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Media
The name isn't likely to stay that way much longer. However, I have yet to see anyone in the Nashville Media refer to the building as anything other than the Gaylord Entertainment Center. --jwhouk 02:11, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Improper move
I bumped into this site by accident, and discovered it had been moved to Nashville Arena via cut-and-paste. I have no interests either way as to what name the page is under, but it should be moved properly (by an admin), so that the edit history remains with the article. See Help:Moving a page for further information on proceedures for moving or renaming a page. Thanks. - BillCJ 07:01, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Page move
Please wait until March 16, 2007 to move this page to Nashville Arena. The arena doesn't change its name until that date. See: http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?section_id=9&screen=news&news_id=55008 Thank you. --Zpb52 23:47, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Uh, that's in four hours! (Actually right now, Zulu time). I'm not some over-eager fanboy, but a serious editor trying to make sure this move gets done right. I made several other changes to page that just the name, including expanding the text in several places. If you make the move, I'd appreciate it if you'd use that diff. Thanks.

 * In addition, I asked an admin to make the move, including telling him the arena naming was tomorrow. He evidently agreed with my reasoning. - BillCJ 00:21, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

Bad link
The link to the story about the planned new scoreboard gets this message: "Error: Invalid story key (DN,20070112,SPORTS02,701120420,AR)." The link needs to be updated or removed--and if it's removed, the comment that it links from needs to be deleted. 4.243.146.55 06:06, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

 * Or, a new link can be found, ot at least a fact placed. Will look into it after my sleep period. - BillCJ 07:50, 6 May 2007 (UTC)

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Hi, please do not revert wholesale all the changes in an edit simply because you disagree with one small aspect of it. This is unnecessary and disrespectful. Also, try not to be rude in your summaries. While I agree with you that the s/d is meant to be kept brief, this doesn't mean you should remove important explanatory words from it. The short description currently on the article not only repeats a word already in the title (arena), but it doesn't provide sufficient information, in my opinion. For example, why do you not think it's important to mention what city in Tennessee the arena is in?! Revirvlkodlaku (talk) 20:30, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

 * My edit summary was terse, not rude. I try to keep them short too. BilCat (talk) 20:37, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
 * you have not addressed the points I made above: "While I agree with you that the s/d is meant to be kept brief, this doesn't mean you should remove important explanatory words from it. The short description currently on the article not only repeats a word already in the title (arena), but it doesn't provide sufficient information, in my opinion. For example, why do you not think it's important to mention what city in Tennessee the arena is in?!" Please do so instead of deflecting. Revirvlkodlaku (talk) 22:35, 13 April 2022 (UTC)

Sourcing the nicknames
The infobox here lists two “nicknames” for the Bridgestone Arena, both with a [citation needed] tag.

I’m able to find a few oblique references to the “Smashville” name on the venue’s website, in event announcements and press releases:
 * https://www.bridgestonearena.com/events/detail/smashville-summer-spectactular
 * https://www.bridgestonearena.com/news/detail/ncaa-march-madness-returns-to-smashville

Additionally, I see one on a local news site: https://fox17.com/amp/sports/inside-smashville/smashville-throws-free-outdoor-viewing-parties-for-preds-playoff-games-nhl-stanley-cup-playoffs-tennessee-nashville

Do any of these rise to the level of a good Wikipedia source?

For the “Tire Barn” name, I’m coming up short, aside from some random blog posts. Perhaps that line should just be removed.

Scoott2016 (talk) Scoott2016 (talk) 01:05, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

 * From a local, it’s Smashville. I mean look at the main photo, it says it there ItsDankin (talk) 02:07, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
 * The Tire Barn is a reference to bridgestone, which is a tire company. People don’t really call it that though ItsDankin (talk) 02:10, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. I've removed the "tire barn" nickname and added an NHL blog post as corroboration for the "smashville" one https://www.nhl.com/predators/news/this-month-in-smashville-history-march Scoott2016 (talk) 16:44, 26 May 2024 (UTC)

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716th Static Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

The 716th Static Infantry Division (German: 716. Infanterie-Division) was a World War II, German Army infantry division. It was raised on May 2, 1941, and sent to German-occupied France in June 1941. Many of the division's troops were elderly Germans and conscripts from other German-occupied countries. The division also had some young German conscripts as well. As a bodenständig (static unit) it was not equipped with the standard configuration of vehicles and heavy weapons. Much of the division's artillery and anti-tank guns were from captured armaments.

It is well-known for its involvement as a defensive unit in the Allied Normandy landings on 6 June 1944 (often called "D-Day").

Divisional history
The 716.Infanterie-Divisionen was mobilized for occupation duties in the 15.Welle (Wave) Replacement Army on 2 May 1941 in Wehrkreis VI in Munster. After formation in Bielefeld, and transfer to Occupied France, it was assigned to AOK 15 in June 1941 and employed at Saint-Lo and Soissons. It was transferred to the 7th Army in June 1942 and relocated to Normandy, with duties including coastal defence, air raid protection and defensive fortification construction. After short movements to Amiens and Brussels it returned to the divisions in Normandy. The 716th Division had no combat experience, and was one of the weakest divisions in the area.

On D-Day, The division was responsible for Küsten Verteidigung Abschnitt - Divisional Coastal Defensive Section: 7 KVA ‘H1’ - KVA Caen. Having the task of defeating landings it manned an extended line of defensible posts, along its assigned 47 km of Normandy Coast, and deployed all other unit resources then available above the Basse Normandie: Calvados-Baie de Seine Coastal Plain. Fighting with additionally allocated LXXXIV Korps resources, the tactical situation and the terrain saw the Division 'split' across two Regimental Coastal Defensive Sections: Küsten Verteidigungs Gruppe Courseulles and Küsten Verteidigungs Gruppe Riva-Bella. To the west, K.V.-Gruppe Courseulles commanded all Divisional troops from Asnelles to Saint-Aubin-sur-Mer, seeing it attempt to defeat landings at Gold Beach and Juno Beach. In the east up to the AOK 7 / AOK 15 Boundary, K.V.-Gruppe Riva-Bella commanded the tactical situation from Langrune-sur-Mer to Le Home Varaville, becoming responsible to defeat landings at Sword Beach and by the British 6th Airborne Division; astride the River Orne.

During the fighting after D-Day, the division fought defensively around Caen and Villers-Bocage. According to the commanding officer, Generalleutnant Wilhelm Richter, "My division had been defeated and badly beaten up in Normandy". The division was removed from frontline duty on July 10, 1944, and was able to avoid the carnage of the Falaise Pocket. Redeployed to southern France, the division took up coastal security positions in the region of Salses-Perpignan-Elne, close to the Spanish border. Thereafter, the division was ordered to withdraw on August 19, 1944, and retreated through Languedoc to the region around Lyon. After this movement the division was engaged by the French resistance before later arriving in the area of Sélestat in Alsace.

In October 1944, the 716th Infantry Division was in the region of Oberrhein (near Colmar) where it fought at Neunkirch-Obenhein and was nearly wiped out in heavy fighting in January 1945. The remains of the division was reconstituted as the 716th Volksgrenadier Division in April 1945 before surrendering to American troops at Kempten in May 1945.

Order of battle

The 716th's complement when raised in 1941 was:

 * Divisional Staff
 * 726 Infantry Regiment
 * 736 Infantry Regiment
 * 716 Artillery Regiment
 * 716 Panzerjäger Company
 * 716 Pioneer Battalion
 * 716 Signals Battalion
 * 716 Supply Troops
 * Administration Platoon

The 716th's complement during the June 1944 Normandy Campaign consisted of:

 * Command
 * 726th Grenadier Regiment (439th Ost Battalion)
 * 736th Grenadier Regiment (642nd Ost Battalion)
 * 1716th Artillery Battalion
 * 716th Antitank Battalion
 * 716th Engineer Battalion
 * 716th Signals Battalion
 * 716th Fusilier Battalion
 * 441st Ost Battalion

Commanders

 * Oberst Otto Matterstock: 1941 to April 1943
 * Generalleutnant Wilhelm Richter: April 1943 to May 1944
 * Generalmajor Ludwig Krug (1894–1972): May 1944
 * Generalleutnant Wilhelm Richter: June 1944 to August 1944
 * Generalmajor Otto Schiel (1895–1990): August 1944 to September 1944
 * Generalleutnant Wilhelm Richter: September 1944
 * Oberst Ernst von Bauer (1896–1945): September 1944 to December 1944
 * Generalmajor Wolf Ewert (1905–1994): December 1944 to April 1945
 * Oberst Friedrich Trompeter: April 1945

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Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion

The Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) is an agency in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, created on December 1, 1994, to improve the health and well-being of Americans by establishing national dietary guidelines based on the best science available. CNPP promotes dietary guidance by linking scientific research to the nutritional needs of the American public through the function of USDA's Nutrition Evidence Library, which it created and manages.

The Center serves as the administrative agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the issuance of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which provide evidence-based advice for people 2 years and older about how good dietary habits can promote health and reduce the risk for major chronic diseases. However, as a result of conflicts of interest, the Guidelines sometimes favor the interests of the food and drug industries over the public's interest in accurate and impartial dietary advice.

The 2015-2020 Dietary Guidelines were released on Jan. 7, 2016. The updated Guidelines recommend that Americans consume "a healthy eating pattern at an appropriate calorie level to help achieve and maintain healthy body weight, support nutrient adequacy, and reduce the risk of chronic disease. ... [C]hoose a variety of nutrient-dense foods across and within all food groups in recommended amounts. Limit calories from added sugars and saturated fats and reduce sodium intake. ... [And] Shift to healthier food and beverage choices."

MyPlate is USDA's food icon and replaced MyPyramid and the Food Guide Pyramid as the Government's primary food group symbol.

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Sergio Cresto

Sergio Cresto (January 19, 1956 – May 2, 1986) was the American co-driver of Henri Toivonen at the Lancia Martini team for the 1986 World Rally Championship season. He was also a former co-driver for fellow Lancia employee Attilio Bettega, who died in an accident during the 1985 Tour de Corse on May 2, 1985. His co-driver Maurizio Perissinot survived the crash uninjured. This event happened exactly one year before the accident that claimed the lives of both Sergio Cresto and his driver by then Henri Toivonen on May 2, 1986.

Biography
Sergio Cresto was born in New York on 19 January 1956. As an Italian American, Cresto lived in Ospedaletti, near Sanremo, away from his brother George A. Cresto in New York. He began racing in an Opel Kadett GT/E with Amedeo Gerbino. In 1979, Cresto was Tonino Tognana's co-driver in a Kadett GT/E, as well as in the more powerful Fiat 131 Abarth two years later. In 1981, Cresto and Tognana came in eight in the Italian Championship. In 1982, Cresto was co-driver with another top driver, Gianfranco Cunico, in a Fiat Ritmo 130, getting good results. The following year, Cresto again changed drivers and ended the season placing three times at the Italian national level: sixth with Michele Cinotto after the third place finishes at Targa Florio and again at Quattro Regioni in a Lancia 037) tenth with Andrea Zanussi (after finishing second at the San Marino Rally in a Lancia 037). With Zanussi, Cresto came in third at Halkidikis as well that year, a European Championship qualifying race. He competed again in the same race the following year with Carlo Capone in a Lancia 037. After a long successful season and a duel with Henri Toivonen and his Porsche, the Italians eventually won the European Championship. After Maurizio Perissinot's accident, Cresto was Attilio Bettega's co-driver for two races qualifying for the World Championship. In 1985, he raced again with Zanussi for Lancia.

In 1986 Cresto was Henri Toivonen's co-driver in a Lancia Delta S4. After a strong start to the season, including a win in the Rally Monte Carlo, Toivonen and Cresto were the favourites for the World Championship title. Racing into the Tour de Corse with a 1:42 lead, they crashed during the eighteenth stage of the rally. Their Lancia went off the side of the road, plunged down a ravine and landed on its roof. The aluminum fuel tank underneath the driver's seat was ruptured by the trees and exploded. Toivonen and Cresto had no time to get out and both men burned to death in their seats. The accident had no witnesses close enough to clearly see the accident. Services for Cresto were held in Villastellone, Italy, on May 4, 1986. The accident led to the FIA's decision to ban Group B cars after the 1986 season.

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Talk:List of Iranian Americans

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Why did you delete all that information??

That list was the only of its kind on the web.

Those people are directors and chairs and deans.

I dont think it's right to alphabetize at the cost of deleting that stuff.--Zereshk 00:33, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * No, I just remove them temporarily to add them in ABC order. I will add them again today.--Sina 07:54 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Proposal for list inclusion
I have made the following proposal regarding the criteria for inclusion for these lists. If this is something that you have comments or ideas about, please provide feedback. Thanks. Wikibofh 9 July 2005 19:14 (UTC)

Are These People Iranians Americans?
90% or more of these people were born outside of Iran. Many of them have only one Iranian parent. Are we looking at people's grandparents like the Nazis in the 1930's? Perhaps, I am wrong, but this is just a quick observation. --John on 9 October 2005

 * Anyone with an Iranian parent has automatic Iranian citizenship, so it's not out of the question. BTW first you talk about only one parent, then you say only grandparents, and comparing it to Nazis. Someone is going to Godwin this talk page. Siyavash 16:55, 9 October 2005 (UTC)

 * I don't even think this issue should be raised since there are many people listed under "Italian-American", "Irish-American", ect. who are 2nd, 3rd generation Americans. The list of the Iranians here is lacking big time, there are many famous Iranian Americans.  I'll try to make more appropriate additions Bahador  —Preceding comment was added at 18:13, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

 * Important we don't include on this list any red links (or people without a Wikipedia articles). Jooojay (talk) 00:29, 2 October 2019 (UTC)

Please explain your motivation
I would like to ask those who generated this list. 1. why there should be a list of iranian american? 2. what is so special about being iranian american? 3. are you trying to attract attension of americans? 4. if you, the creator of this list and supporters of it, do not see the point, yourself tell me your first reaction to a page called list of iranians. isn't it rediculous? if not, where are you going to store a list of 70million people?

I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOUR ANSWERS. Darw on 21 Feb 2006

 * If you go back to the list of Iranian Americans (the article part of this discussion page, you will see that it is not just Iranian Americans that get a page, but Irish Americans, Indian Americans, etc. I went to those discussion pages, but I did not find your comment on other pages. Why is this page any different? Why are you singling this page out when there are many lists of Americans by diversity that you've yet to comment on?

Looking forward to reading your explanation. Siyavash 18:46, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

IS THERE A LIST FOR RACIST-AMERICANS WHERE RACIALLY MOTIVATED PEOPLE COULD HAVE THEIR NAMES LISTED REGARDLESS OF THEIR ETHNIC OR NATIONAL ORIGIN?

 * Siavash, I agree with you. You know, these Americans are so quick to jump at us (or even tazer us like we saw in UCLA) whenever we bring up our culture and our pride in our ancient civilization and history. I think they are jealous that they only have 200 years of history on a land that wasn't theres to begin with, Oops im being rude now ;) Haramzadi 06:27, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

 * Actually you kind of are, yeah. Ford MF 04:35, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

Ethnicity lists discussion
Please see discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (policy) for current discussion of a potential policy to apply to all ethnicity lists on Wikipedia, including this one. JackO'Lantern 20:39, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

Addition Made
Reza Abdoh —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bahador (talk • contribs) 18:08, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Removals
I removed Trita Parsi from the Law/Legal category since he is not a lawyer nor does he have a legal education. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.52.96.16 (talk) 23:44, 13 January 2010 (UTC)

 * I don't think having a law degree is what defines legal work, esp. since in many places in the U.S. you only need to pass the bar exam. Jooojay (talk) 21:24, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

 * I removed Lily Mazahery from the Law/Legal category. There's no indication that she is a notable Iranian-American.  Her background is highly suspect and she's made a number of bold claims that to date have been unverified.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.52.96.18 (talk) 16:01, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

 * Having a Wikipedia article with RS sources should be enough to decide "notability". Jooojay (talk) 20:48, 27 April 2021 (UTC)

Kamran Khavarani
please add Mr.Khavarani to this list ,he is now living in L.A and is creator of a new artistic movement called Abstract Romanticism.

Billy Ray Cyrus
Is 3rd generation American, but of Iranian Ancestry. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.239.139.173 (talk) 11:21, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
 * Currently there is no evidence that this person has Iranian ancestors, if you have a reliable source then we can discuss it here. Jooojay (talk) 21:24, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

Yu Darvish
I might be missing something, but the only connection Darvish seems to have to America is that he plays baseball here (wonderfully, I might add). His father is Iranian, but he is a Japanese national. --172.162.2.83 (talk) 03:28, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
 * I imagine that this is now an untrue statement since someone has extensively added information to the Yu Darvish article and includes his early life and education in the U.S. Jooojay (talk) 21:27, 16 October 2019 (UTC)

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Per WP:REDBIO, WP:RED no red links in the notable people list please. Each person must have a Wikipedia article first. Jooojay (talk) 06:10, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

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Basketball 87.241.189.164 (talk) 22:50, 10 May 2022 (UTC)

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Pfaff v. Wells Electronics, Inc.

Pfaff v. Wells Electronics, Inc., 525 U.S. 55 (1998), was a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States that determined what constituted being "on sale" for the purposes of barring the grant of a patent for an invention.

Background of the case
In November 1980, the plaintiff, engineer Wayne Pfaff, was asked by Texas Instruments to design for them a socket for the mounting and removal of semiconductor chip carriers. Pfaff proceeded to draw designs for the socket, which he showed to Texas Instruments in March 1981. On April 8, 1981, Texas Instruments provided a written purchase order to buy over 30,000 of the sockets. The sockets were not actually built, however, until July 1981.

Pfaff applied for a patent for the socket on April 19, 1982, and received the patent in 1985. He then proceeded to sue the defendant, Wells Electronics, Inc., for patent infringement when Wells made a socket that was too similar to Pfaff's design. Wells, in defense, claimed that Pfaff's patent was invalid. In support of this assertion, Wells pointed to 35 U.S.C. § 102(b), which states that an inventor shall not be entitled to a patent if:
 * ...the invention was patented or described in a printed publication in this or a foreign country or in public use or on sale in this country, more than one year prior to the date of the application for patent in the US.

Wells asserted that by accepting the purchase order from Texas Instruments, Pfaff had placed the invention "on sale" one year and one week before applying for the patent, which would make it invalid under § 102(b). Pfaff countered that the invention had not been reduced to practice, meaning that a working model had not yet been made. Pfaff's contention was that the invention was not complete at the time of the purchase order, and therefore could not have been "on sale" yet.

The District Court for the Northern District of Texas upheld Pfaff's patent, but the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reversed, finding the patent invalid because the invention was "substantially complete" at the time of the sale. Pfaff then appealed to the Supreme Court.

Issue
The Supreme Court noted that lower courts had offered different opinions on the question of whether an invention could be "on sale" within the meaning of the statute before it had actually reduced to practice. The Court therefore had to set a standard for when an invention would be considered complete enough to be "on sale".

The court's decision
The Court, in a unanimous opinion written by Justice John Paul Stevens, noted that an invention can actually be patented before it is reduced to practice, because the "invention" occurs when the inventor has a fully formed idea of how the invention will be made. Pfaff could have patented his idea based on the drawings that he had shown to Texas Instruments, because they were complete enough to allow another engineer to build the invention from the designs.

Furthermore, if an invention could be sold before it was reduced to practice without any consequence, then inventors would be able to evade the time limits placed on the patent itself by simply delaying the construction of a working model. This would, in turn, delay new inventions from reaching the public, undermining the primary goal of the patent system, "[t]o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts..."

Based on these considerations, the Court concluded that the "on sale" bar applies if two conditions are met:
 * 1. That the product was the subject of a commercial offer for sale; and
 * 2. That the product could have been patented at that time, either because it had in fact been reduced to practice, or because it was sufficiently well described for another person skilled in the art to build the invention from the designs.

Because these conditions were satisfied, the Court held that Pfaff's patent was invalid.

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Journey to the West (1986 TV series)

Journey to the West is a Chinese television series adapted from the classic 16th-century novel of the same title. The first 11 episodes of the series were first broadcast on CCTV in China on 1 October 1986. The series became an instant classic in China and was praised for being one of the most original and faithful interpretations. The series was budgeted for 30 episodes, due to budgetairy reasons, five of the planned episodes were left out. The screenplay for these left out episodes was rewritten and lengthened. Also some more portions of the original novel were covered in the second season, which was released in 1999. CCTV released the entire series online on YouTube as an edited version (all episodes are 45 minutes long) with English subtitles. The second season starts in the edited version with the capture of the Tang Monk (footage of the original episode 3). After that the edited version follows the original order. However, episode 5 Meeting immortals at Peacock Platform of the second season was deleted and parts of the content were integrated into the fourth episode Obstacle at Lion Camel Ridge making a total of 40 episodes instead of the original 41.

Season 1
Season 1 has 25 episodes and covers 74 chapters of the novel. The first trial episode was aired on 1 October 1986, and filming lasted until 1987. It was aired as a whole series in 1988. With the limited but relatively new special effects, the series received a viewership rate of 89.4% in 1987. The series has been rebroadcast every year since then. As of 2012, the series has been repeated on Chinese local channels more than 2,000 times.

Season 2
Due to budgetary issues, five of the initially planned episodes were not filmed:
 * 1) Dangerous crossing at Heaven Reaching River (险渡通天河), covering chapters 47-49
 * 2) Capturing the Azure Bull Demon (收伏青牛怪), covering chapters 50-52
 * 3) The real and fake Monkey King (真假美猴王), covering chapters 56-58
 * 4) Obstacle at Lion Camel Ridge (遇阻狮驼岭), covering chapters 74-77
 * 5) Rescuing children in a city (救难小儿城), covering chapters 78-79

For season 2, the screenplay of these five episodes was rewritten into 16 episodes (covers another 25 chapters of the novel). Filming began in 1998 and finished in 1999. It was broadcast on CCTV in 2000. The internal story of the second season has the four protagonists relating to Emperor Taizong of Tang via flashbacks of their travels and adventures, (namely those episodes not depicted in the first series) upon their return to China. Season 2 differs from the format of the first season, as most episodes end on a cliffhanger, with conflicts being resolved and new ones encountered in the middle of episodes in a more fluid timeline.

Cast

 * Some of the actors played multiple roles while certain roles were played by multiple actors

Main cast

 * Liu Xiao Ling Tong as Sun Wukong
 * Wang Yue (episodes 6, 9, 10), Xu Shaohua (episodes 4, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 14-16), Chi Chongrui (episodes 13, 17-25) as Tang Sanzang
 * Ma Dehua as Zhu Bajie
 * Yan Huaili as Sha Wujing

Other cast

 * Listed in order of appearance

 * Guan Yunjie as Puti Zhushi
 * Xiang Han as Horse Monkey
 * Ma Dehua as White Haired Monkey
 * Xiong Ni as Monkey
 * Zhang Yushan as Jade Emperor
 * Yan Huaili as Thousand Li Eye
 * Xiang Han as Wind Following Ear
 * Li Yonggui as Old shopkeeper
 * Li Lianyi as Official
 * Wang Zhongxin as Taibai Jinxing
 * Wang Yuli as Li Jing
 * Xiang Han as Fishmonger
 * Yan Huaili as Old man
 * Bai Chunxiang as Servant boy
 * Li Xijing as Dragon King of the East Sea
 * Liu Jiang as King Yama
 * Wang Zhishan as Wuqu Xingjun
 * Lin Zhiqian as Demon King of Chaos
 * Han Shanxu as Single Horned Devil King
 * Yan Huaili, Wang Futang as Bull Demon King
 * Qian Yongkang as Juling Shen
 * Yan Huaili as Official
 * Zhang Jidie as Official
 * Xiang Han and Li Jiancheng as Black and White Guards of Impermanence
 * Ai Jinmei, Yang Bin as Nezha
 * Zheng Rong, Yan Huaili as Taishang Laojun
 * Lin Zhiqian as Erlang Shen
 * Zhu Bingqian as Taiyi Zhenren
 * Zuo Dabin as Guanyin
 * Guo Wei, Ren Fengpo as Lingji Bodhisattva
 * Zhao Quan, Ye Yimeng as Manjusri
 * Chi Zhaopeng, Guo Wei, Jin Genxu as Samantabhadra
 * An Yunwu, Li Runsheng and Yang Yuzhang as Fu Lu Shou
 * Wu Guiling as Immortal Zhenyuan
 * Kong Rui, Xiang Han as Earth Deity
 * Wang Xueqin, Zhang Yanyan as Seventh Fairy
 * Zhang Jingdi as Immortal Crane
 * Wan Fuxiang as Queen Mother of the West
 * Han Shanxu, Jin Genxu as Barefoot Immortal
 * Xu Qing as Red Dress Boy
 * Xiang Han as Ananda
 * Li Jiancheng as Mahākāśyapa
 * Ma Ling as Dancing fairy
 * Zhang Zhiming as Emperor Taizong of Tang
 * Guo Jiaqing as Guanyin's incarnation
 * Xu Shaohua as Chen Guangrui
 * Ma Lan as Miss Yin
 * Han Shanxu as Liu Hong
 * Li Jiancheng as Teahouse keeper
 * Zhu Longguang as Buddha
 * Qiu Peining as Chang'e
 * Wang Bozhao as White Dragon Horse
 * Yan Huaili as Dragon King of the West Sea
 * Li Longbin, Yu Weijie as Nine Headed Bug
 * Han Shanxu as Old man
 * He Yi as Boy
 * Xu Chuan as Liu Boqin
 * Xiang Han, Ma Dehua, Yang Bin, He Yi, Li Runsheng, Li Lianyi as robbers
 * Cheng Zhi as Jinchi Elder
 * Li Yonggui as Monk Guangzhi
 * Xiang Han as Black Wind Demon
 * Lin Zhiqian as Virapaksa
 * Cheng Weibing as Lingxuzi
 * Kong Rui as Squire Gao
 * Gao Yuqian as Mrs Gao

 * Wei Huili as Squire Gao's daughter
 * Xiang Han as Gao Cai
 * Zhang Jidie as Dibao
 * Xiang Ling as Maid
 * Sun Fengqin as Lishan Laomu
 * Guo Jiaqing as Yellow Wind Demon
 * Shen Huifen as Zhenzhen
 * Yang Fengyi as Ai'ai
 * He Jing as Lianlian
 * Ren Fengpo as Lingji Bodhisattva
 * Yang Bin as Muzha
 * Xu Ye as Fairy
 * Zhang Jidie as Tiger Vanguard
 * Wang Yang as Qingfeng
 * Cai Lin as Mingyue
 * Yang Qingxia as White Bone Demoness
 * Huang Fei as Old man
 * Liu Huimin as Old woman
 * Yang Jun as Village woman
 * Li Hongchang as Black Fox Demon
 * Li Lianyi as Skeleton Demon
 * Ren Fengpo as Yellow Robe Demon
 * Gu Lan as King of Baoxiang
 * Liu Bing as Baihuaxiu
 * Han Fengxia, Li Hongchang as Black Fox Demon
 * Yang Shubiao as Yellow Robe Demon (transformation)
 * Ren Wenjian as White Dragon Horse (transformation)
 * Yang Shubiao as Wood Wolf of Legs
 * Che Xiaotong as Golden Horned King
 * Guo Shouyang as Silver Horned King
 * Liu Xiao Ling Tong as Priest
 * Li Jiancheng as Meticulous Devil
 * Ji Fuji as Intelligent Bug
 * Liu Xiao Ling Tong as Nine Tailed Vixen
 * Ma Dehua as Mountain Deity
 * Lei Ming as King of Wuji
 * Xiang Mei as Queen of Wuji
 * Wang Haining as Crown prince of Wuji
 * Zhao Guangshan as Monk
 * Chi Chongrui as Dragon King of the well
 * Teng Teng as Servant boy
 * Dong Honglin as Evil priest
 * Li Jiancheng as Eunuch
 * Zhao Xinpei as Red Boy
 * Xiang Han and Xu Tinglei as Earth deities
 * Li Jiancheng, Li Anjian, Zhang Ziyue as Mountain deities
 * Xu Shaohua as Dragon King
 * Zhao Yuxiu as King of Chechi
 * Zhao Lirong as Queen of Chechi
 * Liu Qin as Tiger Power Immortal
 * Zeng Ge as Deer Power Immortal
 * Cai Yuge as Antelope Power Immortal
 * Jin Genxu and Xu Tinglei as Priests
 * Liu Xiao Ling Tong as Yunshui Quanzhen
 * Zhu Lin as Ruler of Women's Kingdom
 * Yang Guixiang as Royal Adviser of Women's Kingdom
 * Li Yunjuan as Pipa Lady
 * Wang Delin as Immortal Ruyi
 * Xu Guanchun as Sun Rooster of Hairy Head
 * Wang Fengxia as Princess Iron Fan
 * Zheng Yiping as Jade Faced Vixen
 * Ji You as Earth deity
 * Zhang Qing as Princess of Jisai

 * Zhao Baocai as Dragon King
 * Jin Gang as King of Jisai
 * Li Fengchun as Old monk
 * Li Zhiyi as Old abbot
 * Tian Jiangshui, Bai Jiancai and Gao Jifeng as Monks
 * Li Jiancheng as Benbo'erba
 * Gao Baozhong as Babo'erben
 * Ma Dehua, Yu Hong as Ambassadors
 * Cao Duo as Yellow Brows Great King
 * Wang Linghua as Almond Immortal (Apricot Fairy)
 * Tie Niu as Maitreya
 * Cao Duo as Guzhi Gong
 * Ye Bing as Jinjie Shiba Gong
 * Li Tiefeng as Fuyun Sou
 * Ye Yimeng as Lingkongzi
 * Tie Niu as Kangua Laoren
 * Li Jinshui as Ghost messenger
 * Gong Ming as King of Zhuzi
 * Zhan Pingping as Lady of Jinsheng Palace
 * Wang Ren as Tai Sui Equivalent
 * Zhou Caili as Youlai Youqu
 * Shi Chongren as Old eunuch
 * Han Tao as Immortal Ziyang
 * Ni Fuquan as Physician
 * Li Jianliang as Minister
 * Yao Jia as First Spider Demoness
 * Liu Qian as Second Spider Demoness
 * Du Xianghui as Third Spider Demoness
 * Yang Su as Fourth Spider Demoness
 * Azhi Shima as Fifth Spider Demoness
 * Lü Haiyu as Sixth Spider Demoness
 * Liu Lin as Seventh Spider Demoness
 * Li Hongchang as Hundred Eyed Demon Lord
 * Yang Qimin as Pilanpo Bodhisattva
 * Li Enqi as Lishan Laomu incarnation
 * Yang Bin as Priest
 * Chang Qing as Albino rat
 * Wang Jie and Li Zhixiong as Monks
 * Wu Tang as Supervisor
 * Yu Xuemei and Jiang Xiuhua as Demon girls
 * Nige Mutu as King of Yuhua
 * Zhang Yang as First Prince of Yuhua
 * Ye Yimeng as Second Prince of Yuhua
 * Yang Bin as Third Prince of Yuhua
 * Gong Ming as Wang Xiao'er
 * Qu Yinglian as Wang Xiao'er's wife
 * Chen Qingping as Zhao's mother
 * Yang Yumin as Queen
 * Xiang Han as Tawny Lion Demon
 * Li Jiancheng as Nine Headed Lion
 * Sha Jie as Diaozhuan Guguai
 * He Yi as Guguai Diaozhuan
 * Zhu Bingqian as Taiyi Zhenren
 * Xiang Han and Li Hongchang as Merchants
 * Li Lingyu as Jade Rabbit
 * Wang Tong as King of India
 * Ren Fengpo as Old monk
 * Yu Hong as Queen of India
 * Wang Xizhong as Golden Peak Immortal
 * Li Hongchang as Boatman
 * He Chengfu as Long Brows Arhat
 * Li Yang as Dapeng Zunzhe

Main cast

 * Liu Xiao Ling Tong as Sun Wukong
 * Xu Shaohua, Chi Chongrui as Tang Sanzang
 * Cui Jingfu as Zhu Bajie
 * Liu Dagang as Sha Wujing

Other cast

 * Listed in order of appearance

 * Zhang Zhiming as Emperor Taizong of Tang
 * Zheng Rong as Taishang Laojun
 * Liu Jiang as King Yama
 * Zhu Longguang as Buddha
 * Wang Zhongxin as Taibai Jinxing
 * Zhang Wankun as Chen Qing
 * Zhang Wenhui as Chen Qing's wife
 * Li Qingyou as Housekeeper
 * Liu Lifeng as Xiaoguanbao
 * Hou Lei as Yipengjin
 * Wang Limin as King of Spiritual Touch
 * Ji Yu as Fish Woman
 * Lan Faqing as Great White Turtle
 * Zhang Fen as Muzha
 * Zhang Ziqiang as Old man
 * Zhang Xueqin as Old man's wife
 * Guan Xiaoyu as Old man's son
 * Yang Xingyi as Old man's daughter-in-law
 * Jiang Baohong as Chief robber
 * Liu Xiao Ling Tong as Six-Eared Macaque
 * Jiang Hongbao as Horse Monkey
 * Wang Weiguo as Jade Emperor
 * Cui Jingfu, Wu Zhiyong as Dragon King of the East Sea
 * Liu Dagang as Diting
 * Jia Shitou as Azure Lion King
 * Wang Weiguo as Yellow Toothed Elephant
 * Guo Jun as Golden Winged Great Peng
 * Jin Qiaoqiao as peacock princess
 * Lan Jiafu as Xiaozhuanfeng
 * Zhu Dan as Xique

 * Liu Dagang as Dragon King of the North Sea
 * An Yaping as Water Dragon
 * Yang Jing as Princess of Black River
 * Cao Rong as Crown Prince Mo'ang
 * Li Hongtao as Dragon King of Jing River
 * Zhou Zheng as Yuan Shoucheng
 * Chi Guodong as Dragon King of the West Sea
 * Li Hongchang as Fisherman
 * Ge Zhixing as Deity of Black River
 * Ni Fuquan as Earth Deity of Mount Golden Bull
 * Li Hongtao as Rhinoceros King
 * Chen Zhongsheng as Li Jing
 * Zhu Qin, Wang Wei as Nezha
 * Ding Jian as Fire Star
 * Ma Yongzeng as Water Star
 * Wang Hui, Zhang Wei, Zhao Shunzeng and Sun Jifeng as Four Heavenly Masters
 * Wen Xiang as Servant boy
 * Tan Feiling as Marquis of Fengxian
 * Ni Fuquan as Earth Deity of Fengxian
 * Jin Liuyi as Old man from Fengxian
 * Di Yuerong as Wife of Marquis of Fengxian
 * Wu Suying as Village woman from Fengxian
 * Xue Yongliang as Man from Fengxian
 * Sha Lin as Wind Deity
 * Zhang Dandan as Lightning Deity
 * Yang Zichun as Old man Li
 * Xue Chunyu as Old man Li's wife
 * Zhang Pingsheng as Old man Li's son
 * Bo Hong as Red Scaled Python
 * Zheng Ying as Woodcutter's wife

 * Wu Zhiyong as Leopard Demon
 * Lan Faqing as Wolf Demon
 * Yu Wanling as Old woman
 * Li Hongchang as Official from the Kingdom of Biqiu
 * Wang Ying as King of Biqiu
 * Yu Meng as Vixen spirit
 * Liu Jin as Deer Spirit
 * Qiu Yongli as Evil priest
 * Xu Jiansheng as Guard from the Kingdom of Biqiu
 * Cai Guangqing as Squire Kou
 * Wang Meihong as Second Madam
 * Wang Xia as Zhu Liya
 * Shu Xin as Wosi
 * Chen Jian as Housekeeper
 * Zhang Kunwu as Hui'er
 * Huang Zongluo as Official of Tongtai
 * Li Xiaobo as Civil official
 * Zhong Changde as Abbot of Jinping
 * Chen Dazhong as King of Cold Protection
 * Zhao Yi as King of Heat Protection
 * Cai Yuge as King of Dust Protection
 * Liu Dan as Dragon Girl of the West Sea
 * Lan Faqing as Wood Dragon of Horn
 * Jiang Baohong as Wood Insect of Dipper
 * Xu Jiansheng as Wood Wolf of Legs
 * Li Canwen as Wood Dog of Well

Soundtrack
The music for the series was mainly composed by Xu Jingqing (许镜清). It use of the combination of traditional Chinese instruments with Yamaha DX7 synthesizer and electronic drum, its genre is a mixture between Chinese traditional music, Electronic music, and Orchestral song, making them one of the first electronic music compositions aired on the Mainland China mainstream media. The use of electric music that was perceived as "Western" and "modern" in the "traditional Chinese story" was the issue of debate at the time.

Wu Cheng'en and Journey to the West
The original lead actors of Journey to the West (1986) — Liu Xiao Ling Tong, Chi Chongrui and Ma Dehua — reprised their roles in Wu Cheng'en and Journey to the West, a 2010 television series about Wu Cheng'en and his inspiration for writing the novel Journey to the West. Sha Wujing, however, was portrayed by Liu Dagang because Yan Huaili, who played the character in 1986, died in April 2009.

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USS Fearless (MSO-442)

USS Fearless (AM/MSO-442) was an Aggressive-class minesweeper. She was the third United States Navy ship to carry the name.

Fearless was launched on 17 July 1953 by Higgins, Inc., New Orleans, Louisiana; sponsored by Mrs. A. J. Higgins, Jr.; and commissioned on 22 September 1954. Authorized as AM-442; she was reclassified as an Ocean Minesweeper, MSO-442, 7 February 1955.

Service history
With Charleston, South Carolina as her home port, Fearless operated through 1960 on training operations, experiments and tests, and in exercises along the coast and in the Caribbean. Every other year from 1955 she sailed to the Mediterranean for duty with the 6th Fleet, joining in North Atlantic Treaty Organisation exercises and visiting European ports. In the spring of 1956, she conducted joint exercises with ships of the Royal Canadian Navy, and through that summer experimented with controllable pitch propellers and mine-countermeasures equipment at Charleston and Port Everglades, Florida.

In August 1987 Fearless was towed by USS Grapple (ARS-53) to the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Earnest Will, arriving in mid-September. Full scale mine countermeasures operations began in November of that year. Fearless remained in theatre at least into 1988, clearing mines in the Persian Gulf. Her eligible crew earned the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal for her service.

Fearless operated out of Charleston, South Carolina during her entire career. She decommissioned on 23 October 1990, and was struck five days later. She was sold by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service for scrapping, 1 December 1992 to Seawitch Salvage, Baltimore, Maryland for $6,000.

Fearless received four Navy "E" Ribbons, one Meritorious Unit Commendation, one Navy Unit Commendation and two Secretary of the Navy Letter of Commendations during her career.

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Kyle Lohse

Kyle Matthew Lohse (born October 4, 1978) is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins, Cincinnati Reds, Philadelphia Phillies, St. Louis Cardinals, Milwaukee Brewers, and Texas Rangers.

As of 2014, he was one of only three active non-Hispanic Native American players in MLB, with the others being Joba Chamberlain of the Cleveland Indians and Jacoby Ellsbury of the New York Yankees.

On June 26, 2015, Lohse became the 14th pitcher to defeat all 30 MLB teams. In 2014 he pitched a complete 9 inning shutout for the Brewers, a feat not duplicated by a Brewer pitcher until Adrian Houser on September 4 2021.

Early life
Kyle was raised in Ord Bend, California, and attended nearby Hamilton Union High School in Hamilton City, California. Lohse followed in the footsteps of his parents, Larry and Leslie, who were both star athletes when they attended the same high school in the 1970s. He played basketball, baseball, and football. While playing baseball, he was an All-Conference pick in all four years of high school. He was also on the Honor Roll and took several advanced classes. He graduated in 1996.

Lohse's mother has Native American and Filipino ancestry and his father has German ancestry. Growing up, Lohse did not think of himself as anything other than "American" because the Nomlaki tribe did not reestablish itself until 1996.

After high school, Lohse attended Butte College.

Minnesota Twins
The Chicago Cubs selected Lohse in the 29th round of the 1996 Major League Baseball draft. In 1999, the Cubs traded Lohse with Jason Ryan to the Minnesota Twins for Rick Aguilera and Scott Downs. Lohse made his MLB debut with the Twins on June 22, 2001.

In 2002, Lohse's first full year as a starter, he posted a 13–8 record with an ERA of 4.23. He followed that with success in 2003, starting 33 games and going 14–11 with a 4.61 ERA. In 2004, he did not fare as well, going 9–13 with a 5.34 ERA. Lohse has been to one ALCS, with the Twins in 2002.

On May 17, 2006, he was sent down to AAA Rochester, and the Twins called up replacement pitcher Boof Bonser. On June 9, Matt Guerrier broke his thumb and Lohse was recalled.

Cincinnati Reds
On July 31, 2006, Lohse was traded to the Cincinnati Reds for minor-league pitcher Zach Ward. Lohse made his first start for the Reds on August 17, 2006.

Philadelphia Phillies
On July 30, 2007, Lohse was traded to the Philadelphia Phillies for minor-league pitcher Matt Maloney. After his departure from the Reds, Lohse's performance dropped off slightly, and in 11 starts with the Phillies, Lohse went 3–0, receiving a large number of no-decisions due to late offensive rallies by the Phillies lineup. His ERA for the Phillies swelled to 4.72, and he averaged fewer than six innings pitched per start.

St. Louis Cardinals
On March 14, 2008, Lohse signed a one-year deal with the St. Louis Cardinals worth $4.25 million.

Lohse was one of the biggest surprises for the Cardinals in the first half of the 2008 season, going 11–2 with a 3.39 ERA. He was later suspended for five games for throwing at Reds' pitcher Edinson Vólquez. Lohse appealed the ruling and pitched as he awaited a decision on his appeal, but Lohse eventually dropped his appeal and served his suspension in full.

Lohse and the Cardinals agreed to a four-year, $41-million contract extension on September 29, 2008.

On April 17, 2010, in a 20-inning game against the New York Mets, Lohse entered the game playing left field in the 18th inning while shortstop Felipe López pitched.

On August 28, 2011, Lohse won his 100th game as a pitcher when the Cardinals defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 7–4. That year – during which the Cardinals won the World Series – he led the Cardinals with 14 wins and a 3.39 ERA. In the Cardinals’ come from behind win in Game Six of the 2011 World Series against the Texas Rangers, Lohse pinch hit in the 10th inning and delivered a key sacrifice bunt, moving the eventual tying run into scoring position. The Cardinals won the game in the 11th inning, forcing a Game Seven, on infielder David Freese’s lead-off home run.

Lohse was named the Cardinals' Opening Day starting pitcher in 2012. In that game, Lohse did not give up a hit until the seventh inning, when José Reyes hit a single to right field. In total, Lohse threw $7 1/3$ innings, giving up two hits while allowing one run and striking out three. Thus, Lohse became the first pitcher to earn a win at the new Marlins Park.

His 16-3 won-lost record for 2012 led the National League in winning percentage, at .842, among eligible pitchers. He became a free agent following the 2012 season.

Milwaukee Brewers
On March 25, 2013, it was confirmed that Kyle Lohse signed a three-year, $33 million contract with the Milwaukee Brewers. Despite moving to one of the most hitter-friendly parks in Miller Park to pitch with Milwaukee, Lohse continued to pitch well. In his first season with the Brewers, Lohse went 11-10 with a 3.35 ERA over the course of 198 innings pitched.

In 2014 Lohse pitched to a 3.54 ERA over the course of 31 starts and 198 and third innings pitched for the Milwaukee Brewers and struck out 141 batters, only two short of his career high. He became a free agent following the 2015 season.

Texas Rangers
On May 13, 2016, Lohse signed a minor league deal with the Texas Rangers worth $2 million, with another $1.5 million in performance bonuses. After two rough starts in which he allowed more than 10 runs, he was designated for assignment. Lohse refused his outright assignment and became a free agent on July 31.

Kansas City Royals
After sitting out the 2017 season, Lohse signed a minor league contract with the Kansas City Royals on March 31, 2018. On May 10, 2018, Lohse announced his retirement from baseball via his Instagram.

Pitching style
Lohse's arsenal features a two-seam fastball at 90-91 mph, a biting slider in the mid 80s, a downward-fading changeup in the low 80s, and a 12-6 curveball in the low-to-mid 70s. His slider is thrown harder than normal for a pitcher with his velocity and has a very tight break at the end, making it something of a hybrid between a cutter and a slider. At the beginning of his career, and until he began pitching with the Cardinals, his primary fastball was a normal four-seam fastball in the low 90s. After signing with St. Louis and under the tutelage of Dave Duncan, Lohse started using a two-seamer, a major reason for his development. Developing his two-seamer and refining his off-speed pitches, Lohse has become known as a very good command pitcher capable of inducing many ground-ball outs without walking many batters. He is not a major strikeout pitcher, but in 2012 set a new career high in strikeouts with 143 in 211 innings, giving him 6.1 strikeouts per nine innings, with only 1.6 walks.

During his career in Minnesota, Lohse dedicated himself to working with Cars for Courage, an organization that serves disabled children through sports programs and activities.

Personal life
Lohse and his ex-wife, Gabrielle, have a son and a daughter together.

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Wilfred Curtis

Air Marshal Wilfred Austin Curtis, OC, CB, CBE, DSC & Bar, ED, CD (21 August 1893 – 14 August 1977) was a Canadian airman and Chief of the Air Staff of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) from 1947 until 1953.

Early years
He was born in Havelock, Ontario, having received his early education in Toronto.

First World War
He then joined the infantry of the Canadian Expeditionary Force in 1915; he graduated on 11 August 1916 and joining the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) as a fighter pilot.

In 1917 Curtis was promoted to captain and awarded the Distinguished Service Cross (United Kingdom) (DSC) for his skill and courage. The award citation read:

"Flt. Sub-Lieut. (act. Flt. Lieut.) Wilfred Austin Curtis, R.N.A.S. For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He has on many occasions destroyed and driven out of control enemy machines. On 21 October 1917, in a combined attack with two other pilots, he sent down an enemy machine in flames, and twenty minutes later he followed another enemy scout from 10,000 to 2,000 feet, and sent it down in a vertical dive, which ended in a crash."

In 1918, Curtis was awarded a Bar to the DSC.

He proved his worth as a highly successful fighter pilot by shooting down 13 enemy aircraft confirmed; his final tally was 4 enemy planes destroyed, 3 of which were shared victories; also, he drove down 9 enemy planes out of control, one of which was shared.

He transferred to the Royal Air Force (RAF) in April 1918.

Interwar years
On his return to Canada he maintained his interest in military as well as civil aviation. During the late 1920s and early 1930s, he served as an officer in the Toronto Scottish Regiment Reserve. For some time there were no available non-permanent military aviation positions. However, when the opportunity presented itself in 1933, he became involved in the formation of No. 10 (Army Co-operation) Squadron. Curtis became Officer Commanding in 1935 and initiated experimental air operations in mid-northern Ontario.

Second World War
Wing Commander Curtis was called to active duty in the RCAF on 1 September 1939 and became deputy air officer commanding, RCAF Overseas Headquarters in London in 1941. He became a member of the Air Council in 1944.

Post-war years
The singular success that marks his air force career in wartime decisions was rewarded by his appointment in 1947 as Chief of the Air Staff. In this appointment he guided the RCAF through the difficult stages of reorganization which followed the war and through the expansion of Canada's participation in the Korean War and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). He received French, American and Italian decorations in recognition of his contributions. He remained Chief of the Air Staff until his retirement in January 1953.

On his retirement from the RCAF he accepted the position of Vice-Chairman of Hawker Siddeley Canada, where he continued to have a substantial impact on the development of aviation in Canada. He always devoted time to other aviation concerns: was President of the RCAF Association for two years until he was appointed Grand President of that organization, founded and organized the Canadian National Air Show in 1939 and served as chairman of its scholarship fund and was appointed the Honorary Wing Commander of the No. 400 (City of Toronto) Squadron.

Other interests included the chairmanship of the committee that formed York University, of which he was elected Chancellor in 1960. He served as Chairman of the Canadian Opera Company and President of the Canadian Inter American Association.

The Air Marshal had a great interest in the development of the Canadian aircraft industry. During his term of office, he continually and successfully directed his efforts to secure money for experimental work on and production of a jet trainer and twin engine fighters, the CF-100 Canuck and the CF-105 Arrow suitable for interception operations in the northern Canadian climate. Early in the Cold War, he convinced the cabinet that the RCAF should make a major contribution to NATO. This resulted in an air division of twelve F-86 Sabre squadrons being dispatched to Europe. This major contribution of 300 front line aircraft was the principal air defense force on that continent during the 1950s.

If there could be named a "Father of Canada's Post War Air Force", Wilfred Curtis would be the outstanding nominee. Through his drive, interpersonal skills, sense of humor, compassionate understanding of aviation and effective leadership, the RCAF became a well-knit, effective and efficient fighting force. He materially contributed to the glorious saga of Canada's military and industrial aviation accomplishments.

Awards and decorations

 * Companion, Order of the Bath (C.B.) (1946)
 * Commander, Order of the British Empire (C.B.E.) (1943)
 * Distinguished Service Cross with bar (1917 & 1918)
 * Efficiency Decoration (1945)
 * Canadian Forces' Decoration (C.D.)
 * Order of Canada (O.C.) (1967)
 * Canada's Aviation Hall of Fame (1973)
 * Honorary Doctor of Laws from York University (LL.D.) (1968)

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Windermere branch line

The Windermere branch line, also called the Lakes line, is a branch railway line which runs from Oxenholme on the West Coast Main Line to Windermere via Kendal in the county of Cumbria, North West England.

The line has a loading gauge of W6.

History
The 10 mile (16 km) long line, which opened on 20 April 1847, was originally built as the Kendal and Windermere Railway and at its southern end connected into the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway. In 1859 it became part of the London and North Western Railway, then the London, Midland and Scottish Railway at the 1923 Grouping. Upon nationalisation in 1948, it was managed by the London Midland Region of British Railways. On privatisation in 1994, it was initially operated by First North Western, then First TransPennine Express from 2005 and since April 2016 by Northern.

Originally built as a double-track main line, with through links to destinations including Morecambe Euston Road, Preston, Manchester Exchange and London Euston, it was reduced to a single line branch in May 1973 when the West Coast Main Line (which it joins at Oxenholme) was re-signalled & electrified. Freight traffic to the last active depot at Kendal had previously ceased in 1972.

There are no passing loops or sidings on the route, which is operated under "One Train Working with Train Staff" regulations, with only one train allowed on the line at any time. Entry to and exit from the branch is controlled by the signalling centre at Carlisle and before a service can proceed beyond the branch platform at Oxenholme, the driver must collect the train staff from a cabinet on the platform, which is electrically released by the Carlisle signaller. Once the train has made its journey to the terminus and back again, the staff must be returned to the cabinet before the train can either leave for the south or make another return trip along the single line.

Due to the lack of a run round loop at the Windermere terminus all services need to be operated by Diesel Multiple Units, or locomotive-hauled trains operating in top and tail mode. In BR days, the service was operated as a self-contained shuttle and passengers were required to change at Oxenholme but since privatisation, some through trains to Lancaster, Preston and Manchester Airport have been operated.

Train services
Passenger services are operated by Northern using Class 195s and more recently by Class 153 and Class 156 diesel multiple units. Previously Class 175 "Coradias" operated the services provided by First North Western and TPE until 2006. Class 158s can also occasionally be seen on the route as a replacement for booked units.

Services over the line are operated by the new Northern franchise, having taken over from First TransPennine Express in April 2016, however, four service a day continues past Oxenholme to Manchester Airport.

On 4 June 2018 Arriva Rail North announced that all trains on the line would be suspended and replaced by a bus service to allow for driver training. The service suspension was initially to be for 2 weeks until 18 June 2018 but this was later extended until 2 July 2018. However, on 17 June 2018 charter train operator West Coast Railways introduced its own services on the line, which attracted substantially more passengers than the regular Arriva Rail North services. The reason for this may be that no fares were charged to passengers. The £5,500 per day reported cost (total approx £80,000 over two weeks of operation) is said to have been paid for by the Department for Transport.

Electrification proposal
In August 2013, the Department for Transport announced that the line was to be electrified as part of the wider scheme to wire many other routes in the North West of England such as the Manchester–Preston line. The £16 million scheme would have allowed through trains from Lancaster and points south to use electric stock (such as the Class 350 "Desiro" units) rather than the current DMUs and also improve capacity on the route to allow new direct services to London Euston. Funding was approved in 2014 and electrification was planned to be undertaken in CP6, which covers 2019–2024.

However, on 20 July 2017 it was announced that electrification of the Windermere branch had been cancelled. As an alternative, Northern originally planned to utilise multiple units on the route; these are  electric multiple units converted to function as bi-mode units, which would operate under electric power between Manchester and Oxenholme and then under diesel power on the Windermere branch. However, it was later announced that new Class 331 'Civity' units would be installed with batteries with trials starting from 2021. Platform 3 at Oxenholme Lake District was electrified in 2018 despite the cancelled branch line electrification.

The line in fiction
The branch line appears in fiction in Arthur Ransome's children's novel Pigeon Post; with two of the children releasing a pigeon at Strickland Junction before they go up the little branch line that led into the hills (and to the Lake).

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Tilsit cheese

Tilsit cheese or Tilsiter cheese is a pale yellow semihard smear-ripened cheese, created in the mid-19th century by Prussian-Swiss settlers, the Westphal family, from the Emmental valley. The original buildings from the cheese plant still exist in Sovetsk, Russia, formerly Tilsit, on the Neman River (also known as the Memel), in the former German province of East Prussia.

The same ingredients to make the cheese were not available as in their home country, and the cheese became colonized by different moulds, yeasts, and bacteria in the humid climate. The result was a cheese that was more intense and full-flavoured. The settlers named the cheese after Tilsit, the Prussian town where they had settled.

Tilsiter has a medium-firm texture with irregular holes or cracks. Commercially produced Tilsiter is made from pasteurized cow's milk, ranges from 30 to 60% milk fat, and has a dark yellow rind. After the main part of its production, the cheese needs to rest for an additional 2 months. Often flavoured with caraway seed and peppercorns, Tilsiter is a complement to hearty brown/rye breads and dark beers. It is a common table cheese, yet versatile. Tilsit can be eaten cubed in salads, melted in sauces, on potatoes, in flans, or on burgers.

Using the reimported recipe, Tilsiter has been manufactured in Switzerland since 1893 and in Germany since 1920, where it is known as the protected brand Holsteiner Tilsiter. Swiss Tilsiter is mainly produced in three varieties. A mild version (green label) is made from pasteurised milk, a more strongly flavoured one from fresh, unpasteurized milk (red label), and the yellow-labeled "Rahm-Tilsiter" is produced from pasteurized milk with added cream.

After World War II, when Tilsit and the rest of northern East Prussia became the Soviet Kaliningrad Oblast district, Tilsiter-style cheeses were produced in Switzerland and Germany.

Tilsit cheese is now also made in Austria, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine, and is marketed in the USA.

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Quick bread

Quick bread is any bread leavened with a chemical leavening agent rather than a biological one like yeast or sourdough starter. An advantage of quick breads is their ability to be prepared quickly and reliably, without requiring the time-consuming skilled labor and the climate control needed for traditional yeast breads.

Quick breads include many cakes, brownies and cookies—as well as banana bread, pumpkin bread, beer bread, biscuits, cornbread, muffins, pancakes, scones, and soda bread.

History
The term "quick bread" most likely originated in the United States at the end of the eighteenth century. However, the similar bannock was well known in Ireland, Scotland and northern England centuries earlier. Before the creation of quick bread, baked goods were leavened either with yeast or by mixing dough with eggs. "Fast bread" is an alternate name.

The discovery or rediscovery of chemical leavening agents and their widespread military, commercial, and home use in the United States dates back to 1846 with the introduction of commercial baking soda in New York, by Church and Dwight of "Arm & Hammer" fame. This development was extended in 1856 by the introduction of commercial baking powder in Massachusetts, although perhaps the best known form of baking powder is "Calumet", first introduced in Hammond, Indiana and West Hammond, Illinois (later Calumet City, Illinois) in 1889. Both forms of food-grade chemical leaveners are still being produced under their original names, although not within the same corporate structure.

During the American Civil War (1861–1865), the demand for portable and quickly-made food was high, while skilled labor for traditional breadmaking was scarce. This encouraged the adoption of bread which was rapidly made and leavened with baking soda, instead of yeast. The shortage of chemical leaveners in the American South during the Civil War contributed to a food crisis there.

As the Industrial Revolution accelerated, the marketing of mass-produced prepackaged foods was eased by the use of chemical leaveners, which could produce consistent products regardless of variations in source ingredients, time of year, geographical location, weather conditions, and many other factors that could cause problems with environmentally sensitive, temperamental yeast formulations. These factors were traded off against the loss of traditional yeast flavor, nutrition, and texture.

Leavening process
Preparing a quick bread generally involves two mixing containers. One contains all dry ingredients (including chemical leavening agents or agent) and one contains all wet ingredients (possibly including liquid ingredients that are slightly acidic in order to initiate the leavening process). In some variations, the dry ingredients are in a bowl and the wet ingredients are heated sauces in a saucepan off-heat and cooled.

During the chemical leavening process, agents (one or more food-grade chemicals—usually a weak acid and a weak base) are added into the dough during mixing. These agents undergo a chemical reaction to produce carbon dioxide, which increases the baked good's volume and produces a porous structure and lighter texture. Yeast breads often take hours to rise, and the resulting baked good's texture can vary greatly based on external factors such as temperature and humidity. By contrast, breads made with chemical leavening agents are relatively uniform, reliable, and quick. Usually, the resulting baked good is softer and lighter than a traditional yeast bread.

Chemical leavening agents include a weak base, such as baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) plus a weak acid, such as cream of tartar, lemon juice, or cultured buttermilk, to create an acid–base reaction that releases carbon dioxide. (Quick bread leavened specifically with baking soda is often called "soda bread".) Baking powder contains both an acid and a base in dry powdered form, and simply needs a liquid medium in which to react. Other alternative leavening agents are egg whites mechanically beaten to form stiff peaks, as in the case of many waffle recipes, or steam, in the case of cream puffs. Nevertheless, in a commercial process, designated chemical leavening acids and bases are used to make gas production consistent and controlled. Examples of acid—base combinations include:

Almost all quick breads have the same basic ingredients: flour, leavening, eggs, fat (butter, margarine, shortening, or oil), and liquid such as milk. Ingredients beyond these basic constituents are added for variations in flavor and texture. The type of bread produced varies based predominantly on the method of mixing, the major flavoring, and the ratio of liquid in the batter. Some batters are thin enough to pour, and others thick enough to mold into lumps.

Mixing methods
There are three basic methods for making quick breads, which may combine the "rise" of the chemical leavener with advantageous "lift" from other ingredients:

 * The stirring method (also known as the quick-bread method, blending method, or muffin method) is used for pancakes, muffins, corn bread, dumplings, and fritters. It calls for measurement of dry and wet ingredients separately, then quickly mixing the two. Often the wet ingredients include beaten eggs, which have trapped air that helps the product to rise. In these recipes, the fats are liquid, such as cooking oil. Usually mixing is done using a tool with a wide head such as a spoon or spatula to prevent the dough from becoming over-beaten, which would break down the egg's lift.
 * The creaming method is frequently used for cake batters. The butter and sugar are "creamed", or beaten together until smooth and fluffy. Eggs and liquid flavoring are mixed in, and finally dry and liquid ingredients are added in. The creaming method combines rise gained from air bubbles in the creamed butter with the rise from the chemical leaveners. Gentle folding in of the final ingredients avoids destroying these air pockets.
 * The shortening method, also known as the biscuit method, is used for biscuits and sometimes scones. This method cuts solid fat (whether lard, butter, or vegetable shortening) into flour and other dry ingredients using a food processor, pastry blender, or two hand-held forks. The layering from this process gives rise and adds flakiness as the folds of fat melt during baking. This technique is said to produce "shortened" cakes and breads, regardless of whether or not the chosen fat is vegetable shortening.

Dough consistency
Quick breads also vary widely in the consistency of their dough or batter. There are four main types of quick bread batter:
 * Pour batters, such as pancake batter, have a liquid-to-dry-ratio of about 1:1 and so pours in a steady stream. Also called a "low-ratio" baked good.
 * Drop batters, such as cornbread and muffin batters, have a liquid-to-dry ratio of about 1:2.
 * Soft doughs, such as many chocolate chip cookie doughs, have a liquid-to-dry ratio of about 1:3. Soft doughs stick significantly to work surfaces.
 * Stiff doughs, such as pie crust and sugar cookie doughs, have a liquid-to-dry ratio of about 1:8. Stiff doughs are easy to work in that they only minimally stick to work surfaces, including tools and hands. Also called "high-ratio" baked good.

The above are volumetric ratios and are not based on baker's percentages or weights.

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2000 Prince Edward Island general election

The 2000 Prince Edward Island general election was held on April 17, 2000, to elect the 27 members of the Legislative Assembly of Prince Edward Island.

Premier Pat Binns' Progressive Conservative Party was elected to its second straight majority, winning every seat but one. This was an increase of eight seats from the previous election.

The Liberal Party, led by rookie leader Wayne Carew, only won one seat, and Carew lost his own by a substantial margin.

The New Democratic Party, led by Herb Dickieson, increased their popular vote from the previous election, but lost their only seat (Dickieson's own).

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 * Hector MacLeod
 * Hector MacLeod
 * Donna M Lewis
 * Donna M Lewis
 * Hector MacLeod
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 * Wilbur MacDonald
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 * Wilbur MacDonald
 * Wilbur MacDonald
 * Ernie Mutch
 * Ernie Mutch
 * Mark Hansen
 * Mark Hansen
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 * Andy Dibling
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 * Bob MacMillan
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 * Bob MacMillan
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 * Richard Brown
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 * Lesley Sprague
 * Lesley Sprague
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 * Jeff Lantz
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 * Jeff Lantz
 * Jeff Lantz
 * Ian "Tex" MacDonald
 * Ian "Tex" MacDonald
 * Ken Bingham
 * Ken Bingham
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 * Leo Broderick
 * Leo Broderick
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 * Norman MacPhee
 * Cecil Godfrey
 * Cecil Godfrey
 * Tony Reddin
 * Tony Reddin
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 * bgcolor="whitesmoke"|Evangeline-Miscouche
 * Wilfred Arsenault
 * bgcolor="whitesmoke"|Evangeline-Miscouche
 * Wilfred Arsenault
 * Wilfred Arsenault
 * Robert Maddix
 * Robert Maddix
 * Leona Arsenault-Belaire
 * Leona Arsenault-Belaire
 * Robert Maddix
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 * Michael Currie
 * bgcolor="whitesmoke"|Georgetown-Baldwin's Road
 * Michael Currie
 * Michael Currie
 * Danny Campbell
 * Danny Campbell
 * Bruno Peripoli
 * Bruno Peripoli
 * Michael Currie
 * bgcolor="whitesmoke"|Glen Stewart-Bellevue Cove
 * Pat Mella
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 * Pat Mella
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 * Viola Evans-Murley
 * Viola Evans-Murley
 * Jane MacNeil
 * Jane MacNeil
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 * Mitch Murphy
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 * Greg Campbell
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 * Clarence Fraser
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 * Larry Stanly Creed
 * Larry Stanly Creed
 * Glen MacDonald
 * Glen MacDonald
 * Jim Bagnall
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 * Kevin MacAdam
 * bgcolor="whitesmoke"|Morell-Fortune Bay
 * Kevin MacAdam
 * Kevin MacAdam
 * Danny Larkin
 * Danny Larkin
 * Brian Curley
 * Brian Curley
 * Kevin MacAdam
 * bgcolor="whitesmoke"|Murray River-Gaspereaux
 * Pat Binns
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 * Pat Binns
 * Pat Binns
 * Andy Clarey
 * Andy Clarey
 * Deborah Kelly Hawkes
 * Deborah Kelly Hawkes
 * Pat Binns
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 * Donna Lank
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 * Irene Dawson
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 * Edith Perry
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Category:Books by Jeffrey Archer

Non-fiction books written by the prolific British author, Jeffrey Archer, Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare.

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User:Xmoogle

Hi! I'm Marianne, I've been playing with wikipedia for ages but took me a while to actually create an account. I'm... all geeky, especially with Unix and retroey computereyness, and lasers!

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Paul Debevec

Paul Ernest Debevec is a researcher in computer graphics at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies. He is best known for his work in finding, capturing and synthesizing the bidirectional scattering distribution function utilizing the light stages his research team constructed to find and capture the reflectance field over the human face, high-dynamic-range imaging and image-based modeling and rendering.

Debevec received his undergraduate degree in mathematics and engineering from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D. in computer science from University of California, Berkeley in 1996; his thesis research was in photogrammetry, or the recovery of the 3D shape of an object from a collection of still photographs taken from various angles. In 1997 he and a team of students produced The Campanile Movie (1997), a virtual flyby of UC Berkeley's Campanile tower. Debevec's more recent research has included methods for recording real-world illumination for use in computer graphics; a number of novel inventions for recording ambient and incident light have resulted from the work of Debevec and his team, including the light stage, of which five or more versions have been constructed, each an evolutionary improvement over the previous.

Techniques based on Debevec's work have been used in several major motion pictures, including The Matrix (1999), The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions (2003) Spider-Man 2 (2004), King Kong (2005), Superman Returns (2006), Spider-Man 3 (2007), and Avatar (2009).

In addition Debevec and his team produced several short films that have premiered at SIGGRAPH's annual Electronic Theater, including  Fiat Lux (1999) and The Parthenon (2004).

Debevec, along with Tim Hawkins, John Monos and Mark Sagar, was awarded a 2010 Scientific and Engineering Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the design and engineering of the Light Stage capture devices and the image-based facial rendering system developed for character relighting in motion pictures.

In 2002, he was named to the MIT Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under the age of 35.

Some of his later work he presented to the SIGGRAPH convention in 2008 and 2013, Digital Emily in association with Image Metrics and Digital Ira in association with Activision respectively. Digital Emily shown in 2008 was a pre-computed simulation meanwhile Digital Ira ran in real-time in 2013 and is fairly realistic looking even in real-time animation.

In June 2016, Debevec joined Google's Virtual Reality group.

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Elf Bowling

Elf Bowling is a bowling video game developed by NStorm and released in 1998 for Windows Computers. In the game the player, as Santa Claus, attempts to knock down elves who are arranged like bowling pins. A later release of the game, by Ignition Entertainment, was released on the Nintendo handheld consoles Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance, and received overwhelmingly negative reviews from critics. In Elf Bowling, the elves of Santa's Workshop are on strike due to overwork from the huge demand for Christmas toys, so Santa Claus has decided to whip them into shape by using them as bowling pins.

During the game, the elves say phrases such as "Is that all the balls you got, Santa?" when the player misses their first spare opportunity or "Gutter ball!" in a silly-sounding voice when a ball is rolled into the gutter. Other potential distractions for the user are a Reindeer that walks up along the bowling lane that can be "hit" with the bowling ball if the arrow is positioned to the far left, and a frog wearing a Santa hat hopping back and forth across the player's field of vision (resembling Kalvin Kroaker from Frogapult, also made by NStorm). If the player hits the frog with the bowling ball, its body is hauled away from the screen by a bird from Frogapult. A white rabbit also jumps and defecates across the bowling lane. Unlike the reindeer and the frog, it is not possible to hit the rabbit. The elves moon Santa (asking "who's your daddy" as they do it). Both during the game and after a game finishes, the elves do a dance, shouting "Elf elf, baby!" in reference to Vanilla Ice's song "Ice Ice Baby". The elves can also randomly move out of the way of the ball, and one elf can be decapitated by the pinsetter.

History
The game was originally created as promotional marketing content by Dan Ferguson and Mike Bielinski, both co-founders of the game studio NVision Design. The game became an internet sensation in 1999 when people originally thought it was a computer virus. The game was an EXE file and was easily distributed as an attachment to emails. (In 1999, EXE files could be attached to emails as there was no protective software to remove an EXE at the time.) Direct Marketing News did an article on the original developers - Direct Marketing News Article. According to Media Metrix, among the 54 million people playing PC games in the month of December 2000, Elf Bowling was the game to hit the top 10 with 7.6 million players that was not bundled with Windows. Local Fox News Affiliate KDFW Dallas Fort Worth did an interview with Dan Ferguson and Mike Bileinski after they sold their company to Vectrix Business Solutions. Vectrix Business Solutions acquired Nvision 1999 and subsequently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Elf Bowling and Frogapult were sold by Vectrix Business Solutions with the approval of the Bankruptcy Court on October 31, 2001, to Commotion Interactive, Inc. (Elf Bowling 3 was recently released by the Dallas firm NStorm, a subsidiary of Commotion Interactive). Matthew Lichtenwalter, CEO of NStorm and Commotion Interactive, has created the series since.

Sequel
In the sequel to Elf Bowling, the elves return, as they attempt to go on an island vacation with old Kringle. Dingle Kringle (a failure as a used ice salesman) is Santa's elder brother, whom Mrs. Claus takes a shine to. The brothers make a double-or-nothing wager in a game of shuffleboard, of which on random occasions, a Moai can fall on an elf. The winner gets the title of "Father Christmas" while the loser loses his job. The elves are used as pucks.

Gameplay and scoring
The player grabs the thong bathing suit that the elf is wearing, then snaps it to propel the elf forward. There are 100, 200, and 300 point scoring zones and a player can score 400 points if their elf slides all the way to the edge of the board without falling into the ocean; elves falling into the ocean get eaten by sharks or crushed by a falling Moai. There is also the possibility of an elf not advancing far enough to score, which happens if a player does not get enough power behind the snap. Only elves that are on the board after Santa and Dingle have taken their turns count towards the score, and it is possible for an elf to be knocked off the board by another elf (although it is also possible for the elves to be moved into higher scoring zones after contact). One elf per round is worth bonus points, indicated by a flashing bathing suit. In the first and second rounds, the bonus elf is worth double the throw, and in the third, he is worth triple the throw (meaning that the maximum number of points in these rounds that can be earned on one turn is 800 or 1200). The elf only appears once per round and appears randomly.

Bonus points can be gained by shooting the penguins and their balloons on an iceberg located to the right of the ship. The iceberg can also be shot, but doing so (in the right spot) will sink it and take it out of play.

Other Elf Bowling games
To date, there have been eight editions of the game for Microsoft Windows.

 * Elf Bowling 3 involved slinging elves in Mrs. Kringle's pink bra onto distant ice-bound targets.
 * Super Elf Bowling (Elf Bowling 4) was a 3-dimensional upgrade of the original with more complicated ball control and a wider variety of backgrounds, elf antics and elf jokes. One could also play as a variety of characters, including Santa, Dingle, and Mrs. Kringle.
 * Elf Bowling - Bocce Style (Elf Bowling 5) used the elves as bocce balls.
 * Elf Bowling 6: Air Biscuits involved bowling the elf over a mound of snow which sends the elf airborne. The elf could remain in the air by using "fart" power.
 * Elf Bowling 7: The Last Insult returns the game to its original bowling but with new wrinkles. A story mode is added, and the Elves can and will do anything to stop Santa from rolling a strike. Santa, however, has power-ups that can foil them.
 * Elf Bowling Hawaiian Vacation - Elf Bowling in exotic places.

Elf Bowling 1 & 2
The first two Elf Bowling games were released by Ignition Entertainment under the title Elf Bowling 1 & 2 for the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance. The pack was panned by critics, citing poor graphics, crude audio and controls, and no extras beyond the original freeware version. It ranks as one of the lowest scoring games at both GameSpot and Metacritic, receiving only 1.4 out of 10 at GameSpot and 12 out of 100 at Metacritic.

Film adaptation
A computer-animated film produced by based on the games was released on October 3, 2007, and was entitled Elf Bowling the Movie: The Great North Pole Elf Strike. It features the voices of the late Joe Alaskey, Rex Piano, Jill Talley, and Tom Kenny.

The film was a United States-Fiji-South Korea co-production directed by Dave Kim with Rex Piano as co-director. The musical score for the film was composed by Chris Anderson. Simi Valley, California resident David Kim was asked to direct the film while studying editing at the Academy of Art University; Kim took the offer as a way to break into the film industry, previously working as a production assistant on music videos. After finishing Elf Bowling, he got work as a production coordinator on The Simpsons Movie (2007) and The Golden Compass (2007). Produced by Filmbrokers International, Elf Bowling the Movie began production in Fiji and South Korea before moving into a Simi Valley house owned by Kim's mother, where the film's story reel was edited. Dance movements for the musical sequences were animated with motion capture, Kim himself wearing one of the Mo-cap suits. Screen Media Films, a company of Universal Studios Home Entertainment, distributed Elf Bowling the Movie.

The film was released on DVD on October 2, 2007 before being released on Amazon Prime on January 1, 2008 and Blu-ray on May 18, 2016.

The film was panned by critics for its writing, animation, directing, humor, plot, musical numbers, voice acting, characterizations, and for having little to nothing to do with the premise of the game. Due to the film's disastrous critical reception, plans for a sequel titled Elf Bowling 2: The Great Halloween Pumpkin-Heist were immediately cancelled.

The film received a parody stage adaptation in 2021 by Chapman University's sketch comedy group The Player's Society, adapted by Sasha Espinosa and directed by Delaney Tobin.

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