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Akiva Goldsman

Akiva Goldsman (born July 7, 1962) is an American filmmaker.

Goldsman's filmography as a screenwriter includes The Client; Batman Forever and its sequel Batman & Robin; I, Robot; I Am Legend; Cinderella Man, and numerous rewrites that are both credited and uncredited. He also wrote more than a dozen episodes for the science fiction television series Fringe.

In 2002, Goldsman received the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for the 2001 film A Beautiful Mind, which also won the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2006, Goldsman re-teamed with A Beautiful Mind director Ron Howard to adapt Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code for Howard's film. He also wrote the screenplay for its 2009 sequel Angels & Demons.

Goldsman is also known for co-developing the DC Comics TV series Titans and the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Picard, a sequel to Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Nemesis. He is also the co-creator of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, a prequel to Star Trek: The Original Series.

Early life
Goldsman was born in New York City to Jewish parents and raised in Brooklyn Heights. His parents, Tev Goldsman and Mira Rothenberg, were both clinical child psychologists who ran a group home for emotionally disturbed children. He graduated from Saint Ann's School, also in Brooklyn Heights, where he says he made many friends with whom he later worked in the entertainment industry. He received his bachelor's degree from Wesleyan University and attended the graduate fiction-writing program at New York University.

Career
Goldsman has a production company at Warner Bros. named Weed Road Pictures.

He produced the Universal Pictures feature Lone Survivor, from writer/director Peter Berg, based on the book Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 by Marcus Luttrell. It tells the story of Luttrell's Navy SEAL team in 2005 Afghanistan, on a mission to kill a terrorist leader. It starred Mark Wahlberg, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster and Taylor Kitsch, and was released in 2013.

Goldsman made his feature film directing debut with Winter's Tale, a film adaptation of the Mark Helprin novel, starring Colin Farrell, Russell Crowe, Jessica Brown Findlay, Jennifer Connelly, Will Smith and William Hurt. It was released on February 14, 2014. He also directed the horror thriller film Stephanie (2017) with Frank Grillo in the leading role. He co-wrote and produced the film adaptation of Stephen King's The Dark Tower series, released on August 4, 2017, which was one of Goldsman's post-Apotheosis films.

In June 2015, Paramount Pictures announced that Goldsman would head a team of writers and filmmakers to create a multifilm cinematic universe branching out from Hasbro's Transformers franchise. In 2017, his Weed Road company was signed with Paramount.

Goldsman was revealed in September 2018 to have been on the writing staff for Star Trek: Picard, a series focusing on the later years of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. In 2020, he was signed as creator and co-showrunner of the Paramount+ series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.

Fringe
In 2008, Goldsman joined the first season crew of the Fox horror/mystery series Fringe as writer, director, and consulting producer. The first episode Goldsman directed and wrote was "Bad Dreams". In its fifth season, Goldsman remained a consulting producer. Episodes he contributed to included:
 * "Bad Dreams" (01.17)
 * "The Road Not Taken" (01.19) (executive producer Jeff Pinkner and supervising producer J.R. Orci co-wrote a teleplay based on a story by Goldsman)
 * "There's More Than One of Everything" (01.20) (co-executive producer J.H. Wyman and Pinkner co-wrote a teleplay based on a story by Goldsman and executive producer Bryan Burk)
 * "A New Day in the Old Town" (02.01) (co-written by co-creator J. J. Abrams)
 * "Peter" (02.16) (co-showrunners Jeff Pinkner, J.H. Wyman, and supervising producer Josh Singer co-wrote a teleplay based on a story by Pinkner, Goldsman, Singer, and Wyman)
 * "Brown Betty" (02.20) (co-written by Wyman and Pinkner)
 * "Over There (Part 1)" (02.22) (co-written with Pinkner and Wyman)
 * "Over There (Part 2)" (02.23) (co-written by Pinkner and Wyman)
 * "Subject 13" (03.15) (co-written with Wyman and Pinkner)
 * "Stowaway" (03.17) (Danielle Dispaltro wrote a teleplay based on a story Pinkner, Goldsman, and Wyman)
 * "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide" (03.19) (Wyman and Pinkner co-wrote a teleplay based on a story by Wyman, Goldsman, and Pinkner)
 * "The Day We Died" (03.22) (Pinkner and Wyman co-wrote a teleplay based on a story Goldsman, Pinkner, and Wyman)
 * "Neither Here Nor There" (04.01) (Wyman and Pinkner co-wrote a teleplay based on a story Wyman, Goldsman, and Pinkner)
 * "Subject 9" (04.04) (co-written by Wyman and Pinkner)
 * "Making Angels" (04.11) (co-written with Wyman and Pinkner)
 * "Nothing as It Seems" (04.16) (co-written with Pinkner)
 * "Letters of Transit" (04.19) (co-written by Wyman and Pinkner)
 * "Brave New World (Part 1)" (04.21) (co-written by Wyman and Pinkner)
 * "Brave New World (Part 2)" (04.22) (co-written with Wyman and Pinkner)

Personal life
Goldsman's first wife, film producer Rebecca Spikings-Goldsman, died of a heart attack on July 6, 2010, at the age of 42. Rebecca was the daughter of producer Barry Spikings.

In 2012, Akiva met his second wife, Joann Richter. Married in 2014, they now have two daughters. The family divides its time between Los Angeles and New York.

Weed Road Pictures
In 2004, Goldsman founded Weed Road Pictures as an independent production company to produce, develop and finance films and other forms of entertainment properties. Weed Road has financed or cofinanced 13 films including Firestarter (2022), directed by Keith Thomas and starring Zac Efron, Sydney Lemmon, and Kurtwood Smith.

Upcoming works
In 2016, it was announced that Goldsman would script an adaptation of Isaac Asimov's The Caves of Steel. Its final release date is still unknown. In July 2017, Paramount Pictures announced plans to make a film adaptation of the novel Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy with Goldsman as producer.

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Talk:Whitey Ford

Babe Ruth's record broken
When he broke Babe Ruth's record for consecutive scoreless innings in '61, the same year Maris broke the HR record, Whitey noted, "It was a tough year for the Babe." Trekphiler 17:04, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

Year of birth
After Ford' career geneologists, biographers and internet people established beyond any doubt that Ford's birth year was 1926, not his baseball age year of "1928 " His passport, drivers license, voter form and other documents based on his birth record (where he did not personally have to sign his date of birth) all say 1926. Legal documents involving his wife Joan all point to 1926. That is a no-brainer. Baseball sources are finally publishing the correct date (fact not hearsay). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.199.96.253 (talk • contribs) 7:20, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
 * We keep waiting for a specific and verifiable citation. You have yet to provide one. Wahkeenah 19:22, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

1951 and 1952?
Where was he? Was it military service? Kingturtle (talk) 05:27, 24 November 2007 (UTC)

Photo
Does anyone have a photo of Ford in is prime to include at the head of the article? Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 00:28, 3 November 2009 (UTC)

the Cy Young Award paragraph
"he likely would have won the 1963 AL Cy Young" is speculation about an award that didn't exist. Shouldn't it at least require a cite showing some authority making a case for it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.40.238.77 (talk) 04:11, 23 September 2010 (UTC)

Aviation High School in Queens did not open until 1959. It was moved that year from Manhattan. Before the move to Long Island City, the school was named "Manhattan School of Aviation Trades." I know, as I was attending the school when it moved. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.228.220.106 (talk) 04:44, 23 April 2011 (UTC)

1961
His 25-4 record in '61 was also his first 20-win season. This was big news around the country, especially in the midst of the home run derby & also because a Cuban relief pitcher named Luis Arroyo was saving Ford's games for him. BubbleDine (talk) 11:14, 6 March 2012 (UTC)

In what part of New York City was Whitey Ford born?
The info box states that Whitey Ford was born in New York, New York, which is Manhattan. In "Early life and career," the article states that he was a native of Astoria, Queens. "Native" means place of birth and/or earliest residence. Whitey Ford could not have been born both in Manhattan and Queens.

I know that he lived in Lake Success when he pitched for the Yankees.

Anthony22 (talk) 00:42, 13 June 2013 (UTC)

Korean War service
Although Ford served in the army during the Korean War era, no reliable sources found as of yet state that he served in Korea. Accordingly, Category:American army personnel of the Korean War was removed from the article. Semper Fi! FieldMarine (talk) 10:51, 9 June 2019 (UTC)
 * I did a bit of research and found a 2013 article from USA Today that confirms FieldMarine findings, that while he did serve during the Korean War, his service was stateside. Please see https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/2013/07/01/for-these-boys-of-summer-no-regrets/2480461/ Jurisdicta (talk) 21:00, 10 October 2020 (UTC)

Whitey Ford winning game single handed.
Some Sunday Yankee game of he week in 1960 or 1961 narrated by Dizzy Dean and Peewee Reese at Tiger Stadium in Detroit, Whitey pitched a shutout and scored the only run of the game with a home run over the right field fence! Side note.....Dizzy and Peewee could make a rained out game interesting.2601:1C1:8A01:FFD0:FC03:53EF:D62E:D30 (talk) 03:26, 5 June 2022 (UTC).

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Talk:Coordination game

Removed redirect/Started entry
Prior to my edit this entry redirected to Nash equilibrium. Although the entry had imporant things about coordination games, given their substantial discussion in the literature, I thought it appropriate to have a seperate entry. I posted a note on the Nash equilibrium talk page and received no objections. For the time being I have just copied the content from Nash equilibrium, but I intend to improve it, and I hope others will too. best, --Kzollman 00:43, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

Merge Coordination game and Battle of the sexes (game theory)
The general definition of coordination games is that all cells in the first diagonal are Nash equilibria. The game described here is strictly speaking a common interest coordination game. A number of other names exist, but they all define a c.i. game as the type where one NE Pareto-dominates the others. The battle of the sexes is a conflicting interest coordination game, and it would be more parsimonious to discuss the two in context. ~ trialsanderrors 00:00, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I object to the merge. My hope would be that eventually enough information is included regarding Battle of the sexes to warrant its own article.  This is consistent with other games for instance Stag hunt and the El Farol bar problem are a coordination games, but each has its own article.  --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 04:21, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, Stag hunt has a fairly strong independent literature in strategy revision to draw from. El Farol is a multiplayer mixed coord/crowding game, so there are stronger cases to be made that those should get their independent entries. The features of CI & BotS largely overlap, and it might be better to discuss their differences in context. ~ trialsanderrors 05:05, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I'm (weakly) in favour of merging. At the very least these two articles could do with some work, BoS to include some mention that it is a coordination game.  I'd say BoS 1 is the canonical example of a coordination game, and yet coorrdination games don't even get mentioned in the article.  Coordination game would really benefit from a comparision and contrast of the different examples of it's class.  Ok, now I'm happy with not merging, but I'm unhappy with the way that the members of this set of games are not compared in the Coordination game article.  I kind of doubt that BoS will acumulate much more as an article, because it only ever really serves as an example of coordination game solution and has little identity beyond that.  It's a short article, but I think it stands pretty much as it is now. Pete.Hurd 15:47, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

 * OK, I have no problems if we do Coord games, with a general discussion of definition, then discuss common interest, Stag hunt and BotS briefly with a link to the main entries of SH and BotS. I agree that this needs a lot of cleanup, so I'm changing the tags. ~ trialsanderrors 19:14, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

 * I agree with everything pete mentioned above. I noticed that I made this article a year ago and intended to do something with it.  The best laid plans...  Anyway, maybe I'll try to add a few things to it when I get some time. --best, kevin [kzollman][talk] 21:26, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

Coordination dilemma

 * On Social sciences and modern economics it is knowed also as "coordination dilemma", that have social solutions (to realize mutual gains), like the institutionalization of standards. -- from 11 January 2007

I removed this passage because 1. It is poorly written, and 2. I don't quite understand what the point is here. For one, "modern economics" comprises more than "new institutional economics", for two NIE tends to operate from a Prisoners Dilemma setup (that's cooperation, not coordination). Adoption of technology standards is certainly a concern modeled by coordination games, but they're usually not called coordination dilemmas, and also only a tangential concern of NIE. I also can't find any sources that equate coordination dilemma with coordination game. Care to elaborate? ~ trialsanderrors 22:23, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

 * Hello... sorry, is (~ 1 year!) late to review?
 * Correcting to On Social sciences and New institutional economics it is known also as "coordination problem", that have social solutions (to realize mutual gains), like the use of standards. Please, sorry my english, you can elaborate better?
 * For sources see the "seminal" one (others citate),
 * Edna Ullmann-Margalit, "The Emergence of Norms", Oxford Un. Press, 1977. Second press: Clarendon Press 1978.
 * Links on (ramdomic) citations examples:
 * http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0031-8108(198801)97%3A1%3C99%3ATEON%3E2.0.CO%3B2-0
 * http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9337.1989.tb00029.x?cookieSet=1&journalCode=raju
 * http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/cite.php?10+Duke+J.+Comp.+&+Int'l+L.+43#B275

I've done some cleanup and moved it closer to the introduction. This page needs more discussion of the types of social situations which coordination games are designed to model. --Rinconsoleao (talk) 08:32, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Dear Rinconsoleao, very good! PS: I adapted your contribution for Standardization... the coordination model play a central rule on "formulating standards" and explaining it. --Krauss (talk) 12:50, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Why are cell values in sample payoff matrix given as letters with A > B, D > C, a > c, d > b condition and not as numbers?
this seems like a pointlessly obscuring abstraction to me. This is a sample game, so why not give it some obvious sample numeric values? E.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_sexes_(game_theory) article uses sample numbers for explanation, it does not engage in this sort of obfuscation. 64.9.237.136 (talk) 17:06, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
 * Because this is a class of games, of which Battle of the sexes is just an example. Tijfo098 (talk) 11:02, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Discoordination game
This def doesn't seem too standard; see. No many gb hits on it. Tijfo098 (talk) 10:48, 8 May 2011 (UTC)

Searching for analyses / solutions of an instance of type coordination problem
Problem: is mostly taken from reddit.com/r/thebutton. There is a button and a countdown timer with 60 seconds left, at a given time there are a certain number of participants while the timer is not yet expired. Every participant can press the button once and the effect is resetting the timer to 60 seconds left. A press is 'registered' as a whole number, so only after 0 seconds, 1 second, 2 seconds, ...., 59 seconds. Assuming that all the participants read the same strategy but then does not communicate with each other, what are possible strategies to maximize the time period in which the timer is not expired (given a finite number of participants)?

I'm interested in possible solutions of this problem or similar problems, thanks to everyone. --Pier4r (talk) 13:24, 11 April 2015 (UTC)

Dr. Ortmann's comment on this article
Dr. Ortmann has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

"Part of it is good, part of it is not so good. The latter pertains to the complete lack of discussion of empirical and experimental evidence (e.g., Devetag & Ortmann EE 2007 for a survey.)"

We hope Wikipedians on this talk page can take advantage of these comments and improve the quality of the article accordingly.

Dr. Ortmann has published scholarly research which seems to be relevant to this Wikipedia article:

 * Reference 1: Bortolotti, Stefania, Giovanna Devetag, and Andreas Ortmann. "Group Incentives or Individual Incentives? A Real-Effort Weak-Link Experiment." (2012).

 * Reference 2: “Experiments in Solving Coordination Problems,” (with Giovanna Devetag), pp. 357 - 84 in J. Sell and M. Webster (eds.), Laboratory Experiments in the Social Sciences, Second Edition. Elsevier, 2014.

 * Reference 3: Devetag, Giovanna, and Andreas Ortmann. "When and why? A critical survey on coordination failure in the laboratory." Experimental economics 10.3 (2007): 331-344.

ExpertIdeasBot (talk) 14:37, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

This article need citations
A citation by tag  have origin (point where the reference was cited), but this article not show any one... The list of references not make sense without citations (and is near to mere advertising in a Wiki). --Krauss (talk) 21:44, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

Row/Column player numbering
Is the consensus that the column player is generally understood to be player 1? I have seen opposite examples.

The visual cues on the 2x2 grid would actually favour the latter, because visualizing diagonal separations puts column player, with option labels on top, on the right side, i.e. as receiving the second payoff, and, more importantly, the row player with option labels on the left on the left side, i.e. as receiving the first payoff. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.248.218.89 (talk) 11:31, 11 March 2019 (UTC)

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Human Behaviour

"Human Behaviour" is a song by Icelandic recording artist Björk, released on 7 June 1993 by One Little Indian and Elektra as the lead single from her debut studio album, Debut (1993). Produced by Björk's longtime collaborator Nellee Hooper, it reflects upon human nature and emotion from a non-human animal's point of view. The song and video were inspired by British broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough.

Critics praised "Human Behaviour" and called it a highlight of Debut. The song was an underground smash that peaked at number two on the US dance charts and reached number 36 on the UK Singles Chart. Its music video was directed by Michel Gondry and is the first time he and Björk collaborated. The video, like the song, is a story about the relation between humans and animals from the animal's point of view.

Background and inspiration
"Human Behaviour" was written by Nellee Hooper and Björk, and was produced by Hooper. The song was first written in 1988 when Björk was still the leading singer of the Sugarcubes, but she decided not to release it with the band. "Human Behaviour" is a house song with a four-on-the-floor style, characteristic of the music in Debut. It features a "bouncing riff" sampled from Antônio Carlos Jobim, with "its syncopated beat consigned to a venerable orchestral instrument, the timpani."

The song was inspired by David Attenborough documentaries and by the relation between humans and animals. Björk explained to Rolling Stone, talking about the inspiration for the song: "'Human Behaviour' is an animal's point of view on humans. And the animals are definitely supposed to win in the end." On a recent question and answer session with fans on The Guardian website, Björk revealed more information about the writing of the song: "I wrote it I was referring to my childhood and probably talking about how I felt more comfortable on my own walking outside singing and stuff than hanging out with humans..." The song was also inspired by the riff from Ray Brown Orchestra's "Go Down Dying".

This is the first song on the "Isobel song cycle", a transcendental cycle in Björk's discography which goes from "Human Behaviour" to "Wanderlust" (2007). The B-side contained in the cassette edition of the single is the reggae-influenced "Atlantic", which was produced and written by Björk. Its lyrics talks about Björk's family: "My son has eight grandmothers and eight grandfathers and it's about the love and the complications of that".

Critical reception
The song was well received by music critics. In an retrospective review, Terry Nelson from Albumism said it is "brilliant", noting it as "a smart and quirky observation of us very strange humans as seen through the eyes of an animal." For AllMusic's Heather Pares, the song's "dramatic percussion provides a perfect showcase for her wide-ranging voice". Upon the single release, Larry Flick from Billboard wrote that it "has her ripping that harsh and distinctive voice over a stark, militaristic dance beat. Alternative programmers surely will be captivated by the mystical combo of what eventually become mantra-like vocals and an insinuating bassline." Dave Sholin from the Gavin Report stated that here, Björk "gets off to an awesome start", adding that "it's time to introduce her to Top 40 audiences, who can't help but be blown away by the lyrical power and originality of this fresh entry." Caroline Sullivan from The Guardian said, "Its combination of smoky, jazz-club vibe and a sound that's often more a laryngeal reflex than a voice is addictively strange. In a year of female experimentalism, Bjork is out there on her own, and sounds just fine."

In his weekly UK chart commentary, James Masterton felt it's "unfortunately a cacophonous mess". Dave Simpson from Melody Maker named it Single of the Week, writing, "This is wonderful, the sort of spooky and unique experience I thought pop had abandoned long ago. [...] Mostly, though, it's The Voice that gives "Human Behaviour" its near-intangible sparkle. I can't remember the last time I heard a voice so laden with intrique (sexual tension, outrage, fear—they're all in there) or an avant-garde record that made such sense as pop." In their review of Debut, Music & Media commented, "This solo album succesfully marries eccentricity to accesibility. The musical-esque song "Like Someone In Love" and the current single "Human Behaviour" with those thundering timpani are prime examples of this." Martin Aston from Music Week rated it four out of five, calling it a "sensual, subtle dance track that bodes well for the future." Simon Reynolds from the New York Times described the lyrics as a "parallel between the beastliness of humanity and the bestiality of nature. Johnny Dee from NME noted that "a swampy kettle drum jazz vibe circles around Bjork's rasping larynx, trying to find a melody but eventually settling for the search." Tom Graves from Rolling Stone wrote, "Only on the opening track, "Human Behavior", do we get a glimmer of what the fuss was all about." Siân Pattenden from Smash Hits gave it two out of five.

Music video
The accompanying music video for "Human Behaviour" was directed by French director Michel Gondry, and this was the first time he and Björk collaborated. Björk talked about the video in an interview with Rolling Stone:

""'Human Behaviour' is an animal's point of view on humans. And the animals are definitely supposed to win in the end. So why, one might ask, is the conquering bear presented as a man-made toy? I don't know. I guess I just didn't think it would be fair to force an animal to act in a video. I mean, that would be an extension of what I'm against. I told him [Gondry], 'I want a bear and textures like handmade wood and leaves and earth, and I want it to seem like animation.' Then I backed out.""

The video is a loose take on the children's tale "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", with visuals inspired by Yuri Norstein's animated film Hedgehog in the Fog. The video has several elements that are present in Gondry's first feature film Human Nature (2001).

Synopsis
As the video starts, a car approaches a hedgehog while the animal tries to cross a country road. The video's style is a surreal, almost Papier-mâché style with a combination of practical effects and forced perspective shifts. Images of a toy bear approaching a human hunter in a threatening way are shown. As Björk starts to sing, she appears in a small cabin while sitting at a table, seemingly eating. Meanwhile, in the forest, the hedgehog manages not to get hit by the car and approaches the hunter, who is now lying on the ground.

As Björk continues to sing, she appears walking in the forest, seemingly followed by the bear. A frame shows a nest full of Björk-like humans trapped in a pupa. When the bear and the singer meet, the animal makes the motion of roaring at her. She starts to fly through the forest, and during the flight she clings to a tree. The tree collapses, she falls down near the hunter still lying supine on the ground, and she appears on the ground having the same dimensions as the hedgehog. Then, the situation of the opening frames is repeated, as Björk tries to cross the road and manages not to get hit by the car, driven by the bear. In the following scenes, she sings in a river in the middle of the forest. While she contemplates the sky, the Moon appears to emanate pulsations, and the perspective shifts to what appears to be a moth. Now on the Moon, the singer is shown dressed as an astronaut and plants a Soviet flag.

Björk appears to fall down from the Moon, and seemingly falls down in the bear's throat, however she keeps singing even in the animal's stomach. During the breakdown, she dances in her hut tapping and looking at a bulb, while a moth falls down on her plate. Scenes of the bear attacking and dragging the hunter are shown. As the video fades out, the singer continues singing in the stomach of the bear.

Reception
The video was well received by music critics, who complimented its originality. Critics praised also the chemistry between Gondry and Björk: "The imagery of 'Human Behaviour' is a web of various physical, in-camera effects that Gondry uses throughout his film career. Models, composites, screen projections (all featured in image eight), and lighting (see image two) abound in Björk's emotional woodlands. Colors are deep and saturated. In addition to his unique perceptions of Björk's music, Gondry's art of storytelling are unique to the music video world. 'Human Behaviour' is a story of predator and prey. In search of food, a bear clomps through a forest in the evening. A rugged hunter stalks the woods in pursuit of his game. Björk, as narrator and character(s) of her own story, flees from the bear. Numerous times the bear almost succeeds: in one attempt he drives a car, and almost hits Björk. In the end, Björk flies down the throat of the bear, and rests in his stomach. The hunter also meets his demise. The video is a classic; a vivid story rendered in Gondry and Björk's surreal playground."

In 1993, Rolling Stone included the music video in their "The Top 100 Music Video of all Time" list, at number 96. The video received six nominations for the MTV Video Music Awards of 1994 including Best Female Video, Best New Artist in a Video, Breakthrough Video, Best Direction, Best Special Effects and Best Art Direction, winning none. The video was also nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Music Video, Short Form losing to Peter Gabriel's "Steam". In 2009, the video was nominated for another MTV Video Music Awards in the Best Video (That Should Have Won a Moonman) category, losing to "Sabotage", by the Beastie Boys.

Impact

 * The song was parodied on the PBS show Bill Nye the Science Guy as "Cross Pollination," with lyrics concerning plants. Although the original vocal melody was not used, the music is unmistakably an attempt to spoof the backing of "Human Behaviour".
 * The music video was riffed by Beavis and Butt-head in the episode "Closing Time."
 * It was used in the 10th episode of the second season of Gilmore Girls. The song can be heard when the Gilmore girls see the perfect snowman has been destroyed after "The Bracebridge Dinner". It has been included in the series' soundtrack Our Little Corner of the World: Music from Gilmore Girls (2002).

Live performances
Björk promoted the song by a series of TV appearances. She performed the song and "Big Time Sensuality" on MTV's Most Wanted while dressed in a pink skirt and yellow tee, accompanied by a Hammond Organ and Tablas. On 13 October 1993 she performed a set of three songs, including "Come to Me" and "The Anchor Song" on Planeta Rock. The song was part of her MTV Unplugged setlist, and was performed with a harpsichord solely. She also performed the song and was also interviewed on an October 1993 episode of the then-new talk show Late Night with Conan O’Brien. At the 1994 Roskilde Festival, Björk joined Underworld on stage to perform the Underworld remix of the song.

Björk performed the song in all of her tour. During the Vespertine world tour, the song featured a more electronic arrangement accompanied by a more classical Orchestra. During the Volta tour, the song was performed only once and featured a brass arrangement. She performed a new flute arrangement of the song during the Utopia tour.

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Karl Wiedergott

Karl Wiedergott (born Karl Aloysious Treaton; February 8, 1969) is a German-born American actor. He is noted for his voice work on the sitcom The Simpsons from 1998 to 2010, voicing background characters and some celebrities such as John Travolta and Bill Clinton. Wiedergott provided various voices on more than 200 episodes, his final appearance being in the season 22 episode "Donnie Fatso".

In 2005, Wiedergott decided to take a break from auditioning and concentrate solely on his work for The Simpsons. After the episode "Donnie Fatso", he not only quit the series, but he also retired from acting in general.

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This is the screename of a future director and producer. he will also own a movie making industry. he was born in september 17, 1989

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Play Dead (song)

"Play Dead" is a song by Icelandic singer-songwriter Björk, released by the labels Island and Mother as the only single from the soundtrack of the 1993 crime drama The Young Americans, starring Harvey Keitel. The song was not included in the first edition of Björk's debut album, Debut (1993), but was later included as a bonus track, and the album was re-issued in November 1993. It was written by Jah Wobble, Björk featuring David Arnold, and produced by Cannon, Arnold, receiving additional production and mixing by Tim Simenon.

"Play Dead", inspired by the main character of the film, was released on 11 October 1993 and charted within the top 20 in Denmark, Iceland, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and the United Kingdom. An accompanying music video was released, directed by Danny Cannon, featuring images from the film which also was directed by Cannon. "Play Dead" was included in Björk's 2002 greatest hits album Greatest Hits.

Background and composition
The song was co-written by Jah Wobble, Björk featuring David Arnold. Björk was asked to write the melody and lyrics for the song, while Wobble wrote the bass part and Arnold composed the score, which Björk described as a "greatest hits of what's in the film".

Björk described the writing as "very difficult" because "the character in the film was suffering and going through hardcore tough times and at the time I was at my happiest". To help her in the writing, she asked the film's director, Danny Cannon, to write her a whole page of phrases that represented the emotions of the characters in the film, but she used only one line that Cannon wrote: "Sometimes, it's just like sinking", and still she changed it to "It's sometimes just like sleeping" in the actual lyrics.

The song is underscored by moody strings and its lyrics about acting numb to prevent emotional pain. Björk wrote it from the main character's point of view: "In the film, he had a girlfriend who just wanted him to be happy and in love and he just couldn't get his head around it. It was just me trying to imagine what he would say to her. Things he never actually said to her in the film but things he would have said to her".

Produced by David Arnold and Danny Cannon, the song was originally a non-album track recorded for the film The Young Americans and intended as a single-only release, but eventually it was added as a bonus track to international pressings of Björk's album Debut because Björk's manager Derek Birkett convinced her to add the track. Björk also sings on the tracks "Opening Titles" and "Leaving London" on the soundtrack CD of the film. In both the film and soundtrack, "Leaving London" crescendoes into "Play Dead" as a single arrangement. In both the album and the single version, the song is actually a remix by Tim Simenon. After the addition of "Play Dead" on Debut, about 100 people who already owned the album without the bonus track, called the record company and complained, demanding to be given new records as compensation.

The drums which the song is structured by are taken from the beginning of the 1977 song "Footsteps in the Dark" by The Isley Brothers, most famously used on Ice Cube's "It Was A Good Day", which was released earlier that year.

Critical reception
The track was well received by music critics. Derek Birkett complimented it as "one of the best things Björk’s ever done". Alexis Petridis of Blender stated that it "boasts a chorus that’s both original and implausibly epic". In his weekly UK chart commentary, James Masterton wrote that it's "a haunting beautiful piece of music to rank alongside anything she ever did with the Sugarcubes and becoming a bigger hit than she ever had with her former band in the first place." Ian Gittins from Melody Maker named "Play Dead" Single of the Week, praising it as "a rare triumph. Björk's breathless, impossibly excited and intoxicated-by-life-vocal is transplanted into a rich, opulent setting where it thrives and flourishes." Pan-European magazine Music & Media noted that "the clamour of Iceland's siren is in the air again, beautifully floating above superb rhythm tracks. Highly original; there's nothing like this on the entire planet." Roger Morton from NME named it "Cracking Good Single of the Week", writing that "it's probably going to do more for Björk than anything she's so far released." He added, "Re-mixed by Tim Simenon from Bomb the Bass, and glittering with trad movie score grandeur, it's a swooping orchestral piece which dares her to go for the big performance." Tom Doyle from Smash Hits gave "Play Dead" four out of five, viewing it as "a grand sweeping groovy orchestral thing which sounds like an unhinged Bond theme and will make the hairs on the back of your neck tingle. Remarkable." The Tech journalist Fred Choi, while reviewing Greatest Hits stated that the song is "compelling but lesser-known". Mal Pearchey of Vox described it as "incredibly sophisticated after the eclectic drama of the Sugarcubes".

Music video
The accompanying music video for "Play Dead" was directed by Danny Cannon, who also directed The Young Americans. In the video, Björk performs the song in an empty bar that is shown in the film. Her footage is intercut with scenes from the film that range from tenderness to violence. It was criticised because of its simplicity, with some pointing out it lacks the visual characteristics of other Björk videos. The video has been said to follow "the trends of MTV".

Live performances
Björk performed the song in selected dates of her Debut tour, and usually sang it during her Homogenic tour, accompanied by a larger ensemble of strings. Björk's performance at the Union Chapel with the Brodsky Quartet was met with enthusiasm by The Guardian journalist Maddy Costa, that described the performance as a "Heavenly Experience" and, commenting the song's performance, stated that "reclaiming "Play Dead" from ad-land, the subdued volume and the Brodskys’ bristling tone brought out the fierceness of Björk's words". Björk also performed the song during her Vespertine world tour. The song has not been performed live since then.

Track listings

 * 7-inch and cassette single
 * A. "Play Dead" (Tim Simenon 7-inch remix) – 4:00
 * B. "Play Dead" (Tim Simenon orchestral mix) – 4:01

 * European and Japanese CD single
 * 1) "Play Dead" (Tim Simenon 7-inch remix) – 3:57
 * 2) "Play Dead" (Tim Simenon orchestral mix) – 4:01
 * 3) "Play Dead" (Tim Simenon 12-inch remix) – 5:26
 * 4) "End Titles/Play Dead" (original film mix) – 3:52

 * UK and Australian CD single
 * 1) "Play Dead" (Tim Simenon 7-inch remix) – 3:57
 * 2) "Play Dead" (Tim Simenon orchestral mix) – 4:01
 * 3) "Play Dead" (Tim Simenon 12-inch remix) – 5:26
 * 4) "Play Dead" (Tim Simenon instrumental) – 3:57
 * 5) "End Titles/Play Dead" (original film mix) – 3:52

Covers
A cover of the song appears on the special edition of the album Into by the Finnish band the Rasmus. It is available on many of their singles as well, including "Madness". In 2007, The Swedish band Pain covered the song on the album Psalms of Extinction.

Usage in media
A modified version of the song was also used in 1995 on the launch advert for the new Vauxhall Vectra, with the tagline "Designed for the next millennium".

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Clear Creek Independent School District

Clear Creek Independent School District (CCISD) is a school district based in League City, Texas, United States. The district serves most of the Clear Lake Area and some other neighboring parts of the Houston metropolitan area. CCISD is the 29th largest school district in Texas, spanning 103 square miles and serving over 41,000 students. The district operates 45 distinct campuses, consisting of 5 comprehensive high schools, 3 alternative high schools, 10 intermediate schools, and 27 elementary schools. The Superintendent of Schools is Karen Engle.

Clear Creek ISD currently operates two football stadiums, Veterans Memorial Stadium and Challenger Columbia Stadium, both of which serve all five of the district's 6A high schools.

History
Clear Creek ISD was formed in 1948 when the districts of Kemah, League City, Seabrook, and Webster were consolidated, deriving its name from nearby Clear Creek, which forms Clear Lake, one of the few natural lakes in Texas. CCISD continued operating Webster High School until Clear Creek High School opened in 1956. The district opened Clear Lake High School in 1972, Clear Brook High School in 1988, Clear Springs High School in 2008, and Clear Falls High School in 2010.

In the 2000s, rising real estate costs in Galveston forced many families to move to other areas, including League City. This meant an influx of children out of Galveston ISD and into other school districts like Clear Creek ISD.

On May 11, 2013 the district was successful in a vote securing $367 million to "...rebuild or improve 40+ year old schools; address student safety, security systems, repairs and enrollment growth; construct or expand co-curricular and extracurricular facilities for growth in programs; and improve wireless infrastructure and access to technology for 21st century learning."

On May 6, 2017 the district was successful in a vote to approve a bond with largely the same purpose stated in 2013 "...to build new or rebuild schools, replace portables with permanent additions, renovate aging schools to bring them up to today’s learning standards, improve school and bus safety through the purchase of surveillance equipment and buses." This second bond in 2017 for $487 million resulted in a 4-year total of US$854 million of funding over and above that allocated by the state for this purpose.

CCISD is the 29th largest school district in Texas. The total enrollment for the district is currently 42,008 students. According to the last CCISD reported actual financials (2017-2018), the annual per student cost is over $12,000.

Eric Williams became CCISD superintendent in February 2021. By December, a group of parents accused him of promoting "critical race theory" in K-12 schools. Williams had stated he would not promote CRT, and he would not close campuses with incidents of COVID-19. Williams resigned in July 2022.

Clear Creek ISD cities
CCISD includes sections of Galveston County and Harris County.

CCISD serves the following municipalities in their entirety:
 * Clear Lake Shores
 * El Lago
 * Kemah
 * Nassau Bay
 * Seabrook
 * Taylor Lake Village
 * Webster

CCISD serves portions of the following municipalities:
 * Friendswood (Harris County portion)
 * Houston (Clear Lake City)
 * League City (Most of League City is within CCISD)
 * Pasadena
 * Pearland

In addition, some unincorporated sections of Harris County and Galveston County (including a portion of Bacliff) are zoned to CCISD.

High schools

 * Clear Brook High School (Unincorporated Harris County)
 * Clear Falls High School (League City) (Education Village)
 * Clear Creek High School (League City)
 * Clear Lake High School (Houston)
 * 1987 National Blue Ribbon School
 * Clear Springs High School (League City)
 * Clear View High School (Webster)

Alternative schools

 * Clear Horizons Early College High School (Houston)
 * Clear Path Alternative School (Webster)

Intermediate schools

 * Bayside Intermediate School (League City) (Education Village)
 * Brookside Intermediate School (Friendswood)
 * Clear Creek Intermediate (League City)
 * Clear Lake Intermediate School (Houston)
 * 1987 National Blue Ribbon School
 * Creekside Intermediate School (League City)
 * League City Intermediate School (League City)
 * Seabrook Intermediate School (Seabrook)
 * Space Center Intermediate School (Houston)
 * Victory Lakes Intermediate School (League City)
 * Westbrook Intermediate School (Friendswood)

Elementary schools

 * Armand Bayou Elementary School (Houston)
 * Henry Bauerschlag Elementary School (League City)
 * Bay Elementary School (Seabrook)
 * 2014 National Blue Ribbon School
 * Brookwood Elementary School (Pasadena)
 * Florence Campbell Elementary School (League City)
 * Clear Lake City Elementary School (Houston)
 * Falcon Pass Elementary School (Houston)
 * Lloyd R. Ferguson Elementary School (League City)
 * Darwin L. Gilmore Elementary School (League City)
 * Art And Pat Goforth Elementary School (League City)
 * P. H. Greene Elementary School (Unincorporated Harris County)
 * Walter Hall Elementary School (League City)
 * I. W. and Eleanor Hyde Elementary School (League City)
 * Landolt Elementary School (Unincorporated Harris County)
 * League City Elementary School (League City)
 * Margaret S. McWhirter Elementary School (Webster)
 * Sandra Mossman Elementary School (League City) (Education Village)
 * North Pointe Elementary School (Houston)
 * Ralph Parr Elementary School (League City)
 * G. W. Robinson Elementary School (Pasadena)
 * James H. Ross Elementary School (League City)
 * LaVace Stewart Elementary School (Unincorporated Galveston County)
 * 2007 National Blue Ribbon School
 * 2014 National Blue Ribbon School
 * John F. Ward Elementary School (Houston)
 * Arlyne and Alan Weber Elementary School (Unincorporated Harris County)
 * Wedgewood Elementary School (Friendswood)
 * G. H. Whitcomb Elementary School (Houston)
 * Ed White Elementary School (El Lago)

Rankings
, Clear Creek ISD was ranked as an "exemplary" district (the highest ranking) by the Texas Education Agency. For comparison, 29% of all schools in Texas rated by the TEA were ranked as "exemplary".

Among the high schools, Clear Horizons Early College High School and Clear Lake High School (both in the Clear Lake City area of Houston) were ranked as "exemplary" with the others ranked as "recognized". On the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills examinations, 97% of students passed in reading, 97% passed in writing, 98% passed in social studies, 93% passed in mathematics, and 92% passed in science. the high school graduation rate was 97%.

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Tai Nuea language

Tai Nuea or Tai Nüa (ภาษาไทเหนือ, ), also called Dehong Tai (ภาษาไทใต้คง, ) and Chinese Shan, is one of the languages spoken by the Dai people in China, especially in the Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in the southwest of Yunnan Province. It is closely related to the other Tai languages and could be considered a dialect of Shan. It should not be confused with Tai Lü (Xishuangbanna Dai).

Names
Most Tai Nuea people call themselves Tai Le, which means 'Upper Tai' or 'Northern Tai'. Note that this is different from Tai Lue, which is pronounced in Tai Nuea.

Another autonym is, where  means 'bottom, under, the lower part (of)' and  means 'the Hong River' (Luo 1998). Dehong is a transliteration of the term.

The language is also known as Tai Mau, Tai Kong and Tai Na.

Dialects
Zhou (2001:13) classifies Tai Nuea into the Dehong (德宏) and Menggeng (孟耿) dialects. Together, they add up to a total of 541,000 speakers.

 * Dehong dialect 德宏土语: 332,000 speakers
 * Dehong Prefecture 德宏州: Mangshi 芒市, Yingjiang 盈江, Lianghe 梁河, Longchuan 陇川, Ruili 瑞丽, Wanding 畹町
 * Baoshan District 保山地区: Baoshan 保山, Tengchong 腾冲, Longling 龙陵, Shidian 施甸
 * Menggeng dialect 孟耿土语: 209,000 speakers
 * Pu'er City 普洱市 / Simao District 思茅地区: Menglian 孟连, Jinggu 景谷, Lancang 澜沧, Zhenyuan 镇沅, Ximeng 西盟, Jingdong 景东, Simao 思茅, Pu'er 普洱, Mojiang 墨江
 * Baoshan District 保山地区: Changning 昌宁
 * Lincang District 临沧地区: Gengma 耿马, Lincang 临沧, Shuangjiang 双江, Cangyuan 沧源, Yongde 永德, Zhenkang 镇康, Yunxian 云县, Fengqing 风庆. A separate traditional script has been developed in Mengding Township 勐定镇, Lincang 临沧, and is different from the one used in the Dehong area — see Zhou (2001:371).

Phonology
Tai Nuea is a tonal language with a very limited inventory of syllables with no consonant clusters. 16 syllable-initial consonants can be combined with 84 syllable finals and six tones.

Initials
* occur in loanwords

Vowels and diphthongs
Tai Nuea has ten vowels and 13 diphthongs:

 * Tai Nuea's diphthongs are

Tones
Tai Nuea has six tones:
 * 1) rising  (24)
 * 2) high falling  (53) or high level  (55)
 * 3) low level  (11)
 * 4) low falling  (31)
 * 5) mid falling  (43) or high falling  (53)
 * 6) mid level  (33)

Syllables with p, t, k as final consonants can have only one of three tones (1., 3., or 5.).

Writing system
The Tai Le script is closely related to other Southeast-Asian writing systems such as the Thai script and is thought to date back to the 14th century.

The original Tai Nuea spelling did not generally mark tones and failed to distinguish several vowels. It was reformed to make these distinctions, and diacritics were introduced to mark tones. The resulting writing system was officially introduced in 1956. In 1988, the spelling of tones was reformed; special tone letters were introduced instead of the earlier Latin diacritics.

The modern script has a total of 35 letters, including the five tone letters.

The transcription below is given according to the Unicode tables.

Vowels and diphthongs
Consonants that are not followed by a vowel letter are pronounced with the inherent vowel [a]. Other vowels are indicated with the following letters:

Diphthongs are formed by combining some vowel letters with the consonant [w] and some vowel letters with ᥭ [ai]/[j].

Tones
In the Thai and Tai Lü writing systems, the tone value in the pronunciation of a written syllable depends on the tone class of the initial consonant, vowel length and syllable structure. In contrast, the Tai Nuea writing system has a very straightforward spelling of tones, with one letter (or diacritic) for each tone.

Tone marks were presented via the third reform (1963) as diacritics. Then the fourth reform (1988) changed them into tone letters. A tone mark is put at the end of syllable whatever it is consonant or vowel. Examples in the table show the syllable [ta] in different tones.

The sixth tone (mid level) is not marked. And if a syllable with -p, -t, -k finals have the fifth tone, the tone mark is not written.

Syntax
Tai Nuea uses an SVO word order.

Language use
Tai Nuea has official status in some parts of Yunnan (China), where it is used on signs and in education. Yunnan People's Radio Station (Yúnnán rénmín guǎngbō diàntái 云南人民广播电台) broadcasts in Tai Nuea. On the other hand, however, very little printed material is published in Tai Nuea in China. However, many signs of roads and stores in Mangshi are in Tai Nuea.

In Thailand, a collection of 108 proverbs was published with translations into Thai and English.

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Savage River (Maryland)

The Savage River is a 29.5 mi river in Garrett County, Maryland, and is the first major tributary of the North Branch Potomac River from its source. The river was named for 18th-century surveyor John Savage.

Tributaries of the Savage River upstream of the Savage River Reservoir include Carey Run, Mudlick Run, Little Savage River, Bluelick Run, Blacklick Run, Warnick Run, Poplar Lick Run, and Bear Pen Run. At the southern end of the reservoir, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers maintains the Savage River Dam for flood control and recreation. It has trout fishing for brown, rainbow, brook and sometimes cutthroat trout. Pine Swamp Run, Dry Run, Middle Fork Crabtree Creek, and Crabtree Creek flow into the reservoir. Aaron Run joins the Savage River just upstream of its merger with the North Branch Potomac River.

The last 4.5 mi of the river, from the Savage River Dam to its confluence with the Potomac at Bloomington, Maryland, is a destination for whitewater paddling and slalom racing, on the infrequent occasion when sufficient water is released from the dam. There were three one-day recreational releases in 2011, two in June and one in September.

The Savage has been used for the U.S. Olympic Trials and was the site of the 1989 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships on June 24–25. The usual put-in for whitewater boats is 0.7 mi below the dam, where the highway crosses the river. The slalom racing section begins 0.5 mi further downstream, below the 5.0 ft Piedmont Dam, and ends 0.35 mi downstream at the viewing stand above the pedestrian suspension bridge.

The 1989 race was the first time the Slalom World Championships were held in the United States. The next occasion was a quarter-century later in 2014, when they were held on artificial whitewater at the nearby Adventure Sports Center International, constructed in 2007 as a more accessible alternative to the seldom-watered Savage.

The average gradient for the Savage River's whitewater section is 75 feet/mile (1.4%), with sections at 100 feet/mile (1.9%), giving the rapids a whitewater class III to III+ at the typical recreational release of 800 cuft/s. The rapids are fast and continuous, with very few eddies or calm spots.

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Talk:Mazda MPV

I believe the van's nearing the end of its production run. It's not doing that well in the US. --LeoTheLion 00:48, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Yes, Mazda has confirmed that the MPV may or may not return after next year. --SFoskett 13:31, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)

 * Just like when CX-7 & CX-5 replace Tribute as their two-row wagons, Mazda5 & CX-9 replace MPV as three-row wagons. -- Bull-Doser 23:25, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

 * Except that the Tribute is returning for 2008, North America may recieve the redesigned MPV in 08 or 09, and the MPV is only being discontinued here. IFCAR 23:39, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

2nd 1st-gen MPV photo
A good picture of a facelifted 1st-gen MPV was removed because of a formatting issue. It's in the History. Could anyone try to work out why the image won't appear where it's placed, and get it back into the article? IFCAR 00:08, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

What is an "agressive headlight"?

Under the picture is states that this vehicle has a FR/All Wheel Drive layout. But this is incorrect since it is actually a rear wheel drive platform with the option of 4WD. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 153.2.246.33 (talk) 12:47, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

Wait- Mazda is owned by Ford? (Mpv was called Fords best minivan) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Redguard117 (talk • contribs) 00:18, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Transmission problems?
From what I've heard the autotrans in the 2nd gen is rubbish for a vehicle of the size (rather than a 626)- blowing three within 100,000km, etc. Sources would be useful. Nevard (talk) 05:31, 4 August 2009 (UTC)

Third gen. in Thailand
Article wrote "The third generation MPV is currently available only in Japan, Hong Kong and some small number in Thailand". Mazda Thailand does not sell this car. Another car-importer companies in Thailand are import Mazda MPV from Japan.

http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2007/08/29/auto/auto_30046836.php (The Nation (Thailand)) : "The MPV tested here is imported from Japan by the SEC group"

--Love Krittaya (talk) 16:33, 27 April 2010 (UTC)

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Propalaeotherium

Propalaeotherium was an early genus of perissodactyl endemic to Europe and Asia during the early Eocene. There are currently six recognised species within the genus, with P. isselanum as the type species (named by Georges Cuvier in 1824).

Taxonomy
Propalaeotherium was named by Paul Gervais; its name means "before Palaeotherium". It was considered a member of Palaeotheriidae by Hooker (1986). A 2004 study found it to be an equid instead. A 2016 study lumped the genus back within the Palaeotheriidae.

The species P. parvulum and P. messelensis have been alternately assigned to the equid genus Eurohippus.

Description
Propalaeotherium was a small animal, ranging from 30–60 cm at the shoulder (2.9 to 5.9 hands), and weighing just 10 kg. It looked similar to small tapirs. It had no hooves, but instead several small nail-like hooflets. The well-preserved Messel fossils showed their herbivory, specifically their preference to eat berries and leaf matter picked up from the forest floor.

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Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R

The Kawasaki Ninja ZX-6R is a 636 cc class motorcycle in the Ninja sport bike series from the Japanese manufacturer Kawasaki. It was introduced in 1995, and has been constantly updated throughout the years in response to new products from Honda, Suzuki, and Yamaha. The ZX series is what was known as the Ninja line of Kawasaki motorcycles in the 1980s and still carries the name today.

History
Kawasaki introduced the ZX-6R in 1995 with very similar looks and features like the 1994 introduced ZX-9R, including the ram-air intake that had been developed by Kawasaki since the 1990 ZX-11 (ZZ-R1100). The first ZX-6R had a dry weight of 401.2 lb, wet weight of 454 lb, and was capable of accelerating 0 to 60 mph in 3.6 seconds.

There was a major revamp of the ZX-6R in 1998 with the Launch of the G series. The G series saw no increase in displacement but power went from 100 BHP to 108 BHP thanks to the newly designed airbox. The fairing was revamped, but it retained a similar design for the headlight, air intakes and windscreen. In 2000, the first J series replaced the G, increasing power to 112 BHP by increasing the compression ratio from 11.8:1 to 12.8:1. The J series sported a couple of modernisations including a 180 section rear tire, second headlight, uprated generator and stick coils (coil on plug) replacing the traditional coil with HT lead.

With strong competition from Honda's CBR600F4i, Suzuki's GSX-R600, and Yamaha's YZF-R6, Kawasaki decided on an unusual move for the late 2002 models. They increased the capacity of the traditional 600 cc motor to 636 cc with the ZX-6R A1P. This version used the J series bodywork with the only notable differences being the "636" stickers on the fairing. For riders who needed bikes for displacement-restricted racing, Kawasaki also made available a limited production 599 cc version, the Ninja ZX-6RR, but the 636 cc ZX-6R would be their main mass production middleweight sport bike.

In 2003, there were a number of changes to the ZX-6R, or ZX636 as it is often referred. The engine was fuel injected and engine speed was raised around 500 RPM which resulted in a slight gain in power. Radial-mounted four-piston brakes replaced the previous six-piston brakes and the front forks were now inverted. Chassis improvements resulted in higher rigidity and less weight. An all digital instrument panel was also introduced and a larger ram-air intake inlet moved to the center over the headlight, running through the headstock. The bike, designation B1H, carried over to the 2004 model year with just color scheme changes. The ZX-6RR won the Supersport category award for Masterbike 2004 and placed third overall.

In 2005, Kawasaki again revamped the ZX-6R. Engine speed increased again by 1,000 RPM resulting in 131 hp at 12,250 RPM. The frame and swingarm were updated, but the main changes from its predecessor lay in the design. The aluminum frame was now painted flat black, fairings were more round, and integrated turn signals were used (euro model). The exhaust was now centrally under the seat (a configuration commonly referred to as an undertail exhaust). Most of these changes were mirrored in the 599 cc ZX-6RR. For the second year in a row, the ZX-6RR again won the Supersport category award for Masterbike 2005 and placed third overall. The bike carried over to the 2006 model year with minor suspension changes and new color schemes.

After four years of offering their 636 cc ZX-6R for street use and an entirely separate 599 cc ZX-6RR for displacement-restricted racing classes, Kawasaki offered only one ZX-6R for 2007, and it displaced 599 cc. Previous years of the ZX-6R's engines were all built from the same basic design, but the all-new engine for 2007 was redesigned from the crankcase up. In following with what their competitors had already been doing, Kawasaki's new engine featured a stacked gear arrangement in which the crankshaft, primary drive and countershaft are placed in a triangular format for a shorter, more compact powerplant. Now about 40 mm smaller in both length and width and it is said to yield greater cornering clearance. By using a former 125 cc Grand Prix racer as the ZX-6R's chief development rider, Tomomi Manako, Kawasaki claims a focus has been put on track usage. Frame, swingarm, suspension, brakes, and body were completely redesigned and the bike shares very few parts from the previous model. The ZX-6R was carried over to the 2008 model year with just color scheme changes.

For 2009, Kawasaki dramatically changed the appearance of the ZX-6R to match the more angular look of the ZX-10R. Kawasaki claims the new ZX-6R is 10 kg lighter than the previous model. The greatest changes for 2009 were the redesign of the exhaust, now carried low and not requiring the thick under-seat construction of 2008 and especially the introduction of the Showa Big Piston Fork (BPF) suspension for a more progressive brake-dive. The 2010 ZX-6R is changing once more with an improved engine and slipper clutch. The exhaust pre-chamber has more space and also limits exhaust noise giving the rider a smoother ride. New double bore intake funnels features two available heights which gives performance upgrades in both high and low engine speeds. The front seat is now lower.

For 2013, Kawasaki reintroduced the ZX-6R 636, while still continuing to sell the regular, 599 cc 2009-2012 ZX-6R at a lower price.

The 2013 ZX-6R 636 is a brand new bike, making it the model with the most power output to date. Engine displacement has again been increased to 636 cc, with two fuel maps available to choose via a switch on the handlebars. The new version has increased torque and horsepower, and the increased performance is apparent at lower RPM. While the tail is identical to the one in the 2009-2012 model, it features new front and side fairings, new dash, new frame, new Showa BPF-SFF front suspension, Kawasaki Traction Control (KTRC) with three modes (sport, city and rain) as standard equipment, and Kawasaki Intelligent anti-lock Brake System (KIBS) available as option.

In Showa's Big Piston Fork - Separate Function Fork (BPF-SFF) suspension, the left leg bar a bigger and stronger spring than the right one, with regulated pre-load. The right bar has bigger oil damper section, with regulated rebound and compression damping. According to the manufacturer, this asymmetric design provides a reduction of the friction inside the fork, significant mass loss and more friendly response of suspension. The KTRC system uses manipulation of the ignition timing on all 3 traction control modes, while mode 3 (rain mode) also uses a separate throttle controlled by the on-board electronics, to allow faster reaction for wheel over-spin on slippery surfaces. Traction control and power modes can be adjusted or turned off whenever the throttle is closed, even while riding the bike. The bike is sold without a steering damper, as customer complaints about the OEM steering damper on previous models prompted Kawasaki to discontinue this feature on subsequent models.

The ZX-6R 636 for 2019 has some updates consisting of: Euro4 compliance, KQS quickshifter (up only), updated bodywork and seat, LED headlights and updated dashboard. The claimed horsepower also sees a slight drop from the 2018 model's 129.3 hp to 127.3 hp.

Through the 2020 model year, Kawasaki sold only the 636 cc displacement Ninja ZX-6R in most markets, while in Japan the 599 cc version continues to be sold alongside the 636 since the model year 2003 onwards.

In July 2023, Kawasaki announced the 2024 model year for ZX-6R. The bike meets the Euro 5 emission standards, with yet another slight reduction of horsepower compared to the previous model. The ABS has been updated and a redesigned stock exhaust system along with a new front twin headlamp, and for the first time it features a color TFT LCD dashboard.

Motorsport
Andrew Pitt won the Supersport World Championship in 2001 with a ZX-6R, and Kenan Sofuoğlu won it in 2012, 2015 and 2016. Also, Kawasaki won the Supersport World Championship manufacturers title in 2013, 2015 and 2016.

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Prince August Wilhelm of Prussia

Prince August Wilhelm Heinrich Günther Viktor of Prussia (29 January 1887 – 25 March 1949), nicknamed "Auwi", was the fourth son of German Emperor Wilhelm II by his first wife, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. He was a vocal supporter of Nazism and of Adolf Hitler.

Early life
He was born in the Potsdamer Stadtschloss when his grandfather was still the Crown Prince of Prussia. He spent his youth with his siblings at the New Palace, also in Potsdam, and his school days with his brothers at the Prinzenhaus in Plön in his mother's ancestral Schleswig-Holstein. Later, he studied at the universities of Bonn, Berlin and Strasbourg. He received his doctorate in political science in 1907.

Prince August Wilhelm married his cousin Princess Alexandra Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg on 22 October 1908 at the Berliner Stadtschloss. The couple had planned to take up residence in Schönhausen Palace in Berlin, but changed their mind when his father, Kaiser Wilhelm, decided to leave his son the Villa Liegnitz in the Sanssouci Park. In 1912 their only child, Prince Alexander Ferdinand of Prussia, was born. Their Potsdam residence developed into a meeting place for artists and scholars.

In the First World War, August Wilhelm was made district administrator (Landrat) of the district of Ruppin; his office and residence was now Schloss Rheinsberg. His personal adjutant Hans Georg von Mackensen played an important role in his life; the two had been close friends since August Wilhelm's youth. These "pronounced homophilic tendencies" contributed to the failure of his marriage to Princess Alexandra Victoria. The couple did not divorce while August Wilhelm's father, Kaiser Wilhelm II, was Emperor, owing to his opposition to the idea.

Weimar Republic
Initially, many Allied and German leaders favored transitioning Germany to a constitutional monarchy with August Wilhelm as either Emperor or regent for one of Crown Prince Wilhelm's children, although this possibility was quickly precluded when Philipp Scheidemann was forced by the pressures of the German Revolution to declare a republic. Winston Churchill, who at the time served as Secretary of State for War in the Lloyd George War Cabinet, blamed the failure to retain the monarchy for the political instability that plagued the Weimar Republic.

After the end of the war, the couple separated and formally divorced in March 1920. August Wilhelm was awarded custody of their son. After his divorce and the marriage of his friend von Mackensen to Winifred von Neurath, the daughter of Konstantin von Neurath, August Wilhelm lived a reclusive life in his villa in Potsdam. He took drawing lessons with Arthur Kampf, and the sale of his pictures secured him an additional source of income.

Involvement with National Socialism
August Wilhelm joined the conservative nationalist veterans group Der Stahlhelm (English: "The Steel helmet"). In the following years he had increasing contact with the NSDAP. To the unease of his family and against his father's will, he joined the "dangerous, revolutionary" NSDAP on 1 April 1930, whereupon he received the low membership number 24, for symbolic reasons. In November 1931, he was accepted into the paramilitary Sturmabteilung (SA) with the rank of Standartenführer. His involvement with the NSDAP and his adoration of Adolf Hitler made August Wilhelm often the subject of mockery by the left-wing press (who gave him the nickname Braunhemdchen Auwi, or "Auwi the Little Brown Shirt"), politicians (French Ambassador André François-Poncet called him Hanswurst "Hans the Brown Sausage") and from the National Socialists themselves (Joseph Goebbels referred to him as a "good-natured but slightly gormless boy").

As a representative of the erstwhile Hohenzollern dynasty, August Wilhelm was deliberately used by the party to gain votes in elections: he was elected as its lead candidate for the Landtag of Prussia in April 1932, and retained his seat until the Landtag's dissolution in October 1933. At the same time, he was appointed an election speaker alongside Hitler, whom he accompanied on flights across Germany. Through his appearances at the party's mass rallies, he addressed himself to sections of the population that were lukewarm towards National Socialism and convinced them "that Hitler was not a threat, but a benefactor of the German people and the German Empire".

At the 5 March 1933 election, August Wilhelm was elected as a Nazi deputy to the German Reichstag. On 23 July 1933, Prussian Minister President Hermann Göring also appointed him to the recently reconstituted Prussian State Council. August Wilhelm held these positions until the fall of the Nazi regime. However, after the passing of the Enabling Act of 1933 and the establishment of the dictatorship of the Third Reich, the party no longer needed the former prince, who had secretly hoped "that Hitler would one day hoist him or his son Alexander up to the vacant throne of the Kaiser". Thus, in spring 1934 he was denied direct access to Hitler and by the summer after the Night of the Long Knives found himself in the wilderness politically, but that did not reduce his adoration of Hitler.

One high-profile visit took August Wilhelm to the Passau Hall of the Nibelungs (Nibelungenhalle).

On 30 June 1939 he was made an SA-Obergruppenführer, the second-highest rank in the SA, but he made derogatory remarks about Joseph Goebbels in private, and so was denounced in 1942. From then on, he was completely sidelined and was banned from making public speeches.

In early February 1945, in the company of the former Crown Princess Cecilie, August Wilhelm fled the approaching Red Army by going from Potsdam to Kronberg to take refuge with his aunt Princess Margaret of Prussia, a sister of his father.

Post-war life
At the end of the Second World War, on 8 May 1945, August Wilhelm was arrested by the U.S. Army and imprisoned in Ludwigsburg. At his denazification trial (Spruchkammerverfahren) in 1948, he was asked if he had since repudiated National Socialism, and replied: "I beg your pardon?" He was thus categorized as "incriminated" by the denazification process and sentenced to two-and-a-half years' hard labour. However, as he had been confined in the Ludwigsburg internment camp since 1945, he was considered to have served his sentence.

Immediately after his release, new proceedings were instituted against August Wilhelm. A court in Potsdam, in the Soviet occupation zone, issued an arrest warrant against him, but soon after that he became seriously ill and died at a hospital in Stuttgart at the age of 62. He was buried in Langenburg in the cemetery of the princes of Hohenlohe-Langenburg. He was identified (in an investigation in the 1960s) as one of those that pulled the trigger in the execution of Albrecht Höhler in 1933.

With his wife, Princess Alexandra of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Prince August Wilhelm had one son:

 * Prince Alexander Ferdinand Albrecht Achilles Wilhelm Joseph Viktor Carl Feodor of Prussia (26 December 1912 – 12 June 1985), who married Armgard Weygand on 19 December 1938. They had one son, Prince Stephan Alexander Dieter Friedrich of Prussia (1939–1993); he had one daughter, Princess Stephanie Victoria-Louise of Prussia (born 1966).

Regimental commissions until First World War

 * 1. Garderegiment zu Fuß (1st Regiment of Foot Guards), Potsdam: Leutnant à la suite, from January 29, 1897; Oberleutnant, before 1908.
 * à la suite, Grenadierregiment Konig Friedrich Wilhelm I. (2. Ostpreussisches) Nr. 3
 * à la suite, 2. Gardegrenadierlandwehrregiment (2nd Reserve Regiment of Grenadier Guards)

Chivalric orders

 * Kingdom of Prussia:
 * Knight of the Black Eagle, 27 January 1897; with Collar, 1904
 * Knight of the Royal Crown Order, 1st Class, 27 January 1897
 * Grand Commander's Cross of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern, 27 January 1897
 * Grand Cross of the Red Eagle, with Crown, 29 January 1897
 * 🇩🇰 Denmark: Knight of the Elephant, 15 June 1912
 * Grand Duchy of Hesse: Grand Cross of the Ludwig Order, 27 January 1909
 * Hohenzollern: Cross of Honour of the Princely House Order of Hohenzollern, 1st Class
 * Mecklenburg: Grand Cross of the Wendish Crown
 * 🇳🇱 Netherlands: Grand Cross of the Netherlands Lion
 * Ottoman Empire: Order of Osmanieh, 1st Class with Star in Diamonds

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Kawasaki ZX-6R and 6RR

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was KEEP. Golbez 00:45, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)

Kawasaki ZX-6R and 6RR PAGE MOVED TO Kawasaki ZX-6R
Un focused 20:10, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC) This is unecessary, short, not of interest or noteworthy .WAvegetarian 00:52, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete almost a speedy candidate with so little content. JamesBurns 06:46, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep (expanded slightly), notable bikes. Kappa 07:19, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep but in need of expansion/clean-up. Also, if they are different but related bikes then perhaps the article should just be named after one then redirect the other title to it? -- Lochaber 09:03, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * merge to Kawasaki bikes, or if not at least rename to Kawasaki ZX-6R and have the 6RR redirect there. Radiant_ >|< 12:22, Jun 8, 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge or rename, as per Radiant!, except the target is Kawasaki motorcycles.--Nabla 15:10, 2005 Jun 8 (UTC)
 * Comment, somehow a previous comment by WAvegetarian disappeared, even from the page's history! As far as I remember it included an opinion that Kawasaki isn't a major manufacturer, but correct me if I'm mistaken.--Nabla 15:16, 2005 Jun 8 (UTC)
 * Comment, That was in an article about a car, not this article. I agree that Kawasaki is a major manufacturer of bikes, I just didn't think that a single model deserved a page. There was so little content that I found it unecessary to merge. If someone wants to expand it or merge the small amount of info here to Kawasaki motorcycles, that's fine with me.WAvegetarian 00:24, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Correction taken, thanks. Sorry for misquoting you. And, yes, I agree we have too much catalog-like articles.--Nabla 13:40, 2005 Jun 9 (UTC)
 * What is the drawback of having many catalog-like articles? -- Un focused 15:24, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * That they tend to be rather short, must all include redundant information about the parent company, and are more easily accessed and compared if put in a list. Radiant_ >|< 10:17, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * These will develop far more than a simple list. Have a look at Honda Prelude.  Further, each of these motorcycles should (eventually) have a photo, to help with identification.  Significant products require both a list, and a separate article for each, ideally.  -- Un focused 14:22, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * The drawback is that, in my opinion, Wikipedia is not a catalogue. But do not think that I'm for deleting them (I voted to keep this one). Quite the opposite, i think it is unfortunate that some articles don't say anything about the product importance: which novelties does it include? (Even if simply a minor detail or a new combination of features); did it have any cultural impact?; was it a major selling product? Or a flop? Why?; etc.. On the other hand if nothing of relevance can be said about it... what's the article for? It should probably be in a list, which would give a better perspective to a then relevant set of products.--Nabla 02:55, 2005 Jun 12 (UTC)
 * Keep, but Merge as per Radiant. Even if it's just a stub, this could very well be expanded into something quite informative. Jasonglchu 15:53, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge to Kawasaki motorcycles, no redirect. Kawasaki is a "major manufacturer" of motorcycles, unless you're intentionally redefining "major" the way Anheuser-Busch did for its current ads calling itself "the only American-owned major brewer."  Most people wouldn't call Yuengling and Anchor, for example, "minor".  Barno 17:05, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment I moved the page as shown above. I created a redirect for "Kawasaki 6RR" pointing at the "Kawasaki ZX-6R" page.  -- Un focused 20:18, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep. I would welcome an NPOV article for most manufactured products.   Un focused 20:18, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Keep - notable product from a major worldwide manufacturer of motorcycles. --FCYTravis 22:51, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * This page is now preserved as an archive of the debate and, like some other VfD subpages, is no longer 'live'. Subsequent comments on the issue, the deletion, or the decision-making process should be placed on the relevant 'live' pages.  Please do not edit this page .


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Talk:Labor shortage

"medical guild"
Is the fact that the medical guild is working to keep the supply of doctors low debatable? The article suggests that it is. A guild is a guild is a guild. We have a shortage of doctors in America which drives prices up and care quality down.

Please sign all comments, thank you! When entering the "discussion pages" of articles, please sign all your comments. All comments are welcome--just please sign them. Thank you. ProfessorPaul 19:57, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

 * The medical profession (not even the AMA is a "guild") argues that the only way to create larger numbers of doctors in the United States would be to lower standards to unacceptable levels. -- Orange Mike 17:25, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

"The Jobs Americans won't/don't do"
Many American politicians, including President Bush (for example here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/04/20060424-2.html) as a justification for increasing immigration, or legalizing the residence of non-citizens already in America, or other immigration policies, use the argument that immigrants "do jobs Americans won't do." Because this argument implies a labor shortage, the article seems incomplete without addressing the "jobs Americans won't do" argument. I'm not qualified, especially considering how controversial this issue has become. Maybe someone else is? Awesomebillfromdawsonville 20:49, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

Removed top 10 fastest growing jobs
Listing the ten fastest growing job markets doesn't seem particularly relevant to US labor shortage in relation to immigration. The phrase "obviously labor shortages can be expected in some parts of the U.S. in these occupations" should be sourced. It's not obvious, and seems like a POV. The placement of the list, along with that statement seems to imply that the only reasonable way to fill those jobs would be to offer them to immigrants. Others might think that it would be obvious to recruit and/or train unemployed Americans, students, or those with minimum wage "McJobs." Awesomebillfromdawsonville 23:36, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
 * It also makes this article too U.S.-centric. -- Orange Mike 17:25, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

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Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884–1948)

Prince Adalbert Ferdinand Berengar Viktor of Prussia (14 July 1884 – 22 September 1948) was the third son of Wilhelm II, German Emperor, by his first wife, Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein.

Early life
Prince Adalbert was born on 14 July 1884 as the third son of the then Prince Wilhelm of Prussia and his first wife, Princess Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. He was born in the Marmorpalais of Potsdam in the Province of Brandenburg, where his parents resided until his father acceded to the throne as Emperor Wilhelm II in 1888. He spent his childhood with his siblings at the New Palace, also in Potsdam, and his school days with his brothers at the Prinzenhaus in Plön in his mother’s ancestral Schleswig-Holstein.

His bride was Princess Adelheid "Adi" of Saxe-Meiningen (16 August 1891 – 25 April 1971), daughter of Prince Frederick and Countess Adelaide of Lippe-Biesterfeld. They married on 3 August 1914 in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, and had three children, five grandchildren, six great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren:

 * Princess Victoria Marina of Prussia (stillborn, 4 September 1915)
 * Princess Victoria Marina of Prussia (11 September 1917 – 21 January 1981) she married Kirby Patterson (24 July 1907 – 4 June 1984) on 26 September 1947. They had three children and one grandson:
 * Berengar Orin Bernhard Kirby Patterson (21 August 1948 – 18 May 2011) he married Pamela Knight in 1994.
 * Marina Adelaide Emily Patterson (21 August 1948 – 10 January 2011) she married John Engel on 24 September 1982. They had one son:
 * William John Engel (17 February 1983)
 * Dohna Maria Patterson (7 August 1954) she married Stephen Pearl on 28 July 1974.
 * Prince Wilhelm Victor of Prussia (15 February 1919 – 7 February 1989), he married at Donaueschingen on 20 July 1944 Marie Antoinette, Countess of Hoyos zu Stichsenstein (Hohenthurm, 27 June 1920 – Marbella, 1 March 2004). They had two children, five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Kaiserliche Marine

 * Leutnant zur See (Ensign / Acting Sub-Lieutenant)
 * Oberleutnant zur See (Lieutenant, Junior Grade / Sub-Lieutenant), before 1905 through at least 1908
 * Kapitänleutnant (Lieutenant) on staff in SMS Kaiser, 1914
 * Korvettenkapitän (Lieutenant Commander) in command of SMS Danzig, 1917
 * Fregattenkapitän (Commander) in command of SMS Dresden 1918.

Regimental Commissions

 * Leutnant (2nd Lieutenant) à la suite 1. Garderegiment zu Fuß  (1st Regiment of Foot Guards), Potsdam, 1894
 * à la suite, Grenadierregiment König Friedrich der Große (3. Ostpreussisches) Nr. 4
 * à la suite, 1. Gardegrenadierlandwehrregiment (1st Reserve Regiment of Grenadier Guards)

Chivalric Orders

 * Order of the Black Eagle - Ribbon bar.svg Knight, Order of the Black Eagle with Chain (Prussia), invested 18 January 1903
 * PRU Roter Adlerorden BAR.svg Knight Grand Cross (with Crown), Order of the Red Eagle (Prussia)
 * EST Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana - 5th Class BAR.png Knight, First Class, Order of the Prussian Crown
 * D-PRU Hohenzollern Order BAR.svg Grand Commander, Royal House Order of Hohenzollern
 * Honour Cross, First Class, Princely House Order of Hohenzollern
 * MKB Order of the Wendish Crown ribbon.svg Knight, First Class (with Crown in ore), House Order of the Wendish Crown (Grand Duchies of Mechlenburg)
 * Order of the White Falcon - Ribbon bar.svg Knight Grand Cross, Order of the White Falcon (Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach)
 * House Order Fidelitas of Baden ribbon bar.svg House Order of Fidelity (Baden)
 * Cavaliere OCI BAR.svg Hanseatic Cross (Bremen)
 * Ludwig Order (Hesse) - ribbon bar.png Grand Cross of the Ludwig Order (Hesse)
 * OLD Order of Peter Frederick Louis ribbon.svg Grand Cross with golden crown of the House and Merit Order of Peter Frederick Louis (Oldenburg)
 * Friedrich-August Cross - military (Oldenburg) - ribbon bar.png Friedrich August Cross, 1st class
 * SAX Order of the Rue Crown ribbon.svg Order of the Rue Crown (Saxony)
 * D-SAX Sachsen-Ernestinischer Hausorden BAR.svg Grand Cross of the Ducal Saxe-Ernestine House Order (Saxon Duchies)
 * Knight Order of the Crown Württemberg..png Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown with Swords (Württemberg)
 * Order of the Most Holy Annunciation BAR.svg Knight, Supreme Order of the Most Holy Annunciation, Kingdom of Italy
 * Order of the Netherlands Lion ribbon - Knight.svg Knight, First Class, Order of the Netherlands Lion (Netherlands)
 * Ord.S.Stef.Ungh..png Knight Grand Cross, Royal Hungarian Order of Saint Stephen, Empire of Austria-Hungary
 * PRT Military Order of the Tower and of the Sword - Grand Cross BAR.png Knight Grand Cross, Order of Tower and Sword, Portugal
 * ROM Order of the Crown of Romania 1881 GCross BAR.svg Knight Grand Cross, Order of the Romanian Crown, Kingdom of Romania
 * OOSA.jpg Knight, Order of Saint Andrew, the First Called, Imperial Russia
 * Order of Glory (Ottoman Empire) - ribbon bar.png Knight, (star with diamonds) Nichan Iftikhar (Order of Glory, Ottoman Empire) - 21 October 1901 - during the visit to Istanbul of SMS Charlotte, where he served
 * Order of the Osmanie lenta.pngt, First Class (Star with diamonds), Order of Osmanieh (Ottoman Empire)
 * Order of the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar - ribbon bar.gif Knight First Class, Order of the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar, Sultanate of Zanzibar (Tanzania)
 * JPN Daikun'i kikkasho BAR.svg Grand Cordon, Supreme Order of the Chrysanthemum, Imperial Japan

Military Decorations

 * Gold and silver Imtiyaz Medals (Privilege, Ottoman Empire)
 * Gold Liakat Medal (Merit, Ottoman Empire) - 21 October 1901 - during the visit to Istanbul of SMS Charlotte, where he served
 * Iron Cross of 1914, 1st and 2nd class, Imperial Germany / Kingdom of Prussia

Death
Adalbert died in La Tour de Peilz, Switzerland, aged 64.

title: Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884–1948)


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Going-Ons
My contributions are greatly decreased as school starts for me, my sophomore year. So not much going on except for school fun! And of course I'll be sure to add more information to Wikipedia if I learn anything interesting Wikipedia doesn't have. ;)

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