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Placeholder name

Placeholder names are intentionally overly generic and ambiguous terms referring to things, places, or people, the names of which or of whom do not actually exist; are temporarily forgotten, or are unimportant; or in order to avoid stigmatization, or because they are unknowable or unpredictable given the context of their discussion; or to deliberately expunge direct use of the name.

Placeholder names for people are often terms referring to an average person or a predicted persona of a typical user.

Linguistic role
These placeholders typically function grammatically as nouns and can be used for people (e.g. John Doe, Jane Doe), objects (e.g. widget), locations ("Main Street"), or places (e.g. Anytown, USA). They share a property with pronouns because their referents must be supplied by context; but, unlike a pronoun, they may be used with no referent—the important part of the communication is not the thing nominally referred to by the placeholder, but the context in which the placeholder occurs.

In their Dictionary of American Slang (1960), Stuart Berg Flexner and Harold Wentworth use the term kadigan for placeholder words. They define "kadigan" as a synonym for thingamajig. The term may have originated with Willard R. Espy, though others, such as David Annis, also used it (or cadigans) in their writing. Its etymology is obscure—Flexner and Wentworth related it to the generic word gin for engine (as in the cotton gin). It may also relate to the Irish surname Cadigan.

Hypernyms (words for generic categories, such as "flower" for tulips and roses) may also be used in this function of a placeholder, but they are not considered to be kadigans.

Examples
Placeholder words exist in a highly informal register of the English language. In formal speech and writing, words like accessory, paraphernalia, artifact, instrument, or utensil are preferred; these words serve substantially the same function, but differ in connotation.

Most of these words can be documented in at least the 19th century. Edgar Allan Poe wrote a short story entitled "The Literary Life of Thingum Bob, Esq.", showing that particular form to be in familiar use in the United States in the 1840s. In Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, W. S. Gilbert makes the Lord High Executioner sing of a "little list" which includes:

... apologetic statesmen of a compromising kind,

Such as: What d'ye call him: Thing'em-bob, and likewise: Never-mind,

and 'St: 'st: 'st: and What's-his-name, and also You-know-who:

The task of filling up the blanks I'd rather leave to you.

Some fields have their own specific placeholder terminology. For example, "widget" in economics, engineering and electronics, or "Blackacre" and "John Doe" or "Jane Doe" in law. "X-ray" was originally a placeholder name for an unexplained phenomenon.

Companies and organizations

 * "Ace" and "Acme" were popular in company names as positioning words in alphabetical directories. They were generic, laudatory of whatever products they were used to promote and appeared at the beginning of most alpha-sorted lists. ("Acme" is a regular English word from the Ancient Greek ἀκμή, akme meaning summit, highest point, extremity or peak, and thus sometimes used for "best".) A well-known example of "Acme" as a placeholder name is the Acme Corporation, whose products are often seen in the Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner cartoons.
 * "Mom and Pop" (in the United States) are occasional placeholders for the individual owners of a generic small family-owned business
 * High Street (UK) or Main Street (US) for the business district of a small town or village, often contrasted as a commercial business entity against Threadneedle Street, City of London in the UK or Wall Street, New York City in America.
 * "Advent corporation" is a term used by lawyers to describe an as yet unnamed corporation, while legal incorporation documents are being prepared. In the case of Advent Corporation, founder Henry Kloss decided to adopt this placeholder name as the formal legal name of his new company.
 * "NewCo" or "Newco" is used in a similar way in the UK for an as-yet-unnamed company.
 * Fictional brands such as Morley are often used in television and cinema as placeholders to avoid unintended product placement. "Brand X" has been used in television advertisements as a generic brand representing any other brand than the one being advertised.
 * "XYZ Widget Company" has long been used in business and economics textbooks as a sample company. Also used as engraving text example on items such as plaques, trophy plates, etc. Occasionally appears on customizable promotional materials including stationery templates, business cards, advertising signage, cups, backpacks, and other "swag" samples.
 * "Contoso", "Fabrikam", "Wingtip Toys", "Woodgrove Bank", "Litware", and previously "Northwind" are used as fictional businesses in Microsoft's training materials and documentation.
 * "Oceanic Airlines" is used as a fictional airline in several films, TV programmes, and comic books, typically when it is involved in a disaster or another event with which actual airlines would prefer not to be associated.
 * "Octan" is used by The Lego Group as a fictional oil company. Before 1992, they used real life oil companies Shell Oil, Exxon and Esso.

Computing
Placeholder names are commonly used in computing:
 * Foo, bar, baz, and qux (and combinations thereof) are commonly used as placeholders for file, function and variable names. Foo and bar are derived from foobar.
 * Hacker slang includes a number of placeholders, such as frob which may stand for any small piece of equipment. To frob, likewise, means to do something to something. In practice it means to adjust (a device) in an aimless way.
 * Alice and Bob, alternatives for person A and person B when describing processes in telecommunications; in cryptography Eve (the eavesdropper) is also added.
 * J. Random X (e.g. J. Random Hacker, J. Random User) is a term used in computer jargon for a randomly selected member of a set, such as the set of all users. Sometimes used as J. Random Loser for any not-very-computer-literate user.
 * John and Jane Appleseed, commonly used as placeholder names by Apple.

Domain names
Certain domain names in the format example.tld (such as example.com, example.net, and example.org) are officially reserved as placeholders for the purpose of presentation. Various example reserved IP addresses exist in IPv4 and IPv6, such as in IPv4 documentation and  in IPv6 documentation.

Geographical locations
Placeholders such as Main Street, Your County, and Anytown are often used in sample mailing addresses. Ruritania is commonly used as a placeholder country. Acacia Avenue has been used as shorthand for an average suburban residential street in Britain.

Something-stan and its demonym something-stani, where something is often profanity, is commonly used as a placeholder for a Middle Eastern or South Asian country/people or for a politically disliked portion of one's own country/people. For example, Londonistan, to evoke the perception of London's high Muslim population.

Timbuktu, which is also a real city in the country of Mali, is often used to mean a place that is far away, in the middle of nowhere, or exotic.

Podunk is used in American English for a hypothetical small town regarded as typically dull or insignificant, a place in the U.S. that is unlikely to have been heard of. Another example is East Cupcake to refer to a generic small town in the Midwestern United States.

Similarly, the boondocks or the boonies are used in American English to refer to very rural areas without many inhabitants.

In New Zealand English, Woop Woops (or, alternatively, Wop-wops) is a (generally humorous) name for an out-of-the-way location, usually rural and sparsely populated. The similar Australian English Woop Woop, (or, less frequently, Woop Woops) can refer to any remote location, or outback town or district. Another New Zealand English term with a similar use is Waikikamukau ("Why kick a moo-cow"), a generic name for a small rural town.

In British English, Bongo Bongo Land (or Bongo-bongo Land) is a pejorative term used to refer to Third World countries, particularly in Africa, or to a fictional such country.

Legal

 * In ancient Roman law, the names Aulus Agerius and Numerius Negidius were used to represent the plaintiff and the defendant. The names were both wordplays, respectively meaning "[I] set in motion" and "[I] refuse to pay". The model instruction to judges for civil suits began with si paret Numerium Negidium Aulo Agerio sestertium decem milia dare oportere, meaning "if [it] appears that Numerius Negidius ought to pay Aulus Agerius ten thousand sesterces...".
 * In the United States and Canada, John Doe and the variations Jane Doe (for females) and John Roe or Richard Roe (for a second party): used in legal action and cases when the true identity of a person is unknown or must be withheld for legal reasons. Jane Roe was used for the then-unidentified plaintiff (Norma Leah McCorvey) in one of the most famous legal cases in United States history, Roe v. Wade. These parties also appear in the legal fictions of the action in ejectment, which was the usual proceeding to quiet title to real property under common law pleading.
 * Mopery: used in informal legal discussions as a placeholder for some infraction, when the exact nature of the infraction is not important.
 * Blackacre and its neighbors Whiteacre, Greenacre, Brownacre, Greyacre, Pinkacre, etc. are used as placeholders for parcels of real property, usually on Law School examinations and the several State Bar Exams. They are sometimes located in Acre County in the fictional State of Franklin.
 * Fnu Lnu is used by authorities to identify unknown suspects, the name being an acronym for First Name Unknown, Last Name Unknown. If a person's first name is known but not the last, or vice versa, they may be called [real name] Lnu or Fnu [real name], and an unidentified person may be Fnu Lnu. For example, a former interpreter for the United States military was charged as "FNU LNU", and a mute man whose identity could not be determined was arrested and charged with burglary in Harris County, Texas under the name "FNU-LNU" (charges were later dropped because authorities could not communicate with the man). Fnu-Lnu conjunctions may also be used if the person has only a single name, as in Indonesian names. The name has been considered a source of humor when Fnu Lnu has been mistaken for the actual name of a person.
 * X ben X (lit. 'X, son of X', إكس بن إكس or سين بن سين) is used in Morocco by health and judicial authorities in cases where an individual's identity cannot be determined. These cases include amnesiacs, suspects, hospital patients, and homeless people. In 2009, 80,000 abandoned orphans had the placeholder name of X ben X and 100 unidentified bodies are buried each year in Morocco under this status.

Medicine

 * St. Elsewhere is often used as a placeholder name for any regional hospital or other care facility from which an admitted patient was referred. The medical slang is honored in the name of the 1980s television show of the same name.
 * GOMER (Get Out of My Emergency Room) is a name in medical slang for any patient who continually uses emergency room services for non-emergency conditions; its use is informal and pejorative.
 * Element names from the periodic table are used in some hospitals as a placeholder for patient names, ex. Francium Male.

Military
Often used in example names and addresses to indicate to the serviceman where to put his own details.
 * Tommy Atkins, the generic name for a soldier of the British Army. Also, colloquially, Bill Oddie, rhyming slang on the nickname Squaddie.
 * In the US Army and Air Force, Private (or Airman) Tentpeg and Snuffy are commonly used in examples (to explain various procedures) or cautionary tales. In the Marine Corps, Lance Corporal Schmuckatelli serves the same purpose.
 * In the US Coast Guard, a generic Coast Guardsman is referred to as Joe Coastie (or Jane).
 * In the Coast Guard, Navy, and Marines, a hypothetical member who has his act together is A.J. Squared-Away.
 * In the Canadian Armed Forces, the generic name for a soldier is Private, Corporal, or any other [rank] Bloggins
 * In the British Army, the fictional Loamshire Regiment is used as a placeholder to provide examples for its procedures such as addressing mail or specimen charges for violations of military law.

Numbers

 * Umpteen is any annoyingly large number, as in the phrase "for the umpteenth time".
 * Placeholder telephone numbers are often allocated from ranges such as 555 (where +1-[area code]-555-1212 is reserved in North America for directory assistance applications) to avoid generating misdialled calls to working numbers. In the United Kingdom, Ofcom has set aside a range of numbers in larger geographic area codes, as well as fictional area code 01632 (0632 having been the code for Newcastle upon Tyne until replaced by 091 in the 1980s), for dramatic use.
 * Common placeholders for postcodes in Canada include A1A 1A1 (a real postal code for Lower Battery Road, St. John's, Newfoundland) and K1A 0B2 (Canada Post Place in Ottawa). H0H 0H0 is reserved by Canada Post for fictional use (specifically for the mythical Santa's workshop). In the United States, the ZIP Code 90210 (from TV series Beverly Hills 90210) is frequently used. Numeric codes with repeated or sequential digits like 12345 (a General Electric plant in Schenectady, New York), or 99999-9999 (unused but in a prefix range for the vicinity of Ketchikan, Alaska) may also appear. 00000, which lies in an unused prefix range, can be used without confusion.
 * In computing, some magic numbers (and other uses of hexadecimal numbers) apply hexspeak to create memorable hexadecimal values, such as 0xdeadbeef.

People

 * Joe Bloggs
 * John/Jane Doe
 * John Q. Public
 * Joe Schmoe
 * Tom, Dick and Harry
 * John Smith/Jane Smith
 * So-and-so
 * What's-their-name or what's-their-face, for a person whose name is momentarily forgotten
 * Examples (declension): what's-their-name, whatstheirname, what's-their-face, whatstheirface, what's-his-face, whatshisface, what's-his-name, whatshisname, what's-her-face, whatsherface, what's-her-name, whatshername

Science
In chemistry, tentative or hypothetical elements are assigned provisional names until their existence is confirmed by IUPAC. Historically, this placeholder name would follow Mendeleev's nomenclature; since the Transfermium wars, however, the consensus has been to assign a systematic element name based on the element's atomic number. Examples of these systems in use would be "ekasilicon" (germanium) and "ununseptium" (tennessine) respectively.

Similarly, the name "unobtainium" is frequently used for a material of highly desired characteristics which does not exist or which would be prohibitively expensive to mine, procure or synthesize.

Spoken and written language

 * Lorem ipsum: Simulated text used to fill in for written content in a page layout design

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Grail (web browser)

Grail was a free extensible multi-platform web browser written in the Python programming language. The project was started in August 1995, with its first public release in November of that year. The last official release was version 0.6 in 1999.

One of the major distinguishing features of Grail was the ability to run client-side Python code, in much the same way as mainstream browsers run client-side JavaScript code.

The name Grail is thought to be a tribute to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, a film by the British comedy group Monty Python. The name follows a similar suit to that of Python's─the programming language was too named after Monty Python.

license: Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Burnt River

Burnt River may refer to:
 * the Burnt River (Ontario) in Ontario, Canada
 * the community of Burnt River, Ontario
 * Burnt River (Oregon), tributary of the Snake River in eastern Oregon, US

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Sam Wyche

Samuel David Wyche (January 5, 1945 – January 2, 2020) was an American football quarterback and coach. He was a quarterback and head coach for the Cincinnati Bengals and a quarterbacks coach for the San Francisco 49ers. As head coach, he led the Bengals to Super Bowl XXIII, which they lost to the 49ers 20–16, relinquishing the lead on a last-minute touchdown. He was also known for introducing the use of the no-huddle offense as a standard offense (as opposed to use at the end of the half).

Wyche coached Cincinnati from 1984 to 1991, and his 64 wins with the Bengals were the most by a coach in franchise history until he was surpassed by Marvin Lewis in 2011.

Wyche also played for the Washington Redskins, Detroit Lions, St. Louis Cardinals, and Buffalo Bills. He also coached at the University of South Carolina and Indiana University, and for the San Francisco 49ers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and Buffalo Bills.

College career
From 1963 to 1965, Wyche played college football at Furman University as a quarterback. He was also an initiated member of Kappa Alpha Order fraternity. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Furman University and his Master of Business Administration degree from the University of South Carolina.

Wheeling Ironmen
From 1966 through 1967, Wyche played for the Wheeling Ironmen of the semi-professional Continental Football League.

Cincinnati Bengals
Wyche signed with the American Football League expansion Cincinnati Bengals for the 1968 season, when he started three games and also served as backup to John Stofa and Dewey Warren. In his rookie season, he completed 35 passes in 55 attempts (63.6 percent) for 494 yards and two touchdowns. He also rushed 12 times for 74 yards (a 6.2 average) and caught one pass for five yards.

In Wyche's second season, 1969, he played in seven games, again starting three, as Bengals rookie Greg Cook eventually assumed the starting role. For the season, Wyche completed 54 passes in 108 attempts (50.0 percent) for 838 yards and seven touchdowns. He rushed 12 times for 109 yards (an 8.9 average) and one touchdown.

Wyche continued to play for the Bengals as they entered the National Football League in 1970 as part of the NFL–AFL merger. He played in all 14 games, once again starting three, with 26 completions in 57 attempts (45.6 percent) for 411 yards and three touchdowns. He rushed 19 times for 118 yards (a 6.2 average) with two touchdowns.

Washington Redskins
From 1971 to 1973, Wyche played for the Washington Redskins, who appeared in Super Bowl VII. Although playing in eight games during those two seasons, he did not attempt a pass. He primarily played as the team's holder on field goals.

Detroit Lions
In 1974, Wyche played for the Detroit Lions, with only one pass attempted. He was also selected in the inaugural World Football League draft in 1974.

St. Louis Cardinals
In the 1976, Wyche signed with the St. Louis Cardinals. He completed his only pass completion for five yards. He was waived on September 24, 1976.

Buffalo Bills
Wyche was signed by the Buffalo Bills on October 27, 1976. He did not play any games during his time with the team.

University of South Carolina
In 1967, while at the University of South Carolina working on his MBA degree, Wyche was an assistant coach for the Gamecocks.

San Francisco 49ers
Wyche was an assistant coach and directed the passing game for the San Francisco 49ers from 1979 to 1982. He was on the coaching staff of the 1981 team that won Super Bowl XVI.

Indiana University
In 1983, Wyche was the head coach of the Indiana University Hoosiers, who finished 3–8. Future NFL head coach Cam Cameron was a quarterback on that team.

Cincinnati Bengals
Wyche was hired as the head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals in late December 1983. In his first three seasons, Cincinnati finished second each time, then fell to 4–11 in 1987. The next year, he led the Bengals to their second Super Bowl appearance, where they lost 20–16 to the San Francisco 49ers, who rallied to win with a touchdown pass from Joe Montana with 34 seconds remaining.

Wyche was known as the "Always Innovative Sam Wyche" by Norman Chad, as well as the nickname, "Wicky Wacky Wyche" for his unconventional play-calling. Wyche introduced the concept of having 12 or more players huddle on the field, then having a few leave the field. He called it the "sugar huddle"; it was meant to confuse the defense as to the personnel grouping. If defenses tried to adapt with their own substitutions, the Bengals snapped the ball, often leading to the defense being penalized for having too many players on the field. The NFL responded by changing the rules so that defenses could match the offensive substitutions before a snap was allowed. His Bengals were also the first to use the no-huddle/hurry-up offense as a base offense.

On December 10, 1989, during a game versus the Seattle Seahawks, Bengals fans began to throw snowballs onto the field in protest of what they believed to be a bad call by the officials. The Seahawks, who were at their own 4-yard line and an easy target from the bleachers, refused to continue until the snowball-throwing stopped, and play was halted by the officials. In order to stop the onslaught, Wyche was given a house microphone to try to calm the crowd. Wyche chided the fans who were doing the throwing, and alluded to the reputation of their in-state rivals, the Cleveland Browns: Will the next person that sees anybody throw anything onto this field, point 'em out, and get 'em out of here. You don't live in Cleveland, you live in Cincinnati! After the Bengals lost that game he refused to allow the media into the locker room, a violation of NFL policy for which he was fined $3,000, an increase from a 1986 fine he was assessed for pushing a microphone out of a reporter's hand. A year after the Seahawks game, he refused to allow a female reporter from USA Today in the locker room after a game, saying he did not want his players to be naked in front of her. The NFL fined him $27,000, the largest fine ever assessed against a coach. He complained that Commissioner Paul Tagliabue was more interested in fining him than finding a solution that worked.

During his Cincinnati tenure, Wyche also had an acrimonious relationship with Jerry Glanville, the head coach of the division rival Houston Oilers, whom he called a "phony"; the teams played each other twice each season. In one contest, after the Bengals had scored to extend their lead over the Oilers to 45–0, Wyche ordered his team to make an onside kick, potentially allowing them to retain possession, a move teams usually make only when the score is close late in the game. After defeating the Oilers 61–7 in 1989, Wyche waved derisively at Glanville as the teams left the field.

On December 24, 1991, just three years after the Bengals' Super Bowl appearance, Wyche was fired by owner Mike Brown, who had taken over the team upon the death of his father, club founder Paul Brown, four months earlier. Controversy erupted when the Bengals claimed Wyche had resigned, relieving the team of any future payments, but Wyche stated he was fired. His 61–66 record was the best of any Bengals' coach until 2011.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Wyche was hired by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as head coach in 1992. He spent the next four years as head coach of the Buccaneers, where he drafted Derrick Brooks, Warren Sapp, and John Lynch, players who would be key members of the successful Buccaneers teams under his successors, Tony Dungy and Jon Gruden. Wyche was dismissed at the conclusion of the 1995 season, having accumulated a 23–41 record over four straight losing seasons.

Near the end of his tenure with the Buccaneers, Wyche participated in a lighthearted pregame promotional piece for NFL Films. At the time, Jimmy Johnson, then the recently dismissed coach of the Dallas Cowboys, was rumored to be heading to Tampa Bay to displace Wyche. During the promo, Wyche was about to address his team when personnel assistant John Idzik ducked his head into the room. He beckoned Wyche out of the room, and instructed him to "bring your playbook." Wyche disappeared, and in walked Johnson wearing a Buccaneers jacket, who then addressed "his" new team, to everyone's surprise.

Buffalo Bills
From 2004 to 2005, Wyche was the quarterbacks coach for the Buffalo Bills.

High school
In 2002, 2003 and from 2006 to 2010, Wyche volunteered as the offensive coordinator and quarterback coach for the Pickens High School Blue Flame in Pickens, South Carolina. He helped the Blue Flame get to the second round of the playoffs in 2006. Wyche was a registered substitute teacher in Pickens County schools.

Broadcasting career
In 1996, Wyche worked as a sports analyst with Marv Albert on a weekly NFL game for NBC. In 1997, he was promoted to the studio on NBC's weekly pre-game and half-time shows. He worked as an analyst for CBS with Kevin Harlan on the weekly NFL games from 1998 until week 2 in 2000 when his voice gave part way through a game between Miami and Minnesota. Beesley Reece came up from sideline reporting to do color commentary for the rest of that game. He returned to CBS in 2001, where he did the first two games of the NFL season with Gus Johnson, and Brent Jones. In 2006, he was a commentator on Westwood One's NFL Thursday night coverage, with Dick Enberg. Also in 2006, he began working with Tom Werme broadcasting Southern Conference Football for Fox Sports South.

Personal life
Wyche and his wife, Jane, had two children, Zak and Kerry, and six grandchildren. He was a private pilot for many years. He also enjoyed golf, tennis, jogging and riding his Harley-Davidson motorcycle.

Wyche underwent a biopsy on lymph nodes in his chest in 2000. His left Recurrent Laryngeal Nerve was severed during the procedure, leaving his voice consistently hoarse and scratchy. From 2004 to 2006, he was a volunteer at Pickens High School in South Carolina as a public speaker. He was an amateur magician.

Wyche's brother, Bubba, was a quarterback at Tennessee and in the Canadian Football League (CFL) and World Football League (WFL).

On September 9, 2016, Wyche was admitted to the Carolinas Medical Center's Dickson Heart Unit in Charlotte, North Carolina, awaiting a heart transplant due to congestive heart failure. Three days later, a heart was found, and on September 13, Wyche underwent a 4.5-hour transplant operation.

Wyche was diagnosed with melanoma in 2019 and died at his home in Pickens, South Carolina, on January 2, 2020, at the age of 74.

Political career
On November 4, 2008, Wyche secured a seat on the County Council for Pickens County, South Carolina. Running as a member of the Republican Party, Wyche defeated Democrat Wesley Burbage for the Pickens seat, by a margin of 6,478 votes to 1,639.

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Tangled Up in Me

"Tangled Up in Me" is a song recorded by Canadian musician Skye Sweetnam. It was released as the first single from Sweetnam's debut album Noise From the Basement on March 9, 2004, through Capitol Records. The song was written by Skye Sweetnam, James Robertson, Heather Mitchell, and Jimmy Harry. The song became Sweetnam's best-charting single in the United States after it was featured in an episode of MTV's Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, reaching number 37 on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40. It also reached the top 40 in Italy. The song sold 94,000 copies in United States as June 2007.

Music video
The music video shows Sweetnam performing with her band, becoming tangled up in wires. The music video received play on Canada's MuchMusic channel.

Personnel
Personnel are taken from the US promo CD liner notes.
 * Aslyn – writing
 * James Harry – writing
 * Skye Sweetnam – writing
 * James Robertson – writing
 * Skye Sweetnam – vocals
 * Andrew Slater – production
 * Julian Raymond – production
 * Howard Willing – production, engineering
 * Tom Lord-Alge – mixing

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Talk:Collision Course (EP)

wtf
Err...there were only two singles, and what's It's Goin' Down got to do with this album? Both Trivia points are wrong, so I've deleted them Titan50 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 19:19, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

Izzo / jackson five?
I heard that the "Izzo" song was made from a sample from a Jackson Five song?? Which one is it though? --Nerd42 15:48, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

It's Kanye West sample, actually, one of the first he made for Jay, and it samples "I Want You Back" from Jackson Five. --Bwanaunsignedhype 00:59, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Does this discussion really belong under Collision Course? -Unknownwarrior33 00:15, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Uhhh, yeah."Izzo / In The End" uses "Izzo" music and thus, uses the same sample as the original.Bwanaunsignedhype 12:15, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Yes, I'm well aware of that, but I have a feeling you're going to have better luck looking on the page for the original song itself, as that's where you're more likely to find people who know about the song. In fact, the song's page probably has your answer. -Unknownwarrior33 00:35, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

 * Your feeling is wrong cause there is no mention of Jackson Five on the song's page.I'll probably add it though.(There's Kanye listed as producer but there's not greater mentioning of him, that's what I wanted to say.)Even still, I just tried to answer the guy, rather than just tell him to go somewhere else.This is Wikipedia, not Post Office.Bwanaunsignedhype 21:09, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

ok i'll look there

this article has been expieriencing some vandalism....can u(person whos in charge) keep an eye on it or something? thank u.MrXofLPU 02:59, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

--- album was released in 2004 but article states shinodo announced it in 2006? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.206.14.224 (talk) 04:47, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Censor Edit
a--, b, and s--- have been censored.

Firstly, whoever you are, please sign your edits. Secondly, I've reverted your censorship of these words, since Wikipedia is NOT CENSORED FOR ANYBODY! :) Please don't do that again, ever. Read the rules before you edit! Have a nice day! Thor Malmjursson (talk) 23:58, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

Inconsistencies
It says that one of the co-writers of Points of Authority/99 Problems/One Step Closer was F. Pappalardi, but that's impossible; he died in 1983. Is it a different F. Pappalardi? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.91.187.87 (talk) 16:21, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

Is it live or studio
This article doesn't state weither the album was recorded in a studio or live, like in the video for "Numb/Encore". --92.235.128.38 (talk) 16:48, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Mention of unreleased track?
Should there be mention of the unreleased "One Step Closer/99 Problems"? It is a version without Points of Authority and has Jonathan Davis' verse from 1Stp Klosr towards the end http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTnZopgSyAI I just think it should be mentioned but figured it should be discussed first Rouse52794 (talk) 18:59, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

MTV Mashups
The cover of the EP says "MTV Ultimate Mashups Presents", did they present anything else? I have never heard of this before. DanielDPeterson +  talk  01:05, 28 May 2012 (UTC)

Not a remix album
I'm making a note to the discography areas in the Linkin Park pages, that this is not a remix album. Essentially it is a mashup album in hindsight, but it was recorded in the studio, all the recordings are newly done just for this. Reanimation is a remix album, this is not.--TangoTizerWolfstone (talk) 20:07, 2 June 2012 (UTC)

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Who watches the watchmen?

ROFL
I just wanted to say that I read your comments on the Discordianism talk page and, for some reason, it tickled my fancy, thanks for a hearty laugh, still chuckling now. Alf 30 June 2005 19:53 (UTC)

Recognition
for your personal glorification: Image:UpsidedownBarnstar.png --popefauvexxiii 09:33, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

FNORD
Hi! This is Icarus!, being non-Wiki (I'm not logged in...), saying thanx for the work on the Discordianism page! Keep it up!24.176.20.60 16:50, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Socialist feminism

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP. —Korath (Talk) 13:01, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)

Socialist feminism
The Socialist feminism entry is meaningless and redundant. It should be deleted and Marxist feminism fixed up. Corvus 21:38, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC) (Old VfD, not added to the main page.  -Sean Curtin 04:02, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC))

Marxist feminism argues that capitalism is the root cause of women's oppression. Socialist feminism argues a dualist theory (drawn from Radical feminism) that it is economic AND cultural forces which oppress women. They are two different theories. I've started to add to the Socialist feminism entry, including prominent theorists (just added Sheila Rowbottom. It is an entry that needs work, NOT deletion. Mittimus 22 Jan 2005

I think this is a relevant article. Marxism is a subset of Socialism, not all of socialism, and non-Marxist feminist socialists do exist, and I've come across them. (unsigned vote by user:146.176.2.17)

Keep: not redundant, and a worthwhile topic. -Sean Curtin 04:02, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep: Different topic from Marxist feminism Preisler 04:50, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Definitely a separate topic (and is even critical of followers of traditional Marxism for failing to address the subjugation of women).  --[[User:BD2412/deletion debates|BD2412] 04:58, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, cleanup and expand. Megan1967 06:28, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Worthy topic.  ComCat 09:11, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Wincoote 16:47, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - this is a real thing, albeit verging on academic-cruft - David Gerard 13:53, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * I would venture that academic-cruft is inherently more encyclopedic than any fan-cruft... the latter involves dissertations on fictional things (characters, hisory, ideas) and their fictional importance to a fictional universe; whereas the former involves dissertations on theories and ideas on the workings of the real world in which we live. --[[User:BD2412/deletion debates|BD2412] 20:34, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep Socialist feminism is different from feminist marxism. EdwinHJ | Talk 16:27, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Nguyen Huy Dau

Nguyễn Huy Đẩu was born on May 8, 1914, in Vietnam.

Biography
In 1952, he graduated from Hanoi University School of Law degree and awarded a Doctorate Degree.

He has served as Ambassador to the Kingdom of Morocco and Counsel General in New Delhi, India.

In 1967, he served as Head Judge Superior Court in Saigon, until 1969, and then assigned as Inspector General, of Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

He was a Visiting Professor at Saigon University School of Law and Phu Tho Tech College.

In April 1975, he escaped during the Fall of Saigon because he was anti-communist and immigrated to the United States.

Since 1995, he has served as the Minister of Justice of an exiled anti-communist organization known as The Government of Free Vietnam.

He died September 22, 2008.

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Silver Carp
I'm a newbie to wiki in general and wikipedia in particular. Not sure how I am supposed to respond to your questions re: silver carp. Was I supposed to just hit (+) in the same page or go here, or what. Anyway, to answer your question, bighead and silver carps are extremely fecund, so they can withstand a lot of predation as young, and grow very large, very fast, so that adults or even older juveniles are too big to prey on by most predators (except man). Silver carp meat has an excellent flavor, if it is kept fresh (it deteriorates faster than most other fish) but they do not dress out well in comparison to other fishes native to North America. The percentage of meat on a fish is low, especially in bighead carp, and the filets have intramuscular bones, so even the filets are very bony. I have several projects underway to make these fish more palatable to North American tastes, by dealing with the bones in a variety of ways. In fact, I fear that some day I'll be managing for the fish, instead of against them, and that is disturbing to me, because I believe they do have negative effects on native fishes.

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Boerum Hill

Boerum Hill (pronounced ) is a small neighborhood in the northwestern portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn, bounded by Schermerhorn Street to the north and Fourth Avenue to the east. The western border is variously given as either Smith or Court Street, and Warren or Wyckoff Street as the southern edge.

Smith Street and Atlantic Avenue are the neighborhood's main commercial districts. The Brooklyn High School of the Arts is in the neighborhood on Dean Street and Third Avenue. The neighborhood is part of Brooklyn Community District 2 and is served by the NYPD's 84th Precinct.

History
Boerum Hill is named for the colonial farm of the Boerum family, which occupied most of the area during early Dutch settlement. According to the 1790 census, John Boerum's family owned at least two enslaved people.

Most of the housing in Boerum Hill consists of three-story row houses built between 1840 and 1870. Despite the "hill" in the name, the neighborhood is relatively flat; some parts sit atop former marshes that bordered Gowanus Creek. In the 1950s, all the neighborhoods south of Atlantic Avenue and west of Prospect Park were known generically as South Brooklyn. Boerum Hill in particular was sometimes called "North Gowanus". The name "Boerum Hill" was coined in early 1964 by Boerum Hill Association founder Helen Buckler, referencing the name of the colonial farmers.

From the early 1970s until about 2003, Boerum Hill was populated mostly by working class and middle-class African-American and Puerto Rican families. Since about the late 1990s, gentrification has changed the neighborhood to one of mostly upper-class individuals, though working-class families still reside in the immediate area.

In the early twentieth century, many of the buildings were run as boarding houses. Nearby was the union hall for ironworkers, who came to the city to work on bridges and skyscrapers. The north end of Smith Street was the center of New York City's Mohawk community, who came mostly from Akwesasne and Kahnawake, Mohawk reserves in Quebec, Canada. (Akwesasne extends across national boundaries into New York state.) Many of the Mohawk men were ironworkers, while their wives worked at a variety of jobs and created the community for their families. For 50 years, the Mohawk families called their neighborhood "Little Caughnawaga," after the homeland of Kahnawake. Many families would travel back to Kahnawake in the summer.

The Boerum Hill Historic District was first recognized and designated by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission on November 20, 1973, after many years of advocacy by the Boerum Hill Association. The Boerum Hill Historic District was then listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. Many of its buildings are landmarked.

In 2012, Boerum Hill had the sixth highest neighborhood median home prices among all New York City neighborhoods, and the highest of any neighborhood outside Manhattan.

Culture
Boerum Hill is known for its independent boutiques, restaurants and rows of brownstones. Boerum Hill is home to many artists who own art galleries in the neighborhood and to many young families, and biking is popular in the neighborhood and nearby Prospect Park. Cultural offerings include The Invisible Dog Art Center, Roulette, Issue Project Room, and BAM. There are also the Smith Street restaurant row and the Atlantic Avenue design district.

The neighborhood has been featured in several contemporary creative works. It is the setting of Spike Lee's movie Clockers (1995), which was filmed in the Gowanus Houses. It is the setting for two of Jonathan Lethem's novels: Motherless Brooklyn (1999), a crime mystery set on Bergen Street between Smith and Hoyt streets; and The Fortress of Solitude (2002), set primarily on one block in Boerum Hill (Dean Street between Nevins and Bond streets).

Library
The Brooklyn Public Library (BPL)'s Pacific branch is at 25 Fourth Avenue near Pacific Street. Opened in 1905, it is Brooklyn's oldest Carnegie library.

Media
WBAI 99.5 FM, a non-commercial, listener-supported radio station, is part of the Pacifica Network and has studios and offices at 388 Atlantic Avenue.

Notable residents

 * Jonathan Ames (born 1964), author
 * Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960–1988), artist
 * Lilly Burns, producer
 * Michael T. Cahill, Dean of Brooklyn Law School
 * Paul Dano (born 1984), actor
 * Shaun Donovan (born 1966), former US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Director of the Office of Management and Budget
 * Donato Giancola (born 1967), artist specializing in narrative realism with science fiction and fantasy content
 * Duncan Hannah (1952-2022), artist and author
 * Ethan Hawke (born 1970), actor
 * Hugo Guinness (born 1959), artist and screenwriter
 * Zoe Kazan (born 1983), actress
 * Chuck Klosterman (born 1972), writer
 * Heath Ledger (1979–2008), actor
 * Jonathan Lethem (born 1964), writer, lived here as a child
 * Emily Mortimer (born 1971), actress
 * Alessandro Nivola (born 1972), actor
 * Lynn Nottage (born 1964), playwright
 * Sandra Oh (born 1971), actress
 * Joan Osborne (born 1962), singer-songwriter
 * Lana Parrilla (born 1977), actress
 * Alex Rice (born 1972), actress
 * Keri Russell (born 1976), actress
 * Ryan Serhant (born 1984), actor, television personality, real estate agent
 * Merritt Wever (born 1980), actress
 * Michelle Williams (born 1980), actress

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Beckie Scott

Rebecca "Beckie" Scott, (born August 1, 1974) is a Canadian retired cross-country skier. She is an Olympic gold and silver medallist, and the first Canadian to win an Olympic medal in cross-country skiing. She is the founder of a national organization dedicated to improving health, wellness and education outcomes for Indigenous youth through sport and play. Scott was Chair of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Athlete Committee, and gained notoriety for her position during the Russian (2014-2019) doping scandal. She served as an International Olympic Committee member by virtue of being elected to the IOC Athlete's Commission along with Saku Koivu between 2006 and 2014. She is married to the American former cross-country skier Justin Wadsworth. They have two children, Teo and Brynn.

Career
Scott was born in Vegreville, Alberta, but grew up in Vermilion, Alberta. Supported by her parents, she began cross-country skiing at the age of five. She entered her first competition at age seven and attended the Junior National Championships in 1988. She went on to win seventeen World Cup medals in sprint, individual Scott is a three-time Olympian, participating at the 1998 Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Japan, the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City, Utah, and the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin, Italy. Her best-placed finish in Nagano was 45th, but Scott won a gold medal in cross-country skiing at the Salt Lake City games. She originally finished third in the 5 km pursuit, but she was upgraded to the gold medal when winner Olga Danilova and runner-up Larissa Lazutina were eventually disqualified for using darbepoetin, a performance-enhancing drug. Scott was awarded a silver medal before receiving her gold medal in June 2004, almost two and a half years after the Olympics ended. She became the first Canadian and first North American woman to win an Olympic medal in cross-country skiing.

Scott is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and has been honoured with a variety of awards in Canada. She has been inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame, the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame, and the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame. She has a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Waterloo and has twice received the John Semmelink Award, for demonstrating sportsmanship and ability in international competition. She holds honorary Doctorates of Laws from the University of Alberta, Mount Royal University and the University of British Columbia. Scott was inducted into the Alberta Order of Excellence on October 17, 2019.

On March 29, 2005, Scott agreed to join the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA) athlete committee.

On February 23, 2006, Scott was elected as an athlete member of the International Olympic Committee along with Finnish ice hockey player Saku Koivu. Scott retired on April 12, 2006, as the most decorated Canadian cross-country skier. 2006 was also her best season, with multiple victories and podiums on the World Cup circuit, to go with her Olympic silver in one of her races in Turin, and she lost out on winning her first World Cup overall season title to the great Marit Bjørgen by the smallest margin.

In September 2012, Scott was appointed to WADA's executive committee. In September 2018, Scott resigned from the WADA compliance and review committee responsible for making a recommendation to end the Russian Anti-Doping Agency's suspension from WADA.

Charity
In 2017, Scott established Spirit North, a charitable organization dedicated to improving health, wellness and education outcomes for Indigenous youth through equitable access to sport and play.

Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).

Olympic Games

 * 2 medals – (1 gold, 1 silver)

World Championships

 * a. Cancelled due to extremely cold weather.

Individual podiums

 * 4 victories
 * 15 podiums

Team podiums

 * 2 podiums – (1 RL, 1 TS)

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Shortnose cisco

The shortnose cisco (Coregonus reighardi) is a North American freshwater whitefish in the salmon family Salmonidae. One of the members of the broader Coregonus artedi species complex of ciscoes, it is native to the Great Lakes of Canada and the United States. Its population has been declining and it has disappeared from some of its earlier haunts. The last reported population was restricted to Georgian Bay off Lake Huron in Canada. It is thought that declines in the population of this fish may be linked with the arrival of the sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus), in the Great Lakes. The International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated the conservation status of this fish as "critically endangered", and possibly extinct.

Description
Reaching a maximum recorded length of 36 cm and a maximum recorded weight of 540 g, the shortnose cisco is distinguished from the other whitefishes by its thicker body (nearly circular in cross-section), short head (the source of the fish's common name), and small eye.

Ecology
Like many Coregonus species, the shortnose cisco is poorly understood, and little is known about its breeding or life-cycle except that it spawns in the spring at the lake bottom; the oldest specimen collected was eight years of age. The fish feeds on crustaceans, molluscs, and zooplankton.

Status
It is native to the Great Lakes, formerly occurring in Lakes Huron, Michigan, and Ontario in Canada and the United States. The IUCN considers C. reighardi to be Critically Endangered on the basis of plummeting population, caused by environmental degradation. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Province of Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources, however, consider the species already extinct, on the basis that no specimen has been collected since 1985. The species was last confirmed present in Lake Ontario in 1964, in Lake Michigan in 1974, and in Georgian Bay in 1985. Predation by the alien sea lamprey (Petromyzon marinus), in combination with commercial overfishing, has contributed to the fish's drastic reduction in numbers and possible extirpation.

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Talk:Bratva

For a May 2005 deletion debate over this page see Votes for deletion/Bratva

WikiProject
Please see WikiProject Organized crime (proposed) for details on this possible collaborative effort. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by MadMax (talk • contribs).

People, wait with your movement! Give me a month for expanding. AlexPU

 * Good, the article is growing but I do not understand why is it mentioned as primarily Ukrainian, it's Russian term for gangsters, and I did not know before that it was used in Ukraine. Gnomz007 20:23, 22 May 2005 (UTC)

 * Hello, it's not Ukrainian it's Russian, please, don't get me wrong, but stating that it is "Ukrainian term for Ukrainaian mafia" is just incorrect, it is a term used in Russia and Ukraine, it's just what you may hear it in your own context(like accusations against Yanukovych), while I keep hearing about 'Питерская братва' (mafia of St.Petersburg), 'местная братва' (local mafia), etcetera ad nauseum. Gnomz007 00:31, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * From what I know I believe it is of Ukranian origin (much like the Mafia from Sicily or the Neopolitan Camorra in Italy) although is a branch of Russian organized crime from the Soviet Union. 64.12.116.197 21:58, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Bratva is an old Russian term for "camaraderie". Its bandit usage came into circulation only in late Soviet Union. By no means it is a "branch". In any case, this usage is a neologism in Russian and the usage is not stabilized. In many cases I am aware, bratva specifically refers to bands involved in violent business, like extrotion, "protection" (from extortion by other bandits) called krysha ("Roof" in Russian), etc. the current article is very naive, but I don't have enough knowledge to fix it: I am more than 10 years behind the developments in former Soviet Union.  mikka (t) 22:36, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I sorted it to ukraine-stub because the first line says "Bratva is a Ukrainian term ...". Feel free to both restub it to russia-stub and fix the first line. --ScottDavis 09:10, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Merger
Support no reason to maintain two articles on the Russian mafia. - the.crazy.russian   τ   ç   ë  14:42, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

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Brian Stokes Mitchell

Brian Stokes Mitchell (born October 31, 1957) is an American actor and singer. A powerful baritone, he has been one of the central leading men of the Broadway theater since the 1990s. He has received numerous accolades including a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and a nomination for a Grammy Award. In 2016 he received the Isabelle Stevenson Award.

Mitchell won the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance as Fred Graham / Petruchio in the Broadway revival of Kiss Me, Kate (2000). His other Tony-nominated performances were in Ragtime (1998), King Hedley II (2001), and Man of La Mancha (2003). Mitchell's other notable roles include in Oh, Kay! (1991), Jelly's Last Jam (1992), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2002), South Pacific (2005), Les Misérables (2008), Guys and Dolls (2009), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2010), Oliver! (2012), Camelot (2014), and Shuffle Along (2016).

He is also known for his roles on television including as Dr. Justin Jackson in the CBS medical drama Trapper John, M.D. (1979 to 1986). Mitchell also had recurring roles on shows such as Frasier, Glee, Mr. Robot, The Path, Billions, and The Good Fight. He took the role of Walt in the CBS sitcom Fam (2019). He received a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album nomination for The Complete Shakespeare Sonnets in 2001.

Early life and education
Mitchell was born in Seattle, Washington, the youngest of four children of George Mitchell, an electronics engineer, and his wife Lillian (née Stokes), a school administrator. Mitchell grew up at various U.S. military bases overseas, where his father was a civilian engineer for the U.S. Navy. When the family settled in San Diego, California, he began acting in junior high musicals. He did not attend college, having begun performing professionally while a student at Patrick Henry High School, although he did have private teachers in both acting and voice in his teen years. He has said that he studied film scoring, orchestration, and conducting through UCLA. Prior to Ragtime, he was known professionally as Brian Mitchell.

Career
Mitchell has a number of television and film credits, including the role of John Dolan in Roots: The Next Generations (1979), and a seven-year stint as Dr. Justin 'Jackpot' Jackson on Trapper John, M.D. from 1979 to 1986. Mitchell made several appearances as a celebrity panelist on episodes of $25,000 Pyramid and $100,000 Pyramid in the 1980s, and was considered one of the game's better celebrity players, helping a contestant win the $100,000 grand prize on the latter show in February 1986. Mitchell also participated as a celebrity panelist in four weeks' worth of episodes of The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour, a short-lived NBC game show that ran from 1983 to 1984.

Mitchell first performed on Broadway in the musical Mail in 1988, with music by Michael Rupert and lyrics by Jerry Cocker, winning the Theatre World award. His Broadway credits include an all-black revival of George and Ira Gershwin's Oh, Kay! (1990), Jelly's Last Jam (1992) based on the works of jazz artist Jelly Roll Morton, and Kander and Ebb's Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993). He played recurring roles as Hilary Banks' news anchor fiancé Trevor Newsworthy/Collins on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and supplied the singing voice of Jethro in the animated feature The Prince of Egypt (1998). He originated the role of Coalhouse Walker Jr, in the musical Ragtime, which opened on Broadway in January 1998. He received a 1998 Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical. He appeared in the 1999 revival of Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate as Fred Graham / Petruchio, winning the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical. He appeared on Broadway in King Hedley II in 2001 (Tony Award nomination) and Man of La Mancha in 2002 (Tony Award nomination). In 2002 he acted in Frasier as Dr. Frasier Crane's upstairs neighbor and nemesis Cam Winston. He played the title role in the 2002 Kennedy Center production of Sweeney Todd, part of the Stephen Sondheim celebration.

He appeared in the New York City Center Encores! staged concert productions of Jule Styne's Do Re Mi (1999), Bob Merrill's Carnival! (2002), Kismet (2006), and The Band Wagon in 2014. On June 9, 2005, Mitchell appeared in a concert version of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific at Carnegie Hall. He starred as Emile, alongside Reba McEntire as Nellie Forbush and Alec Baldwin as Luther Billis. The production was taped and telecast by PBS in 2006. Of his performance, Ben Brantley wrote in The New York Times, "As for Mr. Mitchell, his place in the pantheon of romantic musical leads is now guaranteed."

Playbill Records released his debut solo CD, Brian Stokes Mitchell on June 6, 2006. Mitchell has also performed in a Christmas concert with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir later released as a CD and DVD entitled Ring Christmas Bells. His second solo CD, Simply Broadway, was released October 30, 2012, by CD Baby. Mitchell returned to Broadway to star with Patti LuPone in the musical version of the Pedro Almodóvar film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, which opened at the Belasco Theatre in November 2010. He guest starred in March 2010 in Ugly Betty as Wilhelmina Slater's ex-boyfriend, Don. He appeared on the 57th episode of Glee, titled "Heart" in 2012, and the 58th, titled "On My Way," as one of Rachel's dads (LeRoy) along with Jeff Goldblum.

He has also done voice-overs for animation including Animaniacs, Capitol Critters, Tiny Toon Adventures, A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, The Further Adventures of SuperTed, Kid 'n Play, New Kids on the Block, Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf, Gravedale High, Potsworth & Co., Captain Planet and the Planeteers, The Tom and Jerry Kids Show, Yo Yogi!, Fantastic Max, Pound Puppies, The Addams Family, California Raisins, The Angry Beavers, James Bond Jr., Batman: The Animated Series, Paddington Bear, Pinky and the Brain, Defenders of Dynatron City, The Hot Rod Dogs and Cool Car Cats, Droopy, Master Detective, Denver, the Last Dinosaur, Mighty Max, Don Coyote & Sancho Panda, Vampirina, and the two Flintstones animated movies Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby and I Yabba-Dabba Do!. Mitchell plays Nicholas Prophet in Wolverine: The Long Night, a scripted podcast serial.

He also played a recurring role on the USA Network series Mr. Robot as Scott Knowles, CTO of E Corp. The series began in June 2015 and ended in December 2019. A new musical titled Shuffle Along, or, the Making of the Musical Sensation of 1921 and All That Followed, based on the making of Shuffle Along, opened on Broadway on March 14, 2016, in previews and officially on April 21 at the Music Box Theatre. Mitchell played F.E. Miller, with Audra McDonald as Lottie Gee, Billy Porter, Joshua Henry and Brandon Victor Dixon.

Personal life
He has been married to actress Allyson Tucker since 1994 and has a son, Ellington.

Discography

 * Brian Stokes Mitchell (June 6, 2006)
 * Track listing
 * 1) "Something's Coming" (West Side Story)
 * 2) "The Best Is Yet to Come" (Cy Coleman)
 * 3) "Pretty Women" (Sweeney Todd)
 * 4) "Just In Time" (Bells are Ringing)
 * 5) "Lazy Afternoon" (The Golden Apple)
 * 6) "Another Hundred People" (Company)/"Take the 'A' Train"
 * 7) "How Long Has This Been Going On?" (Funny Face)
 * 8) "Life is Sweet" (Wonderful Town)
 * 9) "Losing My Mind" (Follies)
 * 10) "Being Alive" (Company)
 * 11) "How Glory Goes" (Floyd Collins)
 * 12) "Grateful"

 * Simply Broadway (2012)
 * Plays With Music (2019)

Awards and nominations
Sources: Playbill BroadwayWorld

Honors

 * 2004 - Mitchell was elected the Chairman of the Board of the Actors Fund of America
 * 2016 - Mitchell received the Isabelle Stevenson Award "for his commitment to supporting members of the entertainment community in crisis or transition through his work with The Actors Fund."

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kestra

Kestra
Kestra was proposed for deletion. This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete.

I am not against fictional characters being included in wikipedia (eg Yossarian / Sherlock Holmes) or against some level of detail as regards star trek, but this is an extremely minor character and is way over both lines. It is not notable. Wikipedia is an encyclopaedia. It is not the internet. Please delete. --Bucephalus 21:43, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Note: seems to be orphaned vote, not previously linked from vfd page. Wolfman 19:35, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)

 * Delete. Extremely minor character.  -- Antaeus Feldspar 21:40, 15 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete: Terrifically minor trivia. Contents are negligible as well. Geogre 05:07, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete this fancruft. Wyss 11:19, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete, if someone insists on keeping it they have my blessing to make Minor Characters from the Star Trek TNG universe article and put it there. --fvw *  19:18, 2004 Dec 16 (UTC)
 * Delete. Single-episode character. - Andre Engels 12:09, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
 * Delete as non-notable, even for a hypothetical Minor Characters from the Star Trek TNG universe article. DreamGuy 22:28, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)

This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion or on the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.

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Patrick Allen (actor)

John Keith Patrick Allen (17 March 1927 – 28 July 2006) was a British actor.

Life and career
Allen was born in Nyasaland (now Malawi), where his father was a tobacco farmer. After his parents returned to Britain, he was evacuated to Canada during the Second World War where he remained to finish his education at McGill University in Montreal. Before returning to Britain, he gained experience as a local radio broadcaster and appeared on television in plays and documentaries.

Returning to the UK in 1953, Allen made his film debut in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder (1954). He subsequently appeared in character roles in many films, including Captain Clegg, The Wild Geese, The Sea Wolves, Puppet on a Chain, and Who Dares Wins. He was also the lead actor in the Associated-Rediffusion adventure series Crane (1963–65) and in the BBC1 series Brett (1971). Allen played Moriarty's deputy Colonel Sebastian Moran in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

He made regular appearances in ITC television series during the 1960s and early 1970s, including The Power Game, The Baron, The Champions, The Avengers, Gideon's Way and latterly UFO (in the episode "Timelash" 1971), although he never had an ongoing role in any of these series. Alongside Roger Moore, he made one episode of The Saint ("The Man Who Could Not Die"), broadcast in the UK in July 1965.

Allen also worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company in a number of stage roles, along with many BBC productions, including appearing as Mr Gradgrind in a television production of Dickens' Hard Times in 1977.

In 1967, he and his wife Sarah Lawson appeared together playing a married couple in the science fiction film, Night of the Big Heat. He and Lawson also played husband and wife in the BBC radio series, Stand By For West, based on the John Creasey novels about Scotland Yard Chief Inspector Roger West.

Allen's distinctive, authoritative voice was familiar across the United Kingdom, even amongst those who did not recognize him as an actor. He dubbed Leon Greene, who played Rex, in the 1968 Hammer film The Devil Rides Out.

He narrated the British Government's Protect and Survive series of public information films in the 1970s; some of his lines in that production were re-recorded and sampled into the single "Two Tribes" by the band Frankie Goes to Hollywood. He also appeared in and voiced numerous commercials for house builder Barratt Homes and car manufacturers Ford and British Leyland among many others. His voice-over work led him to start up his own business, running a successful recording studio for voice-over work.

He provided the narration (the voice of Captain Star) for the 1989 children's series TUGS. Allen remained uncredited for his work, which was revealed in an interview with the show's producer Robert D. Cardona.

Allen's voice was heard at the beginning of videocassettes distributed in the UK by Video Network in the 1980s, welcoming viewers and reading an anti-copying warning. He also narrated the first series of Blackadder, and appeared in the last episode, "The Black Seal", as Edmund's nemesis, Phillip of Burgundy – known to his enemies as "The Hawk".

Allen's voice became synonymous with British alternative comedy in the 1990's after his recurring role as the Announcer for shows written by and starring Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, including Vic Reeves Big Night Out, The Smell of Reeves and Mortimer and Bang, Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer.

In 2005, he became the voice of the British television channel E4, providing voiceovers for many of its idents and promotions.

He was also the voice of the Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show on XFM, the late show on 103.2 Power FM, Hirsty's Daily Dose on Galaxy Yorkshire and briefly Virgin Radio.

Personal life
Allen married actress Sarah Lawson in 1960; the couple had two sons.

Death
Allen died on the morning of 28 July 2006, aged 79. He was survived by his wife (until her death on 18 August 2023) and their sons.

Filmography

 * Blackbeard the Pirate (1952) – Undetermined Role (uncredited)
 * Battle Circus (1953) – British Officer (uncredited)
 * World for Ransom (1954) – Soldier (uncredited)
 * Dial M for Murder (1954) – Detective Pearson
 * Confession (1955) – Corey
 * Cross Channel (1955) – Hugo Platt
 * King's Rhapsody (1955) – Richard's Companion in Theatre Box (uncredited)
 * 1984 (1956) – Inner Party Official
 * Wicked as They Come (1956) – Willie
 * The Baby and the Battleship (1956) – Mate (uncredited)
 * The Adventures of Aggie (1956–57)
 * High Tide at Noon (1957) – Charles MacKenzie
 * The Long Haul (1957) – Joe Easy
 * The Mark of the Hawk (1957) – Gregory
 * High Hell (1958) – Luke Fulgham
 * The Man Who Wouldn't Talk (1958) – Jim Kennedy
 * Dunkirk (1958) – Sergeant on Parade Ground
 * Tread Softly Stranger (1958) – Paddy Ryan
 * I Was Monty's Double (1958) – Col. Mathers
 * Jet Storm (1959) – Mulliner
 * Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960) – Peter Carter
 * The Sinister Man (1961) – Dr. Nelson Pollard
 * The Traitors (1962) – John Lane
 * Captain Clegg (1962) – Captain Collier
 * Flight from Singapore (1962) – John Scott
 * The Big Job (1965) – Narrator (voice, uncredited)
 * The Night of the Generals (1967) – Colonel Mannheim
 * The Viking Queen (1967) – Narrator (voice, uncredited)
 * Night of the Big Heat (1967) – Jeff Callum
 * Oedipus the King (1968) – Chorus Leader (voice, uncredited)
 * The Devil Rides Out (1968) – Rex Van Ryn (voice, uncredited)
 * Carry On Up the Khyber (1968) – Narrator (voice, uncredited)
 * The Body Stealers (1969) – Bob Megan
 * The Assassination Bureau (1969) – Narrator (voice, uncredited)
 * The File of the Golden Goose (1969) – Narrator (voice, uncredited)
 * When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970) – Kingsor / Narrator
 * Puppet on a Chain (1971) – Inspector Van Gelder
 * Persecution (1974) aka Sheba, The Graveyard, The Terror of Sheba – Robert Masters
 * The Wilby Conspiracy (1975) – District Commissioner
 * The Eagle Has Landed (1976) – Narrator (voice, uncredited)
 * The Domino Principle (1977) – Narrator (voice, uncredited)
 * The Wild Geese (1978) – Rushton
 * Force 10 from Navarone (1978) – Narrator (voice, uncredited)
 * Caligula (1979) – Macro (voice, uncredited)
 * The Sea Wolves (1980) – Colin MacKenzie
 * Who Dares Wins (1982) – Police Commissioner
 * Bullet to Beijing (1995) – Col. Wilson
 * Tugs (1989) – Captain Star/Narrator (voice, uncredited)
 * RPM (1998) – Millionaire
 * Dangerville (2003) – Unknown role (voice)
 * Days That Shook the World (2004) – Sir John French
 * The Magic Roundabout (2005) – Skeletons (voice, uncredited)

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Talk:Jungle (board game)

The elephant and the mouse (rat)
That's not right. The elephant cannot capture the rat. See the following link (in Chinese though) :

http://www.3wschool.cn/game/game_dsq.asp

Sorry I've reverted my edit. Looks like it's a different game. Still, that wasn't the way I used to play it (during childhood). It feels kind of strange that the elephant can capture anything - that makes it almost omnipotent. Another interesting link is as follows (also in Chinese):

http://www.t3d9.com/help/DouShouQi.htm

 * Defend with opposing elephant. Plus rat. --IHTS (talk) 07:30, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Some unsettled problems
Mingxuan 09:03, 10 December 2006 (UTC)someone please help me... if player A's own animal enter player A's own trap can the opponent "eat" the piece if opponent chess piece is stronger?

 * Possibly. There is debate on whether the player's trap squares act as a "safe" zone (protecting against attack) or not. - Parsa 19:37, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Yes, per Bell's rules. --IHTS (talk) 07:27, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Stratego and Jungle
DeweyQ, you're right that the Stratego reference needs a citation. The problem lies with the fact that Dou Shou Qi has very little written about it in English. I have a feeling that not even much is written in Chinese. Even the Chinese Wikipedia article on Jungle is pretty short. The Wiki article on Stratego mentions the relation between the games. However, there are no references given. The games are obviously similar, but finding viable references is difficult. - Parsa 09:04, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

Fellow gamers: Let me assure you that JUNGLE CHESS is not "Ancient Asian" in any way. Even Stratego is older. This is the problem of what I would call "bad scholarship" when it comes to putting things on Wiki. The History of Stratego has a closer relationship with "L'Attaque" then this game. Chinese Jungle Chess was not even among the games recorded by the great Stewart Culpin who was a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania who extensively traveled the east and created an encyclopedia of Oriental games from China, Japan, Korea, etc.. The Professors research was originally published in 1895. Jungle Chess is not included because it was a 20th century invention. Doesn't anyone even consult an Asian Cultural center regarding this material? -

Stewart Culpin's extensive collection of ALL asian games is still in the collection of the University of Pennsylvania museum. I suggest that before anyone makes such assumptions based on similarity, check which came first. Not every game in China is "Ancient". Also, many Asians don't know their own gaming history because these things are more of an oral history than recorded, and only Asian scholars who are authorities should be consulted regarding History. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.238.226.71 (talk) 20:11, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

 * Right. (Bell says "modern Chinese game"; Parlett says "contemporary Chinese game".) --IHTS (talk) 07:26, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Piece hierarchy
I moved the Wolf above the Dog, since it's a stronger piece in the game (you can also tell from the starting positions, where Dog is opposite Cat, while Wolf is opposite Leopard).Archiesteel (talk) 17:56, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
 * That's WP:OR. I moved it back per sources. --IHTS (talk) 07:22, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Authority of rules given in article?
At present this article appears misleading. This game appears to be played with a wide variety of rules. See http://www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/213118 for one example of a variation. There appears to be no "central authority" for this game. If there is one please list it and show why it is recognised as the world authority on this game.

Otherwise please include an acknowledgement of the "fuzziness" of this games rules in this article. 124.169.208.45 (talk) 13:05, 18 July 2008 (UTC)

 * Bell is used by Pritchard (encyclopedias & The Family Book of Games) and Parlett (The Oxford History of Board Games). --IHTS (talk) 07:23, 16 July 2018 (UTC)

Name of game is Dou Shou Qi (not Shou Dou Qi)
-- including post by Jean-Louis Cazaux, respected chess variant historian. Ihardlythinkso (talk) 08:56, 8 February 2014 (UTC)

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Leopard jump
This recent unsourced unexplained mobile edit by an IP user changed into It's far from the only unsourced edit, and I cannot tell if this, or many other things in the article, is true or false, OR, or vandalism.--Nø (talk) 09:47, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
 * The leopard [...] cannot jump over a rat in the river, however.
 * The leopard [...] can jump over a rat in the river.

Comparison with Jun Qi/ Lu Zhan Qi
I have to object to claim that Dou Shou Qi is more like Luzhanqi than Stratego. For a start they all bare significant resemblances. But Dou Shou Qi is the odd one out not having hidden pieces. The boards of Dou Shou Qi and Stratego are much more similar. The only real similarity between Dou Shou Qi and Luzhanqi (above and beyond the family resemblance) is the fact that Dou Shou Qi uses Chinese characters (sometimes). But that is a purely superficial resemblance.

Of course the resemblances between Dou Shou Qi and Stratego may be accidental, but they are there. In any case it is unsourced and is clearly disputable so I think it should go. Slimy asparagus (talk) 17:00, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

Comparison with Jungle King
The game is almost identical to Jungle King, a British game from the 1950s. I have owned a copy of this game since about 1965. It is still complete with board, pieces and rules. It's not clear to me which came first, this British game or the Chinese one. I've added a mention and a reference to a museum copy. Neil Mayhew (talk) 20:15, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
 * @Neil Mayhew I found and added a secondary source on the similarity between the two games (book found through Google Books), though there is a conflict between this source and yours because while the museum page says Jungle King is from the 1950s, the book says it's from the 1960s: "The first publication of such a game in the West was given in English by R.C. Bell, in 1960, describing a game he had received from Hong Kong. Shortly thereafter (ca. 1963), a version named Jungle King was published by Waddingtons in the United Kingdom." It would be great if there are additional sources but in the meantime I've gone with the dating from the book. Fiwec81618 (talk) 06:25, 22 February 2022 (UTC)
 * I think you've taken the right approach. I checked my copy of the game to see if there's a copyright date or any other date-related information but unfortunately there isn't. I could upload pictures of the box, pieces and rules if anyone thinks that would be useful. Neil Mayhew (talk) 04:17, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

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Blue Cross Arena

Blue Cross Arena, also known as the War Memorial, is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in Rochester, New York. For hockey and lacrosse, its seating capacity is 10,662. The arena opened on October 18, 1955, as the Rochester Community War Memorial. It was renovated in the mid-1990s and reopened as The Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial, on September 18, 1998. It is home to the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League and the Rochester Knighthawks of the National Lacrosse League.

History
The arena was built on a downtown site as a replacement for Edgerton Park Arena, bounded by Exchange Boulevard on the west, East Broad Street on the north, the Genesee River on the east and Court Street on the south. The property was formerly the home of the Kimball Tobacco Co. and other retail buildings. Originally named the Rochester Community War Memorial, the arena opened on October 18, 1955. The building included a full stage on the south end and an exhibition hall located on the basement level. One of the members of the construction team was a young Robert Marella, who later achieved fame as professional wrestler Gorilla Monsoon. The arena's first tenant was the Rochester Royals NBA basketball team, who played their final two seasons in Rochester at this arena. They were joined by the Americans the next year, who have played in the arena for 63 consecutive seasons.

On March 13, 1996, renovations to expand the arena took place, eliminating the permanent stage at the south end of the building. On July 24, 1998, Blue Cross Blue Shield and City officials announced that the name of the renovated arena would be Blue Cross Arena at the War Memorial. On September 18, 1998, the arena reopened to the public during a formal ribbon cutting/rededication ceremony. DeWolff Partnership Architects completed the project as Architects of Record with Rossetti Architects in a consultant relationship. C.E. DeWolff, Senior Partner of DeWolff Partnership, Geno Rossetti of Rossetti Architects, were Design Associates who collaborated on features of the design. In 2018, the city terminated the arena management contract with long term operator SMG who had been running the arena since 2000. In July 2018, the city reached an agreement with Pegula Sports and Entertainment, owners of the Americans, Buffalo Sabres and Buffalo Bills and operators of KeyBank Center in Buffalo to operate the arena beginning on August 1, 2018. Shortly after the Pegula takeover the arena received updates of a new center scoreboard, a new ribbon board at the stage end of the arena and enhancements to the audio and video equipment. There are plans for expansion along the Exchange Boulevard side of the arena that will make room for additional office space and improved locker room facilities as well as planned upgrades to the bathrooms, new concessions and a restaurant.

Blue Cross Arena's portable stage, which measures 80 feet deep by 80 feet wide, is said to be deeper than, and is nearly the same size as, the proscenium stage at Radio City Music Hall across the state in New York City.

Notable events

The first event at the facility was a public trade show held in the exhibition hall and featured such famous Rochester-based companies as Eastman Kodak, Haloid (now Xerox), Bausch & Lomb, General Railway Signal and Rochester Products.

It hosted the 1956 NBA All-Star Game, the two-month finals of the American Bowling Congress tournament in both 1956 and 1966.

A semifinal game and the final game of the ECAC Upstate-Southern Region tournament, an NCAA Division I men's college basketball tournament organized by the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC), took place at the War Memorial in 1978; the tournament champion received an automatic bid to the 1978 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament.

World Wrestling Entertainment has run many shows at the arena, most notably several television tapings 1997's In Your House 14: Revenge of the 'Taker Pay Per View event. In 1990 at a television taping, Mr. Perfect won the Intercontinental title from The Texas Tornado and in 1994, Diesel (Kevin Nash) beat Razor Ramon for the Intercontinental title.

On July 28, 2007, the CIFL Championship Game was held in the arena. It was the first arena football game played in the venue since the Rochester Brigade folded in 2003.

Local high school basketball games are played here, most notably the New York State Public High School Section V (5) Championships at the end of each season. Additionally, the arena is the home of high school cheerleading championships each year. The arena also hosts college basketball, and Section V hockey and wrestling.

On Saturday and Sunday, March 8–9, 2008, the Blue Cross Arena played host to the 46th NYSPHSAA Wrestling Championships, just the second time the annual interscholastic event has been held in the Rochester area.

The arena attendance record of 11,650 was set December 3, 2003 when Syracuse University defeated St. Bonaventure University in men's basketball. St. Bonaventure has hosted one of its home games in Rochester every year since 2002.

In 2016, the arena hosted the Kellogg's Tour of Gymnastics Champions.

On May 18, 2019, the arena held their first MMA event UFC Fight Night: dos Anjos vs. Lee.

In addition to sporting events, the arena hosts a wide variety of entertainment events, including live concerts, ice shows and the circus.

On November 1, 1965, The Rolling Stones played here in a concert that lasted only 7 minutes, when several thousand fans rushed the stage causing police to cancel the show. On August 9, 1971, The Who played at the War Memorial just five days before releasing their classic album "Who's Next". Led Zeppelin played to a standing room audience concert on September 11, 1971. The Grateful Dead's performance, on November 5, 1977, was recorded and later released as a live album, entitled Dick's Picks Volume 34. Part of the Grateful Dead's performance on September 2, 1980 is included as bonus tracks on Dick's Picks Volume 21. The band performed at the arena ten times between 1973 and 1985.

Footage from Phish's documentary Bittersweet Motel, was filmed here on December 11, 1997.

Ice hockey
Aside from the Rochester Americans, who play their home games in the arena, the Blue Cross Arena has played host to several notable ice hockey events and games. On November 12, 2003, the Buffalo Sabres and the defending Stanley Cup champion New Jersey Devils played the first National Hockey League regular season game in the venue. The game was made possible by then Sabres owner Tom Golisano, who hails from Rochester, and featured two Rochester natives: Brian Gionta of the Devils and Rory Fitzpatrick of the Sabres. It ended in a 2–2 tie. A second regular season game was held at the arena on October 26, 2005, with the Sabres falling to the Washington Capitals, 3–2 with 8,552 in attendance.

On March 23, 2006, Atlantic Hockey, an NCAA Division I Men's ice hockey league, announced that its league tournaments in 2007, 2008, and 2009 would be held at the Blue Cross Arena. 2007 was the first time the tournament was held at a neutral site. The league continued to hold their tournament there each year through 2018 when it then moved to Buffalo's LECOM Harborcenter. Additionally, the 2007 NCAA Men's Division I Ice Hockey East Regional was held at the Blue Cross Arena. Attendance was low due to high ticket prices and distance from large Division I programs.

The Rochester Institute of Technology men's hockey team has played periodic regular-season games at Blue Cross Arena instead of at their smaller on-campus rink, due to the large capacity. The RIT women's hockey team hosted an exhibition game at the arena on October 16, 2021 after the Gene Polisseni Center was temporarily shut down for an ammonia leak.

Every year, the Blue Cross Arena hosts regular season Section V high school hockey games and the Section V Basketball championship.

title: Blue Cross Arena