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John Worsfold

John Richard Worsfold (born 25 September 1968) is a former Australian rules football coach and player. He was the senior coach of the Essendon Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) between October 2015 and September 2020. He previously had a long association with the West Coast Eagles as player (1987–1998) and coach (2002–2013), captaining the club to premierships in 1992 and 1994 and coaching the club to a premiership in 2006.

Worsfold began his career with the South Fremantle Football Club in the West Australian Football League (WAFL), before being named an inaugural squad member of West Coast on their formation in 1986. After winning the club's best and fairest award in 1988, he was appointed the captain of the club in 1991, a position he would hold until his retirement in 1998. During his period at the club, Worsfold played in 209 games, which including the 1992 and 1994 premiership sides. During this time, he also appeared in five State of Origin matches for Western Australia, including captaining his state twice.

In 2000, two years after his retirement from playing, Worsfold joined as an assistant coach, remaining in this position until the end of the 2001 season, when he was appointed senior coach of West Coast in place of Ken Judge. Worsfold coached the club in eight finals series, including the 2006 premiership. In 2010, he coached West Coast to its first wooden spoon, but the following season the team finished fourth, with Worsfold receiving the AFLCA Coach of the Year Award for the second time. He coached West Coast in a club record 274 games before resigning at the end of the 2013 season. He was named an inaugural inductee into the West Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2004 and the John Worsfold Medal is named in his honour.

After a two-year absence from coaching, Worsfold was appointed senior coach of on 5 October 2015. He handed over to his assistant Ben Rutten at the end of the 2020 season as part of a planned transition.

Early life
Born in Subiaco, and growing up in the southern suburbs of Perth, Western Australia, Worsfold attended Winterfold Primary School and later Corpus Christi College in Murdoch, Western Australia graduating in 1985.

Playing career
Worsfold fell into the South Fremantle Football Club's recruitment zone, he played in the club's underage teams, and also played in the Western Australia under-18 team that won the state's first Teal Cup in 1985. Worsfold made his senior WAFL debut for South Fremantle in 1986, and played a total of 19 games in his debut season, leading him to be awarded the Rookie of the Year award by the Daily News. At South Fremantle, he also won "Player of the Future" and "Best First Year Player" awards in 1985 and 1986, respectively.

West Coast Eagles
In October 1986, Worsfold was named as a member of the West Coast Eagles' inaugural 32-man squad. He made his senior debut for the club in round four of the 1987 season, against at Princes Park. Worsfold played a total of 11 games in the club's inaugural season and also played five games in the WAFL for South Fremantle. The following season, he cemented his role in the side playing every game except for two games missed due to suspension in rounds nine and ten. At the end of the season, Worsfold was awarded the Club Champion Award as West Coast's best and fairest, winning by ten votes from runner-up Guy McKenna. He was also awarded a total of five votes in the Brownlow Medal for the best player in the competition, including two votes for 30-disposal and 28-disposal games against and. Worsfold played in his first finals match at the conclusion of the 1988 season, a two-point loss to at Waverley Park. Worsfold led West Coast in disposals, kicks, and tackles in 1988.

Worsfold had similar seasons in 1989 and 1990. Having been appointed vice-captain prior to the start of the 1989 season, he took on greater leadership roles under the influence of new coach Michael Malthouse. After the club's loss in the qualifying final to, captain Steve Malaxos was dropped from the side for the preliminary final, with Worsfold appointed captain in his place. Moving from a midfield role to a half-back flank in 1991, Worsfold was officially made club captain and played a total of 21 games, including the loss in the 1991 Grand Final to. Worsfold captained the club to premierships in 1992 and 1994, and retired at the end of the 1998 season, having played 209 games for the club.

Playing style
Worsfold began his career as a midfielder but moved to a position on the half-back flank later in his career, where he played most of his football. Considered one of the club's toughest and most courageous players, he was suspended twice in his career, both times for striking.

Worsfold was named on a half-back flank in West Coast's "Team of the Decade" in 1996, and in the same position in teams named for the 20-year and 25-year anniversaries of the club's first season. He was an inaugural inductee into the West Australian Football Hall of Fame in 2004, and an inaugural inductee into the West Coast Eagles Hall of Fame in 2011. The Australian Football Hall of Fame's selection process has been criticised for precluding Worsfold's induction, as the Hall of Fame prohibits selectors from considering a person based on a combination of their playing and coaching careers. A function room at Subiaco Oval, the John Worsfold Room was also named after Worsfold.

Post-Playing career and Channel 7 commentator
For the first year after the end of his playing career, Worsfold worked as a commentator with Channel 7.

Carlton Football Club assistant coach (2000–2001)
At the end of 1999, Worsfold confirmed that he was interested in coaching and that he was willing to move away from Perth in order to do so. He was subsequently offered a full-time assistant coaching position at both West Coast and, and was at one stage considered a possible candidate to coach following Gary Ayres' decision to leave the club to coach. Worsfold also interviewed for the vacant senior coaching position at, along with Chris Connolly, Mark Harvey, and Peter Schwab, but was turned down in favour of Schwab. Worsfold finally signed a three-year contract to serve as an assistant coach at. He had also been in contention for the position of senior coach at but declined to be interviewed after accepting the role at Carlton. Worsfold's appointment was controversial; Carlton's president John Elliott officially confirmed Worsfold had been engaged as assistant coach on The Footy Show, two days before the club was due to play in a preliminary final. Carlton's senior coach David Parkin suggested the appointment had come "out of the blue", and it was later reported that he had threatened to quit as a result of the club's lack of consultation.

His coaching career started in 2000 at Carlton Football Club as an assistant coach under senior coach David Parkin and then under senior coach Wayne Brittain in 2001.

In the 2000 season, As part of a restructure of Carlton's coaching panel, Parkin moved to more of an overseeing role, with his senior assistant coach, Wayne Brittain, given a greater role. Under this structure, Worsfold was given responsibility for coaching the defence, including formulating the club's kick-in strategy. At the end of the 2000 season, with Carlton having lost to in a preliminary final, Parkin retired as senior coach, and was replaced by Brittain. Having maintained his role as a defensive coach under Brittain, Worsfold was again considered a strong candidate for several other clubs' vacant senior coaching positions during (and at the conclusion of) the 2001 season. After Damian Drum's sacking as senior coach of Fremantle midway through the season, Worsfold was approached to interview for the position, but refused, stating a desire to wait until the end of the season. He also stated in his interest in the position at, which was eventually filled by Grant Thomas, who had been serving as caretaker senior coach. After Carlton's season ended with a semi-final loss to, Worsfold interviewed with both Fremantle and his old playing club, West Coast, who had sacked Ken Judge. He was considered likely to take up the position at Fremantle, with Neil Craig considered a favourite to coach West Coast, but eventually leveraged his status at Fremantle into securing the West Coast position.

West Coast Eagles senior coach (2002–2013)
Worsfold went to apply for the senior coaching roles at both West Coast and Fremantle at the end of the 2001 season. Eventually, he was appointed to the senior coaching role at the Eagles, when he replaced Ken Judge, who was sacked as West Coast Eagles senior coach at the end of the 2001 season. Worsfold was appointed coach to the club he had formerly played for, where he achieved some level of immediate success, taking the club back to the finals in his first season. After a string of early finals exits in 2002, 2003 and 2004, Worsfold finally took the club to the 2005 AFL Grand Final, where the Eagles were narrowly defeated by the Sydney Swans by a margin of four points with the final score Sydney Swans 8.10 (58) to West Coast Eagles 7.12 (54).

In the 2006 season, the club finished on top of the ladder after the home and away series, and followed it up with a win in the 2006 AFL Grand Final, when West Coast Eagles defeated the Sydney Swans, this time the margin being a solitary point with the final score West Coast Eagles 12.13 (85) to Sydney Swans 12.12 (84). In doing so, Worsfold became only the fourth person in the history of the AFL/VFL to both captain and later coach the same club to an AFL premiership and the first at the West Coast Eagles. In the 2007 season, West Coast finished third on the ladder. They lost to Port Adelaide in the qualifying final then they got eliminated by Collingwood in the semi-final. The 2008 season was not as successful for Worsfold and the West Coast Eagles. With the loss of players Chris Judd and Ben Cousins, West Coast went from third to fifteenth, finishing with four wins and eighteen losses and the lowest percentage in the club's history. In the 2009 season, Worsfold and the West Coast Eagles Football Club made an improvement, finishing eleventh on the ladder with eight wins and fourteen losses.

The 2010 season brought in another low point of Worsfold's coaching career with the Eagles completing a spectacular fall from grace and receiving the wooden spoon, winning just four games; two against and one each against  and. Injuries and poor form plagued the Eagles' 2010 season, though their overall record was not as bad as in 2008. Worsfold became the fourth man (of five) after Reg Hickey, Charlie Sutton, Tony Jewell and later Adam Simpson to coach the same club to both a premiership and a wooden spoon.

However in the 2011 season, the Eagles were back in the finals, finishing 4th at the end of the home and away season and losing a preliminary final against eventual premiers. After the club's top-four finish, Worsfold signed a two-year extension to his contract in October 2011. In the 2012 season, West Coast under Worsfold made the finals again, but were eliminated by Collingwood in the semi-final. At the conclusion of round ten of the 2012 season, Worsfold passed Mick Malthouse's record for the most games coached at West Coast.

On 5 September 2013, after a disappointing 2013 season for the Eagles, who finished in 13th place on the AFL ladder, Worsfold stepped down as the senior coach of the West Coast Eagles. Worsfold was replaced by Adam Simpson as Eagles senior coach.

In his 11 years with the club, Worsfold coached 281 games for the Eagles, achieving 149 wins, 2 draws and 130 losses, for a winning percentage of 53.38%.

After the death of a close friend, the coach Phil Walsh in July 2015, Worsford took an assistant coaching role for the Adelaide Crows.

Essendon Football Club senior coach (2016–2020)
On 5 October 2015, Worsfold was appointed as the senior coach of the Essendon Football Club. He signed a three-year contract, replacing caretaker senior coach Matthew Egan, who replaced James Hird after Hird resigned during the 2015 season. His first season in the 2016 season at the club proved to be a difficult one, with twelve senior players, including then-captain Jobe Watson and vice-captain Dyson Heppell, receiving suspensions for the 2016 season, as a consequence of Essendon's 2013 doping scandal. Due to this, the club finished on the bottom of the ladder for the first time since 1933, and Worsfold claimed his second wooden spoon as a coach. However, he would take the Bombers back to the finals in the 2017 season, where they suffered a 65-point elimination final defeat at the hands of the Sydney Swans at the Sydney Cricket Ground. In the 2018 season Worsfold took Essendon to finish eleventh on the ladder, missing out of the finals with ten wins and twelve losses. In the 2019 season, Worsfold took Essendon back into the finals again, where they were eliminated by his old side the West Coast Eagles in the elimination final. On 17 September 2019, it was announced that Essendon assistant coach Ben Rutten would succeed Worsfold as the senior coach at the conclusion of the 2020 season. In the 2020 season, Essendon finished thirteenth on the ladder with six wins and ten losses, therefore missing out of the finals. As planned, Rutten took over as coach at the conclusion of the 2020 season.

Coaching style
In an era where most coaches had implemented "the flood" defence by having their players zone back, Worsfold maintained a man-on-man style of game for his West Coast team during the mid-2000s. While this led West Coast to much success in the home and away season, finishing second and first after the home and away rounds in 2005 and 2006 respectively, the strategy, or rather the inflexibility from this strategy also led to criticism at times. Firstly, teams such as the Western Bulldogs and Fremantle were perceived to exploit West Coast's macro-positioning. However, the most notable example of this criticism came after the qualifying final against Sydney in 2006. However, West Coast did proceed to defeat Sydney in the Grand Final three weeks later.

The 2009 season had seen Worsfold and his coaching department implement the use of both zone defence and man-on-man strategy depending on the situation.

Playing statistics

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 * 24 || 21 || 4 || 7 || 331 || 135 || 466 || 120 || 40 || 0.2 || 0.3 || 15.8 || 6.4 || 22.2 || 5.7 || 1.9
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 * 24 || 20 || 6 || 5 || 258 || 127 || 385 || 101 || 44 || 0.3 || 0.3 || 12.9 || 6.4 || 19.3 || 5.1 || 2.2
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 * 24 || 23 || 1 || 2 || 218 || 152 || 370 || 76 || 45 || 0.0 || 0.1 || 9.5 || 6.6 || 16.1 || 3.3 || 2.0
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 * 24 || 21 || 1 || 0 || 186 || 130 || 316 || 56 || 31 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 8.9 || 6.2 || 15.0 || 2.7 || 1.5
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 * 24 || 22 || 1 || 2 || 177 || 117 || 294 || 64 || 47 || 0.0 || 0.1 || 8.0 || 5.3 || 13.4 || 2.9 || 2.1
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 * 24 || 19 || 6 || 2 || 197 || 119 || 316 || 56 || 32 || 0.3 || 0.1 || 10.4 || 6.3 || 16.6 || 2.9 || 1.7
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 * 24 || 19 || 2 || 3 || 127 || 116 || 243 || 41 || 41 || 0.1 || 0.2 || 6.7 || 6.1 || 12.8 || 2.2 || 2.2
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 * 24 || 14 || 0 || 0 || 80 || 68 || 148 || 35 || 16 || 0.0 || 0.0 || 5.7 || 4.9 || 10.6 || 2.5 || 1.2
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 * 24 || 17 || 2 || 3 || 96 || 68 || 164 || 46 || 21 || 0.1 || 0.2 || 5.6 || 4.0 || 9.6 || 2.7 || 1.2
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Coaching statistics

 * Statistics are correct to the end of the 2019 season.

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 * 26 || 20 || 6 || 0 || 76.9% || 1 || 16
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 * 22 || 8 || 14 || 0 || 36.4% || 11 || 16
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 * 25 || 18 || 7 || 0 || 72.0% || 4 || 17
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 * 22 || 9 || 13 || 0 || 40.9% || 13 || 18
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 * 23 || 12 || 11 || 0 || 52.2% || 7 || 18
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Playing honours
Team Individual
 * AFL premiership: 1992 (c), 1994 (c)
 * McClelland Trophy: 1991 (c), 1994 (c)
 * West Coast Club Champion Award (later named the John Worsfold Medal): 1988
 * West Coast best clubman: 1993, 1998
 * Western Australia State of Origin captain: 1992–1993
 * WAFL Rookie of the Year: 1986
 * South Fremantle best first year player: 1986
 * Western Australia under-18 representative: 1985
 * West Coast captain: 1991–1998
 * West Australian Football Hall of Fame inductee: 2004

Coaching honours
Team Individual
 * AFL premiership: 2006
 * McClelland Trophy: 2006
 * Jock McHale Medal: 2006
 * AFLCA Coach of the Year Award: 2006, 2011

Personal life
Worsfold married his wife, Georgina, in 1994, with whom he has three children: Sophie, Charlie, and Grace. Outside of football, he completed a Bachelor of Pharmacy at the Curtin University of Technology in 1989, and later worked as a pharmacist for an amount of time. In 2009, Worsfold completed a course at INSEAD, a business administration school in Fontainebleau, France. and occasionally works as a motivational speaker. Worsfold's younger brother, Peter Worsfold, played 31 games for the Brisbane Bears, and later captained South Fremantle.

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National Crime Victims' Rights Week

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Australia at the 1930 British Empire Games

Australia at the 1930 British Empire Games was represented by a handful of athletes and abbreviated AUS.

Australia was one of only eleven countries to be represented at these inaugural Games.

At these first Games, Australia won only eight medals against England's 61. The Australians' return home was delayed because the RMS Tahiti on which they were due to travel sank during the Games.

Athletics
Men's 440 Yard Run/Quarter Mile
 * George Augustus Golding – Bronze, 49.6 s (in heat)
 * Herbert Alexander Bascombe – 6th, 49.4 s (in heat)

Men's 880 Yard Run/Half Mile
 * Herbert Alexander Bascombe – 5th in Heat 1
 * George Augustus Golding – Did not finish

Men's 1 Mile Run
 * William "Tickle" Miller Whyte – Silver, 4 min 17.0 s
 * Russell McDougall – 7th

Men's 2 Mile Steeplechase
 * Alex John Hillhouse – Silver

Men's 3 Mile Run
 * Alex John Hillhouse – Silver, 14 min 27.6 s

Men's 6 Mile Run
 * Alex John Hillhouse – Did not start

Men's 4 x 110 Yard Relay
 * Australia – Did not start

Boxing
Men's Middleweight Division (75 kg)
 * Dudley C. Gallagher – Silver

Rowing
Men's Singles Sculls
 * Robert Pearce – Gold

Swimming
Men's 100 Yards Backstroke
 * (Ivan) William Cameron – 4th

Men's 100 Yards Freestyle
 * (Ivan) William Cameron – 4th

Men's 1500 Yards Freestyle
 * Noel Phillip Ryan – Gold, 18 min 55.4 s

Men's 440 Yards Freestyle
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Officials

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Steve Fielding

Steven Fielding (born 17 October 1960) is a former Australian senator for the state of Victoria and the former federal parliamentary leader of the Family First Party. He was elected to the upper house at the 2004 federal election on two per cent of the first-preference votes. He failed to gain re-election at the 2010 federal election. His term ended on 30 June 2011.

Early life
Fielding was born on 17 October 1960, in Melbourne, where he was raised in the suburb of Reservoir. His parents, Shirley and George Fielding, had a large family consisting of 16 children, and Fielding spent much of his childhood sharing a bedroom with five brothers in the family's three-bedroom home. His early education was at the local Keon Park Primary School, He later attended the nearby Merrilands High School.

Academically, Fielding suffered setbacks through an undiagnosed case of dyslexia, and this led to problems studying subjects such as English. Nevertheless, he excelled in mathematics, and his high marks in this subject allowed him to graduate with sufficiently high scores to gain entry into the Bachelor of Engineering degree at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), where he studied electronic engineering. Upon graduating in 1983, Fielding accepted a position at Hewlett-Packard, and later he moved into management at technology firms NEC and Siemens.

Fielding returned to university to undertake a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Monash University, completing it in 1992. He later moved to Wellington, New Zealand, where he worked for Telecom New Zealand in "change management" during a difficult time for the industry, as it was undergoing deregulation. He returned to Australia three years later, in 1995, and worked for United Energy, the Australian Yellow Pages and as a marketing manager at Vision Super.

Fielding entered politics in 2003 when he successfully stood as an independent candidate for the Knox City Council. He has described the decision to stand as "very last-minute", but others, such as then-Knox mayor Jenny Moore and then-Victorian Labor MP Peter Lockwood said Fielding was very open about his intent to move into federal politics. Both Lockwood and Labor MP Bob Stensholt described how Fielding later made inquiries about the possibility of running for one of the major parties, before eventually joining Family First in 2004.

2004 election
Fielding was elected to represent Victoria in the Senate at the 2004 federal election. He was the first representative of Family First to be elected to the Federal Parliament.

Fielding's election was not expected – Family First had only been founded two years before the election, and it was not expected to succeed in its first federal election in Victoria. Like many senators, Fielding gained a quota under the Senate's proportional representation system by receiving preferences from other parties (see Australian electoral system). The Australian Democrats and the Labor Party agreed to swap preferences with Family First, but Fielding benefited from the larger-than-expected surplus of Liberal preferences. He was able to stay in the count long enough to receive Democrat and Labor preferences, defeating Greens candidate David Risstrom for the last Senate place in Victoria. As a result, Fielding was elected although his party as a whole received just 56,376 votes (1.9%) for the Senate in Victoria.

When first elected, the Howard government held a slim majority in the Senate, sufficient that Fielding would only hold the balance of power if one of the government senators chose to cross the floor. This changed after the 2007 federal election (the changes of which took effect in 2008), when the balance of power in the Senate shifted to a combination of Fielding, the five Australian Greens senators and independent Nick Xenophon.

Federal politics
While Family First is generally regarded as a conservative party, Fielding stated he would not be an automatic supporter of the then Coalition opposition in the Senate. On some issues which he saw as affecting the wellbeing of families, such as the WorkChoices industrial relations policies, he indicated disagreement with government policies. In February 2009, he told a Senate hearing that he believed divorce added to the impact of global warming because it resulted in people switching to a "resource-inefficient lifestyle".

Balance of power
With some backbenchers being willing to cross the floor, Fielding's vote was important on some of the Howard government's more controversial legislation. His vote ensured the passage of Voluntary student unionism, the overturning of civil unions legislation in the Australian Capital Territory, and changes to media ownership laws. Conversely, his intention to vote "no" ensured the defeat of the Howard government's proposed tightening of asylum seeker laws.

Climate change
In mid-2009, Fielding flew to the US on a self-funded trip to discover more about climate change. He came back unconvinced that man-made carbon dioxide emissions were the main driver of climate change. He subsequently voted against the Rudd government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme. Fielding also attended the Copenhagen Climate Conference in December 2009.

Youth allowance
In 2009 Fielding teamed up with the coalition to defeat the government's proposed changes to the youth allowance system. He said the changes were unfair to rural and regional students and that it would leave 26,000 students worse off.

Alcohol
Fielding opposed the Rudd government's alcopops tax. He argued that taxing ready to drink alcohol beverages wouldn't put an end to binge drinking. He campaigned for the government to act against the practice.

Stimulus package
Following the global financial crisis the Rudd government passed an economic stimulus package with the help of Family First. As part of the deal Fielding secured a $200 million jobs fund called 'Get Communities Working'.

Voluntary Student Unionism
At the end of his campaign in support of the Howard government's Voluntary Student Unionism legislation, which was passed, the walls of Fielding's office were vandalised with pro-union graffiti.

Luxury car tax
An increase to the luxury car tax was defeated in the Senate on 4 September 2008, with Fielding joining the coalition in blocking the budget legislation. It was passed after Fielding negotiated exemptions for farmers and tourism operators.

Considered changing parties
In early 2008, Fielding reportedly considered breaking away from Family First to establish a new political party, inviting Tim Costello and other "big names" to join him. The revelations came after Fielding changed his position on abortion, after being rebuffed by his party for taking a softer approach.

ISP level content filtering
Fielding gave conditional support to the mandatory ISP level filtering scheme. A spokesperson for Family First indicated that the party would want X18+ rated and refused classification (RC) content banned for everyone, including adults. Fielding's support for Internet censorship in Australia was not reported on his official website.

Paid Parental Leave Scheme
In June 2010, during the Senate discussion on the proposed Paid Parental Leave Scheme, Fielding suggested "some women may rort the scheme by deliberately falling pregnant and then having a late-term abortion". He was subsequently criticised by all sides of Australian politics for these comments.

Legislation
Fielding introduced the following legislation into Parliament:

 * Protecting Problem Gamblers Bill 2009
 * Keeping Jobs from Going Offshore (Protection of Personal Information) Bill 2009
 * Britt Lapthorne Bill 2009
 * Removing Branding from Cigarette Packs Bill 2009
 * Keeping Banks Accountable Bill 2009
 * Removal of Excessive Super Bill 2009
 * Easy Comparison of Grocery Prices Bill 2008
 * Poker Machine Harm Minimisation Bill 2008
 * Poker Machine Harm Reduction Tax Bill 2008
 * Alcohol Toll Reduction Bill 2007
 * Restoring Family Work Balance Bill 2007
 * Fair Bank and Credit Card Fees Bill 2007
 * Predatory Pricing Bill 2007
 * Creeping Acquisitions 2007 Bill

Stunts
Fielding's use of publicity stunts was commented on by The Sydney Morning Herald. in May 2008, he joined protesting pensioners, who brought traffic to a standstill in the Melbourne CBD, when he and others took their shirts off in the style of the cab drivers who had successfully stripped for increased cab security, to demand $70- to $100-a-week rise in the pension.

Fielding also dressed as a giant beer bottle to promote Family First's proposed policy to introduce a bottle return scheme.

Personal life
Fielding is a Christian and attends CityLife Church, a large Pentecostal church in Melbourne. He rejects evolution and has publicly espoused his belief in Young Earth creationism. Fielding has three children. He has claimed he was sexually abused by a scoutmaster and family friend for two years when he was a teenager. No-one has been charged or prosecuted for the alleged offences.

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The Plymouth Prowler, later the Chrysler Prowler, is a retro-styled production sports car manufactured and marketed from 1997 to 2002 by DaimlerChrysler, based on the 1993 concept car of the same name.

The Prowler was offered in a single generation in a front-engine, rear-drive, rear-transmission configuration. Total production was 11,702.

Design

Chrysler engineers were given free rein to design whatever they wanted in a "hot rod" or "sportster" vehicle. Chrysler's design and international director Thomas C. Gale said his "love for 1930s-era hot rods inspired Chrysler's latest design triumph, the retro-styled Plymouth Prowler." Gale, who has a hotted up 1932 Ford in his garage, approved the hotrod-inspired Plymouth Prowler as the company's follow-up show-stopper to the Dodge Viper. An early influence is credited to a Chrysler-sponsored project at the Art Center College of Design. One of the results of this project was a thesis by Douglas "Chip" Foose, which included drawings of a retro-roadster. Foose "designed it as a coupe for Chrysler to begin with but modified it to a roadster version."

One of the most striking design features of the Prowler is the open, Indy racer-style front wheels.

The Prowler featured a powertrain from Chrysler's LH-cars, a 24-valve, 3.5 L Chrysler SOHC V6 engine producing 214 hp at 5850 rpm. For the 1999 model year, the engine was replaced with a more powerful, aluminum block, 253 hp at 6400 rpm version of the engine. The engines were coupled to a four-speed Autostick semi-automatic transmission at the rear of the vehicle. Power to the transaxle from the engine was via an open tube-type drive shaft that rotated at engine speed. This design was marketed as a "torque tube," although it was not a stationary enclosure. A drive shaft within a rigid torque tube connecting a front engine and rear-mounted transaxle are on the C5 Corvette, Porsche 944, and Alfa Romeo 75. Placement of the transmission in the rear helped to facilitate the Prowler's desirable 50-50 front-rear weight distribution. The Prowler was the first rear-wheel drive Plymouth since the 1989 discontinuation of the Plymouth Gran Fury and would stand as the last Plymouth model with that layout. While criticized for having only a V6 engine, Chrysler's High Output 3.5 L had a horsepower rating similar to (or higher than) the company's Magnum V8s of that era. While not making nearly as much torque as a V8, the Prowler's light weight helped to achieve rapid off-the-line acceleration.

The car prominently featured aluminum construction, which, in many cases, was adhesively bonded, chiefly in the chassis. The body was produced in Shadyside, Ohio, and the car was assembled by hand at the Conner Avenue Assembly Plant (CAAP) in Detroit, Michigan.

Features

Unlike the Dodge Viper, the Prowler was equipped with many features that allowed it to be used as a daily driver. These features included keyless entry, power windows, and door locks, dual airbags, leather-trimmed bucket seats, air conditioning with manual controls, a high-fidelity sound system with AM/FM stereo and cassette player (a multi-disc CD changer was an available option), a leather-wrapped steering wheel with audio system controls mounted on the rear of the wheel, a color-keyed instrument panel bezel painted to match the exterior color of the Prowler (a similar feature found on the Chrysler PT Cruiser, which was also originally intended to be sold as a Plymouth), digital odometer and full instrumentation, and, on later models, a speed-sensitive volume control activated via a switch mounted on the Prowler's instrument panel.

Performance

 * 1997 model
 * 0-60 mph (0–97 km/h): 7.2 seconds
 * Top speed: 118 mi/h electronically limited
 * 1999–2002 model
 * 0-60 mph (0–97 km/h): 5.9 seconds
 * Top speed: 126 mi/h electronically limited

Production

The Plymouth Prowler was produced for 1997 and then for the 1999 and 2000 model years. After the Plymouth brand was discontinued in 2001, the Prowler was marketed as a Chrysler Prowler for the 2001 and 2002 model years. However, DaimlerChrysler continued to market the Prowler as a Plymouth in Canada for the 2000 model year; the Prowler was the last Plymouth sold in Canada.

Colors
Across the two production runs, the Prowler was available in 12 colors.
 * Prowler purple metallic (only color available in 1997)
 * Prowler yellow clear coat
 * Prowler black clearcoat
 * Prowler red clearcoat
 * Prowler bright silver metallic
 * Woodward Edition (two-tone black/red)
 * Black Tie Edition (two-tone black/silver)
 * Prowler orange pearl coat
 * Midnight blue pearl coat – Mulholland Edition
 * Inca gold pearl coat
 * Deep candy red pearl coat
 * High voltage blue pearl coat – Conner Avenue Edition (only one produced, auctioned at Christie's)

Other features

 * Wheels front: 17" × 7"
 * Wheels rear: 20" × 10"
 * Tires front: 225/45 HR17
 * Tires rear: 295/40 HR20
 * Brakes front/rear: composite 11" vented disc / 13" vented disc
 * Towing capacity: 1,000 lbs (braked trailer)

Pricing

The original manufacturer's suggested retail price (in US$) for each model year for the Prowler:
 * 1997 – $38,300
 * 1999 – $39,300
 * 2000 – $43,000
 * 2001 – $44,225
 * 2002 – $44,625

Due to limited trunk space, a $5,000 Prowler trailer option was available from Chrysler dealers. These trailers resembled the back end of a Prowler and had 15-inch versions of the five-spoke wheels found on the car. They could be ordered to match a car's factory color. The vehicles were equipped with a trailer hitch to accommodate the trailer option; however, a warning was affixed to the hitch indicating that it was not to be used to tow any other trailer, such as for a boat, camper, etc. Doing so would void the factory warranty.

Legacy

In 1998, a Plymouth Prowler was sealed in a mausoleum as a time capsule in Tulsa, Oklahoma. While similar in concept to the buried 1957 Plymouth Belvedere that formerly resided near the courthouse, the buried Prowler was sealed in Centennial Park in an above-ground vault and sealed within a plastic box instead of plastic sheets that covered the Belvedere. Experts believe the Prowler has a better chance of looking how it did when it was sealed when the time capsule is opened in 2048, when it will be returned to Chrysler.

In 1999, Chrysler unveiled the Plymouth Howler concept at the Specialty Equipment Market Association's annual car show in Las Vegas, Nevada. Inspired by hot rod trucks and based on the Prowler, the Howler featured a small, truck-like bed with a tailgate and hard tonneau cover. Under the hood, an adapted version of Jeep's new 4.7 L PowerTech V8 engine replaced the production model's 3.5 L V6. A BorgWarner five-speed manual replaced the production four-speed automatic.

Chrysler Corporation hosted a tenth-anniversary celebration on August 16, 2007, at the Walter P. Chrysler Museum in Auburn Hills, Michigan, to commemorate the production of the Plymouth Prowler in 1997.

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Paul Poupard

Paul Joseph Jean Poupard (born 30 August 1930) is a French prelate of the Catholic Church who has been a Cardinal since 1985. He held positions in the Roman Curia for more than 25 years, serving as President of the Pontifical Council for Culture from 1988 to 2007 and briefly as President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.

Biography
Poupard was born in Bouzillé, Maine-et-Loire. He studied at the minor seminary in Beaupréau, University of Angers, and École Pratique des Hautes Études of the Sorbonne (from where he obtained his doctorates in theology and history). Poupard was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Stanislas Courbe on 18 December 1954, and then taught at the Mongazon School. After entering the French section of the Secretariat of State in 1959, he was raised to the rank of Chaplain of His Holiness on 20 March 1965, and of Honorary Prelate of His Holiness on 29 November 1971. Poupard was Rector of the Institut Catholique de Paris from 1972 to 1980, and also served as vice-president of the Society of French Ecclesiastical History.

On 2 February 1979, he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Paris and Titular Bishop of Usula. Poupard received his episcopal consecration on the following 6 April from Cardinal François Marty, with Archbishop André Pailler and Bishop Jean Orchampt serving as co-consecrators, in the Church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. A year and a half later, in 1980, he received a position in the Roman Curia, the Holy See's governing body, as Pro-President of the Secretariat for Non-Believers, later (in 1988) renamed the Pontifical Council for Culture. In 1985, his title was changed to president, on his becoming Cardinal-Deacon of S. Eugenio. After the sede vacante period that followed the death of Pope John Paul II, Pope Benedict XVI reappointed him to the same position and, on 11 March 2006, also named him President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.

Some of his writings have been translated into languages including Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, English, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. He holds doctorates in theology and history from the Sorbonne, as well as honorary doctorates from the Universities of Aix-en-Provence, Fu Jen, Louvain, Kyoto, Santiago de Chile, Puebla de los Angeles and the Babes-Bolyai University/Cluj-Napoca.

In 1996 he was appointed Cardinal-Priest of Santa Prassede. He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that elected Pope Benedict XVI. In September 2007 Pope Benedict replaced him as President of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue with Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran and as President of the Pontifical Council for Culture with Gianfranco Ravasi.

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Bermuda at the 1930 British Empire Games

Bermuda competed at the 1930 British Empire Games in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, from 16 August to 23 August 1930.

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 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. — Xezbeth 06:13, Apr 24, 2005 (UTC)

Cameron Crawford
Vanity. RickK 06:16, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, not notable, vanity. Megan1967 07:46, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable. jni 15:55, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, hoax. FreplySpang (talk) 20:45, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Samaritan 04:50, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)

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The Curse of Blondie

The Curse of Blondie is the eighth studio album from the American rock band Blondie. It was released in October 2003, and peaked at #36 in the UK.

Background and recording
Towards the end of 2002, Beyond Music abruptly closed down following a dispute, and Blondie signed with Sony Music. The Curse of Blondie had the working title Phasm 8, which was also the name of the tour they were doing before the release. Craig Leon, who had also produced their previous hit album No Exit, started work on the album, but it was four years in the making as the only demo tapes of the album had disappeared from luggage at a UK airport, and so had to be re-recorded. Leon ultimately did not produce the album, which was largely helmed by Steve Thompson with Jeff Bova producing one track, "Good Boys".

The album incorporates a rock-inspired arrangement style more reminiscent of Blondie's earliest recordings. Rhythms played include mostly rock ("Golden Rod, "Rules for Living", "End to End", "Hello Joe", "Last One in the World", "Diamond Bridge") and then dance-pop ("Good Boys", "Undone", "The Tingler"). Other incursions are Japanese traditional music ("Magic (Asadoya Yunta)"), reggae ("Background Melody (The Only One)"), jazz ("Desire Brings Me Back", "Songs of Love (For Richard)") and rap ("Shakedown"). The track "Hello Joe" is an homage to Joey Ramone, and includes a reference to "Blitzkrieg Bop" ("hey ho, ¡hola Joe!" instead of "hey ho, let's go!").

Release
The album was released with various bonus tracks in some territories, while the US edition included the music video for the single "Good Boys". The album was also re-released in 2004 in US on DualDisc format. The CD side contained the normal album, while the DVD side included:
 * 1) Entire album in 5.1 Surround Sound and Stereo
 * 2) "Good Boys" music video
 * 3) Photo gallery
 * 4) ROM content

The album was also released in Indonesia as a Cassette Tape.

The only single from the album was "Good Boys", which peaked at #12 in the UK and was a dance hit in the USA. Promo singles of "Undone" were sent to radio, but no official release was made.

Reception
The Curse of Blondie gained mixed reviews, some critics called it a good or very good album, while others said it was a downfall for the band. Critics highlighted the band's songwriting and soundcrafting ("a pop masterclass", Uncut), as well as the maturity in which they experiment with different genres as "they never pretend they’re something they’re not, such as young" (Blender). Following its release in 2003, Blondie embarked into a two-year long international world tour, playing more than 160 gigs in Europe, Asia, the three Americas and Oceania. TV performances included The Today Show, The Late Show with David Letterman, The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, Good Day Live, Top of the Pops, and specials "Women Rock!" and "VH1 Divas Live". Blondie also performed at Live by Request and subsequently released a CD/DVD of the performance.

Despite the relative success of the "Good Boys" single, the album performed poorly, peaking at #36 in the UK and #160 in the United States. As of August 9, 2005 it has sold 34,000 copies in United States.

Personnel
Blondie
 * Debbie Harry – vocals
 * Chris Stein – guitar
 * Jimmy Destri – keyboards
 * Clem Burke – drums

Additional musicians
 * Jimi K. Bones
 * Paul Carbonara
 * Gretchen Langheld
 * Frank Pagaro
 * Leigh Foxx
 * James Mazlen
 * Kyle Whelan - soprano saxophone (Songs of Love)

Production and design

 * Steve Thompson – producer (except "Good Boys"), mixing (except "Magic (Asadoya Yunta)")
 * Jeff Bova – producer ("Good Boys")
 * Kevin Griffin – additional production ("Good Boys")
 * Allen Kovac – executive producer
 * Craig Leon – producer (basic tracks, except "Good Boys", "Undone" and "Background Melody (The Only One)")
 * James Michael – additional production (basic tracks, except "Good Boys", "Undone" and "Background Melody (The Only One)")
 * Randy Nicklaus – additional production (basic tracks, except "Good Boys", "Undone" and "Background Melody (The Only One)")
 * Jinsoo Kim – mixing ("Magic (Asadoya Yunta)")
 * Christina Ingram – mixing ("Magic (Asadoya Yunta)")
 * John Goodmanson – engineer, mixing
 * Paul Logus – engineer
 * Danni Bernini – engineer
 * Roy Hendrickson – engineer
 * Tom Weir – engineer
 * Ross Petersen – assistant engineer
 * Sean Spuehler – programming
 * Howie Beno – programming
 * James Mazlen – programming
 * George Marino – mastering
 * Giorgio Moroder – additional production and remix ("Good Boys" (Giorgio Moroder Single Mix))
 * Tommy Schobel – programming ("Good Boys (Giorgio Moroder Single Mix)")
 * Patrick Shevelin – programming ("Good Boys (Giorgio Moroder Single Mix)")
 * Steve Shepherd – remix engineer ("Good Boys (Giorgio Moroder Single Mix)")
 * Robert Roth – art direction, photography
 * Kitty Boots – stylist
 * Marla Belt – make-up

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Name
It is now called International Finance Building Number Two. Number one is a similar but half-sized building next to it.--Anthony.bradbury 12:51, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

If you are able to find the source of this piece of information, go forward to edit the article, with the ref being cited. -- : Raphaelmak : [ talk ] [ contribs ] 13:08, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Current progress
So where do you get this current progress data? Is there a source (please cite), or is it just local knowledge? --Siipikarja ♫ 13:34, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

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Floor count
The floor count is 108, not 118. Developers prefer to increase some values at their website. Donald Trump also decleares the Trump World Tower with 90 stories and not 72, although 72 is correct. CTBUH has got elevation drawings which show 108 floors. Jerchel (talk) 15:27, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

 * Disagree, nowhere on the official Trump World Tower website has stated 90 stories. "Developers prefer to increase some values at their website", that's just based on your personal opinion. An official website is more reliable than CTBUH. Towerblock (talk) 15:46, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

 * I would say that blueprints are more reliable than anything other. Just read the article about Trump World Tower; the elevator shows 90 floors but that's false. In fact, ICC has 108 floors and not 118. Jerchel (talk) 16:51, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

Why would you think that blueprints are more reliable than anything other? Apart from the CTBUH website, do you have anything to support your claim? Towerblock (talk) 17:31, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Fortunately I know a person from the CTBUH who is managing the datas. I requested that a few months ago. CTBUH confirmed that the building has 108 floors according to the blueprints and their measuring rules. I suppose that the 118 floor count is including some basement floors or something other. The number of stories above ground is 108, might be that 118 is the total number. The Burj Khalifas floor-count is officialy 163 according to the blueprints, the total numer of all (also levels which are not useable) is at least 189. Jerchel (talk) 18:09, 3 January 2011 (UTC)

This is all about your own words, we need reliable sources. So except the unofficial CTBUH, do you have any reliable sources to support yourself? Towerblock (talk) 11:56, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

 * Now I have requested that at CTBUH. My friend there has sent me some blueprints. Those blueprints show in fact 118 floors, but the first floor above the ground is considered floor number 10. So that means that building has 108 actual floors. If you would like, I send those blueprints to you. Jerchel (talk) 15:17, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

Ok, please send to me, thanks. Also isn't the floor count should be the whole building, no matter it's below ground or whatever. Cheers Towerblock (talk) 15:44, 4 January 2011 (UTC)

 * You still have not send me the blueprints. If the blueprints showed 118 floors, which means 118-storey building, no matter it's below ground or above the ground. Towerblock (talk) 12:12, 26 January 2011 (UTC)

Firest, I need your mail adress. Second, the first floor is considered floor 10, although it's the FIRST! Jerchel (talk) 16:49, 3 February 2011 (UTC)

 * Regarding to the number of floor count but not the height of the building, the basement floors should also be counted. Towerblock (talk) 10:33, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

Again, those basement floors do not existst. The first floor is the tenth. The floors 1-9 do not exisist. Those levels below ground had never counted, I suppose that are two or three and not ten. If you want include them, then write: Floors: above ground: 108; below ground: 3 (or whatever is correct). Jerchel (talk) 12:58, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

 * You said those blueprints showed in fact 118 floors, but now you say there are two or three floors and not ten? So you must upload the blueprints onto the article to show us what it is. And I can't understand why the below ground levels are not to be counted? Towerblock (talk) 14:14, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

The below ground floors never counted to a highrise. When you live in the second floor of a highrise, that would mean that you live below ground. I said that the blueprints show numbers of the floors and last floor is considered the 118th floor. But by looking down, I noted that the actual first floor is decleared as floor 10. The floors 1 until 9 are missing. The below ground floors have other names like "level B3" or so. Jerchel (talk) 19:04, 4 February 2011 (UTC)

CTBUH may have outdated data, also can you please provide reliable sources proving the first 10 floors are missing. Towerblock (talk) 02:58, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
 * No it is not outdated. Request at CTBUH if you don't belive. I do not have premission to send you blueprints. If you would like to see them request this at Marshall Germometta of CTBUH. He has blueprints of the building. The floor number is 108, 118 is listed in the building, but this is not the real number. Trump also claims that Trump World Tower has 90 stories (the elevator plan lists 90 too), but there are only 72 floors above ground. So most developers are cheating with the numbers. The first 10 floors of ICC are missing, so the first floor is called floor 10. They call it floor 10 because the height of this level would be a tenth floor in a normal highrise with a shorter lobby. Jerchel (talk) 15:30, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

you need to provide reliable sources to prove it rather than just make an uncertain explanation here, please do so. Towerblock (talk) 15:36, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

I added the links in the box; if you belive them or not is not important and not relevant. Owners or developers like Ritz Carlton and Trump are well known in cheating the ACTUAL numbers, but they don't make the measuring rules. Just don't belive anything they report without thinking logical about things. Jerchel (talk) 15:42, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
 * Request the blueprints from Marshall Gerometta at CTBUH. His mailadress is mgerometta@ctbuh.org. Jerchel (talk) 15:44, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

We need to prove it by references, not request it from third party, it needs to prove to everyone. Towerblock (talk) 15:55, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

 * I can't upload the blueprints he once sended to me here. I do not have the premission. That's the problem. A solution would be to write in the article that developer claims to tower consists 118 floors but the "real" number is 108, like in the article Trump World Tower. I also explained the situation in German Wikipedia why 108 is correct and why sometimes 118 is used. Jerchel (talk) 15:58, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Ritz Carlton
hmm I did not even know that "6 star" was a designation for hotels.

 * The site for the hotel does talk about something called "OZONE at 118/F" however it's very unclear what this is and all the other data indicates the top floor is 108, so adjusted all 118 references to be consistent with the other data. If there is some actual support for the 118th floor please supply and revert my edit. Lycurgus (talk) 17:17, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Well, this page says OZONE is on 118, the compare tab on this page suggests there are hotel rooms up to 117, and this page is about a spa on 116. No mention of other amenities such as a swimming pool or a 30,000 sq ft Presidential Suite - the largest suite seems to be the 4,000 sq ft Ritz Carlton Suite, but maybe you have to apply to be told about a presidential suite (or maybe it doesn't exist at all). Astronaut (talk) 11:57, 5 June 2011 (UTC)

Edit request on 2 February 2012
it says "is a108 floor.." but it has 118 floors right?

Plophk (talk) 02:35, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. The current sources agree that there are 108 floors. Thanks, Celestra (talk) 06:31, 2 February 2012 (UTC)

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Every year, Hong Kong becomes uglier. Mutant-Americans may be responsible for attempts to graffiti the auto-free city. There should be a section in the article describing some of the criticism of the design and exposing some of the deliberate attempts to graffiti Hong Kong through deliberately bad construction in recent years. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.109.2.24 (talk) 14:33, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

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I am removing the semiprotection of this article. Let's see what happens. Olivier (talk) 18:27, 22 August 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia is becoming another commercial website.
The article dedicates a disproportionate amount of its sections to a commercial hotel in the building.

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Sonny T.

Sonny T. (born Sonny Thompson) is an American bass player. He was a member of The New Power Generation, Prince's recording and stage band, from 1991–1996.

Sonny T. was a member of the Minneapolis bands Back to Black and The Lewis Connection. Prince played guitar and sang backing vocals on the Sonny T composition "Got To Be Something Here", a recording on The Lewis Connection's self-titled and only album. The track was recorded in late 1976 or early 1977 at Sound 80, while Prince also worked on his own tracks (notably this was Prince's first recording).

In 2000-2006, he recorded and toured with French reed player Michel Portal for his "Minneapolis" album (Universal France) produced by Jean Rochard. Other members of the group included Michael Bland, Tony Hymas, Vernon Reid and Jef Lee Johnson.

In 2010, Sonny T. became a member of Nick Jonas and the Administration (a project created by Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers) along with other former members of the New Power Generation, drummer Michael Bland and keyboardist Tommy Barbarella, as well as bassist and producer John Fields who was also the producer of the Jonas Brothers music.

Starting in 2015, Sonny T. played with Minneapolis artist Alex Rossi.

In 2021, Sonny T. joined Cory Wong's YouTube variety show, Cory and the Wongnotes, playing bass and electric guitar in the backing band, and appearing as a featured guest. He also played bass on Wong's 2021 studio album The Paisley Park Session.

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MTM Enterprises

MTM Enterprises (also known as MTM Productions) was an American independent production company established in 1969 by Mary Tyler Moore and her then-husband Grant Tinker to produce The Mary Tyler Moore Show for CBS. The name for the production company was drawn from Mary Tyler Moore's initials.

With MTM, Mary Tyler Moore would become one of the first women to own a television production company. MTM became very successful, producing a number of successful television programs during the 1970s and 1980s. The Walt Disney Company through its subsidiary, 20th Television owns all of its programs.

History
In 1969, MTM Enterprises was organized by both Mary Tyler Moore and Grant Tinker,  and hired James L. Brooks and Allan Burns to create her sitcom.

In 1971, co-founder Grant Tinker was forced to quit 20th Century Fox Television due to conflicts with how to run MTM, in order to maintain a full-time job at the company.

In 1976, MTM teamed up with Metromedia Producers Corporation to start a variety show, a first for first-run syndication. Earlier that year, the company had hired Bud Rifkin to launch a syndicated division.

In 1977, Ed. Weinberger, James L. Brooks, David Davis, Allan Burns, and Stan Daniels left MTM Enterprises for Paramount Pictures and started the John Charles Walters Company.

Tinker oversaw MTM's operation until leaving the company.

In 1981, Tinker became the chairman of NBC. Lawyers backing NBC's then-owner RCA convinced Tinker to sell his remaining shares of MTM. Moore and Arthur Price, her business manager and company vice president, bought Tinker's shares; Price subsequently was elevated to president. Tinker later regretted leaving MTM, believing that the company started to decline without him.

Most of MTM's programs aired on CBS. For many years, MTM and CBS co-owned the CBS Studio Center in Studio City California, where a majority of their programs were filmed and videotaped.

In 1986, MTM launched its own syndicated arm MTM Television Distribution, to handle off-net syndication of the MTM shows, and subsequently courted to continue its relations with syndicator Jim Victory to sell off-network rights to MTM's shows like Hill Street Blues and WKRP in Cincinnati, all the way up until the late 1980s as part of a contract settlement. In 1988, MTM was sold to UK broadcaster and independent station for the South and South East of England TVS Entertainment for $320 million. A year afterwards, MTM Television Distribution began producing its own programming for the first-run syndication market.

After TVS lost its franchise to broadcast on the ITV network to Meridian Broadcasting, a number of American companies (and to a lesser extent, Meridian) were interested in acquiring MTM, with Pat Robertson's International Family Entertainment making the first offer. A small number of shareholders, including Julian Tregar, rejected the offer from IFE. In November, TCW Capital made a bid, but withdrew it a few weeks later after reviewing the accounts of TVS. IFE increased its offer to £45.3M, but continued to be opposed by Julian Tregar, who blocked the deal on technical grounds, alleging that the offer was too low. IFE finally increased the offer to appease the remaining shareholders, and on January 23, 1993, their offer of £56.5M was finally accepted. The deal went into effect on February 1, 1993 (the month after Meridian began its first broadcast).

In 1995, Michael Ogiens, formerly running CBS, as well as his production company Ogiens/Kane Company, joined MTM to serve as president of the company in hopes that MTM would be restored to its independent production glory. The following year, Josh Kane, fellow partner of the Ogiens/Kane Company joined MTM as vice president for the East Coast offices. In 1997, MTM hit layoffs at the syndication unit after the cancellation of the show The Cape.

In 1997, International Family Entertainment was sold to News Corporation, and folded into its subsidiary Fox Kids Worldwide, eventually renamed to Fox Family Worldwide (a joint venture between Fox and Saban Entertainment). MTM's library assets however, were transferred over to 20th Television who retained them, even after Fox Family Worldwide was sold to The Walt Disney Company in 2001. Until then, The Pretender and Good News were the last surviving shows to be produced by MTM, as 20th Century Fox Television inherited both shows in 1997 (when News Corporation purchased MTM) and 1998 (when MTM ceased operations) respectively. MTM's library became property of Disney following its acquisition of 20th Century Fox in 2019. Disney holds the rights of most of MTM’s shows.

MTM Enterprises also included a record label, MTM Records — distributed by Capitol Records — which was in existence from 1984 to 1988.

CBS connection
MTM programs appeared almost exclusively on CBS until the early 1980s, when Grant Tinker assumed the additional role of president of NBC. Soon, NBC picked up a number of MTM shows. His intention was to leave NBC after 5 years (in 1986) and return to MTM, taking over the reins from interim MTM president Arthur Price. However, Price fired many of the key players in the company's ranks, and by 1986 they had few shows left on the schedules (Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere and Remington Steele were all nearing the ends of their runs, leaving Newhart as the sole entrant on the schedule).

Mascot
Mimsie the Cat (1968 - c. June 1988) was a live-action tabby cat seen in the company's logo, in a spoof of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's long-running Leo the Lion mascot. Mimsie was borrowed from a local shelter and then owned by one of the MTM staff (not by Moore and Tinker, who named the cat).

In the standard version of the logo, as first used on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Mimsie appears in a crouched position, looks up at the camera, and meows once. Mimsie would not meow for the camera crew, so they eventually used footage of her yawning in reverse, with the "meow" added.

By the 1980s, there were many different variants of the logo, with Mimsie often appearing in different costumes, as well as being replaced by other cats, corresponding to the style and theme of the particular programs, including the following:
 * On two episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, they had the following:
 * On "Today I Am a Ma’am.", Mimsie did a higher-pitched and rather shrill meow.
 * On the episode "Put on a Happy Face", Moore herself was shown stating the famous Looney Tunes end line, "That's All Folks!", which was actually a line spoken by Mary Richards during that episode.
 * For the detective series Remington Steele, a Sherlock Holmes-esque stalking cap and pipe (that fell out of Mimsie's mouth when she meowed) were added.
 * Bay City Blues had an animated version of Mimsie wearing a baseball hat and baseball glove and catching a baseball and meowing.
 * Lou Grant, Paris, Just Between Friends and Something for Joey showed a still image of Mimsie.
 * For the blooper reel of Lou Grant, Mimsie chirps like a bird.
 * The White Shadow featured a different black-and-white cat bouncing an orange basketball; an extended version of the variant can be seen on rare prints of the pilot, featuring the logo animating and the cat watching the ball fall off screen.
 * Hill Street Blues put a police uniform hat onto Mimsie's head, stating a reference to the TV show.
 * St. Elsewhere showed her in a surgical outfit. Two episodes of the TV show feature a different meow soundtrack.
 * On the series finale, Mimsie (possibly portrayed by another cat) is shown unconscious and dying on-screen, connected to an IV, a heart monitor, and medical equipment; as the credits roll the heart monitor beeps and then as the credits end the heart monitor flatlines marking the end of St. Elsewhere and Mimsie's death. Coincidentally, Mimsie died shortly after the airing of this episode at the age of 20. Syndicated copies of this episode replace this variant with the normal credits.
 * Graham Kerr put a chef's hat onto Mimsie's head. She would sometimes meow twice.
 * The Texas Wheelers had a different black-and-white kitten near a water pipe, looking around a bit and meowing (though not the same as Mimsie's meow).
 * The final episode had an animated version of a kitten staggering from behind a wagon wheel and collapsing.
 * For Carlton Your Doorman, the logo is drawn animation-like and Carlton's cat Ringo is seen and says off-screen, “Come on, meow!”. When Ringo does not meow, Carlton mutters "Damn cat...".
 * Xuxa had Mimsie say "Tchau!”, which means "Goodbye!" in Portuguese.
 * A Little Sex featured an animated gray cat (similar to the British shorthair), joining an animated version of Mimsie. After Mimsie meows the two cats purr by rubbing their faces.
 * Newhart kept the original, unadorned footage, but replaced (except for the series pilot) the meowing sound effect with Bob Newhart's voice-over of "meow" in his trademark deadpan style, and on the series finale featured Mimsie yelling “QUIET!", uttered by Darryl and Darryl (their first and only word).
 * The Duck Factory had (right on the credits) feature an off-screen voice say “Where's the cat?”, “Here’s the cat.”, or “Take it, cat!”, and then used the original footage, replacing Mimsie's meow with a "Quack!"
 * WKRP in Cincinnati replaced the meowing sound effect with Les Nessman saying “Ooooooh!”
 * The Steve Allen Show had Mimsie wearing Allen’s sunglasses and says “Schmock!”.
 * Vampire had the MTM text all in dark red, and Mimsie is nowhere to be seen. Due to this, the "T" is in its normal size.
 * In 2013, an episode of Hot in Cleveland titled "Love is All Around", which starred Betty White and featured Georgia Engel, did an MTM reunion with Moore, Valerie Harper, and Cloris Leachman. At the end of the episode the camera pans to a similar-looking cat in the window, giving Mimsie’s final meow in a homage to the company's logo.
 * Mary Tyler Moore: The 20th Anniversary Show had Mimsie say "Bye!" voiced by Moore herself.
 * The logo is briefly seen in the Fox-produced Family Guy in their episode "420", where Quagmire and his new cat watch the end of The Mary Tyler Moore Show solely so he can show the cat the logo, pointing out to him "You're one of those!"

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Maurizio Lobina

Maurizio Lobina (born 30 October 1973 in Asti) is an Italian musician and singer, most known as a member of the band Eiffel 65, an Italian group who hit big in 1999 with the international success "Blue (Da Ba Dee)." Lobina created the melody for the song "Blue" on a keyboard and asked vocalist Jeffrey Jey to "come up with strange lyrics" to accompany his piano riff. Producer Massimo Gabutti is another author of the track.

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Born in Asti, Lobina is a former member of the band Vitanova. He left because the other members disliked dance music. "In 1991, I met Roberto Molinaro thanks to some girlfriends in common," says Lobina. "he was an aspirant DJ and producer and I was an aspirant musician and producer. As soon as he saw me play the piano he started asking me to go with him in a new studio in Torino. I talked to the band but they didn't like dance music; they preferred rock or pop music. Anyway, nobody of them stopped me."

Maury briefly left Bliss Corporation to do military service in 1994, and returned soon after to resume his musical career. In 1998, at the end of a typical working day at Bliss Corporation, Maury composed a tune mostly out of boredom and asked BlissCo. colleague Jeffrey Jey to invent some strange lyrics to complete the song. Within a few days, 'Blue (Da Ba Dee)' was composed, arranged, produced, recorded and released on vinyl in Italian stores.

He has a son, to whom he dedicated the song "Viaggia insieme a me". He also has a younger brother, Luca, who shot many of the group's album photos.

Following Eiffel 65's breakup in 2005, Maurizio joined Jeffrey Jey to form the band Bloom 06. In 2010, they both rejoined Eiffel 65 and are still touring as of 2024.

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Contains only one article - Singapore dollar. — Instantnood 17:17, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * This category was listed for deletion on March 8, 2005. During the voting period, the category was sufficiently filled to counter the original reason for nomination. The following discussion from CFD is now closed and should not be modified.
 * Delete. The single article in this cat should be bumped to the national currencies category where it belongs. Feco 17:22, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Agree with Feco.  -Kbdank71 17:24, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment (non-vote): This category should either be deleted, or be populated following category:Currencies of the United States and category:Currencies of Canada. — Instantnood 17:28, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)
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Milislav Demerec

Milislav Demerec (January 11, 1895 – April 12, 1966) was a Croatian-American geneticist, and the director of the Department of Genetics, Carnegie Institution of Washington [CIW], now Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) from 1941 to 1960, recruiting Barbara McClintock and Alfred Hershey.

Demerec was born and raised in Kostajnica (then Austria-Hungary, now Croatia). He attended College of Agriculture in Križevci, graduating in 1916. He worked at Krizevci Experiment Station, and then attended the College of Agriculture in Grignon, France after World War I. He emigrated to the United States for graduate studies in 1919.

In 1919 he started his PhD at Cornell University, his work was on maize genetics and was supervised by Rollins A. Emerson. He completed his PhD in 1923 and took up a research position at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's [CIW] Department of Genetics, now Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He completed work from his PhD, showing that ten different alleles could cause albinism in maize kernels, then on the advice of C. W. Metz he began work on the genetics of the plant Delphinium and the fruit fly Drosophila virilis studying mosaicism.

He became a prominent Drosophila researcher and established the Drosophila Information Service newsletter in 1934 with Calvin Bridges. In 1936 he was made the assistant directory of the Department of Genetics, and the acting director in 1941 following the retirement of Albert Blakeslee. That year, he was also made director of the Biological Laboratory of the Long Island Biological Association making him the director of both Cold Spring Harbor laboratories, by 1943.

After overcoming opposition from Thomas Hunt Morgan, Demerec oversaw the completion of much of the late Calvin Bridges’s work. Demerec appointed Katherine Brehme Warren to complete The Mutants of Drosophila melanogaster (1944) and the book became a classic in the field.

A young Esther M. Zimmer, who worked with Alexander Hollaender at the U. S. Public Health Service (Bethesda, MD), published with Dr. Hollaender, Eva Sansome and Demerec in the very early field of x-ray- and UV-induced mutations. Later on, Esther M. Zimmer (now Esther Lederberg) became one of the most influential founders of bacterial and bacteriophage (Lambda) genetics.

In the 1940s the direction of Demerec's research changed to the genetics of bacteria and their viruses after a symposium given by Max Delbrück. During World War II he used his knowledge of bacterial genetics to increase the yield from the Penicillium. Following the war he continued to work on bacterial genetics and the problem of antibiotic resistance in E. coli, Salmonella, and Staphylococcus. In 1946 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, and in 1947 became the founding editor of Advances in Genetics, the first journal to review the finding of modern genetics. In the 1950s he served on the genetics panel of the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on the Biological Effects of Atomic Radiation. In 1952 he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.

Following his retirement from CSHL, he took a position at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, working there until 1965. In 1966 he served briefly as research professor at Long Island University, until he died on April 12, 1966.

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This category currently has only 1 article - WVCY, and is a subcategory of category:U.S. television networks. — Instantnood 20:15, Apr 8, 2005 (UTC)
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 * delete or empty and redirect to category:ITV Thryduulf 21:23, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. Makes sense.
 * Keep and reparent to category:television stations. This category is for stations which are not affiliated with a parent network, CITY in Toronto and CKVU in Vancouver are two more.  category:ITV is for articles related to the British ITV network, which is something else entirely.  I'm not sure whether category:ITV should even be a subcat of this one (it sounds like ITV is independent only in the sense that it is not BBC).  -- Rick Block 17:02, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * The original philosophy of ITV was a network of regional stations independent of the BBC and each other. Only the former of these is true these days though, bar one or two, since the Carlton-Granada merger. Thryduulf 18:07, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * A Network of affiliated, non-network-owned, TV stations, is not a set of independent non-network stations. Independent stations usually connotes to non-network stations. Otherwise, every US network would qualify under your definition of independent. 132.205.45.110 18:56, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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Tempe Preparatory Academy

Tempe Preparatory Academy is a public charter school in Tempe, a suburb of Phoenix, Arizona in the United States. Founded in 1996, Tempe Preparatory Academy (also known as Tempe Prep or TPA) offers a Great Books, core liberal arts curriculum centered on Western tradition, history, language, and literature. Its motto is Verum, Pulchrum, Bonum, meaning Truth, Beauty, Goodness. It is also the founding model for the Great Hearts Academies schools, with which it is otherwise unaffiliated. Tempe Prep is an independently-governed public charter school. Since 2015, the headmaster has been Wayne 'Richy' Richard Porter. Past headmasters include Thomas Butler, Andrew Zwernaman, Daniel Scoggin, George Lowe, Ron Bergez, Julie Boles, Hugh Hallman (a past Mayor of Tempe), and David Baum.

Academic and Extracurricular Recognition
Tempe Prep's Academic Recognitions include:
 * National Blue Ribbon School, U.S. Department of Education (2008) Blue Ribbon Award.
 * Tempe Prep earned ratings of "excelling" from Arizona in 2008 and 2010.

Academics
Tempe Preparatory Academy offers a set academic curriculum for each grade level. In addition, 9-12th grade students may choose to study Latin/Greek, French, Spanish, or German.

"A cornerstone of the liberal arts curriculum at Tempe Preparatory Academy is the Humane Letters Seminar. In the 9th through 12th grades, English, history, philosophy, and economics are combined in Humane Letters, a 2-hour long, daily seminar directed Socratically and revolving around primary source readings from Western Civilization’s best works. The goal of the HL sequence is to help students understand the Trivium (grammar, logic, and rhetoric) in the humanities through close textual readings, daily group discussions, and intensive, progressive writing assignments".

Tempe Preparatory Academy added a 6th grade in 2008.
 * 6th Grade: Language Arts, Math, Science, Drama, Ancient History
 * 7th grade: Literature and Composition, American History I, Pre-Algebra, Life Science, Latin I, Art / Music Theory
 * 8th grade: Literature and Composition, American History II, Algebra, Earth Science, Latin II, Art / Music Theory
 * 9th grade: Humane Letters Seminar (emphasis: Ancient—High Middle Ages i.e., Semitic, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, Germanic—Literature/History/Philosophy) (2 Hours),  Geometry,  Biology,  Music / Poetry, Latin III or Modern Language I
 * 10th grade: Humane Letters Seminar (emphasis: European History/Literature/Early Modern Political Thought) (2 Hours), Algebra II, Chemistry, Music Theory / Poetry, Advanced Latin or Modern Language II
 * 11th grade: Humane Letters Seminar (emphasis: American History/Literature/Political Thought) (2 Hours), Pre-Calculus/Calculus, Physics I, Drama / Art, Beginning Greek or Modern Language III
 * 12th grade: Humane Letters Seminar (emphasis: Roman Empire through the Middle Ages and into the modern era) (2 Hours), Calculus, Physics II/Chemistry II/Biology II, Drama / Art, Intermediate Greek or Modern Language IV

Senior thesis and defense
"The culminating project for an Academy student is the Senior Thesis. At the beginning of the senior year, the student selects a field of inquiry from the curriculum — literature, philosophy, math, science, the arts — and then reads three or four substantial primary texts to examine in preparation for writing a 15 - 20 page analytical paper. At its core, the thesis is an exploration of one of the “Six Great Ideas” of humanity summarized as Truth, Beauty, Goodness, Justice, Liberty, and Equality.  Students discuss texts in small group seminars composed of students, faculty, staff and board members, and work individually with a faculty member on the paper.  After submitting the paper in the second semester, the senior then publicly defends the thesis before a three-member panel of faculty reviewers and also the community at large".

Activities
Tempe Prep offers many extracurriculars in fine arts and academics. Although Tempe Prep is a small school, the Speech and Debate team and Odyssey of the Mind teams are competitive, regularly placing in the top 5 at tournaments with many schools over 10 times the size. Tempe Prep has won the Arizona 1A-2A-3A State Champion in Speech and Debate every year from 2006, through 2013. The Speech and Debate team moved to AIA Division I competition as of 2013. The Odyssey of the Mind teams won the State Championship between 2002 until 2007 with a World Final Placement of 5th place in 2004, 4th place in 2007, 2nd place in 2008, and 5th place in the 2009 World Finals Competition.

Extracurricular Academic Clubs include, Speech and Debate (nine years state champions), Origami Club, Odyssey of the Mind, High School Robotics Club (5th in World Competition 2015), Junior High Robotics League, Improv Club, Pre-Med Club, Art Club, Spanish Club, Yearbook, School Newspaper, and National Honor Society.

The school also offers numerous Extracurricular Performing Arts Groups, such as Spring Opera Workshop, Sinfonia (school orchestra), Junior Varsity Strings, Junior High Choir, and Cantamus, High School varsity choir, which sang at Carnegie Hall in the summer of 2007.

Athletics
In high school athletics, Tempe Prep competes in the AIA (Arizona Interscholastic Association) and is a member of its Div 4 Conference. Among the school's strengths are track and field, where the women's team has won six state titles including five straight from 2005 to 2009, runner-up 2012, 2013, 2014 and the men's team has won three of its own. In women's soccer, the school won the state 1A-2A-3A winter championship in 2008; they also claimed the Women's Division IV basketball championship in 2012 and were runners-up in 2013, losing the title by 2 points in the last 14 seconds of the game. In total, Tempe Prep high school sports teams have won a total of 11 state championships. In 2014, Tempe Prep become the first charter school in Arizona history to reach a state football final. Junior high athletics compete in the Valley Christian Schools League
 * Junior High School: Football, Volleyball, Co-Ed Soccer, Swim, Softball, Baseball, Cross Country, Track, Girls' Basketball, Boys' Basketball, Co-Ed Golf
 * High School: Football, Cheerleading, Cross Country, Volleyball, Swim, Girls' Basketball, Boys' Basketball, Girls' Soccer, Boys' Soccer, Baseball, Softball, Co-Ed Golf

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Konstantine Dadeshkeliani

Konstantine (Murzakan) Dadeshkeliani (Georgian: კონსტანტინე (მურზაყან) ციოყის ძე დადიშქელიანი; 1826–1857) was the last prince (mtavari) of the western Georgian mountainous region of Svaneti from 1841 to 1857.

The eldest son of Prince Mikheil (Tsiok) Dadeshkeliani, he succeeded on his father’s death in September 1841. He ruled under the regency of his grandmother Digorkhan, who died in an armed conflict between the two branches of Dadeshkeliani of Svaneti in 1843.

Konstantine assumed full ruling powers in 1846. He remained a nominal vassal of the Russian Empire, but was effectively independent. Continuing dynastic strife among the Dadishkeliani, their defiance to the Russian government, and vacillation during the Crimean War (1854–1856), however, led to direct Russian intervention. In 1857, Prince Alexander Baryatinsky, Viceroy of the Caucasus, ordered Svaneti to be subdued by armed force. Konstantine chose to negotiate, but was deposed on September 11, 1857, and ordered into exile to Erivan. On a farewell audience in Kutaisi on October 27, 1857, he quarreled with a local Russian administrator, Alexander Gagarin, and stabbed to death him and three of his staff. When captured, Konstantine was summarily tried by court martial and shot on.

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Sanshiro Sugata Part II

Sanshiro Sugata Part II (續姿三四郎) is a 1945 Japanese action drama film written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is based on the novel by Tsuneo Tomita, son of Tomita Tsunejirō, the earliest disciple of judo. It was filmed in early 1945 in Japan towards the end of World War II. Unlike the original Sugata Sanshiro, the sequel is in part considered a propaganda film.

It is believed by some to be the earliest known film sequel whose title is simply the original title followed by a number, predating the likes of Quatermass II (1957) by several years, although possibly mistaken as the added kanji 續 (Zoku) is not a numeral but simply means "Continuation" or "Sequel" sort of in the style of Another Thin Man or The Invisible Man Returns.

Plot
In the 1880s, a martial arts student continues his quest to become a judo master, from that discipline's founder. Eventually, he learns enough to demonstrate his skill in a boxing match between American and Japanese fighters at the end of the movie. The whole movie is actually about the rivalry between karate and judo martial artists, and Sanshiro's struggle to do what is right. On one side there is the morally right thing to do, and on the other the rules in the dojo. Eventually he decides to break all of the rules, leave the dojo, fight the American boxer and, also, the karate masters. He wins both fights and at the end of the movie smiles while washing his face, finally able to sleep and finally be happy.

Cast

 * Denjirō Ōkōchi - Shogoro Yano
 * Susumu Fujita - Sanshiro Sugata
 * Ryūnosuke Tsukigata - Gennosuke Higaki
 * Akitake Kōno - Genzaburo Higaki
 * Yukiko Todoroki - Sayo
 * Soji Kiyokawa - Yujiro Toda
 * Masayuki Mori - Yoshima Dan
 * Seiji Miyaguchi - Kohei Tsuzaki
 * Ko Ishida - Daisuburo Hidarimonji
 * Kazu Hikari - Kihei Sekine
 * Kokuten Kōdō - Buddhist Priest Saiduchi
 * Ichiro Sugai - Yoshizo Fubuki
 * Osman Yusuf - American Sailor
 * Roy James - William Lister

Critical reviews
In his review of the original Sanshiro Sugata for Bright Lights Film Journal, Brian Libby noted that the film is "less propaganda-oriented" than its sequel. In the original film, "fighting is but a vehicle for a larger spiritual quest" whereas the sequel "promotes Japanese judo's superiority to Western boxing", setting a different tone. Christian Blauvelt, writing a review for Slant Magazine, agreed that the film is somewhat tainted by noticeable propaganda. Sanshiro's victory against the American boxer "is taken as a sign of Japanese physical, moral, and spiritual superiority". He also noted that "Sanshiro comes to the aid of defenseless Japanese who are being beaten up by a drunken American sailor". Historian David Conrad has contextualized the film as a "crude bit of wish-fulfillment" during the last weeks of World War II when Japan's leaders "moved the war's frontlines to the only place it could still be won: the realm of fantasy."

Christian Blauvelt however saw merit in the film as illustrated in the battle against the brothers of Gennosuke Higaki, the original film's villain: "Their battle takes place on a snow-covered hillside and matches the natural beauty of the first film's windstorm finale. In his years apprenticing at P.C.L. [Photo Chemical Laboratories, which later became Toho], Kurosawa had become exposed to the films of John Ford, many of which played in Japan, before the foreign-film embargo that accompanied Japan's declaration of war on the United States in 1941. Like Ford, Kurosawa would emphasize the place of landscape in his films, often pairing his characters' emotional turmoil with the Elements. The rain in One Wonderful Sunday, Rashomon, or Seven Samurai, the beating sun in Stray Dog, the sinkhole in Drunken Angel, the snowfall in The Idiot, the wind in Dersu Uzala, and the crashing waves of Kagemusha would express some emotional anguish of the characters and, as a kind of cinematic synecdoche, society as a whole."

Home media
The film was released in 2010 as part of a 4 DVD box set of Kurosawa's early films under the following designation:
 * Eclipse Series 23: The First Films of Akira Kurosawa. The Criterion Collection.

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