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Ella Cara Deloria

Ella Cara Deloria (January 31, 1889 – February 12, 1971), also called Aŋpétu Wašté Wiŋ (Beautiful Day Woman), was a Yankton Dakota (Sioux) educator, anthropologist, ethnographer, linguist, and novelist. She recorded Native American oral history and contributed to the study of Native American languages. According to Cotera (2008), Deloria was "a pre-eminent expert on Dakota/Lakota/Nakota cultural religious, and linguistic practices." In the 1940s, Deloria wrote the novel Waterlily, which was published in 1988 and republished in 2009.

Life
Deloria was born in 1889 in the White Swan district of the Yankton Indian Reservation, South Dakota. Her parents were Mary (Miriam) Sully Bordeaux Deloria and Philip Joseph Deloria and had Yankton Dakota, English, French and German roots; the family surname goes back to a French trapper ancestor named Francois-Xavier Des Lauriers. Her father was one of the first Dakota to be ordained as an Episcopal priest. Her mother was the daughter of Alfred Sully, a general in the US Army, and a Métis Yankton Sioux. Ella was the first child to the couple, who each had several daughters by previous marriages. Her full siblings were sister Susan (also known as Mary Sully) and brother Vine Victor Deloria Sr., who became an Episcopal priest like their father. The noted writer Vine Deloria Jr. is her nephew.

Deloria was brought up among the Hunkpapa and Sihasapa Lakota people on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, at Wakpala, and was educated first at her father's mission school, St. Elizabeth's Church and Boarding School, and then at All Saints Boarding School in Sioux Falls. After graduation in 1910, she attended Oberlin College, Ohio, to which she had won a scholarship. After three years at Oberlin, Deloria transferred to Columbia Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, and graduated with a B.Sc. and a special teaching certificate in 1915.

She went on to become "one of the first truly bilingual, bicultural figures in American anthropology, and an extraordinary scholar, teacher, and spirit who pursued her own work and commitments under notoriously adverse conditions. At one point she lived out of a car while collecting material for Franz Boas." Throughout her professional life, she suffered from not having the money or the free time necessary to take an advanced degree. She was committed to the support of her family. Her father and step-mother were elderly, and her sister Susan depended on her financially.

In addition to her work in anthropology, Deloria had a number of jobs, including teaching dance and physical education at Haskell Indian Boarding School, lecturing and giving demonstrations on Native American culture, and working for the Camp Fire Girls and for the YWCA as a national health education secretary. She held positions at the Sioux Indian Museum in Rapid City, South Dakota, and as assistant director at the W.H. Over Museum in Vermillion.

Deloria had a series of strokes in 1970, dying the following year of pneumonia.

Work and achievements
Deloria met Franz Boas while at Teachers College, and began a professional association with him that lasted until his death in 1942. Boas recruited her as a student, and engaged her to work with him on the linguistics of Native American languages. She worked with Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict, anthropologists who had been graduate students of Boas. For her work on American Indian cultures, she had the advantage of fluency in the Dakota, Lakota, and Nakota dialects of Sioux, in addition to English and Latin.

Although Deloria worked under Boas, Mead, and Benedict, experts have primarily focused on the bridge she enacted between white and Native cultural perspectives, Deloria's dual commitments to her work and family, and the importance of her expertise to Indigenous communities. Therefore, "exam[ining] Deloria's reciprocal mentoring relationships, in this way intervening in previous scholarship’s emphasis upon Deloria’s cultural mediation and personal hardships to highlight her impact on the field of anthropology (...) was instrumental in bringing about important advances to the field." This "reciprocal mentoring relationship" can be seen between Boas and Deloria.

Deloria met Franz Boas while at Teachers College; "Boas was impressed enough with this young woman (...) that he asked her to teach Siouan dialects (she was proficient in Lakota and Nakota dialects and spoke Dakota at home as a child) to his students in a class he was teaching in linguistics." Moreover, it has been contended that “the mentoring role demands even more of the anthropologist (...) anthropology mentors must suspend the skills they have worked so hard to develop and instead engage in a more passive role for providing insight and eventual understanding." Deloria established her "own clear, dissenting voice and pushed her mentors to alter their assumptions." Due to personal family obligations, Deloria "[was] forced to return home to the Midwest in 1915, and “it was not until 1927 that Deloria was reintroduced to the academic world of anthropology (...) Boas visited Deloria in Kansas that summer and asked her to recommence her work on the Lakota language." However, the relationship between Deloria and Boas was complex and has been further revealed through letters. "James Walker amassed an enormous body of information regarding Lakota beliefs, rituals, and myths. Boas had asked Deloria to substantiate his findings (...) She became critical of Walker’s work when she discovered that he had failed to separate creative fiction from traditional stories. After Deloria shared her findings with Boas, he did not hesitate to express his dissatisfaction." He was trying to align these answers with information from earlier European American anthropologists. On the other hand, "Boas encouraged Deloria to verify myths of the Lakota." Nevertheless, "Boas became and remained a charismatic mentor to Deloria, and through her voice of dissent, she challenged Boas to rise to a higher standard in his own work."

Her linguistic abilities and her intimate knowledge of traditional and Christianized Dakota culture, together with her deep commitment both to American Indian cultures and to scholarship, allowed Deloria to carry out important, often ground-breaking work in anthropology and ethnology. She also translated into English several Sioux historical and scholarly texts, such as the Lakota texts of George Bushotter (1864–1892), the first Sioux ethnographer (Deloria 2006; originally published in 1932); and the Santee texts recorded by Presbyterian missionaries Samuel and Gideon Pond, brothers from Connecticut.

In 1938–39, Deloria was one of a small group of researchers commissioned to do a socioeconomic study on the Navajo Reservation for the Bureau of Indian Affairs; it was funded by the Phelps Stokes Fund. They published their report, entitled The Navajo Indian Problem. This project opened the door for Deloria to receive more speaking engagements, as well as funding to support her continued important work on Native languages.

In 1940, she and her sister Susan went to Pembroke, North Carolina to conduct some research among the Lumbee of Robeson County. The project was supported by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the federal Farm Security Administration. Since the late 19th century, these mixed-race people, considered free people of color before the Civil War, had been recognized as an Indian tribe by the state of North Carolina, which allowed them to have their own schools, rather than requiring them to send their children to schools with the children of freedmen. They were also seeking federal recognition as a Native American tribe. Deloria believed she could make an important contribution to their effort for recognition by studying their distinctive culture and what remained of their original language. In her study, she conducted interviews with a range of people in the group, including women, about their use of plants, food, medicine, and animal names. She came very close to completing a dictionary of what may have been their original language before they adopted English. She also assembled a pageant with, for and about the Robeson County Lumbee in 1940 that depicted their origin account.

Deloria received grants for her research from Columbia University, the American Philosophical Society, the Bollingen Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the Doris Duke Foundation, from 1929-1960s.

She was compiling a Lakota dictionary at the time of her death. Her extensive data has proven invaluable to researchers since that time.

Legacy and honors

 * In 1943, Deloria won the Indian Achievement Award.
 * In 2010, the Department of Anthropology of Columbia University, Deloria's alma mater, established the Ella C. Deloria Undergraduate Research Fellowship in her honor.

Fiction

 * 1991: Ella Deloria's Iron Hawk (single narrative), ed. Julian Rice. University of New Mexico Press; ISBN 0-8263-1447-3
 * 1994: Ella Deloria's the Buffalo People (collection of stories), ed. Julian Rice. University of New Mexico Press; ISBN 0-8263-1506-2
 * 2006: Dakota Texts, Introduction by Raymond J. DeMallie. University of Nebraska Press; ISBN 0-8032-6660-X
 * 2009: Waterlily, New edition. University of Nebraska Press; ISBN 978-0-8032-1904-5

Non-fiction

 * 1928: The Wohpe Festival: Being an All-Day Celebration, Consisting of Ceremonials, Games, Dances and Songs, in Honor of Wohpe, One of the Four Superior Gods... Games, of Adornment and of Little Children
 * 1929: The Sun Dance of the Oglala Sioux (American Folklore Society)
 * 1932: Dakota Texts (reprinted 2006, Bison Books; ISBN 0-8032-6660-X)
 * 1941: Dakota Grammar (with Franz Boas) (National Academy of Sciences; reprinted 1976, AMS Press, ISBN 0-404-11829-1)
 * 1944: Speaking of Indians (reprinted 1998, University of Nebraska Press; ISBN 0-8032-6614-6)
 * 2022: The Dakota Way of Life (edited by Raymond J. DeMallie and Thierry Veyrié), University of Nebraska Press ISBN 978-1-4962-3359-2

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Looe Valley Line

The Looe Valley Line (Linen Nans Logh) is an 8+3/4 mi community railway from Liskeard to Looe in Cornwall, England, that follows the valley of the East Looe River for much of its course. It is operated by Great Western Railway.

History
The Looe Valley Line was opened as the Liskeard and Looe Railway on 27 December 1860 from a station at Moorswater, a little west of Liskeard, to the quayside at Looe, replacing the earlier Liskeard and Looe Union Canal. At Moorswater it connected with the Liskeard and Caradon Railway which conveyed granite from quarries on Bodmin Moor.

Passenger services commenced on 11 September 1879, but the Moorswater terminus was inconvenient as it was remote from Liskeard and a long way from the Cornwall Railway station on the south side of the town. On 15 May 1901 the railway opened a curving link line from Coombe Junction, a little south of Moorswater, to the now Great Western Railway station at Liskeard. The section from Coombe Junction to Moorswater was closed to passenger traffic on the same day but passenger numbers tripled. The new connecting line had to climb a considerable vertical interval to reach the Cornish Main Line which passed above Moorswater on a 147 feet (45m) high viaduct. The Liskeard and Looe Railway was taken over by the Great Western Railway in 1909 and the attractive seaside resort of Looe became heavily promoted as a holiday destination in the railway's publicity.

The section beyond Looe station to the quay was closed in 1916 and the Caradon line north of Moorswater fell out of use at around the same time.

In 1966 the line was due to be closed under Richard Beeching's Reshaping of Britain's Railways plan, but was reprieved just two weeks before its scheduled closure by Minister of Transport Barbara Castle.

Community rail
Since 1992 the Looe Valley Line has been one of the railway lines promoted by the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership. Passenger numbers have risen from around 58,000 in 2001 to 118,000 in 2016.

The line is promoted by many means such as regular timetable and scenic line guides, as well as leaflets highlighting leisure opportunities such as walking, birdwatching, and visiting country pubs.

The Looe Valley Line Rail Ale Trail was launched early in 2004 and encourages rail travellers to visit eight pubs near the line. Five of these are in Looe, two in Liskeard, and one in Duloe, a 30-minute walk from Causeland station. Eight stamps collected in the Rail Ale Trail entitle the participant to claim special Looe Valley Line Rail Trail souvenir tour shirt.

The line was designated as a community rail line in September 2005, being one of seven pilots for the Department for Transport's Community Rail Development Strategy. This aims to establish the true costs and revenues for the line with an aim of improving them. It is also looking at simplifying the reversal of trains, considering the costs and benefits should the line be "microfranchised" separately from the Great Western Franchise, and the potential for opening a Park and Ride station at Moorswater where the goods sidings are close to the A38 Liskeard Bypass.

In 2007 the signs on the Looe Valley platform at Liskeard were replaced with brown and cream signs in the style used by the Western Region of British Railways in the 1950s and 1960s.

Looe Valley Heritage Project

In 2019 the Devon and Cornwall Rail Partnership launched a heritage project about the line which told the story of its history through archive information and engaging with the local community. The project won Best Community Engagement Project at the National Community Rail Awards in 2019.

Passenger volume
The majority of Looe Valley passengers travel the whole length of the line with Causeland being the busiest intermediate station. The line has seen some good growth over the years with incremental improvements to the service.

The statistics cover twelve-month periods that start in April.

Descending to Coombe
The line is single track for the whole of its length and is worked by just a single train set each day. Trains leave Liskeard railway station from a platform at right angles to the main line platforms, initially running northeast away from Looe. Beyond the platform the line takes a long right-hand curve, passing the connection through the goods yard to the main line, and diving underneath the A38 road twice. It then descends steeply, now heading generally southwest, and passes under the Liskeard viaduct carrying the Cornish Main Line 150 feet (46m) above.

Curving right once more, the train joins the main branch line from Looe at Coombe Junction, and comes to a stand on a small level crossing. Most trains change direction here, the train's guard operating the points using the ground frame (see Signalling below), but a few in each direction continue a few yards further to call at Coombe Junction Halt at Lamellion. Beyond the platform the line still continues to Moorswater, passing under the main line again beneath the Moorswater viaduct, but this section is no longer used.

Along the valley
With the driver and guard having now swapped ends, the train recommences its southerly journey, now running alongside the old Liskeard and Looe Union Canal and East Looe River. Another level crossing is passed at Lodge, and then a short journey brings the train to St Keyne Wishing Well Halt, adjacent to the "Magnificent Music Machines" museum of fairground organs and similar instruments. The holy well of St Keyne is near the village which is a ten-minute walk from the station.

South of St Keyne the canal swaps to the west side of the line for a while, but as the valley closes in it disappears altogether for a distance where the railway was built on top of the redundant canal. One of the old canal's locks can be seen at Causeland railway station. This is the oldest station on the line as it was opened in 1879 when passenger trains first started operating. In common with most of the stations it has been rebuilt in recent years, a smart brick shelter having replaced the original wooden hut.

Beside the estuary
After passing Sandplace railway station the railway follows the east side of the river, which is now a tidal estuary that the line follows to its terminus. The line passes over one more level crossing, the unusual Terras Crossing, where the road approaches the crossing over a causeway that is liable to flooding at high tide, so the footpath is raised on boards alongside. As the crossing is ungated trains must come to a stand and sound their horn before crossing. The ruin of the final lock of the canal is on the east of the line here.

After running further alongside the tidal estuary the line finally arrives at Looe railway station, opposite the point at which the West Looe River flows into the East Looe River to form the tidal Looe harbour. The town centre is a five-minute walk further alongside the river and buses to Polperro stop on the road near the station.

All distances along the line are measured from the point near the seven-span road bridge across the river where the Liskeard and Looe Railway connected with the private sidings on Buller Quay. The original station, now the site of the Police Station, was 14 chains (308 yards or 282m) north of this point, but the simple station of 1968 construction is forty yards north of this: thus the mile post marking ¼ mile from the  original end of the line is in fact opposite the current platform, just 20 yards from the present southern end of the line.

Passenger
The service operated by Great Western Railway since 10 December 2006 consisted of nine trains each way daily. During the peak summer period from 20 May to 9 September 2007 three additional services were operated, including a late evening train. In May 2019 Great Western Railway introduced an improved timetable which saw 15 trains a day run on the line Monday to Saturday and 8 on Sundays from April until October.

Coombe Junction Halt railway station is served by only two trains each way Mondays to Saturdays. For most of the day, every second train in each direction runs without any intermediate station calls. On the other, stopping, trains, the other intermediate stations are all request stops – this means that passengers alighting must tell the guard that they wish to do so, and those waiting to join must signal clearly to the driver as the train approaches.

The trains are formed of two-car s. 150233 was once named Lady Margret of Looe Valley (the original Lady Margret was a steam locomotive belonging to the Liskeard and Looe Railway). Single-car 153369 was named The Looe Valley Explorer. Both these trains carried large pictures on the outside showing local scenes, but interworked with other similar trains throughout the Great Western Railway network so did not work the line every day. Both these trains have since lost their special liveries and have been repainted in a standard liveries. s are no longer used on this line as GWR no longer operate them.

Freight
There are currently no scheduled freight services. The most recent was a once-a-week service operated by Colas Rail using a Class 70 locomotive. The working was hauled from Aberthaw in Wales to Moorswater, carrying an average of 20 cement containers. This service stopped in September 2021, reportedly due to lack of demand from the customers.

Signalling
Signal boxes were originally provided at Liskeard (at the north end of the branch platform), Coombe Junction and in a small hut at Looe. Liskeard Branch Signal Box was replaced by a ground frame on 15 March 1964 and the signal box at Looe closed on the same date. Coombe Junction Signal Box continued to operate until 8 May 1981. Liskeard Signal Box now supervises the entire line, as well as controls the connection to the mainline.

, the line has three ground frames which are operated by the train crews: The Looe Valley line is divided into three sections, each worked by a different method: The level crossings at Lodge Farm (between Coombe Junction and St Keyne) and at Terras (between Sandplace and Looe) are both 'open' crossings with warning signals for road users. Trains have to slow on the approach to Lodge Farm but stop before proceeding over Terras crossing.
 * Liskeard (for the connection between the sidings and the branch line)
 * Coombe No. 1 (at the junction between the lines to Liskeard and to Looe)
 * Coombe No. 2 (at the Moorswater end of the station to control the track into Moorswater)
 * The section from Liskeard to Coombe: worked by No-Signaller Token. A token machine is located in a hut on Liskeard platform 3 and is used each time a train arrives or departs on the line to Coombe. The token is required to operate any of the three ground frames. Token machines are also located at the ground frames at Coombe.
 * The section from Coombe to Looe: worked by One Train Working with train staff. The train staff is kept at Liskeard Signal Box when not in use. It is used to operate Coombe No. 1 Ground Frame so that trains can run between Coombe and Looe.
 * The section from Coombe to Moorswater: worked under the authority of a shunter.

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Friction (Coney Hatch album)

Friction, the third album by Coney Hatch, was released in 1985. Drummer Dave Ketchum left prior to this release, to be replaced by Barry Connors, formerly of Toronto.

Track listing

 * 1) This Ain't Love 4:07
 * 2) She's Gone 3:58
 * 3) Wrong Side Of Town 3:20
 * 4) Girl From Last Night's Dream 4:04
 * 5) Coming To Get You 3:48
 * 6) Fantasy 4:17
 * 7) He's A Champion 4:40
 * 8) State Line 4:03
 * 9) Burning Love 3:59
 * 10) Fuel For The Fire 4:07
 * "Fuel For the Fire" is a B-side to a British single.

Personnel

 * Carl Dixon – rhythm guitar, lead vocals
 * Andy Curran – bass guitar, lead vocals on "Wrong Side of Town"
 * Steve Shelski – lead guitar, vocals
 * Barry Connors – drums, percussion

 * Max Norman – Producer, Engineer

 * Michael Kaye – Guitar, Bass Technician

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Naeemi

 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 DELETE. jni 08:53, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Naeemi
Google searches for Haji Mohammad Naeem Naeemi and "Haji Mohammad" Naeemi show nothing. I'm not convinced that this individual requires an article. Note: I reverted to a non-copyvio version before listing on VfD. —Mar·ka·ci: 2005-02-5 01:25 Z 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 the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.
 * Delete, not notable - fails Google test, posible vanity. Megan1967 02:16, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, as non-notable (unless someone finds out this is a notable official in the government, the google test may under report people in such areas.) RJFJR 04:34, Feb 5, 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: The previous copyvio version is more informative; maybe his notability can be judged by the people who attended his funeral. Kappa 05:25, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, someone's cousin is all. Wyss 22:19, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Sex (play)

Sex is a 1926 play written by and starring Mae West, who used the pen name "Jane Mast". Staged on Broadway, the play received bad reviews, but was a commercial success. It was eventually shut down by the New York City Police Department due to obscenity, and West was sentenced to 10 days in jail because of it.

Act One
The play opens at Rocky's residence on Caidoux Street in Montreal's red-light district. Rocky receives an unwanted visit from Dawson, a police officer he has been paying off to keep quiet about a murder. Rocky offers Margy, a prostitute who works for him, as payment to Dawson, but she refuses. Dawson leaves without trouble, but swears to return for his money. Margy longs to leave Rocky for a better life, but she currently has no realistic alternative. Rocky leaves for a date with a "society dame", whom he plans to seduce and blackmail. Once Rocky has left, Margy receives several visitors. The first is her best friend Agnes, who, despite Margy's warnings about rejection, plans to return home to her parents once she's saved enough money. Margy's second visitor is Gregg, a Royal Navy officer who is both a customer and a friend. Gregg encourages Margy to follow the fleet around and entertain the military men so she can see the world and get rich. To prove he truly cares about her, he takes her out on a nice date with the money he planned on using for her services. Rocky returns with his "society dame" Clara, whom he quickly drugs and hauls into the bedroom once she is unconscious.

Margy and Gregg return to have a drink and discover that Rocky has fled and left behind Clara, who is now near death. Gregg and Margy manage to revive her, and she regains consciousness as Dawson returns. Margy tries to cover up for Rocky and Clara by saying Clara is a friend, but Clara takes advantage of Margy and lies to Dawson, saying Margy lured her in and stole all her jewelry. Dawson prepares to take Clara downtown for further investigation but Clara, knowing the publicity would ruin her reputation, convinces Dawson to accept money in exchange for letting her go. As he goes to escort Clara out of Montreal, Margy stops them and curses Clara for trying to frame her to save herself. Margy reminds Clara that all she ever did to her was try to save her life, and if she ever gets the chance to get even with her, she will.

Act Two
The second act opens at The Café Port-au-Prince in Haiti. Margy has begun to follow the fleet and travel the world as Gregg suggested. Gregg and Margy run into Jones, an old customer of Margy's. He keeps trying to seduce Margy, but Gregg is strangely protective and warns him to back off. The captain of the ship introduces Margy to Jimmy, a young millionaire. Jimmy is unaware Margy is a prostitute and quickly falls in love. Jimmy soon proposes to Margy and begs her to return home with him. She tells him he is silly, as they have not even known each other for more than a week. Jimmy insists and eventually Margy says yes to his proposal. After too much wine, Jimmy soon retires to his room.

Margy discovers Agnes in a state of despair and learns that Agnes's family rejected her when she tried to return home. Margy consoles her and confides that she is pretending to be an upper-class tourist so that she can marry a rich man. Agnes is delighted, but Margy is considering coming clean because she does not want to lie to such a good man. Agnes makes Margy promise she will marry Jimmy and have a good life. Margy tries to get Agnes a hotel room and some new clothes, but Agnes does not want to ruin Margy's cover, so she refuses and runs off sobbing. Gregg enters and tells Margy he is leaving the next day for Australia, then asks if she will come with him and be his wife. Margy is flattered, but turns him down. Jimmy re-enters and a commotion is heard. Agnes has jumped off the boat into the bay and drowned herself. Margy nearly faints, and Jimmy, surprised at her reaction, tells her not to worry because it is just some worthless prostitute.

Act Three
Act Three opens at Jimmy Stanton's home, where Jimmy is excited for Margy to meet his parents. Upon meeting Jimmy's mother, Clara, Margy instantly recognizes her as the "society dame" from Montreal. Clara cannot reveal who Margy is without exposing herself, and Margy takes advantage of the situation to put Clara in her place. Once alone with Jimmy, Margy brings him up to her room to seduce him before their wedding as a way of getting revenge on Clara. The next morning, Jimmy tells Margy that he is having his friend Lieutenant Gregg over. Gregg also recognizes Clara from Montreal, but Margy stops him before he has the chance to say anything. Clara is so anxious about her past being exposed she feigns illness and rushes off to her room. Once Jimmy and Gregg have left, there is a knock at the door, and Clara answers it to reveal Rocky, who demands money. Clara grabs for a gun, but Margy enters and takes the gun while calling the police. Margy knows that Rocky has been blackmailing Clara, but she lets him run before the police arrive when he promises to leave them alone forever.

When the police arrive, Margy tells them it was a mistake, but to her dismay, she recognizes one of the officers as one of her former clients, and he recognizes her as well. Knowing she can never pull off her façade, she silently goes up to her room. Jimmy and Gregg return and begin to talk with Clara, but Margy interrupts, dressed to leave and carrying her suitcase. She explains to Jimmy that she is the same as the woman who threw herself into the bay in Haiti. Jimmy is heartbroken that Margy is not what she appeared to be, and he cannot love her for who she is. Margy, who is not surprised, smiles and says she's leaving for Australia. She takes Gregg's hand, knowing that he has loved her all along.

List of characters

 * Margy LaMont – a prostitute
 * Rocky Waldron – a pimp
 * Manly – a thug
 * Curley – a pimp
 * Dawson – a corrupt officer of the law
 * Agnes – a prostitute and best friend of Margy LaMont
 * Red – a prostitute
 * Flossie – a prostitute
 * Jones – a client
 * Lieutenant Gregg – an English naval officer
 * Captain Carter – an officer
 * Condez – host of the Café Port-au-Prince
 * Clara Stanton – a wealthy woman
 * Jimmy Stanton – son of Clara Stanton
 * Robert Stanton – husband of Clara Stanton and father of Jimmy Stanton
 * Marie – the Stantons' French maid
 * Jenkins – the Stantons' butler
 * Policeman
 * First Man
 * Second Man
 * Waiter

Production history

The comedy-drama premiered April 26, 1926, at Daly's 63rd Street Theatre in New York City. Sex received many scathing reviews from a variety of critics because of the play's moral implications. The New York Times considered it to be a "crude and inept play, cheaply produced and poorly acted" while Billboard condemned it as "the cheapest most vulgar low show to have dared to open in New York this year". When the show opened, Broadway had been in a commercial slump, yet in spite of this and negative press, Sex played to full audiences. Sex was the only play on Broadway that season to stay open through the summer and into the following year.

There were 375 performances before the New York Police Department raided West and her company in February 1927. They were charged with obscenity, after 325,000 people had watched it, including members of the police department and their wives, judges of the criminal courts, and seven members of the district attorney's staff. West was sentenced to 10 days in a workhouse on Roosevelt Island (known then as "Welfare Island") and fined $500. The resulting publicity increased her national renown.

The original production of Sex was directed by Edward Elsner, produced by C. William Morganstern, and stage managed by Alfred L. Rigali. The original cast featured Mae West as Margy LaMont, Al Re Alia as Curley, Conde Brewer as Condez, Gordon Earle as Waiter, D. J. Hamilton as Jones, Frank Howard as Jenkins, Michael Markham as Spanish Dancer, Constance Morganstern as Marie, Mary Morrisey as Red, Barry O'Neill as Lieutenant Gregg, Ann Reader as Agnes Scott, Pacie Ripple as Robert Stanton, George Rogers as Captain Carter, Warren Sterling as Rocky Waldron, Eda Von Buelow as Clara Smith, and Lyons Wickland as Jimmy Stanton.

The Canadian premiere of Sex was produced by The Shaw Festival for its 2019 season. The show was directed by Canadian director Peter Hinton and designed by Eo Sharpe.

Prosecution
West and the entire cast were arrested on morals charges. West was sentenced to ten days, and served eight days with two days off for "good behavior". Media attention surrounding the incident enhanced her career, by crowning her the darling "bad girl" who "had climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong".

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Ila Borders

Ila Jane Borders (born February 18, 1975) is an American former left-handed pitcher in college and independent professional baseball player. As a female pitcher in men's leagues, Borders achieved numerous baseball milestones at the college and professional levels, including being the first female pitcher to start and win a men's professional baseball game. In four seasons from 1997 to 2000, she appeared in 52 games and posted a record of 2–4 and 6.75 earned run average while recording 36 strikeouts.

Biography
Borders played for Southern California College in the 1994–1996 seasons and Whittier College in the 1997 season. In 1995 she was the first woman to start as pitcher in a men's collegiate baseball game. She was also the first woman to receive a baseball scholarship to play men's collegiate baseball and the first woman to earn a win in men's collegiate baseball. Borders was the first woman to play for The Canadian Collegiate Premier Wooden Bat League for the Swift Current Indians in the summer of 1995.

Borders became one of the first female pitchers in integrated men's professional baseball (female players such as Toni Stone had played in the Negro leagues) when in 1997 she signed with the St. Paul Saints of the independent Northern League, playing in her first regular season game on May 31, 1997 against the Sioux Falls Canaries. In that debut, she hit the first batter she faced, balked, and gave up three earned runs without recording an out. Her next appearance was much improved; in the one inning she pitched, she walked one but then struck out the side. One month into the regular season, she was traded to the Duluth–Superior Dukes. She pitched from the bullpen for both teams, seeing limited use. Her 1997 season totals were a 7.53 ERA, 15 appearances, 14 innings, allowing 24 hits and 9 walks while striking out 11 and with no decisions.

She returned to the Dukes for the 1998 season, pitching from the bullpen at first. On Thursday, July 7, 1998, she was made a starting pitcher, making her the first female pitcher to start a men's professional baseball game. The game was an 8–3 home loss to the Sioux Falls Canaries. Her line score on that night was 5 innings pitched, 3 runs allowed (all earned), 5 hits, 2 walks, and 2 strikeouts. She was credited with the loss. She made further starts, and on July 24, 1998, she became one of the first female pitchers to record a win in pro men's baseball in a 3–1 home victory against the Sioux Falls Canaries. A baseball from the game and the line-up cards were donated to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York by home plate umpire Steve Wammer. That night she went 6 innings, giving up just 3 hits, walking 2, and striking out 2. This was the start of a streak of 12 scoreless innings that stretched into her next no-decision start vs. the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks. Following that start, she suffered a severe bout of food poisoning that caused her to miss time, and most of the rest of her outings that season were poor. The Northern League regular season ended the first weekend in September. Her 1998 season totals were as follows: 1–4 record, 44 innings, 8.66 ERA, 65 hits, 14 walks, 14 strikeouts.

Returning to the Dukes in 1999, a new manager returned Borders to bullpen duty. They did not see eye-to-eye on her role or pitching style. In three outings for this manager, Borders had a 30.86 ERA (0–0 record, 2.3 innings, 10 hits, 4 walks, 1 strikeout). She requested a trade at this point and was sent to the Madison Black Wolf. Here she posted the best numbers of her career with a 1–0 record, 1.67 ERA, 15 games, 32.3 innings, 33 hits, 10 walks, and 8 strikeouts.

In 2000, Borders moved on to the Western Baseball League, where she played for the Zion Pioneerzz. Halfway into that season, disappointed with her performance so far that year (8.31 ERA, 5 games, 8 innings, 17 hits, 2 walks, 2 strikeouts) and with her inability in the preceding offseason to get a look from any clubs affiliated with the major leagues, she retired from baseball.

(The Duluth–Superior Dukes have moved to Kansas City, Kansas and become the Kansas City T-Bones. The Madison Black Wolf have moved to Lincoln, Nebraska to become the Lincoln Saltdogs, and the St. Paul Saints have since left the Northern League, were in the American Association for several years, and in 2021 has become the Minnesota Twins AAA Affiliate team.)

Celebrity appearances
On May 14, 2004, Borders appeared on The Howard Stern Show with comedian Artie Lange during a radio show stunt in Las Vegas. Borders appeared in the Sports Illustrated magazine published on March 7, 1994, and again in Sports Illustrated for Kids. Borders also made appearances on popular syndicated shows such as The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Today with Joe Garagiola and Good Morning America. Annie Leibovitz and Susan Sontag have Borders featured in their 1999 book Women.

Playing style
Borders' style was that of a control pitcher. She attempted to throw breaking pitches and low fastballs to let the hitters get themselves out on ground balls. With enough regular action to stay sharp, such as in her good streaks in 1998 and 1999 when she was a regular starter, she could be very effective in doing this. Without that, such as when she was used irregularly from the bullpen, her control would waver, and her fastballs in the 79–83 mph range were knocked all around or out of the park. She could, when asked, throw a little over 80 mph, but when she did so the ball's trajectory flattened and became easier to hit. Her best pitch was a screwball. She also threw a curveball, which would break from 10 o'clock to 4 o'clock as it crossed the plate.

Post-retirement
Borders worked in the Long Beach Fire Department for one and a half years before moving to Gilbert, Arizona in 2008. She was a firefighter and emergency medical technician in the Gilbert Fire Department, before becoming a Firefighter-Paramedic for the Cornelius Fire Department in Cornelius, Oregon. As of 2017, she lives in Beaverton, Oregon.

In 2017, her biography, Making My Pitch: A Woman's Baseball Odyssey, which she wrote with Jean Ardell, was published.

Awards
Borders was elected to the Baseball Reliquary's Shrine of the Eternals for her unique contributions to the game of baseball in 2003. Borders' collegiate and professional baseball gear is on display at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum.

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Jacques Roumain

Jacques Roumain (June 4, 1907 – August 18, 1944) was a Haitian writer, politician, and advocate of Marxism. He is considered one of the most prominent figures in Haitian literature. Poet Langston Hughes, an African-American, translated some of Roumain's works, including Gouverneurs de la Rosée (Masters of the Dew). It was also adapted to film.

Life
Roumain was born on June 4, 1907, in Port-au-Prince to wealthy parents. His grandfather, Tancrède Auguste, served as the President of Haiti from 1912 to 1913. He was educated in Catholic schools in Port-au-Prince, and, later, in Belgium, Switzerland, France, Germany and Spain. At twenty years old, he returned to Haiti and formed La Revue Indigene: Les Arts et La Vie (The Indigenous Review: Arts and Life), along with Philippe Thoby-Marcelin, Carl Brouard, and Antonio Vieux.

He was active in the struggle against the United States' occupation of Haiti. In 1934 he founded the Haitian Communist Party. Because of some of his political activities, his participation in the resistance movement against the United States' occupation, and most notably, his creation of the Haitian Communist Party, he was often arrested and finally exiled by then President Sténio Vincent.

During his years in exile, Roumain worked with and befriended many prominent pan-African writers and poets of the time, including Langston Hughes. During this time he was also affiliated with Columbia University in New York City, where he conducted ethnographical research. With a change in government in Haiti, Roumain was allowed to return to his native country. Upon returning, he founded the Office of Ethnology. In 1943, President Élie Lescot appointed him chargé d'affaires in Mexico, where his newly found creative freedom permitted him to complete two of his most influential books, the poetry collection Bois D'ébène (Ebony Wood) and the novel, Gouverneurs de la Rosée (Masters of the Dew). He also published that year the seminal paper "Lithic Workshop of the Ciboney of Haiti," and as a result was regarded as the father of Haitian archaeology.

Much of Roumain's work expresses the frustration and rage of people who have been downtrodden for centuries. He included the mass of the people in his writing and called on the poor to unite to move against privation.

Death and legacy
On August 18, 1944, Jacques Roumain, one of Haiti's most respected and complex writers, died of still unknown causes at age 37. Roumain created some of the most colorful, dynamic, and moving poetry of his generation. His writings continue to influence and shape Haitian culture and the pan-African world of today.

By the time of his death, Roumain had become an acclaimed writer in the Caribbean, Latin America, and Europe. His great novel, Gouverneurs de la Rosée, has achieved a permanent place among great Caribbean and Latin American literature. It is a novel that is still studied at universities, read by new generations, and acted out by theatrical groups.

Quotes
"What are we? Since that's your question, I'm going to answer you. We're this country, and it wouldn't be a thing without us, nothing at all. Who does the planting? Who does the watering? Who does the harvesting? Coffee, cotton, rice, sugar cane, caco, corn, bananas, vegetables, and all the fruits, who's going to grow them if we don't? Yet with all that, we're poor, that's true. We're out of luck, that's true. We're miserable, that's true. But do you know why, brother? Because of our ignorance. We don't know yet what a force we are, what a single force - all the peasants, all the Negroes of the plain and hill, all united. Some day, when we get wise to that, we'll rise up from one end of the country to the other. Then we'll call a General Assembly of the Masters of the Dew, a great big coumbite of farmers and we'll clear out poverty and plant a new life. --'Masters of the Dew', p. 106"

Selected works
From the collection of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC:
 * "Oeuvres Complètes", Léon-François Hoffman, Ed. ALLCA XX (Coll. Archivos), Paris, 2003.
 * A propos de la campagne "anti-superstitieuse". Port-au-Prince, Impr. de l’État [1944?]
 * Analyse schématique 1932-1934. [Haiti]: Editions idées nouvelles, idées prolétariennes, 1999.
 * Bois-d’ébène. Port-au-Prince, Haiti: Imp. H. Deschamps [c1945]
 * Ebony wood. Bois-d’ébène. Poems. The French text with a translation by Sidney Shapiro. New York: Interworld Press [1972] ISBN 0-912956-00-3
 * Les fantoches. [Port-au-Prince?] 1931.
 * Gouverneurs de la rosée, roman. [Port-au-Prince: Imprimerie de l’état, 1944]
 * Sar ha-telalim. Translated into Hebrew. [Merhavya, 1948]
 * Governadores del rocío. Translated into Spanish. Habana: Impr. Nacional de Cuba [1961]
 * Zotër të vesës (roman). Translated into Albanian. [Tiranë]: Shtépia Botonjése Naim Frashéri [1968]
 * Gouverneurs de la rosée : roman. Fort-de-France [Martinique]: Désormeaux, [1979], c1977 (1983 printing)
 * Gouverneurs de la rosée : roman. Unité de Réghaïa, Algérie: ENAG, c1989.
 * Gouverneurs de la rosée. Coconut Creek, Fla.: Educa Vision Inc., [1999]. ISBN 1-58432-054-0
 * Masters of the dew. Gouverneurs de la rosée, translated by Langston Hughes and Mercer Cook. New York: Reynal & Hitchcock, c1947.
 * Masters of the dew. Gouverneurs de la rosée, translated by Langston Hughes and Mercer Cook. Oxford; Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, [1997?], c1978. ISBN 0-435-98745-3
 * La montagne ensorcelée. [Port-au-Prince: S.N.E.P.] 1931.
 * La montagne ensorcelée. Paris: Messidor, c1987. ISBN 2-209-05922-4
 * La montagne ensorcelée. Paris: Éditeurs français réunis [1972]
 * La montagne ensorcelée: roman 4th ed. Montréal, QC: Mémoire d’encrier, 2005. ISBN 2-923153-33-2
 * Poèmes Port-au-Prince, Haïti: Editions des Antilles, [1993]
 * Poemas de una isla y de dos pueblos. With Pedro Mir, Jacques Viau. La Habana, Cuba: Casa de las Américas, 1974.
 * Poésies; Griefs de l’homme noir; La proie et l’ombre; La montagne ensorcelée (récit paysan) Port-au-Prince, Haïti: Editions fardin, 1998.
 * La proie et l’ombre. Port-au-Prince, Haïti: Éditions "La Presse" [1930]

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East Melbourne

East Melbourne is an inner-city suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2 km east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Melbourne local government area. East Melbourne recorded a population of 4,896 at the 2021 census.

East Melbourne is a small area of inner Melbourne, located between Richmond and the Central Business District. Broadly, it is bounded by Spring Street, Victoria Parade, Punt Road/Hoddle Street and Brunton Avenue.

One of Melbourne's earliest suburbs, East Melbourne has long been home to many significant government, health and religious institutions, including the Parliament of Victoria and offices of the Victoria State Government in the Parliamentary and Cathedral precincts, which are located on a gentle hill at the edge of the Melbourne's Hoddle Grid, known as Eastern Hill. The world-famous Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) is located in Yarra Park, in the East Melbourne locality of Jolimont. East Melbourne has been affluent since its first establishment and contains some of the oldest Victorian homes and terrace houses and parks and gardens in Melbourne.

Geography
The Parliamentary and Cathedral precincts are located on a gentle hill, known as Eastern Hill. Jolimont railway station is at the top of a ridge, which extends towards Bridge Road in Richmond, from which Jolimont slopes downwards towards the Yarra River and the residential section to the north slopes gradually towards the flatter areas of Fitzroy and Collingwood to the north and Richmond to the south.

History
The area now known as East Melbourne was inhabited from an estimated 31,000 to 40,000 years ago and Eastern Hill was originally known as Ngár-go (or "high ground") by the Wurundjeri along with Fitzroy. The flat ground known today as Jolimont extending toward the Yarra was part of the area also known by the Wurundjeri as Quo-Yung (or "dead trees").

It was named East Melbourne in 1837 by Port Phillip District surveyor Robert Hoddle, but was not actually settled until 1840, some time after neighbouring Fitzroy and Collingwood. Among the first settlers was Charles La Trobe, who built a transportable dwelling in 1840 and wealthy professionals followed, establishing mansions there. The plan of the alignment of streets was adopted in July 1849.

In the 1960s and 1970s, while other inner-city suburbs were experiencing gentrification, East Melbourne, traditionally a blue ribbon district, experienced a temporary decline. Flats began to appear and replace many of the old mansions. Many remaining mansions had been converted to rooming houses over the years. The construction of the Hilton Hotel saw the demolition of Cliveden mansions, a five-storey Victorian era terrace and the largest mansion in Melbourne (a small section of the panelling, doors and other decoration of the ballroom is retained in the formal restaurant of the Hilton). Office development and expansion of the hospitals in the area affected much of the area surrounding Victoria Parade.

During the 1990s East Melbourne once again experienced a sharp increase in property prices. The Becton development at Jolimont, modelled on a picturesque Georgian village, created one of inner-city Melbourne's first exclusive enclaves. Many of the remaining mansions and terraces were placed on heritage registers and subdivided into apartments. Later the Victoria Brewery was also converted into exclusive apartments, named "TriBeCa", after the Manhattan neighbourhood.

East Melbourne's proximity to the city, its small size and its relatively unspoilt streetscapes ensure its property is expensive and highly sought after.

Population
At the 2016 census, East Melbourne had a population of 4,964. 62.8% of people were born in Australia. The next most common countries of birth were England 4.2% and New Zealand 3.0%. 75.0% of people only spoke English at home. The most common responses for religion were No Religion 42.8% and Catholic 18.3%.

Public and institutional buildings
East Melbourne is home to the Government of Victoria in the Parliamentary precinct at Spring Street and Treasury Place. Treasury Place is notable for its government buildings on Spring Street, including Parliament House of Victoria (built in 1856 to the design of Peter Kerr) and the old Treasury Building (built in 1857 to the design of John James Clark). Treasury Place forms Australia's finest Renaissance revival streetscape, combining the facades of the Premier's Department and Treasury, State Offices, now occupied by the Education Department, the former Government Printing Office and Commonwealth Government Offices (built 1912–1914 to the design of John Smith Murdoch), all overlooking the Treasury Gardens. The rear of these offices is a feature of St Andrews Place.

Following the Federation of Australia, the Commonwealth Offices Building served as the administration buildings for the Government of Australia from 1911 to 1927 including the Prime Minister and Governor General's offices.

Religious buildings
Nearby Cathedral Place is home to St Patrick's Cathedral, Catholic Theological College and many other former religious buildings now serving mixed use. The Anglican St Peter's Church sits opposite the Catholic cathedral.

The former Baptist Church House, built between 1859 and 1863, although substantially modified during conversion into an office building, is one of the finer classical styled buildings in East Melbourne and was designed by Thomas Watts.

On the corner of Hotham and Powlett Streets, the large Cairns Memorial Presbyterian Church, which was built in the 1880s was subject to an innovative apartment conversion after the church was gutted by fire in 1988, leaving only the exterior sandstone shell.

Commercial buildings
Other notable buildings include the Arts & Crafts style of the Victorian Artists Society (1892) by Richard Speight and Harry Tompkins, the Eastern Hill Fire Station (1893) and the East Melbourne Synagogue (1877) by Crouch & Wilson.

Orica House, built on the edge of the Melbourne CBD on Nicholson Street between 1955 and 1958 and designed by Bates, Smart & McCutcheon, is notable as being one of the first curtain wall glass skyscrapers in the world and the first skyscraper to break Melbourne's strict height limits. Until 1961, it was also Australia's tallest building.

Victoria Brewery (1882), between Albert and Victoria Streets, is notable as an early work of William Pitt. Its castellated facade has since been partially restored and converted into the TriBeCa apartments.

Housing
East Melbourne is home to some of Melbourne's earliest houses. While notable terrace housing is predominant in the area, the suburb also has some fine remnant mansions, the oldest and largest in East Melbourne being the blue stone colonial mansion Bishopscourt (designed by Newson & Blackburn), which dates back to 1853, was used as Victoria's Government House in 1874–1876 and has been the residence for all of Melbourne's Anglican Bishops and Archbishops since its completion. It is on the Victorian Heritage Register. The two-storey house at 157 Hotham Street, built in 1861, is notable as a rare example of bluestone gothic applied to residential architecture. The house is often attributed to Joseph Reed and considered one of his early residential works. Accordingly, it is also listed on the Victorian Heritage Register.

Several terrace houses are notable, including Tasma Terrace (1878), by architect Charles Webb, arguably Melbourne's finest terrace home and headquarters of the National Trust in Victoria, Clarendon (the home of the Her Place Women's Museum), East Melbourne Terrace, Annerley in George Street and Cypress Terrace (1867) in Hotham Street.

The large Queen Anne-styled townhouse building known as Queen Bess Row is also notable. Completed in 1887 and designed by architect firm Tappin, Gilbert and Dennehy, this impressive red brick building dominates a main residential corner. Another landmark is Eastbourne Terrace, an eclectic Edwardian terrace, on the corner of Simpson Street and Wellington Parade.

East Melbourne is also characterised by Art Deco houses and apartment buildings. One unique example of the architectural legacy is the "Dorijo" apartment building, located at 458 Victoria Parade. Designed by architect I.G Anderson in 1934, Dorijo's significant aspects include a reduction in the size of the three balconies that progress up the facade of the building structure and the unmistakable tower at the top of the building, with links to his other, more controversial site, Lonsdale House.

Schools
Catholic Theological College is located in the former Parade College building.

Historically, East Melbourne was the original home to a number of prominent Melbourne's schools including: Scotch College, St Patrick's College, Cathedral College, St Kevin's College, Catholic Ladies College, Presbyterian Ladies' College, and Parade College.

Parks and public spaces
East Melbourne has many impressive Victorian era gardens with well-established plantings, the largest of which are the Treasury Gardens and the Fitzroy Gardens. Yarra Park in Jolimont is used for picnicking and, controversially, car parking for the MCG. Parliament Gardens, a small square with a fountain adjacent to Parliament House, was granted public space by the City of Melbourne in 1934 and a modern fountain feature was later constructed. Approximately 41% of East Melbourne is public parkland.

Demolished buildings
The Dallas Brooks Hall, one of Australia's finest examples of the "stripped classical" style, was completed in 1969 and has served as a major events venue for many years. The building caused controversy after 2001 when it owners, Freemasons Victoria announced that it was to be sold and demolished to make way for multi-purpose commercial development. Despite the building's architectural and cultural significance, its heritage protection status remains unknown. The building has since been demolished and is home to the Eastbourne Apartments.

The three-storey brick building known as Somerset House was constructed by A.B. Brook in 1914 at 92 (originally 495 ) Victoria Parade, opposite St Vincent's Hospital. It was funded by nurse Ethel Ragg (later Mrs Ethel M. Tymms ) to be used as a hospital, initially known as Nurse (or Miss) Ragg's Private Hospital and owned by her until her death in 1936. In 1922 another nurse, Grace Wilson, took over as manager, and it became known as Somerset House until 1934, when it was renamed Gloucester Private Hospital in honour of the Duke of Gloucester who visited the city in 1934. After being offered for auction in April 1937, and passing in after it failed to achieve its reserve price, it was sold to the Sisters of Charity, and it was converted into a maternity hospital, called St Vincent's Maternity Hospital. It was reportedly demolished in 1975; however, there are a number of births reported in The Australian Jewish News after that date, up to at least September 1980.

Transport
East Melbourne is served by major tramlines on Wellington Parade and Victoria Parade, both connecting with the CBD in the western edge of the suburb.

East Melbourne is also served by rail, with two main stations, Parliament underground station on Spring Street (part of the City Loop that runs underneath Melbourne) and Jolimont, on the Hurstbridge and Mernda lines, which is used primarily by patrons attending events at the MCG.

Punt Road and Hoddle Street, both on the suburb's eastern boundary, is a major road for bus routes in the area.

Health
Due to its proximity to a number of hospitals, many medical practitioners also have their rooms in East Melbourne. These hospitals include the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital (RVEEH), the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and the Freemasons' Hospital.

In addition, St Vincent's Hospital and St Vincent's Private Hospital Melbourne are located in adjacent Fitzroy, after relocating from their original sites in East Melbourne.

Localities within East Melbourne

Jolimont is a locality within the suburb of East Melbourne.

Jolimont only covers a very small area. Most of it is occupied by the Melbourne Cricket Ground and surrounding Yarra Park and has its own railway station. The remainder of Jolimont is made up by a single block of housing, consisting of many Victorian terrace houses and office buildings.

The first superintendent of the Port Phillip District, and later lieutenant-governor, Charles La Trobe, lived in Jolimont with his family in a pre-fabricated cottage. The La Trobe's Cottage was moved in 1963 to the Kings Domain, where it is open to the public. Other notable people who have lived in Jolimont include William Guilfoyle.

Notable residents

 * Emma Carney World Champion, Sport Australia Hall of Fame Inductee, Athlete Member
 * Brian McGuire, racing driver
 * Jemima Montag (born 1998), female racewalker
 * Robert Ramsay, lawyer and politician
 * Frederick Romberg, architect
 * Ernest O'Ferrall, journalist and writer
 * Ada Plante, artist
 * William John Young, biochemist, died in East Melbourne in 1942

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2RPH

2RPH is an Australian radio reading service that reads newspapers and magazines for the benefit of those who have difficulties reading for themselves. It is the Sydney station of the RPH Network.

The 2RPH Sydney and 3RPH Melbourne were available free to air (no smartcard required) on the Optus Aurora radio platform via Optus C1 before the switch over to the more restrictive VAST platform. Now only the 3RPH Melbourne service is the only RPH service available free-to-air on Optus C1.

History
The need for a radio reading service was realised in New South Wales in 1983 with the establishment of 2RPH as a Community Benefit Organisation, incorporated as a Co-operative Society. The station began operating on 18 April 1983.

The first broadcast frequency was off the main broadcast band (1629 kHz), and was thus unsuitable, as many people could not receive the station. The problem was partly resolved by a move to a more suitable band location (1539 kHz, in 1991), and further in 1993 when the Commonwealth Government provided the station with transmission facilities previously used by commercial station 2WS. These facilities are still in use and provide a strong signal to most parts of Greater Sydney and some suburbs outside the metropolitan area.

In 2023, the station changed its name from Radio for the Print Handicapped NSW Cooperative Limited to Radio 2RPH Co-operative Limited. This was in response to the word handicapped being no longer acceptable in current Australian and global usage.

Audience
Though specifically designed for the vision-impaired, elderly, and infirm, its accessibility and clear announcers are used by English as a second language instructors to help their students understand the printed materials read from.

Programming
Volunteers prepare, produce, and present all the programs, including readings from magazines and other publications, which are pre-recorded. Many of these recorded programs are re-broadcast by RPH stations in other parts of Australia and the Radio Reading Service in New Zealand. 2RPH is the largest supplier of programs to the national network feed.

Applicants for on-air work must pass an audition carefully designed to demonstrate their skills at reading aloud. Volunteer positions are often available for behind-the-scenes duties.

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Talk:Codename: Kids Next Door/Archive 1

Timmy Turner!?
Lately there has been an individual posting constantly about the relationship between various female characters of Kids Next Door with that of Timmy Turner of Fairly Odd Parents. While fan speculation is welcome on Wikipedia, and often interesting; it should be presented as such, and not as an official piece of information. I have no clue where this is coming from, and I don't know if I've missed something but I've never once seen, nor heard of such an event happening in either show. Seeing also, as how the two shows are on completely different networks, both of which are strong competators against eachother, it is extremely unlikely something like this would happen. There is also the fact only the most prolific female characters have been stated as having this confidant relationship with Timmy, no one else. This, and the fact that no search on google nor any other source of information in either fandom has turned up with anything more but Fanfiction based crossovers make this information obviously non-official. And really, even if it were presented as not being official information, its really not particularly important to describing the said characters at all. Numbuh 3's profile, was particularly twisted around to make it seem like this relationship was official and had to be reverted back to an earlier state.

Please, it is NOT canon. Don't try to make it out to be as such. It only serves to start unnecessary rumors if treated as canon.

Useful?
This is a pretty useless article for an encyclopedia. -01:37, 5 Feb 2005 68.104.178.8

Nobody forced you to read it. If you need something useful, how about Dead bodies and health risks? --Tony Sidaway|Talk 02:23, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Yes, quite useful
The purpose of this Encyclopedia is to be a neutral fountain of knowledge on all things. This includes anything from everyday objects, to phrases, to TV shows like this. This is what makes the Wikipedia such a damn good idea, its open to addition of all sorts of knowledge. Weither it be information on nature and medicine, to even "fun" things like trivia, show information etc. While it may not be "useful" to some, thats not the point. The point is that its there, that its a valid piece of information even if its just for fun or reference sakes. Its really no different than an article on a piece of literature. To think otherwise is bordering on hypocrisy.

The definition of an encyclopedia right here states that its a collection of known information of all kinds. If one wants a true collection of all of humanity's knowledge, it needs everything, not just the essential to life stuff. Hell, entertainment is pretty damn essential to us really if you think about it. Thats what the whole point of the website is.

So really...just lighten up a bit.

INCOMPLETE
There are several articals missing from this thing:

How do you fix it?!

 * Click the 'edit' button on the top-right of the box to change the template.--Oppolo 18:03, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

KND Movie "Operation:Z.E.R.O".
There is a KND Movie "Operation:Z.E.R.O" coming in 2006,which brings you Numbuh Zero & Numbuh 101 (from Trivia) el === es �se a la derecha? = = = �Es verdad? �o rumor? Es verdad.

66.215.3.69 edits, Nov. 5 thru 9 appr.
There are a series of edits around this time by an anonymous user who also vandalized the Mario Kart pages. Knowledgeable people please check the entire series of anonymous edits around that time for accuracy.

He vandalizes everything. -- PinkDeoxys 02:26, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Way too many articles
Is there an AfD vote about this? Why do all the characters and half the episodes in this show get their own articles? Ashibaka (tock) 02:11, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

The http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Codename:_Kids_Next_Door&action=edit&section=9 reason there are so many articles is because the point of Wikipedia is to keep people informed. Even some of the more devoted KND fans may not have seen every episode and may not know about many of these characters. A WikiFan (WikiFan, cool man!). 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Alrighty then, I am going to put some of the sillier articles on AfD and see what people think of that. Ashibaka tock 04:25, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Definitely too many articles. I'm merging all the content into three : this main article, which will include all places, Codename: Kids Next Door characters, and Codename: Kids Next Door episodes.  +sj + 07:27, 16 December 2005 (UTC).  Please help by merging any articles you run across (some of the later episodes, for instance) which aren't yet merged.  +sj +

The number of articles is not an issue. Wikipedia can support a practically infinite number of pages. We should organize this KND content in a way that allows users to find the information they want quickly and easily. Clearly dumping dozens of potential articles into pages like "Codename: Kids Next Door characters" is not a solution. Why not let "Numbuh One" stay at Numbuh One and "Rainbow Monkeys" at Rainbow Monkeys?

If there is enough verifiable information about a topic for it to merit an article, give it an article. It's actually really simple. Cover everything with as much clarity and detail as possible, while avoiding original research, maintaining a neutral point of view, and using verifiable primary and secondary sources. —Guanaco 22:14, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

I believe this article was better when it had its own section for trivia/references. Since it no longer had that, lots of references to many movies (the specific ones) were now removed. Especially the Star Wars part was edited done to just “Stars Wars has been cloned in this show". I agree a whole paragraph may not be needed, but surely more could be useful, and nice to have listed there. Where it once was, a whole paragraph was describing it, now there is very little descriptions at all. There are many other examples, but I don't recall them at the moment .Does "Battle Ready Armor" really diserve its own article, while trivia or references  doesn't get one. If they shouldn't/can't have their own article then please don't remove multiple acounts of examples from trivia, enless it is really needed. I just wanted to bring this to everyone’s’ attention. Also why is the trivia part in 2 sections dived by a border thing? Should that be there? I didn’t edit it because it may be there for a reason, or someone just “put it” there for no reason.(September 21, 2006)

I have a copy of the original "reference" article and could paste it into an article if needed/wanted. Please let me know.

I agree, articles like Shows-inside-a-show in Codename: Kids Next Door and the articles for characters that only appear every so often or even just once like Vin Moonskis pointless. I think there are only two episodes that show Numbuh Six and even he has his own article! It would be an excellend idea to get rid of any of the uselss articles, at least any of them that are shorter than the infobox thing itself. InsaneZeroG 04:01, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

Agreement
Well, I have been working in this article, sometimes loggin in sometimes not and in different computers, but still somebody has been messing with it and doing work that is not cannon. Example Season 3 has 13 episodes, as any other season has, the fact that CN aired it separately is not the same as how hey wher produced. CAKED-FOUR is not a special episode, is just another Season 4 episode and NAUGHTY is the first episode of Season 5 even if it was the fifth to air. Also I did the general KND Tech chart in which only one person has helped. I thought it should had it's own page since it would continue to grow but somebody merged it with any other content which seems unecesary. Back to the chart, if someone has TCG card and want to continue filling it that would be highly appreciated. Also, the appearence column is in which episode I remember seen it, not necesarily the first. Let's agree to leave it more or less like this.

G.R.A.D.U.A.T.E.S.--- Season 3 Finale?
(NOTE: There seems to be some disagreement about whether G.R.A.D.U.A.T.E.S. is the "ending" of Season 3, and how many episodes Season 3 had (some people have claimed it only had 10). Here's the official word: Season 3, like the rest of the Seasons, has 13 episodes. However, Cartoon Network does not always air them like "seasons". For example, after E.N.D., the end of Season 2, they showed F.U.T.U.R.E., the end of Season 3 with no real gap between them. After discovering Cartoon Network only planned to air the first 10 episodes of Season 3 before taking a break in showing new episodes, they moved G.R.A.D.U.A.T.E.S. to an earlier slot so that it would be just before the break, as season enders are supposed to be. However, Cartoon Network screwed with it again and aired G.R.A.D.U.A.T.E.S. earlier, before H.U.G.S./J.E.W.E.L.S., which was apparently supposed to air before G.R.A.D.U.A.T.E.S. So H.U.G.S./J.E.W.E.L.S. was the episode that aired just before the break, instead of G.R.A.D.U.A.T.E.S. The bottom line is that Season 3 did have 13 episodes, and G.R.A.D.U.A.T.E.S. was supposed to be the season finale, but they switched them around because of the break between new episodes midway through Season 3.) (RESPONSE: You have no idea of what you are talking about. F.U.T.U.R.E. was never meant to be Season 3 finale, after Season 2 Mr Warburton stated that he wanted to do more 30 minutes episodes just because it was easier to tell some stories that way. That would explain why in Season 4 they have not 1, or 2, but 4! Alas, a two part episode can be a season final episode because there is no continuity in the series.

Deletion of B.R.A.
For some reason, some person seems to keep deleting the information about the Battle Ready Armor from this article. If you are going to delete B.R.A. from this article, either give it its own article or put it on the List of Villains Technologies in Codename: Kids Next Door article. I am sick of having to put it back; either keep it or give its own article. Stop this nonsense!

B.R.A.
I Gave Battle Ready Armor it's own article

Future Missions
I Took Future Mission off of the episode guide because it can be accessed at the bottom of the page

Numbuh 4's Last Name
Numbuh 4's Last Name is BEETles, even if it is a reference to the BEATles Mr Warburton commited the mistake and decided not to change it, ask him if you don't believe.
 * I was going to revert my edit, but you beat me to it. Marcus2 02:46, 20 February 2006 (UTC)

TV Movie?
Does anyone has proof that there will be a Movie called V.I.L.L.I.A.N.S.?

It does not exist. -- PinkDeoxys 02:23, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Stop inventing info!
As of May 2006 we don't know the exact airing date of Season 5 and 6, we don't even know if there will be a Movie called VILLIANS. Stop adding info that are not proven facts.

That guy again? I've been trying to get that guy blocked ever since he totally destroyed my userpage. -- PinkDeoxys 02:24, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Rainbow Monkeys
I think there should be a section about Rainbow Monkeys. They should at least have a few sentences about them, and maybe the Rainbow Monkeys song. -- PinkDeoxys 20:59, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

o.O never mind. -- PinkDeoxys 21:33, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Add Trivia back into parodies(or sort the Trivia also)
'Nuff said.

p.s. I you don't reply in a day I'll do it my self!!!!!!!!!!!!!

p.p.s The Fairly OddParents trivia is has a list of some parodies!

p.p.p.s Sorry I already did.

Please add more trivia. Bring back all the old triavia, it is very useful Prede 05:34, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

Ep List
Finished reformating the Episode list, but now I feel its too empty. Any idea of what to add to it?
 * I think each episode should have its own article, and you should move the Episode list to something like List of Codename: Kids Next Door episodes. Discuess - Plau 11:02, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Information on unaired episodes
Where do I go to find information on the episodes without airdates and/or the List of Unaired Codename: Kids Next Door Episodes? I added it to the main page, as Season 6. If you want information about what they are about or who appear on them, then you are out of luck because nobody knows and that who know won't tell (Mr. Warburton). Airdates are also chosen by Cartoon Network, and we only have up to ENGLAND/AWARDS~.Numbuh 201 18:58, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

Please could the user "68.9.253.178" explain where he gets the info he is posting? And no, the Unaried Missions page is not a valid source, most of that is vandalism that I have had to remove thousends of times. Also, episode summaries doesn't belong here! Numbuh 201 15:19, 6 July 2006 (UTC)

Season 7
According to the List of Codename: Kids Next Door TV Movies, there is a 7th season in the works, but it's not listed in the main article or the KNDpedia! Does it exist or not? Bellsouth 4:35, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Well, if you go to TV.com, you'll see they've even listed an eight season, but only time will tell.T-borg 21:25, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Nothing official, just expeculation. Numbuh 201 22:05, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Weapons page
What happened to the KND Weapons page?--Salvax 20:15, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
 * It got put up for deletion as "cruft" and the closing admin thought this was more important an issue than actual policy. Deletion Review is a possibility, but the "cruft" cries would outwey any actual reasoning ¬.¬ LinaMishima 20:26, 15 September 2006 (UTC)

Video Games section
How did the Sonic the Hedgehog and Mario references get removed?

 * I don't know, it maybe removed by vandal. --210.213.84.147 12:28, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Go Go Gorilla
Which episode had Go Go Gorilla and how was it used?
 * If I remember correctly, that was Op: D.A.D.D.Y. and was used by Numbuh 1, Sonia and Lee.

What are the Robot's Powers.I know that it's Based on Mechani-Kong.

References Page
I believe this article was better when it had its own section for trivia/references. Since it no longer had that, lots of references to many movies (the specific ones) were now removed. Especially the Star Wars part was edited done to just “Stars Wars has been cloned in this show". I agree a whole paragraph may not be needed, but surely more could be useful, and nice to have listed there. Where it once was, a whole paragraph was describing it, now there is very little descriptions at all. There are many other examples, but I don't recall them at the moment .Does "Battle Ready Armor" really diserve its own article, while trivia or references doesn't get one. If they shouldn't/can't have their own article then please don't remove multiple acounts of examples from trivia, enless it is really needed. I just wanted to bring this to everyone’s’ attention. Also why is the trivia part in 2 sections dived by a border thing? Should that be there? I didn’t edit it because it may be there for a reason, or someone just “put it” there for no reason.(September 21, 2006)

(I posted this statement here so you can see it better, I moved it away from my old post in "too many articles" so it could be seen better)

I have a copy of the article and If you guys want I can "re-post" it somewhere...(Septemeber 22)

30 Minute Episodes Missing
So apparently the article that listed 30-Minute long episodes is gone, which is reasonable. The only problem now is that the information from those episodes is no longer listed where it should be, under the respective season.

Any ideas how to fix this? Or am I missing somthing?70.33.100.163 00:34, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

edits
hey everyone, i have just been trying to make this page more user friendly, im very new to editing, but all i have done is moved some stuff, i have not deleted anything, or written anything. i have been told by many people that they dont like the way im formating it. FYI I have  not done any of that. i just copied and pasted. no editing. so it would be great if people helped me edit, cause im obiously not going to be able to do it all in one day, and im very new to this all so im sure there are tons of people out there who are better at this than me. thanks! --narhyn

Delete Happy People
Look, whoever keeps deleting links from the bottom of the page needs to knock it off. They're relative links, and the owners of the fansites are just going to continue to put their links back up.

Also, whoever keeps putting in Numbuh 318 on the operative needs to either stop or cite their source. The official site makes no claim to a Numbuh 318 and the name of the operative hasn't ever been said in the show.

Also also? STOP MAKING UP NAMES FOR PEOPLE. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Valvigirl (talk • contribs) 28 October 2006

 * WP:EL and WP:NOT are pretty clear on the matter of external links. If they are being cited as a source they go in the references section.  This is an encyclopedia not a webguide or repository of links related to articles.  If the fansite owners are prone to replacing the links then we should be even more vigilant with removal.  Linkspammers will always be a problem, that is no reason for us to disregard policies and guidelines.  Cheers. L0b0t 03:24, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Lots of KND related articles...
...However, where is an article about whole Kids Next Door organisation?--JSH-alivetalk to mesee my worksmail to me 03:19, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

P.S.: What is font of KND?

KND template
As it is a bit big, it'd be good if someone converted it to include a hide option. May the Edit be with you, always. T- borg  (drop me a line)  18:22, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

History?
Wasn't there a History of the KND page at one time? Did somebody delete it, or am I just mistaken? Somebody help me! Alx xlA 03:32, 7 January 2007 (UTC)

Character Infobox
Can anyone make Infobox KND character? It is based on Template:Infobox character with the parameters from
 * Template:Superherobox
 * Template:Fictional secret organisations
 * Parameters of the "Statistics" sections in every KND character article
 * Character Type
 * Intelligence
 * Speed
 * Power/Abilities
 * Weapons
 * Alies
 * Enemies
 * Close Relatives
 * Occupation
 * Voice Actor
 * Nationality
 * Heroics: For KND and its ailes
 * Crimes (Offenses caused): For vilains
 * Failed Plans
 * Affiliations / Superiors
 * Current Status —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JSH-alive (talk • contribs) 13:42, 13 January 2007 (UTC).
 * First we'll need verification on at least some of those stats, and even then we might not have to include them all, as pointed out here. --May the Edit be with you, always. T- borg (drop me a line)  15:41, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
 * Again with that? Where are you going to find parapeters to measure Intelligence and Speed? Not to mention that most characters don't have even half of all those things tou want to add. Many have just one appearence! I'm against it in every way. Numbuh 201 01:52, 15 January 2007 (UTC)

Just one thing...
Is there a KND related article that doesn't need a good amount of cleanup? -- May the Edit be with you, always. (T-borg)  (drop me a line) 13:32, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

Regarding Star Wars references...
So, what's the story here? In the past few days, a part of the trivia, concerning Star Wars references in the series, has been removed and put back several times. It would be good idea to discuss this here, right? So let's discuss! Should that info stay or go? -- May the Edit be with you, always. (T-borg)  (drop me a line) 12:56, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

Kids Next Door Organization
I think the article titled Kids Next Door Organization should move to Kids Next Door. That fictional organisation's official name does not include "Organization". Also, see the case of Juniper Lee. Although The Life and Times of Juniper Lee is simply called "Juniper Lee" by fans, "Juniper Lee" does not redirect to The Life and Times of Juniper Lee. Article about that fictional character is titled "Juniper Lee".

And, I moved Sector V to Kids Next Door Sector V and Sector W to Kids Next Door Sector W to clarify Sector what of what. However, a user named Everyoneandeveryone reverted it without reason. What should I do?--JSH-alivetalk to mesee my worksmail to me 13:05, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

Numbuh?
Why are they called Numbuhs instead of Numbers? J I P | Talk 16:03, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Well? If this is based solely on the pronounciation, then it should be reverted at one. We don't put Religion in the United States under Gawd. :) +Hexagon1 (t) 06:08, 1 May 2007 (UTC)

It's a bit hard to explain, but they've actually referred to them as "numbuhs" in the series, and we're just calling it as it is. That is basically our job, come to think of it. — May the Edit be with you, always. (T-borg)  (drop me a line) 14:59, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks. But why are they referred to as "numbuhs" in the series, then? J I P  | Talk 04:16, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
 * Replied on your talk page, really hope you don't mind, really. — May the Edit be with you, always. (T-borg)  (drop me a line) 19:29, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

Codename: Kids Next Door still continuing
Is Codename: Kids Next Door still being made, as in more episodes are going to come? Because i heard a rumor on IMDB that there's going to be a series finale or something? didn't this show got a 10 year contract or something?

Ps: i really hope the show will continue for many years, its a a truly great cartoon.

Pece Kocovski 04:31, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

KND will be closed?
I live in Russia, where CN begin to broadcast in April 2005, and therefore schedule doesn't changed (new shows appeared, but many of old shows e.g. Courage, The Cowardly Dog still running), and I hope administration will close other old unused shows such a Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel, Sheep in Big City.

Article tags
This article is tagged with and, as of June 10, 2007. I'm just asking, which parts specifically require copyediting, and which parts need referencing, so we can start working on them. Thanks. — May the Edit be with you, always.  (T-borg)  (drop me a line) 18:28, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Entire article needs references. If a part has a link to the reliable source(s), the link to the source should wikified. Thanks. -- JSH-alive talk to mesee my worksmail to me 11:59, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Mr Warburton
Anyone know why Mr Warburton decided to be credited in this way? Could be an interesting fact!

KND might as well be done
unfortunattly the cartoonetwork page on wikipedia says its going to stop makeing new episodes PERMENATLY! on december 10th... man am i UPSET! but we may as well put in on the article

any agreements? Godzillastar 04:24, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

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An Evening of Yes Music Plus

An Evening of Yes Music Plus is a double live album from the English progressive rock band Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe, released in October 1993 on Fragile Records.

Overview
An Evening of Yes Music Plus is a recording of the group's concert at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California, US on 9 September 1989 that was originally broadcast on the King Biscuit Flower Hour radio program and as a pay-per-view special in the United States.

Production
The cover features a painting by Roger Dean titled "Floating Islands".

CD reissue (2006)
Source:

Note: All song details and writing credits as above. "I've Seen All Good People" added to the tracklist at the end of disc one; "Starship Trooper" moved to its rightful place in setlist at the end of disc two.

DVD (1997)
Source:

Note: All song details and writing credits as above.

Personnel

 * Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe
 * Jon Anderson – lead vocals
 * Bill Bruford – drums, percussion
 * Rick Wakeman – keyboards
 * Steve Howe – guitar, backing vocals

 * Additional musicians
 * Jeff Berlin – bass
 * Julian Colbeck – additional keyboards, backing vocals
 * Milton McDonald – rhythm guitar, backing vocals

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Alison Lohman

Alison Marion Lohman (born September 18, 1979) is a retired American actress. She began her career with small roles in short and independent films, and had a breakthrough as the star of the drama film White Oleander (2002), which earned her recognition and a Young Hollywood Award. She earned praise for her performances in the fantasy film Big Fish (2003) and the dark comedy film Matchstick Men (2003), winning a Hollywood Film Award for Best Supporting Actress for the latter. She lent her voice to the 2005 redub of the 1984 animated film Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and starred in the sitcom Tucker (2000–2001) before taking a role in the soap opera Pasadena (2001).

Lohman sporadically worked in acting throughout the late 2000s, notably playing roles in the action film Beowulf (2007) and the drama film Things We Lost in the Fire (2007). Her highest-grossing film came with the horror film Drag Me to Hell (2009), which earned her nominations for the Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress, the Saturn Award for Best Actress, and the MTV Movie Award for Best Scared-As-Shit Performance. She then retired from acting following her marriage to filmmaker Mark Neveldine later that year, stating that she wanted to teach online acting classes while focusing on raising their three children. She has since had small roles in Neveldine's films The Vatican Tapes (2015), Urge (2016), and Officer Downe (2016).

Early life
Alison Marion Lohman was born in Palm Springs, California, on September 18, 1979, the daughter of pâtisserie owner Diane (née Dunham) and Minnesota-born architect Gary Lohman. She has a younger brother named Robert. She excelled in high school, obtaining top grades in all subjects except drama because she suffered from shyness. During her senior year, she won an award from the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts. She was offered a full scholarship to attend New York University but declined, opting instead to directly pursue an acting career.

Career
At age nine, Lohman played Gretl in The Sound of Music at the Palm Desert's McCallum Theater. Two years later, she won the Desert Theater League's award for Most Outstanding Actress in a Musical for the title role in Annie. She went on to perform locally as a child singer, which included alongside Frank Sinatra at a benefit event in Palm Springs. She moved to Los Angeles in 1997 to pursue an acting career, beginning with minor roles in independent films and B movies. She was set to play a cancer patient in Tom Shadyac's 2002 film Dragonfly, for which Lohman shaved her hair. Her scenes were later removed.

Lohman was subsequently cast in White Oleander, an adaptation of Janet Fitch's novel, which was directed by Peter Kosminsky. Due to her previous haircut, she had to wear a wig during filming. Released in 2002, White Oleander earned positive reviews, and Lohman's performance was met with widespread acclaim. It was described as her "breakthrough role" by media sources, with the New York Times describing her work as "the year's most auspicious screen acting début". She additionally earned praise for her roles in Matchstick Men, released in 2003, and Big Fish, also released in 2003. Matchstick Men earned Lohman's performance as an adolescent con-artist acclaim over her co-star Nicolas Cage, while Big Fish saw her playing the younger version of Jessica Lange's character, for which USA Today wrote that "equally delightful is the Alison Lohman character's evolution into an older woman. It's a metamorphosis to equal any in screen history."

In 2005, Lohman appeared in Atom Egoyan's Where the Truth Lies which originally received an NC-17 rating for its graphic sexual content, and emerged as a critical and commercial failure. Some critics felt that Lohman was miscast, however Roger Ebert spoke positively of her performance. Her next feature of that year, The Big White, was also panned by critics. Better received was the English language dubbing of Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, also released in 2005, in which she voiced the titular character. Lohman beat out actress Natalie Portman for the role. The film was lauded by critics and audiences alike, and had a considerable impact on popular culture.

Lohman's next film was the drama Flicka, which was released in 2006. At the age of 25, she played a 16-year-old girl who befriends a wild mustang in the film. She had trained rigorously in horse-riding for the role, stating she was "constantly thrown emotionally and physically" while working with the horses for this role. She next played a recovering heroin addict in Things We Lost in the Fire, which was released in 2007 to mostly positive reviews. She had a role in 2009's Gamer, which was heavily criticized by critics.

Lohman starred in Sam Raimi's 2009 horror film Drag Me to Hell, taking the role after Elliot Page dropped out due to scheduling conflicts. Lohman enjoyed her stunts during filming, despite not being particularly fond of horror films. The film grossed $90 million worldwide, becoming her highest-grossing role and garnering praise for her performance. In his review of the film, Roger Ebert wrote that she "greatly assisted" in the film's success and labeled her a scream queen: "It is essential that the heroine be a good screamer, and man, can that Alison Lohman scream. Stanley Kubrick would have needed only a day with her on The Shining." She received nominations for the Detroit Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress, the Saturn Award for Best Actress, and the MTV Movie Award for Best Scared-As-Shit Performance.

Following her role in Drag Me to Hell, Lohman retired from acting in 2009, citing her recent marriage to filmmaker Mark Neveldine and her desire to focus on raising their three children. She has since taught online acting classes and had small roles in three of Neveldine's films.

Personal life
In 2009, Lohman married filmmaker Mark Neveldine at St. Anthony's Catholic Church in Watertown, New York. They have three children.

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John McBride (labor leader)

John McBride (June 25, 1854 – October 9, 1917) was an American labor union leader. He served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing Stark County from 1884 to 1888. He was the second president of the American Federation of Labor, serving from 1894 to 1895.

Early life
John McBride was born on June 25, 1854, in Chippewa Township, Ohio, to Bridge (née McMackin) and Thomas McBride. His father emigrated from England and worked as a mining supervisor in Massillon. McBride started working in the coal mines at the age of about eight or nine. He first worked as a water carrier before becoming a miner at the age of 12.

Career
In 1870 or 1872, McBride joined the Ohio Miners' Union. He became secretary of Lodge No. 15, M. L. B. A. In 1877, McBride became district president of the Tuscarawas Valley Miners' Association. He also served as president of the Miners' Protective Association of Ohio. In 1879, McBride stopped working in mines and became a check weighman at the Groves Coal Company. In April 1882, he was elected president of the Ohio Miners' Union, a post that he retained until 1889. He served as president during the Coal miners' strike of 1873. In December 1888, he became president of the National Progressive Miners' Union and served in that role until February 1890.

McBride was a Democrat. He served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing Stark County from 1884 to 1888. In 1886, he was nominated for Ohio Secretary of State, but lost to James S. Robinson. In 1887, he ran for the Ohio Senate, but lost. On April 1, 1890, McBride was appointed commissioner to the Bureau of Labor Statistics by Governor James E. Campbell. He served in that role until February 22, 1892. He helped found the Ohio People’s Party in 1891. In 1892, McBride was elected president of the United Mine Workers.

McBride's prominence continued to rise with the growth of the Populist Movement in the American Midwest, and in 1894, McBride unseated labor icon Samuel Gompers as president of the American Federation of Labor. He held that role from January 1, 1895, to December 1895. Not long after assuming the office, however, McBride became embroiled in conflicts with other union leaders and his popularity declined. Gompers regained the presidency the following year.

Starting in 1890, McBride was editor of the Miner's Independent, publication of the miners' union based in Massillon.

In the spring of 1917, U.S. Secretary of Labor William Bauchop Wilson appointed McBride conciliator in labor disputes in Jerome, Arizona. He also acted as conciliator in Utah and Globe, Arizona. He was appointed police magistrate in Phoenix, Arizona, and was a member of the tobacco manufacturing firm McBride and Beaver. He served as president of the Arizona State Federation of Labor.

Personal life
McBride married Mary Kelly, daughter of William Kelly, of Knox County, Ohio, on August 11, 1874. They had four children, Lida L., Kittie B., Edward J. and Joseph F. The family lived on Summit Street. He moved to Phoenix, in 1911 due to his health. They lived at 1418 West Washington Street in Phoenix.

McBride died on October 9, 1917, at a hospital in Globe. He was standing on a street corner in Globe, when a runaway horse knocked him through a plate glass window, causing severe lacerations in his leg, a severed artery, great loss of blood, and death. He was buried in Columbus, Ohio.

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Monarchy New Zealand

Monarchy New Zealand is a national, non-partisan, not-for-profit organisation whose purpose is to promote, support and defend the constitutional monarchy of New Zealand. In addition to the general public, the organisation's membership includes a number of academics as well as numerous lawyers and political figures. It is currently chaired by Dr Sean Palmer.

Aims and principles
According to its website, Monarchy New Zealand's aims and principles include:
 * To bring together New Zealanders of diverse backgrounds to celebrate and support the Monarchy of New Zealand.
 * To promote, and engage in, the study of the Monarchy, and the roles of the Crown in the New Zealand system of democratic government.
 * To inform the New Zealand public of the contemporary importance of the Monarchy for the New Zealand identity.

Crown & Koru
Crown & Koru is Monarchy New Zealand's newsletter, published one to two times a year. It features news relating to the monarchy of New Zealand and information about the organisation. The journal was first published in 1998 under the title Monarchy New Zealand; it changed its title to Crown & Koru in 2010, and became an online-only publication from 2015.

History
The organisation formed as The Monarchist League of New Zealand in 1995 and incorporated in April 1996. The founder was Merv Tilsley, and founding members included Professor Noel Cox (later a long-term Chairman of the organisation) and his brother, Auckland lawyer and vexillolographer John Cox, who later founded the New Zealand Flag Institute. It was rebranded Monarchy New Zealand in 2010.

In 2002, the group campaigned against the abolition of appeals to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and against the creation of the Supreme Court of New Zealand. The group held a dinner to mark the Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II on 9 June of that year.

The group defended a private memo written by Prince Charles, Prince of Wales in November 2004, in which he stated:

"What is wrong with people nowadays? Why do they all seem to think they are qualified to do things far above their capabilities? It is a consequence of a child-centred education system which tells people they can become pop stars, high court judges or brilliant TV presenters or infinitely more competent heads of state without ever putting in the necessary work or having the natural ability."

The League said that the Prince was misinterpreted, and that "[t]he memo itself was understandable and quite proper in the context in which it was written."

In 2009 the group welcomed the re-introduction of titular honours to the New Zealand royal honours system. Also in 2009 the group described the decision by John Key's National Government to allow the Tino Rangatiratanga flag to fly from public buildings on Waitangi Day as "potentially divisive".

In 2011 the group held a celebration in honour of the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton, with around 300 monarchy supporters watching and celebrating the London wedding at the Mercure Hotel in central Auckland.

In April 2019, Monarchy New Zealand was dissolved as an incorporated society.

List of chairs

 * Mervyn Tilsley (19952000)
 * Professor Noel Cox (20002010)
 * Simon O'Connor (20102012)
 * Dr Sean Palmer (Chair since 2012)

Former Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives Sir Peter Tapsell was patron of the organisation from 2000 until his death in 2012.

Former Chair Simon O'Connor was elected to Parliament in November 2011. Former Vice-Chair Paul Foster-Bell was elected to Parliament in May 2013.

Publications

 * Crown & Koru – quarterly journal of Monarchy New Zealand (ISSN 1179-6588)
 * New Zealand’s Monarchy – Monarchist League of New Zealand, (1998)

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My knowledge of John Nash and his work is limited to the stuff shown in the movie A Beautiful Mind. Ofcourse I think you don't need to know math to respect this man and I am sure that many will agree with me, though I was not aware that the movie had been criticized for not portraying his true life. I am really interested to know what parts of the movie are not facts and just plain old Hollywood fiction.