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Jim Dowd (ice hockey)

James Thomas Dowd (born December 25, 1968) is an American former professional ice hockey center who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for ten different teams over the course of 17 NHL seasons. Dowd, who won the 1995 Stanley Cup with his hometown New Jersey Devils, was the second New Jersey high school hockey player to make it to the NHL. He is also a frequent guest on NHL Live.

Early life, high school and college
Dowd helped Brick Township High School win the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association ice hockey title for the 1985–86 season. In his senior year, he broke the national scholastic scoring record, finishing with a four-year tally of 375 points (189 goals and 186 assists).

Dowd was selected in the eighth round, 149th overall, by the New Jersey Devils in the 1987 NHL Entry Draft. He went to Lake Superior State University in the fall of 1987. In his four years with the Lakers men's ice hockey team, competing in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA), Dowd was a prolific scorer, earning selections to the NCAA West Second All-American and CCHA Second All-Star Teams in 1990 and the NCAA West First All-American and CCHA First All-Star Teams in 1991. He was also named the CCHA's "Player of the Year" in 1991. He was a member of the Lakers's 1988 NCAA Championship squad.

New Jersey Devils and the Stanley Cup
After college, Dowd joined New Jersey's American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate at the time, the Utica Devils. He became the first New Jersey native to play for the New Jersey Devils when he made his NHL debut during the season. He spent the 1991–92 and the seasons in the AHL, with single-game NHL appearances in both seasons. As a top scorer with the AHL's Albany River Rats (the Devils' subsequent AHL affiliate) in the season, Dowd made impressive appearances with the Devils, collecting 5 goals and 10 assists in 15 regular season games, and 2 goals and 6 assists in 19 games during their playoff run. The labor dispute shortened the season, which was further shortened for Dowd when a shoulder injury and surgery caused him to miss 35 games. However, the highlight of Dowd's career with the Devils came in Game 2 of the 1995 Stanley Cup Finals. With 1:24 left in regulation, he scored the game-winning goal, giving the Devils a 2–0 series lead over the Detroit Red Wings to take back home to New Jersey. The Devils completed the sweep at home for their first Stanley Cup Championship. Dowd became the first New Jersey native to both play and win the Stanley Cup for the Devils franchise.

Late 1990s
On December 19, 1995, less than six months after helping the Devils capture the Stanley Cup, Dowd was traded (alongside a 1997 second-round draft pick) to the Hartford Whalers in exchange for Jocelyn Lemieux and a second-round pick in 1998. Later that same day, Hartford traded Dowd (alongside František Kučera and the same second-round pick in 1997) to the Vancouver Canucks in exchange for Jeff Brown and a fifth-round pick in 1998. Dowd would only play 38 regular season games and one playoff game for the Canucks.

On September 30, 1996, the New York Islanders claimed Dowd in the NHL Waiver Draft. He only played in three games for New York, spending the rest of the season with the International Hockey League (IHL)'s Utah Grizzlies and the AHL's Saint John Flames.

On July 10, 1997, Dowd signed as a free agent with the Calgary Flames. In the season, he played in 48 games in Calgary and another 35 regular season (and 19 playoff) games with the Saint John Flames.

On June 27, 1998, Dowd was traded to the expansion Nashville Predators in exchange for future considerations. On October 1, 1998, for the second time in his career, he was traded before playing a single game, this time to the Edmonton Oilers (alongside Mikhail Shtalenkov) in exchange for Éric Fichaud, Drake Berehowsky and Greg de Vries. Dowd appeared in one game with the Oilers during the season, spending the rest of the season with their AHL affiliate, the Hamilton Bulldogs. On September 7, 1999, as a group two free agent, he re-signed with Edmonton and played the season with the Oilers, appearing in an NHL career-high 69 games.

2000s
The next chapter in Dowd's career began on June 23, 2000, when the Minnesota Wild selected him during the 2000 NHL Expansion Draft. On March 4, 2004, after nearly four seasons with the Wild, he was traded to the Montreal Canadiens in exchange for a fourth-round draft pick in 2004. After the season, Dowd became an unrestricted free agent and signed with Germany's Hamburg Freezers during the 2004–05 NHL lockout. Following the lockout, on August 5, 2005, he signed with the Chicago Blackhawks.

On March 9, 2006, Dowd was traded to the Colorado Avalanche in exchange for a fourth-round draft pick in 2006. His brief tenure with the Avalanche ended after the 2005–06 season, with Dowd again becoming a free agent.

On November 2, 2006, after New Jersey Devils left winger Dan LaCouture cleared waivers, the Devils signed Dowd to a one-year contract. The contract paid Dowd the NHL minimum of $450,000. When Dowd returned to the Devils, he was forced to wear jersey #12, as John Madden wore his old #11. Dowd went on to score four goals as well as have his first career multi-goal game, against the Florida Panthers.

After the season ended with a loss to the Ottawa Senators in the second round of the playoffs, questions arose about the futures of Devils veterans such as Dowd, who was scratched several times in favor of Rod Pelley. On September 11, Dowd announced that general manager Lou Lamoriello and the Devils were uninterested in offering him a contract and instead attended the Philadelphia Flyers' training camp on a try-out contract. He made the team and became a solid penalty killer and defensive center for the Flyers during the, scoring his first goal with the Flyers against the Devils. Dowd was invited to the Flyers' training camp on a tryout basis again in 2008, he was released after the last game of the Flyers' 2008–09 pre-season, along with Bryan Berard, to allow rookie development, notably of Danny Syvret and Darroll Powe. On April 7, 2009, Dowd announced his retirement as a player.

Off the ice
Jim Dowd's Shoot for the Stars Foundation holds an Annual Shore High School All-Star Hockey Game. The All-Star Games and other events hosted by Shoot for the Stars raise money for local families in need due to illnesses. He also coaches ice hockey for the Red Bank Generals, a travel organization in his home state of New Jersey.

After his retirement from the NHL in 2009, Dowd was inducted into the NJSIAA Hall of Fame. The following year, he was inducted into the Lake Superior State Hall of Fame.

In September 2011, Dowd appeared at Mother Teresa Regional School in Atlantic Highlands as part of a fundraiser benefiting the American Red Cross. He spoke to students and players from the school, as well as shooting around with them before signing autographs.

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Adam Ludwik Czartoryski

Prince Adam Ludwik Czartoryski (5 November 1872 – 29 June 1937) was a Polish nobleman, landowner, and patron of the arts. He was the son of Prince Władysław Czartoryski and Princess Marguerite Adélaïde Marie of Orléans.

Biography
Adam Ludwik was born in 1872. He became the head of the Czartoryski family after the death of his father in 1894. In 1897 he became Ordynat of the Sieniawa Ordynacja property. Capital assets were estimated at 4.5 million Austrian Crowns, which did not include the Family Collections. In 1899 Countess Izabela Działyńska, his aunt, left the Gołuchów Castle and estates to him and his brother Witold. In the same year Ludwik acquired many Greek objects during his travel to Japan.

In 1901 he married Countess Maria Ludwika Krasińska. His young wife took over the direction of affairs with tremendous determination, being a great heiress in her own right.

In 1911 his brother Witold died and left Adam Czartoryski all his inheritance.

In 1914 Czartoryski served in the Austrian Army, and his wife Maria Ludwika took over the Czartoryski Museum. During the First World War, thanks to family connections to the King of Saxony, she sent the most valuable objects over to Dresden.

After the war, there was some difficulty retrieving the objects because of concern about unrest in Poland, but two years of negotiation, along with the 1919 Treaty of Riga which provided for the return of looted items, helped in reassembling the collection, a process which continued for the next several years. During this time the Hotel Lambert, their property in Paris, was transformed into apartments as the family had settled permanently in Poland.

On 26 June 1937, Prince Adam Ludwik died and was buried at the family crypt in Sieniawa.

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 * Małgorzata Izabella Czartoryska, married Prince Gabriel of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
 * Elżbieta Czartoryska
 * Augustyn Józef Czartoryski, married Princess María de los Dolores of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
 * Yolanda Czartoryska
 * Władysław Czartoryski
 * Teresa Czartoryska
 * Ludwik Czartoryski

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Sentience? No. Sapience.
Virtually everyone mistakes these words. Sentience means sensitive to or aware of the environment. Sapience means intelligence. The words are not interchangeable. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.49.154.183 (talk) 19:39, 20 December 2020 (UTC)


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Speedy deletion of Fields of the wood
A tag has been placed on Fields of the wood, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G11 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the page seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the guidelines on spam as well as FAQ/Business for more information.

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Oculogyric crisis

Oculogyric crisis (OGC) is a rare sudden, paroxysmal, dystonic reaction that may manifest in response to specific drugs, particularly neuroleptics, or medical conditions, such as movement disorders. This neurological phenomenon is characterized by a sustained dystonic, conjugate, involuntary upward deviation of both eyes lasting seconds to hours. The term oculogyric is applied in reference to the simultaneous upward movement of both eyes, although the reaction may encompass a variety of additional responses. The reaction is not life-threatening.

For clarification, oculogyric seizures, also termed versive seizures, represent one of the manifestations of epilepsy. These seizures exhibit the same upward eye movement observed in OGC but are classified as a specific subtype of epilepsy.

Signs and symptoms
Initial symptoms include restlessness, agitation, malaise, or a fixed stare. Then comes the more characteristically described extreme and sustained upward deviation of the eyes. In addition, the eyes may converge, deviate upward and laterally, or deviate downward. The most frequently reported associated findings are backwards and lateral flexion of the neck, widely opened mouth, tongue protrusion, and ocular pain. However, the condition may also be associated with intensely painful jaw spasms which may result in the breaking of a tooth. A wave of exhaustion may follow an episode. The abrupt termination of the psychiatric symptoms at the conclusion of the crisis is most striking.

Other features that are noted during attacks include mutism, palilalia, eye blinking, lacrimation, pupil dilation, drooling, respiratory dyskinesia, increased blood pressure and heart rate, facial flushing, headache, vertigo, anxiety, agitation, compulsive thinking, paranoia, depression, recurrent fixed ideas, depersonalization, violence, and obscene language.

In addition to the acute presentation, oculogyric crisis can develop as a recurrent syndrome, triggered by stress and by exposure to the drugs mentioned below.

Causes
Drugs that can trigger an oculogyric crisis include neuroleptics (such as haloperidol, chlorpromazine, fluphenazine, olanzapine), carbamazepine, chloroquine, cisplatin, diazoxide, levodopa, lithium, metoclopramide, lurasidone, domperidone, nifedipine, pemoline, phencyclidine ("PCP"), reserpine, and cetirizine, an antihistamine. High-potency neuroleptics are the most common cause.

Other causes can include aromatic L -amino acid decarboxylase deficiency, postencephalitic Parkinson's, Tourette's syndrome, multiple sclerosis, neurosyphilis, head trauma, bilateral thalamic infarction, lesions of the fourth ventricle, cystic glioma of the third ventricle, herpes encephalitis, kernicterus and juvenile Parkinson's disease.

Patients with procyclidine addiction or craving may simulate signs of extrapyramidal symptoms to receive procyclidine.

Diagnosis
The diagnosis of oculogyric crisis is largely clinical and involves taking a focused history and physical examination to identify possible triggers for the crisis and rule out other causes of abnormal ocular movements.

Treatment
Immediate treatment of drug-induced OGC can be achieved with intravenous antimuscarinics, such as benzatropine or procyclidine. Any causative new medication should be discontinued. The condition may also be treated with the antihistamine diphenhydramine.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nathan McClain

 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 19:48, May 7, 2005 (UTC)

Nathan McClain
Not encyclopedic; only entries found through Google are a memorial site and an "artist of the month" listing. - jredmond 16:28, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Recognizing the subjective nature of Art and what's considered "popular" or not. Nathan McClain (1973-1997) was a  U.S. illustrator, artist, and painter who died at 24.  This deceased artist recently received international recognition at the Museums & the Web conference and is developing a passionate following.  Please reconsider this deletion and keep the entry for others to view. (comment left by anon user 63.125.147.253)
 * Delete, not notable at present (though this may of course change at a later stage) Worldtraveller 17:08, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment (not a vote). I'm the curator of Nathan's online gallery and was honored to find it listed in Wikipedia.  There was a conference I attended in Canada where I spoke about Nathan and his art.  There were numerous comments about how moved people were by his story and I'm speculating that someone wrote this Wikipedia entry based on that.  You probably haven't heard of him before and you won't see his art in traditional galleries (it's all privately owned).  As of today, Nathan McClain would be considered an underground artist with loyal supporters.  The awareness of his art and who he was is getting greater attention.  Nathan's listing here appears to be a very brief high-level summary; an extensive biography can be provided if needed.  Hope this helps provide a context.  Nmadmin 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment: Can you provide evidence that would help the community make this decision? For example, does McClain meet one or more of the recommended criteria for inclusion of biographies?  If so, can you cite verifiable evidence of that?  (You might also want to look at WP:MUSIC.  It's not written for visual artists but it might give you a sense of the kinds of evidence that the community usually considers appropriate.  And perhaps you could help us develop parallel suggestions for visual artists.)  Thanks.  Rossami (talk)
 * Comment (response): After reviewing the criteria for inclusion of biographies, here's some supporting evidence.  Has the person made a widely recognized contribution that is part of the enduring historical record in the specific field? There was a grassroots fundraising effort in the Fall of 2004 to save an 16 foot x 8 foot mural that Nathan painted.  Because of Nathan's popularity, the Middle School he attended now owns this painting and it is displayed in their cafeteria.  The saving of the painting involved people who did not know Nathan and was reported in the local paper, a local art zine, & the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.  A dedication ceremony/career retrospective is being planned for early June to not conflict with school activities.  Also, there is a current effort to locate an Ozzie Smith painting that Nathan created which was auctioned off in 1996 when Ozzie retired from baseball.  There was a feature about this and Nathan on the St. Louis Fox news affiliate.  Verifiablity  In addition to being the curator of his gallery, I was his best friend of 20 years - we met when he was 4 and I was 5.  So all biographical details would be accurate and independently verifiable especially as more articles are written about Nathan.  Presuming this Wiki entry is kept, I would be more than willing to supply a fuller biography than what exists today.  Nmadmin 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, notability not established. Wikipedia is not a memorial, see What Wikipedia is not. Megan1967 01:43, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. It is possible to die young and still become a notable artist - I'm just reading a book on Henri Gaudier-Brzeska at the moment. But it takes time to build a reputation and I don't think it has happened yet in this case. The lack of independent sources is also a problem. -- Solipsist 08:02, 23 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.