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The Sound of Revenge

The Sound of Revenge is the debut studio album by American rapper Chamillionaire. It was released on November 22, 2005, by Chamillitary Entertainment and Universal Records. The album features guest appearances from Lil' Flip, Lil Wayne, Rasaq (his younger brother), Natalie Alvarado, Krayzie Bone, Bun B, Scarface, Billy Cook, Killer Mike, and Pastor Troy, with its production on the album was handled by Scott Storch, Mannie Fresh, Play-N-Skillz, Cool, and Dre, among others.

The album also has the release of "Chopped and screwed version" by DJ OG Ron C. Chamillionaire and Krayzie Bone won the Best Rap Performance By A Duo or Group Grammy for the song "Ridin'". In 2009, Chamillionaire released Mixtape Messiah 7 and explained on the final track of disc 1 that he was also going to be considered for the Best New Artist Grammy but, bootleggers caused him to be disqualified by releasing unauthorized Chamillionaire albums the same year his debut was released.

The album debuted at number 10 on the US Billboard 200, selling 130,000 copies in its first week, and it later became certified platinum by Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), selling more than 1.5 million copies in the United States as of December 19, 2006. The non-album single, "Picture Perfect", peaked at number 28 on Hot Ringtones.

Samples credits
Think I'm Crazy
 * "Everything for Free" by K's Choice

Picture Perfect
 * "Ain't I Been Good to You (Part 1 & 2)" by The Isley Brothers

Void in My Life
 * "Do What You Do" by Jermaine Jackson

Musicians

 * The Beat Bullies – keyboards (6, 7, 9), programming (1, 6, 7, 9, 10, 14)
 * Sean Blaze – drums, keyboard, and programming (16)
 * Terrence Brown – keyboards (6, 7, 9), Rhodes Hammond organ (10, 14)
 * Bun B – background vocals (5)
 * Cool & Dre – all instruments (5)
 * Preston Crump – bass (11)
 * Harley Davidson – all instruments (2)
 * Marvin "Chippeo" Jackson – background vocals (1, 7)
 * Avery Jones – drums, keyboard, programming, bass, and guitar (16)
 * Debra Killings – bass (9)
 * Steve Lake – guitar (11, 12), bass (12)
 * Tami Latrell – background vocals (14)
 * Fitzgerald Lingard – bass (10, 14)
 * "Thunda" Dan Marshall – guitar (1, 7, 9, 10, 14)
 * Sol Messiah – drums, keyboards, and programming (11, 12)
 * Natalie – background vocals (10)
 * Happy Perez – additional keyboards (2)
 * Deone Rhodes – background vocals (1)
 * Rock D The Legend – flute (14)
 * Jen Rose – opera vocals (1)
 * Rhemario "Rio Beats" Webber – Hammond organ (12)

Technical personnel and design

 * Wayne Allison – engineer (3)
 * The Beat Bullies – engineer (1, 6, 7, 9, 10, 14)
 * Sean Blaze – engineer and mixing (16)
 * Robert "Big Brizz" Brisbane – engineer (5)
 * Chris Carmouch – engineer (6)
 * Tony Cavasin – assistant engineer (1, 6, 7, 9, 10, 14)
 * Rick DeVarona – assistant engineer (1, 7, 10, 14)
 * Kathryn Diehl – mixing assistant (2, 5, 8)
 * Blake Douglas – engineer (10), mixing assistant (9, 10, 14)
 * Taylor Dow – assistant engineer (2, 15)
 * Gary Fly – assistant engineer (6)
 * Mike Frost – art direction
 * Chris Gehringer – mastering
 * Conrad Golding – engineer (3)
 * Jason Goldstein – mixing (3)
 * Mark "Exit" Goodchild – engineer (13)
 * Michael Guidatti – assistant engineer (1, 7, 10, 14)
 * James Hoover – engineer (1, 3, 4, 8, 11, 13, 14, 16), mixing (1, 4, 6, 15, 16)
 * Eric Jensen – mixing assistant (13)
 * Jonathan Mannion – photography
 * "Thunda" Dan Marshall – engineer (1, 6, 7, 9, 10, 14)
 * Rodney Maspoch – engineer (13)
 * Play-N-Skillz – mixing (4)
 * Gregg Rominiecki – engineer (2, 15)
 * Brian Stanley – engineer (12), mixing (2, 5, 7-14)
 * Matt Still – engineer (1, 14)
 * Bram Tobey – mixing assistant (13)

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The English Cat

The English Cat (in German, Die englische Katze) is an opera in two acts by Hans Werner Henze to an English libretto by Edward Bond, based on Les peines de coeur d'une chatte anglaise (The heartbreak of an English cat) by Honoré de Balzac. The opera was first performed in a German translation by the Stuttgart Opera at the Schlosstheater Schwetzingen at the Schwetzingen Festival on 2 June 1983. The French premiere was at the Opéra-Comique, Paris in 1984. The first performance using the original English text was at Santa Fe on 13 July 1985. The UK premiere was at the Leith Theatre, Edinburgh, on 19 August 1987. A revised version was performed at Montepulciano in 1990 and this was given in London in 1991.

Synopsis
The opera is set in London in the 1890s.

A group of bourgeois cats has formed the Royal Society for the Protection of Rats. Avowed pacifists as well, the society has been raising a young orphan mouse, Louise. There is a love triangle between Lord Puff, his wife Minette, and Tom.

Instrumentation

 * Woodwind: 2 flutes, (both also treble recorders and piccolos), 2 oboes (both also English horn, 2nd doubling on Heckelphone), 2 clarinets (1st doubling on E flat clarinet, 2nd on bass clarinet and contrabass clarinet), 2 bassoons (2nd doubling on double bassoon)
 * Brass: 2 horns, 1 trumpet, 1 trombone
 * Percussion (3 players): 2 glass bars, 9 Chinese gongs, suspended cymbals, African wood drum, 8 log drums, tumba, maracas, claves, güiro, 2 sistrums, wood block, cabaça, 5 temple blocks, switches, American slat clacks, bass metallophone (or bass xylophone), 9 finger cymbals, slide whistle, 14 small bells
 * harp, piano (also 4 hands), celesta, small organ, zither, strings (6.4.3.3.1)

Recording

 * Wergo WER 62042: Richard Berkeley-Steele (Lord Puff), Mark Coles (Arnold), Louisa Kennedy (Minett), Gunvor Nilsson (Babette/Der Mond), Ian Platt (Tom); Parnassus Orchestra London; Markus Stenz, conductor

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Talk:Egyptian hip hop

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http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/723/fe2.htm - good starting point —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jacoplane (talk • contribs)

This is terrible
The influences section is off topic and not related to what the article is about. I think it should be removed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.255.148.203 (talk) 13:00, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

My goodness...
This has to be one of the most atrocious articles I have ever seen. Can someone please do a full rewrite? Or at least a half-rewrite? Pwetty pwease? JukeJohn (talk) 04:33, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

UK Band
Also name of an unsigned UK band with a Chrysalis Publishing deal: http://www.myspace.com/egyptianhiphop —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jefo (talk • contribs) 15:08, 8 January 2010 (UTC)

The fact this band don't have an article yet is ridiculous. Wikipedia moderators need to understand just because they haven't heard of them that other people haven't and they're not worthy of an article. They're creating massive waves in NME at the moment and BBC Radio One are behind them. The new Manchester music scene is pretty much been led by these guys, Everything Everything and Delphic. THis needs sorting out as soon as possible! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.105.139.145 (talk) 13:27, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

I second the above post —Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.167.78.50 (talk) 17:01, 24 September 2010 (UTC)

I suspect a disambiguation is imminent, chaps - they are about to sign a recording deal :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.27.88.45 (talk) 20:18, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

I suspected this all along, I don't want to be the one to start the article as it's really frustrating to see your hard work deleted but if someone starts and it maintains itself for a week or so I'd be happy to do edits and make it professional and informative. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.105.143.15 (talk) 23:20, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Record deal signed earlier this month (Jan 2011). Details don't appear to be in the public domain, yet. For EHH, a few gigs, and lots of hard work in the studio ... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.5.186.236 (talk) 19:31, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

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Hadoram

Hadoram ( Hăḏōrām) is the son of Joktan mentioned in the Book of Genesis of the Hebrew Bible. Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth. One of Shem's sons was Arpachshad. One of Arpachshad's grandsons was Eber. Eber had two sons: Peleg and Joktan.

Joktan had many sons including Hadoram as the Book of Genesis (10:26-30) states:

 * Yoktan (Joktan) was the father of Almodad, Shelef, Chatzarmaveth, Yerach, Hadoram, Uzal, Diklah, Obhal, Abhimael, Sh'bha, Ophir, Havilah, and Yovav. All these were the sons of Yoktan. Their settlements extended from Meshah toward Sepher, the eastern mountain.

According to Rabbi Aryeh Kaplan's footnotes: "Hadarom: Some interpret this as denoting 'the south.' This was a fortress to the south of (Yemen's) Sana'a (Kesseth HaSofer). See 1 Chronicles 18:10; Zechariah 12:11."

Hadoram was also the name of the son of the king of Hamath, Tou, in 1 Chronicles 18.

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Communist Party of Norway

The Communist Party of Norway (Norges Kommunistiske Parti, NKP) is a communist party in Norway.

The NKP was formed in 1923, following a split in the Norwegian Labour Party. It was Stalinist from its establishment and, as such, supported the Soviet government while opposing Trotskyism.

During the Second World War, the NKP initially opposed active resistance to the German occupation, in deference to the non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Germany. Once Germany terminated the pact and attacked the Soviet Union, the Communist Party of Norway joined the resistance.

As a result of its role in the anti-Nazi struggle, the NKP experienced a brief surge in popularity immediately after the war, but popular sympathy waned with the onset of the Cold War. The ruling Labour Party took a hard line against the communists, culminating in Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen's 1948 condemnatory Kråkerøy speech. Norwegian authorities considered the party an extremist organization, and its activities would be closely monitored by the Police Surveillance Agency throughout the Cold War.

Ideologically, the NKP has evolved since its founding. It followed Khrushchev's lead by formally denouncing Stalin's rule after his death in 1953, but remained pro-Soviet until the end of the Cold War, despite occasional instances of disagreement. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the party has recognized some of the flaws of the Soviet model. It nonetheless supports traditional Soviet historiography and pro-Russian political views, opposing NATO, the European Union and the United States.

The NKP has been a marginal force in Norwegian politics since the late 1940s. It held a single seat in the parliament as late as 1961, but it has not been represented in any elected bodies in recent decades. In the 2017 parliamentary elections, it received only 309 votes (0.01%).

Background, establishment, and pre-war era
The Norwegian Labour Party (DNA) became a member of the Communist International (Comintern) in 1919 under the leadership of Martin Tranmæl. While Tranmæl at first supported the move of becoming a Comintern member, he became increasingly skeptical of it after the proclamation of the twenty-one conditions which stated that members had to enforce democratic centralism and party discipline. Even so, Tranmæl continued to support the Labour Party's membership, even if that meant a future split within the party between the left and the right. A split did occur along factional lines in 1921 and led to the establishment of the Social Democratic Labour Party. A power struggle soon erupted between the Tranmælists and the supporters of Olav Scheflo, the party's parliamentary leader, following Kyrre Grepp's absence due to illness and later death in 1922. The reason for the struggle was Tranmæl's desire to block Grepp from becoming the party's next leader; Grepp was a supporter of the Comintern line.

By the time of the 4th World Congress of the Comintern, in which a policy of strengthening the apparatus of the member parties took place, Tranmæl had had enough of what he saw as the Comintern's meddling in the internal affairs of the Labour Party. He managed to get a majority within the Central Board for a withdrawal of its Comintern membership, but the Comintern's representative, Karl Radek, managed, with a bit of maneuvering, to get the majority of the party's National Board to vote in favour of retaining its Comintern membership. Before the Labour Party conference in February 1921, Tranmæl came up with the Kristiania proposal, a declaration of semi-independence from Comintern. The Kristiania proposal supported retaining membership in the Comintern, if the Labour Party could operate on more independent lines. At the conference a majority, by a margin of two votes, voted in favour of the proposal. The Comintern representative at the party conference, Nikolai Bukharin, grudgingly accepted the vote. The power struggle between the Tranmælists and the Scheflo wing continued, even more aggressively, until the extraordinary party conference of November 1923 which voted in favour of withdrawing the Labour Party from the Comintern. As a reaction, the Scheflo wing left the party and established the Norwegian Communist Party. Organisationally, the Communist Party continued the representation of Norway in the Comintern.

Thirteen of the Labour members of parliament joined the Communist Party, as did large parts of the trade union opposition to the Labour Party. The newly established party elected Sverre Støstad as chairman, Halvard Olsen as deputy chairman, and Peder Furubotn as general secretary. The party managed to gain 6.1 percent of the votes in the 1924 parliamentary election, but its vote share decreased to 4 percent in 1927, and further in 1930 to 1.7 percent. At the same time, its membership slowly decreased, and by the 1930s the party had lost much of its former influence.

The 1924 election was a failure for the party; the party became the third largest left-wing party, behind the Labour Party and the Social Democratic Labour Party. The Communist Party had failed to restrengthen the Comintern organisation in Norway after the 1923 split. The 1925 conference focused on the party's organisational structure; a structural proposed by the Comintern was duly accepted by a majority at the conference. Parallel to its decreasing electoral influence, the party was ravaged by internal strife. Halvard Olsen and other trade union leaders left the party in 1924, in protest over the trade union policy of the Communist Party. Sverre Støstad, Fredrik Monsen, and Olav Larssen were excluded from the party in 1927 because of disagreements surrounding the reunification of the Labour Party (which merged with the Social Democratic Labour Party). Jeanette Olsen, Emil Stang Jr., and Scheflo left the party in 1928 due to their disappointment with how the Communist Party reacted towards the first DNA government, Hornsrud's Cabinet. In 1927, the Mot Dag group, a circle of leftwing intellectuals, joined the party. They would leave the following year, as the Communist Party took an 'ultra-left turn'.

The Comintern demanded in the summer of 1927 that the Communist Party move further to the left. The move to the left was characterised by a more open "class against class politics, in which the social democrats were designated as the primary enemy" of communism. At the 9th Plenum of the Central Committee in 1928, they denounced the right-wing faction for supporting the Labour government of Christopher Hornsrud. The 9th Plenum led to a further reduction of party members, but Furobotn and the Communist Party continued to be loyal to the line set by the Comintern. There was no significant dissent within the party against the Comintern line, and the party became vehemently loyal to it; it began to accuse the Labour Party of being social fascist, and further claimed that the Labour Party had stopped being a workers party. This policy led to further marginalisation of the party by the 1930s. In 1930 the Comintern directly interfered into the affairs of the NKP, when it ordered Furubotn, the party chairman, to visit the Soviet Union. In 1933 the party took the initiative to propose a collaboration with the Labour in the 1933 parliamentary election in correlation with the Comintern's policy of a Popular Front. The proposal was rejected, but the Communist Party continued to propose a collaboration of sorts to the Labour Party in 1935, 1936, and in 1937. The Labour Party continued to be interested in such a proposal as long as the Communist Party and itself were unified organisationally. From 1938 onwards, the Communists' relations with other parties reached an all-time low, and by the time of the German invasion of Norway in 1940, the party was in a crisis. The Norwegian public had begun to see the NKP as a tool of Moscow.

Second World War
At the onset of the Second World War, the NKP subscribed to the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact between Germany and the Soviet Union. The DNA government, on the other hand, aligned with the United Kingdom. During the Finnish Winter War, NKP supported the Soviet war effort, whereas DNA supported the opposing side. DNA-NKP relations deteriorated further, reaching a historic low.

Germany invaded Norway on 9 April 1940. The NKP publication Arbeideren ("The Worker") proclaimed that the war was an imperialist war, and that Germany and the Western powers were equally responsible for its outbreak. According to that analysis the party should not take sides for one of the imperialist powers, a policy that was in clear opposition to the (then exiled) DNA government.

However, local Communist Party cells in northern Norway began (without the consent of the party leadership) to mobilize resistance activities.

In August 1940, NKP was the first Norwegian political party to be banned by the German occupation authorities. The publication of Arbeideren ceased. The party then went underground. However, it was poorly prepared for underground functioning. In the ongoing confusion within the party, Furubotn began to call for more active NKP resistance against the occupation. Furubotn had spent several years in Moscow, but returned to Norway just before the war. Now he was the leader of the party in Vestlandet. On 31 December 1941, the party held a clandestine national conference, which adopted Furubotn's 'active war policy'.

The NKP came to play a leading role in the resistance movement, organizing sabotage and guerrilla activities. Although different sectors of the resistance showed a united front towards the occupants, the relation between NKP and the Home Front, the government-in-exile, and the clandestine trade union movement were not always smooth as the government advocated only peaceful resistance, such as media and intelligence support for the allies, until the last years of the war, when these elements of resistance were to join actively. Generally, the NKP wanted to adopt more offensive tactics against the occupants. It also created an illegal newspaper, Friheten, or "Liberty", which is still in print.

Postwar resurgence
After the war, NKP enjoyed a strong increase in popularity for its role in resistance struggle. The role the Soviet Union had played in defeating Germany, and in particular the Soviet liberation of Finnmark in northern Norway, also contributed to the popularity of the party.

In the national unity government formed after the war, two communists were included: Johan Strand Johansen and Kirsten Hansteen. Hansteen was the first female minister in Norwegian history. The party organ, Friheten, would reach a readership of approximately 100,000 directly after the war. In the new postwar atmosphere of tolerance, discussions were raised over a possible reunification between DNA and NKP. During the war, discussions had taken place in the Grini concentration camp between captured DNA and NKP leaders (including Einar Gerhardsen from DNA and Jørgen Vogt from NKP). However, these plans were discarded by Furubotn.

In the 1945 parliamentary election, the NKP vote share reached its historical peak. NKP received 176,535 votes (11.89%) and won eleven seats in the Storting. In 1946 Furubotn was elected general secretary of the NKP.

Onset of the Cold War
However, the growth of the party proved to be brief. The Cold War began, and the Norwegian government aligned itself with the Western powers. In the 1949 parliamentary election the NKP lost many voters. The party received 102,722 votes (5.83%).

The reason for the party's decline in popularity is often accredited to Labour Party Prime Minister Einar Gerhardsen's famous speech at Kråkerøy in 1948, four days after the communist takeover in Czechoslovakia. In it, he condemned the actions in Czechoslovakia, but also warned that the same thing could happen in Norway if the Communist Party was given too much power. The speech represented the start of both an open and underground campaign against the party and its members, with the purpose of scaring away voters and reducing its influence in the labour movement.

At the same time, the party would experience its most traumatic internal division. In 1946 some of Furubotn's closest associates during the war, Kjell G. Kviberg and Ørnulf Egge, were expelled. In 1949 Furubotn's enemies within the party began a campaign to expel him.

On 24 October 1949, MP Johan Strand Johansen publicly declared that a division existed within the party in a speech to the local party unit in Malerne. The following day Furubotn's followers resigned from their positions. On 26 October Furubotn and his followers were expelled. The editorial of Friheten on 27 October proclaimed that "It has emerged clearly that this anti-party centre is a Trotskyist, bourgeois nationalist and Titoist centre, which has paralysed the central board with endless and futile discussions." Moreover, in an article in the same newspaper published on 11 November 1949, read: "It is clear that within our party there are nationalist, petty bourgeois, Trotskyist, Titoist elements, enemies of the Soviet Union and socialism, that may form a base for recruitment of agents to the bourgeois states and the counter revolution." This process contributed to the ongoing political isolation of the NKP. The expulsion of Furubotn, considered a hero of the resistance struggle, was in many ways a political suicide. The manner in which the expulsions had been conducted and the strong language used in the NKP press against those expelled contributed to an image of NKP as a 'conspirational' party.

Cold War years
The NKP was broadly considered to be a loyal follower of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, although it occasionally took independent positions opposing the Soviet line. This happened in 1968, when the NKP condemned the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. The youth league, the Young Communist League of Norway (NKU), followed a somewhat more independent line than the party.

In the mid-1960s, the U.S. State Department estimated the party membership to be approximately 4500 (0.2% of the working age population of the country).

In the parliamentary elections of 1973, the party participated in an electoral alliance with the Socialist People's Party and other left-wing groups, known as the Socialist Electoral League, and had its leader, Reidar Larsen, elected into parliament. In 1975, the Socialist Electoral League became the Socialist Left Party, which is today Norway's largest party to the left of the Norwegian Labour Party. The Communist Party took part in the process of transforming the electoral league to a new party, but in the end decided to remain a separate party. At the party congress in 1975, 113 delegates voted to maintain the party's independence, whereas 30 voted for a merger with the SV. Larsen did not stand for re-election, and Martin Gunnar Knutsen was elected as the new party chairman. After the congress, Larsen and others left the NKP to join the Socialist Left Party.

After Mikhail Gorbachev gained power in the Soviet Union and started his reform program, the NKP, like most other European Communist parties did, started revising its views of past Soviet policies. The party began to distance itself from the practises of the Soviet Union, and focused on a "softer" communism. The term "democratic socialism" is frequently found in party literature from the early 1990s onward.

Post-Soviet world
Around 1990, there were also tendencies within the NKP working for regroupment. In the 1989 parliamentary election they joined forces with Workers' Communist Party (AKP), Red Electoral Alliance (RV), and independent socialists to form Fylkeslistene for miljø og solidaritet (County lists for Environment and Solidarity). The NKP also had joint lists with RV some places in the early 1990s, while elsewhere NKP members campaigned for the RV. This policy of unity was, however, abandoned around the mid-1990s.

A defining moment in this process came when the party opposed the Soviet coup attempt of 1991 against Gorbachev by the "old guard" of the Soviet communist party.

Today, the party's statement of principles explicitly acknowledges that the Soviet Union represented a violation of democratic principles and that the party has to take responsibility for its lack of criticism of these problems. The party nonetheless views these examples of socialism as progressive with respect to their preceding regimes.

Even though the NKP survived the collapse of the Soviet Union, inner turmoil, and particularly lack of recruitment amongst youth, has since marginalized the party further.

In the early 1990s, the party attempted to counteract some of this by electing younger leaders to the party's top positions. However, this move failed to significantly boost recruitment, and subsequently the party's leadership was again dominated by older members, many of whom joined during the Soviet era.

The NKP won three elected posts in the 2003 municipal elections, two seats in the municipal council in Åsnes Municipality and one in Vadsø Municipality. The Åsnes branch, by far the party's strongest at that time, left the party in 2004 to form Radical Socialists due to disagreements over the questions of religion, Joseph Stalin, and cooperation with other leftist groups. In addition, an NKP member was a member of the municipal council of Porsgrunn Municipality, elected on the RV list until he joined the RV. In later elections the NKP has received about 1,000 votes. In the 2005 parliamentary election, it won 1,070 votes – 0.04% of the national total. In 2007, it could not find enough candidates for a list in Vadsø Municipality, and thus does not currently have any democratically elected representatives.

In 2006-2008, NKP's youth league was changed from the old Young Communist League of Norway, to the new Young Communist League in Norway. The new league changed its name in 2008 to the Youth Communists in Norway.

The party still publishes a weekly newspaper called Friheten ("The Freedom"), which was started as a clandestine paper in 1941.

Press
The party won control of eleven of the Labour Party newspapers. These were (some with new names after the communist takeover): Arbeidet, Ny Tid, Arbeideren, Vestfold Arbeiderblad, Glomdalens Arbeiderblad, Bratsberg-Demokraten, Fritt Folk, Follo Arbeiderblad, Gudbrandsdalens Arbeiderblad, Hardanger Arbeiderblad and Ny Dag. The communist party also usurped Møre Arbeiderblad, which had not yet achieved official Labour Party status. Nordlys was acquired, temporarily lost in mid-November 1923, then published as communist again until 20 January 1924 when it again became aligned with Labour. Some newspapers, such as Østerdalens Arbeiderblad had sympathized with the communist opposition while it was a part of the Labour Party, but after the actual split the Labour Party managed to turn the tide and retain them. The Communist Party also took over the ideological publication Klassekampen (belonged to the Young Communist League of Norway) and started Gnisten and Proletaren. Newly established communist newspapers within the party's first year of existence were the main organ Norges Kommunistblad as well as Akershus Folkeblad, Buskerud-Arbeideren, Friheten, Troms Fylkes Kommunistblad, Dagens Nyheter and Finnmark Fremtid. Many became defunct after a short time.

The Communist Party also had a range of company newspapers, for laborers in specific companies or specific industries. In Oslo there were Arbeidersken, Brygger'n, Den unge arbeider, Hammer'n, Huken, Kommunarden, Nødsarbeideren (renamed Steinspruten), Skyttelen, Sporvekselen and Stemplet. In Bergen there were Byggeren, Hermetikboksen, Kommuneproletaren and Transportproletaren (renamed Havnearbeideren). In Trondheim there were Filkloa and Signal. Einhart Lorenz has also registered seventeen other company newspapers from across the country. Nearly all were founded in 1925 or 1926, and nearly all went defunct between 1925 and 1928. The only exception as to foundation was Verksteds-Arbeideren, founded in Drammen in 1924, and the only newspaper which survived beyond 1928 was Kommuneproletaren, which existed until 1931.

Leaders

 * Sverre Støstad (1923–1925)
 * Peder Furubotn (1925–1930)
 * Henry W. Kristiansen (1931–1934)
 * Adam Egede-Nissen (1934–1946)
 * Emil Løvlien (1946–1965)
 * Reidar T. Larsen (1965–1975)
 * Martin Gunnar Knutsen (1975–1982)
 * Hans I. Kleven (1982–1987)
 * Kåre André Nilsen (1987–1991)
 * Ingve Iversen (1991–1993)
 * Collective leadership (1993–2000)
 * Terje Krogh, Per Lothar Lindtner and Kjell Underlid (1993–1998)
 * Per Lothar Lindtner and Kjell Underlid (1998–2000)
 * Per Lothar Lindtner (2000–2001)
 * Zafer Gözet (2001–2010)
 * Svend Haakon Jacobsen (2010–2013)
 * Jørgen Hovde (2013–2014)
 * Runa Evensen (2014–present)

Party Congresses

 * 3. landsmøte 1929 9-13. february Oslo

Popular support and electoral results
Currently, the party retains its strongest bases of support in Oslo, Finnmark, Troms, Tromsø, and Namsos. Historically Åsnes and Trondheim were strongholds of the party.

Storting (parliament)
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Medical logistics

Medical logistics is the logistics of pharmaceuticals, medical and surgical supplies, medical devices and equipment, and other products needed to support doctors, nurses, and other health and dental care providers. Because its final customers are responsible for the lives and health of their patients, medical logistics is unique in that it seeks to optimize effectiveness rather than efficiency.

Medical logistics functions comprise an important part of the health care system: after staff costs, medical supplies are the single most expensive component of health care. To drive costs out of the health-care sector, medical logistics providers are adopting supply chain management theories.

This organizational chart is as follows and separated into three key areas.

 * Medical Materiel
 * Facilities Management.
 * Biomedical Engineering (BMET) or Clinical Engineering

These areas are managed by a qualified Director of Logistics. The Director of Logistics' educational background holds some type of accredited graduate degree (MBA or M.S.)

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Plus fours

Plus fours are breeches or trousers that extend four inches (10 cm) below the knee (and thus four inches longer than traditional knickerbockers, hence the name). Knickerbockers have been traditionally associated with sporting attire since the 1860s. Plus fours were introduced in the 1920s and became popular among sportsmen—particularly golfers and game shooters—as they allowed more freedom of movement than knickerbockers.

An "extravagant, careless style that fit right in with the looser fashions and lifestyles of the 1920s", plus fours were introduced to the United States by Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII), during a trip in 1924.

They were later brought back to prominence by the professional golfer Payne Stewart, who wore them on the PGA Tour (active years 1982–1999).

In 2008, plus fours were featured in André Benjamin's Benjamin Bixby clothing line, which was based on clothing worn by Ivy League athletes in the 1930s.

Less known are plus twos, plus sixes, and plus eights, of similar definitions, but accordingly varying lengths.

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Talk:The Goonies

Film novelization
The movie has been novelized by James Kahn in 1985. Translated in French in the same year, then translated in portugese (bresilian) in 2013, then in spanish in 2019.

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A novelization being a kind of "derived product" exactly as a video game, it seems relevant to quote this one. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:E0A:A36:1630:A88D:1D8:F5B:5BE7 (talk) 02:15, 3 June 2023 (UTC)

Wikicheck
Validation of article performed by WIKICHECK. February 8, 2006 5:42pm. WikiCheck 22:42, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

Review
There used to be a review-marked as such- in this article. Someone could replace it with a commentary section, but, for now, it's gone. Sean Black 17:37, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Steven Spielberg, producer or not?
This page states that Steven Spielberg produced the film. However, he is not listed under 'producers' in the key. He's only listed under writers. This is confusing. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.175.26.126 (talk • contribs).
 * He was credited as an executive producer, which appears to be the source of the ambiguity. I've removed the "produced by" mention of him in the first sentence. --Mrwojo 20:59, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

Yoshi's Island/Story
I think that the mention of the Goonies in the two Yoshi video games should be removed. It has nothing to do with the film, and are instead references to "Goonie Bird," which is another name for an equatorial albatross, which resembles the seagull.

Main Paragrah
"The film is noteworthy for containing an unusually large number of some of the most easily spotted editing mistakes in cinematic history. Though it is not uncommon for easily missed mistakes to pass into a completed film (only to be spotted later by scrutinous viewers), "The Goonies" contains some blatant editing errors. Many of them are due to major subplots that were filmed but removed. One of the most commonly cited is a reference by the kids to an octopus that was "very scary," a scene that was completely edited out of the finished film. It, with other deleted scenes, was included in the DVD release bonus features."

I dispute this paragraph on two points. First, other than the Octopus Scene, there are no other examples provided. My second point of dispute is with the mention of the Octopus Scene as an editing 'mistake'. The comment that Data makes is 'there was an Octopus' or something to that point. The fact that the Octopus is not actually seen should not be considered an editing mistake as the comment does not create an hole or other inconsistency in the story or plot. An example of an editing mistake, or more appropriately a continuity error, would be a person saying 'We at Burger King' when in fact they obviously ate at McDonalds.

 * I removed the paragraph from the article. It would need to cite sources as well (examples aren't enough, it asserts that it has more mistakes than other films). --Mrwojo 02:29, 17 December 2005 (UTC)

 * Some very interesting spelling errors in the above, especially since the author is attempting to sound like an editing authority. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.123.120.99 (talk) 22:51, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Chunk Addresses Congress
I added that because it's relavent... and very funny.
 * Sorry to revert your change, but YTMNDs are pretty much the definition of non-notable. This has none of the features of a useful external link.  r  speer 01:28, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * For the curious, this is the edit in question and, while it isn't relevant to this article, it's—if anything—even more effective commentary these days than when it was first posted. If someone at the NY Times could pick this up, it might merit inclusion on the US Congress or Government of the United States pages... — Llywelyn II   03:42, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

escapist and misfit
The introduction states it is an 'escapist' film, with 'misfit' kids. However, never is it explained why this label is attached to the movie, and why exactly these children are 'misfit'. This needs to be further explained or deleted. --(comment by User talk:81.70.252.138)

 * I agree. (Don't forget to sign your posts using four tildes ~ .)  --Mrwojo 22:12, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Ataris?
I could've sworn that the album, So Long, Astoria, was actually in reference to Astoria, New York, where the band is from... does anyone know anything to back this up? --Gregoe86 21:59, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm pretty sure it's referring to Astoria, Oregon and The Goonies. Reviewers and others seem to think so too   (fan).  Is the band actually from New York? The Ataris article doesn't mention this.

 * In addition to the title, the song's lyrics mention pirate ships and a map to buried treasure. The last two lines are the most convincing, since they appear to quote Mouth in a rather dramatic moment. --Mrwojo 04:44, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Commentary
At one point in this article, it says Sean Astin has to leave the commentary, which implies he has other thiings to do. At another point, it says he walks because the others were making fun of him. Which is it? Chaz 15:12, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I figure he left because he had other things to do, probably with his family. About 43 minutes into the commentary you can see him hand-sign "I love you" to someone offscreen and he leaves before the next time the cast is shown.  The last paragraph in the Production section seems gossipy.  --Mrwojo 18:18, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

"One-Eyed" Willie
Does this name refer to a part of the male anatomy?

 * Yep. Which bit confused you? --Dudesleeper 20:47, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

Goonies 2 direct to DVD
I'm deleting the new section on the Goonies 2 DVD. All of the rumors can be traced back to, which cites an unnamed source of questionable reliability. I'd love for the movie to be made, but I don't see this as much of an indication that it will be made. Travisl 22:36, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

About Swearing
No offense, but I have reservations about swearing (as for me, I never swear). For this reason, I changed the sentence that addressed it. The point is, they swore numerous times throughout the movie. That's all that really needs to be said where a family film is concerned. Brittany Ka 22:30, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
 * As a European, I feel offended. Swearing is better than guns. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.253.186.62 (talk) 18:51, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
 * Absolutely. If Brittany Ka believes that swearing is something negative instad of it being free speech and should not be displayed in a "family film" (whatever this is supposed to be), she should feel reminded that it is her very own obligation as an adult then to keep her minors away from such, and not the obligation of society. By the way, Brittany Ka has obviously not even noticed the the clearly sexual (oooh!) name of the pirate either. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:C0:DF02:6400:E4B9:48AC:A4DF:C10A (talk) 14:14, 26 November 2020 (UTC)

Chunk's paragraph
Is the paragraph of what Chunk said to the Fratelli brother necessary? Codelyoko193 17:28, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
 * It doesn't appear to be. Go ahead and remove it. Oh, you already have... - Dudesleeper · Talk 19:27, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

Cindi Lauper/Lou Albano
Shouldn't some mention of "girls just wanna have fun" be included? It was an important song, both culturally, and to the movie. Maybe I'll do it... Llamabr 01:00, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
 * The song "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" came out years before this film, was not IN the film, nor on the soundtrack, and thus has nothing to do with the film whatsoever. TheGoonSquad 20:11, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Oh really? So I guess I just imagined the scene with it on the TV, and the fact that it was played afterwards? Wrong. It WAS in the movie! Try watching it again. Draknfyre 13:59, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
 * That's a possibility. ;-) As stated in the article, Lauper is performing "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" on the TV. It also plays when the credits roll. --Mrwojo 19:43, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
 * The song "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" unquestionably does NOT appear in the film "The Goonies". There is a brief segment of the film where the kids are in a room with MTV on and a close up of the TV is shown with Cyndi singing; she is singing the song "The Goonies R' Good Enough". This song permeates the film in several places. She also sings the song "What a Thrill" on the soundtrack. If you would like to specify exactly what scene you think you heard the song "Girls Just Want to Have Fun" playing in the film - describe the scene, or the time code of when the song appears in the film - perhaps I will be proven wrong...(but I won't.) TheGoonSquad 17:29, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry, "That's a possibility." was a flippant reply to his question ("So I guess I just imagined [it]?"). I don't question that it wasn't in the film. --Mrwojo 22:32, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Right. So, does it go in the article? Llamabr (talk) 04:27, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
 * It doesn't. — Llywelyn II   03:35, 23 November 2017 (UTC)

Fratellis
There is a fairly successful British band called the Fratellis. Presumably they are named after the characters in this film. 82.152.206.159 22:01, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
 * Correct. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.216.101.104 (talk) 13:05, 16 June 2012 (UTC)

Jeff Cohen as UC Berkeley student body president
I corrected the portion pertaining to Jeff Cohen serving as UC Berkeley student body president so that it reflects the correct year. I remember this vividly, because Cohen was president during my first year at Berkeley. It was quite impressive meeting him my first day there. :-) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.60.226.88 (talk) 00:40, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Is trivia appropriate on movie pages?
For example, I'd like to start a list of all the foods seen in The Goonies so that fans attending Goonies-related parties can bring foods seen in the film. However, it seems inappropriate to open the floodgates of trivia on the main movie page (though the awesome list of songs inspired by the film gets rather close to this). But is there then a certain kind of page that should be created for movie trivia? Or is Wikipedia not even the right place for that kind of thing? I mean, it sure seems appropriate, since it's the kind of thing a number of people would be able to help add to, but I don't want to mess up any article standardization efforts. Basementwall (talk) 14:44, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
 * No, lists of trivia are generally not appropriate to Wikipedia. See the linked policy. You could conceivably include it if you properly cite the information from a verifiable source other than the film, a source which is not original research on your part. I know of no such sources. I also doubt that such a list would be considered encyclopedic, and is probably an indiscriminate collection of information.  Travisl (talk) 17:11, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
 * A list of all the food seen in the film can in no conceivable way be considered appropriate for Wikipedia. I don't know if there is a Goonies fan wiki out there but that would be the place for it. Mike R (talk) 15:24, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
 * I disagree that explaining the choice of the title is "trivia" -- the following was deleted from the page: "Goonie" is also an old name for the real life bird associated with the north pacific coast and is the subject of a mythical poem, aka the Albatross.

Bloopers
Granted, there were a few details in the "Bloopers" section that can be merged into the article. The majority of it, however, was fancruft. - Dudesleeper / Talk  23:25, 7 October 2008 (UTC)

Plot clean-up
Would anybody be willing to clean up the plot section? It appears to colloquial and like somebody is telling the plot to a friend. However, I don't particularly know how to go about it... Ryoga-2003 (talk) 18:43, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Other characters
I removed the following from the article, and bring it here for discussion:

 * One-Eyed Willy is a background character, never directly appearing on screen. His life takes place before the events of the film and provides the basis for the adventure. He was a pirate from the 17th century who finally hides his treasure near Astoria.
 * One-eyed willie does appear on screen, dead for a whole scene at the table in on the ship. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.248.161.33 (talk) 14:16, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Chester Copperpot is another background character. He is an explorer who tried to find the treasure in the 1930s.

These are not characters. Other than Willy's skeleton, they never appear in the film at all. Even referring to them as "background characters" confuses the issue. A comparable "character" is Abner Ravenwood, from Raiders of the Lost Ark, who is only spoken of, and never appears in the film. Hence, he is not listed as a character in the Raiders article. ---  RepublicanJacobite  The'FortyFive' 18:21, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
 * One-Eyed Willy *is* seen in the film, as a corpse. Chester Copperpot is also seen in the film - he appears in a black-and-white photograph in a framed news paper clipping at the beginning of the film.  This newspaper clipping is discovered in an attic by one of the main characters. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jharrison02 (talk • contribs)

25th Anniversary
In June 2010, the original cast gathered together on a couple of occasions to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the movie. Warner also released a 25th Anniversary Collectors Edition DVD and, I believe, there was some sort of board game released as well. The town of Astoria announced "Official Goonies Day” on June 7, where the town plans to commemorate the release of the film each year. There was also an "unofficial" documentary on the movie released in June..... there have been plenty of new items not listed in this article. Jhazon (talk) 02:30, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
 * This would seem notable enough to merit inclusion...-if- there's reliable sourcing. Doniago (talk) 15:32, 9 November 2010 (UTC)

Truffle Shuffle
I got redirected here (main page) looking for the Truffle Shuffle but there is no mention of it. As this seems to have a 'revival' on the net I think it is worth mentioning.--94.212.169.79 (talk) 08:09, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I believe my comment above regarding reliable sourcing applies here as well. Doniago (talk) 17:50, 1 February 2011 (UTC)

 * If it's not sourceable then the redirect ought to be removed: it's useless without a mention in the article. 86.136.110.44 (talk) 20:39, 13 June 2014 (UTC)

 * You're welcome to nominate it at WP:RFD. DonIago (talk) 14:06, 16 June 2014 (UTC)

Spanish dubbing
In the Spanish dubbing, the Spanish-language lines (with Rosalita and the old map) are substituted with Italian (She becomes "Rosanna"). --Error (talk) 23:47, 2 October 2011 (UTC)
 * Sounds like WP:TRIVIA to me. Doniago (talk) 15:06, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

A convenience store?
I am unsure about the line in the article talking about the boys in the convenience store nearly getting into a fight with Troy before Brand shows up. This is not in the DVD release of the movie and the plot hole this would create - the boys flee from Brand in the house, get saved by him in the convenience store, and then escaping him again to go to the beach - doesn't seem consistent with the rest of the story.

Was this bit in the theatrical release or can we clean up the plot synopsis? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.172.2.212 (talk) 18:30, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

 * It was a deleted scene, and I believe it would've occurred before they fled Brand. I've removed it from the plot synopsis (it's still mentioned as one of the deleted scenes under the DVD section). —Mrwojo (talk) 19:05, 26 February 2012 (UTC)

Not enjoyable by adults
While many adults and parents found this movie funny or enjoyable, there is also quite a lot of adults who found this movie not enjoyable, and I am such a person. I think this deserves a section. I personally would have found this movie 'overall funny with scary moments' if I was a kid, but as an adult now I no longer appreciate this movie, especially the references to drugs and the scary disfigured looks of Sloth, for only these two reasons I discarded my VHS tape in the trash. I trashed my version also simply for the improper rating, for the MPAA abuse. Due to lower PG rating a lot of parents show this to their kids or ados, then realize their mistake. Imagine a 3 year old kid seeing the face of sloth when a year ago he was watching baby Einstein, totally not appropriate, it does not make it OK to show a monstruous face to kids by just affixing the label 'PG' on a tape. It should definitely be PG13 not PG. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.105.246.2 (talk) 04:20, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
 * We would need sources to support this view, otherwise it is just original research and personal opinion. --M ASEM (t) 04:29, 9 September 2012 (UTC)

References in popular cultures
The episode The Belchies of Bob's Burgers is inspired by this movie. There are several references to the movie in episodes of Family Guy  --Ochrid (talk) 17:18, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

Sloth: Goonie or Fratelli?
While Sloth is a member of the Fratelli family, I believe that he managed to become part of the Goonies by the end of the movie. If Andy and Stef, who are not even residents of the Goon Docks, are listed on the Goonies Cast List, I believe Sloth has earned his right to be moved out of the criminal organization of the Fratelli's Cast List and into the hero's spot. Matt.coelho (talk) 19:10, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
 * This appears to have been resolved through having the subheadings removed. I didn't do it, but I might have if left to my own devices. DonIago (talk) 21:16, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

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Classical music in the opening scenes?
I couldn't figure out where the classical music in the opening scenes come from ... Can someone help out on that? Thanks! --2003:E3:D70F:A200:DC71:9EAD:4734:F1A (talk) 10:57, 14 September 2019 (UTC)
 * Can you be more specific as to which scenes? If you mean the car chase and all, that's not classical music; it's part of the film's score. DonIago (talk) 14:12, 16 September 2019 (UTC)

Cult Film?
The Goonies was a very successful, and popular film when it came out. And continues to be well known and a mainstream property. It does not seem to fit the definition of cult film given in the wiki page Cult Film. --SJCreecy (talk) 17:18, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Anything with a dedicated fanbase eventually gets called "cult" by some source somewhere. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 05:53, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

The Walsh's House
The house in Astoria continues to be a private property. However while the interior of the house itself is off-limits (as a residence), and cars are not allowed up the drive to the house, the residents expect and even welcome fans of the movie to walk up the drive and take pictures of the house. (There's even a neat donation box, complete with Venmo link, for upkeep of the house.) The article merely mentions that the house is not included on tours--should the aforementioned details be added? Oregonianne (talk) 07:10, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

 * Have they been discussed by a reliable source? DonIago (talk) 13:18, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
 * As of January 2023, the house has now been acquired by a fan who plans to renovate the house as faithfully as he can to the original set. https://www.koin.com/local/oregon-coast/new-goonies-house-owner-this-was-a-purchase-to-preserve-a-landmark/ Now to figure out how to get it into the article.. -- Tytrox (talk) 05:05, 28 January 2023 (UTC)

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Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man

Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man is a 1991 American neo-Western biker film starring Mickey Rourke and Don Johnson, with a supporting cast including Chelsea Field, Tom Sizemore, Daniel Baldwin, Giancarlo Esposito, and Vanessa Williams who also contributes to the film's soundtrack. It is directed by Simon Wincer from a screenplay by Don Michael Paul.

The film was a critical and financial failure, grossing $7 million at the domestic box office, against an estimated budget of $23 million.

Plot
In the near future, a man called Harley Davidson travels from Texas to Burbank, California to reconnect with his old friend Robert Lee "Marlboro Man" Edison at their old haunt; Rock N' Roll Bar & Grille. Their mutual friend Jack Daniels holds animosity towards Harley over an affair he and his now-wife Lulu had years prior. The bar has fallen on hard times, and the Great Trust bank has threatened foreclosure, planning to demolish the building to make way for a skyscraper. Harley and Robert convince Jack to help them rob one of the Bank's armored cars in order to collect the funds necessary to renew the building's lease. The robbery mostly goes off without a hitch, but the trio are intercepted by a group of security agents who almost foil their getaway. Upon escaping, they discover the loot they stole from the van contains not money, but a new, experimental street drug called "Crystal Dream."

The bank's head of security Alexander is ordered by CEO Chance Wilder to recover the stolen drugs and kill the thieves. Meanwhile, Robert is pulled over for speeding by a motorcycle cop, his ex-lover Virginia Slim. The two spend the night together, during which Robert learns that she's engaged. Harley takes Virginia to breakfast the next morning, during which she tells him that Crystal Dream is 100% addictive and causes lasting neurological damage and, eventually, death. Robert, fuming about Virginia's upcoming marriage, steals her fiancé's motorcycle. He and Harley go to the bank's headquarters and talk to Wilder via telephone. They demand $2.5 million in exchange for the drugs. Wilder agrees to have someone meet them that night in the airplane graveyard for the exchange. Alexander shows up with the money and the transfer goes off without any problems. That night, while they hang out in the bar's back room celebrating, Marlboro is suspicious of the ease of the exchange. Suddenly, Alexander and his men show up. Watching through a one-way mirror, the owner tries to convince them that the gang isn't there. Alexander appears to walk away as if to leave and suddenly turns around and shoots him. They open fire on the room behind the mirror; Harley and Marlboro are the only ones who escape alive as the others are cut down in brutal fashion.

The two retreat to the nearby airport and hide in the baggage compartment of a plane. One of the agents nearly finds them but they escape to Las Vegas, where they check into a hotel, only to be tracked down by Alexander. The two escape to the hotel's roof and jump off into the swimming pool. Harley finds out that they've been tracked with a device hidden in the dollar coin given to them by Alexander. The two hop a freight train headed east after deactivating the tracker, but Marlboro leaves after telling Harley that they owe it to the dead friends that helped them to go back to LA and settle things. Harley refuses to go and Marlboro jumps off the train. Harley has a change of heart, and catches up with Marlboro and they form a plan to meet with Alexander, reactivating the tracker in the coin. Alexander traces them to the airplane graveyard, finding the briefcase that contained the money but only finding the dollar coin inside. However, he sights Harley and Marlboro nearby and a gunfight ensues. Marlboro is able to kill both of Alexander's two remaining men, however, Alexander catches Marlboro and holds him hostage. Harley tries to shoot Alexander and misses, hitting Marlboro. Harley finally summons up the aim to hit Alexander and the two finally manage to kill him.

The duo bribe Alexander's helicopter pilot into taking them to Wilder's office. They give Wilder his money back and demand he change the lease on the bar. Wilder is unwilling to do so and orders his men to kill them when the pilot, paid off by Harley and Marlboro, appears hovering in his chopper outside. He opens fire on the office with the chopper's cannon, killing Wilder's thugs. Wilder insults Marlboro's dead father; Marlboro begins to beat him up until Wilder dangles out the window of his office, holding onto Marlboro's disintegrating cowboy boot. Harley helps him out, the boot comes apart and Wilder falls to his death.

Marlboro and Harley part ways at a rodeo, where Marlboro is riding a bull. As Harley rides away, he picks up a beautiful female hitchhiker.

Soundtrack
Other songs in the film, but not included on the soundtrack are "Stop the World" by The Screaming Jets, "Wanted Dead or Alive" by Bon Jovi, and "Work to Do" and "The Better Part of Me" by Vanessa Williams.

Reception
Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 29% of 21 surveyed critics gave it a positive review; the average rating was 4.5/10. Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times called it "a mindless cobbling from countless buddy movies". Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly rated it C+ and called it "a kinetic formula shoot-'em-up" that is "engagingly junky entertainment with a healthy sense of its own ludicrousness." Variety called it "a dopey, almost poignantly bad actioner about two legends-in-their-own-minds". Vincent Canby of The New York Times wrote, "Mr. Rourke and Mr. Johnson handle their roles with more ease and humor than can be accommodated by a movie so stuffed with mindless fistfights, gunfights, helicopter chases, explosions and leaps from tall buildings." Time Out London called it "utter rubbish, and badly dressed at that." Kim Newman of Empire wrote, "For a while, its crassness is amusing, but as the plot sets in, it gradually turns into a stultifying bore." Johnson and Rourke have spoken negatively of the film. Rourke cited the film as the beginning of his decline in mainstream Hollywood. Johnson, while promoting the film, gave a tongue-in-cheek interview where he was quoted as saying “If you're a fan of mindless action, if you don’t have a single brain cell in your head, this is the film for you.”

Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film a grade of "B" on scale of A+ to F.

The film was nominated for Worst Picture at the 1991 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards.

Home media
Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man was released to DVD by MGM Home Entertainment on February 20, 2001, and on Blu-Ray by Shout! Factory (under license from MGM) on May 19, 2015.

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Pero de Alenquer

Pero de Alenquer was a 15th-century Portuguese explorer of the African coast. He was born in Alenquer and accompanied Bartolomeu Dias on his journey around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487 and 1488. Alenquer was the pilot of Vasco da Gama's flagship on the latter's first voyage to India.

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João Infante

João Infante (fl. 15th century) was a Portuguese explorer of the African coast. He accompanied Bartolomeu Dias in his journey around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487/1488 by leading a second caravel, the São Pantaleão (named after Saint Pantaleon).

Some places in South Africa are or were named after him:
 * The Rio do Infante, now the Great Fish River, Eastern Cape
 * Cape Infanta, Western Cape
 * Infanta, Western Cape: a small settlement

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João Grego

João Grego (15th century) was a Portuguese explorer of the African coast. He accompanied Bartolomeu Dias in his journey around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487–88.

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Stealing Harvard

Stealing Harvard is a 2002 American slapstick action comedy film directed by Bruce McCulloch and written by Martin Hynes and Peter Tolan, about a man who resorts to crime to pay for his niece's Harvard tuition. The film stars Jason Lee and Tom Green with Leslie Mann, Dennis Farina, Richard Jenkins, John C. McGinley, Tammy Blanchard, and Megan Mullally. It was released on September 13, 2002 by Sony Pictures Releasing under their Columbia Pictures label. Film critic reviews were generally negative.

Plot
John Plummer is engaged to Elaine Warner and intends to use their life savings of $30,000 to put a down payment on a house. He works for Elaine's father, Mr. Warner, who dislikes John.

Simultaneously, John's niece Noreen, daughter of sister Patty, is accepted to Harvard University, but needs an additional $30,000 on top of her grants and scholarships. Noreen shows John an old videotape where he promised to pay for Noreen's college. He now has a moral and financial dilemma – disappoint his fiancée or disappoint his niece and ruin her chance at escaping poverty.

John confides in his friend Walter "Duff" Duffy, a landscaper. He convinces John to steal from one of his rich clients, who keeps large amounts of cash in an unlocked safe. The pair set off to steal the cash, but Duff runs away when lights come on in the home, leaving John to get caught by Emmett Cook.

At gunpoint, Cook forces John to cross-dress and role-play the part of Cook's late wife as the two men lie in bed and "spoon". Eventually, after taking an incriminating photograph of John, Cook releases him. As he is leaving, Mr. Warner rides by and takes note of John's panicked behavior, believing that he has caught John in an affair.

Further capers ensue as John and Duff try to rob a liquor store and later attempt to con a drug lord out of $30,000 by concocting a phony story about running an ecstasy ring. A police detective is on to John and Duff, but never has enough evidence to actually pin any of the crimes on them.

Meanwhile, Mr. Warner breaks into Cook's residence in order to get evidence against John, and when Cook catches him, he is forced to "spoon" as well. Despite this, Warner finds a common ground with him as he is also widower though he doesn’t agree with Cook’s method of coping. Before leaving, Warner finds the photo of John from the album, which he then gives to Elaine.

John is forced to confess everything to Elaine, who is not upset but admires the lengths he was willing to go to in order to please her and send his niece to Harvard. She then confides in him that her father keeps a great deal of money at his business, and that it would be easy for them to steal it.

John, Elaine, and Duff set out to rob the business in the night. Unfortunately, Mr. Warner had hid his dog Rex inside the vault. Rex latches on to Duff’s crotch, and oddly, enjoys it so much that he doesn’t let go. Just as John and Elaine find the money, Mr. Warner tries to attack them but he is caught by the detective who mistakes him for a burglar.

While Duff is relentlessly pursued by Rex, John and Elaine escape to Duff's van. The police arrive and the gang unsuccessfully tries to get away. They are all taken into custody by the detective and face a series of charges. John feels doomed, until the judge in charge of his arraignment turns out to be the gun-toting Emmett Cook.

Upon their mutual recognition, John flashes a written message to Cook, threatening to expose the judge's fetish; upon reading the note, he quickly dismisses all charges against John. Finally, Duff comes through as best he can and gives John his life savings of $1,000. John uses it to bet on a long-shot horse, which wins and pays out 30 to 1.

John and Elaine are married, Noreen goes off to college, and, in the final scene, John is left to ponder how Duff could possibly accumulate $1,000. The last scene shows Duff offering to "spoon" with Cook for $1,000.

Cast

 * Jason Lee as John Plummer
 * Tom Green as Walter "Duff" Duffy
 * Leslie Mann as Elaine Warner
 * Dennis Farina as Mr. Warner
 * Richard Jenkins as Honorable Judge Emmett Cook ( credited as Mr. Cook )
 * John C. McGinley as Detective Charles
 * Tammy Blanchard as Noreen Plummer
 * Megan Mullally as Patty Plummer
 * Zeus as Rex the Dog
 * Chris Penn as David Loach
 * Seymour Cassel as Uncle Jack
 * Ken Magee as Butcher
 * Martin Starr as Liquor Store Kid
 * Mary Gillis as Duff's mother
 * Bruce McCulloch as Fidio the Lawyer

Reception
Stealing Harvard received negative reviews from critics. It currently holds a 9% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 105 reviews with the consensus: "There are laughs Stealing Harvard, but they are few and far between. Tom Green's antics grow old fast."

Box office
Released September 13, 2002 the film grossed US$14,036,406 at the U.S. box office.

Accolades
Tom Green was nominated for Worst Supporting Actor in the 2002 Golden Raspberry Awards. Green also won Worst Actor at the 2002 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards.

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Álvaro Martins

Álvaro Martins, also known as Álvaro Martins Homem, was a 15th-century Portuguese explorer alleged to have explored the western Atlantic and later the African coast. He is claimed to have accompanied João Vaz Corte-Real on an undocumented expedition to Terra Nova do Bacalhau (literally, "New Land of the Codfish") in the early 1470s, by Gaspar Frutuoso in his 1570s book Saudades da Terra.

It is known that Álvaro Martins was granted the captaincy of Praia, in the Portuguese archipelago of the Azores, on 17 February 1474 for his services to Infante Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu, an office he held for some years. It was following the disappearance of Jacome de Bruges that the King divided the island between Angra and Praia, granting Praia to Álvaro Martins, while João Vaz Corte-Real obtained the Captaincy of Angra. Álvaro Martins and his son (Antão) were responsible for the fortifications, and the development of agriculture and commerce in northern Terceira.

He is also said to have accompanied Bartolomeu Dias on his journey around the Cape of Good Hope from 1487 to 1488.

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Pero Dias

Pero Dias (fl. 15th century) was a Portuguese explorer of the African coast. He accompanied his brothers Bartolomeu Dias and Diogo Dias on their journey around the Cape of Good Hope in 1487/1488, having commanded the supply with his brother Diogo. His voyage's original goal, however was only to reach the Cape of Good Hope as opposed to round it; however, when his ship was caught in a storm, they were blown around the Cape to the east side of Africa. Feeling they had already gone far enough, they returned to Europe.

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Chief executive (disambiguation)

Chief executive is an alternate form for chief executive officer, the highest-ranking corporate officers (executives) or administrators.

Chief executive may also refer to:
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Miss Julie (Rorem opera)

Miss Julie is an opera by Ned Rorem to an English libretto by Kenward Elmslie, based on the play, Miss Julie (1888), by Swedish playwright August Strindberg. It explores the subject of the intersection of social class and illicit sexual relations in late 19th-century Sweden.

Performance history
The opera was commissioned by the New York City Opera, and had its first performance there on 4 November 1965, in its original two-hour, two-act version. The production was conducted by Robert Zeller and directed by Nikos Psacharopoulos, with scenic and lighting design by Will Steven Armstrong, costume design by Patton Campbell, and choreography by Thomas Andrew. The opera was not a critical success.

Rorem revised the score and shortened it to a single act in 1978; this version lasts 90 minutes and was first performed that same year by the New York Lyric Opera. The one-act version underwent further slight revisions and was produced again in 1994 by the Manhattan School of Music Opera Theatre. This version was praised by James Oestreich, music critic of The New York Times, as "taut and persuasive musical drama". It was recorded and released on the Newport Classic label. Another recording, of a production on 7 November 2003 by the Curtis Opera Theatre, has been released on Albany Records.

Instrumentation
The orchestra consists of: 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 3 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, timpani, 2 additional percussion players (xylophone, slapstick, gong, triangle, vibraphone, tambourine, cymbals, tenor drum, glockenspiel, castanets, chimes, suspended cymbal, bongos), guitar, harp, strings.

Synopsis

 * Place: the servants' quarters of a country estate in Sweden.
 * Time: a Midsummer Eve celebration in the 1880s.

Miss Julie, the jaded daughter of the Count, orders her fiancé Niels to kiss her boot. He breaks off their engagement in disgust. Later that evening John, the valet, and his fiancée Christine, the cook, sit with Miss Julie. She flirts with John, who eventually admits he has loved her since boyhood. On the following day John and Miss Julie discuss how they will spend their lives together, and John expresses his desire to go to Lake Como to make his living running a hotel. When Miss Julie admits she has no money of her own to finance such an undertaking, John demands she somehow find some, so Miss Julie steals money from the Count. Meanwhile, Christine discovers John's intentions and threatens to quit her job with the Count. The lovers prepare to escape, but Miss Julie demands to take her canary with her. Angered, John kills the bird. She grabs his razor and threatens to slit her wrists, and he suggests she go ahead and do it. The Count rings for John, and he leaves, as Julie goes slowly into the garden and follows his suggestion.

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Serodino

Serodino is a town (comuna) in the. It is located in the Iriondo Department, 152 km away from the provincial capital (Santa Fe) and 59 km away to Rosario. At the it had a population of 3,375 (2,969 in urban areas).

The economy of the region is based on soybean, corn and wheat produce, and on cattle raising.

The town was founded on December 5, 1885, by Pedro Serodino, who sold the Central Argentino railway company the tract of land where the train station was raised, and built the first house in town (his own).

Serodino is the hometown of Argentine novelist Juan José Saer. On March 19, the festivity of San José is observed.

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Paulo Dias de Novais

Paulo Dias de Novais (c. 1510 – 9 May 1589), a fidalgo of the Royal Household, was a Portuguese colonizer of Africa in the 16th century and the first Captain-Governor of Portuguese Angola. He was the grandson of the explorer Bartolomeu Dias.

Dias arrived in what is now Angola on 11 February 1575. Attracted by the prospect of the famous silver mines of Cambambe, he founded the settlement of São Paulo de Luanda, near the island of Luanda. He became the first governor of Angola on 19 September 1575.

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Articles relating to Bigfoot (Sasquatch), a large and hairy human-like mythical creature alleged by some to inhabit forests in North America, particularly in the Pacific Northwest. Bigfoot is featured in both American and Canadian folklore, and since the mid-20th century has grown into a cultural icon, permeating popular culture and becoming the subject of its own distinct subculture. Folklorists trace the phenomenon of Bigfoot to a combination of factors and sources, including the European wild man figure, folk tales, and indigenous cultures.

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Veleka Gray

Veleka Gray (born March 22, 1951), sometimes credited as Velekka Gray, is an American actress, best known for her roles as department store executive Vicki Paisley Cannell on Somerset, and as Mia Marriott on Love of Life from 1977 to 1980.

Life and career
Gray was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana.

In 1970, she landed her first soap role, replacing Donna Mills in the role of Laura Donnelly Elliott on Love is a Many Splendored Thing. In 1974 she was cast as vixen Susan Pritchett on How To Survive A Marriage.

In 1975 Gray joined the cast of Somerset as Victoria Paisley. Her screen partner in that role was Joel Crothers, who played Julian Cannell. Gray and Crothers were engaged to be married when he died in 1985.

In 1977, she was cast in the role of Mia Marriott on Love of Life. In April 1980, she originated the role of nurse Lyla Montgomery on As the World Turns.

In February 1983, Gray appeared on The Young and the Restless as sassy hotel manicurist Ruby Collins. Two months later, in April, she began a contract role as a different character in the same series, Dr. Sharon Reaves, Patty Williams' demure and earnest psychiatrist. This dual role made her the only actor in soap history to play two roles simultaneously on the same series that were neither related nor lookalikes.

Back in New York City in 1986, Gray became a regular cast member of the "CBS Radio Mystery Show" for Himan Brown.

Gray has taught acting, speech and business classes and worked with prisoners on public speaking skills.

Her recent work includes commercials and voice work.

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Department of Health (New Brunswick)

The Department of Health is a part of the Government of New Brunswick. It is charged with administration and delivery of public healthcare in New Brunswick.

History
The department was first established in 1918 as the Department of Health and Labour and gradually grew in importance, splitting in two in 1944 with one section becoming the Department of Health. It began to grow rapidly in the 1960s when Premier Louis Robichaud's equal opportunity program consolidated jurisdiction for health with the province as opposed to local governments and also with the introduction of public medicine in the same decade.

The department eventually came to be named the Department of Health and Community Services as it gained responsibility for new programs such as long-term care in nursing homes, local psychological services and so on. On March 23, 2000 when Premier Bernard Lord restructured the New Brunswick Cabinet. He split the department with the health delivery sections of the department becoming the Department of Health and Wellness, while the long-term care and community psychological services joined with other branches of government to form the Department of Family and Community Services. "Wellness" was included in the name of the new department to draw focus to that relatively new paradigm on which the government intended to focus. On February 14, 2006, it was again split with the Wellness promotion aspects being joined with the Culture and Sport Secretariat to form the new Department of Wellness, Culture and Sport.

Health authorities
The Department of Health funds two health authorities to deliver operational medical services in the province:

 * Horizon Health Network
 * Vitalité Health Network

Ministers
1 Furlong was Minister of Health and Community Services until March 23, 2000 after which he was Minister of Health and Wellness.

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Jessica Drake

Jessica Drake is an American pornographic actress and sex educator.

Career
Drake spent two years as a contract performer for the studio Sin City until May 31, 2002, when her contract expired. She gained her first AVN Award in 2001, winning "Best Tease Performance" for her role in VCA Pictures' Shayla's Web. In 2003, she signed an exclusive contract with Wicked Pictures.

In 2004, during an HIV outbreak in the industry, she stated that she had only performed with men who wore condoms, although she added that "working without condoms in the industry is less dangerous than going home with someone who you just met randomly in a bar."

Her performance in Fluff and Fold, a romantic comedy set around a laundromat, earned her the 2005 AVN Award for Best Actress, Video and the 2005 XRCO Award for Single Performance, Actress. Along with comedian Jim Norton, Drake was chosen to co-host the 2007 AVN Awards, and stated "this is probably the greatest thing that ever happened to me." At the awards, she won Best Actress, Film for her role in Manhunters, for which Drake trained as a bounty hunter during pre-production. Her directorial debut came in the 2008 film What Girls Like, having gained previous experience working as Brad Armstrong’s assistant director on titles such as 2007's Coming Home.

She began writing screenplays during her tenure with Sin City, and has since penned films including Dating 101, Love Always and Just Between Us. In January 2009, she won her third Best Actress AVN Award, this time for her performance in Fallen, which she has described as "the best movie I have ever been in." In the film, she plays an angel trapped on Earth after the death of a woman she was sent to protect. Around the time of the awards, she suffered a stress fracture to her left foot.

With porn actress Kayden Kross, Drake co-hosted the 2009 XRCO Awards, at which her role in Fallen won the award for "Single Performance, Actress." She and Sunny Leone co-hosted the F.A.M.E. Awards in July 2010. Drake was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame in 2010 and the XRCO Hall of Fame in 2011. Jessica Drake's Guide to Wicked Sex: Anal Edition (Wicked Pictures) was named "Specialty Release of the Year" at the 2012 XBIZ Awards.

On October 21, 2016, Drake opened an online store selling adult videos and sexual paraphernalia.

Appearances
In November 2007, Drake was among several porn actors to be guests on The Tyra Banks Show episode, "A Day in the Life of a Porn Star." In 2008, Drake, Kaylani Lei, and Mikayla Mendez shot a scene for the mainstream comedy movie, Barry Munday, in which they played themselves as judges in an air-guitar contest. Drake appears in the music video for the 2010 single "Telephone" by Lady Gaga featuring Beyoncé.

In 2014, Drake was on CNBC's list of "The Dirty Dozen: Porn's Most Popular Stars". Later in the year a documentary series began airing on The Movie Network and Movie Central titled Love, Jessica, directed by Kai Soremekun.

Drake, along with her then husband, actor and director, Brad Armstrong, were interviewed for a 2014 story in Cosmopolitan magazine about costume design in adult films. In April 2014, Drake was part of discussion panel at the USC School of Cinematic Arts titled "The Piracy of Sex." The event featured Drake and copyright enforcement activist Nate Glass and was hosted by David Lerner.

Charity
Drake is affiliated with an organization that focuses on building homes and providing clean water to people in poverty-stricken and remote areas. She has performed charity work in Cambodia, Kenya and Tanzania. In 2012, Drake formed a 501(c)(3) non-profit to assist in domestic efforts. This is separate from her role in the adult industry and the "jessica drake" brand, since she does not want anyone to believe that she volunteers her time as part of a public relations campaign. Her charity work is done anonymously.

Sex educator
Noting a demand for modern sex education, Drake and Wicked Pictures launched Jessica Drake’s Guide to Wicked Sex, a series of erotic educational films. The first DVD in the line, Jessica Drake’s Guide to Wicked Sex: Fellatio, was honored with the 2012 award for Best Educational Release by AVN Media. In 2014 Drake added a video to the series that addressed a segment that she said was under represented, plus size. In collaboration with plus-size performer Kelly Shibari, they released Jessica Drake’s Guide to Wicked Sex: Plus Size. "Guide to Wicked Sex" was also a weekly segment on Jessica's popular Playboy Radio show, IN BED with jessica drake.

Drake teaches sex education seminars and workshops around the world, including addressing a class of licensed therapists at UCLA on May 3, 2012 and speaking on a panel at CatalystCon West sexuality conference. In February 2014, Drake spoke on a panel with fellow actress Tasha Reign during the University of Chicago's Sex Week where they were featured on a panel entitled Jessica Drake: From Porn to Sex Ed.

Again in February, Drake along with Reign spoke on a panel titled Porn, Prostitution, and Censorship: The Politics of Empowerment at Moore Hall at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), along with UCLA Distinguished Lecturer Dr. Christopher Mott. The annual panel is sponsored by the Social Awareness Network for Activism through Art (SANAA) in honor of Eve Ensler’s V-Day Organization. Ensler’s The Vagina Monologues is an annual presentation on women’s issues.

Sexual misconduct allegations against Donald Trump
Seventeen days before the 2016 United States presidential election, Drake became the 11th woman to accuse Donald Trump, the 2016 Republican nominee, of sexual misconduct. On October 22, 2016, Drake and feminist civil rights attorney Gloria Allred held a news conference in which Drake accused Trump of having sexually assaulted her and two acquaintances nearly ten years prior. Drake said that she met Trump at the Wicked Pictures' (her employers') booth in a gifting suite during the American Century Celebrity Golf Tournament,    a charity golf tournament at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course Lake Tahoe in 2006. Drake claims that she was invited to meet with Trump, at his hotel suite and since she was "uncomfortable going alone" she brought along two women friends. Describing the meeting with Trump, Drake recounted that "He grabbed each of us tightly, in a hug and kissed each one of us without asking permission." Drake stated that she and her friends left the suite after 30–45 minutes. Shortly thereafter, Drake received multiple phone calls from Trump or his associate, requesting that she join him in his suite for $10,000, and offering to fly her on his jet plane back to Los Angeles. She said she declined his offers. At the press conference, Drake displayed a photo of herself and Trump together on the Lake Tahoe golf course.

During the news conference, Drake said, "I am not looking for monetary compensation. I do not need additional fame [...] I understand that I may be called a liar or an opportunist but I will risk that in order to stand in solidarity with women who share similar accounts." In response to Drake's allegations, the Trump campaign stated that her story is "false and ridiculous", that "[t]he picture is one of thousands taken out of respect for people asking to have their picture taken with Mr. Trump" but Trump did not know Drake and "would have no interest in ever knowing her," and that the story was "just another attempt by the Clinton campaign to defame a candidate".

In January 2018, Drake's publicist, Josh Ortiz, commented that Drake had signed a non-disclosure agreement regarding "any and every mention of Trump". On the following day, Ortiz however retracted his words by reading a statement supplied by Drake's lawyer, which stated that Ortiz had no knowledge of any non-disclosure agreement signed by Drake.

Personal life
In 2002, Drake married fellow pornographic actor Evan Stone, after which she was living with Wicked director and performer Brad Armstrong, her partner for over a decade. In 2021, she mentioned in a Twitter Q&A session that she and Armstrong had separated and were single again. She has said that her brother and father were more supportive of her career choice than her mother.

Awards
• 2001 AVN Award – Best Tease Performance – Shayla's Web

• 2002 NightMoves Award – Best Actress (Editor's Choice)

• 2005 AVN Award – Best Oral Sex Scene, Film – The Collector

• 2005 AVN Award – Best Actress, Video – Fluff and Fold

• 2005 XRCO Award – Single Performance, Actress – Fluff and Fold

• 2006 Temptation Award – Best Actress, Video – Curse Eternal

• 2006 Eroticline Award – Best Actress, USA

• 2007 AVN Award – Best Actress, Film – Manhunters

• 2007 AVN Award – Best All-Girl Scene, Film – FUCK

• 2008 Eroticline Award – Award for Outstanding Achievements

• 2009 AVN Award – Best Actress – Fallen

• 2009 AVN Award – Best Double Penetration Sex Scene – Fallen

• 2009 XRCO Award – Single Performance, Actress – Fallen

• 2009 NightMoves Award – Best Female Performer (Editor's Choice)

• 2009 NightMoves Hall of Fame

• 2010 NightMoves Triple Play Award (Dancing/Performing/Directing)

• 2010 AVN Award – Best Group Sex Scene – 2040

• 2010 AVN Hall of Fame

• 2011 XRCO Hall of Fame

• 2013 Sex Award – Porn’s Perfect Girl/Girl Screen Couple (with Asa Akira)

• 2014 AVN Award – Best Safe Sex Scene – Sexpionage: The Drake Chronicles

• 2015 XBIZ Award – Best Actress - Parody Release – Snow White XXX: An Axel Braun Parody

• 2015 Feminist Porn Award – Smutty School Teacher Award for Sex Education – Jessica Drake’s Guide to Wicked Sex: Plus Size

• 2016 AVN Award – Mainstream Star of the Year

• 2016 XRCO Award – Mainstream Adult Media Favorite

• 2017 XBIZ Award – Sexpert of the Year

• 2018 XBIZ Award – Best Sex Scene, Feature Release – An Inconvenient Mistress

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Talk:Richard Bach

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 * I removed the bizarre "low importance" tag. R. Bach is, what, one of the top 20 biggest-selling authors of all time. 81.149.36.207 (talk) 19:21, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

This page needs to be fixed up. I don't have enough experience to know how to wikify it, but I will try. It seems to me that the quotes belong in a Wikiquote instead. Any suggestions out there appreciated. KarateLadyKarateLady 15:26, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

removed quote section
I removed the quotes section since the quotes are listed in Wikiquote.

wikify added
I've added the wikify tag. I'm a new user so if this is an error...somebody please remove it.

WP:BLP
As a reminder, it is important to keep unreferenced, or poorly referenced, opinion and personal information out of this article, per Biographies of living people. I'm going to keep an eye on this article, but it would be best if editors here help out by demanding reliable sources for new additions. Jkelly 20:27, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

 * Speaking of which, the information at IMdB is apparantly wrong. There has not been any divorce.Allmovie.com, for instance gets this correct.  Jkelly 17:47, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Right, and how old is that information? Have you followed Bach's work? As I understand (and forgive me if I'm wrong as I haven't read anything of his since One), Out Of My Mind was post-Leslie and partly about his new flame; I forget her name. And I remember reading on his web site (since removed) about how he got a bunch of hate mail after going on about how Leslie was his forever soulmate, then they ended up getting divorced. There was a pretty big controversy at the time, as evidenced by a thousand or so Google hits; I'm not sure why you're so convinced they're still married. I'm also not sure what makes Allmovie.com a more reliable source than IMDb--certainly it's not exactly admissible as evidence in court, but I've seen very little on there that's flat-out wrong, as you're implying the divorce is.

 * And speaking of court documents, I just found one (see the top of page 10, c-02-01-002) that references their divorce (in 1999, not 1997 as IMDb claims). Is that a more reliable source? Peter 20:16, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

 * That certainly seems to me a more reliable source than either IMdB or Allmovie.com, if a somewhat odd thing for us to be citing. IMdB is really just a terrible source; we shouldn't be using it any more than we should use an unreferenced statement from a different Wikipedia article.  I'm by no means invested in the accuracy or completeness of Allmovie.com, but it at least has an editorial process.  Jkelly 20:26, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Right, I'll put it back in, then, and update the date and reference accordingly. As for IMDb, I assume you mean its bio information, as opposed to actors/titles/roles/etc., which seem entirely accurate. The bio information does indeed seem a little sketchy sometimes, like quoting Celebrity Sleuth for actresses' measurements, and "Who Are They Dating Now" gossip. Peter 20:38, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

 * Yes, I meant their bio information. Jkelly 20:43, 15 March 2007 (UTC)

Illusions
This was commented out from the main article. I checked, and as I also find no evidence of the Illusions movie, I deleted it from the article. VikÞor |  Talk 05:48, 8 July 2007 (UTC)

Commented out; it's silly to have out-of-date movie info and then say it's out of date in the next sentence. If this isn't updated with current info, this whole block should be deleted.

One of Bach's most popular and inspiring works, Illusions is now in the movie-production phase (2006). The film is being directed by French filmmaker Yann Samuell. As of January 2007 there is no indication that "Illusions" is being made into a movie on Internet Movie Database either under the listing for Richard Bach or Yann Samuell.

HondaJet
Richard should be HondaJet's spokesman and celebrity pilot so he can gracefully live down that 'prediction' from "One:" "Honda does not even make jets, never have never will." Maybe that was what got them going! MWS (talk) 22:27, 31 December 2016 (UTC)

File:Richard-bah-07.jpg Nominated for Deletion
CONFUSED -- he is listed as died on August 31, 2012 but the article says he was injured. — Preceding unsigned

Thank you for removing his DOD.

R. Bach a direct descendant of J. S. Bach?
The article states that Richard Bach claims he is a direct descendant of Johann Sebastian Bach. What is the source for that, please? According to the book The Encyclopedia of Useless Information, by William Hartston, J. S. Bach’s last direct descendant was his grandson Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach who died December 25, 1845 at age 86. Although I would hardly call this book a definitive source, it does make me wonder about this alleged claim by Richard Bach.

If it can be documented that R. Bach ever made such a claim, then it should be noted in the article that the claim is not true for factual reasons if that should be the case. Does anyone have other sources showing this claim is false? Does anyone have documentation that Richard Bach ever made such a claim? On the latter point, if not then the claim should be removed from the article. On the former point, if so then it should be noted that the claim is incorrect and that Bach is not a direct descendant of J. S. Bach at all. HistoryBuff14 (talk) 16:15, 3 July 2013 (UTC)

 * In The Bridge Across Forever, chapter 20, Leslie Parrish refers to J. S. Bach as "your great-granddaddy," and Richard -- in his narrator's voice, not directly to Leslie -- calls him Granddaddy. I took that as probably a play on the identical name and did not assume there was necessarily an actual relationship. I don't think the book claims to be pure autobiography, so I don't think that incident in the book is an appropriate source to say Bach ever made such a claim, much less that it's true (which is why I have not edited the article one way or the other). But I do wonder if that is what the editor who added this statement was thinking of. 68.102.48.153 (talk) 03:27, 16 November 2013 (UTC) (Edited for clarity, 68.102.48.153 (talk) 06:51, 20 December 2013 (UTC))

Can we find a picture that represents Bach from the front?
The article has but one picture, and in it Bach is seen from the back (I assume it is he) whereas two other persons are seen from the front and one of these two is the best lit of all. An unwary visitor to the page would naturally assume the well-lit, short gentleman on the right to be Bach, when in fact he is the leftmost in the group of three (or at least it sure looks a lot like him, and I know for a fact that the other two are not him). Can we have a picture where Bach is seen from the front? For example, this one (which is probably copyrighted) http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2012/09/01/richard-bach_vert-a1660e656dd99328a1cbe918f8e04c41a2e19a21-s51.jpg or this one, from circa 2012 http://kdfrases.com/imagens/richard-bach.jpg (which is certainly copyrighted as well), are both far better examples... Certainly we could find something in the public domain that represents him better? SrAtoz (talk) 00:50, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

Birth year
The birth year of R. Bach is inconsistent with other wikipedia entries (generally 1936). Is the year 1937 really correct, as it says here?

/Amit — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.232.143.222 (talk) 15:09, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Publisher
Pretty certain the publisher should be Macmillan Publishers (United States), not the British publisher Macmillan currently linked. My father was an executive at the latter at the times, so on the one hand I'm quite sure of this, but on the other I might be seen as having a conflict of interest in correcting the link myself, so I leave that to someone else. - Jmabel | Talk 04:17, 30 September 2018 (UTC)

Bibliography is not up to date
It doesn't include his latest book, "Life With My Guardian Angel" — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.197.100.56 (talk) 18:43, 18 February 2019 (UTC)

grandson Oliver Bach
Richard also has a grandson, Oliver Bach, who wrote a novel.

Amazon "about" page

I guess considered not notable? But since this article mentioned Bette Jeanne Franks book? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Michaelhurwicz (talk • contribs) 21:46, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
 * I've looked and cannot find any independent reliable sources that mention Oliver or his book. (Also, new threads always go to the bottom of the page so I moved this one.) Schazjmd   (talk)  21:57, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

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Poondi Kumaraswamy

Ponnambalam Kumaraswamy (often referred to as Poondi Kumaraswamy; October 4, 1930 – March 9, 1988) was an Indian hydrologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences in 1972 although his only formal education was a Civil Engineering Bachelor's degree from College of Engineering, Guindy, University of Madras. Before his death in 1988, at 57 years old, he was the only one to have received both the Homi Bhabha Fellowship 1967–69 (he spent his time at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts doing research in Groundwater modeling) and the Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship 1975–77, two of the country's top research awards.

During the period of Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship he created the first comprehensive 20 volume hydrological atlas of Tamil Nadu State of India including mathematical models, details of hydraulic structures, among others. He developed also the double bounded probability density function (Kumaraswamy distribution), a probability density function suitable for physical variables that are usually bounded. This distribution is in use in electrical, civil,  mechanical, and financial engineering applications. He gave the first practical hard rock well theory that won him the Gold Medal award from Indian Geohydrologists in 1974. He worked also as a design and construction engineer of two major industrial works, namely, the Tiruchirappalli Boiler Plant, and the Tuticorin Harbour Project. In addition he was involved in the hydraulic design of numerous dams, canals, and other hydraulic structures throughout South India. Kumaraswamy considered explaining the work of the Institute of Hydraulics and Hydrology (IHH), Poondi to engineers and non-engineers an important duty and often had great success with it.

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