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Mad Catz

Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. was an American-Canadian company that provided interactive entertainment products marketed under the Mad Catz, GameShark (gaming products) and TRITTON (audio products) brands. Mad Catz also distributed video game products for third-party partners. Following a 2017 bankruptcy, Mad Catz Global Limited (a Hong Kong-based company) acquired the trademarks.

1989–2000
Mad Catz was founded in 1989. It focused on accessories such as control pads, memory cards, connection cables, headphones and other human interface devices for the PC and various video game consoles. Mad Catz also published console game titles, such as Real World Golf 1 and 2, MC Groovz Dance Craze and Pump It Up.

Mad Catz Interactive, Inc. was incorporated under the Canada Business Corporations Act on 25 August 1993. The company was acquired in 2000 by the Toronto-based GTR Group, Inc. for a purchase cost of US$33.3 million, along with Games Trader (which collected and sold previously played and republished games) and ZapYou.com (which focused on e-commerce solutions).

2000–2009
In 2000, Mad Catz released the MC2 Racing Wheel for the Sony PlayStation, which was awarded the Golden Award by Incite Video Gaming Magazine, and the Mario Andretti Racing Wheel, which GameSpy judged as the best peripheral of the 2000 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3). The company produced 12 licensed controllers for the launch of the Sega Dreamcast and also released Internet-related accessories such as the Panther DC and keyboard adapter.

In September 2001, GTR Group decided to capitalize on the strength of the Mad Catz brand and changed its corporate name to Mad Catz Interactive, Inc., closing its GamesTrader and ZapYou.com business units. The year 2001 saw the release of Microsoft's Xbox and Nintendo's GameCube and Game Boy Advance. Mad Catz offered products for these launches, such as the Control Pad Pro for GameCube, the Lynx Control Pad and the BeatPad (dancepad) controller for the PlayStation 2, the Game Boy FlipLight, and memory cards for the Xbox.

In January 2003, Mad Catz acquired the GameShark brand, described as "the industry leader in video game enhancement software, [enabling] players to take full advantage of the secret codes, short cuts, hints and cheats incorporated by video game publishers into their game offerings," and associated intellectual properties from InterAct for US$5 million.

In September 2007, Mad Catz acquired UK-based company Joytech for US$3.7 million. In November 2007, Mad Catz further diversified into the videogame accessory market by acquiring European-based manufacturer Saitek for US$30 million.

In 2008, Capcom commissioned Mad Catz to produce a limited number of ArcadeSticks and six-button controllers, branded as “FightSticks” and “FightPads,” to coincide with the launch of their Street Fighter IV fighting game. Due to the unanticipated demand for these products, production on these controllers was ramped up from their originally limited numbers. The FightStick remains a mainstay of the Mad Catz product line. In 2008, the FightStick's popularity spurred Mad Catz's involvement in the pro-gaming community, and Mad Catz has a strong presence at shows such as EVO, PAX, and San Diego Comic-Con. In 2009, Mad Catz released licensed controllers for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops.

2010–2017
In 2010, Mad Catz released officially licensed controllers for Rock Band 3, including a keyboard controller, a microphone controller, drum kits, and two guitar controllers (both the familiar five-button and the Fender Mustang “Pro” 102-button guitar). That same year, Mad Catz acquired TRITTON Technologies, a San Diego-based gaming audio headset firm, in May 2010 for US$1 million at closing. In June 2010, Mad Catz announced an agreement with Major League Gaming (MLG) to produce the MLG Pro Circuit Controller for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Mad Catz sponsored MLG Pro Circuit Competitions.

In 2011, Mad Catz’s Cyborg-branded R.A.T. 7 Gaming Mouse was named “Best PC Accessory of 2010” by IGN. The company returned to software distribution by publishing Jonah Lomu Rugby Challenge, Damage Inc. Pacific Squadron WWII (a World War II flight simulation game with a custom joystick), and Rock Band 3. Mad Catz acquired certain assets of V Max Simulation Corporation, which designs, constructs, integrates and operates flight simulation equipment and develops flight simulation software.

Mad Catz has continued its focus on peripherals and accessories, such as the range of R.A.T. gaming mice and TRITTON-branded gaming headsets. In January 2013, Mad Catz announced its "GameSmart" initiative, a range of products using the Bluetooth Smart stack featuring game and hardware independence, simplified setup, longer battery life and universal compatibility. Announced products include the R.A.T.M Wireless Mobile Gaming Mouse, the F.R.E.Q.M Mobile Stereo Headset, M.O.U.S.9 Wireless Mouse, and the C.T.R.L.R Mobile Gamepad. The "GameSmart" initiative is intended to introduce an industry standardization to the mobile world.

In June 2013, Mad Catz announced the M.O.J.O. Android Micro Console, described as "a supercharged smart phone with no screen that plugs into your flat screen TV to bring the living room experience to mobile gaming." M.O.J.O. is designed to interact seamlessly with Mad Catz's GameSmart controllers, mice, keyboards, headsets, and the rest of its gaming peripherals. In 2013, Mad Catz produced the Killer Instinct Arcade FightStick Tournament Edition 2, the first fighting game controller available for the Xbox One, the then-latest Microsoft gaming console, that started shipping in late November 2013.

Mad Catz helped spur interest in the burgeoning field of esports by sponsoring the inaugural ESL One at Madison Square Garden in October 2014, as well as sponsoring the Capcom Pro Tour featuring Street Fighter IV.

In April 2015, Mad Catz announced that it would co-publish Rock Band 4 along with Harmonix, in addition to making the controllers for the game. Under the terms of the agreement, Mad Catz was responsible for worldwide retail sales, promotion, and distribution for the Rock Band 4 game and its hardware bundles. Harmonix handled Rock Band 4 digital sales and content. Rock Band 4 was launched on 6 October 2015.

In August 2015, Mad Catz announced that it will work with Cloud Imperium Games to create licensed simulation products for its space simulation game Star Citizen. These products, produced under Mad Catz's Saitek brand, were first unveiled at Gamescom 2015.

On 9 February 2016, Mad Catz announced that it would lay off 37 percent of its workforce and stated that "Rock Band sell-through was lower than originally forecast resulting in higher inventory balances as well as lower margins due to increased promotional activity with retailers." This followed the resignations of company president and CEO Darren Richardson, senior VP of business affairs Whitney Peterson, and company chairman Thomas Brown the day prior.

On 15 September 2016, Logitech acquired Saitek, Mad Catz's simulation brand specializing in computer joysticks for $13 million.

In March 2017, the New York Stock Exchange reported to the company that it was in the stages of delisting the company from the Exchange due to "abnormally low" stock value, which Mad Catz did not plan to appeal.

Bankruptcy
Mad Catz ceased operations on 30 March 2017, and filed a voluntary petition for relief under Chapter 7 of U.S. Bankruptcy code to initiate an orderly liquidation of its assets.

Return
On 4 January 2018, Mad Catz Global Limited (a new company headquartered in Kowloon, Hong Kong ), with new ownership of previous Mad Catz trademarks, announced the return of the Mad Catz brand and the launch of a new line of products at CES 2018. Mad Catz Global Limited has continued the brand's development of gaming peripherals such as mice, keyboards, headphones, and controllers. In 2024, Mad Catz announced they will be entering the game publishing business with Yatagarasu Enter the Eastward.

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Talk:KNOW-FM

Just a note that I've occasionally seen references to "KSJN 90.1" while researching stuff. This is probably a typo, but I just thought I'd note it since the station may have changed frequencies at some point (for instance, it may have moved up the dial in order to not interfere with KSJR 90.1 in the St. Cloud area upon powering up to 100kW). If anyone has information to corroborate that or not, feel free to let me know. —User:Mulad (talk) 02:48, Apr 23, 2005 (UTC)

Does anyone know if this station supports the Radio Data System? -dfrankow 19:30, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

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Melinda Dillon

Melinda Ruth Dillon (October 13, 1939 – January 9, 2023) was an American actress. She received a 1963 Tony Award nomination for her Broadway debut in the original production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles as Jillian Guiler in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) and Teresa Perrone in Absence of Malice (1981). She is well known for her role as Mother Parker in the holiday classic A Christmas Story (1983). Her other film roles include Bound for Glory (1976), Slap Shot (1977), F.I.S.T. (1978), The Muppet Movie (1979), Harry and the Hendersons (1987), Captain America (1990), The Prince of Tides (1991), To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, How to Make an American Quilt (both 1995), Magnolia (1999), for which she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award, and Reign Over Me (2007).

Early life
Dillon was born as Melinda Ruth Clardy on October 13, 1939, in Hope, Arkansas, but raised in Cullman, Alabama. After spending four years stationed on a base in Germany, Dillon attended Hyde Park High School and the Goodman School of Drama at the Art Institute of Chicago (now at DePaul University) in Chicago.

Career
Though best known for her supporting performances in films, Dillon began as an improvisational comedian and stage actress. Recalling her performance as Sonya in a 1961 student production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, Alan Schneider wrote:"What distinguished and made the whole attempt worthwhile for me was casting the role of Sonya with a young actress named Linda Dillon, who was a senior acting student at Goodman as well as a hanger-on with a Second City troupe that included two young performers named Barbara Harris and Alan Arkin. During our tryouts, John Reich, then the Goodman Theatre's artistic director, had seriously tried to discourage me from using Linda. He admitted her talent but warned me that she was highly volatile and completely unpredictable as an actress. He had found another actress whom he found much more suitable for Sonya. I insisted on using Linda, no matter the consequences. I was fascinated by the combination of her fragility and sensuality, intrigued with the unconventional way in which she was able to make a line seem utterly spontaneous, and impressed with her emotional range and richness. During our four weeks of rehearsal [...], I wound up alternately adoring and hating Linda. She always did too much and yet not enough. She was never the same twice in a given scene, even when she had found something wonderful last time. She was always wanting to quit the cast or leave school or kill herself. And yet, at the same time, I felt she was extraordinary, the most talented young actress I'd ever worked with, the potential peer of Geraldine Page and perhaps even Kim Stanley. I was sure she'd be a big star one day, and I wanted to be with her when that happened."

Dillon's first major role was as Honey in the original 1962 Broadway production of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, for which she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play, and she also appeared in You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running and Paul Sill's Story Theatre.

In 1959, she acted in The Cry of Jazz, an influential short film dealing with jazz music and Black culture. Dillon's first feature film was The April Fools in 1969. She also worked in television, notably in a guest-starring role in 1969 on an episode of the hit TV series Bonanza titled "A Lawman's Lot Is Not a Happy One" (Season 11). She co-starred with David Carradine in the 1976 Woody Guthrie biopic Bound for Glory and was nominated in the Best Female Acting Debut category of the Golden Globe for her role as Memphis Sue.

The following year she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for the role of a mother whose child is abducted by aliens in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. That same year, she made an uncredited cameo in The Muppet Movie and had a role in the comedy Slap Shot with Paul Newman. Four years later, Dillon was again nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance as a suicidal teacher in Absence of Malice in 1981, working again with Newman.

Dillon was perhaps best known for her role as the mother of Ralphie and Randy in Bob Clark's 1983 movie A Christmas Story. The film was based on a series of short stories and novels written by Jean Shepherd about young Ralphie Parker (played by Peter Billingsley) and his quest for a Red Ryder BB gun from Santa Claus. She was replaced by Julie Hagerty in the 2022 direct sequel A Christmas Story Christmas.

Four years later, Dillon co-starred with John Lithgow in the Bigfoot comedy Harry and the Hendersons. She continued to be active in stage and film throughout the 1990s, taking roles in the superhero film Captain America, the Barbra Streisand drama The Prince of Tides, the low-budget Lou Diamond Phillips thriller Sioux City, the comedy To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar, and the drama How to Make an American Quilt.

In 1999, she appeared in Magnolia, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, as Rose Gator, the wife of terminally ill television game-show host Jimmy Gator (Philip Baker Hall). In 2005, she guest-starred in the episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit titled "Blood". Dillon's last major acting role was in the 2007 film Reign Over Me.

Personal life and death
Dillon married actor Richard Libertini, with whom she had a son, in 1963. They divorced in 1978.

Dillon was a Methodist. She was a staffer on Democrat Eugene McCarthy's 1968 presidential campaign.

Dillon died on January 9, 2023, at the age of 83. She was survived by her son..

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Neoteric

The Neoterikoi (Ancient Greek: νεωτερικοί; Latin: poetae novi, "new poets") or Neoterics were a series of avant-garde Latin poets who wrote in the 1st century BCE. Neoteric poets deliberately turned away from classical Homeric epic poetry. Rather than focusing on the feats of ancient heroes and gods, they propagated a new style of poetry through stories that operated on a smaller scale in regard to themes and setting.

Although the poems of the Neoterics may seem to address superficial subjects, many scholars view their work as subtle and accomplished works of art. Neoteric poetry has frequently been compared to the Modernist movement of the late 19th through the 20th century, as well as the Imagist movement.

Neoterics
Influenced by the Greek Hellenistic poets, the Neoterics rejected traditional social and literary norms. Their poetry is characterized by tight construction, a playful use of genre, punning, and complex allusions. The most significant surviving Neoteric works are those of Catullus. His poetry exemplifies the elegant vocabulary, meter, and sound – all of which the Neoterics sought – while balancing those elements with the equally important allusive characteristic of the Neoteric style.

Latin poets normally classified as neoterics are Catullus and his fellow poets, such as Helvius Cinna, Publius Valerius Cato, Marcus Furius Bibaculus, Quintus Cornificius, among others. Some Neoteric stylistic features can also be seen in the works of Vergil, who was a generation younger than the poetae novi. The Neoterics were occasionally the subject of scorn from older and more traditionally minded Romans, such as Cicero.

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Windows Media DRM

Windows Media DRM or WMDRM, is a Digital Rights Management service for the Windows Media platform. It is designed to provide delivery of audio or video content over an IP network to a PC or other playback device in such a way that the distributor can control how that content is used.

WMDRM includes the following components:
 * Windows Media Rights Manager (WMRM) SDK for packaging content and issuing licenses
 * Windows Media Format SDK (WMF SDK) for building Windows applications which support DRM and the Windows Media format
 * Windows Media DRM for Portable Devices (WMDRM-PD) for supporting offline playback on portable devices (Janus)
 * Windows Media DRM for Network Devices (WMDRM-ND) for streaming protected content to devices attached to a home network (Cardea)

Windows Media DRM was replaced in Windows 10 Anniversary Update in favor of Microsoft PlayReady.

How it works
In May 2007 Microsoft published the network protocol behind its license acquisition mechanism. According to the specification, the client software obtains a 7 byte plain-text content key Kcontent from the license server. The server encrypts the key before transferring it to the client with a globally predefined 160-bit ECC key, ECC1. The server also sends a content key ID, unencrypted. The client then uses the Kcontent as an RC4 key to decrypt the licensed media stream.

As an anti-spoofing measure, additional fields such as playback rights and a random number are encrypted with three more predefined ECC key pairs either by the client or server software:
 * client software ECC key pair KC,
 * client machine ECC key pair KM,
 * server software ECC key pair KS.

An analysis of version 2 of the DRM scheme in Windows Media Audio revealed that it was using a combination of elliptic curve cryptography key exchange, the DES block cipher, a custom block cipher dubbed MultiSwap (for MACs only), the RC4 stream cipher, and the SHA-1 hashing function.

Windows Media DRM is designed to be renewable, that is, it is designed on the assumption that it will be cracked and must be constantly updated by Microsoft. The result is that while the scheme has been cracked several times, it has usually not remained cracked for long.

Version 1 was released in April 1999 and supported basic business rules such as expiration dates. Version 2 was released in January 2003 and is also known as version 7.x and 9, to keep in sync with the equivalent versions of Windows Media Player. Version 3, better known as DRM v10, was released in 2004. Earlier versions of the system have cracks available, meaning content restricted with these versions can have the protections stripped. Version 10 was cracked in early 2005, but a software update was shortly pushed which sealed the relevant hole.

Generally, these sorts of cracks have all worked in the same way to a certain extent. Rather than break the encryption itself, which is infeasible, they hook or interfere with the "black box" component as it runs to dump out the content keys or the unencrypted content from memory.

Interoperability
Content delivered with WMDRM encryption is not universally accessible. Microsoft Windows supports playback of content protected with WMDRM encryption, and the format has become popular with consumer electronics manufacturers, many of whom have licensed the WMDRM decode component for devices like television sets, set-top boxes and Blu-ray players.

The open network protocol for digital rights management, [MS-DRM] from the MCPP collection, stipulates that software developers have a right to implement the protocol outside the Microsoft's development tools and environment.

Removal
Tools have been created to strip files of Windows Media DRM, enabling them to be played on non-Janus platforms. These tools typically were developed with one specific Individualized Blackbox Component (IBX) version in mind and rarely work on a version they were not explicitly designed for. Microsoft in addition to upgrading the IBX whenever it was cracked, also pursued legal action against those who developed and hosted these tools, driving the development and distribution even further underground and fragmenting it. These tools can be split into three categories: decrypter, key-finder, and all-in-one (finds the keys and then decrypts). Microsoft has been more successful in squashing the development and distribution of the tools capable of key finding than those that decrypt encoding, as is apparent by the continual existence of the SourceForge project FreeMe2.

FairUse4WM
It was claimed that one particular tool, FairUse4WM (released on August 19, 2006) written by Viodentia, had the ability to strip DRM from files protected with WMDRM. This is an all-in-one tool.

Microsoft responded in several ways. First, on August 28, 2006 Microsoft released a new version of the IBX to prevent this particular tool from working. Microsoft also informed partners that they were working to further resolve this issue, given that allegedly the fix was also circumvented within days. Microsoft also issued takedown notices to Web site owners distributing FairUse4WM. Finally, on September 22, 2006, Microsoft filed a federal lawsuit against John Does 1–10 a/k/a "viodentia", hoping to identify the person or persons responsible. However, the operator of the highest-ranked mirror of the utility, James Holden, denies having received any such notices or threats. Unable to find the identity of Viodentia, in April 2007 Microsoft dropped the civil suits they had filed.

By October 16, 2006, distributors using the Windows Media DRM protection, such as Sky Anytime, were using a patched codec. On September 6, 2007, Microsoft updated IBX to version 11.0.6000.7000, in an attempt to thwart circumvention efforts by variants of the original program. And, as of November 28, 2007, DRM Removal under Windows XP on new installs or updated computers (i.e. those that already contain IBX version 11.0.6000.7000), is not possible without rolling back to Windows Media Player 10. In 2008 another patched version of FairUse4WM was released, allowing it to work with Windows Vista, and IBX versions lower than 11.0.6000.6324. In a ploy to confuse the abusers or software tools, Microsoft revisited the controversial 11.0.6000.6324 version number, releasing a new IBX version, but giving the file a deceptive older version number.

DRMDBG
DRMDBG is a key-finder, it extracts the keys by hooking an instance of Windows Media Player that it launches. There are several version available each targeting a specific version. The version released on March 3, 2009 supports IBX versions 11.0.6000.6324 and 11.0.6001.8000.

Mirakagi
Mirakagi was one of the first key-finders; it is no longer in development.

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Talk:Cacophony Society

Website?
If the Suicide Club is defunct, how can it have an official web site? ---Isaac R 02:52, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

SC does not have official Website, CS does. Jvol (talk) 21:32, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

The worst article on Wikipedia
I think this may be the one. 58.232.101.30 (talk) 03:36, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

 * I've seen worse. This one is pretty bad, though. References are desperately needed, and a lot of it should be rewritten. -kotra (talk) 03:44, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

The information is completely unclear, and it generally confuses me. I don't find it at all readable, but I don't know how to fix it. The topic is hard to research. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.195.18.184 (talk) 00:23, 11 November 2008 (UTC)

clarity will be an uphill battle, for this article. unclarity is one of the subject's hallmarks. Jvol (talk) 21:32, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Chapters
Adding to the article's badness is the pointless organization by "chapters" I challenge you to find a good article about an organization that is structured this way.

response: agreed, the article is rudimentary, badly needs more references. Organization by city is not pointless, however. Comparison to articles about organizations is of limited use. Cacophony Society is more of a movement than an organization. articles about movements do have geographical sections (example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada ) CS is an idea, and an (extremely loose) affiliation - mainly a communication network. Its philosophy is, in fact, anti-organization. Therefore, its difficult to make generalizations that fully apply to all "chapters"- the major ones have their own unique histories (one of them did/does, in fact, have some organization - a source of controversy). therefore it makes sense to have separate descriptions. (If nothing else, it encourages authors familiar with each group to take responsibility for their own descriptions - as people in Portland, LA, and SF have begun to do, so far. hopefully we'll see more from Seattle, Chicago, NYC, London, Tokyo, et cetera). Jvol (talk) 21:24, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

Not to mention that this group's members include the author of Fight Club and is inspiration for Fight Club's Project Mayhem, two important things missing from this article. As far as I could tell.

97.113.105.182 (talk) 19:11, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

This group's members also include persons not the author of Fight Club, some of whom have never read Fight Club, or could care less about Fight Club. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.127.3.249 (talk) 02:29, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

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Sawtell

Sawtell may refer to:

 * E. Rosa Sawtell (1865 - 1940), New Zealand artist
 * Henry Sawtell (1832–1913), mayor of Christchurch, New Zealand
 * Paul Sawtell
 * Sawtell, New South Wales
 * Sawtell Peak in Idaho, United States

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Category talk:Intertemporal economics

It srikes me that all three of the articles in this category should be merged. In economics there's very little difference between choice, consumption and equilibrium. They are merely different stages (ante, present, post) of the economic process. Just a thought. Psychobabble 02:55, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Innova Junior College

2005 Discussion Log
Removed the following paragraphs. I don't think they fit into the article. Can be rearranged and reinserted if possible, but some content just doesn't fit into a Wikipedia article.

 * Currently the newest junior college in Singapore, welcoming its first batch of students in January 2005, it sets to be the next trailblazer with a different education experience for students. It's slated completion was supposed to be april 2005 but that has been pushed back to december2005(hopefully) due to cash flow problems. Meanwhile, students are currently studying in a half completed campus that poses a dengue fever threat.

 * Just beside the college is where the singapore sports school is located. The building of the Singapore sports school(SSS) commenced at around the same time but the completion of the SSS finished almost a year before january 2005.

 * A competition to design the uniform was held but the uniform design is vastly different from the original winner. This has caused much displeasure among the students and even some teachers.

—165.21.83.240 02:56, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC) (This is User:Goh wz)

Hmm, it is really important to have the student councillor's names in this article ?? - 18 Sept 2005

No, it isn't important, but since this is a fact webpage (an encyclopedia), it is relevant because that is a fact. Just like you will find in some entries that a certain organisation is run by a certain person and so on. This entry is supposed to be about the facts of the college. Of course, if you all feel that such information is not good for this entry, you can remove it. But please comment on this discussion page first. Which brings me to another point. Please only update its contents with facts and not opinions. Attempting to put information such as your opinion on how the parliament is structure defeats its own purpose is considered as vandalism. Please be responsible when editting its contents. --Jedimdan 10:55, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

Unfortunatly, the student parliament is only a figurehead and nothing have been carry out since the introduction. But this give the principal the utimate say in everything, which contridict to what she has promise the students. One such example is the design of the school uniform

Lol. just by editing wiki content can be considered as vandalism >.<

University stub
I am reverting university-stub back to edu-stub as Innova JC is not a university nor a tertiary institution. It is still considered a post-secondary school. --Sengkang 05:58, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating
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WLVI

WLVI (channel 56) is a television station licensed to Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, serving the Boston area as an affiliate of The CW. It is owned by Sunbeam Television alongside WHDH (channel 7), an independent station. WLVI and WHDH share studios at Bulfinch Place (near Government Center) in downtown Boston; through a channel sharing agreement, the two stations transmit using WHDH's spectrum from the WHDH-TV tower in Newton, Massachusetts.

Channel 56 is Boston's oldest UHF station, with roots dating to 1953 and having been in continuous operation since 1966. In addition to syndicated entertainment programs, the station was notable for producing a variety of local children's and sports programs, and in the late 1960s and between 1984 and 2006, it produced local newscasts.

WTAO-TV
On December 19, 1952, the Middlesex Broadcasting Company, owners of WTAO (740 AM) and WXHR (96.9 FM), applied for a construction permit to build a new television station in Cambridge, using Boston's allocated channel 56, which would originate from studios and transmitter atop Zion Hill in Woburn. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) granted the permit on March 11, 1953. After having broadcast a test pattern since August 31, WTAO-TV debuted on September 27, 1953, as Boston's third television outlet and first on the UHF band.

An affiliate of the DuMont Television Network with occasional ABC programs, the station suffered from its position on the UHF band—as, in the days before the All-Channel Receiver Act, not all TV sets could receive UHF stations. After DuMont eliminated entertainment programming in 1955 and with most ABC output airing on WNAC-TV (channel 7), the small station became reliant on movies and limited local programming to fill its airtime. On March 30, 1956, the station quit telecasting: its last program was a ceremony marking its departure from the air, with Massachusetts lieutenant governor Sumner G. Whittier delivering an address. It was the 58th UHF to fold, with president Frank Lyman, Jr., blaming the intermixture of VHF and UHF stations in the market.

Despite its closure, WTAO-TV retained its construction permit. Harvey Radio Laboratories acquired the radio and television stations in 1959, and in 1962, Harvey loaned the station to the Archdiocese of Boston. The channel broadcast a demonstration program that November 10 of what viewers, particularly clergy, could expect from the Catholic TV Center. The archdiocese later built WIHS-TV channel 38, which began telecasting in 1964. On April 12, 1965, WTAO-TV changed its call letters to WXHR-TV.

The Kaiser and Field years
In June 1966, Harvey Radio Laboratories sold its entire Boston-area broadcasting operation to Kaiser Broadcasting. Kaiser then sold 50 percent to The Boston Globe.

Kaiser ordered $3 million in new RCA equipment to outfit a new channel 56 on an old construction permit. The new station also made a major push into sports, with away games of the Boston Celtics and Boston Bruins. The Kaiser-Globe partnership began operating the radio stations in November 1966, and under new WKBG-TV call letters, channel 56 returned to the air on December 21, 1966 —two days after the opening ceremonies, because the station was hit with last-minute technical delays due to bad weather.

Little except the transmitter site was retained from the prior WTAO-TV. The effective radiated power at launch was 282,000 watts, up from 20,000, and a second boost came months after launch. After briefly operating from temporary quarters at 1050 Commonwealth Avenue in Brookline, the Kaiser-Globe partnership purchased a former supermarket next to the newspaper in Dorchester in 1968 and built a $2.25 million studio facility on the property, which was completed in 1969. This came alongside a move of the transmitter from Woburn to Needham on a tower shared with WSBK-TV (the former WIHS-TV), further expanding the station's signal and filling in gaps to the south and west. Despite all of this investment, WKBG-TV had lost nearly $11 million from its launch to November 1970.

By 1969, WSBK-TV had secured both the Bruins and Celtics; when it had to choose one or the other, WKBG had opted for the Celtics, only for the Bruins to become resurgent on channel 38 and the Celtics to falter. It also aired telecasts of the World Hockey Association's New England Whalers from 1972 to 1974.

After having cut from 50 to 10 percent ownership in 1968, in 1974, the Globe sold its share in WKBG back to Kaiser in exchange for a $500,000 note and $270,000 in advertising credit for the station; the newspaper recorded a $289,000 loss on its broadcasting investment. The call letters were then changed to the current WLVI-TV (reflecting the Roman numeral for 56, LVI) on May 1, in part because WKBG was being confused with other local stations in ratings diaries.

Kaiser Broadcasting merged with Chicago-based Field Communications in 1973 as part of a joint venture between the companies. In 1977, Kaiser sold its interest in the stations to Field for $42.625 million, making Field the sole owner of WLVI. In the late 1970s, Lucie Salhany—later the chair of Fox and one of the creators of UPN—worked as the station's program director.

Gannett ownership
In 1983, WLVI was sold to the Gannett Company—primarily an owner of network-affiliated stations—as part of a liquidation of Field's television assets. The $47 million winning bid beat out a $44 million offer from a group of investors that included channel 56's general manager. To purchase WLVI, Gannett had to divest itself of one of its two UHF stations; it ended up selling both WPTA in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and WLKY-TV in Louisville, Kentucky, to Pulitzer Publishing. Under Gannett, WLVI continued its general entertainment format. This included a running tradition of children's programming. In the 1970s and 1980s, "Uncle Dale" Dorman (also a popular Boston radio personality) hosted the cartoons via off-screen announcements. A WLVI Kids Club was established in January 1990; by that July, it had 65,000 members across New England and as far as Long Island.

From 1985 to 1990, WLVI again became the carrier of the Boston Celtics road games after it made a five-year, $12.5 million deal with the team. Although it was one of the strongest independent stations in the country, it passed on the Fox affiliation when that network launched in 1986; Fox then purchased WXNE, which became WFXT. After a limited partnership including the Celtics acquired that station in 1989, the team's games moved to channel 25 in 1990. By 1993, with competition from WFXT and WSBK for news in the planning stages and no marquee sports programming, the station was seen as lacking an identity.

WB affiliation and Tribune Company ownership
In November 1993, Gannett sold the station to the Tribune Company's broadcasting division, which was finalized in early 1994. The day before the sale had been announced, Tribune had revealed the creation of WB Television Network, of which WLVI was announced as an affiliate; the network launched January 11, 1995. The station also served as the default WB affiliate for Providence, Rhode Island—where WLVI had been available on cable for decades—until WLWC signed on in 1997, remaining on Providence's cable system as late as 2003. WLVI's newscasts continued to air on Rhode Island cable as late as 2012.

The station briefly went off the air in August 1998, when a crane that was erecting a nearby studio-to-transmitter link (STL) tower collapsed onto WLVI's studio building. Though no one was injured and the damage was confined to the station's office spaces, the incident resulted in several hundred thousand dollars worth of damage. The station used a satellite truck for a network programming downlink and studio space at WCVB-TV (channel 5)'s facilities in Needham for its 10 p.m. newscast.

In the late 1990s, WLVI twice attempted to court rights to be the flagship station of the Boston Red Sox. A proposal was put together and initially agreed with Kevin Dunn, who headed a $67 million bid, but investors pulled out, and the Red Sox ended up spending three seasons on WABU (channel 68). Three years later, Kevin Dunn was successful in obtaining the rights through a company known as JCS on a two-year contract. However, the JCS partnership ended in financial failure, and WFXT displaced JCS and WLVI after just one year when JCS could not come up with the full 1999 rights payment.

CW affiliation and Sunbeam purchase
On January 24, 2006, CBS Corporation and Time Warner's Warner Bros. Entertainment (the division that operated The WB) announced that they would dissolve UPN and The WB, and combine UPN and The WB's most popular programs alongside new series on a newly created network, The CW, which launched September 18, 2006. The network signed 10-year affiliation agreements with 16 of Tribune's 19 WB affiliates, including WLVI, even though CBS owned WSBK. As this was going on, however, Tribune was attempting to improve its balance sheet as part of a "performance improvement plan" that called for $500 million in asset sales. On September 14, 2006, four days prior to the launch of The CW, Tribune Broadcasting announced that WLVI would be sold to Sunbeam Television, owner of then-NBC affiliate WHDH-TV, for $117.3 million. The sale was announced to employees the day some received new "Boston's CW" business cards. The sale received FCC approval in late November 2006, creating the Boston market's third television duopoly (after CBS-owned WBZ-TV and WSBK, and Hearst-owned WCVB-TV and Manchester, New Hampshire-based WMUR-TV). Tribune continued to operate WLVI until December 18, 2006, when the final Tribune-produced newscast aired.

The sale to Sunbeam took effect the following day. In buying WLVI, it acquired the license, transmitter facility, and programming rights. Except for a few technicians, the station's staff was laid off; the operations that remained were consolidated with WHDH. The Morrissey Boulevard building has remained vacant since the acquisition; in 2007, a lease on the site was described as a "tough sell". The site was later purchased by car dealer Herb Chambers (who proposed a new car dealership on the site ); in 2020 and 2021, plans were proposed for redevelopment of the site and, in future phases, adjacent parcels. As of 2022, a decaying "Boston's CW" sign graces the entrance to the property, while a dilapidated "Boston's WB" sign remains visible atop the pylon on the studio building, a site the Dorchester Reporter community newspaper described as "verging on eyesore status".

Early attempts
At WTAO-TV's inception, the station aired two fifteen-minute evening newscasts, at 6 and 10:30 pm, branded as United Press News and anchored by Bob Merhmann. These newscasts were canceled within two years.

On December 1, 1969, WKBG-TV debuted a half-hour 10 p.m. newscast, called Ten PM News; the first prime time newscast on a commercial television station in the market. The newscast was anchored by Boston news veteran Arch MacDonald, who was lured away from WBZ-TV, where he had been a news anchor for two decades. It is also notable for being the first on-screen job for Natalie Jacobson, who went on to become lead anchor at WCVB-TV in the 1970s. Despite a loyal audience and ratings that were competitive with the network affiliates, WKBG lost a considerable amount of money on the newscast and shut the news department down in November 1970. MacDonald remained at the station for another year to host a weekday morning interview program; he took a position with the then-new WCVB in 1972.

Return to late news (1984–2006)
Field Communications started a news department shortly before putting WLVI up for sale. In 1982, it began producing a 10 p.m. weeknight newscast, which initially was a pair of ten-minute locally produced inserts in what otherwise was an hour-long simulcast of CNN Headline News. Rumors of expansion were immediate upon the Gannett expansion; WLVI expanded it into a half-hour broadcast on April 23, 1984, originally on weeknights only. Debuting as The News at Ten, it established itself with top-drawer talent early on with Boston news veteran Jack Hynes as lead anchor and Bill O'Connell handling sports.

During its first three years on the air, The News at Ten was accompanied at 10:30 p.m. by the continuation of cable news service simulcasts. CNN Headline News aired in the timeslot following the local half-hour news, as it did prior to the latter's debut. In January 1986, Headline News was replaced in favor of the nationally syndicated Independent Network News, which was produced by WPIX in New York City. When WLVI's one-year contract with INN expired, the station expanded the weeknight broadcast of The News at Ten to one hour on January 26, 1987; that week, it also began broadcasting hourlong weekend newscasts.

For well over a decade, WLVI was the ratings leader in the 10 p.m. timeslot, with or without news competition in the arena. The only other Boston station producing a newscast in that time period was WGBH-TV; that effort ended in 1991. On February 1, 1993, WLVI rebranded its newscasts as The Ten O'Clock News—a less confusing title that had been used by WGBH. That fall, however, legitimate competition sprang up for The Ten O'Clock News. Fox affiliate WFXT (channel 25) debuted the New England Cable News-produced Fox 25 News at Ten on September 7, 1993, while WSBK-TV introduced the WBZ-produced WBZ News 4 on TV 38 on October 25. The latter stations aggressively marketed their fledgling newscasts, and a three-way race ensued with the stations running close in the ratings.

At the same time, Jack Hynes relegated himself to weekend anchor and commentator/substitute anchor on weekdays, paving the way for future lead anchors Jon Du Pre (1993–95, later of Fox News Channel), and Jeff Barnd (1995–2002). While Barnd developed a strong following with viewers, he also became known for his joking in-between stories and tendencies to ad-lib. One such occurrence of this behavior in September 2001, just days after the September 11 attacks, shocked local media outlets, in which Barnd jumped from his anchor chair and started dancing around the set after presenting the top story. Barnd was subsequently disciplined by station management after the incident. In 2002, the station parted ways with Barnd, seeking a return to a more serious newscast.

Another mainstay of WLVI's newscasts was chief meteorologist Mike Wankum, who first joined the station in 1993. Boston Globe columnist Jon Keller, who joined the same year, was also a fixture for over a decade as the station's political analyst. In 2005, Keller departed WLVI to become the new chief political reporter and analyst for WBZ-TV.

The only time WLVI programmed news outside its established late evening time slot was in June 2000, when it premiered Boston's WB in the Morning. Formatted as a mix of news, talk and lifestyle features, the show aired from 6 to 8 am. The program lasted two years; despite expanding to three hours during its run, it could not hold its own against the other local and national morning news programs, and it was canceled in April 2002, taking with it 17 jobs.

By 2002, when Boston's WB in the Morning ended, WLVI's 10 p.m. newscast had slipped to second in the ratings behind WFXT, which had established its own local news service in 1996. After Barnd left, Frank Mallicoat, who had joined the station in 1991 as a weekend sports anchor and would go on to host the morning show before replacing Jack Hynes as weekend anchor, was tapped to replace him on the program. However, WFXT had firmly established itself as the 10 p.m. news leader in Boston. By the time of the Sunbeam sale, due to the increasing popularity of the WFXT newscast and Tribune's closure of news departments at its stations in Philadelphia and San Diego, there were unconfirmed rumors and speculation that Tribune would shut down the WLVI news department and have the newscast outsourced to another station or even canceled altogether.

7 News at 10
When Sunbeam took over, having not assumed much of WLVI's staff, a 10 p.m. newscast from WHDH began to air on channel 56. In its first sweeps period, it attracted less than a quarter of the viewership of WFXT. However, the program endured. In 2009, the newscast was the first in Boston to have a permanent lineup of two female anchors.

In 2017, when WHDH disaffiliated from NBC, that station also began airing the 10 p.m. newscast. It had previously threatened to do so in 2009 and pre-empt The Jay Leno Show.

Notable former on-air staff

 * Michael Barkann – sportscaster
 * Mike Crispino – sportscaster
 * Bob Gamere – sports anchor/reporter
 * Natalie Jacobson – anchor and public affairs director, later at WCVB-TV
 * Uma Pemmaraju – anchor

Analog-to-digital conversion
WLVI shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 56, on June 12, 2009, the official date on which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 41.

Spectrum reallocation
On February 15, 2017, Sunbeam Television owner Ed Ansin told The Boston Globe that he had sold WLVI's broadcast frequency in the FCC's spectrum auction for an undisclosed amount he described as "a lot of money"; this was later revealed by the FCC as a market-high figure of $162.1 million. The station has continued operations on virtual channel 56 through a channel-share arrangement with sister station WHDH, which took effect on January 9, 2018.

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Whitewater State Park

Whitewater State Park is a state park of Minnesota, United States, preserving a stretch of the Whitewater River surrounded by rocky bluffs. It is located in Winona County in the southeastern blufflands area of the state. The 2700 acre park features scenic overlooks and trout fishing in the spring-fed Whitewater River and Trout Run Creek. It has about 300,000 visitors annually, and is located 7 mi north of St. Charles on Minnesota State Highway 74, which runs through the park.

Historic structures
The park's 1930s facilities are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Whitewater State Park CCC/WPA/Rustic Style Historic Resources. The 536 acre historic district includes 29 contributing properties. The district was listed for having state-level significance in the themes of architecture, entertainment/recreation, landscape architecture, and politics/government. It was nominated for its examples of New Deal federal work relief, diverse National Park Service rustic design, and landscape architecture on a challenging site.

Landforms
The park's bedrock is lower Paleozoic sedimentary rocks, with limestone and dolomite especially prevalent near the surface. It is highly dissected, and the Whitewater River has cut deep valleys into the bedrock. It is an area of karst topography.

Lifeforms
The park is located where the Rochester Plateau Subsection and the Blufflands Subsection meet, both of which are part of the Paleozoic Plateau section of the Eastern Broadleaf Forest Province.

2007 flood
The August 18 and 19, 2007 Midwest flooding caused extensive damage to the park. The park is in the Driftless Area, where soils are thin and less able to retain water; they lie atop porous rock into and through which surface waters can rapidly drain into the water table. The steep hills and bluffs and deep coulees give steep gradients to the drainage and makes streams highly erosive. As the rains far exceeded the absorption rate of the soils, flash floods rapidly overflowed the river and spread across the valley floors. About 500 campers were staying in the park at the time. Three bridges were destroyed, and campgrounds, bathhouses, a group dining hall, and water and sewer systems suffered extensive damage. Damage was in excess of four million dollars, and the park was closed to the public on August 20, 2007, and remained closed the balance of the year. On March 1, 2008 it partially reopened, but many of its amenities still had unrepaired damage.

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Bulli

Bulli may refer to:

 * Bulli, New South Wales, Australia, a suburb of Wollongong
 * Bulli FC, a semi-professional football club
 * Bulli railway station
 * Electoral district of Bulli
 * Bulli (plant), a species of tree in the family Asteraceae
 * Manoba bulli, a moth of family Nolidae
 * Pollex bulli, a moth of family Erebidae
 * Volkswagen Type 2 or Volkswagen Microbus Concept, vehicles sometimes called a Bulli
 * Bulli Bai, cyber-stalking website in India

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User:Krazykillaz

I'm Krazy. I do mainly minor edits. If you've seen my name in other places, it's probably me. I post a lot at GameSpot. I also have arachnophobia. That's all that needs to be here.

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Template talk:Ancient Egypt topics

Box size
This template is getting pretty big. Is there anything we can edit away to keep it down? Personally, I think we could loose the "Egyptologists" line; it's not really that critical to include. Noel (talk) 03:00, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * It's so difficult to decide what should be in and what should be out. It's probably far too radical a proposal, but I'd prefer something like:

 * with a link to a cracking good, well organised, and complete list of related topics.

 * Why not? Clean and simple. If too simple, how about links to only the major articles (Pharaohs etc.) and the Portal. iggle 01:32, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Failing that, yes, let's lose the Egyptologists: there's not one of those articles that does its subject justice, anyway. –Hajor 04:11, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

With my settings this template is almost impossible to read. Fornadan (t) 08:05, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

The gods bit is going to get out of control if it was filled in fully. 17:59, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Reordering and Renaming of Deities
I just went through the deities in the template and changed a bunch of things.
 * First of all, a lot of the spellings of the name were not standard: Anupu, Ausare, Aset and so on are some of the possibilities, but they are certainly not universally accepted, and many of them are long obsolete. I've kept the most often used names for most of them, using Wilkonson's Complete Gods and Goddesses as a guideline
 * The group of Gods associated with the Ogdoad was puzzling. First of all, there were many Ogdoads in Egyptian history; and the heliopolis Ogdoad had, as the name suggests, eight deities, four pairs of male/female counterparts. I've kept thouse eight in there and removed the others like Shu and Geb and so on, which were not actually in the Ogdoad. Virtually any Egyptian God was associated with it.
 * I can't say I agree with the War Gods, and especially Deified Concepts sections, but I'll leave them be for now. What's the source for all that? Why are, say, Min and Hapy considered deified concepts, and Amun and Geb and Nut are not? Seems like superficial grouping of some fringe modern author, without any concrete basis in actual Egyptian mythology. Flyboy Will 17:44, 26 December 2005 (UTC)

Categories?
Why not get rid of this rather useless list (too long and biased towards religion) and just use (at most) links to various categories, for example Egyptian deities, Egyptologists, Egyptian mythology, etc.?

The template is out of control
This template is again getting out of hand: as I have my browser configured, it consumes almost the entire window! On one hand, 6 of the 12 categories concern Egyptian Gods -- can't this be trimmed down & duplicate names (like Set (mythology) pruned? On the other, there are no people included in this template -- nor any links to lead to a list of Ancient Egyptian persons, either Egyptologists or historical figures. If no one else steps up, I'll happily whittle this beast down. -- llywrch 03:40, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Totally agree – the above idea seems a great one, have a page that has all of the data seperated, and perhaps links to the portal and project pages, and that is it. This list also means that hundreds of pages all link to hundreds of other pages, very confusing when trying to correct names, etc. Markh 13:36, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Anyone object if I just do this, nobody seems to have objected here. I will take the latest subject in the "big template" and put them into Directory of Ancient Egypt Topics, unless anyone really objects! Markh 14:38, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I have changed the template so that it can be hidden, so I guess the list can get as big as it likes now Markh 22:40, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

This is mad. One template cannot possibly contain every article about Ancient Egypt! It needs to be slimmed down radically - just taking the headings, perhaps: History, Geography, Sites, Architecture, Art, Mythology, Dynasties, Pharaohs, People, Language, Writing, Medicine, Egyptology, Chronology, Unsolved problems?

I know some of these articles do not exist, but they should all, as sub-pages of Ancient Egypt. -- ALoan (Talk) 21:21, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

Rulers of Egypt - is this a history template or a history subtemplate?
I was considering adding a "Rulers of Egypt" line to this template, but then I realised that the template is titled Ancient Egypt. So why does it have links to more recent history, including one to Modern Egypt? If anyone is interested in listing the Rulers of Egypt, see the discussion here. Carcharoth 14:57, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

What is the point?
Could someone kindly explain to me the point of this "template"?? Is it supposed to be the Index of All the Egyptian Gods Ever Worshipped in Ancient Egypt plus some other stuff that we'll tack on for good measure anyhow but really don't care about ourselves because we're into Egyptian mythology template? Why not add the name of every king and every dynasty and period as well? "Cats in Ancient Egypt" apparently is so important a topic that it must be included but "Old Kingdom" is not. There isn't even a link to Egyptian language, only articles on writing! This is not at all useful and is frankly an eye sore, not to mention a waste of space and a reader's time. I realize it can be hidden, but why bother with it at all? It is useless, unless of course you really do need a link to the very obscure god Maahes on every single page about ancient Egypt. Just my opinion, naturally. —Flembles 08:41, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Revert it if you want, but I was bold... —Flembles 09:29, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

Alternate
I found this on a page:

Topics about Ancient Egypt [ edit ]

Another possible list. -- Secisek (talk) 20:04, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

 * While I prefer the more concise template we have now, I changed the color of the current template to this color, as it looks more like the color of sand than the yellow color we had previously. I mean, when you think of Ancient Egypt, don't you think of the color of sand? A. Parrot (talk) 23:45, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * I like the current compact size of the template, but I think the new color is too yellow. Of the two, I prefer F1F1DE. Whatever color is chosen, it should be applied consistently throughout the ancient Egypt wikiproject, on the Portal and various infoboxes. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 02:54, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The color in the center (third column, second row) looks best to me, but I don't know the code for it. If that's too dark, the one to the left of it would be my second choice. A. Parrot (talk) 01:56, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
 * The lighter swatch is e9ddaf and the darker one is decd87. In addition to the topics template, there are I think two or three other templates that should use the same color, such as the Pharaoh Infobox and the Dynasty lists. Jeff Dahl (Talk • contribs) 22:58, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

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Iowa Highway 17

Iowa Highway 17 (Iowa 17) is a 103 mi north–south state highway that traverses primarily rural areas in central and north-central Iowa. Iowa 17's southern end is near Granger in Dallas County at a freeway interchange with Iowa Highway 141, and its northern terminus is at an intersection with U.S. Highway 18 at the Kossuth-Hancock county line near Wesley.

Route description
Iowa Highway 17 begins at a trumpet interchange with Iowa Highway 141 near Granger. It goes north to Madrid, where it intersects Iowa Highway 210. It continues north through Luther and then intersects U.S. Highway 30 east of Boone. It proceeds north from U.S. 30 and has a one-mile (1.6 km) overlap with Iowa Highway 175 in Stanhope. It goes north, then turns northwest to go towards Webster City, and intersects U.S. Highway 20 there. They overlap going west from Webster City, then Iowa 17 turns north to go through Eagle Grove. It continues north to Goldfield, where it intersects Iowa Highway 3. Iowa 17 and Iowa 3 overlap to the border between Wright and Humboldt Counties, then Iowa 17 turns north. It passes through Renwick and Corwith, then ends on the border separating Hancock and Kossuth Counties east of Wesley.

History
Although Iowa 17 has only been designated since 1969, most of the route has been a part of the primary highway system since the system's inception in 1919. The route was designated Primary Road No. 60 and connected Des Moines and Goldfield via Webster City. By 1930, the only paved section of what was by then called Iowa 60 was the southernmost 20 mi from Des Moines to south of Madrid. In two years, paving extended to US 30 east of Boone.

1932 saw many changes to Iowa 60. The route was extended 30 mi to the north where it ended at US 18 in Wesley, and extended southward through Des Moines and Knoxville to the Missouri state line, effectively doubling its length. The section of Iowa 60 south of Des Moines is now known as Iowa 5.

Little changed in the Iowa 60 north of Des Moines over the next twenty years. The only paving that was completed was in Wright County. By 1957, that paving extended to the northern end at US 18.

On January 1, 1969, the Iowa State Highway Commission renumbered several state highways in the state. They sought to create continuous numbers across state lines and remove unnecessary duplicate route numbers where they could. Since it crossed the state line into Missouri, the southern half of the route was renumbered Iowa 5 to match Missouri Route 5. Throughout Des Moines, Iowa 60 overlapped many other routes, so the designation was removed between the I-35/now-Iowa 5 interchange to the intersection with Iowa 141 in Granger. The section of Iowa 60 north of Granger became Iowa 17.

Since becoming Iowa 17, the route has changed little. By 1976, paving was completed and the southern end of the route was converted into an interchange with Iowa 141. By the end of the 1970s, the highway was rerouted around Webster City when US 20 was realigned onto a new freeway.

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Talk:Anthony Housefather

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This vanity page contains self-serving statements. Suggest deletion.

(I did not write the above comment). To be honest, many of the wiki pages written about individuals seem to be "vanity pages".

In this specific case, however, I question the following statement written in the article:

He is running to be elected Mayor of Cote Saint Luc in November 2005 and is favored to win the election.

I am a resident of Montreal, and as far as I know, there are at least 4 mayoral candidates for Cote Saint Luc, and there have yet to be any polls conducted. How can it be stated that he's the favorite to win?

In addition, this statement "He was a nationally ranked athlete as a student and then channeled his competitive energy towards politics." has no pertinence and is unsourced. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yellowtuesday (talk • contribs) 01:41, 27 October 2008 (UTC)

There was also a statement about this politician being controversial which is now deleted and not even visible in History. How is this possible?

I wrote the "favored to win" question. It turns out, he actually did win. Congratulations.

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Children of a Lesser Clod

"Children of a Lesser Clod" is the twentieth and penultimate episode of the twelfth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons. It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 13, 2001. In the episode, after spraining his knee during a basketball game, Homer begins taking care of the neighborhood kids to cure his boredom, prompting jealousy from Bart and Lisa, who feel that Homer is giving the kids the attention they never had.

The episode is written by current showrunner Al Jean, and directed by Mike Frank Polcino. The title is a parody of the play Children of a Lesser God and its film adaptation.

Plot
The family goes to the local YMCA to attend one-time-only free classes. Homer participates in a basketball class, but suffers a torn ACL after a dunk attempt ends with the backboard crashing down on his leg. After Homer gets surgery, he is told by Dr. Hibbert that he cannot go to work and must stay home, where he finds himself extremely bored. One evening, Ned asks Homer to watch Rod and Todd while he attends a Chris Rock concert (that he believes is a Christian rock concert). Rod and Todd enjoy having Homer take care of them, which gives Homer the idea to establish his own day care center.

Homer turns his house into the "Uncle Homer's Day Care Center". With Homer giving all his attention to other kids, Bart and Lisa feel neglected. The daycare center is wildly successful, and Homer earns a nomination for the "Good Guy Awards", but during a video tribute at the awards ceremony, Bart and Lisa splice in home movie footage of Homer at his worst (passed out drunk next to the tree on Christmas day, losing Maggie to Moe in a poker game, and chasing Bart with a medieval flail while yelling, "I'll mace you good!"). The audience becomes outraged and Homer angrily strangles Bart on stage, unwittingly exposing his worst behavior in front of everyone in the audience, who become horrified by Homer's behavior, and they decide to prevent him from watching their kids. Homer escapes from the ceremony with all the kids in a van, until he crashes into a tree, and is caught by the police.

After three mistrials, Homer apologizes to Bart and Lisa for neglecting them, and promises to care for his own children instead of the neighborhood kids. The episode ends with the family eating from the craft services table because the union workers never came to retrieve it.

Production
"Children of a Lesser Clod" was written by Al Jean and directed by Mike Frank Polcino. Jean initially had multiple different storylines including Homer getting hurt, before he eventually pitched them all into this episode. During production, the staff members looked for an actual NBA player to appear with a shotgun during the first act, but no player accepted the role. The line when Milhouse says he knows Bart's dad better than Bart knows him is a reference to based on a real-life experience of producer Mike Reiss. During production the animators needed Ralph to get off screen for a two shot so they decided that Ralph followed a butterfly.

This episode was advertised as featuring Ron Howard, in what would have been his third appearance on The Simpsons (his first two appearances can be found in Season Ten's "When You Dish Upon a Star", and Season Eleven's "Hello Gutter, Hello Fadder"). Originally, the third act involved Homer getting all the kids in Howard's latest film, a Gladiator–like picture, hence the original title of the episode being "The Kids Stay In The Picture" (a play on the title of producer Robert Evans' The Kid Stays in the Picture).

However, Howard did not appear in this episode (in fact, no guest voices were used at all in this episode). The third act was about Homer winning the Good Guy Award, for caring for the neighbourhood kids. However, this was all until his own children show him as an unfit father.

When Homer puts his daycare permit in the picture frame Bart and Lisa gave him was based on a real-life experience of former writer Dana Gould in which he gave his parents a newspaper article about him winning a Boston comedy competition and later found out that it was replaced by Larry Bird dunking butterfingers. The third act did not initially include a police car chase and it was placed in after the table read. The scratches in Homer's day-care video were added to the animation in post-production.

Cultural references
The title is a spoof of the play Children of a Lesser God and the 1986 film based upon it. The episode features the original basket for basketball. Professor Frink's use of "Flubber" alludes to the 1997 film of the same name, and also references a scene from the film in which the main character (played by Robin Williams) jumps around a basketball court with the aid of Flubber-coated shoes. A reference of George Jetson was used in this episode while Homer hallucinates about taking a basketball shot in space. He even says "Jetson!" the way Mr. Spacely does. Lugash is a parody of Béla Károlyi. During the getaway scene, Ralph asks Homer "where are you taking us?", Homer replies "for frosty chocolate milkshakes!" This is a reference to one of Homer's old taglines from the shorts and Season 1.

Internet reception
A short segment of the episode features Bill Cosby asking a child on his show Kids Say the Darndest Things about games he likes to play, to which the child promptly replies "Pokémon!" Cosby begins incoherently rambling about what Pokémon is whilst flapping his ears. This is an often-used parodied mannerism of Cosby's. Another similar gag was used in "Helter Shelter". In this episode, Pokémon is incorrectly pronounced "Pok-ee-mon". This is the second time Cosby has been parodied on The Simpsons. The first was 'Round Springfield".

This sequence involving Cosby's exaggerated mannerisms from this and other Simpsons episodes (as well as the Family Guy episode "Brian Does Hollywood") became an internet meme when many parodies on these particular segments became memes in their own right, especially on YouTube and YTMND.

A scene where Homer's festering scab wound heals over Ralph's hand in a close-up was negatively received by fans.

Reception
Colin Jacobson of DVD Movie Guide gave this episode a mixed review, saying "When Bart and Lisa team up to pursue a goal, the result usually succeeds. And that’s true for “Clod” – at least to a moderate degree. Like most Season 12 episodes, the program doesn't become truly delightful, but it does more right than wrong, so it ends up as a decent success."

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Needs more contextualization and perspective. FreplySpang (talk) 03:01, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I would like to add more contextualization and perspective, but I don't know what that means. --Theskier 19:55, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * :) Okay, that was kind of an abrupt note. This article is written as if everyone who reads it is a middle-class person in the United States. Ideally, over time, lots of people will contribute and there will be sections about the history of wedding favors, whether people in various cultures use them, and that sort of thing. FreplySpang (talk) 20:46, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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Our Lady of Victories Basilica, Camberwell

Our Lady of Victories Basilica is a Roman Catholic church located in the Melbourne suburb of Camberwell. Romanesque Revival in style, it was designed by architect Augustus Andrew Fritsch and was completed in 1918. It is one of five churches in Australia with minor basilica status. Our Lady of Victories occupies an imposing site in Burke Road and, in a city where most churches of the era are built in the Gothic Revival style, has a distinctive copper clad dome completed with a golden statue of the Virgin Mary.

The current parish priest is Rev. Brendan Reed.

History
Augustus Fritsch, the diocesan architect, drew up original plans that were modified many times, most likely due to budgetary constraints. The builder was Robert Harper. The foundation stone was laid on 25 May 1913 by the Archbishop of Melbourne, Most Rev. Thomas Carr DD, in the presence of 45,000 people. On 6 October 1918, Our Lady of Victories was opened by Archbishop the Most Rev. Daniel Mannix DD, with 80,000 people in attendance. Special trains and trams had to be provided.


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WTVS

WTVS (channel 56) is a PBS member television station in Detroit, Michigan, United States, owned by Detroit Public Media. Its main studios are located at the Riley Broadcast Center and HD Studios on Clover Court in Wixom, with an additional studio at the Maccabees Building in Midtown Detroit. The station's transmitter is located at 8 Mile and Meyers Road in Oak Park (on a tower shared with independent station WMYD, channel 20, and CBS owned-and-operated station WWJ-TV, channel 62). Detroit Public Media partners with the Stanley and Judith Frankel Family Foundation in the management of classical and jazz music station WRCJ-FM (90.9).

History
The station first signed on the air on October 3, 1955, as the 17th educational station to go on air. WTVS began broadcasting in color in 1968. The studios were originally located at 9345 Lawton in Detroit, along with the studios of WRCJ; WTVS moved to the former WJBK studio facility in the New Center area of Detroit in 1971. WTVS vacated the facility in the 1990s, and the building would be used for its fixed satellite services  until 2009, when it was sold to the Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit; it is currently being reconstructed for use as headquarters for the non-profit Midnight Golf Program.

Prior to the digital TV switchover, WTVS transmitted its analog signal from a 1000 ft tower located near the intersection of 11 Mile and Inkster Roads in Southfield, along with the analog signal of WMYD (channel 20) and then-CW O&O WKBD-TV (channel 50). Today, only WKBD-TV (now an independent station) and Ion Television affiliate WPXD-TV (channel 31) broadcast from that tower.

WTVS broadcasts its digital signal from a tower shared with WWJ-TV and WMYD near 8 Mile and Meyers Roads at a height of 1,073 feet (327 m).

On January 11, 2016, Detroit Public Television announced a partnership with WKAR, the PBS station serving Mid-Michigan operated by Michigan State University, in which they will jointly operate a 24-hour children's television service to be carried by both stations. The partnership culminated in the establishment of the Michigan Learning Channel in 2021 which is carried by all six PBS member organizations throughout Michigan.

In 2023, Detroit Public Television sold its headquarters in Wixom, Michigan, and temporarily relocated to another site in the area. On April 16, 2024, the broadcaster announced that it had purchased the 234 Piquette Avenue building in Detroit, and would convert it into a new $30 million campus expected to open in 2026. Concurrently, the organization announced that it had been renamed Detroit Public Media, and that WTVS would be rebranded as Detroit PBS.

Controversy
In 2005, WTVS declined to air the controversial Postcards from Buster episode "Sugartime!", even after the show's Boston-based producing station, WGBH, converted it to the status of being specifically shown to individual stations. The decision was made after PBS received a complaint from then-newly appointed Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, who was upset its storyline, in which the main character, Buster Baxter, pays a visit to Hinesburg, Vermont, to learn how maple sugar is made, and interacts with several children who have lesbian parents. The controversy surrounding the episode let to it being removed from PBS Kids Go!'s national broadcast schedule.

Subchannels
The station's signal is multiplexed:

Analog-to-digital conversion
WTVS became the first public broadcaster in the state of Michigan to offer a digital high-definition feed, launching their simulcast on UHF 43 in October 2000 (exact date not yet known). The station shut down its analog signal, over UHF channel 56, at noon on April 16, 2009; the switchover occurred after a presentation of the national anthems of Canada ("O Canada") and the United States ("The Star-Spangled Banner"). WTVS management cited repeated failures of the station's 28-year-old analog transmitter as the reason for ceasing its analog signal on April 16 rather than the June 12 transition date for full-power stations (the analog transmitter had failed seven times between January 1 and April 16 alone). The station's digital signal continued to broadcast on its pre-transition UHF channel 43, using virtual channel 56.

On October 12, 2009, WTVS upgraded to a new 600 kW transmitter, tripling its effective radiated power and vastly increasing the coverage area of its signal.

On January 13, 2017, WTVS re-organized its digital subchannels when it added PBS Kids as a full-time 24/7 subchannel on 56.2, with PBS World moving to 56.4. This was in part of WTVS' larger plan of launching a statewide PBS Kids subchannel network in partnership with other PBS member stations within the state of Michigan, such as Lansing's WKAR-TV and Flint's WCMZ-TV.

On March 8, 2017, WTVS announced it would be moving its digital broadcast frequency from UHF Channel 43 to UHF channel 20 (currently occupied by WHNE-LD Channel 14), which was assigned VHF channel 3 as a replacement frequency.

Cable coverage
WTVS is carried on most cable television providers in Southeast Michigan, Southwestern Ontario and parts of the British Columbia Southern Interior (WTVS is carried in that province despite the existence of KCTS-TV in Seattle, the PBS member station commonly found in that province). WTVS is one of five Detroit television stations available in Canada on cable through Shaw Broadcast Services and on satellite provider Shaw Direct; it began to be distributed by Cancom (now Shaw Broadcast Services) in 1983 as the PBS station signal for Canadian cable television systems too distant to receive a border station over-the-air. Since then, it had developed a strong base of Canadian viewer support in all provinces and territories.

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Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade

Untold Legends: Brotherhood of the Blade is a launch title for the Sony PSP handheld video game system, developed by Sony Online Entertainment. It is a third person action role-playing game in which the player can complete various quests for money and items. Untold Legends can be played cooperatively with up to four other players via Ad Hoc.

The player can choose to be one of four characters (Knight, Druid, Berserker or Alchemist). The goal is to save Aven, a city so high in the mountains that it often appears to be floating in the clouds, from the attack of various creatures. This "floating city" is the last defense of humanity against a sudden onslaught of dark, foul creatures. It is up to the player to explore the world of Untaca and its various regions, searching for items, talking to people, and killing monsters.

Plot
After emerging victorious from a tournament, the Guardian finds the city under attack by large Spiders. Pursuing through the sewers, the Guardian discovers that the benevolent ruler Kaylee and the Overseer Lysetta have been corrupted by praetox and a dark disease that twists their minds. After dealing with a series of threats and would-be usurpers, the Guardian is told that Kaylee has finally succumbed to the dark curse and is forced to kill her and the forces that started the series of attacks.

Reception
The game received "average" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic. In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of one eight, one six, and two sevens, for a total of 28 out of 40.


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Empalme, Sonora

Empalme is a city surrounded by the homonymous municipality located on the south-central coast of the Mexican state of Sonora. According to the 2005 census, the population of the city was 40,630 inhabitants, while the municipality, which has an area of 708.53 km2 (273.56 sq mi), reported 50,663 inhabitants. Except for its coastline on the Gulf of California (Sea of Cortes), the municipality is surrounded by the much larger municipality of Guaymas.

Name
In Spanish, the word empalme means "junction". At first, the community site was called Kilómetro Nueve because it was nine kilometres out of the port city of Guaymas. Then it was called El Empalme meaning the junction. The El was soon dropped.

History
Unlike other towns or cities in Mexico, Empalme was built entirely by foreigners, specifically the Utah Construction Company under contract to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company. Very few native materials were used in the construction. The founders owned a major railroad, affording easy transportation of materials and personnel. The purpose of the settlement was to provide repair facilities for SP operations in Mexico, with a large shop and roundhouse. They still exist today, although unused; repair and maintenance now being done in Guadalajara, Jalisco. Hundreds of the homes built originally still exist in Empalme, their design and materials unchanged.

One native feature that the developers used was the planting of hundreds of Ficus microcarpa known locally as the Yucateco brought from southern Mexico. It grows to heights exceeding 100 feet. Their common name implies that they are native to the state of Yucatán. These trees were well suited for the hot, humid climate of Empalme. They are still probably the most easily recognized feature of the town. In many places they cover entire streets for several blocks so that streets appear to be passing through a tunnel.

Climate
Empalme experiences a desert climate with warm winters and hot summers.

Economy
The economy of Empalme is based on agriculture, cattle ranching, fishing and small industries. The salty soil and lack of water makes agriculture difficult. Main crops are wheat, melon, and squash. Cattle raising is modest with the 2000 census reporting more than 9,000 head. With its 30 kilometer coastline there is fishing with hauls of shrimp, shark, crab, and octopus, among others. Pollution and the heating of the ocean water due to the thermal electric plant of Batuecas have reduced the local catches in recent years.

There is an industrial area nearby with small transformation industries. The main employer in the town continues to be the railroad repair facilities, which employed over 3,000 workers in 2000.

The Conurbation Zoning Plan for Guaymas & Empalme has included a Maritime Port & Industrial zone on the county coastline that will help to grow import & export cargos from local producers in Sonora, as well as a deep sea port for the Southwestern United States for energy products. The company Omanor S. A. is developing a $200 million US Dollar Hydrocarbon Fluids Marine Terminal to receive oil products for regional distribution.

In the tourist sector there is potential in the long coastline of sandy beaches, which has not yet been developed.

Famous People
Jesse Pintado, (1969-2006) guitarist for Napalm Death

Luis Alcaraz Pineda, professional boxer

Jesús Francisco López, footballer

Ronnie Camacho, professional baseball first baseman

José Luis Castillo, professional boxer

Hernán Márquez, professional boxer

Miguel Gaspar, professional baseball catcher

Jesús Zambrano Grijalva, politician

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The Late Report

The Late Report was a short-lived news satire show on Australia's Seven Network during 1999. The show originally ran at 10:30pm on Tuesdays, preceded by spoof news-broadcast show The Big News, and featured interviews, trivia segments, and comedic takes on pop culture and current events.

The show had a rotating group of hosts, led by Richard Stubbs and also featuring John Safran, Michael Veitch, Marg Downey, Tony Wilson, and Emma Tom. While originally signed for a 14-week season, it ultimately ran for only 10 weeks.

Background
The Late Report aired during a precarious time for Seven Network; as the channel's ratings dropped, the show was pitched as an attempt to draw a younger audience to the channel. Tony Wilson described its format as "Simon Townsend's Wonder World for adults".

Notable segments
In one segment, John Safran attempted to make cricketer Shane Warne break his no-smoking contract with a nicotine patch company by sending a remote-controlled, cigarette-carrying seagull onto the Melbourne Cricket Ground during a match, a gimmick that got Safran sent to court. In another segment, Safran dressed up as Ronald McDonald as a prank, visited a McDonald's location, and got frisked by police after the restaurant's management allegedly made a false report that Safran had been robbing the store. The Seven Network refused to broadcast this segment, although it eventually aired on Channel 4's Disinformation in the United Kingdom.

Reception and cancellation
The Late Report was embattled from the beginning. The Big News was considered a failure, and a writer for the Sydney Morning Herald described The Late Report airing afterward as "a move akin to handcuffing [the show] to a slaughtered goat and throwing it into shark-infested waters." The Late Report received poor reviews, especially early in its run; according to Tony Wilson, some viewers thought the rotating-presenters format broke up its flow.

Executives at the Seven Network were wary of the show's harsh satire, particularly at the expense of the Liberal Party. Some of the executives commented that the show "skated rather too close to the line of acceptable satire" and that it felt like "a Labor Party propaganda show". A rumour spread that the office of John Howard, the Australian prime minister and leader of the Liberal Party at the time, contacted the show and complained about the way the Howard Government was portrayed in it; the Seven Network's representatives denied the rumour.

When The Big News was cancelled, the two shows were combined to fill the entire hour. The move, a response to poor ratings, did not work, and the Seven Network cancelled The Late Report on 9 April 1999, citing poor commercial performance. The network would not run a similar show until 2003's The Chat Room.

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Willow Smith

Willow Smith (born October 31, 2000), also known mononymously as Willow, is an American singer. The daughter of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett, she has received various accolades, including a Young Artist Award, an NAACP Image Award, a BET Award, and nominations for two Daytime Emmy Awards and a MTV Video Music Award.

Smith made her acting debut in the 2007 film I Am Legend alongside her father, and later appeared in Kit Kittredge: An American Girl with Abigail Breslin. She embarked on a musical career with her 2010 single "Whip My Hair", which peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. Prior, Smith signed with her mentor, Jay-Z's record label Roc Nation, becoming the label's youngest artist. The following year, she released the singles "21st Century Girl" and "Fireball" (featuring Nicki Minaj).

Smith's debut studio album, Ardipithecus (2015) explored neo soul. It spawned the single "Wait a Minute!", which received double platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Her second and third albums, The 1st (2017) and Willow (2019) followed after and were both met with positive reception. Her fourth album, Lately I Feel Everything (2021), marked her first entry on the Billboard 200 and spawned the single "Transparent Soul", which received gold certification by the RIAA. Later that year, she earned her second top 40 entry on the Billboard Hot 100]] with her single "Meet Me at Our Spot", which she released as part of the duo The Anxiety with Tyler Cole. Smith's fifth album, Coping Mechanism (2022) marked her final release with Roc Nation, after which she signed with gamma. to release her sixth album, Empathogen (2024).

In 2018, Smith began co-hosting the Facebook Watch talk show Red Table Talk with her mother Jada and grandmother Adrienne, which has earned two Daytime Emmy Award nominations.

Early life
Smith was born on October 31, 2000, in Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of the actress-musician Jada Pinkett Smith and actor-musician Will Smith. She has two older siblings: her brother Jaden Smith, an actor and musician, and her half-brother Willard Carroll "Trey" Smith III, an actor and DJ. Smith and her siblings are youth ambassadors for Project Zambi, which, in conjunction with Hasbro, provides assistance for Zambian children orphaned by AIDS.

Smith attended Sierra Canyon School in Los Angeles.

2007–2013: Acting and music endeavors
Smith made her acting debut in I Am Legend alongside her father. Her next film, Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, was released on July 2, 2008. In 2008, she voiced the character of young Gloria the hippo in Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, alongside her mother as Gloria the hippo.

In June 2009, Smith's mother Jada Pinkett Smith announced in an interview on Lopez Tonight that Smith would be releasing an album. Smith then released her first single, "Whip My Hair", which went platinum in the US and peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. In the UK, the single peaked at number two. Its video was nominated for Video of the Year at the BET Awards of 2011. Smith soon after announced her next single, "21st Century Girl". After she performed the song on The Oprah Winfrey Show, she released it the next day on February 3, 2011. The video was released March 9, 2011. On January 20, 2011, Will Smith announced he was planning to produce a contemporary remake of the Broadway musical Annie starring Smith in the title role. However, Smith was deemed too old and the title role was given to Quvenzhané Wallis in February 2013.

On October 6, 2011, "Fireball", a collaboration between Smith and rapper Nicki Minaj, was released. "Fireball" was a commercial failure, failing to chart in any type of music market, except the US R&B chart, charting at 121. It was her first song to miss the Billboard Hot 100. Smith's producer announced that she were almost finished working on her debut album, and that it would be done soon. He also said it has a similar style to "Whip My Hair". The title of the album was later announced to be Knees and Elbows. It was scheduled to be released around April 2012, but was later announced that it would be postponed for release later in the year. On May 1, 2012, she released a music video for "Do it Like Me (Rockstar)", saying that it was her "first video ever". On July 2, 2012, Smith released the "I Am Me" music video at the BET Awards. On July 17, she released her fourth single, "I Am Me" via iTunes and Amazon.

In the summer of 2013, Smith and DJ Fabrega started a duo titled "Melodic Chaotic". "The Intro" was released as the first work, "Summer Fling" was released as the second work of the two on July 6, 2013. The music video was directed by Smith and Mike Vargas who previously directed her single "I Am Me". The song has been widely criticized for its mature tone, the use of the word "fling", and the fake English accent she incorporates. On September 16, 2013, Smith performed "Summer Fling" on the series premiere of The Queen Latifah Show. During the performance, she said: "Just for clarity, the word fling means something that's short lived...And this song is dedicated to all the kids around the world whose summer is never long enough."

2014–2018: 3 EP, Ardipithecus, and The 1st
On October 24, 2014, Smith and FADER announced that Smith would be releasing her debut EP, titled "3", on October 31, 2014, for free via Google Play for limited time and November 10, 2014, but it was later pushed to November 17, 2014, via iTunes. The same day, she held a concert in New York City at The FADER Fort, where she performed select tracks from her new EP with SZA. She also performed the song "5" with her brother, as well as "Summer Fling" and a new rendition of her famous hit "Whip My Hair".

Smith released the single "F Q-C #7" on May 7, 2015. An accompanying music video was released the same day on Vevo. After release, on September, a video to the track "Why Don't You Cry" on i-D, Willow released her first album Ardipithecus on December 11. About her debut album's title, Willow said "Ardipithecus Ramidus [sic] Sahelanthropus tchadensis is the scientific name of the first hominid bones found on earth. I wanted to name my musical compilation after it because, while I was making these songs, I was in such a transitional state. Digging deep in the soil of my heart and finding bits and pieces of my ancient self that tell stories, which end up being the lyrics to the songs."

On her birthday, October 31, 2017, she released her second album The 1st which is praised for its musical development, particularly Willow's ability to create music following her 1990s R&B predecessors, despite not having been alive during the time. She toured the album with Jhene Aiko alongside St. Beauty, Kodie Shane, and Kitty Cash through the end of 2017.

Along with her mother and grandmother, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, Smith hosts Red Table Talk, a web talk show for which she received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination.

2019–2021: Willow, The Anxiety, and Lately I Feel Everything
Willow was managed by Will Smith's management company, Westbrook Entertainment, until March 2019 when Three Six Zero, an established management firm acquired Westbrook. Following the acquisition. On June 24, 2019, Smith announced her third studio album, Willow. It was released on July 19, 2019, and was co-produced by herself and Tyler Cole. The duo later released a collaborative album titled The Anxiety in 2020. On April 27, 2021, Smith released "Transparent Soul" featuring Travis Barker, a pop-punk song that was her first foray into that genre. Smith released her fourth album Lately I Feel Everything on July 16, featuring guests artists including Tierra Whack and Avril Lavigne. In late 2021, "Meet Me at Our Spot" from The Anxiety reached the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 21. That same year, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Also in 2021, she won Entertainer of the Year for her work on Red Table Talk at the EBONY Power 100 awards, and was placed on Billboard's 'Greatest Pop Stars of 2021' list, being named the 'Comeback Artist of the Year'. Smith was also placed on the 2022 Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

2022–present: Coping Mechanism, Empathogen
In February 2022, a preview from Willow Smith's book Black Shield Maiden, co-written with Jess Hendel and set to be published through Penguin Random House, was shared on social media and criticized by users for depicting the Amazigh, an ethnic group indigenous to North Africa, as "thieves and slavers." Others have also critiqued the book for adopting a colonialist view of Muslim people. Critics and users have condemned Smith for the use of harmful racist as well as Islamophobic stereotypes in her novel, and have labelled the book as being orientalist.

In February 2022, Smith pulled out of Billie Eilish's Happier Than Ever, The World Tour due to production limitations. On April 8, 2022, Smith featured on Camila Cabello's track "Psychofreak" from Cabello's third studio album Familia. A music video for the song was released on the same day, followed by a live performance on Saturday Night Live.

Coping Mechanism is the fifth studio album by Smith. The album was released on October 7, 2022, through Roc Nation and Polydor, and features Yves Tumor.

In June 2022, Smith released "Maybe It's My Fault", the first single from her fifth studio album.

In July 2022, Smith published the album art as well as the release date for the album. The following month, the singer put out "Hover Like a Goddess".

On October 2022, Smith made her official musical guest debut on Saturday Night Live on October 8, 2022, the second episode of Season 48, hosted by Irish actor Brendan Gleeson, where she performed "Curious/Furious" and "Ur a Stranger".

Her first single since Coping Mechanism, "Alone", was released on November 2023. Her next single, “Symptom of Life”, was released in March 2024, followed by "Big Feelings" in April. The same day as the single’s release, Smith announced her sixth studio album Empathogen, which was released May 4, 2024.

Personal life
In May 2014, Moisés Arias, who was 20 at the time, was photographed shirtless in a bed with then-13-year-old Smith. The photo triggered an investigation into the family by the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services.

In June 2019, Smith revealed that she is bisexual, stating: "I love men and women equally". She also mentioned her support of polyamorous relationships and her desire to be in one. She is a practicing Hindu and has been actively seen following ISKCON, which follows the doctrine of Gaudiya Vaishnavism with a tradition which believes Krishna as the Supreme Lord.

Discography

 * Ardipithecus (2015)
 * The 1st (2017)
 * Willow (2019)
 * Lately I Feel Everything (2021)
 * Coping Mechanism (2022)
 * Empathogen (2024)

Collaborative albums
 * The Anxiety (2020) (with Tyler Cole)

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