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Managers
Is the list of managers before the show began accruate. What are the sources? Same goes for the new manager being Adam Chapman and series 10 plotline. Are all these additions accruate or bull?

Stuff to do
This page needs to be merged with Dream Team (TV series) and a lot of crap lists need to be deleted from it, it stinks of fanboy rubbish. I've deleted the football club infobox, which was spurious, and potentially confusing. I would consider putting this article up for deletion, but I feel it should be merged with the Dream Team page because some of the info is valuable, but only a small part. -- Boothman   /tɔːk/  16:36, 29 August 2006 (UTC).

I agree, this is a load of rubbish, the links refer to real people who were never involved in the show. I can't think of a good reason why it should exist at all. an IP address, time —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.97.207.187 (talk) 03:04, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

If it's accurate, I don't see why not. It could use some sources, but there'd have to be if this person wrote the whole article. Meanwhile, maybe the page could be added to the bottom of the series page. I'd hate to see it deleted. It's very comprehensive. Browncoat101 (talk) 03:32, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

This doesn't seem to have a place in an encyclopedia. I agree with Boothman: Take a summary, put it in the Dream Team article, and mark this page for deletion.--Anna Frodesiak (talk) 20:49, 10 January 2009 (UTC)

Consider deleting?
The article contains no sources and is presented in a similar way to the wiki pages of real football clubs. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.143.87.152 (talk) 05:32, 3 February 2015 (UTC)

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Sean Marks

Sean Andrew Marks (born 23 August 1975) is a New Zealand-American basketball executive and former player and coach who is the general manager and alternate owner of the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was the first New Zealand-born player to play in the NBA. Marks won two championships with the San Antonio Spurs: one as a player in 2005 and another as an assistant coach in 2014.

Basketball career
After attending Rangitoto College in Auckland, Marks moved to the United States in 1992 to play for the University of California, Berkeley where he majored in political science, graduating with a BA degree in 1998. He was drafted 44th overall in the 1998 NBA draft by the New York Knicks, and was traded on draft night, alongside Charles Oakley, to the Toronto Raptors for Marcus Camby. Marks would later play for the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs.

In 2000–01, Marks started the season with Śląsk Wrocław of Poland, and in December 2000 had an unsuccessful ten-day contract (0 games) with the Seattle SuperSonics, returning to his Polish team until the season ended. In 2003–04, while with the Spurs, he did not play a single second due to patella tendonitis.

In the next season, while playing for the Spurs Marks averaged 10 minutes per game and produced an average of 3 points and 2 rebounds. That year the Spurs won the NBA championship by defeating the Detroit Pistons in seven games. Marks did not receive any playing time for the Spurs during the 2005 playoffs.

Marks signed with the Phoenix Suns on 27 July 2006, to a one-year contract, On 16 April 2008, during a win over the Portland Trail Blazers in the Suns last regular-season game, Marks scored a double-double with 16 points and 13 rebounds, along with 1 steal and 1 block.

Marks later signed with the New Orleans Hornets on 28 August 2008. On 21 October 2010, Marks was waived by the Washington Wizards after he had failed to suit up for a pre-season game because of a hamstring injury. He was signed by Portland in November after the retirement of Fabricio Oberto.

On 24 February 2011, Marks was traded along with Joel Przybilla, Dante Cunningham and two future first-round draft picks to the Charlotte Bobcats for Gerald Wallace. The Bobcats waived Marks on March 3, 2011.

Internationally, Marks represented New Zealand. He competed in the 2000 and 2004 Olympic Games, and was part of their fourth-place finish at the 2002 FIBA World Championship held in Indianapolis, US.

Coaching and executive career
Marks retired in 2011. In 2012, he was named basketball operations assistant for the San Antonio Spurs and general manager for the Austin Toros. He became an assistant coach with the Spurs in 2013. The Spurs went on to win the 2014 NBA Finals after defeating the Miami Heat in five games. It was Marks second championship and first as an assistant coach. At the start of the following season he returned to the front office, being named assistant general manager.

On 18 February 2016, it was announced that the Brooklyn Nets named Marks as the new general manager for the team, and penned a 4-year contract. Marks told then-owner Mikhail Prokhorov that his vision for rebuilding a team that had collapsed to only 21 wins involved a process that would take several years to execute, and made clear that he was not interested in a repeat of Prokhorov's previous "win now" approach. Earlier, Prokhorov had acknowledged his previous free-spending strategy was not the best way in the long run to build a champion. During the third year of Marks' contract, the Nets appeared in the 2019 NBA Playoffs, making it their first appearance since 2015.

On 19 May 2017, Marks was inducted into the Basketball New Zealand Hall of Fame.

On 21 April 2019, Marks was suspended for Game 5 of the Nets' contest against the Philadelphia 76ers, due to entering the referees’ locker room after the Nets' Game 4 loss. He was subsequently fined $25,000.

Personal life
Marks and his wife Jennifer have four sons. The family resides in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Marks became an American citizen in 2007.

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Mount Putnik

Mount Putnik is a mountain located north of Three Isle Creek and west of the Kananaskis River in Peter Lougheed Provincial Park Alberta, Canada. The mountain is named after the Serbian Field Marshal Radomir Putnik (1847-1917).

In June 2012, the Ravna Gora Serbian Heritage Society of Calgary, Alberta Canada, unveiled a plaque to commemorate Radomir Putnik on the mountain. The plaque text is as follows:
 * "Mount Putnik is named in perpetual remembrance of the men and women of the allied armed forces in Serbia and their leader Field Marshal Radomir Putnik (1847-1917). Serbia lost a quarter of its population, both army and civilian, during WWI (1914-1918). This sacrifice was part of Canadian and Allied efforts in Europe against three empires to protect the rights and freedoms of human kind.”

Climate
Based on the Köppen climate classification, it is located in a subarctic climate zone with cold, snowy winters, and mild summers. Temperatures can drop below −20 °C with wind chill factors below −30 °C. In terms of favorable weather, June through September are the best months to climb. Precipitation runoff from the mountain drains into tributaries of the Kananaskis River.

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Kildwick

Kildwick, or Kildwick-in-Craven, is a village and civil parish of the district of Craven in North Yorkshire, England. It is situated between Skipton and Keighley and had a population of 191 in 2001, rising slightly to 194 at the 2011 census. Kildwick is a landmark as where the major road from Keighley to Skipton crosses the River Aire. The village's amenities include a primary school, church and public house.

Etymology
The first known documentation of Kildwick's name is as Childeuuic in the Domesday Book. In Latin, the digraph ch is pronounced /kʰ/ not /tʃ/ so its pronunciation was the same as it is now.

The meaning of its name depends on whether it was named by the conquering Vikings or earlier in Old English. However, no evidence of the latter is known, and other place names nearby are predominantly Old Norse.

 * Kild. In Old Danish kilde means either a spring like in Keld 43 mi to the north, or a large smooth body of water. Kelda has its roots in ketil, cauldron, from the Proto-Germanic language kiltham, a vessel for nourishment. It is often proposed that Kild mean child since it comes from that same root. kilþei means womb in Gothic and thence Old English cild, child or kin, but the town name is not Old English but Norse and so Kild describes the floodplain of the River Aire when flooded.
 * Wick means a community settlement from the etymological root of Proto-Indo-European weik meaning clan, c.f. Sanskrit vit settlement; Old Iranian vis clan, house, village. In Proto-Germanic etymology, wīc or vik developed several meanings: Kildwick could mean a river port like Greenwich or a trading place like Norwich, but dairy farm does not apply for that meaning was used only in the south of England. Hence in Kildwick's case its name means river port.

Property
The Domesday Book of 1086 has the first record of Kildwick in writing. It lists the Lord of the Childeuuic manor as Arnkeld with about 240 acres (100 hectares) of ploughland and an Anglo Saxon church.

However, William the Conqueror shortly deposed all the Angle-Dane lords and rewarded his great Norman warriors. Ruling over-all in Craven was Robert de Romille. In 1120 Robert's heir Cecilia de Romille, Lady of Skipton, founded an Augustine priory at Embsay near Skipton and endowed it with the manor/estate of Kildwick. In 1153 the proprietors of Kildwick moved their priory to Bolton Abbey.

From 1305 to 1313, Bolton Priory paid for the bridge over the River Aire to be built in stone. They also built Kildwick Grange as a local residence.

In 1539, Henry VIII dissolved the monastery at Bolton and granted Kildwick manor to Robert Wilkinson and Thomas Drake of Halifax but granted the church to Christ Church, Oxford.

In 1549, Thomas Drake alienated the Manor to John Garforth of Farnhill. In 1558, the Garforths sold it all to the Currer family with whose lineal descendants it remains.

Population

 * 1379 Poll Tax recorded Kildwick township as having only 10 households, all paying the minimum tax.
 * 1672 Hearth Tax counted 25 households in the township with mostly but one fireplace, but also the 14-hearthed manor house.
 * 1821 parish registered 8,605 inhabitants.
 * 1831 parish was 9,926 however township only 190.
 * 1881 the parish had been divided so district down to 8,923.
 * 1891 district up to 9,859 but township down to 145.

St Andrew's Church
St Andrew's is a historically significant church. Fragments of 10th-century crosses have been excavated from its walls, evidence of the Anglo Saxon church built here before the Norman conquest. It was replaced by one of stone in the 12th century. Cecilia de Romille gave the church to Bolton Priory in Wharfedale, the Manor of Kildwick coming under the jurisdiction of the Priors of Bolton.

After the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314 Scots raiders sacked Bingley and Bradford Churches, but spared Keighley and Kildwick Churches because they were dedicated to St. Andrew, patron saint of Scotland. However, in 1318 the church building was badly damaged by Scottish raiders.

In 1539 Henry VIII dissolved the monastery and granted the church to Christ Church, Oxford. In the reign of Henry VIII under the patronage of Christ Church the church was almost entirely rebuilt. During the 15th and 16th centuries the church was lengthened, with further extensions eastwards so that it is now one of the longest in Yorkshire hence known locally as 'The Lang Kirk of Craven'.

The church was restored in 1873 by the Lancaster partnership of Paley and Austin. Changes have taken place since then, including extension of the chancel and a further restoration of the nave in 1901–03 by the successors in the Lancaster practice, Austin and Paley.

Charlotte Brontë and other members of the Brontë family were acquainted with the church.

Kildwick Parish
Ancient Kildwick Parish was unusually large for it included the townships of Kildwick, Bradley Both, Cononley, Cowling, Holden, Eastburn, Farnhill, Glusburn, Ikornshaw, Silsden, Steeton, Sutton and Stirton and Thorlby.

In the mid 19th century the advent of textile factories caused rapid growth of some of the townships. It became anomalous for residents of those expanding towns to have to travel to a tiny village to be baptised, married and buried. In consequence the parish was divided, for example the other side of the River Aire Sutton-in-Craven was constituted as a separate ecclesiastical district in 1869 and built its own parish church. However adjacent Cross Hills is still in the parish of Kildwick.

Education
Education in Kildwick has a substantial history. In 1563 and 1564 the Archbishop of York’s Visitation Act books records a schoolmaster at Kildwick. And the national Hearth tax of 1672 records “George Ellmott for the Freeschoole, 2 hearths” untaxed in Kildwick. In 2012 the School is adjacent to the parish church on Priest Bank Road and is known as Kildwick Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School. It caters for girls and boys age range 4 to 11; maximum number of pupils per grade 17.

Road
Kildwick is a landmark in Craven being the point at which the main road from Keighley to Skipton crosses the River Aire. Kildwick is made a natural crossing place by the spur of land from Crosshills that dramatically narrows a wide valley prone to flooding. This spur is a first river terrace deposit of silt and sand with gravel lenses. It has been enlarged downstream by about 60 acres (25ha) of made ground.

From 1305 to 1313 Bolton Abbey paid for "Aire-brigg" to be built in stone however wooden bridges had existed there many centuries before that. The bridge at Kildwick is the first stone bridge recorded in Craven and the oldest bridge in Airedale and has been designated a Grade I building.

The Keighley and Kendal Turnpike Trust operated from 1752 to 1878. It was promoted mostly by textile manufacturers of Settle on the grounds that transportation costs to be greatly reduced since waggons on good roads need half the number of horses required for carrying packs. It was built to a standard width of 7 yards of which 5 were metaled.

In 1780 the bridge was widened for the Turnpike and is structurally two bridges standing side‐by‐side. The upstream side with ribbed vaulting and two pointed arches is the 14th-century original. The downstream side has only plain round arches.

In 1823 the Blackburn Addingham road opened. Six stagecoaches a day passed through the area. However the Keighley Kendal Road proved a commercial failure and ceased in debt in 1878. The roads passed into the care of the County Council.

By 1968 the road traffic volume found such a bottleneck at the bridge and village it necessitated the building of the A629 and bridge to bypass it; completed in 1988.

Canal
Kildwick village is so close to the canal that they touch. In 1773 the Bingley to Skipton section was the first section of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal to be completed. By 1781 the canal joined Leeds to Gargrave, and in 1816 completed the link to Liverpool. It was of benefit for transport of supplies and goods from the textile mills that stood on the other side of the river.

Rail
In 1847 the Leeds and Bradford Extension Railway opened its Shipley to Skipton section through Kildwick and Crosshills railway station. Kildwick was thus served by rail until the station was closed in 1965. Steeton is the nearest railway station.

Notable people

 * Stephen Barrett (1718–1801), teacher of classics, was born at Bent, in the parish of Kildwick.
 * Katie Griffiths (born 1989), actress, grew up in Kildwick.
 * Henry Mosley (1852–1933), first-class cricketer, was born in Kildwick.
 * Clare Teal (1973–), English jazz singer, was born in Kildwick.
 * John Webster (alias Johannes Hyphastes) (1610–82), clergyman and physician, became curate at Kildwick in 1634.

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Tenorite

Tenorite is a copper oxide mineral with the chemical formula CuO.

Occurrence
Tenorite occurs in the weathered or oxidized zone associated with deeper primary copper sulfide orebodies. Tenorite commonly occurs with chrysocolla and the copper carbonates, azurite and malachite. The dull grey-black color of tenorite contrasts sharply with the often intergrown blue chrysocolla. Cuprite, native copper and Fe–Mn oxides also occur in this environment.

In addition to the hydrothermal, tenorite also occurs as a volcanic sublimate from Vesuvius, Campania, and Etna, Sicily, Italy. As a sublimate it occurs with copper chlorides, alkali chlorides and cotunnite. The Vesuvian sublimate occurrence was originally named melaconise or melaconite by F. S. Beudant in 1832.

Tenorite was named in 1841 after the Italian botanist Michele Tenore (1780–1861).

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Mount Lee

Mount Lee is a peak in the Santa Monica Mountains, located in Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California, USA. The Hollywood Sign is located on its southern slope.

History
The original unnamed peak was one of the "three sisters" along with Cahuenga and Burbank peaks, the current flattened top being a result of silent movie pioneer Mack Sennett's unfulfilled plans to build an elaborate home on the property. To advertise the new Beachwood Canyon real estate development, the developers, including Sennett and Los Angeles Times publisher Harry Chandler, ordered a huge wooden sign built atop what is now known as Mount Lee. The mountain is named after early Los Angeles car dealer and radio station owner Don Lee. Lee, a one-time bicycle shop owner who became a protégé of Los Angeles pioneer businessman Earle C. Anthony, purchased his Los Angeles radio station KHJ from Chandler in 1927.

Four years later Lee began experimenting with television using call letters W6XAO. Studios were on the seventh floor of a building at Seventh and Bixel near his Cadillac dealership. A few years later, the transmitter was moved atop what is now called Mount Lee. An early reference to this name is in a June 1939 article in a magazine published by the California Chamber of Commerce: "Lee has bought a 20-acre site on a mountain top at the eastern boundary of Griffith Park, widening the transmission field of the Don Lee equipment to take in new thousands of homes in the Hollywood hills and the San Fernando Valley. The site is one and a half times higher than the top floor of the Empire State Building in New York. Mount Lee is thus the highest television location in the world. The transmitter is being rebuilt for installation on the mountain."

According to Wikimapia the immediate seller was not the original development company, but Sennett personally, "who wasn't doing too well in the post-silent Hollywood era and really needed the money." Lee was the first of what would become three active pre–World War II Los Angeles television pioneers. The others were Paramount Studios' W6XYZ (later called KTLA) and Lee's mentor Earle C Anthony's W6XEA (later called KSEE, KFI-TV, KHJ-TV, and now operating as KCAL-TV). Lee's W6XAO eventually became KTSL – standing for Thomas S. Lee, who had succeeded to his father's position when Don Lee died in 1934. KTSL was purchased by CBS in 1950 and became KNXT, today's KCBS-TV.

Lee's television head was Harry Lubcke. Paramount had Klaus Landsburg and Anthony had the venerable KFI radio dual chief engineer team of Headly Blatterman and George Mason. All three recognized that television signals from Mount Lee and similar points were inadequate to reach the greater Los Angeles basin. They needed a point overlooking the entire area. Part of Mount Lee was then sold to Howard Hughes, who intended to erect an estate for his then-current love interest, Ginger Rogers. Ultimately, the Hughes-Rogers relationship soured, and the mansion was never built.

After utilization during the war by the U.S. Army, the property remained an idle asset for decades, and eventually became part of the Hughes estate. Meanwhile, the three Los Angeles television pioneers were scouting out a more suitable location. Television experimentation was slowed considerably during the war but post-war preparations continued. The new site was code named "Mt. Anthony" in KFI-AM house organs of the day. After hostilities ended it turned out that Mt. Anthony was really Mt. Wilson – which is now the site of most Los Angeles FM and television stations due to its superior height.

Mount Lee continues to be the site of various non-commercial radio activities, but television transmissions ceased from that location in October 1951.

In 2002, the Hughes estate sold 138 acre of their Mount Lee holdings to a group of Chicago investors. This opened up the possibility of development of four residential buildings adjacent to the sign. Many Angelenos, especially those in the movie industry, felt this would be sacrilege. A successful effort was mounted in 2010 to raise funds to purchase the land and add it to the adjacent Griffith Park. The large tower atop Mount Lee today is owned and operated by the City of Los Angeles. It is a newer structure which replaced the original W6XAO tower some years ago. Smaller tenants on the site have included some federal government and amateur radio users.

Hiking

Mount Lee is a popular hiking area within the Griffith Park. Orientation maps are located at the entrance to the parking lot near Griffith Observatory. A service road leads from the observatory to numerous hiking routs on and around Mount Lee; however, the immediate area where the Hollywood Sign is located is closed to the public since the area is home to the main communication tower for the City of Los Angeles. Hiking up to Wisdom tree on the western slope of Mount Lee is accessible. Visitors are expected to comply with safety requirements, and must be prepared and equipped adequately.

Trails leading to the Hollywood Sign can be accessed from several official Griffith Park entrances. These include the Mt. Hollywood Trail, which can be accessed from the Griffith Observatory parking lot off Vermont Canyon Road or from Vermont Canyon Road just past the Greek Theater, the Bronson Canyon / Brush Canyon Trail (3200 Canyon Drive, Los Angeles, CA), and a number of trailheads that begin near the Griffith Park Visitors Center off Crystal Springs Drive in the Los Feliz section of Los Angeles (free trail maps are available at the Visitors Center). A once-popular trailhead originating at the top of Beachwood Drive was closed by court order in April 2017.

Griffith Park
Mount Lee's hiking trails and fire roads are part of Griffith Park; as such it's easy to get lost and be redirected. Maps of the trails and the land around the hills should be studied before attempting to hike the area for the first time.

Wildlife
Wildlife around Mount Lee and the Griffith Park includes coyotes, rattlesnakes, mountain lions, a variety of birds and other species.

P-22, an adult mountain lion, was known to inhabit the park. An image of the cougar was captured on an automatic camera.

Permanent signs on the Griffith Park Observatory deck warn of rattlesnakes in the surrounding area.

Coyotes abound in Griffith Park, especially after dark.

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BozPW
Delete. This page is talking about some internet user's alter ego. It's nothing educational nor should it exist in an encylcopaedia. RSieradzki 02:44, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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Telepictures

Telepictures (also known as Telepictures Productions; formerly known as Telepictures Distribution and Telepictures Corporation) is an American television show and filmmaking company, currently operating as a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Entertainment. Telepictures was established in 1979 by David Salzman, Michael Jay Solomon, and Michael Garin as a television syndication firm.

Early years
The company made its origins when Telepictures decided to distribute four projects, one was a game show in collaboration with Jerome Schnur Productions, and to produce projects for network television and public television stations, mainly PBS, which was maintained by Charles Fries Productions to secure underwriting and had a deal to distribute Time-Life Television fare in the Middle East.

The company syndicated Rankin-Bass's programming and specials that were produced from 1974 to 1988, including new and successful animated series, such as ThunderCats and SilverHawks. Telepictures bought Rankin-Bass outright in 1983. It managed the NIWS news service, and by 1982, had formed a joint venture with Gannett Broadcasting to start out the Newscope program through Gannett/Telepictures.

In addition, Telepictures had syndicated numerous television programs such as My Favorite Martian, Here's Lucy, Love Connection, and the original The People's Court with Judge Joseph Wapner. Telepictures also operated a small publishing arm, which published magazines, such as The Muppets Magazine and Challenge of the GoBots Magazine.

In 1983, Frank Konigsberg's Konigsberg Co. was merged into Telepictures. Also that year, the company launched its Perennial division, to distribute evergreen programming for syndication, such as Mayberry, R.F.D. and The New Dick Van Dyke Show.

On March 21, 1984, it signed a distribution deal with Dick Clark Productions in order to expand its activities in order to distribute virtually all of the Dick Clark productions and TV specials.

Lorimar-Telepictures
In 1985, the company merged with Merv Adelson and Lee Rich's Lorimar Television, creating Lorimar-Telepictures and assumed production and distribution of shows like Dallas and Knots Landing. The company also began distribution of first-run episodes of Mama's Family in June 1986 in television.

The company briefly dabbled into owning television station by purchasing charter Fox affiliate WPGH-TV in Pittsburgh and attempted to purchase then-CBS affiliate WTVJ in Miami. However, after CBS made a half-hearted attempt to purchase Fox affiliate WCIX from Taft Broadcasting (CBS would later make a more serious attempt to purchase the station two years later and succeeded; it is now CBS owned-and-operated station WFOR-TV), Telepictures backed off from purchasing WTVJ. (NBC eventually purchased the station; it remains an NBC O&O today.) The company would then subsequently sell WPGH-TV to Renaissance Broadcasting after only a year in ownership; WPGH-TV, which went through several owners in the 1980s, would not have stable ownership until current owner Sinclair Broadcast Group (which had been outbid by Telepictures for the station in 1986) bought the station from Renaissance in 1990.

Purchase by Warner Communications and rebrand as Telepictures Productions (1988–present)
In 1987, Lorimar Television was created as a separate production entity of Lorimar-Telepictures. Around this time, the company purchased a 9% stake in Warner Communications (now Warner Bros. Discovery), which set off talks about a possible merger between two entertainment entities. The following year, Warner Communications finally purchased the company. Lorimar Television became a separate subsidiary of Warner Bros. Television Studios until 1993, while Lorimar-Telepictures unit was folded into Warner Bros. Television Distribution. Telepictures became Telepictures Productions in 1990, a producer of syndicated programming that Warner Bros. Television would distribute. Later on that year, David Salzman, founding partner left Lorimar to start Warner-affiliated production company with Millennium Productions, covering affiliated houses like Lorimar Television and Telepictures Productions.

Beginning in 1994, certain Telepictures shows, such as Extra, were co-produced by then-sister company Time Inc., under the name Time-Telepictures Television. Most shows produced by them bore a copyright for "TTT West Coast", while Sports Illustrated videos released during the timeframe bore a copyright for "TTT East Coast" instead. The joint venture ceased in 2003 and TTT productions were brought under the main Telepictures name.

In 2004, John Rieber and Alex Duda via Streamroller Entertainment set up an overall deal with the Telepictures company.

Telepictures Distribution (1995–2003)
In 1995, Time Warner Entertainment formed Telepictures Distribution as a division of Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution, running over the oversight of then-EVP Scott Carlin. The company distributed non-Warner Bros. produced programming to which the syndication rights have been licensed to Warner and/or Turner as well as Warner properties.

Upon Time Warner's purchase of Turner in 1996, some of the key assets of Turner Program Services were folded into the company.

In 2003, Telepictures Distribution was folded into Warner Bros. Domestic Television Distribution.

Shows produced by Telepictures

 * The People's Court (1981–1993, 1997–2023)
 * Love Connection (1983–1994, 1998–1999, 2017–2018)
 * Rituals (1984–1985)
 * The All New Let's Make a Deal (1984–1986)
 * Catchphrase (1985–1986)
 * ThunderCats (1985–1989)
 * SilverHawks (1986)
 * Trump Card (1990–1991)
 * Fun House (1990–1991, for Fox)
 * The Jesse Jackson Show (1990)
 * The Jenny Jones Show (1991–2003)
 * The Jane Whitney Show (1992–1994)
 * Extra (1994–present)
 * Carnie! (1995–1996)
 * The Rosie O'Donnell Show (1996–2002, not to be confused with The Rosie Show on OWN)
 * In Person with Maureen O'Boyle (1996–1997)
 * Change of Heart (1998–2003)
 * The Queen Latifah Show (1999–2001)
 * Judge Mathis (1999–2023)
 * Street Smarts (2000–2005)
 * The Caroline Rhea Show (2002–2003)
 * Celebrity Justice (2002–2005)
 * SlamBall (2002-03)
 * Are You Hot? (2003)
 * The Sharon Osbourne Show (2003–2004)
 * The Ellen DeGeneres Show (2003–2022)
 * The Larry Elder Show (2004–2005)
 * The Tyra Banks Show (2005–2010)
 * The Dr. Keith Ablow Show (2006–2007)
 * TMZ on TV (2007–2021; sold to Fox Corporation and now distributed through Fox First Run with ad sales handled by CBS Media Ventures)
 * The Bonnie Hunt Show (2008–2010)
 * Judge Jeanine Pirro (2008–2011)
 * Lopez Tonight (2009–2011)
 * Dr. Drew's Lifechangers (2011–2012)
 * Anderson Live (2011–2013)
 * Let's Ask America (2012–2015)
 * Bethenny (2013–2014)
 * The Real (2013–2022)
 * Just Keke (2014)
 * Crime Watch Daily (2015–2018)
 * Mad TV (2016 revival series)
 * Ellen's Game of Games (2017–2021)
 * RuPaul (2019)
 * The Jennifer Hudson Show (2022–present)

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"Recently during an interview for a UK student newspaper, Frank Turner hinted at a possible reunion. He claimed that if his solo project went "tits up", he would consider reforming the band for live shows with the possibility of a new album. However, with a solo tour booked for the latter part of 2009, this looks unlikely and at best a distant hope." GetMKWearMKFly (talk) 00:22, 17 March 2009 (UTC)

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Drollery

A drollerie, often also called a grotesque, is a small decorative image in the margin of an illuminated manuscript, most popular from about 1250 through the 15th century, though found earlier and later. The most common types of drollery images appear as mixed creatures, either between different animals, or between animals and human beings, or even between animals and plants or inorganic things. Examples include cocks with human heads, dogs carrying human masks, archers winding out of a fish's mouth, bird-like dragons with an elephant's head on the back. Often they have a thematic connection with the subject of the text of the page, and larger miniatures, and they usually form part of a wider scheme of decorated margins, though some are effectively doodles added later. The word comes from the French drôlerie, meaning a joke.

One manuscript, The Croy Hours, has so many it has become known as The Book of Drolleries. Another manuscript that contains many drolleries is the English Luttrell Psalter, which has hybrid creatures and other monsters on a great deal of the pages. This comes from the East Anglian school of illumination, which was especially fond of adding drolleries. The Taymouth Hours, Gorleston Psalter, and Smithfield Decretals are other examples; all four are 14th-century and now in the British Library. In the Taymouth Hours the images are inside the main frame given each page, and so are strictly bas de page images rather than being "marginal". The images mix sacred subjects relevant to the text with secular ones that are not. Such images are the most plentiful sources of contemporary illustrations of ordinary life in the period, and many are often seen reproduced in modern books.

In English, "drollerie" was also a term in the 18th century for genre paintings of low-life subjects, especially those in Dutch Golden Age painting, which indeed are to some extent descended from the medieval marginal images.

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Alternaporn and culture
Does anyone have any insight into the effects of pornography on culture, and what alternaporn may point towards? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.205.96.61 (talk contribs) 02:47, 9 April 2005.
 * Do you mean the effects of culture on pornography? If so, I think altporn is a reaction to all the blonde-haired, high heel-wearing, fake-boobed women that filled much of films, pornographic and not, through the 1980's.  It was kind of like how mainstream rock music went from hair bands to grunge.  People just got sick of the fakeness. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.113.104.47 (talk • contribs).

Retitle article from "Alternaporn" to "Altporn"
I think this page should be renamed "Altporn" rather than "Alternaporn". A search for "alternaporn" on yahoo revealed 760 hits. "Altporn" brought 15,000 hits. The page "Alternaporn" should redirect to "Altporn". Thoughts? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 222.99.170.56 (talk • contribs) 02:13, 14 September 2005.

 * (Done on 01:03, 31 October 2005 by JesseW) Iamcuriousblue 20:36, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

NPOV tag?
THere's no explanation of why this is considered NPOV. Personally, I can't really see what the tag is for. I'll come back after a while and see if anyone has a response. --Jacquelyn Marie 20:13, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Not sure myself, but there may be some noise, probably unproductive, given recent events surrounding suicidegirls. [(references: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,69006,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2],, ). Maybe wait a week and see if things get messy. --disconcision 06:15, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

 * As per above I have removed the disputed tag. The article is admittedly a single (sourced) point of view... and of a slang term no less. No debate or reverting though.--disconcision 04:28, 14 October 2005 (UTC)

List of altporn websites
I agree with the preceding statement. I also think a separate page should be started listing Alt-Porn websites in alphabetical order. I will be starting this ASAP unless there are any objections? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 63.173.114.136 (talk • contribs) 08:39, 14 April 2006.

 * WP:NOT a links repository. NicM 09:00, 14 April 2006 (UTC).

If that is true, then why are there so many of them here? There's a link repository for mainstream porn studios with their own personal web sites. The truth is that alot of people use this for marketing themselves and their companies. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 63.173.114.137 (talk • contribs) 10:44, 17 April 2006.

 * A lot of people may try to do so, but they are not supposed to. If you see a mainstream Wikipedia page being used as a links repository then either a) fix it or b) list it or for AfD. NicM 14:00, 17 April 2006 (UTC).

 * I can't find a links repository for mainstream porn studios anyway. List of pornographic movie studios links only to Wikipedia articles, not to personal web sites. Which page were you thinking of? NicM 14:04, 17 April 2006 (UTC).

Here's a good example, follow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Pornographic_movie_studios and you will see a list of porn studios. If you follow a link, there is a description or article, along with an external link. It's like a backdoor links repository. So how about starting a whole new article on internet alt-porn? I would be happy to pick this up. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 63.173.114.136 (talk • contribs) 08:46, 19 April 2006.

 * Well, categorisation is useful, and they don't link to external links, merely to other Wikipedia articles. Most articles have external links, and in articles about companies their website is a pretty relevent one. Most of these articles do contain at least some information aside from the link in any case. If you think the articles are unencylopedic, or the subjects not notable, or they are just advertising, tag them for cleanup or list them for AfD rather than creating more articles that have the same problems. If you want to create articles on notable altporn studios, and a category for it (if there are enough articles to justify it), that is fine, but a page merely listing links is not. NicM 16:09, 19 April 2006 (UTC).

 * There are already articles on SuicideGirls and Blue Blood, as well as director Stephen Sayadin and photographer Richard Kern, which are linked to in the article itself. I'm not sure what you mean by "studios" - altporn is mostly found on websites. So far, there are articles on Blue Blood and SuicideGirls, and its debatable whether other sites are notable enough to warrant their own article. (EroticBPM, maybe.) Altporn director Eon McKai is notable enough to warrant an article, if anyone would care to write one. As for putting up a long list of links, I don't think that's particularly useful, and goes against the Wikipedia guideline "Wikipedia is not a link repository", or something to that effect. Peter G Werner 16:42, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

Fair enough, but I think I will categorize web sites, not studios. – The preceding unsigned comment was added by 63.173.114.136 (talk • contribs) 09:23, 20 April 2006.

"Political pornography" and mentions of specific sites
I removed the following statement added by NicM: "Some also consider political pornography, such as Vegporn.com, to be altporn."

To the best of my knowledge, "political porn" is not any kind of notable trend in altporn or porn in general. The "Vegporn" site is considered "altporn" because of the type of models it features and the "online community" aspect, not because its "political porn". Its not a particularly important altporn site, so I didn't feel obliged to add any text about them.

The three or four altporn sites mentioned in the article right now are in there because they're historically important in the development of altporn, not because I'm cherry-picking personal favorites. BurningAngel and GodsGirls also might deserve some specific mention because of their importance within the contemporary altporn mileau, but I haven't worked them into the article at this point. Iamcuriousblue 20:53, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

3RR Vandalism
User:Vendar aka User:71.56.142.123 seems to have blanked a sizable portion of this article three times in the last 24 hours. Should this be reported as WP:AN/3RR or just left to Iamcuriousblue to repair or commented on as a user conduct issue where there is already a candidate entry for this user? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.127.62.7 (talk • contribs).

 * I'm not clear on just what 71's agenda is and why he's carrying out these multiple edits of the blueblood-related pages, but he or she has gutted this article of important historical information on this topic for some unknown reason. I consider it vandalism and will revert it when I see it. However, I have looked at the history page and I see no violation of the three revert rule so far. Iamcuriousblue 16:47, 6 September 2006 (UTC)

 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the . Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

no consensus after two weeks. --  tariq abjotu  06:14, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Requested move
Altporn → Alternative Pornography — Altporn is a contraction of "Alternative pornography." See Naming conventions (acronyms) and Alt-rock vs Alternative rock. JaysPuppet 06:49, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

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Add  * Support   or   * Oppose   on a new line followed by a brief explanation, then sign your opinion using ~.

 * Strongly Oppose. "Altporn" is the established name for this genre, not "alternative pornography". A simple Google test demonstrates this amply:

 * |"alt porn" -wikipedia: 93400 hits
 * | altporn -wikipedia: 48400 hits
 * |"alternative porn" -wikipedia: 11500 hits
 * |"alternative pornography" -wikipedia 477 hits

 * Based on the above, it is clear that "alternative pornography" is not the favored term here, so strict application of Wikipedia guidelines would create a highly artificial title for this article. (A case could be made for changing the title to "Alt-porn", however.) Also note that in the case of alternative rock, "alternative rock" gets 36 million hits while alt-rock only gets 12 million. In that case, the contraction is not as widely used, unlike the case with "altporn". Iamcuriousblue 21:09, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

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Addendum
Google testing some other synonyms:

 * "indie porn" -wikipedia: 26800 hits
 * "independent porn" -wikipedia: 537 hits
 * "independent pornography" -wikipedia: 282 hits

Peter G Werner 22:45, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Removed Joanna Angel quote
I removed the following quote from the article:

 * Joanna Angel of Burning Angel has described altporn simply as "Porn that comes from the heart".

I could not turn up a source for this quote after numerous Google searches, nor did I get a response after asking about it on the Burning Angel message board. Based on this, I think the above quote needs to be treated as apocryphal unless a source for the quote can be found. Iamcuriousblue 21:21, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

AltPorn Spamming the entry
This is almost becoming a page filled with spam and biased data rather than factual. AltPorn.net timelines for example, and the BlueBlood About Us page. As seen in any Blueblood related Wikipedia entries, the owners and affiliates are abusing the Wikipedia guidelines. They have been actively indulding in the creation of their own references in order to validate the false data they present as factual. A more experienced editor should look into every page being edited by this user and into the BlueBlood marketing inaccuracies. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.101.38.155 (talk • contribs) 14:33, 23 May 2007

 * I happened to write most of this article and I have no connection with BlueBlood. I wrote it from what sources I can find. I have been a fan of the altporn genre for many years now and can vouch for the accuracy of the facts stated in the article – other than proto-altporn filmmakers and photographers like Richard Kern and Stephen Sayadian, BlueBlood Magazine pretty much started the genre. They also have the earliest recorded online presence, predating NakkidNerds and RaverPorn, which are pretty some of the first distinctly altporn sites that I remember. (What's your version of altporn history? Yet somebody else who thinks SuicideGirls started it all, I suppose.) If you actually have citable facts to add to the article or can point out concrete inaccuracies in the present version of the article, by all means do so. But if you're just going to snipe and make baseless accusations from behind an anonymous IP, I can only conclude that you're simply trolling. (Also, for future reference, new comments go on the bottom of the page and should be signed.) Iamcuriousblue 21:28, 24 May 2007 (UTC)

I already removed the following statement added by a user: "Some also consider political pornography, such as ShhList.com, to be a good source for altporn." 109.40.1.42 (talk) 14:58, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

"Racism and Sexism in AltPorn" section
I edited to remove the section titled "Racism and Sexism in AltPorn", which consisted in its entirety of a POV essay/commentary, perhaps taken from a college or academic paper, which is not appropriate for an encyclopedia. Please remember that Wikipedia is not a soapbox, and that an extended discussion of opinions about racism and sexism in pornography really has nothing to do with the subject of the article. Thanks, --MCB 07:28, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Thanks for removing that – it was clearly an undergraduate essay that somebody had simply tacked on to the article. Not only was the slant of the article very much in violation of WP:NPOV, in also gave undue weight to the whole issue (the essay was several times longer than the rest of the article), and was very much a piece of original research. Some of the sources in the essay might be salvageable for parts of the "Controversies" section. Iamcuriousblue 16:27, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

 * Be as it may, it was still a valid viewpoint. Perhaps we should give it its own section as "criticism of altporn"? 66.157.50.26 (talk) 03:31, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

 * It doesn't matter if its a valid viewpoint. The question is, is it a citable and verifiable viewpoint from a published source? Once again, "Wikipedia is not a soapbox" to air personal views, nor is it a forum for original research. If there criticism of altporn from a notable, verifiable published source, then by all means, it should be summarized in this article. BTW, I'm not sure if you are familiar with the policies and guidelines for editing Wikipedia, but I really suggest you familiarize yourself with these rules before making uninformed statements on what does and doesn't belong here. Iamcuriousblue (talk) 05:26, 26 August 2009 (UTC)

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Dave Neumann

David Emil Neumann (born October 5, 1941) is a politician in the Canadian province of Ontario. He was the mayor of Brantford from 1980 to 1987 and served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as a Liberal from 1987 to 1990. After several years out of politics, he was elected as a city councillor for Brantford's fifth ward in the 2010 municipal election. He retired from the Brantford City Council in 2018.

Early life and career
Neumann was born in Montreal, Quebec, and moved with his family to a dairy farm near Waterford, Ontario, as a child. He earned a degree from McMaster University in Hamilton and worked as a secondary school teacher at Pauline Johnson Collegiate. He later coordinated adult education for his school board and was president of the Brant Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation (OSSTF).

Neumann supported The Waffle and was part of a group of Brantford-area New Democrats who favoured running party candidates at the municipal level. He ran for Brantford's fourth council ward in 1972 and nearly defeated veteran councillor Charles Ward for the second position.

Municipal politician
Neumann was elected as an alderman for Brantford's fifth ward in 1976 and was re-elected without opposition in 1978. He became the city's mayor in 1980, defeating right-wing candidate Andy Woodburn and incumbent Charles Bowen, and was re-elected without serious opposition in 1982 and 1985. As mayor, Neumann helped expand Mohawk College, negotiated an agreement with Brant County that allowed Brantford to annex five thousands acres of land, concluded an agreement with the Six Nations to construct the Brantford Southern Access Road, and lobbied for the construction of Highway 403 to Ancaster.

Neumann was also in office when the city's Market Street was shut down and the unsuccessful Market Square Mall was constructed. He has rejected that suggestion that he was to blame for these developments, noting that he voted against Market Street's closure while on council, that the mall was approved by council as a whole, and that no-one could have predicted the mall's giant Eaton's store would close.

As mayor, Neumann served on the board of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario. He joined the Liberals in early 1987.

Provincial politician
He ran for the Ontario legislature in the 1971 provincial election as a New Democrat, finishing third against Liberal Party leader Robert Nixon in Brant.

Neumann was elected to the Ontario legislature for Brantford in the 1987 provincial election, defeating New Democrat Jack Tubman and Progressive Conservative incumbent Phil Gillies. The Liberals won a landslide majority government in this election under David Peterson's leadership, and Neumann entered the legislature as a government backbencher. He was parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Municipal Affairs from 1987 to 1988 and chaired the standing committee on social development from 1988 to 1990.

In a 1989 interview, he cited a new telecommunications discovery centre, an industrial park, and the completion of Highway 403 as the Peterson government's main achievements for his area. Neumann also lobbied for increased Via Rail service; in August 1990, he announced that a previously cancelled commuter rail service to Brantford would reopen.

The Liberals were defeated in the 1990 provincial election, and Neumann lost his seat to New Democrat Brad Ward. He ran again in the 1995 provincial election but lost to Progressive Conservative candidate Ron Johnson.

Since 1990
Neumann resumed his teaching career after leaving political life, retiring from the Brant County Board of Education in 1997. He ran for mayor of Brantford in 2000, but, despite an endorsement from the Brantford Expositor, he finished an unexpectedly poor third against incumbent Chris Friel.

From 1998 to 2005, Neumann worked as executive director of the Ontario Association of Adult and Continuing Education School Board Administrators (CESBA), based in Brantford. He welcomed a $78,000 federal grant for literacy training in 2004. He was also president of the local Kiwanis society in 2002–03.

Neumann returned to elected office in the 2010 municipal election, winning the second seat in Brantford's fifth ward. He serves on the brownfields community advisory committee, the social services committee, and the Brantford Heritage Committee.

Federal politics
Neumann supported Jean Chrétien's bid to lead the Liberal Party of Canada in 1993 and continued to support Chrétien's leadership in the years that followed.

He supported Marguerite Ceschi-Smith's bid for the Liberal nomination in Brant in the buildup to the 2004 federal election. Ceschi-Smith lost to Lloyd St. Amand.

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 * Hey I very much like your way of linking to your reply and to my question (though my own practice is to keep the conversation in one place). Haven't seen it before; might consider trying it myself.
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Post on User talk:Instantnood by 84denniswong 05:20, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)

 * Replied on User talk:Instantnood 05:28, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * I guess to a certain extent British spellings are still prevalent in Hong Kong. If you take a quick glance at category:Transportation by country you can tell most countries using Commonwealth English have their categories titled "Transport in" rather than "Transportation in". The manual of style and manual of style (spelling) do not govern which spelling should be preferred, but they do according to where the content is about.
 * The reason why most countries are titled "Transportation in" was because nearly all of these categories were created by a bot. The article "Transport in Hong Kong" is already titled in that way, and I guess the same should be done to its corresponding category.  — Instantnood 08:07, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)

Your vote is needed!
Hello Umofomia. Despite the ongoing discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese) over the use of the terms "mainland China" and "People's Republic of China", SchmuckyTheCat and Huaiwei have listed category:Cities in mainland China, category:Companies of mainland China and category:Laws of mainland China onto Categories for deletion.

Your vote is now essential and vital for the survival of these categories, and to avoid attempts to bar the Naming conventions (Chinese) from truly enforced. — Instantnood 20:42, Mar 24, 2005 (UTC)

Update: there's also a poll at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese). — Instantnood 01:03, Mar 25, 2005 (UTC)

 * Replied on User talk:Instantnood 09:14, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * : -D — Instantnood 13:51, Mar 27, 2005 (UTC)

 * Corrected 09:18, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * That's not my real name anyways. :-) Don't forget to cast your vote at WP:CFD by the way, and please join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Chinese).  — Instantnood 16:20, Mar 28, 2005 (UTC)

Arbitration
Hello Umofomia. I've got listed onto requests for arbitration by SchmuckyTheCat. Could you have a look? Thanks. — Instantnood 04:30, Mar 29, 2005 (UTC)

Please don't start a Revert War!
After our nice talk (above and on my talk page) I studied Manual of Style (China-related articles) and found it impenetrable for anybody who hasn't participated in the discussions before. As usual, when I find a page incomprehensible, I fixed the problem, which took me about an hour. You reverted it with the remark:
 * don't do that... this is a talk page, and topics are presented chronological order with the latest topics at the end, otherwise you will have confusion as to where the latest posts are

I am very disappointed, because you and I just proved that we can solve discrepancies with reasonable, respectful discussion. I find your reversion and the remark out of place for the following reasons: If you feel it is important to preserve the old structure for historical reasons then the sensible thing to do would have been to archive it. Revert wars are for vandals! Please therefore return the page to my last revision. Sebastian 01:23, 2005 Mar 20 (UTC)
 * 1) The main objective of a talk page should not be to inform about where the latest posts are, but to inform about:
 * 2) * Which decisions were made and
 * 3) * Why were they made;
 * 4) * Whic issues remain.
 * 5) The page was not in chronological order to begin with. It contained lots of text that was inserted into people's comments.
 * 6) Unchronological text is not a problem. It is in fact common standard that talk pages contain inserted text.
 * 7) As you probably know, there are already several ways in place to find out the sequence of contributions: History and dated signatures.

 * Replied on User talk:SebastianHelm 01:47, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

 * Reply by SebastianHelm 02:50, 2005 Mar 20 (UTC)

 * Thanks for your nice reply! No hard feelings remaining! I replied directly under your reply, but I only now realized that you may not have been watching it. Please take a look at my reply. How about if we consolidate the thread on your or my talk page? — Sebastian 21:50, 2005 Mar 26 (UTC)

 * Replied 07:23, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)

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R v Wholesale Travel Group Inc

R v Wholesale Travel Group Inc [1991] 3 S.C.R. 154, is a leading Supreme Court of Canada case on the distinction between "true crime" and regulatory offences.

Background
Wholesale Travel sold vacation packages which it advertised as being at "wholesale prices" when, in fact, they were not wholesale prices at all. The company was charged with five counts of false or misleading advertising contrary to s. 36(1)(a) [now s. 60(2)] of the Competition Act. The charge was a hybrid offence that could be either an indictment consisting of a fine at the discretion of the court and to imprisonment for five years or to both, or a summary conviction consisting of a fine of $25,000 and a prison term for one year or both.

At trial, the judge held that ss. 36 and 37.3, which allowed for a due diligence defence, were in violation of ss. 7 and 11(d) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Crown's appeal for a dismissal was allowed and the case was resubmitted for trial. At appeal, the Court of Appeal for Ontario upheld the order for a trial. The accused applied to the Supreme Court of Canada and was rejected the first time but was accepted on a second appeal.

The issue before the Court was whether s. 37.3(2) of the Competition Act violated s. 7 of the Charter (which safeguards the "security of the person").

Ruling
The Court unanimously held that offences for which the mens rea is not necessary (as in cases of reglementary offences (See R v Sault Ste-Marie (City of)) do not violate s. 7 of the Charter when a due diligence defence demonstrated by preponderance of evidence (s. 37.3(2)(a) and (b)) is available, but that the "timely retraction" provisions of s. 37.3(2)(c) and (d) did infringe s. 7 and could not be saved under s.1.

The Court however was divided on whether a reversal of onus onto the accused in s. 37.3(2) was constitutional. The majority (Lamer with LaForest, Sopinka, Gonthier, McLachlin, Stevenson, and Iacobucci) held that the reverse onus infringed s.11(d) of the Charter. However, only four of the seven held that it could not be saved under s. 1. Since the remaining 2 judges (L'Heureux-Dube and Cory) found the reversal of onus did not violate s. 11(d), a majority was had by those that argued a reversal of onus was constitutionally justifiable by a 5 to 4 margin.

Comment
Note that the counsel for Wholesale Travel Group Inc. was led by Ian Binnie who would be promoted to the Supreme Court a few years later.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robot Master

 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 keep. —Korath (Talk) 03:19, Apr 15, 2005 (UTC)

Robot Master
This is gamecruft at it's worst. It needs to be deleted before the obsessive inclusionists try to add more junk into it. C-list actor 02:56, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * No vote. Note that User:C-list actor has tried the "Army of Obvious Sockpuppets" approach with Goomba. android↔talk 02:58, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Speedy keep. I think C-List Actor didn't put this on VfD for the reasons VfD should be used, but instead to cause disruption, clear by sockpuppets on Goomba. Hedley 03:06, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * C-List Actor was just blocked for sockpuppeting VfDs. On the basis that this VfD was never properly formed (Robot Master was never given a VfD tag), I think it should be closed. Hedley 03:13, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * I heartily agree. Leave the article at least until someone has a valid nom. And if anything can be done about his hoard of socks, that should be done, as well. --InShaneee 03:19, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. User who put this vote up for deletion uses sock puppets. Also, same reasons as why I voted to keep Goomba. Andrew pmk 06:01, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete or merge into Mega Man. This is fancruft that is not encyclopedic on its own. Martg76 07:51, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep, malformed VfD, trolling. Xezbeth  07:54, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I slapped on a vfd-tag since articles on the vfd page should have one whether or not the nomination was in good or bad faith. Oh yes... the nomination is in my view ridiculous. Sjakkalle 11:44, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep see also the Goomba VfD for the whole story. Andrew Lenahan - St ar bli nd 12:22, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Weak keep. At least it's better than having individual articles for every robot on the list! P Ingerson 14:11, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. At the very least such a list stops a whole bunch of useless stubs from being created. Also, the vfd was made in bad faith. Mgm|(talk) 14:21, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep per WP:FICT. Radiant_* 15:37, Apr 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. It may need a different name, though.  Robot Master is not the first place I would look for a complete list of Mega Man bosses. Indrian 06:15, Apr 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep--Matteh (talk) 14:24, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - KingTT 14:26, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete Bad faith or not, this is gamecruft --Bucephalus 17:59, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep or merge into Mega Man. Andre ( talk ) 18:04, Apr 13, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, more nn gamecruft, no potential to become encyclopedic. ComCat 06:33, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. It's better to compress all robot masters into one article than for people to make 100 articles on each robot master. Nestea 15:52, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages. Please do not edit this page.


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Fragrance oil

Fragrance oils, also known as aroma oils, aromatic oils, and flavor oils, are blended synthetic aroma compounds or natural essential oils that are diluted with a carrier like propylene glycol, vegetable oil, or mineral oil.

To allergic or otherwise sensitive people, synthetic fragrance oils are often less desirable than plant-derived essential oils as components of perfume. Essential oils, widely used in society, emit numerous volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Some of these VOCs are considered as potentially hazardous under federal regulations. Most high quality essential oils are extracted from natural sources such as plants, herbs, and flowers. However, synthetic versions of the same compound as a natural essential oil are usually very comparable. Furthermore, natural oils are in many cases significantly more expensive than their synthetic equivalents.

Aromatic oils are used in perfumery, candles, cosmetics, flavoring of food.

Some include (out of a very diverse range):
 * Ylang ylang
 * Vanilla
 * Sandalwood
 * Cedar wood
 * Mandarin orange
 * Cinnamon
 * Lemongrass
 * Rosehip
 * Peppermint
 * Frankincense
 * Bergamot
 * Patchouli
 * Blackcurrant

Candle fragrance oils
Scented candles are produced when fragrance oils are combined with hot wax like paraffin, forming a homogenous solution. Fragrance oils are retained like a sponge when the wax is cooled to room temperature. Lighting the candle wick increases the wax temperature, gradually releasing an aroma through the evaporation of the fragrance oil.

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The Sign (song)

"The Sign" is a song by Swedish group Ace of Base from their first North American studio album, The Sign (1993), and their re-released debut studio album, Happy Nation (1992), titled Happy Nation (U.S. Version). The song was released by Arista and Mega as a single in Europe on 1 November 1993 and the US on 14 December 1993. It was written by band member Jonas Berggren, who also produced the song with Denniz Pop and Douglas Carr. "The Sign" is a techno-reggae, Europop, and pop ballad with lyrics describing a couple contemplating the state of their relationship.

"The Sign" topped the Billboard Hot 100 for six non-consecutive weeks in the United States, which allowed Ace of Base to become the first Swedish group to simultaneously have a number one song and album on the Hot 100 and Billboard 200 respectively. Consequently, the song was ranked as the number one song of 1994 on Billboard's year-end chart. It also reached number one in 14 countries such as Australia, Canada, Germany, and New Zealand, and peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. Mathias Julien directed its music video which was filmed in Stockholm, Sweden. "The Sign" was nominated for Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals at the 37th Annual Grammy Awards. In 2023, Billboard magazine ranked it among the 500 best pop songs of all time.

Background and development
Ace of Base originally released their debut studio album Happy Nation in 1992, which did not include "The Sign", as it was intended to be for their next album. The head of Arista Records, Clive Davis, heard the song's demo, and in turn passed it to Swedish producers Douglas Carr and Denniz Pop, as he wanted something different from Happy Nation. The demo only contained the song's instrumental, which Pop thought that the verse was the chorus. In contrast to their 1992 single "All That She Wants", Pop knew what he wanted to do with the song from the beginning.

"The Sign" was recorded at Cheiron Studios in Stockholm, Sweden. Ace of Base members Linn and Jenny Berggren re-arranged the song like they wanted to, so that it would become a duet between both women. Jenny played around with the chords at the end and composed the harmonies around it. In an interview with Idolator, Jonas Berggren stated that Jenny and Linn split the chorus into two parts, with the former singing the second and fourth parts. He acknowledged that it "was hard to sing" since there was no breathing time. The song was recorded at a loud volume, which caused the producers Pop, Douglas Carr, and Jonas Berggren, to lower the sound by three decibels during audio mastering.

Composition
"The Sign" is a techno-reggae, Europop, and pop ballad. The song's lyrics describe a couple contemplating the state of their relationship and deciding to split up as a result. Also during the recording, Maurice Hawkesworth, in Cheiron studio, wrote the ending to the song to include I am happy now living without you I left you oh oh oh oh. During recording, Jonas Berggren added hums between the melody lines to become "major and minor" with the chorus being "mostly major", as he believed that the song was originally "too merry". He added that the lyrics are "about thinking back on an old [relationship]", but are deliberately oblique to allow listeners to form their own meanings. Jenny Berggren compared the lyrics to the "road of life" metaphor, noting, "You see signs in your life, and that's why you change direction." This particuliar quote about the meaning of the song was exactly what Hawkesworth intended when he wrote the ending to "The Sign". To date Jonas Berggren has not credited or paid Hawkesworth even though Jenny, Jonas and Malin Berggren, Dagge Volle and Douglas Carr were all present and witnessed Hawkesworth writing part of the lyrics to the song.

"The Sign" is performed in the key of G major for the verses and chorus but in G minor for the intro and instrumental breaks. It follows a tempo of 97 beats per minute in common time. According to the sheet music published at Musicnotes.com by Universal Music Publishing Group, the group's vocals span from the low note of A3 to the high note of E5. The song initially begins with the sounds of a hand clap, kick drum, and snare over a four bar beat, which was sampled from "Shack Up" by American funk group Banbarra. The melodic hook contains a synth flute, with a bass combining a Moog sub-bass and a Korg M1 bass. Throughout the verses, a Yamaha TG77 synthesizer is used to create a reggae rhythm guitar sound. During the bridge, the band's vocal range increases by an octave.

Chart performance
In Europe, "The Sign" reached number one in Denmark (4 weeks), Finland (4 weeks), Germany (3 weeks), and Spain (1 week). Additionally, the song was a top-10 hit also in Austria (3), Belgium (5), France (5), Ireland (2), Italy (9), Lithuania (2), the Netherlands (3), Norway (5), Scotland (2), Sweden (2), Switzerland (4), and the United Kingdom (2). In the latter, it peaked in its second week at UK Singles Chart on 27 February 1994. It was held off reaching the top spot by Mariah Carey's "Without You" (1994), and spent a total of three weeks as number two on the chart and 16 weeks within the UK Top 100. On 28 November, it entered the Eurochart Hot 100 at number 29 and peaked at number two eight weeks later.

Outside Europe, "The Sign" peaked at number one in Australia (4 weeks), Israel (2 weeks), New Zealand (5 weeks), Canada (5 weeks), and Zimbabwe (2 weeks). In the United States, the song topped the Billboard Hot 100 on the chart dated 12 March 1994. This allowed Ace of Base to become the first Swedish group to simultaneously score a number one single and album on the Billboard charts. "The Sign" also topped the US Cash Box Top 100. It was the number one song of 1994 according to Billboard magazine's year-end charts. The song was ranked at number 60 on "The Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Songs" for the first 55 years of the Hot 100 chart, and received a nomination for Grammy Award for Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals at the 1995 Grammy Awards.

In 1994, Music & Media published an assessment of the chart performance of "The Sign", which stated that it "entered Border Breakers at number ten on November 21, 1993, due to crossover airplay in Central Europe. It also peaked twice at number one; on December 18, staying for five weeks and again on March 9 for a two week stay. It entered the Eurochart November 28 at 29 and peaked at two eight weeks later", and that it "[...] also holds the record for longest-running single on Border Breakers—42 weeks before slipping off on August 20."

Critical reception
AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine stated that the success of singles such as "The Sign" was attributed to "relentless" beats and an "incessantly catchy" hook. Howard Cohen from Herald-Journal noted that it is flavoured with "faux reggae rhythms". Chuck Campbell from Scripps Howard News Service claimed that "The Sign" "could be a bigger hit" than "All That She Wants", due to its "infectious Europop energy and cosmic synths set to a reggae beat". Writing for the Dance Update column of Music Week, James Hamilton described it as a "US smash typical 96.7bpm cod-reggae jogger". Jim Farber from New York Daily News compared the song's "dinky synths, impish dance beats and miniaturized vocals" to musicians from the 1980s such as A Flock of Seagulls and Falco. Neil Strauss from The New York Times wrote that Ace of Base used "a deceptively mystical hook over a minimal bass line" to create the song. A reviewer from People acknowledged that tunes like "The Sign" "prove Ace of Base to be more substantive than a mere ABBA clone." Press-Telegram stated that it is "packed with unforgettable hooks". The Rolling Stone Album Guide compared "The Sign" to Gloria Gaynor's 1978 song "I Will Survive", writing that it was "the wisest, catchiest, most triumphant kiss-off".

Chuck Eddy of LA Weekly labeled the music video as "fun", but described "The Sign" as undistinctive. Mario Tarradell from Miami Herald opined that the song was "annoyingly chirpy". Alan Jones from Music Week wrote that Ace of Base's attempts to imitate "All That She Wants" by using a "shuffling reggae beat" was "less charming and effective", but believed "The Sign" was "bright enough" to chart in the top 20 on the UK Singles Chart. Tom Doyle from Smash Hits gave "The Sign" two out of five in his review, stating that the reggae beat, saxophone, and tune were similar to "All That She Wants". Writing for Entertainment Weekly, David Thigpen described it as "a wasteland of neutered hip-hop and lumbering dance rhythms", criticizing Linn Berggren's vocals as "inert" and "colorless". Barry Walters for the San Francisco Examiner stated that the song "blankly chirps".

Legacy
In his retrospective review of the band's 1993 studio album The Sign, Eric Torres from Pitchfork named "The Sign" an "undeniable pop bauble that combines all the group’s best impulses—bobbing rhythm, eccentric production tics, lovably inane lyrics". Amos Barshad of Vulture stated that it "is still a very good pop song" despite being outdated in production techniques, stating that it sounded analog. American singer Katy Perry acknowledged in a 2009 MTV News interview that the song, along with the Cardigans' 1996 song "Lovefool", served as an inspiration for her recordings. John Seabrook, a staff writer at The New Yorker, praised the song in his 2015 book The Song Machine: Inside the Hit Factory, stating that "the song is a three-minute, thirty-second sonic thrill rise of Swedish funk." He also acknowledged that the song's success was due to three people: Denniz Pop, Clive Davis, and Clive Calder. Seabrook concluded that it had an influential impact on pop music, suggesting that "a Swedish hit factory for US and British artists had never happened before. ... 'The Sign' really was the sign that that could happen". Annie Zaleski from The A.V. Club wrote that the song "is full of cheerful shade", noting that it combined a "breezy reggae vibe" with 1990s Europop. Bob Waliszewski of Plugged In (publication) noted that the song's lyrics "demonstrate[s] strength in the wake of romantic rejection".

Idolator ranked "The Sign" at number one on their ranking of The 50 Best Pop Singles of 1994, with author Robbie Daw writing that it "was a straight-up smash that was tailor made for radio". Rolling Stone placed the song at number 42 on their list of 50 Best Songs of the Nineties, while BuzzFeed listed the song at number 28 on their 2017 list of The 101 Greatest Dance Songs Of the '90s. Billboard magazine ranked "The Sign" at number 65 on their 2018 ranking of All-Time Top 100 Songs, stating in a separate article that it "led pop into a new era, putting Sweden on the map as a credible hitmaking hub, pushing electronic production closer to the forefront of popular music and helping ignite a collaborative approach to songwriting that has become an industry standard". In October 2023, Billboard ranked it number 223 in their 500 Best Pop Songs of All Time list, saying, "Sitting somewhere between Europop, techno and reggae pop, Ace of Base's monster smash remains a quintessential staple of ‘90s playlists."

Accolades
(*) indicates the list is unordered.

Music video
The accompanying music video for "The Sign" is directed by Mathias Julien and was shot on Filmhuset in Stockholm in November 1993. The opening of the video is a homage to Depeche Mode's 1990 song "Enjoy the Silence". It features the Ace of Base members singing amidst romantic and joyful images; "The Sign" was depicted as a computer generated ankh and a djed. Amid the images is a little story in black-and-white sequences of a man and woman (played by Jenny Berggren) sitting side by side in front of a crumpled backdrop until the man leaves, seemingly abandoning the woman. However, he comes back with a rose and offers it to the woman. She graciously accepts and takes his hand. However, a bright light shines in the woman's face, drawing her away, abandoning the man and dropping the rose on the chair. There are also images of fire, candles, close-up of hands doing signs and the band standing on a spinning platform. The video received heavy rotation on MTV Europe and was A-listed on Germany's VIVA. As of August 2023, "The Sign" has over 120 million views on YouTube.

Reception
Nanna Søndergaard Larsen from Danish Dagbladet Information remarked in her analyze of the music video for "The Sign", "The video for the ultimate 90's banger "The Sign" is very much the culmination of Ace of Base's video tools. The video manages to have both a kind of narrative track and a strong symbolic image side." Chuck Eddy of LA Weekly labeled it as "fun". Erric Torres from Pitchfork noted that "the charming, greenscreen-heavy video for "The Sign" secured constant rotation on MTV, a vital source of exposure that inspired impostor groups bearing names like Bass of Spades and Box of Laces."

Credits and personnel
Credits adapted from the liner notes of The Sign.
 * Vocals by Linn Berggren, Jenny Berggren and Jonas Berggren
 * Backing vocals by Linn Berggren, Jenny Berggren, Jonas Berggren and Douglas Carr
 * Written by Jonas Berggren additional lyrics M Maurice Hawkesworth
 * Produced by Denniz Pop, Douglas Carr and Jonas Berggren
 * Recorded at Cheiron Studios

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Talk:Shawnee, Perry County, Ohio

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This is my hometown and i would be interested in hearing from anyone who also grew up there or who has an interest in the towns historic past and architecture. Rob Dishon NJ1STAID@aol.com

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Goin' Down the Road

Goin' Down the Road is a 1970 Canadian drama film directed by Donald Shebib, co-written by William Fruet and Donald Shebib. It tells the story of two young men who decide to leave the Maritimes, where jobs and fulfilling lives are hard to find, for the excitement and perceived riches of Toronto. It stars Doug McGrath, Paul Bradley, Jayne Eastwood and Cayle Chernin. Despite the small production budget, the movie is generally regarded as one of the best and most influential Canadian films of all time and has received considerable critical acclaim for its writing, directing and acting.

Plot
Pete and Joey drive their 1960 Chevrolet Impala from their home on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia to Toronto with the hope of meeting up with their relatives in the city who might be able to help them find jobs; but their relatives hide from what they see as the pair's uncouth behaviour and the two are set adrift in the city. The men find jobs at a local ginger-ale bottler for $80 per week, a job with tough working conditions that doesn't pay much better than what they could have had back home. They fill their days smoking, drinking beer, and hitting on young women along Toronto's busy Yonge Street strip.

They soon turn their good fortune into residency in a small apartment, which they decorate with centrefolds from men's magazines and movie posters. Both men start romances; Joey decides to get married when his girlfriend, Betty (Jayne Eastwood), becomes pregnant. With his new wife he pursues a credit-driven lifestyle undreamt of back home, buying a new colour television, stereo, and furniture all on an installment plan.

Disaster strikes when Pete and Joey get laid off at the end of the summer and the trio are forced to move to a smaller, less-comfortable apartment. Pete and Joey find new jobs washing cars and resetting pins in a bowling alley but at much smaller wages than what they received at the bottling factory. Tensions mount at the crowded living situation and the lack of money begins to wear on them, and Betty tells Joey she will soon need to stop working at her waitressing job because of her pregnancy. Pete accuses Joey of not making enough money to support his share of the costs, and Betty resents Pete for making the accusation.

Unable to find steady work and with bills to pay and Joey and Betty's baby on the way, Pete and Joey resort to stealing food from a local supermarket. The caper results in a grocery clerk being assaulted by the pair when he tries to prevent the robbery. Pete and Joey return to their apartment in the morning to find Betty gone and their possessions on the street, after the police came in search of them and their landlord evicted them as troublemakers.

Broke, homeless, wanted by the police for theft and assault, and with Betty staying with her aunt and uncle, the pair decide to pawn the rented colour TV set for money in order to make it out to Western Canada. Pete convinces Joey that husbands leave their wives "all the time" and Joey agrees to leave Betty and her unborn child in Toronto, as she will slow them down. The film concludes much as it began, with Pete and Joey driving west in search of greener pastures.

Cast

 * Doug McGrath as Peter McGraw
 * Paul Bradley as Joey Mayle
 * Jayne Eastwood as Betty
 * Cayle Chernin as Selina
 * Nicole Morin as Nicole
 * Pierre La Roche as "Frenchie" La Roche
 * Don Steinhouse as Plant Co-worker
 * Ted Sugar as Plant Co-worker
 * Ron Martin as Plant Co-worker

Production
Goin' Down the Road was initially pitched to the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as The Maritimers, a television drama. Donald Shebib received a $19,000 grant from the Canadian Film Development Corporation. The film was made on a budget of $85,000.

Release
The film opened at the New Yorker theater in Toronto and played for 22 weeks, a record for a Canadian film.

Reception
The film earned $150,000 at the box office in its first two months. After 5 months of release in Canada, it had grossed $300,000.

The New York Times stated that the film was "the most impressive new work of realist cinema in years." The film won the award for Best Feature Film at the 22nd Canadian Film Awards; McGrath and Bradley also jointly won the award for Best Actor.

Legacy
This film has been designated and preserved as a "masterwork" by the Audio-Visual Preservation Trust of Canada, a charitable non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the preservation of Canada's audio-visual heritage. The Toronto International Film Festival ranked it in the Top 10 Canadian Films of All Time four times, in 1984, 1993, 2004 and 2015. In 2002, readers of Playback voted it the 5th greatest Canadian film of all-time.

In 2010, Shebib announced that a sequel film was in production. Down the Road Again was released in October 2011.

A digital restoration of the original Goin' Down the Road was released in 2017.

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