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Bolt (2008 film)

Bolt is a 2008 American animated action-adventure film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It was directed by Chris Williams and Byron Howard (in their feature directorial debuts) and produced by Clark Spencer, from a screenplay written by Williams and Dan Fogelman. The film stars the voices of John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton, Malcolm McDowell, James Lipton and Greg Germann. This was also one of the final film roles for Lipton before his death in 2020, the other being Igor which was released the same year as Bolt.

The film's plot centers on a dog named Bolt, who has spent his entire life on the set of a television series and firmly believes that he has superpowers. When his beloved owner Penny is "kidnapped" on the show, Bolt runs away from the set to rescue her, eventually teaming up with sarcastic alley cat Mittens and a hamster named Rhino who is a fan of Bolt's television series, to embark on a cross-country journey back home.

Bolt premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, on November 17, 2008, and was released in the United States on November 21. Despite a relatively marginal box-office performance, the film received a strong positive critical reception. It is also regarded for helping to instigate a rebirth of Walt Disney Animation Studios, setting the studio on a new creative direction that led to other critically acclaimed features such as Tangled (2010) and Frozen (2013).

The film was nominated for a series of awards, such as the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film and Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.

Plot
A White Swiss Shepherd puppy named Bolt is adopted by a 7-year-old girl named Penny. Five years later, Bolt and Penny star in a hit television series named after Bolt, in which Bolt and Penny fight crime and foil the plans of the villain, Dr. Calico, who has kidnapped Penny's father, with Bolt using various superpowers in their adventures. To gain a more realistic performance from Bolt, the show's director has arranged the filming in such a way that Bolt believes everything in the show is real, including his invulnerability, super-strength, and percussive sonic "Superbark". This means Bolt can never leave the set and live as a normal dog, much to Penny's dismay. After a cliffhanger episode causes Bolt to believe Penny has been kidnapped, he escapes from his on-set trailer in Hollywood, but knocks himself unconscious and falls into a box of packing peanuts, which is then shipped to New York City.

Upon arrival in New York, Bolt is shocked to discover that his "superpowers" are useless. He encounters Mittens, a cynical feral cat who runs a protection racket for pigeons. Believing that Mittens is an "agent" of Calico, Bolt ties her to his collar with a leash, and forces her to guide him back to Penny. Meanwhile, in Hollywood, a less-experienced White Swiss Shepherd dog is brought in so filming can resume. Penny is distraught over Bolt’s disappearance, but reluctantly agrees to halt the search so production can continue.

Feeling hungry for the first time in his life, Bolt accepts Mittens' advice and behaves like a cute and needy stray, securing food for them both at an RV park where they are joined by Rhino, a fearless hamster and huge fan of Bolt. Rhino's description of Bolt's adventures causes Mittens to realize Bolt is from a TV show, but she is unable to convince Bolt of the truth. In frustration, Bolt repeatedly attempts to "superbark" Mittens, but the noise draws the attention of the local animal control service, and Bolt and Mittens are both captured and taken to a shelter.

Bolt, freed from the patrol van by Rhino, finally realizes and accepts that he is just a normal dog. However, he regains his confidence after Rhino (oblivious to this revelation) gives him a motivating speech, and they rescue Mittens from the shelter. As they travel west, Bolt and Mittens form a close friendship; she teaches him how to be an ordinary dog and enjoy typical dog activities. Mittens makes plans for the three of them to stay in Las Vegas, but Bolt is still determined to find Penny. Mittens reveals to Bolt that she was declawed and abandoned by her owners, and believes that no human truly "loves" their pet. Bolt vehemently disagrees with her, and continues on alone to Hollywood. After finding out about Bolt's departure, Rhino convinces Mittens to go to Hollywood and find him.

When Bolt reaches the studio, he finds Penny embracing the replacement dog during a rehearsal, and, believing that she has replaced him, leaves feeling heartbroken. Mittens, who has caught up to him and witnessed the events, reassures Bolt that Penny does love him. At the same time, the Bolt look-alike panics during the show's filming and accidentally knocks over lit tiki torches, setting the stage on fire with Penny trapped inside. Bolt arrives, and the two reunite inside the burning studio, but are unable to escape and Penny begins to suffocate from the smoke. Bolt stays with Penny and repeatedly barks into the building's air vent, alerting the firefighters to their location.

Bolt and Penny are rescued. Penny and her mother quit the show after Penny's agent proposes that they exploit the incident for publicity. The show continues with a replacement "Bolt" and "Penny" and a bizarre new storyline involving alien abduction. Penny adopts Mittens and Rhino, and they move to a rural home to enjoy a simpler lifestyle together.

Voice cast

 * John Travolta as Bolt, a White Swiss Shepherd
 * Miley Cyrus as Penny Forrester, the owner of Bolt
 * Chloë Grace Moretz as young Penny Forrester
 * Susie Essman as Mittens, the cynical stray tuxedo cat
 * Mark Walton as Rhino, a hamster who watches the Bolt TV show
 * Malcolm McDowell as Dr. Calico, a mad scientist and the main antagonist of the Bolt TV show
 * Nick Swardson as Blake, a pigeon in Hollywood
 * Diedrich Bader as Veteran Cat, a cat actor who portrays one of Dr. Calico's pet cats
 * Greg Germann as The Agent, an unnamed Hollywood agent that represents Bolt and Penny
 * James Lipton as The Director, the unnamed director of the Bolt TV series
 * Randy Savage as Thug, an underling of Dr. Calico on the Bolt TV series
 * Ronn Moss as Dr. Forrester, a doctor who tended to the fictional Penny's injuries
 * Kari Wahlgren as Mindy Parker, the broadcaster of the network that airs Bolt
 * Grey DeLisle as Penny's Mother
 * Sean Donnellan as Penny's TV dad, an unnamed scientist and Penny's fictional fatherin the Bolt TV series who enhanced Bolt
 * Todd Cummings as Joey, a pigeon in New York City
 * Lino DiSalvo as Vinnie, a pigeon in New York City who teaches Bolt how to get his head unstuck from the fence
 * Tim Mertens as Bobby, a pigeon in New York City
 * Dan Fogelman as Billy, a pigeon in Hollywood
 * J. P. Manoux as Tom, a pigeon in Hollywood
 * Brian Stepanek as Martin, an animal control officer
 * Jeff Bennett as Lloyd, an animal control officer who catches Bolt and Mittens
 * John DiMaggio as Saul, a pigeon in New York City who brings food to Mittens
 * Daran Norris as Louie, a pigeon in New York City who brings a crumb to Mittens
 * Jenny Lewis as the Assistant Director of the Bolt TV series

Development
In November 2002, Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, the directors of Lilo & Stitch (2002), had signed a multi-picture deal with Walt Disney Pictures. It was also reported Sanders was working on an untitled computer-animated film. Nearly a year later, in November 2003, the project had been titled American Dog. The plot centered on Henry, a famous canine star, who one day finds himself stranded in the Nevada desert with a testy, one-eyed cat and an oversized, radioactive rabbit who are themselves searching for new homes, all the while believing he is still on television. In August 2005, the project's conceptual artwork and synopsis were then showcased publicly at the annual SIGGRAPH conference. By November 2005, American Dog had been slated for a summer 2008 release.

Following the corporate acquisition of Pixar Animation Studios, John Lasseter and Ed Catmull had been respectively appointed as Chief Creative Officer and President of Walt Disney Animation Studios and Pixar. In the fall of 2006, Lasseter, along with other directors from Pixar and Disney, attended two screenings of the film and gave Sanders suggestive notes on how to improve the story. Catmull stated "somewhere along the way, the plot had also come to include a radioactive, cookie-selling Girl Scout zombie serial killer. I'm all for quirky ideas, but this one had metastasized." In December 2006, Sanders was removed from the project, and by early 2007, he had joined DreamWorks Animation. According to Lasseter, Sanders was replaced because he had resisted the changes that he and the other directors had suggested. Lasseter was quoted as saying "Chris Sanders is extremely talented, but he couldn't take it to the place it had to be." Earlier that same month, Disney had laid off about 160 employees within its animation division. Sanders said he had no ill will over being removed from the film, and hoped he could revisit some of his ideas in the future. He approved of the final film and the changes made, stating: "I think it would have been frustrating if the movie were essentially the same but with only slight changes. And I suppose my scenes and storylines are still sitting there on the shelf. I could actually pull them out and do them again. But it would be completely different."

In February 2007, Lasseter had confirmed Chris Williams and Byron Howard were the film's new directors. As directors, Williams focused on the story reels and layout while Howard tackled character design and animation. The radioactive rabbit and eyepatch-wearing cat characters were removed from the story while the dog Henry (now renamed Bolt) was redesigned into a White Shepherd with a lightning bolt-shaped patch that runs down the left side of his body. Furthermore, Lasseter ordered the American Southwest setting to be removed given his then-recent film Cars (2006) had a similar terrain. Following the story overhaul, the animation team was told to complete the animation in 18 months instead of the usual four years that is normally required to produce a computer-animated feature. On June 8, 2007, Disney announced that the film, now under its current name, would be released on November 21, 2008, in Disney Digital 3-D.

Animation
The look of the film was inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper and the cinematography of Vilmos Zsigmond. New technology in non-photorealistic rendering (NPR) was used to give it a special visual appearance, a technique later used in Tangled (2010). To give the film's 3D backgrounds a hand-painted look, the company artists used new patented technology designed specifically for the film.

Bolt's characteristics are based on an amalgam of breeds, although the designers started with the American White Shepherd. Joe Moshier, lead character designer, said, "they American White Shepherds have really long ears, a trait that I tried to caricature in order to allow the animators to emphasize Bolt's expressiveness."

The design of Rhino in his plastic ball was based on executive producer John Lasseter's pet chinchilla, which was brought to an animators' retreat during the film's production.

Music
The score to Bolt was composed by John Powell. The soundtrack featured the film's score and two original songs – "I Thought I Lost You" by Bolt's stars Miley Cyrus and John Travolta (nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song on 2009) as well as "Barking at the Moon" by Rilo Kiley singer Jenny Lewis. The soundtrack was released on November 18, 2008.

Motörhead's song "Dog-Face Boy" (from their Sacrifice album) is in a scene in which a mailroom worker is listening to it on headphones while inadvertently wrapping Bolt up in a box that gets shipped to New York City.

Release
Bolt had its world premiere on November 17, 2008, in Hollywood, Los Angeles, at the El Capitan Theatre. It was commercially released in theaters in the United States on November 21, 2008. By its fourth week in theaters, the film was accompanied by Pixar's Cars Toons short Tokyo Mater.

Home media
Bolt was released on Blu-Ray in the United States on March 22, 2009. The Blu-Ray combo set included a standard DVD and digital copy versions of the film. Single-disc DVD and Special Edition DVD with Digital Copy versions followed in Region 1 on March 24. This marked the first time a major home-video release debuted on Blu-ray Disc before DVD. Bolt was released on both Blu-ray and DVD in the United Kingdom on June 15, 2009.

A short film called Super Rhino is included in the DVD and Blu-ray versions of the film. By December 2009, the DVD has sold over 4.5 million copies, generating $81.01 million in consumer sales.

The 3D Blu-ray version of the film was released in November 2010, in France and UK. A month later, it was released worldwide exclusively to select Sony TVs. In the United States, it was released on November 8, 2011.

Box office
On its opening weekend, the film opened in third place, earning $26.2 million behind Twilight and Quantum of Solace. On its second weekend, it rose to second place, earning nearly $26.6 million behind Four Christmases. Overall, Bolt grossed $114.1 million in the United States and Canada and $195.9 million in international territories, totaling $310 million worldwide.

Critical reaction
Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale.

Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times wrote that Bolt was "a sweet Disney family film, but Lasseter's oversight has made it smarter than it otherwise would have been. It's not in Pixar's league, but it's laced with idiosyncratic characters with pleasantly wacky attitudes. That may sound like the obvious thing to do but that doesn't mean anyone else has done it." Michael Rechtshaffen of The Hollywood Reporter felt the film was a "notable step up for Walt Disney Animation Studios", although he felt the script needed "more of a comedic punch, with fuller character quirks and complexities to go along with the enhanced visual dimension." Nevertheless, Rechtshaffen complimented the vocal performances from Travolta, Cyrus, and Malcolm McDowell. Todd McCarthy, reviewing for Variety, noted the film was an "OK Disney animated entry enhanced by nifty 3-D projection" as it "bears some telltale signs of Pixar's trademark smarts, but still looks like a mutt compared to the younger company's customary purebreds."

A. O. Scott of The New York Times complimented the film as "a real movie[,] not a great one, perhaps, but a more organic and thought-out piece of work than the usual animated hodgepodge that lures antsy children and their dutiful parents into the multiplexes. It has its sentimental strains, but it doesn't push them too hard, or resort to the crude, pandering humor of, say, the Shrek franchise." Perry Seibert of TV Guide gave the film 3 stars out of 4 and wrote the film "amuses both those who make up the film's target audience and the parents along for the ride. This winning mix of exciting action, heart-tugging sentiment, and gentle character comedy makes Bolt yet another solid addition to Disney's history of family-friendly fare." Tasha Robinson of The A.V. Club gave the film a B+, stating that "Bolt is the studio's first film since Lilo & Stitch that feels like it's trying to recapture the old Disney instead of aggressively shedding it in favor of something slick and new. And yet it comes with a healthy cutting-edge Pixar flavor as well."

Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune awarded the film $1 1/2$ stars out of four, writing he personally "felt abandoned just watching it. It's a seriously withholding action comedy, stingy on the wit, charm, jokes, narrative satisfactions and animals with personalities sharp enough for the big screen, either in 2-D or 3-D. I saw it in 3-D, which helped, especially with an early, massively destructive chase through the streets and freeways of Los Angeles. Plus, the herky-jerky movements in the head and neck region of three credulous pigeons -- those were funny." Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal wrote: "I did not find Bolt lovable. Likable, yes, and occasionally endearing -- yet the best parts involve a hamster in a plastic ball. The movie dog's confusions are entertaining, though they're familiar to anyone who has seen Buzz Lightyear in Pixar's peerless Toy Story films. But the spunk of the hamster, a corpulent rodent named Rhino, is stirring, and there's a timeless purity to the spectacle of him scurrying around in his private little sphere."

Accolades
Bolt was nominated for the following awards:
 * 2008 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature – lost to WALL-E
 * 2008 Annie Award for Best Animated Feature – lost to Kung Fu Panda
 * 2008 Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Feature – lost to WALL-E
 * 2008 Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film – lost to WALL-E
 * 2008 Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film – lost to WALL-E
 * 2008 Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song - lost to The Wrestler
 * 2008 Online Film Critics Society Award for Best Animated Film – lost to WALL-E
 * 2008 Producers Guild of America's Best Animated Motion Picture – lost to WALL-E
 * 2008 Satellite Award for Best Animated or Mixed Media Feature – lost to WALL-E
 * 2009 Kids' Choice Awards for Favorite Animated Movie – lost to Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
 * 2009 Visual Effects Society Award for "Outstanding Animation in an Animated Feature Motion Picture" – lost to WALL-E
 * 2009 Visual Effects Society Award for "Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Feature Motion Picture" (two nominations for "Bolt" and "Rhino") – lost to WALL-E
 * 2009 Visual Effects Society Award for "Outstanding Effects Animation in an Animated Feature" – lost to WALL-E

Video games
Disney Interactive Studios produced a video game based on the film, released in November 2008 for Nintendo DS, Wii, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC. The game focuses on Bolt's fake TV life, not the actual storyline. A separate game was released for mobile phones, and a third game, RhinoBall, was released as an application on Apple's App Store.

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Bitmap index

A bitmap index is a special kind of database index that uses bitmaps.

Bitmap indexes have traditionally been considered to work well for low-cardinality columns, which have a modest number of distinct values, either absolutely, or relative to the number of records that contain the data. The extreme case of low cardinality is Boolean data (e.g., does a resident in a city have internet access?), which has two values, True and False. Bitmap indexes use bit arrays (commonly called bitmaps) and answer queries by performing bitwise logical operations on these bitmaps. Bitmap indexes have a significant space and performance advantage over other structures for query of such data. Their drawback is they are less efficient than the traditional B-tree indexes for columns whose data is frequently updated: consequently, they are more often employed in read-only systems that are specialized for fast query - e.g., data warehouses, and generally unsuitable for online transaction processing applications.

Some researchers argue that bitmap indexes are also useful for moderate or even high-cardinality data (e.g., unique-valued data) which is accessed in a read-only manner, and queries access multiple bitmap-indexed columns using the AND, OR or XOR operators extensively.

Bitmap indexes are also useful in data warehousing applications for joining a large fact table to smaller dimension tables such as those arranged in a star schema.

Example
Continuing the internet access example, a bitmap index may be logically viewed as follows:

On the left, Identifier refers to the unique number assigned to each resident, HasInternet is the data to be indexed, the content of the bitmap index is shown as two columns under the heading bitmaps. Each column in the left illustration under the Bitmaps header is a bitmap in the bitmap index. In this case, there are two such bitmaps, one for "has internet" Yes and one for "has internet" No. It is easy to see that each bit in bitmap Y shows whether a particular row refers to a person who has internet access. This is the simplest form of bitmap index. Most columns will have more distinct values. For example, the sales amount is likely to have a much larger number of distinct values. Variations on the bitmap index can effectively index this data as well. We briefly review three such variations.

Note: Many of the references cited here are reviewed at (John Wu (2007)). For those who might be interested in experimenting with some of the ideas mentioned here, many of them are implemented in open source software such as FastBit, the Lemur Bitmap Index C++ Library, the Roaring Bitmap Java library and the Apache Hive Data Warehouse system.

Compression
For historical reasons, bitmap compression and inverted list compression were developed as separate lines of research, and only later were recognized as solving essentially the same problem.

Software can compress each bitmap in a bitmap index to save space. There has been considerable amount of work on this subject. Though there are exceptions such as Roaring bitmaps, Bitmap compression algorithms typically employ run-length encoding, such as the Byte-aligned Bitmap Code, the Word-Aligned Hybrid code, the Partitioned Word-Aligned Hybrid (PWAH) compression, the Position List Word Aligned Hybrid, the Compressed Adaptive Index (COMPAX), Enhanced Word-Aligned Hybrid (EWAH) and the COmpressed 'N' Composable Integer SEt (CONCISE). These compression methods require very little effort to compress and decompress. More importantly, bitmaps compressed with BBC, WAH, COMPAX, PLWAH, EWAH and CONCISE can directly participate in bitwise operations without decompression. This gives them considerable advantages over generic compression techniques such as LZ77. BBC compression and its derivatives are used in a commercial database management system. BBC is effective in both reducing index sizes and maintaining query performance. BBC encodes the bitmaps in bytes, while WAH encodes in words, better matching current CPUs. "On both synthetic data and real application data, the new word aligned schemes use only 50% more space, but perform logical operations on compressed data 12 times faster than BBC." PLWAH bitmaps were reported to take 50% of the storage space consumed by WAH bitmaps and offer up to 20% faster performance on logical operations. Similar considerations can be done for CONCISE and Enhanced Word-Aligned Hybrid.

The performance of schemes such as BBC, WAH, PLWAH, EWAH, COMPAX and CONCISE is dependent on the order of the rows. A simple lexicographical sort can divide the index size by 9 and make indexes several times faster. The larger the table, the more important it is to sort the rows. Reshuffling techniques have also been proposed to achieve the same results of sorting when indexing streaming data.

Encoding
Basic bitmap indexes use one bitmap for each distinct value. It is possible to reduce the number of bitmaps used by using a different encoding method. For example, it is possible to encode C distinct values using log(C) bitmaps with binary encoding.

This reduces the number of bitmaps, further saving space, but to answer any query, most of the bitmaps have to be accessed. This makes it potentially not as effective as scanning a vertical projection of the base data, also known as a materialized view or projection index. Finding the optimal encoding method that balances (arbitrary) query performance, index size and index maintenance remains a challenge.

Without considering compression, Chan and Ioannidis analyzed a class of multi-component encoding methods and came to the conclusion that two-component encoding sits at the kink of the performance vs. index size curve and therefore represents the best trade-off between index size and query performance.

Binning
For high-cardinality columns, it is useful to bin the values, where each bin covers multiple values and build the bitmaps to represent the values in each bin. This approach reduces the number of bitmaps used regardless of encoding method. However, binned indexes can only answer some queries without examining the base data. For example, if a bin covers the range from 0.1 to 0.2, then when the user asks for all values less than 0.15, all rows that fall in the bin are possible hits and have to be checked to verify whether they are actually less than 0.15. The process of checking the base data is known as the candidate check. In most cases, the time used by the candidate check is significantly longer than the time needed to work with the bitmap index. Therefore, binned indexes exhibit irregular performance. They can be very fast for some queries, but much slower if the query does not exactly match a bin.

History
The concept of bitmap index was first introduced by Professor Israel Spiegler and Rafi Maayan in their research "Storage and Retrieval Considerations of Binary Data Bases", published in 1985. The first commercial database product to implement a bitmap index was Computer Corporation of America's Model 204. Patrick O'Neil published a paper about this implementation in 1987. This implementation is a hybrid between the basic bitmap index (without compression) and the list of Row Identifiers (RID-list). Overall, the index is organized as a B+tree. When the column cardinality is low, each leaf node of the B-tree would contain long list of RIDs. In this case, it requires less space to represent the RID-lists as bitmaps. Since each bitmap represents one distinct value, this is the basic bitmap index. As the column cardinality increases, each bitmap becomes sparse and it may take more disk space to store the bitmaps than to store the same content as RID-lists. In this case, it switches to use the RID-lists, which makes it a B+tree index.

In-memory bitmaps
One of the strongest reasons for using bitmap indexes is that the intermediate results produced from them are also bitmaps and can be efficiently reused in further operations to answer more complex queries. Many programming languages support this as a bit array data structure. For example, Java has the  class.

Some database systems that do not offer persistent bitmap indexes use bitmaps internally to speed up query processing. For example, PostgreSQL versions 8.1 and later implement a "bitmap index scan" optimization to speed up arbitrarily complex logical operations between available indexes on a single table.

For tables with many columns, the total number of distinct indexes to satisfy all possible queries (with equality filtering conditions on either of the fields) grows very fast, being defined by this formula:

 * $$ \mathbf{C}_n^\left [ \frac{n}{2} \right ] \equiv \frac{n!}{\left(n-\left [ \frac{n}{2} \right ]\right)! \left [ \frac{n}{2} \right ]!}$$.

A bitmap index scan combines expressions on different indexes, thus requiring only one index per column to support all possible queries on a table.

Applying this access strategy to B-tree indexes can also combine range queries on multiple columns. In this approach, a temporary in-memory bitmap is created with one bit for each row in the table (1 MB can thus store over 8 million entries). Next, the results from each index are combined into the bitmap using bitwise operations. After all conditions are evaluated, the bitmap contains a "1" for rows that matched the expression. Finally, the bitmap is traversed and matching rows are retrieved. In addition to efficiently combining indexes, this also improves locality of reference of table accesses, because all rows are fetched sequentially from the main table. The internal bitmap is discarded after the query. If there are too many rows in the table to use 1 bit per row, a "lossy" bitmap is created instead, with a single bit per disk page. In this case, the bitmap is just used to determine which pages to fetch; the filter criteria are then applied to all rows in matching pages.

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Bernardo Bilotta

Bernardo Bilotta (Arbërisht: Binard Bilota; November 29, 1843 – June 16, 1918) was an Italian priest, poet and folklorist of Arbëreshë descent.

Life and career
Born in Frascineto to Emanuele Bilotta and Francesca Martire, he studied in San Demetrio Corone and was ordained as a Byzantine rite priest in 1866. Interested in pedagogy and in classical and modern literatures and languages, he graduated as a school teacher and taught in elementary schools in Frascineto.

His commitment to the study and the preservation of the Arbëreshë language brought him to take part in some Arbëreshë linguistic congresses, notably to a congress held in Corigliano Calabro in 1895 and another congress held in Lungro in 1897.

As far as his poetical and writing career is concerned, Bilotta started composing in 1870 when he wrote Mercurio Dorsa. A few years later he began the epic poem La Spada di Skanderbeg a Dibre Inferiore, which he revised four times, from 1874 to 1890. Apart from his production of poems and poetry, he also wrote several philological works about the Albanian language, which he continued publishing until 1915.

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Slovene Canadians

Slovene Canadians (Kanadski Slovenci, literally 'Canadian Slovenes') are Canadian citizens of Slovene descent or Slovenian-born people who reside in Canada.

Notable Slovene Canadians

 * Alojzij Ambrožič, Catholic priest
 * Wade Belak, ice hockey player
 * Steve Bozek, ice hockey player
 * Lolita Davidovich, actress
 * Bill Hajt, ice hockey player
 * Chris Hajt, ice hockey player
 * John Jakopin, ice hockey player
 * Ed Kastelic, ice hockey player
 * Greg Kuznik, ice hockey player
 * Dean Malkoc, ice hockey player
 * Joe Mihevc, politician
 * Walter Ostanek, accordion musician
 * Kevin Pangos, basketball player
 * John Smrke, ice hockey player
 * Stan Smrke, ice hockey player
 * Tina Srebotnjak, television journalist
 * Matt Stajan, ice hockey player
 * Elvis Stojko, figure skater
 * Randy Velischek, ice hockey player
 * Walter Wolf, businessman

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Push

Push may refer to:

 * A type of force applied to an object

Music

 * Mike Dierickx (born 1973), a Belgian producer also known as Push

Albums

 * Push (Bros album), 1988
 * Push (Gruntruck album), 1992
 * Push (Jacky Terrasson album), 2010

Songs

 * "Push" (Enrique Iglesias song), 2008
 * "Push" (Avril Lavigne song), 2011
 * "Push" (Lenny Kravitz song), 2011
 * "Push" (Matchbox Twenty song), 1997
 * "Push" (Moist song), 1994
 * "Push" (Pharoahe Monch song), 2006
 * "Push", by Tisha Campbell and Vanilla Ice on Campbell's 1993 album Tisha
 * "Push", by The Cure on the 1985 album The Head on the Door
 * "Push", by Dio on the 2002 album Killing the Dragon
 * "Push", by Nick Jonas on the 2014 album Nick Jonas
 * "Push", by Madonna on the 2005 album Confessions on a Dance Floor
 * "Push", by Marianas Trench on the 2006 album Fix Me
 * "Push", by Sarah McLachlan on the 2003 album Afterglow
 * "Push", by Dannii Minogue on the 2003 album Neon Nights
 * "Push", by Prince on the 1991 album Diamonds and Pearls
 * "Push", by Smash Mouth on the 1997 album Fush Yu Mang
 * "Push", by Helloween on the 1998 album Better Than Raw

Film and television

 * Push (American TV series), a short-lived ABC 1998 TV series
 * Push (Canadian TV series), a 2023 Canadian documentary series
 * Push, Nevada, a mystery television series starring Derek Cecil
 * Push (2006 film), starring Chad Lindberg
 * Push (2009 film), a thriller starring Chris Evans and Dakota Fanning
 * Precious (film), a 2009 drama film previously titled Push and Push: Based on a Novel by Sapphire

Technology

 * Push email, a type of e-mail system
 * Push processing, a photographic technique
 * Push technology, a method of content delivery
 * A command used to add an entity to a stack
 * PSH (or PUSH), a flag in the Transmission Control Protocol
 * PuSH, shorthand for PubSubHubbub, former name for WebSub

Other

 * Push (novel), a 1996 novel by Sapphire
 * Push (professional wrestling)
 * PUSH (university guide), a British media organisation
 * Push the Talking Trash Can, a Disney theme park robot
 * Push, Iran, a village in Ardabil Province, Iran
 * Rainbow/PUSH, a social justice organization
 * A tie in the game of blackjack
 * Two meanings in contract bridge
 * A term in sports betting
 * Push approach in management, see push–pull strategy
 * Push, pseudonym of music journalist and author Christopher Dawes

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Karmel Kandreva

Karmel Kandreva (Carmelo Candreva; 1931–1982) was an Arbëresh writer and poet.

He was born in Cerzeto (Qanë) in Calabria, Italy. Among his published works is a study Didactic test in a bilingual Arberesh environment, about the right of the Arberesh people to cultivate their own language and to have it taught at schools.

He also published several poetical volumes.

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Giuseppe Schirò

Giuseppe Schirò (Arbërisht: Zef Skiroi; 10 August 1865 – 17 February 1927) was an Arbëresh neo-classical poet, linguist, publicist and folklorist from Sicily. His literary work marked the transition from the Arbëresh language to modern Albanian literature in Italy. He was a major protagonist of the Rilindja, the Albanian cultural awakening or Albanian Renaissance, in Italy.

Early life
Schirò was born in Piana dei Greci (now Piana degli Albanesi). While still young he was encouraged by his cousin Cristina Gentile Mandalà (1856–1919) to value his native Arbëreshë language and culture. She would assist him later in collecting local folktales and published a compilation of folktales herself. At the age of nine he wrote a poem inspired by nationalism and dedicated to Albania's most important national hero Skanderbeg.

In 1890, he graduated with a law degree at the University of Palermo. However, his main passion remained classical and Italian folklore and literature, which he taught in 1888–1894 at the Garibaldi secondary school in Palermo. At the university he befriended Luigi Pirandello, who would become a world-famous novelist and playwright.

Literary career
He wrote poems in both Italian and Albanian, and soon began to collaborate with literary and political writings in various periodicals. In 1887, he founded the magazine Arbri i rii (La giovine Albania/The young Albania), which was followed in 1890 with Archivio albanese (Albanian archive) and in 1904 with the short-lived La bandiera albanese (The Albanian flag).

His literary breakthrough was Rapsodie albanesi (Albanian Rhapsodies) in 1887, which made him known to Albanologists and Albanian patriots. In 1891, he published an imaginary love idyll Mili e Haidhia (Mili and Haidhia), which would eventually be published in three editions (1900 and 1907), including notes on traditions, legends, customs and traditions of Piana dei Greci. The work is considered to be a masterpiece of early 20th century Albanian verse and is probably his best work.

A collection of patriotic songs Kënkat e luftës (The songs of battle), dedicated to Albanian independence, came out in Palermo in 1897, followed by the historical idyll Te dheu i huaj (To the foreign land) in 1900 about the epic escape of Albanians in the 15th century from their homeland and their arrival in Sicily. He also published work on Arbëreshë folklore in Canti sacri delle colonie albanesi di Sicilia (Sacred Songs of the Albanian Colonies in Sicily) in 1907, and Canti tradizionali e altri saggi delle colonie albanesi di Sicilia (Traditional Songs and Other Essays of the Albanian colonies of Sicily) in 1923.

Academic career and politics
Schirò was a major protagonist of the Rilindja, the Albanian cultural awakening or Albanian Renaissance, in Italy. In October 1895, along with fellow Italo-Albanians Girolamo de Rada and Anselmo Lorecchio, he organised a congress on Albanian national, cultural and linguistic self-determination that convened in Corigliano Calabro and it was followed by a second congress in Lungro during February 1897. Schirò's views on the Albanian question during the late Ottoman period were in support of revolution against the empire so as to take advantage of sympathy toward Albanians in the European press and influence European diplomacy toward supporting an uprising. For Schirò, the existence of the Ottoman Empire was on borrowed time and he was against Albanian-Ottoman cooperation to safeguard Albanian interests as for him it was counterproductive to achieving Albanian independence.

In 1900 he was appointed professor of Albanian language and literature at the Istituto Regio Orientale (Royal Oriental Institute) in Naples, where he would remain until the end of his life. From 1912 to 1914 Schirò worked in Albania as an inspector for Italian schools. Those were the years of the birth of an independent Albania, proclaimed in November 1912 after nearly 500 years of Ottoman rule. Meanwhile, he had laid the foundation of the Società nazionale albanese (Albanian National Society) to affect public opinion in favour for the independence of Albania, and for the same purpose composed a poem Fiamuri i Arbërit (The Albanian flag) and the book "The Albanians and the Balkan question", both in 1904. While devotedly Albanian, Schirò also admired Italy's cultural potential. He often advocated Italy's role, with its strong Arbëreshë minority, as a protector of the weak Albanian state against the hostile intentions of its Balkan neighbours. In 1913, Schirò participated in the Albanian Congress of Trieste for recognition of the political and economic independence of Albania.

Schirò was fascinated with the early Fascist movement of Benito Mussolini. In Kënkat e litorit (The Songs of the Littoral), published in 1926, he glorified the rise of the movement. In local politics, he was an unyielding opponent of Nicola Barbato, the socialist leader of his hometown Piana dei Greci. He supported the local Mafia boss Francesco Cuccia for mayor in April 1922. Schirò publicly defended the Mafia administration of Cuccia several times, considering it "the most suitable for the peaceful development of the best qualities of its people," able to open "a new period in our history." In a speech from the balcony of City Hall, he praised Cuccia to have had the merit and the courage "to have done away with that red flag of socialism from our community."

Death and legacy
The death of his son Mino, murdered in a political intrigue in July 1920, cast a heavy shadow over his final years. He dedicated the poem "Mino" to his son's death. Schirò died on 17 February 1927 in Naples.

His absolute belief in fascist Italy as a potential protector and custodian of the culture of Albania conflicted with the aspirations of Albanian nationalists, which advocated absolute independence, including from Italy. Despite his accomplishments, Schirò was less appreciated by literary historians in Communist Albania and political criteria interfered with objective literary criticism.

Schirò is considered to be one of the greatest figures of contemporary Sicilian Arbëresh literature. According to the scholar in Albanian literature and folklore, Robert Elsie, Schirò “first succeeded in blending the romantic elements of Arbëresh folk verse with the artistic precision of Italian classical and neo-classical poetry to form a harmonious and balanced poetic corpus. What Girolamo De Rada had done for Arbëresh literature in the 19th century, Giuseppe Schirò accomplished in the 20th.”

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I've given this a rewrite rather than listing it as a copyvio - it was a direct copy and paste from http://www.hughdancyonline.com/id1.html  The JPS 23:20, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Vandalism
I see vandalism at this page, entire filmography has been deleted by User:GossipGirl16 as evident from page history. (Ekabhishek (talk) 14:01, 28 August 2008 (UTC))

Young Blades
Hugh filmed a pilot as D'artagnan for Young Blades 2001. However this was never aired. There -was- a show called Young Blades that lasted for 1 season, which is what the Young Blades on his filmography links to. On that page it has a small note that Hugh was in the unaired pilot, however I was a bit confused when I saw this (as I had watched the '05 show). Should we delink it with a note? Or is it fine to link it to the wrong show with the note there? That seems a bit unwieldy to me.Maladroitmortal (talk) 23:20, 15 October 2009 (UTC)

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Rooster (disambiguation)

A rooster is a male chicken.

Rooster, roosters, or The Rooster(s) may also refer to:

Places

 * Rooster River, Connecticut, USA; a river
 * Rooster Comb, a ridge in Coe State Park, California, USA
 * Rooster Rock State Park, Oregon, USA
 * Rooster Rock, a basalt column in Rooster Rock State Park
 * Rooster Bridge, Ljubljana, Slovenia; a footbridge

Food

 * Rooster potato, a red-skinned potato with floury yellow flesh
 * Rooster olives, a style of olives
 * Rooster bowl, a traditional Chinese pottery design
 * Big Rooster (restaurant), a chicken fast food chain in Papua
 * Rooster's Brewery, a small independent brewery in Knaresborough, North Yorkshire

Fictional characters

 * Rooster Bennett, from the Netflix show The Ranch
 * Rooster Cogburn (character), from the novel True Grit and film adaptations
 * Daniel "Rooster" Hannigan, from the musical Annie and adaptations

Film

 * Rooster (film), a 1982 American television film
 * The Rooster (film), a 2023 Australian film directed by Mark Leonard Winter
 * Roosters (film), a 1993 American film

Bands

 * Rooster (band), a British indie rock band, from London, formed in 2003
 * The Roosters, also known as The Roosterz, a Japanese rock band
 * The Roosters (Californian band), 1960s house band at the Cinnamon Cinder club
 * The Roosters, an American band headed by Jerry Butler, later changing their name to Jerry Butler & The Impressions
 * The Roosters, band of guitarist Eric Clapton before joining the Yardbirds

Albums and songs

 * Rooster (album), a 2005 album by the British band Rooster
 * "Rooster" (song), a song by Alice in Chains
 * "The Rooster", a song by OutKast from Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

Television

 * "Rooster", a 2005 episode of the animated television series 12 oz. Mouse
 * Roosters (Millennium), an ideological faction and episode in the television series Millennium

Sports

 * Rooster 8.1, a special rig for the Laser sailboat.
 * Rooster Sailing, a sailing wear company.

Sports teams

 * "Rooster", a nickname for, and the mascot of, the Brazilian football club Clube Atlético Mineiro
 * North Adelaide Roosters, an Australian rules football team in the South Australian National Football League (SANFL)
 * Altona Roosters, a rugby league team in Victoria, Australia
 * North Ballarat Roosters, an Australian rules football team in the Victorian Football League
 * Bligh Roosters, a rugby union team in Fiji
 * Bremen Roosters, a basketball team in Bremen, Germany
 * Des Moines Roosters, an Australian Football team in Iowa, USA
 * Fremantle Roosters, a rugby league club in Fremantle, Australia
 * Helsinki Roosters, A Finnish American football team in Helsinki, Finland
 * Iserlohn Roosters, an ice hockey club in Iserlohn, Germany
 * St Ives Roosters, a rugby league team in Cambridgeshire, UK
 * Nerang Roosters, a rugby league team in Queensland, Australia
 * Port City Roosters, a baseball team in North Carolina, USA
 * Richmond Roosters, a baseball team in Richmond, Indiana, USA
 * Rochester Roosters, a cross-state baseball team in Wisconsin-Minnesota, USA
 * Sabeto Roosters, a rugby league team in Fiji
 * Salford City Roosters, a British rugby league team in Manchester, England, UK
 * Saluzzo Roosters, an Italian rugby league team in Saluzzo, Piedmont, Italy
 * Sydney Roosters, an Australian rugby league team in the Australian National Rugby League (NRL)
 * Sydney Roosters Juniors
 * Te Atatu Roosters, a rugby league team in Te Atatu, New Zealand
 * Thirlmere-Tahmoor Roosters, a rugby league team in New South Wales, Australia

Other uses

 * Rooster (application), a mobile reading service for iOS7
 * Rooster (zodiac), the Chinese zodiac symbol
 * Rooster Men, a VietCong nickname for soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division
 * Operation Rooster 53, Israeli military operation

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/AmericaIsFull

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was DELETE. Golbez 08:23, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)

AmericaIsFull
Non-notable website. Alexa ranking of 2,766,360. RickK 23:21, Jun 9, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. What a repugnant article. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 00:08, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable. -- BD2412 talk 01:29, 2005 Jun 10 (UTC)
 * Delete - non-notable, created by vandal --FCYTravis 02:22, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, distasteful and non-notable. --Sn0wflake 03:18, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. America Is Full Of Shit. -R. fiend 03:49, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete non notable. JamesBurns 06:26, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Not notable. Sjakkalle (Check!)  09:17, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, but R. Fiend is full of shit. Seriously, do you think the U.S. is the only place this sort of thing happens? Meelar (talk) 14:09, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. --Dryazan 16:05, 10 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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Demetrio Camarda

Demetrio Camarda (Arbërisht: Dhimitër Kamarda; 22 October 1821, in Piana degli Albanesi – 13 March 1882, in Livorno) was an Arbëreshë linguist, patriot of the Arbëreshë, and publisher of Albanian folklore, with scientific knowledge also in the field of Indo-European linguistics.

Camarda, along with Girolamo De Rada were the main two initiators of the Italo-Albanian (Arbëreshë) cultural movement in Italy during the second half of the 19th century. He was the follower of the literary work already performed by Jeronim De Rada. His main work, Test of Comparative Grammar on Albanian Language is the first scientific work of comparative historic study on the topic. He made an important contribution with the publication of The Albanian general alphabet in 1869.

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Ćamil Sijarić

Ćamil Sijarić (18 December 1913 – 6 December 1989) was a Yugoslav novelist and short story writer. He enrolled in law school in 1936 and earned his degree four years later. Sijarić died in a car crash at the age of 75. His literally work introduced region of Sandžak and its rural Bosniak population into Yugoslav literature.

Life
He was born in Šipovice, near Bijelo Polje, in the Kingdom of Montenegro, to Muslim parents. He was of Albanian origin on his mothers side, and he considered Albanian to be native to him. Both of his parents died while he was a child. He was raised thereafter by his aunts and uncles. Sijarić enrolled in the University of Belgrade's Law School and earned his degree in 1940. He was both a member of Montenegrin Academy of Sciences and Arts, and Academy of Arts and Sciencies of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In addition to Serbo-Croatian, he spoke Albanian, Arabic, French and Russian.

During the Second World War, Sijarić worked as a clerk in the courts in Mostar, Bosanska Gradiška, Banja Luka and Sarajevo, cooperating all the time with the Unitary National Liberation Front of Yugoslavia. At the same time, he wrote and published poems in the Belgrade and Sarajevo magazines Žena danas and Gajret, and after the World War II also in Zora, Nova žena, Brazda, Oslobođenje.

His first literary work was Ram-Bulja (1953), which he first wrote in Albanian but then later translated and first it in published Bosnian. It was thereafter re-translated into Albanian shortly after because, according to Sijarić, the characters there themselves can be seen as Albanians. His most acclaimed work is the novel Bihorci (1955).

He spent most of his life in Skopje, Belgrade and later, Sarajevo, where he died in a car accident in 1989. However, almost all his major works are about Sandžak and the Bihor region around Bijelo Polje. His works have been translated in more than a dozen languages, including Russian, German and French.

Sijarić perished in a car crash in Sarajevo, shortly before his 76th birthday in December 1989.

Not long before his death, Sijarić wrote a poem called Znam (I Know), which appears to show him foreshadowing his own death:

Three schools bear the name of Ćamil Sijarić, in Sarajevo, Novi Pazar, and Nemila. Several cities—including Brčko, Novi Pazar, Podgorica, Tutin, and Nova Varoš—have streets named for Sijarić. In Novi Pazar, the Pero Ćamilo Sijarić literary prize is awarded, and in Bijelo Polje there is a Day of Remembrance for Ćamilo Sijarić. A fountain was built in his memory in his native village of Šipovice.

Works
Some of his most important works are:

 * Ram-Bulja (stories, 1953)
 * Bihorci (novel, 1956)
 * Zelen prsten na vodi (stories, 1957)
 * Naša snaha i mi momci (stories, 1962)
 * Kuću kućom čine lastavice (1962)
 * Mojkovačka bitka (novel, 1968)
 * Sablja (stories, 1969)
 * Na putu putnici (stories, 1969)
 * Zapisi o gradovima (travelogues, 1970)
 * Konak (novel, 1971)
 * Kad djevojka spava, to je kao da mirišu jabuke (stories, 1973)
 * Carska vojska (novel, 1976)
 * Raška zemlja Rascija (novel, 1979)
 * Francuski pamuk (stories, 1980)
 * Oslobođeni Jasenovac (memoirs, 1983)
 * Rimski prsten (stories, 1985)
 * Herceg-Bosno i tvoji gradovi (travelogues, 1986)
 * Lirika (poems, 1988)
 * Koliba na nebu (poems, 1990)
 * Drvo kraj Akova (stories, 1990)

Awards

 * Honorary citizen of Leningrad
 * Award of the Association of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1953)
 * First prize at the anonymous competition of the publishing company Narodna prosvjeta (1955)
 * Svjetlost Award for the best published story in that company 1945-1955 (1955)
 * Thirteenth of July Award (1971)
 * Award of the Society of Writers of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1962)
 * Ivo Andrić Award (1980)
 * Yugoslav award for the novel (1983)

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Moravské zemské muzeum

Moravské zemské muzeum (English: Moravian Museum) is a museum in Brno in the Czech Republic. It is the second-largest and second-oldest museum in the country. Its collections include several million objects from many fields of science and culture.

Location
The museum's seat is located in Dietrichstein Palace in Zelný trh in the historic centre of Brno. It was built as a residence of Cardinal Franz von Dietrichstein in 1613–1616. It was rebuilt in late Baroque style at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries and become one of the largest Baroque buildings in Brno.

History
The Moravian Museum was founded in July 1817 by a decree of Emperor Francis II. Science figures such as Christian Carl André, Count Josef Auersperg, Count Hugo-František Salm-Reifferscheid, or Antonín Bedřich Mitrovský were involved in the establishment of the museum.

Beethoven score manuscript
Following the Nazi invasion of Czechoslovakia, the Petschek family, a wealthy Czech Jewish family involved in banking and the mining industry, fled to the US. They attempted to send by post a prized family possession, the original score of the fourth movement of Beethoven's String Quartet No. 13. However, it was intercepted by the Gestapo. The Nazis asked an expert from the Moravian Museum to verify the authenticity of the score. The expert recognized Beethoven's handwriting, but in order to save the manuscript from being looted he lied to the Nazis and said it was not authentic. The Museum was then allowed to keep it. It remained with the Moravian Museum for more than 80 years.

The Nazis seized most of the Petschek family's assets and possessions, which Czechoslovakia's Communist regime nationalized after the war. Franz Petschek, who had run the family's mining businesses in Czechoslovakia, tried from his new home in the US to get the piece back but got scant sympathy from the Communist government.

In August 2022, the Moravian Museum di take the decision to return the manuscript to the heirs of the Petschek family, adhering to the Terezin Declaration which urged governments to make every effort to return former Jewish properties confiscated by the Nazis, fascists and their collaborators to their original owners. Before returning the Beethoven score, the museum exhibited it for five days. It had not been exhibited earlier during the museum's prolonged custody of it. The museum considered it one of the most precious items in its collections.

Exhibitions
The museum has several exhibition spaces in Brno:
 * Dietrichstein Palace
 * Bishop's Courtyard
 * Mendelianum
 * Palace of Noble Ladies
 * Anthropos Pavilion (created by Karel Absolon)
 * Mushroom Gatherers' Consultation Place
 * Leoš Janáček Memorial
 * Jiří Gruša House

The museum also owns and manages several monuments outside Brno:
 * Old Jevišovice Castle in Jevišovice
 * Budišov Castle in Budišov
 * Moravec Castle in Moravec
 * Memorial of Kralice Bible in Kralice nad Oslavou
 * Centre for Slavonic Archaeology in Uherské Hradiště

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2003 National Hockey League All-Star Game

The 2003 National Hockey League All-Star Game took place on February 2, 2003 at Office Depot Center in Sunrise, the home of the Florida Panthers. It was the first All-Star Game since the 1997 All-Star Game to use the Eastern Conference–Western Conference format.

NHL YoungStars Game
The All-Star festivities began on February 1 with the YoungStars Game, pitting the best rookies on League rosters against each other. Months ago, it was decided that the assistant coaches of the team with the best points percentages in their respective conferences through the games of Wednesday, January 8, were selected as coaches for the Eastern Conference and Western Conference YoungStars, respectively. The YoungStars players were selected by the NHL's Hockey Operations Department, in consultation with League general managers.

The game's format changed from the previous season as it will be played using five skaters and one goaltender per team. The duration of the game will consist of three 20-minute periods, running time with three-minute stops after goals with a 20-minute break between periods. If the score is tied after three periods, a sudden-death shootout will determine the winner.

The Washington Capitals' Brian Sutherby won the Most Valuable Player for the Eastern Conference YoungStars by scoring two goals and an assist as the East cruised to an easy 8–3 victory. Hometown favourite Stephen Weiss also scored a goal and an assist for the East to thrill the Panthers fans in attendance.

Super Skills Competition
A traditional event followed the YoungStars game, with the NHL Skills Competition. The Western Conference won the competition 15–9, made memorable by hard-shooting defenseman Al MacInnis of the St. Louis Blues winning his seventh Hardest Shot event, and Colorado Avalanche's Patrick Roy allowed only a single goal through both of the Goaltending Competitions.

Individual Event winners

 * Puck Control Relay – Martin St. Louis (Tampa Bay Lightning)
 * Fastest Skater – Marian Gaborik (Minnesota Wild) - 13.713 seconds
 * Accuracy Shooting – Jeremy Roenick (Philadelphia Flyers) - 4 hits, 4 shots
 * Hardest Shot – Al MacInnis (St. Louis Blues) - 98.9 mi/h
 * Goaltenders Competition – Patrick Roy (Colorado Avalanche) - 1 GA, 9 shots

The game
On Sunday, February 2, the actual All-Star Game began. The Eastern Conference was forced to name five injury replacements to their roster, as Ed Belfour, Brian Leetch, Mario Lemieux, Saku Koivu and Mats Sundin were all out with injury. The Atlanta Thrashers' Dany Heatley opened the scoring for the Eastern Conference by scoring past Colorado Avalanche's Patrick Roy just five and a half minutes into the first period.

Colorado's Peter Forsberg and Dallas Stars' Mike Modano scored the next two goals to give the Western Conference a 2–1 lead. However, Heatley would score his second consecutive goal on Roy, tapping in a rebound of a shot by Washington Capitals' Jaromir Jagr to tie the score at 2, a bit more than halfway through the first period. Five minutes later, Minnesota Wild's Marian Gaborik scored by banging in Los Angeles Kings' Mathieu Schneider's rebound past Tampa Bay Lightning's Nikolai Khabibulin to restore the Western lead at 3–2, which remained at the end of the first period. Goaltenders Roy and Khabibulin would then be replaced by Chicago Blackhawks' Jocelyn Thibault and New Jersey Devils' Martin Brodeur for the West and the East, respectively.

The change of goaltenders made little difference for Heatley, as he finished his hat trick with a wrist shot past Thibault to tie the game at 3. For the third consecutive time, the West replied when Vancouver Canucks' Ed Jovanovski caught a deflection off the skate of Washington Capitals' Sergei Gonchar. Heatley then scored his fourth goal of the game by converting a pass from hometown hero Florida Panthers' Olli Jokinen and shooting it over Thibault's glove. Heatley's four goals in an All-Star game tied the previous records of Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Vincent Damphousse and Mike Gartner. He also became the first player in All-Star history to score four goals with no one else scoring in between them.

No more goals were scored in the second period, and Ottawa Senators' Patrick Lalime came in to play goal for the Eastern Conference, while Dallas Stars' Marty Turco came in for the West. St. Louis Blues' Al MacInnis scored past Lalime's glove to give the West a 5–4 lead, a minute and a half into the third period.

Jokinen tied the game by taking a pass from Jaromir Jagr and skating in on a partial breakaway and putting a hard wrist shot past Turco to tie the game at 5. With ten minutes left in regulation, neither team were able to score on the two goaltender. The third period ended in a 5–5 tie and the winner of the 53rd NHL All-Star Game would have to be decided in overtime for the first time since 1988.

Patrick Lalime and Marty Turco remained in goal for the overtime, and preserved a scoreless extra period. For the first time in history, an NHL All-Star Game would be settled in a shootout. The Vancouver Canucks' Markus Naslund, Dallas Stars' Bill Guerin and the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim's Paul Kariya would score against Lalime for the Western Conference. On the other side, Turco only let in one goal in the shootout, which was scored by Dany Heatley. (Heatley's shootout goal did not count towards his regulation total of four, leaving him tied for the record.) The Western Conference won the game with a 6–5 shootout victory. Heatley, with a total of five points, was named All-Star MVP.

Uniforms
The NHL carried over the uniform design from the previous All-Star Game. Since the uniforms introduced the year before used the colors of the conference logos, the Western Conference used the same blue jersey worn by the 2002 North American team. However, due to the contrast issues from the 2002 game, the burgundy jersey worn by the World team was replaced with a white version worn by the Eastern Conference team. Both uniforms continued to feature black as the primary trim color, with silver and white accents. The player names and numbers on the back of the Western team's uniforms were rendered in black, however, leaving the uniforms completely devoid of the conference's burgundy color. Both teams continued to wear flag patches representing each player's homeland on the left shoulder. This would be the last use of national flags on the All-Star uniforms to date.

Summary

 * Referees: Dennis LaRue, Dan O'Halloran
 * Linesmen: Jean Morin, Tim Nowak
 * Television: ABC, CBC, SRC

National Anthems
Canadian country singer Paul Brandt sang the Canadian national anthem while Latin singer and Florida native Jorge Moreno sang the American national anthem.

Rosters

 * Notes

 * Brian Leetch was voted as a starter, but was unable to play due to injury. Tom Poti was selected as his replacement, while Scott Stevens was named as his replacement in the starting lineup.
 * Sandis Ozolinsh was chosen as a member of the Florida Panthers, but was traded to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim two nights before the game. The public address announcement was: "From your Florida Panthers but now playing for the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, #8 Sandis Ozolinsh!!"
 * Mario Lemieux was voted as a starter, but was unable to play due to injury. Vincent Lecavalier was selected as his replacement, while Jeremy Roenick was named as his replacement in the starting lineup.
 * Mats Sundin was selected, but was unable to play due to injury. Olli Jokinen was named as his replacement.
 * Ed Belfour was selected, but was unable to play due to injury. Patrick Lalime was named as his replacement.
 * Saku Koivu was selected, but was unable to play due to injury. Miroslav Satan was named as his replacement.


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Atlantic Line

The following railroad lines have been called the Atlantic Line or a similar name:

 * The Atlantic Branch of the Long Island Rail Road in New York City
 * The Atlantic Avenue Elevated line of the Boston Elevated Railway
 * The Atlantic City Line of New Jersey Transit
 * The southern pair of tracks of the South London Line
 * The Atlantic Coast Line, Cornwall

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Taymuraz Mamsurov

Taymuraz Dzambekovich Mamsurov (Таймура́з Дзамбе́кович Мамсу́ров, Мамсыраты Дзамбеджы фырт Таймураз; b. April 13, 1954) is the former head of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia. He succeeded Alexander Dzasokhov, who voluntarily quit his post on May 31, 2005.

Biography
A graduate of the North Caucasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Mamsurov has also obtained a degree in history from the Academy of Social Sciences at the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). He made his career in the Komsomol, "Communist Union of Youth", in the 1970s and advanced through the ranks of the CPSU in the 1980s. He was elected a deputy chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania in 1994 and was then put in charge of the administration of the republic's Pravoberezhny district in 1995. He chaired the North Ossetian government from February 1998 to October 2000 and the republic's parliament from October 19, 2000 until June 7, 2005, when he was approved, at the initiative of the then-President of Russia Vladimir Putin, as the Head of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania. Mamsurov has been allied with Putin and holds a position in the United Russia party's Supreme Council as well as in the Presidium of Russia's State Council.

Mamsurov's official biography credits him with economic successes in the republic and describes him as a "centrist" politician with liberal views.

Mamsurov's rule in North Ossetia coincided with a deterioration of the relations with the neighboring republic of Ingushetia with which Ossetians fought a war over the Prigorodny district early in the 1990s. He has accused the Ingushetian authorities of deliberately stirring up the dispute between the two republics and waging an "information war" against North Ossetia. Mamsurov also supports closer cooperation with South Ossetia, Georgia's breakaway region which seeks integration with Russia though a union with North Ossetia. In July 2008, he accused the Western diplomats of plotting a "Jesuitical plan" of uniting South Ossetia and North Ossetia into a single entity in order to then push it into NATO through Georgia.

Personal life
Mamsurov is married, and he has three children. His hobbies are philosophy and history.

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Robin Moore

Robert Lowell Moore Jr. (October 31, 1925 – February 21, 2008) was an American writer who wrote The Green Berets, The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy, and with Xaviera Hollander and Yvonne Dunleavy, The Happy Hooker: My Own Story.

Moore co-authored the lyrics for "The Ballad of the Green Berets", which was one of the major hit songs of 1966. The song was featured in the 1968 film The Green Berets, based on Moore's book, which starred John Wayne. A new edition of The Green Berets was published in April 2007, and his last book, Wars of the Green Berets, co-authored with Col. Mike 'Doc' Lennon, was released in June 2007.

Moore was convicted of tax fraud in 1986. At the time of his death, he was living in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, home to Fort Campbell and the 5th Special Forces Group, where he was working on his memoirs and three other books.

Early life and career
Born in Boston, Moore was raised in Concord, Massachusetts, where he attended Middlesex School. He also attended Belmont Hill School.

During World War II, he served as a nose gunner in the U.S. Army Air Forces, flying combat missions in the European Theater. For his service, he was awarded the Air Medal. Moore graduated from Harvard College in 1949, and one of his first jobs was working in television production and then at the Sheraton Hotel Company co-founded by his father, Robert Lowell Moore. While working in the hotel business in the Caribbean, he recorded the early days of Fidel Castro in the nonfiction book The Devil To Pay.

Training with Special Forces
Due to connections with Harvard classmate Robert F. Kennedy, (Harvard class of 1948), Moore (Harvard class of 1949) was allowed access to the U.S. Army Special Forces to write about this elite unit of the United States Army. General William P. Yarborough insisted that Moore go through special forces training to better understand "what makes Special Forces soldiers 'special'." He trained for nearly a year, first at "jump school" for airborne training before completing the Special Forces Qualification Course or "Q course", becoming the first civilian to participate in such an intensive program. Afterwards, Moore was assigned to the 5th Special Forces Group on deployment to South Vietnam. His experiences in-country formed the basis for The Green Berets, a bestseller that helped secure him international acclaim (see United States Army Special Forces in popular culture).

Later writings
During the 1970s and '80s, Moore travelled widely, spending time in such places as Dubai, Iran, Rhodesia, and Russia. Having gathered the information needed, he wrote The Crippled Eagles (later published as The White Tribe) and The Moscow Connection. Due to political controversy, The Crippled Eagles was rejected by publishers and did not appear until the early 1990s. He also wrote the nonfiction books Rhodesia and Major Mike (with U.S. Army Major Mike Williams).

While researching what became The Crippled Eagles, in 1976 Moore established what he called the "Unofficial US Embassy" in Salisbury, and began hosting events for the American volunteers who were serving in the Rhodesian Security Forces as well as doctoral students. He encouraged the volunteers to call themselves 'Crippled Eagles' due to the mistaken perception that they were being harassed, or could be harassed, by their government. Moore also sold t-shirts, sew-on patches and other merchandise using the 'Crippled Eagle' motif. During the same year, he also wrote a book that argued that Rhodesia was not racist and included profiles of foreign volunteers in the country.

Tax evasion
In April 1986, Moore pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States for participating in a scheme involving means of roughly $37 million in literary tax shelters which generated fraudulent tax losses for over 1,000 individual U.S. taxpayers involving paperback books whose value had been artificially inflated, thus facilitating claims for false depreciation deductions and tax credits. He was sentenced to five years of probation fined $500, and ordered to serve 300 hours of community service.

Uzbekistan and Iraq
Moore travelled to Uzbekistan in December 2001 to research the CIA-Northern Alliance war against the Taliban and al-Qaeda, publishing the account in the bestseller The Hunt for Bin Laden.

In 2003, continuing his interest in writing about the war on terror, Moore traveled to Iraq to research Operation Iraqi Freedom and the downfall of the Saddam Hussein regime for his book, Hunting Down Saddam. Before his death, he completed The Singleton: Target Cuba with Ret. USASF Major General Geoffrey Lambert, a novel about Fidel Castro and biological warfare.

The Hunt For Bin Laden veracity
Shortly after the publication of The Hunt for Bin Laden, the veracity of the book was disputed, particularly regarding the involvement of Jack Idema. Idema, who was one of Moore's major sources, provided what later proved to be fabricated accounts of his exploits. To portray himself as having a greater role in the operation, Idema apparently went as far as to rewrite much of Moore and Chris Thompson's text prior to publication under the direct authorization of Random House editor Bob Loomis. Special Forces soldiers who were on the mission (including those whom Moore interviewed) disputed Idema's claims.

With Idema thus discredited, Moore eventually disavowed The Hunt for Bin Laden and the book remains out of print. Despite the dispute over the book's veracity, Moore continued to enjoy the respect of the Special Forces community.

Film
The Green Berets is a 1968 film based on Moore's 1965 book. Parts of the screenplay bear little relation to the novel, although the portion in which a woman seduces a Vietnamese communist leader and sets him up to be kidnapped by Americans is from the book. John Wayne requested and obtained full military co-operation and materiel from President Johnson. To please the Pentagon, which was attempting to prosecute Robin Moore for revealing classified information, Wayne bought Moore out for $35,000 and 5% of undefined profits of the film.

Other

 * Creator of the comic strip Tales of the Green Beret and the book The Man with the Silver Oar
 * Co-screenwriter for the film Inchon about the Inchon landing during the Korean War
 * Co-founder of the Crippled Eagles club in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) for expatriate Americans serving with the Rhodesian Security Forces

Honors
At the 2007 5th Special Forces Group reunion banquet, Col. Chris Conner confirmed Moore as a lifelong member of 5th SFG. At the same banquet, Moore was made a Kentucky colonel.

Death and burial
Robin Moore died in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, on February 21, 2008, after a long illness. A memorial service was held in the First Presbyterian Church in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Eulogies were given by Major General Victor J. Hugo Jr., Major General Thomas R. Csrnko, Alexander N. Rossolimo, and Moore's brother John. A Presidential citation was presented to Helen Moore by General Hugo. Full military honors were rendered immediately after the service by a complement of 5th Group Special Forces soldiers from Fort Campbell.

Moore was cremated and his remains were interred in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (Concord, Massachusetts) with full military honors rendered again by a complement of Special Forces soldiers from the 5th Group of Fort Campbell and this time the Concord Independent Battery delivered gun salutes. This was followed by a sounding of Echo Taps.

Major General Gary L. Harrell, deputy commanding general of the United States Special Operations Command, issued this statement in praise of Moore: "All Special Forces Soldiers, past and present, mourn the passing of Robin Moore; he was a valued and trusted member of the Special Operations family. Robin was a devoted advocate and a true Ambassador for the 'Green Beret' and all they stand for.

His writings on Special Forces are textbooks for our modern Unconventional Warriors; they were both educational and inspirational and introduced the world to the 'Green Berets.' He will be missed."

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Talk:GameSurge

Useful channels
What is the definition of a useful channel? --Spook (my talk 10:55, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

 * I'd say "useful" in terms of user popularity TunkeyMicket 00:47, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

 * I wouldn't call idlerpg usefull. #g4tv and startrek20 are usefull Loompyloompy313 02:00, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Maybe it'd be best if it was renamed to and only contained Official Channels? "Useful" is rather biased.  For instance, #g4tv and #startrek20 seem rather useless to me, since I've never been in them.  To be honest, I don't hang out in any of the "Other Useful Channels"…  --BarkerJr 02:24, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Two sections? Useful and Most Popular? I'll go ahead and section them off as such. TunkeyMicket 22:46, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I'd add in #startrek20, since when Star Trek 2.0 is on, it ususally heavily populated

Bot Services
Removed the bot services section due to none of the channels having official sanction and a few of the channels having little importance to the entire network. ClanBots could possibly remain, the rest should not. TunkeyMicket 14:37, 20 May 2006 (UTC)

Known attacks
Should we add in a list of known attacks to GameSurge servers. Around 20:51 today, amost everyone was in a netsplit. Should we? Loompyloompy313 02:10, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
 * IRC networks are attacked constantly, for various reasons. I don't see why it should be noted in the article as such attacks aren't limited to any single network.
 * The last MAJOR network breakdown was when that 'variant' kid got pissed off (was around a year ago if I recall) and the whole network was unstable for months.
 * Also, you could have just been on the far side of a split. That will happen a lot if you use NuclearFallout. :) Kurt 07:16, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Neutral issues
The history of the Network comes off as in Donald owned the servers associated with the network. Unfortunately due to the lack of popularity of Donald, the real people who owned those servers didn't follow him to his now useless network. There was no missleading, I was well aware of the situation. In fact, there was no misleading anyone, people remained on the servers that chose to keep themselves associated with the people behind Gamesurge. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.34.199.145 (talk) 4:25, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
 * This was resolved back in April. Removed POV template.  --BarkerJr (talk) 05:22, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

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Talk:Charles Coburn

Cleanup tag
I think the article is too fractured, with several one sentence "paragraphs" and such.--Jfurr1981 17:19, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Political mixup?
If he was so right wing, why does it say he was opposed to Fascism as well as Communism? Was he a rabid middle-of-the-roader? That would be a first. Clarityfiend 00:40, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

 * As far as I know in the 40s and 50s the Ven diagram of staunch Republicans and members ofd Citizens Councils was about zero. Coburn would be a big exception. Maybe he supported Dewey over Truman because of Truman desegregating the military, but this needs more work Hugo Lane (talk) 04:01, 18 February 2024 (UTC)

Grandson??
Is it true that Charles was the grandson of James Coburn? I have read biographical sketches of both that omit this.
 * I have no idea. I found a couple of sites, such as this one, that claim he is, but I'm going to tag the claim in the main article. Clarityfiend 01:30, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

Grandson?????

I believe you meant to ask is Charles Coburn the GRANDFATHER of James Coburn. My grandfather was Charles Coburn's cousin. I do not believe that he was. It has never been mentioned by any family members. --75.216.19.87 (talk) 14:41, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

I think there is ANOTHER Charles Coburn, a British music-halls inger famous for his song "two lovely black eyes' at the beginning of the twentieth century ....Johncmullen1960 (talk) 14:59, 12 September 2008 (UTC)

Fact, not fiction, please
"burned at the stake during the witchhunt"? I don't think so. Cunningpal 12:10, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Edison, the Man
Shouldn't Edison, the Man be added to the selected filmography? Psalm 119:105 (talk) 12:51, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Widow
I believe that Winifred Coburn (nee' Natzka) did not die in 1998, and that she remains very much alive!

 * She certainly could be alive, but she'd be 90 now. Do you have any proof that she did not die on 11 December 1998, as we're currently saying?  --   Jack of Oz   [your turn]  07:37, 10 September 2011 (UTC)

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Talk:2005 Ethiopian general election

22 killed
The article says 22 people were shot. But IIRC, at least 22 people were said to be killed in the violence, with presumably many more shot. --Open4D 23:28, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Early opposition gains
Can someone supply an eternal source for this claim: "By the afternoon of the 16th of May, the opposition was halfway towards winning a majority in the national parliament with only about a third of the constituencies reporting complete results."

I think it should also be mentioned that from the start the opposition had been expected to do much better in the cities than in the countryside, and that early results were largely from urban areas. No opposition supporters I spoke with at the time expected their early lead to persist once the rural results came in.

I am not a pro-government hack and welcome honest attempts from all sides to clarify the facts. But up to now I've found most online coverage outside Ethiopia a) biased in favor of the CUD and b) poorly supported by impartial sources. This is important disputed history and what's most needed is evidence. -Jacob Eliosoff 19:39, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Well, a) there's a great deal of suspicion that the 2005 elections were stolen by the EPRDF and b) this is reflected in the sources that we have access to in writing this article. If you could point contributors to less biased sources, I for one would make use of them in improving this & related articles. -- llywrch 03:44, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

Election results sources
Not clear how to document this, but the final election tallies are based on counting membership & representation of the 2005 Ethiopian Parliament; also, before I changed the table, I found that the numbers listed there added up to far more than 527. This information is available at http://www.ethiopar.net/English/hopre/horstrct.htm. -- llywrch 03:44, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

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John Mayasich

John Edward Mayasich (Croatian: Meašić; born May 22, 1933) is an American former ice hockey player of Croatian descent. He was a member of the U.S. ice hockey team that won a silver medal at the 1956 Winter Olympics and a gold medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics. He also played for Team USA at the IIHF World Championships in 1958, 1961, 1962 (when he was voted best defenseman), 1966 and 1969. He was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame in 1997.

While attending the University of Minnesota, Mayasich set the NCAA tournament record for most points scored in a game with eight against Michigan in 1954. Mayasich won the Western Collegiate Hockey Association scoring title in 1954 and 1955 and was an All-American three years in a row at his university.

Mayasich was inducted into the United States Hockey Hall of Fame in 1976 and the Wisconsin Hockey Hall of Fame in 1989. Number 8 has been retired in his honor by the Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey program, the only former Golden Gopher to be so honored. In 2011, Mayasich was ranked No 1 on the Minneapolis Star Tribune's list of "Minnesota's 100 Greatest Players in High School Hockey History".

Career
Mayasich was born in Minnesota, to Croatian parents who had immigrated from the former Yugoslavia.

He attended Eveleth High School in Eveleth, Minnesota, and participated in a number of sports. During his high school hockey career, he set many individual records and helped his team achieve additional team records that stand even today. Among those records are the 46 total points he recorded at numerous state tournament games and helping his team win four consecutive state championships from 1948 to 1951.

Mayasich played on both the 1956 Olympic silver medal team in Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, and the 1960 Olympic Gold Medal team in Squaw Valley, California.

He is the Minnesota Gophers' all-time leading scorer with 144 goals and 154 assists in 111 games played, an average of about 1.3 goals per game. Mayasich also held scoring records in the high school ranks. While he still holds most state tournament records, a pair of Gophers, Dave Spehar and John Pohl, have since broken his all-time career scoring mark. Coach Doug Woog pointed out, "We drew the parallel with Dave Spehar," Woog said. "He (Spehar) was the most contemporary state tournament phenom; he had three hat tricks. John had seven. His numbers are phenomenal."

Despite his stellar accomplishments in college and international hockey, Mayasich never got any offers to pursue an NHL career. "It wasn't a source of bitterness, since no college players were being given a chance," he later told Sports Illustrated in 1999 ,"but there's still regret, even to this day, not knowing if I could have done it." Mayasich did briefly play some minor league hockey for the St. Paul Saints and Minneapolis Millers as well as permanently for the amateur Green Bay Bobcats, earning extra money, but his professional career was in the broadcasting industry. After earlier positions, John joined Hubbard Broadcasting, Inc. (St. Paul) as General Manager of KS95 FM, guiding its growth to become one of the highest-rated major market FMs in the country. In 1983, Mayasich was promoted to President of Hubbard's radio division and served in that position until his retirement in 1997. He has remained active as a consultant to Hubbard.

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Talk:Tony Carr

Still reads too much like a magazine article. --Mintie 23:30, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Beseech

Beseech is a gothic metal band from Borås, Sweden. They disbanded in 2006, and re-formed with a different line-up at the end of 2013.

Current Lineup

 * Robert Vintervind – guitar, programming, arrangements (1992–2006) (2013–present)
 * Klas Bohlin – guitar and backing vocals (1992–2003), vocals (2013–present)
 * Manne Engström – guitar (2004–2006) (2013–present)
 * Angelina Sahlgren Söder – vocals (2013–present)
 * Johan Örnborg – bass guitar (2013–present)
 * Håkan Carlsson – drums (2013–present)

Past members

 * Erik Molarin – vocals (2001–2006)
 * Lotta Höglin – vocals (2000–2006)
 * Jonas Strömberg – drums (1999–2006)
 * Daniel Elofsson – bass guitar (1999–2006)
 * Mikael Back – keyboard (1997–2006)
 * Jörgen Sjöberg – vocals (1992–1998) (1999–2001)
 * Nicklas Svensson – drums (1998–1999)
 * Andreas Wiik – bass guitar (1994–1998)
 * Morgan Gredåker – drums (1992–1998)
 * Anna Andersson – keyboard and vocals (1994–1996)
 * Tony Lejvell – bass guitar (1992–1994)

Live members

 * Conny Pettersson - drums (2002)

Demos

 * A Lesser Kind of Evil (1992)
 * Last Chapter (1994)
 * Tears (1995)
 * Beyond the Skies (2001)

Studio albums

 * ...From a Bleeding Heart (1998)
 * Black Emotions (2000)
 * Souls Highway (2002)
 * Drama (2004)
 * Sunless Days (2005)
 * My Darkness, Darkness (2016)

Videos

 * "Manmade Dreams" (2000)
 * "Between the Lines" (2002)
 * "Innerlane" (2005) *
 * "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" (Live 2006)
 * "Highwayman" (2015)
 * "The Shimmering" (2016)

Singles

 * "Beating Pulse" (2015)

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User:GCNmaster22

To start off this thing here, I am a video game and computer freak. I'm not the best though, but i'm good. I go online almost every day and play video games quite often. I have a DS, a GCN, and a GBA. I used to have a playstation but it broke. I really like to draw and chibi links are my specialty. When i'm not online or playing video games i'm listening to rock music. Metallica, Linkin Park, and System of a Down are my current favorites. I also enjoy watching 2 television shows: Alias and Lost.

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Jeremy Newberry

Jeremy David Newberry (born March 23, 1976) is an American former professional football player who was a center in the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the second round of the 1998 NFL draft. He was born in Antioch, California, and played college football for the California Golden Bears.

Newberry has also played for the Oakland Raiders and San Diego Chargers.

Currently, Newberry works as the KPIX 5 NFL Analyst.

San Francisco 49ers
Newberry joined the 49ers in 1998, but missed the first nine weeks of the season after suffering a torn ACL in offseason mini-camp. He was inactive for the rest of the season as well. In 1999 he started all 16 games, first at right tackle then at right guard. In 2000 he started every game again, taking over center duties when Chris Dalman suffered a career-ending neck injury in offseason training camp. In 2000, his first season playing center in the NFL, the offensive line was third in the league, allowing only 25 sacks. Newberry was put on injured reserve after major microfracture surgery on his left knee in August 2006.

Newberry was regarded as a tough, tenacious blocker with great technique in both run and pass protection. He was also the leader of the offensive line. On two occasions, Newberry was awarded the 49ers' "Bobb McKittrick award", which is given to the team’s offensive lineman who best exemplifies dedication, excellence and commitment.

Oakland Raiders
On March 6, 2007, Newberry was signed by the Oakland Raiders. He started all 14 games in which he appeared for the 4–12 Raiders that season, replacing Jake Grove, before becoming a free agent the following offseason.

San Diego Chargers
On June 2, 2008, Newberry signed with the San Diego Chargers. He started three games for the Chargers.

Atlanta Falcons
Newberry signed with the Atlanta Falcons on June 15, 2009. In July 2009, he retired. The Atlanta Falcons organization did not confirm the reports.

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Joni Mitchell "The Hissing of Summer Lawns" 1975

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Heldentenor

A heldentenor (English: heroic tenor), earlier called tenorbariton, is an operatic tenor voice, most often associated with Wagnerian repertoire.

It is distinct from other tenor fächer by its endurance, volume,  and dark timbre, which may be, in its middle register, like that of a baritone. The voice may also sound clear or metallic. It is one of the rarest voice types in opera. Heldentenor roles, such as the title roles in Siegfried and Lohengrin, often require commanding stage presence and strong acting ability. In some cases, due to reasons such as voice misidentification, singers may begin their careers as baritones before later transitioning. The term heldentenor may be used to refer to both a singer and their voice.

The treble counterpart of the heldentenor is the Wagnerian soprano.

Roles
The following roles are in the standard heldentenor repertoire:

Richard Wagner

 * Lohengrin, Lohengrin
 * Parsifal, Parsifal
 * Rienzi, Rienzi
 * Siegfried, Siegfried and Götterdämmerung
 * Siegmund, Die Walküre
 * Tannhäuser, Tannhäuser
 * Tristan, Tristan und Isolde
 * Walther von Stolzing, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Richard Strauss

 * Aegisth, Elektra
 * Apollo, Daphne
 * Bacchus, Ariadne auf Naxos
 * Guntram, Guntram
 * Herodes, Salome
 * Der Kaiser (The Emperor), Die Frau ohne Schatten
 * Menelaus, Die ägyptische Helena

Other

 * Aeneas, Les Troyens (Berlioz)
 * Florestan, Fidelio, (Beethoven)
 * Otello, Otello (Verdi)
 * Paul, Die tote Stadt (Korngold)
 * Peter Grimes, Peter Grimes (Britten)
 * Samson, Samson et Dalila (Saint-Saëns)
 * Tambourmajor (Drum Major), Wozzeck (Berg)

Germany

 * Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld
 * Peter Hofmann
 * Siegfried Jerusalem
 * Heinrich Knote
 * René Kollo
 * Max Lorenz
 * Albert Niemann
 * Johannes Sembach
 * Georg Unger
 * Wolfgang Windgassen

Northern, Central, and Western Europe

 * Karel Burian
 * Lauritz Melchior
 * Karl Aagaard Østvig
 * Jean de Reszke
 * Erik Schmedes
 * Leo Slezak
 * Set Svanholm
 * Josef Tichatschek
 * Jacques Urlus
 * Christopher Ventris
 * Walter Widdop

North and South America

 * Richard Cassilly
 * Stephen Gould
 * Ben Heppner
 * James King
 * Gary Lakes
 * Robert Dean Smith
 * Jon Vickers
 * Ramon Vinay

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Leslie Byrne

Leslie Larkin Byrne (née Beck; born October 27, 1946) is an American businesswoman and politician. In 1992, she became the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives from the Commonwealth of Virginia. A member of the Democratic Party, she served for one term (1993–1995) in the 103rd Congress.

Early life and career
Byrne was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, the daughter of Stephen and Shirley Beck. Byrne grew up in Salt Lake City and attended both the University of Utah and Mount Vernon College in Ohio. After her family moved to Northern Virginia in 1971, she became active with several community organizations, including the Parent Teacher Association for her children's schools, the Fairfax Area League of Women Voters and the Fairfax County Commission on Fair Campaign Practices.

In 1985, Byrne co-founded Quintech Associates, Inc., a human resources consulting firm. She served as president of Quintech until her election to Congress in 1992.

Virginia House
Byrne served in the Virginia House of Delegates for six years, having defeated two-term Republican incumbent Gwen Cody in 1985. In this role, she supported public/private partnerships for transportation, including the Dulles Greenway project.

Tenure in Congress
In 1992, Virginia was awarded an additional House seat as a result of the 1990 U.S. Census. Byrne ran for Congress that year in the newly created Virginia's 11th congressional district. When she won that race, she became the first woman elected to Congress from Virginia. The election year 1992 was known as the "Year of the Woman" for the large number of women elected to Congress in that election.

While a member of the 103rd Congress, Byrne served on the Public Works and Transportation Committee. She was also a member of the Post Office and Civil Service Committee.

The freshman Democratic members of the 103rd Congress elected her to the leadership position of freshman caucus whip. She introduced and passed more legislation than any other freshman representative, including two of her measures on childhood immunization that were passed into law. She helped obtain funds for rail from Tysons Corner to Dulles Airport.

Thomas M. Davis, then chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, defeated her for re-election in 1994's "Republican Revolution." His campaign charged that Byrne was too liberal for the swing district she represented and that her voting record was too supportive of President Bill Clinton.

Political career after Congress
In 1996, Byrne sought the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate to challenge incumbent Senator John Warner. Future Virginia Governor Mark Warner (no relation) won the nomination at the 1996 Virginia Democratic Convention, garnering 1,889 delegates to Byrne's 231. He lost to Senator Warner in the general election.

In 1998, Byrne began work at the United States Information Agency, advising its director on the au pair program.

Byrne returned to elected office in 1999 when she was elected to the Senate of Virginia, winning a very close election against two-term incumbent Republican Jane Woods (45.52% to Woods's 45.39%). She left the Senate after one term, choosing not to seek reelection after she was drawn into the same district as another Democratic incumbent during redistricting. In the Virginia Senate, she sponsored legislation to prohibit people from sleeping in rooms except bedrooms, a response to complaints of students and poor immigrants crowded into residential houses.

Byrne was the 2005 Democratic Party candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia. Republican Party candidate Bill Bolling defeated her in the November 8, 2005 general election by 1.2%.

2008 congressional race
In 2008, Byrne ran for the Democratic nomination for Virginia's 11th congressional district, the seat she held from 1993 to 1995. The incumbent Republican, Thomas M. Davis, had announced he would not seek reelection. In the primary election on June 10, 2008, she faced Gerald Connolly, chairman of the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors, and others in a multicandidate field. Connolly defeated Byrne 58% to 33% and went on to defeat Republican Keith Fimian in the general election.

Personal life
She is married to Larry Byrne, who is president of an international consulting firm. They have two grown children and three grandchildren.

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