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Chibi-Robo! (video game)

'Chibi-Robo! Plug Into Adventure!' is a 2005 platform-adventure video game developed by Skip Ltd. and published by Nintendo for the GameCube console. It was released in Japan in 2005, and in North America and Europe the following year. Originally conceived as a point-and-click adventure game, it was put on developmental hold until Nintendo producer Shigeru Miyamoto gained interest in the title and overhauled its production.

The player takes on the role of the eponymous Chibi-Robo, a 10-centimeter-tall robot owned by the Sanderson family. Gameplay revolves around navigating a household and collecting "Happy Points" by completing various tasks from housework to helping solve the dilemmas of the Sanderson family and the numerous living toys that inhabit their household. Every action consumes energy, requiring the player to recharge using electrical outlets.

Chibi-Robo! was generally well received, with praise for the premise, the charming storyline, and sound design. However, some gameplay mechanics and the quality of the graphics drew some criticism. Sales of Chibi-Robo! were modest. It spawned several sequels. For the Nintendo DS, Chibi-Robo!: Park Patrol was released in 2007 and Okaeri! Chibi-Robo! Happy Richie Ōsōji! was released in 2009, the latter being a Japan-exclusive. For the Nintendo 3DS, Chibi-Robo! Photo Finder was released in Japan in 2013 and in North America in 2014, and Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash was released in 2015. The original Chibi-Robo! saw a Japanese re-release in 2009 for the Wii as part of the New Play Control! series.

Plot
Chibi-Robo! takes place in a 1960s-style American home and revolves around a tiny, highly advanced house-cleaning robot of the same name given as a birthday gift to the socially withdrawn eight-year-old Jenny Sanderson by her father George. This is much to the dismay of Jenny's mother Helen, a homemaker who is constantly stressed over how much money her husband spends on toys despite his unemployment; he originally worked at a toy company called Macroware Robotics Inc. Chibi-Robo is packaged with a small "Chibi-House" and an assistant named Telly Vision who speaks on his behalf. Each of the one million Chibi-Robos in the world is supposed to collect "Happy Points" by doing good deeds for their owners and must occasionally charge their batteries at electrical outlets. During the night or when humans are not around in the Sandersons' house, several toys come to life: a superhero action figure named Drake Redcrest, a toy caterpillar named Sophie, a group of egg-shaped army men called the Free Rangers, a wooden pirate named Plankbeard, a teddy bear named Sunshine, a toy fortune teller named The Great Peekoe, a brick-made T-rex named Dinah, a toy mummy named Mort, a toy princess named Princess Pitts, a toy potted flower named Funky Phil, and a black and white toy named Primopuel. Chibi-Robo also meets several animals and creatures consisting of two frogs named Freida and Fred, a plug-headed being named Mr. Prongs, a bluebird, a eggplant-like creature called Kid Eggplant, and the Sandersons' pet dog Tao. Chibi-Robo eventually finds a large robot in the basement with a missing leg called Giga-Robo, who was once a companion of the Sandersons', but had to be deactivated due to its high electricity consumption. Chibi-Robo attempts to revive Giga-Robo by fully charging its massive battery using the Giga-charger and makes it a goal to find Giga-Robo's missing leg, but is attacked by spider-like robots called Spydorz.

When George purchases yet another toy, Helen locks herself in her room and tells him that she wants a divorce, prompting the rest of the family to do housework in an attempt to make up for it. Meanwhile, Chibi-Robo finds a strange pattern in the backyard and uses his radar to contact an alien species. Once the aliens land and greet him, Chibi-Robo uses a time machine made by the visitors to go into the past to find a code to enter a safe in the master bedroom containing Giga-Robo's leg. He returns to the present to open the safe, but several larger Spydorz are released and capture the Sandersons. It is revealed that George originally created the Spydorz to be friends with the Chibi-Robos, but his toy company reprogrammed them to be hostile (it is unknown why), causing George to quit his job. George upgrades Chibi-Robo's blaster weapon, allowing the small robot to defeat the Queen Spydor, recover Giga-Robo's missing leg, and rescue the Sandersons. George apologizes for lying to Helen, and the two reconcile. Once Chibi-Robo fully recharges Giga-Robo's battery, reattaches his missing leg, and finds the passcode needed to turn him on, he reactivates Giga-Robo, and the aliens meet them in the backyard. The aliens explain that the toys are able to walk and talk due to a request from Giga-Robo to give them life and to give all Giga-Robos infinite battery power to prevent their energy consumption. The aliens could not do the latter at the time and returned to their own planet to obtain the item necessary to grant Giga-Robo's wish. They then give Giga-Robo this ability, who shares it with Chibi-Robo and the rest of the robots in the world as well, eliminating the energy problem. Sometime later, George gets a new job at Citrusoft Robotics, the company that created Chibi-Robo.

Gameplay
Chibi-Robo! is a platform-adventure game that puts the player in direct control of a tiny, battery-powered robot that does housework for humans. The objective of the game is to become the top-ranked "Super Chibi-Robo" in the world by accumulating Happy Points, a collectible gained by doing good deeds for the family and for various toys in the Sandersons' home. In order to do this, the player must control Chibi-Robo and explore the Sandersons' home. During exploration, Chibi-Robo can find a wide variety of things to collect, including "Moolah", the currency of Chibi-Robo!. An important task in gaining Happy Points is to clean up messes around the house, such as disposing of trash or scrubbing dirty footprints. The player can also interact with and help with the personal problems of the Sandersons and the toys. This ranges from solving a plot-driving crisis or completing a subquest of simply locating a lost object as a favor. With Chibi-Robo's assistant Telly Vision as his speaker, the player is often prompted to give either a positive or negative response to each question or request. The player loses battery power with every step and action. If his battery is not charged before it empties, Chibi-Robo will collapse and re-emerge in the Chibi-House, having lost half of his Moolah. Throughout the house are electrical outlets, which the player can plug into to recharge his battery or save his progress. The player's exploration is limited by a timer representing a full day or full night. Once the timer expires, Chibi-Robo automatically returns to the Chibi-House.

There are three collectibles in the game. One is the stickers, which can be obtained throughout the game, either by completing the game, completing quests, playing mini-games, or doing simple tasks for other non-player characters. The Second is the Frog Rings which can be collected and given to Jenny, the daughter of the Sanderson household, for Happy Points and a sticker. The third is the crayons found throughout the house which can be deposited in a crayon box for Happy Points.

At the start of both day and night, the player begins in the Chibi-House, where they can charge Chibi-Robo's battery, save at the electrical outlet, or connect to the Citrusoft "Chibi-PC" to purchase a variety of items and power-ups with Moolah and use scrap metal to build "Utilibots", robotic helpers that ease the navigation of the Sandersons' home. The gear available from Citrusoft includes the "Chibi-Copter", used to reach far-off points or fly down from a high place safely; the "Chibi-Blaster", used to eliminate obstacles and fend off the hostile Spydorz; and the "Chibi-Radar", used to detect hidden objects. There are several other items of the Sandersons' that Chibi-Robo can find and use. These include the toothbrush, used to clean up stains; the coffee mug, used for protection; the spoon, used to dig holes; and the squirter, used to hold fluids and squirt them. Chibi-Robo can also gain special costumes throughout the game, each of which has its own function. For instance, if the player poses for Mr. Sanderson while wearing The Drake Redcrest costume, he will give Chibi-Robo Happy Points. As more Happy Points are acquired, the player's rank increases among all the Chibi-Robos in the world. At certain ranks, Citrusoft will send the player bonus batteries, allowing Chibi-Robo to roam longer without having to recharge until they earn the status of "Super Chibi-Robo", which earns the player unlimited battery life.

Development
Chibi-Robo! was developed by Skip Ltd. Chibi-Robo! was announced in early 2003 with publishing rights held by Bandai. Its original projected release date was June 2003 in Japan and spring 2004 in North America. Unlike the released version of Chibi-Robo!, the beta version entailed the player training Chibi-Robo to defend the home of his inventor from a pair of burglars. The gameplay was different as well; instead of a platform-adventure game, it played like a point-and-click adventure title, where the player was not in direct control of Chibi-Robo, but was rather conveying commands to him by clicking a cursor around the area. The protagonist was also to learn and develop depending on the choices the player made for him. This incarnation of Chibi-Robo! was ultimately put on "indefinite hold" and disappeared from the media. Shigeru Miyamoto was eventually introduced to the game by fellow Nintendo producer Kensuke Tanabe. Miyamoto took a personal interest in the character of Chibi-Robo and signed on as the game's senior producer. The development of Chibi-Robo! was revamped with Nintendo acting as its new publisher. Chibi-Robo! was in development for four years.

Director Kenichi Nishi had previous development credits such as Chrono Trigger, Moon: Remix RPG Adventure and Incredible Crisis. Nishi's approach to game design, even with Chibi-Robo!, was to always take a standard, orthodox method and "crash it, twist it, or create a totally different direction". The reason Nishi chose to make the majority of the cast toys is because humans are "too big to interact with [Chibi-Robo] and create all the drama" and that it added a sense of fantasy to the experience. The family dog Tao had appeared in Nishi's previous games: Moon: Remix RPG Adventure and L.O.L.: Lack of Love. The director based the dog on his own pet because he felt that the "black-and-white color is very simple and universal". Despite the game's overall happy attitude, the game designers put some emphasis on serious topics such as divorce, loneliness, pollution, and loss, in which Nishi said: "If we only concentrate on cheerful fun, we'll lose depth. There's nothing surprising for people if the game looks cheerful and the experience is cheerful. There are no surprises or unexpected things". Still, rather than use these topics as major themes for the player, Nishi felt it would be more effective to bring them in as "ordinary things to enhance the adventure of daily life".

The music and sound in Chibi-Robo! were composed by Hirofumi Taniguchi. He wanted to make unique sound patterns and motifs for each character, and even used human voices to create the system sounds, such as on the menu selections. All of the noises made by Chibi-Robo's actions were phrased. Taniguchi used both woodwind and electronic instruments for the character's actions, the former because "Chibi's actions are not ordinary robotlike actions" and the latter because he did not want to totally eliminate his mechanical characteristics. Different background music is played for the day and night cycles, but they lack melody because Chibi-Robo's footsteps create a melody at random. The tempo of his footsteps was designed to match the background music; if he picks up his plug to walk faster, the music speeds up. All of the game's music was compiled on the ''Chibi-Robo! Limited Soundtrack'', a CD released alongside an official 142-page guidebook and published by Shogakukan in Japan in August 2005.

Reception
Chibi-Robo! has enjoyed a generally favorable critical reception. Official Nintendo Magazine ranked it the 88th best game available on Nintendo platforms. The staff felt that it was the GameCube's "last classic". Critics Greg Mueller of GameSpot, Mathew Kumar of Eurogamer, Bryn Williams of GameSpy, Shane Satterfield of G4, and Matt Casamassina of IGN all applauded the game's charming setting, compelling storyline, and complex characters. Casamassina found that the fashion in which the main plot and objectives are sewn together is part of the reason the game is enjoyable. Mueller, Kumar, and Satterfield noted endearing, charismatic qualities among the various toy characters. Kumar heeded Chibi-Robo! as "honestly one of the most touching games I've played in ages" in which the player often becomes engrossed in "events that pan out like miniature plays, with love triangles (nay, love dodecahedrons) between toys, and some scenes with a real pathos behind them". Considering the joyous atmosphere of Chibi-Robo!, Satterfield was pleasantly surprised at its inclusion of controversial topics like divorce and its possible distortion of a target audience. This attribute was criticized by Jinny Gudmundsen, a columnist for USA Today, who thought that the interpersonal issues negate the game's overall charm and render it inappropriate for younger children. Writers for Computer Games Magazine praised Chibi-Robo by interpreting deep, symbolic meaning in its more subtle aspects. The publication found the game to use "overarching narrative arcs" and "stock melodramatic devices" among the Sandersons' dysfunctional interactions, "emotional crisis points, downtime, and rhythms and cycles of action" between its day and night events, and "evocative music" as a way for characters to communicate their feelings.

Opinions on the gameplay of Chibi-Robo! have been mixed. Among the more positive reactions, Casamassina assessed the cleaning mechanics as "very fun and very rewarding", while Kumar compared the game to the Story of Seasons series due to both entities convert seemingly boring tasks into something fun. James Mielke of 1UP.com similarly enjoyed the "near-constant sense of discovery" and the tiny details included by Skip with earning Happy Points and Moolah. Casamassina, Mielke, and Williamson were satisfied that they had to frequently recharge Chibi-Robo, but Mueller was dismayed to have to stop one's current task in order to find an outlet. The GameSpot contributor was also aggravated with the mere five-minute intervals for the day and night cycles, which he considered a major interruption of the game's pacing. Contrarily, Kumar felt the pacing was appropriate and Williamson viewed the feature as a "flexible difficulty level setting". Satterfield proclaimed that although the gameplay is somewhat varied, most of it is constituted by the tedious location and collection of objects for the non-player characters. Jeremy Zoss of Game Informer was displeased with the game as whole and wrote that it was "not a platformer, but more of a 3D adventure game composed entirely of fetch-quests and repetitive menial labor".

The audio design of Chibi-Robo!, particularly its integration of different instrumental tones for the hero's various actions, was lauded by the press. Kumar felt that its utilization of sound could be "the seed of a new way of using music in games". Casamassina commented: "Few developers would be brave enough to create a title whose main character generates varying musical notes whenever he takes a step, but this is exactly what Chibi does - and it's actually very whimsical and cute". Although many critics appreciated the bright and colorful features of the accompanying aesthetics, they also judged the graphical presentation as dated. Casamassina encountered low-polygon 3D models and a below-average frame rate; Satterfield stated the game operated at "Dreamcast level". Other portions of Chibi-Robo! were assessed as unpolished as well. Several sources noted the game's default camera system to be unwieldy, cumbersome, or frustrating at times. However, Mueller noted that switching to the top-down or first-person viewpoints and the ability to center the camera behind Chibi-Robo alleviates most of its problems. Satterfield and Casamassina regarded the cutscenes as awkward and repetitive; the former of the two claimed that they "amount to ugly characters recycling the same animation routine over and over while gibberish comes from their gaping maws". Kumar perceived the game's combat to be "messy", "uninteresting", and "entirely unnecessary".

Chibi-Robo! was not a significant commercial success. According to Media Create, the GameCube version was the fourth best-selling game in Japan for its week ending June 26, 2005 with nearly 29,000 copies sold. The game managed to sell 97,879 units in Japan alone by the end of 2005. The Wii port of the game did not fare as well; it only sold 11,000 copies in Japan for the week ending June 14, 2009 and a total of 38,573 copies throughout the remainder of that year.

Legacy
Chibi-Robo! received a sequel in 2007 for the Nintendo DS called Chibi-Robo!: Park Patrol, which follows a different Chibi-Robo as it attempts to revitalize a park. Nintendo established a deal with Wal-Mart for the exclusive rights to sell it in the United States. A second sequel for the DS, titled Okaeri! Chibi-Robo! Happy Richie Ōsōji!, saw an Exclusively in Japan release in 2009. It involves yet another Chibi-Robo vacuuming dirt for money within the home of an adult Jenny. The original Chibi-Robo! was re-released as part of New Play Control!, a selection of Wii remakes of GameCube games. The remake features special Wii Remote controls for the game's tools. Aiming the remote allows the player to change perspective, while pointing it at interactive objects with will be identified with a sound. The remake was released in Japan on June 11, 2009, but Nintendo of America did not permit an English release. A fourth game in the series, Chibi-Robo! Photo Finder, was released in 2013 for the Nintendo 3DS. The fifth game in the series, titled Chibi-Robo! Zip Lash was released in October 2015 for the Nintendo 3DS.

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Kumandins

The Kumandins (natively, Kumandy, Kuvandy(g)) are a Turkic Indigenous people of Siberia. They reside mainly in the Altai Krai and Altai Republic of the Russian Federation. They speak the Northern Altai Kumandin language.

According to the 1926 census, 6,335 Kumandins lived within the territory of Russia. In the 2010 census, the number was only 2,892, but possibly the 1926 census included some related peoples. Some Kumandins, living on the banks of the Biya River, from the Kuu River downstream, almost to the city of Biysk, and along the lower course of the Katun River, by 1969 were conflated with the Russians population.

In the Soviet years and until 2000, the authorities considered the Kumandins to be part of the Altai people. Currently, according to the Resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 255 dated March 24, 2000, as well as the Russian Census (2002), they are recognized as a separate ethnic group within indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East. For ethnic rights protection was established the "Association of the Kumandin People Revival".

Origins
Omeljan Pritsak claimed that kuman- in the name of the Kumandins is identical in meaning to the names given to the Turkic people, Cumans-Kipchaks and Polovets (a Slavic term for Cumans).

However, the (tribes) of the Kumandins have varying origin myths; L. Potapov proposed that they were originally a federation of peoples from different backgrounds: nomadic steppe pastoralists (such as the Cumans), taiga hunters (Chuvash), deer pastoralists (Nenets), and fishers (Tatars).

"[The] Kumans belonged to the Kuman-Kipchak confederation (Polevetses of the Rus annals, Comans of Byzantine sources, Folban of German annals) [and] during the period from the end of the 800s to 1230s CE spread their political influence in the broad steppes from Altai to Crimea and Danube. Irtysh with its adjoining steppes (at least below the lake Zaisan) was in the sphere of that confederation. Members of the confederation undoubtedly also were the ancestors of the present Kumandy and Teleuts, which is evidenced by their language that like the language of the Tobol-Irtysh and Baraba Tatars belongs to the Kypchak group."

By the 17th century, the Kumandins lived along the river Charysh, near its confluence with the river Ob. A subsequent relocation to the Altai was driven by their unwillingness to pay yasak (financial tribute) to the Russian sovereign. N. Aristov linked the Kumandins – and the Chelkans – to the ancient Turks, "who in the 6th-8th CC AD created in Central Asia a powerful nomadic state, which received ... the name Turkic Kaganate".

Potapov regarded the Kumandins as being related anthropologically to the peoples of the Urals, and suggested that they were less East Asian than the Altaians proper. This subjective impression has been borne out to an extent by genetic research (see below).

Six have been identified:

An ancient Turkic legend recorded in the Chinese annal (Book of Zhou 周書, 636 CE) mentions the origin of the Göktürks' ancestors from a possession or state named Suǒ (索國; MC: *sak̚-kwək̚), located "north of the Xiongnu country" (which, in this case, apparently meant Mongolia).

The name of the Ton is explained as an ethnonym that reflects their economic specialization, as a word meaning "deer" and "reindeer breeder". The remote ancestors of this Kumandy Ton were reindeer breeders, reflected in Kumandy hunting legends and fairy tales, for example about milking deer (which is attributed to the Kumandy's mountain spirits). The memory about breeding and milking reindeer belongs to some remote historical ancestors of a part of Kumandy; they can be explained by participation in the Kumandy ethnogenesis of the southern Nenets tribes, who cultivated riding deer, typically used not only for transport but also for food and dress.

Genetics
Genetically, the Kumandins are different from the neighboring Altai people, into which they were tried to be included in the Soviet years. They are genetically isolated not only from the southern, but also from the northern Altaians. This is evidenced by the complete absence of the variants of the Y chromosome haplogroups—R1a and Q—which are absolutely dominant in Altai. At the same time, the haplogroup R1b is widespread within them, and except for the Kumandins themselves, no one in Altai has found it in any quantity.

By genetic research suggesting that most Kumandin males belong to Y-DNA haplogroups that are generally found in populations further to the west, such as R1b (although the Kumandins belong to R1b-M73 rather than R1b-M269, the latter being the subclade to which a majority of Europeans belong) and N-P43 have remarked that, in fact, Chelkans and Kumandins have N-P43 Y chromosomes very similar to ones found in the Ugric-speaking Khanty). However, a majority of mitochondrial DNA lines belonged to the North East Asian haplogroups C or D with also a large minority of west Eurasian lineages such as U5a1 (5/52), H8 (3/52), U4b1b (2/52), X2e (2/52), and T1a (1/52).

Culture
The Kumandins were originally hunters and animals living in the taiga were vital to the local subsistence economy. Around the 19th century, Kumandins took up picking cedar nuts as an additional economic activity.

The traditional dwellings of the Kumandins included polygonal yurts made out of bark or log and topped with a conic bark roof. Other types of dwellings also included conic yurts made out of bark or perches.

Traditional Kumandin dress included short breeches, linen shirts, and single-breasted robes.

Religion
Most modern Kumandins are Orthodox Christians, but shamanism and Burkhanism is also practiced by some.

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 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. Sjakkalle (Check!)  14:29, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Note from creator of page - I'm going to be working on this biography in detail fairly soon. I just wanted this as a referance placeholder for right now.

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 * Delete not just because it is a truly awful page in every regard, but because the subject is clearly NN. --Jeffrey O. Gustafson 06:22, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete, unless the article improves tremendously. Right now, it's written in first person and is vague, unencyclopedic and doesn't establish notability. That last thing is what really sinks this one. -- Captain Disdain 14:28, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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Telengits

Telengits or Telengut (Телеҥеттер) are a Turkic ethnic group belonging to minor indigenous peoples. They mainly live on the territory of the Kosh-Agach district of the Altai Republic.

History
Chinese chroniclers might have mentioned Telengits as Middle Chinese: *, 多覽葛 (Standard Mandarin Chinese: ). During Dzungar domination, the Telengits had to pay a fur tribute or yasak to the Dzungars.

The Telengits in the 14th century created their own principality (the Ulus or Orda). This principality was known in Russian documents of the 16th−18th century as the Teleut land (Телеутская Землица; Teleutskaya zemlyatsa) and is termed by modern historians the "Telengit Ulus". The Telengit princes, titled Biy, for a long time retained independence, and later had only a formal dependence between the states (Russia and the Dzungar Khanate); Telengits even inflicted defeats on both, until they were finally conquered by the Dzungar Khanate in the 18th century. They then became part of the khanate, as an ulus of four thousand yurts. The Telengits, whom the Khuntaiji had resettled on the Ili River, when the turmoil in the Dzungar Khanate began, took the opportunity to return to their homeland and tried to get to the Altai. Many people were lost along the way due to the raids of the Manchurians, Kazakhs, and Khalkha Mongols

At the beginning of the 18th century, the Telengits formed two volosts, which became part of Russia much later, unlike other Altains, who came under Russian rule in 1756. On October 10, 1864, the First Chui Volost became part of the Russian Empire, and only on January 12, 1865, the inhabitants of the Second Chui Volost became citizens of Russia.

Ethnicity in the Altai
There are many groups that live in the Altai region, with the territorial groupings being somewhat fluid. For these reasons it may be difficult to distinguish between them. Telengits (or Telengut) live along the Chuya River in the western Altai and call themselves Chui-kizhi (Chuya people). Sometimes they intermix with other groups that live around the river. With this intermixing, it is often difficult to establish boundaries and distinguish the individual groups. There are no sharp distinctions among the different subgroups of the Altaians, identified as they are by the territory they occupy. This inevitably caused many problems, including how to ethnically classify them. It was the political leaders of the Ulagan district who first advocated that the Telengits be recognized as a separate Indigenous group in Russian law. Before this, there was often confusion because the Telengits were classified under the Altaians. Even after the Telengits were classified as a separate group, there were still discrepancies as to what subgroups would be included under the ethnic group of the Telengits.

In 2000, Telengits were listed as part of "Small Numbered Indigenous Peoples of the Russian Federation on the Russian and Soviet censuses".

In 2002, they were considered their own category on the census and there were 2,398 Telengits. However, this number may be inaccurate because in the context of the census questions, many Telengits, 8,000 or 9,000 would consider themselves Altaians and not Telengits.

In 2004, the NGO "Development of the Telengit People" was established. This group is an active part in the local political area in regard to issues of Telengit land rights.

Culture
Most Telengits were historically nomadic or semi-nomadic cattle herders. They commonly raised sheep, cattle, goats, and horses.

Traditional Telengit dwellings included felt yurts. Modern Telengits live in wooden homes but commonly inhabit yurts during the summer months. Traditional dress was similar for both men and women. The dress was composed of long-sleeved shirts, breeches, and robes. Double-breasted sheepskin coats, fur hats, and high boots were also commonly worn. Married women additionally wore a sleeveless jacket over their coats.

Religion
Most Telengits practice shamanism and Eastern Orthodox Christianity. Smaller numbers practice Burkhanism. Shamanism continues to exert a strong influence in Telengit culture while Orthodoxy has seen a recent revival among the Telengits.

Connection to the land
The Altaians and the Telengits feel a connection to the land that they live on. They are supposed to worship their special homeland that is considered sacred. Telengits say that if an Altaian leaves the Altai, he or she will become ill and die, not because of any longing or emotional distress, but because of physical separation. After they have lived on the land, they become one with it. That is why it is so severe when one is separated from their homeland.

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Tubalars

The Tubalars are an ethnic subgroup of the Altaians native to the Altai Republic in Russia.

According to the 2010 census, there were 1,965 Tubalars in Russia. In 2002 they were listed by the authorities within the Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East.

The villages with the highest population of Tubalars are Artybash, Iogach, Novotroitsk, Tuloi, Tondoshka, Kebezen, Ust-Pyzha, Biyka, Yailu, Chuyka, Torochak, Paspaul, Salganda, Karakoksha, Tunzha, Krasnoselskoye, Uskuch, Uimen, and Karasuk.

History
The Tubalars emerged from the merging of Turkic tribes with Ket, Samoyedic, and other native Siberian groups. This was a process that began as early as the period when the Yenisei Kyrgyz dominated the region. The Mongols then ruled over the region and its people from the 13th to 18th centuries. The Dzungars then briefly controlled the area until the Tubalars (along with other Altaians) submitted to the Russians.

Due to socio-economic changes taking place in the area during the middle to late 20 century, traditional Tubalar culture witnessed a decline. Many Tubalars migrated to cities for work and the merging of small villages into larger ones resulted in many historically Tuba villages being left abandoned or non-existent. There has been a recent push by the Tubalars to conserve their culture and language. The Tubalars consider themselves to be distinct from the other Turkic peoples in the Altai region.

Culture
The Tubalars were originally hunters and animals living in the taiga were vital to the local subsistence economy. Around the 19th century, Tubalars took up picking cedar nuts as an additional economic activity.

The traditional dwellings of the Tubalars included polygonal yurts made out of bark or log and topped with a conic bark roof. Other types of dwellings also included conic yurts made out of bark or perches.

Traditional Tubalar dress included short breeches, linen shirts, and single-breasted robes. A clan structure is still strongly prevalent among the modern Tubalars.

The sacred tree of Tubalars is the cedar, a symbol of the power, beauty and courage of taiga. The Holiday of Cedar is a celebration of this tree.

Religion
Most Tubalars are Orthodox Christian but there is a significant minority that still practice shamanism.

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Kuju
The Nintendo website lists Kuju Entertainment as the developer, but that is incorrect. They might be doing the translation, but Skip Ltd. is the game's developer.

I checked the manual, it doesn't mention the microphone as near as I can tell.. How exactly does it affect the game?
 * I think they might have removed the feature at the last second. Jedi6 05:14, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

 * Supposedly there's an easter egg whereby talking to chibi with the mic will elicit a response in certain circumstances. E.g. yelling 'Boo!" causes him to faint. I don't have a GC mic to test myself however. stewacide (talk) 06:12, 22 August 2008 (UTC)

 * Actually, you can make any noise into the mic. On the first noise, Chibi will turn to look at you. The second noise he will jump slightly. On the third noise he will fall onto his behind after being scared by your voice Sten28 (talk) 01:57, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

Bandai?
Whenever I load this game up, the bandai logo shows up. Anybody know what there involvement was? thanks.-- A c1983fan  ( talk  •  contribs ) 22:49, 7 May 2006 (UTC)

 * Bandai is known to be a prominent publisher in Japan, both in the fields of video games and anime (-->Bandai Visual). They might have helped in the development and/or publishing of the game in Japan and abroad. It would be interesting to check on various game information sites (Nintendo Japan, Nintendo Europe, Nintendo America, GameSpot, IGN, GameFAQs, 1UP,...) to check the role of Bandai in all of this.

 * Found it ! http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/gamecube/data/583171.html --- Bandai published Chibi-Robo! in Japan independently OR in collaboration with Nintendo !

Stupid Rumor
"Many people believe that if another Mario Kart is made in the same format as Mario Kart: Double Dash!!, R.O.B. and Chibi-Robo may be partners. Of course, this is just speculation"

okay, I don't think anyone but the person who added that believed it. I removed it. Readd it if you want. 70.156.34.60 21:05, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

No Criticism?
Shouldn't there be a reception section that lists the responses of various gaming magazines? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.92.100.204 (talk • contribs).

Incorrect trivia
Spydorz whre created by cutrisoft, not any other company, and were supposed ti be friends of chibi-robos. Love, VmKid 01:31, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

Spydorz were not created by Citrusoft, they were created by Mr. Sanderson when he worked for Macroware. 76.184.161.61 (talk) 23:54, 1 April 2011 (UTC)

Plug Into Adventure!
I'm pretty sure that "Plug Into Adventure!" is a tag line and not part of the title. I don't recall seeing this on the title screen.Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 00:16, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Well then, I don't oppose moving back. - A Link to the Past (talk) 00:32, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

Should it be added?
I'm wondering if the sequel for DS, Park Patrol, should be mentioned. In comes out Septmeber 26th, I think. It was in Nintendo Power. Crowstar 13:25, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

Aliens?
I think The aliens resemble Giga-Robo more than chibi-robo because they have outlets on their butts, not chords like chibi-robo.

Inaccurate line
I believe this line is incorrect:

Chibi-Robo! received a sequel for the Nintendo DS called Chibi-Robo!: Park Patrol, which follows a different Chibi-Robo, as it attempts to revitalize a park, but does not feature anyone else from Chibi-Robo!.

There is 1 returning character, a hard-boiled egg soldier who can perform jobs for you. Sten28 (talk) 02:01, 29 August 2008 (UTC)

article needs a character list.
This article needs a character list, all of both minor and major characters.

Tman7776 (talk) 09:21, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

Space Hunter: Drake Redcrest
There should be a section on his Space Hunter Code. All I remember is number 1, "Always greet everyone by shouting!". 69.72.83.32 (talk) 17:21, 24 October 2009 (UTC)

Reference material
I found this: Game Informer review. JimmyBlackwing (talk) 03:45, 28 October 2010 (UTC)

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A nationwide survey conducted last year by the Pew Research Center and the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life reported that the percentage of Americans with an unfavorable view of Islam increased to 37 percent, up from 33 percent in 2002. The percentage responding that Islam was more likely than other religions to encourage violence nearly doubled, from 25 percent in March 2002 to 46 percent in July 2004.

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Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Zombie love

 This page is an archive of the discussion about the proposed deletion of the article below. This page is no longer live. Further comments should be made on the article's talk page rather than here so that this page is preserved as an historic record. The result of the debate was delete. — Xezbeth 08:04, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)

Zombie love
Non-verifiable. It seems that several songs have this title, but googling for "Zombie Love" with "The Haze" or "Love in the Afterlife" or any number of things in this article turns up zero google hits. I suspect vanity. func (talk) 02:59, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

 * Delete. func (talk) 02:59, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete unverifiable. JamesBurns 07:30, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Delete. Nonsense. Also, it fails to mention the practicalities of zombie love, i.e. that their bits would fall off. Also, is it about love of zombies, or love between zombies? Yes, I know it's just a song; but we should be told.-Ashley Pomeroy 21:07, 7 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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Harold Rumney

Harold Waldmere Rumney (16 May 1907 – 16 November 1987) was an Australian rules footballer.

Rumney was rejected by Carlton Football Club after 15 games in two seasons and transferred to Collingwood Football Club. His arrival at Collingwood was fortuitous. He played in the quartet of premierships, 1927–1930, as well as the 1935 premiership. He left Collingwood to coach Northcote in the VFA for season 1936 but returned to Collingwood in 1937. He regularly represented Victoria and won Collingwood's best and fairest award in 1931.

He was 171 cm tall and weighed 76 kg. He played 15 games for Carlton, scoring 9 goals, and 171 games for Collingwood, scoring 28 goals.

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List of dogwood festivals

Several U.S. cities and towns hold dogwood festivals. These are usually annual events coinciding with the blooming of dogwood trees in the spring:

 * The Atlanta Dogwood Festival is an arts-and-crafts fair held annually at Piedmont Park in Atlanta, Georgia.
 * The Vestavia Hills Dogwood Festival is a multifaceted month-long event in Vestavia Hills, Alabama
 * The Dogwood Festival of Charlottesville, Virginia has been held since 1958.
 * The Fayetteville Dogwood Festival in Fayetteville, North Carolina is a three-day event held annually since 1982
 * Winchester, Tennessee, has held a Dogwood Festival annually since 2005.
 * The Dogwood Arts Festival is a yearly arts festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, that was started in 1960.
 * The Dogwood Festival held in Quincy, Illinois annually in May.
 * The "Dogwood Festival of the Lewis-Clark Valley" is a month-long festival celebrated annually in Lewiston, Idaho
 * The "Lake of the Ozarks Dogwood Festival" began in 1950 in Camdenton, Missouri.
 * A Dogwood Festival has been held annually since 1962 in Perry County, Indiana
 * An annual Dogwood Festival in Farmville, North Carolina was started in 1987
 * The annual Dogwood Festival in Woodville, Texas was started in 1940.
 * A Dogwood Festival is held annually in Vinton, Virginia.
 * A Dogwood Festival takes place in May at Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.
 * A Dogwood Festival is held annually in April Mebane, North Carolina.
 * A Dogwood Festival is held annually in May in Mullens, West Virginia.
 * A Dogwood Festival, dating back to 1936, is held annually in early May in Fairfield, CT.
 * Dogwood Day is celebrated every May 21 in Milwaukie, Oregon, "The Dogwood City of the West."

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most of these link to city articles which do not mention the festival, or which have no references supporting the festival. the articles on festivals are stubs, with little or no references. I think its established that dogwood blooming is a notable time for festivals in the regions they grow, but i dont see this article as being substantial enough yet. if someone wants to try to rescue it, i think its an inherently acceptable idea, but only if these festivals can be shown as notable. as it stands, its not a list of notable events.its actually very precisely discriminate, and that is necessary but not sufficient for a list. i will attempt to clear out some of the nonnotable fests, and add refs, if i can find them.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 03:25, 2 December 2009 (UTC)

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Andrew McMahon

Andrew Ross McMahon (born September 3, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter. He was the vocalist, pianist and primary lyricist for the bands Something Corporate and main songwriter for Jack's Mannequin and performs solo both under his own name as well as his moniker, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness. On April 30, 2013, he debuted his first solo work, an EP titled The Pop Underground, which was followed by his debut album Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, released on October 14, 2014. His second album, Zombies on Broadway, was released on February 10, 2017. He released his third album, Upside Down Flowers, on November 16, 2018. His fourth album, Tilt at the Wind No More, was released on March 31, 2023. His memoir, Three Pianos, was published by Princeton Architectural Press on October 26, 2021.

Early life
McMahon was born in Concord, Massachusetts. He briefly lived in Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, until 1991, when his family moved to Bexley, Ohio, where he attended Cassingham Elementary School. McMahon's family relocated frequently due to his father's occupation in retail. McMahon recalls that while he was in fourth grade, they briefly stayed in California to support his mother's family after the loss of her brother. Following the death of his uncle, who was an artist himself, McMahon became inspired to get involved with music and began teaching himself piano soon afterward.

McMahon's family decided to settle in California shortly before he entered eighth grade. He would later describe himself as "a pudgy, outgoing, artistic little kid who never quite fit into the California scene". He graduated from Dana Hills High School in 2000.

Early work (1992–1998)
McMahon started playing the piano at age 9. The following year, he began performing piano solos before he could even read music. McMahon stated, "my mother was a good player and I started playing by ear. After a year of that, I began writing songs, and found outlets to perform them at school assemblies. Eventually, I got lessons."

McMahon started his first band, Left Here, with his high school friends and future Something Corporate bandmates Kevin "Clutch" Page on bass and Brian Ireland on drums in 1997. Even though they won a local battle of the bands competition, they soon broke up. McMahon went on to record the self-released eponymous four-track demo CD Andrew McMahon with the aid of several friends of his, including guitarist Josh Partington, whom he had met his second year in high school. Joined by rhythm guitarist Reuben Hernandez (who was later replaced by William Tell), the quintet formed the piano rock band Something Corporate in 1998.

Something Corporate (1998–2006, 2010, 2022–2024)
McMahon met the rest of the group in high school, and later decided on the moniker Something Corporate as a joke. Fronted by McMahon, the group recorded their self-released ten-song demo album Ready... Break in 2000, which led to a record deal with the indie record label Drive-Thru Records. Drive-Thru released the band's nationwide distributed debut EP Audioboxer the following year. McMahon's vocals, songwriting skills, and incorporation of the piano earned the album rave reviews and caught the attention of Drive-Thru's distributor MCA (now Geffen). Due to the labels' distribution deal, MCA was able to sign over Something Corporate and released their major label debut Leaving Through the Window in May 2002.

The band promoted the album by playing concerts across the United States, which included the main stage at Vans Warped Tour as well as supporting New Found Glory on their European tour. Something Corporate released their second full-length album North on Geffen Records in late 2003. As of 2004, the band is no longer under contract to any label.

On December 4, 2009, Something Corporate announced a reunion show at Bamboozle Left 2010 with an additional show later added at Bamboozle Chicago 2010. After Bamboozle, the band announced their reunion tour, which took place in August 2010. On September 3, 2022, Something Corporate reunited for a 5-song set for McMahon's 40th birthday celebration concert. It was later announced the band would reunite once more to play the 2023 When We Were Young festival.

Jack's Mannequin (2004–2012)
The initial impulse behind McMahon's solo project Jack's Mannequin was "Locked Doors", a song he recorded in December 2003, which he felt was too different from previous Something Corporate material. He realized that, if he would ever decide to release it, it would be on a solo album rather than a Something Corporate record. The idea seemed to be off the table until, in late summer 2004, both McMahon and his bandmates were exhausted from months of touring and decided to take a break.

The first album, Everything in Transit, was released in August 2005. After the release and success of the first album, McMahon then proceeded to compose his second Jack's Mannequin album, The Glass Passenger, which was released in September 2008. Jack's Mannequin's third and final album, People and Things, was released in October 2011. He stated that this new album "[would] probably have a bit of freeness" to it, distancing itself from The Glass Passenger.

On February 2, 2012, McMahon foreshadowed the end to Jack's Mannequin, saying, "I foresee an end to the usage of that name. I don't know that it's doing for me what it used to, in the sense that Jack's sort of really represented a freedom from something. And a really free approach to creating things that now is certainly wrapped up in a whole lot of turmoil and tumult in a very difficult time in my life. And to acknowledge that, I certainly think at some point I'm going to have to find a way to shake that loose. And I think to some extent that might mean retiring the name." On November 11 and 12, 2012, Jack's Mannequin performed their final shows under the moniker, coinciding with the annual Dear Jack Foundation benefit. In June 2013, Live From The El Rey Theatre was released to commemorate the final shows.

Solo work (2012–2013)
On August 25, 2012, the Jack's Mannequin website redirected to andrewmcmahon.com, with McMahon deciding to put out new music under his own name. Along with the promise of new music, it was announced soon after that he would be supporting the band Fun. on their tour in early 2013, with a solo headlining tour taking place in Spring 2013. McMahon played his first two solo shows in West Hollywood at the Viper Room in early January 2013. Touring musicians backing Andrew McMahon during these shows included Jack's Mannequin alum Jay McMillian and Mikey "The Kid" Wagner, joined by Joe Ballaro, Zac Clark, and Jeremy Hatcher.

On April 30, 2013, McMahon released The Pop Underground EP, produced by Mark Williams and Tony Hoffer, followed by an appearance on O.A.R.'s Sounds of Summer tour extending through August. "Synesthesia" became the first single launching McMahon's solo career, with an official music video that premiered on June 13, 2013.

Smash (2013)
In January 2013, McMahon was listed as one of the new songwriters for the second season of the NBC series Smash, signifying his first time writing for musical theatre. Showrunner Joshua Safran called McMahon the "wildcard of the bunch" of new songwriters hired for the second season, and was hired because Safran was a fan of his previous bands.

McMahon contributed three songs to the second season, "I Heard Your Voice in a Dream", "Reach for Me", and "I'm Not Sorry". "I Heard Your Voice in a Dream" was met with critical acclaim, being nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Music and Lyrics and has sold 10,000 digital downloads as of April 3, 2013.

On October 15, 2013, New York City venue 54 Below announced plans to stage Smash's fictional musical Hit List in concert format. On December 8 and 9, 2013, Hit List was performed for a three-show run, with McMahon in attendance. All three of his songs penned for Smash were performed, including his Jack's Mannequin track 'Swim' performed by Andy Mientus, on which McMahon played piano.

Self-titled album (2014–2017)
On July 11, 2014, McMahon posted on his website that the next progression in his musical career would be to tour and release music under the moniker of Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness.

On July 16, 2014, he released his first single under the new project, entitled "Cecilia and the Satellite", named after his newborn daughter. During the summer of 2014, McMahon toured with Matt Nathanson and Gavin DeGraw in preparation for his first solo LP, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, released October 14, 2014, and coinciding with a full North American headlining tour. Touring band members during this period included Clark, McMillian, and Wagner. The Canyons EP was released digitally on November 20, 2015, containing 4 acoustic tracks from the self-titled LP and 2 previously unreleased tracks. A limited edition 10" vinyl of The Canyons EP was later released on April 16, 2016 for Record Store Day.

McMahon performed on the Weezer & Panic! at the Disco Summer Tour 2016 in support of Weezer and Panic! at the Disco.

McMahon co-wrote and co-performed on the Lindsey Stirling single, "Something Wild". The single would appear on Stirling's Brave Enough album and would be featured in the end credits for Pete's Dragon (2016 film). The single was released on July 15, 2016.

Zombies on Broadway (2017–2018)
On September 8, 2016, McMahon released a new Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness single, "Fire Escape". His second solo album, Zombies on Broadway, was officially announced on November 10, 2016 and released on February 10, 2017. On January 6, 2017, McMahon released a new single, "So Close". The album announcement and release were followed by a spring 2017 North American headlining tour, titled "Zombies in America". Additional shows took place in the United Kingdom and Japan.

McMahon and the touring band opened for Billy Joel for three shows; McMahon had cited the invitation to open for Joel was "...beyond the bucket list for me. This is the realization of my most vivid childhood dream."

The Zombies in America tour officially ended on November 11, 2017, with the 8th Annual Dear Jack Foundation Benefit in Denver. Special guests for the show included Bobby "Raw" Anderson, formerly of Something Corporate and Jack's Mannequin, now performing under the name Bob Oxblood. Oxblood performed his own opening set and played alongside the Wilderness band. Brian Ireland, drummer for Something Corporate, also performed on a few songs in the set.

"The Pen and Piano Tour: An Acoustic Evening with Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness and Friends" was announced by McMahon on December 5, 2017 and took place between April and May 2018. McMahon described the tour as, "equal parts VH1 Storytellers and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood". Special guests included Allen Stone, Zac Clark, and Bob Oxblood.

Upside Down Flowers (2018–2022)
A third album, Upside Down Flowers, was announced on October 2, 2018 and released on November 16, 2018. The album announcement was preceded by the single "Ohio", released on May 18, 2018, and was regularly performed throughout The Pen and Piano Tour. The album announcement coincided with the release of a single, "Teenage Rockstars". Butch Walker of SouthGang and Marvelous 3 produced the album. McMahon embarked on a North American tour in early 2019 in support of the album, with opening acts Flor and Grizfolk. Bob Oxblood joined the touring band, reuniting the final line up of Jack's Mannequin.

Through Amazon Music, McMahon released a cover of Kacey Musgraves' "Slow Burn" on June 21, 2019.

On October 8, 2019, McMahon announced an acoustic "The Winter in the Wilderness Tour" for December 2019, with support from Ivory Lane. On November 5, 2019, a May and June 2020 tour with Awolnation was announced. The tour would later be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On November 6, 2019, McMahon and Zac Clark both announced that Clark would be departing the Wilderness line up after the upcoming 10th Annual Dear Jack Foundation Benefit show on November 11, 2019, to focus on his music career. McMahon shared, "It will be a great loss to take the stage without him but also a great joy to know that he is taking the stage he deserves and has earned through his brilliant work as a craftsman and performer." To mark the occasion, Clark and McMahon released an acoustic version of Clark's song "Mountains" on November 8, 2018. McMahon, alongside Clark and composer Jimmy Levine, co-wrote music for the Netflix's series Soundtrack. The series debuted December 18, 2019.

McMahon announced a series of drive-in concerts for the summer and fall of 2020, performing Everything in Transit in its entirety to celebrate the album's 15th anniversary, along with performing other Something Corporate and Wilderness songs. Morgan Paros, previously of Hunter Hunted, was announced as a new member of the Wilderness line up, and made her performing debut with the band on July 10, 2020. A new single, "Get On My Wave", co-written by McMahon and King Tuff, was digitally released on July 31, 2020. On January 1, 2021, McMahon released a new single called "New Year Song", produced by Suzy Shinn.

On June 8, 2021, McMahon launched Camp Wilderness, a subscription-based fan club, with features such as access to digital community, exclusive music and videos, live-streamed events, first access to tickets, exclusive merch store, and exclusive vinyl variants. McMahon shared, "My goal with [Camp Wilderness] is simple. To create a community online that specifically serves my fans. If Covid taught me anything, there was a connection to be made online that was more profound than I believed possible, one which saved me in many ways but only scratched the surface of its potential. Through your patronage, the creative team you will help me to empower will be working hard alongside me to provide you with an experience that is constantly evolving — one that reflects where I’ve been and where I’m going and the community that has made it all possible.

Days later, on June 10, a fall 2021 concert tour was announced to support McMahon's to-be-released memoir of the same name, Three Pianos, with Annika Bennett on her debut tour and Zac Clark opening.

On December 3, 2021, Rage Against the Machine's guitarist Tom Morello released his album The Atlas Underground Flood, which features McMahon on the single, "The Maze".

McMahon is featured on the track "Wasted" by Jukebox the Ghost, released on March 10, 2022.

In early April 2022, McMahon and Dashboard Confessional announced the Hello Gone Days co-headlining tour, to kick off on July 31 and last through September 7. Opening acts included Cartel, The Juliana Theory, and Armor for Sleep. Morgan Paros was not able to take part in the tour due to prior commitments with Ashe, so Zac Clark subbed in. The final show of the tour took place in Anaheim, California, and was a celebration of McMahon's 40th birthday. As part of the show, a surprise Something Corporate reunion was staged, where McMahon, Kevin Page, Brian Ireland, Josh Parrington, and William Tell played a 5-song set.

Tilt at the Wind No More (2022–present)
Throughout the Hello Gone Days tour and after, McMahon has repeatedly shared a fourth Wilderness album would be forthcoming, likely in early 2023. In support of the eventual album, McMahon released a new single, "Stars", on August 18, 2022. A second single, "Skywriting", debuted on October 10, 2022. A third single, "VHS", debuted on November 16, 2022. A fourth single, "Built to Last", was released on December 22, 2022. "Lying On The Hood Of Your Car" was released with a music video on January 11, 2023.

The name of McMahon's fourth studio album, Tilt at the Wind No More was announced on January 11, 2023 with a release date of March 31, 2023. To support the release of the album, 2 short run headlining tours were conducted, one in the spring and one in the summer. Support for the spring show included The Unlikely Candidates and Griffin William Sherry. Support for the summer tour included The Starting Line and Flor. In between the spring and summer tours, McMahon played six dates in the UK. Further support for the album came in the form of the New Friends tour in November and December 2023, with opening acts Michigander, Wildermiss, and Arlie. As part of the promotion of the upcoming tour, McMahon speculated the tour would likely be his last multi-week tour for the foreseeable future and that he was evaluating the best model moving forward.

During the 2023 Dear Jack Foundation benefit concert, it was announced the 2024 benefit would take place the following November, on the inaugural Andrew McMahon's Holiday from Real Cruise, featuring all three of McMahon's projects: Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Jack's Mannequin, and Something Corporate. Additional acts scheduled to join are The Academy Is..., MisterWives, Ruston Kelly, Jukebox the Ghost, Cartel, Augustana, Wildermiss, Hunter DeBlanc, Zac Clark, Bob Oxblood, and Bikelock.

Other work
In July 2006, McMahon founded a nonprofit charity, entitled The Dear Jack Foundation, to raise funds for cancer research. The organization's primary beneficiaries are the Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation, the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society and the regents of the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2014 after the announcement of their second annual Light the Night walk, The Dear Jack Foundation announced that over eight years they raised a half a million dollars for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

McMahon released his first book, titled, Three Pianos: A Memoir, on October 26, 2021, published by Princeton Architectural Press.

Personal life
On May 27, 2005 (three months before the release of Jack's Mannequin's debut album Everything in Transit), McMahon was forced to cancel all of his upcoming concerts. After a medical examination in connection with a relentless case of laryngitis, McMahon was admitted to a hospital in New York City, where he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia on June 1, 2005, the same day he finished recording Everything in Transit. Since the illness was diagnosed in its early stages, McMahon's doctors had high hopes for a full recovery.

Over the following couple of months, McMahon received various types of treatment, all the while updating his blog to keep his fans informed on the progress of his condition. August 23, 2005, marked a very significant date for him for two reasons: it was the day his album Everything in Transit was released, debuting at No. 37 on the Billboard 200 with over 22,000 copies scanned within its first week, as well as the day he received a stem cell transplant, with his sister Katie McMahon serving as the donor.

On December 2, 2005, McMahon celebrated the 100-day anniversary of his stem cell transplant by playing his first concert in six months: a private invite-only show in a small venue in Los Angeles, California. His first public appearance followed ten days later at "Gimme Shelter '05", an acoustic cancer benefit concert at the Roxy in Los Angeles, California. Following these shows, Maverick Records finally started a promotion campaign for Everything in Transit, including TV appearances by McMahon on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, One Tree Hill (in the episode "Just Watch the Fireworks"), Last Call with Carson Daly, Steven's Untitled Rock Show, and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, as well as a second music video for "The Mixed Tape", which hit No. 1 on VH1's VSpot Top 20 Countdown on June 9, 2006.

McMahon married his longtime girlfriend, Kelly Hansch, in December 2006. Their daughter, Cecilia, was born in 2014. McMahon owned a dog named Doris, who was the inspiration for his song "Doris Day", a b-side from The Glass Passenger. Doris passed aged 15 in 2022.

A documentary entitled Dear Jack was released on October 8, 2009, on DVD by Warner Bros, and was shown at theatrical screenings in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. The film, which chronicles McMahon's struggle with leukemia, features self-recorded footage in the hospital and is narrated by his friend Tommy Lee. The documentary was directed by Corey Moss and Josh Morrisroe, two former MTV News producers who covered McMahon's story for the channel, although much of the intensely personal footage was shot by McMahon himself.

Solo and Wilderness touring members
Current
 * Andrew McMahon: lead vocals, piano, keys, harmonica (2013–present)
 * Bobby "Raw" Anderson / Bob Oxblood: Guitar, vocals (guest 2017–2018, member 2018–present)
 * Jay McMillian: Drums, percussion (2013–present)
 * Mikey "The Kid" Wagner: bass, keys, vocals, guitar, percussion (2013–present)

Former
 * Joe Ballaro: Guitar, vocals (2013)
 * Zac Clark: Keys, guitar, bass, accordion, vocals (2013–2020, guest: 2022-2023)
 * Jeremy Hatcher: Guitar, vocals (2013)
 * Morgan Paros: Violin, keys, acoustic guitar, vocals (2020–2021)

mtvU Woodie Awards

 * 2008
 * Jack's Mannequin's "Dear Jack Foundation"
 * The Good Woodie (Greatest Social Impact)
 * Won
 * Won

Primetime Emmy Awards

 * 2013
 * "I Heard Your Voice In a Dream" for Smash
 * Outstanding Music and Lyrics
 * Nominated
 * Nominated

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Soyot

The Soyot are an ethnic group of Samoyedic and Turkic origin who live mainly in the Oka region in the Okinsky District in Buryatia, Russia. They share much of their history with the Tofalar, Tozhu Tuvans, Dukha, and Buryat; the Soyot have taken on a great deal of Buryat cultural influence and were grouped together with them under Soviet policy. Due to intermarriage between Soyots and Buryats, the Soyot population is heavily mixed with the Buryat. In 2000, they were reinstated as a distinct ethnic group.

Like other taiga peoples, the Soyot traditionally practiced reindeer breeding and hunting and lived nomadically, but today most Soyot live in villages. According to the 2021 census, there were 4,368 Soyots in Russia.

The Soyot language is Turkic, and closely corresponds with the Tofalar language; most Soyot spoke Buryat during Russian rule, but following the collapse of the Soviet Union, there has been an active effort to revitalize the formerly extinct Soyot language.

Etymology
The name Soyot is from the endonym 'soyyt.' The Buryat call them 'hoyod' and the Tofalar call them 'hazut' which is derived from the name of the largest Soyot clan, the Khaazuut.

Origin
According to Larisa R. Pavlinskaya, a Russian ethnographer based in St. Petersburg, Russia, the ancestor of the Soyots (and the closely related Tofalars, Tozhu Tuvans, and Dukha) were proto-Samoyedic hunter-gatherers who arrived in the Eastern Sayan region from Western Siberia at the end of the third millennium BC and the beginning of the second millennium BC. At the beginning the first millennium AD, Turkic speaking cattle and horse breeding migrated from the Inner Asian steppes and would go on to significantly influence the Samoyedic, Ket, and Tungus populations of the Eastern Sayan Mountains. Despite adopting their language, these groups resisted full Turkification by retreating into the inaccessible mountains and traded with the new steppe peoples by providing them with furs throughout the Middle Ages.

Around 350-400 years ago, the Soyots moved from the Lake Khövsgöl area to modern day Buryatia, where the Dukha and Uyghur-Uryankhay (Tuha) people were still living. Many reindeer herding Soyots moved to the mountain range dividing the Oka River and Irkut River.

Russian imperial expansion
In the mid 1600s, the Russian Empire first reached the Eastern Sayans and had asserted full control of the area by the beginning of the 1700s; following the Treaty of Kiakhta in 1727, the Russian government then resettled 100 Buryat families from the regions of Pribaikalia and Transbaikilia to the Okinsky area to guard the Chinese border. The newly arrived Buryats adopted some Soyot customs, such as taking up yak breeding and seasonal migration. They also adopted the practice of using reindeer as mounts to hunt but never took up reindeer-herding, preferring to instead borrow reindeer during the hunting season or keeping their reindeer among Soyot herds.

The Buryats greatly influenced the Soyots. By the end of the 1800s, the Buryats dominated administration and their language displaced the Soyot language, and even their cattle-breeding culture came to predominate the Soyots' traditional reindeer-herding.

A Norwegian scientific expedition in the early 1910s collected information on the customs of the Soyot, eventually publishing the book Et primitivt folk de mongolske rennomader in 1915; it had several dozen photographs, recorded a short list of Soyot words and a retelling of a Soyot shamanistic tale of divination, along with accounts of both shamanistic and Buddhist rituals practiced by the Soyot.

Russian civil war

In 1920, the Polish scientist and writer Dr. Ferdinand Ossendowski, narrowly escaped being arrested by the Red Army and fled into the Siberia with his companions where he traveled through the traditional lands of the Soyot. He first spent some time living in the taiga along the shores of the Yenisei River, where he and his companions followed the Tuba and Anyl Rivers to the Sayan Mountains. He later wrote and published a book entitled Beasts, Men and Gods recounting his experiences.

"After three days we crossed the northern ridge of the Sayan chain, passed the border river Algiak and, after this day, were abroad in the territory of Urianhai. This wonderful land, rich in most diverse forms of natural wealth, is inhabited by a branch of the Mongols, which is now only sixty thousand and which is gradually dying off, speaking a language quite different from any of the other dialects of this folk and holding as their life ideal the tenet of "Eternal Peace." Urianhai long ago became the scene of administrative attempts by Russians, Mongols and Chinese, all of whom claimed sovereignty over the region whose unfortunate inhabitants, the Soyots, had to pay tribute to all three of these overlords."

- Ferdinand Ossendowski

While in Urianhai, Ossendowski met Ta Lama, Prince of Soldjak and High Priest of the Buddhist Temple; after healing the prince's wife's eyes, the prince ordered one of the Soyots to guide the party to Lake Khövsgöl. Their Soyot guide took them through the Ulaan Taiga and the Darkhad Valley where they encountered Soyot herdmen rapidly driving their cattle over the Darkhat plain and towards the Orgarkha Ola. They told Ossendowski's party that they were fleeing Bolsheviks from the Irkutsk district who had crossed the Mongolian border and captured the Russian colony at Khathyl and were continuing to advance.

"The inhabitants of Urianhai, the Soyots, are proud of being the genuine Buddhists and of retaining the pure doctrine of holy Rama and the deep wisdom of Sakkia-Mouni. They are the eternal enemies of war and of the shedding of blood. Away back in the thirteenth century they preferred to move out from their native land and take refuge in the north rather than fight or become a part of the empire of the bloody conqueror Jenghiz Khan, who wanted to add to his forces these wonderful horsemen and skilled archers. Three times in their history they have thus trekked northward to avoid struggle and now no one can say that on the hands of the Soyots there has ever been seen human blood. With their love of peace they struggled against the evils of war. Even the severe Chinese administrators could not apply here in this country of peace the full measure of their implacable laws. In the same manner the Soyots conducted themselves when the Russian people, mad with blood and crime, brought this infection into their land. They avoided persistently meetings and encounters with the Red troops and Partisans, trekking off with their families and cattle southward into the distant principalities of Kemchik and Soldjak. The eastern branch of this stream of emigration passed through the valley of the Buret Hei, where we constantly outstrode groups of them with their cattle and herds."

- Ferdinand Ossendowski

In 1926, Bernhard Eduardovich Petri, a professor of ethnology at the Irkutsk University, led the first anthropological expedition into the Soyot reindeer-herding region where he claimed that the Soyot reindeer-herding was a "dying branch of the economy." After the civil war, Petri was involved in planning changes in the economic lives of the minorities of the greater Altai-Sayan and Buryatia regions, including the Evenk, Soyot, and Tofalar. He was later accused of spying for British and German intelligence and establishing contacts with Buryat nationalists, leading to his execution in 1937. Despite these difficulties, later research and data collected from Soyot elders showed that the practice of reindeer-herding survived until the mid 20th century.

Soviet collectivization
In the early 1930s, the Soviet state merged all individually owned herds into one collective herd owned by the state and forced the Soyot and other Siberian peoples into sedentarism. Between 1928 and 1940, many Soyots were moved to Sorok, Khurga, Bokson, and Orlik, the administrative center of Okinsky District; Soyots were also moved to cattle-breeding farms where they switched to Buryat-style husbandry. In 1963, the Soviet government labeled traditional nomadic reindeer-herding unprofitable and disbanded the herd.

In 1940, the Okinsky Region was designated as an aimag and recognized its entire population as Buryat, causing the Soyot to lose their official identity as a Russian ethnic group. There was widespread disapproval of the decision, but few were willing to protest against the decision. This policy caused Soyot national identity to erode, and Soyots were heavily assimilated into the Buryat population. By the late 1980s, only 30 people still identified as Soyots.

After Soviet collapse
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, there was a dramatic revival of Soyot culture. In 1993, the Association of the Soyot Nation was founded. In 2000, the People's Khural of the Republic of Buryatia changed the name of the Okinsky Region of the Soyot National Aimag at the request of the Okinsky Region's government. In the same year, the Soyot succeeded in restoring their name and identity as one of the officially recognized Indigenous small-numbered peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East.

Language
The Soyot language is a member of the Turkic family, and is closely related to the Tofa language; the Soyot language has many Buryat and medieval and contemporary Mongol loanwords. However, the Soyot language lost ground to the Buryat language due to Buryat influence and intermarriage between the two groups beginning in the 1800s; by 1996, the language was almost lost entirely.

After many years of research, the Russian linguist Valentin I. Rassadin developed an alphabet for the Soyot language in the early 2000s, before going onto develop the first Soyot dictionary and primer. The Sorok secondary school, a state boarding for Soyot children, then began to teach the Soyot language to its students.

Reindeer herding
Reindeer herding was a large facet of Soyot life. It enabled them to travel through vast territories of mountainous taiga and were indispensable for hunting; it also provided them with clothing, shelter, milk, meat, and various other household items. However, the Soyot tradition of herding reindeer was ended in 1963 when the Soviet government disbanded the collective Soyot reindeer herd.

Sevyan Vainshtein, a Russian ethnographer and professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, undertook several expeditions to study reindeer herders, including the Soyot, and published a number of works on the subject. He argued that Sayan reindeer-herding was "the oldest form of reindeer-herding" and associated with the earlier domestication of the reindeer of the Samoyedic taiga population. He went so far to propose the Sayan region as the origin of the economic and cultural complex of reindeer hunters-herdsmen seen among the Evenki groups and peoples of the Sayan area.

Daniel Plumely suggested that the Soyot, Tofalar, Tozhu Tuvans, and Dukha, may have all "traded, inter-married and related across the breadth and width of the Sayans."

"Though linguists may disagree on the nature of the differences between these peoples, the facts remain that their linguistic backgrounds are Turkic in origin, that their ecological habitats and the reindeer they raised nomadically are essentially the same. As the breadth of this region of the Sayans and into Hovsgol of Mongolia covers a distance of less than 800 kilometers – and the annual range territory of reindeer herds can be as much as several hundred kilometers in and of themselves – it is very possible that these people have traded, inter-married and related across the breadth and width of the Sayans – and that their languages and ancestry are all closely related to the old Tuvan language and possibly original heritage."

- Daniel Plumley

Part of the efforts to revive Soyot culture involve reintroducing reindeer-herding. In 1992, the region's administration, with the help of Ecologically Sustainable Development, a U.S. based NGO, purchased 63 reindeer from the neighboring Tofa and gave them to a Soyot cattle-breeding family living in an area where reindeer were traditionally herded. The family received two years of herder training from the Tofa, and were able to increase the reindeer herd to more than 100 head. Unfortunately, foreign support eventually dried up, and wolf predation and lack of experience from the Soyot herders led to the decline of the herd. In 1997, the 76 remaining deer were given to another family, which reorganized the herd with more care and vigilance, but a sudden episode of necrobacilliosis and frequent winter wolf attacks killed off more of the herd; in 1999 fewer than 60 reindeer remained, and only 12 survived a year later. In 2000, the reindeer-herding peoples of Mongolia and Russia were working on collaborative efforts to rebuild reindeer-herding. To date, there are approximately 20 Soyot engaged in reindeer-herding.

Religion
The religion and shamanistic practices of the Soyots show influence from both Khalkha Mongols and Altai Turkic peoples. They share many cultural and religious similarities with the Tofa people, some of which are not seen in neighboring Turkic peoples. Soyots have been exposed to Mongolian and Tibetan Buddhism since the mid 1700s, but many only began to properly follow Buddhism in the 1800s and 1900s. According to Rassadin, Buryat Buddhist lamas attempted to put an end to Soyot shamanism.

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List of high schools in Mississippi

This is a list of high schools in the state of Mississippi.

Adams County

 * Adams County Christian School, Natchez
 * Cathedral High School, Natchez
 * Natchez High School, Natchez
 * Trinity Episcopal Day School, Natchez (Closed)

Alcorn County

 * Alcorn Central High School, Glen
 * Biggersville High School, Corinth
 * Corinth High School, Corinth
 * Kossuth High School, Kossuth

Amite County

 * Amite County High School, Liberty
 * Amite Vocational/Technical Complex, Liberty

Attala County

 * Ethel High School, Ethel
 * Kosciusko High School, Kosciusko
 * Old Dominion Christian School, Kosciusko

Benton County

 * Ashland Middle/High School, Ashland
 * Hickory Flat Attendance Center, Hickory Flat

Bolivar County

 * Bayou Academy, Cleveland
 * Northside High School (former Broad Street High School), Shelby
 * Cleveland Central High School (former Cleveland High School), Cleveland
 * McEvans Warriors K-12 School (former Shaw High School), Shaw
 * West Bolivar High School, Rosedale

Calhoun County

 * Bruce High School, Bruce
 * Calhoun Academy, Calhoun City
 * Calhoun City High School, Calhoun City
 * Vardaman High School, Vardaman

Carroll County

 * Carroll Academy, Carrollton
 * J. Z. George High School, North Carrollton

Chickasaw County

 * Houlka Attendance Center High School, Houlka
 * Houston High School, Houston
 * Houston Vocational/Technical Education Center
 * Okolona High School, Okolona

Choctaw County

 * Choctaw County High School, Ackerman (formerly Ackerman HS)
 * French Camp Academy, French Camp

Claiborne County

 * Port Gibson High School, Port Gibson

Clarke County

 * Enterprise High School, Enterprise
 * Quitman High School, Quitman

Clay County

 * Hebron Christian School, Pheba
 * Oak Hill Academy, West Point
 * West Point High School, West Point

Coahoma County

 * Clarksdale High School, Clarksdale
 * Coahoma Agricultural High School, Clarksdale
 * Coahoma County High School, Clarksdale
 * Lee Academy, Clarksdale

Copiah County

 * Copiah Academy, Gallman
 * Crystal Springs High School, Crystal Springs
 * Hazlehurst High School, Hazlehurst
 * Wesson Attendance Center, Wesson

Covington County

 * Collins High School, Collins
 * Mount Olive High School, Mount Olive
 * Seminary High School, Seminary

DeSoto County

 * Center Hill High School, Olive Branch
 * DeSoto Central High School, Southaven
 * Hernando High School, Hernando
 * Horn Lake High School, Horn Lake
 * Lake Cormorant High School, Lake Cormorant
 * Lewisburg High School, Olive Branch
 * Olive Branch High School, Olive Branch
 * Southaven High School, Southaven

Forrest County

 * Forrest County Agricultural High School, Brooklyn
 * North Forrest High School, Hattiesburg
 * Petal High School, Petal
 * Presbyterian Christian School, Hattiesburg
 * Sacred Heart High School, Hattiesburg

Franklin County

 * Franklin County High School, Meadville

George County

 * George County High School, Lucedale

Greene County

 * Greene County High School, Leakesville

Grenada County

 * Grenada High School, Grenada
 * Kirk Academy, Grenada

Hancock County

 * Bay High School, Bay St. Louis
 * Hancock High School, Kiln
 * Our Lady Academy, Bay St. Louis
 * Saint Stanislaus College, Bay St. Louis

Harrison County

 * Biloxi High School, Biloxi
 * Christian Collegiate Academy, Gulfport
 * D'Iberville High School, D'Iberville
 * Gulfport High School, Gulfport
 * Harrison Central High School, Gulfport
 * Long Beach Senior High School, Long Beach
 * Pass Christian High School, Pass Christian
 * St. Patrick Catholic High School, Biloxi
 * Temple Christian Academy
 * West Harrison High School, Gulfport

Hinds County

 * Hinds County Agricultural High School, Utica
 * Rebul Academy, Learned
 * Terry High School, Terry

Clinton

 * Clinton Christian Academy
 * Clinton High School
 * Mount Salus Christian School

Jackson

 * Callaway High School
 * Capital City Alternative School
 * Forest Hill High School
 * Hillcrest Christian School
 * Jackson Academy
 * Jim Hill High School
 * Lanier High School
 * Mississippi School for the Blind
 * Mississippi School for the Deaf
 * Murrah High School
 * Provine High School
 * Wingfield High School

Raymond

 * Central Hinds Academy
 * Raymond High School

Holmes County

 * Central Holmes Christian School, Lexington
 * Holmes County Central High School, Lexington

Humphreys County

 * Humphreys Academy, Belzoni
 * Humphreys County High School, Belzoni

Issaquena County

 * none

Itawamba County

 * Itawamba Agricultural High School, Fulton
 * Mantachie Attendance Center, Mantachie
 * Tremont Attendance Center, Tremont

Jackson County

 * East Central High School, Hurley
 * Gautier High School, Gautier
 * Mississippi Division of Independent Study, Ocean Springs
 * Moss Point High School, Moss Point
 * Ocean Springs High School, Ocean Springs
 * Pascagoula High School, Pascagoula
 * Resurrection Catholic School, Pascagoula
 * St. Martin High School, Ocean Springs
 * Vancleave High School, Vancleave
 * Trent Lott academy, Pascagoula

Jasper County

 * Bay Springs High School, Bay Springs
 * Heidelberg High School, Heidelberg
 * Stringer Attendance Center, Stringer
 * Sylva Bay Academy, Bay Springs

Jefferson County

 * Jefferson County High School, Fayette

Jefferson Davis County

 * Prentiss Christian School, Prentiss
 * Jefferson Davis County High School, Bassfield

Jones County

 * Laurel Christian High School, Laurel
 * Laurel High School, Laurel
 * Northeast Jones High School, Laurel
 * South Jones High School, Ellisville
 * West Jones High School, Laurel

Kemper County

 * Kemper County High School, DeKalb

Lafayette County

 * Lafayette High School, Oxford
 * Oxford High School, Oxford
 * University of Mississippi High School, Oxford

Lamar County

 * Bass Memorial Academy, Lumberton
 * Lamar Christian School, Purvis
 * Lumberton High School, Lumberton
 * Oak Grove High School, Oak Grove
 * Purvis High School, Purvis
 * Sumrall Middle/High School, Sumrall

Lauderdale County

 * Clarkdale Attendance Center, Meridian
 * Lamar School, Meridian
 * Meridian High School, Meridian
 * Northeast Lauderdale High School, Meridian
 * Southeast Lauderdale High School, Meridian
 * West Lauderdale High School, Collinsville
 * Russell Christian, Meridian

Lawrence County

 * Lawrence County High School, Monticello

Leake County

 * Leake Academy, Madden
 * Leake Central High School, Carthage (formerly Carthage High School)
 * Leake County High School, Walnut Grove (formerly South Leake High School)

Lee County

 * Baldwyn High School, Baldwyn
 * Faith Christian School, Guntown
 * Mooreville High School, Mooreville
 * Nettleton High School, Nettleton
 * Saltillo High School, Saltillo
 * Shannon High School, Shannon
 * Tupelo Christian Academy, Tupelo
 * Tupelo Christian Preparatory School, Belden
 * Tupelo High School, Tupelo

LeFlore County

 * Delta Streets Academy, Greenwood
 * Greenwood High School, Greenwood
 * Leflore County High School, Itta Bena
 * Pillow Academy, Greenwood

Lincoln County

 * Bogue Chitto Attendance Center, Bogue Chitto
 * Brookhaven Academy, Brookhaven
 * Brookhaven High School, Brookhaven
 * Enterprise Attendance Center, Brookhaven
 * Loyd Star Attendance Center, Brookhaven
 * Mississippi School of the Arts, Brookhaven
 * West Lincoln Attendance Center, Brookhaven

Lowndes County

 * Caledonia High School, Caledonia
 * Columbus High School, Columbus
 * Heritage Academy, Columbus
 * Columbus Christian Academy, Steens
 * Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science, Columbus
 * New Hope High School, Columbus
 * Victory Christian Academy, Columbus
 * West Lowndes High School, Columbus

Madison County

 * Canton Academy, Canton
 * Canton High School, Canton
 * Germantown High School, Madison
 * Madison Central High School, Madison
 * Madison-Ridgeland Academy, Madison
 * Ridgeland High School, Ridgeland
 * St. Andrew's Episcopal School, Ridgeland
 * St. Joseph Catholic School, Madison
 * Tri-County Academy, Flora
 * Velma Jackson High School, Camden
 * The Veritas School, Ridgeland (closed)

Marion County

 * Columbia Academy, Columbia
 * Columbia High School, Columbia
 * East Marion High School, Columbia
 * West Marion High School, Foxworth

Marshall County

 * Bethlehem Christian School, Potts Camp
 * Byers High School, Holly Springs
 * Byhalia High School, Byhalia
 * Holly Springs High School, Holly Springs
 * Marshall Academy, Holly Springs
 * Potts Camp High School, Potts Camp

Monroe County

 * Aberdeen High School, Aberdeen
 * Amory Christian Academy, Amory
 * Amory High School, Amory
 * Hamilton School, Hamilton
 * Hatley School, Hatley
 * Smithville School, Smithville

Montgomery County

 * Winona Christian School, Winona
 * Winona Secondary School, Winona

Neshoba County

 * Neshoba Central High School, Philadelphia
 * Philadelphia High School, Philadelphia

Newton County

 * Newton Career Center, Newton
 * Newton County Academy, Decatur
 * Newton County High School, Decatur
 * Newton High School, Newton
 * Union High School, Union

Noxubee County

 * Noxubee County High School, Macon

Oktibbeha County

 * Starkville Academy, Starkville
 * Starkville High School, Starkville

Panola County

 * North Delta High School, Batesville
 * North Panola High School, Sardis
 * Pope School, Pope
 * South Panola High School, Batesville

Pearl River County

 * Pearl River Central High School, Carriere
 * Picayune Memorial High School, Picayune
 * Poplarville Junior Senior High School, Poplarville

Perry County

 * Perry Central High School, New Augusta
 * Richton High School, Richton

Pike County

 * McComb High School, McComb
 * North Pike Career & Technical Center
 * North Pike Senior High School, Summit
 * Parklane Academy, McComb
 * South Pike High School, Magnolia
 * South Pike Vocational Center, Magnolia

Pontotoc County

 * North Pontotoc High School, Ecru
 * Pontotoc High School, Pontotoc
 * South Pontotoc High School, Pontotoc

Prentiss County

 * Booneville High School, Booneville
 * Jumpertown School, Booneville
 * New Site High School, New Site
 * Thrasher School, Booneville
 * Wheeler School, Wheeler

Quitman County

 * Delta Academy, Marks
 * Madison Palmer High School

Rankin County

 * Brandon High School, Brandon
 * Discovery Christian School, Florence
 * East Rankin Academy, Pelahatchie
 * Florence High School, Florence
 * Jackson Preparatory School, Flowood
 * McLaurin Attendance Center ,Star
 * Northwest Rankin High School, Flowood
 * Pearl High School, Pearl
 * Pelahatchie Attendance Center, Pelahatchie
 * Piney Woods Country Life School, Piney Woods
 * Pisgah High School, Sandhill
 * Puckett Attendance Center, Puckett
 * Rankin Academy, Star (1971 - 1996)
 * Richland High School, Richland
 * Star School, Star (Circa 1923-1950)
 * Hartfield Academy, Flowood (formerly University Christian School)

Scott County

 * Forest High School, Forest
 * Lake High School, Lake
 * Morton High School, Morton
 * Scott Central Attendance Center, Forest
 * Sebastopol Attendance Center, Sebastopol

Sharkey County

 * Sharkey-Issaquena Academy, Rolling Fork
 * South Delta High School, Rolling Fork

Simpson County

 * Magee High School, Magee
 * Mendenhall High School, Mendenhall
 * Simpson County Academy, Mendenhall

Smith County

 * Mize Attendance Center, Mize
 * Raleigh High School, Raleigh
 * Smith County Career Center, Raleigh
 * Taylorsville Attendance Center, Taylorsville

Stone County

 * Stone High School, Wiggins
 * Gateway Christian Academy, Wiggins

Sunflower County

 * Drew High School, Drew
 * Gentry High School, Indianola
 * Indianola Academy, Indianola
 * North Sunflower Academy, Drew
 * Thomas E. Edwards, Sr. High School, Ruleville

Tallahatchie County

 * Charleston High School, Charleston
 * West Tallahatchie High School, Webb

Tate County

 * Coldwater Attendance Center, Coldwater
 * Independence High School, Independence
 * Magnolia Heights School, Senatobia
 * Senatobia Junior Senior High School, Senatobia
 * Strayhorn High School, Sarah

Tippah County

 * Blue Mountain School, Blue Mountain
 * Falkner High School, Falkner
 * Pine Grove School, Pine Grove
 * Ripley High School, Ripley
 * Walnut Attendance Center, Walnut

Tishomingo County

 * Belmont School, Belmont
 * Tishomingo County High School, Iuka

Tunica County

 * Rosa Fort High School, Tunica
 * Tunica Academy, Tunica

Union County

 * East Union Attendance Center, Blue Springs
 * Ingomar Attendance Center, New Albany
 * New Albany High School, New Albany
 * Myrtle Attendance Center, Myrtle
 * Victory Christian Academy, New Albany
 * West Union Attendance Center, Myrtle

Walthall County

 * Salem Attendance Center, Tylertown
 * Tylertown High School, Tylertown

Warren County

 * All Saints' Episcopal School, Vicksburg (closed)
 * Porter's Chapel Academy, Vicksburg
 * St. Aloysius High School, Vicksburg
 * Vicksburg High School, Vicksburg
 * Warren Central High School, Vicksburg

Washington County

 * Deer Creek School, Arcola
 * Greenville Christian School, Greenville
 * Greenville Technical Center
 * Greenville Weston High School, Greenville
 * King's Court Christian Academy, Greenville
 * Leland High School, Leland
 * O'Bannon High School, Greenville
 * Riverside High School, Avon
 * Saint Joseph High School, Greenville
 * Simmons High School, Hollandale
 * Washington School, Greenville

Wayne County

 * Wayne Academy, Waynesboro
 * Wayne County High School, Waynesboro

Webster County

 * East Webster High School, Maben
 * Eupora High School, Eupora

Wilkinson County

 * Centreville Academy, Centreville
 * Wilkinson County Christian Academy, Woodville
 * Wilkinson County High School, Woodville

Winston County

 * Grace Christian School, Louisville
 * Louisville High School, Louisville
 * Nanih Waiya School, Louisville
 * Noxapater School, Noxapater
 * Winston Academy, Louisville

Yalobusha County

 * Coffeeville High School, Coffeeville
 * Water Valley High School, Water Valley

Yazoo County

 * Benton Academy, Benton
 * Manchester Academy, Yazoo City
 * Yazoo City High School, Yazoo City
 * Yazoo County High School, Yazoo City

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The Altamont Enterprise

The Altamont Enterprise & Albany County Post is a weekly newspaper in Albany County, New York, founded in 1884. It covers the towns of Guilderland, New Scotland, Berne, Knox, Westerlo, and Rensselaerville, as well as the villages of Altamont and Voorheesville. It is the newspaper of record for the towns and villages it covers. The Altamont Enterprise has won numerous awards from the New York Press Association, along with consistently ranking as one of the top 10 newspapers in New York State. It has a circulation of 6,679. It is owned by former reporter and current editor Melissa Hale-Spencer and Marcello Iaia.

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Benjamin Glazer

Benjamin F. Glazer (May 7, 1887 – March 18, 1956) was a screenwriter, producer, Foley artist, and director of American films from the 1920s through the 1950s. He made the first translation of author / playwright Ferenc Molnár's play Liliom (1909) into English from its original Hungarian (Magyar)  in 1921. His translation was used in the first American live stage play performance that year and later in the subsequent 1930 film version, and in every production in English of the play for the 115 years since its 1909 writing until recently. It also served as the basis for the libretto for Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, as well as for Phoebe and Henry Ephron's screenplay for the 1956 film version.

Glazer was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland / Ulster, United Kingdom, into a Hungarian Jewish family. After crossing the Atlantic Ocean and moving to the United States, in the early 20th century, he moved south to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, studied at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and passed the Pennsylvania bar exam to practice and become a lawyer in 1906.

Glazer was one of the founding members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which began awarding Academy Awards (Oscars) in 1927. He is best known for his Oscar-winning writing for 7th Heaven (1927) in the academy's first awards ceremony and Arise, My Love (1940). Additional screenwriting credits extended from the silent film era (1896-1927), and into the subsequent period of the sound films (also known as "talkies", generally increasingly after 1927). They include The Merry Widow, Flesh and the Devil, Mata Hari, A Farewell to Arms, We're Not Dressing, and Tortilla Flat.

Glazer also directed one film, the 1948 Song of My Heart, a highly fictionalized biography (Biopic) of the famous Russian classical music composer Tchaikovsky.

Glazer was married to actress Sharon Lynn, who had her own film career.

He died of circulatory failure in Hollywood at the age of 68.

Selected filmography
(as screenwriter unless otherwise noted)
 * Sinners in Silk (1924)
 * The Great Divide (1924)
 * Fine Clothes (1925)
 * The Merry Widow (1925)
 * Memory Lane (1926)
 * The Gay Deceiver (1926)
 * Wild Oats Lane (1926)
 * Flesh and the Devil (1926)
 * The Lady in Ermine (1927)
 * 7th Heaven (1927)
 * Paid to Love (1927)
 * The Trail of '98 (1928)
 * Beggars of Life (1928)
 * The Boudoir Diplomat (1930)
 * The Devil to Pay! (1930)
 * Liliom (1930)
 * Pagan Lady (1931)
 * Mata Hari (1931)
 * Monsieur Albert (1932)
 * A Farewell to Arms (1932)
 * No Man Of Her Own (1932)
 * The Way to Love (1933)
 * We're Not Dressing (1934)
 * She Loves Me Not (1934) (also producer)
 * Rhythm on the Range (1934) (also producer)
 * Four Daughters (1938) (assoc. producer)
 * Going Places (1938) (assoc. producer)
 * Yes, My Darling Daughter (1939) (assoc. producer)
 * They Made Me a Criminal (1939) (assoc. producer)
 * Arise, My Love (1940) (story)
 * Paris Calling (1941)
 * Tortilla Flat (1942)
 * Song of My Heart (1948) (also director)
 * Carousel (1955) (libretto)

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Twin Lakes

Twin Lakes may refer to:

Canada

 * Twin Lakes (Nova Scotia)
 * Twin Lakes (Temagami)

Indonesia

 * Twin Lakes (Lake Diatas and Lake Dibawah), aka Danau Kembar, West Sumatra

United Kingdom

 * Twinlakes Theme Park, in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire

United States

 * Communities
 * Twin Lakes, California, Santa Cruz County
 * Twin Lakes, Mono County, California
 * Twin Lakes, Adams County, Colorado
 * Twin Lakes, Lake County, Colorado
 * Twin Lakes (Fort Lauderdale), Florida
 * Twin Lakes, Georgia
 * Twin Lakes, Indiana
 * Twin Lakes, Iowa
 * Twin Lakes, Kentucky
 * Twin Lakes, Freeborn County, Minnesota
 * Twin Lakes, Mahnomen County, Minnesota
 * Twin Lakes, Ohio
 * Twin Lakes, Oklahoma
 * Twin Lakes, Wisconsin
 * Twin Lakes Township (disambiguation)

 * Lakes
 * Twin Lakes (Alaska)
 * Twin Lakes (Bridgeport, California)
 * Twin Lakes (El Dorado County, California)
 * Twin Lakes (Mammoth Lakes, California)
 * Twin Lakes (Colorado)
 * Twin Lakes (Connecticut)
 * Twin Lakes (Lake Wales, Florida)
 * Twin Lakes (Idaho)
 * Twin Lakes (Glacier National Park) in Glacier County, Montana
 * Twin Lakes (Black Creek Lake, Herkimer County, New York)
 * Twin Lakes (Portage County, Wisconsin)
 * Twin Lakes (Baker County, Oregon)

Schools

 * Palm Beach Lakes Community High School, formerly Twin Lakes High School, in West Palm Beach, Florida

Companies

 * Twin Lakes Brewing Company
 * Twin Lakes, an ISP located in Tennessee

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