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Racquet Club of Philadelphia

The Racquet Club of Philadelphia (RCOP) is a private social club and athletic club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It has facilities for squash, real tennis, and racquets. The club is ranked in the Top 20 Athletic Clubs on the Platinum Club of America list.

History
Established in 1889, the Club started its life in a modest facility at 923 Walnut Street. Under the leadership of George D. Widener, the current 16th Street Clubhouse was built by architect Horace Trumbauer. Historian Nathaniel Burt described the new 1907 Clubhouse as "by far the best appointed...of all Philadelphia clubs." The clubhouse is one of the first reinforced concrete structures designed in Philadelphia, and also includes the world's first above grade swimming pool, designed by the noted bridge builders Roebling Construction Company. The building's red-brick, Georgian design, is evocative of historic Philadelphia, and the Clubhouse was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.

The Club was the site of the invention of squash doubles by Frederick C. Tompkins. The new building had a space that was too large for a standard squash court but too small for further locker facilities and Tomkins recommended that it be used for squash doubles.

The RCOP's racquet sport facilities include 6 international squash singles courts, 1 squash doubles court, 1 court tennis court, and 1 racquets court. The Club also has overnight rooms along with a fitness center for the use of members and sponsored guests, as well as a bar and serves lunch daily. It is open to members 365 days a year and is located on 16th Street between Walnut and Locust in the heart of Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square area.

The Club has hosted many international court tennis, racquets, and squash doubles tournaments and has produced notable U.S. national champions including Jay Gould, Jock Soutar, Stanley Pearson and Morris Clothier.

The U.S. Squash Hall of Fame was briefly at the Club until moving to Yale University.

Champion Members

 * Jock Soutar
 * Jay Gould II
 * Morris Clothier

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United States Attorney for the District of Hawaii

The United States attorney for the District of Hawaii is the chief law enforcement officer representing the federal government in the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii and principal authority of the United States Department of Justice in the state of Hawaii. The United States attorney administers the duties of the office from the Prince Kuhio Federal Building in downtown Honolulu near the Aloha Tower and Honolulu Harbor.

The Judiciary Act of 1789 describes the role of the United States attorney as, "A person learned in the law to act as attorney for the United States whose duty it shall be to prosecute in each district all delinquents for crimes and offenses cognizable under the authority of the United States and all civil actions in which the United States shall be concerned." The United States attorney is appointed by the president of the United States and upon confirmation of the United States Senate serves a term of four years. The United States attorney has been historically chosen from the same political party that the President professes membership.

The United States attorney administers a staff consisting of twenty-eight assistant United States attorneys. The United States attorney has ordinary jurisdiction over all civilian and military special assistant United States attorneys and serves as a member of the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA),

List of U.S. attorneys for the District of Hawaii

 * John C. Baird 1900
 * J. J. Dunne 1901-02
 * Robert W. Breckons 1902-13
 * Jeff McCarn 1913-15
 * Horace W. Vaughan 1915-16
 * S. C. Huber 1916-22
 * William T. Carden 1922-24
 * Fred Patterson 1924-25
 * Charles F. Parsons 1925-26
 * Sanford B. D. Wood 1926-34
 * Ingram M. Stainback 1934-40
 * Angus M. Taylor, Jr. 1940-43
 * Douglas G. Crozier 1943-45
 * Edward A. Towse 1945
 * Ray J. O'Brien 1945-51
 * Howard K. Hoddick 1951-52
 * A.William Barlow 1952-54
 * Louis B. Blissard 1954-61
 * Herman T. F. Lum 1961-67
 * Yoshima Hayashi 1967-69
 * Robert K. Fukuda 1969-73
 * Harold M. Fong 1973-78
 * Walter M. Heen 1978-81
 * Wallace W. Weatherwax 1981-83
 * Daniel A. Bent 1983-93
 * Elliot Enoki 1993-94
 * Steven S. Alm: 19942001
 * Edward H. Kubo, Jr.: December 7, 20012009
 * Florence T. Nakakuni: September 30, 2009March 11, 2017
 * Elliot Enoki (Acting): March 11, 2017January 3, 2018
 * Kenji Price: January 3, 2018February 21, 2021
 * Judith A. Philips (Acting): February 21, 2021January 3, 2022
 * Clare E. Connors: January 3, 2022Present

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Mjolnir (comics)

Mjolnir, known more formally as Mjölnir  is a fictional magical weapon appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. It is depicted as the principal weapon of the superhero Thor. Mjolnir, which first appears in Journey into Mystery #83 (Aug. 1962), was created by writers Stan Lee and Larry Lieber and designed by artists Jack Kirby and Joe Sinnott.

Mjolnir is typically depicted as a large, square-headed gray sledgehammer, with a short, round handle wrapped in brown leather, culminating in a looped lanyard. The object is based on Mjölnir, the weapon of the mythological Thor.

Publication history
Mjolnir debuted in Marvel Comics title Journey into Mystery #83 (Aug. 1962), being the means by which physician Donald Blake transformed into thunder god Thor Odinson (by striking it on the ground). The first use of the hammer's name was in the "Tales of Asgard" feature in Thor #135 (Dec. 1966) in a story by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby. The weapon's origin is eventually revealed in Thor Annual #11 (1983), with another version presented in Thor vol. 2, #80 (Aug. 2004).

In a 2002 documentary with Kevin Smith, Lee says his brother and co-creator Larry Lieber originally referred to Mjolnir as the "Uru Hammer". Writer Roy Thomas eventually changed the name of the hammer to the mythologically correct name of "Mjolnir" but maintained the Larry Lieber concept of it being composed of fictional metal "uru".

Origin
Mjolnir's origin in Marvel continuity mirrors the original Norse legend. The hammer is created when Odin's adopted son Loki cuts off the hair of the goddess Sif as part of a cruel jest, and, when threatened with violence by Thor, promises to fetch replacement hair from the dwarf smiths. Loki commissions the hair from the Sons of Ivaldi, and the obliging dwarves create the hair and a magic ship and spear as gifts for the gods. Loki is convinced that no one can match their workmanship, and challenges a dwarf named Eitri to make finer treasures. Eitri creates a golden ring and golden boar spear with magical properties, and then begins work on a hammer. Loki panics at the sight of the treasures, and, afraid he will lose the wager, transforms himself into a gadfly and stings Eitri's assistant on the brow as he is working the bellows for the forge. The assistant stops for a moment to wipe away the blood, and the bellows fall flat. As a result, the hammer's handle is shorter in length than Eitri had originally intended, meaning that the hammer could only be wielded one-handed.

Despite the error, the Norse gods consider Eitri to have forged the greater treasures. Loki loses the bet and in retaliation the Sons of Ivaldi sew Loki's lips shut. The ruler of the Norse gods, Odin, uses the hammer – called Mjolnir ("Grinder") by Eitri – and eventually passes it to his son Thor, on the condition that he first prove he is worthy to wield the weapon.

In Thor Annual #11, the origin is changed in small but subtle ways. First, the treasures are commissioned by Odin as gifts for both of his boys, but Loki forfeits his share when he touches Gungnir, Odin's spear. Secondly, Loki turns into a moth instead of a gadfly, and just annoys Eitri instead of biting him. Thirdly, while the dwarfs still forge the golden duplicating ring known as Draupnir and Mjolnir, instead of making a golden boar spear they just make a magic gold boar that can fly.

In the second volume of Thor, another version of the hammer's origin is depicted when Odin orders the dwarven blacksmiths Eitri, Brok and Buri to forge Mjolnir using the core of a star.

The series The Mighty Thor provides another version of Mjolnir's origin: after an extended battle Odin traps a galaxy-sized storm called "Mother Storm" in a nugget of uru, which Odin orders the dwarves to use to create a weapon capable of using Mother Storm's power.

Enchantments
Odin placed several enchantments upon Mjolnir prior to Thor wielding the hammer:

 * This is reflected in the inscription on the side of Mjolnir, which states: Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor. For almost the entirety of Marvel continuity, this has exclusively been Thor.
 * Once thrown it will always return to the wielder's hand after being thrown. By hurling the hammer and holding the lanyard, Thor is capable of flight.
 * The wielder can control the elements of storm (lightning, wind, and rain) by stamping its handle twice on the ground.
 * Mjolnir can open interdimensional portals, allowing its wielder to travel to other dimensions (such as from Earth to Asgard)
 * Also originally capable of creating chronal displacement and therefore allowing time travel. This enchantment was removed by the entity Immortus with Thor's consent to aid a planet trapped in Limbo. This was eventually revealed to be a deception by Immortus to eliminate the superhero team the Avengers' access to time travel. Thor, however, is still able to manipulate time with Mjolnir.
 * Thor can transform into the guise of a mortal, the physician Donald Blake, by stamping the hammer's head on the ground once and willing the change. When Thor transforms into Blake, his hammer takes the appearance of a wooden walking cane. Odin also stipulated that if Thor was separated from Mjolnir for more than sixty seconds, he would revert to his mortal persona until striking the cane once again. Fortunately, Mjolnir is small enough for Thor to comfortably tuck it into his belt so he could have both hands free when desired and still be in physical contact to prevent the change.

The last enchantment was eventually removed and transferred to Stormbreaker, the hammer of character Beta Ray Bill which was commissioned by Odin as a replica of Mjolnir. After this the Donald Blake persona disappeared (eventually returning from the after life ), and Thor assumed a civilian identity simply by changing into modern clothing (carrying Mjolnir concealed within a duffel bag). Thor eventually adopts the mortal persona of Jake Olson as penance for accidentally causing the original Olson's death during a battle, and simply pounds a fist to effect a change. During this period Mjolnir would disappear when Thor became Olson, and reappear when returning to his true form. Thor was also once again bound by the original rule whereby he would revert to Olson if kept away from Mjolnir for more than a minute.

The enchantment eventually changes: during the Original Sin storyline, Nick Fury whispers an undisclosed secret to Thor that causes him to lose the ability to pick up Mjolnir. The change extends to other gods, as Odin also cannot lift it (Fury's comment to Thor was simply "Gorr was right", validating to Thor that an old foe's claim that gods brought only pain and suffering was correct). The hammer is subsequently picked up by an unknown female – later revealed to be Jane Foster – who inherits the power and title of Thor, with the inscription changing to read if she be worthy.

Powers and abilities

 * As one of the most formidable weapons known to man or god, Mjolnir is described as impacting with sufficient force to "level mountains" as well as destroying entire planets, with only Captain America's shield proving to be more impervious.

Capable of creating:
 * huge vortices
 * antimatter particles
 * forcefields (capable of containing an explosion that could potentially destroy a galaxy);
 * Emitting mystical blasts of energy; controlling electromagnetism; molecular manipulation;

Generating exceptional offensives:
 * Geo-Blast (an energy wave that taps a planet's gravitational force)
 * Anti-Force (energy created to counter-act another force)
 * God Blast (an energy blast that taps into Thor's life force)

Mjolnir can also absorb energy;
 * draining the Asgardian powers of the Wrecking Crew into the Wrecker
 * draining the life-force of villain the Presence
 * removing the force field of the villain Juggernaut

The hammer is also capable of empowering others – accidentally endowing the hero Union Jack with the ability to generate electricity – and removing any harmful radiation or other toxins from a host.

There are also several rarely used abilities:
 * tracking a person
 * locating mystical items
 * detecting illusions
 * project images, as Thor shows a glimpse of Asgard to fellow Avenger Iron Man.

As a former religious relic, Mjolnir is also lethal to the undead, causing creatures such as vampires to burst into flame and crumble to dust.

Mjolnir is also not indestructible, having been damaged or destroyed several times in continuity: a force beam from the Asgardian Destroyer slices it in two; the Molecule Man dispels the atomic bonds between the hammer's molecules, vaporizing Mjolnir; shattered after channeling an immeasurable amount of energy at the Celestial Exitar; Dark god Perrikus slices Mjolnir in half with a magical scythe; and shattered when it collided with the uru weapons of Loki's Storm Giant followers, resulting in an atomic-scale explosion. Mjolnir was not recreated after this last incident until Thor returned to Earth several years later. Temporary wielder Jane Foster sacrifices Mjolnir and herself to defeat the monster Mangog by hurling them all into the Sun. Thor and Odin are able to resurrect Jane, who subsequently presents Thor with the last fragment of his hammer.

During the War of the Realms storyline, Thor is able to channel the power of the ancient Mother Storm to reforge Mjolnir, declaring that Gorr was right and vowing to prove himself better than the gods who had come before.

Wielders
Other than Thor and Odin, certain other individuals have proven worthy of lifting Mjolnir in the primary continuity:

 * Roger "Red" Norvell (a deliberate ruse by Odin)
 * Beta Ray Bill
 * Buri (also known as Tiwaz, Thor's great-grandfather)
 * Captain America in his "The Captain" role
 * Eric Masterson
 * Bor (Thor's grandfather)
 * Loki
 * Jane Foster
 * The Destroyer
 * Squirrel Girl
 * Black Panther (of Avengers 1,000,000 B.C.)
 * Eddie Brock (with help from the Enigma Force)

Alternate versions of the Silver Surfer, Conan, Black Widow, Spider-Man, and Valkyrie have lifted Mjolnir through worthiness. Other Marvel characters have lifted Mjolnir not through worthiness but through technicalities such as absorbing Thor's powers, including the Air-Walker, Awesome Android, Magneto, Rogue, Wonder Man, and Doctor Doom.

Moon Knight also has the ability to lift Mjolnir as it is made from Uru, a metal ore from the moon of a dead universe. So, with the help of Khonshu's influence, Moon Knight has the ability to control the hammer.

Two DC Comics characters have lifted Mjolnir in Marvel/DC crossover events:

 * Wonder Woman
 * Superman with Odin's permission, and was unable to lift it later.

Several imitations of Mjolnir have also existed:

 * Odin gifts the hammer Stormbreaker to Beta Ray Bill
 * Odin gifts the mace Thunderstrike to Thunderstrike
 * Loki creates the hammer Stormcaster for Storm in an attempt to control her, but she uses Mjolnir to destroy it
 * Loki provides another version to Deadpool to spite Thor
 * Loki also allows Surtur to use the forge Mjolnir was created from to craft copies during Ragnarok
 * HYDRA creates an evil version of Thor wielding a technological imitation of Mjolnir
 * Tony Stark and Reed Richards create an imitation Mjolnir for their clone Ragnarok
 * The frog Throg discovers a sliver of Mjolnir that transforms into the hammer Frogjolnir

Other versions
In the Ultimate Marvel imprint title The Ultimates and its sequel The Ultimates 2, the Ultimate version of Thor wields a Mjolnir styled after a classical war hammer, with no restrictions on who can wield it. The origin of this Mlojnir is first told in Ultimates 2 when the European Defense Initiative were making a Norway super soldier program involving a battery-powered suit and hammer with the hammer acting as a portable power unit, though twisted by Loki's manipulations of reality tricking everyone that Thor was actually his mentally unbalanced brother who stole the suit. In Ultimate Comics: Thor, the traditional hammer appears made by Odin's workers and sought after by Loki on Earth. This version was used a plot device when the hammer temporarily crossed over into the mainstream Earth-616 universe, being found and used by the Asgardian Volstagg and later Jane Foster before being destroyed. The surviving fragments are reassembled into another weapon for Foster once she abandons the Thor persona.

1960s

 * Thor uses Mjolnir throughout his self-titled segment of The Marvel Super Heroes.

1980s

 * Thor uses Mjolnir in the Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends episode "Vengeance of Loki".
 * Thor prominently uses Mjolnir in the live action television film The Incredible Hulk Returns. In the film, Mjolnir is used to summon Thor into the mortal world.

1990s

 * Thor appears with in Mjolnir in Fantastic Four.
 * Thor appears with Mjolnir in The Incredible Hulk episode "Mortal Bounds".
 * Thor makes a non-speaking cameo appearance with Mjolnir in the X-Men: The Animated Series episode "The Dark Phoenix".

2000s

 * Thor wields Mjolnir in The Super Hero Squad Show.

2010s

 * Mjolnir appears in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.
 * Mjolnir appears in Ultimate Spider-Man.
 * Mjolnir appears in Avengers Assemble.
 * Thor wields Mjolnir in Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel.
 * Thor wields Mjolnir in Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Maximum Overload.
 * Mjolnir appears in Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers.
 * Mjolnir appears in Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Avengers Reassembled.
 * Thor wields Mjolnir throughout his appearance in Guardians of the Galaxy.
 * Thor also wields Mjolnir in Lego Marvel Super Heroes - Guardians of the Galaxy: The Thanos Threat.

Animated film

 * The Ultimate version of Thor uses Mjolnir in Ultimate Avengers (2006) and Ultimate Avengers 2 (2006).
 * Thor also uses Mjolnir in Next Avengers: Heroes of Tomorrow (2008).
 * Thor wields in Mjolnir in Hulk vs. Thor.
 * Thor wields Mjolnir during a brief flashback sequence in Planet Hulk (2010).
 * Thor uses Mjolnir in Thor: Tales of Asgard.
 * Thor wields Mjolnir in the anime film Avengers Confidential: Black Widow & Punisher.
 * Mjolnir appears in Marvel Super Hero Adventures: Frost Fight.
 * Thor appears in Lego Marvel Super Heroes - Black Panther: Trouble in Wakanda.
 * Mjolnir was used by Thor in Lego Marvel Avengers: Code Red.

Marvel Cinematic Universe
Mjolnir is a recurring item throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) media franchise, most often used by Thor. Like its comic book counterpart, it is a powerful Asgardian hammer used as an offensive, defensive, and projectile weapon. It is capable of controlling and conjuring weather including lightning, and allows the carrier to fly if the hammer is spun and released with enough power. Mjolnir is enchanted by Odin, requiring any person who lifts it to be "worthy" and grants the user "the power of Thor" if they are able to do so.

 * Mjolnir is first seen in the MCU in a post-credits scene in Iron Man 2 (2010), in which S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Phil Coulson reports on the hammer being found in an impact crater in the New Mexican desert.
 * In Thor (2011), the hammer is used by Thor as he battles hordes of Frost Giants on Jotunheim. Odin strips Thor of his power and casts him and Mjolnir to Earth. Crowds of humans gather in an effort to lift it, attracting the attention of S.H.I.E.L.D. Thor eventually finds Mjolnir but is unable to lift it until he later proves his worthiness by sacrificing his life against the Destroyer. The hammer appears to instantly heal his injuries when he holds it and he uses it to defeat the Destroyer. He battles Loki with it, countering Gungnir, Odin's staff, and uses the hammer to destroy the Bifröst Bridge.
 * In The Avengers (2012), Thor uses the hammer in combat throughout. He battles Tony Stark in his Iron Man armor, and Stark's arc reactor is able to absorb the lightning conjured by Mjolnir to increase his armor's power. It clashes with Steve Rogers' vibranium shield, creating a massive shockwave that knocks both parties down. Thor also battles The Hulk (who fails to lift it during the confrontation), Loki, and Chitauri soldiers. During the Battle of New York, he uses the hammer to bottleneck the massive portal above New York City, combining its lightning with the Chrysler Building as an amplifier to destroy numerous Chitauri reinforcements and their Leviathans.
 * In Thor: The Dark World (2013), Thor uses the hammer throughout to battle the Dark Elf Malekith and his minions.
 * In Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Thor uses the hammer in battle against Hydra soldiers, hitting it against Rogers' shield to create massive shockwaves capable of destroying tanks. When Thor challenges the other Avengers to lift Mjolnir at a party, all fail save for Rogers, who manages to move it slightly, shocking Thor. When Stark and Banner create the Vision, the Avengers are mistrustful of the synthezoid until he casually lifts Mjolnir. Later, the Vision is shown capable of using the hammer during a fight. Stark and Rogers later jest that Vision is not truly "worthy" as he is an artificial intelligence, comparing him to an elevator that would continue to work if Mjolnir were placed inside.
 * In Thor: Ragnarok (2017), Thor uses the hammer to defeat the fire demon Surtur and his minions. When Odin dies, Thor's sister Hela escapes from her prison. Thor throws Mjolnir at her but she catches and destroys it. Thor's exploration of Hela's origins reveals to him that Mjolnir was originally her weapon. Odin tells Thor that the hammer is also a means to control his power and that it alone does not make him the "God of Thunder".
 * In Avengers: Endgame (2019), Thor retrieves an alternate version of Mjolnir from Asgard in an alternate 2013 timeline during the "Time Heist" to gather the Infinity Stones and undo the Blip. When he returns to the main timeline, he brings Mjolnir with him and uses it during the fight against an alternate Thanos. Thor combines it with Stormbreaker, and uses its lightning to supercharge Stark's Iron Man armor during their fight. When Thanos overwhelms and nearly kills Thor, Rogers uses Mjolnir to save Thor's life, who is pleased to confirm his suspicions about Rogers' worthiness. Rogers battles Thanos with it, combining the hammer with his shield for offensive and defensive combination attacks. Rogers is also able to conjure lightning. During the final battle with Thanos and his entire army, Rogers uses Mjolnir as he leads the Avengers and their allies into battle. Following Thanos' defeat, Rogers returns Mjolnir to its timeline.
 * A broken, alternate version of Mjolnir owned by Throg appears in the fifth episode of Loki (2021) in the Void.
 * An alternate version of Mjolnir appears in the second episode of What If...? (2021) as part of the Collector's collection on Knowhere. Another version appears in the seventh episode, which Thor uses to fight against Captain Marvel. For unexplained reasons, Thor remains the only one able to lift the hammer in this universe despite Odin never shown enchanting it with the "worthy" spell.
 * Mjolnir returns in Thor: Love and Thunder (2022) with Jane Foster wielding a reconstructed version of the hammer. Now using the alias of Mighty Thor, she uses the hammer in the battle against Gorr the God Butcher and his forces. When Foster is diagnosed with terminal cancer, she researches that Mjolnir gives its wielder enhanced strength and stamina. She travels to New Asgard in search of the remnants of Mjolnir, which reassembles itself in Jane's presence and proclaims her worthy, surprising Thor when he meets her again. Now when the hammer is launched from its wielder, it can separate into its fragments to hit multiple targets at once before reassembling. A flashback reveals that years earlier, Thor unknowingly enchanted Mjolnir to protect her. Foster learns that use of the hammer is actually exacerbating her cancer by draining her life force. In the final confrontation with Gorr, she uses the hammer to destroy the Necrosword, at the cost of her life. Thor once again takes possession of Mjolnir following her death.

Stormbreaker

 * In Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Thor travels to Nidavellir with Rocket and Groot to ask the dwarf king Eitri for a replacement weapon. Eitri has a design called Stormbreaker prepared, an axe meant to be the most powerful in the Asgardian king's arsenal with powers similar to Mjolnir and capable of summoning the Bifröst Bridge. Thor helps Eitri restart the damaged forge to heat the ore, and Groot creates a handle to finish the axe. Stormbreaker is capable of conjuring massive lightning attacks, allows Thor to fly, and serves as a two-handed offensive weapon capable of withstanding attacks from the Infinity Gauntlet.
 * In Avengers: Endgame, he uses the axe to decapitate Thanos and later to battle an alternate version of Thanos and his army.
 * In Thor: Love and Thunder, Thor uses Stormbreaker but later gives it to Love while reclaiming use of the restored Mjölnir for himself.

Video games
Thor wields Mjolnir in the following video games:

 * Thor uses Mjolnir in the 1995 arcade game Avengers in Galactic Storm.
 * Thor uses Mjolnir in Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes.
 * Thor uses Mjolnir in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance.
 * Thor uses Mjolnir in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2.
 * Mjolnir is used by Thor in Marvel Super Hero Squad.
 * Thor uses Mjolnir in Marvel Super Hero Squad: The Infinity Gauntlet.
 * Thor appears as a playable character in Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3, and he uses Mjolnir as his primary weapon throughout the games.
 * Thor appears as the main protagonist in the 2011 video game Thor: God of Thunder, which was based on the 2011 film Thor. In the game, Thor uses Mjolnir as his primary weapon.
 * Thor uses Mjolnir in Marvel Super Hero Squad Online.
 * Thor appears with Mjolnir as downloadable content for the game LittleBigPlanet, as part of "Marvel Costume Kit 2".
 * Thor uses Mjolnir in Marvel Super Hero Squad: Comic Combat.
 * Thor appears with Mjolnir as a playable character in Marvel: Avengers Alliance.
 * Thor appears with Mjolnir as a playable character in Marvel Avengers Alliance Tactics.
 * Thor appears with Mjolnir as a playable character in Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth.
 * Thor appears with Mjolnir as a playable character in Marvel Heroes.
 * Thor appears with Mjolnir as a playable character in Lego Marvel Super Heroes.
 * Thor uses Mjolnir in as a playable character in Marvel: Contest of Champions.
 * Thor uses Mjolnir in as a playable character in Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes.
 * Thor uses Mjolnir in as a playable character in Disney Infinity 3.0.
 * Thor uses Mjolnir in as a playable character in Marvel: Future Fight.
 * Thor wields also Mjolnir in Marvel Avengers Academy.
 * Thor wields as Mjolnir in Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite
 * The "Marvel NOW" and "Modern" versions of Thor wield Mjolnir in Marvel Puzzle Quest.
 * Thor uses Mjolnir in Marvel Powers United VR.
 * Thor uses Mjolnir in Marvel Battle Lines.
 * Thor uses Mjolnir Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order.
 * Thor wields Mjolnir in Marvel Dimension of Heroes.
 * Thor uses Mjolnir in ''Marvel's Avengers.
 * Thor appears with Mjolnir as an unlockable playable skin in Fortnite Battle Royale.
 * Thor wields Mjolnir in Marvel Future Revolution.

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Factor graph

A factor graph is a bipartite graph representing the factorization of a function. In probability theory and its applications, factor graphs are used to represent factorization of a probability distribution function, enabling efficient computations, such as the computation of marginal distributions through the sum–product algorithm. One of the important success stories of factor graphs and the sum–product algorithm is the decoding of capacity-approaching error-correcting codes, such as LDPC and turbo codes.

Factor graphs generalize constraint graphs. A factor whose value is either 0 or 1 is called a constraint. A constraint graph is a factor graph where all factors are constraints. The max-product algorithm for factor graphs can be viewed as a generalization of the arc-consistency algorithm for constraint processing.

Definition
A factor graph is a bipartite graph representing the factorization of a function. Given a factorization of a function $$g(X_1,X_2,\dots,X_n)$$,
 * $$g(X_1,X_2,\dots,X_n) = \prod_{j=1}^m f_j(S_j),$$

where $$ S_j \subseteq \{X_1,X_2,\dots,X_n\}$$, the corresponding factor graph $$ G=(X,F,E)$$ consists of variable vertices $$X=\{X_1,X_2,\dots,X_n\}$$, factor vertices $$F=\{f_1,f_2,\dots,f_m\}$$, and edges $$E$$. The edges depend on the factorization as follows: there is an undirected edge between factor vertex $$ f_j $$ and variable vertex $$ X_k $$ if $$ X_k \in S_j$$. The function is tacitly assumed to be real-valued: $$g(X_1,X_2,\dots,X_n) \in \mathbb{R} $$.

Factor graphs can be combined with message passing algorithms to efficiently compute certain characteristics of the function $$g(X_1,X_2,\dots,X_n)$$, such as the marginal distributions.

Examples

Consider a function that factorizes as follows:
 * $$g(X_1,X_2,X_3) = f_1(X_1)f_2(X_1,X_2)f_3(X_1,X_2)f_4(X_2,X_3)$$,

with a corresponding factor graph shown on the right. Observe that the factor graph has a cycle. If we merge $$ f_2(X_1,X_2)f_3(X_1,X_2) $$ into a single factor, the resulting factor graph will be a tree. This is an important distinction, as message passing algorithms are usually exact for trees, but only approximate for graphs with cycles.

Message passing on factor graphs
A popular message passing algorithm on factor graphs is the sum–product algorithm, which efficiently computes all the marginals of the individual variables of the function. In particular, the marginal of variable $$ X_k $$ is defined as
 * $$ g_k(X_k) = \sum_{X_{\bar{k}}} g(X_1,X_2,\dots,X_n)$$

where the notation $$X_{\bar{k}} $$ means that the summation goes over all the variables, except $$ X_k $$. The messages of the sum–product algorithm are conceptually computed in the vertices and passed along the edges. A message from or to a variable vertex is always a function of that particular variable. For instance, when a variable is binary, the messages over the edges incident to the corresponding vertex can be represented as vectors of length 2: the first entry is the message evaluated in 0, the second entry is the message evaluated in 1. When a variable belongs to the field of real numbers, messages can be arbitrary functions, and special care needs to be taken in their representation.

In practice, the sum–product algorithm is used for statistical inference, whereby $$ g(X_1,X_2,\dots,X_n)$$ is a joint distribution or a joint likelihood function, and the factorization depends on the conditional independencies among the variables.

The Hammersley–Clifford theorem shows that other probabilistic models such as Bayesian networks and Markov networks can be represented as factor graphs; the latter representation is frequently used when performing inference over such networks using belief propagation. On the other hand, Bayesian networks are more naturally suited for generative models, as they can directly represent the causalities of the model.

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Shield (Archie Comics)

The Shield is the name of several superheroes created by MLJ (now known as Archie Comics). Appearing months before Captain America, the Shield has the distinction of being the first superhero with a costume based upon United States patriotic iconography. The character appeared in Pep Comics from issue #1 (Jan 1940) to #65 (Jan 1948).

The name was used by MLJ/Archie for four characters. DC Comics' Impact line, which licensed the Archie properties, also used the name for several characters. In 2010, DC announced plans to integrate the Shield and other MLJ characters into the DC Universe, but the rights to the characters reverted to Archie Comics in 2011. A fourth Shield was introduced in October 2015.

Publication history
The Shield debuted in MLJ's Pep Comics #1 (cover-dated Jan. 1940). Writer Harry Shorten and artist Irv Novick created the character. With the American populace reacting to the beginnings of World War II and wartime patriotism stirring, the Shield debuted as the first patriotically themed hero. He was soon followed by three other patriotic comic characters: Minute-Man (Feb. 1941), Captain America (March 1941), and Captain Battle (May 1941).

In 1959, a new Shield, Lancelot Strong, appeared under the Archie Adventure Series imprint in a series titled, The Double Life of Private Strong. It was cancelled after two issues.

Red Circle Comics reintroduced Lancelot Strong in a new series titled, Lancelot Strong: The Shield in June 1983. The series was retitled twice, first with Shield-Steel Sterling in December 1983 and then with Steel Sterling in January 1984. In July 1984, the series ended with its seventh issue.

In 1984, Red Circle Comics also released a series starring the Joe Higgins version of the Shield in a series titled Original Shield. It lasted four issues.

In 1991, Archie Comics licensed their superheroes to DC Comics who created an imprint called Impact Comics. The company launched a fourth solo series, The Legend of the Shield. It featured two Shields, Joe Higgins, who led the series for the first thirteen issues, and Lt. Michael Barnes, his replacement. Barnes continued as the Shield until the title ended in October 1992.

In 2015, Archie Comics began the Shield's return in a new series penned by Adam Christopher and Chuck Wendig. This version of the character is a woman named Victoria Adams. The series was published under the Dark Circle Comics banner. It was originally set to be released in April but was delayed until September.

Fictional character biography
The origin story of The Shield appeared in Shield–Wizard Comics #1 (Summer 1940). He is really chemist Joe Higgins, the son of Lieutenant Tom Higgins. Tom was working on a chemical formula for super-strength which the Germans were after, and is slain by German saboteur Hans Fritz in the Black Tom explosion, for which Tom was blamed. After Tom's death, Joe continues to work on it while continuing his studies of chemistry. Joe finally figures out the solution, which requires applying the chemicals to certain parts of his anatomy (Sacrum, Heart, Innervation, Eyes, Lungs, Derma), and exposing himself to x-rays. This gives him super strength, the ability able to make great leaps, and invulnerability. Joe uses the initials S.H.I.E.L.D. as his secret identity. His white costume becomes the familiar colors under the process. He becomes an FBI agent (whose secret identity is known only to FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover) after clearing his father's name, and fights foreign agents and other threats to the U.S. At the start of the strip, Higgins' partners are fellow G-Man Ju Ju Watson, and girlfriend Betty Warren.

The Shield is joined by a kid partner, Dusty the Boy Detective, in Pep #11 (Jan 1941). Dusty's father had been killed by foreign agents, and he is adopted by Joe and given a costume. Both heroes wear their patriotic costumes beneath their street clothes and change for action whenever the need would arise. Dusty also partners with The Wizard's kid partner, Roy, as the "Boy Buddies".

In Pep #20, Joe is called "The One and Only Shield" at the start of the story and "The Original Shield" at the end of the story because of the success of Captain America, another 1940s-era patriotic superhero. In his first appearance, Captain America had a shield similar to the main part of The Shield's costume, but it was changed to a round shield for the second issue over accusations of plagiarism.

The Shield and Dusty were featured in the first crossover storyline in American comic books. The storyline had them team up with the Wizard (the headlining character from Top-Notch Comics) to stop the invasion plot orchestrated by Mosconia (a fictional country made up of elements from Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union).

The Shield was one of MLJ's most popular characters, even spawning a club, the "Shield G-Man Club". He starred in Pep, and several other MLJ titles: Shield-Wizard, Top-Notch Comics. But then a new character arrived who would overshadow him: Archie Andrews. He would take the Shield's cover spot on Pep, take his fan club, and cause the end of the MLJ superheroes.

An older Joe Higgins appears in New Crusaders as the sole survivor of the Brain Emperor's attack on his fellow Crusaders. He gathers their teenage children to form a team dubbed "the New Crusaders".

DC Comics
The Red Circle Comics characters, aptly named "The Red Circle", were again licensed by DC and rebooted. During the Dilation crisis a version of the Shield character was seen helping Green Arrow and Black Canary, performing crowd control. First appearing as a secondary character in The Web, another former MLJ hero, the new Shield is Lieutenant Joseph Higgins, stationed in Afghanistan, from where he tries to contact The Web to find his missing father. On the same day however his crew fall victim to terrorists, and Higgins is grievously wounded. To save his life, he agrees to be subjected to secret government experiments, after which an advanced, nanotech battle suit is merged to his burned epidermis. The suit appears on his body at will and grants him the same array of powers of the earlier incarnation, including superhuman strength, limited flight and advanced sensory abilities. Due to his severe injuries, the only major drawback is that if ever he tries to remove the war suit permanently, his bodily functions could shut down. Still fighting as the new, patriotic hero, he is again contacted by The Web, accepting his request for help.

The Shield also appeared in the 2010 DC Comics mini series The Mighty Crusaders.

Lancelot Strong
In June 1959, a new Shield was published by Archie that had no connection to the previous version.

Joe Simon was asked by Archie to create characters for a new "Archie Adventure Series" line of superheroes. Joe Simon created a new Shield-type of superhero, whose real identity was Lancelot Strong, who appeared in a new title, The Double Life of Private Strong. Joe Simon put together a team of artists including Jack Kirby to work for him on The Double Life of Private Strong.

Lancelot's scientist father developed a method to create a superhuman by expanding the mind, which he used on his infant son. After his father was killed by foreign agents, Lancelot was adopted by a farm couple and raised as their son. Once he hit his teens, he discovered the truth of his background and his powers: strength, flight, near-invulnerability, vision powers, the ability to generate lightning, and a few more. His father had created a patriotic costume for him, and he started off as the new superhero, the Shield. He soon joined the Army, acting like a Gomer Pyle-style country bumpkin, while leading a double life as the Shield (hence the title of his comic).

In 1999, Archie formally assigned all rights to Lancelot Strong to Joe Simon.

Bill Higgins and Joe Higgins Jr.
When Archie revamped their superheroes under their "Radio Comics/Mighty Comics" line, a third Shield was introduced as Bill Higgins and Joe Higgins Jr., sons of the original Shield. Bill first appeared in the new Fly-Man #31, and becomes one of the main founders of the Mighty Crusaders. It would be revealed that his father was turned to stone by the villain, The Eraser, and Bill was carrying on his father's work. Bill's 'powers', which seem to be enhanced strength and limited invulnerability, were derived from his costume. He would appear through the end of the Radio/Mighty Comics run. Originally they would switch the name from Bill Higgins to Joe Higgins Jr., from one appearance to the next. In the Red Circle Mighty Crusaders #1 the story established that Bill joined the Army and left his life as a superhero. In 2000, Archie Comics started using Joe Higgins Jr. as the Shield in Archie's Weird Mysteries, establishing that Bill and Joe Jr. were separate characters.

Michael Barnes
When Legend of the Shield was revamped, Lt. Michael Barnes, a married father with a young daughter, became the new Shield. Barnes would continue as the lead character until the series' 1992 cancellation and also appeared as the Shield in the six-issue miniseries The Crucible.

Victoria Adams
In 2015, Archie Comics rebranded their Red Circle Comics line under the new Dark Circle Comics banner. The new Shield debuted in her own new series titled The Shield in October. Victoria Adams is the first female to take up the mantle of the Shield. The series ran four issues. She has continued in her role as the Shield in The Mighty Crusaders written by Ian Flynn.

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Talk:Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga

Wikipedia reference
Intriguingly, one of the highest ability packages (or 'Mantra') is called 'Wikipedia'. It seems a little out of place, considering most other names in the game are mythological (most often from Hindu and Sanskrit gods and terms).

Maybe the developers were paying homage to where they researched the names? If anyone knows any backstory on where the usage of Wikipedia comes from in the game, I'd love to hear it. What does the japanese version list for that slot (top of hunting chain)?

According to an FAQ on gamefaqs.com written from the Japanese version, it's "Tsuuraijin." Incidentally, the Japanese version apparently uses all names of Japanese/Shinto myths/gods/words instead of the American's Hindu.

It's actually not out of place, because after a character learns the Wikipedia Mudra their "secret" Mudras become unlocked. Since the game hints at the world being inside a computer (or something similar) it actually makes a great deal of sense for why the Mudra is named Wikipedia.

 * Hmm... very interesting question. But I highly doubt they use wikipedia as a reference, because they have a research team since Nocturne (SMTIII). It is unlikely because wikipedia, I'm not saying it's not reliable, but wikipedia is only a second or third option for reference. And since the word "Wiki" means a lot of information on the web, maybe they just thought it would be a good idea to name one Mantra to "Wikipedia" though not directly referring to Wikipedia.org. Plus, video game developers try to refer to published reference and these Megaten games were made in Japanese first.Logicartery (talk) 15:12, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

 * I noticed the wikipedia thing too and wondered about it. I somehow doubt they were actually referring to wikipedia, but it IS interesting, and out of place, considering it's also the name for the mantra at the end of the devour/physical line and involves mostly devour/physical attacks, rather than having Serph pause in the middle of battle to look up an enemy's stats on everyone's favorite user-written encyclopedia. >>;--SquidMoose (talk) 19:58, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

For Anyone Who Has Not Played This Game
I did check it out, and the mantra is actually called Wikipedia apparently. ,(many others) Karmafist 20:07, 16 October 2005 (UTC)

 * Japanese version never applied the term WIKIPEDIA in the mantra. A misnomer translated by NA division. -- Sameboat - 同舟 01:49, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Voice Actors
Is there any reason why there is no voice acting cast list? I seem to recognize a lot of the voices but even IMDB doesn't have a list. Whats the deal with this and can we include this information in the article?

On the voice actors, Wendy Lee is wrongfully credited as Argilla. Argilla is voiced by Amanda Win-Lee. --SquidMoose (talk) 19:48, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

Cannibalism
In a local high school debate, this game was used as an example of violence in video games. Since, in the game, the only way to not succumb to the 'virus' is to consume more of it, it involves eating the bodies of those you kill. The side defending the violence stated this cannibalistic tactic was used to show that video games vastly exaggerate reality, in which cannibalism is a rarity in (hopefully) most modern nations, and that the violence in video games is very unbelievable.

Just thought I'd include this. Fllmtlchcb 08:58, 14 June 2006 (UTC)

 * The script writer Satomi Tadashi has heavily toned down the cannibalism in both games. Instead, the main focus of the game is Karma of humanity from Hindu belief. The in-game devouring skills only show massive glowing particles rather than spilling bloods and guts like Doom. -- Sameboat - 同舟 01:46, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

 * I'm pretty sure transforming into demons and casting latin-based elemental attacks is also a rarity in most modern nations. I doubt anyone is going to mistake this game for reality. Even if they did, the main characters in this game profess that eating people is wrong, (as though we wouldn't have known otherwise). Furthermore, if nothing else, the game is rated M for Mature, as in you have to be 17 to buy it, and the sales people will tell parents that it's inappropriate for young impressionable children. Also what Sameboat said; there isn't much actual gore or graphic depiction of this. Not that I'm accusing you of making an argument, I just think that local high school debate is approaching the subject somewhat ignorantly. --SquidMoose (talk) 19:55, 15 August 2008 (UTC)

European/British Release
When Ghostlight announced they were releasing DDS1 in the UK (I don't know about other European countries) They started accepting pre-orders. Those who pre-ordered the game before the end of May received a limited edition T-shirt (grey with the Emryon symbol emblazoned across the front in Orange and also had their name printed in the back of the instruction manual. Names are seperated under which tribe said person chose to pledge their allegiance ; Embrons, Vanguards, Brutes etc. (im an Embryon BTW).

Thought i'd mention this because although it seems like I've been waiting an age for a release I think Ghostlight really deserves credit for this. Shin Megami Tensei has a perhaps small but nevertheless dedicated following and T-shirt/Name in Manual/ and rather nice limited edition case are very nice personalised touches.

Feellikemore 13:03, 19 July 06

"Anachronistic" Names
Adding to the "Wikipedia" note above, I also noticed that one of the strongest Hama-based moves is called "Xanadu". Noting that the Hama series is holy-based, is "Xanadu" a tribute to the Olivia Newton-John Film (Xanadu)? Can someone verify this?

User:Riovanes 09:54, 27 Aug 2006
 * It could be many different things, as seen on Xanadu (disambiguation). I would assumne it is far more likely for it to be the Xanadu more than the film. Though I have not played this game, it could well be Xanadu (Titan), Xanadu (Citizen Kane) or potentially even Project Xanadu. --Dreaded Walrus 03:42, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

"Nocturne Protaginist Crossover?"
I was having a little look on Youtube for some DDS videos (as you do) and came across one versus the main hero/villain (how you chose it) against the characters you play in DDS. Is this a main part of the story or is it simply a bonus fight? I was just curious.--5starsuplex 13:57, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
 * It's a bonus fight, you can only fight him in a second (or later) playthrough. --Icep 21:02, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

Aque and Tera
Is Tera unique to this game or was it just absent from Nocturne and in previous games of the series, like aque apparently was?--Darthbalmung 01:07, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

 * Tera is unique to the series. But In Persona 2 there are a earth-elemental Magna family (Magna, Magnas, Magdyne) which is literally the similar thing to Tera. Aque family only appears in Persona 1 and 2. -- Sameboat - 同舟 01:39, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

Digital Devil Saga Avatar Tuner Soundtrack merge
Digital Devil Saga Avatar Tuner Soundtrack seems to be a soundtrack CD that was given away with certain releases of this game, so should be merged here.  Mi re ma re  17:49, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

It should be merged with the main article. If someone could make the info, like the tracklist, collapsible it would help keep the main article from getting cluttered. EditingMachine 00:03, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

 * I don't think it would be a good idea to merge these articles, hence the Digital Devil Saga article is already too cluttered, unless someone will try to collapse the Story section. Just a thought.Logicartery (talk) 00:37, 15 June 2008 (UTC)

Rarity
Is this a rare game? Titanium Dragon (talk) 21:44, 15 December 2007 (UTC)

 * In the states, yes. The game can easily reach prices of +50 $. This is however commonplace with Atlus games as they do not distribute their games too much. In Europe, this is not the case as the game can be quite easily found, e.g. is inepxpensive. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.0.79.124 (talk) 20:34, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

On the topic of rarity, we could also include in this article that it's rare in regions like Quebec, for example, since it's illegal to sell because it has no French packaging. Also we could say that some stores do illegally sell it in those regions... This is just a thought, however. - CoNfett1 (talk) 12:09, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

reworking the article?
this article has potential and seems quite well organized. however, it lacks any information. i would be glad to rework some of the article and/or resize the character pictures... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Missslav (talk • contribs) 20:37, 5 January 2008 (UTC)

 * Talking about that, it seems to me that this video game borrows a lot to or is inspired by Mamoru Oshii's movie Avalon (fighters characters trying to access to some "higher plane" while not being aware that they're components of a video game), Matrix and plato's cave. Maybe it should be mentioned somewhere ? Hitchhikr (talk) 00:45, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

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Tandem Productions

Tandem Productions, Inc. (a.k.a. Tandem Enterprises, Inc.) was a film and television production company that was founded in 1958 by television director Bud Yorkin and television writer/producer Norman Lear.

Tandem Productions
In the early years, Yorkin and Lear initially established Tandem specifically for television production. The name was chosen because when launching their company, Yorkin and Lear were said to feel like two men riding uphill on a tandem bicycle. The company produced several variety and dramatic television specials such as the Fred Astaire specials, Henry Fonda and the Family, An Evening with Carol Channing and The Scene '66, to name a few. Tandem was also at hand for various unsold pilots throughout the 1950s and 1960s, including Henry T., Meet Me at Danny's and Barnaby (not to be confused with Barnaby Jones). The company also financed the production of theatrical films, some of which were released by Warner Bros. Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Columbia Pictures, and United Artists.

Lear and Yorkin later turned their focus on situation comedy. The first success in that genre was All in the Family, which was based on the British sitcom Till Death Us Do Part. Before the series made its debut on January 12, 1971, Yorkin and Lear shot two unsold pilots for the series: one in 1968 called Justice For All and the other in 1969 titled Those Were the Days. Production for the series began in late 1970, following the third pilot episode which was picked up by CBS. More successful shows were also produced by Tandem; they were Maude (1972–1978), Good Times (1974–1979), and finally Sanford and Son (1972–1977). In 1977, Viacom Enterprises secured domestic and international television syndication rights for All in the Family which hit off-network reruns in Fall 1979. Columbia Pictures Television took over distribution for the series by 1991.

In 1978, Tandem produced Diff'rent Strokes, which was the first show not to be produced by Yorkin nor Lear. Archie Bunker's Place was produced in 1979, Sanford in 1980 and Gloria, the final series to be produced by Tandem in 1982. Not many more shows were produced under the Tandem name, but many other shows were being produced under T.A.T. Communications Company during the early 1980s. Also in 1978, Tandem Productions launched P*I*T*S Films (an acronym which stands for "Pie In The Sky") as its television distribution arm for its parent company's programs (All in the Family was excluded, which at the time was distributed by Viacom). P*I*T*S Films was reincorporated as Embassy Telecommunications in 1982.

Bud Yorkin Productions and TOY Productions
After Yorkin ended his partnership with Lear in 1975, he collaborated with writers and producers Saul Turteltaub and Bernie Orenstein (who wrote some episodes and produced Sanford and Son from 1974 to 1977) and established Bud Yorkin Productions, Inc. He still remained as the executive producer of the series.

The first sitcom was Grady, a Sanford and Son spin-off starring Whitman Mayo. The series was canceled after twelve episodes due to low ratings.

In 1976, Yorkin, Turteltaub, and Orenstein established TOY Productions, and the first sitcom for the new company was ABC's What's Happening!!. The series was suggested by the American International Picture Cooley High, written by Eric Monte.

On February 19, 1979, TOY was acquired by Columbia Pictures Television and launched a new series, 13 Queens Boulevard. A year later, they co-produced the short-lived sitcom One in a Million, starring Shirley Hemphill.

Two years later, TOY produced another sitcom, One of the Boys. It received negative reception, and after it was cancelled on April 24, 1982, TOY was folded.

Despite forming his own production company, Yorkin stayed on board with Tandem as executive vice president.

1980s
After Norman Lear bought Avco Embassy Pictures, he dropped the name "Avco" and reincorporated T.A.T. Communications as Embassy Television. All series that were still produced by T.A.T. (such as The Facts of Life, The Jeffersons, and One Day at a Time) were produced under the Embassy name. All shows by Tandem Productions that were off the air were distributed by Embassy Telecommunications.

In 1983, Ken Stump, the former associate producer for Tandem Productions and T.A.T. Communications was made in charge of production for Tandem Productions and Embassy Television. The same year in June, Lear and Perenchio bought out Yorkin's interest in Tandem.

On June 18, 1985, Norman Lear and Jerry Perenchio sold Embassy Communications, Inc. to The Coca-Cola Company for $485 million, but then Coke sold Embassy Pictures to Dino De Laurentiis since De Laurentiis didn't want to release his movies through a major studio anymore. Coke's plan was to keep the television division and to spin-off the other labels that weren't part of the deal.

De Laurentiis later folded Embassy Pictures with the formation of De Laurentiis Entertainment Group. The majority of the motion picture holdings are currently owned by StudioCanal. However, Columbia Pictures still retains Crimewave and Saving Grace (both co-distributed by Embassy Pictures). SPE also has the television rights to the Avco Embassy Film The Fog (1980) since a 2005 remake.

After the sale of Embassy, CPT also produced and distributed the sitcom What's Happening Now!! which was co-produced by LBS Communications. The same year, Diff'rent Strokes moved to ABC from NBC after NBC cancelled the series. Tandem Productions remained active, but Coke and Embassy Communications launched Tandem Licensing Corporation as Tandem's licensing division.

In 1986, Diff'rent Strokes was canceled due to low ratings and Tandem Productions was abandoned. Embassy Television, Embassy Telecommunications and Tandem Productions were merged with Embassy Communications and Embassy Communications became a full television studio than a holding company (later becoming part of Columbia/Embassy Television in November 1986). However, Tandem still remained as an in-name-only division of Embassy Communications until January 2, 1988 when it became in-name-only to Columbia Pictures Television and in turn an in-name-only sub-division of ELP Communications. The same year, Coca-Cola spun off and sold Embassy Home Entertainment to Nelson Holdings, Inc. and became Nelson Entertainment.

CPT still retained the television rights to those Embassy movies by Joseph E. Levine, Avco Embassy Pictures, and Lear/Perenchio's Embassy Pictures.

Notable TV Programs/Studios and tapings by Tandem Productions

 * All in the Family at CBS Television City (1971–1975) and Metromedia Square (1975–1979)
 * Maude at CBS Television City (1972–1975) and Metromedia Square (1975–1978)
 * Sanford and Son at NBC Studios in Burbank (1972–1977)
 * Good Times at CBS Television City (1974–1975) and Metromedia Square (1975–1979)
 * Sanford Arms at NBC Studios in Burbank (1977)
 * Diff'rent Strokes at Metromedia Square (1978–1982), Universal Studios By Compact Video (1982–1985) and ABC Television Center (1985–1986)
 * Archie Bunker's Place at CBS Television City (1979–1983)
 * Sanford at Metromedia Square (1980–1981)
 * Gloria at Universal Studios by Compact Video (1982–1983, originally slated to be an Embassy Television Production)

TOY Productions

 * Grady (1975–1976)
 * What's Happening!! (1976–1979)
 * Carter Country (1977–1979)
 * 13 Queens Boulevard (1979)
 * One in a Million (1980)
 * One of the Boys (1982)

Theatrical movies

 * Come Blow Your Horn (1963, distributed by Paramount Pictures); (Essex-Tandem)
 * Never Too Late (1965, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures);
 * Divorce American Style (1967, as Tandem Enterprises, Inc. and distributed by Columbia Pictures);
 * The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968, distributed by United Artists);
 * Start the Revolution Without Me (1970, as Norbud Productions and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures);
 * Cold Turkey (1971, distributed by United Artists);
 * The Thief Who Came to Dinner (1973, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures)

Notable actors and actresses
Tandem, TOY, and ELP Communications used the same actors and actresses to appear on different television programs.

 * John Amos (Tandem)
 * Marla Gibbs (ELP)
 * Esther Rolle (Tandem)
 * Demond Wilson (Tandem)
 * Carroll O'Connor (Tandem)
 * Ernest Lee Thomas (TOY)
 * Todd Bridges (Tandem, TOY, ELP)
 * LaWanda Page (Tandem, ELP)
 * Kim Fields (Tandem, ELP)
 * Gary Coleman (Tandem, ELP)
 * Charlotte Rae (Tandem, ELP)
 * Nathaniel Taylor Jr. (Tandem, TOY)
 * Whitman Mayo (Tandem, ELP)
 * Hal Williams (Tandem, TOY, ELP)
 * Helen Martin (Tandem, TOY, ELP)
 * Isabel Sanford (Tandem, ELP)
 * Sherman Hemsley (Tandem, ELP)
 * Michael Evans (Tandem, ELP)
 * Jean Stapleton (Tandem, ELP)
 * Sally Struthers (Tandem)
 * Theodore Wilson (Tandem, TOY, ELP)

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Rune Soldier

Rune Soldier (魔法戦士リウイ) is a Japanese light novel series by Ryo Mizuno, which features the apprentice wizard Louie as the hero. The series takes place on the continent of Alecrast on the world called Forcelia, and is related to the series Sword World RPG. It is a sibling series to Record of Lodoss War (also by Mizuno), taking place on a continent north of Lodoss Island.

An anime television series adaptation animated by J.C.Staff aired on Wowow from April to September 2001. There are also two manga adaptations.

Characters

 * Louie : A member of the Magician's Guild in Ohfun and the adopted son of Carwes the guild's master. Muscular and a little on the dumb side; Louie is prone to getting drunk in bars, chasing after girls, and brawling when he should be studying his magic. As a result, he tends to use brute force instead of magic, much to the chagrin of his companions (for example, on his first adventure, Louie lost his temper when a troop of goblins clubbed him on the head and then broke his wand when he used it to club them back). Despite his shortcomings as a wizard, Louie possesses a strong sense of justice and is unfailingly loyal to those he considers his friends. Louie's stupidity mostly results as a lack of planning and forethought, he's actually a lot smarter than he usually appears to be, often figuring things out that others overlook. While it isn't mentioned in the anime (other than Louie's strong resemblance to him) it is strongly hinted in the manga that Louie is the illegitimate son of the King., Jon Goiri (Spanish)

 * Melissa : Adventurer and priestess to Mylee, god of war. Daughter of an earl in Ramliearth. Naive and idealistic, Melissa's dream is to serve a chosen hero of her patron god which of course causes her great despair when Mylee reveals her destined champion is Louie (in the anime she frequently says "This is against my will" several times an episode). Throughout the course of the series, Melissa gradually begins to realize that perfect heroes don't exist and by the end of the series not only fully accepts Louie as her chosen hero but may also have developed feelings for him as well., Jaione Intsausti (Spanish)

 * Genie : Adventurer and former soldier of Ohfun. She has a rather cool demeanor but Louie's stupid behavior tends to push her to the point of violence. A highly adept warrior, Genie's favorite weapon is a broadsword as big as herself and likewise is strong enough to slug it out on the same level as Louie. As the story progresses, Genie comes to respect Louie as a friend when she finds that he, unlike most men, doesn't look down on her because she is a woman and even teaches him basic sword fighting., Maribel Legarreta (Spanish)

 * Merrill : Adventurer, thief and part-time job worker with a fanatical obsession for money. When not adventuring, Merrill is either raising funds for the next adventure through various part-time jobs or looking at any scheme to get rich, including running booths at various events in Ohfun. Like Genie, Merril is driven crazy by Louie's behavior and frequently explodes in violence at him., Ana Bego Egileor (Spanish)

 * Aila : Member of the Magician's Guild and Louie's friend. Despite many attempts to get Louie on a date, especially considering her rather voluptuous frame, their relationship remains platonic and open much to her dismay. Although highly knowledgeable in magic theory and magical item lore (her chief area of study), Aila herself claims to be inferior to Louie in raw magical prowess. She also tends to go to pieces and pass out whenever trouble surfaces on adventures she tags along with. In the manga, Aila's character is more sultry than in the anime and she especially enjoys getting Louie flustered by flirting with him., Ana Tere Bengoetxea (Spanish)

 * Celecia : A beautiful elf girl the group met while journeying through a forest.

 * Anna
 * Gannet, Jaione Instsausti (Spanish)
 * Joan, Maribel Legarreta (Spanish)
 * Three young teenage priestesses of Mylee that hold Melissa in esteem. They have a low opinion of Louie and see him as a burden to Melissa during the entirety of the anime series. They don't appear in the manga.

 * Dardanel : The main antagonist of the series.

Light novels
First series 1. ISBN 4829128453 October 25, 1998 2. ISBN 4829128674 February 25, 1999 3. ISBN 4829128917 June 25, 1999 4. ISBN 4829129328 December 25, 1999 5. ISBN 482912959X April 25, 2000 6. ISBN 4829129948 August 30, 2000 7. ISBN 4829113375 March 25, 2001 8. ISBN 4829113693 July 25, 2001 9. ISBN 4829114053 February 25, 2002 0. ISBN 4829115009 March 25, 2003: A side-story about Genie, Merrill, and Melissa before meeting Louie.

Second series 1. Rune Soldier in the Sword Kingdom
 * (Old edition) Sword World ・ Novel: Rune Soldier in the Sword Kingdom (ISBN 4829124776 February 15, 1993)
 * (New edition) Rune Soldier in the Sword Kingdom (ISBN 4829113723 September 20, 2001)

2. Rune Soldier in the Lakeshore Country
 * (Old edition) (ISBN 4829127678 August 25, 1997)
 * (Corrected edition) (ISBN 4829113731 September 1, 2001)

3. Rune Soldier in the Dust Country (ISBN 4829115564 September 25, 2003)

Third series 1. Farram's Sword: Rune Soldier in the Sage's Country (ISBN 4829116331 August 25, 2004) 2. Farram's Sword: Rune Soldier on the Accursed Island (ISBN 4829116986 March 25, 2005) (crossover with Record of Lodoss War) 3. Farram's Sword: Rune Soldier in the Pastoral Country (ISBN 4829117982 February 25, 2006) 4. Farram's Sword: Rune Soldier in the Steel Country (ISBN 4829118849 December 20, 2006) 5. Farram's Sword: Rune Soldier on the Island of Gods (ISBN 978-4-8291-1970-9 December 25, 2007) 6. Farram's Sword: Rune Soldier on the Stormy Sea (ISBN 978-4-8291-3316-3 August 20, 2008) 7. Farram's Sword: Rune Soldier on the Smokefire Island (ISBN 978-4-8291-3537-2 January 20, 2011) 8. Farram's Sword: Rune Soldier in the Rune Land (ISBN 978-4-8291-3673-7 June 20, 2012)

Anime
The Rune Soldier anime consists of 24 episodes. The episodes are either a stand-alone adventure, or a story arc consisting of multiple episodes. In general the plot of each episode or story arc revolves around the group looking for, finding, and participating in an adventure. Probably due to interpretation or stylistic differences most episodes have a verbal spoken and written name that does not match exactly.

The anime had an NTSC release of September 13, 2005 by Section 23. There were six discs total. In Indonesia, it was broadcast by Trans TV and TV7.

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Thanks MinorEdit,

Your comments on User talk:203.166.96.234 and neighbours are helpful. I was previously discussing with one of the other sysops whether these IPs had a wider use than just the NSW school which seem to be generating the vandalism problem.

Can you tell me which ISP you use. I'll update the sharedip notices too. -- Solipsist 10:38, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

concerning your question on the village pump === ==

You could always bring it up at WP:VFD, perhaps with the goal to transwiki it; I think Jmabel could be right in questioning the noticeability and/or verifiabitity, which would be enough to start a vfd-process. Have a look at this: tea-sucking, and its talk-page, as to what can happen to an article Lectonar 10:24, 12 July 2005 (UTC)

 * Well if tea-sucking (sounds repulsive!) survived a deletion vote with its additions, than it seems likely Goon of Fortune probably would too (plus I've since found that many other drinking games happily exist within Wikipedia) so I've just tried to NPOV some of the wording... thanks! MinorEdit 22:56, July 12, 2005 (UTC)

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I got busy at work. Sorry you got effected by the blocks :-( Ta bu shi da yu 03:49, 3 August 2005 (UTC)

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Soap opera
Changing that heading to not conform with the rest of the article makes it look bad. Either change all the other headings or move it back to "Soaps in Australia." Mike H (Talking is hot) 01:32, August 5, 2005 (UTC)

Have sent an request to Ozemail
If they cannot assist, we may have no choice other than to block their entire subnet. Will speak to Jimbo about this if I don't get an adequate response. Figured you should know. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:46, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

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This article is not particularly useful without a map showing exactly where each lathe was, since the names themselves do not give much of a clue. In addition I'm unsure why the older names are not red-lettered; or alternatively, why the newer ones are! I am sure there is someone who can supply the map ... Peter Shearan 07:22, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

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 * I'm not sure whether there is any good purpose for elaborating upon the topic (beyond the referral of the reader to the expanded Treaty of Shimonoseki article, save historical completness in the form of blow by blow negotiations and personalities. It strikes me as a matter best left to an in depth book rather than a encyclopedia article.  None-the-less, I did not remove the stubs from the text... actually I put them back -- so I WAS tempted! Fabartus 19:48, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:Standard Oil of Ohio

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This brings back many memories, I started with Sohio, Oct 4, 1971 in Cincinnati, Ohio 930 Tennessee Ave. Heat oil #2 was 17.9c/gal while Kerosene was 18.9c/gal

Jim Johnson IST Oil Americas

Back in 1991, when going to Cedar Point, I had noticed "What happened to all the Sohio stations?", noticing that they all converted to the gold and green BP stations. I noticed the same with a couple of Boron stations in Michigan. Other Boron stations switched to other brands like Marathon.

I remember going to Florida with my high school band, and one of my classmates said "What is So-hee-oh" as we were going through Ohio, and I told him the correct pronounciation, and that that's (was) the most prominent brand of gasoline in Ohio, along with Marathon.

Mark Pesci —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mpesci7822 (talk • contribs) 08:01, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Corporate Name
The actual name of Standard Oil as it operated in Ohio was The Standard Oil Company (Ohio), with the article "The" in italic script. Whenever the company name was spoken, it was always as "The Standard Oil Company", with an emphasis on the article "the". The company was never referred to as Standard Oil of Ohio. DavidFM48 (talk) 01:11, 29 July 2009 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Monkey Comeback Game

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Monkey Comeback Game
This Page refers to Game 6 of the 2002 World Series of Major League Baseball but includes information on Games 5 and 7. There already exists a page for the entire series. I as an Angels fan I have never personally heard this term used. --Da 'Sco Mon 19:49, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Weep as a long-suffering Giants fan. Ben-w 20:50, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete even though I'm an Angels fan, this page is redundant and not very well put together. I have also never heard this name used for this game. Great game, though. --Plexust 02:17, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete redundant page. JamesBurns 06:14, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete this page please. I am also a long-suffering Angels fan, and I personally consider this game to be the greatest World Series game ever played, bar none.  I have thought from time to time about creating a page dedicated to Game Six, but haven't had the time.  I was excited when I learned of this page but, frankly, it's a disappointment. Uncle Al 18:45, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Even if this page had any useful content (which it doesn't), the proper place for it would be under 2002 World Series.  One of you Angels fans might write a bit about the comeback in that space.  --BlueMoonlet 05:57, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Comment. The name "Monkey Comeback Game" is not appropriate, as others have noted.  This game is no more closely associated with RM than any other come-from-behind Angels win this decade.  --BlueMoonlet 06:02, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Talk:Rape (county subdivision)

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It`s funny, because rape is ``sus sex`` get it 80.158.46.83 (talk) 11:54, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
 * No. Just stop. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.86.206.73 (talk) 05:54, 1 August 2023 (UTC)

 * We are better than this. ERBuermann (talk) 22:07, 17 September 2023 (UTC)

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/The Twilight Collective

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The Twilight Collective
Band vanity. No CDs, no awards, no national tour, no reviews other than webzines; ergo fails WP:MUSIC.—Wahoofive (talk) 19:50, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete - yep. CDC   (talk)  00:18, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete fails WP notabilty test. JamesBurns 06:13, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete --FCYTravis 10:59, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Jake in Progress

Jake in Progress is an American sitcom television series broadcast on ABC from March 13, 2005 to January 9, 2006. Created by Austin Winsberg, the show was originally conceived as a real-time comedy; the first season was to show the first date of Jake and a woman. This was dropped during development, and the show became more conventional and episodic. The first aired episode reflected the original plan, covering the first half-hour of a date.

Synopsis
The main character is Jake (John Stamos), a New York City publicist-to-the-stars who tries to change his womanizing ways as he tries to find the woman of his dreams. Stamos' co-stars in the show are Naomi (Wendie Malick), Jake's boss at the Magnum PR Agency; Adrian (Ian Gomez), Jake's best friend; and Patrick (Rick Hoffman), the performance artist who always appears at the most inopportune times.

Cast

 * John Stamos as Jake Phillips
 * Wendie Malick as Naomi Clark
 * Rick Hoffman as Patrick Van Dorn
 * Ian Gomez as Adrian

Reception
The show averaged 5.5 million viewers in its first season and was initially canceled. However, the network reversed course and announced the show would return as the lead-out from a highly anticipated series, Emily's Reasons Why Not. The Jake character was softened somewhat in the second season in an effort to make him more relatable. The first night of the sitcom pairing fared poorly in the ratings; after one week, ABC immediately scheduled a rerun of The Bachelor during the one-hour block for the following week, putting both shows on indefinite hiatus. ABC confirmed on May 13 that Jake had been canceled.

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Uschi Digard

Uschi Digard is the stage name of a softcore pornographic actress and pin-up model active between 1968 and 1982. Born in Europe, she was said to be aged thirty-two in 1977 and sixty in 2006, but her date of birth is not known. She emigrated to the United States in 1968 and settled in California. She is remembered particularly for her work with Russ Meyer.

Early life
The two main sources for Digard's early life are an interview she gave to Dian Hanson in 2006 for The Big Book of Breasts and an interview she gave to The Rialto Report in 2013. Several details in these two interviews differ.

Both sources agree that Digard had a strict education in a convent boarding school, which felt to her like a "cage" and a "prison". Among other things, she had her favoured left hand strapped to her body to make her use her right hand, including for writing. That said, the school also nurtured her precocious love of reading and languages. She appears to have completed her education with a year at a French school and a year at an Italian school. She says in the 2006 interview that she went to Paris to "learn French", but given that she says in the 2013 interview that her family is Swiss Romand, this should not be taken to mean learning from scratch.

Beyond school, she indulged her passion for skiing, swimming, outdoor life and nudism, which would later be integral to her persona as a model and actress.

Linguist
Digard is proficient in German, French and Italian (the national languages of Switzerland), Swedish, Spanish, and English. She spent much of her young adulthood travelling for adventure and to improve her language skills: in England, France, Israel, Italy, Mexico, Morocco, Spain, Sweden, the Channel Islands, and the Canary Islands, where she met her lifelong husband, a musician known as "Ron".

She began her working life in jobs that made use of her gifts as a linguist: at London's Regent Palace Hotel; in the jewellery trade in the Canary Islands, Sweden and Switzerland; and at the Olympic Games in Mexico City. She continued to sideline as an interpreter and translator even after achieving celebrity in the entertainment industry, including for a Californian aircraft manufacturer.

Sweden
Digard was long believed to be Swedish and the Swedish Film Institute tentatively accepts this, while acknowledging that there are other possibilities. The 2013 interview, however, suggests that her connection with the country is slight. She says she lived there "for three years" in the sixties when her husband had a show on Swedish television, but her chronology implies a shorter period, approximately summer 1967 to autumn 1968. There is no evidence that she did any modelling or pornographic work during her time there.

United States
Digard has said that she moved to the U.S. in 1967 (in the 2006 interview) or in 1968 (in the 2013 interview). The 1968 date better fits the detailed chronology she provides in her conversation with The Rialto Report.

Once settled, she began working as a pin-up model. She became one of the best known big-bust models in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Magazines in which she appeared frequently include Knight, Cinema X, Latent Image, and Gent.

At the same time, she set about breaking into the movies. She started at the bottom as a bit player and supporting actress in sexploitation films, with her uncredited turn as a hitch-hiker in Gary Graver's The Kill (1968) possibly her first screen appearance. She gradually worked up to more prominent roles, as in Raquel's Motel (aka Uschi's Hollywood Adventure, 1970). Both of these films were so low-budget they were shot without sound and then dubbed with a narrative voice-over. Yet even in Z movies, Digard developed a reputation for her work ethic and commitment to making projects succeed — which extended to stepping in as a stunt double for more trepidatious colleagues if necessary. She had "the dedication of a Watusi gun-bearer", according to Russ Meyer.

Meyer cast Digard in Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (1970) to perform an interpretive dance scene symbolizing the death of the protagonist. She went on to appear in two more of Meyer's films in the 1970s: Supervixens (1975) and Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979). She was also a co-producer on Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens, as she had been earlier on the director's Up! (1976). She provided the voice-over narration for Tundi Horvath's character in Meyer's last film, Pandora Peaks (2000). She also had starring roles in Edward L. Montoro's Getting Into Heaven (1970) and Ed Wood's The Only House in Town (1971).

Among the dozens of features in which Digard did cameos and played minor roles were Superchick (1973) starring Joyce Jillson, as the character Mayday; Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS (1975), as a prisoner; Sam Peckinpah's The Killer Elite (1975), as a girl at a party; Richard Franklin's Fantasm (1976), as Super Girl; Chesty Anderson, USN (1976), as the Baron's girlfriend; Female Chauvinists (1976), as a character called Pussy; and John Landis's The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), as the woman showering in the segment "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble".

Digard appeared in a small number of X-rated movies, such as I Want You! (1970), but her own sex scenes in these films were faked. Digard said she "never once" did hardcore: "I made my reputation by the tease. Everything was simulated." Russ Meyer said Digard sometimes welcomed foreplay to prepare herself for sex scenes, which does not contradict her point that she never performed penetrative sex on camera.

In addition to her work in feature films, Digard made many erotic and softcore pornographic loops for peep show exhibition and for sale on 8-mm film. Some of this material was later recycled to create pseudo-features such as John Holmes and the All-Star Sex Queens (1980) or anthologised on videocassette and DVD. Her Amazon-like screen presence and enthusiasm for the genre made her a favourite in the niche market for sexy fighting loops, of which she did at least thirty. These usually involved her wrestling other women (Candy Samples, Kelly Stewart, Serena), but some involved boxing, and some pitted her against men.

Return to private life
Digard retired from the entertainment industry in 1982 and has not performed professionally since, although she continued her career in other fields. In 2013 she said she had completed an autobiography, provisionally called I Used to Be Uschi, but this has not been published.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Sega daytona

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Sega daytona
This page is redundant, Daytona_USA is a better-formed version of the same.
 * (this from User:Kyouteki, who didn't sign)

 * Delete. "Sega daytona" is nonsensical; Daytona USA is the title of the game. jglc | t | c 18:13, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete redundant article. JamesBurns 01:36, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Talk:List of minor characters in the StarCraft series

Restructure of article
I've restructured the article into three categories, and with the help of Deckiller and the Clawed One, rewritten all current characters. However, this is still not a complete list. Characters, mainly from the authorised add-ons and the novels, still need to be included. A number of characters in the previous version of this article have not been included, but should be at some point. However, there are a couple of points regarding this:
 * Don't include characters who do not have any substantial information available to them. Colonel Hauler, Gui Montag and Morik are little more than names and aren't worth the space. Silendas is currently a name to which no information is available, so until a respectable amount of information is available she should remain a simple note in Artanis' section.
 * Keep it in an out-of-universe persective and keep sections short. Long sections of prose simply aren't necessary for these characters. Try to keep it below three paragraphs. For obvious reasons, we don't want it written in an in-universe style.
 * Please don't put in character infoboxes. They make the presentation of the article look rather bad, especially on widescreen monitors, and they aren't really needed and take up unnecessary file space.

In regards to notability, I believe this article should be treated as an extension of Characters of StarCraft. The only reason it is not included there is due to size constraints. From WP:NOTINHERITED: "Often, sub-articles are created for formatting and display purposes, however - this does not imply an "inherited notability" per se, but is often accepted in the context of ease of formatting and navigation." From WP:FICTION: "the sub-article should be viewed as an extension of the parent article, and judged as if it were still a section of that article [but] editors should still strive to provide real-world content."

For the convienence of dealing with the redone article, I've archived the previous discussion.

-- Sabre 16:55, 11 September 2007 (UTC)

Just something worth of note, Chris Metzen has stated in a recent interview conducted by Starcraft Legacy that the canonical storyline for Enslavers: Dark Vengeance, is that the Protoss chose to reclaim the Khaydarin crystal, and later faced off against Ulrezaj's minions as well as Alan Schezar and his militia, with the Protoss destroying the EMP device and killing Schezar.

Source: http://www.sclegacy.com/content/interviews-6/scl-metzen-interview---lore-exclusive-28/

-- Haleth 09 October 2007

The Enslavers series were not authorized add-ons developed by third parties (as are Insurrection and Retribution), but rather bonus campaigns created by Blizzard employees themselves. The fact that Ulrezaj was included in a novel series written by Christie Golden who worked closely with Metzen himself and got a lot of lore input from him, thus implying that the Enslavers series, while not significant but canonical regardless, I would suggest moving Mojo, Schezar and Ulrezaj to the first section. Haleth (talk) 04:53, 20 October 2008 (UTC)


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AllAfrica

allAfrica is a website that aggregates and produces news primarily on the African continent about all areas of African life, politics, issues and culture. It is owned by AllAfrica Global Media, a multi-media content service provider and the largest distributor of African news worldwide. The website operates from offices in Cape Town, Dakar, Abuja, Monrovia, Nairobi and Washington, D.C.. AllAfrica is the successor to Africa News Service.

Its stories can be displayed by categories and subcategories such as country, region, and by news topic. In 2008, AllAfrica rolled out a comment board system. The website is available in both English and French.

It has the contents of 127 contemporary African newspapers, and news feeds from several hundred organizations internationally. It maintains a searchable 400,000-item archive dating back to 1997. The Executive Chair of AllAfrica Global Media is Amadou Mahtar Ba.

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National Institute of Building Sciences

The National Institute of Building Sciences is a non-profit, non-governmental organization that identify, resolve problems and potential issues in the built environments throughout the United States. Authorized by the U.S. Congress in the Housing and Community Development Act of 1974.

Councils and Workgroups

 * Building Enclosure Technology and Environment Council (BETEC)
 * Building Information Management (BIM) Council (formerly the buildingSMART alliance)
 * Building Seismic Safety Council (BSSC)
 * Consultative Council
 * Facility Management and Operations Council (FMOC)
 * Multi-Hazard Mitigation Council (MMC)
 * Off-Site Construction Council
 * Whole Building Design Guide (WBDG) Workgroup

Technology programs

 * HAZUS
 * ProjNet
 * Whole Building Design Guide WBDG

News

 * NIBS Member Quarterly Newsletter

Standards and publications

 * National BIM Standard - United States
 * United States National CAD Standard

Former councils include:
 * Facility Information Council (FIC)
 * International Alliance for Interoperability (IAI)

Charter members

 * Mortimer M. Marshall Jr., FAIA
 * Homer Hurst

title: National Institute of Building Sciences


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Marshall McDougall

Marshall James McDougall (born December 19, 1978) is an American former professional baseball player. Primarily a third baseman, he has played part of one season in Major League Baseball with the Texas Rangers, and one season in the Chinese Professional Baseball League with the Uni-President 7-Eleven Lions.

College career
McDougall, who bats and throws right-handed, played college baseball for the Florida State University Seminoles (1999–2000), where he played under head coach Mike Martin and was a first team consensus All-American in 1999. In that same year, he was a finalist for the Golden Spikes Award and the Dick Howser Trophy. He was named the Most Outstanding Player at the 1999 College World Series.

He will perhaps always be most famous for his performance on May 9, 1999, where, against the University of Maryland Terrapins, his 7-for-7 performance at the plate with 6 home runs, 16 RBI, and 25 total bases shattered NCAA single game records in all three categories.

After the 1999 season, he played collegiate summer baseball with the Harwich Mariners of the Cape Cod Baseball League.

Professional career
McDougall was drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the 9th round of the 2000 MLB Draft and played in the Athletics organization until July 30, 2002, when he was traded to the Cleveland Indians for Ricardo Rincón. After playing the rest of the season with Single-A Mahoning Valley and Double-A Akron, McDougall was selected in the 2002 Rule 5 draft by the Texas Rangers. He played in Texas' organization, making his MLB debut on June 7, 2005, until released on June 29, 2006. He played in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization in 2007 and the San Diego Padres organization in 2008.

In 2009, McDougall played for the Broncos de Reynosa, and in 2010 he signed with the CPBL's Lions. He returned to the Broncos for the 2011 season. He has also played for the Algodoneros de Guasave in the Mexican Pacific League.

title: Marshall McDougall