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Yuan Muzhi

Yuan Muzhi (March 3, 1909 – January 30, 1978) was an actor and director from the Republic of China and later of the People's Republic of China.

Career
As an actor, Yuan became extremely popular and took on the nickname "man with a thousand faces." He gained prominence in a series of films for the leftist Diantong Film Company. These included the film Plunder of Peach and Plum (1935) (which Yuan also wrote) and the movie Sons and Daughters in a Time of Storm (1935) where he was one of the two original singers (along with Gu Menghe) of the movie's theme song, The March of the Volunteers, which later became the national anthem of China.

His career eventually brought him to director's chair. Yuan's filmmaking debut, the innovative musical comedy Scenes of City Life (1935) (Dushi fengguang), was one of the earliest non-silent features made in China, as the Shanghai industry was finally transitioning to sound. The film's blend of screwball humor and romance reflected Yuan's harsh, documentary style social observations of middle class existence in the failing economy in Great Depression-era Shanghai. The father of one main character is a pawn shop owner, who in one humorous scene, is so hard up for cash himself—since no one has any money left to reclaim their pawned goods—he even attempts to pawn items from his own shop with another proprietor. The opening of the film features an extended montage of Shanghai's new, modern cityscape of the time, and its landmarks, such as neon signs, theatre marquees, and the Shanghai Cathedral. Jiang Qing, the future wife of Mao Zedong, appeared in a relatively minor role in the film. She would later lead the denunciation of many of Yuan's leftist colleagues in the Shanghai filmmaking scene, accusing them of being rightists, destroying their careers and lives.

Yuan's second film, Street Angel (1937) (Malu tianshi), starred then-unknown Zhou Xuan, who performed He Luting's popular songs written for the film, "Song of the Four Seasons" and "The Wandering Songstress", and became one of China's most adored divas for the remainder of her life. Street Angel is considered one of the most important Chinese films of all time, a highlight of the "second generation" of Chinese cinema. An experimental blend of comedy and tragedy, Yuan's story followed a group of young friends whose lack of financial means and social status frustrated their dreams of happiness, including a girl singer, her prostitute sister, and her soldier lover, home briefly between fighting the Japanese occupying north China. The film, released shortly before Japan invaded Shanghai and initiated the Second Sino-Japanese War in summer 1937, became a massive hit with audiences. Subsequently, Street Angel was seen to mark one of the last products of the "golden age of Chinese cinema" of the 1930s, before artists were forced to retreat to Shanghai's foreign concessions and finally came under Japanese propaganda control.

Yuan also continued to act in roles, notably Eight Hundred Heroes (1938) depicting the events of the Defense of Sihang Warehouse.

In 1938, Yuan participated in discussions on the development of "national defense cinema" and was a founder of Yan'an Film Group. Yuan arrived in Yan'an in fall 1938. With Wu Yinxian, Yuan made a feature-length documentary, Yan'an and the Eighth Route Army, which depicted the Eighth Route Army's combat against the Japanese. They also filmed Norman Bethune performing surgeries close to the front lines.

After the People's Republic of China was founded in 1949, Yuan continued to be a major figure in the film industry, helping to found Dongbei Film Studio, which eventually became the first state-controlled production companies in the People's Republic of China. At the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War, Yuan and Chen Bo'er were sent by the Communist Party to takeover what remained of the Manchurian Motion Picture Association, which eventually became Dongbei Film Studio. In 1949, Yuan became the head of the Film Bureau and developed a nationwide film exhibition network to extend cinema beyond urban centers. Yuan thus had a major role in the development of the PRC's theories and practices of mobile projectionists traveling through rural China to play films.

Yuan was a delegate to the first National People's Congress and the third Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

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Thomas J. Leonard

Thomas J. Leonard (July 31, 1955 – February 11, 2003) was a personal coach. He was an EST employee in the 1980s and founded Coach U, the International Coach Federation, Coachville, and the International Association of Coaching

Books

 * Working Wisdom
 * The Portable Coach, Scribner, August 1998, ISBN 978-0-684-85041-2
 * Becoming a Coach
 * Simply Brilliant, ISBN 978-1-929668-00-7
 * Coaching Forms Book
 * The Distinctionary
 * 28 Laws of Attraction, Scribner, December 2007, ISBN 978-1-4165-7103-2

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/EvilN

 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. -- AllyUnion (talk) 07:57, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

 * This page cannot be deleted because of block-compress errors. -- AllyUnion (talk) 07:57, 17 Feb 2005 (UTC)

EvilN
Vanity, silliness. – Quadell (talk) (sleuth) 19:28, Feb 11, 2005 (UTC)

 * This is really horrible. I suppose it could be userfied to user:Luspari, if user:Luspari is EvilN, on the other hand it might be libelous if user:Luspari is not EvilN. Dunc|☺ 20:53, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete it, it's not notable, the only thing that comes to my mind is "so what?" Zzyzx11 21:09, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, possible vanity. Megan1967 23:40, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. non-notable. RJFJR 06:39, Feb 12, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - just because he has eaten all the pies does not make him notable. If the best quote he can come up with is, "I pushed my mother off the porch on Thursday." then he is not someone I need to know more about.Brookie 20:06, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete not notable. Johntex 17:25, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)

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Alfred Perot

Jean-Baptiste Alfred Perot (3 November 1863 – 28 November 1925) was a French physicist.

Together with his colleague Charles Fabry he developed the Fabry–Pérot interferometer in 1899.

The French Academy of Sciences awarded him the Janssen Medal for 1912. The Royal Society awarded Fabry and Perot the Rumford medal in 1918.

Spelling
There is some confusion about the spelling of Perot's last name. Perot himself used the spelling Pérot in scientific publications, but according to the French civil registry, his family name was Perot, without accent.

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Mekhi Phifer

Mekhi Phifer (born December 29, 1974) is an American actor. He portrayed Dr. Greg Pratt on NBC's long-running medical drama ER from 2002 to 2008, and had a co-starring role opposite rapper Eminem in the 2002 feature film 8 Mile. He was a recurring cast member on the Showtime drama House of Lies, and also starred as CIA officer Rex Matheson in Torchwood: Miracle Day. Phifer is also known for his appearance in the music video for "The Boy Is Mine" by Brandy and Monica.

Early life
Phifer was born on December 29, 1974, in Harlem, New York City. He grew up in a single-parent household with his mother, Rhoda Phifer, a high-school teacher.

Career
In 1994, while attending Columbia University to study electrical engineering, 19-year-old Phifer attended an open-casting call for director Spike Lee's Clockers, beating over a thousand others to get the lead role as a narcotics dealer embroiled in a murder cover-up. He followed that role with another in the comedy spoof feature High School High (which also starred his former wife Malinda Williams) and continued by co-starring in the horror film I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. He also starred in the film Paid in Full in 2002.

He portrayed Dr. Gregory Pratt on the NBC medical drama ER, a role which he introduced in April 2002. Phifer left the show in September 2008, in the first episode of Season 15. His character died during the conclusion of the season 14 finale cliffhanger involving an ambulance explosion that was rigged to kill an injured FBI informant (Steve Buscemi). During his six years in the show, he was nominated twice for an NAACP Image Award.

Phifer's television credits include the film The Tuskegee Airmen (1995), HBO's Subway Stories: Tales from the Underground (1997), and Brian's Song as former Chicago Bear Gale Sayers. He received additional notice for his performance opposite singer Beyoncé Knowles (from Destiny's Child) on MTV's alternative take on the Carmen legend with the film Carmen: A Hip Hopera (2001).

Phifer had a recurring guest role in the fifth and sixth seasons of Homicide: Life on the Street, portraying "Junior Bunk", the troubled nephew of Baltimore drug lord Luther Mahoney, and also guest-starred in New York Undercover. He earned an NAACP Image Award nomination for the TV film, A Lesson Before Dying, opposite Don Cheadle. In 2009, Phifer began a guest-starring arc on the Fox drama Lie to Me.

Among Phifer's other big-screen credits are Soul Food, The Biography of Spud Webb, Hell's Kitchen, NYC, Tears of a Clown, O (as the titular character Odin a.k.a. O), and the thriller Uninvited Guest (as Silk). He appeared in Impostor as well as Paid in Full, an urban classic, that has given him notorious recognition as he portrayed Mitch and director Curtis Hanson's 8 Mile, opposite Eminem. He is mentioned in the Grammy- and Academy Award-winning song "Lose Yourself" by Eminem.

In June 2011, Phifer starred alongside John Barrowman and Eve Myles as CIA agent Rex Matheson in Torchwood: Miracle Day, the fourth series of the BBC/Starz Entertainment TV show Torchwood. In December of that year, he also starred on Broadway in Lydia Diamond's Stick Fly.

Phifer starred as Agent Collins in the fourth season of White Collar.

He made a guest appearance on the sitcom series Husbands in its second season.

In Fall 2016, he joined the TV show Frequency as a series regular. He was mentioned in the Eminem song "Lose Yourself"."it's no movie, there's no Mekhi Phifer!"

Personal life
Phifer has a son with his former wife, actress Malinda Williams. His second son was born to Oni Souratha in Los Angeles in 2007. On March 30, 2013, Phifer married his longtime girlfriend Reshelet Barnes in Beverly Hills, California.

Other activities
Phifer was the 2004 winner of the Celebrity Poker Showdown Championship, defeating Neil Patrick Harris during the fourth season. Phifer plays on the World Poker Tour in the Hollywood Home games for the Love Our Children USA charity. Phifer is chairman of the board of trustees of The Vine Group USA. a non-profit organization established in 2000 to provide educational resources to universities in Africa. He has signed up with Full Tilt Poker. He has his own well on the poker forum 2+2.

Phifer is an owner of a number of Athlete's Foot athletic shoe-store franchises in California.

In January 2011, Phifer launched Third Reel Films. The stated mission of the company is to provide an environment for filmmakers to showcase their work to entertainment representatives, acquisition executives, and other key-industry professionals.

Music videos

 * 1994: "Flava in Ya Ear" by Craig Mack
 * 1996: "Wu Wear" by Wu-Tang Clan
 * 1996: "So Many Ways" by The Braxtons
 * 1996: "Nobody" by Keith Sweat featuring Athena Cage
 * 1996: "Don't Let Go (Love)" by En Vogue
 * 1998: "The Boy Is Mine" by Brandy and Monica
 * 1999: "BOOM" by Royce da 5'9"
 * 2002: "Lose Yourself" by Eminem
 * 2003: "Many Men (Wish Death)" by 50 Cent
 * 2003: "Without Me" by Eminem
 * 2004: "Just Lose It" by Eminem

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Kismet (Marvel Comics)

Kismet, also known as Paragon, Her, and Ayesha , is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She exists in Marvel's main shared universe, known as the Marvel Universe.

Ayesha appeared in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023), portrayed by Elizabeth Debicki.

Publication history
The character first appeared as Paragon in The Incredible Hulk vol. 2 Annual #6 and was created by Len Wein, David Kraft, and Herb Trimpe. She first appeared as Her and Kismet in Marvel Two-in-One #61, while Ayesha first appeared in Fantastic Four vol. 3 #11.

Fictional character biography
Originally known as Paragon, Kismet was the second attempt by the Enclave to artificially create a super-powerful being in their Citadel of Science "the Beehive" (their first attempt was Him, later known as Adam Warlock). The Enclave intended to create a super-powerful being to control. "Born" before being fully formed, Paragon appeared as a muscular male figure. Paragon battled the Hulk, then overrode the Enclave's control and sunk their Beehive headquarters before incubating itself in a cocoon much like Warlock often would.

She later emerged from the cocoon in her blond-haired, golden-skinned form wearing red swimsuit-like attire. As a female replicant of Warlock, she took the name of Her (a reference to Warlock's original name, Him) and sought Warlock to mate with him. However, Warlock had died some years earlier, traveling a short time into the future to steal his own soul with his Soul Gem in a twisted suicide. Confident she would be able to revive him, Her managed to restore and reanimate his body, but with his mind and soul missing, she was forced to sadly return him to his grave. She set out to explore the cosmos to find a possible mate.

She helped the ecologically ravaged planet U'sr'pr recover, invoking the wrath of the Consortium. She was called by the natives J'ridia Starduster. Later, she was aided by Alpha Flight and the Avengers against the Consortium.

Some time after beginning her quest to find Warlock, she discovered that Warlock had been resurrected body and soul. However, he rejects her, leaving her sobbing on the ground. After this, she held a competition among some of the most powerful men on Earth, attaching reproductive pods to their necks to see how they would react. She selected Quasar, Hercules, Wonder Man, Hyperion, Doc Samson, and Forgotten One for this task. She battled Quasar and was attacked by Jack of Hearts, but was saved by Quasar from Moondragon. As Quasar was the only one who did not destroy his pod, she turns her attentions to him for a time, until his girlfriend Kayla Ballantine (in possession of the Star Brand) severely beat her and forced her to return to cocoon form to heal. However, she decided to become Quasar's companion for a time.

In the 1992 storyline "Operation: Galactic Storm", she helps Quasar and willingly guards the Star Gates that threaten Earth's existence. She soon becomes involved in a fight with Binary, and also the Super-Skrull. Soon after the war, she became engulfed by the Soul-Eater and was rescued by Quasar.

During her adventures with Quasar she took the name Kismet, after the Arabic word for fate. She battled the Black Fleet destroying the planet Scadam. She later came to the rescue of her three creators in the Beehive. By healing them in cocoons similar to her own, they became golden skinned superhumans as well. The four of them journeyed into space.

Later still, she changed her name again, to Ayesha. During this time, she was under the control of the supervillain Crucible on Genosha.

Powers and abilities
Kismet is an artificial being created through genetic engineering by the Enclave. She has the ability to tap, store, and manipulate cosmic energy for a variety of effects, including the projection of concussive force bolts and flight. The cosmic energy enhances her physical attributes to superhuman levels, and enhances her metabolism and her life force, preventing her from aging, and making her virtually immortal. She can recover from serious injuries by creating a cosmic energy cocoon from surrounding molecules in which she can rest and regenerate. She can reanimate dead tissue by projecting a portion of her cosmic life force into it. Kismet cannot restore a being's spirit (astral self) to a body that she resurrects if that spirit has left the body. She also has the ability to use cosmic energy to rearrange molecular structures (of about three cubic feet at a time).

Earth X
In the limited series Earth X, Mar-Vell is reincarnated as the child of the synthetic Adam Warlock/Him and Kismet/Her.

Fantastic Four: The End
In the limited series Fantastic Four: The End, Kismet (under the name of Ayesha) has apparently taken over the Captain Marvel mantle in the not-too-distant future.

Guardians of the Galaxy
Stakar Vaughn, Starhawk, was born to the superheroes Quasar and Kismet in the Guardians of the Galaxy alternate timeline (Earth-691) around the year 2002. Stakar is instantly stolen by Era, the evil child of Eon, and raised by friendly aliens. Kismet retreats to a monastery for hundreds of years, where she vows not to use her powers. Stakar, a grown adult, finds her. Together, they visit Quasar's grave. It is learned, through Era and the Hawk-God Stakar worships, that Quasar had been purposely sent to his death and Eon himself had been entrapped. Kismet and Stakar dedicate themselves to hunting down Era.

Film

 * Ayesha appears in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, portrayed by Elizabeth Debicki. This version is the high priestess of the golden-skinned Sovereign race. After Rocket of the Guardians of the Galaxy steals from her, she vows revenge on them. In pursuit of this, she observes the cocoon of a new member of the Sovereign and names him Adam in a mid-credit scene.
 * Ayesha appears in the MCU film Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, portrayed again by Elizabeth Debicki. She and Adam continue to seek revenge on the Guardians until she is killed by the Sovereign's creator, the High Evolutionary.

Video games
A hybridized incarnation of Ayesha appears as a playable character in Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2, voiced by Olivia Mace. This version has the appearance and attitude of the MCU incarnation coupled with the abilities and origin of her comic book counterpart.

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Theodore Isaac Rubin

Theodore Isaac Rubin (April 11, 1923 – February 16, 2019) was an American psychiatrist and author. Rubin was a past president of the American Institute for Psychoanalysis and the Karen Horney Institute for Psychoanalysis. He lived in New York City and was married to Eleanor Katz.

Life and career
Rubin served in the U.S. Navy during World War II. He was a long-time contributing columnist to the Ladies' Home Journal (1972-?), and the author of more than 25 works of fiction and non-fiction. In 1962, director Frank Perry made the acclaimed film David and Lisa from Rubin's novel Lisa and David. The film was remade by entertainer Oprah Winfrey in 1998. His book Shrink: The Diary of a Psychiatrist, was written in the times of his residences in different psychiatric hospitals in the West Coast of the United States until his decision to move to New York.

For a clinician who rose to prominence within psychoanalysis during the heyday of what is known as "ego psychology" (a movement often criticized for its equation of mental health and conformity to normative American cultural values, exemplified by the pathologizing of homosexuality), Rubin was iconoclastic with regard to psychoanalytic and cultural orthodoxy. Compassion and Self-Hate: An Alternative to Despair (1975), while espousing traditional psychoanalytic notions of repression and defense, emphasizes the centrality of covert self-hate in the phenomenology of neurotic suffering, recommending consciously invoked compassion, a self-help approach which more closely resembles Tibetan Buddhism than psychoanalysis. This dichotomy can be seen in at least one of two ways: as an opening of the psychoanalytic model to existential and spiritual phenomenology (see Epstein's "Thoughts Without a Thinker" for a recent exposition of the idea that psychoanalysis and Buddhist thought can be productively synchronized), or as an unacknowledged radical interrogation of core psychoanalytic assumptions (see DuQuesne's "Killing Freud" for a thorough discussion of this trend in analytic writing).

Rubin died on February 16, 2019, at the age of 95.

Rubin appeared as himself on the April 11, 1966, episode of the game show To Tell the Truth. He was introduced to the audience as a psychologist who counseled people on how to diet and lose weight. Only after he revealed himself did the show's host, Bud Collyer, identify him as a novelist and the author of David and Lisa.

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Flower Communion

Flower Communion, also known as Flower Ceremony, Flower Festival, or Flower Celebration, is a ritual service common in Unitarian Universalism, though the specific practices vary between congregations. It is usually held on the last Sunday of worship in late May or June, as some congregations recess from holding services during the summer. Some congregations hold the ceremony earlier in the spring, sometimes coinciding with Mother's Day or Easter.

During the ritual, congregants contribute flowers to a central location, and later the flowers are distributed among the participants.

History
The Flower Celebration as it is celebrated today was initiated in Prague on 4 June 1923 by Norbert Čapek, who was also the founder of the Unitarian Church in Czechoslovakia. He saw the need to unite the diverse congregants of his church, from varying Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish backgrounds, without alienating those who had left these traditions. For this reason he turned to the beauty of nature and had a communion of flowers instead of the Eucharist. Though Unitarian Universalists often refer to the ritual as a Flower Ceremony, Festival, or Communion, Čapek's term "Oslava Květin" is more accurately translated as "Flower Celebration", a term which continues to be preferred by Czech Unitarians today.

The ritual was brought to the United States in 1940 by the Rev. Maja Čapek, Norbert's wife, with the first flower communion being observed in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was widely adopted by the American Unitarian churches, and their successor Unitarian Universalist congregations.

The ritual was later brought from the United States to Britain by Rev. Eric Shirvell Price.

Earlier Unitarian "Flower Services", documented in Midwestern U.S. Unitarian congregations beginning circa 1880, were somewhat different in form from Čapek's service.

Ritual
In its essentials, the ritual involves the following:

 * Each congregant brings a flower to be used in the service
 * Congregants leave their flowers in a central location either as they enter or during the service
 * Towards the end of the service, the flowers are distributed or congregants come forward and choose a flower different from the one they brought.

The actual order of service varies widely in different congregations, and often closely resembles the ordinary order of service. Other service elements might include a sermon, the blessing of or a prayer over the flowers, a reading by Norbert Čapek, the history of the ritual, and hymns.

Many congregations include this blessing used by Čapek to consecrate the flowers before they are passed to or distributed among the people: "Infinite Spirit of Life, we ask thy blessing on these, thy messengers of fellowship and love. May they remind us, amid diversities of knowledge and of gifts, to be one in desire and affection, and devotion to thy holy will. May they also remind us of the value of comradeship, of doing and sharing alike. May we cherish friendship as one of thy most precious gifts. May we not let awareness of another's talents discourage us, or sully our relationship, but may we realize that, whatever we can do, great or small, the efforts of all of us are needed to do thy work in this world."

Symbolism
As with the flaming chalice there is no one orthodox interpretation of this flower ritual.

The beauty and diversity of flowers is seen as symbolic of the beauty and diversity of life, and how each individual is a unique whole unto themselves. Czech Unitarian Iva Fišerová has written: "The flower is the most beloved symbol for Czech Unitarians... The symbol of various unique beings -- flowers/people -- uniting to create a unique bouquet... Parting and being given a flower as a symbol of anybody in attendance whom I am expected to accept as my brother or sister."

Additionally, the choice and contribution of a flower by each congregant symbolizes the free will with which the congregant approaches the ceremony. Joining the flowers in a shared location represents the equality of people.

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List of ethnic stereotypes
I'm pretty new to wiki, but this is the worst page I've seen yet. I'm for its deletion, but I figured as such, I should try to make it better. I very arguably have strong opinions about this page, so I figured it might be better if some more experienced folks take a look at it. Predictably, it's receiving a lot of attention of anonymous editors. --Paraphelion 19:32, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
 * FWIW, I totally agree it should be deleted, I've always thought so. It's a well-known page, I think quite famous on WP:VFD, where voters are always suggesting that new stubs on single ethnic slurs should be deleted and their content moved to List of ethnic stereotypes. The whole idea of that page seems to me such a big mistake that I can't suggest any improvements, sorry. But I believe it's been on VfD itself, perhaps several times, and always been voted to be kept. I suppose some of the "keep" votes would have to come from a) users who don't see, even after it's been explained to them, what an invitation the page extends to just make up ethnic slurs and have the pleasure of seeing them gain some kind of "encyclopedic" status by being listed on Wikipedia; b) users who see it but don't care, or c) users who enjoy and profit from the invitation. If I remember it right, there is also a well-intentioned group d) who see having the page as a less bad option than having people create endless stubs on each separate slur that they can dream up. That is a respectable argument, just not one that makes sense to me, since those same stubs keep getting created anyway. Peer review may not be the best place for your listing—the page is hardly Featured article material! If you feel strongly about it I suggest you list it on VfD, even though I bet it'll only get you the same time-wasting runaround one more time. Bishonen | Talk 21:34, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)


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Sidewinder Raven

Sidewinder Raven is the designation of a two-stage sounding rocket. A ceiling of 112 km, a takeoff thrust of 26 kN, a takeoff weight of 110 kg, a diameter of 130 mm and a length of 5.20 m.

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San Jose Giants

The San Jose Giants are a Minor League Baseball team of the California League and the Single-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants. Located in San Jose, California, the Giants play their home games at Excite Ballpark.

Games

San Jose Giants games are very much rooted in the older traditions of baseball. Fans sit very close to the field, general admission seating is available for games, players sign autographs before every game, and the outfield walls are lined with advertisements much like the stadiums of the 1920s and 1930s were. A simple scoreboard shows basic game data like runs, strikes, balls, and outs. This was updated in 2005 to feature lights to denote the count (three lights for strikes and four for balls) rather than numbers. The out-of-town scoreboard displaying other California League game scores was manually operated using hand-hung number cards. In 2006, the simple scoreboard was replaced with a 21-by-15-foot video screen costing $500,000, and the out-of-town scoreboard was no longer used. Between innings, fans are treated to a variety of games and entertainment, such as kids' air guitar, a child footrace around the bases, or throwing a baseball at a truck's headlights for prizes. The San Jose Giants also added a mascot, Gigante, for the 2006 season. Before Gigante's introduction, San Francisco Giants mascot Lou Seal made occasional appearances.

San Jose Giants games were often the home of Krazy George. George was a well known "fan" in the San Francisco Bay Area who attended not only SJ Giants games, but also many of the MLB, NFL, NHL, and NCAA football games in the region. His claim to fame is being the creator of "the wave" in Oakland on October 15, 1981, where fans rise and wave their arms in sequence around a stadium thus created a wave-like effect when viewed from a distance.

History
San Jose has hosted multiple minor league baseball teams throughout its history. The current lineage can be traced back to the San Jose Bees who joined the California League in 1962 as an affiliate of the expansion Los Angeles Angels. They switched to a Kansas City Royals affiliate from 1970–1974 and a Cleveland Indians affiliate in 1975–1976. Many players on the Kansas City Royals teams of the 1970s and 1980s, including George Brett, Amos Otis, and Dennis Leonard played in San Jose.

The Sacramento Solons then leased the San Jose affiliate for two seasons, when they were known as the San Jose Missions and played in the Pacific Coast League as an affiliate of the Oakland Athletics and Seattle Mariners. In 1982 the club became affiliated with the Montreal Expos and was known as the San Jose Expos. The Expos ended their affiliation after one year and the renamed Bees became an independent club.

As an independent club, the Bees were free to sign players from Nippon Professional Baseball; the Seibu Lions sent several players to the Bees on loan in this period including Norio Tanabe and Kimiyasu Kudo. The 1986 Bees employed five decorated former Major Leaguers who struggled with drugs and alcohol and were effectively blacklisted by Major League Baseball: Steve Howe, Mike Norris, Ken Reitz, Todd Cruz and Daryl Sconiers. The mix of disgraced former stars and Japanese imports attracted attention from such publications as The Times, Rolling Stone, The New York Times, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times.

San Jose Giants (1988–present)
The team was sold to a group led by Winston H. Cox in 1987. The current affiliation with the San Francisco Giants began in 1988. Since the team's inception, the San Jose Giants have been one of the more successful teams in the California League. They captured the league championship in 1998, 2001, 2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, and most recently in 2021. In 2005 and once again in 2007 after being down 0–2 in the best of 5 series, came back home and won the final three games over Lake Elsinore Storm to claim the Championship Series 3–2. (In 2001 the Giants were declared co-champions with the Lake Elsinore Storm after the final series was canceled after the September 11 terrorist attacks). The team has also made the California League playoffs numerous times and won the Northern Division championship 8 times. The Giants also had the best record of any minor league class A team in the 1990s.

The Giants success has shown at the turnstile as attendance has increased 14 of the last 17 years. The SJ Giants are now in their 24th season being affiliated with the San Francisco Giants. This makes the SJ Giants affiliation the longest currently enjoyed by a team in the California League. 2008 marked a second highest team record attendance of 183,788 for the season.

The San Jose Giants have developed more than 190 major league players, including Buster Posey, Tim Lincecum, Jonathan Sánchez, Matt Cain, Brian Horwitz, Noah Lowry, Merkin Valdez, Chad Zerbe, Russ Ortiz, Bill Mueller, Doug Mirabelli, Rod Beck, Joe Nathan, Francisco Liriano, Shawn Estes, Emmanuel Burriss, Andrés Torres, Pablo Sandoval, Madison Bumgarner and Adam Duvall.

In conjunction with Major League Baseball's restructuring of Minor League Baseball in 2021, the Giants were organized into the Low-A West at the Low-A classification. In 2022, the Low-A West became known as the California League, the name historically used by the regional circuit prior to the 2021 reorganization, and was reclassified as a Single-A circuit.

Notable alumni
• Baseball Hall of Fame alumni

• George Brett (1972) Inducted, 1999

• Other notable alumni

• Jay Johnstone (1963, 1965)

• Tom Burgmeier (1964) MLB All-Star

• Dave LaRoche (1967, 1969)) 2x MLB All-Star

• Rudy May (1967) 1980 AL ERA Leader

• Doug Bird (1970-1971)

• Steve Busby (1971) 2x MLB All-Star

• Al Cowens (1971-1972)

• John Wathan (1971-1972)

• Frank White (1972) 5x MLB All-Star; 8x Gold Glove

• Dennis Leonard (1973)

• Jamie Quirk (1973)

• Ruppert Jones (1974)

• U.L. Washington (1974)

• Alfredo Griffin (1975-1976) MLB All-Star; 1979 AL Rookie of the Year

• Ron Hassey (1976)

• Steve McCatty (1977, 1986-1987)

• Mike Norris (1977) MLB All-Star

• Tom Paciorek (1978) MLB All-Star

• Bud Black (1979-1980) 2010 NL Manager of the Year

• Dave Henderson (1979) MLB All-Star

• Blue Moon Odom (1977)

• Ken Reitz (1986) MLB All-Star

• Brian Harper (1987)

• Charlie Moore (1987)

• Elias Sosa (1987)

• Gil Heredia (1988)

• Rod Beck (1989) 3x MLB All-Star

• Royce Clayton, 1989–90 MLB All-Star

• Dave Dravecky (1989) MLB All-Star

• Kevin Bass (1990-1991) MLB All-Star

• Pat Rapp (1991)

• Doug Mirabelli (1992-1993)

• Mike Myers (1992)

• Bill Mueller (1994) 2003 AL Batting Title

• Shawn Estes (1995) MLB All-Star

• Keith Foulke (1995) MLB All-Star

• Bobby Howry (1995)

• Russ Ortiz (1995–1996) MLB All-Star

• Jason Grilli (1997) MLB All-Star

• Scott Linebrink (1997)

• Joe Nathan (1998) 6x MLB All-Star

• Ryan Vogelsong (1998–1999) MLB All-Star

• Matt Cain (2004) 3x MLB All-Star

• Tim Lincecum (2006 ) 5x MLB All-Star; 2008 & 2009 NL Cy Young Award

• Sergio Romo (2007) MLB All-Star

• Pablo Sandoval (2007–08) 2x MLB All-Star; 2012 World Series Most Valuable Player

• Madison Bumgarner (2009) 4x MLB All-Star; 2014 World Series Most Valuable Player

• Brandon Crawford (2009) 3x MLB All-Star; 3x Gold Glove Award; Silver Slugger

• Buster Posey (2009) 2010 NL Rookie of the Year; 7x MLB All-Star; NL Most Valuable Player (2012); 4x Silver Slugger Award; Gold Glove Award

• Adam Duvall (2012) 2016 MLB All-Star; 3x Gold Glove nominee, Home Run Derby Participant 2016, San Jose Giants 2012 Home Run Record (30)

• Kyle Harrison (2021)

• Luis Matos (2021), 2021 California League MVP

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Hatillo

Hatillo or El Hatillo may refer to the following places:

Colombia

 * Hatillo de Loba, a municipality in the department of Bolívar

Costa Rica

 * Hatillo (district), in San José Canton

Honduras

 * El Hatillo, Honduras a colonia in the department of Francisco Morazán

Puerto Rico

 * Hatillo, Puerto Rico, a municipality
 * Hatillo, Añasco, Puerto Rico, a barrio
 * Hatillo, Hatillo, Puerto Rico, a barrio

Venezuela

 * El Hatillo Municipality, a municipality in the state of Miranda
 * El Hatillo, Miranda, a town in the state of Miranda

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