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User talk:Alhutch

Previous discussions on this page:

 * Archive 1 (April 2005 to December 2005):
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 * Archive 3 (January 2006 to April 2006):

Trigger Happy
Dear Administrator: I, like you, am an editor; I create articles and make edits. But, many, I am sure many other people out there, are tired, frustrated and angry with the behavior of many Administrators. I am certain that it is appallingly easy to revert and article, that someone has undoubtedly spent allot of time and effort writing. I have, in the past spent hours, researching, planning, writing, checking and revising an addition to an article only to have the whole lot deleted forever three minutes afterwards.

I know that deletion of material is essential in a free-to-edit encyclopedia, but if you see an article that someone has anonymously devoted their time to writing, why could you not revise it, change it or give a reason for you action? They deserve one.

I know all Administrators are not all Drunk-With- Power-Trigger-Happy-Nazis, many of you do an excellent job and you know who you are. The world owes you. I owe You.

In closing: Create, don’t Destroy. Make a distinction between “what is right, and what is easy”. Be enriched and enrich others with the knowledge of other people.

And keep that finger off the trigger.

Dfrg.msc 01:44, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

Hi Alhutch,
Hi Alhutch,

Am I supposed to send you messages here or by posting to the end of Jan-April 2006? Anyway, please move this if it's wrong.

I wrote an article on Wikipedia that Karl Haqlund at DCR corrected. I guess that's NPV (Very new at this). Thought maybe you'd like to know about the article. I don't feel at ease just cutting & pasting onto this site - because maybe you don't want that. Here's the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hositt. Probably best to reach me at my *coughs* email address: */coughs* (mainly because I'm such a newbie).

Thanks Chris Hositt dot us

Pokémania
(deletes embarrassing poképun) Thanks for reverting the vandalism. Cheers, H ig hway Rainbow Sneakers 18:42, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

gun, jumped, face, egg
Sorry for jumping the gun (and the shark) on User: General Veers.... Apparently his mistake in reverting to the wrong version of Scientology was compounded by another editor's beating him to correcting the vandalism, making it appear in the history as if he was the one originally inserting the comment. When I saw he was editing pages at an alarmingly quick rate, I jumped to the wrong conclusion and blew the whistle before checking his edits. wikipediatrix 17:43, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Quote
* laughing* Where did you find that quote from me? I can't remember saying it, but don't deny that I did...I'm always suprised to find what things others find interesting. :-D Essjay  (  Talk  •  Connect  ) 07:24, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

 * let's see, i think i was reverting someone from merkey's ip range on the jeff merkey article, and you came in and blocked him. i thought it was hilarious with the thing about leveling up to level 6 rogue. hope you don't mind that it's there, but it still makes me smile when i see it. keep up the good work :-) Alhutch 01:59, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks, and of couse I don't mind; I was just wandering around, and happened to notice it. I'm sure I've said other odd things...This was rather enjoyable... :-D Essjay  (  Talk  •  Connect  ) 07:08, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

reversion
Hi, many thanks for your help on Solar eclipse. My attempt to revert messed up because several other edits were made meantime. How am I supposed to do reversions safely on a page where edits are coming in so fast? Or is it better to leave it to admins who can use rollback? Arbitrary username 20:02, 5 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Thanks for your reply. Arbitrary username 14:18, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Boloco tomorrow?
We're having a meetup tomorrow at 7pm in Harvard Square's Boloco restaurant; care to join us? +sj + 17:58, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

Global Warming
Why is it that I cannot change the global warming article to state that it is a theory. Is this your attempt at using a wiki article to promote your personal environmental views? I'd like to remind you that wikipedia is not a tool for people's personal political agendas.

repeat Vandal
Hi Alhutch,

Not sure quite where to put this report, so I'm passing it to you as you've previously been involved with vandalism by this User. User 217.23.231.70 was temporarily blocked for vandalism by you on 19th December 2005. I've just reverted 4 blatant acts of vandalism made by this user on the Kelsey Grammer article, and another user previously had to revert some more subtle changes (changing dates, ages, etc.) on the same page. Being relatively new to Wikipedia, I'm not sure where this should be passed as this person clearly an ongoing and persistent vandal.

Many Thanks, Chris --Chrisd87 10:22, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Userbox Wars
Hello Alhutch,

I just read this on your user page: "I wonder if you might consider simply removing your political/religious/etc. userboxes and asking others to do the same. This seems to me to be the best way to quickly and easily end the userbox wars." As a great fan of userboxes (see here) I would appreciate information regarding the "war".

-- Greetings, Dudenfreund 08:17, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
 * i think the "wars" over userboxes have sort of died down now, thankfully. there were a lot of disagreements about them, but i believe people have sort of just learned to live with them now. feel free to use all the userboxes you want. i was going to remove that notice from my user page, but i found that it messes up the layout, so it's still there. see you around the wiki, --Alhutch 17:58, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I see, thanks :o) Another question: I tried to create an english version of this template, but I am unable to use the picture from the Wikimedia Commons. The reason is a file with the same name that is uploaded only in wiki-en. I don't have any experience with uploading, renaming or moving pictures, what do I have to do?
 * -- Greetings, Dudenfreund 13:49, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

Messaging
Is there a way I send a personal message so only that person can read it? Does that person need to be signed in or can I send it to their IP address? Thanks!

I need a Leinart Vandal page deleted...
The Suspected Socks template has been replaced with confirmed, so the old page is no longer needed. Could you take care of it for us? T e  k e  19:22, 29 May 2006 (UTC)  Nevermind, W.marsh took care of it. Happy editing! T e  k e  20:01, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

How Did you become an Admin?
Please send me a message how you became an admin.

Mr. Mod 20:27, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

WHOA~
you created travis moen.. well the article anyway.

anyway he is a duck, sothat go t my attention. looks like you are my admin.

peace out SniperSarge 04:14, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Ouagadougou Infobox
Hi, I decided to work on copyediting the Ouagadougou article and I feel like it would really benefit from an info box. However, much of the information I would put in the infobox is missing from the article. Since you mentioned on Talk:Ouagadougou that you used to live there, I was hoping you could help me find the information to fill out the infobox.

Thank you for any help you can give me.--Dekkanar 17:06, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Mitt Romney
Alhutch,

I saw that you have edited this page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitt_Romney

This page is the #2 site that comes up when doing a "Mitt Romney" google. In my opinion, it is better than any other Mitt Romney article. However, it is not very comprehensive. I'm trying to make something more like a Mitt Romney book, instead of a Mitt Romney Article. The website is here:

http://myclob.pbwiki.com/

I examine many additional topics, but I want more perspectives than just my own. I would like you to help contribute, if you would like. Just e-mail me at: mike.laub@gmail.com, and I will give you the password!

Until we get more people working on it, I would like to keep the password a secret. I do not have enough time to correct graffiti.

IP Block
The IP address 218.186.9.1 has been vandalising pages and has been blocked before (see here), yet persists to vandalise pages. Could you block the IP? Thanks. 0L1 12:40, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

Survey Invitation
Hi there, I am a research student from the National University of Singapore and I wish to invite you to do an online survey about Wikipedia. To compensate you for your time, I am offering a reward of USD$10, either to you or as a donation to the Wikimedia Foundation. For more information, please go to the research home page. Thank you. --WikiInquirer 00:58, 4 March 2007 (UTC)talk to me

Zanger Bob
Do you have plans on bringing back the Zanger Bob page? I noticed it was deleted. Howles 09:23, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

Classification of admins
Hi Alhutch. Please consider adding your admin username to the growing list at Classification of admins. Best! -- Jreferee    t / c  22:54, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Hi!
I figure that this guy needs a ban. Am I reporting this to one of the right people?

Thanks

John

CaptinJohn (talk) 09:49, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

Polar Beverage Company
Hi Alhutch: You had said that you started the Polar article - and the Mass Main Page said that it needed updating. So, I did some work on it today. Please check it out and let me know what you think. Rawhyd (talk) 19:20, 8 December 2008 (UTC)Rawhyd

A study on how to cover scientific uncertainties/controversies
Hi. I have emailed you to ask whether you would agree to participate in a short survey on how to cover scientific uncertainties/controversies in articles pertaining to global warming and climate change (survey described here). If interested, please email me Encyclopaedia21 (talk) 15:48, 1 June 2009 (UTC)

I've quoted you
I quoted a comment you made about having received an e-mail from User:Global Corp at MediaWiki talk:Spam-blacklist. I thought you should have the chance to comment yourself if you wanted to, or to contradict me if I've interpreted your comment incorrectly. And if you have any questions or problems, I'm at your service. Accounting4Taste: talk 22:11, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

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Texas Motor Speedway

Texas Motor Speedway (formerly known as Texas International Raceway from September to December 1996) is a 1.500 mi quad-oval intermediate speedway in Fort Worth, Texas. The track has hosted both NASCAR and IndyCar events annually since its inaugural season of racing in 1997. The track is owned by the city of Fort Worth's sports authority and is leased out by Speedway Motorsports, Inc. (SMI) for racing, with Mark Faber currently serving as the track's general manager. The speedway is served by the nearby Interstate 35W and Texas State Highway 114.

As of 2013, the track had a capacity of 112,662, down from its peak of over 200,000 in the early 2000s. The track features numerous amenities, including the world's largest HD video screen, almost 200 suites, a Speedway Club overlooking the first turn, and 10-story building dedicated for office space and condominiums. The Texas Motor Speedway complex also features two adjacent tracks, including a 1/5 mi paved short track and a 2/5 mi dirt track.

Following the decline of the Texas World Speedway that began in the 1980s, the state of Texas found itself without a major racetrack and races for more than a decade. In the early 1990s, the newly incorporated Speedway Motorsports and its founder, Bruton Smith, saw itself with a major rise in profits that correlated with a rise of popularity in stock car racing. Using the new profits he had made, he set out to build a major racetrack west of the Mississippi River, deciding on the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex in 1994 with eventual longtime track general manager Eddie Gossage. Construction began in 1995 and completed in 1996, with the track holding its first NASCAR and IndyCar races in 1997.

Configurations
The speedway in its current form is measured at 1.5 mi, with 20 degrees of banking in the speedway's first two turns, 24 degrees of banking in the speedway's last two turns, five degrees of banking on the track's frontstretch and backstretch, and a racing surface width of 80 feet. From 1998 to 2017, the turns were all banked at 24 degrees and the racing surface width was 58 feet. When the track was initially constructed, it had a dual-banking system, with a high bank of 24 degrees and a low bank of eight degrees in the turns. Other series have also measured the track at different lengths; the IndyCar Series have at times utilized two lengths: one at 1.455 mi and one at 1.44 mi. However, these measurements have been disputed as an "error" by former longtime track general manager Eddie Gossage.

In 1999, the speedway announced that they were going ahead with plans to build an infield road course that would utilize both the oval and the infield road course. The infield road course was completed in August 2000, and has four variations that are mainly used for sports car racing.

Amenities
The track itself is served by numerous major roads. It is located at the intersection of Interstate 35W and Texas State Highway 114 to the track's southeast, and Farm to Market Road 156 to the track's west. The intersection has seen criticism since the track's construction; in 2010, Denton County officials announced the widening of Highway 114 in response to traffic within the area.

At the time of the track's opening, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported in March 1997 that the track featured a capacity of 155,061 with a frontstretch grandstand capacity of 120,000, an infield capacity of 53,000, the world record for the amount of toilets at a facility with 2,450 toilets, 67,000 parking spaces for cars and RVs, 194 suites, and a 23-acre lake, with the entire complex of approximately 1,000 acres itself having more than 60 buildings. Since then, capacity has decreased numerous times; in 2013, backstretch seats were removed to reduce the capacity to 112,662. In 2021, the outgoing track president indicated renovations would occur to reduce capacity to around 75,000. Also, as of 2023, the complex of the track has now expanded to cover 1,500 acres. Numerous buildings on the site's property serve for business purposes. A 10-story building named the Lone Star Tower overlooks the second turn and is used for condominiums and office space. The Lone Star Tower broke ground in 1996 and completed in early 1998, with the building costing Texas Motor Speedway around $25 million in taxes. The first four floors are dedicated for office space, with the rest of the floors being dedicated for condos. Initially, 58 condos were planned to be sold; the number later increased to 76. By the next year, the speedway made efforts to fill up the tower's office space of a combined 100,000 square feet. The speedway also announced in 1997 that they were building a members-only Speedway Club overlooking the first turn that was inspired by the club at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. The nine-story club was completed in March 1999 at a cost of $35 million, and features 26,000 square feet of space. In 2013, the track's Gossage announced the construction of Big Hoss TV, which was set to become the biggest HD screen in the world. As a result of its construction, backstretch grandstands that numbered to around 10,000 seats were demolished. The video screen was completed in March 2014, and officially certified by Guinness World Records as the largest HD television LED screen in the world. In 2023, the speedway announced that the screen was to be expanded by 10%.

Adjacent tracks
The Texas Motor Speedway complex has two adjacent tracks built near the Texas Motor Speedway. In May 1998, the speedway opened Lil' Texas Motor Speedway, a 1/5 mi paved short track that hosts various divisions of local short track racing, primarily legends cars and bandoleros. In August 1999, Gossage announced plans of a new 2/5 mi dirt track to the main track's east that could seat 13,007. The $8 million track is made out of black gumbo soil, and held its first races in March 2000.

Previous major tracks in Texas area
The first track to hold major series such as NASCAR and United States Auto Club (USAC)-sanctioned races in the state of Texas was the Texas International Speedway (later named Texas World Speedway), which opened in 1969, holding its first NASCAR race in December. The track was built like the Michigan International Speedway, but with higher banking for faster speeds. However, in the coming years, the track faced a slew of issues; the 1973 oil crisis halted any major racing for nearly three years. Although NASCAR eventually returned in 1979, heading into the 1980s, the track faced a lack of stable and modern infrastructure along with attendance issues. NASCAR left in 1981, with its president Bill France Jr. citing a poor track surface and amenities. USAC also left the track in the 1980s, although this was due to, according to track president R. C. Connole, USAC splitting with Championship Auto Racing Teams in 1979, leading to major turmoil within USAC. Although the track was swapped around numerous owners, the track never held a major series again, leaving Texas without a track that held a major series for over a decade.

Planning, construction, naming dispute
With the rising success of Speedway Motorsports, owned by businessman Bruton Smith, intended to build a major racetrack west of the Mississippi River with the rise of popularity in stock car racing. Smith employed the help of then Vice President of Public Relations at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, Eddie Gossage, to find a suitable location for the track. Three primary markets were decided on by Bruton: Las Vegas, the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, and St. Louis. In Las Vegas, the duo found out that local businessman Ralph Engelstad was scouting the same land as the duo; under the orders of Smith, the two stopped scouting Las Vegas to let Engelstad scout the land that later became the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. By November 18, 1994, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that Smith and Gossage had made their final choices in either of the two remaining places. In St. Louis, the duo saw numerous pieces of land that were flooded, and scratched off St. Louis. In Dallas–Fort Worth, the duo met businessman Ross Perot Jr. and flew in Perot's helicopter to scout a piece of land that was owned by Perot. The land impressed the duo, and by November 30, the Star-Telegram reported that the two were planning to build a 150,000-capacity speedway at a cost of around $75,000,000 (adjusted for inflation, $). Originally, the speedway was set to have a capacity of 70,000 seats. However, the capacity quickly grew in the initial planning stages; when Bruton requested that 5,000 seats be added, Gossage obliged. According to Gossage, "the next day he’d put in a change order for 5,000 more seats. And then a few days or a week later, he’d say, ‘Do you think you could sell 80 (thousand)?’ I’d say, ‘Oh, piece of cake.' And then one day I looked and we were at 155,000 seats and I told Bruton we’ve got to stop doing this."

Groundbreaking on the track took place on April 11, 1995. Gossage was later asked to run the track in late May, which he accepted. According to the duo, the track was inspired by previous tracks Smith owned, with Smith wanting to incorporate the best ideas from those tracks and combine them into the construction of Texas Motor Speedway. The speedway initially implemented a dual-banked surface to accompany both NASCAR and open-wheel racing; a higher bank of 24 degrees meant to accommodate stock cars, and a lower bank of 8 degrees to accommodate open-wheel cars. In addition, for open-wheel races, a temporary wall was planned to be implemented each time an open-wheel series raced in order to reduce speeds. The plan met skepticism from open-wheel personalities such as Cary Agajanian and Jimmy Vasser over the feasibility of such a system. By June 1996, Agajanian reported that the speedway had ditched plans to make a temporary wall, instead deciding to paint a line where the change in banking was. On August 3, the track officially opened to the public for the first time, holding a charity "open-house" event. Eventual NASCAR races were announced in July 1996, and IndyCar races were announced the next month on August 7, with the IndyCar race to be run at night, the first IndyCar race to be run at night.

In August 1996, a quarter-mile dirt track based in Alvin, Texas, sued Smith's speedway over naming rights for the name "Texas Motor Speedway". Gossage and Bruton countersued on September 9, claiming that majority owner Jack Holland was trying to "squeeze and extort money" from them. As a result, the speedway changed its name to "Texas International Raceway" on September 11. Although litigation was expected to take years, on December 2, the dispute was settled out of court. With the settlement, the dirt track agreed to change its name, with the speedway able to retain the "Texas Motor Speedway" name.

Turbulent early years
The track oversaw a turbulent period in its early years; particularly 1997, the track's first year of racing. In its first major race, the 1997 Interstate Batteries 500, heavy rain plagued the race's weekend, causing qualifying to be cancelled and the grass parking lots of the speedway to be heavily soaked. While the parking issue was resolved by using busses, further issues were raised when drivers started to complain about the surface of the race track, leading to a major first lap pileup. Two months later, the speedway held its first IndyCar Series race; a scoring dispute between Billy Boat and Arie Luyendyk occurred when Luyendyk disputed the victory that was initially given to Boat. As Boat and his team owner, A. J. Foyt were celebrating, Luyendyk went to victory lane to dispute the victory, demanding officials explain why he was scored as one lap short and demanding that he be given the victory. Foyt proceeded to slap Luyendyk on the back of the head and pushed him to the ground before being separated by security. Luyendyk was given the victory the next day after a scoring recheck. After both races in 1997, Gossage announced that the speedway would reprofile the fourth turn. Complaints about the turn lasted into 1998, with drivers complaining about a new bump, along with water leakage issues. Further criticism was placed against the speedway and Gossage after a t-shirt was printed that stated "Shut Up and Race"; Gossage claims that NASCAR came up with the idea. Gossage announced a complete repave of the track, this time completely removing the dual-banking system.

In 1999, during the final practice session of the 1999 Mall.com 500, 11 people were injured in a crash on the track's pit road when Niclas Jönsson lost control of his car while trying to exit pit road, crashing into the parked car of Tyce Carlson while Carlson's crew was working with his car. The next year, during a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race, the track oversaw its first fatality when driver Tony Roper crashed on the track's frontstretch, suffering a fatal basilar skull fracture that caused renewed controversy within NASCAR over driver safety. In 2001, the track sought to hold its first CART race; however, after a culmination of events that occurred over the course of several months, the race was cancelled after it was found that drivers could suffer extreme vertical g-loads in the track's turns that could have led to death. The track was later repaved that same year to remove any bumps from the racing surface, with Gossage stating in an interview that to maintain the track, they needed to repave it every couple of years.

Speedway's stabilization and expansion
By the early 2000s, problems with the track declined. The track oversaw some of the biggest attended NASCAR races in history; races in 1999 and 2000 saw major success, with attendances of 221,861 and 223,000 people, respectively. In May 2004, as a result of the Ferko lawsuit, the track gained a second NASCAR race weekend, taking the race weekend of Rockingham Speedway. The settlement was enforced in 2005.

The track became known for its promotions and stunts directed by Gossage. Gossage, who self-remarked himself as the last "old-school" promoters, conducted numerous promotions that were inspired by promoters such as Humpy Wheeler, who Gossage had formerly worked under at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. Under Gossage's tenure, the speedway conducted numerous campaigns to promote the track, including training monkeys to sell souvenir programs, starting a victory lane tradition of each victor firing blank six-shooters in post-race celebrations, hiring an all-female pit crew to service a car, and allowing British motoring television show Top Gear and one of its hosts, Richard Hammond, to film a segment for the show. In 2010, Gossage directed the "No Limits" campaign, which was self-described as a "hot cars and hot chicks" that intended to target a younger and edgy audience.

Repave, mounting criticism and decline, retirement of Eddie Gossage
By mid-2016, numerous complaints against the track's surface taking too long to dry were made. By November, during a rain delay at the 2016 AAA Texas 500 which took seven hours to restart, complaints rose again. Despite this, Gossage stated that he had no plans to repave the track in the short-term, sharing the opinions of drivers Jimmie Johnson and Carl Edwards. However, under the direction of SMI CEO Marcus Smith, the track announced the commencement of a repave in response to the drying issues. With the repave, the banking in the first two turns were decreased from 24 to 20 degrees, and the racing surface was expanded from 60 to 80 feet. In a 2017 Dallas Morning News article, the repave was viewed neutrally by IndyCar drivers, and NASCAR drivers were recorded to be more optimistic about the repave.

Throughout the late 2010s, the track oversaw continuous decline. In November 2019, Gossage made calls to "modernize" the speedway, including decreasing capacity from 135,000 to a range from 80,000 to 90,000, along with better internet services, a wider concession variety, and more suites. In 2020, as an attempt by Marcus to increase attendance at the speedway, he moved the NASCAR All-Star Race from its traditional home at the Charlotte Motor Speedway to Texas, a move that saw criticism in the coming years.

By 2020, Gossage was in talks with Marcus on retiring from his position, stating that he had grown upset at the IndyCar racing product on the newly-reconfigured track and consequences from the COVID-19 pandemic. By December, he confirmed his decision to retire to Marcus, officially announcing his retirement in a press conference on May 13, 2021, with his retirement effective after the 2021 NASCAR All-Star Race that was set to take place on June 13.

Rob Ramage and Mark Faber
After Gossage's retirement, the speedway announced that they would reduce capacity down to 75,000 and renovate the suites at the track. On August 4, 2021, Marcus Smith announced that Rob Ramage, a Texas Motor Speedway executive and counselor, had been promoted to replace Eddie Gossage as general manager. In an interview with D Magazine, Ramage pledged that the speedway would place a bigger emphasis on technology, including releasing NFTs and experimenting with augmented reality. He also expressed a desire to increase fan diversity, specifically with Hispanics. In September, NASCAR announced that the NASCAR All-Star Race was set to return to the speedway in 2022. In 2022, the track oversaw controversies in both of its NASCAR races along with general criticism for a poor racing product, leading calls from drivers to completely renovate the track. In August, Ramage was removed as general manager after only one year, having been promoted to becoming SMI's vice president of government relations and deputy counsel. SMI replaced Ramage with Mark Faber, who previously worked in Las Vegas as the T-Mobile Arena's senior vice president of global partnerships. Under the leadership of Faber, Faber promised for better relations with the city of Fort Worth, with Faber claiming that a "pain point" was Gossage putting "No Limits, Texas" on the outside wall instead of the actual city's name. Faber also announced the creation of the "No Limits Next" project, aimed at renovating the track and expanding Big Hoss TV. The speedway also ended the tradition of victors firing six-shooters in victory lane under Faber's leadership. By July 2023, Faber also confirmed that the speedway and Marcus Smith were looking at repaving the track by using iRacing simulations.

NASCAR
Despite then-NASCAR vice president of competition Mike Helton stating that the NASCAR "Cup schedule can't grow much more" in January 1995, many within the NASCAR media landscape predicted that with the booming rise of popularity in NASCAR that started in the early 1990s, NASCAR would have to both expand to new markets and leave traditional markets behind that had been staples of the schedule since NASCAR's inception. Midway through 1996, Knoxville News Sentinel writer Bill Luther wrote that numerous short tracks, including North Wilkesboro Speedway and the Martinsville Speedway were "in peril" of losing Winston Cup dates. NASCAR announced the 1997 schedule in September, with numerous changes on the schedule; among said changes were a new date for Texas in the spring and North Wilkesboro being gone from the schedule completely. Until 2022, the spring race had run annually in at least some form; in 2021, its points race was transferred to a new date at the Circuit of the Americas, with the track instead running the NASCAR All-Star Race as an attempt by SMI CEO Marcus Smith to increase declining attendance. After two spring races that were met with relative scorn, the spring date was removed for 2023, with the All-Star Race moving to North Wilkesboro, the track the speedway removed back in 1997. The spring date returned in 2024 as a result of the track's only Cup Series date, which was in the fall, shifting back to the spring.

After the track got a race date within the NASCAR Cup Series schedule in 1997, Bruton Smith was reported to have an extreme desire to have a second NASCAR Cup Series date at Texas Motor Speedway, to the point where he was rumored that if NASCAR leadership did not agree with it, Bruton would split off to start his own racing series. In 2002, Francis Ferko, a minority shareholder in SMI, filed a lawsuit against NASCAR and the International Speedway Corporation for violating antitrust laws, feeling as if SMI did not do enough to protect his investment. A settlement was eventually reached in 2004, which guaranteed a second NASCAR race weekend for Texas at the cost of one of Rockingham Speedway's weekends. The date remained on the schedule annually until 2023, when it was moved to the spring. Along with its Cup Series dates, the track also has hosted lower-series NASCAR races, including second-tier NASCAR Xfinity Series and third-tier NASCAR Truck Series races.

Open-wheel racing
Since the track opened for racing in 1997, the speedway has held IndyCar Series races at the speedway annually until 2023. With one exception in 2011 where the traditional 550 km distance of the race was split into two separate 275 km races, the race was run as one singular race. In 2016, the race was delayed from its original race date on June 12 by over two months to August 27 due to scheduling conflicts and rain. In 2023, the race's renewal was put into doubt due to scheduling conflicts with the 2024 Summer Olympics and the race's broadcaster, NBC. On September 25, the series released its 2024 schedule, which did not include Texas Motor Speedway. IndyCar has expressed a desire to return to the state of Texas in 2025, but did not guarantee that the series would return to the track.

The track originally planned to host a Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART) race in April 2001, announcing it on August 3, 2000. However, after a culmination of events that occurred over the events of several months, the race was postponed and eventually cancelled after it was found that drivers could suffer extreme vertical g-loads that could have led to death. The speedway later sued CART for breach of contract. The speedway settled for around $5–7 million, and races that were scheduled in 2002 and 2003 were annulled.

Other racing series
In 2000, the American Le Mans Series expanded their schedule to include Texas to run the Grand Prix of Texas, deciding to run a "roval" version of the track that utilized parts of the newly-constructed infield road course and the oval. The series ran the event again in 2001.

In 2015, the track held the seventh round of the 2015 Red Bull Air Race World Championship through the weekend of September 26–27. The track once again hosted the series in 2018, this time as the season finale of that year.

In 2017, the track hosted a Stadium Super Trucks event as a support event for the June weekend's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and IndyCar Series doubleheader. The series raced at Texas Motor Speedway annually until 2019.

Festivals
The speedway has held numerous festivals throughout its history, with some festivals having a recorded attendance of 250,000 people or more. In 1997, days after the track's IRL race, the speedway held a two-day country music festival titled Country Fest, attracting 260,000 people. A week later, the speedway held RockFest '97, a rock music festival that attracted around 400,000 people. The latter was described by then-general manager Eddie Gossage as "the worst day of my life". In a podcast episode with former NASCAR driver Mike Wallace, Gossage stated,

It's June 21st... it's 200 degrees, and you can't move... these kids, they climbed on top of concession stands and the garages and whatever gave them a better vantage point to see the stage. And, the truth is, they were in charge. They didn't know it, but there were so many more of them than there were of us...

This thing was still going on; [it was] supposed to end at 11 o'clock at Saturday night and it's four in the morning... Bush is about to wrap up, and I'm on front edge of the stage trying to end this thing, and I see in the back Gavin Rossdale's drum kit and gear and stuff and they're ready to go running and place stuff for yet another band. So, I go around the back side of the stage, and I grab the guy that's the promoter and I said, "What's this?" He said, "this is a local group called The Nixons, and they're gonna play walkout music." I said, "No, they're not." He said, "Well sure, they are!" I said, "No, as long as there's somebody on this stage playing music, ain't nobody going nowhere; and we're done!" He said, "Well, you tell them that!" and pointed to the crowd. I said, "No, this band isn't going on!" He goes, "Sure, they are!" So, I sit down and call the control tower and said, "Send some cops back here to arrest me for something. Come up with a reason to arrest me, because they're trying to put another band on and I'm trying to end this thing!" Our guy in the tower asks, "Do you know what you're doing?" I said, "Roughly."... five minutes later, there's two dozen Fort Worth cops and they're ticked... [one] guy says, "Mr. Gossage, you're under arrest, [for] breaking ordinance..." I said, "Well, it's not my show, it's his!", and I pointed at the promoter... The cops didn't know what to do, so they said, "We'll just take both of you."... [In the end,] The Nixons did not go on, the festival was over, and everybody got to go home.

After 1997, the speedway has held various festivals. In 2010, the track hosted FortyFest, a Christian rock music festival. In 2023, the track hosted a second location of the HWY30 Music Fest, a country music festival that originated from Filer, Idaho. The track is scheduled to host the event again in 2024.

Other events
Since 1998, the speedway has held the Solar Car Challenge, a solar-powered car race for high school students. In odd-numbered years, the track is used as a starting point for a cross-country route. In even-numbered years, the track is used as a showcase location.

In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the track held 23 high school graduation ceremonies for schools within Denton County, Texas. In September 2022, the track became a shelter for victims of Hurricane Ida.

Lap records
As of November 2018, the fastest official race lap records at Texas Motor Speedway are listed as:

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Doc Cox

Robert "Doc" Cox (born 1 July 1946), also known as Ivor Biggun, is a British musician and former television journalist. He is known for his appearances on the BBC TV programme That's Life! from 1982 to 1992 and for four albums of humorous, smutty songs. Currently resident in Suffolk, he is active in several pub bands, including the Trembling Wheelbarrows.

Education
Cox was educated at the King Edward VI Grammar School in Retford, Nottinghamshire.

That's Life!
After some years as a teacher, Cox became a sound engineer with the BBC in 1969. Later he became a warm-up man for That's Life!; he recalled that one day "Someone didn't turn up for one of the auditions or something, and I was sort of pushed in". It has been reported that the nickname "Doc" was acquired as a result of Cox habitually using a black doctor's bag to carry his packed lunches when working on location.

In October 2008, Cox was part of a That’s Life! reunion broadcast on BBC London 94.9. Cox said of the impending reunion: "It'll be lovely to chat to Esther again. Somebody once asked me who my greatest influences were, and I had to reply 'Buddy Holly, George Formby, my dad, Martin Luther King and Esther Rantzen'."

Ivor Biggun
Under the Biggun name, Cox fronts a humorous band that is sometimes billed simply as "Ivor Biggun", or variously "Ivor Biggun and the Red-nosed Burglars" or "Ivor Biggun and the Left-handed Wankers", also "Ivor’s Jivers" (less rude), or Ivor Biggun's Vulgar Band. He specialises in double entendre-laden smutty songs. Ivor Biggun has released four albums of bawdy songs (and recorded with Judge Dread and David "Screaming Lord" Sutch), the most recent being 2005's Handling Swollen Goods.

Johnny Rotten selected "The Winker's Song (Misprint)" as his single of the week in 1978 when he was a guest reviewer for New Musical Express. The single sold well, reaching number 22 in the UK Singles Chart thanks to Rotten's support. However, it was banned by nearly all radio stations due to its explicit lyrics. The single "Bras on 45 (Family Version)", credited to "Ivor Biggun and the D Cups", reached number 50 in the UK Singles Chart in 1981 and remained in the charts for three weeks.

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Okay first, that was meant to sound less nasty. Second, and I could be wrong, but Pink Frosting 88, that's her name. xxxPInkfrosting88xxx is her screen name. But once again, I'm just saying. But as proof, whenever Commander sees her, he calls her Pink Frosting 88, sans the xes.

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The Brain That Wouldn't Die

The Brain That Wouldn't Die (also known as The Head That Wouldn't Die or The Brain That Couldn't Die) is a 1962 American science fiction horror film directed by Joseph Green and written by Green and Rex Carlton. The film was completed in 1959 under the working title The Black Door but was not theatrically released until May 3, 1962, under its new title as a double feature with Invasion of the Star Creatures.

The film focuses upon a mad doctor who develops a means of keeping human body parts alive. He keeps his fiancée's severed head alive for days, along with a lumbering, malformed brute (one of his earlier failed experiments) imprisoned in a closet.

The specific plot device of a mad doctor who discovers a way to keep a human head alive had been used in fiction earlier (such as Professor Dowell's Head from 1925), as well as other variants on this theme. It shares several key plot devices with the West German horror film The Head (1959).

The film was in the public domain in the United States from the day of its release due to a flawed copyright notice.

Plot
Dr. Bill Cortner saves a patient who had been pronounced dead, but the senior surgeon, Bill's father, condemns his son's unorthodox methods and theories of transplanting.

While driving to his family's country house, Bill and his beautiful fiancée Jan Compton become involved in a car accident that decapitates her. Bill recovers her severed head and rushes to his country house basement laboratory. He and his crippled assistant Kurt revive the head in a liquid-filled tray. But Jan's new existence is agony, and she begs Bill to let her die. He ignores her pleas, and she grows to resent him.

Bill decides to commit murder to obtain a body for Jan. He hunts for a suitable specimen at a burlesque nightclub, on the streets, and at a beauty-contest. Jan begins communicating telepathically with a hideous mutant, an experiment gone wrong, locked in a laboratory cell. When Kurt leaves a hatch in the cell door unlocked, the monster grabs and tears off Kurt's arm. Kurt dies from his injuries.

Bill lures an old girlfriend, figure-model Doris Powell, to his house, promising to study her scarred face for plastic surgery. He drugs her and carries her to the laboratory. Jan protests Bill's plan to transplant her head onto Doris's body. He tapes Jan's mouth shut.

When Bill goes to quiet the monster, it grabs Bill through the hatch and breaks the door from its hinges. Their struggles set the laboratory ablaze. The monster, a seven-foot giant with a horribly deformed head, bites a chunk from Bill's neck. Bill dies, and the monster carries the unconscious Doris to safety. As the lab goes up in flames, Jan says "I told you to let me die". The screen goes black, followed by Jan's maniacal cackle, welcoming her long-awaited death.

Production
The film was shot independently around Tarrytown, New York, in 1959 under the working title The Black Door. Producer Rex Carlton suggested calling the film I Was a Teenage Brain Surgeon in the style of the similar titles of the time. The title was later changed to The Head That Wouldn't Die. Some prints of the film use both the opening title The Brain That Wouldn't Die and the closing title The Head That Wouldn't Die.

The monster in the closet was played, in his first cinematic role, by Eddie Carmel, a well-known Mandatory Palestine-born circus performer, who worked under the name "The Jewish Giant". He was the subject of a photograph by Diane Arbus, titled "The Jewish Giant at Home with His Parents in the Bronx, N.Y., 1970".

The main theme, titled "The Web", was composed by Abe Baker and Tony Restaino and was noted for creating a sinister mood.

Release
The movie was picked up for release by AIP and released in 1962 on a double bill with Invasion of the Star Creatures. AIP cut it for theatrical release.

Home media
An uncut, 35 mm print was used in the Special Edition release by Synapse Films in 2002. Running 85 minutes, this version features more of the stripper catfight, as well as some extra gore.

In December 2015, Shout! Factory released a Blu-ray edition of the uncut film, with a high-definition transfer taken from the negative.

Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode
The film was featured in episode 513 of Mystery Science Theater 3000. This film was the first movie watched by Mike Nelson in Mystery Science Theater 3000, after he replaced Joel Robinson (Joel Hodgson) on the series. Jan in the Pan is the nickname given to the female lead by the characters on the show.

In a poll of Bring Back MST3K Kickstarter backers, which raised money for an eleventh season of the show, The Brain that Wouldn't Die was ranked #23. Writer Jim Vorel ranked the episode considerably lower, at #125 in his ranking of MST3K's 191 episodes, saying, "It’s a dark, fairly ugly movie with extremely cheap sets, but Mike’s presence puts the crew into an upbeat, energetic state that contrasts nicely with it."

The MST3K episode was released on VHS by Rhino Home Video in 1996 and as a single-disc DVD in April 2000; the uncut version of the original movie was also included as a bonus feature. On November 26, 2013, Shout! Factory re-released the MST3K version as a bonus feature part of its 25th Anniversary DVD boxed set.

Reception and legacy
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 38% based on 13 reviews, with a weighted average rating of 4.63/10. Author and film critic Leonard Maltin awarded the film 1.5 out of four stars, calling it "poorly produced". On his website Fantastic Movie Musings and Ramblings, Dave Sindelar gave the film a mostly negative review, noting that, although it managed to work up a certain amount of tension and featured some good gore effects, it was ruined by its lack of likable and intelligent characters and its "inability to decide just how it wants to be taken".

Brian J. Dillard from AllMovie said of the film: "Hokey, overwrought, and poorly paced, this venerable creature feature still commands a sizable following on the basis of its campy, low-grade special effects, its T&A exploitation, and its many pseudo-philosophical soliloquies". TV Guide awarded the film two out of four stars, calling it "one of the most genuinely bizarre 'brain' movies".

Adaptations
The movie also inspired the musical stage production ''The Brain That Wouldn't Die! In 3D!!!'' by Tom Sivak and Elizabeth Gelman, that premiered at the New York Musical Theatre Festival in October 2011.

In 2015, Pug Bujeaud's musical theatrical production ''The HEAD! That Wouldn't Die'' was mounted in Olympia, Washington by Theater Artists Olympia. Lyrics and music were written by the ensemble cast and the TAO collective.

Soon thereafter, Hollywood screenwriter Bruce Bernhard adapted the script as a staged musical comedy, creating a completely new score for it with songwriter Chris Cassone. The official world premiere for The Brain That Wouldn’t Die!…the Musical was at the Footlight Players Theatre in Charleston, South Carolina on October 13, 2016.

A satirical feature film adaptation of the same title was filmed on location in Portland, Oregon. The film premiered on June 21, 2020, as part of the Portland Horror Film Festival.

In popular culture

 * The film was featured on the nationally syndicated television show Cinema Insomnia, hosted by Mr. Lobo.
 * The film inspired the title and premise of the stage play The Head that Wouldn't Die by Rand Higbee.

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R1

R1, R.I., R01 or R-1 may refer to:

Military equipment

 * R-1 tank, a Romanian tank from World War II
 * R-1 (missile), a post World War II Russian rocket
 * AEG R.I, a 1918 German super-heavy bomber design
 * DFW R.I, a 1916 German prototype bomber aircraft
 * HMS Caprice, a destroyer originally designated with Pennant Number R01
 * Linke-Hofmann R.I, a World War I German prototype bomber aircraft
 * Polikarpov R-1, a Soviet Union copy of the 1931 British Airco DH.9A light bomber aircraft
 * USS R-1 (SS-78), a 1918 United States Navy R-class coastal and harbor defense submarine
 * a South African made version of the FN FAL battle rifle
 * a version of the 1942 German Rheintochter ground-to-air missile
 * Sentinel R1, a British airborne radar platform
 * a Romanian designation of the Czechoslovak-designed tankette AH-IV

Automobiles

 * Jaguar R1, a British 1999 Formula One racing car
 * Javan R1, a British sports car
 * Nuro R1, an American autonomous van
 * Ora R1, a Chinese electric city car
 * Praga R1, a Czech sports car
 * Rivian, R1S and R1T, an American electric mid-size SUV and pickup truck
 * SIN R1, a Bulgarian sports car
 * Subaru R1, a Japanese city car

Aviation

 * Beriev R-1, a 1952 Soviet turbojet-powered flying boat
 * International Air Transport Association code for Sirin (airline)

Motorcycles

 * Yamaha YZF-R1, a motorcycle

Lines

 * R1 (New York City Subway car)
 * R1 (SEPTA), a former commuter rail line in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which was split into:
 * Airport Line (SEPTA), or R1 Airport line
 * SEPTA Main Line (R1 Glenside) Also called the Glenside Combined
 * R1–RG1 (Rodalies de Catalunya), a commuter rail line in Catalonia, Spain
 * R1 King George Blvd, RapidBus line in Surrey (Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada)
 * R1 (RER Vaud), an S-Bahn line in the canton of Vaud

Individual locomotive classes

 * LCDR R1 class, a class of 0-4-4T steam locomotives built by the South Eastern and Chatham Railway to modified LCDR design in 1900
 * PRR R1, a 1934 American single prototype electric locomotive
 * SECR R1 class, a class of 0-6-0T steam locomotives rebuilt by the South Eastern and Chatham Railway from the SER R class between 1910 and 1922
 * LNER Class R1, a class of British steam locomotives

Roads

 * R1 expressway (Czech Republic), an expressway in the Czech Republic
 * R1 expressway (Slovakia), a road connecting Trnava and Banská Bystrica
 * R1 ring road (Belgium), a ring road around Antwerp
 * R-1 motorway (Spain), a future radial motorway connecting Madrid and El Molar
 * R1 road (Zimbabwe), a road connecting Beitbridge and Harare
 * Radial Road 1 or R-1, an arterial road of Manila, Philippines

Computing

 * R1 (expert system), a 1978 expert system written by John McDermott
 * .r01, a RAR file extension
 * an alternate name for the Rice Institute Computer, an innovative computer extant at Rice University from 1959 to 1971

Biology

 * R1 plasmid, a plasmid found in E Coli
 * ATC code R01 Nasal preparations, a subgroup of the Anatomical Therapeutic Chemical Classification System
 * Haplogroup R1 (Y-DNA), a human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup
 * The R1 vein in insect wings

Other

 * R01 grant, a form of competitive funding issued by the National Institutes of Health in the United States
 * R1: Explosive when dry, a risk phrase
 * R-1 Federation
 * Rogue One, a 2016 film
 * R1 Multi-frequency signaling, a telephony control technique
 * R1 (nuclear reactor), the first nuclear reactor of Sweden
 * R1 space in topology, in mathematics
 * R-1 visa, a non-immigrant visa which allows travel to United States for service as a minister or other religious occupation.
 * DSC-R1, a 2005 Sony Cyber-shot R series camera
 * TV R1, Czech regional television station
 * R1, a brand sold by Imperial Tobacco
 * Region 1, the DVD region code for United States, Canada, Bermuda, U.S. territories
 * Research I university, a designation of U.S. universities engaged in the highest levels of research activity
 * BBC Radio 1, a national radio station in the United Kingdom
 * Radio One (New Zealand) a New Zealand student radio station
 * Samsung YP-R1, a digital audio player

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Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke

Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke is a 1993 Indian romantic comedy-drama film, directed by Mahesh Bhatt and produced by Tahir Hussain, with screenplay written by Aamir Khan and Robin Bhatt, and with a musical score by Nadeem-Shravan. Based on the 1958 Hollywood movie Houseboat, it stars Aamir Khan and Juhi Chawla in the lead roles, with Sharokh Bharucha and Kunal Khemu in supporting roles. Upon release, the film received positive reviews from critics, with particular praise directed towards Chawla's performance, for which she won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress at the 39th Filmfare Awards. The film has also garnered the National Film Award – Special Jury Award / Special Mention (Feature Film), and the Filmfare Award for Best Film. The film was remade in Telugu as Bhale Maavayya starring Suman.

Plot
Rahul Malhotra is the caretaker of a garment company with a pending order of a hundred thousand shirts to Mr Bijlani. Rahul is also the guardian of his deceased sister's mischievous kids: Sunny, Munni, and Vicky. He finds it hard to control the kids, as he is new to this. When the kids cause trouble, Rahul punishes them by locking them up in their room. However, the children escape and head for a carnival in town.

Vyjayanti Iyer is the bubbly daughter of Mr Iyer, a South Indian businessman and Carnatic music lover. Her father wants her to marry Natarajan Iyer, a Carnatic music legend, who is somewhat creepy. Vyjayanti refuses to marry him; as punishment, she is locked up and escapes. She meets the three kids at the carnival and they become friends. Vyjayanti explains that she has no home so the children invite her to stay with them.

The children go to great lengths to hide Vyjayanti from Rahul. In a row of hilarious sequences, they are always one step ahead of Rahul before he can discover Vyjayanti. Two nights later, however, Vyjayanti is revealed. Initially angry, Rahul sees that the children love her so he gives her a job as the children's governess. Vyjayanti begins to live with Rahul and the kids and slowly falls in love with him.

And then there enters seductive, glitzy Maya, Bijlani's daughter, who is obsessed with Rahul. She wants to marry Rahul, and Rahul approves, deciding it would benefit the children. When Vyjayanti and the children find out about Maya and Rahul's upcoming engagement ceremony, Vyjayanti is heartbroken and the kids are upset, as they dislike Maya. On the day of the engagement, Vyjayanti explains to the kids that she loves Rahul and wants to marry him. The kids come up with a plan to stop the engagement. They crash the party with a dramatic act, which successfully postpones the engagement but leads to Rahul losing his temper. Back home, he scolds Vyjayanti and she admits that she loves him, shocking him.

The next morning, Bijlani comes with Maya to offer Rahul a second chance. Rahul defends Vyjayanti against their insults, thereby expressing his own felings for her. The mischievous kids chase Bijlani and Maya out of the house with rotten eggs and tomatoes. As revenge, Bijlani and Maya set on auctioning Rahul's house. Rahul asks his workers to work overtime to complete the shirt orders, which the supportive workers agree to do. A successful two lakh shirts are made and loaded onto a truck to be delivered to Bijlani. Bijlani hires some thugs to ensure that the truck doesn't arrive on time. Much to their distaste, Rahul arrives on time with the order, and Bijlani and Maya are arrested.

Vyjayanti is finally reunited with her father, who disapproves of her marrying anyone outside the Iyer clan. All the factory workers, Rahul's colleagues, and the children ask him to allow Rahul and Vyjayanti to marry. He continues to stand by his decision until Natarajan himself supports the couple, eventually leading Iyer to accept Rahul and Vyjayanti's marriage on the condition that they would marry in a South Indian ceremony. The movie ends with Rahul's marriage to Vyjayanti.

Cast

 * Aamir Khan as Rahul Malhotra
 * Juhi Chawla as Vyjayanthi Iyer
 * Dalip Tahil as Bijlani, Maya's father.
 * Navneet Nishan as Maya Bijlani
 * K.D. Chandran as Mr. Iyer, Vyjayanti's father.
 * Veeru Krishnan as Natrajan Iyer
 * Tiku Talsania as Advocate Homi Wadia
 * Mushtaq Khan as Bhagwati Prasad Mishra "Mishraji"
 * Javed Khan as Chhotya
 * Robin Bhatt as Host and Manager of East West Airlines.
 * Master Kunal Khemu as Sunny Chopra
 * Baby Ashrafa as Munni Chopra
 * Sharokh Bharucha as Vicky Chopra

Soundtrack
The soundtrack of the movie was composed by the music duo Nadeem–Shravan and lyrics were contributed by Sameer. Vocals for Aamir Khan were supplied by Kumar Sanu, and for Juhi Chawla by Alka Yagnik and Sadhana Sargam.

Songs like 'Ghunghat Ki Aad Se', 'Kaash Koi Ladka Mujhe Pyaar Karta', 'Woh Meri Neend Mera Chain Mujhe' and 'Bombai Se Gayi Poona' became extremely popular. The song "Yunhi Kat Jaayega Safar Saath" is based on lovely lady of arcaia "Endhan Nenjil" from Kalaignan. According to the Indian trade website Box Office India, with around 2,500,000 units sold the soundtrack became the fifth highest-grossing album of the year. Bombay Se Gayi tune and music is lifted from “Jhilmil Kare Aankhein” by Mohammed Ali Sheiki.

Box office
Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke was a 'superhit' at the box office. It was also one of the biggest hits of 1993. The performances of Juhi Chawla and Aamir Khan were critically acclaimed. Juhi Chawla became the box office queen of 1993, with multiple consecutive hit films like Lootere, Aaina, Shatranj, Izzat ki Roti & Darr becoming big box office successes, thus solidifying her career as the top actress of the 1990s.

Awards and nominations
41st National Film Awards:

Won 39th Filmfare Awards:
 * Special Jury Award – Mahesh Bhatt
 * Best Female Playback Singer – Alka Yagnik for "Ghunghat Ki Aad Se"

Won Nominated
 * Best Film – Tahir Hussain
 * Best Actress – Juhi Chawla
 * Best Lyricist – Sameer for "Ghunghat Ki Aad Se"
 * Best Director – Mahesh Bhatt
 * Best Actor – Aamir Khan
 * Best Music Director – Nadeem-Shravan
 * Best Female Playback Singer – Alka Yagnik for "Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke"

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BG Group

BG Group plc was a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in Reading, United Kingdom. On 8 April 2015, Royal Dutch Shell announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire BG Group for $70 billion, subject to regulatory and shareholder agreement. The sale was completed on 15 February 2016. Prior to the takeover, BG Group was listed on the London Stock Exchange (BG.L) and was a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. In the 2015 Forbes Global 2000, BG Group was ranked as the 583rd largest public company in the world.

Prior to its acquisition by Shell, BG Group had operations in 25 countries across six continents and produced around 680,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day. It had a major liquefied natural gas (LNG) business and was the largest supplier of LNG to the United States. As at 31 December 2009, it had total proven commercial reserves of 2.6 Goilbbl of oil equivalent.

Origins
The company was created in 1997 when British Gas plc divested Centrica and became BG plc, which was reorganised in 1999 as BG Group plc.

2000 to 2016
On 23 October 2000, a further demerger separated the company into Lattice Group and BG Group. Lattice took ownership of Transco (the gas transporter for the UK), Advantica (gas engineering and consultancy specialist) along with the property and transport companies and BG Group took ownership of gas fields and other assets. In 2002, Lattice merged with National Grid Company to become National Grid Transco which was renamed National Grid in 2005.

In September 2007, BG Group delisted its ADRs from the New York Stock Exchange. Instead its shares began trading on the US over-the-counter market.

In June 2008, BG Group made a US$13.1 billion bid to acquire Origin Energy, Australia's largest coal-seam gas producer, but were outmanoeuvred by ConocoPhillips, who offered to invest US$9.1 billion in a joint venture with Origin. However, in October 2008, BG Group bought Queensland Curtis LNG for US$3.4bn in order to operate in Asia's liquefied natural gas market, and on 1 November 2010, BG Group announced plans to invest £9.3bn on the world's first project to liquefy and ship gas produced from coal deposits – the first in a series of "coal seam methane" projects in the region of eastern Australia; by late 2014, this was sending gas produced from coal deposits by pipeline to a terminal in Gladstone on the east coast. In October 2011, BG Group signed a US$8 billion deal with Cheniere Energy to export liquefied natural gas from the United States.

In October 2012, BG sold its 65% majority stake in Gujarat Gas Company for $470 million to the state-run Gujarat State Petroleum Corporation. In January 2014, BG Group announced the initial drilling of an oil exploration well offshore in Kenya.

In April 2015, Royal Dutch Shell announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire BG Group for $70 billion, subject to regulatory and shareholder agreement. The deal gave BG shareholders 19% of the combined group, and gave Shell extensive access to BG's LNG assets, accelerating its global LNG and deep water strategy. Finalisation of the BG acquisition by Royal Dutch Shell was completed on 15 February 2016.

Operations
BG Group's main business was the exploration and extraction of natural gas and oil and the production of liquefied natural gas. It sold these products to wholesale customers such as retail gas suppliers and electricity generating companies. It also owned some gas pipelines and was involved in some power generation projects. It was active around the world, with only a minority of its business being in the UK. BG Group was a multinational company with operations in 27 countries. Key areas for the company included:

 * Australia
 * QGC, coal seam gas upstream plays in Queensland's Surat and Bowen basin, and Curtis Island based LNG plant
 * Brazil
 * Interests in the Tupi, Iara, Guara, and Iracema fields in the Santos Basin off the coast of southeastern Brazil
 * Egypt
 * Operates the Rosetta and West Delta Deep Marine gas fields, LNG export
 * India
 * Interest in the Panna-Mukta and Tapti fields, and Mahanagar Gas Limited (a city gas distribution company operating in Mumbai).
 * Kazakhstan
 * Interest in the Karachaganak gas field
 * Norway
 * Exploration licences with several discoveries
 * Thailand
 * Interest in the Bongkot gas field
 * Trinidad & Tobago
 * NCMA gas fields, Dolphin gas field, LNG export
 * Tunisia
 * Operates the Miskar and Hasdrubal gas fields
 * UK
 * Interests in several oil and gas fields in the UK continental shelf, including operating the Armada, Everest, and Lomond gas fields and the Blake oil field, Interest in the Dragon LNG import terminal
 * USA
 * Interest in LNG Terminals, shale gas joint venture operation in the Haynesville and Marcellus plays, and Houston.

Senior management
Sir Frank Chapman was appointed Chief Executive of the BG Group in October 2000. His remuneration for this role in 2008 consisted of £1,081,588 base salary and a £1,944,000 bonus.

Chapman stood down at the end of 2012 after 12 years as CEO, and was replaced by Chris Finlayson, previously managing director for 'BG Advance', a business function within the Group. Chapman continued as an advisor to BG Group until he retired in June 2013. Finlayson lost the confidence of the Board in 2014 and resigned, replaced by Andrew Gould.

On 15 October 2014, the company announced that Helge Lund, former CEO of Statoil, would become CEO. Lund left the company on 15 February 2016, following successful completion of the Shell acquisition and was replaced by a Shell appointed transition CEO.

Controversies
RepRisk listed the BG Group as seventh in its top ten of "Most Environmentally and Socially Controversial Companies of 2010". Reasons for the company's inclusion are as follows.
 * The BG Group were associated with deep-sea drilling plans in the Sicilian Strait. Karachaganak Petroleum Operating (KPO) consortium that includes BG was reportedly fined US$21 million for environmental violations at the onshore Karachaganak Oil and Gas Field.
 * BG subsidiary Queensland Gas Company's Queensland Curtis LNG Project had caused controversy in Australia.
 * The exploitation of the Tarija natural gas reserves in Bolivia where another BG subsidiary operated.
 * The report also criticized the remuneration given to its chief executive who had received GBP 28 million in cash, shares and pension contributions in 2009.

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