devils in the Sunshine Hockey League's first season in 1992–93 and remained with the SuHL until 1995, when the league changed its name to Southern Hockey League. The team became known as the Breakers while playing in the SHL. After the 1995–96 season both the team and the league folded.

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Jörg from Dornach near Basel.

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Talk:Final Fantasy VIII

PSP Download Release?
Is there any word on a rerelease for download on the PSP akin to Final Fantasy 7? Hopefully, it will be inevitable --A Chain of Flowers (talk) 16:17, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * came out in japan last Thursday, give it a few months as the PAL PS3 still cant play the CD version stably. Needs a LOT of work   chocobogamer      mine   23:13, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

 * Have you got a source? --A Chain of Flowers (talk) 11:46, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
 * source for what? if you mean the problems the euro compatibility list is a source to say its error strewn, however, as its not even confirmed for outside japan, you don't need a source for explaining nothing!   chocobogamer      mine   18:09, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

 * A source to say it's available to download in Japan, so we can reference the sentance in the article --A Chain of Flowers (talk) 18:07, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

 * Its already in the article I think   chocobogamer      mine   20:40, 13 October 2009 (UTC)

 * Can Final Fantasy use VRML/X3D models?

 * Nope. It works proprietarily. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.232.240.49 (talk) 12:17, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

Europe publisher
was Square Europe, not Sony. I've corrected this before, but for some reason someone has reverted this change to say it was published by Sony. Great stuff by whoever did that(!) The splash screen clearly says published by Square Europe Ltd. Thats why the SCE logo is not on the front of the box and why it has an SLES number not SCES. source here http://www.hellandheavennet.com/image/final-fantasy-8/images/boxeu2.jpg   chocobogamer      mine   22:38, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

PC Version Development
I think the article forgot that there's a PC version of this game. So, there's lack of the PC version development, till now. PC version review by IGN here. — Blue. 16:26, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree. I think that's the problems with featured articles; people just stop editing them thinking they're already "complete", even though they might not be (or might not be anymore, as the FF developers often release precious information on past titles in recent interviews). Megata Sanshiro (talk) 17:55, 16 November 2009 (UTC)

Game Informer scans
At User:Teggles' request, I scanned ten pages related to FF VIII from some 1999 Game Informers. Just letting you all know in case there's some usable information in them of benefit to the article. Cheers.  sesu  prime  04:14, 30 May 2010 (UTC)

Ultimania development information currently not in the article [now in English]
The following sources should be translated and used to expand the current incomplete article:

 * Final Fantasy VIII Ultimania
 * FFVIII Creator Interview 1 – Graphics Team
 * FFVIII Creator Interview 2 – Battle Team
 * FFVIII Creator Interview 3 – Sound Team
 * FFVIII Creator Interview 4 – Movie Team
 * FFVIII Creator Interview 5 – Event Team
 * FFVIII Creator Interview 6

 * Ultimania website
 * Final Fantasy VIII Ultimania Staff Comments

Anyone willing to help translate even one page is welcome! Jonathan Hardin' (talk) 10:44, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
 * Updated the links. Jonathan Hardin' (talk) 21:47, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Translations found! http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/197343-final-fantasy-viii/66115498 Jonathan Hardin' (talk) 12:07, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for finding them! I'm guessing Mark Felt Sr is you? Here are the tidbits that jumped out at me for what should get included into the article:

 * Graphics team
 * The graphics team wanted to create a brighter world compared to the dark FFVII, echoed by final interview
 * Getter Robo-style Garden transformations were cut
 * Graphics team wanted to minimize the boundaries between FMV, field, and battle scenes to maintain flow; connects to battle team interview where they say the same thing: they wanted to unify the character models between these three screens
 * Sound team
 * Uematsu struggled in deciding to make a subdued background soundtrack or a more powerful melodious soundtrack
 * Mariah Carey and Celine Dion were considered to sing Eyes on Me
 * The sound team experimented with using "live sound" (aka live recordings as opposed to a midi sequencer, I guess?) in FFVIII and were impressed with the results; they wanted to make a full game with live recordings someday when not constrained by tech (what's the first FF do to this? FFX? Probably a good historical note to include)
 * Uematsu's favorite tracks are Eyes on Me, the card battle theme, and the final 8 bars of the ending theme
 * Battle team
 * This is the first FF game where they considered putting enemies on the field screen and the "enemies level up to match you" concept is retained from this initial idea, to try to get you to fight them in different ways as you and they level up; also mentioned in the last interview, this idea also persists in the XATM092 battle
 * They employed a motion capture studio but ended up making all the animations by hand using the motion capture as a reference; also mentioned by movie team
 * Selphie's slots magic were based on 4-panel comics (yonkoma). This is probably only interesting to me lol.
 * Movie team
 * Twice as many people on the movie team compared to FFVII (15 vs 30)
 * Different tools from FFVII so they had to learn new techniques
 * Event team
 * They wanted to create a lively, full world, so they included lots of named locations and also depicted more about the inner personalities of the characters more
 * Nojima was a fan of Wong so he put her in the running
 * Nojima felt that Squall and Rinoa only got "about a third of the way towards true love"
 * Last interview
 * Development for VIII took about a year
 * More instances combining FMV with controllable gameplay in this game, including having characters behind the FMV instead of using FMV as background which was in the previous game, technologically challenging
 * This is just a rough outline of stuff and I probably wouldn't use all of it. Feel free to add if I missed something. Axem Titanium (talk) 07:29, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

featured in charlies angels
this game is featured in the movie charlie`s angels. it is the truth and i saw it myself. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.208.86.142 (talk) 01:44, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
 * This cultural reference is considered original research, and reliable sources are needed for this reference. Also please do not use this talk page as a forum. Darth Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 02:14, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

get off ur high horse the person wrote something about the game on the talk page. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.169.224.100 (talk) 04:16, 6 July 2012 (UTC)

Citing the game script in the story section unnecessary
I don't think it's necessary to cite specific lines of dialogue from the game's script in the story section. No other Wikipedia article for a work of fiction does this, and it's actually quite distracting. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.255.139.107 (talk) 00:38, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I disagree. Game script quotations are necessary for most video game articles, including this one and other articles in the Final Fantasy series. Darth Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 00:53, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
 * I think it helps ensure that plot summaries are staying true to the story as portrayed and not falling into "original research" territory. With that said, I also think that script cites should be kept to claims that may seem a little surprising to readers, such as plot twists, revelations, and story tidbits disclosed during sidequests. That sort of thing. —Deckiller (t-c-l) 05:59, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
 * It's also not true at all that "no other article" does this. See many, many video game FAs. Axem Titanium (talk) 03:06, 30 October 2011 (UTC)

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Section for Triple Triad Mini-Game
Hi, big question - The game of Triple Triad that features ithin Final Fantasy VIII, isn't mentioned by the Wiki-link in this article; that goes to an article about reoccurring themes in the Final Fantasy series (from what I've seen). I was wondering if anyone would be alright if I included a sub-section of this under the "Gameplay" section of the article, merely to outline how it is played, general rules (not the rules like "Open", "Same") regarding it, what types of cards there are and how to earn more, and describe how in-game rules are changed by different regions and such like. GUtt01 (talk) 13:03, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
 * That information, unfortunately, would be more suited to the Final Fantasy Wikia. That level of game-guide detail would be inappropriate if it was on the FF8 game itself, and much more so for a minigame inside of it. A wikipedia article on a video game gives a general overview of how the game is played, but shouldn't go into too much detail that is only of interest to players of the game, and especially without sources. -- Pres N  14:30, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Sounds fair. How about revising the Wiki-link to a url-link to the webpage on the FFWikia page that talks about it, rather than linking to the page it currently goes to? GUtt01 (talk) 18:55, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
 * We don't usually do inline-links like that to other websites, but I think it'd be reasonable to add an external link to the bottom of the page to whatever Wikia pages you think would be useful to readers. Kind of surprised they're not there already. -- Pres N  21:07, 21 June 2016 (UTC)

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FFVIIIgirls image
I've removed the FVIIIGirls image. While the image description was trying to state it was showing the game's unique art style, there isn't really prose to support it specifically for the promo art specifically. Maybe we could find a statement or more specific in-game thing over the promo art as the game's character don't exactly show off this with the promo image. Andrzejbanas (talk) 15:54, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

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Reggie Wayne

Reginald Wayne (born November 17, 1978) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver for 14 seasons with the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Miami Hurricanes, and was selected by the Colts in the first round of the 2001 NFL draft with the 30th overall pick. A six-time Pro Bowl selection, Wayne was a member of the Colts' Super Bowl XLI. He ranks second in Colts' franchise history to Marvin Harrison in major receiving categories: receptions, receiving yards, targets, and receiving touchdowns. On December 14, 2014, Wayne played in both his 209th game and his 142nd win as a member of the Colts, breaking the franchise records set by Peyton Manning.

Early life
Wayne is the youngest of three sons. His father, Ralph, is a former linebacker for Grambling State. A New Orleans Saints fan in his youth, he was more interested in baseball growing up but chose football by the time he attended John Ehret High School.

College career
Wayne attended the University of Miami, where he was a four-year starter for the Hurricanes. He set a school record of 173 career catches (including 36 consecutive games with a reception). He is one of only five wide receivers in school history to post 20 or more touchdowns in his career, along with Michael Irvin, Lamar Thomas, Leonard Hankerson, and Andre Johnson. Wayne's 48 receptions during the 1997 season set a school record for freshmen, which still stands today. Wayne also ran track and field at the University of Miami, where he recorded a personal best of 21.87 seconds in the 200 meters. Wayne graduated with a degree in liberal arts; his roommate was future Baltimore Ravens safety Ed Reed. Wayne was also teammates with future Indianapolis Colts teammate Edgerrin James while at 'The U'.

College statistics
Wayne was inducted into the University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame at their 43rd Annual Induction Banquet held on March 24, 2011.

2001 season
Wayne was selected by the Indianapolis Colts as the 30th selection in the 2001 NFL draft, the sixth of 34 wide receivers taken in a draft class that included eight future pro-bowlers at the position. He was expected to eventually complement the Colts' other star receiver, Marvin Harrison. He played all 211 games of his career for the Colts.

Wayne made his NFL debut in Week 2 against the Buffalo Bills. He made his first NFL reception in Week 4 against the Oakland Raiders. As a rookie, Wayne caught 27 passes for 345 receiving yards. He only made nine starts and missed three games altogether due to a high ankle sprain.

2002 season
In Week 3, against the Houston Texans, Wayne scored his first NFL touchdown on a 43-yard reception from Peyton Manning. In Week 10, against the Philadelphia Eagles, he had six receptions for 121 yards and a touchdown in the 35–13 victory, his first game going over the 100-yard mark. In Week 14 against the Tennessee Titans, he had five receptions for 103 yards. In Week 16 against the New York Giants, he had six receptions for 104 yards and two touchdowns. In his second NFL season, Wayne caught 49 passes for 716 yards and four touchdowns in 16 games and seven starts.

2003 season
In Week 3 of the 2003 season against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Wayne had ten receptions for 141 yards and two touchdowns in the 23–13 victory. In Week 8, in a 30–21 victory over the Houston Texans, he had two receiving touchdowns. In Week 11, against the New York Jets, he had nine receptions for 141 yards in the 38–31 victory. In the 2003 season, Wayne caught 68 balls for 838 yards and seven touchdowns.

Wayne recorded a receiving touchdown in both of the Colts' playoff victories in the Wild Card Round against the Denver Broncos and the Divisional Round against the Kansas City Chiefs.

2004 season
In Week 2 of the 2004 season, Wayne had seven receptions for 119 yards and a touchdown in the 31–17 victory over the Tennessee Titans. In Week 3, he had 11 receptions for 184 receiving yards and a touchdown in a 45–31 win over the Green Bay Packers. In Week 8, against the Kansas City Chiefs, he had six receptions for 119 receiving yards and two touchdowns. In Week 11 against the Chicago Bears, he had six receptions for 106 yards and a touchdown in the 41–10 victory. In the 2004 season, Wayne caught 77 passes for 1,210 yards and 12 touchdowns during a season in which Colts quarterback Peyton Manning threw a then-record 49 touchdowns. Wayne had ten receptions for 221 yards and two touchdowns in the Wild Card Round, the third-most receiving yards in a postseason game at the time as the Colts beat the Denver Broncos 49–24.

2005 season
In Week 9 of the 2005 season, Wayne had nine receptions for 124 receiving yards and one receiving touchdown in the 40–21 victory over the New England Patriots. In Week 11, he had five receptions for 117 yards and one touchdown in the 45–37 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals. In Week 17, against the Arizona Cardinals, the 13–2 Colts rested most of their top players in preparation for the playoffs, and Wayne had zero receptions for the last time in his remaining 134 regular season games. In 2005, Wayne had 83 receptions for 1,055 receiving yards and five receiving touchdowns.

In the playoffs, Wayne had 97 yards, a two-point conversion, and a critical 22-yard reception to set up a potential game-tying field goal in a 21–18 loss to the eventual Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers in the Divisional Round.

2006 season
In 2006, Wayne signed a six-year, $39.5 million contract. In Week 2, Wayne had six receptions for 135 receiving yards in the 43–24 win over the Houston Texans. In Week 7 against Washington, he had seven receptions for 122 yards and a touchdown in the 36–22 victory. He had ten receptions for 138 yards and three touchdowns in Week 8 against the Denver Broncos. In Week 11, against the Dallas Cowboys, he had seven receptions for 111 yards and a touchdown. In Week 14 against the Jacksonville Jaguars, he had eight receptions for 110 yards. He recorded 86 receptions for 1,310 receiving yards and nine touchdowns. As a result, Wayne was selected to his first Pro Bowl.

In the postseason, Wayne had five receptions in each of the first three games. In the Wild Card Round against the Kansas City Chiefs, Wayne had a receiving touchdown in the 23–8 victory. In the Divisional Round against the Baltimore Ravens, he had five receptions for 51 yards in the 15–6 victory where all of the Colts' points came from field goals. In the AFC Championship against the New England Patriots, he had five receptions for 68 yards in the 38–34 victory, the Colts first over New England in the postseason. He helped the Colts defeat the Chicago Bears in Super Bowl XLI with a 53-yard touchdown reception in the first quarter.

2007 season
Wayne started off the 2007 season with seven receptions for 115 receiving yards and two receiving touchdowns against the New Orleans Saints in a 41–10 victory in Week 1. In Week 7 against the Jacksonville Jaguars, he had nine receptions for 131 receiving yards in the 29–7 victory. In Week 8, he recorded seven receptions for 168 yards with a touchdown in a 31–7 win over the Carolina Panthers. In Week 10 against the San Diego Chargers, he had ten receptions for 140 yards and a touchdown. In Week 13, in the Colts' second divisional game against the Jaguars, he had eight receptions for 158 yards and a touchdown in the 28–25 victory. In Week 16 against the Houston Texans, he had ten receptions for 143 receiving yards and a touchdown in the 38–15 victory. In 2007, Wayne responded to a rash of injuries on the team, including Harrison and tight end Dallas Clark, by setting a then-career-high in receptions (104), and a career-high in yards (1,510). He led the league in receiving yards and was selected to go to the Pro Bowl for the second consecutive year.

In the Divisional Round of the playoffs, Wayne had a receiving touchdown in the 28–24 loss to the San Diego Chargers.

2008 season
Wayne opened the 2008 season with a receiving touchdown four of the Colts' first five games. In that stretch was an eight-catch, 118-yard, one-touchdown game against the Baltimore Ravens in Week 6, a 31–3 victory. In the 2008 season, Wayne posted a Pro Bowl season for the third consecutive year with 82 catches for 1,145 yards and six touchdowns. He had a 65-yard score on the opening drive of Week 10 against the Pittsburgh Steelers. In the Wild Card Round, he had 129 yards including a 72-yard touchdown, but the Colts lost in overtime, eliminated in the first round by the San Diego Chargers for the second consecutive year.

2009 season
In the Colts' 2009 season opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Wayne had ten receptions for 162 yards and a touchdown in the 14–12 victory. In Week 3, against the Arizona Cardinals, he had seven receptions for 126 receiving yards and a touchdown in the 31–10 victory. In Week 8, against the San Francisco 49ers, he had 12 receptions for 147 yards and a touchdown in the 18–14 victory. In Week 10, he caught the winning touchdown pass with 0:14 left against the New England Patriots in what is now known as the "4th and 2" game. He had ten receptions for 126 yards and two touchdowns in the win over New England. In Week 15, against the Jacksonville Jaguars, he had five receptions for 132 yards and a touchdown in the 35–31 victory. He totaled 100 receptions for 1,264 receiving yards and ten receiving touchdowns on the season. Wayne was also selected as a starter for the Pro Bowl, but couldn't play due to the Colts playing in the Super Bowl. In Super Bowl XLIV, Wayne had five catches for 46 yards, but the Colts lost to the New Orleans Saints 31–17.

2010 season
In 2010, Wayne was second in the NFL receptions with 111 (a career-high), and third in receiving yards with 1,355. During a season where the Colts heavily relied on Peyton Manning to win games, Wayne again cemented himself as one of the top receivers in the NFL. This included a franchise-record 15 receptions which he converted into 196 yards against Jacksonville in Week 4, and 14 receptions for 200 yards in Week 13 against Dallas. Wayne was selected to his fifth Pro Bowl and earned first team All-Pro honors for the first time. He was ranked 31st by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2011.

2011 season
Wayne's numbers were lower than usual in 2011 without Peyton Manning starting at quarterback, though he still led team in receptions (75) and receiving yards (960). He had four touchdown receptions as well. He had three games going over the 100-yard mark on the year, including a season-high 122 against the Carolina Panthers in Week 12.

2012 season
On March 13, 2012, the Colts re-signed Wayne to a three-year contract. Wayne started off the season with nine receptions for 135 yards against the Chicago Bears. Before the Colts' Week 5 matchup with the Green Bay Packers, the news of head coach Chuck Pagano's leukemia surfaced. Wayne's history with Pagano goes back to his college years, where Pagano was the Hurricanes' defensive backs coach, and Pagano's hiring as the Colts' head coach was a large factor in Wayne's decision to re-sign with Indianapolis. In response, Wayne caught 13 passes for a career-high 212 receiving yards and a game-winning touchdown from rookie quarterback Andrew Luck; Wayne earned the AFC Offensive Player of the Week award due to his performance, the first of his career. In Week 12 against Buffalo Bills, Wayne broke Cris Carter's record of consecutive games with three or more receptions with 59 games. He also passed former Washington Redskins receiver Art Monk for 12th on the NFL's all-time receptions list during the first half. In the 2012 season, Wayne had 106 receptions for 1,355 receiving yards and five receiving touchdowns. He was named to his sixth Pro Bowl.

During the Wild Card Round against the Baltimore Ravens, Wayne had 114 yards on nine receptions and moved into second in career playoff catches with 92—59 behind leader Jerry Rice. However, the Colts lost the game, 24–9. He was ranked 21st by his fellow players on the NFL Top 100 Players of 2013.

Wayne was selected as the wide receiver for USA Football's 2012 All-Fundamentals Team, which honors 26 NFL players each year for executing the fundamentals of their position.

2013 season
In the 2013 season, Wayne recorded five receptions for 100 yards and a touchdown against Jacksonville in Week 4, a 37–3 victory. In a Week 6 loss to San Diego, Wayne became the ninth player to reach 1,000 career receptions. However, a week later, Wayne tore his ACL; it was announced the next day that he would miss the remainder of the 2013 season. The injury also ended his consecutive games played streak at 189, the third-longest for a wide receiver in NFL history.

2014 season
With the retirement of Tony Gonzalez, 36-year-old Wayne entered 2014 as the active leader in career receiving yards. He gained 98 more one receptions in a season-opening loss to the Denver Broncos, and 119 on seven receptions in Week 4 against the Tennessee Titans. In Week 8, Wayne became the ninth receiver in NFL history to record 14,000 receiving yards. He suffered an elbow injury in the game and missed the following week's matchup against the Pittsburgh Steelers. Near the conclusion of the Colts' 2014 season, it was announced that Wayne had played with a torn triceps since Week 6, which would require an offseason surgery to repair. He finished the 2014 season with 64 receptions for 779 receiving yards and two receiving touchdowns.

He had just one reception in the Colts' three post-season games, concluding his career with franchise records for postseason receptions (93); receiving yards (1,254), receiving touchdowns (9), and games with 100+ yards receiving (3, shared with Dallas Clark and T. Y. Hilton).

On March 6, 2015, the Colts announced that they would not re-sign Wayne, which made him a free agent on March 10.

Retirement
On August 24, 2015, Wayne signed a one-year contract with the New England Patriots worth up to $3 million. On September 5, 2015, Wayne requested and was granted his release from the Patriots.

On January 15, 2016, after not playing the entire 2015 season, Wayne announced his retirement from professional football, saying, "It was fun, but it's time. It's just time. Whenever you can admit that you're done, you know you're done." At the time of his retirement, he finished his NFL career 7th all-time in career receptions, 8th all-time in receiving yards, and 17th in career touchdown receptions.

Post-playing career
On April 30, 2018, the Colts announced that Wayne would join the team as a volunteer receivers coach. On November 18, 2018, Wayne became the 15th player to be inducted into the team's Ring of Honor, in a ceremony attended by former teammates including Marvin Harrison, Manning and Saturday. On January 2, 2020, Wayne was named one of 15 modern-era finalists for election into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. He and Pittsburgh Steelers safety Troy Polamalu are the only two finalists for 2020 to be nominated in their first year of eligibility. As of 2021, Wayne has been nominated four times for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but has not yet been selected.

For the 2021 NFL draft, Wayne joined Bleacher Report as a positional expert. He applauded the Giants first round pick of Kadarius Toney. Wayne went on to compare him to Percy Harvin and called him the toughest wide receiver in the draft.

Coaching career
On March 14, 2022, Wayne was hired as the wide receivers coach for the Colts.

Personal life
In 2012, a hotel valet stole his luxury vehicle from an Indianapolis hotel where Wayne left his car. The valet was arrested standing outside the car with a blood alcohol content of .13 percent.

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Fox never had an original bone in his body and is only into musical masturbation and bands who do the same.

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Willard Inc

Gerald Weymouth Oniel and Green Gel Records are in violation Of Copyright and are illegally attemping to profit from Willard Recordings. Post no links

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Date inconsistency
If "They disbanded after recording eleven songs in November 1993", then how was Willard "active" until 1995 (per infobox), and how did Tyson Garcia play bass for them from 94-97? - K1darkknight (talk) 18:02, 23 September 2020 (UTC)

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User:Anr~enwiki

My name is András Mészáros. I am Hungarian program architect.

My blog, with some thousand pictures and videos (mostly from Bali/Indonesia and Pattaya/Thailand, Angeles City/Philippines): Egy andrej bugyrai.

--Anr 23:03, 2004 Dec 4 (UTC)

You look like the lucky winner of the millionth page - well done. -155.144.251.120, 1 March 2006

Welldone!!!

Good job. Did you use any extrapolation software eg least squares best fit or some such to aid in making your prediction? davidzuccaro 02:15, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Jé, híres lettél :) tegla 14:22, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Background of my prediction
This is of the details of my prediction background. Sorry, mostly in hungarian. Anr 21:48, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

News about me ;)
1 000 000 szócikk az angol Wikipedia-ban (Hungarian)

Thaiföldön túrázik a magyar Wikipedia-jós (Hungarian)

Mázlista Magyar felhasználó nyerte... (Hungarian)

Wikipedia racks up one million articles

Wikipedia Reaches 1,000,000 Articles

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YOU WIN THE Wikipedia:Million_pool
Million_pool--Zayani 23:15, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

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Hello
Hello! I believe that you will win the Million pool. J I P | Talk 15:25, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, looks like a sure thing. Thue | talk 20:50, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations, surely you'll win....--the Dannycas 01:46, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Congratulations! User:David Sneek 11:38, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

Congrats!! Looks like it should hit sometime before noon (in Ohio). :-) CrypticBacon 09:05, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Thx guys. Anr 11:29, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, nice guess (or lucky perhaps!), a few months ago I reckoned it would be some time around now, but the poll had closde by then :). I wonder what you'll win (besides the obligatory 'eternal fame', of course!) -- Gurch 17:04, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Wow, what's he win? Was it 72 virgins? I think it was 72 virgins ... -- Cyde Weys 21:36, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

CONGRATS!!
Awesome. Crzrussian 19:32, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Congrats!!! A333A 20:47, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Just 539 more articles in 9 hours, you got it wrapped up! Great job!!

Well done dude !!!!!!zogin

Gratulálok! Ki tudta, hogy egy Magyar fogja kitalálni, hogy mikkor lesz az 1.000.000 szócikket szerkesztve! AdamTheHun 22:12, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
 * This means something like "Who would have known, that a Hungarian [...] at which time 1.000.000 [...]", right? J I P  | Talk 14:51, 2 March 2006 (UTC)/
 * It actually means "Congratulations! Who knew, that a Hungary would guss, when the 1,000,000th article would be created!" AdamTheHun 00:44, 3 March 2006 (UTC)

Good job on guessing the date!! Why did u choose March 1st? --( Aytakin ) | Talk 23:15, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Gratullálok! Congratulations! Felicitations! ¡Felicitaciones! JB82 23:25, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Sweet! --Banana04131 00:09, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations! Are you going to Disney World? Eixo 00:36, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Congradulations man! I'd throw a party if I was you ;) Dandin1 00:44, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
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Cool, nice prediction. I was about a week too pessimistic about the growth :-). Congrats. — David Remahl 00:51, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Hello, and a little late congratulations from me too! I was still sleeping when the millionth article was written. J I P | Talk 07:57, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Congratulations! The Minist  e   r of War   (Peace) 08:18, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Hoomaikai. —Viriditas | Talk 08:42, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Congrats! You deserve this honour! -- S iva1979 Talk to me  15:46, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Background
This is of the details of my prediction background. Sorry, mostly in hungarian. Anr 21:48, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Congrats
Hi Anr! It would be great if you could include the synopis of the hungraian discussion in english Thanks --IndianCow 10:49, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
 * I believe, like me many more would be interested in understanding it. --IndianCow 10:50, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Me too. I've had a brief introductory course in Hungarian but am still only able to understand a few basic words. The majority of the text eludes me. It's a bit embarassing to understand so little of a language related to my own. J I P  | Talk 14:49, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

Én is gratulálok. Szerintem vegyél lottót!! Nyikita 01:34, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

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Atom Ant

Atom Ant is a cartoon ant and superhero, created by Hanna-Barbera in 1965. Atom costarred in The Atom Ant/Secret Squirrel Show (sharing top billing with Secret Squirrel). In syndication, Atom Ant aired alongside The Hillbilly Bears and Precious Pupp. Reruns aired on cable on Cartoon Network and Boomerang in the 1990s and 2000s.

Biography
Atom Ant (originally voiced by Howard Morris, then by Don Messick in later episodes) is a superhero ant who operates out of an anthill in the countryside, where he possesses such things as a mainframe computer and exercise equipment. His powers mostly consist of the ability to fly, superspeed, incredible strength, and invulnerability. His catchphrase is "Up and at 'em, Atom Ant!" He was often contacted by the police, who sent him out on an assignment.

Some of these missions parody the missions of Batman. The police force is constantly shown to be underfunded and inept, as they rely on Atom Ant to do all their police work. As seen in "Nobody's Fool," the only two police officers are the chief of police and deputy chief. The department has only one rusted patrol car. Atom Ant fights various villains, including recurring ones like Ferocious Flea (also voiced by Messick) and mad scientist Professor Von Gimmick (voiced by Allen Melvin).

Other appearances

 * Atom Ant appeared in a comic book, Atom Ant #1, published by Gold Key/Western Publishing in January 1966.
 * Atom Ant later appeared in Yogi's Ark Lark and its spin-off series Yogi's Gang, voiced again by Don Messick.
 * In the early 1990s series, Yo Yogi! with Don Messick reprising Atom Ant. He appears as Jellystone Town's residential superhero. In the episode "Super Duper Snag," it was revealed that his Atomic Helmet is his source of power.
 * Hi-Tech Software released a budget labeled computer game for the Commodore 64 in 1990 called Atom Ant: Up and Atom. The idea of the game is to fly and collect a certain amount of bombs scattered around high rise buildings and 'atomize' them in a special bubble-like device at the top of each area (a game design influenced by Tehkan's Bomb Jack).
 * In 2000, Cartoon Network produced a short cartoon as a part of their "Groovies" series, called "We Must All Get Ready Now". Featuring Atom Ant as the lead character, the short contained several audio tracks from the Atom Ant cartoon, and some audio from the classic Cold War civil defense film, Duck and Cover. The short could formerly be seen as interstitial programming on Boomerang; its last time on the channel being June 1, 2014, due to the network's rebrand in January 2015. The short was directed by Jonas Odell, with its music by Michael Kohler. Sometimes, at that point it was followed by another cartoon that Cartoon Network produced in their "Groovies" or "Shorties" series.
 * Atom Ant appeared in Yogi's Treasure Hunt.
 * Atom Ant as a picture made a cameo in the "Agent Penny" episode of the Super Secret Secret Squirrel segment of 2 Stupid Dogs.
 * Atom Ant makes a cameo appearance in a MetLife television commercial that aired in 2012.
 * Atom Ant's catchphrase, "Up and Atom!", is also used by comic book superhero Radioactive Man in The Simpsons.
 * Atom Ant as a toy made a cameo in the What's New, Scooby-Doo? episode "Roller Ghoster Ride".
 * Atom Ant is featured in the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episode "Incredible Hippo" and voiced by Maurice LaMarche. He appears as the defendant accused of radioactive contamination by the EPA.
 * Atom Ant makes a cameo in the direct-to-video film Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon in a framed picture.
 * Atom Ant appeared in a back-up feature in Scooby Apocalypse.
 * Atom Ant appears in the end credits of Scoob! as a new recruit of the Falcon Force, a new team made by the Blue Falcon. In this version, he has four arms.
 * Atom Ant appears in the HBO Max original series Jellystone!.

Home video
The episode "Up And Atom" is available on the DVD Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960s Vol. 1. The episode "Atom Ant Meets Karate Ant" is available on the DVD Saturday Morning Cartoons 1960s Vol. 2, as well as a part of the "A Sample of Boomerang" tape, from Cartoon Network's sister channel, Boomerang. The episode "The Big Gimmick" is available on the DVD Best of Warner Bros. 25 Cartoon Collection Hanna-Barbera. On October 6, 2015, Warner Archive released Atom Ant: The Complete Series on DVD in region 1 as part of their Hanna–Barbera Classics Collection. This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available exclusively through Warner's online store and Amazon.com.

In 2016, The Atom Ant Show was made available for download via iTunes Store.

Both seasons of The Atom Ant Show are available on the streaming Boomerang (TV network) subscription app.

Voices

 * Howard Morris as Atom Ant (Season one), Muscles' Boss
 * Don Messick as Atom Ant (Season two), Ferocious Flea, Mr. Muto, Narrator
 * John Stephenson as Narrator
 * Allan Melvin as Muscles, Big Fats Dynamo, Professor Von Gimmick, Little Mousey, Ali Cat, The Toadstool, additional voices
 * Ted Cassidy as Opening Announcer (uncredited)

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Pickerel

Pickerel may refer to:

Animals

 * Esox, a genus of fish commonly known as the pickerels
 * American pickerel
 * Chain pickerel
 * Redfin pickerel
 * Pickerel frog
 * Walleye, a fish unrelated to Esox, is called Pickerel in parts of Canada

Places

 * Pickerel Creek, Missouri
 * Pickerel River (disambiguation)
 * Pickerel, Virginia
 * Pickerel, Wisconsin

People with the surname

 * Mark Pickerel, American musician

Other uses

 * USS Pickerel, several ships of the United States Navy

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Didessa River

The Didessa (pronounced: ɗeɗ:e:s:a; Dhedheessa) is a river in western Ethiopia. A tributary of the Abay River, it rises in the mountains of Gomma, flowing in a northwesterly direction to its confluence where the course of the Abay has curved to its southernmost point before turning northwards at about 9.95°N, 35.68333°W. The Didessa's drainage area is about 19,630 square kilometers, covering portions of the Benishangul-Gumuz Region and the West Welega Zone of the Oromia Region.

Tributaries on the right bank include the Enareya, Aet, Wama, and the Angar rivers; on the left side the most important tributary is the Dobana River. Exploring this river in the mid-1890s and from interviews with local inhabitants, Alexander Bulatovich asserted that downstream of its junction with the Angar, the Didessa is rapid-free and potentially navigable.

Human history
The early 20th-century explorer Herbert Weld Blundell opined that "Didessa" appears to have replaced a much older name for this river, finding no earlier usage for it "before 1861, when d'Abbadie was travelling in Western Shoa and made inquiries." At the time of his visit, in 1905, the Handak forest on the right side of the Didessa was "famous as a favourite haunt for elephants. They seem to come up towards the Nile by both the Didesa and Dabus rivers, attracted, no doubt, in the latter river-bed by the rich growth of young bamboo." He also notes that at the confluence of the Didessa and the Abay, "the serious work of goldwashing begins, and continues along the Nile and down the course of the Dabus and its tributaries," adding that: "The deep erosion of the upper strata of basalt and trap, and subsequent decomposition, lays bare the gneissic and hornblendic schist formations below, so that nearly the whole country from the foot of Chochi to the river, a distance of 15 miles, is covered with quartz pebbles and boulders, and shows numerous outcrops. The decomposed portions of the reefs are strewn over the ground, and the gold they contain is thus washed into the small streams, and then carried into the Abai."

Despite the efforts of these explorers, and the presence of humans in the area since roughly the origins of the species, the course of the Didessa from its point near Nekemte to its confluence with the Abay apparently was only traced in 1935 by Dunlop and Taylor. They were told by Dejazmach Habte Maryam, the local official in Nekemte, "that nobody, even the local Shankallas, as far as he knew, had ever followed the course of the river to its junction with the Abbai." "Admittedly, at certain times of the year [the Dejazmach continued], a few Shankallas worked in some cotton fields, which he had just planted 15 miles north of the Dadessa bridge; but even these few miles were, to use his own words, 'a country fit only for monkeys.' He emphasized the difficulties which we would encounter: no paths, thick bamboo forests, fever, and, with an expressive upward wave of his hand, the steepness of the mountains bordering the river. He suggested that, if we were anxious to see the confluence of the Abbai and Dadessa, we would be well advised to follow the track from Nekemti to Nejo, thence along a known track to the junction."

Anger Irrigation Dam
On 14 June 2021, the construction of the Anger Irrigation Dam at Didessa River was launched by the President of Oromia regional state, Shimelis Abdisa, and Minister of Water, Irrigation and Energy, Sileshi Bekele, to be completed in three years.

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Josef Schwammberger

Josef Franz Leo Schwammberger (14 February 1912 – 3 December 2004) was a member of the SS (Schutzstaffel) during the Nazi era.

Biography
During the Second World War, Schwammberger was a commander of various SS Arbeitslager (forced-labor camps) in the Kraków district (late August 1942 until spring 1944).

He was arrested in Innsbruck, Austria, in the French occupation zone after the war on 19 July 1945, but escaped in January 1948 and within months was able to enter Argentina, where he lived under his own name and obtained citizenship. West German authorities sought his extradition beginning in 1973, and Argentine officials tracked him down on 13 November 1987. After two years of fighting extradition, he was returned to West Germany in May 1990 for trial. His capture cost the German state of Baden-Württemberg just under 500,000 Deutschmark.

At his trial, which lasted nearly a year (1991 until 1992), Schwammberger denied being guilty of the crimes of which he was charged; he simply admitted that "Ghetto A" was taken to the Przemyśl camp. On 18 May 1992 he was sentenced by the Stuttgart regional court (Landgericht) to life imprisonment, which he was to serve in Mannheim. He was found guilty of seven counts of murder and 32 counts of being an accessory to murder.

"The court ruled that on 21 September 1942, which was Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, Mr. Schwammberger sought out and killed a Jewish rabbi in Rozwadów, a crime that Judge Luippold called one of his "most despicable and reprehensible." In addition, the judge found that Mr. Schwammberger was an organizer of a mass execution in the Przemyśl camp on 2 September 1943, in which at least 500 Jewish prisoners were shot by Gestapo soldiers."

In August 2002, the Mannheim regional court declined a parole request due to the unusual cruelty of his offences; he had been found guilty of carrying out arbitrary murders based on racial hatred against Jewish people.

His wife Käthe Schwammberger died in 2003 at the age of 87 in Argentina before Schwammberger himself died in prison on 3 December 2004, aged 92.

The Simon Wiesenthal Center was instrumental in bringing him to justice. Also contributing to the case against Schwammberger, including his extradition from Argentina, was Elliot Welles and Anna Unger Weinberg.

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James D. Griffin

James Donald Griffin (June 29, 1929 – May 25, 2008) was an American politician who served in the New York State Senate (56th District, 1967–77) and then for 16 years as the Mayor of Buffalo, New York (1978–93). He later returned to public life serving as a member of the Buffalo Common Council.

Early life
Griffin, an Irish American, hailed from South Buffalo, the son of Helen (O'Brien) and Thomas Griffin. He served in the United States Army during the Korean War.

Griffin was a registered Democrat during his political career. However, he was very conservative compared to the party platform, especially on social issues. He was frequently cross-endorsed by the Conservative and Republican parties. He was a Buffalo city councilman in the 1960s.

He was a member of the New York State Senate from 1967 to 1977, sitting in the 177th, 178th, 179th, 180th, 181st, and 182nd New York State Legislatures.

Mayor of Buffalo
Griffin was elected mayor of Buffalo in November 1977, and was sworn in on January 1, 1978. He had lost the Democratic primary for mayor to then Deputy State Assembly Speaker Arthur Eve. In the general election, he was the nominee of the Conservative Party and defeated Eve to be elected mayor. He was reelected in 1981, 1985, and 1989.

As mayor, Griffin was sometimes known for his outspoken personality. During a January 1985 blizzard, he recommended to Buffalo residents "go home, buy a six pack of beer, and watch a good football game." This earned him the nickname "Jimmy Six Pack".

While mayor, he was the unsuccessful Republican nominee for Erie County executive in 1991, losing to incumbent Dennis Gorski. In 1996, Griffin sought the Democratic nomination for president in the New Hampshire primary, finishing a very distant eighth to Bill Clinton. After the "Spring of Life" demonstration in April 1992 where Griffin encouraged pro-life groups such as Operation Rescue to protest in Buffalo, he declined to seek a fifth term as mayor and was succeeded by Democrat Anthony Masiello.

Postmayoral career
Griffin remained as outspoken and controversial as a former mayor as he was during his career in City Hall. He frequently commented on public policy issues in Buffalo. He ran again for Mayor in the 1997 election, running on the Right to Life line and losing to Masiello. He then unsuccessfully sought a seat in the New York State Assembly against future Congressman Brian Higgins (where Griffin was defeated in his home base of South Buffalo for the only time in his elector career) and was rumored to have an interest in a seat in the Erie County Legislature that was vacated in 2001, although in the end he did not run. In 2002, he led an effort to recall Masiello from office. This effort fell through because of petition discrepancies and disputes over whether a recall election was legal in New York State.

In 1996, Griffin entered the New Hampshire Democratic Presidential Primary election, finishing well behind incumbent Bill Clinton, and even garnering fewer votes than perennial candidate and satirist Pat Paulsen.

In 2003, Griffin was elected to a two-year term in the Buffalo Common Council, representing the South District. Taking office in 2004, Griffin was named Chairman of the Claims Committee and started working on fiscal issues relating to the Buffalo fiscal crisis. He also criticized Masiello's handling of city finances. Griffin focused much of his time on issues in his district.

In the spring of 2005, Griffin resigned from the council with several months left in his term. He said he had completed what he sought to accomplish as a councilman and was retiring from public life.

On January 28, 2007, during an interview on the Hardline with Hardwick radio program on Buffalo radio station WBEN, Griffin said he might once again run for Erie County Executive as a Democrat. The County Executive at that time, Joel Giambra, had announced he would not be seeking re-election. Then on April 15, 2007, he announced on WWKB's "Public Opinions with Wayne Mack" that he had discussed running again with his wife, and decided he did not wish to seek public office anymore.

However, on July 17, 2007, Griffin announced that he was joining the race for the Erie County Executive seat, against fellow South Buffalonian and endorsed Democratic Party candidate Jim Keane. Griffin was correctly considered an underdog and did not have much—if any—money with which to run a campaign. When the votes were counted after the primary on September 18, 2007, Griffin ran 3rd in a three-way race with about 23% of the vote. He ran his campaign with only $11,000.00 against the millions his opponents spent on their campaigns. Griffin then said he had run his last electoral race and considered himself retired from political competition. Griffin later endorsed the candidacy of Republican candidate and with the assistance of his group of campaign volunteers, helped Christopher C. Collins win the election for Erie County Executive.

Griffin died on May 25, 2008, at the Father Baker Manor in Orchard Park, from Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease. His wife, Margaret "Margie" Griffin (née McMahon), died in July 2011. The couple had three children.

Legacy
Griffin had 3 children named Maureen, Megan, and Tom.

Following his death, the Buffalo Common Council voted to rename the address of Sahlen Field to One James D. Griffin Plaza in his honor.

A bronze sculpture of Griffin titled The First Pitch by artist William Koch was erected outside Sahlen Field in 2012 to honor Griffin's contributions in bringing the ballpark and professional baseball to Buffalo.

Until Byron Brown swept his opponent to win a record 5th term in 2021, Griffin was the longest-serving mayor of Buffalo, and from January 3, 2021 until December 31, 2021, he shared this title with Brown, but at midnight on January 1, the tie was broken.

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Vogar

Vogar is a small town in the southwest of Iceland. It is the seat of the municipality of Vogar (Sveitarfélagið Vogar). There is a highly automated atmospheric gas extraction plant in the town, with the oxygen produced being the only local source for Iceland's healthcare use. The town also has a fish roe incubation centre for Atlantic salmon.

Overview
The population of the municipality of Vogar was almost 1400 as of 2023.

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