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Ennis House

The Ennis House is a residential dwelling in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States, south of Griffith Park. The home was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Charles and Mabel Ennis in 1923 and was built in 1924.

Following La Miniatura in Pasadena, and the Storer and Freeman Houses in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, the structure is the fourth and largest of Wright's textile block designs, constructed primarily of interlocking pre-cast concrete blocks, in the northern Los Angeles area.

The design is based on ancient Maya temples, and along with other buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, such as the A. D. German Warehouse in Wisconsin and Aline Barnsdall Hollyhock House in Hollywood, the Ennis House is sometimes referred to as an example of the Mayan Revival architecture. Its prominent detail is the relief ornamentation on its 27,000 perforated and patterned decomposed granite blocks, inspired by the symmetrical reliefs of Puuc architecture in Uxmal.

The Ennis House is a designated city, state, and national landmark. From 2011 until 2019, it was owned by billionaire Ronald Burkle, during which time significant repairs and renovations were made. The house sold for US$18 million in 2019 to couple Robert Rosenheck and Cindy Capobianco, cannabis industry professionals and philanthropists.

History
The house consists of two buildings, the main house and a smaller chauffeur's apartment/garage, separated by a paved courtyard. Unlike the vertical orientation of the other three block houses, the Ennis House has a long horizontal loggia spine on the northern side, connecting public and private rooms to the south, and is very large at 6200 sqft. The kitchen, pantry, guest room, dining room, living room, master bathroom and bedroom, upper terrace, and second bathroom and bedroom are at the eastern and lower end of the main building.

Construction difficulties brought up costs. Initially supervised by Frank Lloyd Wright's son Lloyd Wright, the owners took over construction supervision after the superstructure reached the windows. They carried out various changes, deviating from Wright's original design.

In 1940, the house was sold to media personality John Nesbitt, who had Wright add a pool on the north terrace, a billiard room on the ground floor, and a heating system.

Although originally and currently known as the Ennis House, the building was long known as the Ennis-Brown House, which became its name in 1980 — in appreciation of its donation to the Trust for Preservation of Cultural Heritage by Augustus O. Brown, the eighth owner of the house (1968–1980). In August 2005, the house was returned to its original name, and the Trust for Preservation of Cultural Heritage was renamed the Ennis House Foundation.

It was during the long ownership by the Foundation from 1980 to 2011 that the house was used as a filming location, establishing it as one of the most famous houses in Los Angeles.

On June 19, 2009, the Ennis House Foundation announced that the house was being offered for sale with an asking price of US$15 million. Finding no buyers in a down economy, the price was steadily reduced, until it was sold to business executive Ron Burkle for just under $4.5 million on July 14, 2011. A condition of the sale is an easement that allows public viewing 12 days per year, a condition binding on subsequent buyers. By December 2018, it was listed for sale at $23 million. In 2019, Burkle sold the house for $18 million.

Restoration

Even before its completion the Ennis House was marked by structural instability. Concrete blocks had cracked and lower sections of the walls buckled under tension. The use of decomposed granite from the site to color the textile blocks introduced natural impurities to the concrete mix, and combined with air pollution caused premature decay. Attempts to apply a protective coating caused additional problems.

More damage occurred due to the 1994 Northridge earthquake and the record precipitation during the 2004–2005 rainy season. The Ennis House Foundation had estimated that it could cost US$5 million just to stabilize the building, and US$15 million for full restoration. After the rains the building was briefly red-tagged as "no entry" but was down graded to yellow- for limited entry by late 2005. At that point significant damage to the retaining wall at the southern rear of the building remained. In 2005 the house was added to the National Trust for Historic Preservation's list of the "11 Most Endangered Historic Places".

In 2006 a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grant was issued, as well as a US$4.5 million construction loan through First Republic Bank, which restarted restoration efforts. The project included a new structural support system, restoration or replacement of damaged blocks, restoration of windows, and a new roof. Restoration work was completed in 2007 at a cost of nearly US$6.4 million. No announcement was made regarding access by the public and the Ennis House remains closed to public visitors.

Use in film productions
The building's exotic design has made it an appealing location for Hollywood filmmakers.

Although used as a shooting location as early as 1933 (Female), the house first acquired morbid fame providing the exterior facade for House on Haunted Hill, a 1959 B movie. The 1975 film The Day of the Locust made extensive use of the house as a private residence, but it was in 1982's Blade Runner that the house gained a popularity of its own among moviegoers; only the main character's arrival at the motor court was actually shot at the Ennis House, but casts were taken of the textile blocks and these were used to construct interior sets on soundstages. Its exterior also appears as "The Mansion" occupied by Angelus, Spike, and Drusilla in the television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

Sections of the cathedral reminiscent interior, especially the elevated dining room and fireplace, have appeared in over a dozen films including The Karate Kid Part III revealing the view of downtown Los Angeles, Black Rain, The Glimmer Man, The Replacement Killers, Rush Hour substituting for a floor of a Hong Kong skyscraper, and The Thirteenth Floor.

The house has also been used as a location for commercials, fashion magazine shoots and music videos, including 3T's "Why" featuring Michael Jackson. S Club 7's video for the single "Have You Ever" shows the band members living an everyday life in the house and Ricky Martin music video song "Vuelve".

Impressed by the house, filmmakers either recreated original elements of the Ennis House on sound stage sets or vaguely imitated these as in Predator 2 and several episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. After shooting the exterior scene on location for Blade Runner, the interior of Deckard's apartment was created at Warner Brothers. In the case of The Rocketeer, sections of the Ennis House were recreated in detail, including the patterned art glass, on a studio set. The Rocketeer went as far as adding an upper floor. On a smaller scale, tile casts of the block relief ornamentation were used for the Club Silencio doorframe in Mulholland Drive. David Lynch used the interiors of Ennis House for a few segments of the show Twin Peaks in the soap opera show-within-a-show called Invitation to Love. The house has also appeared in episodes of HBO's television update of Westworld and the 2019 mini-series I Am the Night.

A cartoon representation is featured in South Park as the base of a Chinese gang in the episode "Wing", satirizing the popular association of the Ennis House with criminal and/or Asian characters in films. Ennis House is also represented in cartoon series "The Venture Bros." as super villain, The Monarch's house in season 4.

Because the house is situated in a densely populated neighborhood, tensions have arisen over the years in regard to film production crews, as well as the streams of tourists and restoration construction workers.

A film documenting the house, called The Ennis House, was shot in hi definition digital 3D by film maker Tom Koester. It covers the construction (briefly), a grand tour of the house (closed to the public), and the damage stemming from the 1994 earthquake and the subsequent restoration and repair prior to the sale of the house to its current private owner. An early cut of the film premiered at the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy Conference in Chicago, October 2007, but has had few public showings. It is available on DVD in both 2D and 3D versions.

The Ennis House was also featured in the Thirty Seconds to Mars rock bands' documentary Artifact, and is where part of their album This Is War was recorded.

Landmark status
The house was included as one of the top ten houses of all time in Los Angeles Times, in a survey of experts in December 2008, and is listed on the Department of the Interior, National Register of Historic Places, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation list of Endangered Historic Places, and is a designated California Historical Landmark, and a Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monument.

California Historical Landmark Marker NO. 1011 at the site reads:
 * "NO. 1011 FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT TEXTILE BLOCK HOUSES (THEMATIC), ENNIS HOUSE - This house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1924 for Charles and Mabel Ennis. It is one of four textile block houses registered as Landmark No. 1011."

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Bonzi Wells

Gawen DeAngelo "Bonzi" Wells (born September 28, 1976) is an American college basketball coach and former professional player who is currently an assistant coach at Georgia Tech and previously was head coach at LeMoyne-Owen. He played college basketball at Ball State University and was drafted in the 1998 NBA draft. In the NBA, Wells played for five teams from 1998 to 2008: the Portland Trail Blazers, Memphis Grizzlies, Sacramento Kings, Houston Rockets, and New Orleans Hornets.

College career
Wells attended Muncie Central High School and then went on to play at Ball State University, also in Muncie. There he was named the Mid-American Conference (MAC) Freshman Player of the Year in the 1995–96 season, while helping the Cardinals to the NCAA Tournament. Wells broke Ron Harper's conference record of 2,377 career points on a one-handed dunk against Northern Illinois on February 21, 1998. The dunk sent the sell-out crowd at University Arena into a frenzy. A timeout was immediately called and Wells was awarded the game ball by Ball State president John Worthen. Wells also led the MAC in steals in 1998 with 73, averaging 3.55 steals in 29 games. Wells led the conference in steals during all four years at Ball State and finished his career as the MAC all-time career records in points (2,485) and steals (347). While at Ball State he averaged 21.4 PPG, 3 SPG, and 7.3 RPG. He was selected eleventh overall by the Detroit Pistons in the 1998 NBA draft, but he never played for the Pistons as his draft rights were traded to the Portland Trail Blazers for the Blazers' 1999 first round pick. Six years later Ball State would retire his jersey number, 42, in recognition of his achievements.

Portland Trail Blazers (1998–2003)
As a swingman in Portland, Wells achieved career highs in scoring and improved somewhat on defense, and picked up what some would call a bad-boy image, while sharing the role of co-captain with Rasheed Wallace. Wells, however, did have his share of on- and off-court incidents. During his tenure with the Blazers, Wells was suspended for two games for publicly cursing at his coach after being taken out of a game. He was also fined in a separate incident for making an obscene gesture to a fan in a loss to the Philadelphia 76ers. When asked by a media reporter about the incident, he said, "I black out sometimes." Wells was suspended one game without pay and fined $10,000 for intentionally striking and verbally abusing an official in 2000. Wells and teammate Erick Barkley in 2001 were cited for criminal trespass after they refused to follow the order of an officer to leave the scene of a fight near a downtown nightclub. This only went to further the team's derisive nickname, The Jail Blazers.

Wells's legacy in Portland was also positive. On February 24, 2001, Wells recorded a then career high 7 steals in one game, while also scoring 21 points and recording 7 assists. He set the franchise record for most points scored in a playoff game at 45 against the Dallas Mavericks in the first round of the 2003 NBA Playoffs. The co-captains carried the sixth-seeded Trail Blazers to a decisive Game 7 versus the Steve Nash and Dirk Nowitzki-led three-seeded Mavericks. The Mavericks won the series, and thirteen games into the following season Wells was traded to the Memphis Grizzlies for Wesley Person and a 2004 first-round pick. Trail Blazers management made an oath to the City of Portland to have a team of upstanding Portlanders, and drastically restructured the team. In an exchange that emphasized the urgency to release Wells, he was traded to the Memphis Grizzlies for reserve guard Wesley Person.

Memphis Grizzlies (2003–2005)
The unorthodox coaching methods of Hubie Brown and his strict 10-man rotation limited Wells to just under 25 minutes per game for the Grizzlies. This tactic helped them earn their first playoff appearance in franchise history.

After Brown suddenly quit as coach midway through the 2004–05 season, Mike Fratello took over as head coach. It appeared Wells was finally going to be given a chance to pose a threat on the court. This would not come to be, highlighted by the fact that Wells played a total of 27 minutes in the Grizzlies' second playoff appearance in 2005. Citing undisclosed reasons, Fratello suspended him for Game 2 of the series against the powerhouse Phoenix Suns. He returned in Game 3, only to play nine minutes. Wells did not dress for the series-ending Game 4.

Sacramento Kings (2005–2006)
Prior to the start of the 2005–06 NBA season, Wells was acquired from the Grizzlies by the Kings in a trade for point guard Bobby Jackson and center Greg Ostertag. He was also forced to change his jersey number from 6 to 42 upon arrival. In Sacramento the number 6 has been retired in honor of the fans, as in they are the "sixth man" of the team. In the early part of the season, Wells had been a rebounding force for the Kings, recording career-best numbers in rebounds, while also recording excellent assists and steals totals.

In the playoffs, Wells was extremely productive, averaging 23.2 points and 12 rebounds per game in 6 games against the San Antonio Spurs, though the Kings lost the series. When Wells entered free agency at the closing of the season, teammate Ron Artest (now known as Metta World Peace) offered to forgo his entire salary in order to keep him on the team.

Houston Rockets (2006–2008)
The day before the 2006 training camp began, Wells signed with the Houston Rockets, with a salary of "only" $2 million in the initial season. This was considered to be a great bargain for the Rockets, as Wells had turned down a 5-year, $38.5 million offer from the Kings. Wells missed the beginning of training camp recovering from a groin injury, and then missed several days following dental work. In addition, he was absent on more than one occasion for "personal reasons". Wells played only 30 minutes total, scoring only six points, in the Rockets' second and third games of the season. Wells was not pleased with his playing time, and neither was coach Jeff Van Gundy with Wells' weight and lack of conditioning. Van Gundy placed Wells on the inactive list, dismissed him from team practices for over a month, and relegated him to working with trainers and on the exercise bicycle to improve his conditioning. Unsatisfied with his progress, Van Gundy eventually told him to stay away from the Toyota Center.

In December, Wells and his coach reconciled their differences and Bonzi was allowed back into practice. He returned to action against the Los Angeles Lakers on December 12, and over the next two weeks, his playing time gradually increased. He suffered a back injury in late December that would force him to miss the Rockets' next 10 games. He returned to the lineup on January 17, and saw consistent playing time off the bench, highlighted by his 14 points in a win against his former team, the Trail Blazers.

On April 9, Wells failed to show up for a road trip to face the Seattle SuperSonics. His status was unknown, but it was reported that he left a message on athletic trainer Keith Jones' answering machine. In it, he said he felt like he was "disrupting team chemistry." After coach Jeff Van Gundy was fired and the former Kings coach Rick Adelman was named as the replacement, he expressed his willingness to return. On June 23, it was announced he had opted to stay with the Rockets and exercised the last year of his contract.

New Orleans Hornets (2008)
On February 21, 2008, Wells was traded to the New Orleans Hornets along with Mike James as part of a three-team deal involving Houston and the Memphis Grizzlies. The agreement sent New Orleans guard Bobby Jackson to Houston, marking the second time Wells and Jackson swapped teams via trade. February 23, Wells made his Hornets debut when he came off the bench registering 2 points, 3 rebounds, 1 assist and 2 steals in a 98–89 loss to the San Antonio Spurs. On March 22, Wells set a career high with 8 steals in one game, during a 113–106 victory over the Boston Celtics.

The Hornets decided not to renew Wells's contract for the 2008–09 NBA season.

Shanxi Zhongyu (2008–2009)
Wells chose to sign with Shanxi Zhongyu of the Chinese Basketball Association rather than play for the NBA's minimum salary. In his debut with the Shanxi Zhongyu, he scored 48 points and tallied 11 rebounds.

His contract with the team was terminated on February 2, 2009, after he failed to promptly return to the team after the Chinese New Year break.

Capitanes de Arecibo (2009–2010)
On November 25, 2009, Wells signed a contract with Puerto Rican team Capitanes de Arecibo.

In December 2011, Wells signed with the Minnesota Timberwolves, but he did not make their final roster.

Personal life
Gawen DeAngelo Wells is named after his father Gawen Wells. The nickname, Bonzi, originated from the cravings his mother, Christine Scaife Coleman, had for ice cream bonbons during her pregnancy with him. His parents called him "bonbon" until the age of two, and it eventually evolved into what it is today. He is the father to three sons, Duane, Gawen and Christian.

In 2003, Wells shed tears when his hometown Roy C. Buley Community Center named its gymnasium in his honor. It is now called the Bonzi Wells Gymnasium. As a small child at the community center watching teams get picked for a game from the sidelines "like a cheerleader," his uncle and team captain chose the young Bonzi. "I thought he was kidding," Wells recalls, "but he really picked me. And I played as hard as I can. I can remember that day like it was yesterday and that was the day that really made me want to be one of the best." Wells, who donated money to keep the gymnasium from closing its doors, said he did not expect such a reaction, and that he was "doing it for the children."

Wells left Ball State to enter the NBA before being able to graduate but returned to earn his degree in 2014. He would later tell the Naismith Awards that his favorite memory was not one of basketball, but the smile his parents had on their faces when he graduated.

In 2019, Wells served as a Sports Envoy to China for the U.S. State Department's Sports Diplomacy Office.

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Titanic Historical Society

The Titanic Historical Society, Inc. (THS) is a non-profit organization founded on July 7, 1963, whose purpose is the preservation of the history of the famous ocean liner RMS Titanic, which sank in 1912, in one of the greatest maritime disasters in history.

The Society publishes a quarterly online magazine, The Titanic Commutator, and operates a museum in Indian Orchard, Massachusetts, featuring artifacts donated by Titanic survivors and other memorabilia collected by founder Edward S. Kamuda. A highlight for the Society members is an annual convention where experts present in-depth information about various aspects of the Titanic catastrophe and memorabilia is available.

Founding and development
Headquartered in Indian Orchard, Massachusetts (United States), the group was formed on July 7, 1963, by Edward S. Kamuda and five others as the Titanic Enthusiasts of America. Besides Kamuda as President, the other founding officers were: Joseph Carvalho - Vice President, Bob Gibbons - Treasurer, Frank Casilio - Secretary, and John Eaton - Historian. In 1968, membership numbered 125 persons, ranging in age from teenagers to almost 90 years of age. Many became interested in the fabled ship after reading of her disastrous fate in Walter Lord's book, A Night to Remember. Membership grew slowly in the early years, reportedly just 300 a decade later in 1973. By 1977, the organization had adopted its current name and membership had increased to 1,476 persons, along with 35 then still-living survivors of the disaster. Twenty years later in 1997, the Society had grown to 5,000 members.

For many years, the remaining survivors of the Titanic's ill-fated maiden voyage were honored guests at the society's conventions. In 1992, the Society commemorated the 80th anniversary of the disaster in Boston, Massachusetts. The event brought together several living survivors, including Eva Hart, Louise Pope, Michel Marcel Navratil, and Beatrice Sandstrom, who enthralled those in attendance with their vivid first-person accounts of the night the Titanic foundered in the north Atlantic Ocean. Walter Lord, author of his seminal Titanic work, A Night to Remember, was another featured guest. Other presenters at Society conventions include artist Ken Marschall and Robert Ballard, who discovered the wreckage of Titanic in 1985.

Current activities
Principal activities of the Titanic Historical Society include:
 * Quarterly publication of an online magazine, The Titanic Commutator.
 * The Titanic Museum in Indian Orchard featuring an extensive collection of artifacts donated by Titanic survivors, called by the Tampa Tribune: "... the largest collection of non-salvaged Titanic artifacts and memorabilia in the world".
 * An annual membership convention where experts present in-depth information about various aspects of the Titanic catastrophe and memorabilia is available.

The Society also endeavors to preserve the history of other ocean liners, especially the Titanic's sister ships, the White Star Line's RMS Olympic and HMHS Britannic (which sank after hitting an enemy mine in World War I), and the Cunard ship RMS Lusitania. The society also publishes articles about various other famous ships, such as the RMS Queen Mary and SS Normandie, in The Titanic Commutator.

The media frequently seeks comment and advice when Titanic is in the news. On the 75th anniversary of her sinking, the Society's then-President Haas explained the public's ongoing fascination with the disaster: "We admire the great display of courage and heroism — latent qualities in people not often seen in this hurry-up world". Both Kamuda and Society Historian Don Lynch appeared in the acclaimed television documentary, Titanic: The Complete Story, produced by A&E Television Networks in 1994. In 1997, the Society participated in the filming of James Cameron's hit film Titanic and some members appeared on-screen as extras.

Although the Society supports exploration of the Titanic wreck site, it opposes salvage of items from the ship, stating in a 2005 Commutator issue, "the wreck is a gravesite to those that died that night and should be treated as a memorial" to the lives lost. Both the Titanic Historical Society and the Titanic International Society, formed in 1989 by former Titanic Historical Society officers Charles Haas and John Eaton, participate with the U.S. Coast Guard and the International Ice Patrol in the annual April 15 wreath-drop ceremony over the Atlantic Ocean where the Titanic now rests.

Titanic Museum
The Society maintains the Titanic Museum in Indian Orchard, Massachusetts, featuring an extensive collection of artifacts donated by Titanic survivors. Started by Ed Kamuda, it has been called by the Tampa Tribune: "... the largest collection of non-salvaged Titanic artifacts and memorabilia in the world".

The Titanic Commutator magazine
Since its founding in 1963, the Society has regularly distributed a journal to members, The Titanic Commutator. Initially a mimeographed newsletter sent to 200 subscribers, the publication steadily increased in scope and depth over the years, eventually printed quarterly as a full-color illustrated magazine of some 50 pages, reporting on Titanic research and passenger stories, along with other notable ships from the "Golden Age" of transatlantic steamship travel. At the time of the production of James Cameron's film, Titanic, the Commutator provided extensive, behind-the-scenes coverage of set construction and details not shown in the final movie release. Following the February–April 2020 issue, the Society discontinued the print edition of the Commutator, although an online version continues to be available behind a paywall to members. Kamuda's widow, Karen, continues as editor.

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A Fictional Guide to Scotland

A Fictional Guide to Scotland is a collection of short stories and one poem from 17 writers who were either Scottish by birth or lived in Scotland at the time of submission. The pieces which made it into the book were selected through an anonymous submissions process with an OpenInk editor Elizabeth Reeder and guest editors, Meaghan Delahunt and Suhayl Saadi, choosing the final pieces.

OpenInk was a group of Glasgow-based writers who came together out of a desire to create publications which offered writers and readers a unique experience. The OpenInk Editorial board was entirely voluntary. One of the editors was a full-time writer working both on her own writing and as a writer in residence in Glasgow. The remaining editors worked by day in a range of professions and wrote in their spare time.

The publication of the book was supported by a grant from Glasgow City Council. In addition, the editors raised a substantial amount of the money required for the project through sponsorship from friends and family.

In addition to the book, OpenInk ran a reading tour entitled A Fictional Guide to Scotland. This reading tour visited places as far and wide as Wigtown, Ullapool, Inverness, Edinburgh, Stirling, Lanark and Glasgow and was supported by the Scottish Arts Council.

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Talk:Minister of Foreign Affairs (Denmark)

In establishing a wiki link to the Danish wiki, we have two possibilities:

Udenrigsministeriet

and Udenrigsminister

It seems that the closer translation is udenrigsminister, but in the Danish wiki, the udenrigsministeriet article is better and more relevant. What do you think?Peregrine981 02:30, Apr 7, 2005 (UTC)

 * da:Udenrigsministeriet corresponds to Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark and da:udenrigsminister corresponds to Foreign Minister. The Danish wikipedia simply doesn't have an article about the Danish Foreign Minister post, so we shouldn't add any interwiki link untill the Danish wikipedia gets an article. Thue | talk 19:20, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)


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Talk:Ennis House

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Not sure if it fits in the "Architecture" category or not. I'm sure someone will edit it! I've seen this house, it is truly amazing! Unfortunately, I don't have any good pictures (decided against stealing one off the official website as they appear under copyright). Hope someone will provide some good pictures and expands this article properly. --Oarias 02:32, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Ennis House: proof, along with Fallingwater, that Wright was an architect, not an engineer! And this was built after the Long Beach Earthquake of 1933. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.205.151.197 (talk) 02:41, 29 April 2008 (UTC)

Harold Perelson murder house
http://www.mashget.com/most-emailed/2009/02/06/on-a-los-feliz-hill-murder-then-mystery/ http://ironysupplement.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/los-feliz-haunt/ The LA Times recently ran stories in many newspapers about the Perelson murder house in Los Feliz, in the 2400 block of Glendower Place. Its been vacant since 1959. Anybody else heard about this? For what its worth, the Ennis House is right behind it. --24.21.148.155 (talk) 21:34, 15 February 2009 (UTC)

Citation?
“No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.” – Frank Lloyd Wright

"In the building, each separate portion of the building devoted to a special purpose asserts itself as an individual factor in the whole. The completed whole crowns the end of a high ridge in Hollywood." – Frank Lloyd Wright

The preceding two quotes were uncited in the article. I don't disagree with them being here on anything other than lack of citation. Soon as someone finds a good place to cite those from, post them back up! Scryer_360 (talk) 18:10, 19 June 2009 (UTC)

For sale?
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Los Angeles Times reports that Ennis House is for sale (9/09)
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-fi-architect-homes27-2009sep27,0,4785373.story

Film appearances
Ennis house appears in Nip/Tuck Season 1, it appears Escobar may live in it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dbc55 (talk • contribs) 08:19, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

Buckling in tension?
In discussing structural problems, the article states that the building began buckling in tension. It is impossible to buckle in tension - buckling only occurs in compression. Since I'm not sure what the real structural problem is (perhaps not actually buckling) I have not made any changes. However, the statement is essentially nonsense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.246.80.228 (talk) 05:29, 11 October 2012 (UTC)

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Ghost World (comics)

Ghost World is a graphic novel by Daniel Clowes. It was serialized in issues #11–18 (June 1993 – March 1997) of Clowes's comic book series Eightball, and was published in book form in 1997 by Fantagraphics Books. It was a commercial and critical success and developed into a cult classic.

Ghost World follows the day-to-day lives of best friends Enid Coleslaw and Rebecca Doppelmeyer, two cynical, pseudo-intellectual, and intermittently witty teenage girls recently graduated from high school at the end of the 1990s. They spend their days wandering aimlessly around their unnamed American town, criticizing popular culture and the people they encounter while wondering what they will do for the rest of their days.

A darkly written comic, with intermittently sombre explorations of friendship and modern life, Ghost World has become renowned for its frank treatment of adolescence. The comic's success led to a movie adaptation of the same name, released in 2001 to critical acclaim and numerous nominations, including a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, written by Clowes and Terry Zwigoff.

Overview
Ghost World takes place in an unnamed suburban town filled with shopping malls, fast food restaurants, and urban sprawl. The town plays a key part in the narrative, as it is constantly mocked and criticized by Enid and Rebecca. As the story progresses, the background changes dramatically. The phrase "Ghost World" is seen by the characters several times, painted or graffitied on garage doors, signs, and billboards for an undeclared reason. The term can also apply to the way in which both Enid and Becky, but especially Enid, are haunted by the past. In the special features of the film adaptation, it is said to refer to the fact that the town's individuality is being encroached upon by franchises that are seen everywhere.

Critical response to Ghost World was extensive: many critics praised it for its analysis of teenage life, relationships, and the decay of today's society, while others criticized it for being disconnected and morbid. Some reviews drew comparisons to J. D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye (1951). The Village Voice stated that "Clowes spells out the realities of teen angst as powerfully and authentically as Salinger did in Catcher in the Rye for an earlier generation". The Guardian praised the strip's illustrations and visuals, saying "it is beautifully drawn, with subtle and convincing storylines. A classic portrait of teenage life" and Time magazine called it an "instant classic".

Synopsis
Enid Coleslaw (her father had their surname legally changed from "Cohn" before she was born) and Rebecca (Becky) Doppelmeyer are two cynical, intelligent teenage girls who are best friends in the 1990s. They have recently graduated from high school and spend their days wandering around their unnamed town criticizing pop culture and the people they encounter while wondering what they are going to do with the rest of their lives. They are attracted to boys, but also unhappily entertain the possibility that they might be lesbians. Their friendship is very close, but as the book goes on tensions between them build, especially over Enid's plans to move away to college. They also have a quiet friend named Josh; throughout the book the two girls enjoy teasing him, but they are also attracted to him and eventually a romantic triangle forms.

A section in the middle of the story features Clowes (referred to as David Clowes) in a cameo, as a cartoonist that Enid admires and with whom she is infatuated, but finds creepy and a "perv" when she actually sees him. The comic ends with Enid and Rebecca separating; while they speak half-heartedly of "getting together sometime", the easy intimacy they once knew is long gone. Rebecca is now in a relationship with Josh and seems on her way to settling into a normal life, while Enid, having failed to get into college, is as much of a misfit as ever and finally leaves town alone to start a new life.

Enid Coleslaw
Impulsive, cynical, foul-mouthed and bitter, the strip's lead character drifts through her life without care, criticizing almost everyone she meets. Enid Coleslaw is an 18-year-old, who has recently graduated from her high school, with best friend Rebecca Doppelmeyer. Enid takes an interest in playing pranks on other people, purely for her own benefit, especially a classmate named Josh who she attempts to seduce. Clowes said of Enid's character: "When I started out I thought of her as this id creature... Then I realized halfway through that she was just more vocal than I was, but she has the same kind of confusion, self-doubts and identity issues that I still have – even though she's 18 and I'm 39!"

Enid (as well as Rebecca) makes a cameo appearance as an old lady in Clowes's Pussey collection of comics. Pussey is a self-important, nerdy superhero comics artist, and the book ends in the future as Pussey dies alone and unloved, with Rebecca and Enid as two bitter crones in his rest home going through his possessions. When they discover his stash of "silly books" (comic books), they wonder, "What would a grown man want with such foolishness?" Enid Coleslaw is also an anagram of "Daniel Clowes".

Rebecca Doppelmeyer
Rebecca Doppelmeyer is Enid's best friend. Rebecca lives with her grandmother and acts as a caretaker to her. She has a bit more of a mainstream personality – while Enid enjoys more peculiar things in life, Rebecca enjoys things that most teenage girls of her age would take an interest in; for example, she reads a popular teen magazine, and is also more interested in men, and is described by Enid as "a skinny blonde WASP" and therefore embodies "what every guy wants." Rebecca and Enid spend much of the novel hanging out around the town together and making fun of others. In the end of the novel, Rebecca matures into a sensible young woman and pursues a relationship with Josh in place of her friendship with Enid as the two characters grow apart as they mature from teenagers into young adults.

Minor characters
Beyond Enid and Rebecca, there are many minor and recurring characters in the comic strip:
 * Josh, a soft-spoken employee at a self-service convenience store. Both Enid and Rebecca are infatuated with him at different points in the story.
 * Melorra, an overachieving, perky and popular classmate of Enid and Rebecca who seems to unexpectedly appear out of the blue wherever Enid and Rebecca may be.
 * Bob Skeetes, an astrologer that early in the book is referred to as the "creepy Don Knotts guy".
 * Oomi, Rebecca's fragile old grandmother, with whom Rebecca lives.
 * Norman, an old man who waits on a bench for a bus that never comes.
 * Enid's somewhat effeminate father and his girlfriend Carol, who resurfaces from Enid's past.
 * Allen, or "Weird Al", the waiter at the fake 1950s diner called Hubba Hubba (the name is changed to Wowsville in the film).
 * John Ellis, an enemy of Enid and Becky's, who often associates with them despite their dislike of him. John Ellis is obsessed with morbid and offensive things, such as Nazis, serial killers, child pornography, guns, circus freaks, torture, snuff films, and so forth. He is referred to as having a zine called Mayhem which runs stories on these topics.
 * Johnny Apeshit, a former punk rocker and heroin addict turned would-be businessman, who is famous among the girls for spray painting the word "anarchy" on Enid's dad's car.
 * Naomi, a classmate of Enid and Rebecca, called along with Melorra by Enid, "the junior JAPs of America". Enid tells Naomi the story of her first sexual experience and suggests that the two have a casual friendship.
 * Allen Weinstein, the boy with whom Enid had her first sexual experience. He smokes marijuana, listens to reggae and is interested in counterculture as a way of rebelling against his wealthy parents.
 * The Satanists, a middle-aged couple who eat at the diner Enid frequents, Angel's. They may not actually be satanic, but rather appear that way in Enid's imagination (probably due to the fact that the male of the relationship bears a resemblance to Anton LaVey).

History
Ghost World was first conceived in the early 1990s by Daniel Clowes. The comic is partially inspired by Clowes's own life; for example, Clowes moved from Los Angeles to San Francisco, and he has said that the town in the story is a visual combination of both places. Most of the novel was not written in chronological order. Clowes began writing Ghost World on September 9, 1993, and stated that he created the first chapter without any plans to continue it.

Clowes also credits as having drawn some inspiration from the film The World of Henry Orient, in which two curious young girls stalk a middle-aged man who is having an affair. In the book, Enid and Rebecca are obsessed with various strange people in the neighborhood, including "The Satanists" and a psychic named Bob Skeetes.

Many readers have tried to interpret where the title Ghost World comes from; Clowes has said it comes from something he saw scrawled on a building in his Chicago neighborhood. A graffito reading "Ghost World" is seen by the characters on the side of a building in an early installment of the comic; Enid actually reads it aloud as they walk past it. Some of the references in the book (Sassy, etc.) date the book very specifically to the 1990s, which Clowes has said was intentional. He wanted to emulate the way that throwaway cultural references in The Catcher in the Rye root the novel in a time and place.

The series was a major departure for Clowes, who had previously populated Eightball with considerably more outlandish material. Clowes has said in interviews that he chose two teenage girls for his protagonists partly because he could use them to express his more cynical opinions without readers taking the characters as author surrogates.

Artwork and illustration
Clowes has said he chose the pale blue coloring for the story because he wanted to reflect the experience of walking home in the twilight, when every house has a television on and the living rooms are bathed in a ghostly blue light.

Differences between the comic book version and the graphic novel
Clowes made various changes to the artwork between the original issues and the book collection, such as changing Becky's face early in the story so it more closely matches her appearance at the end.

The comics as they originally appeared in Eightball employed only two colors; the early chapters were in black and dark blue, then black and a lighter shade of blue later on, and black and light green for the final two chapters. The graphic novel reprint uses this light green and black color scheme throughout. There is one inadvertent exception: in Eightball #16, a printing error led to the entire chapter being published in an orange tone instead of a blue one. "No one quite knows how or why this happened," wrote Clowes in The Complete Eightball, a 2015 compilation of the comic that faithfully reproduces the mistake.

The character design also changed significantly during the original run of the story, with characters' faces becoming cleaner and less detailed, indicative of a shift in Clowes's changing aesthetic in all his comics, eschewing the minute facial details that had long been one of his trademarks, for more simplified designs. The character of John Ellis, for example, had significant shading and cross-hatching on his face in the original comics, where in the book he has a simpler, uncluttered design. Another striking example is a panel on the second page of the first chapter that shows Rebecca reading a magazine. In the original comic, her eyes and chin are shaded in, her hair reaches her shoulders, and she appears to be scowling. In the graphic novel, this panel was redrawn, softening and lightening Rebecca's features. Enid's appearance was also reworked in this panel, and in several others in the first chapter of the book.

The graphic novel includes five new drawings on the copyright, table of contents, acknowledgments, and other prefatory pages. These new drawings are tableaux of events in the characters' lives that take place prior to the story, including their high school graduation, and a graveyard visit, presumably either for Rebecca's parents (who are never seen or mentioned in the story, though the girl lives with her grandmother) or Enid's mother (who is similarly absent). The graduation scene, which shows the two girls in caps and gowns, and Enid giving the finger, was recreated in the film version.

As with Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, the chapters of the story were given names in the novel, and a table of contents was added to reflect this.

Film adaptation
The book was made into a 2001 movie, Ghost World, directed by Terry Zwigoff (also known for his award-winning documentary about underground cartoonist Robert Crumb). Thora Birch played Enid, Scarlett Johansson played Rebecca, and Steve Buscemi played Seymour (a composite character, based on elements from the comic characters of Bob Skeetes and Bearded Windbreaker). Josh was played by Brad Renfro.

Merchandise and spin-off material
A collection of merchandise and spin-off material for Ghost World has been sold since its release, some of it still available today. This includes three alternate versions of dolls of Enid. One is available from Fantagraphics with artwork by Clowes depicting Enid having various adventures, and comes with objects featured in the comic (such as the mask she buys from the pornographic store), another "Little Enid" from the Eightball comic, and an Enid/Rebecca pairing with the likeness of voodoo dolls.

In 2008, Clowes and Fantagraphics published a "special edition" of Ghost World (ISBN 978-1-56097-890-9), which included the original graphic novel, the screenplay for the 2001 film adaptation, and "dozens of pages of never-before-collected ephemera, including unused concept drawings, notes, movie posters, foreign edition covers, merchandise, artwork created for the movie by Clowes, Sophie Crumb and the cast, and much more, all annotated by Clowes."

Works influenced
The comic was the influence for Aimee Mann's song "Ghost World" on her album Bachelor No. 2 (2000).

Collections

 * Hardcover Edition: ISBN 1-56097-280-7 Fantagraphics Books (December 1, 1997)
 * Paperback Edition: ISBN 1-56097-427-3 Fantagraphics Books; 4th edition (April 1, 2001)
 * Paperback Edition: ISBN 1-56097-427-3 Fantagraphics Books; 13th edition (December 2005)

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Alien (law)

In law, an alien is any person (including an organization) who is not a citizen or a national of a specific country, although definitions and terminology differ to some degree depending upon the continent or region. More generally, however, the term "alien" is perceived as synonymous with foreign national.

Lexicology
The term "alien" is derived from the Latin alienus. The Latin later came to mean a stranger, a foreigner, or someone not related by blood. Similar terms to "alien" in this context include foreigner and lander.

Categories
Different countries around the world use varying terms for aliens. The following are several types of aliens:
 * legal alien any foreign national who is permitted under the law to be in the host country. This is a very broad category which includes travel visa holders or foreign tourists, registered refugees, temporary residents, permanent residents, and those who have relinquished their citizenship and/or nationality. Categories of legal alien include
 * temporary resident alien any foreign national who has been lawfully granted permission by the government to drive, fly, travel, lodge, reside, study or work for a specific number of years and then apply for an extension or leave the country before such permission expires.
 * permanent resident alien any immigrant who has been lawfully admitted into a nation and granted the legal right to remain therein as a permanent resident in accord with the nation's immigration laws.
 * nonresident alien any foreign national who is lawfully within a nation but whose legal domicile is in another nation.
 * alien enemy (or enemy alien) any foreign national of any country that is at war with the host country.
 * undocumented alien (or illegal alien) any person who is liable to deportation because their presence in a nation is in violation of that nation's immigration laws.

Common law jurisdictions
An "alien" in English law denoted any person born outside of the monarch's dominions and who did not owe allegiance to the monarch. Aliens were not allowed to own land and were subject to different taxes to subjects. This idea was passed on in the Commonwealth to other common law jurisdictions.

Australia
In Australia, citizenship is defined in the Australian nationality law. Non-citizens in Australia are permanent residents, temporary residents, or illegal residents (technically called "unlawful non-citizens"). Most non-citizens (including those who lack citizenship documents) traveling to Australia must obtain a visa prior to travel. The only exceptions to the rule are holders of New Zealand passports and citizenship, who may apply for a visa on arrival according to the Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement.

In 2020, in Love v Commonwealth, the High Court of Australia ruled that Aboriginal Australians (as defined in Mabo v Queensland (No 2)) cannot be considered aliens under the Constitution of Australia, regardless of whether they were born in Australia or hold Australian citizenship.

Canada
In Canada, the term "alien" is not used in federal statutes. Instead, the term "foreign national" serves as its equivalent and is found in legal documents. The Immigration and Refugee Protection Act defines "foreign national" as "a person who is not a Canadian citizen or a permanent resident, and includes a stateless person."

United Kingdom
In the United Kingdom, the British Nationality Act of 1981 defines an alien as a person who is not a British citizen, a citizen of Ireland, a Commonwealth citizen, or a British protected person. The Aliens Act of 1905, the British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act of 1914 and the Aliens Restriction (Amendment) Act of 1919 were all products of the turbulence in the early part of the 20th century.

United States
Under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) of the United States, "[t]he term 'alien' means any person not a citizen or national of the United States." People born in American Samoa or on Swains Island are statutorily "non-citizen nationals." Others, such as natives of Palau and the Marshall Islands, are legal immigrants and aliens for INA purposes.

Every refugee that is admitted to the United States under automatically becomes an "immigrant" and then a "special immigrant" after receiving a green card.

The usage of the term "alien" dates back to 1798, when it was used in the Alien and Sedition Acts. Although the INA provides no overarching explicit definition of the term "illegal alien", it is mentioned in a number of provisions under title 8 of the US code. Several provisions even mention the term "unauthorized alien". According to PolitiFact, the term "illegal alien" occurs in federal law, but does so scarcely, writing that, "where the term does appear, it's undefined or part of an introductory title or limited to apply to certain individuals convicted of felonies.”

Since the U.S. law says that a corporation is a person, the term alien is not limited to natural humans because what are colloquially called foreign corporations are technically called alien corporations. Because corporations are creations of local state law, a foreign corporation is an out-of-state corporation.

There are a multitude of unique and highly complex U.S. domestic tax laws and regulations affecting the U.S. tax residency of foreign nationals, both nonresident aliens and resident aliens, in addition to income tax and social security tax treaties and totalization agreements.

"Alienage", i.e., citizenship status, has been prohibited since 1989 in New York City from being considered for employment, under that town's Human Rights legislation.

Arab states
In the Gulf Cooperation Council (United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, and Qatar), many non-natives have lived in the region since birth. However, these Arab states do not easily grant citizenship to non-natives. Most stateless Bedoon in Kuwait belong to indigenous northern tribes.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Donnchadh O Madagain

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. – ABCD 01:12, 13 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Donnchadh O Madagain
The article is a silly stub. But the subject is non-notable. Delete. --BM 02:33, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. Non-notable private individual. -- Antaeus Feldspar 02:35, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, possible vanity. Megan1967 07:02, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, vanity.Gorrister 18:42, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, nn, vanity. Vlad M V  ٭ talk 14:58, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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 * Delete, nn CatCrofts 13:04, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, nn -- Wmahan. 18:43, 2005 Apr 12 (UTC)

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AOpen

AOPEN (, stylized AOPEN) is a major electronics manufacturer from Taiwan that makes computers and parts for computers. AOPEN used to be the Open System Business Unit of Acer Computer Inc. which designed, manufactured and sold computer components.

It was incorporated in December 1996 as a subsidiary of Acer Group with an initial public offering (IPO) at the Taiwan stock exchange in August 2002. It is also the first subsidiary that established the entrepreneurship paradigm in the pan-Acer Group. At that time, AOPENs major shareholder was the Wistron Group. In 2018 AOPEN became a partner of the pan-Acer Group again as the business-to-business branch of the computing industry.

They are perhaps most well known for their "Mobile on Desktop" (MoDT), which implements Intel's Pentium M platform on desktop motherboards. Because the Pentium 4 and other NetBurst CPUs proved less energy efficient than the Pentium M, in late 2004 and early 2005, many manufacturers introduced desktop motherboards for the mobile Pentium M, AOPEN being one of the first.

AOPEN currently specializes in ultra small form factor (uSFF) platform applications; digital signage; and product development and designs characterized by miniaturization, standardization and modularization.

Product position and strategies
Since 2005 AOPEN has been developing energy-saving products. According to different types of customers, applications and contexts, AOPEN splits its product platforms into two major categories: media player platform and Panel PC platform, both of which have Windows, Linux, ChromeOS and Android devices.

Digital Signage Platform
There are six major parts in AOPEN's digital signage platform applications: media player, management, deployment, display, extension and software. AOPEN manufacturers the digital signage media players with operating system and pre-imaging. This also includes a remote management option.

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Lorna Milne

Lorna Ann Milne (13 December 1934 – 1 March 2023) was Canadian politician who served as a senator from 1995 to 2009.

Early life and career
Milne was the daughter of former Mayor of Toronto and Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) William Dennison and granddaughter of Isaac Bainbridge, early labour organizer and pacifist. Her husband, William Ross Milne, served as a Liberal federal Member of Parliament in the 1970s, and is a cousin of the first female member of Parliament Agnes MacPhail.

After graduation, Milne lectured in the Department of Physics at the University of Guelph. In the 1960s, after moving to Brampton, she became a political and community activist, serving as a school trustee, first on the Brampton School Board (1964–68) and then as Vice Chair of the Peel County Board of Education (1964–72). She owned Flowertown Antiques (1972–89), featuring early Canadian pressed glass, a field in which she was a known expert.

Milne was involved in community activities and charitable organizations, serving as President of the North Peel unit of the Canadian Cancer Society in the 1980s and as residential coordinator for the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ont. She also served on the Board of the Brampton YM-YWCA, the Brampton Caledon Community Living and as a Director of the Peel County Heritage Complex. In addition, she was a Board member of the Ontario Automobile Insurance Board. She served twice as a Census Commissioner for Statistics Canada (1971 and 1981).

Milne founded the Brampton and District University Women’s Club and served on the Senate of the University of Guelph (1981–85).

Milne had a passion for genealogy and researching family history. Over the years, she was involved with the Ontario Genealogical Society (OGS), and in 2002, she was named Hon. Patron of the Ontario Genealogical Society. Her other long-term hobby was collecting and researching early Canadian pressed glass. Over the years, she amassed a museum-worthy collection. She was recognized as an authority on Canadian pressed glass patterns and an active member of Glassfax.

Senate career
In 1995, she was appointed to the Senate on the advice of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien. In the Senate, she served as chair of the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee, and waged a seven-year campaign from 1998 to 2005 to allow historical census data to be released to the public. It culminated when Bill S-18 was passed, ensuring that all censuses conducted until 2001 would be released after 92 years, and all subsequent censuses starting with the 2006 census would allow Canadians the option to decide whether or not their information would be released. She also served as Chair of Committee on Rules, Procedures and the Rights of Parliament when it successfully recommended creation of the position of Senate Ethics Officer. She was also responsible for the legalization of hemp as an agricultural crop in 1999.

Milne served as Senate Vice-Chair of the National Liberal Caucus from 2006–2009 and also was President of the Canada-Europe Parliamentary Association from 2004-2008.

In 2009, Lorna Milne retired from the Senate upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 75.

Later life and death
In 2015, Milne donated 50 acres of the treed forest she and her dad planted in her youth. That land will forever be a protected forest and wetland area just outside Caledon East. As a consequence, Milne was awarded the Charles Sauriol Leadership Award by the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority.

After her retirement, Milne devoted her time to researching the Dennison, Bainbridge and Milne family genealogy, caring for her grandchildren, and spending time at her cottage on Kasshabog Lake. She died on 1 March 2023, at the age of 88.

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Shane Black

Shane Black (born December 16, 1961) is an American filmmaker and actor who has written such films as Lethal Weapon, The Monster Squad, The Last Boy Scout, Last Action Hero, and The Long Kiss Goodnight. He is also known as the original creator of the Lethal Weapon franchise. As an actor, Black is best known for his role as Rick Hawkins in Predator (1987).

He made his directorial debut with the film Kiss Kiss Bang Bang in 2005. Black went on to write and direct Iron Man 3 (2013), The Nice Guys (2016), and The Predator (2018).

Early life and education
Black was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the son of Paul and Patricia Ann Black. His father was in the printing business, and helped Black develop his interest in hardboiled fiction, including the works of Mickey Spillane and the Matt Helm series. He grew up in the suburbs of Lower Burrell and Mount Lebanon, Pennsylvania, and later moved to Fullerton, California, during his sophomore year of high school. In Fullerton, he attended Sunny Hills High School.

He attended UCLA, where he majored in film and theater and graduated in 1983. During his senior year, he decided to make a living from it once his classmate Fred Dekker showed him a science fiction script he did for an assignment. Black's older brother, Terry Black, also wrote short stories and decided to move into screenplays starting with 1988's Dead Heat, in which Shane had a cameo.

Screenwriting and acting
After graduating, Black worked as a typist for a temp agency, a data entry clerk for the 1984 Summer Olympics and an usher in a Westwood movie theater. Eventually he asked for financial support of his parents during the six-month development of a script, The Shadow Company, a supernatural thriller set in Vietnam. With Dekker's help, the script landed him an agent and several meetings with mid-level studio executives. This attracted 20th Century Fox executives, who were interested in having Black rewrite scripts.

Eventually Black wrote an action film script, Lethal Weapon, in about six weeks, which landed him a $250,000 deal with Warner Bros. During the rewrites, Black asked producer Joel Silver for a small acting role in another film Silver was preparing at the time, Predator, a film for which Black also made uncredited contributions to the script. At the same time, Black helped Dekker write The Monster Squad, which along with Lethal Weapon and Predator came out in 1987. Since then, Black has acted in five additional films and in two episodes for the TV series Dark Justice.

Once Warner Bros. requested a Lethal Weapon sequel, Black wrote the first draft of Lethal Weapon 2 with the help of novelist Warren Murphy. Although it was not used, Black said in later interviews that Warner Bros. did not like his original script for Lethal Weapon 2, which was also titled Play Dirty, because of how dark and violent it was and due to his decision to kill off main character Martin Riggs in the ending of the script. Black considers it to be his best work and the best script he has written.

Feeling burned out and having conflicts with the studio, Black left the project after six months, earning $125,000 out of a $250,000 payment split with Murphy, for his work. After two sabbatical years, Black decided to take on an old idea of his that emerged during the production of Lethal Weapon and turn it into a full screenplay. The result, The Last Boy Scout, earned him $1.75 million in 1991. Black earned $1 million for his rewrite of Last Action Hero in 1993. He set a record by receiving $4 million for writing The Long Kiss Goodnight in 1994.

Directing
Black made his directorial debut with 2005's Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, and later directed (and co-wrote with Drew Pearce) 2013's Iron Man 3, which as of 2024 ranks as the twenty-fifth-highest-grossing film of all time worldwide.

Black next directed and co-wrote Edge, a pilot for a potential series for Amazon Studios. The film was released on video on demand but not picked up for a series. He followed this with the action comedy The Nice Guys, starring Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling, and produced by Joel Silver. Warner Bros. handled North American rights to the film, which was released on May 20, 2016.

Black next directed the fourth non-Alien-related film in the Predator series, The Predator, which he co-wrote with Fred Dekker. The film was released on September 14, 2018. Black hired his friend Steven Wilder Striegel for a minor, un-auditioned role in The Predator (as well as, previously, Iron Man 3 and The Nice Guys). Striegel spent six months in prison in 2010, having pleaded guilty to risk of injury to a child and enticing a minor by computer after he had attempted to lure a 14-year-old girl into a sexual relationship via email. Olivia Munn, an actress in The Predator, insisted on having a scene with Striegel removed after she discovered his history. Black initially defended his decision and his friend, but later rescinded them and released a public apology.

Black will next direct the film Play Dirty, an adaptation of Donald E. Westlake's Parker novel series.

Black's unrealized projects included an adaptation of Doc Savage and The Destroyer, based on the series of paperback adventure novels that previously inspired the 1985 film Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, starring Fred Ward. He was briefly attached by Warner Bros. in 2011 to direct a live-action American adaptation of the Japanese supernatural-thriller manga series Death Note, bringing his collaborators Anthony Bagarozzi and Charles Mondry to write the screenplay, replacing Charley and Vlas Parlapanides as the project's previous screenwriters. By 2014, he had left the project, due to reported creative differences and other commitments. Director Adam Wingard was eventually hired to helm the project by 2015.

Style
Black has a recognizable writing style characterized by stories in which two main characters become friends, problematic protagonists who become better human beings at the end of the narrative, and trade witty dialogue, featuring labyrinthine crime plots, often set during Christmas time. The quips he incorporates into his scripts are referred to as "Shane Blackisms", in which jokes about the story situations are included in the scene directions of the script. He also sometimes directs comments at studio executives and script readers. Examples of these include:

From Lethal Weapon: EXT. POSH BEVERLY HILLS HOME – TWILIGHT

The kind of house that I'll buy if this movie is a huge hit. Chrome. Glass. Carved wood. Plus an outdoor solarium: A glass structure, like a greenhouse only there's a big swimming pool inside. This is a really great place to have sex.

From The Last Boy Scout: Remember Jimmy's friend, Henry, who we met briefly near the opening of the film? Of course you do, you're a highly-paid reader or development person.

This approach, which Black summed as "more open to the reader" and aimed at "trying to keep people awake", was described by himself as a combination of William Goldman, his mentor in screenwriting, and Walter Hill, who had a "terse and Spartan, punchy prose". Black gave a list of techniques he uses when writing films in an interview with The Guardian.

Black explains that Christmas, which has been used as a backdrop in Lethal Weapon, Last Action Hero, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Iron Man 3 and The Nice Guys (and in his original script for The Last Boy Scout, although references to the date have been almost entirely eliminated from the film), is a touchstone for him, explaining:

"Christmas represents a little stutter in the march of days, a hush in which we have a chance to assess and retrospect our lives. I tend to think also that it just informs as a backdrop. The first time I noticed it was Three Days of the Condor, the Sydney Pollack film, where Christmas in the background adds this really odd, chilling counterpoint to the espionage plot. I also think that Christmas is just a thing of beauty, especially as it applies to places like Los Angeles, where it's not so obvious, and you have to dig for it, like little nuggets. One night, on Christmas Eve, I walked past a Mexican lunch wagon serving tacos, and I saw this little string, and on it was a little broken plastic figurine, with a light bulb inside it, of the Virgin Mary. And I thought, that's just a little hidden piece of magic. You know, all around the city are little slices, little icons of Christmas, that are as effective and beautiful in and of themselves as any 40-foot Christmas tree on the lawn of the White House. So that, in a lot of words, is the answer."

Film
Uncredited script doctor
 * Predator (1987)
 * Dead Heat (1988)
 * The Hunt for Red October (1990)
 * RoboCop 3 (1993)

Unproduced
 * Shadow Company (1988)
 * Sgt. Rock (1989)
 * Wild Wild West (1992)
 * Cold Warrior (2008)
 * Doc Savage (2010)
 * Death Note (2011)
 * The Destroyer (2014)
 * Hobbs & Shaw (2017)
 * The Avengers (2018)

Awards and honors
Black received the Distinguished Screenwriter Award from the Austin Film Festival October 21, 2006. In 2005, he received the Best Original Screenplay award for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang from the San Diego Film Critics Association.

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Talk:H.O.R.D.E. Festival

Shouldn't there be a period after the last E? Fire Star 02:38, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Yes -- I just made the request Requested moves 209.219.72.230 02:46, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * This doesn't seem likely to be controversial. Why not be bold and go ahead and hit the move button. If that doesn't work, or you need help, let us know. Jonathunder 20:34, 2005 Apr 7 (UTC)

I can't vouch for much of the info on this page, but wanted to clean it all up at bit. Can anyone more fluent in 'jam' bands weigh in here? Cabiria 15:57, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

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Thusnelda

Thusnelda (c. 10 BC – after AD 17) was a Germanic Cheruscan noblewoman who was captured by the Roman general Germanicus during his invasion of Germania. She was the wife of Arminius. Tacitus and Strabo cite her capture as evidence of both the firmness and restraint of Roman arms.

Biography
Thusnelda was the daughter of the pro-Roman Cheruscan prince Segestes. In 9 AD, Arminius, Thusnelda's future husband, who had been given by his father to the Romans as a child and raised as a Roman military commander serving under Publius Quinctilius Varus, switched sides to the Germans, and led a coalition of Germanic tribes that defeated the legions of Varus at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The conflict between the Roman Empire and the Germanic tribes continued after the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, and Arminius abducted and raped Thusnelda circa 14 AD, likely as a result of a dispute with her pro-Roman father, according to Tacitus.

In May 15 AD, Thusnelda was captured by Germanicus, who commanded the invasion of Germania. She was pregnant and staying with her father, who had seized her from Arminius at some point. It was Segestes who delivered her to Germanicus, after the latter saved the former by driving off Arminius' forces, who had besieged Segestes. Arminius grieved his loss of Thusnelda deeply and did not marry again. According to Tacitus, Arminius was "driven to frenzy" by the loss of his wife.

During her captivity, Thusnelda gave birth to her and Arminius' only child, Thumelicus. At the Battle of the Weser River, Arminius engaged in a famous dispute with his brother Flavus, who was still serving in the Roman army. Flavus informed Arminius that Thusnelda was being well-treated — as, he claimed, was typical of Rome. On May 26, 17 AD, Thusnelda and her son Thumelicus were displayed as prized trophies of the triumph granted to Germanicus. During the triumphal parade, her father watched from the stands, Tacitus suggests with mixed feelings. Contemporary historians evince discomfort with her display as evidence of Roman victory in Germania, as Arminius had resisted capture.

Tacitus wrote that he would report on Thumelicus' fate "at the proper time" — i.e., when he discussed the year in question in his chronicle. The main gap in the text of the Annals is for 30 and 31 AD, so it could be that Thumelicus died then, aged 15 or 16.

Details of Thusnelda's life after the triumph of 17 AD and her date of death are unknown.

In popular culture
In the 2020 German Netflix series Barbarians, Thusnelda is played by German actress Jeanne Goursaud.

Thusnelda (under the name of Rosmonda) and other figures of the conflict between Arminius and Germanicus were immortalized by the Italian composer Nicola Porpora in his opera Germanico in Germania.

She was also a character in the novel "Roman Mask", part one of the Cassius Chronicles, by Thomas MD Brooke.

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Harvard sentences

The Harvard sentences, or Harvard lines, is a collection of 720 sample phrases, divided into lists of 10, used for standardized testing of Voice over IP, cellular, and other telephone systems. They are phonetically balanced sentences that use specific phonemes at the same frequency they appear in English.

IEEE Recommended Practice for Speech Quality Measurements sets out seventy-two lists of ten phrases each, described as the "1965 Revised List of Phonetically Balanced Sentences (Harvard Sentences)." They are widely used in research on telecommunications, speech, and acoustics, where standardized and repeatable sequences of speech are needed. The Open Speech Repository provides some freely usable, prerecorded WAV files of Harvard Sentences in American and British English, in male and female voices.

Harvard lines are also used to observe how an actor's mouth can move when they are talking. This can be used when creating more realistic CGI models.

Sample Harvard sentences
The first three lists are as follows:

List 1

 * 1) The birch canoe slid on the smooth planks.
 * 2) Glue the sheet to the dark blue background.
 * 3) It's easy to tell the depth of a well.
 * 4) These days a chicken leg is a rare dish.
 * 5) Rice is often served in round bowls.
 * 6) The juice of lemons makes fine punch.
 * 7) The box was thrown beside the parked truck.
 * 8) The hogs were fed chopped corn and garbage.
 * 9) Four hours of steady work faced us.
 * 10) A large size in stockings is hard to sell.

List 2

 * 1) The boy was there when the sun rose.
 * 2) A rod is used to catch pink salmon.
 * 3) The source of the huge river is the clear spring.
 * 4) Kick the ball straight and follow through.
 * 5) Help the woman get back to her feet.
 * 6) A pot of tea helps to pass the evening.
 * 7) Smoky fires lack flame and heat.
 * 8) The soft cushion broke the man's fall.
 * 9) The salt breeze came across from the sea.
 * 10) The girl at the booth sold fifty bonds.

List 3

 * 1) The small pup gnawed a hole in the sock.
 * 2) The fish twisted and turned on the bent hook.
 * 3) Press the pants and sew a button on the vest.
 * 4) The swan dive was far short of perfect.
 * 5) The beauty of the view stunned the young boy.
 * 6) Two blue fish swam in the tank.
 * 7) Her purse was full of useless trash.
 * 8) The colt reared and threw the tall rider.
 * 9) It snowed, rained, and hailed the same morning.
 * 10) Read verse out loud for pleasure.

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File:StarWarsExhibitLogo.jpg

Summary
Logo for the Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination exhibit, created by the Museum of Science, Boston, and opening there on October 27, 2005.

While copyright control is probably rather tight, especially for Star Wars, and for an exhibit that has yet to open, use of this logo for an encyclopedia article on the exhibit should count as fair use.

Licensing
Copied from The Exhibit's Official Site.

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Talk:Candle demonstration in Bratislava

First demonstration?
It was first mass demonstration since certain time? Since 1980s? Pavel Vozenilek 02:41, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * see History of Czechoslovakia for more information--nixie 03:46, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * It was first demonstration of late 80', not in whole history in communist Czechoslovakia (there were many, many more before). Pavel Vozenilek 18:29, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I'm wondering if anyone learned how to make candles.

translating from SK wiki article
those interesting in helping, have a look at User:MikeGogulski/Sandbox/cd, where i've begun. — Mike Gogulski ↗C• @ •T↗ 01:41, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

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The Losing Edge

"The Losing Edge" is the fifth episode in the ninth season of the American animated television series South Park, and the 130th episode of the series overall. It originally aired on Comedy Central in the United States on April 6, 2005.

In the episode, the boys try to lose their baseball games on purpose so they can enjoy the summer, instead of dealing with baseball. Meanwhile, Randy trains to fight the other fathers at the games.

Plot
None of the boys playing for the South Park Cows, the town's Little League Baseball team, enjoy the sport at all. They find it boring and play only because of their parents' enthusiasm for it. When they win their final game, they are overjoyed at first, believing that the season is over and they can now enjoy the summer. To their horror, they discover that since they have finished first in their division, they must participate in the post-season playoffs. At a "celebration" meal, the boys discuss plans to lose on purpose without getting in trouble with their parents.

During the playoffs, they learn that the other teams also want out, and have actually trained to lose games. The Cows end up winning again and again against opponents whose efforts at throwing games are more successful, and they reach the state championship. If they win, they will have to spend their entire summer playing baseball on the national circuit.

Meanwhile, Stan's father Randy has taken up trash-talking as a hobby, getting drunk and acting obnoxiously at the games in order to start fights with the fathers of other teams' players. This behavior leads to him being arrested multiple times. While training to be the best fighter he can be, Randy becomes terrified when he meets the Denver Little League team's "Bat Dad", who wears a purple Batman cowl and cape, and who is both heavier and more misbehaved than he is. Randy decides not to attend the championship game in fear that he is not good enough.

The game is played at Coors Field; like the Cows' other opponents, the Denver team does not want to win either. The Cows have drafted Kyle's nerdy cousin Kyle Schwartz, who is terrible at all sports, in the hope of ruining their chances to win. However, the Denver team is the best yet at intentionally losing. Just as the Cows find themselves on the verge of winning, Randy appears in the stands and provokes a fight with the Bat Dad that spills onto the field; the officials warn the two men that the next one who acts aggressively will get his team disqualified. Though Randy gets knocked down, the boys' cheering, combined with a hallucination of a crowd including Mickey Goldmill and his wife Sharon (who had previously stated he could simply choose not to fight if he didn't want to) cheering him on, inspires him to stand up and continue fighting before finally knocking out Bat Dad, resulting in the Cows' disqualification and Denver's victory by default. Randy feels dejected at having cost the Cows the championship as he is placed under arrest, but Stan lifts his spirits by thanking him for doing so. He ends the episode leaping for joy while under police custody.

Production
The episode's idea originally came from series co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone thinking that the children of South Park would look cute in baseball uniforms. Parker and Stone also were not fans of baseball themselves so it made sense to have the boys hate baseball. The choice to go ahead with a baseball-themed episode did create some problems animation-wise, however, as most of the children look nearly identical wearing the same uniforms. A lot of time was spent on ensuring that each character was distinguishable from each other. For example, Butters Stotch and Stan Marsh look identical with the same attire. To rectify this, Stan's hair is more prominent than Butters' and Butters has a speaking line early. Additionally, Kenny appears with his hat slightly covering his face, making this one of Kenny's most visible episodes. The episode's plot was originally going to be used in  Best Friends Forever  but was put on hold when they came up with an episode based on the Terri Schiavo case instead.

According to the DVD commentary, "this was a really, really hard episode to do" because sports episodes in general aren't easy but also because the teams are trying to lose. Because they are trying to lose on purpose, new rules are needed which makes it different from any actual sport. The character of Bat Dad made it easier for Parker and Stone, however, as if it got too difficult, they could cut to Bat Dad.

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Bella Morte

Bella Morte is a gothic rock band that was formed in 1996 in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States. They incorporate elements of metal, dark wave, deathrock, alternative, and synthpop. The band's name means "Beautiful Death" in Italian language. According to Andy Deane, the name was chosen to suggest that "beauty can be found in tragedy", which is a theme occurring in every Bella Morte's album.

In 2002, they signed with Metropolis Records. Bella Morte previously released albums through their own label, Some Wear Leather, and through Cleopatra Records. In early fall 2006, Metropolis Records announced that Bella Morte had reached number one on the company's pre-order sales list with their new album, Bleed the Grey Sky Black, which was released on October 10, 2006.

The bass guitarist and co-founder Gopal Metro decided to leave the band, playing his last show on March 10, 2007, in Charlottesville. At the same show, the vocalist Andy Deane announced that Tony Pugh would replace Metro. At the beginning of summer 2008, it was announced that Jordan Marchini would not be touring with the band any longer. Nevertheless, he returned in 2011.

Current Band Members

 * Andy Deane – vocals

Former Band Members

 * Gopal Metro – bass
 * Tony Lechmanski – guitars
 * Marshall Camden – bass
 * Tony Pugh – bass
 * Jordan Marchini – drums
 * Branden Shores – drums
 * Scotty Derrico – drums
 * Clay Caricofe – drums
 * Chris "Frizzle" – guitars
 * Bn Whitlow – guitars
 * Micah Consylman – keyboards (mainly the keytar during live performance)
 * James Warnock – keyboards, lighting

Full releases

 * Remorse (cassette only, demo) (1996)
 * Remains (1997)
 * Where Shadows Lie (2000)
 * The Death Rock EP (Vinyl – limited to 300) (2001)
 * The Quiet (2002)
 * The Death Rock EP (CD w/ bonus tracks) (2002)
 * Remains (Remastered Version) (2002)
 * As the Reasons Die (2004)
 * Songs for the Dead (2004)
 * Bleed The Grey Sky Black (2006)
 * Beautiful Death (October 7, 2008)
 * Before the Flood (June 14, 2011)
 * Rare and Unreleased, volume 1 (February 14, 2012)
 * The Best of Bella Morte 1996–2012 (June 25, 2013)
 * Exorcisms (2014)
 * Year of the Ghost (August 14, 2017)

Side projects
Andy Deane released a solo album as "The Rain Within", a reference to the Bella Morte's song "The Rain Within Her Hands", in 2010 titled Pain Management.

Compilations

 * The Pink and The Black (1998) (Delinquent Records) – "One Winter's Night"
 * The Unquiet Grave Vol 1 (1998) (Cleopatra Records) – "Funeral Night"
 * Music from the Succubus Club (2000) (Dancing Ferret Discs) – "Fall No More"
 * The Darkest Millennium (2000) (Cleopatra Records) – "The Rain Within Her Hands"
 * A Gothic-Industrial Tribute to Smashing Pumpkins (2001) (Cleopatra Records) – "Soma"
 * New Dark Noise (2002) (Cleopatra Records) – "Relics"
 * Electronic Saviors Volume 2: Recurrence (2012) (Metropolis Records) – "Lost"
 * Electronic Saviors Volume 3: Remission (2014) (Metropolis Records) – "The One Beside Me"

Music videos

 * "In The Dirt" directed by Lloyd Kaufman was filmed on February 20, 2010, at Con Nooga in Chattanooga, Tennessee
 * "Find Forever Gone" directed by Eric Thomas Craven. Released on September 30, 2008
 * "On the Edge" directed by Eric Thomas Craven. Released on February 14, 2008
 * "Earth Angel" directed by Eric Thomas Craven. Released on February 14, 2007
 * "Another Way" directed by Wendy Shuey (2004)
 * "Exorcisms" directed by Marshall Camden (2014)
 * "Water Through Sand" directed by Brian Wimer (2015)

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Talk:Garbage Pail Kids

Cabbage Patch Kids
Cabbage Patch Kids were made by Coleco NOT Mattel. Why don't you get your facts straight!!

 * No need to get upset. It seems that the dolls were created by Xavier Roberts (Original Appalachian Artworks, Inc.) and later sold by Coleco and eventually Mattel, so I've reworded it. Hope it's OK. ~ Conbinibento 09:31, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

The dolls were originally invented by a Kentucky artist named Martha Nelson Thomas. Martha first started making them in the early 70s, and would "adopt" them out to family and friends.

The dolls eventually caught the eye of Xavier Roberts, a Georgia man who ran a gift shop. After Martha denied him permission to sell her dolls, he stole the design and began making his own versions.

Xavier's dolls, which each had his signature printed on the ass, became wildly successful over the next few years. Their popularity reached its peak in 1983, when shortages of the dolls over the Christmas period led to mini-riots in toy stores across the country. Through all this, Martha didn't make a single penny from her creation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hmfree (talk • contribs) 14:16, 15 May 2015 (UTC)

Stub?
It looks like The Garbage Pail Kids Article is a stub?

 * Seems alright to me... 85.226.122.205 00:40, 13 January 2006 (UTC)

Character articles
Character articles are being created and deleted. Maybe a good idea to list characters on this page. Potatoswatter 16:42, 21 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Don't delete them, redirect them to this article. It would be fun to read an article about a GPK character. Of course they shouldn't actually be separate articles. A from L.A. (talk) 12:48, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

The movie
I think the movie deserves it's own page. Right now you click the link and it redirects back here again, creating a loop. Obviously it had it's own page at one point. Lots of feature-length films have their own entries. WHy wouldn't the Garbage Pail Kids movie?--76.205.56.187 (talk) 03:37, 10 January 2008 (UTC)

I completely agree.Falolizer (talk) 02:31, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

I do not know about that. Maybe there should at least be more information about it on the article. Ian Fairchild (talk) 16:14, 28 July 2009 (UTC)

Series breakdown
It would be great to breakdown character by Series. Or at least make mention of the fact that the cards were released as "series". Additionally, special "street cred" was given to those of us who own Series 1 cards like "April Showers".Jsarao (talk) 20:08, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

 * A full breakdown of each series would turn into a nightmare. Plus, it would never fly with the admins of Wiki. The breakdown would be no more than an exhaustive list. Why recreate info here that the sites in the External links section have done a great job of doing for us? --Brownings (talk) 03:10, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Back of card
Need summary description of examples of things found on the backs of the cards.Jsarao (talk) 20:17, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Forbidden in Mexico?
I was just looking here at the Cabo San Luca airport page and it says in forbidden custom items Stamps, cards or wrapping paper (color or b/w) even on chewing gum, or candy packages with figures or drawings showing denigration messages to childhood, ridicule, violence related, self destruction, or any other sociopath behavior known as “Garbage Pail Kids” Anyone want to elaborate on that?--70.75.210.1 (talk) 23:48, 18 December 2008 (UTC)

Imitations
In the 1980s there were at least two imitations of Garbage Pail Kids being produced and sold in Los Angeles (and presumably elsewhere). One was a series of 36 or so stickers called Trash Can Tots that were sold as several stickers at a time in transparent plastic bubbles for 25 cents a bubble (those same kind of plastic "bubbles" that they used to sell slime in etc. for kids). At least I remember that they were sold like this. I still have all the Trash Can Tots that I bought as a kid, and according to a google search about 36 were produced. I don't have the entire series but I have a lot of them. I will soon scan them and begin the Trash Can Tots article. They should also be mentioned in this article along with other imitations. There was another series of imitations produced by others, I forgot what they were called but I have one sticker from that series in my garage somewhere, next to my almost complete collection of Garbage Pail Kids (not including the new series from this decade). A from L.A. (talk) 10:38, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

Can you at least describe the sticker. I may be able to tell you the sticker series' name. I was once so obsessed with those cards, I knew a lot about them. Ian Fairchild (talk) 06:19, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

I just found out about a card series released back in 1986 called Grossville High. It was a knock-off of GPK, as the name implied. Perhaps a list of spoofs of the GPK or card sets or stickers inspired by the GPK is in order. Ian Fairchild (talk) 17:24, 7 October 2009 (UTC)

School ban
It's a known fact that these cards were (and still are) banned at most schools. The problem is finding enough online sources that say so. Also, we'd like to know what degrees of punishment are imposed on those caught with these cards.

Also, a long time ago, I saw an official promo poster showing a kid literally getting booted out of school while holding a stack of GPK cards. I tried doing a search, but no leads. Anyone know where I can find it, as it would be ideal to post on this article. - Areaseven (talk) 05:07, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

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Addition of reference to book chase cards
A mention of the Garbage Paill Kids book's four chase cards in the inside back cover of the book should be included. All of the Abrams Books Topps trading card books had them and they're even mentioned on the front cover of the book's picture in the article.

Someone named Cassiopeia has removed this mention twice, even after I explained it to this person the second time around. Someone please inform this person that this is an actual thing and that it's still being done.Malcolmlucascollins (talk) 13:56, 2 April 2019 (UTC)

Updating the article
Is it possible for someone to update the article in the sections Brand-New Series sets, 2014 Series 1 and Yearly themed sets? This is long since overdue.Malcolmlucascollins (talk) 02:29, 25 February 2020 (UTC)

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